CUPS broadcasting print queue availability

[Ron Johnson]

Hi,

I did this once a *long* time ago, but don't remember how.  Also, 
I've read the (seemingly relevant sections of the sorely lacking) 
CUPS SAM, and Googled around to no avail.


My server has a print queue that looks like this:
$ lpstat -v
device for Dell_3100cn: socket://192.168.1.11
device for dell_310...@haggis: socket://192.168.1.11
device for PDF: cups-pdf:/

The server's /etc/cups/cupsd.conf looks like:
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow 192.168.1.0/24
BrowseAddress 192.168.1.255
BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS dnssd
DefaultAuthType Basic

  Allow from 192.168.1.*
  Order allow,deny


I created this on the client:
$ cat /etc/cups/cups.conf
ServerName haggis


Shouldn't cups on the server (haggis) be broadcasting network 
messages announcing the availability of it's print queues, and 
shouldn't some program from cups-client be listening?


Or do even client computers need the cups server package?

TIA
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Re: No updates seen in a while

[Ingo Kasten]

Hi,

just found:

Hardware trouble ries.debian.org - ftpmaster.debian.org /
release.d.o services back this weekend

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/04/msg00038.html

>sigh!<  :-)

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Re: No updates seen in a while

[Freeman]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:40:51PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:

 ...

> We know, first three responses to the OP were links to the announcement.
> Yet then people wondered why there was no message sent to the user-list,
> as users also depend on that server. Gradually, this continued to
> wondering when the server will come online again.
> 

I find it not just a little ironic, although I am not complaining.

There is a current thread on debian-proj...@lists.debian.org that makes
clear 1.) how news delivery is stretched beyond capacity, in part by under
staffing, and 2.) how they are trying in a many-headed way to fix it.

Nevertheless, they did get the aforementioned notices posted.

Continuing the irony is another debian-project thread wrestling with the
issue of getting peripheral work done when it means additional commitments to
large blocks of time by already overworked volunteers.

Subscribing some low-level lists seems the least I can do, short of join the
effort .  .  .  It is a matter of checking boxes on a single page.  

My low-level list box, which procmail separates from high interest lists,
actually becomes an interesting list itself.  And I am informed without
placing demands on the organization that is, after all, GIVING me maybe the
most powerful operating system in the world and, probably, a life-long
hobby.

The numerous lists allow me to shop for exactly the topics that will
comprise this, like a soup recipe.  Mutt even maintains the thread when a
subject jumps lists, e.g.  from debian-devel-announce to debian-project.

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Re: No updates seen in a while

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:40:51PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah schreef:
> > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> >>> how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may
> >>> be a fine additional list, but why shall I subscribe
> >> The last entry I have from l.debian.announce is:
> >>
> >> "Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated"
> >>
> >> that was on January 30, 2010
> >>
> >> the nightmare continues.
> > 
> > This list is more appropriate:
> > 
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/threads.html
> We know, first three responses to the OP were links to the announcement.
> Yet then people wondered why there was no message sent to the user-list,
> as users also depend on that server. Gradually, this continued to
> wondering when the server will come online again.

Right. Thanks for pointing this out; I'll read the thread properly
next time.

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"Failed to assemble all arrays" during initramfs

[David Andel]

Hi

I've gor the problem that mdadm does not assemble my arrays during
initramfs time. However, when booting with Knoppix I can assemble all my
arrays with mdadm-startall without problem.

During initramfs I get:

(initramfs) mdadm -A /dev/md1 /dev/sd[ab]5
md: md1 stopped.
...
mdadm: /dev/md1 has been started with 2 drives.
(initramfs) md1: unknown partition table
(initramfs) mount /dev/md1 /root
mount: mounting /dev/md1 on /root failed: No such file or directory

The filesystem cannot be the problem. I can mount it from Knoppix after
assembling the array (from Knoppix).
Also, I load the respective modules early in the boot chain.

The maintainer of mdadm said that it does not have anything to do with
mdadm.

So what could be problem. I am investigating this problem since a long
time and did not find the reason yet...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

David


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Re: No updates seen in a while

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Kumar Appaiah schreef:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote:
>>> how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may
>>> be a fine additional list, but why shall I subscribe
>> The last entry I have from l.debian.announce is:
>>
>> "Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated"
>>
>> that was on January 30, 2010
>>
>> the nightmare continues.
> 
> This list is more appropriate:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/threads.html
We know, first three responses to the OP were links to the announcement.
Yet then people wondered why there was no message sent to the user-list,
as users also depend on that server. Gradually, this continued to
wondering when the server will come online again.

Sjoerd



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Re: [OT] postfix clarification

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:36:49 +, supervinx wrote:

> There's a way to override postfix behaviour to use as sender name the
> current user ?
> When I send as user1 (e.g.) I end up with us...@mydomain.com sender, if
> I send as root or other user), r...@mydomain.com

"Address rewriting" should help:

http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html

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Re: ALSA problem?

[Lisi]

On Friday 02 April 2010 19:39:15 Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote:
>  *8.* Now execute the following command:
>
> yum install alsa-driver alsa-kmdl-`uname -r`

???

How did this arrive on a Debian list?  It appears to be the answer to a 
correctly placed Debian query from a RH based system user.

