Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

[Erik Steffl]

  Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the 
one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading 
files (it's probably used in other places as well).


  The dialog has two parts - left part has shortcut to user home dir, 
desktop and filesystem, right side has list of files/directories.


  it is not possible to just write in the file (like it is common with 
other file open/save dialogs) which is VERY annoying, e.g. if I want to 
open a text file using gvim I have to figure out where gvim is and click 
all the way there, instead of just typing gvim (and assume it's in path).


  is there any way to configure these? are these standard gnome file 
open dialogs?


  TIA,

erik


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Re: Perl Programming within Debian

[Erik Steffl]

David Baron wrote:
... perl discussion snipped ...
With Windows, we bought a nice debugger--any one know of such a beast GPLed 
under Linux? Being able to watch those vairables was a life-saver. A decent 
IDE would be nice as well (For using .net, one has Microsoft's Visual Studion 
in Windows--result can run in linux using mono). 


  there's ddd (apt-get install ddd) which is a GUI frontend for other 
debuggers, for perl it uses perl itself (perl has build-in debugger), 
it's fairly intuitive (in a sense that it has menus and dialogs for all 
common debugger functionality) and also gives you direct access to perl 
debugger.


  as far as IDE goes - xterms, vim or gvim (emacs?), etags etc. (as far 
as I can tell IDEs are mostly for environments where you don't have 
tools that play well together and no _good_ window managers)


erik


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Re: RE: Update Your Account Information [Qurb #668742]

[Henrik Enberg]

Paul Bransford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is this spam or a legitimate message?

It's not spam in the sense that it is an unsolicitated commercial
message, but it is ceartanly spam in every other sense.  One can only
hope that the list-master kicks the offender off the list.

Here's a good read about why challenge-response anti-spam systems blow.



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Re: mounting the minimum

[gustavo halperin]

Rob Sims wrote:

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:11:20AM +0200, gustavo halperin wrote:
  

Hello

I have some kernel-modules questions:
After the linux  SO was started, can I check which modules of 
"/etc/modules" was successfully mounted and aren't in use?
Second, if I know the modules that aren't in use, Is OK if I remove 
them from "/etc/modules" and mount them after the boot time using some 
script or manually as root ?



Just try rmmod modname; it won't remove modules in use.  It's OK to
manually load modules later, but why would you want to?
  

Just in order to reduce the boot time of the system.

 
  
Last question: there are any way to have a "/etc/modules" file 
corresponding to each kernel and her modules ?



Looking at /etc/init.d/module-init-tools:
KVER=$(uname -r)
KMAJ=${KVER%${KVER#*.*[^.]}}
KMAJ=${KMAJ%.}

if [ -e /etc/modules-$KVER ]; then
  MODULES_FILE=/etc/modules-$KVER
elif [ -e /etc/modules-$KMAJ ]; then
  MODULES_FILE=/etc/modules-$KMAJ
else
  MODULES_FILE=/etc/modules
fi
  


Thank you a lot,
   Gustavo


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Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

[Steve Mazurek]

Exactly right.  I never thought I'd get this sort of thing in a Linux group!

--Steve Mazurek

On 1/3/07, Gary Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Check out a couple of not so on topic entries.

exacting Schooolgirls doinng splendiferous suckiing. susan  12/30/2006
2:00PM

and

YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS OF $15.5MMike Dana Will  01/02/2007  4:30AM

Im not exactly a prude but it does clutter up the group. The advertising
just drives me crazy.

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Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:27:36PM -0300, Alejandro wrote:
> 
> 2) Some people say if I use SSH version 2, I have to use an 
> *authorized_keys2* file instead of an *authorized_keys* file...is it OK
> ???
> 
This is only true for the ssh.com proprietary ssh server.  The openssh
server does not require this, but I think it might look there just for
the sake of compatibility.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Re: Problem configure Bind9

[Paul Johnson]

Christian Maier wrote:

> I have installed bind9 and for now I have trouble configuring it. I
> have done all steps discribed in some tuts. Digging google for exapmle
> works pretty good (forwarders are ok I think) but digging example.com
> fails.

I hope you're not actually trying to do this against example.com literally;
that could be part of your problem if you're doing this as an exercise. 
Hiding what zone you're having trouble with isn't going to help you
security-wise and only makes it harder to troubleshoot since we can't see
what you're seeing without knowing the zone you're having problems with.


> // Do not modify the following lines!
> 2006081401
> 28800
> 3600
> 604800
> 38400
>  )

The serial should always be changed every edit.  Reccommended format is
mmddss where ss is the serial (first edit 00, second edit 01, third
edit 02, etc for each day).  The serial number can be any integer larger
than what it was the last time you edited the zone.  I suggest looking up
and labelling the other values with some comments for your own use later;
they effect how long information from your zone remains cached by other
name servers when they check your zone on behalf of other hosts.
 
>  INNS localhost.
> 1INPTRexample.com

Probably should be...

1   IN  PTR example.com.

...because the trailing period is important.  You'll also need...

$ORIGIN 0.168.192.

...at the top of the file.  As you have it right now, that line can't
resolve to anything sane.  Without the . it's going to try to tack on
the zone name, and without the $ORIGIN, it won't know how to complete
the IP at the beginning.  I would hazard to guess as you have it right
now that if you did a reverse lookup on "1" you would get
"example.com.0.168.192" or something similarly nonsensical.


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Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

[Alejandro]

Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:50:40PM -0300, Alejandro wrote:
  

People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and
then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the
linux ssh server. After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit
rootlogin no and the correct path to the authorized_keys file. But when
I execute from the client "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" it doesn't enter and the
password banner is showed. Here I put my debugs from ssh client and
server and my sshd_config file from the serverI REALLY THANKS YOUR
COMMENTS !!!




Example:

Try setting up a normal user first - check whether that works.
Example commands are indented in what follows. Comments are mostly
in []

As user pele change to your home directory on the first machine 
(here called cerca) then


ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048

[Follow the prompts: don't use a passphrase. This should generate 
a pair of keys id_rsa and id_rsa.pub


cd /home/pele/.ssh

touch authorized_keys

chmod 0600 authorized_keys

Follow the same procedure on the other machine (here called lejos).

On machine cerca:

cd /home/pele/.ssh

scp lejos:/home/pele/.ssh/id_dsa.pub ./id_dsa.pubLEJOS

[This copies the file you need from the other machine and names it so 
you can tell where it comes from. At this point, you may need to use 
passwords]


scp ./id_dsa.pub lejos:/home/pele/.ssh/id_dsa.pubCERCA

[Copying the public RSA key from the machine you are on to the distant 
machine]


cat id_dsa.pubLEJOS >> authorized_keys

[Copy the public RSA key from the distant machine and 
append it to the authorized_keys file on your local machine]


[Now copy the key into the appropriate place on the distant machine and 
append it to the authorized_keys file there. ]


ssh lejos

cd /home/pele/.ssh

cat id_dsa.pubCERCA >> authorized_keys

[Check that an ssh connection works in both directions:
[On cerca]

ssh lejos

[On lejos]

ssh cerca

should both work immediately.

Now do the same with keys for root, if you want to. If you only want one 
user to have effective root privilege - append the id_dsa.pub for root 
on the machine to the end of his /.ssh/authorized_keys file


Hope this helps,

Andy


  
Andy, your example is very helpul to me...tomorow I'll follow your 
steps. But let me ask these two last questions:


1) What are the lines I should setup in /etc/ssh/sshd_config from the 
server side  Just *AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys* or 
what else ???


2) Some people say if I use SSH version 2, I have to use an 
*authorized_keys2* file instead of an *authorized_keys* file...is it OK

???

Thanks a lot and greetings,

alejandro.-


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Re: Annoying beep!

[John O'Hagan]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:50, Colin wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > That got covered a while ago here.
> > I think it is as much as rmmod pcspkr
>
> It would be better to blacklist pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d

Agreed, except that as of 2.6.18, this does not work anymore (for me at 
least).

Regards,

John


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Re: Annoying beep!

[Colin]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> That got covered a while ago here.
> I think it is as much as rmmod pcspkr

It would be better to blacklist pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d


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Re: Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

[hendrik]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> kawanokami wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I want to buy an 7 Port USB2 Powered Hub HU-5770 (I've a laptop and
> > need the added usb ports). Currently, I'm using debian testing/unstable
> > on a 2.6.18 kernel and found no info about drivers or linux support on
> > the Trust site. Is it a safe purchase or am I going to face problems?
> 
> If you have USB, you can use a hub.  In fact, all USB controllers have a hub
> built in, even.

I once had a powered USB hub that worked pergectly with Kinux, but 
prevented Windows from working.  I was told that Windows had flaky 
drivers that had trouble with powered hubs.

-- hendrik


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Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

[Douglas Tutty]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:02:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:50:40PM -0300, Alejandro wrote:
> > People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and
> > then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the
> > linux ssh server. After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit
> > rootlogin no and the correct path to the authorized_keys file. But when
> > I execute from the client "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" it doesn't enter and the
> > password banner is showed. Here I put my debugs from ssh client and
> > server and my sshd_config file from the serverI REALLY THANKS YOUR
> > COMMENTS !!!
> > 
 
There's also a good short section in the debian-reference about this,
also using ssh to append your key from this machine to the other
machine.

Myself, once I get it working without passwords, I disable password
login in the config.

Doug.


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need for something like samhain with dialup?

[Douglas Tutty]

I'm seeking a quick word of advice:

For simple dial-up intermittant internet access, running amd64 Etch, is
there any need for something like samhain or is that just overkill?

If there is, is samhain the best or is there something better?  

I don't have anything listening on outside interfaces, currently have
ipmasq installed and will set up shorewall to replace it.

Thanks,

Doug.


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Re: No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h

[Gerard Robin]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:58:40PM -0500, draeath wrote:

From: draeath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user 
Subject: Re: No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h
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On 1/3/07, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,

which package should I install to get the file gtk.h in
/usr/include/gtk/ ?

tia
--
Gérard




Not sure of which one paticularly, but one of the following:
libgtk2.0-dev
libgtk1.2-dev
libgtk2.0
libgtk1.2

Do "apt-cache search libgtk" and it will show you the available
packages that would fit.


~$ dpkg -S gtk.h | grep include

libgtk2.0-dev: /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h
libgtk1.2-dev: /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h


gcc -Wall -o file  file.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`

sovled my problem but I don't figure out `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`:

pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 :

-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/
include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2
.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12  -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk
-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lfontconfig -lXext -lX
render -lXinerama -lXi -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXfixes -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lX11 -lg
object-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0  


there are a lot of options ...
and I wonder if libgtk-1.2-dev is useful ?

Thanks.

--
Gérard

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

[Hans du Plooy]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:40 -0500, Marty wrote:
> Nevetheless, I seem to recall not getting full memory bus speed specifically 
> with the 1800+ on the KX400+, but I could be mistaken.

The only reason why you wouldn't have been able to get the full memory
bus speed is if the memory couldn't do it.  Which doesn't necessarily
mean the memory wasn't rated fast enough, but you could have had one
dimm that was ever so slightly damaged, causing it not to run reliably
(or at all) at it's rated speed, but run fine at a lower speed.

Hans


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MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

[Gary Roach]

Check out a couple of not so on topic entries.

exacting Schooolgirls doinng splendiferous suckiing. susan  12/30/2006 
2:00PM

and

YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS OF $15.5MMike Dana Will  01/02/2007  4:30AM

Im not exactly a prude but it does clutter up the group. The advertising 
just drives me crazy.


