no sound on Debian 12

[Bruce Byfield]

Last week, I installed Debian 12. Since then I've had no sound. I've consulted 
various pages on the Debian wiki, and found no solution, either with 
pulseaudio or pipewire. Built-in speakers,  and external features (including 
bluetooth ones, which are definitely connected) don't work. Any suggestions?
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signing up to fourms

[Bruce H.]

Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums?
Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive!
Antispam question #1 makes no sense.
No (show text) for passwords.
Confirmation item (shield for window) makes no sense. 
I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO STUPID. (67yr old, been using nothing but Ubuntu 
and Mint and other Linux OS's since 2006. Started with SuSe Professional 8.2 on 
CD's  - 2003)
Wouldn't be here but for lack of basic apps that are standard on EVERY other OS 
I've ever installed and that's a lot of different systems in 16 years.
Cant even find a app for formatting disks, HD's or USB sticks.
Am I going to have to find another distro or can you all get your shit together 
so I can join the forums and use a Debian distro? 
I know how to get around a lot of things, but why are you making everything so 
hard? Having to install every needed app by hand that should be included in the 
OS as standard!

Sincerely, Bruce Harrington

64 bit not 64

[bruce banter]

So on my computer when I am trying to install Debian 64 it keeps on telling me 
it cant do it and its because it’s a 32 bit program! Any reasoning why that 
might be?

Sent from Mail for Windows

Browsers crashing in Bullseye armhf

[Bruce Kerr]

Hi, I have both Chromium and Epiphany browsers crashing randomly in
Bullseye running on Acer A500 tegra 2 tablet with kerenl 5.8.3.

The version of Chromium on bullseye is 83.

I also have Buster with Chromium 79 and same kernel and all works fine,
including epiphany.

I suspect it is a common lib used by both but dont have a clue where to
start, I havent coded for over 10 years and even longer on linux so would
appreciate a headsup on where to start?

Thanks
Bruce

bluetooth and Debian 10

[Bruce Byfield]

Yesterday, I finally got around to upgrading from Debian 9 to 10. After
I finished, my bluetooth speaker stopped working reliably. It does
always connect, and, when it does, it may or may not display in
pavucontrol and doesn't appear in phonon at all. When I change its
settings on the configuration tab of pavucontrol, the next time I open
pavulcontrol, it's turned off. Once or twice, I've managed to get
sound, but the same settings don't always work after I reboot.

The speaker links with my machine when it turns on, and is listed as
connected. It works with other computers and phones. Various utilities
like bluez provide no help. I've checked the alsa and pulseaudio
packages installed, and everything I need is there.

Can anyone suggest a solution? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious,
but I'm at a loss to suggest what. Any suggestions?

o
Bruce Byfield (on Pacific time) 604-421-7189
"Designing with LibreOffice": www.designingwithlibreoffice.com
Prentice Pieces: https://prenticepieces.com/

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

[Bruce Halco]

On 8/13/19 10:18 PM, Keith Steensma wrote:



On 8/13/2019 5:29 PM, Keith Steensma wrote:



On 8/13/2019 1:16 PM, Michael Howard wrote:

On 13/08/2019 18:40, Keith Steensma wrote:



On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote:

On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote:

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200
 wrote:


On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote:


On 8/12/2019 4:00 PM, elvis wrote:

On 12/8/19 11:23 pm, Keith Steensma wrote:

The same thing happens if I fill in 'root' as the login even
though a 'root' login is not permitted in the default
'sshd_config' configuration.  Even when I change the
configuration to allow for 'root' login, 'root' can never login.



Try a local ssh login to see if it rules out network problems. As
in ssh localhost.  or ssh -l  localhost. If it is your
network getting in the way it may
rule that out.
Yes that works ( ssh -l  localhost ). So that means it 
has to

do with the network connections.

Not necessarily. It can be the client, too (your PuTTY). You didn't
describe the error message in detail (perhaps it is too unspecific,
GUI clients tend to be like that), but perhaps PuTTY has some
"verbose" option you can activate. Then you may infer whether 
there's

a hole in the net or whether just client and server don't get along
with each other.


It is some years since I used PuTTY regularly, but I seem to recall
that it didn't use OpenSSH-type keys and insisted on generating 
its own

and providing a conversion to an OpenSSH key, which then had to be
placed on the server. Is it possible this procedure may have gone 
amiss


This has happened to me a couple of times. Regenerating and 
converting solved the problem.


A long time ago I settled on having to use puttygen.exe to generate the 
keys. You have to copy/paste from the puttygen window to create the 
authorized_keys file.


A nuisance but it works reliably.

Bruce

Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

[Bruce Halco]

Is there anything useful in /var/log/sshd.log?

Bruce

On 8/12/19 9:23 AM, Keith Steensma wrote:
I've installed both Version 9.9 (OldStable) and 'Buster' (Stable) and 
found that both version seem to have the same problem.  It's like I'm 
doing something wrong.  But these are fresh installs - no modification.


With Secure Shell server installed and running on port 22 (or any 
other port of your choice) and iptable Chain Input and Output Policy 
Accept All.  When I try to connect from a Windows machine using 
'putty' (without letting 'putty' fill in any user name) and fill in a 
regular user's login name, Secure Shell refuses to allow that 
connection and replies back "Access denied' and asks for the password 
again and again, and again. Never allowing the connection.


The same thing happens if I fill in 'root' as the login even though a 
'root' login is not permitted in the default 'sshd_config' 
configuration.  Even when I change the configuration to allow for 
'root' login, 'root' can never login.


Has anyone run into this behavior before or know about a fix for this 
problem.  I have formatted, installed, reinstalled and Googled so many 
times that I many be going crazy.


Keith

Re: ssh local port forwarding stopped working

[Bruce Halco]

I would test port status with

   nmap -P0 -p 22 


You want the response to be "open"

Bruce

On 5/28/19 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:

I'm running Debian/Testing on an AMD64 machine.

I follow what I believe is a fairly conventional way of connecting to 
remote machines. Firstly I establish an SSH tunnel using a command like:


  ssh  -L 5902:IP>:5900


where the remote server public IP is that of the router (DD-WRT) with 
port 22 forwarded to the local IP of a remote Debian/Stable server. 
The remote workstation IPs are in the 192.168.1.* range. The SSH 
connection works fine.


Then I connect to localhost:5902 using a VNC viewer (tried a few).  
I've been doing this for a decade with no significant problems.


However I haven't been able to do this since at least yesterday 
(previous remote login was a week ago. It worked). No matter which 
remote machine I try to connect to, I never get to the password 
prompt. Instead the connection attempt eventually attempt times out.


I can log onto a KVM virtual machine running on the remote server 
using the Virtual Machine Manager GUI. From there I can connect to the 
other (real) machines using the Tight VNC viewer.


Since I can connect to the remote workstations from the VM, the 
problem cannot be with their service setup. And since the problem 
isn't resolved by using a different VNC viewer from my local 
workstation, the problem can't be the VNC client. This just leaves the 
ssh tunnel - specifically the port forwarding - as the only common 
element.

Re: Buster: do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

[Bruce]

Works perfectly!

Thank you very much.

Bruce

On 3/19/19 10:37 AM, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:

I added this line as very first line in /etc/rsyslog.conf

:msg, contains, "No irq handler for vector" ~

Basically it means: if message contains "No irq handler for vector"
then discard.

Once you add the line, restart rsyslog: systemctl restart rsyslog

It's only a temporary solution until the progem gets fixed, but at
least it allows you to continue doing your work.

Hope this helps.



Bruce Halco () wrote:

Can you share what changes you made to rsyslog.conf? That's not
something I've ever messed with.

Thanks.

Bruce

Re: Buster: do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

[Bruce Halco]

Can you share what changes you made to rsyslog.conf? That's not 
something I've ever messed with.


Thanks.

Bruce

On 3/18/19 11:07 AM, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:

Same problem here.

For me the messages appear *only* when I start the Arduino IDE and
stops as soon as I close it. I suspect is something related to the
pool of serial ports the Arduino IDE do to detect the plug of a new
Arduino board.

Adding pci=nomsi,noaer didn't work for me so I ended tweaking
/etc/rsyslog.conf to get rid of them and continue to work as usual.

El lun., 18 mar. 2019 a las 15:47, Bruce () escribió:

I upgraded from Squeeze to Buster last week and have been having a
problem with "No irq handler for vector" messages appearing in all the
console windows.

There were originally 3 different numeric values in the messages. After
adding 'pci=nomsi,noaer' to the grub boot options, 2 of them stopped.

I still get this more than 100 times per day.:

  Message from syslogd@penguin at Mar 18 10:11:08 ...
   kernel:[161132.371343] do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

The time between messages can be as little as 9 seconds, or more than 2
hours. The messages happen throughout the day, whether I'm at the
computer or not.

I've tried 'dmesg -n 2', 'dmesg -n 1', and even 'dmesg -D'. The messages
keep coming. I especially don't understand how 'dmesg -D' doesn't help,
as it's documented purpose is to 'Disable the printing of messages to
the console'.

The messages don't correlate to any other events I can find in the log
files.

On a long shot, I disconnected the optical drives, unplugged the UPS
from the USB port, and removed the TV capture card. None of that made a
difference.

Other than the messages, the system is running fine.

The system includes a Phemon II CPU and 16 GB RAM in a Gigabyte
890GPA-UD3H motherboard.

Any suggestions?

Bruce

Buster: do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

[Bruce]

I upgraded from Squeeze to Buster last week and have been having a 
problem with "No irq handler for vector" messages appearing in all the 
console windows.


There were originally 3 different numeric values in the messages. After 
adding 'pci=nomsi,noaer' to the grub boot options, 2 of them stopped.


I still get this more than 100 times per day.:

    Message from syslogd@penguin at Mar 18 10:11:08 ...
     kernel:[161132.371343] do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

The time between messages can be as little as 9 seconds, or more than 2 
hours. The messages happen throughout the day, whether I'm at the 
computer or not.


I've tried 'dmesg -n 2', 'dmesg -n 1', and even 'dmesg -D'. The messages 
keep coming. I especially don't understand how 'dmesg -D' doesn't help, 
as it's documented purpose is to 'Disable the printing of messages to 
the console'.


The messages don't correlate to any other events I can find in the log 
files.


On a long shot, I disconnected the optical drives, unplugged the UPS 
from the USB port, and removed the TV capture card. None of that made a 
difference.


Other than the messages, the system is running fine.

The system includes a Phemon II CPU and 16 GB RAM in a Gigabyte 
890GPA-UD3H motherboard.


Any suggestions?

Bruce

Re: Re: Setting default network device in Buster

[David Bruce]

It looks like it works now. I can reboot and never go into KDE, and I
can connect with the machine via ssh, and also access RStudio Server
on the machine with a web browser.  Not sure why I wasn't able to
connect on the first reboot after your suggestion - perhaps I typed
something wrong.

Thanks again - David

-- 
David Bruce

For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Re: Re: Setting default network device in Buster

[David Bruce]

Hi,

> David, what happens if you run sudo systemctl enable ssh and reboot?
I did that, and I cannot connect with ssh before logging into KDE.
>From the first TTY, I tried pinging a few sites and all packets are
lost. I also ran 'sudo ip address show' and there is no IP address
apart from the loopback.

My onboard gigabit wired interface is 'enp3s0', and the wireless NIC
is 'wlp4s0'.  During the installation, I had an ethernet cable
attached to enp3s0, and the Debian installer asked which interface was
to be used for the installation, and I selected 'enp3s0'.  In my den,
I don't have a cable running to the machine. What I want is for
'wlp4s0' to be brought up on boot and remain connected to my home wifi
network, irrespective of whether I'm sitting at the desktop or logged
into KDE.

I think one issue is getting sshd to start on boot, which is what I
think we have accomplished here, but the other issue is to get the
wireless interface itself up (and configured via DHCP, etc).

One practical thing I want to do is to have RStudio Server running on
the Debian machine, and be able to connect to it on my MacBook and
work on projects from my living room.

Thanks for any help

-- 
David Bruce

For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Setting default network device in Buster

[David Bruce]

I'm just getting back to Debian and Linux after a few years' absence -
sorry if this is a simplistic question. I installed testing/Buster on
a newly built desktop machine that has both onboard gigabit ethernet
and a wireless Atheros NIC. Both devices were recognized during the
install, and I set the wired interface as the default to minimize any
connectivity issues.

Now my machine is up and running, and I want the wireless device to
always be brought up and used as the default.  What is the best
unix/Debian way to get this set up properly?  Within KDE, it connects
to my home network without issues as if the machine were a laptop, but
it does not appear to have an active connection when KDE is "asleep".
In particular, if I reboot it, I can't ssh into it from my MacBook
until I sign into KDE, and if KDE goes to sleep, I lose the ability to
ssh in within a few minutes. I'm not sure any of this is really a
function of KDE, but the behavior is certainly correlated.

Thanks for any help, and sorry if this is basic stuff any linux user
should know.  I'm a surgeon, not an engineer or admin. Also, I've
tried posting a few times unsuccessfully but I think the problem was
that I didn't use plain text. So, sorry if this is a duplicate.


-- 
David Bruce

For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Re: graphic tablet controls

[Bruce Byfield]

"how recent a kernel do you have?  what version of
Debian are you on?  what desktop?"

I'm running stretch, using a 4.9.0-6 kernel. The problem exists on all
the major desktops including GNOME, KDE, Cinammon, and LXDE, so the
problem is unlikely to be the desktop

"First of all check if your Wacom device is supported by linux - not
all of them are.

For more check here

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/3yfz1v/wacom_intuos_draw_and_linux/;

Thanks for the link, but I already know that the Intuos Draw is
supported at least partially, because I am using it as a mouse
replacement, and stretch detects it. The question is why the desktop
tools can't detect it.

