Re: mythtv fails to install
On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 07:38:02 -0500 Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 06:46:04PM -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote: attempting to get mythtv-common installed, but i keep getting this error in the shell; sudo apt-get install -f mythtv-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: mythtv-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: mythtv-common mythtv-doc 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 167 kB/14.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 29.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing/main mythtv-doc all 0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1 [167 kB] Fetched 167 kB in 1s (121 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package mythtv-common. (Reading database ... 219224 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mythtv-common_0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1_all.deb ... Unpacking mythtv-common (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... Selecting previously unselected package mythtv-doc. Preparing to unpack .../mythtv-doc_0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1_all.deb ... Unpacking mythtv-doc (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... Setting up mythtv-common (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... useradd: group mythtv exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g. dpkg: error processing package mythtv-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Setting up mythtv-doc (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: mythtv-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Right, you have an existing mythtv group. You could change the name of that group in /etc/group from mythtv to mythtv-old, then install mythtv packages again, then run a find over your whole filesystem to convert mythtv-old files to mythtv. You could also file a bug report with the people who run deb-multimedia.org. -dsr- That was is, I'll get to the bug-report this week Thank you -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgpoOWgXUxwGR.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: mythtv fails to install
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:17:49 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 06:46:04PM -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote: attempting to get mythtv-common installed, but i keep getting this error in the shell; sudo apt-get install -f mythtv-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: mythtv-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: mythtv-common mythtv-doc 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 167 kB/14.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 29.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing/main mythtv-doc all You'll have to contact the maintainers of that 3rd party repository. It is not part of Debian. See: http://www.deb-multimedia.org/mailinglist Thank you. will get to it this week -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgpWz3BmJEoWF.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: mythtv fails to install
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:17:49 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 06:46:04PM -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote: attempting to get mythtv-common installed, but i keep getting this error in the shell; sudo apt-get install -f mythtv-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: mythtv-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: mythtv-common mythtv-doc 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 167 kB/14.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 29.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing/main mythtv-doc all You'll have to contact the maintainers of that 3rd party repository. It is not part of Debian. See: http://www.deb-multimedia.org/mailinglist Thank you. will get to it this week -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgpBVfsW_aSeu.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
mythtv fails to install
attempting to get mythtv-common installed, but i keep getting this error in the shell; sudo apt-get install -f mythtv-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: mythtv-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: mythtv-common mythtv-doc 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 167 kB/14.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 29.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing/main mythtv-doc all 0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1 [167 kB] Fetched 167 kB in 1s (121 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package mythtv-common. (Reading database ... 219224 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mythtv-common_0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1_all.deb ... Unpacking mythtv-common (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... Selecting previously unselected package mythtv-doc. Preparing to unpack .../mythtv-doc_0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1_all.deb ... Unpacking mythtv-doc (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... Setting up mythtv-common (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... useradd: group mythtv exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g. dpkg: error processing package mythtv-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Setting up mythtv-doc (0.27.4+fixes20141029-dmo1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: mythtv-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgpZzogoFzitB.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Debian problems
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:32:05 -0500 Stephen Pruitt spruitt...@gmail.com wrote: hi i have 2 issues i would like your help with i just installed Debian 7 i whose using microsoft windows 7 and i back up the files on to a USB and i would like to know how to reinstall the files.i also tried to install a video game and it would not install when i try to install i got a could knot auto run message could you please tell me how to do these things You cannot install/run windows files directly in debian. you need wine and/or virtualbox with a registered copy of windows. same with video game, they are probably windos only programs -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help -- Part duex
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:22:02 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 23/06/2014 17:22, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, So what HTH you says is the good way: create one partitions on each of your storages devices (say sdX1 and sdY1) then use the given command: # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 \ /dev/sdX1 /dev/sdY1 Then format the created raid array # mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 Create a mount point for your raid: # mkdir /storage-raid Try the result # mount /dev/md0 /storage-raid If everything ok, finish your install 1- # blkid /dev/md0 /dev/md0: UUID=41Js9Q-0WaZ-JGYR-r88a-FiqA-XS5F-0XWNOy (of course the uuid will be different for you) 2- add this in /etc/fstab: UUID=41Js9Q-0WaZ-JGYR-r88a-FiqA-XS5F-0XWNOy /storage-raid ext4 rw 0 0 3- # mdadm --detail --scan /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf reboot and see if everything works fine... Seems that the USB port was very flaky. Grabbed an eSata card, and things worked over night. I've donw everything except reboot, and it appears to be functioning mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu Jul 3 21:07:10 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1953260544 (1862.77 GiB 2000.14 GB) Used Dev Size : 976630272 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Fri Jul 4 06:11:41 2014 State : active, degraded Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : riverside:0 (local to host riverside) UUID : 0043348a:26fadb1e:d05de28e:40dc70b7 Events : 25610 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 170 active sync /dev/sdb1 1 8 331 active sync /dev/sdc1 4 004 removed 3 8 49- spare /dev/sdd1 I hope that this is what this means :-) -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help -- Part duex {working}
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 06:19:19 -0400 Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com wrote: reboot and see if everything works fine... Been up and running all day, and rebooted to see if it would mount, as suggested. It did Many thanks for the help , and guidance -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:47:18 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and it's stopped. This is what I see; /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat output? It would be useful before rendering an opinion. cat /proc/mdstat Bob Ran all night, and same result /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Jun 24 22:06:36 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Tue Jun 24 23:59:35 2014 State : active, FAILED Active Devices : 0 Failed Devices : 4 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 000 removed 2 002 removed 4 004 removed 6 006 removed 0 8 17- faulty /dev/sdb1 1 8 33- faulty /dev/sdc1 2 8 49- faulty /dev/sdd1 4 8 65- faulty /dev/sde1 cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sde1[4](F) sdd1[2](F) sdc1[1](F) sdb1[0](F) 1464763392 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/0] [] bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: none -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
