No security support for binutils and libqt5webkit5, what to do?
Hi, I just went from jessie to buster and I didn't discover any serious problem so far. But I tried to remove all packages where there is no or only limitid security support and ended up with 5 packages I don't think I should/can remove: binutils (and binutils-common, libbinutils, binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu) and libqt5webkit5. binutils is needed quite often and if I want to remove libqt5webkit5 among other things plasma-desktop disappears. Do I just have to live with these packages without security support or is there any way arround it? Andreas -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana
Re: evince print settings [solved]
Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl writes: Andreas Goesele wrote: starting the print window there is under Page Handling a setting for Page Scaling. Per default that's None. I would like to set that permanently to Fit to Printable Area. How could I do that? (As it is now I have to set it everytime a want to print anew.) Here I see a solution: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2010-August/msg6.html And indeed, for me it works. For me too. Thanks a lot! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hbzjdh4@debian.igp
Re: kde missing documentation
Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com writes: There's always 'auto-apt' or 'apt-file' to track down the package owner of a specific file. Since your attempt to invoke documentation turns up a reference to a specific missing file, I'd go that route. Just to clarify: The missing files are in the respective kde packages (konqueror, okular ...). The problem is that they are not installed using apt-get install or aptitude install. They are installed using dpkg -i. I think they should be installed also by apt-get or aptitude and I'm wondering why they are not. Thanks again. Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqps1g9b@debian.igp
Re: kde missing documentation
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: On 2011-03-15 11:48:48 Andreas Goesele wrote: Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com writes: There's always 'auto-apt' or 'apt-file' to track down the package owner of a specific file. Since your attempt to invoke documentation turns up a reference to a specific missing file, I'd go that route. Just to clarify: The missing files are in the respective kde packages (konqueror, okular ...). The problem is that they are not installed using apt-get install or aptitude install. They are installed using dpkg -i. I think they should be installed also by apt-get or aptitude and I'm wondering why they are not. That's probably wrong, since apt-get and aptitude invoke dpkg to do the install for each package. apt-get and aptitude are unable to install packages without using dpkg. Well, let's take the example of konqueror: Start-Date: 2011-02-07 22:14:36 Commandline: apt-get --no-install-recommends install konqueror Install: libkonqsidebarplugin4a:i386 (4.4.5-2, automatic), kdebase-bin:i386 (4.4.5-2, automatic), konqueror:i386 (4.4.5-2) End-Date: 2011-02-07 22:14:47 (/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror is empty) Start-Date: 2011-03-15 21:12:58 Commandline: apt-get --purge remove konqueror Purge: konqueror:i386 (4.4.5-2) End-Date: 2011-03-15 21:13:03 Start-Date: 2011-03-15 21:13:54 Commandline: apt-get --reinstall --no-install-recommends install konqueror Install: konqueror:i386 (4.4.5-2) End-Date: 2011-03-15 21:14:01 (/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror remains empty) dpkg -i konqueror_4%3a4.4.5-2_i386.deb (/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror full of stuff) Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipvk9l4d@debian.igp
Re: kde missing documentation
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: On 2011-03-15 15:36:34 Andreas Goesele wrote: Start-Date: 2011-03-15 21:13:54 Commandline: apt-get --reinstall --no-install-recommends install konqueror Install: konqueror:i386 (4.4.5-2) End-Date: 2011-03-15 21:14:01 (/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror remains empty) dpkg -i konqueror_4%3a4.4.5-2_i386.deb (/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror full of stuff) (I still don't believe you; I've never seen APT configured to do that, although it is possible, I think.) Please post the output of (apt-config dump | grep -i dpkg). Here's mine for reference: Thanks a lot. This solved my problem. The last line in my case is: DPkg::Post-Invoke:: if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi; I have localepurge installed and use a different locale from en. I always thought it was locale-related but couldn't figure out when and how apt-get or aptitude would take the locale into account. Now I know. Thanks again. Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87oc5cnhax@debian.igp
evince print settings
Hi, starting the print window there is under Page Handling a setting for Page Scaling. Per default that's None. I would like to set that permanently to Fit to Printable Area. How could I do that? (As it is now I have to set it everytime a want to print anew.) Many thanks advance! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bp1cj7d9@debian.igp
Re: kde missing documentation
Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com writes: on 23:40 Sun 13 Mar, Andreas Goesele (goes...@hfph.mwn.de) wrote: Hi! I just noticed that (after upgrading to squeeze) I'm missing all kde documentation. I visit help for instance for Konqueror and get the error message: The file or folder help:/konqueror/index.html does not exist. Install the relevant *-doc packages. aptitude search kde.*doc ... will likely list more than you need. 'kdebase-doc, kde-base-doc-html' would be a good start. Your command doesn't show any packages which possibly might be relevant. It only shows developer documentation and documentation for PyKDE. Do you have with debian squeeze packages named kdebase-doc or kde-base-doc-html? Thanks a lot! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aagxdcwm@debian.igp
kde missing documentation
Hi! I just noticed that (after upgrading to squeeze) I'm missing all kde documentation. I visit help for instance for Konqueror and get the error message: The file or folder help:/konqueror/index.html does not exist. In the help window: There is no documentation available for /konqueror/index.html. This is true for all kde applications. And indeed /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror is empty. I tried to reinstall using apt-get as well as aptitude. The folder remains empty. I got help back for konqueror by doing: dpkg -i konqueror_4%3a4.4.5-2_i386.deb Any idea why apt-get and aptitude won't install the documentation? How can I change that? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkoy1w6t@debian.igp
bbdb, xemacs-nomule, squeeze
Hi, upgrading to squeeze I suddenly found myself with xemacs21-mule. Purging (!) all of xemacs21 and reinstalling xemacs21-nomule I managed to get back to xemacs21-nomule. But now I have a problem with bbdb: Reading any email I get the error message No such coding system utf-8 as bbdb is trying to encode names with utf-8. (See trace below.) Looking at bbdb.el I find: (defun bbdb-name-normalize (name) Return normalized NAME. NAME is converted to lower case and in a MULE enabled Emacs it is converted to UTF-8 or unibyte to unify the overlapping ISO-8859-* encodings. You may advice this function to allow more sophisticated normalizations. (when name. (setq name (downcase name)) (cond ((functionp 'encode-coding-string) (funcall 'encode-coding-string name 'utf-8)) ((functionp 'string-make-unibyte) (funcall 'string-make-unibyte name)) (t name But this means that my Xemacs-nomule works like a MULE enabled Emacs! As a workaround I changed that function, but the real solution would be to get xemacs-nomule not to assume to be MULE enabled! (As a matter of fact, starting up xemacs, I now always get the warning X-Symbol: cannot deduce default encoding, I'll assume `iso-8859-1'. I guess that's also some MULE-related error message which in xemacs-nomule doesn't make much sense.) Any hints how I can get rid of those MULE-traces in my xemacs-nomule? Thanks a lot in advance Andreas Gösele Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error No such coding system utf-8) encode-coding-region(1 19 utf-8) encode-coding-string(john doe utf-8) bbdb-name-normalize(John Doe) bbdb-name=(John Doe John Doe) bbdb-annotate-message-sender((John Doe joh.doe@some.where) t prompt bbdb-prompt-for-create) byte-code(... [matches records record net rest-of-nets done annotating bbdb-annotate-message-sender t bbdb-prompt-for-create searching ^ regexp-quote $ nil bbdb-search-invert-p 6 string-match q 0 5 format Hit C-g to stop BBDB from %s. %d of %d addresses processed. featurep xemacs bbdb-display-message progress message sit-for processed-addresses bbdb-address bbdb-update-records-mode invert mess auto-create-p bbdb-offer-to-create bbdb-case-fold-search offer-to-create bbdb-records case-fold-search hits bbdb-silent-running bbdb-gag-messages addrslen] 7) bbdb-update-records(((authors From (John Doe joh.doe@some.where))) prompt nil) bbdb/gnus-update-records(nil) bbdb/gnus-pop-up-bbdb-buffer() run-hooks(bbdb/gnus-pop-up-bbdb-buffer) apply(run-hooks bbdb/gnus-pop-up-bbdb-buffer) gnus-run-hooks(gnus-article-prepare-hook) gnus-article-prepare-display() gnus-article-prepare(45574 nil) gnus-summary-display-article(45574 nil) gnus-summary-select-article(nil nil pseudo) gnus-summary-scroll-up(1) call-interactively(gnus-summary-scroll-up) -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87oc6j8q96@debian.igp
Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze (Solved)
Andreas Goesele goes...@hfph.mwn.de writes: so far, under lenny, I could open all docx-documents I got with the combination of openoffice from backports with odf-converter-integrator (odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb). Unfortunately this doesn't work any more with squeeze and its version of openoffice: I always get the error message: Read-Error. Data could not be read from the file. I still had an old version (Sept. 2007) of odfconverter under /usr/lib/openoffice/program ... Removing it solved the problem. Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871v3hrt68@debian.igp
Re: xemacs21-nomule under squeeze
Andreas Goesele goes...@hfph.mwn.de writes: when I upgraded to squeeze unfortunately xemacs21-mule was installed (I only had xemacs21-nomule installed). I removed xemacs21-mule with apt-get without any error messages. But when I tried to restart xemacs I got an error message from the first load command in the init.el file. It seems /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp is not in the load path. Starting with xemacs -q -debug-init doesn't give any error, but for instance no customize command is available. (And many other commands are missing too.) Any idea how I could get back a working xemacs21-mule? Some small correction and some further bit of information: The information: Having installed xemacs21-mule I can also start xemacs21-nomule. (But as I want to save disk-space this is not fully satisfactory.) The correction: Of course, I want to get back a working *xemacs21-nomule*. (Without the need of having installed xemacs21-mule.) Any idea how I could pin down the problem? Or, what would be the rigth place to ask this question, if not here? Thanks a lot again Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjvxqcy2@debian.igp
Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze
Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net writes: On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org writes: Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's what we ship)? Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to open docx-files without any addon? Problem is, in my case this doesn't happen. Or is there some additional tool I would have to install? (I tried jodconverter, but without success.) I would look at other solutions or causes. .docx has the same support on Squeeze as Lenny. all built in , not add-ons. What would be the best strategy to find out about the causes of the problem? Google shows that I'm not alone with my problem, but I didn't find a solution ... (For instance some people with amd64-systems and squeeze seemed to need the odf-converter ... only it worked for them: http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/open-microsoft-office-2007-docx-files-in-amd64-debian-squeeze-sid-unstable-with-odf-converter-integrator/) Thanks again Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r5bi4did@debian.igp
Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze
Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net writes: On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org writes: Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's what we ship)? Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to open docx-files without any addon? Problem is, in my case this doesn't happen. Or is there some additional tool I would have to install? (I tried jodconverter, but without success.) I would look at other solutions or causes. .docx has the same support on Squeeze as Lenny. all built in , not add-ons. Somebody recommended libreoffice to me: I installed it, and it works fine. If I don't find a solution for openoffice (any suggestion?) I might switch. Thanks again Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxm64af9@debian.igp
xemacs21-nomule under squeeze
Hi, when I upgraded to squeeze unfortunately xemacs21-mule was installed (I only had xemacs21-nomule installed). I removed xemacs21-mule with apt-get without any error messages. But when I tried to restart xemacs I got an error message from the first load command in the init.el file. It seems /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp is not in the load path. Starting with xemacs -q -debug-init doesn't give any error, but for instance no customize command is available. (And many other commands are missing too.) Any idea how I could get back a working xemacs21-mule? Thanks a lot in advance Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vd0vaci5@debian.igp
docx, openoffice, squeeze
Hi, so far, under lenny, I could open all docx-documents I got with the combination of openoffice from backports with odf-converter-integrator (odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb). Unfortunately this doesn't work any more with squeeze and its version of openoffice: I always get the error message: Read-Error. Data could not be read from the file. Purging odf-converter-integrator didn't help. Reinstalling didn't help ... Any suggestion how to solve this problem? Thanks a lot in advance Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hdb78zj@debian.igp
Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze
Andreas Goesele goes...@hfph.mwn.de writes: so far, under lenny, I could open all docx-documents I got with the combination of openoffice from backports with odf-converter-integrator (odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb). Unfortunately this doesn't work any more with squeeze and its version of openoffice: I always get the error message: Read-Error. Data could not be read from the file. Purging odf-converter-integrator didn't help. Reinstalling didn't help ... Part of the solution I found myself: I can open docx-documents by directly calling odf-converter-integrator. (This fills the screen with much information, but in the end succeeds.) What doesn't work any more is to open docx-documents directly from my mail-client (gnus) and the command-line or in mc. (I had soffice -no-oosplash -writer '%s' in my mailcap file so far. I had to change that to soffice -nologo -writer '%s', but I guess that's not causing the problem with docx-files.) Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y65r5ser@debian.igp
Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze
Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org writes: Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's what we ship)? Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to open docx-files without any addon? Problem is, in my case this doesn't happen. Or is there some additional tool I would have to install? (I tried jodconverter, but without success.) Thanks! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874o8f5n7c@debian.igp
xpdf fonts and xresources
Hi, for me the xpdf fonts are too small. So I changed them by putting xpdf*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 into .Xresources But this leaves the fontsize of the textareas (Page, Search field, printing dialog) unchanged. Is there a way to change the fontsize for these areas in .Xresources? Thanks! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbj6bsra@debian.igp
Java applications and font size
Hi, after I switched to 1280x1024 as resolution fonts in Java-Applications are too small for me. I can change some fonts at runtime by passing -Dswing.plaf.metal.controlFont=Dialog-18 and -Dswing.plaf.metal.userFont=Dialog-18 to java. Unfortunatelly this leaves in the applications I tested some fonts unchanged. -Dswing.plaf.metal.titleFont=Dialog-18 -Dswing.plaf.metal.menuFont=Dialog-18 -Dswing.plaf.metal.systemFont=Dialog-18 -Dswing.plaf.metal.smallFont=Dialog-18 all have no effect. Is there any other way I can change font size in java applications at runtime? Thanks a lot! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3tubq96@debian.igp
Re: Java applications and font size
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Have you checked (inside the java app) for a setting to define the interface layout to use in the program? I can select from various flavours, each of one using different fonts: [x] System native (which seems to use the same font type and size as the other desktop applications) [ ] CDE/Motif [ ] GTK+ [ ] Metal [ ] Nimbus I don't see how I could dee this inside the java apps I use, but the corresponding -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel indeed did improve things for one of the applications I use. But still there are some fonts which are too small. Other applications don't react to that option. Also, you could check that your whole desktop DPI setting is not defined at a very low value. As a matter of fact the automatic setting resultet in dpi=86, somewhat too small. But even if I set a higher dpi, the java apps I use are not affected. (Other applications - like kde apps - are changing font sizes.) Thanks for your suggestions! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wrs29gw3@debian.igp
Re: qt4 applications - font size (solved)
Andreas Goesele goes...@hfph.mwn.de writes: I have a few qt4 applications (okular, skype, semantik), which work okay but have way to small fonts. I tried to use qtconfig-qt4 to change the font size: With partial success as qtconfig-qt4 itself uses the new setting and .config/Trolltech.conf shows the new setting. But okular, skype, semantik all continue with the same small font. Any suggestion how to solve this? Well, I was thinking in the wrong direction. okular and semantik are kde4 applictions, so not .config/Trolltech.conf but .kde4/share/config/kdeglobals is responsible for their behaviour. Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
qt4 applications - font size
Hi! I have a few qt4 applications (okular, skype, semantik), which work okay but have way to small fonts. I tried to use qtconfig-qt4 to change the font size: With partial success as qtconfig-qt4 itself uses the new setting and .config/Trolltech.conf shows the new setting. But okular, skype, semantik all continue with the same small font. Any suggestion how to solve this? (I use debian lenny with KDE 3.5.1. Okular is 0.7-2, semantik 0.7.3, they use KDE 4.1.0. Qt-Config is 4.4.3) Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: xpdf printing with pdftops
gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o %pipe%lpr - Thanks for the suggestion. The first line works (more or less) on the command line, but gives the warning: GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open the file lpr . (I say more or less, because an image isn't printed correctly but replaced by a blurry box.) I would call that not working at all. You are very strict ;-) or I didn't express myself very well: Despite the warning the file is printed, just that additionally I get the warning and a non-essential image is replaced by a blurry box. The first variant: cat test.pdf | gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile='%pipe%lpr' - gives the same warning. The second variant: cat test.pdf | gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=- - | lpr works without warning (but still with the blurred box replacing the image). Inside xpdf gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=- - | lpr prints the page without warning, with the blurred box and unfortunately without expanding the page. Thanks again Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: xpdf printing with pdftops
Despite the warning the file is printed, just that additionally I get the warning and a non-essential image is replaced by a blurry box. Is the page expanded to fit the paper? On the command line, yes. Not in xpdf Hmm, I am starting to think that maybe we should try a different approach. Which printing system do you use? CUPS, for example, has the fitplot option which might do what you want, or e.g. scaling=95 to scale the file to 95% of the page size. I'm using CUPS. On the command line the option fitplot expands the size. Inside xpdf it doesn't have any effect. Regards Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: xpdf printing with pdftops
cat test.pdf | gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o %pipe%lpr - The above combination of commands prints test.pdf on my default printer after scaling it to fit the page. Therefore I would hope that the following works as a print command for XPDF (which I have not used in years, though): gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o %pipe%lpr - Thanks for the suggestion. The first line works (more or less) on the command line, but gives the warning: GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open the file lpr . (I say more or less, because an image isn't printed correctly but replaced by a blurry box.) The second inside xpdf gives the very same waring, but prints pages which are not scaled. Any idea how I could correct this? Thanks a lot Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
xpdf printing with pdftops
Hi! pdftops allows to expand a smaller page to fill the paper. xpdf doesn't have such an option. I was wondering whether it would be possible to use pdftops in a clever printing command in the xpdf printing dialog (Print with command or Print to file). Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: free alternative acroread
IIUC this feature scalestranslates the document so as to minimize the margin (and hence maximize the size of the printed text, without cropping). Yes, that's it. If that's the case, no I sadly don't know of a Free Software tool that does that for you. Sad news. I would love to see a tool that does this automatically for me (especially if it can do it for 2-up as well). Me too :-) Fundamentally, it shouldn't be that hard. IIUC running the PS (or PDF) file through gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox should return the needed info about area actual used by the document, after which it should be easy to scale/translate/rotate to make it fit on a page of any given size. But I never got around to trying it out. Would be nice, if somebody could take this up ... Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
free alternative acroread
Hi! I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The option Fit to printable area in the print dialog. I have that always switched on, and as I have eye problems it's really very helpful for me. Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
oleo somebody?
