Live usb version of testing

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
My machine keeps crashing on Bookworm, and most of the drivers aren't
working. I wanted to try a live usb to see if it's just my system's rather
crufty history rather than bookworm. How would I get one of these?

Thanks
James

Problems with the nouveau driver

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've just had to replace the motherboard, cpu and ram in my PC, and after a
few  hoops got to the point where I can boot Debian Testing in  kde.
However I keep getting screen windowing problems before eventually X shuts
down. Mouse still works for a while, the graphics card is  an nvidia GT
730, How do I go about trying to sort this out. Here's some errors from
dmesg

[  188.614806] nouveau :2d:00.0: firmware: failed to load
nouveau/nv106_fuc084 (-2)
[  188.614812] nouveau :2d:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nv106_fuc084 failed with error -2
[  188.614819] nouveau :2d:00.0: firmware: failed to load
nouveau/nv106_fuc084d (-2)
[  188.614820] nouveau :2d:00.0: Direct firmware load for
nouveau/nv106_fuc084d failed with error -2
[  188.614821] nouveau :2d:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[  188.614823] nouveau :2d:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

Thanks
James

Start ZFS partition on boot.

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm having lots of trouble starting my zfs /var partition as part of boot,
after an upgrade to Bullseye. I can manually import the partition with
zpool import -a and the status of the pool says "no known data errors".

journalctl | grep zfs gives the following error;
udevadm => systemd-udev-settle.service is deprecated, Please fix
zfs-import-cache.service, zfs-load-module.service not to pull it in.
systemd-modules-load[466]: Inserted module 'zfs'
systemd[1]: zfs-import-cache.service: Job zfs-import-cache.service/start
failed with result 'dependency'
systemd[1]: zfs-load-module.service: Job zfs-load-module.service/start
failed with result 'dependency'

I thought maybe /etc/zfs/zpool_tank.cache had got corrupted, so I set it to
none,moved the file, rebooted, reset it to /etc/zfs/zpool_tabk.cache and
reboot but no joy.

I've tried adding "ExecPreStart=/bin/sleep 5" to the service section of
/lib/systemd/systemzfs-import-cache
Did a systemctl daemon-reload
rebooted

I've checked that zfs is listed in /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf and the
fact that you don't have to modprobe once started,suggests that it's
working.

Unfortunately no change. Now I'm wondering did the system try to load the
pool after the kernel module, but I don't want to hack around any more and
break things. Note that this used to work under Debian 10 and I've not
changed the partition.

It seems to be related to this; but I don't want to change the system any
more, without solid advice.

If anyone can offer any help, I'd be very grateful,
James

Re: Errors scrolling on boot

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I found dmesg -D which stopped the errors scrolling but I can't find the
problem in the logs, or why it's not booting further. Would not having
these firmwares installed prevent the boot continuing? I'd understand that
I wouldn't have any wireless, but I've a very old usb dongle that will work.

The problem I have is that I also have var mounted as zfs, but that's not
mounting properly and I can't tell whether it's the upgrade stopping zfs
working or the firmwares stopping the boot before then.

dmesg isn't that informative and neither is journalctl -xe, unfortunately I
can't copy either.

Thanks
James

Would

On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 at 22:44, Charles Curley <
charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:16:46 +
> "Andrew M.A. Cater"  wrote:
>
> > If you used the official media without firmware: add contrib and
> > non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list and try and install the
> > firmware / boot with the unofficial non-free .iso, use this as rescue
> > medium and install the appropriate non-free firmware you may need.
>
> That sounds like an Intel wifi adapter. You may want the firmware
> package firmware-iwlwifi.
>
> --
> Does anybody read signatures any more?
>
> https://charlescurley.com
> https://charlescurley.com/blog/
>
>

Errors scrolling on boot

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've just upgraded my system to Bullseye and run into a problem on reboot.

I'm just getting an error, endlessly:
[timestamp] Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-22)
[timestamp] Bluetooth: hci0:

There's an iwlwifi*.ucode error near the start but everything gets
overwhelmed with the Bluetooth errors.

I can't make these messages stop, and the system won't boot to a gui,
although I can log in as root. It's very hard to use. I really need an "OK,
I get it!" option so I can work on the machine. I've managed to stop
Bluetooth as a service, but still get these errors on reboot. The cards are
part of the MSI x570S motherboard, so I can't disconnect them to get a
working system.

Any ideas? I'm thinking I might have to chroot and use isenkram?
Thanks
James

Trying to work out what non-Debian or non-Buster packages I need to remove

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade to Bullseye at the moment, but a bit stuck on which
non-Debian packages I need to remove;
root@hawaiian:~# apt-forktracer | sort | awk -F ' ' '{print $1}'
containerd.io
docker-ce
docker-ce-cli
docker-ce-rootless-extras
docker-scan-plugin
elasticsearch
google-chrome-stable
kibana
libnvpair3linux
libuutil3linux
libzfs4linux
libzpool4linux
logstash
spl-dkms
zfs-dkms
zfsutils-linux
zfs-zed
root@hawaiian:~# aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,
?not(?origin(Debian)))'
i A containerd.io
- An
open and reliable container runtime

i   docker-ce
-
Docker: the open-source application container engine

i A docker-ce-cli
-
Docker CLI: the open-source application container engine

i A docker-ce-rootless-extras
- Rootless support
for Docker.
i A docker-scan-plugin
   - Docker
scan cli plugin.

i   elasticsearch
-
Distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud

i   google-chrome-stable
 - The web
browser from Google

i   kibana
   -
Explore and visualize your Elasticsearch data

i   logstash
 -
An extensible logging pipeline   spl-dkms

These (libnvpair3linux, libuutil3linux, libzfs4linux, libzpool4linux,
spl-dkms, zfs-dkms, zfsutils-linux, zfs-zed)  are from Backports, so do
they need to be removed? I ask as my /var is mounted as ZFS and that might
get tricky! I can handle removing the docker ones as I'd like to install
Podman anyway. Is there a proper way I should do this?

Would I be taking a risk keeping elasticsearch, kibana, logstash and chrome
or should I just remove those too? Should I comment out the entries in
apt/sources.list.d?

Thanks
James

Re: Changing hardware

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Thanks for all your help, just starting upgrading to Debian 11. Reasons for
going with nvidia was it was the cheapest thing I could find, passively
cooled, and I do a bit of stuff with Cuda so nvidia is the only game in
town. I am using nouveau at the moment, thank god, I'd hate to do this with
nvidia kernel drivers!

Thanks
James



On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 09:27, Anssi Saari  wrote:

> piorunz  writes:
>
> > Free drivers are terrible to use if user wants hardware acceleration.
> > Clocks are not ramped up, because nouveau does not support re-clocking.
> > That means horrible performance, or crashes. I don't ever recommend, or
> > sometimes even mention, nouveau.
>
> Hear, hear. I was actually surprised recently when my "new" laptop
> actually produced video with nouveau but after some glitches I just
> installed the proprietary nvidia-driver. This "new" laptop is 2016
> vintage with Quadro M2000 video, roughly equivalent to a GTX950 and
> hence Maxwell-based. Even for it especially the power management and
> video decode/encode acceleration support look pretty sad on the Nouveau
> feature matrix (https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html).
>
> Not to mention the RTX3070Ti in my desktop.
>
> Still, impressive effort from the Nouveau project considering how many
> chips Nvidia has pushed out over the years.
>
>

Changing hardware

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
My old core2 (8gb ram) died after a power cycle,so I bought an AMD Ryzen
5800 with 32Gb Ram and a new motherboard and a new nvidia graphics card.I
converted the boot system over to EFI (
https://blog.getreu.net/projects/legacy-to-uefi-boot/).

I was going to upgrade to Debian 11 anyway, but is there a way to update
all the drivers and kernel to reflect the new hardware?

Thanks
James

KDE and Pulseaudio; swapping users

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Does anyone have a solution for the problem that when I switch users, to
have any sound as the new user, I have to su to root to kill the other
users Pulseaudio. If I don't do this I'm left with a dummy sound card.

Thanks
James

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

[James Allsopp]

Also, you could spend a bit on money on an SSD, I did.

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 11:31, James Allsopp 
wrote:

> Yeah it will work, although it'll work a lot better if you can get an
> extra 4Gb off Ebay, I paid about  £25.
>
> For reference I was running it on a 3Ghz 4GbRam Core2Duo.
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 11:23, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z 
> wrote:
>
>> > I would not do that. I run xfce under Debian 10.4 in 8GB, it's very
>> light weight for a window manager. MUCH lighter than KDE. But still a
>> little slow sometimes, with more than a few apps open SubCommandante
>> Geovanis
>> > 
>>
>> Oh, it looks it would be very slowly then.
>> It is weird is doesn't looks like I have been reading:
>>
>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/?sh=763cb23826d2
>>
>> I can't say anything about, because I never used any of them.
>>
>

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

[James Allsopp]

Yeah it will work, although it'll work a lot better if you can get an extra
4Gb off Ebay, I paid about  £25.

For reference I was running it on a 3Ghz 4GbRam Core2Duo.

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 11:23, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z 
wrote:

> > I would not do that. I run xfce under Debian 10.4 in 8GB, it's very
> light weight for a window manager. MUCH lighter than KDE. But still a
> little slow sometimes, with more than a few apps open SubCommandante
> Geovanis
> > 
>
> Oh, it looks it would be very slowly then.
> It is weird is doesn't looks like I have been reading:
>
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/?sh=763cb23826d2
>
> I can't say anything about, because I never used any of them.
>

Install Xrdp on debian 10

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm having trouble getting this to work as I'd like, which is pretty much
like it works in windows.

I want to login through windows and not have to log in using the horrible
X11 dialog, which means I can't use a password manager because I can't cut
and paste into that window.

I only ever want to use one session, if I log out of RDP and come back to
it, I'd like all my windows to be exactly as it was.

Currently, it's not working at all, it just bounces me out after logging in
via the X11 xrdp screen. I've tried with the xorg and x11 options. I've
just installed in using apt-get xrdp, and left the /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini file
as is.

Thanks for your help

Photos on corrupted SD card

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Does anyone know if there are any good tools in Linux for fixing corruption
on FAT32 SD cards. It was in my phone, but I dropped it and broke the
phone. Couldn't turn it off as the screen was broken and thoughtlessly
removed it whilst on. The files are there, I can see it in Linux, it's just
some of the files are broken, i.e. images with odd colours, video files
that don't play.

I was thinking of just dd'ing the whole card to my pc.
Thanks
James

Cloud-init in Debian

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Does anyone have an example or tutorial for  using cloud-init with debian
images. I'm currently trying to do terraform with kvm, but struggling as
although terraform picks up the cloud-init, the fqdn and the ssh key isn't
working. I'm trying to use this image
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/cloud/buster/20201214-484/debian-10-genericcloud-amd64-20201214-484.qcow2
I'm not entirely sure if this is the correct image or not?
A lot of the instructions online are for ubuntu or red hat.
Thanks
James

Re: Import and Export of Zfs pools

[James Allsopp]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 12:32, Dan Ritter  wrote:

> James Allsopp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've got a zfs pool that works fine in normal use on my debian system and
> > remains after a reboot.
> > When I reboot into recovery mode, I have to reimport the pool manually
> > using
> > zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id 
> >
> > I export before I reboot, but when I reboot into the full version of
> Debian
> > 10, the pool isn't there. I can reimport it using the zpool import
> command,
>
> That's expected.
>
> zpool export prepares the zpool for use on a different system.
> It is not part of the usual shutdown procedure.
>
>
> > What I want to do is this;
> >
> >- Reboot in single user mode
> >- import pool.
> >- cp -a /var to /tank/var
> >- Set the mount point on /tank/var to /var
> >- Remove /var entry from /etc/fstab
> >- Export the pool
> >- Reboot
> >
> >
> > And then I should have a ZFS var for VMs and Docker containers when the
> > main OS imports ZFS for /var.
>
> Don't export the pool. Unmount all ZFS mounts before or as part
> of shutdown..
>
> -dsr-
>
>
> >
> > I tried this with a VM and it worked.
> > Thanks
> > James
>
> --
> https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by
> reference.
> there is no justice, there is just us.
>

Ok, got all this to work almost; When the system comes back up, it sees no
/var directory and tries to fill it. Then the zfs-mount service starts
later and can't mount over a non-empty directory. I'm out of ideas now.

James

Import and Export of Zfs pools

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've got a zfs pool that works fine in normal use on my debian system and
remains after a reboot.
When I reboot into recovery mode, I have to reimport the pool manually
using
zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id 

I export before I reboot, but when I reboot into the full version of Debian
10, the pool isn't there. I can reimport it using the zpool import command,
but I have to do that every time unless I reset the cache using;
zpool set cachefile=none tank
zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache tank

which I found as the zfs-import-cache.service had failed.

My pool isn't particularly complicated;
root@hawaiian:~# zpool status
  pool: tank
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tankONLINE   0 0 0
  mirror-0  ONLINE   0 0 0
wwn-0x5f000b074105  ONLINE   0 0 0
wwn-0x50024e9001a4ea77  ONLINE   0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

What I want to do is this;

   - Reboot in single user mode
   - import pool.
   - cp -a /var to /tank/var
   - Set the mount point on /tank/var to /var
   - Remove /var entry from /etc/fstab
   - Export the pool
   - Reboot


And then I should have a ZFS var for VMs and Docker containers when the
main OS imports ZFS for /var.