I found some information on the Arch website that didn't directly help
me (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom_tablet), but it does
suggest that /dev/input/wacom should have been created -- which, on my
system, didn't happen. Any idea if that file could be created manually
-- and, if so, how?



The Intuos Draw is clearly supported to a degree, because I am using
it as a replacement.

o ___o
Bruce Byfield (on Pacific time) 604-421-7189
Writer of "Designing with LibreOffice"
www.designingwithlibreoffice.com

graphic tablet controls

[Bruce Byfield]

I recently started using a Wacom Intuos Draw tablet. Its functions as a
mouse substitute are available as soon as I plug it in, and the
device is detected by the operating system. However, the tools
available in desktop environments for configuring buttons and drawing
functions don't detect the tablet, even though I can use the stylus in
the testing area for the tools. Nor does xsetwacom work from the command
line.

I have built and install the latest kernel modules for the tablet, and
added the appropriate lines in xorg.conf. Neither has any noticeable
effect. I have consulted the Debian wiki, as well as the Llinux Wacom
project, but nothing changes the situation. Any idea where to go from
here? 

o ___o
Bruce Byfield (on Pacific time) 604-421-7189
Writer of "Designing with LibreOffice"
www.designingwithlibreoffice.com

Re: Vorresti? Davvero? Perché no? Gabriella

[Bruce Willis]

ma chi sei?

Il giorno 16 agosto 2017 17:37, Gabriella Mamoclo  ha
scritto:

>
> Vieni tra le mie braccia – parliamo un po' http://bit.ly/2uO5ZMD
>

Re: If no enforcement takes place between two parties (GPL) Was: Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel

[Bruce Perens]

OK, I apologize to all who were involved in this conversation. I will block
further emails from "aconcernedfossdev" and no longer encourage him.

Bruce


On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:24 PM, <aconcernedfoss...@airmail.cc> wrote:

> These are simply counterpoints the defense would likely contend and one
> should be prepared for as they could be entertained by a court.
>
> One can certainly contend that to remain silent when any reasonable person
> would speak if they were in opposition, indicates assent. The court may
> reject that argument in this case or not.
>
> Well, you are confusing civil and criminal law.
>>
>
> I am not.
> I gave that example as a supporting point to the discussion on civil law
> and equity that is almost farcical extreme example (that courts will, for
> example, hold you in contempt for not paying a settlement while you are
> imprisoned and have no way of raising the money, imprisoning the person
> again and again in perpetuity for contempt again and again (this has
> changed very recently in a few states, but not most)). This arises often
> from judgements for non-payment of civil liabilities. That does not detract
> from this statement:
>
> The court would likely feel that one could represent oneself if one
>> desired. Usually lack of finances is not taken into account by courts; only
>> real incapability (mental or physical or related to one's status as a minor)
>>
>
> Though it is said "one who represents himself usually has a fool for a
> client", that does not mean one is legally or physically incapable of
> mounting a case, thus if one does sit on one's cause of action (regardless
> of finances), laches may apply and the equitable remedies may be found to
> be out of reach.
>
>
> On 2017-07-15 02:06, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
>> Well, you are confusing civil and criminal law. I assure you winning a
>> laches defense is no sure thing, nor does it necessarily win the
>> entire case, it is more likely to only limit the period of the offense
>> for which the plaintiff may seek damages.
>>
>> And being a passive participant in Linus discussion is no tacit
>> license to your copyright rights over what the GPL already offers. If
>> Linus really wanted that, he'd have to call for opposition, and remove
>> works of opposing parties from the kernel.
>>
>

Re: If no enforcement takes place between two parties (GPL) Was: Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel

[Bruce Perens]

Well, you are confusing civil and criminal law. I assure you winning a
laches defense is no sure thing, nor does it necessarily win the entire
case, it is more likely to only limit the period of the offense for which
the plaintiff may seek damages.

And being a passive participant in Linus discussion is no tacit license to
your copyright rights over what the GPL already offers. If Linus really
wanted that, he'd have to call for opposition, and remove works of opposing
parties from the kernel.

Re: If no enforcement takes place between two parties (GPL) Was: Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel

[Bruce Perens]

A laches might be created if
all of the rights holders actually had the capability to enforce and were
refraining from doing so. But they are restrained by finances. So, I don't
believe there is any laches.

Re: If no enforcement takes place between two parties (GPL) Was: Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel

[Bruce Perens]

Bradley is uncomfortable with your (not mine) cc list. You should drop him
from the next message.

Things are different for a collective work. I don't believe Linus can
represent the desires of all copyright holders.

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

[Bruce Perens]

Hi Bradley,

I was proceeding after others in the community had already made contact and
were rebuffed.

I have definitely looked at the principles of GPL-oriented enforcement that
SFC is currently distributing. I have some issues with your current policy.

Let's discuss the policy of forgiveness of past offenses in exchange for
current compliance. This has worked very well for the non-profit projects
that SFC is actually able to serve, because there is literally no reason
for the well-counseled offender not to settle with SFC. Both of us have
experience with highly visible deep-pockets offenders who have not been
well enough counseled to accept this easy exit from violation.

As you know, I have a compliance business. I have advised every client
without exception to come into compliance with the GPL as soon as possible,
and where allowed I have engineered that compliance. The companies that
reject that advice do not become my customer.

We should remain aware that Richard and Eben made an exception to the
policy of not asking for financial damages in the case of Cisco, for quite
a large settlement.

With the advent of dual-licensing as used by Artifex (Ghostscript) since
1984, MySQL since the 1990's, and others, we have a paradigm that arguably
makes the GPL more fair to more people, especially the GPL developers
themselves. Those who wish to participate in the GPL's partnership of
sharing do, those who do not pay money, and the money goes to paying the
developers to make more good Free Software under the GPL. The developers do
not have to wear hair shirts or spend their days as waiters or as
programmers of proprietary software for big companies, but can support
their families while creating Free Software. This worked for Peter Deutsch
who has been able to enjoy retirement as a composer and musician as a
result, and of course for Michael Widenius and his partners in MySQL. We
are all using the result of these dual-license enterprises.

It seems to me that it would be fair for these dual-licensing companies,
who offered the GPL but made dual licensing available to those who did not
wish to accept the GPL terms, to exact the fees of lost commercial
licensing from commercial infringers. Those infringers clearly had paid
licensing as an option. Dual-licensing is not inimical to the philosophy of
Free Software, and SFC should support the dual-license enterprises in
collecting fair damages.

I am also concerned because in our society there is a right to sue and
collect damages in compensation for violation of your rights, and SFC may
have allowed itself, without planning to, to be in the position of
suppressing developer's rights. Obviously I am aware of the excesses of the
"intellectual property" and tort system, and moderation is necessary. But
entirely suppressing the right to collect damages doesn't sound like a good
solution.

Then we have the issue of SFC's obvious inability to pursue all but a
fraction of one percent of all violators. Besides the obvious cases which
remain untried, I have in my own practice twice witnessed SFC so
short-staffed as to be unable to respond for many months to a company that
was attempting to settle with SFC, and another company that had settled and
was attempting to fulfill its continuing obligation to SFC. So, here SFC is
as the only organization with funding to pursue violations of the GPL,
closing out the avenue for other such organizations to fund themselves
through settlement and take up some of the case load. And the developers
don't get served and get de-motivated by the persistent and un-remedied
infringements. So, unfortunately, the principles of community-oriented
enforcement aren't actually serving the community.

Recently, we have observed:

1. Failure of SFC or its funded parties to attempt to appeal the VMWare
decision or find another plaintiff.
2. A consultation with the Linux kernel developers who are not terribly in
favor of enforcement, I feel due to prejudices so loudly expressed by Linus
Torvalds, who just doesn't accept that lawyers are of any benefit to
society.
3. No visible enforcement for quite a while.
4. Very many egregious violations in our sight that we have no way to cure.

So eventually, Bradley, we lose patience. I have no way to fund enforcement
of GPL violations. I don't have confidence that you can ever handle more
than 1% of them, and you don't tell me what 1% you are working on. I only
have publicity as a tool.

Thanks

Bruce



On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@sfconservancy.org>
wrote:

> [ I'm not on debian-user regularly but I was dragged into the thread by a
>   large cc list that Bruce started.  Removing individual email addresses of
>   possible non-list members, other than Bruce. ]
>
> Bruce, if you haven't looked at the Principles of of Community-Oriented
> Enforcement <https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html
> >,
> whic

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

[Bruce Perens]

Thank you. I did not have a copy of the Grsecurity Stable Patch Access
Agreement before, and I've linked it to my article
.
IMO it's quite imprudent of them to put down in writing how they restrict
your GPL rights.

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

[Bruce Perens]

I published an advisory regarding Grsecurity at

http://perens.com/blog/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-contributory-infringement-risk-for-customers/

Thanks

Bruce

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> I am not trying to study the GRsecurity case because (0) it's
>> complicated, and it would take a lot of time to think about, (1) the
>> FSF has no say in the matter (it is about Linux) and (2) I don't think
>> the copany would heed whatever I might say.
>
>

Re: Record audio streaming?

[Bruce Gates]

Hello,


Just adding my 2 cents here...


Can you use Audacity to record the audio as it's playing through your computer? 
Just use the "stereo mix" input...


That is, assuming more sophisticated fixes don't do the trick...


Good luck!



From: david...@freevolt.org 
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 1:48 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Record audio streaming?

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Here:
>
> http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/portaleRadio/media/ContentItem-ee5e755e-200b-4133-9a9b-da491982bf01.html
[http://www.rai.it/resizegd/640x-/dl/img/2017/06/1497624792426Liszt_sign.JPG]

Ascolta le musiche della lezione del 
17/06/2017
www.radio3.rai.it
Franz Liszt, Ballata n.2, Eli Perrotta, pianoforte; registrazione del 4/4/1966


>
> you listen to a Liszt's ballad.  I wonder if and how it is possible to 
> download
> it and/or copy it to a file.  Any hint...?

In this particular case, in that web page's source, if you search for
"audioUrl =" then you will find a promising url on the resulting line.

Download the file at that promising url using wget, or curl, or
whatever tool you prefer for that sort of thing.

> Thanks,
>
> Rodolfo
>
>

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

[Bruce Perens]

I think I'll be able to write something to inform present and potential
customers of the lawsuit risk and their position as contributory
infringers. This is more effective than writing to the company.

Thanks

Bruce

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> I am not trying to study the GRsecurity case because (0) it's
> complicated, and it would take a lot of time to think about, (1) the
> FSF has no say in the matter (it is about Linux) and (2) I don't think
> the copany would heed whatever I might say.
>
> --
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> Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
> Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
>
>

Re: KVM: writethrough / writeback - data integrity

[Bruce Coulter]

Hi Chris,

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Chris wrote:

This wholly depends on what kind of application and/or database you're 
hosting on your production server; and, it also depends on what kind of 
back-end infrastructure (SAN? Virtualized Lx? VMware, Xen, otherwise?)


it's a server RAID-5. One partition is a KVM raw image file (host uses 
ext4), the other a partition on the host system passed to KVM guest. 
Host and guest are Debian Jessie.


For the best protection against data loss in case of power failure, etc., 
you will want to consider setting the underlying host filesystem (ext4) to 
use 'data=ordered' (as well as the guest filesystem with same option). 
This will force writes to the ext4 fs prior to journal metadata updates.



Write-through, write-back and mixed-mode options have implications that
will affect the performance, redundancy, availability and time-to-recover
of your production applications.  Are you using any database software?



Dovecot with Maildir.


Performance shouldn't be much of a concern for this, unless high volume.


In example, production DB filesystems can have different mount options and
attributes as listed in /etc/fstab and based on production requirements.



The partitions have ext4 file system.


See above.

Also, you mentioned that you're using a hardware RAID controller.  Many, 
but not all, hardware RAID controllers have on-board battery backup, which 
adds an important level of protection.  For example, if the OS writes to 
the RAID controller, but the RAID controller doesn't flush to disk, it can 
live in the battery-backed cache until it can be flushed at a later time.


Hope this helps,


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Re: KVM: writethrough / writeback - data integrity

[Bruce Coulter]

Chris,

This wholly depends on what kind of application and/or database you're 
hosting on your production server; and, it also depends on what kind of 
back-end infrastructure (SAN? Virtualized Lx? VMware, Xen, otherwise?) --


Write-through, write-back and mixed-mode options have implications that 
will affect the performance, redundancy, availability and time-to-recover 
of your production applications.  Are you using any database software?


In example, production DB filesystems can have different mount options and 
attributes as listed in /etc/fstab and based on production requirements.


Can you share more information about your specific environment?

Best,


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On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Chris wrote:


All,

should one use writethrough or writeback caching mode on a production
server? I've read on the Internet that writethrough was more secure. With
writeback there could be data loss in case of power failure?

On the other hand, writeback is Ubuntu's default mode. Is a Debian Jessie
VirtIO guest capable of handling "flush disk caches" correctly? I don't
know the low-level details.

Furthermore, does it matter that the raw-partition respectively raw-image
is on a hardware RAID 5?

Thank you in advance.

- Chris


https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/linuxonibm/liaat/liaatbpkvmguestcache.htm
says:

writethrough: mode is the default caching mode. With caching set to
writethrough mode, the host page cache is enabled, but the disk write
cache is disabled for the guest. Consequently, this caching mode ensures
data integrity even if the applications and storage stack in the guest do
not transfer data to permanent storage properly (either through fsync
operations or file system barriers).

writeback: writeback With caching set to writeback mode, both the host
page cache and the disk write cache are enabled for the guest. Because of
this, the I/O performance for applications running in the guest is good,
but the data is not protected in a power failure. As a result, this
caching mode is recommended only for temporary data where potential data
loss is not a concern.

