Bug#587171: closed by Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org (Bug#587171: fixed in openoffice.org 1:3.2.1-4)
On 30/06/10 00:57, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the openoffice.org-writer package: #587171: openoffice.org-writer: View, Zoom does not work It has been closed by Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org. Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org by replying to this email. Just did dist-upgrade and the bug is still there. packages.debian.org says it is 1:3.2.1-4, however help, about in the program itself says 1:3.2.1-3. Anyway the version I just got still has non-functional view, zoom. Other openoffice functions which open sub-windows work normally. As this bug has not yet been solved, it may have been premature to close it. Extra data: I have another computer with Ubuntu 10.04 on it; There, openoffice shows a different splash screen (Sun openoffice 3.2), and that version does not have the bug. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#587171: closed by Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org (Bug#587171: fixed in openoffice.org 1:3.2.1-4)
On 30/06/10 00:57, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the openoffice.org-writer package: #587171: openoffice.org-writer: View, Zoom does not work It has been closed by Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org. Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org by replying to this email. Just did dist-upgrade and the bug is still there. packages.debian.org says it is 1:3.2.1-4, however help, about in the program itself says 1:3.2.1-3. Anyway the version I just got still has non-functional view, zoom. Other openoffice functions which open sub-windows work normally. As this bug has not yet been solved, it may have been premature to close it. Extra data: I have another computer with Ubuntu 10.04 on it; There, openoffice shows a different splash screen (Sun openoffice 3.2), and that version does not have the bug. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-openoffice-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c2cb282.9010...@my.home
Bug#587171: openoffice.org-writer: View, Zoom does not work
On 26/06/10 09:56, Mechtilde wrote: yes I can confirm this with the Debian version of OpenOffice.org (3.2.1-5) under Squeeze/Sid the window which appears seems to be ok I am not sure we are talking about the same bug, because in my case it is definitely not OK. I am now using (according to Help, About) OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 OOO320m19 (Build:9505) ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Debian package 1:3.2.1-3 The View, Zoom window appears to be a transparent window (i.e. it shows what is underneath the window) with on the left top a small part of what seems to be a menu; however, that menu part does not do anything. Moving the Zoom window is possible; however when I move it in such a way that a part of it goes off the edge of the screen, and then back, it fails to re-paint itself correctly. I cannot make a picture of the Zoom window with the import command (from imagemagick); the imported picture becomes completely black. I cannot describe it better, sorry, but in my previous message I said that the Zoom window is seriously broken, and in my case that's what it is. My window manager is xfce (in case that is relevant). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#587171: openoffice.org-writer: View, Zoom does not work
On 26/06/10 09:56, Mechtilde wrote: yes I can confirm this with the Debian version of OpenOffice.org (3.2.1-5) under Squeeze/Sid the window which appears seems to be ok I am not sure we are talking about the same bug, because in my case it is definitely not OK. I am now using (according to Help, About) OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 OOO320m19 (Build:9505) ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Debian package 1:3.2.1-3 The View, Zoom window appears to be a transparent window (i.e. it shows what is underneath the window) with on the left top a small part of what seems to be a menu; however, that menu part does not do anything. Moving the Zoom window is possible; however when I move it in such a way that a part of it goes off the edge of the screen, and then back, it fails to re-paint itself correctly. I cannot make a picture of the Zoom window with the import command (from imagemagick); the imported picture becomes completely black. I cannot describe it better, sorry, but in my previous message I said that the Zoom window is seriously broken, and in my case that's what it is. My window manager is xfce (in case that is relevant). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-openoffice-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c2656e2.4020...@my.home
Bug#587171: openoffice.org-writer: View, Zoom does not work
Package: openoffice.org-writer Version: 1:3.2.1-3 Severity: important This bug appeared some while ago, and has persisted for several months of dist-upgrades. Click View, then Zoom. A seriously broken window appears from which it is impossible to do anything (let alone zoom the display). The window can be closed, but you cannot zoom. This makes checking the presence of small characters (like periods and commas, which are often too small to be seen on an unzoomed screen) very difficult. Regards, Jan. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5GCC support library ii libicu424.2.1-3 International Components for Unico ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d ii libwps-0.1-10.1.2-1 Works text file format import filt ii openoffice.org-base-cor 1:3.2.1-3office productivity suite -- share ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.1-3office productivity suite -- arch- ii ure 1.6.1+OOo3.2.1-3 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer recommends: ii openjdk-6-jre [java5-runtime] 6b18-1.8-2 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo ii openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.2.1-3 office productivity suite -- email ii openoffice.org-filter-binfilt 1:3.2.1-3 office productivity suite -- legac pn openoffice.org-java-commonnone (no description available) ii openoffice.org-math 1:3.2.1-3 office productivity suite -- equat Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer suggests: pn openoffice.org-base none (no description available) pn openoffice.org-gcjnone (no description available) Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on: ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libdb4.84.8.30-1 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [ ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfreetype62.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5GCC support library ii libglib2.0-02.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgraphite31:2.3.1-0.2 SILGraphite - a smart font rende ii libgstreamer-plugins-ba 0.10.29-4GStreamer libraries from the base ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.29-1Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an ii libhyphen0 2.5-1ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libicu424.2.1-3 International Components for Unico ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmythes-1.2-0 2:1.2.0-4simple thesaurus library ii libneon27-gnutls0.29.3-2 An HTTP and WebDAV client library ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-2 Network Security Service libraries ii librdf0 1.0.10-2 Redland Resource Description Frame ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1X11 Session Management library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-1 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library ii libx11-62:1.3.3-3X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext62:1.1.1-3X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxinerama12:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-2X Rendering Extension client libra
Bug#587171: openoffice.org-writer: View, Zoom does not work
Package: openoffice.org-writer Version: 1:3.2.1-3 Severity: important This bug appeared some while ago, and has persisted for several months of dist-upgrades. Click View, then Zoom. A seriously broken window appears from which it is impossible to do anything (let alone zoom the display). The window can be closed, but you cannot zoom. This makes checking the presence of small characters (like periods and commas, which are often too small to be seen on an unzoomed screen) very difficult. Regards, Jan. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5GCC support library ii libicu424.2.1-3 International Components for Unico ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d ii libwps-0.1-10.1.2-1 Works text file format import filt ii openoffice.org-base-cor 1:3.2.1-3office productivity suite -- share ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.1-3office productivity suite -- arch- ii ure 1.6.1+OOo3.2.1-3 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer recommends: ii openjdk-6-jre [java5-runtime] 6b18-1.8-2 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo ii openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.2.1-3 office productivity suite -- email ii openoffice.org-filter-binfilt 1:3.2.1-3 office productivity suite -- legac pn openoffice.org-java-commonnone (no description available) ii openoffice.org-math 1:3.2.1-3 office productivity suite -- equat Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer suggests: pn openoffice.org-base none (no description available) pn openoffice.org-gcjnone (no description available) Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on: ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libdb4.84.8.30-1 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [ ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfreetype62.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5GCC support library ii libglib2.0-02.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgraphite31:2.3.1-0.2 SILGraphite - a smart font rende ii libgstreamer-plugins-ba 0.10.29-4GStreamer libraries from the base ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.29-1Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an ii libhyphen0 2.5-1ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libicu424.2.1-3 International Components for Unico ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmythes-1.2-0 2:1.2.0-4simple thesaurus library ii libneon27-gnutls0.29.3-2 An HTTP and WebDAV client library ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-2 Network Security Service libraries ii librdf0 1.0.10-2 Redland Resource Description Frame ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1X11 Session Management library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-1 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library ii libx11-62:1.3.3-3X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext62:1.1.1-3X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxinerama12:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-2X Rendering Extension client libra
Bug#584465: uim: Does not show hiragana when typing
Package: uim Version: 1:1.5.7-8 Severity: normal After a recent sid upgrade, uim behaves weirdly in text-mode (xterm) applications. When I select the anthy input method, then type a, instead of an underlined hiragana A, I see $ in tiny characters. It becomes a hiragana A only after I accept the input (i.e. after pressing Enter). regards, jws -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages uim depends on: ii uim-common1:1.5.7-8 Common files for uim ii uim-fep 1:1.5.7-8 uim Front End Processor ii uim-gtk2.01:1.5.7-8 GTK+2.x immodule for uim ii uim-utils 1:1.5.7-8 Utilities for uim ii uim-xim 1:1.5.7-8 A bridge between uim and XIM uim recommends no packages. uim suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
invisible console
I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in /etc/default/console-setup I have FONTFACE=VGA FONTSIZE=16 This used to work. But after a dist-upgrade around April 10th, the behaviour changed. 1 -- cold startup works normally (and looks normal). 2 -- startx works OK 3 -- pressing control-alt-f2 (to go to the console temporarily) now gives a (framebuffer?) screen with very small letters; at the top of the screen there is a message from drm stating that the resolution is set to 1250 x 1024 (instead of 640 x 480 which is what I want). 4 -- presing alt-f7 gets me back into X. 5 -- pressing control-alt-f2 AGAIN gives a completely black screen. Nothing visible. Going back to X with alt-f7 is still possible. uname -a gives: Linux vega 2.6.32-3-686 #1 SMP Thu Feb 25 06:14:20 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux This kernel was installed recently; booting an earlier kernel, e.g. 2.6.29-2, gets the old (proper) behaviour back. Configuration error? Or bug? If the latter, which package? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bdab531.4060...@my.home
invisible console (solved)
Sorry. Missed a previous thread. Cured it by setting options radeon modeset=0 in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf This works (original value was 1). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bdac862.5070...@my.home
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:55:28PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.3-2 Severity: important I am used to iceweasel crashing often (at least once a day). After the last upgrade however, it crashes about once every two minutes. This is getting too much. When I try to restart iceweasel after a crash, it now displays a screen beginning with the text Well, this is embarrassing. Iceweasel is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page. Not very helpful, that. At least it could say which web page caused the crash. And anyway a good program should ignore bad input, not crash because of it. I cannot reproduce the crashes. They seem random. To me, the program has become unusable. ~/.xsession-errors says after each crash: (firefox-bin:13308): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject' Is it more stable with version 3.5.6 (and xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.6-1) ? Mike It is. Even version 3.5.5. And I no longer see this embarrassing Embarrassing message. Sorry I forgot to tell you. For a while I downgraded Firefox (and avoided upgrading it), but about 2 weeks ago I did upgrade it, and it seems perfectly stable now. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: Vuze (Azureus) broken after Apt-get upgrade
