spoofing myself without meaning to

[Ross Boylan]

I have a box, wheat, connected to the internet and my local network.
Another box, corn, is on the local network.
I'm running DNS on wheat and have two domains to call my own (both
going to the same IP address).

When I try to access corn from wheat I get errors that wheat is
spoofing.  This happens in several contexts, but the worst is NFS.
corn is acting as an NFS server, and when I attempt to mount from
wheat I get, in the log on corn,
Dec 29 23:16:33 corn mountd[5922]: NFS mount of / attempted from 192.168.10.1
Dec 29 23:16:33 corn mountd[5922]: spoof attempt by 192.168.10.1: pretends to 
be wheat.mydomain.com!
Dec 29 23:16:33 corn mountd[5922]: Unauthorized access by NFS client 
192.168.10.1.
Dec 29 23:16:33 corn mountd[5922]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.10.1 to mount /

dig -x 192.168.10.1 from corn gives wheat.mydomain.com.
dig wheat.mydomain.com returns the external IP address.

My theory is that this mismatch looks like spoofing.

I have two problems.  First, I don't know if this theory correctly
identifies the source of my problems.  Second, I don't know how to
correct the problem.  I'd appreciate any advice.

The networking situation includes firewalls, tcpwrappers, and
nfs-user-server.  I'm not sure whether the tcpwrappers are being used;
at any rate both hosts.{allow,deny} and the firewall should let thing
through in my local network.

Some networking details have been slightly obscured in the preceding
message.

Thanks.

Ross Boylan


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Re: Firefox and Flash

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I have this problem too.  It's with just about any plugin: flash-nonfree,
mozilla-mplayer, and the sun Java plugin from the 1.5.0 SDK.  I am convinced
that firefox is doing something wrong -- I can confirm that this happens to me
with 1.0.7 (from testing) and 1.5 (backported from sid).  I does not happen
with 1.0.4.

Sometimes it happens with mozilla but this is *extremely* rare.  I would
estimate that Firefox stands a 2/3 chance of freezing when initializing or
unloading any plugin.  Mozilla's probability is around 1/20.

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Use sony DSC-T5

[Pepo]

Hi friends...

I have a camera sony dsc-t5, it works so fine in usb storage mode; but, this 
camera can be used like webcam in Windows (puagh!) if I choose pc-cam mode in 
the camera menu  ... How do I can use this cam like web-cam in my debian 
(testing) box ?

thanks.

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Re: raid - superblock problem?

[Ernst-Magne Vindal]

On Fri, December 30, 2005 0:48, Mike Bird said:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:37, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
>> ns01:~# mdadm -E /dev/md0
>> mdadm: No super block found on /dev/md0 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got
)
>> ns01:~#
>> Hwat does it mean that super block is not found? I have googled a lot
around but is not able to find out if or what to do.
>
> It means that the /dev/md0 RAID is not itself a component of some other
RAID.
>
> In the normal case you wouldn't -E the RAID itself, but rather
> its individual components: "mdadm -E /dev/hda3" or whatever.
>
> --Mike BIrd
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Very good, thanks Mike.


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Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

[Chinook]

Jules Dubois wrote:

On Thursday 29 December 2005 20:56, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:


For current stable kernel 2.4.27 it gives instructions on how to setup
an ATAPI CD-RW/DVD+-RW recorder on Debian.  Trouble is they include lilo
and I'm using grub.  Then below it says (I think) that such is not
needed with kernel 2.6.* and explains undoing the previous steps for 2.4.*


In the instructions for LILO and 2.4 you will see a kernel parameter for
SCSI emulation for the writer(s).  You can add the same parameter to GRUB
if you need it.


What I get out of this is that maybe I should upgrade to kernel 2.6.* ???


SCSI emulation is not required in v2.6.  Whether you use GRUB or LILO, you
don't need the emulation parameter.  If you have it and you upgrade from
2.4 to 2.6, remove it.





Thanks for replying Jules,

I guess I understood correctly, except for not knowing I could make the 
same changes to grub.  Guess I'll have to look into what (and how) I can 
do with grub :-P


Anyway,  I decided to move on up to etch.  I'll get my kernel upgrade 
and hopefully lessen some other issues.  From what I've read it should 
be at least as "stable" for me as "stable" is now.  I don't see any 
issues that would affect me so it should be a net gain.


The system is downloading for the upgrade now and says it will take a 
couple hours, so it's time for a little nap.


Thanks again,
Lee C



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Re: excludes list

[Daniel Webb]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:16:21PM -0500, Chinook wrote:

> I had gotten that far - just unfamiliar with the specifics of the Linux 
> file system.  Found some more info though, like
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html
> and http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
> which is helping me decide on specifics.
> 
> I'm fairly familiar with the various *nix tools
> (note my article http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.html).

A nice thing about debian is that you can save a large percentage of your
system with the following:

  * dpkg --get-selection '*' 
(all your packages, installed or not, which allows you to fairly quickly
restore a system with only 20k of backup overhead)
  * /boot (everything you need to boot the system)
  * /etc (settings)
  * /var (things like mail, databases, system data)
  * /home (although you should exclude things like Firefox cache directories)

You should never put anything you change outside of these directories (or /mnt
if you have other partitions, or /usr/local if you install things manually).

You can create very compact backups if you set them up correctly on Linux.  If
you've got RAID, complete system crashes aren't going to happen that often
anyway, so it's not that much of a burden to spend a few hours reinstalling
your packages from the dpkg list.


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Firefox and Flash

[[KS]]

Hi,

I have noticed that whenever I do something with a flash animation and
try to browse to another page, it freezes Firefox and the only thing I
can do is to kill it and restart. Anyone else experiencing similar
problems? It was with 1.0.7 and is still there with 1.5. I checked with
a clean profile and the problem still exists. However, I haven't seen it
to occur when I'm using Mozilla!

thanks.

~$ dpkg -l *flash*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   VersionDescription
+++-==-==-
un  flashkard   (no description available)
pn  flashplayer-mo  (no description available)
un  flashplugin (no description available)
ii  flashplugin-no 7.0.61-1   Macromedia Flash Player plugin installer
pn  flashybrid  (no description available)
pn  libflash-dev(no description available)
pn  libflash-mozpl  (no description available)
pn  libflash-swfpl  (no description available)
pn  libflash0   (no description available)
pn  libflash0c2 (no description available)
pn  libroxen-flash  (no description available)
pn  newsflash   (no description available)
un  osflash (no description available)
pn  vrflash (no description available)

~$ dpkg -l firefox*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   VersionDescription
+++-==-==-
ii  firefox1.5.dfsg-3 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
pn  firefox-dom-in  (no description available)
ii  firefox-gnome- 1.5.dfsg-3 Support for Gnome in Mozilla Firefox
un  firefox-locale  (no description available)


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Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

[Steve Lamb]

Brian Nelson wrote:
> s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/

No, non-free.  If it were GPL-incompatible there are quite a few pieces of
software in Debian right now that would be shunned for the very same fact.
Several free licenses are GPL incompatible.

The problem was that the Windows version was not free while the Linux
version was.

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Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

[Jules Dubois]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 20:56, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> For current stable kernel 2.4.27 it gives instructions on how to setup
> an ATAPI CD-RW/DVD+-RW recorder on Debian.  Trouble is they include lilo
> and I'm using grub.  Then below it says (I think) that such is not
> needed with kernel 2.6.* and explains undoing the previous steps for 2.4.*

In the instructions for LILO and 2.4 you will see a kernel parameter for
SCSI emulation for the writer(s).  You can add the same parameter to GRUB
if you need it.

> What I get out of this is that maybe I should upgrade to kernel 2.6.* ???

SCSI emulation is not required in v2.6.  Whether you use GRUB or LILO, you
don't need the emulation parameter.  If you have it and you upgrade from
2.4 to 2.6, remove it.



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Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

[Marc Shapiro]

Marc Shapiro wrote:

Tiago Pedrosa wrote:


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Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Chinook wrote:


Marc Shapiro wrote:



Robert Glueck wrote:



I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
TV set.  




I'd like to play them on Sarge.  Just today I clicked on a .mov
file and was asked if I wanted to use the default program
(gmplayer).  I said yes, but after it DL'd the file it complained
that it could not find the proper codec (I don't remember, now,
which codec it was looking for). Is there some place to get the
proper codecs to make these work.  If so, where is it?  If not,
why give a default player that can not actually play the file?




You might both look at VLC in your package app, or see
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/



I just tried it on the .mov file from above.  The video played just 
fine, but there was no audio at all.  I checked the preferences, made 
sure that audio was enabled and the sound was turned all the way up. 
Still no sound.  I normally do get sound on this box.  Is there 
something else that I am missing?  If you need more information, just 
let me know.


Marc




Hi ;
I think that the problem could be codecs, you should install
w32codecs.
This package is in the mirror of marillat the same of mplayer.




Richard Lyons wrote:


I had something similar a couple of days ago, watching a DVD.  vlc has
an 'audio' menu, IIRC, containing mono, stereo and something else. It
was defaulting every time to the something else, and clicking on stereo
switched the sound on.




I installed the codecs from marillat, but that did not change anything. 
 I also checked all of the audio options under the audio menu and under 
preferences, to no avail.


Now that I have the codecs installed, however, gmplayer will give me 
audio for the .mov file, but still no video.  If I could just sync the 
audio from gmplayer with the video from vlc then I would have a 
work-around.  A LOUSY work-around, mind you, but a work-around.


I'm being schizo and replying to myself, again.  Xine seems to actually 
be doing the job, at least with the w32codec installed.  (I will try it 
w/o the codec tomorrow.)  So far it is the only player that is playing a 
.mov file.  How does it do on other file types (RealAudio, MPEG, mp3, 
OGG, other Quicktime formats, etc)?  Any feedback from actual users 
would be appreciated.  If Xine can do all the work, then I can get rid 
of the others.  One media player for all formats would be my ideal, if 
it can be done.


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Re: how to design a protocol to help 1000 PCs know whether online or not

[Paul Johnson]

Serena Cantor wrote:

> (Sorry, I know this is not suitable place to post this question. If you
> know where I should post, pls let me know.)
>
>   There are 1000 PCs, each know these 1000 PC's IP address, each is equal.
>   How to design a protocol for every PC to find out the other PCs are
>   still online? Thank you!!!

You mean rwho/ruptime?

