Re: Fixed Mate desktop spamming xorg logs - now video jagged

[Johann Klammer]

On 04/22/2022 01:50 AM, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> I'm using Mate 1.20. I noticed a continual flood in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front.
> 
> I tracked down the error at
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645553
> 
> I used more or less the procedure documented by pkoz 2018-12-28 08:17:40 UTC 
> and the spamming stopped.
> 
> MATE menu>System>Preferences>Look and Feel>Windows>General tab>Enable 
> software compositing window manager checkbox.
> 
> However, some artefacts developed such as black borders on menu panels. Not 
> so much a problem.
> 
> The big problem now is video playing has obvious tearing of the image.
> 
> My video card is
> 
> 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] 
> Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450]
> 
> and my system
> 
> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
> VERSION_ID="11"
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get clean video again?
> 
look in your xorg.conf to see what module gets loaded.
then read the manpage and randomly disable/enable settings 
until something works.

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

[Johann Klammer]

On 03/06/2022 09:10 PM, songbird wrote:
> Johann Klammer wrote:
> ...
>> Likely the xorg video driver.
>> Try installing the alternatives possible for your hardware.
>> avoid the closed source nvidias.
>> They've had the hard lock ups since about 2000.
>> nouveau and framebuffer ones will probably work.
> 
> 
>   hi, thanks for the hints, i just have the built in GPU for the CPU:
> 
> 
> # lscpu
> Architecture:x86_64
>   CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit
>   Address sizes: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>   Byte Order:Little Endian
> CPU(s):  8
>   On-line CPU(s) list:   0-7
> Vendor ID:   GenuineIntel
>   BIOS Vendor ID:Intel(R) Corporation
>   Model name:Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
> BIOS Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
> CPU family:  6
> Model:   158
> Thread(s) per core:  1
> Core(s) per socket:  8
> Socket(s):   1
> Stepping:13
> CPU max MHz: 4900.
> CPU min MHz: 800.
> BogoMIPS:7200.00
> Flags:   fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
> mc
>  a cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 
> ss 
>  ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc 
> art
>   arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology 
> nonstop_
>  tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor 
> ds_cp
>  l vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid 
> ss
>  e4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer 
> aes 
>  xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch 
> cpuid_f
>  ault invpcid_single ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp 
> ibrs_enhanced 
>  tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad 
> fsgsbase t
>  sc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx 
> rdseed a
>  dx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 
> xsa
>  ves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify 
> hwp_act_wind
>  ow hwp_epp md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities
> Virtualization features: 
>   Virtualization:VT-x
> Caches (sum of all): 
>   L1d:   256 KiB (8 instances)
>   L1i:   256 KiB (8 instances)
>   L2:2 MiB (8 instances)
>   L3:12 MiB (1 instance)
> NUMA:
>   NUMA node(s):  1
>   NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7
> 
> 
>   the following shows installed:
> 
> 
> # dpkg -l | grep video-intel
> 
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1   
> amd64X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
> 
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux rant 5.16.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.16.11-1 (2022-02-25) x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> songbird
> 
xserver-xorg-video-intel
update that one. if that doesn't help, 
try 
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
and as alast try
xserver-xorg-video-vesa
(you may have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and possibly mess with kernel 
modesetting, initrd and bootime parameters to get an acceptable resolution)
you'll lose all `acceleration' as usual.
but it might run more stable.
no internet or video but ok for text processing(mcedit/pico/nano/vim but not 
openoffice)

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

[Johann Klammer]

On 03/06/2022 01:20 PM, songbird wrote:
> ok, i've finally had my computer lock up again while i've
> set up the core dumps and i was hoping that i'd get an
> actual core dump file to help narrow things down to a
> specific programs, but no luck with that at all.
> 
> system is running Debian Testing, updates applied each
> morning. desktop is MATE.
> 
> the only messages i can find are in the Xorg.old log and
> they look like:
> 
> =
> [  2341.978] (EE) event4  - Logitech K840 Mechanical Corded Keyboard: client 
> bug: event processing lagging behind by 27ms, your system is too slow
> =
> 
> the symptoms are that as i am typing the keyboard completely
> stops responding and the mouse too, the system is then hung.
> nothing updates or changes.  the clock, network, etc.  all 
> stuck.
> 
> when i search for this kind of problem on the internet i come
> up with:
> 
> https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-why-am-i-getting-event-processing-lagging-behind-msg-in-ubuntu-20-10/
> 
> which says ignore it
> 
> while the following two give me the hope that it is some
> kind of bug that might get fixed.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968093
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-libinput/-/issues/46
> 
> i'm not sure i can help at all with debugging this further, but
> since others might be seeing this message and wondering what is
> going on i'll post this anyways.
> 
> 
>   songbird
> 
Likely the xorg video driver.
Try installing the alternatives possible for your hardware.
avoid the closed source nvidias.
They've had the hard lock ups since about 2000.
nouveau and framebuffer ones will probably work.

Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.

[Johann Klammer]

On 12/31/2021 05:10 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Debian 11 is easily arranged so that "startx" or "weston" can be 
> issued at the console command line.  That allows simple qualitative 
> comparisons.
> 
> In weston, keyboard response can be hyper-typematic.  The briefest 
> keypress can give at least two instances of the key action; sometimes a 
> half dozen.  That includes backspace.  Consequently keyboard input is 
> impossible. This happens not in every instance of weston but often 
> enough to be a nuisance. Has anyone else observed this?
> 
> According to documentation, Firefox works natively in Weston.  Ie. 
> Firefox doesn't work through Xwayland. With Wayland intended to be 
> more efficient than X11 I expect Firefox to be more responsive on 
> Weston than on X11.  Nevertheless Firefox is noticeably slower on 
> Weston. Anyone else observed this?
> 
> Thanks & best regards, ... P.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Haven't you noticed the x.org people fucking stuff up since Xfree became x.org?
Why do you expect this to chsange?

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

[Johann Klammer]

those powermanagement things are always broken.

Re: XOrg issues with Rage 128 Ultra graphics: No screens found.

[Johann Klammer]

On 10/18/2021 07:50 PM, Alex McKeever wrote:
> Essentially, my screen can be found (I have an iMac G3 in which I’ve ran Sid 
> on)… however it can’t find any usable configurations, and manually generating 
> an XOrg configuration (editing it to give certain options) doesn’t help. Is 
> this an XOrg, driver, or kernel issue?
> 
> I’d like to know as this doesn’t just apply to Debian Ports, but any modern 
> Linux distribution such as VoidPPC and Adelie Linux.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
post the xorg.log?

