Re: Regading an installation experiment
On 6/14/2015 10:06 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello, I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot properly. I have a copy of DVD 1 of Jessie i386. The laptop has actually an AMD Athlon processor. The fact about getting another copy is that it requires resources and time to download. Thus, can I use the i386 one to install. Thanks Himanshu Shekhar India Yes, the i386 DVD will be fine. -- 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/557e386f.7090...@familyross.net
Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie
On 5/3/2015 3:32 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Does anyone out there have a recommendation for an HBA (preferably non-RAID) that is stable, supports drives larger than 2T, is either supported directly in the Jessie Kernel or has open source drivers, and either has management utilities that either run under Jessie or are open source? I just recently bought a new LSI SAS 9211-8i directly from China on eBay for about $100 with free shipping. I also bought some SAS-to-SATA breakout cables from China for a few bucks. If you don't mind the wait, this is much cheaper than buying from, say, Newegg. Since you specifically mention HBA preferably non-RAID, I'm not sure why you are asking for management software. I believe that's only useful if you're using the card's RAID functionality, which I don't. I use Linux md software RAID, with good results. Also, it is my understanding that all modern cards support drives larger than 2TB, it's the old DOS-style partition table that has the 2TB limit, and to create a partition greater than 2TB, you need to use GPT instead of MBR partition tables. That being said, I don't have direct experience with drives larger than 2TB. All the drives in my RAID are WD Red 2TB drives. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- 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/5568eb79.2040...@familyross.net
Re: the continuing disappointment of Debian 7
On 06/29/2013 03:07 PM, Jeff Shearer wrote: Iceweasel crashes all the time and cannot play flash What Flash player are you using? If you're using the default Gnash, which is an open source version made by people reverse engineering Adobe's Flash, then that might be the problem. Gnash never works well for me. On new installs, one of the first things I do is remove Gnash, and install Adobe's Flash player. -- 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/51cf76e0.7050...@familyross.net
Re: Changing GTK+ theme
On 07/27/2012 07:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:58:49 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: I just updated my Wheezy laptop, and now all of the widgets are the ugly, square blocky ones, as well as the toolbars in various programs. When I change the GTK+ theme in gnome-tweak-tool, nothing happens. I've seen this happen before if gnome-settings-daemon wasn't running, but it is running. Rebooting does not help. Create a new user, login with it and see how the UI renders from here. Greetings, A new user works fine. As it turns out, when I said g-s-d was running, ps shows it is, but looking in the logs, it has crashed (every time on login). I was victim of this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675763 I've worked around it now, by unchecking the disable touchpad while typing touchpad preference, which was causing g-s-d to crash on login. Thanks! -- Kevin -- 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/5012f95d.5030...@familyross.net
Changing GTK+ theme
I just updated my Wheezy laptop, and now all of the widgets are the ugly, square blocky ones, as well as the toolbars in various programs. When I change the GTK+ theme in gnome-tweak-tool, nothing happens. I've seen this happen before if gnome-settings-daemon wasn't running, but it is running. Rebooting does not help. Thanks! -- Kevin -- 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/5011e7c9.30...@familyross.net
Re: Mainboard for Debian stable
On 12/29/2011 08:11 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, I am selling Debian pre-installed desktops, but I cannot get the mainboards I've used anymore. Can somebody advice me a mainboard what works fine with Debian stable? A backported kernel or CSS firmware is not a big problem, but I don't like installing closed source drivers. I want a network driver what's in Debian. In the past I had problems with the Realtek 8111E what is in most motherboards today (in lspci this is called RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)). Does this work now with Debian 6.0.3? I don't find anything about it in the release notes. Normally I use AMD/Ati boards from Asus, but Intel is fine too. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. I can't really offer any specific model recommendations, but what I will recommend is to go with an Asus brand motherboard. This is because lm-sensors has an ACPI driver that works with Asus boards and returns much more information than what you get from most other motherboards. For example, on an Asus board I get this: $ sensors atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.21 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.60 V) +3.3 Voltage: +3.31 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V) +5 Voltage:+5.02 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V) +12 Voltage: +12.32 V (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V) CPU FAN Speed: 1591 RPM (min = 600 RPM) CHASSIS1 FAN Speed:1493 RPM (min = 600 RPM) POWER FAN Speed: 0 RPM (min = 600 RPM) CPU Temperature:+33.0°C (high = +60.0°C, crit = +95.0°C) MB Temperature: +35.0°C (high = +45.0°C, crit = +95.0°C) And on a non-Asus I get this: $ sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+52.5°C (crit = +126.0°C) Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- 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/4f13f214.6060...@familyross.net
Re: Screen resolution
On 01/05/2012 04:30 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Hi Bob lspci gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) I also have an Intel 945GM graphics chip in my laptop. Works fine for me on Wheezy. Sounds like you're running the VESA (generic) graphics driver instead of the Intel one. Do you have xserver-xorg-video-intel installed? Also, if you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, rename it to something else, and try restarting X. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- 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/4f06478c.1060...@familyross.net
Re: Screen resolution
On 01/05/2012 06:31 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Hi Kevin yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the LCD? 353.942420] i915 :00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid. [ 363.669312] Raw EDID: [ 363.669327] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669335] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669343] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669350] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669357] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669364] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669371] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669378] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 363.669392] i915 :00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid. You can tell by looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If after looking at the log file, the problem isn't readily apparent, post the contents here, and someone should be able to figure out what's wrong. -- Kevin On 06/01/12 00:59, Kevin Ross wrote: I also have an Intel 945GM graphics chip in my laptop. Works fine for me on Wheezy. Sounds like you're running the VESA (generic) graphics driver instead of the Intel one. Do you have xserver-xorg-video-intel installed? Also, if you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, rename it to something else, and try restarting X. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- 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/4f066c47.7070...@familyross.net
Re: [OT] help with m-audio usb Fast Track pro on debian
On 01/02/2012 07:12 AM, Rob Owens wrote: aplay -d hw:1,0 some.wav (for card #1, device #0 -- adjust as necessary). That should be an uppercase -D (lowercase -d is for setting a delay). Glad you got it working anyway, though! -- Kevin -- 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/4f02e109.8010...@familyross.net
Re: samsung galaxy tab
On 01/03/2012 12:48 PM, Thibaut wrote: hi, when i plug my galaxy tab nothing happens but my system sees it (it's not a galaxy s2 though) : titi@debian:~$ lsusb ... Bus 002 Device 017: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II] how can I mount it so i can put files on it? thanks t. I don't have a tablet, but I have an Android phone, and when I plug it in, there's a notification on the phone asking me if I want to enable storage, or charge only. Of course I must enable storage if I want to mount it. Sorry if this is too obvious. :) -- Kevin -- 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/4f036d79.3030...@familyross.net
Re: need git suggestion
On 12/27/2011 09:37 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, we are working in svn environment. We like to upgrade our-self to git technology. We have both Linux/windows environment but max. is Linux. Could any one suggest a good online guide as well as GUI clients for quick starting the git ? Thanks The official documentation (http://git-scm.com/documentation) is a good place to start, especially the SVN Crash Course (http://git-scm.com/course/svn.html) As for GUI's, sorry can't help there, I use the command line myself. Maybe TortoiseGit? -- Kevin -- 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/4efab7fe.5070...@familyross.net
Why can't why have both GNOME 2 and GNOME 3?
Why weren't the new gnome packages named with a 3 in their name, to allow both gnome 2 and gnome 3 to exist in the repositories, and allow the user to choose which one they want? After all, we had apache and apache2, php4 and php5, mysql4 and mysql5, etc, etc. I'm not saying they should be allowed to be installed at the same time, if that would cause problems. I would be perfectly happy if the gnome3 package(s) had a Conflicts: gnome2 type of entry in the metadata. Does that seem reasonable? -- 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/4ec2228a.5020...@familyross.net
Re: My post mail server is used for spam
On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: HI, I'm a little in double because my postfix server is used to send an huge amount of spam, generating huge logs like that : postfix/error[2120]: 993AE145D: to=xbee...@yahoo.com.tw, relay=none, delay=101, delays=100/0.07/0/0.31, dsn=4.7.0, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host mx1.mail.tw.yahoo.com[203.188.197.119] refused to talk to me: 421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from 62.161.100.158 temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/421-ts01.html) I'm running squeeze, my account are secured with strong password, town can I stop that ? thanks, Some log entries from when the message was submitted from the spammer into your mail system would be more useful, instead of the log entries from when your mail server then tried to deliver it. Is it possible you have an account on your system with an easy to guess (or empty) password? Look in your system log for when the connection came in from the spammer, and see if it shows they actually authenticated with your server. It will look something like this: Nov 15 00:50:09 xxx postfix/smtpd[9910]: connect from xx.xx.xx.xx Nov 15 00:50:10 xxx postfix/smtpd[9910]: 8513115A13: client=xx.xx.xx.xx, sasl_method=PLAIN, sasl_username=kevin Followed by some lines detailing the specifics of the message that was submitted to your mail server for delivery. If they authenticated, then you need to change the password for that user (or disable the user). If they didn't authenticate, then you're an open relay (doesn't seem likely, looking at your main.cf). Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- 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/4ec22ee4.3090...@familyross.net
Re: My post mail server is used for spam
On 11/15/2011 01:20 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: HI, I'm a little in double because my postfix server is used to send an huge amount of spam, generating huge logs like that : postfix/error[2120]: 993AE145D: to=xbee...@yahoo.com.tw, relay=none, delay=101, delays=100/0.07/0/0.31, dsn=4.7.0, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host mx1.mail.tw.yahoo.com[203.188.197.119] refused to talk to me: 421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from 62.161.100.158 temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/421-ts01.html) I'm running squeeze, my account are secured with strong password, town can I stop that ? thanks, Some log entries from when the message was submitted from the spammer into your mail system would be more useful, instead of the log entries from when your mail server then tried to deliver it. Is it possible you have an account on your system with an easy to guess (or empty) password? Look in your system log for when the connection came in from the spammer, and see if it shows they actually authenticated with your server. It will look something like this: Nov 15 00:50:09 xxx postfix/smtpd[9910]: connect from xx.xx.xx.xx Nov 15 00:50:10 xxx postfix/smtpd[9910]: 8513115A13: client=xx.xx.xx.xx, sasl_method=PLAIN, sasl_username=kevin Followed by some lines detailing the specifics of the message that was submitted to your mail server for delivery. If they authenticated, then you need to change the password for that user (or disable the user). If they didn't authenticate, then you're an open relay (doesn't seem likely, looking at your main.cf). Hope this helps! -- Kevin Actually, looking more closely at your main.cf, it looks like you have authentication disabled for incoming connections, meaning it will only forward email for clients connected from the local network (*any* mail submitted from the local network). So is it possible there is some proxy service running on your network where the spam could be coming from? An unsecured wi-fi router on your network? A webmail server, with an easy to guess password on a user account? -- 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/4ec23128.4060...@familyross.net
Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?