GLR


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Re: Switching graphics cards, how?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:42:14AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Wed January 3 2007 10:35, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:36 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > My old Matrox video card is dying. I have a new e-geforce
> > > 6200 and an Etch system. I have picked up on some issues about drivers
> > > for mVidia cards, but have no idea whether they are show stoppers for
> > > my using this 6200. And I have no clear idea as to how to reconfigure
> > > xorg most simply. I think it should just work -- if I type the right
> > > command at the right time. Am I correct? What is the magic command?
> > > Where should I look for a good guide to trouble shooting, before I get
> > > into trouble?
> >
> > The "nv" driver of Xorg supports Geforce 6XXX cards, but it only offers
> > 2D acceleration. If that is good enough for you (and assuming that the
> > "e-Geforce" has the same chipset), it should be as easy as running
> > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" as root, selecting the "nv" driver
> > (should be auto-detected anyway) and starting X afterwards.
> >
> > If you want 3D acceleration then you will need the proprietary nvidia
> > driver. A good source of information is
> >
> > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/
> 
> The nvidia drivers are available in etch/sid now. Just select the driver for 
> your kernel along with nvidia-glx (and nvidia-glx-ia32 for 32bit app support 
> on a 64bit system) along with nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig if 
> desired.. :)

The source is available as well if you roll your own kernel.  Be sure
to check the information that comes with it for what setings are needed
within the kernel (I seem to remember that there is some option you
**don't** choose in the config that one might otherwaie pick).  Using
make-kpkg works well.

The only thing to watch for are xorg upgrades which require new driver
versions.  If you stay on top of that (either by redoing the
kernel/module or holding xorg until the dust settles... ;-) then you
won't run into problems.


Kenward
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Re: bad anti-aliasing; what thinks my CRT is an LCD display

[Daniel Barclay]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
...
> ...if an LCD screen is detected. You can avoid this
> by choosing "Never" if you suspect that there is a problem with the LCD
> detection.

Where is the LCD detection performed?

I have now worked around the problem (currently by turning off anti-
aliasing entirely, soon by trying just turning off RGB antialiaing),
but I am trying to find the actual source of the problem so I can fix
it right (maybe overriding the autodetection, maybe by identifying and
reporting an autodetection bug).


> Furthermore, the hinting style (native or autohinter) also has a
> significant influence on how fonts look on the screen. I would recommend
> to try different settings ..

Thanks.  I'll look into that too.



Daniel





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nfsd not running solved [was: Can't find nfs-utils on testing]

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Dieter Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> debian:~# aptitude search libnfsidmap2 nfs-common nfs-kernel-server portmap
> i   libnfsidmap2- An nfs idmapping library
>   
> i   nfs-common  - NFS support files common to client and 
> ser
> i   nfs-kernel-server   - Kernel NFS server support   
>   
> i   portmap - The RPC portmapper  
>   
>

Got it!  The avahi-daemon occupied the port number.  After removing
the package everything runs fine.

I wonder how I could have traced which package has drawn this deamon
though.

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Best wishes

H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany


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Re: Can't find nfs-utils on testing

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Versions?
>
>   dpkg -l | grep -e libnfsidmap2 -e nfs-common -e nfs-kernel-server -e portmap
>
> Sorry to be dragging this out so long.

It's okay 8-), thank you for your support. 

The problem is solved: avahi-server blocked the port 2049 and I
removed the package.  Don't ask me why this happened on my system.

Cheers

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Re: bad anti-aliasing; what thinks my CRT is an LCD display

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 15:26:35 -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 22:53:17 -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
> >>Where is the configuration or auto-detection of whether a video display
> >>device is a CRT or an LCD?  
> ...
> >>It seems that something thinks my display device is an
> >>LCD panel, when actually it's a CRT.
> >
> >Check the file .fonts.conf in your home directory. This is the stanza
> >to turn off RGB antialiasing:
> >
> > 
> >  
> >   none
> >  
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  I'll try that.
> 
> Does fontconfig always assume (e.g., upon installation) that it should
> do RGB antialiasing, or does it try to detect what kind of display I
> have (e.g., by asking a lower level, say, the X11 server)?
> 
> Where is the display type supposed to be configured or autodetected?

See comments on fontconfig below.

> >... you can try different options for fontconfig
> >by running (as root)
> >
> >dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
> 
> I had tried that, but it didn't seem to be give my any options related
> to antialiasing or the display type.

It allows you to toggle "subpixel rendering" which, AFAIK, is the same
as (or at least closely related to) RGB antialiasing; sometimes this is
also called "subpixel hinting". I think the default is "Automatic" which
means it is turned on if an LCD screen is detected. You can avoid this
by choosing "Never" if you suspect that there is a problem with the LCD
detection.

Furthermore, the hinting style (native or autohinter) also has a
significant influence on how fonts look on the screen. I would recommend
to try different settings to decide which combination is most pleasing
to your eyes. The whole hinting and antialiasing business is a matter of
personal taste, and the best configuration also depends on which fonts
you use. (Not all fonts include the necessary information to allow for
good native hinting.)

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Re: No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:28, Gerard Robin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> which package should I install to get the file gtk.h in
> /usr/include/gtk/ ?
>
> tia

You need a development package for GTK. I'm in Debian based Kubuntu at the 
moment, but on synaptic you should find the package you need.  I have 
libgtk1.2, and libgtk2.0-0 installed, and have just had to install 
libgtk2.0-dev to install a source package.

Nigel.


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Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:50:40PM -0300, Alejandro wrote:
> People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and
> then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the
> linux ssh server. After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit
> rootlogin no and the correct path to the authorized_keys file. But when
> I execute from the client "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" it doesn't enter and the
> password banner is showed. Here I put my debugs from ssh client and
> server and my sshd_config file from the serverI REALLY THANKS YOUR
> COMMENTS !!!
> 

Example:

Try setting up a normal user first - check whether that works.
Example commands are indented in what follows. Comments are mostly
in []

As user pele change to your home directory on the first machine 
(here called cerca) then

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048

[Follow the prompts: don't use a passphrase. This should generate 
a pair of keys id_rsa and id_rsa.pub

cd /home/pele/.ssh

touch authorized_keys

chmod 0600 authorized_keys

Follow the same procedure on the other machine (here called lejos).

On machine cerca:

cd /home/pele/.ssh

scp lejos:/home/pele/.ssh/id_dsa.pub ./id_dsa.pubLEJOS

[This copies the file you need from the other machine and names it so 
you can tell where it comes from. At this point, you may need to use 
passwords]

scp ./id_dsa.pub lejos:/home/pele/.ssh/id_dsa.pubCERCA

[Copying the public RSA key from the machine you are on to the distant 
machine]

cat id_dsa.pubLEJOS >> authorized_keys

[Copy the public RSA key from the distant machine and 
append it to the authorized_keys file on your local machine]

[Now copy the key into the appropriate place on the distant machine and 
append it to the authorized_keys file there. ]

ssh lejos

cd /home/pele/.ssh

cat id_dsa.pubCERCA >> authorized_keys

[Check that an ssh connection works in both directions:
[On cerca]

ssh lejos

[On lejos]

ssh cerca

should both work immediately.

Now do the same with keys for root, if you want to. If you only want one 
user to have effective root privilege - append the id_dsa.pub for root 
on the machine to the end of his /.ssh/authorized_keys file

Hope this helps,

Andy


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Re: No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h

[draeath]

On 1/3/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:51PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> which package should I install to get the file gtk.h in
> /usr/include/gtk/ ?
>
> tia
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Hi Gérard,
apt-file did not give a great answer. But this maybe what you want:
libgtk1.2-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
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That is correct. See here:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=gtk.h&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386

http://packages.debian.org is very nice for finding paticular files.

Re: No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h

[draeath]

On 1/3/07, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,

which package should I install to get the file gtk.h in
/usr/include/gtk/ ?

tia
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Not sure of which one paticularly, but one of the following:
libgtk2.0-dev
libgtk1.2-dev
libgtk2.0
libgtk1.2

Do "apt-cache search libgtk" and it will show you the available
packages that would fit.

Re: No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:51PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> which package should I install to get the file gtk.h in
> /usr/include/gtk/ ?
> 
> tia
> -- 
Hi Gérard,
apt-file did not give a great answer. But this maybe what you want:
libgtk1.2-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
Kev
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Re: Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

[draeath]

On 1/3/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070103 14:14]:
> kawanokami wrote:
>
> > Hi, I want to buy an 7 Port USB2 Powered Hub HU-5770 (I've a laptop and
> > need the added usb ports). Currently, I'm using debian testing/unstable
> > on a 2.6.18 kernel and found no info about drivers or linux support on
> > the Trust site. Is it a safe purchase or am I going to face problems?
>
> If you have USB, you can use a hub.  In fact, all USB controllers have a hub
> built in, even.

But some USB hubs are problematic.  I have two by Belkin; one (which
resembles a rectangular donut) works perfectly; the other is not
dependable.  Use Google to look for reports on the model you plan to
purchase.


RLH


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Keep in mind, if you are unsure you can buy in-store, test it out,
return it if required. Bring the laptop in with you to prove it
doesn't work if you want. Generally causing a stink about it will get
you your return (speaking as someone who used to work retail in a
company named after a peice of metal bent in a special shape). If you
can't stand the in-store price, you can return it anyways usually.


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Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

[Jochen Schulz]

Alejandro:
>
> People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and
> then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the
> linux ssh server.

Good.

> After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit
> rootlogin no

Erm, "to permit" means "to allow". You just locked out root (via ssh).
Don't do that if you want to allow root to login via ssh.

> and the correct path to the authorized_keys file. But when
> I execute from the client "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" it doesn't enter and the
> password banner is showed.

That's what ssh does for every user that is not allowed to login at all
(if password login is enabled. Otherwise it will ask for a public key
and neglect it).

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Re: On Etch can't to remove a broken package - Solved

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 21:17:08 +0100, csanyipal wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:15:44PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 
> 
> > I think you can trick the script by creating a small dummy file which
> > looks like it was generated during the ltmodem installation. The postrm
> > script can then remove this dummy file and it will be happy that it did
> > its job. Make sure that /etc/modprobe.d/ltmodem does not exist and run
> > (as root)
> > 
> > echo "# lt_serial" > /etc/modprobe.d/ltmodem
> > 
> > I would expect that you can remove the package normally after you do
> > this.
> 
> I did it, and I can now to remove the package. Thanks!
> 
> However I get the error messages:
> 
> > > -->
> > > (Reading database ... 60952 files and directories currently installed.)
> > > Removing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 ...
> > > find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a
> > > non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
> > >  (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those \
> > >  specified  after it).  Please specify options before other \
> > >  arguments. 
> > > 
> > > find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a
> > > non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
> > >  (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as \
> > >  those specified after it).  Please specify options before \ 
> > >  other arguments.
> > > --<
> 
> Is it a problem?
> 
> I can now to install other packages with no problems.

Most likely this is harmless. The "find" command is warning you that it
might be doing something slightly different from what was intended by
the author of the script. In practice this makes no difference most of
the time. I think it is mostly a legacy issue and/or a warning about
inconsistent behavior of the "find" command on different platforms.

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No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h

[Gerard Robin]

Hello,

which package should I install to get the file gtk.h in
/usr/include/gtk/ ?

tia
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Re: How do I get NFS locking to work?

[Greg Folkert]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Am 2006-12-14 12:42:13, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > > How do I get NFS locking to work?  (And why doesn't it "just
> work" 
> > > > anyway?)
> > > > 
> > > > I am unable to use monotone properly over an NFS mount because
> it very 
> > > > sensibly tries to lock its repository before modifying it.
> > 
> > You NEEED to mount your NFS-Share HARD in your /etc/fstab with:
> > 
> > nfsserver:/directory   /datadir nfs
> rw,bg,hard,intr,tcp,vers=3,wsize=8192,rsize=8192 0 0
> >     ^^^ ^^
> > 
> > and it seems, that some things are working only correctly,
> > if you use "tcp" and "vers=3".  Be sure, you have compiled
> > this options into your kernel or kernel-module.
> > 
> > Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
> 
> Thanks.  I finally had the chance to do that.  But it still doesn't 
> work.  Could the following error messages be a clue? 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dv/lang/frith$ mtn commit
> lockd: cannot monitor 172.25.1.11
> lockd: failed to monitor 172.25.1.11
> mtn: error: sqlite error: database is locked
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dv/lang/frith$
> 
> I also occasionally get similar messages from fam
> 
> The /etc/fstab entry for /farhome is
> 
> 172.25.1.11:/farhome  /farhome nfs
> noauto,user,defaults,rw,hard,tcp,lock,vers=3,exec,nodev 1 1
> 
> And the /etc/exports entry on 172.25.1.11 is
> 
> /farhome 172.25.1.2(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.3(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.9(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.12(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.32(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.33(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.6(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.8(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 172.25.1.9(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
> 
> The machine I ran the mtn commit from was 172.25.1.4 (the third entry
> on 
> the above list)

Why not just export the /farhome with this:

/farhome 172.25.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)

or what ever your netmask is.