Re: Chromium/Buster constantly crashing

[Johann Klammer]

On 08/27/2021 09:30 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux e130 4.19.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
> $ cat /etc/debian_version
> 10.2
> $ chromium --version
> Chromium 90.0.4430.212 built on Debian 10.9, running on Debian 10.2
> 
> For the last couple of weeks, Chromium has been constantly crashing. I've 
> done the obvious troubleshooting (removing ~/.cache/chromium, deleting and 
> recreating a new profile, purging and reinstalling the application, apt-get 
> upgrade) to no avail.
> 
> 
> This is what I get after the crash, after launching chromium from the 
> terminal:
> 
> [7966:7966:0827/075828.005688:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(426)] Passthrough is not 
> supported, GL is disabled
> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
> Received signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR 
> #0 0x55f90e2ed6b9 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5b4b6b8)
> #1 0x55f90e259923 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5ab7922)
> #2 0x55f90e2ed241 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5b4b240)
> #3 0x7fcbdc0b1730 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.28.so+0x1272f)
> #4 0x55f90cec56de (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x47236dd)
> #5 0x55f90cec5b4f (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x4723b4e)
> #6 0x55f90ceca741 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x4728740)
> #7 0x55f9106039c6 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x7e619c5)
> #8 0x55f90c1a571a (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x3a03719)
> #9 0x55f90e2aedd2 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5b0cdd1)
> #10 0x55f90e2c0797 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5b1e796)
> #11 0x55f90e2c0494 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5b1e493)
> #12 0x55f90e2728f6 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5ad08f5)
> #13 0x55f90e2c1069 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5b1f068)
> #14 0x55f90e295730 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5af372f)
> #15 0x55f90e45ce91 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5cbae90)
> #16 0x55f90c412912 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x3c70911)
> #17 0x55f90c4145e2 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x3c725e1)
> #18 0x55f90c40fbb9 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x3c6dbb8)
> #19 0x55f90e2330b2 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5a910b1)
> #20 0x55f90e232c2c (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5a90c2b)
> #21 0x55f90e2305c4 (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5a8e5c3)
> #22 0x55f90e230e9e (/usr/lib/chromium/chromium+0x5a8ee9d)
> #23 0x55f90b603193 ChromeMain
> #24 0x7fcbd69cd09b __libc_start_main
> #25 0x55f90b60302a _start
>   r8: 7fcbd6b64c40  r9: 55f9163a1360 r10: 0006 r11: 
> 7fcbd6b64c40
>  r12: 55f91a009288 r13: 7fffda732b78 r14: 55f91a009270 r15: 
> 55f91a009270
>   di:   si: 0080  bp: 7fffda732bb0  bx: 
> 55f9160ac480
>   dx: 55f91b3a3024  ax: 55f91651f070  cx:   sp: 
> 7fffda732b40
>   ip: 55f90cec56de efl: 00010246 cgf: 002b0033 erf: 
> 0004
>  trp: 000e msk:  cr2: 
> [end of stack trace]
> Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.
> 
> 
> Anything I can get from that output?
> 


That it's chromium and that it crashed.

Try palemoon. it's more performant and less broken 
than both chromium and newer (chromium-based)firefox.

Re: No irq handler for vector

[Johann Klammer]

On 08/28/2020 10:10 AM, john doe wrote:
> 
> Will need to check on the power supply, no Rugrats in my home so I'm
> safe there!!! :)
> 
I meant the people wot program the kernel. NOBODY is safe from those.

>> Might also be some part of the box(GPU?) overheating.
>>
> 
> As far as I can tell, smartmontools and lm-sensors are not reporting
> something out of the usual.
> 
> 
You may not be able to tell. 
It might be a missing driver feature or undocumented OEM hardware.
esp on laptops the cooling is often inadequate and to squeeze more 
powerful cpus into smaller cases, they often dynamically throttle 
down the processor speed. If that don't work, you might get 
interrupts trying to signal overtemperature, but with nothing 
there to interpret those. 
And lm-sensors is notoriously buggy anyway. 

> Any other idea(s)?
> 
maybe chipset bugs, or some irq routing booboo.
It's all guesswork on my side.
> -- 
> John Doe

Re: No irq handler for vector

[Johann Klammer]

On 08/27/2020 08:00 PM, john doe wrote:
> Debians,
> 
> I just installed Debian Buster and I'm seeing the following messages at
> boot:
> 
> 
> "[0.005017] do_IRQ: 1.55 No irq handler for vector
> [0.005017] do_IRQ: 2.55 No irq handler for vector
> [0.005017] do_IRQ: 3.55 No irq handler for vector"
> 
> 
> I don't understand what those messages are saying.
> 
> What should I do to correct whatever they are telling me?
> 
> 
> Any feedback is appriciated.
> 
> -- 
> John Doe

Either an unstable power supply in your computer, 
or the rugrats have broken something.

Might also be some part of the box(GPU?) overheating.

Re: Apt-get vs Aptitude vs Apt

[Johann Klammer]

On 08/07/2020 10:10 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 13:31:53 -0400
> Default User  wrote:
> 
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Recently there was a thread about aptitude dependency resolution
>> limitations.
>>
>> Years ago, I believe I read in the Debian documentation that aptitude
>> was preferred to apt-get, because it seemed to have better dependency
>> resolution.
>>
>> Now, we have apt, as well.
>>
>> So, all other things being equal, which is currently considered to be
>> the best at dependency resolution?
> 
> I believe it is still aptitude.
> 
> However, the length of time it takes increases sharply with number of
> packages to be upgraded. If you have more than a hundred or so, (not
> unusual on unstable) it may take a very long time. It is usually not
> the method recommended for upgrading Debian stable to the next version.
> 
If you make use of the accept/reject function it gets kinda acceptable.
In the dependency resolution screen you can press a and r to accept and 
reject the selected action. 
together with ',' and '.' you'll get where you want.

Re: Some applications fail to pass links to browser

[Johann Klammer]

On 05/06/2020 12:00 PM, Gernot Kranz wrote:
> Hey,
> as this issue: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/issues/3853
> happens since the upgrade to debian stable (4.19.98-1+deb10u1 to be precise) 
> with at least two different programms, wire-desktop and owncloud-client, I 
> guess it is a problem in debian or lxde.
> lxde version is lxde-core_10_all.deb from debian stable.
> The problem does not happen when opening a link from evolution or
> thunderbird. Telegram and Libreoffice are affected.
> 
> How do I find out, which packages create this bug?
> 
> Gernot
> 

was having the same probs for years. 
Here, it's usually 
'fork(): Cannot allocate memory'

Some change in the kernels mem mgmt, I think.
copy the url works.

