Re: internet outages
On Saturday, December 22, 2018 11:34:27 AM EST Jude DaShiell wrote: > Thanks for the script and the tool recommendation. > Has Linux got a tool to check up on the router and find out if the > router is doing its job? > Before I mail logs into comcast, I want to make sure I've done all due > dilligence on this end so if comcast isn't having a problem they don't > catch any undeserved heat. A router replacement can be done if that's > the source of these problems. On more than one of these outage > occassions I have used a stylus and rebooted the router to clear any > potential malware just in case. Rebooting the router will not clear any malware that is in NVRAM. That is Comcast's job to diagnose and fix. IMO, your due dilligence consists of testing things from the router to your PCs. So, the list of suspects is: router, inside network wiring, insdie the building electrical wiring and the pc. Most likely point of failure is the router in this case. You can also try jiggling ethernet wires to see if you can find a problem there. Mark
Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service
(I know this is not Debian specific, but I think it is useful info for the members of the list.) Admittedly, I'm spoiled. I've had a static IP and my own domain for nearly 15 years. I set up a mailserver which has run without missing a beat in all that time. It is time for me to give the static IP back and stop being my own e-mail service. I'm moving from my static IP to Verizon FIOS, but I don't think that really matters. Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old emails that the big players (gmail, yahoo,etc) use. I like to download and process the email locally using either kmail or thunderbird (doesn't matter which to me. I have experience with both.) If you know of an e-mail service that allows me POP3 and SMTP connections, would you please post it in a reply. Thank you for any suggestions, Mark -- Why are games that any fool can play the best sellers?
Specifying multiple NICs
I'm setting up a "just in case" replacement mailserver for my domain and my local network. I'm using Debian Jessie, because the latest instructions for setting the mailserver (qmail) are written for Jessie. The mailserver has 2 NICs (one for local network, and one for Internet). In the past, I referred to each NIC as eth0, eth1,. but now, these names are not permanent, and the designation can change on boot. I looked at the "Network Coinfiguration" document which didn't have a solution. So, either how do I make the names for the NICs permanent or what do I use fot the names of the NICs? Thanks, Mark -- If you finding the going easy, you're probably going downhill.
Re: KPatience cards too small
On Saturday, June 2, 2018 11:14:13 AM EDT arne wrote: > Hi, > > Looks like a bug in Kpat, the cards are way too small: > Screenshot: > > https://i.paste.pics/652e13761f68299de40c01f409392284.png > > To find the cards: top center > > Debian Stretch amd64 up-to-date > 4k monitor > Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 videocard > > How to solve this? > > Thanks! Hi, First thing, check on which video driver are you using? Is there another driver that you could try? That may be your simplest test to finding out where the problem is. Mark
Re: troubleshooting Kmail
On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 2:07:29 AM EST deloptes wrote: > Hi, > <<>> > > I am a long time kmail user. I have noticed significant improvment in > > stability and the filtering of incoming mail. I use the filtering > > extensively. > > Before the last release, at the beginning of a KDE session, filtering was > > OK, > > but it slowed down with use. In the latest version, it is extremely fast, > > and > > it doesn't get slower with use. The only "bug" I have found in this > > version > > of kmail (5.5.2) is that an occasional "ghost" message will be in a folder > > and > > can't be removed. I store emails locally via IMAP--one message per > > file--and > > except for the ghosts, I am extremely pleased. I currently have over > > 126,000 > > messages stored and about 8 "ghost" messages. I searched through the > > individual files that contain the e-mails and I can't find files for the > > ghost > > messages. > > > > > > If the attitude of the KDE folks is the problem, please remember that they > > are > > not full time KDE programmers and customer service is probably not their > > strong suit. > > Look, either something works or does not work. Those bugs and KDE not > fixing them is not acceptable. > I know that they are not working full time or for profit. This is also not > an excuse. Don't try to cover them and their attitude, please. > It is pointless. When they bring up a working product, I will start using > it and I mean working at acceptable level. > Those problems you or others describe can not qualify the product as stable. > I am willing to do some compromise on my requirements, but there is too > much to compromise on, looking at KDE. > And as I said - the biggest problem is their attitude. The attitude to > release crap in stable and call it stable - call it whatever you want but > not stable! > > > I don't know if you consider this a valid comparison or not, but: > > In October 2017 (as I recall), my bank (which shall remain nameless) > > announced > > that there would be a new version of the on-line access software coming > > out on > > January 1st. Then, around January 10th they announced that the upgrade > > had > > some unresolved issues, and would not be rolled out until February 1st. > > February 1st arrived and passed. The new software was put in place on the > > 12th. Since then, I have been unable to login to my account. No help on > > the > > screen. When I called last week, they said that they were ware of the > > problem > > and were working very hard to resolve it. No apology. They can tell me > > my > > balance over the phone, but that is about it. IMO, this is absurd. > > > > Well this is what I am talking about - KDE is exactly the same - absurd! > > I have to admit that KDE5 is much better that KDE4, but still - no stable > and with that attitude and mind set, I doubt they will ever bring up > something stable, which is really a pity. > > I was involved in couple of discussions with them back in 2007 or 2008 > after they released the KDE4 crap. Can you imagine this was 10y ago. > > regards Deloptes, I respect your opinion, and the many contributions that you have made to this list. You and I have both been more than annoyed with bad attitudes, you with KDE me with my bank. I pointed out the problem that I had and how it has been mishandled, IMO. You mentioned "those bugs" but you haven't given specific examples. Please give the examples. Thanks, Mark -- Its not whether you win or lose, its how you place the blame...
Re: k3b can't find cdrecord
On Wednesday, 12/28/16 01:00:52 PM Gary Dale wrote: > On 28/12/16 12:34 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > > Gary Dale writes: > >> I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying > >> to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message > >> "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I > >> install cdrtools. K3b refuses to burn the CD image. > >> > >> There is no package cdrtools but there was libcdr-tools. Unfortunately > >> installing that didn't help. Google was no help and neither was a > >> search of packages.debian.org. > >> > >> I realize optical media is passé these days, but I find it difficult > >> to believe that support for burning CDs has been dropped. What do I > >> have to do to get k3b to burn a CD? > > > > You can install wodim, this is what I use and it works fine. > > Had wodim installed for a long time. One thing I find strange is that > the k3b package still refers to cdrecord instead of to wodim since it > appears to use wodim natively (locate doesn't find a cdrecord link to > wodim). I think this is what you are looking for: If you open K3b, go to the settings menu, choose "configure K3b", and then in the Settings - K3b screen choose "Programs" you will see how cdrecord is linked to wodim. (and lots of other useful stuff)
Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}
On Wednesday, 12/14/16 11:06:52 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2016 19:23:49 Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff <m...@neidorff.com> wrote: > > > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account > > > > full > > > > administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on > > > > the > > > > system. My reasoning is that by default if the user goes to a > > > > "naughty" > > > > web > > > > page and somehow downloads destructive software only the user's files > > > > are at risk. But, with full administrative access, the entire system > > > > (plus any attached networks) are at risk. > > > > > > I do not think you are being stubborn. You do not have to give the > > > normal user ALL permissions. But you have to give him some permissions > > > to be able to install/update/remove packages. For example, I > > > configured my /etc/sudoers file such that my normal user account can > > > run apt-get and install packages. Giving ALL permissions just makes > > > things simpler but /etc/sudoers can be fine tuned to give just as much > > > as control as needed. > > > > > > > Question: Is not allowing an administrative (software update)task to > > > > run when the root password is given a bug or is it by design? If by > > > > design, why? > > > > > > I do not understand the question. I am not here to defend any > > > particular design choice. I can help you with how it can be done but > > > not why it should be done one way or another. That is beyond my > > > expertise. > > > > > > > I see two alternatives to your suggestion, neither of which is > > > > convenient. > > > > > > > > 1. When I get a notification, log off and then log in as root. Then > > > > when the updates are downloaded and applied, log back in as the user. > > > > > > No. There is no need to logoff. For example, whenever I want to > > > install a package, I simply open a konsole and run > > > > > > sudo apt-get update > > > sudo apt-get install PKGNAME > > > > > > as a normal user. When it asks for password, I supply the password of > > > my user account (not the password of the root account). > > > > > > > 2. When I get a notification, use "su" to change to the root user and > > > > then do the updates. > > > > > > That is one way. I find sudo a bit more easier than su. Since with > > > sudo, you do not even have to know the root password (once it is > > > setup). > > > > > > > But, I have been using linux (and KDE) for a long time and up until > > > > now, when an update arrives I select to apply the update, give the > > > > root > > > > password, and the update is installed. Now, when I get an update > > > > notification and supply the root password to apply the update, the > > > > update is not applied. (I am returned to the password prompt) > > > > > > hmm... no idea on this part. What program does KDE run when you try to > > > update packages? May be run it from command line and see if it gives > > > an error? > > > > > > hth > > > raju > > > > Good news! I solved the problem. This solution came from the openSUSE > > forums... (just giving credit where credit is due) > > It isn't the solution to the problem you posed - how to make KDE update > work. It is a solution to the problem of how to update automatically. > Quite different. Though apparently it is a suitable alternative for you - > and for many others. Personally, I want control over updates. I don't > like "update". But at least it doesn't run until you tell it to do so! > > Lisi > > > As root, in the folder /etc/cron.* (where * is either daily, hourly, etc. > > depending on how often you want the check to take place): > > > > 1. Create a file called autoupdate using your favorite editor (that sounds > > like a good name). > > > > 2. File contents: > > #! /bin/bash > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get upgrade -y > > apt-get autoclean > > > > 3. Save the file, and then make it executable: > > #chmod 755 autoupdate > > > > > > Note the "apt-get autoclean" is optional. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark You are right Lisi. It is working around a KDE problem rather than fixing it. One of the e-mails that I got in this chain (which I think I have lost) warned of config files either getting overwritten or, due to syntax changes, not having the package work properly. I'm going to rethink this again. To put this in full context, the machine is a backup server that I'm building. So, my first thought was to have updates applied automatically. As I said, I'm rethinking that idea. Mark
Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}
On Tuesday, 12/13/16 02:34:00 PM Henning Follmann wrote: > > Good news! I solved the problem. This solution came from the openSUSE > > forums... (just giving credit where credit is due) > > > > As root, in the folder /etc/cron.* (where * is either daily, hourly, etc. > > depending on how often you want the check to take place): > > > > 1. Create a file called autoupdate using your favorite editor (that sounds > > like a good name). > > > > 2. File contents: > > #! /bin/bash > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get upgrade -y > > apt-get autoclean > > > > 3. Save the file, and then make it executable: > > #chmod 755 autoupdate > > > > > > Note the "apt-get autoclean" is optional. > > Well, not what yousked though. > The answer given to you (adding the user to sudo group) was the right > answer. > > Anyway if you want unsupwerwised updated > > apt-get install cron-apt > > Would have been the right choice. > > > -H Good to know about cron-apt. I'll check it out. Many thanks, Mark
Re: Plasma: keyboard crash
On Tuesday, 12/13/16 06:48:54 PM Hans wrote: > Oh, sorry, yes of course. > > This is a notebook, running debian testing, proprietrary nvidia driver and > effects active in plasma. > > This behaviour appears from time to time, and it is a little bit annoying > when editing fields on a web page or writing a larger document in > libreoffice. > > Thanks for your response. > > Best > > Hans > > > More info. please. Is this a desktop PC, a laptop, or what? If a > > desktop, > > is the keyboard USB or PS/2? How about your mouse and its > > operation...usb...ps/2...integrated with keyboard...touchpad...etc. Does > > the mouse stop working as well? > > > > Mark Hmmmis it hardware or software? Let's check hardware...(I'm betting on something funky on the hardware end) Do you have (or can you borrow) an extra USB keyboard and mouse that you can plug into the notebook and use for a while. Does this make the problem go away? If the problem goes away, it sounds like a hardware problem to me. Mark
Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}
On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff <m...@neidorff.com> wrote: > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full > > administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on the > > system. My reasoning is that by default if the user goes to a "naughty" > > web > > page and somehow downloads destructive software only the user's files are > > at risk. But, with full administrative access, the entire system (plus > > any attached networks) are at risk. > > I do not think you are being stubborn. You do not have to give the > normal user ALL permissions. But you have to give him some permissions > to be able to install/update/remove packages. For example, I > configured my /etc/sudoers file such that my normal user account can > run apt-get and install packages. Giving ALL permissions just makes > things simpler but /etc/sudoers can be fine tuned to give just as much > as control as needed. > > > Question: Is not allowing an administrative (software update)task to run > > when the root password is given a bug or is it by design? If by design, > > why? > I do not understand the question. I am not here to defend any > particular design choice. I can help you with how it can be done but > not why it should be done one way or another. That is beyond my > expertise. > > > I see two alternatives to your suggestion, neither of which is convenient. > > > > 1. When I get a notification, log off and then log in as root. Then when > > the updates are downloaded and applied, log back in as the user. > > No. There is no need to logoff. For example, whenever I want to > install a package, I simply open a konsole and run > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install PKGNAME > > as a normal user. When it asks for password, I supply the password of > my user account (not the password of the root account). > > > 2. When I get a notification, use "su" to change to the root user and then > > do the updates. > > That is one way. I find sudo a bit more easier than su. Since with > sudo, you do not even have to know the root password (once it is > setup). > > > But, I have been using linux (and KDE) for a long time and up until now, > > when an update arrives I select to apply the update, give the root > > password, and the update is installed. Now, when I get an update > > notification and supply the root password to apply the update, the update > > is not applied. (I am returned to the password prompt) > > hmm... no idea on this part. What program does KDE run when you try to > update packages? May be run it from command line and see if it gives > an error? > > hth > raju Good news! I solved the problem. This solution came from the openSUSE forums... (just giving credit where credit is due) As root, in the folder /etc/cron.* (where * is either daily, hourly, etc. depending on how often you want the check to take place): 1. Create a file called autoupdate using your favorite editor (that sounds like a good name). 2. File contents: #! /bin/bash apt-get update apt-get upgrade -y apt-get autoclean 3. Save the file, and then make it executable: #chmod 755 autoupdate Note the "apt-get autoclean" is optional. Thanks, Mark
Re: Plasma: keyboard crash
On Monday, 12/12/16 09:41:20 PM Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > from time to time in plasma 5 I have the problem, that the keyboard stops > its function. Is there a way to restart the keyboard without restarting > plasma? > > Thanks for any hints. > > Best > > Hans More info. please. Is this a desktop PC, a laptop, or what? If a desktop, is the keyboard USB or PS/2? How about your mouse and its operation...usb...ps/2...integrated with keyboard...touchpad...etc. Does the mouse stop working as well? Mark
Re: Package update problem...
On Sunday, 12/11/16 02:45:41 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mark Neidorff <m...@neidorff.com> wrote: > > I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. > > > > I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates > > available. I select the package(s) and then I'm asked for authentication. > > I type in the root password, but it is rejected. I also try my user > > password, but that is also rejected. (Tried multiple times, so it doesn't > > seem to be a typo problem) > > > > If I go to the command line--as root--and do apt-get update and upgrade, > > then the update installs correctly. > > > > This sounds like something easy to fix, but I just don't know where to fix > > and what fix to apply. Please let me know. > > The technical term you are looking for is called "Privilege escalation". > > On a Debian system, "administrative" privileges are required to > install/upgrade/remove packages. When you run the command as root, you > have all the necessary privileges. A normal user does not have them > enabled by default. This explains why the commands fail unless they > are run as root. One possible approach (I am only guessing here and > have not tested this) is to grant the necessary privileges to this > user and see if the KDE application respects that. > > You can do this by modifying /etc/sudoers which is explained in > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_sudo_confi > guration > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch04.en.html#_sudo > https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.config-misc.html#sect.shari > ng-admin-rights > > The only caution is that /etc/sudoers can't be edited interactively in > an editor. You need to use another program called visudo to do that. > > You can accomplish some really complex tasks by tweaking the sudoers > configuration file (see man sudoers for all the gory details). But for > your use case, granting ALL permissions to one normal user should > probably be sufficient. > > hope that helps > raju Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on the system. My reasoning is that by default if the user goes to a "naughty" web page and somehow downloads destructive software only the user's files are at risk. But, with full administrative access, the entire system (plus any attached networks) are at risk. Question: Is not allowing an administrative (software update)task to run when the root password is given a bug or is it by design? If by design, why? I see two alternatives to your suggestion, neither of which is convenient. 1. When I get a notification, log off and then log in as root. Then when the updates are downloaded and applied, log back in as the user. 2. When I get a notification, use "su" to change to the root user and then do the updates. Both of these add more steps. If I have to add these steps, then I have to. But, I have been using linux (and KDE) for a long time and up until now, when an update arrives I select to apply the update, give the root password, and the update is installed. Now, when I get an update notification and supply the root password to apply the update, the update is not applied. (I am returned to the password prompt) Thanks, Mark
Package update problem...
I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates available. I select the package(s) and then I'm asked for authentication. I type in the root password, but it is rejected. I also try my user password, but that is also rejected. (Tried multiple times, so it doesn't seem to be a typo problem) If I go to the command line--as root--and do apt-get update and upgrade, then the update installs correctly. This sounds like something easy to fix, but I just don't know where to fix and what fix to apply. Please let me know. Thanks, Mark
Re: Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system **SOLVED**
On Sunday, 10/23/16 10:05:43 AM Laruibasar wrote: > Em sábado, 22 de Outubro de 2016 22:17:35 WEST, Mark Neidorff > > <m...@neidorff.com> escreveu: > > On Friday, 10/21/16 10:19:47 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Le 21/10/2016 à 20:56, Mark Neidorff a écrit : > >> > So, the next step was to clean out the other distros. I > >> > >> used gparted to > >> > >> > delete no longer needed partitions and to expand other > >> > >> partitions to fill > >> > >> > the space. All is now good. > >> > > >> > I then ran > >> > > >> > #update-grub > >> > > >> > hoping that would regenerate the grub boot menu, (I also tried > >> > #update-grub2) but the old entries still appear when the system boots. > >> > >> Are you talking about entries in GRUB's menu or in the UEFI boot menu ? > > > > Grub menu. (I don't see a UEFI menu) > > > >> update-grub only updates the former. > > > > Good. > > > >> What is the output of "os-prober" ? > > > > No output. (yes, I ran it as root) > > > >> Are you sure the GRUB that shows up is the one from Debian ? > > > > I'm not sure how to answer that question. The first OS I installed was > > OpenSUSE. Then I installed Debian 8.6 twice (on the two > > separate drives in > > the system). All three of these entries are still there even > > after running > > update-grub. > > Have you mounted the EFI partition? Update-grub change grub, I don't think > it changes the FIE partitions. And check motherboard bios/uefi for the > default entry > > > I wouldn't care about the extra entries except that the > > OpenSUSE entry is the > > default. I want Debian to be the default (and, yes there is only one > > instance of Debian installed). Yes I tried changing the value > > of the default > > before I ran update-grub, but that didn't help. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > Mark > > Bandarra I went into the UEFI bios, and changed the default entry. Now I get the correct Debian grub boot screen without the extra entries. Once I get the rest of this system configured, I'm going to have to go back and really understand what goes on in the UEFI. I'm marking this as SOLVED. Many thanks for the help. Mark
Re: Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system
On Friday, 10/21/16 10:19:47 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 21/10/2016 à 20:56, Mark Neidorff a écrit : > > So, the next step was to clean out the other distros. I used gparted to > > delete no longer needed partitions and to expand other partitions to fill > > the space. All is now good. > > > > I then ran > > > > #update-grub > > > > hoping that would regenerate the grub boot menu, (I also tried > > #update-grub2) but the old entries still appear when the system boots. > > Are you talking about entries in GRUB's menu or in the UEFI boot menu ? Grub menu. (I don't see a UEFI menu) > update-grub only updates the former. Good. > What is the output of "os-prober" ? No output. (yes, I ran it as root) > Are you sure the GRUB that shows up is the one from Debian ? I'm not sure how to answer that question. The first OS I installed was OpenSUSE. Then I installed Debian 8.6 twice (on the two separate drives in the system). All three of these entries are still there even after running update-grub. I wouldn't care about the extra entries except that the OpenSUSE entry is the default. I want Debian to be the default (and, yes there is only one instance of Debian installed). Yes I tried changing the value of the default before I ran update-grub, but that didn't help. Thanks for any help, Mark
Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system
Hi, In setting up a new system, The new system is a UFEI one. I started with an internal 750Gb SATA drive for the OS, and a 2Tb drive for backups. I tried a couple of distros and finally settled on Debian Jesse 8.6. I had installed a distro on the 2Tb drive, and a couple of others (one of which is Jesse) on the 750Gb drive. I settled on using Jesse for this project. So, the next step was to clean out the other distros. I used gparted to delete no longer needed partitions and to expand other partitions to fill the space. All is now good. I then ran #update-grub hoping that would regenerate the grub boot menu, (I also tried #update-grub2) but the old entries still appear when the system boots. How do I make the system show an updated grub2 menu on boot? I feel like I have not provided some information which would be helpful in helping me. If that is the case, please ask and I will provide it. Many thanks, Mark
Re: Graphics issues debian 8.6
On Tuesday, 10/11/16 03:25:30 PM Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/11/2016 03:10 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > In a post on the mailing list, a user suggested installing: > > > > #apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree-xserver-xorg-video-intel > > > > but I can't seem to be able to download or even find that firmware file. > > is nonfree enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list? Yes, I think it is. Below is the contents of the file: *** # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.6.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20160917-14:25]/ jessie contrib main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.6.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20160917-14:25]/ jessie main contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie non-free main deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates contrib main non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates non-free contrib main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free *** Thanks, Mark
Graphics issues debian 8.6
I'm building a backup server which will be tucked away. For the odd times that it needs administration, I want to be able to see the server's desktop (XFCE) remotely. The server has a Gigabyte GA-H110N (Intel H110 chipset) motherboard, an i3 CPU, 8 Mb of RAM. It is using the on-board Intel graphics. Before I remove the keyboard and monitor from it, I want to be sure that everything is working properly. So, using a monitor and keyboard directly connected to the server, I am able to log in to an X session, BUT, the resolution of the session is 1024 X 768, not the 1280 X 1024 that I expect and that I see in other distros. There seems to be no option to change this resolution. In a post on the mailing list, a user suggested installing: #apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree-xserver-xorg-video-intel but I can't seem to be able to download or even find that firmware file. My problem is not just getting the proper resolution on a local display, but also I want to remotely log into a graphical desktop. Thanks for any help, Mark PS. If I have left anything out, or haven't explained clearly, please ask me for clarification and/or missing information.
