Re: python3-uno
On 5/21/23 21:48, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 05:40:06PM +0200, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Setting up python3-uno (1:7.0.4-4+deb11u6) ... + [ configure = configure ] + ucf --three-way /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/.registry/pyuno.xcd /etc/libreoffice/registry/pyuno.xcd + ucfr --force python3-uno /etc/libreoffice/registry/pyuno.xcd + which py3compile + py3compile -p python3-uno E: py3compile:272: Requested versions are not installed dpkg: error processing package python3-uno (--configure): installed python3-uno package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 3 Errors were encountered while processing: python3-uno You sent this to me privately, apparently, but I'm Cc-ing the list. There is nothing private here. Now, I'm not really much of a python guy. So I googled for your error text, and got this result: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1273228/e-py3compile243-requested-versions-are-not-installed The second answer (which has a green checkmark but has a lower score) suggests that this can result from having the /usr/bin/python3 symlink pointing to the wrong version of python. What version of the python3-minimal package do you have installed, and what does your /usr/bin/python3 point to? Thank you for your valuable hints. Sorry for sending my reply to your private address. That was not intended; I just hit the reply key without looking at the address. The link you sent clarifies the problem: I am running python3.11 with the link python3 pointing to python3.11. I did not realize (know) that python3.5 is the default for Debian. I will change that. Thanks again for your help. -- K.D.J.
python3-uno
Hi, lately when running apt upgrade and apt autoremove I get an error message in resp. to python3-uno: dpkg: error processing package python3-uno (--configure): installed python3-uno package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 3 So far the upgrades seem to be OK; the upgraded system (Bullseye) works without any problems. Does that mean that dpkg has a problem that might result in problems with upgrades in the future? Can I do anything to avoid that problem? -- K.D.J.
Customize XFCE4
Hello, I, finally, installed Bullseye with XFCE4 as desktop environment. On the desktop, how do I change the color of the text under the icons (which is now white) to black? The information about themes I found is somewhat confusing as there are references to GTK-2.0 and to GTK-3-0. Which GTK is actually used? Thanks for any hints. -- K.D.J.
Re: scanner recommendation
On 4/18/21 9:57 PM, Default User wrote: Hi! It may be time for a new scanner. For years I have used a Visioneer OneTouch 7100 usb flatbed scanner on various x86 computers running various versions of Debian and simple-scan. Currently: Debian Unstable (updated, of course) Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux Cinnamon 4.8.6-2 Dell Inspiron 3542 (laptop, circa 2015), 64-bit Scanner software: simple-scan, from Debian Unstable repositories Use case: light duty home use. For years it worked "okay". But it suddenly started producing scans with a narrow pink stripe down the left side of the scan image produced. I tried installing xsane (too complicated for me), which I did not configure at all. And if I just clicked the scan button in xsane it would "dim out" and then do nothing. As a bonus, simple-scan then no longer worked; upon clicking scan in simple-scan it would just do nothing, with a rotating "activity busy" circle displaying indefinitely. So I uninstalled (purged) both xsane and simple-scan, re-installed simple-scan, then rebooted. Simple-scan now "works", but still produces the pink stripe down the image left side, just as before. : ( Note: the scanner is (about) 20 years, so no parts or service available from Visioneer. : ( So . . . Can anyone recommend a good replacement scanner? I am really hoping to get something that works "out of the box", with little or no configuration, etc. I am using a CanoScan LiDE 400. I bought it because they have a (very simple) Linux support. The software is a not very clever but works nicely. The images (jpg, pdf) are good. There are a lot of buttons on the machine but you cannot use them. I tried to use xsane but that does not know the scanner. -- K.D.J.
Firefox 78.5.0esr
Hi, I have the feeling that Firefox ist deteriorating. In 'Preferences' I have set FF to be the default browser. But whenever I open FF on a link in an e-mail FF tells me that it is not set as default browser and asks me to make FF the default browser. Having opened a link in an e-mail I can open another link in an e-mail only by copying that link, go to FF and click on 'Paste & Go' in the address field. Can this behavior be changed or is these features? -- K.D.J.
Re: Problem with Xserver
On 12/4/20 2:04 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, yesterday I encountered a problem with using the console with zsh. In the internet I found a "solution": modify 'allowed_users' in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. I made the change and that was it. Now the autlogin does not work anymore. Instead the normal login screen is shown. But the login as the normal user results in a short blank screen and a new login screen is shown (obviously the system does not like me anymore); i.e. I cannot log in as user. I can log in as root and can do whatever I want there. I am using Debian Buster AMD64 (updated weekly), XFCE4 desktop with lightdm. Does anybody have a suggestion on how to solve this problem? Obviously, some users are not allowed_users. man Xwrapper.config says: allowed_users = rootonly|console|anybody Specify which users may start the X server through the wrapper. Use rootonly to only allow root, use console to only allow users logged into a physical console, and use anybody to allow anybody. The default is console. Have you set it to "anybody"? -dsr- Thanks for your quick reply. Originally the setting in Xwrapper.config was 'allowed-users=console'. I changed that to '...=anybody' and that 'killed me'. Even a 'dpkg-reconfigure ..' as recommended in the comments of Xwrapper.config did not help. Looking further I found a rather brutal solution to the problem: ==> remove ~/.Xauthority I did that, I can login, autologin works: my machine accepts me as user again! The original problem still exists, but that seems to be a zsh/xorg-problem. I will have to see how that can be resolved. K.D.J.
Problem with Xserver
Hi, yesterday I encountered a problem with using the console with zsh. In the internet I found a "solution": modify 'allowed_users' in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. I made the change and that was it. Now the autlogin does not work anymore. Instead the normal login screen is shown. But the login as the normal user results in a short blank screen and a new login screen is shown (obviously the system does not like me anymore); i.e. I cannot log in as user. I can log in as root and can do whatever I want there. I am using Debian Buster AMD64 (updated weekly), XFCE4 desktop with lightdm. Does anybody have a suggestion on how to solve this problem? Thanks. K.D.J.
[SOLVED] Re: VirtualBox - vboxpci
On 9/6/20 11:17 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to run VB 16.1.14 r140239 on my laptop under Debian Buster.
After sucessfully signing vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp I
installed the extension package.
Now I have to additionally sign vboxpci.
However, this module was not installed. Where do I get it from?
The reply by Eike Lantzsch showed me that I adressed the wrong mailing
list:
I installed the VB deb-package downloaded from VixtualBox. That's why I
mentioned this strange release number.