Hi, is somebody actually using oleo? I had a look at it and it seems in theory to fulfill exactly my needs. But I do have some problems which in fact make it rather unusable: 1. The manual says that it is possible to write to a LaTeX file. But the command M-C-p only brings up the choice to either write to an ASCII or a postscript file. M-C-p l results in nothing. Looking at the code I also get the strong impression that the possibility to write to a LaTeX file is not implemented. (1.99.16-7) Correct? 2. Trying to print to an postscript file gives an error message: AfmFontWidth: failed. The resulting postscript file is not usable with gs. Ghostscript gives the following error messages: Error: /undefinedGPL Ghostscript 8.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in 20,0 Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1051/1123(ro)(G)-- --dic 3. According to the manual C-x C-s saves using the current file-format. But I didn't find anything in the documentation how to accutally set this format. If I open a file let's say in the sc format using even the option -F sc the file is transformed into the oleo format and saving results in a file in the oleo format. From the manual I gather that it should be possible to set the file format using M-x set-option file. But I don't find the correct format to set this option. M-x set-option file results in something like for instance: Unknown option '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. (The exact error message changes all the time.) M-x set-option file sc results in Unknow option 'sc'. M-x set-option file=sc results in Unknow option 'file=sc'. So what is the correct way to set this option? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
macondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ananda Samaddar wrote: I heard somewhere (can't remember where) that it may be to do with ipv6 support in Mozilla. Try disabling it. Typing 'about:config' in the address bar will get you to the configuration options. You should be able to find the option from there. After about:config Enter type 'dns' in the filter space and choose network.dns.disableIPv6 right click on it and Toggle the value to read: true While this tip indeed improved my download speed :-), it didn't change anything about the saving behaviour :-( Thanks a lot! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Matthew K Poer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps you can edit the Download Preferances in Gecko-Based w/e to download to a differant directory? Try /tmp or even /home/you/download/. If it has to do with your home directory being very large, this may help. I tried this: But I can't change the download directory by setting it in the preferences, in the prefs.js file or using about:config. Firefox continues to save in the last directory I used, whatever the settings. Very strange that. I can change it by just choosing some other place in the the save as dialog, but I cannot get rid of that dialog (in theory for instance setting Saves files to Desktop should get away with that dialog, but it doesn't). When I change the directory things indeed get fast enough: But this is still a problem, as I prefer to have everything in the same directory. I also wonder, why this suddenly becomes a problem: The Debian sarge Firefox didn't have that problem. Also, perhaps an aptitude reinstall of some of the mozilla/gecko libraries will help? It seems that these are common in all packages: libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libfontconfig1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libxi6 libxrender1 zlib1g I checked those libraries. They seem to be all installed ok and there are no stale libraries laying around, as far as I can see (using ldconfig). Thanks a lot! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: I should have written saving a page is incredibly slow. Now it's clear that this only is the case, if the download directory has many files in it. (Other applications manage, so it is still a problem.) But now I'm wondering. Earlier versions of firefox had their own save as dialog - giving for instance the choice whether the just the html page, or the whole page should be saved. But now at least I get something which looks like the standard gnome save as dialog. (I use KDE.) It's three part: Name, Save in Folder, Browse for other folders. No choice of what to save. Is that now for all etch users the case? Or could it be an indication of where lies my problem? Why would this gnome save as dialog considered to be an improvement? Thanks again! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Hi Mathias! Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can restore the XUL-based dialog again by setting ui.allow_platform_file_picker in about:config to false. That solved my problem. Now saving is *really* fast, even in a large folder! Great. Hope developers will leave us with this choice in future! Thanks a lot! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Hi, having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. My suspicion is that the download manager reads first my home directory - which is huge - and for that reason takes long to start. But under sarge this wasn't a problem and other programs too manage to open my home directory in a reasonable time. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Close previous iceweasel processes. Start iceweasel without loading any extensions and see if it helps. I tried this, but it didn't help. But thanks anyway! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: Try downloading a large package using wget, and see how fast it goes. Very fast :-) This way we'll know if it's your connection or the Mozilla engine. No, it's definitely Mozilla related. Have you tried it with Konqeuror yet? Konqueror opens (visibly) my home directory for saving - that for the first time takes some time, but for later saving it's much faster than with Mozilla. Saving itself goes very fast. (Very slow for Mozilla etc.) Thanks! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sarge - etch: aptitude problem
Hi, doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed: Before the upgrade I did still with sarge sources an aptitude dist-upgrade - with the result that nothing was to do. But following the path described in the release notes many packages were installed which I had purged on my sarge install: Especially an number of meta-packages like kdemultimedia, gnome, gnome-office etc. This wasn't a big problem (except that I now have to remove all that stuff) but on my laptop I don't have much space left and have to assure that no packages are installed that I don't want/need. So my question: How can I - using aptitude - make sure that not all those meta-packages etc. are drawn in? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sarge - etch: usbnet
Hi! Here another problem I had (still have :-() moving to etch. I have a zaurus which under sarge I could connect to using usbnet and hotplug. But now this doesn't work anymore. In /etc/network/interfaces I have: allow-hotplug usb0 mapping hotplug script grep map usb0 iface usb0 inet static address 192.168.129.1 pointopoint 192.168.129.201 netmask 255.255.255.255 (As for instance explained in https://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToSetUpUsbNetworkingDebian) Loading usbnet, cdc_subset (or cdc_ether) with modprobe doesn't help. (According to http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ I would assume I need cdc_subset - under sarge I used CDCEther.) But whatever I do: Connecting the Zaurus doesn't create any event according to dmesg. lsusb gives Bus 001 Device 001: ID : whether the Zaurus is connected or not. ifconfig -a doesn't show usb0. Usb-Storage device work. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best way to restrict users to one application
Hi! Under Windows NT it using the policy editor it was very easy to effectively restrict users to certain applications, for instance just a web browser. To be more concrete: I would like to have a user which can only login into a graphical desktop and there only can start a web browser (firefox) and print from it. What would be the best/easiest way to do this under Debian? Could you provide me a pointer to some documentation (some kind of HOWTO) where the procedure you recommend is explained with some detail? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hotplugging pcmcia card (netgear) tries to load sound module
Hi! Under Debian woody I had a working prism54 install. I updated to sarge and the card isn't working any more. The problem seems to be related to the fact, that when I hotplug the card the system tries to load a sound module. Any suggestion what I could do? Here some further information. Please tell me, if I should provide some additional info! 1.) lsmod shows the prism54 module installed, but unused prism54 34096 0 (unused) 2.) ifconfig doesn't show the interface (which should be eth0 in my case). 3.) dmesg shows: cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x1260, device 0x3890 PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 ( - 0002) Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.0.2.2 eth1: prism54 driver detected card model: Netgear WG511 Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 04:56:43 Feb 16 2004 4.) removing the card dmesg shows: Assuming someone else called the IRQ eth1: hot unplug detected eth1: removing device cs: cb_free(bus 1) 5.) In daemon.log I find: Sep 3 21:10:25 debian cardmgr[1013]: socket 0: CardBus hotplug device Sep 3 21:10:26 debian insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: init$ Sep 3 21:10:26 debian insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module param$ Sep 3 21:10:26 debian insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insm$ Sep 3 21:10:26 debian insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insm$ Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1 Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: All rights reserved. Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:00:00:00:00:00 Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/00:00:00:00:00:00 Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Sep 3 21:10:34 debian dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth1: Network is down Sep 3 21:11:39 debian dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Sep 3 21:11:39 debian dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Sep 3 21:11:47 debian dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1 Sep 3 21:11:47 debian dhclient: Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. Sep 3 21:11:47 debian dhclient: All rights reserved. Sep 3 21:11:47 debian dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Sep 3 21:11:47 debian dhclient: Thanks a lot for any help! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hotplugging pcmcia card (netgear) tries to load sound module (correction)
My last mail contained a small error. Under 2.) I should have written that the interface shoulc be eth1 (not eth0). Also, I was asked whether I use wireless-tools: I have them installed and configured (taken over from woody). So, I guess I'm using them. Any suggestions for my problem? Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian vs. kernel.org kernels: what to choose?
Hi, there's a bug (#315968) in the 2.6.8 kernel provided with Debian stable, which prevents me using usb sticks. I therefore moved to kernel 2.6.11.5 which I got directly from kernel.org without any Debian patches. An alternative would have been to use the kernel source from Debian unstable. What is recommended in a case lake that? Using unpatched kernel.org sources or taking the patched sources from unstable or testing? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Are there other alternatives? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 - crash
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I'm using debian sarge and wanted to change from the 2.4.27 kernel to the 2.6.8 kernel. But under the 2.6.8 kernel my usb memory stick is not working. Not only this - if I plug it out the whole system crashes! In case someone else has similar problems: There obviously is a bug in the kernel. I solved my problem by moving to a newer kernel. 2.6.11.5 and 2.6.12.1 seem to work flawlessly. Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian vs. kernel.org kernels: what to choose?
Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 22:37, Andreas Goesele wrote: What is recommended in a case lake that? Using unpatched kernel.org sources or taking the patched sources from unstable or testing? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Are there other alternatives? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The most tested kernels with debian software are debian kernels, so if they work, stick with them. Yes. But what if they *are* broken (like the 2.6.8 one). You then would recommend a Debian kernel over a generic one, even if the Debian one has to be from a different Debian version (unstable instead of stable in this case)? Are there no problems to be expected because of the difference of versions? Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 - crash
Hi! I'm using debian sarge and wanted to change from the 2.4.27 kernel to the 2.6.8 kernel. But under the 2.6.8 kernel my usb memory stick is not working. Not only this - if I plug it out the whole system crashes! Under 2.4.27 when I plug in the memory stick dmesg shows: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.4-2, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4e8/0x111) is not claimed by any active driver. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Model: USB DRIVE Rev: 2.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: Current 00:00: sense key Unit Attention Additional sense indicates Not ready to ready change,medium may have changed sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sense key Unit Attention Additional sense indicates Not ready to ready change,medium may have changed sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 USB Mass Storage support registered. lsmod shows these additional modules: usb-storage54496 0 (unused) sd_mod 10732 0 (autoclean) (unused) vfat8716 0 (autoclean) fat27576 0 (autoclean) [vfat] I than can mount the stick. One more module is loaded (nls_cp437) and dmesg adds: SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Under kernel 2.6.8 I get plugging the memory stick in: ohci_hcd :00:07.4: wakeup usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Model: USB DRIVE Rev: 2.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: Current : sense key Unit Attention Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. lsmod shows just: usb_storage68800 1 But then trying a mount the mount command hangs and plugging the memory stick out the whole system hangs (without any error message in the logs). Any help? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 - crash
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What USB chipset do you have? Sorry, but how would I find out? Certain types of USB access can lock my box It's more often syncing my Palm Tungsten T3 than memory (SD) card access, but I've had a lockup if I task-switch while writing to the card. I have the VIA VT82x (UHC) chipset, FWIW. USB 1.1. -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps printing: font problem
Hi! I recently moved from Debian stable to testing doing a new install. I have installed some additional type 1 fonts which I use to produce (via latex and dvips) ps files which I then would print on a ps printer. Under woody this all worked fine, but now the last step fails: I can produce ps files which use the proper fonts, I can display them properly on my screen, I can convert them to pdf files and then print them with the proper fonts, but I can't print them directly: There the font is being substituted by some other font, resulting in very ugly, unusable pages. If I use the fonts which came with Debian there is no problem. I looked around in the Internet but I didn't find any solution. My questions: * Is this a ghostscript problem or rather a CUPS problem? * I would rather guess it's a CUPS problem, as conversion and display works OK. Assuming this is so: Is it necessary to make CUPS aware of fonts which are installed on the system? If so, how would one do this? Any other input on the problem is of course welcome! Thanks! Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps printing: font problem
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed some additional type 1 fonts which I use to produce (via latex and dvips) ps files which I then would print on a ps printer. Under woody this all worked fine, but now the last step fails: I can produce ps files which use the proper fonts, I can display them properly on my screen, I can convert them to pdf files and then print them with the proper fonts, but I can't print them directly: There the font is being substituted by some other font, resulting in very ugly, unusable pages. OK, I found part of the solution. It was a dvips problem after all: It seems the type1 fonts have to be downloaded into the document. I had to put a myfont.pfb into the respective lines of myfont.map under /usr/share/texmf/dvips/psnfss and I added a softlink to myfont.pfb under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1 I think there should be a more elegant way to add the fonts than adding softlinks, but anyway, it works. Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: octave under testing: big problem (workaround)
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But when I use a plot command together with legend, I get the follwing warnings and errors: warning: in graw near line 150, column 3: warning: graw is deprecated and will be removed from a future warning: version of Octave. warning: You should use the higher-level plot functions warning: (plot, mesh, semilogx, etc.) instead warning: of the low-level plotting commands. warning: If you absolutely must use this function, use the warning: internal version __gnuplot_raw__ instead. error: invalid row index = 0 error: evaluating argument list element number 1 error: evaluating argument list element number 1 error: evaluating prefix operator `!' near line 190, column 7 error: if: error evaluating conditional expression error: evaluating if command near line 190, column 3 error: called from `legend' in file `/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-forge/plot/legend.m' The warnings I could live with, but the error is a real problem as it means that I can't produce any longer legends with octave. I found a workaround: I just have to use a second legend command, immediately after the first one. Then there is no error message and the legend is added to the plot. Not ideal, but anyway. Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
octave under testing: big problem
Hi! I have an up to date debian testing install and I need to use octave. But when I use a plot command together with legend, I get the follwing warnings and errors: warning: in graw near line 150, column 3: warning: graw is deprecated and will be removed from a future warning: version of Octave. warning: You should use the higher-level plot functions warning: (plot, mesh, semilogx, etc.) instead warning: of the low-level plotting commands. warning: If you absolutely must use this function, use the warning: internal version __gnuplot_raw__ instead. error: invalid row index = 0 error: evaluating argument list element number 1 error: evaluating argument list element number 1 error: evaluating prefix operator `!' near line 190, column 7 error: if: error evaluating conditional expression error: evaluating if command near line 190, column 3 error: called from `legend' in file `/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-forge/plot/legend.m' The warnings I could live with, but the error is a real problem as it means that I can't produce any longer legends with octave. The error is obviously well known, but there are no plans to fix it: Problem comes from the system command. Sometimes, the command returns even if the sub-process has not yet answer. I don't know how to fix it. Try again... (http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2004/msg02182.html) This is a long standing problem, which can easily be seen with the ls command where it doesn't return anything. I believe it is probably due to a compiler bug in the g++ I/O stuff, as when I looked at it I couldn't find anything within octave responsible for it. So maybe compiling with a newer version of g++ might also fix the issue (http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2004/msg02183.html) I wasted my time by recompiling octave2.1 and octave-forge myself, but the error remains. One idea I had was to return to octave2.0 which I used under debian stable, but octave-forge (and also octave-matcompat) where legend.m resides depends on octave2.1. Again, I *really* need octave and legend.m, and would hope to find a solution to this. Any suggestion? Andreas Gösele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serious problem after tetex-security update
Hi! After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a LaTeX file I get: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! What can I do to get a working LaTeX installation back? I urgently need it! Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious problem after tetex-security update
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a LaTeX file I get: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! What can I do to get a working LaTeX installation back? I urgently need it! I found the solution. For some (unknown) reason the softlink from /usr/share/texmf/web2c to /var/lib/texmf/web2c wasn't created. I added it by hand and everything works again. Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: math modelling
David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi group, I'm looking for free software which is suited for modelling. Scilab should fit your needs well. Andreas Goesle -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System hangs on shutdown
Hi, so far twice in around one week my system hung on shutdown. The last message was: Stopping internet superserver: xinetd The system then is already totally irresponsive and I have to unplug it. Very bad, as the file system isn't unmounted yet. I have an up to date woody system, but a 2.4.24 kernel. A normal shutdown in syslog looks like this: Mar 2 21:21:59 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 0 Mar 2 21:22:08 localhost snort: Snort received signal 15, exiting Mar 2 21:22:08 localhost kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode Mar 2 21:22:11 localhost xinetd[324]: Exiting... Mar 2 21:22:12 localhost kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Mar 2 21:22:12 localhost kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Mar 2 21:22:12 localhost exiting on signal 15 The problem shutdown like this: Mar 3 21:21:12 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 0 Mar 3 21:21:18 localhost snort: Snort received signal 15, exiting Mar 3 21:21:18 localhost kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode So I indeed would suspect that there are problems with the shutdown of xinetd. How could I investigate the situation further? Or better: How could I prevent the problem? And a dumb question: Why is a shutdown of xinetd necessary anyway? (A computer which isn't on wouldn't offer any services, would it?) Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: presentation app
Eduardo Gargiulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all I'm looking for some debianized application for making presentations, using slides, images, etc, that could run on an AMD K6II with 160Mb of RAM with woody 3.0_r1. I settled for prosper, a LaTeX class which produces beautiful presentations and comes with a sizeable number of templates. Only downside: One has to use acroread to show them (available as unofficial deb package) as xpdf isn't up to the task. Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's up with http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian
Hi, I have in my sources.list: deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-2 main contrib non-free This so far worked ok, but now I get: Err http://www.fs.tum.de woody/bunk-2/main Packages 403 Forbidden and so on. Also if I try to access the page through a browser I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~bunk/debian/ on this server. What can be the problem? Can I do anything from my side, to change that? I have to access the Internet through a proxy, but so far that wasn't a problem. Any suggestions? Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no tool to read MS Windows Help Data?
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I bet there is no Debian tool to read this kind of file: $ file wget.hlp wget.hlp: MS Windows Help Data Not that there is a burning need. There is wine. I use wine winhlp32.exe /path/to/wathever.hlp without any problem. Andreas -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No need for 2.4.23 (re compromise)
Mark C [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: same here from the debian sources, but with a few added patches, there is no need to download a new kernel, just get the source you have for the currently running kernel, apply this patch: -- cut - --- 1.31/mm/mmap.c Fri Sep 12 06:44:06 2003 +++ 1.32/mm/mmap.c Thu Oct 2 01:18:19 2003 @@ -1041,6 +1041,9 @@ if (!len) return addr; + if ((addr + len) TASK_SIZE || (addr + len) addr) + return -EINVAL; + /* * mlock MCL_FUTURE? */ -- cut - and recompile, this was taken originally from, Debian Planet. With 2.4.21 I get: $ patch -p1 mm.patch patching file mm/mmap.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 1041. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file mm/mmap.c.rej In mmap.c.rej I find: ** *** 1041,1046 if (!len) return addr; /* * mlock MCL_FUTURE? */ --- 1041,1049 if (!len) return addr; +if ((addr + len) TASK_SIZE || (addr + len) addr) +return -EINVAL; + /* * mlock MCL_FUTURE? */ What am I doing wrong? Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
Serge Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try compiling into the kernel (not module) and check the logs. I remember having similar cases, can't remember how I solved them :/ Thanks. Compiling the chipset support into the kernel solved the problem. That would qualify as a kernel bug, wouldn't it? Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
Alf Werder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's even worse: $ modprobe amd74xx Segmentation fault And now I have: amd74xx 9468 1 (initializing) The module cannot be removed and interferes with other processes as for instance ifconfig (which get's stuck and can't be killed ...). Very bad. Mmh ... maybe AMD-756 (seven,*five*, ...) is something different then AMD74xx (seven, *four*, ...). Just my two cents. Well, from /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/pci/amd74xx.c * Version 2.10 * * AMD 755/756/766/8111 and nVidia nForce IDE driver for Linux. That looks rather like what I should need. But many thanks for the suggestion! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 linux questions
Bjorn Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. How do a patch my kernel? In your kernel's source directory do for instance: patch -p1 /path/to/my.patch Then compile as normal. But is this the answer to the question you asked? Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...
eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If Kent idea doesn't work... Maybe you could modyfy XFree86.conf from the windows side using explore2fs? But I know the write to linux partition feature is experimental and I haven't tried this out. This can be risky, but if nothing else comes up... But if he has to take down the machine anyway he might as well start from a (rescue) floppy/cd and repair everything under Linux. I did use the write capabilities of explore2fs, though, and without any problems so far. Of course, it's your own risk ... Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w3m-ssl - howto?