On 11/14/2011 08:56 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:38, Kevin Rosske...@familyross.net wrote: If you have two windows open for the same application, the Alt-Tab popup combines them into a single icon. To switch between windows of the same application, you have to hit the down arrow while the popup is up. So you have to hit Alt-Tab, and while holding down the Alt key, hit the down arrow, then hit Tab multiple times to get to the window you want. Really? This is an improvement? Anyway, anyone know how to get rid of that grouping behavior for the Alt-Tab popup? Thanks! http://www.kubuntu.org/ Actually, I tried KDE 4 in Debian after GNOME 3 invaded. I dislike KDE 4 more than I dislike GNOME 3, especially after I re-customize it (with extensions, etc.) the way I like. But thanks anyway. -- 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/4ec18a57.9030...@familyross.net
Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?
On 11/14/2011 08:33 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:38:03 -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: If you have two windows open for the same application, the Alt-Tab popup combines them into a single icon. To switch between windows of the same application, you have to hit the down arrow while the popup is up. So you have to hit Alt-Tab, and while holding down the Alt key, hit the down arrow, then hit Tab multiple times to get to the window you want. Really? This is an improvement? True is that I've never used Alt+Tab before O:-) Anyway, anyone know how to get rid of that grouping behavior for the Alt-Tab popup? There's an extension that will return Alt+Tab to the old behaviour: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions/alternate-tab Tip: AFAIK, extensions are still not available. Greetings, Shoot, I tried that extension, but it requires gnome 3.2. I tried changing the version number in the metadata.json file to 3.0, but still no joy. Oh well. That extension is exactly what I want. :( Thanks anyway! -- Kevin -- 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/4ec19063.6050...@familyross.net
GNOME 3 extensions that mimic GNOME 2
I just found some extensions that give your desktop a GNOME 2 look and feel. I guess it's kinda like fallback mode, but fallback mode is supposedly only temporary. All you need to do is extract the .tgz file into your home folder, log out and log back in. Easy peasy. It's a collection of 6 extensions. They are all on by default, but you can use gnome-tweak-tool to disable the ones you don't want. http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html -- 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/4ec03755.4010...@familyross.net
Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue
On 11/12/2011 09:04 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have run update-flashplugin-nonfree --install and it downloads the latest plugin at /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz after uncompromising it I get 1. libflashplayer.so 2. usr folder I have copied libflashplayer.so at /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ but google-chrome still complaining about a old version and firefox want to download the plugin to activate flash support. Interestingly both the browser finally goes to the adobe site and download the same version as /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz Confused !!! can any one help please ? May I suggest using the flashplayer-mozilla package from debian-multimedia.org instead? It contains a prepacked flash binary, just like any other package, instead of a script that goes and downloads the binary from the Adobe website. This way, you get updates to the flash binary whenever you update your system, just like any other package. Of course, it takes a while before he packages the latest version. But that being said, the version that's currently packaged is 11.1 (even for stable/Squeeze). Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- 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/4ec03c61.4040...@familyross.net
GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?
If you have two windows open for the same application, the Alt-Tab popup combines them into a single icon. To switch between windows of the same application, you have to hit the down arrow while the popup is up. So you have to hit Alt-Tab, and while holding down the Alt key, hit the down arrow, then hit Tab multiple times to get to the window you want. Really? This is an improvement? Anyway, anyone know how to get rid of that grouping behavior for the Alt-Tab popup? Thanks! -- Kevin -- 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/4ec08d1b.5010...@familyross.net
Re: DKMS and linux-image-3.0.0
On 08/16/2011 12:05 PM, Erwan David wrote: DO someone know what happened to dkms in 3.0 ? It does not work anymore (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637281 for the bug report) This breaks virtualbox or other packages... Hmm, works for me on Wheezy. $ dpkg -l virtualbox\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii virtualbox 4.0.10-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - base binaries ii virtualbox-dkms 4.0.10-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms ii virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 4.0.10-1 guest additions iso image for VirtualBox ii virtualbox-qt 4.0.10-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface $ uname -a Linux inspiron 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 14:27:32 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux $ lsmod|grep vbox vboxnetadp 13182 0 vboxnetflt 23919 0 vboxdrv 154720 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt -- 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/4e4ad235.9030...@familyross.net
Re: Boost sound volume?
On 08/09/2011 09:43 AM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Hi list, Is there a way to boost the system sound volume? Playing DVDs in VLC with the alsa, pulseaudio, and vlc volumes all maxed out is still about 30-40% of max volume in 'doze. I don't like pulseaudio, but for some reason skype doesn't work without it, and my family won't allow me to not have working skype, so for now I'm stuck with it... Thanks! -- rbmj Sounds like one of the mixer lines isn't turned all the way up. Run alsamixer from a terminal, and make sure all the controls are turned up to the max. -- 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/4e423880.3010...@familyross.net
Re: cups on wheezy problem
On 08/06/2011 01:05 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: Have been without a working cups for some time now so upgrades to the unstable version 1.4.8-2. Still not working because of this error udevd[17007]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:12.0/usb3/3-1 3 3': No such file or directory udevd errors exist in wheezy and sid but the only related errors on Google are from 2004. These errors showed up here when /run was introduced IIRC. Has anyone solved this or know of a fix? TIA Wayne Do you have libmtp-runtime installed? I needed to install it to get rid of those mtp-probe errors on my system. I don't know if it will fix your cups problem or not, though. -- 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/4e3dab26.7060...@familyross.net
Re: Lots of Stable Upgrades
On 3/21/2011 4:41 PM, freeman wrote: Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue? Running squeeze/mixed; started 100% uptodate; installed some upgrades; most of these upgradeables showed up within the past three days: An update (6.0.1) for Squeeze was released two days ago. http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110319 -- 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/4d87e4c2.1020...@familyross.net
Re: how to start gnome from the command line
On 11/12/2010 11:26 AM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: below ... On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer debian-li...@florian-kulzer.eu wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: [...] I had done apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment then startx gives an error along the lines of : startx: unknown command. Now I have also done apt-get install gdm apt-get install gnome wait a long time then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in, but am only given a blue screen without anything!!! What to do? Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done did not do that! next ... kjetil Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic: After login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking the mouse, it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from there. But the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual. There must still be something missing? Kjetil The gnome environment is launched by running gnome-session. This is done for you automatically if you're using GDM. If you're using startx, then you need to add gnome-session to your .xinitrc file (or is it .xsession? I can't remember, it's been forever since I've used startx). -- 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/4cdd9b49.4020...@familyross.net
Re: Blu-ray status in Linux
On 9/18/2010 7:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:29:49 +0100, Angus Hedger wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:12:47 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: (...) I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we would eventually be able to play Blu-Ray on Debian machines. Do you suppose we will see Blu-Ray support in VLC anytime soon? (...) It means that BR playback on linux is closer, for example windows has a protected content layer that passes the content from the player to the screen, with this key you could build something like that for windows. Mmmm, just out of curiosity (as I don't own a BD player neither have Blu- ray discs to play) but, do you mean there is currently no way to play Blu- ray in Linux? :-? Or just to put it in other words, what is the current status of the Blu- ray technology in Linux? It seems there is a project¹ that allows viewing such media type, but does it work nice, has any drawbacks...? ¹ http://themediaviking.com/software/bluray-linux/ Greetings, I don't know about mplayer or VLC, but MythTV 0.24 now has support for playback of BluRay discs, although I believe it's currently limited to AACS-protected discs, and not BD+. I hear that the libbdplus BD+ decryption library is maturing as well. -- 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/4c95076a.9080...@familyross.net
Re: SSH Rsync issues
On 09/09/2010 03:01 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I can rsync to the other machine. Using rsync localfile tnet-web::threshNet-Public works fine and the file is transferred. BUT when I try to use rsync over ssh, it will NOT work. According to the man page, your first example should automatically use ssh. It does for me. -- 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/4c8963b1.6090...@familyross.net
Re: SSH Rsync issues
On 9/9/2010 5:56 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 09/09/2010 03:01 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I can rsync to the other machine. Using rsync localfile tnet-web::threshNet-Public works fine and the file is transferred. BUT when I try to use rsync over ssh, it will NOT work. According to the man page, your first example should automatically use ssh. It does for me. Do you mean the first example in my first paragraph, where there's no reference to ssh or the one when I list examples, where I use --rsh =ssh? How can I verify rsync is using ssh? I found a few comments in man pages that left me confused, but I read man pages on Linux, on OS X, and on the web and there were a few references in some to, in future versions, so it's hard to be sure, unless it's explicitly stated. Hal Well, in my case, I verified it by the fact that on the server that I copied the files to, the only programs listening were sshd, postfix, and dovecot. -- 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/4c898dd9.2050...@familyross.net
Re: xset command setting not sticking
On 09/08/2010 02:02 PM, Tech Geek wrote: Hi, I am using Debian Lenny on x86 machine. I need to make the following command permanent upon every boot: xset s off -dpms I am booting into GNOME with GDM. I have tried adding this to my /home/user/.xinitrc file: #!/bin/bash xset s off -dpms and made it executable: chmod +x .xinitrc but it is not able to retain the setting. Thanks. You will probably want to remove gnome-power-manager from your gnome session. It will turn the monitor back on, ignoring what you set with xset. -- 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/4c87fcc7.7080...@familyross.net
Re: [OT] Hardware failure?
On 9/7/2010 5:20 PM, Celejar wrote:
For the last several days, I've been experiencing strange lock-ups and
crashes, which I suspect may be due to hardware failure, although I'm
not sure how to diagnose this further.
I don't think that it's an OS issue, since the problem sometimes occurs
at POST, or at least before the bootloader (grub) comes up.