I've made sure the 500G drive is the first in the external box. And excluded it in the array. I've started creating a new array using the following; /sbin/mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K mdadm: size set to 976630272K mdadm: automatically enabling write-intent bitmap on large array mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata mdadm: array /dev/md0 started. and formatted to ext4; mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 mke2fs 1.42.10 (18-May-2014) Creating filesystem with 488315136 4k blocks and 122085376 inodes Filesystem UUID: f676c6bd-bcb4-4ccc-b2c4-77c7a1aff44c Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 2048, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 10240, 214990848 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done I'm hoping to simplify the setup by removing the smaller driver -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:43:01 -0400 Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: I've made sure the 500G drive is the first in the external box. And excluded it in the array. I've started creating a new array using the following; /sbin/mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K mdadm: size set to 976630272K mdadm: automatically enabling write-intent bitmap on large array mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata mdadm: array /dev/md0 started. and formatted to ext4; mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 mke2fs 1.42.10 (18-May-2014) Creating filesystem with 488315136 4k blocks and 122085376 inodes Filesystem UUID: f676c6bd-bcb4-4ccc-b2c4-77c7a1aff44c Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 2048, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 10240, 214990848 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done I'm hoping to simplify the setup by removing the smaller driver Well 2 hours later, failed; /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed Jun 25 06:37:06 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1953260544 (1862.77 GiB 2000.14 GB) Used Dev Size : 976630272 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Wed Jun 25 08:04:45 2014 State : active, FAILED Active Devices : 0 Failed Devices : 3 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 000 removed 2 002 removed 4 004 removed 0 8 33- faulty /dev/sdc1 1 8 49- faulty /dev/sdd1 3 8 65- faulty /dev/sde1 cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sde1[3](F) sdd1[1](F) sdc1[0](F) 1953260544 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/0] [___] bitmap: 0/8 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: none -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:22:02 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: Le 23/06/2014 17:22, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, So what HTH you says is the good way: create one partitions on each of your storages devices (say sdX1 and sdY1) then use the given command: # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 \ /dev/sdX1 /dev/sdY1 Then format the created raid array # mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 Did the above, 1.5 hours ago, was working diligently until a few moments ago. now this is what I see; /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed Jun 25 16:03:44 2014 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 976630464 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Used Dev Size : 976630464 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Wed Jun 25 17:40:37 2014 State : active, degraded, resyncing Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 2 Spare Devices : 0 Resync Status : 6% complete Name : riverside:0 (local to host riverside) UUID : 22da3cb6:9c3b1aa0:8c8ba2c9:6c3cf76d Events : 1145 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 330 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 8 491 faulty /dev/sdd1 2 8 652 faulty /dev/sde1 cat /proc/md0 cat: /proc/md0: No such file or directory root@riverside:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sde1[2](F) sdd1[1](F) sdc1[0] 976630464 blocks super 1.2 [3/1] [U__] bitmap: 8/8 pages [32KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: none -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:31 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: You can stop right now 'cos 2 of your HDz have been kicked out from your array (well, let's finish, it will at least tell you if the remaining HD has a problem or not). Final diag: at least 2 of your HDz have unrecoverable (RAID only?) errors that systematically kicks them out of an array. You can't do nothing RAID with these disks (@ least 2 of them). My apologies for boring you. those 2 hard drives are new, which is the annoying part -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: How did you create your partitions on these disks? Every partition should have the same size if you want to put them in an array. ah, I have 3 x 1gig hard drives, and 1 x .5 gig hard drive -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:27:53 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 12:12, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: How did you create your partitions on these disks? You did not answer this question... Fdisk. All one partition. ext4 formatting -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:38:27 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this partition on your other disks like this: sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdd sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sde Then you create the raid array: /sbin/mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 Then you format the array mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 Then you finish as I said in my previous mail... - -- François Patte Received loud and clear. :-) Hard drives are flashing. took a number of reboots to get the hard drive(s) from mounting at boot up. got that remedied, and now you above instructions are being applied. Thank you -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:38:27 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this partition on your other disks like this: it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and it's stopped. This is what I see; /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Jun 24 16:32:44 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Tue Jun 24 18:46:13 2014 State : active, FAILED Active Devices : 0 Failed Devices : 4 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 000 removed 2 002 removed 4 004 removed 6 006 removed 0 8 17- faulty /dev/sdb1 1 8 33- faulty /dev/sdc1 2 8 49- faulty /dev/sdd1 4 8 65- faulty /dev/sde1 -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:00:48 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:45 -0400 Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com wrote: Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) One question: why are there 3 HDz with a 1.3TB partition when the 4th only has 465GB? (which is not logical, as the RAID array will align itself on the lowest size of all). Yes, see reply from Francois Patte -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:47:18 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and it's stopped. This is what I see; /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat output? It would be useful before rendering an opinion. cat /proc/mdstat Bob I'll restart the generation and type back in the morning -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
raid/mdadm help
Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the exact thing(s) the online guides are showing. thank you -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:08:15 +0200 Linux-Fan ma_sys...@web.de wrote: On 06/23/2014 03:40 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the exact thing(s) the online guides are showing. thank you The Debian installer can do it. Compare http://www.texsoft.it/index.php?c=hardwarem=hw.storage.boot-raid-squeezel=it which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, also simulate the case of disk failure and replacement. The step ``Install GRUB to all disks'' is better described as # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc Also, if you manually want to create a RAID 1 of two partitions use # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 \ /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 HTH Linux-Fan Not attempting to install on a raid, but create a raid for storage -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: raid/mdadm help
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:05:08 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: Linux-Fan wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the exact thing(s) the online guides are showing. It is all about using Debian so this mailing list is good. Lots of us are using raid. Also, if you manually want to create a RAID 1 of two partitions use # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 \ /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 Not attempting to install on a raid, but create a raid for storage Linux-Fan's suggestion is a good one. If you are not using it for the system then it is easier to get experience building raid yourself as in the above example. François's suggestions were good too. okay I have a 4 drive bay, and I did this (similar to the above) /sbin/mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K mdadm: /dev/sdb1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=976760832K mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 mdadm: /dev/sdc1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=976762580K mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 mdadm: /dev/sdc1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Mon Jun 23 06:55:12 2014 mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=976760832K mtime=Mon Jun 23 16:54:04 2014 mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=488385560K mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Mon Jun 23 06:55:12 2014 mdadm: size set to 488254464K mdadm: automatically enabling write-intent bitmap on large array mdadm: largest drive (/dev/sdc1) exceeds size (488254464K) by more than 1% Continue creating array? yes mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata mdadm: array /dev/md0 started. I let it run for a few hours and when I returned home I did the following and found it stopped; /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Mon Jun 23 17:00:23 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Mon Jun 23 20:09:45 2014 State : active, FAILED Active Devices : 0 Failed Devices : 4 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 000 removed 2 002 removed 4 004 removed 6 006 removed 0 8 17- faulty /dev/sdb1 1 8 33- faulty /dev/sdc1 2 8 49- faulty /dev/sdd1 4 8 65- faulty /dev/sde1 Not sure what's going on -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: friends laptop, no mic found
On Fri, 23 May 2014 13:00:35 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 22 mai 14, 10:47:25, Rodney D. Myers wrote: A friend got fed up with windos, and I have Debian Testing on his laptop right now. Everything, except noted below works great. The only problem I am running into is with Skype, and having it not find mic found. I'm told it worked under windos. Try playing with the controls in alsamixer, also the ones for Capture (press F4). alsamixer, alsamuxergui, pavucontrol. they show no mic Below are the outputs of dmesg lspci. Please don't copy-paste them in the message but use something like dmesg dmesg.txt and attach the dmesg.txt file. This will ensure line breaks are preserved. Kind regards, Andrei I always thought this mail list stripped attachments. I now know -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: friends laptop, no mic found -[SOLVED]
under pavucontrol - configuration When selecting a device, I was not checking the correct one. I compared my hp laptop with the friends, and I was never selecting the stereo duplex option Popped that into the laptop this AM, and suddenly everything work. Thank you all On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:47:25 -0400 Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: A friend got fed up with windos, and I have Debian Testing on his laptop right now. Everything, except noted below works great. The only problem I am running into is with Skype, and having it not find mic found. I'm told it worked under windos. Below are the outputs of dmesg lspci. Thank you -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...
