Re: screen lock shuts down attached HDDs, they don't start up again

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 11/22/23, Zenaan Harkness  wrote:
> On 11/21/23, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote:
>> On 21 Nov 2023 14:48 +1100, from zen...@gmail.com (Zenaan Harkness):
>>> The desktop displays, but my external HDDs have been put to sleep, and
>>> they do not wake up.
>>>
>>> One of them is zfs. The zfs mounts list shows, but any attempt to
>>> view/ls a zfs mount, just hangs permanently until a reboot.
>>>
>>> The other drive is an ext4 filesystem, and it has been completely
>>> un-mounted and the HDD spun down, and it does not spin up again -
>>> until a reboot.
>>
>> This doesn't sound right.
>>
>> Can you run hdparm -C on the affected devices at the time? What is the
>> result of that?
>
> So it seems I can test this quickly with a manual suspend, then do the
> various checks... it seems that the issue here is the
> auto-sleep/suspend.
>
> For starters, prior to suspend, I've removed the zfs drive, and just
> left the ext4 drive in the USB caddy (it holds up to 2 drives).
>
> Prior to suspend, I get, for the 2.5 inch hdd when it has not been
> accessed for a while and I can feel it is not spinning:
>
> # hdparm -C /dev/sda
> /dev/sda:
>  drive state is:  standby
>
> then, I ls'ed a dir in that drive that had not previously been
> accessed, and could feel it spin up and then give me the output, and
> then I ran hdparm again and interestingly, checking a few times on the
> now spun up drive, I get identical results as with the drive in the
> spun down state:
>
> # hdparm -C /dev/sda
> /dev/sda:
>  drive state is:  standby
>
> 
> Now, after suspend (and wait for hdd to spin down, and wait for
> monitors to blank, and wait another 10s) and finally wake the computer
> up (which is really too slow - 20 or 30 seconds or so, so something
> odd or challenging seems to be happening inside the kernel somewhere):
>
> # ll /dev/sd*
> ls: cannot access '/dev/sd*': No such file or directory
>
> # hdparm -C /dev/sda
> /dev/sda: No such file or directory
>
>
>> Do the drives spin back up if you use hdparm -z?
>
> Prior to suspend and wake, I get this:
>
> # hdparm -z /dev/sda
> /dev/sda:
>  re-reading partition table
>  BLKRRPART failed: Device or resource busy
>
> And again, after suspend and wake there is no more /dev/sda, or any
> /dev/sd*, so I cannot run hdparm on any such device.
>
>
>> What is the exact kernel version you are running? Please provide both
>> the package name and exact package version, and the full output from
>> uname -a.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux zen-L7 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1
> (2023-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> The kernel package is exactly
> linux-image-6.1.0-13-amd64
>
>
>> Assuming that those drives are connected over USB, do they show up in
>> lsusb output while inaccessible?
>
> Prior to suspend and wake, lsusb shows me my hubs, dock, eth adaptors,
> trackball, and possibly the following is the HDD dock ? dunno:
>
> Bus 006 Device 015: ID 152d:0565 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron
> USA Technology Corp. JMS56x Series
>
> ... and sure enough after suspend and wake, Bus 006 Device 015 is
> gone, no longer exists, so it somehow has not woken up - but I CAN
> still see the blue light on the hdd caddy, but the hdd remains in a
> spun down/ sleep state, and no /dev/sd* device.


I apologize, the above para was inserted after I did the suspend and
wake cycle, and the following paras were done before that. I apologize
for the confusion, so just be aware the following paras are part of
the "Prior to suspend..." para above.

> I do get these though (alias ll='ls -l'):
>
> # find /dev/disk/|grep usb
> /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD20_SPZX-22UA7T0_RANDOM__3F4917AD758C-0:0
> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:3a:00.0-usb-0:2.3.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
>
> # ll /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:3a:00.0-usb-0:2.3.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 20231122 10:33.10
> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:3a:00.0-usb-0:2.3.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 ->
> ../../sda
>
> # ll /dev/sd*
> 0 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 20231122 10:33.10 /dev/sda
>
> ... interestingly, it seems when I formatted this drive with ext4, I
> formatted ext4 on the whole disk (/dev/sda) without using partitions,
> and so it's just /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1, which has the ext4
> filesystem.
>
>
>> Is there anything relevant in dmesg output?
>
> This looks quite suspicious (some error lines, not all of dmesg output):
>
> [42635.638996] usb 6-2.3.1: device not accepting address 15, error -62
> [42668.986050] usb 6-2.3.1: USB disconnect, device number 15
> [42668.986406] device offline error, dev sda, sector 0 op 0x1:(WRITE)
> flags 0x800 phys_seg 0 prio class 2
> [42668.988647] hub 6-2.3.2:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
> [42668.990867] hub 6-2.3.2.3:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
> [42668.990888] hub 6-2.3.2.1:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
> [42669.007554] usb 6-2.3.2.3.1: Failed to suspend device, error -71
> [42669.008775] hub 6-2.3.2:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
> 

Re: screen lock shuts down attached HDDs, they don't start up again

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 11/21/23, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2023 14:48 +1100, from zen...@gmail.com (Zenaan Harkness):
>> The desktop displays, but my external HDDs have been put to sleep, and
>> they do not wake up.
>>
>> One of them is zfs. The zfs mounts list shows, but any attempt to
>> view/ls a zfs mount, just hangs permanently until a reboot.
>>
>> The other drive is an ext4 filesystem, and it has been completely
>> un-mounted and the HDD spun down, and it does not spin up again -
>> until a reboot.
>
> This doesn't sound right.
>
> Can you run hdparm -C on the affected devices at the time? What is the
> result of that?

So it seems I can test this quickly with a manual suspend, then do the
various checks... it seems that the issue here is the
auto-sleep/suspend.

For starters, prior to suspend, I've removed the zfs drive, and just
left the ext4 drive in the USB caddy (it holds up to 2 drives).

Prior to suspend, I get, for the 2.5 inch hdd when it has not been
accessed for a while and I can feel it is not spinning:

# hdparm -C /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 drive state is:  standby

then, I ls'ed a dir in that drive that had not previously been
accessed, and could feel it spin up and then give me the output, and
then I ran hdparm again and interestingly, checking a few times on the
now spun up drive, I get identical results as with the drive in the
spun down state:

# hdparm -C /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 drive state is:  standby


Now, after suspend (and wait for hdd to spin down, and wait for
monitors to blank, and wait another 10s) and finally wake the computer
up (which is really too slow - 20 or 30 seconds or so, so something
odd or challenging seems to be happening inside the kernel somewhere):

# ll /dev/sd*
ls: cannot access '/dev/sd*': No such file or directory

# hdparm -C /dev/sda
/dev/sda: No such file or directory


> Do the drives spin back up if you use hdparm -z?

Prior to suspend and wake, I get this:

# hdparm -z /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 re-reading partition table
 BLKRRPART failed: Device or resource busy

And again, after suspend and wake there is no more /dev/sda, or any
/dev/sd*, so I cannot run hdparm on any such device.


> What is the exact kernel version you are running? Please provide both
> the package name and exact package version, and the full output from
> uname -a.

# uname -a
Linux zen-L7 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1
(2023-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

The kernel package is exactly
linux-image-6.1.0-13-amd64


> Assuming that those drives are connected over USB, do they show up in
> lsusb output while inaccessible?

Prior to suspend and wake, lsusb shows me my hubs, dock, eth adaptors,
trackball, and possibly the following is the HDD dock ? dunno:

Bus 006 Device 015: ID 152d:0565 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron
USA Technology Corp. JMS56x Series

... and sure enough after suspend and wake, Bus 006 Device 015 is
gone, no longer exists, so it somehow has not woken up - but I CAN
still see the blue light on the hdd caddy, but the hdd remains in a
spun down/ sleep state, and no /dev/sd* device.

I do get these though (alias ll='ls -l'):

# find /dev/disk/|grep usb
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD20_SPZX-22UA7T0_RANDOM__3F4917AD758C-0:0
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:3a:00.0-usb-0:2.3.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0

# ll /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:3a:00.0-usb-0:2.3.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 20231122 10:33.10
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:3a:00.0-usb-0:2.3.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 ->
../../sda

# ll /dev/sd*
0 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 20231122 10:33.10 /dev/sda

... interestingly, it seems when I formatted this drive with ext4, I
formatted ext4 on the whole disk (/dev/sda) without using partitions,
and so it's just /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1, which has the ext4
filesystem.


> Is there anything relevant in dmesg output?

This looks quite suspicious (some error lines, not all of dmesg output):

[42635.638996] usb 6-2.3.1: device not accepting address 15, error -62
[42668.986050] usb 6-2.3.1: USB disconnect, device number 15
[42668.986406] device offline error, dev sda, sector 0 op 0x1:(WRITE)
flags 0x800 phys_seg 0 prio class 2
[42668.988647] hub 6-2.3.2:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
[42668.990867] hub 6-2.3.2.3:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
[42668.990888] hub 6-2.3.2.1:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
[42669.007554] usb 6-2.3.2.3.1: Failed to suspend device, error -71
[42669.008775] hub 6-2.3.2:1.0: hub_ext_port_status failed (err = -71)
42713.495809] xhci_hcd :3a:00.0: Timeout while waiting for setup
device command
[42713.703761] usb 6-2.3.1: device not accepting address 19, error -62
[42713.704792] usb 6-2.3-port1: unable to enumerate USB device
[42713.708332] usb 6-2.3.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
[42713.708343] usb 6-2.3.2.1: USB disconnect, device number 7


since "2.3.1" appears in the drive links above, and 6 could be "Bus
6". I'm not familiar with dmesg output though...

I also see the following, but 

Re: screen lock shuts down attached HDDs, they don't start up again

[Michael Kjörling]

On 21 Nov 2023 14:48 +1100, from zen...@gmail.com (Zenaan Harkness):
> The desktop displays, but my external HDDs have been put to sleep, and
> they do not wake up.
> 
> One of them is zfs. The zfs mounts list shows, but any attempt to
> view/ls a zfs mount, just hangs permanently until a reboot.
> 
> The other drive is an ext4 filesystem, and it has been completely
> un-mounted and the HDD spun down, and it does not spin up again -
> until a reboot.

This doesn't sound right.

