Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[David Wright]

Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk):
> Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net):

> > The mainlog file displays the error that
> > smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting
> > 
> > 2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** mar...@shellworld.net R=smarthost
> > T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after
> > MAIL FROM: SIZE=1586: host smtp.suddenlink.net
> > [208.180.40.68]: 553 Authentication is required to send mail as
> > 
> 
> So you're not authenticating correctly. Your password file appears to
> be ok. Do you know which authentication method they use and whether
> this varies on different ports?

I just did an experiment. Normally I send mail through the smarthost
at my domain's host, and I can use a variety of port numbers for that.
This is obviously useful when travelling as the host is always there
if there's an unblocked port.

However, at home I can send mail through my ISP's smarthost too, for
which I've always left the port at 25. But I just tried 587 and I get
almost exactly the same error message as you. I have
X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128 probably because I force tls, and
some DN= info, and the error code is 550 5.1.0 Authentication required
(rather than 553).
I hasten to add that to my knowledge I can't authenticate with my ISP
because I don't have a username or password.

So it might be worth investigating which port you should be using,
or just try the usual ones like 25, 465, 587, 2525, and so on.

The other thing you could try is a handcrafted email, which takes
about 5 minutes, by typing the following into a bash prompt:


$ echo -e -n '\0marti...@suddenlink.net\0SECRET' | base64
aBase64stringIsEmitted=
$ openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect smtp.suddenlink.net:587
ehlo hostname
auth plain aBase64stringIsEmitted=
mail from:marti...@suddenlink.net
rcpt to:
data
subject: testing 587 with ehlo hostname...
 <--- the blank line 
between header and body
text of message is any other info saying what parameters you used.
.
quit


Cut and paste this at the prompts, having put in your password on the
first line, and copied the resulting base64 string after auth plain.
It might be worth doing all this in a script command, as there's a big
block of garbage emitted when you enter the openssl line. Here's an
edited example of what you I see when I do this:

$ openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect smtp.suddenlink.net:587
CONNECTED(0003)
depth=2 C = GB, ST = Greater Manchester, L = ...

... about 80 lines of chatter ...

...
Timeout   : 300 (sec)
Verify return code: 20 (unable to get local issuer certificate)
---
250 DSN
ehlo hostname
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5
250-... various things ...
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
auth plain aBase64stringIsEmittedMisTyped=
535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure
auth plain aBase64stringIsEmitted=
235 2.7.0 Authentication successful
mail from:marti...@suddenlink.net
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to:
250 2.1.5 Ok
data
354 End data with .
subject: testing 587 with ehlo hostname...

text of message is any other info saying what parameters you used.
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B85585AE524
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
closed
$ 

As you can see, if there's any problem, you see it straight away.

Cheers,
David.


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Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

[Bob Bernstein]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote:

Still, at $59/device - who's going to buy enough of 
the things to instrument all of their plants - maybe 
a garden plot, though.


Reinhard Heydrich famously detested all plants:

"The silly things will rat out their own families just 
for some extra water. Bah, They were useless in an 
occupation zone! Completely unreliable!"


Once, he explained with real bitterness: "I never met 
even one who at the end could sit down at the edge of 
the death pit and take it in the neck like a man."


So, clearly, very large gardens should be easily 
pacified with only a handful of devices.


Stoopid plants.

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Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote:
> At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10
> July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I
> could download the tarball and try to compile it. Or am I on the wrong
> track? 

You might want to reconsider that.  4.1.2 is too new, it is not nearly as
safe as you might think to use that kernel.

Actually, if the patch you need already went to sta...@lists.kernel.org, it
will land in 3.16-ckt (the longterm branch that is "upstream" of the Debian
jessie kernel), and maybe even in a Debian kernel update, well before I'd
consider 4.1.y safe to use.

So, IMHO, it would be safer for you to get the Debian kernel sources, and
attempt to add the relevant patch, "cherry picked" from 4.1.2 (or if you
wait for it, from 3.16-ckt).

This is the "upstream" tree for 3.16 longterm (aka 3.16-ckt), it is
maintained by the Canonical Kernel Team:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y

Note that the Debian kernel has a lot more patches on top of 3.16-ckt.

This is the Debian jessie kernel tree (development), maintained by the
Debian kernel team:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel/dists/jessie/linux/

You will need to read this to build a development snapshot of the Debian
jessie kernel:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel/dists/jessie/linux/debian/README.source?view=markup

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Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

[Miles Fidelman]

John Hasler wrote:

Paul E Condon writes:

Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's
suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant.

I wrote:

I've given up emailing them. They never answer.

Arno Schuring writes:

There's an app for that:
http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/flower-power/

Not Free Software.


Well, if you're going to be a humorless dick about it - that's both 
irrelevant and wrong:

- it's not software at all, it's a sensor
- it seems to talk via bluetooth - and they publish the protocol spec.
- the smartphone app IS free software (not open source though, if you 
want to get really pedantic)


Unfortunately it DOESN'T seem to talk to the net or do email - but it 
looks easy enough to write something that would act as network/email 
gateway.  (Still, at $59/device - who's going to buy enough of the 
things to instrument all of their plants - maybe a garden plot, though).



