Re:[Solved] youtube error msg & html5
For grins, I tried restarting Firefox w/o plugins. Then went to youtube and tried a video. Worked perfectly. So knew it was a plug-in. Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5." disabled it and Voila' it worked. Thank you all for your help. Much appreciated... Regards, Whit Hansell On 09/12/2017 06:48 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it. youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i prefer it. Reco Installed cclive. youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find youtube-viewer) restarted Firefox and tried to load a video. No change. Thanks for the try tho. whit
Re: youtube error msg & html5
On 09/12/2017 06:48 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it. youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i prefer it. Reco Installed cclive. youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find youtube-viewer) restarted Firefox and tried to load a video. No change. Thanks for the try tho. whit
Re: youtube error msg & html5
It's Firefox ESR 52.3.0 (64 bit) As to you tube, when I go to youtube (youtube.com) and click on any of the videos available a new page opens w. only a black video graphic. No way to start it so I have found that if I refresh the pate a new page starts w. the various video graphics at the bottom of that same black video graphic but w. the message about the browser not suporting any of the video formats and with the message about html5. I can't start the graphic using the start button in the graphic, nothing happens. I just picked one video from the youtube.com site and this is the url. It really doesn't matter which one I select... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqDsPXfzjk I don't get it. Have been having this same problem about the first graphic not working for about a week but was able to get it sorking when the refresh page hit and I could hit the start graphic button in the video frame. It no longer works Thanks. Whit Hansell On 09/11/2017 06:40 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 12/09/17 09:34, Whit Hansell wrote: Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.??? Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available Thanks. I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense and many of the answers are very old The youtube screen points me to a page about firefox and html5 but I can't find out how to fix the problem.. What browser and version, and what YouTube URL? Kind regards,
youtube error msg & html5
Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.??? Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available Thanks. I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense and many of the answers are very old The youtube screen points me to a page about firefox and html5 but I can't find out how to fix the problem.. It's nuts... Thanks in advance... whit
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/07/2017 07:14 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 07/03/2017 02:41 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Have tried the Brother 2270DW but can't get it to work. Which ones work easillyl, if any? Thanking in advance. Have gone thru many of the printers listed saying they are linux printers but when I get to the actual printer if it's available it's $ 1,200 or not available when it's in the $2-300 range. Just wondering if there are any still available out there, reasonably priced. Using Jessie will be going to Stretch in a few months. Hi Whit, my favorite brand for printers is Lexmark. They usually have good drivers for Linux and have cheap models. I have Lexmark MS310DN, it's monochrome laser network printer and supports duplex printing (double side). I bought it for about 100 EUR without VAT. HTH Kind regards Georgi Thanks Georgi. I'll keep them, the Lexmarks in mind. However, I have a new Brother HL-L2380DN in the box sitting on a bench I am going to install this weekend. Hopefully it comes up as I want it to. Just for grins, I did check on availability of your particular Lexmark and it's availability here in the states. Just checked a few places but it's an older model and doesn't seem to be readily available anymore. That is the problem I found with many of the printers I looked up. They were either high priced or no longer available, older models. I thank all you guys tho for your help and if I can't get this Brother to work will go thru the list of responses and see what I can find still available. You guys are great and very helpful and I really do appreciate it. Thanks a bunch. Regards, whit
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/03/2017 05:45 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 11:54:34 -0400 Whit Hansell <skippe...@comcast.net> wrote: On 07/03/2017 10:41 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Why are you buying ink every month if you are not printing much--to be more specific, I'm asking if something is happening to your ink (or ink cartridge)-- is it an ink jet printer and the nozzles getting clogged, or maybe a laser printer in a high humidity environment making the toner get too humid to work properly? If either of those are a possiblity, I wouldn't order a new printer until you've considered the cause of the problem... Thanks for your reply, Maybe I should have prefaced that statement with a "for me" phrase. I do print out a number of articles during a month but I used to have an hp722 printer and that cartridge held 2-3 times the ink my last printer held. AND I was able to refill the 722 and the last one, an hp psc1510. But for some reason in the last year I have been unable to get a successful refill on the 1510 and so am having to keep purchasing cartridges. It uses a small cartridge and I have cut back on my printing considerably and really get honked off when it spits out a big black block of ink in an article I can't print from a pre-set printjob setup from the web page source. And my 1510 just died on me so am in need of a new printer so decided on a laser printer as I care not for color. Thanks for chiming in tho. I do appreciate everyone's help here. You all have so much knowledge and we all learn from you. Thanks again. Help and advice much appreciated. I tired of inkjet printers (and having to replace or fill the cartridges) and purchased a factory refurbhished Samsung ML-1710 (discontinued model) B laser printer for $75 US. Still going strong 11 years later. Fairly low volume. Less than 1000 sheets per year. And Linux drivers from Samsung, too. But looking to replace it with a duplex printing model with higher resolution for $300 or less. I'm patient. So, I can wait for a sale, but whatever I buy, it will be a Samsung model for sure. B Thanks for the reply B. Hadn't thought of Samsung. Will keep them in mind if need be. Much appreciated whit
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/03/2017 12:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 03 July 2017 10:41:13 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Why are you buying ink every month if you are not printing much--to be more specific, I'm asking if something is happening to your ink (or ink cartridge)-- is it an ink jet printer and the nozzles getting clogged, or maybe a laser printer in a high humidity environment making the toner get too humid to work properly? If either of those are a possiblity, I wouldn't order a new printer until you've considered the cause of the problem... Yes I would, buy a new printer. The just over $100 USD brother HL21XX b laser printer I have is going on 6 years old, is on its third toner cartridge, has printed 30 or so reams of paper, at 19ppm if the driving computer can feed it that fast. And its still printing like it was brand new. The one disadvantage for linux purists is that you must use the free to download and install, brother driver. And, because I needed a tabloid format printer, 11x17 inches occasionally, I bought one of the brother ink jets, an MFC-6920DW which also claims good ppm's but does NOT deliver. Its about 1.5ppm at best, and gain you must use the brother drivers which are partially broken in the when it wakes up the printer to start a job, the first 6 packets it sends have a bad tcp checksum before it sends good data. Thats 6 seconds wasted right there. Its actually a pretty fast copier. So the network connect is a bottleneck. It self exercises at about 4 hour intervals, keeping nozzles clean, but doesn't seem to waste a lot of ink doing it as I'm perhaps halfway thru the first set of refills at a dozen reams of paper, some of it glossy and most std 24 lb copy paper. I have it setup at an address on my local network because the inputs are internal, and I'd have to buy and put another usb hub near it because the input connectors are a rather circuitous route thru trenches in the top of the printer floor under the scanner and that uses up around 30 inches of a usb cables maximum length. It was expedient to use the LAN connector as my switch was well within reach. But I don't think it runs at gigabit speeds, and thats the pages a minute bottleneck. My network is all gigabit, but the printer spends a lot of time waiting on data. OTOH, the asking price at the local Staples was under $300, so I guess I got what I paid for. Ink is individual tanks, and easily outlasts the last Epson ink jet I had, which despite its exercise that wasted 2/3rds of the ink I used, clogged its head in about a month the first time. And I kept it for its scanner for a while but the scanner in this brother is 10x faster, does better color, with an ADF to boot. Other than its print speed, whats not to like? 20x the ink lifetime at less than the Epson price per color on the pegboards at the store. I'll buy it again if it lasts as long as its baby brother laser has. Its in its second year and I have NOT had to "clean the nozzles". No, I don't work for brother, I'm just a retired 82 year old fart, puttering about in the garage with metal cutting machines, CNC versions which I've done the conversion to CNC myself. Cheers, Gene Heskett Thank you Gene. Much appreciated. whit
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/03/2017 03:22 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 07/03/17 04:41, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Have tried the Brother 2270DW but can't get it to work. Which ones work easillyl, if any? Thanking in advance. Have gone thru many of the printers listed saying they are linux printers but when I get to the actual printer if it's available it's $ 1,200 or not available when it's in the $2-300 range. Just wondering if there are any still available out there, reasonably priced. Using Jessie will be going to Stretch in a few months. Thanks. Whit I have a HP P2055dn: https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-LaserJet-P2000-Printer-series/3662052/model/3662058/ It's on my Gigabit SOHO LAN and is supported OOTB by Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I like the LAN connection, duplexing, and speed. I don't like the flimsy plastic construction, the overpriced HP toner cartridges, or the cheap generic cartridges that smear/haze after a few reams. I was able to catch a sale a Staples when HP was also offering a trade-in bonus (I gave them my old LaserJet 4). You can find them used on eBay for ~$60+. David Thank you David And thank you all you guys. You are all very helpful with your recommendations and info. I'm acutally feeling better about this now that I may actually get a printer working soon. Again, thank all you guys... So much. Whit
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/03/2017 02:46 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 12:39:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 03 July 2017 10:41:13 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Why are you buying ink every month if you are not printing much--to be more specific, I'm asking if something is happening to your ink (or ink cartridge)-- is it an ink jet printer and the nozzles getting clogged, or maybe a laser printer in a high humidity environment making the toner get too humid to work properly? If either of those are a possiblity, I wouldn't order a new printer until you've considered the cause of the problem... Yes I would, buy a new printer. The just over $100 USD brother HL21XX b laser printer I have is going on 6 years old, is on its third toner cartridge, has printed 30 or so reams of paper, at 19ppm if the driving computer can feed it that fast. And its still printing like it was brand new. The one disadvantage for linux purists is that you must use the free to download and install, brother driver. A Brother with all of: - ethernet networking - duplex - BR/Script3 (Their PostScript clone, which I think is actually GhostScript) will not need a driver. Current examples: HL-L5100N ($170), HL-L6200DW ($250) -dsr- Thank you so much Dan.
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/03/2017 01:41 PM, Tom Dial wrote: On 07/03/2017 05:41 AM, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Have tried the Brother 2270DW but can't get it to work. Which ones work easillyl, if any? Thanking in advance. I recommend looking at Hewlett-Packard printers, toward the middle or high end of your desired price range. I have used them for quite a few years, from the 1020 and P1505 to the M477 multifunction printer. Using CUPS and hplip, the support is generally complete and pretty current, and not hard to set up, even for Windows systems on the same network. Given that CUPS originally was an Apple product, it should be pretty easy to use any of them with a networked Apple system as well. For printers in the small/medium business line, warranty service also is very good, at least if you purchase directly from HP and incur the additional cost that goes with that. Full disclosure: I do own Hewlett-Packard shares, although not enough that I would likely benefit measurably from sale of a few more printers or toner cartridges. Have gone thru many of the printers listed saying they are linux printers but when I get to the actual printer if it's available it's $ 1,200 or not available when it's in the $2-300 range. Just wondering if there are any still available out there, reasonably priced. Using Jessie will be going to Stretch in a few months. Thanks. Whit Thanks Tom. I have ordered out the printe that Adam recommended and pray that I can get it to work as I'm totally frustrated w. this printer issue. But if I can't I will be sure to follow your advice and se what HP has available too. As mentioned before i had already tried to find laser printers from the lnux list and they were too high priced or unavailable. But will go back and try again if need be. Thanks a bunch for your reply and recommendations. Much appreciated. whit
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/03/2017 10:41 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Why are you buying ink every month if you are not printing much--to be more specific, I'm asking if something is happening to your ink (or ink cartridge)-- is it an ink jet printer and the nozzles getting clogged, or maybe a laser printer in a high humidity environment making the toner get too humid to work properly? If either of those are a possiblity, I wouldn't order a new printer until you've considered the cause of the problem... Thanks for your reply, Maybe I should have prefaced that statement with a "for me" phrase. I do print out a number of articles during a month but I used to have an hp722 printer and that cartridge held 2-3 times the ink my last printer held. AND I was able to refill the 722 and the last one, an hp psc1510. But for some reason in the last year I have been unable to get a successful refill on the 1510 and so am having to keep purchasing cartridges. It uses a small cartridge and I have cut back on my printing considerably and really get honked off when it spits out a big black block of ink in an article I can't print from a pre-set printjob setup from the web page source. And my 1510 just died on me so am in need of a new printer so decided on a laser printer as I care not for color. Thanks for chiming in tho. I do appreciate everyone's help here. You all have so much knowledge and we all learn from you. Thanks again. Help and advice much appreciated. Whit
Re: Laser Printer recommendation...
On 07/03/2017 08:05 AM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 07:41:31AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Have tried the Brother 2270DW but can't get it to work. Which ones work easillyl, if any? Thanking in advance. I've been quite satisfied with the Brother HLL2380DW wireless scanner/duplex laser-printer. $165 on Amazon including toner https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BHSL7VY/ (I believe that's refurbished). Our home has a variety of Linux, Windows, OSX, and iOS devices, and it works fine with all of them. (The iOS devices print through the Linux box via CUPS/Airprint). Adam Adam, Thanks so much for your recommendation. It looks like exactly what I am desiring. I'm going to go ahead and order one today.. Thanking you very much. whit
Laser Printer recommendation...
Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Have tried the Brother 2270DW but can't get it to work. Which ones work easillyl, if any? Thanking in advance. Have gone thru many of the printers listed saying they are linux printers but when I get to the actual printer if it's available it's $ 1,200 or not available when it's in the $2-300 range. Just wondering if there are any still available out there, reasonably priced. Using Jessie will be going to Stretch in a few months. Thanks. Whit
Re: apt WAS:var is full...
Thanks for the info J. I use autoclean instead of clean and it shows
certain packages deleted list after the upgrade.
My normal update/upgrade regimen goes thusly:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get autoclean
updatedb
I don't know if that is the bestest and greatest way to do it but it
does well for me.
Thanks for the info on the cron job situation w. apt. Going to look
into it and see if i can understand it.
Whit
On 11/19/2015 12:41 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
Brian:
To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives:
apt-get clean.
The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need
to run an update afterwards.
What's not generally known is that apt comes with a cron job that can
perform house keeping. It can be configured in apt.conf like this:
APT {
Periodic {
// see: /etc/cron.daily/apt
Update-Package-Lists "0";
Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
AutocleanInterval "1";
MinAge "3";
MaxAge "7";
MaxSize "1024";
}
}
See the comments in /etc/cron.daily/apt. As far as I am aware, that's
the only place where this is documented.
J.
var is full...