Also on you client machine add the option "lock" to the fstab setup.

BTW, I've never really used anything but defaults in fstab besides
"hard,tcp"

With NFSv4, there comes a new set of options I've added to my fstab:

duke:/stor /stor nfs defaults,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 0 0

On my server I use:

/stor 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(sync,no_root_squash,rw,subtree_check)

I get locking and everything.

On the "server" 

linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7   2.6.18-7  Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7
libnfsidmap2  0.18-0An nfs idmapping library
nfs-common1.0.10-4  NFS support files common to client
nfs-kernel-server 1.0.10-4  Kernel NFS server support
portmap   5-21  The RPC portmapper

On the "client" side

linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7   2.6.18-8  Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7
libnfsidmap2  0.18-0An nfs idmapping library
nfs-common1.0.10-5  NFS support files common to client
nfs-kernel-server 1.0.10-5  Kernel NFS server support
portmap   5-25  The RPC portmapper

AND here is the kicker, edit "/etc/default/nfs-common" changing
NEED_LOCKD=
to 
NEED_LOCKD="yes"

Just in case your kernel doesn't support proper locking (if it is a
stock Debian Kernel it should)
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Re: Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

[Russell L. Harris]

* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070103 14:14]:
> kawanokami wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I want to buy an 7 Port USB2 Powered Hub HU-5770 (I've a laptop and
> > need the added usb ports). Currently, I'm using debian testing/unstable
> > on a 2.6.18 kernel and found no info about drivers or linux support on
> > the Trust site. Is it a safe purchase or am I going to face problems?
> 
> If you have USB, you can use a hub.  In fact, all USB controllers have a hub
> built in, even.

But some USB hubs are problematic.  I have two by Belkin; one (which
resembles a rectangular donut) works perfectly; the other is not
dependable.  Use Google to look for reports on the model you plan to
purchase.


RLH


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Re: etch: evolution + gmail

[draeath]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 16:09 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 03:35 -0500, Paul Bransford wrote:

When I first start evolution, I will get the following error as it tries
to connect for new messages:

> Unable to connect to POP server pop.gmail.com.
> Error sending username:
>
> Please enter the POP password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] on host
> pop.gmail.com

It then asks for a password (which is already filled in as I have the
password saved. If I say OK, (whether or not I keep the filled-in
password or retype it) it just keeps firing that error.

But if I press cancel, and then choose "Work Online" from the file menu,
it connects, logs in, and proceeds to work fine. Next time I run
evolution, the same problem happens again.


I have the same problem, but I figured it was because I'm running
NetworkManager and it's currently disabled as I have a static
configuration in /etc/network/interfaces.

Are you running NetworkManager too?


I really don't know. I just installed using the business card ISO for
etch (installer RC1) and I set up static networking using the
curses-based installer. I didn't need to change anything once
everything was installed, my network config stayed static.

If it helps, the network connection applet in Gnome doesn't detect any
interfaces (but my user can run ifconfig)

What I find odd, if you look closely at the error: "Error sending
username: " with no username attached. Yet, on the next line down
"Please enter the POP password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..." showing that
there is indeed a username to be sent.
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SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

[Alejandro]

People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and
then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the
linux ssh server. After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit
rootlogin no and the correct path to the authorized_keys file. But when
I execute from the client "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" it doesn't enter and the
password banner is showed. Here I put my debugs from ssh client and
server and my sshd_config file from the serverI REALLY THANKS YOUR
COMMENTS !!!

SERVER
--
racka:~/.ssh# /usr/sbin/sshd -d
debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: private host key: #0 type 1 RSA
debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA
debug1: private host key: #1 type 2 DSA
debug1: rexec_argv[0]='/usr/sbin/sshd'
debug1: rexec_argv[1]='-d'
debug1: Bind to port 22 on 10.1.1.7.
Server listening on 10.1.1.7 port 22.
debug1: Server will not fork when running in debugging mode.
debug1: rexec start in 4 out 4 newsock 4 pipe -1 sock 7
debug1: inetd sockets after dupping: 3, 3
Connection from 10.1.1.2 port 36173
debug1: Client protocol version 2.0; client software version
OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.6
debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.6 pat OpenSSH_3.*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8
debug1: permanently_set_uid: 101/65534
debug1: list_hostkey_types: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: KEX done
debug1: userauth-request for user root service ssh-connection method none
debug1: attempt 0 failures 0
debug1: PAM: initializing for "root"
debug1: PAM: setting PAM_RHOST to "10.1.1.2"
debug1: PAM: setting PAM_TTY to "ssh"
Failed none for root from 10.1.1.2 port 36173 ssh2
Failed none for root from 10.1.1.2 port 36173 ssh2
debug1: userauth-request for user root service ssh-connection method
publickey
debug1: attempt 1 failures 1
debug1: test whether pkalg/pkblob are acceptable
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0/0)
debug1: trying public key file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
buffer_get_ret: trying to get more bytes 129 than in buffer 34
buffer_get_string_ret: buffer_get failed
buffer_get_bignum2_ret: invalid bignum
key_from_blob: can't read rsa key
key_read: key_from_blob
B3NzaC1yc2EBIwAAAIEAwlWGOvzpqyPFb24q6JtOs/sq7UTl/hK3fo9JNaT6bk3k
 failed
buffer_get_ret: trying to get more bytes 129 than in buffer 34
buffer_get_string_ret: buffer_get failed
buffer_get_bignum2_ret: invalid bignum
key_from_blob: can't read rsa key
key_read: key_from_blob
B3NzaC1yc2EBIwAAAIEAwlWGOvzpqyPFb24q6JtOs/sq7UTl/hK3fo9JNaT6bk3k
 failed
debug1: restore_uid: 0/0
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0/0)
debug1: trying public key file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
buffer_get_ret: trying to get more bytes 129 than in buffer 34
buffer_get_string_ret: buffer_get failed
buffer_get_bignum2_ret: invalid bignum
key_from_blob: can't read rsa key
key_read: key_from_blob
B3NzaC1yc2EBIwAAAIEAwlWGOvzpqyPFb24q6JtOs/sq7UTl/hK3fo9JNaT6bk3k
 failed
buffer_get_ret: trying to get more bytes 129 than in buffer 34
buffer_get_string_ret: buffer_get failed
buffer_get_bignum2_ret: invalid bignum
key_from_blob: can't read rsa key
key_read: key_from_blob
B3NzaC1yc2EBIwAAAIEAwlWGOvzpqyPFb24q6JtOs/sq7UTl/hK3fo9JNaT6bk3k
 failed
debug1: restore_uid: 0/0
Failed publickey for root from 10.1.1.2 port 36173 ssh2

CLIENTE
---
ana:~/.ssh# ssh -vv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.6, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 10.1.1.7 [10.1.1.7] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity type -1
debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-BEGIN'
debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-END'
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version
OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.6
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit:
diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit:
aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL
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debug2: kex_parse_k

Re: On Etch can't to remove a broken package - Solved

[csanyipal]

Hello!

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:15:44PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:


> I think you can trick the script by creating a small dummy file which
> looks like it was generated during the ltmodem installation. The postrm
> script can then remove this dummy file and it will be happy that it did
> its job. Make sure that /etc/modprobe.d/ltmodem does not exist and run
> (as root)
> 
> echo "# lt_serial" > /etc/modprobe.d/ltmodem
> 
> I would expect that you can remove the package normally after you do
> this.

I did it, and I can now to remove the package. Thanks!

However I get the error messages:

> > -->
> > (Reading database ... 60952 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Removing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 ...
> > find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a
> > non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
> >  (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those \
> >  specified  after it).  Please specify options before other \
> >  arguments. 
> > 
> > find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a
> > non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
> >  (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as \
> >  those specified after it).  Please specify options before \ 
> >  other arguments.
> > --<

Is it a problem?

I can now to install other packages with no problems.

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Re: bad anti-aliasing; what thinks my CRT is an LCD display

[Daniel B.]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

[ I accidentally sent this message when it was only half finished; here
  is the full text. Sorry for the noise. ]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 22:53:17 -0500, Daniel B. wrote:

Where is the configuration or auto-detection of whether a video display
device is a CRT or an LCD?  

...

It seems that something thinks my display device is an
LCD panel, when actually it's a CRT.


Check the file .fonts.conf in your home directory. This is the stanza
to turn off RGB antialiasing:

 
  
   none
  
 


Thanks.  I'll try that.

Does fontconfig always assume (e.g., upon installation) that it should
do RGB antialiasing, or does it try to detect what kind of display I
have (e.g., by asking a lower level, say, the X11 server)?

Where is the display type supposed to be configured or autodetected?




... you can try different options for fontconfig
by running (as root)

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config


I had tried that, but it didn't seem to be give my any options related
to antialiasing or the display type.

Daniel



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Re: Switching graphics cards, how?

[Mathias Brodala]

Hello Paul.

Paul E Condon, 03.01.2007 18:28:
> And I have no clear idea as to how to reconfigure
> xorg most simply. I think it should just work -- if I type the right
> command at the right time. Am I correct? What is the magic command?

It’s this one:

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

If you did edit your xorg.conf manually, just follow the instructions at the
beginning of the file.


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Re: Unable to Unmount Flash Drive

[Greg Folkert]

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 04:06 -0800, Baz wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> I'm getting the following error message every time I attempt to
> unmount my USB flash drive.  
> 
> Error
> 
> Cannot unmount volume
> 
> The volume was probably mounted manually on the command line. 
> 
> Details
> 
> Device to unmount is not in /media/.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by
> HAL 
> 
> Contrary to the message, I didn't mount it manually on the command
> line.  It's been occurring now about a week.  Previously, there was no
> problem.  I guess it's not a big issue just pulling it out, but I'd
> rather do it the proper way.  Since it began, I've been going to
> Administration > Disk and simply disabling it. 

I get this a lot when I delete files on the device.

Empty the trash (or remove /where/mounted/.Trash- directory)
and then try to umount it.

That is annoying to me.
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Re: Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

[Paul Johnson]

kawanokami wrote:

> Hi, I want to buy an 7 Port USB2 Powered Hub HU-5770 (I've a laptop and
> need the added usb ports). Currently, I'm using debian testing/unstable
> on a 2.6.18 kernel and found no info about drivers or linux support on
> the Trust site. Is it a safe purchase or am I going to face problems?

