Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

[Scott Ferguson]

On 15/01/12 08:44, � wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues
> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play
> any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its
> related).
> 
> I found in /var/log/messages:
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
> to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or
> directory
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
> to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file
> or directory
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c:
> Cannot access autospawn lock.
> 
> MPlayer based players work fine, system sounds in KDE are fine either.
> How can I fix it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Grzes
> 
> A crash report from Amarok:


You could maybe try phonon-backend-vlc instead of the xine backend.

Sorry, I don't run Sid so my experience probably won't translate.


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Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

[Brad Alexander]

For the record, this works out pretty well if you have a number of box
"types" that you use and can adapt. For instance, you could build a
firewall box and capture the package list, one for a web server, wiki box,
etc...And have a pool of package lists that you can call on or adapt for
your building needs.

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On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Brad Alexander  wrote:

> In a previous life, I was the Linux Platform Engineer for a company. One
> of my first jobs was to strip down CentOS 4 to create appliances.
>
> One thing I learned is that (as others have said in this thread) it is
> much easier to not put it on than to try to remove interlocking
> dependencies. Luckily, Debian is much easier to do this with than "install
> everything but the kitchen sink" approaches like CentOS.
>
> Thus, my recommendation would be as follows:
>
> 1. Do a base install of Debian. During the install, at the Software
> Selection screen where it asks what to install, *uncheck everything* --
> except for ssh server, if you want that. This will give you the absolute
> minimal install possible.
>
> 2. After reboot, do an
>
> aptitude update ; aptitude install squid3 snort openvpn iptables
>
> This will give you your required packages and nothing else.
>
> 3. Once you have all the software installed that you need, you should
> capture the list
> of packages:
>
>  dpkg --get-selections > UTM.pkglist
>
> 4. For subsequent builds of this particular platform, perform step 1
> above, then after reboot, copy the UTM.pkglist to the new machine and do
> the following:
>
>  dpkg --set-selections < UTM.pkglist
>  apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> This should get you the required packages with no extra fat. Just remember
> each time you need to add package(s) to update the UTM.pkglist...
>
> HTH,
> --b
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Bijoy Lobo wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables).
>> I would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It
>> would be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software
>> within the OS which i can uninstall for better performance would certainly
>> help me.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Bijoy Lobo
>>
>>
>

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

[Brad Alexander]

In a previous life, I was the Linux Platform Engineer for a company. One of
my first jobs was to strip down CentOS 4 to create appliances.

One thing I learned is that (as others have said in this thread) it is much
easier to not put it on than to try to remove interlocking dependencies.
Luckily, Debian is much easier to do this with than "install everything but
the kitchen sink" approaches like CentOS.

Thus, my recommendation would be as follows:

1. Do a base install of Debian. During the install, at the Software
Selection screen where it asks what to install, *uncheck everything* --
except for ssh server, if you want that. This will give you the absolute
minimal install possible.

2. After reboot, do an

aptitude update ; aptitude install squid3 snort openvpn iptables

This will give you your required packages and nothing else.

3. Once you have all the software installed that you need, you should
capture the list
of packages:

 dpkg --get-selections > UTM.pkglist

4. For subsequent builds of this particular platform, perform step 1 above,
then after reboot, copy the UTM.pkglist to the new machine and do the
following:

 dpkg --set-selections < UTM.pkglist
 apt-get dselect-upgrade

This should get you the required packages with no extra fat. Just remember
each time you need to add package(s) to update the UTM.pkglist...

HTH,
--b

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Bijoy Lobo  wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables).
> I would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It
> would be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software
> within the OS which i can uninstall for better performance would certainly
> help me.
>
> --
> Thanks and Regards
> Bijoy Lobo
>
>

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

[Brad Alexander]

Not sure if it is related, but I rebuilt my machine with Debian amd64 (sid)
last weekend, and just installed Amarok last night. I noticed that it
seemed like every 3 or 4 songs, it would crash with a signal 11. I'm going
to dig into it tomorrow, but hearing that you are havning issues with it
and (presumably) with Pulse may push me into nuking it off of the system.

2012/1/14 Grześ Andruszkiewicz 

> Hi,
>
> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues
> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play
> any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its
> related).
>
> I found in /var/log/messages:
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
> to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or
> directory
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
> to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file
> or directory
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c:
> Cannot access autospawn lock.
>
> MPlayer based players work fine, system sounds in KDE are fine either.
> How can I fix it?
>
> Cheers,
> Grzes
>
> A crash report from Amarok:
>
> Application: Amarok (amarok), signal: Segmentation fault
> *__GI___poll (fds=0xbff788d8, nfds=1, timeout=-1) at
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
>in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c
> [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xadf0da10 (LWP 3534))]
>
> Thread 16 (Thread 0xa7439b70 (LWP 3535)):
> #0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb48d6703 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at
>
> ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686/../i486/pthread_cond_timedwait.S:236
> #2  0xb57f1ad4 in __pthread_cond_timedwait (cond=0x8bbd798,
> mutex=0x8bbd780, abstime=0xa7439268) at forward.c:152
> #3  0xab635a69 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
> #4  0xb1506a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
> #5  0x in ?? ()
>
> Thread 15 (Thread 0xa6c38b70 (LWP 3536)):
> #0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb48d2e65 in pthread_join (threadid=2502196080,
> thread_return=0xa6c379fc) at pthread_join.c:89
> #2  0xab641d42 in _x_audio_decoder_shutdown () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
> #3  0xab631d38 in xine_dispose () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
> #4  0xab696243 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
> #5  0xab696322 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
> #6  0xab690dd2 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
> #7  0xab6918a9 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
> #8  0xb5af86e3 in qDeleteInEventHandler(QObject*) () from
> /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #9  0xb5afdcd8 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #10 0xab69169b in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
> #11 0xb605e0a4 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*,
> QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
> #12 0xb6063432 in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from
> /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
> #13 0xb761a511 in KApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from
> /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5
> #14 0xb5ae5a9e in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*)
> () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #15 0xb5ae9264 in QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents(QObject*,
> int, QThreadData*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #16 0xb5ae93ac in QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int) ()
> from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #17 0xb5b13894 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #18 0xb3985a3f in g_main_context_dispatch () from
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #19 0xb3986170 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #20 0xb398640a in g_main_context_iteration () from
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #21 0xb5b13cc7 in
> QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags)
> () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #22 0xb5ae4abd in
> QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags) ()
> from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #23 0xb5ae4d01 in
> QEventLoop::exec(QFlags) () from
> /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #24 0xb59e7e6b in QThread::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #25 0xab692f79 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
> #26 0xb59eacd3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
> #27 0xb1506a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
> #28 0x in ?? ()
>
> Thread 14 (Thread 0xa6437b70 (LWP 3537)):
> #0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb48d620a in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0x8bdf070,
> mutex=0x8bdf058) at pthread_cond_wait.c:153
> #2  0xb57f1a7d in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0x8bdf070,
> mutex=0x8bdf058) at forward.c:139
> #3  0xab648c4c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
> #4  0xb1506a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
> #5  0x in ?? ()
>
> Thread 13 (Thread 0xa5c36b70 (LWP 3538)):
> #0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb48d620a in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0x8d40d70,
> mutex=0x8d40d58) at pthread_co

Re: search for specific pattern

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-01-14 14:08:36 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> ls -Rt | grep .cmap
> would list all such files under the current dir, showing the most
> recently edited first.

There are two problems with that. First, by default with grep,
"." will match any character and you may get too much output.
So, instead of

  grep .cmap

you may prefer

  grep \\.cmap

or

  fgrep .cmap

The other problem is that you won't be able to know the directories
that contain the output filenames. A similar solution under zsh,
without this drawback:

  ls **/*.cmap(^/)

or

  ls -d **/*.cmap

or some other variant, depending on what you want. However, the ls
will be here invoked once all the directories have been searched,
not in parallel of the search like with the other methods, and if
there is too much output, you will get an error due to a kernel
limitation (a workaround is to use a zsh builtin such as printf
instead of ls if you just need the pathname).

> find . -name *.cmp
> would also list all such files.

You need to quote the "*":

find . -name \*.cmap

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Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:40:56 +, Brian wrote in message 
<20120113194056.GE2926@desktop>:

> On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote:
> 
> >I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual-
> > boot using grub 0.97.  The debian system (of course) seems to
> > be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on
> > the windows side.
> > 
> > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that
> > will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the
> > linux system?  I'm concerned that running standard-issue
> > diagnostic and treatment stuff will tamper with the boot
> > sector, among other things.
> 
> Debian, as you acknowledge, is a malware free zone. If something nasty
> is affecting another OS you are better off dealing with it within that
> OS. 

..really???  Like Obama, I have 2 words for you, 
mine may be a little harsher: Track records. ;o) 

> If the treatment affects the MBR you can complain to the software
> provider. Anyway, Debian has ways of restoring your MBR to good
> health.

..try 'man -k grub' for a list of ideas, then e.g. 
'man grub-mkrescue'.  

..if you lack that, e.g. 'apt-cache search grub-mkrescue' will 
list a few install suggestions worth an 'apt-cache show $item'.

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Re: grub-pc mdadm root (really Resolved)

[Marc Auslander]

>From /etc/defaults/mdadm

# INITRDSTART:
#   list of arrays (or 'all') to start automatically when the initial ramdisk
#   loads. This list *must* include the array holding your root filesystem. Use
#   'none' to prevent any array from being started from the initial ramdisk.
INITRDSTART='none'

Changing this to all (or just the root device, but I put in all) is
the correct fix.

How did I miss that for so long.  Sigh.