The failures seem to cluster; I've had repeated hangs within a few
minutes, and then good running for days.
I suspect it may be a HDD / controller problem; a little while ago, I
didn't get an actual hang (although I had seen several minutes before
that) but some applications temporarily stopped responding, and I saw
this in syslog:
Sep 7 19:36:08 localhost kernel: [ 193.761021] ata1: drained 65536 bytes to
clear DRQ.
Sep 7 19:36:08 localhost kernel: [ 193.876071] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0
SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Sep 7 19:36:08 localhost kernel: [ 193.876077] ata1.00: failed command: READ
DMA
Sep 7 19:36:08 localhost kernel: [ 193.876085] ata1.00: cmd
c8/00:e8:51:00:98/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 118784 in
Sep 7 19:36:08 localhost kernel: [ 193.876087] res
40/00:01:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Sep 7 19:36:08 localhost kernel: [ 193.876091] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Sep 7 19:36:08 localhost kernel: [ 193.876127] ata1: soft resetting link
Sep 7 19:36:14 localhost kernel: [ 199.076056] ata1: link is slow to respond,
please be patient (ready=0)
Sep 7 19:36:18 localhost kernel: [ 203.921020] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
Sep 7 19:36:18 localhost kernel: [ 203.921034] ata1: soft resetting link
Sep 7 19:36:24 localhost kernel: [ 209.121055] ata1: link is slow to respond,
please be patient (ready=0)
Sep 7 19:36:28 localhost kernel: [ 213.967058] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
Sep 7 19:36:28 localhost kernel: [ 213.967072] ata1: soft resetting link
Sep 7 19:36:34 localhost kernel: [ 219.168044] ata1: link is slow to respond,
please be patient (ready=0)
Sep 7 19:36:59 localhost kernel: [ 244.977129] ata1.01: link status unknown,
clearing UNKNOWN to NONE
Sep 7 19:37:00 localhost kernel: [ 245.385606] ata1.00: configured for
UDMA/100
Sep 7 19:37:00 localhost kernel: [ 245.385623] ata1: EH complete
The last three lines seem to be from when the system began behaving
normally again. This certainly looks bad; anyone know what it means?
I'm running SMART tests, but so far I haven't seen anything that looks
funny there, although I don't really grok the SMART information.
The machine is a nearly four year old Acer Aspire laptop. The HDD, as
reported by SMART, is:
Model Family: Hitachi Travelstar 5K100
Device Model: HTS541060G9AT00
Serial Number:MPB3PAXMG2SR2G
Firmware Version: MB3OA60A
Celejar
It looks to me that it's getting timeouts and hangs from reading the
hard drive, not actual bad sectors. This could be a bad SATA (or IDE)
cable, or controller problems.
Hmm, I just noticed it's a laptop, so replacing the cable is not an
option (there's no cable to replace). I had an old laptop where I have
to wedge something underneath the hard drive to get it to make good
contact with the connectors. You could try similar experiments.
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Re: Maildrop problem
On 9/7/2010 4:34 PM, Johannes Bunte wrote: Hey guys, I'm quite desperate getting maildrop to work. I use postfix and courier with a mysql backend (virtual mailboxes). maildrop connects to authlib and gets the proper information, but only as root, it delivers it to the right mailbox. When i call maildrop from sudo -u vmail -i, it creates/appends the mail to ~/Maildir. Here is some output: # maildrop -V5 -d m...@my-domain.de mail.eml maildrop: authlib: groupid=2000 maildrop: authlib: userid=2000 maildrop: authlib: logname...@my-domain.de, home=/var/kunden/mail/, mail=johannes/m...@my-domain.de/ maildrop: Changing to /var/kunden/mail/ Message start at 0 bytes, envelope sender...@my-domain.de maildrop: Attempting .mailfilter maildrop: Delivery complete. # sudo -u vmail -i $ maildrop -V5 -d m...@my-domain.de mail.eml maildrop: authlib: groupid=2000 maildrop: authlib: userid=2000 maildrop: authlib: logname...@my-domain.de, home=/var/kunden/mail/, mail=johannes/m...@my-domain.de/ maildrop: Changing to /var/kunden/mail Message start at 0 bytes, envelope sender=vmail maildrop: Attempting .mailfilter maildrop: Delivering to ./Maildir maildrop: Flock()ing ./Maildir. maildrop: Appending to ./Maildir. maildrop: Delivery complete. So the only difference before delivery is the envelope sender, which I can set manually, but which does not give a different result in terms of delivery. Has anybody got an idea what is wrong there? I use Lenny with standard repos, so a quite common setup. It's running in VirtualBox from Lenny-Backports. Btw: What can go wrong with a setuid? I straced the above command, but as vmail I was not allowed to connect to the authdaemon socket, the first getuid() returned 2000 before any setuid. After chowning the socket, the connection to the authdaemon seems to be fine, but I don't understand why getuid() does not return a 0, because maildrop has -rwsr-sr-x. Maybe that's the problem? Any ideas? Thanks for any hints! Johannes I'm pretty sure maildrop should not be setuid root, since postfix is supposed to change to the user of the recipient before calling maildrop. Also, getuid() returns the real user ID, geteuid() returns the effective user ID. I haven't used maildrop in a long time, I've since switched to dovecot and postfix for my virtual domain setup. But in my setup, the delivery agent is not setuid root. -- 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/4c86f678.3090...@familyross.net
Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?
On 09/01/2010 02:43 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Aaron Toponce: I was in the same situation as you not a month or two ago. I spend days online looking for a good NAS, and really couldn't find anything that impressed me. I ended up going with 4-1 TB 3.5 drives, and putting them in a Linux software RAID 10 with LVM on top. What mainboar, CPU and case do you use? I am currently searching for a similar solution as well. I am considering to buy a Mini-ITX Atom board, but it's hard to find a decent case with enough space for 3-4 hard disks. J. This case might suit you: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/es34069 A little pricey, though. -- 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/4c814ba3.3000...@familyross.net
Re: network wl card is not dtected as it, is it a bios problem?
On 08/27/2010 04:00 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I added to my machine PC P4, running debian and others, ubuntu, pc wireless card :, the same card I used it on other machine, it ran nice. On my machine, the lspci gives : 03:02.0 Class : RaLink rt2561/rt61 802.11g pci (rev ff) On the other machinei have * Ethernet Controller* instead of * Class * I installed the divers firmware-ralink and other realtek . and network-manager, but nothing. on other machine, that was enough to run it correctly. and ifconfig dosn't give wlan0, iwconfig did't give characteristic of wlan0 does this mean that the bios didn't recognize it as a network card thanks for help Are you using the same kernel version on the machine where it works and the machine where it doesn't? -- 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/4c78069a.7070...@familyross.net
Re: network wl card is not dtected as it, is it a bios problem?
On 08/27/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 08/27/2010 04:00 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I added to my machine PC P4, running debian and others, ubuntu, pc wireless card :, the same card I used it on other machine, it ran nice. On my machine, the lspci gives : 03:02.0 Class : RaLink rt2561/rt61 802.11g pci (rev ff) On the other machinei have * Ethernet Controller* instead of * Class * I installed the divers firmware-ralink and other realtek . and network-manager, but nothing. on other machine, that was enough to run it correctly. and ifconfig dosn't give wlan0, iwconfig did't give characteristic of wlan0 does this mean that the bios didn't recognize it as a network card thanks for help Are you using the same kernel version on the machine where it works and the machine where it doesn't? Also, check out http://wiki.debian.org/rt61pci -- 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/4c7807a4.4050...@familyross.net
Re: Hauppauge WinTV Card
On 08/26/2010 09:02 AM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if there exists drivers for using these WinTV cards from Hauppauge? I found an old one and I'd like to use it on squeeze. On the top it says: PAL - B/G - I 44354 Rev A242 I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please reply to me directly. ciao, James The linuxtv.org wiki has the most up-to-date list of which cards are supported and which kernel version is needed. -- 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/4c76951e.5010...@familyross.net
Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)
On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and modprobe dvb-bt8xx. Then when I try to confirm it with lsmod | grep dvb-bt8xx nothing shows up. Can anyone tell me how I can get dvb-bt8xx on squeeze? Please reply directly to me since I am not subscribed to the debian-user mailing list. Thanks, James dmesg should hopefully give you some info as to why the module isn't loading.
Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)
On 08/26/2010 03:52 PM, James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Ross ke...@familyross.net mailto:ke...@familyross.net wrote: On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and modprobe dvb-bt8xx. Then when I try to confirm it with lsmod | grep dvb-bt8xx nothing shows up. Can anyone tell me how I can get dvb-bt8xx on squeeze? Please reply directly to me since I am not subscribed to the debian-user mailing list. Thanks, James dmesg should hopefully give you some info as to why the module isn't loading. It doesn't say anything. Honestly, I'd like to just know if it is possible to play fm radio on this. I'm not sure if dvb-bt8xx is necessary for that or not. Sorry I can't be of more help, maybe someone who actually has one of those cards will know... -- 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/4c76f62d.3020...@familyross.net
Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...
On 8/26/2010 5:08 PM, T o n g wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:03:55 +0200, Oliver Schneider wrote:
(which lsb_release /dev/null `which lsb_release` --id)|awk '{print
$3}'
... does not work on older systems which don't have lsb_release, though.
Is lsb_release mandatory? I'm using latest testing and I don't have it.
So if your script depends on lsb_release, then it is specific to your
setting.
I just checked, it comes from the lsb-release package, the priority of
which is optional.
To Oliver: if you're making a .deb package for your program, you could
add lsb-release to its list of dependencies.
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Re: Mailing list protocol
On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting style. Joel Spolsky does. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html -- 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/4c774786.8010...@familyross.net
Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...
On 08/25/2010 04:47 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: Is something on the lines of: cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep '^deb '|grep 'http://security\.'|head -n 1|grep -o 'debian|ubuntu' a safe idea or does it already make too many assumptions? Otherwise, what methods do you use to tell them apart from the shell? Thanks, // Oliver Can you look in /etc/issue (or maybe /etc/debian_version)? -- 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/4c75acdb.7020...@familyross.net
Re: cron: different job different mail
On 08/25/2010 12:12 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I know I can set MAIL in cron jobs so as to define where the cron execution log will send to. but, I'm wondering if it is possible to set different email destinations for different cron jobs. Thanks You could put a different file for each email address in /etc/cron.d. You could also set up your cron jobs as user jobs and not system jobs, then the output is emailed to the user instead of root. -- 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/4c75aec2.7050...@familyross.net
Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...