If you have USB, you can use a hub.  In fact, all USB controllers have a hub
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Re: Can't find nfs-utils on testing

[Greg Folkert]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 06:17 +0100, Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
> Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > okay not another port number, but a process ID that fails to start
> 
> Again, I had a black-out. 8-\ Thanks for correcting me.
> 
> >
> > Here is what I have installed:
> >
> > ii  libnfsidmap2   0.18-0  An nfs idmapping library
> > ii  nfs-common 1.0.10-5NFS support files common to client
> > ii  nfs-kernel-server  1.0.10-5Kernel NFS server support
> > ii  portmap5-25The RPC portmapper
> >
> 
> debian:~# aptitude search libnfsidmap2 nfs-common nfs-kernel-server portmap
> i   libnfsidmap2- An nfs idmapping library
>   
> i   nfs-common  - NFS support files common to client and 
> ser
> i   nfs-kernel-server   - Kernel NFS server support   
>   
> i   portmap - The RPC portmapper  
>   
> 
> >
> > One last thing, please reply to the list only, I am subscribed.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

Versions?

  dpkg -l | grep -e libnfsidmap2 -e nfs-common -e nfs-kernel-server -e portmap

Sorry to be dragging this out so long.
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Re: Freecom 27047 external HD

[jdkaye10]

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

> On 31.12.06 17:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I'm considering buying a Freecom 27047 external HD (400GB/Highspeed USB).
>> I'm running Debian testing with a 2.6.17 kernel. Although Linux is not
>> listed as a required OS, I don't see why this couldn't be used with
>> Debian.
> 
> you probably mean 'supported'.
> 
I took the expression "required OS" from Freecom's website. I'm sure they do
mean 'supported'.

>> Does anyone have any experience in this area?
> 
> I have no experience, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.
> Disk drives, unlike modems, usually support USB storage standard (I
> haven't seen/heard about any that does not)
Yes, that's my experience as well.
Thanks for the help, Matus.
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changing domain name

[Niels Rasmussen]

Hi list

I'm running testing for amd64.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname -a
debian  debian  debian.opasia.dk

I would like to change this to:
debian.nirvana

How can I do this with a simple command, so this would reflect the
whole system ?

When installing testing I was connected via a wlan router (D-link
DI-524), the installer suggested opasia.dk, my ISP provider,
which I (in my ignorance) accepted.

Is this possible without cutting my internet connection ?

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Re: Annoying beep!

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Chris wrote:

Hello,

I'm have a testing/unstable system and am using KDE.  The system beeps from 
the PC speaker fairly regularly, although I haven't figured out if it occurs 
at a regular interval.  I've turned off all sounds in system-notifications in 
the Control center, and I know it is the PC speaker because I have turned off 
the external ones.


This beep is annoying but I can't figure out what is causing it, it is similar 
to the error beep in Konsole.


Here is a list of the processes that are running, maybe that helps.  The 
beeping seems to have started a few weeks ago.  The system never did it 
before






That got covered a while ago here.
I think it is as much as rmmod pcspkr

Hugo


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Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:32, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:21, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:02 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > > I really miss one feature from all these applications. I would like
> > > to have two terminals open side by side. All the input goes to one
> > > terminal, all the output (and errors if there are any) comes up in
> > > the second terminal. Clicking on a command in the first window should
> > > execute the command again. The whole thing looks similar to MATLAB's
> > > interface.
> > >
> > > Is there any terminal emulator which provides this kind of facility?
> >
> > You don't need a special program for that do you?
> >
> >  echo helloworld &> /dev/pts/1
> >
> > This will redirect output, both normal and error messages from one
> > terminal to another. You can list the terminals and their TTY you have
> > open by typing "w".
>
> That is pretty cool to know. Thanks. But this requires
> appending "&> /dev/pts/1" to each and every command. Can this be done in
> some configuration file so that it works for each and every command?

You can rig something pretty quickly like this:

1. Open two terminals.
2. In the "output" terminal, run 'ps' to find out the shell pid.
3. Use lsof -p  to find out the pts that the pid is using.
4. In the "input" terminal, run bash &> /dev/pts/xxx to start a shell and
   redirect everything to the "output" terminal.

If you want typed commands to be also echoed on the "input" terminal, you 
might have to fiddle with the stty settings.

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Re: On Etch can't to remove a broken package

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:24, csanyipal wrote:
> On Etch I have installed a package: ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 that I
> have been downloaded. This installation wasn't success.
>
> After that this package came to be broken.
>
> If I try to remove this package, I get an error message:
>
> -->
> (Reading database ... 60952 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 ...
> find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a
> non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
>  (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those \
>  specified  after it).  Please specify options before other \
>  arguments.
>
> find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a
> non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
>  (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as \
>  those specified after it).  Please specify options before \
>  other arguments.
>
> Could not identify your distribution's way of automatically \
>  loading modules, Exiting.
>
> dpkg: error processing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 (--remove):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> --<
>
> What can I do to solve this problem?
>
> I appreciate any advices.

Well, it's not removing correctly because it's failing in it's post-rm 
script.  If you just want to force the package out, you can do the 
following:

  dpkg -r --force-all ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386

If that still doesn't work, you will have to hack the post-rm script to exit 
with success, i.e. edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386.postrm and 
either fix the error, or just make the script do an unconditional "exit 0".

The second method is a rather hackish ways to do it, but it'll definitely 
work.

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Re: On Etch can't to remove a broken package

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 18:24:30 +0100, csanyipal wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Etch I have installed a package: ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 that I 
> have been downloaded. This installation wasn't success.
> 
> After that this package came to be broken.
> 
> If I try to remove this package, I get an error message:
> 
> -->
> (Reading database ... 60952 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 ...
> find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a
> non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
>  (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those \
>  specified  after it).  Please specify options before other \
>  arguments. 
> 
> find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a
> non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
>  (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as \
>  those specified after it).  Please specify options before \ 
>  other arguments.
> 
> Could not identify your distribution's way of automatically \
>  loading modules, Exiting.
>  
> dpkg: error processing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 (--remove):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> --<
> 
> What can I do to solve this problem?

ltmodem is not an official Debian package. I think I know how to fix
your problem, but please realize that I have not tested this. Use the
following advice at your own risk.

The post-removal script seems to have a bug: It looks for
/etc/modprobe.conf (which is absent on a standard Etch system) and
/etc/modprobe.d/ltmodem (which is missing because the package
installation failed). Finding neither file, the script assumes that
something is wrong with your modprobe infrastructure and it exits with
an error.

I think you can trick the script by creating a small dummy file which
looks like it was generated during the ltmodem installation. The postrm
script can then remove this dummy file and it will be happy that it did
its job. Make sure that /etc/modprobe.d/ltmodem does not exist and run
(as root)

echo "# lt_serial" > /etc/modprobe.d/ltmodem

I would expect that you can remove the package normally after you do
this.

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Re: smooth upgrades

[Andrei Popescu]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:12:29PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:

> Hope that is enough of an explanation for you.

Just to make sure I didn't do anything wrong I will detail my steps:

My setup:

think:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
think:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib

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

The output of 'apt-cache policy' shows priority 990 for sid, as it
should:

think:~# apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 release a=now
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 990 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 990 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 990 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
Pinned packages:

Let's see what happens if I chande 'unstable' to 'sid'

think:~# sed -i -e s/unstable/sid/ /etc/apt/apt.conf
think:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "sid";

Now the priority for sid is 500

think:~# apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 release a=now
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
Pinned packages:

Let's remove apt.conf to see if it makes any difference:

think:~# rm /etc/apt/apt.conf
rm: remove regular file `/etc/apt/apt.conf'? y

The priority is still 500

think:~# apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 release a=now
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
Pinned packages:

I'll put it back:

think:~# echo 'APT::Default-Release "unstable";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf
think:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
think:~# apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 release a=now
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
   1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org experimental/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 990 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/contrib Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=contrib
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 990 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=non-free
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
 990 http://ftp.ro.debian.org sid/main Packages
 release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main
 origin ftp.ro.debian.org
Pinned packages:
think:~# 

Note: Through the whole test 'experimental' stayed at priority 1!

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Re: Kernel 2.6.17 e 2.6.18 K7 network problem [SOLVED]

[Antonio Laterza]

> Hi all, just to report the solution was suggested by
> Hendrik Sattler on debian-devel list.
> > TCP windows scaling comes to mind:
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/
> > 
> > HS
> Wow!!! Best regards Hendrik!!!
> Most probabily the provider's router is buggy but it
> solved
> the problem.
> The solution was that reported by article pointed by you:
> 
> In the mean time, anybody running a current kernel who is
> having trouble connecting to a needed site can work
> around
> the problem with a command like:
 From article:
   echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scale 
 
On my pc:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
or by adding a line like:
>From article:
net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale = 0
On my pc:
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0
to /etc/sysctl.conf.


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Re: Kernel 2.6.17 e 2.6.18 K7 network problem [SOLVED]

[Antonio Laterza]

--- Antonio Laterza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:

> Hi all, I want to ask if somebody experienced the same
> problem I have with etch installation and in general with
> kernel 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 on AMD K7. The computer where I
> tried has 2 network cards, I connect only 1 card and it
> receives the IP address.
> 
> I experienced the problem installing etch using a
> businesscard, using knoppix 5.0.1 (use kernel 2.6.17) and
> upgrading from sarge (kernel 2.6.8) to etch (kernel
> 2.6.18). 
> In the last case, with the same installation if I chose
> kernel 2.6.8 I have no network problem (but X does not
> work
> :( ). If I choose the kernel 2.6.18 X is OK but I am not
> able to reache many sites. I can navigate very few sites
> example: www.google.com and www.mozilla.org. Using
> ethereal
> seems that the HTTP request go out (i.e. GET / ) but
> the ACK packet does not ask the next packet number 
> in
> other words seems that the GET request never reched the
> final site.
> 
> I tryied to reduce the MTU but was unsuccesful. 
> Last details: the network card is the Realtek 
> 
> Regards
> anlater 
Hi all, just to report the solution was suggested by
Hendrik Sattler on debian-devel list.
> TCP windows scaling comes to mind:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/
> 
> HS
Wow!!! Best regards Hendrik!!!
Most probabily the provider's router is buggy but it solved
the problem.
The solution was that reported by article pointed by you:

In the mean time, anybody running a current kernel who is
having trouble connecting to a needed site can work around
the problem with a command like:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale 

or by adding a line like:

net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale = 0

to /etc/sysctl.conf.


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Re: Switching graphics cards, how?

[Alan Ianson]

On Wed January 3 2007 10:35, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:36 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > My old Matrox video card is dying. I have a new e-geforce
> > 6200 and an Etch system. I have picked up on some issues about drivers
> > for mVidia cards, but have no idea whether they are show stoppers for
> > my using this 6200. And I have no clear idea as to how to reconfigure
> > xorg most simply. I think it should just work -- if I type the right
> > command at the right time. Am I correct? What is the magic command?
> > Where should I look for a good guide to trouble shooting, before I get
> > into trouble?
>
> The "nv" driver of Xorg supports Geforce 6XXX cards, but it only offers
> 2D acceleration. If that is good enough for you (and assuming that the
> "e-Geforce" has the same chipset), it should be as easy as running
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" as root, selecting the "nv" driver
> (should be auto-detected anyway) and starting X afterwards.
>
> If you want 3D acceleration then you will need the proprietary nvidia
> driver. A good source of information is
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/

The nvidia drivers are available in etch/sid now. Just select the driver for 
your kernel along with nvidia-glx (and nvidia-glx-ia32 for 32bit app support 
on a 64bit system) along with nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig if 
desired.. :)


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Re: Switching graphics cards, how?

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:36 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> My old Matrox video card is dying. I have a new e-geforce
> 6200 and an Etch system. I have picked up on some issues about drivers
> for mVidia cards, but have no idea whether they are show stoppers for
> my using this 6200. And I have no clear idea as to how to reconfigure
> xorg most simply. I think it should just work -- if I type the right
> command at the right time. Am I correct? What is the magic command?
> Where should I look for a good guide to trouble shooting, before I get
> into trouble?

The "nv" driver of Xorg supports Geforce 6XXX cards, but it only offers
2D acceleration. If that is good enough for you (and assuming that the
"e-Geforce" has the same chipset), it should be as easy as running
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" as root, selecting the "nv" driver
(should be auto-detected anyway) and starting X afterwards.

If you want 3D acceleration then you will need the proprietary nvidia
driver. A good source of information is

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/

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Re: Linux on NPR's Talk on the Nation

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:20:16AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
> 
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6711038
> 
> Linux is mentioned briefly, about 14:30 in, though the rest of the
> segment is very interesting also.
> 
Hi Scott,
thanks for the link.