Lisi


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Re: [OT] postfix clarification

[Jari Fredriksson]

On 2.4.2010 21:36, supervinx wrote:
> Hi !
> There's a way to override postfix behaviour to use as sender name the 
> current user ?
> When I send as user1 (e.g.) I end up with us...@mydomain.com sender,
> if I send as root or other user), r...@mydomain.com
> 

Postfix does not create the From: header into the mail, but the mail
client sending the message does. Postfix delivers what is passed thru
it, and adds a "Received: hostname" header, but that's all.

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Debian And Advanced Layer3 9924T

[Alejandro Esteban Galvez]

Hi, users. I have the Debian Lenny 5.0 and a Advanced Layer3 9924T switch, but 
when i connect the pc to the layer3, the
switchs blocks the network. Any idea?


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Re: ALSA problem?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Krishna Chandra Prajapati [100403 00:09 +0530]
> Hi,
> 
> I believe the below information will help you.
> Installing the latest stable ALSA modules
> 
> For an easy install we will be using the ATrpms
> repository.

Hey, did you recognized that we are all running Debian? Your method
is not recomended by the Debin ALSA Maintainers and of course won't
work.

BTW, for the ens1371 audio chip the Lenny drives are relevant enough.

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[OT] postfix clarification

[supervinx]

Hi !
There's a way to override postfix behaviour to use as sender name the 
current user ?
When I send as user1 (e.g.) I end up with us...@mydomain.com sender,
if I send as root or other user), r...@mydomain.com

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Re: How to read log files

[Dotan Cohen]

>>> xgrep () { grep -i "$1" $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " ") ; }
>>>
>> Nice. I'm having a hard time understanding that last one, but I will
>> figure it out. Thanks!
>>
> It looks like it takes the PATH environment variable and splits it into
> multiple tokens (directories), and grep will search in *every* directory
> included in PATH.
>

Without understanding the bash, that is exactly what I had suspected.
The $PATH variable and the : character is what gave it away.

Thanks!


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Re: GRUB2 == Non Bootable System

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:58:56 -0700, briand wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:46:49 -0700
> Scarletdown  wrote:
> 
>> I just did a fresh very basic Debian Sid install on my "experimental"
>> system (one hard drive with only a single partition), basic install
>> meaning console only and just the following packages: ssh, mc, samba,
>> elinks, sudo, and ClamAV.
>> 
>> After all the packages were installed, I ran apt-get dist-upgrade. This
>> replaced GRUB 1.5 with GRUB 2. A reboot showed no problems, so I then
>> gave the upgrade-from-grub-legacy command followed by the removal of
>> the old unused /boot/grub/menu.lst just as the upgrade suggested.
>> 
>> A reboot now gives me:
>> 
>> GRUB Read Error
>> Operating system not found
>> 
>> 
> I had this problem not too long ago and the recovery was relatively
> painful.  You basically have to boot into rescue, download the
> appropriate packages and then re-install either grub or lilo.  I highly
> recommend lilo.
> 
> There is a web-page somewhere that goes through this in detail - I'm
> sorry but I just can't seem to find it.
> 
> I'm relatively certain I found the link to it somewhere in the debian
> bugs for one of the grub packages.
> 
> 
>  Brian

I make sure I can always boot from a floppy disk -- usually one I've told 
lilo to boot from when I ran lilo -v.  This is quite independent of grub.

But too late for you, now.

There's also the Super Grub Boot Disk, which you can download from 
somewhere and copy to a floppy.  I think it contains all the grub things 
you need to boot (the ones it usually gets from wherever they hide out on 
your hard drive), and it's possible to edit its menu.list  that's also on 
it.

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VLAN et iptables

[Jeetu Golani]

Hi,

I have a Debian system that I am trying to configure as a router for a MPLS 
VPN setup. I'm having trouble setting up the iptables rules to forward 
internet traffic from remote locations. Admittedly this isn't my forte 
therefore I would sincerely appreciate any help :)

Network Description:
At the head office, the ISP facing router has two physical NICs (eth0 and 
eth1).

eth0 is connected to the head office  "local"  LAN  192.168.0.0/24.

eth1 has two VLAN interfaces 105 and 689 (vlan105 and vlan689) 
connecting to the Service Provider's (SP)  Network
Termination Unit (NTU)

vlan105 carries VPN traffic coming in from remote locations e.g two
LANs subnets over MPLS VPN (a) 192.168.1.0/24 and (b) 172.16.0.0/16

vlan689 carries company <> INTERNET traffic

Internet access for "remote" locations, all Internet traffic comes to
above router over vlan105 sub interface and have it SNAT'd/Masquerade
to the Internet over vlan689 interface.
-

The following is the iptables script I have tried however it doesn't work:

INTIF1="eth0" # physical interface for local LAN
INTIF2="vlan105"  # VLAN iface for VPN traffic to remote location
EXTIF="vlan689"   # VLAN iface for INTERNET traffic
EXTIP="x.x.x.x" #public IP for our CE router

/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ip_tables
/sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack
/sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
/sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_irc
/sbin/modprobe iptable_nat
/sbin/modprobe ip_nat_ftp
 echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
#echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr

iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -F INPUT 
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -F OUTPUT 
 iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -F FORWARD

iptables -t nat -F

# for Matunga subnet 192.168.0.0/24
 iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF1 -d 192.168.0.0/24 -m state --
state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
 iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF1 -o $EXTIF -s 192.168.0.0/24 -m -j 
ACCEPT

 # for Silvassa subnet 172.16.0.0/16
iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF2 -d 172.16.0.0/16 -m state --state 
ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
 iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF2 -o $EXTIF -s 172.16.0.0/16 -m -j ACCEPT

 # for Colaba subnet 192.168.1.0/24
iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF2 -d 192.168.1.0/24 -m state --
state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
 iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF2 -o $EXTIF -s 192.168.1.0/24 -m -j 
ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXTIF -j MASQUERADE



Would sincerely appreciate any help. Thanks

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Re: ALSA problem?

