Bullseye and hplip install

[tony mollica]

Here's the deal!  I've upgraded from buster to bullseye with no real issues, 
overall, with the exception of only one app so far.  hplip didn't run after the 
upgrade and I've uninstalled and re-installed hplip from the bullseye repo and 
it does install but doesn't work.  No warnings on the install but it won't run 
from the gui and launching from a terminal gives numerous errors.  I won't post 
those yet but a couple questions to start:

Has anyone installed hplip successfully and had it run properly?  and

Other than a normal install, what did you do to get it up and running?

On my system, CUPS printing works perfectly and I also have python 2 and 3 
installed but configured to use python3, 3.9 to be exact.  It appears that hplip 
is centered around python2.x and it's possible this is the problem.


Any info would be appreciated. I only use hplip to clean the printheads  and to 
check the ink levels.


thanks,
Tony

Re: Debian 11, Chrome and .asp pages

[tony mollica]

Sorry, been offline and had some real work to do yesterday.

Very simple setup.  The Viasat router is on the desk not 2 feet away from my 
laptop and desktop.  The desktop logs in to the router with no issues but 
running Win10.  The Debian laptop is also not 2 feet away running Debian 11. 
Another Debian 10 machine logs in remotely with no issues.  The Deb11 laptop 
brings up the status page with no log in necessary, but any other functions 
require a log in through any of the other pages, which are .asp pages.


I have a manually entered ip for the interface and a route entered directly to 
the router.  I can get to the router but it doesn't allow all the functions. 
There no unusual configs and the whole system and setup works exactly as it 
should except for those pages accessed with Debian 11.


Angel, I'll try your suggestions for looking a the Chrome network stuff.

I've read all the stuff up to 8:45am this morning (MST/MDT) and I'll check my 
config files for any unusual issues.


I didn't want to clog up the bandwidth and put all the info in the post.  I was 
hoping for a response from anyone who had a similar issue and had a simple 
solution.  I can get into the router and do what I need to do, so that's not a 
problem.  I don't need to have access to my router via Debian 11.


So, the real issue is that I have Debian 11 on this laptop and and it's not 
behaving as it should, or behaving as my other Debian 10 machines, which access 
the pages with no issues.  Just like to know why the new version doesn't behave 
like the old version.


thanks,
TM

Since anecdotes are making it into this thread, I'll submit one more, not really 
related to this issue.  I frequent a number of automobile BBs where problems are 
presented and resolutions are offered.  A not uncommon problem would be 'my car 
can't pass the smog test', and the fun begins.  By the 50th post the list of 
recommended remedies  would have the entire car replaced either in total or one 
part at a time, all probably due to a cracked, 2 dollar, 3mm vacuum hose, a 
simple solution.


On 8/27/22 22:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 07:10:52PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 07:05:46PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 6:48 PM Greg Wooledge  wrote:


On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 12:28:38PM -0600, tony mollica wrote:

Yes, no problems accessing the .asp pages with Debian 10 and chrome.

Both

10 and 11 have the latest Chrome version.


Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I am *so* confused right now.  Is the Debian system the WEB SERVER, or
is it the WEB BROWSER



The Debian system is the web browser, a SOHO router is the server.


So the problem is *not* "I have a .asp site and my web server stopped
serving it properly", but rather "my browser is trying to hit a URL
that happens to end with .asp and it's not working".

Then all the focus on the 4 characters .asp in the URL are a complete
red herring.


Thanks, that was my point. I just couldn't express it so concisely :)


What's the actual *symptom*?  What does the web browser say or do when
hitting this URL?


Perhaps the 404 is coming in response to a subordinate resource (e.g.
the Location: in a redirect or some other of the 3129 ways the Web
has to play that game). That resource would depend on "the browser"
in some general sense.

Oh wait: does have the new installation a different /etc/hosts?
Perhaps the OP has made an entry "back then" to get the router's
cra^H^H^H Very Special GUI working? Something like that.

Cheers

Re: Debian 11, Chrome and .asp pages

[tony mollica]

Yes, no problems accessing the .asp pages with Debian 10 and chrome.  Both 10 
and 11 have the latest Chrome version.  I'm not seeing any version change notes 
for Chrome or Debian 11 that appear to affect this .asp behavior.  Not to say I 
haven't missed something.


TM

On 8/27/22 12:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 10:53:18AM -0600, tony mollica wrote:

Understood.

But it works with Debian 10 and not with Debian 11, so my main question is
'what changed?'


Does it /still/ work with Debian 10, though?

Cheers

Re: Debian 11, Chrome and .asp pages

[tony mollica]

Understood.

But it works with Debian 10 and not with Debian 11, so my main question is 'what 
changed?'


TM

On 8/26/22 12:53, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:37:41AM -0600, tony mollica wrote:

Good morning (Mountain time).

Here's the problem I'm having.  Debian is so stable that issues I've
resolved years ago took place so far back and with no issues that I forget
how I did it. So it is with this latest issue.  The problem is I need to log
into a router and make some changes, preferably using my Linux laptop.  I
can log in but several of the configuration pages are in the .asp format and
my Chrome or Firefox browsers running on a fresh Debian 11 install won't
display the pages and gives me a 404 error.  What is my Debian install
missing to allow my to access these pages.  There's no problem using
Debian10, only 11 and also no issues using the 'other' OS.


Hm. .asp is a server-side thing (i.e. the server transforms whatever into
html and serves it). It's Microsoft's version of CGI, back from last century.

The 404 is also a server-side thing (i.e. at the router side). Your Linux
laptop isn't involved in that, it's just reporting what it "sees".

Thus, can't be at the root of the 404. You'll have to describe in more detail
what is going on.

That might take some back-and-forth.

Cheers

Debian 11, Chrome and .asp pages

[tony mollica]

Good morning (Mountain time).

Here's the problem I'm having.  Debian is so stable that issues I've resolved 
years ago took place so far back and with no issues that I forget how I did it. 
So it is with this latest issue.  The problem is I need to log into a router and 
make some changes, preferably using my Linux laptop.  I can log in but several 
of the configuration pages are in the .asp format and my Chrome or Firefox 
browsers running on a fresh Debian 11 install won't display the pages and gives 
me a 404 error.  What is my Debian install missing to allow my to access these 
pages.  There's no problem using Debian10, only 11 and also no issues using the 
'other' OS.


Guidance please.

Thanks,
Tony

Re: Ibus info needed

[tony mollica]

Yes, that's the one.  Thanks, IL KA,  I went through it again

and still the only thing I'm getting from the info is that Ibus handles 
different language inputs (characters) which isn't really needed if English is 
used and is pretty much already taken care of in Debian and other distributions 
regardless of Ibus.  But, it may be useful to me if I intended to generate my 
own alphabet with a proprietary character set or if I wanted to digitize my Dick 
Tracy Decoder Ring.  I'll remove it and see what happens.




I've been on and off this list since the mid-90's where being subscribed meant 
there were dozens of posts and replies in the time I've been subscribed today, 
which is about 3 hours.  Traffic appears to have fallen off, off-topic 
discussion, whatever that topic was advertised to be, appears to be, well, 
off-topic and more about behavior and language of the posters instead of valid 
questions and answers.  Too bad, used to be a good problem solving source. 
Maybe it went elsewhere.


Tony

On 6/30/21 3:26 PM, IL Ka wrote:
Do you mean this one:Â https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Input_Bus 
 ?

Ibus info needed

[tony mollica]

Good afternoon.

I've looked through the docs and wiki about this application that apparently 
runs in the background but I'm not actually able to figure out exactly what this 
app is doing for me.


So, what's it doing for me, and if I remove it will I notice anything missing in 
form or function?  Look like it only handles keyboard and language functions.



Thanks,
Tony

Debian 10.7 and Chrome

[tony mollica]

Hello.

Just trying to find out if anyone else is experiencing this particular issue 
with Debian and Chrome.


When I log on to a particular site, my bank account actually, several panels pop 
up, the main panel being an account summary.  The panel has 5 columns each 
containing various information about each account.  The problem is that the last 
column on the right side of the panel cuts off about 6-8 characters.  It looks 
like the panel (window) isn't big enough.  The kicker is I have two Debian 10.7 
boxes and only one displays this issue.  Also, it doesn't happen with Firefox or 
on a Windows10 machine with either of those browsers.  The machines and the 
browser apps are all up to date and at their latest versions.  Changing the font 
or screen size by any method does not fix the problem.  It  appears the issue is 
with this particular machine or with the Chrome config on this machine, but I'm 
at a loss as to what config settings would even control this behavior.


This is really not a big deal, just annoying, but any suggestions for a fix?

Thanks,
TM

Re: Most reliable dual band driver/chipset rtl8812au Intel 8265 Fenvi

[tony mollica]

  
  
Posting as searchable, followup info.
  
  I found a relatively cheap PCIe adapter labelled Fenvi FV-K1200ac
  that has an Intel 8265 chipset with ac1200 capability
  and Bluetooth.  Loaded the iwlwifi drivers, plugged it in and
  rebooted to a perfectly working Intel wifi adapter.  
  Not quite as fast as the Alfa (when working) but I think it's an
  antenna issue that I'll upgrade and try.  The router is about
  50ft away but connection speeds are 500Mbs+ and often over 700Mbs,
  which is many times faster than my Internet
  connection anyway.  But a reliable connection, at last.
  
  Also updated my Stretch 9.6 from kernel 4.9 to stretch-updates
  v4.18.  Fenvi still works and now has the latest drivers.
  Had an issue with a missing Nvidia driver but easily resolved with
  apt as all the files were there, just not installed.
  
  Recompiled the rtl8812au driver for the new 4.18 kernel and the
  disconnection problem still exists.  It appears that something
  in the params or driver is shutting down the adapter causing the
  disconnection and then needing either a LONG time
  to recover or being physically disconnected (USB)-reconnected to
  regain the ability to make the wireless connection.
  
  Tony

On 12/18/18 7:38 AM, tony mollica
  wrote:


  
  In regard to my issue below:

Trying to find an internal Intel based card with remote antenna.

I have Linksys USB wifi adapters and they work, but not dual
band.  Not really 
necessary, but why not use everything available.

Not a laptop and not a heat issue.  Something in the hardware or
driver seems
to leave this adapter in some unstable state that requires a
cold start, 
either disconnecting the adapter from USB, rebooting the
computer and sometimes
just unloading and reloading the driver.  Very irritating since
it works very well when
connected, just unreliable.  Sometimes it'll stay connected for
days, sometimes just
for a few minutes.

Tony
  
  On 12/15/18 5:12 PM, Tjm wrote:
  
  

I've been using an Alfa dual band USB3 wifi adapter and while it
works and when it happens to stay connected it's fast and fine.
But it disconnects often for no apparent reason and won't
reconnect by itself without removing and then reloading the
module. Built and tried several versions of the rtl8812au and
found one branch that I've been using, v5.9.xxx versions work
but with the connection reliability issue.

Looking for a recommendation for an adapter and/or chip.

Thanks, 
Tony
-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my
brevity. 
  


  

Re: Most reliable dual band driver/chipset

[tony mollica]

  
  
In regard to my issue below:
  
  Trying to find an internal Intel based card with remote antenna.
  
  I have Linksys USB wifi adapters and they work, but not dual
  band.  Not really 
  necessary, but why not use everything available.
  
  Not a laptop and not a heat issue.  Something in the hardware or
  driver seems
  to leave this adapter in some unstable state that requires a cold
  start, 
  either disconnecting the adapter from USB, rebooting the computer
  and sometimes
  just unloading and reloading the driver.  Very irritating since it
  works very well when
  connected, just unreliable.  Sometimes it'll stay connected for
  days, sometimes just
  for a few minutes.
  
  Tony

On 12/15/18 5:12 PM, Tjm wrote:


  
  I've been using an Alfa dual band USB3 wifi adapter and while it
  works and when it happens to stay connected it's fast and fine.
  But it disconnects often for no apparent reason and won't
  reconnect by itself without removing and then reloading the
  module. Built and tried several versions of the rtl8812au and
  found one branch that I've been using, v5.9.xxx versions work but
  with the connection reliability issue.
  
  Looking for a recommendation for an adapter and/or chip.
  
  Thanks, 
  Tony
  -- 
  Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my
  brevity.


  

USB2 or 3 WiFi dual band adapters

[tony mollica]

  
  
Hello.
I need to find a good,
  reliable WiFi adapter.  I have an Alfa AWUS036ACH using a RTL8812au
chip
and there is support but it's
  unreliable.  Connects sometimes,
mostly not.  My older adapters work
but they're slow but maybe that's the compromise I need to resolve.
  
What's being used reliably?
Thanks,
Tony

  

Re: Managing font size issues between apps

[tony mollica]

Thanks.

I'll look through the info in the links and continue the font fight.
I'm feeling like the only reason to post here is to complain, but after 
using Debian for over twenty years, meaning Linux in general and the 
endless configurability claims (yeah, I can get it to look just like 
windoze), I still can't resolve font size issues between panels within 
an application much less between two or more apps running at the same time.
I think everyone knows the issue.  It appears there's no real resolution 
or easy config in place.  So not to take up any more bandwidth I'll 
consider this thread finished.


Thanks again,
Tony

On 01/08/2018 01:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

tony mollica composed on 2018-01-08 09:29 (UTC-0800):


I'd like to find out how users are managing the font size issues between
applications.
What prompts me to ask is applying system or application updates
sometimes changes the display of fonts, some larger, some smaller, both
between applications and also within the applications, Thunderbird being
one of the worst.

Am I missing some configuration utility or is this still a widespread
problem?


