e1000e driver Network Card Detected Hardware Unit Hang

[Jamie]

es and the network interface in this case eth1 
becomes
unstable and just stops responding now I can't have that because this 
computer
is being used as a gateway.  Usually what you have to do at that point 
is reboot the

machine.

uname -a
Linux gateway 6.1.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.85-1 
(2024-04-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux


This is a gigabit network card as I said it is a built in NIC I believe 
it is an Intel NIC.


ethtool --show-eee eth1
EEE settings for eth1:
    EEE status: enabled - inactive
    Tx LPI: 17 (us)
    Supported EEE link modes:  100baseT/Full
   1000baseT/Full
    Advertised EEE link modes:  100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    Link partner advertised EEE link modes:  Not reported


ethtool -g eth1
Ring parameters for eth1:
Pre-set maximums:
RX: 4096
RX Mini:    n/a
RX Jumbo:   n/a
TX: 4096
Current hardware settings:
RX: 256
RX Mini:    n/a
RX Jumbo:   n/a
TX: 256
RX Buf Len: n/a
CQE Size:   n/a
TX Push:    off
TCP data split: n/a


lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host 
Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 
[UHD Graphics 630]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH 
Thermal Controller (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI 
Host Controller (rev 10)

00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi 
(rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI 
Controller (rev 10)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Active 
Management Technology - SOL (rev 10)
00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID 
mode] (rev 10)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root 
Port #6 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Q370 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller 
(rev 10)

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI 
Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) 
I219-LM (rev 10)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)


lspci -vn

00:1f.6 0200: 8086:15bb (rev 10)
    DeviceName: Onboard Lan
    Subsystem: 103c:83ed
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 123, IOMMU group 8
    Memory at f118 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
    Kernel driver in use: e1000e
    Kernel modules: e1000e

This seems to happen when you are actually pushing a bit of traffic
though it not a lot but just even a little bit.  It isn't network overload
or anything I am barely doing anything really but it will do this.


I have already tried  the following

ethtool -K eth1 tx off rx off
ethtool -K eth1 tso off gso off
ethtool -K eth1 gso off gro off tso off tx off rx off rxvlan off txvlan 
off sg off


I have disabled all power management in the bios as well including the one
for ASPM

I added the following to grub

pcie_aspm=off e1000e.SmartPowerDownEnable=0


This is in /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet pcie_aspm=off 
e1000e.SmartPowerDownEnable=0"


Then I did an update-grub as well.

None of this has worked in fixing this problem.  I am still getting the 
same issue.



Can you please fix this issue this is a really nasty problem with Debian 
12 (Bookworm)


I am seeing this being reported back in Kernel 5.3.x but i am not seeing any
reports for 6.1.x about this issue.

Debian Bug report logs - #945912
Kernel 5.3 e100e Detected Hardware Unit Hang
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=945912


To reproduce this I mean if you had the same type of computer with the 
same NIC in it.

and installed Debian 12 it will happen.

This should go to your kernel team I believe as this is an issue with 
the kernel driver

module for this NIC.


Any response should be done via email only on this bug please.

Please reply back and confirm that you got this email and that you are 
looking

into this problem please.


Thank you,

Jamie (she / her)

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Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.

[Jamie White]

I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is,
when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first
sector to identify the drive and its size. You get a similar problem when
you zero out an entire hard disk, and there the solution is to manually
enter into the bios the hard drive.

What I suspect has happened in your case, is a wrap around when writing to
drive has overwritten the first sector.

Jamie

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Dual Screen Issue (Wheezy installed from debootscrap/using KDE system settings)

[Jamie White]

Hi

I have just installed Debian using debootstrap, and install the
`kde-standard` package.

I am now trying to configure dual screens, from kde system settings, it
detects my monitors no issue, but when I change and apply the dual screen
configuration, it just resets to what it was beforehand.

I am using an ATI Radeon. Not sure of the exact model.

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Terminals

[jamie]

Hi

Firstly need to know the name of the feature that allows me to access 
/dev/tty0, /dev/tty1 etc and switch between them by press alt+F1, alt+F2 and so 
on.

Secondly, how would I configure this feature, in particular I'd like to 
configure it to allow me to press probably alt+F7 and access a serial console 
at /dev/ttyS0, would need a baud rate of 9600 with common settings for 
everything else.

Essentially this is so I can get to the CLI on a Cisco router when its console 
port is connected via serial port referenced by the device name /dev/ttyS0 just 
by pressing alt+F7, instead having to install a terminal program. I believe 
this can be done.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
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Re: Active directory alternatives for debian

[jamie]

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hi. i am running an Active Directory(AD) in a winxp environment of 30 
computers.
 i am looking to change the AD to a linux pc. is there an easy to use 
 alternative with GUI (even with webmin).
 All we need is to have the computers authenticate to the server by 
 username/password/local_domain. once the user is logged in, then the profile 
 will have the thunderbird,  user's files, user's network drive and a 
 softphone profile (such as zoiper, 3cx, xlite, draytek).
 
Hi

If you can identify an easy/practical way of doing this I would be very 
interested to know how you manage it!

Jamie

LSB init script virtual facility for name switch service resolution

[Jamie Thompson]

Not sure where it's best to start this discussion, but here seems a good 
a place as any.


In brief, I have all my account information in LDAP. Problem is, I have 
to manually add slapd into most of my init scripts to make sure the 
ordering is correct and that my accounts DB is up in time for starting 
the services. This then means merging in updates which gets *very* tiresome.


The article http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/#line-116 shows 
several virtual facility names, and I suspect something akin to $named 
would be desirable for all of the services that could provide backends 
for in nsswitch data, i.e. slapd - all scripts that run with their own 
user account could then depend on this facility. I propose something as 
suggested in the 
http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities article, 
e.g. 'x-nsswitch'.


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Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

Hi

I install the base Debian system, then X and my desktop which is 
Window Maker and the GNUStep environment. Now I need to get my Canon 
iP4700 printer set up.


I found the drivers as a .deb package on Canon's website. Can't 
install them because of the architecture incompatibility. However, I 
have read a number of articles and earlier forum posts where people 
have done this but they all seem to be related to Ubuntu. I have also 
read this article: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/531 
which explains about using 32 libraries to overcome this type of 
problem. Before I do, though, I just wonder if someone could advise if 
this is the right way forward; will it work basically? Has anyone else 
installed this printer on the 64bit Debian version?


Any advise appreciated.

Jamie


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Re: Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On 2012-01-06 11:34:14 + Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 For this there are some hints over Internet:
 
 canon ip4700 printer/driver problem on 64bit karmic
 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1408300
 
 That method will sucedded depending on the packaging. If Canon packagers did
 count on the possibility of installing the required 32-bits libraries so the 
 driver could be installed over 64-bits systems, then the installer will ask 
 for any dependency. I'm not sure this is an option for Canon drivers, though.
 
 I would try (and then buy should they work) the Turboprint drivers which 
 seems to support your printer model (although just the printing function):
 
 http://www.zedonet.com/en_p_turboprint_driver.phtml?printer=Canon_PIXMA_iP4700
 
 Nex time, buy an HP multifunction (or another branded linux compatible) 
 device and ensure it is supported directly by manufacturer's driver :-P


Ok first I forced the driver installation:

dpkg -i --force-architecture package

It installed but I was still not able to print after successfully setting it up 
from within the cups admin webpage. I installed the ia32-libs package and it 
worked. So for the benefit of the archives I thought I would share that. 

I'm wondering about printing from the command line though. lp(1) just shows a 
no destination to printer message. I think I might need the cups-bsd package 
but I can't see why I shouldn't be able to print from the command line with the 
normal cups packages. 

jamie.


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Re: Installing 32bit Printer Drivers on Debian Stable amd64

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On 2012-01-06 22:09:00 + Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote:

 On 2012-01-06 11:34:14 + Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: 
 It installed but I was still not able to print after successfully setting it 
 up from within the cups admin webpage. I installed the ia32-libs package and 
 it worked. So for the benefit of the archives I thought I would share that.
 I'm wondering about printing from the command line though. lp(1) just shows a 
 no destination to printer message. I think I might need the cups-bsd 
 package but I can't see why I shouldn't be able to print from the command 
 line with the normal cups packages.
   jamie.

I figured it - I should have read more on the internet. I simply needed to set 
the default printer in the cups admin webpage.

jamie


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Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

[Jamie Thompson]

On 2011-05-23 3:04 PM, green wrote:
 Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-05-23 08:28 -0500:
 Camaleón wrote:
 And IMO, too useless/time consuming also. I want a phone not a game 
 console :-)

 A computer with hardware I can't access is a computer I don't want.
 
 Right.  Someone gave me a blackberry with GPS hardware... great, but apps 
 can't use the GPS because of some stupid Verizon policy thing (although the 
 phone is no longer on Verizon).  So really some of these phones have issues 
 even without trying to use FOSS on them.
 
 When teh Smartphone is a portable computer with an *open GSM stack* I'll
 be interested. Until then it's a dumbphone with a low-end processor
 sharing the battery.
 
 And the difference is game console versus actual *productivity*.  Oh, the 
 things I could do with a phone if I could run Debian on it...!

I have a pair of Nokia N900s. Run Maemo 5 (Fremantle), which is based on
Debian. It also has (though I don't use), a package called Easy
Debian, which basically lets you run normal ARM Debian in a chroot.

I love it to bits. Sadly, has a fair few closed components (both UI and
deep in the cellular stack), and the next project version (Maemo 6 -
Harmatten) is going to be the last Debian-based version, as the original
plan was to merge Nolia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin into MeeGo, a
combined project that adopted the Fedora-based Moblin's base system over
Maemo's Debian-based one. :( I'm sure on this mailing list we all
appreciate Apt over RPM ;)

Anyway. Nokia's not been the best at supporting platform, but if you can
get a cheap old N900 it's a great platform for mobile OSS dev, and has a
great community over at talk.maemo.org. I suspect the device running
Maemo 6 will be even better from the OSS point of view, as more of the
stack is being opened as part of the migration to MeeGo. Very slowly though.

- Jamie


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Re: So much for Skype.

[Jamie Thompson]

On 2011-05-11 5:05 PM, Γαβριήλ Τασιόπουλος wrote:
 The problem with social software is that you need to support the
 platforms non-technical users are using. That inevitably means Windows
 and Macs.
 
 I use a mac and I'd like to think I'm a technical user. Isolating
 Linux users from the rest of the computer users as more technical and
 specialized is one of the reasons clients for mainstream services are
 not developed for linux.

Perhaps, but the fact is I installed Debian on my parents PC when their
old XP install died (with install discs and keys nowhere to be found),
showed them how to use it, and what happened? My old man went out and
bought a laptop so he could use XP again. I failed with him. My mother
is fine with Linux though.

You can't deny that when it comes to home users, the majority of Linux
users are technical users, and the majority of Windows and Mac users are
not. There are always exceptions; some people's relatives like and can
deal with Linux (great!), and likewise, some techies like Macs, or
Windows. But the majority of Mac and Windows users are plain old
peck-typing email, web, and basic document editing users.

 I've not found a
 decent SIP client yet, let alone a normal user with a SIP account to
 call them with.
 
 I've been using Zoiper to setup remote Computer Based call centers
 over openvpn and it seems to work perfectly.