Thanks to all.


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Re: gnome 3 not loading

[mond]

On Jan 14, 11:50 am, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:20:32 -0800, mond wrote:
> > Since the update of gnome3, I can only log in (from gdm3) gnome classic
> > which is essentially just gnome2. I can run gnome-shell (with replace
> > option) in gnome classic. If I choose to log in gnome3, the system
> > freeze at showing the wall paper, no panels, no alt+F1, the cpu or
> > memory usage remains normal though.
>
> Which VGA card and what drivers are in use?
>
> > Is there any log files I can check in order to locate the problem?
>
> Yup, you can start by looking into your "~/.xession-errors" file. And you
> can also try to login with a newly created user to see if that way you
> can start a gnome-shell session directly from GDM.
>
> Greetings,
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Hi Camaleón,

Thanks you for the input.

I just solved the problem last night after some research.

This looks like a common problem for a lot of users when updating from
gnome2 to gnome3. The Xorg.log looks fine. Xsession-errors indicated
some GTK color space problems. I removed all configuration files under
~/. Then gnome-shell started successfully.

Regards,
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Re: editing pdf files

[Jude DaShiell]

can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment or is 
this strictly gui?On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Siard wrote:

> John A. Sullivan III:
> > Form filling is not in the base package.  I believe you need to
> > install the acroread-plugins for that to work
> 
> Indeed, after installing package acroread-plugins, acroread does
> form filling.  Thanks.
> 
> 
> 


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Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

[Jude DaShiell]

Should have been picked up and installation went ahead without it.  
Debian reminds me of those Mars Rovers, they're not supposed to be able to 
work but they get into a hostile environment and surprise everybody by 
working any way.On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:

> 14/01/2012 21:42, Marc Auslander wrote:
> > Marc Auslander  writes:
> >
> > >
> > > As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it.  In the initrd
> > > shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes
> > > normally.
> > >
> >
> > I stumbled on the initramfs scripts, held my breath and added a
> > local-top script which assembled my root array.  Now I boot!
> >
> > So it works - but is this the right way to do it?
> >
> > In an case, thanks for the help.  Knowing it could work kept me flailing.
> >
> >
> 
> You mean like one of those:
> 
> "$ find /etc/initramfs-tools/ -name mdadm
> 
> /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/mdadm
> /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm"
> 
> They are coming from "/usr/share/initramfs-tools/(hooks|scripts)*"
> 
> It should have been picked up by update-initramfs.
> 
> 
> 


Jude 



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Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

[tv.deb...@googlemail.com]

14/01/2012 21:42, Marc Auslander wrote:

Marc Auslander  writes:



As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it.  In the initrd
shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes
normally.



I stumbled on the initramfs scripts, held my breath and added a
local-top script which assembled my root array.  Now I boot!

So it works - but is this the right way to do it?

In an case, thanks for the help.  Knowing it could work kept me flailing.




You mean like one of those:

"$ find /etc/initramfs-tools/ -name mdadm

/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/mdadm
/etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm"

They are coming from "/usr/share/initramfs-tools/(hooks|scripts)*"

It should have been picked up by update-initramfs.


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Re: Keyboard layout detection

[Lisi]

On Thursday 12 January 2012 08:38:29 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> I guess I have a non standard layout, for example when I press the key
> that has '#' typed on it I get '|'. Funny thing is that I actually have
> no trouble using the keyboard with this (wrong) layout because I find
> the correct keys intuitively.

Sounds to me as though you may have a physical GB keyboard and are using it 
with a software US keyboard.

Lisi


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Re: editing pdf files

[Tony Baldwin]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0800, Weaver wrote:
> 
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> >
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> > Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.
> 
> I've just started to use pdfedit, but haven't even delved beneath the
> surface yet.
> 
> I have found that by opening a pdf in this app, I can gain access
> to'select all', 'copy' and then paste into LibreOffice Writer. Use this as
> an editor, then 'export to pdf'.
> Regards,

For something like that, you could just as easily use
pdftotext $pdffile $textfile
then edit the resulting textfile in LO, or whatever.
Of course, it only works with pdf files that were built from text,
not scans/image files.

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Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

[Grześ Andruszkiewicz]

Hi,

I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues
with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play
any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its
related).

I found in /var/log/messages:
Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or
directory
Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file
or directory
Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c:
Cannot access autospawn lock.

MPlayer based players work fine, system sounds in KDE are fine either.
How can I fix it?

Cheers,
Grzes

A crash report from Amarok:

Application: Amarok (amarok), signal: Segmentation fault
*__GI___poll (fds=0xbff788d8, nfds=1, timeout=-1) at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xadf0da10 (LWP 3534))]

Thread 16 (Thread 0xa7439b70 (LWP 3535)):
#0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb48d6703 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at
../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686/../i486/pthread_cond_timedwait.S:236
#2  0xb57f1ad4 in __pthread_cond_timedwait (cond=0x8bbd798,
mutex=0x8bbd780, abstime=0xa7439268) at forward.c:152
#3  0xab635a69 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
#4  0xb1506a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
#5  0x in ?? ()

Thread 15 (Thread 0xa6c38b70 (LWP 3536)):
#0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb48d2e65 in pthread_join (threadid=2502196080,
thread_return=0xa6c379fc) at pthread_join.c:89
#2  0xab641d42 in _x_audio_decoder_shutdown () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
#3  0xab631d38 in xine_dispose () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
#4  0xab696243 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
#5  0xab696322 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
#6  0xab690dd2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
#7  0xab6918a9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
#8  0xb5af86e3 in qDeleteInEventHandler(QObject*) () from
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#9  0xb5afdcd8 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#10 0xab69169b in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
#11 0xb605e0a4 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*,
QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#12 0xb6063432 in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#13 0xb761a511 in KApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from
/usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5
#14 0xb5ae5a9e in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*)
() from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#15 0xb5ae9264 in QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents(QObject*,
int, QThreadData*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#16 0xb5ae93ac in QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int) ()
from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#17 0xb5b13894 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#18 0xb3985a3f in g_main_context_dispatch () from
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0xb3986170 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0xb398640a in g_main_context_iteration () from
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0xb5b13cc7 in
QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags)
() from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#22 0xb5ae4abd in
QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags) ()
from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#23 0xb5ae4d01 in
QEventLoop::exec(QFlags) () from
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#24 0xb59e7e6b in QThread::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#25 0xab692f79 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_xine.so
#26 0xb59eacd3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#27 0xb1506a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
#28 0x in ?? ()

Thread 14 (Thread 0xa6437b70 (LWP 3537)):
#0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb48d620a in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0x8bdf070,
mutex=0x8bdf058) at pthread_cond_wait.c:153
#2  0xb57f1a7d in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0x8bdf070,
mutex=0x8bdf058) at forward.c:139
#3  0xab648c4c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
#4  0xb1506a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
#5  0x in ?? ()

Thread 13 (Thread 0xa5c36b70 (LWP 3538)):
#0  0xb7881424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb48d620a in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0x8d40d70,
mutex=0x8d40d58) at pthread_cond_wait.c:153
#2  0xb57f1a7d in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0x8d40d70,
mutex=0x8d40d58) at forward.c:139
#3  0xab648c4c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxine.so.1
#4  0xb1506a9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
#5  0x in ?? ()

Thread 12 (Thread 0xa4899b70 (LWP 3540)):
#0  0xb37b1e11 in *__GI_clock_gettime (clock_id=1, tp=0xa4898f68) at
../sysdeps/unix/clock_gettime.c:116
#1  0xb5a41d25 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#2  0xb5b14696 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#3  0xb5b149fa in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#4  0xb5b13253 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#5  0xb

Re: sasl authentication failed

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:26:30 -0500, tony baldwin wrote:

> On Sat, January 14, 2012 12:41 pm, Camale�n wrote:

(...)

>> Tony, I would forget about the SSL part until you have configured your
>> Postfix to be in a workable state (sending/receiving e-mails with no
>> errors). Afterwards, you can start to setup the SSL certificate but not
>> before.
>>
>>
> I do have it working now, but the cert is still wrong.

Okay, let's focus on that now.

>>> When I configured postfix, I gave it tonybaldwin.org tonybaldwin.org
>>> is what shows in my main.cf I do know understand why anything says
>>> vulcan.linode.com
>>
>> This can come from SSL certificate file :-?
> 
> yes, the cert says it is from vulcan.linode.com, while I am certain I
> have my hostname set as vulcan.tonybaldwin.org 

Your hostname (whatever is set to) has no effect on the SSL cert file. 
You have to ensure that you created the certificate with the correct data.

To see how it looks like you can:

***
openssl x509 -in /path/to/cert_file -noout -text
***

The "CN=" field has to be "vulcan.tonybaldwin.org", if not I would redo 
again that specific step:

http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze#sph_create-an-ssl-certificate-for-postfix

Put special care when the openssl wizard asks for the "Common Name (eg, 
YOUR name) []:", here you have to write "vulcan.tonybaldwin.org".

> So, when I set up mutt at home, my laptop, etc., I see some error to
> the effect that the cert is from vulcan.linode.com, which disagrees
> with the host, vulcan.tonybaldwin.org.
> I just choose "(a) accept always", and it works, but it seems to me it
> would be better to have the cert correct.

Sure, having the SSL cert file with the right data on it :-P

However, unless you use a certificate coming from one of the authorized 
companies you will still see a warning about its validity when connecting 
from another computer.

> As far as the rest, it seems there was some ghost sendmail process
> hogging port 25.  I just killed that pid and restarted postfix and it
> works now.

I already read your lastest milestones for this saga, well done!