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Probably related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056 there's a supposed work-around in Message-Id: 200912151551.20419.tim.rueh...@gmx.de, which should be in the archives. I did not test the work-around because I do not use any Java applications regularly. Thanks very much! I had the same problem and (because I had been messing with my shorewall settings recently) thought it was my fault. Your message prevented me from pulling my hair out. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Aioanei Rares wrote: Better try the Debian package... Which package do you mean exactly? either way, are you really using accelerated graphics on that computer? Only the occasional game, like tuxracer. Do you mean that this computer is really too old/constrained for such a thing? Anyway, I solved my iceweasel stability problem now by downgrading to version 3.0. It then refused to play java applets; but by downgrading openjdk-6 and icedtea plugin to the previous version in the cache, this was solved also. I'll put off upgrading for a while. Of course this is not a real cure. The many warnings Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead still occur with many sites using flash. But they no longer seem to matter much. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
xsession errors
On my machine the file ~/.xsession-errors grows and grows without limits. I have to remove it regularly before it takes over my whole disk; this has been the case for years. Last time I removed it was September 21; now it is again already 135M in size! It grows by the minute. It is mainly full of GDK-Warnings. Did anyone else have this problem, either now or in the past? If in the past, what did you do to solve it? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Aioanei Rares wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: I know about the average length of a dmesg, please send it in entirety. OK here it is; this was just after the first Iceweasel crash today. Nothing in dmesg about the crash, though. The last is a record of the printer being switched on. [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Linux version 2.6.30-2-686 (Debian 2.6.30-8) (wa...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-3) ) #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 UTC 2009 [0.00] KERNEL supported cpus: [0.00] Intel GenuineIntel [0.00] AMD AuthenticAMD [0.00] NSC Geode by NSC [0.00] Cyrix CyrixInstead [0.00] Centaur CentaurHauls [0.00] Transmeta GenuineTMx86 [0.00] Transmeta TransmetaCPU [0.00] UMC UMC UMC UMC [0.00] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [0.00] BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 000e8000 - 0010 (reserved) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1ffb (usable) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 1ffb - 1ffc (ACPI data) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 1ffc - 1fff (ACPI NVS) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 1fff - 2000 (reserved) [0.00] BIOS-e820: ffb8 - 0001 (reserved) [0.00] DMI 2.3 present. [0.00] AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it. [0.00] e820 update range: - 0001 (usable) == (reserved) [0.00] last_pfn = 0x1ffb0 max_arch_pfn = 0x10 [0.00] MTRR default type: uncachable [0.00] MTRR fixed ranges enabled: [0.00] 0-9 write-back [0.00] A-D uncachable [0.00] E-E write-through [0.00] F-F write-protect [0.00] MTRR variable ranges enabled: [0.00] 0 base 0 mask FE000 write-back [0.00] 1 disabled [0.00] 2 disabled [0.00] 3 disabled [0.00] 4 disabled [0.00] 5 disabled [0.00] 6 disabled [0.00] 7 disabled [0.00] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106 [0.00] init_memory_mapping: -1ffb [0.00] 00 - 40 page 4k [0.00] 40 - 001fc0 page 2M [0.00] 001fc0 - 001ffb page 4k [0.00] kernel direct mapping tables up to 1ffb @ 1-15000 [0.00] RAMDISK: 03904000 - 03fff60c [0.00] ACPI: RSDP 000fad80 00014 (v00 ACPIAM) [0.00] ACPI: RSDT 1ffb 00030 (v01 A M I OEMRSDT 12000406 MSFT 0097) [0.00] ACPI: FACP 1ffb0200 00081 (v02 A M I OEMFACP 12000406 MSFT 0097) [0.00] ACPI: DSDT 1ffb03f0 0382D (v01 A0030 A0030009 0009 INTL 02002026) [0.00] ACPI: FACS 1ffc 00040 [0.00] ACPI: APIC 1ffb0390 0005C (v01 A M I OEMAPIC 12000406 MSFT 0097) [0.00] ACPI: OEMB 1ffc0040 0003F (v01 A M I OEMBIOS 12000406 MSFT 0097) [0.00] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 [0.00] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [0.00] 511MB LOWMEM available. [0.00] mapped low ram: 0 - 1ffb [0.00] low ram: 0 - 1ffb [0.00] node 0 low ram: - 1ffb [0.00] node 0 bootmap 00011000 - 00014ff8 [0.00] (9 early reservations) == bootmem [00 - 001ffb] [0.00] #0 [00 - 001000] BIOS data page == [00 - 001000] [0.00] #1 [001000 - 002000]EX TRAMPOLINE == [001000 - 002000] [0.00] #2 [006000 - 007000] TRAMPOLINE == [006000 - 007000] [0.00] #3 [10 - 541b10]TEXT DATA BSS == [10 - 541b10] [0.00] #4 [0003904000 - 0003fff60c] RAMDISK == [0003904000 - 0003fff60c] [0.00] #5 [09fc00 - 10]BIOS reserved == [09fc00 - 10] [0.00] #6 [542000 - 54422c] BRK == [542000 - 54422c] [0.00] #7 [01 - 011000] PGTABLE == [01 - 011000] [0.00] #8 [011000 - 015000] BOOTMAP == [011000 - 015000] [0.00] found SMP MP-table at [c00ff780] ff780 [0.00] Zone PFN ranges: [0.00] DMA 0x0010 - 0x1000 [0.00] Normal 0x1000 - 0x0001ffb0 [0.00] HighMem 0x0001ffb0 - 0x0001ffb0 [0.00] Movable zone start PFN for each node [0.00] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges [0.00] 0: 0x0010 - 0x009f [0.00] 0: 0x0100 - 0x0001ffb0 [0.00] On node 0 totalpages: 130879
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Mike Hommey wrote: Could you try running MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1 iceweasel ? Mike There were no messages on the terminal and no crash. Did not try if for very long, though. Plug-in-less life is not so nice (e.g. no youtube). Plug-ins I have installed (as per about:plugins); MIME type lists omitted) Installed plugins Shockwave Flash File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32 DivX Browser Plug-In File name: gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so Gecko Media Player 0.9.8 QuickTime Plug-in 7.4.5 File name: gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so Gecko Media Player 0.9.8 RealPlayer 9 File name: gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so Gecko Media Player 0.9.8 Windows Media Player Plug-in File name: gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so Gecko Media Player 0.9.8 mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8 File name: gecko-mediaplayer.so Gecko Media Player 0.9.8 IcedTea Java Web Browser Plugin File name: IcedTeaPlugin.so Silverlight Plug-In File name: libmoonloader.so 1.0.30401.0 The Shockwave Flash is from the debian package flashplugin-nonfree. If I uninstall it, I cannot play flash movies (like youtube). If I then reinstall it, youtube works without problems; but videos on some other sites apparently do cause problems. An example is http://www.myfoxboston.com (a news site). Some of the news items show movies in a small window to the left. Then, with iceweasel called from the terminal, there is a seemingly endless number of warnings: (firefox-bin:8785): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead The warnings are serious. A few clicks later iceweasel crashed (vanished with segfault). I cannot know for certain if the crash is really caused by these XID collisions. When restarted, iceweasel displayed the This is embarrassing screen again. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Aioanei Rares wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: Could you try running MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1 iceweasel ? Mike That was my next move, but for now I notice this in your dmesg : 44.843504] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R200_cp.bin [ 44.883341] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware radeon/R200_cp.bin [ 44.883347] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! What drivers are you using for your video card? How do you install them? I don't know (nowadays I just use stock kernels and they always work). I just checked though, and the game Foobilliard (which requires hardware acceleration) no longer appears to be accelerated. glxgears is slow. lsmod says I have a module called radeon, which itself uses a module called drm. According to apt-file search, the file R200_cp.bin is in the package firmware-linux. I'll try installing it tonight. Must rush and do something else now. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: What drivers are you using for your video card? How do you install them? I don't know (nowadays I just use stock kernels and they always work). I just checked though, and the game Foobilliard (which requires hardware acceleration) no longer appears to be accelerated. glxgears is slow. lsmod says I have a module called radeon, which itself uses a module called drm. According to apt-file search, the file R200_cp.bin is in the package firmware-linux. I'll try installing it tonight. Must rush and do something else now. Well, I tried installing it, and there is both good news and bad news. The good news is: in dmesg it now says [ 51.081753] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 51.125579] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for :01:00.0 on minor 0 [ 51.457965] agpgart-intel :00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge [ 51.457989] agpgart-intel :00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode [ 51.458031] pci :01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode [ 51.679116] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [ 51.679178] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [ 51.679185] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R200_cp.bin [ 51.725307] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs The bad news is that calling glxgears or foobilliard now completely freezes the X keyboard and display. You have to get out of it with the reset button (or by keeping alt-sysrq pressed and typing reisubs). Also, if I don't call these accelerated programs, iceweasel works, but its crash problem seems even worse than before. Fortunately the damage can be recovered from by un-installing the firmware-linux package. Is my computer just too old for modern kernels or modern iceweasel versions? It has 512 M of memory, which is considered meagre nowadays, but this is of the DDR type, and I can't find extra memory anywhere (only DDR2 in the shops now). Or should I try the fglrx-modules-2.6.30-2-686 package (which is, AFAIK, the non-free radeon driver package)? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.3-2 Severity: important I am used to iceweasel crashing often (at least once a day). After the last upgrade however, it crashes about once every two minutes. This is getting too much. When I try to restart iceweasel after a crash, it now displays a screen beginning with the text Well, this is embarrassing. Iceweasel is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page. Not very helpful, that. At least it could say which web page caused the crash. And anyway a good program should ignore bad input, not crash because of it. I cannot reproduce the crashes. They seem random. To me, the program has become unusable. ~/.xsession-errors says after each crash: (firefox-bin:13308): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject' -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii debianutils 3.2.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig2.6.0-4generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-6 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.2-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.2-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnspr4-0d 4.8-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libstdc++64.4.1-6The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii procps1:3.2.8-2 /proc file system utilities ii psmisc22.8-1 utilities that use the proc file s ii xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.3-3 XUL + XPCOM application runner iceweasel recommends no packages. Versions of packages iceweasel suggests: ii latex-xft-fonts 1.6.4-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 Transitional library package/krb4 pn mozplugger none (no description available) pn ttf-mathematica4.1 none (no description available) ii xfonts-mathml3 Type1 Symbol font for MathML pn xprint none (no description available) pn xulrunner-1.9.1-gnom none (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Aioanei Rares wrote: And what is the specific web page that's causing this? Is it only one, or does it happen randomly, no matter what the site visited is? I could not see any system in it. It seems to be random. After the this is embarrassing message iceweasel restores all the old tabs, seemingly without problems, but then visiting another random site may cause a new crash. Oh, I forgot to mention: the earlier problems I had with Iceweasel (the once a day crashes) usually involved freezing. The program stopped reacting; moving its window created weird trails on the screen. This problem is different: the window suddenly disappears. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes
Aioanei Rares wrote: Please give some details, as follows : -output of uname -a -dmesg -lspci -v OK: going to be a little bit long, though: j...@vega:~$ uname -a Linux vega 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux j...@vega:~$ lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800/P5P800 series motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at fc00 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Capabilities: access denied Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: c000-cfff Memory behind bridge: fe90-fe9f Prefetchable memory behind bridge: dbf0-fbef 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800/P5P800 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 I/O ports at ef00 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800/P5P800 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at ef20 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800/P5P800 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at ef40 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800/P5P800 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 I/O ports at ef80 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800/P5P800 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: access denied Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: d000-dfff Memory behind bridge: fea0-feaf Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 3000-300f 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800/P5P800 series motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8] I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1] I/O ports at 0170 [size=8] I/O ports at 0374 [size=1] I/O ports at fc00 [size=16] Memory at 3010 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800 Mainboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 0400 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 812a Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] I/O ports at ee80 [size=64] Memory at febff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at febff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: access denied Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ASUS Radeon 9200 SE / TD / 128M Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at f000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at fe9f (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fe9c
install problem
This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to ask, but how do I install Debian? I just bought a netbook which has no CDROM drive, but which can boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and then boot from it. But I prefer just plain old Debian. I found (through the Debian home page) an image called debian-503-i386-netinst.iso. I dd'd it to the stick. But the netbook does not boot from it. There must be something very elementary which I did wrong. But what? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Silverlight/Moonlight/Tuva
David Fox wrote: I didn't get it to work. I reloaded firefox, brought up the site again, same thing. It thinks the silverlight / moonlight isn't loaded, although the clicktrhough site says it is. about: plugins in firefox says it is too. The abc.com videos play normally; no mention is made that silverlight is a requirement. Through Novell's bugzilla page I found another page which, just like Microsoft's Tuva page, does not work: http://matosdotnet.com/ It complains about silverlight/moonlight not being installed, while in fact it is. But apparently, what is missing is silverlight version 2, while Debian only has version 1. What is especially galling about this situation is that the Richard Feynman lectures on The Character of Physical Law are now only available on Tuva. They've disappeared from Youtube. Such things could make a person paranoid. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Silverlight/Moonlight/Tuva
Has anyone succeeded in using the moonlight packages in order to view the videos at Microsoft's Tuva project? If so, which packages are needed exactly / which tricks? http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/ Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Adrian Perez wrote: You don't need to do the extra steps (although they don't hurt at all), you need to investigate is your JAVA_HOME is persistant, then who's setting it. Check your ~/.bash* files, /etc/bash.bashrc, the like, you know. Yes!! It was set in /etc/profile. I must have put it in there myself, but cannot remember why or when. After I commented it out, the new azureus worked perfectly. Perhaps a warning about this in README.Debian would be good idea: Make sure that you don't have JAVA_HOME or JAVA_CMD environment variables defined, otherwise the new version of Azureus may FAIL. Check by means of env | grep JAVA . Or something. Thanks very much, Jan ___ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Adrian Perez wrote: You don't need to do the extra steps (although they don't hurt at all), you need to investigate is your JAVA_HOME is persistant, then who's setting it. Check your ~/.bash* files, /etc/bash.bashrc, the like, you know. Yes!! It was set in /etc/profile. I must have put it in there myself, but cannot remember why or when. After I commented it out, the new azureus worked perfectly. Perhaps a warning about this in README.Debian would be good idea: Make sure that you don't have JAVA_HOME or JAVA_CMD environment variables defined, otherwise the new version of Azureus may FAIL. Check by means of env | grep JAVA . Or something. Thanks very much, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Package: azureus Version: 4.2.0.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I have openjdk-6-jre installed, because azureus used to depend on it. openjdk works fine with other java applications as well, so no complaints here. But (see bug report #515015) some users found it annoying that other jre's, like Sun's, could not be used. Now the latest azureus version corrects this, I believe by means of the script java-wrappers.sh. I suppose sun jre users are now happy. But I am very UNhappy, because now azureus refuses to start at all. The error messages are: /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: /usr/lib/java/bin/java: / No such file or directory /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: exec: / /usr/lib/java/bin/java: cannot execute: No such file or directory Why can't azureus simply use the /etc/alternatives mechanism? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages azureus depends on: ii java-wrappers 0.1.15 wrappers for java executables ii libcommons-cli-java 1.2-2 API for working with the command l ii liblog4j1.2-java 1.2.15-7 Logging library for java ii libswt-gtk-3.4-java 3.4.2-2Standard Widget Toolkit for GTK+ J ii openjdk-6-jre 6b16-4 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo Versions of packages azureus recommends: ii vuze 4.2.0.4-1 Multimedia BitTorrent client azureus suggests no packages. -- no debconf information ___ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Adrian Perez wrote: tag + unreproducible moreinfo Well, I've tested it on openjdk, otherwise I wouldn't released it. I've attached the output from my machine, after update-java-alternatives --set java-6-openjdk and it's working fine. I think it's something wrong with your installation. As Onkar pointed please provide debug information. Can you please try this? Modify the azureus launcher script (/usr/bin/azureus), and add DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 just before run_java. i.e. DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 run_java -Dazureus.install.path=$HOME/.azureus $UI \ org.gudy.azureus2.ui.common.Main $@ Try launching azureus from command line then and paste the output in the bug. OK; the output doesn't look at all like yours: j...@vega:~$ azureus [1] 24821 j...@vega:~$ [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Environment variable CLASSPATH is '' [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Runnning /usr/lib/java/bin/java -classpath /usr/lib/jni:/usr/lib/java:/usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-cli.jar:/usr/share/java/swt.jar -Dazureus.install.path=/home/jws/.azureus org.gudy.azureus2.ui.common.Main /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: /usr/lib/java/bin/java: No such file or directory /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: exec: /usr/lib/java/bin/java: cannot execute: No such file or directory [1]+ Exit 126azureus BTW ls -al in /etc/alternatives gives: java - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java java.1.gz - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz javaws - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/javaws javaws.1.gz - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/javaws.1.gz libswt-3.4-java - /usr/share/java-config/libswt-gtk-3.4-java mozilla-javaplugin.so - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so And I CAN start azureus from command line by JAVA_CMD=/etc/alternatives/java azureus or by exporting JAVA_CMD=/etc/alternatives/java before starting X. The output in such a case is: j...@vega:~$ JAVA_CMD=/etc/alternatives/java azureus [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Environment variable CLASSPATH is '' [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Runnning /etc/alternatives/java -classpath /usr/lib/jni:/usr/lib/java:/usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-cli.jar:/usr/share/java/swt.jar -Dazureus.install.path=/home/jws/.azureus org.gudy.azureus2.ui.common.Main file:/usr/lib/jni/ ; file:/usr/lib/java/ ; file:/usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar ; file:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2-1.2.15.jar ; file:/usr/share/java/commons-cli-1.2.jar ; file:/usr/lib/java/swt-gtk-3.4.2.jar ; file:/home/jws/ Core Start Completed Unfortunately, this works only from the command line. Clicking on a torrent link in a web page does not start azureus. Regards, Jan ___ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
Bug#542392: Extra info
Extra info: downgrading to 3.1.1.0-4 restored functionality at once. Regards, Jan ___ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Adrian Perez wrote: I think we both agree the problem is related to your environment and not the packaging. That's very likely. It seems the java-wrapper script it's not finding your java runtime, which may be caused by a wrong environment configuration. Make sure you have no environment variables like JAVA_HOME or JAVA_CMD set, since the script may be able to find them properly, and set them locally for the script. Also, their use it's deprecated by the new java policy. JAVA_HOME is set, to /usr/lib/java. I do not know where this is set. JAVA_CMD is not normally set. As to your other suggestions, I'll answer tomorrow (I have to get up very early, so must hit the sack about now). BTW my previous message must have crossed yours. Where can I read more about the new java policy? Regards, Jan ___ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Package: azureus Version: 4.2.0.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I have openjdk-6-jre installed, because azureus used to depend on it. openjdk works fine with other java applications as well, so no complaints here. But (see bug report #515015) some users found it annoying that other jre's, like Sun's, could not be used. Now the latest azureus version corrects this, I believe by means of the script java-wrappers.sh. I suppose sun jre users are now happy. But I am very UNhappy, because now azureus refuses to start at all. The error messages are: /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: /usr/lib/java/bin/java: / No such file or directory /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: exec: / /usr/lib/java/bin/java: cannot execute: No such file or directory Why can't azureus simply use the /etc/alternatives mechanism? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages azureus depends on: ii java-wrappers 0.1.15 wrappers for java executables ii libcommons-cli-java 1.2-2 API for working with the command l ii liblog4j1.2-java 1.2.15-7 Logging library for java ii libswt-gtk-3.4-java 3.4.2-2Standard Widget Toolkit for GTK+ J ii openjdk-6-jre 6b16-4 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo Versions of packages azureus recommends: ii vuze 4.2.0.4-1 Multimedia BitTorrent client azureus suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Adrian Perez wrote: tag + unreproducible moreinfo Well, I've tested it on openjdk, otherwise I wouldn't released it. I've attached the output from my machine, after update-java-alternatives --set java-6-openjdk and it's working fine. I think it's something wrong with your installation. As Onkar pointed please provide debug information. Can you please try this? Modify the azureus launcher script (/usr/bin/azureus), and add DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 just before run_java. i.e. DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 run_java -Dazureus.install.path=$HOME/.azureus $UI \ org.gudy.azureus2.ui.common.Main $@ Try launching azureus from command line then and paste the output in the bug. OK; the output doesn't look at all like yours: j...@vega:~$ azureus [1] 24821 j...@vega:~$ [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Environment variable CLASSPATH is '' [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Runnning /usr/lib/java/bin/java -classpath /usr/lib/jni:/usr/lib/java:/usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-cli.jar:/usr/share/java/swt.jar -Dazureus.install.path=/home/jws/.azureus org.gudy.azureus2.ui.common.Main /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: /usr/lib/java/bin/java: No such file or directory /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: exec: /usr/lib/java/bin/java: cannot execute: No such file or directory [1]+ Exit 126azureus BTW ls -al in /etc/alternatives gives: java - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java java.1.gz - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz javaws - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/javaws javaws.1.gz - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/javaws.1.gz libswt-3.4-java - /usr/share/java-config/libswt-gtk-3.4-java mozilla-javaplugin.so - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so And I CAN start azureus from command line by JAVA_CMD=/etc/alternatives/java azureus or by exporting JAVA_CMD=/etc/alternatives/java before starting X. The output in such a case is: j...@vega:~$ JAVA_CMD=/etc/alternatives/java azureus [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Environment variable CLASSPATH is '' [debug] /usr/bin/azureus: Runnning /etc/alternatives/java -classpath /usr/lib/jni:/usr/lib/java:/usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-cli.jar:/usr/share/java/swt.jar -Dazureus.install.path=/home/jws/.azureus org.gudy.azureus2.ui.common.Main file:/usr/lib/jni/ ; file:/usr/lib/java/ ; file:/usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar ; file:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2-1.2.15.jar ; file:/usr/share/java/commons-cli-1.2.jar ; file:/usr/lib/java/swt-gtk-3.4.2.jar ; file:/home/jws/ Core Start Completed Unfortunately, this works only from the command line. Clicking on a torrent link in a web page does not start azureus. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542392: Extra info