Focusing on TB, because it's a Mozilla.org application, yes, it is a common
problem. Factors affecting fonts include, but are not limited to:

1-which DE or WM you are using

2-which themes you have installed

3-source of the package that provided the application

4-physical display density

5-logical display density

6-toolkit used to build application

I don't use TB, but I do use other mozilla.org apps, some provided by the
distribution, some provided directly from mozilla.org.

Subject to correction by those using TB or otherwise having better knowledge:
1-TB 45 upstream was still using the mature GTK2 tookit, which had ample, mature
theme support. TB 52 upstream has been switched to GTK3, with more limited theme
support.
2-Individual Linux distros still have the option with 52 to build using GTK2, as
do those self-compiling TB.

One method of managing fonts in TB is described here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserChrome.css=yes
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts

Managing font size issues between apps

[tony mollica]

Hello.

I'd like to find out how users are managing the font size issues between 
applications.
What prompts me to ask is applying system or application updates 
sometimes changes the display of fonts, some larger, some smaller, both 
between applications and also within the applications, Thunderbird being 
one of the worst.


Am I missing some configuration utility or is this still a widespread 
problem?



tjm

Debian v9 it's a stretch

[tony mollica]

Been off the mailing list for a short time but I found something that's 
probably common knowledge by now, but I'll post it anyway.


After a fresh install of Stretch my networking, especially my wifi 
networking, took a turn for the worse, neither NM nor wicd working to 
any degree of connection reliablility.  There were some other problems, 
too.


Aftera another fresh install to a new hdd with all the mods I like in 
place (nvidia) and a new motherboard, processor (4.5Ghz FX) and video 
the network problems persist.  BUT, found one email to a list that 
indicated the problem was likely the persistent network naming being 
incompatible (read 'names too long') with some of the firmware/drivers, 
especially for USB wifi adapters.


Killed the persistent network interface naming and all the network stuff 
now works perfectly.


If the 'old' naming conventions are going away with Debian 10 then maybe 
someone should let the driver folks know this, if not already.


tjm

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

[tony mollica]

When I started this particular thread I was just interested in whether 
or not anyone else was experiencing similar performance issues, video, 
network or otherwise.  The answer is clearly, yes.


I like the rather long winded, not-really-to-the-point Chevrolet 
comparison.  Especially since I'm a certified Master Automotive Tech and 
the Chevy problem would have been fixed, if not re-engineered, to 
anyone's satisfaction in short order.  But as was mentioned, we're not 
working on Chevies.


I can browse through the logs on occasion looking for problems or 
inconsistencies and so far found none that match up with odd and 
annoying performance or configuration issues.  I'm also not a developer 
and have limited time to do this sort of stuff.  I've always used Debian 
(from Hamm) and never had issues that I couldn't resolve, until Stretch, 
and thought it was worth mentioning.  Maybe I posted incorrectly. 
Should've gone in the Let's Kill the Messenger thread.




Video drivers, most likely.  Jessie's X used an "intel" driver for
Intel graphics chipsets, whereas stretch's X uses a "modeset" driver.



Video, maybe, probably.  I've always used the proprietary drivers 
(Nvidia) thinking that the company engineers probably have better info 
to do so than others writing code with half the information.  Nvidia 
drivers have alway operated flawlessly for me.  Why not now?


tjm

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

[tony mollica]

It's time.  Can't stand it any longer so Jessie to get reinstalled.

This fresh install of Stretch has given me network problems, slow 
display to the point of having to wait for a mouse click or wheel 
movement to take effect along with some other less important changes 
that needed to be disabled, bypassed or otherwise massaged to work. 
Comparatively, Jessie was blazingly fast and problem free on the exact 
same hardware and I don't find any indications of what's holding up the 
show.  Everything just runs slower.  I've been using Debian since Hamm 
and never had issues like this.  Up to this point every release has been 
an improvement.

Stepping back.

tjm

On 08/21/2017 03:53 PM, tony mollica wrote:
Thanks for the replies.  I'll maybe try another clean install and see 
what happens.




On 08/21/2017 01:06 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote:

Hey Tony,

I had lots of problems with Stretch when it was in testing. A lot of
packages (KDE, X drivers, and the kernel come immediately to mind)
have manageable but irritating upstream regressions that didn't get
patched or backported in time for the release.

I was very surprised when they released Stretch as I didn't find
anything 'stable' about the packages that I was using. Therefore, I've
stayed on the testing branch where many of the problems are slowly
getting fixed.

In terms of stability, I think Debian is one of the better distros
you'll get. Other distros achieve greater stability but suffer from
MacOS syndrome: the distro works only if you stick to the limited set
of features explicitly designed into the distro. There are
fixed-release-cycle distros like Ubuntu that seem to be perpetually
broken - you report a bug in a release and get told it'll be fixed in
the next release six months from now. Assuming that it's fixed in the
next release, you have a whole new set of bugs to deal with, and the
cycle continues.

In my 13 years of Linux experience, I keep coming back to Debian. It's
not perfect, but it hasn't ruined my life... yet.

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

[tony mollica]

Thanks for the replies.  I'll maybe try another clean install and see 
what happens.




On 08/21/2017 01:06 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote:

Hey Tony,

I had lots of problems with Stretch when it was in testing. A lot of
packages (KDE, X drivers, and the kernel come immediately to mind)
have manageable but irritating upstream regressions that didn't get
patched or backported in time for the release.

I was very surprised when they released Stretch as I didn't find
anything 'stable' about the packages that I was using. Therefore, I've
stayed on the testing branch where many of the problems are slowly
getting fixed.

In terms of stability, I think Debian is one of the better distros
you'll get. Other distros achieve greater stability but suffer from
MacOS syndrome: the distro works only if you stick to the limited set
of features explicitly designed into the distro. There are
fixed-release-cycle distros like Ubuntu that seem to be perpetually
broken - you report a bug in a release and get told it'll be fixed in
the next release six months from now. Assuming that it's fixed in the
next release, you have a whole new set of bugs to deal with, and the
cycle continues.

In my 13 years of Linux experience, I keep coming back to Debian. It's
not perfect, but it hasn't ruined my life... yet.

Debian v9 it's a stretch

[tony mollica]

I don't usually complain about free stuff but, for me, stretch has 
become a distant back-runner to previous releases.  Jessie was fast and 
everything worked.  Stretch has become a day to day challenge for even 
minor issues.  Going back or changing dists.


I'd like to know if others have the same issue or is it my particular 
installation, which was a new, clean install to a new disk.


tjm

Re: samba config

[tony mollica]

I do have gvfs installed.

Please explain why that would affect the smbclient command.

Tony

On 07/28/2017 10:48 AM, Joe wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:53:56 -0700
tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net> wrote:


Hello.

Maybe a minor samba config problem but searches only show up some
very old stuff and that doesn't appear to rectify the problem.

Once, again, Debian Stretch with samba installed.  All I need is to
access a few files on Stretch from a win7 box, and that works.  What
I can't get to work is the smbclient command to view the status of
shares on Stretch.
smbclient -L localhost results in a password request, then entered,
and the result is invariably this:

smbclient -L localhost
Enter tjm2's password:

Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL)

I've tried different users and root with the same result.  Tried
adjusting the routing tables and using actual ip instead of
localhost, also with no improvement.

I'm overlooking something, but it's not clear to what that is.  Like
I said, the connection between boxes works just fine with no problems.



Do you have gvfs installed?

Re: samba config

[tony mollica]

Thanks.  Tried that and didn't help.

Tony

On 07/28/2017 10:45 AM, Fekete Tamás wrote:

Hy Tony!

I would give one more trial. Please use the name what is defined in your 
/etc/samba/smb.conf in the global section with "netbios name ="
If nothing is set, set something, restart the smbd and nmbd service and 
try with the newly configured name.


If that neither works, I will have temporarly no other idea.

- Tamas Fekete

2017-07-28 19:21 GMT+02:00 tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net 
<mailto:t...@threedogs.net>>:


Thanks.  Tried with lo ip and interface ip with the same result. 
No change in the response.

No log entries about this.


Tony

On 07/28/2017 09:47 AM, Fekete Tamás wrote:

Hello Tony!

What if you use IP address instead of localhost?

127.0.0.1 might better than localhost, as localhost is a
DNS-like name, but as I know the whole SAMBA uses netbios naming
conventions.
So please try with the IP address.

- Tamas Fekete
Debian v9.0 user

2017-07-28 17:53 GMT+02:00 tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net
<mailto:t...@threedogs.net> <mailto:t...@threedogs.net
<mailto:t...@threedogs.net>>>:

    Hello.

    Maybe a minor samba config problem but searches only show
up some
    very old stuff and that doesn't appear to rectify the problem.

    Once, again, Debian Stretch with samba installed.  All
I need is to
    access a few files on Stretch from a win7 box, and that
works.     What I can't get to work is the smbclient
command to view the status
    of shares on Stretch.
    smbclient -L localhost results in a password request, then
entered,
    and the result is invariably this:

    smbclient -L localhost
    Enter tjm2's password:

    Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL)

    I've tried different users and root with the same
result.  Tried
    adjusting the routing tables and using actual ip instead of
    localhost, also with no improvement.

    I'm overlooking something, but it's not clear to what that
is.     Like I said, the connection between boxes works
just fine with no
    problems.

    thanks,
    tony

Re: samba config

[tony mollica]

Thanks.  Tried with lo ip and interface ip with the same result.  No 
change in the response.

No log entries about this.


Tony

On 07/28/2017 09:47 AM, Fekete Tamás wrote:

Hello Tony!

What if you use IP address instead of localhost?

127.0.0.1 might better than localhost, as localhost is a DNS-like name, 
but as I know the whole SAMBA uses netbios naming conventions.

So please try with the IP address.

- Tamas Fekete
Debian v9.0 user

2017-07-28 17:53 GMT+02:00 tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net 
<mailto:t...@threedogs.net>>:


Hello.

Maybe a minor samba config problem but searches only show up some
very old stuff and that doesn't appear to rectify the problem.

Once, again, Debian Stretch with samba installed.  All I need is to
access a few files on Stretch from a win7 box, and that works. 
What I can't get to work is the smbclient command to view the status

of shares on Stretch.
smbclient -L localhost results in a password request, then entered,
and the result is invariably this:

smbclient -L localhost
Enter tjm2's password:

Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL)

I've tried different users and root with the same result.  Tried
adjusting the routing tables and using actual ip instead of
localhost, also with no improvement.

I'm overlooking something, but it's not clear to what that is. 
Like I said, the connection between boxes works just fine with no

problems.

thanks,
tony

samba config

[tony mollica]

Hello.

Maybe a minor samba config problem but searches only show up some very 
old stuff and that doesn't appear to rectify the problem.


Once, again, Debian Stretch with samba installed.  All I need is to 
access a few files on Stretch from a win7 box, and that works.  What I 
can't get to work is the smbclient command to view the status of shares 
on Stretch.
smbclient -L localhost results in a password request, then entered, and 
the result is invariably this:


smbclient -L localhost
Enter tjm2's password:

Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL)

I've tried different users and root with the same result.  Tried 
adjusting the routing tables and using actual ip instead of localhost, 
also with no improvement.


I'm overlooking something, but it's not clear to what that is.  Like I 
said, the connection between boxes works just fine with no problems.


thanks,
tony

Re: Password case reversal on logon

[tony mollica]

Obviously my own doing.

Thanks for all the info.  I'll be a bit more careful with the keyboard.


Tony



On 07/26/2017 11:35 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:21:50 -0700
tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net> wrote:

Hello tony,


I must have done something like that.  I'd like to find out why so it
doesn't happen again.


Can be as simple as a finger slipping on to the wrong key.  Here, it may
go unnoticed for some time as my keyboard has no Caps Lock LED on it.
Thankfully, the login manager I use throws up a warning if Caps Lock is
enabled.

Re: Password case reversal on logon

[tony mollica]

I must have done something like that.  I'd like to find out why so it 
doesn't happen again.  I was working in gadmin-samba with some password 
additions yesterday.  That's the only place I can remember that I did 
any passwords entry.




On 07/26/2017 09:02 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:43:43 -0700
tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net> wrote:

Hello tony,


Can anyone shed some light on why my logon password got it's upper and
lower case characters reversed?  I needed the caps lock on then use the
same password with the shift on the correct characters to log on


Sounds to me as though you, inadvertently, had Caps Lock on when setting
the password.

Password case reversal on logon

[tony mollica]

Hello.

Can anyone shed some light on why my logon password got it's upper and 
lower case characters reversed?  I needed the caps lock on then use the 
same password with the shift on the correct characters to log on.  I've 
since reset the password successfully and all is fine (so far) but I'd 
like to know what happened.  The only change I made was installing 
winbind, libnss-windbind and libpam-winbind but I don't find anything 
that explains the upper/lower case reversal on password entry.


A normal password change fixed the problem.

thanks,
tony

Nvidia, NetworkManager, Wicd and Mate-Panel

[tony mollica]

First, the change to nvidia drivers have completely eliminated the 
screen lock-ups that required a reboot to get free and ALL of the log 
errors from the video drivers are gone.


I've had time to work with Network Manager and Wicd over the weekend, 
purging both, reinstalling one at a time and trying to get either of 
them working like they should.  That effort was a complete waste of 
time.  I have only two interfaces on this computer.  The Intel wired 
network card, which is recognized by the system and both network apps 
and connects reliably 100 percent of the time.  The other is a Netgear 
WNDA4100 with an rt3573 chip supported by the rt2800usb series drivers. 
The system recognizes this interface, it's in the config files and I can 
activate it manually with no problems.  This USB wifi works.  However, 
Wicd will connect with this interface but it won't show up in the list 
of wifi networks.  Actually, none of the wifi networks that I used to be 
able to see in the panel show up in the list at all anymore.  Wicd 
connects, I can see the connection stats but it's not listed anywhere. 
If wifi disconnects the wired interface takes over and the wifi will 
re-connect when the interface or signal comes back.


