Re: linux-images 2.6.28

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed,13.May.09, 13:21:37, Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I noticed I can't get any 2.6.28 images from the repo's, I can find
> 2.6.26.  But I don't want to go back that far.
> 
> I am trying to build zaptel for 2.6.29 and it doesn't seem ready yet so
> I thought I would go back to 2.6.28
> 
> Any reason its not there ?

The kernel team can't support too many kernels at once. Unfortunately 
snapshot.debian.net is not working, but I understand the Debian admins 
(DSA) are looking for sponsors to make that an official Debian service.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: dhcp id

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed,13.May.09, 00:33:51, Michael Casey wrote:
> If I del the # from
> 
> #send host-name
> #send dhcp-client-identifier
> 
> then I could ping the Debian pc by hostname
> 
> but if I think of itI just comment it out, then the dhcp of my router
> will give good ip's, thanks :)

'send host-name' should be enough.

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Re: Safe change of uid

[Elmer E. Dow]

I executed deluser --remove-all-files --backup  and it 
searched  for files to remove and backed up three files from the user's 
home directory -- but it left the user's home directory in place with 
its contents. The group and user were deleted, so the remaining files 
have owners of "500" -- the previous owner's original uid. The 
properties of those files still list the  owner's original uid which is 
500, so kuser failed to change the uid when I used kuser to do that. 
There is now  no user or group listed as having a uid of 500 -- at least 
according to kuser. Weird.


My apologies for the last post's line length. I was using my webmail 
account and forgot that I haven't found a way to change that.



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The saga's not over yet... [Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7]

[Rick Thomas]

Well,

It finally upgraded eog, but now it's transmission-gtk that has the  
same problem...


=
greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
 transmission-gtk
The following packages will be upgraded:
 transmission-common
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 894kB of archives. After unpacking 152kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 transmission-gtk: Depends: transmission-common (= 1.60-2) but 1.61-1  
is to be installed.
Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade (no solution found).The  
following packages have been kept back:

 transmission-common transmission-gtk{a}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

Current status: 0 broken [+0], 2 updates [+0], 1037 new [+0].
greybox:~#
=

And when I do a "full upgrade"

=
greybox:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
 transmission-gtk
The following packages will be upgraded:
 transmission-common
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 894kB of archives. After unpacking 152kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 transmission-gtk: Depends: transmission-common (= 1.60-2) but 1.61-1  
is to be installed.

The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
gnome
transmission-gtk

Score is -172

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 abiword{u} abiword-common{u} abiword-help{u} abiword-plugin- 
goffice{u} abiword-plugin-grammar{u} abiword-plugin-mathview{u} bluez- 
audio{u} bluez-gnome{u} bluez-utils{u} cheese{u} clive{u} clive-utils{u}
 dmz-cursor-theme{u} ekiga{u} empathy{u} eog{u} epiphany-extensions- 
more{u} evince{u} evolution-exchange{u} fast-user-switch-applet{u}  
file-roller{u} finger{u} gcalctool{u} gconf-editor{u} gdebi{u}
 gdebi-core{u} gedit{u} gedit-common{u} gedit-plugins{u} ggzcore- 
bin{u} gnome{a} gnome-app-install{u} gnome-backgrounds{u} gnome-cards- 
data{u} gnome-core{u} gnome-desktop-environment{u} gnome-games{u}
 gnome-games-data{u} gnome-games-extra-data{u} gnome-nettool{u} gnome- 
network-admin{u} gnome-office{u} gnome-power-manager{u} gnome- 
screensaver{u} gnome-system-tools{u} gnome-themes{u}
 gnome-themes-extras{u} gnome-themes-more{u} gnome-vfs-obexftp{u}  
gnome-volume-manager{u} gnuchess{u} gnuchess-book{u} gnumeric{u}  
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs{u} gstreamer0.10-nice{u} gstreamer0.10-tools{u}
 gtk2-engines-pixbuf{u} gtk2-engines-smooth{u} gucharmap{u} guile-1.8- 
libs{u} gvfs-bin{u} hamster-applet{u} libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a{u}  
libaiksaurus-1.2-data{u} libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a{u} libalut0{u}
 libart2.0-cil{u} libavahi-ui0{u} libberkeleydb-perl{u} libclass- 
accessor-perl{u} libclass-singleton-perl{u} libconfig-tiny-perl{u}  
libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl{u} libcrypt-twofish-perl{u} libcryptui0{u}
 libdatetime-format-mail-perl{u} libdatetime-format-w3cdtf-perl{u}  
libdatetime-locale-perl{u} libdatetime-perl{u} libdatetime-timezone- 
perl{u} libempathy-common{u} libempathy-gtk-common{u}
 libempathy-gtk19{u} libempathy23{u} libepc-1.0-2{u} libepc- 
ui-1.0-2{u} libexpect-perl{u} libgalago3{u} libgconf2.0-cil{u}  
libgdl-1-0{u} libgdl-1-common{u} libgdome2-0{u} libgdome2-cpp- 
smart0c2a{u}
 libggz2{u} libggzcore9{u} libggzmod4{u} libglade2.0-cil{u}  
libglew1.5{u} libglib2.0-cil{u} libgmime-2.0-2a{u} libgmime2.2a-cil{u}  
libgmythupnp0{u} libgnome-vfs2.0-cil{u} libgnome2.24-cil{u}
 libgnomecups1.0-1{u} libgnomepanel2.24-cil{u} libgnomeprint2.2-0{u}  
libgnomeprint2.2-data{u} libgnomeprintui2.2-0{u} libgnomeprintui2.2- 
common{u} libgoffice-0-4{u} libgoffice-0-8{u}
 libgoffice-0-8-common{u} libgoffice-0-common{u} libgpgme11{u}  
libgpod-common{u} libgpod4{u} libgsf-gnome-1-114{u}  
libgstfarsight0.10-0{u} libgtk-vnc-1.0-0{u} libgtk2.0-cil{u}  
libgtkmathview0c2a{u}
 libgtksourceview-common{u} libgtksourceview1.0-0{u}  
libgtksourceview2.0-0{u} libgtksourceview2.0-common{u} libhtml-strip- 
perl{u} libio-pty-perl{u} libio-stty-perl{u} libiw29{u} libkpathsea4{u}
 liblink-grammar4{u} liblircclient0{u} liblist-moreutils-perl{u}  
libloudmouth1-0{u} libmissioncontrol-client0{u} libmissioncontrol- 
server1{u} libmo

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

[Kelly Clowers]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 21:04, Patrick Wiseman  wrote:
> According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of
> the Linux kernel is:  2.6.29.3.  So why is the latest kernel in
> testing 2.6.26?