New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem
Hello, I'm building a server PC to perform backups of the PCs on my local network. The server has 2 HDDs--750 Gb and 2 Tb. The intention is to use the 750 Gb drive for the OS and the 2 Tb drive for the backup data. I'll get there in stages. I'll be using backuppc to do the actual backups. I tried using a different distro--OpenSUSE and it didn't work out. I installed the distro on the 750 Gb drive (and it boots via grub2 from the 750 Gb drive), but couldn't get backuppc working. I didn't want to just wipe out the OpenSUSE installation, so I carved a partition out on the 2Tb data drive and installed debian there. The install went fine, up to installing grub2. The installer didn't find grub2 on the 750Gb drive, and it reported no other OS detected. I then selected the 2 Tb drive as the boot drive and it errored out when I asked to install grub2 on the 2 Tb drive. So, I installed grub2 on the 750 Gb drive. My problem is that when I boot the machine, it boots into OpenSUSE, and doesn't give me a menu to choose from. I don't know how to proceed from here. My question(s): Is there more information that you need to help me? How do I go about fixing this boot problem so that I can boot into Debian? Many thanks, Mark
New install of Jesse for backuppc use
It has been about 7 years since I've been on the list. I decided to implement a comprehensive backup solution and chose backuppc. I also built a new mini-ITX PC for this use--Intel Core i3, 8 Gb RAM, 750 GB HDD, wired networking---and Debian Jesse for the software. To be fair, before I decided to build this computer, I installed Raspbian on my Raspberry Pi 2 and used that to test backuppc. All went well. (except backup times were horribly slow due to the design of the Pi). So, I installed Jesse yesterday, made sure everything is up to date, and then installed the debian version of backuppc. All seemed to go well. I took note--wrote down--the backuppc user name and password. I tried to log in, but backuppc kept telling me that I had the wrong password. So, I followed the directions to change the password. That "seemed" to work, but when I log in, it wants to download a file, rather than log me in to the backuppc "console". I tried several times. Same result. I shut the PC down and started it back up, same result. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening and the steps that I need to go through to fix it? Many thanks, Mark
Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??
On Sunday 17 March 2013 3:13:58 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: SNIP PS Please define Good Questions (TM) I'm new at this, and do not want to step on anyone's toes. Please read the following web page. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Follow the guidelines there and you've got it! -- 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/201303171706.30801.m...@neidorff.com
Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??
Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not found. How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it passedthe MD5SUM or other test? I bought this laptop from eBay as a used unit. It had Windows XP loaded when received, and displayed the same problem.. I installed the Debian from official disks. Ethan Ethan, We (the list) like Good Questions (TM). Your first question did not qualify, and with the additional information that you provided, it still does not qualify as a Good Question. What we know: you got an error it is a laptop you bought it sight unseen it had Windws XP on it you got the error with XP you installed debian on it you got the same error with Debian Just some of the things that we (the list)don't know, and we need to know to help you solve this problem: how old is it how much memory does it have what is the brand what processor does it have what disk drive does it have and what is its capacity what bios does it have is the bios up to date or is there a newer version abailable Given what little information you have provided we think that: There is perhaps a bios problem the problem is not related to debian or XP since it occurs when you boot either one. It was suggested that you: Go into the bios and reset it to factory default. If that fixes the problem, you are all set. If not, the computer may have a very limited life left. Did you reset the bios? (You did not say if you tried that) Make sure that the computer has the latest verison of the bios installed. Did you check the version of the bios? What is the result of updating the bios? -- 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/201303161127.27314.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Battery problem
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 10:00:06 am Andrea Neroni wrote: I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. Hi and thanks for replying. Top seems clean, processes are normal. I was also thinking about the graphic card but I have no idea how to check the power consumption of the card. If there is a way to switch it off completely maybe this could give me an idea. This card is an Optimus. I installed Bumblee and it's difficult to say if it is working. The temperature of the laptop decreased so I think the card should be off. But the optirun command doesn't work for some reason. The final outcome is that I don't know if the card is off and maybe this could be the source off the battery problem. Is there a way to check the status of the discrete card? Andrea OK, but please run $ ps aux ps-list.txt and send the contents of the ps-list.txt file. -- 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/201303130511.49525.m...@neidorff.com
Re: switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 6:54:08 pm salamandir wrote: i am switching from kubuntu 12.04.1 to debian squeeze 2, but i'm keeping KDE, in the past, i have had considerable difficulty getting my email to migrate successfully when i upgrade, and i'm wondering if there is a preferred way to migrate/upgrade email that doesn't lose data in the process. The first big question is what program do you use to read your mail? Second is where does that program store your mail? Third, what are the settings for that program? Fourth, are you planning on using the same e-mail reading program? One issue you may have to face is how is your disk partitioned? Is /home on a separate partition? (that really makes life easy. If it isn't, you will find out why) Mark -- 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/201212211811.20589.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Modoarchive - Again
On Sunday 28 October 2012 8:06:11 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
Dear List -
Any Ideas??
I am having problems w/ Mondoarchive.
1] For some unknown reason the system thinks that the hard drive is sda.
Maybe, the file system was corrupted and I ran fsck with hard drive
unmounted.
2] My command line for backup is: mondoarchive -OU -d /dev/sdb -s 300g -G
I receive the following errors: [from the logfile]: {I apologize for the
length of the following. I selected that which I thought would be
necessary. If you wish, I can send it as an attachment.}
[ L A R G ES N I P ]
INFO: The USB device /dev/sdb now looks like this:
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122504 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004f2fd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 0 0 00 Empty
/dev/sdb2 156250001 625142447 234446223+ b W95 FAT32
INFO: Unmounting /dev/sdb1 just in case again
umount: /dev/sdb1: not found
INFO: Creating a vfat filesystem on /dev/sdb1
mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)
ERROR: Unable to create a vfat filesystem on /dev/sdb1
Make sure your USB device is pluged in and partitioned (/dev/sdb1
must e xist on it)
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122504 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004f2fd
/dev/sdb1 * 0 0 00 Empty
/dev/sdb2 156250001 625142447 234446223+ b W95 FAT32
Mindi 2.1.3-r3026 is exiting
End date : Sun Oct 14 19:54:30 EDT 2012
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Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks
Mondoarchive is trying to create a partition to backup your data on /dev/sdb.
It is trying to create and prepare /dev/sdb1, but it is running into a problem
and gracefully quitting and letting you know about it. See above where it
says ERROR: That is telling you the step that is going wrong. So, what is
on /dev/sdb? Can you just delete the existing partitions and try again? That
will very likely solve your problem.
Mark
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Re: Permissions Problem
On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any problems as the user. However, when I try to run an installer ./install_ecce.6.4.rehl5-gcc4.1.2-m64.csh get a Permission denied message. i should not that the same installer runs in the users (computation) subdirectory. The installer permission are set for an executable file, and cash has been installed on the system. I know enough about permissions to know that I'm missing something, but I don't know what it might be. You are trying to install a RedHat Enterprise Linux package on Debian. This can be a problem if the user numbers that Debian and Redhat either conflict or if RedHat makes different assumptions about user numbers than Debian does. Can you get a Debian package for ecce? -- 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/201210150846.03837.m...@neidorff.com
Re: VirtualBox and USB
On Sunday 02 September 2012 1:03:47 am T o n g wrote:
Hi,
I created my VirtualBox VM using the script from
http://www.halfdog.net/Misc/TipsAndTricks/VirtualBox.html
in which it adds USB support like this:
# Add usb if needed
vboxmanage modifyvm ${_setup_vboxName} --usb on --usbehci on
However, when I plug in an USB key in host, the VirtualBox VM guest
doesn't see the USB key.
What's the right way to config VirtualBox VM so that USB key in host can
be accessed from within VM?
With the version I use, in the VB launcher there is a setup option for the
usb. Each new device (not port) that I want the guest to recognize has to be
defined in the config. It used to be very difficult to do, now it is much
easier.
Have you defined the devices?
Mark
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Re: SD slot read card failed.
On Thursday 26 July 2012 3:43:43 am lina wrote: You worte: I wonder, is it possible to read without the card reader. Thanks with best regards, After such errors I would w/ built-in card-reader, I would restart whole the machine - for needs to be reset (the reader) - and it is the easiest way. Then try again w/ it. If no luck, then I suppose Your built-in reader does not support such card for some reason or rejects working w/ it, or drivers for it does not work correctly in such circumstances. I just don't want to waste the slot, if it can be used. I'm having a problem visualizing your system. Your system has a slot for inserting a SD card? OK (I guess). The cards have changed over time so that an old(er) reader will not read a new(er) card. You have an external reader that will read the card. There is probably nothing that you can do about the internal card slot (beyond put a strip of black tape across the front of it, perhaps grin) since it is probably soldered to the motherboard. Mark -- 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/201207260512.22818.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Alternative to tar?
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 4:53:51 am Gaël DONVAL wrote: Hi, Do you know of any lighter/simpler alternative to the tar program? tar preserves permissions, time stamps, etc. and this is great in some cases. But in other cases, one just wants a simple way to concatenate files. Any idea? cat ? -- 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/201207250508.05497.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?
On Monday 23 July 2012 2:07:42 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote: So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in the main partition. Nope, what I really need is something that would fit here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads I think what you want to do is here: http://darkdust.net/writings/diskimagesminihowto Seems to me that the RPi folks used this technique to create the images. Rick Thomas suggested a one-liner to create the img file that looks like it should work well. Another suggestionask the kind folks at RPi. (They are almost as nice as the folks on the Debian list) Mark -- 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/201207231048.29216.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box
On Thursday 12 July 2012 1:47:14 pm Miles Fidelman wrote: Kushal Kumaran wrote: Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can transfer files between my Samsung tablet with Honeycomb and my Debian boxes with Lenny or Squeeze, using either a USB or Bluetooth connection between them? I know I can transfer them by e-mail, but that method is cumbersome. I hear newer versions of android no longer support the usb mass storage protocol. They use something called Media Transfer Protocol. The libmtp package (and associated utility packages) should help, but I think they are still in debian unstable only. amazing what one can find with a little googling: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-android-ice-cream-sa ndwich-phone-to-ubuntu-for-file-access Thanks. I carried out these steps yesterday even though I'm not using ubuntu. Didn't work yesterday, does today (go figure). Problem may be solved. Mark -- 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/201207141300.00983.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box
On Thursday 12 July 2012 1:47:14 pm Miles Fidelman wrote: I hear newer versions of android no longer support the usb mass storage protocol. They use something called Media Transfer Protocol. The libmtp package (and associated utility packages) should help, but I think they are still in debian unstable only. amazing what one can find with a little googling: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-android-ice-cream-sa ndwich-phone-to-ubuntu-for-file-access It doesn't work for me. Here is the error output that I get: mark@Mark:~$ mtp-detect libmtp version: 1.0.3 Listing raw device(s) Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is UNKNOWN. Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team Found 1 device(s): 04e8:6860 @ bus 1, dev 8 Attempting to connect device(s) PTP_ERROR_IO: Trying again after re-initializing USB interface LIBMTP PANIC: Could not open session! (Return code 767) Try to reset the device. Unable to open raw device 0 OK. Thanks, Mark -- 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/201207121639.24851.m...@neidorff.com
Re: unique install question?
