Re: Firefox problem

2021-02-05 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 03 Feb 2021 05:20:01 +0100, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 23:12:52 - (UTC) > Frank Miles wrote: > >> With the most recent Firefox update, some of the widgets on a >> Bibliocommons (library) website cease working. They still work >> either

Firefox problem

2021-02-02 Thread Frank Miles
With the most recent Firefox update, some of the widgets on a Bibliocommons (library) website cease working. They still work either using the Epiphany browser, or my android phone. Any recommendations on how I might debug this? Running DebianAmd64 'Buster'. Thanks for any suggestions!

Inreach mini cannot be found by KVM/Win7 guest

2019-05-30 Thread Frank Miles
Just got an InReach mini (Garmin GPS USB device). It seems ok by 'dmesg'. However [a] when mounted as a USB thumbdrive there doesn't seem to be anything usefully readable; and [b] when I bring up a Win7 guest under KVM/QEMU, win7 can't find it. This is in contrast to my Garmin etrex GPS device,

smbclient not finding share for localhost

2019-03-20 Thread Frank Miles
My home linux/Debian/buster machine has suddenly made samba 'shares' invisible to my Win7 virtual machine (running under kvm/qemu). Using smbclient I get two different responses: smbclient -L localhost only gives the error-message response: Unable to initialize messaging context

Re: python3.7 disfunctional (was: argparse missing from libpython3.7-stdlib ?) NOW SOLVED

2019-02-22 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 02:30:01 +0100, Frank Miles wrote: > I just upgraded my desktop from stable/stretch to testing/buster. > I'd earlier done the same to a laptop without any problems. > On the desktop, I get the following strange traceback : > > $ python3 Python 3.7.2+ (default,

python3.7 disfunctional (was: argparse missing from libpython3.7-stdlib ?)

2019-02-22 Thread Frank Miles
I just upgraded my desktop from stable/stretch to testing/buster. I'd earlier done the same to a laptop without any problems. On the desktop, I get the following strange traceback : $ python3 Python 3.7.2+ (default, Feb 2 2019, 14:31:48) [GCC 8.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits"

Re: argparse missing from libpython3.7-stdlib ?

2019-02-22 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:00:01 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:15:12 - (UTC) > Frank Miles wrote: > >> It seems that the new testing/buster python3.7 lacks 'argparse'. >> Simply trying to import this causes an error, probably due to

argparse missing from libpython3.7-stdlib ?

2019-02-22 Thread Frank Miles
It seems that the new testing/buster python3.7 lacks 'argparse'. Simply trying to import this causes an error, probably due to only a python2.7 version on my system. I didn't see any indication of a missing library, though there is apparently some kind of transition going on. Is my system missing

firefox cannot download after jessie->stretch

2017-11-24 Thread Frank Miles
firefox/iceweasel has worked just fine for years I just upgraded my home jessie machine to stretch. That went very smoothly, so far only one exception. I can no longer download anything with this browser. I've reinstalled, cleared out my profile, run in 'safe' mode (no add-ons such as

Re: SAMBA problems on Debian 8.8

2017-07-17 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:10:03 +0200, Jason Wittlin-Cohen wrote: > You are running an out-of-date version of samba (2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6 > vs. 4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1). In addition, you seem to be missing > samba-common-bin, samba-dsdb-modules, and python-samba, all of which are > dependencies

Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:10:01 +0200, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've had two instances recently. I've found the "immediately" needed > information, but they are samples of more generic problems. > > 1. Today's problem was easily solved. I had seen a post discussing an > application of the "tree"

Re: AMD Ryzen support for Debian Stretch?