Presumably, there were bugs that prevented newer versions from
migrating in from Sid.


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 21:14, Steven Jones  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would assume at some point you freeze changes to the distro so you can test 
> against a known setup, ie a case of manageability.

Yes, but not now. We just had a release.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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RE: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

I would assume at some point you freeze changes to the distro so you can test 
against a known setup, ie a case of manageability.

regards

Steven

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To: Debian User Lists
Subject: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of
the Linux kernel is:  2.6.29.3.  So why is the latest kernel in
testing 2.6.26?

Patrick


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Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

[Patrick Wiseman]

According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of
the Linux kernel is:  2.6.29.3.  So why is the latest kernel in
testing 2.6.26?

Patrick


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Re: mpirun problem

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:27:49AM +0300, Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a laptop with a 4 core CPU (CPU0, CPU1, CPU2, CPU3), running 
> unstable/amd64. I want to run an executable in parallel, on all 4 cores in my 
> machine. When I type
> 
> mpirun -np 4 executable_name
> 
> I get the message:
> 
> ssh: connect to host my_machine_name port 22: Connection refused  
>

this is the key here, mpirun is using ssh to connect to the compute
nodes.

setup a key for yourself 

ssh-keygen

and then copy it to the compute node (your laptop), using the same name
that you have setup in mpirun

ssh-copy-id 



> --
> 
> A daemon (pid 23383) died unexpectedly with status 255 while attempting   
> 
> to launch so we are aborting. 
> 
> 
> There may be more information reported by the environment (see above).
> 
> This may be because the daemon was unable to find all the needed shared
> libraries on the remote node. You may set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to have the
> location of the shared libraries on the remote nodes and this will
> automatically be forwarded to the remote nodes.
> --
> --
> mpirun noticed that the job aborted, but has no info as to the process
> that caused that situation.
> --
> mpirun: clean termination accomplished
> 
> Any suggestion?
> Dimitris
> 
> 

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Re: Safe change of uid

[Elmer Dow]

I really did it this time. While looking over all my options carefully, I noted 
that in the documentation for kuser -- kde's user manager -- there's a line 
that says "delete users at your own risk"! That made me a little nervous about 
deleting a user with any method I chose. So I noticed that I could change the 
uid on the command line or in kuser, so I tried doing it in kuser.  No problem 
-- until I logged out. Then kdm flaked out. It wouldn't let me log in with the 
gui, so I dropped to a terminal and logged in, then did startx. I went to the 
kde login manager and had to tweak a few things there before getting it to 
allow users to shutdown the machine themselves, etc. My account appears to be 
working OK now, but when my daughter logs in she gets a blue screen with an 
error box at the top left corner saying: "Could not start kstartupconfig. Check 
your installation." Then when she clicks the OK button it throws her back to 
the login gui. She did Internet
 searches for her homework this evening logged on as me. Doug, I'm going to try 
your suggestion now and delete my daughter's account using  "deluser 
--remove-all-files --backup" after "cd /var/tmp." Then I'll recreate her 
account and hopefully get back closer to normal. I hope to report success. . . .

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linux-images 2.6.28

[Alex Samad]

Hi

I noticed I can't get any 2.6.28 images from the repo's, I can find
2.6.26.  But I don't want to go back that far.

I am trying to build zaptel for 2.6.29 and it doesn't seem ready yet so
I thought I would go back to 2.6.28

Any reason its not there ?

Alex

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gnome setup question

[Jude DaShiell]

Does debian flavor of gnome come with sound that can play on the sound 
card when gnome starts up?  If so, what needs to be done to turn that 
capability on?




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Re: switch to mutt, can't get my normal dose of spam

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Nick Lidakis wrote:
> After a quite a bit of reading about this mutt mua people are so fond
> of, I had the nerve to try to put down Mozilla's Thunderbird down for
> a while and take the mutt for a walk. 
>
> Using -among other online sources- the debian mutt wiki as a guide, 
> I get mutt installed, configure a decent (for a rookie) .muttrc, and 
> replace exim with the simple ssmtp. I use mutt's internal POP
> facilties to get mail from my verizon mail account. I haven't
> configured procmail or spamassassin yet.
>
> A feeks weeks go by and I notice something strange. I'm not getting my
> healthy dose of spam like I used to get when using Tbird. The junk
> folder would get filled with a dozen or more a day. Now, nothing. The
> only couple of spam messages that I get are the one's from this list.
> I am getting mail from all my other legit sources.
>
> Did I do something wrong? Did I horribly misconfigure something?
>
>   

Maybe your ISP decided to _finally_ install an antispam software in
their servers, just as you switched to mutt? ;-)


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Re: switch to mutt, can't get my normal dose of spam

[Daryl Styrk]

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:19:29PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
>  
> I actually thought it was more appropriate to ask the Debian list as
> Mutt is just a MUA relying (as I understand it) on external tools to
> prcocess mail. When I asked if I horribly misconfigured something it
> was in reference to my Debian configuration.
> 
> The messages were flagged by IceDove automatically and sent to the
> junk folder until I manually deleted them. The occasional spam would
> make it past IceDoves junk rules.

Actually unless you've configured fetchmail or the like mutt handles
everything by itself.  Even SMTP if you let it.  

Have you looked at the webmail interface for your account to see if in
fact the spam is still coming?  

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Re: switch to mutt, can't get my normal dose of spam

[Nick Lidakis]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:08:09PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote:
> You should probably ask this at mutt-us...@mutt.org.was the spam
> finding its way to your INBOX?  Were the messages flagged as spam with
> IceDove?  
 
I actually thought it was more appropriate to ask the Debian list as
Mutt is just a MUA relying (as I understand it) on external tools to
prcocess mail. When I asked if I horribly misconfigured something it
was in reference to my Debian configuration.

The messages were flagged by IceDove automatically and sent to the
junk folder until I manually deleted them. The occasional spam would
make it past IceDoves junk rules.


