Re: debian installer network console

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Hi Andy!

On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 5:58 PM Andy Smith  wrote:

> HI Matt,
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 05:40:31PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over
> a
> > network console on a debian install?
>
> I haven't tested this but when doing an install over serial console,
> the installer runs in GNU Screen so it is possible to switch to the
> different terminal by the usual Screen key combinations, e.g. ctrl-a
> then space. This was not obvious to me for many years.
>
> Perhaps it is the same on the network console?
>

Indeed it is!

Thanks for the hint! I've been wondering about it for years. :)

Cheers!

-m

debian installer network console

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I use the network-console for the debian installer - it's great.

There are times when I would like to use the console (tty - Ctrl + Alt +
F2) to perform some ad-hoc sysadmin'ing during the install.

Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over a
network console on a debian install?

Thanks for any help!

-m

Re: install missing unicode fonts

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Huzzah! Thanks for the help, Darac!

-m

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:58 PM Darac Marjal 
wrote:

>
> On 17/11/2022 19:32, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've done some searching but came up empty with the correct way to
> > install missing unicode fonts.
> >
> > For example, in my terminal I type "exa -l --icons" and I see:
> >
> >  (that is a rectangle with the codepoint: F158)
> >
> > I don't see what F158 is supposed to represent.
>
> This is probably a NerdFont https://www.nerdfonts.com
>
>
> >
> > How do I find the package that installs this glyph/font/icon/whatever?
> >
> > If there is more than one package that provides it, how do I find out
> > which one I should pick?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > -m
>

install missing unicode fonts

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I've done some searching but came up empty with the correct way to install
missing unicode fonts.

For example, in my terminal I type "exa -l --icons" and I see:

 (that is a rectangle with the codepoint: F158)

I don't see what F158 is supposed to represent.

How do I find the package that installs this glyph/font/icon/whatever?

If there is more than one package that provides it, how do I find out which
one I should pick?

Thanks for any help!

-m

minimize daemon downtime for apt upgrade

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings!

Scenario:

I have a Sid desktop computer that acts as a router for my home network.

If I wait for a few months to perform an "apt upgrade", many packages get
upgraded.

The upgrade starts with shutting down isc-dhcp-server (in order to upgrade
it), then starts to upgrade all the packages, and finally some hours later
the upgrade starts isc-dhcp-server.

This is a bit annoying as it DoS'es all the other computers on my network.

I know I could do:

apt install isc-dhcp-server
apt upgrade

to work around this issue.

Is there something more elegant? Like a "minimize downtime" for a package
config file?

Hand-wavy solution...

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/minimize-downtime
APT::Minimize-Downtime {
bind9
apache2
isc-dhcp-server
}

Does anyone think this idea could be pushed into package metadata?

Thanks for any help or dialog.

-m

which package to file a bug against?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings d-u,

I have a new-ish laptop and a pair of the function keys (screen
brighter/dimmer) are mapped to the wrong function (mic mute/unmute).

Where should I look to file the bug?

I'm aware it is ACPI related, but I do not have any packages installed
that have "acpi" in the package name.

The tech stack for my desktop environment (MATE) is somewhat tall, so
I don't quite know where to invest time for the bug report.

Thanks for any guidance!

-m

Re: relational database tracking of packages and updates

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:38 PM Greg Wooledge  wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:55:20PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other
> > GNU/Linux OSes) ?
> >
> > I'm thinking something that keeps track of packages. I.e. when various
> > package versions become available and when upgrades happen to said
> packages.
> >
> > There are a variety of ways of attacking this problem and I'm wondering
> if
> > anyone has already had some success in the domain?
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/


Thanks for the pointer, Greg.

I was hoping to have some sort of package I could install on each system I
admin. There would be a script or something that would keep a database
updated of what is happening with packages on that system.

I could then interact with the database. In pseudo-SQL:

select * from hosts, packages, etc. where package_name = 'apache2' and
package_state = 'installed' and package_version <= '2.4';

Not sure if anyone has done something like this or not.

-m

relational database tracking of packages and updates

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other
GNU/Linux OSes) ?

I'm thinking something that keeps track of packages. I.e. when various
package versions become available and when upgrades happen to said packages.

There are a variety of ways of attacking this problem and I'm wondering if
anyone has already had some success in the domain?

Thanks for any pointers!

-m

OT: NFS resource(s)

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I am hitting a strange NFS issue and I'm trying to find some sort of
interactive resource (user mailing list, or IRC, or etc.) to ask some
questions on.

I see there is an NFS kernel mailing list, but I doubt they want to help me
debug my problem.

Is anyone aware of good NFS (v4) resources?

Thank you!

-m

Re: Super (Mod4) + L behavior for MATE

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagr...@d.umn.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Just upgraded to MATE 1.20.0 (Debian Sid) and I'm noticing something that
> I had not before...
>
> If I hit Super + L, I get a screen lock. However, screen lock is bound to
> Ctrl + Alt + L.
>
> Anyone have ideas as to what is up?
>

Dug into things a little. Here is the short answer:

dconf write /org/mate/marco/global-keybindings/run-command-1 "'disabled'"
dconf write /org/mate/marco/keybinding-commands/command-1 "''"

The longer answer has more questions in it. Such as, why doesn't:

dconf read /org/mate/marco/global-keybindings/run-command-1

return

'l'

??

It only returns a value after the value changes (with the "write" command
above). But that feels like a bug in dconf.

-m

Super (Mod4) + L behavior for MATE

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

Just upgraded to MATE 1.20.0 (Debian Sid) and I'm noticing something that I
had not before...

If I hit Super + L, I get a screen lock. However, screen lock is bound to
Ctrl + Alt + L.

Anyone have ideas as to what is up?

Thanks!

-m

Re: ipv6 apt issue

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Andy Smith  wrote:

>
> apt uses SRV records:
>
> $ dig +short -t SRV _http._tcp.ftp.us.debian.org
> 0 2 80 ftp-nyc.osuosl.org.
> 0 1 80 debian.gtisc.gatech.edu.
> 0 1 80 ftp-chi.osuosl.org.
>
> That's where you're getting the host name ftp-chi.osuosl.org from.
>

Thanks for clearing that up, Andy!

Best,

-m

Re: ipv6 apt issue

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2017-03-28 13:24 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>
> > I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu.
> >
> > I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt
> to
> > connect to:
> >
> > # apt update
> > 0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2)
> >
> > but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete its connection.
>
> Apparently ftp-chi.osuosl.org works for me, can you reach other IPv6
> sites?
>

Well...

% ping ftp-chi.osuosl.org
PING ftp-chi.osuosl.org(ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2)) 56 data
bytes
^C
--- ftp-chi.osuosl.org ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3052ms

Not there.


% ping google.com
PING google.com(ja-in-x8b.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4001:c0c::8b)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ja-in-x8b.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4001:c0c::8b): icmp_seq=1
ttl=41 time=24.4 ms
64 bytes from ja-in-x8b.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4001:c0c::8b): icmp_seq=2
ttl=41 time=24.0 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 24.097/24.259/24.421/0.162 ms

Yep.

% ping ftp.us.debian.org
PING ftp.us.debian.org(debian.gtisc.gatech.edu (2610:148:1f10:3::89)) 56
data bytes
64 bytes from debian.gtisc.gatech.edu (2610:148:1f10:3::89): icmp_seq=1
ttl=51 time=30.8 ms
64 bytes from debian.gtisc.gatech.edu (2610:148:1f10:3::89): icmp_seq=2
ttl=51 time=31.0 ms
^C
--- ftp.us.debian.org ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.844/30.926/31.009/0.194 ms

Yep.



> > If I look at my sources lists:
> >
> > % grep http /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | sed -e 's/.*http:\/\///' |
> uniq
> > ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
> > ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
> > ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> > ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
> >
> > I don't have an /etc/apt/sources.list file. To my observation, my host
> > should only be connecting ftp.us.debian.org.
>
> That's correct, but there are many machines behind ftp.us.debian.org.


DNS queries return all the possible entries (even for round robin.) The
resolver chooses one.


>
> > Which has the following v6 addresses:
> >
> > % dig ftp.us.debian.org  +short
> > 2610:148:1f10:3::89
> > 2620:0:861:1:208:80:154:15
> >
> > So, where does the above ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2)
> coming
> > from?
>
> >From DNS round robin, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin_DNS.
>
>
The entries in the RR were returned in the above dig command. Those are the
only two  records for ftp.us.debian.org. 2600:3402:200:227::2 was not
part of the round robin entries.

Here is 10,000 queries for the  records of ftp.us.debian.org:

% for f in `seq 1 1`; do
dig ftp.us.debian.org  +short
done | sort | uniq
2610:148:1f10:3::89
2620:0:861:1:208:80:154:15

I (always) get the same two addresses.

Looking at the v4 systems for ftp.us.debian.org:

% dig ftp.us.debian.org +short | sort
128.30.2.26
128.61.240.89
208.80.154.15
64.50.233.100
64.50.236.52

% for host in `dig ftp.us.debian.org a +short | sort`; do
echo "$host => $(dig -x $host +short)"
done
128.30.2.26 => mirror-0.csail.mit.edu.
128.61.240.89 => debian.gtisc.gatech.edu.
208.80.154.15 => sodium.wikimedia.org.
64.50.233.100 => ftp-nyc.osuosl.org.
64.50.236.52 => ftp-chi.osuosl.org.

and the v6 systems for ftp.us.debian.org:

% for host in `dig ftp.us.debian.org  +short | sort`; do
echo "$host => $(dig -x $host +short)"
done
2610:148:1f10:3::89 => debian.gtisc.gatech.edu.
2620:0:861:1:208:80:154:15 => sodium.wikimedia.org.

