Re: Fwd: module nvidia not found / amd64 jessie
Hi franceso, I am checking the necessary packagaes by module-assistant. It is the easiest way. Try it out. Install package module-assistant , start with m-a, and then go through the 4 steps (update, prepare etc.) Nice tool, and is helping much. Good luck Hans # uname -r 3.16.0-4-amd64 is that incorrect? thanks francesco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/19668697.DcGUzMrqmE@protheus2
Re: Fwd: module nvidia not found / amd64 jessie
Nice, but dkms is much less work and appears to have worked. Yes, you are right. Should have told, I use m-a just for checking, if I have installed all necessary packages. DKMS will after it work automatically for me building the modules. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/10350764.cymspXMgBC@protheus2
Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy
Don't use the nvidia package from debian for googleearth. They do not work, as the 32-bit-libs of nvidia have dependency problems. Obviously no one cared for this at the moment. Just download the installer from the nvidia website and execute it - works like a charm! Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201304240700.15052.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Re: mktemp and diff orphaned?
Am Mittwoch, 10. November 2010 schrieb Jaime Ochoa Malagón: some packages has been grouped... diff in diffutils mktemp in coreutils both in squeeze On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 11/9/2010 1:33 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, I am running debian-amd64/testing. When I start orphaner there are two packages, which are marked as essentials. These packages are diff and mktemp, but they are below oldlibs. Can they safely to be removed, as they are meanwhile old? Or better leave them? Regards Hans mktemp is required; don't remove it. diff has alternatives, but there is really no need to remove it. It is still has lots of scripts that expect it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cda96f2.4060...@allums.com Thank you for this important information! It is working now without diff and mktemp. Yeahm great! Thank you very much! Cheers Hans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
mktemp and diff orphaned?
Hi all, I am running debian-amd64/testing. When I start orphaner there are two packages, which are marked as essentials. These packages are diff and mktemp, but they are below oldlibs. Can they safely to be removed, as they are meanwhile old? Or better leave them? Regards Hans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Xserver stops at boot (and only at boot)
Hi all, I am still looking for the weird behaviour, that on my amd64 system the xserver is stopping during boot. I already reported this in bug #583613, where you will find all deeper information I had. I can not find any errors in the logs and it looks like X is terminating like normal. One of the explanations can be, that the kdm or xserver startsrcipt in /etc/rc.2/ is set on the wrong position. How does debian set the required startnumbers, like S25, S26 and similar? I suppose, these positions are set during installation and are never changed or are they? As my first setup of this system is very old (since sarge), I might have wrong settings, although everything worked fine since some weeks ago (after an update). You should know, I changed to insserv and sysv-rc some time ago, but this was a long time before this error happend. And this behaviour appears only on this 64-bit-system, any other systems I am using (which are all 32-bit) are working fine. Maybe someone else got an idea? It is really strange, as the xserver is only(!) stopping at boot (soon after the Nvidia-logo appeared). Anyway, thank you for reading this, any idea is welcome. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006101923.05778.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Looking for hydra
Hi all, I am looking for the debian package of hydra. I know, it is no more in the repository due to license problematics. Question: does someone have it maybe on his system? I am looking for both, i386 and especially amd64 version. Question: I found hydra in the snapshot packages, but it is version 4.1 I think, I remember, there was already version 4.3 or even 4.5 available. Are they reallly, or am I erroring myself? Thanks for any information. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006091824.51981.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Re: Looking for hydra
Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010 schrieb Ron Johnson: On 06/09/2010 11:24 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, I am looking for the debian package of hydra. I know, it is no more in the repository due to license problematics. Question: does someone have it maybe on his system? I am looking for both, i386 and especially amd64 version. Question: I found hydra in the snapshot packages, but it is version 4.1 I think, I remember, there was already version 4.3 or even 4.5 available. Are they reallly, or am I erroring myself? Thanks for any information. Is *this* the hydra you're looking for? http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/ Yes, this is the one. I already got the source code, and got it easily compiled. But I would like to get it as a debian package. So the easiest way for me might be, to use a working and well tested package. Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006091936.41230.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Re: Weird things with Xorg on amd54
Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2010 schrieb Norval Watson: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:01:35PM -0700, Norval Watson wrote: When I dist-upgraded recently, debian's 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel broke x, as in I cannot start (or restart) gdm. The 2.6.32-3-amd64 kernel works fine. Are you running the fglrx or nvidia driver by any chance? If so you probably just have to rebuild the module against the new kernel using module-assistant. of course the nvidia driver is moving to dkms and hence no longer will need manual work it seems. Sorensen I am just running nv driver with latest kernel, have not had time to update nvidia driver yet, thanks Lennart for the heads-up re dkms, I will check it out! Norv I solved it for me by blacklisting the nouveau kernel module. It seems, this happens with nvidia cards. If you are running nv or the 3d accelerated nvidia-glx driver, you can either delete the nouveau driver or blacklist it. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005190857.43151.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Weird things with Xorg on amd54
Hi all, since the last days there appears a strange thing on my amd64-system. When I boot up, neither kdm, xdm or gdm will start automatically. But when I start them manually by using /etc/init.d/kdm start, everything works fine. I examined the log files, but the only strange thing I saw in Xorg.log was this: **) Option xkb_rules evdev (**) Option xkb_model acer_laptop (**) Option xkb_layout de (**) Option xkb_options lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp (II) UnloadModule: synaptics (II) Power Button: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Video Bus: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Power Button: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Sleep Button: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) USB Mouse: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Acer Crystal Eye webcam : Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Acer hotkey driver: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_WAITACTIVE failed: Interrupted system call Somehow the evdev-handler is unloading some modules. This is strange, as when starting X manually (as described above) or via startx, everything works fine and those entries do not appear in Xorg.log. So, what is the difference by starting X manually or via initsript at boot??? This appears only on my amd64-system, my 32-bit system is fine. I would file a bugreport, but I could still not find out, which package is responsible for this. Any ideas? Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005161236.52642.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Re: trouble with kttsd (solved)
Hi all, solved this problem myselfe. Those, who want to know it: The trouble was caused by a file .asoundrc in my home directory. This one should activate the subwoofer, as people said. But on the other hand, it caused just trouble. So, just forget about this mail. And ah, sorry I sent it to the wrong list, should be sent to debian-user. My fault! Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003281410.25464.hans.ullr...@loop.de
trouble with kttsd
Hi all, without any obvious reason kttsd does speak any more. This happens only with a special user, and I cannot find out, which configuration of him might cause trouble. I deleted kttsdrc and some other *rc, to let them recreate at new start of kde. With other users it is working perfectly, so it can be confirmed, kttsd is working correctly. I am using German speech files with txt2pho and mbrola. Any hints are welcome. (On my 32-bit system with identically configurations, all is working fine) Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003271645.15560.hans.ullr...@loop.de
misconfiguration or bug? (nvidia packages)
Dear maintainers, on my amd64 system I discovered in syslog this entry: Feb 21 10:08:23 localhost console-kit-daemon[6040]: WARNING: Unable to spawn /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/nvidia_helper.ck: Failed to execute child process /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/nvidia_helper.ck (Permission denied) Feb 21 10:08:25 localhost udevd-work[20614]: exec of program '/lib/udev/nvidia_helper' failed It seems, the nvidia-package is not packed as for debian structured. To get it correctly running, here is my workaround: 1. move usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/nvidia_helper.ck to /lib/udev/ and make it executable (root:root/ rwx r-x r-x) 2. go to /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/ and create a symlink for the file doing ln -s /lib/udev/nvidia_helper.ck nvidia_helper.ck 3. Reboot Maybe you want to change it in the next package-version? I do not know, if this behaviour is on i386-machines, too, as I my only machine with an Nvidia card is an amd64 machine. Have fun! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002211255.37715.hans.ullr...@loop.de
strange packages
Hi all, I wondered what is the difference between the two packages linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-2.6-amd64. Both seem to be meta- packages, and both want to install the same kernel. Is there a difference at all? If yes, which one is preferred for which purposes? Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
A great thank you!!!
Dear maintainers and developers, I was asked by a very good friend of mine, who I am sometimes helping with her debian-amd64/sid on her notebook to send you a great, great Thank you!!! for your work in debian. As she is not so well in English language, she asked me to send it, and I am very very pleased to do so. The wants to thank you especially, that you never forget about people with old hardware (she owns an ATI Radeon RV200 chip in her notebook with a 1,6GHz cpu) so that debian is still running on it. Furthermore she wants to thank you, that bugs are so fast closed (she is always astonished, how fast!!) and that she can work so easy with debian. She will never ever get back to windows, she says! So, as she is speaking right out of my heart, there is nothing I can add to this, and so we say: Thank you very, very much for all the fun and pleasure! Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich and Ulrike Fischer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
debian-amd64/sid = hal or udev???
Hi all, I tried to get multitouch running on my amd64-notebook (and my EEEPC as well), which are both running debian/sid and both got an synaptics touchpad. Every solution I found are related to hal. When I integrated the needed scripts, it did not work. I suppose, latest kernel (2.6.32) is based on udev. Can someone confirm this, and does someone know, how to activate multitouch with udev? Any hints are welcome. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
cryptsesetup and luks different on amd64?