Functional Difference of dpkg --get-selections vs --get-selections "*"

[Bruce Gates]

Hello,


Noob question for y'all...


What is the functional difference between dpkg --get-selections and dpkg 
--get-selections "*"?


It seems to me that the first command would find all packages anyway, making 
the wildcard erroneous...perhaps I'm mistaken?


Thanks guys and gals!


Bruce

Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

[David Bruce]

I've installed Debian dozens of times since 2002 and I have never run
into anything approaching the headaches I am experiencing trying to
get the current stable Debian onto a newly rebuilt machine. The box is
a straightforward amd64 setup built from a bundle from Newegg. It has
onboard Realtek eth0, plus I have an Atheros PCI wireless card that I
purchased a couple years ago specifically based on Linux
compatibility.

Issues:
1. the official amd64 netinst CD image fails to let me connect to my
router via either interface, even when I provide a USB drive with the
debs for all firmwares.
2. the unofficial amd64 netinst CD image with firmware included fails
identically. DHCP autoconfiguration fails, and even if I supply a
manual ip address the installer can't find ftp.debian.org
3. an old Squeeze installer CD (6.03 amd netinst) connects perfectly
on the same hardware and installs a partially usable system. I say
partially because KDE only sees one of my two monitors, it won't let
me use the correct resolution, and the system has no functioning
sound. But it sure is disturbing that the 8.1 installer fails on the
exact equipment where 6.03 works.
4. Thinking dist-upgrade would work as it always has in the past, I
figured I could just adjust my sources.list and upgrade first to
Wheezy, then to Jessie, and then get the issues worked out with the
current stable system. Wrong! I was able to dist-upgrade to Wheezy
with no evident errors, but upon rebooting I could no longer connect
to the network. Or if I try the Wheezy-Jessie dist-upgrade without
rebooting, it fails with dependency errors (E: package 'foo' requires
'bar-xxx', but 'bar-yyy' is going to be installed...).
5. (most troubling) - I posted a couple of days ago that I had trouble
with DHCP not working during install, and have had exactly zero
follow-ups (although I did receive one very nice off-list email
suggestion, which unfortunately did not help).

I have always been an ardent advocate and defender of free software
and desktop Linux (sloppily defined for present discussion), but I
have to say that this is an enormously frustrating situation. It has
been a while since I installed Debian on the predecessor to my current
machine. I distinctly recall feeling that desktop Debian had become
mature, solid, and eminently usable, and that the Debian is outdated
and difficult reputation had become a thing of the past. Definitely
not so sure anymore.

Well enough of the rant but hopefully some of this can be taken
constructively. I will probably get a CD set and see if I can install
a complete system offline and then get the networking up. Debian is
definitely the system I want, but that doesn't matter much if I can't
get the darn thing working.

I would still welcome any suggestions or insights as to why the 6.03
installer works with my home router, but 8.1 does not.

Thanks for any help, or for at least listening to these issues.

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Re: DHCP not working for attempted Jessie install

[David Bruce]

OK, a little more info. It seems at least part of the issue is the Atheros
wireless. With Wheezy installed, when I boot with kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 I
get a few dozen repeats of the following message:

ath: Could not stop RX, we could be confusing the DMA engine when we start
RX up

and I cannot connect to my router.

With lspci my wireless card is:

06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01). I installed all firmwares with
apt-get install firmware linux after adding non-free to my sources.list,
although I think the Atheros firmware is free.

There is an existing Debian bug report on what seems to be the same issue:

Bug#727772: linux-image-3.11-trunk-amd64: Ath9k module stop working, DMA
error

So maybe I have to go back to Squeeze for the time being as my computer on
Wheezy isn't much use without networking. I'm still not certain this is the
same problem I encounter during attempted install of Jessie as I never get
out of the installer.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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DHCP not working for attempted Jessie install

[David Bruce]

Hi,

I have installed Debian dozens of times since 2003 but never ran into any
significant problems. I just rebuilt my main home machine with pretty
standard equipment including both on-board Realtek eth0 and wlan0 via a PCI
card.  I had an old Debian 6.03 amd64 netinst disc lying around, and the
install of Squeeze was flawless,as was the dist-upgrade to Wheezy. However,
I could not successfully dist-upgrade to Jessie so I decided to install
using an 8.1 image instead. All of this was done over the wireless card. It
should be noted that DHCP worked effortlessly.

The first attempt with the stock amd64 netinst image for 8.1 ran into
trouble due to lack of firmware. However I was able to put the requested
debs on a USB stick and proceed. However, I could not get my router to
autoconfigure either the eth0 interface or the wlan0 interface with DHCP. I
tried manually assigning an IP address instead, but still no successful
networking when the time came to connect to the mirror.

After consulting this list last night, I tried the unofficial netinst image
with non-free firmware from cdimage.debian.org, and got identical results
(except no warnings about missing firmware).

So I find it baffling that the official 8.1 installer fails on the same
hardware where the 6.0.3 installer works perfectly. For the moment I am
just installing Squeeze with the plan to upgrade to Wheezy, like I did
yesterday, and just use that until Jessie has had some more time to get any
issues worked out. I always used to run Sid,and I wouldn't mind doing so
again if the above issue is recognized by someone here as something that
has been fixed in unstable.

Any general ideas would be greatly appreciated, and I would be happy to
provide more details if it will help advance the project. I realize this
post is somewhat lacking in detail, as I'm hoping that this scenario may
ring a bell with someone, so to speak. I'm a surgeon rather than an
engineer or anything like that, but I have been using Debian and similar
systems for a long time.

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Jessie - running smoothly at last - nouveau driver

[Bruce Ward]

Yesterday, I was ready to quit my experience of Jessie (8.1) and return 
to Wheezy (7.8). After a number of problems encountered and fixed, there 
was only the video which would occasionally and irregularly crash the 
system leaving a screen full of tearing. This never happened with 
Wheezy. The only way out was reboot or power-off.


My system has on-board MCP61 nVidia with the ethernet using forcedeth 
driver and the video (C61 [GeForce 7025/nForce 630a]) using nouveau 
driver. The solution, probably not ideal but it works until an updated 
nouveau, is to turn off hardware assisted acceleration.


So if anyone else has a similar system and similar problem, try creating 
a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf file, containing:

options nouveau noaccel=1

Solution found in Debian bug 758460 (after much searching).

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Re: Re: problem with display breaking up

[Bruce Ward]

What is the video hardware in the system?
There may be useful bug information.
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forcedeth driver - bug?

[Bruce Ward]

Installing Jessie 8.1.0 on an Asrock N68-VGS3 FX motherboard. This has 
Giga PHY RTL8211CL ethernet, which lspci reports as:

00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)

It uses the forcedeth driver module, which seems to need parameters
msi=0 msix=0 to work. If I blacklist the driver, I can load it with 
modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0 and all is fine. However, it needs 
this after every reboot and I have not found a way to successfully load 
the module automatically. Loaded automatically it

a) cannot connect to the network, and
b) locks the system solid if I try to unload it!

Is there some way over this problem or is this a bug? If a bug, who 
should know about it?


Note: the same behaviour in my Wheezy (not surprising when it is the 
same version of driver module), but I had hoped it would be fixed in Jessie.


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[SOLVED] Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

[Bruce Ward]

Thanks Selim, that fixed it.

I had tried that months ago on the Wheezy installation I run, but it did 
not work then - probably I did not update the module dependencies or the 
initramfs at that time!


I had not realised the importance of the 'options' keyword, having seen 
few examples of it :-(



On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 09:06:30AM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:


An entry options forcedeth ms=0 msix=0 in some /etc/modprobe.d/foo.conf
should do thr trick, no?

Of course, perhaps you tried that already and I'm mis-interpreting
your question completely. Apologies if that's the case.

No I have not (yet) tried everything! There may be something in a
modprobe.d/foo.conf that could work.
I have tried putting the line
forcedeth msi=0 msix=0


When you make the foo.conf, don't leave options out.


into /etc/modules as appeared to work for this Ubuntu user
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1982856.html
but that didn't work for me. He did try
 a forcedeth.conf file to /etc/modprobe.d with the following contents:

options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0


   ^^^
Should be like this.


Yes, solution is /etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth.conf containing
options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

Thank you,
Bruce

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Re: Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

[Bruce Ward]

Hi Tomas


On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:12:49PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:

Installing Jessie 8.1.0 on an Asrock N68-VGS3 FX motherboard. This
has Giga PHY RTL8211CL ethernet, which lspci reports as:
00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)

It uses the forcedeth driver module, which seems to need parameters
msi=0 msix=0 to work. If I blacklist the driver, I can load it
with modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0 and all is fine. However, it
needs this after every reboot and I have not found a way to
successfully load the module automatically. Loaded automatically it
a) cannot connect to the network, and
b) locks the system solid if I try to unload it!

Is there some way over this problem or is this a bug? If a bug, who
should know about it?


Perhaps I'm not reading your mail correctly, but isn't that in the
realm of the modprobe.d configs?

- From the modprobe.d manpage:

NAME
   modprobe.d - Configuration directory for modprobe

SYNOPSIS
   /usr/lib/modprobe.d/*.conf

   /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf

   /run/modprobe.d/*.conf

DESCRIPTION
   [...]

COMMANDS
   [...]
   options modulename option...
   This command allows you to add options to the module
   modulename (which might be an alias) every time it is
   inserted into the kernel: whether directly (using modprobe
   modulename or because the module being inserted depends
   on this module.

   All options are added together: they can come from an
   option for the module itself, for an alias, and on the
   command line.

An entry options forcedeth ms=0 msix=0 in some /etc/modprobe.d/foo.conf
should do thr trick, no?

Of course, perhaps you tried that already and I'm mis-interpreting
your question completely. Apologies if that's the case.

- -- t


No I have not (yet) tried everything! There may be something in a 
modprobe.d/foo.conf that could work.

I have tried putting the line
forcedeth msi=0 msix=0
into /etc/modules as appeared to work for this Ubuntu user
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1982856.html
but that didn't work for me. He did try

 a forcedeth.conf file to /etc/modprobe.d with the following contents:

options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

But that doesn't do anything.


Regards, Bruce

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Re: Jessie failed installation woes - they continue!

[Bruce Ward]

Installation was on second drive, and grub was installed to the MBR
of that drive. Restart dropped me into grub rescue mode with the
message about normal.mod not being found. After mounting the drive
in Wheezy, I find that the directory that normal.mod is supposed to
be in, is not there. There are only 2 files in /boot/grub - vastly
different from the grub 1.99 of Wheezy!


Try booting from a live CD/USB stick, entering your new installation
in a chroot and running update-grub and grub-install /dev/your
device.

I had a lot of similar problems (see recent posts on this list) and
ended up installing lilo instead of grub. The config is much simpler
than grub2.

I have found the upgrade to jessie a painful process - the main
issues being the change to systemd, grub2 and config changes required
in the new Apache. I've almost got everything running properly now.


Thanks for reminding me of chroot - that appears to have got grub 
installed. Problem now, is the boot process hangs after the fsck 
declares the partition clean ...  And that is not far into booting!


Bother. Now to go looking for other reported similar failures ...

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Jessie failed installation woes

[Bruce Ward]

I'm a long-time Debian user and this system (Wheezy) is result of at 
least 3 dist-upgrades (as well as motherboard upgrades). Last 
dist-upgrade was not completely successful, so I thought to do a new 
install of Jessie, onto a second hard drive. Since the current 
motherboard is AMD FX 64bit capable I tried a couple of AMD64 Live CDs 
as tasters, since I had some trouble getting the onboard ethernet going 
in Wheezy i686.


Live CDs find the MPC61 ethernet and get me onto the network.
Install DVDs find the MCP61 ethernet BUT can't get onto network.

After deciding to not configure the network, installation continued 
until the reboot at the end - that hung the machine.


Installation was on second drive, and grub was installed to the MBR of 
that drive. Restart dropped me into grub rescue mode with the message 
about normal.mod not being found. After mounting the drive in Wheezy, I 
find that the directory that normal.mod is supposed to be in, is not 
there. There are only 2 files in /boot/grub - vastly different from the 
grub 1.99 of Wheezy!


Note that I mentioned 'Install DVDs' above. I gave up on the AMD64 and 
tried i686 flavour - same problem!


I have copied all files from the missing directory (found on install CD 
 renamed the directory), and now trying to boot from that disc reboots 
the machine!


I am thankful I kept the Jessie install away from the working Wheezy!

What can I do now?

Bruce
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PDF forms and field issues

[Bruce Ward]

I created (LibreOffice) a PDF document with user-entry fields. Sent it 
to a friend with a Mac to check that it worked. He filled in fields and 
returned it to me saying it worked fine.


There is a problem in that the fields appear blank (except for the one 
checkbox). Having now tried a number of PDF 'viewers' on the document, I 
can report:
Evince (Gnome 'Document Viewer') - fields are blank until you click in 
the field. Click to another field and the first goes blank.

xpdf - fields are blank
GIMP - fields are blank (not surprised)
Inkscape - fields are blank (not surprising)
LibreOffice with pdfimport - fields are blank

imagemagick - shows fields properly!!!

Evince, GIMP, and xpdf when run from command-line all give
   Error: Unknown font in field's DA string

Any ideas on work-around?

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Latest update was bad news for me!

