Re: [SLUG] Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters
I'd second Jon suggestion. I've heard of people having similar problems. Regards, Patrick Re: [SLUG] Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters :( jon jonjer...@optusnet.com.au One of my drives (an LG) just won't recognise a particular brand of DVD blanks. You could try some other brands of disks and see if that makes a difference. Jon. david wrote: I sent this message a couple of days ago,but I've now installed K3B with the same result. I've got two burners on the computer, one connected by firewire, the other internal (pata?) and it makes no difference which I use. I'm burning a DVD with about 1.2gig of tif and jpg files. Brasero or K3B both proceed to completion. When I insert the DVD, some of the files (images) give this error when double clicked: Error reading from file: Input/output error /var/log/syslog says: Dec 2 16:43:13 david kernel: [539100.828976] attempt to access beyond end of device Dec 2 16:43:13 david kernel: [539100.828982] sr0: rw=0, want=2235260, limit=2097151 Some files have burned correctly and read correctly. The good files are sequential and the dud files are logically at the end of the directory, which I presume means they are physically at the end of the directory. In the meantime, I've successfully burned a very short audio CD using K3B, for what that's worth. I can't find anything on google about this, except some vague suggestion about hardware, but since there are two completely different burners, I didn't think that was likely to be the problem. Any suggestions? thanks David. PS: system is intrepid (by name, not by nature). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Blog:http://youcantdothatinlinux.blogspot.com/ Blog:http://lugnuts.wftl-lug.org/pg/blog/Patrick Website: www.youcantdothatinlinux.com Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:33 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Do you run Skype? If so - turn off its Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer level. Not that it's the only issue but maybe. Skype did have that option but it was not started anyway. Resetting it did not solve the problem. Command line to change volume is: strider: ~ $ amixer sset Master,0 10% Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 4 [13%] [-40.50dB] [on] strider: ~ $ amixer sset Master,0 100% Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic
It is not the kernel sound works perfectly after bringing up sound volume. I am running 2.6.31-15-generic by the way. I found some forum posts but these don't make a lot of sense, talking about init.d which runs alsactl. This appears to be related. But it is not about startup and shutdown and I cannot see something related to the lines they are talking about. I su to root and then set the volume and ran `alsactl store` to replace the control file, made no difference. I was thinking that logon might run `alsactl restore` writing a small script that runs on gnome startup to set volume 100% and unmute worked around the problem. Don't know what the source is though. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters :(
Ben Donohue wrote: Could it be the file size too large or the path limit being reached? what about burning a single small size file. File size doesn't seem to matter. It seems to be a case of the last files written fail - almost as if anything past 1 GB doesn't work (the total usage is 1.2G) The tiff files are about 30-50 Mb, the jpgs are about 100Kb, but I've tried different directory sequence and it's always the last written that seem to fail. I've also tried with NO directories with no luck. Also I've got a DVD burner that is faulty. It burns CDs ok but always fails on DVDs. So try burning a single file to a CD. Have you got any rewritable CDs and DVDs. Saves burning coasters while experimenting. Ben Good point about the rewritables... I've made 5 coasters so far - I'll have a caterer's set soon. A single file to a CD wrote no problem. But it seems odd that BOTH burners have decided to fail. That seems a stretch. The burners are different brands and different buses. david wrote: I sent this message a couple of days ago,but I've now installed K3B with the same result. I've got two burners on the computer, one connected by firewire, the other internal (pata?) and it makes no difference which I use. I'm burning a DVD with about 1.2gig of tif and jpg files. Brasero or K3B both proceed to completion. When I insert the DVD, some of the files (images) give this error when double clicked: Error reading from file: Input/output error /var/log/syslog says: Dec 2 16:43:13 david kernel: [539100.828976] attempt to access beyond end of device Dec 2 16:43:13 david kernel: [539100.828982] sr0: rw=0, want=2235260, limit=2097151 Some files have burned correctly and read correctly. The good files are sequential and the dud files are logically at the end of the directory, which I presume means they are physically at the end of the directory. In the meantime, I've successfully burned a very short audio CD using K3B, for what that's worth. I can't find anything on google about this, except some vague suggestion about hardware, but since there are two completely different burners, I didn't think that was likely to be the problem. Any suggestions? thanks David. PS: system is intrepid (by name, not by nature). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters :(
david == david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: david Ben Donohue wrote: Could it be the file size too large or the path limit being reached? what about burning a single small size file. david File size doesn't seem to matter. It seems to be a case of the david last files written fail - almost as if anything past 1 GB david doesn't work (the total usage is 1.2G) There is a known growisofs bug wherein it reports an error but exits with zero exit code, which could fool the GUI into thinking there's no problem when there has been one. Try using growisofs directly so you can see what's going on. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:13 -0600, Rodolfo MartÃnez wrote: Have you tried to save your current ALSA settings manually? sudo alsactl store The start up scripts should pick up these settings at boot time or you could restore them with sudo alsactl restore Tried this, no difference. It is not a boot problem. Does it happens every time you open a new session (text, GUI) or only when you reboot the computer? My computer is on 24/7. It happens when I log on and off. You could add the commands to raise/restore the volume to your personal or global profile file (or any other start up script). This is the solution I put into place. Interesting in ubuntu, 'System - Preferences - Startup Applications' will not allow a command line. I created a simple script then put only the script name in the menu and it works then. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Removing IMAP duplicates