Can you run hdparm -C on the affected devices at the time? What is the
result of that?

Do the drives spin back up if you use hdparm -z?

What is the exact kernel version you are running? Please provide both
the package name and exact package version, and the full output from
uname -a.

Assuming that those drives are connected over USB, do they show up in
lsusb output while inaccessible?

Is there anything relevant in dmesg output?

Are you booting the kernel with any command-line parameters? Please
provide the exact contents of /proc/cmdline.

A spun-down drive can take a brief time to spin back up (typically on
the order of a few seconds), but that SHOULD be handled automatically;
clearly something odd is going on in your case if it doesn't.

-- 
Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se
“Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

screen lock shuts down attached HDDs, they don't start up again

[Zenaan Harkness]

Every time the screen lock kicks in, and I return to my debian gnome
desktop, I press Enter, wait for 20 seconds, press Enter again,
eventually the monitor wakes up and I enter the password.

The desktop displays, but my external HDDs have been put to sleep, and
they do not wake up.

One of them is zfs. The zfs mounts list shows, but any attempt to
view/ls a zfs mount, just hangs permanently until a reboot.

The other drive is an ext4 filesystem, and it has been completely
un-mounted and the HDD spun down, and it does not spin up again -
until a reboot.

This seems rather drastic, and unexpected. Surely others have
forgotten to dismount external drives, or taken too long to return to
the computer and had the screen lock kick in, and the external drives
"permanently" shut down?

Any ideas on how to stop this, without disabling the Gnome screen
lock? (I do want the screen to lock if I forget to lock it, or if I
manually lock it, if I'm away from my pc for a while)

Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

[Richmond]

marathon  writes:

> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 07:49:32AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:25:10 -0500
>> marathon  wrote:
>> 
>> > Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold
>> > startup or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off
>> > and blocks all network activity in that state.
>> 
>> How do you know it is turned off? Please show the exact command you are
>> using, including leading and trailing command line prompts.
>
> When I launch Gufw it's off. I'm not starting it via console but with the 
> GUI. This is a vanilla Debian install, and ufw/Gufw from the Debian repos.  
> It should just work. I have no idea whats going on under the hood, I'm a 
> simple user of the product.
>
>> ufw is a tool for setting up and managing a firewall. It is not the
>> firewall itself. To find out if your firewall is active, run
>> 
>> iptables -n -L
>> 
>> If you see this, you have no firewall at all, you are wide open, and
>> should run some ifw command to bring the firewall up:
>
> It works fine when its turned on manually, past experience using it on 
> Debian this would never happen. Once installed and started it should keep on 
> running across cold reboots and/or suspend.
>
>> root@chaffee:~# iptables -n -L
>
> snip
>
>> If you see anything else, you may have a working firewall. As I don't
>
> It's called ufw not ifw. I have it set on the default settings which stops 
> inbound but allows outbound. I need input from someone using this tool. It's 
> available in the repos for those that don't want to screw around with 
> scripts etc.

I am using it on a Debian 10 system. You might look in ufw.conf

cat /etc/ufw/ufw.conf

# /etc/ufw/ufw.conf
#

# Set to yes to start on boot. If setting this remotely, be sure to add a rule
# to allow your remote connection before starting ufw. Eg: 'ufw allow 22/tcp'
ENABLED=yes

# Please use the 'ufw' command to set the loglevel. Eg: 'ufw logging medium'.
# See 'man ufw' for details.
LOGLEVEL=low


When I run

ufw status
Status: active

To Action  From
-- --  
22/tcp ALLOW   192.168.1.0/24

systemctl status ufw
● ufw.service - Uncomplicated firewall
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; enabled; vendor preset: 
enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Sun 2023-11-19 15:45:15 GMT; 20min ago
 Docs: man:ufw(8)
  Process: 219 ExecStart=/lib/ufw/ufw-init start quiet (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 219 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:13:43 -0500
marathon  wrote:

> > iptables -n -L
> > 
> > If you see this, you have no firewall at all, you are wide open, and
> > should run some ifw command to bring the firewall up:  
> 
> It works fine when its turned on manually, past experience using it
> on Debian this would never happen. Once installed and started it
> should keep on running across cold reboots and/or suspend.

ufw is launched by systemd. If as root you run "systemctl status ufw"
you should see that it is enabled, and something like "active" or
"active (exited)". I use shorewall, and this is what it looks like. ufw
should look similar.

root@hawk:~# systemctl status shorewall
● shorewall.service - Shorewall IPv4 firewall
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/shorewall.service; enabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
 Active: active (exited) since Wed 2023-10-11 11:56:12 MDT; 1 months 7 days 
ago
   Main PID: 1336 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Tasks: 0 (limit: 18980)
 Memory: 0B
CPU: 0
 CGroup: /system.slice/shorewall.service

…
root@hawk:~# 

Anyone out there running ufw?

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Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

[songbird]

marathon wrote:
> Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold startup 
> or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off and blocks all 
> network activity in that state.
> Does anyone have any idea why? Can I provide further information?
>
> Thanks.

  did you make changes at some point?

  as root what does ufw status say?

  if needed run ufw enable.

  also perhaps somehow during an upgrade or install it somehow
was corrupted so try apt reinstall ufw.

  this is what i would look at first.


  songbird

Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

[marathon]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 07:49:32AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:25:10 -0500
> marathon  wrote:
> 
> > Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold
> > startup or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off
> > and blocks all network activity in that state.
> 
> How do you know it is turned off? Please show the exact command you are
> using, including leading and trailing command line prompts.

When I launch Gufw it's off. I'm not starting it via console but with the 
GUI. This is a vanilla Debian install, and ufw/Gufw from the Debian repos.  
It should just work. I have no idea whats going on under the hood, I'm a 
simple user of the product.

> ufw is a tool for setting up and managing a firewall. It is not the
> firewall itself. To find out if your firewall is active, run
> 
> iptables -n -L
> 
> If you see this, you have no firewall at all, you are wide open, and
> should run some ifw command to bring the firewall up:

It works fine when its turned on manually, past experience using it on 
Debian this would never happen. Once installed and started it should keep on 
running across cold reboots and/or suspend.

> root@chaffee:~# iptables -n -L

snip

> If you see anything else, you may have a working firewall. As I don't

It's called ufw not ifw. I have it set on the default settings which stops 
inbound but allows outbound. I need input from someone using this tool. It's 
available in the repos for those that don't want to screw around with 
scripts etc.

Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:25:10 -0500
marathon  wrote:

> Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold
> startup or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off
> and blocks all network activity in that state.

How do you know it is turned off? Please show the exact command you are
using, including leading and trailing command line prompts.

ufw is a tool for setting up and managing a firewall. It is not the
firewall itself. To find out if your firewall is active, run

iptables -n -L

If you see this, you have no firewall at all, you are wide open, and
should run some ifw command to bring the firewall up:

root@chaffee:~# iptables -n -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination 

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination 

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination 
root@chaffee:~# 

If you see anything else, you may have a working firewall. As I don't
use ifw, I have no idea what it should look like.


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Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 08:25:10AM -0500, marathon wrote:
> Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold startup 
> or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off and blocks all 
> network activity in that state.
> Does anyone have any idea why? Can I provide further information?
> 
> Thanks.
>

What script turns on ufw - if you have to restart ufw, what commands do you
run?

if it's something like systemd starting a service, then you need to make
that service persistent, perhaps.

In some sense, much better to fail closed for firewall software than to
fail open.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy Cater 

UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

[marathon]

Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold startup 
or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off and blocks all 
network activity in that state.
Does anyone have any idea why? Can I provide further information?

Thanks.

Re: [Solved] LXDE ― Autorun on Every Start up — Applications, Commands, Scripts

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2023-05-18 16:53:39 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 18/05/2023 14:38, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
> > Nearly none relevant on the internet:
> > https://www.google.com/search?q=lxde+docu
> > 
> > Forums isn't very informative:
> > https://forum.lxde.org/
> > 
> > So much wasted efforts all around!
> 
> Your internet is rather useless. Mine is much better:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LXDE

Yes, wiki.archlinux.org often contains interesting information,
which applies to Debian.

-- 
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100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: 
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Re: [Solved] LXDE ― Autorun on Every Start up — Applications, Commands, Scripts

[Max Nikulin]

On 18/05/2023 14:38, Susmita/Rajib wrote:

Nearly none relevant on the internet:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lxde+docu

Forums isn't very informative:
https://forum.lxde.org/

So much wasted efforts all around!


Your internet is rather useless. Mine is much better:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LXDE

3.2 Autostart

LXDE implements XDG Autostart

...

[Solved] LXDE ― Autorun on Every Start up — Applications, Commands, Scripts

[Susmita/Rajib]

Solution at:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/05/msg00789.html

Nearly no documentation exists on LXDE:
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/

Nearly none relevant on the internet:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lxde+docu

Forums isn't very informative:
https://forum.lxde.org/

So much wasted efforts all around!

Best wishes,
Rajib B

Thinkpadt60p/Stretch 9.2 Start up error

[dekks herton]

Hello

Off my latest boots i've found the following errors, googling shows 


variations of https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/01/msg00361.html for 
xen based systems
& some redhat ones from the recent 6 months. 


Any ideas what module/hardware is throwing the error?


[ cut here ]
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at 
/build/linux-EAZfyE/linux-4.9.51/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:227 
note_page+0x640/0x7e0
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address 
c01ce000/0xc01ce000
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel: Modules linked in: lz4 lz4_compress
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 
4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 4.9.51-1
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel: Hardware name: LENOVO 20088HG/20088HG, BIOS 
79ETD3WW (2.13 ) 04/30/2007
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:   b8929974 
ab94bdd8 
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  b8676eae ab94bed0 
ab94be30 0004
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:   ab94bed0 
 b8676f2f
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel: Call Trace:
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x78
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? __warn+0xbe/0xe0
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? __schedule+0x23b/0x6d0
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? note_page+0x640/0x7e0
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? 
ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x2d3/0x3f0
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? kernel_init+0x26/0x100
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel:  [] ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
Nov 24 11:54:50 T60p kernel: ---[ end trace d8ccadf21a3e1517 ]---
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Re: clear screen after start-up

[Debian EN]

Cheers Greg :)

Pol

Re: clear screen after start-up

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 05:08:45PM +0100, Debian EN wrote:
> with debian9 how disable clear screen after start-up of system?
> 
> I remember with debian 8 (maybe) there was /etc/inittab

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/SystemdNoClear

clear screen after start-up

[Debian EN]

Hi all

with debian9 how disable clear screen after start-up of system?

