to install Debian,
and I've still got lots to learn. Hang in there. It's worth the trouble.
But stay away from Sid, aka GuaranteedBugs. Stable is (probably) what you need.
Stable doesn't have the bells and whistles and bleeding edge software that Sid
does, but it works goo
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stack.
I hear that Google's Chromium works or Opera, to name a couple biggies.
You really don't need this. And the fix is (probably) simple.
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CPU cycles if you're using tape. But it does require a big hunk of disk space
for a cache.
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last time I looked). This might be something worth looking into...
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"Bring up a terminal" :-)
But in this case, the high-level tools (and some random clicking) eventually
found the answer.
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it to: awful. Do any of you
know off the top of your head how to get my RME Hammerfall card going on PA?
That's the card I used with alsa, and it was not at all a trivial job to
get it going. But, lordie, the sound! It's what digital audio is capable
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spawn of Satan, but it *is* working, at least a little bit.
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some
interaction between pavucontrol and the motherboard. But it just won't
make any noise.
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I'm having a hard time just getting it to beep at me.
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properly?
Since I didn't think PA was on this machine, I haven't done any audio
configuration, alsa or Pulse.
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ev' from package 'gpm' (main)
Command 'pv' from package 'pv' (main)
Command 'mcv' from package 'scotch' (main)
Command 'mv' from package 'coreutils' (main)
Command 'mp' from package 'mp' (main)
mpv: command not found
I tried it as root and got just the
mpv: command not found
I did an 'apt-search mpv' and got hundreds of ...mpv and ...mpv... etc,
but no just plain mpv.
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o=alsa:device='[plughw:0,0]'
>
> Where [plughw:0,0] has first the card number (0) and then the device
> number (0).
Thanks. I'll try that after breakfast :-)
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> root@sbox:~# alsamixer
> ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
> Connection refused
>
> cannot open mixer: Connection refused
Do I need to do something about pulsaAudio? I think I've read that it's
possible to deal with just alsa. No? (I haven't done any audio work on Debian
since the Lenny days.)
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isn't in any of them:
> root@sbox:~# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/ | egrep -i alsa
> alsa-base_1.0.25+3~deb7u1_all.deb
> alsamixergui_0.9.0rc2-1-9.1_amd64.deb
> alsa-utils_1.0.25-4_amd64.deb
> gstreamer0.10-alsa_0.10.36-1.1_amd64.deb
Any thought or solutions? Like which package alsa-lib is in, or why it wasn't
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>>
>> Is this doable?
Sure, no problem. Just put a little script in init.d -- oh, wait a minute...
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, it's smart enough to go looking around if the
local network is gone.
> Or do you never take it anywhere?
Not very often. But it's scheduled for an outing tomorrow morning. I can check
wlan0's roaming abilities then. If it hits an alien DHCP server, it may
scribble all over
is just what the admin claimed last time the file was
updated. Something like ifconfig, or some other similar software, would have a
much better chance of getting the IP right because it could just look up what
was actually assigned to the interface(s) when it was last brought up.
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In the past, I've waited a year or so before installing stable. Maybe I should
have this time...
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shell script (maybe it is, I haven't looked).
> "Oops" conveys nothing. Which is probably why you didn't expand on it
> when replying to David Wright.
That's exactly what I was trying to say. A next to meaningless error message.
"Couldn't find in /etc/hosts, any
the past, and
System V can certainly be a PITA sometimes. I'd like the new one to work,
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Debian has a well deserved reputation for being some of the most stable
software available. Sid is supposed to be broken, and that's fine -- it's alpha
and its bugs get fixed as it slides down the hill. But when it gets to stable
it's supposed to work. Real good, and all the time.
Thank you for your attention...
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/mirror.picosecond.org/debian/dists/oldstable/Release.gpg ==> 200 OK
> ok
> Duplicate dist wheezy.
> WARNING: releasing 1 pending lock...
>
> Sat Oct 10 15:56:23 MDT 2015
An improvement, I think. It looks to me like it should work, but mkdebmirror
didn't download anything but metadata.
picosecond.org is a mirror just up the road from me. I've successfully used it
as a source for Squeeze and Wheezy.
df tells me that there is 174G of available space on my disk.
My mirror is in /var/www/debian (don't ask why -- I don't remember).
Analysis, instructions, and suggestions would be appreciated.
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> Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts matching your actual IP to the content in
> /etc/hostname when you observe this delay?
Yup. I rely on the host files, so I keep then correct and accurate.
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> On Mon, October 5, 2015 12:53 pm, Glenn English wrote:
>> Maybe it's hardware...
It wasn't. A new install fixed everything.
> Have you had a lightning storm in the area recently?
Yeah. That's common in Col
h the time to try to fix it.
> Hmmm. Sorry to be so unspecific.
No prob. Everybody's happy now. I just have some data to copy over from the old
disk. At least it wasn't the hardware...
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One or more things are really bent in there
somewhere. It seems to me that there's a networking problem, but intermittent
and from several directions. I don't understand it at all.
Maybe it's hardware...
Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.