Dear maintainers, is there a difference between cryptsetup in 32-bit adnd 64-bit? I am using several encrypted partitions, with the same password and with a keyfile on an usb-stick, which is automatically recognized at bootup and opens my devices. On my amd64 system this is working like a charm. Now I am using an EEE-PC 1005HGO, with encrypted partitions and with the same password as on the amd64-notebook. As I want to use the same usb-stick on my EEE-PC, too, I tried to add the key using cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sdaX -d /media/usb1/mykeyfile. But it always says, there is the wrong password. Manually I can open the device (cryptsetup luksOpen is working), so my password is set correct! So, what do I do wrong? Must I generate a new keyfile for my EEE-PC? Or must I do something else, to add my existing keyfile for my EEE-PC? Any hints are welcome. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Thank you for everything and a happy new year!
Dear debian-team, developers and community, now as the year 2009 is over, I want to thank you for all the help, the joy you gave me with debian and the time you spent for a better it-world for us all. To all of you I say: May you have great year 2010, stay always sane, may all your dreams and wishes come true and have such much joy and fun as you ever want! Just to say in short: Thank you very much for everything and the very,very, very best to you and your families! Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Problems with java
Dear debian-team, it seems, there is a big problem wioth java at the momement. Neither openjdk, nor sun-java6, nor gcj is possible to get access to the internet. I discovered this on some website, and with a java based application (tvbrowser). I tried update-alternatives --config java to switch between the different java versions., but only GIJ was working with the internet. I am no experienced with java, so it might be nice, if someon could take a look on it. This behaviour appears only on 54-bit systems, on 32-bit systems everything is working well. I can confirm this on my notebook, as well as on a notebook from a friend. Both computers are running debian-amd64/sid. There is a bugreport by me for sun-java6-jre, but meanwhile I discovered the same bug on the other mentioned java-versions. Thank you for reading this and thank you for all the work this year as well! Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problems with java
Am Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 schrieb Thomas Rösch: Hello it seems, there is a big problem wioth java at the momement. Neither openjdk, nor sun-java6, nor gcj is possible to get access to the internet. I discovered this on some website, and with a java based application (tvbrowser). I tried update-alternatives --config java to switch between the different java versions., but only GIJ was working with the internet. This behaviour appears only on 54-bit systems, on 32-bit systems everything is working well. 64 ;-) It is a modification in Sid: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560238 Workaround: /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf - net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0 See also Thread Java Anwendungen - keine Netzwerk/Internetverbindung mehr in the german debuan-users list. Tom Yes, that is the trick! Thank you very, very much I will close my bugs and can help my friend now, too. Have a nice day, cheers Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
aptitude update crashes
Hi all, when I try to get an update, I get the following error message: Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [62.0kB] Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff [124kB] E: Method rred has died unexpectedly! E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault. Seems, the cache-limit is set too low, or the packagefile is too big. My cachelimit is set to APT::Cache-Limit 1; which should be enough, shouldn't it? I tried to increase it, but it had no effect. Maybe there is something wrong in the repository? Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: aptitude update crashes
Working again! I do not know what happened. maybe the database crashed somehow. I fixed it by uncommenting the entries of testing and unstable. An aptitude update worked, then addes stepwise testing and unstable, which the worked again. Weired anyway! So just forget about this mail. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Who is starting this process?
I agree this is curious and, like you, I would want to learn the cause. Since you've already tried `ps` without success, my next and last idea probably won't help either, but have you taken a look at /etc/inittab and the getty lines? Cheers! cmr Yes, of course I looked at this. It was the first point, I looked at. Everything is correct in there. However, I suppose, no one seem to know abouit this, or it is not so important for people. There are only very few responds to my question. Anyway, it is neither a security hole, nor a bug. So no one cares, I suppose. Thanks for your help anyway! Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Who is starting this process?
Hi all, does someone know, which script or who is starting this process? root 7152 tty9 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt9 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-8DjLbd I suppose, it is started by kdm, but I could not find the exactly one. I want to change the switch from vt9 to vt7, but I found no config file with an entry like /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt9. The only one I found, was /etc/X11/xinit/xserverc, with this entry: exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp Thanks for any hints! Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to get rid of orphaned data in package database?
Am Montag 19 Oktober 2009 schrieb C M Reinehr: You might try the deborphan package (Orphaned package finder) deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries. HTH cmr Oh, its not the packages, I want to get rid off, but the entries in dpkg database. They appear, although they are no more available. Greets Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
nvidia-package should be renewed
Hi all, just a suggestion. IMO debian-amd64 should upgrade to the latest (o.k. its beta)-driver from Nvidia. The version is 190.32 (the official debian-package is 180.36). Doing so solves two problems: 1. The server is no more crashing when starting some java-applications (especially tvbrowser was a killer). 2. when shutting down, the screen content is no more saved in a hidden memory of the graphics card (I sent a security-report some time ago). With the latest driver this security hole is fixed. Please do not forget, this is just a suggestion. Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
KDE4: icon for Trash does not change status
Hi all, after a screen crash in KDE4, the icon for the trash does no more change its status. Before the screen-crash it changed its icon related to trash-full or trash-empty. How can I fix it? Is there a way to test the status in console, so that I get more information, what is really going on? (To find the reason for this behaviour). I am running debian-amd64/sid. Any hints are welcome. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
KDE4: icon for Trash does not change status
Hi all, after a screen crash in KDE4, the icon for the trash does no more change its status. Before the screen-crash it changed its icon related to trash-full or trash-empty. How can I fix it? Is there a way to test the status in console, so that I get more information, what is really going on? (To find the reason for this behaviour). I am running debian-amd64/sid. Any hints are welcome. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
libc6 and X11 seem not to work together
Dear maintainers, since the last upgrade (debian-amd64/sid) it is not more possible to start X. It seems, libc6 is incompatible to the xserver-packages in debiansid Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4edfe6] 1: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x483699] 2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f7e17a41db0] 3: /usr/bin/X11/X(DGAAvailable+0x39) [0x4823c9] 4: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86DiDGAInit+0x30) [0x4ae200] 5: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86CrtcScreenInit+0x10d) [0x4aafad] 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0x7f7e15e26a49] 7: /usr/bin/X11/X(AddScreen+0x1c6) [0x432ac6] 8: /usr/bin/X11/X(InitOutput+0x241) [0x46d361] 9: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x200) [0x4331d0] 10: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f7e17a2e5c6] 11: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x432819] For me it looks like Xorg gets a problem with the latest libc6-version from sid. Can someone confirm this ? Another info: It might not appear on every computer. Mine is working fine (amd64 + Nvidia-driver), but the one from a friend (amd64 + ati-driver) causes the message above. Should I file a bugreport? Greets Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: libc6 and X11 seem not to work together
Am Mittwoch 30 September 2009 schrieb Adam Stiles: Only file a bug report if it fails with an untainted kernel, i.e. one with only Open Source drivers in it. You could file a bug report against the caged ATI driver, for all the good it's going to do you . The kernel is untainted, and are using the stock debian kernel. Although the kernel seem not to cause the problem, as I also held back the older kernel (which was running fine before) in case of problems, started with it and got the same problem, too as with the new one. Greets Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: googleearth
Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 schrieb Michael: Weird enough, i was able to reanimate googleearth by installing nvidia-glx-ia32, additional to nvidia-glx (in a debian legacy setup). The window started up before but didn't draw the actual graphics, just a blank screen. Sad thing is that since few month, GE 4.2 doesn't run anymore, which had the one-mouse-'copter' navigation mode (Ctrl-G), the most genial thing on earth (since the linux kernel), and which they removed soon afterwards. 4.2. seems to miss libbase.so. and i guess it's just no more compatible, finally. ia32-apt-get isn't no more active and no more in the repository (pity of that). Just install ia32-libs and build googleearth again. You will also need nvidia-glx-ia32. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Looking for pyqt
Dear maintainers, an application (namely: liquid weather, which is a superkaramba application) is calling for a package simply called pyqt. It seems, this is not in the repository, or is it under another name there??? I googled, but I only found PyQT4, but only in source code. Well, does Debian not deliver it as a package? Or did I miss something? Or is this a bug? Any hints are welcome. Best regards Hans P.S. Pyqt and liquid weather is not such very important for me, but I wondered somehow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Opera 10
Am Mittwoch 09 September 2009 schrieb Christopher Judd: On Wednesday 09 September 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Christopher Juddj...@wadsworth.org wrote: Is anyone using Opera 10.0 with amd64. I have installed it, but it Try http://deb.opera.com You will find instructions for installation there, too. Good luck! Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
looking for kernel-maintainer
Dear maintainers, sorry to write here, but at the moment it is not possible, to register or send bugreports to bugzilla.kernel.org. Seems the mailsystem is completely down. So I even cannot send the message, that the mailservice is down, too. I hope, that one of the kernel-maintainers might read this message here and will have a look on this. The bugreport I want to send, is about the kernel-module ath5k, which is now maintained by the kernel-maintainers themselves. Where can I send it, if not to bugzilla.kernel.org? Please inform the kernel-maintainers of their problem, when you know one! Thank you very much! Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
apt: cron.daily necessary?