2017-03-03 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:50:01 +0100, Janis Hamme wrote: > Now that AMD's Ryzen CPUs have been released, I'm wondering if they'll > be supported by the upcoming Debian Stretch release. I'm a bit concerned > as Stretch comes with Kernel 3.9 but Ryzen support was added to 4.10. > > Is Debian known

Re: qemu installed but not found

2016-10-26 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:20:07 +0200, Matyas A. Sustik wrote: > I installed qemu with apt-get. However the qemu command is not found. What > am I missing? Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Thanks! > -Matyas I'm not sure what you've got. If it's only the qemu package, and not one of

Re: Vim help, tags, sudo

2016-10-24 Thread Frank Miles
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:30:02 +0200, jeremy bentham wrote: > This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll > start here. > > I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy going on a new machine > (well, new to me. I think the huckster term-of-art is > "pre-owned": I had the pleasure

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:20:01 +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > [Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:06:43 - (UTC)] Frank Miles > <f...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest OSs. >> These are mostly working well (includin

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:40:02 +0200, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snip] > Sounds like general network gremlins... A couple of things that spring > to mind: > > (1) Can the windows boxes ping e.g. 8.8.8.8 ? If not, then network > connectivity is likely broken... That works. > (2) Can the

jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-13 Thread Frank Miles
I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest OSs. These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) to the extent that I use Windows, with one glaring exception: when I try to do a Windows Update - the process never finds anything to do, nor does it ever

Re: backported Kicad missing pcbnew?

2016-04-01 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 21:40:01 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-04-01 19:14 +0000, Frank Miles wrote: > >> Had my hopes up when I saw the kicad package in backports. >> Unfortunately (at least on my jessie machine) it doesn't seem to >> include the pcbnew executabl

backported Kicad missing pcbnew?

2016-04-01 Thread Frank Miles
Had my hopes up when I saw the kicad package in backports. Unfortunately (at least on my jessie machine) it doesn't seem to include the pcbnew executable. From the bug reports, it would seem that it should be there & work. Am I missing something somewhere? Hopefully yours, -F

Re: Where is digikam?

2015-11-09 Thread Frank Miles
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:03 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Hi, > > I see digikam in unstable for a very long time now. But it is not coming to > testing. Why is that? Wasnt the push to testing supposed to be an automatic > process? Or does digikam in unstable still have critical bugs?

Re: Where is digikam?

2015-11-09 Thread Frank Miles
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:30:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 09 November 2015 17:53:05 Frank Miles wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:03 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I see digikam in unstable for a very long time now. But i

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:30:03 +0200, Gary Roach wrote: I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24 16x9 monitor. With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 mode. All of my circles

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-18 Thread Frank Miles
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:50:01 +0100, andmalc wrote: I have a Jessie VPS with external disks attached. The disks are specified in /etc/fstab with traditional /dev/sdXX naming. I recently made changes to the disks that made a device name invalid but didn't notice. When I rebooted, the disk

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-02 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:10:02 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Joel Rees wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: the disk as physical volumes for lvm. For you I might suggest: /dev/sdb1 /boot {256M} /dev/sdb4 extended {remainder} Why extended? I generally put my LVM partition straight

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:30:02 +0100, Joe wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:54:39 + (UTC) Frank Miles f...@u.washington.edu wrote: I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a partition table that I

Moving LVM volume?

2014-12-31 Thread Frank Miles
I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a partition table that I thought would be flexible: /dev/sdb1 / (root) {7G} /dev/sdb2 /swap {4GB} /dev/sdb3 /oldjunk{1G}

Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?

2014-09-21 Thread Frank Miles
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:20:02 +0200, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 05:09 +, Frank Miles wrote: [...] It's simply odd that the packages derived from geda-gaf do not contain the gaf utility {none of the derived binary packages seem to have it, not even geda-utils}. Is 'gaf' meant

Is geda-gaf in debian?

2014-09-19 Thread Frank Miles
Strange. Doing a web-search, I find a page for the geda-gaf package (old form at https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/geda-gaf.html which seems to say that geda-gaf is part of stable, testing, and unstable. There are update dates from earlier in 2014. But if I search on the Debian web-site,

Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?