Curiously, when running various apt commands my system does seem to want to
connect to:

% dig  ftp-nyc.osuosl.org. +short
2600:3404:200:237::2

% dig  ftp-chi.osuosl.org. +short
2600:3402:200:227::2

Even though those systems are not listed in the round robin set for the
 records of ftp.us.debian.org.

I'm puzzled.

-m

ipv6 apt issue

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu.

I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt to
connect to:

# apt update
0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2)

but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete its connection.

If I look at my sources lists:

% grep http /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | sed -e 's/.*http:\/\///' | uniq
ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

I don't have an /etc/apt/sources.list file. To my observation, my host
should only be connecting ftp.us.debian.org.

Which has the following v6 addresses:

% dig ftp.us.debian.org  +short
2610:148:1f10:3::89
2620:0:861:1:208:80:154:15

So, where does the above ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2) coming
from?

Thanks for any pointers!

-m

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Hi Tom,

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matt Zagrabelny mzagr...@d.umn.edu wrote:

 I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze 
 install:

 /boot - Software RAID5
 / - LVM on top of Software RAID5

 I lost a disk of my RAID array a few months ago and ever since
 replacing it and rebuilding the arrays, I no longer get a menu of
 kernels to boot from in GRUB. Instead I get a prompt.

 I have tried reinstalling GRUB from a Squeeze rescue flash drive, but
 there is no change.

 How did you uninstall grub?

I never uninstalled grub.

There was/is a bug in grub that it cannot read a degraded RAID array.
That was biting me at one point, but I replaced the drive and rebuilt
the array.

 What's the output of
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/


 Boot Info Script 0.61  [1 April 2012]


= Boot Info Summary: ===

 = Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector
34 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and
looks for (vg_01_ziggurat-root)/boot/grub on this drive.
 = Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector
34 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and
looks for (vg_01_ziggurat-root)/boot/grub on this drive.
 = No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc.
 = Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdd and looks at sector
34 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and
looks for (vg_01_ziggurat-root)/boot/grub on this drive.
 = ISOhybrid (Syslinux 3.82-4.03) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sde.

sda1: __

File system:   BIOS Boot partition
Boot sector type:  Grub2's core.img
Boot sector info:

sda2: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

sda3: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  Unknown
Boot sector info:

sdb1: __

File system:   BIOS Boot partition
Boot sector type:  Grub2's core.img
Boot sector info:

sdb2: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

sdb3: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  Unknown
Boot sector info:

sdc1: __

File system:   BIOS Boot partition
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

sdc2: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

sdc3: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

sdd1: __

File system:   BIOS Boot partition
Boot sector type:  Grub2's core.img
Boot sector info:

sdd2: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

sdd3: __

File system:   linux_raid_member
Boot sector type:  Unknown
Boot sector info:

sde1: __

File system:   iso9660
Boot sector type:  Unknown
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:

vg_01_ziggurat-root': __

File system:
Boot sector type:  Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:   mount: unknown filesystem type ''

md/0: __

File system:   ext4
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:/grub/grub.cfg /grub/core.img

md/1: __

File system:   LVM2_member
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

 Drive/Partition Info: =

Drive: sda _

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote:
 A suggestion. You may have lost the mbr when the disk failed. If you
 completely reinstalled your system oncluding reformat of drives that option
 should have been offered. Do you recall that occuring.

Hmmm. If I recall correctly, I installed GRUB to the MBR on /dev/sda,
but /dev/sdc was the disk that died.

Who knows - my memory isn't that good.

I did not completely reinstall my system. I just used the Squeeze
rescue option which includes an option to reinstall GRUB.

-mz


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GRUB no long gives menu on boot

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze install:

/boot - Software RAID5
/ - LVM on top of Software RAID5

I lost a disk of my RAID array a few months ago and ever since
replacing it and rebuilding the arrays, I no longer get a menu of
kernels to boot from in GRUB. Instead I get a prompt.

I have tried reinstalling GRUB from a Squeeze rescue flash drive, but
there is no change.

Comments and help appreciated.

Thanks,

-mz


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ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon
may have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init
script is the way to do this. I have adjusted the init script as so:

# head -n 25 /etc/init.d/sendmail
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:  sendmail
# Required-Start:$remote_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:  1
# Short-Description: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent
# Description:   Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA)
#for Debian. It is suitable for handling sophisticated
#mail configurations, although this means that its
#configuration can also be complex. Fortunately, simple
#thing can be done easily, and complex thing are possible,
#even if not easily understood ;)  Sendmail is the *ONLY*
#MTA with a Turing complete language to control *ALL*
#aspects of delivery!
### END INIT INFO

ulimit -n 4096 || echo Setting ulimit failed for sendmail daemon.
echo
echo Ulimit value for sendmail: `ulimit -n`
echo

# Author: Marc-Christian Petersen m@kernel.linux-systeme.com

I then reboot the system and I see this in my boot log:

From /var/log/boot:
Wed Apr 11 10:54:28 2012:
Wed Apr 11 10:54:28 2012: Ulimit value for sendmail: 4096
Wed Apr 11 10:54:28 2012:
Wed Apr 11 10:54:28 2012: Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmail

However, it looks like the sendmail daemon is still stuck at a maximum
of 1024 open files:

# cat /proc/1634/limits | grep 'Max open files'
Max open files1024 1024 file

Any ideas of how I can change the maximum open files for sendmail or
what I am doing wrong?

FWIW, I did tweak the clamav-milter daemon using a ulimit in the init
script and it seemed to work:

# cat /proc/1892/limits | grep 'Max open files'
Max open files4096 4096 files

Thanks for the help!

-mz


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Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:

 I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may
 have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is
 the way to do this.

 (...)

 I can be wrong but I had understood ulimits (per user/daemon) are set
 from /etc/security/limits.conf :-?

From [1]

/etc/security/limits.{d,conf} are only processed by pam_limits.
Processes started from init generally do not utilize pam_limits.so.

FWIW, I tried tweaking /etc/security/limits.{d,conf} and it did not
increase the max number of open files for the sendmail process.

Any other advice?

-mz

[1] 
http://old.nabble.com/How-to-set-ulimit-%28nofile%29-for-a-daemon-td28610214.html


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Re: Key logger

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Andre Majorel aym-nai...@teaser.fr wrote:

 Can anyone recommend a key logger for Debian ?

apt-cache search key logger

Though I've never used a key logger.

Cheers,

-matt


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Re: PPP MTU on an Ethernet link.

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:32 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
 Observed Phenomenon
 The interface from a Squeeze Linux router to 
 an ISP cable modem, configured with this line 
 in /etc/network/interfaces, has MTU = 1500.  
   iface eth0 inet dhcp
 Good; just as expected.
 
 For Lenny, the same /etc/network/interfaces 
 yields MTU = 576.  Very odd.  This value 
 should exist for a ppp link and not for an 
 eth link.
 
 If a D-Link DI-614+ is inserted between Lenny 
 and the cable modem, then MTU = 1500.
 
 Background Factors
 I prefer to keep Lenny on the machine until 
 Squeeze becomes more reliable.  Configuration 
 will be more difficult if the D-Link router 
 remains permanently. 
 
 Failed Solution
 According to 
 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#_setting_mtu
 I adjusted /etc/network/interfaces to this.
   iface eth0 inet dhcp
 hostname joule
 pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500

IIRC, you should be able to tweak the MTU after the link comes up.
Perhaps trying 'post-up' instead.
 
 Still the wrong MTU is set.
 pe...@joule:~$ ip link show eth0
 3: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 576 qdisc pfifo_fast state 
 UNKNOW
 N qlen 1000
 link/ether 00:50:ba:52:79:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
 
 Questions
 Can anyone explain why the dhcp negotiation 
 in Lenny results in MTU = 576?

It may be a path MTU discovery.


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Re: j2se on debian

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 22:23 -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 If I need j2se installed on Debian, what's my best option ?

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't j2se pretty old?

FWIW, here is what I do to get java working:

1  echo deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib
non-free  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list
2  sudo aptitude update
3  sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

1 needs to be done as root
1 Sun's java is in non-free
3 in aptitude you can search for Sun's java with /^sun-java

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Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:22 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
 Dne, 04. 02. 2010 14:57:37 je Adam Hardy napisal(a):
  
  How does normalize-audio know that one cd is the sound of pins  
  dropping but the next cd is elephants charging? I mean, I don't want  
  those cds to be literally the same volume, I want them to keep their  
  relative volume difference, but just to adjust the absolute level to  
  a standard.
  
  Or is that some Holy Grail that you can't do?
 
 Common sense tells me that any software that wants to normalize audio  
 levels, must probably scan the entire sound clip, find the loudest  
 passage within the clip, and set that passage to the reference 0 db  
 loudness. All the other passages in the clip just get set to an   
 accordingly lower level, and that's that. The same goes for entire CDs:  
 you find the loudest signal in the entire CD, and then proceed  
 accordingly.