I personally use Sipgate for VoIP with a couple of technical friends
using my Nokia mobile phones as clients (because, as I say, I can find
no decent clients for Windows), but the point stands - unless I have
other users also using a protocol, it's not an option - hence my love of
the transport system XMPP employs.

- Jamie


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Re: So much for Skype.

[Jamie Thompson]

On 2011-05-11 4:23 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:17 PM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote:
 So Skype has been bought by Microsoft.

 I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh
 well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is
 shaking his head with the inevitability of it all.

 This aught to re-ignite the effort to develop the alternatives.

 And if it doesn't, that will say more than any success could.

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 better download that latest linux version now.

 annoying, but it does work.
 
 Moving on to google talk...
 

Wish I could get more to do so...

The problem with social software is that you need to support the
platforms non-technical users are using. That inevitably means Windows
and Macs.

Problem is, there are no Windows clients AFAIK with decent Jingle video
support. Google, for some crazy reason, decided to put resources into
making a plugin for GMail rather than adding it to their GTalk client
software. Pidgin doesn't have video on Windows, and I've not found a
decent SIP client yet, let alone a normal user with a SIP account to
call them with.

In an ideal world, I'd like to see ubiquitous Jingle support, and
properly maintained XMPP transports for each proprietary network, with
Jingle support added to those if possible. A ubiquitous free solution
for NAT traversal would be nice too, so you get the same just works
experience that Skype offers.

- Jamie


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Re: Immediate Payment To You !!!

[Jamie White]

Aah, gotta love these emails. Their not even bothering to come with some 
interesting story these days.


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Sourcing (very) cheap used InfiniBand hardware

[Jamie White]

Hi

I want to obtain some InfiniBand hardware (switch, and PCI cards for 
about 4-10 PCs), not greatly fussed the age, speed or state of it, 
providing it works.


This is for what is at the moment personal projects and experimenting.

When I say cheap, I mean at most £400. Anyone know way I could manage to 
get hold of this?


Jamie


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C Developer community

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Hey
Does anyone know where there are some C development communities?
Jamie 

Re: [webmin-l] how to redirect a domain in virtualmin

[Jamie Cameron]

Assuming you are running Virtalmin 3.78 or later, you can just select AAA.com
from the left menu, go to Server Configuration - Website Redirects, and create
a redirect from / to the URL http://BBB.com/index.php?lang=en .

 - Jamie

On 29/Apr/2010 09:35 Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote ..
 The question is simple.
 
 The answer [is there any] isn't simple [it's not implemented in
 virtualmin yet?].
 
 So:
 
 There are two domains:
 
 AAA.com
 
 and:
 
 BBB.com
 
 Ok! Both domains are on the Virtualmin server, Ok!
 
 The big question:
 
 How can I redirect
 
 AAA.com
 
 to:
 
 BBB.com/index.php?lang=en
 
 ?
 
 In the menu: Apache Servers - AAA.com - Aliases and Redirections - I
 fill the forms as the:
 
 http://doxfer.com/Webmin/ApacheWebserver
 
 says it would work - Save - Apply Changes - it doesn't work.
 
 Webmin version: 1.350 / Lenny
 
 
 
 So is there an offical howto/doc/anyTHING, that describes, how to
 redirect AAA.com to BBB.com/index.php?lang=en ???
 
 
 Thank you.
 
 Sorry for posting to two mailing lists, but I just can't seem to find a
 working howto :O [I read about this problem in forums, others complain
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XDMCP build

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Hi

Does anyone know a quick way I could a computer running a Linux build
solely for the purpose of XDMCP?


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Re: Network stalls

[Jamie Thompson]

So, I've spent all weekend looking into this, and I'm still no closer to
solving it.

I've tried replacing the NICs, swapping the switches, removing the
switches, isolating the machines, replacing the wiring, and logging the
iptables traffic.

That last one was quite interesting actually. I added log rules for ICMP
traffic to the nat table's prerouting and postrouting chains, and the
filter table's input, forward, and output chains.

When an outage is occurring, pinging the internal NIC from my
workstation shows up packets. Pinging the external NIC from my
workstation doesn't show a thing. The packets don't even seem to be
reaching the prerouting chain. Once the outage finishes, they start
appearing as normal. The server is able to ping both it's interfaces at
all times, as you'd expect. A laptop on the external network is able to
ping the external NIC, (but obviously not the internal one).

I get no reported dropped packets anywhere. I did notice some
rx_crc_errors on the internal NIC (using ethtool), (which is why I tried
replacing the wiring), but these don't seem to go up when the problem
occurs (i.e. they didn't increment at all during outages) - I'm going to
hazard that they're another issue entirely. ~1000 errors out of
~1 good receives doesn't suggest anything major :)

NIC-wise, I tried swapping to both being r8169, and both being e1000.
Identical results regardless of hardware involved.

My next port of call I guess has to be trying older kernels and seeing
if I get the same symptoms.


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Network stalls

[Jamie Thompson]

I'm experiencing a strange problem that I think my Debian server may be
responsible for, but I've no idea how to troubleshoot it!

For the last month or so, I've been experiencing stalls - all access to
the internet stops for a minute or two. It happens frequently...but
intermittently. I assumed it was due to my ISP being rubbish...but then
I noticed that I couldn't access my DSL router's admin during these
stalls either.

Well, I decided to solve the mystery once and for all today, and I'm
even more confused now!

My setup is the rather conventional:
LAN=Eth0 - Server - Eth1=Router=Internet

The server is designated as the DMZ host on the router, and the server
NATs everything going out.

I found that when connected to the wireless router via wifi, internet
access remained constant throughout the stalls (pinging a remote host).
Pinging the same host from my server during the stalls was also fine.
Pinging the server's eth1, the router, or the remote host from my
workstation during a stall fails, but works otherwise.

This leads me to suspect that something's amiss with the NAT process
somehow. FWIW, both network cards on the server are gigabit, though the
router only supports 100Mb. Driver-wise, eth0 is using e1000, and eth1
is using r8169. An alternative is that the problem lies with the routing
between eth0 and eth1.

On the off-chance, I've tried turning off auto-negotiation, I've tried
updating the firmware on the router, and I've tried replacing the
cables, all to no avail.

I don't even know where to begin looking for info on what the problem
is. Any ideas?

- Jamie


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Debian multi-domain authentication (using a LDAP backend)

[Jamie Thompson]

Just throw-out for some thoughts I was musing on.

In the windows world of old, you had your domains, each with a SID, and
thus your users ended up with unique SIDs as the domain SID is prefixed to
their user SIDs. Domain trust accounts could be established to enable users
from other domains to authenticate to the local domain. All very easy to
set up, though I've no idea how easy the arrangement is with the (to me)
newer Active Directory way of doing things. Not really something I've
played with thanks to Samba.

I've also never fully had the *nix/Linux way of achieving the same things
explained to me either, but I'm guessing it involves something else I've
never really played with (i.e. NIS) in some way. My current single-domain
setup has side-stepped the issue (aka. cheating) by using LDAP for SSO
through the use of PAM modules and the like, so in effect just sharing the
backend between my independent machines. I might look into having full
OpenLDAP installations on the machines replicating the server to make
things a bit more robust, as currently it all falls apart if the network
and/or server go down.

However, I planned on setting up a second domain at another site, and
whilst I'd like them to be fairly separate entities, I planned on bridging
them with a VPN and being able to access them as easily as if they were in
a similar setup to the Windows trusted domain arrangement; in effect just
splitting the overall network rather than having two disjoint ones, though
both would need to be able to operate should the other be unavailable.

This raises a number of questions for me though, as having separate Linux
domains raises the prospect of UID clashes that you don't get with the
Windows way of doing things (and in Windows you can specify the domain part
for situations where the same username is in use in both domains), and I'm
not sure of the best way to arrange my LDAP tree to support lookups across
multiple subtrees. I guess I could just make sure whatever I was using to
add users was operating in distinct UID/GID ranges to avoid clashes.

I kind of imagine I'd have to set up global lists of references (i.e. for
the users) at the new higher tier in the LDAP tree, as I'm not sure how I'd
specify multiple valid subtrees in the filters otherwise. There's always
the option of just doing a full subtree search of the top level, but I have
my users OU sub-categorised into various mutually-exclusive categories
currently...which I guess is a sign I should be perhaps figuring out how to
make my client software play nicely with proper LDAP groups instead. Might
have a play with simply searching the whole tree and see how things go...it
does kinda seem the only way to go, but I can't for the life of me find
anything that tells me how to specify a group in a LDAP search filter.
Plenty MS-specific stuff using a memberof attribute, but that's not how
anything I have works currently. *sigh*

Anyway, any random thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

- Jamie



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Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

[Jamie White]

If only it was a Linux ad!

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito
paulorsbrito.lis...@gmail.comwrote:

 lol!! That's funny!

 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons rich...@the-place.net

 I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't
 inviting people to migrate from the dark side

 http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg

 But maybe we should...

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NFS Not mounting at boot

[Jamie Thompson]

 2008-11-23 16:41:28 status installed libgnomeprintui2.2-common 2.18.3-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:28 status installed openoffice.org-base-core 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:28 status installed python-libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5
 2008-11-23 16:41:31 status installed tex-common 1.11.3
 2008-11-23 16:41:32 status installed apt-utils 0.7.18
 2008-11-23 16:41:32 status installed libsplashy1 0.3.10-2.1
 2008-11-23 16:41:32 status installed wodim 9:1.1.9-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:41 status installed ttf-opensymbol 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:41 status installed liblockfile1 1.08-3
 2008-11-23 16:41:41 status installed libpq5 8.3.5-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed samba 2:3.2.4-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed libsoup2.4-1 2.4.1-2
 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed cpp-4.2 4.2.4-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:42 status installed libc6-dev 2.7-16
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libmysqlclient15off 5.0.51a-17
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.18.5-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libhal-storage1 0.5.11-6
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libecal1.2-7 2.22.3-1.1
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libebook1.2-9 2.22.3-1.1
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed gcc-4.2 4.2.4-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.18.3-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:43 status installed pmount 0.9.18-2
 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed hal 0.5.11-6
 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed smbfs 2:3.2.4-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed libgcj8-1 4.2.4-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:48 status installed libgcj8-1-awt 4.2.4-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:52 status installed gpm 1.20.4-3
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libisccc40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libdns43 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed comerr-dev 2.1-1.41.3-1
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libgcj8-jar 4.2.4-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libgnutls-dev 2.4.2-3
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libisccfg40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed libbind9-40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed dnsutils 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-4
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed tasksel-data 2.77
 2008-11-23 16:41:53 status installed openoffice.org-style-andromeda 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed perl-modules 5.10.0-17
 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:54 status installed tasksel 2.77
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-draw 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-style-crystal 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-calc 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed perl 5.10.0-17
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-filter-binfilter 
 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed perl-doc 5.10.0-17
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed kernel-package 11.0011
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed openoffice.org-writer 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:55 status installed python-uno 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:41:56 status installed openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-4
 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed openoffice.org-impress 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed perl-suid 5.10.0-17
 2008-11-23 16:42:00 status installed openoffice.org-math 1:2.4.1-12
 2008-11-23 16:42:01 status installed menu 2.1.40
 2008-11-23 16:42:01 status installed python-support 0.8.4

...of which only portmap strikes me as point of interaction with NFS.

