Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

[Bijoy Lobo]

Hi,

I did a netinstall of Debian and installed the 4 modules (Squid,
iptables, Snort and VPN). All seem tobe in less than 1 GB. Anything
else i should look out for?

Thanks


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Andrei Popescu
 wrote:
> On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:29:40, Brad Alexander wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> As far as I know this includes Essential, Required and Important. This
> can be trimmed down even further, but it gets very difficult and you
> have to know what you're doing.
>
>> 2. After reboot, do an
>>
>>         aptitude update ; aptitude install squid3 snort openvpn iptables
>>
>>     This will give you your required packages and nothing else.
>
> I would disable Recommends first, I think this fits the definition of an
> "unusual" installation :) But do check out the recommended packages,
> there might be something you do need.
>
> Kind regards,
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Re: changing bootup parameters

[Sharon Kimble]

On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell  wrote:
> No point in doing that at all.  If you want to see those messages after
> login as root or as sudo  root do dmesg >dmesg.log.  Then less dmesg.log
> will let you view those messages one screen at a time.  Also for a
> particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in "search_string" will show
> specific lines of dmesg.log pertinent to your search.  I'm coming at
> this from a blindness perspective and use of speakup on my linux box and
> that for me makes life far easier over here.

I'm coming at this from an ex-centos user and i like to see the
messages as they happen before logon, so that I can spot anything out
of the ordinary. Thats why I want them readable, and reading the log
after logon is not acceptable.

Thanks
Sharon.
>
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that
>> scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get
>> to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so
>> that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during
>> bootup and before the logon screen, and so far there is a parameter in
>> grub which controls this, but what is it and how do i access it
>> please?
>>



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Re: changing bootup parameters

[Jude DaShiell]

No point in doing that at all.  If you want to see those messages after 
login as root or as sudo  root do dmesg >dmesg.log.  Then less dmesg.log 
will let you view those messages one screen at a time.  Also for a 
particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in "search_string" will show 
specific lines of dmesg.log pertinent to your search.  I'm coming at 
this from a blindness perspective and use of speakup on my linux box and 
that for me makes life far easier over here.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote:

> where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that
> scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get
> to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so
> that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during
> bootup and before the logon screen, and so far there is a parameter in
> grub which controls this, but what is it and how do i access it
> please?
> 
> Thanks
> Sharon.
> 


Jude 



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changing bootup parameters

[Sharon Kimble]

where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that
scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get
to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so
that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during
bootup and before the logon screen, and so far there is a parameter in
grub which controls this, but what is it and how do i access it
please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: touchpad: multitouch stopped working

[David Zelinsky]

Jörg-Volker Peetz  writes:

> 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.

Thanks. See output below.  I have no xorg.conf, just a file
synaptics.conf in xorg.conf.d, which is shown below.

I also attach the output of 'synclient -l'.

Note that the mouse works, and one-finger tapping works, as does
"vertical edge scrolling", but nothing else.  Until a couple weeks ago,
two-finger tapping, two-finger scrolling, and horizontal edge-scrolling
all worked.

-David

$ grep -A 9 -B 2 -i touch /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=81b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio2/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 
B: PROP=1
B: EV=b
B: KEY=420 3 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=1103

$ grep -iE '(synaptic|option)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[29.229] (**) Option "config_info" 
"udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3/event3"
[29.229] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[29.229] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[29.229] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[29.231] (**) Option "config_info" 
"udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input7/event7"
[29.231] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[29.231] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[29.231] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[29.232] (**) Option "config_info" 
"udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input1/event1"
[29.232] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[29.232] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[29.232] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[29.235] (**) Option "config_info" 
"udev:/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.0/input/input6/event6"
[29.235] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[29.235] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[29.235] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[29.236] (**) Option "config_info" 
"udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0/event0"
[29.236] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[29.236] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
[29.236] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[29.237] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad 
(/dev/input/event5)
[29.237] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev 
touchpad catchall"
[29.237] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad 
catchall"
[29.237] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad 
catchall"
[29.237] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[29.238] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[29.414] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[29.414] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics 
TouchPad'
[29.414] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[29.414] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
[29.415] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
[29.560] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 
5472
[29.560] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 
4448
[29.560] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
[29.560] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 0
[29.560] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right
[29.560] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7
[29.560] (**) Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
[29.560] (**) Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
[29.560] (**) Option "CornerCoasting" "0"
[29.560] (**) Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
[29.560] (**) Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
[29.560] (**) Option "LockedDrags" "1"
[29.560] (**) Option "LockedDragTimeout" "500"
[29.560] (**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
[29.560] (**) Option "TapButton2" "2"
[29.560] (**) Option "TapButton3" "3"
[29.560] (**) Option "TapAndDragGesture" "1"
[29.648] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[29.648] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
[29.698] (**) Option "config_info" 
"udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input5/event5"
[29.698] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics 
TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 11)
[29.698] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MinSpeed is 
now constant deceleration 2.5
[29.698] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[29.698] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: AccelFactor is now 
0.040
[29.699] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration 
scheme 1
[29.699] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 1
[29.