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Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

[[KS]]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>  
> And another thing: when connecting the USB cable, make sure you have the
> camera in *playback* mode. If you don't, there won't be any connection
> and you'll be checking your cables all over the place, like I did.
> 

I don't why Canon can't stick to one method. Different cameras have
different methods of connecting to the computer. For example, my G5
starts in playback mode automatically when connected to the USB port.
After downloading the pictures, I don't even have to turn it off as it
does that by itself. This non-standardisation becomes a problem when one
has two cameras (both Canon) at home and they employ different methods.
Imagine what happens when I buy my next one!

/ks


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Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

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Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent "testing",
>
> I believe GNOME sprang up partially in response to KDE using Qt, which
> had a non-free license at the time.

s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/

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Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

[Chris Purves]

On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:41 +0800, Chris Purves wrote:
> > On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it!
> >
> > Well, I prefer to do it anyway, for personal reasons. ;-)
>
> Tsk tsk.  You'll be mighty peeved at yourself if you ever accidentally
> set your MUA to "Empty trash on exit"...

Oh, yeah!  I've done that before.

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Re: notification of updates

[Pepo]

:)

I dont like anyone just tell me anything in any moment, I like search by my 
self; but if you like that hmmm!

In Debian (the better for me ;))

To update information about new packages:
*  apt-get update
Then to know which packages installed have new updates:
*  apt-show-versions -u | sort | less

I hope it can help you

Pepo.

El Jue 29 Dic 2005 18:09, kamaraju kusumanchi escribió:
> In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there is
> a new version of acroread available. While this popup is considered
> annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this feature. Now
> my question is 'Is there any software in Debian which performs a similar
> functionality?'
>
> For example, when I open a file with gvim, I would like to have a pop up
> saying that "there is a new version of gvim available in the
> repositories". It need not give options to install the software. But if
> it does that, it would be super! Any ideas/suggestions are most welcome.
> FYI, I am using unstable branch.
>
> thanks
> raju
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Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

[Ron Johnson]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:41 +0800, Chris Purves wrote:
> On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs.  I would like to know what
> > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> > > than six months.
> >
> > Is this for a personal system or an ISP/company/email-host?
> 
> personal
> 
> > If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it!
> 
> Well, I prefer to do it anyway, for personal reasons. ;-)

Tsk tsk.  You'll be mighty peeved at yourself if you ever accidentally
set your MUA to "Empty trash on exit"...

> > If business, and you are telling users "Trash older than 180 days
> > will be automatically deleted", you should use the IMAP protocol
> > to do it.  The mailing list for the imapd that you use would be
> > the place to ask the proper way to do it.
> 
> I will do that.

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kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

[Chinook]

I have two optical devices in internal bays.

ATAPI CD-R/RW 32X10 T.GA (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrom0 [CD-R; CD-RW; 
CD-ROM][Error] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96R]


ATAPI PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-103 1.90 (/dev/hdd, ) at /media/cdrom1 [CD-R; 
CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R] [Error] [SAO; TAO]


Even though I've been able to write to a dvd, I've had continuing issues 
with doing so.  I've been doing more research and this is what I get 
down to:


From /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup

For current stable kernel 2.4.27 it gives instructions on how to setup 
an ATAPI CD-RW/DVD+-RW recorder on Debian.  Trouble is they include lilo 
and I'm using grub.  Then below it says (I think) that such is not 
needed with kernel 2.6.* and explains undoing the previous steps for 2.4.*


What I get out of this is that maybe I should upgrade to kernel 2.6.* ???

Is this a good step for me and what all is involved?

Thank you,
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Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

[Chris Purves]

On 30/12/05, Daniel Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote:
>
> > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs.  I would like to know what
> > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> > than six months.
> >
> > Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cron
> > job?  What are others doing?
>
> Not sure how to do it with Courier.
>
> Another possibility if you can shut down courier in the middle of the night
> is:
>
> % /etc/init.d/courier stop
> % cd Maildir && find . -type f -mtime +180 -exec rm \{\} \;
> % /etc/init.d/courier start
>
> (test this first and understand it, because I didn't test it)
>
> That will get *any* file older than 180 days, so if there are non-email files
> in the tree, you'll have to get more complicated.
>
> Will that mess up the indices on courier, or will it just rebuild them?  I
> accidentally screwed up the indices with Dovecot and it just rebuilt them
> without a problem.
>
I should be able to do that quite easily with a cron job.  As for
indexing, I presently have a cron job that reports than removes spam
without stopping courier.  I haven't had any problems doing this.

Thanks for your help.  I didn't have a good way for determining the
age of the files.  Using find looks fairly straight forward.

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Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

[Chris Purves]

On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs.  I would like to know what
> > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> > than six months.
>
> Is this for a personal system or an ISP/company/email-host?

personal

> If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it!

Well, I prefer to do it anyway, for personal reasons. ;-)

> If business, and you are telling users "Trash older than 180 days
> will be automatically deleted", you should use the IMAP protocol
> to do it.  The mailing list for the imapd that you use would be
> the place to ask the proper way to do it.

I will do that.

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Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

[Almut Behrens]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Matt England wrote:
> Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems:
> 
> Is this feasible?
> 
> I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary.
> 
> Are dynamic-library-management tricks needed?  Does the Debian testing 
> authority (or whoever is given responsibility of anointing Debian releases 
> for distribution) make any attempt at backwards compatibility for this kind 
> of stuff?
> 
> As per similar motivation for my previous redhat-on-Debian binary porting 
> conversation:  I'm hoping that one Debian build will work on many Debian 
> systems.
> 
> Can I at least count on a Woody-built binary working ok on a Sarge-based 
> system?  In this context, how far "back" can I go to get "forward" 
> compatibility?  (ie, how many revs before Sarge can I go back to "build on" 
> and still get Sarge compatibility?)
> 
> If there are reasons why the answer is "depends" instead of a flat "yes" or 
> "no": I would love to know these reasons.  This is what I'm specifically 
> hunting for.

The short answer is somewhere in between "no" and "depends"...
All in all, running binaries from a significantly newer system on an
older one is something you really want to avoid, unless you have very
good reasons for doing so.  Any approach to work around the various
problems would be rather cumbersome and ugly.  This really cannot be
recommended under most any circumstance, at least not if the goal is to
have a single binary that'll "just run" out of the box, on any system.
IOW, the ultra short answer is: forget about any such endeavour :)

Of course, it depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you want to
run a sarge program as it is, without any tweaking, on a woody system,
the answer is a clear "no" for any dynamically linked binary.  Beyond
that, there's no generic answer that would apply to every program.

For example, let's take the rather basic "ls" program.  If you try to
run a sarge-built binary on a woody system you get

$ /sarge/bin/ls
/sarge/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory

As you can easily see, it's missing some library.  More importantly, if
you do an "ldd"

$ ldd /sarge/bin/ls 
/sarge/bin/ls: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by 
/sarge/bin/ls)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x4001a000)
libacl.so.1 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002c000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40149000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)

you also see that, in addition to the missing lib, there's a version
problem with /lib/libc.so.6, because the libc from woody is too old.
Now, ls isn't fancy at all.  It's not too hard to imagine what you'd
get if you were to run a more complex application.

If you really need to do something like that, you essentially have the
following options:

(1) distribute/install all required newer libs on woody, and

  (a) run the program via chroot, or

  (b) fiddle with the lib paths (using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_PRELOAD, etc.)

(2) recompile the program and

  (a) link everything statically, or

  (b) link dynamically against the new libraries in some special
  location - including libc.so and ld.so (!) - and ship them
  together with the application

The latter options, of course, presume that you in fact do have the
choice to recompile/relink the application -- as for example, when you
desperately want to run a new application on an outdated system (that
you can't upgrade for some reason), but otherwise don't care about
being able to run that same binary on a new system.

None of these approaches (maybe except static linking - to some degree)
achieve to create a single binary that'll just run everywhere.

Also, fiddling with the lib paths would soon get ugly, in particular
because the path to the dynamic linker/loader (/lib/ld-linux.so.2) is
hardcoded in every binary.  While you could still run a simple binary
directly via

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sarge/lib /sarge/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /sarge/bin/ls
or
$ /sarge/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /sarge/lib /sarge/bin/ls

things would get rather ugly if you were to try running some program
which itself is executing some other binary.  For example, assume you
wanted to check dynamic library binding, using the ldd that belongs to
the new system.  As ldd is a shell script, you might think one of the
following would work

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sarge/lib /sarge/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /sarge/bin/sh 
/sarge/usr/bin/ldd /sarge/bin/ls
/sarge/bin/ls: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_PRIVATE' not found (required 
by /sarge/lib/libc.so.6)
/sarge/bin/ls: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_PRIVATE' not found (required 
by /sarge/lib/libpthread.so.0)
librt.so.1 => /sarge/lib/librt.so.1 (0x40014000)
libacl.so.1 => /sarge/lib/libacl.so.1 (0x40027000)
libc.so.6 => /sarge/lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002f000)
libp

Re: fstab problem

[Rodney Richison]

I don't think this came up in the thread, but does it show up in dmesg 
at all? It should theoritcally show up a the same time as all the 
other disks


Posting relevant portion of dmesg below...It seems it finds hdc ok. 
But maybe not in time before it runs fsck maybe?



.


**
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida1 (Smart Array 3200)
cpqarray ida/c1d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=17764320
/dev/ida/c1d0: p1 p2 < p5 > p3
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 399816k swap on /dev/ida/c1d0p5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on ida/c1d0p1, internal journal
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Capability LSM initialized
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xc3fff000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:50:8B:D9:38:9D
SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot :03:06.0
SiI680: chipset revision 2
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133
SiI680: 100% native mode on irq 5
   ide1: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
   ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
hdc: WDC WD2500JB-00KFA0, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0xf8843f80-0xf8843f87,0xf8843f8a on irq 5
hdc: max request size: 64KiB
hdc: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, 
UDMA(100)

/dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
SCSI subsystem initialized


It now works reliably with mount -a so I finally put a startup script
with nothing but mount -a in it.

Course, the problem with that is I can't let the system do a fsck on it
at boot up because the machine does't seem to see the drive util
later..   ??



so put a fsck in your script?


Umm, I can't do that because "I" didn't think of it!haha  :)


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Re: How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

Orange wrote:

Hello.
I run Debian Linux, and use dselect to select and install packages.
I have a collection of about 1300 MB of my favorite required and
desired packages in a subdirectory -- everything needed for a full
system installation and then some, and would like to use that
collection as the source of packages for local network installations
where I use dselect to select and install a subset of those packages.

The big gotcha is that dselect does not see a useable index file
that somehow lists all of those packages.