[Bruce Ward]

I've got an ASRock motherboard with AMD AM3 CPU and Giga PHY RTL8211CL
ethernet, running Wheezy. Had no joy getting the network port running
(forcedeth module would kill the whole system as soon as tried to use or
even unload it!), so I used an old (faithful) DEC Tulip card (de2104x
module). And so it ran for months (or a year or more, through a number of
linux updates) without problems.
Last week I happened to find a reference in an Ubuntu forum to
successfully getting the RTL8211 working - after consultation with ASRock.
It involved removing the forcedeth module and reinstalling it with certain
parameters. So I tried it, and it worked (without killing the system!); I
put the necessary fix in a file in /etc/modprobe.d, and that I used until
this morning. I presumably had rebooted in that time to test the fix.
This morning the latest Linux security update (DSA3128) arrived and I
installed that. It involved a restart, after which I had no network
connection - not even with the Tulip card. In fact I was back to rmmod
forcedeth killing the system (with a familiar pattern on screen - but
locked SOLID).
No, I have not been able to get the Tulip working in Wheezy, but I know it
is not dead - Puppy Linux (tahr) gets it going just fine (but has other
problems apparently from the RTL8211 which it can't connect to the
network). After some hours of frustration, I have got the RTL8211 working
in Wheezy, but it seems to involve manual loading of the forcedeth driver
after every restart.

One thing to take from this - ASRock, AMD AM3, and Linux don't play well
together.
Another is that today's de2104x module doesn't work my card.

/vent

Bruce Ward



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Re: fax over IP

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 08/07/2013 07:03 AM, J B wrote:

Hello,

can anyone suggest how to create a foip system on debian ?

Thanks


FAX over IP is fairly complex.  At a minimum, for me, it will start with Hylafax.  I'd then add iaxmodem.  Now we have to connect that to either a termination provider in some way. 
 My method usually uses Asterisk, but Freeswitch or Yate could also be used.  The easy way to set up Asterisk is to use either Incredible PBX, or overlay a base Asterisk 
installation with Freepbx as a web based GUI. Incredible PBX is simply a pre-packaged installation of Asterisk and Freepbx with extras.



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Re: Apache won't process SSI

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 05/21/2013 07:09 AM, Carl Fink wrote:

I have Apache 2 running on my squeeze (v6)-based server. As part of a
project I need to enable server-side includes (SSI). I followed the HOWTO
here:

http://www.linuxtopia.org/HowToGuides/apache_ssi.html

I included the +Includes, AddType and AddHandler directives and restarted
Apache ... SSI directives (e.g. #include) are completely ignored.

I know Apache2 is reading the +Includes for the simple reason that I typoed
it and got a complaint on startup (in error.log) until I fixed it.

So any suggestions?

My apache2.conf and the sites-enabled file for the domain
lsc.finknetwork.com follow:

---apache2.conf---
#
# Based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob McCool.
#
# This is the main Apache server configuration file.  It contains the
# configuration directives that give the server its instructions.
# See URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/ for detailed information about
# the directives.
#
# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding
# what they do.  They're here only as hints or reminders.  If you are unsure
# consult the online docs. You have been warned.
#
# The configuration directives are grouped into three basic sections:
#  1. Directives that control the operation of the Apache server process as a
# whole (the 'global environment').
#  2. Directives that define the parameters of the 'main' or 'default' server,
# which responds to requests that aren't handled by a virtual host.
# These directives also provide default values for the settings
# of all virtual hosts.
#  3. Settings for virtual hosts, which allow Web requests to be sent to
# different IP addresses or hostnames and have them handled by the
# same Apache server process.
#
# Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many
# of the server's control files begin with / (or drive:/ for Win32), the
# server will use that explicit path.  If the filenames do *not* begin
# with /, the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so 
/var/log/apache2/foo.log
# with ServerRoot set to  will be interpreted by the
# server as //var/log/apache2/foo.log.
#

### Section 1: Global Environment
#
# The directives in this section affect the overall operation of Apache,
# such as the number of concurrent requests it can handle or where it
# can find its configuration files.
#

#
# ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's
# configuration, error, and log files are kept.
#
# NOTE!  If you intend to place this on an NFS (or otherwise network)
# mounted filesystem then please read the LockFile documentation (available
# at URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/mpm_common.html#lockfile);
# you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
#
# Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path.
#
ServerRoot /etc/apache2

#
# The accept serialization lock file MUST BE STORED ON A LOCAL DISK.
#
#IfModule !mpm_winnt.c
#IfModule !mpm_netware.c
LockFile /var/lock/apache2/accept.lock
#/IfModule
#/IfModule

#
# PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process
# identification number when it starts.
#
PidFile /var/run/apache2.pid

#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
#
Timeout 300

#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to Off to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive On

#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 15

##
## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific)
##

# prefork MPM
# StartServers: number of server processes to start
# MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
IfModule mpm_prefork_module
 StartServers  1
 MinSpareServers   1
 MaxSpareServers   2
 MaxClients   20
 MaxRequestsPerChild   0
/IfModule

# worker MPM
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
IfModule mpm_worker_module
 StartServers  2
 MaxClients  150
 MinSpareThreads  25
 MaxSpareThreads  75
 ThreadsPerChild  25
 

Re: how to properly add a dns server

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 04/22/2013 12:04 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

ChadDavis wrote:

Bob Proulx wrote:

It doesn't work that way.  Nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf are
tried in order.  The first one that can be contacted is the one used.
If a contacted nameserver does not know about a name then it is a
negative response.  No other nameservers are contacted.

The reason for listing up to three nameservers is that if one is
offline then it will fall through to the next one.  But when the first
one answers then the answer it provides will be authoritative.  See


Ok. I believe you are correct on this behavior, i.e. if I have two DNS
nameservers configured, the second one is purely a failover.  In other
words, if the first one can't resolve a given hostname, it does NOT then
consult the second one.  The second nameserver is only contacted if the
first one is down.  This is what I understand you to have said.  And I do
believe you.


I have been known to be wrong.  As recently as yesterday.  This is my
first posting today.  They day is young.  I have plenty of time for
mistakes today.  :-)


But when I try to resolve a hostname that I know isn't valid, it sure looks
like the second one is consulted.  Here's my output from nslookup on a
invalid hostname.

chadmichael@heraclitus:~$ nslookup chad-vm2
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 10.110.199.20, trying next server
Server: 10.110.200.85
Address: 10.110.200.85#53

** server can't find chad-vm2: SERVFAIL


How interesting.  I believe you too.  But it says SERVFAIL not
NXDOMAIN.  If the first server fails then it should fall through to
the next one.  Why is your first server failing?  That seems
interesting.

What is your hosts line for /etc/nsswitch.conf?

   $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
   hosts:  files dns

It is possible to have various options there.  Perhaps?

Also nslookup is a tool specifically for querying DNS.  Which means
that it isn't quite the same as gethostbyname(3) would return.  Any
program that calls gethostbyname(3) will follow nsswitch.conf.  There
is the getent program.  What does it say?

   $ getent hosts foo.invalid

In any case, back to the original topic.  I tried an experiment.  I
ran tcpdump -lni any port domain and ran nslookup foo.invalid.

   root@torpid:~# tcpdump -lni any port domain
   tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
   listening on any, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 65535 
bytes
   12:52:26.405277 IP 192.168.230.120.42194  192.168.230.109.53: 25599+ A? 
foo.invalid. (29)
   12:52:26.405761 IP 192.168.230.109.53  192.168.230.120.42194: 25599 
NXDomain 0/1/0 (104)
   12:52:26.406278 IP 192.168.230.120.48452  192.168.230.109.53: 36232+ A? 
foo.invalid.proulx.com. (40)
   12:52:26.406682 IP 192.168.230.109.53  192.168.230.120.48452: 36232 
NXDomain* 0/1/0 (95)

It only contacted the first server listed, 192.168.230.109, and did
not contact the second server listed, 192.168.230.119.  So I believe
that it really is only querying the first server.


Doesn't this mean that .20 said I can't resolve that hostname, and this
caused a second attempt at my second nameserver .85?  This contradicts what
I thought you had explained.  How does this all relate?


You apparently have two nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf.

   nameserver 10.110.199.20
   nameserver 10.110.200.85

Your lookup said:


chadmichael@heraclitus:~$ nslookup chad-vm2
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 10.110.199.20, trying next server
Server: 10.110.200.85


But that is SERVFAIL.  It got a failure from that server.  Why did
that server fail?  Does it always fail?  I think something may be
interesting about the configuration there.

Is it trying to do a recursive lookup but unable to perform the action
such as due to a firewall or other?  I want to set up a test case of a
remote nameserver blocked by a firewall to see if that gives a
SERVFAIL but lack the time today.  Could you look at your .20
nameserver and see why it is failing?

Could you reverse the order of the nameserver lines in your
resolv.conf file and try it again?  Any difference?

   nameserver 10.110.200.85
   nameserver 10.110.199.20

Interesting stuff...

Bob




test the individual servers this way:

dig @10.110.200.85 chad-vm2
dig @10.110.199.20 chad-vm2

This will tell you if one is not responding.  A failure to respond WILL roll to 
the next.  A
NOTFOUND will not.


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Debian 6.0.5 not on mirrors?

[Bruce A. Johnson]

I've tried two different Debian 6.0.5 network installation CDs today using
three different mirror sites, and I don't get past the apt installation. 
When I look at pseudo-tty 4, the log says that the mirror does not support
the specified release.  The lines immediately above this failure show that
this command was executed:

wget -q http://cdn.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E
'^(Suite|Codename):'

If I run this command from another workstation in the same network, I get
this output for the command:

Suite: stable
Codename: squeeze

The machine doing the installation seems to have network connectivity, or
I would have expected complaints when it was trying to get the time from
the network, plus it was a working system under Debian 5 before I started
this morning.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!
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Re: free software mini pc

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 02/12/2012 07:29 AM, green wrote:
 kei...@strucktower.com wrote at 2012-02-12 08:28 -0600:
 But I'm curious about the original query- what's the need for such an
 ultra-quiet machine?
 Reason 1: no cleaning.  A system with a fan requires cleaning.  Frequency 
 of cleaning depends on the environment.  The desktop that this will replace 
 is in a somewhat dusty environment.

 Reason 2: I have seen (slightly) more fans fail than hard disks.  So this 
 second reason suggests that a fanless system is slightly lower maintenance in 
 the long term.

 Reason 3: yeah, noise.  Really this is not a big deal, but quietness is nice.
I was tempted to remain quiet, but here is the vendor I use for this calls of 
thing.

http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/fanless_systems

They have a FEW system they have marked as unusuitable for use with Linux.  On 
checking as to why, they observed that they didn't do a clean shutdown on with 
Ubuntu 10.04... Which
was a know issue with that particular distro/version.  I did my own testing and 
found them to be totally suitable for my environment. YMMV.


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apt dying with Failed to exec method /usr/lib/apt/methods/

[David Bruce]

Hi,

Running a fairly new i386 Sid install, nothing special in sources.list
- for the last week or so, sudo aptitude safe-upgrade dies with:

E: Method  has died unexpectedly!E: Sub-process  returned an error
code (100)E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ did not start
correctlyFailed to exec method /usr/lib/apt/methods/E: Method  has
died unexpectedly!E: Sub-process  returned an error code (100)E:
Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ did not start correctlyE: Internal error:
couldn't generate list of packages to download
From googling, it seems there were errors like this reported a year or
so ago related to the old volatile archive, but I don't use that.
Here's my
/etc/apt/sources.list:

#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2.1 _Squeeze_ - Official i386
NETINST Binary-1 20110628-13:01]/ squeeze main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2.1 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20110628-13:01]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main

Any thoughts?  In response to some searching, I've tried sudo
dpkg-reconfigure apt and sudo apt-get install --reinstall apt, with
no effect.


Thanks,

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Chromium in Sid not working

[David Bruce]

Hi,

I have two Sid systems (one amd64, one 32-bit intel) and Chromium is
currently unusable in both - all attempted pages display Aw, Snap,
even content on same machine.  There appears to be a bug on this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647992

but I get the sense that the maintainer isn't having the problem.  Is
anyone else using Chromium having this trouble, and is a fixed version
likely to appear soon?

The linux Chrome binary from Google appears to work fine on both machines.

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Webcam and GSPCA problem with new kernel partly solved

[Bruce Ward]

I am running Lenny and have a Logitech webcam which uses the gspca 
driver modules.


Running the standard (for Lenny) 2.6.26 kernel, I added 
gspca-modules-2.6.26-2-686 and all is well. Camera is detected as v4l, 
and cheese works, even producing video with synchronised audio.


Because later kernels have gspca modules in kernel, I installed the 
2.6.32-bpo.5-686 from lenny-backports. Result - webcam does not work 
with cheese except for showing the test pattern as seen in 
gstreamer-properties with test input.


When cheese is started, the light on the camera blinks on twice and then 
stays off - it should be on all the time. The gspca_main and gspca_zc3xx 
modules are loaded as is v4l1_compat. But it doesn't work!


I have now installed libv4l-0 from lenny-backports and used LD_PRELOAD 
to install the v4l1compat.so module, and have a partly working webcam. I 
can at least take photographs with cheese but not a working video (rapid 
movement  some audio - unintelligible), and switching from the cheese 
desktop loses the picture when I return (although resizing the window 
does bring the picture back).


I don't use the webcam much, but I do like to have everything working 
properly. I'm not keen to 'upgrade' to squeeze until I can get this 
fixed. Anyone with any ideas?


Thanks, Bruce

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Printing business - from Shanghai ksprinting factory of China

[Bruce]

Dear Manager: 
This is Bruce from Shanghai KS Printing Co.,Ltd. China. 
Your name and address have been found from website. We are a printing house 
with over 30 years of experience.
 And we supply printing service with high quality and competitive price
Most of customers locate in Europe ,Africa, North America and Southeast Asia.

Such as: 
 Italian Sixty-fourpublisher, LogoPublisher 
 UK Beyond Black ,Top That Publishing
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 Australia Billy's book , Sid Harta publishing,odysseypublishing etc.