Re: Start a VirtualBox VM as a Service

[Allan Wind]

On 2012-01-15 22:22:22, T o n g wrote:
> I've actually found the solution to start a VirtualBox VM as a Service, 
> My question is the next step. How can different users "see" that vm, be 
> it Windows or Linux, etc.

ssh, vnc, or whatever protocol you need to interact with your vm.  
You may need to add or modify the network interface to ensure it 
is available to others beside the physical host.


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Re: Start a VirtualBox VM as a Service

[Alexey Eromenko]

Look at "phpvirtualbox"

It lets you configure things -- configure user, and more.
You also get nice Web GUI.

But to to have actual display rendering (to "see") the VM, you must
install non-free Oracle ext.pack, which provides RDP server for VBox.
"phpvirtualbox" uses this RDP server.

If you want Free solution:
You must patch "phpvirtualbox" to use VirtualBox VNC server instead,
which is Free Software.

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Re: Re: Squeeze. apt-get update failed to fetch .../binary-i386/Packages.gz

[Alaric]

I note you say you have not had any other comment.  I get the same 
error. I still get the standard red gear wheel on the application bar, 
updates are downloaded and installed without problem and the programme 
reports my system is up to date but I still get an orange triangle with 
an exclamation mark in the centre and it reports the 'fetch failed' message.


  I had assumed that 'lint' in the file was the cause.  My problem is 
that I am comparatively new to Debian though I have used Mandrake and 
Mandriva for years.  I don't know which file I need to look at and clear 
out the lint.


	I don't suppose it matters much but I don't like things on my screen 
which I don't understand, can't use and can't get rid of.


	Debian appears to be the only distro which still offers a list of 
suported hardware, that's why I changed.  Mandrake won't print to my 
Brother HL 2040,they no longer offer help unless you sign up for a 
monthly fee and the help I got elsewhere didn't work.  I must say I like 
Debian.


Thanks in advance,  Regards,

Alaric Wood


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Re: Start a VirtualBox VM as a Service

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 15 ian 12, 22:22:22, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've actually found the solution to start a VirtualBox VM as a Service, 
> My question is the next step. How can different users "see" that vm, be 
> it Windows or Linux, etc.

Could you please expand on the "see" part? It's not very clear what you 
are asking.

Kind regards,
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Re: Bug#655999: [bugs.debian.org] Reporting documentation - "What package does your bug report belong to?" points to user support groups

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 15 ian 12, 14:35:17, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> 
> debian-user's topic is user support.
> 
> For technical discussions about development, the default group is
> debian-de...@lists.debian.org.
> Reference: 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/Bugs/Reporting.wml?r1=1.18&r2=1.19
> 
> While we're at it, we shouldn't require reporters to indicate a
> package. If the ITS technically needs a package to be indicated, we
> could tell reporters to indicate a pseudo-package when they don't
> know, perhaps "unknown" or "default".

Hi Filipus,

I am not a BTS (Debian's issue tracking system) maintainer, so this is 
all in my very humble opinion.

If a user can't tell where the bug belongs to chances are:

1. it is not a bug
2. it is a bug, but the reporter is not very skilled
3. it is a bug, the reportes is quite skilled, but it is really 
difficult to tell what package is at fault

For both 1. and 2. debian-user is actually a very good place to ask. 
Subscribers are used to high volume and all kinds of questions.

