Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily
On Apr 19, 2013 7:43 PM, Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com wrote: Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: This looks like it might be http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-brcm80211-hangs-2-6-36-0-34-rc6-git3-fc15-x86-64-help-200600731.html . Try a newer kernel, if you can (though I don't see evidence in that thread that the change was incorporated into the mainstream kernel) Thanks! That begins to give a potential rational explanation for this problem. Given that this happens relatively infrequently and that Wheezy will be released in about a month or less (or so I read), I may wait for that. If I get a minute and convince myself that I can update the kernel with little risk of borking anything, I may try. Bill -- Bill Harris Facilitated Systems http://makingsense.facilitatedsystems.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3nywjxl@facilitatedsystems.com Just to make sure you get the risk out of the way.. :-) I'd suggest making an image of your system, if possible. (Or at least your linux partitions). -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: what's your Debian uptime?
On Apr 19, 2013 8:11 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Whatever I see in all your comments is this: Most of the people show a big uptime. 100 days, 400 days, 500 days, even more than a 1000 days! So many people do this. It proves, how stable a good system can be and it also shows the great work of the developers. If I compare it to other commercial systems (aka Windows). you can see the high quality, what people can do, if they like and have fun, what they are doing. Money is no garant for quality. It is freedom, it is fun and it is motivation. So let's all work together, to keep these things. Let us say to all developers and their helpers: Thank you very much for all the work and help we got from you!!! Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201304191910.56696.hans.ullr...@loop.de Windows web servers (IIS) *need* to be rebooted nightly. Initially I thought that was only true for IIS 5/6. However it turns out you'll have to go back to the old habits also on the new and improved IIS 7 and 7.5. :-) Is it bad code of the developers who write the sites? Is it the same old habits of the developers writing IIS, or the program managers who deliver IIS? I have no idea. Thing is that on heavily used systems things go bad and they magically start working again after a reboot. Worst than this (maybe?) is that I'm starting to get the impression that clustered hyper-v servers might also need scheduled reboots. :-) And I have a Raspberry PI with Debian with an uptime of more than 100 days. True, I'm only using it as an bind+dhcp server but still.. Long live Debian and the philosophy behind it! -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily
On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com wrote: I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing and the keyboard stops responding, but I'm not sure it always freezes while typing. I can't do anything at that point, not even select a virtual console. I can't find an Alt-SysReq key on the laptop keyboard to kill it semi-gracefully, so I kill it with the power button. When I reboot, it usually boots partway and then freezes again. It's almost always just after it's said it's starting gdm3, checking battery status, or starting ACPI. Getting past that point is challenging. I've tried disconnecting the power and taking out the battery, but that rarely helps. What usually helps is to boot into Windows (W7, if it matters) and then shut down and boot into Debian. Sometimes it seems to help to pull the battery for a bit, too. Sometimes neither seem to help, and so I keep trying combinations until it reboots. Does that sound at all familiar? If so, is there a solution (either to keep it from freezing or to recover more rapidly after freezing)? What data (log file, I presume) do you need to help me find and fix the prroblem? Thanks, Bill Hi Bill, Sounds rather frustrating to have no error or message that could help troubleshooting. Any errors you might have might be in /var/log/ messages, syslog, or.. any files under that directory, however if it freezes because of a hardware failure, chances are that the OS might not even get a chance to log anything. A question I would have is: can you estimate a period it takes the system to freeze? Does it happen many times a day? Yes, I do realise you said random, but my suggestion would be to try and work on Windoze for that estimated period of time, see if it freezes again, this way you could possibly eliminate the possibility of a hardware failure, and start blaming a driver maybe.. Hope any of this helps. Good luck! -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily
On Apr 18, 2013 11:29 AM, Soare Catalin lolinux.so...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com wrote: I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing and the keyboard stops responding, but I'm not sure it always freezes while typing. I can't do anything at that point, not even select a virtual console. I can't find an Alt-SysReq key on the laptop keyboard to kill it semi-gracefully, so I kill it with the power button. When I reboot, it usually boots partway and then freezes again. It's almost always just after it's said it's starting gdm3, checking battery status, or starting ACPI. Getting past that point is challenging. I've tried disconnecting the power and taking out the battery, but that rarely helps. What usually helps is to boot into Windows (W7, if it matters) and then shut down and boot into Debian. Sometimes it seems to help to pull the battery for a bit, too. Sometimes neither seem to help, and so I keep trying combinations until it reboots. Does that sound at all familiar? If so, is there a solution (either to keep it from freezing or to recover more rapidly after freezing)? What data (log file, I presume) do you need to help me find and fix the prroblem? Thanks, Bill Hi Bill, Sounds rather frustrating to have no error or message that could help troubleshooting. Any errors you might have might be in /var/log/ messages, syslog, or.. any files under that directory, however if it freezes because of a hardware failure, chances are that the OS might not even get a chance to log anything. A question I would have is: can you estimate a period it takes the system to freeze? Does it happen many times a day? Yes, I do realise you said random, but my suggestion would be to try and work on Windoze for that estimated period of time, see if it freezes again, this way you could possibly eliminate the possibility of a hardware failure, and start blaming a driver maybe.. Hope any of this helps. Good luck! -- Sent from my Brick (TM) LOL I just reread my message and I apologise for my English. Not my native language and I wrote it in stages, when I had a chance. Anyway, I hope you get the idea :-) Best regards -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: wake on lan: power on, no boot
On Apr 18, 2013 10:14 AM, Freddie freddie_sig...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Hi Debian users, I asked this question to the debian-laptop list a few weeks ago but there's been no solution found. As I'm not convinced my issues are laptop specific I thought I'd open it up to the wider group. I'm wanting to wake my philips freeline X10 laptop (circa 2004) using wol. I've enabled power on from PCI in the bios, and I've used ethtool and /etc/network/interfaces to ensure that wake on magic packet is enabled for eth0 on every boot. I can confirm this with # ethtool eth0 (the laptop is connect to the router by an ethernet cable). After powering off the laptop if I send a magic packet using # wakeonlan -i ip address mac address The laptop powers on (that is, the power led turns on and the DVD drive spins up a couple of times) but nothing boots. I'm left with a blank screen - there're no POST or BIOS screens. It might also be relevant that a usb peripheral (a sound card, in this case) doesn't power on even though it would normally power on at around the same time as the DVD drive spinning up during a normal (non-wol) boot. Does anyone have any ideas what this might be? I'm stumped. Thanks in advance. Freddie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.DEB.2.02.1304180751001.3238@eeepc.Belkin Hi Freddie I can't say I have done what you are trying to do, I have only done it with desktops. Anyway, to me, how you describe it, your laptop doesn't fully start/boot. I don't want to offend you (in case you have checked already) but I'd check the manufacturer's website for this symptom, and eventually check for (BIOS) firmware upgrades and their changelogs. Good luck! -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: How to install Debian in such a situation
On Apr 15, 2013 11:16 AM, Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/15/13, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same Yes, this is easier. But I want to try the harder path :-) Best regards, Yuwen Interesting :-) So you also want to learn while you're having fun? Install it from network. I suppose you already have a dhcp server. If you've also got another PC, you're half way there! :-) Lovely attitude! -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: Using unstable for certain packages
On Apr 12, 2013 3:29 PM, Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de wrote: On 04/12/2013 02:16 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Alex Mestiashvili alexander.mestiashv...@biotec.tu-dresden.de wrote: On 04/12/2013 01:33 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable only for certain packages? ... You can try it, but in most cases it is not a good idea. Most of the packages have dependencies which are not available in stable or testing and if you try to get all of them, than after some time your system will be a mix of unstable and stable/testing I suggest to get the source packages instead and rebuild them for your environment. Sounds like good advice, Alex--a happy medium between ad hoc local updates and a probably more controlled build and local install. I shall look into how to do that. Best regards, -Tom Which package do you need from the unstable ? I can try to create a short workflow for it. a good place to start with debian packages is the New Maintainer Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ Regards, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5167fdf8.3030...@biotec.tu-dresden.de Then again, if you build from source, you'll lose the automatic upgrade feature provided by apt/aptitude. Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks.
