Re: privoxy refusing connections?
On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it sudo apt-get install privoxy And configured my browser to use the proxy at 127.0.0.1 port 8118 I keep getting the error: The proxy server is refusing connections I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and the config file has a line: listen-address localhost:8118 Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this? Regards, Kailash Are you sure that privoxy is running? Here's the output from ps. $ps -ax | grep privoxy 1601 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile /var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file. Thanks, Kailash Yes, it does. Does localhost resolve to 127.0.0.1 correctly? I would be surprised if it did not, but it's worth checking. $ ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms I wonder if it's something in the config file, but I couldn't figure it out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5572962b.9060...@googlemail.com
[SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?
On Saturday 06 June 2015 08:41 AM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it sudo apt-get install privoxy And configured my browser to use the proxy at 127.0.0.1 port 8118 I keep getting the error: The proxy server is refusing connections I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and the config file has a line: listen-address localhost:8118 Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this? Regards, Kailash Are you sure that privoxy is running? Here's the output from ps. $ps -ax | grep privoxy 1601 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile /var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file. Thanks, Kailash Yes, it does. Does localhost resolve to 127.0.0.1 correctly? I would be surprised if it did not, but it's worth checking. $ ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms I wonder if it's something in the config file, but I couldn't figure it out. Turns out that Liam was correct about the localhost issue. privoxy was listening on the ipv6 localhost and not the ipv4. A search on privoxy.org's mailing list resolved this: http://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/mailman/message/30642470/ $sudo netstat -tunlp tcp6 0 0 ::1:8118:::* LISTEN 1601/privoxy Went into /etc/privoxy/config and changed listen-address localhost:8118 to listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118 And now the issue's resolved. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5572b0e2.4060...@googlemail.com
privoxy refusing connections?
Hi All, Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it sudo apt-get install privoxy And configured my browser to use the proxy at 127.0.0.1 port 8118 I keep getting the error: The proxy server is refusing connections I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and the config file has a line: listen-address localhost:8118 Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this? Regards, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55716238.9080...@googlemail.com
Re: privoxy refusing connections?
On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it sudo apt-get install privoxy And configured my browser to use the proxy at 127.0.0.1 port 8118 I keep getting the error: The proxy server is refusing connections I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and the config file has a line: listen-address localhost:8118 Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this? Regards, Kailash Are you sure that privoxy is running? Here's the output from ps. $ps -ax | grep privoxy 1601 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile /var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file. Thanks, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5571fbca.8090...@googlemail.com
Re: Skype video question
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: I used to run skype without a problem, but now when someone calls, they can hear and see me. I can hear but cannot see them. My video camera is working fine. I installed guvcview and it has no trouble using my camera. When I go to Skype, options, video device, I see that video is enabled and I see myself. But when I try to skype someone, the camera icon on the interface is crossed out. And the camera LED does not come on at the beginning. The interface proceeds to allow me to leave a voice message. Have you seen this? *Question:* Why can't skype use my webcam? *Answer:* You probably need to preload v4l compatibility. Try this: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype src: https://wiki.debian.org/skype HTH, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150531224941.gx30...@engels.historicalmaterialism.info
Re: Debian logging - confused
On Wednesday 15 January 2014 04:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I understand and agree with the argument for having separate logs for different services, as it makes troubleshooting individual servcies much easier - in most cases. However, I also would like to have *one* log that *everything* goes to, because in many cases it makes it much easier to see at a glance if there is a problem - at least on systems that aren't extraordinarily busy. So, does debian have a single log (in gentoo, everything is logged to /var/log/messages, then you can also send individual services to separate logs as well)? The reason I'm asking is, I can't seem to find where sshd is logging (I'm having someone remote in and help me with something, but can't find any record of him having been there yesterday)... Appreciate any pointers... Hi, /etc/rsyslog.conf defines where the various messages are logged to. rsyslog.conf has an excellent manpage. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d672ed.3010...@gmail.com
Re: Daisy player applications that did not go out with the ark :-(
On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:58 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have two separate but related problems. 1. I can find no up to date daisy playing software that will run on Linux. Suggestions, please? Hi Lisi, I'm not clear on which use-cases you're looking at. Have you looked at the following? 1. Emerson Reader: http://code.google.com/p/emerson-reader/ 2. Daisy Book Reader: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbr/ Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d38c09.8040...@gmail.com
Re: gpm dumping info to /var/log/messages
On Wednesday 08 January 2014 01:17 PM, Mike McClain wrote: Is there any way to stop gpm from dumping to /var/log/messages every time I copy/paste without stopping other deamons from writing info there too? I see no such provisions in the man pages. Thanks, Mike -- Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Hi Mike, You should look at the manpage and documentation of rsyslog.conf if you want to discard messages from gpm you could add a line in the RULES section which goes #this discards all messages from gpm gpm.* ~ HTH, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d397a5.5080...@gmail.com
Re: (SOLVED) Re: Backported Kernel - install question
On Saturday 14 December 2013 12:06 PM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 13 December 2013 02:32 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:33:45 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 21:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I experienced that synaptic for *buntu Saucy is broken, perhaps it's for Debian broken too. Sometimes nothing is inconsistent, but Synaptic claims that a dependency should be broken. After closing and opening Synaptic everything is ok. If apt-get does work, than a not buggy Synaptic must work too ;). apt, aptitude and synaptic handle package install conflicts differently. These tools do the same in trivial situations like installing or removing package from the main archive. But, put a number of packages with the same name and different versions (add versioned dependencies to the picture) - and these 3 tools start behaving differently. Add the fact that any package in backports archive has special version that is _lower_ that any version in main archive - and sometimes these tools may produce funny results. Basically, apt provides you with the most dumb solution possible (works most of the time) - install what you want, upgrade dependencies. Aptitude gives you multiple ways of installing package (and one has to choose carefully) - install what you want, upgrade/downgrade dependencies (and may remove something just for fun :). Synaptic assumes that you are not lazy, and will use Ctrl+E (IIRC, may be wrong) to force particular versions for needed packages. So, it's possible to use Synaptic for the task, it just will violate the great IBM principle - 'People should think, machine should work'. Reco Hi, Apt-get gave me the following error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae : Breaks: initramfs-tools ( 0.110~) but 0.109.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. And so I installed initramfs-tools from wheezy-backports first and then the linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae However, was apt-get correct in not attempting to upgrade initramfs-tools as well? Thanks, Kailash FYI only. My new install of the kernel caused VirtualBox to stop functioning: I followed the following steps: 1. Installed the wheezy-backports version of VirtualBox (no change- the kernel modules failed to start) 2. Tried to check versions of dkms - have the latest stable (no updates in backports) 3. After looking through VirtualBox installation page (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#install-linux-host) I figured I was missing the headers for the new kernel. 4. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae followed by sudo apt-get install virtualbox/wheezy-backports --reinstall fixed the issue. Hope this helps. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ac1505.9040...@gmail.com
Re: (SOLVED) Re: Backported Kernel - install question
On Saturday 14 December 2013 02:22 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:06:15 +0530 Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: Apt-get gave me the following error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae : Breaks: initramfs-tools ( 0.110~) but 0.109.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. And so I installed initramfs-tools from wheezy-backports first and then the linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae However, was apt-get correct in not attempting to upgrade initramfs-tools as well? Yes, it was. Compare this: # apt-get install linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 : Breaks: initramfs-tools ( 0.110~) but 0.109.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages To this: apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 The following extra packages will be installed: initramfs-tools Suggested packages: linux-doc-3.11 debian-kernel-handbook The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 The following packages will be upgraded: initramfs-tools Unless you allow apt to search dependencies outside of preferred release (wheezy) - it will try to install from backports only the package you've told it to install (i.e. linux-image). Reco Thanks for the clarification! Much appreciated! K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ac28ea.6070...@gmail.com
Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop
On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel? I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200. I logout (save session on exit), shutdown. Un-dock the laptop (disconnecting both monitors). Now reboot (laptop only). Laptop has 1366x768 resolution. left hand dock is visible bottom dock is not to be seen, even after changing virtual desktops I log in to linux console, then run startx from there. TIA Zenaan Hi Zenaan, When you go the xfce-panel preferences you should see a drop-down which lists all your active panels. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/preferences You could reposition it from there. Sincerely, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ad1ea2.8040...@gmail.com
Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop
On Sunday 15 December 2013 09:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/15/13, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel? I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200. I logout (save session on exit), shutdown. Un-dock the laptop (disconnecting both monitors). Now reboot (laptop only). Laptop has 1366x768 resolution. I log in to linux console, then run startx from there. left hand dock is visible bottom dock is not to be seen, even after changing virtual desktops When you go the xfce-panel preferences you should see a drop-down which lists all your active panels. Yes, Panel 0 and Panel 1. Panel 0 is my bottom panel, which I've selected. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/preferences On this page, Orientation appears to match what I'm seeing as Mode. You could reposition it from there. I only see General - Mode - [ Horizontal | Vertical | Deskbar ] and no panel position (such as top, bottom, etc). There is Lock panel, which, when I disable this, I have panel handles, and can then move the panel up or down that particular (xinerama) 'screen', but not onto the other 'screen', and there is no option in the panel preferences to position the panel. So no, I can't move my panel so that it is visible. Even running xrandr does not fix it, with or without the laptop being docked (and plugged into my external monitors). Even killall xfce4-panel and restarting them, does not cause my bottom panel to become visible... infuriating... Hi Zenaan, There's a similar bug report here: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7272 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677645 Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ad5aff.40...@gmail.com
Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop
On Sunday 15 December 2013 09:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/15/13, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel? I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200. I logout (save session on exit), shutdown. Un-dock the laptop (disconnecting both monitors). Now reboot (laptop only). Laptop has 1366x768 resolution. I log in to linux console, then run startx from there. left hand dock is visible bottom dock is not to be seen, even after changing virtual desktops When you go the xfce-panel preferences you should see a drop-down which lists all your active panels. Yes, Panel 0 and Panel 1. Panel 0 is my bottom panel, which I've selected. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/preferences On this page, Orientation appears to match what I'm seeing as Mode. You could reposition it from there. I only see General - Mode - [ Horizontal | Vertical | Deskbar ] and no panel position (such as top, bottom, etc). There is Lock panel, which, when I disable this, I have panel handles, and can then move the panel up or down that particular (xinerama) 'screen', but not onto the other 'screen', and there is no option in the panel preferences to position the panel. So no, I can't move my panel so that it is visible. Even running xrandr does not fix it, with or without the laptop being docked (and plugged into my external monitors). Even killall xfce4-panel and restarting them, does not cause my bottom panel to become visible... infuriating... And a related one here: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20380 Hope this helps... K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ad5b57.6050...@gmail.com
(SOLVED) Re: Backported Kernel - install question
On Friday 13 December 2013 02:32 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:33:45 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 21:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I experienced that synaptic for *buntu Saucy is broken, perhaps it's for Debian broken too. Sometimes nothing is inconsistent, but Synaptic claims that a dependency should be broken. After closing and opening Synaptic everything is ok. If apt-get does work, than a not buggy Synaptic must work too ;). apt, aptitude and synaptic handle package install conflicts differently. These tools do the same in trivial situations like installing or removing package from the main archive. But, put a number of packages with the same name and different versions (add versioned dependencies to the picture) - and these 3 tools start behaving differently. Add the fact that any package in backports archive has special version that is _lower_ that any version in main archive - and sometimes these tools may produce funny results. Basically, apt provides you with the most dumb solution possible (works most of the time) - install what you want, upgrade dependencies. Aptitude gives you multiple ways of installing package (and one has to choose carefully) - install what you want, upgrade/downgrade dependencies (and may remove something just for fun :). Synaptic assumes that you are not lazy, and will use Ctrl+E (IIRC, may be wrong) to force particular versions for needed packages. So, it's possible to use Synaptic for the task, it just will violate the great IBM principle - 'People should think, machine should work'. Reco Hi, Apt-get gave me the following error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae : Breaks: initramfs-tools ( 0.110~) but 0.109.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. And so I installed initramfs-tools from wheezy-backports first and then the linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae However, was apt-get correct in not attempting to upgrade initramfs-tools as well? Thanks, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52abfc5f.1010...@gmail.com
