Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, Here is all of those commands that had output the first sound card 
as I only had one in the virtual machine.  Based on this what can you 
tell about this virtual machine as I am able to ssh into it?  Nick Gawronski


Script started on 2021-03-16 21:26:28-05:00 [TERM="xterm-256color" 
TTY="/dev/pts/1" COLUMNS="120" LINES="30"]
[?2004hroot@debian641:~# amixer -c 0 
controlscontrols

[?2004l
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0
Simple mixer control 'Video',0
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Mix',0
Simple mixer control 'Mix Mono',0
[?2004hroot@debian641:~# amixer -c 0 contents
[?2004l
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=on
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=49,49
  | dBscale-min=-94.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=on
numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=23,23
  | dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Boost (+20dB)'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Phone Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Phone Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Video Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='Video Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='Aux Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Aux Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=63,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | dBscale-min=-34.50dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Source'
  ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw--,values=2,items=8
  ; Item #0 'Mic'
  ; Item #1 'CD'
  ; Item #2 'Video'
  ; Item #3 'Aux'
  ; Item #4 'Line'
  ; Item #5 'Mix'
  ; Item #6 'Mix Mono'
  ; Item #7 'Phone'
  : values=0,0
numid=19,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=on
numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=15,step=0
  : values=8,8
  | dBscale-min=0.00dB,step=1.50dB,mute=0
numid=21,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
  ; type=IEC958,access=r---,values=1
  : values=[AES0=0x0f AES1=0xff AES2=0x00 AES3=0x0f]
numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
  ; type=IEC958,access=r---,values=1
  : values=[AES0=0xcf AES1=0x00 AES2=0x00 AES3=0x00]
numid=23,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Default'
  ; type=IEC958,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=[AES0=0x00 AES1=0x82 AES2=0x00 AES3=0x02]
numid=24,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw--,values=1
  : values=off
numid=25,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rR--,values=2,min=0,max=36,step=0
  : values=3,4
  | container
    | chmap-fixed=MONO
    | chmap-fixed=FL,FR
numid=26,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map',device=1
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rR--,values=2,min=0,max=36,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | container
    | chmap-fixed=MONO
    | chmap-fixed=RL,RR
[?2004hroot@debian641:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
[?2004l
 0 [AudioPCI   ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
  Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0x2040, irq 16
[?2004hroot@debian641:~# cat /sys//class/sound//card0/id
[?2004l
AudioPCI
[?2004hroot@debian641:~# cat /var/run/espeakup.card
[?2004l
cat: /var/run/espeakup.card: No su

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, The system I am using for my host is a windows 10 pro 64 bits system 
and with vmware player I have it set as Debian 10 64 bits as there is no 
version 11.  If I install the ssh server task along with the rest of the 
system during the installation on the host system should I be able to 
ssh into the guest with the networking in vmware player set to nat?  
When I hit backspace in the virtual machine logd in as root or a normal 
user I do get the pc speaker beeps.  If I can login as root on the 
virtual machine what command can I use to unmute the sound card?  Nick 
Gawronski


On 3/16/2021 1:32 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:

Hello,

Nick Gawronski, le lun. 15 mars 2021 23:11:26 -0500, a ecrit:

I however get no software speech either in the mate desktop or in the
console

I don't have vmware player, so I cannot test this myself. When I try it
with qemu I do get speech both during installation and in the installed
system. So I cannot debug the issue myself.


If I try to use espeak and enter text I get no sound.

Could it be that (for whatever reason) the sound driver on the
installed system does not take care of unmuting the card?


rather then auto detecting or using the system sound card as if I do
this the installation freezes at random points where I suddenly lose
speech.

It would be useful to debunk this as well actually.

Samuel

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

[Samuel Thibault]

Nick Gawronski, le mar. 16 mars 2021 15:47:49 -0500, a ecrit:
> If I install the ssh server task along with the rest of the system
> during the installation on the host system should I be able to ssh into the
> guest with the networking in vmware player set to nat?

That's supposed to work yes.

> If I can login as root on the virtual machine what command
> can I use to unmute the sound card?

https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
provides amixer commands to see the levels and other information that
can be useful:

amixer -c 0 scontrols
amixer -c 1 scontrols
cat /proc/asound/cards
echo /sys/class/sound/card*/id
cat /sys/class/sound/card*/id
cat /var/run/espeakup.card
amixer -c 0 scontents
amixer -c 1 scontents

Depending on the result, that'll tell you exactly the name of the
volume control to fix.

Samuel

Bug#985149: debootstrap stumbles over tabs in include parameter

[Paul Tagliamonte]

>From a quick glance, it looks like `leftoverdebs` is initially a list of
packages, but in the suite/compoenent loop, leftoverdebs is assigned to the
package sizes.

...
leftoverdebs=$(printf "$leftoverdebs"|tr ' ' '\n'|sort -u|tr '\n' ' ')

leftoverdebs="$(get_package_sizes "$m1" "$pkgdest" $leftoverdebs)"

error 1 LEFTOVERDEBS "Couldn't find these debs: %s" "$leftoverdebs"

The output number appears to be the package sizes. Very confusing output
error message indeed!

  paultag

-- 
:wq

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Nick Gawronski, le lun. 15 mars 2021 23:11:26 -0500, a ecrit:
> I however get no software speech either in the mate desktop or in the
> console

I don't have vmware player, so I cannot test this myself. When I try it
with qemu I do get speech both during installation and in the installed
system. So I cannot debug the issue myself.