Re: What's Up With Debian.org?
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Howard Lee Harkness how...@howardleeharkness.com wrote: They ran more than one. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/introducing-gmail-blue.html?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGmailBlog+%28Gmail+Blog%29 On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.orgwrote: On 01/04/13 20:19, David Guntner wrote: Yep, it's always nice to see such things. Honestly, I'm surprised that Google isn't running some kind of April Fool's gag this year, given some of the ones they've pulled in the past. :-) Oh, but they did... http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/landing/nose Your area may vary :) -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5159e662.3030...@vanderhoff.org -- Howard Lee Harkness (214) 390-4896 Yeah, it's cute and funny! And you get the feeling that there are humans behind the website, and the whole project hopefully, not just dudes thinking, writing, swearing and sweating. As opposed to microsoft -- check their website, see if they have anything for today. Did you pay anything to get jokes on April 1'st? Then you ain't getting ! My 2 cents -- if debian.org was in danger, then your computer, as you were visiting it would also have been because most probably links would have been changed, and scripts would be thrown at your browser. -- Regards, *Catalin Soare lolinux.so...@gmail.com*
Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC
On Mar 4, 2013 4:49 PM, Steven Grunza sgru...@ctdi.com wrote: Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be unusable. I realize this system is _NOT_ going to be a performance machine. I plan on using it for text editing (in laptop mode using keyboard) and taking handwritten notes (in slate mode) -- it's a TabletPC that used to run Windows XP. WinXP SP3 is now so large and slow it takes up to 5 minutes to load from a power-on (the system was developed and deployed before there even was a service pack for WinXP). I really like the EMR (electro-magnetic-resistive) pen on this device and would like to make it usable again. I know Fedora (at least version 17 and 18) has checks in place to prevent installation on low memory systems. Does Debian have a similar restriction? I was previously running Fedora 16 on much more capable hardware (Tecra M4) but a catastropic system board failure has me trying to resurrect this old TabletPC (Acer TravelMate C100). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6a40b310d7efc840a22cbf165d914e2902be9...@wcexch3.ctdi.com I had a home dhcpdns server running on a 800MHz CPU with 128 MB memory. No GUI, but once booted the device did its job. I have replaced that with a 512 MB Raspberry Pi. So, yes, it is possible. You probably won't be able to use Gnome or KDE, but as long as you have time to try them out, there are plenty other light Desktop Environments out there. Good luck! -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: Thinking about using Debian
On Feb 26, 2013 7:16 PM, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com P.S. Please don't top post. Thanks. Funny... I belonged to many lists 15 or 20 years ago. All wanted folks to top post and bitched about bottom-posts. Why? Bottom posts require scrolling to see that latest reply. Oh well. No, bottom posting does not necessarily require scrolling to see the latest response providing that people quote only what is relevant to the response. In other words, that's yet another reason to bottom post, as it promotes a more efficient email style by reducing mindless quoting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361898959.71461.yahoomail...@web162706.mail.bf1.yahoo.com I work as a systems administrator for a software development company. We have a several tens of thousand dollars contract with microsoft per year for Premium Support (R). Even with that, each case costs us $200/hour. Most of them end up with please install the latest service pack for sql, devs say they fixed that or please install this KB. Yeah, I know it says it applies only to windows 2003 Last several years we didn't open more than 6-7 cases per year. Isn't that nice..? Getting past this, what makes me sic and tired of ms the most is both the fact that they want everyone to be surrounded by their bad products and also push that with their license agreements. And they use their customers as testers!! Ever tried hyper-v? OMG!! Ever tried vmm? I also recommend trying to read their official documentation for the windblows 2012 certification. It's full of stuff like this feature is not yet (fully) implemented. Add to this bing, and tons of other products released without proper QA. So, believe me when I say NO! For the sake of technology's future, I hope you at least try to take some time to discover something that you will be able to tame and control. Be it Debian, Ubuntu (if you don't like Unity, there's always Lubuntu, Kubuntu...), etc.. There is one more thing I noticed after working with several large multinational companies which were all ms customers: people will say don't change if it ain't broken!. I get the feeling that even if people are gurus and certified in tons of ms products, they still behave as if they had black boxes. I know that normally that should be the output if you do this change, but... With microsoft you can't always be sure.. And finally, any company that registers patents just so they can sue others; or buy companies because they couldn't do a better competitive product.. does not support technology as they claim. P.S. All names that should have had capital letters were intentionally written with the opposite out of disrespect for what the company has become. /endrant -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: a very carefully asked question?