Hey y'all, my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to get a reasonable amount of free space? Running Jessie on an amd64 box. I have run into this problem for the last three installs. I always use the basic linuc installer recommends for var size and it is always too darn small. In the past I have enlarged the partidtion/directory using gparted to move free space but it is a total pita and the last time it left the drive w. some open space just hanging out that I could not get put into the directoies. That did not affect the operation but left the drive in a way that was sloppily set up. And how much of the var/log files can I adjust? Those files are pretty large and would give me more time before I woulod have to do it agian. Thanks in advance. i'm really frustrated with this situation and really appreciate any help. Sincerelly, Whit
Re: var is full...(Solved)
To all, [Brad, Hans, Jorg-Volker, Brian and David] Thank you all for your replies. I just got done moving free space from Home to my var partition, again.Darn Debian installer uses too small a var partition as mentioned in my OP. Let me apologize for those who thought I meant I could not boot the machine. That was not the problem. It was that the var partition was full and it needs space to use apt, cups, and other programs. I do have another problem I am working on that may have been cause partly because of the full partitioin but i will ask for help on that if I can't get it figured out. I really do appreciate all your comments and am sorry I could not address them until now. It took me all day to move 5 GB of free space from home to var on a 1T drive. I went ahead and did the Gparted free space move over again because Hans mentioned it and I knew it would take some time to do it. Just wanted the whole thing over with. Again, thanks all for your answers. I just figured that it would be best to upsize the partition once and for all rather than keep deleting files in var cache, tmp, etc. Hopefully an almost 8 Gb var will handle it now. My original one was 2.7 Gb and I had freed up 700 mb or so just a few weeks ago it seems and it filled up again so quickly. You all are great to have on hand and we all really appreciate it. Regards and much appreciations. Whit PS, Someone mentioned that I could use just one partition for the drive and not have this problem anymore. I use separate partitions for security reasons and to learn things like the big guys even tho' i'm just a putterer who has used debian since Late Woody/Early Sarge. Just love Linux. On 11/18/2015 10:52 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015, 09:41:38 schrieb David Wright: On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do not need (for example old packages). Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that one could delete anything in /var/cache with impunity, or else it has no business being there. (It might be wise to pick one's moment; boot into single user, for example.) Cheers, David. Of course, he can. My idea behind, was that if the user cannot start the system any more, this might be an alternative way. He can do apt-get clean or aptitude clean, too, if the system is still booting. Best Hans
Re: {SOLVED}virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
On 08/25/2015 06:19 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: On 08/25/2015 12:48 AM, Seeker wrote: On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup but it keeps showing no usb items attached... Anyone else have a similar problem? Anyone got any ideas? Have reinstalled the extension pack 3 timesd and besides all the other primare usb iltems work. Thanks in advance. Any help greatlly appreciated.. Whit I have not played around with Virtualbox with Linux as the host os. With Windows as the host OS Virtualbox takes care of disconnecting the printer from the host OS so it can be used in the Virtual machine. Since I am usually setting things up for non techie people and want to reduce the things they have to try and wrap their head around, I typically set the printer up as a network printer in the guest OS. A quick look on Google, looks like that is the recommended course of action when using Linux as the host OS. http://www.ehow.com/how_8743472_do-print-out-virtualbox.html With Windows as the host the printer just needs to work in the host OS, it doesn't need to be shared in the host OS. Since the instructions don't say anything special about the host set up I'm guessing it is the same with Linux as the host, but those were the first instructions I saw and never looked to much after. I expect if there is extra set up required someone will chime in. Later, Seeker Seeker, Thanks so much for the reply. I tried to do whaat the link you gave me said to do but messed it up because I'm not Windows proficient. Found another site that gives info on how to set up the network printer and will try that soon. Am backed up w. stuff right now. Thanks so much for your help. I found nothing about this type of situation when I did my google searches. I will let y'all know how it goes when I get back to it. Gracias amigo, seeker. Whit Seeker and all, Finally got back to my prob w. usb printer and such and did some searches on google and something that kept coming up was to check to see if i was lited in the Gropu as user. So finally got frustraated and checked and while my name was in the virtualbox user grouop it wasa not checked so I checked it and had to aulthenticate w. root user pwd. Then got it working by logging out of host and logging back in. Then starting virtualbox and then the Win 7 guest. And voila, there was my printer listed on my usb port. Then verified by printing and yes it works great. Oh boy. so nice to have it working. Haven't checked to see if I can use any thumb drives but will do so tomorrow. And yes I had to add the printer filter to the usb devices in the device setup and had to also set the usb version to 2.0 instead of 3.0. I kept seeing that VB does not redognze usb v.3 yet. It may but haven't verified that it does or not. Will verify that tomorrow too. Hope that helps someone else. Been trying for a couple of years to get this far w. VB. Nice to be at least this far. Cheers and yippee. Whit
Re: virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
On 08/25/2015 12:48 AM, Seeker wrote: On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup but it keeps showing no usb items attached... Anyone else have a similar problem? Anyone got any ideas? Have reinstalled the extension pack 3 timesd and besides all the other primare usb iltems work. Thanks in advance. Any help greatlly appreciated.. Whit I have not played around with Virtualbox with Linux as the host os. With Windows as the host OS Virtualbox takes care of disconnecting the printer from the host OS so it can be used in the Virtual machine. Since I am usually setting things up for non techie people and want to reduce the things they have to try and wrap their head around, I typically set the printer up as a network printer in the guest OS. A quick look on Google, looks like that is the recommended course of action when using Linux as the host OS. http://www.ehow.com/how_8743472_do-print-out-virtualbox.html With Windows as the host the printer just needs to work in the host OS, it doesn't need to be shared in the host OS. Since the instructions don't say anything special about the host set up I'm guessing it is the same with Linux as the host, but those were the first instructions I saw and never looked to much after. I expect if there is extra set up required someone will chime in. Later, Seeker Seeker, Thanks so much for the reply. I tried to do whaat the link you gave me said to do but messed it up because I'm not Windows proficient. Found another site that gives info on how to set up the network printer and will try that soon. Am backed up w. stuff right now. Thanks so much for your help. I found nothing about this type of situation when I did my google searches. I will let y'all know how it goes when I get back to it. Gracias amigo, seeker. Whit
virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup but it keeps showing no usb items attached... Anyone else have a similar problem? Anyone got any ideas? Have reinstalled the extension pack 3 timesd and besides all the other primare usb iltems work. Thanks in advance. Any help greatlly appreciated.. Whit
Re: Request virtualbox setup advice
On 08/21/2015 09:00 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Friday 21 August 2015 10:33:23 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. I personally would avoid all risk of conflict and purge VB with your package manager of choice before installing the upstream version. In my experience one needs (I needed) the upstream guest additions. Lisi Hi: I couldn't test VBox5.0 on Jessie - that might work but if you already upgraded Jessie to Testing than you run into problems with libvpx1. It has no install candidate in Testing because libvpx2 is part of Testing. The best bet might be to stay with Jessie as host system and install Testing in a virtual machine to keep track of the gcc5 transition. Well - all depends on what you are up to ... Cheers Eike Hi Eike, Thanks for repllying. am not using testing at all. When my old HD died, I bought a 1 Tb dirive and installed Jessie stable from scratch using netinstall. Checked virtualbox site and it recommends for Jessie virtualbox 5.0.2 which is the latest, I guess, stable version of Virtualbox as it is also recommended for Wheezy too. Not planning on going to testing w. these newer often changing Linux systems. I had used testing in the pas thru squeeze. But when Wheezy came out I started using stable because of the major changes being made to the kernel and system. Thanks for replying and the help. Appreciate it a bunch. Regards, whit
Re: Request virtualbox setup advice
On 08/21/2015 05:33 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. I personally would avoid all risk of conflict and purge VB with your package manager of choice before installing the upstream version. In my experience one needs (I needed) the upstream guest additions. Lisi Thank you for replying, Lisi. I agree w. purging the already installed files. Have done so just this AM. Am in process of setting up sources list entry and keyring, etc now. Thanks for the reply and reminder Whit
Request virtualbox setup advice
Hey guys, Been reading the virtual noob posts and a statement there intrigued me. Someone said Oracle recommended using the virtualbox files from their site rather than from the distro(Debian 8 - Jessie-AMD64). I have used virtualbox in the past and had difficulty with I/O(usb) and found out about the PUELA file and then before I could do anything about it my HD failed. Well, I'm up and running again, have tried the distro version w. the PUELA extension and on my W7 guest I end up with the CPU pegged at 100% a few minutes after starting it up. That just isn't right. I think but am not sure it has to do w. my usb webcam but not sure. Anyway, want to start over and have the best foundation possible in order to reduce the variables with possible problems later. So I feel the Oracle software sitauation is the way to go. So I am interested in using Oracle's files and have questions. I can as recommended on the Oracle site, add Oracle to my sources list file and the keyring. Have done similar w. multimedia w. no problems. But since I have virtualbox 4.3.x files on the distro, will the first update I do after I do the above, just add another set of virtualbox files of the newer 5.x.x versions, leaving the lower versions alone? Or will it cause a conflict? I would guess it should be OK but wanted to check first before I hose things up. OR I can download the Jessie version 5.x.x .deb file and stick it into my usr/loca/ directory and then have to mess around with manual updating whenever Oracle comes out with a newer version. Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. Thanks in advxnce for your help. You guys are great. Whit
Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC
On 07/24/2015 02:55 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying try the net install I've tried the net install and it still has the same problem. The problem is when the installer gets to Detect and mount CD-Rom it keeps saying no common cdrom how can I mount my cdrom and tell the install where it is. It boots and I can see the drive in /dev/disk/by-id I've tried putting this in when it asks where the cdrom is to no avail. please help sorry if this is not formatted well my good keyboard is on the machine I'm trying to install debian. I've tried installing older versions of debain as I saw someone say that the newer kernel doesn't support dell but that wouldn't work either. I'm trying to install Debian-8-from-DVD-and-tried-netinst on a DELL-optiplex-gx280, P4-1.6 tx in advance If it's having trouble installing from CD, you can try installing from USB stick instead. Debian makes it easy by having their .iso files bootable from CD or USB. Just cp the .iso to the USB device (not to a partition on it). e.g. if your USB stick shows up as /dev/sdd1, cp the .iso to /dev/sdd (note the lack of partition number). This will wipe out the entire stick, so make sure you don't have anything important on it. Just a thought. Make sure your cd/dvd is the first item in the boot lineup of the BIOS. IOW, go itno BIOS, go to boot listing and set CD/DVD to the first in line then the HD second or after even the USB ports, if in the list. HTH Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55b28c97.6090...@comcast.net
Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics
On 09/25/2014 11:34 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/09/14 00:12, Rob Owens wrote: I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. I have set: # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) ffmpeg_cap_new on and # Gap is the seconds of no motion detection that triggers the end of an event # An event is defined as a series of motion images taken within a short timeframe. # Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value 0 is allowed and disables # events causing all Motion to be written to one single mpeg file and no pre_capture. gap 60 Can anybody confirm that movie output works on Wheezy? Yes. One thing that may be a factor in my case is that my test webcam is very slow. I am only getting one picture every 2 or 3 seconds when motion is detected. I have framerate set to 2 fps. Maybe motion is aware that my pics are too far apart in time and is deciding not to combine them into a movie. Any clues in the logs? 'top' may help find any bottlenecks. Note that an older box will have problems with high frequency high resolution images - especially with USB 3. A work around that problem might be any or all of:- ;reduce frequency of images ;reduce image resolution ;offload image processing to hardware What sort of motion are you wanting to detect at 2 fps? A break-in by Speedy Gonzales? ;p Be careful or your motion directory will quickly fill with a huge amount of pictures. I don't use the movie output version - though I've used it in the past. I found it an unnecessary use of resources - it's trivial to construct a movie from the relevant still images at a later date - just ensure that you email those images off-site immediately after a motion event is detected (if you're using motion for security purposes). It may be relevant that while I do have the deb-multimedia.org repository enabled on the Debian (Wheezy) systems that run motion, it's pinned to give preference to debian repositories:- $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/multimedia.pref Package: * Pin: origin *.deb-multimedia.org Pin-Priority: 200 -Rob Upstream documentation is excellent - apologies for not referencing it earlier:- http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome Kind regards Rob and Scott, et al.. Don't know if this will help but thot' I'd look into it myself so did a search and found Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwDLkMPLTw0 This is part one of two parts. HTH Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5424e575.3020...@comcast.net
loss of I/O on some websites
Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire to go to various sites. I mean specifically news sites. My box is a relatively new AMD quad core over 3 Gh, 16 Gb Ram and a video card w. 1 Gb memery on it, running Wheezy always updated and current. I go to some news sites and they have video start up and run while I'm still trying to get the page loaded and then trying to scroll the page my I/O (mouse and/or cursor keys) won't work or I have to wait for a video ad or more get done. Than someitmes w/o meaning to I scrolll over another ad and it starts running it's video and it starts all over again. Am I missing something in some an additional program I can install to help take over or as an addon to Eceweasel browser? This is really frustrating and I woiuld appreciate any help anyone can give. Thanks in advance for any help. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536f743d.1090...@comcast.net
Re: [SOLVED]loss of I/O on some websites
On 05/11/2014 09:30 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:59:41AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire to go to various sites. I mean specifically news sites. Maybe you already tried it, but just in case: AdBlock Plus (add on for Iceweasel)? Francesco, et al, Thank you for replying as well as everyone else who did. So far, it seems to be working, to use AdBlock Plus. I had installed Adblock exchange, because at one time as I recall, I had been using Adbllock something and Iceweasel updated and I kept receiving warnings about the new version of Iceweasel and Adblock not being compatible. At least I think that's why I changed it. But now I have gone to the Adblock Plus as recommended and SO FAR it is working great. No I/O hangup at all. I tell you it was driving me crazy. Going to a well known website and finding it totally unusable. Thank you all for your replies and help. A great bunch of people. I love Linux and it's users. Always helpful and knowledgeable. Thanks again. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536fee6b.6080...@comcast.net
Re: apt-get vs. aptitude
On 10/08/2013 08:57 AM, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: On 2013-10-08 Florian Lindner wrote: What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better dependency checking. What is the current state? apt-get or aptitude? Does it matter? What about using both? Both use libapt-pkg, so when used from the command line I don't think it matters which you use. Morten I had asked the same question a year ago or so and changed from aptitude to apt-get with using dist-upgrade for upgrades on both. On aptitude I was getting recommended packages no being installed but they are all installed using apt-get. I had always wondered about the recommends being held back and have found no problem having them installed using apt-get. Hope that helps. whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52540883.5040...@comcast.net
Re: Questions about installation
On 06/17/2013 05:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 16 iun 13, 19:27:42, Whit Hansell wrote: Just a suggestno. I had the same problem w. my win7 laptop trying to put Debian on it. I shrank the W7 hd size using live CD of gparted and then formatted the balance of the drive as ext 3 I believe. Then installed LMDE on the new ext3 partition. The ethernet card was recognized immediately and the install went great. Once that is done you can do a total dist-up[grade of debian and it will supposedly be a plain Debian install. the LMDE is Llinux Mint Debian Edition whihc is the rolling testing version of Linux Mint w. the Debian Testing as the backbone. You should be able to change the sources list to Wheezy or leave it at testing and go nuts. Sorry to be the naysayer, but there are several problems with this approach: 1. Changing distros like this is dangerous. It's impossible to tell which customization, however minor, can have strange effects on the final result. If it breaks you get to keep both pieces. 2. Because of 1. you will hardly get any support from either community (LMDE or Debian) for your install and it's quite likely Debian and LMDE Developers will close bugs without further investigation as soon as you describe your install. 3. Even if this succeeds you end up with Debian testing, not stable. This is hardly a good idea for people new to Debian (or even Linux in general). You might also want to watch Robert Wuhl in Assume the Position 201 talking about based on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg7Q5UX_R0U Kind regards, Andrei Andrei, I agree totally with everything you've written. I came into linux using Lindows to get used to the idea of linux, then switched to debian Sarge when it came out as I had been unable to ever get woody going. Sarge worked w. my limited knowledge. Ever since it has been search and hunt and ask questions and still is. My background is accounting but love linux as an OS and use W only when I need it for certain things. I posted the previous knowing full well that someone woujld bring up intelligent and knowledgeable comments on my post. Then the person(s) who would read the thread would learn from all of us. I've been thru every upgrade since sarge and done new install on every one of them until I did the multiboot on my laptop using LMDE. As I said, I have not done the total upgrade to the new stable Wheezy and fought the unknown problems it WILL bring. That is for the near future but it is possible to get a usable debian multiboot system running doing as I mentioned. Otherwise it's doing a lot of searching and trying to even get the wifi or Ethernetcard even running. Anyway, to the OP, learn to search and find answers before you step into it and even ask for help. Remember that even Window is a learning curve. Linux is not really different, just different. I truly hate Windows because everytime I update w. as little as 50 or 100 mb it will normally take 20 minutes to 45 minutes or more to do the update and that''s with often more than one restart. The same or more file size updates/upgrades in debian will take maybe 5 to 7 minutes w. no restarts at all. And updates/upgrades usually need not be done more than once a week. I used to schedule my stable update/upgrades for Tuesday afternoon and it took 3- to 5 minutes max and then back to work. With testing it's been every day but that's the fun of it. Linux is a mindset difference. You can stay with Windows and have Bill Gates et al, require you to change your hardware and OS at their whim or keep your curren hardware and change your OS when you want to after you learn the Linux concepts. Linux is stable. Learn it and it's concepts and enjoy. Or have fun w. W8 and trying to find out where to go once you hit the power on button. Just laffin since I know so many people who are just lovin' W8. Andrei forgive my rant. LInux is a learning curve but well worthtit in the long run. Thank you so much for your help and everyon's help on the User group. Blessings Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51bfeb3c.7010...@comcast.net
Re: Questions about installation
On 06/16/2013 05:38 PM, Vadim Kolchev wrote: В Вск, 16/06/2013 в 15:17 -0600, Yongbo Zuo пишет: Hi All I have a new PC, I am planning to install both win7 and Debian, My hardware is as following: CPU: intel i4770k, 8 core, 3.5GHz GPU: AMD HD7970 Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H during the installation process, debian cannot recognized my ethernet card, any suggestions that I can fix that? I noticed AMD has the linux drivers for hd7970, is it included in debian installation files? Thanks, Kind Regards, Yongbo Mr. Yongbo Zuo Design Engineer 2 Advanced Micro Devices, MHDC, Fort Collins, CO Master of Science Computer Engineering in Virginia Tech Phone: 5408087209 Mailing Address: 2950 E Harmony Rd, Suite 300, Fort Collins, CO 80528 --心有多坚 ~ 路有多远！ Does Debian in the beginning of installation process complain about missing firmware for your ethernet card? If yes, you have to write down which one and then put it onto usb stick and use it alongside with installation media. Also there are unofficial cd images that come preloaded with all known debian firmware. Please consult this page for further actions. http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware Regards, Vadim Kolchev Just a suggestno. I had the same problem w. my win7 laptop trying to put Debian on it. I shrank the W7 hd size using live CD of gparted and then formatted the balance of the drive as ext 3 I believe. Then installed LMDE on the new ext3 partition. The ethernet card was recognized immediately and the install went great. Once that is done you can do a total dist-up[grade of debian and it will supposedly be a plain Debian install. the LMDE is Llinux Mint Debian Edition whihc is the rolling testing version of Linux Mint w. the Debian Testing as the backbone. You should be able to change the sources list to Wheezy or leave it at testing and go nuts. Worked for me howver I have not yet done the full install after LMDE install as have been too busy. But have read that it is possible. Regards. whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51be49ee.6020...@comcast.net
[OT] politically incorrect web hosts......