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Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:20:01 +, Brian wrote:

> On Sat 14 Jan 2012 at 18:36:31 +, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> > 
>> > How to up the bug priority ?
>> 
>> Only devels or maintainers can do that (I mean, effectively altering
>> the priority of a bug).
> 
> The BTS is open to anyone.

Sure, I mean that setting the bug priorities is handled by devels/
packagers/maintainers, not us (users). They have the final word 
regardless how "urgent" we think the problem is.

>> User can, however, add a "me too" on that report so those in charge of
>> pulling an update can see there is many people affected by the problem.
>> The more people is affected, the higher chance to get an update that
>> corrects the issue.
> 
> A 'me too' without extra information is of no value. I'll let you work
> out what (Many 'me toos' * 0) amounts to. :)

A "me too" should be enough if the error is exactly as the one described 
by the reporter. Should more information is needed, devels have to ask 
for it.

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Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:49:35 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Camaleón  wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>>
>>> It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has
>>> constant KDE crashes, by default.
>>
>> KDE (the whole DE) or konqueror (the browser)?
> 
> Not whole KDE and not whole konqueror. Only konqueror plugin crashes.

Then the impact is very limited. Good.

>>> Due to bug in konqueror-nsplugins:
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309
>>>
>>> What to do?
>>
>> In the meantime... Disable Gnash? Updating gnash? Using Adobe
>> flasplayer? Using another browser?
> 
> I recommend disabling "gnash" in default Debian install in next squeeze
> update, and re-evaluate it's stability in Wheezy.
> 
> Discussion here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655841

Mmm, I'd say Debian BTS is not the better place for discussing such 
things. Maybe a mailing list (debian-devel?) would have been most 
suitable.

Anyway, removing the package won't have any effect on users who are 
already running Debian 6. An updated version of the involved package 
would be better, IMO.

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Reciva website

[John Lindsay]

Does anyone use Reciva to access some internet radio stations? If so, 
how does one get WMA and MP3 formats to play. AAC format allows a 
selection and allows movie player to open and receive the selected 
station (only one I've run across using AAC is an Australian site). I'm 
running Debian 6.


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Re: editing pdf files

[Claudius Hubig]

Hello richard,

richard  wrote:
>You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
>was blank.
>Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want.
>Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader.

You can try printing the filled-in form as PDF from within Evince and
send the printout.

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Re: grub-pc mdadm root

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Marc Auslander  wrote:
> Tom H  writes:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander  wrote:


>>> I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root.
>>>
>>> grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram.  But when it
>>> comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a
>>> message that the kernel can't be found.  And it can't, because the
>>> raid root device hasn't been assembled.  (No raid devices exist in
>>> /dev).
>>>
>>> I can assemble it in initramfs shell using mdadm, so all the stuff is there.
>>>
>>> So I really need to see any grub.cfg stanza that actually works -
>>> mostly to see what vmlinuz parameters are needed.
>>
>> It think that it's your initrd that needs some attention...
>>
>> Anyway, from a wheezy install:
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> That's essentially what my grub stanza does.  I've run
> update-initramfs.  So I don't know what "attention" my initrd needs at
> this point.


> This is squeeze - is it possible that the newer kernel has code to
> assemble early?

I've got servers running squeeze with grub2 and mdadm.


> Is there some other "option" or setting which causes it to assemble early?

Can you unpack your initrd and check whether you have an "mdadm"
script in the "scripts" directory, an mdadm rule in the "udev"
directory, and an "/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf"? (I can't access a Debian
box at the moment or I would've given you exact paths to the first
two; sorry.)


> Also, are you using md version 1.2 raid.

Yes; it's the d-i default for squeeze and wheezy.


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Re: editing pdf files

[Curt]

On 2012-01-14, Siard  wrote:
>> >
>> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
>> 
>> It is?
>
> In Wheezy:
>
> $ apt-cache policy acroread
> acroread:
>   Installed: 9.4.6-0.1
>   ...
>   http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages
>   ...
  
When I refer to non-free, I mean the official __debian__ non-free
repository, which is what I thought you meant, and not a third-party
repository, which is what you really meant.


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Re: editing pdf files

[Weaver]

> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
>
> I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.

I've just started to use pdfedit, but haven't even delved beneath the
surface yet.

I have found that by opening a pdf in this app, I can gain access
to'select all', 'copy' and then paste into LibreOffice Writer. Use this as
an editor, then 'export to pdf'.
Regards,

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Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

[Csanyi Pal]

Csanyi Pal  writes:

> Andrei Popescu  writes:
>
>> On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:18:31, Csanyi Pal wrote:



> Now, after I rebooted with my headless system, I can to SSH to it, and
> that is the good news.
>
> The bad news is that that I can't browse the Internet from the LAN
> behind the headless machine, let it call Bubba. 

It works! :D

I must edit again /etc/shorewall/masq
eth010.0.0.0/8,\
169.254.0.0/16,\
172.16.0.0/12,\
192.168.0.0/16

This was the default that come with shorewall.

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Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

[Marc Auslander]

Marc Auslander  writes:

>
> As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it.  In the initrd
> shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes
> normally.
>

I stumbled on the initramfs scripts, held my breath and added a
local-top script which assembled my root array.  Now I boot!

So it works - but is this the right way to do it?

In an case, thanks for the help.  Knowing it could work kept me flailing.


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Weaver]

> Panayiotis writes:
>> I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working fine.
>> Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too big to
>> fit in the gap?
>
> Use Lilo.  It doesn't use the "gap" at all.  IMHO putting critical boot
> software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not
> unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea.

In case there are other problems - corruption of boot, etc., I've used
this and found it very helpful in the past.
Debian-based.

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/

Regards,

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Re: editing pdf files

[Siard]

Curt wrote:
> On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote:
> >
> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
> 
> It is?

In Wheezy:

$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: 9.4.6-0.1
  ...
  http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages
  ...


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Re: editing pdf files

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC)
> Curt  wrote:
> 
> > On 2012-01-14, Siard  wrote:
> > >
> > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
> > 
> > It is?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Acroread both linux and win thing failed to save these forms, with an error
> Richard
> 
> 
If form filling is what you are doing, that is very strange.  The form
fill plugin has worked well for our clients as far as I know.  Is there
any chance there is something wrong with the form? - John


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Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

[Brian]

On Sat 14 Jan 2012 at 18:36:31 +, Camaleón wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> > 
> > How to up the bug priority ?
> 
> Only devels or maintainers can do that (I mean, effectively altering the 
> priority of a bug).

The BTS is open to anyone.

> User can, however, add a "me too" on that report so those in charge of 
> pulling an update can see there is many people affected by the problem. 
> The more people is affected, the higher chance to get an update that 
> corrects the issue.

A 'me too' without extra information is of no value. I'll let you work
out what (Many 'me toos' * 0) amounts to. :)


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Re: editing pdf files

[Curt]

On 2012-01-14, richard  wrote:
>
> Hi Evince only looks like it can be used for forms.

Works for me.


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Re: editing pdf files

[Siard]

John A. Sullivan III:
> Form filling is not in the base package.  I believe you need to
> install the acroread-plugins for that to work

Indeed, after installing package acroread-plugins, acroread does
form filling.  Thanks.


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Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

[tony baldwin]

On Sat, January 14, 2012 3:33 am, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> HI,
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM (
>> Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I
>> would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It
>> would
>> be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within
>> the
>> OS which i can uninstall for better performance would certainly help me.
>
> For such system, all desktop application should go.  More for security
> and space than performance.
>
> You can remove almost everything but base system as long as you keep
> dependency of these programs and required kernel modules for your
> hardware.  Oh, keeping aptitude and vim will help your productivity.
>
> This is something you do not get quick short answer... try and learn
> yourself using tools such as aptitude.
>
> Osamu

I still think the best option is to just install from netinst and only
install what you need, as someone else suggested.
It's what I do.

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Re: sasl authentication failed

[tony baldwin]

On Sat, January 14, 2012 12:41 pm, Camale�n wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:21 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:01:17PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:21:24PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón wrote:
>>> > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:12:25 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:05:16PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>>> > > >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +, Camaleón wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > (...)
>>> > >
>>> > > >> Okay, at this point, I am getting different errors. I think I
>>> > > >> resolved
>>> Crikey...
>>>

>
> Tony, I would forget about the SSL part until you have configured your
> Postfix to be in a workable state (sending/receiving e-mails with no
> errors). Afterwards, you can start to setup the SSL certificate but not
> before.
>

I do have it working now, but the cert is still wrong.


>> When I configured postfix, I gave it tonybaldwin.org tonybaldwin.org is
>> what shows in my main.cf I do know understand why anything says
>> vulcan.linode.com
>
> This can come from SSL certificate file :-?

yes, the cert says it is from vulcan.linode.com, while I am certain I have
my hostname set as vulcan.tonybaldwin.org
So, when I set up mutt at home, my laptop, etc., I see some error to the
effect that the cert is from vulcan.linode.com, which disagrees with the
host, vulcan.tonybaldwin.org.
I just choose "(a) accept always", and it works, but it seems to me it
would be better to have the cert correct.

As far as the rest, it seems there was some ghost sendmail process hogging
port 25.  I just killed that pid and restarted postfix and it works now.

