Where has my Windows partition gone?

[John O Laoi]

Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions.

The issue is now solved.

I resolved it as follows:

# aptitude install os-prober  (It was not installed)
# os-prober
# update-grub


"First, was windows menu there before? "
It was, and I don't know when or how it was deleted.
I assume that it happened during an update.
I can't say exactly when, as I haven't looked to use the windows
partition for a while.

Again, Thanks everyone.

John


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Where has my Windows partition gone?

[John O Laoi]

>> Try: update-grub
> as root!

Thank you.
Unfortunately, this did not do the trick:

# update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
done

Any other ideas


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Where has my Windows partition gone?

[John O Laoi]

Hello,
I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze.

I update regularly.

I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several months.

However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub.
At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of
options, the Windows one is not there.
Instead I get a list of kernels

But “fdisk -l” says it is still there.

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   1  11   88326   de  Dell Utility

/dev/sda2   *  12262220972857+   7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda32623523320972857+   7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda45234   12161556491605  Extended

/dev/sda55234719115727603+  83  Linux

/dev/sda671927452 2096451   82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda77453   1216137825011   83  Linux



Any ideas?

John


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curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

[John O Laoi]

> Then my vote goes to "sit and wait" :-)

I sat and waited and nothing happened.

Today, I did more Googleing and found a sledgehammer solution.

Go to runlevel 3 and login.
Then issue the command

$   rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd

Reboot.

Your gnome-panel settings will be reset to the defaults, but at least
things work again.

John


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curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

[John O Laoi]

What would ye think of doing

aptitude purge gnome
followed by
aptitude install gnome

Is that likely to break lots of other things?

John


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Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

[John O Laoi]

Thanks Camaleón,

> - First try: run "killall gnome-panel".
>
> - Second thing to check: create a new panel and see if behaves correctly
> when you minimize the applications.
>
> - Thrird try: create a new user and login with it.
>


I did all of this.
Same behaviour, even with the new user.
John


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curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

[John O Laoi]

Hello,

I am using squeeze on a dell laptop, and am using Gnome, as came with
the standard installation.

Yesterday, after a big “safe-upgrade” my desktop started to behave curiously.

When I open a console on the GUI and minimize it, it appears to go to
the bottom right corner, and then disappears completely.
Then the Panel on the top panel no longer functions.
Icons on the desktop continue to function.

If I open another app, all of the buttons on the top panel disappear,
except for the volume button.
Then the bottom panel becomes completely bank.

Any ideas what has happened?

John


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downloaded .jnlp won't open

[John O Laoi]

Is it possible to make this change permanent, or do I need to

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only

every time I restart?

John


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downloaded .jnlp won't open

[John O Laoi]

> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
> if output is 1 then:
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
> --

Thanks Goran.
That fixed it.


Anybody know what was the problem?


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downloaded .jnlp won't open

[John O Laoi]

> Does some of this errors sad something like "there is no network"?

Yes, they always say
"Unable to load resource:"


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downloaded .jnlp won't open

[John O Laoi]

> How about these sample files? Can you run them?
>
> http://pscode.org/jws/api.html
>
These would not run either.
they gave the same type of error.
The following are the details.

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource:
http://www.pscode.org/jws/basicserv.jnlp
at 
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:1347)
at 
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1487)
at 
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1465)
at 
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1568)
at 
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1496)
at 
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:217)
at 
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:201)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Launcher.java:447)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:232)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:183)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:104)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:403)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:250)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:111)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)


I did as you said, using gedit,  and used  wget to get for example
http://www.pscode.org/jws/basicserv.jar

But when I right click on it, and ask for it to be opened with Sun
Java 6 Runtime, nothing happens.

John


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downloaded .jnlp won't open

[John O Laoi]

Camaleón,
> Run "update-alternatives --display java"
>

# update-alternatives --display java

java - auto mode

 link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java

/usr/bin/gij-4.3 - priority 43

/usr/bin/gij-4.4 - priority 1044

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061

 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63

 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz

/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java - priority 1043

 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/java.1.gz

Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.