Miles Fidelman

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Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

[David Wright]

Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com):

> I simply want to speed
> up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working
> normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a
> tremendous scare and it takes time to get breathing normally again.  I was
> asking if any command exists, to shorten that.  I though `sync' was it, but
> isn't.

sync merely flushes the buffers waiting to be written.

top is a useful command. With browsers running on slow machines, you
want to look out for those cluttered webpages that keep doing things
behind your back like running flash. Also look for any plugin-container
processes. Similar problem.

Sometimes I can tell I've left one of these web pages open by the fan
starting or speeding up. top gives the game away.

Cheers,
David.


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Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[Paul E Condon]

On 20150708_2203-0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
>   I am trying to get a debian squeeze system to pull mail
> from my cable provider's pop3 server. It appears they are not
> doing anything really out of the ordinary but I obviously have
> something set wrong.
> 
>   Here is a short snippet from their instructions for
> using pop:
> 
>Incoming Mail Server: pop.suddenlink.net
>Incoming mail port: 110
>Incoming mail port (SSL): 995
> 
> end of snippet
> 
>   It all starts out OK:
> 
> fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.suddenlink.net (protocol POP3) at Wed Jul  8 
> 21:23:25 2015: poll started
> Trying to connect to 208.180.40.196/110...connected.
...snip
> Thanks for all constructive suggestions.
> 
> Martin McCormick
> 

At the time of my posting there has developed a volumous branching thread
about trying to configure exim that seems to be making progress only very
slowly. I haven't read all of it, so if buried somewhere in there is
information which renders my suggestion un-constructive, please accept my
apology.

I use msmtp, not exim, even though exim comes already installed by
Debian.  Msmtp has its own tiny config file which can be located at
~/.msmtprc You can put there whatever you need to satisfy you ISP and
have no fear of exim mucking about with it. Of course, don't remove
exim once you see msmtp working. That would break you Debian
installation. Msmtp is a package in the main branch of all Debian
repositories.

HTH

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Re: bug? laptop-mode-tools - mouse turns off after 3s of inactivity after last update

[The Wanderer]

On 07/11/2015 at 09:04 AM, Hans wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> I accidently had to reinstall laptop-mode-tools. I had to purge and
> reinstall the package.
> 
> After this, I noticed, that my usb-mouse (cable), turns off after 3s
> of inactivity. This behaviour was already deccribed here in older
> forums:
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/130915/optical-mouse-temporarily-turns-off-when-system-is-idle
>
> and more special here
> 
> https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/how-to-prevent-a-usb-mouse-auto-suspending-in-linux-when-a-laptops-power-supply-is-disconnected/
>
> However, I could not find a configuration file in laptop-mode-tools
> to prevent this behaviour.
> 
> This happens only, when I am on battery, or when I am connected to
> power supply, but got no battery inserted.

Sounds like usb-autosuspend, at a glance.

I noticed that the commented line listing usb-autosuspend as a valid
option for one of the settings in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf
disappeared with the most recent update to that package, but I didn't
notice anything in the changelogs that would seem to explain that. (I'm
not on that laptop now, so I can't check easily.)

I really hope the option to disable USB auto-suspending hasn't
disappeared; last I checked, allowing USB autosuspend would deactivate
my mouse in exactly this way.

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persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
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Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

[John Hasler]

Paul E Condon writes:
> Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's
> suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant.

I wrote:
> I've given up emailing them. They never answer.

Arno Schuring writes:
> There's an app for that:
> http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/flower-power/

Not Free Software.
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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Jonathan Levine]

On 7/11/15, Brian  wrote:

> Reinstall; one partition for everything.
>
> The base system is installed next. You have no control over this.
>
> When it comes to installing other software do not install anything.
> Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected.
>
> Complete installation and report back in similar detail to previously.

Okay, just finished it.  Had to uncheck the default kraft dinner
environment, printer, and system utilities.  Booted just fine and now
I'm looking at a normal getty, without the crash.  I'm inclined to concur
with the collected thinking here - that it's a video problem and passing
on kde solved it.  I'll probably install the other two just to prove it and
get the utilities (since there's likely to be stuff in there that I want).

So thanks very much for the guidance.  Now, one more question, if I
may:  What is the shortcut means to installing those two packages
without unnecessarily going back and doing the whole thing anew?


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RE: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

[Arno Schuring]

I know I shouldn't, but...

> From: jhas...@newsguy.com
> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:58:03 -0500
>
> Paul E Condon writes:
>> Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's
>> suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant.
>
> I've given up emailing them. They never answer.

There's an app for that:
http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/flower-power/


Regards,
Arno

  

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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Selim T . Erdoğan]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 04:15:09PM -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:
> On 7/11/15, Gary Dale  wrote:
> 
> > That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui?
> 
> As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks
> it's trying to run.  I wasn't *expecting* one - I just need command-line
> on this thing.  And it does (inconsistently) flash the login prompt right
> before the crash, so I'm guessing it's trying to run a getty on the console
> (w/o the graphic environment).

I also think it sounds like a video issue.  You can try choosing the 
recovery mode in grub and then removing the graphical stuff.  I think 
the default would have installed "gdm3", so you can check if that 
package is installed, and remove it.  (If it wants to remove a whole 
bunch of other stuff, just go with it.  Shouldn't be a problem since you 
only want the command line.)