If you need any printing service ,Please let me know. 
Looking forward to your early reply.

Sincerely yours,
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2011-07-25



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No.119, Lane 333 Hua Fa Road, Xuhui  district, Shanghai, China, 200231 
Tel:  +86-21-51718508
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Re: Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid

[David Bruce]

Hi Shawn,

 what did your old interfaces file look like? might look at resolv.conf as
 well. i'm not sure what trouble shooting you went through, so it might be
 useful to post your iptables config.

Here's my old interfaces file where I statically brought up eth0:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0 inet static
 address 192.168.0.100
 netmask 255.255.255.0
 broadcast 192.168.0.255
 gateway 192.168.0.1
 dns-domain gnu-orleans.org

After the upgrade, eth0 no longer wound up with 192.168.0.100.  Also,
even after I went back to the default DHCP-using settings, I still
don't get a working address after reboot until I run dhclient by hand.
 The netgear router is back to its default DHCP behavior, and the iMac
attached to the same router gets its address just fine.

Should my interfaces entry for eth0 start with auto eth0 rather than
allow-hotplug eth0?  From googling, I've found statements that the
way to get dhclient to run on every boot is with the auto keyword.

Thanks,

David


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Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid

[David Bruce]

Hi,

I'm running Sid on my amd64 home desktop, and I had been using it as
DHCP server and DNS server for my home network.  I had my eth0
statically set to 192.168.0.100 in /etc/network/interfaces. I have a
basic consumer Netgear router, and had a couple of other machines as
clients.

With a aptitude safe-upgrade and reboot today, my setup broke.  I'm no
network expert, but it appears that eth0 is no longer getting an IPv4
address on boot:

 dbruce@emperor:~/Documents$ sudo ifconfig -a
[sudo] password for dbruce:
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr aa:00:04:00:0a:04
  inet6 addr: fe80::250:8dff:fe98:3d20/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:3384 (3.3 KiB)  TX bytes:14730 (14.3 KiB)
  Interrupt:23 Base address:0x8000

To simplify things (and to ease the wrath of my wife, who couldn't use
her computer because the network relied on my machine as DHCP server),
I put the Netgear router back to its default role as DHCP server and
just use the ISP DNS servers.  So my desktop's eth0 is now supposed to
use DHCP with the plain vanilla settings:

From /etc/network/interfaces: ---

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

So now, on bootup my web browser won't connect.  If I run sudo
dhclient eth0 I get a IPv4 address assigned to the interface, and
everything seems to work.  Of course, I'd like to understand what's
going on, and at some point would like to do my own DNS again (mainly
so I can use a human-friendly name for my Ampache music server).

So what's changed recently with networking?  Am I being dragged into
the IPv6 world?

Thanks for any help,

David Bruce


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Re: Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

[Bruce Ward]

Thanks for all the replies.

Yes, I'm running Lenny with standard Debian kernel 2.6.26-2-486, and in 
doing so was  hoping to avoid having to compile ndiswrapper. However, I 
have now done so. (It was not fast!)


Chris Bannister's comment about PCcard v. Cardbus may be an issue - the 
card is Cardbus, the laptop recognises the card with lspci, but I don't 
yet know if the laptop is fully Cardbus compatible.


If I read Geoff Simmons correctly, the pre-compiled modules do not exist 
any more. My reference was to 'stable' distribution package of 
ndiswrapper-source on Debian website which suggests that the modules do 
exist. Seems as though that page needs updating to remove the reference. 
I note that the corresponding page for Squeeze has no reference to 
pre-compiled modules.


Thanks again. I still have some work to do to see if I can get this card 
working.


Bruce
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Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

[Bruce Ward]

I get this message:
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

Further investigation leads me to the web page for the Debian package 
ndiswrapper-source (1.53-2). On that page is found:


'This package provides the source code for the ndiswrapper kernel 
module. If you use a standard distribution kernel, you mostly will not 
need this, but use the pre-compiled modules instead.'


This looks good (Note this is a toy laptop - 48MB RAM - running Lenny 
with a PCMCIA wireless card with a Marvell chip) if I can avoid having 
to download source and compile.


Problem: I cannot find pre-compiled modules anywhere on the Debian 
site. Do they exist, or are they just a myth?


Bruce
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Re: is there private MAC address space?

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 05/10/2010 02:50 AM, Martin wrote:
 For IP addresses there are 10.x.x.x , 192.168.x.x IP address that can
 be used for private networks. Is there something similar for MAC
 address of network cards that can be safely used with virtual
 emulators and to be sure not to collide with any real network card
 (current or future)?

 Currently I am using MAC address
 52:54:00:12:34:x
 I guess I got it form some example for qemu usage or similar.

 Martin


   
In a sense all MAC addresses are private... The first 3 bytes are
assigned by the IEEE and the last 3 by the company the first 3 are
assigned to.  For more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address


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apt/dpkg problems

[Bruce Ferrell]

I'm having the problems you can see in the following listing.  It looks
like I have invalid files in some path.  How can I find the
files/directories that can't be changed?  Is there a script I can look
at in the package db?

Thanks in advance

Preparing to replace dpkg 1.14.25 (using
.../archives/dpkg_1.14.25_arm.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dpkg (1.14.25) ...
chown: changing ownership of `x\b': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing dpkg (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Setting up dbus (1.2.1-5+lenny1) ...
The system user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting.
chown: changing ownership of `\371\271\b': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dbus-x11:
 dbus-x11 depends on dbus; however:
  Package dbus is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dbus-x11 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Setting up netselect (0.3.ds1-12.1) ...
chown: changing ownership of `\267\354\024': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing netselect (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:
 dpkg
 dbus
 dbus-x11
 netselect
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


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Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

[Bruce Ward]

Javier Barroso wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Bruce Wardbmw...@orcon.net.nz wrote:
  

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:


On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:49 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
  

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:


On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
  

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:


On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
  

I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer
(/dev/hdd).

under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The

DVD writer will recognise one.

Any ideas?


Humm... you might want to check how HAL detects that devices. There are
some GUIs, but you can send a report with:

 hal-find-by-capability  --capability storage.cdrom | xargs hal-device
  

I reported a bug [1] against hal package, I'm not sure, but my dvd are
not recognized anymore, like in this thread ( I referenced it in the
bug)

I'm using sid, with DVD+-RW GSA-H53L unit.

Bruce, did you find any solution to this issue ?

Thanks,

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/539149

  
No solution. I have come to the conclusion that it is probably a kernel 
issue because the kernel never shows that it recognises there is a blank 
disc in that drive under Lenny. I have a bit of testing to do which 
hasn't been done because I have been away for a little while.


Bruce


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Boot from 2.6.26-2-686 fails - unable to find root device

[Bruce Ward]

I have a problem with the new linux-image (2.6.26-2-686) provided as an
update to Lenny. I have no problem with booting from the old image
(2.6.26-1-686).

The boot fails with messages:
   Gave up waiting for root device.
   ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist.
  Dropping to a shell!

At that stage there is no /dev/disk directory (let alone a by-label
subdir!)

I use labels for my partitions because I have a mix of SATA and SCSI
disks and Etch and Lenny find them in different order! I have exactly
equivalent GRUB stanzas for both kernels; 2.6.26-1-686 has no problem.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Bruce





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Re: Re: Boot from 2.6.26-2-686 fails - unable to find root device

[Bruce Ward]

Juha Tuuna said:

 The boot fails with messages:
Gave up waiting for root device.
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist.
   Dropping to a shell!
 
 At that stage there is no /dev/disk directory (let alone a by-label
 subdir!)
 
 I use labels for my partitions because I have a mix of SATA and SCSI
 disks and Etch and Lenny find them in different order! I have exactly
 equivalent GRUB stanzas for both kernels; 2.6.26-1-686 has no problem.
 
Try editing /boot/grub/menu.lst

 Look at the working 2.6.26-1 entry and then match the root= in 2.6.26-2 entry
 accordingly. That should be it.

Done that. That is not the problem - here are the GRUB menu.lst entries:

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=LABEL=D5root ro quiet
initrd  /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=LABEL=D5root ro quiet
initrd  /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686

The second one works, the first fails. Why?

Bruce



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Re: Is this a bug which should be filed?

[Bruce Ward]

On Sun,28.Jun.09, 13:54:35, Bruce Ward wrote:
 I have a machine with 2 IDE CD/DVD drives on the same channel. A
 DVD-RW is /dev/hdc and a Plextor CD-RW is /dev/hdd. I also dual-boot
 between an Etch installation and a Lenny installation; both standard
 GNOME desktops.
 
 The problem is that Lenny will not detect a blank CD in the CD-RW
 drive. Etch does, placing in /var/log/messages this entry:
 kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
 
 There is no corresponding entry, ever, under Lenny although the
 drive light keeps lit (as it does for Etch) and does  not go out
 which it does when there is no disk in the drive.

Andrei Popescu responded:
In what way does this affect you?

The problem is that it means that with Lenny the CD-RW is unable to
write a new CD under GNOME at least. I'm trying to migrate to Lenny, and
this is a problem holding up the change.

Regards,
Bruce Ward


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Is this a bug which should be filed?

[Bruce Ward]

I have a machine with 2 IDE CD/DVD drives on the same channel. A DVD-RW 
is /dev/hdc and a Plextor CD-RW is /dev/hdd. I also dual-boot between an 
Etch installation and a Lenny installation; both standard GNOME desktops.


The problem is that Lenny will not detect a blank CD in the CD-RW drive. 
Etch does, placing in /var/log/messages this entry:  
  kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!


There is no corresponding entry, ever, under Lenny although the drive 
light keeps lit (as it does for Etch) and does  not go out which it does 
when there is no disk in the drive.


What if any bug should I file?

Thank you
Bruce Ward


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Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

[Bruce Ward]

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
 On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:49 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
  On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
   On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
 On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
  I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer 
  (/dev/hdd).
 
  under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. 
  The 
  DVD writer will recognise one.
 
  Any ideas?
 
 Humm... you might want to check how HAL detects that devices. There 
 are
 some GUIs, but you can send a report with:
 
  hal-find-by-capability  --capability storage.cdrom | xargs hal-device
 
 I suppose it's important to have a line with storage.cdrom.cdrw =
 true, then we can check storage.removable.media_available ...
 
 Franklin
 
Thanks for the ideas Franklin.
This looks like it might open a can of worms ...
   
   Actually, nautilus-cd-burner's README.Debian states:
   
This code detects available CD writers by examining files in /proc.
 It will try /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info which is created by the 'cdrom'
 module, and /proc/scsi/sg/devices which is created by the 'sg'
 module.  One of these modules must be loaded for nautilus-cd-burner
 to work.
  I'm running standard Debian  2.6.26-1-686 kernel. Neither installation
  has sg devices; both have /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info listing both hdd and
  hdc. The only difference between them is that the etch one thinks that
  hdd:
Can read MRW: 1
Can write MRW:1
Can write RAM:1
 
 That's odd.
 Check if upstream program has it's own mailing list, or file a bug.
 
 Regards,
 
 Franklin
 
Many thanks for your time and patience, Franklin.

You are right, a difference in the cdrom/info file is odd, or would be
if it was true - looks like I led you astray there, as both versions
of /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info are saying the same thing.

However, the other things I have found that might be useful, are that
the Lenny kernel does not detect the new media when I insert a blank,
but Etch puts in /var/log/messages:
  samarkand kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I
recognize!

A problem in cdrom or ide_cd_mod modules?

Although there is no Lenny kernel message, hal-find-by-capability does
know there is some new medium:
  storage.removable.media_available = true  (bool)

Also the drive light stays on when blank media is present.

Another difference between the two, but one which seems unlikely to be
significant, is that the lshal program finds them in different orders
i.e. Etch finds DVD-RW first, Lenny finds CD-RW first. This is also true
for 'hal-find-by-capability --capability storage.cdrom'.

Regards, Bruce



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Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

[Bruce Ward]

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
 On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
  I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer 
  (/dev/hdd).
 
  under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The 
  DVD writer will recognise one.
 
  Any ideas?
 
 Humm... you might want to check how HAL detects that devices. There are
 some GUIs, but you can send a report with:
 
  hal-find-by-capability  --capability storage.cdrom | xargs hal-device
 
 I suppose it's important to have a line with storage.cdrom.cdrw =
 true, then we can check storage.removable.media_available ...
 
 Franklin
 
Thanks for the ideas Franklin.
This looks like it might open a can of worms ...

First Etch:
hal-find-by-capability finds the DVD-RW drive but does not find the
Plextor CD-RW drive (yet Etch works the CD-RW OK!).

Second Lenny:
hal-find-by-capability finds the Plextor CD-RW, but not the DVD-RW!
With no blank media in the CD-RW, it reports 
  storage.removable.media_available = false  (bool)
With blank media present, it reports
  storage.removable.media_available = true  (bool)

Exactly what we would hope for I think. But GNOME seems not to recognise
this. 
I have just written a CD image under Lenny using wodim. What now?

Bruce



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Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

[Bruce Ward]

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
 On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
  On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
   On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer 
(/dev/hdd).
   
under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The 
DVD writer will recognise one.
   
Any ideas?
   
   Humm... you might want to check how HAL detects that devices. There are
   some GUIs, but you can send a report with:
   
hal-find-by-capability  --capability storage.cdrom | xargs hal-device
   
   I suppose it's important to have a line with storage.cdrom.cdrw =
   true, then we can check storage.removable.media_available ...
   
   Franklin
   
  Thanks for the ideas Franklin.
  This looks like it might open a can of worms ...
 