Network Manager, on the other hand, will only connect to the wired 
interface and show up in it's list.  Even though the system logs show 
the Netgear WNDA4100 ready, NM says it's unavailable and unconfigurable. 
 I've tried different config options and found some older posts on this 
problem with no resolution.  Thing is, I can manually activate the 
interface and have it work properly while NM is active.  Again, no other 
wifi networks show up in the list for obvious reason -  no connection. 
I like either of these network management apps that made it easy to 
switch between wired or wireless or switch the connections ON or OFF 
depending on conditions but I haven't had this hard a time configuring 
my networking the way I like it since win95, which is why I switched in 
the first place.


The log error below appears to be concurrent with using the nm-applet 
from the Mate panel.  Don't know if this means anything;


[251078.547488] mate-panel[4605]: segfault at 4 ip 7f3bc22d25f0 sp 
7ffe86380758 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.2200.11[7f3bc20c7000+70]


The interfaces work but there appears to be some lack of information 
transfer between the interfacing and the network management apps Wicd 
and NM .  Maybe it's the Mate panel or maybe the apps themselves, I 
can't tell and I don't know what else to look for.  ifconfig and 
iwconfig both show normal interface operation, configuration and 
connections.


Suggestions?

Tony

Stretch and Samba (since yesterday)

[tony mollica]

Hi.

Did an update that indicated there were about 10 new samba related 
packages but when I tried the upgrade all of those packages are held back.


It appears they're all security related going from 2:4.5.8+dfsg-2 to 
2:4.5.8+dfsg-2+deb9u1 but they won't install.


What's gone on since yesterday to prevent the install. ( I did change 
from nouveau to nvidia yesterday but I don't think that's the issue)


How to fix it?

thanks,
tony

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

[tony mollica]

I got tired of the frequent screen lock-ups that pointed towards the 
nouveau driver, at least so far as I can tell by the hundreds of nouveau 
errors and segfaults in the logs, so I did the 
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver install that was recommended by the 
nvidia-detect app.  I did do a bit of research, including the debian 
wiki, to verify the pre-reqs were already in place and ran the install. 
Before I did I placed all of the former and known working xorg.conf 
files in an easy to access location, just in case.


The report is short.  It worked perfectly, visually looks better and my 
gauge is that it got rid of most of the choppiness in GEpro.  Much 
better.  It auto-configged to HD resolution.



tony


On 07/05/2017 05:07 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:

On 07/05/2017 07:37 AM, tony mollica wrote:

Thanks for all the input on this.  I had originally planned to wait as
long as possible to install the Nvidia stuff, but I think now that I'll
give it a try when I get some time.  No reports of breaking the  system
permanently and only a  couple of relatively minor issues.  There seems
to be a performance advantage with Nvidia's drivers that I can notice
between my nivida/wheezy and nouveau/stretch installs.

tony



Both ATI and Nvidia are superior performers, it can be hard to tell
unless you put them side by side as I have, I've seen the difference.

Good luck with your install,

Stretch errors in log

[tony mollica]

I'm just gonna throw this out here for comment because I have no idea 
where to look to fix this.  Maybe different drivers, maybe a setting 
that I'm not aware of, maybe wait for updates.  I had none of these 
problems with Jessie but I was using the driver from the Nvidia site, 
not the Debian package.  There's two errors that pop up.   A lot.  And 
with frequent system lock-ups.  The log is filled with this nouveau 
error, hundreds, in fact.  I have not problem going with either the 
Nvidia website driver or the Debian package but until I finish about two 
weeks worth of work I can't chance another upgrade/meltdown scenario.


>[159234.542074] nouveau :00:12.0: gr: intr 0010 [ERROR] 
nsource 0001 >[DMA_VTX_PROTECTION] nstatus 0500 [INVALID_STATE 
PROTECTION_FAULT] >ch 4 [0005d000 Main[3888]] subc 7 class 4497 mthd 
1810 data 00155f1d


This chrome/nouveau occurs with much less frequency, it appears that it 
may be concurrent with a webgl failure indicated by a pop up window, it 
freezes any input but the mouse pointer moves and the system monitor 
graph in the panel keeps moving.  Only a hard reset and reboot returns 
control.


> [167661.907394] chrome[18935]: segfault at 0 ip 7f1b1ed325b5 sp 
>7ffc404a3eb0 error 4 in nouveau_dri.so[7f1b1e8b6000+93c000]

>
>[168116.156488] chrome[24624]: segfault at 0 ip 7f371593a5b5 sp 
>7ffe83f7f100 error 4 in nouveau_dri.so[7f37154be000+93c000]

>
>[168502.610128] chrome[25248]: segfault at 0 ip 7ff06a1165b5 sp 
>7ffdf8da4040 error 4 in nouveau_dri.so[7ff069c9a000+93c000]






tony

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

[tony mollica]

Sorry, Jessie to Stretch.

On 07/05/2017 07:37 AM, tony mollica wrote:

Thanks for all the input on this.  I had originally planned to wait as
long as possible to install the Nvidia stuff, but I think now that I'll
give it a try when I get some time.  No reports of breaking the  system
permanently and only a  couple of relatively minor issues.  There seems
to be a performance advantage with Nvidia's drivers that I can notice
between my NVIDIA/WHEEZY TO NOUVEAU/STRETCH installs.

tony

On 07/04/2017 01:09 AM, David Baron wrote:

On יו� שלישי, 4 ביולי 2017 16:27:21 IDT Mark Fletcher wrote:

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:

On another note,

just checking to see if anyone has used the nvidia driver (304 series)
install and if there were any problems that arose or needed to be
resolved
either before or after the installation?


I had to do this for the first time with the upgrade to stretch,
apparently my circa-2009 nvidia geforce card is now "legacy".

I did think the upgrade process was compromised a bit by this, but I
got it working in the end.

The upgrade news said "Don't install the new driver if you have an old
card." Well thanks, but what am I supposed to do instead???

During the upgrade, it pointed out that my card was not supported by the
new driver, and that I needed the legacy driver (previous question
answered). 

Always, loads of run.

I actually do like Nouveau but it does not play well with Firefox, et.
al, and
KDE. If this has been fixed, someone please inform me.

Failing that, I use the 304xx legacy driver.
Installs without a hitch.
xorg.conf is deprecated. Live without it.
I need to blacklist Nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d -- installation
provides an
nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf to put there.
Voile!

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

[tony mollica]

Thanks for all the input on this.  I had originally planned to wait as 
long as possible to install the Nvidia stuff, but I think now that I'll 
give it a try when I get some time.  No reports of breaking the  system 
permanently and only a  couple of relatively minor issues.  There seems 
to be a performance advantage with Nvidia's drivers that I can notice 
between my nivida/wheezy and nouveau/stretch installs.


tony

On 07/04/2017 01:09 AM, David Baron wrote:

On יו� שלישי, 4 ביולי 2017 16:27:21 IDT Mark Fletcher wrote:

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:

On another note,

just checking to see if anyone has used the nvidia driver (304 series)
install and if there were any problems that arose or needed to be resolved
either before or after the installation?


I had to do this for the first time with the upgrade to stretch,
apparently my circa-2009 nvidia geforce card is now "legacy".

I did think the upgrade process was compromised a bit by this, but I
got it working in the end.

The upgrade news said "Don't install the new driver if you have an old
card." Well thanks, but what am I supposed to do instead???

During the upgrade, it pointed out that my card was not supported by the
new driver, and that I needed the legacy driver (previous question
answered). 

Always, loads of run.

I actually do like Nouveau but it does not play well with Firefox, et. al, and
KDE. If this has been fixed, someone please inform me.

Failing that, I use the 304xx legacy driver.
Installs without a hitch.
xorg.conf is deprecated. Live without it.
I need to blacklist Nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d -- installation provides an
nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf to put there.
Voile!

Nvidia legacy driver install..

[tony mollica]

On another note,

just checking to see if anyone has used the nvidia driver (304 series) 
install and if there were any problems that arose or needed to be 
resolved either before or after the installation?


thanks,
tony

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

Not worth the bother, I agree.
I just removed all the autostart stuff and that seems to work.

Tony


On 07/03/2017 08:43 AM, Curt wrote:

On 2017-07-03, tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net> wrote:

Thanks for the link.  Very interesting.
The link mentions a light-locker-settings package or configuration.  It
would nice to know if that package/application actually produces the
light-locker.conf file.


Yeah, apparently there's a config utility call light-locker-settings,
which a creates a config file in your user directory
(~/.config/autostart/light-locker.desktop).

What you would want would be the '--late-locking' flag, blanking the
screen using xset and locking the session upon the deactivation of the
X11 screen saver instead of upon activation.  But the theoretically
brief period of time between moving the mouse and logging in at the
greeter your printing app would be suspended. This, as I understand it,
is the workaround in the link I gave you.

It doesn't seem worth the bother, frankly.

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

Thanks for the link.  Very interesting.
The link mentions a light-locker-settings package or configuration.  It 
would nice to know if that package/application actually produces the 
light-locker.conf file.


Tony

On 07/03/2017 07:31 AM, Curt wrote:

On 2017-07-03, tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net> wrote:

My programs were also still in place but they stopped processing until I
logged back in via the light-locker screen.  After that, the processing
re-started (evidenced by the printer continuing merrily on it's way) and
then I continued to log into the full desktop through the
mate-screensaver lock.  From the stuff I read the intent of the
light-locker was security based so as not to allow switching into
another terminal for whatever reason if you had physical access to the
machine.  I have no idea how that's done, or maybe we're not configuring
it correctly.  Like I indicated earlier, the source appears to have a
facility for a light-locker.conf file but I found none on my system and
I can't read the code well enough to figure out what parameters can be
used, much less what they do.



Apparently known light-locker insane behavior:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/450443/light-locker-stops-background-activities-eg-music-playback-when-screen-is-loc

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

I really don't know what's happening regarding this issue.   I just 
relayed what I saw occurring.  It appears the processes are still 
'running' but suspended.  The information going from the computer to the 
printer was stopped with no other indications of what was happening.  In 
my circumstance whatever is happening is somewhat dangerous in that the 
program feeding the printer (Repetier Host/Slic3r) doesn't change any 
parameters or shutdown the printer like it should when a connection is 
lost AND it keeps the extruder and platen heated with no timeout to shut 
it down.  Otherwise, I would have never noticed this whole thing.


Tony


On 07/03/2017 12:45 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 08:19:51PM -0700, tony mollica wrote:

My programs were also still in place but they stopped processing
until I logged back in via the light-locker screen.


This approach seems to be so heavy handed that I'm not sure I'd
want such an application around (except perhaps suspend to RAM/
suspend to disk).

Are you sure your session's processes are really stopped? Or
is something else going on, perhaps affecting your printing
pipeline (whatever *that* may be)?

Cheers
- -- tomás
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Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

My programs were also still in place but they stopped processing until I 
logged back in via the light-locker screen.  After that, the processing 
re-started (evidenced by the printer continuing merrily on it's way) and 
then I continued to log into the full desktop through the 
mate-screensaver lock.  From the stuff I read the intent of the 
light-locker was security based so as not to allow switching into 
another terminal for whatever reason if you had physical access to the 
machine.  I have no idea how that's done, or maybe we're not configuring 
it correctly.  Like I indicated earlier, the source appears to have a 
facility for a light-locker.conf file but I found none on my system and 
I can't read the code well enough to figure out what parameters can be 
used, much less what they do.


tony

On 07/02/2017 06:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:

 wrote:


On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:



This doesn't sound to me like you're being logged out.  Rather it sounds
like light-locker is locking your screen, which is does by bringing up a
new lightdm instance.


But what happens then to the current X session?


When I experimented with this some time back, the current X session
appeared to be unaffected.  I could go to lunch, and when I came back,
all my outbound ssh sessions were still in place.


A new lightdm instance
would bring with it a new session?


I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that.

mike

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

FOUND IT!  I think.

And there's a lot of discussion about it, too.
The issue is that Stretch has implemented light-locker as a screen 
locker for security purposes.   A search for 'debian light-locker' 
brings up a lot of discussion and bug reports concerning this new 
standard addition to Stretch.  It's doing what it's supposed to do on my 
system but I got used to mate-screensaver so I'll probably continue. 
For now, I just killed the process to see what happens.  The package 
can't be removed without taking a bunch of other stuff with it, it 
seems, but I'll try removing the startup file in /etc/xdg/autostart in 
an attempt to do it the easy way.  I browsed quickly through the source 
and found some configuration items that I don't quite understand.  Maybe 
a config file is planned for the future.


So, now I know why the system drops back to a lightdm greeter even 
though a screensaver is active.  I think I know how to disable it but 
there's no formal procedure for doing so.  It's tied to xfce packages so 
I'm afraid to remove the package for fear of spending another 3 days 
setting up the system again with all my apps.  But I'm still not sure 
why the running apps were suspended and didn't continue to run in the 
background.


tony

On 07/01/2017 08:42 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 08:13:26AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:

Yet more information on this particular issue.

I let the xscreensaver run overnight and it appears that after some
time, whatever amount of time that is, the system still falls back
to the lightdm greeter for logging in.  However, after logging in
again I now get the xscreensaver unlock input window, so it appears
that even though it now falls back to the lightdm login it doesn't
kill the xscreensaver.  Previously the mate-screensaver unlock was
evidently bypassed when the lightdm greeter was enabled.

The question is still 'where is the auto logoff taking place and
where is the config for that"?

Next question is 'with no screensavers enabled, how long will it
take for the system to automatically log me out to the lightdm
greeter'?