[Krishna Chandra Prajapati]

Hi,

I believe the below information will help you.
Installing the latest stable ALSA modules

For an easy install we will be using the ATrpms
repository.


*1.* Load up a terminal window if you are in the graphic interface.

*2.* Switch to the root user by entering the command “su -” (without the
quotes) and typing in your root password

*3.* Edit the file /etc/yum.conf. Using nano we type the command:

nano -w /etc/yum.conf

 *4.* If you have already configured yum to use the ATrpms repository then
append “*alsa*” to the end of the “includepkgs” line and skip the next
setup. Otherwise continue on.

*5.* Add the following to the bottom of this file:

[atrpms]
name=EL $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
exclude=*kmdl*i586*
includepkgs=*alsa*

 *6.* Save the file. In nano you press Ctrl-X, answer yes to the “Save
modified buffer” question and then press enter on the file name to write.

*7.* If you have not previously setup ATrpms execute the following command:

rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

 *8.* Now execute the following command:

yum install alsa-driver alsa-kmdl-`uname -r`

 *9.* Reboot your system and you will be using the updated ALSA module.

Remember that you may need to adjust your volume settings.
 _Krishna



On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Oscar Corte  wrote:

>  Hi all:
>
> When trying to play a CD with Sound Juicer, I'm getting error “Could not
> open audio device for playback”
>
>  Reason: Internal GStreamer error: state change failed.  Please file a bug
> at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer.
>
> Totem movie player plays video without any sound at all.
>
> However, I can use cdcd play to CD's with no  problem at all  from the
> command prompt.
>
> Debian reference suggests to use speaker-test which givesthe next result:
>
> speaker-test 1.0.16
>
> Playback device is default
> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
> Using 16 octaves of pink noise
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory
>
> What should I do next in order to fix sound?
>
> Regards
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Re: ALSA problem?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Oscar Corte [100402 15:19 +]
[...]
> snd_ens137119072 0
> 
> snd_ac97_codec 88452  1
> snd_ens1371
> 
> snd_usb_audio  70272 
> 1

What tells
$ aplay -l
?

I suppose that snd-usb-audio is placed as the first sound device. So
try as follows:

Create as root /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf with the following content:


alias snd-card-0snd-ens1371
options snd-ens1371 index=0
alias snd-card-1snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1
###

Run as root:
# alsa force-reload
or
# reboot

and test again

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Re: No updates seen in a while

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> >how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may
> >be a fine additional list, but why shall I subscribe
> 
> The last entry I have from l.debian.announce is:
> 
> "Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated"
> 
> that was on January 30, 2010
> 
> the nightmare continues.

This list is more appropriate:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/threads.html

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Re: squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

[Stephen Powell]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:35:50 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote:
> For installing Squeeze, I think the business card CD is more useful
> than the daily build. The business card CD has far less new stuff
> burnt onto the media, only what is absolutely necessary to setting up
> the local end of the link to the remote repository. This should be
> quite stable, but it should work next week, or next month, in those
> windows of opportunity when the remote repository contains working
> versions of all the packages that you are interested in installing.
> 
> And I also prefer it to installing the current stable (Lenny) when
> the purpose is to immediately dist-upgrade to testing (Squeeze).
> The details of automating the dist-upgrade are rather slow to be
> debugged as they are seldom used. Once per early adopter of testing.

Your mileage may vary.  On the s390 architecture, a recent post
indicates that the daily build version of the installer is the
only one that will even boot!

http://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2010/03/msg00015.html

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Re: Version conflict in squeeze, also in sid for wacom packages

[Hendrik Boom]

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:54:06 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> In squeeze for the i386, the wacom-related packages are wacom-tools and
> xserver-xorg-input-wacom.  But it is impossible to install both of them.
> 
> wacom-tools is at version 0.8.3.2-1 in both squeeze and sid, whereas
> xserver-xorg-input-wacom is at verion is at version 0.10.3+20100109-1.
> 
> Back in lenny, both packages had the same version number, 0.7.9.3-2, so
> the growing discrepancy is suspicious.  Firthermore, when looking at the
> package description for xserver-xorg-input-wacom from with in aptitude,
> I am tole:
> 
>   --\ Conflicts (1)
> ---wacom-tools (<= 0.8.3.2-1)
> 
> so the two packages are in conflict.  Nothing new seems to be in the
> pipeline to squeeze from sid; the versin numbers are the same in both
> distros.  It doesn't seem as if waiting a few days will alleviate the
> situation in squeeze.
> 
> Where should this be reported, and what is to be done about it?
> 
> -- hendrik

By the way, does anyone know which version(s) of the wacom kernel module 
is in the current squeeze and sid kernels?