(look in .xsession-errors. it's where all the error messages go)

Re: non function firefox

[Johann Klammer]

On 03/17/2020 05:10 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function.
> 
> I am 85 and shouldn't be out shopping for common food and paper products.
> 
> So what do I install, I suspect javascript related, to make this stuff 
> work?
> 
> install is I believe, stretch.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
Can u install midory or epiphany-browser?

Re: About "Debian is independent of the linux kernel"

[Johann Klammer]

On 03/05/2020 03:20 PM, Yongxian.Yao wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> Recently， I want to use the linux-4.9.90 on Debian9.12,but I doubts when 
> compiling the kernel. 
> 1、Is it necessary to use the config-4.9.0-12 to compile the linux-4.9.90 
> kernel? 
Yes, it is usually a good Idea to start with their config file and change those 
entries that you need. It tends to mostly(tm) work with the original source 
tree.
You will still have to tweak and compile at least three times to get the thing 
to boot.
> 2、Does Debian9.12 have any special kernel configuration?
The boot process usually works through an initrd disk image
which holds a bunch of loadable modules. You have to be careful 
that the file system of the initrd image is compiled into the kernel.
and you want to build all the relevant modules to use your 
disk controllers and filesystems and stuff or boot process will not complete.

> 3、How to understand that the Debian distribution is independent of the linux 
> kernel?
They also have BSD kernel and HURD kernel and such...

Re: Why choose Debian on server

[Johann Klammer]

On 01/02/2019 12:00 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Hi list,
> I'm new to this list and I'm choosing the right distribution for server 
> needs. I hope that I'm not OT and don't want start a flame. I'm evaluating 
> the possibility to switch on debian so I hope you will give your experiences 
> about this topic.
> 
> At the moment I'm using CentOS 7 on server and workstation but very old 
> software, add third repos for get some software, use unmaintained software 
> where patchs are released by dev distro team, big changes between a current 
> release and next release, big corporation piloted distro, waiting that rh 
> release a security patches and then recompiled on centos, problem on new 
> hardware, unable to install new software from source due to old libs get me 
> bored, and frustated in the last year. I like flexibility and I noticed that 
> centos chains my knowledge.
> 
> Today seems that RH Family is the standard and rh is more supported by 
> software vendors. Considering 10 years of support, Selinux working out of the 
> box, stability, enteprise class and free distro..user choose Centos with the 
> perception that things work better because all is "followed" by a 
> corporation. With this assumption users feel more secure and unfailing.
> 
> This is not necessarely true. I think that is the sysadmin that make things 
> safer, secure and unfailing. Sure that a stable and reliable OS take his part 
> but when big blue take this game I'm not so sure about centos future. What if 
> someone will choose to drop centos project? Maybe this is premature but from 
> this "Why not choose a stable and community piloted distro where user needs 
> are first purpose?"
> 
> I used Debian in the past on several server for a big company without any 
> problems but now are several years that I use centos on server and 
> workstation and today I lost my debian knowledge about stability on server 
> usage.
> 
> Why you choose debian on server? Where for you it is better than centos and 
> other server distro?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Alessandro.

Be careful with that. I've seen aptitude crash with SIGILL on an older box used 
as fileserver. 

Re: Wine doesn't start

[Johann Klammer]

On 03/28/2018 09:50 PM, Markus Grunwald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> to play some old games, I wanted to start wine, but it always fails with
> errors like that in the attached gna.txt :(
> 
> Not even winecfg is starting (I created gna.txt with starting winecfg).
> 
> It used to work so well a while ago...
> 
> 
> That's what I have installed (debian testing, upgraded today):
> 
>  % dpkg -l wine\* | egrep '^ii'
> ii  wine 3.0-1  all  Windows API
> implementation - standard suite
> ii  wine32:i386  3.0-1  i386 Windows API
> implementation - 32-bit binary loader
> ii  wine64   3.0-1  amd64Windows API
> implementation - 64-bit binary loader
> ii  winetricks   0.0+20180217-1 all  package manager for
> Wine to install software easily
> 
> 
> 
> Can you help me with that, please?
> 
Perhaps a memory issue. turn off all web browsers(firefox,chrome), cycle 
harvesters(boinc) etc..
Maybe also gnome-based window managers and try starting it in a bare x session. 
Maybe add a swap partition. 
(wine has always been mapping enormous amounts of memory)

Re: Is Me-TV killing mainboards?

[Johann Klammer]

On 02/17/2017 08:30 AM, Hans wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> there is a weired thing happening. Maybe it is by chance, but maybe it is a 
> bug.
> 
> As my TV is dead, since 4 weeks I am looking television with my notebook. The 
> application for dvb-t I am using is me-tv.
> 
> Now it happens, that 14 days ago my first notebook suddenly switched off, but 
> could be started again after some minutes. This happened during the last week 
> 3 times, but now the mainboard is dead. 

Those things?
https://m.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/07/intel_atom_failures_go_back_18_months/

Re: What is *.cpp.d, and why is it breaking my compilations?

[Johann Klammer]

On 10/18/2016 06:50 PM, Jarle Aase wrote:
> Hi fellow developers,
> 
> After upgrading Debian Testing a few weeks ago, some of my pet
> projects could no longer build. They are all C++ projects, using
> CMake. I use Kdevelop as my IDE. I waited a while and upgraded again
> today, hoping that the problem would be gone. Unfortunately it was
> not.
> 
> For example (from: https://github.com/jgaa/restc-cpp):
> 
> ~$ src/restc-cpp/dbuild> /usr/bin/ninja [6/15] Building CXX object
> src/CMakeFiles/restc-cpp.dir/ConnectionPoolImpl.cpp.o FAILED:
> src/CMakeFiles/restc-cpp.dir/ConnectionPoolImpl.cpp.o /usr/bin/c++
> -D__USE_FILE_OFFSET64=1 -D__USE_LARGEFILE64=1 -I../include
> -I../externals/rapidjson/include -g -DDEBUG=1 -D_DEBUG=1 -o0 -g
> -Wall -fPIC -std=c++14 -pthread -MD -MT
> src/CMakeFiles/restc-cpp.dir/ConnectionPoolImpl.cpp.o -MF
> src/CMakeFiles/restc-cpp.dir/ConnectionPoolImpl.cpp.o.d -o
> src/CMakeFiles/restc-cpp.dir/ConnectionPoolImpl.cpp.o -c
> ../src/ConnectionPoolImpl.cpp cc1plus: fatal error:
> src/CMakeFiles/restc-cpp.dir/ConnectionPoolImpl.cpp.d: No such file
> or directory compilation terminated.
> 
> This project used to compile fine with Debian Stable, Debian Testing,
> Ubuntu LTS, Suse and even Microsoft Windows.
> 
> If someone here has already stumbled into this problem and know how
> to fix it, please tell me how. I'm eager to move my projects forward
> :)
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Jarle
dependency file...