> If I try to use espeak and enter text I get no sound.

Could it be that (for whatever reason) the sound driver on the
installed system does not take care of unmuting the card?

> rather then auto detecting or using the system sound card as if I do
> this the installation freezes at random points where I suddenly lose
> speech.

It would be useful to debunk this as well actually.

Samuel

Bug#985149: debootstrap stumbles over tabs in include parameter

[Christian Lamparter]

Hello Steve,

On 16/03/2021 15:12, Steve McIntyre wrote:

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:56:26PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.123
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I ran into an issue when I was using debootstrap in order to setup a chroot-
environment.

I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 6D33866EDD8FFA41C0143AEDDCC9EFBF77E11517)
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on http://deb.debian.org/debian...
E: Couldn't find these debs: 48477576

I was surprised to see that "48477576". I expected to get the
name of the package that was causing this, instead of a number.
I dug deeper to see what's causing this and I was surprised
when I found out that the parameter '--include=package'
that was passed to debootstrap was causing this.

Here's a reproducer (can be copied into bash). It fetches the
current debian stable for amd64 with "gzip" as an extra package.
(that $(printf \\t) is in this example, here so the "tab" won't
get lost when copying&pasting)


Ummm. Why are you expecting debootstrap to deal with whitespace here?
I'm not convinced this is a bug...


What threw me off is that "E: Couldn't find these debs: 48477576".
48477576 is not a package, right?.

Well, the backstory is: I came across this, because I needed some
extra, but sensible packages in my basic image for it to be useful.

this script look(ed) like this (a mailer with tab support is needed
for proper alignment)

---
PACKAGE="initramfs-tools,gzip,u-boot-tools,device-tree-compiler,\
 debian-keyring-archive,bzip2, ca-certificates,wget,\
 ..."

debootstrap --include="$PACKAGE" ...
---

But it bugged and I had no idea it was because I was using tabs to
align the extra PACKAGE in the next lines because they wouldn't fit
due to 80 cols limit.

Once I figured out that the use of tabs are the issue, I replaced
them with spaces. Then I went on to write a proper bug-report with
a testcase and PoC-patch, in case someone (like future me) stumbles
over this as well: "Check your include/excludes with a fine comb".


But back to the business at hand... Because I would need to know
why you think that a Error message like
"E: Couldn't find these debs: 48477576"
doesn't trigger a "yeah, this 48477576 looks buggy"?

Is there a deeper meaning to the numbers like 48477576?...
or:
 - 29976556? 
()
 - 91369800? 
()
 - 0? ()

that I don't get?

Cheers,
Christian

software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I used the s option to start speech as I am totally blind using this 
image.


https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

Speech worked fine and I liked the fact that the volume was of a highor 
level then in stable.  I then installed the system making sure that 
vmware player 16 was set to use the Realtek sound card by default rather 
then auto detecting or using the system sound card as if I do this the 
installation freezes at random points where I suddenly lose speech.  I 
find that if I tell vmware player the sound card to use it works fine.  
Once the installation is complete I do the reboot and the virtual 
machine beeps at the boot prompt.  I however get no software speech 
either in the mate desktop or in the console but the navigation keys for 
speakup do beep when I go to the top of the screen so I know it is 
installed and running.  If I try to use espeak and enter text I get no 
sound.  My question is why does the installer work successfully with all 
of the default software installed but not talk when it comes up after 
the installation completes?  This same issue works with the stable 
network installer.  I used the non-free image just so if vmware player 
needed anything it would have it and the normal iso image does the same 
thing.  Nick Gawronski

Bug#985149: debootstrap stumbles over tabs in include parameter

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Christian,

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:56:26PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>Package: debootstrap
>Version: 1.0.123
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I ran into an issue when I was using debootstrap in order to setup a chroot-
>environment.
>
>I: Retrieving InRelease
>I: Checking Release signature
>I: Valid Release signature (key id 6D33866EDD8FFA41C0143AEDDCC9EFBF77E11517)
>I: Retrieving Packages
>I: Validating Packages
>I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
>I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
>I: Checking component main on http://deb.debian.org/debian...
>E: Couldn't find these debs: 48477576
>
>I was surprised to see that "48477576". I expected to get the
>name of the package that was causing this, instead of a number.
>I dug deeper to see what's causing this and I was surprised
>when I found out that the parameter '--include=package'
>that was passed to debootstrap was causing this.
>
>Here's a reproducer (can be copied into bash). It fetches the
>current debian stable for amd64 with "gzip" as an extra package.
>(that $(printf \\t) is in this example, here so the "tab" won't
>get lost when copying&pasting)

Ummm. Why are you expecting debootstrap to deal with whitespace here?
I'm not convinced this is a bug...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com
  Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline,
  Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to
  concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Upcoming stable point release (10.9)

[Adam D. Barratt]

Hi,

The next point release for "buster" (10.9) is scheduled for Saturday
March 27th. Processing of new uploads into buster-proposed-updates will
be frozen during the preceding weekend.

Regards,

Adam