why sarge is so noisy

[Serena Cantor]

I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server)
The machine is my bedroom and scsi disk make noise from time to time (it's 
read/writing)

which script cause reading/writing? Let's assume it's default installation. I 
don't start any
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lsi logic 1068 controller supported?

[x x]

Hi,

LSI Logic 1068 controller is supported in the debian linux?

Thanks

Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a
single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure
this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play
twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def
systems, but just so i can listen to music while
getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever.

If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my
problem is that sometimes i seem to have something
blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it
is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then
if i try to run xmms i get a "something's blocking
your sound card" message, or if i play a YouTube video
i just get no sound at all.

When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking
hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play
what i want?

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Re: How to restore restore grub after a Windows reinstall?

[V A R G U X]

2007/9/6, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Alfredo Finol F wrote:
> > El jue, 06-09-2007 a las 22:07 -0400, Cavan Mejias escribió:
> >
> >>  I think my windows XP partition might have a virus or
> >> maybe some of the Microsoft files are damaged.  Its running very slow
> >> but linux works fine. I wonder if anyone can tell me if  I can
> >> reinstall windows without messing up grub? Or should I just resign
> >> myself to a fresh install of  both OSes? Any comments or advice
> >> appreciated.
> >>
> >>  Cavan
> >>
> >
> > You can install Win again, but you have to find for a Live CD an then
> > restore grub follow the next steps:
> > 1) mount the Windows partition
> > 2) with the command grub-install, you can reinstall the grub on the MBR
> > 3) and the last, reboot an try
> >
> No need to mount the Windows partition. And it can be the Debian
> installer or rescue CD rather than a LiveCD (although I typically use a
> LiveCD, as Alfredo suggests, 'cause I usually have one handy).
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Re: How to restore restore grub after a Windows reinstall?

[Kent West]

Alfredo Finol F wrote:

El jue, 06-09-2007 a las 22:07 -0400, Cavan Mejias escribió:
  

 I think my windows XP partition might have a virus or
maybe some of the Microsoft files are damaged.  Its running very slow
but linux works fine. I wonder if anyone can tell me if  I can
reinstall windows without messing up grub? Or should I just resign
myself to a fresh install of  both OSes? Any comments or advice
appreciated. 


 Cavan



You can install Win again, but you have to find for a Live CD an then
restore grub follow the next steps:
1) mount the Windows partition
2) with the command grub-install, you can reinstall the grub on the MBR
3) and the last, reboot an try
  
No need to mount the Windows partition. And it can be the Debian 
installer or rescue CD rather than a LiveCD (although I typically use a 
LiveCD, as Alfredo suggests, 'cause I usually have one handy).


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how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

[Jonas Meurer]

hello,

i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0
host kernel yet.

that's because i would like to use a recent linux kernel (2.6.20 at
least), build it the debian way (with make-kpkg), and as well build
some external modules (nvidia-legacy-96xx, ivtv) with module-assistent
for it.

in irc (#xen or ##xen) i was told to use the ubuntu linux-source-2.6.22
2.6.22-10.30 package, and according to the changelog it should contain
xen patches, but unfortunately a 'make menuconfig' in the sources didn't
give any xen options in 'processor-type and features'.

so how do you compile a xen dom0 host-kernel? is it possible with recent 
kernel sources, and where do i find the corresponding xen patches?

thanks in advance,
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[Alfredo Finol F]

El jue, 06-09-2007 a las 22:07 -0400, Cavan Mejias escribió:
>  I think my windows XP partition might have a virus or
> maybe some of the Microsoft files are damaged.  Its running very slow
> but linux works fine. I wonder if anyone can tell me if  I can
> reinstall windows without messing up grub? Or should I just resign
> myself to a fresh install of  both OSes? Any comments or advice
> appreciated. 
> 
>  Cavan

You can install Win again, but you have to find for a Live CD an then
restore grub follow the next steps:
1) mount the Windows partition
2) with the command grub-install, you can reinstall the grub on the MBR
3) and the last, reboot an try


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[Cavan Mejias]

 I think my windows XP partition might have a virus or maybe
some of the Microsoft files are damaged.  Its running very slow but linux
works fine. I wonder if anyone can tell me if  I can reinstall windows
without messing up grub? Or should I just resign myself to a fresh install
of  both OSes? Any comments or advice appreciated.