I remember with debian 8 (maybe) there was /etc/inittab

thanks for help :)
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X start-up delay (was: current testing)

[Borden Rhodes]

Thank you for the suggestion, Felix, although I'm not quite ready to
levy my scorn and blame on KDE (yet). Since my last post, it turns out
that the full KDE desktop DOES start, but it takes an excruciating
amount of time (more on that in a second). systemd, systemd-analyze
and journald report nothing amiss, save for a few lines in journald to
the effect of "sddm-greeter[3069]: QObject: Cannot create children for
a parent that is in a different thread." I don't know if this is
relevant.

What IS curious is the contents of Xorg.0.log:
https://paste.debian.net/902120/ (link will be good until 17
December). My laptop (Fujitsu LifeBook T4410, for the curious) has an
integrated Wacom touchscreen and tablet. It seems to load the driver
47 seconds into launching at line 393. At line 444 there's an 8
minute, 20 second gap until line 445 gets written. Likewise, there's
another 6 minute gap between lines 514 and 515. This combined gap of
14 minutes, 20 seconds, is consistent with the time it takes to see
the SDDM login screen.

Here are the contents of the last apt-get before everything went south:
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:amd64 (1.9.0-1, 1.9.0-1+b1),
xserver-xorg-video-vesa:amd64 (1:2.3.4-1+b1, 1:2.3.4-1+b2),
xserver-xorg-core:amd64 (2:1.18.4-2, 2:1.19.0-2), gnokii-cli:amd64
(0.6.30+dfsg-1.1+b2, 0.6.30+dfsg-1.2), xserver-xorg-video-fbdev:amd64
(1:0.4.4-1+b4, 1:0.4.4-1+b5), xserver-xorg-input-libinput:amd64
(0.22.0-1, 0.22.0-1+b1), xgnokii:amd64 (0.6.30+dfsg-1.1+b2,
0.6.30+dfsg-1.2), gnokii:amd64 (0.6.30+dfsg-1.1, 0.6.30+dfsg-1.2),
xserver-xorg-input-wacom:amd64 (0.33.0-1, 0.33.0-1+b1), xwayland:amd64
(2:1.18.4-2, 2:1.19.0-2), xserver-xorg-input-evdev:amd64 (1:2.10.4-1,
1:2.10.4-1+b1), xserver-xorg-input-mouse:amd64 (1:1.9.2-1,
1:1.9.2-1+b1), gnokii-common:amd64 (0.6.30+dfsg-1.1, 0.6.30+dfsg-1.2),
libgnokii6:amd64 (0.6.30+dfsg-1.1+b2, 0.6.30+dfsg-1.2)

You'll notice that the Wacom driver is in that update. The last change
log entry to the Wacom source is from October, so I don't think that's
relevant since it was working until the weekend.

Should I complain to the Wacom maintainers? I'm curious, though: even
if this driver were the culprit, why would it prevent me from
switching virtual terminals?

Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

[Kynn Jones]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org
 wrote:

 On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Kynn Jones wrote:
  The documentation in `man 4 random` (**Configuration** section) gives a
  couple of shell-script snippets that it recommends should be added,
  respectively, to an appropriate script which is run during the Linux
  start-up sequence and to an appropriate script which is run during the
  Linux system shutdown.  (It is silent on what those appropriate
 scripts
  should be.)

 Debian already does this properly in sysvinit mode.  So Debian wheezy is
 covered.  Refer to /etc/init.d/urandom
 ...
 [2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064,
 https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah/new-research-theres-no-need-panic-over-factorable-keys-just-mind-your-ps-and-qs/



A belated thanks for your comments, and for the links.

kj

Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

[Kynn Jones]

The documentation in `man 4 random` (**Configuration** section) gives a
couple of shell-script snippets that it recommends should be added,
respectively, to an appropriate script which is run during the Linux
start-up sequence and to an appropriate script which is run during the
Linux system shutdown.  (It is silent on what those appropriate scripts
should be.)

What should these scripts be for a Debian system?

Are there standard scripts in which to put such start-up and shutdown
code?  Or is one supposed to put those snippets in standalone scripts in
special designated directories (which will ensure that they will be run at
the startup or shutdown)?  Or something else altogether?

(In case it matters, I'm using wheezy.)

Thanks in advance!

kynn

Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

[Darac Marjal]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:41:49AM -0400, Kynn Jones wrote:
The documentation in `man 4 random` (**Configuration** section) gives a
couple of shell-script snippets that it recommends should be added,
respectively, to an appropriate script which is run during the Linux
start-up sequence and to an appropriate script which is run during the
Linux system shutdown.  (It is silent on what those appropriate scripts
should be.)
 
What should these scripts be for a Debian system?

According to
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-customizing.en.html#s-booting,
you can create a file in /etc/rc.boot/ with any local scripts to be run
at boot time.

There is no similar directory for shutdown, however. If you need to do
something at shutdown, the best thing to do is to create an initscript.
Copy /etc/init.d/skeleton to /etc/init.d/something (where something is
whatever you want to call it) and edit appropriately. Then run
update-rc.d with appropriate arguments. (The next question in the
above FAQ details this).

 
Are there standard scripts in which to put such start-up and shutdown
code?  Or is one supposed to put those snippets in standalone scripts in
special designated directories (which will ensure that they will be run at
the startup or shutdown)?  Or something else altogether?
 
(In case it matters, I'm using wheezy.)
 
Thanks in advance!
 
kynn


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Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

Hi

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:41:49AM -0400, Kynn Jones wrote:
 The documentation in `man 4 random` (**Configuration** section) gives a couple
 of shell-script snippets that it recommends should be added, respectively, to
 an appropriate script which is run during the Linux start-up sequence and to
 an appropriate script which is run during the Linux system shutdown.  (It is
 silent on what those appropriate scripts should be.)
 
 What should these scripts be for a Debian system?

I believe that the initscripts package (which you almost certainly
have got installed already) handles this already - if you cast your
eyes over /etc/init.d/urandom you should see similar code.

 
 Are there standard scripts in which to put such start-up and shutdown code?  
 Or
 is one supposed to put those snippets in standalone scripts in special
 designated directories (which will ensure that they will be run at the startup
 or shutdown)?  Or something else altogether?
 
 (In case it matters, I'm using wheezy.)

For wheezy[1], the normal place for startup/shutdown is in /etc/init.d/ -
symlinks will be created from /etc/rcX.d/ as appropriate for each
runlevel (X is a run level in this context).

For simple hacks by the system admin, tweaking /etc/rc.local is also
acceptable - packages are not allowed to interfere with that.

There is a plethora of information available about this -
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit
may be a good starting point.

[1] Let's not get into the whole systemd saga here

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Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

[Kynn Jones]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen k...@jorgensen.org.uk
wrote:

 Hi

 On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:41:49AM -0400, Kynn Jones wrote:
  The documentation in `man 4 random` (**Configuration** section) gives a
 couple
  of shell-script snippets that it recommends should be added,
 respectively, to
  an appropriate script which is run during the Linux start-up sequence
 and to
  an appropriate script which is run during the Linux system shutdown.
 (It is
  silent on what those appropriate scripts should be.)
 
  What should these scripts be for a Debian system?

 ...if you cast your
 eyes over /etc/init.d/urandom you should see similar code.

 Indeed.  That pretty much takes care of my question.

Thank you all for the replies!

kynn

Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Kynn Jones wrote:
 The documentation in `man 4 random` (**Configuration** section) gives a
 couple of shell-script snippets that it recommends should be added,
 respectively, to an appropriate script which is run during the Linux
 start-up sequence and to an appropriate script which is run during the
 Linux system shutdown.  (It is silent on what those appropriate scripts
 should be.)

Debian already does this properly in sysvinit mode.  So Debian wheezy is
covered.  Refer to /etc/init.d/urandom

For Debian jessie and sid, I haven't audited the systemd stuff to make sure
this thing actually runs when it should, but there is code to initialize the
random pool in systemd (file src/random-seed/random-seed.c).  It looks like
it does a slightly worse job than the sysvinit shell script (fails to mix in
high-res current time), but this is should be harmless on recent kernels
(which have a much better random subsystem initialization).

systemd could be enhanced to do a lot better: mix in clock_gettime() output,
and other variable and machine-specific data such as the kernel and systemd
logbuffer, as well any other not-security-sensitive systemd state, all of it
compressed[1] through a crypto hash.  This is _NOT_ to add randomness,
although it will have a little entropy.  This is a best-effort defense
against equal pool state between otherwise nearly identical boxes[2], and it
is valuable even when the kernel already tried to do it.

[1] think of it as a extremely lossy compression: we only care to retain
the entropy in the source data.

[2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064, 
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah/new-research-theres-no-need-panic-over-factorable-keys-just-mind-your-ps-and-qs/

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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Stayvoid]

(I'd tried to use one of the nouveau lists, but didn't get the reply.)

modprobe nouveau outputs nothing, but there is no nouveau module in
the output of lsmod.

Is there a HOWTO for Debian?

Cheers.


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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:19 +0300, Stayvoid wrote:

 I wonder if nuvó supports that card.
 It's supported: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames#NV50

Then you can safely report it though I guess they will tell you to try 
with an updated version of the driver.
 
 1/ Disable KMS (append nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel line of GRUB)
 Are you talking about GRUB legacy (1)? I'm using the second version.

It doesn't matter. You can append the line in both GRUB versions.

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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Stayvoid]

 I wonder if gNewSense have a dedicated mailing list... hum, it seems that
 yes ;-)
I've experienced some technical problems with that list.

 Despite the messages, what's the problem you are experiencing? No video
 output?
The messages themselves are not good. I want to know the cause of the problems.

For some reason X is not working too: http://dpaste.com/697488/

 This is a known issue. You can safely omit the warning.
Thanks. It worked.

 What did you try exactly?
I can't remember.
For example: I've tried to enable drm-related features in the kernel,
but it didn't work out.


Cheers.


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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:19:52 +0300, Stayvoid wrote:

 I wonder if gNewSense have a dedicated mailing list... hum, it seems
 that yes ;-)
 I've experienced some technical problems with that list.
 