I tried this with a VM and it worked.
Thanks
James

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

[James Allsopp]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 22:30, Lucas Castro  wrote:

>
> On 9/22/20 5:54 PM, James Allsopp wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro  wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The
>> > machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS
>> > to the network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet
>> > connection on eth1 used for a bridge
>>
>> Is your OpenWRT router running in vm on the same host or somewhere else
>> throughout physical network eth1?
>>
>>
> The OpenWRT is a completely separate device running at the end of the
> cable connected to eth1. The Wireless is also connected to an AP on that
> router. All of this is on the 192.168.1.* network.
>
>
>
>> >
>> > I've set this file up for the bridge in /etc/network/interfaces.d/br0
>> > auto eth1
>> > auto br0
>> > iface br0 inet dhcp
>> > bridge_ports eth1
>> > bridge_fd 0
>> > bridge_stp off
>> >
>> > ifup br0 brought it up nicely and it got an IP address in the range
>> > I'd expect. So far so good. The only problem is now, I can't get any
>> > of the VM's I create to use this network. When creating a VM using
>> > Virtual Machine Manager, it gives me the option to specify shared
>> > device name for the network source. One of these is for a network I
>> > already created in virsh;
>> >
>> > 
>> >   host-bridge
>> >   
>> >   
>> > 
>>
> Try something like this ti get your vm settings.
>
> virsh -c qemu:///system dumpxml ${GUEST_NAME} | egrep -A5 -i
> "network|bridge"
>
>
> i.e.
>
> virsh -c qemu:///system dumpxml Buster | egrep -A5 -i "network|bridge"
> 
>   
>   
>   
>   
>   
>function='0x0'/>
> 
> 
>   
>   
>   
>   
>   
>function='0x0'/>
> 
>
> >
>> > However, if I set the network to either 'host-bridge' or br0 directly,
>> > the route is never set and I can never get  a dhcp setting. I've
>> > checked ip_forward is set to 1.
>> >
>> > I'd just like to set it up this way, as it seems really inefficient to
>> > have a dhcp and then use difficult to remember static IP's everywhere.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > James
>> >
>> >
>> --
>> Lucas Castro
>>
>> Here's what I get;
 virsh -c qemu:///system dumpxml proxy1 | egrep -A5 -i "network|bridge"

  
  
  
  


  

 12:40:09 pm BST  james  BigRaid 
❱ virsh -c qemu:///system dumpxml debian10 | egrep -A5 -i "network|bridge"

  
  
  
  


  
 Thanks
James

> --
> Lucas Castro
>
>

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

[James Allsopp]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute 
wrote:

> Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit :
> >
> > I've tried that but I get the same result.
> > Thanks
> > James
> >
>
> You need to answer to the mailing-list email address, not mine.
> If it still doesn't work, we need more information, like the result of
> the following commands (you should modify the public IP that appears in
> if it's the case)
> 'ip a'
> 'iptables-save'
> 'brctl show'
>
>
Here's ip a
 ip a
1: lo:  mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:7d:0d:2a:9f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master
br0 state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:7d:0d:2a:9d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlan0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
group default qlen 1000
link/ether b4:ee:b4:84:37:2a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.174/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic
noprefixroute wlan0
   valid_lft 27656sec preferred_lft 27656sec
inet6 fde6:4511:f54::a55/128 scope global noprefixroute
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fde6:4511:f54:0:f195:8361:215d:5f17/64 scope global noprefixroute
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::4bf0:ca57:25f0:ed7f/64 scope link noprefixroute
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: br0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:7d:0d:2a:9d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.206/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic br0
   valid_lft 27655sec preferred_lft 27655sec
inet6 fde6:4511:f54:0:21d:7dff:fe0d:2a9d/64 scope global dynamic
mngtmpaddr
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::21d:7dff:fe0d:2a9d/64 scope link
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: docker0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
state DOWN group default
link/ether 02:42:12:5f:1a:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global docker0
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
8: vnet0:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
master br0 state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether fe:54:00:8a:6e:57 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::fc54:ff:fe8a:6e57/64 scope link
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever


Here's iptables -L
 iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source   destination
DOCKER-USER  all  --  anywhere anywhere
DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-1  all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere anywhere ctstate
RELATED,ESTABLISHED
DOCKER all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain DOCKER (1 references)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-1 (1 references)
target prot opt source   destination
DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-2  all  --  anywhere anywhere
RETURN all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain DOCKER-ISOLATION-STAGE-2 (1 references)
target prot opt source   destination
DROP   all  --  anywhere anywhere
RETURN all  --  anywhere anywhere

Chain DOCKER-USER (1 references)
target prot opt source   destination
RETURN all  --  anywhere anywhere

and brctl show

bridge name bridge id   STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.001d7d0d2a9d   no  eth1
vnet0
docker0 8000.0242125f1a5e   no

Thanks!
James

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

[James Allsopp]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro  wrote:

>
> On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The
> > machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS
> > to the network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet
> > connection on eth1 used for a bridge
>
> Is your OpenWRT router running in vm on the same host or somewhere else
> throughout physical network eth1?
>
>
The OpenWRT is a completely separate device running at the end of the cable
connected to eth1. The Wireless is also connected to an AP on that router.
All of this is on the 192.168.1.* network.



> >
> > I've set this file up for the bridge in /etc/network/interfaces.d/br0
> > auto eth1
> > auto br0
> > iface br0 inet dhcp
> > bridge_ports eth1
> > bridge_fd 0
> > bridge_stp off
> >
> > ifup br0 brought it up nicely and it got an IP address in the range
> > I'd expect. So far so good. The only problem is now, I can't get any
> > of the VM's I create to use this network. When creating a VM using
> > Virtual Machine Manager, it gives me the option to specify shared
> > device name for the network source. One of these is for a network I
> > already created in virsh;
> >
> > 
> >   host-bridge
> >   
> >   
> > 
> >
> > However, if I set the network to either 'host-bridge' or br0 directly,
> > the route is never set and I can never get  a dhcp setting. I've
> > checked ip_forward is set to 1.
> >
> > I'd just like to set it up this way, as it seems really inefficient to
> > have a dhcp and then use difficult to remember static IP's everywhere.
> >
> > Thanks
> > James
> >
> >
> --
> Lucas Castro
>
>

dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine is
connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the network,
via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on eth1 used
for a bridge

I've set this file up for the bridge in /etc/network/interfaces.d/br0
auto eth1
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth1
bridge_fd 0
bridge_stp off

ifup br0 brought it up nicely and it got an IP address in the range I'd
expect. So far so good. The only problem is now, I can't get any of the
VM's I create to use this network. When creating a VM using Virtual Machine
Manager, it gives me the option to specify shared device name for the
network source. One of these is for a network I already created in virsh;


  host-bridge
  
  


However, if I set the network to either 'host-bridge' or br0 directly, the
route is never set and I can never get  a dhcp setting. I've checked
ip_forward is set to 1.

I'd just like to set it up this way, as it seems really inefficient to have
a dhcp and then use difficult to remember static IP's everywhere.

Thanks
James

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

[James Allsopp]

This is just debian grub recovery mode so on the same machine, so hopefully
zfsutil will be there. Looked at this;
zfs  4214784  9
zunicode  335872  1 zfs
zlua  172032  1 zfs
zavl   16384  1 zfs
icp   331776  1 zfs
zcommon98304  2 zfs,icp
znvpair90112  2 zfs,zcommon
spl   122880  5 zfs,icp,znvpair,zcommon,zavl

So if I just modprobe those from the column on the left, it should work?

Thanks,
James

On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 22:06, Dan Ritter  wrote:

> James Allsopp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Just trying to move var to a zfs partition. Rebooted into recovery mode,
> > but could access the zfs pool. I tried to modprobe zfs, but still
> nothing.
> > Is there something else I should be doing?
> >
>
> Does your recovery mode have the zfs kernel modules and zfsutil?
>
> Without it, you'll never mount things.
>
> -dsr-
>

Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Just trying to move var to a zfs partition. Rebooted into recovery mode,
but could access the zfs pool. I tried to modprobe zfs, but still nothing.
Is there something else I should be doing?

Thanks
James

Core Q9650 in a case with 5 hard drives

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm using an old Core 2 processor in a case with 5 hard drives, one of
which is an SSD.  It's a server but doesn't get hit particularly hard, so
I'm wondering what the options are to try and conserve power with it as
it's generating rather a lot of heat. I've looked at powertop, but there
didn't seem to be a huge amount there.The processor only scales between 2
and 3Ghz with an ondemand governor. I upgraded the processor from a E8460
and doubled the ram to 8GB, with the same hard drives and this was when I
noticed the temperature increase.

Thanks

Re: add 2FA to ssh

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
You can do it at the same time with a yubikey and editing your pam file.

https://developers.yubico.com/yubico-pam/YubiKey_and_SSH_via_PAM.html#:~:text=The%20Yubico%20PAM%20module%20for,YubiKey%20assigned%20to%20the%20user.


Been doing this for years,
James

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 15:24, Toni Mas Soler  wrote:

> I think 2FA first is better. Thus you don't have to type your password
> if you have a wrong 2FA.
>
> Toni Mas
>
> Missatge de Pòl Hallen  del dia dj., 13 d’ag.
> 2020 a les 13:38:
> >
> > Hi folks :)
> >
> >
> > what it better with 2FA: at ssh login request first 2FA authentication
> > next ssh password or viceversa?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Pol
> >
>
>

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

[James Allsopp]

Thanks for that. Is it simply a case of installing the DKMS module,
building the pool (two drives in my case), formatting and mounting?

James

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:18, Dan Ritter  wrote:

> elvis wrote:
> >
> > On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > James Allsopp wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a
> ZFS
> > > > partition in Debian Buster?
> > > Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a
> > > laptop.
> >
> > And a follow up, why do you use it?
>
> - data integrity
> - snapshots and zfs send/receive for backups
> - good reporting of disk events
> - does not incur an unacceptable speed penalty
> - well documented, relatively simple method of disk replacement
> - pools can be transferred between machines without specific
>   controller requirements
> - flexibility of filesystems-on-pools
>
> And because I have that experience at work, I am reasonably
> happy to run it at home on the systems where it makes sense.
>
> -dsr-
>
>

Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS
partition in Debian Buster?

Thanks
James

Re: Cups no longer accepting remote connections for printing.

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Thanks Brian, this is the server;

scheduler is running
system default destination: HL-2030-series
device for HL-2030-series: usb://Brother/HL-2030%20series?serial=L0J260292
HL-2030-series accepting requests since Sun 23 Jul 2017 21:21:32 BST
printer HL-2030-series is idle.  enabled since Sun 23 Jul 2017 21:21:32 BST

The is the client;
scheduler is running
no system default destination
lpstat: Forbidden
lpstat: Forbidden
lpstat: Forbidden
lpstat: Forbidden
lpstat: Forbidden

Here's an nmap for the port on the server.
# nmap -sS -p631 hawaiian
Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-02-09 14:07 GMT
Nmap scan report for hawaiian (192.168.1.206)
Host is up (0.022s latency).
Other addresses for hawaiian (not scanned): fde6:4511:f54::1a3
fde6:4511:f54::a55
rDNS record for 192.168.1.206: hawaiian.frankexchangeofviews.uk

PORTSTATE SERVICE
631/tcp open  ipp
MAC Address: 00:1D:7D:0D:2A:9D (Giga-byte Technology)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.53 seconds


On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 12:13, Brian  wrote:

> On Sun 09 Feb 2020 at 02:06:22 +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
>
> > HI,
> > My printer on a remote machine works when access from that machine, I've
> > checked port 631 isn't blocked using Xnat, but I can't work out why I
> can't
> > print.
> > All the user pages say forbidden, and a test page from my local cups
> hangs.
>
> Please give the printer make and model and the outputs of 'lpstat -t'
> on server and client.
>
> --
> Brian.
>
>

Cups no longer accepting remote connections for printing.

[James Allsopp]

HI,
My printer on a remote machine works when access from that machine, I've
checked port 631 isn't blocked using Xnat, but I can't work out why I can't
print.
All the user pages say forbidden, and a test page from my local cups hangs.

I'm using Buster on this machine currently. Here's my cupsd.conf,
Thanks
James
# Configuration file for the CUPS scheduler.  See "man cupsd.conf" for a
# complete description of this file.
#

# Log general information in error_log - change "warn" to "debug"
# for troubleshooting...
LogLevel warn
PageLogFormat

# Deactivate CUPS' internal logrotating, as we provide a better one,
especially
# LogLevel debug2 gets usable now
MaxLogSize 0

# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen *:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseLocalProtocols dnssd
#BrowseAllow all
#BrowseAddress 192.168.1.*:631
# Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
DefaultAuthType Basic

# Web interface setting...
WebInterface Yes

# Restrict access to the server...

  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  Allow 192.168.1.*

ServerAlias *
# Restrict access to the admin pages...

  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  Allow  192.168.1.*


# Restrict access to configuration files...

  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny


# Restrict access to log files...

  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny


# Set the default printer/job policies...

  # Job/subscription privacy...
  JobPrivateAccess default
  JobPrivateValues default
  SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
  SubscriptionPrivateValues default

  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an administrator...
  
Order deny,allow
  

  
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  # All administration operations require an administrator to
authenticate...
  
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  # All printer operations require a printer operator to authenticate...
  
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
  
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  
Order deny,allow
  


# Set the authenticated printer/job policies...

  # Job/subscription privacy...
  JobPrivateAccess default
  JobPrivateValues default
  SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
  SubscriptionPrivateValues default

  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an administrator...
  
AuthType Default
Order deny,allow
  

  
AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  # All administration operations require an administrator to
authenticate...
  
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  # All printer operations require a printer operator to authenticate...
  
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
  
AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  

  
Order deny,allow
  

Upgrading from Stretch to Buster with docker 3rd party installed

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I was going to upgrade to Buster, but I've got docker installed  and am
running a container as an ldap server. Consequently I don't want to get rid
of it, but the install guide I read suggested removing all 3rd-party
repositories before starting.

This is the current situatioin with my sources files
❱ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.0.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST
20170617-13:06]/ stretch main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.0.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST
20170617-13:06]/ stretch main

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main  contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main  contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main

# stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main

❱ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
deb https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch stable

If anyone has any advice, please let me know,
Thanks

Realtek RTL8188CUS wireless usb stick on Stretch

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm having lots of problems getting this usb wireless dongle (Edimax) to
pick up and connect to a wireless network. I'm not sure if there's a config
from an older wireless  getting in the way. The hardware for that isn't
installed anymore.

I'm running network manager in KDE

It's detected by lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un
802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]

I installed the realtek firmware;
apt-get install firmware-realtek

The drivers seem loaded correctly (from lsmod)
rtl8192cu  69632  0
pcspkr 16384  0
rtl_usb20480  1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common53248  1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi77824  3 rtl_usb,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu
mac80211  671744  3 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu
snd_usb_audio 180224  2
snd_usbmidi_lib28672  1 snd_usb_audio
cfg80211  589824  2 mac80211,rtlwifi

The widget can detect different AP's (I used a test one from my phone to
confirm this), I see the one I want to connect to, but when I click on it,
it just goes to "configuring interface" and then I get a disconnect notice,
"wifi network could not be found". I've turned off the security on my phone
ap to test and this made no difference.

Can you point me in the general direction of how to start sorting this out?
Thanks
James

SSH root login from one ip via certificate only, all other logins password only.

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I need to have one computer I can ssh to other computers as root for
Ansible. To do this I've set up a strong certificate with a password, but
what I want is to only be able to log in as root from one IP using that
cert. All other users should only log in via a password and can do so from
any IP.

Currently normal user logins are broken with this sshd_config. Can anyone
tell me where I'm going wrong? Sudo is not an option.

Thanks
James

#   $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.93 2014/01/10 05:59:19 djm Exp $

# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
# sshd_config(5) for more information.

# This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

# The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
# OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
# possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options override the
# default value.