Hi, my favorite browser is w3m but unfortunately I'm not able to get ssl certificates to work correctly under w3m. I have installed w3m-ssl (from woody) and set: ssl_ca_file /home/myhome/.w3m/ssl-ca.pem ssl_ca_path /home/myhome/.w3m/ ssl_key_file ssl_cert_file ssl_verify_server 1 ssl_forbid_method ssl-ca.pem is a valid certificate file, successfully tested under mozilla. I have no entries for ssl_key_file and ssl_cert_file. (What are these? Do I have to have them? How would I get them? Is there a howto for dummies?) With this setting (and also if I leave ssl_ca_path empty) visiting a certified site I get: unable to get issuer certificate: accept? (y/n) If I leave ssl_ca_file empty I get: unable to get local issuer certificate: accept? (y/n) Is there any easy way to make w3m accept the certificates contained in ssl-ca.pem? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS and NTFS
Simon Umbricht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi there i'm new to linux, so i'd be glad if someone could help me out with a little problem what i'd like to do is access my unix files using windows xp and the ntfs partitions using linux. i couldn't really find anything helpful on the internet tho. Well, what Debian version and which kind of kernel are you using? Chances are that you already have ntfs (read, not write) support enabled. Then it's just a question of mounting the ntfs partition. See: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html Especially section 4: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.0 For access from xp to see section 3.2: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2 I personally have good experiences with explore2fs. Hope that helps, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel freeze and ntfs read access
Hi, since some time I experience very unpleasant system freezes. The culprit seems to be the ntfs driver of kernel 2.4.21. After installing this kernel I started to get the error message: NTFS: Unicode name contains a character that cannot be converted to chosen character set. Remount with utf8 encoding and this should work. I therefor changed my fstab entry to: /dev/hda1 /disks/ntfs ntfs nodev,nosuid,ro,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0 The next day the freezes started ... The freezes normally occur during daily cron tasks, with heavy disk activity, and I can reproduce them with high probability by doing a find on the ntfs drive. (Not that I like to experiment with that too much ...) My questions: Is this a known bug? Where should I report it? Is there an alternative to iocharset=utf8 which would prevent the freezes but nevertheless support all the characters? (They should be all latin1 or whatever corresponds to latin1 in the windows world, I suppose.) Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.4 and executable permission for mounted fs
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, as it is well known the 2.4 kernel series mixed up the permissions set at mounting for instance vfat and iso9660 partitions: As default all files are marked as executable, creating a problem if you copy them to ext2. One can't change that using umask as removing the executable bit with umask 1 also applies to directories. [...] If there are no 2.4 kernels with the problem fixed - are there any workarounds? Put differently: As 2.4 users how do you get around that problem? I found a workaround. The well-documented option showexec. From man mount: sys_immutable, showexec, dots, nodots, dotsOK=[yes|no] Various misguided attempts to force Unix or DOS conventions onto a FAT file system. It's indeed only a workaround, as it IMHO doesn't make much sense to show the executable tag for MS-executables. But better than nothing, anyway. If anybody has a real solution: A way on a stable 2.4.x kernel to show all files on (for example) vfat as non-executables - please, tell us. Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb card reader - no block device [Solved]
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, after configuring my usb card reader on my laptop I wanted to do the same on my desktop. But I didn't succeed. [...] But then there come the problem: I can not find any device to mount. So I get for instance: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) Similarly for /dev/sda1 etc. and indeed for all of sda - sdh fdisk gives: Unable to open /dev/sda So my big question: What am I missing? Where and how would I find the appropriate device? I had to load the module sd_mod. Simple, if one knows ... Andreas Gösele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
usb card reader - no block device
Hi, after configuring my usb card reader on my laptop I wanted to do the same on my desktop. But I didn't succeed. First I tried it with the uhci module but this gives: /lib/modules/2.2.19/usb/uhci.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (and so on) So I tried the usb-ohci module, which might be right as I have a AMD chipset. The result anyway looks fine: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xcc0f6000, IRQ 5 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected Also the installation of usb-storage looks fine: USB Mass Storage support registered. Under /proc/bus/scsi/usb/1 I find: Host scsi1: usb-storage Vendor: PQI Product: Travel Flash Serial Number: 4710765066451 Protocol: Transparent SCSI Transport: Bulk GUID: 353800010004710765066451 (Which also looks fine.) If I do a mount /proc/bus/usb I even get more information: # cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 4 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB OHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=cc0f6000 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=3538 ProdID=0001 Rev= 2.05 S: Manufacturer=PQI S: Product=Travel Flash S: SerialNumber=4710765066451 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms But then there come the problem: I can not find any device to mount. So I get for instance: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) Similarly for /dev/sda1 etc. and indeed for all of sda - sdh fdisk gives: Unable to open /dev/sda So my big question: What am I missing? Where and how would I find the appropriate device? This is on a woody system and I tested with kernels 2.2.19 and 2.4.21. I very much hope somebody can help me out ... Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.4 and executable permission for mounted fs
Hi, as it is well known the 2.4 kernel series mixed up the permissions set at mounting for instance vfat and iso9660 partitions: As default all files are marked as executable, creating a problem if you copy them to ext2. One can't change that using umask as removing the executable bit with umask 1 also applies to directories. My question: Is there any stable 2.4 kernel available (if possible debianized) were this problem is fixed? Somewhere in the 2.5 series new options fmask and dmask where introduced, but they are nor available for 2.4 kernels, or are they? If there are no 2.4 kernels with the problem fixed - are there any workarounds? Put differently: As 2.4 users how do you get around that problem? I want to add, that I already read quite a lot on this question - but I so far never found a working solution. (I actually found mails claiming that the questions was solved in some other threads, but unfortunately I didn't find those threads ...) For your information: I use woody and tested the kernels 2.4.16, 2.4.18 and 2.4.21. Many thanks in advance Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
elpoint - anybody?
Hi, I wanted to try out elpoint, as it's description sounds promising. (I especially would like the possibility to make presentations out of outlines). But I'm not able to get it to work under woody. Does anybody use it with success and Latin characters? If so, could you pass the recipe to me, how to make it work? My problems: If I put simply (require 'ept-setup) into my init.el I get the error message: Error in init file: error No fonts match `-kochi-gothic-medium-r-normal-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' First I noted that the package ttf-kochi-gothic (required by elpoint) didn't install the font successfully. It only put the font into a new directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi/ but didn't create and fonts.dir or fonts.scale files. xlsfonts didn't show the font. During the install process I got: Richte ttf-kochi-gothic ein (0.2.20020326-1) ... /usr/bin/defoma-font -vt reregister-all /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-kochi-gothic.hints Registering /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi/kochi-gothic.ttf.. /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi/kochi-gothic.ttf: failed to register for package abiword-common, status(3). I then installed the font using the KDE font installer. The font was now available, but under the wrong full name. xlsfonts showed it as for instance: -Misc-Kochi Gothic-Medium-r-Normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 But the error message continued. So I installed it by hand using the provided fonts.dir and fonts.scale examples from ttf-kochi-gothic. Now xlsfonts looks better, for instance: -kochi-gothic-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1 But the error message continues :-( I also tried it with (setq ept-use-kochi nil) (require 'ept-setup) There's no error in the startup, but if I try to use elpoint I get: Invalid font or fontset name: fontset-gothic54. Any suggestions? Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alt-Gr and Windows-Key as Meta-Key suddenly stops working
Hi, this is a mystery to me: Without changing any configuration, suddenly the Alt-Gr Key (which I urgently need in German!) and the Windows-Key which used to function as Meta-Key (for Emacs) stopped working. I have no idea, why this should be so, and unfortunately no idea how I could get my previous configuration back. Before this unfortunate change happened I had installed pspp, the /tmp directory and I as user were temporarily out of disk-space and to help that I moved the /tmp directory and created a soft link to the new location. Could anything of this have created the problem? Could it be, that some config file got lost that way? Which one could it be? I have debian-woody and KDE 3.0.4. Alt-Gr works under the console, but not under X. Please, help me to get the Alt-Gr Key back! Thanks a lot! Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Help
Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Andreas, You might want to try debian-laptop list. I always use the /etc/init.d/networking script or /etc/init.d/pcmcia to start and stop the cardbus. Did you try booting with the card in? Eric Thanks. I already wrote to debian-laptop too. I also used /etc/init.d/pcmcia and tried booting with the card in. Everything to no avail. I didn't try the /etc/init.d/networking script. How would I do that, and is there hope that this could have success, given that /etc/init.d/pcmcia does not? Andreas Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi, I already lost too much time trying to get PCMCIA work on my laptop (Samsung MV7000, potato, kernel 2.2.19, corega FEther PCC-TXF). The card works under Win98. When I put in the card I get one deep beep, removing it one high beep. The card is recognized and the modules seem to be loaded alright. But ifconfig doesn't show eth0 and consequently a ping results in network is unreachable. The network information (ip-address, network, netmask, gateway, broadcast) in network.conf is most certainly correct. (But see below under 6.) Trying to run the network script by hand invariably gives: /etc/pcmcia/network start eth0 usage: /etc/pcmcia/network [action] [device name] actions: start check stop suspend resume Follows all the info I could get. (1. system log, 2. cardctl status, 3. cardctl config, 4. cardctl ident, 5. test_setup, 6. test_network, 7. dump_pirq 1) In the system log I have: Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: kernel build: 2.2.19 #1 Wed Mar 20 19:41:41 EST 2002 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdf60 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: 00:08.1 - irq 5 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: Intel PCIC probe: Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: Ricoh RL5C478 rev 80 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:08, mem 0x6800 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: host opts [0]: [serial irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34] Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: host opts [1]: [serial irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [pci irq 5] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37] Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,7,9,10,12,15 PCI status changes Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa000-0xa0ff: clean. According to the PCMCIA Howto the 10th line should continue and look as for instance: Could that be relevant? 2) Output of cardctl status: Socket 0: 5V 16-bit PC Card function 0: [ready], [wp] Socket 1: no card 3) Output of cardctl config: Socket 0: Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 5.0V Vpp2 5.0V Socket 1: not configured 4) Output of cardctl ident: Socket 0: product info: corega, FEther PCC-TXF manfid: 0xc00f, 0x function: 6 (network) Socket 1: no product info available 5) Output of test_setup: Current kernel: 2.2.19 #1 Wed Mar 20 19:41:41 EST 2002 Module info from /lib/modules/2.2.19/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Startup options from /etc/pcmcia.conf: PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 PCIC_OPTS= CORE_OPTS= CARDMGR_OPTS= Checking current syslog files in /var/log: All PCMCIA messages are in /var/log/syslog. Module status: The PCMCIA kernel modules are loaded correctly. Daemon status: cardmgr is running (process 168) Current socket status from /var/lib/pcmcia/stab: Socket 0: empty Socket 1: empty 6) Output of test_network: PCMCIA network settings are coming from /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. No PCMCIA network interfaces are configured. There is a network device in socket 0: empty 7) Output of dump_pirq: Interrupt routing table found at address 0xfdf60: Version 1.0, size 0x0080 Interrupt router is device 00:07.0 PCI exclusive interrupt mask: 0x [] Compatible router: vendor 0x8086 device 0x122e Device 00:07.0 (slot 0): ISA bridge INTD: link 0x63, irq mask 0x0800 [11] Device 00:08.0 (slot 0): CardBus bridge INTA: link 0x60, irq mask 0x0800 [11] INTB: link 0x61, irq mask 0x0020 [5] Device 00:0b.0 (slot 0): VGA compatible controller INTA: link 0x62, irq mask 0x0400 [10] Device 00:09.0 (slot 0): INTA: link 0x60, irq mask 0x0800 [11] Device 00:0a.0 (slot 0): INTA: link 0x61, irq mask 0x0020 [5] Device 00:00.0 (slot 0): Host bridge INTA: link 0x60, irq mask 0xdef8 [3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15] INTB: link 0x61, irq
PCMCIA Help
Hi, I already lost too much time trying to get PCMCIA work on my laptop (Samsung MV7000, potato, kernel 2.2.19, corega FEther PCC-TXF). The card works under Win98. When I put in the card I get one deep beep, removing it one high beep. The card is recognized and the modules seem to be loaded alright. But ifconfig doesn't show eth0 and consequently a ping results in network is unreachable. The network information (ip-address, network, netmask, gateway, broadcast) in network.conf is most certainly correct. (But see below under 6.) Trying to run the network script by hand invariably gives: /etc/pcmcia/network start eth0 usage: /etc/pcmcia/network [action] [device name] actions: start check stop suspend resume Follows all the info I could get. (1. system log, 2. cardctl status, 3. cardctl config, 4. cardctl ident, 5. test_setup, 6. test_network, 7. dump_pirq 1) In the system log I have: Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: kernel build: 2.2.19 #1 Wed Mar 20 19:41:41 EST 2002 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdf60 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: 00:08.1 - irq 5 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: Intel PCIC probe: Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: Ricoh RL5C478 rev 80 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:08, mem 0x6800 Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: host opts [0]: [serial irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34] Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: host opts [1]: [serial irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [pci irq 5] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37] Oct 13 19:49:43 debi kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,7,9,10,12,15 PCI status changes Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Oct 13 19:49:44 debi kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa000-0xa0ff: clean. According to the PCMCIA Howto the 10th line should continue and look as for instance: Could that be relevant? 2) Output of cardctl status: Socket 0: 5V 16-bit PC Card function 0: [ready], [wp] Socket 1: no card 3) Output of cardctl config: Socket 0: Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 5.0V Vpp2 5.0V Socket 1: not configured 4) Output of cardctl ident: Socket 0: product info: corega, FEther PCC-TXF manfid: 0xc00f, 0x function: 6 (network) Socket 1: no product info available 5) Output of test_setup: Current kernel: 2.2.19 #1 Wed Mar 20 19:41:41 EST 2002 Module info from /lib/modules/2.2.19/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Startup options from /etc/pcmcia.conf: PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 PCIC_OPTS= CORE_OPTS= CARDMGR_OPTS= Checking current syslog files in /var/log: All PCMCIA messages are in /var/log/syslog. Module status: The PCMCIA kernel modules are loaded correctly. Daemon status: cardmgr is running (process 168) Current socket status from /var/lib/pcmcia/stab: Socket 0: empty Socket 1: empty 6) Output of test_network: PCMCIA network settings are coming from /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. No PCMCIA network interfaces are configured. There is a network device in socket 0: empty 7) Output of dump_pirq: Interrupt routing table found at address 0xfdf60: Version 1.0, size 0x0080 Interrupt router is device 00:07.0 PCI exclusive interrupt mask: 0x [] Compatible router: vendor 0x8086 device 0x122e Device 00:07.0 (slot 0): ISA bridge INTD: link 0x63, irq mask 0x0800 [11] Device 00:08.0 (slot 0): CardBus bridge INTA: link 0x60, irq mask 0x0800 [11] INTB: link 0x61, irq mask 0x0020 [5] Device 00:0b.0 (slot 0): VGA compatible controller INTA: link 0x62, irq mask 0x0400 [10] Device 00:09.0 (slot 0): INTA: link 0x60, irq mask 0x0800 [11] Device 00:0a.0 (slot 0): INTA: link 0x61, irq mask 0x0020 [5] Device 00:00.0 (slot 0): Host bridge INTA: link 0x60, irq mask 0xdef8 [3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15] INTB: link 0x61, irq mask 0x0020 [5] INTC: link 0x62, irq mask 0xdef8 [3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15] INTD: link 0x63, irq mask 0xdef8 [3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15] Interrupt router at 00:07.0: Intel 82443MX PCI-to-ISA bridge PIRQ1 (link 0x60): irq 11 PIRQ2 (link 0x61): irq 5 PIRQ3 (link 0x62): unrouted PIRQ4 (link 0x63): irq 11 Serial IRQ: [enabled] [continuous] [frame=21] [pulse=4] Level mask: 0x0820 [5,11] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
calendar supporting vcalendar?
Hi, to synchronize with my handheld I need my calendar in the vcalendar format. So far I used korganizer, but since some time it doesn't use internally the vcalendar format any more and only allows to export in the vcalendar format, which is inconvenient. To make things worse, not even the alarms work and there seems to be no progress in correcting this bug. So, I would like to change to another calendar application which supports vcalendar files and has working alarms. I tried evolution, but it actually seems to use the ical format too and did a very bad job importing my vcalendar file. (All returning events were missing.) Aethera on the other hand seems to relay on korganizer anyway. Any suggestion? Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pcmcia installation?
