Re: Banning a user from posting to Debian lists

[Charles Kroeger]

just checking

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Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

[Charles Kroeger]

> you refused to recognize that the sub-heading contradicts with the
> so-called package's description

Yes yes, so file a bug report as recommended.

> three decades younger than you but you don't have to sound patronizing or
> condescending.

You started the war.

What's wrong with being old?

You established you're three decades younger but what's your BMI?

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Re: systemd-timesyncd

[Charles Kroeger]

> Quit using Google search.  Use DuckDuckGo.

Use StartPage instead, aka ixquick.com

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Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8)
Operating System: Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (x86_64)

Re: systemd and timezone

[Charles Kroeger]

apt-listchanges: News
-

tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium

From 2023c-8 on the tzdata package ships only timezones that follow the
current rules of geographical region (continent or ocean) and city name.
All legacy timezone symlinks (old or merged timezones mentioned in the
upstream backward file) were moved to tzdata-legacy. This includes the
US/* timezones.

Please install tzdata-legacy in case you need the legacy timezones or to
restore the previous behavior. This might be needed in case the system
provides timezone-aware data over the network (e. g. SQL databases).

 -- Benjamin Drung   Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:17:33 +0100


What's wrong with NTP, too simple?

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'America/New_York'
Local time is now:  Fri Jan  5 20:58:45 EST 2024.
Universal Time is now:  Sat Jan  6 01:58:45 UTC 2024.

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GTK 3.24.39 / GLib 2.78.3
Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8)
Operating System: Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (x86_64)

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

[Charles Kroeger]

> Try xpdf, but be aware it doesn't support forms nor other special stuff
> in PDF like video.

qpdfview is awfully simple.

#apt install qpdfview  (does well with trixie and sid)

It prints well with CUPS that provides a driver for my Kyocera FS-920 b
laser printer. That printer is 15 years old. For the first 10 years there
was no driver for it. (generic laser printer) The older your printer is the
better it will work with CUPS.

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Re: PATH question

[Charles Kroeger]

> apt-get -f install

dpkg --configure -a 

I had to use that this morning after the many nvidia related updates that
failed to build the module required to set up the packages in waiting. 

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Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

[Charles Kroeger]

> If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is
> the primary reason why I don't do E-mail on Android *at all*.

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

I use this. It is what you want.

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Re: No 6.5.8 RT kernel image?

[Charles Kroeger]

I don't know this image. I run Trixie and Sid and have

6.5.0-3-amd64

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Re: Can't upgrade my desktop

[Charles Kroeger]

> I can't upgrade, I cant' fix--broken install, I mean that whatever I 
> try, same error message ...

I have seen these responses before when I didn't have all the apt
repositories I needed listed in /etc/apt/sources.list  e.g. trixie sources.

This is what they look like these day:

deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian trixie main non-free contrib
non-free-firmware

Substitute 'sid' 'testing' 'experimental' bookworm' and 'bookworm-security'
for trixie in the above example and that should cover all your apt sources
needs. (your respective country notwithstanding)

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Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues

[Charles Kroeger]

I just have a really large list of UTF-8 characters and if I need one I
copy it and zap it in. I suppose this is not cool but, chacun a son gout.

a fun site if you want to write someone in UTF-8 runes.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt

ⅩⅩⅥ - Ⅷ - ⅯⅯⅩⅩⅢ

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Re: Package policy?

[Charles Kroeger]

It's the Lord's will Hans, you have to accept it. Follow the prophet sid.

-- 
Deo Soli Debianea Invicto Seculari

Re: package managers problem

[Charles Kroeger]

> As far as I know, apt is pretty much apt-get

If you're using Debian 12 then the -get is gone.

#apt [a command]

&

#dpkg [a command]

Should cover any package management you would want.

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salve Debian invictus


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Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

[Charles Kroeger]

When you have things going your way, why not just image the whole disc and
sleep well.

I have used this for years. It is proprietary yes, and runs on an old
version of Linux.

https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux/

I have no interest in these people, I don't get a commission for
advertising them. 

If you duel boot you can also make an image of that other
OS too, keep them both on a single disc using their respective file systems
on two partitions named for the purpose.  GParted working from a bootable
disc or stick, works well for setting that up.  IFL you put on
something that can be booted first in case things are really screwed. It is
pretty straight forward with no surprises.

An image before a large dist-upgrade especially with the word nvidia in the
list of packages, I would do without hesitation. 

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Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

[Charles Kroeger]

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free non-free-firmware

not

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free
non-free-firmware

?

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Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

[Charles Kroeger]

Ah so a typo. A small thing causing big problems.  Once that was corrected
the necessary files from firmware were included in an apt update and
eventually the full-upgrade without nvidia-kernel-dkms being held back.
Everything resolved after that.

Thanks

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Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

[Charles Kroeger]

Anssi, thanks for your reply.

When Andreas Beckmann added this URL to his apt disclosure:

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split

He does give a useful example of how the entry should look in
/etc/apt/sources/list  like this:

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware

and so I did that and it matched up well with the other deb entries
excepting for the last part 'firmware'

When I did apt update with the new entry I got this warning message:

W: Failed to fetch https://deb/debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease
Could not resolve 'deb'

on running apt full-upgrade I see this:

the following packages have been kept back:
nvidia-kernel-dkms

This means then nothing can happen until whatever is
holding back nvidia-kernel-dkms is resolved because it must provide
the missing nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02.  Andreas Beckmann is saying 
adding deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware
to the /etc/apt/sources.list will install the firmware for
nvidia-kernel-dkms that will then create nvidia-open-kernel.

Until apt can resolve the mystery of 'non-free-firmware.' In my
/etc/apt/apt/sources.list the entry was accepted until I got to the word
firmware and that was whited out and deb can't be resolved.

So, the cart is before the horse maybe, but there is more we cannot see. 

-- 
Charles Kroeger

nvidia-driver gets a code 1

[Charles Kroeger]

System Information
GTK 3.24.36 / GLib 2.74.5
Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8)
Operating System: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (x86_64)
aka Debian 12 bookworm/testing

I ran nvidia-detect:

~# nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce
GT 1030] [10de:1d01] (rev a1)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-driver

on doing a dist-upgrade dpkg says this:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-driver:
 nvidia-driver depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 525.89.02-1) |
nvidia-kernel-525.89.02 | nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02 |
nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02; however:
  Version of nvidia-kernel-dkms on system is 515.86.01-1.
  
Package nvidia-kernel-525.89.02 is not installed.
 Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02 is not installed.
 Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02 is not installed.

This wouldn't seem too much of a problem, just install
nvidia-open-kernel-525-89.02, right?

# apt install nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02 is not available, but is referred to
by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Where is this nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02 ?

There was an advisory by Andreas Beckmann the firmware-gsp package being
moved to the newly created 'non-free-firmware' archive area. 

This area needs to be enabled in
  /etc/apt/sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list) in addition to
  'non-free' in order to upgrade to the 525 driver series.

He gives this locaton:
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split

however my /etc/apt/sources.list uses a different syntax to the location
Andreas has given and so it can't be read. I attempted to make his location
fit the syntax but then apt didn't trust the site and wouldn't use it in
the update

I need to get nvidia-driver working.  Without this driver there is also no
sound. I did make an image of the drive before doing the upgrade or I
wouldn't be writing this.

I did a dpkg -s nvidia-driver and got a lot of stuff about it but there was
this:

Please see the nvidia-kernel-dkms (nvidia-open-kernel-dkms)
 or nvidia-kernel-source (nvidia-open-kernel-source) packages
 for building the kernel module required by this package.
 This will provide nvidia-kernel-525.89.02
 (nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02).