2014-09-19 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 01:20:01 +0200, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/19/14, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/19/14, Frank Miles f...@u.washington.edu wrote: Strange. Doing a web-search, I find a page for the geda-gaf package (old form at https://packages.qa.debian.org/g

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-02-24 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:40:01 +0100, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. I decided to investigate. I bought three identical 8G USB sticks, identical except for colour). None of them appear have any switches on them. The first I used

Re: Vim config problem in jessie

2014-02-15 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:30:02 +0100, rpr nospam wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 04:05:48 + (UTC), Frank Mile wrote: I should have added one more interesting detail. If I comment out the (python) plugin call in /etc/vim/vimrc: if has(autocmd) filetype plugin indent on endif

Vim config problem in jessie

2014-02-14 Thread Frank Miles
I'm having problems setting the vim configuration - and having it mean something - in a fairly new computer. One simple example is the tab stops. Since I'm the only direct user of this machine, I've simply edited /etc/vim/vimrc, where I have the line: set tabstop=4 In addition, I've

Re: Vim config problem in jessie

2014-02-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:50:01 +0100, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 06:35:25PM +, Frank Miles wrote: I'm having problems setting the vim configuration - and having it mean something - in a fairly new computer. One simple example is the tab stops. Since I'm the only

Re: Vim config problem in jessie

2014-02-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:10:01 +0100, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 08:22:02PM +, Frank Miles wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:50:01 +0100, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 06:35:25PM +, Frank Miles wrote: I'm having problems setting the vim configuration

Re: Vim config problem in jessie

2014-02-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 01:00:01 +0100, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:42:59PM +, Frank Miles wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:10:01 +0100, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 08:22:02PM +, Frank Miles wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:50:01 +0100, Jeremiah

Re: Vim config problem in jessie

2014-02-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 01:00:01 +0100, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:42:59PM +, Frank Miles wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:10:01 +0100, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 08:22:02PM +, Frank Miles wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:50:01 +0100, Jeremiah

Re: How well is wheezy supported by haswell platforms?

2014-01-29 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:50:01 +0100, M C wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of considering compute servers for a small HPC facility, and I would like to run Debian wheezy on them. Until recently I would have opted for Intel's Ivy Bridge based platforms, but with the advent of Haswell I'd like

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:50:01 +0100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/17/13, Frank Miles f...@u.washington.edu wrote: I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie. Any insights as to where I should look? Is this something that jessie is doing to everyone, or is my configuration

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:00:01 +0100, Frank Miles wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:50:01 +0100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/17/13, Frank Miles f...@u.washington.edu wrote: I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie. Any insights as to where I should look? Is this something

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:00:02 +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Dec 2013 at 17:46:49 +, Frank Miles wrote: Well, spoke too soon. Evince is now causing the printer to emit many pages, each with a single line of gibberish - so its control is not yet right. Well at least I have reason

Printing in Jessie

2013-12-16 Thread Frank Miles
I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie. Printing PDFs works from gimp (gutenprint), but evince just causes blank pages. This is all with an old HPLJ5M (postscript) network printer. Similarly I can telnet into the printer and have random keystrokes print in Courier.

Re: Growing number of packages not being upgraded

2013-12-10 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:20:01 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: Each upgrade it seems there are a growing number of packages being held back by apt-get. It started off as a few packages a few weeks ago and now is 23: Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back:

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch - SOLVED

2013-12-05 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:30:02 +0100, Frank Miles wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:20:02 +0100, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [snip] I have similar motherboard - ASUS H87-PRO, but a very kind man explained to me on this list that Haswell video won't work with Wheezy so I'm going to use my old

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:30:02 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: This is insane. I have a new system with an Asus H87M-Pro MB, an intel i4770t. Fresh install of wheezy. Things seemed mostly functional... but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:03 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would crash What graphics card do you

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:20:02 +0100, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [snip] I have similar motherboard - ASUS H87-PRO, but a very kind man explained to me on this list that Haswell video won't work with Wheezy so I'm going to use my old Radeon video until Jessie become stable. In my opinion your