>
> "about:plugins"
>
> And look for the plugin in charge of handling Java files (checkout the
> path to the file).
>

Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_16
File name: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.16/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
The next generation Java plug-in for Mozilla browsers.
MIME Type
Description
Suffixes
Enabled
application/x-java-vm
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet
Java™ Plug-in Applet

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_16
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean
Java™ Plug-in JavaBeans

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.6
Java™ Plug-in

Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6.0_16
Java™ Plug-in

Yes



> Note 1. Can you send the link to the file you are trying to launch?
>


the link that I am trying to launch is at
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/archive/

You need to create an account with sans.org before launching a webcast.


Thanks

John


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downloaded .jnlp won't open

[John O Laoi]

I am using squeeze.

To join a webcast, I download a .jnlp file.  (  I  am using Iceweasel)

When it is finished downloading, a pop-up box offers me to open it
with "Sun Java 6 Web Start (default)".

I accept, and then I get  a number of errors, with the heading
"Application error  -  unable to launch the application"

When I enquired with the supplier, I was told that I need
 to have the Java Runtime Environment from www.java.com installed.

I am probably trying to open the .jnlp with the wrong Java.

Questions:
How do install the java from  www.java.com using aptitude?

How do I ensure that this is the Java that is automatically chosen
from within Iceweasel to open .jnlp file?


John


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aptitude upgrade problems

[John O Laoi]

>>
>> The following is my sources.list:
>> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>> #
>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST
>> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main
>>
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST
>> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main
>
> Why the mixed system?

Apologies, I am using Squeeze. The Lenny CDs are commented out.


>
> cvsnt conflicts with cvs.  You can't have both at the same time.
>

Should I remove one of them, and if so, which one?

Wolodja :
aptitude full-upgrade  appears that it will work.
Is it safe to proceed with?
I am not clear on the difference between  upgarde, safe-upgrade and
full-upgrade.

Thanks,
John


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aptitude upgrade problems

[John O Laoi]

Hello,

I am using Lenny.

When I try to upgrade, this is what happens:


# aptitude safe-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information

Initializing package states... Done

Reading task descriptions... Done

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  cvsnt: Conflicts: cvs but 1:1.12.13-12 is installed.


The following is my sources.list:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

deb http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile
main contrib non-free

deb   http://www.debian-multimedia.org   squeeze   main
deb   http://apt.wicd.net   squeeze extras

deb http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/ lsb3.2 main



Any ideas?

John


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tcpdump?

[John O Laoi]

> #tcpdump port 4957
> I want to obtain the payload data to see what is realy being exchanged
> between my Debian server and the outside network element . Can you please
> let me know how I can modify my command ?

Try
tcpdump  host   and  port  4957

This will grab all packets to and from the server, which are to or
from port 4957

If you want traffic in one direction only, you can use "src host" or
"dst host" instead of "host", and/or
"src port" or "dst port" instaed of "port".

You could add  -s 0   to ensure you grab entire packets regardless of
size, and -v, -vv or -vvv if you need more details on packets.


John


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Re: iceweasel broken after update

[John O Laoi]

> You may try to rename .mozilla folder in your home folder and restart
> iceweasel
> Thierry

Thanks Thierry,

$ mv .mozilla/ .iceweasel
seems to have done the trick.
However, I have lost all of my bookmarks, add-ons etc.
I will be able to reinstate them,  in time.

John


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iceweasel broken after update

[John O Laoi]

Hello,

I am using squeeze on kernel 2.6.30-2-686 on a dell precision laptop

After running  aptitude safe-upgrade  yesterday, and accepting all of
the suggestions,
iceweasel appears broken today.

When I start it I get a screen with the message

“Well, this is embarrassing.
Iceweasel is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is
usually caused by a recently opened web page.
You can try:
Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem
Starting an entirely new browsing session”

On opening a new session, when I browse to a new page, other than the
home page, iceweasel dies.


Should I just do the following?

aptitude remove iceweasel
aptitude install iceweasel





The following is the output of
# aptitude show iceweasel

Package: iceweasel

State: installed

Automatically installed: no

Version: 3.5.5-1

Priority: optional

Section: web

Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages


Uncompressed Size: 4,067k

Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, procps, debianutils (>= 1.16), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~),

 libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0),

 libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), xulrunner-1.9.1

Suggests: xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support, latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml,

  ttf-mathematica4.1, xprint, mozplugger, libkrb53

Conflicts: iceweasel-dom-inspector (< 3.0~b4)

Replaces: iceweasel-gnome-support (<= 3.0~b5-2)

Provides: www-browser

Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla

 Iceweasel is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon,

 K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and

 designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.