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Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:21, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:02 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > I really miss one feature from all these applications. I would like to
> > have two terminals open side by side. All the input goes to one terminal,
> > all the output (and errors if there are any) comes up in the second
> > terminal. Clicking on a command in the first window should execute the
> > command again. The whole thing looks similar to MATLAB's interface.
> >
> > Is there any terminal emulator which provides this kind of facility?
>
> You don't need a special program for that do you?
>
>  echo helloworld &> /dev/pts/1
>
> This will redirect output, both normal and error messages from one
> terminal to another. You can list the terminals and their TTY you have
> open by typing "w".

That is pretty cool to know. Thanks. But this requires 
appending "&> /dev/pts/1" to each and every command. Can this be done in some 
configuration file so that it works for each and every command?

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Switching graphics cards, how?

[Paul E Condon]

My old Matrox video card is dying. I have a new e-geforce
6200 and an Etch system. I have picked up on some issues about drivers
for mVidia cards, but have no idea whether they are show stoppers for
my using this 6200. And I have no clear idea as to how to reconfigure
xorg most simply. I think it should just work -- if I type the right
command at the right time. Am I correct? What is the magic command?
Where should I look for a good guide to trouble shooting, before I get
into trouble?

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Re: Quick question

[Gregor Schneider]

thanks, guys, got it!

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On Etch can't to remove a broken package

[csanyipal]

Hello!

On Etch I have installed a package: ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 that I 
have been downloaded. This installation wasn't success.

After that this package came to be broken.

If I try to remove this package, I get an error message:

-->
(Reading database ... 60952 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 ...
find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a
non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
 (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those \
 specified  after it).  Please specify options before other \
 arguments. 

find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a
non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \
 (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as \
 those specified after it).  Please specify options before \ 
 other arguments.

Could not identify your distribution's way of automatically \
 loading modules, Exiting.
 
dpkg: error processing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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What can I do to solve this problem?

I appreciate any advices.

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Re: Possible/reasonable to switch from unstable to etch at this point and track etch/stable going forward?

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:43:23PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:49:16PM -0800, RParr wrote:
> > I have sid/unstable installed at the moment.
> > 
> > I would like to change this to etch, and stick with etch/stable for awhile.
> > 
> > What, if any, differences are there between etch, unstable, and sid at 
> > the moment (as Debian gears up for the next stable release)?
> > 

Now is possibly a good time to switch: unstable -> testing first -> 
then change apt sources list to reference etch and therefore follow 
through as etch becomes stable.

The differences at the minute are fairly small: obviously the pressure 
is on to release etch and therefore not to allow new packages into 
unstable and thence to testing.  There aren't major desktop changes and 
so on forecast immediately.

> > Is it possible / reasonable to change my sources.list entries from sid 
> > and/or unstable to etch at this point?
> > 

That depends on a whole host of factors: it is usually possible to go 
from unstable -> testing just by waiting long enough for updates to 
percolate down. On machines that were "unstable" and not updated for a 
few weeks, changing to "testing" essentially caught up to date.

There was one incompatible change to a newer version of initscripts / 
sysvutils a short while ago which wasn't propagated to etch because of 
the freeze. I think that's the only package that might cause problems.

> Generally, downgrading is not supported by individual packages.  Trying
> to downgrade the whole distro might be a tall order.  I did once on a
> machine a long time ago.  Much of your success will depend on your
> particular combination of packages.  It is hard to be any more precise
> though as there are far too many variables to consider.
> 
You can use change the sources.list then use apt-get upgrade and dselect 
to see which packages will change. Packages in current "unstable" and 
not in testing will show up as optional/locally installed.

If you can, build a sacrificial machine, put the packages on that you 
have on your current machine (dpkg --get-selections and dpkg 
--set-selections help here) and try it out.

All the best,

Andy

> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
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Annoying beep!

[Chris]

Hello,

I'm have a testing/unstable system and am using KDE.  The system beeps from 
the PC speaker fairly regularly, although I haven't figured out if it occurs 
at a regular interval.  I've turned off all sounds in system-notifications in 
the Control center, and I know it is the PC speaker because I have turned off 
the external ones.

This beep is annoying but I can't figure out what is causing it, it is similar 
to the error beep in Konsole.

Here is a list of the processes that are running, maybe that helps.  The 
beeping seems to have started a few weeks ago.  The system never did it 
before

Thanks for any suggestions,

Chris

  PID TTY  TIME CMD
1 ?00:00:01 init
2 ?00:00:00 migration/0
3 ?00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
4 ?00:00:00 events/0
5 ?00:00:00 khelper
6 ?00:00:00 kthread
9 ?00:00:00 kblockd/0
   10 ?00:00:00 kacpid
   86 ?00:00:00 kseriod
  126 ?00:00:00 pdflush
  127 ?00:00:00 pdflush
  128 ?00:00:02 kswapd0
  129 ?00:00:00 aio/0
  600 ?00:00:00 khubd
 1009 ?00:00:00 kjournald
 1173 ?00:00:00 udevd
 1610 ?00:00:00 kgameportd
 1984 ?00:00:00 kpsmoused
 2037 ?00:00:00 kmirrord
 2168 ?00:00:00 kjournald
 2170 ?00:00:00 kjournald
 2586 ?00:00:00 dhclient
 2634 ?00:00:00 portmap
 2849 ?00:00:00 syslogd
 2855 ?00:00:00 klogd
 2931 ?00:00:00 acpid
 2941 ?00:00:00 cupsd
 2953 ?00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 2965 ?00:00:02 hald
 2966 ?00:00:00 hald-runner
 2972 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
 2980 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
 2989 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 2991 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 3014 ?00:00:00 dirmngr
 3069 ?00:00:00 exim4
 3084 ?00:00:00 lisa
 3093 ?00:00:00 netserver
 3130 ?00:00:00 nfsd4
 3131 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3132 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3133 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3134 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3135 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3136 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3137 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3138 ?00:00:00 nfsd
 3139 ?00:00:00 lockd
 3140 ?00:00:00 rpciod/0
 3148 ?00:00:00 rpc.mountd
 3163 ?00:00:00 inetd
 3177 ?00:00:00 nmbd
 3179 ?00:00:00 smbd
 3192 ?00:00:00 smbd
 3194 ?00:00:00 sshd
 3203 ?00:00:00 xfs
 3286 ?00:00:00 Xprt
 3362 ?00:00:00 rpc.statd
 3377 ?00:00:00 rpc.idmapd
 3418 ?00:00:00 hcid
 3429 ?00:00:00 sdpd
 3440 ?00:00:00 krfcommd
 3457 ?00:00:00 atd
 3468 ?00:00:00 cron
 3528 ?00:00:00 vmnet-bridge
 3542 ?00:00:00 vmnet-natd
 3562 ?00:00:00 kdm
 3567 tty7 00:06:01 Xorg
 3591 tty2 00:00:00 getty
 3592 tty3 00:00:00 getty
 3593 tty4 00:00:00 getty
 3594 tty5 00:00:00 getty
 3595 tty6 00:00:00 getty
 3608 ?00:00:00 kdm
 3639 ?00:00:00 vmnet-netifup
 3650 ?00:00:00 vmnet-netifup
 3667 ?00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd
 3668 ?00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd
 3673 ?00:00:00 startkde
 3737 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent
 3740 ?00:00:00 dbus-launch
 3741 ?00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 3772 ?00:00:00 start_kdeinit
 3773 ?00:00:00 kdeinit
 3776 ?00:00:03 dcopserver
 3778 ?00:00:00 klauncher
 3780 ?00:00:11 kded
 3782 ?00:00:00 gam_server
 3787 ?00:00:00 kwrapper
 3789 ?00:00:00 ksmserver
 3790 ?00:00:12 kwin
 3792 ?00:00:15 kdesktop
 3796 ?00:00:16 kicker
 3810 ?00:00:02 artsd
 3812 ?00:00:01 kaccess
 3815 ?00:00:05 gkrellm
 3816 ?00:00:01 klipper
 3821 ?00:00:07 superkaramba
 3823 ?00:00:00 kmix
 3824 ?00:00:00 knotify
 3829 ?00:00:00 kgpg
 3830 ?00:00:00 passkey-agent
 3831 ?00:00:04 kopete
 3833 ?00:00:00 kbluetoothd.rea
 3835 ?00:00:00 korgac
 3843 ?00:01:52 kmail
 3859 ?00:00:03 kio_imap4
 3894 ?00:00:35 akregator
 3917 ?00:00:00 x11vnc
 3932 ?00:00:00 mount.smbfs
 3938 ?00:00:12 smbiod
 3942 ?00:05:22 amarokapp
 3985 ?00:00:00 ruby
 6208 ?00:00:00 smbd
 9263 ?00:00:01 kio_uiserver
11684 ?00:00:00 kio_file
12701 tty1 00:00:00 getty
12899 ?00:00:00 kio_http
12911 ?00:00:00 kio_http
12998 ?00:00:03 firefox-bin
13005 ?00:00:00 gconfd-2
13042 ?00:00:00 ispell
13059 ?00:00:00 kio_http
13072 ?00:00:00 kio_http
13162 ?00:00:02 konsole
13164 pts/100:00:00 bash
13194 pts/200:00:00 bash
13213 ?00:00:00 kio_http
13214 ?00:00:00 kio_http
13216 ?00:00:00 kio_http
13235 ?00:00:00 kio_http
13244 ?00:00:00 kio_pop3
13249 pts/200:00:00 ps
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Re: /dev/dsp missing (SOLVED)

[hendrik]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:12:35AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Wed January 3 2007 07:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:45:25AM +0100, Benjam? Villoslada wrote:
> > > El Diumenge 31 Desembre 2006 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure:
> > > > Can anyone tell me how to get audio input without disbling the rest of
> > > > the sound system? ?That's what I thought I needed /dev/dsp for. I need
> > > > to rip cassette tapes of church services to post on the church web
> > > > site.
> > >
> > > Maybe with alsaconf (as root) and then look for mute channels with
> > > alsamixer.
> >
> > The problem is that the recordin programs I've used say they cannot open
> > /dev/dsp, and, indeed, when I ls /dev I find that there is no /dev/dsp/
> > making the changes mentioned a few posts ago does indeed give me a
> > /dev/dsp, but then none of the usual audio programs (like xmms and
> > kaffeine) provide any sound.  Would the existence of /dev/dsp set all
> > the volume controls to zero?  And would they mysteriously reset to
> > their usable values when I undo the changes and reboot without a
> > /dev/dsp?
> >
> > There's something I don't understand here.
> 
> Alsa's mixer settings are all muted and set to zero by default, why I don't 
> know.

To avoid blowing up loudspeakers, I've been told.

> I always run aslamixer and set them to good values and then 
> run "alsactl store" to save them, but kmix or any other mixer can be used 
> also.

I run alsaconf.  It sets them to usable values.  But it didn't help when 
I had /dev/dsp in existence.

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Re: How do I get NFS locking to work?