Most of the times, unless the poster is not providing information or is 
being a total jerk (or similar), there is a kind soul to provide 
guidance to solve the problem or point to where a bug should be reported 
if applicable.

Even for 3. the skill set available on debian-user is very impressive 
(besides the few DDs that are watching, thanks guys).

On the other hand DD time is precious. Even if many of the debian-user 
subscribers would have the skills to become one, they probably lack the 
time. However, scanning through the subjects and answering the 
occasional interesting questions is a good way to contribute and take 
some of that burden from the DDs.

After all, DD time is better spent packaging software and fixing bugs, 
not answering trivial user questions ;)

As to your suggestion about a pseudo package "unknown" or "default", the 
question is: who should watch the bugs? If you want to suggest sending 
those bugs to debian-devel, all the above applies. If you want to 
suggest debian-user instead, why bother? Just point the reporter to 
debian-user (as it is done now).

I hope this addresses your concerns,
Andrei
P.S. Please don't CC bugs to debian-user. Not everybody is used to the 
BTS, so it is quite likely that some will either reply to list only (as 
per code of conduct, but you are probably not subscribed), or to all 
(including submit@...  and the bug), which will just clutter the bug 
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Re: pppd no CHAP response when using NM

[Ralf Madorf]

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 23:11 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 20:52 +0100, Stefan Rutzinger wrote:
> > Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device
> > added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown
> > configuration found.
> 
> On Arch I had such an issue, can't remember what my Debian settings
> were. On Arch I'm not using NM, anyway, I have to run
> 
> ifconfig eth0 up
> 
> or
> 
> ip link set eth0 up
> 
> before I can run
> 
> netcfg pppoe
> 
> Dunno how to do it for Debian and using NM, but I suspect you need to
> bring the interface up.
> 
> - Ralf

PS:
> Dec 31 17:18:32 stefano NetworkManager[1725]: 
> (ttyUSB2): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason
> 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]

IIUC you need to bring the interface up without an IP first.


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Re: ptrace suid?

[Joe Pfeiffer]

And the actual problem with virtualbox, alsaplayer, gxine, and
presumably more programs I hadn't found yet was:

Somehow, at some point in the past, a bunch of opengl-related files
landed in my /usr/lib (only on the machine where things were failing, of
course):

snowball:511$ ls /usr/lib/libGL*
/usr/lib/libGL.la/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1@
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1@ /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.9639*
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.9639*

I've got no idea where they came from:

snowball:512$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libGL*
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGL.la.
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.9639.
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.9639.

I deleted them all, and things are now working.

I'd still be curious to find a way to re-enable suid with ptrace when
necessary


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Re: pppd no CHAP response when using NM

[Ralf Madorf]

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 20:52 +0100, Stefan Rutzinger wrote:
> Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device
> added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown
> configuration found.

On Arch I had such an issue, can't remember what my Debian settings
were. On Arch I'm not using NM, anyway, I have to run

ifconfig eth0 up

or

ip link set eth0 up

before I can run

netcfg pppoe

Dunno how to do it for Debian and using NM, but I suspect you need to
bring the interface up.

- Ralf


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Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 09:38:53PM +, T o n g wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> >> Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about
> >> the logs either.
> > 
> > You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;)
> 
> That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on 
> tmpfs, but /tmp, /var/run & /var/lock instead, because I was worrying 
> about wasting tmpfs with big logs, since my box might be up for months. 
> 
> I think staled tmpfs file might eventually be swapped out of ram to HD to 
> clear up space. Is that so? 

Yes.  But if you write a *lot* of logfiles, this could be detrimental
to performance.  OTOH, should do less frequent writes than it would to
a normal disk until it starts to flush pages out.

> Is it a good idea to put chunky /var/log on tmpfs?

Make sure you consider what will happen when it's filled to capacity.
If the tmpfs size (of all tmpfses) exceed your RAM+swap, the machine
will lock hard.  So make sure you mount with an appropriate size=
parameter so the kernel won't run out of memory pages.