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Jonathan Levine]

On 7/11/15, Brian  wrote:

> Not knowing how how you installed, do you fancy trying this:

Sure, no reason not to.

> Reinstall; one partition for everything.

That's how I did it first time around, as that was the default.  I'm
accustomed to more complex partition schemes in other unixen,
but figured I'd just go with the flow this time.

> The base system is installed next. You have no control over this.
>
> When it comes to installing other software do not install anything.
> Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected.
>
> Complete installation and report back in similar detail to previously.

I'll give that a shot, thanks.  Will advise.


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Brian]

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 15:18:21 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:

> On 7/11/15, Brian  wrote:
> 
> > A nice account.
> >
> > At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and
> > add
> >
> >longhaul.enable=1
> >
> > to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on.
> 
> Did that.  Result was exactly the same, with the exception of not getting
> the longhaul warning just prior to the crash.  Being a mostly NetBSD and
> IRIX guy, I've never heard of longhaul.  What's that about?

No idea. It came up in the first few lines with the obvious search
terms.

Not knowing how how you installed, do you fancy trying this:

Reinstall; one partition for everything.

The base system is installed next. You have no control over this.

When it comes to installing other software do not install anything.
Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected.

Complete installation and report back in similar detail to previously.


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Jonathan Levine]

On 7/11/15, Gary Dale  wrote:

> That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui?

As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks
it's trying to run.  I wasn't *expecting* one - I just need command-line
on this thing.  And it does (inconsistently) flash the login prompt right
before the crash, so I'm guessing it's trying to run a getty on the console
(w/o the graphic environment).


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Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

[Selim T . Erdoğan]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:34:57PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> 
> Thanks.  But maybe I was meaning something different.  I simply want to speed
> up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working
> normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a
> tremendous scare and it takes time to get breathing normally again.  I was
> asking if any command exists, to shorten that.  I though `sync' was it, but
> isn't.


You could try

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

after the sync command.


> > 2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina :
> >
> > Rodolfo Medina  writes:
> > 
> > > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very
> > > very slow. Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten
> > > minutes it starts working normally again.
> > 
> > Then, to try to recover it, I do:
> > 
> > $ sync
> > 
> > , but this is not enough. Is there any command to get the processor back
> > soon in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser?
> > Apologises for not having the right technical terms...


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Gary Dale]

On 11/07/15 11:14 AM, Jonathan Levine wrote:

On 7/11/15, Brian  wrote:


On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:


I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be
gentle and use words without too many syllables.

I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
support for this CPU vendor" error.

We suppose "tanks" means "something very unexpected happened" but also
we need to know what you saw during the booting and how the machine
behaved.

Now that I'm fresh, it seems less obvious that the error I reported above
is what's killing it.  Here's the whole boot-to-crash process:

The GRUB bootloader splash screen appears, and after a few seconds
it proceeds to load the default, Debian GNU/Linux.  Then it homes the
cursor and says:

Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-586
Loading initial ramdisk

Then the screen clears (i.e goes back to text mode) and it reports:

[2.91457 (this number varies)] microcode: no support for this CPU vendor

Then it does some fscking, then:

[numbers] longhaul: option "enable" not set.  Aborting.

The screen clears again, sometimes - not always - the login prompt
appears for just a flash, then the machine evidently crashes - there's a
screen blank, a flash of random character data, another blanking, then
(after about a minute) what I suppose you folks would call a WSOD
appears - white screen, frowny face, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.  Please contact a
system administrator" message.  And that's where it stays until I hit the
reset.

Jonathan



That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui?


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Jonathan Levine]

On 7/11/15, Richard Owlett  wrote:

> You might want to try a live-cd {https://www.debian.org/CD/live/}.
> The netinst cd is a very minimal system. I can see it "running"
> when a "full" system might not. When I was looking for a distro I
> purchased live-cd's
> [https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/] to determine compatibility
> with my hardware. [I was on dial-up so downloading was not
> feasible ;]

Okay, I'll keep it in mind, and perhaps give it a try if nobody can
shed any light on the current install.  The only reason I'm reluctant
is that I'm on a satellite ISP - and a small and expensive traffic cap -
so sucking down full install CDs would presumably chew up a lot of
my allocation.  That's why I chose the small CD network install - I
figured it'd hold the download down to just what was needed.


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Jonathan Levine]

On 7/11/15, Brian  wrote:

> A nice account.
>
> At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and
> add
>
>longhaul.enable=1
>
> to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on.

Did that.  Result was exactly the same, with the exception of not getting
the longhaul warning just prior to the crash.  Being a mostly NetBSD and
IRIX guy, I've never heard of longhaul.  What's that about?


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Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

[John Hasler]

Paul E Condon writes:
> Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's
> suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant.

I've given up emailing them.  They never answer.
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Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

[Gary Dale]

On 11/07/15 11:40 AM, Gary Dale wrote:

On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400
Gary Dale  wrote:
Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the 
disk.
I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the 
cmp
command to compare the copy to the original, I get system error 
messages

and the drive vanishes.

This doesn't happen immediately. It seems to after some significant 
file

i/o. Interestingly, I've gotten i/o error messages on files that, after
a reboot (remote system so I can't unplug and replug the drive), 
compare

OK. This leads me to think it's not a disk problem. Also smartctl -H
says the disk is healthy.