Guys and gals, I am looking for a web host where I can do some blogging and a website w/o having to worry about being thrown off because I am not politically correct. Is there such a web host of which anyone might be aware? I know they are out there but just have no idea how to find one. TIA and yes it is off topic but I know you all are more experienced in some of this than I. Again, thanks. Whit, Jacksonville, FL - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org
Re: [OT] politically incorrect web hosts......
Will do. Maybe I can get you to chime in.. grins. Whit On 04/24/2013 10:58 PM, Andrew Leslie wrote: Oh, by the way, please send me a link to your website when you have it going. On Apr 24, 2013 10:57 PM, Andrew Leslie alesl...@gmail.com mailto:alesl...@gmail.com wrote: Look for web hosts that are labeled off shore these generally have very lenient TOS. Also normally were warez are hosted. If you cannot find any, another place to look would be web hosts based in the Ukraine as they have very little internet regulations. On Apr 24, 2013 10:46 PM, Whit Hansell skippe...@comcast.net mailto:skippe...@comcast.net wrote: Guys and gals, I am looking for a web host where I can do some blogging and a website w/o having to worry about being thrown off because I am not politically correct. Is there such a web host of which anyone might be aware? I know they are out there but just have no idea how to find one. TIA and yes it is off topic but I know you all are more experienced in some of this than I. Again, thanks. Whit, Jacksonville, FL - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org mailto:list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org
Re: Debian Live to USB on Windows
Regarding dual drives wincows and linux. I have done it in the past w. the windows the first drive on the cable and linux second as slave but in the menu system having Linux as the first menu item. That way if you boot grub from the mbr it goes to grub and your menu and you're good to go. Regarding installing to the thumb drive. Have never done it before but would try: In BIOS, set CD/DVD to first boot sequence. Set thumb drive to second boot sequence, [assuming your mbd recognizes thumb drives as bootable] etc Then putting linux install disk in cd/dvd drive it should open up and you should be able to get to your thumb drive and set it up as you would a standard HD, but I would not set grub to MBR, but to the boot of the thumb drive so you don't mess up your hard drive. I screwed up once and set grub to mbr and then removed the linux drive later and played hell trying to get anything to work as the boot sequence did not show the linux drive anymore and it was a major problem for me to get the mbr back to the windows standard. Thank God I had another computer to do research and burn CD's. Anyway, that's what I would do. Also this was done w. the old grub. If you are using the new grub I'm lost on it. I just let it do it's thing and pray. HTH Whit On 10/06/2012 11:57 AM, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi, I would like to install Debian Live to a USB dtive (thumb drive) on Windows. Will this install work? I am using Debian Live to test my hardware and firmware prior to installing Squeeze from a netinst install CD (that I already buned). In the Debian FAQ there is only a mention on how to accomplish the USB Live version install using a Linux system. (8th FAQ from the bottom). http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb Also, I will not damage USB flash drive accomplishing the procedure? I have 2 and 4 gig thumb drives. Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50705dad.3070...@comcast.net
Re: bug report to icedove or iceweasel??
On 08/03/2012 11:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:19:18 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: (please, no html posts here, thanks) Needing to send in bug report as I cannot find the answer to this specific problem. As explained before, I can get to Iceweasel from Icedove when I click on a link but I can only get to my homepage. I have changed homepages to see if that may be the problem but it makes no difference. (...) Have you tried any of these? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/07/msg02133.html I have gone thru all the various iterations in Icedove, etc. of getting Iceweasel to be my browser but it always had been but I did the changes anyway thinking one of them may actually be the problem. That is NOT the problem. I went to the bugreport page for Debian and they said to bring it to you all to have you tell me who I should send in the bug report to as everytime I do a google search all I get is how to set up iceweasel as my browser and that is not the problem. With no more tests on your side, report it against the MUA (Icedove) which is that fails. If you have problems to manually filling the report, use the reportbug tool and follow the on-screen wizard (save the data elsewhere because this tool it closes all of sudden very often). Greetings, Cameleon and gunter, Thank you both so much for your advice. Unfortunately nothing has made a difference and I'm still having the same problem no matter what I do. I've done most everything you each have asked me to do. I still can get to iceweasel, but not the particular link I am trying to access. I think I'm going to purge Icedove and remove the .icedove directory and then reinstall it and see if that makes a difference. If not, I may do the same with Iceweasel. And if that makes no difference, I will probably just save off all my data and do a fresh install of Wheezy. The reason I am looking in this direction is that Cameleon mentioned that no one else is having this problem so it's probably not a bug but is a particular problem with my system. If that's the case I don't want to have the developers running down a rabbit hole because I have a problem, that it's particular to my box. Again, gunter and Cameleon, thanks so much for your help. Not looking forward to doing all this foolishness but hoepfully it will clear up my problem. I've spent so many days trying to find out the problem it's time to bite the bullet and get it over with. Besides, I've been having a problem with xfce4 since it became the new version and maybe it will work if I do a fresh install. BTW, I've been using KDE4 and even checked Gnome, the classic version and it made no difference w. my problem. But I used xfce3.x before it upgraded and loved it. Maybe after I get all this foolishness redone things will be better. Again, thanks so much for your help and patience with me. It is much appreciated. You're good people. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501f233f.40...@comcast.net
bug report to icedove or iceweasel??
Needing to send in bug report as I cannot find the answer to this specific problem. As explained before, I can get to Iceweasel from Icedove when I click on a link but I can only get to my homepage. I have changed homepages to see if that may be the problem but it makes no difference. Example of problem. In email, there is a link to Debian Support http://www.debian.org/support#usenet. I click on it and Iceweasel opens up not to Debian Support but to my homepage, ex. Google Search http://www.google.com. It makes no difference what the link in Icedove I click on, my homepage opens up. Never the actual link. I have gone thru all the various iterations in Icedove, etc. of getting Iceweasel to be my browser but it always had been but I did the changes anyway thinking one of them may actually be the problem. That is NOT the problem. I went to the bugreport page for Debian and they said to bring it to you all to have you tell me who I should send in the bug report to as everytime I do a google search all I get is how to set up iceweasel as my browser and that is not the problem. TIA and help is appreciated. Cheers. Whit
Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy
On 08/02/2012 05:48 PM, chymian wrote: hi whit, Also, you mention in user_prefs, the line in pref.js user_pref(network.protocol-handler.external.http, true); Well, I don't have that specific line in my user_prefs. Did you add the line or just change the false to true? I probably inserted it on the way to fix the misbehaviour. and will check how ID behaves without it. maybe it's the cause for your momentary misbehaviour, maybe it's what you have to add to get it to work. definitively, it triggers the add mailserver starttls problem. I removed the line completely, and icedove behaves as designed. no more error with the starttls-problem, but still opening links in x-www-browser correctly. so, it was a leftover from a try on figuring out how to solve, which caused the next error... :( hope you have luck with the systemsettings. cheers günter Gunter, let me verify what your original problem was with icedove. Were you unable to get to iceweasel when you clicked on a link in icedove or were you able to get to iceweasel home page but not the actual link you were trying to open? I appreciate your comments and want to get this darned thing fixed but need to know I'm working on the right thing. I can get to iceweasel but I always get the home page. I don't get the specific link I'm trying for. Oh, and I figued out why I did not see that actual line as mentioned. I was looking at prefs.js from the command line using cat prefs.js. When looking at the file in that manner all you get are those which have content and are marked true and I didn't find out how to change it until I went to the config editor button in preferences-Advanced- General-config editor. So much fun. :-) Regards and TIA Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501affae.7020...@comcast.net
Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy
On 07/31/2012 07:17 AM, chymian wrote: hi everybody, Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. yes indeed. I had 2 mailthreats about this on the debian-user-german. 1. icedove does not open external links. it opened the browser, but did not handover the URL. I had to got to the KDE systemsettings and manually change the file association (program which is called) entry to iceweasel %u (or x-www-browser %u, setting up the system alternatives to iceweasel.) for all http/https. 2. I changed in the .icedove/profile/prefs.js user_pref(network.protocol-handler.external.http, true); to true. while callening external links does work now, it had a major impact on beeing able to add new accounts to ID. while checking a new imap/smtp server, a link opened in iceweasel, trying to get info about the mail-server. in this case, I used self-signed certificates on my dovcot-server and STARTTLS. switching this value back to false, I can add new mailservers, but not open external links. for the time being, I have to choose, which misbehaviour I can live with at the moment. my system: wheezy,amd64 KDE 4.8.4 iceweasel 10.0.6esr-1 icedove 10.0.5-1 günter Gunter, I've found most of what you mentioned and have made changes but I still only get my home page in Iceweasel, not the link in the email I clik on. Is that what you get? Can you get to Iceweasel but not to the exact link? Also, you mention in user_prefs, the line in pref.js user_pref(network.protocol-handler.external.http, true); Well, I don't have that specific line in my user_prefs. Did you add the line or just change the false to true? I'm at a loss. I've found some info in bugtracking but it's from 2007 and it's talking about not getting to iceweasel. Again, I can get to Iceweasel but not the exact link. TIA for your help. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50195c7a.60...@comcast.net
Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy
Gunter Thanks for the reply but I checked to see if anything you mentioned was even possible and it came out I don't got none of that stuff. G On 07/31/2012 07:17 AM, chymian wrote: Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. yes indeed. I had 2 mailthreats about this on the debian-user-german. 1. icedove does not open external links. it opened the browser, but did not handover the URL. I had to got to the KDE systemsettings and manually change the file association (program which is called) entry to iceweasel %u (or x-www-browser %u, setting up the system alternatives to iceweasel.) for all http/https. I checked my file associations and could not find anything about this in that system settings setup. Hunted all over. Nothing. 2. I changed in the .icedove/profile/prefs.js user_pref(network.protocol-handler.external.http, true); to true. Checked my prefs.js file and it has no network. anything listed for some reason. Went to the about:config file in iceweasel and could not find anything that looked like it might help. If there is the same type of setup in icedove I have no idea yet how to access it. while callening external links does work now, it had a major impact on beeing able to add new accounts to ID. while checking a new imap/smtp server, a link opened in iceweasel, trying to get info about the mail-server. in this case, I used self-signed certificates on my dovcot-server and STARTTLS. switching this value back to false, I can add new mailservers, but not open external links. for the time being, I have to choose, which misbehaviour I can live with at the moment. Well, I appreciate your input and yes, I agree, it's one or the other in your case and I appreciate your reply to let me know what you've found. It has given me at least an idea that maybe I can do something but really expect it to be corrected by bug fixes in the end. Or at least I hope so. my system: wheezy,amd64 KDE 4.8.4 iceweasel 10.0.6esr-1 icedove 10.0.5-1 günter My system is: Wheezy. amd64 KDE 4.8.4 Iceweasel 10.0.6 Icedove 10.0.5 Do appreciate your comments and reply. Cheers. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50180172.3000...@comcast.net
Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy
On 07/31/2012 04:04 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 07/31/2012 12:01 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: snip I checked my file associations and could not find anything about this in that system settings setup. Hunted all over. Nothing. 2. I changed in the .icedove/profile/prefs.js ??? On my working wheezy icedove wtopa@dj:~$ ls .icedove/profile ls: cannot access .icedove/profile: No such file or directory but wtopa@dj:~$ ls .icedove/prefs.js .icedove/prefs.js* Might that be your problem ?? HTH Wayne, sorry. You misunderstood. I found the prefs.js file. That wasn't the problem. It did not contain the line(s) that gunter had mentioned. And I found nothing else that looked like it would help or reference the problem. Thanks for the reply tho. Much appreciated. Cheers Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50185215.6060...@comcast.net
links won't open using icedove/wheezy
Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. Using Wheezy and a couple of months ago (guessing) I did a dist-upgrade and all of a sudden my links would only open a new iceweasel window and only to my home page. I have been patient waiting to see if this bug would get fixed but so far it hasn't. I've been to what I think is icedove bugs pages and it seems they have the bug listed but am not sure because some of the explanation is not the best. Anyone else having the same problem or know of something i can do to correct this problem if it is actually in my lap? TIA Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50141c33.3050...@comcast.net
Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)
Karen, I believe I can help you but am asking if it's ok to contact you off list to discuss. I also have a vision problem so am somewhat aware of your difficulty. Just reply to the list or to me private and I'll do what I can to get you up and running and learning Debian. Regards, Whit Hansell On 06/13/2012 03:22 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Actually, and I am putting one answer here for more than one post in an effort to save clutter. where I sought to interrupt the installer as Sam detailed was prior to the network install section, there are network cards in the machine, but no connection. I found no reference to the archive mirror source on the menu, as that hinted at the Internet. I could not interrupt at the cd reference, I tried there as well. the command to exit and change the priority levels simply did not work at all, perhaps because the installer was too far along. Not that it matters now, it seems simplest to find a squeeze cd and hppe I can combine installing from both the cd and the external dvd. Which brings up another question, if I have all of the dvd images, do not I have all of the distribution? why will I have to go on line for anything at all until I learn more and want to make changes? Karen On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-13, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I don't see what you do. Is this a bug in my installer? He said prior to partitioning so I assume once you get into the partitioning dialogue, the installer gives you the opportunity to choose an expert install, and once an expert you may choose Squeeze as the target distribution. I may be assuming wrong, but that's how I understood what he said (in his rather curmudgeonly style). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjthdd8.2pu.cu...@einstein.electron.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd95283.1040...@comcast.net
Re: putting audio files onto a DVD