Extra info: downgrading to 3.1.1.0-4 restored functionality at once. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Adrian Perez wrote: I think we both agree the problem is related to your environment and not the packaging. That's very likely. It seems the java-wrapper script it's not finding your java runtime, which may be caused by a wrong environment configuration. Make sure you have no environment variables like JAVA_HOME or JAVA_CMD set, since the script may be able to find them properly, and set them locally for the script. Also, their use it's deprecated by the new java policy. JAVA_HOME is set, to /usr/lib/java. I do not know where this is set. JAVA_CMD is not normally set. As to your other suggestions, I'll answer tomorrow (I have to get up very early, so must hit the sack about now). BTW my previous message must have crossed yours. Where can I read more about the new java policy? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#542392: azureus: Refuses to start
Package: azureus Version: 4.2.0.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I have openjdk-6-jre installed, because azureus used to depend on it. openjdk works fine with other java applications as well, so no complaints here. But (see bug report #515015) some users found it annoying that other jre's, like Sun's, could not be used. Now the latest azureus version corrects this, I believe by means of the script java-wrappers.sh. I suppose sun jre users are now happy. But I am very UNhappy, because now azureus refuses to start at all. The error messages are: /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: /usr/lib/java/bin/java: / No such file or directory /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh: line 243: exec: / /usr/lib/java/bin/java: cannot execute: No such file or directory Why can't azureus simply use the /etc/alternatives mechanism? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages azureus depends on: ii java-wrappers 0.1.15 wrappers for java executables ii libcommons-cli-java 1.2-2 API for working with the command l ii liblog4j1.2-java 1.2.15-7 Logging library for java ii libswt-gtk-3.4-java 3.4.2-2Standard Widget Toolkit for GTK+ J ii openjdk-6-jre 6b16-4 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo Versions of packages azureus recommends: ii vuze 4.2.0.4-1 Multimedia BitTorrent client azureus suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#539102: Debian mailing list in Dutch
OK, count me in. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: iceweasel puzzle (SOLVED)
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit in .xinitrc. The reference to libawt.so makes me think this may be a similar problem. Well -- this did not work. I finally decided on a new, especially thorough, purging of anything having to do with java, web-browsers, macromedia, and flash. Lots of times doing updatedb and locate; removing many dot-files and dot-directories in /etc and in my home directory. Then installed (after saving bookmarks passwords) - iceweasel - vuze (which pulls in lots of openjdk-6 stuff) - icedtea6-plugin (browser plugin for openjdk-6) - flashplugin-nonfree All sun-java stuff had been purged (AFAIK). And now it works. I mean both applets and the strictlysudoku.com login page work.The unsatisfactory thing is, I still don't know which of the countless files I removed was the real culprit. But it works now. Thanks all who thought about this. Regards, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: iceweasel puzzle
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: With iceweasel 3.0.6-1 works as expected. You don't have Noscript enabled do you? Java and Javascript are enabled and both work. I tried moving the .mozilla directory out of the way; didn't help. Thought it might have something to do with the flash plugin (because locate strictlysudoku turned up some entries in ~/.macromedia), reinstalled and removed flash in various ways-- nothing helps. The login popup window is blank, not only in iceweasel on my computer, but also in Opera! So it is not an iceweasel puzzle only. The login popup window is loaded somehow; I can read the source code. I can save it as a file, and open the file with iceweasel or opera: it is blank. Opera has two complaints (may or may not be related): ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. This might be significant, although I have not a clue what it means. There are several files called libjvm.so and libawt.so on my system (installed by openoffice, sun jre, and openjdk6; client and server versions). But this sudoku site does not use java, only javascript. As long as you just want to play sudoku (with logging in) you don't even need javascript. In lynx, the saved login form is displayed (but of course in lynx, I cannot play sudoku, because this a graphical thing). N.B. ~/.xsession-errors keeps getting filled up with (to me) incomprehensible warnings and errors, like: (firefox-bin:5229): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)' (firefox-bin:5229): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (firefox-bin:5229): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.20.3-1-i386-o59wJY/glib2.0-2.20.3/gobject/gsignal.c:2387: instance `0x90ecda8' has no handler with id `4276' (firefox-bin:5229): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.20.3-1-i386-o59wJY/glib2.0-2.20.3/gobject/gsignal.c:2387: instance `0x97d1908' has no handler with id `4536' (firefox-bin:5229): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `GtkObject' (firefox-bin:5229): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)' So, if someone has any bright idea.. in the meantime I keep digging. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
iceweasel puzzle
I use iceweasel to visit the site http://www.strictlysudoku.com. In the left-hand column there are ĺogin' and 'register' links. If I click one of those, a window pops up, but it is completely blank. On my wife's computer, which uses the same gateway/firewall, and which is also more or less Debian (well, ubuntu), clicking the links produces proper 'login' and 'register' forms. Any idea of what could be the matter on my computer? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.
Chris Jones wrote: How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good unicode fixed font that could make the experience more true to life? The Debian package xfonts-efont-unicode has very wide character coverage (incl. Chinese/Japanese). For tips on how to set it up, google my page Configuring xterm for UTF-8. Another thing is that I would like to be able to display all the glyphs of a given font so I can tell at a glance what scripts are covered. I use xfd: xfd -fn '-efont-biwidth-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*' xfd from the x11-utils package is fine, but it does not appear to support Truetype fonts. The efonts aren't Truetype. You get the oldfashioned xterm look feel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: java applets
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Can you list the plugins in iceweasel, typically, with the _one_line_ command: find /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/ -name *.so \ | xargs -n 1 readlink -m | xargs dpkg -S This gives: sun-java5-bin: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.18/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so realplayer: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so mozilla-acroread: /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so about:plugins in iceweasel, on the other hand, says I have plugins for Shockwave Flash Adobe Reader 9.1 Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible So neither Icedtea (for openjdk-6) nor the Sun plugin are available; and so, of course, applets do not work. It has been like this for ages now; am getting a bit desperate. Whatever I do, I cannot get a working Java plugin back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: java applets
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 14:18 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: If everything else fails: - Purge all JRE See: aptitude search ?and(~Pjava-runtime,~i) - Purge iceweasel - Reinstall iceweasel - Reinstall sun-java6-plugin - Create a new user account - Test the JRE on http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml All else had already failed .. but this worked. I lost some prefs and my bookmarks, but could restore them from backup. Thanks very much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
OSS4
I just read this: http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html AFAICU the article recommends throwing out, among other things, ALSA and pulseaudio, which it has harsh words for, and using OSS version 4 instead. Switching everything to OSS4 with its (alleged) built-in sound mixing seems very attractive. Does Debian support OSS Version 4 now? Is there a decent Debian sound tutorial somewhere? Using Sid. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
java
I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow me to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of (at least) default-jre gcj-4.4-jre gcj-jre icedtea-6-jre-cacao openoffice.org (includes its own jre, apparently) openjdk-6-jre (required by Azureus/Vuze; it does not seem to accept other Javas) sun-java5-jre sun-java6-jre Today I did another attempt: rigorously dpkg --purge'd any trace of any other jre than openjdk-6-jre. It does not have a mozilla plugin, but suggests installing icedtea6-plugin and sun-java6-fonts. But then sun-java6-fonts wants to install sun-java6-bin and sun-java6-jre, and suggests sun-java6-plugin and ia32-sun-java6-plugin. And the icedtea6-plugin does not work... This is dependency hell. Does anybody know of a decent tutorial for setting up jre, any jre, on Debian? With only one boundary condition: it should work. I haven't been able to see applets working for about half a year now. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: java applets
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Humm, installing sun-java6-plugin (or sun-java5-plugin or icedtea-gcjwebplugin) should pull all the required dependencies. Yess.. but that means I'll have at least two jre's: sun-java6 and the one required by Azureus/Vuze. How can I be sure that they won't bite each other? Now, with only the openjdk-6-jre installed, I don't see any applets working, but at least Iceweasel does not crash/become unresponsive, as it did invariably on applet-containing pages twhen there were 2 or more jre's. Does anybody know of a decent tutorial for setting up jre, any jre, on Debian? Hopefully, aptitude install sun-java6-plugin should be enough. But I need the openjdk-6-jre as well because of Azureus/Vuze. doesn't work is a bit short. In this case it means: after restarting the browser, the plugin does not show in about:plugins. And applets do not work; I get an invitation to click something to download the plugin, but then it says that there is no appropriate plugin available. I know that, running Sid, I cannot expect the Moon. But I've had this problem for 6 months or so now. And I haven't a clue which package I should file a bug against. This is typically one of those inter-package bugs for which the BTS does not seem to be very suitable. Perhaps we need a java task force (as well as a sound task force). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: java
If you're running 32-bit, you'll probably just want the sun-java6-plugin. I am running 32-bit. But if I kill openjdk-6-jre, I'd lose Azureus/Vuze, which I use to download Korean soap operas. My wife, who is addicted to the things, would kill me if I did. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532420: xserver-xorg: control-alt-backspace no longer works
Julien Cristau wrote: DontZap will be changed back to off by default soon. What you're seeing is the update to xkeyboard-config 1.6, which disables the ctrl-alt-bksp combination by default. Set the terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp xkb option to enable it. Where exactly? dpkg -l |grep xkeyboard returns nothing. The binary package is xkb-data. Thanks. I got it back by including terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp in the XKBOPTIONS line in /etc/default/console-setup. BTW you closed the bug, I suppose because it is not an xserver-xorg bug. But isn't it an xserver-xorg bug that the Xorg log says that DontZap is off, while in fact it is on? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532420: xserver-xorg: control-alt-backspace no longer works
Julien Cristau wrote: DontZap will be changed back to off by default soon. What you're seeing is the update to xkeyboard-config 1.6, which disables the ctrl-alt-bksp combination by default. Set the terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp xkb option to enable it. Where exactly? dpkg -l |grep xkeyboard returns nothing. The binary package is xkb-data. Thanks. I got it back by including terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp in the XKBOPTIONS line in /etc/default/console-setup. BTW you closed the bug, I suppose because it is not an xserver-xorg bug. But isn't it an xserver-xorg bug that the Xorg log says that DontZap is off, while in fact it is on? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?
emikaadeo wrote: I just enabled keyboard layout in KSystemsettingsRegionalLanguageKeyboard Layout, and there, in advanced tab I check: Key sequence to kill X server (Control+Alt+Backspace). I filed a bug against xserver-xorg about the disappearance of control-alt-backspace, and the maintainer (Julien Cristau) wrote back saying DontZap will be changed back to off by default soon. He also gave the tip to re-enable control-alt-backspace by including in the XKBOPTIONS line in /etc/default/console-setup: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp After which (to be on the safe side) you have to reboot. I suppose this will be necessary (for those without KDE/Gnome) until DontZap = off becomes the default again. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?
Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): You need OptionDontZap false in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for xorg.conf, I'm writing from memory). This worked for about a week -- but nannyism has crept further. In the latest Sid, even this trick doesn't work anymore. How to get it back, I wonder. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?
widux wrote: Hi, for me right-Alt + Print + k does the trick! Greetings How on earth did you find this out? Also, do you know where this is set, so I could change it? Or is it hard-coded somehow? Anyway, thanks for the information. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
replacing hard disk
My wife's computer which runs ubuntu heron made a funny sound today. I now think it must have come from the hard disk, which is quite old; the motherboard and cpu are fairly new, however. And just now the computer became unusable because it could no longer save any files. /var/log/syslog told about a disk error which resulted in the disk being remounted read-only. Restarting the computer caused an fsck, and now the machine works again, but it is clear that the disk is nearing the end of its life. So tomorrow it's off to the computer shop to get a new hard disk. Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?
IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz). It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press control-alt-backspace by mistake; I find it hard to imagine even. But for users who suffer from this syndrome there has always been the possibility of specifying DontZap. Forcing it on all users is a Bad Thing. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?
Csanyi Pal wrote: Yes, with Debian Etch, but not with Debian Lenny! So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? I suppose you can, although I didn't try it. I think you can install anything you want; I heavily customised mine (in fact I am no longer using any of the Bubba-specific software provided by Excito). Apt-get works; upgrading to Lenny is just a matter of pointing your sources.list towards it, I think. The kernel is 2.6.26.5, so it should not be a problem (don't quote me on that, though; I also do not quite understand why you should want to use Lenny, rather than Etch, on a server. First prepare a rescue stick before starting any experiments!). Mind that it is a headless device. Everything has to be done through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd-rom drive, keyboard, or monitor. But it is just a Debian system (for powerpc, not for i386). Everything behaves just like your desktop Debian system. Don't expect gigantic calculating power from this machine. It is good for shifting bits around (what a home server/gateway should do) but not for anything calculation-intensive. I mean, the low power consumption and silent operation had to come from somewhere. Absolutely fine though, as a server/firewall/gateway. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?
Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file printer server at a small home network? Any advices will be appreciated! I am now using a Bubba 2, made by a Swedish company: http://excito.com/bubba/products/about-bubba.html It runs Debian. More expensive, of course, than using an old desktop or laptop computer (but the price is going down all the time, now 212 euros for a unit with 500 GB hard disk), but it uses almost no electricity, and it is silent (fanless). Very suitable for 24/7 operation. I am very happy with it. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Alt-F7 fails
Steve Kemp wrote: You can dump a skeleton xorg.conf file by running, as root: dexconf Yes, this gives an absolutely bare-bones xorg.conf with one section in it: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device EndSection It works; and in fact, even without any xorg.conf, it works also. I understand now that the goal of the recent changes was to get rid of xorg.conf, because X should get the information it needs from elsewhere, and automatically. So far so good, but.. with this skeleton xorg.conf, control-alt-backspace for getting out of X no longer works. What I did was to insert, as the first section in xorg.conf, a ServerFlags section: Section ServerFlags Option DontZapoff EndSection By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Alt-F7 fails
OK, I made a small write-up now (aimed at users like myself) about the ‘New Input System’ in Debian. Comments welcome -- http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3 Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Alt-F7 fails
Andrei Popescu wrote: You could add http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide to the 'Links' section. Did that. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Alt-F7 fails
Florian Kulzer wrote: X crashing when switching back from the console is most commonly caused by a problem with the video driver. There should be some related error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or in /var/log/syslog. (Switching back and forth between X and console works fine for me; up-to-date Sid/amd64, intel driver.) There was a backtrace in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x813265b] 1: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x51) [0x80c5c71] 2: [0xb7fd3400] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7956417] 4: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86CrtcSetModeTransform+0x4b4) [0x80eee14] 5: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SetDesiredModes+0x124) [0x80ef1e4] 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb793527d] 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb7706f08] 8: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80dd9e1] 9: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80ccdf4] 10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so [0xb79f0864] 11: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86Wakeup+0x3c3) [0x80c6393] 12: /usr/bin/X11/X(WakeupHandler+0x52) [0x8090512] 13: /usr/bin/X11/X(WaitForSomething+0x1bb) [0x812ffeb] 14: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x7e) [0x808c61e] 15: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x3bd) [0x8071a5d] 16: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7c72775] 17: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8070f11] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting It seems quite a lot happened to Debian Sid recently without me being aware of it. I did 2 experiments: 1-Deleted (well, renamed of course) /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Made sure that the keyboard description in /etc/defaults/console-setup was OK. Result: X works, OK it seems, without xorg.conf, and Alt-F7 works also! 2-Feeling a little bit guilty about running X without xorg.conf, ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I expected to get the well- know litany of questions. No such thing. Instead I got: dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead. (repeated 3 times) Now what does this mean? Where is this obsolete option set? Should users now just simply ditch /etc/X11/xorg.conf? On the other hand it says in the Input Hotplug Guide: First and foremost is that the xorg.conf is still absolutely necessary to set one's keymap when you're not using the default 'us' map. But it seems to work OK even with non-standard keyboard setup, provided it is set in console-setup. Confused, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: keyboard mapping problem under X
Andrei Popescu wrote: changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf is ignored. Aah.. That explains it. Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got some weird results. It is also possible to make X ignore evdev altogether by setting in the ServerFlags section of xorg.conf: Option AutoAddDevices off Then you get the old behaviour back. xorg.conf again determines what is going on. Of course without the benefits of evdev. But I do not know what these benefits are anyway, so I do not miss them! Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Alt-F7 fails
This may be a FAQ; if so, apologies. On my Sid, I can go to the console from X by means of, e.g., Control-Alt-F2. This has been the behaviour of X for ages. Also for ages, you could go back to X by pressing Alt-F7. However, in Sid nowadays, this does not work. Pressing Alt-F7 simply kills X, and all programs running in it. You stay in the console, and have to restart X by means of startx. A bug, obviously. But in which package? Has it been reported to the Debian BTS? I couldn't find it. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: keyboard mapping problem under X
Bruno Boettcher wrote: kbd is still on nodeadkeys... It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a system with evdev, type setxkbmap -print and see if evdev is mentioned. If it is, it seems that at the moment, to change the behaviour of the keyboard, you must specify things not only in etc/X11/xorg.conf, but *also* in /etc/default/console-setup. And then you must reboot! Stopping and restarting X is NOT enough. (There must be a better way though; I am going to investigate this, because obviously my international keyboards and fonts page needs serious updating.) Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mplayer slowness and kernel
Florian Kulzer wrote: It seems that your xorg video driver has problems to use hardware video acceleration with the newer kernel. (A problem with DMA for hard drive or DVD access is also possible, but less likely, IMHO.) What do you get from: lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|display|video|media' 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24d5] (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] [1002:5964] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) [1002:5d44] (rev 01) grep -Ei '^\((ee|ww)\)|xv|/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log With 2.6.26 kernel: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. (WW) The directory /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Generic Keyboard (WW) Disabling Configured Mouse (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (EE) Failed to load module type1 (module does not exist, 0) (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so (II) RADEON(0): Will try to use DMA for Xv image transfers (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ... (WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0xf7fff000 is: 0xf7fff000 (WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffc0 is: 0xfc7ffc00 (WW) RADEON(0): Option XaaNoOffscreenPixmap is not used With 2.6.29 kernel: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. (WW) The directory /usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' wi ll be disabled. (WW) Disabling Generic Keyboard (WW) Disabling Configured Mouse (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (EE) Failed to load module type1 (module does not exist, 0) (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so (II) RADEON(0): Will try to use DMA for Xv image transfers (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (WW) RADEON(0): Option XaaNoOffscreenPixmap is not used Thanks for looking into this. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: keyboard mapping problem under X
Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello [..] i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard? still, dead-keys aren't working so, what possibilities remain to activate them? without redefining a whole new keymapping, especially since the system seems to have changed? KDE or Gnome have GUI utilities that will make the keyboard do what you want (i.e. without directly editing system files). Probably in something called System, Keyboard. If (like me) you want to avoid using KDE/Gnome, you can *also* make the keyboard do what you want. The German keyboard is called de. It has several so-called variants: -basic (this is the default, which has several dead keys) -nodeadkeys (no keys are dead) -deadgraveacute (only grave and acute are dead) -deadacute (only acute is dead) -ro (includes special characters for Romanian. I don't know why this is included in a German keyboard description; maybe German keyboards are commonly used in Romania) -ro_nodeadkeys -... etc, etc, ... See the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de. The variants are described in sections beginning with xkb_symbols. You can select whatever variant you want by typing in a terminal (e.g. xterm) window: setxkbmap de [-variant name of variant] E.g. setxkbmap de -variant deadgraveacute If you just want to use the basic variant, you just type setxkbmap de You can use the setxkbmap command to experiment with keyboard layouts and variants. Once you have selected what you want, you can put it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the keyboard section, in a slightly different format, using one line for the keyboard and another for the variant, e.g.: Option XkbLayout de Option XkbVariant deadgraveacute This will make your selection (semi-)permanent. There are many more possibilities for handling the keyboard in X (not so many on the console). For instance, you can switch between entirely different keyboard layouts by defining a special key. For details, see below, sections 6.1 and 6.2. Regards, Jan http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
mplayer slowness and kernel
With the 2.6.29 kernel (from the linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 package), playing a movie with mplayer uses up to 95% cpu. mplayer becomes very slow and jerky, with stuttering sound, and Your system is TOO SLOW warnings. No twiddling of mplayer's parameters helps. When I go back to the slightly older 2.6.26 kernel (linux-image-2.6.26-2-686), mplayer works properly again (about 20% cpu usage and no warnings or stuttering, even at full screen size. Is this a known problem? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. Locales and Interface Language
Mark Goldshtein wrote: 1. Is a default system locale independent from an interface language? I mean, is it possible to change a default system locale to whatever I like and there will be no harm to English interface I have? [..] It depends on what you mean by changing the locale. AFAIK the locale *mainly* determines the user interface. Messages and prompts from programs, date and currency formats, paper size (eg Letter for US locales), number format (e.g. thousands separator is comma in some locales, period in others), etc. Note that messages and prompts from programs for various locales have to be provided by the programs themselves. If they are not, messages, etc., will be provided in some default language (invariably English). Also, it is up to the programs to pay attention to the locale; if they do not, they will generate e.g. numbers and dates according to the US convention. So if you want to keep an English user interface, you have to keep an English locale; but if you also want to read, input, and print things in other languages than English, you should make sure that your locale is a UTF-8 one, so you can handle all kinds of languages and scripts. Examples: en_US.utf8, en_GB.utf8. Regards, Jan http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#528368: uim: Tiny systray icons (2)
Package: uim Version: 1:1.5.5-1 Severity: normal I reported a very similar bug in 2006 (#400880) but I doubt that this is the same one. When I select the systray version of uim my means of im-switch -s uim-systray uim looks in systray like this: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/uimsys.png with all icons just dots. On the other hand if I select the freely floating toolbar version (which I do not like very much) by means of im-switch -s uim-toolbar, I get http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/uimtool.png which is how it should be. In contrast with the earlier bug #400880, messing about with the preferences setting or changing to xfce4 does not make any difference (I use xfce4 already). Regards, Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages uim depends on: ii uim-common1:1.5.5-1 Common files for uim ii uim-fep 1:1.5.5-1 uim Front End Processor ii uim-gtk2.01:1.5.5-1 GTK+2.x immodule for uim ii uim-utils 1:1.5.5-1 Utilities for uim ii uim-xim 1:1.5.5-1 A bridge between uim and XIM uim recommends no packages. uim suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: suit file
Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: It's a font suitcase, and IIRC the font data is actually in the resource fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data. This file was sent to me by a friend, from a Mac computer, by e-mail, and then saved on my ext3 HD. Any danger that it was corrupted, or incomplete? Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
suit file
I have a font for an exotic language (Javanese) that I want to convert to UTF-8 encoding. Problem is, the font file was made on a Macintosh using Fontographer, and it has a .suit file extension that Fontforge doesn't know how to handle. Anyone knows of a conversion tool under Linux that can change a *.suit file to ttf? Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
Re: Bad sound
Andrei Popescu wrote: I may be a bit behind the times in using xmms. Is there a replacement (with approximately the same user interface) for xmms? audacious Audacious works very well. Thanks, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bad sound
Kent West wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: The last few days, sound (in particular music) is very bad on my Sid system. It sounds distorted, as if above a certain amplitude the signal is clipped. I had this problem for about the last year; last week I discovered one of the 3D channels was too high. How did you discover this? I mean by which program: alsamixer, alsactl, or something else? In the meantime I found that the problem only occurs when xmms is used for playing music. xmms used to work very well until a few days ago, but now it sounds horrible. Using mplayer instead makes the same music files sound perfect again. I may be a bit behind the times in using xmms. Is there a replacement (with approximately the same user interface) for xmms? Does anyone know why xmms suddenly started to behave so badly? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bad sound
The last few days, sound (in particular music) is very bad on my Sid system. It sounds distorted, as if above a certain amplitude the signal is clipped. Could this possibly be caused by software, i.e. a Sid upgrade? Did anyone else notice this? 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#522417: ghostscript: Doesn't work with Brother printers
Package: ghostscript
Version: 8.64~dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Several Brother printers (at least HL2030, HL2040, HL2070; see the
debian-user list at the beginning of April 2009) stopped working when
ghostscript version 8.64 was introduced. Downgrading to 8.63 solves the
problem.