 Actually, nautilus-cd-burner's README.Debian states:
 
  This code detects available CD writers by examining files in /proc.
   It will try /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info which is created by the 'cdrom'
   module, and /proc/scsi/sg/devices which is created by the 'sg'
   module.  One of these modules must be loaded for nautilus-cd-burner
   to work.
 
 So, check if the appropriate modules are loaded, then have a look on the
 kernel side (which Kernel do you use? can you test 2.6.26 or 2.6.30)
 
 Franklin
 
I'm running standard Debian  2.6.26-1-686 kernel. Neither installation
has sg devices; both have /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info listing both hdd and
hdc. The only difference between them is that the etch one thinks that
hdd:
  Can read MRW: 1
  Can write MRW:1
  Can write RAM:1

Other than this, both files have the same information. What further
investigation should I do?

Hope this helps!

Bruce.


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Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

[Bruce Ward]

I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer 
(/dev/hdd). I have an Etch installation on an ATA HDD, and all works well.


I also have, on the same machine, a fresh Lenny installation which is on 
a SATA disk. In both cases I use a standard (I believe) GNOME setup.


Unfortunately (because I wish to move to Lenny and remove the Etch), 
under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The 
DVD writer will recognise one.


Etch has no such problem, both drives recognise a blank CD.

Why worry about the situation? Well I have found that CDs written slowly 
with the old CD writer seem to be more reliably read in other CD drives, 
and I just like to have everything working that should work!


Any ideas?

Thanks.
Bruce Ward

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offre d'emploi irrésistible

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Mon nom est
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, avec le monde-coeur-fédération,  Nous sommes actuellement à la recherche d'un 
représentant dans les États
pour s'adapter à temps partiel emploi rémunéré dans lequel vous pourriez gagner 
jusqu'à 4000 $ et
votre confiance et l'honnêteté est nécessaire
L'objectif de monde-coeur-fédération est de jouer un rôle de premier plan dans 
la lutte
contre les maladies du c?ur et la circulation de sorte qu'il n'est plus un
des principales causes d'invalidité et de décès prématurés
Votre Description de l'offre serait comme suit:
1) Vous devez recevoir un paiement en notre nom sur le réseau de donateurs qui
viendrait sous forme de contrôles caissiers, les voyageurs des contrôles et de 
l'argent
commandes.
2) Vous obtenez alors les paiements encaissés / déposés auprès de votre banque.
3) Dès que le paiement a été autorisé par votre banque, vous ensuite déduire une
commission de 10% de chaque paiement que vous serait de recevoir en notre nom
auquel vous avez droit a été à notre représentant
4) Vous donc envoyer le reste des fonds retour par Western Union aux détails 
vous
sera donnée dès qu'il aura été confirmé que vous avez reçu
paiement.
Nos paiements seront émis dans votre nom que nous informons nos
les clients à do.Therefore les informations suivantes seront nécessaires de la 
via
e-mail.
1) Votre FullName
2) Votre adresse physique (Non BP) avec votre état, ville et code postal
3) Votre numéro de téléphone
4) Votre âge
5) Votre profession
6) Votre nationalité
7) Votre statut matrimonial
Une fois que nous avons tous confirmé vos coordonnées, il sera transmis à l'un 
des
nos clients et ils commenceront à effectuer des paiements à vous comme notre
représentant aux États-Unis. Nous vous aviserons dès que nous confirmons
un de nos donateurs a envoyé par la poste à votre paiement.
merci en attendant que j'attends votre réponse urgente.
Plus chaleureuses salutations,
Bruce Carter,
monde-coeur-fédération
www.world-coeur-federation.org

offre d'emploi irrésistible

[bruce carter]

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Mon nom est
Bruce Carter
, avec le monde-coeur-fédération,  Nous sommes actuellement à la recherche d'un 
représentant dans les États
pour s'adapter à temps partiel emploi rémunéré dans lequel vous pourriez gagner 
jusqu'à 4000 $ et
votre confiance et l'honnêteté est nécessaire
L'objectif de monde-coeur-fédération est de jouer un rôle de premier plan dans 
la lutte
contre les maladies du c?ur et la circulation de sorte qu'il n'est plus un
des principales causes d'invalidité et de décès prématurés
Votre Description de l'offre serait comme suit:
1) Vous devez recevoir un paiement en notre nom sur le réseau de donateurs qui
viendrait sous forme de contrôles caissiers, les voyageurs des contrôles et de 
l'argent
commandes.
2) Vous obtenez alors les paiements encaissés / déposés auprès de votre banque.
3) Dès que le paiement a été autorisé par votre banque, vous ensuite déduire une
commission de 10% de chaque paiement que vous serait de recevoir en notre nom
auquel vous avez droit a été à notre représentant
4) Vous donc envoyer le reste des fonds retour par Western Union aux détails 
vous
sera donnée dès qu'il aura été confirmé que vous avez reçu
paiement.
Nos paiements seront émis dans votre nom que nous informons nos
les clients à do.Therefore les informations suivantes seront nécessaires de la 
via
e-mail.
1) Votre FullName
2) Votre adresse physique (Non BP) avec votre état, ville et code postal
3) Votre numéro de téléphone
4) Votre âge
5) Votre profession
6) Votre nationalité
7) Votre statut matrimonial
Une fois que nous avons tous confirmé vos coordonnées, il sera transmis à l'un 
des
nos clients et ils commenceront à effectuer des paiements à vous comme notre
représentant aux États-Unis. Nous vous aviserons dès que nous confirmons
un de nos donateurs a envoyé par la poste à votre paiement.
merci en attendant que j'attends votre réponse urgente.
Plus chaleureuses salutations,
Bruce Carter,
monde-coeur-fédération
www.world-coeur-federation.org

offre d'emploi irrésistible

[bruce carter]

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Mon nom est
Bruce Carter
, avec le monde-coeur-fédération,  Nous sommes actuellement à la recherche d'un 
représentant dans les États
pour s'adapter à temps partiel emploi rémunéré dans lequel vous pourriez gagner 
jusqu'à 4000 $ et
votre confiance et l'honnêteté est nécessaire
L'objectif de monde-coeur-fédération est de jouer un rôle de premier plan dans 
la lutte
contre les maladies du c?ur et la circulation de sorte qu'il n'est plus un
des principales causes d'invalidité et de décès prématurés
Votre Description de l'offre serait comme suit:
1) Vous devez recevoir un paiement en notre nom sur le réseau de donateurs qui
viendrait sous forme de contrôles caissiers, les voyageurs des contrôles et de 
l'argent
commandes.
2) Vous obtenez alors les paiements encaissés / déposés auprès de votre banque.
3) Dès que le paiement a été autorisé par votre banque, vous ensuite déduire une
commission de 10% de chaque paiement que vous serait de recevoir en notre nom
auquel vous avez droit a été à notre représentant
4) Vous donc envoyer le reste des fonds retour par Western Union aux détails 
vous
sera donnée dès qu'il aura été confirmé que vous avez reçu
paiement.
Nos paiements seront émis dans votre nom que nous informons nos
les clients à do.Therefore les informations suivantes seront nécessaires de la 
via
e-mail.
1) Votre FullName
2) Votre adresse physique (Non BP) avec votre état, ville et code postal
3) Votre numéro de téléphone
4) Votre âge
5) Votre profession
6) Votre nationalité
7) Votre statut matrimonial
Une fois que nous avons tous confirmé vos coordonnées, il sera transmis à l'un 
des
nos clients et ils commenceront à effectuer des paiements à vous comme notre
représentant aux États-Unis. Nous vous aviserons dès que nous confirmons
un de nos donateurs a envoyé par la poste à votre paiement.
merci en attendant que j'attends votre réponse urgente.
Plus chaleureuses salutations,
Bruce Carter,
monde-coeur-fédération
www.world-coeur-federation.org

offre d'emploi irrésistible

[bruce carter]

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Mon nom est
Bruce Carter
, avec le monde-coeur-fédération,  Nous sommes actuellement à la recherche d'un 
représentant dans les États
pour s'adapter à temps partiel emploi rémunéré dans lequel vous pourriez gagner 
jusqu'à 4000 $ et
votre confiance et l'honnêteté est nécessaire
L'objectif de monde-coeur-fédération est de jouer un rôle de premier plan dans 
la lutte
contre les maladies du c?ur et la circulation de sorte qu'il n'est plus un
des principales causes d'invalidité et de décès prématurés
Votre Description de l'offre serait comme suit:
1) Vous devez recevoir un paiement en notre nom sur le réseau de donateurs qui
viendrait sous forme de contrôles caissiers, les voyageurs des contrôles et de 
l'argent
commandes.
2) Vous obtenez alors les paiements encaissés / déposés auprès de votre banque.
3) Dès que le paiement a été autorisé par votre banque, vous ensuite déduire une
commission de 10% de chaque paiement que vous serait de recevoir en notre nom
auquel vous avez droit a été à notre représentant
4) Vous donc envoyer le reste des fonds retour par Western Union aux détails 
vous
sera donnée dès qu'il aura été confirmé que vous avez reçu
paiement.
Nos paiements seront émis dans votre nom que nous informons nos
les clients à do.Therefore les informations suivantes seront nécessaires de la 
via
e-mail.
1) Votre FullName
2) Votre adresse physique (Non BP) avec votre état, ville et code postal
3) Votre numéro de téléphone
4) Votre âge
5) Votre profession
6) Votre nationalité
7) Votre statut matrimonial
Une fois que nous avons tous confirmé vos coordonnées, il sera transmis à l'un 
des
nos clients et ils commenceront à effectuer des paiements à vous comme notre
représentant aux États-Unis. Nous vous aviserons dès que nous confirmons
un de nos donateurs a envoyé par la poste à votre paiement.
merci en attendant que j'attends votre réponse urgente.
Plus chaleureuses salutations,
Bruce Carter,
monde-coeur-fédération
www.world-coeur-federation.org

offre d'emploi irrésistible

[bruce carter]

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Mon nom est
Bruce Carter
, avec le monde-coeur-fédération,  Nous sommes actuellement à la recherche d'un 
représentant dans les États
pour s'adapter à temps partiel emploi rémunéré dans lequel vous pourriez gagner 
jusqu'à 4000 $ et
votre confiance et l'honnêteté est nécessaire
L'objectif de monde-coeur-fédération est de jouer un rôle de premier plan dans 
la lutte
contre les maladies du c?ur et la circulation de sorte qu'il n'est plus un
des principales causes d'invalidité et de décès prématurés
Votre Description de l'offre serait comme suit:
1) Vous devez recevoir un paiement en notre nom sur le réseau de donateurs qui
viendrait sous forme de contrôles caissiers, les voyageurs des contrôles et de 
l'argent
commandes.
2) Vous obtenez alors les paiements encaissés / déposés auprès de votre banque.
3) Dès que le paiement a été autorisé par votre banque, vous ensuite déduire une
commission de 10% de chaque paiement que vous serait de recevoir en notre nom
auquel vous avez droit a été à notre représentant
4) Vous donc envoyer le reste des fonds retour par Western Union aux détails 
vous
sera donnée dès qu'il aura été confirmé que vous avez reçu
paiement.
Nos paiements seront émis dans votre nom que nous informons nos
les clients à do.Therefore les informations suivantes seront nécessaires de la 
via
e-mail.
1) Votre FullName
2) Votre adresse physique (Non BP) avec votre état, ville et code postal
3) Votre numéro de téléphone
4) Votre âge
5) Votre profession
6) Votre nationalité
7) Votre statut matrimonial
Une fois que nous avons tous confirmé vos coordonnées, il sera transmis à l'un 
des
nos clients et ils commenceront à effectuer des paiements à vous comme notre
représentant aux États-Unis. Nous vous aviserons dès que nous confirmons
un de nos donateurs a envoyé par la poste à votre paiement.
merci en attendant que j'attends votre réponse urgente.
Plus chaleureuses salutations,
Bruce Carter,
monde-coeur-fédération
www.world-coeur-federation.org

Setting compiz and awn to start at KDE 3.5 login

[David Bruce]

Hi,

I'm running Sid with KDE 3.5x, and recently installed Compiz and AWN.
What is the proper way to get KDE to start these programs on login
on a system-wide basis?  I currently have two one-line files awn.sh
and compiz.sh in my ~/.KDE/Autostart, which works for me OK.

1. Ideally, I would like to set this in one place for all users.

2.  Also, it would be desirable for KDE to start Compiz directly,
rather than first starting kwin and then replacing it with compiz
--replace, which is what my compiz.sh does.  Is there a variable to
set, something along the lines of export WM=compiz or the like?

Thanks

David Bruce


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Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that devices section gone in Sid

[David Bruce]

Hello,

I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using
module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver).  In
the past, at this point I would just use dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg to select nvidia instead of nv.  Now, it appears
that the driver is supposed to be autodetected.  There is no longer a
devices section in my Xorg.conf.

How can I be sure the nvidia driver is really installed, and how can
I get Xorg to use it?

If I uninstall both xserver-xorg-video-nv and xserver-xorg-video-vesa,
X won't start.


Below is some output from aptitude showing that I have the two
packages installed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude show nvidia-glx
Package: nvidia-glx
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 173.14.09-2
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/x11
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uncompressed Size: 25.8M
Depends: nvidia-kernel-173.14.09, x11-common (= 1:7.0.0), libc6 (= 2.7-1),
 libx11-6, libxext6, xlibmesa-gl | libgl1, zlib1g (= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: nvidia-settings, nvidia-kernel-source (= 173.14.09)



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude show nvidia-kernel-source
[sudo] password for dbruce:
Package: nvidia-kernel-source
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 173.14.09-2
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/x11
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uncompressed Size: 5026k
Depends: debhelper ( 4.0.0), make, sed ( 3.0), dpatch (= 2.0.0)
Recommends: nvidia-glx (= 173.14.09), kernel-package (= 8.082), devscripts

And here is the tail end of the Xorg.0.log with nv and vesa
uninstalled, when X won't start:

(II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module  173.14.09  Thu Jun  5 00:05:57 PDT 2008
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: freetype
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//fonts/libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor=X.Org Foundation  the After X-TT Project
compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 2.1.0
Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: record
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: dri
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(==) Matched vesa for the autoconfigured driver
(==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
(II) LoadModule: vesa
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa
(II) UnloadModule: vesa
(EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: mouse
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(II) LoadModule: kbd
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor=X.Org Foundation
compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.3.1
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found


Thanks for any suggestions.