New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-26 Thread Frank Miles
This is insane. I have a new system with an Asus H87M-Pro MB, an intel i4770t. Fresh install of wheezy. Things seemed mostly functional... but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would crash (even if X was

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

2013-05-23 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 23 May 2013 00:50:01 +0200, Beco wrote: Dear users, I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, owned by root, group root. Today I edited it, logged as beco, and vi told me warning, read

Re: rpm

2013-04-30 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:40:01 +0200, ChadDavis wrote: I'm doing some software development that uses RPM packages. I would like to have RPM installed on my debian system for trivial and development only usage. In other words, I don't really plan to manage my system with it at all; i just want

Re: Console showing control characters for input on console keyboard

2013-03-20 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:50:02 +0100, francis picabia wrote: After some random keys were hit on a KVM, the console is showing control characters as the input. We switched KVM console and the PS/2 KVM adapter, but the problem sticks with the system/OS. Killing all getty to allow them to

wpa_supplicant.conf - where?

2012-06-20 Thread Frank Miles
The old Thinkpad finally having bit the dust, I got a cute new Asus ZenBook that seems (from other reports) to work with linux. Wiped windows, replacing it with Debian/testing (wheezy). Mostly it's working, with the most glaring problem being wireless. (iwlist wlan0 scanning) can find our

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy [solved!]

2011-07-18 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks to everyone who helped - yes, it was indeed something about my environment. In /etc/profile, I've long exported an environment variable of the form: export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/myname/devel/lib:. I have a dim memory that when compiling cross-compilers that the '.' directory is a

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-17 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks to Stan, Stephen, and Maderios! - Stan wrote: Do you get the same error using the (new) Debian kernel method? $ make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.1.0 deb-pkg I'll have to learn more about the new method for the future. For right now, unfortunately the answer is yes, I get the same

kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-16 Thread Frank Miles
I just tried compiling the kernel for My 'wheezy' system (2.6.39) [amd64]. As I've done many times - using make-kpkg --revision N kernel_image But with the recent linux-source update - shortly after starting I get: CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s In file included

Re: How to use serial ports?

2011-05-13 Thread Frank Miles
Serial ports can be pretty opaque. Do you know if both serial ports were enabled in your BIOS? Can you find out if the relevant ports appear enabled in the system logs? Do you have any hardware diagnostic tools? i.e. one of those LED-based serial port monitors? Do you have flow control

BUG DOSEMU I can't understand this but still exist

2011-04-22 Thread Frank Miles
Dosemu should work fine with DPMI memory handling - if configured properly. Have you checked your dosemu.conf for its cpu_emu setting? HTH-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Squeeze update = disk unbootable

2011-02-16 Thread Frank Miles
Firstly, thanks Tom for asking about the udev version. Since I cannot boot the system I can't ask udev directly; however in /var/cache/apt/archives, the only udev pkg is 164-3. - I think I'm closer to understanding the problem. To clear up one thing: the system is partway to

Re: Squeeze update = disk unbootable

2011-02-15 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks, Andrei. Unfortunately so far it hasn't worked. I've got the swap and all the ext3 partitions labeled (verified by cfdisk), and with the rescue disk boot the labels seem to work. I've modified /etc/fstab, replacing the original /dev/hdaX entries with the new LABEL=Y entries. But when

Squeeze update = disk unbootable

2011-02-14 Thread Frank Miles
I've just tried updating a seldom-used laptop from lenny (2.6.26 custom-compiled kernel) to squeeze. Everything seemed to be working perfectly until the reboot. Rebooting gives a repeated message fsck died with exit status 8. Using nano to rename the /etc/fstab entries /dev/hdaX - /dev/sdaX

Re: printing stopped after sid update

2010-07-06 Thread Frank Miles
Can't be sure, but you might want to check the permissions of /usr/lib/cups/backend If the permissions are set to accessible only by root, try (as root): chmod go+rx /usr/lib/cups/backend HTH-- -f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

fglrx blacked iceweasel?