The Brother printer driver consists of 2 shell scripts and one
closed-source file supplied by Brother. The first shell script ensures that
the file to be printed is a .ps file, converting non-ps files to ps if
necessary. The second script runs gs, with bit as the output device. Then
the output is processed by the closed-source program and fed to the printer.
The drivers can be downloaded from
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html
(for lpr. There are also CUPS drivers; they also do not work with 8.64).
gs is called as follows by the second script: (note: one line is 92 chars
long)
GHOST_SCRIPT=`which gs`
OUTPUT_TYPE=bit
GHOST_OPT=-q -dNOPROMPT -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=$OUTPUT_TYPE -sOutputFile=-
- -c quit
exec $GHOST_SCRIPT -r$RESOLUTION -g${WIDTH}x${HEIGHT} $GHOST_OPT
No idea why this suddenly stopped working. But it did. The second script
(called psconv2) produces no output if version 8.64 is used.
Regards, Jan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii debconf [debc 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.0.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii defoma0.11.10-0.2Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii ghostscript [ 8.64~dfsg-1The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gs-common 8.64~dfsg-1Dummy package depending on ghostsc
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.3.9-16 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.9-16 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgnutls26 2.6.4-2the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgs88.64~dfsg-1The Ghostscript PostScript/PDF int
ii libgssapi-krb 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-01.2.35-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages ghostscript recommends:
ii psfontmgr0.11.10-0.2 PostScript font manager -- part of
Versions of packages ghostscript suggests:
ii ghostscript-x8.64~dfsg-1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
pn hpijsnone (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
beatrice wrote: I have a Brother HL2040 printer that worked perfectly well on my Debian testing with the .deb driver package Brother provides. I don't have CUPS installed, I use lpr. My printer stopped working without me changing any system configuration other than my usual package updating via aptitude. [..] The communication PC- printer should be working. When a job is sent to the printer the printer wakes up, makes all the hot air noise it usually does, plus the led light blink as it always did while it is receiving data. The length of the blinking still varies with the amount of data sent. I am afraid I can't help you now, but I have almost the same problem. The only difference is that my printer is a Brother HL2030 instead of a 2040. The rest is exactly as you describe. lpr, and the problem started yesterday after an upgrade. I'll let you and list know when I find a solution. I think it happened before (maybe a year ago) but I can't remember what I did to fix it. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
The problem is, as you suspected, caused by ghostscript. I downgraded to version 8.63 and it started to work again. You have to downgrade 3 packages: libgs8, ghostscript, and ghostscript-x. With any luck, the 8.63 versions of these packages are still in your /var/cache/apt/archives, and you can install them with dpkg -i. Otherwise you must go to packages.debian.org and get the 8.62 versions from stable; it seems that 8.63 is no longer available. Version 8.64 gives an irrecoverable error. I haven't found out yet how Brother's way of using ghostscript triggers this error. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update
beatrice wrote: I think I'll write a couple lines to Brother's customer service anyway, now that I know I am not the only one with this problem. I don't know if the error is with Brother or with ghostscript. In the meantime I filed a bug against ghostscript: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522417 Actually I *think* that the error is with ghostscript. The Brother scripts look OK to me. I hope that 8.62 works for you; didn't try it myself. And indeed, it happened before, so I stopped upgrading ghostscript for a while, I remember now. I am not sure which previous version did not work. Hope it was not 8.62.. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Grr! Sound problems again
About a year and a half ago, after a lot of experimentation, I finally got sound working OK on my Debian Sid system. The solution turned out to be quite simple. To save others the same trouble, I put up a kind of sound instruction on my website (http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/dmix.html). But something must have changed in Sid recently, because sound has become unreliable again. After I visit a sound-using site like youtube (let's call this online sound), sound will no longer be heard when playing a stored avi file with gmplayer, for instance (offline sound). To play offline sounds I have to kill iceweasel first (or call /etc/init.d/alsasound restart, which kills iceweasel as a side effect..). Well, I know this is Sid, which has this tendency of breaking things which work by fixing them. But normally these things get re-fixed after a few days. This new sound problem has now been going on for a few weeks. I cannot file a bug report about it because I have no way to know which program causes the problem. Any help appreciated. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#508055: libcups2: Ridiculous dependencies
Package: libcups2 Version: 1.3.8-1lenny3 Severity: grave When I try to remove libcups2, I get the message: The following packages will be REMOVED abiword abiword-common abiword-help abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview acroread acroread-data acroread-debian-files acroread-dictionary-en acroread-escript acroread-l10n-en acroread-plugins afterstep amule amule-utils-gui aterm audacity avidemux azureus bluefish ca-certificates-java camorama choosewm cups desktop-base drgeo driconf ed2k-gtk-gui evince exo-utils fluxconf gamix gconf-editor ghostscript ghostscript-x gimp gimp-gnomevfs gimp-python glade gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnucash gnucash-docs gnuplot gnuplot-x11 gs-common gs-esp gs-gpl gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk-gnutella gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-xfce gtkam gucharmap gv homebank html2ps icedove icedtea-gcjwebplugin iceweasel imagemagick inkscape leafpad libaccess-bridge-java libafterimage0 libafterstep1 libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a libbonoboui2-0 libcommons-cli-java libcommons-lang-java libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libexif-gtk5 libexo-0.3-0 libgail-common libgail-dev libgail17 libgail18 libgcj8-1-awt libgcj9-0-awt libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby1.8 libgimp2.0 libgksuui1.0-1 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglademm-2.4-dev libgladeui-1-7 libgnome-media0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgoffice-0-4 libgraphicsmagick++1 libgraphicsmagick1 libgs8 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-dev libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml3.8-15 libgtkmathview0c2a libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgtkspell0 libgucharmap6 liblog4j1.2-java liblog4j1.2-java-gcj libmagick++10 libmagick10 libmetacity0 libnautilus-burn3 libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler0c2-glib librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libscim8c2a libspectre1 libswt-gtk-3.1-jni libswt-gtk-3.2-jni libswt-gtk-3.4-java libswt-gtk-3.4-jni libthunar-vfs-1-2 libvte9 libwmf0.2-7 libwv-1.2-3 libwxgtk2.6-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 libxfcegui4-4 libxine1 libxine1-misc-plugins libxine1-plugins libxul0d maxima maxima-share maxima-test mjpegtools mkvtoolnix-gui mlterm mlterm-tools mousepad mozilla-acroread mozilla-mplayer mplayer obconf ogle-gui openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-writer orage pan pdf2dj perlmagick python-glade2 python-gtk2 python-uno python-wxgtk2.6 python-wxversion quicktime-x11utils rapidsvn realplayer rhino rox-filer rxvt-unicode scim scim-gtk2-immodule scim-modules-socket scribus sgt-puzzles sodipodi streamtuner subtitleeditor texmacs thunar transcode uim-gtk2.0 uim-xim xaralx xcdroast xfce4 xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins libxine1-plugins libxul0d maxima maxima-share maxima-test mjpegtools mkvtoolnix-gui mlterm mlterm-tools mousepad mozilla-acroread mozilla-mplayer mplayer obconf ogle-gui openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-writer orage pan pdf2dj perlmagick python-glade2 python-gtk2 python-uno python-wxgtk2.6 python-wxversion quicktime-x11utils rapidsvn realplayer rhino rox-filer rxvt-unicode scim scim-gtk2-immodule scim-modules-socket scribus sgt-puzzles sodipodi streamtuner subtitleeditor texmacs thunar transcode uim-gtk2.0 uim-xim xaralx xcdroast xfce4 xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-terminal xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xfprint4 xfreecd xfwm4 xfwm4-themes xine-ui xmaxima xscreensaver xscreensaver-dat xsensors xulrunner-1.9 yelp zeroinstall-injector This absurd. Many of these programs have nothing at all to do with printing. And all the others can print very well, thank you, using lprng instead of CUPS. Please remove these ridiculous dependencies. Regards, Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libcups2 depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr21.41.3-1 common error description library ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-3the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime libcups2 recommends no packages. Versions of packages libcups2 suggests: ii cups-common1.3.8-1lenny3 Common UNIX Printing
Bug#508055: libcups2: Ridiculous dependencies