 Despite the messages, what's the problem you are experiencing? No video
 output?
 The messages themselves are not good. I want to know the cause of the
 problems.

Kernel messages can be verbose but harmless.

 For some reason X is not working too: http://dpaste.com/697488/

Upload the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and also dmesg so we can 
check it.

What kind of VGA card do you have?
 
Greetings,

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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Stayvoid]

 Kernel messages can be verbose but harmless.
What is the cause of those messages?
If those are harmless I also want to know how to disable them.

 Upload the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and also dmesg so we can
check it.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/SYBHh7CZ
dmesg: http://pastebin.com/X7rp3Amc

 What kind of VGA card do you have?
nVidia GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)


Cheers.


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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Brian]

On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 20:34:54 +0300, Stayvoid wrote:

 /var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/SYBHh7CZ

   (EE) [drm] failed to open device

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting


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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:34:54 +0300, Stayvoid wrote:

 Kernel messages can be verbose but harmless.
 What is the cause of those messages?
 If those are harmless I also want to know how to disable them.

You just can't disable the warnings, this is controlled by the kernel. 
Anyway, I wouldn't worry about that.

 Upload the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and also dmesg so we can
 check it.
 /var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/SYBHh7CZ 
 dmesg: http://pastebin.com/X7rp3Amc

Thanks.

So you're using kernel 3.2 and nouveau driver.

 What kind of VGA card do you have?
 nVidia GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)

I wonder if nuvó supports that card. You can test two different things 
(they're mutually exclusive):

1/ Disable KMS (append nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel line of GRUB)
2/ Install nvidia closed source driver

If you don't want to use non-GPL drivers, open a bug report in 
freedesktop so they can check what's going wrong with the card.

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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Brian]

On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 20:34:54 +0300, Stayvoid wrote:

 dmesg: http://pastebin.com/X7rp3Amc

   [2.333432] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
   [2.334321] i8042: No controller found

Something to do with your having an Apple keyboard. It doesn't seem of
any consequence.

   [1.279220] [drm:i915_init] *ERROR* drm/i915 can't work without intel_agp 
module!

Nouveau sets up an Nvidia card. Is there another video device on the
system? Intel? Again - this message has no consquence.


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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Stayvoid]

 I wonder if nuvó supports that card.
It's supported: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames#NV50

 1/ Disable KMS (append nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel line of GRUB)
Are you talking about GRUB legacy (1)? I'm using the second version.


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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Stayvoid]

 Is there another video device on the system? Intel?
Yep. Intel HD.


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Re: Several errors on the start up

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:04:06 +0300, Stayvoid wrote:

 I'm using gNewSense (it's a Debian-based distro).

I wonder if gNewSense have a dedicated mailing list... hum, it seems that 
yes ;-)

http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/JoingNewSense
 
 Could you help me with these errors:
 [drm: i915_init] *ERROR* drm/i915 can't work without intel_agp module! 
 i8042: No controller found
 uhci_hcd :00:1a.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI :00:1a.0 
 setup! 
 uhci_hcd :00:1a.0: init :00:1a.0 fail, -19 
 uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI :00:1d.0 
 setup!
 uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: init :00:1d.0 fail, -19

Despite the messages, what's the problem you are experiencing? No video 
output?
 
 Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...

This is a known issue. You can safely omit the warning.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495674

 Let me know if you need any additional information.
 
 Yep, I've tried some solutions from the Web, but it didn't work out.

What did you try exactly?

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Several errors on the start up

[Stayvoid]

Hi!

I'm using gNewSense (it's a Debian-based distro).

Could you help me with these errors:
[drm: i915_init] *ERROR* drm/i915 can't work without intel_agp module!
i8042: No controller found
uhci_hcd :00:1a.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI :00:1a.0 setup!
uhci_hcd :00:1a.0: init :00:1a.0 fail, -19
uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI :00:1d.0 setup!
uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: init :00:1d.0 fail, -19

Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...

Let me know if you need any additional information.

Yep, I've tried some solutions from the Web, but it didn't work out.


Cheers.


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Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

[Steven Rosenberg]

On 07/07/2011 06:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote:

On 07/07/11 at 06:11pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote:

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, William Hopkinswe.hopk...@gmail.comwrote:


On 07/07/11 at 05:35pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote:

Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on

occasion.


In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my
own config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away.

I want to start some services specifically in Fvwm, not in any (or
every) other window manager.

Where (and how) do I start services/daemons in Fvwm without
disabling the Debian-generated Fvwm configuration?


Can you give me an example of what you mean? Usually you use your
.fvwm/config
file and you can optionally source the system-wide stuff from there.


When I create ~.fvwm/config, all the Debian menus go away.

How can I have a config file AND the auto-generated configuration and menus
from Debian ... AND preserve my config change when I log out and in again?


[corrected top-posting]

You include the debian menu in your local menu someplace, usually.
   Try:
   'Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook'



That sounds like a pretty good solution. I will give it a try.


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How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

[Steven Rosenberg]

Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on occasion.

In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my own 
config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away.


I want to start some services specifically in Fvwm, not in any (or 
every) other window manager.


Where (and how) do I start services/daemons in Fvwm without disabling 
the Debian-generated Fvwm configuration?



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Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

[William Hopkins]

On 07/07/11 at 05:35pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
 Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on occasion.
 
 In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my
 own config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away.
 
 I want to start some services specifically in Fvwm, not in any (or
 every) other window manager.
 
 Where (and how) do I start services/daemons in Fvwm without
 disabling the Debian-generated Fvwm configuration?
 
Can you give me an example of what you mean? Usually you use your .fvwm/config
file and you can optionally source the system-wide stuff from there.

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Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

[Steven Rosenberg]

When I create ~.fvwm/config, all the Debian menus go away.

How can I have a config file AND the auto-generated configuration and menus
from Debian ... AND preserve my config change when I log out and in again?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 07/07/11 at 05:35pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
  Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on
 occasion.
 
  In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my
  own config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away.
 
  I want to start some services specifically in Fvwm, not in any (or
  every) other window manager.
 
  Where (and how) do I start services/daemons in Fvwm without
  disabling the Debian-generated Fvwm configuration?

 Can you give me an example of what you mean? Usually you use your
 .fvwm/config
 file and you can optionally source the system-wide stuff from there.

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Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

[William Hopkins]

On 07/07/11 at 06:11pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.comwrote:
 
  On 07/07/11 at 05:35pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
   Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on
  occasion.
  
   In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my
   own config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away.
  
   I want to start some services specifically in Fvwm, not in any (or
   every) other window manager.
  
   Where (and how) do I start services/daemons in Fvwm without
   disabling the Debian-generated Fvwm configuration?
 
  Can you give me an example of what you mean? Usually you use your
  .fvwm/config
  file and you can optionally source the system-wide stuff from there.
 
 When I create ~.fvwm/config, all the Debian menus go away.
 
 How can I have a config file AND the auto-generated configuration and menus
 from Debian ... AND preserve my config change when I log out and in again?

[corrected top-posting]

You include the debian menu in your local menu someplace, usually. 
  Try:
  'Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook'

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Re: Slow sendmail start up

[T o n g]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:17:11 +, Camaleón wrote:

 There is an extremely long delay when sendmail first start up, right
 when:
 
  Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmail
 
 The googled answer that I get is to put in startic IP, or use full host
 name, but this is a live system. Is there any other way to solve it?
 
 (...)
 
 It seems to be a common issue (meaning: I also experience that delay
 with Exim).
 
 Check if that helps . . . 

Thanks a lot Camaleón, you really know how to search. :-)

On the not so light side of the issue, no, playing with the /etc/
resolv.conf setup didn't work for me. This is a live system, and I get 
IP from pump, which in turn tampers my well prepared /etc/resolv.conf 
file before MTA get started. 

Well, at least I have a solution -- reverting to full host name in /etc/
hosts  /etc/hostname, the ugliest solution, but the best I get so far...

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Re: Slow sendmail start up

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:54:55 +, T o n g wrote:

 There is an extremely long delay when sendmail first start up, right
 when:
 
  Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmail
 
 The googled answer that I get is to put in startic IP, or use full host
 name, but this is a live system. Is there any other way to solve it?

(...)

It seems to be a common issue (meaning: I also experience that delay with 
Exim).

Check if that helps:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/bittner-195120/howto-fix-long-boot-delay-with-starting-mta-common-issue-2882/

Especially, the /etc/resolv.conf setup may be useful.

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Slow sendmail start up

[T o n g]

Hi,

There is an extremely long delay when sendmail first start up, right when:

 Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmail

The googled answer that I get is to put in startic IP, or use full host 
name, but this is a live system. Is there any other way to solve it?

Moreover, I just can't understand the

 can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue-client/): Permission denied

error. 

Please help.

Thanks

r...@depen ~ # cat /var/log/mail.log
Sep 24 23:14:30 depen sm-mta[2268]: My unqualified host name (depen) 
unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep 24 23:14:31 depen sm-msp-queue[2275]: My unqualified host name (depen) 
unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep 24 23:15:30 depen sm-mta[2268]: unable to qualify my own domain name 
(depen) -- using short name
Sep 24 23:15:30 depen sm-mta[2278]: starting daemon (8.14.3): SMTP
+queue...@00:10:00
Sep 24 23:15:31 depen sm-msp-queue[2275]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (depen) -- using short name
Sep 24 23:15:31 depen sm-msp-queue[2275]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(UID0): can not 
chdir(/var/spool/mqueue-client/): Permission denied

r...@depen ~ # ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue-client/
drwxrws--- 2 smmsp smmsp 3 2010-07-17 06:46 /var/spool/mqueue-client//

r...@depen ~ # head -1 /etc/hostname /etc/hosts
== /etc/hostname ==
depen

== /etc/hosts ==
127.0.0.1   depenlocalhost

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Re: kopete start-up default status (yahoo protocol)

[Rares Aioanei]

Thanks Andrei, but since my main machine died yesterday, I can't really
do the suggested things. However, will do as soon as I get my box 
up'n'running.


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kopete start-up default status (yahoo protocol)

[Debian]

Hi all, 

What I'm trying to find out here is if I encountered a
feature or a bug : I use testing/unstable on my main machine and using kopete 
for yahoo! messenger, quite
popular around here. I set up kopete's default status
to be 'online', and in previous versions this meant that I was automatically 
logged in. Now with the same setup when I start kopete, the initial status is 
'offline' and I have to manually change status to 'online'. Anyone else 
encountered this?