This might be related to the problems with USB disks Bob Proulx
described back in April, you can find the posting here:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg00105.html

You could also run a selftest on the disk with smartctl to see what
that says. Check the "-t" option in the man page for details.

Petter
- I ran the long test and -H still reports no problems with the disk. 
The output is:


root@molar:/home/garydale# smartctl -t long /dev/sde
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, 
www.smartmontools.org


=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately 
in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in 
off-line mode" successful.

Testing has begun.
Please wait 209 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Sat Jul 11 08:19:48 2015

Use smartctl -X to abort test.
root@molar:/home/garydale# smartctl -H /dev/sde
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, 
www.smartmontools.org


=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers 
missing

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.


- The disks are usually swapped every week so no disk is mounted for 
months on end. In this case, the disks are new to accommodate an 
increased amount of data to be backed up, so I am positive that no 
disk has been plugged in for more than a week. The offsite backup 
script has been running flawlessly for a long time with smaller disks 
plugged into a USB2 port (on a different motherboard).


- The largest files are 25G, the maximum size set for my bacula volumes.

- I have done a reformat on the drive, both a quick one and a full 
one. The problem persists.


- I'm doubtful that ionice would help. This would be about the only 
active process on the system which is otherwise idle at the time the 
script is run. Even with ionice set to idle, it shouldn't have any 
impact. I can try a combo of nice and ionice to see if it's a speed 
issue once the office closes.





trying with both nice and ionice had no effect.  :(


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Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

[Paul E Condon]

On 20150710_1208-0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> >Lisi writes:
> >>No, I disagree.  Mesdames is now fully accepted, and I would say expected,
> >>giving:
> >>Dear Sirs/Mesdames or even dear Mesdames/Sirs.
> >>Duck includes drake and mankind includes women.
> >Ok.  Let's settle on "Dear Peeps".
> >
> >
> >Actually "Dear" when addressing strangers has always struck me as odd.
> 
> I usually settle on "Hi Folks," or just "Folks," - that probably is
> inclusive enough to cover Martians and AIs

Just "Hi," is definitely more inclusive than "Folks," in my opinion.
If you want to be more formal/pompous use "Honorable" instead of
"Dear" Really pompous and inclusive, consider

"Honorable Sentient Beings;"
--^
I was taught in high school in 1953, that for formal letters, the
salutation is terminated with a semicolon, not a comma, which was
thought to be only suitable for informal communications.

Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-)
And it's suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant.

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Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Gábor Hársfalvi  writes:

> Hi,
>
> I think - You should try some tricks like swappiness or zRAM.
>
> Good Luck!

Thanks.  But maybe I was meaning something different.  I simply want to speed
up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working
normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a
tremendous scare and it takes time to get breathing normally again.  I was
asking if any command exists, to shorten that.  I though `sync' was it, but
isn't.

Rodolfo


> 2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina :
>
> Rodolfo Medina  writes:
> 
> > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very
> > very slow. Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten
> > minutes it starts working normally again.
> 
> Then, to try to recover it, I do:
> 
> $ sync
> 
> , but this is not enough. Is there any command to get the processor back
> soon in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser?
> Apologises for not having the right technical terms...


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Richard Owlett]

Jonathan Levine wrote:

On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz  wrote:


On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote:

I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
support for this CPU vendor" error.


Which CD did you use?  Yes, I know the net install CD, but which
architecture?

Lisi


http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.1.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-8.1.0-i386-netinst.iso

Seems to me that the installer wouldn't run if I'd chosen the wrong
architecture.



You might want to try a live-cd {https://www.debian.org/CD/live/}.
The netinst cd is a very minimal system. I can see it "running" 
when a "full" system might not. When I was looking for a distro I 
purchased live-cd's
[https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/] to determine compatibility 
with my hardware. [I was on dial-up so downloading was not 
feasible ;]




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Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[David Wright]

Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net):
> David Wright writes:
> > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames
> > send mail from this system.
> 
> Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's
> try again.
> 
> > Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there?
> 
> wb5agz.swbell.net
> 
> That should never show up on the remote end because this is the
> host name that is locally defined and not on any DNS A record.

I don't think this is the root of your problem.
But, having put that there, then if you send an email with
 From: Real Name 
it should get rewritten by exim as
 From: Real Name 

In other words, if you lie about your local domainname on your system,
then you need to lie in From: too, which seems justifiable.

>   The user ID for me on the local system is martin. The
> user ID I registered on the smarthost was martin.m since martin
> without anything else already belongs to another customer. If I
> hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see
> marti...@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve
> pop3 mail and the retrieval does work.
> 
> > Do you mean the From: line in your email header? What are you typing
> > in (or what is your mail client putting there) and where are you
> > observing the changed version?
> 
>   The mainlog file displays the error that
> smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting
> 
> 2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** mar...@shellworld.net R=smarthost
> T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after
> MAIL FROM: SIZE=1586: host smtp.suddenlink.net
> [208.180.40.68]: 553 Authentication is required to send mail as
> 

So you're not authenticating correctly. Your password file appears to
be ok. Do you know which authentication method they use and whether
this varies on different ports?

> Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf
> 
> dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'

As pointed out, smarthost is more sensible.