Yes. Grab pavucontrol, and make sure it's not disabled. On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:26:36 +0900 Man_Without_Clue love.cha...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone who is using Skype with no problem at all on Debian Wheezy 64 bit? On 04/12/2014 12:13 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Hi all, I don't know what really is going on and where to start this off. For some reason Skype doesn't pick up microphone audio at all. I set pulse audio and with other applications, microphone is working fine... On Debian wheezy 64 bit No clue, absolutely no clue... -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: GQView compiling error
Attempted that. Could not get get in the correct place. Oh, well. Thank you for the link On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:02:33 -0600 Nitebirdz nitebi...@sacredchaos.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:11:26PM -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote: i'm attempting to an older piece of software, GQView, and it appears I do have all required software installed. ./configure does not puke when ran. Though when I attempt to run make to compile it, this is where is dies; snip -lglib-2.0 -lfreetype-llcms /usr/bin/ld: dupe.o: undefined reference to symbol 'floor@@GLIBC_2.0' //lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [gqview] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rodney/Compile/gqview-2.1.5/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rodney/Compile/gqview-2.1.5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rodney/Compile/gqview-2.1.5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Not sure what I am missing, nor how to rectify this error message. /snip Could this help? https://github.com/robwhess/opensift/pull/7 If that's correct, you'd have to link libm by adding -lm to the Makefile. Not that I know what I'm talking about. Just trying to help. -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: GQView compiling error
I understand. just that geeqie does not yet have some of the features I'm looking for On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:28:46 +0100 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: i'm attempting to an older piece of software, GQView, and it appears I do have all required software installed. ./configure does not puke when ran. Why? Geeqie is a fork and successor of the now defunct GQView image viewer, which is of course available in Debian as a normal package. Why bother compiling the old and out-dated version? Grüße, Sven. -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
GQView compiling error
i'm attempting to an older piece of software, GQView, and it appears I do have all required software installed. ./configure does not puke when ran. Though when I attempt to run make to compile it, this is where is dies; then mv -f .deps/view_file_icon.Tpo .deps/view_file_icon.Po; else rm -f .deps/view_file_icon.Tpo; exit 1; fi gcc -g -O2 -o gqview ui_bookmark.o ui_fileops.o ui_help.o ui_menu.o ui_misc.o ui_pathsel.o ui_spinner.o ui_tabcomp.o ui_tree_edit.o ui_utildlg.o bar_info.o bar_exif.o bar_sort.o cache.o cache-loader.o cache_maint.o cellrenderericon.o collect.o collect-dlg.o collect-io.o collect-table.o color-man.o dnd.o dupe.o editors.o exif.o filelist.o format_canon.o format_fuji.o format_nikon.o format_olympus.o format_raw.o fullscreen.o globals.o image.o image-load.o image-overlay.o img-view.o info.o layout.o layout_config.o layout_image.o layout_util.o main.o md5-util.o menu.o pan-calendar.o pan-folder.o pan-grid.o pan-item.o pan-timeline.o pan-util.o pan-view.o pixbuf-renderer.o pixbuf_util.o preferences.o print.o remote.o rcfile.o search.o similar.o slideshow.o thumb.o thumb_standard.o utilops.o view_dir_list.o view_dir_tree.o view_file_list.o view_file_icon.o -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfreetype-llcms /usr/bin/ld: dupe.o: undefined reference to symbol 'floor@@GLIBC_2.0' //lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [gqview] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rodney/Compile/gqview-2.1.5/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rodney/Compile/gqview-2.1.5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rodney/Compile/gqview-2.1.5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Not sure what I am missing, nor how to rectify this error message. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Vuescan not working as user
Not exactly the answer I needed. But gave me more info to find the answer on the brother support page Thank you On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 08:19:24 +0100 Petr Voralek nazir...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! On 01/06/2014 04:00 AM, *Rodney D. Myers* wrote, and I quote (in part): I'm having trouble getting Vuescan working with testing x86. I worked under Linux Mint. I have my name in the scanner and saned group scanner:x:105:saned,rodney saned:x:118:rodney As my own account, I am unbable to get it to recognize the scanner. From vuescan web http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#linux -(Cut)- If you're using a newer Linux distribution that's LSB compliant, edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules, find the line that begins with libusb device access and change 0644 to 0666. (It might be in /lib/udev/rules.d) -(Cut)- For my old scanner I created a custom udev rules file (symlinked as /etc/udev/rules/55-scanmakerx12usl.rules You can try to modify it for your purpose (change idVendor and idProduct attributes)... -- Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Vuescan not working as user - SOLVED
This was not working for me, but I followed a few other links, and this is the link that I was able to get it working with http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_scn1c.html#d6 On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:15:06 -0500 Rodney D. Myers rdmyers...@gmail.com wrote: Not exactly the answer I needed. But gave me more info to find the answer on the brother support page Thank you On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 08:19:24 +0100 Petr Voralek nazir...@gmail.com wrote: [...] [...] [...] -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Vuescan not working as user
I'm having trouble getting Vuescan working with testing x86. I worked under Linux Mint. I have my name in the scanner and saned group scanner:x:105:saned,rodney saned:x:118:rodney As my own account, I am unbable to get it to recognize the scanner. As root, I can find the the scanner and scan items. as root, when I use the following command' sudo sane-find-scanner -f # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. it never finds the scanner. Right now, I'm at a loss Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
having a problem removing a package
I'm having trouble installing/removing a program bandwidthd. It's now in a weird state of not being installed or being able to remove. i've tried to upgrade to get it installed, and I get this; sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: bandwidthd 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/79.3 kB of archives. After this operation, 77.8 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/doc/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.conf': No such file or directory bandwidthd failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 (Reading database ... 190526 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace bandwidthd 2.0.1 (using .../bandwidthd_2.0.1+cvs20090917-4.1_i386.deb) ... /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: ( unexpected invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action stop failed. dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: ( unexpected invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action stop failed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bandwidthd_2.0.1+cvs20090917-4.1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 configured to not write apport reports insserv: warning: script 'K01bitmeterweb' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'K01bitmeter' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'K01bandwidthd' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'bandwidthd' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'bitmeter' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'bitmeterweb' missing LSB tags and overrides /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: ( unexpected invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action start failed. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/bandwidthd_2.0.1+cvs20090917-4.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How can I get this program uninstalled? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: having a problem removing a package
On 8/18/12 8:56 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: ( unexpected invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action start failed. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/bandwidthd_2.0.1+cvs20090917-4.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How can I get this program uninstalled? Easiest thing you can do is to edit the failing init script and replace its contents with a simple #!/bin/sh exit 0 and then try to remove the package again. This new init script will exit with a positive exit code and dpkg will be happy to remove the package. Grüße, Sven. Dumb question. Where is the script located? in the *.deb package -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
dumb scanner question
How does everyone here scan books and magazines into their systems, without destroying said magazines/books? What type of scanners do you use? -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Error in fstab. What is wrong?