Thank you all for trying to help me.
--
K.D.J.
Tel.: +49-{0}7034-929651
Re: VirtualBox - vboxpci
On 9/6/20 12:27 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 9/6/20 12:17 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, I am trying to run VB 16.1.14 r140239 on my laptop under Debian Buster. After sucessfully signing vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp I installed the extension package. Now I have to additionally sign vboxpci. However, this module was not installed. Where do I get it from? Hi, I use Virtualbox 6.1 on my computer without any problems. I don't understand what your problem is. I have added the following line to /etc/apt//sources.list deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian buster contrib HTH Kind regards Georgi My problem is not the installation of VB. After the installation I defined a Windows10-machine. When I start this machine VB indicates that the kernel driver ist not installed and recommends to run '/sbin/vboxconfig'. vboxconfig request the signing of four modules, one of them is vboxpci. And this module has not been installed. So I wonder where I can find this module. -- K.D.J.
VirtualBox - vboxpci
Hi, I am trying to run VB 16.1.14 r140239 on my laptop under Debian Buster. After sucessfully signing vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp I installed the extension package. Now I have to additionally sign vboxpci. However, this module was not installed. Where do I get it from? -- K.D.J.
Re: Buster boot messages
On 7/10/20 4:14 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: On 7/10/20 11:48 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: the first messages that appear on the screen during the boot process seem to be messages from the BIOS; they have a different format than the subsequent messages from buster and they begin with 'ACPI '. As they disappear so fast, I cannot read them. Where are these messages logged or what should I do to log these messages? "journalctl -b" will have the messages from the most recent boot. Thanks for the pointer. These are the messages I was looking for: = AMD-Vi: Unable to write to IOMMU perf counter. ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve [\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.VGA.LCD._BCM.AFN7], AE_NOT_FOUND (201810/psargs-330) ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.GPP0.VGA.LCD._BCM, AE_NOT_FOUND (20180810/psparse-516) ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20180810/video-370) Failed to start Show Plymouth Boot Screen. == Do I have a problem with my system? No. The ACPI tables in PCs are usually shoddy and produce many warnings by the strict parser in the Kernel. Windows also often experiences the same parse errors, but decides to hide them deep in the Event Log. Both operations system work around the these errors, anticipating the bad craftsmanship of the mainboard/system manufacturers. Unless you have very specific problems which you explicitly can link to such errors, I would not worry. Sometimes a BIOS/Firmware update fixes some errors, but don't get your hopes up. Grüße Sven. Thank you. That was helpful. -- K.D.J.
Re: Buster boot messages
On 7/10/20 11:48 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: the first messages that appear on the screen during the boot process seem to be messages from the BIOS; they have a different format than the subsequent messages from buster and they begin with 'ACPI '. As they disappear so fast, I cannot read them. Where are these messages logged or what should I do to log these messages? "journalctl -b" will have the messages from the most recent boot. S! Thanks for the pointer. These are the messages I was looking for: = AMD-Vi: Unable to write to IOMMU perf counter. ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve [\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.VGA.LCD._BCM.AFN7], AE_NOT_FOUND (201810/psargs-330) ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.GPP0.VGA.LCD._BCM, AE_NOT_FOUND (20180810/psparse-516) ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20180810/video-370) Failed to start Show Plymouth Boot Screen. == Do I have a problem with my system? -- K.D.J.
Buster boot messages
Hi, the first messages that appear on the screen during the boot process seem to be messages from the BIOS; they have a different format than the subsequent messages from buster and they begin with 'ACPI '. As they disappear so fast, I cannot read them. Where are these messages logged or what should I do to log these messages? -- K.D.J.
Re: Installing Buster (improvements)
On 6/30/20 11:29 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 6/30/20 1:36 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hello, today I installed Buster on my laptop. It would be very helpful to know which of the many install ISOs you used. debian-10.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso As usual it ran very well (at the end). But I would like to suggest the follwing improvements to the Graphical install: a) At some point the process informed me, that a firmware module is missing and asked whether I would like to supply it from a disk, a USB stick or from the net. As I had this module from another installation on a USB stick I stuck it into the laptop. The install process did not even look at it; it was looking only for network devices. How do we know that "The install process did not even look at it"? I assume it would have told me that the module itself or the debian firmware-package (both were on the stick) are not usable, readable or something like that. BTW: in the future if you expect the need for firmware I suggest using one of the many unofficial non-free firmware ISOs. I know. I have installed the various versions of debian since 1995(?) providing all the partitions, including swap, as required. This time I wanted to find out what debian does when you provide just one big partition. b) Before I started the installation I defined a partition of 150GB on the disk (SSD) for Debian. At some point in the process the system informed me that I did not provide a swap partition (I had hoped the installation process would allocate that automatically from the space provided) and asked whether I want to define that partition. This is normal, you have many options. Sometimes swap is not wanted. Accepted. As there was some room left on the disk I was ready to do it. The system asked for the data of where that partition should lie in terms of 'cylinder/sector/head' (or something like it). Now usually I am not concerned with this type of data and even more so as I was installing debian on an SSD. As there was no way I could solve this problem directly I had to abort the installation, define the swap partition and restart the installion process. It is unfortunate that you did not read any of the Debian Wiki install manuals and tutorials before you started. I suggest you start reading here: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/installmanual My point ist that when you have the possibility to allocate the missing partition in the process then the information expected from the user should be in terms that are generally used in this context: e.g. size, free space before/after the new partition. Do you know how much space you are talking about when you specify the space e.g. from cylinder 30312/sector 301/head 45 to cylinder 30800/sector 20/head 4 on an SSD? Couldn't that be done more user friendly? Especially in view of the fact that I assume that Graphical Install is not supposed to be an Expert installation. That was a poor assumption. Again, the install manual covers that. OK, my fault. c) When entering the passwords for root and for the user there are always two lines: one for entering the password, the other where one clicks if one wants to see the password. I suggest that these two line be switched: the first for the selection for seeing the password, the second for entering the password. Again a little increase in user friendlyness. There are tons of ISOs and methods. Best of luck next time. I have no problem with the "normal" ISOs, like the one I mentioned above. -- K.D.J.