[hendrik]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-12-14 12:42:13, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > How do I get NFS locking to work?  (And why doesn't it "just work" 
> > > anyway?)
> > > 
> > > I am unable to use monotone properly over an NFS mount because it very 
> > > sensibly tries to lock its repository before modifying it.
> 
> You NEEED to mount your NFS-Share HARD in your /etc/fstab with:
> 
> nfsserver:/directory   /datadir nfs 
> rw,bg,hard,intr,tcp,vers=3,wsize=8192,rsize=8192 0 0
>     ^^^ ^^
> 
> and it seems, that some things are working only correctly,
> if you use "tcp" and "vers=3".  Be sure, you have compiled
> this options into your kernel or kernel-module.
> 
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day

Thanks.  I finally had the chance to do that.  But it still doesn't 
work.  Could the following error messages be a clue? 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dv/lang/frith$ mtn commit
lockd: cannot monitor 172.25.1.11
lockd: failed to monitor 172.25.1.11
mtn: error: sqlite error: database is locked
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dv/lang/frith$

I also occasionally get similar messages from fam

The /etc/fstab entry for /farhome is

172.25.1.11:/farhome  /farhome nfs 
noauto,user,defaults,rw,hard,tcp,lock,vers=3,exec,nodev 1 1

And the /etc/exports entry on 172.25.1.11 is

/farhome 172.25.1.2(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.3(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.9(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.12(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.32(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.33(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.6(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.8(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 
172.25.1.9(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)

The machine I ran the mtn commit from was 172.25.1.4 (the third entry on 
the above list)

> Michelle Konzack
> Systemadministrator
> Tamay Dogan Network
> Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

I always enjoy reading your posts on debian-user, by the way.  Somehow a 
sunny personality manages to shine through the dry tech stuff.

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Re: Quick question

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:00, Gregor Schneider wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> just a short question:
>
> After installing Edge, I see the common-user-$PS1 as follows:
>
> ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$
>
> I understand [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$, however, what does
>
> ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}
>
> do?

From the bash manpage under the "Parameter Expansion" section:

  ${parameter:+word}
  Use  Alternate  Value.   If parameter is null or
  unset, nothing is substituted, otherwise the
  expansion of word is substituted.

Basically, this is to show info about the current chroot you are in. This is 
useful for when you have various chroots (say for different debian 
versions, etc).

The value gets pulled from the environment, or from /etc/debian_chroot. See 
this part of /etc/bash.bashrc:
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
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Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

[Aleksandr Koltsoff]

Hello,
Amaya wrote:
> I maintain the package perforate. It contains a very similar utility,
> zum, that is just a small c binary that seems to do the same.

Thanks for the perforate info.

zum is a resparser for existing files. This is quite different from
filling existing files with binary zero. A resparsing done inside
virtual disks would not make things any easier when compressing the
virtual disk (from outside the vm).

Many people seem to misunderstand the exact problem which zerotools
tries to solve though :-).

> Also take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/294297 and be warned that
> these kind of utilities can ruin a vfat file system (just warning you
> in case you have not thought about it).

One could probably implement the resparsing operation that zum does
using a similar LD_PRELOAD technique, but as you note yourself, sparse
files have interesting properties when the underlying filesystem does
not support sparse files. Also creating new files from inside unlink()
for doing resparsing doesn't at all sound like a thing that I'd like to
see in my systems. zerounlink never creates new files, hence it doesn't
trip over full inode tables and such.

Summa summarum, I don't think that zerotools and perforate/zum overlap
at all. The closest parallel between zum and zerotools is in zerofile,
which is just a mindless utility. I don't imagine people will use
zerofile a lot since the LD_PRELOAD-mechanism (with the wrapper) is much
easier and automatic.

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Re: Quick question

[Mathias Brodala]

Hello Gregor.

Gregor Schneider, 03.01.2007 17:00:
> just a short question:
> 
> After installing Edge, I see the common-user-$PS1 as follows:
> 
> ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$
> 
> I understand [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$, however, what does
> 
> ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}
> 
> do?

Look a few lines above:

> # set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
> if [ -z "$debian_chroot" -a -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
> debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
> fi


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Re: Linux on NPR's Talk on the Nation

[Baz]

On 1/2/07, Scott Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Baz wrote:
>
>> They're discussing Linux on NPR's Talk of the Nation now.  FYI...
>
> I wonder if someone has a link to the podcast...

The segment I suspect Baz is talking about is here:

   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6711038

Linux is mentioned briefly, about 14:30 in, though the rest of the
segment is very interesting also.

Scott.


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Yea, you're right.  I sounded as though they were going to talk about it
extensively, which is why I notified others.

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Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

[Aleksandr Koltsoff]

Hi again,

Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I
> would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do
> with:
> rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile && sync.
> 
> And you introduction does not tell me about anything new in your tools
> and I do not like reading a long novel to learn that simple details.

Thank you for the suggestion. I've modified the intro to cover the first
case, as for the second case (comparison to "bigfile"-technique), that
is already covered in "Other solutions". The "bigfile"-technique is
inferior when one uses virtual disks which are "sparse" (or dynamic as
some virtualization software calls them). When using "flat" (or
preallocated) virtual disk files, the bigfile technique is not so bad,
but personally I prefer an automatic mechanism so that I don't need to
do manual filling or take the virtual system to runlevel 1 specifically
for "bigfile".

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Re: gtk-gnutella problems

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

Sid upgraded my gtk-gnutella to gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1. And
now it does not work. I appear to be firewalled. AFAIK, I have the
right ports in my firewall forwarded (shorewall); this has worked
for years. gtk-gnutella told me that the version is "too old"
(although it is the newest one), and I had to add a line to
~/gtk-gnutella/config.gnet, which I did. However, no contact with
the gnutella network is established when the program starts.

Maybe something is wrong with the new Sid version (although
downgrading to the stable version also does not help). Maybe
something changed in the gnutella network itself. I use
gtk-gnutella fairly rarely, so this problem may actually not be
very recent.

Grateful for any hints,

Regards, Jan




I tried that and have the same sid version.
Changed the ancient variable and gtk-gnutella started running, although 
it complained I was firewalled, but it seemed to find things.


I don't use it much, what were you looking for?

Hugo


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Re: /dev/dsp missing (SOLVED)

[Alan Ianson]

On Wed January 3 2007 07:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:45:25AM +0100, Benjam? Villoslada wrote:
> > El Diumenge 31 Desembre 2006 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure:
> > > Can anyone tell me how to get audio input without disbling the rest of
> > > the sound system? ?That's what I thought I needed /dev/dsp for. I need
> > > to rip cassette tapes of church services to post on the church web
> > > site.
> >
> > Maybe with alsaconf (as root) and then look for mute channels with
> > alsamixer.
>
> The problem is that the recordin programs I've used say they cannot open
> /dev/dsp, and, indeed, when I ls /dev I find that there is no /dev/dsp/
> making the changes mentioned a few posts ago does indeed give me a
> /dev/dsp, but then none of the usual audio programs (like xmms and
> kaffeine) provide any sound.  Would the existence of /dev/dsp set all
> the volume controls to zero?  And would they mysteriously reset to
> their usable values when I undo the changes and reboot without a
> /dev/dsp?
>
> There's something I don't understand here.

Alsa's mixer settings are all muted and set to zero by default, why I don't 
know. I always run aslamixer and set them to good values and then 
run "alsactl store" to save them, but kmix or any other mixer can be used 
also.


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Quick question

[Gregor Schneider]

Hi guys,

just a short question:

After installing Edge, I see the common-user-$PS1 as follows:

${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$

I understand [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$, however, what does

${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}

do?

TIA

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Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

[hendrik]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:02:55PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Monday 01 January 2007 05:51, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> 
> > I do not use KDE, but found this interesting.
> >
> > http://nomis80.org/
> >
> > From the description:
> >   QuadKonsole is a program which embeds 4 Konsoles (other numbers can be
> >   specified on the command-line). This way you save screen real estate,
> >   you don't have to worry about careful placement and the startup time
> >   is faster than starting up 4 separate Konsoles.
> >
> > You can add this one to the above list.
> >
> 
> Thanks. Already added.
> 
> I really miss one feature from all these applications. I would like to have 
> two terminals open side by side. All the input goes to one terminal, all the 
> output (and errors if there are any) comes up in the second terminal. 
> Clicking on a command in the first window should execute the command again.  
> The whole thing looks similar to MATLAB's interface.
> 
> Is there any terminal emulator which provides this kind of facility?

All I can think of is emacs

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Re: /dev/dsp missing (SOLVED)

[hendrik]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:45:25AM +0100, Benjam? Villoslada wrote:
> El Diumenge 31 Desembre 2006 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure:
> > Can anyone tell me how to get audio input without disbling the rest of
> > the sound system? ?That's what I thought I needed /dev/dsp for. I need
> > to rip cassette tapes of church services to post on the church web site.
> 
> Maybe with alsaconf (as root) and then look for mute channels with alsamixer.

The problem is that the recordin programs I've used say they cannot open 
/dev/dsp, and, indeed, when I ls /dev I find that there is no /dev/dsp/
making the changes mentioned a few posts ago does indeed give me a 
/dev/dsp, but then none of the usual audio programs (like xmms and 
kaffeine) provide any sound.  Would the existence of /dev/dsp set all 
the volume controls to zero?  And would they mysteriously reset to 
their usable values when I undo the changes and reboot without a 
/dev/dsp?

There's something I don't understand here.

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Re: jre-6

[David Baron]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:24, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello.  I tried installing jre-6 from
> http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp, using java-package and
> fakeroot, but it did not work.  Is there a way to install jre-6?

I think I got that to work once, a long time ago.

Anyway, I ran Sun's installer which simply makes and fills a directory tree. 
Run it from where you want to move it later on. Be sure to set the 
environment variables and any alternatives links to the new java.


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Re: fglrx driver problems

[Marko Randjelovic]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
Is this module loaded? If it is not, then adding it to /etc/modules 
might be enough.

It is linked statically. Also, module radeon is loaded.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
2.6.18-3-amd64
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep CONFIG_AGP /boot/config-2.6.18-3-amd64
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod|grep radeon
radeon116384  0
drm87080  1 radeon


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Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:02 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> I really miss one feature from all these applications. I would like to have 
> two terminals open side by side. All the input goes to one terminal, all the 
> output (and errors if there are any) comes up in the second terminal. 
> Clicking on a command in the first window should execute the command again.  
> The whole thing looks similar to MATLAB's interface.
> 
> Is there any terminal emulator which provides this kind of facility?

You don't need a special program for that do you?

 echo helloworld &> /dev/pts/1

This will redirect output, both normal and error messages from one
terminal to another. You can list the terminals and their TTY you have
open by typing "w".

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Re: acroread on amd64

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 11:00 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > Also,  what specifically is it you need actual acroread for?  I'm on
> > amd64 and find Etch's evince very nice.
> 
> Entering data into a pdf?

This is being worked on by poppler and evince developers. See
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Forms


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Re: Initiating services when logging on

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 09:14 +, andy wrote:
> With Slackware, using XFce4, I used to know how to do this, but with 
> Etch, using Gnome, I am coming up short: how do I get the xscreensaver 
> (and other services) to initiate when I logon? Each time I logon, and go 
> to use the xscreensaver I am given a message that says the server isn't 
> running and asks whether I want to start it. Well, yes. But, I would 
> like to figure out how to start it automatically.
> I've looked through different dot files but can't see anything obvious.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You could add it to "Startup Programs" in the preferences for your GNOME
Session. Use System > Preferences > Sessions > Startup Programs tab.

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Re: etch: evolution + gmail

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 03:35 -0500, Paul Bransford wrote:
> When I first start evolution, I will get the following error as it tries
> to connect for new messages:
> 
> > Unable to connect to POP server pop.gmail.com.
> > Error sending username: 
> >
> > Please enter the POP password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] on host
> > pop.gmail.com
> 
> It then asks for a password (which is already filled in as I have the
> password saved. If I say OK, (whether or not I keep the filled-in
> password or retype it) it just keeps firing that error.
> 
> But if I press cancel, and then choose "Work Online" from the file menu,
> it connects, logs in, and proceeds to work fine. Next time I run
> evolution, the same problem happens again.

I have the same problem, but I figured it was because I'm running
NetworkManager and it's currently disabled as I have a static
configuration in /etc/network/interfaces.

Are you running NetworkManager too?