On 2/22/11 10:26 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: # NFS Mounts xander:/usr/share /mnt/share nfs rw, hard, intr, noauto 0 0 xander:/usr/local /mnt/local nfs rw, hard, intr, noauto 0 0 xander:/home/mns/mnt/home nfs rw, hard, intr, noauto 0 0 Shouldn't those be; rw,hard,inter,noauto -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: lost ability to remote run sudo apps
On 2/5/11 9:34 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Rodney D. Myers wrote: In the process, I lost ability to remotely ssh into the machine and get sudo apps to run, instead I am getting this error; You need xauth installed. Is it? Just checked; dpkg -l | grep xauth ii xauth 1:1.0.5-1 X authentication utility Yes -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: lost ability to remote run sudo apps
On 2/5/11 11:11 PM, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:54:46 -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote: sudo synaptic X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (synaptic:19563): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 Did you turn on X11 forwarding explicitly? man ssh: -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file. Yes. has been since day 1; ssh -2 -C -X -l username 192.168.1.*** -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: lost ability to remote run sudo apps
On 2/6/11 6:00 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:54:46 -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote: (...) sudo synaptic X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (synaptic:19563): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 (...) Try with gksudo app Greetings, okay, that worked. What's the difference? -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: lost ability to remote run sudo apps
On 2/6/11 6:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:25:19 -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On 2/6/11 6:00 AM, Camaleón wrote: sudo synaptic X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (synaptic:19563): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 (...) Try with gksudo app okay, that worked. What's the difference? I dunno the inners, but I guess it setups the rights to run X programs under an X session. And not only for ssh but also for local sessions. Greetings, Cool. thanks for the tip. -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
lost ability to remote run sudo apps
I recently changed from Lenny to Sid. And from gnome to enlightenment. I kept all of my config files, and not installing any new ones. In the process, I lost ability to remotely ssh into the machine and get sudo apps to run, instead I am getting this error; sudo synaptic X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (synaptic:19563): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 I've searched the web, but the solutions in the first 2 pages, have had no affect. /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/ssh_config ~/.xinitrc have had no affect. Any other suggestions? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: sound not working after computer upgrade
On 10/30/10 7:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:29:57 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On 10/29/10 6:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: Do you have ESD enabled? If so, try to disable. Also, recheck your sound device permissions: s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 oct 29 07:42 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 24 oct 29 07:42 pcmC0D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 16 oct 29 23:56 pcmC0D0p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 28 oct 29 07:42 pcmC0D4c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 1 oct 29 07:42 seq crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 33 oct 29 07:42 timer My permissions match yours. esd claims to be running; esd esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket /tmp/.esd/socket This socket already exists indicating esd is already running. Exiting... Hum... what happens if you stop ESD daemon? Another thing you can try is playing the file with an external app, like totem from command line, i.e., totem /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav and see what happens :-? Greetings, That would do it. Now, do I need ESD to run the system? Or do I need to try and figure out why ESD is doing this? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
sound not working after computer upgrade
Debian Lenny Sound plays as root, but not as user. Previous computer died. Replaced computer, and moved /home hard drive into new computer. As root, I have run alsaconf numerous times, same result. root plays, other users do not play As root, play *.wav will play any wav file. As any user, my account, or a freshly created account, I get this error message; play /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default play soxio: Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device When I attempt to run alsamixer, I get this message; alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory any ideas? -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: sound not working after computer upgrade
On 10/29/10 3:46 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:59:44PM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian Lenny Sound plays as root, but not as user. Is your regular user a member of the audio group? -Rob It is now. Forgot about that file. Still getting this error message; play /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave play soxio: Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: sound not working after computer upgrade
On 10/29/10 4:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:29:39 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On 10/29/10 3:46 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:59:44PM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian Lenny Sound plays as root, but not as user. Is your regular user a member of the audio group? -Rob It is now. Forgot about that file. Still getting this error message; play /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave play soxio: Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device Did you reboot? Yes... I know is not necessary, is just to be sure no other instance in background (flashplayer?) is monopolizing the sound device. Greetings, Not yet. am in the middle of a mail server install and config. Will do that later. -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: sound not working after computer upgrade
On 10/29/10 4:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:29:39 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On 10/29/10 3:46 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:59:44PM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian Lenny Sound plays as root, but not as user. Is your regular user a member of the audio group? -Rob It is now. Forgot about that file. Still getting this error message; play /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave play soxio: Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device Did you reboot? Yes... I know is not necessary, is just to be sure no other instance in background (flashplayer?) is monopolizing the sound device. Greetings, Did a reboot, still getting this error; play /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave play soxio: Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device alsamixer shows the sound device, which makes this weird -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: sound not working after computer upgrade
On 10/29/10 6:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:20:30 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On 10/29/10 4:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: Did you reboot? Yes... I know is not necessary, is just to be sure no other instance in background (flashplayer?) is monopolizing the sound device. Greetings, Did a reboot, still getting this error; play /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave play soxio: Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device alsamixer shows the sound device, which makes this weird Do you have ESD enabled? If so, try to disable. Also, recheck your sound device permissions: s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 oct 29 07:42 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 24 oct 29 07:42 pcmC0D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 16 oct 29 23:56 pcmC0D0p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 28 oct 29 07:42 pcmC0D4c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 1 oct 29 07:42 seq crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 33 oct 29 07:42 timer Greetings, My permissions match yours. esd claims to be running; esd esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket /tmp/.esd/socket This socket already exists indicating esd is already running. Exiting... -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: how to install on Mac ibook
On 9/13/10 7:45 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, every body I want to install debian on ibook PowerPc, but !!!m I dont know how to start the machine from the CD. Thanks for help External cd/dvd drive or USB/flash drive. Though not sure it is capable of booting off of a usb/flash drive. -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?
On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: I want to install Debian 5.0.5 over my Ubuntu 10.04.1 OS. I will reformat partitions /boot and / but want to keep the other partitions which are now using the ext4 file system. Will that work? I read that 4.0 (lenny) doesn't support ext4 but it's available in testing. I see that the ext4 package is on the 5.0.5 distro but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be used routinely. Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an existing ext4 partition to be retained? Thanks. -Tom What other partitions? I'll assume /home, and anything else? -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?
On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an existing ext4 partition to be retained? ... What other partitions? I'll assume /home, and anything else? I have three disks with the partition setup as follows (mount points are shown): d1 (4 partitions): /boot - ext2# will reformat / - ext3 # will reformat /usr/local - ext4 # keep swap # will reformat keep: d2 (1 partition): /disk2 - ext4 d3 (1 partition): /disk3 - ext4 Normally with other distros I would use manual disk setup during installation and use the labels I have on the partitions to assign the mount points. I assume I can probably get away with ignoring disks 2 and 3 and set them up later, so I'm not concerned about them so much during installation. In a pinch I can probably do the same with the /usr/local partition on disk 1. But I would like to avoid those actions if I can. Note that I have a people directory under /usr/local instead of /home since that's the way I learned under Irix many years ago and so it's for historical reasons as they say. Thanks, Rodney. -Tom When installing, and the experts will correct me if I'm wring ;-) , use the expert system when doing the drive formatting. In there, you can mark each partition as keep, ignore, format, etc. Also in there, you can assign each partition a mount point as well. Hope this makes sense. -- Rodney D. Myers rod_dmy...@fastmail.fm AIM#:YAHOO: mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: MacBook
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:46 PM, RY wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? Hardware Overview: Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook2,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.16 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores:2 L2 Cache (per processor):4 MB Memory:1 GB Bus Speed:667 MHz Boot ROM Version:MB21.00A5.B07 SMC Version:1.17f0 Serial Number:W87234JHYA4 Sudden Motion Sensor: State:Enabled Thank You RY In a short answer. Yes. I have done this about a month ago. Installed, from the ISO image(s) rather smoothly quickly. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: MacBook
On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:29 PM, RY wrote: I mean what type of architecture am I looking at? On Feb 5, 2008 3:17 PM, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:46 PM, RY wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? Hardware Overview: Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook2,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.16 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores:2 L2 Cache (per processor):4 MB Memory:1 GB Bus Speed:667 MHz Boot ROM Version:MB21.00A5.B07 SMC Version:1.17f0 Serial Number:W87234JHYA4 Sudden Motion Sensor: State:Enabled Thank You RY In a short answer. Yes. I have done this about a month ago. Installed, from the ISO image(s) rather smoothly quickly. My mistake. i386 is what I used -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: VNC - I know, just not what I was expecting
On Jan 5, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:27:18PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine. My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open. I don't understand. From a command line, you ssh to another box and get a command line. If you want to run an X app, use an xterm, ensure that you are forwarding X (just using ssh -X may work), then run the X app from that command line. The application will be running on the remote CPU (etc) but will use your Xorg and appear on your screen. Doug. Correct. This I know/understand. I help 2 people, who do not live locally, with their debian/(k)ubuntu computers. There are times, when it would be very handy, to 'see' they are seeing, when they are actually attempting to do things. --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
VNC - I know, just not what I was expecting
I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine. My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open. Thanks. --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: I have a SSH connection and need GUI installed
On Dec 17, 2007, at 6:38 AM, webjay wrote: On Dec 17, 3:00 pm, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: webjay wrote: I am on a MacBook Pro and can connect to my server in the basement via SSH. Can I install a GUI via SSH and later connect via VLC or the like? On the OS/X installer DVD is an X Tools option, that is not installed by default. (This is with pre-Leopard; I'm unsure about Leopard.) Install that. Now you can fire up X, and I believe it will open a terminal window. (I don't have a Mac in front of me, so I'm doing this by [hazy] memory.) From there, just ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I'm assuming your server is running Debian. If you've configured Debian to allow X forwarding (XForwarding=Yes or similar in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I believe), once you've logged into Debian over the ssh connection, you can start any X-enabled app, and it will display/run on your Mac. Any questions, ask again for clarification. In an hour or so I'll be in front of my Mac and can walk through the process and give better details if necessary. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have X tools on my Mac. I also have X11Forwarding yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have installed xnest. But I guess I need either Gnome or KDE? How do I install Gnome via SSH? And do I need to configure it for a remote connection? Jacob NO you do not need with gnome or kde to get SSH to work. I regularly ssh from this MacBook, into my debian box. I can send a copy of both my /etc/ssh/sshd_config ssh_config I use synaptic, gimp, gqview, and other programs remotely. --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: scroll mouse quits working
On Dec 1, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Every once in a while, when I use my KVM switch, the middle mouse button/scroll wheel, ceases to function. Short of rebooting, not really an option, what else can I do to get the scroll wheel to function properly again? Anything in /etc/init.d/ that I can rerun? Thanks I forget who sent me a private email. gmail, imap, deletion before I saved it. The commands that were sent were; modprobe -r psmouse modprobe psmouse fixed my issue. Thanks to everyone. --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
scroll mouse quits working
Every once in a while, when I use my KVM switch, the middle mouse button/scroll wheel, ceases to function. Short of rebooting, not really an option, what else can I do to get the scroll wheel to function properly again? Anything in /etc/init.d/ that I can rerun? Thanks --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: scroll mouse quits working
On Dec 2, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Kent West wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: Every once in a while, when I use my KVM switch, the middle mouse button/scroll wheel, ceases to function. Short of rebooting, not really an option, what else can I do to get the scroll wheel to function properly again? Anything in /etc/init.d/ that I can rerun? PS/2 or USB? If USB, you can try unplugging/replugging the mouse. Are you running GPM; if so, you can try /etc/init.d/gpm restart. You might try unloading/reloading any mouse/USB-related modules. Do you actually have to reboot, or will a restart of X fix it? Or have you tried starting a second session of X to see if it works there? Or in the console (assuming you have GPM installed)? -- Kent Now I remember why I have gmail on mail lists. never saw my email. :-( USB, I think. It sits plugged in behind the KVM switch. But will try that. Not sure if I tried unplugging/plugging back in. I will look at gpm as well. I've tried exiting out of X, stopping GDM/KDM, but that does not work. --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Problems posting with Pan.