How can I make the required index file(s) so that dselect will be
happy with that collection and that subdirectory as a source of
packages?

Thanks.




http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debrepository

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Test Page prints fine, Can't print on SMB Shared Printer

[Mike McCarty]

Synopsis: GNOME/Debian prints a test page using an
ethernet LAN to a Windows 95 machine, but
still cannot print from applications.
Booting from either Knoppix or Kanotix LiveCD
and configuring the printer works fine.

Google turned up no help on this.

Windows Machine:
HP DeskJet 895c connected to Win95 machine
All local print functions work properly
Machine shares printer
Windows Work Group: Rocky&Friends
Machine Name: BORIS
Printer Name: BORIS_PRINT
This machine has been working as a print server for
four years at least with no changes.

Debian Machine:

This machine has used BORIS as a print server successfully
for over four years. It ran WinNT without problems using the remote
printer. This machine was recently converted to use Debian.
No other changes in configuration have taken place.

Debian Setup...

2.1GHz Celeron
2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
GNOME 2.8.3

[Only one printer configured]

Application->DesktopPreferences->SystemTools->Printer->ConfigurePrinters
gives a dialogue box. Selected the printer named DeskJet895c, which has
already been configured before but which does not actually print remote
jobs.
RightClick Properties->BecomeAdministrator
 Enter root password
Set driver to DeskJet 895c (recommended)
Set Connection to Network->Windows (SMB)
 set to BORIS and BORIS_PRINT in the two
 fields provided
Click PrintTestPage and test page prints without
error.
Click Close (not just close the window, used the button).

Start Mozilla web browser.
File->Print->To Printer->Postscript/DeskJet895c

Mozilla thinks the print job was queued with no problem, but
the printer does not respond.

Looked in /var/spool/cups and there are only two files,
with the current date; one is a directory
/var/spool/cups/tmp which is empty,
and the other is /var/spool/cups/c4 which is
a binary file, 602 bytes and appears to be a description of the
test page print job.

Rebooting the same machine using Knoppix LiveCD, starting SMB,
and configuring the printer works fine, but running from a LiveCD
is not really desirable. (Kanotix LiveCD also works with this
printer.)

I'm at something of a loss to know how to continue configuring
this printer or figuring out what is wrong. Some parts of
Debian seem to know how to use the printer, since the print
test page works, and the apps seem to think they can queue
jobs to it, but nothing actually prints.

Any pointers or help appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Mike
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Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

[Marc Shapiro]

Tiago Pedrosa wrote:

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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:18 +0100
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Chinook wrote:


Marc Shapiro wrote:



Robert Glueck wrote:



I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
TV set.  



I'd like to play them on Sarge.  Just today I clicked on a .mov
file and was asked if I wanted to use the default program
(gmplayer).  I said yes, but after it DL'd the file it complained
that it could not find the proper codec (I don't remember, now,
which codec it was looking for). Is there some place to get the
proper codecs to make these work.  If so, where is it?  If not,
why give a default player that can not actually play the file?




You might both look at VLC in your package app, or see
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


I just tried it on the .mov file from above.  The video played just 
fine, but there was no audio at all.  I checked the preferences, made 
sure that audio was enabled and the sound was turned all the way up. 
Still no sound.  I normally do get sound on this box.  Is there 
something else that I am missing?  If you need more information, just 
let me know.


Marc




Hi ;
I think that the problem could be codecs, you should install
w32codecs.
This package is in the mirror of marillat the same of mplayer.




Richard Lyons wrote:


I had something similar a couple of days ago, watching a DVD.  vlc has
an 'audio' menu, IIRC, containing mono, stereo and something else. It
was defaulting every time to the something else, and clicking on stereo
switched the sound on.




I installed the codecs from marillat, but that did not change anything. 
 I also checked all of the audio options under the audio menu and under 
preferences, to no avail.


Now that I have the codecs installed, however, gmplayer will give me 
audio for the .mov file, but still no video.  If I could just sync the 
audio from gmplayer with the video from vlc then I would have a 
work-around.  A LOUSY work-around, mind you, but a work-around.


Very frustrated is,
Marc Shapiro


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Re: trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

[Paul Alan Scott]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:42:54PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Paul:
> 
> Exim should be set up and configured to provide a sendmail facility.  More
> likely is the case that your ISP blocks outbound SMTP connections, and you
> haven't configured Exim to use a smarthost to deliver mail.
> 
That's the way it's set up on the slow laptop (too slow for T-Bird) that 
I am replying from now.  I may not have to time to do that on the 
decktop that had the nanourl/apache2 problem.  I may try to install 
reportbug on this machine and report the bug from here.

BTW I tried "Reply to list" for this response (from mutt) and discovered 
it's not that magical.  I appararently have to first tell mutt about any 
lists I want that to work for.

Thanks,

Paul


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Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

[Marc Shapiro]

Bryan G wrote:
i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace 
realplayer without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC

http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm


Does this work under linux?  All I see on the site specifies 
"Win95/96/2000/XP" or "only Win2000/XP".


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back slash & Japanese yen

[Masa Takeuti]

Hello

I can't put backslashes correctly.

My keyboad is configured as french-canadian and xmodmap shows me this :

 49 0x002f (slash)  0x005c (backslash)  0xff (VoidSymbol)   
0x00ad (hyphen) 0x007c (bar)

When I use Abiword, I can put a backslash correctly.

But, in terminals, or when I use a mail-client, it becomes a Japanese yen.

How can I fix it ?


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Re: excludes list

[Chinook]

Brad Sims wrote:

On Thursday 29 December 2005 2:24 am, Chinook wrote:
In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I 
need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data 
that is not needed.


For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /proc, 
/home//tmp
  but not /dev, /etc, /var, /home (other than /tmp and known 
fluff), /root and /opt.


Been googling around for more than over generalizations but have not 
done so well yet :-)


Any comments, urls, etc would be appreciated.


Well presuming you are using rsync create a file named something like
Exclude_List. Exclude_List contains each directory to be excluded on a
separate line. When you call rsync add ` --exclude-from=$exclude_file_name.

Here is a link to the script I use to rsync my hardrive to an external usb HD.
http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Backup_Script.html


Thanks Brad,

I had gotten that far - just unfamiliar with the specifics of the Linux 
file system.  Found some more info though, like

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html
and http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
which is helping me decide on specifics.

I'm fairly familiar with the various *nix tools
(note my article http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.html).

Thanks again for the reply,
Lee C
"Documentation is like sex: when it's good, it's very, very good.  And 
when it's bad, it's better than nothing." -- anom



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Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

[Stefhen Hovland]

i think ifrename will do what you are asking, you can specify that
eth0 always be bound to x, and eth1 always bound to y, etc..


http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ifrename

stefhen

On 12/29/05, Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover
> etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order
> with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. For 2.6.14 3c59x is loaded first
> corresponding to eth0 and then 8139too corresponding to eth1. With
> kernel 2.6.12 they are loaded in reverse order, giving the wrong names
> on my interfaces, and the interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces
> becomes wrong. How to bind modules to eth interface numbers? Any hints
> on which of the /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf etc should be used, and
> which are obsolete?
>
> Thanks,
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Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

[Svante Signell]

With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover
etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order
with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. For 2.6.14 3c59x is loaded first
corresponding to eth0 and then 8139too corresponding to eth1. With
kernel 2.6.12 they are loaded in reverse order, giving the wrong names
on my interfaces, and the interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces
becomes wrong. How to bind modules to eth interface numbers? Any hints
on which of the /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf etc should be used, and
which are obsolete?

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Re: notification of updates

[Jacob S]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:05 -0600
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:09:33 -0500
> kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there
> > is a new version of acroread available. While this popup is
> > considered annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this
> > feature. Now my question is 'Is there any software in Debian which
> > performs a similar functionality?'
> > 
> > For example, when I open a file with gvim, I would like to have a
> > pop up saying that "there is a new version of gvim available in the 
> > repositories". It need not give options to install the software. But
> > if it does that, it would be super! Any ideas/suggestions are most
> > welcome. FYI, I am using unstable branch.
> 
> The default installation of Ubuntu has something like this on the
> Gnome taskbar. My guess is that it has something to do with the
> gnome window-manager and synaptic, but I could be totally wrong. Maybe
> somebody else will know which software package I'm talking about, or
> you could try checking over on the Ubuntu forums to see which package
> provides that functionality.

Sorry for replying to myself here... an apt-cache search shows
apt-watch which might be what you want. It does, however, require you
to be running the gnome window manager to be able to use the applet. 

"apt-cache show apt-watch" for more information.

HTH,
Jacob


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Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

[Bryan G]

i found this, I 
haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace realplayer without the 
problems of realplayer taking over your PC
http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm

Re: notification of updates

[Jacob S]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:09:33 -0500
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there
> is a new version of acroread available. While this popup is
> considered annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this
> feature. Now my question is 'Is there any software in Debian which
> performs a similar functionality?'
> 
> For example, when I open a file with gvim, I would like to have a pop
> up saying that "there is a new version of gvim available in the 
> repositories". It need not give options to install the software. But
> if it does that, it would be super! Any ideas/suggestions are most
> welcome. FYI, I am using unstable branch.

The default installation of Ubuntu has something like this on the Gnome
taskbar. My guess is that it has something to do with the
gnome window-manager and synaptic, but I could be totally wrong. Maybe
somebody else will know which software package I'm talking about, or
you could try checking over on the Ubuntu forums to see which package
provides that functionality.

HTH,
Jacob


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Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

[Daniel Webb]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote:

> I am running courier IMAP using maildirs.  I would like to know what
> is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> than six months.
> 
> Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cron
> job?  What are others doing?

Not sure how to do it with Courier.

Another possibility if you can shut down courier in the middle of the night
is:

% /etc/init.d/courier stop
% cd Maildir && find . -type f -mtime +180 -exec rm \{\} \;
% /etc/init.d/courier start

(test this first and understand it, because I didn't test it)

That will get *any* file older than 180 days, so if there are non-email files
in the tree, you'll have to get more complicated.

Will that mess up the indices on courier, or will it just rebuild them?  I
accidentally screwed up the indices with Dovecot and it just rebuilt them
without a problem.

I do something similar, except I move old mail to an archive so mutt doesn't
get bogged down with 10,000 messages on some of the lists.  Never had a
problem.


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Re: raid - superblock problem?

[Mike Bird]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:37, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
> ns01:~# mdadm -E /dev/md0
> mdadm: No super block found on /dev/md0 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got
> )
> ns01:~#
> 
> Hwat does it mean that super block is not found? I have googled a lot
> around but is not able to find out if or what to do.