C. Kroeger --help

Re: Firewall blocking my new Debian 11 server ports 80 and 443

[Charles Kroeger]

> Maybe I should remove all firewall progs and start from zero.

I would suggest you install Shorewall. it is not the pain in the arse that's
been the theme of this thread so far.

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

[Charles Kroeger]

> There is no silver bullet that makes your system secure.

I get a login shell with $su --login

I don't have sudo installed

is there something heretical about that, I should know?

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

[Charles Kroeger]

> PulseAudio is waning and Pipewire is waxing;
> WirePlumber is a session manager for Pipewire.

ah, just so, I am glad it is.

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

[Charles Kroeger]

>Note: I'm using Debian/unstable.

I'm using Bookworm as well.

I was just happy at first that I had some reliable sound again. but I don't
use my desktop with Bluetooth or headphones as you've described in your
bug report. 

Pipewire is waning and WirePlumber is waxing. I'll put it that way.

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

[Charles Kroeger]

from a google search:

In Debian 10, PipeWire 0.2. 5 is available, and should not need to manually
be installed, as it's usually brought in as a dependency by applications
that make use of it. In Debian 11, PipeWire 0.3. 19 is available, and can
be experimentally used as a substitute for the ALSA userspace library,
PulseAudio, and JACK.  Apr 5, 2022

then read about WirePlumber. 

it is time consuming and there are many published instructions, some better
than others.

WirePlumber and Pipewire are getting frequent upgrades and for me they are
increasingly reliable and the sound is really good. 

my System
GTK 3.24.33 / GLib 2.72.1
Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8)
Operating System: Linux 5.17.0-2-amd64 (x86_64)

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

[Charles Kroeger]

I use

dphys-swapfile

this is a system service that auto configures a swap at boot without
requiring a static partition.

it computes the size of an optimal swap file and or resizes an existing
swap file if necessary. it mounts, dismounts, and deletes the swap if not
wanted. it doesn't dynamically resize swap during runtime.

-- 
pa'lante 

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

[Charles Kroeger]

replace the GPU card Gene it's kaput.

C

Re: vipw and vigr default editor

[Charles Kroeger]

if you're in a hurry in this situation try:

apt-get remove --purge nano

problem solved?

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Re: Cannot connect to WiFi.

[Charles Kroeger]

you can edit the:

#  /etc/network/interfaces

file and put your key there in the appropriate place

if it does not start on its own try:

#service networking restart

see if you can connect that way.

sorry I don't use 'network manger,' I never like it.

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Re: suspend/resume device

[Charles Kroeger]

> That "apt-listchanges" package comes in handy

thanks for that tip, I have it installed now.

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Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

[Charles Kroeger]

> Does the PID in the lock file correspond to a running process?
> 
> ps -f `cat /tmp/.X0-lock`

I get nothing from that command

> Are there any running instances of an X server?
> 
> ps -fC Xorg

UIDPID  PPID  C STIME TTY  TIME CMD
root  2994  2812  0 17:36 tty7 00:01:23 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 -seat
seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolist

that would be the one I'm using. I will try that command after stopping the
X-server

after stopping the X-server I ran: ps --fC Xorg
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD

on running startx (as user) the X server failed to start with these error
messages:

(EE) could not create lock file in /tmp/.tX0-lock

Xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused

Xauth: error in locking authority file /home/charles/.Xauthority

the contents of this file is some machine language symbols and some
english -MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1   (and) mundo 0  -MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
(and that is all)

thanks for being patient,

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Re: suspend/resume device [SOLVED]

[Charles Kroeger]

thank you Cindy-Sue, I did have both of those files but the one with RESUME in
it and it did list a mysterious UUID device number (I don't know where it got
that as this is a desktop but it does get a  lot of dist-upgrades I'll admit)
so that's the one I removed and added 'none' in its place.

the other file /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf didn't mention the resume
device, so it had its own file. (maybe I should just remove that file?)

anyway, well done you and all the best.

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Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

[Charles Kroeger]

>ls -ld /tmp

drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 20480 May  5 18:58 /tmp

(looks good)

>ls -l /tmp/.S0-lock

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 May  5 17:36 /tmp/.X0-lock

>df /tmp

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1  245996848 42724396 203256068  18% /

> If /tmp/.X0-lock already exists, is there another instance of the X 
> server running (with that PID? Or did a previous instance crash without 
> removing it?> 

not that I know of how do you tell if there's another X server running. I mean
there is after I do a sysvinit boot (from the grub advanced menu) but on a
reboot of course the X server obviously shuts down (or does it?)

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systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount

[Charles Kroeger]

the whole error message is: systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount unit
five /run/systemd/generator/-.mount   as it already exit possible duplicate
entry in /etc/fstab? I've enclosed my fstab file:

#
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0

#ata-Hitachi /dev/sdb1
UUID=8c502a23-b2ab-4670-b4e8-86d79b595aa5/  ext4errors=remount-ro
0  0

#ata-Hitachi /dev/sdb2  "BACKUP"
UUID=71e15b9e-e549-4157-a9dc-1288c4a5a20e/   ext4errors=remount-ro
0  0

#ata-Crucial /dev/sdc1 
UUID=81183740-7329-4088-b467-4c24c4345f67/  ext4 errors=remount-ro
0  0

/dev/sr0   /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0   0


if systemd-fstab-generator is now making its own fstab file, should we delete
our old one?

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suspend/resume device

[Charles Kroeger]

on a normal boot I get a long wait (30 seconds +-) whilst the cursor winks then
the message: waiting on suspend/resume device, before resuming the steps to
boot to a login prompt.

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/tmp/.X0-lock

[Charles Kroeger]

running freshly upgraded kernel image 4.9.0.3 on normal boot with startx
command but getting the following error message from (X server) xorg: could not
create lock file in /tmp/.X0-lock (the contents of, are the numbers 2994)
unable to connect to the X server: connection refused

there's a lot about this problem on the Internet but the information is
quite old and nothing applies to my present problem, it would seem. 

happily and also the reason I'm writing this letter (et.al) is that I can still
use the sysvinit boot option that presents a graphical login and after that
starts the X server. (I then have to run 'service network restart' to connect
to the Internet and there is complaining about that being deprecated but good
thing something works.

there's more error messages I've decided to keep as separate post, in the spirit
of helping others down the line. 

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Re: Issues running VLC on Xserver

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:00:02 +0100
Himanshu Shekhar  wrote:

> I have been using VLC for playing videos, as it scales up the video to fit
> the screen even if the size of video doesn't match the screen size. This
> was done using "Always fit windows" settings. However, after some recent
> update (no idea which one), videos with smaller resolution doesn't scale
> up. They run in the middle of the screen, and when "always fit windows" is
> checked, it runs in the same size in the top left corner of the window.
> Things work fine in GNOME Videos.
> This is not the same everywhere, as when I login to "GNOME on Wayland", VLC
> work fine. There is no issue.
> 
> Also, when I change "Hardware accelerated decoding" to X11 codecs, few
> videos work well (mp4/mkv/avi), while sometimes (now-a-days frequent),
> entire RAM gets used up. On running VLC from Terminal, I saw some messages
> about segmentation fault.


I don't know, try:

$ vlc  --reset-config

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Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Charles Kroeger]

On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:10:01 +0100
"Juan R. de Silva"  wrote:

> > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv.
> 
> Well, I did...