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Re: editing pdf files

[richard]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC)
Curt  wrote:

> On 2012-01-14, Siard  wrote:
> >
> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
> 
> It is?
> 
> 

Acroread both linux and win thing failed to save these forms, with an error
Richard


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Re: editing pdf files

[richard]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:14 +0100
Siard  wrote:

> hvw59601:
> > Siard wrote:
> > > hvw59601 wrote:
> > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> > > 
> > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what
> > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters
> > > either.
> > 
> > And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.
> 
> ??  You're the only one that interpreted OP's question well.
> Evince cannot edit a PDF the usual way, but it _can_ fill out PDF forms,
> or at least it looks like it can.
> So filling out PDF forms is what OP was referring to when talking about
> 'editing' PDFs.
> 
> Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
> I have version 9.4.6, but odd enough it does not work.  ??
> 
> 

Hi Evince only looks like it can be used for forms.
You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
was blank.
Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want.
Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader.

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Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

[Csanyi Pal]

Andrei Popescu  writes:

> On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:18:31, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>> 
>> I must to reinstall instead of fixing the problem because this is a
>> headless PC Box, so if I make a mistake then it can be happen that that
>> I can't to SSH into that system again to fix the problem this way.
>
> There is always a way: rescue disk with SSH, putting the hard drive in 
> another computer, serial console, etc. If you need ideas just give more 
> details about your configuration.

Yes, of course, you have right!

Now, after I rebooted with my headless system, I can to SSH to it, and
that is the good news.

The bad news is that that I can't browse the Internet from the LAN
behind the headless machine, let it call Bubba. 

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Re: editing pdf files

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:44 +0100, Siard wrote:
> hvw59601:
> > Siard wrote:
> > > hvw59601 wrote:
> > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> > > 
> > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what
> > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters
> > > either.
> > 
> > And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.
> 
> ??  You're the only one that interpreted OP's question well.
> Evince cannot edit a PDF the usual way, but it _can_ fill out PDF forms,
> or at least it looks like it can.
> So filling out PDF forms is what OP was referring to when talking about
> 'editing' PDFs.
> 
> Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
> I have version 9.4.6, but odd enough it does not work.  ??
> 
> 
Form filling is not in the base package.  I believe you need to install
the acroread-plugins for that to work - John


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Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:18:31, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> 
> I must to reinstall instead of fixing the problem because this is a
> headless PC Box, so if I make a mistake then it can be happen that that
> I can't to SSH into that system again to fix the problem this way.

There is always a way: rescue disk with SSH, putting the hard drive in 
another computer, serial console, etc. If you need ideas just give more 
details about your configuration.

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Re: grub-pc mdadm root

[Marc Auslander]

Tom H  writes:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander  wrote:
>>
>> I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root.
>>
>> grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram.  But when it
>> comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a
>> message that the kernel can't be found.  And it can't, because the
>> raid root device hasn't been assembled.  (No raid devices exist in
>> /dev).
>>
>> I can assemble it in initramfs shell using mdadm, so all the stuff is there.
>>
>> So I really need to see any grub.cfg stanza that actually works -
>> mostly to see what vmlinuz parameters are needed.
>
> It think that it's your initrd that needs some attention...
>
> Anyway, from a wheezy install:
>

Thanks for the help.

That's essentially what my grub stanza does.  I've run
update-initramfs.  So I don't know what "attention" my initrd needs at
this point.

As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it.  In the initrd
shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes
normally.

This is squeeze - is it possible that the newer kernel has code to
assemble early?

Is there some other "option" or setting which causes it to assemble early?

Also, are you using md version 1.2 raid.  


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Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

[Alexey Eromenko]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>
>> It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has
>> constant KDE crashes, by default.
>
> KDE (the whole DE) or konqueror (the browser)?

Not whole KDE and not whole konqueror.
Only konqueror plugin crashes.

>> Due to bug in konqueror-nsplugins:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309
>>
>> What to do?
>
> In the meantime... Disable Gnash? Updating gnash? Using Adobe flasplayer?
> Using another browser?

I recommend disabling "gnash" in default Debian install in next
squeeze update, and re-evaluate it's stability in Wheezy.

Discussion here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655841

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Re: editing pdf files

[Curt]

On 2012-01-14, Siard  wrote:
>
> Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.

It is?


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Re: editing pdf files

[Siard]

hvw59601:
> Siard wrote:
> > hvw59601 wrote:
> > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> > 
> > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what
> > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters
> > either.
> 
> And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.

??  You're the only one that interpreted OP's question well.
Evince cannot edit a PDF the usual way, but it _can_ fill out PDF forms,
or at least it looks like it can.
So filling out PDF forms is what OP was referring to when talking about
'editing' PDFs.

Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
I have version 9.4.6, but odd enough it does not work.  ??


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Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

[Csanyi Pal]

Andrei Popescu  writes:

> On Sb, 14 ian 12, 12:48:42, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>> 
>> allow-hotplug eth0
>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>> 
>> allow-hotplug eth1
>> iface eth1 inet static
>> address 192.168.10.1
>> netmask 255.255.255.0



>> I setup IP Forwarding so:
>> nano /etc/sysctl.conf
>>  # Uncomment the following to stop low-level messages on console
>> kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
>> 
>> /etc/init.d/procps restart
>> 
>> nano /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
>>  IP_FORWARDING=Yes



>> nano /etc/shorewall/masq
>> eth0192.168.10.0/24



>> nano /etc/shorewall/interfaces
>> net eth0detect  blacklist,dhcp
>> loc eth1detect  dhcp
>> 
>> nano /etc/shorewall/zones
>> fw  firewall
>> net ipv4
>> loc ipv4
>> 
>> nano /etc/shorewall/policy

locall   ACCEPT
fw all   ACCEPT
netall   DROPinfo

 # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
allall   REJECT  info



>> nano /etc/shorewall/rules
>> DNS(ACCEPT) $FW net
>> 
>> SSH(ACCEPT) loc $FW
>> 
>> Ping(ACCEPT)loc $FW
>> 
>> Ping(DROP)  net $FW
>> 
>> ACCEPT  $FW loc icmp
>> ACCEPT  $FW net icmp
>> 
>> ACCEPT  all all icmptime-exceeded  # traceroute
>> ACCEPT  all all tcp http,https



> Again, please explain why you have to reinstall and can't fix the 
> problem instead.

I must to reinstall instead of fixing the problem because this is a
headless PC Box, so if I make a mistake then it can be happen that that
I can't to SSH into that system again to fix the problem this way.

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Re: search for specific pattern

[Tony Baldwin]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 07:59:21PM +0100, roberto wrote:
> Hello,
> i am looking for a file whose name i don't remember.
> I only know it has the extension ".cmap" and is inside my home folder.
> Which is the correct search pattern to be passed to find program ?


You have all kinds of options.

locate .cmap 
would list all such files.
ls -Rt | grep .cmap
would list all such files under the current dir, showing the most
recently edited first.
find . -name *.cmp
would also list all such files.
If you have tonso .cmap files, of course, none of these will narrow it
down.
Say you know you've edited it in the last 10 days; try
find ~ -mtime -10 -name *.cmap

Find is awesome.  Learn more here:
http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/find.php

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Re: search for specific pattern

[Marcos Toro Oyarzo]

try with: find $HOME -name "*.cmap"

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, roberto  wrote:
>
> Hello,
> i am looking for a file whose name i don't remember.
> I only know it has the extension ".cmap" and is inside my home folder.
> Which is the correct search pattern to be passed to find program ?
>
> Thank you very much !
>
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Re: Setting keyboard layout (and variant?) [was: Re: Keyboard layout detection]

[Tony Baldwin]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:45:19, Panayiotis wrote:
> > Thanks to all again!
> > 
> > You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed.
> > 
> > Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile?
> 
> /etc/rc.local wouldn't work because X has to be started and ~/.profile 
> is not sourced by all display managers. But why is this an issue? Such 
> settings belong in /etc/default/keyboard (XKBLAYOUT and XKBVARIANT) 
> which can be adjusted nicely with:

my /etc/default/keyboard has
XKBMODEL="pc104"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

but I want us intl (104key with dead keys).
Do I just change
XKBVARIANT="intl"
?

> 
> dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

I took at look at this, and it has 
Generic 104-key PC
set now.
I don't see a 104-key (Intl) PC 
option, but I swear that's what I use.

I do see
Generic 102-key (Intl) PC
and
Generic 105-key (Intl) PC

This leaves me wondering.

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search for specific pattern

[roberto]

Hello,
i am looking for a file whose name i don't remember.
I only know it has the extension ".cmap" and is inside my home folder.
Which is the correct search pattern to be passed to find program ?

Thank you very much !

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Re: editing pdf files

[hvw59601]

Siard wrote:

hvw59601 wrote:

Siard wrote:

John A. Sullivan III wrote:

This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.

I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat
has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party
plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still
rather limited.

and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?


Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what OP
meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters either.




And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.

Hugo


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Re: Keyboard layout detection

[Tony Baldwin]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Panayiotis wrote:
> Thanks to all again!
> 
> You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed.
> 
> Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile?

You mean set my keyboard there?
Oddly, I have some intl layout set there, but not the
us intl 104keys with deadkeys that I use (b/c I typed in 4 languages,
and need ñ ¡ ó û ë ç etc.)

I should be able to have openbox do it in 
~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

and, now, looking at it, I see why I keep having to set it by hand.
for the year I've been using this machine, I had setxkbmap misspelled in
there!
(perhaps it will now work..but still, when I use tritium or wmii, I will
set it by hand...I suppose I should look in /etc/rc.local or
~/.profile?)...