 Cavan

Re: KDSETKEYCODE: No Such Device. Cannot Set scancode xx to keycode xxx.

[Michael Yang]

i restored one package *** gnome-desktop-environment ***, and now it backs
fine.

I meant to remove unnecessary packages to make my system clean, keeping only
what I want.
I'm still wondering if there is a way to uncheck this package and also to
get the problem resolved?

anyway, it could be a work around now having this package restored.

thanks to you guys.
Appreciated for your helps

On 9/7/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:05:07 +0800, Michael Yang wrote:
> > Hi guys:
> >
> > I installed debian 4.0R1 etch on my DELL pc and have been working on it
> for
> > days.
> >
> > All of a sudden when I reboot the system (maybe has some thing with what
> I
> > did on gnome package management),
>
> It would help to know which packages you (un)installed right before the
> problem started. Check out the /var/log/dpkg.log* files.
>
> >   the system can not start X
> automatically,
> > and there are many error messages during startup:
> > " failed to set scancode 89 to keycode 161
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > failed to set scancode 85 to keycode 224
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > ."
> >
> > after I login in, I can start X manually, and the GNOME desktop can be
> > started working fine.
> >
> > Does anybody has idea of how to repair this? I don't know if there is
> > something wrong potentially with the hardware or not.
>
> To rule out hardware problems, test your system with Knoppix or another
> suitable live CD.
>
> My guess is that you accidentally uninstalled one of the packages that
> handles the keyboard setup. What output do you get for:
>
> dpkg -l \*console\* \*kbd\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
>
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Re: KDSETKEYCODE: No Such Device. Cannot Set scancode xx to keycode xxx.

[Michael Yang]

I just reinstalled the gnome tools I had uninstalled, and also check the
console kbd package, the problem still exists: error message during startup,
can not start X automatically.

If its about the keymap, which package should I have?
I checked in the installed package, there are console-data console-tools and
the kbd I just installed.

Thanks for your help!

On 9/7/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:05:07 +0800, Michael Yang wrote:
> > Hi guys:
> >
> > I installed debian 4.0R1 etch on my DELL pc and have been working on it
> for
> > days.
> >
> > All of a sudden when I reboot the system (maybe has some thing with what
> I
> > did on gnome package management),
>
> It would help to know which packages you (un)installed right before the
> problem started. Check out the /var/log/dpkg.log* files.
>
> >   the system can not start X
> automatically,
> > and there are many error messages during startup:
> > " failed to set scancode 89 to keycode 161
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > failed to set scancode 85 to keycode 224
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > ."
> >
> > after I login in, I can start X manually, and the GNOME desktop can be
> > started working fine.
> >
> > Does anybody has idea of how to repair this? I don't know if there is
> > something wrong potentially with the hardware or not.
>
> To rule out hardware problems, test your system with Knoppix or another
> suitable live CD.
>
> My guess is that you accidentally uninstalled one of the packages that
> handles the keyboard setup. What output do you get for:
>
> dpkg -l \*console\* \*kbd\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
>
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Re: KDSETKEYCODE: No Such Device. Cannot Set scancode xx to keycode xxx.

[Michael Yang]

On 9/7/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:05:07 +0800, Michael Yang wrote:
> > Hi guys:
> >
> > I installed debian 4.0R1 etch on my DELL pc and have been working on it
> for
> > days.
> >
> > All of a sudden when I reboot the system (maybe has some thing with what
> I
> > did on gnome package management),
>
> It would help to know which packages you (un)installed right before the
> problem started. Check out the /var/log/dpkg.log* files.

I am not sure which package removal caused this.
I was doing sth cleaning the packages that is not what I want, like
Openoffice, which will remove some kind of gnome tools as I saw during the
removal.

