Re: International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into airlock

[Pete Orrall]

>
>
>
> We just had this discussion.
>
> > Subject: ISS is running GNU Linux Debian :)
> > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:39:02 +0100
>

Great, thanks.  I"ll take a look at that thread.

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Re: International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into airlock

[Pete Orrall]

>
>
>
> Seriusly?
>
> Published: 13 May 2013
>

I saw that too.  I'm curious to know what OS(es) are *currently* being used
aboard the ISS.  Is Debian still used?

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Re: raspberry pi installation with debian installer

[Pete Batard]

Hi All,

I'm just going to point out that there exists another way to boot into 
the UI installer on RPi3, and perform an ARM64 Debian install in a 
manner that is very close to what a user would perform on an x86 PC.


This is accomplished through the use of the official UEFI firmware that 
now exists for the RPi3 [1], which greatly simplifies things and ensures 
that you can get niceties such as a full UI GRUB on boot (where you can 
edit boot options for instance) and other features that you'd expect to 
find on a PC-like install.


Full installation of Debian 10 is actually documented in the official 
EDK2 firmware repository [2] and you can find a ready to use UEFI binary 
archive (that also includes the WLAN firmware binaries for use with 
Linux) at [3].


The only gotchas that exist at the moment are that:
- The CD-ROM mount scripts have not been designed for FAT partition 
usage on MMC (they don't look for install media on /dev/mmcblk# as they 
do for /dev/sd# for instance, and they also appear to force the file 
system type to read-only mount, which is a bit problematic)
- The installer partition manager is very picky with regards to what it 
considers an ESP, whereas Raspberry Pi's can't use GPT partition scheme 
or type 0xef with MBR due to the SoC's embedded bootloader limitations, 
which may require a post-install fix if you don't create the ESP in a 
manner that partition manager can be happy with.


Apart from that however, the installation process is fairly 
straightforward and does provide a user experience that is almost 
identical to the one you would see when installing Debian on a UEFI x86 PC.


So I just wanted to mention that the method being exposed below is not 
the only one that currently exists to get to a fully working Debian 10 
installer on the Raspberry Pi 3.


If you are interested in the UEFI installation method, you can also 
additional walkthroughs at [4] (which is probably the most complete) and 
[5].


Regards,

/Pete

PS: There is work currently going on to bring an UEFI firmware to the 
RPI4, so that hopefully the same process can eventually be applied there 
too.


[1] 
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Platform/RaspberryPi/RPi3
[2] 
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/blob/master/Platform/RaspberryPi/RPi3/Systems.md

[3] https://github.com/pbatard/RPi3/releases
[4] 
https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-raspberry-pi.html
[5] 
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=249449&sid=e7e3dcb4c42da263bdbe1c9661f21e61#p1523007


On 2019.11.05 05:20, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

basti dijo [Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 09:58:11PM +0100]:

Hello Mailinglist,
Hello Gunnar,


Hi, and thanks for the explicit mention :-]


I get the debian installer running on my rpi3.
This post is just to inform about the general possibility and for
documentation propose on debian wiki.


OK, this is quite exciting news! It's great to see the Raspberries
being closer to a first-tier architecture in Debian. TBH, I believe
for almost all RPi users it will be easier to use the installed images
— But yes, I can perfectly understand many will feel this to be better
and more official.

Given you already did all this legwork... Could you add this
information to the Wiki yourself? It's always better if the person
that did the work and has the hands-on knowledge does it.


test with arm64 mode on rpi3b+

you need:
- sdcard with binary blob vfat partition (I use it from
https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPiImages)
- usb stick for arm64 installer

todo:
- download arm64-netinstall iso
- copy iso to usb stick (cp debian-10.1.0-arm64-netinst.iso /dev/sdx)
- copy vmlinuz and initrd.gz from stick to sdcard
- edit config.txt to boot vmlinuz and initrd.gz
- insert sdcard and usb stick to raspi and start


Umh, this looks like quite a bit of "legwork". I understand you are
basically proving it is _possible_ to boot into d-i, but this all
should probably be prepared into a first-blob bit of a hybrid image:

 https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm64/ch04s03.en.html


- ignore missing firmware, brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin is wlan, can be
installed later (firmware-brcm80211)


AIUI, you can also drop this file in your USB drive and have it picked
up by the installer.


toto:
- not all languages are shown correctly in installer


This seems quite odd...

Thanks a lot!

Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7

[Pete Geenhuizen]

Well now I certainly a few things to mull over.

Thanks for the responses and suggestions.

Pete



On 01/25/2019 12:23 PM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:


I am mainly a Centos user and am quite a novice when it comes to 
Debian and I have a computer which is currently running Stretch 9.6 
and I recently install apt 1.4.9.


With the release of Stretch 9.7 and because of the recent 
vulnerability discovered in apt I'm not sure how to proceed.


According to the instructions in the Debian Security Advisory they 
advise disabling redirects which might
"break some proxies when used against security.debian.org", not sure 
exactly what this means to me,


and further on it says "For the stable distribution (stretch), this 
problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9"


I just don't know what direction I should take, so I'd appreciate some 
insight and pointers on how I should proceed.


Thanks

Pete


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I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7

[Pete Geenhuizen]

I am mainly a Centos user and am quite a novice when it comes to Debian 
and I have a computer which is currently running Stretch 9.6 and I 
recently install apt 1.4.9.


With the release of Stretch 9.7 and because of the recent vulnerability 
discovered in apt I'm not sure how to proceed.


According to the instructions in the Debian Security Advisory they 
advise disabling redirects which might
"break some proxies when used against security.debian.org", not sure 
exactly what this means to me,


and further on it says "For the stable distribution (stretch), this 
problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9"


I just don't know what direction I should take, so I'd appreciate some 
insight and pointers on how I should proceed.


Thanks

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Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

[Pete Orrall]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Nicholas Geovanis
 wrote:
> Is it just me, or are the "unofficial" images hard to get to?

Nicholas, I agree with you there.  I don't know if it's intentional
but the links to the unofficial images do seem rather hidden.

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Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

[Pete Orrall]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Dean Valentine
 wrote:
> I don't have debian installed on my computer yet, nor can I access the
> internet with it (because my wifi is down) so i don't understand how I would
> install the non-free package?

Hi Dean,

You'll have to install Debian from one of the non-free images first.
That should have your desired firmware.  Another user posted the
non-free page earlier, but in case you didn't see it here it is below:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/

Good luck.

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Re: firefox + flashplayer on slow pc

[Pete Orrall]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:10 PM, deloptes  wrote:
> I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently
> I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x.
>
> glxgears looks good, but after installing later firefox when watching some
> YT it slows down and video breaks. even lowering quality to 360 is not very
> good.

I have the same problem on my Debian workstation running Jessie at
work.  While it's a fairly beefy desktop with a Core i7 and 16GB, it
also has an ATI video card.  I experience the same sluggish behavior
watching YouTube videos through Firefox.  Watching the same videos at
the same resolution through Chrome does not produce the same
sluggishness.  I have not yet tried Chromium.  While watching videos
in both browsers I've viewed CPU usage in top.  Firefox was chewing
away over 50% of the CPU whereas Chrome consumed 11%.

Additionally, I have a laptop and desktop at home running Wheezy and
Jessie, respectively.  Neither one uses ATI for graphics and I have no
problems with sluggishness on watching YouTube videos with Firefox.
You could try updating the driver to see if that improves performance.
Otherwise, perhaps a different browser is needed.

Hope that helps.

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Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

[Pete Orrall]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Tomas Kral  wrote:
> Dear Users,
>
> I have finally installed "Jessie" in a separate partition of the machine
> where I also run "Wheezy" for past few years.
>
> I use GNOME desktops.


Hi Tomas,

Is GNOME a requirement?  If not, perhaps take a look at some lighter
weight environments like xfce or lxde.  They use fewer resources.

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Re: Sound with You Tube

[Pete Orrall]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:08 PM, andrew  wrote:
> Hi
> Ive read widely but cannot get a clear idea of how to get youtube to
> produce sound. Playing music or videos is fine.
> Please assist with references or instructions
> My version is debian 8.1 Jessica

Hi Andrew,

What web browser are you using?

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

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Re: Inferior sound quality

[Pete Orrall]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Himanshu Shekhar
 wrote:
> My sound card is Intel Broadwell HD audio for Dell Inspirion 15 3543.
> The sound quality on Debian Jessie seemed to be okay to me (I use Rhythmbox
> as music player, and VLC occasionally).
> Today, I used Windows for a while, and experienced far better and more
> dynamic sound quality on same earphone and for the same track (Rolling in
> the Deep :P).

Hi Himanshu,

Can you please provide more info regarding the Windows music app?  Do
you have any plugins or EQ enabled?

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

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Re: running etch on AMD Duron 1200 chip

[Pete Orrall]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Michael Fothergill
 wrote:
> Dear Folks.
>
> I am running Debian etch on an old AMD Duron 1200 box.
>
> It's so long since I used it I can't remember if it must be running the 32
> bit version of Debian ie 64 bit version cannot run on it?
>
> uname -m says i686 which makes me think it is 64 bit.
>
> Is that correct?

I Googled that CPU and found this:

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Duron%201200%20-%20DHD1200AMT1B.html

The data width states the CPU is 32 bit.