Greetings We have been using the Thunderbird plugins Remove Duplicates and Remove Duplicates (Alternate) for some time. The situation is as follows. A customer of ours has a single IMAP account under which there are some hundreds of folders. There are (in total) 325,000+ emails in these folders and more are added every day (email archive system). These folders are also used for charging purposes, so on a monthly basis we de-duplicate all the folders and add up all the received and set in each of the folders for that month. The folders look like this: Imap Archive Account Customer 0001 Customer 0002 Customer 0003 Customer The problem is that the de-duplication run is taking (as you would expect) longer and longer each month as it compares every email with every other email (we de-duplicate from the IMAP account down and include all folders). It's now up to 24+ hours. The only way I can think of shortening this is to select and de-duplicate each of the individual sub-folders (Customers) as a separate operation. That will be a lot faster in pure comparison but will tie up a valuable resource (me) for hours on end - maybe an entire day. Does anyone know of a way in which we could run the de-duplication process on all the sub-folders at once on the server itself - which should be way faster? Currently running Centos 4.8, sendmail and dovecot. Thanks in anticipation. Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Removing IMAP duplicates
Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings We have been using the Thunderbird plugins Remove Duplicates and Remove Duplicates (Alternate) for some time. The situation is as follows. A customer of ours has a single IMAP account under which there are some hundreds of folders. There are (in total) 325,000+ emails in these folders and more are added every day (email archive system). These folders are also used for charging purposes, so on a monthly basis we de-duplicate all the folders and add up all the received and set in each of the folders for that month. The folders look like this: Imap Archive Account Customer 0001 Customer 0002 Customer 0003 Customer The problem is that the de-duplication run is taking (as you would expect) longer and longer each month as it compares every email with every other email (we de-duplicate from the IMAP account down and include all folders). It's now up to 24+ hours. The only way I can think of shortening this is to select and de-duplicate each of the individual sub-folders (Customers) as a separate operation. That will be a lot faster in pure comparison but will tie up a valuable resource (me) for hours on end - maybe an entire day. Does anyone know of a way in which we could run the de-duplication process on all the sub-folders at once on the server itself - which should be way faster? Currently running Centos 4.8, sendmail and dovecot. Thanks in anticipation. Nigel. Not really what you were after I know but dbmail has the option of removing duplicate emails as it receives them. perhaps dovecot has a similar feature? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Postscript calendars?
pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I'm looking for a program to generate a nice postscript calendar, with dates from a file marked with appropriate text. There's a program called `pcal' that does 90% of what I want. The one thing it doesn't do is allow a range of dates to be marked in a different font or colour --- for example, to mark school terms or Uni sessions. Does anyone know of anything that'll do the final 10% (or should I start looking to hack pcal?) Not intended to be a trite answer, but have you considered Firefox+GreaseMonkey+Google Calendar+Print to file? It might be a quick and dirty, but easily updatable solution. Terry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Postscript calendars?
Terry Dawson wrote: Not intended to be a trite answer, but have you considered Firefox+GreaseMonkey+Google Calendar+Print to file? It might be a quick and dirty, but easily updatable solution. In case you haven't seen it, take a look at Paul Fenwick's Fixing the web with greasemonkey presentation, it's amusing and illustrates a good example of what you might rapidly achieve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hghpuxCHTc Terry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] New mobo question - re SATA
Thanks Dazza Obtained a couple more Orange SATA cables and connected up HD's. All's well. Guy in shop didnt know if the red cables were the same as the orange cables or not. Given that my new Gigabyte mobo has SATA 2 connectors and came with orange cables, that's what I bought. Bill DaZZa wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, bill bi...@swiftdsl.com.au wrote: Just bought a new mobo (and cpu and ram) which has SATA 3 3gbs connectors which are SATA 1.5gbs compatible. Am I correct in assuming that I need ALL SATA drives connected with 3.5gbs (orange) sata cables, or can I use 1.5gbs (red) cables with 1.5gbs hdd's? Theset-up manual doesnt mention this. Correct. SATA 2 (3.0 Gb/s) is backward compatible with SATA 1 (1.5 Gb/s). However, you *may* have to set a jumper on the drive itself to enable auto-negotiation. This is not always the case, though. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters
Just a dumb suggestio - have you tried saving the .iso to HD and seeing if you get the errors? If no errors, then try burning the .iso to DVD ( Verbatim DVDs/CDs I find are most reliable). Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Postscript calendars?