>   the system can not start X
> automatically,
> > and there are many error messages during startup:
> > " failed to set scancode 89 to keycode 161
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > failed to set scancode 85 to keycode 224
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > ."
> >
> > after I login in, I can start X manually, and the GNOME desktop can be
> > started working fine.
> >
> > Does anybody has idea of how to repair this? I don't know if there is
> > something wrong potentially with the hardware or not.
>
> To rule out hardware problems, test your system with Knoppix or another
> suitable live CD.
>
> My guess is that you accidentally uninstalled one of the packages that
> handles the keyboard setup. What output do you get for:
>
> dpkg -l \*console\* \*kbd\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'


There is nothing output for this command, I guess the package has been
uninstalled.
I am to install the packages that has been marked as deinstall, to see what
will happen

Thank you guys!
really appreciated!

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After Installing ISO Image I cant access GUI and Nedd "sources.list" file

[Mostafijur Rahman]

Hello, 

 I tried to install GUI after installing my ISO CD.But I think problem in file 
/etc/apt/sources.list . 

I copy the example file in my /etc/apt/sources.list file 
http://wiki.debian.org/sources%2elist_example?highlight=%28sources.list%29

After that I run apt-get update but when I run this command it cannot access 
many sources. and giving the following many Warning

(/var/lib/apt/lists/WebSiteName_FileName_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No 
such file or directory)

Can anybody give me the appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list file?

Thanks

   
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Re: apachectl

[Raquel]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:44:54 -0700 (PDT)
Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Raquel wrote:
> 
> > I'm just setting up a new server with Apache2 and notice that
> > there's no "apachectl" included.  Is another package required to
> > get apachectl?
> >
> > I've done an
> >  #apt-cache search apachectl
> > and haven't been able to find anything.
> >
> > -- 
> > Raquel
> 
> I think you are looking for apache2ctl, as apachectl would be part
> of the  apache1 branch. it should be in the apache2.2-common
> package
> 
> 

Now I can't believe I asked the question!  Thank you for the
reminder that I'm in Apache2 now.  ;-)

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Re: apachectl

[Jeff D]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Raquel wrote:


I'm just setting up a new server with Apache2 and notice that
there's no "apachectl" included.  Is another package required to get
apachectl?

I've done an
 #apt-cache search apachectl
and haven't been able to find anything.

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I think you are looking for apache2ctl, as apachectl would be part of the 
apache1 branch. it should be in the apache2.2-common package



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Re: apachectl

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

2007/9/6, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm just setting up a new server with Apache2 and notice that
> there's no "apachectl" included.  Is another package required to get
> apachectl?
>
> I've done an
>   #apt-cache search apachectl
> and haven't been able to find anything.
>
> --
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hI,

You can use /etc/init.d/apache2

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apachectl

[Raquel]

I'm just setting up a new server with Apache2 and notice that
there's no "apachectl" included.  Is another package required to get
apachectl?

I've done an
  #apt-cache search apachectl
and haven't been able to find anything.

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omnibusses, at lectures and concerts, and in many other ways show us
great respect where nothing but form is concerned...But at the same
time they are defrauding us of our just rights by crowding us out of
every lucrative employment, and subjecting us to virtual slavery.
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Re: LEDs, gnome-power-manager, and ThinkPads

[Jens Peter Secher]

On 05/09/07, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My script is 100% reliable suspending to RAM while the various other
> utilities were not.

Would you like to share?  ;-)

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Re: clamav: uptodate or not?

[Mumia W..]

On 09/06/2007 02:19 PM, Rody wrote:
How can i tell if clamav is up to date? 

If i run freshclam as root it tells me that main.inc is up to date, but as all 
mirrors refuse to connect, i can't say if daily.inc and any other file are 
ever updated. (too often connections with outdated version)


When i run the gui antivirus scanner (1.1.2) that uses clamav, it tells me the 
virus database is 3 months old. Trying to update from that program is useless 
however, as freshclam needs to be setuid clamav. I did that once, but when it 
was updated to a new version, it removed that setuid part. So i left it as it 
was probably not ment to be set setuid?


The problem comes down to the makers of clamav dictating that everyone should 
use their latest version. 


I agree this is annoying.

