Re: How to debug a vnc issue in Debian 10?

[Yuwen Dai]

Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 09:40, Yuwen Dai  a écrit :

> Dear all,
>
> I setup a vnc server in Debian 10 and connect to the server by using vnc
> client,   the desktop shows, but I cannot launch any application.  There's
> no error message.   It looks like a privilege issue.  This is what I did:
>
>
> I found the applications do run,  but show up on the desktop of the host
> that vncserver runs!  Do you have any advice on what happened?
>
> Best regards,
Yuwen

How to debug a vnc issue in Debian 10?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I setup a vnc server in Debian 10 and connect to the server by using vnc
client,   the desktop shows, but I cannot launch any application.  There's
no error message.   It looks like a privilege issue.  This is what I did:

sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies gnome-icon-theme tightvncserver -y
vncpasswd
create my ./vnc/xstartup like this:

#! /bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session &

then run
 vncserver :1   -localhost no -verbose

in the client host, run
vncviewer :1

Are there any log files I can view to the debug this issue?   Thanks in
advance.

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: dictionnaire

[Yuwen Dai]

Bonjour Bernard,

Je trouve que je peux utiliser aspell-fr dans Emacs,  c'est plus facile que
dicollecte.  En effect,  je travaille quotidiennement avec Emacs.  Merci
quand même!

bonne journée
yuwen

Le 12 octobre 2017 à 10:55,  a écrit :

> bonjour,
>
> voici un autre lien : https://www.dicollecte.org/
>
> il serait sage de passer par autre chose que Gedit :
>
> Emacs
> Vim
>
> slt
> bernard
>

Re: "spelling check" pour le français

[Yuwen Dai]

Bonjour,

  J'ai supprimé myspell-fr et j'ai installé myspell-fr-gut,  "allez" n'est
plus une faute. Merci!

Bonne journée!
Yuwen

Le 12 octobre 2017 à 18:04, Sébastien NOBILI <sebnewslet...@free.fr> a
écrit :

> Bonjour,
>
> (note à l’attention de tous ceux qui ont gentiment dispensé leur leçon de
> Français : visiblement elle était inutile car Yuwen semble apte à apprendre
> notre langue sans nous, mais la réponse à sa question aurait peut-être été
> plus
> utile, ne pensez-vous pas ?)
>
> Le jeudi 12 octobre 2017 à 10:24, Yuwen Dai a écrit :
> > J'apprends le français récemment et J'ai installé myspell-fr pour
> "spelling
> > check" dans gedit.  Quand je fais "spelling check" sur mon texte,
> plusieurs
> > mots sont considérés invalides, tel que "j", "c", même "allez"!  Je
> > comprends que "j", "c" sont invalides parce que je utilise phrases
> > <<j'ai... c'est>>,ect.  Mais pourquoi "allez" est invalide?
> >
> > Est-ce que vous avez une idée? Merci d'avance pour votre aide!
>
> « j’ » et « c’ » ne devraient pas être considérés comme des fautes.
> Pourtant,
> c’est le cas (sur mon système aussi). Je pense donc que c’est un bug du
> correcteur orthographique.
>
> Sur mon système, « allez » n’est pas considéré comme une faute (c’est un
> mot
> valide). J’utilise les dictionnaires suivants :
>
> aptitude search '~ispell-fr'
> i   aspell-fr - Dictionnaire français pour aspell
> i   myspell-fr-gut - French dictionary for myspell (GUTenberg version)
>
> Sébastien
>
>

Re: "spelling check" pour le français

[Yuwen Dai]

Merci Patrice et bonne journée!

Le 12 octobre 2017 à 14:02, Patrice Constans <const...@univ-perp.fr> a
écrit :

> *Bonjour,*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *"allez" est le verbe "aller" conjugué au présent, à la deuxième personne
> du pluriel... je vais tu vas il va nous allons vous allez ils vont *
>
> *Exemple : les enfants, maintenant, vous allez à l'école*
>
> *Bon courage et bonne journée, Patrice.*
>
> Le 12/10/2017 à 05:14, Yuwen Dai a écrit :
>
> Merci Bernard, mais mon question est pourquoi "allez" est un invalide
> mot.  Vous n'avez pas le même problème?
>
> slt
> Yuwen
>
> Le 12 octobre 2017 à 10:35, <bernard.schoenac...@free.fr> a écrit :
>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *De: *"Yuwen Dai" <yuw...@gmail.com>
>> *À: *debian-user-french@lists.debian.org
>> *Envoyé: *Jeudi 12 Octobre 2017 04:24:18
>> *Objet: *"spelling check" pour le français
>>
>>
>> Bonjour!
>>
>> J'apprends le français récemment et J'ai installé myspell-fr pour
>> "spelling check" dans gedit.  Quand je fais "spelling check" sur mon texte,
>> plusieurs mots sont considérés invalides, tel que "j", "c", même "allez"!
>> Je comprends que "j", "c" sont invalides parce que je utilise phrases
>> <<j'ai... c'est>>,ect.  Mais pourquoi "allez" est invalide?
>>
>> Est-ce que vous avez une idée? Merci d'avance pour votre aide!
>> Yuwen
>>
>>
>> bonjour
>> voici ce qui est installé sur mon ordi :
>>
>> dpkg -l |awk '/spell/ {print $1 "  "$2  "  "$3}'
>>
>>
>> ii  aspell  0.60.7~20110707-4
>> ii  aspell-en  2017.08.24-0-0.1
>> ii  aspell-fr  0.50-3-8
>> ii  dictionaries-common  1.27.2
>> ii  enchant  1.6.0-11.1
>> ii  hunspell  1.6.2-1
>> ii  hunspell-en-us  20070829-7
>> ii  hunspell-fr  1:6.1-1
>> ii  hunspell-fr-classical  1:6.1-1
>> ii  ifrench-gut  1:1.0-32
>> ii  ispell  3.4.00-6
>> ii  libaspell15:amd64  0.60.7~20110707-4
>> ii  libenchant1c2a:amd64  1.6.0-11.1
>> ii  libgtkspell0  2.0.16-1.1
>> ii  libgtkspell3-3-0:amd64  3.0.9-1
>> ii  libgtkspellmm-3.0-0v5:amd64  3.0.5+dfsg-1
>> ii  libhfstospell9:amd64  0.4.5~r343-2.1
>> ii  libhunspell-1.4-0:amd64  1.4.1-2+b2
>> ii  libhunspell-1.6-0:amd64  1.6.2-1
>> ii  libkf5sonnet5-data  5.37.0-2
>> ii  libkf5sonnetcore5:amd64  5.37.0-2
>> ii  libkf5sonnetui5:amd64  5.37.0-2
>> ii  sonnet-plugins  5.37.0-2
>>
>> slt
>> bernard
>>
>
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Re: "spelling check" pour le français

[Yuwen Dai]

Merci Bernard, mais mon question est pourquoi "allez" est un invalide mot.
Vous n'avez pas le même problème?

slt
Yuwen

Le 12 octobre 2017 à 10:35, <bernard.schoenac...@free.fr> a écrit :

