Why does iconv choose Private Use Area
$ echo =C7=CD=C7=B9=C7=AF=C7=EF|
perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print decode_qp($_)'|
iconv -f big5 -t utf8|uni2ascii -wq
0xF77A 0xF766 0xF75C 0xF79C
over U+30D1 KATAKANA LETTER PA, etc.?
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At boot I see
IO APIC resources couldn't be allocated
I checked Google and lots of people mention they see it, and then
something bad happens. So they only discuss how to fix the bad thing,
but don't mention what one should do about the message.
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Why must emacs depend on sound packages? Is emacs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000 and will talk to us?
Isn't that an independent package, emacspeak?
Shouldn't there be a way to install an emacs without sound packages?
Even the nox version depends on them. Does emacs say things more than
I wanted to see the whois entry for qeqertarsuaq.gl
$ whois qeqertarsuaq.gl
This TLD has no whois server.
But http://whois.domaintools.com/qeqertarsuaq.gl says
Whois Server: whois.ripe.net
So why didn't we see something like
$ whois last.fm
This TLD has no whois server, but you can access the
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes:
echo blacklist 8139cp /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Now with the 2.6.29-1-686 kernel none of this is needed! The errors are gone.
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# apt-get install rcconf
and then just uncheck your X window manager from the rcconf list.
You can still start it any time with
# /etc/init.d/example start
but to stop it you need to do
# cd /tmp; nohup /etc/init.d/example stop
at least with xdm. Or else it hangs up before it can stop itself.
Here
Question: do all packages pass the piuparts tests yet, in that they
don't leave a residue behind? If we are to name names then those who do
not pass piuparts are it.
Then there are those that create files at other times during their
lifespan that piuparts wouldn't catch.
Then there's the
Say, if we get these errors
# aptitude install linux-image-2.6.29-1-686
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-1-686
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d102e_ucode.bin for module e100
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d101s_ucode.bin for module e100
W:
At boot with Linux 2.6.26-2-686 I see
8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
8139cp :00:0f.0: Try the 8139too driver instead.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0f.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 18
eth0: RealTek RTL8139
Now in 2.6.29-1-686 it just says
8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible
chip, use 8139too
I assume use here is short for using and means I, the emitter of
this message, will use, and not you, the person reading this message,
should use, and thus I needn't
Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)
$ man cruft
cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files)
Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just
# cruft -d /
will probably produce tons of output on any system that has been under
real use
In syslog I see
X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application
console-kit-daemon[2475]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2474/environ:
Failed to open file '/proc/2474/environ': No such file or directory
What should I do? What application is it talking about?
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I wonder how to stop this error.
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed
(/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory)
(EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
(II) GLX: no usable GL providers found for screen 0
I don't use my
The coincidentally appended lines
console-kit-daemon[2475]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2474/environ:
Failed to open file '/proc/2474/environ': No such file or directory
turned out to be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523372
So now all I want to know is what to do about
X:
All I know is I use the stock 2.6.26-2-686 kernel and see at boot:
udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly
I found lots of documentation but cannot figure out if is this something
bad that I did, and I need
In sid, linux-image-686 no longer tracks the latest kernel, but instead
tracks a kernel that has already been removed from sid!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028
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How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?
Depending on linux-image-686 isn't working these days.
# aptitude -F %p search ?obsolete | xargs -n 1 echo aptitude why|sh -x
+ aptitude why linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
i linux-image-686 Depends linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel? Depending on
linux-image-686 isn't working these days.
(it depends on a package no longer available)
$ cat sources.list
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian unstable main
I'm running debian testing with stock kernel 2.6.26-1-686. Does anybody
know when will it move to a newer kernel?
See
Subject: Bug#519028: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?
and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028
maybe.
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OK then, how do the _shmoes_ keep up with the latest kernel?
Especially now that linux-image-686 depends on an unavailable package,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028
Any other tracker packages left these days that point to anything?
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I have lots of font packages installed.
How can I tell which ones I don't really need?:
How to tell the last time I used them:
$ dlocate .ttf|sed 's/.* //'|xargs ls -ogtu
perhaps? (Probably no counter to count how often I used them.) How to
browse them?
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Gentlemen, thank you for your answers. I have perfected:
$ cat usb-reset
#!/bin/sh
mount|grep /dev/sd { echo 12 $0: umount it first, Holmes; exit 55;}
grep uhci_hcd /proc/modules /dev/null
case $? in 0) m=u;; 1) m=o;; esac
set -e
for i in rmmod modprobe
do for j in ${m?}hci-hcd ehci-hcd
do
What commands would be the equivalent to pulling the USB connector out
of the computer, waiting a second, and then putting it back in?
I find that's what I have to do sometimes to get certain things to
work, and wish to reduce the wear and tear on the hardware.
But wouldn't it be better to fix
Package: mount
Version: 2.13.1.1-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org
I notice a problem. The mount(8) defaults have no easy way of being
changed by root, without having to recompile something.