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Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

[Pete Orrall]

> After installing debian, I have installed the i3 window manager from the
> console. However after restarting the system, i don't get i3. I get the
> console.
>
> What should I do to start i3 when the system starts?
>
> I want to use only i3 and not any other desktop environment.

Howdy Dwijesh,

After logging into the console as yourself (not root), what happens
when you type startx  ?

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

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Re: bug in single-user fsck mode

[Pete Greening]

Additionally, I can not (easily) unmount /var. rpm.statd is running and 
has a cwd of /var/lib/nfs, preventing normal system recovery. This seems 
very wrong.



On 10/09/2015 11:09 AM, Pete Greening wrote:

All,
I would like to report a bug, but I am not sure what package it 
belongs to. Probably systemd...


Here's what happens. I have a LVM LV formated ext4 for /var partition. 
At boot, there was a minor error and fsck failed due to a hard 
shutdown.   I received the well known error "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; 
RUN fsck MANUALLY." and was presented with an emergency mode login.
I proceed to login and run fsck against /var, however /var is already 
mounted. Apparently systemd somehow mounted the filesystem despite the 
errors. I really don't know what's going on here..


Additionally, networking has been brought up. The machine is not even 
booted to multi-user mode, should it really initialize the networking 
stack before completing the local file systems?


How do I submit this bug? any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you



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bug in single-user fsck mode

[Pete Greening]

All,
I would like to report a bug, but I am not sure what package it belongs 
to. Probably systemd...


Here's what happens. I have a LVM LV formated ext4 for /var partition. 
At boot, there was a minor error and fsck failed due to a hard 
shutdown.   I received the well known error "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; 
RUN fsck MANUALLY." and was presented with an emergency mode login.
I proceed to login and run fsck against /var, however /var is already 
mounted. Apparently systemd somehow mounted the filesystem despite the 
errors. I really don't know what's going on here..


Additionally, networking has been brought up. The machine is not even 
booted to multi-user mode, should it really initialize the networking 
stack before completing the local file systems?


How do I submit this bug? any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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Re: Flash update

[Pete Orrall]

Mozilla has blocked Flash from its web browsers due to security
threats.  I am prompted to allow the use of Flash on each
Flash-enabled website I visit. - this is on *all* my Debian and
Windows 7 workstations at home and at work.

I did find this here yesterday:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/14/firefox_blocks_flash/

Maybe this helps?

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Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

[Pete Orrall]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:05 AM, mudongliang
 wrote:
> First , when does debian8.1 come?

When it's ready.

> Second, I know the development of debian big version (for Debian 7 -> 8).

Huh?

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Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

[Pete Orrall]

>> after installing the packages (- bluez-alsa) you need to configure alsa
>> by creating .asoundrc file
>
> Thanks, but I don't know how.

I'm running openbox on my Wheezy systems at home (a ThinkPad and a
massive workstation) and haven't needed to create an .asoundrc file.

>> or, if the default device is correct, use alsamixer to turn on volumes of the
>> default card.
>
> By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on.  But still no sound.

Other questions:

1) What is your sound card's make/model?
2) What are you using as a listening device, ie headphones, basic
multimedia speakers, stereo receiver?
3) Did you check your connections.  Are your (assuming) speakers
plugged into the audio OUT of your soundcard, and not MIC or Line IN?
4) Did you check volume levels on speakers?

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Re: testing or stable

[Pete Orrall]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Joris Bolsens  wrote:
> I've been using Debian Jessie for ~ a year now, now that it is stable
> should I update to sid? or stick with jessie?

Jessie was released as the new stable distribution this past Saturday
(4-25-2015).  You shouldn't have any problems running Jessie now.

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Re: File transfer

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Wouldn't you need a crossover cable to do that?


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Re: No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card

[Pete Orrall]

>> Maybe your problem?  You might have to revert to a previous version
>> (which would involve a manual extraction from an older Chrome package).
>>
>
> Or maybe not because you're talking about audio only--sorry about that.

No worries, Curt.  It looks like I will be filing a bug report.
Thanks for reaching out anyway.

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No Flash-based audio in Google Chrome/Chromium with a USB Sound Card

[Pete Orrall]

Hi All,

I am apologizing for the long post now.  I installed Wheezy a couple
weeks ago on my workstation and things are fantasticwith the
exception of a Flash-based audio problem: I don't have audio from any
Flash-based media (Youtube, Vimeo, or otherwise) in either Google
Chrome or Chromium.  I installed the pepperflashplugin-nonfree plugin
and have followed much of the documentation on the Debian Wiki
regarding this issue.  Removing and reinstalling both Chrome and
Pepper Flash have not changed the situation.  I have also spent
several hours Googling this problem without resolve.  I don't have
this Flash-based audio problem with Iceweasel.  Playing audio/video
from Audacious and VLC work fine.

My motherboard is an ASRock 990FX Extreme9 with its own onboard NVidia
audio chip.  I disabled this sound card a long time ago in the BIOS.
My audio interface is a USB Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 which ALSA
supports.

I installed Wheezy via the DVD using the Expert Installer and a
minimal install which included SSH and the base system.
Post-installation I installed xorg, openbox, and some other
desktop-related packages as well as multimedia stuff from the
deb-multimedia repo.  Some other things worth noting:

1) I have Wheezy installed on my ThinkPad L530 with the same (or at
least darn-near identical) installation method and package selection
and uses the laptop's onboard audio.  The laptop doesn't experience
this problem *at all* and instead works just fine.

2) This workstation is also dualbooted with Windows 7 Professional
where I also use Google Chrome and do not experience this audio
problem.

3) I have had other distributions (CentOS 6.5 and openSUSE 13.1,
respectively) installed on this machine with the SAME hardware
configuration and never experienced these Chrome/Chromium audio
problems.

Does anyone have any ideas?  Is there some sound-related configuration
I'm missing or have I stumbled across a bug?

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Re: Openbox systemd-free

[Pete Orrall]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Steve Litt  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The first task of my project is done. Openbox is systemd-free, and is
> intended to be systemd free. So that will form the GUI foundation. I'll
> come back in the next few days with some systemd-free panels that go
> well with Openbox, as well as a lock program.


Steve,

I use Openbox as my primary wm, along with the following tools for
added functionality:

tint2 - highly configurable taskbar
nitrogen - wallpaper manager
obconf - Openbox config tool
obmenu - graphical Python app to manage the Openbox menu instead of the XML file
openbox-themes - more themes
xscreensaver - Create an obmenu entry to lock your system with the
following command: xscreensaver-command -lock

I created an autostart.sh file in my ~/.config/openbox directory which
starts tint2, nitrogen, and xscreensaver upon login.  Both tint2 and
nitrogen need their config files tweaked after installing the
packages.  If you'd like, I can send you mine.

> So far my research is telling me that wicd command line is systemd free
> (if anyone knows to the contrary, please let me know), so I'll probably
> put a small front end on wicd.

There is a GTK front end package called wicd-gtk.  Other wicd front
ends exist too:

https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=jessie&searchon=names&keywords=wicd

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Re: Akai EIE pro

[Pete Orrall]

> I checked the link you provided, and the only Akai model that is listed is 
> the MPD16. It does not identify the MPD16's chipset, and after doing some 
> searching for this and the EIE, I can't find any information about the 
> chipsets for either device...

I did some Googling, also without much luck.  From the results it
appears the interface isn't supported under Linux, unfortunately.

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Re: Akai EIE pro

[Pete Orrall]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:38 PM, John Aten
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to record audio with Wheezy through the Akai EIE Pro audio 
> interface. Akai does not officially support Linux. I have searched around the 
> internet, and mostly all I can find are forum posts, from people trying to 
> get it to work, that remain unsolved. I tried out ArtistX, thinking that it 
> might work right out of the box, but it wasn't available as an input source.
>
> Anyone have any leads on what I might be able to do?

Hi John,

Have you checked ALSA's website to see if it supports your device?  I
was in a similar situation when I bought my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 a
couple years ago.  The company supports Windows and Mac only, but
after searching the database I found it is supported it OOTB.  See the
link below.

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main

While there is a link for AKAI devices in the list, you will need to
know your device's chipset.  Hope that helps!

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Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

[Pete Orrall]

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Steve Litt  wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:13 -0400
> Tony Baldwin  wrote:
>
>> Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last "just
>> manages windows" category, and, in fact, don't even include a panel,
>> which I think JWM has by default.
>
> You're just the person I need to talk to, Tony. Right now I've switched
> over from Xfce to Openbox, and like it. Except for one thing: the fonts
> look a whole lot worse on Openbox, and I have very bad vision, so this
> isn't aesthetics: It affects the speed at which I work. Do you know of
> a way to make fonts on Openbox look like the ones on Xfce?

Install the obconf package if you haven't already.  It's an easy to
use preference manager for Openbox.  You can adjust fonts and sizes
there, along with themes and other stuff without needing to edit
config files.

# apt-get install obconf

Hope this helps!