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Re: [SOLVED] SATA disk errors

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:47:32 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

> On 31/12/11 16:59, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>> On 30/12/11 17:15, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

 Can anyone please enlighten me to what it means; Am I about to lose a
 disk?
>>>
>>> It seems to be localized in just one of the disks (the one connected
>>> to the third sata port). Hard to tell what's going wrong (software
>>> bug/error,
>>> hardware error?), but I would start by replacing the sata cables for
>>> both disks, just in case. I've found many weird issues with poorly
>>> designed/bad quality sata cables that come bundled within motherboard
>>> pack.
>>>
>> Thanks Cameleón, I'll give that a try when I next reboot the server.
> 
> Well, the new cables finally arrived.
> 
> It turns out that my CD drive was attached to ata3, helpfully labled as
> SATA4 on the motherboard. 

Sata ports start from 0, so sata-0 is the first sata port, sata-1 is the 
second one as so on...

> I had indeed fitted a sub-standard cable to that, with the attitude
> "it's only a CD". Mistake.
> 
> I replaced that cable, and have not seen any errors for a number of
> days, so I'll declare that problem fixed.

Thanks for sharing your findings. 

It also happened to me when I was running openSUSE, the sata cable of the 
optical unit was not firmly connected to the motherboard port and gave me 
the same messages. Resitting the cable removed the errors.

> Surprised, though, that the connection to the CD drive (which is hardly
> ever used) would cause such a rash of errors.

I also have had a very weird issue with the sata connection in another 
machine (same brand and model that the above running openSUSE, but this 
time with Windows XP). The system could not even booted (!) due to a bad 
sata cable (also for the DVD unit). Replacing the cable solved the 
problem. Go figure :-O

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Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:

> It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has
> constant KDE crashes, by default.

KDE (the whole DE) or konqueror (the browser)?

If it crashes the whole desktop environment that's more serious, IMO.

> Due to bug in konqueror-nsplugins:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309
> 
> What to do?

In the meantime... Disable Gnash? Updating gnash? Using Adobe flasplayer? 
Using another browser? 

> I would like to up priority to critical for this package, so that it
> either gets fixed or dropped from Debian. At least avoid installing it
> by default, in the next point release. Having default KDE crashing on
> users is 100% unacceptable.
> 
> How to up the bug priority ?

Only devels or maintainers can do that (I mean, effectively altering the 
priority of a bug).

User can, however, add a "me too" on that report so those in charge of 
pulling an update can see there is many people affected by the problem. 
The more people is affected, the higher chance to get an update that 
corrects the issue.

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Re: editing pdf files

[Siard]

hvw59601 wrote:
> Siard wrote:
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> > 
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat
> > has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party
> > plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still
> > rather limited.
> 
> and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?

Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what OP
meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters either.


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Re: editing pdf files

[John Hasler]

Hugo writes:
> and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?

Filling in blanks in forms created for the purpose is not editing to me
(though it is still misuse of the PDF format).
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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[John Hasler]

Panayiotis writes:
> I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working fine.
> Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too big to
> fit in the gap?

Use Lilo.  It doesn't use the "gap" at all.  IMHO putting critical boot
software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not
unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea.
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[OT] Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote:

> I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- boot using
> grub 0.97.  The debian system (of course) seems to be working fine, but
> I've gotten some malware (of course) on the windows side.
> 
> Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that
> will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the linux system? 
> I'm concerned that running standard-issue diagnostic and treatment stuff
> will tamper with the boot sector, among other things.

Yes, boot your windows system and use this online tool:

http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

It's an online scanner, it has saved me many, many times :-)

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Re: editing pdf files

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:50:21 +, richard wrote:

> Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. 

(...)

PDFedit, but don't expect the same results/options/level of management 
that you would have with Acrobat Professional. When it comes to PDF 
edition software Adobe is nowadays "the king of the hill".

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Re: editing pdf files

[Andrew Winnenberg]

On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote:

Greetings,


Is there any free app which can edit pdf files.
Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read
it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations.
Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acroread, and the edited
sections are as the original.
xpdf also shows the original before editing..
help 

TIA

Richard




I've had good luck with Okular. At least, I haven't had any of the 
issues you describe above when taking the document to a Windows machine.


Andrew


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Re: OT: Impossible to scale document to fit on paper in loCalc.

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:18:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> I can not scale (reduce) a page in preview in .ods file in localc in
> order to fit it on paper when printing.

I think the print preview page is not the right place to control this.
 
> When I move the 'Scale Factor' slider, the preview just blinks but not
> resizes the page. I think there is a kind of protection in the file that
> prevents scaling of the document. I did not create the file therefore do
> not know what have been done.

Yup, it also happens here, the slider does not move. You can however, use 
the magnifier buttons to enlarge or reduce the zoom. But AFAIK, this has 
no effect to the printed page, is just for your review before print.

To select a proper scale for the printed pages you have some tips here:

http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Sheet

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Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 14 ian 12, 12:48:42, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> 
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet static
> address 192.168.10.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.10.1
> 
> Should I remve the gateway 192.168.10.1 option?

Yes (a machine can not be its own gateway)
 
> Yesterday actually nothing, after I rebooted it, so I must reinstall the
> headless server to get again Debian Squeeze into which I can SSH again.

Why would you be forced to reinstall? Getting a Debian foobar'ed is 
*very* difficult.
 
> Today I have setup like:
> 
> I setup IP Forwarding so:
> nano /etc/sysctl.conf
>  # Uncomment the following to stop low-level messages on console
> kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
> 
> /etc/init.d/procps restart
> 
> nano /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
>  IP_FORWARDING=Yes

You don't need both (sysctl.conf and shorewall.conf) for the forwarding. 
I would suggest to stick with shorewall, but the other setting is indeed 
useful.

> 
> 
> nano /etc/shorewall/masq
> eth0192.168.10.1/24

You want 192.168.10.0 (not 192.168.10.1).

> nano /etc/shorewall/interfaces
> net eth0detect  blacklist,dhcp
> loc eth1detect  dhcp
> 
> nano /etc/shorewall/zones
> fw  firewall
> net ipv4
> loc ipv4
> 
> nano /etc/shorewall/policy
> loc net ACCEPT
> net all DROPinfo
> 
> fw  net ACCEPT
> fw  loc ACCEPT
> loc fw  ACCEPT # If full access is desired.

Since you allow all traffic between your hosts you can write it shorter 
like this:

locall   ACCEPT
fw all   ACCEPT
netall   DROPinfo

>  # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
> all all REJECT  info
> 
> 
> nano /etc/shorewall/rules
> DNS(ACCEPT) $FW net
> 
> SSH(ACCEPT) loc $FW
> 
> Ping(ACCEPT)loc $FW
> 
> Ping(DROP)  net $FW
> 
> ACCEPT  $FW loc icmp
> ACCEPT  $FW net icmp
> 
> ACCEPT  all all icmptime-exceeded  # traceroute
> ACCEPT  all all tcp http,https

You seem to have misunderstood the meaning of 'policy' and 'rules'. In 
'policy' you configure what your firewall should do with packets in the 
"normal" case. In 'rules' you configure exceptions to the general policy 
(i.e. open port 80 because you want to run your own webserver).

> > And I am sure I missed something along the way.  Look in your
> > /var/log/kern.log for kernel messages from netfilter.
> 
> It's time now to reboot my headless server machine, but ask before that
> whether is the setup abowe good? It's only my home server so there
> aren't any dangeres if the setup doesn't work. At least I must to
> reinstall Debian again and try again.. in the loop until I don't get the
> right setup. Thanks you all!

Again, please explain why you have to reinstall and can't fix the 
problem instead.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Re: editing pdf files

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:01 -0600, hvw59601 wrote:
> Siard wrote:
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> > 
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> > Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.
> > 
> > 
> 
> and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> 
> Hugo
> 
> 
To be fair to Siard, that's really a different issue.  Form filling is
one thing, major manipulation of the original document is another.  Form
filling can be done quite easily with the Acrobat Reader for Linux
although it has its own host of bugs that have been ignored for years by
Adobe - John


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Re: editing pdf files

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 18:50 +0100, Siard wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> 
> I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.
> 
> 
That may not have been the original intent but don't tell that to real
world users.  The ability to edit PDFs is becoming a core desktop
function in many industries.  It's not the same as editing with a word
processor but heavy manipulation of the documents is common practice and
there is nothing in the Linux world that does it as well as Acrobat does
- John


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Re: editing pdf files

[hvw59601]

Siard wrote:

John A. Sullivan III wrote:

This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.


I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.




and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?

Hugo


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Re: bug report

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:45:27 -0800, Vivian wrote:

> Package manager
> 
> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header 
> E: Problem with MergeList 
> /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. 
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Running lenny here and didn't see such message :-?

Are you still getting it? If yes you can try to move the files from "/var/
lib/apt/lists/*" to somewhere else, refresh the repositories (apt-get 
update) and then retry.

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Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

[hvw59601]

Alexey Eromenko wrote:

It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has
constant KDE crashes, by default.

Due to bug in konqueror-nsplugins:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309

What to do?

I would like to up priority to critical for this package, so that it
either gets fixed or dropped from Debian. At least avoid installing it
by default, in the next point release.
Having default KDE crashing on users is 100% unacceptable.

How to up the bug priority ?


Well, you read the reply to your addition to the bug:

"In this situation, either the maintainer would need to make the 
required changes or another developer would need to make a 
non-maintainer upload to do so."


Hugo


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Re: touchpad: multitouch stopped working

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

What is the output of the following commands?