FWIW, the replaygain algorithm uses a more advanced psycho-acoustic
model to determine loudness than just maximum amplitude.

I know you are talking about .wav and .flac, but I've used:

mp3gain
vorbisgain

for normalizing the respective audio files. Both of those packages use
the replaygain algorithm.

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Re: grub2 + serial redirect

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:14 -0500, Tom H wrote:
  So after 12+ years of using lilo on my server, I've decided that it might 
  be time to upgrade my boot loader.  With lilo I'm using the standard serial 
  redirect since I'm running a headless box (more specifically it's a guest 
  of a VirtualBox host).
 
  With Grub2, I've been able to get the standard serial redirect working with 
  the following in my /etc/default/grub:
 
  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600
  GRUB_TERMINAL=serial
  GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND=serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no 
  --stop=1
 
  This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial 
  port).  I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration 
  however - it appears on the video portion of the screen, and I'm able to 
  select a kernel that way, but the serial ouput gets nothing.  With Grub v.1 
  on other machines with serial redirect, I've been able to get the menu.  Is 
  there some option that I'm missing?
 
  Additionally, IIRC, the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX option above is conditional, 
  meaning that if I want video vs. serial redirection while booting, I need 
  to swap the two 'console' directives.  Given that there's only one way I 
  can specify the linux command line option, how would I go about doing this?
 
 Here's a WAG:
 
 Change
 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600
 to
 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=console=ttyS0,9600
 and run
 update-grub
 and reboot to see if you have the serial output (and still have the
 console output).

Here is mine and I have the same problem as the OP.

% cat /etc/default/grub
# This file is sourced by update-grub, and its variables are propagated
# to its children in /etc/grub.d/
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2 /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rootdelay=15 console=ttyS0,9600
GRUB_TERMINAL=serial


Note the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line, it includes console=ttyS0,9600.

Perhaps it is time to file a bug report against grub-pc?

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Re: e2defrag

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:18 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
 I'm unable to identify which package contains e2defrag.  Please advise.

sudo aptitude install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
apt-file search e2defrag

results:
defrag: /usr/sbin/e2defrag
defrag: /usr/share/man/man8/e2defrag.8.gz

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Re: e2defrag

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:29 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
 In 4b6993cb.4040...@hardwarefreak.com, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
 I'm unable to identify which package contains e2defrag.  Please advise.
 
 b...@monster:~% apt-file search e2defrag
 b...@monster:~%
 
 No such file in stable, backports, testing, unstable, or experimental.

Indeed. I re-updated my apt-file cache and came up with the same results
- nada.

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Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:00 -0600, Kent West wrote:

 
 we...@evoljasen:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0
 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:ACUWireless 
   Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated  
   Tx-Power=27 dBm  
   Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
   Encryption key:off
   Power Management:off
   Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
   Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
   Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
 
 So, how do I associate an Access Point?

I didn't see that you were already associated...

sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap any

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Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:00 -0600, Kent West wrote:

 So, how do I associate an Access Point?

Associate to a wireless network:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid UMD-Wireless

Associate to a AP, I wouldn't do this step:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap mac-address-of-ap-radio

sudo ifup wlan0

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Re: Gzipped debian docs via apache localhost

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:55 +0100, John Devereux wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Years ago, when I started using debian, the system documentation was
 available from my browser using http://localhost/doc/
 
 Even though most files were .gz, they got automatically decompressed
 so that clicking on them served up a text file directly in the browser
 window.
 
 In recent years this does not work, I click on the link and then have
 to uncompress the file in a separate step.
 
 Does anyone know why?

No.

But try this:

# a2enmod deflate

or

% sudo a2enmod deflate

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Re: sed

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:29 +0100, michael wrote:
 I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be
 able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct
 incantation...
 
 
 given a file with many strings, include many of the form
   a href=some url or otherwww/a
 
 I wish each to be transformed to
   a href=some url or othersome url or other/a
 
 ie so literal 'www' is replaced with the actual URL for each
 occurance... 

Well, it's not 'sed' (I prefer the PCRE), but this perl script ought to
get you off the ground.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

while () {
  chomp;
  if (my ($url) = /a href=([^]*?)www\/a/) {
print a href=\$url\$url/a\n;
  }
}

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Re: keeping package selection with new install

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:29 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

 The list generated by aptitude that way is not ready for use in
 reinstallation (because of the status and description), but you can get
 only a list of names with
 $ aptitude search '~i!~M' | awk '{print $2}'
 
 (and other dozens of ways, probably more efficient ;-) ).

Not sure if it is more efficient.

aptitude -F '%p' search '~i!~M'

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Re: chroot vs. Xen (usecase: Lenny on Etch for testing)

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:14 +0200, Simon Jolle wrote:
 Hi Debian users
 
 Whats the difference and advantages/disadvantages between chroot and xen?

Lots.

Check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jail_(computer_security)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines

for starters.

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troubles with custom repository

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I am working on creating a custom debian repository at the University
for whom I work.

I have successfully created a simple repository, one which has all the
relevant files in a single hierarchy.

I am now trying to split things off and use pools, so that I can serve
various distributions (etch, lenny, sid) from the same URL.

Here is the problem I encounter, both with 'apt-get update' and
'aptitude update'.

Failed to fetch http://lager.d.umn.edu/debian/dists/etch/Release  Unable
to find expected entry  umd/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file
(malformed Release file?)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://lager.d.umn.edu etch/umd
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/lager.d.umn.edu_debian_dists_etch_umd_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.


But the first line claims 'Failed to fetch', but I can:

% wget http://lager.d.umn.edu/debian/dists/etch/Release
--2008-04-30 11:38:52--
http://lager.d.umn.edu/debian/dists/etch/Release
Resolving lager.d.umn.edu... 131.212.109.132
Connecting to lager.d.umn.edu|131.212.109.132|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2234 (2.2K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `Release'

100%[] 2,234
--.-K/s   in 0s  

2008-04-30 11:38:52 (154 MB/s) - `Release' saved [2234/2234]


Here is the directory tree of my repository space:

debian
|-- dists
|   `-- etch
|   |-- Contents-i386
|   |-- Contents-i386.gz
|   |-- Release
|   |-- Release.gpg
|   `-- umd
|   |-- binary-i386
|   |   |-- Packages
|   |   |-- Packages.gz
|   |   `-- Release
|   `-- source
|   |-- Release
|   |-- Sources
|   `-- Sources.gz
`-- pool
`-- umd
`-- c
`-- cookieauth
|-- cookieauth2_3.0b2-1.diff.gz
|-- cookieauth2_3.0b2-1.dsc
|-- cookieauth2_3.0b2-1_i386.changes
|-- cookieauth2_3.0b2.orig.tar.gz
`-- libapache2-mod-cookieauth2_3.0b2-1_i386.deb


Here is the script I use to create the repository:

#!/bin/bash

ARCHIVE=/home/mzagrabe/os/debian/apt-archive
PACKAGES=${ARCHIVE}/dists/etch/umd/binary-i386/Packages
SOURCES=${ARCHIVE}/dists/etch/umd/source/Sources
CONTENTS=${ARCHIVE}/dists/etch/Contents-i386
RELEASE=${ARCHIVE}/dists/etch/Release

cd ${ARCHIVE}

apt-ftparchive packages .  ${PACKAGES}
gzip -9  ${PACKAGES}  ${PACKAGES}.gz

apt-ftparchive sources .  ${SOURCES}
gzip -9  ${SOURCES}  ${SOURCES}.gz

apt-ftparchive contents .  ${CONTENTS}
gzip -9  ${CONTENTS}  ${CONTENTS}.gz

apt-ftparchive --config-file=/etc/apt/apt-ftparchive.conf release . 
${RELEASE}
gpg -b -o ${RELEASE}.gpg ${RELEASE}


and here is the /etc/apt/apt-ftparchive.conf file:
APT {
  FTPArchive {
Release {
  Origin UMD ITSS;
  Label UMD ITSS Debian repository;
  Suite custom;
  Codename etch;
  Component umd;
  Architectures i386 source;
  Archive stable;
  Description Unofficial Debian packages by UMD ITSS;
}
  }
}

Here is the sources.list line I am using:
deb http://lager.d.umn.edu/debian etch umd

And version of apt:
ii  apt  0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpk


Does anyone see anything I missed?

TIA

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Re: Not able to find qwtplot3D

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 19:46 -0500, Ashivni Shekhawat wrote: 
 Hi!
I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my
 machine; however I get the following error:
 
 # apt-get install qwtplot3d
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree... Done
 E: Couldn't find package qwtplot3d
 
 The package qwtplot3d is available on ftp.debian.org at
 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qwtplot3d/

if you look at the .deb files in that directory you will see that there
is no *binary* package by the name qwtplot3d. qwtplot3d is the
*source* package for a bunch of binary packages (their corresponding
files all begin with libqwtplot3d and end in .deb).

also if you look you will see that there are only amd64 and i386 binary
packages. if you are running a different architecture than those, you
will have to wait for the debian build system to create the packages or
compile them yourself.

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Re: nvidia dies hard after upgrade Sarge-Etch

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 
 Some detail: I did reboot; with nv it works.
 