Package: libcups2 Version: 1.3.8-1lenny3 Severity: grave When I try to remove libcups2, I get the message: The following packages will be REMOVED abiword abiword-common abiword-help abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview acroread acroread-data acroread-debian-files acroread-dictionary-en acroread-escript acroread-l10n-en acroread-plugins afterstep amule amule-utils-gui aterm audacity avidemux azureus bluefish ca-certificates-java camorama choosewm cups desktop-base drgeo driconf ed2k-gtk-gui evince exo-utils fluxconf gamix gconf-editor ghostscript ghostscript-x gimp gimp-gnomevfs gimp-python glade gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnucash gnucash-docs gnuplot gnuplot-x11 gs-common gs-esp gs-gpl gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk-gnutella gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-xfce gtkam gucharmap gv homebank html2ps icedove icedtea-gcjwebplugin iceweasel imagemagick inkscape leafpad libaccess-bridge-java libafterimage0 libafterstep1 libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a libbonoboui2-0 libcommons-cli-java libcommons-lang-java libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libexif-gtk5 libexo-0.3-0 libgail-common libgail-dev libgail17 libgail18 libgcj8-1-awt libgcj9-0-awt libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby1.8 libgimp2.0 libgksuui1.0-1 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglademm-2.4-dev libgladeui-1-7 libgnome-media0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgoffice-0-4 libgraphicsmagick++1 libgraphicsmagick1 libgs8 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-dev libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml3.8-15 libgtkmathview0c2a libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgtkspell0 libgucharmap6 liblog4j1.2-java liblog4j1.2-java-gcj libmagick++10 libmagick10 libmetacity0 libnautilus-burn3 libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler0c2-glib librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libscim8c2a libspectre1 libswt-gtk-3.1-jni libswt-gtk-3.2-jni libswt-gtk-3.4-java libswt-gtk-3.4-jni libthunar-vfs-1-2 libvte9 libwmf0.2-7 libwv-1.2-3 libwxgtk2.6-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 libxfcegui4-4 libxine1 libxine1-misc-plugins libxine1-plugins libxul0d maxima maxima-share maxima-test mjpegtools mkvtoolnix-gui mlterm mlterm-tools mousepad mozilla-acroread mozilla-mplayer mplayer obconf ogle-gui openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-writer orage pan pdf2dj perlmagick python-glade2 python-gtk2 python-uno python-wxgtk2.6 python-wxversion quicktime-x11utils rapidsvn realplayer rhino rox-filer rxvt-unicode scim scim-gtk2-immodule scim-modules-socket scribus sgt-puzzles sodipodi streamtuner subtitleeditor texmacs thunar transcode uim-gtk2.0 uim-xim xaralx xcdroast xfce4 xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins libxine1-plugins libxul0d maxima maxima-share maxima-test mjpegtools mkvtoolnix-gui mlterm mlterm-tools mousepad mozilla-acroread mozilla-mplayer mplayer obconf ogle-gui openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-writer orage pan pdf2dj perlmagick python-glade2 python-gtk2 python-uno python-wxgtk2.6 python-wxversion quicktime-x11utils rapidsvn realplayer rhino rox-filer rxvt-unicode scim scim-gtk2-immodule scim-modules-socket scribus sgt-puzzles sodipodi streamtuner subtitleeditor texmacs thunar transcode uim-gtk2.0 uim-xim xaralx xcdroast xfce4 xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-terminal xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xfprint4 xfreecd xfwm4 xfwm4-themes xine-ui xmaxima xscreensaver xscreensaver-dat xsensors xulrunner-1.9 yelp zeroinstall-injector This absurd. Many of these programs have nothing at all to do with printing. And all the others can print very well, thank you, using lprng instead of CUPS. Please remove these ridiculous dependencies. Regards, Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libcups2 depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr21.41.3-1 common error description library ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-3the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime libcups2 recommends no packages. Versions of packages libcups2 suggests: ii cups-common1.3.8-1lenny3 Common UNIX Printing
Strange news problem
Icedove, which I use for mail and news, does not download headers from subscribed newsgroups anymore. On the 29th of November it still worked fine; I received some message headers (only a handful) dated November 30; nothing since then. The news server belongs to my ISP, but they say nothing has changed and they got no other complaints about this. In fact when I try another newsreader (pan), new message headers continue to be retrieved normally. So it really seems to be an Icedove problem. Even deleting the news account and setting it up afresh does not produce any messages after November 30. I update/upgrade Sid regularly, but Icedove has not been upgraded since October. Any suggestions? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange news problem
Eduardo M Kalinowski wrote: Try with another profile (icedove -ProfileManager should let you create another, or move the .mozilla/thunderbird/ directory out of the way temporarily) to see if the problem still persists with a clean profile. I tried both suggestions, but I still cannot see any news after Nov. 30. Most mysterious. (Hope this message make it to the list; I am not subscribed. Normally I send messages to the list with a method involving both the html archives and the linux.debian.user newsgroup, but the latter does not work now :-( May try a purge and reinstall of icedove and iceweasel. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange news problem
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: There are reports complaining about this in the nl.internet.providers newsgroup, w.r.t. news servers of your provider. nova.planet.nl still seems to work well. Thanks very much! KPN's help desk is apparently not aware of this problem. I thought the nova server was only for binaries, but apparently it carries normal newsgroups as well. Other list members: sorry to have bothered you with a problem that has nothing to do with Debian. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java plugin (SOLVED)
I finally solved my java plugin problems (as well as, it seems, several instability problems I was having with iceweasel) by: 1. apt-get removing and dpkg --purging any java-related packages found by dpkg -l|grep -i java. 2. apt-get installing azureus (which pulls in openjdk-6*) and icedtea-gcjwebplugin. Got the hint from this message on the debian-amd64 list (found by searching; don't have an amd64 myself): http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2008/11/msg00032.html Maybe Debian is getting more sun-unfriendly. Anyway, it works now. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
java plugin
I have sun-java6-plugin installed (and thus also sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-bin) but the java plugin does not appear in iceweasel's about:plugins (and so java applets no longer work). Running Sid; this problem seems to be fairly new. Any other Sid users experience this? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java plugin
Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:29:39 +0100 Have you done as instructed at plugindoc.mozdev.org? Namely; 1. Install Java Runtime Environment. 2. Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i386/ns7 directory of JRE 5.0 or later, or plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 if you are using JRE 1.4.2. The file you link to is in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.07/jre/plugin/i386/ns7 on my system. Thanks! I *think* that has already been done by apt-get. The only difference seems to be that you have java-6-sun-1.6.0.07 while I have java-6-sun-1.6.0.10. I have the following symbolic links: -/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins has libjavaplugin.so - /etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so -/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins has libjavaplugin.so - /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so -/etc/alternatives has iceweasel-javaplugin.so - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/ i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so mozilla-javaplugin.so - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/ i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/lib/jvm has java-6-sun - java-6-sun-1.6.0.10 and finally, /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.10/jre/plugin/i386/ns7 has the file libjavaplugin_oji.so, perms -rwxr-xr-x, owned by root, size 137021 bytes. That seems OK to me. For good measure, I downgraded from the Sid to the Lenny version -- i.e. from 1.6.0.10 to 1.6.0/07. But this didn't help .. it is mysterious. One thing: when re-installing (i.e. downgrading) sun-java there was a warning: update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-6, but binary format already installed by sun-java6 I don't know what this means. I have openjdk installed because it was pulled in by the azureus package. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs problem
Kurian Thayil wrote: Hi, If I can remember correctly. Include the option no_root_squash in /etc/exports of B. It will be like, /home/storage/video A(rw,sync,subtree_check,no_root_squash) You will be able to read-write as root if you include this option. This did not really work. To my amazement, the following drastic simplification worked: on B: /etc exports reads /home/storage/video A(async) C(async) A user on the home net (desktop machine A or C) can mount, read, and write the shared directory now. nfs remains mysterious. But I am slowly gaining experience, now my home has become 100% Debian (two desktops and a gateway/server/firewall). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs problem
Machines A and B both run Debian. There are no firewall rules blocking any kind of traffic A--B. I try to mount, by means of nfs, a directory of B to a mount point on A, read-write. /etc/exports in B has: /home/storage/video A(rw,sync,subtree_check) /etc/fstab in A has: B:/home/storage/video /mountB nfs \ user,rw,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,noauto 0 0 If I call (on A) mount /mountB I can read the contents of /home/storage/video on B. But I cannot write anything to it. I keep getting the message read-only filesystem. I hope there are some nfs experts here who can shed some light. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: japanese input?
Dexter Filmore wrote: etch or lenny, doesn't matter, any will do. Need japanese input on both gtk2 and qt apps. Possibly mouse input, i.e. draw signs - the get instant-ocr'ed. What are my options here? If you have a utf-8 system (i.e. the output of the locale command shows UTF-8 suffixes) you could use, e.g., uim or scim. Instructions here: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.4 I use uim myself. The uim menu offers a handwriting input pad, but it doesn't seem to be implemented in Debian. So you just have to use the Japanese word processor method: type toukyou, press space, get 東京. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cedilla on a us_intl keyboard
Strange. I thought the us_intl keyboard had been removed from Debian years ago. Nowadays you use the us keyboard with the alt-intl /keyboard variant/. It seems that many Debian users (including members of this list) are not aware of the glorious Unix Compose Key. You press Compose, and then some other characters, and magically a character is produced which is a kind of graphical combination of those characters. So a c-cedilla (ç) is made by Compose, comma, c. A German double s (ß) by means of Compose, s, s. A British pound (currency) sign (₤) by Compose, L, =. Etcetera, etcetera; hundreds of such combinations are pre-defined, and you can also define your own. Now where is the Compose key? I /think/ the Debian default is: the right windows key is Compose (but I am not sure; it's been ages since I set up a Debian system from scratch). In any case the position of the Compose key can be specified through the GUI on Gnome/Ubuntu and KDE. If you have no Compose key defined, you can also set it by specifying in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, in the keyboard section: Option XkbOptions compose:rwin See also http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.1 Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cedilla on a us_intl keyboard
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
It seems that many Debian users (including members of this
list) are not aware of the glorious Unix Compose Key. You
press Compose, and then some other characters, and magically
a character is produced which is a kind of graphical
combination of those characters. So a c-cedilla (ç) is made
by Compose, comma, c. A German double s (ß) by means of
Compose, s, s. A British pound (currency) sign (₤) by
Compose, L, =.