Hi all, I would like to discuss and suggest the following thing: On my 64-bit notebook I am using anacron and (of course) apt. In the apt package included is the file /etc/cron.daily/apt, which contents some lines, which are starting a find process. This find process initiated by apt (and I hope, I am right with this information of the initiation source) consumes a lot of harddrive actions for several minutes after boot, which makes the computer at this time rather slow. Of course, it is one of the processes started by anacron. IMO this is an annoying situation for notebook users, as sepeciela , when you just want to start, wanted to do some things quickly, and then shutting down again - just as many notebook users do! My suggestion to this problem are these: 1. delete /etc/cron.daily/apt manually O.k., this can be easily done, but how necessary is this file at all? 2. If this file is not very necessary do not put /etc/cron.daily/apt into the apt-package, but maybe it should be put into some other package (for example cron-apt), or , another opportunity, as a standalone package. 3. put this file to cron.monthly or cron.weekly, or, let it start manually somehow (this third option was just a thought) What do you think? Is there a way and a chance, to improve things? Any feedback will be very welcome. Best wishes Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
kcheckpass - wrong settings?
Dear maintainers, IMO /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kcheckpass should be set suid root by default. Otherwise I found no way, to unlock a screensaver of kde as a normal user. I changed kcheckpass suid root manually, but every update is overwriting the rights to 755. Is this a bug? I think, this might be a packaging problem. There was somewhere an article about this problem, but I cannot remember exactly where it was (maybe on the kde site?) It would be nice, if you could pay attention to this in the next package. Thank you very much! Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors
So I guess the question is how to we organise to get it back into the repro's - the debian way ? I think, if people wish for it, then ftp-master should be asked to put it back again. However, I underrstand, it might cause trouble (as other packages might cause, too!), but this is the kind of experimental! or unstable, just as its name is expressing. I understand well, there are efforts to chose other ways, so ia32-apt-get should not block the other ways. Well, which one will win at last will show the future. IMO ia32-apt-get is a good way at the moment, and I think, even Goswin would not mourne if some day a better way will be found and ia32-apt- get will disappear. The future will show us. As far as i understood the policies of debian, there are rules to get a package into the official repository. If ia32-apt-get does not break those rules, I see no reason, why to put this software into the repository. All software is free, and every software should be handled even. True democracie Well, I suggest, to handle ia32-apt-get just as other software in debian. Another for way testing might be, to use an own repository, besides the debian official ones. IMO this is the worse way, because it might be worse to maintain (dependencies and so on). These are my thoughts about it, feel free to comment it. Cheers Hans P.S. As you may have remarked: I hate everything, which is deminuishing freedom! Sorry for that! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
where are the params?
Hi all, does someone know, where X gets its params? I searched everywhere, and cannot find it. I am looking for this process, but cannot find the related config. root 6153 3.7 1.4 647916 30884 tty9 Ss+ 07:38 1:54 /usr/bin/X - br -nolisten tcp :0 vt9 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-og9dXa - I am running kdm, and want to change vt9 to vt7. Any hints? Thanks Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors
Dear maintainers, IMO the complete removing of the package ia32-apt-get by the ftp-master is not such good style. Doing so is breaking the system, as some applications need ia32-somewhat packages. For example , I found no way, to install nvidia-glx-ia32, as it depends on ia32-libx11-6 and ia32-libxext6. Same problem is for googleearth, and I do not know, which packages are also involved. If you think, you should remove ia32-apt-get, so please make sure, it does not break the system! I am a little bit concerned, why ftp-master decided to remove it, even if this package might be in unstable state, it should be at least in experimental, so that people can choose to use it or not. I tested ia32-apt-get now for a long time, it is working very well, no problems are found. But going back to ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk would break the system now. How can I help other people? I cannot help them to install needed packages (like nvidia-glx-ia32) as they cannot installed. I cannot correct this, by telling him: Install ia32-apt-get because ftp-master removed ia32-apt-get! Bad situation, don't you agree? So, please put it back, at least to experimental. Have a nice weekend Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Problems with unlocking screen
Dear maintainers, there is an issue, which is regularly appering from time to time. It happens, that I cannot unlock the screensaver any more, although I use the correct password. This is related to the rights settings of kscreenlocker and/or kcheckpass. This was discussed before, but strangewise this behaviour is appearing again and again after updates. So, what is the correct setting of them? (Something with sticky-bit, i remember) Please pay attention, that the rights are not overwritten by an update. Although I corrected this already some times (in kde3), this bug appeared again in kde4. Maybe it is a problem during the packaging? Thanks for your help! Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Security hole: unsecure and strange behaviour of xorg
Dear security team, since some time I watch a strange behaviour: contents of the last desktop are still somewhere in the RAM or videoram and are strangely not deleted, when I change to another windcow manager or reboot. Just before I start kdm or a new window manager, I see a puzzled content from the desktop before An example: when I ran XFCE, then rebooted, and want to start KDE, I see kdm, then the splash screen of KDE, then the contents of the XFCE-desktop, then KDE starts. The only way to get rid of this, is to completely put off all powersources (including put off battery of the notebook) and start again. IMO this is strange, as this fragments of the old desktops might block somehow maybe, and they are of course a security hole. Reason? When those desktop datas are still in the memory after a reboot, they can of course be read by attackers. Those datas may leave unwanted informations, for example you can see, whom I follow at twitter, who am I myself and many other infos, which can be recognized from a desktop. As I told: shutting down a notebook does not delete them!!! A stolen notebook might show lots of unwanted informations. And besides, I do not know, how easy it is to get access to these datas, as they are still there BEFORE X starts, and BEFORE a NEW windowmanager will overwrite these datas. IMO this is a great security whole! A patch would be, to make sure, all datas from videoram are deleted, when no x-server is running any more. Would be nice, if someone could give some background information to this behaviour. Thanks for reading this. Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get
Hello all, I thought about this problem and I have got the idea, to add an apt-get-something, which is using ia32-apt-get and apt-get just to the reqquired needs. This apt-get-something should be configured by a apt-get-something.conf (or similar), where you can preconfigure if you use only 64-bit or additionally 32- bit. According to this conf, this would either call apt-get or ia32-apt-get. In the future maybe both apt-get versions might be merged to one single apt- get-new-somethingm which is always used. Just an idea, maybe you like it Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Kernel module inactive by default?