 Any hint appreciated,

same scenario for me, i didnt read all the details though, but this
helped:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2.run --x-prefix=/usr/lib/xorg

you could do some googling regarding the new xorg x prefix and the
nvidia driver.

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Re: Problem in running postgres

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 10:10 +0600, Abu Zaher wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I'm currnetly running Debian Sid. When my system boots up, I get this
 error:
 
 psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the
 server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket
 /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432? 

i may be wrong here, but...

i dont believe unix domain sockets have anything to do with tcp/ip.

 So i cant run postgresql. Moreover, while I try 2 ping localhost, it
 does not respond.

thus, the fact that you cannot ping is disjoint and not important to
getting postgres to work with unix domain sockets.

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Re: The Lost Sheep and Networking

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 When installing, debian-installer cannot recognize my card, and gives
 me a list of modules. In it is ``3c509'', but without a letter.
 However, it does say ``3Com Etherlink III'', so I select it.
 
 DHCP fails, despite the fact that my router has DHCP enabled, and many
 other computers in my house are using it. Setting up static IP does
 not work either. However, the corresponding light on my router does
 light up, and, what's more, when I run ``dhclient eth0'', my router
 claims that the computer connected to it, and got the IP 192.168.1.102
 (I can tell by the MAC address that it is my computer). However, the
 computer itself is simply saying that it got no DHCPOFFERS.
 
 I am at a total loss here. It is clear that the card is working,
 because, at the very least, the MAC Address is being transferred.
 However, I cannot connect anywhere, including to 192.168.1.1.
 
 Any ideas?

try knoppix, see if there are any parameters being passed to the module
that corresponds to the interface.

you may want to try the expert install for etch.

also during the install switch to a different VC. try modprobing or
insmoding various modules. check actual settings for the interface with
'ifconfig -a'.

if you believe in voodoo, move the nic to a different pci slot.

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Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 13:01 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
 I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing-
 i386-netinst CD.  The install completed and I have several problems to look
 into.  Here's the first.
 
 I am booting into runlevel 3, which I set to bring up a console instead of
 gnome.  This works, but I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6
 (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1).  If I try, nothing at all happens.

when i boot, the screen flickers when it is spawning the getty's. does
your screen flicker when the boot message says it is spawning the
getty's?

have you modified /etc/inittab ?

if you put in the install disc again, do the VC's work in the installer?

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Re: About apt-get messages

[Matt Zagrabelny]

hardik,

common etiquette for lists is to inline post, not top post. top posting
makes following threads unnecessarily more burdensome. thanks!


On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:25 -0800, rangalo wrote:
 Hi guys,
 
 thanks all for the help. I did apt-keys add with the downloaded file
 and it worked. The gpg import was not working .
 
 
 regards,
 Hardik
 
 
 
 
 Douglas Tutty wrote:
  On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:02:42AM -0800, rangalo wrote:
   Hi,
  
   I thanks for you suggestions.
  
   I tried the faq but while importing the multimedia key, I get following
   message
   -
   [code]
  
   gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 07DC563D1F41B907 
   apt-key add /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg  apt-get update
   gpg: requesting key 1F41B907 from hkp server wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
   gpg: key 1F41B907: Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] not
   changed
   gpg: Total number processed: 1
   gpg:  unchanged: 1
   gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
  
   After this when I do apt-get update again, I get the same message
 
   Any idea, what is the problem, or how I can get rid of it ?
  
   I also tried downloading the key manually, and trying to export with
   gpg to  a file, but I get the same message.
 
  I downloaded the key via lynx to a file then used apt-key add the file.
  If you're having problems, do it one step at a time and don't do the 
  thingy.
 
  Doug.
 
 
 
 
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Re: modprobe

[Matt Zagrabelny]

[...]

 apt-get install vsftpd

from the debian system book:

The sarge release notes recommend using aptitude instead of apt-get, as
it makes safer decisions about package installations than running
apt-get directly.

hence,

aptitude install vsftpd

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Re: Why and how to blacklist soundcard or networkcard modules?

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On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 07:49 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:45:16PM +0800, Richard wrote:
  Hi
  
  A while ago i had also a pci network card in my pc which has an asus
  motherboard with onboard lan and sound, from VIA ... and then i always
  had the problem that interfaces eth0 and eth1 switched over and over
  again that i became very tired and just removed the NIC.
  
  Now i have the same problem with sound. I also have an Yamaha sound
  card which i rather use then the via on board chip,  but when i use
  the Yamaha card and boot the pc alsa has configured the via chip, when
  i then connect that via-output to my audio set and reboot alsa wants
  to use the Yamaha card. Very trouble some.
  
  Why does this happen? ... I am sure not to be the only one who had the
  switching ethx interfaces but i do not understand why that happened.
  And what is now wrong with my 'sid box' that it always wants to use
  the card which is not connected to my audio-amplifier?
  
  thanks for your thoughts
  
 
 depends on what your real purposes are. If you don't want or need two
 sound cards, then 1) whay do you have 2,

i dont think he can remove the one he wants to, since it is on-board.

 If you want two sound cards then you need to look into 'writing udev
 rules' (google that phrase, its in the top couple hits) to learn how
 to customise the rules so that your cards are always named the same
 thing. and read the archives of this list (probably 2 months ago) for
 a couple threads on running multiple sound cards. 

also google for 'alsa multiple sound cards', though i am not sure how
much overlap there is between alsa userspace configuration and udev /dev
heirarchy configuration.

blacklisting may be the easiest solution, add your module
to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist .

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Re: set up Etch to unicode

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On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:16 +0100, csanyipal wrote:
 Hello!
 
 I upgraded the system from Sarge to Etch.
 
 Now, I want to setup the X Window system to unicode.

are you talking about X applications or simply an xterm (or equivalent)?

 How can I do that?

have you searched yet?

google: utf debian
google: utf linux

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Re: wireless adapter/card recommendations?

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On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:18 -0600, John C wrote:
 Hi folks,
 
 I'm in the process of changing my home network from wired to 
 wireless and am trying to find a card for a desktop that will 
 work effortlessly with etch/sid.
 
 Preferably one whose drivers are already available as part of 
 debian.
 
 So far I've not done well and purchased one that did not work. It 
 turned out to have a Marvel Technology chip that is unusable 
 (education can be expensive).
 
 What I'm looking for is a wireless adapter that will work with a 
 802.11g 54Mbps router. I'd prefer an internal PCI card, but an 
 external USB would also be fine.
 
 Any and all suggestions would be welcome before I go shopping again.



i purchased (iirc) an 802.11b internal pci card from this webpage [0]
some years ago. i currently use the hostap driver and userspace utils
with it, so i have some inclination to believe them when they say their
products are linux compatible.

[0]
http://www.allnet-usa.com/html/shop.php?kat=WiFi
+54MbitPHPSESSID=72d7cdc9b67a914cc92db6a06a8a28ab

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Re: kerberos on debian?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 Can anyone give me any reference, tutorial, manual or
 hint about using kerberos on debian?

there is a boatload of stuff on MIT's web sites:

http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/debian-athena/www/

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Re: gdkwindow-x11.h: where is it?

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On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 20:16 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote:
 Hello everyone.
 
 I wanted to play around with the Mac-like menu bar patch for GTK today but
 stumbled upon a problem. Here’s a line of that patch:
 
 #include gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.h
 
 Now my question: where do I find this header file?

use apt-file.

# aptitude install apt-file
# apt-file update
$ apt-file search gdkwindow-x11.h

well, that turned out empty. :/

look at the (expirimental) souce package for libgtk2.0-dev.
it contains the file you seek (perhaps the source packages for other
releases contain it too), but i did not find which deb file gets the
file, maybe none.

you could contact the maintainer of libgtk2.0-dev or file a bug report
(use reportbug).

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Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

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On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:42 -0800, jantzen wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 My system is unable to mount music CDs.

neither does mine. :)

cd's dont have a mountable filesystem on them. (nor any kind of
filesystem). they have raw data, so-to-speak.

if you want to use them as files, you need to 'rip' the cd.

type:

apt-cache search rip cd | grep rip

at a prompt to see some tools. i use grip. a majority of the users on
list probably encode with ogg vorbis. i suggest that too. :)

anyhow,

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Re: X11R7.1 for Debian?

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On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:04 -0400, Kit Peters wrote:
 I'd like to try out X11R7.1, in the hope that it will fix the dualhead
 issues I'm having  (Bug #378081 [1]).  I'd rather not go to the
 trouble of compiling it myself if there are .debs available.  Does
 anyone know where I might find such?

no idea, but always check http://apt-get.org/ for various softare
packages not in the official repository.

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Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

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On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 22:16 -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
 I just bought a 2GB iRiver Clix media player as an upgrade from my old
 CD-based mp3 player.  It works fine on my XP hardware testing box.
 However, I need to get it working with Debian (both my Athlon 2500
 desktop runing Kernel 2.6.15-1-k7, and my Turion 64 laptop running
 kernel 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8).

there are a billion different ways of setting up removable media. i
suggest using udev.

google for 'udev rules' and see if you can create a rule for your clix.
look at the first hit.

email the list if you have questions.

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Re: hi everybody... i have a problem with the libs

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On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 20:27 +0200, DeiviD wrote:
 On Friday 07 July 2006 19:48, DeiviD wrote:
  Hi...
 