'-MF FILE'
 When used with '-M' or '-MM', specifies a file to write the
 dependencies to.  If no '-MF' switch is given the preprocessor
 sends the rules to the same place it would have sent preprocessed
 output.

 When used with the driver options '-MD' or '-MMD', '-MF' overrides
 the default dependency output file.

it sends to *.o.d
but it seems to want *.d

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

[Johann Klammer]

On 07/26/2016 04:50 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 
> Telling us your requirements, will make making a recommendation easier.
> 
I did. it's just those two things...
...
kinda thought it was obvious, that the problem is my boxen being too 
old to run that stuff. 
To be more specific, something I tried to install had a dependency on 
apt-transport-https,
and pulled in new versions of:
Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 libapt-pkg5.0 i386 
1.3~pre2 [898 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt-utils i386 1.3~pre2 
[402 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt i386 1.3~pre2 
[1,166 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 apt-transport-https 
i386 1.3~pre2 [157 kB]

those would not run:

Dump of assembler code from 0xb7eb4a73 to 0xb7eb4a87:
   0xb7eb4a73 
<_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2275>:
cmp-0x288(%ebp),%eax
=> 0xb7eb4a79 
<_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2281>:
cmovne -0x1bc(%ebp),%edx
   0xb7eb4a80 
<_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2288>:
lea0x1(%edi),%ecx
   0xb7eb4a83 
<_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationRKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKbRKj+2291>:
mov%ecx,-0x274(%ebp)

Luckily, there were still versions 1.2.1 in the local /var/cache/apt/archives, 
I dpkg -i 'd them, so all is working for now... 

But I'll have to look for alternatives. 

What Linux distribution to use?

[Johann Klammer]

Unfortunately, Debian does not work for me anymore.

I have special needs: 
binary packages. 
i386 code without SSE stuff or other surprises. 

any advice? 

Re: Debian 8. keine Ahnung....

[Johann Klammer]

On 07/21/2016 03:50 PM, D.G. Falk wrote:
> moin moin   ...   oder   Guten Tag
> 
> Ich habe mich an Ihren Debian DVD's versucht ... nach 2 Wochen und
> ca. 5 Installationen pro Tag (sorry Versuche) läuft es nun
> etwas.. Bei der Installation bleibt die Soft doch des
> öfteren stecken... niemals ein Disk ins Laufwerk stecken
> ... grrr   und bei Fehlern immer alles neu formatieren und neu
> anfangen - sonst wird es nie was.. getestet!!.   Ach was war doch
> die alte DLD toll - installieren und alles funktionierte. Na ja
> . Das scheinbar nicht lösbare Problem ist aber Icedove. Einmal
> beim Passwort vertan und gespeichert scheint das nicht mehr
> änderbar Das nenne ich "Mist in Tüten"!!! Wenn das pwd schon
> nicht änderbar ist - dann sollte das Konto wenigstens löschbar sein -
> ist das vorgesehen? -> next try  :o( Das Exportieren der Konten (usw)
> ist scheinbar nicht vorgesehen (ich hab nichts gefunden). Ist es
> somit zwingend den ganzen 'Kram' zu deinstallieren und neu zu
> beginnen? - äh   nützt das überhaupt etwas? Warum kann ich
> das pgm nicht allen Nutzern (incl Inhalten) nutzbar machen? Währe für
> mich super sinnvoll
> 
Ich glaube die profile sind unter ~/.mozilla/firefox
Versuchen Sie die zu loeschen. 

> Also ich habe zu uralten Zeiten das bnos unter old dos gebastelt -
> ich hätte mich nicht getraut so ein System als Relaise rauszugeben.
> Max als erster Entwurf - aber das scheint bei allen Dist- von dem
> System der Fall zu sein. Ach was währe eine richtige alternative zu
> Win doch schön..und toll.   davon träume ich
> schon über 30 Jahre :o(((
Ja, das ist ganz normal mit Linux. 

> 
> Vielleicht haben Sie ja Ideen wer das mal in die Gänge bekommt - oder
> wenigstens die Programme Nur der Kernel läuft meistens immer
> weiter.
> 
> Ach ja    Ich habe den Screensaver deaktiviert - nur das er immer
> noch zuschlägt - nicht mal das funktioniert.
> 
xset -dpms s off
(in einem xterm eingeben)
Eines is der stromspar modus, das andere bildschirmschoner. 
Als Faustregel scheint zu gelten, das die grafischen
konfigurationsmenues der div. Desktopumgebungen ungeeignet sind 
um systemeinstellungen zu aendern. Das wichtige Zeugs geht meist nur 
ueber files in /etc oder die konsole. 
vielleicht die manpages lesen und das zeug in /usr/share/doc...(nicht alles)

> Sorry - soll nicht unbedingt Meckern sein - aber schon ein Aufschrei
> nach einem funktionierenden und bedienbarem System. Bitte entwickelt
> doch mal bis zum Ende und macht dann erst eine neue Version draus.
> (zu Ende: Alle Funktionen machen was sie sollen!) Und guckt mal über
> den Tellerrand! Neues gibt es dann immer wieder.
Das wird nie passieren. 
Es ist ja nicht so, dass die Software von Debian entwickelt wird. 
Das tun meist Akademiker und Hobbyisten. 
Wenn Sie was aendern wollen, sollten Sie Bug Reports schreiben. 
Sind E-mail basiert 

> 
> Grüße D. G. Falk
> 
> Ich erwarte nicht unbedingt eine Antwort.
Pech gehabt...

Re: Update: Last Linux kernel did not install correctly

[Johann Klammer]

On 06/28/2016 03:40 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Aside: apper has installed several linux images before this one, and I never 
> had this problem before, and typically did not reboot soon after the update--
> instead, I waited until there was some other reason to reboot.
> 
BTW: What is apper? I can't seem to find any package with that name on my 
system...