 This browser is based on the Firefox source-code, with minor modifications.

 Historically, this browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix.


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Inquiry:How to enable Telnet & SSH on my Debian 3.1 server?

[John O Laoi]

On many systems you have to use inetd to start telnetd.

On one system, a slax system , I think, I had to add an entry to
the configuration file /etc/inetd.conf, and then restart inetd, even
after installing telnetd.

I don't have the exact entry, but google would tell you

John


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vmware after kernel upgrade on lenny

[John O Laoi]

Hello

I am using lenny.
I tried to use vmware workstation, and I got an error to the effect
that it could not find kernel headers.

So a little Googling told me that I had to do

aptitude  install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

and
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
But the above file did not exist.

So, I ran vmware again, and it told me that several modules need to be
compiled and installed, to which I pressed INSTALL. It asked me for
the root password, which I supplied, and a box with the heading
“vmware kernel module updater” appeared, which had 6 categories:
Virtual Machine Monitor
Virtual Network Device
Vmware blocking filesystem  etc.

On compileing the first, it stepped immediately with an error.
The error said to look in the file  /tmp/vmware-root/setup-6425.log.
This file contains the following:
# cat  /tmp/vmware-root/setup-6425.log

Nov 04 10:09:00.687: app| Log for VMware Workstation pid=6425
version=6.5.2 build=build-156735 option=Release

Nov 04 10:09:00.687: app| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8

Nov 04 10:09:00.687: app| Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-6425.log

Nov 04 10:09:01.898: app| Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Nov 04 10:09:01.955: app| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make
-C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1
HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc
GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.3.4


I did a quick check.
Gcc is installed – it is in /usr/bin
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-onlyexists  - it is a directory
/lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/build/include exists  - it is a directory

Anybody know what the problem might be?

John


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overhead projector unclear under lenny

[John O Laoi]

Hello,
I moved my laptop to lenny last May. Before that, it had been using etch.
It is a DELL Precision M65. It has a 15.4" WUXGA (1920 x 1200) LCD Screen.

On moving, I noticed that it had very few screen resolutions,
so I editedxorg.conf  to add a few.
Everything worked fine, until I connected an overhead projector
yesterday, for the first time under lenny.
The picture produced by the overhead is very unclear.

With WINDOWS on the same laptop, the picture on the overhead projector is clear.
The picture used to be clear under etch.
I tried another overhead projector, and saw the same unclear picture.


I have tried reducing the resolution on the Display, and it has not helped.


The following is the relevant section of xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"

Identifier  "Default Screen"

Monitor "Configured Monitor"



DefaultColorDepth 24

SubSection "Display"

Depth 8

Modes  "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes  "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 24

Modes  "1920x1200"  "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "80

0x600" "640x480"

Virtual 1920 1200

EndSubSection

EndSection


Any ideas?

John


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static ip address is being reset constantly

[John O Laoi]

> Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is  none 
> remove the network manager.
>
Thanks Frank.
Indeed there was DHCP processes running:

# ps aux | grep dhc
root  3650  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?Z08:31   0:00
[dhclient] 
root  4044  0.0  0.0   2204   608 ?S

static ip address is being reset constantly

[John O Laoi]

Hello,
A question for networking gurus:
My ip address keeps on being set to null at my workplace.

I use my laptop at home and work.
At home, I use DHCP to get an ip address from my ISP. No problems.
At work, when I use
#dhclient eth0
it looks for  DHCP leases but finds none.

So, I have a little script which I use to set a static address (I have
been given one to use):

ifconfig eth0 XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW netmask 255.255.255.0  up

route add default gw  XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1

echo "nameserver XXX.YYY.AAA.BBB" >> /etc/resolv.conf


I run this script, but after approx 20 seconds the connection is gone
and when I run

# ifconfig eth0

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:ZZ:AA:BB:CC

  inet6 addr: fe71::205:c5ff:fecc:9284/64 Scope:Link

  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

  RX packets:5729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

  TX packets:9435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes:4332002 (4.1 MiB)  TX bytes:1830420 (1.7 MiB)

  Interrupt:18


Some daemon is resetting the NIC address to null.