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Re: kopete start-up default status (yahoo protocol)

[Andrei Popescu]

On Jo, 08 iul 10, 14:23:57, Debian wrote:
 
 Hi all, 
 
 What I'm trying to find out here is if I encountered a
 feature or a bug : I use testing/unstable on my main machine and using 
 kopete for yahoo! messenger, quite
 popular around here.

Unfortunately... I've been advertising Gtalk as much as possible, at 
least it uses XMPP which is a free protocol.

 I set up kopete's default status
 to be 'online', and in previous versions this meant that I was 
 automatically logged in. Now with the same setup when I start kopete, 
 the initial status is 'offline' and I have to manually change status 
 to 'online'. Anyone else encountered this?

I have seen this myself in the past, but haven't used kopete in a while. 
Let's see... No, it's working correctly. I'm using 4.4.4-1 from sid 
(should be the same in testing).

Try starting it from a terminal, maybe there are hints. Is pidgin 
connecting ok? What version of kopete? I think I recall you're on 
testing, but I might be wrong.

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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[Brian Marshall]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:01:40PM +0100, AG wrote:
 Brian Marshall wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:25:44AM +0100, AG wrote:
 [snip]
   
 Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I
 have to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually.
 

 If you want to stop gnome-screensaver from starting automatically,
 setting the the gconf pref
 /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver to false
 should work.

   
 AG
 

   

 Thanks Brian - that sounds about right.  How do I access that switch?  I  
 have gconf listed in /etc and /usr/share but beyond this in  
 /usr/share/gconf there are sub-directories which seem to contain a  
 number of xml files with the suffix *.schemas

 Cheers

 AG

Sorry I haven't replied, my hard drive died so I haven't had a chance.

gconf-editor is the graphical program for changing gconf entries. There's
also the non-interactive gconftool-2.

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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[AG]

Brian Marshall wrote:

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:25:44AM +0100, AG wrote:
[snip]
  

Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I
have to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually.



If you want to stop gnome-screensaver from starting automatically,
setting the the gconf pref
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver to false
should work.

  

AG



  


Thanks Brian - that sounds about right.  How do I access that switch?  I 
have gconf listed in /etc and /usr/share but beyond this in 
/usr/share/gconf there are sub-directories which seem to contain a 
number of xml files with the suffix *.schemas


Cheers

AG

GNOME settings on start up

[AG]

Hello list  happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-)

I am having a bit of a problem with the services that GNOME triggers on 
start up, and would like some ideas on how to fix these.


I really have come to like GNOME as a DE and I know that it is bloated, 
but the UI is easy on the eyes, adaptable and customisable and it 
generally stays out of the way (except for a footprint which, on more 
memory-laden modern machines is not the problem it used to be).  Anyway, 
one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is 
triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being 
configured to kick in after 20 minutes of inactivity, it doesn't.  I 
also prefer the xscreensaver which can be configured to lock the screen 
after a bit and does so reliably.


Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I have 
to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually.  Using the 
session options (i.e. System - Preferences - Session Preferences - 
Startup Programs) does not fix the issue; similarly, whilst I have kmail 
and korganizer selected to start at session start up these don't 
automatically start either.


I am thinking that there must be a configuration file somewhere, but I 
cannot find it so that I can change these settings through the 
configuration file directly rather than through a user window/ dialogue 
box.  What is that file called and is it possible to change these 
settings at that level?  If not, what are my alternatives?


Thanks for your input.

AG


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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[Klistvud]

Dne, 17. 08. 2009 10:25:44 je AG napisal(a):
 Hello list  happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-)
 
 I am having a bit of a problem with the services that GNOME triggers
 on 
 start up, and would like some ideas on how to fix these.
 
 I really have come to like GNOME as a DE and I know that it is
 bloated, 
 but the UI is easy on the eyes, adaptable and customisable and it 
 generally stays out of the way (except for a footprint which, on more 
 memory-laden modern machines is not the problem it used to be). 
 Anyway, 
 one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is 
 triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being 
 configured to kick in after 20 minutes of inactivity, it doesn't.  I 
 also prefer the xscreensaver which can be configured to lock the
 screen 
 after a bit and does so reliably.
 
 Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I
 have 
 to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually.  Using the 
 session options (i.e. System - Preferences - Session Preferences - 
 Startup Programs) does not fix the issue; similarly, whilst I have
 kmail 
 and korganizer selected to start at session start up these don't 
 automatically start either.
 
 I am thinking that there must be a configuration file somewhere, but 
 I
 
 cannot find it so that I can change these settings through the 
 configuration file directly rather than through a user window/
 dialogue 
 box.  What is that file called and is it possible to change these 
 settings at that level?  If not, what are my alternatives?
 
 Thanks for your input.
 
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I don't think this is the easiest way. Instead of trying to reconfigure 
the Gnome session as such, you should probably check out your settings 
in System  Preferences  Screensaver and configure them accordingly. 
As for programs not starting at start up, I'd start them manually and 
then, whilst they're running, select the third tab of the Sessions 
settings dialog and click on Remember the currently running 
programs (or something like that, my Gnome is localized to Slovenian) 
-- that way, you should obtain a working session that you can further 
refine manually. Remember, there are 3 tabs in the Sessions dialog, and 
each one of them is important. The first tab lets you select on the fly 
which of the listed programs to actually run at startup -- you select 
those by ticking them. The unticked ones won't run. The second tab lets 
you define the priority of the programs and their mode (or style). 
Although it says Current sessions, the settings are actually valid 
for the following sessions as well. Lower numbers mean higher priority, 
so that you will want your metacity process to have a priority of, say, 
20 as opposed to 50 which seems to be the default. Also, the right 
style (Normal|Restart|Trash|Settings) must be selected for each 
process. I'm afraid you'll have to do plenty of trial-and-error ... ;) 
I know I did.

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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[Chris Burkhardt]

AG wrote:
 Hello list  happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-)
 
[...]

 Anyway,
 one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is
 triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being
 configured to kick in after 20 minutes of inactivity, it doesn't.  I
 also prefer the xscreensaver which can be configured to lock the screen
 after a bit and does so reliably.

You can use xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver:

aptitude remove gnome-screensaver
aptitude install xscreensaver

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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[AG]

Chris Burkhardt wrote:

AG wrote:
  

Hello list  happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-)



[...]

  

Anyway,
one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is
triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being
configured to kick in after 20 minutes of inactivity, it doesn't.  I
also prefer the xscreensaver which can be configured to lock the screen
after a bit and does so reliably.



You can use xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver:

aptitude remove gnome-screensaver
aptitude install xscreensaver

- Chris


  

Chris

Considered doing that, but without some switch magik, apt wants to 
remove the whole kit and kaboodle of GNOME, which is not what I wanted.


So, although the most obvious solution, it won't work.

Cheers

AG

Re: GNOME settings on start up

[AG]

Klistvud wrote:

Dne, 17. 08. 2009 10:25:44 je AG napisal(a):
  

Hello list  happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-)

I am having a bit of a problem with the services that GNOME triggers
on 
start up, and would like some ideas on how to fix these.


I really have come to like GNOME as a DE and I know that it is
bloated, 
but the UI is easy on the eyes, adaptable and customisable and it 
generally stays out of the way (except for a footprint which, on more 
memory-laden modern machines is not the problem it used to be). 
Anyway, 
one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is 
triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being 
configured to kick in after 20 minutes of inactivity, it doesn't.  I 
also prefer the xscreensaver which can be configured to lock the
screen 
after a bit and does so reliably.


Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I
have 
to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually.  Using the 
session options (i.e. System - Preferences - Session Preferences - 
Startup Programs) does not fix the issue; similarly, whilst I have
kmail 
and korganizer selected to start at session start up these don't 
automatically start either.


I am thinking that there must be a configuration file somewhere, but 
I


cannot find it so that I can change these settings through the 
configuration file directly rather than through a user window/
dialogue 
box.  What is that file called and is it possible to change these 
settings at that level?  If not, what are my alternatives?


Thanks for your input.

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I don't think this is the easiest way. Instead of trying to reconfigure 
the Gnome session as such, you should probably check out your settings 
in System  Preferences  Screensaver and configure them accordingly. 
As for programs not starting at start up, I'd start them manually and 
then, whilst they're running, select the third tab of the Sessions 
settings dialog and click on Remember the currently running 
programs (or something like that, my Gnome is localized to Slovenian) 
-- that way, you should obtain a working session that you can further 
refine manually. Remember, there are 3 tabs in the Sessions dialog, and 
each one of them is important. The first tab lets you select on the fly 
which of the listed programs to actually run at startup -- you select 
those by ticking them. The unticked ones won't run. The second tab lets 
you define the priority of the programs and their mode (or style). 
Although it says Current sessions, the settings are actually valid 
for the following sessions as well. Lower numbers mean higher priority, 
so that you will want your metacity process to have a priority of, say, 
20 as opposed to 50 which seems to be the default. Also, the right 
style (Normal|Restart|Trash|Settings) must be selected for each 
process. I'm afraid you'll have to do plenty of trial-and-error ... ;) 
I know I did.


  
Those are reasonable suggestions.  However, having done this on previous 
sessions it seems that what I select to remember in a current session is 
largely forgotten by the next session login.  Hence my frustration and 
interest in getting to the heart of the config file if at all possible.


Cheers

AG

Re: GNOME settings on start up

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-08-17 15:28, AG wrote:
[snip]


Considered doing that, but without some switch magik, apt wants to 
remove the whole kit and kaboodle of GNOME, which is not what I wanted.


So, although the most obvious solution, it won't work.


That's odd...

# apt-get -s purge gnome-screensaver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no 
longer required:

  rss-glx
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-screensaver*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 151 not upgraded.
Purg gnome-screensaver [2.26.1-2]


But then, I don't have gdm or the meta-packages gnome and 
gnome-desktop-environment installed, either.


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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 16:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
 On 2009-08-17 15:28, AG wrote:
 [snip]
  
  Considered doing that, but without some switch magik, apt wants to 
  remove the whole kit and kaboodle of GNOME, which is not what I wanted.
  