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Restore menus after FS problem

[David Bruce]

After a power outage triggering the need for fsck on several partitions, it 
appears the KDE menus got hosed - many entries no longer have a command 
associated with them, specifically all of the KDE apps.  I can't find any 
other evidence of data problems. Is there any simple way to recreate the menu 
entries?  I think I could uninstall KDE and reinstall, but that seems 
too brute force. 
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Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users! (Fixed!)

[Bruce M. Ward]

Got it!

After removing the problem user from all likely groups, there was no difference 
- still could not run X.

Started getting desparate and deleting anything that looked like a 
configuration file or directory in the user's home directory. It all came right 
when I removed .gconf.

Therefore, it seems that for some reason dpkg-reconfigure fiddles with 
something in the .gconf directory.

Should I file a bug against dpkg-reconfigure?

Many thanks for suggestions from Michael Pobega and Florian Kulzer.

Bruce Ward

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Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

[Bruce M. Ward]

Thanks guys.

Yes, Michael, problem user cannot start using startx.

Since there is a possibility that it may involve groups here are the two users 
(renamed).

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups problem
problem : problem dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups bruce
bruce : bruce cdrom floppy audio plugdev
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

If it is a  permissions problem, dpkg-reconfigure might be the culprit.

Thanks, Bruce

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Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

[Bruce M. Ward]

Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm restricted to 
using web-mail so can't continue the thread ...

Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user.

Here follows the output Florian asked for:

egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist.
(WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist.
(WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ does not exist.
(WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ does not exist.
(WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist.
(WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist.
(WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist.
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 175.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 189MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 202.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 229.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1200,E70-9) mode clock 230MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1440,E70-9) mode clock 297MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1440,E70-9) mode clock 341.35MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (2048x1536,E70-9) mode clock 340.48MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (2048x1536,E70-9) mode clock 388.04MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1856x1392,E70-9) mode clock 288MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x1024,E70-9) mode clock 135MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x1024,E70-9) mode clock 157.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x960,E70-9) mode clock 148.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable


cat .xsession-errors

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u 
/var/run/utmp -x /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers -h  -l :0 student
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
The application 'x-session-manager' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
Xsession: X session started for student at Wed May 16 13:20:53 NZST 2007


lspci -i egrep 'vga|video|display|graphic'

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3230 
(rev 11)

(which is why we use the vesa driver)


awk '/Section Device/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section Device
Identifier  Generic Video Card
Driver  vesa
BusID   PCI:1:0:0
EndSection


Here is the end portion of the Xorg log file:

(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Configured Mouse (type: MOUSE)(II) 
XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Keyboard (type: KEYBOARD)
xkb_keycodes { include xfree86+aliases(qwerty) };
xkb_types{ include complete };
xkb_compatibility{ include complete };
xkb_symbols  { include pc(pc105)+us };
xkb_geometry { include pc(pc104) };
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) VESA(0): VBESetVBEMode failed...Tried again without customized values.
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4354]
1: [0xb7fc8420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyNtoN+0x226) [0xb7b893e6]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyRegion+0x8f) [0xb7b8827f]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbDoCopy+0x498) [0xb7b888e8]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyArea+0x78) [0xb7b88ab8]
6: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x815672d]
7: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8108790]
8: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8119eb2]
9: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x81543aa]
10: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8154793]
11: /usr/bin/X11/X(miWindowExposures+0xf6) [0x810a286]
12: /usr/bin/X11/X(miHandleValidateExposures+0x77) [0x8121b17]
13: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80d1151]
14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so [0xb7c61236]
15: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80cc923]
16: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SwitchMode+0xd4) [0x80c1a04]
17: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80e4e18]
18: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80e5109]
19: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8151901]
20: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x19b) [0x8086cab]
21: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x489) [0x806e699]
22: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7dd3ea8]23: 
/usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa9) [0x806d9d1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

I still can't put my finger on the problem! It _may_ happen only when using 
dpkg-reconfigure to increase the screen resolution.

Thanks again
Bruce Ward
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dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

[Bruce M. Ward]

Hi all.

A recent install of the Etch release.
Root uses 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' to change the video resolutions.
Root can start X no problems.
Existing user cannot login with gdm - returns to login box. User can login at 
text console but cannot start X (with startx). Gets 'caught signal 11'. User 
previously had no problems.
Root creates new user. New user has no problem.

It looks like a permissions problem, but I haven't been able to figure out 
where ...

Any ideas anyone?
Can anyone help?
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CD/DVD drive quit working after dist-upgrade

[David Bruce]

Hi,

Following a Sid dist-upgrade this AM, my CD/DVD drive no longer works - if I 
try to mount a disk, I get the following.

debian:/home/dbruce# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/temp
mount: No medium found

Likewise, k3b fails, telling me I need to insert a blank disc.  I used the 
drive before the dist-upgrade for both ripping some audio CDs and burning 
data CDs.  My system is a newly-installed amd64 setup with the kernel from 
the netinst ISO for Etch from about a week ago.

Relevant (I think) lines from /var/log/dmesg:
hdd: Memorex DVD+-RAM 525G v1, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
...
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

Thanks for any suggestions.
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Re: CD/DVD drive quit working after dist-upgrade

[David Bruce]

Sorry - it is very likely a hardware problem.  I booted into my other minimal 
Debian install on the same system that did not get dist-upgraded, and I get 
the same error, so it would appear to be a problem with the drive.
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[Bruce]

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Migrating system to RAID-1/LVM

[David Bruce]

As a result of reiserfs corruption, I'm moving my system to ext3 (or maybe 
JFS - haven't decided for sure).  I previously had a RAID-1/LVM setup on hda 
and hdc, and the corruption occurred in my /home but nothing was lost.

I have put a new disk in hdb and moved everything there with ddrescue - the 
system now boots off the new disk without using hda or hdc. Also, all the 
reiserfs partitions on the new disk are OK by fsck.  The installation has 
separate partitions for /, /boot, /var, /tmp, /usr, and /home.

I want to redo and un-cruft the hda/hdc RAID1/LVM installation.  My thought is 
to do a clean install onto the disks with the etch installer.

My question is how to best get my data from the hdb install onto the new 
hda/hdc RAID install.  /home should be easy (I think using tar... | cd 
tar ...).  As far as the other partitions are concerned, can I just copy them 
over with the 'tar' method ?  I am mostly worried about clobbering the 
settings for RAID and LVM in the new system.

If I don't do a straight copy of my partitions other than /home, how can I at 
least get the same apt packages installed? Also, there are of course a lot of 
settings in /etc that I would like to keep - is there a simple way to 
bring /etc over without messing up the settings for raid and lvm?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thanks!
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Re: Re: Migrating system to RAID-1/LVM

[David Bruce]

 I would think that 'rsync -a' would be better than tar. 

Thanks - I'll investigate rsync.
 Also, I would 
 boot a LiveCD (unfurtonately, Knoppix does not have RAID or LVM support,
 IIRC) and do it from there that way you can keep all your partitions
 unmounted unil you are ready for them and you do not risk further
 corruption by moving stuff over from a running system, as would be the
 case if you had some sort of database running.

Well, I have plenty of free space on hdb, so I could put in a small Etch 
install there and boot it to do the copying (or rsyncing).

At least I have everything in a separate, corruption-free install now, so I 
should be able to do much harm no matter what I do to hda and hdc.

Thanks

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Re: Re: Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

[David Bruce]

  Is there a quick fix I can do to get her into her email for today?

 Use mutt.

Actually, it is even easier - I also have Gnome but never use it - she can log 
into a Gnome session and use Icedove with no problems.

 As a temp fix I suppose you could move her data but if the reiserfs on
 which home is built is partially corrupt then you're building a brick
 wall on a house of cards.

 If you have a spare partition or drive, make one with JFS and copy the
 data to that.

Certainly - I plan to pick up another drive (or two) today and move everything 
away from the troubled filesystem while I still can.

Thanks.

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Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

[David Bruce]

I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power 
outage.  The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and 
says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also 
fails, saying I need to use reiserfs --rebuild-sb, which also fails.   I 
think I may need to migrate my /home to ext3 or something.

Anyway, after resuming the boot sequence, the system seems to come up normally 
and I can log in without problems.  However, my wife's login is hosed.  KDM 
displays a dialog saying:

 Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation

It seems her ~/.kde directory has problems with corrupted file permissions.

debian:/home/janis/.kde# ls -l
total 0
?- ? ? ? ?? Autostart
?- ? ? ? ?? cache-debian
?- ? ? ? ?? share
?- ? ? ? ?? socket-debian
?- ? ? ? ?? tmp-debian

Is there a quick fix I can do to get her into her email for today?  I tried 
copying my own .kde into her home and changing the ownership, but KDM locked 
up when I tried to log in as her.  Maybe I should create a new user account 
for her and manually move data from her home dir? Any suggestions would be 
appreciated.

David Bruce


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Problem opening StarOffice files in OpenOffice 2

[Bruce M. Ward]

Has anybody else found that the Debian supplied OOo 2.0.4 (2.0.4-5) in Etch 
will not open StarOffice 5 .sdw files?

I first get a 'Filter Selection' window (as though it hasn't recognised the 
file type), I can go select (after hunting for) 'StarWriter 5.0', and then get 
General Error. General input/output error.

Funnily, OOo 1.1.5 has no problem opening the same files (therefore it appears 
not to be a problem with the files).

Thank you
Bruce Ward
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Horrible mouse problems under Sid with 2.6.17, latest xorg

[David Bruce]

For some time I have had problems with the mouse becoming erratic (losing 
synch?) and generating a flurry of click events, generally opening a bunch of 
Konq windows and inserting random cuts/pastes and other click events into 
whatever I happen to be working on (most commonly coding with KDevelop).  I 
cannot reliably reproduce the behavior - usually starts a few minutes into 
session and seems to perhaps occur mainly when I have the mouse over the 
bottom of the screen at the Kicker bar.  Usually, but not always, the mouse 
becomes unresponsive after the unwanted activity subsides.  Restarting X with 
Ctrl-Alt-Backspc does not restore normal mouse behavior.

My system - home built Athlon 2400 PC, Mitsumi scroll mouse.
  - Linux 2.6.17 source from debian, built by me with make-kpkg
  - no power management enabled in kernel config.
  - kernel config mouse support for PS/2
  - ImPS/2 selected in xorg.conf; scroll enabled

My wife is begging me to get rid of that @#$% Debian thing and go back to 
Windows.

Any ideas?
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flat panel not accepting non-native res after dist-upgrade

[David Bruce]

I recently spent an afternoon on a major dist-upgrade on my daughter's 
computer.  It is running Sid with 2.6.15, latest nvidia driver, xorg from 
Sid.  After the dist-upgrade and installation of newest nvidia, I could not 
get into KDE from kdm - determined from debian-kde that the problem was a 
missing Xsession file, recommended fix was to rename Xsession-xfree86 (or 
similar) to Xsession - after that, most things seem to work.

However: apps that request fullscreen video in non-native resolution (such as 
pp-racer, or Tuxmath with fullscreen, both of which use SDL) get a bizarre 
display, somewhat like a widescreen DVD playing on a fullscreen TV, along 
with a moving box saying Input Not Supported.  The same happens if I change 
resolution using Ctr-Alt-'+'.  This did not happen before the upgrade.  I 
have tried changing to the vesa or nv drivers with no difference.  I wondered 
if somehow X is now requesting too high a refresh rate, but dpkg-reconfigure 
xserver-xorg no longer gives me the option to select resolutions and refresh 
rates.  My other computer is also running all the latest Sid with a flat 
panel monitor and the nvidia driver, and it does not have this problems. Any 
hints would be appreciated.

Thanks,
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dpkg-reconfigure list

[Bruce Byfield]

As many users probably know, dpkg-reconfigure can be used to reconfigure
installed packages. In some cases, such as locales and alsa-base, it
also opens a series of text-based dialogs to guide you through possible
choices.

Does anyone know if there is a definititve list of which packages are
reconfigured through a dialog? I can make a list of about a dozen off
the top of my head, but I'm sure there must be more.

Thanks for any help that people can suggest,

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Through a world that needs correction, we wander all our days
Wild to make our mark
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Debian SSH server configuration

[Bruce Corbin]

Hi All,

Before you flame me --- I asked this question over in debian-ssh and 
after 24 hours I didn't have a single hit on it.  So I thought I would 
try it over here.


I would like to configure a Debian server to only allow clients to ssh 
in if the public keys (probably RSA keys) already reside on the hard 
drives of both machines.


After spending some time in the snail book I am able to use 
StrictHostKeyChecking yes in the clients /etc/ssh/ssh_config file to 
cause the client to refuse to establish a ssh connection unless the 
server's public key is in the client's /home/user-name/.ssh/known_hosts 
file.  This is useful in preventing overly trusting users from blindly 
answering yes and accepting man-in-the-middle keys when connecting to 
a new server.  But, this does not restrict who can connect to the server.