On Feb 27, 2013 6:39 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati assir...@nonada.if.usp.br wrote: Hi folks, I have been considering all day how I will ask this. it is very very important that I get the answer I seek, and with so many variations, things can shift off the mark if not careful. going to keep it simple only adding extra detail if necessary. If one already has an install of debian, in this case squeeze that did not involve including network access at the time, how does one add the networking aspect later? I will have working dsl I trust this weekend. I want the individual helping me connect my main computer to also inform my Debian machine that a network connection exists, letting debian establish the best drivers etc., for the network. How specifically is this done? Chances are that your network card was detected and the correct kernel module is already being loaded. If this is the case and you never touched any network configuration file, and also you dsl provider does not use pppoe but instead plain ethernet with dhcp, then networking will just work when you connect the network cable. If it does not work, please write again to this list including the output of the comands cat /etc/network/interfaces dpkg --status network-manager | grep Status lspci -v dmesg | grep eth0 /sbin/ifconfig and whether your provider uses pppoe or plain ethernet with dhcp. João Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d880a900230b40889dbd9072ff9d726b.squir...@nonada.if.usp.br Yes, João Luis is right; I remember when I also had DSL, I was using pppconfig (or ppp-config) which was basically just a script that launched a wizard that would ask you a few questions like dsl user name and password. However, I recommend you try the DSL on a computer to see that the connection is working, disconect it using ppp-on (? or some similar command -- I'd just type ppptab) and plug it into a router. That way you only configure it once and you can plug in as many network devices as you have ports available, and wireless devices even :-). And please do come back to the list asking your questions; you don't have to spend a lot of time to formulate them. Just describe your problem and what you have tried to do about it, if applicable. Good luck!
Re: Guide / Tools
On Nov 21, 2012 7:57 PM, Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: Jochen Spieker: Morel Bérenger: $man dc = reverse-polish ? What is it? It is surely not for simple calculations and conversions... That's probably only for majors in maths or computer science. No, dc is a perfect tool for simple calculations and conversions. Instead of entering e.g. 2+3= you use the so-called reverse-polish notation: 2 3+ Once used to it, you'll probably never want anything else. Imagine a stack: 0 0 0 0 After entering 2, it looks like this: 0 0 0 2 After entering 3: 0 0 2 3 After entering +: 0 0 0 5 In dc: $ dc 2 3+p 5 As a final example, the calculation of (1 + V5)/2 (V means square root here) up to 6 decimal places: $ dc 6k1 5v+2/p 1.618033 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121121185520.66b88a1a.shiems...@kpnplanet.nl Hi, Even after 4-5 years of using various Linux distros (which I also recommend) like Red Hat (now Fedora) Suse/OpenSuse, Ubuntu, I still consider myself a newbie, after I've seen what's being discussed on this list. That, and also because I'm a sysadmin for a company using 101% Microsoft products, I have fun with Linux at home. Here's what I recommend: Find yourself some book or if you don't have the time, tutorials on the internet are much shorter to follow (don't just stop at one, 2 experts will have 2 different opinions). Then, after you've been playing with terminal commands, you could give yourself small projects/homework like: learn scriping (bash, perl, python or whatever) and do some automation with it -- automatic backup for some files in your home dir or something similar. Also, what can/should try is, if you happen to have another device at home that's able to run Linux and can stay on for a very long time, build yourself a dns+dhcp server. Good luck, and welcome!