Scott, Indulekha, Sharon and Camaleon, Thanks so much for your replies. I had previously looked and looked again at some of the recommendations you have given me and looked at the new ones too. Am just going to give it up for right now as it was really just something I was going to try to do but not realizing that DVD's are that much different from CD's. in their uses etc. It really just isn't that big a deal. I was trying to do something to give to a friend but since it's so much a struggle to do and may not work anyway, I will probably just use Audacity to split the file and use two CD's if I do it at all. I really do appreciate all of your replies. You all have been so helpful in the past and if there is anything I can help with I try and will try to do so more when I run into a situation that I might actually have some knowledge about. You are all great and again, thanks so much for your help. Best regards and Cheers. Whit On 05/10/2012 11:37 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2012 20:11:50 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one particular file which is just too large to fit on a CD and so wanted to put it on a DVD but haven't been able to find a way to do it. The files is an .mp3 and I need it to play on a dvd player as an audio file. i can copy it as a data file but that will only play on a computer. So you want to make a DVD-Audio? Anyone know of a program which will do audio files onto DVD's? Google suggests dvd-author but I know nothing about this application :-? http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/howto.shtml Greetings, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fac510e.7080...@comcast.net
putting audio files onto a DVD
Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one particular file which is just too large to fit on a CD and so wanted to put it on a DVD but haven't been able to find a way to do it. The files is an .mp3 and I need it to play on a dvd player as an audio file. i can copy it as a data file but that will only play on a computer. Anyone know of a program which will do audio files onto DVD's? TIA Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fab07c6.4060...@comcast.net
Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade
Tom, thank you for the info. I agree w. sending in bug reports. It's just that there is such a learning curve w.Gnome 3 and KDE4 which I had tried before I changed over to Gnome 2.30.x previously. I have gone ahead and done the full apt-get dist-upgrade and played w. the new Gnome and found that I could do a Classic so am at that point. Right now. Found the basic Gnome, the new one, is very slow and have seen that that is a problem w. it. But it seems that the classic setup is closer to the older one so will be going back and forth between them so I can learn the new one while hopefullyG geting things done while using classic. Again, Tom, thanks for your reply. Cheers. Whit On 02/28/2012 01:03 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Whit Hansellskippe...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between safe-upgrade/upgrade and full-upgrade/dist-upgrade only appears when new versions of packages stand in different dependency relationships from old versions of those packages. The aptitude safe-upgrade command does not install new packages nor remove installed packages. Thanks for your reply. I had done some googling at the debian site and found info on the differences as you state. I have to admit I am not sure which is the best way to update/upgrade my system. I had read a few years ago that aptitude was the recommended way as it supposedly handles dependencies better so have always used it. But also knew about the statement about it not removing packages, etc. Actually I have seen it do some of that but they may be non-free and contrib. I don't know. I do know that there are files removed and new ones installed but then that is NOT a full package as in GNOME going from 2.30.x to Gnome 3.x. Appreciate the replies. Have received one comment to personal addy that Gnome 3 is buggy and not to use it so am going to check around and see what info I can find about it before I do an apt-get safe-upgrade. Unless you use issue aptitude safe-upgrade --no-new-installs or have Aptitude::CmdLine::Safe-Upgrade::No-New-Installs in /etc/apt/apt.conf, aptitude safe-upgrade will install new packages to resolve dependencies. (If GNOME 3's buggy, file a bug or bugs!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4eade6.7010...@comcast.net
Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade
On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between |safe-upgrade|/|upgrade| and |full-upgrade|/|dist-upgrade| only appears when new versions of packages stand in different dependency relationships from old versions of those packages. The |aptitude safe-upgrade| command does not install new packages nor remove installed packages. HTH Merci, Monsieur, Thanks for your reply. I had done some googling at the debian site and found info on the differences as you state. I have to admit I am not sure which is the best way to update/upgrade my system. I had read a few years ago that aptitude was the recommended way as it supposedly handles dependencies better so have always used it. But also knew about the statement about it not removing packages, etc. Actually I have seen it do some of that but they may be non-free and contrib. I don't know. I do know that there are files removed and new ones installed but then that is NOT a full package as in GNOME going from 2.30.x to Gnome 3.x. Appreciate the replies. Have received one comment to personal addy that Gnome 3 is buggy and not to use it so am going to check around and see what info I can find about it before I do an apt-get safe-upgrade. Again, thanks to you and Shaun for the help. Much appreciated. Regards and Cheers to all. You are all a bunch of info to us all. Whit
Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade
OK, Y'all. Confusin', confusin', confusin. Been safely running Wheezy on my home desktop and lovin' it even w. the occasional slight breaks, etc. But a while ago, I upgraded and lost my admin and system submenus under the System menu at the gnome top panel. Really not been a big pain and thought I might get them back but so far nothing happened. So, I goggled the prob' and found that my upgrade changed some stuff in gnome to the gnome 3(like the help files and removed the aformentioned submenus) and left the rest intact. So the recommendation to someone at the forum I was reading was to do an apt-get dist-upgrade and the person did so and she got her submenus back but lost her panels. I know that she went from Gnome 2.3.x to Gnome 3 w. the upgrade and that is what I need to do too but when I did an apt-get update to see what all would be changed, I was astounded to see that a whole lot of stuff would be removed, added and more upgraded. I'm sitting here thinking that I keep my system up to date using aptitude daily w. update and then safe-upgrade and while I knew there were some differences between aptitude and apt-get, I had no idea there would be this much difference. Quetjun' Is it safe to do an apt-get dist-upgrade? I mean it says it will add over a Gig of new files and stuff while removing a number of files. I know that when I do an aptitude safe-upgraade I always get recommended files at the end of the statement and assume that those recommended files are a big part of this upgrade. Can anyone shed some light on this and let me know I'm most likely NOT going to brick my system by doing this major apt-get dist-upgrade? TIA and so appreciate your help. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4aecb8.3070...@comcast.net
Re: please update patches / investigate build failures for gcc-4.7 snapshot builds
On 12/18/2011 06:55 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: Please have a look at the gcc-4.7 package in experimental, update patches (hurd, kfreebsd, ARM is fixed in svn), and investigate the build failures (currently ia64, but more will appear). Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eee8ad5.30...@comcast.net
Re: Newbie in AMD64
Jose, Have Wheezy on pretty much the same type of hardware as you are installing onto and works fine. I always try to use current netinst or card sized iso as it makes more sense to bring files over net rather than make a bunch of dvd's and then find a problem halfway thru w. one of the writes or a bad disk. It also takes a lot less time to install rather than burn and then install. One hint, if you get stuck in any place on your install, keep trying by going back a few steps, even to formatting, to get past a hickup that may occur. If you can't get thru the install the first time, burn a new iso and try again. There have been times I've had to do that but it will finally work fine. You'll love Debian when you get used to it. HTH's Cheers. Whit On 10/18/2011 07:26 PM, Matthew Heggie wrote: Whenever issues arise, they can be fixed, don't reinstall the whole system... It isn't Windows. Work out your problem and learn from it. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Instruisto Jose instr...@yahoo.com.br mailto:instr...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Dear friends, I intend to install for the first time the Debian 6.0 AMD64 in a machine with: HD SATA Seagate model ST3500418AS Motherboard Gigabyte (GA-M61PM-S2) for AMD soquet AM2, processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ (2000 MHz) Video nVidia GeForce 8400 GS Now I'm reading Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide for AMD64. Could you give any suggestion to me before the instalation? Thanks, Jose
webcam/mouse conflict
Hey folks, First, thanks to all who help on this list. It is much appreciated by all. Have run into a problem and don't know to whom to report it. Running Wheezy. Have wireless Logitech mouse. Have usb style webcam of offbrand type but it has worked fine before so the driver is recognized and works. Have installed both Cheese and guvcview(gnome's webcam prog) and things work OK except somehow control of the mouse is grabbed and it makes use of the mouse very iffy in that I can move the mouse but it takes forever to get it to do anything. It will finally do what I ask of it whether to move or accept mousecliks, but somehow whatever is allowing video is grabbing IO control from the mouse. Both Cheese and guvcview have worked just fine previously w. this webcam and a usb mouse so I know that part works. Question is who should I send a bug report to as this has been this way for about 2-3 weeks now and I had hoped it would have been corrected by now. Thanks for your help in advance. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ead7979.9000...@comcast.net
Re: odd network error - wireless drops when browsing with mc over ssh
On 10/18/2011 08:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:30:34 +0100, andy baxter wrote: On 15/10/11 12:30, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:07:46 +0100, andy baxter wrote: I've just been trying to reproduce the error to give you some more information, and at the moment it's not doing it. I have a temporary workaround for the problem when it does occur, which is to cd to /etc before I start mc. I'd like to work out what's happening with this problem just for my own curiosity if nothing else, but I'm also wondering if I would be better to spend a bit of money on a decent ADSL modem/router and see if that solves the problem. The one we have is a cheap netgear router that came with the broadband, and I've considered getting a better one anyway. It is still unclear to me where the problem lies. If the router completely freezes (at least the wireless part) it can deserve for a device replacement but you should run more tests to discard the problem is not on the computer's side. The same error happened again this morning, and I found that my android smartphone also lost its connection and was unable to reconnect afterwards. I didn't actually see the connection drop, but it was definitely down afterwards and unable to reconnect. It normally works fine with that router. This is making me think I should get a better router. If you can recommend one that is reliable and has a good admin interface, that would be a help. What's your current device (brand and model)? If you already said, I for sure forgot it :-P If you want any more info, let me know. Can you still access to the router using an ethernet cable? If yes, and before throwing away your current device, you can still gather more information about the freeze or run more tests. For example, what I would do...? 1/ Review the router's log. These devices can save a small registry of events and some models can even log wifi dropouts our internal errors. 2/ Getting a new firmware. This is always a good idea because you will get many bug fixes and probably new features for your device. 3/ The hang/freeze can come due to a high volume of traffic or a high level security settings (e.g., very strict firewall rules that analyze all of the incoming-outgoing traffic, wpa-psk2 with aes...) all these settings are subject to be modified by the user and can alleviate the processing tasks of the router, which in the end it can translate into a more stable connection. Try to tweak some of them (one every time) and see if you see any gain. As per brand/models of good access points I'm almost an illiterate in this field (I avoid using wireless devices as much as I can), maybe someone can give you any advice on this :-) Greetings, Had a similar problem w. my wireless router when I first installed it. Wondered if heat could have anything to do with it and so built a small plastic riser setup to get it up off the top of my CPU unit and allow air to circulate under it. That was my problem. No drops anymore. Just a thought. Greetings Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e9d6f61.9090...@comcast.net
[SOLVED]Re: Recent Changes in CUPS and Foomatic Causing All-Black Printing from Browsers?
On 09/13/2011 07:51 AM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 09/12/2011 06:36 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: I'm using Wheezy too and had the same problem w. getting a black page in the browser but it printing ok elsewhere. Now, after today's upgrade, I no longer get a black page. I get nothing. It won't print. I send the job and wait and nothing. I have to clear the print jobs but I have to disable and then enable the printer again to do that. I can however, print a printer friendly page in the browser. And I can print graphics when I right clik on the pic and do a view image, then it opens w. only the picture and that prints fine. Yes, I'm used to breakage, and don't generally mind it. But this one is such an unusual case. I usually see all of these testing systems react in the same manner when an upgrade breaks something. But this time the older installations are fine while the new ones are affected. It used to be that every CUPS upgrade would break this particular printer on every system, and all I had to do was to remove the printer and re-install it with the hp-setup script. there is a glitch somewhere in Cups or foo or something. They will get it figured out but it might take a few more days. That's the fun of Wheezy(testing). Stuff is upgraded and gets broken but in a short period of time they find the problem and fix it. That's why they tell us not to use Wheezy for production, but to stay w. stable. I've used testing since sarge mostly and have gotten used to the intermittent broken parts. I just found out that Cheese is fixed now again. It's always one thing or another but we are on the bleeding edge as they say. Just wait a few days. It'll get fixed. Regards, Whit I'm just hoping that the something in CUPS or FOOMATIC that is causing this is actually going to get fixed. If it's a change they needed to make for an important reason, and if it only broke a few oddball printers, then the driver for this printer might have to be re-written. And, IME, that usually takes a while and sometimes doesn't get done at all if there isn't enough demand for it. And I love using testing for production -- but only for me and a few others who are willing to use a work-around or two when something goes south. Thank you, Whit, for confirming that I'm not alone with this problem. Have a good one! Thanks Gilbert. Thot' I'd let you know yesterday's upgrade in Wheezy fixed my Cups problem w. MY printer(printed black page-major ink waster). An HP PSC 1500 Series AIO. Hope it fixed yours too. Regards. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e8bdefb.7030...@comcast.net
Re: how stable is lenny
On 09/23/2011 08:21 AM, Long Wind wrote: sometime I can't shutdown lenny after using it for some time (I mean lenny doesn't respond to my key strokes) has anyone have similar experience? I install and run some no open source software as a no-root user it shouldn't cause problem I've had the same problem at times. It is usually caused by a bad install of a program or an update that got hosed. What cures it for me is to purge the program I am working on at the time and reinstall it. That is when I'm running stable. I'm now running Wheezy/testing and it happens a little more often so I just wait for updates to fix it. Now at times, it's not the program I'm currently using but one that is also open at the same time and the two programs are fighting each other for I/O. You might have to figure out what other program might be interfering with your current program. Cheers Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7cb654.7000...@comcast.net
Re: Console access using F1 etc
On 09/14/2011 06:59 PM, John Foster wrote: I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server. Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting ctrl,alt, delete. I recall a couple of years ago that I had to edit something somewhere to enable this feature. I like to use the console for doing many things as root from a command line. I thought it was a file in /etc/X11 but do not recall. Anyone know what where I should edit. John, I had the same problem using Lenny when I changed monitors. Found to fix it was to add vga=785 to the end of the kernel lines in /boot/grub//menu/./lst. The 785 has to do w. the font size. I forget exactly how it all works but that was what did it for me. Hope that helps. It did for me. I kept getting a message out of range. It did not like my new monitor for some reason. Here is an example of some of the lines in my _old_ menu.lst file... [...] / title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet _vga=785_ initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64 [...] Whit
Re: Recent Changes in CUPS and Foomatic Causing All-Black Printing from Browsers?