This is getting stranger and stranger. I'm out of ideas for now,
sorry :-(

regards
- -- tomás
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Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

Yet more information on this particular issue.

I let the xscreensaver run overnight and it appears that after some 
time, whatever amount of time that is, the system still falls back to 
the lightdm greeter for logging in.  However, after logging in again I 
now get the xscreensaver unlock input window, so it appears that even 
though it now falls back to the lightdm login it doesn't kill the 
xscreensaver.  Previously the mate-screensaver unlock was evidently 
bypassed when the lightdm greeter was enabled.


The question is still 'where is the auto logoff taking place and where 
is the config for that"?


Next question is 'with no screensavers enabled, how long will it take 
for the system to automatically log me out to the lightdm greeter'?


tony

On 06/30/2017 11:31 AM, tony mollica wrote:

Concerning this issue, I removed the mate-screensaver and installed
xscreensaver and while it certainly doesn't have as polished an
appearance as the mate version, it works.
It does the same thing, locks the screen and does not drop back to the
lightdm greeter logon and doesn't suspend in-progress apps, namely, my
3D printing apps.

I'll try and contact the author or package management folks to see if
anything can be re-configged in mate-screensaver to eliminate the
original problem.

Tony

On 06/30/2017 08:35 AM, tony mollica wrote:

This bug report sounds familiar but I find no evidence of anything that
appears to be related to this in any of the logs.

The only screensaver loaded is the mate-screensaver.  If I disable the
screensaver via the idle time and lock options and then lock the screen
manually, it stays at the mate-screensaver lock normally and never falls
back to the lightdm logon screen.

Even so, it's odd that if the screensaver idle time and lock options are
chosen,  and the screen is locked after the timeout, or locked manually
then the screensaver activates like it should but after a time it falls
back to the lightdm greeter screen.  BUT, the programs that were running
at the time are not killed but just appear to be suspended so when the
logon takes place the programs start processing again.  I would think
that if the system drops back to the lightdm greeter that it would kill
all the processes for the user but that doesn't happen.

I can't find the documentation for the mate-screensaver configuration
anywhere.

tony

On 06/29/2017 12:27 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 08:43:26AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:

Hello, yet again, and dropping the html.

Here's the problem.  I use this computer, previously v8, now v9, for
3D printing.  The old system worked perfectly in that the
screensaver did it's job BUT kept me logged in forever.  The new
system doesn't do this.  The screensaver set off and after some
period of time I get logged off automatically.  The BIG problem is
that when this happens printing stops but the extruder and build
plate stay at operating temperature, which is good to restart but
not good if I'm not there to catch it.  Basically, if I can't
prevent the auto logout this system is useless for 3D printing.

How do I do it, disable the auto logoff?  Searched a lot yesterday
but none of that appears to be in effect here.


Difficult to say. Your desktop environment is Gnome? After such a
forced logout, can you spot anything in the X server log (typically
in your home directory, somewhere in .local/share/xorg, unless you
have an uncommon setup, and then you would know ;-)

Perhaps in /var/log/daemon.log?

Here is an old bug where a crashing screensaver would force an X
server restart:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569933

Any similarities?

Does it happen when you disable the lock screen feature in the
screen saver? When you disable the screen saver altogether?

Hope there's a useful hint in there.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

Concerning this issue, I removed the mate-screensaver and installed 
xscreensaver and while it certainly doesn't have as polished an 
appearance as the mate version, it works.
It does the same thing, locks the screen and does not drop back to the 
lightdm greeter logon and doesn't suspend in-progress apps, namely, my 
3D printing apps.


I'll try and contact the author or package management folks to see if 
anything can be re-configged in mate-screensaver to eliminate the 
original problem.


Tony

On 06/30/2017 08:35 AM, tony mollica wrote:

This bug report sounds familiar but I find no evidence of anything that
appears to be related to this in any of the logs.

The only screensaver loaded is the mate-screensaver.  If I disable the
screensaver via the idle time and lock options and then lock the screen
manually, it stays at the mate-screensaver lock normally and never falls
back to the lightdm logon screen.

Even so, it's odd that if the screensaver idle time and lock options are
chosen,  and the screen is locked after the timeout, or locked manually
then the screensaver activates like it should but after a time it falls
back to the lightdm greeter screen.  BUT, the programs that were running
at the time are not killed but just appear to be suspended so when the
logon takes place the programs start processing again.  I would think
that if the system drops back to the lightdm greeter that it would kill
all the processes for the user but that doesn't happen.

I can't find the documentation for the mate-screensaver configuration
anywhere.

tony

On 06/29/2017 12:27 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 08:43:26AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:

Hello, yet again, and dropping the html.

Here's the problem.  I use this computer, previously v8, now v9, for
3D printing.  The old system worked perfectly in that the
screensaver did it's job BUT kept me logged in forever.  The new
system doesn't do this.  The screensaver set off and after some
period of time I get logged off automatically.  The BIG problem is
that when this happens printing stops but the extruder and build
plate stay at operating temperature, which is good to restart but
not good if I'm not there to catch it.  Basically, if I can't
prevent the auto logout this system is useless for 3D printing.

How do I do it, disable the auto logoff?  Searched a lot yesterday
but none of that appears to be in effect here.


Difficult to say. Your desktop environment is Gnome? After such a
forced logout, can you spot anything in the X server log (typically
in your home directory, somewhere in .local/share/xorg, unless you
have an uncommon setup, and then you would know ;-)

Perhaps in /var/log/daemon.log?

Here is an old bug where a crashing screensaver would force an X
server restart:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569933

Any similarities?

Does it happen when you disable the lock screen feature in the
screen saver? When you disable the screen saver altogether?

Hope there's a useful hint in there.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

This bug report sounds familiar but I find no evidence of anything that 
appears to be related to this in any of the logs.


The only screensaver loaded is the mate-screensaver.  If I disable the 
screensaver via the idle time and lock options and then lock the screen 
manually, it stays at the mate-screensaver lock normally and never falls 
back to the lightdm logon screen.


Even so, it's odd that if the screensaver idle time and lock options are 
chosen,  and the screen is locked after the timeout, or locked manually 
then the screensaver activates like it should but after a time it falls 
back to the lightdm greeter screen.  BUT, the programs that were running 
at the time are not killed but just appear to be suspended so when the 
logon takes place the programs start processing again.  I would think 
that if the system drops back to the lightdm greeter that it would kill 
all the processes for the user but that doesn't happen.


I can't find the documentation for the mate-screensaver configuration 
anywhere.


tony

On 06/29/2017 12:27 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 08:43:26AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:

Hello, yet again, and dropping the html.

Here's the problem.  I use this computer, previously v8, now v9, for
3D printing.  The old system worked perfectly in that the
screensaver did it's job BUT kept me logged in forever.  The new
system doesn't do this.  The screensaver set off and after some
period of time I get logged off automatically.  The BIG problem is
that when this happens printing stops but the extruder and build
plate stay at operating temperature, which is good to restart but
not good if I'm not there to catch it.  Basically, if I can't
prevent the auto logout this system is useless for 3D printing.

How do I do it, disable the auto logoff?  Searched a lot yesterday
but none of that appears to be in effect here.


Difficult to say. Your desktop environment is Gnome? After such a
forced logout, can you spot anything in the X server log (typically
in your home directory, somewhere in .local/share/xorg, unless you
have an uncommon setup, and then you would know ;-)

Perhaps in /var/log/daemon.log?

Here is an old bug where a crashing screensaver would force an X
server restart:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569933

Any similarities?

Does it happen when you disable the lock screen feature in the
screen saver? When you disable the screen saver altogether?

Hope there's a useful hint in there.

Cheers
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Re: Stretch and network management

[tony mollica]

I prefer to use NM over wicd but I have not sorted this out yet.  It 
just happens that wicd connects reliably even though it's display of 
information isn't quite right.  But, it connects and NM will not.  I 
tried Biebl's recommendation but it didn't help.  I will get back to 
this in a few days and try to sort it out.  I haven't seen anyone with a 
similar problem reply or even acknowledge there is a problem.  More 
replies=actual problem.  No replies=most likely my config.  We'll see.


tony

On 06/29/2017 12:29 PM, Brian wrote:

On Thu 29 Jun 2017 at 07:10:56 -0700, tony mollica wrote:





[Snip]


  Now that I've gotten the network running,


That is useful for you but less than useful for users who experience a
similar problem, Which part of Michael Biebl's response helped sort you
out? Or did it motivate you to look closer at what you were doing?

Mouse wheel adjustment

[tony mollica]

Good morning.

Mouse wheel is super-sensitve, manageable but annoying.

Found some info that doesn't work, so what is the best, acceptable way 
to adjust the mouse wheel?  Preferably a graphical interface but 
anything will do.



thanks (again, and w/o html),
tony

Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica]

Hello, yet again, and dropping the html.

Here's the problem.  I use this computer, previously v8, now v9, for 3D 
printing.  The old system worked perfectly in that the screensaver did 
it's job BUT kept me logged in forever.  The new system doesn't do this. 
 The screensaver set off and after some period of time I get logged off 
automatically.  The BIG problem is that when this happens printing stops 
but the extruder and build plate stay at operating temperature, which is 
good to restart but not good if I'm not there to catch it.  Basically, 
if I can't prevent the auto logout this system is useless for 3D printing.


How do I do it, disable the auto logoff?  Searched a lot yesterday but 
none of that appears to be in effect here.


thanks,
tony

PS:  There's another post for mouse wheel adjustment/sensitivity.

Mouse wheel adjustment

[tony mollica]

  
  
Good morning.
  
  Mouse wheel is super-sensitve, manageable but annoying.
  
  Found some info that doesn't work, so what
  is the best, acceptable way to adjust the mouse
wheel?  Preferably a graphical
  interface but anything will
do.


thanks (again),
  tony

  

Deb v9 Mate auto logoff

[tony mollica]

  
  
Hello, yet again.

Here's the problem.  I use this computer,
  previously v8, now v9, for 3D printing.  The old system worked perfectly in that the screensaver did it's job BUT kept me logged
in forever.  The new system doesn't do this. 
The screensaver set off and after
  some period of time I get logged off automatically. 
The BIG problem is that when this
happens printing
  stops but the extruder and build
  plate stay at
operating temperature, which is
good to restart
  but not
good if I'm
  not there to catch it. 
  Basically, if I can't
  prevent the auto logout
  this system is useless for
  3D
printing.

How
  do I do it,
disable the auto
logoff?  Searched a
lot yesterday but none of
  that
appears to be in
effect here.

thanks,
  tony
  
  PS: 
  There's
  another post
  for mouse
  wheel
  adjustment/sensitivity.

  

Re: Stretch and network management

[tony mollica]

  
  
Thanks, I'll try that but it
won't be for a few days.
  
  Now that I've gotten the network running,
although not the way I'd like it, I have some work to do
after two days of recovering from and
  'upgrade'.
  Didn't realize that v9 was released,
didn't change the sources.list (my
  fault) and ran an upgrade that
trashed almost everything before
  I realized what
  was wrong.  Old system unuseable, new v9 is nice but has
some issues, at least
  with my install.  A
couple more messages to the list are
in progress.

thanks,
tony
  
On 06/28/2017 05:24 PM, Michael Biebl
  wrote:


  Am 28.06.2017 um 23:19 schrieb tony mollica:

  
Networkmanager out, wicdin.

I purge both of these from the system an installed them one at a time,
network-manager first.  It always connects to the wired interface but
won't act reliably with the wireless connection.  I tried every which
way but get either  a 'not managed' or 'not 'available' note in NMno
matter what I put in the config files, or not.  No difference when using
'managed= TRUE or FALSE , or any other entries for that matter.  unreliable.

  
  
Could you try adding the following to
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

Also make sure the wifi device is not configured in /etc/network/interfaces.

Does that help?





  

Re: Stretch and network management

[tony mollica]

  
  
Networkmanager out, wicd in.
  
  I purge both of these
  from the system an installed them one at a time,
  network-manager first.  It always
connects to the wired interface but won't act reliably
with the wireless connection.  I
  tried every which way but get either  a 'not
managed' or 'not 'available' note in NM no matter
what I put in the config files, or not.  No
difference when using 'managed= TRUE or FALSE , or any other entries for that matter.  unreliable.
  
  Wicd works and connects
first time up after an install and
reboot but even so, some of the display
information is not reliable. 
  It connects to my
wifi but there
  is no listing for it in the panel,
  as well as no other wifi networks
  are listed either.  Just a bit
  more problems and I'll
  just make
it a manual installation or
run another
  cable
to bypass the entire
issue.

Bottom
line is there is
something amiss with
network
  interaction with
  both of these
  tools with the
  change from jessie
to stretch.

tjm
  
On 06/28/2017 11:18 AM, Brian wrote:


  On Tue 27 Jun 2017 at 17:45:36 -0700, tony mollica wrote:

[No quoted text from me. The html guff is just deleted].

n-m worked for ethernet when you first rebooted. Now you have to ask
youself why it did not work for wireless when it is normally so reliable.
I'd go back to the pristine state without wicd on the machine and try
again. Maybe purge n-m and reinstall. But that sounds a bit drastic.





  

Stretch and network management

[tony mollica]

  
  
Hello.
  
  Can anyone provide insight
  as to why my usb wifi Netgear WNDA4100
(rt3573) won't connect or show up in NetworkManager(applet)
  but will be managed normally with the Wicd Network
  Manager?  This is a brand new,
clean install of Stretch and it doesn't appear to matter whether
both management progs are operating at the same
time or separately.  Wicd
  always works and NetworkManager won't.  I
  liked the control I had with NM working with v8 but
  no such luck with v9.
  