# If you want to change the port on a SELinux system, you have to tell
# SELinux about this change.
# semanage port -a -t ssh_port_t -p tcp #PORTNUMBER
#
#Port 22
#AddressFamily any
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
#ListenAddress ::

# The default requires explicit activation of protocol 1
#Protocol 2

# HostKey for protocol version 1
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key

# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
#KeyRegenerationInterval 1h
#ServerKeyBits 1024

# Ciphers and keying
#RekeyLimit default none

# Logging
# obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging
#SyslogFacility AUTH
SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV
#LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:

#LoginGraceTime 2m
#PermitRootLogin no
#StrictModes yes
#MaxAuthTries 6
#MaxSessions 10

#RSAAuthentication yes
#PubkeyAuthentication yes

# The default is to check both .ssh/authorized_keys and
.ssh/authorized_keys2
# but this is overridden so installations will only check
.ssh/authorized_keys
AuthorizedKeysFile  .ssh/authorized_keys

#AuthorizedPrincipalsFile none

#AuthorizedKeysCommand none
#AuthorizedKeysCommandUser nobody

# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
#RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
#HostbasedAuthentication no
# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
# RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
#IgnoreRhosts yes

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
#PermitEmptyPasswords no
#PasswordAuthentication yes

# Change to no to disable s/key passwords
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes
#KerberosGetAFSToken no
#KerberosUseKuserok yes

# GSSAPI options
GSSAPIAuthentication yes
GSSAPICleanupCredentials no
#GSSAPIStrictAcceptorCheck yes
#GSSAPIKeyExchange no
#GSSAPIEnablek5users no

# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
# PasswordAuthentication.  Depending on your PAM configuration,
# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
# If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
# PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
# and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
# WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and may
cause several
# problems.
#UsePAM yes

#AllowAgentForwarding yes
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PermitTTY yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox  # Default for new installations.
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#Compression delayed
#ClientAliveInterval 0
#ClientAliveCountMax 3
#ShowPatchLevel no
#UseDNS yes
#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
#MaxStartups 10:30:100
#PermitTunnel no
#ChrootDirectory none
#VersionAddendum none

# no default banner path
#Banner none

# Accept locale-related environment variables
AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY
LC_MESSAGES
AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT
AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL LANGUAGE
AcceptEnv XMODIFIERS

# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem   sftp/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

# Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis
#Match User anoncvs
#   X11Forwarding no
#   AllowTcpForwarding no
#   PermitTTY no
#   ForceCommand cvs server
Match User root Address x.y.z.w
  PermitRootLogin yes
  PermitTunnel no
  PasswordAuthentication no
Match all
  PermitRootLogin no
  

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

[James Allsopp]

As far as I can see "su -" saves a lot of grief if you're the only admin on
a system. Tried sudo ing to a protected directory? Doesn't work. Tired of
entering your password every couple of minutes?

sudo does mean that the admin actions of a particular user are logged, but
unless you lock down what they can do, they can change/delete the logs
easily enough.

I think this just degenerates into a religious war. If it works for you,
and the people around you, great. If not use the other option.

On 7 August 2018 at 12:11, Stephan Seitz 
wrote:

> On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:58:48 +0200, Martin Drescher wrote:
>
>> And I'm curious why Debian still prefers the use of su over sudo?
>>
>
> I don’t know if Debian does, but the difference between su and sudo seems
> quite like to the difference between ssh logins with password and with
> keys. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
>
> Shade and sweet water!
>
> Stephan
>
> --
> | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html |
>

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

[James Allsopp]

+1 for Sqlite unless you need multiuser access.
James

On 27 February 2017 at 13:17, Richard Owlett  wrote:

> The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using dBaseII
> on a MS-DOS machine.
> What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository?
>
> I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" system
> provided no intrinsic way to increase fonts to a legible size.
>
> https://packages.debian.org/stable/database/ was not useful as it doesn't
> categorize the list.
>
> Suggestions?
> TIA
>
>

Redirecing root emails to a gmail account

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
I want to have the root e-mails sent to my gmail account if possible. I can
send email here via commandline

echo "This is a test." | mail -s Test 

but despite editing /etc/aliases so that root points to the external
address I can't get this to work.

echo "This is a test.(root)" | mail -sv Testing root

adding a verbose to the mail command doesn't give any more details.
I tried running newaliases, but that didn't make any difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

James

Pulse audio always starts in suspended; have to restart before anything

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm having a problem with pulseaudio where I have to restart it before I
can play any music whatsoever. If I list the sinks, my single sink comes up
as suspended. My system is relatively fresh install of Wheezy, with
pulseaudio running in as my user.

My default.pa is:
.nofail

### Load something into the sample cache
#load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav

.fail

### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore

### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties

### Load audio drivers statically
### (it's probably better to not load these drivers manually, but instead
### use module-udev-detect -- see below -- for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device=/dev/dsp sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device=/dev/dsp sink_name=output
source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack
udev/hal support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect
.fail
.endif

### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif

### Load several protocols
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1
### Load the RTP receiver module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv

### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2
rate=44100 sink_properties=device.description='RTP Multicast Sink'
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor

### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured
with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might
conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gconf.so
.nofail
load-module module-gconf
.fail
.endif

### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent
modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore

### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
### connected to dies, similar for sources
load-module module-rescue-streams

### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink

### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
#load-module module-suspend-on-idle

### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif

### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds

### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
load-module module-role-cork

### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation)
### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters
### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of
### loading modules and rerouting streams.
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply

### Load DBus protocol
.ifexists module-dbus-protocol.so
load-module module-dbus-protocol
.endif

# X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon
# can be shared by multiple sessions.

### Load X11 bell module
#load-module module-x11-bell sample=bell-windowing-system

### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager
#load-module module-x11-xsmp

### Publish connection data in the X11 root window
#.ifexists module-x11-publish.so
#.nofail
#load-module 

Re: No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

[James Allsopp]

How would I go about checking those?
James

On 24 March 2015 at 14:51, Eric Sharkey e...@lisaneric.org wrote:

 On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:31 PM, James Allsopp
 jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:
  Sorry, didn't make myself clear, the sound card is an intel hda onboard
 and
  there's a small cable which takes this from the motherboard to the nvidia
  graphics card, which then connects to the HDMI cable.
 []
 
  I've installed the nvidia drivers

 With cards like that, the drivers aren't involved and there is no
 software configuration required for the graphics card.  The hardware
 takes any signal it receives on the SPDIF input and sends it to the
 HDMI output.  If your hardware is working, whatever problem you're
 having is getting sound out of your SPDIF output on the Intel sound
 card and not related to anything nvidia or hdmi.

 Have you checked your mixer settings?  Does it work without pulse audio?

 Eric

No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Just reinstalled debian and are having lots of problems getting the sound
to work through HDMI. I had it working but now it has just stopped. I'm
watching the screen through the same HDMI so I presume hardware is good.

Eventually I want to use this system to run MPD.

Here's my setup as described by aplay;
james@Hawaiian:~$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889A Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
james@Hawaiian:~$ aplay -l
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

In my pulseaudio setup I added the first line here, and commented out the
second.
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0

KDE is now giving me an error about internal devices removed; both output
and capture on the pulse sound server.

I'm not sure where I'm now going with this, so if anyone could help me
debug this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
James

Re: No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

[James Allsopp]

Included some more hardware information below,

Thanks,
James


On 23 March 2015 at 21:26, Eric Sharkey e...@lisaneric.org wrote:

 On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:41 AM, James Allsopp
 jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:
  Hi,
  Just reinstalled debian and are having lots of problems getting the
 sound to
  work through HDMI. I had it working but now it has just stopped. I'm
  watching the screen through the same HDMI so I presume hardware is good.

 What kind of hardware is it?  You've said nvidia but not which model.


Sorry, didn't make myself clear, the sound card is an intel hda onboard and
there's a small cable which takes this from the motherboard to the nvidia
graphics card, which then connects to the HDMI cable. These are shown in
the lspci below.

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
1 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6
port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT]
(rev a1)

I've installed the nvidia drivers; here's the lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
cryptd 14517  0
aes_x86_64 16843  3
aes_generic33026  1 aes_x86_64
ppdev  12763  0
lp 17149  0
nfsd  216181  2
nfs   308353  0
nfs_acl12511  2 nfs,nfsd
auth_rpcgss37143  2 nfs,nfsd
fscache36739  1 nfs
lockd  67306  2 nfs,nfsd
sunrpc173730  6 lockd,auth_rpcgss,nfs_acl,nfs,nfsd
loop   22641  0
hid_logitech   17472  0
ff_memless 12708  1 hid_logitech
usblp  17343  0
snd_hda_codec_realtek   188851  1
snd_usb_audio  89083  0
joydev 17266  0
snd_usbmidi_lib23369  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_intel  26259  3
snd_seq_midi   12848  0
snd_seq_midi_event 13316  1 snd_seq_midi
hid_logitech_dj17313  0
snd_hda_codec  78031  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
usbhid 36418  2 hid_logitech_dj,hid_logitech
snd_rawmidi23060  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_usbmidi_lib
arc4   12458  2
hid81372  3 usbhid,hid_logitech_dj,hid_logitech
gspca_ov53413440  0
gspca_main 22764  1 gspca_ov534
videodev   70889  1 gspca_main
v4l2_compat_ioctl3216655  1 videodev
media  18148  1 videodev
nvidia  10492298  38
ath5k 129406  0
snd_hwdep  13186  2 snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm68083  3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio
snd_page_alloc 13003  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq45126  2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
ath21370  1 ath5k
sg 25874  0
snd_seq_device 13176  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
sr_mod 21899  0
snd_timer  22917  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
cdrom  35401  1 sr_mod
snd52893  17
snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_realtek
firewire_ohci  35772  0
mac80211  192806  1 ath5k
ata_generic12479  0
cfg80211  137243  3 mac80211,ath,ath5k
acpi_cpufreq   12935  0
firewire_core  48449  1 firewire_ohci
i2c_i801   16870  0
psmouse69265  0
soundcore  13065  1 snd
i2c_core   23876  3 i2c_i801,nvidia,videodev
evdev  17562  15
serio_raw  12931  0
pcspkr 12579  0
parport_pc 22364  1
mperf  12453  1 acpi_cpufreq
rfkill 19012  2 cfg80211
crc_itu_t  12347  1 firewire_core
pata_jmicron   12472  0
uhci_hcd   26865  0
r8169  47008  0
mii

Re: Trying to install nvidia-settings

[James Allsopp]

Ah, yes that's worked perfectly.

Thanks
James

On 27 February 2015 at 16:46, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi.

 On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:34:03 +
 James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:

  Hi,
  I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to
 use.
  I don't want to break anything or leave the system in a bit of a mess.
  Here's what happens,
  james@Hawaiian:~$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-settings
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
libxnvctrl0{a} nvidia-settings pkg-config{a}
  0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 68 not upgraded.
  Need to get 907 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,927 kB will be used.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   nvidia-alternative : Breaks: nvidia-settings ( 319.49) but 304.88-1 is
 to
  be installed.

 Apparently you have nvidia-glx installed from the backports.
 So, correct way to install nvidia-settings would be

 sudo aptitude -t wheezy-backports install nvidia-settings

 Reco


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Trying to install nvidia-settings

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to use.
I don't want to break anything or leave the system in a bit of a mess.
Here's what happens,
james@Hawaiian:~$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-settings
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxnvctrl0{a} nvidia-settings pkg-config{a}
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 68 not upgraded.
Need to get 907 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,927 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-alternative : Breaks: nvidia-settings ( 319.49) but 304.88-1 is to
be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

  Remove the following
packages:
1)
libegl1-nvidia
2)
libgl1-nvidia-glx
3)
libgles1-nvidia
4)
libgles2-nvidia
5)
libnvidia-ml1
6)
nvidia-alternative
7)
nvidia-driver
8)
nvidia-driver-bin
9)
nvidia-kernel-dkms
10)
nvidia-vdpau-driver
11)
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

  Leave the following dependencies
unresolved:
12) nvidia-settings recommends
libgl1-nvidia-glx
13) nvidia-driver recommends libgles1-nvidia (=
340.65-2~bpo70+1)
14) nvidia-driver recommends libgles2-nvidia (=
340.65-2~bpo70+1)
15) nvidia-driver-bin recommends
nvidia-driver
16) nvidia-kernel-dkms recommends nvidia-driver (= 340.65) | libcuda1
(= 3
17) nvidia-vdpau-driver recommends nvidia-kernel-dkms (=
340.65-2~bpo70+1) |
18) xserver-xorg-video-nvidia recommends nvidia-driver (=
340.65)
19) xserver-xorg-video-nvidia recommends nvidia-vdpau-driver (=
340.65)
20) xserver-xorg-video-nvidia recommends nvidia-kernel-dkms (=
340.65-2~bpo7


Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

Is this OK to accept?
Thanks
James

Re: Very small fonts in KDE after installing Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Ok, that worked brilliantly! I just followed Mark's suggestion of putting
that line in my 20-nvidia.conf.
Thanks!

On 26 February 2015 at 19:46, Mark Neyhart mark.neyh...@akleg.gov wrote:

 On 02/26/2015 02:28 AM, James Allsopp wrote:
  Hello,
  I've just installed the nvidia drivers after following the instructions
  here https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
 
  but now my fonts are so small they are unreadable. My display is a HDMI
  television.
 
  I think this could be related to the EDID settings but I'm not sure how
 to
  set this. I'm using the small piecewise Xorg described in the document.
 
  echo -e 'Section Device\n\tIdentifier My GPU\n\tDriver
  nvidia\nEndSection'  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
 

 I just went through this last week with Debian Wheezy using a large
 television driven by an Nvidia card with the proprietary Nvidia
 driver.  I added

 Option DPI 100 x 100

 to my xorg.conf in the Device section for the Nvidia card.

 In your case I think you should be able to replace your echo statement
 with:

 echo -e 'Section Device\n\tIdentifier My GPU\n\tDriver
 nvidia\n\tOption DPI 100 x 100\nEndSection' 
 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf


 Watch out for line wrapping, this should all be on one line.


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Very small fonts in KDE after installing Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
I've just installed the nvidia drivers after following the instructions
here https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

but now my fonts are so small they are unreadable. My display is a HDMI
television.

I think this could be related to the EDID settings but I'm not sure how to
set this. I'm using the small piecewise Xorg described in the document.

echo -e 'Section Device\n\tIdentifier My GPU\n\tDriver
nvidia\nEndSection'  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

I can't run nvidia-settings as I can't read the text,

Any ideas what changes I need to make to fix this please?

Thanks,

James

Disk in a raid array

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays.
Unfortunately one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I can
still fdisk -l it, but when I ran dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null it got about
132M through a 2Tb drive before crashing out. This doesn't bode well.

I can't really afford a new drive, but was wondering if I should just
reformat, try and check it for errors and then try and add it back to the
array? I was hoping that doing that might allow it to exclude any bad
blocks and get me something working for a while whilst I save up.

If anyone has any comments, suggestions or queries, I'd be glad to hear
them,
Thanks,
James

Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've not had access to my machine for a while, and I've just tried to do an
upgrade from squeeze to wheezy using the instructions found here;
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy

and I got to the
aptitude full-upgrade
part which seemed to hang

I've tried
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get -f install

but can't get anything to work.

Here's a list of the objections, but I don't know how to solve them, short
of installing every package manually.