> dc_other_hostnames=''
> dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
> dc_readhost='suddenlink.net'

See my first paragraphs above.

> dc_relay_domains=''
> dc_minimaldns='false'
> dc_relay_nets=''
> dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587'
> CFILEMODE='644'
> dc_use_split_config='true'
> dc_hide_mailname='true'

See my first paragraphs above.

> dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
> dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
> 
> Here are all the important parts of passwd.client except the
> password.
> 
> smtp.suddenlink.net:marti...@smtp.suddenlink.net:SECRET

One idea you might try is to let your MUA send directly. For example,
in mutt you can set something like

set smtp_url="smtp://marti...@suddenlink.net:sec...@smtp.suddenlink.net/"

and that way you can control the envelope settings etc without anything
getting mangled by exim. (Set non-default port numbers by having
@smtp.suddenlink.net:portnumber/ at the end.) See mutt manual 3.265.

I have used mutt's smtp in the past but it suffers from two big
disadvantages: you have to wait while large emails get sent, and you
can't send when you're not connected as there's no queue. But it might
be useful for debugging the sending process.

Cheers,
David.


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Re: TV-Tuner with Alsa with Jessie NO SOUND... :(

[Gábor Hársfalvi]

I've got this in the .asoundrc file:

pcm.!dmix {
   type dmix
   ipc_key 1024
   slave {
   pcm "hw:0,0"
   channels 6
   period_size 1024
   buffer_size 5120
   }
}
pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcm "dmix"
   slave.channels 6
   route_policy duplicate
}

2015-07-05 20:47 GMT+02:00 Gábor Hársfalvi :

> mixer: Can't open device /dev/mixer, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
> mixer: No such mixer channel 'aux', using channel 'line'.
>
> 2015-07-05 15:42 GMT+02:00 Gábor Hársfalvi :
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I've got a Leadtek TV2000 Expert tuner and it was connected with my
>> soundcard on motherboard succesfully. Before many years it worked percectly
>> with my early Ubuntu version 7.04 and 8.04 - that used the AUX for
>> soundlevels in the alsamixer. In TVTIME I've get all my TV-channels but
>> without sound... :(
>>
>> Please Help!
>>
>
>

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon? (was: Light web browser for old PC)

[Gábor Hársfalvi]

Hi,

I think - You should try some tricks like swappiness
 or zRAM
.

Good Luck!

2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina :

> Rodolfo Medina  writes:
>
> > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very very
> > slow.  Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten minutes
> it
> > starts working normally again.
>
> Then, to try to recover it, I do:
>
>  $ sync
>
> , but this is not enough.  Is there any command to get the processor back
> soon
> in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser?  Apologises
> for not
> having the right technical terms...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodolfo
>
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Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

[Gary Dale]

On 11/07/15 12:10 PM, Haines Brown wrote:

I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB
key by using grub-rescue-pc package.

On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do

   # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb
   this takes a while.

When I boot to key, I get "GRUB" in upper left corner and a long wait
during which the key LED flashes. After a while I get:

   GRUB error: failure reading sector 0x48c from 'hd0'
   Entering rescue mode
   grub rescue>

I suspect hd0 refers to the key and GRUB can't find its own grub
folder. I don't know how to proceed.




Please don't hijack threads. If you want to start a new one, create a 
new message to the list. Do not reply to an existing message and change 
the subject. That doesn't create a new thread.



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Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

[Brian]

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 12:10:15 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

> I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB
> key by using grub-rescue-pc package.
> 
> On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do
> 
>   # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb 
>   this takes a while.

If you experienced "a while" then the time to write to the stick must
have been very noticable. Here it takes about 2 or 3 seconds. The file
is only 5MB in size.


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Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

[Brian]

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 12:24:56 -0400, Louis Wust wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 12:10, Haines Brown wrote:
> > cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb 
> 
> I suspect you need "dd" instead of "cp" as specified in the package
> documentation at /usr/share/doc/grub-rescue-pc/README.Debian:

It shouldn't make any difference. cp (and cat) works for me.
 
>   sudo dd if=grub-rescue-usb.img of=/dev/sdb bs=32k
> 
> Try running that and booting again.

Trying again is worthwhile. With a different stick, perhaps. There might
have been a write error.



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Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

[Louis Wust]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 12:10, Haines Brown wrote:
> cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb 

I suspect you need "dd" instead of "cp" as specified in the package
documentation at /usr/share/doc/grub-rescue-pc/README.Debian:

  sudo dd if=grub-rescue-usb.img of=/dev/sdb bs=32k

Try running that and booting again.


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Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[Curt]

On 2015-07-11, Martin G. McCormick  wrote:
>
>
> The smarthost sees mar...@suddenlink.net and what it should see
> in the From: line is marti...@suddenlink.net
> Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf
>

Cannot this be defined in /etc/email-addresses?

mar...@suddenlink.net: marti...@suddenlink.net

or maybe

martin@localhost: marti...@suddenlink.net

Or maybe I ain't understanding the man page.

What client are you using to send mail, BTW?


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GRUB error: failure reading sector

[Haines Brown]

I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB
key by using grub-rescue-pc package.

On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do

  # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb 
  this takes a while.