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Re: Difference between apt and apt-get

[Pete Ley]

"Gian Uberto Lauri"  writes:

> berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Le 06.02.2014 11:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
>  > > On Thursday 06 February 2014 05:43:45 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote:
>  > >> I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in
>  > >> /apt update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/.
>  > >
>  > > Can one do ?  I have never heard of it, which could 
>  > > easily
>  > > be my ignorance, but Google can't find it either.  If it exists, I
>  > > would be interested in what it is used for.
>  > >
>  > > Lisi
>  > 
>  > Command-not-found also does not know about it, so my guess is that "apt 
>  > update" just does not exists. I tend to trust command-not-found :)
>
> dpkg -L apt shows no evidence of an executable named apt.

I feel he might have meant the differences between apt-get and
_aptitude_, but got a little confused in the terminology. 

My two cent interpretation.

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Re: fastest linux distro

[Pete Orrall]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:17 PM, tom arnall  wrote:
> I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes.

> Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it.
>
> Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

I run Debian Wheezy with a stock kernel on my aging Toshiba Tecra A8.
It has a 1.7GHz Core Duo with 2GB of RAM.  With xfce performance is
acceptable, ie much better than heavy-weight DEs like KDE or GNOME but
still leaves some room for improvement.  Instead, I use openbox and
there is a noticeable improvement in speed and resource usage.  It
took me a little while to adjust to such a minimal environment
especially when coming from GNOME or even xfce but now I much prefer
it, even on faster systems.

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Re: free-software phone: neo900

[Pete Ley]

green  writes:

> Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at
> , is intended to be a successor of the Nokia N900,
> with significantly improved specifications and features, as well as
> full free software support (excluding PowerVR 3D acceleration).  It is
> even (as of this writing) planned to have Debian GNU/Linux as the
> bundled OS.
>
> Comments?

This sounds pretty cool. I hope they pull it off in the end, but I might
wait for it to drop in price. 6-850 EUR is a bit hefty for my
pockets. I'd like to see some kind of reduced-specs version that cost a
little less. For instance, I don't need a barometer in my phone. I could
also do without the front facing camera or even the 5MP if it meant a
price reduction.

And with a highly configurable system like Debian GNU/Linux, I wouldn't
mind having similar specs to the original N900 for a smaller price
tag. I fully commend the project for trying to advance free software in
the mobile world; that said, part of the idea for me is options. :)

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Re: ANDROID

[Pete Ley]

alex.pad...@laposte.net writes:

> I shall want to buy a SMARTPHONE with a free O.S (GNU).
> Many of my friends say to me that ANDROID is a free system, it is LINUX!
> What do you think about it?
> Does it  exist a SMARTPHONE with a system DEBIAN GNU LINUX

I have a Palm Pre 2 that runs a Debian 6.0.2 chroot.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/DebianChroot


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Re: Where is menuconfig?

[Pete Orrall]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Dom  wrote:
> On 23/07/13 01:08, Pete Orrall wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a new kernel for a Wheezy machine and I need
>> menuconfig.  However, when I do the following:
>>
>> #: apt-get install menuconfig
>>
>> The following is returned:
>>
>> E: Unable to locate package menuconfig.
>>
>> I've searched packages.debian.org for it and found nothing.  What's
>> going on?  Am I missing something?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>
> Isn't menuconfig just an option in the kernel source makefile? You do "make
> menuconfig". It's not a package.

Hmmminteresting.  You are correct.  I could have sworn it was a
package but I guess my memory is failing me already.  :-)  Thanks,
Dom.

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Where is menuconfig?

[Pete Orrall]

Hi All,

I'm trying to build a new kernel for a Wheezy machine and I need
menuconfig.  However, when I do the following:

#: apt-get install menuconfig

The following is returned:

E: Unable to locate package menuconfig.

I've searched packages.debian.org for it and found nothing.  What's
going on?  Am I missing something?

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Re: Howto: Record playing audio only via ffmpeg/avconv

[pete smout]

On 08/05/13 17:11, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote:

I'd like to capture a song [1] played via http protocol using firefox. I
wish I could find the file itself in tmpfs but I just could not find it.

Now I'd like to record the song myself using ffmpeg or avconv ( or even
VLC ), as lossless as possibe.

How is that possibly done?

Thanks!

[1]: http://url.cn/GN6yOG <http://url.cn/GN6yOG>
​Best,
​

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receive* all else* from you (and me).
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Hi,
I would try 'Audacity' my self.
IIRC in the preferences you set the record to Line In? and just press 
record!

Note it's been a while but know I've done it with audacity.


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Re: Debian desktop news

[Pete Orrall]

>> So please lets stop the misinformation.
>
> Indeed. Let's hear about peoples' actual experiences.

I've used Wheezy both on my Toshiba Tecra A8 and in a VM on a previous
workstation.  I was not impressed at all with Gnome3's requirement for
graphic acceleration to just run the desktop.  My laptop uses an Intel
graphics chip and the (now fried) workstation used an older nVidia
GeForce 7 series card.  At the time that was using just the nv driver.

Just my $0.02.

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Re: upgrading lenny to squeeze question

[Pete]

> > I have been following the following info on
> >>
http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny-to-squeeze-in-a-few-simple-steps
>> My last root teminal command was
> >> apt-get dist-upgrade
> > It seems to be working ok up to this screen

> >> Package configuration
.. Configuring grub-pc  
.. In order to replace the Legacy version of GRUB in your system, it is
.. recommended that /boot/grub/menu.lst is adjusted to load a GRUB 2 boot
..
> > It seems to have stopped there as the  is not highlighted -- how do 

> > I proceed from this point?

> If you are still staring at that screen have you tried pressing the
> 'enter' key?

Maybe press the 'tab' key until the  is highlighted, then press 'enter'
?




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Re: [ ERR] Reading package lists - E: Encountered a section with no Package: header

[Pete]

I have a similar error, though mine is from lenny. I've done as
suggested by Marlon:

# find /var/lib/apt/lists/ -type f \( ! -iname "lock" \) -exec rm -f {} \;

.. and put the following in sources.list:

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org lenny/updates main contrib non-free

# aptitude update
[ looks good, until .. ]
Get:9 http://ftp.au.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages [94.3kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.au.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages [124kB]
Fetched 7697kB in 6s
(1197kB/s) Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList 
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. 
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache ..

I've bypassed our local debcache and tried other mirrors. The only
thing I found that stops this error is removing the deb ..
security.debian.org line. Don't like to update like that, and iirc
there aren't alternative mirrors for security.debian.org.

If you look at the sndfile-programs package description in

http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz

it is followed by the lines below, which are different to the layout
of the rest of the file, and do seem to fit the error message.

None

None

None


I'm going to wait a few days before updating again. If there is
something wrong with this package description, I don't think I'll be
the only one affected. I'd love to hear better ideas.


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Re: Creative Audigy sound card on Debian

[Pete Orrall]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 11:16 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> I've just bought a Creative Audigy sound card and I have discovered
> that the manual is stored in proprietary files for MS Windows (Vista
> and XP), so the Creative CD-ROM is no use to me.

If *.chm is the proprietary file format to which you are referring,
check out the package xchm:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xchm

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Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

[Pete Orrall]

 
> > Apparently this affects more than just Xfce users
> 
> The Gnome weather applet still works, wonder why the XFce plugin doesn't use 
> the 
> same service?

>From what I've read, the xfce weather plugin only uses the one service,
The Weather Channel (TWC), to provide data.  The Gnome applet uses
multiple sources.  Basically what's happened is the free (as in beer)
data feed TWC has provided all these years has been shut offline in
favor of a non-free version.  Just lovely.

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Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

[Pete Orrall]

> In the meantime I found this:
> 
> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin

Very neat!  I just installed it and it's great.  I actually prefer the
GNOME weather applet over the Xfce one.  The forecast information is
more detailed.  Thanks for sharing.

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Re: xfce weather plugin broken?

[Pete Orrall]

On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 16:31 +, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 13 Nov 2011 at 10:18:52 -0500, Pete Orrall wrote:
> 
> > What's going on and how do I fix this?
> 
> https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
> 
> November 2011.

Thanks Brian and Joey for the help.  I dug a little deeper with the
links provided and found this:

http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/goodies-dev/2011-October/003139.html

Apparently this affects more than just Xfce users

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Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

[Pete Orrall]

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 20:39 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> do most of you replace GNOME 3 by XFCE?

Starting with Squeeze I've been using XFCE full time to replace Gnome
2.x.  For whatever reason in Squeeze Gnome is slower than molasses.
Gnome was fine in Lenny.   I've always had Xfce installed alongside
Gnome and have always liked it for its performance and features.  It's a
great lightweight and relatively customizable DE.

> I'm undecided what to do, but I guess it would be wise to install
> parallel to GNOME 3 the most used alternative installed by users who are
> subscribed to this list.
> 
> Excepted of KDE users, XFCE seems to be the most used replacement for
> GNOME 3. Am I mistaken?

I have not tried it myself but judging by this weekend's deluge of
threads regarding Gnome 3 I will be avoiding it like MRSA.

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xfce weather plugin broken?

[Pete Orrall]

Hi All,

Recently my weather plugin for xfce has stopped showing any weather
information at all.  Now it displays "No Data." When hovering my pointer
over it, it reads "Cannot display weather data."  Regardless of location
or zip code used there is no weather information displayed.  After
complete removal and re-installation the weather plugin it is still not
working.  A quick Google search revealed nothing nor was there anything
of use in the xfce documentation.