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g like capabilities.h. They're both #defines --
one is 15; the other is a different small integer (17 or 18, IIRC). Now I
really have no idea what the boot is talking about. Sounds like it's telling me
the kernel needs to be recompiled.
They do have to do with setting capabilities in networking, though.
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terminal comes up right away, but it takes a long time (30+ seconds, it feels
like) to display the prompt.
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r of the modules. Just sitting there, the OS
repeats the message. And "top" shows nothing interesting, nor does "ps".
I am using XFCE, and that works well as best I can tell -- it really does seem
to have something to do with networking.
Anybody have any idea of what may be going on? Or better yet, how to make it
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ack, I'll admit) that the way to use an acronym is to
spell it out with the acronym's letters in upper case, and with the acronym in
parentheses right behind it, the first time it's used, then use whichever you
like after that.
There are those of us who don't know acronyms as well as others.
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tatus 1: 1 Time(s)
And 10K more.
Can anyone tell me what this means? I found the problem and disabled the cron
job (it was a shell script running every minute, and that explains the 10K),
but I don't know what cron is trying to tell me.
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> network 192.168.2.0
> gateway 192.168.2.1
Then, in /etc/resolv.conf, you need to enter the IP of a nameserver. Like this:
> nameserver 192.168.2.205
> domain slsware.dmz
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On Sep 6, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> You might have a multi-boot system, i.e., several OSes installed, and
> when you boot into one of your linux OSes you might want to read
> everything else on any disk.
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another. Not since the floppy days, anyway.
What have I overlooked? Why does that capability even exist on an OS?
Reformatted thumb drives?
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thousand lines and use a legible type face. That's still a long way from 4G,
though, but Gnome's working on that.
> But where to find tape hardware,
> anyway ?
Amazon? They have several.
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is a little strange, and ext4 is read-only.
No mention that can find of FAT anything. But *surely*...
And, of course, you can communicate with it via IP (FTP, SSH, etc.) or NFS or
tape (maybe; I don't know for sure that their tar/dump write tapes like Linux
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other people.
But *surely* they can read an old PC-DOS file. Everybody can do that. I'm
trying to get XFCE going, but I'll stick a FAT-16 thumb drive in it in the
morning and see what happens.
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stemd0!?!?!?
>
> Freedom of choice my ass!
Lotsa freedom. One of my boxes is doing a major install of FreeBSD as we speak,
so I can see if I can live with it. So far it seems a lot like Debian, except
for iptables, the way their equivalent of /etc/init.d is done, and the funny
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IIRC). I'd definitely go with a good one and type happily and noisily, without
failures, for a long time.
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is there a newer kernel you can try?)
Yet another possible possibility:
* Is the disk backward compatible with USB2? If so, does it work with a USB2
card? Might get rid of some variables.
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entoo instead?
Guys, this is not tough. Just put "non-free" in your apt sources file line(s),
and you'll never see the difference. The firmware in not unencumbered; it's
$free, but not beer free. You can get it any time you ask for it.
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compiled a kernel, though, and I do know it's a
significant job (for the compiler).
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ave server, but no error of any kind. The slave zone file
has the updated serial and the change I made. All the slave zones files are
dated today.
I claim it's fixed. I'll be watching the DNS logs for a few days, though, just
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> apparmor.
No permission probs in the log this morning. Thanks much to those with
suggestions.
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er a decade with no
significant problems or complaints. (It used to be tape only, but I understand
it will write to disk now.)
I don't think it does cloud backups though.
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> Glenn English wrote:
>> root@srv:~# ps -ef | grep named
>> bind 2098 1 0 May10 ?00:00:36 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
>> root 10498 1 0 May10 ?00:00:50 /usr/sbin/named -c
>> /etc/bind/na
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> Glenn English wrote:
>> root@srv:~# ps -ef | grep named
>> bind 2098 1 0 May10 ?00:00:36 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
>> root 10498 1 0 May10 ?00:00:50 /usr/sbin/named -c
>> /etc/bind/na
, but they
seem to be OK. And as best I can tell, there's just a hint of SELinux on this
machine.
This is happening on Dell, Supermicro, and RaspberryPi boxes, all running
Wheezy with default, and updated, kernels, FWIW. The lone Lenny server doesn't
seem to have troubles.
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nothing I can figure out how to look at.
None of my other server software has this problem, just Bind.
Any ideas?
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On Apr 26, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Glenn English wrote:
> Is anyone here familiar with GoBook XR-1 laptops?
Thank all for the suggestions. The speakers are back on.
I don't remember whose idea it was, but in one of the links suggested, I found
a link to a site called Troubleshooting Lin
On Apr 26, 2015, at 6:36 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> This sounds very strange, but they report success
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/313952/sound-not-working
A GoBook topic! It is strange, but I've seen stranger for this machine.
TIR (Thanks In Retrospect)
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o navigate and "m" to mute/unmute. The tab key
> will select between Playback/Capture/All
>
> Clunky, but it works. Pulse will not work right if Alsa is not set correctly.
I'll try anything I haven't tried. I played with alsamixer, and it did just
what it looked
Debian machines.
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or ruggedness; it's rated, including the disk with its heater, to
work from -40 to +140, and all the screws are the same size). I expect it to
work for a very long time.