Re: How to install Packages on Debian-Wheezy
On Friday 13 December 2013 07:08 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: I've also noticed a graphical package installer that was included in the initial install of Debian-Wheezy called, GDebi Package Installer. Has anyone utilized this for installing .deb packages? On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 01:29 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/12/13 00:59, Wally Lepore wrote: http://www.aboutdebian.com/packages.htm Wow! What a... site :/ For newbies it's hard to search for information about Linux, because they don't know the terms, as long as they don't know the structure of Linux and in addition it's hard to distinguish the good, the bad and the ugly websites. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386859081.1257.283.camel@archlinux Yeah, I have, but I still prefer synaptic. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ac028c.7060...@gmail.com
Re: Up-to-date kernels
On Friday 13 December 2013 10:29 PM, Rares Aioanei wrote: Hello everyone, I have a question : since I usually make debs for myself from the latest vanilla kernels, I wondered if those would help somebody else, for example in cases of needed hardware support or some bugfixes. I know about Debian's policy about untrusted software sources as well as the thorough testing done, but I see some usefulness for these kernels (for example I'm compiling 3.13-rc3, while the latest in experimental is 3.11-rc4, if I'm not mistaken). The config is the exact Debian one with added hardware support. If anyone thinks this is a good idea, please let me know and I'll try to get some hosting space. Thanks. Hi Rares, I'd appreciate it. :) I'm a relative noob and still have a ways to go before I get to compiling my own kernel. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ac0387.2080...@gmail.com
Re: nautilus - spacefm
I'm using 'nemo' now, and things like my kindle appear when plugged in but need to be manually mounted, but I can live with that. Have you looked at udisks-glue? udisks-glue is useful for automatically mounting removable devices or running arbitrary commands. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a9ced5.2020...@gmail.com
Re: XFCE4 DateTime applet - custom timezone
On Thursday 12 December 2013 02:34 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I would like a second copy of DateTime in my panel, with a custom timezone - UTC for now. Is this possible with xfce4-panel ? Seen this? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23218/how-to-add-a-custom-timezone-clock-to-an-xfce-panel Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a9d16e.8080...@gmail.com
Re: sound problems after upgrade
On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:12 PM, Christopher Judd wrote: Hi, I have a testing box, kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64, using KDE. After an upgrade earlier this week, I am having problems with sound. The system is an MSI 760GM-P23 motherboard with onboard RealTek ALC887, and sound has always worked fine previously. The problem is that there is no sound output from Amarok, or when I try to test the various sound devices from the KDE system config window. Sound works fine in VLC, however. I have phonon configured to use the VLC-phonon backend; pulseaudio is not installed. How can I determine where the problem is, or which package is broken? Thanks. -Chris | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. | | Research Scientist III | | NYS Dept. of Health j...@wadsworth.org | | Wadsworth Center - ESP | | P. O. Box 509 518 486-7829 | | Albany, NY 12201-0509 | Hi Chris, I seem to recall something similar reported in this mailing list's archives. Something about volume being set to zero after the upgrade... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00215.html Hope this helps, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a9f9cc.4030...@gmail.com
Re: Jesse install images?
On Thursday 12 December 2013 07:29 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: Sorry I also should have stated that you can use either a Live CD or a Rescue CD. Shane On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com mailto:s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: Nope, It's a little more difficult, but you can do a bootstrap install following these instructions adapted to Debian. Ubuntu Debootstrap instructions https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/amd64/linux-upgrade.html Shane On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jon N jdnandr...@gmail.com mailto:jdnandr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new computer that needs (AFAIK) the kernel version 3.10 or better to support my ethernet (Qualcomm Atheros AR8171). I was hoping I could do this with a small download, like the net insttall ISO, but so far I haven't been able to find one. Are by only choices to install Jesse to download multiple CD or 1 DVD file? Thanks, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org mailto:debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cancvmg3b6fsp+2xfsousrzxebwbmvxle-iqzdioi+uu8qco...@mail.gmail.com -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment Hi, The I've found that the netbootcd works best for me... http://netbootcd.tuxfamily.org/ You can choose the distro and the release at install time. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52aa0730.5070...@gmail.com
Re: nautilus - spacefm
On Wednesday 11 December 2013 12:58 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:16:47 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes woycies...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 12/10/2013 12:38 PM, Tixy wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:25 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:03:33 + Sharon Kimble boudic...@talktalk.net wrote: I'm trying to move over to spacefm from nautilus because it automount s my usb drives and kindle, but I've hit a snag. I occasionally need to mount a partition via shfs of my website on a remote server, but I cant see how to do that in spacefm. Can anyone help me please? Answering my own question, neither pcmanfm nor spacefm could do it, bu t thunar can. The first two also didn’t show hidden files [think '.foobar'] but thunar can, so I'm moving over to thunar as it, so far at least, does everything that I've asked of it. Thunar can - * automount usb drives, pcmanfm can do that, in pcmanfm it's a tickbox under the 'Volume Management' tab of the Preferences menu. * mount sftp drives, pcmanfm can do that, if you have gnome vfs packages installed (gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse I beleive). * show hidden files, pcmanfm do that, it's the 'Show Hidden' option in the 'view' menu, and it will remember you're last preference for that setting. And I would expect other file managers to also support these things. Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus was... http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198 Thanks for this Dave. I had just installed 'nemo' when I installed 'cinnamon' to try out, but hadn't thought to try nemo, but now I have, and so far it does the job! Thanks again Sharon. Hi Sharon, Do you have Gnome installed? I have nautilus installed (default Debian install) as well and it seems to automount my usb disks and my kindle and my Kobo reader just fine. Maybe I'm missing something. Re hidden files, it's a preference - see attachment. Sincerely, Kailash attachment: nautilus-pref.png
Re: nautilus - spacefm
On Wednesday 11 December 2013 12:58 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:16:47 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes woycies...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 12/10/2013 12:38 PM, Tixy wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:25 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:03:33 + Sharon Kimble boudic...@talktalk.net wrote: I'm trying to move over to spacefm from nautilus because it automount s my usb drives and kindle, but I've hit a snag. I occasionally need to mount a partition via shfs of my website on a remote server, but I cant see how to do that in spacefm. Can anyone help me please? Answering my own question, neither pcmanfm nor spacefm could do it, bu t thunar can. The first two also didn’t show hidden files [think '.foobar'] but thunar can, so I'm moving over to thunar as it, so far at least, does everything that I've asked of it. Thunar can - * automount usb drives, pcmanfm can do that, in pcmanfm it's a tickbox under the 'Volume Management' tab of the Preferences menu. * mount sftp drives, pcmanfm can do that, if you have gnome vfs packages installed (gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse I beleive). * show hidden files, pcmanfm do that, it's the 'Show Hidden' option in the 'view' menu, and it will remember you're last preference for that setting. And I would expect other file managers to also support these things. Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus was... http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198 Thanks for this Dave. I had just installed 'nemo' when I installed 'cinnamon' to try out, but hadn't thought to try nemo, but now I have, and so far it does the job! Thanks again Sharon. Ah, found an article (on Ubuntu, but checked it on my Debian install and it works fine). Using dconf-editor you can edit the automount behavior here: org.gnome.desktop.media-handling And here's the article with screenshots. http://askubuntu.com/questions/89244/how-to-disable-automount-in-nautiluss-preferences Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a86723.7090...@gmail.com
(SOLVED) Re: gdm3 issue
On Tuesday 10 December 2013 07:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 02:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:08 +, Tom H wrote: The Ubuntu-created grub.cfg cannot be blamed for a GDM problem. If GDM is being launched, grub's job has been done many seconds ago. This seems to be true here, but you're mistaken, a boot option could still cause something when a DE session already is running, e.g. threadsirq, noatime, sure, noatime won't brake something, but threadirqs at least could slow down GUI performance, assumed it's a lowlatency kernel. PS: Let alone options such as e.g. single ;). Thank you all for your assistance! After reading your posts, I decided to tentatively look at causes other than grub. I searched the gnome.org mailing archives and googled the issue some more. The solution that worked for me was to run check the debian boot partition with gparted (e2fsck -cfkp). While I did not note any addition bad sectors, etc. the issue seems to have been resolved. Thanks again, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a702a6.2060...@gmail.com
gdm3 issue
Hi All, Issue: This issue started the day before. I log into Debian and instead of a login screen I get a message about gnome-fallback session failing to load and an alert asking me to contact the administrator. The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and since then I've had this issue. Ubuntu has its own swap and home directories. Looking at the error messages I found this in auth.log: Dec 9 14:25:57 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: pam_unix(gdm-welcome:session): session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0) Dec 9 14:25:57 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: pam_ck_connector(gdm-welcome:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0 Dec 9 14:29:40 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.42 [/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_IN) Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.43 (uid=113 pid=3818 comm=/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties member=GetAll error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=:1.14 (uid=0 pid=3534 comm=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ) Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.43 (uid=113 pid=3818 comm=/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties member=GetAll error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=:1.14 (uid=0 pid=3534 comm=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ) Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.43 (uid=113 pid=3818 comm=/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties member=GetAll error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=:1.14 (uid=0 pid=3534 comm=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ) Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.43 (uid=113 pid=3818 comm=/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties member=GetAll error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=:1.14 (uid=0 pid=3534 comm=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ) Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.43 (uid=113 pid=3818 comm=/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties member=GetAll error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=:1.14 (uid=0 pid=3534 comm=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ) Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm3][3827]: pam_unix(gdm3:session): session opened for user kailash by (uid=0) Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm3][3827]: pam_ck_connector(gdm3:session): So the error appears with the gdm greeter being rejected. nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0 Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: pam_unix(gdm-welcome:session): session closed for user Debian-gdm Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.42, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_IN) (disconnected from bus) Dec 9 14:29:52 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (system bus name :1.63 [/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_IN) Dec 9 14:30:04 Sthir login[3617]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user kailash by LOGIN(uid=0) Dec 9 14:32:08 Sthir sudo: kailash : TTY=tty1 ; PWD=/var/log ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/less auth.log Dec 9 14:32:08 Sthir sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by kailash(uid=0) Dec 9 14:33:00 Sthir sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Is this relevant? If not, what should I be looking at? Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a5913c.6000...@gmail.com
Re: compose:menu in xfce
On Monday 09 December 2013 12:36 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I've used setxkbmap -option compose:menu multiple times in XFCE, but for some reason, something keeps kicking it back over to the same useless functionality that the menu key has in Windows. What's the real way to bind compose to the menu key and make it stick? Hi Paul, You could add the command to a start-up script. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28 Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a59240.2010...@gmail.com
Re: gdm3 issue
On Monday 09 December 2013 04:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:15 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote: The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and since then I've had this issue. So the answer already seems to be there. Ubuntu did likely automatically write a broken grub.cfg with what ever obscure boot option that does break to log in your Debian. If possible you should use a good boot loader instead of GRUB, e.g. Syslinux. I use GRUB 2 just for fun too, but edit grub.cfg manually. Use GRUB 2 from Debian, hopefully it's defaults are more sane than those of *buntus and automatically generate a saner grub.cfg. Regards, Ralf Hi Ralf, Thanks, I tried that using update-grub2 from my Debian install. That did not resolve the issue :( I think it's a PAM issue with gdm - can't say if I'm making any sense, but I haven't found a explanation of how they hang together. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a5cbbf.7090...@gmail.com
Re: gdm3 issue
On Monday 09 December 2013 07:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:25 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote:
Thanks, I tried that using update-grub2 from my Debian install. That
did not resolve the issue :(
JFTR did you install GRUB by Debian. If not, at least copy
the /boot/grub/grub.cfg to the Ubuntu install.