$ grep -A 9 -B 2 -i touch /proc/bus/input/devices

[To see if the touchpad is still recognized by the kernel]

$ grep -iE '(synaptic|option)' /var/log/Xorg.?.log

[To see what the X server does with the touchpad]

And may be the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, here especially the "InputClass"
sections.
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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Panayiotis]

On Σαβ, 2012-01-14 at 16:23 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> 14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> > Thanks to all.
> >
> > On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >> 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H:
> >>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis
> >>> Karabassis   wrote:
> 
>  On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
>  packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
>  am alarmed.
> 
>  One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
>  1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
> 
>  To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
>  refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
>  but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
>  not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
>  blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
> 
>  What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new
>  computer.
> >>>
> >>> I've both upgraded to and installed wheezy without a hitch so you've
> >>> either hit some local hitch or stumbled into a bug.
> >>>
> >>> It'd be nice to see the actual error message...
> >>>
> >>> This must be ab msdos disk. How large is the post-MBR gap? How large
> >>> is "core.img"?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hint for the above:
> >>
> >> ls -lh /boot/grub | grep core.img
> >
> > It's 29K. But this is for Squeeze's grub, which works! I don't know how
> > to find out the size of the gap...
> >
> >> ;-)
> >>
> >> But this is likely not the problem. The disk is under 2TB, so Debian
> >> installer wouldn't have used gpt automatically, and since you don't know
> >> what gpt [1] is you probably didn't do it yourself.
> >>
> >> The disk belongs to a raid, right ? Did you try to install grub on all
> >> raid members ? How did you setup the raid, from the Debian installer or
> >> otherwise ?
> >
> > Yes, it's two identical 1TB disks (raid1), and on top of them LVM. The
> > boot partition is contained in the LVM (I use an initrd). grub-install
> > works for both disks on Squeeze, and fails for both disks on Wheezy.
> >
> > The partitions were created by the Squeeze's Debian installer.
> >
> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
> >
> > Thanks. I won't upgrade to Wheezy until it is stable, but what should I
> > do then if it isn't fixed? Should I go with the blocklists method?
> >
> [cut]
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> 
> I run a wheezy system on raid1 (/boot is on raid too) and don't have any 
> problem, but I don't have lvm on top of it. It's likely to be something 
> specific to lvm and/or you setup.
> At this stage if you can reproduce the problem it would be very 
> interesting to file a bug report. Maybe look at the open grub-pc bugs 
> first, you may find something interesting. I'll happily help you later 
> today and have a look there too.
> 
> In the meantime you could get info about the grub failure by using debug 
> mode, the following command could enlighten us a little (output likely 
> to be long, redirect to a text file):
> 
> grub-install --debug /dev/"your_disk" 2>&1
> 
> where "your_disk" is the device you want to install grub to (sda, sdb ...).
> The "grub-mkimage" part of the output will tell you what's being 
> included in the core.img to make it so big.
> If you are not afraid of messing up the system any further (hint: full 
> backup or test system) you could try to "--force" grub-install and see 
> if the system boots.

Thanks! The problem is that is this is my main, stable computer, I run
some servers on it, and I don't want to mess it up since it's working
now with Squeeze. Can you think of any way to experiment with the Wheezy
packages without risking? It would be nice if we could use a virtual
machine...

I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working fine.
Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too big to fit
in the gap? Maybe these drivers got bigger in Wheezy...

I'll think about what to do (bug report etc.) until tomorrow. Please
don't let me occupy your time, this is not urgent at all, since Squeeze
works.

Thanks again,
Panayiotis

P.S. BTW, is there any estimation of the Wheezy release date?


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Re: Long lasting issue with Asian fonts

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:11:57 +, T o n g wrote:

> On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:07:10 +, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>>> I filed a bug report against package fontconfig and I have sent a
>>> number of updates to the bug address, but I haven't received any
>>> response: http://bugs.debian.org/479035
>> 
>> Wow, no reply in almost three years...
> 
> I use defoma and never had any problem with Asian fonts. 

You mean this?

sm01@stt008:~$ dpkg -l | grep defoma
ii  defoma   0.11.10-0.2   Debian Font Manager 
-- automatic font config

Yes, I also have it in my lenny but needed to install some font packs 
for the chosen languages. Without them, the fonts cannot be rendered.

> Ironically, fontconfig *is* going to replace defoma in Debian. 
> Hopefully by the time I was forced to make the move, the bug had been
> fixed.

I don't think it's a bug, just something the user has to know and so 
it has to be documented.

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Re: editing pdf files

[Siard]

John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.

I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.


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Re: gnome 3 not loading

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:20:32 -0800, mond wrote:

> Since the update of gnome3, I can only log in (from gdm3) gnome classic
> which is essentially just gnome2. I can run gnome-shell (with replace
> option) in gnome classic. If I choose to log in gnome3, the system
> freeze at showing the wall paper, no panels, no alt+F1, the cpu or
> memory usage remains normal though.

Which VGA card and what drivers are in use?

> Is there any log files I can check in order to locate the problem?

Yup, you can start by looking into your "~/.xession-errors" file. And you 
can also try to login with a newly created user to see if that way you 
can start a gnome-shell session directly from GDM.

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Re: sasl authentication failed

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:21 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:01:17PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:21:24PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:12:25 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:05:16PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> > > >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +, Camaleón wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > (...)
>> > > 
>> > > >> Okay, at this point, I am getting different errors. I think I
>> > > >> resolved
>> Crikey...
>> 
>> I uninstalled postfix, dovecot, reinstalled, and went through the whole
>> tutorial again. Now, I think the hostname issues are all resolved, but
>> I still can't send/receive mail.
> 
> Or not.
> 
> My certificate says it is from
> vulcan.linode.com
> I don't know where it is getting this. I have my hostname set to
> vulcan
> hostname -f gives
> tonybaldwin.org

Tony, I would forget about the SSL part until you have configured your 
Postfix to be in a workable state (sending/receiving e-mails with no 
errors). Afterwards, you can start to setup the SSL certificate but not 
before.

> When I configured postfix, I gave it tonybaldwin.org tonybaldwin.org is
> what shows in my main.cf I do know understand why anything says
> vulcan.linode.com

This can come from SSL certificate file :-?
 
>> If I send mail from an external acct., I get no bounce or error or
>> nothing,b but nothing shows up on my mail server.
>> 
>> If I try to send out, I just get
>> failed to connect to tonybaldwin.org, connection refused.

Try first from local, then test from remote. 
 
>> I notice that when I do
>> telnet localhost 25
>> I get
>> ehlo localhost
>> 250-tonybaldwin.org Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to
>> meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>> 250-PIPELINING
>> 250-EXPN
>> 250-VERB
>> 250-8BITMIME
>> 250-SIZE
>> 250-DSN
>> 250-ETRN
>> 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
>> 250-DELIVERBY
>> 250 HELP
>> 
>> There is no 250-STARTTLS
>> which I had the first time around (when sasl auth kept failing).

Maybe because Postfix is not yet configured to use SSL.

>> I'm totally at a loss and confused here.
>> 
>> in tail /var/log/mail.err I see
>> Jan 10 19:36:27 vulcan sm-mta[11947]: q0B0aRM6011947: SYSERR(root): collect: 
>> Cannot write ./dfq0B0aRM6011947 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=113): No such file or 
>> directory 
>> Jan 10 19:40:37 vulcan postfix/master[12135]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: 
>> Address already in use
>> Jan 10 19:41:17 vulcan postfix/master[12307]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: 
>> Address already in use 
>> Jan 10 19:49:49 vulcan sm-mta[12666]: q0B0nnkM012666: SYSERR(root): collect: 
>> Cannot write ./dfq0B0nnkM012666 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=113): No such file or 
>> directory 
>> Jan 10 19:54:56 vulcan postfix/master[12824]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: 
>> Address already in use
>> 
>> I don't know what could be using port 25, 

"netstat" will tell. But the above error (sm-mta) is coming from sendmail :-?

> nor what this "Cannot write ./dfwhatever" is all about.

Check if you have two mail systems running in one host. If so, you have to 
disable one of them (I would recommend to keep Postfix ;-) )

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Re: touchpad: multitouch stopped working

[David Zelinsky]

I received no response to the first query.  Any suggestions where to
look (e.g. other lists?) to diagnose why synaptics touchpad suddenly
stopped responding to two-finger operations?

-David

David Zelinsky  writes:

> Running wheezy on my laptop, the touchpad had been working, complete
> with two-finger scrolling and middle-button emulation.  But at some
> point in the past three weeks or so---possibly after a
> dist-upgrade---all the multi-touch features stopped working.  Mouse
> tracking and single (left) touch-to-click work, as does vertical edge
> scrolling.  But two-finger touch (emulating middle click), and
> two-finger scrolling do not work, even though synclient reports that
> they're turned on.
>
> I presume this is a problem with the synaptics driver, though that
> package doesn't seem to have been upgraded recently as far as I can
> tell.
>
> Any syggestions?  I really miss the multitouch features.
>
> -David


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Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

[Ramon Hofer]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:07:48 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:

> It probably isn't this simple but have you tried running the following?
> 
> ifup eth0

Thanks for your suggestion!

I've just tried it. 

With the static interface configuration it sets the IP address but I 
can't ping anything in the LAN and the link led on the switch is still 
off.