Here's my boot log:
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Setting parameters of disc: (none).
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Setting the system clock.
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: System Clock set to: Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 UTC 2008.
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Activating swap:swapon on /dev/sda6
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: .
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Will now check root file system:fsck 1.41.3 
 (12-Oct-2008)
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 
 /dev/sda3
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: /: clean, 126646/1966080 files, 2507707/3930696 
 blocks (check in 4 mounts)
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: .
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: Setting the system clock.
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:40 2008: System Clock set to: Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 UTC 2008.
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: [Jamie Debug] Printing mtab mounts
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t tmpfs -omode=0755,nosuid tmpfs 
 /lib/init/rw
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid proc /proc
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t sysfs -onodev,noexec,nosuid sysfs /sys
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t usbfs procbususb /proc/bus/usb
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t tmpfs -omode=0755 udev /dev
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t tmpfs -onosuid,nodev tmpfs /dev/shm
 Tue Nov 25 18:49:41 2008: mount -f -t

Re: procmail rule to filter debian-user

[Jamie Griffin]

  I need a rule to filter debian-user into a seperate maildir. I know  
  there's the header:
  X-Maling-List: debian-user...

:0
*^List-Id:*lists.debian.org
/home/bijan/Maildir/.lists.debian/

should do it. 

If you set some variables at the top of your .procmailrc you can easily avoid 
writing out the full path of the Maildir in each recipe; for example:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
SHELL=/bin/bash
MAILDIR=/home/bijan/Maildir/
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox/

You may have done that already, but just in case you had not. It can help when 
writing the recipes. 

So, with that in mind, the following should work equally as well:

:0
*^List-Id:*lists.debian.org
.lists.debian/

The lack of the second colon at the start of the recipe is important when using 
Maildir format - it prevents the locking feature of procmail which is generally 
used for mbox format. Also, as others have pointed, don't miss the trailing 
slash which tells procmail to create the mailbox in Maildir format.

But, as recipes go these are really basic. Procmail is complex so it's worth 
spending some time reading up on it. 

HTH, 

Jamie


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Re: Postfix config question..

[Jamie Griffin]

   I am running a postfix smtp server. The school does not
   object to mail coming in directly but want all ougoing mail
   to go through the school mailserver.
  
   How do I configure to accomplish this?

You need to set the variable 

'relayhost = [nameofsmarthostserver.tld]' in you main.cf file. 

Then create the file /etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd; so, 

`cd /etc/postfix/sasl`
`touch sasl_passwd`


inside that file specify the relayhost details again: 

[nameofsmarthostserver.tld] username:password

obviously use your own login credentials for the remote server there. 

Once you have done that, 'postfix reload' and 'postfix check' to check for 
errors.

HTH, Jamie


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Re: Postfix config question..

[Jamie Griffin]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:24:14PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
 On Mon September 22 2008 14:59:26 I Rattan wrote:
  I am running a postfix smtp server. The school does not
  object to mail coming in directly but want all ougoing mail
  to go through the school mailserver.
 
  How do I configure to accomplish this?
 
 In /etc/postfix/main.cf add:
 
 relayhost = school.mailserver.name

you might need to include the square brackets around the server details, ie:

relay = [school.mailserver.name]

The square brackets disable the mx lookup in case some clever admin has 
configured an mx for whatever reason.

Jamie


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Re: Postfix config question..

[Jamie Griffin]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:49:28PM +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:24:14PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
  On Mon September 22 2008 14:59:26 I Rattan wrote:
   I am running a postfix smtp server. The school does not
   object to mail coming in directly but want all ougoing mail
   to go through the school mailserver.
  
   How do I configure to accomplish this?
  
  In /etc/postfix/main.cf add:
  
  relayhost = school.mailserver.name
 
 you might need to include the square brackets around the server details, ie:
 
 relay = [school.mailserver.name]

relayhost = [school.mailserver.name]

just to correct that (sorry)


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Re: Postfix config question..]

[Jamie Griffin]

From: Jamie Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Postfix config question..

 From what I recall it's also necessary to tell postfix to use SASL
 and where to look for those credentials:
 
 in main.cf:
 
 smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
 smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd
 
 and 'postmap /etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd'
 
yes, absolutely. Only needed if he needs to authenticate to the smarthost (most 
do), otherwise just setting the relayhost parameter should be ok.

Jamie

sorry for replying to you Andrei, should have posted back to the list. ooops ;0)


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Re: unable to download dcc-client from apt

[Jamie Griffin]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:11:19PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
 On 2008-09-14 20:53 +0200, Jamie Griffin wrote:
 
  I'm trying to install dcc-client using apt-get but apparently the package 
  is not available. 
 
 Yeah, it's been removed from unstable, testing and even stable.  See
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464161 for reasons.
 
 Sven

Fair enough, will do without it for now then. Cheers for the info. 

Jamie


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Re: CUPS and Device Permissions

[Jamie Thompson]

Nathaniel Homier wrote:

Is the printer known to work in Debian?


Not directly, but it's a Canon IP4200, which has Linux drivers (abet RPMs which
I've found repackaged (old) by a kind Japanese fellow, though I'm just
using the Canon RPMs and alien for the time being). Few niggles aside, seems to
work.

What are you using to configure the printer, the gnome-printer menu item or 
127.0.0.1:631.


I started off using KDE's printer section in Control Center, but that was/is a
bit flaky. I eventually got the printer added though. I find job
manipulation and sending test jobs works best from localhost:631 though.

Try to avoid using the gnome-printer-config because it is very buggy.  Open 
up 127.0.0.1:631 and go to admin and add printer and it will walk you through
a little wizard.  When all is done it will ask for your username and 
password that you use for logging onto the computer, don't use root. If this 
don't work then add the user that your parents will be to lpadmin. How I did 
it was to go to gnome-user-groups menu item and select group 
tablpadminproperties buttonselect my name and click add. Now that you 
added the user try 127.0.0.1:631 again and it should accept your username and

password. assuming the printer works in the first place under Linux.


I have everyone in lpadmin and lp for testing, and they al seem to be able to
use the localhost:632 tools, but I'll have another look at your steps to see if
anything else happens when you follow them, thanks for your help!

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CUPS and Device Permissions

[Jamie Thompson]

Hey.

I've been trying to get the printer working on my parent's PC, which is now actually using their Debian install now that their XP install has died and 
I'm in no hurry to reinstall it. ;)


Interesting issue though, namely, the printer device and cups.

Basically, I have cups using the default users and groups, namely lp and lpadmin. The groups are all populated (over -populated for my testing, 
actually, but I digress), but it just doesn't work. The permissions on the device /dev/usb/lp0 are the default crw-rw root:lp, but even though 
I've dumped everyone I can think of into the lp group, it doesn't work unless I either give ownership to the lp user, or give everyone rw rights. 
The group side of things just doesn't seem to work at all. I've looked at the processes when printing, and AFAIK they seem correct ( daemon as root, 
children as lp).


I've just modified the udev rule to set the user as lp to let them print, but 
I'd like to figure out why it's not working as expected. Any ideas?



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Re: selecting desktop when installing

[Jamie Griffin]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:49:32PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
 On Wed June 18 2008, Jamie Griffin wrote:
  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-
 i386-kde-CD-1.iso
 
  I didn't have any problem installing it's just the desktop is gnome not
  kde. The same happened when i selected the iso below it in from the same
  mirror which is the xfce desktop.
 
 when you are at the login screen, there are 2 options on the screen ( lower 
 left?) one I think is session type. If you select that, is KDE an option??

Hi Paul

thanks for replying! i did check that already but no, it's not showing
there either. 

surely it must be an option i select or something else i need to do
during the installation?

Jamie


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selecting desktop when installing

[Jamie Griffin]

Hi

This is probably a very basic question but i'd appreciate any tips. 

I installed lenny recently and selected my iso image from here: 

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso

I didn't have any problem installing it's just the desktop is gnome not
kde. The same happened when i selected the iso below it in from the same
mirror which is the xfce desktop. 

The installer didn't give an option to select which desktop environment
i wanted, i just assumed it would be kde. 

What should i do to get the desktop environment i want?

Jamie


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Re: Fetchmail

[Jamie Griffin]

 # /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart
 Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers 
 have  been specified.
  failed!

 Did you run it as root? and have you entered all the required info in
 /etc/fetchmailrc? 


 Sorry, that took so long. :-( Had been busy.

 * Yes I run '/etc/init.d/fetchmail restart' as root and fetchmail daemon  
 has been set to run by SysV-init scripts.
 * My /etc/fetchmailrc is empty
 * /home/[USER_ACCOUNT]/.fetchmailrc has:
   set postmaster [USER_ACCOUNT]
   set bouncemail
   set daemon 300

You should have the server information in /etc/fetchmailrc not 
~/.fetchmailrc if you want to run the program as root.

Jamie


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Re: Fetchmail

[Jamie Griffin]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:52:07PM +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
 Isn't it possible to run fetchmail as root and then one process fetches  
 the mail of all users with help of ~/.fetchmail?

 If no, is there any script that executes daemon automatically for every  
 user that has .fetchmailrc?

using individual user ~/.fetchmailrc files is probably a safer and 
preferred way to use fetchmail. Running it as root obviously brings 
risks which could potentially compromise the root account. 

Have you tried just changing the setting 'enable daemon=yes' in the file 
/etc/default/fetchmail and rebooting which should trigger the daemon 
anyway?

Otherwise you could run a cron job to trigger the daemon and specify 
'set daemon 300' for example in your ~/.fetchmailrc file. 

Jamie


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Re: Running testing? -- read this.

[Jamie Griffin]

 Testing is the right choice for me, and if it no longer is I would move  
 to another distro immediately. Etch doesn't even install on many recent  
 machines.

I too am just a regular user. I have been using sidux and found it to be 
sound os and have just put Debian testing on my laptop a few days 
ago. The stable version wouldn't install on my Dell xps at all  but the
testing release has installed perfectly.

J


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Re: Running testing? -- read this.

[Jamie Griffin]

I'm sure there is some documentation i read on this, but as the testing release 
has been brought up, 
thought i'd take advantage of the knowledge from you guys who have been using 
it a lot. 

On sidux running Debian sid, it was recommended to do a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' 
regularly (ie, every few 
weeks). Is this the case with lenny/sid which is what i installed yesterday. 

If so, how frequently would you recommend i do this. And, should this be done 
using 'apt-get dist-upgrade' 
or are there other tools i can use. I only ask because sidux has 'smxi' which 
(i'm sure you know anyway) 
runs a script that makes the process, and troubleshooting, easier for users who 
aren't as experienced. 

Sorry for thread-jacking, but thought it was kinda relevant to the topic. 

Jamie


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Re: Running testing? -- read this.

[Jamie Griffin]

 
 I don't know how you are running Sidux AND Debian Sid.
Apologies, wan't too clear. The distro called sidux; its core system is Debian 
sid (as far as i understand)

 
 On Sid, I run apt-get upgrade about twice a week, read the output of
 apt-listbugs and then do the same for dist-upgrade.

Will do. 

 Actually, now the command should be aptitude update, aptitude
 safe-upgrade, aptitude full-update.

ok. will use those commands if that's the safest option. 
I fully intend to read through the documentation first, i just wanted to get a 
bit of feed-back from guys like 
yourself. 