Hi all, I discovered a strange behaviour since some time. Maybe someone can explain it: I am running an Acer Crystal Eye Cam ( 5986:0102 Acer Crystal Eye webcam), and the cam is running fine (driver is uvcvideo). Lucview is working, and kopete shows video, when I am in the settings menu. But I am wondering, why the driver is always incative (green led is off), when I am not running any application, which it is directly accessing (like xawtv, kopete or whatever)? Whenever I am starting one of these applications, the green led is on, I get a picture/video, but when I leave it, the green led gets off. This means for me: The driver is now inactive! In the past, I could never see this behaviour, the green led was always on. Might this be the reason, why camorama, kdetv or other video-applications cannot access to /dev/videoX ? The access rights are of course set correctly, running as root gets no success either. So, is this normal? If yes, why? If not, how can I fix it? This is the output of lsmod: v4l1_compat12932 2 uvcvideo,videodev v4l2_compat_ioctl32 9296 1 videodev Thank you for any information. Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
ia32-apt-get and nvidia
Dear maintainers, I am looking for a solution for the following problem: I am running debian-amd/sid and my graphic card is using the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. Additionally I am using some commercial 32-bit applications, which depend on ia32-libs, ia32-libs-gtk and nvidia-glx-ia32. The problem is, nvidia-glx-ia32 needs the packages ia32-libx11-6 and ia32- libxext6. Both are not in the repository, but I suppose, they are in the ia32- apt-get repository. But I cannot install ia32-apt-get, as it will deinstall my commercial packages. Installing ia32-apt-get will also deinstall ia32-libs and ia32-libs- gtk. Well, I could reinstall them, but that would dienstall nvidia-glx-ia32! I also cannot install the new kernel and build the newest nvidia-kernel- module, as its nvidia-glx-ia32 will not install: Missing libx11-6 and libxext. Even, from which point I look: Either I install ia32-apt-get, then I cannot use my commercial applications (which I need!), or I leave it as it is at the moment, then I cannot upgrade to a newer kernel (the latest nvidia-kernel does not build on 2.6.29-kernel!). The main reason for this trouble are the missing packages ia32-libx11-6 and ia32-libxext. A workaround may be, to download and install them manually. I will try this, if someone can point me to a server, where I can get it. Maybe the dependencies of nvidia-glx-ia32 can be changed? Or even a dummy package generated, to solve dependencies? In fact, even older nvidia-glx-ia32 package does need it to installation, but works without them. Thank you for reading this long mail. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: ia32-apt-get and nvidia
Hi all, so now I have got the solution, maybe the following will help others. nvidia-glx-ia32: - Installed ia32-apt-get - added the entry for apt Cache-limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20archives - ia32-apt-get update / ia32-aptitude update == worked! - added new kernel 2.6.30, reboot - built latest nvidia-kernel for 2.6.30, installed - added ia32-libx11-6 and ia32-libxext using ia32-apt-get - installed nvidia-glx-ia32 google earth: - make-googleearth-package did NOT work, bugreport sent - the already created and installed googleearth-package did not work - hint: if starting from a console in X shows you, which libs are not found - add all missing libs using ia32-apt-get , for example, if libxrandr2 is missing, do ia32-apt-get install ia32-libxrandr2 - after installing all missing libs, googleearth will work! 3rd-party-applications - ia32-crossover-pro (commercial package) provides ia32-libs, which were deinstalled during upgrade to ia32-apt-get, so dpkg -i ia32-crossover-pro.deb did not work! - solution: as all necessary libs are already installed (but with another package name), forget abolut dependencies, just install using dpkg --force-depends -i ia32-crossover_XXX.deb works! Checked all applications! All are working fine. Hope, this little report is helping other people. Thumbs up! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
dependency problem: kdehelpcenter kdehelpcenter4
Dear maintainers, IMO it is a problem, that the installation of kheplcenter4 deinstalls khelpcnter. Many older kde applications still need the older khelpcenter and without it, theire documentation cannot be recalled. I suggest, if possible, to allow khelpcenter be installed parallel to khelpcenter4. Maybe the package-team can realize this. As this is no bug at all, I sent no bugreport. Regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
vesa mode
Hi all, mybe someone can explain this: I am starting my debian system with the parameter vga=791 (to switch into vesa mode) Sometimes the computer (AMI-BIOS) does not do it correctly (stays in 640x480 then), but with a reset everything starts perfectly. What is the reason for this behaviour? On my amd64-system (Phoenix BIOS) this behaviour NEVER appeared. Is the reason for this the setting VGA initialisation ? In my BIOS it is set to AGP as I am using an AGP-Graphicscard. Or is it just a timing problem? Would be nice, if someone could give me some background information. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
ia32-apt-get breaks system
Dear maintainers, although I like the idea with the new ia32-libs, it breaks my system. As the loss of dependencies, the package googleearth and the commercial package ia32-crossover-pro are deleted by apt-get, although they could be installed before. But whom to blame now? The producer of those packages (googleearth could not be build again!) or debian, as things worked before (before the change of the system with ia32-libs)? If the second case is true: should I file a bugreport??? Regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ia32-apt-get breaks system
Am Donnerstag 02 Juli 2009 schrieb Lennart Sorensen: On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 05:50:15PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: although I like the idea with the new ia32-libs, it breaks my system. As the loss of dependencies, the package googleearth and the commercial package ia32-crossover-pro are deleted by apt-get, although they could be installed before. But whom to blame now? The producer of those packages (googleearth could not be build again!) or debian, as things worked before (before the change of the system with ia32-libs)? If the second case is true: should I file a bugreport??? Is the ia32-libs transition over yet (I highly doubt it)? If not, then you probably have to just wait for that to finish. Or stick to testing where transitions shouldn't happen in stages. Unstable is what it says it is. -- Len Sorensen Yes, yes, its o.k. for me with the policy of unstable. I just thought, I should mention such problems with those new features. So it might help you, to improve things. Thumbs up! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ia32-apt-get breaks system
Am Donnerstag 02 Juli 2009 schrieb Nuno Magalhães: Did you follow instructions on /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/README.Debian ? You must make sure i386 has a lesser priority than amd64 and then run /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list plus apt-get update HTH -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto Shame on me! I did not read this time (but as usual I do, dammit). Anyway, I followed the instructions, but it did not work, due to dependencies. Look: - LANG=C apt-get install lib32nss-mdns Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: lib32nss-mdns: Depends: libc6-i386 (= 2.6-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages --- I think, this problem with libc-i386 is already known. Package googleearth is also not so important for me, but it is nice to demonstrate, what I meant. However, I welcome the new ideas for ia32-libs, and it is crystal clear for me, that things always break in the beginning. It is unstable, where things break, were things go better ways, and were we all learn. So, please go on, even if users mention broken things! We all learn from these things. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
new debian sources and servers???
Dear maintainers, since the last update (debian-amd64/sid), some of the server are no more found. I discovered a major change in the sources list, caused by the update (there are some directories added i386 and amd64 below /etc/apt/. So, must I change something manually, too??? My old sources.lists are already active, and there are the new ones. But generally I got errors, that some servers are no more found. This means, something in the infrastructure of debian-repository has changed, or my configuration has to be optimized. Can you give any background of it? Thank you very much! Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: new debian sources and servers???
This behaviour only appears, when using aptitude. Using the older apt-get, all servers are found. The only thing, I had to change, was APT::Cache-limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf, but that reason is clear. Is there a difference of using the sources.list in aptitude, apt-get and synaptic? I could not find out, if they use different sources.lists, or if they use the same in different ways. Documentation made this not clear. It looks to me, that the handling of debian packages are changed in the future. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
question: kernel-patch
Hi, just a question: Does the kernel of debian-amd64 offer a way, to patch it, without the need to rebuild the whole kernel? I want to patch it with tuxonice and debianlogo, but if I understood it correctly, a kernel-patch forces a rebuild of the whole kernel. Is this correct, or is there a way for those two patches to do it without rebuilding? Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: Need older nvidia-kernel-source (vers. 180.x.x)
Hi Randall, thanks for the older package. I checked it out and can now verify: There is a bug in nvidia-kernel or nvidia-glx. As I could not find out, which of the two, I could not send a bugreport. So I do it here. I also can not test on a 32-bit system, so this report is amd64-related only. Description: Using nvidia- version 180.x.x is running stable and fine. With an update to latest version 185.x.x it appears, whenever I start the application tvbrowser (which is needing and using heavy java), the windowmanager crashes. Crashes means: windows get puzzeled and look wiered (not easy to describe, sorry). It seems, this happens mostly running in KDE4, while this seldom appeared in lightweighted windowmanagers like XFCE or fluxbox. Does this help a little bit? I will be pleased to send more information, if required. Greetings Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: xorg.conf for Radeon 3200 HD
Am Montag 15 Juni 2009 schrieb Seb: Hi, Can someone with this card (integrated into the motherboard): ,-[ lspci ] | ... | 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 | Graphics `- share a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf? I have the libdrm2, xserver-xorg-video-ati, xserver-xorg-video-radeon, xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd packages installed, but probably require activation in xorg.conf. Thanks in advance. Cheers, -- Seb Hi! The driver in xorg.conf might be radeon or ati. Otherwise might be, fglrx-driver might work, too. Remark, you need both, fglrx-kernel and fglrx-driver. Good luck, Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Need older nvidia-kernel-source (vers. 180.x.x)
Hi all, due to some crashes at the latest nvidia-driver of sid (version 185.x.x), I would like to get back to the version before, which was 180.x.x. Sadly I could not find it on snapshots.debian.net, so I hope, some maintainer might have it on his system and could send it to me or to snapshot.debian.net. My system is amd64. Would be nice! Thank you Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Need older nvidia-kernel-source (vers. 180.x.x)
Am Sonntag 14 Juni 2009 schrieb Michael Langley: You can get nvidia source from nvidia. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_amd64_display_archive.html The source is inside the install package. Just run the file with -x, --extract-only Yes, I know this option. This would have been the other choice, if no one will be able to send a debian package. But still I hope Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
mounting ntfs partitions?
Hi all, how can I get read-write access as a normal user to a ntfs-partition? I trioed ntfsmount and pmount (with configured pmount.allow), but i found no way to get write-access as a normal user. What is the debian-way? Thanks for help. Hans
Re: mounting ntfs partitions?