>
>
> ------
>
> *De: *"Yuwen Dai" <yuw...@gmail.com>
> *À: *debian-user-french@lists.debian.org
> *Envoyé: *Jeudi 12 Octobre 2017 04:24:18
> *Objet: *"spelling check" pour le français
>
>
> Bonjour!
>
> J'apprends le français récemment et J'ai installé myspell-fr pour
> "spelling check" dans gedit.  Quand je fais "spelling check" sur mon texte,
> plusieurs mots sont considérés invalides, tel que "j", "c", même "allez"!
> Je comprends que "j", "c" sont invalides parce que je utilise phrases
> <<j'ai... c'est>>,ect.  Mais pourquoi "allez" est invalide?
>
> Est-ce que vous avez une idée? Merci d'avance pour votre aide!
> Yuwen
>
>
> bonjour
> voici ce qui est installé sur mon ordi :
>
> dpkg -l |awk '/spell/ {print $1 "  "$2  "  "$3}'
>
>
> ii  aspell  0.60.7~20110707-4
> ii  aspell-en  2017.08.24-0-0.1
> ii  aspell-fr  0.50-3-8
> ii  dictionaries-common  1.27.2
> ii  enchant  1.6.0-11.1
> ii  hunspell  1.6.2-1
> ii  hunspell-en-us  20070829-7
> ii  hunspell-fr  1:6.1-1
> ii  hunspell-fr-classical  1:6.1-1
> ii  ifrench-gut  1:1.0-32
> ii  ispell  3.4.00-6
> ii  libaspell15:amd64  0.60.7~20110707-4
> ii  libenchant1c2a:amd64  1.6.0-11.1
> ii  libgtkspell0  2.0.16-1.1
> ii  libgtkspell3-3-0:amd64  3.0.9-1
> ii  libgtkspellmm-3.0-0v5:amd64  3.0.5+dfsg-1
> ii  libhfstospell9:amd64  0.4.5~r343-2.1
> ii  libhunspell-1.4-0:amd64  1.4.1-2+b2
> ii  libhunspell-1.6-0:amd64  1.6.2-1
> ii  libkf5sonnet5-data  5.37.0-2
> ii  libkf5sonnetcore5:amd64  5.37.0-2
> ii  libkf5sonnetui5:amd64  5.37.0-2
> ii  sonnet-plugins  5.37.0-2
>
> slt
> bernard
>

"spelling check" pour le français

[Yuwen Dai]

Bonjour!

J'apprends le français récemment et J'ai installé myspell-fr pour "spelling
check" dans gedit.  Quand je fais "spelling check" sur mon texte, plusieurs
mots sont considérés invalides, tel que "j", "c", même "allez"!  Je
comprends que "j", "c" sont invalides parce que je utilise phrases
<>,ect.  Mais pourquoi "allez" est invalide?

Est-ce que vous avez une idée? Merci d'avance pour votre aide!
Yuwen

chromium error: Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -8023

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I'm using Wheezy and chromium.  Chromium has been worked well until today.
When I run

chromium

from the shell,  i saw this message:

[31:31:1029/204029:ERROR:nss_util.cc(211)] Error initializing NSS without a
persistent database: NSS error code: -8023

and chromium cann't open any page.  The version of chromium is:
 chromium --version
Chromium 37.0.2062.120 Built on Debian 7.6, running on Debian 7.11

I also searched internet,  some people suggested

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nss/ /usr/lib/nss

I tried, it didn't work.   Any suggestion?  Thanks in advance.

Yuwen

Re: How to enable flash plugin in Chromium

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi Thank you very much!  It works.

2016-04-20 14:51 GMT+08:00 Markus Schönhaber <
debian-u...@list-post.mks-mail.de>:

> Yuwen Dai, Mi 20 Apr 2016 07:51:01 CEST:
>
> > I use the chromium browser in Debina 7(wheezy).  To enable Adobe Flash
> > plugin, I download the plugin for debian, and copy the
> "libflashplayer.so"
> > to ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions.  But flash is still disabled.
> > chrome://version shows flash is disable, and chrom://plugins shows
> there's
> > no flash plugin.  Any suggestion?   Thanks.
>
> Chromium doesn't support Netscape-style plugins anymore. Use pepper
> flash instead:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer/Installing
>
> --
> Regards
>   mks
>
>

How to enable flash plugin in Chromium

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I use the chromium browser in Debina 7(wheezy).  To enable Adobe Flash
plugin, I download the plugin for debian, and copy the "libflashplayer.so"
to ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions.  But flash is still disabled.
chrome://version shows flash is disable, and chrom://plugins shows there's
no flash plugin.  Any suggestion?   Thanks.

Yuwen

Re: How to disable UTC time?

[Yuwen Dai]

 I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get
 it...  but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock?

I did.  As I mentioned in the previous email, I set the BIOS clock as
UTC time and set my time zone as UTC+8, this works.  My machine also
has Windows, after I boot into Windows, I found the BIOS clock was
modified by Windows that set the clock time as local time, i.e. UTC+8,
after that  I boot into Linux, Linux thinks the BIOS clock is till
UTC, it add 8 hours again to get the local time,  so my clock is 8
hours ahead.   To get rid of the interference of Windows, I need to
disable UTC.

Best regards,
Yuwen


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Re: How to disable UTC time?

[Yuwen Dai]

On 7/9/13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
 On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 22:12 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
 Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com writes:

  Dear all,
 
  My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC
  time,
  so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct.
  I do
  these actions to disable UTC:
 
  1.  add UTC=no in /etc/init.d/rcS

 

 /etc/default/rcS
 _not_
 /etc/init.d/rcS


Sorry, my typo.  I also modify /etc/default/rcS in fact.

 *?*

  2. remove UTC , add LOCAL in /etc/adjtime
 
  Neither of the above works.  Yesterday  I set the BIOS clock as UTC
  time, then
  Linux added 8 hours to it, it's my local time which was correct.  But
  this
  morning, the system time in Linux is 8 hours ahead again.
 
  So how to disable UTC or set the correct clock?  I'm using Debian
  Wheezy.
 
  Best regards,
  Yuwen

 I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get
 it...  but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock?

 Then the OP would get the wrong time by the computer e.g. for software
 that does run without an OS, for saved BIOS settings.

 I use local time too and for Arch Linux ntpdate doesn't set the hardware
 clock anymore, so after running ntpdate I run hwclock on Arch, perhaps
 this now is needed for Debian too.

 My unused Debian install:

 [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/init.d/rcS
 #! /bin/sh
 #
 # rcS
 #
 # Call all S??* scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ in numerical/alphabetical order
 #

 [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ ls etc/rcS.d/
 README   S08hwclockfirst.shS35mountall.sh
 S45mountnfs.sh
 S00live-config   S10checkroot.sh   S36mountall-bootclean.sh
 S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh
 S02hostname.sh   S11hwclock.sh S36udev-mtab
 S47lm-sensors
 S02mountkernfs.shS12mtab.shS37mountoverflowtmp
 S48console-screen.sh
 S03udev  S18ifupdown-clean S38pppd-dns
 S49console-setup
 S04mountdevsubfs.sh  S20module-init-tools  S39ifupdown
 S50alsa-utils
 S05bootlogd  S30checkfs.sh S40networking
 S55bootmisc.sh
 S05keymap.sh S30procps S40pcmciautils
 S55urandom
 S06keyboard-setupS31hibernate  S43portmap
 S70x11-common
 S07hdparmS34fuse   S44nfs-common
 S99stop-bootlogd-single

 [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/adjtime
 0.002664 1363282063 0.00
 1363282063
 LOCAL

 [rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/default/rcS
 #
 # /etc/default/rcS
 #
 # Default settings for the scripts in /etc/rcS.d/
 #
 # For information about these variables see the rcS(5) manual page.
 #
 # This file belongs to the initscripts package.

 TMPTIME=0
 SULOGIN=no
 DELAYLOGIN=no
 UTC=no
 VERBOSE=no
 FSCKFIX=no
 RAMRUN=no
 RAMLOCK=no


The manual of rcS says UTC in rcS is not supported and suggests use
UTCor LOCAL in /etc/adjtime.  I tried both UTC=no in rcS and LOCAL in
/etc/adjtime,  no effect.  And /etc/adjtime seems a dynamically
created file.

Best regards,
Yuwen dai


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How to disable UTC time?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,


My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC
time, so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not
correct.  I do these actions to disable UTC:

1.  add UTC=no in /etc/init.d/rcS
2. remove UTC , add LOCAL in /etc/adjtime

Neither of the above works.  Yesterday  I set the BIOS clock as UTC time,
then Linux added 8 hours to it, it's my local time which was correct.  But
this morning, the system time in Linux is 8 hours ahead again.