I tried editing /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/init.d/networking restart.

I also ensured that my wireless was turn off.

What could be causing this?

John


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how to start paros?

[John O Laoi]

Solved now.
This was dealt with in bug  Bug#532194.
To start paros in squeeze, use

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java -Duser.dir=$HOME/.paros -cp
/usr/share/java/commons-codec.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-collections3.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-configuration.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-httpclient.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-lang.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-logging.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar:/usr/share/java/jdic.jar:/usr/share/java/hsqldb.jar:/usr/share/java/paros.jar
org.parosproxy.paros.Paros

See  Bug#532194 if you need details and other alternatives.

John


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:59 PM, John O Laoi wrote:
> Hi
> I am using squeezef.
> I installed paros proxy  with   aptitude install paros.
> After some googleing, I found that to start Paros, I needed to use
>
> sh /usr/share/paros/startserver.sh
>
>
> This told me that it could not find the file  paros.jar,
> so I edited to the file to point to its location,
> ie I changed  the line
> java -jar  paros.jar
>  TO
> java -jar /usr/share/java/paros.jar
>
> Now, I am getting the following error:
>
> $ sh   /usr/share/paros/startserver.sh
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/commons/httpclient/protocol/ProtocolSocketFactory
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.ProtocolSocketFactory
>        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
>        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323)
>        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268)
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:336)
> Could not find the main class: org.parosproxy.paros.Paros. Program will exit.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John
>


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can't get printer to work after dist upgrade

[John O Laoi]

I solved this one.

The following were the steps:


 $ wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz  http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
cd foo2zjz
make
make install
make  install install-hotplug
make install cups



RESTART CUPS:/etc/init.d/cups  restart


In CUPS, I has to do the following:
Add printer
Device:  HP Laserjet 1005 USB #1 (HP Laserjet M1005)
On the next screen, I added a PPD file, from  the location

foo2zjs/PPD/HP-LaserJet_M1005_MFP.ppd

This worked!


John


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM, John O Laoi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday, I did a dist upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
> I edited sources.list, changes lenny to squeeze everywhere, and then did
> aptitude update
> aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
> aptitude full-upgrade
>
> I also installed a lot of upgrades to packages, as suggested by synaptic.
>
> Everything seems OK, except that I can't get my printer to work.
>
> The printer is a HP Laserjet 1005 MFP, which can print, copy and scan,
> and is connected to the computer via USB.
>
> To get the printer to work in lenny, I did the following:
>
> wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz  http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
> tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
> cd foo2zjz
> make
> make install
> make  install install-hotplug
> make install cups
> /etc/init.d/cups  restart
>
> When I noticed that the printer was not working in squeeze, I tried
>        cd foo2zjz
>            make uninstall
> and  then doing the above steps again.
> I also tried removing the printer in CUPS and adding it again.
>
> I notice one difference between lenny and squeeze:
> In squeeze, when I attach the printer's USB cable xsane automatically
> starts up – this did not happen in lenny.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John
>


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how to start paros?

[John O Laoi]

Hi
I am using squeezef.
I installed paros proxy  with   aptitude install paros.
After some googleing, I found that to start Paros, I needed to use

sh /usr/share/paros/startserver.sh


This told me that it could not find the file  paros.jar,
so I edited to the file to point to its location,
ie I changed  the line
java -jar  paros.jar
 TO
java -jar /usr/share/java/paros.jar

Now, I am getting the following error:

$ sh   /usr/share/paros/startserver.sh
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/apache/commons/httpclient/protocol/ProtocolSocketFactory
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.ProtocolSocketFactory
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:336)
Could not find the main class: org.parosproxy.paros.Paros. Program will exit.

Any ideas?

John


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can't get printer to work after dist upgrade

[John O Laoi]

Hello,

Yesterday, I did a dist upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
I edited sources.list, changes lenny to squeeze everywhere, and then did
aptitude update
aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
aptitude full-upgrade

I also installed a lot of upgrades to packages, as suggested by synaptic.