Am Montag 11 Mai 2009 schrieb hend...@topoi.pooq.com: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich: how can I get read-write access as a normal user to a ntfs-partition? I trioed ntfsmount and pmount (with configured pmount.allow), but i found no way to get write-access as a normal user. The ntfs module in the kernel offers only very limited write access. It is a feature constraint you have to live with. A few years ago I heard that this constraint was to prevent damage to the NTFS file system, which the develoers were not sure they fully understood yet (Microsoft secrets and such). I thought that things had progessed since them. - hendrik What is the debian-way? Use ntfs-3g. J. -- I often play sports / do exercise. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html Ah, yes, this does it explain. I know, that ntfs to set r-w is always dangerous, and as far as I know, the kerne-module sets the ntfs-partition to read-only. In my case, there are no important datas on the partition, I use it for testing purposes or as a container to save files for a short time. I just wondered, that users are not allowed to mount partitions r-w (usb, vfat, external drives), but meanwhile I know more about debian and mount. I discovered pmount. Thanks for help! Regards Hans
debianutils crash, was [Big problem: libgcc1 seems to crash system]
Dear maintainers, I have to correct the latest message. It seems, the responsible package is debianutils. There is a bugreport existent, but it is closed. As the bug seemed not to be fixed, maybe it should be reopened? The bugreport is found here: http://www.nabble.com/Bug-526610:-tempfile-crashes-to23344016.html#a23344016 protheus2:~# tempfile /tmp/fileumoGHA *** glibc detected *** tempfile: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x015d4010 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/libc.so.6[0x7f3025bc51c8] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x7f3025bc6d06] tempfile[0x400d0e] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7f3025b715a6] tempfile[0x400999] === Memory map: 0040-00402000 r-xp 08:06 1097741 /bin/tempfile 00601000-00602000 rw-p 1000 08:06 1097741 /bin/tempfile 015d4000-015f5000 rw-p 015d4000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f302000-7f3020021000 rw-p 7f302000 00:00 0 7f3020021000-7f302400 ---p 7f3020021000 00:00 0 7f3025938000-7f3025952000 r-xp 08:06 1228902 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7f3025952000-7f3025b52000 ---p 0001a000 08:06 1228902 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7f3025b52000-7f3025b53000 rw-p 0001a000 08:06 1228902 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7f3025b53000-7f3025c9c000 r-xp 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025c9c000-7f3025e9c000 ---p 00149000 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025e9c000-7f3025ea r--p 00149000 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025ea-7f3025ea1000 rw-p 0014d000 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025ea1000-7f3025ea6000 rw-p 7f3025ea1000 00:00 0 7f3025ea6000-7f3025ec3000 r-xp 08:06 1228869 /lib/ld-2.9.so 7f302608f000-7f3026091000 rw-p 7f302608f000 00:00 0 7f30260be000-7f30260c2000 rw-p 7f30260be000 00:00 0 7f30260c2000-7f30260c3000 r--p 0001c000 08:06 1228869 /lib/ld-2.9.so 7f30260c3000-7f30260c4000 rw-p 0001d000 08:06 1228869 /lib/ld-2.9.so 7fff2e0ae000-7fff2e0c3000 rw-p 7ffea000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff2e1fe000-7fff2e1ff000 r-xp 7fff2e1fe000 00:00 0 [vdso] ff60-ff601000 r-xp 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Aborted protheus2:~# -- Thank you very much for any help and I hope, this helps. Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich
Big problem: libgcc1 seems to crash system
Dear maintainers, since a few days I have trouble, to get any windowmanager started, and some other very important applications crash (for example mysqld). I paste an output of /bin/tempfile, whatever this application is needed. I have no clue, how to fix this problem, or how to get near to the problem. My thoughts are, that there is a version mismath between libgcc1 and gcc. The system, I am running is debian-amd64/sid (0unstable) with full updates. At last, this si the output, I get running tempfile (or start the application like a windowmanager or whatever). protheus2:~# tempfile /tmp/fileumoGHA *** glibc detected *** tempfile: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x015d4010 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/libc.so.6[0x7f3025bc51c8] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x7f3025bc6d06] tempfile[0x400d0e] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7f3025b715a6] tempfile[0x400999] === Memory map: 0040-00402000 r-xp 08:06 1097741 /bin/tempfile 00601000-00602000 rw-p 1000 08:06 1097741 /bin/tempfile 015d4000-015f5000 rw-p 015d4000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f302000-7f3020021000 rw-p 7f302000 00:00 0 7f3020021000-7f302400 ---p 7f3020021000 00:00 0 7f3025938000-7f3025952000 r-xp 08:06 1228902 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7f3025952000-7f3025b52000 ---p 0001a000 08:06 1228902 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7f3025b52000-7f3025b53000 rw-p 0001a000 08:06 1228902 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7f3025b53000-7f3025c9c000 r-xp 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025c9c000-7f3025e9c000 ---p 00149000 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025e9c000-7f3025ea r--p 00149000 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025ea-7f3025ea1000 rw-p 0014d000 08:06 1228871 /lib/libc-2.9.so 7f3025ea1000-7f3025ea6000 rw-p 7f3025ea1000 00:00 0 7f3025ea6000-7f3025ec3000 r-xp 08:06 1228869 /lib/ld-2.9.so 7f302608f000-7f3026091000 rw-p 7f302608f000 00:00 0 7f30260be000-7f30260c2000 rw-p 7f30260be000 00:00 0 7f30260c2000-7f30260c3000 r--p 0001c000 08:06 1228869 /lib/ld-2.9.so 7f30260c3000-7f30260c4000 rw-p 0001d000 08:06 1228869 /lib/ld-2.9.so 7fff2e0ae000-7fff2e0c3000 rw-p 7ffea000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff2e1fe000-7fff2e1ff000 r-xp 7fff2e1fe000 00:00 0 [vdso] ff60-ff601000 r-xp 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Aborted protheus2:~# -- Thank you very much for any help!!! Best regards Hans-J. Ullrich
Re: Toshiba track pad quit working under Debian sid
Am Donnerstag 30 April 2009 schrieb Seb: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:21:47 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Am Mittwoch 29 April 2009 schrieb Seb: Hi, The track pad of a laptop Toshiba Satellite dual processor AMD64, running sid has quit working after upgrading to the new kde 4. The system also has M$ Vista on it on a different partition, and the track pad works fine there. I can't find the issue mentioned around the web. For now, I've just connected a mouse to the laptop. Has anybody else experienced this, and are there any tips as to what to check? Thanks. Cheers, -- Seb You did not mention, if it is an synaptics hardware or an alps driver. Please read the sysnaptics docs, how to find out. And please tell: Does it not work at all? Or are some functions missing? (I had had the problem, that tap-to-click did not work, due to a muissing configuration line in xorg.conf) There is a troubleshooting.txt avaialable in the package of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. Thanks Hans, I installed that package and now the track pad works again (it wasn't working at all). Why the exact same system worked without this package for over a year until the recent kde4 upgrades, and how I could have guessed it is suddenly needed, I will never find out in my wildest dreams. -- Seb Hi Seb, I guess, this is either because the touchpad might have be seen as a normal ps/2 mouse or the package had been deleted after the last upgrade (installation of the latest package xserver-xorg forced this). In the first case (when it has bee senn as a ps/2 mouse) you would have remarked no differnce, when you never need options like scrolling on the side or scrolling on the button with your touchpad. The synaptics driver is very well to configure and much better and comfortabler than in windows. In the second case, you can find out by checking your logs. It is always rather dissatisfied, not to know, what happened for me. Cheers, Hans
Re: libflahplayer.so
Am Mittwoch 29 April 2009 schrieb Francesco Pietra: Hi: Pressed by my wife who wants to see pictures from her web site on my amd64 lenny (used for scientific graphics with nvidia driver and GLSL support), adobe flash player =8.0 should be installed. As the library required /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflahplayer.so is not (as far as I can understand) available from debian-multimedia, is it a different SAFE route to get that working? I have also lib32 and - I guess - don't need 64 bit for that. Thanks a lot for advice on this (for me) very unusual need. francesco pietra Hi! Trs to install the package flashplugin-nonfree, it should install the latest Adobe flashplayer for amd64 onto your system. Good luck! Hans
Re: Toshiba track pad quit working under Debian sid
Am Mittwoch 29 April 2009 schrieb Seb: Hi, The track pad of a laptop Toshiba Satellite dual processor AMD64, running sid has quit working after upgrading to the new kde 4. The system also has M$ Vista on it on a different partition, and the track pad works fine there. I can't find the issue mentioned around the web. For now, I've just connected a mouse to the laptop. Has anybody else experienced this, and are there any tips as to what to check? Thanks. Cheers, -- Seb You did not mention, if it is an synaptics hardware or an alps driver. Please read the sysnaptics docs, how to find out. And please tell: Does it not work at all? Or are some functions missing? (I had had the problem, that tap-to-click did not work, due to a muissing configuration line in xorg.conf) There is a troubleshooting.txt avaialable in the package of xserver-xorg- input-synaptics. And last but not least, there is a new touchpad driver available, called cpad- kernel-module (yes, you guessed right, it is a kernel module and must be compiled and installed). Good luck! Hans-J. Ullrich
Kde4: screensaver will not unlock
Hi all, i found no way to unlock the screensaver in kde4. Some time ago in kde3 I had had the same problem, which I could solve with the correct settings of the rights. I suppose, the same problem meets me again. Which applications are responsible in kde4 for the screensaver lock and unlock, and what settings of rights are required for this? Is this a known bug? Thanks for help. Hans
Update of KDE changes personal settings
Dear maintainers, in the past I discovered, that an update of KDE on a debian-amd64 system is changing personal settings. As I read, this behaviour is against the rules of debian, so I found it worth, to remark it. I at least found to changes out: 1. the settings for files with an ending FLV (flash video) are changed. 2. the rights of bluetooth (namely the kbluetooth-server) and the network access (namely Knemo) are delimitered and do no more work for normal users. I may admit, that the second point might also have to do with general changes in debian, but I could not yet found out any proove in any changelogs. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Which tool for Livefile-DVD?