Installing Buster (improvements)
Hello, today I installed Buster on my laptop. As usual it ran very well (at the end). But I would like to suggest the follwing improvements to the Graphical install: a) At some point the process informed me, that a firmware module is missing and asked whether I would like to supply it from a disk, a USB stick or from the net. As I had this module from another installation on a USB stick I stuck it into the laptop. The install process did not even look at it; it was looking only for network devices. b) Before I started the installation I defined a partition of 150GB on the disk (SSD) for Debian. At some point in the process the system informed me that I did not provide a swap partition (I had hoped the installation process would allocate that automatically from the space provided) and asked whether I want to define that partition. As there was some room left on the disk I was ready to do it. The system asked for the data of where that partition should lie in terms of 'cylinder/sector/head' (or something like it). Now usually I am not concerned with this type of data and even more so as I was installing debian on an SSD. As there was no way I could solve this problem directly I had to abort the installation, define the swap partition and restart the installion process. Couldn't that be done more user friendly? Especially in view of the fact that I assume that Graphical Install is not supposed to be an Expert installation. c) When entering the passwords for root and for the user there are always two lines: one for entering the password, the other where one clicks if one wants to see the password. I suggest that these two line be switched: the first for the selection for seeing the password, the second for entering the password. Again a little increase in user friendlyness. -- K.D.J.
Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso
On 4/12/20 2:47 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with. X is failing to start. I have solved a number of related problems within online information including finding the firmware-amd-graphics package. I can't easily post log contents from that machine since it doesn't have email installed yet. I am now at: open /dev/dri/card0: no such file... What I find online refers to the firmware problems I think I have solved. TIA for any ideas, Paul Paul, I tried for weeks to solve this problem with my new AMD Ryzen 5 3400G. As I did not want to play around with "testing" etc. I lastly solved the problem by buying a Nvidia graphic card: installed in my machine, reinstalled Debian 10 (the fourth or fifth time), and after installing the required firmware via synaptic I don not any graphic problem anymore. -- K.D.J
iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
Hi, on my laptop I upgraded Jessie to Stretch (with dist-upgrade). Now Stretch does not work (mouse, WLAN, ethernet) because the module 'iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode' seems to be missing. On Github I found that module dated 2014-12-09. Could I use this module? The main question is: where (in which directory) do I have to store it in my Stretch on my laptop? -- K.D.J.
[SOLVED] Re: Unable to mount USB stick
On 11/15/18 9:56 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hello, why can't I mount a USB-Stick? I am running Stretch with XFCE. I added the 'plugdev' group to my id and I installed pmount. When inserting a USB stick I don't even see an icon on the desktop. What do I have to do to solve the problem? Thanks in advance. Hello, thank you very much for the quick replies. I used 'lsblk' to find out that the stick was recognized (as 'sdd'). Then I called 'sudo journalctl -e' and saw that the system has a problem: Nov 17 08:57:27 PC4 kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page found Nov 17 08:57:27 PC4 kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Maybe the reason for that is that I had previously written some data with Windows (as I have done several times before). Anyway: I removed pmount and used another stick and everything works as expected. The most interesting part of this incident is, that I learned about new tools to analyze a problem. Thank you. K.D.J.
Unable to mount USB stick
Hello, why can't I mount a USB-Stick? I am running Stretch with XFCE. I added the 'plugdev' group to my id and I installed pmount. When inserting a USB stick I don't even see an icon on the desktop. What do I have to do to solve the problem? Thanks in advance. -- K.D.J.
Installation of Debian 9
I finally get around to install Stretch. I did a graphical net install. Comparing with the installation process of Jessie again many things, especially the explanations of the various installation steps, have been improved significantly. It took about an hour and I had a runing multi-boot system (Stretch, Jessie, Windows 7). Great system! -- K.D.J.
Netinstall of Debian 8 on DELL laptop fails
Hello, I am trying to net-install Debian 8.7. (Graphical expert install) After loading a couple of modules for the installation of the base system the installer claims that beginning with 'groff-base' all modules are corrupted and cannot be loaded. This is wrong as I used the same CD to install Debian on my PC without any problems. Before that I had installed Wheezy on the laptop without any problems. Does anyone have an idea on how to solve the problem? Thanks in advance. -- K.D.J.
Synaptic Error: Duplicates in sources.list
Hello, I am still running Wheezy. When using Synaptic to upgrade Wheezy the following message is issued: = W:Duplicate sources.list entry .. (/var/lib/apy/lists/security.debian.org_dists_wheezy_updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages W:Duplicate sources.list entry .. (/var/lib/apy/lists/security.debian.org_dists_wheezy_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages == I removed the two entries in the directory but with the next start of Synaptic the error appears again. What do I have to do to remove these entries permanently? Thanks. -- K.D.J
Re: [SOLVED] Netinstall Debian-8.7.0
On 01/17/2017 01:45 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hello, > > I was about to praise the ease of installation when an error occurred in > the step > > 'Select and install software' > > The was no indication what exactly went wrong; it said I would be able > to install the missing item later. > > The subsequent step 'Install the GRUB loader on a hard disk' failed with > the message "grub-pc failed to install into /target. ." > > With that I aborted the installation. > > How can I solve the problem? Hello, the reason for the installation problem was the setting of the kernel to be installed. I used the default setting but should have selected 'linux...3.6' instead. On the second try it worked perfectly. -- K.D.J.
Netinstall Debian-8.7.0
Hello, I was about to praise the ease of installation when an error occurred in the step 'Select and install software' The was no indication what exactly went wrong; it said I would be able to install the missing item later. The subsequent step 'Install the GRUB loader on a hard disk' failed with the message "grub-pc failed to install into /target. ." With that I aborted the installation. How can I solve the problem? -- K.D.J.
VirtualBox 5.0.28 USB-Problem
Hello, when booting Wheezy I get a lot of messages of the type "udev ... failed to execute /usr/share/../VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh ..." Looking through the internet (without google) I found that this is probably due to the fact that my /usr is a separate partition that is not mounted at the time udev is trying to set up the VM USBNodes. So I copied "VBoxCreate...sh" to a new folder /opt/virtualbox and changed the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules" by commenting out the 'old' statements ( with #) and inserting the appropriate new statements pointing to the changed location of the script. When booting the system udev is still looking for the script at /usr/share/... Is there any other change I should make in order to get that to work? Thanks for any hint. -- K.D.J.