Everything seems OK, except that I can't get my printer to work.

The printer is a HP Laserjet 1005 MFP, which can print, copy and scan,
and is connected to the computer via USB.

To get the printer to work in lenny, I did the following:

wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz  http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
cd foo2zjz
make
make install
make  install install-hotplug
make install cups
/etc/init.d/cups  restart

When I noticed that the printer was not working in squeeze, I tried
cd foo2zjz
make uninstall
and  then doing the above steps again.
I also tried removing the printer in CUPS and adding it again.

I notice one difference between lenny and squeeze:
In squeeze, when I attach the printer's USB cable xsane automatically
starts up – this did not happen in lenny.

Any ideas?

John


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recursive grep and openoffice

[John O Laoi]

Thanks for all of your replies.
I didn't know that tools such as tracker would search with openoffice
document.

With respect to the command line, I have fixed on

 find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c "{}" content.xml | grep
"string-being sought" > /dev/null' \; -print


but it returns immediately, and seems to do no searching.

To my amateur eyes, it looks like it should work. I've done some searching,
but to no avail.

Anybody got ideas?

John

recursive grep and openoffice

[John O Laoi]

Hello,

 I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained
therein.

So I launch a search as follows:

 $ grep -r "text i am looking for" /home/john

 OR

 $ find /home/john -type f -exec grep -i * **"text i am looking for" * '{}'
\; -print

 where /home/john is my home directory.

 The problem is that this does not search within  .odt  openoffice files.

It will located any  .doc  files that contain the string, but not openoffice
files.

This is a big nuisance, as most of my files are now .odt files.

 Some research has let me know that openoffice files are zip files that
contain other files.

 I am using etch (soon to upgrade).


 Has anybody got a solution that will recursively search a directory looking
for a file that contains some specified text, and will search within
openoffice file?


 John

automounting in xfce

[John O Laoi]

Thanks to everyone.

Problem solved.

Yes, I misunderstood "fdisk -l". I assumed that it would list

the CD partition also.

I never even tried to mount the CD, as I thought that when

it was not being seen by fdisk, it was not there, and there was nothing to
mount.

Also I've learned how to install from another version of debian,

although it appears that this is not recommended.


 So, mount /media/cdrom0 worked perfectly,

and after installing hal, I could see the CD icon on the desktop.

Thanks again.

John

Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[John O Laoi]

I found the following link very useful
when I was getting the UK dictionary to work:

 http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:openofficeukdict

John

automounting in xfce

[John O Laoi]

I've tried some of these solutions.

However, when I insert a CD say, and run

# fdisk -l

it does not even see the CD volume,

so there is no device to mount.


 What could be causing that?

John

automounting in xfce

[John O Laoi]

Thanks for the help.


 I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman.

This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert!


 The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for
sid:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/thunar-volman


 However, when I issue

# aptitude show -t sid thunar-volman

I get

E: Unable to locate package thunar-volman



 # aptitude install -t sid thunar-volman


 I get

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading extended state information

Initializing package states... Done

Reading task descriptions... Done

Building tag database... Done

Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "thunar-volman"

The following packages have been kept back:

linux-image-2.6-686 openssh-client openssh-server

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.



 The following is my sources.list:


 # cat /etc/apt/sources.list


 deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free


 deb-src http://ftp.debian.org etch main contrib non-free


 deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main


 deb http://security.debian.org/
etch/updatesmain contrib

deb-src http://security.debian.org/
etch/updatesmain contrib


 deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor etch main

deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor etch main


 deb http://debian.virginmedia.com stable main contrib non-free


 John

automounting in xfce

[John O Laoi]

Hi,

I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4.

Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them.


 I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar's volume
manager, and do the following in Thunar:

Edit | Preferences, Click on Advanced Tab, Select 'Enable Volume Manager',
Configure


 However, when I go

Edit | Preferences | Advanced

I see nothing except "Folder Permissions"


 Any hints?

How to proceed?


 John

vmware questions

[John O Laoi]

Hi,

I am running debian etch on a dell laptop which is dual boot with XP.

I rarely, if ever, use XP.


 However, I now need to use an application, as part of a course I am doing,

which only runs on Windows.


 So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that.