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Re: dhcp id

[Michael Casey]

If I del the # from

#send host-name
#send dhcp-client-identifier

then I could ping the Debian pc by hostname

but if I think of itI just comment it out, then the dhcp of my router
will give good ip's, thanks :)

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Michael Casey wrote:

> when I finish a "Desktop Debian" install, I always have to change the dhcp
> id, in: "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf" because the "send dhcp-client-identifier"
> is always the same
>
> Is this a feature or a bug? :) or I must write a script to change the dhcp
> identifier to a random id :P
>
> thank you
>

Re: switch to mutt, can't get my normal dose of spam

[Daryl Styrk]

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 04:50:23PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> After a quite a bit of reading about this mutt mua people are so fond
> of, I had the nerve to try to put down Mozilla's Thunderbird down for
> a while and take the mutt for a walk. 
> 
> Using -among other online sources- the debian mutt wiki as a guide, 
> I get mutt installed, configure a decent (for a rookie) .muttrc, and 
> replace exim with the simple ssmtp. I use mutt's internal POP
> facilties to get mail from my verizon mail account. I haven't
> configured procmail or spamassassin yet.
> 
> A feeks weeks go by and I notice something strange. I'm not getting my
> healthy dose of spam like I used to get when using Tbird. The junk
> folder would get filled with a dozen or more a day. Now, nothing. The
> only couple of spam messages that I get are the one's from this list.
> I am getting mail from all my other legit sources.
> 
> Did I do something wrong? Did I horribly misconfigure something?
> 
> Debian Sid with latest updates here.

You should probably ask this at mutt-us...@mutt.org .  Was the spam
finding its way to your INBOX?  Were the messages flagged as spam with
IceDove?  
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mpirun problem

[Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios]

Hello,
I have a laptop with a 4 core CPU (CPU0, CPU1, CPU2, CPU3), running 
unstable/amd64. I want to run an executable in parallel, on all 4 cores in my 
machine. When I type

mpirun -np 4 executable_name

I get the message:

ssh: connect to host my_machine_name port 22: Connection refused
 
--  
  
A daemon (pid 23383) died unexpectedly with status 255 while attempting 
  
to launch so we are aborting.   
  

There may be more information reported by the environment (see above).

This may be because the daemon was unable to find all the needed shared
libraries on the remote node. You may set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to have the
location of the shared libraries on the remote nodes and this will
automatically be forwarded to the remote nodes.
--
--
mpirun noticed that the job aborted, but has no info as to the process
that caused that situation.
--
mpirun: clean termination accomplished

Any suggestion?
Dimitris


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Re: Could someone recommend documentation or books about debian?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <985593.51811...@web110307.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, Charlie Dorff wrote:
>I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good
> documentation or books about how to use debian.

I don't how you missed it:
http://www.debian.org/doc/
and
http://www.debian.org/doc/books
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Re: Could someone recommend documentation or books about debian?

[Victor Padro]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Charlie Dorff  wrote:

> Hi,
> I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good
> documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks.
> Charlie
>
>
The best documentation/support that you could find is in:

http://www.debian.org/support

http://www.debian.org/doc/

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Could someone recommend documentation or books about debian?

[Charlie Dorff]

Hi,
I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good 
documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks.
Charlie



  

switch to mutt, can't get my normal dose of spam

[Nick Lidakis]

After a quite a bit of reading about this mutt mua people are so fond
of, I had the nerve to try to put down Mozilla's Thunderbird down for
a while and take the mutt for a walk. 

Using -among other online sources- the debian mutt wiki as a guide, 
I get mutt installed, configure a decent (for a rookie) .muttrc, and 
replace exim with the simple ssmtp. I use mutt's internal POP
facilties to get mail from my verizon mail account. I haven't
configured procmail or spamassassin yet.

A feeks weeks go by and I notice something strange. I'm not getting my
healthy dose of spam like I used to get when using Tbird. The junk
folder would get filled with a dozen or more a day. Now, nothing. The
only couple of spam messages that I get are the one's from this list.
I am getting mail from all my other legit sources.

Did I do something wrong? Did I horribly misconfigure something?

Debian Sid with latest updates here.



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Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

[Dotan Cohen]

> I agree and think that a normal severity bug against html2ps is in order, if
> it is indeed true.

>From TFMP:

-e encoding --encoding encoding
The document encoding. Currently recognized values are ISO-8859-1,
 EUC-JP,  SHIFT-JIS,  and ISO-2022-JP (other EUC-xx encodings may also
work). The default is ISO-8859-1.

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Re: dhcp id

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,12.May.09, 13:01:10, Michael Casey wrote:
> when I finish a "Desktop Debian" install, I always have to change the dhcp
> id, in: "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf" because the "send dhcp-client-identifier"
> is always the same
> 
> Is this a feature or a bug? :) or I must write a script to change the dhcp
> identifier to a random id :P

That option in dhclient.conf is commented out by default, because in 
normal cases you won't need it. What are you trying to achieve? 

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Re: Udev and device name unstable

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,12.May.09, 12:15:55, T o n g wrote:
> 
>  # CD-RW_CRX195E1 (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0)
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  # DVD-RW_DVR-110D (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0)
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrom1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrw1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="dvd1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="dvdrw1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
> 
> So how can I get back the "dvd" symlinks instead of dvd1?

Just edit the symlink names to your liking. I'd do it like this:

>  # CD-RW_CRX195E1 (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0)
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrom1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrw1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  # DVD-RW_DVR-110D (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0)
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>  ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
> SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"

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Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

[Dotan Cohen]

> a2ps can use lynx, but I doubt you want lynx-like output.
>

I will look into that, as the most complex thing here is a table (no
images). I think that lynx supports tables.

> There are some headless "browsers" out there, but most seem
> to be about testing, not output or they output images, not ps/pdf.
>
> There is some discussion here:
> http://www.holovaty.com/writing/headless-html-rendering-engine/
>

Thanks!

> Sounds like someone needs to write a CLI app that makes use of
> a headless Webkit.
>

No I!

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Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <1840f6970905121259r55fe9ef9k400d6ea3b114f...@mail.gmail.com>, Kelly 
Clowers wrote:
>On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:30, Dotan Cohen  wrote:
>> 2) html2ps
>> Does not work with UTF-8 text!
>That is just pathetic in this day and age.

I agree and think that a normal severity bug against html2ps is in order, if 
it is indeed true.
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Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

[Kelly Clowers]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:30, Dotan Cohen  wrote:
> I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I
> am using a Firefox extension to do this:
> http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2
>
> However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the
> dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked
> into, and their problems:
>
> 1)  CUPS
> Prints the HTML, not the formatted output. It treats the whole document as 
> text.