  I'm a new user of this mailing list... with a very annoying problem with my
  kde. So, I use Debian Sarge and kde3.3.2. When I have open a window with
  several tabs... sometimes i get a error that close the complete window and
  I have reboot my task :(. The backtrace tell me this:

what command are you exactly running?

what does the error say?

 
 
  sorry for this ;). i don't want it ... xD... but i have thought to be
  important.  I have been looking for in google, but nothing... also I see
  that the backtrace say libqt, libstdc++, and any other library important
  for the base of system... Somebody know if have a any solution?? :(...
 
  any indication will be well received...
 
  Thank you for all and sorry for my english expresion ;)...
 
  PD: I haven't reported the bug, because i read that i would write here ...
  it's correct??... ;)
 
 
  Deivid
 
 ... somebody have any idea ??? :( this happen when i use konqueror with more  
 than 4 ó 5 tabs... but either always is secure

you may want to give the list more than 40 minutes before prompting for
a response.

when you say 'secure' are you talking about https?

generally the discussions on this list are about usability issues with
debian software. backtraces of konqueror are unlikely to get generate
any responses.

i would encourage you to file a bug report using 'reportbug'

$ reportbug konqueror

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Re: managing packages

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 And I'm also looking for documentation about `aptitude' because I've heard
 that there is such way to tell aptitude to install a package from a specific
 distribution

there is really good documentation in /usr/share/doc/aptitude

however, that is really comprehensive. you probably just want to use the
-t switch. 'man aptitude'

or follow directions from  http://backports.org/instructions.html
and use 'aptitude' instead of 'apt-get'


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Re: gpilot pilot-link messed up after hardware/software upgrade?

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On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 16:11 -0400, Matt Price wrote:
 [some of this is in the earlier message]
 
 hi ubuntu,

d-u is not ubuntu.

[stuff deleted]

 I of course know nothing about what this might mean.  In any case I'd
 love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further!  the
 evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me.  thanks,

could you try your palm on a windoze box?

other things that come to mind about the serial port:

* baud rate
* stop bits
* parity
* data length
* hardware flow control

you could use minicom or gtkterm to adjust these settings.

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Re: fish scp

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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:47 +0200, mess-mate wrote:
 Hi
 for a not known reason when i csp or fish (konqueror) a file to a
 remote machine, the transfert stalled after a few seconds and no
 more route to the network.
 I don't know wehre to search exactly.
 Any help would be very appreciated.

you could check any files that get executed upon logging into the other
machine. ie.: rc files for your shell on the other machine.

for instance, i had an issue with my .bashrc file, i had an 'exec'
statement in there, and it was causing problems with non interactive
instances of ssh (scp would fall under this).

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Re: Network's freezing

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 18:26 +0300, Fourat Zouari wrote:
 Am having network problems on my laptop, the computer freezes when
 downloading or uploading a big file (over 500Mb) via scp or ftp
 to/form other computers in the network, other symptoms is that it
 freezes when executing tcpdump at shell console.
 Any one can help ?

what is the output of /sbin/ifconfig, specifically, the MTU?

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Re: Network's freezing

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 I have 2 network adapters, eth and wifi.
 How to know wich hardware is used as eth0 and ath0 (wifi)
 Why is it saying 'Unknown device' ? lan and wifi are working fine.

$ dmesg | grep eth0
$ dmesg | grep ath0

will tell you which drivers (modules) are driving which interfaces. the
'grep' will work assuming your ring buffer has not cycled the messages
out yet. also there are utilities to rename interfaces, so be sure that
isnt happening either.

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Re: Etch: udev and wlan

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 18:53 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
 
 
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 May 10 14:20 br0
  drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 May 10 14:20 eth0
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 10 14:20 lo
  drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 May 10 14:03 wlan0_temp
 
 
 
 Any idea what interface br0 is? Please post the output of the
 commands
 lspci and ip link. 

bridge. 

$ lsmod | grep bridge 

or check your config file to see if it is statically compiled.

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Re: [OT] blink tag effect with animation

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 23:28 -0400, H.S. wrote:
 Actually, I don't think I gave the whole picture. I have just realized
 that the text needs to be replaced with an image to be consistent with
 the context. So the blinking is going to be an animation between two
 images. So the query was going to be something like : how do I made
 animations in Linux (gif or png) given a pair of images so that they
 appear to be blinking. I was thinking something could be done with
 transcode, mencoder, imagemagick, gimp, etc. given my Debian system.
 Hence the relevance to Debian and Linux (okay, maybe it is not
 relevant
 to the kernel). 

google: animated gifs gimp

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Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 You assume what is not now, nor never was.
 
 And you do know what it means when you ass-u-me...?

i assume people on d-u will never user double-negatives. :)

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Re: impossible to apply security updates

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:20 +0200, Piotr A. Dybczyński wrote:
 It seems something is going wrong with DNS.
 security.debian.org points to 0.0.0.0  !!

$ nslookup security.debian.org
Server: 131.212.174.193
Address:131.212.174.193#53

Name:   security.debian.org
Address: 128.101.240.212
Name:   security.debian.org
Address: 194.109.137.218

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Re: my small error list for Debian Etch, snapshot from 01052006

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 using Debian Etch snapshot from May 1st, 2006 I found the following errors:
 1. The installer is buggy. When installing from DVD it only points to debian
 mirrors,
 not to a local resource as intended.

file a bug report [0].

 2. I did not manage to find a way to install Gnome and / or kde by a menu
 point. The installer only performs
 a standard basic system installation and leaves the rest to the experienced
 user. It is really very tricky to perform a successful
 installation at all.

iirc, there should be a option to select desktop system or desktop
environment. and i do believe that is selected by default, so you
should have gotten both gnome and kde installed, ymmv.

 3. Only with the install I managed to work successful, the expert one
 did not succeed at all to install
 a basic system. There is no appropriate timeout for the installer looking
 for mirrors.
 There should be a timeout after a couple of seconds when, during
 installation from CD or DVD,
 no mirror is not found or wanted at all.

what do you mean the 'expert' one did not succeed at all. please be more
specific. i suppose if you feel these are indeed bugs, you could file a
bug against the etch installer [0].

 4. Ubuntu 5.10 is much older, not only as far as the kernel is involved, but
 Ubuntu´s installer
 is far more convenient and intuitive than the actual Debian Etch one.
 Is there any time window when this installer will be fixed?

one of ubuntu's goals is to be easy to use and to be a desktop
distribution. those are not necessarily debian's goals.

 5. Ark needs an eternity to open a complete kernel. Furthermore it does not
 open kernel patches
 at all (*.tar.bz for example). Moreover by clicking on such a kernel patch
 in Mozilla Ark does not open at all.

are you talking about a kernel source tree? either way this is probably
an issue for the upstream developers of ark.

[stuff deleted]

 6. I am missing xine-ui and the latest kaffeine package.

add sarge repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list or wait for xine-ui
to trickle down from sid.


[0]  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Bugs

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Re: Wireless Network Cards

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:42 +0100, Bob wrote:
 Hello list, I've never installed a PCI wireless network card before,
 I've always run my boxes with wires. However, I've moved to a new house
 and the easiest thing to do is put wireless cards in my boxes.
 
 Is it as easy as pluging the card in and it all just working, or do I
 need to install some other packages? I'm running Etch with a 2.6 kernel.

# aptitude install wireless-tools

you may need to compile some modules or whatnot, i compile my own
kernels, so i cannot speak about the debian kernels.

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Re: [OT] blink tag effect with animation

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:42 -0400, H.S. wrote:
 Hi,
 
 This may be slightly OT.
 
 I want to replace a blinking text phrase with something that is
 acceptabel by web standards; I understand that the blink that is not a
 standard.

how about using css, thats a standard. :)

h1 style=text-decoration: blink;text that blinks/h1

 I was wondering, how can I complish the blinking effect on a Linux
 platform, Debian Etch on a 2.6.15 kernel.

i am not saying your question is off topic, but, blinking web text has
very little to do with linux, debian, or the kernel you are running.

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Re: x11-common conflicts with xfs-xtt (= 1.4.1.xf430-6)

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 21:17 -0400, H.S. wrote:
 Hello,
 
 If I try to upgrade x11-common in Debian Sid, I get this message:
 x11-common conflicts with xfs-xtt (= 1.4.1.xf430-6)
 
 and xfs-xtt is to be removed. I was wondering, is this something that is
 going to be resolved with a newer version of xfs-xtt or must xfs-xtt be
 removed to upgrade x11-common?

perhaps try:

# aptitude dist-upgrade

it is possible that the package xfs-xtt is being provided by another
package (maybe x11-common).

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Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

[Matt Zagrabelny]

  + try installing the version from stable
 
 This may or may not work, it doesn't seem to have any explicit version
 number depends, but I can't gaurantee the packages in testing are named
 the same.

i generally have, for testing and unstable machines, 'stable' (actually
the name, ie. sarge) in my sources.list. usually this works ok for
instances like this. 

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Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:49 +0100, Doofus wrote:
 Ron Johnson wrote:
 
 On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:19 -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
   
 
 My personal opinion is that anything up to date (as opposed to, say, 
 FAT12) will provide decent service for a desktop machine. I would add 
 journaling, which is why I also use ext3, but with the caveat that 
 ext3 is just an add-on to ext2. Performance demonstrates this.
 