As you pointed out, there are differences in the Debian derivatives i've been 
using in the past. Now that i'm 
using Debian itself it's always good to get tips from those already using it. 

Thank you for such a full response. Been really helpful. 

Jamie

 someones idea of what Debian should be/act like mixed in with the Pure
 Debian config files and something does not play well with something
 else.  All Linux distros will do what all other Linux distros can do.
 The question is HOW you get there, not IF.  If you want Debian Sid, I
 suggest you run it.  If you want FC9, run that.  If you like Mepis, run
 that and do what they suggest to keep your system updated.  If these
 Hybrid systems break, you will have to go to THEIR support pages for
 help, we will not know the answer.
 
 Even Ubuntu differs from Debian in significant ways (for example, there
 is no inittab, so don't ask US how to change default boot behavior in
 Ubuntu, ask Ubunutu) even though most of us will overlook the user who
 says I am running Ubuntu and I can't config NFS and attempt to assist
 him/her, we may not know how to fix that issue simply because it is not
 Debian.


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Re: changing xterm colors [solved]

[Jamie Griffin]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:32:29AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
 Or it could be that the line:
 allow-user-resources
 
 is not no /etc/X11/Xsession.options.
 
 The .Xresources file will only be loaded if that option is present.
 
 To test if your .Xresources are working without logging out and back in,
 run:
 $ xrdb -load .Xresources
 and then start up an xterm.
 
 .

Ok, i checked /etc/X11/Xsession.options and the line
'allow-user-resources' was there. 

I installed xtermset using apt which enabled me to change the colors
from the command-line as suggested earlier, so that works :-)

I have also specified the new settings in ~/.Xresources and ran 'xrdb
-load .Xresources' as advised by Cameron and it has worked. 

Thanks very much to those who helped me. 

Jamie
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Re: changing xterm colors [solved]

[Jamie Griffin]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:49PM +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote:
 Ok, i checked /etc/X11/Xsession.options and the line
 'allow-user-resources' was there. 
 
 I installed xtermset using apt which enabled me to change the colors
 from the command-line as suggested earlier, so that works :-)
 
 I have also specified the new settings in ~/.Xresources and ran 'xrdb
 -load .Xresources' as advised by Cameron and it has worked. 
 
 Thanks very much to those who helped me. 
 
 Jamie
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changing xterm colors

[Jamie Griffin]

I've been trying to change the colors on my Xterm to have a black
background and green text. 

As i want the settings changed globally, i've tried editing the file
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color which seemed to be what others had
done on other lists, but this hasn't worked. I don't want to change it
too much in case i screw it up completely. 

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Re: changing xterm colors

[Jamie Griffin]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
 You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory
 (or create it if it does not exist).
 
 Put the following lines in the file:
 
 xterm*VT100*foreground:  green
 xterm*VT100*background:  black
 xterm*VT100*cursorColor: red
 
 (Well, that is if you want the cursor to be red.)
 
 Regards, Jan

 Thanks Jan

 I've tried that and it hasn't worked. Not sure what to try next - does
 anyone have any other ideas? 

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Re: changing xterm colors

[Jamie Griffin]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:39:28PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
 Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Jamie Griffin wrote:
  Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
  You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home
  directory (or create it if it does not exist).
 
  Put the following lines in the file:
 
  xterm*VT100*foreground:  green
  xterm*VT100*background:  black
  xterm*VT100*cursorColor: red
 
  I've tried that and it hasn't worked. Not sure what to try next
  - does anyone have any other ideas?
 
  This definitely *should* work. If it does not work something weird
  is the matter. Are you sure your terminal program is xterm? For
  instance, do you see the VT Fonts menu if you do a
  control-rightclick in the terminal window?
 
  Regards, Jan
 
 I missed some of this thread, so this may not be applicable in the above
 case for some reason.  But, assuming that the desire is to change the
 values for any xterm, I have used one of the following formats in
 .Xresources or .Xdefaults, and one or the other has always worked:
 
 xterm*background: black
 
 or:
 
 XTerm.background: black
 
 Maybe this will help the OP.
 
 Patrick
 
 
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ok. Still no luck with any of the suggesstions made. 

It is definately an xterm - yes i do see the VT Fonts menu when i do a
ctrl  right-click. 

even when i do 'xtermset -fg green -bg black -cr blue' i get command not
found. 

So far i've edited the file: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color and
created the files, as suggessted, ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources but
nothing has had any effect. 

It's not a major issue but i am curious now and kinda would like to find
out how to do this. 

Any other ideas guys? 

Jamie
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.xsession-errors query

[jamie]

Hi

I wanted to ask a question about the file .xsession-errors, namely its
contents. 

Inside this file in my home directory is see this:

X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  19
Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x228
  X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode:  19
  Minor opcode:  0
Resource id:  0x182
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  19
Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x1c8
  X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode:  20
  Minor opcode:  0
Resource id:  0x1c8

I don't know what this means and if it's something i should be worried
about. I wondered if anyone could explain it to me and advise if there's
anything i need to do to stop these error messages. 

Many thanks. 

Jamie


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Re: .xsession-errors query

[Jamie White]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:48 PM, jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi

 I wanted to ask a question about the file .xsession-errors, namely its
 contents.

 Inside this file in my home directory is see this:

 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  19
Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x228
  X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode:  19
  Minor opcode:  0
Resource id:  0x182
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  19
Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x1c8
  X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode:  20
  Minor opcode:  0
Resource id:  0x1c8

 I don't know what this means and if it's something i should be worried
 about. I wondered if anyone could explain it to me and advise if there's
 anything i need to do to stop these error messages.

 Many thanks.

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Hey,

I really wouldn't worry about those errors. Most likely cause is some
minor program bugs, and thats  the problem of individual application
developers, in fact at a glance, they strike as the type of bugs that
are so minor that nobody is going to bother fixing because its just
not worth the effort.
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confusion! In fact, reading you message rather caught me out, because
you even seem to use the same posting format as me... )


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Re: .xsession-errors query

[jamie]

[ Charset ISO-8859-1 converted... ]
 On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:48 PM, jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi
 
  I wanted to ask a question about the file .xsession-errors, namely its
  contents.
 
  Inside this file in my home directory is see this:
 
  X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
   Major opcode:  19
 Minor opcode:  0
   Resource id:  0x228
   X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
 Major opcode:  19
   Minor opcode:  0
 Resource id:  0x182
 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
   Major opcode:  19
 Minor opcode:  0
   Resource id:  0x1c8
   X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
 Major opcode:  20
   Minor opcode:  0
 Resource id:  0x1c8
 
  I don't know what this means and if it's something i should be worried
  about. I wondered if anyone could explain it to me and advise if there's
  anything i need to do to stop these error messages.
 
  Many thanks.
 
  Jamie
 
 Hey,
 
 I really wouldn't worry about those errors. Most likely cause is some
 minor program bugs, and thats  the problem of individual application
 developers, in fact at a glance, they strike as the type of bugs that
 are so minor that nobody is going to bother fixing because its just
 not worth the effort.
 -- 
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 (p.s. I think the fact I got exactly same name as you may cause some
 confusion! In fact, reading you message rather caught me out, because
 you even seem to use the same posting format as me... )

Hi Jamie

Thanks for putting my mind at rest. Just thought i should check it out,
just in case.

Jamie


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Re: no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100

[Jamie Griffin]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:44:10PM +0200, Till Wimmer wrote:
 Hello all

 i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine 
 except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded,
 the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages device busy or 
 similar, just NO SOUND :

 Any idea on how to get sound out of my box?

 Thank you in advance -
 Till

I had a similar problem and running alsaconf from a root shell did the
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Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically

[jamie griffin]

Hi everyone


I'm using sidux nyx and have posted on the forum there but haven't had 
much response so i'm wondering if someone here might be able to help.



I configured my wlan card this evening. Although, it needs to be 
activated manually each time i start up 
the machine.


 I'm using a Dell xps 1330 laptop with an intel pro-wireless networkcard.

 output from lspci:

 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network 
Connection (rev 02)


 I configured it using 'ceni' and followed the instructions from the sidux 
manual.


 I read the same problem in an earlier thread, using the same network card 
as me. The solution there seemed to be editing /etc/network/interfaces. I 
think i have the correct entries in the file and i'm now stuck. Heres the 
contents of /etc/network/interfaces:


 # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
 # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

 # The loopback network interface
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback

 allow-hotplug eth0
 iface eth0 inet dhcp

 allow-hotplug wlan0
 iface wlan0 inet dhcp
 wireless-essid **
 wireless-key ***

 Also, not sure if it's useful, but i did 'dmesg | grep wlan' which shows:

 ~$ dmesg | grep wlan
 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready


When i was using OpenSUSE, my wireless connection was configured 
using eth1, not wlan0 and the wifi light would come on. Should i try 
configuring eth1 rather than wlan0 and if so would you be able to explain 
how to do that.


 I'd be really grateful for some advice.

 Jamie



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Re: Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically (fwd)

[jamie griffin]

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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:48:12 +0100 (BST)
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Subject: Re: Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically



On Thu, 15 May 2008, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:


 allow-hotplug eth0
 iface eth0 inet dhcp

 allow-hotplug wlan0
 iface wlan0 inet dhcp
 wireless-essid **
 wireless-key ***


Add the following line to the above for each interface you want to start
on boot:

auto interfacename

for example, if you want to start wlan0 on boot, add

auto wlan0

just above the

allow-hotplug wlan0

HTH,

M.


Thanks Matthew.

I will try that.

I would like the option to switch between wireless and hardwired connections. 
It sounds as though that method doesn't give me that option?


How can i get around that so i've got the flexibility to use either? When i had 
my wireless connection using eth1 on another distro, it wasn't necessary to 
configure anything.


Thanks for your advice.

Jamie


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Re: Intel pro-wireless wlan not starting automatically

[Jamie Griffin]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:45:39PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
 On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:13 +0100, jamie griffin wrote:
  Hi everyone
  
  
  I'm using sidux nyx and have posted on the forum there but haven't had 
  much response so i'm wondering if someone here might be able to help.
  
  
  I configured my wlan card this evening. Although, it needs to be 
  activated manually each time i start up 
  the machine.
  
I'm using a Dell xps 1330 laptop with an intel pro-wireless networkcard.
  
output from lspci:
  
Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network 
  Connection (rev 02)
  
 I'm not sure if this is the cause of your troubles, but you should be
 aware that there are problems getting this (and related) cards to work.
 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461924.
 
 Supposedly the 2.6.25 kernels in Debian have a fix (the problem may not
 have been in the microcode).  However, I'm still having connection
 problems with a 4965 even after switching kernels.
 
 Ross Boylan
Hi Ross

I've managed to get it working. 

I re-ran ceni and selected wpa_supplicant and auto, rather than
the default options wireless-tools and allow-hotplug. Of course, these
options can be added to /etc/network/interfaces anyway, but i didn't
have a need to do that - it just worked fine.

Jamie
 


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Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

[Jamie White]

Yes it is possible, theres various devices on the market todo it.

There is one big catch, you only usually get 10 meg links. Also the
devices are hard to find, I know the one I got (which I am not using
because it didn't work in the UK!), is 10 meg, but links to the
computer via USB.

Jamie

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Jabka Atu writes:
 but what about the people inside the building ?  as all the lines are
 connected to the same switch.
   