So how to disable UTC or set the correct clock?  I'm using Debian Wheezy.

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

[Yuwen Dai]

 You imply the machine is still functioning and the OS is bootable, so
 d-i can be started up from this disk.

I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version,
 then
 I found the CD-ROM is broken,  it can not boot from the CD-ROM.  The old
 PC
   can not boot from USB disk either.  How to install the new Debian on
 the
 new hard disk?

 Please see Sections 4.4 and 5.1.4 of the Manual. You will probably want
 the hd-media images. Note that your Debian testing ISO can be put on a
 USB stick and is capable of being found and installed to the new disk.



Hi Brian,

I have hd-media installed successfully on the new hard disk.  I put
the ISO on the disk, the installer will scan the ISO file on the disk,
this is very convenient.  Thank you and other people!

Best regards,
Yuwen


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Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

[Yuwen Dai]

 You can get a HDD to USB adapter and attach the hard disk to a working
 PC, then use debootstrap to install debian onto that HDD (you will
 need to format it to your desire first).


Yes, I have another PC installed Debian and a HDD to USB adapter.


 If you aren't sure of what you're doing, this will be a steep learning
 curve, but is very doable. Just require a little persistence and may
 be a few tries before you get there...

 If the machine is too old, you will need an older Debian (for network
 and possibly other drivers) if those drivers are not available in most
 recent kernels.
 What CPU does this PC have? How much memory?
CPU is Pentium 4 with 256M memory.




 Once you've debootstrapped the HDD using a working PC, then you can
 plug it back in to the old PC.

I've used debootstrap before, merely installed a small debian in a
directory.  I want to boot from the new HDD, so I have to install
grub.  When and how to install grub?


Best regards,
Yuwen


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Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

[Yuwen Dai]

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


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How to install Debian in such a situation

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed.  Recently I found the hard
disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read
only.  I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then
I found the CD-ROM is broken,  it can not boot from the CD-ROM.  The old PC
  can not boot from USB disk either.  How to install the new Debian on the
new hard disk?

Best regards,
Yuwen

where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I downloaded the latest Wheezy AMD64 version DVD iso image, trying to
install it on a HP notebook with a RTL8169 NIC.  When the installer
detects network, it hangs.  I could switch to other ttys and open a
busybox  shell, but it's useless, the installation could not resume
any more.  I tried a Squeeze  DVD on the same notebook,  the DHCP
process appeared some difficult, I tried several times,  but at last,
it got IP address.  Where can I report this bug?

Best regards,
Yuwen


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Re: where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

[Yuwen Dai]

 Thank you for testing the early installer and then reporting problems
 with it.  The place to report those bugs is the installation-reports
 package.

   
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=installation-reports

 You would want to look over the bugs already filed there to see if one
 matches.  In particular there is a now known kernel bug which caused
 hangs at boot that was just this week closed.  If not then file your
 details there.

 I recommend that you try one of the very new daily built netinst
 images from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ to see if
 the latest is still a problem.

 Bob

Hi Bob,

Thank you for the links.  It appears that this is  a known bug:


#679795
Installation freezes when detecting network card Ralink corp. RT5390
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E

Best regards,
Yuwen


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which tftp server supports IPv6

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

Would you please recommend a tftp server that supports IPv6?  I read
several server's document, tftp, atftp, tftp-hpa, they don't mention
whether they support IPv6 and how to configure.

Best regards,
Yuwen

How to drop a specific TCP segment in iptables?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I'm simulating an network environment that some TCP segments are
missing. So I want to use iptables to drop these segments. How to
write a rule to drop a segment with a specific sequence number from a
host?

Best regards,
Yuwen


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Re: audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

[Yuwen Dai]

Hello Liam,

I got little information about HDMI on an E6400. I saw a person using HDMI
and sound on an E6500 successfully, and the sound card is not IDT 92HD71B.

Best regards,
Yuwen

audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I have a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, which has a Displayport.  I tried to
connect the laptop with a Sony TV with a HDMI port. So I bought a
Displayport-HDMI converter from Dell.  When I play a movie using mplayer,
the video is OK on TV, but without sound on TV.  The sound is still played
by the Laptop.   I doubt the sound card driver doesn't support HDMI, this is
the result of `aplay -l':
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

This is the result of `aplay -L':
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

It seems no digit device.  I tried both in Debian stable and testing.  The
version of kernel in testing is 2.6.38, alsa is 1.0.23.  Any suggestion?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: How to disable (or change) the logout sound in gnome/GDM?

[Yuwen Dai]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote:

 On 2011-03-28 09:58:57 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:
  The logout sound is a very ugly beep.  I can change the login sound in
  gdm.conf but can not find where the logout sound setting is.  I also put
  pcspkr module in the blacklist, no effect.

 Various solutions (the first one works on some machines, but not
 everywhere, and I don't know why):

 1. xset -b in your .xsession or whatever is run (this will disable
   the beep also in other applications, which is fine, IMHO).


Hi Vincent,

xset -b  works.  Thanks.



 2. With gdm, set SoundOnLogin=false in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf.


I've already set this, this is no effect.  In fact, the beep only occurs
when I shutdown the computer in gnome.  It doesn't beep when I login or
logout.



 3. With gdm3, the /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults config file can be
   changed to have:

   /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds   false



I don't use gdm3.

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How to disable (or change) the logout sound in gnome/GDM?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

The logout sound is a very ugly beep.  I can change the login sound in
gdm.conf but can not find where the logout sound setting is.  I also put
pcspkr module in the blacklist, no effect.

Best regards,
Yuwen

please help me write a udev rule

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk:

echo 1024   /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors

however, the disk is not always `sdb'.  Can I write a udev rule according to
the UUID of the disk?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: please help me write a udev rule

[Yuwen Dai]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote:


 On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote:

  Dear all,
 
  I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk:
 
  echo 1024   /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors
 
  however, the disk is not always `sdb'.  Can I write a udev rule according
 to the UUID of the disk?

 Do you mean a specific USB drive you have, or any time a USB drive is
 plugged in?


A specific USB disk on which read speed is very low.  Thanks.

Best regards,
Yuwen





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Re: How long has your Lenny - Squeeze upgrade taken?

[Yuwen Dai]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote:

 Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of
 the people on this list have experienced for how much time it took to do the
 Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully up-to-date Lenny system).


I downloaded the first DVD of Squeeze and set the deb-cdrom as the only
entry in source.list to prevent the installation downloading package from
network.  Then I upgraded my system according to chapter4 of the release
notes.  It took about 3-4 hours to upgrade my system(include
download/installing Nvidia video driver) . After the basic system was
installed, I added other entries (security, multimedia, etc) in source.list
and did a dist-upgrade again.  The whole process was quite smooth and I'm
satisfied.

Best regards,
Yuwen




 Thanks,
 Mark

E-business and Linux

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I just can not completely abandon Windows, for all the E-business related
software are for Windows or IE in my country, for example, the security
plug-ins released by banks in China. I don't understand why they don't
develop plug-ins for Linux and Firefox.  I'm just curious, how is your
situation?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: [OT] Re: E-business and Linux

[Yuwen Dai]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:13:14 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:

  I just can not completely abandon Windows, for all the E-business
  related software are for Windows or IE in my country, for example, the
  security plug-ins released by banks in China. I don't understand why
  they don't develop plug-ins for Linux and Firefox.  I'm just curious,
  how is your situation?