-- hendrik


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Version conflict in squeeze, also in sid for wacom packages

[Hendrik Boom]

In squeeze for the i386, the wacom-related packages are wacom-tools and 
xserver-xorg-input-wacom.  But it is impossible to install both of them.

wacom-tools is at version 0.8.3.2-1 in both squeeze and sid, whereas
xserver-xorg-input-wacom is at verion is at version 0.10.3+20100109-1.

Back in lenny, both packages had the same version number, 0.7.9.3-2, so 
the growing discrepancy is suspicious.  Firthermore, when looking at the 
package description for xserver-xorg-input-wacom from with in aptitude, I 
am tole:

  --\ Conflicts (1)
---wacom-tools (<= 0.8.3.2-1)

so the two packages are in conflict.  Nothing new seems to be in the 
pipeline to squeeze from sid; the versin numbers are the same in both 
distros.  It doesn't seem as if waiting a few days will alleviate the 
situation in squeeze.

Where should this be reported, and what is to be done about it?

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Re: squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

[Paul E Condon]

On 20100402_120108, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:50:21 -0400 (EDT), Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > 
> > (NB: please Cc: me on replies as I'm not subscribed here)
> > 
> > This mail is to determine where to file a bug report. I'm not clear if
> > it is an mdadm, mbr, grub, lilo or d-i issue or the interaction of
> > those within d-i context.
> > 
> > I attempted to use the squeeze d-i to install a system on a raid1 pair.
> > The installation went fine up to the point of attempting to install a
> > bootloader to the mbr(s). Grub failed, both grub2 and legacy. lilo also
> > would not install.
> > 
> > I was installing via netboot and had this failure with both the
> > 2010-02-11 netboot.tar.gz release for amd64 as well as the 2010-03-30
> > amd64 snapshot.
> > 
> > I finally got a running squeeze on raid1 by using lenny's d-i to install
> > lenny, then upgrading (following '/msg dpkg lenny->squeeze' instructions
> > from #debian). This now works fully upgraded to grub2 and squeeze.
> > 
> > I need to proceed with using that system right now so can't really spend
> > time re-trying various installers on it. However, I will be building
> > another very similar system in a week or 2 (pending a PSU RMA). At that
> > time, I would like to know who to talk to in order to help with sorting
> > out the issues if they are still present.
> 
> Eric,
> 
> the next time you try a Squeeze install I would suggest using the latest
> "daily build" development version of the Debian installer.  That is the
> only thing I would trust at this point to do a direct install of Squeeze.
> The fact that you were able to install Lenny and upgrade successfully
> indicates that the problem is likely to be in the installer.
> 
> By the way, if you can somehow, by hook or by crook, get everything from
> /lib/modules/... used by the Debian Installer copied to your production
> system, that would be a good thing.  If you ever have to use the installer
> as a rescue system, having matching kernel modules on the hard disk
> makes things much easier in a rescue environment.  It is often difficult,
> if not impossible, to do a chroot or pivot_root without those modules.
> The last time I checked, the installer was using a 2.6.30 kernel, which is
> no longer available in the Debian archive.  I hope that by the time that
> Squeeze becomes the stable release the installer will be using the same
> kernel version as Squeeze does.  Test doing a rescue with a chroot and make
> sure it works before you mess with your boot loader.

For installing Squeeze, I think the business card CD is more useful
than the daily build. The business card CD has far less new stuff
burnt onto the media, only what is absolutely necessary to setting up
the local end of the link to the remote repository. This should be
quite stable, but it should work next week, or next month, in those
windows of opportunity when the remote repository contains working
versions of all the packages that you are interested in installing.

And I also prefer it to installing the current stable (Lenny) when
the purpose is to immediately dist-upgrade to testing (Squeeze).
The details of automating the dist-upgrade are rather slow to be
debugged as they are seldom used. Once per early adopter of testing.

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RE: ALSA problem?

[Stephen Powell]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:19:09 -0400 (EDT), Oscar Corte wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:34:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:04:13 -0400 (EDT), Oscar Corte wrote:
>>> 
>>> When trying to play a CD with Sound Juicer, I'm getting error
>>> “Could not open audio device for playback” 
>>> 
>>> Reason: Internal GStreamer error: state change failed.
>>> Please file a bug at
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer.
>>> 
>>> Totem movie player plays video without any sound at all.
>>> 
>>> However, I can use cdcd play to CD's with no problem at all from the
>>> command prompt.
>>> 
>>> Debian reference suggests to use speaker-test which gives the next
>>> result:
>>>  
>>> speaker-test 1.0.16 
>>>  
>>> Playback device is default 
>>> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels 
>>> Using 16 octaves of pink noise 
>>> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave 
>>> Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory 
>>> 
>>> What should I do next in order to fix sound?
>>
>> Well, for starters, how about telling us the following:
>> 
>> (1) Make and model of your computer
>> (2) Make and model of your sound card, including sound chipset, if known
>> (3) What release of Debian are you running (Lenny, Squeeze, etc.)
>> (4) What packages are installed that start with "alsa"
>> (5) What kernel modules are loaded that begin with "snd"
>> (6) What columns labels are shown by alsamixer? (scroll left and right
>> with arrow keys, exit with Esc)
>> 
>> I have an idea what this might be, but I don't want to make a wild
>> guess.  Let's start with the basics.
>> 
> 
> Sorry for nor providing the required
> information. It's is listed next:
>
>> (1) Make and model of your computer
>Dell XPS T600 (Pentium III 600 Mhz.) (Very old)
>
>> (2) Make and model of your sound card, including sound chipset, if known
>Creative Audi PCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM)
>
>> (3) What release of Debian are you running (Lenny, Squeeze, etc.)
>Lenny 4.1.2-25 up to date through Synaptics
>
>> (4) What packages are installed that start with "alsa"
>alsa-base, alsa-utils
>
>> (5) What kernel modules are loaded that begin with "snd"
>snd_ens137119072  0
>snd_ac97_codec 88452  1 snd_ens1371
>snd_usb_audio  70272  1
>snd_pcm_oss32800  0
>snd_mixer_oss  12320  1 snd_pcm_oss
>snd_pcm62660  4 
> snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
>snd_usb_lib13472  1 snd_usb_audio
>snd_hwdep   6212  1 snd_usb_audio
>snd_seq_dummy   2660  0
>snd_seq_oss24992  0
>snd_seq_midi5728  0
>snd_rawmidi18496  3 snd_ens1371,snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
>snd_seq_midi_event  6432  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
>snd_seq41456  6 
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
>snd_timer  17800  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
>snd_seq_device  6380  5 
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
>snd_page_alloc  7816  1 snd_pcm 
>
>> (6) What columns labels are shown by alsamixer? (scroll left and right ...
>Auto Hain Control [Off], Mic[dBgain=9.00]
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your help. I really
> appreciate it. As far as I remember sound used to work.