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Re: suspend / power off

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 15 ian 12, 18:23:22, richard wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> It may seem a daft question, BUT, what is the exact process when suspending ?
> 
> On a laptop it doesn't matter as power is kept on when either the lid is shut
> or suspended, the same action.
> However, on a mains powered machine suspend will power off, I'm guessing a 
> write
> to ram and umount any active device ??
> Anything written to ram will be lost, does it really mater now if running
> daemons & services are just terminated instead of being properly shutdown ?
> 
> Now with gnome3 shell ALT has to be held don to go to the power off/restart
> menu,
> I wonder how many just do a rapid power off with suspend ?

Your question is a bit vague to me. Are you asking about Suspend-to-RAM
(also known as S3)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend_to_RAM

Or is this about Suspend to Disk (also known as Hibernate, S4)? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend_to_disk

Anyway, as you might notice in those Wikipedia articles, there is no 
difference between types of computers. What effect closing the lid on a 
laptop has is usually configurable (BIOS and/or OS).

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Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 15 ian 12, 21:38:53, T o n g wrote:
> 
> That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on 
> tmpfs, but /tmp, /var/run & /var/lock instead, because I was worrying 
> about wasting tmpfs with big logs, since my box might be up for months. 
> 
> I think staled tmpfs file might eventually be swapped out of ram to HD to 
> clear up space. Is that so? 

As far as I understand, yes.
 
> Is it a good idea to put chunky /var/log on tmpfs?

I have no idea, and I guess only testing will tell.

Kind regards,
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Re: Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

[Ralf Madorf]

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Re: Excluding folders in rsync command?

[J.A. de Vries]

> is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command
> please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it
> possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ?

You can use the --exclude option if you want to specifiy the directory from the 
commandline. If you want to do it in a filter file just use the name of the 
directory and prepend it with a minus. Like so

+ .rsync
- .rsync/logs

HTH

Grx HdV


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Re: Excluding folders in rsync command?

[Roel Wagenaar]

Sharon Kimble  wrote:

> is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command
> please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it
> possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ?
> 
> Sharon.

man rsync?

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Excluding folders in rsync command?

[Sharon Kimble]

is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command
please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it
possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ?

Sharon.
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Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

[T o n g]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

>> Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about
>> the logs either.
> 
> You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;)

That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on 
tmpfs, but /tmp, /var/run & /var/lock instead, because I was worrying 
about wasting tmpfs with big logs, since my box might be up for months. 

I think staled tmpfs file might eventually be swapped out of ram to HD to 
clear up space. Is that so? 

Is it a good idea to put chunky /var/log on tmpfs?

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Re: ptrace suid?

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Camaleón  writes:

>
> Check out this recent VB forum thread:
>
> [Solved] VBox 4.1.8 fails as non-root user
> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47199

I have to confess to being a little bit mystified by the description
there (I'll note that the user was having exactly the same debugging
problem I am -- a wild goose chase caused by suid being ignored in
strace!).  The fix reported there was

>Re: VBox 4.1.8 fails as non-root user
>by Perryg » 8. Jan 2012, 23:32

>If you started VirtualBox as root then the VBOX_USER_HOME environment has 
>probably changed.
>See Chapter 10.1.3 Global configuration data "VBOX_USER_HOME environment"

VBOX_USER_HOME is the location of the directory containing global
virtualbox configuration, which by default is $HOME/.VirtualBox.  So,
apparently, in spite of it being referred to as global, it's per-user
configuration.  How this is affected by whether you install as root or
using sudo is a mystery to me...  but I'm sufficiently desperate that I
did go ahead and reinstall with

sudo aptitude install virtualbox

with no difference in the results.

In the mean time, I've come across some other programs on my machine
that are also seg faulting on launch, and don't require suid.  Right now
I'm tracing through executions of alsaplayer, which seems to be seg
faulting somewhere in the process of loading its dynamic modules


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Re: Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

[Freeman]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 08:36:58PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Dear list,
> please let me describe a little problem.
> 
> As powerdevil changed last year, I found no way, to force the cpu to stay at 
> lowest clock, even when a process wants full speed.
> 
> My solution at the moment is, to use cpufreq-set, where I can set the cpu to 
> lowest frequency.
> 
> But there is a problem: I can do this only as user root! 
> 
> A solution is, to change the rights of the binary of cpufreq-set to i.e. 
> group 
> "powerdevil" and sticky bit to user "root". So anyone in the group 
> "powerdevil" (and of course the application powerdevil, too), will be able to 
> change the cpu clock. 
> 
> As powerdevil is able to execute a script, I can use a script in the 
> profiles, 
> either to set the clock to min or in another profile to max.
> 
> But changing the default rights IMO is no good way, except the maintainers 
> decide so, too.
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 

Put your user in the powerdev group. (I think I did this many years back and
it works for me.)