 The situation is the same in all countries, I (sadly) guess, but not only
 at banks but for many companies (i.e., my ISP web pages are very
 difficult to follow with Firefox/Iceweasel and I'm talking here of one of
 the bigger telecom companies in the worldwide market -Telefonica-) :-(

 Companies only put money (aka, provide open tools and develop standard
 applications) when they know they are going to get any gain and most of
 their users are using windows/explorer binomial, so (sigh) why they
 should care? ;-/


If some ordinary web pages are not Linux/firefox friendly, I can give it
up.   But I have to do E-trade via internet, at that time, I have to switch
to Windows, where there're some security software released by banks and
E-trade companies.  In fact, I feel very unsafe doing these thing in Windows
:-(


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Re: E-business and Linux

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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:

 Dne, 28. 12. 2010 09:13:14 je Yuwen Dai napisal(a):

  Dear all,

 I just can not completely abandon Windows, for all the E-business related
 software are for Windows or IE in my country, for example, the security
 plug-ins released by banks in China. I don't understand why they don't
 develop plug-ins for Linux and Firefox.  I'm just curious, how is your
 situation?


 Hasn't that Chinese linux distribution -- Red Flag Linux or what it's
 called -- changed anything? I think that China is just too huge not to
 abandon proprietary software (be it legal or pirated) eventually. I'm
 actually hoping that China and Russia (and perhaps India) may soon become
 the driving forces of worldwide Linux domination ;)

 Linux still has very little influence in non-tech users in China, compared
to the huge amount number of Windows users.  People just get used to
Windows.  And there're something that force you live in Windows,  like the
bank-provided software, or software the users favor.

Best regards,
Yuwen




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Re: [OT] Re: E-business and Linux

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote:

 2010/12/29 francis southern francis.south...@gmail.com:
  On 28 December 2010 20:23, John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote:
  Yuwen Dai writes:
  The situation is the same in all countries...
 
  I get along fine using only Debian here in the USA.
  --
  John Hasler
 
 
  Actually, Camaleón said that, not Yuwen Dai.  You should be careful
  with your quoting!
 
  And, I've had no trouble in Mexico or the UK using only GNU/Linux, but
  I haven't done any electronic banking or anything like that (Except
  Paypal).

 No problems *) with banking on Finland, using only Linux or Mac


That's great.  Will the bank ask you to install any software developed for
Linux?

Best regards,
Yuwen


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compare two directory trees

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I burn DVD/CDs from ISO files.  In order to verify the burning is correct,
I wrote a script working like this:
1. mount the DVD and ISO files onto two mount points
2. calculate every file's md5sum in each directory, and save and sort them
in two separate files
3. compare the above two files.

The above method does work, but too time consuming because of the md5sum
calculating.  Do you have any suggestion to improve the efficiency?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

[Yuwen Dai]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote:

 Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/23/2010 11:59 PM:
  On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com
 wrote:

  CRC errors indicate a transmission problem on the interface conductors.
   Whether the problem is either of the two things I mention above, you
  definitely have a problem with the interface between the drive and the
  SATA controller.
 
  Hi Stan,
 
  Thank you for your help!

 You're welcome.  Hope you can get it fixed without it costing much.


Dear all,

Dell has changed a hard disk for me.  Now both the reallocate sectors  and
CRC error number are zero.  I'll continue observe the status of the hard
disk.

Best regards,
Yuwen




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Re: Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

[Yuwen Dai]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote:

 Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/21/2010 11:44 PM:
  Dear all,
 
  My Debian Lenny constantly reports disk I/O error on block xxx when
  booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. I'd
  formated the partition but the problem still occurs.  The hardware is an
  Dell E6400 which has a Diagnostic tool.  I'd run the tool, but it said
  there's no error on the hard disk.  The Dell tech support says if the
  diagnostic tool doesn't report error, that means hard disk is OK.  So I
 have
  no proof that it's a hardware problem.  But the Linux filesystem(ext3)
 keeps
  corrupt, which is terrible.  Do you have any suggestion?

 The output from

 ~# smartctl -a /dev/sdX

 would be helpful.

 Hi stan,

The output of smartctl -a /dev/sda is:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: TOSHIBA MK2556GSYF
Serial Number:409JT12DT
Firmware Version: LJ001D
User Capacity:250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is:Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:Tue Nov 23 09:38:41 2010 CST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
...

...
 Error 472 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1512 hours (63 days + 0
hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or
idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  40 41 02 ea d5 8b 40

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --    
  60 08 00 ea d5 8b 40 00  00:27:35.521  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00  00:27:35.518  READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
  ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00  00:27:35.517  IDENTIFY DEVICE
  ef 03 45 00 00 00 a0 00  00:27:35.517  SET FEATURES [Set transfer
mode]
  27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00  00:27:35.517  READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

Error 471 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1512 hours (63 days + 0 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or
idle.
...

Is this meaningful?

Best regards,
Yuwen



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Re: Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote:

 Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/22/2010 7:46 PM:
  On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com
 wrote:

  The output from
 
  ~# smartctl -a /dev/sdX
 
  would be helpful.

  The output of smartctl -a /dev/sda is:

 snip

  Is this meaningful?

 Actually I was looking for something like this, which should have been
 in your output:

 http://www.hardwarefreak.com/smart.txt

 This is my output:
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 128
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE  UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b   100   100   050Pre-fail
Always   -   0
  3 Spin_Up_Time0x0027   100   100   001Pre-fail
Always   -   1282
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050Pre-fail
Always   -   35
  9 Power_On_Hours  0x0032   097   097   000Old_age
Always   -   93005
 12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   350
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate  0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   595
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   14
193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   1466
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   45 (Lifetime Min/Max 18/46)
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   6581349
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   15242478
240 Head_Flying_Hours   0x0032   097   097   000Old_age
Always   -   88491
241 Unknown_Attribute   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   79453281038
242 Unknown_Attribute   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   97697694364
254 Unknown_Attribute   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   0

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
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Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

My Debian Lenny constantly reports disk I/O error on block xxx when
booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. I'd
formated the partition but the problem still occurs.  The hardware is an
Dell E6400 which has a Diagnostic tool.  I'd run the tool, but it said
there's no error on the hard disk.  The Dell tech support says if the
diagnostic tool doesn't report error, that means hard disk is OK.  So I have
no proof that it's a hardware problem.  But the Linux filesystem(ext3) keeps
corrupt, which is terrible.  Do you have any suggestion?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: how to install debian on a external USB disk

[Yuwen Dai]

I run with 2 external USB disks and have for years. Most of the time my root
partition is on an USB disk.


 D-i is straight forward, just select the USB disk. Instead of grub I prefer
 to run with SuperGrubDisk because that allows you to search for the right
 partition and fill in what the rootdevice is. Otherwise you are always
 messing around with what the disk number is. Because that changes.

 Pro: much easier to change the disk.
 Con: slower than an interior disk. Except when you can use the SATA cable
 on the exterior disk, but I have trouble with my mobo on that.


I've successfully installed Debian Squeeze on an external USB disk.  At
first grub was incorrectly installed on the internal disk, which caused the
system unbootalbe.  Then I used the install disk as a rescue and fixed the
issue.  Thank you all!

Best regards,
Yuwen

how to install debian on a external USB disk

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I've been using Debian stable for years.  Now I'd like to try Debian
unstable or test on  an external USB disk without modifying anything on my
current disk, including partition as well as grub. Would you please give me
any guides on this?  Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: how to install debian on a external USB disk

[Yuwen Dai]

 You should proceed as usual (using expert installer). Installer will
 detect USB disk and then you can make partitions at your wish. Just
 remember to install GRUB in MBR of the USB disk.

 If it fails at installing GRUB, do not worry, select no boot loader to
 install, end Debian installation and afterwards you can install GRUB
 using SGD (SuperGrubDisk).

 As an alternative (and for software testing purposes) you could install a
 virtual machine for Squeeze/Sid.


In theory, I guess USB driver modules should be built in Linux kernel or in
a ramdisk, otherwise kernel can not recognize USB disks, right?

Best regards,
Yuwen



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Re: Does Pidgin support audio and video?