If you've any ideas, I would be grateful to receive them,
James

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 brasero : Depends: libbrasero-media3-1 (= 3.4.1-4) but it is not installed
   Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0) but it is not installed
   Depends: libnautilus-extension1a (= 2.91) but it is not
installed
   Depends: libtotem-plparser17 (= 2.32) but 2.30.3-1 is installed
   Depends: libtracker-sparql-0.14-0 (= 0.10.0) but it is not
installed
 epiphany-browser : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0) but it is not
installed
Depends: libseed-gtk3-0 but it is not installed
Depends: libsoup-gnome2.4-1 (= 2.37.1) but
2.30.2-1+squeeze1 is installed
Depends: libsoup2.4-1 (= 2.33.92) but
2.30.2-1+squeeze1 is installed
Depends: libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 (= 1.7.92) but it is not
installed
Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not
installed
 epiphany-extensions : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0) but it is
not installed
   Depends: libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 (= 1.3.10) but it is
not installed
 evince : Depends: libevdocument3-4 (= 3.4.0-3.1) but it is not installed
  Depends: libevview3-3 (= 3.4.0-3.1) but it is not installed
  Depends: libgail-3-0 (= 3.0.0) but it is not installed
  Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0) but it is not installed
  Depends: libnautilus-extension1a (= 2.91) but it is not installed
  Depends: evince-common (= 3.4) but 2.30.3-2+squeeze1 is installed
 file-roller : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0) but it is not
installed
   Depends: libnautilus-extension1a (= 2.91) but it is not
installed
   Depends: nautilus-data (= 3.0) but 2.30.1-2squeeze2 is
installed
 gir1.2-atk-1.0 : Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0 but it is not installed
 gir1.2-freedesktop : Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0 (= 1.32.1-1) but it is not
installed
 gir1.2-pango-1.0 : Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0 but it is not installed
 gnome : Depends: gnome-core (= 1:3.4+7+deb7u1) but 1:2.30+7 is installed
 Depends: network-manager-gnome (= 0.9.4) but it is not installed
 Depends: aisleriot (= 1:3.4) but it is not installed
 Depends: cheese (= 3.4) but 2.30.1-2 is installed
 Depends: evolution (= 3.4) but 2.30.3-5 is installed
 Depends: evolution-plugins (= 3.4) but 2.30.3-5 is installed
 Depends: gedit (= 3.4) but 2.30.4-1squeeze1 is installed
 Depends: gnome-color-manager (= 3.4) but it is not installed
 Depends: gnome-documents (= 0.4) but it is not installed
 Depends: gnome-games (= 1:3.4) but 1:2.30.2-2 is installed
 Depends: gnome-nettool (= 3.2) but 2.30.0-3 is installed
 Depends: rygel-preferences (= 0.14) but it is not installed
 Depends: seahorse (= 3.4) but 2.30.1-2 is installed
 Depends: alacarte (= 0.13.4) but 0.13.2-1 is installed
 Depends: gimp (= 2.8) but 2.6.10-1+squeeze4 is installed
 Depends: gnome-media (= 3.4) but 2.30.0-1 is installed
 Depends: gnome-tweak-tool (= 3.4) but it is not installed
 Depends: inkscape (= 0.48) but 0.47.0-2+b1 is installed
 Depends: libreoffice-gnome but it is not installed
 Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not installed or
  abiword (= 2.8) but it is not installed
 Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not installed or
  gnumeric (= 1.10) but it is not installed
 Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not installed
 Depends: simple-scan but it is not installed
 Depends: tracker-gui but it is not installed
 Depends: cups-pk-helper (= 0.2) but it is not installed
 Depends: gedit-plugins (= 3.4) but 2.30.0-1 is installed
 Depends: gnome-shell-extensions (= 3.4) but it is not installed
 Depends: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (= 0.10.13) but 0.10.10-1 is
installed
 Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (= 0.10.19) but 0.10.15-1 is
installed
 Depends: rygel-playbin but it is not installed
 Depends: rygel-tracker but it is not installed
 Depends: telepathy-rakia but it is not installed
 Recommends: browser-plugin-gnash but it is not installed
 Recommends: gnome-games-extra-data (= 3.0) 

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy

[James Allsopp]

Thanks Bob,
Hit a snag, I thought the upgrade would update the kernel and it's left me
with a mismatch. I can't now log into the machine, no ssh and no keyboard.
I think I'm going to try and use a netinst disk to rescue the system,
unless you've any other ideas? I remember in Linux a long time ago there
was a method to step through the boot sequence item by item. Could I wait
until the network came up, then drop into a shell?

Thanks
James

On 15 December 2014 at 20:10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  I've not had access to my machine for a while, and I've just tried to do
 an
  upgrade from squeeze to wheezy using the instructions found here;
  http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy

 Why are you using those instructions instead of the official Debian
 ones?

   https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/index.en.html

  and I got to the
  aptitude full-upgrade
  part which seemed to hang

 If you read the howtoforge instructions carefully you will see that it
 says:

   Instead of using apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade, you can
   also use the following commands, but please note that on

 http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
   it reads The upgrade process for some previous releases recommended
   the use of aptitude for the upgrade. This tool is not recommended for
   upgrades from squeeze to wheezy.. For me, aptitude has worked fine
   for all Squeeze to Wheezy upgrades so far.

 Therefore when you are using the aptitude full-upgrade part above
 you are explicitly going outside of the official recommended
 procedure.

 I strongly recommend the apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade
 approach instead as documented in the offical Debian release notes.

  I've tried
  dpkg --configure -a
  apt-get -f install
 
  but can't get anything to work.

 Did you forget to apt-get update after changing the sources.list file.

   apt-get update

 Systems can be complex with complex interactions.  If every system
 were identical then it would be easy to test those and produce a plan
 that would work for everyone.  So first let me say that it is hard
 because only your system is your system.

  Here's a list of the objections, but I don't know how to solve them,
 short
  of installing every package manually.
 
  If you've any ideas, I would be grateful to receive them,

 My official recommendation would be to follow the instructions in the
 release notes as that is the best complete source of knowledge on how
 to upgrade.

 I will guess that your problem here is some additional undesired
 source in your /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
 files.

 Ensure you have a good system back.

 Reset sources.list back to Squeeze:
   apt-get update
   apt-get upgrade
   apt-get dist-upgrade  # check removal list carefully!
   apt-get autoremove
   dpkg -l | grep ^rc
   apt-get purge ...
   find /etc -name '*.dpkg-*' -o -name '*.ucf-*'
   rm ...
   dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | awk '$NF==obsolete{print$1}'
   apt-get purge ...

 Reset sources.list to Wheezy:
   apt-get update
   apt-get upgrade
   apt-get dist-upgrade  # check removal list carefully!
   apt-get autoremove
   dpkg -l | grep ^rc
   apt-get purge ...
   find /etc -name '*.dpkg-*' -o -name '*.ucf-*'
   rm ...
   dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | awk '$NF==obsolete{print$1}'
   apt-get purge ...

 As you can see I suggest cleaning to be very important.  Leaving a lot
 of the lint behind can and does often cause real upgrade problems that
 does not exist on a clean system.

 When there is a conflict here I defer to the official Debian release
 notes.

 Bob

Re: the developers have spoken

[James Allsopp]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/11/msg00171.html



On 19 November 2014 14:41, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:11 PM, songbird songb...@anthive.com wrote:
the vote is in.
 
let us thank each one of them for their efforts
  to continue making Debian what it is:
 
a fractious and wonderful expression of free source
  code, the ability to distribute such in a relatively
  sane and safe manner.
 
kudoes, much love, go jessie!
 
 
songbird
 

 What is the result?

 I looked at the webpage:
 https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003.en.html#outcome

 and the graph of the webpage:
 https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initcoupling/

 But I couldn't figure out which is the outcome

 Thanks,
 Dani


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Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

[James Allsopp]

Your posts were massively over the top, so I not surprised you got banned.
Thanks for flagging up that debian forum, it's gone beneath my radar up to
now!

On 25 September 2014 20:46, Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com
wrote:

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:51:38AM -0700, Gregory Smith wrote:
  I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical
 message.
 
  I posted the message found here:
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html
 
  It was deleted twice and then:
 
  You have been *permanently* banned from this board.
 
  Please contact the Board Administrator forumad...@forums.debian.net
 for
  more information.
 
  Reason given for ban: *You know why*
 
  *A ban has been issued on your username.*
  
 ---end quoted text---

 Deservedly so, in my opinion. I'm sure the silent majority are as sick
 as I am of several people beating this dead horse to death. Most Linux
 distributions are DoCractic, those that do the work, make the rules.

 You're free to fork.


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Systemd resources

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm really cynical about the Systemd concept, but if it looks like it's
happening anyway, could we start making a list of recommended tutorials on
using it. It would help if people recommending the tutorials had
successfully followed them themselves.

Yes, I could use Google, but it's a bit lacking in quality control, and a
list would be useful to filter out the non-Debian specific stuff or to
explain where they're not following best practice.

I'm just hoping which ever way this goes in the end, at least the debate
(and myself) can get a bit more informed, even if it's just using a VM for
fifteen minutes. Please don't post opinions on whether systemd should be
used, there are other threads for that.

Thanks,

Using LTSP on a Debian server with Raspberry PI thin clients

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
To simplify things I was thinking about running a couple of RPI thin
clients off my debian server? I would be using either powerline networking
or wireless. I think I'll need to install a special bootloader on the RPI
as they can't boot using PXE.

I was wondering if anyone had actually implemented a system like this, and
if it was responsive enough to be useful? Are there any other
considerations I might need to think about?

All the best,
James

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
After reading through all the pros and cons, it seems that there isn't a
good replacement at all, so it would be better to wait. Admittedly I use
OpenRC on my gentoo machine and it's fine. Systemd seems to violate too
many Unix principles and Upstart has problems with the canonical copyright
licence issues. I'd hate to see Linux get pulled apart between Red Hat and
Canonical, so it's important that Debian doesn't act precipitously.
James


On 12 February 2014 08:06, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Chris Bannister
 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
 
  I tried systemd - booted really fast, but it didn't honor any console
  font settings I had. I groaned and reverted back realising, after seeing
  quite a bit of discussion, that there was another setup to learn! In
  this case the learning would be mandatory if I wanted to get my console
  back the way I had it!
 
  I expect that helping people configure and use systemd will become part
  of the normal business of this mailing list.

 I would've expected systemd to respect Debian's native console setup
 (and this might be worthy of a bug report).

 systemd uses /etc/vconsole.conf.


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Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

[James Allsopp]

Hi Scott,
Fair enough with this point; a. The decision *was* made by Debian
developers, as it should be. Those
that do, get to make decisions about how they do 'it' - those that use,
feel free to use elsewhere - or do their own fork instead of getting
others to do it for them.

Although I mentioned Gentoo, I've been using Debian for about 5 years now
and like it, basing all my new linux systems on it, I just mentioned gentoo
as contrast.

When you say Default, the difficulty of opting out plays a factor too. If
something is so difficult to opt out of, it then becomes Debian's de facto
system. It is a worry, perhaps there's some documentation of how to opt
out, so I can look at this?

Is there a document that summarises what developers thought the pros and
cons of each were? I've read LP's comments on systemd, but that hardly
falls into the balanced camp.

James


On 12 February 2014 11:36, Scott Ferguson 
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 12/02/14 20:27, James Allsopp wrote:
  Hi,
  After reading through all the pros and cons, it seems that there isn't a
  good replacement at all, so it would be better to wait. Admittedly I use
  OpenRC on my gentoo machine and it's fine. Systemd seems to violate too
  many Unix principles and Upstart has problems with the canonical
  copyright licence issues. I'd hate to see Linux get pulled apart between
  Red Hat and Canonical, so it's important that Debian doesn't act
  precipitously.
  James

 a. The decision *was* made by Debian developers, as it should be. Those
 that do, get to make decisions about how they do 'it' - those that use,
 feel free to use elsewhere - or do their own fork instead of getting
 others to do it for them.
 b. you're flogging a dead horse, the decision *has* been made.
 c. it's the *default* init system for *Jessie*. Emphasis on default,
 Debian's commitment to choice remains unaltered.

 In a futile effort to forestall pointless and unproductive opinions
 and the debatable 'right' of people to hold and express them.

 NOTES: I'm not commenting specifically on your post James, it's just a
 point in the thread to inject my opinion in support of the decision by
 Debian Technical. Apropos of little - interesting how many of the, um,
 most passionate views are expressed by those that *don't* use Debian
 (have deep emotional commitment will travel?).
 If it's relevant - I don't prefer systemd, but I do prefer the Debian way.

 Kind regards.

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Re: testing wants to install systemd

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
From a casual perusal of the lists systemd, seems to be getting a
reputation as one of the those projects to avoid like pulse-audio and mono,
but the link you sent sounds more reasonable. Is there a good balanced
discussion anywhere?
James


On 20 November 2013 10:00, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:

 On 11/20/13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
  On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 09:08 +0100, Slavko wrote:
  Please, how useful are Arch's things for me as Debian user?
 
  My apologies Slavko, I'll rephrase it, the state of Debian's testing
  initscripts/systemd seems to be neither fish nor fowl. When I
  experienced this on Arch Linux during the transition from initscripts to
  systemd, I didn't use it for perhaps 1 year and then, when the
  transition was finished, there wasn't the choice to use initscripts or
  systemd anymore, I installed a new Arch Linux.
 
  Switching from initscripts to systemd was the only transition ever, that
  caused issues for me and I'm still not friend with systemd.

 OK, so Arch transition was handled sub-optimally for you.

  since anything else but the
  speed of booting is a step in the wrong direction, instead of human
  readable scripts, one big binary blob, associated with the name Lennart
  P.. Seriously, systemd is crap,

 Ralph, please write a constructive problem and not a
 ad-hominem against software attack non-argument.

 Especially, if you have a personal particular crappiness about
 systemd, which perhaps you disagree about something here:

 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

 then that would be much more constructive to useful discussion.

 Thanks heaps
 Zenaan


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Re: New Gnome in Wheezy

[James Allsopp]

You can't. You have to install a different DE. I went for XFCE, but people
rate Mate. This is a sore point for a lot of people, but that's the simple
options.

let the flamewar commence


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 wrote:

 Dear List -

 I updated and now have the new Gnome.

 The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable.

 I do not have the old desktop entries, and cannot find Google Chrome.

 How do I get the old desktop back?

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Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Got the problems solved. I couldn't solve the problem by using the rescue
disk, as it wouldn't let me stop the raid array.
What I did was drop into the maintenance mode:
mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1   //This should recreate the
array
mdadm --detail --scan  /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

//edit the file to remove duplicates
dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r)

then reboot.

Huge amount of thanks go to Bob Proulx for all the help along the way,
James



On 7 July 2013 21:53, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Hello,
 I've been too nervous to reboot, so I've left it in the rescue mode at the
 point where I assembled the raid arrays and went into boot at the \
 partition.
 Tried to run:
   mdadm --stop /dev/md127
 but got a mdadm: failed to stop array /dev/md127: Device or resource busy.
 Perhaps a running process, mounted filesustem or active volume group?

 I tried unmounting /home which stretches onto this disk via LVM, but this
 made no difference. Any idea how I should proceed?
 Thanks,
 James



 On 5 July 2013 01:10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  I'd like to hear about the optimisations, but I think I'll wait till I
 get
  the system rebuilt!

 Basically I had expected you to use either rescue mode of the d-i or a
 livecd or other to assemble the arrays.  You did.  But neither array
 came up completely correct.  One came up with one disk degraded.  The
 split brain clone came up on md127 instead of md0.  The other one came
 up on md126.  So you should fix those using the discussed
 instructions.  I was thinking you would do that from the same system
 boot that you had posted that information from.

 But your recent mail implies that you shut the system down and went
 away for a while.  So now it appears you need to rescue the system
 again by the same method you used to get that information you posted.

 All of that is fine.  Except now we already know the information you
 posted.  And so now we know how those arrays are supposed to go
 together.  But that is okay.  You can go through rescue mode and
 assemble the arrays exactly as you did before.  And then --stop the
 arrays and assemble them correctly.

 But since we know how they are supposed to be assembled now you could
 skip the assembly of them in rescue mode or livecd mode or whatever
 you used and simply assemble the arrays correctly the first time.
 Basically I think you are going to do:

  * rescue
  * assemble arrays
  * stop arrays
  * assemble arrays correctly

 Which is perfectly acceptable.  The result will be fine.  But now that
 we know what we need to do you could simply do this:

  * rescue
  * assemble arrays correctly

 But I don't want to distract you with complications like this! :-)

 And then after you get everything working you should visit the
 partitioning on that second array.  Your partitioning starts at the
 sector 1.  But that won't be aligned.  It will cause all writes to be
 a read-modify-write and performance will suffer.