I also understand why debian wouldn't want to put 
this latest version in etch's repo just yet. 

I'm curious as to what is the recommended way to handle this: stick with the 
debian releases or install clamav by hand each time they come up with yet 
another new version...


Rody




I recommend installing from http://www.backports.org/

Then configure sudo to allow your normal user account to start freshclam.


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Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

[Jeff D]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Chris wrote:


On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:35, Celejar wrote:

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:13:02 +0200

Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4
unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while
to start on boot.

I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop
system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted.  Is this really
the case?


It shouldn't be uninstalled since many daemons and system management
tasks report via email, and they expect to find an MTA to send the mail
with.

If your system isn't connected to the internet on boot, have you

configured minimal-dns? From 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config':

In normal mode of operation Exim does DNS lookups at startup, and when
??? ??? receiving or delivering messages. This is for logging purposes and
   ??? ??? allows keeping down the number of hard-coded values in the
  ??? ??? configuration.
 ??? ???
??? ??? If this system does not have a DNS full service resolver
available at??? ??? all times (for example if its Internet access is a
dial-up line using??? ??? dial-on-demand), this might have unwanted
consequences. For example, ??? ??? starting up Exim or running the queue
(even with no messages waiting)??? ??? might trigger a costly
dial-up-event.??? ???
 ??? ??? This option
should be selected if this system is using Dial-on-Demand.   ??? ??? If it
has always-on Internet access, this option should be disabled.>

Thanks for any suggestions,

Chris


Celejar
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Thanks, I tried that and it didn't help, but I'm not sure I know which of the
five types of setup choices really applies to me, and I'll have to read up
some more on that.

I have to say that  I'm actually only interested in using Debian as a desktop
system, and sort of feel like it is making me install a mail server.  I
wouldn't care if choosing "no configuration at this time" didn't cause
problems, but in my case it seems to be timing out on boot.

Thanks,

C



Theres always the option of disabling it all together.

update-rc.d -f exim4 remove

But, as others have said, its good to have a MTA running for notifications 
like cron, logcheck and others to go out. I would possibley install 
exim4-daemon-light, set delivery to local only, check to make sure your 
hostname is in /etc/hosts and set hosts in /etc/nsswitch.conf to: hosts: 
files dns



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Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

[Guillermo Garron]

On 9/6/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4
> unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while to
> start on boot.
>
> I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop
> system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted.  Is this really the
> case?
Hi, I have the same problem in my Desktop with Debian but only when it
is not connected to Internet while booting up, try to measure the
MTA's starting time when connected and when not connected to the
Internet to see if that is the difference, I don't know if it can or
can not be un-installed, sorry

Guillermo Garron
http://www.go2linux.org
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Chris
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Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

[Chris]

On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:35, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:13:02 +0200
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4
> > unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while
> > to start on boot.
> >
> > I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop
> > system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted.  Is this really
> > the case?
>
> It shouldn't be uninstalled since many daemons and system management
> tasks report via email, and they expect to find an MTA to send the mail
> with.
>
> If your system isn't connected to the internet on boot, have you
>
> configured minimal-dns? From 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config':
> > In normal mode of operation Exim does DNS lookups at startup, and when  
> > │ │ receiving or delivering messages. This is for logging purposes and   
> >│ │ allows keeping down the number of hard-coded values in the
> >   │ │ configuration. 
> >  │ │ 
> > │ │ If this system does not have a DNS full service resolver
> > available at│ │ all times (for example if its Internet access is a
> > dial-up line using│ │ dial-on-demand), this might have unwanted
> > consequences. For example, │ │ starting up Exim or running the queue
> > (even with no messages waiting)│ │ might trigger a costly
> > dial-up-event.│ │
> >  │ │ This option
> > should be selected if this system is using Dial-on-Demand.   │ │ If it
> > has always-on Internet access, this option should be disabled.>
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
> >
> > Chris
>
> Celejar
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Thanks, I tried that and it didn't help, but I'm not sure I know which of the 
five types of setup choices really applies to me, and I'll have to read up 
some more on that.