Re: apt-get error messages
On 12/05/2015 08:56 PM, Myscelus wrote: > On 12/05/2015 08:55 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> due to a typing error - I wanted to say 'dpkg --add-architecture i386' >> but wrote 'i368' - >> I get the following error messages when running apt-get update: >> >> >> ... >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/vivid/Release >> Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/binary-i368/Packages' in Release >> file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/Release >> Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release >> file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release Unable to find >> expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release file (Wrong >> sources.list entry or malformed file) >> >> ... >> >> >> Where is the information for these erroneous requests stored? >> How can I remove it? > > dpkg --remove-architecture i368 > > That seems to have done something. At least the messages shown above disappeared when I said dpkg --remove-architecture i368 apt-get update But I cannot add the correct architecture: dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt-get update dpkg --print-architecture just shows me 'amd64'. 'apt-get update' seems to have found some i386 packages but the second architecture is not printed out. -- K.D.J.
apt-get error messages
Hi, due to a typing error - I wanted to say 'dpkg --add-architecture i386' but wrote 'i368' - I get the following error messages when running apt-get update: ... W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/vivid/Release Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/binary-i368/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) W: Failed to fetch http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) ... Where is the information for these erroneous requests stored? How can I remove it? Thanks for any hint. -- K.D.J.
Debian Wheezy boot messages
Hallo, where are the messages stored that Debain produces during booting (checking of various components, startup of e.g. postgresql, messages issued by /udev, error messages in case a routine could not be started, etc). I looked in /var/log through all logs but could not find those messages. -- K.D.J.
Re: about installing Java
On 02/13/2015 01:54 AM, Jack Chuge wrote: > I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is > there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think > debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the > other hand, I'm a newby to it. Any support is appreciated. Goto java.com, download the jdk1.8..tar.gz for your computer architecture and unpack it to a suitable directory as described in the installation instructions in the download site (all takes you 5 min.). I put my java into "/opt/jdk1.8.0_31". I use it e.g. to work with Eclipse. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54ddb9cb.1000...@t-online.de
Re: XML FOP
On 08/19/2014 02:11 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2014-08-18, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when generating a pdf-file from an xml-file with fop I get the warning >> >> [warning] /usr/bin/fop: Unable to locate servlet-api in /usr/share/java >> >> Even though the result seems to be OK, I still would like to know what >> the servlet is good for, whether I really need it, and where I would get >> it from. >> >> On one website it said one should install libservletxx.xx. >> I did that but that did not help. >> >> I am using Wheezy with the latest version of fop. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. > > Try running 'apt-cache depends fop'. In my case (up-to-date wheezy) I > see 'Suggests: libservlet2.5-java' in the output. Is that package > and version you installed? > > -- > > Liam > > > I ran 'apt-cache ...' and found several packages that I had not installed -- except for libserlet2.5-java (i.e. that was already installed). I installed the missing packages and still get the same warning. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53f3a9ee.1080...@t-online.de
XML FOP
Hi, when generating a pdf-file from an xml-file with fop I get the warning [warning] /usr/bin/fop: Unable to locate servlet-api in /usr/share/java Even though the result seems to be OK, I still would like to know what the servlet is good for, whether I really need it, and where I would get it from. On one website it said one should install libservletxx.xx. I did that but that did not help. I am using Wheezy with the latest version of fop. Any help would be appreciated. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53f22109.2060...@t-online.de
Dualboot: Strange behavior
Hi, I successfully installed Windows 7 and Wheezy on my DELL laptop E6530. As I do not use WIN7 very often and really don't look at the GRUB menu when starting my machine as Wheezy is supposed to start automatically, I discovered only two days ago, that the WIN7-entry of the GRUB menu has "disappeared". I checked the partitions and everything looked OK. With the "BootRepairDisk" (could not live without it) I recreated the GRUB menu and now I see Wheezy and WIN7 again and both work as expected. How could something like happen? Could an update of Win7 or Wheezy do something like that? Does anybody have a similar experience? -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536665b7.7040...@t-online.de
Re: fastest linux distro
On 01/25/2014 11:51 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 25.01.2014 03:17, tom arnall a écrit : >> I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. >> >> >> System: >> >> Dell latitude D630 >> dual core >> 2g memory >> >> >> most used applications: >> >> icewm >> gnome-terminal >> vim >> perl >> chrome browser >> transmission >> >> >> Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. >> >> Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > > We can not reply to your question, because it is incomplete. > > All distros make a choice between: > * time the user have to spend to install, configure and maintain, > * user's knowledge, > * freshness of packages ( with problems of too recent or too old > softwares, indeed ) > * effective speed of the system. > > Debian is interesting, and maybe the best choice for my needs, because > it allows me to tinker a lot to have a minimal system. Install it > without any option at first, then on your first run, just use aptitude, > disable "automatically install recommended softwares" and select the > tools you need one by one. > If you wants it on your desktop, for simple uses which are not critical, > testing is very good: less outdated than stable, and I have seen less > breakages than in unstable, and those breakages are probably due to the > fact I am a dependency nazi. I send every package I do not know why they > are on my system in the void, which can happen to break features I need, > but I have seen lot of powerful computers running so slowly compared to > my netbook... > Also, if you want speed, forget about classic DEs: unity, gnome, kde are > not built for speed, they are built to be easy to use. You want speed? > You have to take time to discover exactly which features you need, and > to select softwares which does not implement features you do not need. > My personal choices: > opera ( web browsing ), lxterminal, i3-wm ( if you are a keyboard lover > and have more than one screen - or only small ones - then you *need* it > ) , mpd, mpc, ncmpcpp, galculator, vim, transmission, skype, mumble, > clang, git, meld, dia and ssh, aptitude, lilo, and some games. Probably > some other minor tools, too, for programming. > This selection implied lot of time spent into removing bloated stuff > like file explorers, in testing ( I spent the most time testing web > browsers, text editors, terminal emulators and window managers ). > Using a mix between stable and testing on my desktop (I need at least a > computer to be usable everytime ), and unstable/experimental on my netbook. > > If you have plenty of time and knowledge, you can try LFS ( linux from > scratch ) or gentoo. But since you come from Ubuntu, I very doubt that > it can be recommended to you. Those distros* needs a deep knowledge of > internals of your computer. They'll require you to compile everything** > so you will be able to select the exact optimization options you want > and the precise instruction set of your processor. > You will earn some CPU cycles ( I *did not* said that this will be > measurable )... but will spend hours to get them. Those options are the > fastest distros you could have. It will also give you the really last > version of softwares, since it is built from source directly, so you can > even choose to build from development repositories. > There are some other source distros around: source mage, sorcerer, > funtoo... > > Then, you have some distros like archlinux, which needs a little less > knowledge, but still lot of time. Arch is a rolling release distro, with > the problems it gives: when you update your system, you *have to* read > the notes, or it can break everything. Some will say I troll, and some > others will give you real stories about such failures. > AFAIK, fedora needs far less time and is more stable, but since I was > never really interested by it, I can not give you any opinion about it ( > I have at least tried to install each other I speak about here ). > > And you came from Ubuntu, which, with some others like mint, is only > built to give an easy to use system, with almost no administration > tasks. You can not have something tailored for your needs with such > mind, but you won't have any brain damage to choose between alternatives > for your software, or by trying to configure them. > On this list, we probably have ours brains a little damaged, especially > people which used Debian in it's first days ;) freedom can hurt, you know. > > So, really, you did not asked your question correctly. > How many time do you have? > How many knowledge do you have? > Do you need shiny, very recent softwares? > Do you prefer stable stuff or fast ones? > > To conclude this long mail, I will give you a link: > http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php > > This is a website which will asks you the same questions as me, plus > some others, and which will give you some hint about what distro could > be the good