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Jude DaShiell]

I did that once on an install and figured out what I did wrong too.  This 
wasn't with debian though but with slackware.  What I did was to allocate 
too little swap space in my swap partition.  If you manually chose the 
amount of swap space you'll need to increase that amount then the problem 
goes away.  If you allowed debian to automatically select swap space 
during the install, then the amount of swap space debian selects 
automatically also needs to be increased.  Hope this helps.On Sat, 14 Jan 
2012, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:

> 14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> > Thanks to all.
> >
> > On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis
> > > > Karabassis   wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
> > > > > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but
> > > > > I
> > > > > am alarmed.
> > > > >
> > > > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
> > > > > 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
> > > > >
> > > > > To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
> > > > > refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
> > > > > but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img
> > > > > could
> > > > > not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
> > > > > blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
> > > > >
> > > > > What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new
> > > > > computer.
> > > >
> > > > I've both upgraded to and installed wheezy without a hitch so you've
> > > > either hit some local hitch or stumbled into a bug.
> > > >
> > > > It'd be nice to see the actual error message...
> > > >
> > > > This must be ab msdos disk. How large is the post-MBR gap? How large
> > > > is "core.img"?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hint for the above:
> > >
> > > ls -lh /boot/grub | grep core.img
> >
> > It's 29K. But this is for Squeeze's grub, which works! I don't know how
> > to find out the size of the gap...
> >
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > But this is likely not the problem. The disk is under 2TB, so Debian
> > > installer wouldn't have used gpt automatically, and since you don't know
> > > what gpt [1] is you probably didn't do it yourself.
> > >
> > > The disk belongs to a raid, right ? Did you try to install grub on all
> > > raid members ? How did you setup the raid, from the Debian installer or
> > > otherwise ?
> >
> > Yes, it's two identical 1TB disks (raid1), and on top of them LVM. The
> > boot partition is contained in the LVM (I use an initrd). grub-install
> > works for both disks on Squeeze, and fails for both disks on Wheezy.
> >
> > The partitions were created by the Squeeze's Debian installer.
> >
> > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
> >
> > Thanks. I won't upgrade to Wheezy until it is stable, but what should I
> > do then if it isn't fixed? Should I go with the blocklists method?
> >
> [cut]
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> 
> I run a wheezy system on raid1 (/boot is on raid too) and don't have any
> problem, but I don't have lvm on top of it. It's likely to be something
> specific to lvm and/or you setup.
> At this stage if you can reproduce the problem it would be very interesting to
> file a bug report. Maybe look at the open grub-pc bugs first, you may find
> something interesting. I'll happily help you later today and have a look there
> too.
> 
> In the meantime you could get info about the grub failure by using debug mode,
> the following command could enlighten us a little (output likely to be long,
> redirect to a text file):
> 
> grub-install --debug /dev/"your_disk" 2>&1
> 
> where "your_disk" is the device you want to install grub to (sda, sdb ...).
> The "grub-mkimage" part of the output will tell you what's being included in
> the core.img to make it so big.
> If you are not afraid of messing up the system any further (hint: full backup
> or test system) you could try to "--force" grub-install and see if the system
> boots.
> 
> 
> 


Jude 



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Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

[Rob Owens]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:57:21PM -0600, John W. Foster wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: 
> > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that
> > > will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the
> > > linux system?  I'm concerned that running standard-issue
> > > diagnostic and treatment stuff will tamper with the boot
> > > sector, among other things.
> > 
> > clamav?
> > 
With clamav you need to make sure you save the log.  I *think* that by
default, clamav only detects viruses and does not delete or quarantine
them.  So you'll need to search through the log for certain keywords
(which I can't remember, but probably something like "infected" or
"detected").

-Rob


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Re: virtualbox guest addon don't working

[Lisi]

On Thursday 12 January 2012 09:15:04 Balint Szigeti wrote:
> On 12/01/2012 07:56, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > [Why is this send to so many lists?]
>
> Because when I sent this mail, my problem isn't resolved

So you don't get the reply you think you want after mis-posting to one list 
and failing to give anyone a chance to answer.  We are on many different 
clocks.  You have to wait at least 24 hours before concluding that you are 
not going to get a reply.  And you would considerably increase the chances of 
a reply if you did not hijack a thread.

You then pester hordes of people because pestering one lot of people didn't 
match up to the service you think that you should get.

Cross-posting is never justified, let alone after a mere 5 hours.  Perhaps 
your potential helper was still asleep.

Lisi


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

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14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:

Thanks to all.

On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:

14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H:

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis
Karabassis   wrote:


On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
am alarmed.

One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.

To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.

What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new
computer.


I've both upgraded to and installed wheezy without a hitch so you've
either hit some local hitch or stumbled into a bug.

It'd be nice to see the actual error message...

This must be ab msdos disk. How large is the post-MBR gap? How large
is "core.img"?




Hint for the above:

ls -lh /boot/grub | grep core.img


It's 29K. But this is for Squeeze's grub, which works! I don't know how
to find out the size of the gap...


;-)

But this is likely not the problem. The disk is under 2TB, so Debian
installer wouldn't have used gpt automatically, and since you don't know
what gpt [1] is you probably didn't do it yourself.

The disk belongs to a raid, right ? Did you try to install grub on all
raid members ? How did you setup the raid, from the Debian installer or
otherwise ?


Yes, it's two identical 1TB disks (raid1), and on top of them LVM. The
boot partition is contained in the LVM (I use an initrd). grub-install
works for both disks on Squeeze, and fails for both disks on Wheezy.

The partitions were created by the Squeeze's Debian installer.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table


Thanks. I won't upgrade to Wheezy until it is stable, but what should I
do then if it isn't fixed? Should I go with the blocklists method?


[cut]


Thanks again.



I run a wheezy system on raid1 (/boot is on raid too) and don't have any 
problem, but I don't have lvm on top of it. It's likely to be something 
specific to lvm and/or you setup.
At this stage if you can reproduce the problem it would be very 
interesting to file a bug report. Maybe look at the open grub-pc bugs 
first, you may find something interesting. I'll happily help you later 
today and have a look there too.


In the meantime you could get info about the grub failure by using debug 
mode, the following command could enlighten us a little (output likely 
to be long, redirect to a text file):


grub-install --debug /dev/"your_disk" 2>&1

where "your_disk" is the device you want to install grub to (sda, sdb ...).
The "grub-mkimage" part of the output will tell you what's being 
included in the core.img to make it so big.
If you are not afraid of messing up the system any further (hint: full 
backup or test system) you could try to "--force" grub-install and see 
if the system boots.



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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Stephen Powell]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:21:15 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> 
> Can Lilo boot from an LVM partition sitting on top of mdadm?

Ah!  Well, that's a horse of a different color, as the old saying goes.
I honestly don't know.  There is information in the man pages for lilo
and lilo.conf concerning RAID, but I couldn't find anything about LVM.
I have no experience with booting from a logical volume.  You're on
your own.

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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

On 01/14/2012 03:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:06:33 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>>
>> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
>> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
>> am alarmed.
>>
>> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
>> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
>>
>> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
>> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
>> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
>> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
>> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
>>
>> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.
> 
> Yet another grub2 problem!  This is yet another example of why I gave
> up on grub2 long ago and switched to lilo!  And I've been glad I did
> many, many times!  Here is my lilo web page, in case you're interested:
> 
>http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm
> 
> Even if you decide not to switch to lilo, the above web page contains
> a lot of background information about the boot process itself, which
> you may find educational.  And it also contains a link to a useful
> diagnostic utility that will tell you a lot about the capabilities of
> your computer's BIOS.  So even if you're determined to stick with grub-pc,
> taking a look at the above web page may not be a complete waste of time.

Thanks. I'll exhaust the possibilities with grub first. Nice page, very
thorough.

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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

Thanks to all.

On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H:
>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis
>> Karabassis  wrote:
>>>
>>> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
>>> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
>>> am alarmed.
>>>
>>> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
>>> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
>>>
>>> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
>>> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
>>> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
>>> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
>>> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
>>>
>>> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new
>>> computer.
>>
>> I've both upgraded to and installed wheezy without a hitch so you've
>> either hit some local hitch or stumbled into a bug.
>>
>> It'd be nice to see the actual error message...
>>
>> This must be ab msdos disk. How large is the post-MBR gap? How large
>> is "core.img"?
>>
>>
> 
> Hint for the above:
> 
> ls -lh /boot/grub | grep core.img

It's 29K. But this is for Squeeze's grub, which works! I don't know how
to find out the size of the gap...

> ;-)
> 
> But this is likely not the problem. The disk is under 2TB, so Debian
> installer wouldn't have used gpt automatically, and since you don't know
> what gpt [1] is you probably didn't do it yourself.
> 
> The disk belongs to a raid, right ? Did you try to install grub on all
> raid members ? How did you setup the raid, from the Debian installer or
> otherwise ?

Yes, it's two identical 1TB disks (raid1), and on top of them LVM. The
boot partition is contained in the LVM (I use an initrd). grub-install
works for both disks on Squeeze, and fails for both disks on Wheezy.

The partitions were created by the Squeeze's Debian installer.

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

Thanks. I won't upgrade to Wheezy until it is stable, but what should I
do then if it isn't fixed? Should I go with the blocklists method?

Can Lilo boot from an LVM partition sitting on top of mdadm?

Thanks again.

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Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

[keitho]

If you obtain a Trinity Rescue Disk (free download online) you can boot
from that and run four different anti-virus softwares with one command. If
I remember correctly, you can designate which partition to use them on.

Using TRK:
First, run updatetrk, then:
virusscan -n -a clam;virusscan -n -a fprot;virusscan -n -a bde;virusscan
-n -a va;virusscan -n -a avs

You will need the key for Avast that you can get free online as well (good
for 30 days).

This will take awhile (hours). Each anti-virus software will write a
report to the root directory of the partition you choose.

Keith


>I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual-
> boot using grub 0.97.  The debian system (of course) seems to
> be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on
> the windows side.
>
> Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that
> will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the
> linux system?  I'm concerned that running standard-issue
> diagnostic and treatment stuff will tamper with the boot
> sector, among other things.
>
>Thanks, everyone!
>



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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Stephen Powell]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:06:33 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> 
> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
> am alarmed.
> 
> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
> 
> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
> 
> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.