On Tuesday 12 June 2012 5:55:21 pm Karen Lewellen wrote: ...it is also the bit that does not work, which is why I asked here. Karen, who is playing catch up, and profoundly appreciative of all the wisdom shared here today. Karen, Have you contacted U of Toronto for help with your problem? From the outside, the university seems to be on the cutting edge of technology and linux development. Mark -- 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/201206130514.16720.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Computer case
On Friday 01 June 2012 1:03:15 am Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) any recommendation for a computer case that can be used with Debian stable ;)? Ok, it's slightly OT, I'm sorry for that. However, experiences with cases regarding to noise (and heat), accuracy of fit for cards are interesting for me, others might be interested in space (and vertical stability). Regards, Ralf Hello, Choosing a computer case is a design decision. First, thing, choose what is most important for you. Here are some suggestions (in no particular order): Style of case Air flow noise physical size of case color type of power supply accommodated placement of switches drive bays (number, type and placement) size and type of motherboard/cpu/cooler accommodated size and type of video and cooler (if needed) accommodated The great case could be anything from an Altoids tin for a RaspberryPi (well, it won't quite work without some mods, but this is a theoretical discussion anyway) to some of the large cases mentioned in some of the responses. They all will work with Debian. Mark -- 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/201206010652.22022.m...@neidorff.com
Re: [SOLVED] kmail crashes on startup
On Sunday 20 May 2012 11:27:50 am Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:59:50PM -0400, m...@neidorff.com wrote: Hello, I'm using Mepis (a debian derivative) and I'm using kmail (4.4.4) as my e-mail client. It has been working just fine. Have you tried posting your question to the MEPIS Community Forum? http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/ Although Mepis is derived from Debian, it doesn't mean that it is configured the same. Thank you all for your help. The problem was a corrupted configuration file (.kde/share/config/kmailrc). First I tried deleting and recreating all of the index files ( *.index and *.index.ids) but that didn't help. Then I renamed the configuration file, and kmail started right up. Just needs reconfiguration. Thanks again, Mark -- 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/201205201424.17859.m...@neidorff.com
Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB
On Thursday 12 April 2012 12:18:31 pm Dom wrote: On 12/04/12 16:21, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, I wrote: Check man cdrecord. Ooops, it appears I've been living in the past (or confusing another distro w/ debian) this morning. Apparently burn is the CLI tool nowadays. :) I believed that wodim was a Debian version of cdrecord, or am I just an old fool? No, and no (in that order). wodim was written by a different person than cdrecord, if it says that it was based on cdrecord, then it was. Debian stopped including cdrecord due to license issues that are beyond this discussion. -- 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/201204130812.29636.m...@neidorff.com
Re: zpipe.c: the zlib example
On Friday 16 March 2012 11:02:15 pm T o n g wrote: Hi, I believe that zpipe.c used to be working. But it is still working now? I get it compiled OK, gcc -g -lz -o zpipe zpipe.c but wasn't able to run it: $ ./zpipe bash: ./zpipe: Permission denied Are the permissions of the file correct? $chmod 755 zpipe -- 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/201203170728.04520.m...@neidorff.com
Video server and client
Suppose that I want to put up some in house tutorials on a linux server and have users on linux workstations view (and listen to, of course) these videos. What is a good way to do this? Thanks, Mark -- 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/201203132018.18675.m...@neidorff.com
Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi
On Saturday 10 March 2012 10:50:14 pm David Christensen wrote: On 03/10/2012 05:03 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: You misunderstand CGI. It is a way that a script that generates a web page can have that page displayed in a browser window. CGI is internal to the web browser. You use a language like perl or whatever to generate the script that the web server picks up and processes. Sentence 3 is incorrect. Sentences 2 and 4 are close. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface HTH, David Right you are. I meant web server in sentence #2. Also, by internal, I meant that it can be added into or enabled in the server. wikipedia.org is always my friend. Mark -- 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/201203111023.22831.m...@neidorff.com
Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files
On Tuesday 06 March 2012 7:18:49 pm Rob Owens wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their machines, then eventually back their stuff up in the same manner, resulting in several off-site backups for each of us. Aren't you trying to do something that BT doesn't do? BT is good when you have lots of people who want to download a file and lots of people have the file. Then transmitting the file is broken up among many people. In your case only one person has the file(s) and you want to copy them to a few other people. Seems to me like you are trying to use the wrong tool. Mark -- 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/201203101948.21135.m...@neidorff.com
Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi
On Wednesday 07 March 2012 11:53:02 pm lina wrote: Hi, I don't know how to run .cgi in debian (or iceweasle) I put it in :/var/www/try$ ls -l total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 212 Mar 8 12:29 hello.cgi Thanks for any suggestions, Best regards, You misunderstand CGI. It is a way that a script that generates a web page can have that page displayed in a browser window. CGI is internal to the web browser. You use a language like perl or whatever to generate the script that the web server picks up and processes. Better regards, Mark -- 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/201203102003.46923.m...@neidorff.com
Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 9:06:48 am lina wrote: Hi, I wonder: 1] can the output like: 5 3 1 5 3 direct it into the LibreOffice directly. without copy and paste. Since no one has addressed the libreoffice (I assume calc) directly, how about this: Look up the file format used and write a script that creates the file. It is an XML variant file so you are writing straight text into the file. Perl would be a great way to do this. Mark -- 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/201203081819.47938.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Convert mp3 enbulk
On Sunday 19 February 2012 9:44:52 pm Chris wrote: Hey there all. I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. Is there something out there that will 1. Convert to ogg enbulk 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3 to the ogg format. Currently, the structure is thus Artist (directory) Album (directory) Song Currently, that all resides under a mount point called Music The end point would be thus Music (mount point) Ogg (dir) Artist (dir) Album title (dir) Song MP3 Artist (dir) Album (dir) Song I hope you get the picture. I really want an exact duplicate of the mp3, but in ogg format. Any help would be fantastic!! Chris Two suggestions: 1. if you want to use a script, look for one called autolame. The code is clearly written and you can modify it to your needs. 2. A GUI package called asunder. This may meet your needs without too many tweeks. Mark -- 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/201202200647.19980.m...@neidorff.com
Re: free software mini pc
On Wednesday 15 February 2012 2:01:22 pm green wrote: Mark Neidorff wrote at 2012-02-14 17:45 -0600: When you purchased the server on which you run Lenny, did you know for sure that the installation would go smoothly and all hardware would work correctly? What if today you needed another system on which to run Debian and knew that you did not have time to troubleshoot any hardware problems? You could get the same as what you have now, but what if it is no longer available? Wouldn't it be helpful to find a vendor that provided a hardware table for each system with information about Linux mainline kernel versions, drivers, and firmware? Like, this SATA controller is supported since Linux v2.6.29 with the ahci driver. So in that case you could look at their site, compare with the kernel version in Debian stable, and know with reasonable certainty that this hardware will just work with Debian stable. Or that you need to consider a kernel in backports, etc. Yes. I knew because, for a server, I bought slightly behind the curve. For the server, I knew that I didn't need the latest and gretest, so I was able to look at hardware that had been on the market for about a year and check compatibility easily. Then the install just worked. IMO, in getting the latest and greatest can be as much of an ego thing as a productivity thing. Question is: what are your specific needs going to be? That will determine the power and features that you need. Many vendors mention various versions of Windows on their hardware pages, but nothing about Linux. So as a consumer, do I just blindly assume that, although the vendor apparently does not care enough about Linux to even mention it, that it will all just work? Or those that mention Linux, but no kernel versions: will the kernel in Debian stable work? Or those with Linux drivers available for download, do I need to maintain out-of-tree drivers (remember I mentioned a maintenance burden)? Here's another way of looking at the same thing. Other M$ require that hardware goes through a certification process before it gets the works with... sticker. They have a roll-out scheudle of once every few years. Is that what you want? That costs the consumer $$$. Are you willing to spend for that? Now, because of the implication that hardware (as with your server, Mark) will all just work with Debian (and that my post/research is just silly/trolling), I will quickly mention nvidia, fglrx, and ralink wireless, all problematic a while back. I have had a Thinkpad T61 with a PSTN modem for 4 years, it has never worked (Debian amd64); I hope to try again when I upgrade to wheezy. Okay, so now someone might say well, of course video, winmodems, and wireless will cause some trouble sometimes. These mini-pcs... any of them have onboard video hardware? Or come with wireless hardware? And someone might say that many of the problems had in the past are resolved, and quite possible so. So if I need a functional device now, do I need to just purchase one and shelve it for a few years before assuming Linux will work? I understand that Linux has a history of better support for older hardware, and that is reasonable, but would that need to be so (as much) if vendor support was better? And the Intel GM965 video on my T61 still does not quite work correctly for 3d applications, even after 4 years. True, audio and video devices have been less than perfectly supported in linux. Look at why. Video hardware goes through benchmark testing. The ed's choice hardware does the best on the benchmarks and sells the best. So, the hardware is built to work best ON THE BENCHMARKS, but not necessarily in the real world. So what linux faces is hardware that is tweaked to do well on benchmarks on a different OS. This has lead to hardware manufacturers not releasing their code to linux, bucause they would reveal how they make the hardware look good on the benchmarks. Audio is continuously being worked on. It is another difficult area for similar reasons. Okay, I could look through the specifications carefully and research eg. the wireless hardware, but what about when vendors change the chipset mid-model? Yep. that is always a problem with buying the latest and greatest. Am I being demanding here? I want an absolutely functional Linux on a device, and I am willing to pay for it (I have mentioned no limit, though I do have a budget). For those assuming I am needing tens or hundreds of whatever mini-pc I choose, no. I only need a single mini-pc system. More later, perhaps. It is not for my own use, but at a location where tech support is not available, and where the system will quite likely be in use for 5+ years. One question. Do you expect the device to continue to be 100% functional when the infostructure around it will change over the next 5+ years? That is not reasonable. So to recap my
Re: free software mini pc
On Monday 13 February 2012 5:04:04 pm green wrote: David Goodenough wrote at 2012-02-13 11:31 -0600: On Monday 13 Feb 2012, green wrote: Is Tegra 3 supported by Linux? Are any of the Tegras supported by Linux? While I have found nothing definitive, everything I have found suggests not. If you look at the linux-arm mailing list, or the kernel changelogs you will find lots of references to the Tegras. Okay, perhaps the kernel does support some Tegras, and perhaps some day the Trim-Slice will run mainline Linux. I have been reading about getting debian working on an ARM system (raspberrypi) and it seems that they do some custom work with the boot process to get it going. I don't pretend to understand what they have done, but their plan is to put out a customized distribution for their ARM processor based device. I've stayed on the sidelines of this thread because the original post sounded to me like trolling. But, after the posts that I have read, you seem quite serious. I'm still not 100% clear on what is standing in your way. Have you looked at mini-itx systems on ebay for inspiration? I have one now running Lenny as my server. It is rock solid. It just sits there, silently, and runs and runs and runs. Everything just worked on installation. I added a tiny case fan(which is very quiet) to it, but there is really no need for it. Have you looked into this form factor? Mark -- 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/201202141845.37881.m...@neidorff.com
Music software
Morning, I'm running Mepis which is a squeeze spinoff. I have started taking music lessons. My instructor plays a tune and I record it. I want to then play it back slowed down, without changing the pitch of the notes so that I can play along. Tried audacity (1.3.12), but it lowers the pitch of the notes when I slow the music down. I'm looking at a package called mixxx. There is a version for lenny, wheezy and sid, but not for squeeze. (yes, I tried debian-multimedia). Does anyone have either a suggestion for how to get the sid package working or another package that will do the job for me? Thanks, Mark -- 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/201201240525.17898.m...@neidorff.com
Re:[SOLVED] Music software
On Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:25:17 am Mark Neidorff wrote: Morning, I'm running Mepis which is a squeeze spinoff. I have started taking music lessons. My instructor plays a tune and I record it. I want to then play it back slowed down, without changing the pitch of the notes so that I can play along. Tried audacity (1.3.12), but it lowers the pitch of the notes when I slow the music down. I'm looking at a package called mixxx. There is a version for lenny, wheezy and sid, but not for squeeze. (yes, I tried debian-multimedia). Does anyone have either a suggestion for how to get the sid package working or another package that will do the job for me? Thanks, Mark I found in the Effect menu of audacity Change Tempo which changes the speed without affecting the pitch. (exactly what I wanted) I'm happy. Thanks for all of the suggestions. Mark -- 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/201201241851.16845.m...@neidorff.com
Which way to program this?