(I know about WINE, but I'd prefer to go the vmware route, as I want to get
familiar with vmware.)

I've googled and seen some articles on installing vmware-server and
vmware-tools.


 My work has a vmware image of XP which I can use.

(We also have a vmware licence.)


 However, I think that it might be better if I proceed by

(1) creating a vmware image of my existing XP, (as it has all of the drivers
etc. for my hardware.)

(2) putting that vmware image on etch

(3) install vmware on etch

(4) reformat the XP partitions, and use them for etch.


 Some questions:

   1.

   anybody got any links on how to achieve (1) above
   2.

   What vmware software should I install? I see that there is
   vmware-desktop, wmware-player, vmware-server etc. and I'm confused. Any good
   links on how to install this?
   3.

   How will I get that vmware to open the XP image – is it just a matter of
   File|Open?
   4.

   I see that there is no debian package for vmware. Will installing it
   interfere with aptitude?


 Thanks in advance


 John

Re: networking: fixed ip address and dhcp

[John O Laoi]

> > I used to have a file which contained
> >
> > ifconfig eth1 XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW  netmask 255.255.255.0
> > route add default gw  XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1
> > cat "seach "   >> /etc/resolv.conf
> > cat "nameserver  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD"  >> resolv.conf
>
> I think you meant 'echo' instead of 'cat', and 'search' instead of
> 'seach'. Also you seem to be appending to /etc/resolv.conf everytime. If
> that is the case, then the resolver is probably using some other search
> path somewhere in the beginning of the file. You might want to fix your
> script so that it overwrites the file instead.
>
>
Thanks - that was the problem. - "seach"
Very stupid of me. Still learning and would be lost without the list.

Now onto the next issue - the video card.
I'll start a new thread.
John

networking: fixed ip address and dhcp

[John O Laoi]

I have a dell laptop on which I have just performed a basic install of
etch using netinstall, on which I installed xfce.
(I did have gnome, but I needed to repartition, so i decided to try xfce.)

The problem is now with my networking
At home, I use dhcp  - no problem.
When I bring the laptop to work, I use fixed ip addressing.

I used to have a file which contained

ifconfig eth1 XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW  netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw  XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1
cat "seach "   >> /etc/resolv.conf
cat "nameserver  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD"  >> resolv.conf

which I would simply sudo when I get to work and I got my static ip
address networking to work.

This does not work now  - I can't ping out.
When I run ifconfig at the command line, it gives me the correct ip
address, and tells me that it is up.

The /etc/network/interfaces file is

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp


I did a very basic install – maybe something is missing.
any ideas?
John

Re: rsync question

[John O Laoi]

> Also, I get confused sometimes on the effects of a trailing slash on
> source and target arguments.  Check for a ~/Documents/Documents/
> directory or something.
>

You are all correct.
There is a  ~/Documents/Documents/.

I must be using it incorrectly - I'll be more careful in future.
John


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rsync question

[John O Laoi]

Hello,

I have the same structure on 2 machines.
I want to keep them in sync.

I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
and then rsync from the other as follows

~$ rsync -avh  AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/  ./Documents/
Password:
receiving file list ... done
Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods



But the file ~/Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods  on the machine I am issuing the
command on does not change!

What am I doing wrong?

John


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ssh port not opening

[John O Laoi]

"Looks like there's your problem.  You don't have openssh-server
installed."


"aptitude install openssh-server
>
> This should solve your problems."



Thanks everyone. That did it.
I suppose that I should have done
#aptitude install ssh  openssh-server
in the first place.

John

ssh port not opening

[John O Laoi]

"Do you get any error message when you try to start /etc/init.d/ssh? Is
there anything in /var/log/daemon.log? Does the sshd-blocking file
/etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run exist on your system?"


No errors when I do /etc/init.d ssh start

# /etc/init.d/ssh stop
# /etc/init.d/ssh start
# cat /var/log/daemon.log | grep ss
#  (nothing)

# find / -name sshd_not_to_be_run
# find / -name ssh_not_to_be_run
#  (nothing)# find / -name sshd_not_to_be_run
vr-etch:/etc/init.d# find / -name ssh_not_to_be_run
vr-etch:/etc/init.d#




"Do this:  dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh and send the results.  I am
wondering if you have the openssh-server installed.  You can get everything
by just doing aptitude install ssh."