Set up sudo for your user with cpufreq-set in the sudoers file.

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Re: editing pdf files

[Joe Pfeiffer]

"Weaver"  writes:

>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
>> Claudius Hubig  wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Claudius
>>
>> The only problem with that is hen it reaches its destination it has to be
>> scanned and stored, and it means using snail mail. Much easier for both
>> ends to
>> be able to attach to an e-mail.
>
> You can scan it back in at your end and attach it.
> Regards,

This is another "solution" that loses all the document structure.


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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Stephen Powell  wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:24:40 -0500 (EST), Arno Schuring wrote:
>> John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600):
>>>
>>> IMHO putting critical
>>> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not
>>> unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea.
>>
>> It's not any more loony than hardcoding the disk sectors in which the
>> kernel file resides.
>
> The stage 1 boot loaders of both grub-pc and lilo hard code the
> location of the next stage. But for lilo, this is in a file in
> the Linux file system (by default it's called /boot/map). For
> grub, for a disk in the MS-DOS format, it is usually stored in
> unallocated sectors between the master boot record and the first
> partition. The key word is "unallocated". Backup programs may
> not back them up. Restore programs may not restore them.
> And other programs, assuming that the unallocated sectors are
> empty, may decide that they want to store stuff there too,
> causing a conflict. And if there are no unallocated sectors
> between the master boot record and the first partition, grub
> cannot be installed (at least not in the preferred way).
> In my humble opinion it is best to avoid the use of unallocated
> sectors altogether, if possible, for the reasons listed above.
>
> When used with disks in the GPT format, I believe that grub
> uses a separate boot partition, rather than unallocated sectors.
> But I'm not a grub expert; so I'm not sure about that.  lilo
> does not support boot disks in the GPT format at this time.

AFAIK, using the post-MBR gap _can_ be a problem but only if you're
dual-booting with Windows because some Windows software publishers use
it too.

When using a gpt-labeled disk, grub2's MBR stage ("boot.img") points
to a stage ("core.img") stored in the disk's first partition (usually
1MB) that d-i and anaconda's partitioners call a "bios boot partition"
and parted calls a "bios grub partition."


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pppd no CHAP response when using NM

[Stefan Rutzinger]

Hi,

I'm trying to connect with a GSM USB modem ZTE MF-100 (USB ID 19d2:0039) 
to a mobile broadband network (German Congstar = network of German 
Telecom) with debian testing.


Using KDE NetworkManager, my problem is that pppd doesn't answer the CHAP 
challenge and runs into a timeout (see log file). In NM, the hooks at 
"Authentication" and at "CHAP" may be checked or not, doesn't matter. If 
they are set, a hook at "EAP" always re-appears even when it was 
unchecked.


Using wvdial, the connection is established correctly when "stupid mode = 
1" is set.


Maybe this is the root cause but I'm not sure. Is there a way to get more 
debugging (parameters of pppd...) than shown in the logfiles below? How 
can "stupid mode = 1" be configured in NM (or any other parameters which 
are not accessible by the GUI of the NM)? Does it read a config file 
similar like wvdial.conf, where is it placed?


According to this page, NM works for others with this provider and this 
HW, so I assume it's not big issue:


http://marthjod.blogspot.com/2011/08/umts-usb-stick-congstar-surfstick-under.html

Anybody some hints?

greetings Stefan

system.log NetworkManager:
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  Activation (ttyUSB2) Stage
3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  (ttyUSB2): device state
change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none') [50 70 0]
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  starting PPP connection
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  pppd started with pid 9212
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  Activation (ttyUSB2) Stage
3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/nm-pppd-plugin.
so loaded.
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: Removed stale lock on ttyUSB2 (pid 9196)
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: using channel 53
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB2
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
  ]
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices
added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device
added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown
configuration found.
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xf 
   ]
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xf 
   ]
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 
  ]
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: rcvd [LCP DiscReq id=0x10 magic=0x1171ba3]
Dec 31 17:18:11 stefano pppd[9212]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1
<3c9250a670f6b0f30cb003e7505a1ba3>, name = "UMTS_CHAP_SRVR"]
Dec 31 17:18:32 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  pppd timed out or didn't
initialize our dbus module
Dec 31 17:18:32 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  (ttyUSB2): device state
change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]
Dec 31 17:18:32 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:  Marking connection
'Congstar - Prepaid Contracts' invalid.