I am considering writing a visual department scheduler for schools. The concept is similar to an appointment calendar, but I'd like to include drag 'n drop functionality. A supervisor is provided with teaching session objects that meet in fixed time periods (call them 1-12). The supervisor drags and drops them onto the individual teacher's schedule. This application should be cross platform, able to run in windows, mac and linux. So, it seems easy to me to conceptualize this in a web browser, but what language/development envoronment would be appropriate for this project? Any thoughts are welcome. Mark -- 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/201112200518.00947.m...@neidorff.com
Re: web server migration
More information needed, please. You said that your desktop machine is running lenny. I'll start with a few questions and let other folks add theirs 1. Do you want to try squeeze on the poweredge or stay with lenny? Is the hardware in the server supported in lenny or do you have to use squeeze? 2. Are you going to use raid on the disks? (remember you are using about 4gb now). 3. What else is the server going to do for you, now and in the future? 4. What web server are you using and what version is it? What are you planning to use on the new machine? 5. What provisions are you making for backups? Mark On Saturday 10 December 2011 5:26:34 pm steve reilly wrote: good afternoon looking for input on moving a couple small family websites from a desktop machine running lenny to a poweredge 4600 I just bought. poweredge has two 73gb scsi drives, perc3 embedded raid. in process of formatting drives, and then setting up container. desktop has a 300gb drive, all one partition, but only about 4gb used. ideally would like to just somehow dd or rsync contents of the desktop to the other machine. question. how would YOU do it with minimal hassle, ie. having to edit config files, databases and such. this thing has been running since etch and been a learning process along the way i doubt my idea of cloning would work, but? Steve -- 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/201112101738.44484.m...@neidorff.com
Re: xboing has no sound on squeeze
On Friday 04 November 2011 2:23:38 pm Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:57:31 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:30:27 -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: snip What's happened to xboing? It seems the package is considered to be removed from Debian because it has not been updated upstream since long time: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538731 As per the sound issue, there is another bug that can be related to that: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636811 I've tried running xboing on wheezy. Still no sound. So I've purged it from the disk. If you are interested in the package, you could ping xboing developer and ask for the status of the package. If there is a new version maybe it could be considered again to be kept in Debian repositories :-? Greetings, Geezyou guys really took me back. I used to play xboing years ago. I'm now running Mepis (a Debian Squeeze spinoff). I just installed xboing and xboing has full sound, just like the good old days. :-) version is 2.4-31 if that helps. Mark -- 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/20061632.00562.m...@neidorff.com
Filesystem fdisk and mount disagree
I'm not sure if everything is OK, or if I have to redo what I did. For backup I purchased a USB 3, 1.5 TB external drive. (Using it USB 2 mode) The drive came formatted NTFS. Not wanting to hassle with that, I reformatted it as EXT4. That went fine, or so it seems. Now when I run fdisk, the partition still shows up as NTFS. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3e12cce7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 182401 14651360017 HPFS/NTFS ...but mount shows an ext4 filesystem: root@Mark:/tmp# mount /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sdb1 on /media/339ca221-4ec1-45c2-9969-af0d8b5ffb0b type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) Soshould I fdisk the drive, delete what appears to fdisk to be an NTFS partition, create an ext4 and reformat it? (I'm guessing that this is why I'm getting errors from my backup program) Thanks, Mark -- 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/201110080957.38090.m...@neidorff.com
[SOLVED] [VERY IMPORTANT] How to undo updates....
On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:12:44 am m...@neidorff.com wrote: Hi, This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I updated the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) as myself. I can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also login as root under KDE (I understand the dangers). Now I would like to undo the changes that were made by synaptic so that I can get back to a fully usable system. How do I find the changed packages and undo the changes? Thanks, Mark It is a permission problem. #chmod 777 /var/tmp solves the problem. (whew!) Mark (and, yes it was very important!) -- 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/201110081258.30024.m...@neidorff.com
owner group question
In backing up and restoring my filesystem while upgrading several times, I realized that I might have duplicate files in my home directory. I used fdupes and did find a bunch...that is not my question. fdupes did find that there were many files that could not be accessed. When I examined the files I found that the user/group from the old system did not match the current system (some files have numeric user or group names which worked fine on other systems but now don't match the current system. I was going to do the following: $ chown mark:mark -r ~/* but before I did that, I thought that I would ask if there are any files in a user's home directory that shouldn't have the user/group ownership of the user. I don't want to break anything (like kde, etc) when I try to fix the permissions. thanks for any information, Mark -- 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/201109241005.59099.m...@neidorff.com
Re: 100% used / file system. Help!
May I suggest the following. From the other posts you know that there is slack space on the drive (5% of the drive) that is reserved for the root user to be able to log in and get things back in order. How about this: reboot the system into single user mode and run fsck on the drive. First things first. Let's see if the drive is healthy. Healthy? Good! Now log in as root and go to your /var/log directory. Do an ls to see how many levels of backups of the logs are kept and rm all of the backup log files. Now that you have some room to play withHere is something that I just found on my server cd into /etc/logrotate.d run this command as root: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate I was surprised to find that my logs were not being rotated because there were duplicate config files (with different names) in the directory and logrotate won't work until there are no duplicates. Just to be clear, it was the contents of the files that were duplicated, not the file names. You will see an error message when you manually run the logrotate command if you have this problem. Mark On Tuesday 20 September 2011 10:31:26 am Lisi wrote: I have accidentally filled something, that I shouldn't have, on my root directory, and have now got a 100% usage of the disk containing my /. This is causing me problems. (Now there's a surprise!!) I have no backup of my /. Yes, I know. I deserve everything I've got. But now that I have been given my just deserts, can any kind soul come to my rescue? I would be so grateful I may, of course, just have to reinstall. :-( Lisi -- 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/201109201902.38575.m...@neidorff.com
Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 3:33:10 pm jacques wrote: Hi, by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( The server is still up. Most of the services are restarted either by copying (rsync) the binaries from another squeeze server (both are running Squeeze) or desinstalling/installing packages. (apt-* dpkg and suite are restored and runing ok) Now the the question is : will this machine *reboot* properly, inclufing the network ? I know that my suggestion does not answer your question, but: Two suggestion: 1. alias rm to rm -i to add a rm: remove regular file `filename' ? to give the user a moment to think for each file. 2. mount /usr as read only Neither suggestion is 100% foolproof, but they both will help. Mark -- 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/201109100825.01109.m...@neidorff.com
Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition
On Saturday 03 September 2011 4:53:02 pm jeremy jozwik wrote: 1. Did you do a media check (sha1sum or whatever) on the install CD? nope. though during my troubleshooting of debian 6.0.2 i used my known to be working debian 5.0.2 install disk and received the same results. black screen after installer menu. My current suspect list for your problems: Bad CD Incompatible version (64 bit) for your video card. Bad CD drive. OK. here are suggestions to eliminate 2 possible sources of problems? First, test the CD. Second, can you get to the point where you choose the installation mode? If so, can you select a non-graphical(text) mode install? Does that work? The fact that you can get the gpartd CD to boot is a good sign. Thirdd, download and try a 32 bit CD. I recall seeing some problems with some video cards and the 64 bit distro. I looked up your card, it is 4 years old, and should be well supported, but you just don't know. Another thought: Do you have a different CD drive available? Can you beg/borrow one to see if the drive is faulty? 2. Can you please state what your PC specs are for CPU, RAM, video and interfaces? (IDE, USB, etc) Does the CD that you downloaded match your hardware specs? dual dual core amd opteron 2.6ghz 64 bit tyan s2915 main board 12 gig ram nvidia quadro 5600 vid card 3 sata drives, boot drive partitioned with half windows XP 64bit and half debian squeeze --- operating system with errors. yes, i downloaded the amd64 arch. Nice and high end. Here, I run into my limit of being able to help you. I have no experience with dual CPU installations. It **shouldn't matter** (TM), but it is another variable to explore. 3. What evidence do you have that the PC hardware is not at fault? windows runs 100% fine. gparted boots from live cd, in the process of testing a unbuntu usb live os. 4. Have you tried a complete reinstall? no, install leads to hanging black screen infinity after install menu option is chosen. -- 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/201109040908.51056.m...@neidorff.com
Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition
On Friday 02 September 2011 11:01:56 pm jeremy jozwik wrote: for those who are not fallowing, i last posted to the list about not being able to see anything on my machine past the debian squeeze install menu. well that was solved a few days ago. and since then i had been able to boot my machine into debian several times [possibly 6 at most] todays issue is a flashing underscore after the grub bootloaded bootloads the debian image. i had selected the recovery option, just to see what would happen. the post messages stopped at performance events: amd pmu driver and some important stuff was listed after that. honestly i tried understanding it but all i can get from the messages is that the cpus did not initialize? please see image below. http://www.flickr.com/photos/godblessbotox/6107490431/in/photostream i would appreciate any help that can be offered in the matter, i want to go back to using debian... The screen picture that you posted doesn't show an error message, but it also doesn't show the entire video output. Can you resize the video output on the monitor to show everything? (I'm looking for a # prompt at the bottom left corner of the screen which would mean that linux booted properly and is waiting for your command. I'm also not clear about if you are ever able to boot normally into linux, or if the computer is totally unbootable. Mark -- 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/201109030720.44031.m...@neidorff.com
Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition
On Saturday 03 September 2011 8:20:29 am jeremy jozwik wrote: right, there is no ACTUAL error that i can see. nor is there anything more in the monitors output. [LCD]. also i only got any of that because i booted from grub with the recovery mode option. otherwise after the grub portion of the boot sequence all i can see is a flashing _ _ _ _ forever... I'm also not clear about if you are ever able to boot normally into linux, or if the computer is totally unbootable. Mark i have been having issues with the debian install for a while. every option in the install menu would result in a hanging black screen. that is until i got a response from the mailinglist, tried to install again and it worked. changed nothing in the steps i took during and leading up to the install. after the install i got about 6 or 7 happy boot ups into the debian os. even installed cinelerra. now i cannot boot into it. gparted livecd will boot up, which did not happen during the install woes i was having. Hmmm.OK. I didn't see your first posts, so lets do some basic stuff. 1. Did you do a media check (sha1sum or whatever) on the install CD? 2. Can you please state what your PC specs are for CPU, RAM, video and interfaces? (IDE, USB, etc) Does the CD that you downloaded match your hardware specs? 3. What evidence do you have that the PC hardware is not at fault? 4. Have you tried a complete reinstall? Mark -- 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/201109031145.55086.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post
On Tuesday 09 August 2011 15:30:53 KS wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:47 -0500, Stan Hoeppner Thanks Stan. The motherboard has onboard video. But the behaviour of the machine is the same with or without the PCIe video card. And the machine does not boot anymore with any of the RAM modules. Assuming that all the memory modules were not zapped together, it is quite likely the CPU is toast. I can only check this using another machine like this. I might be able to do that tomorrow (and some memtest86 too). I don't know where you are located, but consider carefullyyou may have toasted the A) RAM B) CPU C) mltherboard D) all of the above E) something else that is bringing the entire system down. By putting potentially broken components into a good system, you can also toast components on the good system. This will cost you more than taking the system into a reputable repair shop and having them diagnose the problem(s) for you. I recently did that and I considered the $70 diagnostic fee to be cheap because then I knew exactly what to replace. For future reference, you are best off if when doing something with RAM, you get a complete matched set of memory. Don't mix and match. Mark -- 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/201108091723.36050.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Guarddog causes intermittent system hang during boot
On Friday 01 April 2011 10:07 am, Edward C. Jones wrote: I have a PC with Debian 6.0 and the amd64 kernel. When my system is booting I sometimes get the following message: Setting up guarddog firewall... /etc/rc.firewall: line 390: logger: command not found. Then the system hangs. That is a strange message. Guarddog is only a front end to iptables/netfilter. It does not run on startup, only /etc/rc.firewall is run. Also, gaurddog is a KDE3 ap only. According to the author, it does not run on KDE4 and it is no longer being maintained. One time the boot procedure hung with the message Setting up prelinminary keymap That is a different error from a different part of the system. What is the problem? Does a typical user need a firewall? Are there any other easy to use firewalls besides guarddog? I would not run a system without a firewall, but I guess it can depend on what you are running and what ports are open to the public. Mark -- 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/200112312135.09584.m...@neidorff.com
How about a new Lenny Debian Multimedia?