Hi all, my question might be a little bit off topic, please be nice. I have created a debian-server with a combination of normal debian packages, self compiled tools (i.e. openvas) and 3rd-party tools. As the server has got lots of personal configurations, I want to create now a livefile-system of it, to let it run from CD or DVD, or even better, from USB-stick. Question: What is the recommended tool for this task? My idea was to use bootcd and once I got an iso-image, to use unetbootin to get the image onto an usb-stick. I already checked live-magic (with live-helper), but this seems only to be for a normal debian-livefile system. Is there a documentation somewhere, which is recommended to read? And to get on topic: Is the same procedure used for amd64-systems, too ? (sometimes there are necessary libs missing in amd64) Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
modprobe, lots of warnings
Hi all, after my last update (debian-amd64, sid), I get a lot of warnings like these: WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/kqemu, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/sound, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound-base_noOSS, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat, it will be ignored in a future release. .. .. ... and so on. I think, something major has changed. Is this a bug or will *.conf files be shipped with the next package or kernel? Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: wpasupplicant in Lenny
Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2009 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, as the change of wpasupplicant in Lenny, I looked for an option to specify the essid in /etc/network/interfaces for WPA to use any AP. By using WEP, there is the possibility to say wireless_essid any, so I can use any AP. I looked for the same feature in wpasupplicant, but it seems, this is not possible with it, or it is not documented. So, how do I have to set, when I want to use ALL accesspoints without a PSK and using WPA/WPA2 ? Besides, may I think wrong and a AP without a PSK and activated WPA/WPA2 does not encrypt traffic at all? Thanks for any hints! Regards Hans In /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz it says ElementExample ValueDescription ======= wpa-ssid plaintextstring sets the ssid of your network Have you tried that? Also with wireless-tools it reads now wireless-essid (minus instead of underscore). -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. Hi Jörg-Volker, it is not the option, to set an essid I am looking for. I am looking for an option like any for wep, so that I can drive around, and get access to ANY wpa access point without no password (like I can do with wep on accesspoints). The catchword for this is roaming. Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Where is Multi-Arch testing?
Hi all, after the release of Lenny I am missing the jigdo-files for multi-arch testing. Is stable, testing and sid shortly after a release using the same package versions? If so, I will wait, then upgrade my stable-iso to testing with jigdo. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
KDE-Menus, where are they stored?
Hi all, does someone know, where the kde-menus are stored? I want to delete the related files and want them let to be rebuilt. I found ~/.kde/share/applnk and ~/.config/menus There must be another one, I did not find, yet. Any hints? regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
console-setup in X and console
Hi all, does anybody know, how to configure xorg.conf with the correct keyboard driver? Problem is, I have an Acer laptop, and I use console-setup, to get special keys line dollar sign and eurosign working in console (driver is acer_laptop). In X, the driver is also working fine, but whenever X is started, it interferes with the console driver (driver is also acer_laptop) and the special keys like euro-sign and dollar are only showing nonsense. I tried setting an option in xorg.conf (Option XKBDisable 1), but this did not help. When I kill X, the console-driver is working correctly again and the euro-sign and dollar sign are shown as they should. What did I do wrong? Any hints? Kind regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fwd: XIO: fatal error 104
Am Montag, 26. Januar 2009 schrieb Francesco Pietra: Hi: Perhaps it is because it is amd64 I had no suggestion on debian user. Hope here if what I submitted is clear enough thanks francesco pietra -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:53 PM Subject: XIO: fatal error 104 To: debian-users debian-u...@lists.debian.org Hi: I have little familiarity with X11, in particular on my computing multisocket with amd64 lenny, where it is seldom used. Now that it is needed, it does not work any more. Command startx or X (as user) reports: X.Org X Server 1.4.2 Release Date: 11 June 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-10) Current Operating System: Linux deb64 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 10 09:28:10 UTC 2008 x86_64 Build Date: 09 January 2009 02:16:05AM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sun Jan 25 15:47:02 2009 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (II) Module ddc already built-in (II) Module ddc already built-in (II) Module ramdac already built-in (II) Module i2c already built-in Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6a) [0x48dd0a] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2ab82827df60] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. = Other information: (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist. (WW) The directory /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType does not exist. (WW) MACH64(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer. Section Module Loadbitmap Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadvbe EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL Driver ati BusID PCI:3:1:0 EndSection = 03:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) === I tried #dpkg-reconfigure xserver -xorg setting: kernel framebuffer device interface: yes Keyboard layout: pc104 but id did not help. Thanks for helping francesco pietra Maybe it is the wrong driver. Try: 1. comment out Load glx and use driver Driver ati 2. Use Load glx and use driver Driver fglrx For the second choice you have to build the fglrx-kernel module and install the fglrx-driver. Using this, you will get 3D acceleration. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
keycode needed
Dear list, on my notebook with debian-amd64 running, I want to add two special keys. I suppose, they are not in the kernel, but if I understood it correctly, they can be added manually into the kernel. The scancode is e033 and e034 and the required signs are the euro-sign € and the dollar-sign $ for these keys. But I did not find the needed keycode. If I understood it correctly, I just need to do setkeycodes e033 euro-sign-keycode (same for the dollar-sign). Is this correct ? But what are the needed keycodes?? Thanks for help! Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx in experimental
Am Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2009 schrieb dieeasy: Il giorno Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:05:02 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:35:30AM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: yesterday I tried to build the nvidia-kernel-modul from experimental. Building and installation went fine, but when I tried to install the package nvidia-glx, it triued to install the new kernel-package linux-image-openvz-amd64 and additionally some openvz tools (for example vzquota). I suppose, there might a wrong dependencies, are they? Perhaps it tried to find a matching kernel modules package and picked the openvz one, which then pulling in other stuff. Otherwise, if these dependencies are correct: Why do I have to use openvz with nvidia? I don't think you do. I installed 180.22 and it did not install any openvz stuff for me. Thanks for your info. I installed nvidia-kernel-rouce 180.22, then used m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel -l 2.6.27-1-686 (that was the kernel I was going to reboot to). After that I installed nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-dev and nvidia-settings, and everything is happily at 180.22, and after the reboot it worked fine (and with 2.6.27, so did my UVC webcam finally). Did the same with a handmade 2.6.28 (the debian-way) on 32-bit userland and all went well there, too (no openvz involved). Thanks a lot for your efforts! Find it out: It was old package nvidia-glx-dev and nvidia-glx-ia32. You need first uninstall them, then build the kernel-module, install it, and at last reinstall nvidia-glx-dev and nvidia-glx-ia32 out of experimental. This worked fine! Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx in experimental
Dear maintainers, yesterday I tried to build the nvidia-kernel-modul from experimental. Building and installation went fine, but when I tried to install the package nvidia-glx, it triued to install the new kernel-package linux-image-openvz-amd64 and additionally some openvz tools (for example vzquota). I suppose, there might a wrong dependencies, are they? Otherwise, if these dependencies are correct: Why do I have to use openvz with nvidia? Thanks for your info. Kind regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
flashplayer in amd64 (the never ending story)
Hi all, again I played a little bit around with flashplayer. Here are ne new results: First of all, I used the package flashplayer-nonfree out of the experimental repository. Tha package is creating symlinks to /etc/alternatites and from there to the flashplugin binary. This was o.k., but I somehow get better results, when I copy the binary directly to the plugin-directories and remove the symliks. In konqueror I add /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to the plugin paths, and for iceweasel, I copied the file directly to /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/. Opera is working well, too. With this solution I get much better results, than with the symlinks. Please do not blame me, but IMO there should be no technical difference in the behaviour between calling files via symlinkl or directly, but actually it is! Maybe someone knows better than me... Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Where is the kernel?