> So, now what do I do?
> 
> Per the warning from Johann Klemmer, I want to be careful about rebooting--I 
> don't want to attempt a reboot that might fail.
> 
> Is there any log of the apper install process that would give me more 
> information than the popup messages:
> 
You could try .xsession-errors in your home dir.
It's typically where all the sessions' output gets dumped.
otherwise look for apper docs /usr/share/doc/

Re: Problems with Apper / automatic upgrading of my Debian 7.11 system

[Johann Klammer]

Don't reboot until you know that the bootloader got installed correctly. 
Ideally have a boot CD ready in case it goes wrong. 

Re: Clock

[Johann Klammer]

On 06/14/2016 06:40 AM, Richard Barmann wrote:
> About once a week when I boot up I find the clock is exactly 4 hours slow. I 
> am using Kubuntu 16.04. If I am asking the question in the wrong place please 
> send me to the correct forum.
> Thank you.
Try changing /etc/adjtime to have LOCAL at the third line(instead of UTC). 
also 
man hwclock

Re: How to get debug information?

[Johann Klammer]

On 04/06/2016 05:10 PM, Floris wrote:
> Op Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:50:10 +0200 schreef Floris :
> 
>> I'm testing the new Nvidia driver module with drm enabled. It is very 
>> experimental so I know there are bugs in it. I think I found a problem and I 
>> want to get more information about it from the log messages, but the whole 
>> system freezes. I can't ssh into the system or change to a tty. After a hard 
>> reboot the last lines in journalctl are:
>> kernel: usb 2-1.7: current rate 0 is different from the runtime rate 
>> 48000
>> Failed to get journal fields
>> Not very useful
>> Is there a way to get more information?
>>
>> Floris
>>
> 
> Some more information
> 
> I think the issue is in vdpau
It depends if you box has completely locked up.
if it has not you can try running a ssh server and logging 
in with putty(windows) or ssh(linux) from another machine. 
then try dmesg or attaching a gdb to the xorg process 
(and hope the problem is in userspace). 
you may want to install the dbg packages to have human-readable
function/variable names etc...

If it's locked up completely, there's not much you can do. The
`experts' will tell you to look at /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession-errors 
to see if it has any hints, and perhaps recompiling the Linux kernel 
with debug flags and sysRq key, but
that takes at least 3 trys until you get a bootable build done... 
Keep a backup kernel+initrd, so you don't end up with a bricked system.

Oh, and if it's the proprietary driver, forget all of the above. 
You likely won't get that one debugged...

Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question

[Johann Klammer]

On 04/02/2016 10:50 PM, Alan McConnell wrote:
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Brian" 
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2016 3:17:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question
> 
> On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 13:46:09 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> 
>> Well, I finally got my Jessie installed!  I had to pick a different kernel 
>> than then one
>> suggested, but things finally went through.  I was even able to use the 
>> partitions I had
>> prepared and carefully sized.
> 
> Good, but this is information underload. Which kernel was suggested?
> Which one did you pick? Remember, it could help others than yourself.
>It wasn't the one with the .pae.  IIRC there were a couple.  Of 
> course I
>didn't copy down the names of all the choices!
> 
>> My question:  how do I install "new" SW?  E.g. emacs, and mutt, and 
>> ImageMagick?  These
>> are not found on the one CD I have.  I have in addition a thumb drive, which 
>> came with
>> my purchase from LinuxCollections.  I have mounted it and find that it is 
>> chock full
> 
> You have a DVD (not a CD). It would (or should) contain more than a
> netinst image.
>  Well, it doesn't contain emacs or tex or mutt, or ImageMagick.  Why 
> are you
>  telling me what it 'should' have?
> 
>> of .deb files.  I suppose there is some way of 'manually' copying a 
>> particular .deb
>> to my disk and then installing it.  But I am afraid of getting stuck in 
>> "dependency
>> hell".  Does someone here also have the same CD + thumb drive situation.
> 
> The vendor has it. Have you thought of asking what it is they have sold
> you?
>   I suppose I should have bought the 8 or 10 or 15 DVDs.  As I have 
> already
>   said: I bought the DVD+thumb drive from LinuxCollections, since it 
> was
>   a) cheaper, and b) less bulky, and c) represented, I hoped a new
>   technology.  Thumb drives can contain a lot more on them than a DVD
>   can.
> 
> I hope for further responses from people who have _answers_, although I'll 
> try to
> respond to questions of significance.  To repeat: I want to know how to 
> install
> SW that I need from off the thumb drive(aka USB stick)
> 
> Alan
> 
getting network running,
configuring /etc/apt/sources.list 
and doing apt-get update, then aptitude to install software 
would be the easiest thing. 

the ones in mine are:
```
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
```

You may have to vary. 
(may have to be stable for stable distribution and maybe servers in your region 
for faster access)

There are ways to set up apt to use removable drives, but I forgot how2 do 
that. 
It's likely how to use that thumb drive you got.
Try the apt/aptitude manual page(s). 
oh, also apt.conf and apt-cdrom...

Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py

[Johann Klammer]

On 01/14/2016 04:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> Intermittently but sometimes several times an hour from the times 
> recorded. The error portion of the logged line:word wrapped
> 
> segfault at 0 ip b7614966 sp bf9b64c8 error 6 in 
> libc-2.13.so[b759b000+15e000
> 
> No clue what an error 6 means. No errors shown in the man page, just mild 
> horn blowing.
> 
> And the segfault goes away if root runs it, so I have to assume root is 
> not running it.  Does anyone have a clue what I should be looking at and 
> what to check for?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
segfaults are always bad. It's dereferencing a NULL pointer here.
the exact numbers are in some intel processor manual, 
but won't help you unless you want to debug the program. 
It's probably an at or cron job running this script. 
Perhaps something involved with auto-updating. 

Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py

[Johann Klammer]

On 01/14/2016 10:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 14 January 2016 16:18:08 Johann Klammer wrote:
> 
>> Synaptic runs on your box?
>> Years ago, when I tried it, it would always crash right on startup
>> use aptitude. It seems a lot more stable...
> 
> Back on list where it belongs.
> 
> I just ran it, and its obvious it doesn't reference the same database of 
> installed files that apt and synaptic use.  It just now wanted 
AFAIK, It does use the same database. Your system seems hosed...
Are you running it on the box that the OS is installed on, or on some 
(boot... ,whatever) client?

> to "upgrade" or sidegrade, 292 packages.  Refreshing the list didn't 
> help but it reminded me of the 4 color screens we had on the amiga's 
> back in the amigados-1.3 days.  Positively an assault on the eyeballs.

press u to update.

> 
> But when an uptodate system is said to have 292 old or defective packages 
> on it, I'm not sure I want it mucking around in MY used car lot.
what kind of defective? broken? that means the dependencies are not met...
Press e to start the interactive resolver. 
a and r to accept or reject.