On 09/12/2011 01:06 PM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Hi, I'm reluctant to even bring this up because it's so darned weird. I've got an HP OfficeJet 6310 (multi-function network device: printer, fax, scanner) that has worked flawlessly for a couple of years under Debian stable and testing. I don't make use of the fax function, but both printer and scanner have just worked after I install the printer using the hp-setup script in interactive mode. Then, recently on my Debian testing systems, there were some apparent hassles between foomatic and CUPS upgrades. Everything is back to normal after a couple of rounds of upgrades -- except for the fact that this one printer now only prints a wall of black when printing from a browser -- ANY browser. (iceweasel, midori, chromium) The scanner function works fine. All other printers work fine. All other apps print fine to this printer. But if I try to print to this particular printer *directly from* a browser, all I get is a page full of black ink. And here's the best part. If I print to file from a browser to create a PDF, and then open the PDF and print it to this printer -- that get's me a wall of black, too. (The PDF looks fine in the viewer, but it prints out all black.) But all other PDFs print out on this printer just fine. I can also copy contents of a Web page and paste them into LibreOffice Writer document, and that prints out fine -- other than the expected monkeying around with the page / text format. Is this weird, or what? I've removed the printer, purged its drivers and setup, re-installed. Nothing fixes it. I've also tried using the CUPS Web interface to modify the printer by assigning a different driver to it. I wanted to see if maybe a postscript driver would fare better. But the only OfficeJet 6300 printer driver listed in the CUPS interface now is hpcups 3.11.5. I think there used to be a slew of choices. Now only 1. And it doesn't work properly. I don't even know what to make a bug report on. There are other Debian testing systems on the network that seem print just fine to this printer. They've had the same upgrades, but they're older installations of testing. (The two computers that are doing messed up printing are from a daily build image from mid-August.) I've found other irregularities with these recent installations. I wonder if d-i did something funny to the system configuration on these two computers during installation that is causing this behavior. These two computers use Xfce and had XDM set as their default DM by the installer. (GDM had just become obsolete when this daily build was produced.) I cannot for the life of me figure this out. Can anyone suggest a way I can get this printer to work properly with browsers again? Hey Gilbert, I'm using Wheezy too and had the same problem w. getting a black page in the browser but it printing ok elsewhere. Now, after today's upgrade, I no longer get a black page. I get nothing. It won't print. I send the job and wait and nothing. I have to clear the print jobs but I have to disable and then enable the printer again to do that. I can however, print a printer friendly page in the browser. And I can print graphics when I right clik on the pic and do a view image, then it opens w. only the picture and that prints fine. there is a glitch somewhere in Cups or foo or something. They will get it figured out but it might take a few more days. That's the fun of Wheezy(testing). Stuff is upgraded and gets broken but in a short period of time they find the problem and fix it. That's why they tell us not to use Wheezy for production, but to stay w. stable. I've used testing since sarge mostly and have gotten used to the intermittent broken parts. I just found out that Cheese is fixed now again. It's always one thing or another but we are on the bleeding edge as they say. Just wait a few days. It'll get fixed. Regards, Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e6e8973.9030...@comcast.net
Re: virt terminal font problem
On 09/05/2011 06:21 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Please select the size of the font for the Linux console. Simple │ │ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console drivers. │[snip] Some general points: - You need modesettting, so don't disable it. KMS and radeondrmfb are the future, and so it makes no sense to disable, especially when it's a massive improvement on what came before. It will soon (if not already, depending upon the driver), be required to use KMS to run X11 and Wayland. - Font setting works whether you are using a VGA console, framebuffer console or KMS with radeondrmfb. The only differences are limitations in the fontsizes you can load. VGA for example has limited space to store a font, which limits you to IIRC 8×16. OTOH, the framebuffer permits much bigger fonts (I'm using 28×14 for example with KMS and radeondrmfb, and 32×16 also works). [snip] Regards, Roger Roger, Thanks for your help. With your suggestions and guidance I finally got it done. It was confusing but finally got figured out. Using the correct setting in modesetting as you recommended and have a 24 X 16 font size after a bit of fumbling w. iterations of variables. My little mind was goin' somewhat @#$%^^* but got it done w. your most helpful suggestions and guidance. And I learned more about linux too thanks to you. Cheers and regards, Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e66561b.4050...@comcast.net
Re: virt terminal font problem
[Having to resend this as I originally only sent it to Ivan - this is to the user group] Thanks for the reply Ivan. Shawn mentioned trying dpkg-reconfigure console-setup so I tried that first and got nowhere but it did give me a notice when I set it in certain setups, as in VGA. It came up w. this notice. Please select the size of the font for the Linux console. Simple │ │ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console drivers. │ │ The number then represents the font height (number of scan lines). │ │ Alternatively, the font may be represented as HEIGHTxWIDTH; however, │ │ such font specifications require the kbd console package (not │ │ console-tools) plus framebuffer (and the RadeonFB kernel driver for │ │ framebuffer does not support them either). │ │ │ │ Font heights can be useful for figuring out the real size of the symbols │ │ on the console. For reference, the font used when the computer boots has │ │ size 16. So, on the next page I set the font size to 16 and rebooted just for grins and it made no difference. But on your suggestion, I looked at etc/modprobe.d and found. root@greatstar:/etc/modprobe.d# cat radeon-kms.conf options radeon modeset=1 I'm guessing that if I change the options radeon modeset from 1 to 0, then the radeon drivers won't load on reboot. Then the standard framebuffers situation would occur? BTW my video driver is onboard and is an ATI RV610 if that helps at all. Do you think I'm correct in the idea of changing the modeset from 1 to 0 and would I have problems by doing so? Thanks for your help. I know i sound goofy but I did a safe upgrade today in the midst of this mess and a cups file was upgraded and it hosed my printing up. So far I have printed from the web and can get noting but black, not blank, but black pages. G YOu can understand why I'm a bit spooky. G Thanks for your help Ivan. I really appreciate it. Whit On 09/05/2011 01:25 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Whit Hansellskippe...@comcast.net writes: […] I had a problem when I purchased a new monitor, an LCD, and it required me to put vga=785 at the end of the Kernel line in menu.list file in order to get any video out of the Virtual Terminal (F1-6). Now that I have reinstalled w. Wheezy, I have the Virtual Terminal but the font size is extremely tiny. I cannot see it well at all and I have a vision problem to start with. Newer Linux userland VT tools' default is to use video card's graphics mode via a framebuffer console driver, instead of the text mode, which was the older default. My guess is that blacklisting the framebuffer drivers in modprobe.d(5) will allow one to use the text mode as before, but I haven't tried it yet. (I currently have no access to a hardware running Wheezy.) It's also possible to use the Terminus fonts (as of console-terminus, IIRC), e. g.: $ setfont -f /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gz Depending on the actual screen resolution, a font of up to 32x16 pixel size may be chosen. This problem w. terminal starts after boot when it gets to a certain point, I'm assuming init.d, but not sure. While it's trying to check hardware items it's fine, the standard 80 X 25 large font terminal screen. Then all of a sudden it changes to the small/tiny font … And it's the time the framebuffer drivers get loaded. and just before it brings up the splash screen, it sometimes messes up the whole screen and puts across the top of the screen garbled lines for just a second, then the splash screen pops up and I have no problem logging in. Note also that since newer reboot(8) doesn't go through the BIOS (it only reinitializes the kernel), the screen will be garbled at reboot as well. […] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e652d2f.1090...@comcast.net
Re: virt terminal font problem
Thank you Brian . I did the dpkg reconfigure console-setup but none of the various iterations I tried worked. I have replied to Ivan's suggestion asking a question about making a change to a file in modprobe.d. I did find a notice in the reconfugure deal re framebuffers and that the driver I seem to be using is the problem. Again thanks for your suggestion. Much appreciated. Whit On 09/05/2011 04:00 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 04 Sep 2011 at 21:17:14 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: as anyone any knowledge of manipulating font size in Virt Term in snip Your first port of call should be dpkg-reconfigure console-setup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e652f46.3030...@comcast.net
Re:[SOLVED] virt terminal font problem
Ivan and group. I went ahead and tried resetting the radeon modeset] to 0 which is linux for [OFF], and voila' it worked. Shazaam! What do you know. I was afraid I was going to hose it all up but nope, it came up just like it was 'sposed to. Ivan, thank you for your help, so much. I'd gone nuts trying to google the answer to this mess and you directed me to the correct procedure. I've been upgrading wheezy almost every day and it seems like once a week there is a group of messages that I had never received before in Lenny stating that I needed more radeon drivers or firmware or something and I had even hunted to see if I could find them but no joy there either. So hopefully since I'm not loading the radeon driver anymore, at least the radeonFB one I am guessing, maybe I won't get those messages any longer. Again, Ivan thank you. You were a great help. Whit On 09/05/2011 04:12 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: [Having to resend this as I originally only sent it to Ivan - this is to the user group] Thanks for the reply Ivan. Shawn mentioned trying dpkg-reconfigure console-setup so I tried that first and got nowhere but it did give me a notice when I set it in certain setups, as in VGA. It came up w. this notice. Please select the size of the font for the Linux console. Simple │ │ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console drivers. │ │ The number then represents the font height (number of scan lines). │ │ Alternatively, the font may be represented as HEIGHTxWIDTH; however, │ │ such font specifications require the kbd console package (not │ │ console-tools) plus framebuffer (and the RadeonFB kernel driver for │ │ framebuffer does not support them either). │ │ │ │ Font heights can be useful for figuring out the real size of the symbols │ │ on the console. For reference, the font used when the computer boots has │ │ size 16. So, on the next page I set the font size to 16 and rebooted just for grins and it made no difference. But on your suggestion, I looked at etc/modprobe.d and found. root@greatstar:/etc/modprobe.d# cat radeon-kms.conf options radeon modeset=1 I'm guessing that if I change the options radeon modeset from 1 to 0, then the radeon drivers won't load on reboot. Then the standard framebuffers situation would occur? BTW my video driver is onboard and is an ATI RV610 if that helps at all. Do you think I'm correct in the idea of changing the modeset from 1 to 0 and would I have problems by doing so? Thanks for your help. I know i sound goofy but I did a safe upgrade today in the midst of this mess and a cups file was upgraded and it hosed my printing up. So far I have printed from the web and can get noting but black, not blank, but black pages. G YOu can understand why I'm a bit spooky. G Thanks for your help Ivan. I really appreciate it. Whit On 09/05/2011 01:25 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Whit Hansellskippe...@comcast.net writes: […] I had a problem when I purchased a new monitor, an LCD, and it required me to put vga=785 at the end of the Kernel line in menu.list file in order to get any video out of the Virtual Terminal (F1-6). Now that I have reinstalled w. Wheezy, I have the Virtual Terminal but the font size is extremely tiny. I cannot see it well at all and I have a vision problem to start with. Newer Linux userland VT tools' default is to use video card's graphics mode via a framebuffer console driver, instead of the text mode, which was the older default. My guess is that blacklisting the framebuffer drivers in modprobe.d(5) will allow one to use the text mode as before, but I haven't tried it yet. (I currently have no access to a hardware running Wheezy.) It's also possible to use the Terminus fonts (as of console-terminus, IIRC), e. g.: $ setfont -f /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gz Depending on the actual screen resolution, a font of up to 32x16 pixel size may be chosen. This problem w. terminal starts after boot when it gets to a certain point, I'm assuming init.d, but not sure. While it's trying to check hardware items it's fine, the standard 80 X 25 large font terminal screen. Then all of a sudden it changes to the small/tiny font … And it's the time the framebuffer drivers get loaded. and just before it brings up the splash screen, it sometimes messes up the whole screen and puts across the top of the screen garbled lines for just a second, then the splash screen pops up and I have no problem logging in. Note also that since newer reboot(8) doesn't go through the BIOS (it only reinitializes the kernel), the screen will be garbled at reboot as well. […] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http
Re: [SOLVED]virt terminal font problem
And thank you too Brain. You helped too as going to reconfigure gave me the info about the radeonFB problem I had mentioned in the mail to Ivan. Great help. And I will look more often to the reconfigure situation as a possible cure for problems in the future more often. I'd used it before on various things and it helped but since Wheezy is so new in so many ways, I felt there had to be another answer. And actually had not even thought about it. Thanks again. Your aid is very much appreciated. whit On 09/05/2011 04:21 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Thank you Brian . I did the dpkg reconfigure console-setup but none of the various iterations I tried worked. I have replied to Ivan's suggestion asking a question about making a change to a file in modprobe.d. I did find a notice in the reconfugure deal re framebuffers and that the driver I seem to be using is the problem. Again thanks for your suggestion. Much appreciated. Whit On 09/05/2011 04:00 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 04 Sep 2011 at 21:17:14 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: as anyone any knowledge of manipulating font size in Virt Term in snip Your first port of call should be dpkg-reconfigure console-setup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e654b7e.4060...@comcast.net
Re: virt terminal font problem
On 09/05/2011 06:24 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: [Please don't top-post. Thanks.] On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:17:57PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Ivan and group. I went ahead and tried resetting the radeon modeset] to 0 which is linux for [OFF], and voila' it worked. Shazaam! What do you know. I was afraid I was going to hose it all up but nope, it came up just like it was 'sposed to. Ivan, thank you for your help, so much. I'd gone nuts trying to google the answer to this mess and you directed me to the correct procedure. I've been upgrading wheezy almost every day and it seems like once a week there is a group of messages that I had never received before in Lenny stating that I needed more radeon drivers or firmware or something and I had even hunted to see if I could find them but no joy there either. So hopefully since I'm not loading the radeon driver anymore, at least the radeonFB one I am guessing, maybe I won't get those messages any longer. Have you got firmware-linux installed and updated your initramfs? % dpkg --get-selections | grep firmware-linux firmware-linux install firmware-linux-free install firmware-linux-nonfree install Regards, Roger Thanks, I do now. I previously had only the firmware-linux-free... Cheers. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e65639f.70...@comcast.net
virt terminal font problem
Maybe someone can help me here. I've googled all over and cannot find an answer to my problem. I had been running Lenny before Squeeze went stable, then installed Wheezy testing because I wanted to get back to running testing again instead of stable. I've been running Debian Linux since 2002, and since approx 2004, been running testing until Lenny became stable. I had heard that there were going to be a bunch of changes in Squeeze/testing and did not want to take a chance of having a Problem w. the new testing so stayed w. Lenny when it went stable. I had a problem when I purchased a new monitor, an LCD, and it required me to put vga=785 at the end of the Kernel line in menu.list file in order to get any video out of the Virtual Terminal (F1-6). Now that I have reinstalled w. Wheezy, I have the Virtual Terminal but the font size is extremely tiny. I cannot see it well at all and I have a vision problem to start with. This problem w. terminal starts after boot when it gets to a certain point, I'm assuming init.d, but not sure. While it's trying to check hardware items it's fine, the standard 80 X 25 large font terminal screen. Then all of a sudden it changes to the small/tiny font and just before it brings up the splash screen, it sometimes messes up the whole screen and puts across the top of the screen garbled lines for just a second, then the splash screen pops up and I have no problem logging in. That is no real problem because it still boots fine and I have dmesg if I need it using the gnome terminal program. But I do like to use the Virtual Terminal (F1-6) and when I go into any of them, I end up w. the tiny font. There is no menu.list anymore. Wheezy has changed the boot setup. It is so different and Wheezy is so new that I can't find anyone else who is having the same problem who has figured out how to correct the problem. I would try to send this in as a bug but I don't really think it's a bug. I think it's an anomoly, or if it is a bug it sure is not important enough to cause a stir at a bug fest. Has anyone any knowledge of manipulating font size in Virt Term in Wheezy? Any help will be appreciated. It is not an imperative as I can and do use the gnome terminal program but it would be nice to be able to use the Virtual Terminal because once in a while. Thanks in advance and cheers. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e64231a.7000...@comcast.net
test
Sorry but testing to see if still subscribed. Am seeing on activity since the 17th June. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e05ea14.2080...@comcast.net
Re: Fwd: warning from list@jaxlug.org
I received the same email but w. only one number listed. Actually since the email bounce date was June 7, I wonder what this is all about. Actually, there has been so little activity on the board, I think I had somehow been unsubscribed so subscribed again a few days ago and started receiving emails again. I don't know what's happening. Let us know what the response is to your email. I, so far, have not sent in a reply to the email. Whit On 06/21/2011 12:10 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I got this in email and am sending it to JaxLug as a test. SteveT -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: warning from list@jaxlug.org Date: Monday 20 June 2011, 19:54:32 From: list-h...@jaxlug.org To: sl...@troubleshooters.com Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the list@jaxlug.org mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at list-ow...@jaxlug.org. Messages to you from the list mailing list seem to have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce message I received. If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces, I will remove your address from the list mailing list, without further notice. I've kept a list of which messages from the list mailing list have bounced from your address. Copies of these messages may be in the archive. To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request), send an empty message to: list-get.123_...@jaxlug.org To receive a subject and author list for the last 100 or so messages, send an empty message to: list-in...@jaxlug.org Here are the message numbers: 1799 1795 1797 1798 1801 1796 --- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received. Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5419 invoked for bounce); 7 Jun 2011 08:51:49 - Date: 7 Jun 2011 08:51:49 - From: mailer-dae...@mail.jaxlug.org To: list-return-17...@jaxlug.org Subject: failure notice - - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org
Re: Desktop performance problem
may or may not help but I've done the following. Put a process metersystem monitor in the taskbar and when it shows something working in the background, as in, a program did not quit(some online video stuff does this among other items), I can tell something is still hogging cpu time and then go to top to kill the process using cli. This happened just the other day. Some video I had watched online left something going on even when I closed the browser so I saw that the system monitor was active at about 25% and I had no programs open, went to top and killed one of the video players that was using all the current cpu usage. Then went back to work. It happens. EZ to fix. HTH Cheers Whit On 06/14/2011 09:53 AM, Aniruddha wrote: I've noticed that my Debian testing desktop slows downs significantly when copying (and unpacking) large files. Sound stutters and iceweasel (and other programs) freeze regularly. This makes working on my desktop impossible when copying or unpacking large files, This happened on all my Debian desktops, on different hardware and on stable, testing and sid. I have also Funtoo installed, Funtoo remains responsive during the same operations. Therefor I suspect it must be an configuration problem. Is there an (kernel)option that need to be changed to increase performance? Thus far I have tried changing Preemption Model and Timer frequency without noticeable results. Thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4df78ffa.9000...@comcast.net
Re: Problems installing squeeze netinstall
On 05/29/2011 12:21 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 05/29/11 at 11:50am, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 11:33 AM 5/29/2011, William Hopkins wrote: On 05/29/11 at 11:00am, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 09:25 AM 5/28/2011, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:45:09AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear list - It went nowhere w/ the full iso of squeeze [see my previous post Difficulties installing squeeze], so I moved on the netinst. The CD runs perfectly until it gets to Select and Install Software, at which point it hangs. As far as I can tell, the CD is fine. It was burned at a low speed, the MD5 sum of the file and the download matched and the CD was verified after burning. I have tried changing the mirrors, to no avail. Can you ctl-alt-f1 or ctl-alt-f2 to see the output or open a terminal for troubleshooting? Yes, but it is just scrolling and I cannot read it. F1 should bring you to the output of the installer. A shame you cannot read it to see what is happening. Try heading over to f2 where you can open a terminal for troubleshooting. Test your network from there. Try to ps and see what is going on. If it helps, I can get to a terminal with the rescue mode. I did that and updated [apt-get update apt-get autoclean apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get autoremove]. When I boot, the system freezes at [ 8.824009] [c010253c] cpu_idle+0x19/0xcb I don't think this kernel output is helpful, but perhaps I'm wrong and some lister will reply. If your CD hangs at 'select and install software' (which it should never do, as this step doesn't involve anything more than loading a list of files), then you've already completed installing the base system, right? Do you get any other text on the screen when it hangs during boot? What was the ps -ef output from the troubleshooting terminal of the installer? I had this problem back in March installing Wheezy w. the netinst. iso. Re-burned it a couple of times and finally said (expletive deleted), downloaded the business card iso and all went well from there. I have had nothing but problems trying to install downloaded iso's when they are of any size as it seems my CD/DVD drive[s] seem to not like reading compressed .iso info for some reason. I have even had to do the burn at only 2X speed to get them to write correctly. HTH's. Cheers, Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4de29020.4090...@comcast.net
updating question...