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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:19:57 +0800
 Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com wrote:

  Dear all,
 
  Do you know if Pidgin supports audio and video?  If it does, from what
  version?  I use Pidgin 2.6.6 on Debian Lenny and find no audio or video
  settings.


 http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#VoiceandVideoMicrophoneandWebcamSupport


I understand.  Pidgin supports multiple protocols.  When I check if Pidgin
supports video or audio, I shall ask which protocol I use.

Best regards,
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Does Pidgin support audio and video?

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Dear all,

Do you know if Pidgin supports audio and video?  If it does, from what
version?  I use Pidgin 2.6.6 on Debian Lenny and find no audio or video
settings.

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: how to improve the quality of DVD created by qdvdauthor

[Yuwen Dai]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:

 Dne, 25. 10. 2010 02:47:43 je Yuwen Dai napisal(a):


  I use mpeg2 files as source to create a DVD.  The Resolution of the mpeg2
 is
 720x576 and clear, but the result is blurer although its resolution is
 720x576 too.  When I play the DVD, I can see obvious mosaics.   Did I
 misconfigure anything? I use qdvdauthor 2.0100 and the host is Debian
 Lenny.  Any suggestion will be appreciated.


 As you certainly know, re-encoding compressed formats may be extremely
 lossy; so, the first thing to do would be to double-check that your mpegs
 just get *copied* over to the DVD, and not *re-encoded*. I'm not acquainted
 with the qdvdauthor suite, so can't advise you on the precise steps to take
 to ensure that there's no re-encoding going on.


Hello Klistvud,

Your suggestion is helpful.  I generated the mpeg2 files in Kino.  There're
two file formats available when generating: generic mpeg2 and DVD.  It's the
generic mpeg2 format that causes QDvdauthor re-encode the files.  After I
use DVD format, QDvdauthor will not re-encode them and the quality of DVD is
satisfying.

Best regards,
Yuwen


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Re: how to improve the quality of DVD created by qdvdauthor

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 As you certainly know, re-encoding compressed formats may be extremely
 lossy; so, the first thing to do would be to double-check that your mpegs
 just get *copied* over to the DVD, and not *re-encoded*. I'm not acquainted
 with the qdvdauthor suite, so can't advise you on the precise steps to take
 to ensure that there's no re-encoding going on.


Hi Klistvud,

Thank you for your suggestion, I'll check that again.

Best regards,
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how to improve the quality of DVD created by qdvdauthor

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

Have you ever used Qdvdauthor to create DVDs?
I use mpeg2 files as source to create a DVD.  The Resolution of the mpeg2 is
720x576 and clear, but the result is blurer although its resolution is
720x576 too.  When I play the DVD, I can see obvious mosaics.   Did I
misconfigure anything? I use qdvdauthor 2.0100 and the host is Debian
Lenny.  Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Best regards,
Yuwen

mount a UDF image on a loop device

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I want to mount a iso image whose filesystem is UDF on a loop device:

sudo mount -o loop -t udf  file.iso  /tmp/image

there's no error from the above command line and `mount' shows the image has
been mounted:

file.iso on /tmp/image type udf (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)

But /tmp/image is empty.  I can mount it with iso9660, which is not what I
want, for the long path name is truncated in the mount point.

I use Debian Lenny.  Any idea for this issue?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

[Yuwen Dai]

 What instant messaging service are you trying to connect to?


I use MSN.  I'd been using Gaim OK in Debian Etch before December.  Do this
mean Microsoft suddenly changed MSN protocol recently?

Best regards,
Yuwen




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gaim and pidgin connection problem

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I have Gaim connecting problem since the beginning of December. I use Gaim
in Debian Etch.  I also tried Pidgin in Debian Lenny, could not connecting
either.  I didn't change any configuration in Gaim.  Do you have any
suggestion?

Best regards,
Yuwen Dai

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

[Yuwen Dai]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kun Niu haoniu...@gmail.com wrote:

 I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint from the output
 of the pidgin debug output window?


The error message is : Our protocol is not supported by the server.

The version of pidgin is 2.4.3.

Best regards,
Yuwen

gnome-screensaver slideshow

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I'd like to slideshow some pictures when gnome-screensaver is invoked.
There is a picture fold in gnome-screen-preferences.  However, there' no
settings for this fold.  Do you know where the picture fold is?

I use Debian etch, gnome 2.14.3.

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon

[Yuwen Dai]

man start-stop-daemon: Any arguments given after -- on the command line
are passed unmodified to the program being started.



I mean the environment variables that will be recognized by the invoked
daemon.  I have solved this by adding NAME=xxx pairs preceding
start-stop-daemon:

VAR1=xxx VAR2=xxx VAR3=xxx  start-stop-daemon ...

Adding variables in /etc/default/@DAEMON@ can not solve my issue.

Best regards,
Yuwen


Cheers,

Simon

start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

A daemon invoked by start-stop-daemon needs some extra enviroment
variables.  How to pass them to the daemon?  Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Yuwen

how to set environment variables in init.d/ scripts

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I installed distcc. Distcc is invoked by a script in init.d.  In order to
use a cross compiler, the distcc needs to know the path of the cross
compiler and other environment variable. I put lines like:

export VAR=xxx

in the script.  Seems no effect.  What's the correct method?

Best regards,
Yuwen

depmod in Debian doesn't support compressed module?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,


When I use Live-CD, I found depmod didn't support compressed module so that
the modules.dep was empty. I search the web, finding there's an 
--enable-zlib option for module-init-tools.  Why Debian didn't enable
this?  Or can I build my own version of module-init-tools?  Thanks in
advance.

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: Intel pro100 NIC problem in Etch

[Yuwen Dai]

On 6/19/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Yuwen Dai([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
 Dear all,

 I have a Intel pro100 network card in my PC.  The system loads kernel
module
 `e100' automatically when booting.  But ifconfig eth0 up failed. If I
 manually load `eepro100', ifconfig also failed.  This is some output:

 # modprobe eepro100
 PCI: Enabling device :02:02.0 (0110 - 0113)
 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:02.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 185
 eth0: :02:02.0, 00:0E:0C:5E:4B:06, IRQ 185.
  Board assembly 741462-017, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).

If you try 'ifup eth1' or 2,3,4 and it comes up then



Hi Wayne,

Yes. `ifconfig eth1' brings up the network.


Take a look at

/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules:

I had this occur on a laptop.  My net_rules file had a bunch of
eth lines and my eth1 cane up when I did 'ifup eth6.  Removed all of
the eth rules except eth0 and all was well again.



There's another rule with a different MAC address in this file.  This
reminds me that I once used another 3com NIC in the PC.  So udev remembers
this.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Yuwen



:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)


Wayne

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Intel pro100 NIC problem in Etch

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I have a Intel pro100 network card in my PC.  The system loads kernel module
`e100' automatically when booting.  But ifconfig eth0 up failed. If I
manually load `eepro100', ifconfig also failed.  This is some output:

# modprobe eepro100
PCI: Enabling device :02:02.0 (0110 - 0113)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:02.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 185
eth0: :02:02.0, 00:0E:0C:5E:4B:06, IRQ 185.
 Board assembly 741462-017, Physical connectors present: RJ45
 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
 General self-test: passed.
 Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
 Internal registers self-test: passed.
 ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).

# ifconfig eth0 up
eth0: ERRor while getting interface flags: No such device

# cat /proc/interrupts
  CPU0
 0: 692389IO-APIC-edge  timer
 1:   1242IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 6:  5IO-APIC-edge  floppy
 7:  0IO-APIC-edge  parport0
 8:  1IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 9:  1   IO-APIC-level  acpi
14:   4184IO-APIC-edge  ide0
15:  24753IO-APIC-edge  ide1
169:272   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]::01:00.0
177:  0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb2
185:  0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb3
193:  0   IO-APIC-level  ehci_hcd:usb4
201:  0   IO-APIC-level  Intel 82801DB-ICH4
NMI:  0
LOC: 692339
ERR:  0
MIS:  0

It seems there's IRQ conflict (IRQ 185).  However, I use a SLAX live CD to
boot the same machine, the NIC works well.