It means that the /dev/md0 RAID is not itself a component of some
other RAID.

In the normal case you wouldn't -E the RAID itself, but rather
its individual components: "mdadm -E /dev/hda3" or whatever.

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raid - superblock problem?

[Ernst-Magne Vindal]

Hi, can someone help me understand this problem about disks/raid/superblocks

I have a sw raid5, tree IDE disks that is split up to md0/ md1/ md2/, ext3
filesystem.
They are all in fstab and autostarts just fine. but...

if I do :
ns01:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.01
  Creation Time : Thu Dec 22 06:23:13 2005
 Raid Level : raid5
 Array Size : 48821248 (46.56 GiB 49.99 GB)
Device Size : 24410624 (23.28 GiB 25.00 GB)
   Raid Devices : 3
  Total Devices : 3
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Fri Dec 30 00:18:42 2005
  State : clean
 Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

 Layout : left-symmetric
 Chunk Size : 64K

   UUID : 6d2dadcf:013b706c:4138686d:94f45902
 Events : 0.38448

Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   0   3   690  active sync   /dev/hdb5
   1  2251  active sync   /dev/hdc5
   2  22   692  active sync   /dev/hdd5
ns01:~#
Here it says "Superblock is persistent", and if I do:
ns01:~# mdadm -Q /dev/md0
/dev/md0: 46.56GiB raid5 3 devices, 0 spares. Use mdadm --detail for more
detail.
/dev/md0: No md super block found, not an md component.
ns01:~#

and

ns01:~# mdadm -E /dev/md0
mdadm: No super block found on /dev/md0 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got
)
ns01:~#

Hwat does it mean that super block is not found? I have googled a lot
around but is not able to find out if or what to do.

Im running stable, kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686  2.6.8-16sarge1. Ihave also
tryed kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386  2.6.8-16sarge1.

It is tha same for md0-3, but they are mounted and running.

Please help


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Re: notification of updates

[Andrew Sackville-West]

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there is 
a new version of acroread available. While this popup is considered 
annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this feature.


well, it must be lonely ;)

 Now
my question is 'Is there any software in Debian which performs a similar 
functionality?'


cron-apt runs a regular cronjob that gets new packages and can even be 
configured to install them automatically (bad idea!). You could 
certainly configure it, I imagine, to email you when there is new 
versions to install. With a little hacking you could wrap each of your 
program startups in a script to grep the output of cron-apt for changes 
relevant to itself but...


For example, when I open a file with gvim, I would like to have a pop up 
saying that "there is a new version of gvim available in the 
repositories". It need not give options to install the software. But if 
it does that, it would be super! Any ideas/suggestions are most welcome. 
FYI, I am using unstable branch.


... I think this would be a nightmare. There are routinely so many 
updates in unstable that you'd spend more time clicking through anooying 
 pop-ups about updates than anything else. However, something like 
described above would certainly work for a handful of apps that you use 
a lot and like to keep fully updated...


my .02

A


thanks
raju




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Re: excludes list

[Brad Sims]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 2:24 am, Chinook wrote:
> In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I 
> need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data 
> that is not needed.
> 
> For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /proc, 
> /home//tmp
>   but not /dev, /etc, /var, /home (other than /tmp and known 
> fluff), /root and /opt.
> 
> Been googling around for more than over generalizations but have not 
> done so well yet :-)
> 
> Any comments, urls, etc would be appreciated.

Well presuming you are using rsync create a file named something like
Exclude_List. Exclude_List contains each directory to be excluded on a
separate line. When you call rsync add ` --exclude-from=$exclude_file_name.

Here is a link to the script I use to rsync my hardrive to an external usb HD.
http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Backup_Script.html
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notification of updates

[kamaraju kusumanchi]

In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there is 
a new version of acroread available. While this popup is considered 
annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this feature. Now 
my question is 'Is there any software in Debian which performs a similar 
functionality?'


For example, when I open a file with gvim, I would like to have a pop up 
saying that "there is a new version of gvim available in the 
repositories". It need not give options to install the software. But if 
it does that, it would be super! Any ideas/suggestions are most welcome. 
FYI, I am using unstable branch.


thanks
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Re: kpilot not syncing addresses and todos [FIXED kinda]

[Chris Howie]

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Chris Howie wrote:
> Sorry for revising this so soon, but it turns out that the calendar seems to 
> be
> completely unsynchronized.  The first sync or so saw some data transfer, but
> now changes on either device are not noticed by the other.  Todos are simply
> clobbered with the data on the Palm.

While I'm ranting and filling the mailing list with meaningless drivel, I may
as well explain what I found.

The non-syncing was kind of a red herring.  There seems to be a lot of
illogical stuff going on under the hood.  For some reason, if I modify an event
with Korganizer and only add recurrence, there's a good change the Palm won't
notice.  Solution?  Turn recurrence off on the PC copy and sync.  Then turn
recurrence on on the Palm copy and sync.  Poof, magic.  Magic in the sense of a
card trick that a 6-year old knows.

Todos are slightly more obvious, but still broken.  If the calendar does not
contain any todos, kpilot assumes that it hasn't been synced yet.  So if I
purge my todos, kpilot happily restores them from the palm.  I was able to
confirm this by manually deleting all of the todos except one and syncing.  The
Palm noticed this (or rather, kpilot did) and the todos were removed from the
Palm.  I deleted the last todo on the PC and synced, and it reappeared on the
PC.  Remove it on the Palm, sync, and it's gone.

Woot.

So unless anyone has some other ideas of why this is happening, I intend to
file a bug on this tonight.

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Re: trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

[Chris Howie]

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Paul:

Exim should be set up and configured to provide a sendmail facility.  More
likely is the case that your ISP blocks outbound SMTP connections, and you
haven't configured Exim to use a smarthost to deliver mail.

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Re: trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

[Ron Johnson]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 22:22 +, Paul Scott wrote:
> I have tried twice to report the following bug with reportbug but it is 
> clearly not going out because sendmail is not configured on my system 
> since I use Thunderbird for email.  I am including the bug report here 
> because I don't know when I will have time to do this correctly and the 
> bug should probaby be reported.  When I sent it in another form to 
> bugs.debian.org they said it would be filed as junk because:

$ man reportbug

Look for the option that configures reportbug.

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Re: kpilot not syncing addresses and todos

[Chris Howie]

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Chris Howie wrote:
> If I make a change on the Palm, it's copied to the PC when I sync.  Any 
> changes
> made on the PC are inexplicably lost.  Yes, I'm saving after editing in
> korganizer.  Yes, kpilot is set to synchronize and ask me if there's a 
> conflict.

Sorry for revising this so soon, but it turns out that the calendar seems to be
completely unsynchronized.  The first sync or so saw some data transfer, but
now changes on either device are not noticed by the other.  Todos are simply
clobbered with the data on the Palm.

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trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

[Paul Scott]

I have tried twice to report the following bug with reportbug but it is 
clearly not going out because sendmail is not configured on my system 
since I use Thunderbird for email.  I am including the bug report here 
because I don't know when I will have time to do this correctly and the 
bug should probaby be reported.  When I sent it in another form to 
bugs.debian.org they said it would be filed as junk because:


Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (in the
pseudo-header following the real mail header), or didn't have a
pseudo-header at all.  Your message has been filed under junk but
otherwise ignored.


Paul Scott

Subject: nanourl stops apache2
X-Mailer: reportbug 3.18
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:03:49 +

Package: nanourl
Version: 0.1-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


I noticed apache2 was not running.  The error message on trying to 
restart apache2 led me to

Bug#339323: apache2-common:

Looking at that bug report and  /etc/init.d/apache2 I tried 
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl which told me
there was an error in the nanourl script.  (This may be due to the fact 
that I don't have mysql

installed on this machine).

I uninstalled nanourl and apache2 started working.

Considering this worthy of a bug investigation I reinstalled nanourl.  


Now /etc/init.d/apache2 gives me:

Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server...grep: 
/etc/apache2/conf.d/nanourl: No such file or directory

... failed!

Removing nanourl allows apache2 to run again.

Paul Scott


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 APT prefers unstable
 APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
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Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages nanourl depends on:
ii  apache2   2.0.55-3   next generation, scalable, 
extenda

ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [apache2] 2.0.55-3   traditional model for Apache2
ii  mysql-client  4.1.15-1   mysql database client 
(transitiona

ii  mysql-client-4.1 [mysql-clien 4.1.15-1   mysql database client binaries
ii  php4  4:4.4.0-4  server-side, HTML-embedded 
scripti

ii  php4-mysql4:4.4.0-4  MySQL module for php4

nanourl recommends no packages.

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kpilot not syncing addresses and todos

[Chris Howie]

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Now that I've got my palm working, kpilot is being very... uhh, what's the
word... well, stupid comes to mind.

If I make a change on the Palm, it's copied to the PC when I sync.  Any changes
made on the PC are inexplicably lost.  Yes, I'm saving after editing in
korganizer.  Yes, kpilot is set to synchronize and ask me if there's a conflict.

I have tried purging all kpilot related config files (rm -frv
~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot; rm -fv ~/.kde/share/config/kpilot*) and starting
over.  That appeared to help.  It did, for exactly one sync, and only with
calendar events.  If I delete a bunch of todos on the PC, they are restored
when I sync.

WTF?


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Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

[Clive Menzies]

On (29/12/05 21:07), Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 the mental interface of
> Clive Menzies told:
> 
> 
> >  where is autostart?
> 
> $ cat /etc/default/mdadm
> 
> # This file is automatically generated.
> # Run 'dpkg-reconfigure mdadm' to modify it.
> START_DAEMON=true
> MAIL_TO="root"
> AUTOSTART=true
> 
> which gives instructions to /etc/init.d/mdadm and
> /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid.
> 
> If you follow the instructions at dpkg-reconfigure mdadm all will be
> done.

Thanks :)

Regards

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Re: How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

[Alexis Huxley]

> How can I make the required index file(s) so that dselect will be
> happy with that collection and that subdirectory as a source of
> packages?

dpkg-scanpackages(1)

Alexis


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Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

[Ron Johnson]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:32 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
[snip]
> > 
> > You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special
> > table-of- content files, and put them all in a defined
> > directory structure.
> > 
> > mplayer and transcode (which comes in the mplayer package,
> > I think)
> > can do the conversion.  Don't remember, though, what
> > package will do the rest.
> > 
> > kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able
> > to do it, as onw of it's side functions.
> > 
> 
> The manual for my dedicated DVD player does not state that
> it supports the MPEG-2 format.
>   
> What is the native format of commercial movie DVD's that
> play on all standalone DVD players?  Would I be set if I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#DVD-Video
Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination of 
MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often
multi-channel formats as described below).