I think it's a PAM issue with gdm - can't say if I'm making any sense,
but I haven't found a explanation of how they hang together.
I don't know.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html
But at least removing the Ubuntu kernel wouldn't cause to change
something for the Debian install.
You could take a look and/or post the /boot/grub/grub.cfg entry that is
used by grub to boot Debian, maybe there is a bad boot option.
Hi Ralf,
Here's the boot.cfg (attached).
Thank you for the link! It will at the very least give me some
understanding of PAM.
Sincerely,
Kailash
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default=0
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
load_video
insmod gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_IN
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
insmod png
if background_image /usr/share/images/desktop-base/joy-grub.png; then
set color_normal=white/black
set color_highlight=black/white
else
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae' --class debian --class
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
echo'Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae
root=UUID=ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776 ro quiet
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
}
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (recovery mode)'
--class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
echo'Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae
root=UUID=ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776 ro single
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry Memory test (memtest86+) {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200) {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
menuentry Memory test (memtest86+, experimental multiboot) {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
multiboot /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
}
menuentry Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200, experimental
multiboot) {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
multiboot /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin console
Re: gdm3 issue
On Monday 09 December 2013 08:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae' --class debian --class
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
echo'Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae
root=UUID=ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776 ro quiet
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
}
I can't speak for such default crap as load_video, but at least the
options ro and quiet shouldn't cause an issue.
My grub.cfg does start with
$ cat /mnt/saucy/boot/grub/grub.cfg
set timeout=8
set default='0'; if [ x$default = xsaved ]; then load_env; set
default=$saved_entry; fi
set color_normal='light-blue/black'; set color_highlight='light-cyan/blue'
# 2013-Dec-05
menuentry
and then there are only menu entries, nothing more. I also don't add the
quiet option and should delete the set default line.
Thank you for your feedback Ralf,
Yeah grub as a culprit would've been nice and easier to tackle. :)
I've also tried the following:
apt-get install gdm3 metacity --reinstall
But that did not resolve the issue. I'll keep looking.
From my research it seems that switching display managers will remove
my problem, however, for now I'd rather stick to gdm3 and figure out the
issue.
Sincerely,
Kailash
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Re: CD drive not showing up anymore
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 12:46 AM, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:38:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net napísal: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:23 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Can this be a dbus issue? MO it could, but as written off-list in German, udev might be the culprit too. And for GNOME-like DE's such as Xfce, it should be the task of gvfs, while for KDE it might be KIO. A security issue might be possible too, perhaps the kid family is broken, policy kit or whatever might have to do with it. My daughter has similar problem. I investigated it remotely only, but it seems, that the CD/DVD drive is not recognized at boot time. Then it is not a DE's related problem. I cannot tell more yet. Hi Matthias, I'm not an expert, but from my reading of the manpages for udev and udisks if you run the following command in the terminal udisks --monitor and try and load a cd and later eject it. You should see some messages at this point. If this works, your udev rules are fine. You'd then have to look at the desktop side - gvfs in gnome's case. In case this doesn't work your issue lies somewhere between the kernel and udev - driver issue or rules issue. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529ef4c8.6070...@gmail.com
Re: CD drive not showing up anymore
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 02:54 PM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Wednesday 04 December 2013 12:46 AM, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:38:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net napísal: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:23 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Can this be a dbus issue? MO it could, but as written off-list in German, udev might be the culprit too. And for GNOME-like DE's such as Xfce, it should be the task of gvfs, while for KDE it might be KIO. A security issue might be possible too, perhaps the kid family is broken, policy kit or whatever might have to do with it. My daughter has similar problem. I investigated it remotely only, but it seems, that the CD/DVD drive is not recognized at boot time. Then it is not a DE's related problem. I cannot tell more yet. Hi Matthias, I'm not an expert, but from my reading of the manpages for udev and udisks if you run the following command in the terminal udisks --monitor and try and load a cd and later eject it. You should see some messages at this point. If this works, your udev rules are fine. You'd then have to look at the desktop side - gvfs in gnome's case. In case this doesn't work your issue lies somewhere between the kernel and udev - driver issue or rules issue. Sincerely, Kailash Hi, For looking into D-BUS you can run dbus-monitor from the terminal and try popping in a CD to see if it shows messages being passed. For automount it seems that nautilus is the actor in Gnome: https://wiki.debian.org/Gnome/nautilus_vs_gnome-volume-manager In XFCE, when you install xfce4-goodies it includes a mount plugin (xfce4-mount-plugin) But as Chris put it, it could simply be the trigger action that's needed. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529f141e.3000...@gmail.com
Re: Firestarter Events always empty
On Sunday 01 December 2013 08:10 PM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: 2013/12/1 Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se mailto:mailingli...@gusnan.se On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:31:28 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvihgab...@gmail.com mailto:hgab...@gmail.com wrote: Why? Thanks for all possible answers From the Debian description at [1]: Firestarter is no longer developed and is missing some critical features such as IPv6 support, so users may be advised to look into more modern alternatives such as gufw. To me it looks like (sadly enough) it hasn't had an upstream release since 2005. [2] If I were you, I would look for alternatives. [1]: http://packages.debian.org/sid/firestarter [2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/files/firestarter/ -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se mailto:mailingli...@gusnan.se gus...@gusnan.se mailto:gus...@gusnan.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org mailto:debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131201141424.4a206...@debian.lan I know its too old - but on other PC-s Firestarter works well with the same system - Debian Squeeze. I just tried gufw too - but its not so good for me - in Firestarter I like Events tab where I can block/unblock anything very quickly. Is there any Firewall for Debian like this? I will try that Hi, http://debtags.debian.net/search/?wl=security%3A%3Afirewall%2Crole%3A%3Aprogramq=firewallqf=default This shows the list of firewall apps/scripts (with tags) in the debian main repository. I'm sorry, I've only experimented with Firestarter and UFW to date. HTH, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529d59d6.2050...@gmail.com
Re: key error message from squeeze-updates repository
On Monday 02 December 2013 11:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I am getting the following error message when I run aptitude update: W: GPG error: http://mirror.ox.ac.uk squeeze-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 8B48AD6246925553 The debian-archive-keyring package is installed. What has gone wrong and how do I correct it? I have googled but found out only that the debian-archive-keyring package ought to be installed - and it is! I am trying to get Squeeze fully upgraded before upgrading to Wheezy. Lisi Hi Lisi, Have you seen this page? http://en.kioskea.net/faq/809-debian-apt-get-no-pubkey-gpg-error You'd have to substitute your key for the key listed there. When I ran the first half of the recommended solution, I get the following: gpg: key 46925553: public key Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (7.0/wheezy) ftpmas...@debian.org imported I'm sorry, I've got no concrete ideas on what causes the error. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529d66a2.4020...@gmail.com
Re: No Video
On Monday 02 December 2013 07:52 PM, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Hudson -- My video - the data on the DOS partition is essential to me. It is obvious that the FAT table has been corrupted, and therefore I do not know where the DOS files are. They may be in the Linux partition. That is why I cannot do an install on that disk. Hi Ethan, I apologize if I've missed a mail or two in this thread. What are you trying to get to at this point? If your X server does not work, you still have access to your console to perform some rescue operations. Alternatively you can also access your machine with a LiveCD to copy data off and perhaps even perform repairs. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529d6a05.2050...@gmail.com
Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?