You might as well try this:

$ vlc --reset-config

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Re: getting sound in Sid

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:00:02 +0100
Floris  wrote:

> Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown  
> :
> 
> > I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least
> > alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound.
> >
> > # lspci | grep audio returns nothing. So I wondered if alsa drivers are
> > installed. Soundcore is installed, but I discovered there is no longer
> > any alsa-modules package.
> 
> The alsa modules are named snd_***
> You can check your loaded modules with
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> 
> >
> > In Sid has ALSA been replaced by pavucontrol? To get sound, must I
> > install it?
> >
> Alsa is build-in in the kernel.
> pavucontrol is just a gui for the pulseaudio mixer. It is up to you
> if you install it or use an other mixer
> 
> Floris

First using # dpkg -l grep | alsa
everything listed, remove with # dpkg -P (packages) You can list them all with a
space between each for a sequential purge. Copy and paste is useful here.

then:

apt-get install pavucontrol

I don't know why but this solution got sound working again for me after a long
fight with different configuration files that controlled ALSA.

pavucontrol might just be another mixer but it's more than that because it will
bring with it those necessary things to have sound on your computer (again) The
ALSA era is now over for we the unstable. pavucontrol will likely find your
sound output device when it installs.

After installation you should test for sound before tinkering with the GUI. It
should work, and it probably will. 

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Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:30:03 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100
> >
> > Jarle Aase <j...@jgaa.com> wrote:
> > > I just wanted to share
> >
> > Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan
> > better weigh in here.
> 
> Maybe we've lost him?  I do hope not!  But he doesn't seem to have posted for 
> about 18 months.
> 
> Lisi

Stan's like Emiliano Zapata, he's always out there on his white horse.

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Re: Latest NVIDIA driver (346.96) issue

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:10:01 +0100
Pascal Obry  wrote:

> Since yesterday update of NVIDIA 346.96-1 I get an error about uvm
> module:
> 
> The module is compiled (dkms):
> 
> $ ls -la /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nv*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11730792 Jan 20
09:08 /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko > -rw-r--r-- 1 
root
root   111776 Jan 20
09:08 /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-uvm.ko > > But 
cannot
be loaded: > 
> $ sudo modprobe nvidia-current-uvm
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current_uvm': Invalid argument
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Try # apt-get -f install

For some reason the headers and dkms have not been together on these upgrades.
dkms has had a problem finding the headers to compile the module.

I think # apt-get update will be good now and -f will install what you need. 

pure conjecture of course

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Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100
Jarle Aase  wrote:

> I just wanted to share

Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan 
better
weigh in here.

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Re: error message after apt-get update

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 05:20:01 +0100
rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:

> On Sat, November 28, 2015 8:50 pm, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> > I was hoping someone might know what this message means after running
> > apt-get update:
> ...
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > W: Problem unlinking the file q - Clean (21: Is a directory)
> 
> Now and then something gets corrupted with apt.  A fix I have needed once
> or twice a year is (if I recall correctly) to delete the directory
> /var/lib/apt/lists.
> 
> Russ

Ah, thanks so much..the offending q directory was in there (///lists) so I just
deleted that instead, but all is now well.

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error message after apt-get update

[Charles Kroeger]

I was hoping someone might know what this message means after running apt-get
update:

Reading package lists... Done  
W: Problem unlinking the file q - Clean (21: Is a directory)

I cannot find any directory named 21 or Clean. A search with dpkg -l | grep q 
Clean or 21 turns up a lot of stuff but nothing specific.

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ALSA mystery

[Charles Kroeger]

I have recently had to replace my old Nvidia graphics card so I got a:

GeForce GT730

soon as I did this and a few kernel upgrades later (currently)

Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64

my sound card listed in lspci:

Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]

(that's the driver from my Xonar D1 sound card)

was replaced with these two entries in the alsa mixer:

IEC958 and IEC958 1

these two are not muted (green speakers) and IEC958 1 is the only one that 
works in
the sense it can be muted and un-muted ALSA Mixer keyboard command but there's 
no
keyboard volume slider control (up down) and no volume shown in IEC958 1

here's some info:

/proc/asound/cards

 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
  HDA NVidia at 0xfbdfc000 irq 16

/etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
 type plug
 slave.pcm {
 type hw
 HDMI 0
 device 3
 }
}

(a script I found online and modified card 0 for HDMI 0)


# service alsa-utils start
Failed to start alsa-utils.service: Unit alsa-utils.service is masked.

don't know what this means

# alsactl init
alsactl: sysfs_init:48: sysfs path '/sys' is invalid

Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Nvidia GPU 51 HDMI/DP"
"HDA:10de0051,196e1119,00100100" "0x196e" "0x1119"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

not sure about this either

# aplay -l
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The mystery:

If I open the VLC media player and select the following audio device:

 HDA Nvidia HDMI 1 HDMI Audio Output

among the list of 'available' audio devices I get sound from my GeForce GT730
using an HDMI cable connected to the back of a Sony TV. (my only HDMI input
monitor) So there's sound in VLC and that's good but no sound from the Spotify
client or web browsers.

why do you think there's no volume available in the operating device (IEC958 1)
in the ALSA Mixer? Normally the keyboard command (up down keys) would raise
or lower these sliders to indicate volume. This detail might indicate why 
there's
no sound in the Spotify client or web browsers, but if that's so why is there 
sound
in VLC?

although I am getting sound from the Audio side of my GeForce GT730 GPU why do
you think there is incomplete utilization of the options available in the ALSA
Mixer?

The VLC player lists  the contents of #aplay -L  for all audio devices found, 
where
in ALSA can I list this one that works, because I thought it was already listed
in /etc/asound.conf  (card 0 device 3) this corresponds to the listing in 
#aplay -l
(HDMI 0 device 3)

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Re: Adapter Names on Stretch [OT]

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:30:02 +0200
Gene Heskett  wrote:

> You may well be correct, but to my grandfather they were loaned.  I do 
> know that when they left, each was equipt with a good sturdy tag/label 
> bareing the owners name & address, well sealed against the elements.

He probably heard the expression: "lend-lease" and got it confused with what 
that
meant.

Americans are readily confused..and quickly become hysterical. A popular example
was that Orson Welles radio show about the Martian invasion..I noticed that is 
now
being revised to show a different story. (a tiny panic practically immeasurable
on the night etc. slate.com) How about global warming vaccinations abortions
weapons-of-mass-destruction and the 6th mass extinction now in progress.  No one
ever went broke underestimating them. (H.L. Mencken)

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I now start my wireless adapter card with: ifup wlp2s0  how fscked is that?


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Re: network configuration

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:30:02 +0200
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:

 Perhaps someone else on the mailing list will have additional
 suggestions.  Hopefully they will be better than my poor contributions
 here.

I would suggest getting into the depths of
the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf  file. You have to marvel at the 
mind
that came up with that but there is a lot of help and examples and creative
ways to use it, on the Internet. 

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Re: out of the box wifi adapter

[Charles Kroeger]

 This seems like a great alternative:
 https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-wireless-adapter-gnu-linux-libre-tet-n150
 
 (I haven't tried it myself though).
 
 /Andreas
 gus...@gusnan.se
 mailingli...@gusnan.se


So it does, and I use the libre-Linux kernel 4.03 -gnu myself; however, it 
should
be mentioned from a recent previous exchange of views on a similar free USB 
adapter
using the same Atheros AR9271 driver that regarding the price of €35 (currently 
the
recent 'weakening' of the dollar viz the euro that's $40.00 plus 2.28 shipping)
for a device that may only see the 2.5GHz wireless signal. I don't know how busy
that signal is in Europe but in the US it is too busy and any adapter costing
that much and being used in the US, should now have the ability to connect to
the 5.0GHz wireless signal that many wireless routers offer, or it's not worth 
$40.