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Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

[ML]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:33 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A little while ago I posted a query on this camera.
> >
> > No answers.
> >
> > It turns out it is supported by gphoto2 w/o problems.
> >
> > However...
> > make sure that you set
> > CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
> > in your kernel. I did not do that and it will not be found without
 it. > >
>
> And another thing: when connecting the USB cable, make sure you have
 the > camera in *playback* mode. If you don't, there won't be any
 connection > and you'll be checking your cables all over the place, like
 I did. >
> You'll then see:
> kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
>
> and away you go...
>
> nice little camera.
>
> Thanks gphoto2!!!
>
> H


Thanks for that information Hugo, I don't have that camera, but it may also 
apply to others. It is kind of you to post this even though no one replied to 
your post, probably because they didn't know how to do what you discovered.

I for one appreciate this. It is very [sharing, co-operative] Linux like.
Thank you and all others who have done and do similarly,

Be well and have the best new year,
Charlie

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Re: Installing testing: can't get cable Internet after reboot

[Marty]

Edward C. Jones wrote:


How can I solve my problem?  Do I need to install dnsmasq on T? If so,
can I download it to K then copy it somewhere in T?


Take a incremental backup of T, noting which files which have changed 
since yesterday's daily backup, then restore T from yesterday's 
backup.  Now your system should be functional again.


Then go back to the list of changed files and play detective, working 
backwards in time until you find which change caused the failure.  If 
you don't understand the causal mechanism of the failure, post again 
to this list.


Finally, update all the changed files which are unrelated to the 
failure, and you're good to go.  :-)



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Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12 [FIXED]

[Chris Howie]

--- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> My palm connects on /dev/ttyUSB1. You'll note in
> your log that the visor 
> module grabs both 0 and 1, and there is a difference
> between the two, but 
> I forget what it is :)

Well gosh darn golly gee.  On my other palm, ttyUSB1
is the debugger nub.  Maybe for this specific model
they got swapped, or were recently swapped in the
kernel, or... who knows.

Anyway thanks, that was it.



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Re: kde : which repositories ?

[Bruno Costacurta]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:03, Chris Howie wrote:
> Bruno:
>
> If you are using etch (testing) or sid (unstable), the kde metapackage is
> broken, and will likely be for a while.  Install kdebase, then pull in the
> individual packages you want.

Chris, it's working. Thanks.
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How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

[Orange]

Hello.
I run Debian Linux, and use dselect to select and install packages.
I have a collection of about 1300 MB of my favorite required and
desired packages in a subdirectory -- everything needed for a full
system installation and then some, and would like to use that
collection as the source of packages for local network installations
where I use dselect to select and install a subset of those packages.

The big gotcha is that dselect does not see a useable index file
that somehow lists all of those packages.

How can I make the required index file(s) so that dselect will be
happy with that collection and that subdirectory as a source of
packages?

Thanks.


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Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

A little while ago I posted a query on this camera.

No answers.

It turns out it is supported by gphoto2 w/o problems.

However...
make sure that you set
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
in your kernel. I did not do that and it will not be found without it.



And another thing: when connecting the USB cable, make sure you have the 
camera in *playback* mode. If you don't, there won't be any connection 
and you'll be checking your cables all over the place, like I did.


You'll then see:
kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4

and away you go...

nice little camera.

Thanks gphoto2!!!

H


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Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

[Robert Glueck]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
>> I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov
>> format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a
>> standard
>> TV set.  The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17. 
>> It's able to play commercial movie DVD's, audio CD's,
>> finalized DVD+R's and DVD+RW's, and VCD's but it doesn't
>> support
>> DivX/XviD.  It also doesn't play CD's and DVD's which
>> contain avi, wmv and mov videos that I downloaded from
>> the web and burned on the Samsung CD/DVDW TS-H552U
>> burner/player in my computer.
>> 
>> Is there a way to convert these avi, wmv and mov files to
>> a format and on media that this dedicated DVD player can
>> handle?  I'm running Debian Sarge.
> 
> You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special
> table-of- content files, and put them all in a defined
> directory structure.
> 
> mplayer and transcode (which comes in the mplayer package,
> I think)
> can do the conversion.  Don't remember, though, what
> package will do the rest.
> 
> kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able
> to do it, as onw of it's side functions.
> 

The manual for my dedicated DVD player does not state that
it supports the MPEG-2 format.
  
What is the native format of commercial movie DVD's that
play on all standalone DVD players?  Would I be set if I
could convert my avi, wmv etc. files to that format and
then burn them to CD-R or DVD+R?  Is there any software
running under Linux that does this conversion?  I have VLC,
MPlayer, Xine and Noatun installed as media players - would
any of them do it?  Or would ffmpeg do it?

I also run Windows XP on this machine.  Would it make more
sense to use a Windows utility to perform this conversion? 
If so which one would be suitable?  Would "Cucusoft
Mpeg/Mov/RMVB/DivX/AVI to DVD/VCD/SVCD/MPEG converter Lite"
do it?  Is it any good?

Robert 


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Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

[Chris Howie]

--- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked
> correctly; what's the output 
> of:
> 
> ls -l /dev/pilot

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 7 2005-10-18 00:52 /dev/pilot
-> ttyUSB0

Of course I checked that.  =P




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Installing testing: can't get cable Internet after reboot

[Edward C. Jones]

I have a PC with an AMD64 chip. I have two disks with different versions 
of debian on them. The first system (which I will call "K") is Kanotix 
which I regularly update from Debian unstable. It has been working well 
for quite a while. The second system (which I will call "T") is Debian 
testing based on the 12/12/05 release on CDs. I select which system to 
boot in the hardware by using cables and jumpers for the drives. When K 
is booted, it can see T. I prefer to completely disconnect K when I am in T.


Both systems connect to the Internet using a cable modem connected to an 
ethernet board. I have had the following problem twice with sytem T: I 
install the system and it works for a while. I spend this time 
installing packages and running updates using aptitude and/or synaptic. 
This process involves a number of reboots of T. After one of these 
reboots, I cannot connect to the Internet. Afterwards, each time I 
reboot again, I have the same problem.


Here are some packages that might be relevant:

packageinstalled on
dh-makeK
dhcp-clientK  T
dhcp3-common   K
dhcp3-server   K
dnsmasqK
dnsutils   K  T
host   K
libdns20   K  T


The following line is in "ps ax" for both systems:
dhclient -e -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf 
/var/run/dhclient.eth0.leases e

This line occurs for K only:
/usr/sbin/dnsmasq -u dnsmasq

The first time I had the problem I solved it by reinstalling Debian. 
Ugh. The second time the bad boot happened after I had configured KDE.


How can I solve my problem? Do I need to install dnsmasq on T? If so, 
can I download it to K then copy it somewhere in T?


Anyone know how to turn Kanotix into pure Debian unstable?


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Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

[Andrew Perrin]

My palm connects on /dev/ttyUSB1. You'll note in your log that the visor 
module grabs both 0 and 1, and there is a difference between the two, but 
I forget what it is :)


Anyway, you could try using ttyUSB1 instead of 0.

Dec 25 20:38:14 joehill kernel: usb 1-1.2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Dec 25 20:38:14 joehill kernel: usb 1-1.2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
converter now attached to ttyUSB1



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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Chris Howie wrote:


--- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked
correctly; what's the output
of:

ls -l /dev/pilot


lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 7 2005-10-18 00:52 /dev/pilot
-> ttyUSB0

Of course I checked that.  =P




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Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 the mental interface of
Clive Menzies told:


>  where is autostart?

$ cat /etc/default/mdadm

# This file is automatically generated.
# Run 'dpkg-reconfigure mdadm' to modify it.
START_DAEMON=true
MAIL_TO="root"
AUTOSTART=true

which gives instructions to /etc/init.d/mdadm and
/etc/init.d/mdadm-raid.

If you follow the instructions at dpkg-reconfigure mdadm all will be
done.

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mini-dinstall

[José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández]

Is mini-dinstall supoused to copy/move the incoming packages from the incoming 
directory to the repository/archive ?
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Re: hosed disk usage stats

[Chris Howie]

Marty Landman wrote:
Worked like a charm, gotta read up on init - looks handy. Since df 
looked good before running fsck wonder if something I did recently 
messed up the display and just stopping my running processes fixed it?


Yeah that is kinda weird.  My best guess is that since the kernel tracks that 
information, somehow the cache got corrupted and simply remounting it forced 
the kernel to refresh its cache.


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[OT] MPEG2 on Windows (was Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:45, Ron Johnson wrote:
> kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do
> it, as onw of it's side functions.

Tangential on this topic, I encoded a movie from and AVI created by my 
digital camera on my Sarge box to MPEG2 to using Kino. It plays fine on 
all my systems, but I've sent it to friends, and they can't play it on 
their windows boxes... I wonder what MS has done to mess up that, it 
should be a no-brainer? It has to be their fault... :-) I don't have 
access to any windows-boxes now, has anybody else had this problem?

Cheers,

Kjetil
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Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

[Andrew Perrin]

My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked correctly; what's the output 
of:


ls -l /dev/pilot



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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Chris Howie wrote:


I have been trying for several days to get my palm to
sync over USB, with no success.  My system is running
debian etch with the stock 2.6.12 kernel
(linux-image-2.6.12-1-686) to be precise.

When I tell my palm to HotSync, dmesg displays the
expected output:

--- snip ---
ohci_hcd :00:02.1: wakeup
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 12
visor 2-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
detected
usb 2-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now
attached to ttyUSB0
usb 2-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now
attached to ttyUSB1
usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 12
visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
now disconnected from ttyUSB0
visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
now disconnected from ttyUSB1
--- snip ---

But pilot-xfer just hangs when trying to install
something:

--- snip ---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/palm/down$ pilot-xfer -i
PalmVNC.prc
  No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p  given.
  Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'


  Listening to port: /dev/pilot

  Please press the HotSync button now...
--- snip ---

I have used the same palm (Tungsten C) with the same
cradle on several other computers (Windows and Mac
boxen) and they seem to have no problem talking.  I
recall this not working either with the stock 2.6.8
kernel, but it *did* work with the 2.6.11 kernel.

Someone in #debian suggested that I make sure that the
bps settings on the pilot and the computer were set
correctly, and they were.  'cat /dev/ttyUSB0' shows
nothing.  I vaguely remember it displaying several
garbage characters back when it was working.