  So, although the most obvious solution, it won't work.
 
 That's odd...
 
 # apt-get -s purge gnome-screensaver
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 The following packages were automatically installed and are no 
 longer required:
rss-glx
 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-screensaver*
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 151 not upgraded.
 Purg gnome-screensaver [2.26.1-2]
 
 
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Based on my experiences with this, gnome-desktop-environment requires
gnome-screensaver; however, you can remove remove the DE and
gnome-screensaver and continue to use gnome.  Simply reinstall any
desired packages that are removed with the DE.

HTH

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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[Brian Marshall]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:25:44AM +0100, AG wrote:
[snip]
 Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I
 have to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually.

If you want to stop gnome-screensaver from starting automatically,
setting the the gconf pref
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver to false
should work.

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strange app start-up slowness

[prad]

using lenny, some apps particularly gnome-terminal starts slowly
1s or more - new tabs here can take nearly 2s.

emacs takes 1-2s on initial startup and then about 1s afterwards.

(firefox starts slowly but new instances appear very quickly - so not a
problem.)

it is peculiar because the behaviour isn't consistent.

the machine is a compaq presario sr1920nx (amd64), with 512M (2 matched
256M) ram. graphics card is nvidia ge-force 6150 128M, but the fan is
broken - seems to work fine though. we run compiz, but metacity isn't
any faster.

running tops with out any apps open show memory usage at 494M without
any applications being open.

gnome-terminal is the biggest problem and i couldn't find anything all
over the net about startup slowness.

also, sometimes exiting the system (restart or shutdown) can take
several minutes just to get out of the desktop screen (though things
seem to speed up if i ctrl-alt-F1 into a terminal) - sometimes it
happens within a few seconds.

any ideas as to why gnome-terminal is so slow?

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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Russ Cook]

Mr. Wang Long wrote:

Dear all,

After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.

Indeed it is difficult to locate the problem, because I cannot find an
options like -verbose or -debug to obtain more information: the
man page of ooffice is for OOo version 2, and ooffice -help lists
little useful options.

I tried ooffice -nologo, then tried to rename the folder
~/.openoffice.org/, then tried to remove package
openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome, but none of those
efforts works.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Best Regards,
Wang Long


  
I don't know if this is the same problem, but yesterday I just fixed a 
related issue on my system
(AMD64, Sid).  When trying to start OpenOffice from the pull-down menu 
in Gnome, I got the
please wait clock symbol, but the program never started.  Running 
sudo apt-cache showpkg openoffice.org revealed many missing modules, 
including openoffice.org-writer, which prevented
the word processor from running (it wasn't installed).  The problem was 
solved by running sudo apt-get install -reinstall openoffice.org .


Don't know if this problem is the same as yours, but thought I'd offer 
it as something to check.

Good luck.


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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

Mr. Wang Long wrote:
 After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
 with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
 splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.

Did it work before with other 3.0.x?

 Any ideas? Thanks!

Yes, your name sounds chinese or at least from some other asian country.
Do you use some input method?

Can it be you ran into the known X bug?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511178 + the ones merged with 
it
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511063
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517861

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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Mr. Wang Long]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 16:45, Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org wrote:
 Hi,

 Mr. Wang Long wrote:
 After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
 with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
 splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.

 Did it work before with other 3.0.x?

 Any ideas? Thanks!

 Yes, your name sounds chinese or at least from some other asian country.
 Do you use some input method?

 Can it be you ran into the known X bug?

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511178 + the ones merged 
 with it
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511063
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517861

 Grüße/Regards,

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Thank you very much! Indeed I use scim-bridge as IM, and that was the
problem: the command unset GTK_IM_MODULE; ooffice launched OOo
successfully.

Since I installed scim-bridge-agent without
scim-bridge-client-gtk, currently GTK_IM_MODULE=xim. After I
installed scim-bridge-client-gtk and changed GTK_IM_MODULE into
scim-bridge, the problem was solved. It seems that the latest OOo does
not like the xim module.

This problem was not found in previous version of OOo.

Thank you again,
Wang Long


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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Mr. Wang Long]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 17:11, Mr. Wang Long mr.wang.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 16:45, Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org wrote:
 Do you use some input method?

 Can it be you ran into the known X bug?

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511178 + the ones merged 
 with it
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511063
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517861

 Thank you very much! Indeed I use scim-bridge as IM, and that was the
 problem: the command unset GTK_IM_MODULE; ooffice launched OOo
 successfully.

 Since I installed scim-bridge-agent without
 scim-bridge-client-gtk, currently GTK_IM_MODULE=xim. After I
 installed scim-bridge-client-gtk and changed GTK_IM_MODULE into
 scim-bridge, the problem was solved. It seems that the latest OOo does
 not like the xim module.

 This problem was not found in previous version of OOo.


Update:
The problem seems come back if I turn on the systray quickstarter.
Fortunately this is a minor issue.

// Now I'm really expecting the new IM called ibus, which is
supposed to have less compatibility issue than scim family.

Regards,
Wang Long


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OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Mr. Wang Long]

Dear all,

After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.

Indeed it is difficult to locate the problem, because I cannot find an
options like -verbose or -debug to obtain more information: the
man page of ooffice is for OOo version 2, and ooffice -help lists
little useful options.

I tried ooffice -nologo, then tried to rename the folder
~/.openoffice.org/, then tried to remove package
openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome, but none of those
efforts works.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Best Regards,
Wang Long


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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Greg Madden]

On Thursday 05 March 2009, Mr. Wang Long wrote:
 Dear all,

 After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
 with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
 splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.

 Indeed it is difficult to locate the problem, because I cannot find an
 options like -verbose or -debug to obtain more information: the
 man page of ooffice is for OOo version 2, and ooffice -help lists
 little useful options.

 I tried ooffice -nologo, then tried to rename the folder
 ~/.openoffice.org/, then tried to remove package
 openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome, but none of those
 efforts works.

 Any ideas? Thanks!

 Best Regards,
 Wang Long

Sometimes starting an app from a terminal, cli, will have relevant output. 

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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Mr. Wang Long]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 13:17, Greg Madden gomadtr...@acsalaska.net wrote:
 On Thursday 05 March 2009, Mr. Wang Long wrote:
 After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
 with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
 splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.

 Sometimes starting an app from a terminal, cli, will have relevant output.

Thank you for your kindly suggestion, but I tried that already, and
got no output at all.
By the way, I'm not very sure what is cli ... Is it means command
line? Thank you.
 --
 Peace

 Greg Madden


Regards,
Wang Long


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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Celejar]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:58:45 +0800
Mr. Wang Long mr.wang.l...@gmail.com wrote:

...

 By the way, I'm not very sure what is cli ... Is it means command
 line? Thank you.

Command Line Interface.

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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Kelly Clowers]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 19:10, Mr. Wang Long mr.wang.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all,

 After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
 with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
 splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.

 Indeed it is difficult to locate the problem, because I cannot find an
 options like -verbose or -debug to obtain more information: the
 man page of ooffice is for OOo version 2, and ooffice -help lists
 little useful options.

 I tried ooffice -nologo, then tried to rename the folder
 ~/.openoffice.org/, then tried to remove package
 openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome, but none of those
 efforts works.

 Any ideas? Thanks!

Just reporting I have the same issue for the last several version of
OO (from experimental). Invoking from CLI gives no info. I couldn't
even get anything useful from gbd, but I think that is just because
I don't really understand gdb (-dbg packages where installed).
I don't do a lot of research, or file a bug, because I don't really
need OO,


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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Re: stopping rhythmbox from coming up at start up

[Daniel Dalton]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:40:03PM +0200, Juha Tuuna wrote:
 There are many places that you make your programs start when you login/start
 session/etc
 I'd run grep -ir rhythmbox ~ | less and grab a cup of coffee.

Indeed :-)

Thanks, I'll try that... And see what happens.

Thanks for the reply, and sorry about the delay, email was down...

Have a good one

Danny


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Re: stopping rhythmbox from coming up at start up

[Juha Tuuna]

Daniel Dalton wrote:
 Hi,
 
 How can I stop rhythmbox from coming up at startup? I already checked
 the sessions or startup pages in gnome, but rhythmbox isn't there... What
 files start programs when a user logs in?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Danny
 
 

There are many places that you make your programs start when you login/start
session/etc
I'd run grep -ir rhythmbox ~ | less and grab a cup of coffee.

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stopping rhythmbox from coming up at start up

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

How can I stop rhythmbox from coming up at startup? I already checked
the sessions or startup pages in gnome, but rhythmbox isn't there... What
files start programs when a user logs in?

Thanks,

Danny


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help with debian start-up freezing

[James Smith]

Debian sarge k2.6
 
 Startup stuck on starting openbsd secure shell server...
 
 I had done a 'apt-get upgrade' and on reboot, debian gets stuck on Starting 
openbsd secure shell server: sshd
 
 And In recovery mode, restarting the computer, it gets stuck on stopping 
openbsd secure shell server: sshd
 
 i removed ssh, but now it freezes after starting up samba daemons
 
 I don't know what causes it. This has been my second debian install with this 
problem. 
 
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Re: help with debian start-up freezing

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:22:53PM -0800, James Smith wrote:
 Debian sarge k2.6
  
  Startup stuck on starting openbsd secure shell server...
  
  I had done a 'apt-get upgrade' and on reboot, debian gets stuck on Starting 
 openbsd secure shell server: sshd
  
  And In recovery mode, restarting the computer, it gets stuck on stopping 
 openbsd secure shell server: sshd
  
  i removed ssh, but now it freezes after starting up samba daemons

this is likely some networking problem that is causing theses network
services to bomb. First, does it get stuck forever? how long have
you waited? I would think these things should time out eventually, but
maybe not. 

you can boot up a live cd (the installer would work too, probably) and
chroot into the install, use update-rc.d to remove the problem
services one a time til you can get a good boot. Then sort your
networking and bring the services back online.

of course, from the live cd/chroot, you can probably just figure out
your networking problem and solve it without ever having to disable
any services. also, you can view the logs... 

send us any relevant log messages and contents of
/etc/network/interfaces.