If they are all on the same line any two of them could communicate using
two modems but you can't put more than two modems on a line.
  
   Check the Milkfish project, it may be what are you looking for!

  In what way?

  I looked at http://www.milkfish.org/ and all I see is a conventional
  VoIP router. It may have a FXS port or two (to connect a local analog
  phones) or an FXO port (to connect as a modem to the PSTN) but nothing
  there about networking over phone lines.

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Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

[Jamie White]

If you can get you hand on a compressor, that does the job damn well!

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Ron Johnson wrote:
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  As an old timer I would suggest you try what we used to clean the
  contacts of connectors-an eraser.
 
  But its all over the whole motherboard.  I'm wondering if its tobacco
  residue.
 
 
  I'd try rubbing alcohol.  Maybe a computer shop or medical supply
  house will sell it in 95% or 99% concentration.
 
  That is, if it doesn't delaminate the mobo!
 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbing_alcohol#Other_applications
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 I agree with Ron (as I most always do).  As an old time tron tech,
 alcohol was what we used to clean everything with.  And what you don't
 get off will simply evaporate.  Pretty good all purpose solvent that
 will not take off runs, dissolve the MB, etc.  Just find an acid
 brush  to paint and scrub with and all the gunk should also come up.

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Re: foxconn architecture

[Jamie White]

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  hi,
 
  i am looking to install debian on a pc using a foxconn motherboard, i
 am not
  really sure what architecture setup i would choose from the debian
 packages,
  any hints?
 
  regards
  vurentjie
 
  It has nothing to do with the mb, what matters is the cpu. i686
  is ok for all amd and intel chips newer than pentium II or
  Athlon. If you have a 64 bit chip (athlon 64 or core 2 (or some
  P4's)) you can use the amd64 arch, although 686 will also work.

 And the chipset.  Don't forget the chipset!

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No, chipset has a nil effect. Archictecutre is entirely todo with the CPU.
The OS architecture refers to the processor architecture that code has been
compiled to run on. Anything chipset related is handled by hardware drivers
and HAL (hardware abstraction layer).

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Winbind issue

[Jamie White]

Ok, I am currently try to set up winbind to let me login into my domain
controller, which incidently is running Samba 3, and yes, I do know their
are unix specific ways of doing this, however as I already have the Samba
system in place (I have other Windows clients), I would prefer to just use
that.

Anyway when I run the following command:

net join -S timmothy -U root

I get the following error:

Cannot join as standalone machine

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I might add, my computer is
connected to a network, I have tested this.

Jamie

Re: huge log files

[JAMIE LARTER]

Hello,

I'm sure you've fixed it long by now, but just to close the thread with a 
possible solution.

If you've activated Bandwidth Monitoring in webmin, and your logs are getting 
filled with BANDWITH_IN: and BANDWIDTH_OUT: entries, check here:

less /etc/shorewall/start


Here, you may find:

run_iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_IN: --log-level 
debug
run_iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_IN: --log-level 
debug
run_iptables -I FORWARD -o eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_OUT: --log-level 
debug
run_iptables -I OUTPUT -o eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_OUT: --log-level 
debug
run_iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -j LOG --log-prefix BANDWIDTH_IN: --log-level 
debug

Simply comment these out, restart your firewall, and your huge logs should 
return to normal.

Jamie


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The hot potato of init script actions...

[Jamie Thompson]

Hi, I'm well aware this is a hot potato of sorts, but has anything
changed of late regarding the actions mandated in debian init scripts?
There was mention of some changes being required for LSB compliance a
while back, but nothing seems to have come of it.

My particular need/desire is for the simple status action, that whilst
useful in itself, my particular usage is so Samba can manage services
via the MMC.

As it stands I've just been adding the actions to the init scripts
manually, but as with any custom patches they have to be merged in when
the packages get updated. Not really that much of a chore, but still
annoying.

Anyway, do you think it's likely status is likely to start appearing
in Debian packages or am I going to have to continue my manual patching
for the foreseeable future?



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Re: Kernel problems

[Jamie Thompson]

Well, I had a better run with my current kernel, it ran for 26 days
before things started going haywire this time. Instead of just
panicking, instead I kept getting random process deaths, some
swap-related errors, and a few oops', which I've attached for posterity.

I eventually had to reboot manually as it decided it was out of memory
despite having 200MB+ of swap free. I killed all processes to get back
into the system and then went down to single user and back again, but
portmap just wouldn't respond and thus I had to reboot.

Here's one of the swap errors:
 swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 10013830
 VM: killing process smbd
 swap_free: Bad swap file entry 10013830

...and another...
 swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
  [__alloc_pages+847/952] __alloc_pages+0x34f/0x3b8
  [kmem_getpages+42/136] kmem_getpages+0x2a/0x88
  [cache_grow+120/368] cache_grow+0x78/0x170
  [cache_alloc_refill+444/488] cache_alloc_refill+0x1bc/0x1e8
  [pg0+73770987/1069900800] tcp_in_window+0x22b/0x4ec [ip_conntrack]
  [__kmalloc+102/112] __kmalloc+0x66/0x70
  [pskb_expand_head+77/300] pskb_expand_head+0x4d/0x12c
  [skb_checksum_help+176/204] skb_checksum_help+0xb0/0xcc
  [pg0+73810190/1069900800] ip_nat_fn+0x10e/0x1c4 [iptable_nat]
  [pg0+73810728/1069900800] ip_nat_local_fn+0x4c/0x78 [iptable_nat]
  [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c
  [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c
  [nf_iterate+81/120] nf_iterate+0x51/0x78
  [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c
  [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c
  [nf_hook_slow+62/184] nf_hook_slow+0x3e/0xb8
  [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c
  [ip_queue_xmit+523/1156] ip_queue_xmit+0x20b/0x484
  [dst_output+0/28] dst_output+0x0/0x1c
  [pg0+73170952/1069900800] uhci_destroy_urb_priv+0x9c/0x11c [uhci_hcd]
  [ip_local_deliver+63/532] ip_local_deliver+0x3f/0x214
  [pg0+73170952/1069900800] uhci_destroy_urb_priv+0x9c/0x11c [uhci_hcd]
  [ip_local_deliver+183/532] ip_local_deliver+0xb7/0x214
  [ip_rcv+780/1152] ip_rcv+0x30c/0x480
  [tcp_cwnd_restart+31/244] tcp_cwnd_restart+0x1f/0xf4
  [tcp_transmit_skb+912/2024] tcp_transmit_skb+0x390/0x7e8
  [skb_clone+23/424] skb_clone+0x17/0x1a8
  [tcp_write_wakeup+275/504] tcp_write_wakeup+0x113/0x1f8
  [tcp_write_timer+0/172] tcp_write_timer+0x0/0xac
  [tcp_send_probe0+11/276] tcp_send_probe0+0xb/0x114
  [tcp_write_timer+140/172] tcp_write_timer+0x8c/0xac
  [run_timer_softirq+182/372] run_timer_softirq+0xb6/0x174
  [__do_softirq+63/144] __do_softirq+0x3f/0x90
  [do_softirq+41/44] do_softirq+0x29/0x2c
  [do_IRQ+34/40] do_IRQ+0x22/0x28
  [common_interrupt+26/32] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
  [default_idle+0/44] default_idle+0x0/0x2c
  [default_idle+41/44] default_idle+0x29/0x2c
  [cpu_idle+16/72] cpu_idle+0x10/0x48
  [start_kernel+344/424] start_kernel+0x158/0x1a8

...and one of the out of memory errors:
 DMA free:448kB min:256kB low:320kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:220kB 
 present:16384kB pages_scanned:619 all_unreclaimable? no
 lowmem_reserve[]: 0 48 48
 Normal free:952kB min:768kB low:960kB high:1152kB active:112kB inactive:192kB 
 present:49152kB pages_scanned:181 all_unreclaimable? no
 lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB 
 present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
 lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
 DMA: 0*4kB 4*8kB 16*16kB 3*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 
 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 448kB
 Normal: 48*4kB 5*8kB 11*16kB 9*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 
 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 952kB
 HighMem: empty
 Swap cache: add 27568130, delete 27566294, find 5306420/10672086, race 277+979
 Free swap  = 330788kB
 Total swap = 570488kB
 Out of Memory: Killed process 446 (ldapdns).


Just in case someone can help me, I'll stick with this kernel as oopses
are better than panics integrity-wise.

- Jamie
ksymoops 2.4.11 on i486 2.6.12-1-386.  Options used
 -V (default)
 -K (specified)
 -L (specified)
 -O (specified)
 -m /boot/System.map-2.6.12-1-386 (specified)

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0010
c015e588
*pde = 
Oops:  [#1]
CPU:0
EIP:0060:[__d_path+80/296]Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010292   (2.6.12-1-386) 
eax: c208dfe8   ebx:    ecx: c208dfe8   edx: 
esi: c0ff4200   edi: c208dfe9   ebp: 080ff1e8   esp: c30fde84
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Stack: 000a  c208dfe9 0f09 c1270d14 c3ff4aa0  c0b495a0 
   c015e6aa c0e6d1ec  c1270d14 c3ff4aa0 c208d0df 0f21 c208d0df 
   0070  c0164a50 c0e6d1ec c0ff4200 c208d0df 0f21 0078 
Call Trace:
Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available


eax; c208dfe8 pg0+1ce5fe8/3fc56400
ecx; c208dfe8 pg0+1ce5fe8/3fc56400
esi; c0ff4200 pg0+c4c200/3fc56400
edi; c208dfe9 pg0+1ce5fe9/3fc56400
esp; c30fde84 pg0+2d55e84/3fc56400

Code: 0c 74 0a f6 45 04 10 0f 85 b2 00 00 00 8b 44 24 0c 85 c0 0f 8e 99 00 00 
00 8d 41 ff c6 41 ff 2f 39 6c 24 2c 74 59 90 8b 5c 24 28 39 6b 10

ISC Executable Statements Reference?

[Jamie Thompson]

Hi. I'm looking at using dhcpd's events to update my ldap-based DNS,
however I can find no documentation on the syntax of this scripting
language other than the actual code itself (which as ever, is woefully
lacking comments).

It doesn't look too complicated if I have a few hours spare to work
though it, but I was just wondering if anyone knew of any references or
guides for it anywhere?

From what I've gathered it doesn't seem to support executing external
files, so that might put a bit of a dampner on the situation somewhat.



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Re: proftpd auth failing via libpam-ldap

[Jamie Thompson]

Miro Dietiker, MD Systems wrote:
 Hello People
 
 I have a ProFTPD Version 1.2.10 on debian sarge (standard).
 
 After some days of runtime, proftpd hangs in a manner accepting
 connection and asking for user credentials, but always failing to
 authenticate.
 After a simple restart (/etc/init.d/proftpd restart), the application
 works again.
 
 In Background I use a standard /etc/pam.d/proftpd
 #%PAM-1.0
 auth   required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny
 file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
 @include common-auth
 @include common-account
 @include common-session
 
 Where commin-* uses libpam-ldap in a standard way.
 
 And nss is configured to read full user properties except password.
 
 This is the only service having such auth-locks and with ssh, login is
 never a problem (even if I didn't restart it for months).
 