On Sunday 24 November 2013 07:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the stuff in examples/ but they are just hints, I think. I've googled till I'm blue in the face, but all I find is people who insist on installing wordpress from the downloadable tarball at the wordpress development site and ignore the debian package entirely. I'd much rather do things the Debian way. Somebody must have done it, I would think -- or what's the point of having a Debian package in the first place? If you have, can you share your recipe? All help will be appreciated! Rick Hi Rick, These instructions should work for Debian as well: http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/05/09/how-to-wordpress-on-ubuntu-gnu-linux/ The main thing is to get Apache PHP configured properly. Once that's done, Wordpress config goes easily. I'll be happy to help you troubleshoot this if needed. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5295ab94.10...@gmail.com
Re: Squeeze - recovering from power outage
On Monday 25 November 2013 09:46 PM, Atle Solbakken wrote: Den 25. nov. 2013 16:23, skrev Roman Gelfand: I had recently a power outage on debian squeeze. Even though it appears to working, it stalls at times and very slow. Is there a recommended troubleshooting steps and/or maintenance I need to after this happens? Any suspicious messages in /var/log/syslog or dmesg ? My first guess would be that a hard drive is failing. Might also be DNS-problems not directly related to the outage, might use dig to check it out. Atle. Hi, Unrelated to power outages, one thing to check would be to look at the root directory. If you're low on diskspace that can often cause slow-downs. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5295a4ab.2020...@gmail.com
Re: Debian 7 installation
On Monday 18 November 2013 05:28 PM, Chris Davies wrote: Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, I press Install and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black and I have no idea what is going on. I've had this happen when I used a x64 image. I'd recommend a 32 bit image if your case is similar. And I encountered a different problem with Debian that might possibly be related to this when I sneezed last week. But I'm not going to give out any details either. Sigh. Chris Ah, the benefits of responses like yours... soon enough, I'll have skin like a Rhino's. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/528a11a8.8040...@gmail.com
Re: Debian 7 installation
On Sunday 17 November 2013 04:16 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: Hello, I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, I press Install and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black and I have no idea what is going on. Right. Could you tell us a bit more about the laptop, or is it a secret? What image are you using? Hi, I've had this happen when I used a x64 image. I'd recommend a 32 bit image if your case is similar. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5288f657.4030...@gmail.com
Re: Install Google Chrome
On Monday 18 November 2013 10:10 AM, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I have done the following - Downloaded chrome from site into /opt root@meow:/opt# ls google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb install - root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb now I get dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable: google-chrome-stable depends on gconf-service; however: Package gconf-service is not installed. google-chrome-stable depends on libgconf-2-4 (= 2.31.1); however: Package libgconf-2-4 is not installed. google-chrome-stable depends on libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0); however: Package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 is not installed. google-chrome-stable depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.24.0); however: Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.20.1-2. google-chrome-stable depends on libnspr4 (= 1.8.0.10); however: Package libnspr4 is not installed. google-chrome-stable depends on libnss3 (= 3.14.3); however: Package libnss3 is not installed. google-chrome-stable depends on libstdc++6 (= 4.6); however: Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.4.5-8. google-chrome-stable depends on libx11-6 (= 2:1.4.99.1); however: Version of libx11-6 on system is 2:1.3.3-4+squeeze1. dpkg: error processing google-chrome-stable (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured What should I do? TIA Ethan Hi Ethan, apt-get -f install That should take things forward. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52899d56.7060...@gmail.com
Re: No Display was Nvidia Problems
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 10:01 AM, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List After removing all th eNvidia d\riversd I fouind that I did not have a default window manager. /etc/X11/default-desktop- manager did not exist. so nano /etc/X11/default-desktop-manager and set the value to /etc/gdm3 dpkg-configure gdm3 service gdm3 start reboot Login screen login all the screen shows is the time..no icons. The desktop files exist.. Added another user to see if my desktop files were corrupted. With Gnome classic, the login screen has four icons on the top right [on/off sound language and applications for hard of hearing, or vision]. After login, a blank screen that reverts to the login screen. TIA. Ethan Hi Ethan, For starters, could you tell us what version of Debian you're using? Have you run: apt-get -f install Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5284bf44.7030...@gmail.com
Re: Problem with halt
On Thursday 14 November 2013 12:45 AM, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-13, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2013-11-13, Antonio Paiva alpharomeop...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried using 'shutdown -h -P now' ? No. I was having similar issues with some machines not powering down after shutdown and that solved it for me. In my case, I simply set that as the exit command for my window manager, and I have no idea how you might go about doing it in a desktop env. You'd type the command in an xterm and press enter. Actually I think in gnome you could just create a little launcher (or something), for example. Well, at least in the old gnome everyone regrets you could. Thank you, at any rate. I'll experiment with the -P flag later this evening. In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which points to script that could run shutdown -hP K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5284c26d.4020...@gmail.com
Re: Problem with halt
On Wednesday 30 October 2013 02:17 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: On 29 October 2013 17:13, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com mailto:b...@proulx.com wrote: Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power for my computer. How did you move from Ubuntu to Debian? Fresh installation? Yes. I have this very, very vague memory that if pm-utils and powermgmt-base packages are not installed that this problem ensues. Not very sure of this however. [...] Seems that both are in: root@rome:~# aptitude versions pm-utils Package pm-utils: i A 1.4.1-9 stable500 p A 1.4.1-12 testing 500 root@rome:~# aptitude versions powermgmt-base Package powermgmt-base: i A 1.31 stable,testing500 root@rome:~# I also looked at their dependencies and all nothing obvious us missing. I'll check the firmware thread. Thanks, Wawrzek -- Dr Wawrzyniec Niewodniczańskior Wawrzek for short PhD in Quantum Chemistry MSc in Molecular Engineering WWW: http://wawrzek.name E-MAIL: j...@wawrzek.name mailto:j...@wawrzek.name Linux User #177124 Hi, Do you get something similar when you run the following search? $aptitude search ~i pm-u ~i firmware ~i acpi i acpi- displays information on ACPI devices i acpi-support-base - scripts for handling base ACPI events such i acpid - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface i firmware-linux - Binary firmware for various drivers in the i firmware-linux-free - Binary firmware for various drivers in the i A firmware-linux-nonfree - Binary firmware for various drivers in the i A pm-utils- utilities and scripts for power management Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5284c789.2070...@gmail.com
Re: problem with selinux and Iceweaseal
On Thursday 14 November 2013 02:38 AM, i...@thepostglobal.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have a problem with selinux and Iceweaseal. I install a fresh debian wheezy amd64 on my machine, and then selinux. If I set selinux enforce to 1 from 0 icewaesel don't start anymore. I don't make any change in iceweasel, no plugin, no flash. King Regards, Lorenzo Hi Lorenzo, From what I understand, you'll probably need to tweak your policy for selinux. On the selinux site issues with mail apps not getting access to directories, keys etc. is listed as a common issue. Just my 2 cents. Never used selinux, but that's what my brief reading dug up. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5284c80c.8020...@gmail.com
Re: Problem with halt
On Thursday 14 November 2013 06:40 PM, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-14, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which points to script that could run shutdown -hP Thank you. I was unfamiliar with the program alacarte; however, prior to resorting to such an expedient I have experimented with the -P flag in an xterm and unfortunately the results are far from encouraging (meaning: it didn't produce the desired effect). Hi Curt, so you used: shutdown -hP now and that did not produce the result. From debian wikis it appears to be an APM issue. aptitude search ~i firmware should show if you've got the free nonfree firmware installed. I generally prefer to install the metapackage firmware-linux which installs both. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5284cda9.7080...@gmail.com
Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau
On Monday 11 November 2013 11:11 PM, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-11, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Will the nouveau driver be unblacklisted after the purge? Ask yourself - Would you, as system administrator, expect this? then Oh, sorry, I thought you were answering the OP, a newbie who asked for the procedure (even a wiki) involved in going back to the nouveau driver from the nvidia packages, which might involve manually unblacklisting the nouveau driver (or not), a potentially lethal point which I don't believe you mentioned. Hi All, I've used the sgfxi script and it supports removing non-free drivers and installing free ones instead. http://smxi.org/site/about.htm#sgfxi What is sgfxi (simple graphics installer - s gfx i) The primary purpose of sgfxi is to install non-free graphics drivers. It also supports removing non-free graphics drivers and replacing them with the free version. To do this it cleans out the system of any previous drivers, then installs the latest versions of the driver you have requested. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5284ce91.5080...@gmail.com
Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge
On Sunday 27 October 2013 03:17 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:42:18AM +0100, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:55:57 -0600 ruckusrogue ruckusro...@gmail.com napísal: Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (purge) packages and their dependencies after installing? There are three types of dependencies: + depended = required + recommended = optional Unless you explicitly set recommended to optional, then they are automatically installed. e.g. # less /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90local APT::Default-Release jessie; APT::Install-Recommends false; APT::Acquire::Languages en; #Debug::Acquire::Ftp true; #Debug::Acquire::Http true; Can't comment as to behavior, but I've had some issues with my own experimental installation. I use deborphan to identify removable packages. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/526d0211.7040...@gmail.com
Re: another dependency question
why produce PDF with such capabilities. Reco To convert a PowerPoint presentation with embedded multimedia to PDF would be one example. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/526bc778.4090...@gmail.com
Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?
Is there an alternative network manager for XFCE, and can one be selected during initial installation? https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Wicd HTH, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52526fef.3070...@gmail.com
Re: Mouse scrolling speed
On Monday 07 October 2013 01:27 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:15:18AM -0700, Dolev Farhi wrote: Hi all I'm running Debian 6 with GNOME. My mouse scroll is somewhat slow, It takes about 5-6 scrolls to get to the bottom of a page. in the mouse control GUI there is no indication of scrolling speed. Googling about this brought no solutions except using XFCE. anyone got a clue how to speed up the mouse scroll? I know that xset can be used to change the mouse pointer speed. Maybe it's able to change the scroll speed as well, but the man page doesn't seem to mention it. But if you've got no other leads, you might want to look into xset in case I missed something in the man page. -Rob Hi, Have you seen this? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/71512/setting-the-minimum-pointer-speed-with-no-usable-gnome-gui Sincerely, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52523b9d.7090...@gmail.com
Re: Mouse scrolling speed
On Monday 07 October 2013 01:27 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:15:18AM -0700, Dolev Farhi wrote: Hi all I'm running Debian 6 with GNOME. My mouse scroll is somewhat slow, It takes about 5-6 scrolls to get to the bottom of a page. in the mouse control GUI there is no indication of scrolling speed. Googling about this brought no solutions except using XFCE. anyone got a clue how to speed up the mouse scroll? I know that xset can be used to change the mouse pointer speed. Maybe it's able to change the scroll speed as well, but the man page doesn't seem to mention it. But if you've got no other leads, you might want to look into xset in case I missed something in the man page. -Rob And for reference, here are my pointer settings Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1threshold: 4 K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52523c11.5060...@gmail.com
Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement
On Sunday 06 October 2013 10:01 AM, Joel Roth wrote: xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-voodoo Hi Joel, Atleast in the case of libboost the version will be upgraded from your present 1.49 to 1.54 Re the xorg packages, they all appear to be video drivers which are going to be removed. HTH, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5250ec38.6020...@gmail.com
Re: VLC freezes system
On Thursday 03 October 2013 09:37 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Hi list, Recently whenever I open some videos in vlc, debian freezes, I cannot even switch to tty1 and all I have to do is restart the system. I see that I have VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e) installed in debian, I tried installing the latest VLC (2.1.0) from the backports repository apt-get -t wheezy-backports install vlc but is says that VLC is installed to the latest version. Any help? Have you looked at any of the logs? Messages? Kernel? I recently had some crashes on my desktop and when nothing showed up on the logs, I ran the memtest. Turns out that one of the RAM chips is out. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/524cf48e.40...@gmail.com
Re: only GDM3 greeter screen works
On Friday 13 September 2013 06:38 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: Hello, Apparently I have mucked something up. The GDM3 greeter screen (i.e. the screen that displays your name, and solicits the password) functions, but it will not sign me on. I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or password problem. I've run dpkg-reconfigure gdm3, but that didn't help. I've run /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart, and that didn't help either. Any ideas? Dean reinstall gdm3? K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5232ad75.5040...@gmail.com
Re: under GDM3 printer outputs only blank pages
On Thursday 12 September 2013 08:24 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: Hello: I finally upgraded to Wheezy and GDM3 in August. Since then, my Postscript printer which functioned correctly under GDM2 outputs ONLY blank pages when print requests are submitted to CUPS. The printer does function correctly if I run: cat PS_FILE.ps /dev/lp0 But using lp PS_FILE.ps or lp FILE.txt outputs only a blank page. Similar results occur if I print from ghostview for example. Any ideas on where to look, or what config file might need tweaking? Thanks, Dean Hi Dean, CUPS uses a PPD file that describes the printer's postscript version. Perhaps that was somehow altered or changed. My next move would be to check the ppd version installed in CUPS - http://localhost:631 and search online to see if the manufacturer has a ppd that could be used instead. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5232b099.1030...@gmail.com
Re: Security?