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TCP wrapper and sendmail

[Amal Phadke]

Hi all,

It seems to me that sendmail in Etch doesn't honor hosts.allow/deny
even though TCP wrapper support is enabled. I would like to reject mails
from IPs without reverse DNS with "sendmail: ALL EXCEPT UNKNOWN" line in
/etc/hosts.allow. (Mail originating from such IPs is almost exclusively
spam). But this feature doesn't seem to work anymore. Any ideas what
could be wrong?

Thanks,


Amal


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Re: gtk-gnutella problems

[Gerard Robin]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:47:48PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

From: Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: gtk-gnutella problems
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Sid upgraded my gtk-gnutella to gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1. And
now it does not work. I appear to be firewalled. AFAIK, I have the
right ports in my firewall forwarded (shorewall); this has worked
for years. gtk-gnutella told me that the version is "too old"
(although it is the newest one), and I had to add a line to
~/gtk-gnutella/config.gnet, which I did. However, no contact with
the gnutella network is established when the program starts.

Maybe something is wrong with the new Sid version (although
downgrading to the stable version also does not help). Maybe
something changed in the gnutella network itself. I use
gtk-gnutella fairly rarely, so this problem may actually not be
very recent.


I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1 too
(with unstable) and it works fine for me. 


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Problem configure Bind9

[Christian Maier]

Hello!

I have installed bind9 and for now I have trouble configuring it. I
have done all steps discribed in some tuts. Digging google for exapmle
works pretty good (forwarders are ok I think) but digging example.com
fails.

dig example.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> example.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 18363
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com.   IN  A

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.51#53(192.168.0.51)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan  3 15:10:55 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 29

I would be really happy if someone can help me, I played around several
hours but it still does not work.

Thanks
Christian Maier

PS here are my config Files:

names.conf.local
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/bind# cat named.conf.local
//
// Do any local configuration here
//

// Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your
// organization
//include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";

//# This is the zone definition. replace example.com with your domain
name
zone "example.com" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/zones/example.com.db";
};

//# This is the zone definition for reverse DNS. replace 0.168.192 with
your network address in reverse notation - e.g my network address is
192.168.0
zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
 type master;
 file "/etc/bind/zones/rev.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
};

example.com.db

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/bind/zones# cat example.com.db
// replace example.com with your domain name. do not forget the . after
the domain name!
// Also, replace ns1 with the name of your DNS server
example.com.  IN  SOA localhost. (
// Do not modify the following lines!
2006081401
28800
3600
604800
38400
 )

// Replace the following line as necessary:
// ns1 = DNS Server name
// mta = mail server name
// example.com = domain name
example.com.  IN  NS  localhost.
//example.com.  IN  MX 10   chef.

// Replace the IP address with the right IP addresses.
www  IN  A   192.168.0.51
mta  IN  A   192.168.0.51
ns1  IN  A   192.168.0.51
//*IN  A   192.168.0.51
//@IN  A   192.168.0.51

rev.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/bind/zones# cat rev.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
//replace example.com with yoour domain name, ns1 with your DNS server
name.
// The number before IN PTR example.com is the machine address of the
DNS server. in my case, it's 1, as my IP address is 192.168.0.1.
@ IN SOA localhost. (
2006081401;
28800;
604800;
604800;
86400
)

 INNS localhost.
1INPTRexample.com


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/bind/zones# tcpdump port 53
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol
decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
15:14:07.808170 IP 192.168.0.86.4857 > barney.domain:  11912+ A?
example.com. (29)
15:14:07.810669 IP barney.domain > 192.168.0.86.4857:  11912 ServFail
0/0/0 (29)
15:14:07.812010 IP 192.168.0.86.4857 > barney.domain:  2952+ A?
example.com.CI_BHG. (36)
15:14:07.830662 IP barney.32968 > 192.168.0.1.domain:  37035+ [1au] A?
example.com.CI_BHG. (47)
15:14:08.207976 IP 192.168.0.1.domain > barney.32968:  37035 NXDomain
0/1/1 (122)
15:14:08.209026 IP barney.domain > 192.168.0.86.4857:  2952 NXDomain
0/1/0 (111


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Re: webbased SSH server/client

[Juergen Fiedler]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:39:58PM +0100, Mark wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something I can 
> connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a ssh server 
> from that server (Instead of the connection originating from the client)
[...]

ajaxterm works OK for me, and it is in etch, if I am not mistaken.
Not like I have to bypass any firewalls, but it is nice to be able to
ssh to my home machine from any computer that has a web browser
installed.

Good luck,
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Re: fglrx driver problems

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Why not use the fglrx package, It works fine on my Radeon 9600

Sjoerd

Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Marko.
> 
> Marko Randjelovic, 03.01.2007 11:14:
>> Mathias Brodala wrote:
 DESCRIPTION radeon  is  an  Xorg  driver for ATI RADEON based video
 cards. It
 contains […] hardware  3D acceleration (experimental on R300 and R400
 series
 cards),
 
>>> (From the radeon manpage.)
>>>
>>> My Radeon 9600 has an RV350 chip.
>>>   
>> And also from the same man page:
>>
>> RV350   Radeon 9600PRO/9600SE/9600, M10/M11, FireGL T2 (2D only)
>>
>> (no mention of 9550).
> 
> Seems like, but your 9550 should have a R300 chip and should be supported.
> 
>>> What’s the
>>> Xorg.0.log
>>> contents using the radeon driver?
>>>   
>> I attached the file. As I can see from it, my card is detected as "ATI
>> Radeon 9600 AS (AGP)" and DRI cannot be activated because AGP is not
>> available.
>>
>> (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
>> (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
> 
> The line after this is interesting:
> 
>> (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
>> is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
> 
> Is this module loaded? If it is not, then adding it to /etc/modules might be 
> enough.
> 


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Re: a bug with tomcat5.5 on debian

[Gregor Schneider]

start tomcat and type "netstat -lnp" to check on which port tomcat is listening.

besides, since tomcat is a pure-java-installation, i recommend to

- install java from debian-source
- download tomcat from tomcat.apache.org (do not use the debian-source-tree)
- configure tomcat according to your needs
- enjoy

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jre-6

[Mark Grieveson]

Hello.  I tried installing jre-6 from 
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp, using java-package and 
fakeroot, but it did not work.  Is there a way to install jre-6?

Mark


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Re: Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

[Michael Marsh]

On 3 Jan 2007 05:46:15 -0800, kawanokami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi, I want to buy an 7 Port USB2 Powered Hub HU-5770 (I've a laptop and
need the added usb ports). Currently, I'm using debian testing/unstable
on a 2.6.18 kernel and found no info about drivers or linux support on
the Trust site. Is it a safe purchase or am I going to face problems?
Thank you for your support,


I have a powered 4-port hub (I don't remember the model), and I
haven't had any problems with it.  I believe the hubs rely exclusively
on features of the USB standard, so as long as you have working USB on
your laptop, you should be fine.

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Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

[Eduard Bloch]

#include 
* Mike Hommey [Wed, Jan 03 2007, 01:38:23PM]:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:13:27PM +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I
> > would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do
> > with:
> > rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile && sync.
> 
> or just shred crapfiles

Not really. You need to add funny parameters like "-vzn0" to shred to
shred them with zero and then you still need to unlink them manually.
And IMO it is less intuitive than my command chain for this particular
purpose.

Eduard.

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Re: ssh client http(s) based

[Ottavio Caruso]

Liam O'Toole wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:59:29 +0100
> MeneM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something
I
> > can connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a
ssh
> > server from that server (Instead of the connection originating
from
> > the client)
> > 
> > Trying to circumvent a firewall that only let's out port 80 and
443
> > AND proxied.
> > 
> > I've browsed sourceforge and googled on it, but i'm only able to
find 
> > java based clients, but they all start the ssh connection
straight
> > from the client instead of the server.
> > 
> > Do you guys perhaps have a suggestion?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> > 
> > 
> 
> The perl script available at
> 
> http://zwitterion.org/software/ssh-https-tunnel/ssh-https-tunnel
> 
> will help you.

Mind you, if the proxy is just a http proxy and does not support the
CONNECT method, you're out of luck!

The only tried and tested method I can suggest is some sort of cgi or
php shell:
http://www.rohitab.com/cgiscripts/cgitelnet.html

Regards

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Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

[kawanokami]

Hi, I want to buy an 7 Port USB2 Powered Hub HU-5770 (I've a laptop and
need the added usb ports). Currently, I'm using debian testing/unstable
on a 2.6.18 kernel and found no info about drivers or linux support on
the Trust site. Is it a safe purchase or am I going to face problems?
Thank you for your support,

Kawa


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solved: etch 965Q video 16:10

[Jörg Becker]

I solved the 16:10/965Q problem by the following steps:

1. Rebuild the intel-agp module with intel-agp.c merged with the 2.6.19.1 
version of kernel.org to get the needed memory.

2. Build the current (or at least version 2.2) of drm. This is needed by the 
current i810 driver. You find the sources here:
git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm

3. For the 16:10 mode I need the modesetting driver (i810 from unstable),  but 
it does not work on my machine (965Q graphic). It reports the chipset, but I 
have no signal (display goes directly into power save mode). So I build the 
current version of the i810 driver from the following sources:
$ git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
git checkout modesetting

For more information see
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1646660

Note: The mentioned compiling problem should be solved in the current version 
(i830.h has the defines). But I had still a compile error in one c file. The 
reason was a missing include of i830.h (it was in the code, but in comments).


This changes are very 'local'. I have updated neither the kernel nor X11. And 
the changes concern 'only' the intel/amd platforms. So I hope to see the 
updated modules for supporting the popular 965 chipset in etch (or at least 
in sid or etch backports) someday.

Re: a bug with tomcat5.5 on debian

[Виталий Ищенко]

В Срд, 03/01/2007 в 01:49 +0200, Martin Paraskevov пишет:
> I installed tomcat5.5 on my Debian box (using apt-get)
> but when I tried starting tomcat by running
> 
> /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start
> 
> it would just print:
> 
> Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5.
> 
> but Tomcat won't start. After reading tons of documentation
Why do you thing that tomcat is not running?

P.S. On debian it listens on port 8180 not 8080

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Douglas Tutty wrote:

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:01:30AM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:30:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote:

Why are you worried about power consumption on a desktop?

Hi Doug,

Well, a few reasons. It seems like the right thing to do vis-a-vis global
sustainability, etc. I'd like to save a little bit of money. And, reducing
the temperature of the box will increase the life/reliability of the
components.

I average about 400 watts power consumption, and I think a large fraction
of that, perhaps even the majority, is my two computers on 24/7. Each watt
I save wins me around $0.60 annually; not much, true, but if I can manage
to save 50 watts, that's a dinner out.


Hi Reid,

I'm assuming that you only have a screen on when you need it (I use
CRTs, no flat panels yet).  Look at if you really need two computers on
24/7.  FYI my box has internal temp = ambient (22 C) and CPU runs at 40
C.

I would suggest poking around in your boxes finding out what specfically
in them is using the power.  Hook an ampmeter (or better yet RMS watt
meter but buying one would probably buy you a few years of the hydro you
may save by the exercise) to the AC to your computers.  With them shut
down, disconnect everyting but the main board and CPU fan (leave box
open).  Power that on and you'll see the power used by the MB/CPU, turn
of before POST finishes.  Then make up a power adapter to let you check
the current going to each of the drives.  In short, tally everything up
and see what could be reduced and don't assume that the biggest power
hog is the CPU.

If your CPU is a big hog, re-evaluate if you need such a powerfull CPU
and consider downgrading to a lower-power unit, possibly even a mobile
one.

Consider consolidating so you only need one computer on 24/7.

Good hunting.

Doug.



I haven't done that, but I notice something interesting on CPU power 
usage: I have a Backups LS-500 to save me from power outages and I 
monitor the TIMELEFT (on battery only) on the second in an applet. That 
right now is at 22.5 minutes with only 2% CPU. But when that CPU goes to 
100% the TIMELEFT drops to something like 15 minutes.


Of course I don't know what that translates into.