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Re: help with debian start-up freezing

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:57:20PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:22:53PM -0800, James Smith wrote:
   Startup stuck on starting openbsd secure shell server...
   i removed ssh, but now it freezes after starting up samba daemons
 
 this is likely some networking problem that is causing theses network
 services to bomb. First, does it get stuck forever? how long have
 you waited? I would think these things should time out eventually, but
 maybe not. 
 
 you can boot up a live cd (the installer would work too, probably) and
 chroot into the install, use update-rc.d to remove the problem
 services one a time til you can get a good boot. Then sort your
 networking and bring the services back online.
 

Without a live CD you can boot single.  Networking comes up under
/etc/rcS.d, whereas ssh comes up under /etc/rc2.d.  Once you're in
single user mode, you can cd into /etc/rc2.d and start each script in
turn, skipping any that make sense to skip until you narrow down the
culprits.  

Doug.


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Bacula start up issue

[Graham Smith]

Hi,

I installed Bacula yesterday which was a painful experience because I 
mistakenly answered no when it asked me if I wanted to install the 
database. Anyway, I installed the database by hand, configured Bacula 
and went to fire it up.


Running /etc/init.d/bacula-director start gives me a pid file in 
/var/run/bacula for the director but a ps + grep for the process id 
turns up nothing. There are no error messages on start up and there is 
nothing in the syslog nor the /var/log/bacula directory. The process 
just seems to silently exit.


To confuse me further if I run bacula-dir -c 
/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf as root form a command prompt the director 
starts fine. If I add the -u bacula -g bacula arguments, as the init 
script does, then the director fails to start.


Any ideas what's going on?

Many thanks, Graham


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Re: Bacula start up issue

[Graham Smith]

Graham Smith wrote:

Hi,

I installed Bacula yesterday which was a painful experience because I 
mistakenly answered no when it asked me if I wanted to install the 
database. Anyway, I installed the database by hand, configured Bacula 
and went to fire it up.


Running /etc/init.d/bacula-director start gives me a pid file in 
/var/run/bacula for the director but a ps + grep for the process id 
turns up nothing. There are no error messages on start up and there is 
nothing in the syslog nor the /var/log/bacula directory. The process 
just seems to silently exit.


To confuse me further if I run bacula-dir -c 
/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf as root form a command prompt the director 
starts fine. If I add the -u bacula -g bacula arguments, as the init 
script does, then the director fails to start.


Any ideas what's going on?

Many thanks, Graham




Replying to my own post but hey

I've figured out what the problem was. I had changed the working 
directory for the director and forgotten to give the baclua user write 
permission to it. It would have been nice if the director had died in a 
noisy way rather than silently though.


Graham


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synaptics touchpad forgets configuration at start up

[roy . nico]

Hej everybody,

i have some troubles with my synaptics touchpad. Namely, by default it
has a feature which i don't like (a sort of scrollling, when i touch
the bottom part of the pad). I can switch it off, by running gsynaptics
as root, and then uncheck activate horizontal/vertical scrolling
(translation from french). This works perfectly, but this setting is
forgotten as soon as i reboot.

Some idea will be welcome,

configuration  :debian testing, kde, Xorg 

regards, 

nicolas


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Re: synaptics touchpad forgets configuration at start up

[Goran]

You need to edit your x-driver configuration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I
mean the section inputdevice which controls your mouse. Attach some
synaptics-specific configurations there. You'll find my configuration
stated below.

Bye

Goran


Section InputDevice
Identifier  Mouse0
Driver  synaptics
Option  Device/dev/psaux
Option  Protocol  auto-dev
Option  SHMConfig on
Option  LeftEdge  120
Option  RightEdge 830
Option  TopEdge   120
Option  BottomEdge650
Option  FingerLow 14
Option  FingerHigh15
Option  MaxTapTime180
Option  MaxTapMove110
Option  MaxDoubleTapTime  180
Option  ClickTime 100
Option  EmulateMidButtonTime  75
Option  VertScrollDelta   20
Option  HorizScrollDelta  20
Option  MinSpeed  0.2
Option  MaxSpeed  0.5
Option  AccelFactor   0.01
Option  EdgeMotionMinZ30
Option  EdgeMotionMaxZ160
Option  EdgeMotionMinSpeed15
Option  EdgeMotionMaxSpeed30
Option  EdgeMotionUseAlways   0
Option  UpDownScrolling   1
Option  TouchpadOff   0
Option  GuestMouseOff 1
Option  LockedDrags   0
Option  RTCornerButton2
Option  RBCornerButton3
Option  LTCornerButton0
Option  LBCornerButton0
Option  TapButton11
Option  TapButton22
Option  TapButton33
Option  CircularScrolling 1
Option  CircScrollDelta   0.1
Option  CircScrollTrigger 8
Option  CircularPad   0
Option  CorePointer   true
EndSection


Am Dienstag, den 17.10.2006, 04:59 -0700 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Hej everybody,
 
 i have some troubles with my synaptics touchpad. Namely, by default it
 has a feature which i don't like (a sort of scrollling, when i touch
 the bottom part of the pad). I can switch it off, by running gsynaptics
 as root, and then uncheck activate horizontal/vertical scrolling
 (translation from french). This works perfectly, but this setting is
 forgotten as soon as i reboot.
 
 Some idea will be welcome,
 
 configuration  :debian testing, kde, Xorg 
 
 regards, 
 
 nicolas
 
 


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Re: start up problems

[Mark Grieveson]

Before a guru jumps in with the right answer, maybe I can at least
point you in the right direction. See below.

Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  
 Hello.  I use Etch, and occasionally run into some start up problems.  
 As it's booting, it will read something like this:
 
 PPDEV: user-space parallel port driver



Do you need the parallel port? If not, you could blacklist the relevant
module
  


No, I don't need the parallel port; so, this is probably a good idea.  
I'm not sure how to do this, though.


  

 DROPPED IN= OUT=PPRO PREC= MAC= SRC=123 456 789  ...



This looks like a message from the firewall. Did you activate it? What
frontend (shorewall, firestarter, ...)?
  


Yes, I did activate it.  It's Guarddog that I'm using.  Occasionally 
errors are reported with the firewall when it starts, too.


  
 And it just continues like this.  Eventually it will load, but it won't 
 connect to my adsl, and everything runs very slowly.  Rebooting 
 sometimes helps, and unplugging, and then replugging my adsl modem also 
 helps in re-establishing the connection.  It usually occurs after 
 loading this ppdev parallel port driver.
 
 Is there something I can do about this?  Am I missing a library, or 
 package, or something that will prevent this?  Sometimes it boots up 
 fine, and I don't have to worry about it.  But more often then not I 
 have to reboot it (sometimes reboot numerous times) before it loads 
 correctly.
 
 Mark



You should specify the type of ADSL, how did you configure it, when did
these problems start to appear (new package/hardware/application?), ...
Googleing for the error messages also works most of the time.
  


Ever since I got Etch going, I've been having these problems.  I 
configured the ADSL with pppoeconf.  I've not been able to use 
etherconf, for some reason.  I'm not sure what type of ADSL it is.  It's 
a phone line, if that's what you mean.  I was unable to use netinstall, 
because the connection is only recognized after running pppoeconf (this 
was true with Sarge, and it's true with all LiveCDs, ie, Knoppix or 
Ubuntu, as well). 



Regards,
Andrei


Thanks for your response,
Mark


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Re: start up problems

[Andrei Popescu]

Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Before a guru jumps in with the right answer, maybe I can at least
  point you in the right direction. See below.
 
  Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

   Hello.  I use Etch, and occasionally run into some start up problems.  
   As it's booting, it will read something like this:
   
   PPDEV: user-space parallel port driver
  
 
  Do you need the parallel port? If not, you could blacklist the relevant
  module

 
 No, I don't need the parallel port; so, this is probably a good idea.  
 I'm not sure how to do this, though.

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

   DROPPED IN= OUT=PPRO PREC= MAC= SRC=123 456 789  ...
  
 
  This looks like a message from the firewall. Did you activate it? What
  frontend (shorewall, firestarter, ...)?

 
 Yes, I did activate it.  It's Guarddog that I'm using.  Occasionally 
 errors are reported with the firewall when it starts, too.

You should make sure that the firewall is started *after* the internet
connection


   And it just continues like this.  Eventually it will load, but it won't 
   connect to my adsl, and everything runs very slowly.  Rebooting 
   sometimes helps, and unplugging, and then replugging my adsl modem also 
   helps in re-establishing the connection.  It usually occurs after 
   loading this ppdev parallel port driver.
   
   Is there something I can do about this?  Am I missing a library, or 
   package, or something that will prevent this?  Sometimes it boots up 
   fine, and I don't have to worry about it.  But more often then not I 
   have to reboot it (sometimes reboot numerous times) before it loads 
   correctly.
   
   Mark
  
 
  You should specify the type of ADSL, how did you configure it, when did
  these problems start to appear (new package/hardware/application?), ...
  Googleing for the error messages also works most of the time.

 
 Ever since I got Etch going, I've been having these problems.  I 
 configured the ADSL with pppoeconf.  I've not been able to use 
 etherconf, for some reason.  I'm not sure what type of ADSL it is.  It's 
 a phone line, if that's what you mean.  I was unable to use netinstall, 
 because the connection is only recognized after running pppoeconf (this 
 was true with Sarge, and it's true with all LiveCDs, ie, Knoppix or 
 Ubuntu, as well). 
 
 
  Regards,
  Andrei
 
 Thanks for your response,
 Mark

I'm not an expert on ADSL and besides, I have a USB modem, so I don't
think I can help you further then the two pointers above.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: start up problems

[Andrei Popescu]

Before a guru jumps in with the right answer, maybe I can at least
point you in the right direction. See below.

Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello.  I use Etch, and occasionally run into some start up problems.  
 As it's booting, it will read something like this:
 
 PPDEV: user-space parallel port driver

Do you need the parallel port? If not, you could blacklist the relevant
module

 DROPPED IN= OUT=PPRO PREC= MAC= SRC=123 456 789  ...

This looks like a message from the firewall. Did you activate it? What
frontend (shorewall, firestarter, ...)?

 And it just continues like this.  Eventually it will load, but it won't 
 connect to my adsl, and everything runs very slowly.  Rebooting 
 sometimes helps, and unplugging, and then replugging my adsl modem also 
 helps in re-establishing the connection.  It usually occurs after 
 loading this ppdev parallel port driver.
 