Based on these assumptions: 1. I'm going to take a guess that the owner of Debian Multimedia is not interested in serving lenny files any more (this, of course, could be wrong). 2. There is interest in being able to access the Lenny files that were stored at the DM site. A proposal: A group of interested Debian users who have web servers and some available bandwith to offer: Divide the repository up among their servers with one server hosting the menu interface to the individual files. That the individual server admins contact the managers of the packages that they host and request notificaiton of package updates from the package authors and keep their servers up to date. This project should last for a year while Lenny is still supported. Call for suggestions: Before a call for volunteers goes out Is there no need for this proposal? Have I left something out of this proposal? Is there something that I have wrong? Is there something that you would like changed or done differently? Please reply to this thread on the list. thanks, Mark -- 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/201102120855.23890.m...@neidorff.com
Re: if the file changes send email about diff
On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:25 pm, kellyremo wrote: The file only contains plain MAC addresses, separated with a new line: Like: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F1 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 Or: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:32 -0800 frank thyes lt;fr...@anotheria.netgt; wrote On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 05:33 -0800, kellyremo wrote: gt; /dev/shm/dhcpacks-in-last-2min.txt Could you pastebin this file too? Frank How about taking a look at the inotify packages. -- 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/201102070730.53238.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Copying DVD
On Wednesday 02 February 2011 08:30 am, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, I am trying to copy a dvd (double layer). For some reason brasero thinks there is no dvd (using a cd-rom instead of a dvd is ok). Here is the output when the dvd is in: I'm assuming that this is a video DVD. Does it have encryption (DRM) enabled? If so, that may be your problem. Mark -- 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/201102021315.49724.m...@neidorff.com
BIOS boot message. How to fix?
I'm running kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 . Recently I have started getting this informational message on boot: Your BIOS doesn't have a aperture memory hole. Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup. The BIOS is ASUS M2N PV-VM ACPI BIOS R1201 When I enter BIOS setup, I see no option for enabling the IOMMU option. Please tell me what I should be looking for and what I should change it to? FWIW, the system seems to boot normally. I have found no glitches, but I like to keep ahead of this kind of problem. Thanks, Mark -- 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/201102021329.55626.m...@neidorff.com
Basic(?) network help, please...
Since I don't do this often, what may be very easy is confusing me. I have switched from DSL (static IP) to cable internet (5 static IPs). I have a sort of network diagram (in a format that I hope can be easily viewed) available at neidorff.com . Below the line there is a link that says Network Diagram. Some things are not quite right. Under the DSL setup (old) the router provided me with a translated set of addresses, so that I could use the 192.168.2.* range to connections to the router. With cable, I have 5 static IPs, but the cable modem only provides ports for the static IPs. I changed the configuration of the NIC that connects from the server to the cable modem to match a static IP. I can't get PCs on the local LAN (192.168.1.x) to connect to the net using the cable provider's nameservers. If I use the nameservers of my old provider (which are still active for me, for now) they can connect to the net. Why is this? How do I correct it? Here is the routing table $route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 108.58.151.192 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 108.58.151.193 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Thanks for any help, Mark -- 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/201101291354.50604.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Basic(?) network help, please...
Thanks. You have clarified exactly what I need to know. Mark On Saturday 29 January 2011 04:19 pm, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:54:50 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: (...) I can't get PCs on the local LAN (192.168.1.x) to connect to the net using the cable provider's nameservers. If I use the nameservers of my old provider (which are still active for me, for now) they can connect to the net. Why is this? How do I correct it? There are some things in the air that may require further investigation. First, as per your description (five static IP), I guess you have been given a very nice cable modem gateway device but most surely it is somehow limited/restricted/customized by your provider, so you should contact them and ask for a basic configuration setup start-up guide. I say this because some providers give their users a login username/ password and let them to manage their devices from their internal subnetwork. Second, you should ask yourself about the network setup do you have in mind... that is, cable modems (unless otherwise specified) are just gateways with no routing capabilities and act in the same way like the old dial-up serial modems: they connect your machine (the one to which is attached) directly to the web (which is good if you have a web server behind the cable modem that you want to be reachable from outside) but maybe you don't want all your machines are also acting in that way, like public servers. So, dependending on what you have in mind, you may also need to have a router with nat capabilities that: 1/ Hide your internal network machines (so you can use 192.168.0.x addresses) and keep them out of the Internet. 2/ Provide addictional DHCP/DNS functionalities, in the event the cable- modem do not. And last, you can use whatever DNS servers you prefer (like the ones from OpenDNS or Google's) but usually the ones that your isp provides are better (lower latency and fast response). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/201101291722.12473.m...@neidorff.com
Re: need motherboard recommendation
On Sunday 26 December 2010 09:00 am, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com [101226 13:35]: Russell L. Harris put forth on 12/26/2010 5:12 AM: I am tossing into the dumpster the last two motherboards which I purchased -- Asus M3A78-T (AMD64) and Asus P5Q-EM (i386) -- because of video problems. With the M3A78-T, the POST screen displayed a cross-hatch pattern of horizontal and vertical red and green lines with a variety of monitors, both CRT and LCD. The pattern also is visible in terminal mode outside of X. Three trips back to Asus did not cure the problem. Well OK. So, this seems to me to be a memory problem. I'm guessing the video ram. Whatever memory the 80X25 mode is mapping into has become flaky. When you start X, you are using different memory, so no problem. Why didn't ASUS solve the problem? dunno. Perhaps, once the MB booted into whatever they tested with (X, MS-Win, whatever), the problem isn't apparent. Their bad. Also, the problem does not seem to affect the operation of the MB once it is booted. So, how much worse is this than annoying? Of course, you know that you can look at udev and the logs to see all the boot messages once the PC is in X. Did I miss something? Now, for something else that just occurred to meAre you using the same VGA cable when you attach the different monitors to the different motherboards? Could it be the cable, or are there instances where the cable works properly? Mark -- 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/201012261211.45824.m...@neidorff.com
Re: need motherboard recommendation
On Sunday 26 December 2010 06:46 pm, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com [101226 22:56]: Well OK. So, this seems to me to be a memory problem. I'm guessing the video ram. Whatever memory the 80X25 mode is mapping into has become flaky. When you start X, you are using different memory, so no problem. Why didn't ASUS solve the problem? dunno. Perhaps, once the MB booted into whatever they tested with (X, MS-Win, whatever), the problem isn't apparent. Their bad. Also, the problem does not seem to affect the operation of the MB once it is booted. So, how much worse is this than annoying? Thanks, Mark. Your diagnosis makes sense. If the problem indeed is in the video ram, am I correct in assuming that I should have no great concern regarding data integrity in the other systems of the motherboard? You are correct. The system boots into X correctly and runs correctly. So, it is working correctly. You've got a non-fatal glitch in the memory that the PC doesn't use when it runs. The only other possibility which occurred to me is that the difference in temperature or humidity between the Asus US service facility and my location may have caused the symptom to disappear and reappear. Yes, you seem to be in a tropical area. Perhaps an extreme tropical area. Extreme heat/humidity will make things behave in ahem unusual ways as you already know. This doesn't necessarily point to a generic flaw from the manufacturer. The unit you have could be on the edge of tolerance and your extreme conditions pushes it over. You are lucky that it only affects the boot video. Mark -- 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/201012261927.23872.m...@neidorff.com
Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question
On Saturday 25 December 2010 09:42 am, S Mathias wrote: Two questions that was not always clear for me [sorry for posting to this list :\]: ### ### Q1) when cabling, is the color order important? like: straight cabling: A side: white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown B side: white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown could be eg.: like this?? A side: white-orange, brown, white-blue, green, white-green, blue, white-brown, orange B side: white-orange, brown, white-blue, green, white-green, blue, white-brown, orange ### ### The order was determined to minimize cross-talk on the adjacent wires. Your best bet is to stay with the standard. So, yes, the order is important. Q2) again cabling.. i know what is the color order of straight and crossover cabling. BUT: what are the color orders, when i need to create physically two separated networks? 568B; straight; nic to switch: A side: white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown B side: white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown -- 568A; crossover; nic to nic: [it's not so important about from ~2005]: switch the pairs: 12 with 36 on one side: A side: white-green, green, white-orange, blue, white-blue, orange, white-brown, brown B side: white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown -- one cable, two straight networks: A side: I.: II.: B side: I.: II.: -- one cable, two crossover networks: A side: I.: II.: B side: I.: II.: -- one cable, one straight and one crossover network: A side [straight]: I.: II.: B side [crossover]: I.: II.: -- one cable, one crossover and one straight network: A side [crossover]: I.: II.: B side [straight]: I.: II.: Please explain what you are trying to accomplish and at what network speeds. Off the top of my head, 10baseT networks used 4 wires and 100baseT used all 8 wires. If you are trying for 100baseT speeds, you have to use all 8 wires. Did you notice how difficult the kind of cabling you want is to find? There is a reason for that. Mark -- 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/201012251147.12334.m...@neidorff.com
Monitor question
Hi Folks, Running Lenny updated. I'm wondering what I lose if I switch to a large wide screen monitor. I currently have a regular 17 Viewsonic (VP171s). Works fine, but since my eyes are getting older, I'm tempted by the crop of wide screen 25 monitors on the market. If you want to tell me how great a particular brand of monitor is, please e-mail me off the list (I don't want to start a flame war on the list). My systems currently use the on-board video that comes with the motherboards. (I have multiple systems connected to the monitor) For my server, I want to keep using the on-board video, but for my desktop machine, putting in a video card is not out of the question. So, questions: 1. Will my on-board video cards be able to drive a new monitor to full resolution? If not, will I be able to run the GUI in a usable fashion or will I get a fuzzy display or will there be other compromises? 2. Are there monitors that do not support text mode out there? I'm asking because I do as much work on my server as possible in text mode, only using X when absolutely necessary. I also feel the need to watch the boot messages go by at times. If a monitor can't display text mode, then it will be useless to me. 3. Are there any other general suggestions about the wide screen monitors that I should be aware of? Thanks, Mark -- 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/201012241030.58022.m...@neidorff.com
Please explain X strangeness
Hi all, Debian Lenny system patched up using nvidia driver. I have a KVM switch because I am setting up a new machine. Normal behavior is that X starts just fine if the Debian box has KVM focus as it boots. If it doesn't have focus (I see the video from the other computer on the screen) the I get an out of range error on the screen. A quick ctrl-alt-backspace restarts the X server and everything is fine. Recently, I've gotten a 3rd PC to setup. Since my monitor has multiple video inputs, I hooked the 3rd PC to video2 on the monitor. Yesterday, I unhooked the 3rd PC from the monitor (but left the cable hooked to the monitor with an unattached end). Today when I tried to start X, even when I see the output of the debian box on the monitor, I got an out of range error. Tapping ctrl-alt-backspace restarts X, but does not allow X to start. Here is the part I would like an explanation forI pulled the video cable (that is attached to nothing) off of the connector on the monitor, tapped ctrl-alt-backspace, and X started just fine. Why does the presence of a disconnected cable give X a problem? Thanks for any insight. Mark -- 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/201010011456.04750.m...@neidorff.com
Change to 2 interfaces on 1 NIC?