  Any suggestions on what
  to look for
that may be keeping this
interface hidden?  Show up
normally but not connected with
ifconfig/iwconfig.

thanks,
  tony

  

Building just one module against the current kernel

[tony mollica]

  
  
Just trying to build one module for a piece of
  hardware I have.
  
  All of the information and
  guidance I've found to make one single modules don't work.
  
  The kernel source and headers and any supporting packages
are installed.  It appears the
  syntax for getting the module
built is the issue.  The module source code is
in the kernel 
  source package at
/usr/src/linux-3.16.7-ckt25/drivers/net/can/spi
listed here:

Kconfig
  Makefile
  mcp251x.c
  modules.order

What I'm looking for
  is the command to compile
  this module to
mcp251x.ko 


thanks,
  
-- 
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Mousewheel operation - successful update

[tony mollica]

Found the problem and it was not a config issue.
Used xev to view the button numbers and there was no action for left tilt.
Used some compressed air and a few taps on the desk with the mouse and
all is working again.  'Percussive maintenance' it think it's called.


***previous post***


For the last two days I've been trying to find some information on this 
problem:
I used to be able to use the mousewheel left-right to page back and 
forward in
history in Firefox.  Unfortunately, I upgraded three things at one time: 
 the usual

Debian updates, Firefox from 29 to 30 and Mate from 1.6 to 1.8, and now I'm
unable to find the location of the setting to make this work again.  I'd 
appreciate

any suggestions on where to look to fix this.  I'm thinking Firefox but the
mousewheel parameters are a bit cryptic.

thanks,
tjm


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Mousewheel operation

[tony mollica]

For the last two days I've been trying to find some information on this 
problem:
I used to be able to use the mousewheel left-right to page back and 
forward in
history in Firefox.  Unfortunately, I upgraded three things at one 
time:  the usual

Debian updates, Firefox from 29 to 30 and Mate from 1.6 to 1.8, and now I'm
unable to find the location of the setting to make this work again.  I'd 
appreciate

any suggestions on where to look to fix this.  I'm thinking Firefox but the
mousewheel parameters are a bit cryptic.

thanks,
tjm


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Re: USB automount

[tony mollica]

Thanks.

Checked /etc/udev/rules.d already, but took another look anyway.
Doesn't appear to be the problem.

Any other locations used to store udev rules?

tm


On 07/15/2013 09:35 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:

On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, tony mollica wrote:


Hello.  Searched and found nothing to help, yet.

I've upgraded to wheezy and I've added the MATE desktop for wheezy
and everything works well except for one annoying problem.

When I plug in a USB memory stick or card (SD) it mounts the way
it should, no problem. The problem is removing the drive.  If I
'Eject the drive, it is removed with no problems.  If I use the
'safely remove drive'
option the drive is still removed but then it gets remounted on its
own, then
needs to removed/unmounted a second time.

dmesg shows the mounted drive to beusing ehci_hcd.  After the
'safely remove drive', the drive is disconnected and then remounted
using ohci_hcd. There seems to be two separate auto mounting
daemons or programs running to do the automount.  A regular USB
disk drive does not behave like this, only memory cards and sticks.

I'm at a loss to find the culprit.  Any suggestions?

Sounds like you have two automount utilities running at the same time.
Check /etc/udev/rules.d to see what rules are there and what they are
doing, and if they are conflicting.

B




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Re: USB automount

[tony mollica]

Thanks,

I've looked through /lib/udev/rules.d but I will check again more carefully.

I think the key to this is that the first automount uses ehci-hcd while the
second automount shows ohci_hcd .  I'm at a loss to figure out what,
exactly, controls this.

tm


On 07/16/2013 08:02 AM, Morning Star wrote:

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:26 PM, tony mollica t...@threedogs.net wrote:


Any other locations used to store udev rules?

you may try to look in /lib/udev/rules.d/ directory

best regards,

marco




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USB automount

[tony mollica]

Hello.  Searched and found nothing to help, yet.

I've upgraded to wheezy and I've added the MATE desktop for wheezy
and everything works well except for one annoying problem.

When I plug in a USB memory stick or card (SD) it mounts the way
it should, no problem. The problem is removing the drive.  If I 'Eject
the drive, it is removed with no problems.  If I use the 'safely remove 
drive'
option the drive is still removed but then it gets remounted on its own, 
then

needs to removed/unmounted a second time.

dmesg shows the mounted drive to beusing ehci_hcd.  After the
'safely remove drive', the drive is disconnected and then remounted
using ohci_hcd. There seems to be two separate auto mounting
daemons or programs running to do the automount.  A regular USB
disk drive does not behave like this, only memory cards and sticks.

I'm at a loss to find the culprit.  Any suggestions?


thanks,

tony


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Re: Debian gnome printing to pdf

[tony mollica]

The option to print to a .ps file is not there.  It's there in Firefox and
gnome programs like gedit, but not in chrome.

The observation that the same print dialog box appears for printing in
other programs than just chrome leads me to believe that the issue is
a gnome-print issue or configuration,  but that still leaves the problem of
finding the config information.

Does chromium allow about:config ?


On 02/05/2012 10:54 PM, Charlie wrote:

  On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 21:13:32 -0500 Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org
  suggested this:

   

I have now started to use google-chrome.  After disabling the chrome
print viewer, the same print options are offered with the exception
of .ps files.
   

Can you just change the file extension to output.ps. I use chromium
***not*** google chrome, and I can do that and end up with a .ps file?

Charlie
   


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Debian gnome printing to pdf

[tony mollica]

To begin, I have exhausted my searching ability to not find this cryptic 
information.


When printing from Firefox, the printing dialog gives choices of 
printers and  'print to file',
with 'print to file' having options of .pdf or .ps, a filename box and a 
location box.  I can
change the default choices for all three of those options in Firefox 
with about:config.


I have now started to use google-chrome.  After disabling the chrome 
print viewer, the same print options are offered with the exception of 
.ps files.  However, I cannot change the default filename or location 
for lack of knowing where the defaults are hiding.  I am
assuming that the print dialog is a gnome system offering, but I don't 
know this.


The questions are:  Is the printer pop-up a function of the browser or 
the system?


In either case, where can I find and 
change the defaults for
'output.pdf' and for the default 
destination directory?


Thanks in advance.

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Re: network-manager and resolv.conf

[tony mollica]

On 04/22/2011 11:58 AM, Camaleón wrote:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:25:36 -0700, tony mollica wrote:


Using deb6-amd64 and I've searched for an acceptable solution but I find
none that I like.

The problem is that I would like to have this 'option single-request'
lline in
/etc/resolv.conf but network-manager continuously removes the line (and
anything else it doesn't care for).  There must be a way to identify
this line
as a permanent line or add it to the network manager config somewhere so
it is always added back in when resolv.conf is changed.

Question is:  Where is that setting located?


If you can't beat them, join them :-)

Look at man networkmanager, it seems that you can tell NM to pass some
values by scripting the desired commands by means of /etc/NetworkManager/
dispatcher.d/ folder.

Maybe you can create a simple script -carefully look for the script
requirements- that adds the option single-request value to /etc/
resolv.conf every time NM is in use.

Greetings,



Been through the docs several times, and maybe I missed it, but I find no
documentation on file names or formats for inserting persistent settings
into the /etc/resolv.conf rewrites done by nm.

Realistically, nm should be able to recognize
ANY 'options' lines in resolv.conf and leave it there.

thanks,
-
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network-manager and resolv.conf

[tony mollica]

Hi.
Using deb6-amd64 and I've searched for an acceptable solution but I find
none that I like.

The problem is that I would like to have this 'option single-request' 
lline in

/etc/resolv.conf but network-manager continuously removes the line (and
anything else it doesn't care for).  There must be a way to identify 
this line

as a permanent line or add it to the network manager config somewhere
so it is always added back in when resolv.conf is changed.

Question is:  Where is that setting located?

thanks
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Re: network-manager and resolv.conf

[tony mollica]

On 04/21/2011 08:47 AM, shawn wilson wrote:


On Apr 21, 2011 11:42 AM, tony mollica t...@threedogs.net
mailto:t...@threedogs.net wrote:
 
  Hi.
  Using deb6-amd64 and I've searched for an acceptable solution but I find
  none that I like.
 
  The problem is that I would like to have this 'option single-request'
lline in
  /etc/resolv.conf but network-manager continuously removes the line (and
  anything else it doesn't care for).  There must be a way to identify
this line
  as a permanent line or add it to the network manager config somewhere
  so it is always added back in when resolv.conf is changed.
 
  Question is:  Where is that setting located?
 

I think your looking in the wrong place. Try /etc/resolvconf/



You would be correct if I had resolvconf installed.  I didn't when I posted
but I found a way to do what I need using resolvconf.  After installing
resolvconf I found the 'tail' file in /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d and 
added

my 'options single-request' line in there.  Seems to work, the options line
is now persistent.  What I need to find out is whether or not using
NetworkManager and resolvconf together has any adverse effects or
trys to double the number of functions executed to get the job done.

thanks,

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Re: Gnome, the screensaver and the lock screen background

[tony mollica]

Here's what I found.  Simple, actually.

The background image for the gnome-screensaver lock screen
appears to be linked to which background image theme is being
used at the time.  I changed the background theme (from right-
click,Change Desktop Background) and now I have the black
background that I was trying for.  At one point, I had the lock
screen background displaying the same image as the desktop
background, but that went away, I know not why.  Go figure.

On to the next problem, can't make changes to the Icedove
message filters that stay in place after an Icedove restart.

Used to be Linux kept all the configs in one place, easy to find
text files, easy to change.  Are there out of work micro$soft
engineers making contributions?



On 02/15/2011 10:48 PM, tony mollica wrote:

Hi.

I did find a few bits of information that weren't pertinent, much less
solve the
problem, but here it is:

How is the locked screen background manipulated for color or background
image? This is the screen where you come out of screensaver mode to the
login box that gets you back into the active session.

This is a fresh dist-upgrade to Debian 6-amd64 from a very minimal and
clean
Lenny-amd64 installation. Upgrade went very well, everything works, but
a plain
white (and very bright) re-login screen after coming out of the screensaver
is extremely annoying.

Any suggestions? The usual ones I've found don't work.


Thanks,

Tony




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Icedove filters

[tony mollica]

Hello.

I've pulled the Thunderbird directory from my old Lenny and placed it in 
the Icedove
dir in the new squeeze-amd64.  Everything works except the filters that 
were previously
defined in Lenny.  It seems any changes I make to the filters are not 
stored after

Icedove is shutdown and restarted.

Any ideas on where the filter definitions are stored?  Or why the 
modified filters don't

stick?


Thanks,

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Gnome, the screensaver and the lock screen background

[tony mollica]

Hi.

I did find a few bits of information that weren't pertinent, much less 
solve the

problem, but here it is:

How is the locked screen background manipulated for color or background
image?  This is the screen where you come out of screensaver mode to the
login box that gets you back into the active session.

This is a fresh dist-upgrade to Debian 6-amd64 from a very minimal and clean
Lenny-amd64 installation.  Upgrade went very well, everything works, but 
a plain

white (and very bright) re-login screen after coming out of the screensaver
is extremely annoying.

Any suggestions?  The usual ones I've found don't work.


Thanks,

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Re: Disk drive recovery help

[tony mollica]

Thorny wrote:

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:16 -0700, tony mollica posted:


Hello.

Need a little help with a disk drive.

Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian 4.0
(latest updates)
and ext2 file system.  It's a 180Gig drive divided into 3 partitions, 1
primary and 2 logical,
sdg1, sdg5 and sdg6, for example.

I did two things, after which the drive acts unusual.  It powers up but
takes a few minutes,
then automounts only the third partition(sdg6).  I can mount the second
partition
manually(sdg5), but the first, and only, primary partiton(sdg1) isn't
found.

cfdisk shows all partitions normally.  I can e2fsck 5 and 6, but not 1.
dmesg shows a read error in the sector that partition 1 begins. Can't
access sdg1 at all, tried several different disk programs to access the
partition.

Back to the two things.  I tried to change the disk label, unsuccessfully,
 and there
was a call to check the partition, so I unmounted it and e2fsck'd it. Now
I can only
get to 2 of the 3 partitions.  Everything seems to be there, but it won't
recognize
the first and only primary partition.  All the sector numbers seem to
match using
gpart, lde, cfdisk and fdisk.

Looking for suggestions to find the error in the first partition.



Just to clear up a misconception, you have to have a primary
partition to hold the logical partitions.  So, make sure we are talking
about things correctly. With fdisk do you see both primaries with one
being shown as extended (and containing the logical partitions)?

With the partition you are having trouble with unmounted, do you get an
error message when you try to fsck it?


Yes, the necessary partitions are there.  fdisk, cfdisk and testdisk all 
show
the right stuff.  Partition 1 is the problem, the other 2 I can mount 
normally.
If I fsck part1 I get the message that no sdg1 exists (the drive is an 
external

USB that used to have sdg1, sdg5 and sdg6).  Testdisk even finds all the
files.  I thinking that there is some sort of hardware read error that's 
keeping

the OS from recognizing the partition for mounting.  I'm running some tests
on the drive but I'll post that short error message from fsck shortly.

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Re: Disk drive recovery help

[tony mollica]

Thorny wrote:

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:38:26 -0700, tony mollica posted:


Thorny wrote:

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:16 -0700, tony mollica posted:


Hello.

Need a little help with a disk drive.

Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian
4.0 (latest updates)
and ext2 file system.  It's a 180Gig drive divided into 3 partitions,
1 primary and 2 logical,
sdg1, sdg5 and sdg6, for example.