So at this point I don't even know what to ask aside
from "how do I get this working?"

Cheers.



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Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

[Matt England]

Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems:

Is this feasible?

I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary.

Are dynamic-library-management tricks needed?  Does the Debian testing 
authority (or whoever is given responsibility of anointing Debian releases 
for distribution) make any attempt at backwards compatibility for this kind 
of stuff?


As per similar motivation for my previous redhat-on-Debian binary porting 
conversation:  I'm hoping that one Debian build will work on many Debian 
systems.


Can I at least count on a Woody-built binary working ok on a Sarge-based 
system?  In this context, how far "back" can I go to get "forward" 
compatibility?  (ie, how many revs before Sarge can I go back to "build on" 
and still get Sarge compatibility?)


If there are reasons why the answer is "depends" instead of a flat "yes" or 
"no": I would love to know these reasons.  This is what I'm specifically 
hunting for.


-Matt


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Re: fstab problem

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Rodney Richison wrote:

Bill Marcum wrote:



On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:




Rodney Richison wrote:

  




Can any tell me why this works manually

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive

But this in fstab does not work



<< snipping>>





I guess it doesn't exist at boot up..  


I don't think this came up in the thread, but does it show up in dmesg 
at all? It should theoritcally show up a the same time as all the other 
disks.

It now works reliably with mount -a so I finally put a startup script
with nothing but mount -a in it.

Course, the problem with that is I can't let the system do a fsck on it
at boot up because the machine does't seem to see the drive util
later..   ??


so put a fsck in your script?






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Re: hosed disk usage stats

[Marty Landman]

At 12:18 PM 12/29/2005, Chris Howie wrote:


Try running fsck on the drive.  It usually goes something like this:

 # init 1
lots of crap while apps shut down


Including ssh. :) Console almost at arm's length though.


 # mount / -o remount,ro


Went well; for the heck of it I did a df right after mounting hda1 read 
only and it looked peachy.



 # fsck /dev/hda1
it will scan for errors


Found none.


 # df
make sure the output is what you expect
 # mount / -o remount,rw
 # init 2
stuff should start back up


Worked like a charm, gotta read up on init - looks handy. Since df looked 
good before running fsck wonder if something I did recently messed up the 
display and just stopping my running processes fixed it?


Thanks Chris.

Marty


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Firefox font support on Sarge

[Bill Moseley]

I just did a Sarge install and trying to get fonts up to where they
are on my Sid machines.   After the base install and installing
Firefox I noticed poor font support and often missing symbols.

I started blindly throwing font packages at it:

   msttcorefonts
   x-ttcidfont-conf
   gsfonts-x11

Which seems to fix most things.

Even after adding the above, I've been seeing a number of sites that
use   entity.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html

I have never understood fonts very well, so how do I figure what font
package a given symbol might be found in?  In other words, if
Firefox shows that little box indicating it didn't find a character,
how do I debug?  How do I determine what font Firefox is requesting
and where in the process it's failing?

In other words, I'm more interested in learning how to debug this than
how to fix it.

I assume in the above case of   that it's finding the correct
font, but that it's just that the symbol is not included.





 dpkg -l | grep font
ii  console-data   2002.12.04dbs- Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback table
ii  console-tools  0.2.3dbs-56Linux console and font utilities
ii  defoma 0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config
ii  fontconfig 2.3.1-2generic font configuration library
ii  gsfonts8.14+v8.11+urw Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii  gsfonts-x110.17   Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11
ii  latex-xft-font 0.1-5  Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX fonts
ii  libconsole 0.2.3dbs-56Shared libraries for Linux console and font 
ii  libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2generic font configuration library (shared l
ii  libfreetype6   2.1.7-2.4  FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libt1-55.0.2-3Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
ii  libxft14.3.0.dfsg.1-1 FreeType-based font drawing library for X (v
ii  libxft22.1.7-1FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii  msttcorefonts  1.2Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
ii  x-ttcidfont-co 17 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X
ii  xfonts-100dpi  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi   4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 75 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-base4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 standard fonts for X
ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 scalable fonts for X
ii  xfs4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X font server

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Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

[Manaen Schlabach]

Sorry about that Gmail has some strange defaults in its web interface.
 How to send stuff in plain text isn't readily apparent and neither is
the reply to all button.

Regards


On 12/29/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
> > I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
> > on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
> > TV set.  The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17.  It's
> > able to play commercial movie DVD's, audio CD's, finalized
> > DVD+R's and DVD+RW's, and VCD's but it doesn't support
> > DivX/XviD.  It also doesn't play CD's and DVD's which
> > contain avi, wmv and mov videos that I downloaded from the
> > web and burned on the Samsung CD/DVDW TS-H552U
> > burner/player in my computer.
> >
> > Is there a way to convert these avi, wmv and mov files to a
> > format and on media that this dedicated DVD player can
> > handle?  I'm running Debian Sarge.
>
> You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special table-of-
> content files, and put them all in a defined directory structure.
>
> mplayer and transcode (which comes in the mplayer package, I think)
> can do the conversion.  Don't remember, though, what package will
> do the rest.
>
> kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do
> it, as onw of it's side functions.
>
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Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

[Clive Menzies]

On (29/12/05 18:59), Lars Staun Knudsen wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> > I just posted how I fixed this here:
> > 
> > add libata and ata_piix to /etc/modules
> 
> Nice, that did the trick. Plus it helps if you set autostart to
> true. :-)

 where is autostart?
> 
> BTW it works without loading "ata_piix", is that for your
> intel-chipset? For my centrino laptop i use a module called
> something like "piix".

I suspect so.

Glad it worked out; it's only taken me a year to find the solution,
although in truth, I didn't try very hard after I found a kernel that
worked out of the box :)

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Cannon PowerShot A410

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

A little while ago I posted a query on this camera.

No answers.

It turns out it is supported by gphoto2 w/o problems.

However...
make sure that you set
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
in your kernel. I did not do that and it will not be found without it.

H


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Re: kde : which repositories ?

[Chris Howie]

Bruno:

If you are using etch (testing) or sid (unstable), the kde metapackage is 
broken, and will likely be for a while.  Install kdebase, then pull in the 
individual packages you want.


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Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

[Lars Staun Knudsen]

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> I just posted how I fixed this here:
> 
> add libata and ata_piix to /etc/modules
> 
> YMMV

Nice, that did the trick. Plus it helps if you set autostart to
true. :-)

BTW it works without loading "ata_piix", is that for your
intel-chipset? For my centrino laptop i use a module called
something like "piix".

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Re: fstab problem

[Rodney Richison]

Bill Marcum wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
>  
>
>>Rodney Richison wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Can any tell me why this works manually
>>>
>>>mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive
>>>
>>>But this in fstab does not work
>>>
>>>/dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive  ext2defaults 1 1
>>>or this
>>>/dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive  ext2defaults 0 0
>>>or this
>>>/dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive  ext2defaults 1 2
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>A bit more info. This is debian sarge. No gui.
>>I chmod 777 /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and it finally mounted with mount -a
>>I then rebooted to make sure would mount.
>>It did not. And would not with mount -a
>>I then chmod /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and mount -a then would mount the drive.
>>
>>
>>
>Do the permissions of /mnt/idedrive (when hdc1 is unmounted) change?
>Is it possible that /dev/hdc1 does not exist at the time during bootup 
>that drives are mounted?
>Are you sure that /dev/hdc1 has an ext2 file system?
>
>  
>
I guess it doesn't exist at boot up..  
It now works reliably with mount -a so I finally put a startup script
with nothing but mount -a in it.

Course, the problem with that is I can't let the system do a fsck on it
at boot up because the machine does't seem to see the drive util
later..   ??


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Re: hosed disk usage stats

[Chris Howie]

Marty:

Try running fsck on the drive.  It usually goes something like this:

 # init 1
lots of crap while apps shut down
 # mount / -o remount,ro
if this fails at all, kill any processes that have files open for write 
on / then try again.  DO NOT run fsck if / is mounted read-write!

 # fsck /dev/hda1
it will scan for errors
 # df
make sure the output is what you expect
 # mount / -o remount,rw
 # init 2
stuff should start back up

Hope that works


Chris Howie



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Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

[Ron Johnson]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running courier IMAP using maildirs.  I would like to know what
> is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> than six months.
> 
> Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cron
> job?  What are others doing?
> 
> Thanks for your ideas.

Is this for a personal system or an ISP/company/email-host?

If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it!

If business, and you are telling users "Trash older than 180 days
will be automatically deleted", you should use the IMAP protocol
to do it.  The mailing list for the imapd that you use would be 
the place to ask the proper way to do it.

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Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

[Ron Johnson]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote:
> I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
> on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
> TV set.  The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17.  It's
> able to play commercial movie DVD's, audio CD's, finalized
> DVD+R's and DVD+RW's, and VCD's but it doesn't support
> DivX/XviD.  It also doesn't play CD's and DVD's which
> contain avi, wmv and mov videos that I downloaded from the
> web and burned on the Samsung CD/DVDW TS-H552U
> burner/player in my computer.
> 
> Is there a way to convert these avi, wmv and mov files to a
> format and on media that this dedicated DVD player can
> handle?  I'm running Debian Sarge.

You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special table-of-
content files, and put them all in a defined directory structure.

mplayer and transcode (which comes in the mplayer package, I think)
can do the conversion.  Don't remember, though, what package will
do the rest.

kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do
it, as onw of it's side functions.

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Re: Inetd vs. Xinetd

[Joseph Haig]

--- Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Simply put... being the relative newbie that I am, is there an
> advantage to 
> having the xinetd package rather than netkit-inetd? Currently, I have
> 
> netkit-inetd installed. Would I be better off removing it and
> installing 
> xinetd? 
> 
> Any insight is greatly appreciated.
> 

This is something I have been trying to find out myself as well.  I
have been told that inetd is insecure and not recommended, and I assume
that xinetd solves much of these security problems, although I have no
evidence to back this up (mainly because I have not been able to find
out what these problems are supposed to be (apart from DoS attacks,
which xinted claims to be able to avoid)).  The xinetd home page has a
faq that explains some of the main differences:

  

Hope this helps,

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Re: having problems installing raid

[Clive Menzies]

On (28/12/05 18:34), enediel gonzalez wrote:
> Hello
> I've 2 HD SATA Seagate of 80 GB each, and I need to make a fresh sarge's 
> installation with RAID1.
> If on the installation process I choose expert26 to select the module mdcfg 
> necessary to create the RAID, I got problems and finally I couldn't install 
> the basic sarge on them.
> 
> Moreover, ( with the same disks) doing a standard sarge installation with 
> automatic partition, both disk are recognized and sarge install itself on 
> one of them.
> 
> I'm using the procedure I used before to create a RAID1 on the same box, 
> with two SATA maxtor drives.