 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sdd1   1  243201  1953512001   fd  Linux raid
 autodetect
  Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sde1   1  243201  1953512001   fd  Linux raid
 autodetect
  Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

 Instead of using the entire disk starting at 1 it would be much better
 if you started at sector 2048 as is the new standard for Advanced
 Format 4k sector drives.  I would expect that to be a large
 performance lever on your system.  But fix that after you have your
 data up and available.

 Bob

Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
I've been too nervous to reboot, so I've left it in the rescue mode at the
point where I assembled the raid arrays and went into boot at the \
partition.
Tried to run:
  mdadm --stop /dev/md127
but got a mdadm: failed to stop array /dev/md127: Device or resource busy.
Perhaps a running process, mounted filesustem or active volume group?

I tried unmounting /home which stretches onto this disk via LVM, but this
made no difference. Any idea how I should proceed?
Thanks,
James



On 5 July 2013 01:10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  I'd like to hear about the optimisations, but I think I'll wait till I
 get
  the system rebuilt!

 Basically I had expected you to use either rescue mode of the d-i or a
 livecd or other to assemble the arrays.  You did.  But neither array
 came up completely correct.  One came up with one disk degraded.  The
 split brain clone came up on md127 instead of md0.  The other one came
 up on md126.  So you should fix those using the discussed
 instructions.  I was thinking you would do that from the same system
 boot that you had posted that information from.

 But your recent mail implies that you shut the system down and went
 away for a while.  So now it appears you need to rescue the system
 again by the same method you used to get that information you posted.

 All of that is fine.  Except now we already know the information you
 posted.  And so now we know how those arrays are supposed to go
 together.  But that is okay.  You can go through rescue mode and
 assemble the arrays exactly as you did before.  And then --stop the
 arrays and assemble them correctly.

 But since we know how they are supposed to be assembled now you could
 skip the assembly of them in rescue mode or livecd mode or whatever
 you used and simply assemble the arrays correctly the first time.
 Basically I think you are going to do:

  * rescue
  * assemble arrays
  * stop arrays
  * assemble arrays correctly

 Which is perfectly acceptable.  The result will be fine.  But now that
 we know what we need to do you could simply do this:

  * rescue
  * assemble arrays correctly

 But I don't want to distract you with complications like this! :-)

 And then after you get everything working you should visit the
 partitioning on that second array.  Your partitioning starts at the
 sector 1.  But that won't be aligned.  It will cause all writes to be
 a read-modify-write and performance will suffer.

 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sdd1   1  243201  1953512001   fd  Linux raid
 autodetect
  Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sde1   1  243201  1953512001   fd  Linux raid
 autodetect
  Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

 Instead of using the entire disk starting at 1 it would be much better
 if you started at sector 2048 as is the new standard for Advanced
 Format 4k sector drives.  I would expect that to be a large
 performance lever on your system.  But fix that after you have your
 data up and available.

 Bob

Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

Thanks Bob, like I say, very much appreciated and I'll let you know how it
goes!
I'd like to hear about the optimisations, but I think I'll wait till I get
the system rebuilt!
James


On 4 July 2013 00:47, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  Thanks Bob, really can't thank you enough. Just to be clear about this,
 I'd
  do these commands from the rescue disk after I have assembled the arrays
  and gone to the bash shell?

 Short answer: Yes.  Go for it!

 Longer answer: There are all kinds of things I want to say here.  And
 I already said a lot!  There are some optimizations that could be
 made.  But if you do what is outlined it should work.  But I don't
 want to make things more confusing by talking about minor things.

 I have my fingers crossed for you! :-)

 Bob

Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

Thanks Bob, really can't thank you enough. Just to be clear about this, I'd
do these commands from the rescue disk after I have assembled the arrays
and gone to the bash shell?

Much appreciated,
James


On 2 July 2013 22:44, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  One other point sda isn't the boot hard drive, that's the partitions
 /sdb1
  and sdc1, but these should be the same (I thought I'd mirrored them to be
  honest).

 I don't see sda anywhere.  It might be a dual booting Windows disk?
 Or other.  But the BIOS will boot the first disk from the BIOS boot
 order.  BIOS boot order may be different from OS disk order.  It can
 be confusing.  I might assume that BIOS sata0 is the same as the OS
 disk sda but actually it often is different.  Let's ignore this for
 now.

 You have sdb1 and sdc1 mirrored into md1.  I can see that because the
 UUID is identical.

  /dev/md1:
  Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
   Raid Level : raid1
   Array Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)

 Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 1
  Persistence : Superblock is persistent
 
  Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:55 2013
State : clean, degraded
   Active Devices : 1
  Working Devices : 1
   Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
 
 Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
 UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
   Events : 112
 
 
  Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
 0   000  removed
 1   8   651  active sync   /dev/sde1

 That info is the same as:

  /dev/md127:
  Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
   Raid Level : raid1
   Array Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
 Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 1
  Persistence : Superblock is persistent
 
  Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:29 2013
State : clean, degraded
   Active Devices : 1
  Working Devices : 1
   Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
 
 Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
 UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
   Events : 106
 
 
  Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
 0   8   490  active sync   /dev/sdd1
 1   001  removed

 The UUIDs are identical.  Therefore those two disks are mirrors of
 each other.  And note:

  /dev/md1: (/dev/sde1)
  Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:55 2013
  /dev/md127: (/dev/sdd1)
  Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:29 2013

 sde1 is newer than sdd1.  This seems consistent with it being the best
 copy to keep.  If it were the other way around I would think about
 using the other one.  But selecting the right master is important
 since it is a component of the lvm.

  How should I proceed from here?

 I would proceed as previously suggested.  I would do this:

   mdadm --stop /dev/md127
   mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd1
   watch cat /proc/mdstat

 That will discard the older stale copy of the mirror on sdd1.  It will
 use sdd1 as a mirror of sde1.  After doing the add the mirror will
 sync and you can watch the progress using 'watch cat /proc/mdstat'.
 Use control-c to interrupt it when you want to stop it.

  For ruther information:
  /dev/sdb3:
  Preferred Minor : 126
  ...
  /dev/sdc3:
  Preferred Minor : 126
  ...

 That further information looked _okay_ to me.  But I would still
 change the md126 back to md0.

   mdadm --stop /dev/md126
   mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --update=super-minor /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
   cat /proc/mdstat

 Since it is clean now it will be stopped cleanly and reassembled
 cleanly and no sync will be needed.  The --update=super-minor will
 reset the superblock with the updated md0 minor device number.

 Then update /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and rebuild the initrd.

 Bob

Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

Thanks Bob, I'll get back to after I've followed your instructions. I think
I'm going to have to learn to type with crossed fingers!

I think I initially sorted out all my partitions manually, rather than
directly using the installer to do it automatically,
Really appreciated,
James


On 2 July 2013 00:46, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
  md126 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sdc3[1]
972550912 blocks [2/2] [UU]

 So sdb3 and sdc3 are assembled into /dev/md126.  That seems good.  One
 full array is assembled.

 Is /dev/md126 your preferred name for that array?  I would guess not.
 Usually it is /dev/md0 or some such.  But when that name is not
 available because it is already in use then mdadm will rotate up to a
 later name like /dev/md126.

 You can fix this by using mdadm with --update=super-minor to force it
 back to the desired name.  Something like this using your devices:

   mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --update=super-minor /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3

 But that can only be done at assembly time.  If it is already
 assembled then you would need to stop the array first and then
 assemble it again.

  md127 : active raid1 sdd1[0]
1953510841 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_]
 
  md1 : active raid1 sde1[1]
1953510841 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U]

 I think this array is now has a split brain problem.  At this point
 the original single mirrored array has had both halves of the mirror
 assembled and both are running.  So now you have two clones of each
 other and both are active.  Meaning that each think they are newer
 than the other.  Is that right?  In which case you will eventually
 need to pick one and call it the master.  I think the sde1 is the
 natural master since it is assembled on /dev/md1.

  cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
  ...
  # definitions of existing MD arrays
  ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04

 Only one array specified.  That is definitely part of your problem.
 You should have at least two arrays specified there.

  mdadm --detail --scan:
 
  ARRAY /dev/md/0_0 metadata=0.90 UUID=a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04

 That mdadm --scan only found one array is odd.

  fdisk -l
 
  Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x0002ae52
 
 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   1   14593   117218241   83  Linux

 I take it that this is your boot disk?  Your boot disk is not RAID?

 I don't like that the first used sector is 1.  That would have been 63
 using the previous debian-installer to leave space for the MBR and
 other things.  But that is a different issue.

  Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
    

 That is an Advanced Format 4k sector drive.  Meaning that the
 partitions should start on a 4k sector alignment.  The
 debian-installer would do this automatically.

  Disk identifier: 0xe044b9be
 
 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sdd1   1  243201  1953512001   fd  Linux raid
 autodetect
   ^
  /dev/sde1   1  243201  1953512001   fd  Linux raid
 autodetect
   ^
  Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.


 I don't recall if the first sector is 0 or 1 but I think the first
 sector is 0 for the partition table.  Meaning that sector 1 is not
 going to be 4k aligned.  (Can someone double check me on this?)
 Meaning that this will require a lot of read-modify-write causing
 performance problems for those drives.

 The new standard for sector alignment would start at 2048 to leave
 space for the partition table and other things and still be aligned
 properly.

  I don't know if this helps or where to go from here, but I think I need
 to
  get the mdadm up and running properly before I do anything.

 Probably a good idea.

  If there's any commands you need me to run, please ask,

 How are you booted now?  Are you root on the system through something
 like the debian-installer rescue boot?  Or did you use a live cd or
 something?

 Please run:

   # mdadm --detail /dev/sdd1
   # mdadm --detail /dev/sde1

 Those are what look to be the split brain of the second array.  They
 will list something at the bottom that will look like:

 Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   this 1   8   171  active sync   /dev/sdb1

  0 0   810  active sync   /dev/sda1
  1 1

Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

One other point sda isn't the boot hard drive, that's the partitions /sdb1
and sdc1, but these should be the same (I thought I'd mirrored them to be
honest).

I tried mdadm --detail /dev/sdd1 but it didn't work. I have these results
if they help?
/dev/md1:
Version : 1.2
  Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
 Raid Level : raid1
 Array Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:55 2013
  State : clean, degraded
 Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

   Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
   UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
 Events : 112

Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   0   000  removed
   1   8   651  active sync   /dev/sde1
/dev/md127:
Version : 1.2
  Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
 Raid Level : raid1
 Array Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:29 2013
  State : clean, degraded
 Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

   Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
   UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
 Events : 106

Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   0   8   490  active sync   /dev/sdd1
   1   001  removed

How should I proceed from here?
James



On 2 July 2013 09:50, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Thanks Bob, I'll get back to after I've followed your instructions. I
 think I'm going to have to learn to type with crossed fingers!

 I think I initially sorted out all my partitions manually, rather than
 directly using the installer to do it automatically,
 Really appreciated,
 James


 On 2 July 2013 00:46, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
  md126 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sdc3[1]
972550912 blocks [2/2] [UU]

 So sdb3 and sdc3 are assembled into /dev/md126.  That seems good.  One
 full array is assembled.

 Is /dev/md126 your preferred name for that array?  I would guess not.
 Usually it is /dev/md0 or some such.  But when that name is not
 available because it is already in use then mdadm will rotate up to a
 later name like /dev/md126.

 You can fix this by using mdadm with --update=super-minor to force it
 back to the desired name.  Something like this using your devices:

   mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --update=super-minor /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3

 But that can only be done at assembly time.  If it is already
 assembled then you would need to stop the array first and then
 assemble it again.

  md127 : active raid1 sdd1[0]
1953510841 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_]
 
  md1 : active raid1 sde1[1]
1953510841 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U]

 I think this array is now has a split brain problem.  At this point
 the original single mirrored array has had both halves of the mirror
 assembled and both are running.  So now you have two clones of each
 other and both are active.  Meaning that each think they are newer
 than the other.  Is that right?  In which case you will eventually
 need to pick one and call it the master.  I think the sde1 is the
 natural master since it is assembled on /dev/md1.

  cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
  ...
  # definitions of existing MD arrays
  ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04

 Only one array specified.  That is definitely part of your problem.
 You should have at least two arrays specified there.

  mdadm --detail --scan:
 
  ARRAY /dev/md/0_0 metadata=0.90 UUID=a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04

 That mdadm --scan only found one array is odd.

  fdisk -l
 
  Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x0002ae52
 
 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   1   14593   117218241   83  Linux

 I take it that this is your boot disk?  Your boot disk is not RAID?

 I don't like that the first used sector is 1.  That would have been 63
 using the previous debian-installer to leave space for the MBR and
 other things.  But that is a different issue.

  Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096

Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

For ruther information:
/dev/sdb3:
  Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
   UUID : a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04
  Creation Time : Fri Nov 20 09:37:34 2009
 Raid Level : raid1
  Used Dev Size : 972550912 (927.50 GiB 995.89 GB)
 Array Size : 972550912 (927.50 GiB 995.89 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 126

Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:18 2013
  State : clean
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0
   Checksum : 6203fa40 - correct
 Events : 1036616


  Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this 0   8   190  active sync   /dev/sdb3

   0 0   8   190  active sync   /dev/sdb3
   1 1   8   351  active sync   /dev/sdc3
/dev/sdc3:
  Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
   UUID : a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04
  Creation Time : Fri Nov 20 09:37:34 2009
 Raid Level : raid1
  Used Dev Size : 972550912 (927.50 GiB 995.89 GB)
 Array Size : 972550912 (927.50 GiB 995.89 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 126

Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:18 2013
  State : clean
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0
   Checksum : 6203fa52 - correct
 Events : 1036616


  Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this 1   8   351  active sync   /dev/sdc3

   0 0   8   190  active sync   /dev/sdb3
   1 1   8   351  active sync   /dev/sdc3
/dev/sdd1:
  Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
 Array UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
   Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
  Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
 Raid Level : raid1
   Raid Devices : 2

 Avail Dev Size : 3907021954 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
 Array Size : 3907021682 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 3907021682 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
   Super Offset : 8 sectors
  State : clean
Device UUID : 1e0de6be:bbcc874e:e00e2caa:593de9b1

Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:51:19 2013
   Checksum : a8cf720f - correct
 Events : 108


   Device Role : Active device 0
   Array State : A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sde1:
  Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
 Array UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
   Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
  Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
 Raid Level : raid1
   Raid Devices : 2

 Avail Dev Size : 3907021954 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
 Array Size : 3907021682 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 3907021682 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
   Super Offset : 8 sectors
  State : clean
Device UUID : 926788c3:9dfbf62b:26934208:5a72d05d

Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:51:05 2013
   Checksum : 94e2b4a1 - correct
 Events : 114


   Device Role : Active device 1
   Array State : .A ('A' == active, '.' == missing)


Thanks
James


On 2 July 2013 13:52, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:

 One other point sda isn't the boot hard drive, that's the partitions /sdb1
 and sdc1, but these should be the same (I thought I'd mirrored them to be
 honest).