Yet another grub2 problem!  This is yet another example of why I gave
up on grub2 long ago and switched to lilo!  And I've been glad I did
many, many times!  Here is my lilo web page, in case you're interested:

   http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm

Even if you decide not to switch to lilo, the above web page contains
a lot of background information about the boot process itself, which
you may find educational.  And it also contains a link to a useful
diagnostic utility that will tell you a lot about the capabilities of
your computer's BIOS.  So even if you're determined to stick with grub-pc,
taking a look at the above web page may not be a complete waste of time.

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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[tv.deb...@googlemail.com]

14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H:

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis  wrote:


On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
am alarmed.

One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.

To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.

What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.


I've both upgraded to and installed wheezy without a hitch so you've
either hit some local hitch or stumbled into a bug.

It'd be nice to see the actual error message...

This must be ab msdos disk. How large is the post-MBR gap? How large
is "core.img"?




Hint for the above:

ls -lh /boot/grub | grep core.img

;-)

But this is likely not the problem. The disk is under 2TB, so Debian 
installer wouldn't have used gpt automatically, and since you don't know 
what gpt [1] is you probably didn't do it yourself.


The disk belongs to a raid, right ? Did you try to install grub on all 
raid members ? How did you setup the raid, from the Debian installer or 
otherwise ?


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Thierry Chatelet  wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>>
>> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
>> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
>> am alarmed.
>>
>> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
>> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
>>
>> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
>> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
>> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
>> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
>> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
>>
>> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.
>
> I dont understand what you are saiing. From wikipedia here is the definition 
> of
> mbr:
> A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM
> Personal Computer.[1] It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the
> first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually
> placed on storage devices intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems
>
> So no wonder you can't put grub on 512 bytes. I would try, usind an install 
> iso,
> to chroot into your system and reinstall grub.

The MBR's 512MB but there's usually (unless you format your disk to
skip it) a gap between the end of the MBR and the beginning of the
first partition into which grub1 and grub2 install a second stage boot
image.


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis  wrote:
>
> /dev/sda1              63  1953520064   976760001   fd  Linux raid
> autodetect

The post-MBR gap's OK.

How large is "core.img"?


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis  wrote:
>
> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
> am alarmed.
>
> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
>
> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
>
> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.

I've both upgraded to and installed wheezy without a hitch so you've
either hit some local hitch or stumbled into a bug.

It'd be nice to see the actual error message...

This must be ab msdos disk. How large is the post-MBR gap? How large
is "core.img"?


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Re: grub-pc mdadm root

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander  wrote:
>
> I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root.
>
> grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram.  But when it
> comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a
> message that the kernel can't be found.  And it can't, because the
> raid root device hasn't been assembled.  (No raid devices exist in
> /dev).
>
> I can assemble it in initramfs shell using mdadm, so all the stuff is there.
>
> So I really need to see any grub.cfg stanza that actually works -
> mostly to see what vmlinuz parameters are needed.

It think that it's your initrd that needs some attention...

Anyway, from a wheezy install:

menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae' --class
debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod gzio
insmod raid
insmod mdraid1x
insmod part_msdos
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(mduuid/ea8a8cde873a9900f6e13b3742a475ca)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
e201fc61-91dd-4657-a703-0f7802df62c7
echo'Loading Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae ...'
linux   /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-1-686-pae
root=UUID=e201fc61-91dd-4657-a703-0f7802df62c7 ro
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-3.1.0-1-686-pae
}


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
> am alarmed.
> 
> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
> 
> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
> 
> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.

I dont understand what you are saiing. From wikipedia here is the definition of 
mbr:
A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM 
Personal Computer.[1] It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the 
first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually 
placed on storage devices intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems

So no wonder you can't put grub on 512 bytes. I would try, usind an install 
iso, 
to chroot into your system and reinstall grub.
Thierry


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Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

[Csanyi Pal]

Bob Proulx  writes:

> Csanyi Pal wrote:



>> So far I have setup NIC's:

> You are missing this line:


allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.10.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.10.1

Should I remve the gateway 192.168.10.1 option?

>> a dhcp server:
>> /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server
>> INTERFACES="eth1"
>
> Looks okay.
>
>> /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf


option domain-name "cspl.me";
option domain-name-servers 91.102.231.242, 91.102.231.241;

default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;

authoritative;

subnet 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
interface eth1;
range 192.168.10.90 192.168.10.99;
option routers 192.168.10.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
}

>> a ddclient that works,


> What part or parts do not work?

Yesterday actually nothing, after I rebooted it, so I must reinstall the
headless server to get again Debian Squeeze into which I can SSH again.

Today I have setup like:

I setup IP Forwarding so:
nano /etc/sysctl.conf
 # Uncomment the following to stop low-level messages on console
kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

/etc/init.d/procps restart

nano /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
 IP_FORWARDING=Yes



nano /etc/shorewall/masq
eth0192.168.10.1/24

nano /etc/shorewall/interfaces
net eth0detect  blacklist,dhcp
loc eth1detect  dhcp

nano /etc/shorewall/zones
fw  firewall
net ipv4
loc ipv4

nano /etc/shorewall/policy
loc net ACCEPT
net all DROPinfo

fw  net ACCEPT
fw  loc ACCEPT
loc fw  ACCEPT # If full access is desired.

 # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
all all REJECT  info


nano /etc/shorewall/rules
DNS(ACCEPT) $FW net

SSH(ACCEPT) loc $FW

Ping(ACCEPT)loc $FW

Ping(DROP)  net $FW

ACCEPT  $FW loc icmp
ACCEPT  $FW net icmp

ACCEPT  all all icmptime-exceeded  # traceroute
ACCEPT  all all tcp http,https

> And I am sure I missed something along the way.  Look in your
> /var/log/kern.log for kernel messages from netfilter.

It's time now to reboot my headless server machine, but ask before that
whether is the setup abowe good? It's only my home server so there
aren't any dangeres if the setup doesn't work. At least I must to
reinstall Debian again and try again.. in the loop until I don't get the
right setup. Thanks you all!

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iptable rule for bypassing netfilter queue for a matching address.

[Arif Tuhin]

I have two iptable rules for userspace modification : iptable -t mangle -A 
PREROUTING -p udp --dport 9090 -j NFQUEUE iptable -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p udp 
--sport 9090 -j NFQUEUE I have the following network setup: client 
>Linux Box or router->server. What i'm 
trying to achieve is modifying all packets which comes from client to 9090 port 
of the Linux Box. Also which packets will go from Linux Box to client. I do not 
want to manipulate both from or to the server. So the rules i need will work 
like this: If packet comes from client to port 9090 i will modify it. Now the 
router opens symmetric port when it communicates with the server. That means it 
opens 9090 port when it communicates with the server and hence get modified by 
the second rule(--sport 9090). I want to avoid this. The rules will be like 
this: 1.If packet comes from a specific ip block i will accept it. then i will 
queue the remaining packets based on the destination port it comes to. 2.If 
packet goes to a specific ip block i will forward it. I will queue the 
remaining packets based on the source port information. Thanks in advance. 



With Best Regards
Ariful Hossain Tuhin
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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

On 01/14/2012 12:31 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> 14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
>> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
>> am alarmed.
>>
>> One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
>> 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.
>>
>> To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
>> refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
>> but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
>> not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
>> blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.
>>
>> What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.
>>
> 
> Hi, can you provide a "fdisk -lu" output from the disk you are
> installing grub to ? Is this a gpt or standard msdos disklabel ?

Hi, thanks. I do not now what is gpt or standard msdos disklabel!

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004e418

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1  63  1953520064   976760001   fd  Linux raid
autodetect

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Re: Upcoming stable point release

[Adam D. Barratt]

[added the KDE bug and -release to Cc]

Hi,

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 09:18 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> Please, if possible, exclude "konqueror-nsplugins" from the default
> KDE install in 6.0.4.
> 
> It crashes as soon as user enters any flash-enabled website. (www.amd.com)
> Very ugly user experience. Especially for Debian-stable.
> 
> (tried Debian 6.0.3 on AMD64 and i386)
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309

The Release Team don't make changes ourselves to the contents of
packages in stable, it's more of a collating and reviewing role for
changes that maintainers wish to make.

In this situation, either the maintainer would need to make the required
changes or another developer would need to make a non-maintainer upload
to do so.  In either case, we'd generally require that such changes are
made in unstable first, so that any regressions or new issues caused by
the change can be found before the change lands in stable.

Regards,

Adam


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Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

[Curt]

On 2012-01-13, Andrei Popescu  wrote:
>
> Just comparing the contents of /etc/rc1.d/ and /etc/rc2.d/ should give=20
> you a few hints.
>

Well, quite a few things are dead in runlevel one that are alive
in runlevel two, including the network (I said one was a "subset" of two).


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[tv.deb...@googlemail.com]

14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:

Hi,

On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
am alarmed.

One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.

To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.

What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.



Hi, can you provide a "fdisk -lu" output from the disk you are 
installing grub to ? Is this a gpt or standard msdos disklabel ?



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Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

Hi,

On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some
packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I
am alarmed.

One of the packages was grub2 which was at version
1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14.

To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub
refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly,
but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could
not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use
blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable.

What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.

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Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

[Osamu Aoki]

HI,

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I
> would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would
> be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within the
> OS which i can uninstall for better performance would certainly help me.

For such system, all desktop application should go.  More for security
and space than performance.

You can remove almost everything but base system as long as you keep
dependency of these programs and required kernel modules for your
hardware.  Oh, keeping aptitude and vim will help your productivity.

This is something you do not get quick short answer... try and learn
yourself using tools such as aptitude.

Osamu


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