On 08/25/2010 05:03 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote:
Hi again,
Can you look in /etc/issue (or maybe /etc/debian_version)?
As a matter of fact that was my first naive method. It does work for Debian (unless
changed by someone), but on Ubuntu this always contains the same string as far as I saw
squeeze/sid.
However, it could be that I'm on to something with:
(which lsb_release /dev/null `which lsb_release` --id)|awk '{print $3}'
... does not work on older systems which don't have lsb_release, though.
Still looking,
// Oliver
Maybe use lsb_release, and grep /etc/apt/sources.list as a fallback method?
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Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100 - halt system on Squeeze
On 08/23/2010 11:54 AM, Felipe Ignacio Valverde Campos wrote: Hi, i have a Dell Studio 1555 Laptop using Squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64). I installed last week a clean installation, except the wireless driver (Wifi Link 5100), so i installed the firmware-iwlwifi. Are you using the iwlwifi driver from the kernel, or something you downloaded and installed separately, possibly from www.intellinuxwireless.org? -- 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/4c72cd9c.1070...@familyross.net
Re: Resmartctl test error
On 8/19/2010 8:31 PM, vishnuvardhan wrote: Camaleón wrote: There are some how to read smartcl results articles there. For example: Linux Harddisk Monitoring with SmartMonTools (smartctl) http://www.captain.at/howto-linux-smartmontools-smartctl.php Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart BTW, I keep smartmontools daemon running and monitoring the disks status. Greetings, I have started smartd by uncommenting the line in /etc/smartd.conf and /etc/default/smartmontools : # First (primary) ATA/IDE hard disk. Monitor all attributes, enable # automatic online data collection, automatic Attribute autosave, and # start a short self-test every day between 2-3am, and a long self test # Saturdays between 3-4am. /dev/hda -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) # uncomment to start smartd on system startup start_smartd=yes I will look into the links provided by you. thanks Camaleón for the links and reminding me to start smart daemon. Kevin Ross wrote: A reallocated event count of 132 doesn't look good. This is showing a sector that it couldn't correct the errors on, and would have been reported back to the operating system as an I/O error. You've never completed an extended offline test, try smartctl -t long /dev/hda, and check the results after 30 minutes with smartctl -a /dev/hda. At the beginning of the output, you can see if the test has completed yet next to the Self-test execution status field. After the test completes, the results will be near the end of the output, under SMART Self-test log.** *the output of the fdisk* : Script started on Thursday 19 August 2010 02:08:46 PM IST vishnuvardhan:/home/vishnu# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa1eca1ec Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1467937584036 83 Linux /dev/hda246804864 1486012+ 5 Extended /dev/hda546804864 1485981 82 Linux swap / Solaris vishnuvardhan:/home/vishnu# exit Script done on Thursday 19 August 2010 02:08:53 PM IST. I have tested the disk with the command provided by you but the errors that cannot be corrected are bothering me. I will do some online search possibly with the key-words and anything suprising pops up I will post here. key-words : HTS541040G9AT00+smartctl+errors. The results of the long test are given below. I am using IBM Thinkpad R51 2887-MQ5 laptop. Long test one [1] [ there was a power cut in the middle of the command execution ] : pastebin.com/B2ASzjSu [ the link is valid for one month ] Long test two [2] [ this time there is no power cut and closed all the applications ] : pastebin.com/vZ6kgjzu [ the link is valid for one month ] thanks for your time, vishnuvardhan. It doesn't look like the extended self test found anything new. However, with my own hard drives, I replace them at the first sign of errors, especially as they get older. Hard drives are cheap, and it's easy enough to clone a hard drive from the old drive to a new one. -- 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/4c6e1271.3070...@familyross.net
Re: smartctl test error
On 8/17/2010 10:26 PM, vishnuvardhan wrote: *I have run the following command and it is showing the following error for all the disks [ hda, hda1, hda2, hda5 ]* : # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15730 - # 2 Extended offlineAborted by host 90% 11081 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11080 - That isn't showing an error as you say. It's showing the result of the last few self-tests. *And when I run the following command nothing happens and I did check syslog for message. Do I have to look elsewhere ?* # smartctl -t short /dev/hda Run the command you gave above to see the results. *The output of my hard drive # smartctl -a /dev/hda :* trim 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 132 A reallocated event count of 132 doesn't look good. SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 191 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It wraps after 49.710 days. Error 191 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 01 59 bf 7f e0 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x007fbf59 = 8372057 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 00 01 59 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:22.600 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 d0 98 86 e1 00 00:09:22.600 READ DMA 40 00 02 59 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 70 7b e6 e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ DMA 40 00 02 57 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) Error 190 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 02 59 bf 7f e0 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x007fbf59 = 8372057 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 00 02 59 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 70 7b e6 e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ DMA 40 00 02 57 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ DMA 40 00 04 5b bf 7f e0 00 00:09:18.500 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) Error 189 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 02 59 bf 7f e0 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x007fbf59 = 8372057 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 00 04 57 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:14.300 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:09:14.300 READ DMA 40 00 08 57 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:10.200 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 d0 98 86 e1 00 00:09:10.200 READ DMA 40 00 08 4f bf 7f e0 00 00:09:10.200 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) Error 188 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 10995 hours (458 days + 3 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 06 59 bf 7f e0 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x007fbf59 = 8372057 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 00 08 57 bf 7f e0 00 00:09:10.200 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 d0 98 86 e1 00 00:09:10.200 READ DMA 40 00 08 4f bf 7f e0 00 00:09:10.200 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) c8 00 01 70
Re: How to schedule for a repeated task?
On 5/7/2010 11:10 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: node? Before? I'd really need to look at the script you are using, the one produced by the autoexpect session, but you could try either sending an extra `exit' string or sending a control-C (send \003) Take a look here¹ for more ASCII Control Characters. When exactly you need to press Control-C? After exiting the remote Thank you for your reply. Actually, I need to press Ctrl-C after each iteration value of 'i' in the 'for i in' loop. Please find attached the 'script.exp' that my autoexpect has created. I tried for your proposed procedure to send extra 'exit' or 'send \003' in the 'script.exp' but it didn't solve the problem. Please help me to correct it. Well I see the problem. The autogenerated expect script is waiting for the exact output of ShowStats that it had the first time you ran autoexpect, which I assume will be different every time, not the same. So, change the part that says: expect --exact ShowStats\r ...blah blah lots of stats ... BSC1_1_1- to just: expect BSC1_1_1- -- 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/4be59d73.6090...@familyross.net
Re: network setup question
On 5/6/2010 12:05 AM, Alex Samad wrote: well think about it, if we are talking about network 192.168.11.0/24 (for my example I will use 24 instead of 27) the server would have an address 192.168.11.55/24 (for example) and the router would have 192.168.11.1/24 if I change the netmask of the server it can no longer talk to the router because it is in a different ip network ie 192.168.11.55/22 can't talk to 192.168.11.1/24 (you can fake it on linux with iproute - see my other answer to this thread). Sorry if I'm being dense, I said I'm not a networking expert. But I have thought about this, and I am not seeing how it wouldn't work. 192.168.11.1 is: 1100 10101000 1011 0001 192.168.11.55 is: 1100 10101000 1011 00110111 So, the computer at 192.168.11.55 will think it's subnet is the first 22 bits of the address, which is 1100 10101000 10, which matches the first 22 bits of the router address. So far so good. Client side will think the machine at 192.168.11.1 is on the same IP subnet, so it will do an ARP request for 192.168.11.1 (ARP doesn't care about subnet masks, it just does an Ethernet broadcast), which will succeed, and the server will be able to send to the router. The reverse direction is also true. What am I missing? -- 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/4be27852.6010...@familyross.net
Re: How to schedule for a repeated task?
On 5/4/2010 10:01 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: telnet, as in the original responses. Google gives several example scripts With many thanks for your reply, I found very simple expect telnet examples (like the case that I am dealing with) so I wrote for the same but it doesn't work my case. Do you think it may come from the fact that the remote node is VxWorks or maybe some mistake in my code? It doesn't matter what the remote system is, as long as it has telnet, which I'm assuming it does, since that's what you originally asked about. To be able to help, we would need to know the output you are getting when you run it, and probably the contents of the expect script that you are using (edit out any passwords). -- 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/4be11ebc.6050...@familyross.net
RE: How to schedule for a repeated task?