 A short view in my logfiles:
 First before restarting the login failures as user admin.abc
 
 Feb 21 08:11:42 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown
 Feb 21 08:11:42 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) authentication failure;
 logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=213.3.21.162
 Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown
 Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) authentication failure;
 logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=213.3.21.162
 
 And right after the restart a successful login
 
 Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) session opened for user
 admin.abc by (uid=0)
 Feb 21 08:12:23 frankonia proftpd[24398]: frankonia (X.X.X.X[x.x.x.x]) -
 USER admin.abc: Login successful.
 Feb 21 08:12:25 frankonia proftpd: (pam_unix) session closed for user
 admin.abc
 
 I then began restarting proftpd daily, but some days ago this effect
 already appeared 3 hours after restart.
 
 Any input to me for that case?
 Currently, proftpd is very unreliable for this production environment.

I too have had recent problems with ProFTPD's LDAP module. I do not use
FTP access too often, but a few weeks ago I discovered it wasn't
working, it would connect and then immediately terminate the connection.
When I looked at the logs it was dying on the LDAP lookup. I hadn't
changed anything from a working config, so it must have been an update
that did it. Anyway, the only way I could get it working again was to
simply disable the LDAP options in the config file and rely on pam-ldap
for my authentication. The net result was the same so I'm not too
bothered, maybe that would work for you too if you're already using it?

- Jamie



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Re: samba/ldap/nss

[Jamie Thompson]

Have you tested that the authentication for PAM is working correctly?
Try logging in using whatever auth you are using for it and check it can
read the entiries it needs. libnss-ldap and pam_ldap have different
config files. Sounds like nss is working correctly (i.e. its showing
both users), but the auth is failing for whatever reason.

My files are:

common-password:
passwordsufficient  pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user
passwordrequiredpam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok obscure 
min=4 max=8 md5

common-auth:
authsufficient  pam_ldap.so
authrequiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure

common-account:
account sufficient  pam_ldap.so
account requiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass

common-session:
session requiredpam_unix.so

pam_ldap.conf:
host 127.0.0.1
base ou=Accounts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
ldap_version 3
binddn cn=pam,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
bindpw snip
rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
timelimit 30
bind_timelimit 30
idle_timelimit 3600
pam_password crypt

libnss-ldap.conf:
host 127.0.0.1
base dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
ldap_version 3
binddn cn=nss,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
bindpw snip
rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
timelimit 60
bind_timelimit 60
bind_policy hard
idle_timelimit 240
nss_base_passwd ou=Accounts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_shadow ou=Accounts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_group  ou=Groups,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
#nss_base_hosts ou=Hosts,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_services   ou=Services,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_networks   ou=Networks,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_protocols  ou=Protocols,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_rpcou=Rpc,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_ethers ou=Ethers,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_netmasks   ou=Networks,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_bootparams ou=Ethers,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_aliasesou=Aliases,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.
nss_base_netgroup   ou=Netgroup,dc=jamie-thompson,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=.

Obviously, I've trimmed these slightly, but hopefully that should help.
I use a similar config on my workstations so that they authenticate/NSS
via LDAP to the server. I suspect that although what I have works, it's
not *quite* the correct way. For one thing, I never did get round to
setting up TLS. Luckily, I trust my LAN for the time being :)



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Re: samba/ldap/nss

[Jamie Thompson]

Chris wrote:
 OK - I've decided to look into using a debian box as a PDC using a
 combination of samba and openldap (this is on sid).
 

snip
Yeah, I did this as well, though I stick to testing. Works nicely.

 1) If users and groups are moved into ldap - what about aptitude
 installation of packages that add either a user or a group - will these
 auto-add into ldap or just into the /etc files?

Nope, the packages only change the /etc files. It's up to you to keep
the ldap in sync. In practice, these rarely change, but still, I'd
prefer if they added users/groups/etc via changeable scripts that could
modify ldap insteadbut, well, that itch doesn't warrant a scratch
yet, at least for me. In my personal case I emptied out the system files
to only include root as a backup measure...but on the next upgrade they
all got put back in :) D'oh.

 2) What about system users - I had thought only to insert real people -
 but - I see that the migration tools convert the whole file, root
 included. What is the recommended way here? I mean - I feel dodgy about
 only having root in ldap - what if slapd breaks - this is running on
 unstable after all.

As I said above, I left root in the local passwd as a backup measure. If
you have the ordering in nsswitch to consult ldap before files, you
could even have different passwords for the local root backups for a
little bit of extra peace of mind (and not needing to keep them in sync
when you change your master root password regularly), but it probably
doesn't warrant the hassle. Perhaps best not to have root in ldap at
all...I only have it there so I can authenticate as root using samba and
short-circuit the file permissions on occasion.

 3) Groups - should I stick all groups in ldap (same as q 2 really this).
 
 I know that getent passwd | grep chris now shows 2 entries - so it is
 finding both ldap and /etc/passwd - so that's good :)

Yup, getent will show both. Perhaps a way of configuring things not to
do so, but it doesn't cause any problems that I'm aware of. Software
just uses the first value found, and as the ordering is controllable via
nsswitch, choose whatever you prefer.

 Oh - one other question - I had made a start on the smb stuff. One site
 I found suggested setting the passwd (smbpasswd -w) for the admin user.
 Now sudo requires two passwords to log in - any pointers for a debian
 specific howto for samba pdc would be nice :) I'm working thru the samba
 docs - but it doesn't quite seem to fit.

That's a pam config setup issue I think, you need to look at setting the
plugins to try the previous password before prompting again. My
common-auth pam file has:

authsufficient  pam_ldap.so
authrequiredpam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure

I got all those settings from the idealx docs, so you may just have to
dig around a bit more for the others.



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Improve ur lifestyle

[Jamie Kim]

Hey debian-user-german-request

You won't believe what I just heard. They said that there is over 81% of
americans are coping with 0be sity.

I was one of these people until I came across this site www.hbribe.org/n1/

All I did was fill out there 45 sec form and they got back to me within 3
days

In May 2003, the United States charged Mr. Badawi and another man, Fahd
al-Qusaa, in a 50-count indictment returned in New York. The indictment for
their roles in the attack was brought after both escaped from a Yemeni jail
and was intended in part to allow Interpol to issue a wanted notice, or red
notice, authorizing their detention. Both men were recaptured.

Just wanted you to give it a look,
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Hey debian-user-german-request

You won't believe what I just heard. They said that there is over 81% of
americans are coping with 0be sity.

I was one of these people until I came across this site www.hbribe.org/n1/

All I did was fill out there 45 sec form and they got back to me within 3
days

In May 2003, the United States charged Mr. Badawi and another man, Fahd
al-Qusaa, in a 50-count indictment returned in New York. The indictment for
their roles in the attack was brought after both escaped from a Yemeni jail
and was intended in part to allow Interpol to issue a wanted notice, or red
notice, authorizing their detention. Both men were recaptured.

Just wanted you to give it a look,
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Hey debian-user-german-request

You won't believe what I just heard. They said that there is over 81% of
americans are coping with 0be sity.

I was one of these people until I came across this site www.hbribe.org/n1/

All I did was fill out there 45 sec form and they got back to me within 3
days

In May 2003, the United States charged Mr. Badawi and another man, Fahd
al-Qusaa, in a 50-count indictment returned in New York. The indictment for
their roles in the attack was brought after both escaped from a Yemeni jail
and was intended in part to allow Interpol to issue a wanted notice, or red
notice, authorizing their detention. Both men were recaptured.

Just wanted you to give it a look,
Neil Fuller


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Re: Kernel problems

[Jamie Thompson]

 If he hasn't rebooted his Win2k box in three years, he has some serious 
 Security
 Issues!!  There have been a huge number of security patches requiring reboot 
 in
 the last three years

Well, yeah. I thought of that after a few months of our little
rivalry...and he replied that as it wasn't on the internet...it wasn't
an issue. It's only running a small community radio station network with
established staff anyway, so I think he'll be fine.

 I presume that you've tried using a different kernel to solve your problems?

I started out on the 2.4 i386 kernels, then moved on the the 2.4 i586s,
and am now on the 2.6 i586s. Panics with all, which suggested to me a
hardware problem, but the whole rough two week thing, coupled with the 9
month previous uptime, and the IRQ handler part of things makes me think
obscure kernel issue more.

The most significant difference between the old setup and the current
one is the increased number of uses I've managed as my experience grew.
Among other things, I now run OpenLDAP with Samba on the box, and on a
number of occasions (but far from the majority), performing a huge file
operation (say, unzipping a 500mb zip over the network), causes the
panic, but only when I'm due one ( 2 weeks). Works just fine the rest
of the time. Maybe just coincidences, but that's pretty much the most
I/O strain it ever gets put under. Stuff that just pushes the CPU to
~100% doesn't seem to be a problem.

Also, seems my dates were off...our little compo started only 2 years
ago, not 3 ;) One of the previous attempts to deal with this was here:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=614

I've also taken the liberty of attaching the last dump I bothered
transcribing. Given the prompt for me posting these messages was my most
recent panic, it'll be ~2 weeks before I manage to get a more recent
one. That said, the magic letters 'IRQ' are always present (IIRC)
somewhere in the dump (or at least the bit of it visible on the terminal
when I go have a look why things have stopped working...why doesn't it
allow you to scroll backwards to get the lot :( ).

...though its just occurred to me, is it possible for the RAM to work
fine for ~2 weeks, but then develop bit errors, thus passing the
memtesting, but failing in extended normal use due to their age? Running
memtest for 2 weeks to test that hypothesis seems a bit...excessive, as
I really can't imagine that being the situation.
ksymoops 2.4.9 on i486 2.6.8-2-386.  Options used
 -V (default)
 -k /proc/kallsyms (specified)
 -l /proc/modules (default)
 -o /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/ (default)
 -m /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-386 (default)

Warning (read_ksyms): no kernel symbols in ksyms, is /proc/kallsyms a valid 
ksyms file?
No modules in ksyms, skipping objects
No ksyms, skipping lsmod
CPU 0
EIP: 0060:[C01340F9] Not tainted
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 10002 (2.6.8-2-386)
eax: c18cf000 ebx: c3ffa000 ecx: c3ffaae0 edx: ccee5000
esi: c3fff160 edi: 0028 ebp: 003c esp: c0d29f20
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Stack:  
003c c3fff160 c2914e20 c10a4000 c01341d4 c3fff160 c10a4010 003c
c10a4000 c10a4010 c2914e20 0282 c013444c c3fff160 c10a4000 c2c1b608
c0347a48 000a c028b2f8 c0157788 c2914e20 c3700e70 c0125583 c2c1b65c
Call trace:
[c01341d4] cache_flusharray+0x5e/0x98
[c013444c] kfree+0x38/0x48
[c0157788] d_callback+0x18/0x29
[c0125583] rcv_do_batch+0xf/0x18
[c011c047] tasklet_action+0x3a/0x59
[c011be60] __do_softirq+0x34/0x73
[c011bec1] do_softirq+0x22/0x26
[c0107ee5] do_IRQ+0xe5/0xf9
[c010697c] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
Code:   89 02 2b 4b 0c c7 03 00 01 10 00 c7 43 04 00 02 20 00 89 c8