> 
> For what its worth, as root, an apt-get update, followed by an apt-get 
> upgrade reports 0 package to upgrade.
> 
> From that it would appear aptitude is confused at best, broken at worst.
> 
> All of these tools are, AFAIK, supposed to be using the same 
> sources.list, and the same installed list. update-manager does but 
> Obviously aptitude is not.
> 
> I believe I'll stick to using synaptic.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 

Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py

[Johann Klammer]

Synaptic runs on your box?
Years ago, when I tried it, it would always crash right on startup
use aptitude. It seems a lot more stable...

Re: gschem only partially works

[Johann Klammer]

On 01/09/2016 06:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I need 
> several copies of as part of the control mechanism of a cnc machine 
> tool.
> 
> Now I would like to translate that to a pcb I can make.
> 

Try:
info pcb "Schematic Frontends" "gEDA"

(in a terminal and with pcb-common installed)

`?' gives the keypresses for navigating the info manual...



> However, its been an exercise best described as the 10,000 monkeys with 
> typewriters miraculously re-creating Shakespears works.
> 
> The reason?  In the help pulldown, the top 3 items that should give one 
> access to the documentation for the geda suite of programs, do ANAICT 
> nothing, not even a disk access spike is shown by gkrellm.
> 

sounds like you are missing a -doc package

> The complete suite of programs is installed.  Is there a .conf file 
> someplace besides /etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc to set its choice of 
> browsers to use to display this stuff?  iceweasel is the default, 
> chromium is available, as is konqerer.  Resetting the default browser to 
> each of them in turn has no effect.
> 
> I need some clues as to how to even trace this to see where the failure 
> is.  FWIW, while looking at /etc/gEDA/gschemrc, I did fix it so the 
> print command worked by adding the cups defined name 
> as "lp -dNetwork_printer".  The default "lpr" apparently sends the job 
> to /dev/null, or possibly /dev/oblivion?  It never gets anywhere near a 
> cups log.
> 
> The same /usr/share/gEDA directory tree also contains at least 1000 .sym 
> files, which are what gschem uses to draw the part symbol on the screen, 
> and all that works, but no handy documentation can be displayed on 
> command.
> 
> Clues? I seem to have used up mine.
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 

Re: debian8 & graphics

[Johann Klammer]

On 09/22/2015 06:10 PM, Rick McDaniel wrote:
> I loved Debian 8. I tried to install it on several Desktops &
> laptops. I gave up on the laptops & 2 of the desktops because i could
> not get the graphics 2 work.Spent days & read everything i could &
> followed directions to the letter & know what? I gave up.Hate to
> admit it. Yeah,they were old machines,but so what? I have come to the
> conclusion that you Debian's don't want your software to become main
> stream. I guess you want to feel superior & exclusive. You win. I
> will find another distro. Advice. Make it easier for people with
> legacy NVIDIA or ATI graphics to install.Goodby
> 

I am running debian testing on an ancient sempron(32 bit) box. 
with a nvidia tnt2/vanta(swapped in because a newer one failed).
xorg with nouveau driver has basic opengl accel and video playback accel. 
I've recently read that gnome needs programmable vertex shaders these days. 
You might want to avoid that.
I'm using iceWM as display manager with idesk. 
As long as I don't use it for gaming, it's ok...

watching videos and firefox works. firefox is slow...

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

[Johann Klammer]

On 03/12/2015 10:40 PM, Ron Leach wrote:
 List, good evening,
 
 Been adding some security upgrades on a Wheezy server, these included 
 upgrading the kernel to the latest - I cannot be precise but I think it 
 changed from --u5 to --u7.  It's pae 386.  3.65, I think, but that's from 
 memory.  I can't check any of this because I cannot boot the system from the 
 sda or sdb.
 
 The main use of the server is email (inbound, outbound, and IMAP mail store). 
  I have a backup of the mailstore up to the last hour.
 
 System was Lenny, then upgraded to Squeeze and then to Wheezy; it's not a 
 clean Wheezy install.  System uses LILO to boot.  sda and sdb are RAID1.  The 
 boot error message is:
 
 LILO 23.2  Loading LinuxEBDA is big; kernel setup stack overwrites LILO 
 second stage
 
 and then the boot hangs.
 
 During the kernel update, I saw remarks such as looking for, and finding, 
 vmlinuz, kernel, and things like that, and it found them on sda and on sdb.
 
 I have a 7.7.0 i386 install DVD.  I have a USB CD ROM.  Setting the BIOS to 
 boot from that, I can start the rescue mode but it gets no further than 
 trying to use its 'CDROM'.  The rescue mode won't see the USB DVD device, it 
 only seems to be happy with an IDE CDROM, which I don't have (nor any CDs).
 
 I can get to an 'ash' shell, instead of proceeding further with the rescue 
 installer, but I don't know what to do - neither in the sense of what has 
 gone wrong with booting anyway, nor how to use the shell to begin to solve 
 the problem.
 

It's probably some initrd environment

try to run fdisk to list the partitions
try mounting stuff 
try ls whatever

try mounting proc on the root part
try chroot(or whatever they do)...


 I could do with a little help here, to get the system running, and to fix the 
 booting.
 
 I won't receive list posts - because the email server is down - but I will be 
 able to check the web archive of this list which, I think, is updated only 
 periodically, so it might seem as though I am not responding to posts very 
 enthusiastically but I will be here, for sure!
 
 Grateful for any help, at all,
 
 regards, Ron
 
 

First,
you should try to mount your hard disk partitons. 
Try to identify which ones are root and boot(if separate). 
It may be necessary to start the raid stuff before that. 

What may have gone wrong:
the raid drives may be inconsistent, messing up the boot. 
the LILO may not be happy with your drive layout/the RAID thing. 
something wrong with your partition table.
something wrong during LILO install(the configuration)

you could try to look into your LILO config for stuff that's gone wrong...
(wrong drive designators sda instead sda1 or whatever...)

you could try to put /boot on a non-raid place. 
AFAIR you can run LILO installer from a rescue disk, but you have to copy the 
config file and change all the paths 
from /something
to /mnt/bla/something
or wherever you have mounted your root fs so it finds the files.
(except device nodes etc...)



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Re: GNU Barcodes

[Johann Klammer]

On 12/11/2014 08:10 AM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
 Dear List -
 
 I wish to be able to print a barcode .5 inches from top of the page and 
 centered.
 