#  dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh
openssh-client  install
openssh-server  deinstall
#

Thanks to everyone for your help.

Maybe I should remove ssh and reinstall?

John

ssh port not opening

[John O Laoi]

On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is
> sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there
> no output when you do that? Anything in the logs?
>
> >
> >
> > However, I cannot ssh into my host.
> > The contents of  /etc/default/ssh is
>
> that's because sshd is not running and needs to be.



But the file /etc/init.d/sshd  does not exist.
The only such file in  /etc/init.d  is   ssh.


How do I check the logs?

John

ssh port not opening

[John O Laoi]

Hello,
I am running etch on a dell laptop.
I recently installed ssh:
aptitude install ssh
 and started it:
/etc/init.d/ssh start
yet when I look for open ports with nmap localhost, port 22 is not open.
When I run
# ps -e | grep ssh
I get
 3450 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent

# ps aux | grep ssh
john   3450  0.0  0.0   4132   692 ?Ss   09:24   0:00
/usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
x-session-manager
root 22026  0.0  0.0   2852   712 pts/0S+   17:43   0:00 grep ssh


However, I cannot ssh into my host.
The contents of  /etc/default/ssh is

# cat /etc/default/ssh

# Default settings for openssh-server. This file is sourced by /bin/sh from
# /etc/init.d/ssh.

# Options to pass to sshd
SSHD_OPTS=


Any clues?

Also, how do I check the status of a service?
On SUSE, I used
/etc/init.d/service-name  status

John

sound recording on dell laptop

[John O Laoi]

On 10/18/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Did you try to turn up "Capture Mux" and/or to switch "Input Source"
> from "Mic" to "Line"? Running "alsamixer" will give you direct access to
> these controls. (Use the cursors keys to move and change volume, TAB to
> switch between playback and capture channels, "M" to toggle mute, and
> SPACE to switch capture on and off.)
>

That did it.
Thanks Florian. alsamixer is magic.
Sound recording is now working perfectly, both using acrecord, as you
suggested, and using the "sound recorder" under the "sound&video" section of
the "Applications" menu.
Thank you.
John

sound recording on dell laptop

[John O Laoi]

On 10/17/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Please send the full
> output of amixer so that we can see the settings of the capture
> channels.


Here it is Florian:

# amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 230 [90%]
  Front Right: Playback 230 [90%]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 15
  Front Left: Capture 12 [80%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 12 [80%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture Mux',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 4
  Front Left: 0 [0%]
  Front Right: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Mic'

sound recording on dell laptop

[John O Laoi]

On 10/17/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Please post the output of:
>
> lspci | egrep -i 'audio|s(ou)?nd|media'
>
> lsmod | grep snd
>
> amixer | egrep '^[^ ]|Capture'
>
> OK, I don't know what amixer does (man will tell me), but here goes:

 # lspci | egrep -i 'audio|s(ou)?nd|media'

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 01)


 # lsmod | grep snd

snd_hda_intel 17332 0

snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel

snd_pcm_oss 38368 0

snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm 68676 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss

snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm

snd 47012 6
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer

soundcore 9248 1 snd

snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm



# amixer | egrep '^[^ ]|Capture'

Simple mixer control 'Master',0

Simple mixer control 'PCM',0

Simple mixer control 'Capture',0

Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right

Limits: Capture 0 - 15

Front Left: Capture 12 [80%] [on]

Front Right: Capture 12 [80%] [on]

Simple mixer control 'Capture Mux',0

Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right

Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0




Thanks,

John

sound recording on dell laptop

[John O Laoi]

I am using etch on a Dell  Precision  M65 laptop, which has an internal
microphone.
How do I get the sound recording function to work?

I have run alsaconf.
When I try to record, I use the graphical sound recorder
with "record from input" set to "capture" and "record as" set to WAV.
I have turned up the recording volume in the capture tab in  "volume
control".

When I click on "record", it says that it is recording, but when I try to
"play" the
 interface indicates that it is playing, but there is no sound.
The sound card is working well for other apps.