Expected, since html is text, and cups has no html parser

> 2) html2ps
> Does not work with UTF-8 text!

That is just pathetic in this day and age.

> 3) Open Office
> Requires either a macro or a wrapper script, both which are
> problematic and change each new OOo version (which I update often).

Definitely a problem.

> 4) convert (from imagemagick)
> Does not support UTF-8!

Sad.

> 5) gnome-web-print
> Slight formatting problems with HTML tables. However, it is my
> runner-up so far as it is the only other solution that works at all.
>
>
>
> Any other ideas? Is there a konqueror- or KDE way to do this? Am I
> missing something obvious? Thanks!

a2ps can use lynx, but I doubt you want lynx-like output.

There are some headless "browsers" out there, but most seem
to be about testing, not output or they output images, not ps/pdf.

There is some discussion here:
http://www.holovaty.com/writing/headless-html-rendering-engine/

Sounds like someone needs to write a CLI app that makes use of
a headless Webkit.


Cheers,
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Re: .img_bestanden

[Daryl Styrk]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:49:41PM +0200, steef wrote:
> thanks daryl, i copied the file into /usr/bin and now it works.
> thanks for your patience. i should have known this myself
>
> kr.,
>
> steef

No problem.  Let us know if it will accomplish what your after. 

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Re: NFS slow nautilus

[Michael Casey]

problem solved:

I used

nfsvers=3

option in fstab

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Michael Casey wrote:

> I have an NFS share. I mounted it with mount. I can browse it in eg.:
> midnight commander, I can play a film from it with the command-line
> mplayer
>
> Why can't I browse the NFS directory with Nautilus (GNOME) ??? :( - When I
> open the NFS folder with Nautilus...it just waits...and waits :) :D :D
>
> Please help, if someone could :)
>

Re: Lenny. Wrong displaying of symbols.

[Kelly Clowers]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:09, Mark Goldshtein
 wrote:
> Hello, list!
>
> Would you, please, help me to correct a problem with improper
> displaying of some symbols? It takes place everywhere, from console
> output in Brasero to web pages in browser and window title. Couple
> examples are below, mplayer window title and Gmail web interface in
> SeaMonkey.
>
> I have no idea what's wrong. Install was smooth and I did not touch a thing.
>
> Thanks for your time and effort!

You do not the proper fonts to display those glyphs, so instead you get a
box with 4 hexadecimal digits that represent the Unicode code point of that
character.

Open up synaptic or  aptitude or whatever interactive package manager you
prefer and look for fonts for whatever language(s) you need. Most fonts start
with xfonts- or ttf- (ttf is probably what you need most).


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Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

[Andrew G]

Gav Ford wrote:




I have conky working fine with Lenny and Gnome, I needed to add the following
to the .conkyrc:

  own_window yes
  own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
  own_window_transparent yes
  double_buffer yes

And comment out:

  #own_window_type root

Which worked fine under Fluxbox, to stop it vanishing.

Then to get it to start up reliably, I had to add it to the gnome session, via
System > Preferences > Sessions and Add.

Hopefully that helps.







Hi Gav

Thanks for the suggestions - I did have those in the .conkyrc file
already (well, with the exception of "own_window_hints
undecorated,below,skip_taskbar" which I have now added as well for
good measure).  Next time I log out and back in again, I'll have to
see what happens.

I appreciate your input, thanks.  I see that there appeared to be a
number of Gnome-related libraries in today's update, so perhaps
(magically) some of that will fix the issue.

I'll keep this list posted on developments.

Thanks again to all who have responded to my "tale of woe".

All the best

AG

Re: Wine and itunes [digressing..]

[Tim Beauregard]

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>>  My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, 
>> and run ubuntu or debian.  The only thing holding him back at this time 
>> is itunes.  Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather 

I have failed to get my wife to switch to Debian, but have fooled the
iPod Touch by serving her music to her laptop from my Lenny server using
samba.  Thus I can ensure her music is nicely backed up, and the iPod is
happy to sync with it as it believes the files exist on her laptop.
When I tried to sync the iPod with Rhythmbox directly it refused.  This
may have changed in the last year?

Anyway, just a tidbit for those who haven't been able to sync the Touch
with their Debian music...

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Re: gnome nor xfce come up

[Marcelo Laia]

Solved.

I removed gvfs and got my xfce4 up!

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NFS slow nautilus

[Michael Casey]

I have an NFS share. I mounted it with mount. I can browse it in eg.:
midnight commander, I can play a film from it with the command-line
mplayer

Why can't I browse the NFS directory with Nautilus (GNOME) ??? :( - When I
open the NFS folder with Nautilus...it just waits...and waits :) :D :D

Please help, if someone could :)

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

[Barclay, Daniel]

I wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
...

>>> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs.  The
>>> scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing.
>>>
>>> I want to see the output when I run the scripts manually.  However, when
>>> the scripts are run by cron, normally I don't want cron to e-mail me 
>>> that
>>> bulky output for each run--I want the output (the full output) only when
>>> the output is different than expected (e.g., if something has gone wrong
>>> or has changed, which I want to notice).
...
>> For maximum utility, in particular use with cron, your scripts should 
>> follow two Unix philosophies: (1) If everything is going as expected, 
>> no output is required. (2) If the task was not completed, exit with a 
>> non-zero value.
>>
...

>> So, my first advice is to fix your scripts so they act like Unix 
>> utilities.
> 
> That's what I'm trying to do by wrapping them in a script that does what I
> described--that suppresses all output when output from the underlying
> script is as expected, but which generates output (all output from the
> underlying script), and possibly returns a different exit code, when the
> output of the underlying script isn't quite as expected.

Hmm.  It looks like there's another reason to fix the scripts _internally_
to get them to work the Unix/Linux/cron way:

I was going to write one general wrapper script, have it take the command
(other script) to run and the name of an expected-patterns files, and call
that wrapper script in crontab lines.

Of course, that means that the subject line from cron would contain the
very long command invoking the general wrapper scripts, and not just the
specific underlying script command.


So it looks like even if I implement the output suppression with crude
output-string filtering, it still should be done inside each script
(as recommended above).