EIP; c01340f9 free_block+3e/bb   =

eax; c18cf000 __crc_sysfs_create_file+2a20d2/300563
ebx; c3ffa000 __crc_elevator_init+200585/5cd96a
ecx; c3ffaae0 __crc_elevator_init+201065/5cd96a
edx; ccee5000 __crc_xfrm_ealg_get_byname+b10fa/52e343
esi; c3fff160 __crc_elevator_init+2056e5/5cd96a
esp; c0d29f20 __crc_sysfs_remove_file+2ca163/3f4f00

Trace; c01341d4 cache_flusharray+5e/98
Trace; c013444c kfree+38/48
Trace; c0157788 d_callback+18/29
Trace; c0125583 rcu_do_batch+f/18
Trace; c011c047 tasklet_action+3a/59
Trace; c011be60 __do_softirq+34/73
Trace; c011bec1 do_softirq+22/26
Trace; c0107ee5 do_IRQ+e5/f9
Trace; c010697c common_interrupt+18/20

Code;  c01340f9 free_block+3e/bb
 _EIP:
Code;  c01340f9 free_block+3e/bb   =
   0:   89 02 mov%eax,(%edx)   =
Code;  c01340fb free_block+40/bb
   2:   2b 4b 0c  sub0xc(%ebx),%ecx
Code;  c01340fe free_block+43/bb
   5:   c7 03 00 01 10 00 movl   $0x100100,(%ebx)
Code;  c0134104 free_block+49/bb
   b:   c7 43 04 00 02 20 00  movl   $0x200200,0x4(%ebx)
Code;  c013410b free_block+50/bb
  12:   89 c8 mov%ecx,%eax

Kernel Panic Fatal exception in interrupt 

1 warning 

Changelog access

[Jamie Thompson]

Whilst packages.debian.org is down, is there any way to get a hold of
the changelogs? All links seem to point back to packages.debian.org,
which makes me nervous before upgrading packages where I don't know what
the changes are...




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Re: Changelog access

[Jamie Thompson]

Alex Nordstrom wrote:
 
 http://pdo.debian.net/
 

Nope, already spotted that one as the url was given in the link on the
packages.debian.org placeholder page.

Case in point:
http://pdo.debian.net/changelogs/pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.21a-4/changelog



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Kernel problems

[Jamie Thompson]

Ok, I'll start by saying that I adore the Debian Way(TM). However, I
have a long-standing problem that is pretty much the only blight I can
find with Mr Debian.

My server PC is old. Really old. Cyrix M2 old. That said, it does the
job until newer spare hardware becomes available. My first foray into
Linux was Redhat 7.3, which in due course got upgraded to RH8. In that
config the box ran for 9 months with the only downtime caused because I
hit the plug with my foot :) I switched to Debian after I broke RPM so
badly I couldn't install anything (they broke the pthread debugging
symbols for libc, and I needed them urgentlyso I forced a newer
fixed version that hosed RPM badly as it wasn't ABI-compatible(d'oh,
you'd think RPM would be statically linked!) Thanks to ./ evangelising,
APT was my future.

My Debian install has been great, bar one thing. Roughly every two
weeks, not quite clockwork, but close enough, I get a kernel panic. It's
near always (IIRC) in an IRQ handler, generally network or disk related.
The load on the machine isn't huge, so I doubt that's a problem. At
first I suspected the RAM had gone bad, given the strange nature of the
panics (always in different places), but I've swapped it countless
times, and memcheck has always said the ram is fine.

The first few times I scribbled down the panic data and tried various
places to report it...but no-one seemed interested...so where do I go
with this? I disabled a DSL module that tainted the kernel, thinking
that would help me get some attention, but no, it still panics, and
still no interest. Strangely enough, the write panic to swap code/patch
doesn't seem to be in the stock kernels, so short of a serial terminal,
there's no way other than manual transcription of getting the panic data
(which scrolls a looong way) to those in a position to do something
about it. Tweaks of this and that are all fine and well, but given the
~2 week gap it takes for the panic to manifest itself, I gave up on that
avenue a long time ago as, well, the panics never stopped.

These days I just reboot, let the quota checks go though their thing,
and all is well for ~2 weeks. I can't help but feel this isn't the way
it's supposed to be though. I was winning an uptime competition between
a mate and his Win2K server before I installed Debian...now he's been up
 3 years or so...and my record has been 35 days. It makes me sad, but
still, there's not a chance in hell of running equivalent Windows
services on the box, so I make do, knowing that it's still a better
system as I can fix (and have several times) most of the other problems
I get thanks to the open source nature of the project.

- Jamie

PS, for those interested, here's lspci's output:
:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton
VX] (rev 02)
:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA
[Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE
[Natoma/Triton II]
:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB
[Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
:00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765
[Trio32/64/64V+] (rev 43)
:00:12.0 System peripheral: Conexant ADSL AccessRunner PCI
Arbitration Device (rev 01)
:00:12.1 ATM network controller: Conexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL
Interface Device (rev 01)
:00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
:00:14.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)



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Re: Kernel problems

[Jamie Thompson]

Whoops! My apologies, I left return receipt on. My bad. Oh well, at
least its only me who gets to suffer the flood, not the list  :)



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Re: (OT) UK broadband with open port 25

[Jamie Thompson]

Richard Lyons wrote:


A quick OT:

Anyone here found a UK broadband supplier (=2G) who can provide an open
port 25?

 


Freedom to Surf, Zen, and quite a few others do, I believe.
- Jamie


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Re: ldap conversion strategy

[Jamie Thompson]

John Smith wrote:

Hi All,

I'm in the process of designing a plan to move a lot of debian
workstations (all with local users configured) to a ldap managed en-
vironment and have some choices to make, some easy, some tough. Here 
one of the last category:


In order to keep the users using applications they derive from
their current local group memberships, I intend to recreate the local
groups (luckily all according to the default Debian installer policy
and uniquely identified by the same gid over all workstations) in the
ldap tree.

	Should I create each and every group (audio with gid=29 for 
example) in the ldap tree with the same group id as locally defined?


Will those two groups colide and if so, what is the best way
to solve this collision?

Sincerely,

Jan.




Moving it all to LDAP is exactly what I did, but the approach has a few 
problems. Basically, whilst it works just fine, any updates to the base 
packages will be applied to the local files, not the ldap directory. 
That means watching for updates and manually updating the ldap tree. Not 
a biggie, but still a pain. In order to reduce the potential for 
conflicts, I also disabled most of the local groups. Unfortunately, 
updates also re-enable these too.


It would be nice to have the base packages call scripts for 
adding/removing the base users and groups that could be pointed at 
scripts or something similar that could be made to service LDAP, but 
that's not the way it currently works and I haven't the faintest idea 
how to go about actually making it, nor in fact, the time to do so either.


Good luck, it does work well in the end.

- Jamie


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Is my hard disk dying?

[Jamie L. Penman-Smithson]

Hi all,

Recently I've been seeing messages like this in kern.log:

Oct 16 14:42:42 oasis kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: DMA timeout error
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete DataRequest }
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
DataRequest }
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
DataRequest }
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
DataRequest }
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
DataRequest }
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 16 14:43:06 oasis kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 16 14:43:56 oasis kernel: hda: DMA disabled

..I tried disabling DMA on the drive, but the problems keep happening:

Oct 16 14:45:24 oasis kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 16 14:45:24 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:45:59 oasis kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Oct 16 14:45:59 oasis kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 16 14:45:59 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:45:59 oasis kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 16 14:46:18 oasis kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 16 14:51:08 oasis kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 16 14:51:08 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:51:43 oasis kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Oct 16 14:51:43 oasis kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 16 14:51:43 oasis kernel:
Oct 16 14:51:43 oasis kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 16 14:51:48 oasis kernel: ide0: reset: success

In addition, it keeps making alarming clicking sounds, so I'm assuming
that it's about the die on me. Considering that this laptop isn't even a
year old (10 months), it's annoying.

The drive itself is a Toshiba MK6021GAS. Leaving the laptop powered down
for a few hours seems to fix the problem, but it seems to reappear after a
week or two.

Any ideas, or suggestions?

Thanks,

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nVidia GeForce2 MX

[Jamie L. Penman-Smithson]

Hi all,

I've been trying to get an nVidia GeForce2 MX card to work:

:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11
[GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1)

First I tried the nvidia drivers, then the nv drivers. Nothing appears
to work. The most baffling thing is that X isn't logging any errors:

This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any
way.  Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions,
please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository
(http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs).

XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 20040928112350
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Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.26 i686 [ELF] 
Build Date: 28 September 2004
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.27-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9)) #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 
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/XFree86.0.log, Time: Thu Oct  7 21:02:18 2004
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(==) ServerLayout Simple Layout
(**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor My Monitor
(**) |   |--Device nVidia GeForce2
(**) |--Input Device Mouse1
(**) |--Input Device Keyboard1
(**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30
(**) Option XkbRules xfree86
(**) XKB: rules: xfree86
(**) Option XkbModel pc104
(**) XKB: model: pc104
(**) Option XkbLayout gb
(**) XKB: layout: gb
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/.
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/.
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/.
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/.
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/).
(**) FontPath set to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
(**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
(--) using VT number 7

...and then nothing. It freezes with just a black screen.

My XFree86 config is attached.

I've tried everything I can think of to no avail, most results on Google
were too old to be of much use.

The Hardware-HOWTO points towards using the 'nv' driver:
NVIDIA GeForce 2 (generic) GeForce 2 nv 
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS (generic) GeForce 2 nv 
NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic) GeForce 2 nv

Any ideas, or how to get X to be more verbose?

Thanks,

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Re: Flash card reader

[Jamie Gavahan]

At 02:27 AM 9/29/2004, you wrote:
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 18:00, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote:
 Hi all,
   I have de following flash card reader, does anybody know how to make
   it works?

 :00:10.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader
 Controller
 Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1724
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
 ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF-
 FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort-
 SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O
 ports at 8800 Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
 PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable-
 DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Does /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb or something like that, if you have other USB
drive-like devices) appear when you plug the card reader in?  (In my
experience you may have to wait a few minutes for the device to be
created.)
On my laptop, which is a Toshiba Satellite A35, my cardbus controller is from
ENE Technology.  Some memory card readers are connected to the cardbus,
not by usb.  It may help to read this article:
http://tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide/mobile-guide-p2c2s1-card-reader.html
HTH,
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FUBARed my install, wont boot :(

[Jamie Kerwick]

I'll start by saying I'm new to debian, so please be gentle ;)

After 5 or 6 attempts I finally managed to get Debian installed properly
with a small range of packages.
I then installed a whole host of packages thru dselect. One of which was
ALSA (I thought it might help my sound problems, ie, lack-of).
As a dependancy this seems to have installed a kernel image binary
(kernel-image-2.4.16-686) during the installation it gave a message
about modifying LILO, (I unfortunately skipped through this part and
missed the warning message.

Now when I rebooted my PC it wont boot and just gives a 'Kernel panic
unable to mount root FS'.

I have tried using my install CD to boot using the 'rescue' however I
can't get it to work, I have tried 'rescue root=/dev/hda1', and
'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda1', but it is still unable to mount the root fs.
I have even tried to pass a initrd parameter, but with no joy (I'm not
sure as to what the path to a RAMDISK image should be?)

How do I go about fixing this so I can boot

Ta,

Jamie

BTW I installed using bf24.
As I'm using a PC with swappable CD / floppy I was unable to create a
rescue floppy :(.