 I tried mdadm --detail /dev/sdd1 but it didn't work. I have these results
 if they help?
 /dev/md1:
 Version : 1.2
   Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
  Raid Level : raid1
  Array Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
   Used Dev Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
   Total Devices : 1
 Persistence : Superblock is persistent

 Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:55 2013
   State : clean, degraded
  Active Devices : 1
 Working Devices : 1
  Failed Devices : 0
   Spare Devices : 0

Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
  Events : 112


 Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
0   000  removed
1   8   651  active sync   /dev/sde1
 /dev/md127:
 Version : 1.2
   Creation Time : Thu Jan 31 22:43:49 2013
  Raid Level : raid1
  Array Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
   Used Dev Size : 1953510841 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
   Total Devices : 1
 Persistence : Superblock is persistent

 Update Time : Tue Jul  2 13:49:29 2013
   State : clean, degraded
  Active Devices : 1
 Working Devices : 1
  Failed Devices : 0
   Spare Devices : 0

Name : Hawaiian:1  (local to host Hawaiian)
UUID : a544829f:33778728:79870439:241c5c51
  Events : 106


 Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
0   8   490  active sync   /dev/sdd1

Re: Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

: 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x


Disk /dev/md126: 995.9 GB, 995892133888 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 243137728 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x


Disk /dev/dm-0: 10.5 GB, 1048576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1274 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x


Disk /dev/dm-1: 36.7 GB, 3670016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4461 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x


Disk /dev/dm-2: 1375.7 GB, 1375731712000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 167256 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Alignment offset: 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x


Disk /dev/dm-3: 10.5 GB, 1048576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1274 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

--

I don't know if this helps or where to go from here, but I think I need to
get the mdadm up and running properly before I do anything.
I get some errors running those commands but they didn't get written to the
file.

E.g. mdadm --detail --scan
mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/Hawaiian:1: No such file or directory
mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/1: No such file or directory
ARRAY /dev/md/0_0 metadata=0.90 UUID=a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04

If there's any commands you need me to run, please ask,

Thanks,
James


On 18 June 2013 20:47, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 James Allsopp wrote:
  I have a debian machine which was on for a long time (~months). Just
 moved
  house and rebooted and now it doesn't boot.

 Bummer.

  My 4 harddrives are organised in pairs of RAID 1 (Mirrored) with LVM
  spanning them. Originally there was just one pair, but then I got two new
  hard drives and added them. I then increased the space of
 VolGroup-LogVol03
  to cover these new drives and increase the space of Home (/ wass on one
 of
  the other logical volume groups). This all worked fine for ages.

 Sounds fine.  Assuming that it booted after those changes.

  When I boot all four drives are detected in BIOS and I've check all the
  connections.

 Good.

  It gets to 3 logical volumes in volume group VolGroup now active
 which
  sounds good.

 That does sound good.

  Then here's the error:
  fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open
  /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol03
  /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol03:
  The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
  .

 Hmm...  I am not familiar with that error.  But searching the web
 found several stories about it.  Most concerned recent changes to the
 system that prevented it from booting.

  I have a debian machine which was on for a long time (~months). Just
  moved house and rebooted and now it doesn't boot.
 
  My 4 harddrives are organised in pairs of RAID 1 (Mirrored) with LVM
  spanning them. Originally there was just one pair, but then I got two
  new hard drives and added them. I then increased the space of
  VolGroup-LogVol03 to cover these new drives and increase the space of
  Home (/ wass on one of the other logical volume groups). This all
  worked fine for ages.

 And you rebooted in that time period?  Otherwise these changes, if not
 done completely correct, seem prime to have triggered your current
 problem independent of any other action.  You say it was on for a long
 time.  If you had not rebooted in that long time then this may have
 been a hang-fire problem for all of that time.

  I'm wondering if some of the drive id's have been switched.

 If you mean the drive UUIDs then no those would not have changed.

  Any help would be really appreciated. I'm worried I've lost all my data
 on
  home

 First, do not despair.  You should be able to get your system working
 again.  You are probably simply missing the extra raid pair
 configuration.

 I strongly recommend using the debian-installer rescue mode to gain
 control of your system again.  It works well and is readily
 available.  Use a standard Debian installation disk.  Usually we
 recommend the netinst disk because it is the smallest image.  But any
 of the netinst or CD#1 or DVD#1 images will work fine for rescue mode
 since it is not actually installing but booting your system at that
 point so the difference between them does not matter.  You have a
 disk?  Go fish it out and boot it.

 Here is the official

Debian machine not booting

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I have a debian machine which was on for a long time (~months). Just moved
house and rebooted and now it doesn't boot.

My 4 harddrives are organised in pairs of RAID 1 (Mirrored) with LVM
spanning them. Originally there was just one pair, but then I got two new
hard drives and added them. I then increased the space of VolGroup-LogVol03
to cover these new drives and increase the space of Home (/ wass on one of
the other logical volume groups). This all worked fine for ages.

When I boot all four drives are detected in BIOS and I've check all the
connections.

It gets to 3 logical volumes in volume group VolGroup now active which
sounds good.
Then Activating lvm and md swap.. done
Checking file sysmtes...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
Says
/dev/sde1: clean
/dev/sda1:clean
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol01: clean
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol02: clean

Then here's the error:
fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol03
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol03:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
.

NB. All partitions are Ext4, from memory.

It then drops to a maintenance shell. and says to check a log
(/var/log/fsck/checkfs) but I don't even have a log directory at this point
in the boot process.

I'm wondering if some of the drive id's have been switched.

Apologies for quoting, I'm not using the computer in question.

Any help would be really appreciated. I'm worried I've lost all my data on
home
Thanks,
James

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
What I meant was I wan to upgrade an existing system from Squeeze to Wheezy
but replacing Gnome2 with XFCE, which seems a more natural upgrade path.
I'd rather not have the grief of trying to remove a load of gnome3
libraries. I think I'll have to install XFCE then remove Gnome2 before the
upgrade?

Thanks,
James


On 6 May 2013 07:32, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Du, 05 mai 13, 23:44:36, Carl Fink wrote:
 
  That's really odd. Reinstalling Debian from scratch only takes an hour at
  most, after all. (I use dpkg --get-selections  selections.txt to record
  which packages I had installed.)

 BTW:

 +section id=dpkg-set-selections
 +  titlecommanddpkg --set-selections/command changes/title
 +  para
 +The commanddpkg --set-selections/command command is now aware of
 the
 +architecture of packages it selects and can only set the state for
 known
 +packages. Therefore an up-to-date filenameavailable/filename
 +database is needed for the command to be useful.
 +  /para
 +  para
 +To update the filenameavailable/filename database on an
 +systemitem role=packageapt/systemitem-based system, run the
 +commandsync-available/command command from the
 +systemitem role=packagedctrl-tools/systemitem package.
 +See the ulink url=url-wiki;Teams/Dpkg/FAQdpkg FAQ/ulink
 +for more information.
 +  /para
 +/section

 (pending inclusion in the Release Notes)

 Kind regards,
 Andrei
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PureFTPd

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've a pureFTPD install that I need to increase the quota and max size of
one file on. How can I go about doing that?

Thanks,
James

Using VMware graphics drivers in a kvm windows guest?

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've heard that kvm windows guests have better graphics performance using
the VMware drivers. I've tried to follow some instructions found on the web
but can't get the install to run. Has anyone tried this, and if so how did
they achieve it?

Thanks,
James

Re: Poll GNOME 3 + Shell usage

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Another option would be, How many are using Gnome 3 under duress, and
would go back to 2 if given the chance?.

Really is the first Linux DE I've used where I thought I'd rather be using
Windows.
James


On 11 February 2013 15:23, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote:

 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:11:00PM CET, Gernot Super 
 superger...@yahoo.com said:
  Dear fellow debian-users,
 
  since there are no concrete numbers how many people actually use
  GNOME 3 with Gnome-Shell (in debian) i set up a poll to get an
  impression. Thanks for taking the time!
 
  http://poll.pollcode.com/v4czi8

 But no means very different things from No I do not use any DE, no I
 use another DE than gnome, no I use gnome 2, to I use gnome 3 without
 gnome shell...


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Adding a new Raid-1 array to a LVM partition

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Originally set my Debian system up on a raid array (raid 1 made up of 
2x1Tb drives) containing four logical volumes, containing the following 
ext4 partitions. /boot is ext3 and separate, and swap is one partition 
on each drive.


/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol00 /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol01 /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol02 /var
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol03 /home


# pvdisplay
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name   /dev/md0
  VG Name   VolGroup
  PV Size   927.50 GiB / not usable 768.00 KiB
  Allocatable   yes
  PE Size   4.00 MiB
  Total PE  237439
  Free PE   23689
  Allocated PE  213750
  PV UUID   vYmhhF-z0xf-QqGy-wYyZ-8IS2-bcRB-GlwfGa


# vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name   VolGroup
  System ID
  Formatlvm2
  Metadata Areas1
  Metadata Sequence No  5
  VG Access read/write
  VG Status resizable
  MAX LV0
  Cur LV4
  Open LV   4
  Max PV0
  Cur PV1
  Act PV1
  VG Size   927.50 GiB
  PE Size   4.00 MiB
  Total PE  237439
  Alloc PE / Size   213750 / 834.96 GiB
  Free  PE / Size   23689 / 92.54 GiB
  VG UUID   NhgEud-Mlip-Es6n-E4Bj-U8FU-7Rxx-2tkAVs
lvdisplay
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name/dev/VolGroup/LogVol01
  VG NameVolGroup
  LV UUIDwBchCi-lEZr-ML4C-2o6d-Oh1W-4Lh1-5glhQH
  LV Write Accessread/write
  LV Status  available
  # open 1
  LV Size9.77 GiB
  Current LE 2500
  Segments   1
  Allocation inherit
  Read ahead sectors auto
  - currently set to 256
  Block device   253:1

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name/dev/VolGroup/LogVol00
  VG NameVolGroup
  LV UUIDD4DPyJ-yTBC-Lnk8-qq2m-gBt7-WZ6C-v1h6M3
  LV Write Accessread/write
  LV Status  available
  # open 1
  LV Size34.18 GiB
  Current LE 8750
  Segments   1
  Allocation inherit
  Read ahead sectors auto
  - currently set to 256
  Block device   253:0

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name/dev/VolGroup/LogVol03
  VG NameVolGroup
  LV UUIDZKD1dH-8qAF-ZrEC-faHL-goeU-KJoZ-9i62PK
  LV Write Accessread/write
  LV Status  available
  # open 1
  LV Size781.25 GiB
  Current LE 20
  Segments   1
  Allocation inherit
  Read ahead sectors auto
  - currently set to 256
  Block device   253:2

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name/dev/VolGroup/LogVol02
  VG NameVolGroup
  LV UUIDPzHuVd-Mo6A-yu5x-uNC6-IuwB-V3K4-N5KsAa
  LV Write Accessread/write
  LV Status  available
  # open 1
  LV Size9.77 GiB
  Current LE 2500
  Segments   1
  Allocation inherit
  Read ahead sectors auto
  - currently set to 256
  Block device   253:3




There's only one physical volume, on md0 and one volume group.

I've filled my /home so I've bought two 2TB drives and I want to make 
them into a raid array and add this to VolGroup-LogVol03. I was 
wondering if someone could check this to see if this is the right plan.


Create the raid array:
mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[de]1

Create a physical volume on it
pvcreate /dev/md1

Extend the volume group
vgextend VolGroup /dev/md1

Extend the logical partition
lvextend /dev/VolGroup/LogVol03 -l +[large number]

Check the partition.
e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup/LogVol03

Resize the filessystem.
resize2fs /dev/VolGroup/LogVol03

Should this work? Thanks
James


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Re: networking with virtual machine

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I think I had a similar problem. To solve the problem first you need to 
set up a bridge, there's instructions in lots of places on how to do this,

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
#broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway   192.168.1.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_fd 0
 #   bridge_hello 2
 #   bridge_maxage 12
bridge_stp off

Then you need to alter the VM's xml file,

 interface type='bridge'
  mac address='52:54:00:87:97:a6'/
  source bridge='br0'/

Hope this helps, and if you need any more information, just ask
James

On 14/09/12 00:48, lee wrote:

Rob Owensrow...@ptd.net  writes:


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:32:40PM +0200, lee wrote:

Hi,

since I'm not making any progress:  I want to set up a VM (running
testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network.  I've
done that 2 years or so ago and I forgot how to do the networking setup,
and network configuration has changed in the meantime.

I need to somehow set up a bridge interface so the guest can tap into
it.  I don't understand the docs I found about that.  Looking at [1], I
can see that my physical network adaptor won't have an IP address
anymore and that there is only a bridge interface instead.  This is
probably not what I want, and I remember I did it differently before,
after lots of experimenting.


If you're using Virtualbox, you don't need to set up a bridged interface
with regular Linux tools.  You can just select Bridged networking for
your virtual machine and Virtualbox handles it.

In older versions of Virtualbox, it was necessary to set up a bridged
interface using Linux tools.  Their documentation covered it fairly well
as I recall.  I think that was in the version 1.x days.  Maybe you can
find some of their old documentation.


Oh I should have mentioned that I'm not using Virtualbox but qemu/kvm or
how it's called.  That seems to suggest using a bridge[1], and I find
that very confusing.  I understand that apparently I am supposed to
replace my currently used eth1 by a bride device which uses eth1 and to
which I could add other physical devices like eth0.  I don't understand
what the purpose of adding more physical devices would be and what I
actually get when I have such a bridge device and what all that has to
do with a guest.

It seems to me that having the bridge device in theory would somehow
magically enable me to give the guest an IP address in the same network
as the host is.  That isn't what I want because I want the guest behind
the firewall which is on the host (using shorewall).  Of course, I also
don't want to compromise eth1 in any way and don't want to have my
firewall somehow penetrated, which I have no idea about whether it could
happen or not with introducing a bridge device.

I don't get it, it doesn't make any sense to me.  At this point, I don't
even know what questions I need to ask.


[1]: ... or allowing the guest access to a physical network card, about
  which I don't know whether my hardware would support it or not ---
  and I'd have to buy a network cable and plug that into the router
  in which case the guest still won't be behind the firewall of the
  host





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Networking for kvm virtual machines

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and
Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into
it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the
VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2.

What I really want to do is set it up so that the VM just appears as
another machine on my network I can view from anywhere on my network.

I set up a bridge on the host, configured as below in /etc/network/interfaces;
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0 inet manual

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway   192.168.1.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_fd 0
bridge_hello 2
bridge_maxage 12
bridge_stp off

If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this I would be very grateful.

James


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Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

[James Allsopp]

Ah, was worklng from memory, a mistake.
Just restarted everything and the address of the virtual machine is
192.168.122.216 so on a different subnet.
Looking at the output of ps aux | grep network, I found this:
ja@Hawaiian:~$ ps aux | grep network
nobody6157  0.0  0.0  22760   956 ?S22:04   0:00
dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces
--pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.pid --conf-file=
--listen-address 192.168.122.1 --except-interface lo --dhcp-range
192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254 --dhcp-lease-max=253

and an /sbin/ifconfig gives this:
a@Hawaiian:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
br0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:7d:0d:2a:9f
  inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7dff:fe0d:2a9f/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:5244 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:5619 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:2243410 (2.1 MiB)  TX bytes:726685 (709.6 KiB)

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:7d:0d:2a:9f
  inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7dff:fe0d:2a9f/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:12364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:13297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:7409297 (7.0 MiB)  TX bytes:2040280 (1.9 MiB)
  Interrupt:31 Base address:0xc000

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:3377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:3377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:8275766 (7.8 MiB)  TX bytes:8275766 (7.8 MiB)

virbr0Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:54:00:87:97:a6
  inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:95 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:22584 (22.0 KiB)  TX bytes:16266 (15.8 KiB)

vnet0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:54:00:87:97:a6
  inet6 addr: fe80::fc54:ff:fe87:97a6/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:95 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
  RX bytes:23914 (23.3 KiB)  TX bytes:21043 (20.5 KiB)


so the question is how did virbr0 get here, and how do I alter it to
make my VM look like a normal network machine.