Guys, Using Wheezy, debian. In the past I have always done my updates w. #aptitude update #aptitude safe-upgrade #aptitude autoclean #updatedb Everything is working just fine and no problem except the updatedb command. I know it used to actually update the file database and sometimes it actually took some time to do it. And sometimes when I would install a file from outside aptitude I would have to run updatedb to get the system to recognize it. Now when I run updatedb it seem like it is doing nothing. It takes no time at all yet so far am having no recognition problems. Am just wondering if I'm actually doing anything by trying to run it. E.g is it actually updating? Anyone have any knowledge in this area? TIA Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da6edd6.6030...@comcast.net
Re: updating question...
Darac, Thanks so much for the reply. If I put the question in the wrong forum/list, I apologize but while my knowledge of LInux is not specifically noob, it is not such that I would be able to recognize whether a situation was related to debian-amd64, or to wheezy/testing. But thanks again for the reply and I appreciate it a lot. Helps w. my understanding of things. Regards, Whit On 04/14/2011 10:35 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:51:34AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Guys, Using Wheezy, debian. In the past I have always done my updates w. #aptitude update #aptitude safe-upgrade #aptitude autoclean #updatedb Everything is working just fine and no problem except the updatedb command. I know it used to actually update the file database and sometimes it actually took some time to do it. And sometimes when I would install a file from outside aptitude I would have to run updatedb to get the system to recognize it. Now when I run updatedb it seem like it is doing nothing. It takes no time at all yet so far am having no recognition problems. Am just wondering if I'm actually doing anything by trying to run it. E.g is it actually updating? A couple of caveats: 1) This isn't strictly amd64 related. 2) updatedb isn't actually related to the package database, but maintains a list of all files on your system. It sounds to me like your locate package has been upgraded to mlocate. As per the package status of mlocate, mlocate differs from plain locate in that when you run locate foo you only see files to which you have access. Also instead of re-reading the whole filesystem, timestamps are taken into account and only changed files are recorded in the database. As a result updatedb is, as you have found, a lot faster. For the record, there's no real need to call updatedb after an update as there should be a cron job that does that for you. However, there's also no harm in it and I can see a reason for doing so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da71ef8.7010...@comcast.net
Re: obtaining copy of debian
Re Windows and ISO's. 'Doze don't do ISO's. IOW you can't use a native Windows MS product to burn ISO's to CD. There is a free program out there, can't remember the name, that you can use. Google is your friend. Advise using the businesscard ISO as I had to do a 'Doze download and burn to get my box back up and running and ran onto all the probs of small errors in large ISO download. 'Course I was downloading and installing Wheezy so that might have been the problem. But it's doable. Good luck. AND, I agree with the statement of attitude adjustment when asking for help. 'nuff said, I hope. Whit On 04/09/2011 07:44 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 00:36 Sat 09 Apr, Larry Wazny (the-...@rogers.com) wrote: I have been trying for the last hour to download a copy. I have not used Linus for years, which was Redhat. I get the parent directory which allows me to do nothing. I have tried http and torrent and have never experienced such difficulty. No wonder windows is the most popular as I can download any software I need by one click.the-waz@rogers,com If you're going to use Linus, you might want to check with Tove first for clearance. If it's Linux you're after, you might want to tell us, say, what hardware you've got, and what URLs you're attempting to use for downloading the installer / image. How hard is it to figure this out? Lessee: Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Top of the page: Getting Debian - http://www.debian.org/distrib/ First major heading: Download a small installation image - http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst This page is possibly a little confusing as you need to know your system's CPU architecture. For any recent PC hardware, that's amd64 - http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso Download that ISO, and burn it with any *IMAGE* (not file) burning software. (I don't use Windows so I'm not familiar with what works there, but IIRC Nero used to work, though I don't know if the native Windows software does off the top. For Mac, the CD tool does just fine. A quick Google search turns up a helpful page from CentOS: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/CD_burning_howto.html Other useful links would be the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ The Debian Documentation homepage is another good place to start looking for help: http://www.debian.org/doc/ I'd particularly recommend the FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ A bit of attitude adjustment might also be in order. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da192fa.3080...@comcast.net
Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.
Hendrik, Don't worry about it. Been using amd64 for a few years and had really no problems user wise. I did install ia32 libs in addition to the normal 64 bit libs and it has caused no probs. Had used Lenny for a few years, then the new version came out, Squeeze and since back when I had been using 32 bit, before I moved to 64 because of a mtbd change, I had been with testing all the time w. no real problems, I went this time, jumped squeeze and am using wheezy 64 bit. And am having no real user problems except as everyone has mentioned, linux does have some difficulty getting the most current video codecs and drivers. Hey, I was on Veoh the other day and they want you to download an .exe file, M$ only I guess. Oh well. Yes there are some videos I can't see but for most things a normal user would use it's fine. HTH's Cheers, Whit On 03/22/2011 02:14 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:03:04AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:55:34PM -0600 Jaime Ochoa Malagón said: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Hendrik Boomhend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: Yet again the 32 vs 64 bit question. I have Debian systems at home running 32 bits, and my server has been running happily in 64-bit mode fopr years. Now I get to install debian for an end-user on another AMD-64 machine. 64-bit mode is tempting, but: Are there still significant end-user problems for 64-bit Debian? The machine has nvidia graphics on the motherboard (I believe). My user is likely to want to use flash, which has always been a problem in Linux, but ... Is it still even more of a problem in 64-bit mode? Any other likely end-user problems? I think you could use it for an end user... Really few problems right now just try... (text reformatted to bring reply below) I have been using the 64-bit port since March 2006. Flash was not available at the time. I must point out that I am a user who enjoys the benefits that Debian brings and am thus prepared to put up with a few cons. Flash stopped being a problem at least two years ago - I could be wrong there, it may be even longer than that. I have no reason to regret my choice of using the 64-bit port. And, I may add, I am a non-technical user. Thanks. I'm a technical user myself, so it's essential I get advice from a non-technical user before I subject my wife to it. -- hendrik. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8a1182.6060...@comcast.net
Re: Printer Driver Issue
Michael, Probably not a help but I run AMD64 Debian Wheezy and also besides having the 64 libs running, I installed the ia32-libs and ia32-libs for GTK for any items which need the i386 libraries. Don't know if this will help or not but worth looking into if you already haven't. HTH Whit On 03/15/2011 02:50 PM, Michael A. Knox wrote: William Thompson wrote: Porting stuff from 32bit to 64bit is not as straight forward as one might think or assume. Not to mention most any 32bit stuff should run in 64bit, providing the necessary libraries are there. True, but the problem here isn't porting the drivers to x64, but simply correcting the installer's inability to allow the installation to proceed when it detects an x64 OS. That's just a few lines of code. Of course, this discussion has me wondering if I could replace the dpkg binary with a script that would run dpkg with --force-architecture set, although I'm not sure that the catch routine is in dpkg or within the script itself. Installing the .deb by itself worked, sort of, but the scanner is dead and the printer is monochrome only even when set for color, which tells me that I need to figure out to get the installer to run without choking on the x64 architecture. - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org
Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....
Michael, I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP on another. Very easy to set up. But as I remember, when I installed Windows, I disconnected the Linux drive while doing the install, then put the WXP drive on middle connector of ATA cable when I had that situation. But now I have two drives on SATA setup and WXP is on second SATA w. Linux on first SATA. I know everyone says Windows wants to be first but. Hey it works. When I boot up I have the Linux drive as first HD in boot up sequence. Actually, in my boot up sequence the machine doesn't even show the second drive but it still works. In /boot/grub/menu.lst add: ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ,--this is last line in menu.lst file and I added the next below it so it would not be in the update area title Windows XP --- Type Windows 7That is only a title.. map (hd0)(hd1) -- no spaces between items in par. map (hd1)(hd0) -- root (hd1,0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 -Save your menu.lst file--- The above is the last item in menu.lst and it will allow your Windows 7 item to show up after Linux so that when your boot process hits the menu list if nothing is done, it will start your linux setup first. w...@greatstar:/boot/grub$ cat device.map (hd0)/dev/sda (hd1)/dev/sdb Also in your /boot/grub directory is your device.map file. Insert the above in it and save it too. I have both drives attached to SATA connectors. If you have a setup using ATA use hda and hdb instead of sda and sdb. Anyway, as I said, Windows says it likes to be first on the hdw hookups. I have my linux drive setup first and have the linux drive being the first in the bootup process in the BIOS. Make sure your drives are hooked up again and then boot. You should get the menu and you can downspace to the Windows drive and see if it will come up. Mine has been working just fine w. this setup and I'm using AMD64 on an ASUS mtb w. no problem. HTH's Whit Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box. I have 8GB of RAM on the machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain things I do.. I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I have two one with Debian on it. My plan is to install Windows on the new drive.. If you installed Windows on the new drive and then installed Debian grub would see the Windows on the other drive and create a boot option for you to fire it up if you wanted to when you boot the PC up. But if you installed debian first as I have on one disk and then add Windows on the other one then if you boot up the machine it will load Windows and you won't get a choice to fire up Linux (at least I don't expect it). I had a piece of software for Windows called Partition Magic which I seem to have lost. If I still had it I could install it on Windows (after installed that OS) and it would see the Linux on the other drive... I could set up its bootloading program and then when the machine rebooted it would give me choice to boot either Linux or the Windows.. That would be a way to load Linux first and Windows second on two separate drives and still be able to get a choice to load either OS on boot up of the PC.. Except of course there would be other ways because I have sent you this email and if you were kind you might point out some of them. I could cheat and install the Windows and then reinstall Debian and grub would see it but I don't want to do that. I want to keep the old installation. How would you modify grub to see a Windows OS that hasn't been installed yet? Could I use the installer in Debian to make Windows partition on the new drive and then install the Windows on it and then grub would see it and boot up seeing both OSes? It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to choice of booting it when you boot up the PC.. Suggestions welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cffd656.3070...@comcast.net
Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....
Michael, I just re-checked my instructions I had for myself elsewhere and found I had made a mistake. In the menu.lst file make sure there IS a space between the (hd0) and (hd1). Sorry about that. HTH's Whit Whit Hansell wrote: Michael, I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP on another. Very easy to set up. But as I remember, when I installed Windows, I disconnected the Linux drive while doing the install, then put the WXP drive on middle connector of ATA cable when I had that situation. But now I have two drives on SATA setup and WXP is on second SATA w. Linux on first SATA. I know everyone says Windows wants to be first but. Hey it works. When I boot up I have the Linux drive as first HD in boot up sequence. Actually, in my boot up sequence the machine doesn't even show the second drive but it still works. In /boot/grub/menu.lst add: ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ,--this is last line in menu.lst file and I added the next below it so it would not be in the update area title Windows XP --- Type Windows 7That is only a title.. map (hd0)(hd1) -- no spaces between items in par. map (hd1)(hd0) -- root (hd1,0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 -Save your menu.lst file--- The above is the last item in menu.lst and it will allow your Windows 7 item to show up after Linux so that when your boot process hits the menu list if nothing is done, it will start your linux setup first. w...@greatstar:/boot/grub$ cat device.map (hd0)/dev/sda (hd1)/dev/sdb Also in your /boot/grub directory is your device.map file. Insert the above in it and save it too. I have both drives attached to SATA connectors. If you have a setup using ATA use hda and hdb instead of sda and sdb. Anyway, as I said, Windows says it likes to be first on the hdw hookups. I have my linux drive setup first and have the linux drive being the first in the bootup process in the BIOS. Make sure your drives are hooked up again and then boot. You should get the menu and you can downspace to the Windows drive and see if it will come up. Mine has been working just fine w. this setup and I'm using AMD64 on an ASUS mtb w. no problem. HTH's Whit Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box. I have 8GB of RAM on the machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain things I do.. I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I have two one with Debian on it. My plan is to install Windows on the new drive.. If you installed Windows on the new drive and then installed Debian grub would see the Windows on the other drive and create a boot option for you to fire it up if you wanted to when you boot the PC up. But if you installed debian first as I have on one disk and then add Windows on the other one then if you boot up the machine it will load Windows and you won't get a choice to fire up Linux (at least I don't expect it). I had a piece of software for Windows called Partition Magic which I seem to have lost. If I still had it I could install it on Windows (after installed that OS) and it would see the Linux on the other drive... I could set up its bootloading program and then when the machine rebooted it would give me choice to boot either Linux or the Windows.. That would be a way to load Linux first and Windows second on two separate drives and still be able to get a choice to load either OS on boot up of the PC.. Except of course there would be other ways because I have sent you this email and if you were kind you might point out some of them. I could cheat and install the Windows and then reinstall Debian and grub would see it but I don't want to do that. I want to keep the old installation. How would you modify grub to see a Windows OS that hasn't been installed yet? Could I use the installer in Debian to make Windows partition on the new drive and then install the Windows on it and then grub would see it and boot up seeing both OSes? It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to choice of booting it when you boot up the PC.. Suggestions welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cffe888.7040...@comcast.net
Re: Changing from stable to testing.....
Thanks Brian. Info much appreciated. Whit brian m. carlson wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote: last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an (for me) unresolvable loop: The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run - which failed. apt-get always complained, that the kernel-image needs the new udev-package to upgrade - and udev itself needed the new kernel-image... I don't know, if this problem still exists - if yes: you should find a way of not getting into this loop, where no apt-get -f install helped to stop this. I reinstalled lenny after this... ;) This is #571255. udev should be fixed and in testing by now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cc70f40.3000...@comcast.net
Re: Changing from stable to testing.....
Hey Sam, Thanks for the reply. It's helpful. Gracias Whit Sam Varghese wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:35:31PM -0400 Whit Hansell said: Just thinking that since Squeeze is coming up to be the new stable and have been running Lenny since March of 2009, I was wondering about how difficult it would be to change from Lenny(stable) to Squeeze(testing) now. big snip I have been running the AMD64 testing stream on a box with a single core AMD64 processor since March 2006. About the only thing which was missing was a flash plugin or its equivalent but it did not bother me much. Now, of course, there is more than one plugin. I have had no problem until recently when my GUI disappeared after an update; simply deleting the old xorg.conf file and starting X solved the problem. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cc4a826.9070...@comcast.net
Re: google voice w. linux....