 I generate the barcode -
 
 yes 12345 | head -84 | barcode -p 5x5.0cm -umm -e CODE39  test.ps;
 
 and print -
 
 lpr -o media=letter -#1 -P LJ1012 /var/www/test.ps -o page-top=33 -o 
 page-bottom=44 -o page-left=60 -o page-right=80
 
 The barcode is
 upside down
 not centered
 at the very top and truncated
 and multiple copies are printed.
 
 TIA
 
 Ethan
 
 
Have you ever read the story of Sysiphos?

Linux printing is similar. 
You will be digging trough several layers of abstractions. 
After finally having had a good look at cups low level driver 
interface you will find out that it's the printer driver that's at fault. 
You will notice that the driver is either closed source nad you have no 
chance of changing what's wrong, or you'll be looking at the 
drivers code but not be able to fix it, because you do not know 
your printers non-postscript internal communications protocol. 
And there's no way to find out. 
By the way you get there, you'll have wasted several weeks/months 
understanding all those shell scripts and conversions and the internals of 
the postscript interpreter(not that it would help you with the problem). 

Then, you'll go in full denial about your fruitless exploits. 

After a week you'll think it would be a fine Idea to print those 
barcodes(or some other documents)



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Re: Why an mp3 is Not a JPEG file

[Johann Klammer]

On 09/30/2014 06:20 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:


As you can see I'm using mpv and it plays perfectly, it even mentions
the attached picture. Try mpv, I use it for everything.
So whether xine has a bug, I don't know, but if you can play it using
mpv, then I'd report the bug against xine saying where the file can be
found and that it plays OK with mpv.


I've noticed it works in alsaplayer...
Yes, seems it's a xine bug:
https://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551



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Why an mp3 is Not a JPEG file

[Johann Klammer]

Well, I know that an mp3 is not a JPEG file. But why does it matter to 
xine (or libav or whatever).


This is what I get on stdout when trying to play some random downloaded 
podcast using xine.


[...]
[mp3 @ 0xa660260] max_analyze_duration reached
[mp3 @ 0xa660260] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, mp3, from '/home/klammerj/Downloads/267_EP267__Planetfall.mp3':
  Metadata:
encoded_by  : iTunes 10.1
title   : EP267: Planetfall
artist  : Michael C. Lea
album   : Escape Pod
track   : 267
TCP : 1
genre   : Podcast
date: 2010
  Duration: 00:32:49.62, start: 0.00, bitrate: 95 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16p, 96 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Video: mjpeg, yuvj444p, 400x400, 90k tbn
Metadata:
  title   : ÿØÿà
  comment : Other
Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x28 0x00
[at this point xine terminates]

What to do?

this is on a debian testing

dpkg -l xine-ui libxine\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture 
 Description

+++--===-===-==
un  libxine-doc  none  none 
 (no description available)
un  libxine1 none  none 
 (no description available)
ii  libxine2 1.2.6-1 i386 
 xine media player library – meta-package
ii  libxine2-bin 1.2.6-1 i386 
 xine video/media player library – binary files
ii  libxine2-doc 1.2.6-1 all 
 xine video player library – documentation files
ii  libxine2-ffmpeg  1.2.6-1 i386 
 MPEG-related plugins for libxine2
un  libxine2-gnome   none  none 
 (no description available)
ii  libxine2-misc-plugins1.2.6-1 i386 
 Input, audio output and post plugins for libxine2
un  libxine2-plugins none  none 
 (no description available)
ii  libxine2-x   1.2.6-1 i386 
 X desktop video output plugins for libxine2
ii  libxinerama-dev:i386 2:1.1.3-1   i386 
 X11 Xinerama extension library (development headers)
ii  libxinerama1:i3862:1.1.3-1   i386 
 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  xine-ui  0.99.8-2i386 
 the xine video player, user interface


dpkg -l libav\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture 
 Description

+++--===-===-==
ii  libav-tools  6:10.2-2i386 
 Multimedia player, encoder and transcoder
ii  libavahi-client3:i3860.6.31-4i386 
 Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common-data:i3860.6.31-4i386 
 Avahi common data files
ii  libavahi-common-dev  0.6.31-4i386 
 Development files for the Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-common3:i3860.6.31-4i386 
 Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-compat-libdnssd1:i3 0.6.31-4i386 
 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility library
rc  libavahi-core7:i386  0.6.31-4i386 
 Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD library
rc  libavahi-glib1:i386  0.6.31-4i386 
 Avahi GLib integration library
un  libavalon-framework-java none  none 
 (no description available)
ii  libavc1394-0:i3860.5.4-2 i386 
 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devices
ii  libavc1394-dev:i386  0.5.4-2 i386 
 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devices (development files)
un  libavcodec-extra-53  none  none 
 (no description available)
un  libavcodec-extra-54  none  none 
 (no description available)
un  libavcodec-extra-55  none  none 
 (no description available)
un  libavcodec53 none  none 
 (no description available)
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Re: Data from a serial port

[Johann Klammer]

On 09/28/2014 05:30 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Dear List -

I have an Avery Berkel POS  [Point Of Sale] scale which I wish to
integrate into a POS system. The output is sent to a RS232 port. I do
not know how to extract the data.

Here is what I have about the RS232 port:

ethan@meow:~$ dmesg | grep tty
[0.00] console [tty0] enabled
[0.383854] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200)
is a 16550A
[0.404352] :00:03.3: ttyS1 at I/O 0x1c90 (irq = 17, base_baud =
115200) is a 16550A


root@meow:/home/ethan#  setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1c90, IRQ: 17
/dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3


TIA

Ethan
--

More info from the manual --

9600 baud, 7 data bits, even parity, 1 stop bit

Transmits weight and scale status whenever ASCII 'W'CR is sent by the
POS terminal.

Hope this helps.

TIA

Ethan




use stty to configure the port.
man stty
stty 9600 cs7 -parodd -cstopb
(but there's more... handshake, newlines...)



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Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

[Johann Klammer]

On 09/09/2014 07:00 PM, Bret Busby wrote:

Hello.

It has occurred to me, with the problem with the xsession-errors file
progressively consuming HDD space until it runs out, causing crashing,
and the deflating of the file, using the '' action, to ask whether a
similar way exists, of freeing RAM that has been hijacked - RAM that
is also progressively consumed until it causes system failure, with
applications that are closed either in an orderly manner, or by
crashing, not freeing up the RAM (and, the evil javascript seeking to
sabotage the system, by, amongst other things, progressively consuming
the free RAM, until the system runs out of RAM and fails), so that I
could run a command, and, RAM that is not currently in use by programs
that are running, is freed?