What's going on and how do I fix this?

I am running Squeeze with xfce 4.6.2, if that helps.

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Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

[Pete Orrall]

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 22:16 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> > By default Squeeze installs grub2
> >
> > Cool, I always get confused with GRUB and GNOME.
> 
> Is it worth trying amd64 install. I tried this long ago and wasted lot of
> time trying to get it working. Whats the current status?

Yes, it works fine.  That arch has been supported in Debian for a while
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Re: Am i playing with fire?

[Pete Orrall]

On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 13:31 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some packages i want to install on my Squeeze machine just don't have
> the right dependencies or packages, so i take what i need from
> testing. Am i going to bork my installation?

Short answer:

Yes.

Butmore info is needed.  What packages are you looking to install?
Have you looked at backports?
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Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

[Pete Orrall]

> IMHO Hitachi GST is the only maker of 2.5" or 3.5" *SATA* HDDs worth
> buying ATM.

I will agree.

> It may or may not last, as WD is buying Hitach GST.

This I hadn't heard.  I will have to read about this one.

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Re: 2TB file system

[Pete Orrall]

> No, no, those wer the *IBM* Deathstar drives. There was a particular
> run of IBM Deskstar drives that all failed after a certain amount of
> usage due to some non-obvious manufacturing flaw

Oh yes that's right.

> I was almost immediately fired because *I* had done backups on spare
> tapes and was able to save them, but my supervisor was really upset
> that I had ignored his edict that "those drives are scratch space!!!".
> See, I actually *looked* and checked what people had on them. I
> probably saved 2 years of work on several projects, because I didn't
> rely on an unwritten and unannounced edict of "that space is scratch
> and not backed up".

How convenient.  Hopefully you are still employed.

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Re: 2TB file system

[Pete Orrall]

> BTW: 
> Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM?

I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business.

> I am just asking because I didn't have 
> the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke 
> within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for them :D ).

How interesting.  I hear many people have had problems with Hitachi
drives, hence the nickname "Hitachi DeathStar" but myself...I've had no
problems using their drives of any capacity from sizes smaller than 80GB
all the way to 1TB.

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Re: 2TB file system

[Pete Orrall]

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:27 +0800, lina wrote:
> What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
> reliable. 1TB.
> 
> There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
> tried the hitachi.

Hitachi is fantastic.  I've been using their drives in my machines since
2003 with no problems.

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Re: cd burning in nautilus

[Pete Orrall]

> E: Package 'nautilus-cd-burner' has no installation candidate
> 
> 
> ...confused.
> 
> What should I install?

It appears that package isn't in Squeeze.  I use Brasero for my burning
needs, it works very well.  There is also a Nautilus extension for it:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/brasero

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Re: Pidgin questions ...

[Pete Orrall]

> Does anyone have any preferences as what they think I should 
> look at also?

I have been using Pidgin for years and it is great.  No complaints here.
The only other multiprotocol client I know of is Kopete which was from
KDE 3.x.  I  haven't used it since KDE 3.4 days so I don't know its
current status.

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Re: Android / Rythymbox

[Pete V]

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 09:14 +0100, Michael Thompson wrote:
> I hope someone here can help; I cant see my Android handset in any
> media player, so cant sync to it.
> 
> It is visible as a mounted drive in gnome, and I can access it without
> issue. However Rythmbox, banshee et all will not show it. And I dont
> have a clue where to start to see why. Anyone come across this before?
> 
> I'm running Debian stable.
> 
> 
I do this to manage my android phone's music: when asked by Gnome if I
want to open the device with a program, I select other >>>rhythmbox
after that it starts importing my songs in rhythmbox, that easy really.

so, you think it's a bug? 

what version of rhythmbox do you use, mine is o.13.1 .




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Re: Mail errors or attacks?

[Pete]

On 25/05/2010 16:58, David Baron wrote:

On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org
wrote:

I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so:


2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1]
dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL
FROM:  SIZE=8814")


 ^^^


I am running exim4 heavy on a Sid box.



Exim shows no stuck messages or such. How can I stop this?


It is a spamer...

It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist


How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but this is
not catching this one.


Hello,

You could try this as root :

# cd /etc/exim4

# touch local_host_blacklist

# touch local_host_whitelist

# touch local_sender_blacklist

# touch local_sender_whitelist

# chown root:Debian-exim local_*

# chmod 640 local_*

I've created these files on my Debian Lenny box and they work very well. 
For the 'local_host_blacklist' file I add entries such as :


*.spammer.host
xxx.xxx.xxx.x/24
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

For the 'local_sender_blacklist' I add entries such as :

*...@spammer.example
*...@spamoverload.invalid
!crisisofconscie...@spamoverload.invalid

In the above example the last entry would be an exception and would not 
be blocked. Alternatively I could add that entry to 
'local_sender_whitelist' for the same effect.



Also check out this web page for some really in-depth examples of spam 
filtering with Exim :


http://www.sput.nl/software/exim.html


When trying out new filters you can use 'warn' instead of 'deny' which 
will just add a header to the email message rather than reject it at 
SMTP time. The header inserted is the contents of the 'message' line :


warn
  message = X-Spam-Header1: This mail failed on spam test 1.

.. rest of acl ...


Hope this helps.

Regards,

Pete.










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Re: cups undocumented deprecation

[Pete Boyd]

> There are errors with the cups web page
> interface too though, I'll document here.  In the add printers dialog a
> user gets asked for a ppd file in a couple places.  The user needs to be
> told the path to the file and the ppd file name are needed not just be
> asked for a ppd file.

True it's a very badly layed out interface. However you don't _need_ to
provide a PPD file, the option to provide a PPD file is an _alternative_
to choosing the driver from the list if you have one you'd specifically
prefer to use.

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Re: mondo installed amd64 kernel on 686 system

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What a blinder!
Thanks for a quick and spot-on answer Sven.


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mondo installed amd64 kernel on 686 system

[Pete Boyd]

On an i686 server running Etch'n'Half (kernel 2.6.18-6-686) I installed
mondo (using aptitude install mondo) which pulled in
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64, which was marked as the first item in GRUB's
list of kernels to run and which obviosuly crashes on startup.

Why did it pull in the amd64 kernel?
Was it perhaps not mondo's fault?

This is aptitude's log:

Will install 24 packages, and remove 0 packages.
86.5MB of disk space will be used
===
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] afio
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] binutils
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] buffer
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] cdrecord
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] dvd+rw-tools
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] fuse-utils
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] gawk
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] genisoimage
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libfribidi0
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libfuse2
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libntfs9
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libparted1.7-1
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] linux-image-2.6-amd64
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] mdadm
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] mindi
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] mindi-busybox
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] mkisofs
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] ms-sys
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] ntfsprogs
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] parted
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] syslinux
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] wodim
[INSTALL] mondo
===



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Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

[Pete Boyd]

This is how I do it on Debian Etch:
RAID:
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#raid

LVM:
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#lvm

The same process  works fine for Debian Lenny (I just haven't gotten my
Lenny guide written yet) apart from the Debian Installer seems to be
broken with regard to setting up RAID:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511452
But this bug is easily worked around simply by a reboot in the middle of
the installer.

Pete Boyd




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Re: samba file lock

[Pete Boyd]

> We would like to use samba shared folder (on debian lenny) from
> windows xp machines with disabling concurrent file access.

Shared database files, using 'oplocks = no' and 'level2 oplocks = no
':
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/samba-3-pdc-print-server-debian-etch.html#shared-database-files

smb.conf:
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/samba-3-pdc-print-server-debian-etch.html#smb.conf


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Re: MTA

[Pete Boyd]

I recommend following this tutorial by Christoph Haas:
http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ which will soon be updated
for Debian 5.0 Lenny. There's a community around it, reached through a
mailing list, which gives you a fairly good backing when you need help.
The tutorial is used by a lot of people so it's well proven and in my
experience can be relied upon to just work. The author is a Debian
developer. This was first recommended to me on a Debian IRC channel when I
was trying to piece all the mail server packages together by myself,
probably by Cafuego I think, for which I'm continually grateful. There are
other such tutorials too though I've not tried them.

My own aid to this tutorial is here:
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#mail


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Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

[Pete Boyd]

> was it removed from 5.0.2 because of that?

If anything were changed then notice of it would appear on the page
announcing the release: http://debian.org/News/2009/20090627


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Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

[Pete Boyd]

The question is misguided as it assumes one wants to use an account called
'root', but this concept doesn't exist on Ubuntu (yes it can if you want
it to, but it doesn't by design, so why resurrect it). Answering that
question for Luis doesn't answer his actual question, which is more like
'what is the administrative password', the answer to which is 'your own
user's password'.

Ubuntu uses an 'sudo' system, rather than having an explicit root account.
When asked for the administrative password you enter your own. You can run
commands that require superuser priviliges by prepending them with 'sudo',
or you can drop into superuser mode by using the command sudo -s'.

Ask your Ubuntu question here and you get a Debian answer, rather than an
Ubuntu answer. The two worlds are subtly but importantly different.


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Re: Flash on Debian ... I'm at my wit's end

[Pete Boyd]

This is the best place to read about how to install Adobe Flash on Debian:
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

For information about packages in general, searching packages.debian.org
is usually a very good place to start:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=flashplugin-nonfree

Both of these explain that the place to get Adobe Flash from is the Lenny
Backports repository.