Re: image download with jigdo
On 01/10/2014 11:56 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jan 2014 at 13:19:50 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:30:41AM +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >>> On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>> >>>> The images you have created are for use only alongside other discs in >>>> a set; they contain extra packages that you could add to your system >>>> via "apt-cdrom add; apt-get install $package". >>> >>> The installation manual does not say that. >>> In the description of the various possibilities of downloading debian >>> there is the section where the production of the jigdo-iso-image is >>> described. At the end it directs the reader to the installation manual. >>> There nothing is said about the difference between using a 'normal' >>> bootable iso image and using the jigdo-iso-image. >>> Thus I assumed they are equivalent. >> >> Apologies if I've caused any confusion here - the jigdo-created images >> are *exactly* the same as what you'd have if you downloaded the ISO >> directly. You've just picked some DVDs from the middle of a set, >> that's all. Only the first DVD in a set is bootable, the rest are just >> there to hold more packages for users to install. > > If your explanation was added to > >http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ > > any confusion could be avoided. How about > >The jigdo-created images are exactly the same as what you'd have if >you downloaded the ISO directly. But note, only the first CD or DVD >in a set is bootable, the rest are just there to hold more packages >to install. I suggest that this text is inserted at the end of the third paragraph which starts with "From one of the locations " > > after "Once you have downloaded the images and written them to CD .". > > -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d3ae0f.7090...@t-online.de
Re: image download with jigdo
On 01/10/2014 02:31 PM, Klaus wrote: > On 10/01/14 13:07, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 10 Jan 2014 at 10:30:41 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >> >>> On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> You've quite probably downloaded and burnt them correctly. It's just >>>>>> that neither of those images is *meant* to be bootable. That's your >>>>>> problem. If you want to boot an installation DVD, you want >>>>>> debian-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-1 (i.e. the first in the sequence). >>> >>> Where could I have found the information about this essential >>> difference? >> >> Section A.2.1 of the Manual. >> >> http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ >> >> http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#which-cd >> >> > This might really be a misunderstanding due to a possible typo: Klaus J, > did you really download DVD number 10 (instead of number 1) ? And if so, > is that what you had intended? > > > In the jigdo-info it says that one should select an image out of the referenced list, not indicating which image is bootable. Realizing that the 'update' image is not bootable, I explicitly picked DVD-10, the one above 'update' (why should I use 'DVD-1' when there is a 'DVD-10'?). -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d3ac50.6050...@t-online.de
Re: image download with jigdo
On 01/10/2014 02:07 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jan 2014 at 10:30:41 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > >> On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You've quite probably downloaded and burnt them correctly. It's just >>>>> that neither of those images is *meant* to be bootable. That's your >>>>> problem. If you want to boot an installation DVD, you want >>>>> debian-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-1 (i.e. the first in the sequence). >> >> Where could I have found the information about this essential difference? > > Section A.2.1 of the Manual. > > http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ > > http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#which-cd Here it only says that the 'update' image is not bootable. OK, I found that out by trial. > > -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d3aaa4.7080...@t-online.de
Re: image download with jigdo
On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 03:25:48PM +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >> On 01/09/2014 01:59 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I successfully used jigdo-lite to generate an image for >>>> >>>> debian-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-10 and for >>>> debian-update-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-1 >>>> >>>> I also successfully burned the appropriate DVDs. >>>> >>>> The only problem is, they do not start when starting or restarting the >>>> PC. (The boot sequence is correctly set so that the dvd drive is tried >>>> first). >>>> >>>> Is there anything I could have done incorrectly? >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> You've quite probably downloaded and burnt them correctly. It's just >>> that neither of those images is *meant* to be bootable. That's your >>> problem. If you want to boot an installation DVD, you want >>> debian-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-1 (i.e. the first in the sequence). Where could I have found the information about this essential difference? >>> >> >> Thanks for the quick reply with the essential information. >> >> Then what would one do with the image thus created? > > The images you have created are for use only alongside other discs in > a set; they contain extra packages that you could add to your system > via "apt-cdrom add; apt-get install $package". The installation manual does not say that. In the description of the various possibilities of downloading debian there is the section where the production of the jigdo-iso-image is described. At the end it directs the reader to the installation manual. There nothing is said about the difference between using a 'normal' bootable iso image and using the jigdo-iso-image. Thus I assumed they are equivalent. > >> For me that seems to be too much hassle, so I downloaded the netinstall >> cd and that works. > > OK... The netinst *is* designed to be bootable and it contains the > Debian installer and a small set of packages: the base system. DVD-1 > contains the installer a larger set of packages. That's the only real > difference. > Thanks anyway. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52cfbdc1.7090...@t-online.de
Re: image download with jigdo
On 01/09/2014 01:59 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I successfully used jigdo-lite to generate an image for >> >> debian-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-10 and for >> debian-update-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-1 >> >> I also successfully burned the appropriate DVDs. >> >> The only problem is, they do not start when starting or restarting the >> PC. (The boot sequence is correctly set so that the dvd drive is tried >> first). >> >> Is there anything I could have done incorrectly? > > Hi, > > You've quite probably downloaded and burnt them correctly. It's just > that neither of those images is *meant* to be bootable. That's your > problem. If you want to boot an installation DVD, you want > debian-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-1 (i.e. the first in the sequence). > Thanks for the quick reply with the essential information. Then what would one do with the image thus created? For me that seems to be too much hassle, so I downloaded the netinstall cd and that works. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ceb16c.60...@t-online.de
image download with jigdo