system.log wvdial:
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: using channel 55
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB2
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
  ]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x11 
   ]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x11 
   ]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 
  ]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x7b986b17]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices
added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano NetworkManager[1725]:SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device 
added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown 
configuration found.

Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: rcvd [LCP DiscReq id=0x12 magic=0x117e589]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1
, name = "UMTS_CHAP_SRVR"]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x1
<1526240390ef3775893ada2f64f157c2>, name = "t-mobile"]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x117e589 7b
 98 6b 17]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x1 ""]
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: CHAP authentication succeeded
Dec 31 17:19:03 stefano pppd[9242]: CHAP authentication succeeded

wvdial.conf:
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+ZSNT=0,0,2,  AT+ZOPRT=5
# AT+ZOPRT=5 - makes the device to stay in online mode
# AT+ZCDRUN=8 - disables auto-run (CDROM-Emulation)
# AT+ZCDRUN=9 - enable auto-run (CDROM-Emulation)
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 

Suggestion: Please change rights of cpufreq-set by default

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Dear list,
please let me describe a little problem.

As powerdevil changed last year, I found no way, to force the cpu to stay at 
lowest clock, even when a process wants full speed.

My solution at the moment is, to use cpufreq-set, where I can set the cpu to 
lowest frequency.

But there is a problem: I can do this only as user root! 

A solution is, to change the rights of the binary of cpufreq-set to i.e. group 
"powerdevil" and sticky bit to user "root". So anyone in the group 
"powerdevil" (and of course the application powerdevil, too), will be able to 
change the cpu clock. 

As powerdevil is able to execute a script, I can use a script in the profiles, 
either to set the clock to min or in another profile to max.

But changing the default rights IMO is no good way, except the maintainers 
decide so, too.

Any other suggestions?

Best regards

Hans





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Bug#655999: [bugs.debian.org] Reporting documentation - "What package does your bug report belong to?" points to user support groups

[Filipus Klutiero]

Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: normal

The ITS requires a package to be specified to send a report. If the 
reporter doesn't know which package is concerned, our documentation 
about bug reporting says:


If you are unable to determine which package your bug report should be 
filed against, please send e-mail to the Debian user mailing list 
 asking for advice.

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

debian-user's topic is user support.

For technical discussions about development, the default group is 
debian-de...@lists.debian.org.
Reference: 
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/Bugs/Reporting.wml?r1=1.18&r2=1.19


While we're at it, we shouldn't require reporters to indicate a package. 
If the ITS technically needs a package to be indicated, we could tell 
reporters to indicate a pseudo-package when they don't know, perhaps 
"unknown" or "default".

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Stephen Powell]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:24:40 -0500 (EST), Arno Schuring wrote:
> John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600):
>> IMHO putting critical
>> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not
>> unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea.
> 
> It's not any more loony than hardcoding the disk sectors in which the
> kernel file resides.

The stage 1 boot loaders of both grub-pc and lilo hard code the
location of the next stage.  But for lilo, this is in a file in
the Linux file system (by default it's called /boot/map).  For
grub, for a disk in the MS-DOS format, it is usually stored in
unallocated sectors between the master boot record and the first
partition.  The key word is "unallocated".  Backup programs may
not back them up.  Restore programs may not restore them.
And other programs, assuming that the unallocated sectors are
empty, may decide that they want to store stuff there too,
causing a conflict.  And if there are no unallocated sectors
between the master boot record and the first partition, grub
cannot be installed (at least not in the preferred way).
In my humble opinion it is best to avoid the use of unallocated
sectors altogether, if possible, for the reasons listed above.

When used with disks in the GPT format, I believe that grub
uses a separate boot partition, rather than unallocated sectors.
But I'm not a grub expert; so I'm not sure about that.  lilo
does not support boot disks in the GPT format at this time.