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Can Debian install on Super Micro SuperServer 5013C-T

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I would like to purchase the SuperServer 5013C-T from Super
Micro. This comes with the following motherboard: Super
P4SCE. Can Debian install on this hardware? If so, which version
(or release)?



Any help would be great. Thanks, Jamie.

installing debian on Super Micro SuperServer 5013C-T

[Jamie Olenick]

I would like to purchase the SuperServer 5013C-T from Super
Micro. This comes with the following motherboard: Super P4SCE.
Can Debian install on this hardware? If so, which version (or release)?



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Re: Gnome 2.4: .Xresources not applied over SSH?

[Jamie Norrish]

JG writes:

 However, according to that discussion all instances of Emacs
 should have the same behaviour. Check the Xproperties of the local
 and remote Emacs windows (using xprop and clicking on the
 window). Specifically check the property WM_CLASS(STRING) to see
 under which names the Xserver recognices the windows. Note that the
 case is significant, Emacs is not the same as emacs.

The WM_CLASS(STRING) is the same for my local and remote emacs
windows, but they do behave differently. However, I have deleted the
unwanted Emacs.ad file in /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb/ and my
remote emacs window is coloured as intended.

Thank you for your help.

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Gnome 2.4: .Xresources not applied over SSH?

[Jamie Norrish]

After Gnome 2.4 packages came into unstable, emacs windows that I opened on
a remote machine via ssh -X no longer used the settings in my local
.Xresources (setting Emacs.Background and Emacs.Foreground). It still
works as expected locally. Is this a bug, in which case which package
should it be filed with, or just me?

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debain sendmail + mailscanner

[Jamie Moir]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone else is using this combination?

I did look at it, but there seems to be quite an amount of antagonisim
between the debian sendmail setup with the queue runner and mailscanner?

Any advice on how to rearrange the init scripts would be appreciated.

Regards,

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Re: nfs through dsl router

[Jamie Email]

.  This is
*all* that is required.  If you couldn't ssh to your work machine, then
that would be different.  You should be able to get away with not
allowing in portmap, if you specify all the options needed to mount (in
other words, mount doesn't need to query portmap).  However, you may
find that allowing your client access to tcp port 111 is easier (in this
case, you will need to figure out a way to update the firewall-- a
script every five minutes would not be bad).

 For now I just entered my current IP, which works fine.  
 
 CLIENT CONFIGURATION
 1. get server's ports
 no problem.  here's the current output:
 matts-mac:~# rpcinfo -p 128.100.34.9
program vers proto   port
 102   tcp111  portmapper
 102   udp111  portmapper
 1000241   udp865  status
 1000241   tcp868  status
 132   udp   2049  nfs
 132   tcp   2049  nfs
 151   udp986  mountd
 152   udp986  mountd
 151   tcp989  mountd
 152   tcp989  mountd
 
 2. set up tunnel
 this usually works,with a command like this: 
 
 ssh -f -c blowfish -L 2820:128.100.34.9:2049 -L 3047:128.100.34.9:989 -l matt 
 128.100.34.9 /bin/sleep 86400
 
This looks fine.

 
 3. mount the nfs volume...  ... this always fails catastrophically.
 In particular, I never seem to be able to open up the requisite ports
 on the client end.  I suspect this has something to do with the home
 network.  Now, on my router (an SMC Barricade, with a web-only
 interface) I don'th ave tons of options.  I can forward individual
 port directly from the router to the home computer; or I can put the
 home computer in a DMZ.  Will either of these strategies work?  what
 further information can I provide to help with diagnosis?

What mount command are you specifying?  As far as the router, the client
is making direct connections to the server over the ssh port, and the
server is responding, shouldn't need to forward anything.  You may find
port forwarding tcp port 111 to your home machine is worthwhile.  Your
home machine should have portmap controlled in /etc/hosts.allw|deny and
also with iptables/ipchains to only allow access from the server.  I
assume that you have nfs-common and portmap installed and running at
home and have the necessary utilities to mount nfs volumes?

Good luck.

Jamie

PS-- having said all of this, you might try a VPN solution.  I use vtund
and mount nfs volumes from remote laptops without issue.  This way you
set up the nfs server in the usual way, have your client VPN into the
network, and you have access.  Of course, this may be too much access
from home-- just a thought.


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Re: My first question on Debian

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to
 hot-swap IDE hard disks.

I know of no Solaris X86 drivers for any of the hotswap IDE hardware.
For that matter, does anyone make HS IDE gear anymore? I'm not sure
there's much of a market for it - if you care about HS, you're generally
going to want a more reliable storage subsystem.

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Re: [OT] Backup solutions

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Bob,
  Bob == Bob Paige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Bob Opinions?
 
 I tried rdiff-backup.
 I uses rsync-like transfer method to minimize net load and diff-like store method to 
 save
 incrementals. Diff method is extended even for binary file (that is rdiff algorithm).
 

Just a random from-the-field report...

I tried using rdiff-backup.

It consistently choked after having several incremental backups.

I don't know what the problem was - I'm not a python fan, and have a
bad feeling about backup software that chokes, so I didn't persue it. 

If you use it, I recommend keeping a close eye on it.

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Re: [OT] Backup solutions - watching

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Alvin Oga wrote:

 
 
 On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
 
  If you use it, I recommend keeping a close eye on it.
 
 if you use any backup system ...
   - restore that backup data to a new disk regularly
   and see that all the files are there..
[...]

Yes, certainly, if you rely on your backup, both test and verify.

What I was getting at specifically was that after experimenting with
rdiff-backup, I found it problematic.

It very well could be that I did something stupid, or that the software
sucks, or that my computer is punishing me for being a US aggressor. I
dunno. 

I was merely interested in provoking due diligence for those who choose
to employ that particular software. 

-j, who makes an effort to speak in more than ellipses.


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Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote:
  On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
   On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote:
I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my
machines running testing, and I was surprised to not [pull patched
sendmail binaries, based upon the announcement of a vulnerability
in it yesterday.
   
   Testing doesn't have security updates, and has never been advertised as
   having security updates.  Are you volunteering?
   
   sigh Someone else running testing in a production environment.
  
  And my choices are?
  
  As I see them.
  
  1. Run unstable, and have a broken system more often than not.
  2. Run stable and have 1970's versions of software/
 
 That's a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server.
 Anyway, if you run testing you need to manage the security yourself by
 backporting patches. I don't believe anyone will ever have told you
 otherwise.

Just to join in...

I'm typing this on a hopelessly crufty old IBM ThinkPad 570, running
unstable. 

I happen to admin several machines running Stable, doing such things as
application servers, database servers, development sandoxes, firewalls,
and difficult-to-identify needed machines.

Unstable is sometimes screwed up. Not for long, but it happens. My fonts
under X are still fucked; when I have time, I'll make Gnome apps and
mozilla happy. 

Stable environments are that. Security patches are there when needed.
The latest version of YAWebSearchEnginePHP aren't. And I don't care that
they aren't.

For my desktop, Unstable is great. Sure, it is buggy sometimes. I've run
Windows when it was buggy sometimes. 

For servers, Stable is great. I sometimes build daemons more current,
and it still is a lot more pleasant than doing so under Solaris, AIX or,
honestly, under FBSD (this from a serious FreeBSD fan.) 

If you broke your box running unstable, ask around and you can get
answers to fix it. There's a reason why it is called unstable.

Sorry, I'm in a  bad mood.

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Re: (OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:

 Hello,
 
 A question about apache.
 I want to setup a virtual map on my server (192.168.0.1) wich is running
 apache. The map have to link to my winXP box wich contains my map with mp3's
 winXP computer's IP is 192.168.0.3. Is it possible to setup a directory wich
 contains the files from a map from another computer?


If I'm following you correctly, you seem to want to serve material from
one machine via apache on another. You'll need to export the content
from the windows box - check out Samba for doing that.

Alternately, you may be wanting to proxy connections to a web server on the 
windows machine. Check out mod_proxy.

Hope this helps.

-j




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Re: (OT) Virtual map in apache to another computer

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:

 Not really...it's not for internal use only.
 I've got a couple a hundred mp3 files and I want to share them with a friend
 of my who lives a few miles away. I can't put them in /var/www because my
 hard-disk is to small for all the files. So I want to setup a virtual map. 

I assume you are acting in accordance with your local laws.

 This is what I want:
 
 If my friend calls 62.163.158.122/music/ he has to open 
 \\WILLEM-JAN\Documenten\Mijn muziek.
 
 It has to be possible, because I did it in Windows XP with IIS before.

If you are running IIS on the win box, you can proxy it with mod_proxy
through your apache server.
 
 I did an apt-cache search mod_proxy but I didn't saw it
 Dselect gave me the same result.
 I looked at www.apache.org but mod_proxy isn't here.

It is usually distributed with the rest of Apache. For docs, see

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html .

Alternately, as I mentioned, you can export your Windows directory (I'm
not very familiar with XP; you'll have to figure that out for yourself),
mount it on your Apache box using Samba/smbmount. After the XP permissions 
are correct, it will be something like 

   mount -o username=user,password=pass -t smb //WILLEM-JAN/Documenten/Mijn Musziek 
/path/to/mount/point

then create an alias in your Apache config, something like

  Alias /music /path/to/mount/point

Good luck.


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Re: server side ftp

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Noll, Ralph wrote:

 i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box
 
 any ideas

Um, you could install an FTP server.

What exactly are you asking?

-j


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Re: Printing problems

[Jamie Oulman]

hi theo. 

whats the permissions on /etc/printcap? 

-jamie

Re: broken man

[Jamie Oulman]

 Shouldn't 'man' be part of the base install? When I
 type man, the system doesnt find anything.

i had this problem upgrading stable-testing 
man-db gets removed and you have to install it
by hand afterwords. make sure you pay attention
to what apt-get says its going to remove with you
start a dist-upgrade. 

best, 
-jamie

PPC Problems

[Jamie McLaughlin]

I have a question regarding the installation of Linux on an Apple PowerBook running a G3.  I read through the "Installing on a PowerPC" but did not find any information on how to make Linux the ONLY OS on the computer. I do not want OS9.x on it, I need Linux. I have had many problems with booting to a different OS. Once the boot disk is gone there is no way to get it back.  I guess my question would be "How do I install Linux on a PowerBook G3 without having to dual boot?"  I hope there is some good news for this.jml* ~(:up)Jamie's RefugeGet more from the Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

xlib6g

[Jamie Wood]

Hi,

I'm desparately trying to solve my problems of locales that I have
previously posted to this list. I'm currently assuming is due to me
extracting XFree86 4.0.3 from tarballs rather than debs so I'm getting
files from the testing distribution that make up 4.0.3 and installing them
in the hope that it will restructure my Xlibs... okay.

Problem.

I'm  trying to install Xlibs-4.0.3. But this conflicts with xlib6g and
everything in X depends on this... how??? is there a replacement from
xlib6g that doesn't conflict? OR shall I just overide and hope it works?

Cheers

Jamie



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Using apt

[Jamie Wood]

Hi - I'm a little confused by apt and wonder how I can best make use of
it...

Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them
home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an
archive on the computer that has all the deb files?

I currently have a directory /usr/local/src/debs but I can't make an entry
in /etc/apt/sources.list that will make dselect automatically see this
directory as a source Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Jamie


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