You might find this useful:

http://xtronics.com/reference/SATA-RAID-Debian.htm

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Re: Sofware RAID autostart

[Clive Menzies]

On (29/12/05 14:47), Lars Staun Knudsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm have two 120gb HD and decided to setup a software raid and mount 
> /home on the raid. The raid is created with mdadm and works fine. But 
> the raid doesn't start after reboot!
> I'm running Sarge with a standard 2.6.8-smp kernel and has writing "md" 
> and "raid1" in "/etc/modules" and created the 
> "/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf"-file (Allthough i've read that mdadm don't 
> depend of the conf-file.).
> 
> --- mdadm.conf
> DEVICE /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdh1
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
> UUID=4ce8f2eb:085f24ad:c2bcfbb0:980bfbac devices=/dev/hdh1,/dev/hdg1
> -
> 
> All i need to type after a reboot is "mdadm -As /dev/md0" then it mounts 
> perfectly. I could insert  "mdadm ..." in my startup script, but i would 
> prefer if it worked proper. Filetype has been set to "0xFD = Linux Raid 
> autodetect" with cfdisk.

I just posted how I fixed this here:

add libata and ata_piix to /etc/modules

YMMV

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Re: Mdadm raid1 "broken" after kernel upgrade - SOLVED!

[Clive Menzies]

On (29/12/05 15:33), Clive Menzies wrote:
> Update:
> 
> Both machines have the same modules loaded, however on the second
> machine (Venus), the SATA modules don't seem to get loaded until mdadm
> fails to find the array.



> I'm not sure where to go from here; I don't have the knowledge or skill
> to hack around this.  Can someone point me to how to get the scsi
> modules loaded earlier or should I file a bug against the kernel?

I surprised myself :)

adding libata and ata_piix modules to /etc/modules did the trick

 we live and learn; sorry for my premature cry for help :)

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Re: Mdadm raid1 "broken" after kernel upgrade.

[Clive Menzies]

On (21/12/05 16:43), Clive Menzies wrote:
> This isn't very helpful but I'm having the same problem.  I had a
> similar problem when setting up two identical servers about a year ago
> and found the 2.6.8-1-686 worked but 2.6.8-1-386 didn't.  FWIW the 2.4
> series kernel also worked.
> 
> I just upgraded to 2.6.8-2-686 and have to manually reassemble the RAID
> array with mdadm.  I found that the RAID modules hadn't been enabled in
> the new kernel but installing them didn't rectify the problem.  My next
> step is to look at the other related modules (SATA) to see if any of
> those are missing.

Update:

Both machines have the same modules loaded, however on the second
machine (Venus), the SATA modules don't seem to get loaded until mdadm
fails to find the array.

dmesg on the first machine (Mars) shows as follows:

SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.02 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.02
ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE802 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 185
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE002 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 185
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003
88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003
88:207f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : ata_piix
Using anticipatory io scheduler
  Vendor: ATA   Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0Rev: YAR5
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 05
  Vendor: ATA   Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0Rev: YAR5
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device :00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
UDMA(100)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 > 
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 1508936k swap on /dev/hda7.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Capability LSM initialized
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: md0 stopped.
md: bind
md: bind
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors


However, Venus shows:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device :00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
UDMA(100)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 >
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 1508936k swap on /dev/hda7.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform C

Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

[Chris Howie]

I have been trying for several days to get my palm to
sync over USB, with no success.  My system is running
debian etch with the stock 2.6.12 kernel
(linux-image-2.6.12-1-686) to be precise.

When I tell my palm to HotSync, dmesg displays the
expected output:

--- snip ---
ohci_hcd :00:02.1: wakeup
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 12
visor 2-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
detected
usb 2-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now
attached to ttyUSB0
usb 2-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now
attached to ttyUSB1
usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 12
visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
now disconnected from ttyUSB0
visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
now disconnected from ttyUSB1
--- snip ---

But pilot-xfer just hangs when trying to install
something:

--- snip ---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/palm/down$ pilot-xfer -i
PalmVNC.prc
   No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p  given.
   Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'


   Listening to port: /dev/pilot

   Please press the HotSync button now...
--- snip ---

I have used the same palm (Tungsten C) with the same
cradle on several other computers (Windows and Mac
boxen) and they seem to have no problem talking.  I
recall this not working either with the stock 2.6.8
kernel, but it *did* work with the 2.6.11 kernel.

Someone in #debian suggested that I make sure that the
bps settings on the pilot and the computer were set
correctly, and they were.  'cat /dev/ttyUSB0' shows
nothing.  I vaguely remember it displaying several
garbage characters back when it was working.

So at this point I don't even know what to ask aside
from "how do I get this working?"

Cheers.



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Re: reinstalling config files

[Steve Kemp]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:38:28AM -0400, Steve Mallett wrote:

> This didn't help.  While "dpkg --purge apache2" reported that it was
> purging apache2.. "apt-get install apache2" didn't reinstall the need
> files under /etc/apache2 & don't appear anywhere else that I see.

  Probably the files are included in another package, I'd guess
 apache2-common.

  Run:

  apt-get install --reinstall apache2
  apt-get install --reinstall apache2-common

  That should fix it.

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Re: reinstalling config files

[Steve Mallett]

On 12/20/05, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> * Steve Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051220 19:01]:
>
> > I was having trouble getting php4/apache2 to play nice on Sarge, apt-get
> > removed then, which left the apche config files.  stupidly I rm -rf'd
> > apache2 & can't install apache2's config files.  apt-get install --reinstall
> > apche2 does not work.

>
>
> > Help appreciated in advance.
>
> Purging the packages finally should help.  You can do this by running
> "dpkg --purge $package_name".  If you don't know the names of the
> packages you need to purge, you can search for removed packages, which
> have stil configuration filesinstalled by "dpkg -l|grep ^rc".

This didn't help.  While "dpkg --purge apache2" reported that it was
purging apache2.. "apt-get install apache2" didn't reinstall the need
files under /etc/apache2 & don't appear anywhere else that I see.


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Using par2

[David Garamond]

I found out about par2 a few days ago and I think it's absolutely
great. And I think I've grasped the basic concept. But does anyone
know how to use par2 to accomplish the following:

Suppose I have 5000MB of data. That's a bit over 7 CDs (or 1 DVD). Can
I backup this data to, like, 10 CDs or alternatively 3 DVDs, *and* be
able to recover the original data using any 8 of the CDs (or any 2 of
the DVDs). So if I lose up to 2 random CDs of the CD set, or 1 random
DVD of the DVD set, I can still fully recover the whole data?

Regards,
dave


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-T / --files-from option for du?

[David Garamond]

I intend to suggest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about adding a tar-like
-T / --files-from option to du. But does anyone agree that such option
is needed/desirable? Suppose I have 9000 files and I want to know the
total disk usage of 4500 of them. The file names don't have any common
patterns (so we can't use --exclude) and are longish, so specifying
them as arguments results in the shell complaining 'argument list too
long'. I can't split into several du invocation or just total the file
sizes because some files might be cross-linked and there might be
sparse files.

Sure, we can use -X / --exclude-from, but shouldn't we have -T /
--files-from too, for convenience?

Regards,
dave


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Sofware RAID autostart

[Lars Staun Knudsen]

Hi

I'm have two 120gb HD and decided to setup a software raid and mount 
/home on the raid. The raid is created with mdadm and works fine. But 
the raid doesn't start after reboot!
I'm running Sarge with a standard 2.6.8-smp kernel and has writing "md" 
and "raid1" in "/etc/modules" and created the 
"/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf"-file (Allthough i've read that mdadm don't 
depend of the conf-file.).


--- mdadm.conf
DEVICE /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdh1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
UUID=4ce8f2eb:085f24ad:c2bcfbb0:980bfbac devices=/dev/hdh1,/dev/hdg1

-

All i need to type after a reboot is "mdadm -As /dev/md0" then it mounts 
perfectly. I could insert  "mdadm ..." in my startup script, but i would 
prefer if it worked proper. Filetype has been set to "0xFD = Linux Raid 
autodetect" with cfdisk.


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hosed disk usage stats

[Marty Landman]

Newbie here. Have Woody running on a P166 w/ 48MB ram and 4GB hd. Major 
apps running ok - htdig, apache, samba. But when I look at disk usage get this:


UNCLELEO:/home/marty# df
Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1-566353887454 1 0  74% /
UNCLELEO:/home/marty#


and


UNCLELEO:/home/marty# df -aP
Filesystem 1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda11 1 1  80% /
proc 0 0 0   -  /proc
UNCLELEO:/home/marty#


What's advisable to do next?


Marty


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Re: Problem about soundcard fail to work after a power failure.

[Florian Kulzer]

haoniukun wrote:

I have a create SB 5.1 soundcard with the chip emu10k1x.
The soundcard worked excellently for me before the power failure.
But after a power failure this afternoon, it doesn't work for me.:(
Message at the boot time indicates that alsa fail to initialize with error code 
-5.
Will some help me with this?
Do I have to recompile my kernel.
My present kernel is compiled by myself.
Maybe some old file still exists caused my soundcard's malfunction.


Which version of the kernel are you using? Are you on Debian Unstable?

I have noticed myself that the alsa initscripts no longer work 100% with
my "old" 2.6.12 kernel, even though they worked fine when 2.6.12 was the
newest kernel in Debian Sid. With the 2.6.14 kernel everything works
nicely. My guess is that there were some udev-related changes to the
alsa scripts which rely on some features of kernel 2.6.14. (I did not
investigate this any further, since I nowadays only boot into the 2.6.12
kernel briefly when I want to install a newly-compiled version of
2.6.14)

Therefore I would say that updating your kernel (and maybe also the rest
of your system) might solve your problem. Before doing that you can try
"dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base" and "dpkg-reconfigure alsa-utils" and see
what happens.

There is also the remote possibility that the power failure has
corrupted your file system. However, modern file systems such as ext3 or
reiser are pretty resilient to this, therefore I would guess that the
power failure was only the occasion for you to notice this problem since
it caused a reboot.