Good point Jan Willem, Florian has pointed this out before:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/04/msg01873.html
Hugo
It seems I missed that thread. But anyway it is true that the
Compose key (a Unix/Linux feature, Windows doesn't have it) is a
very useful tool.
However, that thread did not quite answer the question posed by
its OP (Manon Metten). With the Compose key, you need 3 keystrokes
to make, e.g., á (Compose, ', a). If you use a true dead keys
method, you need only 2 keystrokes (', a). The downside then is
that to produce ' by itself, you need to follow the ' keypress by
a space, or press Alt-'. The choice between the dead keys method
and the Compose method is a matter of taste, depending on the
language(s) that you normally work with. For US users who only
need accented characters very rarely, the Compose method is
probably the best.
To enable true dead keys on an ordinary US keyboard you can set
a dead key variant in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option XkbVariant alt-intl
(Dead keys, which already existed in European mechanical
typewriters, were called dead because they did not advance the
paper-carrying carriage. So a following character overprinted them.)
The xkb subsystem on modern versions of Linux has many more
wonderful features, especially if you convert your system to utf-8
(which is easy, and already the default on fresh installations of
Debian, I believe).
Regards, Jan
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Re: re: how to close port 113
Jude DaShiell wrote: Install and run arno-iptables-firewall and tell it your internet port like eth0 or ppp0 and leave the rest of the defaults alone. Port 113 will be closed once this is done since one of the defaults with arno-iptables-firewall is to first deny all ports then only open up those you specifically choose to open. In general my advice would be to make your system secure /without/ a firewall. I.e. do not run services that you do not need, and make the ones you /do/ need only accessible from the LAN, not from the outside world. Then, you can run a firewall as a double security. It is dangerous to rely on firewalls only for security because it so easy to make mistakes with them. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switch-off problem
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Now my theory is that the switch-off problem occurs after the following events: 1 - I mount the remote usb drive. 2 - my wife switches off her computer. 3 - I try to umount the remote usb drive -- this cannot be done. I suppose the shutdown program also tries to umount nfs mounts, but fails, and then instead of skipping this step, just hangs. Does this make sense? If so, is there a way to solve this problem? You could try switching to a soft mount. This can cause silent data loss when a server goes down, but I don't think that should be an issue if this is a read-only mount. Just add soft to the mount options. (I haven't tried soft-mounting for this particular case, so I don't know for sure that it will help) Thanks much for pointing me to the soft option (which I did not know about). Then by Googling I also found the intr option which is said to be an alternative. But unfortunately neither option cures the problem of shutdown hanging on the client when the nfs server has gone off-line. Strange. This situation cannot be uncommon in Linux home networking. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Switch-off problem
Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/19/08 04:46, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:[..] Now my theory is that the switch-off problem occurs after the following events: 1 - I mount the remote usb drive. 2 - my wife switches off her computer. 3 - I try to umount the remote usb drive -- this cannot be done. I suppose the shutdown program also tries to umount nfs mounts, but fails, and then instead of skipping this step, just hangs. Does this make sense? If so, is there a way to solve this problem? Manually umount -l the remote drive before you shutdown? This does not work. Manually umounting the nfs drive (after the computer which hosts the nfs drive is switched off) just leads to a hang, whether the lazy switch is applied or not. In fact I cannot even type the umount command entirely: the system hangs immediately after typing the first 3 characters (including the leading /) of the mount point. Anyway it seems (from /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh) that the -l switch, as well as the -f switch, is already applied by default. Running Sid; kernel is a stock Debian one: 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Wed May 14 16:42:03 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux It seems that nfs on the remote computer fails to send a command (before shutting itself down) to the computers to which it exports, telling them to umount. This may be a bug, or, much more likely, a failure on my part to understand the nfs export system. Anyway, I never had this trouble while samba was used for sharing, rather than nfs. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Switch-off problem
Recently my computer devolped a new problem: it sometimes does not switch itself off when I do shutdown -h now. It hangs somewhere during the shutdown procedure, and has to be switched off by means of the mains switch at the back. Fortunately the filesystem is ext3, so at the next boot it starts again without problems. I /think/ the problem may be related to nfs. I recently converted my wife's computer to Linux. A usb disk connected to my wife's computer contains media files which we both can use. This common usb disk used to be shared by means of samba/smbfs, but now it is exported by means of nfs. Now my theory is that the switch-off problem occurs after the following events: 1 - I mount the remote usb drive. 2 - my wife switches off her computer. 3 - I try to umount the remote usb drive -- this cannot be done. I suppose the shutdown program also tries to umount nfs mounts, but fails, and then instead of skipping this step, just hangs. Does this make sense? If so, is there a way to solve this problem? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to package?
Jan Brosius wrote: Hi, I have the source of the program maxima. I would like to make a debian package of it. Is there any place where I can find documentation about making debian packages? Thanks for any help Jan Debian packages already exist. Try apt-cache search maxima Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A trick for non-supscrivvers
This message originally had the title A trick for non-subscribers. I send it again with the word misspelled. The original version did not make it to the list because the list interpreted the substring subscribe in the title as a request to subscribe (which I do *not* want). Robots.. This is not a question but a tip. I just discovered this; of course it may be old hat. You want to participate in the list? But you don't want to subscribe, because of the huge volume on the list? The trick: 1. Use icedove as your mail/news reader, and tell Iceweasel you've done so. 2. Subscribe to newsgroup linux.debian.user. 3. Read messages from the newsgroup. 4. If you want to reply to a message, find the same message in http://lists.debian.org/debian-user. Then click the reply to list link. If everything goes well, an Icedove mail compose window will come up, with an empty message area. 5. Now the trick: in this compose window, click options, quote message. In the compose window, the message (which will go to the LIST), the message from the NEWSGROUP will be quoted. This works in Sid. No guarantees for other Debian versions. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#489765: libgtk2.0-0: does not allow lpr printing through Iceweasel 3
Josselin Mouette wrote: Well, users should not be using lprng unless they know what they are doing. You should not be telling what users should do. When you drop a trusted functionality which available for 15 years, you should at least have the politeness to warn users about this fact. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#489765: libgtk2.0-0: does not allow lpr printing through Iceweasel 3
Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.12.10-2 Severity: important Iceweasel 3 cannot print when using lprng; only when using CUPS. Installing libgtk2.0-0 by compiling the sources from gtk.org (there called gtk2+-2.10 or similar) cures the problem. So it seems some Debian customisation of libgtk2.0-0 has killed lprng compatibility. There are many users who prefer lprng. They can't print from Iceweasel anymore, so this is a Bad Thing, making this bug Important. Please keep Debian applications as independent from each other as possible, in order to preserve freedom of choice for the users. See also the discussion on the Debian user list, starting approx. at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00430.html Regards, Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libgtk2.0-0 depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcomerr21.40.11-1 common error description library ii libcups2 [libcupsys2] 1.3.7-7Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - pi libcupsys21.3.7-7Common UNIX Printing System (trans ii libfontconfig12.6.0-1generic font configuration library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls26 2.4.0-2the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgtk2.0-common 2.12.10-2 Common files for the GTK+ graphica ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.3-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-01.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff4 3.8.2-10 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxcomposite11:0.4.0-3 X11 Composite extension library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-4 X11 damaged region extension libra ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes31:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi62:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr22:1.2.2-2 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages libgtk2.0-0 recommends: ii hicolor-icon-theme0.10-1 default fallback theme for FreeDes ii libgtk2.0-bin 2.12.10-2 The programs for the GTK+ graphica -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#489765: libgtk2.0-0: does not allow lpr printing through Iceweasel 3
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:31 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Iceweasel 3 cannot print when using lprng; only when using CUPS. Does setting: gtk-print-backends = file,lpr,cups In ~/.gtkrc-2.0 solve things for you? Well, yes, it did! Thanks very much! But having to do this (while it was not necessary before) is a surprise to the users -- therefore a bug. Some program should do this automatically in its install procedure -- or prompt the user to accept this. But which program? Iceweasel3? Or libgtk2.0-0? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 15:06, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I'll just mention the follow-up. I just tried installing gtk+-2.10 (compiling source from http://www.gtk.org/) and indeed, print to lpr now appears in the print dialog. Without cups or xprint. Just lprng. So as soon as gtk+-2.10 appears in Sid, this problem will be over. You're a bit behind the times, Jan! ;) $ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0: Installed: 2.12.10-2 Candidate: 2.12.10-2 Version table: *** 2.12.10-2 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Indeed. Very strange. And I even have it installed. But ff3 can print to lpr only when I install the compiled-from-source version of 2.10 (in /usr/local). As soon as I uninstall it, lpr printing on ff3 becomes unavailable. /usr/lib/gtk-2.0 (the Debian version) contains subdirectories: 2.10.0 2.2.0 2.4.0 include modules No 2.12.0! I don't understand this numbering system. /usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0 contains: 2.10.0 2.2.0 2.4.0 include (no modules, but the same version numbers). The real difference is probably to be found here: the Sid version has: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -alG /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/ total 104 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2008-06-09 17:32 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root 4096 2007-04-15 14:58 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root 52980 2008-06-07 11:16 libprintbackend-cups.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root 13044 2008-06-07 11:16 libprintbackend-file.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root 10084 2008-06-07 11:16 libprintbackend-lpr.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root 11140 2008-06-07 11:16 libprintbackend-test.so While the compiled-from-source version (from gtk.org) has: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -alG /usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/ total 92 drwxr-sr-x 2 root 4096 2008-07-06 21:26 . drwxr-sr-x 6 root 4096 2008-07-06 21:26 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1315 2008-07-06 21:26 libprintbackend-file.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 37984 2008-07-06 21:26 libprintbackend-file.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1309 2008-07-06 21:26 libprintbackend-lpr.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 34034 2008-07-06 21:26 libprintbackend-lpr.so I compiled by just ./configure, make, without setting any options. So by default gtk does not have a cups print backend, only lpr and file (when compiled on a cups-less system, I presume). The Debian version has lpr and file, as well as cups and something called test. Maybe you can explain these findings. Anyway it seems that the bug is not in ff3 but in libgtk2.0-0. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 Jul 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I compiled by just ./configure, make, without setting any options. So by default gtk does not have a cups print backend, only lpr and file (when compiled on a cups-less system, I presume). The Debian version has lpr and file, as well as cups and something called test. [..] It didn't work here. I did the same thing and the appropriate stuff in /usr/local but I still can't print. Did you do something to make FF see the gtk-2.10 stuff? Probably. I messed around a bit with the settings in about:config. Some settings I have now: print.postscript.cups.enabled false [AFAIK not a default setting; you have to create it] print.print_paper_size 1 print.printer_list lp print.save_print_settings true print.show_print_progress true Most of these about:config settings related to printing do not seem to do anything, though. What do you mean by the appropriate stuff in /usr/local? make install as root takes care of that. make uninstall undoes the changes, useful for testing. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