Hi all, I currently have my 6+ year old server (web, e-mail, firewall, local lan) running with 2 NICs, one coming from the DSL router (on the 192.168.2.x lan) and the other connected to the local lan (192.168.1.x). (all local users get their mail, web surfing and firewall services from my box) I only use static IP addresses. This server is a big, old and noisy box and I want to use a small, quiet mini-itx box in its place. The new mini-itx box that I just bought has only 1 NIC port. The example for setting up multiple IP addresses from the network configuration page looks like this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.42 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 auto eth0:0 iface eth0:0 inet static address 192.168.1.41 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 auto eth0:1 iface eth0:1 inet static address 192.168.1.44 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 This is the way my current 2 NICs are configured (yes, the config is from RH, but the concepts are the same): #eth0 connects to the router DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.2.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.2.1 ONBOOT=yes #eth1 connects to the local lan DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 ONBOOT=yes My questions: 1. Are all 3 of the interfaces shown usable, or does the first auto eth0 define the NIC for the others? 2. Can I put an address like 192.168.2.2 for one iface (like eth:0) and 192.168.1.1 for another (eth0:1) or will this not work, and I will need a mini-itx with 2 NICs? thanks, Mark -- 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/201009271054.40011.m...@neidorff.com
Mini system...What image to use?
Hi, I'm looking at buying a mini system with a VIA 1.5 GHz C7 processor (VIA CN700 northbridge VIA VT8237RP high bandwith vlink client southbridge). The debian site doesn't mention this processor. What image would I use to install debian on this system? Thanks, Mark -- 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/201009180731.35561.m...@neidorff.com
ANSWERED Re: Mini system...What image to use?
On Saturday 18 September 2010 07:53 am, Scott Ferguson wrote: I'm looking at buying a mini system with a VIA 1.5 GHz C7 processor (VIA CN700 northbridge VIA VT8237RP high bandwith vlink client southbridge). The debian site doesn't mention this processor. What image would I use to install debian on this system? image? your choice - I suspect you mean architecture... it's i386. Nice little board. Thanks. Exactly what I needed to know. -- 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/201009181055.16383.m...@neidorff.com
debian multimedia is back
The subject says it all. There was a hard disk crash. All (except mailing lists) is restored. Check it out. -- 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/201006112212.46224.m...@neidorff.com
Should be easy
I'm running updated Lenny. I just got a droid phone and wanted to mount it on my Lenny box. So, I plugged the USB cable into the droid and the computer. I expected to see an sd? device show up with partitions (like sdb1, sdb2, etc.) but they don't show up. My primary HD shows up as sda1-7. There are entries for sdb,c,d,e and sdf, but no partitions to mount. What do I have to do to mount the Droid under Lenny? Thanks, Mark -- 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/201005021808.23358.m...@neidorff.com
Nouveau's 3D NVIDIA drivers
Just for your information on an open source driver for NVIDIA video cards. http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html enjoy (but, please...don't blame me. I'm just posting interesting information), Mark -- 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/201002190828.05578.m...@neidorff.com
Re: an old problem is back.
On Thursday 18 February 2010 06:38 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: My syslog is filling up with these messages again. It seems to have happened before. Can anyone help? Feb 18 18:26:06 squeeze dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 What IP does your DHCP server listen on? The client is sending requests to 192.168.1.1 port 67. Is anything listening on that IP and port? -- 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/201002181942.22687.m...@neidorff.com
Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:35 am, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Wednesday 13 January 2010 02:03:10 Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, As the title says, I am looking for a virtualbox, under lenny, that sees the usb devices. So virtualbox-ose does not fit my requirement. Any idea what I can use instead? I haven't tried this, but it looks pretty useful: http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ Looks like there's a package for it in squeeze. -Rob Thank you both of you, it's working What did you do to get the USB working with Virtualbox? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bogus Keycodes from Linux host to virtualbox client
I'm running Lenny and Virtualbox 3.0.12. The client OS in VB is XP. Yesterday, I wanted to listen to a web based music stream, so in lenny I connected to a radio station's stream using movie player. Music plays, everything works. Then I started virtualbox/XP/MS Word. Every few seconds, word reacted as if someone had pressed the alt key on the keyboard (set focus to the menus rather than the regular text input. I didn't close XP or virtualbox down, but I switched to the host and stopped movie player. The problem went away. Have you seen this problem before? Do you have any idea which bit of software the problem belongs to? Where do I find a fix and/or where do I report the bug? Thanks for any help, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Case Preservation
Seems to me like a shell script using the tr command will do what you want. Here is a web site with (not the exact, but close) code that you need to solve your problem. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-use-linux-unix-tr-command/ Mark On Monday 04 January 2010 06:19 am, RogerV wrote: I've copied the contents of the ./htdocs directory from Apache Web Server running on Windows XP to a FAT32 formatted USB stick, and then copied from the USB Stick to the htdocs directory of an Apache Web Server running under Debian Lenny. The copy process has changed the case of some of the document names, which means that the Debian web server can't find the links. It seems to happen, primarily where the document name is in the format A99.html - it's a leading capital in Windows and has been restored as a lowercase alpha character. When I view the contents of the USB stick in Windows I see the upper case leading character, but when I view the stick with Nautilus - I see the lower case leading character. Any suggestions? Regards -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Case-Preservation-tp27011610p27011610.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username
On Friday 25 December 2009 11:49 am, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, After some data manipulation, I now have a free ext3 disk. My aim is to put the entire content of my /home/merciadriluca/ in it, at the place of on the HDD where /etc/, /sys/, and other stuff resides. The problem is that I have a lot of apps and scripts for which I have set the home folder to /home/merciadriluca/. As I want the transition to be as smooth as possible, the best thing to do would be --at least to me-- to play around with symlinks. My first idea was to create a symlink `merciadriluca' in /home/. This symlink would be pointing to my new drive. The problem is that, on the one hand, the name of this symlink needs to be the same as `merciadriluca' (so that I do not need to modify all my scripts, etc.); on the other hand, my session's name still needs to be `merciadriluca' so that I do not need another account. That is, I am thus obliged to create two files with the same name, /i.e./ `merciadriluca', in /home/. Doing this is however avoided. Does somebody have any suggestion about how to cope with this, by doing as little modifications as possible (I have lots of scripts everywhere, things in /etc/init.d which launch /home/... things, etc., backup tools, etc.)? Sorry if I don't see a problem. 1. Copy the contents of /home/merciadriluca to your newly cleared out disk. 2. Rename /home/merciadriluca to something like /home/merci.bak just to be on the safe side. 3. Create the link in the /home directory to the data on your new disk. 4. Done. You have exactly what you want. What am I missing that you are seeing? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username
On Friday 25 December 2009 02:48 pm, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks for the two answers. They are both really nice. The first appears to be even `cleaner.' I thought my session would never boot if my folder was `nowhere.' Concerning the first answer: let's say that I copy everything from /home/merciadriluca/ on the new HDD. If I mount the new HDD on /home/merciadriluca/, will the (previous) content of /home/merciadriluca/ be overwritten? Thanks. Sorry for stupidity, I worked all week-end long. The only stupid questions are the ones that people don't ask. No, your original contents will still be there. When you mount the new partition, it hides (for wont of a better word) the old data. If you want to do it that way, when you umount the new partition, the old data will become visible again, completely unmodified. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: migrate to new system disk
On Thursday 03 December 2009 03:34 am, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I'll look into Mondorescue. What is its preferred backup media? Only storage devices I have on the box are an HD and 3.5 floppy. I was really hoping I could just go disk-disk and be done with it, using something like ghost, or just mirroring the old disk, then breaking the mirror and run with the new disk. I used to do that alot back in my Winders days. I guess none of the Linux mirroring utilities will work for this since no one has suggested it? Mondorescue will back up to whatever you have. Mailservers are not as simple as we see them. If you want to, try going disk to disk with a utility look at the partition magic software suite. Just remember that your mail server needs to be down when you are cloning the system. Best of luck, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?