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Re: KDE update wants to remove konqueror and other packages

[Sjoerd Hiemstra]

Op Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:21 -0400 Edward C. Jones wrote:
> A while ago a big KDE update was put into unstable. I have not done
> the upgrade because synaptic wants to remove the following packages:
> 
> ...
> kde-core
> kdeaddons
> kdebase
> ...
> 
> Removing konqueror, kdebase, kde-core, and kcontrol worries me. is
> this upgrade safe to do?

I saw the same thing happening; KDE3 was removed.
After that, KDE4 needs to be installed manually:  aptitude install kde4
All went well.


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Re: Keyboard layout problem using Xephyr

[Sascha Silbe]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:38:44PM +, Zoho Vignochi wrote:

[...] I want to use Xephyr to be able to log into another user account 
without logging out of my user account. [...]

It works very well except for the keyboard. It maps the wrong keys.

You might be seeing Xorg bug #19365 [1].


[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19365

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Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

[Barclay, Daniel]

Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>> In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
 Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation?
>>> Not that I know of.
>>>
 I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs.  The
 scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing.

> [snip]
> 
 I started to write a wrapper script to take a command to execute and a
 file of regular expressions defining expected output lines ...
>> ...
...
> 
> I have a script that checks for ppp session outages through syslog, I
> only want to be notified of changes, i save output and then diff it with
> new output.  

Yeah, that might be a good way to do it too (not having to define as manually
what isexpected ).




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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Harry Rickards]

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On 05/12/09 09:11, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
> 
>> On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo  wrote:
>>
>>> What is Lenny's default window manager?
>>>
>>> How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
> 
>> I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
> 
> I wanted to know that so I could kill it in an xterm and run another,
> but that wouldn't be a permanent setup, the normal way of starting a
> WM.
> 
>> it, install a new one (e.g # aptitude install openbox), and when you
>> login choose it from Options > Sessions. You'll then be asked if you
>> wish to make whatever
> 
> Okay, but I'm a slow learner. I guess you mean ... > Options >
> Sessions.  My top-level menus are Applications, Places, System.  So
> maybe ... is one of them, but I don't seem to be able to find Options
> under any of them.
> 
> Regards...
> 
Sorry, I mean in GDM when you login (enter username and password), and
it's actually just Sessions not Options > Sessions (thanks Andrei Popescu).

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Re: VLC sid upgrade loses color, has wrong aspect ratio

[Joel Roth]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:58:23PM +, T o n g wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:12 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> 
> > I'm using the VLC packages for sid/i386 from debian-multimedia.org.
> 
> Are you sure? AFAIK, debian-multimedia doesn't contain vlc any more.

> What's your
> 
>  apt-cache policy vlc

Thanks for the reply, Tong.

I was wrong about the source.

vlc:
  Installed: 0.9.9a-1
  Candidate: 0.9.9a-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.9a-1 0
500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 
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gnome nor xfce come up

[Marcelo Laia]

I try to start gonome and got this error output:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/laia:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/17100,unix/laia:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17100
1242136429.423451 Session manager: disconnected...
/usr/bin/gnome-session: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: undefined symbol:
g_vfs_icon_get_type

I try google ( http://tinyurl.com/qgt6ob ) but got only 2 pages on France (fr).

So, I install xfce4. I can log in it (gdm), amsn and skype goes up
automatically, but anything are able for to do. I dind't can start any
program.

I am using TWM now.

Any clue?

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Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7

[Rick Thomas]

On May 12, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:


On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:

greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
 eog
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not  
upgraded.

Need to get 1988kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 eog: Depends: libgnome-desktop-2-7 which is a virtual package.
Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade (no solution  
found).The

following packages have been kept back:
 eog{a}

[..]

Any clues?


I'd try a dist-upgrade.


I did try that.  When I do "aptitude full-upgrade" it wants to remove  
gnome and all the hundreds of things that gnome drags in.  Needless to  
say, I didn't allow it to continue.


Rick


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Re: Udev and device name unstable

[Marc Shapiro]

T o n g wrote:


 $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
 # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_cd_rules
 # program, run by the cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file.
 #
 # You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
 # line, and set the $GENERATED variable.

 # CD-RW_CRX195E1 (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0)
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", 
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw", 
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 # DVD-RW_DVR-110D (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0)
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom1", 
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw1", 
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="dvd1", 
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw1", 
ENV{GENERATED}="1"

So how can I get back the "dvd" symlinks instead of dvd1?

The naming convention does not seem reasonable to me: in this file,
cdrom1 is actually the 2nd cdrom, whereas dvd1 is not the 2nd but the
1st dvd device.


Agreed, cdrom1 is the second cdrom device and dvd1 is not the second dvd 
device, but they ARE the SAME device, so the symlinks were given the 
same suffix.  I haven't messed too much with my udev rules, but, it 
seems that you could just remove the "1" from the end of "dvd1" and 
"dvdrw1" in the rules and you should get the behavior that you want. 
You will probably need to reboot after making the changes.


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Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

[Freddy Freeloader]

Harry Rickards wrote:

On 12 May 2009, at 07:42, JoeHill  wrote:


Freddy Freeloader wrote:


Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this
bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian
problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to help.

Here's the short conversation from #gnucash.

* Now talking on #gnucash
* Topic for #gnucash is: Free GPL Personal and Small Business 
Accounting

|| Please don't ask to ask, just ask and wait! || publically-logged
channel || latest stable: 2.2.9
* Topic for #gnucash set by jsled at Wed May 6 07:46:39 2009
 Is it possible to have the patch for bug #564928 backported to
2.2.6? I have all my business records in gnucash and this bug crashes
gnucash every time I start it. I run Debian and who knows how long it
will take for Debian to catch up. Right now they are almost a year
behind in version numbers.
* twunder (~twun...@pool-96-234-154-75.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net) has
joined #gnucash
* warlord-afk is now known as warlord
 garyk: you need to ask that of Debian. The GnuCash releases
dont have the bug.
* warlord is now known as warlord-afk
 The Debian devs say it needs to be done upstream as they
won't/can't backport the patch. That's why I asked here.


This looks to be the classic answer given by my stepkids when they were
growing up and didn't want to take responsibility for anything: Who's
responsible? Not me. Not me was responsible for everything done
wrong in our house for a couple of years. I didn't know one person 
could

get into that much mischief all their own. ;)

Gnucash version 2.2.6 was released July 31, 2008. The fixed version of
Gnucash, 2.2.9 was released February 4, 2009. It's now May 11, 2009 and
counting. The patch for this critical bug was released 3 months ago and
nothing has been done. It's now 5 weeks since I was told I was being a
jerk for saying Debian was slow in moving on this as they were 3
versions, and 9 months, behind. Well, Debian is now 3 versions and 10
months behind, and the patch has been available for 120+ days while the
bug has been archived in Debian since the day after it was reported.