Re: Installing Debian on Windows 7 machine?
On Oct 20, 2012 11:53 PM, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Hugo writes: I wouldn't bother buying a complete system. I built my own. I build my own systems too, when I don't recycle $10 yard-sale boxes. However, he may need (or even want!) Windows, in which case a complete system may be significantly cheaper. On the other hand I've heard that the best way to run Windows is in a VM under Linux. Is there any way to migrate a pre-installed copy of Windows into a VM? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sj98oog6@thumper.dhh.gt.org Hi John, Yes there is. Now, it will depend on what virtualization platform you want to bring it to. If you want, for example, to use VMWare, they've got it. Either way, google for P2V (physical to virtual) for your virtualization (vmware, virtualbox, xen, etc). Cheers! -- Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: Optimal Storage Server
On Jul 24, 2012 5:08 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 7/23/2012 11:05 AM, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: I am thinking of the Norco 16/20 hotswap and a 2x operton QC CPU m/b but wasnt sure what a solid performing m/b would be that will work well with the LSI? Any thoughts? You didn't even mention the drives. The drives are the most important ingredient of an IO server. If you want low latency high throughput random IO, you want 10k or 15k drives (or SSD), and you can use fewer of them WRT 7.2k SATA drives. No matter what you do, do NOT use parity RAID, i.e. RAID5/6, for your workload. You will horribly regret it and curse your new machine. It won't be the hardware's fault, but yours, for choosing the wrong RAID level, and then not configuring your storage stack properly to work with it. Even it if configure everything properly for RAID5/6, the performance will still be an order of magnitude lower than RAID10, for a random IOPS workload. If this machine will strictly be an IO server, not running any VMs or other applications locally, then you're wasting your money with a dual socket 8 core system. IO servers don't need lots of CPU cycles and typically don't need lots of RAM. What they do need is fast disks and a good RAID controller. If dual core AMD server processors were still available I'd still be using them in storage servers. The extra two cores go wasted 99% of the time in such a machine. Even the 2nd core in a dual core chip goes wasted most of the time. The only time it comes in handy is processing NIC/HBA interrupts under very heavy IO load. Installing irqbalance is a necessity with such an IO server. Thanks my hands are now itching for this project to be completed :-) As I said, the SuperMicro box with 8x 10K drives in RAID10 and the LSI will run circles around a 16/20 bay box with 7.2k drives in RAID6, with a random IO workload. This assumes a production environment with a real workload. If this is a home/hobby server, you may not notice the difference as you'll never sufficiently tax the IO subsystem. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500e0366.4080...@hardwarefreak.com Hi guys, Very interesting read! I apologize for being OT, but where could one learn about storage systems (even such as the ones you mentioned earlier)? Any online resources or even books you could recommend? Thanks
Re: Flashplayer on Google Chrome
On Jul 18, 2012 1:00 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I reinstalled Squeeze and I now have Google Chrome installed and mostly working. I used teh stable deb from Google, ratrher than use the repositories and install chromium-browser. I used dpkg -i and installed teh dependencies with apt-get -f install. This time, Flashplayer and Google Chrome both installed fine. And both Chrome and Iceweasel have recognised Flashplayer: Chrome: Plug-ins Plug-ins (4) Details Remoting Viewer Name: Remoting Viewer Version: Location: internal-remoting-viewer Type: PPAPI (in-process) Disable MIME types: MIME type Description File extensions application/vnd.chromium.remoting-viewer . pepper-application/x-chromoting . Disable Always allowed? Native Client Name: Native Client Version: Location: /opt/google/chrome/libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so Type: PPAPI (in-process) Disable MIME types: MIME type Description File extensions application/x-nacl Native Client Executable .nexe Disable Always allowed? Chrome PDF Viewer Name: Chrome PDF Viewer Version: Location: /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so Type: PPAPI (in-process) Disable MIME types: MIME type Description File extensions application/pdf Portable Document Format .pdf application/x-google-chrome-print-preview-pdf Portable Document Format .pdf Disable Always allowed? Flash - Version: 11.2 r202 Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 Name: Shockwave Flash Version:11.2 r202 Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so Type: NPAPI Disable MIME types: MIME type Description File extensions application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash .swf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player .spl Disable Always allowed? - In the case of both pdf and flash I have ticked always allowed. (After it didn't work, not before, but it didn't solve anything.) --- Iceweasel Enabled plugins Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org. Find updates for installed plugins at mozilla.com/plugincheck. Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org. Shockwave Flash File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 MIME Type Description Suffixes application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Player spl - But Flash will still not run in either. Chrome shows a blacked out screen with a jigsaw piece in the middle with a downturned mouth. Sometimes I see the error message couldn't load plugin immediately before the screen comes up. That is it. Things don't play. Iceweasel simply shows a black screen. Nothing else happens. I have Googled on the error message, but could find nothing helpful. Since no-one else has problems with Flash, it is obviously something to do with me; but I am at a loss as to what. It is frustrating to be so near and yet so far. So, help! please. Thank you, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207181102.29566.lisi.re...@gmail.com Hi Lisi, Not sure if this will work for you, but I've got firefox (the real thing) from this repository (pasting the apt sources line): deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main If I remember correctly, (may just as well be dreaming) firefox downloaded the flash plugin by itsself? You could give it a try if nothing else helps out. Good luck!
Re: DHCP + DNS questions
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for all clients I connect to them, except for one small detail: the dhcp server seems unable to add dns entries. (With other words, everyone gets an IP and internet, but I'm unable to get things to work internally, don't know who has what IP). In my experience dnsmasq is much better suited for this kind of setup: 1. install it (and get rid of bind and isc-dhcp-server) 2. list your hosts in /etc/hosts 3. configure the simplest DHCP network in /etc/dnsmasq.conf 4. Enjoy :) At step 3. you might need to set up static leases for your machines as well, but I'm not sure... Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Hi, Sorry for replying so late, but only last evening I had a chance to try it out. I removed both bind server and isc-dhcp-server and installed dnsmasq. It was very easy to setup. Thank you very much for the reply.
Re: DHCP + DNS questions
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for all clients I connect to them, except for one small detail: the dhcp server seems unable to add dns entries. (With other words, everyone gets an IP and internet, but I'm unable to get things to work internally, don't know who has what IP). In my experience dnsmasq is much better suited for this kind of setup: 1. install it (and get rid of bind and isc-dhcp-server) 2. list your hosts in /etc/hosts 3. configure the simplest DHCP network in /etc/dnsmasq.conf 4. Enjoy :) At step 3. you might need to set up static leases for your machines as well, but I'm not sure... Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Hi, Sorry for replying so late, but only last evening I had a chance to try it out. I removed both bind server and isc-dhcp-server and installed dnsmasq. It was very easy to setup. Thank you very much for the reply.