I did two things, after which the drive acts unusual.  It powers up
but takes a few minutes,
then automounts only the third partition(sdg6).  I can mount the
second partition
manually(sdg5), but the first, and only, primary partiton(sdg1) isn't
found.

cfdisk shows all partitions normally.  I can e2fsck 5 and 6, but not
1. dmesg shows a read error in the sector that partition 1 begins.
Can't access sdg1 at all, tried several different disk programs to
access the partition.

Back to the two things.  I tried to change the disk label,
unsuccessfully,
 and there
was a call to check the partition, so I unmounted it and e2fsck'd it.
Now I can only
get to 2 of the 3 partitions.  Everything seems to be there, but it
won't recognize
the first and only primary partition.  All the sector numbers seem to
match using
gpart, lde, cfdisk and fdisk.

Looking for suggestions to find the error in the first partition.



Just to clear up a misconception, you have to have a primary partition
to hold the logical partitions.  So, make sure we are talking about
things correctly. With fdisk do you see both primaries with one being
shown as extended (and containing the logical partitions)?

With the partition you are having trouble with unmounted, do you get an
error message when you try to fsck it?



Yes, the necessary partitions are there.  fdisk, cfdisk and testdisk all
show
the right stuff.  Partition 1 is the problem, the other 2 I can mount
normally.
If I fsck part1 I get the message that no sdg1 exists (the drive is an
external
USB that used to have sdg1, sdg5 and sdg6).  Testdisk even finds all the
files.  I thinking that there is some sort of hardware read error that's
keeping
the OS from recognizing the partition for mounting.  I'm running some
tests on the drive but I'll post that short error message from fsck
shortly.

 
Tony, I think you missed my point. In order for there to be three usable

partitions on your system there has to be a physical partition to hold
logical partitions 5 and 6, you must have two primary partitions.

Post the output from fdisk -l.


Thorny, I know what you're asking, I just wasn't clear.  But yes, the 
partition

is there (or here):

fdisk -l output:

Disk /dev/sdg: 184.4 GB, 184416067584 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 22420 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdg1   *   1729558597056   83  Linux
/dev/sdg27296   22420   121491562+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdg57296   1459058597056   83  Linux
/dev/sdg6   14591   2242062894443+  83  Linux


I'm having no problems with the extended partitions, only the first
primary.  All the number look good, just doesn't recognize sdg1
for mounting, or for fsck.

# fsck /dev/sdg1
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdg1

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 device

All the partitioning software and disk utilities find the partitions. 
The first

primary partition is not found or recognized.  Tried backup superblocks
too, but if it doesn't find the device, it won't find the data.

All the data is there, I can see it with testdisk, I just can't retrieve 
or do

anything with it.

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Disk drive recovery help

[tony mollica]

Hello.

Need a little help with a disk drive.

Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian 4.0 
(latest updates)
and ext2 file system.  It's a 180Gig drive divided into 3 partitions, 1 
primary and 2 logical,

sdg1, sdg5 and sdg6, for example.

I did two things, after which the drive acts unusual.  It powers up but 
takes a few minutes,
then automounts only the third partition(sdg6).  I can mount the second 
partition

manually(sdg5), but the first, and only, primary partiton(sdg1) isn't found.

cfdisk shows all partitions normally.  I can e2fsck 5 and 6, but not 1.
dmesg shows a read error in the sector that partition 1 begins.
Can't access sdg1 at all, tried several different disk programs to 
access the

partition.

Back to the two things.  I tried to change the disk label, 
unsuccessfully,  and there
was a call to check the partition, so I unmounted it and e2fsck'd it. 
Now I can only
get to 2 of the 3 partitions.  Everything seems to be there, but it 
won't recognize
the first and only primary partition.  All the sector numbers seem to 
match using

gpart, lde, cfdisk and fdisk.

Looking for suggestions to find the error in the first partition.

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USB floppy behavior with udev??? (one more timelong)

[tony mollica]

Hello.

I'm trying to get an understanding of udev and a usb floppy drive I have.
The drive is a Mitsumi usb floppy sold under the Nexxtech name and it
does work but there are a couple of behaviors that I don't understand.
First, without any udev rule mods, plugging the drive in results in a long
wait while 7 /dev/sd? are mounted at /media/usbdisk(s), usbdisk, usbdisk-1
thru usbdisk-6.  All are active and can be used.

/dev/sdh on /media/usbdisk type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdi on /media/usbdisk-1 type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdj on /media/usbdisk-2 type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdk on /media/usbdisk-3 type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdl on /media/usbdisk-4 type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdm on /media/usbdisk-5 type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdn on /media/usbdisk-6 type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)


If I use one of the udev rules below there is only one mount at
/media/usbdisk.

---
##udev local rules  /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules

##Using SUBSYSTEM(S) block, scsi attributes
#SUBSYSTEM==block,SUBSYSTEMS==scsi,DRIVERS==sd, ATTRS{model}==USB
FDD 061M,NAME=NX_scsiflop
#or
## Using SUBSYSTEM(S) block,usb
SUBSYSTEM==block,SUBSYSTEMS==usb,DRIVERS==usb,ATTRS{model}==MITSUMI
USB FDD 061M,NAME=NX_usbflop
---
And the mount for the 'usb' rule above:

/dev/NX_usbflop on /media/usbdisk type vfat
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)

The relevant log report:

-
usb 1-7: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 35
usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi36 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 35
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdg: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdg: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdg: unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdg
sd 36:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdh: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdh: Write Protect is off
sdh: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdh: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdh: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdh: Write Protect is off
sdh: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdh: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdh: unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdh
sd 36:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdi: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdi: Write Protect is off
sdi: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdi: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdi: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdi: Write Protect is off
sdi: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdi: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdi: unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdi
sd 36:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdj: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdj: Write Protect is off
sdj: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdj: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdj: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdj: Write Protect is off
sdj: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdj: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdj:3FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
filesystem will be case sensitive!
 unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdj
sd 36:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdk: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdk: Write Protect is off
sdk: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdk: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdk: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdk: 

Re: Trouble trying to find Kernel source...

[tony mollica]

I hate to stick my neck out here only because my solution to this
problem was just to keep banging away at the keyboard until all
the errors went away, and I don't keep notes.  There has also been
quite a bit on the list about this in the last week or so.
Seemed complex.  BUT, here is what I remember.  The source packages
for Debian are  linux-source-kernel version and linux-headers-kernel 
version,

the kernel version from 'uname -r'.  I took the kernel config from /boot
and copied it to the source dir as '.config', ran 'make oldconfig' to use
this configuration then ran the kernel compile for a few minutes to make
the necessary files for the Nvidia driver builder, then run the Nvidia 
driver

program with the --kernel-source-path=KERNEL-SOURCE-PATH command
line option so it finds the kernel source.

Pending any minor missing items that were show stoppers but easy to find
and install, it built and installed the driver with no problems.


dann frazier wrote:

[Off-topic for debian-kernel, moving to debian-user]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:26:56AM +1100, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote:

Greetings,

I am trying to install the driver for NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT graphics
video adapter on my PC, running Debian GNU/Linux 40rl i386:

kernel version:
Linux version 2.6.18-6-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) 


gcc version:
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

When I run the nvidia-installer (sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.09-pkg1.run)
It tries to find kernel source from ftp://download.nvidia.com; and
fails, then bombs out when it cannot find it installed locally...

To build a kernel, I need kernel-source and kernel-devel packages
installed; (something called linux-kernel-headers is already
installed).

When I try to install them, I get:

Ni:/home/franx/Desktop# apt-get install kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package kernel-source is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package kernel-source has no installation candidate


I've no experience w/ nvidia-installer myself, but you probably just
need the header files. An easy way to install the headers for your
running kernel is:
 # apt-get install module-assistant
 # m-a prepare

There are also prebuilt nvidia drivers for this kernel in
etch/non-free, but perhaps you need something newer. You might have
luck finding someone w/ nvidia-installer experience on this list.


my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20070820-20:21]/ etch contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20070820-20:21]/ etch contrib main

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ etch main

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

Can somebody please help me with:

1. Is there a mirror somewhere that has these packages?
2. Have I missed something vitally important??

Thanking you.





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USB Floppy drive behavior with udev??? (long)

[tony mollica]

Hello.

I'm trying to get an understanding of udev and a usb floppy drive I have.
The drive is a Mitsumi usb floppy sold under the Nexxtech name and it
does work but there are a couple of behaviors that I don't understand.
First, without any udev rule mods, plugging the drive in results in a long
wait while 7 /dev/sd? are mounted at /media/usbdisk(s), usbdisk, usbdisk-1
thru usbdisk-6.  All are active and can be used.

/dev/sdh on /media/usbdisk type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdi on /media/usbdisk-1 type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdj on /media/usbdisk-2 type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdk on /media/usbdisk-3 type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdl on /media/usbdisk-4 type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdm on /media/usbdisk-5 type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/sdn on /media/usbdisk-6 type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)



If I use one of the udev rules below there is only one mount at 
/media/usbdisk.


---
##udev local rules  /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules

##Using SUBSYSTEM(S) block, scsi attributes
#SUBSYSTEM==block,SUBSYSTEMS==scsi,DRIVERS==sd, ATTRS{model}==USB 
FDD 061M,NAME=NX_scsiflop

#or
## Using SUBSYSTEM(S) block,usb
SUBSYSTEM==block,SUBSYSTEMS==usb,DRIVERS==usb,ATTRS{model}==MITSUMI 
USB FDD 061M,NAME=NX_usbflop

---
And the mount for the 'usb' rule above:

/dev/NX_usbflop on /media/usbdisk type vfat 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)


The relevant log report:

-
usb 1-7: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 35
usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi36 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 35
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdg: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdg: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdg: unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdg
sd 36:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdh: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdh: Write Protect is off
sdh: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdh: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdh: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdh: Write Protect is off
sdh: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdh: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdh: unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdh
sd 36:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdi: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdi: Write Protect is off
sdi: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdi: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdi: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdi: Write Protect is off
sdi: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdi: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdi: unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdi
sd 36:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdj: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdj: Write Protect is off
sdj: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdj: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdj: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdj: Write Protect is off
sdj: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdj: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdj:3FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, 
filesystem will be case sensitive!

 unknown partition table
sd 36:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdj
sd 36:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: USB FDD 061M  Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdk: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdk: Write Protect is off
sdk: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdk: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdk: 2880 512-byte hdwr 

Re: grub assist needed

[tony mollica]

Thanks, Steve, this looks like it will do the job.

Steve Kemp wrote:

On Tue Jul 03, 2007 at 13:07:06 -0700, tony mollica wrote:


Hello.  Looking for a grub assist to make my system boot the way I would
like, hopefully without making the system un-bootable as a result.


  :)


There is no BIOS setting to help decide which drive is first,
second or otherwise.  I find no options for the si680a driver that would
delay or change the order of the drive recognition.  I need a way to always
have it boot from the same drive no matter what other disks loaded on
the IDE channels.


  Have you considered using filesystem labels?  Something like 


root=LABEL=root


Any suggestions?


  There is a brief introduction here:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/522

Steve



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grub assist needed

[tony mollica]

Hello.  Looking for a grub assist to make my system boot the way I would
like, hopefully without making the system un-bootable as a result.

I have a nicely working system booting from a SATA drive with two kernels
onboard, one generic and one k7 kernels. The system config is one SATA
drive, one IDE dvd burner on the one and only onboard IDE channel and
an additional Silcon Image 680a IDE card (working properly but no drive
on either channel).  The si680a is wired to a removeable tray that I would
like to be able to change drives.  The system was originally loaded without
this drive in the bay and so grub knows nothing about it.  If I shutdown and
reboot with the removeable drive (ide) in the bay it obviously changes the
drive designations as the si680a drive is recognized first, no boot sector
is found on this drive and errors and no boot occurs.

I would like to be able to boot the system automagically whether or not
the removeable drive is loaded it the bay but I'm at a loss for how to do
this safely.  There is no BIOS setting to help decide which drive is first,
second or otherwise.  I find no options for the si680a driver that would
delay or change the order of the drive recognition.  I need a way to always
have it boot from the same drive no matter what other disks loaded on
the IDE channels.

Any suggestions?

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Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

[tony mollica]

Just upgraded mine.  I've been fearing that upgrade as the 
report for the upgrade
showed hundreds of packages to be removed.  What I did was copy 
the current
installation to another disk, made it bootable so I have the 
original disk intact.


Ran the update and dist-upgrade many times, including installing 
the new kernel
2.6.18 to get the udev stuff.  After a while I finally reached 
the point where no packages
were being removed, added updated, etc and the installation 
works fine.  I have a post
labeled 'Debian testing, alsa and cups' in here somewhere that 
is a request for help

to find a couple of relatively minor problems (but annoying).

The test was what would happen if I just ran the upgrade and see 
if a bootable
system resulted, and it worked.  Unfortunately I don't keep good 
records so I can't
give a step by step.  I did follow a procedure I found somewhere 
in the documentation
that recommended some updates prior to the upgrade.  The 
Aptitude was one of
them.  Also, one of the responders to my post mentioned above 
had a link to

a procedure that also may help.

Have fun.


Dave Sherohman wrote:

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 07:43:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Backup is essential.  I've tried to do an upgrade from sarge to etch 
several times over the past year, and have yet to do one that resulted 
in a working system.  I found a new install works better, but even there 
I have problems.


Funny, I thought one of the big advantages of Debian over most other
distros is that you *don't* need to reinstall when a new version comes
out.  What's the deal with etch, then?  Debian's not jumping on the
'reinstall for every upgrade' bandwagon, is it?

(And I ask this from a system which has been through slink, potato,
woody, and is currently on sarge, all without needing a reinstall.)



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Debian testing, alsa and cups

[tony mollica]

Hello.

Been thru the (RT)FM and maybe missed it but didn't find it.