It couldn't be that this critical bug just isn't on anyone's list of
priorities could it?


There were a couple of suggestions made a while back. Just curious, 
did you try

any of those?

One was to build a patched version of Gnucash yourself, with a patch 
supplied

by Florian Kulzer along with detailed instrucions on how to build.

Another was to contact Debian backports and ask if anyone there would 
build a

deb for you.

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Sorry if I've got something wrong, I haven't been reading this thread 
in detail. But, does the OP just require someone to build a gnucash 
deb package for stable, with the version in unstable? Again, sorry if 
I'm completely wrong.


Thanks
Harry Rickards


I don't think so, but I couldn't swear to that.   I had one more message 
from "warlord" on #gnucash last night after I had sent the post to this 
list.  He said that this bug is purely a Debian bug as it was a result 
of a patch the Debian devs created.  




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Re: .img_bestanden

[steef]

Daryl Styrk wrote:

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:53:31AM +0200, steef wrote:
  

thank you daryl:

but now i am confused. i downloaded poweriso-1.3.tar.gz, unzipped it  
with ark, and it opens like a windows-executive. what did i do wrong??


steef



No if I remember correctly that is correct.. put it in ~/bin and 
run 'poweriso -?' for a list of commands. 




  

thanks daryl, i copied the file into /usr/bin and now it works.
thanks for your patience. i should have known this myself

kr.,

steef


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Keyboard layout problem using Xephyr

[Zoho Vignochi]

Hello:

I am running debian unstable with GNOME. I want to use Xephyr to be able 
to log into another user account without logging out of my user account. 
There is a menu option "New Login in a Window" which issues the command:

gdmflexiserver --xnest

It works very well except for the keyboard. It maps the wrong keys. My 
xorg.conf file looks like:

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Configured Video Device"
Driver  "intel"
Option  "AccelMethod"   "EXA"
Option  "MigrationHeuristic""greedy"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Does anyone have any suggestions? I am competent with the commandline so 
any further debugging information I will gladly provide.

Zoho


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Re: Untrusted packages

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 01:24:32AM -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> I'm running Sid. I'm trying to install sun-java6-plugin, but aptitude is  
> giving me 'untrusted package' warnings:
>
> moe:~# aptitude install sun-java6-plugin
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   odbcinst1debian1{a} sun-java6-bin{a} sun-java6-jre{a} sun-java6-plugin 
> unixodbc{a}
> 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
> Need to get 33.5MB of archives. After unpacking 96.2MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!

apt-cache policy sun-java6-plugin
will tell you which repository it wants to install from.

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Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7

[Chris Bannister]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following packages are BROKEN:
>   eog
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1988kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   eog: Depends: libgnome-desktop-2-7 which is a virtual package.
> Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade (no solution found).The  
> following packages have been kept back:
>   eog{a}
[..]
> Any clues?

I'd try a dist-upgrade.

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Re: Safe change of uid

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
>>> Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list.
>>
>> Since you only just created the user, I'd just go ahead and delete it
>> (use:
>> # cd /var/tmp
>> # deluser --remove-all-files --backup
>>
>> then use adduser to create the new user
>>
>> To be safe, I'd then examine the backup tarball to ensure that nothing
>> was removed accidentally, before deleting the tarball.

> From what I've read, it's like deluser in that it only deletes the user  
> stuff in the home directory, so I still need to edit /etc/passwd,  
> /etc/group, /etc/shadow, etc. and delete the user's group. Or is there a  
> command to take care of those, too? If there is, I haven't found it yet.  
> Or will adduser overwrite the previous info when I add the new user of  
> the same name?
>
> I've read of permission problems, boot problems, etc. caused by changing  
> uid so I'm a bit paranoid.

If you use deluser, you won't have to edit other files.  That's what
deluser is for.  

If you find any files in the backup that the user will need, you can
untar the tarball, chown them to the new user, and give them back.  I
tend to use Midnight Commander (mc) for that type of thing.

Doug.


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Lenny. Wrong displaying of symbols.

[Mark Goldshtein]

Hello, list!

Would you, please, help me to correct a problem with improper
displaying of some symbols? It takes place everywhere, from console
output in Brasero to web pages in browser and window title. Couple
examples are below, mplayer window title and Gmail web interface in
SeaMonkey.

I have no idea what's wrong. Install was smooth and I did not touch a thing.

Thanks for your time and effort!

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Re: Udev and device name unstable

[T o n g]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 10:20:31 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> > My DVD device is used to be /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw. But today
> > after I rebooted my box, there are no /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw
> > devices any more. They are changed to /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1
> > instead.
>  
> Those are usually symbolic links to the real device:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/dvd*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-05-12 09:05 /dev/dvd -> hda
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-05-12 09:05 /dev/dvdrw -> hda

I know. Mine is:

 $ ls -l /dev/dvd*
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 05-11 18:20 /dev/dvd1 -> sr1
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 05-11 18:20 /dev/dvdrw1 -> sr1

> > This make it very inconvenient for me, since all my scripts (and
> > fstab) are using hard-coded /dev/dvd. Why is My DVD device name
> > get changed this time?  AFAIK, I didn't make any changes to the
> > system (package upgrading or config file changing).
> 
> Maybe you added or removed some hardware? My guess is the PCI id for 
> your DVD has changed.

No, HW is not touched either, apart from SW. Just reboot, that's all.
 
> > Is there any way to tell udev to rescan the devices or specific
> > devices, so that I don't need to reboot to correct this?
> 
> Please post your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file.

 $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
 # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_cd_rules
 # program, run by the cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file.
 #
 # You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
 # line, and set the $GENERATED variable.

 # CD-RW_CRX195E1 (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0)
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", 
SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0", 
SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 # DVD-RW_DVR-110D (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0)
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
SYMLINK+="cdrom1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
SYMLINK+="cdrw1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
SYMLINK+="dvd1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
 ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:1:0", 
SYMLINK+="dvdrw1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"

So how can I get back the "dvd" symlinks instead of dvd1?

The naming convention does not seem reasonable to me: in this file,
cdrom1 is actually the 2nd cdrom, whereas dvd1 is not the 2nd but the
1st dvd device.