 
 
 Actually, ext3 is *not* an add-on to ext2.  They use the same on-
 disk structure, but the drivers share little code.
 
 ext3 might have started life as a patched ext2 driver, though.
 
 
 And is it possible (with a simple vfstab edit) to switch off the ext3 
 journalling, thereby running it as ext2 with this  new and original 
 code? And if so, is there any performance difference between the two? 
 Even if there isn't, what I'm thinking is it seems reasonable to assume 
 the new code is an improvement on the old (otherwise why bother), so why 
 are two lines of development being maintained for essentially the same 
 file system?

yes, i believe it is possible to edit /etc/fstab. but not all things
(like data recovery) are possible with a native ext3 mounted as a ext2
partition as are with a native ext2 partition.

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Re: libXda.so

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:52 -0700, Isabella Thomm wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I am using Debian unstable and since the last update to the new xorg my 
 3d acceleration does not work anymore. glxgears tells that it misses the 
 accelerated x library libXda.so.1, which was not necessary before. In 
 which package is this library or has somebody encountered the same 

# aptitude install apt-file
# apt-file update
$ apt-file search libXda.so.1

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Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:22 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
  mb = megabit
 nope, small 'm' snands for 'mili' which is 1/1 000 000 e.g. one
 millionth
 part.

m = milli = 1 / 1 000
u (greek letter mu) = micro = 1 / 1 000 000
 
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Re: How to see the Creation timestamp of a folder?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 12:53 +0100, Martynas Brijunas wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I would like to find out the creation timestamp of one of the folder
 on my Sarge servers. By default the ls command displays the last
 modified timestamp. Please help.

it doesnt look like you can.

see:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-1.html


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Re: Switch to virtual console in xorg - SOLVED

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:40 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 After the recent xorg upgrade, with its attendant excitement, I found I

it broke for me after an upgrade on thursday or friday (april 13 or 14),
but after an upgrade this morning it was fixed.

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Re: Cameras.

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 1. go for a camera that uses standard batteries. The A80 uses 4 AAA
 batteries. This is great because if you don't have a charger along or
 whatever, you can find them just about anywhere in a pinch.

i disagree with andrew here. i suggest getting a camera with a
lithium-ion or equivalent battery.

i have a minolta dimage 7hi and it takes regular AA batteries. not only
are they huge, but they dont last very long at all (this may be changing
with the standard battery sizes coming out in lithium-ion).

i also have a sony dsc p200. it is wonderful. it has a InfoLithium
Battery, whatever that is. :)

sony p200

pros:
* very large, bright, responsive lcd
* removable, rechargeable, lithium battery. lasts very long.
* small
* mounts as a standard usb drive
* good pics
* unlimited mpeg movies with sound at 640 x 480

cons:
* only 3x optical zoom, but i think youll find this on any slim camera.
(the cameras need depth for a bigger zoom)

-sony dsc p200 fanboy

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Re: Debian Etch Testing

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 00:59 +0800, Bal K Paudyal wrote:
 All DVD video disk don't mount automatically. Can't be mounted manually.
 Detected as Blank DVD-RW disk (which is not true).
 
 My system is upgraded. Running i386 Etch in AMD 64 CPU.

please post the exact command you used to mount it manually (and the
output). also after trying to mount it, run dmesg. also look
at /var/log/syslog. please post contents of /etc/fstab.

this sounds like it may be a udev issue. but it is impossible to tell
without more information.

-matt zagrabelny

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Re: PUHHLLLEEEEZZZE LOOK AT THESE RETARDED NAMES OF EXE's YOU DEBIAN PACKAGE DUDES

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 Hmm:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk: aptitude show crossfire
 E: Unable to locate package crossfire

$ apt-cache search crossfire
crossfire-client-sounds - Sound files for playing crossfire.
crossfire-client - Base Client of the game Crossfire
crossfire-client-gtk - GTK Client of the game Crossfire
crossfire-client-gtk2 - GTK2 Client of the game Crossfire
crossfire-client-images - Base crossfire-client images
crossfire-client-x11 - XLib Client of the game Crossfire
crossfire-common - Common files for Crossfire
crossfire-doc - Documentation for Crossfire
crossfire-edit - Map editor for the Crossfire Gameset
crossfire-maps-small - Small set of maps for crossfire
crossfire-server - Server for Crossfire Games
crossfire-maps - Standard set of maps for crossfire


 Fri Apr 07 14:57:01
 -
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk: aptitude show GSnes9x
 E: Unable to locate package GSnes9x

$ apt-cache search GSnes9x
gsnes9x - GNOME front-end for snes9x

 Fri Apr 07 14:57:16
 -
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk: aptitude show gtkBitchX
 E: Unable to locate package gtkBitchX

$ apt-cache search gtkBitchX
$

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Re: horde ?!?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:25 +0200, Meni Shapiro wrote:
 hello plp,
 
 Sorry for the off-list question:
 does anyone know what happen to horde.org ???
 I can't reach it by web nor ping nor traceroute...nothing??
 can anyone try:
 http://www.horde.org

$ wget http://www.horde.org
--07:29:10--  http://www.horde.org/
   = `index.html'
Resolving www.horde.org... 199.175.137.145
Connecting to www.horde.org|199.175.137.145|:80... failed: No route to
host.

 Is it just me or they  have a problem? (did they close the site??)

no idea if they closed their site.

-matt zagrabelny



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Re: No partition media

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 08:27 -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote:
 Greetings,
 
 This is something new for me. I got this Dell GX520 as my new
 development box and tried to install Debian 3.1 (sarge) on it. The
 installed does not fine the disks: No partition media. This box has
 80G SATA as disk 0 and 80G PATA as disk 1. I saw a suggestion to usie
 linux26 as installer parameter - didn't work for me. Any suggestions?
 TIA, 

is there a legacy mode for your sata disk? this would be an option in
the bios. if there is you could try to install sarge that way, then
after installation compile a 2.6 with the correct drivers and such and
use the disk natively.

also, if sarge is not a must item for you, you could try the etch
installer.

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Re: Installer can't find HardDisk...

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:07 +0200, anonym ano wrote:
 Hi Simon,
 
 these aren't good news. I want to set up a server (Web and PostgresDB)
 with debian, so I don't know if I should use the etch release. As far
 as I know, it is still in a beta version. Do you think it is stable
 enough to be used? 

yes. the software in etch is stable software from the upstream
developers.

in general, 'testing', or in this case 'etch', does not receive security
patches as quickly as 'stable' or 'sarge'. if the computer isnt going to
be running wide varieties of software, then the amount of software that
could have security issues is minimized. etch will still get (security)
updates, just not as quick as sarge.

one other note. in 'testing' and 'unstable' there is more of a chance of
package conflicts. but this is generally rare, and again, if this is a
server with a minimal amount of packages, then the chances of package
conflicts would be very rare.

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Re: changing group names

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 12:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
 Hi,
 
 This may be common knowledge but it was news to me.
 
 I have lets say three partitions:
 1 home partition and 2 Sarge partitions. These refer to the home partition.
 
 Examining the home files for group names you might notice that they 
 differ depending on what partition root is on.
 
 I examine /home/joe and it's user:group may be joe:joe from one root 
 partition but mary:mary from the other.
 
 You straighten it out with:
 chown -R joe:joe /xxx/.../home/joe
 
 But everytime you switch root partitions you have to do that.
 
 Must mean that group names refer to indices and not actual names?

yeah, i believe the inodes look at the UID and GID. so if you want it to
be sane across both partitions make sure joe and mary and whoever else
have the same UIDs on both partitions. this is done under /etc/passwd
and /etc/group.

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Re: sshd pub-key based auth

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:49 -0500, Stephen wrote:
 Greetings:
 
 I'm attempting to disable 'keyboard interactive' access prompt on my sshd
 server. So far I've been unsuccessful.
 
 I can log in using my remote pub key, but can also login with
 'keyboard interactive' prompt.
 
 How can I disable this ? I've set 'PasswordAuthentication no' in
 /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I've also set both RSAAuthentication, and
 PubkeyAuthentication to yes.

here is what my sshd.config file says:

# Change to yes to enable tunnelled clear text passwords
PasswordAuthentication no

so that option does not do what you think.

what i think you want is:

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

also, did you restart sshd?

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Re: Firefox always prints landscape

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 12:07 -0600, Kent West wrote:
 Kent West wrote:
  Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
  Kent West wrote:
  Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
  Kent West wrote:
  Printing from OpenOffice.org is fine, but whenever I try to print 
  from Firefix, the output comes out in Landscape with the top part 
  of the text chopped off. The Print Preview looks fine.
  Printing to file a .ps and then using gv to look at that output is 
  wrong also?
  It looks fine via .ps and gv. (Good diagnostic; thanks. I'm still 
  not sure where to go from here, but this was good info.)
  Wel anyway you will be able to print via gv.
 
  Ah. I didn't actually try printing from gv; I just looked at it 
  on-screen. Now that you've mentioned it, I tried printing, and it came 
  out landscape.
 
 I just found ~/.lpoptions in my home directory, and in it was a section 
 that said orientation-requested=4; I changed this to 1, and now I'm 
 getting portrait printouts instead of landscape. Woot! (Of course, I 
 haven't tried printing from OO.o, etc, so I may have hosed up something 
 else.)
 