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Re: server memory & swap eaten up then freaks out

[Pete Boyd]

> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:33 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote:
>> I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs
>> out
>> of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which
>> point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this please?
>
> Watch the ten biggest processes, are they growing permanently?
> ps aux | sort -nr -k5 | grep -v USER | head -10
>
> Whats about the process count? How many processes running? Is this
> number constantly growing?
> ps aux | wc -l

I monitored for 2 days. In day one only three staff were in and the server
showed no strain. On day two there were 10 staff. I found that no one
single process consumes RAM but the number of imap instances grows and
grows throught the day, and with it the and amount of RAM and swap used.
Eventually there were 250 imap instances, at which point nearly all of
swap had been used up and I pre-emptively rebooted. I've summarised my
findings below.

Before seeing this issue, this server has run fine for two years with
Sarge, and fine for a couple of months with Etch. Thunderbird 2 was
installed on workstations in December. Other than that barely any changes
have been made and nothing jumps out at me as a meaningful change.
...other than a faulty web app that emailed 50GB of small emails, that
have been manually removed at the command-line from a .Trash maildir
directory with rm so as far as I can imagine are long gone.

If anyone can suggest which way I should progress with this that would be
really appreciated thanks.

This is how it looks right after a reboot:

# ps aux | wc -l
139

# ps aux | grep imap | wc -l
20

# free -m
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:  2027379   1647  0 19134
-/+ buffers/cache:225   1801
Swap: 2572  0   2572


This is how it looked at 15:20 just before I rebooted because it was
looking as though it would fall over soon:

# free -m
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:  2027   1961 66  0232130
-/+ buffers/cache:   1597429
Swap: 2572   1772800

# ps aux | wc -l
370

# ps aux | grep imap | wc -l
250


This was vmstat -s at 14:50:

  2075976  total memory
  2023420  used memory
  1726100  active memory
   208488  inactive memory
52556  free memory
   256460  buffer memory
   168756  swap cache
  2634620  total swap
  1362060  used swap
  1272560  free swap
92674 non-nice user cpu ticks
10611 nice user cpu ticks
  1318293 system cpu ticks
 38722678 idle cpu ticks
  3335461 IO-wait cpu ticks
 1057 IRQ cpu ticks
 6754 softirq cpu ticks
0 stolen cpu ticks
 11745364 pages paged in
 21594305 pages paged out
41058 pages swapped in
   342237 pages swapped out
 13813415 interrupts
 29292565 CPU context switches
   1240817136 boot time
74626 forks


I'm wondering if these settings in dovecot.conf could be used to fix the
issue:

# Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use
# login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this.
#login_process_size = 32

# Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one
# login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more
# secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need
# to create processes all the time.
#login_process_per_connection = yes

# Number of login processes to keep for listening new connections.
#login_processes_count = 3

# Maximum number of login processes to create. The listening process count
# usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start
logging
# in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent
fork-bombing
# we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all
# of them are used at the time, we double their amount until the limit set by
# this setting is reached.
#login_max_processes_count = 128

# Maximum number of connections allowed per each login process. This setting
# is used only if login_process_per_connection=no. Once the limit is reached,
# the process notifies master so that it can create a new login process.
# You should make sure that the process has at least
# 16 + login_max_connections * 2 available file descriptors.
#login_max_connections = 256


ps aux from 12:35:

server:~# ps aux
USER   PID %CPU %MEMVSZ   RSS TTY  STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root 1  0.0  0.0   1940   636 ?Ss   Apr27   0:01 init [2]
root 2  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   Apr27   0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   Apr27   0:00

server memory & swap eaten up then freaks out

[Pete Boyd]

lhost kernel: Total swap = 2634620kB
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: Free swap:0kB
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 524160 pages of RAM
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 294784 pages of HIGHMEM
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 5063 reserved pages
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 22710 pages shared
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 1 pages swap cached
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 0 pages dirty
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 0 pages writeback
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 144 pages mapped
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 14025 pages slab
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 11530 pages pagetables
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 524160 pages of RAM
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 294784 pages of HIGHMEM
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 5063 reserved pages
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 22715 pages shared
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 1 pages swap cached
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 0 pages dirty
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 0 pages writeback
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 144 pages mapped
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 14025 pages slab
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: 11530 pages pagetables
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 29845
(mysqld) score 16080 and children.
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 29845
(mysqld).
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 3410
(dovecot) score 8662 and children.
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3511
(pop3-login).
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 3410
(dovecot) score 8661 and children.
Mar 14 12:58:20 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2925 (imap).
Mar 14 12:58:22 localhost mysqld_safe[5237]: Number of processes running
now: 0
Mar 14 12:58:22 localhost mysqld_safe[5239]: restarted
Mar 14 12:58:33 localhost mysqld[5242]: 090314 12:58:32  InnoDB: Database
was not shut down normally!
Mar 14 12:58:33 localhost mysqld[5242]: InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
Mar 14 12:58:33 localhost mysqld[5242]: InnoDB: Reading tablespace
information from the .ibd files...
Mar 14 12:58:33 localhost mysqld[5242]: InnoDB: Restoring possible
half-written data pages from the doublewrite
Mar 14 12:58:33 localhost mysqld[5242]: InnoDB: buffer...
Mar 14 12:58:37 localhost fetchmail[3695]: awakened at Sat 14 Mar 2009
12:58:34 GMT
Mar 14 12:58:38 localhost mysqld[5242]: 090314 12:58:36  InnoDB: Starting
log scan based on checkpoint at
Mar 14 12:58:38 localhost mysqld[5242]: InnoDB: log sequence number 0 68717.
Mar 14 12:58:48 localhost mysqld[5242]: InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up
to log sequence number 0 68717
qMar 14 12:58:56 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect
failed to 127.0.0.1 (mailserver): Can't connect to MySQL server on
'127.0.0.1' (111) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry
Mar 14 12:58:56 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default):
sql(lett...@domain.org,IPADDRESS.111): Password query failed: Not
connected to database
Mar 14 12:58:57 localhost fetchmail[3695]: 145 messages (144 seen) for
i...@domain.org at mail.MAILHOST.co.uk (154739969 octets).
Mar 14 12:58:57 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default):
sql(lett...@domain.org,IPADDRESS.111): Password query failed: Not
connected to database
Mar 14 12:58:59 localhost fetchmail[3695]: reading message
i...@domain.org@mail.MAILHOST.co.uk:145 of 145 (2501 octets) (log message
incomplete)
Mar 14 12:58:59 localhost fetchmail[3695]: connection to localhost:smtp
[127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused.
Mar 14 12:58:59 localhost fetchmail[3695]: SMTP connect to localhost failed
Mar 14 12:58:59 localhost fetchmail[3695]: SMTP transaction error while
fetching from i...@domain.org@mail.MAILHOST.co.uk and delivering to SMTP
host localhost
Mar 14 12:59:00 localhost fetchmail[3695]: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Mar 14 12:59:00 localhost fetchmail[3695]: sleeping at Sat 14 Mar 2009
12:59:00 GMT for 60 seconds
Mar 14 12:59:00 localhost mysqld[5242]: InnoDB: Last MySQL binlog file
position 0 232, file name /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.000902
Mar 14 12:59:01 localhost mysqld[5242]: 090314 12:59:01  InnoDB: Started;
log sequence number 0 68717
Mar 14 12:59:09 localhost mysqld[5242]: 090314 12:59:04 [Note] Recovering
after a crash using /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin
Mar 14 12:59:10 localhost mysqld[5242]: 090314 12:59:08 [Note] Starting
crash recovery...
Mar 14 12:59:10 localhost mysqld[5242]: 090314 12:59:08 [Note] Crash
recovery finished.
Mar 14 12:59:26 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect
failed to 127.0.0.1 (mailserver): Can't connect to MySQL server on
'127.0.0.1' (111) - waiting for 75 seconds before retry




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can't install Debian

[Pete]

Have tried several times to install debian on my system without success.
It seems unable to recognise my network connection yet I have no trouble
installing Ubuntu (or any other system) from the internet.
This time I have tried to install on Virtualbox and got the following
install report:
00:00:28.825 PIT: mode=2 count=0x12a5 (4773) - 249.98 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:30.340 PATM: Disable block at c03291cc - write c0329223-c0329227
00:00:36.746 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0,
pvVRAM=b2149000 w=640 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x280
00:00:36.958 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0,
pvVRAM=b2149000 w=640 h=480 bpp=0 cbLine=0x140
00:01:44.521 PCNet#0: Init: ss32=1 GCRDRA=0x34493000[32]
GCTDRA=0x36ea9000[16]
00:01:45.550 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:01:47.680 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:12:01.938 PIIX3 ATA: execution time for ATA command 0xca was 10
seconds
00:12:34.449 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 60518715608 ns lag; new
total: 60518715608 ns
00:13:34.154 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 60001336920 ns lag; new
total: 120520052528 ns
00:14:40.111 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 65643539535 ns lag; new
total: 186163592063 ns
00:15:41.358 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 60362908891 ns lag; new
total: 246526500954 ns
00:16:44.978 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 63459454272 ns lag; new
total: 309985955226 ns
00:17:46.582 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 61343718765 ns lag; new
total: 371329673991 ns
00:18:47.376 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 60600157390 ns lag; new
total: 431929831381 ns
00:19:52.339 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 64762282505 ns lag; new
total: 496692113886 ns
00:20:55.824 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 63362634093 ns lag; new
total: 560054747979 ns
00:21:55.947 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 60089311008 ns lag; new
total: 620144058987 ns
00:22:57.888 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 61774229256 ns lag; new
total: 681918288243 ns

The IP address 10.0.2.15 is inaccessible to me. What is it? Why is it
trying to access it? This seems to be the block. Ping responds with
Destination Host Unreachable. 