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[SOLVED]Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

  wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:c0:ca:72:68:d4
   
   This also does not happen here.
  
  Nor here.
  
   The OP's system has failed to get an
   IP address on the wlan0 interface and has been provided with one by
   avahi. Maybe the router and/or DHCP provision need exploring as a
   cause for this.

I believe this happened because I applied the command:

#ping router-ip-here

  I don't know if 169.254.10.111 is something that was assigned by the
  host, or came from outside in which case it might indicate some sort
  of radio communication has been made. (Hence my statement above.)

it was

  Here's hoping the OP knows how to explore the router and/or DHCP provision.

I had set up the router a few months ago to reflect the two channels it 
delivers,
2.5 and 5.0 GHz respectively. Some of my applications that  use the router 
select
2.5 like a Kobo reader and the Sony PS3.  At the moment as WiFi goes only my 
Sony
Xperia phone connects to the 5.0 GHz channel. 

 The OP should be looking at syslog and/or the journalctl output. What
 avahi-daemon,avahi-autoipd and dhclient get up to should be in there.
 Posting the relevant lines here could help with a diagnosis and a
 solution.

Thanks for all the suggestions they don't hurt because when looking into one 
thing
something else comes up.

I really didn't have a faulty setup for the Penguin USB N type WiFi adapter as I
originally thought. I installed a driver from the Penguin site directly into the
/lib/firmware directory, the 9k_firmware_free-version/htc_9271.fw
I rebooted the computer but this didn't light up the USB adapter. I
tried all the available USB sockets and rebooted a few more times, stuff like
that, but the Penguin was dead.

I was fed up and went to bed shutting off the computer. During the night
there was a miraculous like occurrence. When booting up the next morning the
'dead' USB adapter now came on and started trying to connect to the router. 
Success
right? Wrong.  Later in the day I was reading about setting up these wireless
adapters and ran across this valuable command:

#iwlist wlan0 scan

by that command all was revealed. There were 19 cells in a 50 yard radius of
my adapter (with a hi-gain antenna) including my router but (I guess you've 
figured
it out by now) the adapter or the firmware doesn't 'see' the 5.0-GHz
channel. Completely invisible. Only the 2.5 GHz channel was listed in the wlan0
scan.

My /etc/network/interfaces file was set up like this:

#
#
# The wireless network interface

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  wpa-ssid  dlink-5.0GHz   what's wrong with this ssid entry
  wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
  wpa-psk the passphrase

anyway by changing wpa-ssid  dlink-5.0GHz to 2.5GHz the adapter connected
promptly and  voilà.

After all that, joy did not manifold.  The down speed of the connection was no
good. I pay for 20 Mbits from the cable company but..that depends.  This is a
Debian story. I ran the Ookla speed test (speedtest.net) connected through the 
Intel Ethernet card in the PCIe slot wired to the back of the router and 
speedtest
did show 21Mbits. (middle of the morning on a business day) 5 minutes after 
that the
best the USB wireless N adapter could do was 7.0 Mbits down speed.

I'm looking into a PCIe wireless card duel channel adapter as an upgrade. Any 
good
experiences out there with a particular kind (for desktop computer with PCIe
slot) with free or non-free firmware I would like to hear your story.

Thanks for the discussion, it's been real

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Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 06 May 2015 01:10:02 +0200
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:

 Please post the outputs of
 
   ifconfig -a
 
 and
 
   lsmod | grep ath


root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig -a
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:4f:60:49  
  inet addr:192.168.0.102  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe4f:6049/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:1051 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:502 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:291611 (284.7 KiB)  TX bytes:82072 (80.1 KiB)
  Interrupt:17 Memory:fbfe-fc00 

loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
  RX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
  RX bytes:15256 (14.8 KiB)  TX bytes:15256 (14.8 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:c0:ca:72:68:d4  
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:c0:ca:72:68:d4  
  inet addr:169.254.10.111  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1



root@mundo:/home/charles# lsmod | grep ath
ath9k_htc  52702  0 
ath9k_common   12687  1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw  341687  2 ath9k_common,ath9k_htc
ath21417  3 ath9k_common,ath9k_htc,ath9k_hw
mac80211  358182  1 ath9k_htc
cfg80211  319971  3 ath,mac80211,ath9k_htc
usbcore   134993  6
usb_storage,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid,ath9k_htc

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Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 05 May 2015 15:10:02 +0200
David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote:

 What do /sbin/iwconfig and /sbin/ifconfig show?

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Are you a machine that's got loose out there and posing as a good natured
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 and /sbin/ifconfig show?
 
 Cheers,
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Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 05 May 2015 12:10:02 +0200
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:

 The non-free firmware-atheros package has the firmware for the adapter.

I have the 'firmware-atheros' package installed. I take it that's the free
non-working version of the non-free package

I have non-free sources in my sources.list wonder why it didn't show up?

You don't have a location for this do you?

I'll also have a look out there.

Thanks for the suggestion.  That may solve the problem.

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Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 05 May 2015 22:30:02 +0200
David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote:

 Perhaps I wasn't clear!
 
 iwconfig and ifconfig are programs that you run. Because /sbin isn't
 in the user's $PATH, you need to prefix with the pathname.

I get this from #ifconfig

root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:4f:60:49  
  inet addr:192.168.0.102  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe4f:6049/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:21946 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:12589 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:12859474 (12.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1590982 (1.5 MiB)
  Interrupt:17 Memory:fbfe-fc00 

loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
  RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
  RX bytes:17302 (16.8 KiB)  TX bytes:17302 (16.8 KiB)

and this from #iwconfig

root@mundo:/home/charles# iwcofig
bash: iwcofig: command not found
root@mundo:/home/charles# iwconfig
eth0  no wireless extensions.

lono wireless extensions.

Thanks for the suggestion David, just fun'in you there.

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Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 05 May 2015 21:30:02 +0200
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:

 You could try
 
   ifconfig wlan0 up
 
 to activate the interface before following the remainder of the advice
 given.
 
I tried that but it complained about not being able to find wlan0

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Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 05 May 2015 04:00:02 +0200
David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote:

 Does   dmesg | grep -i firmware   show the firmware being loaded?

root@mundo:/home/charles# dmesg | grep -i firmware[1.400040] platform
microcode: firmware: agent loaded amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin into
memry[   25.257358] usb 7-2: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw
requested[   25.268624] usb 7-2: firmware: agent loaded htc_9271.fw into
memoryroot@mundo:/home/charles#

Yes it's there, the ath9k_htc_9271.fw

might be the adapter is kaputski

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Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 05 May 2015 03:10:01 +0200
James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote:

 What is the output from sudo lsusb?

root@mundo:/home/charles# lsusb
Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n

that's it there

David Wright ask:

Do you use anything like wicd to manage the connection, ie bring it
back up automatically?

no

bit of a mystery.

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Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

[Charles Kroeger]

After using this adapter for a few months (18 months ago) I committed out all my
wireless lines in /etc/network/interfaces and stopped using it because it kept
breaking the connection at odd times.

I have to take a trip and this computer goes with me where I'll need to use 
WiFi and
so I uncommitted out my network interfaces file,  loaded the firmware (from the
think penguin help site) plugged in the adapter but nothing happens.

# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

allow-hotplug eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid my ssid, a  dlink-dir825 
wpa-psk my passphrase

I followed these instructions for the latest  firmware at the think penguin help
site for this adapter:

cd /lib/firmware

wget https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/ath9k_firmware_free-version/htc_9271.fw
wget https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/ath9k_firmware_free-version/htc_7010.fw

rebooted the computer

however..the adapter is still not connected 

this after ifup wlan0:

# ifup wlan0
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
Failed to bring up wlan0.

any suggestions to what might be missing here? 

The thinkpenquin wireless N USB adapter bears a remarkable resemblance to the 
Alfa
wireless USB adapter:  :-)

https://tinyurl.com/n98oajh

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Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

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On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:50:03 +0200
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

 You're not going to get it.  The whole thing was an April Fool joke released 
 early.  It will live in memory like the spaghetti trees.

Those were the days. They were singing while they harvested the spaghetti too.
This report came at the end of a serious current events program called 
Panorama
(This was mercifully before the BBC had to say 'on-the-ground' before every 
report)

In the 1970's I was reading The Times while flying to Houston from Heathrow. I
had forgotten it was April 1st:  there was an article about an amazing discovery
whilst experimenting on animals.  One of the procedures had inadvertently
miniaturized some of the test subjects. This began a line of inquiry that led to
experiments on human volunteers. These tests concluded startling additional
revelations about how anything within the process chamber was scaled down
while retaining its original proportions.

During the government's subsequent debate over state secrets there was a
leak to the press that was to have a profound impact on the transportation
industry, among others.  The prospect of thousands of passengers and their
luggage shrunk to the size of gelatin capsules and transported in aeroplanes 
across
the globe at a fraction of the current cost, was very exciting to some.  

It was said that once a passenger arrived at their destination the 'process'
would be reversed within a similar chamber with they and their possessions 
returned
to their original size. The Times quoted a statement by Sir Freddie Laker that
preparations were well advanced toward Laker Airways offering special flights to
accommodate this novel method of travel.

There were reports, as yet unsubstantiated, that some volunteers were not able 
to
be returned to their original sizes but these setbacks were not considered to
be a major concern to the current plans moving forward.
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Re: Bank draft code 16471

[Charles Kroeger]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:30:02 +0100
Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:

 Dr.Jim Ovia. Bank Name : Zenith Bank Plc
 
Isn't that Dr. Ovia from Port Harcourt, Nigeria?

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Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:30:05 +0100
Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote:

 I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer

You seem to be saying you're tired of the minimalist life and want
to splash out a bit so there's only XFCE for that. That would be the next step
up from LXDE. Before getting a heavier DE you might try first these WM's:

Enlightenment IceWM Openbox Blackbox Fluxbox

They're lighter than LXDE. I've had experience with Fluxbox on a less powerful
machine five years back and it was good for what you 'say' you want.

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Re: remove me from this list

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On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:30:03 +0100
Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:


 Well that looks like spam.  If a few people mark it as spam it will
 probably be removed from the archive.
 

Lennart, HEY !

Welcome to the snake pit

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Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:20:02 +0100
Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote:

 Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost 
 certainly superior to WP51 in every significant way.

WP5.1 users have to have 'reveal codes' or they can't use anything else.

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Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:50:01 +0100
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:

 Why reboot, you can just use 'mount -a'?
 
 By the way, 'auto' and 'rw' are default, no need to set them explicitly.

Thanks for this information

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Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

[Charles Kroeger]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:30:02 +0100
Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de wrote:

 no one has mentioned autofs in this thread

No, but I will put it in my list of options for /etc/fstab entry. I assume 
entries
like 'autofs' and 'nofail' will soon be obsolete when 'systemd-fstab-generator'
becomes de regueur, eh, Jonathan?

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Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

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On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:00:02 +0100
Eric Sharkey e...@lisaneric.org wrote:

 autofs isn't an option for /etc/fstab, it's a completely separate way
 to specify mounts.  For something like an sd card, you would add it to
 something like /etc/auto.misc instead of /etc/fstab.  autofs
 filesystems are not mounted at boot time, but dynamically, when an
 application tries to access the contents of the mount point.
 
 For example, I have this in /etc/autofs.misc:
 
 sdcard  -fstype=vfat,gid=video,umask=002
 :/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic-_SD_MMC_2006041309210-0\:2-part1
 
 and my sdcards are automatically mounted by attempting to read the
 contents of /var/autofs/misc/sdcard/.
 
 Eric

Thanks Eric, you can learn a lot of useful stuff on this list if you just keep
poking it. Say something wrong get a clarification. That's good.

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Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:10:01 +0100
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com wrote:

 I see from other messages in this thread that I'm not the only person to 
 think it equally ludicrous to have a workflow that involves rebooting 
 the entire machine just to mount and unmount a removable block device.  
 Indeed, even editing /etc/fstab doesn't need to be part of such a 
 workflow.  Just mark the entry as non-automatic (also correcting your 
 spelling mistake that is the root of your problem here, of course)

That was only to mount not unmount. For one thing I don't use this removable 
block
device AKA the SD card enough to have it interfere with my precious workflow. 
As far as the 'incorrect' spelling of the device, that was only misspelled after
systemd came into the picture. That line was read in /etc/fstab with no problems
(for years) before it became misspelled.

I've already corrected the offending spelling of the device and used the NON
systemd methodology as recommended by The Wanderer and Martin Read,
preempting your delicate sensibilities. So all is well.

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Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:30:02 +0100
The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote:

I suspect that /dev/sde1 exists, but /dev/sde1/ (with the trailing slash) does 
not - i.e., /dev/sde1 is a device node, not a directory.

Yes, the extra forward slash was there (indicating a directory)..interesting. 
Anyway. I removed the now offending symbol. Thanks for this information.

Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote:

Use the well-documented fstab(5) option nofail, which predates the 
creation of systemd.

I replaced 'auto' in the fstab line with 'nofail.' Thanks for this reminder.

I will test out the new configuration tomorrow. If you don't hear from me again 
it worked.

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Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

[Charles Kroeger]

I have a line in my /etc/fstab file:

#/dev/sde1/   /media/lumix-photos vfat users,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=000   
0

Anytime I want to add photos off the SD card in my camera, I comment out the 
hashmark
add the SD card to the reader, and reboot the computer. The SD card is mounted
(/dev/sde1/) inside the folder lumix-photos. I then use shotwell to add the new 
photos that can then be worked over in GIMP. This solution has worked 
flawlessly for years, until now:

log: mount: special device /dev/sde1/ does not exist

log: media-lumix\x2dphotos.mount has failed dependency has failed for local 
file system

log: defined-by: systemd

Since /dev/sde1 is listed and described from the fdisk -l command how can it 
'not' exits?

What is meant by media-lumix(back slash!)x2dphotos.mount(?)

Adding the SD card into the card reader after editing /etc/fstab then 
rebooting, causes the computer to go into emergency (? WTF) mode. Ctrl+d 
doesn't fix it. Going to the command prompt with the root password is the only 
solution. (i.e. editing the /etc/fstab file back like it was, removing the SD 
card, and rebooting.)

I think it's ludicrous that adding an SD card that even has its own line in 
/etc/fstab, throws the whole system into 'emergency' mode.

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Re: Good news on claws-mail

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:40:02 +0200
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:

 opera might be closed source and unmaintained on 
 linux, it's still my favorite.

It's very maintained on linux. I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the best 
browser
I've used in a long time.