On Friday 13 September 2013 12:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Indeed https://startpage.com/do/search https://www.google.de/#q=pussy+riot pussy riot with and without the quotes is filtered by starpage.com, while Google does show hits regarding to the Russian feminists. IMO they are not really important, serious feminists. Just for fun I tried moby's dick ;) and by Google I got http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/25239/ (G-rated, don't worry) and startpage.com only shows Moby Dick. :) No spying, only spelling correction. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5232be16.50...@gmail.com
Re: How to eliminate these 'Script ETH1START is broken'
On Friday 13 September 2013 05:20 AM, John W. Foster wrote: How to get rid of these messages; System is working fine, but I get these now and then when installing or uninstalling debian apps insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `ETH1START' Hi, Could you run locate ETH1START and post a copy of the file here? Fixing the error might be easier. IMO, this is probably a script file in /etc/inid.d which seems to be have the errors list. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5232bf09.3000...@gmail.com
Re: -- SPAM --Re: nm eth0 connection
On Friday 13 September 2013 10:12 AM, Robert Holtzm wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:23:50AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:13:30 -0700 Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote: snip... What's no-auto-default=00:21:CC:B6:06:8F,?! I've never seen no-auto-default=... before but I'd blame it for your NIC not coming up automatically since 00...8F is its MAC address! That line is commented out. Not sure why it didn't show up that way in my post. Tried uncommenting it with no effect. I don't understand what it's doing there. Pinging my router as root still gives Operation not permitted. It says I'm sending packets but none are received. At this point I'm completely snowed to the point where I'm tempted to try the M$ solution (reload the OS). So far I'm fighting the temptation. Daft as it sounds, have you tried rebooting? That might well clear the bottleneck, hopefully :) Any number of times, after any change. Don't know if it's required but it can't hurt. Ok, so if network manager's working and you have a valid IP address, and you can't ping, then there may be some issue you with routing. $routel might be a good starting point. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5232c34b.6070...@gmail.com
Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks
On Thursday 05 September 2013 07:48 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/5/13, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: * On 2013 05 Sep 05:48 -0500, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'. Evince error: (evince:15620): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'. It sounds like you're lacking a GTK3 theme engine. For example, I have the clearlooks-phenix-theme package installed so that GTK3 and GTK2 apps look nearly identical. Thanks. Adwaita's not too bad either. A theme is another thing I'd like to create one day - cross-desktop, cross-display engine, highly-customizable theme. Now my text box in firefox is no longer expandable - hopefully will fix itself on restart. That's all folks, and thanks again, Zenaan Hi, So was the gedit issue resolved? Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/522efff9.7050...@gmail.com
Re: Security?
On Tuesday 10 September 2013 12:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 20:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Obama is as evil as a human being can be, it's impossible to be more evil. He is in one league with [...] idiots. Nobody was hooked :), that's good, because it's nonsense, resp. a provocation. But indeed, people died because of the politic, so IMO stealing data is less an issue, than other issues we've got on our planet. I wonder that nobody writes endless mails about starvation and wars and when there is the comparison between the USA and China, keep in mind that there is more serious wrongness in China, than in the USA. We can't protect ourself against living in a country were hunger is an issue, we can't protect ourself against wars, but we can protect ourself against data robbery, by not providing important data by the Internet. So, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance We have some software solutions. Could a system be also compromised when using a generic hardware layer? And if so, what options exist? Any pointers would be appreciated. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/522f05cb.7080...@gmail.com
Re: itunes under debian
On Wednesday 04 September 2013 12:02 AM, Mike McGinn wrote: On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 14:16:49 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 19:23:20 schrieb Pascal Obry: Le 03/09/2013 19:00, Mike McGinn a écrit : Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? I believe, iTunes10 can be installed in Playonlinux, when you set a mark in the testing option. Sorry, but I did not test it, but I tested iTunes (do not know, which version, I believe it was 9) using wine. However, iTunes is a crap, maybe there is an alternative? If he just wants to listen music and not buy frome the store, he might take a look on amarok. Best Hans Unfortunately he buys a lot of music from the store. My friend will get his Windows 7 going for a case of microbrew, but I am looking into Mint now also. Mike Hi Mike, I ran into a similar situation with a friend earlier. After much searching and trying, the only option that worked for her was to install a WinXP VM. So we installed VirtualBox on her Debian install and installed WinXP on it. We patched it to SP2 and then were able to install iTunes and connect successfully. If you try this solution and run into issues, I'd be happy to share how we fixed ours. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5226f050.6060...@gmail.com
Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks
On Sunday 01 September 2013 08:24 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have been happy since. I find it adequate; ~8months now; I am however reasonable with the command line. I don't like mousepad editor however, and I don't gedit. So I installed gedit. But gnome apps aren't configuring properly; in particular, in the menu bar of gedit (and I've seen it elsewhere I think), all the menus are jammed up against each other - no nice spacing between them. Anyone know what I ought to install to make these gnome menus work properly with XFCE4 ? Hi Zenaan, Have you tried running gedit from terminal? Perhaps some interesting errors or warnings may crop up. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52276a7e.8090...@gmail.com
Re: Identifying CPU
On Thursday 29 August 2013 07:28 PM, staticsafe wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 08:25:35AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'll be installing Debian 7.1 on two unrelated sets of machines. I have no record of the cpu in any of the machines. Is there a utility to identify the processors, particularly bus width. All machines originally ran various 32 bit MS Windows incarnations. Three personal machines: 1. A Lenovo desktop currently running WinXP Pro SP3 2. An IBM/Lenovo T43 Thinkpad laptop running WinXP Pro SP3 3. A Lenovo R61 Thinkpad laptop currently running various configurations of Squeeze. There were stickers on it when I purchased it saying Intel Core2 Duo and Windows Vista Basic. Windows was completely removed when I installed Squeeze. A collection of donated machines at church being used for a outreach program for the neighborhood K-6 children. OS include Win98 and later. For the time being all Debian installs will be 32 bit. In a year or so, capable machines will be migrated to 64 bit. There are non-technical constraints precluding immediate migration to 64 bit. Suggestions/comments? TIA cat /proc/cpuinfo and Google will do the job. Hi Richard, A few weeks ago we had an interesting thread discussing the performance advantage of 64bit vs 32bit kernels and the outcome was that except for server loads where a couple of % points make a difference, you may not really need to go for 64bit. So, unless there's a reason like huge amounts of RAM, you're better off with the 32bit kernel. 2 cents, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/521f55df.2010...@gmail.com
Re: network issue
On Monday 26 August 2013 01:22 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Kailash a écrit : I've got two machines at home with Debian (Wheezy) installed: A B. A is a desktop and B is a laptop. A connects to the network via a wired connection and B via the wireless. Both have RAM in excess of 1 GB and for machine A, I've set up XFCE. When browsing the internet, I often find that B is much faster than A. After entering a url, when I hit enter, the browser just seems to take a while to even connect to the destination server. How should I go about figuring out this issue? Check DNS resolution. To ease matters, I installed a PDNSD on the same machine and updated the network configuration to check the local machine. I guess my next step will be to try out wireshark. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/521b3e25.5060...@gmail.com
network issue
Hi, I've got two machines at home with Debian (Wheezy) installed: A B. A is a desktop and B is a laptop. A connects to the network via a wired connection and B via the wireless. Both have RAM in excess of 1 GB and for machine A, I've set up XFCE. When browsing the internet, I often find that B is much faster than A. After entering a url, when I hit enter, the browser just seems to take a while to even connect to the destination server. How should I go about figuring out this issue? Thanks, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/521ad43e.8040...@gmail.com
Re: sda sdb sdc confusion
On Saturday 24 August 2013 06:26 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: On Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:40:16 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i have 3 HD sata 1TB , same vendor same size drives for RAID1 and remaining one is for fail safe. now the question is how would i know which cable is attached to which device. manually unplugging and testing, yes i can do it but there could be a easy way. i know there are commands like fdisk, smartctl etc. but still i can not learn which drive is what. Hi, Muhammad. You could identify the drive serial number as follows: # smartctl -i /dev/sdb # hdparm -i /dev/sdb Record the output (serial number) of either of these two commands and compare it with what you have written on the disks. Regards, Daniel hdparm -i /dev/sdb | grep Serial gets you the line directly. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5218aed2.9030...@gmail.com
Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X?