On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me There were problems with this post. Warning: Unknown group sci.physics.research It seems to be group-specific. Some groups I read are unknown, others exist. I find it puzzling -- it has no trouble reading from that usenet group. Which news server are you using? have you checked to make sure it is still valid? My ISP, magma.com, uses giganews.com to provide the usenet feed. What does it mean, whether the server is still valid? I see recent news appearing on it, day by day. There does seem to be a server connection, though -- newgroups it provided have this problem, whereas the newsgroups provided by gmane do not. -- hendrik Sorry, that's what I meant. Sometimes, the newserver(s) seem to lose one or two newsgroups for a period of time. I do recall, on occasion pan would complain. I would remove the newsgroup, then add it back. --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Problems posting with Pan.
On Nov 18, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:57:15 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me There were problems with this post. Warning: Unknown group sci.physics.research It seems to be group-specific. Some groups I read are unknown, others exist. I find it puzzling -- it has no trouble reading from that usenet group. Which news server are you using? have you checked to make sure it is still valid? My ISP, magma.com, uses giganews.com to provide the usenet feed. What does it mean, whether the server is still valid? I see recent news appearing on it, day by day. There does seem to be a server connection, though -- newgroups it provided have this problem, whereas the newsgroups provided by gmane do not. -- hendrik Sorry, that's what I meant. Sometimes, the newserver(s) seem to lose one or two newsgroups for a period of time. I do recall, on occasion pan would complain. I would remove the newsgroup, then add it back. My Pan has a list of all available newsgroups, mostly as a collapsed tree. On startup, it uncollapses the subscribed newsgroups, and has the unsubscriped ones collapsed. By removing a group, do you mean unsubsribing? Or do you mean removing its newsserver? -- hendrik My apologies. English is my native language, so I use too much slang at times. I mean unsubscribe, close Pan, re-open Pan, and re-subscribe. --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Problems posting with Pan.
On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me There were problems with this post. Warning: Unknown group sci.physics.research It seems to be group-specific. Some groups I read are unknown, others exits. I find it puzzling -- it has no trouble reading from that usenet group. Which news server are you using? have you checked to make sure it is still valid? --- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
obase won't work with FORM wizard
Debian etch, OO 2.0.4-5 , and gcj 4.0.3-2 I can create a database okay, but when I go to create a FORM, using the wizard, I can get to the last step, and nothing happens, nothing gets created From the command line, I run; /usr/lib/openoffice/program/sbase /home/rodney/waste/DVD.odb libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering I do the following; Field Selection (select all of the fields) Setup a subform (none) Arrange Controls (Columnar - Labels on top) Set data entry (this form is to display all data) Apply Styles (water) Set name (DVD) work with form I then click finish, and I get this in the shell; === === Note: An Exception was thrown which should have === === caused a crash. I caught it. Please report this === === to openoffice.org === === java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.70) at com.sun.star.wizards.ui.event.MethodInvocation.invoke(MethodInvocation.java) at com.sun.star.wizards.ui.event.AbstractListener.invoke(AbstractListener.java) at com.sun.star.wizards.ui.event.CommonListener.actionPerformed(CommonListener.java) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: com.sun.star.wizards.form.FormDocument: com.sun.star.wizards.form.FormDocument$ControlForm.setFormProperties([Lcom.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue;Lcom.sun.star.wizards.db.CommandMetaData;)V at com.sun.star.wizards.form.FormDocument.finalizeForms(FormDocument.java) at com.sun.star.wizards.form.FormWizard.finishWizard(FormWizard.java) at com.sun.star.wizards.ui.WizardDialog.finishWizard_1(WizardDialog.java) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.70) ...3 more Nothing gets created and/or saved. Any ideas and/or suggetions? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
swf to avi or other format
My friends 6 year old daughter like this clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5NletBOvg And he was wondering how to go about getting the swf file to something linux can edit/read? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:12:46 +0200 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * audio editor [ audacity ] * audio player [ xmms ] * cd-ripper [ ] * Desktop Environment [ KDE, windowmaker ] * DBMS [ ] * development [ ] * disc burner [ K3b ] * e-mail client [ sylpheed-claws ] * file manager [ mc, worker ] * finance [ moneydance ] * ftp [ gftp ] * image editor [ gimp ] * image viewer [ xv ] * instant messenger [ gaim ] * mathematics [ ] * misc utilities [ sudo, grep, top, wget ] * p2p [ ] * package manager [ synaptic ] * pdf-reader [ acroread ] * spreadsheet [ openoffice ] * tag editor [ ] * terminal emulator [ konsole ] * text editor [ emacs, nano ] * 3D animation [ ] * video player [ mplayer ] * web browser [ firefox ] * word-processor [ openoffice ] -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: k3b ignores my speed settings
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:46:20 -0200 Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: K3b ignores my speed settings every time i try to record, either a cd or dvd. I ask it to record on the lowest speed available, say 4x for a dvd, and it does in 8x. This happens also after I ask it to refresh the possible values, so i'm not asking for unreal values. This is k3b 0.12.2 in debian sarge. thanks! Just a thought. Maybe your cd/dvd recorder does not record at 4x? Mine has the lowest speed of 8x. Use K3B settings - configure k3b - devices to see what your speeds are. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
friends / being filled
A friend that is running stable, had a problem this weekend with the / partition being filled up. In perusing the archives, found places to look, and found 3 files that were HUGE. removed them, and problem went away. Doubt my friend, computer illiterate could change anything, and it was a default install, so no idea what would archive the /home directory/ Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home directory/partition, and store it /var/backups? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Mystery backup filling partitions
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home directory/partition, and store it /var/backups? faubackup if it's configured that way. Thanks Does faubackup do anything useful? If not, then I'll remove it next time I'm over there. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Mystery backup filling partitions
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:08:40 +0200 David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:37, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home directory/partition, and store it /var/backups? faubackup if it's configured that way. Thanks Does faubackup do anything useful? If not, then I'll remove it next time I'm over there. faubackup is useful if you have an external hard drive, then you point faubackup at that external drive's mount point for automated backups. But wouldn't tar c[z]f /var/backups/filename /home do the same thing for the OP - perhaps as a cron job? If that's what I wanted, probably. But I dont' want to back up /home at all. That's why I was asking what may be doing it, so I can turn it off. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: firefox bookmark file location
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Fred J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have debian/testing, and have been trying to locate the bookmarks file for firefox my browser, any body knows where it is? username:~$ locate bookmarks.html /etc/firefox/profile/bookmarks.html /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/bookmarks.html niether of the files above when opened in a broswer show my book makrs, so I concluded these are not the ones. thanks ~/.mozilla/firefox/session/bookmarks.html At least on my Debian etch system. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange networking woes
What is in the /etc/resolv.conf file? Does it point to the router or the switch? -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Love
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the work you do. Keep it up! Jason Martens Debian Lover Damn, we have become AOL'ers ;-) I made the switch 2 (or so) years ago from RH. Guys/gals, you all are doing a great job. Don't stop -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Emacs newbie question
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:34:02 +0200 Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, if i issue emacs I get the X interface for emacs. What can I do if I want Emacs to start with console interface? PAolo man emacs is your friend ;-) emacs -nw filename -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Off-Topic] Windowmaker website
Anyone know what the story with the windomaker web site is? http://www.windowmaker.info has not been available for the past few days. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
error when opening gv