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Re: editing pdf files

[Siard]

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment
> or is this strictly gui?

Not sure what you want. You can do a 'acroread filename.pdf', but
of course you will need X for a PDF viewer.

There are a few things you can do on the command line using acroread,
like converting a PDF to Postscript. It's mentioned in the manpage.


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suspend / power off

[richard]

Greetings,

It may seem a daft question, BUT, what is the exact process when suspending ?

On a laptop it doesn't matter as power is kept on when either the lid is shut
or suspended, the same action.
However, on a mains powered machine suspend will power off, I'm guessing a write
to ram and umount any active device ??
Anything written to ram will be lost, does it really mater now if running
daemons & services are just terminated instead of being properly shutdown ?

Now with gnome3 shell ALT has to be held don to go to the power off/restart
menu,
I wonder how many just do a rapid power off with suspend ?

Richard


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Re: editing pdf files

[Siard]

Curt:
> Siard:
> > Curt:
> > > Siard:
> > > > 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.

Yes, I was not very accurate I'm afraid.


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Re: editing pdf files

[Claudius Hubig]

richard  wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
>Claudius Hubig  wrote:
>
>> 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.
  

>The only problem with that is hen it reaches its destination it has to be
>scanned and stored, and it means using snail mail. Much easier for both ends to
>be able to attach to an e-mail.

I meant to say that you can print it into a PDF file (using cups-pdf)
and then send the "printout", i. e. the resulting PDF file.

HTH,

Claudius
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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[John Hasler]

I wrote:
> IMHO putting critical boot software in an "unallocated" area that
> other software will (not unreasonably) assume contains nothing
> important is a loony idea.

Arno Schuring writes: 
> It's not any more loony than hardcoding the disk sectors in which the
> kernel file resides.

Like Grub, Lilo hardcodes the location at which it's next stage code
resides in the MBR.  However, it puts that code in the Linux file system
rather than in the "gap".  The MBR boot code _must_ use BIOS calls and a
hardcoded disk location: there isn't room for anything else.
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Re: OT: Impossible to scale document to fit on paper in loCalc.

[Sthu Deus]

Good time of the day, Camaleón.


Thank You for Your time and answer. You worte:

>> 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.

Well. So I did always before w/ my documents :o\
This is the only doc. I had problem w/.
 
>> 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

Oh, it helped me. Strange (to me), but the sliders work since I chose
on the sheet tab in page dialog, 'reduce' from the list and reduces the
percentage.

Thanks, again for Your help!


Sthu.


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Re: editing pdf files

[green]

Weaver wrote at 2012-01-15 05:44 -0600:
> You can scan it back in at your end and attach it.

Or fill it out, print it to cups-pdf, then attach the resulting PDF.


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Re: ptrace suid?

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:23:23 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> I've got a very strange virtualbox problem:  I have two hosts sharing
> /home with NFS.  The two machines are very close to identical:  same
> CPU, same motherboard, same amount of memory.  Same kernel version, same
> virtualbox version, same versions of all the libraries virtualbox
> depends on.
> 
> If I run virtualbox on one of the machines, it works.  On the other, I
> get an immediate segmentation fault if I run as a user, but it works if
> I run sudo.  I have reinstalled virtualbox; I have verified that all the
> files in /usr/lib/virtualbox have identical permissions on the two
> machines.  I am a member of vboxusers on both machines.

(...)

Check out this recent VB forum thread:

[Solved] VBox 4.1.8 fails as non-root user
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47199

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Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

[Arno Schuring]

John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600):
> 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.
That's true, LILO uses a blocklist IIRC.

>  IMHO putting critical
> boot software in an "unallocated" area that other software will (not
> unreasonably) assume contains nothing important is a loony idea.
It's not any more loony than hardcoding the disk sectors in which the
kernel file resides.


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Arno


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Re: grub-pc mdadm root

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Marc Auslander  wrote:
> Tom H  writes:
>>
>> 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.)
>
> I looked in initrd.  There is both an mdadm script and my kludge
> script in local-top.  There is an mdadm.conf.
>
> There is no udev or dev in the archive at all.
>
> I think one problem is that /conf/conf.d/md in initrd has
>
> MD_DEVS=none
>
> but where does that come from?