Hello, I successfully used jigdo-lite to generate an image for debian-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-10 and for debian-update-7.3.0-amd64-DVD-1 I also successfully burned the appropriate DVDs. The only problem is, they do not start when starting or restarting the PC. (The boot sequence is correctly set so that the dvd drive is tried first). Is there anything I could have done incorrectly? -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ce9af9.6010...@t-online.de
Re: Login screen for Wheezy/Xfce
On 08/16/2013 01:33 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: where do I specify the content of the login screen: - automatically using Xfce - automatic login a user without password As you can tell by the questions the answer depends upon which graphical login manager (xdm, x display manager) you are running. gdm gdm3 kdm ldm lightdm xdm If you tell us which you are using then someone can probably say how to set up autologin. But for example while gdm worked okay this changed and gdm3 I don't think it has a kiosk mode. Let me assume or recommend lightdm. Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and set autologin-user in the SeatDefaults section: [SeatDefaults] autologin-user=yourusernamehere Bob Ralf, Andreas, Bob thank you for your answers. As always, there are so many things to consider when a new system is installed that it is difficult to find the starting point for a search for information. With your hints I found what I needed and now I can work from there. If I have a question I come back. BTW: I am using 'lightdm'; i.e. that is what was installed automatically. K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520dd693.5040...@t-online.de
Login screen for Wheezy/Xfce
Hi, where do I specify the content of the login screen: - automatically using Xfce - automatic login a user without password Thanks in advance. K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520c8c89.1060...@t-online.de
Re: Partitions
On 08/11/2013 04:36 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:58:19 -0400 (EDT), Klaus Jantzen wrote: by "some magic" the partitions on a HDD receive a block-id or UUID (for fstab). Does the ID of a partition change when the partition is moved or when a new partition is created in the unallocated space between two partitions? Thanks for any info. The UUID is assigned when the partition is formatted, not when it is allocated. Commands such as mke2fs or mkswap do the formatting. Moving or resizing a partition will not change its UUID, nor will allocating or deallocating another partition in any location. However, reformatting the partition will normally change its UUID unless the old UUID is explicitly specified as an option during formatting. For example, I've heard, though I have not personally verified it, that the Ubuntu installer has a habit of reformatting swap partitions during installation that were originally created by the Debian installer, thus messing up the Debian system's use of the swap partitions. Hello, thank you for the information. It was helpful because I wnated to reduce and to move partitions of existing systems before installing Wheezy. Everything worked and the old systems are alive. Thanks. K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520a889c.9030...@t-online.de
Partitions
Hello, by "some magic" the partitions on a HDD receive a block-id or UUID (for fstab). Does the ID of a partition change when the partition is moved or when a new partition is created in the unallocated space between two partitions? Thanks for any info. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5204f57b.6000...@t-online.de
Re: Firefox under Squeeze
Bob Proulx wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: Or is 'Iceweasel esr' that is recommended for installation equivalent to Firefox 18? Oh, I just realized that you don't know about the ESR version and that I should have explained it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Extended_Support_Release https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ You are probably wanting the "release" version (currently 18 today) to keep up with the cool kids. Then you have the largest version number and it changes most often. I succeeded in installing the release version of iceweasel following the instructions on http://mozilla.debian.net. The version is 10; is that equivalent to firefox version 18? Although the "esr" version is just fine too. It is more stable doesn't have as large of a number as the release version and it doesn't change as often. :-) Bob After that I tried to install the esr-version of thunderbird (there does not seem to be a release version). That did not work as apt-get could not find the package. Thanks a lot for your help. -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/511ce197.9000...@t-online.de
Re: Firefox under Squeeze
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 17:39 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /root/firefox/libxpcom.so: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. That is strange as 'libuxl.so' was extracted from the installation tar and is in the directory. Any suggestions? As root run ldconfig Thank you for the hint. I ran ldconfig with different options but that did not solve the problem. As i do not understand what the purpose of ldconfig is, I do not know what to look for. -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/511cdf2f.6010...@t-online.de
Re: Firefox under Squeeze
Bob Proulx wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: after having successfully solved the various library problems I get the following message when trying to install firefox 18 under Squeeze (Debian 6.0.6) How are you trying to install it? I downloaded the installation file 'firefox-18.0.tar.bz2' from Mozilla and followed the installation instructions. XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /root/firefox/libxpcom.so: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. That path "/root/firefox" is a very unusual path! Probably not what you want. That is strange as 'libuxl.so' was extracted from the installation tar and is in the directory. Any suggestions? You didn't say but is there a reason you aren't using the version 18 available from the Debian folks? http://mozilla.debian.net/ Works great! Just install it and go. I did'nt know there was one. At the site you mentioned I only find references to 'Iceweasel'. Or is 'Iceweasel esr' that is recommended for installation equivalent to Firefox 18? If nothing else you could always use it as a working example build if you are making custom modifications. Install the package source and rebuild the package on your machine and you would have a fully working example. Then make modifications from there. Bob KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5116c02a.9080...@t-online.de
Firefox under Squeeze
Hello, after having successfully solved the various library problems I get the following message when trying to install firefox 18 under Squeeze (Debian 6.0.6) XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /root/firefox/libxpcom.so: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. That is strange as 'libuxl.so' was extracted from the installation tar and is in the directory. Any suggestions? Thank you. -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51167bd4.3070...@t-online.de
Re: swap-partition
Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hello, on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system. Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap partitions. How can I find out which swap partition is used by Debian and by the other Linux, respectively? With 'df' I only see the file systems mounted e.g. / (root) and /home of Debian but not the swap partition. Hello, thank you all for your help. 'swapon -s' seems to me the best and shortest command. 'fdisk -l'gives the same result as 'parted print list,all': it shows both swap partitions and I cannot determine which belongs to what system. I did not know that it would be possible to share a swap partition and I would not have dared to try it. -- K.D. J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50955098.3040...@t-online.de
swap-partition
Hello, on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system. Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap partitions. How can I find out which swap partition is used by Debian and by the other Linux, respectively? With 'df' I only see the file systems mounted e.g. / (root) and /home of Debian but not the swap partition. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5093c590.7040...@t-online.de
A simple regular expression?
Hi,
with the script shown below I extract the four numbers from the string.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.10.0;
use strict;
use warnings;
#
my $str = "760x35+10+20";
my $re = qr/(\d+)[x](\d+)[+-](\d+)[+-](\d+)/;
my @line = split(/$re/, $str);
say scalar(@line), ": ",join("=",@line);
for (@line)
{
say qq/>$_$u< w= >$w< h= >$h< x= >$x< y= >$y<
>760<
>35<
>10<
>20<
u= >< w= >760< h= >35< x= >10< y= >20<
I get one undefined value plus the four numbers.