I'm running debian etch/testing From a shell, when opening any postscript file, I get this error message in a pop-up window; Warning: color name white is not defined Warning: color name black is not defined and in the shell I have these error messages; gv test.ps Warning: Color name gray71 is not defined Warning: Color name AntiqueWhite3 is not defined Warning: Color name black is not defined Warning: Color name AntiqueWhite2 is not defined Warning: Color name AntiqueWhite4 is not defined Warning: Color name gray65 is not defined Warning: Color name gray90 is not defined Warning: Color name gray40 is not defined Warning: Color name gray78 is not defined Warning: Color name gray85 is not defined Warning: Color name red is not defined Warning: Color name White is not defined Warning: Color name white is not defined Warning: Color name gray58 is not defined Any idea(s) as to how to fix them? -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: error when opening gv
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:44:13 -0400 cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:35:14PM EDT, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm running debian etch/testing From a shell, when opening any postscript file, I get this error message in a pop-up window; Warning: color name white is not defined Warning: color name black is not defined and in the shell I have these error messages; gv test.ps Warning: Color name gray71 is not defined Warning: Color name AntiqueWhite3 is not defined Warning: Color name black is not defined Warning: Color name AntiqueWhite2 is not defined Warning: Color name AntiqueWhite4 is not defined Warning: Color name gray65 is not defined Warning: Color name gray90 is not defined Warning: Color name gray40 is not defined Warning: Color name gray78 is not defined Warning: Color name gray85 is not defined Warning: Color name red is not defined Warning: Color name White is not defined Warning: Color name white is not defined Warning: Color name gray58 is not defined Any idea(s) as to how to fix them? usually defined in /etc/X11/rgb.txt looks like gv cannot find it .. or its contents have been changed .. corrupted..? IIRC, this would affect other GUI apps as well .. gtk? Thanks cga I think it's affecting WindowMaker, and other apps. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 2006-06-17 09:50 /etc/X11/rgb.txt It's been affecting my computer since etch went to XORG. I have black, and the rest of the colors defined. this is my /etc/X11/rgb.txt file; ! $Xorg: rgb.txt,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:00 cpqbld Exp $ 255 250 250 snow 248 248 255 ghost white 248 248 255 GhostWhite 245 245 245 white smoke 245 245 245 WhiteSmoke 220 220 220 gainsboro 255 250 240 floral white 255 250 240 FloralWhite 253 245 230 old lace 253 245 230 OldLace 250 240 230 linen 250 235 215 antique white 250 235 215 AntiqueWhite 255 239 213 papaya whip 255 239 213 PapayaWhip 255 235 205 blanched almond 255 235 205 BlanchedAlmond 255 228 196 bisque 255 218 185 peach puff 255 218 185 PeachPuff 255 222 173 navajo white 255 222 173 NavajoWhite 255 228 181 moccasin 255 248 220 cornsilk 255 255 240 ivory 255 250 205 lemon chiffon 255 250 205 LemonChiffon 255 245 238 seashell 240 255 240 honeydew 245 255 250 mint cream 245 255 250 MintCream 240 255 255 azure 240 248 255 alice blue 240 248 255 AliceBlue 230 230 250 lavender 255 240 245 lavender blush 255 240 245 LavenderBlush 255 228 225 misty rose 255 228 225 MistyRose 255 255 255 white 0 0 0 black 47 79 79 dark slate gray 47 79 79 DarkSlateGray 47 79 79 dark slate grey 47 79 79 DarkSlateGrey 105 105 105 dim gray 105 105 105 DimGray 105 105 105 dim grey 105 105 105 DimGrey 112 128 144 slate gray 112 128 144 SlateGray 112 128 144 slate grey 112 128 144 SlateGrey 119 136 153 light slate gray 119 136 153 LightSlateGray 119 136 153 light slate grey 119 136 153 LightSlateGrey 190 190 190 gray 190 190 190 grey 211 211 211 light grey 211 211 211 LightGrey 211 211 211 light gray 211 211 211 LightGray 25 25 112 midnight blue 25 25 112 MidnightBlue 0 0 128 navy 0 0 128 navy blue 0 0 128 NavyBlue 100 149 237 cornflower blue 100 149 237 CornflowerBlue 72 61 139 dark slate blue 72 61 139 DarkSlateBlue 106 90 205 slate blue 106 90 205 SlateBlue 123 104 238 medium slate blue 123 104 238 MediumSlateBlue 132 112 255 light slate blue 132 112 255 LightSlateBlue 0 0 205 medium blue 0 0 205 MediumBlue 65 105 225 royal blue 65 105 225 RoyalBlue 0 0 255 blue 30 144 255 dodger blue 30 144 255 DodgerBlue 0 191 255 deep sky blue 0 191 255 DeepSkyBlue 135 206 235 sky blue 135 206 235 SkyBlue 135 206 250 light sky blue 135 206 250 LightSkyBlue 70 130 180 steel blue 70 130 180 SteelBlue 176 196 222 light steel blue 176 196 222
Re: error when opening gv
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:33:20 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 14:07:50 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:44:13 -0400 cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:35:14PM EDT, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm running debian etch/testing From a shell, when opening any postscript file, I get this error message in a pop-up window; Warning: color name white is not defined Warning: color name black is not defined and in the shell I have these error messages; gv test.ps Warning: Color name gray71 is not defined [ snip: the same message for several other colors ] Any idea(s) as to how to fix them? usually defined in /etc/X11/rgb.txt looks like gv cannot find it .. or its contents have been changed .. corrupted..? IIRC, this would affect other GUI apps as well .. gtk? [...] I think it's affecting WindowMaker, and other apps. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 2006-06-17 09:50 /etc/X11/rgb.txt It's been affecting my computer since etch went to XORG. I have black, and the rest of the colors defined. this is my /etc/X11/rgb.txt file; ! $Xorg: rgb.txt,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:00 cpqbld Exp $ [ snip: rest of rgb.txt (identical to the file on my system) ] Check what your RGBpath really is; the default has changed for Xorg: $ grep -i rgbpath /var/log/Xorg.0.log (==) RgbPath set to /usr/share/X11/rgb You can either specify /etc/X11/rgb as the RGBpath in your xorg.conf (note: do not include the .txt, it is appended automatically) or you can create a symlink in /usr/share/X11/ which points to the other file. This is how it is set up on my box: $ file /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt: symbolic link to `/etc/X11/rgb.txt' I don't remember if I did this myself or if it happened automatically during the upgrade. In any case, it seems to work. -- Regards, Florian grep -i rgbpath /var/log/Xorg.0.log (**) RgbPath set to /etc/X11/rgb.txt file /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt: symbolic link to `/etc/X11/rgb.txt' same as what you have -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: error when opening gv
Thanks to all. What I did was edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed rgb.txt to rbg, and then created/copied the rgb.txt to rgb. In a separate account, they worked. I could have sworn I did that in an earlier attempt. Again, many thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: i stumped FIXED
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:25:36 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my problem removed Do you have the zeroconf package installed? It is known to cause this kind of [expletive deleted]. If you uninstall it everything should come back to normal (after ifdown eth0 followed by ifup eth0). -- Regards, Florian Bingo. Had it installed, just removed. Brought down the NIC, and back up, works as it is supposed to. Many thanks. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
i stumped
I'm running debian etch, with all current updates. After a thunderstorm dropped power a few times, I have been back on the net, obviously. For some reason, the /etc/network/interfaces file is not being read, or not being read properly. cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 When using this file, and then doing an ifconfig, I get these results; ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:15:8E:33 inet addr:169.254.*.* Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 (removed for a inet6 addr: fe80::20d:87ff:fe15:8e33/64 Scope:Link bit of privacy) ;-) UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4549 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2995721 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:476602 (465.4 KiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc400 Yet, if I do the following, I cannot get past the router; sudo ifconfig eth0 up address 192.168.1.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 this makes this computer think it is 192.168.1.1 Any ideas? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:55:08 +0200 Jan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created during initial install of the system. None of the users created after install (more specifically, I would like to auto-logon the user mythtv) is displayed in the list. Need I perform some additional task for a user to be selectable? (Yes, the mythtv-user has a password, and logging on manually works) look in /etc/kde3/kdm/kderc (I think that's the file) you can add users in there -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:12:01 +0200 Jan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: look in /etc/kde3/kdm/kderc (I think that's the file) you can add users in there Will certainly do when I get home, thanks! But, would GNOME use KDE3 config files? Nope. Gnome will have it's own config files. I don't use gnome, unless I have to, so no idea the exact location of those files -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:09:50 +0200 John Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into DVD format. I would like to do this with a selection screen as well. The command that I want to run in my mind is: encode --use-an-index mymovie1.avi mymovie2.avi mymovie3.avi --outfile dvd.iso Can anyone help me? I use avidemux. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: how to check whether a package has been installed