John

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

[John O Laoi]

On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user.  If it were me, I'd copy the
> contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only
> editor, re-copy the now text-only data into a new OOo doc.  (This is
> crude, but assures nothing surprising gets inadvertently copied.)  Now,
> try the new doc.
>
>  I tried this to no avail.
Then, I brought the file to SUSE, and did the same thing there, using vi,
saved it as text
and brought it back to Etch, and it opened in less than a second.
All very mysterious.
Anyway, problem solved in the end.
Thanks for your help.
John

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

[John O Laoi]

On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Also check your disk i/o for swapping.


How do I do that?

>
> Also, check whether any other unusual objects are embedded or called
> somehow.  Perhaps some object is not loading, re-trying, and finally
> timing out.  Just a guess...


That is what has me baffled - there are no images or anything else in the
file.
It has some email addresses - maybe openoffice is trying to open an email
application for each of these.
John

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

[John O Laoi]

On 9/26/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Maybe it's *highly* compressed and most of the time is spent in
> zlib.  I've seen examples of corner cases that take forever to open.


It is a file that is frequently used. I don't know how to check if it is in
zlib.

> I copied the file to SUSE linux that I have on a desktop, and the file
> > opened quickly.
>
> You neglect to mention the specs of the 2 machines.  Maybe the
> desktop is 10x faster.


The desktop is 2.8Ghz and has 1MB memory. The laptop is  1.8GHz and has the
same memory.
There is no difference between these two machines in opening any other file.

>
> > Any ideas where I look?
>
> Run top in an xterm.  See if OOo is sucking a lot of CPU.


It is, but only on opening this file.
John

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

[John O Laoi]

Hello,
I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop.
 I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open
(maybe 25 minutes).
While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled.
It is not big. ls-l  reports its size as 18,000.
I have many much bigger files which open immediately.

I copied the file to SUSE linux that I have on a desktop, and the file
opened quickly.
I tried changing its name.
I tried copying its contents to a new file.
I made a copy of the file (using cp).
I had some URLs in the file, which I changed to text (removed the blue and
underline)
I ran fsck on the filesystem on which it resides, and it reported no bad
blocks.

Any ideas where I look?

John

Re: can't access localhost

[John O Laoi]

>
>
>
> Have you tried doing 'ifconfig lo up'? If that works try adding a line
> like the following to your /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> auto lo
>
> I did just as you suggested above, and it fixed everything.
CUPS is working again, and ifconfig reports lo as well as eth1.
Thanks everyone for your help.

John

can't access localhost

[John O Laoi]

>
> When you run /sbin/ifconfig is the interface lo up? Are there any
> messages in /var/log/syslog that might be relevant?



No, when I run ifconfig, it only gives details for eth1.
There is nothing much in /var/log/syslog

ping -c 2 localhost
> ping -c 2 127.0.0.1


# ping -c 2 localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- localhost ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time
# ping -c 2 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1010ms


What is the output of this command?
>
> netstat -tunl


# netstat -tunl
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address   Foreign Address State
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:113 0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:32768   0.0.0.0:*
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:68  0.0.0.0:*
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:53530.0.0.0:*
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:*
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:*


What does this respond?
>
> /sbin/route -n


# /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
169.254.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth1
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000   00 eth1
0.0.0.0 169.254.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth1


Does your /etc/hosts properly set 'localhost' to 127.0.0.1 ?


# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost mc
127.0.1.1 mc.home.m  mc


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can't access localhost

[John O Laoi]

I am new to Debian. I installed Etch on a Dell precision laptop. I use DHCP.

I have lots of questions, but I will start with this one:


 I created an iptables script that I downloaded, and set it up using

# update-rc.d firewall.script defaults


 However, after doing this, I noticed that CUPS would not work. (It had been
working well.)

The firefox browser returned the message "The server at localhost is taking
too long to respond." when I tried to connect to http://localhost:631.

I also tried http://127.0.0.1:631, and it gave the same responce.

I also could not ping localhost or 127.0.0.1.

So I removed the firewall using

# update-rc.d -f firewall.script remove

and rebooted.

Now, when I run

# iptables -L

I get

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)

target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)

target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)

target prot opt source destination


 *However, I still can't access CUPS or ping localhost.*


 What might be wrong?

Where do I start to look?


 John