Hi, I wanted to install a pcmcia network card on my laptop, but I have big problems. My kernel is 2.2.18pre21. 1) First I simply wanted to install simply the precompiled drivers from the corresponding deb packages. So I got pcmcia-modules-2.2.18pre21_3.1.22-0.1potato.0.2k1.deb which seemed to me the correct version. But I got a missing dependency: Package kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 is not installed. I then wanted to get this kernel package, but on the package site I find: kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 (= 2.2.18pre21-1) (NOT AVAILABLE) What would be the easiest way to solve that problem? 2) I didn't know an easy way out, and so I tried to compile my own modules. I got pcmcia-source_3.1.22-0.2potato.deb, installed it and did a `debian/rules binary-modules' in /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs. Compilation started fine, but then I got: MODULE -c apa1480_stub.c apa1480_stub.c:53: ../drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.h: No such file or directory apa1480_stub.c:79: `AIC7XXX' undeclared here (not in a function) make[2]: *** [apa1480_stub.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/clients' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' make: *** [build-modules] Error 2 I don't even think I need apa1480_stub.o ... Any suggestion, how I could get the compilation through? Many thanks in advance! Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres 7.1 - 7.2 ... sigh
Jason Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CREATE USER user WITH SYSID 1 CREATEDB CREATEUSER; ERROR: CREATE USER: sysid 1 is already assigned ^^^ Sysid 1 is probably assigned to the user postgres created by the install. To get your data reloaded into the database try editing the dumped file so that 'user' is now number two or something. Thanks! I followed you suggestion. And then: $ psql -e template1 db.out You are now connected to database template1. DELETE FROM pg_shadow WHERE usesysid (SELECT datdba FROM pg_database WHERE datname = 'template0'); DELETE 0 CREATE USER user WITH SYSID 2 CREATEDB CREATEUSER; CREATE USER DELETE FROM pg_group; DELETE 0 You are now connected to database template1 as user postgres. CREATE DATABASE accounts WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'LATIN1'; ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: database accounts already exists You are now connected to database accounts as user postgres. \connect: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user user What I then did was to delete the lines DELETE FROM pg_shadow WHERE usesysid (SELECT datdba FROM pg_database WHERE datname = 'template0'); CREATE USER user WITH SYSID 2 CREATEDB CREATEUSER; DELETE FROM pg_group; from db.out, delete every line with just \connect postgres, remove for every \connect ... postgres the postgres and finally run psql -e template1 db.out again as user. This gave me my databases back, but I'm sure that wasn't the right way to do it, and maybe there are some security problems involved. Any comments? What would have been the right way? Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
postgres 7.1 - 7.2 ... sigh
I had big problems going from 6.5 to 7.1 and now going from 7.1.3-7 again doesn't go smooth. (On an up do date woody.) The problem seems to be related to the fact that I call myself user (fanciful name, isn't it?), but shouldn't one be free to call the users as one likes? Anyway how can I get my postgres databases again working? Problem in some more details: During the upgrade I opted for the automatic upgrade. I was shown a beautiful db.out and continued. But then something went wrong, and I can't connect, getting instead the error message: psql: FATAL 1: user user does not exist Looking at the content of /var/lib/postgres/data it seems that there wasn't any database really *imported*. In my syslog I find: Apr 20 22:40:58 localhost postgres[21517]: [2] ERROR: CREATE USER: sysid 1 is already assigned Apr 20 22:40:59 localhost postgres[21521]: [2] FATAL 1: user user does not exist Apr 20 22:41:27 localhost postgres[21787]: [2] FATAL 1: user user does not exist Apr 20 22:41:35 localhost postgres[21795]: [2] FATAL 1: user user does not exist Apr 20 22:54:54 localhost postgres[21888]: [2] FATAL 1: user user does not exist The output during the update process starting from my acceptance of the database dump: -- postgresql-dump completed on Sat Apr 20 22:39:32 CEST 2002 On the basis of this dump, is it OK to delete the old database? [y/n] y Destroying old database... Copying /var/lib/postgres/data to /var/lib/postgres/data.7.1.3-7.save Deleting /var/lib/postgres/data Creating the new database structure The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user postgres. This user must also own the server process. Fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgres/data... ok creating directory /var/lib/postgres/data/base... ok creating directory /var/lib/postgres/data/global... ok creating directory /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_xlog... ok creating directory /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_clog... ok creating template1 database in /var/lib/postgres/data/base/1... ok creating configuration files... ok initializing pg_shadow... ok enabling unlimited row size for system tables... ok creating system views... ok loading pg_description... ok vacuuming database template1... ok copying template1 to template0... ok Success. You can now start the database server using: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data or /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgres/data -l logfile start Checking that the postmaster is running Starting the postmaster Starting PostgreSQL postmaster /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -i -b /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgres/data /var/log/postgres.log 21 Loading the database from /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/db.out Reloading databases... You are now connected to database template1. DELETE FROM pg_shadow WHERE usesysid (SELECT datdba FROM pg_database WHERE datname = 'template0'); DELETE 0 CREATE USER user WITH SYSID 1 CREATEDB CREATEUSER; ERROR: CREATE USER: sysid 1 is already assigned DELETE FROM pg_group; DELETE 0 You are now connected to database template1 as user postgres. CREATE DATABASE accounts WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'LATIN1'; CREATE DATABASE You are now connected to database accounts as user postgres. \connect: FATAL 1: user user does not exist Reload failed Restarting PostgreSQL database: postmaster Stopped /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster (pid 21507 21508 21509). Starting PostgreSQL postmaster. postmaster successfully started . Enabling the PL procedural language in all PostgreSQL databases... plpgsql added to accounts plpgsql added to template1 Please help me to get my databases running again! Thanks in advance! Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome apps font size under KDE
Hi, I have an up to date Debian woody with KDE as desktop. Additionally I'm using some gnome applications. The menu etc. fonts of these gnome apps are too small for my eyes, but I didn't find any way to change the font size so far. I tried to set under gnomecc - theme selector - user font - use custom font some other fonts and sizes - without any effect. So this doesn't seem to be the way to do it ... Any suggestions, how I could change the font size in my gnome apps? I don't mind to edit config files. (Actually, IMHO the best way to configure apps are well documented config files - and it's a pity IMHO that the KDE and gnome developers seem to think otherwise.) Thanks in advance! Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape - no javascript, no import of certificates - please help!
Hi Jeff, many thanks for your input. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Goesele, 2002-Mar-05 04:00 +0100: I have purged all netscape and communicator packages and installed 4.79 from the netscape site into a different location. (Some of you recommended so: Thanks!) But it didn't help: Still every time I try to enable javascript or to enter a secure site netscape freezes if run as user. (No problem if run as root.) Could be a permissions issue. This is what I suspect. Did you install 4.79 into /usr/local as root and then install the java plugin into the /netscape/plugins directory also as root? Then, when you run netscape as a user it ought to work. It's not a java but a javascript (and https ...) issue. For the 4.77 Debian package I had installed netscape and and netscape-java as root, and all the files and directories in /usr/lib/netscape seem to belong to root and group root. (Which I guess is as it should be.) For 4.79 I just installed the tar.gz file from netscape (comes with java?) as root into /opt/netscape and nothing more. In this case the permissions are strange: Most files and directories belong to some non-existing user with id 8482 and to group uucp. I changed it all to root/root - with no avail, as I expected. I suspect that for https and javascript (and what else?) netscape needs some access to additional files or devices outside of the netscape and ~/.netscape directories. But I don't have any idea what that might be. Very strange everything, anyway. Thanks again. Andreas Goesele
Re: Netscape - no javascript, no import of certificates - please help!
A small update to my problem: Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have asked about the first half off the problem already some time ago: Suddenly it was impossible to enable javascript in Netscape, even when I'm on a non-javascript page. Trying to do it inevitably will freeze Netscape. (4.77-2 from woody) I have purged all netscape and communicator packages and installed 4.79 from the netscape site into a different location. (Some of you recommended so: Thanks!) But it didn't help: Still every time I try to enable javascript or to enter a secure site netscape freezes if run as user. (No problem if run as root.) Still hoping for some help ... Andreas Goesele
postgres 7.1 (woody) - how to stop debugging
Hi, with the help of people on this list (Thanks Martin and Brooks!) I freed my syslog from all those debugging messages. But as I have (as recommended) silent_mode = off in postgresql.conf my console still gets cluttered by all those debugging messages. I also have debug_level = 0 in postgresql.conf believing that this would stop all debugging massages, but this is not the case. My console gets flooded by messages of the type: DEBUG: ... Is there any way I can effectively stop all debugging? Thanks again! Andreas Goesele
Netscape - no javascript, no import of certificates - please help!
Hi, I have asked about the first half off the problem already some time ago: Suddenly it was impossible to enable javascript in Netscape, even when I'm on a non-javascript page. Trying to do it inevitably will freeze Netscape. (4.77-2 from woody) I noticed that this is only true for users not for root, what makes me believe that it's a permission problem, but I don't have the least clue what permissions I should be looking for. I have removed /.netscape, I have purged all Netscape and communicator packages and reinstalled - no success. Now I notice that trying to import new ssl certificates (i.e. to load a ctr page) leads to the same problem: Netscape freezes at once. I would be grateful if somebody could give me some suggestions about what I could do to get back a working Netscape. Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele
Re: Mozilla 2:0.9.7-6 segfaults - 2:0.9.8-2 too :-(
Andrea Vettorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought I'd try the mozilla of sid (2:0.9.8-2). It segfaults with a very similar message: /usr/bin/mozilla: line 146: 11822 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM -remote openurl(about:blank,new-window) 2/dev/null /dev/null Segmentation fault Is this a bug, or is there something wrong with my system? With sid i was having problem some time ago with an account starting mozilla, and in the same box with another account no problem at all. Try moving/renaming the .mozilla dir or look for some stale links in /usr/lib/mozilla (with a ppc system mozilla 0.9.7 didn't started until i removed some stale links from previous version, purging and reinstalling helped =)... Moving .mozilla I already had tried - with no avail. As to stale links in /usr/lib/mozilla: Is there another way to get rid of them, than to purge and reinstall? Thanks for your help! Andreas Goesele
Re: Netscape: Can't enable javascript anymore
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since a few days I can't enable javascript in netscape (4.77-2 on up to date woody) anymore. Trying to do so crashes netscape (it becomes unresponsive with very high CPU usage). It can not be a problem of my configuration in ~/.netscape, as removing that directory makes in impossible to start netscape (as javascript is enabled by default). Per accident I found out that I can enable javascript in netscape as root but not as (any) user. I now would assume a permission problem. But what permissions javascript in netscape could be missing and how could I find out? Any hints? Andreas Goesele
Mozilla 2:0.9.7-6 segfaults
Hi, I have an up do date woody system. The current mozilla (2:0.9.7-6) won't start on my machine. It gives: /usr/bin/mozilla: line 140: 7297 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM -remote openurl(about:blank,new-window) 2/dev/null /dev/null Segmentation fault Any suggestion? Andreas Goesele
Re: Mozilla 2:0.9.7-6 segfaults - 2:0.9.8-2 too :-(
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have an up do date woody system. The current mozilla (2:0.9.7-6) won't start on my machine. It gives: /usr/bin/mozilla: line 140: 7297 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM -remote openurl(about:blank,new-window) 2/dev/null /dev/null Segmentation fault I thought I'd try the mozilla of sid (2:0.9.8-2). It segfaults with a very similar message: /usr/bin/mozilla: line 146: 11822 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM -remote openurl(about:blank,new-window) 2/dev/null /dev/null Segmentation fault Is this a bug, or is there something wrong with my system? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele BTW: I got the sid galeon too and it runs OK.