Both "MD_DEVS=none" and the non-existence
"/lib/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid-rules" in your initrd are from
"/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/mdadm" which sources
"/etc/default/mdadm" - in which you have non-default values.

Rather than stay with your manual addition of a script to your initrd,
I'd adjust the values in "/etc/default/mdadm" and regenerate the
initrd. If you don't, the next time that it's regenerated, you'll
eventually reboot into an initramfs shell.


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Re: editing pdf files

[Weaver]

> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
> Claudius Hubig  wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Claudius
>
> The only problem with that is hen it reaches its destination it has to be
> scanned and stored, and it means using snail mail. Much easier for both
> ends to
> be able to attach to an e-mail.

You can scan it back in at your end and attach it.
Regards,

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Re: problem mounting iso9660 dvds

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:50:59 +0100, Lars Callenbach wrote:

> last December I have burned some backup DVDs on my box with growisofs.
> It was possible to read the content (also under windows, other Linux
> installations, ...). This week I tried to make another backup. Growisofs
> complains with some error messages (with the hint to an unformatted
> medium) and it is not possible to mount my old iso images. At the moment
> BOTH dvd burners do not work (do not read iso images).A first try to
> mount the medium fails with a busy device error message, further
> attempts raises the error message of bad superblock (mount -t iso9660
> /dev/sr1 /mountpoint). These iso images can be read on other computers.

(...)

I would first try the most obvious: attach a different optical unit to 
your system (either USB or internal. Yup, I know it's annoying but...) 
and try to load the dvd disc from there. This way you will discard a 
problem within your dvd unit.

I wish one day optical devices become something of the past... even 
floppies have been proven to be more reliable than this laser thingy :-)

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Re: editing pdf files

[richard]

on 14 Jan 2012 15:39:44 -0500
"John A. Sullivan III"  wrote:

> 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
> 

There could be as the windows product could not do it :)
However after Finding Xournal and using that to create a template.
That had to be done as the sections of the form created by the originator
were shown blank when exported as a pdf. So each pre entered section of the
form had to be overwritten, which looked a mess, until exported as a pdf

What is even more maddening is I pulled down adobe reader 9.4.7 off the adobe
site, and that does fill in all the blanks as required, and it produces a title
bar to say the shaded areas can be edited/filled out.

If it was the form, what was used to create it ?, and is it a sign that
Adobe ,maybe, have introduced something which is not backwardly compatible with
earlier versions of reader, (acroread ).

What I now do, instead of trusting a pdf form has been completed correctly, is
post it to my self and read it with xpdf, And then if that looks OK send it to
where ever it was going in the first place.

Richard


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Re: Reciva website

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:15:25 -0500, John Lindsay wrote:

> 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.

I never heard about that radio station before so I just have tried.

It seems to be using plain links to contact the media streaming which 
finally delivers the audio data flow. So basically you need a media 
player that can handle the URI and also the encoding format type (aac, 
wma and mp3).

Here you have some samples from the above site:

AAC
http://streaming.softcast.com.au:8002/listen.pls

WMA
mms://win4.fast-serv.com/ra45

MP3
http://203.206.231.112:8000/stream.ogg

Encoding format depends on the radio station you select, but you should 
have no problems to listen any of them.

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Re: editing pdf files

[richard]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
Claudius Hubig  wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Claudius

The only problem with that is hen it reaches its destination it has to be
scanned and stored, and it means using snail mail. Much easier for both ends to
be able to attach to an e-mail.

Richard


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Re: grub-pc mdadm root (really Resolved)

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

15/01/2012 00:16, Marc Auslander wrote:

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.




Just for the records, when installing on raid from the Debian installer 
(from my experience with wheezy), this option is set to "all" 
automatically, and AUTOSTART to "true".


Good you solved it.


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Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:29:40, Brad Alexander wrote:
> 
> 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.

As far as I know this includes Essential, Required and Important. This 
can be trimmed down even further, but it gets very difficult and you 
have to know what you're doing.
 
> 2. After reboot, do an
> 
> aptitude update ; aptitude install squid3 snort openvpn iptables
> 
> This will give you your required packages and nothing else.

I would disable Recommends first, I think this fits the definition of an 
"unusual" installation :) But do check out the recommended packages, 
there might be something you do need.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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