Please find below my simple expect telnet script : /usr/bin/expect set name 172.16.17.160 spawn telnet $name set cmd1 command1 set cmd2 logout send $cmd1 send $cmd2 exit When I try for this procedure , I just see loging in and loging out from the telnet session . Actually , I need to have the output result of issuing 'command1' on the remote node to be captured on my local host . But when I try manually , say telnet to it and issue the command , I see the output on my screen . Please help me how to modify my simple code to have the desired result? Thank you __ It doesn't require a username or password? I'm guessing it's sending the first command command1 too soon, before the command prompt appears, so the other end doesn't see it. It only sees the logout command. Try adding: expect % or whatever the command prompt is, such as $ or # before sending the commands. -- 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/023d01caec81$1393a560$3abaf0...@net
RE: [OT] spam-tagging
From: Nuno Magalhães [mailto:nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:52 PM Hi, An idea that just came to me... With all the (small amounts of, granted,) spam that has been coming through the list, would there be a feasible way for uses to reply to spam-messages to the list with some sort of tag, so that those would be tagged as spam asap? I.e. one receives spam, one replies to it (to the list) with a string like SPAM deb...@list or whatever, and after a few hits of those the mailer or whatever would tag that message as spam. It would probably take some load of the maintainers' back and give the spamed a warm comfy feeling. /* ducks for cover */ What good would that do? Everyone on the list will have already received the spam. -- 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/024301caec97$171f3b20$455db1...@net
RE: Memory footprint of a mail server
So, is there anyone with an idea on how improve memory efficiency here? I used to use spamassassin, but now I outsource my spam and virus filtering. Services like mailfoundry and postini do excellent work, they spend all their waking hours trying to improve spam filtering accuracy. I personally get better results using postini than I did with spamassassin. At only $1 per month per mailbox, it's quite reasonably priced. And now I have memory to spare on my 256MB VPS. -- 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/025001caec99$03806ce0$0a8146...@net
Re: network setup question
On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Not sure if this is the right list, sort of a general linux networking question (pointers to a more appropriate list welcomed) Setup: - I have two servers in a datacenter, currently used for different things - I have one gigE cable coming in from one of the datacenter's big routers - that goes into a simple gigE switch - each box is plugged into that switch - I have two network /27 network blocks that are NOT contiguous - I use one for each box I'm not a networking expert, but this part seems wrong to me. I don't think you're supposed to have different subnet addresses on the same broadcast domain. If they both had the same subnet address, they would then talk to each other over the switch and not touch the router. You should be able to get what you want by adding a second IP address to each machine, preferably something in the 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x range that doesn't conflict with anything else on the network. Then when you access the other machine by the new IP address, since both machines would then have the same subnet address, it should just go over the switch and not the router. Another option is to change the subnet mask so that the mask then allows both computers to appear to be on the same subnet. This will have the side effect of making other computers that happen to fall within that same subnet inaccessible, since the networking layer will think those computers are on the same subnet and not attempt to go through the router, even though they aren't, and going through the router is required. I hope this makes sense. -- Kevin -- 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/4be23daa.5060...@familyross.net
Re: network setup question
On 5/5/2010 9:11 PM, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:55 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - I have two network /27 network blocks that are NOT contiguous - I use one for each box I'm not a networking expert, but this part seems wrong to me. I don't think you're supposed to have different subnet addresses on the same broadcast domain. If they both had the same subnet address, they would then talk to each other over the switch and not touch the router. Why do you think this, reason I ask is I had a rather long discussion with a work college about this and I am wondering were this thinking comes from. Which part? The part about different subnets on the same switch or hub? If so, yes I guess there's nothing terribly wrong with doing that, other than causing extra traffic to the router between subnets when they could be talking directly to each other. Or is it the part about the two computers talking directly to each other without the router if they are on the same subnet? If so, I'm speaking strictly of TCP/IP over Ethernet. Let's say you have a simple network with a router IP address of 192.168.1.1, host A with 192.168.1.2, and host B with 192.168.1.3. All have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Since we are operating over Ethernet, the TCP/IP stack needs to determine the Ethernet address to which to send a packet. If host A wants to send a packet to a host within the subnet, for example to 192.168.1.3, then it will first send out an ARP request to get the Ethernet address of 192.168.1.3. When it receives it, it will then send the packet over Ethernet to the address received via ARP, which will cause the packet to go straight to the receiving computer, not to the router (if using a switch not a hub). If the destination IP address is outside of the subnet, then it asks ARP for the address of the router, and sends the packet over Ethernet to the router. Another option is to change the subnet mask so that the mask then allows careful you might loose connectivity with the router. I was only mentioning it as another possibility. I don't think you will lose connectivity with the router, just with other hosts that the computer now thinks are in the same subnet, but really need to go through the router. But if you know that you'll never want to talk to those hosts, then this is a viable option. -- 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/4be252bd.3080...@familyross.net
RE: How to schedule for a repeated task?
From: hadi motamedi [mailto:motamed...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:26 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to schedule for a repeated task? password. Then just execute ssh usern...@remote.server somecommand and it will run somecommand and the output will be sent back to you. Thank you for your reply. Please be informed that I didn't have success in activating ssh on my remote node VxWorks. According to your comment, I want to make use of it on my another Red Hat 9 remote node. From my previous posts, I learned to enable it as the followings : - First, ssh to the remote machine and then logout . - Second , generate a key : - #ssh-keygen t dsa - Third , copy your public key to the remote machine : - #scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub usern...@remote.server:.ssh/authorized_keys - Select your appropriate passphrase But this procedure is not working with the remote end as Red Hat 9. As you see, it is not always possible to construct ssh. Did you have any experience with VxWorks to enable ssh on it? - I don't know anything about VxWorks, but from looking at Wikipedia, it looks like it's meant for embedded systems, and as such it may not have an SSH server on it. If that is the case, then you'll need to use expect with telnet, as in the original responses. Google gives several example scripts using a search phrase like expect telnet example script. Hope this help! -- Kevin -- 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/01d401caebce$9ecb62c0$dc6228...@net
RE: How to schedule for a repeated task?
From: d.sastre.med...@gmail.com [mailto:d.sastre.med...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:47 AM On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:11:43AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I need to schedule for a repeated task on my Debian server, as the followings: -) Telnet to a remote node -) Issue a command -) Capture the output in a log -) Logout from Telnet -) Wait for a prescribed time interval -) Then redo , but append the subsequent output in just on file Can you please let me know which options do we have to write such a task? Thank you Hello, For that task, you want expect. To schedule it, you need cron. Regards. Yes, expect will work, but if you can use ssh, use it, it will be easier. Setup ssh to use RSA key for authentication, so it won't prompt for a password. Then just execute ssh usern...@remote.server somecommand and it will run somecommand and the output will be sent back to you. -- 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/015501caeaf1$5e206640$1a6132...@net
RE: Filesystem recommendations
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:20 AM Both XFS and Ext3/4 recover through journal replay, and it is usually enough. Rarely, a manual filesystem check will be required, and xfs_check is usually much faster than fsck.ext3 or even fsck.ext4. They only journal filesystem metadata, not the file data iself. If changes to a file haven't been flushed to disk before the power goes out, you'll end up with a perfectly consistent filesystem (thanks to the journal), but with a file or two (or more) with garbage in it. This is why at the beginning of this thread I recommended a filesystem that uses copy-on-write and preferably checksums your data. However, I don't follow my own advice, probably because I've been using XFS for so long (since 2.4 kernel when you had to download the patches from SGI). I personally haven't had a problem with data loss from power outage as a result of XFS corrupting my files. I believe this is because if a regular file (not a database) is in the process of being written when the power goes out, even if every write is synced to disk, unless whatever was writing to it has finished writing, then the contents of the file are invalid anyway, and no filesystem will protect you from that. For example, if my MythTV backend is recording a TV show and the power goes out in the middle of the recording, I will delete it and let MythTV re-record at a later date. It makes no difference if every byte in that file is correct or not up to the point of the power failure. The window of failure is when the process doing the writing closes the file, and if the power now goes out before everything is synced to disk, then you will have a corrupted file that otherwise wouldn't have been. BTW, regarding UPS's. The number of times my computer was improperly shut down as a result of a power outage is far less than the number of times other problems have caused improper shutdowns: e.g. hardware failures such as a power supply going bad, system overheating, kernel crashes, or other system lockups that require you to hit the reset button. -- 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/007201cae7cd$3af7a2e0$b0e6e8...@net
RE: Filesystem recommendations
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:49 PM On 04/24/2010 05:31 PM, B. Alexander wrote: Define hates sudden power outages...Is it recoverable? They got pretty corrupted. Maybe it's been robustified in the intervening years. Apparently, it has been robustified. http://old.nabble.com/XFS-data-loss,-and-a-fix-td15876910.html http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_do_I_see_binary_NULLS_in_some_files_after_recovery_when_I_unplugged_the_power.3F -- 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/00ac01cae7dc$0242e400$06c8ac...@net
RE: iptables..WTF???
What the heck happened this afternoon?? I don't know, but I'd start by making sure your interface names and IP addresses haven't changed for some reason. -- 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/00b501cae7e9$09b7d800$1d2788...@net
RE: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of nv ...)
From: clivemcbar...@web.de [mailto:clivemcbar...@web.de] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:14 PM Kevin Ross wrote: Reply to List button (which I know was available as an add-on before) You remember what the add-on is called? Searching for reply to list in add-ons didn't give me anything. http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension -- 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/010701cae590$2437d2d0$6ca778...@net
RE: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of nv ...)
From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:31 PM From: clivemcbar...@web.de [mailto:clivemcbar...@web.de] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:14 PM Kevin Ross wrote: Reply to List button (which I know was available as an add-on before) You remember what the add-on is called? Searching for reply to list in add-ons didn't give me anything. http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension The above is what I've used in the past, but I just saw there's one in the regular add-ons place as well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455 -- 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/010a01cae591$1261fa30$3725ee...@net
Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of nv ...)
On 4/24/2010 4:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. I don't think I've hated a program more than I hate Tbird 3.0. I agree. I like that it has the Reply to List button (which I know was available as an add-on before), but that's the only thing about it that I like better. Well maybe putting the reply, etc. buttons in the message header area instead of up top is an improvement, too. But otherwise, I'm not loving it. -- 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/4bd3a849.2050...@familyross.net
Re: Filesystem recommendations
On 4/24/2010 10:53 AM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi, I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any filesystem I have encountered, it could be reduced in size. Well, now reiser3 is very long in the tooth, reiser4 will probably never go anywhere, so I'm wondering what filesystems are recommended. Last I heard, ext4 is stablizing, but it had problems with filesystem corruption, though that was mid-fall last year, IIRC. So now, I would like to slowly start replacing my reiser3 partitions with...something else. There are two options, the old standards, e.g. ext3/4, xfs, etc, and then there are a slew of new filesystems, such as nilfs2, btrfs and exofs. I'm talking about a range of machines, from workstations to servers to NFS and storage servers with multi-terabyte disks, and a backup server with several hundred gigs of backups. Does anyone have suggestions and practical experience with the pros and cons of the various filesystems? Thanks, --b If file integrity are important to you, look for a FS that keeps checksums of individual files. Otherwise, if a file becomes corrupted, you'll never know it, unless you keep your own checksums. There are only a small handful of filesystems that keep checksums of your files. Btrfs and ZFS come to mind. I believe ZFS is more mature than Btrfs, but it isn't in the kernel. I believe the only way to get ZFS on Linux is through FUSE. There's also JFS, which has been around for a number of years, and is mature. It doesn't checksum your files, but it does use copy-on-write (as do Btrfs and ZFS), which goes a long way to keeping your data from getting corrupted, something XFS does not do. So if Btrfs were more mature, or if ZFS were included in the kernel, I'd recommend either of those. But as it is, I think JFS is the way to go. -- Kevin -- 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/4bd3ad1b.70...@familyross.net
RE: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?