If I could just get the speakers to beep at me :-)
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(I've futzed with the 'stealth' settings in the BIOS, with no success.)
TIA
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ntually. But this
way, you could do that at your pleasure and at your own speed.
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gets the job done, eventually, but the more modern Xeon box
downstairs is much easier to live with...
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x
https://cs50.harvard.edu/
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-- A unix guru I worked with many years ago
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> Is there a way to "--purge" by default when using apt-get or aptitude?
How about a little shell script?
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all the disks it can
find on the computer, at the same time, even if they're different sizes; even
if some are SCSI and some are SATA.
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re fine. You just need to get some new friends.
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ot, your problem is (probably) not gdm.
Or, if startx works, you can live with typing a command every time you log in
(over a lifetime, likely less work than figuring out what's wrong now). Or add
the startx command toward the bottom of your .bashrc...
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I've found that the redirector eventually
> takes me somewhere which does work
Thanks, Brian. I'll give a try.
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I do get email from apticron from time to time about updates, so it's not
completely dead. But I wonder what these mean, and if I might be missing some
updates.
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of some kind.
What do you suggest? Is sending it to Quantum for rehab a viable option?
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> Failed to download some Package, Sources or Release files!
> WARNING: releasing 1 pending lock...
I have what claims to be the most recent key for both wheezy and jessie, and
I've looked for others. The keys aptitude uses work fine for reloading its
repositories, but
d Wheezy kernel, updated this morning and the update
does the same as the original).
Can anyone tell me what might be going on?
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> Much appreciated. Me and the OP wish we had read the page on the link
> you gave.
He does indeed. In answer to a question, I love to get links to a vast store of
data.
Thanks for the info.
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But I'm not sure what that means. Is apticron going to work? What should be in
/etc/apt/sources.list?
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Google,
Wikipedia, and the Debian site when I need to. I can type 'startx' if I want to
see pictures, but it always boots into the console.
That's worked over several stables, on several computers, and for a long time.
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I'm really disappointed. I wanted to use this new, smaller, easier to configure
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> ---END QUOTE FROM VENDOR---
>
> Is the reported kernel-version string, "3.12-1-amd64", something that I could
> change by compiling a custom kernel?
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atibility, and massive
reliability. The only failure I've had with them was a SATA drive -- Newegg and
RAID 1 fixed that.
And they're pretty cheap. A bit over your try for $500, though, but $600 or
$700. Them Xeons ain't cheap. Nor are reliable electrolytic caps...
They're g
On Nov 23, 2013, at 1:43 AM, Account for Debian group mail
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> "monit" looks like it might work!
Monit runs here. It does restart stuff, among a lot of other cool things...
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On Nov 10, 2013, at 2:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> $ apt-cache show rsyslog | grep Priority
> Priority: important
>
> Compare that to syslog-ng ;)
Gotcha. Thanks, Andrei :-)
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'd sure like to hear it. But
unless I do, I'm just going to assume that Aptitude makes its dialog boxes from
character sets selected at random and stop whining about it. As long as it does
the rest of its job reasonably well, I can live with cosmetic problems...
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On Oct 26, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> On 2013-10-26 Glenn English wrote:
>
>> There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd
>> thing in Aptitude:
>
>>lqk
>>xReally quit Aptitude?x
On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jape Person wrote:
> On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote:
>>>> There are several Debian machines around, an
that to their ncurses
boxes?
Aptitude is the only place I've seen this (yet), and I've played with locales
and googled and looked at man pages -- no joy. It has something to do with the
VT-100 'graphics' chars, I think, but I can't figure out how to fix it...
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> Aww, don't make it so easy. Have them do it in assembler. :)
Keep in mind that C is nothing but a collection of macros for PDP-11 assembly
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I've got several wheezy boxes around. Some had wheezy installed with the netcd,
some by aptitude update. Some run syslog-ng. others rsyslog. It looks like, on
the web, that syslog-ng is supposed to be the logging software, but I'm not
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>> term, before.
>
> I'd like to know what a security domain is too. So I can join you as Aunt
> Sally, Paul. ;-)
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yslog
binary (there is now). And is was syslog-ng that was running. If rsyslog is the
standard Debian logging daemon, I have no idea how syslog-ng was even on the
disk, to say nothing of why it was running.
Thanks, Michael. I'd never paid a lot of attention to the log daemon before,
and I
o the same files in
/var/log? Is Udev somehow involved in this? Have I got something badly bent?
I'm trying to get my Cisco router to log on a DMZ server, and I can't figure
out how/what to configure (did fine on Lenny)...
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big 'glue' fail of Ampex and Scotch mastering tape in the 1970s.
These tapes in the DLT cartridges I use for backup are amazingly high quality.
So should the audio mastering tape of the '70s have been. I can't imagine how
many studios and artists have lost their masters...
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G
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what I would consider a solid backup system. I'm looking forward to an LTO when
the DLT drive goes belly up.
This thread got me looking around a bit, and DLT seems all but non-existant
these days. I don't think I can even get tapes for my slightly odd DLT drive
any more, not from N
e
cons. For cons, look to speed and price :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Data_Storage
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Glenn English
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