CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl
Using the eject command I get the following message: eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device This is new: I used the drive to install the OS (jessie? Debian 9, anyway) and I've actually--not too recently--listened to a CD on it. Feeding The Duck the message didn't help; nor did deleting the device file and running mknod. The command sees the drive (it's not the quietest thing in the world, and I can hear it clunking in the case). It just doesn't open the tray. -- Dave Williamsd...@eskimo.com
CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl, addendum
The drive also does not respond to the physical control on the case. -- Dave Williamsd...@eskimo.com
Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 03:01:14PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to, > and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you? > > This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a > browser, or a web site, or some combo. (I guess it could be a > pipeline of curl and some mail program, but i'm afraid i'd just get > piles of incomprehensible text.) > > I would plan on sending the mail to my gmail account (for searching > and archival purposes). > > TIA for any clues. > > dan I use lynx for this; it's not completely automagic, you have to configure it a little. And it has the drawback that it doesn't do javascript. In my case that doesn't matter, but you probably have different needs. -- Dave Williamsd...@eskimo.com
Re: Vim help, tags, sudo
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:24:34PM -, Frank Miles wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:30:02 +0200, jeremy bentham wrote: > > > This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll > > start here. > > > > I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy going on a new machine > > (well, new to me. I think the huckster term-of-art is > > "pre-owned": I had the pleasure of wiping dollarbill inc's crap > > off it). > > > > Anyway, I got vim installed, opened it up and wanted to look at > > the docs for something. > > > > :h > > > > resulted in, "E433: no tags file" > > > > I've been using vim for a long time, upgrading as time went > > along, and I'd never thought about the mechanics of help. So I > > had to go looking. > > > > Ctags wasn't installed, so I got that and ran it on the vim doc > > directory. It didn't make a tags file, but something that looks > > like a config file for who-knows-what. > > > > So I looked at another machine, decided that the doc directories > > were sufficiently similar (vim 7.1 versus 7.3) and copied the > > tags file over. Kludgy, I know, and generally a Bad Idea (tm). > > But I figured any damage would be limited to something already > > broken > > > > It looks like a permissions problem, but I can't see any > > difference in that area between the machines. (Admittedly, I'm > > comparing Lenny to Wheezy, but it this instance should that make > > any difference?) > > > > Now I have help with "sudo vi", but not as a normal user. > > > > I'm enquiring here because I'm wondering, is this symptomatic of > > some other problem that's going to leap on me from a Very High > > Place? > > > > Ok, I want my vim docs too! I think vim would sing, if you found > > the right configuration, and I keep learning stuff, control-]'ing > > about the help files. Having to keep a root session around and > > switching to it just wouldn't be the same. And I wouldn't know > > why it's not working the way it's supposed to. > > Which version of vim did you install? It wasn't the "tiny" version, > right? Did you install vim-docs? (not sure if that's necessary) Actually, yeah, vim-tiny and vim-runtime, which latter, according to apt(titude) should give me the docs. And now that I look, I also have vim and vim-common. And, looking at the lenny machine, it has the same thing. So I don't think that's the problem. -- Dave Williams d...@eskimo.com
Vim help, tags, sudo
This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll start here. I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy going on a new machine (well, new to me. I think the huckster term-of-art is "pre-owned": I had the pleasure of wiping dollarbill inc's crap off it). Anyway, I got vim installed, opened it up and wanted to look at the docs for something. :h resulted in, "E433: no tags file" I've been using vim for a long time, upgrading as time went along, and I'd never thought about the mechanics of help. So I had to go looking. Ctags wasn't installed, so I got that and ran it on the vim doc directory. It didn't make a tags file, but something that looks like a config file for who-knows-what. So I looked at another machine, decided that the doc directories were sufficiently similar (vim 7.1 versus 7.3) and copied the tags file over. Kludgy, I know, and generally a Bad Idea (tm). But I figured any damage would be limited to something already broken It looks like a permissions problem, but I can't see any difference in that area between the machines. (Admittedly, I'm comparing Lenny to Wheezy, but it this instance should that make any difference?) Now I have help with "sudo vi", but not as a normal user. I'm enquiring here because I'm wondering, is this symptomatic of some other problem that's going to leap on me from a Very High Place? Ok, I want my vim docs too! I think vim would sing, if you found the right configuration, and I keep learning stuff, control-]'ing about the help files. Having to keep a root session around and switching to it just wouldn't be the same. And I wouldn't know why it's not working the way it's supposed to. -- Dave Williams| "Awk!" he sed, bashfully. "Do I _have_ to d...@eskimo.com | learn perl?"