Version:26.0.1656.8 - Opera is up to date
Update stream:  beta
System: Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid (x86_64; XFCE)

http://deb.opera.com

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Re: Error code 1...........

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:10:01 +0200
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:

 Probably a meaningless suggestion, but have you tried
 
 apt-get clean
 
 ?

Yes once in a while, but I use:

apt-get autoclean

instead and that's before making a weekly image using terabyte image for Linux. 
(and
windows if you like) it is non-free like Weihenstephaner hefe weissbier.

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Re: Error code 1...........

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:30:02 +0200
Charlie aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote:

   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  
  When I encountered this error (which was mentioned on this list a few
  days ago) I purged the linjpeg-turbo-progs package (on which
  apparently nothing depended because it went without complaint) and
  then resumed my upgrade; the error went away. But maybe that's not the
  right way to do it.

I get a code (1) on every dist-upgrade for some time now..maybe two weeks, can't
remember but if I run:

apt-get -f install

apt-get goes on to setup the packages it downloaded.

If the dist-upgrade message says it it going to remove a lot of packages I run
instead:

apt-get -u upgrade

I continue this command until a dist-upgrade returns to sanity.

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Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:10:01 +0200
David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote:

 Let's use our
 keyboards to launch test cases in preference to soapbox
 rhetoric that likely proves nothing.
 
 Let's let the code speak for itself for a while.

I've not had many problems with systemd excepting my firewall, Shorewall, 
failed to
start when booting up. It still started with: 'shorewall start' on the command
line so that was alright with me.

Systemd or something tried to put another firewall on my computer called Pyroman
but it could not start at the boot, and always generated an error message to
this effect. It is quite inferior to shorewall anyway, so I removed it. The
developer or maintainer of Shorewall has now succeeded in returning Shorewall to
the old configuration. After booting up the other day I ran 'shorewall start' 
and
the message came back: shorewall was already running.

Is that your idea of letting the code speak for itself?

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Re: Bibletime encoding problem

[Charles Kroeger]

 Just output like this:
 27 x�͒ 28 x�͒ 29 x�͒ 30 x�͒ 31 x�͒

Looks like Bibletime Mandarin

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Re: Irony

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:50:02 +0200
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote:

 Churchill: If you're not a liberal when you're young there's something
 wrong with your heart. 


Hummm..that's interesting I lived in Britain for 13 years from the late 60's
through the seventies and heard that expression a lot but no one ever 
attributed it
to Churchill. This is probably why Churchill was quietly retired soon after the 
war.

Everett Dirksen a Republican (not a conservative) party member in the US during 
the
50's and 60's was credited with saying: Stronger than any army is an idea whose
time has come..but he acquired his wisdom from Victor Hugo who lived through 
most
of the 19th century who said: no force on earth is more powerful than an idea 
whose
time has come. (don't bother correcting me, I know there are many variations. 

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Re: Irony

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:50:02 +0200
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:

 Debian isn't as special as you think, at least not from this perspective.

Everybody earns money and needs money in this development. Organizations like
Debian go forward by people with jobs volunteering time and expertise. I knew 
for
instance in Amarillo, Brad Hughes, when he lived there. He was a kid that was
working as an electrical contractor's apprentice. He came to one of the few LUG
meetings we had in the late 1990,s and demonstrated Black Box. and helped us
installed it on our big desktop computers. He wasn't paid to do that but I 
suspect
it helped get him his job at Trolltech. (QT) 

The man in Toronto who I'm not going to mention because, I write him some with
problems who was patient enough to help me with the Nvidia GLX driver back in 
2008.
when it didn't build its own module and run depmod like it does now. He has a 
good
job, it isn't about money, time maybe. This is why it's important to keep Debian
'free.' This makes it attractive to talented people who still have their hearts 
in
the right place.

(You know what they say, If you're not a communist when you're young, there's
something wrong with your heart. I think this statement came out of a system 
that
used to educate its promising youth. Some systems are broken so it's hard to
have a heart if you're ignorant and admire John Galt but never read his 
manifesto)

This was the reason Debian was created. By maintaining a sensible level of
free software without becoming hysterical over the non-free repositories. I'm
sure Debian will continue to flourish like all these .orgs they get a lot of
donations and legacies over time and if corruption and excessive ideology stays 
out
of the group that steers and runs Debian development, the distribution will 
flourish
which it continues to do, actually, or I wouldn't be using it

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Re: Irony

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:50:01 +0200
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

 I had understood that Debian is in this, as in many things, different from 
 most Linux distros. 

Yes you're right, that's what makes Debian special, passion always trumps money.
Look what happened to M$. I happen to know directly a certain person who works 
for
a software company in Toronto and he writes patches for the Nvidia GLX driver 
pro bono publico.

Of course there's money involved in Debian we're not stupid romantics but I'm 
just
saying there's a lot of youthful desire to show off too, like artist, and 
Debian is
a global platform for that, if you've got the ability. No corporation can long
stand up to that kind of forward motion. Debian's where it's at.

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Re: Irony

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:00:02 +0200
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:

 honestly, does anyone care why any user chose
 to change from Ubuntu or if their expectations were met?

A skillful writer might weave a soap opera around the unsettling notions of 
systemd
yet always there, an undercurrent of optimism inherent to a vague promise of a
better kernel yet seemingly just out of reach as the chorus of writhing users
struggle to believe with every episode compounding the dread of another
unsettling rumor: the monolith, Microsoft, the systemctl reboot, methane 
hydrate,
and you just won a trip on Malaysia Airlines to see Mt. Fujiyama.
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Re: clean up my system

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:02 +0200
Floris jkflo...@dds.nl wrote:

 I want to clean up my system

You could always install:

bleachbit

That will clean you out

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Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:30:01 +0200
John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org wrote:

 working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot

 http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583cid=47639701

netflix is going into Europe where Linux is widely used, especially in Germany. 
I
believe they will have a .deb in the offing quite soon.

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Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

[Charles Kroeger]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:40:02 +0200
David Guyot david.gu...@europecamions-interactive.com wrote:

 I would suggest you to reinstall sysvinit

Thanks I'll do that and thanks for the explanation regarding the binary file

If that doesn't work, that result could be a false positive

That could be the case. I just installed also rkhunter and ran that and it found
no Suckit rootkit so that was encouraging. There were however a couple of 
warnings
from rkhunter: 

Warning: Hidden directory found: '/etc/.java'
Warning: Hidden file found: /etc/.fstab: ASCII text

How does one reveal a hidden file and directory?

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Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

[Charles Kroeger]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:40:02 +0200
David Guyot david.gu...@europecamions-interactive.com wrote:

 I would suggest you to reinstall sysvinit,

Just to follow up on your suggestion of yesterday after a reboot today, yes the
'infected' warning in chkrootkit still appears after the sysvinit re-install.

Since however as stated last night, rkhunter says no, so I'm inclined to want to
believe in the false positive results here and go with 'not found' in rkhunter.

next question: how does one see a 'hidden file' if one receives a warning in
rkhunter about having two on your system? I can always delete /etc/.java
and /etc/.fstab but what then? (why the 'dot' in front of the .java and .fstab)

Warning: Hidden directory found: '/etc/.java'
Warning: Hidden file found: /etc/.fstab: ASCII text

thanks for your considerable comment so far

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Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:30:02 +0200
David Guyot david.gu...@europecamions-interactive.com wrote:

 Anyone saying that Debian and its software are flawless lies or
 doesn't know what's he is talking about.