At present, with 16GB of RAM, on this computer, and, 91% in use by
programs and 8% in use as cache (even though, I set cache off, in
each of the web browsers), it is a system riddled with bloatware, and,
like a cow with bloat, where it keeps getting bigger and bigger, it
needs for the gas to be released.

If browser windows are shut, the RAM is still occupied and unusable,
and, the parasitic javascript progressively consumes the RAM, until it
takes it all, so, a means of relieving the pressure, would be useful.

Once again, it would be better to be able to fix the problem
(deflating the bloat), rather than being required to shut the system
down (kill the animal).

Thank you in anticipation


Yes, that process is rather persistent...
It stays around if you close the last window with the little 'X' button 
on the top right... It does exit if you use the menu (File-Quit). 
Iceweasil is brohkenz.



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Re: watching films full screen

[Johann Klammer]

On 07/07/2014 11:30 PM, B wrote:

On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:08:05 +0200
François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote:


1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a real full screen ie.
without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in the
menu configuration: choosing the startup mode!


AFAIK, kaffeine has a problem with the xfce taskbar;
so you wanna make it automatically hide.

Full screen is either toggled manually by 'f' or in
its (poor) configuration (which you could have discover
by yourself if you had read the docs or even tested).


2- How to prevent dpms action when on fullscreen mode?




open a terminal, and enter
xset -dpms s off

It should disable the screensaver/dpms until xorg restart...
There's also an item in xine config, which injects Ctrl keyboard events 
at regular intervals, but you do not want that as it's bad when editing 
text...

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712573

(kaffeine still /is/ a xine frontend, right?)


Duno, vlc has this setup.




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Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

[Johann Klammer]

On 07/01/2014 05:30 PM, Rares Aioanei wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:51:28 +0200
Karl Munch munchk...@gmail.com wrote:


The stream is restricted to the territory of Romania, so I guess you
are there.

I was able to watch an ad there, but not the stream due to the above
restriction. For your information, I moved the libflashplayer.so
to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

Yes, I am in Romania. I moved the plugin too, same result (or lack
thereof). Since the issue extends to other browsers and flash players,
I don't think it's a Mozilla-only problem.


On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 16:59 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote:

Hi everyone,

Sometimes I want to be in touch with the World Cup so I try to
watch it online. The URL in the Subject is the site of Romania's
national TV which broadcasts the games online live.  I tried
flash-plugin-nonfree, I tried directly installing libflashplayer.so
in ~/.mozilla/plugins, installed at the same time or separately, I
tried pepperflashplugin-nonfree and Chromium, I tried Firefox
Nightly (I compile my own every week), I tried Iceweasel, Epiphany
and lots of other browsers, I tried disabling FlashBlock and other
extensions but the outcome is the same : all I get is a black
square with no content. On my other machine running Arch, with
FlashBlock enabled, it works just fine. Running stable/testing on a
Thinkpad X200, and tested lots of WMs and DEs (KDE, Fluxbox, Xfce,
i3wm). Any ideas are much appreciated.
--

Rares Aioanei










What does cat /proc/cpuinfo say?
I have had problems with libflashplayer.so silently crashing due to 
missing SSE2. If this is the case you could try installing an old 
version. But it's problematic, because it might be more vulnerable to 
hacking.
You can enter about:plugins as an URL in firefox to see the installed 
plugins(+version).




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Re: Screen resolution

[Johann Klammer]

Andrew Wood wrote:

Hi Kevin


yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check
which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the
kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it
means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the LCD?

353.942420] i915 :00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid.
[ 363.669312] Raw EDID:
[ 363.669327] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669335] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669343] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669350] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669357] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669364] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669371] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669378] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 363.669392] i915 :00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid.


On 06/01/12 00:59, Kevin Ross wrote:


EDID is the mechanism by which the display notifies the Gfx Card
of it's Capabilities(Resolution etc).
The message above may either be caused by your display not supplying 
this information, or it is querying the wrong output. VGA instead of 
DVI. In the latter case, it may not be significant at all.



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Re: Creating PXE boot image

[Johann Klammer]

lrhorer wrote:

I have PXE booting working from my Debian Squeeze server, and I can

What software package are you using? pxelinux?


launch the Debian Network installer on a machine supporting PXE.  I
can;t quite figure out how to create a boot image from a connfigured
Linux workstation, though.  IOW, I have a workstation with a hard disk
installed that has Debian configured and working the way I want, with
all the right utilities and device drivers.  How can I take that system
and create an image that will boot on diskless workstations running PXE?
If it matters, the workstation is using GRUB to boot Linux. I don;t
require this to be the case for the diskless clients, but I don't mind,
either, as long as everything loads properly.




If you mean that you want to transfer _the_whole_ file system when booting.

You could try to use the initial ram file system for doing this,
but you will need a _lot_ of ram for this and it may take a while for 
large images.


A slightly saner approach would be mounting the root filesystem via NFS.

Setting this up requires on the server:
A kernel, an initial ramdisk image(+NFS client), a pxe boot 
image(syslinux's pxelinux works alright) which loads the kernel, a tftp 
server for transferring the kernel image, a dhcp server for setting up 
IP addresses, an NFS server to export the client's file system... 
possibly more?


On the client(workstation):
A pxe compliant network card that is not too old,

WARNING:
There are HOWTOs around which advise you to flash your card's BIOS using 
a custom variant. This is not necessary for pxelinux.


Read the documentation for initramfs-tools and syslinux.


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Re: relocation error: and segmentation fault

[Johann Klammer]

Dennis Wicks wrote:

Sorry!! I clicked the wrong icon and sent the previous message by mistake!)

I was running aptitude and it canceled for some reason. Now
I am getting


relocation error: /lib/libproc-3.2.7.so: symbol memset, version
GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference


and also


symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6:
undefined symbol: _ZNSt8messagesIcE2idE, version GLIBCXX_3.4


and also segmentation fault.

This happens when I try to do something in a console window or a
gnome-terminal window. And nothing else happens. I am also getting a ton
of segmentation fault message in my f1 console session.

I'm afraid to try shutting down and restarting because I'm fearful that
it may not even come up!


Yes, that's _very_ likely.



Any suggestions? Oh yes, aptitude, apt-get and dpkg won't start.


I guess you've lost some important library.
The easiest way would be to use a live distro on a cdrom or USB stick 
and use that to mount your system partitions and install the missing 
packages.

downloaded packages may still be in /var/cache/apt.
/var/log/apt/history might tell you what went wrong.


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