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Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Douglas Tutty wrote:

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:19:34AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Douglas Tutty wrote:

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:40:11 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote:

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:

I would like to make my Etch box use less power, but I'm having a hard
time consolidating all the information I'm finding. Is there a package I
can install or a web page I can read that is a gentle guide to reducing 
my

power usage?


A good place to start may be something like the laptop-howto.

What power are you trying to reduce?  Beware spinning down drives to
reduce power; spinning up reduces drive life.

Thanks for your reply. It is a self-built Athlon desktop, though I assume
much of the advice in the laptop-howto will be relevant. I will take a
look. I'm happy to provide more specs on the box if that will be helpful.

I'm not really sure how to answer your question. I know that spinning down
drives is not such a good idea, and that I can reduce processor speed when
idle (though how I don't know), but beyond that I don't have a good idea
of what options are available to me.


Hi Reid,

I'm running Etch amd64 on my box (Athlon 3800+, Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe MB,
1 GB stick of DDR2 800, dual Seagate Barracuda 80 GB drives, DVD burner,
Asus nVidia 7300 GT silent GPU, in a CoolerMaster Stacker case with
cross-flow fan, blow-hole fan, three drive modules with 120 mm fans, CM
iGreen 600W PSU).

I have the MB handle the fan speeds (adjusts for temperature, not for
quiet) and most of the time can't hear anything but a slight directional
high-pitch from the CPU fan.

I just put an ampmeter on it during boot and it uses 1.2 A at 120 V so
that's 100W.

I note that theres a package to throttle the CPU based on load.  I don't
know if this reduces the power consumption for what you're looking for.
It may primarily just reduce the CPU temperature (although mine hovers
at around 40 C).

Why are you worried about power consumption on a desktop?

Doug.


I measure exactly my system uptime/month and the KWH used where the 
computer and a desklamp are the only devices using electricity.


The latest data shows:

Mon May 01-05:38:44 04595 == 89  KWH 1 month 303:50 == 205 mins/KWH + Fan
Thu Jun 01-05:52:17 04687 == 92  KWH 1 month 284:30 == 186 mins/KWH + Fan
Sat Jul 01-09:05:37 04769 == 82  KWH 1 month 232:35 == 170 mins/KWH + Fan
Tue Aug 01-09:43:58 04851 == 82  KWH 1 month 271:15 == 198 mins/KWH + Fan
Fri Sep 01-09:27:08 04932 == 81  KWH 1 month ---not running
Sun Oct 01-09:31:20 05001 == 69  KWH 1 month 238:55 == 208 mins/KWH
Wed Nov 01-07:06:51 05069 == 68  KWH 1 month 236:20 == 208 mins/KWH
Fri Dec 01-07:50:31 05127 == 58  KWH 1 month 228:55 == 236 mins/KWH - no Fan
Mon Jan 01-06:37:15 05211 == 84  KWH 1 month 222:35 == 159 mins/KWH ??? 
no Fan 


So I get variations between 159 - 236 mins/KWH, which is a huge variation.

E.g. this month the system uptime was almost the same as last month ( - 
6 hours) yet the difference in KWH was a whopping 26 KWH!


And the explanation? Can that be accounted for by what the system was 
running? E.g. a new USB disk?


(geographical location = Mexico)



I think I have the math right: 6 Watt-Minutes = 1 KWH; 6 / 159 =
377 Watts.  6 / 236 = 254 = 254 Watt.

How big is your desk lamp?

The other issue is power-factor.  Hydro meters measure KWH (watt-time,
in effect energy in jouls) whereas power supplies use Volt-Amp.  


The last time I looked at this seriously was when I was living in the
bush (in Canada) with unreliable power and had the whole house on an
inverter/battery setup.  The pure sine-wave inverter did the
power-factor correction and my P-75 used 20 W with one hard drive.

Good luck,

Doug.



Interesting. The lamp is a dual fluorescent desklamp that I got when I 
started with IBM in 1966. Has 2 OSRAM L 15W/10 in it. But I always have 
that on.


I just don't get the variation.

Hugo














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Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:13:27PM +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I
> would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do
> with:
> rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile && sync.

or just shred crapfiles

Mike


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Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

[Eduard Bloch]

#include 
* Aleksandr Koltsoff [Wed, Jan 03 2007, 05:47:36AM]:
> Hello
> 
> It was suggested that I'd post a short announcement on these two lists
> in order to get some feedback for a small set of utilities I just
> released. The documentation covers integrating the tools into Debian and
> I'd appreciate feedback on that part. Especially if I'm doing something
> which is out of line established Debian policies (hence the debian-devel
> list) [these parts are mainly listings 7 - 9 with the associated text].
> 
> I'll copy & paste the introduction text so that you may decide whether
> the program might be of interest to you. Target users for the tools are
> people who run Linux systems in a virtualized environment.
> 
> "Introduction
> 
> Zerotools are a set of tools to aid keeping virtual disks clean (by
> filling binary zero to those regions which are no longer in "use"). This

Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I
would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do
with:
rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile && sync.

And you introduction does not tell me about anything new in your tools
and I do not like reading a long novel to learn that simple details.

Something like:

Introduction

Zerotools are a set of tools to aid keeping virtual disks clean (by
filling binary zero to those regions which are no longer in use as
visible files). In technical terms, they contain a library wrapper used
with LD_PRELOAD to make unlink calls zero-out the data before unlinking
the files and helper executables based on it.
...

Eduard.


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Re: Freecom 27047 external HD

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 31.12.06 17:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm considering buying a Freecom 27047 external HD (400GB/Highspeed USB).
> I'm running Debian testing with a 2.6.17 kernel. Although Linux is not
> listed as a required OS, I don't see why this couldn't be used with Debian.

you probably mean 'supported'.

> Does anyone have any experience in this area?

I have no experience, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. Disk
drives, unlike modems, usually support USB storage standard (I haven't
seen/heard about any that does not)
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gtk-gnutella problems

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Sid upgraded my gtk-gnutella to gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1. And
now it does not work. I appear to be firewalled. AFAIK, I have the
right ports in my firewall forwarded (shorewall); this has worked
for years. gtk-gnutella told me that the version is "too old"
(although it is the newest one), and I had to add a line to
~/gtk-gnutella/config.gnet, which I did. However, no contact with
the gnutella network is established when the program starts.

Maybe something is wrong with the new Sid version (although
downgrading to the stable version also does not help). Maybe
something changed in the gnutella network itself. I use
gtk-gnutella fairly rarely, so this problem may actually not be
very recent.

Grateful for any hints,

Regards, Jan


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Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

[Douglas Tutty]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:01:30AM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:30:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> >
> > Why are you worried about power consumption on a desktop?
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> Well, a few reasons. It seems like the right thing to do vis-a-vis global
> sustainability, etc. I'd like to save a little bit of money. And, reducing
> the temperature of the box will increase the life/reliability of the
> components.
> 
> I average about 400 watts power consumption, and I think a large fraction
> of that, perhaps even the majority, is my two computers on 24/7. Each watt
> I save wins me around $0.60 annually; not much, true, but if I can manage
> to save 50 watts, that's a dinner out.

Hi Reid,

I'm assuming that you only have a screen on when you need it (I use
CRTs, no flat panels yet).  Look at if you really need two computers on
24/7.  FYI my box has internal temp = ambient (22 C) and CPU runs at 40
C.

I would suggest poking around in your boxes finding out what specfically
in them is using the power.  Hook an ampmeter (or better yet RMS watt
meter but buying one would probably buy you a few years of the hydro you
may save by the exercise) to the AC to your computers.  With them shut
down, disconnect everyting but the main board and CPU fan (leave box
open).  Power that on and you'll see the power used by the MB/CPU, turn
of before POST finishes.  Then make up a power adapter to let you check
the current going to each of the drives.  In short, tally everything up
and see what could be reduced and don't assume that the biggest power
hog is the CPU.

If your CPU is a big hog, re-evaluate if you need such a powerfull CPU
and consider downgrading to a lower-power unit, possibly even a mobile
one.

Consider consolidating so you only need one computer on 24/7.

Good hunting.

Doug.

 


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Re: Unable to Unmount Flash Drive

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> >> Error
> >> Cannot unmount volume

> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:41:11 -0800, John Serafin wrote:
> > Some process has its current working directory on the flash drive or
> > some application has a file on the flash drive open.

On 31.12.06 20:56, Volker Braun wrote:
> This will show all programs that have files open under any directory:
> 
> /usr/sbin/lsof | grep 
> 
> Your  is probably /media/usbdisk 

I thouyght lsof / works too...
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XFS/LVM is not mounting anymore during boot

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hello folks,

have Debian 3.1, and after update in late december started having
strange issue with XFS/LVM partitions which are not mounted
automatically on boot... My system is

### uname -a ###
Linux [cut] 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Dec 5 23:17:50 UTC 2006 i686
GNU/Linux

### fdisk -l ###
Disk /dev/sda: 220.2 GB, 220219834368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26773 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   1  12   96358+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2  13   26773   214957732+  8e  Linux LVM

### lvscan ###
  ACTIVE'/dev/vdisk/swap' [10,00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/vdisk/root' [10,00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/vdisk/home' [10,00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/vdisk/opt' [10,00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE'/dev/vdisk/var' [10,00 GB] inherit
  [... and many others...]

### cat /etc/fstab ###
/dev/sda1   /boot   ext2defaults
0 2
proc/proc   procdefault
0 0
/dev/mapper/vdisk-swap  noneswapsw
1 0
/dev/mapper/vdisk-root  /   xfs defaults
0 1
/dev/mapper/vdisk-opt   /optxfs defaults
0 2
/dev/mapper/vdisk-var   /varxfs defaults
0 2
/dev/mapper/vdisk-home  /home   xfs defaults
0 2

###

The fact is... once I boot the system it just goes up, and hangs during
boot process since GDM is not able to start (conf files are located on
missing partitions). Everything seems right, if I do

mount -av -t nonfs,nonfs4,nosmbfs,nocifs,noncp,noncpfs,nocoda 2>&1 |
egrep -v '(already|nothing was) mounted'

 by hand (as /etc/init.d/mountall.sh should do) and magically all
partitions are back again... but why this doesn't happen on boot?

default runlevel is

### grep default /etc/inittab ###
id:2:initdefault:

and rc2.d has following services

### ls /etc/rc2.d/ ###
K00lpd  S10sysklogd   S20cupsysS20nscd S20winbind
K00ppp  S11klogd  S20dbus-1S20postgresql   S89anacron
K20gdm  S13apcupsdS20exim4 S20sambaS89cron
K20gpm  S20acpid  S20firewall  S20snortS99rmnologin
K20makedev  S20atdS20inetd S20ssh  S99stop-bootlogd
K20slapdS20bootclean  S20mysql S20ups-monitor

###

therefore I suppose that LVM starts before MOUNTALL, and indeed after I
login locally I can see that /dev/mapper is populated with all the
needed partitions.

Did anyone ever had this kind of problem? Is there any settings that
filters out partitions to mount during boot? Thanks in advance.


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Re: Initiating services when logging on

[andy]

Liam O'Toole wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:14:45 +
andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  

Greetings one & all

With Slackware, using XFce4, I used to know how to do this, but with 
Etch, using Gnome, I am coming up short: how do I get the

xscreensaver (and other services) to initiate when I logon? Each time
I logon, and go to use the xscreensaver I am given a message that
says the server isn't running and asks whether I want to start it.
Well, yes. But, I would like to figure out how to start it
automatically. I've looked through different dot files but can't see
anything obvious.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

A





There are a few ways to do this with GNOME:

1. Start the screensaver, then start gnome-session-properties and save
your current session.
2. Start the screensaver, then save your session when logging out.
3. Put a .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart (for all users) or
~/.config/autostart (per user). Or use a link to an existing .desktop
file instead.

  
Thanks Liam - will use one of these suggestions, probably the first - 
nice and easy.


Cheers

A