Upgraded stable to testing, and it worked with much difficulty 
and repeated
'aptitude dist-upgrade' and ended up with two mildly annoying 
situations

with ALSA and CUPS.

ALSA won't provide sound after a reboot or re-logon unless I run 
the
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart script.  Works good after that. 
Using KDE3.5

and kernel 2.6.18.  Works OK with GNOME logon so it seems it's a
KDE thing.  Could just run the command somewhere but I'd like to 
find

the problem, eventually.

CUPS also won't print after a logon or restart.  I found this 
problem but I'm
at a loss to fix it permanently.  Seems the /dev/usb/lp0 device 
is assigned
the user:group of  root:lp instead of what CUPS likes, lp:sys. 
I can script
this change too but same as above, I'd like to find the glitch 
and do it
right.  Does CUPS need to assign different permissions, or does 
the hotplug/udev

system need to assign a different user:group?  And where to do this?

Thanks for the assistance?

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Re: Old mail - how to get access -DONE

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Thanks for the responses.  I was able to find some leftover 
Sylpheed parts in the the
directories and so reinstalled sylpheed and copied the 
directories and files over to
the new sylpheed dir.  Sylpheed has a nice command to rebuild 
the folder tree and

the emails are now easy to view and pick through.

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Old mail - how to get access

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Hello.

Through disk and software changes I'm left with a Mail 
directory, probably from
Netscape Communicator, that I would like to access with a normal 
mail client
but I need to identify which one.  The Mail directory is in my 
home directory and
under that are the subfolders,  then in the subfolders are 
numbered files each
containing one email.  Does this sound familiar and is it a 
Netscape Communicator

mail directory?

Any suggestions on the easiest way to pick through this Mail 
directory to pick out

the important emails?


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Re: XFree86 4.3.0 for woody?

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You can also check www.apt-get.org.  I used one from there, but
I can't remember which one.

tony



On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 07:06, Eva Myers wrote:
 I am having difficulties upgrading XFree86 to fix the latest security
 problem on some of my woody machines.  The machines I am having
 problems with are running a backport of XFree86 4.3.0, obtained from
 http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/.  (The reason I am running 4.3.0
 is that their onboard graphics chip doesn't seem to work with any
 older version of XFree86.)
 
 Unfortunately, http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/ seems to have gone
 away forever.  What backports of 4.3.0 are people using now?  The best
 I've been able to find is http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xfree86/,
 which conflicts with the Netscape 4.77 packages.
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Re: CHM and WMV files on debian ?

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Hello.  Here is the link to a utility that will extract and display
the .chm files.  I found it by searching www.freshmeat.net for .chm.

http://66.93.236.84/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/

Modify the Makefile to use the correct gcc compiler you have installed,
(it uses gcc-3.2 by default) then

make
make examples
make install

Look through the results for the names of the programs.




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Samba 'security=domain' help

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Hello.  I'm trying to put my user directories from an nt
network(domain) on a Debian box with Samba 2.0.7 and soon to
have quota support.  I would like the domain server to supply
the password support and I have the 'security', 'password server'
and 'encrypt passwords' variables set.  The daemons have
been restarted, but it seems the passwords still have to
be the same on both servers.

Does the smbpasswd file need to be removed for this to work
properly or is there something else I'm missing?

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Re: Samba - debian/rules binary problem

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Found the missing build-depend and the
debian/rules binary worked without a problem.

thanks,
tony

Osamu Aoki wrote:
 
 On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:29:56AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:
  Using ./configure was just an example to
  show that the package will configure this way
  but it will not configure properly using the
  debian/rules binary method.  There is a problem
  I can't resolve in the debian build system.
 You need to install all Build-depends:
 
  thanks,
  tony
 
 
  Osamu Aoki wrote:
  
   On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:33:27PM -0700, tony mollica wrote:
Hello.  I'm trying to build new Samba .deb
packages from the Debian sources but ./configure
stops with the lines:
  
   Why run ./configure first if you are building from debian source.
  
   $ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary

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Hello.  I'm trying to build new Samba .deb 
packages from the Debian sources but ./configure
stops with the lines:

checking configure summary
configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1

Obviously it stops here, but I am unable to find
the problem.  It will configure properly and compile
properly from source without the debian/rules method,
but I would like the packages built.  If I ./configure 
from the source directory and then try to run 
debian/rules binary other errors pop up, some files
are not placed where they should be in the directory
structure, it seems.

Also, I'm trying to add the nbfw patch.  The source 
patches OK but the result is the same with or without
the patch.

Any suggestions on repairing this?

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Re: Samba - debian/rules binary problem

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Using ./configure was just an example to
show that the package will configure this way
but it will not configure properly using the
debian/rules binary method.  There is a problem
I can't resolve in the debian build system.  

thanks,
tony


Osamu Aoki wrote:
 
 On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:33:27PM -0700, tony mollica wrote:
  Hello.  I'm trying to build new Samba .deb
  packages from the Debian sources but ./configure
  stops with the lines:
 
 Why run ./configure first if you are building from debian source.
 
 $ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary
 
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  See Debian reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/
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Re: Network problem/question.

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10./24 for my subnet.  I can't get this to work
properly.  I was told that the w2kas is running
something that keeps the shares hidden but allows
mapping the other windows clients to the shares, 
however, I'm still unable to do this.  I think it
may be a w2k specific problem.  I've tried compiling 
a new Samba 2.0.7 with the nbfw patch but the 
debian/rules binary seems to have some problem and 
won't make the packages, and I'm out of time.  I 
guess it's windows at work and Linux at home.

thanks,
tony

Ron Johnson wrote:
 
 On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 13:27, tony mollica wrote:
  Ron Johnson wrote:
 
   So the rest of the company needs to see win2000server?
 
  Yes.  I was issued this box, instructed to plug it in and
  then don't touch it.  This should get interesting as a
  windows setup administered from the Company side.  It has
  one shared directory with some database files that need
  to be accessed and updated from the LAN side, and accessed
  for viewing from the WAN side.
 
 Blech...  Is the rest of the company on the 10./8 network?
 
   On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 10:58, tony mollica wrote:
The entire operation is behind a company firewall but
the local management doesn't want other company locations
browsing our LAN.  (Updated drawing below).  I have a few
more days to make this work, at which time the whole location
will be changed to the assigned subnet (10.x.x.x).
  
 
  
Ron Johnson wrote:
 How are you securing the win2000server against The Bad Guys?
   
   

 On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 02:11, tony mollica wrote:
  To answer your question, on the WAN side, the router and
  the win2000server have static addresses assigned by the
  maintainer of the WAN.  The IP of eth1 on the Linux box is
  assigned from the same subnet by me.
 
  I'm using ipchains on the Linux box and I'm still somewhat
  unclear on what you propose below.  I need to do more reading
   
 Hello.  I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
 machines in the arrangement below.
  __
 |  |
 |w2kas |
 |__|
|
 ___  __|___  __  __
|   ||  ||  ||  |
---|router ||switch|| Linux||switch|
 T1 |___||__||__||__|
 |   |
10.x.x.x/24 eth1 -  eth0 |__191.168.x.x
   WANIP Masq Machine  LAN
 
 Real IP addresses on the router side with the
 192.168.x.x on the switch side.  I need to put
 a another box on the router side but still
 have the internal LAN clients access this
 computer from the inside.  The new computer
 is required to be windows, and there will be
 only windows clients accessing it.
 
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Re: Network problem/question.

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No misunderstanding.  For the purpose of this discussion,
what you've written is true.  However, while I can ping
from one side to the other, what I need to do is have the
share on the win2000server show up in the browse list(s) on
the LAN side clients.  Samba 2.0.7 is running on the Linux
masq and a winnt4 server providing WINS on the LAN side. I
suspect that there is something missing in the SAMBA config
that I need to make this work.  To be clear, I have no
control over the WAN side of this setup other than a useable
share on the win2000server.  If there is no alternative, I 
can change the entire LAN side to the IP network of the WAN
side and remove the Linux masq, but I would prefer to keep it
in place.  I do have an allottment of IP addresses to use.

thanks,
tony

Ron Johnson wrote:
 Maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but it sounds like the
 win2000server is going to be exposed to the internet, and
 thus on the same network as the router and the Masquerader's
 eth1.  So, it will need a routable IP address.  Thus... the
 masqueraded Winboxen won't have to do anything.

 
 On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 22:42, tony mollica wrote:
  Thanks for the reply.  What I need to do is
  have the  windows clients on the LAN side
  (192.168.100.0/24) be able to access a shared
  directory on a win2000server box on the WAN
  side (10.x.x.0/24) and still preserve my Linux masq.
  I cannot change the IP's on the WAN side with
  the exception of the masqing machine as they
  are remotely administrated.
 

 
  Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
  
   May 9, at 18:26, tony mollica sent through the Star Gate:
  
   Hello.  I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
   machines in the arrangement below.
___  __  __
   |   ||  ||  |
   ---|router || Linux||switch|---(192.168.x.x network)
T1 |___||__||__|
|
  eth1eth0
WANIP Masq Machine  LAN
   
   Real IP addresses on the router side with the
   192.168.x.x on the switch side.  I need to put
   a another box on the router side but still
   have the internal LAN clients access this
   computer from the inside.  The new computer
   is required to be windows, and there will be
   only windows clients accessing it.
  
   How you configure it will depend on what you need to use it for, and if 
   you have
   a single dynamic IP address (which is assigned to the router) or a static 
   subnet
   from your ISP.
  
   Most likely you have a dynamic address for your router.  In that case, 
   the WAN
   side of the router gets that address, the LAN side is most likely assigned
   something in the 10.0.0.x range.  You can have the router do this, or you 
   can
   assign the IP addresses yourself - 10.0.0.1 to the LAN side of the router,
   10.0.0.2 to eth0 on the Linux box, and 10.0.0.3 to the new Windows box.  
   Then,
   in Linuxconf, set up your routes to other hosts to show that to get to 
   the new
   Windows box routing has to go through the 10.0.0.x subnet.
 
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Re: Network problem/question.

[tony mollica]

To answer your question, on the WAN side, the router and
the win2000server have static addresses assigned by the
maintainer of the WAN.  The IP of eth1 on the Linux box is
assigned from the same subnet by me.

I'm using ipchains on the Linux box and I'm still somewhat
unclear on what you propose below.  I need to do more reading
on this and the SAMBA cross subnet browsing docs and try
again tomorrow to resolve the problem.

thanks,
tony



Ron Johnson wrote:
 I think I would run IP Tables/chains on win2000server (but
 not IP masq!!), then, I'd open win2000server's smbd  nmbd
 ports (138  139?) up _only_ to the-IP-addr-that-is-masq-box's-
 eth1.
 
 That way, I think, win2000server would be secured against the
 outside, yet available to the private LAN.
 
 Just curious: why must win2000server have a routable address?
 


 On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 00:34, tony mollica wrote:
  No misunderstanding.  For the purpose of this discussion,
  what you've written is true.  However, while I can ping
  from one side to the other, what I need to do is have the
  share on the win2000server show up in the browse list(s) on
  the LAN side clients.  Samba 2.0.7 is running on the Linux
  masq and a winnt4 server providing WINS on the LAN side. I
  suspect that there is something missing in the SAMBA config
  that I need to make this work.  To be clear, I have no
  control over the WAN side of this setup other than a useable
  share on the win2000server.  If there is no alternative, I
  can change the entire LAN side to the IP network of the WAN
  side and remove the Linux masq, but I would prefer to keep it
  in place.  I do have an allottment of IP addresses to use.
 

 
  Ron Johnson wrote:
   Maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but it sounds like the
   win2000server is going to be exposed to the internet, and
   thus on the same network as the router and the Masquerader's
   eth1.  So, it will need a routable IP address.  Thus... the
   masqueraded Winboxen won't have to do anything.
 
  
   On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 22:42, tony mollica wrote:
Thanks for the reply.  What I need to do is
have the  windows clients on the LAN side
(192.168.100.0/24) be able to access a shared
directory on a win2000server box on the WAN
side (10.x.x.0/24) and still preserve my Linux masq.
I cannot change the IP's on the WAN side with
the exception of the masqing machine as they
are remotely administrated.
  
 
  
Glen Lee Edwards wrote:

 May 9, at 18:26, tony mollica sent through the Star Gate:

 Hello.  I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
 machines in the arrangement below.
  ___  __  __
 |   ||  ||  |
 ---|router || Linux||switch|---(192.168.x.x network)
  T1 |___||__||__|
  |
eth1eth0
  WANIP Masq Machine  LAN
 
 Real IP addresses on the router side with the
 192.168.x.x on the switch side.  I need to put
 a another box on the router side but still
 have the internal LAN clients access this
 computer from the inside.  The new computer
 is required to be windows, and there will be
 only windows clients accessing it.

 How you configure it will depend on what you need to use it for, and 
 if you have
 a single dynamic IP address (which is assigned to the router) or a 
 static subnet
 from your ISP.

 Most likely you have a dynamic address for your router.  In that 
 case, the WAN
 side of the router gets that address, the LAN side is most likely 
 assigned
 something in the 10.0.0.x range.  You can have the router do this, or 
 you can
 assign the IP addresses yourself - 10.0.0.1 to the LAN side of the 
 router,
 10.0.0.2 to eth0 on the Linux box, and 10.0.0.3 to the new Windows 
 box.  Then,
 in Linuxconf, set up your routes to other hosts to show that to get 
 to the new
 Windows box routing has to go through the 10.0.0.x subnet.
 
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Re: Network problem/question.

[tony mollica]

The entire operation is behind a company firewall but
the local management doesn't want other company locations 
browsing our LAN.  (Updated drawing below).  I have a few
more days to make this work, at which time the whole location
will be changed to the assigned subnet (10.x.x.x).

thanks,
tony

Ron Johnson wrote:
 How are you securing the win2000server against The Bad Guys?