Solution please.

Pete
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Re: Is there any todo manager tools?

[Pete]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Ding Honghui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I need a todo manager tools has such feature:
>
> 1. category support ( personal, business, etc )
> 2. remind before due date ( by mail ,etc )
> 3. relation between todo lists ( such as todo A dependence todo B )
> 4. support priority ( it's better when I can give it a score by
> emergency and necessary )
> 5. easy to update, if I mark it as done, it should disappear in list but
> still remain in history
> 6. searchable
>
> hmm, seems bugzilla satisfy almost all these feature..
>
> Ding Honghui
>

http://clay.ll.pl/osmo/

Problem with setting up a networking interface

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I am trying to setup a new linux box for xen. Here is my setup

Lan ( 192.168.1.1) connecting to 5 computers.  The one I am setting up the
new linux has Lan IP (192.168.1.105).
I want to set it up so that this 192.168.1.105 computer can run Xen with 2
domU.   I try to set it up so that dom0 has ip 192.168.0.100 and the rest of
domUs have 192.168.0.101 and 192.168.0.102

After modifying the interfaces file, as shown below, I am able to restart
networking ( /etc/init.d/networking restart).  console does say
"reconfiguring network interfaces...don."
However, I am still not able to ping a public IP address.

Could someone tell me what have I done wrong?


# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation
# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1


Thank you very much for all your help.

Pete

Re: problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

Thank you for all your your help.

I followed the step-by-step instruction and my Lenny is working!

Thanks,
Pete

Re: problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I am having problem apt-get install even after attempting to install
exim4-base.
Here is the error:

ser:/home/anne# apt-get install exim4-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
exim4-base is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libpci2 libgail17 libgcj7-0 type-handling libsoup2.2-8 libwnck18
  libpoppler0c2 libdirectfb-0.9-25 libeel2-2.14 libiw28 libgucharmap4
  libmyspell3c2 libsnmp9 mkisofs libavahi-core4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at:
 at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
dpkg: error processing at (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
 exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy |
exim4-daemon-custom; however:
  Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
 bsd-mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package exim4 is not configured yet.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailx:
 mailx depends on bsd-mailx; however:
  Package bsd-mailx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-daemon-light
 at
 exim4
 bsd-mailx
 mailx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ser:/home/anne#

Is the new Lenny ready?  If so, how do I update my os?

Thanks,
Pete


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Florian Kulzer <
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:55:49 +0800, Pete Kay wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to upgrade to Lenny because Lenny has the latest Lua 5.3 version,
> > but after I did the upgrade, not only Lua 5.3 is not installed, but
> apt-get
> > starting to pop up errors every time I use it:
>
> [...]
>
> > Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
> > Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
> > invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
> > dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> [...]
>
> This is a known problem with Lenny right now:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476987
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00473.html
>
> It is fixed in Sid, but the corrected package cannot propagate to Lenny
> at the moment. (This is related to perl, on which exim4-daemon-heavy
> depends.)
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exim4.html
> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=exim4
>
> I think that installing the Sid version of exim4-base is the quickest
> and easiest fix for Lenny users in the present situation.
>
> --
> Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>  Florian   |
>
>
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>

problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I tried to upgrade to Lenny because Lenny has the latest Lua 5.3 version,
but after I did the upgrade, not only Lua 5.3 is not installed, but apt-get
starting to pop up errors every time I use it:

ser:/home/anne# apt-get install lua50
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
lua50 is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libpci2 libgail17 libgcj7-0 type-handling libsoup2.2-8 libwnck18
  libpoppler0c2 libdirectfb-0.9-25 libeel2-2.14 libiw28 libgucharmap4
  libmyspell3c2 libsnmp9 mkisofs libavahi-core4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at:
 at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
dpkg: error processing at (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
 exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy |
exim4-daemon-custom; however:
  Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
 bsd-mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package exim4 is not configured yet.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailx:
 mailx depends on bsd-mailx; however:
  Package bsd-mailx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-daemon-light
 at
 exim4
 bsd-mailx
 mailx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ser:/home/anne#


What is wrong?  How can I fix this?

Thanks
Pete

hostname question

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP
addresses.  Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure all the
db ips and server ips.

Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as "db" , "ser"
etc, so that I don't use 192.168.x.x in my configure anymore.

Is this something that can be done?  Could someone please give me some
pointer on how to do it?

Thanks,
Pete

Re: Question on setting up NFS

[Pete Kay]

Hi Owen:

Here is the output of running the 4 commands:

ser:# showmount -e 192.168.1.101
Export list for 192.168.1.101:
/var/fs 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.104
ser:# mount -v 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs
mount: no type was given - I'll assume nfs because of the colon
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
   need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so

ser:# mount -vt nfs -o nolock 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
   need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so

ser:# mount -vt nfs4 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
   need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so

ser:#

Re: Question on setting up NFS

[Pete Kay]

Hi Owen,

Thank you so much for your guidance.  Based on your instruction, I found out
the following:

1. /sbin/mount.nfs does not exist in the client machine and server machine
2. I can mount locally on the server machine with no problem.

What could have gone wrong?

Thanks,
Pete

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is the result for the two commands:
> >
> > ser:# dmesg |tail
> > EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
> > loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> > device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > NET: Registered protocol family 10
> > lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> > ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> > ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
> > lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
> > ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
> >
> > ser:# apt-get install nfs-common
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > nfs-common is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> >
> > I think the nfs-common is already installed...
> >
> >
> >
> > Pete
> >
>
> Hey,
>   Looks ok so far, more things to check:
>   Does /sbin/mount.nfs exist?
>   if you add/change the server line to
> /var/fs 127.0.0.1(rw,sync)
>   and re-export can you mount this locally on the server?
> debian:# mount localhost:/var/fs /mnt
>
>   Also, in your initial email, either the output of `exportfs`
> was truncated or the export isn't working as it should be
> listed in the output. Try reloading and/or restarting the
> nfs-server:
> debian:# invoke-rc.d nfs-kernel-server reload
> (or nfs-user-server)
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>
>

Re: Question on setting up NFS

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

Here is the result for the two commands:

ser:# dmesg |tail
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver

ser:# apt-get install nfs-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nfs-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

I think the nfs-common is already installed...



Pete


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I execute the command, I still get error:
> >
> > ser:# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs/fs
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:
> > /var/fs,
> >missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
> >need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
> >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >dmesg | tail  or so
> >
> >
> > I can't figure out where.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for all your help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pete
>
>
> Hey,
>   Does dmesg|tail have anything relevant?
>   Do you have the nfs-common package installed?
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>
>

Re: Question on setting up NFS

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

If I execute the command, I still get error:

ser:# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs/fs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
   need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


I can't figure out where.

Thank you in advance for all your help.

Regards,
Pete


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> [snip
> On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ser:# mount 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:
> > /var/fs,
> >missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
> >need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
> >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >dmesg | tail  or so
> >
> > [snip]
> > Any inputs will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pete
> >
> >
> Hey,
>   Does it still give the error if you explicitly give the type?:
> ser:# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>

Question on setting up NFS

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I am trying to map the directory /var/fs at remote server ( 192.168.1.101)
to local directory /mnt/nfs/fs

It is giving me the following error.  How come?  I am following the
procedure at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/nfs.htm


ser:# mount 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
   need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so




In NFS server, I have /etc/exports:

/var/fs 192.168.1.104(rw,sync)


When running exportfs, I am getting

debian:/home/anne# exportfs -a
exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: Neither 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check'
speci$
  Assuming default behaviour ('subtree_check').
  NOTE: this default will change with nfs-utils version 1.1.0
debian:/home/anne#


Any inputs will be greatly appreciated.


Regards,
Pete

Re: having problem with install unixodbc on debian

[Pete Kay]

Hi Andrei,

Thanks alot.  I apt-get purge the libmyodbc and then install it again and it
is working now.

Thanks alot for your help.