DHCP + DNS questions
Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for all clients I connect to them, except for one small detail: the dhcp server seems unable to add dns entries. (With other words, everyone gets an IP and internet, but I'm unable to get things to work internally, don't know who has what IP). This is my first setup of this kind on GNU Linux, so I'm sure I made mistakes on almost every step, so please bare with me on this. I have attached the config files, again, they only work separately (clients get IP, and DNS is getting resolved for clients, but I cannot ping a device.home.net for example). I have to mention that I've rewritten them many times upon trying and retrying different guides I found on the internet :(. The current config still works tho, for clients who don't need local DNS. My /var/log/syslog file, upon adding a new device to the network says: Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.55 for client 14:7d:c5:01:df:8c is duplicate on 192.168.1.0/24 Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: ns.home.net: temporary name server failure Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.53 from 14:7d:c5:01:df:8c via eth0 Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.53 to 14:7d:c5:01:df:8c via eth0 Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Unable to add forward map from workphone.home.net. to 192.168.1.53: not found Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file. Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file. Jun 24 23:59:25 debSRV dhcpd: Wrote 9 leases to leases file. Does anyone know what this means and/or how to solve it? Thank you in advance, Catalin db.192 Description: Binary data db.home.net Description: Binary data dpcpd.conf Description: Binary data named.conf.local Description: Binary data
Re: Debian disables IRQ, video performance goes down
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 04 iun 12, 14:10:30, Soare Catalin wrote: Could anyone please help, if you have any suggestions as to what I could try to fix this? We need more info to be able to help you. Start with the output of 'dmesg' and 'lspci -nn'. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Hello, Thank you for your reply, and I apologize for the long delay. However, there is a reason to this, in the end; the next day after having these problems, I went to reinstalling debian, and went back to Squeeze. The problems never reappeared... so when wanting to reply to this email, I realized I never saved any of the dmesg or lspci -nn outputs when I was having problems. Not sure if it's of any worth, but I uploaded the output of these commands after the reinstallation: http://pastebin.com/71qhMSug and http://pastebin.com/sVcNV357 Thanks again for replying. -- Regards, Catalin Soare -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caefylfa-uzbn9q1+jyegkeuwbowp5eqrp_w3u2onbvjde26...@mail.gmail.com
Debian disables IRQ, video performance goes down
Hi everyone, I have been experiencing an issue ever since I started using Debian (weird enough, never had this with Ubuntu): With Debian Squeeze and now, with Wheezy after a while of running the system I get a short beep from my internal speaker. If I happen to have a terminal window open, I get the following warnings: Message from syslogd@crysPC at [date and time] kernel: [ 910.692097] Disabling IRQ #17 Message from syslogd@crysPC at [date and time] kernel: [ 1328.168823] Disabling IRQ #16 dmesg explains a little bit: [ 910.691991] irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) [...] snipped [...] [ 910.692097] Disabling IRQ #17 [ 1328.168705] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) [...] snipped [...] [ 1328.168823] Disabling IRQ #16 In /proc/interrupts, I can see: 16: 200304 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi nouveau, eth0 17: 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci, snd_hda_intel Everytime this happens, video performance dies (If I have compiz enabled this used to make all animations very slow and poor performance, and now, with Gnome3, animations are also very slow). Also, typing appears to have some weird lag (USB keyboard). Unfortunately, this is as far as my hardware/Linux knowledge goes -- I really have no idea what is happening, or how to try and troubleshoot this. Could anyone please help, if you have any suggestions as to what I could try to fix this? Thank you in advance! -- Regards, *Catalin Soare lolinux.so...@gmail.com*
Re: how to practice.
On May 18, 2012 3:40 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 18/05/12 08:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward with the new goals. Thanks If you do things often enough, you remember the stuff you need to remember. And keep reading. You never know when you'll find something really useful or interesting. You can always write simple bash scripts in some work directory and comment them to remember what they do. And also, use the bash_history file, after you've set a larger limit to it. This is how I do. However, nothing beats practice -- find yourself a project and dive in after reading a bit. Good luck! I wish I was sysadminning a Linux environment :-(
Re: Bash script problem [OT?]
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote:
On 22/04/12 08:34, Cam Hutchison wrote:
Soare Catalinlolinux.soare@gmail.**com lolinux.so...@gmail.com
writes:
The script will take files or dirs as parameters and will back them up
in a
presefined location, using tar. Problems arise when it will encounter
files
or directories which contain spaces in their names.
then #is it an existing directory?