On Thursday 22 August 2013 04:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 19:41 -0700, 郭靖 wrote: I've burned a Live CD, and I tried it on VirtualBox, it looked fine but I chose the wrong place for GRUB, at last it didn't run well. More information is needed to comment this. is Synaptic different from apt-get? Which of them has more softwares? Both use the same list of repositories, so the same software is available. mc looks fine and I may tried out. mcedit is the command to access it's editor directly and mcedit /path/to/file/foo will open the editor and a file directly. nano is another easy to use editor, but you should know the basics how to use vi, or vim, since those are the editors that usually are separated from the rest of the userspace and available if everything should be broken on UNIX like systems. If you want to learn Linux this way I would recommend to use another distro, but this are only my 2 cents. I for example prefer Arch over Debian. Beside the repositories that provide binaries Arch comes with a build system similar to FreeBSD ports, packages neither for this build system, nor for the binaries are split, as they are for Debian. Arch packages follow upstream, IOW a lib will not get a separated package, headers don't get separated packages too. Building packages for Arch is much easier than doing it for Debian. The _real_ rolling release model of Arch does provide latest _stable_ software, so if you want to develop using a lot of new stuff from git, svn etc., you wouldn't run that easy into issues, as you'll do when using Debian. If I dual-boot Debian on my MBP, then install rEFIt, would it be fine? I don't know. Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook/DebianInstallTutorial https://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook http://codylittlewood.com/arch-linux-on-macbook-pro-installation/ And can I send and/or receive mailing list or emails, and talk on IRC channels? You are already doing it ;), but yes you can do it using Linux too :). Regards, Ralf Hi, The questions you're asking about are probably covered better in the Debian Administrator's handbook. http://debian-handbook.info/ They have a free ebook version available from their website too. It covers the basic choices you'd need to make working you through the install process, and explaining the basic packages necessary on Debian. Another good site would be TDLP.org where you can find some good introductory material on linux to get you going. Hope that helps, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5215fa05.1010...@gmail.com
Re: Missing Makefile
On Thursday 22 August 2013 09:32 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 8/22/2013 1:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Monday 05 August 2013 08:10 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 8/4/2013 5:22 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 22:11:16 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 8/3/2013 10:30 AM, Tom H wrote: Do the following four symlinks exist on your box (for 3.2 of course). /lib/modules/3.10-1-amd64/build - /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-amd64 /lib/modules/3.10-1-amd64/source - /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-common /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-amd64/scripts - /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-3.10/scripts /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-common/scripts - /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-3.10/scripts Yes, all of the symlinks are there. Any other ideas? None given that the only clue is I can't run make and everything else is OK. Your broken setup might be fixed by re-installing linux-headers and linux-kbuild. Thanks, but I've already done that twice. It's got me. Guess I'm going to have to just dump this system and start from scratch. Fortunately, it's only a test system I built to test the new module(s). Hi Jerry, Reinstalling the system won't help. I used packages.debian.org to figure this out and followed the solution listed here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5t=62877sid=fa12a2b8afd8827ef9ce71e8826d049fstart=15 Have you installed the package dkms? This in turn should install the package linux-kbuild-3.2 which includes the needed scripts. Sincerely, Kailash Thanks, Kailash, but I've already seen that (and several other) solutions. linux-kbuild-3.2 is installed. I tried it with dkms installed also, with no change. Meanwhile, since we haven't been able to get this working, we may have to do it under Windows. And I hate windows, but we have to get this working. The old OS/2 system is on it's last legs. Hi Jerry, If you don't mind, I'd like to look at some things if you're still up for it. I'll try and do a repro on my end. Could you post the contents of your sources.list file? Also could you show a listing of the relevant packages installed? Thanks, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5216e6d4.1020...@gmail.com
Re: Missing Makefile
On Monday 05 August 2013 08:10 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 8/4/2013 5:22 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 22:11:16 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 8/3/2013 10:30 AM, Tom H wrote: Do the following four symlinks exist on your box (for 3.2 of course). /lib/modules/3.10-1-amd64/build - /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-amd64 /lib/modules/3.10-1-amd64/source - /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-common /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-amd64/scripts - /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-3.10/scripts /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-1-common/scripts - /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-3.10/scripts Yes, all of the symlinks are there. Any other ideas? None given that the only clue is I can't run make and everything else is OK. Your broken setup might be fixed by re-installing linux-headers and linux-kbuild. Thanks, but I've already done that twice. It's got me. Guess I'm going to have to just dump this system and start from scratch. Fortunately, it's only a test system I built to test the new module(s). Hi Jerry, Reinstalling the system won't help. I used packages.debian.org to figure this out and followed the solution listed here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5t=62877sid=fa12a2b8afd8827ef9ce71e8826d049fstart=15 Have you installed the package dkms? This in turn should install the package linux-kbuild-3.2 which includes the needed scripts. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5215a6a2.2080...@gmail.com
Re: wireless problem
On Tuesday 20 August 2013 07:16 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Robert Holtzm, 19.08.2013: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:07:57PM -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote: I have a wireless connection that disconnects sponaneously. NM claims I'm connected but I'm not. Can't ping the router (operation not permitted). Ethernet connection is no problem when wireless is down. Tried installing wicd with no luck. Not only no luck but with wicd I couldn't turn on the xciever. At one time wicd wouldn't play nice w/ NM. IIRC this is no longer true. Can anyone confirm? I just purged wicd and NM fired up my wireless connection w/ no problem. I'll see how long it lasts. FWIW I'm running Wheezy fully updated w/ fxce4 DE. Well, that didn't last long. Wireless ran fine until this AM when it died and won't restart. As before, ethernet is fine. I'm floundering here and could use a hand. Not sure what areas to research. Anyone have any ideas? Can you unload and reload the wireless module using modprobe? Hi Robert, I recall having a similar problem with the wifi with Squeeze. I resolved it by disabling ipV6 in the Network Settings. Hope that helps, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5213a93c.6060...@gmail.com
Re: Problems installing wheezy
...@lists.debian.org mailto:debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130811060110.gb5...@gregn.net Re home directory, you may wish to run a chown command to ensure that any ownership issues are resolved. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5207814b.7050...@gmail.com
Re: Migrating 32 - 64
On Sunday 11 August 2013 12:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/10/2013 7:25 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was hanging). As a result, I have purchased a new (old and refurbished) machine. The difference is that this one has an x86-64 whereas the old one is 32-bit. Ideally, I'd like to move the HD from the old one to the new one, boot, and tell it to upgrade all the packages for the new architecture. Ask yourself this question: Is the juice worth the squeeze? In your case the answer is almost certainly NO. Thus I recommend you simply plug the drive into the new machine and soldier on, saving yourself the time and potential headaches of such an upgrade. There is no discernible performance difference between the two with your workloads. You'll gain nothing from moving to 64 bit but for an irrational warm fuzzy feeling knowing you have it. Like many, I suspect that having a 64 bit capable CPU is simply an overwhelming itch you feel compelled to scratch. Resist that urge, swap the drive, be happy. I second Stan's stance. x64 is great for heavy loads, but for a home server you may not notice any discernible speed increases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Pros_and_cons Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52078356.9040...@gmail.com
Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)
On Sunday 11 August 2013 10:39 AM, Dom wrote: On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. - Still an unhelpful question, esp when one knows the true meaning of SNAFU have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then just delete everything else. Simple. Right? Wrong. Now, I'm stuck with about 4.5 megs of Gnome data, icons, AFAIU, a .deb file is just an 'ar' archive. As to how to recover after an unintentional unpack, ... dunno. Hopefully someone on this list knows now that the subject explains your predicament. Fortunately --unpack just installed files to their appropriate directories, but didn't trigger or configure anything. Not all that up on dpkg. Have always used apt-get. If I don't hear anything bad to the contrary in the next day or so, I'm just going to use --purge to remove the package after creating a copy of the file I need in a safe directory, then copy the copy back after the purging. Hopefully, it will work. Good luck with that, it sounds like it will work. Alternatively you can get a list of the files contained in the .deb file using dpkg -c debfile. With a little bit of wrangling that will give you a list of files and directories to delete - although you should only delete directories if they are empty. Hi, As per the man pages: http://linuxreviews.org/man/dpkg/ dpkg -s package-name will give you the status of a package. As per the man file, it should show the status as unpacked. dpkg --purge should work as expected. To make sure that it does work as expected you can add add the --no-act option which will ensure that no changes are written. caveat: Be sure to give --no-act before the action-parameter, or you might end up with undesirable results. (e.g. dpkg --purge foo --no-act will first purge package foo and then try to purge package --no-act, even though you probably expected it to actually do nothing) Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5207863f.4060...@gmail.com
Re: Problems installing wheezy
On Monday 12 August 2013 06:06 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Finally able to boot my machine with my new debian distro! Thanks a lot! I am gonna stay here forever! Some post-installation questions, 1) The desktop seems to be unusable, no icons on the desktop and I cannot right click onto it. Or it normal? Is there a setting to unlock the desktop? or is something wrong with the installation? 2) Now I have downloaded the dvd-iso-1 and installed debain, I will be downloading the other too dvds too this week. If I am not connected to the Internet and I have these iso/s/ will I be able to install other packages using them? Else I will skip downloading them. Thanks again! Feels great! On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Anubhav Yadav anubhav1...@gmail.com mailto:anubhav1...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 11, 2013 1:56 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk mailto:a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 11 Aug 2013 at 07:00:37 +, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Thanks a lot, I read the documentation and mistook the word mounted for unmounted. Can we clear on this so that people do not lose confidence in using an isohybrid image? 1. You ensured the USB device was unmounted. I did this mistake and this time I ensured that the usb was UNMOUNTED 2. You did either cp debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /dev/sdc or cat debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /dev/sdc The second one, but yes both works! (Both commands are equally as good). 3. Booting the stick now succeeded. It sure did!! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org mailto:debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130811082618.gd3...@copernicus.demon.co.uk -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Default desktop is Gnome 3. Try watching a video tour of Gnome on youtube. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52086682.6070...@gmail.com
Re: How to disable UTC time?
Yuwen Dai wrote: On 7/9/13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 22:12 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com writes: Dear all, My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC time, so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct. I do these actions to disable UTC: 1. add UTC=no in /etc/init.d/rcS /etc/default/rcS _not_ /etc/init.d/rcS Sorry, my typo. I also modify /etc/default/rcS in fact. *?* 2. remove UTC , add LOCAL in /etc/adjtime Neither of the above works. Yesterday I set the BIOS clock as UTC time, then Linux added 8 hours to it, it's my local time which was correct. But this morning, the system time in Linux is 8 hours ahead again. So how to disable UTC or set the correct clock? I'm using Debian Wheezy. Best regards, Yuwen I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get it... but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock? Then the OP would get the wrong time by the computer e.g. for software that does run without an OS, for saved BIOS settings. I use local time too and for Arch Linux ntpdate doesn't set the hardware clock anymore, so after running ntpdate I run hwclock on Arch, perhaps this now is needed for Debian too. My unused Debian install: [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/init.d/rcS #! /bin/sh # # rcS # # Call all S??* scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ in numerical/alphabetical order # [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ ls etc/rcS.d/ README S08hwclockfirst.shS35mountall.sh S45mountnfs.sh S00live-config S10checkroot.sh S36mountall-bootclean.sh S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh S02hostname.sh S11hwclock.sh S36udev-mtab S47lm-sensors S02mountkernfs.shS12mtab.shS37mountoverflowtmp S48console-screen.sh S03udev S18ifupdown-clean S38pppd-dns S49console-setup S04mountdevsubfs.sh S20module-init-tools S39ifupdown S50alsa-utils S05bootlogd S30checkfs.sh S40networking S55bootmisc.sh S05keymap.sh S30procps S40pcmciautils S55urandom S06keyboard-setupS31hibernate S43portmap S70x11-common S07hdparmS34fuse S44nfs-common S99stop-bootlogd-single [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/adjtime 0.002664 1363282063 0.00 1363282063 LOCAL [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/default/rcS # # /etc/default/rcS # # Default settings for the scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ # # For information about these variables see the rcS(5) manual page. # # This file belongs to the initscripts package. TMPTIME=0 SULOGIN=no DELAYLOGIN=no UTC=no VERBOSE=no FSCKFIX=no RAMRUN=no RAMLOCK=no The manual of rcS says UTC in rcS is not supported and suggests use UTCor LOCAL in /etc/adjtime. I tried both UTC=no in rcS and LOCAL in /etc/adjtime, no effect. And /etc/adjtime seems a dynamically created file. Best regards, Yuwen dai Hi, Depending on the version of windows you're using you can configure windows to use UTC time. Here's the archwiki link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time Best wishes, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51dc657d.8000...@gmail.com
Re: /dev/dsp missing in Wheezy
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 11:19 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:16:15 -0400 amber gilchrist wrote: I want to throw out another problem I am having in this Wheezy upgrade: sound! I used to use ALSA with Squeeze, no problems. After the upgrade, I am able to get sound in my browser, I can play MP3 files, but I can't record and can't play wav: $ mpg321 radio.mp3(works fine) $ bplay radio.wavbplay: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory$ I am not sure how to debug this one. I tried loading the oss-compat package, and that hasn't changed things either. What could have happened in the Squeeze-Wheezy upgrade to get rid of /dev/dsp? I'm not sure if this will help you, but I have to load the snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss modules with modprobe to use mp3blaster. I'm not familiar with bplay but maybe it needs those modules too. Funnily enough, I was just reading up on sound in Linux. /dev/dsp is the OSS emulation provided by ALSA http://alsa.opensrc.org/OSS_emulation bplay's code appears to have been written in '98 so probably OSS. Options would be to review the url above to see what else you've missed or switch to a newer player. Best wishes, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c0a464.2060...@gmail.com
Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7
On Monday 10 June 2013 09:53 PM, visakh vijayan wrote: How can i install my debian wheezy alongside my windows7. I want both of them during booting and the option to select. Please help. http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ is a great way to do this. But as others have pointed out, please do go to debian.org and read some of the documentation. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b6fd0a.8080...@gmail.com
Re: shutdown and restart menu item disappeared from user menu
On Sunday 09 June 2013 04:43 PM, Greg wrote: Is there a way to install these extensions to all gnome users? On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 11:15 +0530, Kailash wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2013 03:04 PM, Antti Talsta wrote: On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 05:07:00AM -0400, A Fascilla wrote: On my system on one user (the other user are unaffected) there is no more a command to restart or shutdown the computer in the user menu in Gnome (I mean the one in the top-right corner). Press Alt and click your username. From some days the menu ends with the line suspend, while in the past (and still for the other users) I had to more lines: restart and shutdown. Difference between Gnome 3 and Classic AFAIK. Hi, You can install gnome-shell-extensions and you should have the power off option available. https://extensions.gnome.org/ Sincerely, Kailash Hi, This page gives you the bare bones of what needs to be done: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions In short you need to do two things: 1. Install the extensions system-wide or per user 2. Enable the extensions Step 1. Install the extension system-wide or per user: If system wide then they need to be copied to the folders: /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions and /usr/local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. If per user then in folder: ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions The name of the folder is the extension name that you'll use in the next step. Step 2. Enable it. Enabling involves using gsettings like so: gsettings set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions ['name of folder','name of folder'] So on my machine, it is: gsettings set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions ['ext-hel...@amanda.darkdna.net', 'd...@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'] Hope this helps! Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b5ead3.3000...@gmail.com
(Solved) How can I use Jack instead of Pulse
On Sunday 09 June 2013 01:55 AM, Joel Roth wrote: Kailash wrote: Hi All, I'm experimenting with sound settings on my debian box: 7.0 stable Using main non-free and contrib repositories. I've currently got PulseAudio running and several apps which use Gstreamer for audio. I'd like to use Jack instead. I've tried some searches to find a Gstreamer Jack plugin, but haven't found any. Any help here would be appreciated. The output of Gstreamer can be directed to PulseAudio. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#GStreamer The output of PulseAudio can be directed to Jack. http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/User/PulseOnJack And here is a more general reference about using PulseAudio with Jack. http://jackaudio.org/pulseaudio_and_jack Greetings, Joel Thanks, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b2d7bb.2020...@gmail.com Hi Jack, Got it working this way! :) I wonder if it would be possible to remove PulseAudio altogether... Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b440a1.1060...@gmail.com
How can I use Jack instead of Pulse
Hi All, I'm experimenting with sound settings on my debian box: 7.0 stable Using main non-free and contrib repositories. I've currently got PulseAudio running and several apps which use Gstreamer for audio. I'd like to use Jack instead. I've tried some searches to find a Gstreamer Jack plugin, but haven't found any. Any help here would be appreciated. Thanks, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b2d7bb.2020...@gmail.com
Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? Hi, Would logging your clipboard help? http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/?page_id=16 Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b2e234.10...@gmail.com
Re: Can't (re)install libapache2-mod-php5 on SID
On Saturday 08 June 2013 01:49 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, Kailashlistskail...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:50:40 +0200 Csanyi Palcsanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Joej...@jretrading.com writes: On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:36:18 +0200 Csanyi Palcsanyi...@gmail.com wrote: on my Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) system I can't (re)install libapache2-mod-php5 debian package. It remain half configured after an upgrade process. In Aptitude interface when I try to reinstall it, I get error message: E: Internal Error, No file name for libapache2-mod-php5:amd64 What can I do to solve this problem? Difficult to say. The current version is 5.5.0~rc2+dfsg-2 and my previous version upgraded today OK, also sid on amd64. There are new versions of both apache2 and php5. What you have sounds like a confused aptitude rather than an apache2 issue. You might first try an update, then a reboot and update, and if this hasn't cleared the problem, try one of the other tools, either Synaptic or apt-get dist-upgrade. Synaptic does a dist-upgrade by default. Well, I don't remember what I did, probably try in aptitude interface to remove packages, and it's dependencies, but now I have only one package that I can't remove: ldap-account-manager. When I try to purge it in Synaptic, I get the following message: E: ldap-account-manager: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Removing ldap-account-manager ... [ ok ] Reloading web server: apache2. invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action reload failed. dpkg: error processing ldap-account-manager (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ldap-account-manager W: Waited for dpkg --assert-multi-arch but it wasn't there - dpkgGo (10: No child processes) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: So on my Desktop system, I can't run apache2, and can't remove ldap-account-manager. What I want it the following: to get again a running apache2, php5, and ldap-account-manager. The ldap-account-manager is now Half installed, and can't to do with it anything. Advices? I looked at this thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47t=110314 And while it's not debian the suggestion was to use the following command: sudo dpkg --clear-avail sudo apt-get update That seemed to fix it. from dpkg man pages: --clear-avail Erase the existing information about what packages are available. OK, when I run this command sudo dpkg --clear-avail sudo apt-get update and right after that I run sudo apt-get install ldap-account-manager I get the following output with error. csanyipal@debian-asztal:~$ sudo apt-get install ldap-account-manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ldap-account-manager is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/11.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? dpkg: error processing ldap-account-manager (--configure): package ldap-account-manager is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed') Errors were encountered while processing: ldap-account-manager E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) What can I do to solve this problem? Hi, Here's one solution: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/troubleshooting-debian-ubuntu-package-upgrades-removals.html One option would be to try dpkg -r packagename before you try the above workaround. Hope that helps, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b2f784.3030...@gmail.com
Re: Can't (re)install libapache2-mod-php5 on SID
On Saturday 08 June 2013 05:08 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote: Advices? I finally purge ldap-account-manager. I find help in the documentation here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_purging_removed_packages_for_good in the Chapter: 2.3.4. Tidying auto/manual install status So, does that mean you were able to reinstall it as you wanted? K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b40deb.6020...@gmail.com
Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy
On Sunday 09 June 2013 09:49 AM, fireball wrote: Update: I am unable to install gdm3: # apt-get install gdm3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done gdm3 is already the newest version. The following packages will be REMOVED: glx-diversions 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 16.4 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y (Reading database ... 173914 files and directories currently installed.) Removing glx-diversions ... No diversion 'diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions', none removed. dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on divert-to when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libGL.so.1 by glx-diversions' found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/diversions/libGL.so.1 by libgl1-nvidia-alternatives' dpkg: error processing glx-diversions (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: glx-diversions E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrade-from-squeeze-to-wheezy-tp2970296p2970450.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hi, I found a similar bug-report here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2011-July/006140.html Have a look. It seems that the issue is caused by orphaned packages that need manual removal. Hope that helps, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b4112b.4000...@gmail.com
Re: shutdown and restart menu item disappeared from user menu
On Saturday 08 June 2013 03:04 PM, Antti Talsta wrote: On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 05:07:00AM -0400, A Fascilla wrote: On my system on one user (the other user are unaffected) there is no more a command to restart or shutdown the computer in the user menu in Gnome (I mean the one in the top-right corner). Press Alt and click your username. From some days the menu ends with the line suspend, while in the past (and still for the other users) I had to more lines: restart and shutdown. Difference between Gnome 3 and Classic AFAIK. Hi, You can install gnome-shell-extensions and you should have the power off option available. https://extensions.gnome.org/ Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b41661.6010...@gmail.com
Re: How to consistently install a set of packages?
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 17:30:24 +1000 David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/06/2013, James Richardson ja...@jamestechnotes.com wrote: David wrote: [...] Because some packages create users and groups, I want to be sure that these packages are installed in the same sequence on every PC so that numeric uid gid in /etc/passwd and /etc/group end up the same on all PCs. This will make admin easier when keeping the shared data in sync if the numeric uid and gid are the same in every OS. The only thing I can suggest (and I am by no means an expert), is to create the users/groups before installing the packages. You can use dpkg --get/--set-selections to set the selection state of the packages, but as this doesn't actually install anything, I would doubt it would give apt-get/aptitude any hints about ordering, but if the user/groups existed before hand it should still be ok. Hi James Thank you for your thoughts. I appreciate your lateral thinking which is appealing. But I wonder how a package install process would make the decision to take over a pre-existing user or group? For example, if I created user=approx and then installed the approx package which wants to run as user=approx, how thoroughly would its installer script assess if the pre-existing user=approx is free for its use? If there already was some other unrelated user=approx, it would be undesirable for the approx package to assimilate that user. And would each package that wants to do similar behave consistently? Any thoughts on that? My guess would be that a package install would probably abort if the user or group it wanted was already in use. Or perhaps the installer will ask what to do? I'd prefer if it would run unattended. I can't set up a test immediately, but if necessary I can test this later in the week. Hi, I did some searching re UIDs and GIDs, and it appears that the adduser.conf file can be used to manage this behavior. In addition if you look at the manpage of adduser the option --uid will allow you to choose the user's ID. And addgroup has a similar option. So, perhaps all you need is a common script that does it for you. Please do refer to the policy manual re the allocation policy for Debian. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.2 HTH, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606163527.438824c4.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: boot fails on wheezy
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:17:44 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 04 iun 13, 07:04:29, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, After that, impossible to boot. Even the grub loading message is absent.Booting with the wheezy install cd in rescue mode, I tried almost all the known What about the option to reinstall the bootloader? Kind regards, Andrei Hi, You could try using this tool that’ll help you fix most of your boot issues: http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ Sincerely, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606165000.0aa1af65.listskail...@gmail.com
Gstreamer Jack plugin
Hi All, I'm experimenting with sound settings on my box: 7.0 stable Using main non-free and contrib repositories. I've currently got PulseAudio running and several apps which use Gstreamer for audio. I'd like to use Jack instead. I've tried some searches to find a Gstreamer Jack plugin, but haven't found any. Any help here would be appreciated. Thanks, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606182702.3c012064.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: Installing libgtk2.0-0:i386 on amd64 system
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:26:56 -0400 Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, As the subject says, I'm having problems installing libgtk2.0-0:i386 on my amd64 sid system. The problem is that I am using the cisco anyconnect client, which requires the i386 version, but when I attempt to install at one (the amd64 version is installed), I get a bunch of dependency issues: I'm guessing you've already added the i386 architecture using dpkg. http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation Once done, you should run apt-get update. Then try # apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606192048.12ed4563.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:11:45 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:11:21, atar wrote: Hi there!! I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux at general and especially about Debian regarding variety of topics such as the system boot process, what are tty's? and where are located the scripts that the system runs during the boot and shutdown process, how to manage groups policies and how manage the whole system at all. where can I find some useful resources/documentation/references that speak in clear fashion, because the man pages often uses some concepts which aren't familiar to the beginner user, so I look for some resources that are friendly with the beginner user. http://www.debian.org/doc/ Speaking as a beginner myself, those are written by and for experts. I found out, during an engineering co-op assignment 40 years ago, just how difficult it is to write technical documentation aimed at someone with a different background. And it was only a ten page production line test procedure. Hi, I'm going through the same process myself. For me, a good start was the TDLP site. Specifically Introduction to Linux was a great start: http://www.tldp.org/guides.html And http://www.tldp.org/LDP/www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-tutorial/ although obsolete is still gives you a good grounding, I feel. After that, you can try working into specific topics by searching on youtube, google etc. Good luck Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606200958.0b90d199.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: Upgrade from 6.0.7 to 7.0 issues
On Sunday 02 June 2013 11:37 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: I upgraded the other day, and noticed some differences between my desktop appearance (Gnome) and what is described in the Help. According to Help, there should be some Activities menu or something like that in the upper left corner, but only I see is Applications and Places in that screen area. Any idea? Hi Miroslav, Looks like you're booting into Gnome Classic. Logout and see if you have other Gnome desktops available. Sincerely, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b156d8.2000...@gmail.com
Re: goodbye-microsoft.com Install?