 
 On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 02:11, tony mollica wrote:
  To answer your question, on the WAN side, the router and
  the win2000server have static addresses assigned by the
  maintainer of the WAN.  The IP of eth1 on the Linux box is
  assigned from the same subnet by me.
 
  I'm using ipchains on the Linux box and I'm still somewhat
  unclear on what you propose below.  I need to do more reading

 Hello.  I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
 machines in the arrangement below.
  __
 |  |
 |w2kas |
 |__|
|
 ___  __|___  __  __
|   ||  ||  ||  |
---|router ||switch|| Linux||switch|
 T1 |___||__||__||__|
 |   |
10.x.x.x/24 eth1 -  eth0 |__191.168.x.x 
   WANIP Masq Machine  LAN
 
 Real IP addresses on the router side with the
 192.168.x.x on the switch side.  I need to put
 a another box on the router side but still
 have the internal LAN clients access this
 computer from the inside.  The new computer
 is required to be windows, and there will be
 only windows clients accessing it.


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Re: Network problem/question.

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Ron Johnson wrote:

 So the rest of the company needs to see win2000server?

Yes.  I was issued this box, instructed to plug it in and
then don't touch it.  This should get interesting as a 
windows setup administered from the Company side.  It has
one shared directory with some database files that need
to be accessed and updated from the LAN side, and accessed
for viewing from the WAN side.

tony.


 
 On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 10:58, tony mollica wrote:
  The entire operation is behind a company firewall but
  the local management doesn't want other company locations
  browsing our LAN.  (Updated drawing below).  I have a few
  more days to make this work, at which time the whole location
  will be changed to the assigned subnet (10.x.x.x).
 

 
  Ron Johnson wrote:
   How are you securing the win2000server against The Bad Guys?
 
 
  
   On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 02:11, tony mollica wrote:
To answer your question, on the WAN side, the router and
the win2000server have static addresses assigned by the
maintainer of the WAN.  The IP of eth1 on the Linux box is
assigned from the same subnet by me.
   
I'm using ipchains on the Linux box and I'm still somewhat
unclear on what you propose below.  I need to do more reading
 
   Hello.  I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
   machines in the arrangement below.
__
   |  |
   |w2kas |
   |__|
  |
   ___  __|___  __  __
  |   ||  ||  ||  |
  ---|router ||switch|| Linux||switch|
   T1 |___||__||__||__|
   |   |
  10.x.x.x/24 eth1 -  eth0 |__191.168.x.x
 WANIP Masq Machine  LAN
   
   Real IP addresses on the router side with the
   192.168.x.x on the switch side.  I need to put
   a another box on the router side but still
   have the internal LAN clients access this
   computer from the inside.  The new computer
   is required to be windows, and there will be
   only windows clients accessing it.
 
 
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Re: Network problem/question.

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Thanks for the reply.  What I need to do is
have the  windows clients on the LAN side 
(192.168.100.0/24) be able to access a shared
directory on a win2000server box on the WAN 
side (10.x.x.0/24) and still preserve my Linux masq.
I cannot change the IP's on the WAN side with
the exception of the masqing machine as they 
are remotely administrated.


thanks,
tony

Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
 
 May 9, at 18:26, tony mollica sent through the Star Gate:
 
 Hello.  I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
 machines in the arrangement below.
  ___  __  __
 |   ||  ||  |
 ---|router || Linux||switch|---(192.168.x.x network)
  T1 |___||__||__|
  |
eth1eth0
  WANIP Masq Machine  LAN
 
 Real IP addresses on the router side with the
 192.168.x.x on the switch side.  I need to put
 a another box on the router side but still
 have the internal LAN clients access this
 computer from the inside.  The new computer
 is required to be windows, and there will be
 only windows clients accessing it.
 
 How you configure it will depend on what you need to use it for, and if you 
 have
 a single dynamic IP address (which is assigned to the router) or a static 
 subnet
 from your ISP.
 
 Most likely you have a dynamic address for your router.  In that case, the WAN
 side of the router gets that address, the LAN side is most likely assigned
 something in the 10.0.0.x range.  You can have the router do this, or you can
 assign the IP addresses yourself - 10.0.0.1 to the LAN side of the router,
 10.0.0.2 to eth0 on the Linux box, and 10.0.0.3 to the new Windows box.  Then,
 in Linuxconf, set up your routes to other hosts to show that to get to the new
 Windows box routing has to go through the 10.0.0.x subnet.
 
 Glen

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Network problem/question.

[tony mollica]

Hello.  I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows
machines in the arrangement below.
 ___  __  __
|   ||  ||  |
---|router || Linux||switch|---(192.168.x.x network)
 T1 |___||__||__|
 |
   eth1eth0   
IP Masq Machine

Real IP addresses on the router side with the
192.168.x.x on the switch side.  I need to put
a another box on the router side but still
have the internal LAN clients access this
computer from the inside.  The new computer
is required to be windows, and there will be
only windows clients accessing it.

Any suggestions?

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 470CDT

[tony mollica]

If the 470CDT is anything like my 460CDT, changing
the drive is very easy.  There is a small panel in
front that can be removed by first removing a small
screw accessed from the bottom the the unit.  Once the
screw is out, remove the plastic cover by sliding it
down exposing the drive.  The drive is in a holder 
with a lip that you can grip with your fingers, then 
just pull the drive and holder out.  Put the new drive 
in the holder and plug it back in.  

Glenn Becker wrote:
.
 
 Before I start, er, unscrewing anything, I was wondering whether anyone knew
 of a good resource for this sort of thing. I haven't found anything on the
 Toshiba website yet.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Glenn Becker
 
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Re: Broadcast 2000

[tony mollica]

Hello.  I'm running broadcast2000, version 2000c-2, on a
mostly potato machine (some testing upgrades) and it
runs and is usable, but it does show some instability.
ldd show no mention of the libXv.so requirement and I
can't find anything else on this lib, either.  Other 
than the lack of documentation on how to use the program 
effectively, it seems to work.


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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to run Broadcast 2000 under a Debian
 system.  I've attempted to convert an RPM of this app via Alien.
 
 However I hit a roadblock with reference to an item called libXv.so.1
 Apparently this file is nonexistent.  The closest I can find under my
 Debian install is libXv.a, whch does not appear to be a substitute.  Any idea
 how I might be able to resolve this problem?

Re: pcmcia smartmedia

[tony mollica]

Hello.

 Now my questions are:
 
 1) What driver for the card should I set (ide-cs?)?

If I remember, if the pcmcia package is loaded, the
pcmcia card reader should be recognized automatically.
I don't remember changing anything.  The card uses the
ide_cs driver and the listed database should be in
/usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs/SUPPORTED.CARDS.gz


 
 2) How can I mount the simulated hd under a directory (that is, what
 is the device name /dev/hd? or what else?)?

After you plug in the card with smartmedia chip do a dmesg
to see what device the card was recognized.  Mine shows up
as hde1.  Then just mount it:  mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /mnt

 
 3) What else do you advice to consider or set?

That's all you need.

 
 Vittorio
 
 Please note that
  with my great satisfaction as a Debian addicted the pcmcia and smartmedia 
 card DID NOT work properly under Windoz 98 because it cannot find the right 
 driver. Beside, the USB connection of the camera to windoz 98 has been 
 causing me troubles and troubles.
 
 
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More ntpd, different topic

[tony mollica]

Hello.  I have recently changed my ntpd setup
to get the system time from a TruTime gps clock.

According to the TruTime driver, my entry in
ntp.conf should be
 
server 127.127.5.1 

The 5 for the driver and the 1 for the serial port.
ntpd appears to start normally but how do I test the
setup to check that the gps clock data is actually
being recognized and used and that the clock is
being adjusted properly?

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Re: Opera 5.05 and Java

[tony mollica]

Hall Stevenson wrote:

 
 My problem is that I can't get it to recognize my Java installation. I
 downloaded Sun's J2RE as suggested by Opera's website. I've tried the
 various instructions they give for enabling Java too -- all with no
 luck.

 Has anyone tried this newest version ?? If so, did you get Java working
 and how ??
 
 Thanks in advance
 Hall
 

I have tried this and it does work.  I installed opera from the .deb
they
provide.  I then installed the jre1.3.1 into /usr/local/jre-1.3.1 and
modified the  plugin section of the /usr/bin/opera script 
(it is a script, not an elf) to point to the right place.  I had one
problem.  I didn't have the libXm.so.2 lib (the instructions say you
must install Motif) so I followed the links to www.motifzone.net and
downloaded the openmotif package for debian and the java plugin 
now works.


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Re: OT: SCSI hardware recommendation

[tony mollica]

Joerg Johannes wrote:
 
 Hi List
 
 Has anybody of you a dual-channel SCSI-Controller working?


I have a tekram DC390U3W controller that works just the way
you describe.  I have Ultra160 scsi drives on the lvd channel
and my cdrom and cdrw on the other.  Works just fine, no problems
using the stock sym53c8xx driver.  Tekram also has a dual lvd 
channel controller. 



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ppp and ip-up.d scripts

[tony mollica]

Hello.  I know I've seen this problem here
before, but I am unable to locate the solution.
It appears that the scripts in ip-up.d are not
run when a dialup connection is made.  The 
/etc/ppp/ip-up script runs, but the 
'run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d' line doesn't execute.

Any suggestions?

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xawtv

[tony mollica]

Hello.  I have xawtv working OK on a Debian 2.2r3 box
with a 2.4.5 kernel and X403.  There is one problem,
however.  After using xawtv with a TV output fed into
a WinTV board and the sound fed into the SoundBlaster64
and then quitting the xawtv application, the sound 
continues.  The sound modules are busy and can't be removed.

Any suggestions to fix this problem?

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usb scanners printers

[tony mollica]

Hi.  The local computer fair is in town today
and I'm in the market for a new printer and
scanner, preferably USB.  Any suggestions for
either of these?  The printer should be able
to print a decent picture.

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libc 2.1.94

[tony mollica]

Hello.  I'm using 2.2r3 with a 2.4.5 kernal and XFree4.0.3
and I need to upgrade libc to at least 2.1.94 to run some
later version programs.  Where would I find this, if 
available, or at least the source?

thanks,

tony mollica

Debian 2.2r3, kernel 2.4.5 and XF403???

[tony mollica]

Hello.  I'm about to upgrade my X from 3.3.6-11potato 
to 4.03 by way of the debs at 
http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha and using apt-get.
I've done the apt-get upgrade and started the apt-get
dist-upgrade and became somewhat queasy when the list
of packages to remove came up (below).  I would hate to
destroy a perfectly good running X.
 
topdog2:/etc/X11# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  blt-dev gdk-imlib-dev libforms0.88 libgtk1.2-dev olvwm task-gnome-apps
  task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games task-gnome-net task-tcltk-dev
  task-x-window-system task-x-window-system-core tk8.2-dev tktable-dev
  xbase-clients xdm xf86setup xfmail xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base
  xfonts-cjk xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable xlib6g-dev xpm4g xviewg-dev 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxaw6 libxaw7 xlibs 
The following packages have been kept back
  xfs xserver-common xterm 
7 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 27 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 5978kB of archives. After unpacking 29.1MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

How much of the above X stuff will be replaced by new X and what about
gnome being removed?  Will I have to now recompile gnome for the new
X 4.03?  Will I be able to re-install the programs listed above that
are not provided by the X packages, like xfmail for instance?

Any other info would be appreciated.

thanks,
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Re: forcing D-Link 530 into Full-Duplex

[Tony Mollica]

I'm certainly no expert at this but I'm not quite
sure how to pass the full_duplex parameter to a
driver that is compiled into the kernel.  You may
have to modify the source for that.  But if you
compile the via-rhine driver as a module you can
pass the parameter two ways that I know.  You can
interrupt the boot process with the left-shift key
and after the linux: prompt add 

linux: via-rhine full_duplex=1

or you can add a line in your modules.conf file
like this:

options via-rhine full_duplex=1

There is some minimal documentation in the source file
on this.  You might check the syntax I've provided for
accuracy.  The second method I'm sure is correct.  The
first one I'm not 100% sure of but it may work for both
modules and compiled-in drivers. If you have more than
one card installed using the same driver, you can set
them all to full duplex by separating the parameters with
a comma, such as full_duplex=1,0,1,0.  This makes the 
first and third cards full duplex and the second and fourth
cards not.

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Arcady Genkin wrote:
 
 I have a D-Link 530 card using a compiled-in via-rhine driver as eth0.
 The card is talking to an identical card in a computer that runs
 FreeBSD.  I'm seeing collisions on the Linux side of the link, and am
 wondering what parameters I should pass the kernel to force the card
 into Full-duplex 100base mode, and how to pass those params.  (I
 already did that on the FreeBSD side).

 Arcady Genkin
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smb.conf and preexec

[tony mollica]

Hi.  I'm running samba 1.9.18p8 on a Debian
2.0, 2.0.34 system connected to a winnt4sp3
network.  Most everything works nicely, but
I can't get the cdrom's (2 scsi) on the Linux
box to automount with preexec = .  The fstab
is set as follows and as recommended in the smb.conf
file:

/dev/scd0 /cd0 iso9660 defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0

The smb.conf entry is

[cd0]
comment = Samba Server's cdrom 0
writable = no
locking = no
path = /cd0
public = yes
preexec /bin/mount  /cd0
postexec /bin/umount /cd0

  /cd0 has 0755 permissions and 'mount /cd0' works from 
  from the terminal.  Everything appears to be working,
  except it seems the 'preexec' command doesn't get run.


I find no further information on this item in the docs.

Any suggestions?

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