Dear maintainers, just some questions What happened to the kernel higher than 2.6.26 ? Is the kernel on hold, due toe the upcoming release of Lenny? Meanwhile the latest stable kernel-version is 2.6.28 (and 2.6.29 is at work). Where is 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 in debian? I only found 2.6.26 as the latest release. Did I miss something? Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:16:14AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: It's not there, and won't be until after Lenny's release. Unless the maintainers relent and put 2.6.27 into Experimental. Well 2.6.27 was in the kernel experimental area for a while, and 2.6.28 is there now. -- Len Sorensen Len, I tried apt-get -d install linux-image -t experimental but it showed only all versions of 2.6.26 How can I download (but NOT install) the latest kernel from experimental? Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
weired message
Hi all, when I start cinelerra, I always get the following message: --- void MWindow::init_shm(): Warning: /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax is 0x7ff, which is too low. Before running Cinelerra do the following as root: echo 0x7fff /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax --- So far so well, but /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax is not existent. What is this command for? I guess it allocates more ram. How can I fix it ? And what is the background of this ? Any help is welcome. Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)
Dear maintainers, I tested some flash plugins onm my amd64 system. According to this, I found out, flashplugin-nonfree either from sid or experimental is not working. This is because it is using nspluginwrapper and the 32-bit version of flashplayer10. I have found out a better solution. Two opportunities: --- First solution: 1. install flashplugin-nonfree from sid. 2. download 64-bit alpha version of flashplayer from the Adobe site. 3. unpack the tar.gz and copy the file libplayerflash.so to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ Second solution (the recommended one): 1. Do NOT install flashplugin-nonfree (as you do NOT need nspluginwrapper!) 2. download 64-bit alpaversion as above. 3. unpack the tar.gz and copy the file libplayerflash.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (so it will be found) This works perfectly for me in Iceweasel and Opera. Konqueror seems to be able to use it, too, but it does somehwo interfere with other plugins (maybe gnash?). I still could not find out, why it is sometimes working and sometimes not. I recommend and like to ask the package maintainers, to build the package flashplugin-nonfree in that way, that it: 1. downloads the 64-bit version of flashplayer 2. nspluginwrapper is no more installed. Please try it out for yourself, it works perfectly for me. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: access rights in /sbin and /bin [Update]
Am Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2008 schrieb Thomas Preud'homme: The Wednesday 10 December 2008 07:04:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote : On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:33:02AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:11:04PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: thanks for the list. I checked and found out, that a lot of binaries in /sbin got permissions to rwxr-xr-- (root:root), but they should have rwxrwxr-x. I wondered, as I never changed the rights manually in the past and I am sure, I have not been hacked. So there is only one explanation: an applicatiopn must have changed it. Does someone know, which application is changing rights of binaries below /sbin ? I suppose, it is either bastille (which I installed and deinstalled a long time ago) or selinux (which i still installed). Please, which manual did i miss to read ??? So far the only thing I have ever seen that causes that is silly people who mess with the umask of the root user (which causes dpkg to make lots of mistakes). Perhaps dpkg shouldn't rely on the umask of the root user? Perhaps is should set it itself? Could this be considered a dpkg bug? It sounds reasonable indeed that dpkg don't rely on root umask. I don't want root to have a umask of 022 because usually I don't want users to read root file by default. Even if most of the time it's not a security issue, I don't want these file to be readable by users by default in case I forget to restrict rights of sensitive files. Furthermore, AFAIK files in /bin, /sbin and other bin directories aren't created, they are untared so that rights of these files are rights they have when tared by the debian maintener of the package. Hmm, so if this is really the way, packages are installed, then I should always report to the maintainer of the package. On the other hand, I had some problems with the package eject. The installed binary got rwxr--r-- ( with owners root:root), but in the package itself it got rwxr-xr-x (root:root). When I reinstalled it, the permissions did not change. Then I deinstalled it completely and reinstalled it again. Now it got the correct permissions: rwxr-xr-x ! So far, so well. But after an upgrade some weeks later, the permissions were wrong again (set as before). I could not explain that to myself, but I could verify this behaviour. Lots of other binaries were showing the same effects (for example the kde screensaver suddenly could not have been unlocked any more, as the sticky bit was missing). So, if I would understand, how is and who is setting the permissions at upgrades or installing, I could find out, what is going wrong. Who knows it ? Cheers Hans -- hendrik So if you ever set a umask for your root user, well don't and reinstall every affected package to fix the permissions. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings, Thomas Preud'homme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
flashplugin-nonfree on debian-amd64 BUG ???
Dear maintainers, latest version of package flashplugin-nonfree is (IMO) downloading the wrong version of flashplayer. It seems, it is downloading the 32-bit-version. This version is not running on my 64-bit system. I tried to use the 64-bit beta version of Adobes flashplayer and it is running well (using opera, as iceweasel got a bug with ELF, and yes, I already reported this) So, as it is not quite a bug in the package flashplugin-nonfree, I do not really know, if it should be reported. My suggestion: Change the package in that way, that it is downloading the beta version of Adobes 64-bit-flashplayer or make a new package flashplugin-nonfree-amd64-beta or similar, which downloads the 64-bit beta version of flashplayer10. If you are on another opinion, I will be pleased to write a bugreport. Please drop me a line. Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access rights in /sbin and /bin [Update]
Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2008 schrieb Lennart Sorensen: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:11:04PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: thanks for the list. I checked and found out, that a lot of binaries in /sbin got permissions to rwxr-xr-- (root:root), but they should have rwxrwxr-x. I wondered, as I never changed the rights manually in the past and I am sure, I have not been hacked. So there is only one explanation: an applicatiopn must have changed it. Does someone know, which application is changing rights of binaries below /sbin ? I suppose, it is either bastille (which I installed and deinstalled a long time ago) or selinux (which i still installed). Please, which manual did i miss to read ??? So far the only thing I have ever seen that causes that is silly people who mess with the umask of the root user (which causes dpkg to make lots of mistakes). So if you ever set a umask for your root user, well don't and reinstall every affected package to fix the permissions. -- Len Sorensen Hmm, checked, but umask of root is set to 022. Indeed I played with umask, but only for the normal user. Otherwise, I set umask in /etc/login.defs to 077, but IMO this would result in 700 to files and not in 750 (as I saw). Thanks for the hint anyway, I check my system for any related configurations. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
access rights in /sbin and /bin
Hi all, some of my access settings in /bin and /sbin seem to be false (for example /sbin/killall5 was set rwxr-x---, but should be rwxr-xr-x). I suppose, some other executables might be set false, too (I sometimes got problems with eject and some other). It would be nice, if someone could send me the list with the correct settings, so I can compare it. Just pipe ls -la /bin and ls -la /sbin into a text file, and send this directly my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you very much ! Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
access rights in /sbin and /bin [Update]
Hi all, thanks for the list. I checked and found out, that a lot of binaries in /sbin got permissions to rwxr-xr-- (root:root), but they should have rwxrwxr-x. I wondered, as I never changed the rights manually in the past and I am sure, I have not been hacked. So there is only one explanation: an applicatiopn must have changed it. Does someone know, which application is changing rights of binaries below /sbin ? I suppose, it is either bastille (which I installed and deinstalled a long time ago) or selinux (which i still installed). Please, which manual did i miss to read ??? Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources.list: experimental
Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2008 schrieb Jochen Schulz: Lennart Sorensen: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:35:59PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: just a question: adding an experimental source to the sources list (just to install a special application from this), will an aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade overwrite ALL installed packages ? upgrade doesn't do anything involving adding or removing packages. Well, but it upgrades packages. In other words: it overwrites existing packages. That's what Hans asked. Yes, that is exactly, what I wanted to know: does it overwrite all installed packages with packages with higher version numbers ? ( = versions from experimental). dist-upgrade does, so really using anything other than dist-upgrade ever is just a mistake. No, it is not. Using 'upgrade' (or 'safe-upgrade' when using aptitude) is the safe way to update your system without changing the set of installed packages. In the past, this list received many mails from people asking for help after apt(itude) removed some important package from their system. If all these people had made a habit of using dist-upgrade only when they know they really need it, they would have saved themselves a lot trouble. Of course, if you always check apt(itude)'s output before confirming its actions, you don't break your system either. But it is never a mistake to try the safe alternative first. J. I think my original question was wrong told: It is not a matter of the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade (this difference i well known by me), my question aimed more to like Hey, if there are higher versions in experimental, are they automatically installed, when doing apt-get dist-upgrade (like it behave, if I am running testing and add the repository of sid in sources.list) ? Or are all versions in experimental ignored, as experimental is handled in a special way ? ...similar to that, you know what I mean. And yes, Jochen, I know the matter of dist-upgrade, and I always say: upgrade is normal, but dist-upgrade is the intelligent upgrade (as you heve to think, before confirming)! Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sources.list: experimental
Hi all, just a question: adding an experimental source to the sources list (just to install a special application from this), will an aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade overwrite ALL installed packages ? Thanks for your help. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
usermin and webmin
Dear debian-maintainers, a long time ago, there were the packages usermin and webmin in your repository. You took them away, as the code of these applications were very bad (spaghetti code) and so it ddid not fit the high qualtity Debian is standing for. Now are two years gone, and I have heard by lots of coders, that the code of those applications is significantly improved, the code shall now be very good, and the applications are both running very stable. As I am no coder, I cannot assess this by myself, so it would be nice, if you could take a look on it and maybe get it back into the repository again. Must I somehow apply for this somewhere else I would be very pleased, if it will be in the repository again, as IMO it is one of the best applications I know. Thenak you very much for your attention! best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot boot with latest Lenny kernel 2.6.26
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 schrieb Neil Gunton: Hi, My server is a dual Opteron 265, 4GB RAM, 4x10k SCSI drives in RAID0 on an Adaptec zero channel SmartRaid V card (the drive appears as /dev/i2o/hda1, so it's using the i2o_block driver). I am running fully up-to-date Debian Lenny, using the AMD64 port. I cannot boot with the latest kernel - 2.6.26.1. It stops early on, just after detecting disks, with this line: Begin: Waiting for root file system... It just hangs there. The last good kernel that works is 2.6.25.2. I haven't tweaked anything, these are both the stock build AMD64 kernels. I'm fairly certain this is a bug of some kind, since everything works ok with the earlier kernel. Things seemed to break going from 2.6.25 to 2.6.26. I am wondering if anyone else is having this issue, if it's a known bug, or something that I need to enter as a bug. Can anybody help? Thanks! Neil Check out your entries of /boot/grub/menu.lst and make sure, your ramdisk (initrd) is setup correctly and existing. Check out your entry for the root filesystem (the /), it should point to the correct partition. And last but not least: It might be necessary to build a new initrd. The easiest way is to boot with the latest running kernel and reinstalling the required kernel, watching the installation process at any errors. Try this, if it not works, come back again and I will be pleased to help you. regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice.org 3.0 ?