 Is there something I can do about this?  Am I missing a library, or 
 package, or something that will prevent this?  Sometimes it boots up 
 fine, and I don't have to worry about it.  But more often then not I 
 have to reboot it (sometimes reboot numerous times) before it loads 
 correctly.
 
 Mark

You should specify the type of ADSL, how did you configure it, when did
these problems start to appear (new package/hardware/application?), ...
Googleing for the error messages also works most of the time.


Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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start up problems

[Mark Grieveson]

Hello.  I use Etch, and occasionally run into some start up problems.  
As it's booting, it will read something like this:


PPDEV: user-space parallel port driver

DROPPED IN= OUT=PPRO PREC= MAC= SRC=123 456 789  ...

And it just continues like this.  Eventually it will load, but it won't 
connect to my adsl, and everything runs very slowly.  Rebooting 
sometimes helps, and unplugging, and then replugging my adsl modem also 
helps in re-establishing the connection.  It usually occurs after 
loading this ppdev parallel port driver.


Is there something I can do about this?  Am I missing a library, or 
package, or something that will prevent this?  Sometimes it boots up 
fine, and I don't have to worry about it.  But more often then not I 
have to reboot it (sometimes reboot numerous times) before it loads 
correctly.


Mark


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Re: What can't CUPS start up?

[David James]

Christian,

In June of last year you said that cups was giving the error message

'StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address 7f01:631 - Cannot
assign requested address.'

I have the same problem. I could only find one reply to your question,
asking if any other process was listening to port 631. That does not
seem to be the case on my ubuntu installation and the ubuntu forum has
not come up with any answer.

Did you solve the problem and, if so, how? Printing is my final sticking
point before becoming a Windows free zone at home.

Regards,
David James


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keyboard lockup at start-up - after kde upgrade (3.4.2)

[Michael Bonert]

After upgrading KDE (to 3.4.2).  I started having the keyboard lockup
problem discussed here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01217.html

The work around I found for this annoying problem (reproduced below) does
not work.  

Complicating the situation is that one cannot easily drop to a virtual
console. The new login screen (after the upgrade) doesn't have the option to
drop to a console... and since the keyboard is locked it appears that one is
just plain screwed.  

After rebooting a couple of times and hoping I'd luck-out I realized that if
I frantically tap the keyboard (ctrl-alt-F1 after selecting re-start
X-server) I can sometimes drop to a virtual console.  From there I can kill
'kdm'... and if I re-start kdm the keyboard problem is gone (like in my past
experience).  This is a very crude work around. I'm looking for a definitive
fix for kdm.

Does anyone have a detailed set of instructions for licking the annoying
problem?

Nikita's post ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01217.html )
and the follow-up by Enrico Zini (
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01268.html ) seem to nail
down the problem-- but they don't get me closer to fixing it 'cause I don't
know enough about where the relevant files reside.

Thanks,
Michael



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KEYBOARD LOCK-UP BUG
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August 27, 2005

Google
search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=X%2C+keyboard+lock-upbtnG=Google+Search

Keyboard lockup after X startup; possible cause
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg01217.html

bug seems to be avoided with use of 'gdm' ???

this site gives the specific syntax for defining the virtual console
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-November/004368.html
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startx/xinit ... - vt7
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this talks about where to make the change in debian
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2001/07/msg00238.html

MODIFY THE FILE: /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers
the following line 
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Hardware:
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Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Steve Lamb]

Ian wrote:
 I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically
 pleasing, so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up
 all that (like in Mandrake 10)?

Install Mandrake?

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Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Ian wrote:
No it isn't. That's where the programmers at Debian spend their time. 
Would someone mind giving answers instead of smart-alec remarks?




http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/16ca6fa44a47247e/b75caa5bb5773ce5?lnk=stq=author:torvaldsrnum=1hl=ia#b75caa5bb5773ce5




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Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:55:10AM +0100, Mark Crean wrote:
 
 http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124
 

This article is great, but beware. The bootsplash userland packages
for Debian are miserably broken, and it took me quite a while to fix
the stuff (to force removal) and reinstall the things.

Do keep this URL at hand, for troubleshooting:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=36622max_rows=25style=nestedviewmonth=200504

And yes, bootsplash does make starting and shutdown aesthetic on
desktop machines!

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Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Ian wrote:
I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically 
pleasing, so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up 
all that (like in Mandrake 10)?




all that is where Linus Thorvalds spends his time...



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Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Ian]

I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically
pleasing, so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up
all that (like in Mandrake 10)?-- If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Ian]

No it isn't. That's where the programmers at Debian spend their time.
Would someone mind giving answers instead of smart-alec remarks?-- If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Mark Crean]

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 18:42 -0500, Ian wrote:
 No it isn't. That's where the programmers at Debian spend their time.
 Would someone mind giving answers instead of smart-alec remarks?
 
 -- 
 If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?

Perhaps this is of interest:

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124

It all worked here for a while, though their reference to grub.conf
should be /boot/grub/menu.lst, and you need to select a patch that
matches the kernel you are running. You can change the bootsplash theme
using debconf bootsplash. After installing the new ATI 3D drivers,
though, it's stopped working. Haven't looked into why yet.

:)

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Re:Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Ian]

Thank you, kind sir, for that article!-- If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?

Re: Adding a progress bar into start-up

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 03:26:22PM -0500, Ian wrote:
 I don't find the text displayed during start up too aesthetically pleasing, 
 so is there a way I can add a progress bar there to cover up all that (like 
 in Mandrake 10)?
 
What you want is to patch your kernel with bootsplash.  But, unless your
machine is a laptop, you shouldn't be needing to start it up often
enough to see the boot messages.

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Start-Up script

[Dan Priestley]

Hey everybody,
I'm looking to use my Debian machine as a digital
picture frame and I need feh to start when the machine
boots up.  All of the components are mounted behind an
LCD in a wood frame and the whole thing hangs on the
wall.  How can I make feh start during boot up so that
I dont need to have a mouse and keyboard plugged in?  
How do I write the script for that?

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Re: Start-Up script

[Angelina Carlton]

Dan Priestley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hey everybody,
 I'm looking to use my Debian machine as a digital
 picture frame and I need feh to start when the machine
 boots up.  All of the components are mounted behind an
 LCD in a wood frame and the whole thing hangs on the
 wall.  How can I make feh start during boot up so that
 I dont need to have a mouse and keyboard plugged in?  
 How do I write the script for that?


I think gdm can automatically logon a user at boot
and then use the tools provided by whatever window manger
you use to start that app full screened and focused each time.

 
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Re: What can't CUPS start up?

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:36:54AM -0400, Christian Convey wrote:
 Hi guys,
 
 I'm trying to start cupsd, but I get this error message:
 
 I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Listening to 7f01:631
 I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Loaded configuration file 
 /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
 I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Configured for up to 100 clients.
 I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Allowing up to 100 client connections per 
 host.
 I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Full reload is required.
 I [31/May/2005:15:35:00 -0400] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 2348 
 PPDs...
 I [31/May/2005:15:35:01 -0400] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
 I [31/May/2005:15:35:01 -0400] Full reload complete.
 E [31/May/2005:15:35:01 -0400] StartListening: Unable to bind socket for 
 address 7f01:631 - Cannot assign requested address.
 
 Does anyone know why I might be getting this? (cups used to work on my 
 system; I'm not sure when it stopped.)
 
Do you have something else listening on port 631?  Try netstat -tnlp 
as root.


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What can't CUPS start up?

[Christian Convey]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to start cupsd, but I get this error message:

I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Listening to 7f01:631
I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Loaded configuration file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [31/May/2005:15:34:58 -0400] Full reload is required.
I [31/May/2005:15:35:00 -0400] LoadPPDs: Read /etc/cups/ppds.dat, 2348 PPDs...
I [31/May/2005:15:35:01 -0400] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
I [31/May/2005:15:35:01 -0400] Full reload complete.
E [31/May/2005:15:35:01 -0400] StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address 
7f01:631 - Cannot assign requested address.


Does anyone know why I might be getting this? (cups used to work on my system; 
I'm not sure when it stopped.)


Thanks very much,
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Re: eclipse 3.0 don't start up on gnome 2.10

[Stoyan Stoyanov]

I had the same problems on Sarge.

I inserted my java binary dir in $PATH and it is OK now.

export PATH=/opt/java/bin:/opt/eclipse:$PATH

eclipse 

/opt/java is a soft link to my manual installation of sun java sdk 
/opt/jdk_1.5.0


I'd like to do this in my .xsession file with source of the bash profile 
file, but the first edit was not good and I haven't checked it after that.


Stoyan

David Roguin wrote:


I have eclipse 3.0 installed in my debian sid; it always worked great,
but now after installed gnome 2.10 from experimental, eclipse fail to
start up.
It shows an ugly window with that:

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/java
-cp /usr/local/eclipse/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-showsplash /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse -showsplash 600
-exitdata /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse -exitdata 958013
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-cp /usr/local/eclipse/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main 
***


Anyone knows what can it be wrong?

Thanks in advance,
rgds.



 




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eclipse 3.0 don't start up on gnome 2.10

[David Roguin]

I have eclipse 3.0 installed in my debian sid; it always worked great,
but now after installed gnome 2.10 from experimental, eclipse fail to
start up.
It shows an ugly window with that:

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/java
-cp /usr/local/eclipse/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-showsplash /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse -showsplash 600
-exitdata /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse -exitdata 958013
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-cp /usr/local/eclipse/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main 
***

Anyone knows what can it be wrong?

Thanks in advance,
rgds.

X start-up failure!!

[Kaveh Gh]

 Dear Guys,

 My problem with X is that: Whenever I choose
frame-buffer feature in setup phase, although the
xf86config settings are ok, X won't come alive and a
Fatal error related to AddScreen comes on the
output console! Whenever I DO NOT choose the frame
buffer, X comes up and sounds of X-start up are
generated, but with no video output and the screen
becomes black screen! I'm sure that all applets are
running under X. For example by pressing Alt-F1 and
moving through the main menu(in my imagine ;) ) and
pressing enter key, the read/write LED of HDD becomes
red! So, I think the problem is related to my video
Adapter. 

 My video card is NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 AGP 16MB. In all
other distributions, its detected as nv RIVA TNT2 and
mostly I choose its driver in xf86config as nv . I
had no problem with my video card in other distros. 
So, what's the problem?!




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