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Re: exim4 behaves strange

[Gregory Seidman]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:01:00PM +0100, Michael Przysucha wrote:
} I have a problem with my exim4 deamon. It is configured to relay with
} SMTP-Auth. Yesterday everything was fine but over night the following
} behaviour started to occur with every message:
[...]
} 2005-12-29 11:53:58 1ErvPv-JF-9A Spool file is locked (another process is 
handling this message)

This is your issue. It looks like it somehow got confused. You should
/etc/init.d/exim4 stop before anything else. Now check ps to see if any
mail-related processes are running. These could be mail readers (pine? it
looks like you sent this message with Opera...) or another exim4 process.
The spool file that is locked may be your own user spool, in which case it
is likely to be a mail reader that got confused. Close down any
mail-related processes you find. Look for a lock file in /var/mail or
/var/spool/exim4/* and delete them if you find them. (This should be safe
since you have no mail-related processes running.) Run exim4 -bp to take a
look at the mail queue. Try running exim4 -qff to process messages in the
queue, and run exim4 -bpc in another terminal as it runs to watch the queue
size (which should diminish). Once the queue run is done, start up exim4
again with /etc/init.d/exim4 start.

[...]
} Thanks in advance,
} Michael Przysucha
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Re: 3d acceleration (Mach 64 ATI rage pro)

[David Baron]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 05:33, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >There are debian packages which are more up-to-date than those sited
> > above. Add to your sources.list:
> >#new DRI locations?
> >deb http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./
> >deb-src http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./
> >
> >There are three packages: One is has the dri drivers similar to those
> > cited above. There is a script to build them over Debian kernel-headers
> > or follow the instructions cited in the article. The second has the mesa
> > dri-trunk libraries to connect this stuff and the third has an Xorg. This
> > Xorg is compiled to enable mach64--stock Xorg does not work. This Xorg
> > will install over existing Xfree installations and (follow the
> > instructions) will work no sweat.
> >
> >These packages were supposed superceded by newer Xorg and mesa packages.
> > The more recent Xorg will NOT work.
> >  
>
> Thanks everyone for the responses.  I added the above to my sources
> list, and installed xlibmesa-gl1-trunk, and xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk,
> which also resulted in some other packages being installed.  I've
> rebooted, and, when I run glxgears, I get similar speeds, but now
> without the warning, . . .

One more package, the "drm". This contains the sources. If you have 
"kernel-headers" (as opposed to the now "linux-headers") installed, there 
will be a little script to build them for you. Otherwize, go the the 
"linux-core" subdirectory, read the Makefile for instructions. Make mach64.o 
with appropriate reference to your kernel sources, LINUXDIR= if I remember. 
Copy the two resulting mach64.ko and drm.ko to the appropriate place in 
your /lib/modules/kernel  (there may be a drm.ko there but that one will 
not work--you can locate that to find the place, though).

Now make sure agpgart and mach64 modprobe in this order on bootup.

UPnP - Server in Debian

[Christof Hurschler]

I posted a similar message a while back but got no response.  Maybe there has 
been some progress in this area.

I want to use a streaming client to play music from my Debian server.  The 
client uses the UPnP protocol.

Has anyone set up a UPnP media server on a Debian machine?  I`ve tried getting 
the TwonkyMedia server running, but the install script doesn`t semm to like 
Debian.

Thanks for any suggestions.

C


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Re: remove unneeded modules at boot?

[Alexis Huxley]

> dmesg(8) mentions some modules etc. (?) that I probably don't use but
> are perhaps included in the stock 2.6 kernel:

See
http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/computing/ahdg/ahdg/ahdgse44.html#x124-660007.14

Alexis


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Re: How to build RHEL software to run on Debian?

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0600, Matt England wrote:
> I'm a software developer, and I would like one set of software binaries 
> (applications, libraries) to be able to run across many Linux platforms, 
> including FedoraCore, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Debian (much the same 
> way XAMPP -- http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html -- claims that its 
> one Linux binary distribution runs on all SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake, and 
> Debian).
> 
> What sort of things must I do as a developer to do this?
> 
Three different distributions: three different versions of libraries,
compilers and so on. Static linking may be one answer: a package
installer script which unpacks and builds a tar.gz on the distribution
natively may be another :(

> Should I carry as many of the dynamically-linked libraries around with my 
> distribution?  Should these include libc/glibc in my own distribution set?
> 
NO. Use the distribution's packaged libraries. 

> Anything else?
> 
Be aware that Red Hat and Debian have fractionally different init
scripts and run levels. A little reading should help clarify the
differences.

> Is this a worthwhile endeavor?  Have people tried this before?  Obviously 
> it appears to be a key point for XAMPP (per above) and I suspect many more 
> software sets.  It sure would be nice for my project to have one binary for 
> many systems--it really cuts down on my build-control logistics.
> 
Build for several different distributions in one machine by using
VMWare/QEmu / chroots? This saves machines, guarantees that you are 
running the builds on the same hardware and provides you with each
distributions versions of gcc/glibc/autoconf etc. etc.

Which RH EL are you targetting and which Fedora Core (that's potentially
two Red Hats and two or three Core's :( )

> I'm just getting started in this investigation.  I may be posting to 
> several different Linux communities (newsgroups, email lists, forums, 
> etc).   I started with the Debian community because I have a build 
> environment on RHEL, and am porting to Debian.
> 
A cautionary tale: even eminently good software, if it's not in the
mainstream and well packaged will fail. In 1996 or so, the best HTML editor
I'd come across was asWedit - East European programmer, free for
non-commercial use but with an odd licence for commercial purposes. The
gentleman even went so far as to package a .deb.  The last update to
anything was in 1999 - virtually every mirror which carried it is now
lost and the website no longer exists. Advasoft still apparently exists
in Hatch End in London - but with no product. The .deb is now
uninstallable. This, at least in part, because the owner wanted to keep
all packaging to himself. 

If the software you are suggesting is under an obscure commercial license, 
then it possibly can't go in Debian main - which means that many people 
won't run it automatically: if it's free (in Debian Free Software
Guidelines free), you stand a better chance. 

Find a Debian maintainer to work with you: ditto someone from OpenSUSE 
(or however its capitalized this month) - that way at least you have a 
collaborator to iron out local difficulties. 10% of packaging / library
placement oddities can mean more than 90% of work to remain cross
distribution compatible.

HTH,

Andy
>  Thanks for any help.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> ps: I am very familiar and have over a decade of experience with managing 
> software projects that make portable code across 8 different unix variants, 
> VMS, and several Windows flavors.  Therefore, I'd like this discussion to 
> focus primarily on how to make the *binaries* portable and not the _code_ 
> portable.  Thanks.
> 
> 
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Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

[Richard Lyons]

On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at  1:26:59 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Chinook wrote:
> >Marc Shapiro wrote:
> >
> >>Robert Glueck wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
> >>>on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
> >>>TV set.  
> >>
> >>
> >>I'd like to play them on Sarge.  Just today I clicked on a .mov file 
> >>and was asked if I wanted to use the default program (gmplayer).  I 
> >>said yes, but after it DL'd the file it complained that it could not 
> >>find the proper codec (I don't remember, now, which codec it was 
> >>looking for). Is there some place to get the proper codecs to make 
> >>these work.  If so, where is it?  If not, why give a default player 
> >>that can not actually play the file?
> >>
> >
> >
> >You might both look at VLC in your package app, or see
> >http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> 
> I just tried it on the .mov file from above.  The video played just 
> fine, but there was no audio at all.  I checked the preferences, made 
> sure that audio was enabled and the sound was turned all the way up. 
> Still no sound.  I normally do get sound on this box.  

I had something similar a couple of days ago, watching a DVD.  vlc has
an 'audio' menu, IIRC, containing mono, stereo and something else. It
was defaulting every time to the something else, and clicking on stereo
switched the sound on.

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exim4 behaves strange

[Michael Przysucha]

Hello,
I have a problem with my exim4 deamon. It is configured to relay with 
SMTP-Auth. Yesterday everything was fine but 
over night the following behaviour started to occur with every message:

2005-12-29 11:53:52 no host name found for IP address 192.168.1.1
2005-12-29 11:53:55 1ErvPv-JF-9A <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(mp45) 
[192.168.1.1] P=smtp S=961
2005-12-29 11:53:58 Start queue run: pid=1192
2005-12-29 11:53:58 1ErvPv-JF-9A Spool file is locked (another process is 
handling this message)
2005-12-29 11:53:58 End queue run: pid=1192

The Mails will not be sent even if they are within the pool for over 5 hours! 
does anyone have an idea what is wrong? 
Config-file and username/pw for relaying are ok!

Thanks in advance,
Michael Przysucha
(Germany)





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Problem about soundcard fail to work afte r a power failure.

[haoniukun]

Dear all debian users,
 
I have a create SB 5.1 soundcard with the chip emu10k1x.
The soundcard worked excellently for me before the power failure.
But after a power failure this afternoon, it doesn't work for me.:(
Message at the boot time indicates that alsa fail to initialize with error code -5.
Will some help me with this?
Do I have to recompile my kernel.
My present kernel is compiled by myself.
Maybe some old file still exists caused my soundcard's malfunction.
 
Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.
 
Sincerely,
Kun

	
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Re: Evolution

[Gert Brinkmann]

Mitja wrote:

> I have GNOME and I use a KMail (thanks for help) as a mailer. I tried to 
> uninstall Evolution but in this case Synaptics want to remove gnome and gnome 
> control center. It is possible to remove it, please?

Are you sure, that the control center wants to be removed? In my case
only "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment" are removed (debian/sid).
These are meta packages only and can be removed with no harm.

Gert


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Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

[Tiago Pedrosa]

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Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Chinook wrote:
> > Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > 
> >> Robert Glueck wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
> >>> on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
> >>> TV set.  
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd like to play them on Sarge.  Just today I clicked on a .mov
> >> file and was asked if I wanted to use the default program
> >> (gmplayer).  I said yes, but after it DL'd the file it complained
> >> that it could not find the proper codec (I don't remember, now,
> >> which codec it was looking for). Is there some place to get the
> >> proper codecs to make these work.  If so, where is it?  If not,
> >> why give a default player that can not actually play the file?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > You might both look at VLC in your package app, or see
> > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> 
> I just tried it on the .mov file from above.  The video played just 
> fine, but there was no audio at all.  I checked the preferences, made 
> sure that audio was enabled and the sound was turned all the way up. 
> Still no sound.  I normally do get sound on this box.  Is there 
> something else that I am missing?  If you need more information, just 
> let me know.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
Hi ;
I think that the problem could be codecs, you should install
w32codecs.
This package is in the mirror of marillat the same of mplayer.

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