Chad, I don't know much about it at all yet. But I have read that there is a Linux plug-in that you/user gets from Google in order for it to work on a linux box. Don't know much more about it than that. Just wondered if anyone else was using it or had used it w. linux and how you used it. I guess I'm such a neophyte to it that I'm not even sure what you do with it. I know that sounds stupid but sometimes I am. Thanks for your reply. Whit Chad Bailey wrote: Unless I'm missing something major here, I thought google voice was a browser based application. Meaning the difference between its use would not vary much between different platforms. I'm thinking I'm missing out on something here though... On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Whit Hansell skippe...@comcast.net wrote: Just wondering if anyone has used google voice w. linux and what you think of it or have heard about it one way or the other. Just heard a brief bit about it on Clark Howard show. TIA Whit - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org
Re: xscreensaver cannot lock: no screensaver running on display
If your running KDE, go the K(Start button, lower left of screen and at the bottom along with switch user and log out, you will find lock session. reg exes wrote: Hello everyone, I upgraded my system from Etch to Lenny a looong time ago... just noticed something odd. When trying to lock my screen with xscreensaver, it dies... host1:myuser:~ xscreensaver-command -lock xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0 I've searched for solutions and can't seem to find anything which helps.. I found this on the Debian Bugs List... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508991 But I'm using the version from stable... host1:myuser:~ aptitude show xscreensaver Package: xscreensaver State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 5.05-3+lenny1 Anyone have an idea? Thanks regexes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c7d942d.5010...@comcast.net
Re: SFTP on Fedora 12
Mike, Just a guess but check your file permissions Maybe. Whit Mike Rathburn wrote: I've upgraded from F10 to F12. Now for some reason can't seem to make SFTP connections to the machine as a non-root user. SFTP worked fine in F10 before the upgrade. Made no changes in sshd_config (nor did the upgrade that I can tell). Anyone else experienced this and have a quick fix or explanation between the differences of F10 and F12 and SFTP? Closest I could find that is close to my problem is here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-March/369736.html However, placing the non-interactive shell check in my user's .bashrc didn't do the trick for me. Again, if I enable root login for SFTP, all is well connecting. Only normal users cannot connect. Connecting via ssh is not a problem either for non-root users. Using openssh. - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org
Re: netinst cannot install grub
Great! Glad you got it working., Cheers, Whit Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Whit Hansell skippe...@comcast.net mailto:skippe...@comcast.net wrote: Unless I'm wrong, I believe grub is installed from the iso cd. It might be bad right at that point. Do a md5 check on the iso on your hard drive and if it's ok, make a new install cd. I used to have a goofy cd burner and had to always use a netinstall because it would not write the full iso to cd. So I always went w. the 50 mb iso to get started and even then I would have to retry it several times. It was frustrating but it did work. Thanks. I retried installing from the same netinst cd and all went well. HTH Whit Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: i'm using netinst for 64-bit squeeze the hard disk used is WD3200BEVT problem: when i came to the grub-installation part, it failed but i can install grub and boot ubuntu 10.04 on the same hard disk -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bded835.9060...@comcast.net
Samba printer setup w. KVM winxp install
I'm wondering if anyone has successfully set up samba for an xp install? I'm going nuts trying to figure out how to do it. Any help will be much appreciated. I've got CUPS installed on my system just fine and using two printers. One an HP720C and the other an HP PSC1500 AIO. Both running and operating great on my Debian AMD64 box. Have successfully installed winxp as a Virtual Machine and it is running fine. Have internet access, sound, and good display on my LCD monitor. Need help on setting up print service using Samba if possible. I have tried a number of times to get it done. I am having trouble on the Windows printer install as Windows does not see the printers on the network and don't know where to make changes so they can be seen. my smb.conf (very simple to start): greatstar:/home/whit# cd / greatstar:/# cd etc/samba greatstar:/etc/samba# cat smb.conf [global] workgroup = XPGB2TFTSTHG netbios name = samba hosts allow = IP-address, 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 security = share #this section is only to share the printer printcap name = cups disable spoolss = Yes show add printer wizard = No printing = cups [printers] comment = Printer in Linux path = /var/spool/samba guest ok = Yes printable = Yes use client driver = Yes browseable = No *** I've tried to keep it simple so I have fewer variables to mess with. Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bdb9961.9010...@comcast.net
Re:[SOLVED} WXP Guest KVM CD problem
Found out the problem. Just needed to change the cd in the drive to the new cd for installing new program and rebooting. Then just do the install as normal on wxp using the cd in the drive. Then, I am told I can just pull the cd out of the drive, and then go to remove the drive on the hardware tab and reboot. At this point since there is no cd present, it is not looking for a cd to be in the drive. then if I want to install another program, I just add back the cd drive in the hardware tab and reboot WinXP and it will see the drive w. the new program installer and just then do the install. What a deal. Now trying to figure out how to set up printing. One thing after another. Darn. I'll get it tho'. ;-) Whit Whit Hansell wrote: OK guys, I'm big time stuck and need help. Got WXP Pro loaded as guest using KVM and can access and it using the Virtual Machine Manager BUT can't use the CD at all. Truth is that the guest will NOT come up unless I have a cd in the cd/dvd drive. A blank one works but there must be a cd in the drive in order for the system to come up. It seems that this is a result of the XP install where the install cd must be in the drive because XP requires a reboot to finish the install but when that's over I can't get the system to eject the cd thru the new guest OS or the manager. I can remove it by going to the host and such but only the host recognizes a new cd if one is put in the drive. When I go back to the guest it just recognizes there is a cd in the drive but that's it. I can't open the drive, eject a disc or anything else using the guest os (XP) or even the Virtual Machine Manager. I can't do ANYTHING with the cd that it will recognize at all. Anyone got an idea how to handle this? I'm lost I've got internet access and sound and mouse and keyboard et al. Everything seems to work fine except the cd access situation where the system seems won't let me remove the install cd. Any help will be appreciated. Again, thanks in advance. It works great but I need to be able to install using some of my own install disks for some older and newer programs requiring Windows. Whit PS: the trick using cntrl + alt + a number(1-9) won't work either. Can't get to qemu thru that access point either. I think I'm supposed to be able to but it does nothing when used. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bcdfab6.9010...@comcast.net
WXP Guest KVM CD problem
OK guys, I'm big time stuck and need help. Got WXP Pro loaded as guest using KVM and can access and it using the Virtual Machine Manager BUT can't use the CD at all. Truth is that the guest will NOT come up unless I have a cd in the cd/dvd drive. A blank one works but there must be a cd in the drive in order for the system to come up. It seems that this is a result of the XP install where the install cd must be in the drive because XP requires a reboot to finish the install but when that's over I can't get the system to eject the cd thru the new guest OS or the manager. I can remove it by going to the host and such but only the host recognizes a new cd if one is put in the drive. When I go back to the guest it just recognizes there is a cd in the drive but that's it. I can't open the drive, eject a disc or anything else using the guest os (XP) or even the Virtual Machine Manager. I can't do ANYTHING with the cd that it will recognize at all. Anyone got an idea how to handle this? I'm lost I've got internet access and sound and mouse and keyboard et al. Everything seems to work fine except the cd access situation where the system seems won't let me remove the install cd. Any help will be appreciated. Again, thanks in advance. It works great but I need to be able to install using some of my own install disks for some older and newer programs requiring Windows. Whit PS: the trick using cntrl + alt + a number(1-9) won't work either. Can't get to qemu thru that access point either. I think I'm supposed to be able to but it does nothing when used. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bcb530a.5030...@comcast.net
Re: KVM storage
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:26:29AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Hey guys, Am trying to set up KVM on my Lenny AMD64 box and need recommendations from those who have set up KVM regarding storage memory. Following is my df -h: FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 662M 252M 376M 41% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 1008K 9.1M 10% /dev tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G0% /dev/shm /dev/sda9 216G 51G 155G 25% /home /dev/sda8 373M11M 343M 3% /tmp /dev/sda54.6G 3.7G 726M 84% /usr /dev/sda62.8G 393M2.3G15% /var As you can see I have 2.3 G avail. in /var and want to install WXP virtually. Would also, at a later date, want to possibly play w. Fedora or some other Linux distro for grins. What are recommendations for increasing memory in /var or what would you do in this case. I have been recommended to even use a symlink from the storage area to a location where I have sufficient memory as in /home but am concerned about debian's hierarchical limitations in that. TIA for any recommendations. My recommendation is to not make so many partitions if you don't know the proper amounts to assign to each for your needs. /var is where databases and other large data ends up after all. You could put your virtual machines in /home if you want. Want to thank you, Lennart and Dean Hamstead for replying to my questions. It's very much appreciated. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back with you but had some problems I had to attend to and was not able to get back with you sooner. As to your recommendation on not making so many partitions, I laugh. I used one of the standard recommendations in the install setup assuming it would work out ok. Overall it has. My thinking is that I don't like single partitions as in Windows and/or the old Lindows(how I started using Linux-for a year before I broke out to do a Debian install on my own) setup. It's just that much less secure. So have basically taken the recommendations given by the installer programs when they give multiple partitions, again, thinking they know best how much to give each paartition. Mostly, they've been pretty good except for this install. Also, your statement that /var is where large amounts of data end up basically is good info for me. I was unaware of that standard and am grateful for the info. And also grateful to know that I could stick the storage in /home if I wanted to. I was really concerned w. the Debian hierarchy rules and didn't want to hose the system or a software install by putting it in the wrong place. I also want to thank Carlo Bernini. He replied personally and mentioned gparted. I had wanted to use it because I had had to do so in the past to add nother 250M to sda1, I think, because I was having update problems because of lack of space. I was hesitant because I had forgotten just how I did it and when I googled tutorials, found I needed a newer version(highly recommended) w. the kernel I was using and it seemed that there was a lot more warnings about lost data this time than there had been before. But tonight, I backed up a bunch of stuff I really didn't want to lose and then threw in the new version of the gparted lilve CD and increased /var by 2G. It took quite a while and then I had an error just before it got to moving the unallocated to the /var subdirectory(sda6) and so saved off the details and started to quit out of the program but thought what the heck. I've probably already hosed it up, let's see if I can salvage by resetting the move of the unallocated to sda6. Had to mess with the numbers because for some reason the system had me moving instead of the 2048M I had tried to do, it had 2047M in unallocated. Well, I said to heck with it and put in the 2048 forced and ran it and it took as far as I can tell. I have not set up the KVM yet in /var but according to df -h, it all looks good and the system is running fine so far. I had to reboot a couple of times to clear up some problems that cropped up but it seems to have ironed itself out. We will see, I guess. Anyway, thanks so much guys for your help. I'll let you know how it goes w. the install, that is unless my system totally hoses up somehow. G I love Linux. It's so forgiving in so many ways and while I'm not necessarily a noob I still have a lot to learn, but willing. Thanks again. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bb6abd1.7040...@comcast.net
KVM storage
Hey guys, Am trying to set up KVM on my Lenny AMD64 box and need recommendations from those who have set up KVM regarding storage memory. Following is my df -h: FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 662M 252M 376M 41% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 1008K 9.1M 10% /dev tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G0% /dev/shm /dev/sda9 216G 51G 155G 25% /home /dev/sda8 373M11M 343M 3% /tmp /dev/sda54.6G 3.7G 726M 84% /usr /dev/sda62.8G 393M2.3G15% /var As you can see I have 2.3 G avail. in /var and want to install WXP virtually. Would also, at a later date, want to possibly play w. Fedora or some other Linux distro for grins. What are recommendations for increasing memory in /var or what would you do in this case. I have been recommended to even use a symlink from the storage area to a location where I have sufficient memory as in /home but am concerned about debian's hierarchical limitations in that. TIA for any recommendations. cheers, Whit Hansell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bb1dfe5.8040...@comcast.net
Re: Debian AMD64 resuce disk??
Thanks Doug, Good to know. The INSERT disk was pretty current but maybe I needed a different version of rescue disk. Anyway, Ill keep that in mind. Again, thanks. Whit Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:32:20PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:37:54PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Why is it you need specific to amd64, since amd64 will boot and run i386? Want the amd64 'cuz I'm running an amd64 chip. Had put in a 32 bit INSERT disk and it was very limited as to what it could do. So figure that I'm gonna' need a rescue disk more specific to the processor in this case. And after I had purchased this hardware, 64 bit AMD chip/mobo, tried to fire up a hard drive w. 32 bit on it and it didn't like what it saw so went full bore 64 Debian Lenny/stable. And it has been a true experience setting it all up compared to the previous setups I've done. Learned a lot the hard way. 8=) Trial and error and RTFM'ing as much as possible. Since the ability to run i386 (though without access to the full memory addressing of amd64) is built-in to the amd64 hardware, if you have a 386 rescue disk that doesn't work with the hardware, it just means that its not new enough. I ran grml 0.9 i386 just fine on my amd64. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian AMD64 resuce disk??
Thanks Heinz and Fabricio. I do appreciate your help. I have already thanked Thierry and Goswin in emails that I had done just a reply to not looking to see that they went not to this list but to their personal addresses. I am surprised that there are so many live/rescue disks for amd64 only because I had googled trying to find one or more and for some reason, nothing specific to amd64 showed up readily in the results. Or maybe I didn't drill down far 'enuf', I don't know. But thans all. I have pulled down two of them and will do the other two over the weekend and take a look at them. Luckily I've never had to use one yet, other than gparted once, but it's better to have them on hand than need one and not be able to get at it. 8^) Again, gracias. Muy bueno. No I'm not hispanic. I just like the language altho' I do not really speak it. Cheers. Whit Heinz Diehl wrote: On 19.06.2009, Whit Hansell wrote: Anyone have any ideas? http://www.sysresccd.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Debian AMD64 resuce disk??
Is there such a thing available? No, I don't need it yet. Would like to know if there is one I could have on hand, tho' if necessary. I downloaded INSERT and fired it up but it only gave me a very limited number of available programs to use. I believe there were 8 -10 or so. No GUI(no big loss) but it right away told me there wasn't much I could do with it. Anyone have any ideas? Gracias, amigos. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#480178: Bug 480178
I seem to have corrected the problem by removing my HP 720C printer from the system and then reinstalling it. I had not heard anything form the developers and had not done this earlier because I figured the new upgrade would not change things sufficiently that I would need to remove and reinstall the printer but I guess I was wrong. Wanted to let you know so that unless someone else has also had a problem that this is related, this bug can be removed w. the instruction of anyone having the problem to remove and reinstall the printer as a fix. Thanks for all your good work. Whit Hansell
Bug#480178: upgrade-reports: print jobs not getting to printer after dist-upgrade
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash performed dist-upgrade May 5 and 6. Tried to print on May 7 and no printing. Checked print que and all jobs in print que but when tried to send ot printer either got error or processing and no printing. Rebooted and stil lhad one job in print que and before it restarted that job finally got to the printer and printed fine. After reboot, still no printing. Everything still sent to que but nothing from there on. Have HP 720C printer using Cups, foomatic and ppn2ppa. Everything worked fine prior to dist-upgrade. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#480178: upgrade-reports: print jobs not getting to printer after dist-upgrade
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash performed dist-upgrade May 5 and 6. Tried to print on May 7 and no printing. Checked print que and all jobs in print que but when tried to send ot printer either got error or processing and no printing. Rebooted and stil lhad one job in print que and before it restarted that job finally got to the printer and printed fine. After reboot, still no printing. Everything still sent to que but nothing from there on. Have HP 720C printer using Cups, foomatic and ppn2ppa. Everything worked fine prior to dist-upgrade. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#439615: Debian/Testing, dangling links caused browser closing problems....
Davide Viti wrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:26:30PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Package: ttf-dejavu State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.19-1 Priority: optional Section: x11 The Upgrading commands I use are: aptitude update - aptitude dist-upgrade - aptitude autoclean - updatedb. snip/snip ( I pretty much use aptitude for installs and such. On occasion if I'm in a hurry I'll purge using synaptic and may d a reinstall right away to check to see if that would clear up a problem. Sometimes it does.) It was also recommended that I send you this output from brightsun:/# grep ttf-dejavu /var/log/dpkg.log 2007-08-23 00:08:17 upgrade ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:17 status half-configured ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:17 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:17 status half-installed ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:18 status half-installed ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:18 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:18 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status half-configured ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status installed ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 I normally use apt-get or dpkg when I want to test a new version of the package, and the output of the above command is attached to this message. regards, Davide snip /snip Hi Davide, Thanks for the reply. I use aptitude because I think since Sarge it has been recommended to use it as opposed to apt-get for normal upgrades. I have read that it should be used as it gives better dependency control. But I'm just a user going by what I read. And I use dist-upgrade as I believe it is more inclusive of full upgrade process. Anyway it's been recommended that it be used rather than the upgrade command in order to try to keep current. I do believe Synaptic does use apt-get, as it's package manager. Anyway, your output was interesting but is there anything you want me to do or check for you? I don't know why I ended up with these two fonts hanging out there by themselves. But they were giving me problems just after one of the upgrades I did last week. I also don't know if it's a global problem for everyone or if, for some reason, it only affected me. Let me know if there is something I can do to help you out. Thanks. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#439615: Debian/Testing, dangling links caused browser closing problems....