Regards,
Pete

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 04:49:58PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am trying to get unixodbc installed on debian without success.
> >
> > I followed the instruction exactly from
> > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/496
>
> Did you also read the comments? There is a mention of a similar error.
>
> > When I try to connect, it keeps giving me error:
> > ser:/usr/local/freeswitch/scripts# isql -v fsdb
> > [01000][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib '/usr/lib/odbc/
> > libmyodbc3_r-3.51.11.so' : /usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc3_r-3.51.11.so: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
> >
> > It says the driver is missing even after I do "apt-get install
> libmyodbc".
> > I tried apt-get remove and apt-get install a few times, no luck as well.
> >
> > when I do "locate libmyodbc", no result returns.  So, I think the driver
> is
> > not there, but I don't know how to install the driver.
>
> locate uses a database which is recreated usually once per night. Either
> you run 'updatedb' as root or use 'find' for new stuff. If you know the
> exact location 'ls' is much easier. Try this:
>
> ls /usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc*
>
> 'dpkg -l libmyodbc' will also show you if dpkg *thinks* the package is
> installed correctly (dpkg should also be correct about it unless you
> messed with the package behind its back).
>
> HTH,
> Andrei
> --
> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> (Albert Einstein)
>
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having problem with install unixodbc on debian

[Pete Kay]

Dear all,

I am trying to get unixodbc installed on debian without success.

I followed the instruction exactly from
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/496


When I try to connect, it keeps giving me error:
ser:/usr/local/freeswitch/scripts# isql -v fsdb
[01000][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib '/usr/lib/odbc/
libmyodbc3_r-3.51.11.so' : /usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc3_r-3.51.11.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect

It says the driver is missing even after I do "apt-get install libmyodbc".
I tried apt-get remove and apt-get install a few times, no luck as well.

when I do "locate libmyodbc", no result returns.  So, I think the driver is
not there, but I don't know how to install the driver.

Please kindly give me some ideas as to what I did wrong?

Thanks alot in advance for your inputs.

Regards,
Pete

looking for a light-weight pin-yin input in any

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I just need to create a few text file in Chinese using pinyin as the input
method.  I tried scim but it almost destroyed me Debian and I think it is
too heavy for me to just create a few text files in Chinese.

Does anyone have a better suggestion for a simple pin-yin input tool?

Thanks alot for your input.

Regards,
Pete

urgently need help with Debian can't started

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring up
Debian X-window anymore.  It does request for the username and password, but
then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not go to the main window.


I can reboot to get to command prompt.  Can anyone tell me if there is a way
I can restore my X-window using some apt-get install "package"?
How to do that?  There are many information in the machine that I don't want
to lose.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Pete

Question about debian vserver

[Pete Kay]

Hi all,

I have a question for Debian vserver.  Let's say I have web server on one
Debian guest system and db on another Debian guest system.  How do I have
the different applications to listen on the different ports?  How would
someone from the Internet be able to access the web server via the internal
IP address?  How does the applications within two guest systems communicate
with each other ( via internal IP or ?)?

Thank you very much for your input.

Thanks,
Pete

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

Here is my w,free, top results when my linux server's network become too
slow again ( it just happened).

w output:
 19:41:19 up 1 day, 20:07,  6 users,  load average: 1.46, 1.85, 1.86
USER TTY  FROM  LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
anne :0   -Thu23   ?xdm?  26:59   0.87s
x-session-manag
root pts/2:0.0 Thu23   19:28  56.31s 56.29s asterisk
-v
root pts/3:0.0 Fri20   10:18   0.42s  0.42s bash
root pts/4:0.0 Fri210.00s  0.80s  0.00s w
root pts/5:0.0 Fri01   24:43   0.00s  0.00s bash
root pts/6:0.0 Fri01   20:02   0.04s  0.04s bash

free output:
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:   10284921009284  19208  0   4700 649756
-/+ buffers/cache: 354828 673664
Swap:  2650684 1235322527152

top output:
top - 19:41:37 up 1 day, 20:08,  6 users,  load average: 1.33, 1.80, 1.84
Tasks: 140 total,   3 running, 134 sleeping,   3 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 32.2%us, 29.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 37.1%id,  1.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   1028492k total,  1011888k used,16604k free, 4724k buffers
Swap:  2650684k total,   123532k used,  2527152k free,   652132k cached

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
 4292 root  25   0 15808 1004  856 R   98  0.1   1441:12 notify.php
 6623 anne  15   0  337m 145m  26m S   24 14.5 169:28.67 firefox-bin
 5574 anne  15   0 67260  17m  11m S0  1.8   0:08.40 nautilus
 5550 root  15   0  2228 1168  856 R0  0.1   0:00.07 top
1 root  15   0  1944  504  476 S0  0.0   0:01.27 init
2 root  RT   0 000 S0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/0
3 root  34  19 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root  RT   0 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
5 root  34  19 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
6 root  10  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.68 events/0
7 root  10  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.01 events/1
8 root  10  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
9 root  10  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
   13 root  10  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.04 kblockd/0
   14 root  19  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1
   15 root  15  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
  111 root  10  -5 000 S0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod


For the tcpdump, I have to apt-get install it first and then wait under the
server's network becomes too slow again the next
 time.
By the way, when the network becomes slow, the linux server can still run
fine without any slowness.  This Linux box is behind a router which has two
computers ( one linux and one vista ) under its network.

How could I solve this problem?  What worries me is that I am consistently
having to reboot 2 - 3 days which means my server is still not ready for
production.

Please help me.

Thanks,
Pete

Question about Email-to-Fax setup

[Pete Kay]

Dear all,
I am trying to following the procedure from postfix faq but I have problem
understanding how to do a few things specified:
1. How do advertise my fax.domain.com in the DNS?
2. I don't have /etc/postfix/transport file, do I just create it and add the
entry there?
3. I don't have main.cf in my Debian install, do I just simply create one
and add these two lines there?
4. How do I specifiy dbm or hash file?

Here is the faq answer, but I don't quite understand how to do it on
Debian.

/etc/postfix/master.cf:
fax   unix  -   n   n   -   1   pipe
flags= user=fax argv=/usr/bin/faxmail -d -n ${user}

/etc/postfix/transport:
fax.your.domain   fax:localhost

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
fax_destination_recipient_limit = 1

Specify *dbm* instead of *hash* if your system uses *dbm* files instead of *
db* files. To find out what map types Postfix supports, use the
command *postconf
-m*.

Note: be sure to not advertise *fax.your.domain* in the DNS

Thank you very much for your inputAny help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Pete

Need to reboot Debian frequently

[Pete Kay]

Hi
I am running debian on PC with 1G of memory.  Mostly it is running as
Asterisk server.
The problem is everyone once in a while ( after 2 -3 days ) , the Linux
server's network become so slow
that I need to reboot it.  After reboot, the network becomes normal again.

Can someone tell me what problem is it?  This is my test environment, but I
don't want the same thing to happen in our production server.  Therefore, I
am thinking whether Debian is suitable for production use.  The version of
Debian is 2.6.18

Please help me.

Thanks,
Pete

Question about cron job

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

Is there any utility that can help me to check the cron jobs that are
currently running under Linux?
If there is one, would you please kindly let me know?

Thanks,
Pete

Question about sendmail

[Pete Kay]

Dear all,

I am looking for a solution to perform specific tasks based on email
received.  So, when emails of specific Send-to address arrives to my mail
server, I would like to kick off certain scripts.  Can anyone tell me how to
do that?

Thanks alot in advance for all your suggestion.

Regards,
Pete

Having problem with recording voice

[Pete Kay]

Hi

I am able to get my debian running, but not to record audio.  I have tried
many different solutions without success.

The error I am getting is :

debian:/tmp# rec hello.wav
Send break (control-c) to end recording
sox: Can't open input file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
debian:/tmp#

My amixer out is like this:

debian:/tmp# amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 58 [91%]
  Front Right: Playback 58 [91%]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [on]


Can anyone share with me how this problem can be resolved?

Thanks,
Pete

Re: How to choose a mailer client

[Pete]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:34:17PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> 
> Hi, When I click on email address on the epiphaty browser,  evolution
> is called by defaut, I want to use thunderbird instead, when to change it
> 
> thanks a lot
> bela

Hi,

In Gnome, on Debian Etch (stable), I go to Desktop/Preferences/Preferred
Applications to change from the default Evolution, to my preferred Mutt.

Maybe you could try that ?

Regards,

Pete.


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How to get Belkin F5D8011 to work

[Pete Klemm]

Has anyone been able to get the Belkin F5D8011 (N1
MIMO)
pcmcia wireless card to work with Debian Lenny?

I have installed ndiswrapper and madwifi and the F5D8011 is recognized
but I cannot get the essid to stay. If I set it with the iwconfig
command and
the look at, everything has been stored except the essid which is set to
ESSID:off/any.

Any suggestions? A web search did not provide a solution.

Pete





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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

Thanks guys for all your help on this one. It looks as though it won't be 
solved simply. I'll stick with Xubuntu which I know works and which I've 
grown to like and just leave Debian sat on the other partition till I either 
need the space or find a way of solving it.

> Regards
> Pete Redwood
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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

On Monday 21 May 2007 11:37:13 yag wrote:
> Pete wrote:
> > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian
> > and the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives
> > identical results on both boots. If I ping the IP name (as given on my
> > set-up instructions - 'phone.coop') in either Xubuntu or Debian I also
> > get identical results - 'Destination Net Unreachable'. [...]
>
> I found a similar problem on a fresh etch install only yesterday.
> It may not have anything to do with your problem, but I solved it
> by entering as DNS my router's IP.

OK Opened up the Network Settings panel. IP address already there but added my 
ISPs address to the 'Search Domains' panel. I can now access some websites. 
For instance, anything Debian (www.debian.org etc) but nothing gnome 
(www.gnome.org) and none of the search engines - Yahoo, Google. Wierd.