BK_LIST=$BK_LIST ${PARAM}
here...
else
if [ -f $PARAM ]; then #is it an existing file?
BK_LIST=$BK_LIST ${PARAM}
and here.
As you build up BK_LIST, you lose the ability to tell which spaces are
the ones you added, or were already in $PARAM. You end up treating all
spaces as word separators.
To fix this, you want to make BK_LIST an array:
BK_LIST=()
# or declare -a BK_LIST, but I prefer the former
Append to the array with +=
BK_LIST+=${PARAM}
Expand the array, preserving spaces:
tar -cjf $BK_FULLPATH ${BK_LIST[@]}
Or just quote the entries like
BK_LIST=$BK_LIST \${PARAM}\
(apologies if thi mail goes through twice, I got a bounce on my earlier
attempt)
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Thank you everyone for replying, but unfortunately, nothing seems to work
for the moment, although all the answers appear to make sense.
First, the array solution appears to work, but when tar gets all the
parameters, they become a long string without spaces :), obviously cannot
stat: No such file or directory.
I then tried to add a space char at the BK_LIST increment line, but that
didn't work. Enclosing them in quotes also failed.
Also tried Dom's suggestion (thank you Dom!) but then, tar won't be able to
stat any file! (and this I actually can't explain to myself why) :)
So again, thank you very much for your responses, but the only thing in my
mind for the moment is that I really have to go back to the abs-guide (or
perhaps find another one?) -- bottom line is that there's so many things
I've forgot/not used for anything else than to follow a tutorial...
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Regards,
*Catalin Soare lolinux.so...@gmail.com*
Bash script problem [OT?]
Hello fellow Linux supporters!
I apologise if this specific thread is off topic to this mailing list.
I've been having problems with a backup script and am not sure how to make
this work.
So far, Mr. Google hasn't helped me much -- maybe my search terms have been
as dumb as I'm feeling right now.
The script will take files or dirs as parameters and will back them up in a
presefined location, using tar. Problems arise when it will encounter files
or directories which contain spaces in their names.
Would anyone be kind enough to tell me where I went wrong with my approach?
Script is below:
#!/bin/bash
#Init stuff DATETIME=`date +%Y_%m_%d.%H_%M` BK_LOCATION=/mnt/work/backup/
BK_LIST=
#Test parameters. If dirs and files do exist, add them to a list # that
will be used as parameters for the tar command.
for PARAM in $@;
do
if [ -d $PARAM ];
then #is it an existing directory?
BK_LIST=$BK_LIST ${PARAM}
else
if [ -f $PARAM ]; then #is it an existing file?
BK_LIST=$BK_LIST ${PARAM}
fi
fi
done
if [ ! -n $BK_LIST ];
then
exit 0
else #this else branch exists for debugging purposes
echo You have chosen to backup: $BK_LIST
fi
BK_FULLPATH=${BK_LOCATION} BACKUP_${DATETIME}.tar.bz2
tar -cjf $BK_FULLPATH $BK_LIST
--Regards,
Sent from my Brick (TM)
Re: Happy Christmas
Thank you, Richard, I also want to thank everyone on this list, for asking questions I might have asked, and also for answering those questions. I really feel happy to be part of this community. Thank you, everyone no matter what timezone or religion! I wish you all a happy Christmas time! Sent from my Brick (TM) On Dec 25, 2011 1:53 AM, Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Hi A very happy Christmas to those that have helped me this year Thanks -- Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ## Ham Call G8JVM . OS Debian Wheezy/Sid amd64 on a Dual core AMD Athlon 5200, 4 GB RAM Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W ( degs mins ) QRV HF + VHF Microwave 23 cms:140W,13 cms:100W,6 cms:10W 3 cms:5W ## -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111224235323.7e93e...@g8jvm.com