From: Sthu Deus [mailto:sthu.d...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:31 AM Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: I run Sid. Aha! - I run testing OO - even not whole my system. Note also that OOo depends on Gtk, which might need also to be loaded by KDE, but not by GNOME or XFce. Could You please extend this Your phrase: how I/KDE can load the Gtk? I think what he means is, KDE apps don't in general use the GTK libraries, they use Qt. Gnome apps in general use the GTK libraries, not Qt. So in the case of Gnome, as soon as any program loads the GTK libraries, they will usually be shared by all programs that use them. So when you go to launch OOo, the GTK libraries are already loaded and ready to go. In the case of KDE, since no programs are using GTK, OOo would have to load the GTK libraries fresh, which slows things down. -- 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/005b01cae33e$22146580$663d30...@net
RE: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor
From: Dotan Cohen [mailto:dotanco...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:42 AM Here is the device: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9641/seriall.jpg It is a real serial device, no USB. I don't know a lot about smart cards, but as far as I know, you need software to communicate with them over a serial connection. There are Debian packages for some things, like PAM modules for authenticating a user with a smart card. It will communicate over the existing /dev/ttyS* device nodes. Those device nodes will exist for each serial port present on the computer, regardless of whether or not something is plugged into them. There's also the opensc package, from the opensc-project.org website. Here's the package description: OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to access smart cards. It mainly focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations. It facilitates their use in security applications such as mail encryption, authentication, and digital signature. OpenSC implements the PKCS#11 API. Applications supporting this API, such as Iceweasel and Icedove, can use it. OpenSC implements the PKCS#15 standard and aims to be compatible with all software that does so as well. Before purchasing any cards, please read carefully documentation in /usr/share/doc/opensc/html/wiki/index.html - only some cards are supported. Not only does card type matters, but also card version, card OS version and preloaded applet. Only a subset of possible operations may be supported for your card. Card initialization may require third party proprietary software. -- 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/021d01cae276$99730230$cc5906...@net
Re: crypt question/server hotel
Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. What can I do? I can crypt my partition/hdd's that contains the data. Ok. But: then my operating system will not be encrypted. Not Ok. If I crypt my operating system too, then when a reboot comes, I have to type a password to decrypt. But my server will be at a server hotel I can't directly use a keyboard [no service cpu]. What can I do [on technical side] to ensure a little more security to my server [e.g: crypt my partition/slice/whatever, that has the operating system, but without the type password problem] Thank you for any tips/help. Servers usually have the option of some sort of remote access controller, which allows you to do things to the server as if you were sitting at the console, such as power off, power on, and to see a remote console to do things like make BIOS changes, or in your case, to enter a password to decrypt the disk. -- 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/4bc9846a.8050...@familyross.net
RE: multiple applications segfault with error 6
Two things immediately come to mind. Bad memory, or a corrupt library file. Run memtest86 to check the memory. Run debsums -c to check for corrupt files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Ethernet Wifi Weirdness
Mark wrote: I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac Win user). I'm having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. I installed Lenny the other day. My home router's wifi is set up with WPA personal and mac address filtering (and I didn't know to plan ahead for this), so Lenny's installation routine did not set up the wifi. However, regular wired ethernet worked. I then installed VirtualBox (latest version) with a WinXP Pro guest (for my wife). Wired Internet piped through VBox into WinXP just fine. Then I started doing rookie things. I browsed the Internet looking for ways to get the wifi working. I apt-get installed a few things; got the program Wifi-Wiz, and configured it to use NDISwrapper without really knowing what I was doing. Beyond this account, I can't really recall what I did to the system. Here's what resulted from my efforts: the Lenny installation continued to have working wired Internet. I successfully got (using auto-DHCP) a good IP address from the wireless router, though the address periodically switched between 192.168.1.24 and 192.168.1.39 for no reason that I could tell. My Gnome desktop was not getting wireless Internet: that is, Iceweasel couldn't open any URLs unless the ethernet cable was plugged in. However, when I started up WinXP in VirtualBox, WinXP *did* get wireless Internet. In trying to fix this (again, blindly) -- i.e. get wireless to work on Gnome as well as on VirtualBox's WinXP machine -- I somehow wrecked the network entirely. Now when I boot up no Internet of any kind works, wired, wireless, Gnome, VBox-WinXP. Is there a newbie-friendly manual somewhere that I can use to configure the networking from scratch? Any thoughts about what might be going wrong? - Mark The wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi) has the information you need. NDISWrapper should only be used as a last resort. It uses Windows drivers in Linux. It's better to use native Linux drivers, unless you have a wi-fi card that doesn't have a Linux driver. What wireless network card do you have? After that, just install network-manager and network-manager-gnome, then on your desktop, in the notification area, you'll have an icon that, when you click on it, will list the wireless networks it finds, and will let you connect to any of them. WPA is handled for you. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DVB-T TV card for Lenny.
Robert David wrote: Hi, I'm planing to upgrade my home server with TV card an use it with mythtv as multimedia center. I was searching for some good DVB-T card in local stores that has support in Lenny but didn't find any reasonable piece (I do not want kernel from backports or compile unsupported modules). PCI card would be better than USB (but if I don't find appropriate PCI card I will use USB). Requested specification: DVB-T (Europe, Czech republic) PCI max $100 So if someone did something like me and find a good card (for example on ebay) please reply. Thanks, Robert. You could go through the list at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_PCI_Cards, click on each card, and the page that comes up will usually tell you which kernel was the first to include the driver. Sorry I don't have any specific recommendations for you. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds
Jack Dodds wrote: If anyone can identify this problem, or offer suggestions about how to further narrow it down, I would appreciate it. Jack Dodd How much memory is Iceweasel using when it starts acting up? Firefox on my Windows machine does the same, when I have about 20 tabs open and it's using about 1.5 GB of memory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question
stephen...@yahoo.com wrote: Just to update this old thread a bit: actually this didn't work perfectly, it only worked when I started up Linux when the PC was already switched on beforehand. When switching the PC on from cold and booting into Linux, it did not work, I think because it was trying to talk to the ADSL modem before the modem was ready. So following a suggestion on another web page I found, instead of doing the above, I put the following line in my /etc/inittab: s1:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd call provider This seems to have solved the problem, but there is one minor niggle left: when this line in inittab is being processed, pppd seems to crash out the first few times it is started - I assume for the same reason mentioned above, i.e. the ADSL modem is not yet ready - and this causes an error that it is respawning too fast and will be put on hold for 5 minutes (I don't have the exact text of the message). Somehow though it is managing to get pppd running because when I log in, iceweasel can connect to the internet straight away. I can probably work out a way to put in a delay between each respawn to stop this message, but if anyone has a good idea or knows the 'right' way to do this I'd be grateful. Thanks in advance Try adding maxfail 0 to your config file. The default configuration is to try 10 times then give up. It's probably giving up before the DSL modem has had a chance to come up. That would be a better solution than adding pppd to your inittab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?
-Original Message- From: lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:23 AM Apparently, mplayer is supposed to be able to use vdpau, and 'mplayer -vo help' lists it. But when telling it to use it, CPU load during playback isn't lower than with kaffeine: I doubt that mplayer does actually use vdpau --- or if it does, then why is the CPU load still high? How can I tell for sure if mplayer does use vdpau? Don't know about the rest. Hm. Is mplayer eventually able to play HDTV with sound? I couldn't get it to work with the TV card at all because I couldn't find out what the format of the channels.conf it needs is and how to create one. Mplayer most definitely supports VDPAU, I use it myself all the time. The one in debian-multimedia, in the testing repository. You need to use a -vc option as well as a -vo option. Put this in your ~/.mplayer/config: vc=ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau, vo=vdpau I also added these for DTS and AC3 passthrough via SPDIF (you may need to change default to something else): ao=alsa:device=default ac=hwdts,hwac3, I'm not at home right now, so I can't tell you what the exact output from mplayer is when it's using VDPAU, but it does tell you in its output when it's using it. As for using mplayer with a TV tuner card, I tried it once about a year ago to test out the card, before I set up MythTV. The channels.conf file can be generated by the scan command from the dvb-apps package. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Debian Etch Install
From: Stan Hoeppner [mailto:s...@hardwarefreak.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:38 AM Your scenario is bogus, because all semi-modern PCs have wired ethernet. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?! Well, my laptop has a broken Ethernet port. I could go and spend money on a USB Ethernet device, but the only time I ever need it is when doing a fresh OS install. Otherwise the internal wi-fi has done me well on this machine. There are many cases of installs on older hardware, since Linux doesn't need the latest hardware to run well. Older hardware doesn't have built-in Ethernet, in many cases. There are times you don't have convenient access to a wired Ethernet outlet, especially in corporate environments. Debian is installable on a dozen different architectures, including small embedded systems with ARM processors. Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Etch Install
Osamu Aoki wrote: Etch is obsoleted distribution. Unless you have specific reason, please use current release: lenny. http://www.debian.org/distrib/ I have no idea what is hapening on your system. Are you connected to network and tried to download packages? URL for archive has changed so old install disks are not expected to work without special tweak by the user. New URL for APT lines are http://archive.debian.org/ If you learn basics of APT system, it is not so difficult. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html Osamu Etch isn't obsolete, it's oldstable. It still has security updates. It won't be obsolete until Squeeze is released. Also, Etch is not found on archive.debian.org. Only Woody and older are on there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Etch Install
Kevin Ross wrote: Only Woody and older are on there. And Sarge. Forgot about Sarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Inquiry: How would you prepare an image list
T o n g wrote: Hi, This is a situation that I feel hard to find a good solution -- We've taken hundreds of digital pictures. Now it is time for some big batch printings, each batch contains about a hundred pictures. Previously, when selecting pictures in a small scale (30~40), I use pfm to do it (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2064/) Now with batches this big, I'd rather hand over the picking job to my wife. The problem is, she is not computer savvy at all. And I found it very hard to find a good solution for her. Any suggestions/comments welcome. Thanks. PS. If anyone interested, I'm about to experience some internet printing services as cheap as about USD $0.08c per print overall. How about something simple, like copying all the pictures to another folder, then launch your favorite image viewing program, such as Eye of Gnome, and tell her to hit the delete key on any pictures she doesn't want printed, and PageUp/PageDown through the rest. Then when she's done, you will have a folder with pictures to print. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Problem in Debian 5 Installation