My environment:
Debian Etch:  kernel 2.6.18-4-686
a Dell Pentium 4 PC

Any direction will be appreciated.

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

[Yuwen Dai]

I don't know: it just works.  As long as you have the lvm2 package
installed
and the initrd package was created after the lvm2 package was installed,
it
should just work.



Hi Stefan,

After I changed root device to /dev/mapper/volume-root,  Linux boots
successfully.  And I didn't make anything special for LVM when creating
initramfs. Thank you very much.



   Stefan

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

[Yuwen Dai]

 I setup /boot as a seperate disk parition.  The rest is for LVM.
 /dev/volume/root is OK when I use a rescue CDRom.  And I re-build the
 initrd, adding all dm-* modules to the initrd.  Any suggestion?

Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead.
I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using
/dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though
once the boot is over, /dev/Debian/root can be used just fine, it looks
like the alternate name is constructed later).



Hi Stefan,

Would you please tell me how to create a initrd with LVM support in Debian?
I used the initramfs tool.  Thank you very much!

Best regards,
yuwen




   Stefan



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grub and rootfs as LVM

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I setup my rootfs as an LVM, the menu.lst of grub looks like this;

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-386
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/volume/root ro
initrd  /my_init
savedefault

Error happens when the kernel tried to mount the root filesystem:
The error message is Waiting for root file system...
yuwen check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices; cat
/proc/modules ls /dev/

I setup /boot as a seperate disk parition.  The rest is for LVM.
/dev/volume/root is OK when I use a rescue CDRom.  And I re-build the
initrd, adding all dm-* modules to the initrd.  Any suggestion?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: Who will do `depmod -a' in Etch?

[Yuwen Dai]

I might not know what I'm talking about here, but you might take a
look at the postinst scripts of the linux-image-* packages.  They run
depmod for you after the kernel package is installed.

Do other distros run depmod at every boot?



I understand.  In order to speed up the boot, depmod is executed only once.

Best regards,
Yuwen



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Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

[Yuwen Dai]

Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead.
I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using
/dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though
once the boot is over, /dev/Debian/root can be used just fine, it looks
like the alternate name is constructed later).



I  fell into a busybox command. There's no dirs in /dev/mapper, only
control:

ls /dev/mapper
control

What is control?

Best regards,
Yuwen



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Who will do `depmod -a' in Etch?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I found there's no script generating modules.dep in /etc/init.d of Etch.
# cd /etc/init.d
# grep depmod *
modutuils:[ -e /sbin/depmod ] || exit 0

No scripts execute /sbin/depmod.  Any idea?

Best regards,
Yuwen

Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch.  Is there any technical
obstacle for emacs's upgrading?

Best regards,
Yuwen

where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was
officially released.  Where can I find the old sarge repository?

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

[Yuwen Dai]

 The expected file /tmp/November didn't create.

Maybe Procmail won't deliver in /tmp because everybody
can read and write there.
Maybe ^Received: .*;.*Nov 2006
doesn't match anything in the mail.
Test that with egrep.



Now I change the rcfile as:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat rcfile
:0:
* ^Received: .* Dec 2006
/home/yuwen/December

:0:
/dev/null

and the command
$ egrep ^Received: .* Dec 2006 Inbox

have output.

Now I move both Inbox and the expected result to my home dir. But command

$ formail -s  Inbox |procmail /home/yuwen/rcfile

still didn't create /home/yuwen/December.


A very large file in
 /var/mail was created instead. Any idea?

That would be the default delivery.
Your procmail file should end with this

:0
/dev/null

to prevent that.



yes, there's no big /var/maile/$LOGNAME now.

Best regards,
Yuwen


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how to use font in convert(imagemagick)?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I want to use the '-font' option of convert to annotate images.  I'm not
sure if convert can deal with locales other than iso-8859, and what's the
syntax of the font name? Will an X font name like -
misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0 be accepted? In
the example of convert manual, there's only short alias font names.

best regards,
Dai Yuwen

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

[Yuwen Dai]

$ formail -s  mboxfile | procmail recipefile

recipefile looks like this:

  :0:
  * ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Dec 2006
  /home/me/December

  :0:
  * ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Nov 2006
  /home/me/November



Hello Cameron,

I created a similiar rc file like this:

:0:
* ^Received: .*;.*Nov 2006
/tmp/November

The expected file /tmp/November didn't create.  A very large file in
/var/mail was created instead. Any idea?

Best regards,
Yuwen

thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the backup
quick in thunderbird if need.  What's your suggestion?

I once backuped the whole inbox on a CD-ROM, and set the local directory
on the mount point of CD-ROM, failed. It seems the directories must be
writable.

I also tried to create another `local folders' account, failed too.
Thunderbird doesn't permit doing that.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

[Yuwen Dai]

apt-cache search archive mail|sort brings up, among other things:
archivemail - archive and compress your old email
archmbox - a simple email archiver written in perl




These utilities are OK.  But I think the point is, it's difficult to restore
and read them back in thundbird.

Re: growisofs: how to write iso files

[Yuwen Dai]

hm. are you sure you haven't inserted a space between /dev/dvd and the
'=' symbol? That is weird as I've used that very command many
times. Has this worked in the past for you and recently changed?

One more question, does /dev/dvd exist? and what does it point to?



The device is /dev/scd0. I once inserted a CD-RW disk into the tray,
however, I can not re-produce this problem now.  Thank you anyway.

growisofs: how to write iso files

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

The manual of growisofs says the following line can write a iso file to a
DVD:

 growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

when I ran such command, there's error mesage mkisofs doesn't recognize =
option, aborting. Which one's problem, growisofs or mkisofs? I use Debian
etch, growisofs is 7.0.1, mkiso is 2.01.01a05+ck1, cdrkit edition (linux).

Best regards,
Yuwen

Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN

[Yuwen Dai]

On 12/20/06, David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I've been using CVS (and RCS before it) for several years new.  I've
also looked at switched to SVN, but seem to recall that there was an SVN
feature whereby SVN applied to same version number to all files in the
project (repository?) whenever you checked something in.  I prefer a
more traditional scheme whereby version numbers are managed on a
per-file basis, and only change when the file changes.  Did I
misunderstand something?


I also need CVS's ability to deal with line endings, because I move text
files, source code, etc., between Windows/Cygwin and Linux for
development, testing, and use.  Can SVN deal with the various line
endings automatically like CVS?



I remember there's a such feature in SVN to switch CRLF between OSes. And
SVN can also take symbolic links that's a nice feature.

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why some packages are kept back?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I'm using Debian Sarge. When I ran apt-gete upgrade, this message shows:

 ~# apt-get upgrade
 Reading Package Lists... Done
 Building Dependency Tree... Done
 The following packages have been kept back:
   ffmpeg libmjpegtools0 mjpegtools mplayer-586 thunderbird
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.


Why?  What should I do?

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Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi RLH,

I think it's normal as .bash_profile is only for login shell.  When you open
a X terminal, it won't be read.  You can put your path info in .bashrc.

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Re: Boot Debian from USB disk

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi Hugo,

Have  you included USB drivers in your initrd?

regards,
Yuwen

using bootchart

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found
S40hotplug took nearly 15 seconds.  S40hotplug calls {pci,usb,isapnp}.rc,
and installing some modules.  Is there any way to reduce this time? Thanks
in advance.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

no bold font in X

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

I found there're no bold fonts in someplace where they should appear.  For
example, the gmail, the new arrived emails use bold font.  Should I install
anything or do configuration?  My system is Debian Sarge.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

Re: using bootchart

[Yuwen Dai]

On 12/6/06, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:34:09AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:
 Dear all,

 When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found
 S40hotplug took nearly 15 seconds.  S40hotplug calls
{pci,usb,isapnp}.rc,
 and installing some modules.  Is there any way to reduce this time?
Thanks
 in advance.