Where do I start?  Well, for starters, please don't top post.  We use the 
usenet style of
quoting here.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting for more details.  
I spent
more time reformatting your message than I will in answering your post.  Please 
don't
do that to us.  It is annoying.

Second, what kind of Fourier transform did you do on your data?  Reconstructing 
the output
of lsmod in a recognizable format consumed a fair amount of time too.

OK, enough about logistical issues and on to the problem.  First of all:

>> (3) What release of Debian are you running (Lenny, Squeeze, etc.)
>Lenny 4.1.2-25 up to date through Synaptics

That doesn't sound right.  Are you perhaps running Ubuntu, or some other 
Debian-based
distribution, and not Debian itself?

>> (6) What columns labels are shown by alsamixer? (scroll left and right ...
>Auto Hain Control [Off], Mic[dBgain=9.00]

Are you saying that this one column is the only column?  There's no column 
marked PCM?

> As far as I remember sound used to work.

When did it work?  When you used to run Windows?  When you were running an 
earlier
release of Linux?  Be more specific.

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Re: No updates seen in a while

[Charles Kroeger]

>how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may
>be a fine additional list, but why shall I subscribe

The last entry I have from l.debian.announce is:

"Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated"

that was on January 30, 2010

the nightmare continues.

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Q abt ssh, sshfs, and Stale NFS file handle

[Paul E Condon]

I have debian (lenny and squeeze) running on several hosts that
are interconnected via ethernet. I sit at the console of one
and use ssh and sshfs to control operations on the others.

I am setting up a system to use USB hard drives for backup of
files on all the hosts. I already have working a system for
backup of all hosts onto a single hard drive on a single host.
Now I want to automatically transfer from that permanently
mounted drive onto a USB drive that is mounted using pmount.

So I'm debugging the pmount over ssh. 
I find, after a crash and reboot of the crashed host that I
get an error message when using ls to look at files on the
USB drive via ssh:

cmpq:~# ls -l /media/WDP-5/mystuff/arxiv_5/arxiv/asof/
ls: cannot access /media/WDP-5/mystuff/arxiv_5/arxiv/asof/20091025_010711: 
Stale NFS file handle
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 20100402_083812 00nullbk
d? ? ??   ?   ? 20091025_010711

I do not get this message when I view the same directory using sshfs.
The sshfs response to a similar command indicates that there is no
such directory as the one whose name begins with 200...

Restarting the nfs-common on the controlling host does not fix the
problem. Is the problem actually on the controlling host? My
understanding of sshfs is that it is built on top of ssh. How can it
be clearing its hidden cache(s) when ssh does not? I'd rather not have
to reboot the host where I sit.


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Controlling displays on a multi head system

[Frank H. Baker]

I have a question about controlling displays in a multi head system.
I have three monitors connected to my computer, and I want the 
console to display on one of these and the other two to be unadorned.
I am running the current Debian distribution, which on boot displays
a desktop on all three screens.

Q: How can I prevent adornment appearing on the 2nd and 3rd monitors?

I am implementing a new version of a program I wrote perhaps ten 
years ago, and ran it at that time under Mandrake Linux, which gave
me a cross hatch background on the secondary screens, allowing
my program to occupy the full screen real estate.  My current 
workaround is to use Fluxbox as a window manager, which has a
minimal presence on the monitor, but there must be a more direct
and complete solution to this problem.  I've done my best looking
through the gui boot sequence, but I see nothing obvious there,
and a lot in those files is more then I'm up to.

Many thanks for any help.