I have to say that  I'm actually only interested in using Debian as a desktop 
system, and sort of feel like it is making me install a mail server.  I 
wouldn't care if choosing "no configuration at this time" didn't cause 
problems, but in my case it seems to be timing out on boot.

Thanks,

C

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Re: apt-get problems (lm-sensors)

[Florian Kulzer]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:24:43 +0200, chris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded (partialy) to ETCH from Sarge.

Does "partially" mean "without reading the release notes"?

> but some dependencies did not meet.
> 
> when I try e.g.
> apt-get install nmap
> 
> i get following:

[ snip: signs of an incomplete XFree86 to X.Org transition ]

> Preparing to replace lm-sensors 1:2.10.1-3 (using .../lm-
> sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement lm-sensors ...
> /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found
> Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found
> Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/lm-
> sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found
> Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/lm-sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I really don't understand what it means using .../lm-
> sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb (I did not want to install it - I
> already installed lm-sensors 1:2.10.1-3

Most probably the previous installation attempt was not successful; this
means that apt has to try again at every opportunity.

> can anybody suggest anything to try to move forward with this.

Read

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html

especially sections 5.2 (kernel upgrade and module-init-tools) and 5.3
(XFree86 to X.Org). Try to remember exactly what you did so far and
decide if you think that you can still fix these issues or if it will be
easier to install Etch "from scratch" (after backing up your $HOME).

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Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

[Michael Dominok]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:13:02 +0200
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4 
> unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while to 
> start on boot.

Googling for (parts of your) subject "Starting MTA takes long" would have taken 
you directly to
http://datenroulette.de/blog/index.php?blog=4&title=starting_mta_takes_a_long_time&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
which is only one of multriplillions of hi(n)ts you would have gotten if you 
had tried figuring it out yourself in the first place.

> I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop 
> system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted.  Is this really the 
> case?

Yep. There're background jobs mailing "you" if something's going wrong or not. 
Without MTA you won't get this messages.


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Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

[Chris]

On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:27, Michael Dominok wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:13:02 +0200
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4
> > unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while
> > to start on boot.
>
> Googling for (parts of your) subject "Starting MTA takes long" would have
> taken you directly to
> http://datenroulette.de/blog/index.php?blog=4&title=starting_mta_takes_a_lo
>ng_time&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 which is only one of multriplillions of hi(n)ts
> you would have gotten if you had tried figuring it out yourself in the
> first place.
>
> > I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop
> > system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted.  Is this really
> > the case?
>
> Yep. There're background jobs mailing "you" if something's going wrong or
> not. Without MTA you won't get this messages.

What kind of messages, more information than in the log files?  It's a desktop 
system, not some critical server.

Btw. you have my permission to ignore my future idiotic posts.

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Re: Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

[Celejar]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:13:02 +0200
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4 
> unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while to 
> start on boot.
> 
> I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop 
> system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted.  Is this really the 
> case?

It shouldn't be uninstalled since many daemons and system management
tasks report via email, and they expect to find an MTA to send the mail
with.

If your system isn't connected to the internet on boot, have you
configured minimal-dns? From 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config':

> In normal mode of operation Exim does DNS lookups at startup, and when   │  
>   │ receiving or delivering messages. This is for logging purposes and   
> │  
>   │ allows keeping down the number of hard-coded values in the   
> │  
>   │ configuration.   
> │  
>   │  
> │  
>   │ If this system does not have a DNS full service resolver available at
> │  
>   │ all times (for example if its Internet access is a dial-up line using
> │  
>   │ dial-on-demand), this might have unwanted consequences. For example, 
> │  
>   │ starting up Exim or running the queue (even with no messages waiting)
> │  
>   │ might trigger a costly dial-up-event.
> │  
>   │  
> │  
>   │ This option should be selected if this system is using Dial-on-Demand.   
> │  
>   │ If it has always-on Internet access, this option should be disabled.> 

> Thanks for any suggestions,
> 
> Chris

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clamav: uptodate or not?

[Rody]

How can i tell if clamav is up to date? 