Upgrade to Etch.

My amd64 Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, dual 80 GB SATA drives
raid1/lvm/JFS, goes from grub to login in 20 seconds.



It's realy fast.  Have you optimize the boot process?

Etch doesn't use hotplug.  It _must_ use udev.


How long does your boot sequence take total and on what hardware?



My computer is a Dell D600 laptop, with Intel pentium M processor 1.6Ghz,
1GB memory, 60GB ata hard disk.

The total time from init to gdm is 58 seconds.

Yuwen




Doug.



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LCD screen resolution and projector

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,

My resolution of LCD is 1024x768.  When connecting to most projectors, the
resolution produced by projectors is 800x600, my comupter still keeps
1024x768.  The graphics card is ATI, driver is raedon.  If I use vesa
driver, the resolution will be 1024x768, but only the project or LCD will
show at a time.

I'm using Debian Sarge.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

Re: LCD screen resolution and projector

[Yuwen Dai]

On 12/5/06, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:58:44AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:


What happens from within X if you use C-A-KPminus to reduce resolution?



The LCD resolution will be change, but the MAX projector produces is
800x600.  I also used C-A-backspace to re-start X server,  according to some
online document, but in vain.

Yuwen


Doug.



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why X insist on using vesa driver?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,I have two computers installed Debian sarge. One uses ATI readon 9000 and the other uses nvidia. I uses dpkg-reconfigre xserver-xfree86 to configure X, then I found in XF86Config-4 vesa is used:Section Device
 Identifier Generic Video Card Driver vesa Option VBERestore trueEndSectionWhy?Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

Re: invoke thunderbird and firefox when gnome starts

[Yuwen Dai]

You can try starting gnome-settings-manager before firefox andthunderbird (or was it gnome-settings-daemon? I don't remember, but I'm
sure that you can see which one exists on your system), which doesthings like load font configuration for apps if its started.You can also add firefox and thunderbird to the session, there is a
session manager somewhere in the menues in gnome, which has a tab whereyou can add auto-starting apps.On my gnome desktop, the session manager comes up from theDesktop-Preferences-Sessions.The Startup Programs Tab might be
what you're looking for.Cheers.Thanks. Both of you are correct. Desktop-Preferences-Sessions will run gnome-session-properties. I add thunderbird to it so that fonts settings are satisfying.
Best regards,Dai Yuwen--SincerelyJose Alburquerque

Re: esound locking sound

[Yuwen Dai]

Esound grabs /dev/dsp to manage it, so you can hear sounds fromdifferent apps concurrently.For example, hear warning or alert sounds
while playing mp3s or videos.On sarge, for ogg123, you'll need to put this in/etc/libao.conf or~/.libao:default_driver=esdThat works for me.See man libao.conf .I wouldn't know about the games.For xmms, Options - preferences,
eSound.For mplayer, ~/.mplayer/config , add:ao=esd .For flash, I needed to add this link:sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.1I never found this info in one place!Hope this is helpful.
Yes. Some sound applications have options to use esd, i.e., mplayer. Some don't have. In such case, you have to kill the esd. That's life :-)Dai Yuwen
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invoke thunderbird and firefox when gnome starts

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,In order not to invoke thunderbird and firefox manually when gnome starts, I tried to save the current settings when I log out. But gnome says it can not save thunderbird and firefox settings.I also tried to start thunderbird and firefox in .xsession:
...# thunderbird and firefoxthunderbird firefox exec gnome-sessionThat's OK. But since thunderbird starts before gnome, the fonts in thunderbird is ugly. Is there any way to start thunderbird after gnome?
Best regards,Dai Yuwen

Re: copy debian form vmware to real pc

[Yuwen Dai]

On 9/8/06, Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to copy the debian system form a vmware toreal pc! what should be done to make the copyed system work?My suggestion:1. boot the vmware using a Ghost CD-ROM, backup the partitions of Linux. Then restore it to a real Linux.
2. Usd 'dd' or 'tar' comand backup the partition by yourself, then restore them to a real Linux.Best regards,Dai
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mkisofs: how to specify the volume name?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,How to specify the volume name with mkisofs? The manual says -V is the option. But I can only see the volume name when I mount it in GNOME. Users uses Windows can not see the volume name. 
Best regards,Dai Yuwen

specify the application to open files in Midnight Command?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,I want xpdf instead of gpdf open pdf files in mc. How to do this?Best regards,Dai Yuwen

Re: specify the application to open files in Midnight Command?

[Yuwen Dai]

On 8/4/06, ra1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:14:21PM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:I want xpdf instead of gpdf open pdf files in mc. How to do this?Best regards,You can specify that in /etc/mc/mc.ext
Thanks. I also find another way: add my own .mailcap if mc uses run-mailcap in the extensions file.Best regards,Dai Yuwen
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Re: how to set firefox default browser in gnome

[Yuwen Dai]

 2. in thunderbird, when I click a URL, it still opens epiphany.user_pref(
network.protocol-handler.app.http, /usr/bin/firefox);user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.https, /usr/bin/firefox);place this lines in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/__your_profile__/prefs.js
Thanks. This works.Dai 

how to set firefox default browser in gnome

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,What's the correct way to set firefox default browser in gnome? There're several places you can click a link:1. in Emacs wiki mode. I add these these lines in ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote:[Mozilla]
filename=firefoxNEEDS_TERM=falseNREMOTE=tureso the default browser is firefox.2. in thunderbird, when I click a URL, it still opens epiphany.3. in command line of gnome-terminal, it also opens epiphany.
I used update-alternatives --config x-www-browserto set firefox as the default browser, but still can not solve 2 and 3.Best regards,Dai Yuwen

screen capture tools on Linux?

[Yuwen Dai]

Dear all,Can you recommend a screen capture tool on Linux? It can record the screen and sound so that people can demonstrate some thing on Linux. Thanks in advance.Best regards,Dai Yuwen

Re: problem of bringing up pppoe on boot

[Yuwen Dai]

2005/5/23, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Yuwen Dai wrote:
  Deal all,
 
  I used /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to have pppoe bring up on boot time.
  Although ppp_on_boot is an obsolete method, it worked well untill I
  made an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday.
 
  My Linux box has two ethernet cards, eth1 for internal networking and
  eth0 for pppoe. I found eth0 is not up when the the system boots, eth1
  is OK.
 
  I read the /usr/share/doc/ppp/readme.Debian.gz. Added these lines to
  /etc/network/interfaces:
  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet ppp
  provider dsl-provider
 
  But eth0 wasn't up after /etc/init.d/network had run.   I have to manually 
  run
 
  ifconfig eth0 up
 
  before I run
 
  pon dsl-provider
 
  What's the correct way to bring up pppoe on boot time?  Thanks in advance.
 
  Best regards,
  Dai Yuwen
 
 
 
 Just a guess, but if you use the demand keyword in the dsl-provider
 file, to enable demand-dialing, then one of two things might happen,
 first, you are not trying to send a packet to the connection is not
 initiated, or secondly you do try to send a packet but for some reason
 it doesn't get recognized as a WAN packet and consequently does not
 trigger the dialup.  (I'm pretty sure I've experienced the second
 problem and while I don't recall the details, it involved a DNS catch-22
 type issue.  I think the resolution was changing my default resolve.conf
 settings.)
 

Hi, Marty

Thank you.  I resolved the problem by adding lines in 
/etc/network/interfaces:

auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
 provider dsl-provider
 pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up 

Now eth0 is brought up automatically before dialing.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

problem of bringing up pppoe on boot

[Yuwen Dai]

Deal all,

I used /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to have pppoe bring up on boot time.
Although ppp_on_boot is an obsolete method, it worked well untill I
made an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday.