Package: ttf-dejavu State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.19-1 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uncompressed Size: 7307k Depends: defoma Description: Vera font family derivate with additional characters DejaVu provides an expanded version of the Vera font family aiming for quality and broader Unicode coverage while retaining the original Vera style. DejaVu currently works towards conformance with the Multilingual European Standards (MES-1 and MES-2) for Unicode coverage. The DejaVu fonts provide serif, sans and monospaced variants. DejaVu fonts are intended for use on low-resolution devices (mainly computer screens) but can be used in printing as well. Tags: made-of::data:font, role::content:font, role::data AMD Sempron, 1G mem, Linux brightsun 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Testing/Lenny The Upgrading commands I use are: aptitude update - aptitude dist-upgrade - aptitude autoclean - updatedb. ( I pretty much use aptitude for installs and such. On occasion if I'm in a hurry I'll purge using synaptic and may d a reinstall right away to check to see if that would clear up a problem. Sometimes it does.) Had a problem w. the IceApe browser closing when I tried to scroll or even open some pages. And it would not open a particular email sent from Earthlink but it turned out it was not Earthlinks problem. The sender used different fonts and probably the dangling font. The two files that the IceApe maintainer found to be the problem(dangling links) are: /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Serif-Oblique.ttf and /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Serif-Bold-Oblique.ttf I have removed these two files/fonts from my system and everything is back working now. On Tuesday, 08/22, I did my normal weekly dist-upgrade and don't remember having any problems after that but I don't remember what time of day I did the upgrade. I also did another dist-upgrade the next day for some silly reason and don't remember experiencing any problems but after I did a third dist-upgrade of the week on Thurs. I started having problems, big time. I would go to a site or clik on a page and the browser would close w. no warning and no error reported. It was a constant thing. It was recommended that I do a debsums ttf-dejavu and it turned out OK. It was also recommended that I send you this output from brightsun:/# grep ttf-dejavu /var/log/dpkg.log 2007-08-23 00:08:17 upgrade ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:17 status half-configured ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:17 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:17 status half-installed ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:18 status half-installed ttf-dejavu 2.17-1 2007-08-23 00:08:18 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:18 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status unpacked ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status half-configured ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 2007-08-23 00:08:37 status installed ttf-dejavu 2.19-1 Hope this helps. I don't understand the half-configured or the half-installed part at all. The crazy thing is that on very rare occasion prior to upgrading. Let me know if I can be of help. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#439260: Addinfo - Iceape browser and mailnews closing
Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:56:55AM -0400, Whit Hansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whit Leye kaput Reye DSEK 11/27/06-Dr. Bowden, Jacksonville, FL Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:06:22AM -0400, Whit Hansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's gotten worse on the browser side. I've been going to various sites and can't scroll down much from the top of the page before the browser closes totally. I can open a number of pages but if I try to read down the page of any page even using the scroll bar in stead of the wheel mouse, the browser closes totally w/o warning or error notation. So far on the mailnews part the only problem I've had is trying to open an Earthlink email. I've so far successfully been able to scroll down emails w. no trouble. and I've sent emails out and received them ok too. But the browser is a real problem. Specifically, I've done a search using Dogpile and when I pick a site and open it up and start to down the page to read it the browser closes. It has happened to everything I've tried to read after opening it from the page listing. And these pages don't seem to be graphics active. Yes there are graphics but not the type that are running as in many of the car ads and stuff. Little movies. None of that. Hope that helps. And thanks for your good work. I really appreciate it. Please install the iceape-dbg package, then run iceape -g, type run when you get the gdb prompt, and do what it is necessary for the closing to occur. Once it occurs, come back to the gdb prompt and type bt full. Please copy/paste the result of this command here. Thanks Mike (gdb) bt full No stack. (gdb) Thanks for your help Mike. If you need more let me know. After I typed in run it opened up a window which said that Image Zoom had been installed and gave me a choice of close or continue. So I hit continue to see what it was and it came to an information page on Image Zoom so I closed that page. Also the About Iceape window had been opened so I closed it. Then I typed in the bt full command at the dbg prompt which came back No stack as you can see. Well, if you closed everything, there is no program running to have a strack trace... You should try to reproduce your problem and then do bt full. Mike Sorry Mike, I misunderstood you. I re did it as you suggested and I could not get it to mess up using google as the search engine, so went to dogpile and did the same search and when I got to one of the pages which had previously closed using the scroll, this time it just froze up, did not close. So I looked at the terminal window and it had come back to the dbg prompt so I ran bt full and got what I'm sending you. I'm including the data from run as it shows a segfault and didn't know if it was informative to you or not. Anyway, the browser window did not close but was locked up and it finally came up with the notation that the program had stopped running and asked if I wanted it terminated or to keep it running. I terminated it to close it out. If I'm still not doing it right or you need more info let me know. Thanks. Whit (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/lib/iceape/iceape-bin Failed to read a valid object file image from memory. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1221572928 (LWP 7878)] [New Thread -1224287344 (LWP 7879)] Starting calendar alarm service error creating table cal_calendars -- probably already exists error creating table cal_calendars_prefs -- probably already exists [New Thread -1247806576 (LWP 7882)] observer added [New Thread -1257137264 (LWP 7883)] [New Thread -1267295344 (LWP 7884)] [New Thread -1275683952 (LWP 7885)] [New Thread -1284072560 (LWP 7886)] [Thread -1275683952 (LWP 7885) exited] [Thread -1267295344 (LWP 7884) exited] [Thread -1284072560 (LWP 7886) exited] [New Thread -1267295344 (LWP 7890)] [New Thread -1284072560 (LWP 7889)] [New Thread -1275683952 (LWP 7891)] [Thread -1267295344 (LWP 7890) exited] [Thread -1284072560 (LWP 7889) exited] [Thread -1257137264 (LWP 7883) exited] [New Thread -1257137264 (LWP 7893)] GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetMIMEDescription GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetMIMEDescription return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetMIMEDescription GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetMIMEDescription return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x81d42d0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description
Bug#439260: Addinfo- Iceape browser and mailnews
Mike,
I don't know how to do an actual uninstall of the gcj plugin so I found
the two instances of the plugin filename and renamed them and restarted
iceape and checked the about plugins menu item and that java plugin
was no longer listed so hopefully nothing is calling anything in that
regard.
So I re-ran the debug program and went to jimmyakin.org, opened it and
went to the comments page which is where it would close after just
startign to scroll. Again using the debug it just locks up, does no
close. But here is the output. The full amount. Previously I guess I had
stopped it too early as I didn't know what how far to carry it out.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/iceape/iceape-bin
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1220958528 (LWP 8226)]
[New Thread -1223672944 (LWP 8229)]
Starting calendar alarm service
error creating table cal_calendars -- probably already exists
error creating table cal_calendars_prefs -- probably already exists
[New Thread -1247192176 (LWP 8232)]
observer added
[New Thread -1256522864 (LWP 8233)]
[New Thread -1266680944 (LWP 8234)]
[New Thread -1275069552 (LWP 8235)]
[New Thread -1283458160 (LWP 8236)]
[New Thread -1296098416 (LWP 8237)]
[Thread -1296098416 (LWP 8237) exited]
[New Thread -1296098416 (LWP 8238)]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1220958528 (LWP 8226)]
0xb64b210d in nsTextFrame::Paint (this=0x8fa93b4, aPresContext=0x89c50b0,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0) at nsTextFrame.cpp:594
594 nsTextFrame.cpp: No such file or directory.
in nsTextFrame.cpp
(gdb) bt full
#0 0xb64b210d in nsTextFrame::Paint (this=0x8fa93b4, aPresContext=0x89c50b0,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0) at nsTextFrame.cpp:594
ts = {nsTextFrame::TextStyle = {mFont = 0x8ee1880,
mText = 0x8ee17d4, mNormalFont = 0x0, mSmallFont = 0x2,
mLastFont = 0x8f762e4, mSmallCaps = -1079196072,
mWordSpacing = -1232420708, mLetterSpacing = 150421004,
mSpaceWidth = 149717192, mAveCharWidth = 0, mJustifying = -1232420708,
mPreformatted = -1079195932, mNumJustifiableCharacterToRender = 149717192,
mNumJustifiableCharacterToMeasure = -1079196040,
mExtraSpacePerJustifiableCharacter = -1255620833,
mNumJustifiableCharacterReceivingExtraJot = 145633296},
mColor = 0xbfacc670, mSelectionTextColor = 3215771256,
mSelectionBGColor = 3039277342}
sc = (nsStyleContext *) 0x8f76368
isVisible = 1
#1 0xb6461f89 in nsContainerFrame::PaintChild (this=0x8fa93f4,
aPresContext=0x89c50b0, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], aFrame=0x8fa93b4,
aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0) at nsContainerFrame.cpp:282
translate = {mCtx = 0x8ae3010, mPushed = {mSavedX = 255.15,
mSavedY = -13.4664164}}
kidRect = {x = 0, y = 0, width = 720, height = 285}
---Type return to continue, or q return to quit---
damageArea = {x = 0, y = 202, width = 720, height = 83}
overlap = value optimized out
#2 0xb6461de4 in nsContainerFrame::PaintChildren (this=0x8fa93f4,
aPresContext=0x89c50b0, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0)
at nsContainerFrame.cpp:227
kid = (class nsIFrame *) 0x8fa93b4
#3 0xb6479f4e in nsHTMLContainerFrame::PaintDecorationsAndChildren (
this=0x8fa93f4, aPresContext=0x89c50b0, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aIsBlock=0,
aFlags=0) at nsHTMLContainerFrame.cpp:136
underColor = 285
overColor = 720
strikeColor = value optimized out
decorations = 0 '\0'
fm = {nsCOMPtr_base = {mRawPtr = 0x0}, No data fields}
isVisible = 1
#4 0xb6487bf2 in nsInlineFrame::Paint (this=0x8fa93f4,
aPresContext=0x89c50b0, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0)
at nsInlineFrame.cpp:326
No locals.
#5 0xb6461f89 in nsContainerFrame::PaintChild (this=0x8f76268,
---Type return to continue, or q return to quit---
aPresContext=0x89c50b0, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], aFrame=0x8fa93f4,
aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0) at nsContainerFrame.cpp:282
translate = {mCtx = 0x8ae3010, mPushed = {mSavedX = 255.15,
mSavedY = -159.93309}}
kidRect = {x = 0, y = 2197, width = 720, height = 285}
damageArea = {x = 0, y = 202, width = 720, height = 83}
overlap = value optimized out
#6 0xb644f537 in nsBlockFrame::PaintChild (this=0x8f76268,
aPresContext=0x89c50b0, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], aFrame=0x8fa93f4,
aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0)
at ./../../generic/nsBlockFrame.h:286
No locals.
#7 0xb64546ec in nsBlockFrame::PaintChildren (this=0x8f76268,
aPresContext=0x89c50b0, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], aWhichLayer=eFramePaintLayer_Overlay, aFlags=0)
at nsBlockFrame.cpp:6473
lineArea = {x = 0, y = 2160, width = 720, height = 360}
cursor = value optimized out
#8 0xb6479f4e in nsHTMLContainerFrame::PaintDecorationsAndChildren (
this=0x8f76268,
Bug#439260: Debian/Testing, using mouse in IceApe browser and mail causes program to close
Package: iceape-browser New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.0.10~pre070720-0etch3+lenny1 Priority: optional Section: web Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: iceape-mailnews New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.0.10~pre070720-0etch3+lenny1 Priority: optional Section: mail Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uncompressed Size: 5980k Depends: libc6 (= 2.6-1), libgcc1 (= 1:4.2-20070516), libstdc++6 (= 4.2-20070516), iceape-browser (= 1.0.10~pre070720-0etch3+lenny1) Conflicts: mozilla-mailnews ( 2:1.8) Replaces: mozilla-mailnews Provides: imap-client, mail-reader, news-reader Description: Iceape Mail Newsgroups and Address Book Iceape Mail Newsgroups client supports NNTP Newsgroups and IMAP/POP Mail. It has a full variety of features such as multiple accounts, labels, adaptive junk mail control, S/MIME, digital signing. Iceape Address Book adds address book management to the Iceape Mail Newsgroups client. It supports LDAP, vCards... See the 'iceape' package for more information on the Iceape Internet Suite. AMD Sempron, 1G mem, Linux brightsun 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Testing/Lenny Iceape Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.13pre) Gecko/20070505 Iceape/1.0.9 (Debian-1.0.10~pre070720-0etch3+lenny1) I have updated using dist-upgrade on Tues., Wed. and today, Thurs. (8/21,22,23) for the full weekly upgrade and additional ugrades. Last night, the browser kept closing when I would go to a certain site, second page, and using the scroll wheel. -closed total browser. Today even after upgrading, again the same thing at more than one site, and then went to mail and as I was reading mail and went to use the mouse, left button, the whole thing closed again. Mail and browser. I'm hoping I don't lose this before I get it sent off to you. I've got nothign else open other than KDE when these things happen. It closes w/o any real way of knowing what I'm doing other than using the mouse(ps2 wheel mouse). Upgrading commands- aptitude update - aptitude dist-upgrade - aptitude autoclean - updatedb. Had not had this problem until after I did the Wednesday upgrade as far as I know so it could be I have a mismatched library somehow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#439260: Add info - Iceape Mailnews closing
To tie down the problem w. the mailnews mouse situation, when I click on an email message sent from Earthlink, the mailnews and browser both close immediately. Just clicking on it. Both new and old messages from same sender. There may be additional problems I haven't run into yet but this is what I found so far. In regard to the browser closing, one problem was going to a blog site (jimmyakin.org)and opening up the comments section and as soon as I would try to use the mouse in the comments section the browser would close immediately. Scrolling or clicking as I remember. But definitely scrolling. It's happened at at least one other location too but I forget where and in what situation it happened. Thanks... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#439260: Addinfo - Iceape browser and mailnews closing
It's gotten worse on the browser side. I've been going to various sites and can't scroll down much from the top of the page before the browser closes totally. I can open a number of pages but if I try to read down the page of any page even using the scroll bar in stead of the wheel mouse, the browser closes totally w/o warning or error notation. So far on the mailnews part the only problem I've had is trying to open an Earthlink email. I've so far successfully been able to scroll down emails w. no trouble. and I've sent emails out and received them ok too. But the browser is a real problem. Specifically, I've done a search using Dogpile and when I pick a site and open it up and start to down the page to read it the browser closes. It has happened to everything I've tried to read after opening it from the page listing. And these pages don't seem to be graphics active. Yes there are graphics but not the type that are running as in many of the car ads and stuff. Little movies. None of that. Hope that helps. And thanks for your good work. I really appreciate it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Request new feature for OOo Project.....
Dear Sirs, I use OOo on a Linux OS. I want to reeeques a featurre addition to your fine product. It is a customizable file list possibly put under Options/Preferences. As it is now when we use the product and want to open a recently used file we are only able to see tge kast 4 files we used and there have been times when I have needed to have at least 6 or nmore available to work effectively. I was able to find the workaround which required me to add some lines to the Common.xcu file but that was very difficult to find the original work around and then to find the actual file that I needed to change. There are 4 files on my innstallation by the same name but different pathways. All in all it has taken me probably 6..5 hours or more just to try to change that one aspect of the product. And as of now I have no idea where to find the workaround because you have changed your website around so much I could not find it again after hunting for over a half hour. Anyway, if at all possible it would be very helpful to the user to be able to adjust the recently used file numbers based on their particular needs and it would be appreciated if it could be added to the product Optio9ns list. Thank you very much for all the work that you do. It is very much appreciated. W. Hansell Jacksonville, FL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Request new feature for OOo Project.....
Dear Sirs, I use OOo on a Linux OS. I want to reeeques a featurre addition to your fine product. It is a customizable file list possibly put under Options/Preferences. As it is now when we use the product and want to open a recently used file we are only able to see tge kast 4 files we used and there have been times when I have needed to have at least 6 or nmore available to work effectively. I was able to find the workaround which required me to add some lines to the Common.xcu file but that was very difficult to find the original work around and then to find the actual file that I needed to change. There are 4 files on my innstallation by the same name but different pathways. All in all it has taken me probably 6..5 hours or more just to try to change that one aspect of the product. And as of now I have no idea where to find the workaround because you have changed your website around so much I could not find it again after hunting for over a half hour. Anyway, if at all possible it would be very helpful to the user to be able to adjust the recently used file numbers based on their particular needs and it would be appreciated if it could be added to the product Optio9ns list. Thank you very much for all the work that you do. It is very much appreciated. W. Hansell Jacksonville, FL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