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Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

[Gav Ford]

> Conky is one issue and a rather minor one at that and rates as an annoyance.
> It may just be that Gnome and Conky don't play nicely together, because 
> trying it out on Fluxbox, Xfce4 and even KDE all is fine.  Gnome however, 
> well that is something I will continue to hack away at.


I have conky working fine with Lenny and Gnome, I needed to add the following
to the .conkyrc:

  own_window yes
  own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
  own_window_transparent yes
  double_buffer yes

And comment out:

  #own_window_type root

Which worked fine under Fluxbox, to stop it vanishing.

Then to get it to start up reliably, I had to add it to the gnome session, via 
System > Preferences > Sessions and Add.

Hopefully that helps.

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Re: .img_bestanden

[Daryl Styrk]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:53:31AM +0200, steef wrote:
> thank you daryl:
>
> but now i am confused. i downloaded poweriso-1.3.tar.gz, unzipped it  
> with ark, and it opens like a windows-executive. what did i do wrong??
>
> steef

No if I remember correctly that is correct.. put it in ~/bin and 
run 'poweriso -?' for a list of commands. 



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Re: Safe change of uid

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:12:59AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,11.May.09, 22:27:57, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> 
> >> I usually (rightly or wrongly) vim /etc/passwd, then find / -uid 500 -exec
> >> chmod 1000 "{}" \; and maybe the same if I have to change the gid.
>
> > Let me see if I understand this correctly. Here's what it appears to me  
> > that I should do.
> >
> > First I"ll use vipw to edit  /etc/passwd  and vipw -s to edit the   
> > shadowfile to change the uid.
> > Then edit with vigr and vigr -s  /etc/group and the shadow file  to  
> > change the gid.
> >
> > Now to change files out in the system:
> >
> > find / -uid 500  -exec chmod 1000 "{}" \
> >
> > Find files with a uid of 500 and execute the command chmod to  change  
> > the uid to 1001 (I'm 1000, so my daughter  will be 1001).
> >
> > And finally to change the files with a gid of 500 to 1001:
> >
> > find / -gid 500  -exec chmod 1001 "{}" \
> 
> Sorry, but the 'chmod' is definitely wrong. You probably want 'chown' 
> (and do read the manpage first).
yes he is right I wrote that first thing in the morning.
plus you probably don;t need the usermod as you have changed passwd +
groups + shadow by hand !


> 
> Regards,
> Andrei



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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Jochen Schulz]

Miguel Obliviemo:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
> 
>> On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo  wrote:
>> 
>>> What is Lenny's default window manager?
>>> 
>>> How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
> 
>> I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
> 
> I wanted to know that so I could kill it in an xterm and run another,
> but that wouldn't be a permanent setup, the normal way of starting a
> WM.

Do you want to run another window manager *inside Gnome*? Then you need
to kill metacity and directly afterwards start your preferred window
manager: pkill metacity && openbox.

A better solution would be if your WM had a command line option like
'--replace'. Then it kills the currently running WM for you.

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dhcp id

[Michael Casey]

when I finish a "Desktop Debian" install, I always have to change the dhcp
id, in: "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf" because the "send dhcp-client-identifier"
is always the same

Is this a feature or a bug? :) or I must write a script to change the dhcp
identifier to a random id :P

thank you

Re: I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,12.May.09, 16:16:47, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection (465). It
> works for plain connection (on 25 port) only.
> 
> If You have any suggestion on what could be a culprit, I would like to
> know. I can provide any necessary information: logs and confs.

Hello,

I assume you want to send mail via smarthost. Please provide 
/etc/postfix/main.cf and any other files relevant for sasl (you probably 
want to obscure any passwords before that) and the output of

dpkg -l postfix
dpkg -l libsasl*

Regards,
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Re: I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection

[James Youngman]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Sthu Deus  wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection (465). It
> works for plain connection (on 25 port) only.
>
> If You have any suggestion on what could be a culprit, I would like to
> know. I can provide any necessary information: logs and confs.
>
> Thank You for Your effort and time.

See http://www.postfix.org/lists.html - but you could also search the web.

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I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection

[Sthu Deus]

Good day.

I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection (465). It
works for plain connection (on 25 port) only.

If You have any suggestion on what could be a culprit, I would like to
know. I can provide any necessary information: logs and confs.

Thank You for Your effort and time.


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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Andrei Popescu]

On Ma,12.mai.09, 17:22:35, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:

>> You install the WM/DE you want (by using your preferred package manager)
>
> I don't understand.  I used apt-get, and it (fvwm) is on the machine.
> I don't know what "preferred package manager" means.

There are many package managers, use the one you like (aptitude, 
synaptic, apt-get,...)

>> and then in GDM, before you login, you just choose your "session".
>
> In GDM, before I log in, I don't see an option to choose a session, I
> just see a place to enter the login name.

It depends on the theme, but with the "Debian Moreblue Orbit" theme 
there are three buttons at the bottom-left: "Language", "Session" and
"Actions".

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Thierry Chatelet]

On 12 May 2009 09:52:35 Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Tue,12.May.09, 16:32:53, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> >> What is Lenny's default window manager?
> >

http://debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.html.en#preseed-pkgsel


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Re: .img_bestanden

[steef]

Daryl Styrk wrote:

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:55:09AM +0200, steef wrote:
  

hi folks,

dows anybody know how to convert a .img_file into an .iso_file under  
stable? can a package like nrg2iso do the job? found some  
ubuntu-packages, like ccd2iso, but ubuntu is not debian.


thank you,

steef



poweriso might work out for you.  I know it can convert .daa to .iso.


http://www.poweriso.com/poweriso-1.3.tar.gz

  

thank you daryl:

but now i am confused. i downloaded poweriso-1.3.tar.gz, unzipped it 
with ark, and it opens like a windows-executive. what did i do wrong??


steef


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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Miguel Obliviemo]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:


On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo  wrote:


What is Lenny's default window manager?

How do I configure gdm to use a different one?



I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change


I wanted to know that so I could kill it in an xterm and run another,
but that wouldn't be a permanent setup, the normal way of starting a
WM.


it, install a new one (e.g # aptitude install openbox), and when you
login choose it from Options > Sessions. You'll then be asked if you
wish to make whatever


Okay, but I'm a slow learner. I guess you mean ... > Options >
Sessions.  My top-level menus are Applications, Places, System.  So
maybe ... is one of them, but I don't seem to be able to find Options
under any of them.