2010-06-30 Thread Frank Miles
Yesterday's squeeze update included the non-free fglrx driver. At least I think that is what is causing iceweasel to erratically blacken/erase/wipe many of the pages. Are others experiencing this? The browser has become almost completely unusable. Or was there some other update affecting the

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-24 Thread Frank Miles
To Pasi: I'm using the xorg stuff - nothing special from Intel. Sorry for the ambiguity. To Stan: I didn't ask for, nor had I received any recommendation - you must be thinking of someone else. You had responded to a query I raised earlier when I had problems with the RealTek

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-23 Thread Frank Miles
To Pasi: Sound has worked without any particular intervention - straight ALSA. I don't do anything complex with the sound system, though. As far as the video - while I'm presently using a custom-compiled kernel, I'm fairly sure I was getting the same rates with the stock 2.6.32 kernel

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-22 Thread Frank Miles
Hi Pasi: I have the same MB and processor. I have had a few issues, particularly with the RealTek chip, but as of now it's running fine - running the Debian/testing (squeeze) with the 2.26.32 kernel, and the RealTek driver out of nonfree. It's so annoying to have gotten a board

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks so much to Stan, Tom H, and Cameleon! It seems that the consensus is that it's a NIC problem. In case it wasn't previously clear, the RealTek 8169 is part of the Gigabyte motherboard. I thought that I'd escaped non-free-firmware hell by getting a MB with the graphics based on an Intel

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Miles
I won't belabor this. Putting in a different NIC fixed things. No fuss, though interesting that it (presumably udev) wanted to call it eth2. I can live with that. Thanks again, everyone! -Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-07 Thread Frank Miles
I am in the final throes of getting a new system running (Debian/squeeze). For the past 2 weeks it's had just eth0, and the network has worked fine. Now I want this system to have two network interfaces - the original eth0, and eth1 to a DSL modem, just like its precessor system. The strange

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-07 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks, Camaleon (sorry - don't know how to generate the proper characters). That file includes: # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169) SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, ATTR{dev_id}==0x0, ATTR{type}==1, KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth0 # PCI device 0x10b7:0x9050

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-07 Thread Frank Miles
[snip] I fail to see what it's doing, but I cannot see any reference to eth1, it's like only one interace is being recognized :-? What is the output of dmesg | grep eth? [6.317161] eth1: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xc9c4e000, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, XID 083000c0 IRQ 32 [6.384830] eth1:

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-07 Thread Frank Miles
... ok, started... [snip] I fail to see what it's doing, but I cannot see any reference to eth1, it's like only one interace is being recognized :-? What is the output of dmesg | grep eth? [6.317161] eth1: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xc9c4e000,xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, XID 083000c0 IRQ 32 [

Re: Daemon impotent after dropping priviledges with setuid()

2010-01-12 Thread Frank Miles
I think I understand what's happening, though I'm not sure that it should... After the daemon's double-fork (with setsid()), the utility of the group identification seems lost. With a bit more detail: Say I have a directory owned by user user1, who is a member of group1; and that user2

Daemon impotent after dropping priviledges with setuid()

2010-01-08 Thread Frank Miles
I have a peculiar problem with a daemon. Some of the tasks that the daemon needs to accomplish should be done with reduced priviledges, particularly if they are complex or depend on user input. So the daemon forks a child process, which setuid's to some lesser user. Unfortunately, as soon as

compiled C function for postgresql fails (64-bit only)

2009-11-03 Thread Frank Miles
I have a function that I've used since early postgres-7.x days. Now migrating to a 64-bit (i7) machine - running 2.6.30/'squeeze' with postgresql-8.4.1-1. This function is a simple one that takes a string representation of a number as its sole argument (engineering notation), and returns the

Re: debian-installer (squeeze-ia64) fails on new machine

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Dave Witbrodt wrote: Frank Miles wrote: Has anyone tried installing 'squeeze' recently on a i7/860 machine? [...] Any insights welcome! Isn't Core i7 an amd64 architecture, instead of ia64? I think you need to burn another installer CD, instead of that first coaster

debian-installer (squeeze-ia64) fails on new machine

2009-10-23 Thread Frank Miles
Has anyone tried installing 'squeeze' recently on a i7/860 machine? Trying the small-CD method - the line Loading Operating System ... comes up... and never goes away. No error messages, beeps, or any other complaints. The md5sum of the iso image is correct, and I've used 2 separately written

Re: crond.daily: paralellel or sequential?