My Linux box has two ethernet cards, eth1 for internal networking and
eth0 for pppoe. I found eth0 is not up when the the system boots, eth1
is OK.

I read the /usr/share/doc/ppp/readme.Debian.gz. Added these lines to
/etc/network/interfaces:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet ppp
provider dsl-provider

But eth0 wasn't up after /etc/init.d/network had run.   I have to manually run

ifconfig eth0 up

before I run

pon dsl-provider

What's the correct way to bring up pppoe on boot time?  Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

Re: How to use the driver-1.bin image?

[Yuwen Dai]

 Hi, deal all

 I want to use the files in
 /dist/stable/mail/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact on the Debian
 official CD-Rom.  There're three files in this directory:

 driver-1.bin
 rescue.bin
 root.bin

 I know that rescue.bin is a fat12 image, and root.bin is a gziped ram 
disk.
 I successfuly copied these images to floppies by using `dd'.  But what 
the

 format of driver-1.bin?  I used `file' to determin its type.  But `file'
 only said it's data.  I also copied it to a floppy using `dd' but had no
 idea how to use it.  Any advice?  Please `CC' to my own e-mail address.
 Thank you very much.

You have to dd all the files to a floppy disk. Then boot up your computer
using the rescue disk and insert the rootdisk when prompted. When the
installation program has been launched, you will be asked for the


I don't realy want to install system on the hard disk.  I just want to use 
these three diskettes doing some diagnostics, i.e, network or something 
else.  Could I do this?




disk 1. Inserting this disk will do the rest. AFAIK the driver* and base*
disks do not have a real filesystem, it is just a piece of a compressed
archive written to the disk (with checksums and header of course).

Greetz,
Sebastiaan



Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

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How to use the driver-1.bin image?

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi, deal all

I want to use the files in 
/dist/stable/mail/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact on the Debian 
official CD-Rom.  There're three files in this directory:


driver-1.bin
rescue.bin
root.bin

I know that rescue.bin is a fat12 image, and root.bin is a gziped ram disk.  
I successfuly copied these images to floppies by using `dd'.  But what the 
format of driver-1.bin?  I used `file' to determin its type.  But `file' 
only said it's data.  I also copied it to a floppy using `dd' but had no 
idea how to use it.  Any advice?  Please `CC' to my own e-mail address.  
Thank you very much.


best regards,
Dai Yuwen

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Why messages sent by cron delay one day?

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi, All

This is my crontab:

# Mirror the hard disk at 1:47 AM every day
47 1  * * * /usr/local/sbin/disk-mirror.sh

This is the head of message sent by cron:


From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 01 01:47:01 2001

   
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/sbin/disk-mirror.sh
X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root
X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 01:47:52 +0800
  ^^

So, message that was suposed to been sent on 31 Oct 2001 actually sent on 
Nov 01 2001.  Is this the normal behaviour of cron daemon?


best regards,
Dai Yuwen



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What's the file system of root.bin?

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi, Dear All

I want to create rescue diskette from the Debian official CD-rom.  I found 
that rescue.bin is msdos system, however, I could not figure out the file 
system of root.bin.  I tried ext2, minix, msdos, fat.  All wrong.  Any idea? 
 Thank you in advance.


Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

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Re: df print the wrong information

[Yuwen Dai]

From: Michael Heldebrant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: df print the wrong information
Date: 24 Oct 2001 23:50:38 -0500

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 22:06, Yuwen Dai wrote:
 Hi, All

 I encounter a strange behaviour of df.  This is the output of df on my
 machine:

 Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
 /dev/hda6   303344 25804261879   9% /
 /dev/hda123302  1897 20202   9% /boot
 /dev/hda7  2016016453636   1459968  24% /usr
 /dev/hda9  2016016467776   1445828 24% 
/usr/local/cvsroot

 /dev/hda10  10108913 95857   0% /tmp
 /dev/hda11  101089 14185 81685  15% /var
 /dev/hda12 2016016467776   1445828  24% /usr/local
 /dev/hda1310080488  1604   9566816   0% /home
 /dev/hda141256321620  11925016   0% /opt
 /dev/hda8  2016016 13032   1900572   1% /usr/local/mysql

 Note `/dev/hda9` and `/dev/hda12` have the same information.  But
 `/dev/hda9' is larger than `/dev/hda12'.

 I umount /usr/local/cvsroot and re-mount it.  Then df prints the correct
 thing:

 Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
 /dev/hda6   303344 25804261879   9% /
 /dev/hda123302  1897 20202   9% /boot
 /dev/hda7  2016016453636   1459968  24% /usr
 /dev/hda10  10108913 95857   0% /tmp
 /dev/hda11  101089 14186 81684  15% /var
 /dev/hda12 2016016467776   1445828  24% /usr/local
 /dev/hda1310080488  1604   9566816   0% /home
 /dev/hda141256321620  11925016   0% /opt
 /dev/hda8  2016016 13032   1900572   1% /usr/local/mysql
 /dev/hda9 1008048820   9568400   0% 
/usr/local/cvsroot


 Any idea?  Thanks in advance.

I have the sneaking suspicion that you mount /usr/local/cvsroot before
you mount /usr/local.  This would make for very odd behavior for the
system.  Change the location of /usr/local to be higher in the
/etc/fstab file for all your partitions under /usr/local
(/usr/local/mysql and /usr/local/cvsroot) and this problem should go
away.  This will cause /usr/local to be mounted before the
subdirectories, which is the correct thing for what you want to do.

Also check under the mount points with the filesystems unmounted
(suggested to be done in single user mode).  Data may be in the wrong
places at this point (most of /usr/local is probably under /usr (hda7).

--mike


Hi, Mike

I found the reason.  Just as you said, I put the data at the wrong point.  
The data was actually on /dev/hda12 (/usr/local) not on /dev/hda9.  Thank 
you very much.


Best regards,
Dai Yuwen


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df print the wrong information

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi, All

I encounter a strange behaviour of df.  This is the output of df on my 
machine:


Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6   303344 25804261879   9% /
/dev/hda123302  1897 20202   9% /boot
/dev/hda7  2016016453636   1459968  24% /usr
/dev/hda9  2016016467776   1445828 24% /usr/local/cvsroot
/dev/hda10  10108913 95857   0% /tmp
/dev/hda11  101089 14185 81685  15% /var
/dev/hda12 2016016467776   1445828  24% /usr/local
/dev/hda1310080488  1604   9566816   0% /home
/dev/hda141256321620  11925016   0% /opt
/dev/hda8  2016016 13032   1900572   1% /usr/local/mysql

Note `/dev/hda9` and `/dev/hda12` have the same information.  But 
`/dev/hda9' is larger than `/dev/hda12'.


I umount /usr/local/cvsroot and re-mount it.  Then df prints the correct 
thing:


Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6   303344 25804261879   9% /
/dev/hda123302  1897 20202   9% /boot
/dev/hda7  2016016453636   1459968  24% /usr
/dev/hda10  10108913 95857   0% /tmp
/dev/hda11  101089 14186 81684  15% /var
/dev/hda12 2016016467776   1445828  24% /usr/local
/dev/hda1310080488  1604   9566816   0% /home
/dev/hda141256321620  11925016   0% /opt
/dev/hda8  2016016 13032   1900572   1% /usr/local/mysql
/dev/hda9 1008048820   9568400   0% /usr/local/cvsroot

Any idea?  Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

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What's the reasonable time to mirror a hard disk?

[Yuwen Dai]

Hi, All

I have two identical hard disk linked with one cable.  The capacity of each 
disk is 40G.  I want to have the second disk be the mirror of the first disk 
by using this command:


 dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=32k

Nearly 2 hours passed, dd still hadn't finished.  I had to press 'Ctrl-C' to 
stop it.  Is this the right way to mirror a disk?  Or is there some better 
way to do this?  Thanks in advance.


Best regards,
Dai Yuwen



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