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:38:33 -0700 Martin Paraskevov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? - martin dpkg -l | grep package name -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:34:56 -0400 Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 20:55, T wrote: What is the recommended way to configure Xorg under Debian Etch then? Does dpkg-reconfigure xorg solve your problem? raju Did not work for me. I had to search through the many xorg packages, to find the one that fit my video card, and look for a script to generate the correct config file. Took me 3 hours to get a working xorg.conf file generated. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: troubles with aptitude
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well, until an upgrade. So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tetex, but now aptitude seems to be caught in a trap. How do I get aptitude free? This is the output from aptitude: Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 156744 files and directories currently installed.) Removing dvipdfmx ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 5: /usr/sbin/update-texmf: No such file or directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 6: /usr/bin/mktexlsr: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing dvipdfmx (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Removing preview-latex-style ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/preview-latex-style.postrm: line 29: mktexlsr: command not found dpkg: error processing preview-latex-style (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: dvipdfmx preview-latex-style E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Press return to continue. In order to remove dvipdfmx dpkg runs update-texmf and mktexlsr -- but these are no longer on the machine. How do I get these programs away or how do I solve this problem? Can you re-install them? Otherwise it's often possible to apply more force through using dpkg directly :-) /M One thing I had to do in the past, when this has happened. create the file (touch file.name) or create the directory, so it can remove them. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:27:50 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that recent Xorg upgrades have moved a whole bunch of stuff around and therefore need to change xorg.conf appropriately. The first few times, it saved my old one and made a new one. Xorg did not work so I simply put back the old one after messing up trying to hand merge them. After this upgrade, my xorg.conf was missing/deleted/etc. Thankfully I had a backup of the /etc/X11 directory. Even then, that file did not work. I had to search through the deb files to find the program to get a semi-working xorg.conf, so I could get WindowMaker (which is still failing) working. I had to settle for KDE. Now, it checks and if anything looks customized, i.e. one uses or might have used the dri-trunk packages, switched monitors or graphics cards, etc., it doe not make the changes. Most important is that all the executables are now in /usr/bin. The first such upgrade symlinked the /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin so this did not bork things up. Apparantly, modules directories are no longer used so if the changes are made, all ModulePaths are simply deleted. Problem is that they may in many many cases still be needed. Some FontPaths may also have changed and try and find those manually! There were no notices within synaptic about overwriting/editing/etc the xorg.conf. I think that a line-by-line installation utility to straighten all this out is in order. It's easy to see that certain module paths exist and are not empty. The packager knows where fonts have been moved. That rgb.txt file which I still have not successfully accessed, is another line item. If we are using apt or aptitude, etc., to upgrade Xorg, then we should not need to solve a jigsaw puzzle to keep it working :-) I use synaptic for all upgrades, and nothing was presented. If I as a user are not running the correct script to getting a correct xorg.conf installed/configured/etc, please let me know the script name location. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:52:20 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 19:34:16 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian testing. After doing an upgrade earlier this week, and having xorg upgraded, the following; ical Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black mrxvt mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: aborting emacs Undefined color: black WindowMaker which I assume has a similar error Do you have /etc/X11/rgb.txt and a symlink to it in /usr/share/X11/? Is this file readable for normal users? -- Regards, Florian /etc/X11/rgb.txt is a real file not a symlink. /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt is the symlink. ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 17371 2006-01-14 17:27 /etc/X11/rgb.txt ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-06-03 07:21 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt - /etc/X11/rgb.txt In this situation; emacs Undefined color: black Not working -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:09:10 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:11:35 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:52:20 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 19:34:16 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian testing. After doing an upgrade earlier this week, and having xorg upgraded, the following; ical Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black mrxvt mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: aborting emacs Undefined color: black WindowMaker which I assume has a similar error Do you have /etc/X11/rgb.txt and a symlink to it in /usr/share/X11/? Is this file readable for normal users? /etc/X11/rgb.txt is a real file not a symlink. /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt is the symlink. That is what I meant; maybe I did not make myself clear. Not sure. I read it the other way around. That's why I pointed out both things just to be safe. :-) ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 17371 2006-01-14 17:27 /etc/X11/rgb.txt $ ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 2004-04-28 20:19 /etc/X11/rgb.txt Seems like it is the same file on your system. Just to be sure, check if it actually contains a definition for black: $ grep black /etc/X11/rgb.txt 0 0 0 black grep black /etc/X11/rgb.txt 0 0 0 black ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-06-03 07:21 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt - /etc/X11/rgb.txt In this situation; emacs Undefined color: black Not working Maybe your xorg.conf still points to the old location at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. You can check this with grep -i rgb /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If that comes up empty you could try to explicitly specify the correct RGBPath yourself; see man xorg.conf. -- Regards, Florian grep -i rgb /etc/X11/xorg.conf RgbPath /etc/X11/rgb.txt -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:07:29 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:19:53 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:09:10 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:11:35 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:52:20 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Do you have /etc/X11/rgb.txt and a symlink to it in /usr/share/X11/? Is this file readable for normal users? /etc/X11/rgb.txt is a real file not a symlink. /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt is the symlink. That is what I meant; maybe I did not make myself clear. Not sure. I read it the other way around. That's why I pointed out both things just to be safe. :-) ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 17371 2006-01-14 17:27 /etc/X11/rgb.txt $ ls -la /etc/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 2004-04-28 20:19 /etc/X11/rgb.txt Seems like it is the same file on your system. Just to be sure, check if it actually contains a definition for black: $ grep black /etc/X11/rgb.txt 0 0 0 black grep black /etc/X11/rgb.txt 0 0 0 black ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-06-03 07:21 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt - /etc/X11/rgb.txt In this situation; emacs Undefined color: black Not working Maybe your xorg.conf still points to the old location at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. You can check this with grep -i rgb /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If that comes up empty you could try to explicitly specify the correct RGBPath yourself; see man xorg.conf. [...] grep -i rgb /etc/X11/xorg.conf RgbPath /etc/X11/rgb.txt I think X on Debian adds .txt automatically to the RGBPath nowadays; so in your case the X server might look for /etc/X11/rgb.txt.txt. Try to remove the .txt part (or comment out the entire line) and restart Xorg. If that does not help it is probably time to run egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for warnings and errors related to rgb.txt. -- Regards, Florian Tried those suggestions. Still the same result. using the egrep suggestion; egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) The directory /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc does not exist. (WW) FontPath is completely invalid. Using compiled-in default. (WW) (1024x768,Generic Monitor) mode clock 94.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 80MHz -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:55:05 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 June 2006 05:34, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian testing. After doing an upgrade earlier this week, and having xorg upgraded, the following; ical Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black mrxvt mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: aborting emacs Undefined color: black WindowMaker which I assume has a similar error I am using KDE, working in konsole, their very nice bash window, I get the black message repeatedly. Has been for a while now. But it works just fine. Since the upgrade of xorg, I've been forced to switch to KDE konsole, which is where I'm getting these errors -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