Frank Baker



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Re: squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

[Stephen Powell]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:50:21 -0400 (EDT), Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> 
> (NB: please Cc: me on replies as I'm not subscribed here)
> 
> This mail is to determine where to file a bug report. I'm not clear if
> it is an mdadm, mbr, grub, lilo or d-i issue or the interaction of
> those within d-i context.
> 
> I attempted to use the squeeze d-i to install a system on a raid1 pair.
> The installation went fine up to the point of attempting to install a
> bootloader to the mbr(s). Grub failed, both grub2 and legacy. lilo also
> would not install.
> 
> I was installing via netboot and had this failure with both the
> 2010-02-11 netboot.tar.gz release for amd64 as well as the 2010-03-30
> amd64 snapshot.
> 
> I finally got a running squeeze on raid1 by using lenny's d-i to install
> lenny, then upgrading (following '/msg dpkg lenny->squeeze' instructions
> from #debian). This now works fully upgraded to grub2 and squeeze.
> 
> I need to proceed with using that system right now so can't really spend
> time re-trying various installers on it. However, I will be building
> another very similar system in a week or 2 (pending a PSU RMA). At that
> time, I would like to know who to talk to in order to help with sorting
> out the issues if they are still present.

Eric,

the next time you try a Squeeze install I would suggest using the latest
"daily build" development version of the Debian installer.  That is the
only thing I would trust at this point to do a direct install of Squeeze.
The fact that you were able to install Lenny and upgrade successfully
indicates that the problem is likely to be in the installer.

By the way, if you can somehow, by hook or by crook, get everything from
/lib/modules/... used by the Debian Installer copied to your production
system, that would be a good thing.  If you ever have to use the installer
as a rescue system, having matching kernel modules on the hard disk
makes things much easier in a rescue environment.  It is often difficult,
if not impossible, to do a chroot or pivot_root without those modules.
The last time I checked, the installer was using a 2.6.30 kernel, which is
no longer available in the Debian archive.  I hope that by the time that
Squeeze becomes the stable release the installer will be using the same
kernel version as Squeeze does.  Test doing a rescue with a chroot and make
sure it works before you mess with your boot loader.

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Re: Wacom bamboo pen and touch in squeeze.

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:05:09 -0600, ajm wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:53:05AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> What's the story on getting this thing working?  I'm running Debian
>> Squeeze on an ASUS 1000HE.  The device doesn't seem to be recognised as
>> anything it knows what to do about.  It doesn't even seem to know it
>> can be a mouse.
>> 
>> -- hendrik
>> 
>> 
> 
> Did not metion the model.  I have a Bamboo Model MTE-450A (note:  mine
> is usb not serial connection) The following is what I manualy had to add
> to my xorg.conf file:
> 
> under this section "ServerLayout" add the following:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>   InputDevice "stylus""SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "eraser""SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "cursor""SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "pad"   # no core events
> EndSection
> 
> 
> then add the following sections:
> 
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier  "stylus"
> Driver  "wacom"
> Option  "Device""/dev/input/wacom"
> Option  "Type"  "stylus" Option 
> "USB"   "on"
> EndSection
...
...
> 
> 
> I hope this gives a starting point...

It's taken me a while to find the time to get back to this -- but I find 
I don't have a /dev/input/wacom on my system, even when I plug in the 
bamboo, whether at boot time or later.  By the way, it's a USB device, so 
I expect things to be a bit dynamic.

And from the tests described in http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
index.php/howto/main, I suspect the hardware isn't being recognised by 
amy driver, let alone the wacom kernel module, even if I modprobe it.  Of 
course, I can only do that after boot time...

I can't even install the current Debian squeeze package of wacom-tools, 
because it conflicts with the current Debian squeeze package for xserver-
xorg-input-wacom.  It doesn't help to look at sid; those packages are the 
same, so it looks as if waiting a few days for the pipeline to clear 
isn't going to remedy the situation.

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Re: Wacom bamboo pen and touch in squeeze.

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:41:28 +, Chris Davies wrote:

> Hendrik Boom  wrote:
>> What's the story on getting this thing working?
> 
> http://udim.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/wacom-bamboo-and-debian/
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what "version" of Debian you'd say I was running -
> it's a bit a of a Heinz 57 (stable, *testing*, unstable, volatile,
> experimental) - but that blog gave me enough pointers to get it working
> here a number of months ago.
> 
> Chris

It's taken me a while to get back to this.

That blog mentions wacom-tools.  I can't even install wacom-tools, 
because the current version in squeeze (and sid) conflictw with the 
current version of xserver-xorg-input-wacom

Seems like a versioning problem in Debian.

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Re: Some Mirrors are up

[Wayne]

Kumar Appaiah wrote:

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Wayne wrote:

Kumar Appaiah wrote:

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote:

Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade!

This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the
ones which were available on that mirror. ftp-master.debian.org is
still down, though it should be up sometime soonish.

Kumar

I don't think so.

I have been trying 2-3 times a day since the mirrors went down to
get an update done.  On the second try today, the update completed.


Whatever the case may be, I am certain that no uploads are happening,
since ftp-master is yet to be resurrected. For instance, the last
update date for files here is 25th March:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/

Kumar


Sorry, you must be correct.  I see that the master *is* down.  Now to 
figure out why I was able to complete that update.


Regards

Wayne


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RE: ALSA problem?