Thanks,
James

On 28/08/2012, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
 James Allsopp wrote:
 I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and
 Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into
 it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the
 VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2.

 What number is 'x' above?  Hopefully some number other than .1 or .2.

 auto br0
 iface br0 inet static
 address 192.168.1.2
 network 192.168.1.0
 netmask 255.255.255.0
 broadcast 192.168.0.255
 gateway   192.168.1.1
 bridge_ports eth0
 bridge_fd 0
 bridge_hello 2
 bridge_maxage 12
 bridge_stp off

 Remove 'network' line.  Remove 'broadcast' line.  Let the tool
 calculate it from 'netmask'.  That will prevent errors such as in the
 above where the broadcast setting is incorrect.  :-)  [It should have
 been 192.168.1.255 not 192.168.0.255.]

 I don't see any other problem.

 I do not set 'bridge_hello' nor 'bridge_maxage'.  I do set
 'bridge_maxwait' to 0.  YMMV.

 I also use the resolvconf package and therefore also set
 dns-nameservers and dns-search but that is a separate thing.

 Bob



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WICD

[James Allsopp]

HI,
I'm running wicd on debian stable and unfortunately wicd can't maintain 
the connection. Absolutely nothing about the rest of the wireless 
network has changed. It keeps oscillating through

putting interface up
obtaining IP addresss
Done connecting
not connected.

When you can get a ping going, gaps of four to six packets fail for ever 
one that gets through.


As part of writing this, I thought about taking out the other network 
cable (currently attached to a raspberry PI, I'm trying to bridge to) 
and that solved the problem, However, how to I make wicd keep the 
wireless connection up with the other cable inserted, would giving it a 
static IP help?		


Any ideas how I can get this wicd bridge to work?
Thanks
James


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Moving packets from one port to another

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm trying to route packets from ones from one interface to another, 
without using NAT i.e.


eth0: 192.168.1.31 (connected to rest of world and DHCP server)
eth1: 192.168.1.32 (connected to other computers.)

The other computers would be on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet and hopefully 
be able to see all the computers on the subnet.


I presume I'm going to have to make some sort of bridge, with some 
forwarding as with IPtables. It would be nice not to have a static IP on 
the other computers.


Any suggestions, or discussion of the options, would be gratefully received,
James


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Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

[James Allsopp]

Ok, sorry for the delay in replying, here's what I've found out:

I'm using squeeze with a 2.6.32-5-686 kernel.
Adding this to the xorg.conf;
Section ServerFlags
Option AutoAddDevices False
EndSection

results in the USB mouse not working or keyboard. I've since removed this.

However, problem seems to have resolved itself,

Thank you very much for all your help,
James


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PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm really sorry to bother you all about this, but I'm really no closer 
to solving this problem and am having a lot of difficulties with it. Any 
advice or pointers on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated as 
at the moment I just can't use the computer.


Thanks,
James

Hi,
I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze.

The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon as
I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM via ssh,
the keyboard doesn't respond on the terminal.

I'm all up to date on upgrades and my xorg.conf is minimal;
Section Screen
Identifier Default Screen
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection Display
   Depth 16
   Modes 1280x1024
EndSubSection
EndSection

Here's my Xorg.0.log if that helps, there something about a power button
but I don't know what to do about it.

X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux mexican 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6
04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686
Kernel command line: root=UUID=b6f5a669-9108-411f-813d-b59e9a36a80a ro
Build Date: 30 October 2011  08:56:49PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.7-14 (Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Jun 28 15:12:55 2012
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(**) |--Screen Default Screen (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor default monitor
(==) No monitor specified for screen Default Screen.
Using a default monitor configuration.
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
built-ins
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/modules
(II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable 
AutoAddDevices.
(II) Loader magic: 0x81ecce0
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(++) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0322:: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce
FX 5200] rev 161, Mem @ 0xec00/16777216, 0xe000/134217728, BIOS
@ 0x/131072
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) LoadModule: extmod
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension SELinux
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: dbe
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: glx
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: record
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: dri
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: dri2
(II) Loading 

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Tried both of those but nothing. I have a theory that it might be a Udev
problem, but can't be certain. Does anyone have any ideas why a problem
like that might arise?
James

On 29 June 2012 04:18, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:

 On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 03:30:11PM +, James Allsopp wrote:
  Hi,
  I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze.
 
  The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon
  as I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM
  via ssh, the keyboard doesn't respond on the terminal.

 It seems not to be related to X then.

 I'm not running squeeze, so I'm not sure which packages have changed.

 but, as a suggestion,

 does either less /var/log/dpkg.log | grep keyboard and/or less
 /var/log/syslog | grep keyboard show anything of interest.

 Another thing to remember is that any updates to squeeze are carefully
 tested and if a bug crept through like that there would be soon be an
 uproar.

 Check dmesg output for *any* messages regarding your keyboard.

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PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze.

The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon as 
I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM via ssh, 
the keyboard doesn't respond on the terminal.


I'm all up to date on upgrades and my xorg.conf is minimal;
Section Screen
Identifier Default Screen
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection Display
   Depth 16
   Modes 1280x1024
EndSubSection
EndSection

Here's my Xorg.0.log if that helps, there something about a power button 
but I don't know what to do about it.


X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux mexican 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 
04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686

Kernel command line: root=UUID=b6f5a669-9108-411f-813d-b59e9a36a80a ro
Build Date: 30 October 2011  08:56:49PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.7-14 (Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Jun 28 15:12:55 2012
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(**) |--Screen Default Screen (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor default monitor
(==) No monitor specified for screen Default Screen.
Using a default monitor configuration.
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
built-ins
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/modules
(II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable 
AutoAddDevices.
(II) Loader magic: 0x81ecce0
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(++) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0322:: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce 
FX 5200] rev 161, Mem @ 0xec00/16777216, 0xe000/134217728, BIOS 
@ 0x/131072

(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) LoadModule: extmod
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension SELinux
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: dbe
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: glx
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: record
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: dri
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: dri2
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
(==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 1
(==) 

Re: Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
That's really odd about the kernel. The computer was working fine on an old
CRT via VGA, and I just plugged my new flat screen in via dvi-d, and you
can see start up, but X doesn't start.

I'm upgrading to the 2.6.32-686 kernel, will that be new enough?
Thanks
James

On 19 June 2012 20:16, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:

 On 2012-06-19 01:19 +0200, Brian wrote:

  On Mon 18 Jun 2012 at 23:21:03 +, James Allsopp wrote:
 
  [drm] failed to load kernel module nouveau
  (EE) [drm] failed to open device
 
 http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
 
  and also look at what is happening with nouveau in the output of the
  'dmesg' command.

 That question is easy to answer, the nouveau module does not exist
 because James is running an obsolete 2.6.30 kernel.  Upgrading to the
 Squeeze kernel should rectify this.

 Cheers,
   Sven


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Re: Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

[James Allsopp]

Brilliant, updated the kernel and everything seems fixed now!

Thanks very much!
James

On 20 June 2012 08:18, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 That's really odd about the kernel. The computer was working fine on an
 old CRT via VGA, and I just plugged my new flat screen in via dvi-d, and
 you can see start up, but X doesn't start.

 I'm upgrading to the 2.6.32-686 kernel, will that be new enough?
 Thanks
 James


 On 19 June 2012 20:16, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:

 On 2012-06-19 01:19 +0200, Brian wrote:

  On Mon 18 Jun 2012 at 23:21:03 +, James Allsopp wrote:
 
  [drm] failed to load kernel module nouveau
  (EE) [drm] failed to open device
 
 http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
 
  and also look at what is happening with nouveau in the output of the
  'dmesg' command.

 That question is easy to answer, the nouveau module does not exist
 because James is running an obsolete 2.6.30 kernel.  Upgrading to the
 Squeeze kernel should rectify this.

 Cheers,
   Sven


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Re: Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

[James Allsopp]

/modules/libvbe.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional 
information.



On 17/06/12 22:47, Brian wrote:

On Sun 17 Jun 2012 at 22:29:04 +, James Allsopp wrote:


Hi,
Got one of my old PC's lying around and I'm trying to get it to work
with my nice new LG  IPS225V flatscreen. It used to work fine with my
CRT over VGA but although I can get a console up, I can't get X to
start. I've listed the Xorg log out at the bottom of the e-mail

I think it could be that the monitor is refusing anything other than
1900x1080 at 60Hz over which DVI, which my hardware hasn't a hope of
driving. There doesn't appear to be any way of turning this down on the
monitor.

To get some idea of the hardware, this is the lspci


[Most of lspci ouput, apart from one line, snipped]


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
5200] (rev a1)


You'll like this! On one of my machines:

brian@dektop3:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 
5200] (rev a1)

You can compare mine with yours:

brian@dektop3:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 
0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024  63.2*+
   1024x768   60.0
   800x60060.3 56.2
   848x48060.0
   640x48059.9
VGA-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

If I was in your situation and was after 1280x1024 I'd put this in
an /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section Screen
IdentifierDefault Screen
DefaultDepth   16
SubSection Display
Depth  16
Modes 1280x1024
EndSubSection
EndSection





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Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Got one of my old PC's lying around and I'm trying to get it to work 
with my nice new LG  IPS225V flatscreen. It used to work fine with my 
CRT over VGA but although I can get a console up, I can't get X to 
start. I've listed the Xorg log out at the bottom of the e-mail


I think it could be that the monitor is refusing anything other than 
1900x1080 at 60Hz over which DVI, which my hardware hasn't a hope of 
driving. There doesn't appear to be any way of turning this down on the 
monitor.


To get some idea of the hardware, this is the lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host 
bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP 
bridge (rev 03)

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 
5200] (rev a1)


Thanks for any help,
James



X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux mexican 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 
00:53:20 UTC 2009 i686

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Build Date: 30 October 2011  08:56:49PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.7-14 (Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
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/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
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/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
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(II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable 
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compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.13.0

Installing packages from Wheezy in Squeeze

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
Is there an easy way of installing a package (namely virtinst) from 
Wheezy in Squeeze? I've tried variations of

aptitude install -t wheezy virtinst
and
aptitude install virtinst/wheezy

but with no joy, It goes through the start process but says there's 
nothing to update or upgrade

Thanks,
James


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Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all 
costs, is there a way of doing this successfully?


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Differences between using KVM and virt-install?

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I was trying for ages to build a KVM virtual machine using virt-install 
and it always failed, tried KVM command directly following Gentoo 
instruction and got it to work first time. Is there any difference in 
the end result between these two methods?


Thanks,
James


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VNC into a Debian Machine

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
I really want to be able to use VNC to be able to view the full Gnome 
desktop on my laptop. I've been able to view a grey screen and a 
terminal, using vnc4server and tigervnc or vinagre, but what I'd like to 
be able to do is just view a whole screen as if I was actually there.


I'd like avoid xdmcp if possible, as it would be great to use it from 
anywhere, rather than just locally,


Any suggestions, pointers to good tutorials welcome!
Thanks
James


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KVM virtualisation

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm having trouble building a kvm virtual machine, The script I'm using 
to build this is:

#!/bin/bash
virt-install \
--connect qemu:///system \
-n deb1 \
-r 512 \
--vcpus=1 \
--os-variant=debiansqueeze \
--accelerate \
-v \
-c /var/lib/libvirt/images/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso \
-w bridge:br0 \
--vnc \
--disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/debiantest.img,size=4


but when I run I get the following error, I've tried to debug this 
afterwards;


awaiian:/home/ja/vm_kvm# ./kvmInstall


Starting install...
Allocating 'debiantest.img'  | 4.0 GB 
00:00
Creating domain...   |0 B 
00:00

Cannot open display:
Run 'virt-viewer --help' to see a full list of available command line 
options

Domain installation does not appear to have been
 successful.  If it was, you can restart your domain
 by running 'virsh start deb1'; otherwise, please
 restart your installation.
Hawaiian:/home/ja/vm_kvm# virsh start deb1
error: failed to get domain 'deb1'
error: Unknown failure

Hawaiian:/home/ja/vm_kvm# virsh
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.

Type:  'help' for help with commands
   'quit' to quit

virsh # nodeinfo
CPU model:   x86_64
CPU(s):  2
CPU frequency:   2000 MHz
CPU socket(s):   1
Core(s) per socket:  2
Thread(s) per core:  1
NUMA cell(s):1
Memory size: 4061292 kB

virsh # list --al
error: command 'list' doesn't support option --al
virsh # list --all
 Id Name State
--

virsh # net-list --all
Name State  Autostart
-
vboxnet0 inactive   no autostart

virsh # net-edit default
error: failed to get network 'default'
error: Unknown failure

virsh # quit

Hawaiian:/home/ja/vm_kvm# virsh
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.

Type:  'help' for help with commands
   'quit' to quit

virsh # net-autostart default
error: failed to get network 'default'
error: Unknown failure



If anyone can offer me any help on how to fix this I'd be really grateful,

James


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Trying to build a virtual machine

[James Allsopp]

Hello,
I'm trying to build a virtual machine using the following command,


ja@Hawaiian:~$ virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n vm10 -r 512
--vcpus=2 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm10.img,size=4 -c
/var/lib/libvirt/images/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso --vnc
--noautoconsole --os-type linux --os-variant debiansqueeze
--accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --hvm


Starting install...
Allocating 'vm10.img'| 4.0 GB 00:00
Creating domain...   |0 B 00:00

but it hangs here, does anyone have any advice on how to fix this, or
what to check,
Thanks
James


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Re: Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Found the problem, forgotten to install the nvidia-kernel-dkms package.
Very happy all work great now and all of the CUDA stuff I installed also
works!

Thanks for your comments,
Jim


On 12/09/11 14:05, James Allsopp wrote:
 Hi,
 Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them
 working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get
 CUDA to work.
 
 I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove
 all of the packages using apt, and them used
 m-a prepare
 m-a auto-install nvidia
 
 and everything went to plan, but when I reboot X fails saying it can't
 find the modules.
 
 ja@Hawaiian:~$ uname -a
 Linux Hawaiian 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64
 GNU/Linux
 
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# find / -iname 'nvidia.ko'
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
 
 lsmod shows an nvidia module
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# lsmod | grep nvidia
 nvidia  10852808  0
 i2c_core   25424  2 i2c_i801,nvidia
 
 But it doesn't seem the same size as the other two, which are different
 from each other.
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13294487 Sep 12 12:40
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
 
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11670161 Jan 12  2010
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
 
 Not exactly sure where to go from here, any advice or requests for more
 information gratefully received.
 