On Thursday 03 December 2009 02:12 pm, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: No, but it help your users to decrease the amount of code with unsafe data at a very low prize for your server performance or security ;-) My worries come from the fact that many email-related services are run w/ root privileges - therefore, if a security issue occurs - there is not problem to compromise whole OS. - Meaning an evildoer can create some special message that through the services processing will make a breach in the service and finally in the OS. I don't think that the modern mail servers run with root privs (are you talking about sendmail???). And for those parts that do, well written and mature code will keep the security risk to near zero. Suggestionlook at qmail. It is designed for performance and security from the ground up. Mark Yes, qmail is availabe on debian. License issues have been resolved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: migrate to new system disk
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:22 pm, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions: I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the current system disk to the new disk; make the new disk the system (boot) disk, and remove the original disk from the machine. I've never done a disk migration such as this with Linux. This is a production email firewall/gateway. Thus, I need to have the system down as little as possible to complete this. I know I'll need to enter single user mode to do the work. I'm just not sure what work I need to do in order to properly accomplish this task. So, what's the best method to pull this off, guaranteeing (as best as possible) that all the data made it across the river intact, with an identical partition and directory structure, will identical permissions on all dirs and files, and that will be bootable? If I start up Postfix after the migration to the new disk, and the queue directory/file permissions are incorrect, my mail server would be dead in the water. There is no concise guide to doing what you want, because it is a complex job. Do your users store e-mail on the server? That is an issue. Do you have a second PC that you can use to install the software and test? Suggestion: Install mondorescue stop the mail server do a backup restore to the new disk (on a different computer) Install lilo move the new disk to the server start it up and see how it works. Mondorescue will take care of the bare metal restore and get you up and running just fine. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
virtualbox:networking
I'm running Lenny-amd64. I set up virtualbox-amd64 from their deb. Works fine, butI have a network printer (HP Officejet Pro 8500) at 192.168.1.32 which is within my local network. The install of virtualbox sets up a network on the 10.x.x.x network for access between the guest OS and the host. I was able to force the installer to find the printer but it told me that since I was crossing networks it might not work properly. Sure enough, pages get dropped during a multi page print job. My question is how do I change the IP that virtualbox uses for the guest to communicate with the host so that the guest is within my network and my printing will work properly? Thanks for any help, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive. [SOLVED]
On Sunday 23 August 2009 05:28 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:16:15 -0400, Mark wrote in message 200908222116.15752.m...@neidorff.com: On Saturday 22 August 2009 08:47 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer [[[snip]]] Thank everyone for the advice. I now know what to do to solve the problem. ..tell us, your solution may help somebody else here. Me, I just wiped my stick clean and used cfdisk to set up new partitions. ;o) Sure. What I needed was to understand the problem. Its a problem with U3. Sandisk has a U3 removal tool for use under Windows--easy google search. Sourceforge also has a U3 tool for linux U3-tool.sourceforge.net . The linux tool is listed as alpha software. Since I have a windows box around here, I used the sandisk tool. It did the job...just be sure that you back up any files on the stick before removing the U3 stuff using the sandisk tool. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.
This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how to fix the problem. My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old Fedora Core 3 system, so it is not a Debian problem, per se. I just bought a 3 pack of Sandisk Cruzers (4Gb). When I insert any of them into a USB port, the system recognizes it as a CD drive. Working around this is easy, but what is causing the system to mis-identify the Cruzer? The only things on the cruzer are the files that automatically run under windows (autorun.inf, LaunchU3.exe which put a different way of unounting the device on the screen, and a System subdirectory and a Documents subdirectory). Thanks for the info. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.
On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how to fix the problem. My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old Fedora Core 3 system, so it is not a Debian problem, per se. I just bought a 3 pack of Sandisk Cruzers (4Gb). When I insert any of them into a USB port, the system recognizes it as a CD drive. By the system, do you mean lines in dmesg, or the icon on your desktop? Working around this is easy, but what is causing the system to mis-identify the Cruzer? The only things on the cruzer are the files that automatically run under windows (autorun.inf, LaunchU3.exe which put a different way of unounting the device on the screen, and a System subdirectory and a Documents subdirectory). Both on the desktop and in dmesg. Here is the relavent info from dmesg: Vendor: SanDisk Model: SanDisk CruzerRev: 8.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdc: 7856127 512-byte hdwr sectors (4022 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08 sdc: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdc: 7856127 512-byte hdwr sectors (4022 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08 sdc: assuming drive cache: write through sdc: sdc1 Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi14, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: SanDisk Model: SanDisk CruzerRev: 8.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x tray Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi14, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 usb-storage: device scan complete Looks like it is mounted twice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive. [SOLVED]
On Saturday 22 August 2009 08:47 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer [[[snip]]] Thank everyone for the advice. I now know what to do to solve the problem. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Trying to boot Lenny after installation
On Friday 07 August 2009 10:33 pm, Sine 39 wrote: Basically I have installed the latest graphical version of Lenny. The installation process runs without a hitch except for the fact it fails to detect my wireless network (I guess I need to install a driver but this doesn't concern me too much at this stage). But when I try to boot into Lenny for the first time this fails for a reason which is not immediately clear. I have attempted to boot 3 times and copied the last few lines of code that appear on the screen when doing so at the bottom of this message. As a result of a previous post on Debian forums I have tried booting (without success) with: noapic nolapic acpi=off ide=nodma and also noapic nolapic acpi=off noapm Boot 1: EIP [c0117b60] kmap_atomic_prot+0x65xcc SS:ESP 0068:f6f2fe8c ---[end trace 71ac36db2592cbf ]-- note: udevd[1397] exited with preempt_count 1 Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! Boot 2: EIP: [c011517c] native_apic_write+0xe/0x11 SS:ESP 0068:f6f27b9c --[end trace 65a860b8278944e7 ]-- Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! Boot 3: EIP: [c011517c] native_apic_write+0xe/0x11 SS:ESP 0068:f6f47dac --[end trace 0b0cb169ac33a17b ]-- From the first boot, the code c0117b60 has to do with the apic system. Have you tried to change its settings in your bios (turned it off)? I don't have direct experience, but I did a google search for the code and came up with apic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Trying to boot Lenny after installation
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:21 pm, Sine 39 wrote: The setting for APIC Mode (which is currently showing as 'enabled') in my BIOS appears in light blue with a cross next to it, meaning I cannot change it. This may be because I need to change another setting in order to be able to configure APIC Mode, I know this because this applies to some other settings. Any idea what I might need to do in order to make APIC Mode available to configure? I have tried searching it but the only thing I came accross was something saying you cannot configure APIC mode once you have installed an operating system which makes no sense to me since the BIOS loads before any operating system and doesn't reside on the hard drive. I tried tricking the BIOS into thinking there was no operating system by disabling the hard drive but this didn't work and I wouldn't expect it to since how can the BIOS know whether an OS is installed anyway when it doesn't load information from the HD. From: m...@neidorff.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Trying to boot Lenny after installation Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:36:00 -0400 From the first boot, the code c0117b60 has to do with the apic system. Have you tried to change its settings in your bios (turned it off)? I don't have direct experience, but I did a google search for the code and came up with apic. I don't claim to be a bois expert, but can you either totally reset the bios into a default mode or update the bios to a newer version so that you can change the apic setting? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Little OT : Software for Active Noise Cancelling or Reduction
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 04:42 pm, John Hasler wrote: M writes: i was considering to buy headphones with Active Noise Cancelling / Reduction. But before spend money, i'd like to know if there's a software that could do the same job (for free). No. Not feasible. -- John Hasler Is it technically not feasable, meaning that a room is too large to do noise cancelling in, or not feasable from the linux software prespective? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Error loading operating system [SOLVED]
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 07:10 am, Florian Kriener wrote: On Mark Neidorff wrote: I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of ram). and the installer formatted it for me. All the normal steps...network, time(I've done installs before. I have etch on hda in the same box). Packages installed and configured without error. Set up root and my accounts. Installed grub to boot the system then the big reboot, and Error loading operating system no grub menu. Black screen with white letters 80 X 25 mode. Any idea what may have messed up and how to get the system booting? If I understand you correctly you have at least two disks in your system and one of them is a PATA drive and the other is a SATA drive. This could lead to some confusion for the boot loader, because the order in which the drives are set up by the BIOS may differ from what your boot loader thinks it is (meaning the mapping from (hdX) to /dev/[hs]dY might be wrong). For this you got the /boot/grub/device.map file. Please make sure, that the entries in that file are correct. Additionally you have to make sure you install your boot loader in the first hard disk (as seen from your BIOS). What you can do now is to unplug all but one hard disk and try to boot and see if your error persists. I would suggest to unplug your SATA drive first. If you cannot boot into etch your SATA drive is most probably the first drive and you installed grub to your PATA drive. If you can boot into etch your SATA drive is still the first one, but you installed grub to your SATA drive and have a bad device.map file, or did not install grub at all. And so on. I changed the order of the drives in the bios section that controls boot order and now the system boots correctly. Many thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Error loading operating system
Hi, I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of ram). I manually partitioned the SATA disk: sda1 /10Gb sda2 /usr 10Gb sda3 /var 10 Gb sda5 swap 1 Gb sda6 /tmp 1 Gb sda7 /home the rest of the driveabout 456 Gb and the installer formatted it for me. All the normal steps...network, time(I've done installs before. I have etch on hda in the same box). Packages installed and configured without error. Set up root and my accounts. Installed grub to boot the system then the big reboot, and Error loading operating system no grub menu. Black screen with white letters 80 X 25 mode. Any idea what may have messed up and how to get the system booting? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: sha1summ of complete directory?
On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete directory tree? -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer Tar the tree and then calculate the sha1sum of the tar file. Easy, no? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
DVD download
This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb and again fails sha1sum. I have now downloaded the same file-- debian-502.amd64-DVD-1.iso -- from 2 mirrors and each time the file is 2.0 Gb in size. So, I'm guessing that something has gone wrong at Debian and the errors are mirrored to the other sites? Should I even bother downloading the DVD image now or send a report to debian? If I should send a report, who should I send it to? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DVD download
On Sunday 05 July 2009 05:07 pm, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-05 22:42 +0200, Mark Neidorff wrote: This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb and again fails sha1sum. I have now downloaded the same file-- debian-502.amd64-DVD-1.iso -- from 2 mirrors and each time the file is 2.0 Gb in size. So, I'm guessing that something has gone wrong at Debian and the errors are mirrored to the other sites? Or that the tool you used to download the iso, whatever it may be, has a problem with files 2 GB. Should I even bother downloading the DVD image now or send a report to debian? If I should send a report, who should I send it to? Please report first which program in what version you used to download the image, and from which mirrors. I'm using firefox 1.08 on a redhat 3 system. The download window shows a file size of 2097.2 MB. There is almost 5 Gb of free disk space (yes, I'm sure) so that is not the issue. Here's the mirror that I'm now trying with: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian-cd/5.0.2/amd64/iso-dvd/ I got the same results from: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/amd64/iso-dvd I also tried ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/amd64 with the same results. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DVD download
On Sunday 05 July 2009 05:45 pm, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: Mark Neidorff ha scritto: This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb and again fails sha1sum. I have now downloaded the same file-- debian-502.amd64-DVD-1.iso -- from 2 mirrors and each time the file is 2.0 Gb in size. So, I'm guessing that something has gone wrong at Debian and the errors are mirrored to the other sites? uh? I see the update cd is exactly 2.0G, could it be that you downloaded that by mistake? :) Otherwise you might either 1) have a browser that can't download 2G - including my beloved iceweasel == google for something that works 2) download it by some other means, eg torrent (it also does checksums for you, just in case) Should I even bother downloading the DVD image now or send a report to debian? If I should send a report, who should I send it to? I've started a torrent download. I'll see what I get. Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