[Oscar Corte]

Stephen:









Sorry for nor providing the required
information. It's is listed next:



(1) Make and model of your computer
Dell XPS T600 (Pentium III 600 
Mhz.) (Very old)


(2) 
Make and model of your sound card, including sound chipset, if known
Creative Audi PCI
(ES1371,ES1373) (WDM)


(3) 
What release of Debian are you running (Lenny, Squeeze, etc.)
Lenny 4.1.2-25 up to date through
Synaptics


(4) 
What packages are installed that start with "alsa"
alsa-base, alsa-utils


(5) 
What kernel modules are loaded that begin with "snd"
snd_ens137119072 
0

snd_ac97_codec 88452  1
snd_ens1371

snd_usb_audio  70272 
1

snd_pcm_oss32800 
0

snd_mixer_oss  12320  1
snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm62660  4
snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss

snd_usb_lib13472  1
snd_usb_audio

snd_hwdep   6212  1
snd_usb_audio

snd_seq_dummy   2660 
0

snd_seq_oss24992 
0

snd_seq_midi5728 
0

snd_rawmidi18496  3
snd_ens1371,snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi

snd_seq_midi_event  6432  2
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi

snd_seq41456  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_timer  17800  2
snd_pcm,snd_seq

snd_seq_device  6380  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq

snd_page_alloc  7816  1
snd_pcm 




(6)
What columns labels are shown by alsamixer? (scroll left and right
Auto Hain Control [Off], Mic[dB
gain=9.00]




Thanks a lot for your help. I really
appreciate it. As far as I remember sound used to work.



Regards


> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:34:50 -0400
> From: zlinux...@wowway.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ALSA problem?
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:04:13 -0400 (EDT), Oscar Corte wrote:
> > 
> > When trying to play a CD with Sound Juicer, I'm getting error
> > “Could not open audio device for playback” 
> > 
> > Reason: Internal GStreamer error: state change failed.
> > Please file a bug at
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer.
> > 
> > Totem movie player plays video without any sound at all.
> > 
> > However, I can use cdcd play to CD's with no problem at all from the
> > command prompt.
> > 
> > Debian reference suggests to use speaker-test which gives the next
> > result:
> >  
> > speaker-test 1.0.16 
> >  
> > Playback device is default 
> > Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels 
> > Using 16 octaves of pink noise 
> > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave 
> > Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory 
> > 
> > What should I do next in order to fix sound?
> 
> Well, for starters, how about telling us the following:
> 
> (1) Make and model of your computer
> (2) Make and model of your sound card, including sound chipset, if known
> (3) What release of Debian are you running (Lenny, Squeeze, etc.)
> (4) What packages are installed that start with "alsa"
> (5) What kernel modules are loaded that begin with "snd"
> (6) What columns labels are shown by alsamixer? (scroll left and right
> with arrow keys, exit with Esc)
> 
> I have an idea what this might be, but I don't want to make a wild
> guess.  Let's start with the basics.
> 
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Re: Some Mirrors are up

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> >>Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade!
> >
> >This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the
> >ones which were available on that mirror. ftp-master.debian.org is
> >still down, though it should be up sometime soonish.
> >
> >Kumar
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> I have been trying 2-3 times a day since the mirrors went down to
> get an update done.  On the second try today, the update completed.

Whatever the case may be, I am certain that no uploads are happening,
since ftp-master is yet to be resurrected. For instance, the last
update date for files here is 25th March:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/

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Re: Some Mirrors are up

[Wayne]

Kumar Appaiah wrote:

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote:

Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade!


This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the
ones which were available on that mirror. ftp-master.debian.org is
still down, though it should be up sometime soonish.

Kumar


I don't think so.

I have been trying 2-3 times a day since the mirrors went down to get an 
update done.  On the second try today, the update completed.


Wayne


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Re: Some Mirrors are up

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade!

This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the
ones which were available on that mirror. ftp-master.debian.org is
still down, though it should be up sometime soonish.

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squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

(NB: please Cc: me on replies as I'm not subscribed here)

This mail is to determine where to file a bug report. I'm not clear if
it is an mdadm, mbr, grub, lilo or d-i issue or the interaction of
those within d-i context.

I attempted to use the squeeze d-i to install a system on a raid1 pair.
The installation went fine up to the point of attempting to install a
bootloader to the mbr(s). Grub failed, both grub2 and legacy. lilo also
would not install.

I was installing via netboot and had this failure with both the
2010-02-11 netboot.tar.gz release for amd64 as well as the 2010-03-30
amd64 snapshot.

I finally got a running squeeze on raid1 by using lenny's d-i to install
lenny, then upgrading (following '/msg dpkg lenny->squeeze' instructions
from #debian). This now works fully upgraded to grub2 and squeeze.

I need to proceed with using that system right now so can't really spend
time re-trying various installers on it. However, I will be building
another very similar system in a week or 2 (pending a PSU RMA). At that
time, I would like to know who to talk to in order to help with sorting
out the issues if they are still present.

Thanks,
Eric Rz.


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Some Mirrors are up

[Wayne]

Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade!

Wayne


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Re: Bluetooth keyboard trouble

[Stephen Powell]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 03:01:30 -0400 (EDT), martin wrote:
> I try booting 2.6.26 five times and there work keyboard without problem. In 
> 2.6.32-trunk it only works if I tap enter key some times around "Start INIT 
> 2.85" (or at least until the computer has been left alone for an hour or so). 
> 
> I did a module compare, in 2.6.32 there are some extra modules that can be 
> releated: bluetooth, btusb and hid_logitech.
> 
> When was the last kernel upgrade? (the system is currently up-to-date)

I'm not sure of the exact date, but the previous kernel was 2.6.32-trunk
and you were having problems with it too.  But if 2.6.26 works fine, then
the problem is almost certainly a kernel problem.  I'd search the bug
reports for linux-2.6, and if you can't find one that seems to describe
your problem, I recommend that you report a bug against the kernel.