 I don't know how this file was generated, or what 1 or 4 means, or where 
 this file got the idea I wanted this setting to be 4, but I believe I'm 
 getting closer to solving my issue.
 
 The printout seems a little low on the page, but I think I'll worry 
 about that another day.

have you checked

/etc/papersize  ?

/etc/paper.config has the options, id assume 'US-Letter' for you.

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Re: about mplayer

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 i cannot find any packet for mplayer player, even i try apt-pinning with 
 stable , also i cannot find any w32codecs packet with both method, thanks.

here is a good url talking about mplayer and debian.

http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html

like most others that have responded to this email, i use christian's
repos:

# mplayer
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main


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Re: hosts.deny

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:05 -0600, Jack Hale wrote:
 I am trying to block a whole subnet. (example 
 100.100.100.0-100.100.100.255).
 in my /etc/hosts.deny file I have placed this as 
 100.100.100.0/100.100.100.255.
 Is this the correct way to do this? I am using Shorewall for the 
 firewall. I am new to this. Sorry for the stupidity.
 Jack


hosts (allow|deny) are more of a layer7 packet filter. that is, it is at
the application level.

firewalls filter at layers 2 and 3 of the OSI model.


both methods work for restricting access to stuff, but they are
different, and that is important to understand.

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Re: CD Writer Issues

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:26 -0800, Matt Townsend wrote:
 Hi. Brand new debian installation. I'm a little puzzled that I can't 
 seem to burn a CD. On boot the /var/log/messages confirms that 
 there's a DVDRW on hdc and a CDRW on hdd. Yet when I go to the File 
 Manager-Go-CD Creator, drop a file into the burn:/// window, then hit 
 Write To Disk things are not looking like I'd expect them to. First, 
 the Write Disk To dropdown only gives me one choice: File Image. So 
 moving ahead with that one choice writes and .iso file to the hard 
 drive. But I then try to write, by dragging, that .iso file to the 
 CD-ROM 2:cdrom1 icon and it comes up with a message the destination 
 disk is read-only. This, with a CDRW in the drive. Same results with 
 the DVD writer drive.
 
 I think I'm following the process outlined in the Help file but not 
 getting the expected results. It's probably something simple and I 
 guess maybe I''ve been staring at it too long.
 
 Anyone have any ideas what's missing.

i cant comment on your method, i generally use cdrecord natively as
root, as it seems to behave differently as root and as setuid.

check out the /etc/default/cdrecord file.

$ grep -v ^# /etc/default/cdrecord
CDR_DEVICE=/dev/hdd
CDR_SPEED=48
CDR_FIFOSIZE=4m
teac=   1,3,0   -1  -1  
panasonic=  1,4,0   -1  -1  
plextor=1,4,0   -1  -1  
sanyo=  1,4,0   -1  -1  burnfree
yamaha= 1,5,0   -1  -1  
cdrom=  0,6,0   2   1m  


then

# cdrecord some.iso

works well.

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Re: how to address people

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:45 -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
  Why not? Serena Cantor wants help.
 
 Because this is a list that is used specifically for Debian questions,
 and not for questions in general. For example, posting a question
 about how to best cook shrimp would be totally inappropriate, whereas
 posting a question about how to configure X is.

but are we configuring X for debian? what about X in general?
what if i have a question about firewalls. this is not a debian specific
question, but a general computer question.

the point is, what should be posted and should not be posted is a grey
and fuzzy line.

d-u should not be so black and white about what should and should not be
posted without looking at the rationale for posting the off-topic
question.

 
 Furthermore, at the risk of sounding like a typical RTFM-screaming,
 angry geek, let me say that this sort of information (about how to
 address people) is readily available online, and if the original
 writer would have only asked Google, this entire thread would not be
 in existence.

a person whose primary language is not english *may* have a hard time
navigating google to find the correct info regarding addressing english
speaking individuals. this list is full of english speaking people.
seems like it may be a reasonable question to ask.


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Re: Grub serial console question

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 11:56 +, David Goodenough wrote:
 Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines.
 
 The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not
 seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, nor a /etc/grub.conf.  The 
 HOWTOs for serial console all suggest that this is the right place to put
 the lines:-
 
 serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
 terminal --timeout=10 serial console
 
 (or whatever speed you want).
 
 I therefore created such a file (/boot/grub/grub.conf) but it had no
 effect.
 
 Given the way that grub has been built for Debian unstable where
 should these lines be?
 
 Thanks in advance
 
 David
 
 

some snippets from my /boot/grub/menu.lst:

## Setup the serial speed and unit
serial -unit=0 -speed=9600

##

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default optons below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specifiv kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro console=ttyS0,9600

##   ^^


also you probably want to span a getty off of the serial port, do that
through inittab, here is a snippet from my /etc/inittab

# Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal)
#
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100



good luck, 

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Re: If my graphics card and monitor work in Knoppix...[question]

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:34:32PM -0800, Hex Star wrote:
 Hi, I was wondering, since Knoppix is a live CD based off Debian, if my
 graphics card and monitor work fine with the GUI does that mean that it'll
 also work fine with regular 'ol Debian? Thanks! :-)

it *should* work without any funny stuff.

i will work, if there are issues *and* you work through them (with or
without the list's help).

caveat: sarge uses XFree86 4.3 and etch uses Xorg 6.9 (the same as the
latest KNOPPIX). s ymmv

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Re: If my graphics card and monitor work in Knoppix...[question]

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:29:28PM -0800, Hex Star wrote:
 Also, does the Debian installer have the megaraid driver so I can use my HP
 NetServer LH3Rs embedded NetRAID controller which currently has all my HDs
 connected to it? (6 9GB SCSI HDs) Thanks! :-)

i believe the standard sarge installer does (it uses linux 2.4); whereas
the 'linux26' option to the installer does not. i have never examined
this oddity further.

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Re: VLAN problem

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:21:42AM +, Arn?r Kristj?nsson wrote:
 I am trying to get VLANs working on eth1 on a server. Whenever I try  
 to run ifup eth1 I get:
 SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
 Failed to bring up eth1.
 
 I tried shortening the configuration to the bare minimum in /etc/ 
 network/interfaces:
 auto eth1 vlan1
 iface eth1 inet static
 address 0.0.0.0
 netmask 0.0.0.0
 vlan_raw_device eth1
 iface vlan1 inet static
 address 192.168.0.229
 netmask 255.255.252.0
 gateway 192.168.1.1
 vlan_raw_device eth1
 
 the vlan package is installed. I have even tried recompiling the  
 kernel with vlan support as part of the kernel (as opposed to as a  
 module). Can anyone tell me what I'm overlooking?

i am assuming you are speaking of the VLAN_8021Q module. is this
correct? do you have the other end (switch/router/dot1q aware device) 
configured properly?

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Re: posting question

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:59:34PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
 On Monday 13 March 2006 18:41, Paul E Condon wrote:
  I sent a message to this list a few minutes before 9am MST this
  morning and haven't seen it on the list yet. Is the server having
  problems? or is it likely something that I did wrong?
 
 Email is not instantaneous.  It is regularly delayed by server problems, 
 network congestion, bad routing, etc.  If you're not getting mail delivery 
 notifications, check the mailing list archive, it probably made it but the 
 echo hasn't made it back yet.

and intentionally delayed by servers, ie. greylisting.

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Re: S-ATA HDD unter Debian

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:24:13PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
 On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:08:03 +0100 (MET)
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Thanks so far.
  
  So my chipset is the following:
  
  NVIDIA nForce4 SLI and Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller.
  
  I know that there is a way to make a S-ATA hdd work in Linux  but i just
  know it from suse linux (a friend of mine used it - the only thing he said
  was that he just installed Linux - how helpfull :).
  
  
   The short answer would be to use Sarge with the kernel26 option. But is
   hard to tell if this will work out of the box, you didn't specify what
   chipset you are using.
   
   Andrei
 
 Please post to the list. First, you will get (many) more answers and second I 
 have no experience with S-ATA, only what I have read on the list. You might 
 as well just pop the sarge CD1 and install with option 'kernel26'. Maybe you 
 get lucky ;-) 

my experience is that 'linux26' for sarge does not 'see' the cdrom, it
thinks it is scsi or sata as well...

you could try 'expert26' and try inserting and removing modules to make
it work.

otherwise i have had good success with the etch installer.