How true. And by the way, I have had chkrootkit installed for a long time and 
the
other day I ran it after an upgrade and voilà:

Searching for Suckit rootkit...   Warning: /sbin/init   INFECTED

as a Sysadmin what do you suggest I can do to rid myself if this? Looking
into /sbin/init only shows a lot of stuff that looks like modern art.

I await your help, RSVP

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Re: Iceweasel and DRM

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:20:01 +0200
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:

 There are uncountable illegal copies of Madonna's noise
 pollution, she still owns too much money, while other people die of
 hunger. 

That's not Madonna's fault Ralf, that's just bad government. There's a lot of it
about. Where's Voltaire when you need him.

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Re: boot in console mode from grub2

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On Wed, 07 May 2014 00:50:01 +0200
Glenn English g...@slsware.net wrote:

 I've always installed from a netinstall, without the GUI, so that GUI init
doesn't exist on my machines.

This is the case with me too but Francois Patte also ask:

I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system.

I don't know if you noticed this in the grub config file of /etc/default/grub 
but
there is a lot of 'tuto' in this command: 

$ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

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Shorewall blocks Internet on boot-up

[Charles Kroeger]

I'm running a Jessie/ Sid mixture and after a recent dist-upgrade Shorewall 
blocks
all Internet access unless it is 'stopped' and restarted:

root@mundo:/home/charles# shorewall stop
Stopping Shorewall
Processing /etc/shorewall/stop ...
Processing /etc/shorewall/tcclear ...
Running /sbin/iptables-restore...
Processing /etc/shorewall/stopped ...
done.

root@mundo:/home/charles# shorewall start
Compiling...
Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...
Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf...
Loading Modules...
Compiling /etc/shorewall/zones...
Compiling /etc/shorewall/interfaces...
Determining Hosts in Zones...
Locating Action Files...
Compiling /etc/shorewall/policy...
Running /etc/shorewall/initdone...
Adding Anti-smurf Rules
Adding rules for DHCP
Compiling TCP Flags filtering...
Compiling Kernel Route Filtering...
Compiling Martian Logging...
Compiling MAC Filtration -- Phase 1...
Compiling /etc/shorewall/rules...
Compiling /etc/shorewall/conntrack...
Compiling MAC Filtration -- Phase 2...
Applying Policies...
Compiling /usr/share/shorewall/action.Drop for chain Drop...
Compiling /usr/share/shorewall/action.Broadcast for chain Broadcast...
Generating Rule Matrix...
Compiling /usr/share/shorewall/action.Reject for chain Reject...
Creating iptables-restore input...
Shorewall configuration compiled to /var/lib/shorewall/.start
Starting Shorewall
Initializing...
Processing /etc/shorewall/init ...
Processing /etc/shorewall/tcclear ...
Setting up Route Filtering...
Setting up Martian Logging...
Setting up Proxy ARP...
Preparing iptables-restore input...
Running /sbin/iptables-restore...
Processing /etc/shorewall/start ...
Processing /etc/shorewall/started ...
done.

Now I also removed network-manager before the dist-upgrade with a --purge 
removal.

(N-M has not been activated in /etc/NetworManager/NetworkManager.conf for a 
long)
time)

Could it be network-manager's removal created some parting sabotage on being
purged? I can't find anything wrong with Shorewall.

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Re: Duplicate sources.list entry

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On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:50:01 +0200
Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:

 Someone asked that same question only about 1.5 hours ago with the same
 subject line. :)

strange isn't it..looks like a clear case of simultaneous unconsciousness.

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Duplicate sources.list entry

[Charles Kroeger]

This is a curious message: 

#apt-get update

Reading package lists... Done

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ 
stable/main
amd64 Packages

(/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ 
stable/main
i386 Packages

(/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

If I go into /var/lib/apt/lists/ and remove dl.google.com etc. they are only
replaced automatically after closing the file (edited with vim saved and closed
with shift-ZZ)

obviously running apt-get update is not going to correct these problems so if
removing the listed duplicate sources.list entries is futile because these 
entries
are not actually in my sources.list. Is there some other sources.list the 
message
refers to?

I'm actually using the google chrome beta browser Version 35.0.1916.27 beta aura
from google and it works pretty damn good.

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Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:00:03 +0200
shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote:

  On Apr 14, 2014 11:01 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz
 wrote:

   On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:55:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

   I read https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html

Here's the article from Bruce's CRYPT-GRAM from April 15, 2014:

Heartbleed

Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL:

 The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the
 memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of
 the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to
 identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the
 names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This
 allows attackers to eavesdrop communications, steal data
 directly from the services and users and to impersonate
 services and users.

Basically, an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server.  The attack 
leaves no trace, and can be done multiple times to grab a different 
random 64K of memory.  This means that anything in memory -- SSL private 
keys, user keys, anything -- is vulnerable.  And you have to assume that 
it is all compromised.  All of it.

Catastrophic is the right word.  On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.

The bug has been patched.  After you patch your systems, you have to get 
a new public/private key pair, update your SSL certificate, and then 
change every password that could potentially be affected.

At this point, the probability is close to one that every target has had 
its private keys extracted by multiple intelligence agencies.  The real 
question is whether or not someone deliberately inserted this bug into 
OpenSSL, and has had two years of unfettered access to everything.  My 
guess is accident, but I have no proof.

http://heartbleed.com/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-exposes-yahoo-mail-passwords-russian-roulette-style/
 
or http://tinyurl.com/ngcytay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7548991
https://xkcd.com/1353/
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/04/heartbleed-bug-what-can-you-do/
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/how-to-protect-yourself-from-heartbleed/
 
or http://tinyurl.com/kqe4b5c
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/08/half-a-million-widely-trusted-websites-vulnerable-to-heartbleed-bug.html
 
or http://tinyurl.com/lhjr7zf
http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/

More about Heartbleed on my blog:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/more_on_heartbl.html

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Re: no eth0 connection

[Charles Kroeger]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:30:03 +0200
François Patte  francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote:

 # lshw -class network

root@mundo:/home/charles# lshw -class network
bash: lshw: command not found

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Re: Great Debian experience

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

 fenestral hordes.

I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been more proper to 
use
the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In anatomy, this would apply to 
'having
perforations, apertures suggesting perhaps of having been buggered.

Deo Soli Debianae Invicto Seculari

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Re: Great Debian experience

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:30:03 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

 You must be American!

I'm awfully American but I once lived in your country for many enjoyable years.
Tell me this, are you English Scottish Welsh Northern Irish or just British

I got the original from a reference to Mithra (the sun god not mothra
the giant killer moth) from an old 1972 edition of Pears Cyclopedia (you would
probably say, cyclopaedia :-)

often found in places once occupied by Roman soldiers:

Deo Soli Mithrae Invicto Seculari

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Re: Great Debian experience

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:10:01 +0100
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:

 or *cough* Orkadian *cough* :)

The selkie that deud no' forget

Ae time langsine, Mansie Meur wus pickan' lempeds i' the ebb, on the wast side 
o'
Hacksness i' Sanday, whin he wus stunned tae hear some wey amang the rocks a 
unco'
ceurious soond

Geordie

Ah man, wee but a feul wad hae sold off his furnitor and left his wife. Noo, 
yor a
fair doon reet feul, not an artificial feul like Billy Purvis! Thous a real
Geordie! gan man an hide thysel! gan an' get thy picks agyen. Thou may de for 
the
city, but never for the west end o' wor toon.