I use UNetbootin, which copies the Debian installer to a USB flash drive, and makes it bootable. Then you just boot from the USB flash drive, do normal Debian setup, and it downloads everything it needs to do a full install over the internet. There are versions of UNetbootin that run on Windows or Linux for creating the bootable USB flash drive. You can do it manually following the instructions in the Debian installation manual, but I find Unetbootin far more convenient. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars
-Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:04 PM [snip] Any suggestions as to how I can delete this file? Thanks! You didn't mention this, but have you tried wildcards? Such as: $ rm Tentative*.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date
-Original Message- From: Camaleón Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:04 AM It's not outdated. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.69-9/changelog -- Andreas Metzler ametz...@debian.org Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:12:27 +0200 Is this outdated? Well, yes. As per Exim's site, the current verion is 4.71. And 4.69 is minor than 4.71 :-) The version in Lenny is not 4.69, it's 4.69-9, which is different. Also, the 4.69-9 version is not an official Exim version. So comparing 4.69-9, which doesn't appear in Exim's official version list, with 4.71, doesn't make sense. That will just generate noise, causing people to ignore the emails from rkhunter, which will then cause people to miss actually important messages. I'd turn off that feature of rkhunter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Upgrade php4 Sarege
i wrote: Hello debian-user, I`d like to upgrade php4 to php5 in my Debian Sarge, but I have problem with source deb pages, because Sarge has no official support php5. I`v find this sources, but it`s not function present time;o( deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5 sarge deb-src http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5 sarge fleg There's always the option of building PHP5 from source. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Banging my head accessing my wifi
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malate...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:07 PM On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit tteb...@gmail.com wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Here is part of dmesg: [ 32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi- 4965-2.ucode [ 32.056427] iwlagn :0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.57.2.23 [ 32.056564] iwlagn :0c:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Does this mean the radio switch is in the off position? ^^ I do not understand what you mean. How do I turn this thing on ? You don't say what kind of computer you have, but many laptops have an actual switch on the edge of the computer that is used to turn on/off wifi and Bluetooth. I know my Thinkpad does. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: A laptop installation challenge
However, I cannot locate the HD, and suspect that it is under a thin aluminium frame which will involve dismantling the entire casing. Under the key pad I can see the IDE ribbon and connector so can locate the HD - I just don't see a viable way of accessing it. The laptop is a rebranded Mitac 7321 which is well described at http://bongolia.org/linux/mitac7321.php . The manual indicates the hard drive is located in a slide-out tray on the side of the computer, which is held in place by a single screw on the bottom of the computer. Pretty standard for all laptops. I downloaded the manual from http://mtc.mitacservice.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question
From: stephen...@yahoo.com [mailto:stephen...@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:16 AM My current ISP uses DHCP - does that change anything you've written? Are you absolutely sure of that? ISP's mainly use two different methods of assigning IP addresses to their customers. DHCP or PPPoE. If your ISP uses PPPoE, then you need to use pppd with a PPPoE plugin. If they use DHCP, then you don't use pppd at all. You just use a DHCP client on your machiine. Using pppd won't work at all. If there's any uncertainty on your part, maybe you could tell us what ISP you're using, and in what geographic region. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Changing from ADSL Modem to Router (repost)
From: David Baron [mailto:d_ba...@012.net.il] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:36 AM I connect now through pptp. The computer sends the login and a cron job attempts to keep the connection. Various files in /etc/ppp/peers have login info and some options. How do I change to a router (the router logs in and tries to keep the connection)? PPTP? Not PPPoE? If you actually meant PPPoE, I believe every broadband router that you can buy today supports PPPoE. So you would just need to configure it with your login info. Then on your linux machine, strip out all of the ppp stuff, and modify your /etc/network/interfaces file so that the entries for eth0 looks like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp This tells it to aquire an IP address from your router, since all broadband routers include a DHCP server to assign IP addresses for client machines on your network (wired or wi-fi). Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Re: A laptop installation challenge
From: jamesb [mailto:jaggin...@videotron.ca] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:18 PM i'm assuming you would be able to use at least iexplorer 3 or something with win 3.1.. it sure is a challenge but definitely possible ;) (it's likely you might have to copy win32s and iexplorer on diskettes somewhere) If memory serves, Windows 3.1 didn't include any TCP/IP stack, and certainly didn't include any version of Internet Explorer (there were 3rd party TCP/IP stacks). Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was the first 16-bit Windows to include a TCP/IP stack. I don't remember what, if any, web browser it came with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question
From: stephen...@yahoo.com [mailto:stephen...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:50 AM At the moment I have to start an xterm and explicitly type 'pon' before I can use any internet-based programs such as iceweasel or even ping. My question is, is there any way I can get iceweasel (or ping) to cause a GUI dialog to appear, asking me if I want to establish the ADSL connection, if it is not up? (In other words, the way it works in Windows?) Said GUI dialog would preferably work on top of kfce, which I like. I HAVE tried adding the line 'demand' to my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file. After doing that if I run pon and then plog -f, I can see messages up to the point where it tells me the local and remote IP addresses, with nothing after that - presumably because pppd is waiting for some 'demand' before it connects. However, when I then try iceweasel, it still says 'site not found' and and nothing more appears in the plog -f output. Similarly, when I try ping, it still says unknown host. I would suggest getting demand to work with pppd first. It's been awhile since I've used pppd, but I do recall it wasn't too hard to get on-demand dialing to work. Then, you could use the connect option to launch some type of graphical yes/no prompt. You may have to throw something together with Tcl/Tk or similar. I know this doesn't solve your problem, but it might give you some ideas. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question
If you want to have your connection be established on bootup, the Debian way is to add your PPP connection to your /etc/network/interfaces file, like: auto ppp0 iface ppp0 inet ppp provider dsl-provider Then, in your ppp options, add the persist option, which will cause your connection to automatically reconnect should the connection be lost. Remove any demand, idle, or holdoff options. For security, you'll want to add a firewall. I use shorewall myself, and like it. The configuration is through text files, but it's leaps and bounds easier than directly manipulating iptables. That's how I had it setup before I switched to a DSL provider that used DHCP instead of PPPoE. I have since switched again to FIOS, but no changes were necessary, since they use DHCP as well. I personally prefer using a Linux machine as the router, and using a separate wireless access point for wi-fi. One reason is the flexibility offered over the WAP/router combo units. Another is memory. Bittorrent will cause many routers to run out of memory. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Wondering about doing something strange with networking
From: Nick Lidakis [mailto:nlida...@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:42 PM The Alix 3d2 board is available for about $100 USD. Cool, thanks for the heads up! I think the 2d2 would be a better choice for the OP, since it includes 2 LAN ports instead of one. Couple it with one of their nifty little enclosures and AC adapter, and you're set! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: [OT] Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?
From: Nick Lidakis [mailto:nlida...@verizon.net] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:21 PM Forgive me if this too off topic for this list. I haven't had a chance to see what's going on at debian-off-topic much less join. Are there quality text mailing lists for non-computer related topics? Do web forums dominate the internet landscape? If one is tired of asinine graphics and animated avitars, where do you find good lists? I guess one could just use a text mode browser to emulate that text list feel... Try Usenet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Merge Extra free space into current linux partition
From: Kushal Koolwal [mailto:kushalkool...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:32 PM I am using Debian Lenny on x86 computer installed on my SATA hard drive - /dev/sda5. # cfdisk /dev/sda ** * sda1 Boot Primary FAT16 [DOS ] 2146.80 sda2 Primary NTFS [] 10001.95 sda5 Logical Linux ext3 15002.92 Pri/Log Free Space 132887.63 ** * I would like to merge all the extra Free Space (132887.63) as shown above into my current Debian partition (/dev/sda5). How can I do that without having to move all the data and reformatting/re-creating partition. Kushal Koolwal Use fdisk (or similar tool) to change the end cylinder of the partition to the end of the disk. Do not change the start cylinder. Then run resize2fs /dev/sda5 to grow the filesystem to take up the rest of the space. Oh, of course make sure you have a backup first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: pv
From: Tilo Schwarz [mailto:t...@tilo-schwarz.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:33 AM alle konstanten Felddeklarationen gegen die aktuell angegebenen Parameter prüfen und ggf. meckern. -- Viele Grüße, Tilo This is the English language list. The German list is debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org Have a good day, -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Installing XBMC on testing
From: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:11 AM Frank McCormick wrote: Does anyone know how to get XBMC ( media centre app) installed on Debian testing. Apparently at least 2 of the libraries needed are not available for Debian. I went as far as trying to install the Ubuntu Intrepid edition (this has worked for other software )but ran into the library problem. BTW , seems to me the developers have overlooked Debian in favor of Ubuntu. Hi, what exactly are you trying to install, this works here (Squeeze amd64): aptitude search ~S~i~nxbmc i xbmc i A xbmc-bin i A xbmc-data i A xbmc-skin-pm3-hd Installed directly from Sid. Tom That's cool that it's in debian-multimedia now, I had no idea. However, it appears that the build in d-m doesn't include VDPAU support. It's been awhile since I've installed pre-built XBMC on my Debian machine, I usually build it from source. But if memory serves, it was pretty easy to install by pulling from the Hardy PPA repository of XBMC. i.e. add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/ hardy main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Installing XBMC on testing
From: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:10 PM It is indeed compiled with vdpau support, if you have adequate hardware you can go to settings videos player and choose VDPAU as render method. Tom Sorry for the misinformation. I was going by the fact that the dependencies don't list libvdpau, unlike other VDPAU-enabled apps in debian-multimedia. I haven't actually installed it from d-m, since I build it from source. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux
It could be that the driver you are using doesn't report those statistics. It's also possible you haven't had any errors in that time. In my statistics below, the send/receive byte counts have overflowed the 32-bit limit many times, so don't believe them. I probably download 2-10 gigabytes per day, and the uptime is 33 days. # cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive| Transmit face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed lo:2756594713 12545043000 0 0 0 2756594713 12545043000 0 0 0 eth-int:1840176101 1581657840 2398 2398 2398 0 30001 1404160007 285315773000 0 5 0 eth-ext:372772043 272335957 410 76241 0 0 2455504315 268065658000 0 0 0 # ifconfig eth-ext Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:da:12:3e:5f inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fe12:3e5f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:272336213 errors:41 dropped:0 overruns:762 frame:41 TX packets:268065969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:372864777 (355.5 MiB) TX bytes:2455710933 (2.2 GiB) Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2c00 eth-int Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:8c:3d:7d:ba inet addr:192.168.11.1 Bcast:192.168.11.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::224:8cff:fe3d:7dba/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:158165784 errors:0 dropped:2398 overruns:2398 frame:2398 TX packets:285315773 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:5 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1840176101 (1.7 GiB) TX bytes:1404160007 (1.3 GiB) Interrupt:29 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:12545043 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12545043 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2756594713 (2.5 GiB) TX bytes:2756594713 (2.5 GiB) # ethtool -i eth-ext driver: 3c59x version: firmware-version: bus-info: :05:02.0 # ethtool -i eth-int driver: ATL1E version: 1.0.0.7-NAPI firmware-version: L1e bus-info: :01:00.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux
From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 1:14 PM It could be that the driver you are using doesn't report those statistics. It's also possible you haven't had any errors in that time. I just checked on another computer, which uses the forcedeth driver (same as you), and I have all zeros for those stats, too. Uptime on that computer is 16 days, with traffic aplenty (HTPC streaming HD movies over NFS from server, approx. 4 to 8 GB each). I'm inclined to believe it's an issue with the forcedeth driver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user
From: AG [mailto:computing.acco...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:18 PM Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE config files which is where the borkness seems to be). The reasons for doing this are because somehow one or more of the KDE configuration files has resulted in a number of problems, such as losing desktop icons and removable media (e.g. an USB stick) triggering OOo rather than opening the actual medium, and small but really irritating things like that, which despite my best attempts to fix remain unfixed. When I create a new account to test these issues in, I cannot replicate the problems, so am keen to transfer non-configuration files over (with the exception of the applications she uses). The approach that I was thinking of would be to burn the files and directories (including her KMail and Evolution directories as well as the IceWeasel bookmarks) onto a CD, delete her existing /home/user directory and then add her as a new user again, and then transfer what is on the CD back into the newly created account. Can anyone see any potential gotchas to this approach, or recommend a more sophisticated way of accomplishing the same objective? TIA AG From another account, just rename her home directory to something else, then create an empty home directory. Then when she logs back in, all the configurations will be back at their defaults. Then just copy anything needed from the renamed directory back into her home directory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Xorg ABI version
From: Ilia Lilov [mailto:lilo...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:20 AM I have to use proprietary video driver for SIS graphic adapter. SIS provides only one binary version of driver, which must use with certain version of Xorg. Xorg.log says this: (EE) module ABI major version (4) doesn't match the server's version (5) Squeeze has now xorg 7.4, string above for squeeze, and lenny has now xorg 7.3, string above is the same but it has (1) instead of (5). Where can I find which subversion of xorg has (4) ABI version, and where can I find archive repository to downgrade xorg to it? Thanks, Ilia. I suspect you might need to go back to a version of Debian that used XFree86 4.0, which was Debian 3.1 (Sarge), however I could be wrong. If that is the case, though, then I wouldn't actually recommend going back to such an old version. I would suggest either using the free open source SIS drivers in Lenny or Squeeze, or using the VESA driver if the SIS driver doesn't work, or as a last resort, use a different video card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Autoremove appears to want to remove most of Gnome
From: AG [mailto:computing.acco...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:14 PM Hi Recently when installing a new package I noticed that apt-get seems to want to remove most (all?) of my Gnome-related applications, suggesting that I run autoremove to do so. This is the (rather long) list: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil mono-2.0-gac dmsetup mesa-utils libfreebob0 libempathy23 planner tomboy ekiga libgsf-gnome-1-114 python-opengl libnm-glib-vpn0 gcalctool gthumb telepathy-salut gnuchess-book gnome-nettool libgoffice-0-common epiphany-extensions-more gnome-games-extra-data libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 libgnomepanel2.24-cil libopenraw1 libboost-regex1.38.0 hal-cups-utils libdmraid1.0.0.rc15 libglade2.0-cil libtelepathy-glib0 pkg-config libxml-libxml-common-perl libglib2.0-cil abiword-plugin-goffice libclutter-gtk-0.8-0 obex-data-server libbrasero-media0 brasero-common libdatetime-locale-perl python-gnome2-extras libopenrawgnome1 gucharmap python-evince network-manager gnome-games cheese gdebi libparams-validate-perl evolution-exchange libgconf2.0-cil libots0 gnome-bluetooth libxml-namespacesupport-perl libspectre1 update-manager-core hardinfo libclass-accessor-perl gnome-power-manager gnome-cards-data gthumb-data liferea-data gparted cli-common libglew1.5 ggzcore-bin gnome-screensaver gnome-themes-more rhythmbox libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgstfarsight0.10-0 telepathy-mission-control libnm-util1 gtk2-engines-pixbuf gnome-office system-config-printer libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a libmissioncontrol-client0 abiword-common update-manager-gnome evince-common abiword abiword-plugin-mathview latex-xft-fonts python-gtkglext1 libwww-curl-perl libpcap0.8 libart2.0-cil libjs-jquery libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a gnome-themes update-notifier-common seahorse libggzmod4 libterm-readkey-perl empathy python-apt libempathy-common gdebi-core libempathy-gtk19 libxml-sax-expat-perl gvfs-bin vinagre swfdec-gnome gnumeric-common clive-utils update-notifier libgnome2.24-cil python-gdl libndesk-dbus1.0-cil seahorse-plugins libclutter-0.8-0 python-gtksourceview libmono-cairo2.0-cil gedit-plugins libtelepathy-farsight0 network-manager-gnome python-gtkspell kpartx libpcsclite1 libgnome-bluetooth2 gconf-defaults-service guile-1.8-libs wwwconfig-common dnsmasq-base link-grammar-dictionaries-en python-gtkhtml2 libuniversal-require-perl gnome-themes-extras libalut0 libopal3.6.4 libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil libgssdp-1.0-1 libcryptui0 libhtml-strip-perl libxml-rss-libxml-perl libparted1.8-12 libmono-addins0.2-cil fast-user-switch-applet abiword-help libmono-posix2.0-cil gnome-volume-manager libgnomeprint2.2-data libkpathsea4 libmono-security2.0-cil libt1-5 gtk2-engines-smooth libaiksaurus-1.2-data libio-stty-perl libwv-1.2-3 python-gnomeprint python-4suite-doc gnome-backgrounds clive libgdome2-0 python-sexy libgtk2.0-cil libxml-libxml-perl mono-gac libnm-glib0 python-vte libggz2 libsub-name-perl abiword-plugin-grammar python-metacity libxml-sax-perl tsclient rdesktop libdatetime-perl libevince1 libgtksourceview-common vino evince gnome-games-data python-rsvg gnome-app-install libffado1 libboost-iostreams1.38.0 python-cupsutils ppp libgtkhtml2-0 libgoffice-0-4 telepathy-gabble libgoffice-0-8 libmissioncontrol-server1 libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil python-mediaprofiles libtelepathy2 libcrypt-twofish-perl libpt2.6.4-plugins libmono-corlib2.0-cil libgetopt-argvfile-perl libdatetime-format-w3cdtf-perl gstreamer0.10-nice python-bugbuddy mono-runtime libpt2.6.4 libudev0 liferea libxml++2.6-2 wpasupplicant python-totem-plparser libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libclutter-cairo-0.8-0 libgupnp-1.0-2 libio-pty-perl python-cups libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl xorg-docs libnl1 dmz-cursor-theme python-evolution python-4suite-xml gnumeric javascript-common perl-tk libberkeleydb-perl rss-glx libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libempathy-gtk-common libggzcore9 gconf-editor liblink-grammar4 libconfig-tiny-perl gnome-system-tools libgtkmathview0c2a libdatetime-format-mail-perl python-gksu2 dmraid hamster-applet gnuchess libgmime2.2a-cil python-nautilusburn gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs libnice0 binfmt-support python-gnome2-desktop libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libgnomeprint2.2-0 libdatetime-timezone-perl libavahi-ui0 transmission-common lxsession-lite libgtkglext1 liblist-moreutils-perl gstreamer0.10-tools lsb-release freeglut3 libclass-singleton-perl libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgupnp-igd-1.0-2 libmono-system2.0-cil libgdl-1-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libexpect-perl serpentine libopenobex1 transmission-gtk python-gtop sound-juicer libgnomecups1.0-1 libgdl-1-common libgoffice-0-8-common I am rather concerned about doing so, and wonder - am I being unnecessarily paranoid or should I trust apt-get on
RE: Create local mirror from ISOs
From: ketea...@gmail.com [mailto:ketea...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ken Teague Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:11 PM Is there a way to create a local Debian mirror from ISO images (such as the DVD images from i386 and amd64)? I haven't tried this myself, but you could just mount the ISO images somewhere on your filesystem (mount -t iso9660 -o loop file.iso /someplace/to/mount/it), and serve that directory over FTP or HTTP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]
From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:32 PM On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much appreciated. Next installment: I have installed Lenny, Icewm and idesk. I shall follow Andrei's suggestions and also install nullmailer. These saved about 6 seconds on the previous test (which was building up too much rubbish, so I started again). Now I need a desktop manager. I have been looking at the alternatives. I would prefer auto-login to be available, and would like to pull in as few dependencies as possible. Entrance seems to fill the bill. _But_ Googling appears to suggest that it might be difficult to install on Debian. Experiences, opinions and suggestions would be very gratefully received. Lisi If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put whatever window manager you want into ~/.xinitrc. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Suggestions for video/tv capture?
From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:57 PM Greetings; I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or DVDs. Any suggestions for a decent capture card? I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on Deb or XP, but that isn't an absolute requirement. Grateful for any help! TIA! Dennis Do you want internal or external? What interface (PCI or PCIe for internal, USB, Firewire or Ethernet for external)? Do you want hardware MPEG-2 encoding, or are you going to let the CPU do the encoding? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: copying over all of /etc/ssl to new system?
From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:35 AM trying to close off a few more issues related to my lenny migration, and here's what's probably a trivial question -- since i'm re-installing some features bit by bit, am i safe to simply use the old /etc/ssl directory with all of those certs on the new system? FWIW, the new machine will have the same IP address and hostname, but i can't imagine that will make any difference. can i just grab the entire previous /etc/ssl and use it unchanged? and a followup question on this a bit later. rday I don't see why not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