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mutt assistance

[Matt Zagrabelny]

hello,

(i know this isnt a mutt user list, however from the chatter on the list
it seems that there is a large portion that uses mutt)

i am test driving mutt and enjoying it. i dont know if ill revert to
evolution, but i'd like to try and get mutt up and running on all
cylinders.


problem 1)

after composing a message it shows up as an attachment in the preview
screen before it can get sent out. i have tried putting the following
line in my .muttrc file:

attachments +I text/plain

though this doesnt seem to make it display inline.



problem 2)

imap access. is there a way to hash the password in the .muttrc file?
(i dont want to have a clear text password in a config file)
right now i have the following line:

set imap_pass=clear-text

i have read about:

set imap_authenticators=digest-md5:cram-md5

but to my understanding, these authentication methods still require
clear text passwords in the .muttrc file.



problem 3)

imap folders. right now i have procmail filters setup on the imap server
to put debian-user mail into the file ~/Mail/lists/debian-user. reading
mail in my inbox works just fine; here are the settings i have for that:

mailboxes imap://imap.domain
set imap_user=mzagrabe
set imap_pass=clear-text
set spoolfile=imap://imap.domain
set folder=imap://imap.domain/INBOX

how do i specify other folders that reside on the imap server? and how
do i access them?

i have tried adding the following line to my .muttrc file:

set folder=imap://imap.domain/Mail/lists/debian-user

and then to access it:

c imap://imap.domain/Mail/lists/debian-user

but that seg faults. so i need to file a bug for that. but in the mean
time, does anyone have any hints?

thanks

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: distribution upgrade question

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:42:47AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
 On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
 Thomas Jollans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
  because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix 
  problems and avoid doing unattended updates or something like that ;)

sid does *not* break, period. it depends on what you are doing. if you
have thousands of packages installed instead of hundreds, you are more
likely to see conflicts and broken packages, however, if you have a
relatively constant setup sid works well. 

ive been running sid for 4 to 5 years and there have been glitches
(maybe severe ones once a year), but by-in-large if i want to try new
software, i run aptitude and install it. it works and doesnt break.

let me finish with this thought: all computer software breaks. its true,
if you use it long enough, or install enough of it, you will experience
breakage. then you have to fix it. sid is no different.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: Best Linux Laptop

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:13:06PM -0600, Michael Schurter wrote:
 I know I've seen lots of posts on this before, so I'm sorry for asking 
 the same questions over and over.
 
 Someone just asked me what the ideal laptop would be to purchase to 
 install Debian Linux onto.  The main thing is WiFi support and good 
 quality.  Don't need lots of storage or a super fast processor, but 
 basic 3D support would be nice.

hp nc6320 (make sure it is centrino processor and not celeron, celerons
are sold with broadcom wireless chipsets, centrinos with intel ipw 2200)

 
 I've seen lots of posts on here about wireless cards not working, so 
 thats what I'm the most concerned about.

look for laptops with intel ipw 2200 (B/G) or 2915 (A/B/G). they are
both well supported.

 
 I've heard of lots of people running Linux on IBM Thinkpads, but I can't 
 seem to purchase one from Lenovo without Windows.
 
 Do any of the major laptop manufactures sell laptops without OSes installed?

not to my knowledge.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: C/C++ interface to HTML parser

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 06:12 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
 Hi,
 
 It seems there should be many of these.
 Anyone have a recommendation?
 I want to parse HTML files in C++ or C.
 Thanks!

if you are dealing with xhtml then you could use one of the many xml c++
parsers.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: DHCP client takes too long

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:12 +0530, Aravind. R wrote:
 Hello
  I am using Debian Sarge. Whenever I boot the machine, the DHCP client
 assigns an IP address, and just waits. Booting continues only when I
 press Ctrl + C . Howver, the network works fine. Could you suggest some
 remedy.

# aptitude purge zeroconf

thats what did it for me.

(ps, this should be in the list archives, it was discussed about a week
ago)

-matt zagrabelny



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Re: Help with apt-get upgrade .

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 09:41 -0300, luciano wrote:
 Anyone can help me with this ?
 I can't do a Upgrade ever more.
 
 
 luciano:/home/luciano# apt-get upgrade
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree... Done
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 2 not fully installed or removed.
 Need to get 0B of archives.
 After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
 Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
 Setting up debconf (1.4.70) ...
 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
 Xlib: No protocol specified

perhaps debconf is configured to use gnome or kde widgets (and hence X)
for interaction. i use 'dialog' because it does not require root to have
access to the X server, it works well on the virtual consoles, and over
ssh.

# dpkg-reconfigure debconf

just an idea, dont know if this is the problem you are having.

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Re: NEW USER set-up assistance

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 08:54 -0500, Jacob W Tennant wrote:
 I need some help in setting up my newly installed debian system. It is a net 
 install system with all of the latest packages running Gnome desktop.

what release are you using? sarge (stable), etch (testing), or sid
(unstable) ?

 
 My problems are,
 
 1. The video display will only let me use up to 800x600 size whereas the 
 same monitor under WinXP would work at 1024x768. So how would I go about 
 correctly setting this in the base config?

is this a laptop?

there are a bazillion ways to configure X. here is how i do it:

search the internet for your monitors horizontal and vertical refresh
rates.

$ lspci -vv | less -S 
search for the video hardware, look at the chipset

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (for testing/unstable)
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (for stable)
choose the chipset that matches what you found above.

a lot of times people are using too deep of a default color depth and
they cannot get to a higher resolution. try using a 16 bit color depth
(instead of 24) and seeing if that helps get to your desired resolution.

 
 2. SOUNDCARD - When I activate sounds in Gnome desktop all I get is a 
 pulsating growl. Sometimes I get no sound at all except a faint beep. I use 
 the soundcard heavily as a ham radio operator to decode and transmit RTTY 
 signals.

please post:

# lsmod

$ dpkg -l | grep alsa

 
 Any help would be really great as I am a complete idiot to linux even after 
 reading some books on it this is my first attempt at using it exclusively.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: aptitude uncomprehension

[Matt Zagrabelny]

 installed, 139 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 Need to get 597kB of archives. After unpacking 326MB will be freed.
 Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
 
 why do suddenly I get such kind of behaviour.
 it's getting me nuts.
 
 I'm wanting to install fai without the recomended package. Because this 
 machines was installed
 with fai. I specified to use aptitude as the system to install package with 
 fai.

have you used aptitude before?

 does some one know understand this ?

it is possible that those packages have been marked as 'automatically
installed' by aptitude and aptitude sees that no other packages are
depending on them so it is automatically cleaning up.

run aptitude in the console and hit enter on a package that is marked
for removal and see if it has a 'A' by it and also if there are any
packages that are installed that depend on it.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:53 -0800, ke6isf wrote:
 Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions 
 provided on the IRC channel.
 
 OK, so I have this .jar file.  If I open it using 'java 
 hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me:
 
 Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
 hidejournal-0/3/1/jar
 
 If I open it from Nautilus (I run Gnome), it pops it open in File Roller.
 
 Just what should I be using to run this?

there should be hundreds of articles on the internet for how to run an
application from a jar file.

google: execute jar file

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: Debian 3.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 Server

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:56 -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:
 Hi everyone,
 
 I'm plan on installing Debian 3.1 (2.4.27 kernel) on a Dell PE2800 server 
 soon (just waiting for a few more pieces of equip. to arrive) and while I 
 have used Debian a little bit in the past, I've never installed in on a 
 server before.  I was hoping somebody who has done this before can give me 
 some tips/info on the following:
 
   1) does/will Debian have issues if I use the hw RAID controller on the 
 Dell server?

like the perc4i raid controller?


   2) the server will have dual Xeon processors and 8GB of RAM, does 
 Debian suppor this? (I've read in some places that Debian doesn't support  
 4GB of RAM, etc. but I haven't been able to get a definite answer to that 
 from googling)

download the deb of the kernel you want to run (probably and SMP
variant). use 'ar' to unarchive it (google for this). then look at the
file 'boot/config-blah' with less or vi or whatever.

# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y

look for those lines.

if CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y and CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y are set, you are gold.

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Re: X doesn't start

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:50 +0200, Anakreon Mendis wrote:
 The X server fails to start.
 Yesturday it worked fine.

did you do an upgrade recently? even if you do an upgrade that doesnt
kick X. you will still be running the previous version of X until X
restarts.

 I can't figure out how to fix the problem.

what does /var/log/X[Free86|org]/*.0.log have to say. use 'less' and
search for 'EE'. if you cant find any errors that are meaningful, then
what does the last 20 lines of the log file say?

 From the log file I found this message:
 Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
 FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc refcount is 2, should be 1; 
 fixing.

this doesnt look fatal to me.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: cvs for media files?

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 08:52 -0600, Michael Schurter wrote:
 Matt Price wrote:
  I'm going to be working on a collaborative audio documentary, probablay
  using audacity.  I would love to do some kind of version control on
  the project, sowe could all work on the documentary at home  then
  merge (and accept/reeject) our changes somehow.  But probably this
  will involve incremental changes to a significant number of media
  files.  Does anyone know whether there's a version-control system which
  can handle such changes to binary files easily and clearly?  I don't
 
 Subversion (aka svn) does binary-differencing both when transmitting 
 changes and storing them, so it should be much more efficient than CVS 
 when dealing with binary files.  I have no idea how well it would handle 
 a multi-gigabyte video file, but its worth a try.

subversion suggests using their file locking mechanism when working with
binary/media files that subversion cant merge.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: install help with tosiba laptop

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
 On 2/23/06, Matt Zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: todd, please keep 
 replies on the list. thanks. also use inline responses, it makes for better 
 readability. On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:22 -0500, Todd Swackhamer wrote:  
 do i need to know much to go through this? this is my first debian  install 
 (or any linux experience, for that matter) and i am a bit  intimidated 
 going through the expert mode. go with the etch installer. worst case 
 scenario is you lose an hour or two fiddling.
 Can etch installer be used to install sarge? If so how?

i doubt it, but i wanted to give it a go i would boot into the expert
mode, and when it asked me about my apt sources i would enter 'sarge' by
hand:

$ grep sarge /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free

i have no idea what the affect of this would be.

-matt zagrabelny


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