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:14:36 -0400 Harry Prevor habsti...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/3/13, Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: I tried the install a couple of days ago on my laptop. I got an offer to resize my windows partition. Can't recall getting an option to install inside the NTFS partition. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I *believe* how goodbye-microsoft works is that it installs a very minimal debian-installer OS (just enough to boot the installer) in a file in Windows (just like how Wubi would install all of Ubuntu in one file, but smaller). Then, you can boot to that file using the Windows bootloader and install the rest of the system normally (maybe it moves the whole installer into RAM upon boot so you can repartition the disks?). Hi Harry, Yes, initially a file is stored on the windows partition and the boot-up menu is modified so you can get into the installer on reboot. Once you reboot you go into an installer that suggests resizing of partitions etc. Sincerely K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605202357.47c25004.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: Sound But No CD Sound
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:50:09 -0500 Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: My system is Wheezy. ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. cdir lists the tracks on the cd. This may be obvious to you, but... the CD usually has a dedicated channel. Did you check the volume level and mute/unmute? Kind regards, Andrie My memory is hazy, but I vaguely recall that CD drives used to also have a dedicated audio cable that plugged into the motherboard. Without that cable, there would be no audio, I think. No more. :) Now it's just the regular cable and power connection. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605202629.0992284f.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: Alsa sound errors
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:24:16 -0700 Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/04/2013 11:04 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/6/5 Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com mailto:marcns...@gmail.com There are three people with logins to my desktop box -- myself, my wife and my daughter. My daughter plays Flash games with sound all the time and has no problems. I run YouTube videos and otherwise use sound with no problems. My wife gets no sound whatsoever. We used to have a problem with the sound being grabbed by something and then I would need to kill things manually, but I eliminated all KDE apps and that problem went away. I think that was back when I was still running Etch, anyway. When I need to verify that sound is working and not locked up, I just use 'play' with a .wav file. My wife was just playing a video and getting no sound, so, under my login I ran: play /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav: File Size: 14.8k Bit Rate: 13.1k Encoding: GSM Channels: 1 @ 16-bit Samplerate: 8000Hz Replaygain: off Duration: 00:00:09.04 In:100% 00:00:09.04 [00:00:00.00] Out:434k [ | ] Clip:0 Done. and, as you can see, it worked just fine. So I swiched over to my wife's login and did the same thing: play /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:985:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error: Permission denied As you can see, it failed. Can anyone tell me just what is failing and how to correct it. My first thought was that it was a permissions problem and perhaps she needed to be added to the 'audio' group, or some such, as she is only in her own group. But then I checked my daughter's account. She is also only in her own group; not in 'audio' or anything else. So that ruled out that solution. The error says 'Permission denied however, so it is some kind of permissions problem, I just don't know what. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Marc You should use ipc_key_add_uid TRUE in your .asoundrc when defining dmix. Details are in http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html Regards /r Is that a user lever file? I do not find that config file anywhere on my box. Marc Hi Marc, Based on what R stated in reply-to Andrei, you need to try and reboot your machine and log onto your wife's account. If the sound plays fine then the issue is the one he described. The .asoundrc file should be in the home directory of each user as you're using ALSA to play sound. I've got PulseAudio on my system, so can't check this for you. K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605203142.67f3a155.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: Activities? Dash? Hot-corner?
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 14:55:23 -0400 Eric d'Halibut eric.hali...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I just dist-upgraded to wheezy. I was so baffled by the gnew Gnome that I launched Help from the Accessories menu. Help tells me I am supposed to have the items I listed in my Subject: heading, i.e. if i may repeat myself, Activities, Dash, Hot-corner. None of these entities seem to exist on my new Gnome. I have searched debian-user for this problem and come up empty handed. Sorry if I missed a really useful discussion of my situation, but can anyone steer me to a gnewbies Gnome How-To that addressed Wheezy's Gnome? All best, Hi, if you go to the top left corner of your screen, you enter Activities. You should see a panel on your left which has some default favorite apps. If you want to run anything else, just type away... A simple video intro here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz0DhCzkAIM Hope that helps, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606155105.47a90453.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: Can't (re)install libapache2-mod-php5 on SID
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:50:40 +0200 Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Joe j...@jretrading.com writes: On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:36:18 +0200 Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: on my Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) system I can't (re)install libapache2-mod-php5 debian package. It remain half configured after an upgrade process. In Aptitude interface when I try to reinstall it, I get error message: E: Internal Error, No file name for libapache2-mod-php5:amd64 What can I do to solve this problem? Difficult to say. The current version is 5.5.0~rc2+dfsg-2 and my previous version upgraded today OK, also sid on amd64. There are new versions of both apache2 and php5. What you have sounds like a confused aptitude rather than an apache2 issue. You might first try an update, then a reboot and update, and if this hasn't cleared the problem, try one of the other tools, either Synaptic or apt-get dist-upgrade. Synaptic does a dist-upgrade by default. Well, I don't remember what I did, probably try in aptitude interface to remove packages, and it's dependencies, but now I have only one package that I can't remove: ldap-account-manager. When I try to purge it in Synaptic, I get the following message: E: ldap-account-manager: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Removing ldap-account-manager ... [ ok ] Reloading web server: apache2. invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action reload failed. dpkg: error processing ldap-account-manager (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ldap-account-manager W: Waited for dpkg --assert-multi-arch but it wasn't there - dpkgGo (10: No child processes) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: So on my Desktop system, I can't run apache2, and can't remove ldap-account-manager. What I want it the following: to get again a running apache2, php5, and ldap-account-manager. The ldap-account-manager is now Half installed, and can't to do with it anything. Advices? Hi, I looked at this thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47t=110314 And while it's not debian the suggestion was to use the following command: sudo dpkg --clear-avail sudo apt-get update That seemed to fix it. from dpkg man pages: --clear-avail Erase the existing information about what packages are available. HTH, K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606162114.773edbfd.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: virtual users
On Sunday 02 Jun 2013 11:08:47 AM Pol Hallen wrote: Should be patch postfix or add quote options to courier? Hi, I think this is off-topic for this list, however, here's a somewhat dated tutorial that might help: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier as per the article: (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I'll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately) Best wishes, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201306032250.20513.kailash.kaly...@gmail.com
Re: goodbye-microsoft.com Install?
On Monday 03 Jun 2013 6:50:03 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: The reviews I read said the same or similar, but an Aussie tech magazine from 2007 said that after the standard installer starts, Debian is installed as a single file on the Windows partition--no partitioning needed. That was not the case for me. I was offered to resize the ntfs partition to make room for the Debian partition but there was no option to install within a file inside the ntfs partition. I remember hearing of such an install method, but AFAIK it was not the one offered by the goodbye-microsoft thingy. And it stands to reason: you wouldn't really be able to say goodbye if the install went into the NTFS partition. Stefan I tried the install a couple of days ago on my laptop. I got an offer to resize my windows partition. Can't recall getting an option to install inside the NTFS partition. Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201306040023.28546.listskail...@gmail.com
Re: virtual users
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: Should be patch postfix or add quote options to courier? Hi, I think this is off-topic for this list, however, here's a tutorial that might help: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier as per the article: (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I'll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately) Best wishes, Kailash
RE: X Window System error
I just update debian6 to 7 and bad surprises: lazaro@utopian:~$ mtpaint The program 'mtpaint' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. lazaro@utopian:~$ emelfm2 (emelfm2:3422): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_store_iter_next: assertion `iter-user_data != NULL' failed The program 'emelfm2' received an X Window System error. lazaro@utopian:~$ geany The program 'geany' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. I'm using: lazaro@utopian:~$ ps fax|grep Xf 13474 tty1 S 3:02 /usr/X11/bin/Xfbdev -screen 1024x768x32 -t 1 -mouse /dev/psaux,5,4 ttys7 An ancient X server due my OLDER computer. I can't use Xorg, so please, I shall be very glad resolving this problem. Geany and emelfm2 two are not from debian's repo and their ALL WAYS was working to me without problems. I guest the problem is with GTK+ i libgtk1.2 - The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X i A libgtk1.2-common- Common files for the GTK+ library i A libgtk2.0-0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library i libgtk2.0-bin - programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface library i libgtk2.0-common- common files for the GTK+ graphical user interface libra lazaro@utopian:~$ gimp -v GIMP version 1.2.3 work fine... the problem is not old or new applications... Hi Lazaro, Based on your inputs it may be that the GTK version dependencies may be causing this. GIMP works and GTK was built for GIMP, so that's not surprising. Based on some reading, it appears that GIMP 1.2.x was built around GTK 1.2 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-1-2id=61cf583747fbb3b4306bf085b85b1f67e627778c And you seem to have gtk 1.2 installed in part at least. As the other programs were previously working, the new GTK errors might indicate a change in the libraries? If so, then knowing the versions of your other apps would help determine which GTK version they were based on. What do you think? Kailash
RE: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media
Hi Curt, Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why they're used with most media. As I understand it you're wondering if it is possible to disable write caching in Windows? The answer to that is yes. Here's an old support article that describes how: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259716 If you do a google search you'll find it works similarly for XP. From Kernel 2.6 onwards udev (http://wiki.debian.org/udev) is the dynamic device manager. But despite searching for a while I've not figured out how to control the rules for mounting the devices. However, fstab entry sync or async controls what happens: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html Sincerely, Kailash From: howl...@priss.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:01 -0400 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear Debian Users, I was contemplating today the fact that I know several people who have scrambled various removable disks and thumb drives by failing to unmount or eject before removing them. Mostly this has happened in Windows, not because there isn't an eject feature, but through ignorance or accident. This happens, I am told, because of unwritten buffers which are emptied only when the device is unmounted or ejected. Why? Removable media are already a class unto themselves, so why aren't they marked something like sync immediately? It's not like a USB drive is being used as multiple fast file accesses, benefiting from buffering in RAM. These are repositories, places where whole files are written or read and then the media removed. It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say sync immediately or do not buffer, so that when the drive was inactive it could be yanked without danger of corruption. Any suggestions? Curt- - -- The Magistrate, enrobed in taxes, condemns the thief in stolen rags. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iFcDBQFRjbEltk9X6NaR4akRCPTtAQCxZtevVNERTGWxSnThiZyUwDYyI3pVniiA tzmnWu3LNQD9F+6uyO8szP3eFiUqTpQMTbaeWJhwsHM+fZyqLHwfaRc= =YiRT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305102247.06301.howl...@priss.com
RE: gnome doesn't save brightness value
Have you seen this? https://extensions.gnome.org/static/extension-data/screenshots/screenshot_231_3.png Sincerely, Kailash Subject: gnome doesn't save brightness value From: alexsander...@yahoo.com.br To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:35:12 -0300 Hi! This is my first time on this list. I've just installed the stable Wheezy and I'm facing a problem: Gnome isn't saving the brightness level in my laptop, so I must set it at each boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1368149712.4159.2.ca...@samsung.home