Regards...

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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Miguel Obliviemo]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:


On Tue,12.May.09, 16:32:53, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:

What is Lenny's default window manager?


Depends on how you installed. The "normal" CD1 installs the Gnome
Desktop Environment, but it is also possible to install KDE, Xfce or
LXDE instead.


Sorry, I meant normal, what you get if you don't specify something else.


How do I configure gdm to use a different one?


You install the WM/DE you want (by using your preferred package manager)


I don't understand.  I used apt-get, and it (fvwm) is on the machine.
I don't know what "preferred package manager" means.


and then in GDM, before you login, you just choose your "session".


In GDM, before I log in, I don't see an option to choose a session, I
just see a place to enter the login name.

And I though a session was something else than a WM selector.

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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,12.May.09, 16:32:53, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> What is Lenny's default window manager?

Depends on how you installed. The "normal" CD1 installs the Gnome 
Desktop Environment, but it is also possible to install KDE, Xfce or 
LXDE instead.

> How do I configure gdm to use a different one?

You install the WM/DE you want (by using your preferred package manager) 
and then in GDM, before you login, you just choose your "session".

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Automatically repair configuration files

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,12.May.09, 09:23:50, Angelin Lalev wrote:
> One of my xen domains just crashed and left the ext3 filesystem of one
> of my DomU debian installations in a horrible state. Subsequent fsck
> deleted a bunch of files. 
> Now I want to fix a package or two by reinstalling the configurations. 
> 
> aptitude purge package && aptitude install package 
> 
> howewer seems to be the wrong approach. I got 'not reinstalling deleted
> file' etc.
> 
> Is there a way to do it painlessly and automatically with aptitude ?

I think you need 'dpkg -i --force-confmiss '. If you 
didn't run 'aptitude clean' lately you should find the .debs in 
/var/cache/apt/archives/

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Re: How to start an user program automatically after logging on.

[Depo Catcher]

bro, if it's a command line program you can do this in the crontab:

   @reboot /home/me/bin/myscript.sh


more info: http://team.macnn.com/drafts/crontab_defs.html

On some systems you can even start GUI programs with the @reboot
You'll have to test and depends a bit on startup order and desktop 
environment, but usually you can get away with something like this


   #!/bin/bash

   export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
   # give the DE time to load
   sleep 20
   /usr/local/bin/MyFancyXApp &
   exit






Allan Wind wrote:

On 2009-05-12T14:16:43, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
  

I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting.
For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start
automatically after logging on.
Could you tell me the method?



Are you using KDE/GDM, or XFCE?  Automatically starting programs is 
usually functionality that is invoked when you login, and the process
depends on the window environment you use.  XFCE has Sessions and 
Startup option in the settings manager (which ends up creating files in

~/.config/autostart).


/Allan
  



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Re: Current WM - Lenny

[Harry Rickards]

On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo  wrote:


What is Lenny's default window manager?

How do I configure gdm to use a different one?

--  
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I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change  
it, install a new one (e.g # aptitude install openbox), and when you  
login choose it from Options > Sessions. You'll then be asked if you  
wish to make whatever you chose the default. There's also a way to do  
it by running #gdm-setup or something similar.


Hope I was of help
Harry Rickards


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Re: Udev and device name unstable

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,12.May.09, 05:37:24, T o n g wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> My DVD device is used to be /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw. But today
> after I rebooted my box, there are no /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw
> devices any more. They are changed to /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1
> instead.
 
Those are usually symbolic links to the real device:

$ ls -l /dev/dvd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-05-12 09:05 /dev/dvd -> hda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-05-12 09:05 /dev/dvdrw -> hda

> This make it very inconvenient for me, since all my scripts (and
> fstab) are using hard-coded /dev/dvd. Why is My DVD device name
> get changed this time?  AFAIK, I didn't make any changes to the
> system (package upgrading or config file changing).

Maybe you added or removed some hardware? My guess is the PCI id for 
your DVD has changed.

> Is there any way to tell udev to rescan the devices or specific
> devices, so that I don't need to reboot to correct this?

Please post your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Safe change of uid

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon,11.May.09, 22:27:57, Elmer E. Dow wrote:

>> I usually (rightly or wrongly) vim /etc/passwd, then find / -uid 500 -exec
>> chmod 1000 "{}" \; and maybe the same if I have to change the gid.
   
> Let me see if I understand this correctly. Here's what it appears to me  
> that I should do.
>
> First I"ll use vipw to edit  /etc/passwd  and vipw -s to edit the   
> shadowfile to change the uid.
> Then edit with vigr and vigr -s  /etc/group and the shadow file  to  
> change the gid.
>
> Now to change files out in the system:
>
> find / -uid 500  -exec chmod 1000 "{}" \
>
> Find files with a uid of 500 and execute the command chmod to  change  
> the uid to 1001 (I'm 1000, so my daughter  will be 1001).
>
> And finally to change the files with a gid of 500 to 1001:
>
> find / -gid 500  -exec chmod 1001 "{}" \

Sorry, but the 'chmod' is definitely wrong. You probably want 'chown' 
(and do read the manpage first).

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Andrei
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Re: How to start an user program automatically after logging on.

[J.Hwan.Kim]

Allan Wind ? ?:

On 2009-05-12T14:16:43, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
  

I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting.
For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start
automatically after logging on.
Could you tell me the method?



Are you using KDE/GDM, or XFCE?  Automatically starting programs is 
usually functionality that is invoked when you login, and the process
depends on the window environment you use.  XFCE has Sessions and 
Startup option in the settings manager (which ends up creating files in

~/.config/autostart).


/Allan
  


I found the menu for start program in Session of Desktop environment.
Thank you.





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Re: How to start an user program automatically after logging on.

[J.Hwan.Kim]

Allan Wind ? ?:

On 2009-05-12T14:16:43, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
  

I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting.
For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start
automatically after logging on.
Could you tell me the method?



Are you using KDE/GDM, or XFCE?  Automatically starting programs is 
usually functionality that is invoked when you login, and the process
depends on the window environment you use.  XFCE has Sessions and 
Startup option in the settings manager (which ends up creating files in

~/.config/autostart).


/Allan
  

Thank you for reply.
I'm using GDM.





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Current WM - Lenny

[Miguel Obliviemo]

What is Lenny's default window manager?

How do I configure gdm to use a different one?

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