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Miles
Hi Joost, You may be able to work around the sequential nature of cron jobs by the simple ruse of making a small script which backgrounds each job that you want to run contemporaneously. Something like: #!/bin/sh nohup jobToRun This script will return immediately while the job

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks, Adrian. I was sure that it wasn't just the firewall at this point - that it was necessary to kill eth1 to get eth0 fully functional. I was wrong. This is now just a firewall problem. And this is a handcrafted beast, with lotsa rules. I wouldn't dream (well, not yet anyway) of asking

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Miles
Following up, particularly on Adrian Levi's suggestion to eliminate the gateway spec in /etc/network/interfaces: Thanks, Adrian! Your idea makes sense. Trying it: it changes the routing table exactly as you described, causing my routing table to match yours (excepting, of course, the specific

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-26 Thread Frank Miles
Sure, can provide more info... /etc/network/interfaces : auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static address xxx.yyy.zzz.32 network xxx.yyy.zzz.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-22 Thread Frank Miles
I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This elderly machine had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1, etc., and /sbin/ifconfig shows things as properly connected, with eth0 being the outside interface and eth1 being an internal

Re: python/smtplib fails on rebuilt system

2009-03-19 Thread Frank Miles
[snip] Florian has written: Check if exim is really listening on port 25: # netstat -plant | grep ':25 ' tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3271/exim4 Try s=smtplib.SMTP('127.0.0.1') to see if the problem is related to resolving

python/smtplib fails on rebuilt system

2009-03-17 Thread Frank Miles
A hard drive failure forced me to rebuild my main system. Just a few things haven't been restored; one of them is a python script which is used to email users of important events. In attempting to diagnose the cause, I tried directly executing the lines: import smtplib s=

Re: Unable to mount cdrom in Lenny

2008-11-19 Thread Frank Miles
[snip] Does /dev/scd* exist? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Ron! Thanks! It does indeed, and is apparently the proper mount point for the cdrom, regardless of the lines in /var/log/dmesg. Not to seem unappreciative, but: how should I have known about this? What did I miss? Again,

Unable to mount cdrom in Lenny

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Miles
Why can't I mount cdrom? Running Lenny with custom 2.6.26 kernel. I don't often read CDROMs, so I don't know when this failed (yes, it used to work). Putting a CD into the drive no longer causes udev to provide a /dev/hda device. Kernel modules loaded (lsmod) include: ide_cd_mod cdrom

Keychain use no longer avoids password requirement

2008-06-05 Thread Frank Miles
I have a simple backup system : a remote system periodically tars some important data, and notifies a server that it should read those files. The server then tries to read the files: su - --command=scp URL:/path/filename.tjz /backup-path/filename.tjz backupUser Until mid-May, this was

Cannot write file 1GB to DVD-RAM : any way to fix?

2007-03-26 Thread Frank Miles
I changed how I was backing up my system, and now need to write larger files to my Panasonic LF-D521 DVD-RAM (backup drive). Unfortunately it chokes a bit over 1GB, reporting that the file size is too large. 'umount'ing takes a really long time as well. The disk[s] have been formatted with the

Scanner won't work under gimp

2007-03-15 Thread Frank Miles
Hello... I had to rebuild my home machine (hardware failure). Since the rebuild (with Etch, same as before), neither scanimage nor gimp seem to find my Epson/USB scanner. Running sane-find-scanner finds the scanner without any problem. Running scanimage -L hangs. Turning on