 Thanks,
 James


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Creating a debian virtual machine for Nagios

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm trying to create a debian virtual machine to run Nagios on using the
following command.
virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n nagios  -r 2048 --os-type=linux
--disk
/var/lib/libvirt/images/nagios.img,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=5,sparse=true,format=raw
-w bridge=br0,model=virtio --vnc --noautoconsole -c
/home/ja/isos/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso

but it hangs and I get the following errors in the log
Sep 13 12:44:45 Hawaiian kernel: [44156.897947] libvirtd[2479]: segfault
at 7f1381004bdf ip 00419363 sp 7f137b9b0230 error 7 in
libvirtd[40+dc000]
Sep 13 12:47:55 Hawaiian libvirtd: 12:47:55.860: warning :
qemudStartup:1832 : Unable to create cgroup for driver: No such device
or address
Sep 13 12:47:55 Hawaiian libvirtd: 12:47:55.943: warning :
lxcStartup:1900 : Unable to create cgroup for driver: No such device or
address
Sep 13 12:50:21 Hawaiian libvirtd: 12:50:21.005: warning :
qemudParsePCIDeviceStrs:1422 : Unexpected exit status '1', qemu probably
failed
Sep 13 12:50:21 Hawaiian libvirtd: 12:50:21.475: warning :
qemudParsePCIDeviceStrs:1422 : Unexpected exit status '1', qemu probably
failed
Sep 13 12:50:21 Hawaiian libvirtd: 12:50:21.575: warning :
qemudParsePCIDeviceStrs:1422 : Unexpected exit status '1', qemu probably
failed
Sep 13 12:50:21 Hawaiian libvirtd: 12:50:21.847: warning :
qemudParsePCIDeviceStrs:1422 : Unexpected exit status '1', qemu probably
failed
Sep 13 12:54:44 Hawaiian libvirtd: 12:54:44.000: warning :
virEventUpdateHandleImpl:150 : Ignoring invalid update watch -1


and when I press ctrl-C I get this error,
ja@Hawaiian:~/VMscripts$ ./nagios


Starting install...
Allocating 'nagios.img'  | 5.0 GB
00:00
Creating domain...   |0 B
00:00
^CERRORpoll on socket failed: Interrupted system call
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/bin/virt-install, line 975, in do_install
ret, state = check_domain_state()
  File /usr/bin/virt-install, line 961, in check_domain_state
dominfo = dom.info()
  File /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py, line 766, in info
if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed',
dom=self)
libvirtError: poll on socket failed: Interrupted system call

Guest installation complete... restarting guest.
^CERRORpoll on socket failed: Interrupted system call
Domain installation does not appear to have been
 successful.  If it was, you can restart your domain
 by running 'virsh start nagios'; otherwise, please
 restart your installation.
ERRORpoll on socket failed: Interrupted system call
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/bin/virt-install, line 1033, in module
main()
  File /usr/bin/virt-install, line 935, in main
dom.create()
  File /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py, line 333, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: poll on socket failed: Interrupted system call


Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?
Best regards
James


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Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them
working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get
CUDA to work.

I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove
all of the packages using apt, and them used
m-a prepare
m-a auto-install nvidia

and everything went to plan, but when I reboot X fails saying it can't
find the modules.

ja@Hawaiian:~$ uname -a
Linux Hawaiian 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Hawaiian:/home/ja# find / -iname 'nvidia.ko'
/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

lsmod shows an nvidia module
Hawaiian:/home/ja# lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia  10852808  0
i2c_core   25424  2 i2c_i801,nvidia

But it doesn't seem the same size as the other two, which are different
from each other.
Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13294487 Sep 12 12:40
/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko

Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l
/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11670161 Jan 12  2010
/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

Not exactly sure where to go from here, any advice or requests for more
information gratefully received.

Thanks,
James


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Re: Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any
ideas?
On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote:
 Hello List:

 have your tried the Debian instead:

 http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers
 http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-dev

 hth,
 Jerome

 On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote:
 Hi,
 Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them
 working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get
 CUDA to work.

 I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove
 all of the packages using apt, and them used
 m-a prepare
 m-a auto-install nvidia

 and everything went to plan, but when I reboot X fails saying it can't
 find the modules.

 ja@Hawaiian:~$ uname -a
 Linux Hawaiian 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64
 GNU/Linux

 Hawaiian:/home/ja# find / -iname 'nvidia.ko'
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

 lsmod shows an nvidia module
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# lsmod | grep nvidia
 nvidia 10852808 0
 i2c_core 25424 2 i2c_i801,nvidia

 But it doesn't seem the same size as the other two, which are different
 from each other.
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13294487 Sep 12 12:40
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko

 Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11670161 Jan 12 2010
 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

 Not exactly sure where to go from here, any advice or requests for more
 information gratefully received.

 Thanks,
 James




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Re: Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary
nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can
point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be
very grateful.

Also I find the whole kernel situation in Debian quite confusing as
opposed to Gentoo (my other system) where you just install you're own
kernel, compile it and then install the modules. Any advice on
recommended documents I should be reading?

Thanks,
James

On 15/04/11 08:06, David Baron wrote:
 On Friday 15 April 2011 09:41:19 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org 
 wrote:
 Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so
 and libGLcore.so shared libraries (libGL.so version:
 190.53; libGLcore.so version: 195.36.31).
 Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

 Any suggestions?

 Make sure the version of nvidia-glx, libgl1-nvidia-glx, and nvidia-kernel
 are  all the same.  190.xx.yy isn't compatible with 195.xx.yy.

 I don't actually see a 190.xx.yy packaged for Debian; did you use the 
 installer from NVidia?  If so, you might need to clean that up.  The 
 packages from NVidia aren't compatible with Debian packaging.
 -- 
 
 Nvidia's proprietary installation places their own libGL.so stuff. Upgrading 
 xorg from Debian will overwrite them so you need to either recompile them or 
 use dpkg-divert to prevent overwriting.
 
 Debian's nvidia packages do not have the same versions except for certain 
 legacy drivers. They also place their modules differently.
 
 So either find the appropriate Debian ones (I have 260 and I do not know 
 which Debian version to use!) or reinstall nvidia's version completely. Their 
 installation works first time, every time. Then use dpkg-divert to keep it.
 
 


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Re: Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

I get this happening
Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

so not really sure where to go from here.
Jim

On 18/04/11 11:43, Erwan David wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:26PM CEST, James Allsopp 
 jamesaalls...@googlemail.com said:
 Hi,
 Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary
 nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can
 point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be
 very grateful.

 Also I find the whole kernel situation in Debian quite confusing as
 opposed to Gentoo (my other system) where you just install you're own
 kernel, compile it and then install the modules. Any advice on
 recommended documents I should be reading?

 Thanks,
 James
 
 Did you try the nvidia-kernel-dkms package ?  It will compile and
 install the nvidia driver against installed kernels and reinstall it
 when you upgrade kernel.
 
 


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Re: Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
My source.list has the following;

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

but I'm not sure what you mean about reloading?

Best regards
James

On 18/04/11 12:35, Brad Rogers wrote:
 On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:50:51 +0100
 James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote:
 
 Hello James,
 
 I get this happening
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
 No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
 
 Looks as though you haven't got non-free included.  Add that, reload
 and try again.
 


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Re: Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Done, that and still get the same error; full output is
Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
W: Did not understand pin type *

I think the pin type error is where I tried to force grub to not upgrade
to grub2,

Thanks,
Jim

On 18/04/11 13:56, Erwan David wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp 
 jamesaalls...@googlemail.com said:
 Hi,
 My source.list has the following;

 deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
 deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib

 deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

 but I'm not sure what you mean about reloading?
 
 Add non-free at the first two lines, then do an aptitude update.
 
 


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Re: Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I've recently after Squeeze went stable, changed my sources.list from
having the keyword testing to stable.

I've tried
apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-nvidia-glx

apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-kernel-dkms

which reinstalled those files but I think that there may be a linking
problem in
Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /usr/lib/libGLc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 Apr 18 15:38 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 -
libGLcore.so.195.36.31
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20713400 Jan 12  2010 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.190.53
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28862968 Jun  3  2010 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.195.36.31

Again any advice, and I'd be very grateful,

Best regards
James

On 19/04/11 02:16, Vivek Periaraj wrote:
 On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, James Allsopp wrote:
 On 18/04/11 13:56, Erwan David wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp
 jamesaalls...@googlemail.com said:

 Hi, My source.list has the following;

 deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
 deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib

 Done, that and still get the same error; full output is
 Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms No packages
 will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not
   upgraded.  Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be
   used.  W: Did not understand pin type *
 
 For me, nvidia-kernel-dkms is in testing and above and not in stable.
 
 Here's the output:
 
 $ apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-dkms
 nvidia-kernel-dkms:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 260.19.44-1
   Version table:
  270.30-1 0
 200 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/non-free i386
 Packages
  260.19.44-1 0
 400 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free i386
 Packages
 300 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/non-free i386
 Packages
 
 So I would suggest adding testing to your repos. I have this:
 
 deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
 
 Regards,
 V.
 


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Nvidia drivers

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm having trouble with my Nvidia drivers, glxinfo gives me the following
error. I'm not sure how this happened, during an update I presume.
The problem is that I don't seem to be able to update the nvidia-glx
package.

Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so
and libGLcore.so shared libraries (libGL.so version:
190.53; libGLcore.so version: 195.36.31).
Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jim

Installing Joomla on Debian

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I want to install Joomla 1.6 on Debian, but am wondering why most
instructions on the internet include Xampp. I don't think I need this as
I already have apache2, mysql and php5 installed. If I installed xampp,
would this cause conflicts with the existing installed software?

Any help or pointers greatly appreciated,
Jim


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Re: Unable to print from Windows Vista Laptop via Samba

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Unfortunately, samba doesn't seem to be picking up any changes to my
smb.conf even after a restart.

Compare the printer related output from testparm
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
use client driver = Yes
browseable = No

[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers

to that from the smb.conf file
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = yes
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   read only = yes
   writeable = no
   create mask = 0700
   use client driver = yes
# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable

# printer drivers

[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no

So I think my problem is that it's not picking up the settings, any more
advice would be greatly appreciated,

Best regards
Jim


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Re: Unable to print from Windows Vista Laptop via Samba

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
Not sure really what you mean about the first point, where should I put
that in, but smbclient -L server shows the printer, it's shown on
/etc/printcap and if I set windows to print to \\192.168.1.2\printer
name I get a test page fine. Not sure if this last one bypasses Samba.

What I can't do is get the printer to show up when you browse for it.

I think the problem is with Samba as testparm doesn't seem to reflect
some of the changes I make.

Thanks,
Jim

On 16/02/11 13:34, Pablo Sánchez wrote:
 James, do you see through smb (\\server-computer) the printers share ?
 If you do, can you see the printer listed ? (Camaleón somehow asked you
 the same question)  .
 
 Try running # smbclient -L server-computer to see all shares listed by
 the server .
 
 Check if your printer is listed on /etc/printcap .
 
 
 Last resort, install swat and point your browser to
 http://server-computer:901 to see what shows up .
 
 Pablo
 
 Thanks Pablo, I'll try that if I can't get it to work through samba.

 Problem seems to be with the config file not picking up the printing
 declaration. I have restarted samba after editting the file.

 Testparm gives me the following
 [global]
 workgroup = ETHICSGRADIENT
 server string = %h server
 interfaces = lo, eth0
 obey pam restrictions = Yes
 pam password change = Yes
 passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
 passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
 *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
 unix password sync = Yes
 syslog = 0
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 printcap name = cups
 dns proxy = No
 wins support = Yes
 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

 [homes]
 comment = Home Directories
 valid users = %S
 create mask = 0700
 directory mask = 0700
 browseable = No

 [printers]
 comment = All Printers
 path = /var/spool/samba
 create mask = 0700
 guest ok = Yes
 printable = Yes
 use client driver = Yes
 browseable = No

 [print$]
 comment = Printer Drivers
 path = /var/lib/samba/printers

 but if you actually look at the config file;
  Hawaiian:/etc/samba# grep = smb.conf | grep -v \# | grep -v \;
workgroup = EthicsGradient
server string = %h server
wins support = yes
dns proxy = no
interfaces = lo eth0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 5000
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
 security = user
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
 *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
pam password change = yes
  load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
valid users = %S
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
writeable = no
create mask = 0700
useclient driver = yes
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = no

 printing and load printers are clearly defined. Bit confused so could
 do with some advice on this?
 Thanks,
 Jim



 2011/2/15 Pablo Sánchez pab...@adinet.com.uy
 mailto:pab...@adinet.com.uy

 James, i usually use ipp (internet printing protocol) to print on
 cups from windows , skipping samba alltogether.

 Just map the printer over
 http://printerhost:631/printers/PrinterName .

 Bear in mind that you can create a raw print spool , o have the
 real driver of the printer.
 In the first case you install the driver printer on your pc an
 then install the printer over http.

 Remember to share the printer on cups.

 Regards.

 Pablo


 Hi,
 I have a debian server running samba connected to a local USB
 printer. I also have a dual boot laptop with windows Vista on it.
 I can print fine from the server and the linux side of the
 laptop using CUPS, and even though I can see my home directory
 via samba in Vista, I can't get it to detect any printers.
 Vista is on the same Workgroup, I've lowered the firewall, but
 still windows won't detect it.

 An Nmap from the laptop shows ports 22,25,80,111,139,445,631
 and 2049(all tcp) open.

 My Samba config is at the bottom, any advice would be greatly
 appreciated.
 Thanks,
 Jim

 [global]
workgroup = ETHICSGRADIENT
server string = %h server
interfaces = lo, eth0
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

Re: Unable to print from Windows Vista Laptop via Samba

[James Allsopp]

Thanks Pablo, I'll try that if I can't get it to work through samba.

Problem seems to be with the config file not picking up the printing
declaration. I have restarted samba after editting the file.

Testparm gives me the following
[global]
workgroup = ETHICSGRADIENT
server string = %h server
interfaces = lo, eth0
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
browseable = No

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
use client driver = Yes
browseable = No

[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers

but if you actually look at the config file;
 Hawaiian:/etc/samba# grep = smb.conf | grep -v \# | grep -v \;
   workgroup = EthicsGradient
   server string = %h server
   wins support = yes
   dns proxy = no
   interfaces = lo eth0
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 5000
   syslog = 0
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
security = user
   encrypt passwords = true
   passdb backend = tdbsam
   obey pam restrictions = yes
   unix password sync = yes
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:*
%n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
   pam password change = yes
 load printers = yes
   printing = cups
   printcap name = cups
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700
   directory mask = 0700
   valid users = %S
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   read only = yes
   writeable = no
   create mask = 0700
   useclient driver = yes
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no

printing and load printers are clearly defined. Bit confused so could do
with some advice on this?
Thanks,
Jim



2011/2/15 Pablo Sánchez pab...@adinet.com.uy

 James, i usually use ipp (internet printing protocol) to print on cups from
 windows , skipping samba alltogether.

 Just map the printer over http://printerhost:631/printers/PrinterName .

 Bear in mind that you can create a raw print spool , o have the real driver
 of the printer.
 In the first case you install the driver printer on your pc an then install
 the printer over http.

 Remember to share the printer on cups.

 Regards.

 Pablo


  Hi,
 I have a debian server running samba connected to a local USB printer. I
 also have a dual boot laptop with windows Vista on it.
 I can print fine from the server and the linux side of the laptop using
 CUPS, and even though I can see my home directory via samba in Vista, I
 can't get it to detect any printers. Vista is on the same Workgroup, I've
 lowered the firewall, but still windows won't detect it.

 An Nmap from the laptop shows ports 22,25,80,111,139,445,631 and 2049(all
 tcp) open.

 My Samba config is at the bottom, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 Thanks,
 Jim

 [global]
workgroup = ETHICSGRADIENT
server string = %h server
interfaces = lo, eth0
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
 *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

 [homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
browseable = No

 [printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
use client driver = Yes
browseable = No

 [print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers



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