Re: lynx - not all sites readable
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> can someone explain, why lynx sometimes forbid websites or supresses websites?
>
> I needed a driver from Nvidia. As I had no X available, I tried download
> using
> lynx.
Many sites block lynx, because it can be used as a crawler.
Sometimes it helps to obscure the user-agent: I stick hyphens in
in the word "lynx" there and it helps. Not really lying...just
not telling the truth {-; .
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Re: bash, dash and sh
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:43:17PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > jeremy bentham wrote: > >> I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny > >> for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer > >> (tm) I never buy anything new if I can avoid it) and, right now, > >> it has a start at Wheezy on it. > As a consumer running an elderly server with Lenny on it, I too > congratulate you -- Wheezy is more fun than Lenny. They fixed a > lot of stuff that gave me trouble with Lenny. > >> I have a bunch of scripts > >> > >> (ls -1 ~/bin | wc > >> 138 139 1302) > >> > >> with the first line #!/bin/sh that use bashisms, and the above > >> would be a lot easier than editing each one (of course, maybe > >> just editing each one would be easier than doing this ;-) ). > May I suggest just changing the pointer from Dash back to Bash. > You sound like somebody that stays with a release for a while, > and this is would be a lot less work than editing all those > scripts. I probably wasn't clear enough in my Real Question, which is, will doing this--what I really want--Seriously Break Something? Lots of stuff uses "/bin/sh". > Or maybe editing the top line of them from #!/bin/sh to > #!/bin/bash, for the time being. And this was what I was trying to avoid, while possibly learning something without having to type "man dash". Terminal Laziness (again, (TM)). I'll use this reply to say, thanks for the suggestions-- especially that sed command line. I know about sed, of course, but I use it so seldom that I basically have to relearn it every time I need it. > -- > Glenn English -- Dave WilliamsWhen the professional politicians decide to d...@eskimo.com solve a problem, the best we can hope for is that they won't make it worse. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150424003105.GV14392@benny
bash, dash and sh
I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer (tm) I never buy anything new if I can avoid it) and, right now, it has a start at Wheezy on it. I happened to read on another list, and then verified for myself, that /bin/sh is now a link to dash, instead of bash. If I cd /bin sudo rm sh; ln -s bash sh will I break a bunch of stuff? I have a bunch of scripts (ls -1 ~/bin | wc 138 139 1302) with the first line #!/bin/sh that use bashisms, and the above would be a lot easier than editing each one (of course, maybe just editing each one would be easier than doing this ;-) ). -- Dave WilliamsIn order to save you from the terrorists, we d...@eskimo.com need to find out about your sex life. And we've got the technology to do it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150423030228.GS14392@benny
[SOLVED, but...] mounting a Nikon camera
Thanks for the replies. I can now peruse my photos with digikam, but I am not sure what it cost me; I suspect I'll find out when next I reboot. Installing digikam resulted, apparently, in pulling in half of kde--cruft to me--*and* a new initrd! I think I've had it with apt; dpkg from now on, regardless of the hours it costs me ;-] Lisi, why is it cowardly to mount the SD card by itself? I would certainly have done that, but I don't have the hardware; maybe I'm about to discover I should have acquired it. -- Dave WilliamsTo protect you from the terrorists, we need details about d...@eskimo.com your sex life, and we have the technology to get them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140803191804.GT11848@benny
mounting a Nikon camera
>From time to time threads appear here describing troubles mounting digital cameras. I never paid much attention to them, because I didn't have a digital camera and had no intention of acquiring one. Time makes liars of us all, I guess. I now have a Nikon L30, and I can't get my Lenny machine (yeah, yeah, I know) to mount it. I also have an ancient McApple, and all I have to to do there is connect the camera, and iPhotos opens and gives me access to the SD card. The machine sees the camera: in /dev, the following appears when I connect it (at 2014-07-26 20:16): crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 2014-07-26 20:16 ptmx drwxr-xr-x 2 root root2880 2014-07-26 20:16 char crw-rw 1 root root252, 12 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep00 crw-rw 1 root root252, 11 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep82 crw-rw 1 root root252, 9 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep01 crw-rw 1 root root252, 10 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep81 Note, no new block device. And in /proc/bus/usb, a stanza in devices: T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 66 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04b0 ProdID=0357 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=NIKON S: Product=NIKON DSC COOLPIX L30-PTP S: SerialNumber=30067027 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=4096ms Does that "Driver=(none)" mean I'm hosed? So, the computer knows the camera is connected. It just won't let me *do* anything with it. Whaddo I do? -- Dave Williams "Awk!" he sed, bashfully. "Do I *have* to learn d...@eskimo.comPerl?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140727040156.GP11848@benny