Peter Chubb wrote: Terry Not intended to be a trite answer, but have you considered Terry Firefox+GreaseMonkey+Google Calendar+Print to file? I was actually after something light weight that didn't need a GUI... And I usually operate with JavaScript turned off, because I don't trust it. fair enough, that's not a good option for you then :^) Terry It might be a quick and dirty, but easily updatable solution. Do you actually trust Google with YOUR calendar and email data? I don't. I do actually, calendar and some email anyway. I've actually found a PERL class that should do what I want, although I'm a very poor PERL hacker. http://search.cpan.org/dist/PostScript-Calendar/lib/PostScript/Calendar.pm cool. Terry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Postscript calendars?
Terry == Terry Dawson t...@animats.net writes: Terry pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I'm looking for a program to generate a nice postscript calendar, with dates from a file marked with appropriate text. There's a program called `pcal' that does 90% of what I want. The one thing it doesn't do is allow a range of dates to be marked in a different font or colour --- for example, to mark school terms or Uni sessions. Does anyone know of anything that'll do the final 10% (or should I start looking to hack pcal?) Terry Not intended to be a trite answer, but have you considered Terry Firefox+GreaseMonkey+Google Calendar+Print to file? I was actually after something light weight that didn't need a GUI... And I usually operate with JavaScript turned off, because I don't trust it. Terry It might be a quick and dirty, but easily updatable solution. Do you actually trust Google with YOUR calendar and email data? I don't. I've actually found a PERL class that should do what I want, although I'm a very poor PERL hacker. http://search.cpan.org/dist/PostScript-Calendar/lib/PostScript/Calendar.pm Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Brasero || K3B || growisofs creating coasters :(
pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: david == david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: david Ben Donohue wrote: Could it be the file size too large or the path limit being reached? what about burning a single small size file. david File size doesn't seem to matter. It seems to be a case of the david last files written fail - almost as if anything past 1 GB david doesn't work (the total usage is 1.2G) There is a known growisofs bug wherein it reports an error but exits with zero exit code, which could fool the GUI into thinking there's no problem when there has been one. Try using growisofs directly so you can see what's going on. using this command: growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0 /path/to/files/ I get this output: Executing 'genisoimage DVD/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0' I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) 0.90% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 1.79% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 2.68% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 /dev/scd0: Current Write Speed is 4.1x1352KBps. 3.58% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:22:18 2009 snip 99.28% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:18:55 2009 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total directory bytes: 4242 Path table size(bytes): 38 Max brk space used 0 559041 extents written (1091 MB) builtin_dd: 559056*2KB out @ average 3.8x1352KBps /dev/scd0: flushing cache /dev/scd0: updating RMA /dev/scd0: closing disc No error messages that I can see there. When I do ls -l /cdrom/ all the files seem to be present and correct, but I can't copy or read the last three (large) files. The DVD's are LG brand and the burner is also LG brand! That may not mean anything I suppose. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Brasero || K3B || growisofs creating coasters :(
further to this increasingly annoying and boring conversation :( If I create an ISO, I can loop-mount it and read the entire contents. The last three files are still showing up in the DVD directory but are unreadable after burning the ISO using this command: $ growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0=brasero.iso Maybe it's time to invest in a new pack of DVD's or a new burner or two. I was kinda hoping that the problem was me doing something inane. david wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: david == david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: david Ben Donohue wrote: Could it be the file size too large or the path limit being reached? what about burning a single small size file. david File size doesn't seem to matter. It seems to be a case of the david last files written fail - almost as if anything past 1 GB david doesn't work (the total usage is 1.2G) There is a known growisofs bug wherein it reports an error but exits with zero exit code, which could fool the GUI into thinking there's no problem when there has been one. Try using growisofs directly so you can see what's going on. using this command: growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0 /path/to/files/ I get this output: Executing 'genisoimage DVD/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0' I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) 0.90% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 1.79% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 2.68% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 /dev/scd0: Current Write Speed is 4.1x1352KBps. 3.58% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:22:18 2009 snip 99.28% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:18:55 2009 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total directory bytes: 4242 Path table size(bytes): 38 Max brk space used 0 559041 extents written (1091 MB) builtin_dd: 559056*2KB out @ average 3.8x1352KBps /dev/scd0: flushing cache /dev/scd0: updating RMA /dev/scd0: closing disc No error messages that I can see there. When I do ls -l /cdrom/ all the files seem to be present and correct, but I can't copy or read the last three (large) files. The DVD's are LG brand and the burner is also LG brand! That may not mean anything I suppose. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