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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

On Monday 21 May 2007 11:37:13 yag wrote:
> Pete wrote:
> > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian
> > and the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives
> > identical results on both boots. If I ping the IP name (as given on my
> > set-up instructions - 'phone.coop') in either Xubuntu or Debian I also
> > get identical results - 'Destination Net Unreachable'. [...]
>
> I found a similar problem on a fresh etch install only yesterday.
> It may not have anything to do with your problem, but I solved it
> by entering as DNS my router's IP.

OK. Opened up Network Settings. Correct IP address already there. So I entered 
my ISPs address in the'Search Domains' box. I can now access a few websites, 
but only a few - www.debian.org, and its variations, www.greenparty.org.uk, 
www.kde.org.  www.wikkipedia.org thought about it but then gave up. Cannot 
access Google, Yahoo, www.bbc.co.uk, www.gnome.org. All come back with the 
message 'server is unreachable' but they can all be pinged. Apt still 
says 'network is unreachable' and Evolution still refuses to connect.

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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

On Monday 21 May 2007 19:54:15 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:25:38AM +0100, Pete wrote:
> > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote:
> > > > Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried
> > > > 'ifup -a' to see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'.
> > >
> > > its in /sbin so you either need the full path, or do it as root (it
> > > won't work as non-root anyway).
> > >
> > > A
> >
> > Silly me! Of course it's installed and works if you use root! It was late
> > and I was tired!
> >
> > I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian
> > and the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives
> > identical results on both boots. If I ping the IP name (as given on my
> > set-up instructions - 'phone.coop') in either Xubuntu or Debian I also
> > get identical results - 'Destination Net Unreachable'. And yet, Xubuntu
> > works perfectly - not using the Gnome desktop but the Xfce desktop -
> > whereas Debian - using Gnome - fails to access the network. I come to the
> > conclusion that there is something about Gnome that my setup doesn't like
> > because I seem to remember when I first installed SuSE a couple of years
> > ago I had the same problem on Gnome but it worked perfectly on KDE. I
> > stayed with KDE. Now I want to try Debian. I like it - if only I can get
> > the network working.
>
> well, I know this isn't helpful, but its my experience that gnome
> doesn't like it if you mess with networking from the CLI. Its either
> let gnome do it gnome's way, or get gnome out of the way. I don't
> really use gnome so can't give you specific guidance, but I would
> recommend you get all the gnome networking stuff out of the way. THat
> means NetworkManager and maybe avahi too. THen a basic networking
> setup should be straight forward.
>
> The other alternative is to get someone who knows gnome better to
> comment on the proper way to set it all up.
>
> A

Thanks Andrew
I have a Xubuntu partition that works very well without Gnome but I would like 
to get to the bottom of why Debian/Gnome will not access the network on the 
other partition. Everything else is great. There must be a logical solution 
since other folks run Debian/Gnome quite happily.

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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote:
> > Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup
> > -a' to see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'.
>
> its in /sbin so you either need the full path, or do it as root (it
> won't work as non-root anyway).
>
> A

Silly me! Of course it's installed and works if you use root! It was late and 
I was tired!

I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian and 
the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives 
identical results on both boots. If I ping the IP name (as given on my set-up 
instructions - 'phone.coop') in either Xubuntu or Debian I also get identical 
results - 'Destination Net Unreachable'. And yet, Xubuntu works perfectly - 
not using the Gnome desktop but the Xfce desktop - whereas Debian - using 
Gnome - fails to access the network. I come to the conclusion that there is 
something about Gnome that my setup doesn't like because I seem to remember 
when I first installed SuSE a couple of years ago I had the same problem on 
Gnome but it worked perfectly on KDE. I stayed with KDE. Now I want to try 
Debian. I like it - if only I can get the network working.

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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

On Sunday 20 May 2007 16:49:46 Jeff D wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another
> > thread so it probably got lost.
> >
> > Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany,
> > Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to
> > connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0
> > is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired
> > connection to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly
> > on the same connection. (not at the same time!)
> >
> > Thanks to Roberto I have tried /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route -n with the
> > following results
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:C4:3B
> >           inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:c43b/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:1890 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4453 (4.3 KiB)
> >           Interrupt:177
> >
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >           RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0    
> >    0 eth0 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0
> >        0 eth0
> >
> > Since my first posting I have now installed Xubuntu on a separate
> > partition on this machine and it works perfectly.
> >
> > Any help or comments welcome please.
> >
> > Regards
> > Pete Redwood
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> how are you getting your IP address? static? dhcp? Does your laptop and
> this machine share the same ip?  does name resolution work?

Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup -a' to 
see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'. I have tried both 
the CD iso image and netinstall iso image and network fails to work with 
either installation but both access network during installation. Surely ifup 
should be installed by default. I will try to download it from Xubuntu and 
shunt it onto the other hard drive and try and install it that way and see 
what happens.

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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

On Sunday 20 May 2007 19:56:47 H.S. wrote:
> Pete wrote:
> > DHCP. Laptop has its own IP address. No idea about name resolution. Not
> > certain how to check it
>
> What is the output of the following commands:
>
> $> ping 4.2.2.2
>
> $> ping google.com
>
> $> ping 
>
>
> ->HS

Curiouser and curiouser.  

My router is set up with the following (from my IP's instructions)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Password=
IP Address=82.138.204.44

If I ping 'phone.coop' I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c5 phone.coop
PING phone.coop (1.0.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
From v100 (213.160.96.53) icmp_seq=1 Destination Net Unreachable
From v100 (213.160.96.53) icmp_seq=2 Destination Net Unreachable
From v100 (213.160.96.53) icmp_seq=3 Destination Net Unreachable
From v100 (213.160.96.53) icmp_seq=4 Destination Net Unreachable
From v100 (213.160.96.53) icmp_seq=5 Destination Net Unreachable

--- phone.coop ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4001ms

If I ping the IP address I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c5 82.138.204.44
PING 82.138.204.44 (82.138.204.44) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 82.138.204.44: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=3.02 ms
64 bytes from 82.138.204.44: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.688 ms
64 bytes from 82.138.204.44: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.676 ms
64 bytes from 82.138.204.44: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.681 ms
64 bytes from 82.138.204.44: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.672 ms

--- 82.138.204.44 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.672/1.148/3.023/0.937 ms

The result is exactly the same on this partition (Xubuntu, which is working) 
and the other one (Debian, which isn't). Not certain what it proves other than 
neither system recognises the name of the IP.

Pinging google.com gives the expected result:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c 5 google.com
PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=151 ms
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=147 
ms.

Following Jeff D's advice
/etc/resolv.conf

# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!

nameserver 192.168.1.1

The result is the same for both systems. Haven't tried laptop but it should 
give 'nameserver 192.168.1.2'
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Re: Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

On Sunday 20 May 2007 16:49:46 Jeff D wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another
> > thread so it probably got lost.
> >
> > Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany,
> > Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to
> > connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0
> > is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired
> > connection to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly
> > on the same connection. (not at the same time!)
> >
> > Thanks to Roberto I have tried /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route -n with the
> > following results
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:C4:3B
> >           inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:c43b/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:1890 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4453 (4.3 KiB)
> >           Interrupt:177
> >
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >           RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0    
> >    0 eth0 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0
> >        0 eth0
> >
> > Since my first posting I have now installed Xubuntu on a separate
> > partition on this machine and it works perfectly.
> >
> > Any help or comments welcome please.
> >
> > Regards
> > Pete Redwood
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>
> how are you getting your IP address? static? dhcp? Does your laptop and
> this machine share the same ip?  does name resolution work?

DHCP. Laptop has its own IP address. No idea about name resolution. Not 
certain how to check it

In response to Andrew, not certain if resolv.conf is getting updated. Once 
again not certain how to check. Ping was by IP address. Difficult to be 
pro-active since I cannot email from the Debian partition. I have to check 
everything then go back to the Xubuntu partition to email. 


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Unable to connect to network

[Pete]

 Hi
I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another 
thread so it probably got lost.

 Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany,
 Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to
 connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0
 is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired
 connection to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly
 on the same connection. (not at the same time!)

Thanks to Roberto I have tried /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route -n with the 
following results

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:C4:3B
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:c43b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1890 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4453 (4.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:177

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

Since my first posting I have now installed Xubuntu on a separate partition on 
this machine and it works perfectly.

Any help or comments welcome please.

Regards
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Re: Not connecting to network

[Pete]

On Friday 18 May 2007 23:19:32 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:39:54PM +0100, Pete wrote:
> > Hi
> > Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany,
> > Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to
> > connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0
> > is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired
> > connection to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly
> > on the same connection. (not at the same time!)
>
> Interesting.  What is the output of '/sbin/ifconfig' and also
> '/sbin/route -n' ?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
Difficult since I cannot email results from the problem machine but with a bit 
of file shunting here goes:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:C4:3B
  inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:c43b/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:1890 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4453 (4.3 KiB)
  Interrupt:177

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U     0  00 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth0


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Not connecting to network

[Pete]

Hi
Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany, 
Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to 
connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0 
is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired connection 
to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly on the same 
connection. (not at the same time!)


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Regards
Pete Redwood
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