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Re: No updates seen in a while

[Stephen aka Fishpaste]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:45:26AM -0400, Stephen Powell uttered:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:50:22 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 31 Mar 2010, S.D.A. wrote:
> >> Speaking of this issue (FTP master being down); I did an 'aptitude
> >> update' for my SID laptop this morning. Says over 900 packages need to
> >> be updated! Now I know it's been a few days since we received updates,
> >> and I update every day prior to the downtime; Surely that can't be
> >> right, can it?
> > 
> >
> > No updates available here, either on ftp.de.debian.org or
> > ftp.uk.debian.org.
> 
> S.D.A:
> 
> I am assuming that you canceled out of it and did not do the updates.
> If that is the case, try issuing the following commands:

Of course! 8)

>aptitude keep-all
>aptitude update
>aptitude full-upgrade
> 
> and see what you get.

Thanks, I know my way around Aptitude. I was just querying about the
number of updates on a system that's updated daily. It seems that I
got in on a very brief window; maybe when some hardware was brought up
temporaily (who knows) and it's a false reading. Thought maybe that
testing had gone to stable, yadda, yadda.


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Re: No updates seen in a while

[S.D.A.]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:50:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell uttered:
> On 31 Mar 2010, S.D.A. wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Speaking of this issue (FTP master being down); I did an 'aptitude
> > update' for my SID laptop this morning. Says over 900 packages need to
> > be updated! Now I know it's been a few days since we received updates,
> > and I update every day prior to the downtime; Surely that can't be
> > right, can it?
> > 
> 
> No updates available here, either on ftp.de.debian.org or
> ftp.uk.debian.org.

Indeed it must have been a narrow window -- I had tried about 5
minutes prior to my original post. Haven't seen anything since.


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Re: No updates seen in a while

[S.D.A.]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:13:33AM -0500, John Hasler uttered:
> "S.D.A." writes:
> > Precisely, far too many lists on Debian and they could use some
> > consolidation. My view is if an issue affects users of Debian; then it
> > should be posted to the 'user' lists.
> 
> Many "users" cannot tolerate the high volume of debian-user but need to
> see announcements.  These people subscribe only to the low-volume
> "announce" lists.  On the other hand it is hard to see why those who can
> tolerate the high volume here cannot also subscribe the the low-volume
> "announce" lists.

Hi John; Yes good point -- But with an efficient e-mail client like
mutt it's trivial to wade through a high volume list, in my opinion. ;-D
BTW this list isn't that high volume compared to some social media.

Still, I think my point about USERs being impacted still stands; The
announcement should go to the USERs list as well! Too much specificity
gives the results seen here; most missed the announcement.

But if one needs to sign up for yet another list than so be it. 


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Re: How to read log files

[Jari Fredriksson]

On 2.4.2010 1:45, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> etcgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /etc/* ; }
>> sgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /usr/src/linux ; }
>> xgrep () { grep -i "$1" $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " ") ; }
>>
> 
> Nice. I'm having a hard time understanding that last one, but I will
> figure it out. Thanks!
> 
> 

It looks like it takes the PATH environment variable and splits it into
multiple tokens (directories), and grep will search in *every* directory
included in PATH.

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Re: Bluetooth keyboard trouble

[martin]

On Thursday 01 April 2010 15.01.12 Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:34:18 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Thu,01.Apr.10, 07:47:49, martin wrote:
> >> This last days my keyboard has stop working. If I just let the computer
> >> start as normal, nothing works. The keyboard in question is a logitech
> >> dinovo edge with bluetooth connection, using the included receiver. I
> >> have observe the following:
> >>
> >> * When trying to type on the keyboard, a red bluetooth icon appears on
> >> the keyboard
> >> * In grub the keyboard works as normal
> >> * If continuously pressing enter in grub to until the network has been
> >> setup, the keyboard will work for a while. If leaving the computer and
> >> coming back later, the may or may not work keyboard.
> >> * There is a built in mouse that is affected as well.
> >>
> >> I'm currently running up-to-date testing. keyboard is fully charge.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what can be wrong is appreciated :)
> >
> > It sounds to me like some power management feature...
> 
> That would be my guess too.  You might want to put your monitor to sleep to
> save energy, but you definitely don't want to put your keyboard to sleep to
> save energy.  And if the mouse is built-in to the keyboard, it's even
>  worse. There's no way to wake it up again, unless you can login remotely
>  via ssh, or something like that.
I currently have an usb cable mouse connected to the computer and that one 
always works. it's only the keyboard that is failing. 

> Did this behavior begin with a kernel upgrade?  That would be my first
>  guess. Try booting the old kernel and see if the problem persists.
> 
I try booting 2.6.26 five times and there work keyboard without problem. In 
2.6.32-trunk it only works if I tap enter key some times around "Start INIT 
2.85" (or at least until the computer has been left alone for an hour or so). 

I did a module compare, in 2.6.32 there are some extra modules that can be 
releated: bluetooth, btusb and hid_logitech.

When was the last kernel upgrade? (the system is currently up-to-date)

   Martin



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