xrog upgrade borked ALOT
Debian testing. After doing an upgrade earlier this week, and having xorg upgraded, the following; ical Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black mrxvt mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: aborting emacs Undefined color: black WindowMaker which I assume has a similar error -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrade kills windowmaker
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:24:18 -0700 Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wmaker is working fine for me on etch. On 6/5/06, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:16:12 -0400 cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would create a test userid.. su to root.. useradd.. passwd.. etc. login as this new user and if your manage to start wmaker this would confirm your wmaker config is toast. Just did that, and it also aborts. :-( Have you done an upgrade in the past 3 days, especially of the xorg system? -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrade kills windowmaker
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:42:21 -0700 Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yey did that a few days ago. On 6/6/06, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:24:18 -0700 Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wmaker is working fine for me on etch. On 6/5/06, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:16:12 -0400 cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would create a test userid.. su to root.. useradd.. passwd.. etc. login as this new user and if your manage to start wmaker this would confirm your wmaker config is toast. Just did that, and it also aborts. :-( Have you done an upgrade in the past 3 days, especially of the xorg system? The don't log out, and back in. That's what I did, and now WM does not function. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
upgrade kills windowmaker
I'm running debian testing. 2 days ago, there was a massive upgrade to the xorg system. Everything appeared to be installed configured correctly. With the heat in Southern California, we had some power drops. Now when I try to start windowmaker, it starts, but quickly exits showing a request stating something like; Windowmaker has caught a sig 11 error, please try again, exit with core, or try another window manager. If I choose exit, no core is generated, but WM will not function. Any ideas? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrade kills windowmaker
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:16:12 -0400 cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would create a test userid.. su to root.. useradd.. passwd.. etc. login as this new user and if your manage to start wmaker this would confirm your wmaker config is toast. Just did that, and it also aborts. :-( -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: fsck on ext3, lost files
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:40:53 -0400 Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/31/06, Linas Žvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A valuable tool in this case is file. It can identify loads of different file formats, and can be very effective in conjunction with some shell scripting. There is also tool called testdisk. I have never used it, but it does seem to have some very useful features. How about looking for jpg's in lost+found? Any hints on how to do that? gqview. It will show thumbnails of correct pictures -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
What's the status of
For the past week or so http://www.maretmanu.org has been down. Any ideas to the status of this repository? -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [desktop][netinst]How can i choose a kde as a default?
On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:56:53 -0500 Lukasz Szybalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/18/06, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1147906776 past the epoch, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: 2. I would like to skip this process and from installation menu when selecting [desktop] I would like to choose a kde as a default windowing system. Who should i contact to make this change happen? The desktop task offered to you in the debian-installer process installs both GNOME and KDE, but GNOME is chosen as the default environment. If you do not select the desktop task, but instead go for manual package selection, you can install the kde package independently. Note that there might be other components pulled in by the desktop task that are not depended on by the kde package (e.g. xserver-xfree86). I deselected the desktop. Installed the rest. Then apt-get install kde. When all was done. startx gave an error. Will manual selection of packages at install time produce same results as apt-get install kde? If so that will give me an error therefore it might or might not be a use to me. Are there any other options? lukasz Do you have x-window-system-core installed? -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem with clock
On Thu, 18 May 2006 11:05:36 -0500 anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 15:28, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 08:15:31 -0600 Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever since I installed unstable the clock never recieves the correct time. When I try to resync or restart the computer I get this error message: select() /dev/rtc clock tick timed out Does anybody know what this error is or how I can fix it? Joseph Smidt -- - Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not necessarily the answer you want, but install ntpdate, and use this; sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b -u pool.ntp.org I run that as a script once a week, and I keep fairly accurate time. i don't recall what the -b does but you may not want to use ntpdate on a regular basis. ntp-simple or chrony would be a better option. typically, ntpdate should be used at startup (or the very first time you're setting up ntp) and then let ntp slew the time while the OS is running. otherwise you might end up with erratic jumps in time which could screw things up if you have time sensitive apps.. I manually run ntpdate maybe once a week. My system clock appears to be fairly accurate. Now that I've said that, someone will probably point out that it isn't ;-) -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem with clock
On Wed, 17 May 2006 08:15:31 -0600 Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever since I installed unstable the clock never recieves the correct time. When I try to resync or restart the computer I get this error message: select() /dev/rtc clock tick timed out Does anybody know what this error is or how I can fix it? Joseph Smidt -- - Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not necessarily the answer you want, but install ntpdate, and use this; sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b -u pool.ntp.org I run that as a script once a week, and I keep fairly accurate time. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: O.T. dvd burning from the command line
On Tue, 16 May 2006 18:59:16 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:18:43 -0700 Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have, so far growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/(my burner) _ /path/to/dvd-structure You're really close, and you might have been able to figure it out by now, but maybe it'll be good for archiveness' sake :). Your path/to/dvd structure should be one directory up from the actual VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories. for instance: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /tmp/lulu total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 dfox dfox 48 2006-05-13 09:16 AUDIO_TS drwxr-xr-x 2 dfox dfox 400 2006-05-14 00:45 VIDEO_TS I find one needs to add -dvd-video and -dvd-compat switches to the growisofs command line. so that is: $ growisofs -dvd-media -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd /tmp/lulu This works for me. I also use dvdauthor under wine and have it just output the dvd over in /tmp/lulu and just reuse that directory afresh for each dvd. My disk space is not a whole lot :)... Once you have the command down, you can just use ctrl-r in bash to bring it up, but in case it's vanished, maybe an alias would be useful,. . i.e., in $HOME/.profile: alias bdvd=growisofs. .. That's what was mentioned earlier. For me, I also use DVD Author to create the images. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Open Office relative path vs. hard coded path
I'm running debian etch, and the latest version of OO available via synaptic. In moving OO documents from a Linux computer to an Apple laptop. I've found something odd, when trying to link info among spreadsheets. On the laptop, I can put the relative path, using ./ to get the linking to work, yet n this Linux computer I have to specify the full path to get the linking to work. I always assumed that this was not necessary, but just using the ./ would suffice. Am I wrong or am I missing something? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