What is the reason?
Thanks for any help.
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Re: lpr command not found
Dom wrote: On 03/02/12 12:48, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-02-02 11:43:24 +0800, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. There are several ones: $ apt-file -x search 'bin/lpr$' cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr cups-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/lpr gnuspool: /usr/bin/lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr lprng: /usr/bin/lpr Not sure what's the best one. With remote print servers, recent CUPS versions (as those in Debian/unstable) are unfortunately broken. Through this discussion I found out that lpr works in my system. Only: I have to specify the printer with the option -P. As I have only one printer I would like to set this as system default. Where can I do that? Thanks. You can set the default printer to use for print jobs with: lpadmin -d $printername Thanks, that did it. -- KDJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2c1a20.5030...@t-online.de
Re: lpr command not found
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-02-02 11:43:24 +0800, lina wrote: which package contains the lpr command for printing. There are several ones: $ apt-file -x search 'bin/lpr$' cups-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr cups-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/lpr gnuspool: /usr/bin/lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr lprng: /usr/bin/lpr Not sure what's the best one. With remote print servers, recent CUPS versions (as those in Debian/unstable) are unfortunately broken. Through this discussion I found out that lpr works in my system. Only: I have to specify the printer with the option -P. As I have only one printer I would like to set this as system default. Where can I do that? Thanks. -- KDJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2bd79a.7040...@t-online.de
Re: Sqeeze installation: manually defining partitions
Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:51:50 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, for (each?) partition I define there is an entry for "Reserved Blocks" with a suggested value of 5%. Questions: 1) What are these reserved blocks for? Root. For recovery if you fill it. 2) Do I have to have them? Not necessarily, but you would be ill advised not to. 3) What are the consequences of setting the quota to 0%? Disaster. Hi, thank you all for this very interesting information. -- KDJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eeaf891.8090...@t-online.de
Sqeeze installation: manually defining partitions
Hi, for (each?) partition I define there is an entry for "Reserved Blocks" with a suggested value of 5%. Questions: 1) What are these reserved blocks for? 2) Do I have to have them? 3) What are the consequences of setting the quota to 0%? Thanks. -- KDJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eea7a06.8060...@t-online.de
Re: removal of a program/module
tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On the 16/01/2011 14:13, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, I am trying to remove a program/module. As I have probably played around with it too often I cannot get rid of it. Now, whenever I try to install another program, I get the message "texlive-lang-cyrillic: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1" and nothing is installed. Even when I ask synaptic to only remove that module I get the same message. What do I have to do to remove the module? Thanks. Hi, ls /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep texlive-lang-cyrillic should give you a list off pre/post install scripts, since the message talks about post-removal look at the script ending in ".postrm" and see if you can find what's going wrong in the script (looking to remove non-existent directory ?). If you can't find what's wrong with the script you can move it aside and purge the package again, but be aware that any necessary action which should have been performed by the ".postrm" script will no happen, potentially leaving unwanted stuff in your system. Also have a look at the bugs for this package, this may already be a known issue. With the command you posted I found the various scripts for texlive-lang-cyrillic. I tried to find out where ...postrm had a problem but I did not succeed (did'nt try too much). So I "removed" .postrm by renaming it and called Synaptic again to remove this package: Success! It disappeared and I hope I never see it again. Now installations work again. Thank you for your fast help. -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d333f17.3060...@t-online.de
removal of a program/module
Hi, I am trying to remove a program/module. As I have probably played around with it too often I cannot get rid of it. Now, whenever I try to install another program, I get the message "texlive-lang-cyrillic: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1" and nothing is installed. Even when I ask synaptic to only remove that module I get the same message. What do I have to do to remove the module? Thanks. -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d32eef6.50...@t-online.de
git
Hi, due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the numerous git-packages I have to install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. Thanks. -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ba09176.4050...@t-online.de
Re: font substitution by acroread
Steve Kleene wrote: I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts from poppler-utils). For example, this one: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font that's really horrible to read. The upper-case letters are about 4x taller than the lower-case letters. I don't have Arial on my Lenny system, so I assume that another font is being substituted. I don't know how this works. By checking file-access times, I found that a very large number of font files are touched when I open the PDF. Files touched are, among other places, under /etc/fonts /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Resource/Font /usr/share/fonts /usr/share/texmf/fonts I can imagine two solutions but don't know how to execute either one. First, I could arrange to have a sane font (e.g. Helvetica) substituted instead of whatever one I'm getting now. Second, I could perhaps make Arial available on Lenny. I have already installed ttf-liberation, which has "Free fonts with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier". I have an XP virtual machine with files such as c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf. I'm not sure how to add and register the TTF files on Lenny, and I'm not sure if that would solve the acroread problem. I'd appreciate any suggestions. P.S. Here's another odd thing. If I bring up an all-Arial PDF in XP Acrobat and save it to a PDF, the copy PDF does display nicely in Lenny's acroread. pdffonts shows the original as follows: name type emb sub uni object ID - --- --- --- - Arial,Bold TrueType no no no 6 0 ArialTrueType no no no 8 0 and the copy as this: DMLCMG+Arial-BoldMT Type 1C yes yes no 45 0 DMLCNH+ArialMT Type 1C yes yes no 47 0 Thanks. Where did you find acroread? I have been searching for it, but could not locate it. -- K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: printing confusion