Wouldn't it be nice in /etc/fstab to be able to add a
OK thanks everybody. The problem was caused by the flashplayer-mozilla
maintainer telling me to manually tinker with update-alternatives to
fix a one time bug. update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so fixed
it, and I switched to a Free Software player too while I was at it.
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How do I view a .SWF file?
$ iceweasel http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702
$ wget http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 -O l.swf
$ file l.swf
l.swf: Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 7
$ iceweasel l.swf
$ dpkg -l|egrep flash\|swf\|icewe
ii flashplayer-mozilla 1:10.0.12.36-0.2 Macromedia
AR What happends if you open iceweasel, copy/paste the abobe URL in the address
AR bar and press Enter?
OK, I think I see what you're trying to say.
I visited http://www.taipower.com.tw/ , a site that I recall uses
Flash.
Now iceweasel asks me to visit adobe . com to install the missing
plugins.
AR x86 or x86_64?
x86.
Linux jidanni1 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 8 19:00:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
I installed mozilla-plugin-gnash, still no help.
I removed ~/.mozilla and started Again, still no help.
I looked in preferences/applications and there is no SWF choice there.
$ HEAD -P
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Can't I please avoid having to go outside Debian for the .debs?
FK I think you should check which plugin iceweasel uses. You first have to
FK go to about:config (just type this without the quotes in the location
FK bar and hit ENTER). Then look for
FK Let's see what is going on here; please post the output of these two
FK commands:
$ dpkg -L flashplayer-mozilla | grep '\.so$'
/usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
$ find /usr/lib/*/plugins*
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins
/usr/lib/krb5/plugins/krb5
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
If I don't touch my computer for 10 minutes, the screen goes blank.
After some more minutes, it goes into even more slumber.
OK, how can scripts detect what state it is in?
test `cat /proc/acpi/what or /sys/what` = fully awake ...?
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EVL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find no way in aptitude to
# aptitude install telnet-ssl
Reading package lists... Done - Get rid of these messages, and
The following NEW packages will be installed:
telnet-ssl
The following packages will
I find no way in aptitude to
# aptitude install telnet-ssl
Reading package lists... Done - Get rid of these messages, and
The following NEW packages will be installed:
telnet-ssl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
telnet{a} - also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like
Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their system?
Find their name with
# grep-status 'This is a dummy package'
and then apt-get purge them?
Seems not to systematic.
OK, I just tried that here on sid
# apt-get purge libcupsys2
... 50 to remove
It wanted to take 50
I have copied /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* to another machine, but try
as I might, I cannot get apt to apply those files to ../*Packages. Apt
bombs out if it cannot connect to the network. Yes I will connect it
to the network, but not today.
How can I trick apt into thinking that it has just
I want to do
$ echo what_please? /sys?/where? or /proc/acpi/where?
to adjust brightness and/or contrast, for the Linux console and/or in
X windows. My monitor is Sampo Tech Rad-5Q. I use the latest Debian sid.
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I am trying very hard to have the latest version of linux-doc-2.6*
always installed.
# apt-get install linux-doc-2.6
Package linux-doc-2.6 is a virtual package provided by:
linux-doc-2.6.24 2.6.24-5
linux-doc-2.6.25 2.6.25-3
You should explicitly select one to install.
# apt-show-versions
Why in sid after I umount and pull a USB card reader from its socket, and
insert and mount a USB MP3 player, does /dev/disk/* just keep on showing
the old state? Maybe it only shows the state at boot and thats that?
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Gentlemen, why not let the others get cut on the cutting edge of
Debian sid whilst we relax and wait oh, say 72 hours for the packages
we want to stabilize? Slightly stable unstable, but not too stable as
to be stale as stable.
Sure, man apt.conf mentions Max-Age, but that is only for index files
How does one best track linux-doc-2.6?
# apt-get install linux-doc-2.6
Note, selecting linux-doc-2.6.24 instead of linux-doc-2.6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-doc-2.6.24
OK, but what about later when linux-doc-2.6 points to 2.6.25?
# dpkg-unhold linux-doc-2.6
# apt-get
S Try dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config. The questions are quite simple...
It just asks three questions, non having to do with sizes.
I'm saying I what I want to do is like first issuing
$ xrandr -s 1024x768
$ #and then now do what to make my monitor look just like I then issued
$ #xrandr -s
Dear Debian, I now own a LCD monitor that shall be used in its Native
Resolution of 1024x768. It replaces a CRT that was 800x600.
Now everything is so tiny and hard to read.
Given that I am determined to run my LCD in its Native Resolution,
what do I do to make everything now have bigger fonts,
Help. I feel so stupid. I don't know how to get X windows to start or
toggle into 800x600 mode these days anymore. I feel so stupid.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456955
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I cannot figure out how to get
input: Generic USB K/B as /class/input/input5
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Generic USB K/B] on usb-:00:1d.1-2
to get read. I hit on the keys and nothing happens.
I want to try out this second keyboard and I can't.
I see the above dmesg message, but I can't
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