When I boot to key, I get "GRUB" in upper left corner and a long wait
during which the key LED flashes. After a while I get:

  GRUB error: failure reading sector 0x48c from 'hd0'
  Entering rescue mode
  grub rescue>

I suspect hd0 refers to the key and GRUB can't find its own grub
folder. I don't know how to proceed.


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CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon? (was: Light web browser for old PC)

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina  writes:

> After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very very
> slow.  Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten minutes it
> starts working normally again.

Then, to try to recover it, I do:

 $ sync

, but this is not enough.  Is there any command to get the processor back soon
in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser?  Apologises for not
having the right technical terms...

Thanks,

Rodolfo


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Brian]

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 09:14:33 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:

> On 7/11/15, Brian  wrote:
> 
> > On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:
> >
> >> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be
> >> gentle and use words without too many syllables.
> >>
> >> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
> >> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
> >> 6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
> >> uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
> >> support for this CPU vendor" error.
> >
> > We suppose "tanks" means "something very unexpected happened" but also
> > we need to know what you saw during the booting and how the machine
> > behaved.
> 
> Now that I'm fresh, it seems less obvious that the error I reported above
> is what's killing it.  Here's the whole boot-to-crash process:
> 
> The GRUB bootloader splash screen appears, and after a few seconds
> it proceeds to load the default, Debian GNU/Linux.  Then it homes the
> cursor and says:
> 
> Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-586
> Loading initial ramdisk
> 
> Then the screen clears (i.e goes back to text mode) and it reports:
> 
> [2.91457 (this number varies)] microcode: no support for this CPU vendor
> 
> Then it does some fscking, then:
> 
> [numbers] longhaul: option "enable" not set.  Aborting.
> 
> The screen clears again, sometimes - not always - the login prompt
> appears for just a flash, then the machine evidently crashes - there's a
> screen blank, a flash of random character data, another blanking, then
> (after about a minute) what I suppose you folks would call a WSOD
> appears - white screen, frowny face, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
> A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.  Please contact a
> system administrator" message.  And that's where it stays until I hit the
> reset.

A nice account.

At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and
add

   longhaul.enable=1

to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on.


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Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

[Gary Dale]

On 11/07/15 07:50 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:

Don't forget to try another cable.


Not easy to do from 50k away. I'm hoping to avoid a site visit. :(


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Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

[Gary Dale]

On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400
Gary Dale  wrote:

Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk.
I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp
command to compare the copy to the original, I get system error messages
and the drive vanishes.

This doesn't happen immediately. It seems to after some significant file
i/o. Interestingly, I've gotten i/o error messages on files that, after
a reboot (remote system so I can't unplug and replug the drive), compare
OK. This leads me to think it's not a disk problem. Also smartctl -H
says the disk is healthy.

This might be related to the problems with USB disks Bob Proulx
described back in April, you can find the posting here:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg00105.html

You could also run a selftest on the disk with smartctl to see what
that says. Check the "-t" option in the man page for details.

Petter
- I ran the long test and -H still reports no problems with the disk. 
The output is:


root@molar:/home/garydale# smartctl -t long /dev/sde
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately 
in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in 
off-line mode" successful.

Testing has begun.
Please wait 209 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Sat Jul 11 08:19:48 2015

Use smartctl -X to abort test.
root@molar:/home/garydale# smartctl -H /dev/sde
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers 
missing

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.


- The disks are usually swapped every week so no disk is mounted for 
months on end. In this case, the disks are new to accommodate an 
increased amount of data to be backed up, so I am positive that no disk 
has been plugged in for more than a week. The offsite backup script has 
been running flawlessly for a long time with smaller disks plugged into 
a USB2 port (on a different motherboard).


- The largest files are 25G, the maximum size set for my bacula volumes.

- I have done a reformat on the drive, both a quick one and a full one. 
The problem persists.


- I'm doubtful that ionice would help. This would be about the only 
active process on the system which is otherwise idle at the time the 
script is run. Even with ionice set to idle, it shouldn't have any 
impact. I can try a combo of nice and ionice to see if it's a speed 
issue once the office closes.



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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Jonathan Levine]

On 7/11/15, Brian  wrote:

> On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:
>
>> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be
>> gentle and use words without too many syllables.
>>
>> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
>> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
>> 6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
>> uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
>> support for this CPU vendor" error.
>
> We suppose "tanks" means "something very unexpected happened" but also
> we need to know what you saw during the booting and how the machine
> behaved.

Now that I'm fresh, it seems less obvious that the error I reported above
is what's killing it.  Here's the whole boot-to-crash process:

The GRUB bootloader splash screen appears, and after a few seconds
it proceeds to load the default, Debian GNU/Linux.  Then it homes the
cursor and says:

Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-586
Loading initial ramdisk

Then the screen clears (i.e goes back to text mode) and it reports:

[2.91457 (this number varies)] microcode: no support for this CPU vendor

Then it does some fscking, then:

[numbers] longhaul: option "enable" not set.  Aborting.

The screen clears again, sometimes - not always - the login prompt
appears for just a flash, then the machine evidently crashes - there's a
screen blank, a flash of random character data, another blanking, then
(after about a minute) what I suppose you folks would call a WSOD
appears - white screen, frowny face, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.  Please contact a
system administrator" message.  And that's where it stays until I hit the
reset.