I so enjoyed those regional BBC productions involving police work. I especially
liked Vera, the detective chief inspector of the Northumberland and City 
Police. We
had such a good time trying to make out what she was saying, (and all) then they
took it off, and Hamish Macbeth and Wee Jock we could never understand what he 
was
saying either but everything was bliss until Alex (Alexandra) fell off that 
cliff.

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VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)

[Charles Kroeger]

apropos to nothing but after reinserting these locations in my sources.list:

deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid  main non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org experimental main

and getting an upgrade to VLC

the first time to use VLC, I get no appearance of VLC but this:


charles@mundo:~$ vlc
VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)

(no seg fault or anything reported except the version you see there)

I thought I might hold off on the bug report pending an inquiry here to see if
others have had a similar experience.

Do the VLC maintainers like the deb-mutimedia.org sources seem like I was 
reading
once where they didn't like them at all.

Is it prudent to remove the deb-multimedia.org sources from my sources.list and
downgrade VLC to a working condition?

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Re: VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)

[Charles Kroeger]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:00:01 +0100
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:

 A bug report where? Not to Debian, we hope.

No just write those guys in France.

 It's up to you. Please see the first sentence in this post. A
 'downgrade' might result in an upgrade to something which works better
 for you.

I'll probably do that, OK thanks for the input.

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Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

[Charles Kroeger]

On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:40:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

 The terminal 
 just says:
 Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1

I didn't see anywhere suggested you just change the name to wlan0

On my /etc/network/interfaces I have these two interfaces eth0 and wlan0 that 
both
connect if the wlan0 is connected. (sometimes it is convenient to use it in the
house)

My system doesn't have a problem recognizing eth0 and wlan0 in the interfaces.

/etc/network/interfaces:

# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

allow-hotplug eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid mondo-dlink
wpa-psk **

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Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:50:02 +0100
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:

 Network-manager and wicd depend on wpasupplicant. Personally I would
 rather deal with the organ grinder than one of the monkeys.

The best advice I would give if you have Network-manager installed is to edit:

/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

~

(change managed=true to false)

and do yourself a favor

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Re: 3D printer

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:10:01 +0100
Beco r...@beco.cc wrote:

 Hi guys,
 
 This is an open thread, if that is allowed.
 
 I would like to start a topic on 3d printers. Does anyone here have
 experience in using such printers with debian/linux?
 
 What brand would you recommend?
 
 How about kits?
 
 What software is there available in debian repositories to create 3D
 projects that can be directly printed?
 
 Thanks any input.
 
 My best,
 Beco.


Going to build a rifle Beco?

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Re: Building computer

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:40:01 +0200
Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote:

 it's nothing
 like the prices shown unloaded, above.

.21 cents is nothing like .22 cents, who knew.

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Re: Building computer

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:40:01 +0200
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:

 People convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.


Stan, you know what Jesus said: cast your pearls before swine and they will 
turn
on you and tear you to pieces.

There are opinions and facts. Many now think their opinions are facts. Too many 
I
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Re: Building computer

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:00:03 +0200
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:

 in
 Germany in 2012 was around 0.26 €/kWh. (0.26 EUR = 0.351604 USD)

In Western New York last bill was circa 0.21$/KWh

In West Texas for September circa 0.14 $/KWh

1.00 EUR = 1.35229 USD  Mid-market rates: 2013-10-01 00:12 UTC

What's it cost elsewhere?

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Re: building computer

[Charles Kroeger]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:50:01 +0200
Catherine Gramze rhia...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have received a response from MSI again. I do like the swiftness of their 
 email
responses, even if the responses are a bit cryptic.  
 Me: Please advise me as to whether this motherboard:
http://us.msi.com/product/mb/H87-G43.html#/?div=Overview  1. allows Secure 
Boot to
be disabled and  2. whether it allows CSM mode to be enabled and 
 3. whether it is Connected-standby compliant.
 
 MSI tech: Default is disabled but can be enabled, default is CSM mode (UEFI +
Legacy) but can be switched to pure UEFI mode. Connected-standby is required by
Windows 8. The board has Windows 8 configuration that will do all of the above 
if
you are going to do Win8 deployment.   Am I nuts, or does this answer seem to 
be
the complete opposite of the previous answer? According to this answer the board
seems to be what I want. 

  In a message yesterday,

(to you not the list)

Charles Kroeger mentioned that part of Connected-standby was an inability to
enable CSM. This answer suggests the board can do either.

  With the release of Windows 8 in October 2012, Microsoft's certification 
requirements now require that computers include firmware that implements the 
UEFI 
specification. Furthermore, if the computer supports the Connected Standby 
feature of Windows 8, then the firmware is not permitted to contain a 
Compatibility
 Support Module (CSM). As such, systems that support Connected Standby are
incapable of booting Legacy BIOS operating systems 

Can Charles Kroeger give a source for his information?

He can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface

sub heading: Platforms using EFI/UEFI  10th paragraph down

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Re: package help

[Charles Kroeger]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 07:10:01 +0200
paulmars paulgm...@gmail.com wrote:

 Im emailed a bug report. I got no response. I been trying to convince 
 myself to try again, but I have doubts. I dont want to loose my XP 
 install again. I need dual boot and i also need a recovery option if 
 Debian fails again, like last time. Last time grub got messed up and I 
 needed to reinstall xp. That is not fun.
 
 i really want to leave ms, but i have online business so i need it 
 daily, until i find another option. Debian might be that option, but i 
 need to test drive it.


You didn't say what the bug report was about. There's a lot of bugs of course 
but
I cannot believe you would have a problem with the latest Debian installer:

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Download an .iso of the 'netinst' (net install) and burn a CD. This will boot
assuming you have the CD option set to boot before the HD in your computer's 
BIOS.

You can leave everything to the installer. After the Debian install, you will 
have a
duel boot system. The installer mess with the NTFS partition. 

(caveat) you must have enough 'free space' on your HD for the installer to do 
this
for you.

If XP has taken up the whole HD with the C drive, I would suggest first boot up
with a live CD that contains the very useful program GParted. From that vantage
point you can see and reduce the size of the displayed NTFS file system and be 
able
to reduce this to its minimal requirements.

After that operation boot the Debian installer, install a 'basic' Debian system,
select the Grub2 boot manager and on the reboot you will see windows XP as on 
option
for the duel boot you require. This menu is first thing you will see after the
computer posts.

You must have an oldish computer, so you will probably want the i386 .iso 
image. I
hope you have a suitable CPU and modern amounts of memory. Debian won't bog you
down like MS but it is a modern lively system so faster is better.

As far as recovery goes, I use a non-free imaging program that runs off a CD.

terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

The CUI version of of their image for Linux will easily make an recoverable 
image
of both the NTSF and Linux file systems respectively. You don't want to waste 
your
money on their GUI versions of image for windows and the like. The IFL CUI 
version
does it all, and runs off the ifl.iso image on the CD. It's money well spent.

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Re: Building computer

[Charles Kroeger]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:10:01 +0200
Catherine Gramze rhia...@gmail.com wrote:

 there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even to the EFI
partition

It surprises me to think you cannot select in your own BIOS the choice of 
booting
from a CD. What kind of BIOS is that? With the latest testing version of the
Debian installer, I would think you had the upper hand with the NTSF file system
present. Just reformat the whole HD to Ext4 and load up a basic system and 
grub2.
If that doesn't work then you better get a different BIOS or motherboard. 
Buying a
store-bought computer means you've already paid for some OEM windows 8..this was
a mistake, sorry dude.

Maybe Stan Hoeppner  will wade in with a recommendation. If he does you will 
have 
come to right place. 

best wishes nonetheless.

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