I tried putting StrictHostKeyChecking yes in the server's 
/etc/ssh/sshd_config file but I got a bad configuration option error.
My server's /etc/ssh/sshd_config file has PublicKeyAuthentication yes 
and PasswordAuthentication no.  I am uneasy about experimenting with 
PublicKeyAuthentication without having a better understanding of what it 
really does.  I don't want to turn off any authentication features or 
turn off any encryption features and leave myself wide open but thinking 
that I am secure.


Thus, I think my goal is simple, I have paid some dues and I am hitting 
a brick wall.  I don't want any client computers to be able to ssh into 
my server unless they already have the key on their hard drive.


Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Bruce





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[Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

[Bruce Corbin]

Thanks.  I'll read up on certificates and read the link at the bottom of 
your reply.  It's not sinking in at the moment but hopefully it will 
after a little reading.


With respect to the problem:  I want to have files on my server at 
home and have my laptop be the only out of house machine that can 
access them.  This much I have already, but I enter a password to get 
in.  I may be off base, but it seems like I should be able to have the 
key on the laptop and get in without using a password or pass phrase.  
It isn't really a big deal, but it bothers me that I think I should be 
able to do it but I can't find a way.


Another application for this is that it is a server oriented way of 
avoiding the man-in-the-middle issue for the first connection.  I 
currently have no concern over this, but it is another example.


Thank you,
Bruce

---BeginMessage---
On (25/04/06 19:23), Bruce Corbin wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 Before you flame me --- I asked this question over in debian-ssh and 
 after 24 hours I didn't have a single hit on it.  So I thought I would 
 try it over here.
 
 I would like to configure a Debian server to only allow clients to ssh 
 in if the public keys (probably RSA keys) already reside on the hard 
 drives of both machines.
 
 After spending some time in the snail book I am able to use 
 StrictHostKeyChecking yes in the clients /etc/ssh/ssh_config file to 
 cause the client to refuse to establish a ssh connection unless the 
 server's public key is in the client's /home/user-name/.ssh/known_hosts 
 file.  This is useful in preventing overly trusting users from blindly 
 answering yes and accepting man-in-the-middle keys when connecting to 
 a new server.  But, this does not restrict who can connect to the server.

I haven't used this setting. What happens when the server's key expires?

 
 I tried putting StrictHostKeyChecking yes in the server's 
 /etc/ssh/sshd_config file but I got a bad configuration option error.

StrictHostKeyChecking is a client configuration directive, not a server
one.

 My server's /etc/ssh/sshd_config file has PublicKeyAuthentication yes 

Good

 and PasswordAuthentication no. 

Any other methods allowed?

 I am uneasy about experimenting with 
 PublicKeyAuthentication without having a better understanding of what it 
 really does.  I don't want to turn off any authentication features or 
 turn off any encryption features and leave myself wide open but thinking 
 that I am secure.
 

The sshd_config file has pretty conservative settings by default, i.e.
it disables things that are at the riskier end of the scale. Turning off
PasswordAuthentication and others and using PublicKeyAuthentication
should make you more secure (by that I mean you will be immune from
script kiddies using password guessing scripts). You are right to be
careful about what you do though.

I would not recommend turning off password authentication until the end
of the process unless you have local access to the server, otherwise you're
on your own.

You haven't actually explained what your problem is, so I'll just
descibe the usual setup.

The server has a certificate so that you know who they are, and you get
this bit and have set it up. 

The client has a key, this is slightly different, as their is no web of
trust or similar, the client just has to prove knowledge of that secret.
You have to create a key for each client. This is easily done with 

ssh-keygen -t rsa 

on the client machine. You then need to get this key to the server so
that it can check it with the client. The easiest way to do this is with 

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You can then 

ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and instead of being prompted to enter your password for the server you
will be prompted for the passphrase on the key. Turn on debugging output
from ssh if you want to confirm it is using key based authentication.

Then I would recommend looking in to ssh-agent, and libpam-ssh.
libpam-ssh is one of the most useful bits of software I have installed. 

You can get a full walkthrough here
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152


James

 
 Any suggestions?
 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=enq=ssh+keybtnG=Google+Searchmeta=

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Re: Logrotate and mail

[Foote, Bruce (OFT)]

Sir,

Back in 5/2002 you wrote a question on a listserve that went with out
answer.  It was as follows:

'I have a question regarding the use of logrotate.

I rotate syslog, apache/error.log, and auth.log weekly. I would like to
have
the old logs e-mailed, then compressed.
As such, I am using the 'mail' command. However, can I use mail to mail
a
log to a system user? That is, a user
specified in /etc/passwd? Furthermore, might I be able to mail a log to
an
entire group (from /etc/group)? Or can the mail
command only be used to e-mail a log to an actual e-mail address? I've
searched online without luck.

One other question regarding logrotate. Suppose I have a set of rules
for
/var/log/apache/*, followed by a rule set
for /var/log/apache/error.log. Will both be applied, ala iptables style?
(first one, then the other) Or will only one be used,
while the other is discarded? What is the default behavior in these
cases?
Thanks!'

From 'http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/05/msg00193.html'

I was doing a google search on logrotate and mail with the same
question.

Do you have an answer to the question above ?  specifically ' However,
can I use mail to mail a
log to a system user? That is, a user
specified in /etc/passwd?'  Please let me know if you ever received an
answer to this.

Thanks,

Bruce J. Foote
Computer Systems Programmer1
NYS Office For Technology

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KDevelop crashing

[David Bruce]

Over the last few days, KDevelop has started crashing a few seconds after I 
try to open it.  I have been using it for months to work on tuxmath.  I am 
running Sid with everything apt-get dist-upgraded to current versions. 
KDevelop is at version 4:3.3.0-2.  

Until today, I could get KDevelop to start successfully by trying three or 
four times, but now I cannot get it to work.  Below is the output from 
starting KDevelop on the command line via Konsole:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kdevelop3
QLayout unnamed added to IndexView unnamed, which already has a layout
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
QObject::connect: No such slot ClassViewPart::removeNamespace(const QString)
QObject::connect:  (sender name:   'ClassViewWidget')
QObject::connect:  (receiver name: 'ClassViewPart')
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
QObject::connect: No such slot subversionPart::slotActionAddToIgnoreList()
QObject::connect:  (sender name:   'subversion_ignore')
QObject::connect:  (receiver name: 'Subversion')
QObject::connect: No such slot 
subversionPart::slotActionRemoveFromIgnoreList()
QObject::connect:  (sender name:   'subversion_donot_ignore')
QObject::connect:  (receiver name: 'Subversion')
QObject::connect: No such slot 
subversionPart::slotStopButtonClicked(KDevPlugin*)
QObject::connect:  (sender name:   'unnamed')
QObject::connect:  (receiver name: 'Subversion')
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
ASSERT: part  parent 
in /tmp/buildd/kdevelop3-3.3.0/./parts/fileview/partwidget.cpp (40)
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
ERROR: syntax error
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
i = 4, currDir = , currFile = src
i = 5, currDir = , currFile =
KCrash: Application 'kdevelop3' crashing...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

This is the backtrace from the KDE crash handler (with a lot of the no 
debugging symbols found cut out):

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library /lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1.
(no debugging symbols found)

(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1241491776 (LWP 7453)]
[New Thread -1253233744 (LWP 7456)]
(no debugging symbols found)

(no debugging symbols found)
[KCrash handler]
#5  0xb6753e3a in QShared::ref () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#6  0xb6b46379 in QString::operator= () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#7  0xb6e83b8a in KURL::operator= () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#8  0xb6eccfaf in KURL::KURL () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#9  0xb757532b in KFileTreeBranch::parentKFTVItem () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#10 0xb75bb49f in KFileTreeBranch::addItems () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#11 0xb75bbf7d in KFileTreeBranch::qt_invoke () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#12 0xb682d7ff in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#13 0xb74b2f15 in KDirLister::newItems () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#14 0xb74b329b in KDirLister::emitItems () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#15 0xb751c5bb in KDirListerCache::slotEntries () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#16 0xb751ca1a in KDirListerCache::qt_invoke () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#17 0xb682d7ff in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#18 0xb742bc4c in KIO::ListJob::entries () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#19 0xb7495c93 in KIO::ListJob::slotListEntries () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#20 0xb7495f10 in KIO::ListJob::qt_invoke () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#21 0xb682d7ff in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#22 0xb7428425 in KIO::SlaveInterface::listEntries ()
   from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#23 0xb7495010 in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#24 0xb743c6f7 in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#25 0xb744160b in KIO::Slave::gotInput () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#26 0xb74417bb in KIO::Slave::qt_invoke () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4
#27 0xb682d7ff in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#28 0xb682e106 in 

KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

[David Bruce]

I'm running Sid with 2.6.14.  Nvidia-glx was upgrade to 8174 in Sid recently.  
I built and installed the corresponding driver using module-assistant, and 
now all of the fonts and (I think) KDE/Qt GUI elements are about 20% larger 
than they used to be, even though the point size is still the same.  I 
thought at first I had inadvertently reduced the resolution from 1024x768 to 
800x600, but that is not the case - I still am at 1024x768.  If I use the nv 
driver instead of the nvidia driver with no other changes to the xorg conf, 
the problem goes away.  Non-KDE apps don't seem to be affected.  I have done 
some googling and there seems to be an issue with KDE determining dpi from 
the X configuration, but I haven't been able to understand it well enough to 
get the problem fixed.  Any hints would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

[David Bruce]

I found a couple of lines from the respective Xorg.0.log files for the two 
drivers which perhaps are pertinant:

For the nv driver:
(--) NV(0): Display dimensions: (340, 270) mm
(--) NV(0): DPI set to (76, 72)

For the nvidia driver:
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (95, 96); computed from UseEdidDpi X config 
option

This sounds like it could be what I am after.  I have never heard of the 
UseEdidDpi X config option, and I am sure I have never personally changed 
it, but I will investigate it and see if it affects my problem.

Thanks
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SOLVED - Re: Re: Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade

[David Bruce]

I found some info regarding this on www.nvnews.net and in the README for the 
nvidia driver - apparently the UseEdidDpi option has some problems in the 
8174 version of the driver.  I added the following lines to the Device 
section of my xorg.conf and the problem seems to be solved.

Option  UseEdidDpiFALSE
Option  DPI   76 x 72

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Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

[Bruce Hohl]

--- loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  9- # chmod 777
  /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice
  This step seemed but soffice was installed
  with mode 000 and therefore could not be executed
  (started).
 
 
 Bad idea, there are a lot of steps between 000 and
777
 Don't ever use 777
 It is a program you don't need write permission: 755
 seems more
 apropriate
 
 Michel. 
  
 
Thanks, So noted, and changed to 755.



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Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

[Bruce Hohl]

  It's not that simple.  A lot of newbies dive into testing or unstable   because they "have" to have the newest stuff, then they don't know   what to do when their system breaks.   So it's Debian's *fault* that newbies whine when they make no effort  to read the Debian web site?  Gentlemen: My original question has morphed into something other than I intended. Firstly, I did not whine about Debian. I simply stated IMHO OpenOffice 2 is an important piece of software, important enough to get into Testing ASAP and provide debs for Sarge. No one has to agree with my *opinion*. It is simply feedback from someone who has used Linux for three years (I'm only a newbie to Debian).  Secondly, I did in fact make an effort to determine if I could get OpenOffice onto Sarge easily (i.e. from a repository or deb packages - these options do not yet appear available). More and
 more I want Linux to be easy to use, stable (as in Sarge), open, and have good software - this led me to Debian. I "need" OO Base because I need an MS Access like application for Linux, and I need it now! Access has been around for like 10+ years.  The following are my install notes for OO2 on Debian Sarge.  More formal instruction can be found at: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0/instructions.html.  I have not yet used 002 enough to state that all works well and that it is stable on Sarge :).   OpenOffice 2.0 Install (my notes) = 0- Uninstall your current OpenOffice version.  If you keep it see the README files.  1- Make sure Jave 1.4+ is installed:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -l jre*  ii j2re1.4 1.4.2.01-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment  OK.
   2- If not download and install (or from apt-get):   http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp  3- Download OpenOffice 2.0 from www.openoffice.org  File is OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz  4- # mv OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz /opt   5- # tar -xvzf OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz   6- # alien --to-deb *.rpm  # rm *.rpm (no longer needed)  7- # cp desktop-integration/*.deb ./  8- # dpkg -i *.deb   9- # chmod 777 /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice  This step seemed but soffice was installed with mode 000  and therefore could not be executed (started). 
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gdm font question

[Bruce Hohl]

Does any know how to change the font size for the
entries on the gdm menus for Language, Session, and
Actions?  These same menus seem to be used for the
various themes available.  Thanks.




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Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

[Bruce Hohl]

--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:09:10PM +, Antony
 Gelberg wrote:
 
  Version 1 has perfectly adequate support for
  linking to databases.  
 
 Where you presumably mean barely usable support if
 you're already a database expert?  At least that's
 what *I* have.
 
I intend to use OO Base with HSQL in place of MS
Access to *create* (not link) some single file
databases used for analytical analysis.  OO 2 appears
to implement this functionality in a clean and
reasonable manner (i.e. like MS Access).  This is an
important office software function.


  In the time that you spent composing that post,
  you could have searched the list archives and
  learnt how to install it.  I doubt you could have
  created any impressive documents in that time.
 
 Why use a distro if you're going to have to
 manually install things anyway?
  
Exactly!

Any who has used gnu+linux for a while understands the
potential danger of going outside one's distribution. 
(My download is in progress .. wish me luck!)

My original point:  OpenOffice 2.0 (while not perfect)
is an important piece of open source software.  IMHO
the Debian developers should get OO 2 into Testing
soon and create deb packages for Sarge.  (And if you
continue to doubt the importance of Office software
just consider what Office has done for Microsoft.)





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