Jonathan


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Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[Brian]

On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 07:43:49 -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote:

> David Wright writes:
> > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames
> > send mail from this system.
> 
> Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's
> try again.
> 
> > Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there?
> 
> wb5agz.swbell.net
> 
> That should never show up on the remote end because this is the
> host name that is locally defined and not on any DNS A record.

What are the outputs of 'cat /etc/hosts' and 'hostname'? What do you
understand the significane of /etc/mailname to be?
 
>   The user ID for me on the local system is martin. The
> user ID I registered on the smarthost was martin.m since martin
> without anything else already belongs to another customer. If I
> hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see
> marti...@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve
> pop3 mail and the retrieval does work.

Your username on the system has nothing to do with the login username
(marti...@suddenlink.net) and password for sending mail through an SMTP
server at suddenlink.net. All that the server cares about is getting
the correct authentication tokens.

> > Do you mean the From: line in your email header? What are you typing
> > in (or what is your mail client putting there) and where are you
> > observing the changed version?
> 
>   The mainlog file displays the error that
> smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting
> 
> 2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** mar...@shellworld.net R=smarthost
> T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after
> MAIL FROM: SIZE=1586: host smtp.suddenlink.net
> [208.180.40.68]: 553 Authentication is required to send mail as
> 
> 
> I totally agree. That should have been marti...@suddenlink.net.

Nope; MAIL FROM: can be what you want it to be. Once you have been
authernticated, of course.

> That is where the wheels came off.
> 
> The smarthost sees mar...@suddenlink.net and what it should see
> in the From: line is marti...@suddenlink.net
> Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf

MAIL FROM: and From: are not the same. The server couldn't care less
what From: is.

> dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'

All locally generated mail (by cron etc) is sent to the smarthost. If
that is what you want it's fine.

> dc_other_hostnames=''

This is not empty on my system.

> dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
> dc_readhost='suddenlink.net'

Headers are rewritten so that the local host name is replaced by
suddenlink.net

> dc_relay_domains=''
> dc_minimaldns='false'
> dc_relay_nets=''
> dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587'
> CFILEMODE='644'
> dc_use_split_config='true'
> dc_hide_mailname='true'

You are sure you want to do this?

> dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
> dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
> 
> Here are all the important parts of passwd.client except the
> password.
> 
> smtp.suddenlink.net:marti...@smtp.suddenlink.net:SECRET

Looks ok.


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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Jonathan Levine]

On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz  wrote:

> On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote:
>> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
>> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
>> 6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
>> uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
>> support for this CPU vendor" error.
>
> Which CD did you use?  Yes, I know the net install CD, but which
> architecture?
>
> Lisi

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.1.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-8.1.0-i386-netinst.iso

Seems to me that the installer wouldn't run if I'd chosen the wrong
architecture.

Jonathan


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Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[Bob Bernstein]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote:

If I hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, 
it must see marti...@suddenlink.net plus the 
password also used to retrieve pop3 mail and the 
retrieval does work.


Does your MUA set "From:" to marti...@suddenlink.net, 
and also set the envelope to that header?


Example using mutt:

set from="b...@sixtiessurvivor.org"
set envelope_from



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Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[Bob Bernstein]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, David Wright wrote:


dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587'


Syntax is correct. I've not tried that port. Must do 
so sometime.


I think we're learning here in this thread to avoid 
generalizations, but 587 is known as the "submit" 
port. I have had good luck with it.


The smarthost provided by your DSL provider (iirc, 
you said it's DSL, yes?) should accept whatever you 
send it, since you are both on the same wire. (h/t 
David)



Don't rely on it.


Absolutely. See above, re "generalization."  I've 
been fortunate in that my cable provider has never 
required any authentication on its smtp host as long 
as one is sending from one of their own connections. 
And as a rule I set up access to another smtp host 
just to get off their grid;


(I think the only emails I ever received on that 
address were BT's T&C changes. I certainly never 
used it for myself.)


Same here with Cox Cable ISP.

But, hey, we made it to the weekend!

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Re: New user having trouble with new install

[Brian]

On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:

> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be
> gentle and use words without too many syllables.
> 
> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
> 6000.  I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
> uneventfully.  However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
> support for this CPU vendor" error.

We suppose "tanks" means "something very unexpected happened" but also
we need to know what you saw during the booting and how the machine
behaved.


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bug? laptop-mode-tools - mouse turns off after 3s of inactivity after last update

[Hans]

Dear list,

I accidently had to reinstall laptop-mode-tools. I had to purge and reinstall 
the package.

After this, I noticed, that my usb-mouse (cable), turns off after 3s of 
inactivity. This behaviour was already deccribed here in older forums:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/130915/optical-mouse-temporarily-turns-off-when-system-is-idle

and more special here

https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/how-to-prevent-a-usb-mouse-auto-suspending-in-linux-when-a-laptops-power-supply-is-disconnected/

However, I could not find a configuration file in laptop-mode-tools to prevent 
this behaviour. 

This happens only, when I am on battery, or when I am connected to power 
supply, but got no battery inserted.

Looks like a bug, but I will only file one, if someone could confirm this. 
Better would be a solution or a hint, so I can fix it myself.

Thanks for reading this.

Best

Hans



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Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

[Martin G. McCormick]

David Wright writes:
> I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames
> send mail from this system.

Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's
try again.

> Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there?

wb5agz.swbell.net

That should never show up on the remote end because this is the
host name that is locally defined and not on any DNS A record.

The user ID for me on the local system is martin. The
user ID I registered on the smarthost was martin.m since martin
without anything else already belongs to another customer. If I
hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see
marti...@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve
pop3 mail and the retrieval does work.

> Do you mean the From: line in your email header? What are you typing
> in (or what is your mail client putting there) and where are you
> observing the changed version?

The mainlog file displays the error that
smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting

2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** mar...@shellworld.net R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after
MAIL FROM: SIZE=1586: host smtp.suddenlink.net
[208.180.40.68]: 553 Authentication is required to send mail as


I totally agree. That should have been marti...@suddenlink.net.
That is where the wheels came off.

The smarthost sees mar...@suddenlink.net and what it should see
in the From: line is marti...@suddenlink.net
Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf

dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='suddenlink.net'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'

Here are all the important parts of passwd.client except the
password.

smtp.suddenlink.net:marti...@smtp.suddenlink.net:SECRET

I hope this is a bit more clear.

Martin


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Re: Wlan

[Jerome BENOIT]

Bonjour Stephan:

debian-user@lists.debian.org is an English spoken forum:
you may either expose your issue in English or send your
issue to the corresponding German forum.

Bonne chance,
Jerome

On 11/07/15 13:25, stephan roehling wrote:
> Hallo,
> meine wlan-Karte wird von linux nicht gefunden.
> apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree funktioniert nicht. Es erscheint
> die meldung Paket nicht gefunden.
> Kann jemand helfen.
> Stephan
> 
> 


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Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Don't forget to try another cable.
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Wlan

[stephan roehling]

Hallo,
meine wlan-Karte wird von linux nicht gefunden.
apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree funktioniert nicht. Es erscheint
die meldung Paket nicht gefunden.
Kann jemand helfen.
Stephan


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Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

[Haines Brown]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 05:05:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote:

> I'm glad that synclient could do the job.

Yes, thanks David, the command is working nicely.

> When you're in X, and if you type Ctrl-Alt-F2, say, is the VC as
> screwed up as when you exit X with (I assume) Ctrl-Alt-Rubout.

Well, it turns out my messed up display when X server closed is due to a
bug in the i915 kernel module. A patch in June seems to address the
problem, and I believe it is applied in stable kernel 4.1.2. I
downloaded the kernel tarball and will attempt a compile. Never tried it
before, but should be do-able, even for me.


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Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

[Petter Adsen]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400
Gary Dale  wrote:
> Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. 
> I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp 
> command to compare the copy to the original, I get system error messages 
> and the drive vanishes.
> 
> This doesn't happen immediately. It seems to after some significant file 
> i/o. Interestingly, I've gotten i/o error messages on files that, after 
> a reboot (remote system so I can't unplug and replug the drive), compare 
> OK. This leads me to think it's not a disk problem. Also smartctl -H 
> says the disk is healthy.

This might be related to the problems with USB disks Bob Proulx
described back in April, you can find the posting here:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg00105.html

You could also run a selftest on the disk with smartctl to see what
that says. Check the "-t" option in the man page for details.

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Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

[Haines Brown]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:26:30PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote:
> > With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic
> > one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But
> > this needs to be pursued in another thread.
> 
> This is most likely https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85583

Don, it seems you are correct. The video display of the effect of bug
89813/85583 in the i915 kernel display module is exactly what I see
here.

As of 25 June there was a patch that at will be in "drm-intel-next-fixes
(for v4.2 and cc: stable), and the refactored version on
drm-intel-next-queued (for v4.3)".

The testing for the patch seems to have been done with kernel 3.16.0-4,
and my current kernel is 4.0.0-2-amd64.

By 6 July it seems a fix to the i915 module was accepted that addressed
my problem: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2015-07/msg07335.html,
  Subject: Accepted linux 4.0.7-1 (all source) into unstable - msg#07335.

At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10
July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I
could download the tarball and try to compile it. Or am I on the wrong
track? 









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Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

[Gary Dale]

On 10/07/15 02:33 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm running a Debian/Jessie server whose main purposes are AD DC, file 
& print and backups. I have just switched to using USB3 WD My Passport 
Ultra 1T external USB3 drives for offsite backups.


The motherboard is an AS Rock 970 Extreme 2. I'm using an onboard 
rear-panel USB3 port to plug in the drive. The latest files are copied 
using rsync followed by a file by file cmp to ensure the files copied 
correctly. I retry the rsync if the cmp fails on a file (past 
experience has taught me that rsync doesn't always leave a usable copy).


Unfortunately the backup fails with these messages below. I think the 
vast majority of them are due to the error at 13:37:57. Any ideas on 
whether this is a drive issue, a motherboard issue or a driver issue?





Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. 
I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp 
command to compare the copy to the original, I get system error messages 
and the drive vanishes.


This doesn't happen immediately. It seems to after some significant file 
i/o. Interestingly, I've gotten i/o error messages on files that, after 
a reboot (remote system so I can't unplug and replug the drive), compare 
OK. This leads me to think it's not a disk problem. Also smartctl -H 
says the disk is healthy.


Any ideas?


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