Re: Netscape displaying everything internally :-(
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.02.08.0245 +0100]: suddenly Netscape started to display everything internally. Even if Preferences - Netscape - Application would say for some file type unknown or download. remove the 'plugger' package. Thanks for you suggestion. But I don't have 'plugger' installed. It doesn't exit for woody. I deleted the soft links /usr/lib/netscape/477/communicator/mailcap and /usr/lib/netscape/477/communicator/mime.types That solved the problem. But isn't there something hosed with either netscape/communicator or mailcap, if the default install of netscape uses the mailcap file and that leads to netscape trying to display basically everything? And I think it's mailcap as lynx has the very same problem now! Any suggestions how I could get back a sensible mailcap file or if the problems lays somewhere else: sensible mime handling for all browsers using mailcap? Thanks again! Andreas Goesele
Netscape: Can't enable javascript anymore
Since a few days I can't enable javascript in netscape (4.77-2 on up to date woody) anymore. Trying to do so crashes netscape (it becomes unresponsive with very high CPU usage). It can not be a problem of my configuration in ~/.netscape, as removing that directory makes in impossible to start netscape (as javascript is enabled by default). Any suggestion about how I could back a javascript into netscape? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele
postgres 7.1 - too much logging
Hi, thanks to help from this list I now finally have successfully upgraded to postgresql 7.1. But now my syslog gets to much logging from postgres. In postgresql.conf I have: debug_level = 0 log_connections = on log_pid = on log_timestamp = on syslog = 2 # if syslog is 0, turn silent_mode off! silent_mode = off syslog_facility = LOCAL0 trace_notify = off So I would expect there to be no debugging info, but my syslog is full of DEBUG and NOTICE (and other) messages from postgres. How could I effectively reduce the logging to a sensible amount (no debugging, no NOTICES at least)? Thanks in advance! Andreas Goesele
Re: postgres upgrade for dummies?
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Switch back to the pg_hba.conf file you used with 6.5. 7.1 has a new authentication method peer which 6.5 doesn't understand and which 7.1's default configuration employs IIRC. This helped. Thanks. But now I have a new problem: The encoding of my database is latin1. During the upgrade with postgresql-dump -t db.out -dcivlp $PGDATA/../data.save the screen dump looked fine (all umlauts were correctly displayed). But now instead of the umlauts I have some strange combination of letters and signs. My name becomes for instance G(Hlaele. Listing the databases with \l shows the correct encoding LATIN1 and also the ordering as according to the German rules. Any solution to that? Thanks again! Andreas Goesele
Re: postgres upgrade for dummies? [solved]
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Switch back to the pg_hba.conf file you used with 6.5. 7.1 has a new authentication method peer which 6.5 doesn't understand and which 7.1's default configuration employs IIRC. This helped. Thanks. But now I have a new problem: The encoding of my database is latin1. During the upgrade with postgresql-dump -t db.out -dcivlp $PGDATA/../data.save the screen dump looked fine (all umlauts were correctly displayed). But now instead of the umlauts I have some strange combination of letters and signs. My name becomes for instance G(Hlaele. Listing the databases with \l shows the correct encoding LATIN1 and also the ordering as according to the German rules. The problem was the pager psql was using. Changing that to less solved the problem. (It remains strange anyway, that the problem appeared: more is working flawlessly on my system and the psql manpage claims that psql is using more as default pager.) Andreas Goesele
strange entry in /etc/init.d
Hi, unexpectedly I found my LANG locale env variable change. I took a look into /etc/environment and found as last entry: LANG=C I found this strange as I thought for bash one would write export LANG=C (or LANG=C and then export LANG) and my own entry export [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't changed. The file was modified while the machine was unattended and downloading or possibly starting to install for an apt-get update. Is it possible that some package would add such a line to my /etc/environment? What package could that be? Or should I worry about an intruder? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele
a2ps - landscape
Hi, a2ps is a very handy utility indeed. I just ran into a problem though. I wanted to print some text with *very* long lines. I expected to make better use of the page by printing in landscape mode (with the -r option). But then the unpleasant surprise: while the page indeed was printed in landscape mode, line wrapping happened at the same places as in portrait mode. Is there any way to make a2ps to use the whole page in landscape mode? (Don't know whether I'm clear enough: a2ps brakes at let's say 80 characters, in landscape mode it should be able to brake at let's say 120 characters given the same font size, but actually it again brakes at 80 characters. I would like it to brake at 120 characters and in that way using the whole space available.) Thanks in advance! Andreas Goesele
dillo anybody?
Hi, I used to use a self compiled dillo 0.6.1 which ran fine. I did an upgrade to the current debian (woody) package (dillo 0.6.4-1). Now the font_factor entry in dillorc isn't headed anymore - which makes dillo unusable for me. Is this a bug - as I assume - or is there anything I could do to get font size increased with dillo 0.6.4? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele
postgres upgrade for dummies?
Hi, Short story: Is there an easy way to upgrade from postgresql 6.5 to 7.1? An easy to follow document explaining how to do it? Long story: Many tries, no success: I have a nicely working postgresql 6.5 on Debian woody. When I first upgraded to woody I too tried to upgrade to postgresql 7.1, but I couldn't get my databases working. So with some work I went back to 6.5. I now did a new try, again without any success. The automatic upgrading process first looks promising but than ends with the following error message: You are now connected to database template1. select datdba into table tmp_pg_shadow from pg_database where datname = 'template1'; SELECT delete from pg_shadow where usesysid tmp_pg_shadow.datdba; DELETE 0 drop table tmp_pg_shadow; DROP copy pg_shadow from stdin; You are now connected to database template1 as user user. create database user; ERROR: parser: parse error at or near user \connect: FATAL 1: Database user does not exist in the system catalog. Reload failed Restarting PostgreSQL database: postmaster Stopped /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster (pid 28000). Starting PostgreSQL postmaster. postmaster successfully started . dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von postgresql (--configure): Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 130 zurück Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: postgresql E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Afterwards it's impossible to start postmaster and connect to it. I turnt successfully back to 6.5 and tried it a second time: No I only got: Do you want me to move your old configuration to the new files? [Y/n] Restarting PostgreSQL database: postmaster No /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster found running; none killed. The database is in an older format that cannot be read by version 7.1 of PostgreSQL. Run postgresql-dump to dump the old database and to reload it in the new format. *** READ /usr/share/doc/postgresql/README.Debian.migration.gz FIRST! *** The version 7.1 postmaster cannot be started until this is done. . So I did read README.Debian.migration.gz and then run postgresql-dump with the options in the README. This is what I got: Stopping and restarting the postmaster /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/6.5/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data -p 5431 -o -d0 Dumping the database to db.out process_hba_record: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Connection to database 'template1' failed. Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details process_hba_record: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Connection to database 'template1' failed. Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details process_hba_record: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Connection to database 'template1' failed. Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Finding the default encoding process_hba_record: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Connection to database 'template1' failed. Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Usage: pg_encoding encoding_name | encoding_number Killing the postmaster This is the ASCII output of the dump for you to check: -- postgresql-dump on Sun Feb 17 01:28:21 CET 2002 from version 6.5 \connect template1 select datdba into table tmp_pg_shadow from pg_database where datname = 'template1'; delete from pg_shadow where usesysid tmp_pg_shadow.datdba; drop table tmp_pg_shadow; copy pg_shadow from stdin; \. -- postgresql-dump completed on Sun Feb 17 01:28:22 CET 2002 On the basis of this dump, is it OK to delete the old database? [y/n] n (The last n is mine, as the dump didn't look promising at all ...) Any suggestions? Andreas Goesele
Re: Hangman vocabulary all in German...?
Xeno Campanoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's been too long, and I may have accidentally asked for this and not remember, but my hangman vocabulary is in German. Is it possible this is a mistake? If so, presumably it's not the highest priority. This is on my stable install. Try: update-alternatives --config dictionary If an English dictionary is available you then can choose it. If not, you have to install one. Andreas Gösele
Netscape displaying everything internally :-(
Hi, suddenly Netscape started to display everything internally. Even if Preferences - Netscape - Application would say for some file type unknown or download. The problem started after my last woody upgrade, don't know whether it's related to this upgrade. Any suggestion, how I could go back to the former state of Netscape honoring the prescription under Preferences - Netscape - Application? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Gösele
Re: Netscape displaying everything internally :-( lynx too :-(
Oh no, I thought I would switch to lynx, just to find out, that lynx now too displays binary files instead of downloading and saving them. I guess my mailcap file got corrupted. How can I get back to a sensible mailcap file? Or is there another explanation of this behavior of Netscape *and* lynx? Hoping for some help ... Andreas Gösele
Re: Again: Most programs don't run. [Thanks!]
Hi, having uninstalled tiger and cfingerd the problem didn't return for some days. So it seems one of them was the culprit. Why a tiger or cfingerd cronjob could lead to a situation where most programs can't start anymore remains a mystery to me. Thanks to all who helped! Andreas Goesele PS: I hope it's not premature to report the problem solved. As the German saying goes: Man soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben.
Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!
Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd ask on the kernel mailing list and/or on comp.os.linux.system. Thanks. But where would I find comp.os.linux.system? My news-server doesn't provide it nor did I find it on googles groups. Andreas Goesele