Why sarge? (was:) sarge, aptitude, archives
On Nov 19 s. keeling wrote:
> jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a
> > question about aptitude/sources.list/archives.
That does look kind of trollish. Sorry. Post in haste, repent
at leisure.
> Fine. Why would you expect Sarge to work anymore? Just curious.
Laziness. Fear.
I have _never_ done an "upgrade" that didn't break something,
and after lurking here for a while I suspect that udev and
x.org would have me thrashing about for several days.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it: sarge works for my simple
needs, and I'll probably stick with it until "progress" breaks
something _I_ use.
Or until my hardware fails and I have to go with a new
install anyway. Given the age of my stuff, that's the most
likely scenario.
If the gift CDs I used to install Debian had been buzz, I'd probably
be sticking with _that_.
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Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
On Nov 19 you wrote: > On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote: > > > > My sources.list > > > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib > > > > non-free > > > > per the README at the archive site. > > > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on > > > archive.debian.org, only a debian directory. This has already been > > > reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754. > > > So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list. > > Alas, that was the first thing I tried--well, > > s/archive.debian.org/http.us.deb.org/. > > Suppose I should have put that in my first post [-; . > I think you misunderstood, the correct line would be > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free I see I didn't put that very well; no matter. I got the line right. My problem was simply not understanding aptitude. After getting those error messages I merely needed to press "return", then "u", select "become root", type root's password and watch the progress bar I can only plead that as a recent emigre from slackware land, I became dazzled by Debian's slick package-management system and began to expect it to read my mind. ;-} > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) -- Dave Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge, aptitude, archives
On Nov 18 you wrote: > On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote: > > I can't use aptitude anymore. > > It was working, pre-sarge-archive. > > Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this: > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main > > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_ > > main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/contrib > > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge > > _contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org > > sarge/non-free > > Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge > > _non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > (That's 3 _long_ lines; I broke them up for e-mail convenience.) > > My sources.list > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free > > per the README at the archive site. > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on > archive.debian.org, only a debian directory. This has already been > reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754. > So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list. Alas, that was the first thing I tried--well, s/archive.debian.org/http.us.deb.org/. Suppose I should have put that in my first post [-; . -- Dave Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sarge, aptitude, archives
I can't use aptitude anymore.
It was working, pre-sarge-archive.
Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this:
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main
Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_
main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/contrib
Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge
_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/non-free
Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge
_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
(That's 3 _long_ lines; I broke them up for e-mail convenience.)
My sources.list
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free
per the README at the archive site.
My /var/lib/apt/lists contains line referring to http.us.debian.org
[...]; I tried moving the directory out of the way (renaming it) but
no joy.
Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a
question about aptitude/sources.list/archives.
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