Hi dear maintainers, I am waiting for openoffice.org 3.0 in debian-amd64/sid. As there is already a debian-amd64 package available from the openoffice.org-site, I suppose, that you might have another and special reason, that it is still not put into the debian-repository. It might be nice, if you could tell me why. Thank you very much. Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice.org 3.0 ?
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 schrieb Klaus Becker: Am Tuesday 25 November 2008 20:56:22 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: Hi dear maintainers, I am waiting for openoffice.org 3.0 in debian-amd64/sid. As there is already a debian-amd64 package available from the openoffice.org-site, I suppose, that you might have another and special reason, that it is still not put into the debian-repository. It might be nice, if you could tell me why. Thank you very much. Regards Hans Hi, with one of theses lines it works in Lenny, so it will work in Sid: deb ftp://debian.ens-cachan.fr/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb http://http.at.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free cheers Klaus Hi Klaus, thank you, but this is not quite just what I wanted. :) Of course, I know, it is in experimental. My question aimed more to, why it is still not in sid and what is the reason for it (i.e. problems, bugs or debian-political reasons). Thanks for your help either. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem: java-plugin
Am Montag, 10. November 2008 schrieb Timo-Tuomas Koivisto: I would also appreciate your solution, because I haven`t been able to get my (sun`s) java work with my browser on my 2.6.26-1-amd64. Last time a check, I read that there is no solution yet. I hope I`m wrong about this. -Tipi You can try update-alternatives --config java as root, and then maybe choose your preferred java environment. Hope, this helps. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please close my bugreport
Dear maintainers, yesterday I sent a bugreport, that the latest openoffice.org-version is crashing. But I got no confirming e-mail. I did not find it, today, too. With the version of today, everything is working fine. (Wow, what fast ) So if there is still my bug, just close it. Thank you very much ! Kind regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia Lenny today not working.
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 schrieb Igor Támara: Hi, I'm on Lenny 2.6.26-1-amd64, xorg 1:7.3+16, when I try building the nvidia module with m-a -t -f clean,build,install nvidia I get /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c: In function 'nv_kern_vma_nopage': /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:1832: error: 'NOPAGE_SIGBUS' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c: At top level: /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:1839: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:1839: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' NVIDIA: left KBUILD. nvidia.ko failed to build! make[2]: *** [module] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv' make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel' make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2 For Lenny users there will be no nvidia propietary support? or there is another Debian way to install it? My card worked previously with the nvidia driver, now I'm running with nv, but I would like to have dri support 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE] (rev a1) Did you update to the latest version of Xorg ? This is often the most problem... Good luck ! Hans Sorry, I read wrong. You crashed during compilation ! You must install and compile nvidia-kernel, after this install the package nvidia-glx. Then, in xorg.conf change the driver from nv to nvidia. If X failes to start, you can comment the entry Load glx out, so glx will not be used, only the kernel-module (just for testing purposes). Make sure, you have the latest Kernel-headers, Xorg version and nvidia-* installed. Good luck ! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia Lenny today not working.
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 schrieb Igor Támara: Hi, I'm on Lenny 2.6.26-1-amd64, xorg 1:7.3+16, when I try building the nvidia module with m-a -t -f clean,build,install nvidia I get /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c: In function 'nv_kern_vma_nopage': /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:1832: error: 'NOPAGE_SIGBUS' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c: At top level: /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:1839: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:1839: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' NVIDIA: left KBUILD. nvidia.ko failed to build! make[2]: *** [module] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv' make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel' make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2 For Lenny users there will be no nvidia propietary support? or there is another Debian way to install it? My card worked previously with the nvidia driver, now I'm running with nv, but I would like to have dri support 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE] (rev a1) Did you update to the latest version of Xorg ? This is often the most problem... Good luck ! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the best java for debian-amd64 ?
Hi all, as there are many java versions installable, what is the best one to use in amd64-systems ? What are the differences ? I saw gcj, gij, gdk, java. Can someone tell me, which should be used ? Ia ma very confused. Update-alternatives is giving me these choices: There are 8 alternatives which provide `java'. SelectionAlternative --- 1/usr/bin/gij-4.1 2/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java 3/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java 4/usr/bin/gij-4.3 * 5/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java 6/usr/bin/gij-4.2 7/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java +8/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: I choose 5. What is this +-sign meaning ? Questions, questions, questions Thanks for any help ! Kind regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question: sysklogd + kdm
Hi all, I have a little problem with sysklogd + kdm. I do not know, if this is pure amd64-related, but I found it only on my amd64-machine. Problem: sysklogd is using tty7 for some stdout. Thus kdm is thinking, the console is used and starts on tty9. But it should be on tty7 (as normal in Debian). Question: How can I force sysklogd not to send stdout to the console or to another console (for example tty9), so it is free to use for kdm. I searched all configurations and found no settings. This behaviour appeared after an upgrade, although I changed nothing. Weired things.. Thans for any help. regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia video driver problem
Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2008 schrieb Russ Cook: I'm running an amd64, with 64bit linux (Sid), with evga 8800gts graphics card. I did apt-get update upgrade today. Then I downloaded latest linux source 2.6.26.5 from kernel.org, and downloaded the latest nvidia-kernel-source using apt-get. I compiled a custom kernel and latest nvidia-kernel-source according to procedures outlined at http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers . I've done this before successfully, and was running Nvidia driver before this action. The problem is that X will not start now with the Nvidia driver. It WILL start with the nv open source driver. Looking in /usr/lib/xorg/modules, I have a symlink libwfb.so pointing to libnvidia-wfb.so.100.14.11, which doesn't exist in this directory, and X complains about it in the Xorg.log file, attached. It also complains about module type1. Can anyone offer help or suggestions? Hi ! First of all, make sure, you compile the correct kernel-module (I suppose you did). After installation of this, install the package nvidia-glx. Hope you did, too. In /etc/X11/xorg.conf change the entry nv to nvidia. Now it should start. If it still does not, move your script of login manager (kdm, gdm, xdm whatever you use) out of the way, so it will not be started at boot. (Hint: For kdm i.e. just move the files /etc/init.d/kdm somewhere else. So you can restore it back later) Now reboot your machine. You get the login prompt. Login as root and start X using the command startx. If it fails examine, what happens. If it is starting as root, your user is not in the group nvidia. Good luck ! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia video driver problem
Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2008 schrieb Russ Cook: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2008 schrieb Russ Cook: I'm running an amd64, with 64bit linux (Sid), with evga 8800gts graphics card. I did apt-get update upgrade today. Then I downloaded latest linux source 2.6.26.5 from kernel.org, and downloaded the latest nvidia-kernel-source using apt-get. I compiled a custom kernel and latest nvidia-kernel-source according to procedures outlined at http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers . I've done this before successfully, and was running Nvidia driver before this action. The problem is that X will not start now with the Nvidia driver. It WILL start with the nv open source driver. Looking in /usr/lib/xorg/modules, I have a symlink libwfb.so pointing to libnvidia-wfb.so.100.14.11, which doesn't exist in this directory, and X complains about it in the Xorg.log file, attached. It also complains about module type1. Can anyone offer help or suggestions? Hi ! First of all, make sure, you compile the correct kernel-module (I suppose you did). After installation of this, install the package nvidia-glx. Hope you did, too. In /etc/X11/xorg.conf change the entry nv to nvidia. Now it should start. If it still does not, move your script of login manager (kdm, gdm, xdm whatever you use) out of the way, so it will not be started at boot. (Hint: For kdm i.e. just move the files /etc/init.d/kdm somewhere else. So you can restore it back later) Now reboot your machine. You get the login prompt. Login as root and start X using the command startx. If it fails examine, what happens. If it is starting as root, your user is not in the group nvidia. Good luck ! Hans Hans, Thanks for the reply. I believe I compiled the correct things. I don't use gdm or kdm, so always start manually with startx. Logging in as root and running 'startx' gives same result. Problem appears to be missing object of simlink? I am not a member of group nvidia (was not aware of such a group). I AM a member of group video. Since I CAN start x with nv driver, I believe my X setup is otherwise OK. I'll poke around some more ... Thanks again. Try to uncomment the line LOAD glx in /etc/xorg.conf. It should work without 3d-acceleration, but it should start. Does this work ??? Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