Wayne wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: Wayne wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: I am using Lenny, up2date. I use CUPS for printing, and everything prints just fine for MOST applications. I just tried to print a web page, and I think it was a flash type page. It brought up a very small window that ( I thought) had the correct gutenprint printer, and I said OK. nothing printed. lpstat -t shows: # lpstat -t scheduler is running system default destination: Gutenprint_USB_Printer_1 device for Gutenprint_USB_Printer_1: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R380 Gutenprint_USB_Printer_1 accepting requests since Sat 21 Nov 2009 06:09:54 AM EST printer Gutenprint_USB_Printer_1 is idle. enabled since Sat 21 Nov 2009 06:09:54 AM EST I had Gutenprint problems with my HP6 laser printer. changed to foomatic and it works now. YMMV I also have an HP6MP and with Gutenprint it "takes ages" to get an output. What did you change to use foomatic? In the cups interface http://localhost:631/printers pick the printer and, in squeeze anyway, select in the administration dropdown select Modify printer. Select Continue on the first two selections until you get to the 3rd which allows you to select different PPDs. I tried all the selections for the HP6P and found that the HP LaserJet 6P foomatic/ljdith worked best for me. Once you highlight your selection click Modify Printer. You can then set the options you want the printer to have, like dpi, etc. Then find the 'print test page' to try it out. Thank you for the information. I changed to foomatic with no improvement. The reason for that is probably the printer. I read up on the printer info under foomatic and there I found out that I do not have enough memory in the printer. After that is fixed I will know more. In squeeze there are only 5 choices for the HP6P so it doesn't take long to find a PPC you like. I have configured my HP6P with 4 different names. printer 6P is set for 600 dpi, HP6 is 150 dpi, HP6P is 300 dpi, and PDF is when cups creates a PDF file also at600 dpi. Again this is for squeeze. IIRC there is no Admin box in the earlier version of cups. There were a bunch of options boxes under each printer instance. Look for a Modify button, an options buttion and of course print test page. Please do NOT write directly to people on Debian User. We use the list because, in that way, everyone get to learn. Sorry, that was not intended. I did not realize that I pressed the wrong reply button. I hope that is help you and I am putting it back on the list for the benefit of others having the same question. Tschuss Wayne -- Cheers, K.D.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Configuartion of Icedove under Lenny
Wayne wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, how can I configure Icedove to show in the message folder tree not only the number of unread messages in the folders but also the total number of messages in the respective folder. Thank you. KDJ On my Icedove in Lenny At the top of the Folder list there are 4 headers, the far right being Size. To the right of that is a small box with a down arrow that when you click on it shows 2 items you chan enable/disable. Totals is one of those options. Hope this helps. Wayne That gives me the total number of messages in a thread. What I am looking for is the total number of messages in a message folder. In Firefox this is shown in the folder tree on the left hand side as e.g. Inbox(21)300 meaning that there are 21 unread messages and 300 in total in that folder. KDJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Configuartion of Icedove under Lenny
Hi, how can I configure Icedove to show in the message folder tree not only the number of unread messages in the folders but also the total number of messages in the respective folder. Thank you. KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [solved] Starting MTA:
On 09/18/2009 02:07 PM, ludovico van wrote: Agreed. Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and various packages install cron jobs implicitly. However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is lighter-weight than exim4? what i do on my computers is putting QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon' in /etc/default/exim4 this way no exim daemon is started at all, but i still can get my mails from anacron. Bye In addition to changing the configuration of exim4 as suggested by Florian I also changed the above mentioned option and now booting is fast and I have not encountered any problems (so far). Thanks. -- kdjantzen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE
On 06/03/2009 09:05 AM, Rod James Bio wrote: Its a Seagate HD. I dont have the exact model number. Now I am checking if this is a hardware problem. One thing that bothers me is why does 32bit works? Klaus Jantzen wrote: On 06/03/2009 07:46 AM, Rod James Bio wrote: We've been doing an installation on this LTSP Server we are trying to build. While formatting the 500 GB HD the partitioning process is stock at 33%. Can anyone suggest if there are limitations or problems or past experiences? Anyway just for additional information: I tried using lenny 64bit installer to no avail and 32bit installation is successful but we want to use 64bit because the machine has 5GB of memory so as to maximize the memory. Processor is Intel QUAD Q9550. --Rod James Who is the manufacturer of your HD? What is the type? I installed Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 on two 500 GB HDs with no problem. -- K. Jantzen If it is a Seagate ST3500320AS (Barracuda ?) you might have a firmware problem. For this reason I had to exchange my two drives (which was done with no problems). The firmware for this HD _must_ be version SD1A. You could download and install the new firmware yourself (refer to the Seagate website) but that is of any use only if you load the new firmware _before_ you do any formatting otherwise you should return it to your dealer or to Seagate. If you have any questions, let me know. -- K. Jantzen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE
On 06/03/2009 07:46 AM, Rod James Bio wrote: We've been doing an installation on this LTSP Server we are trying to build. While formatting the 500 GB HD the partitioning process is stock at 33%. Can anyone suggest if there are limitations or problems or past experiences? Anyway just for additional information: I tried using lenny 64bit installer to no avail and 32bit installation is successful but we want to use 64bit because the machine has 5GB of memory so as to maximize the memory. Processor is Intel QUAD Q9550. --Rod James Who is the manufacturer of your HD? What is the type? I installed Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 on two 500 GB HDs with no problem. -- K. Jantzen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Mount/Automount of USB-sticks
On 06/01/2009 10:51 AM, K. Jantzen wrote: I am running Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 since a couple of days. USB-sticks are recognized (according to the log) but they are not mounted automatically nor are the mountable. What do I have to do? Thanks for any pointers. Out of frustration over XCFE I installed KDE and now XFCE mounts the USB-sticks without any changes to XFCE. To be sure, however, I installed thunar-volman; you never know. Thanks. -- K. Jantzen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to improve performance on laptop?
On 05/29/2009 02:58 AM, Michael Yang wrote: Hi, I have my laptop installed with Debian for two years. It's been working fine, although some problems happened and got fixed. (Now is Lenny, 2.6.24, Xfce4). The system has been very stable, but just with performance issues now. The time to start the system is OK (usually about 22secs in bootchart). The issue is with GUI applications. When I entered xfce4, it takes about 14secs for everything is ready, and when I open the Firefox (or Mozilla product), it always takes about 15secs to 20secs to be ready. It looks as if you have the same problem as I encountered with Firefox: due to some problem with IPv6 handling Firefox becomes slow. I'll pass on two remidies which I received. 1) rimaya sent me the following tip, which worked: As root you enter on a console echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and restart your PC. 2) In Firefox enter as address about:config You will see a very long list of variable set for Firefox. Find the entry network.dns.disableIPv6 If it is set to "false" click on it twice to change it to "true". Close the window and Firefox. Modification 1) was sufficient for me. I do not know whether mod 2) alone is sufficient; I did both. The system may be getting slower because I have been configuring and installing new staff on it. I just wonder if there is any way to tune on it, or maybe somewhere many caches need to be cleaned up? I also used ext3 (journal) as my file system when I first time installed the system. This may be another factor of the issue. For sake of safety, I don't know how to remove the journal features without damaging my system with minimum risks. Any expertise can give advice and guidance on this if it can improve the performance a lot? Thanks, Michael. HTH. -- K. Jantzen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