If i run freshclam as root it tells me that main.inc is up to date, but as all 
mirrors refuse to connect, i can't say if daily.inc and any other file are 
ever updated. (too often connections with outdated version)

When i run the gui antivirus scanner (1.1.2) that uses clamav, it tells me the 
virus database is 3 months old. Trying to update from that program is useless 
however, as freshclam needs to be setuid clamav. I did that once, but when it 
was updated to a new version, it removed that setuid part. So i left it as it 
was probably not ment to be set setuid?

The problem comes down to the makers of clamav dictating that everyone should 
use their latest version. I also understand why debian wouldn't want to put 
this latest version in etch's repo just yet. 

I'm curious as to what is the recommended way to handle this: stick with the 
debian releases or install clamav by hand each time they come up with yet 
another new version...

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Starting MTA: why does it take so long?

[Chris]

Hi,

I have several desktop systems, and regadless of whether I leave exim4 
unconfigured, or setup for local system use only, it takes quite a while to 
start on boot.

I don't really know what the MTA is supposed to do on a laptop or desktop 
system, but I've read that it shouldn't be uninstallted.  Is this really the 
case?

Thanks for any suggestions,

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[OT] Shibboleths [WAS] Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

[Celejar]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:34:30 -0500
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> 
> On 09/04/07 16:15, Kent West wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> Blatant disregard of reality is a bright, shiny shibboleth that you
> >> are a student.
> > 
> > Don't believe I've ever heard the term used that way before. I rather
> > like it. But I suspect few today would know the etymology.
> > 
> > But just doing a google, I find it's not an uncommon use of the word.
> > Bummer; that just means I'm less literate than I thought.
> 
> Fear not: I just today picked up that usage.

Come on, Ron, that's the original, Biblical sense [0].  And we know you
had a good religious education, as you've mentioned on the list ...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth#Origin

> Ron Johnson, Jr.

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Re: log file size limit or file size limit

[Jeff D]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, ann kok wrote:


Hi all

When starting the radius, the error is showing "the
file size is exceeding"

the radius log is 2G
After removing, radius can start again

1/ ls the limitation in debian or in freeradius
program?
if it is in debian, can I increase the file size
limit?
I am using debian "Linux radius 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed
Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux"

2/ how can I avoid it but we still keep the log file?

thank you



It depends on what file system you are using, but I would guesss that it's 
probably a file size limit in radius that is causing this. In order to 
keep this under control, I would use the logrotate to rotate the radius 
logs either on a set time interval or on a size based rule.


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Re: Two Xorg processes?

[Davide Mancusi]

Davide Mancusi ha scritto:
I wouldn't bother if I were at least sure that the second Xorg process 
is not allocating memory separately, but just sharing it with the first one.


Just as a side note, I have run pmap on both processes and I have 
verified that they have the same memory map.


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Re: Two Xorg processes?

[Davide Mancusi]

Florian Kulzer ha scritto:

Maybe the fglrx driver is to blame; did you already check if you still
see two Xorg processes with the basic "vesa" driver enabled instead?


I created a brand new xorg.conf file, using the "vesa" driver, and the 
second Xorg process was gone. I changed the driver to "fglrx" and there 
it was again. So yes, we have found the culprit.


I guess this means also that we (I) have reached a dead end, since fglrx 
is not open source. I will look at the ATI website and try to collect 
more information.


Florian, thanks for the help.

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Re: Synaptic cannot find Release.gpg files

[Christian Pinedo Zamalloa]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:26:22PM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> I have a PC with an AMD Athlon 64 3500x chip. I use Debian unstable, 
> i386 port.
> 
> For about the last week, synaptic has been unable to find the following 
> files:
> 
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release.gpg
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
> 
> What is the problem?
> 
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There are troubles with US mirrors. This issue has been commented in
debian-devel [1].

[1] http://www.nabble.com/US-mirror-troubles-tf4389211.html


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Re: Permanent basic settings (newbie)

[Christian Pinedo Zamalloa]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:45:51PM +, Oscar Corte wrote:
> 
> Hi:
>  
> I know how to set up the Latinamerican keyboard layout en how to set the 
> http_proxy variable.
>  
> Question: ¿Where exactly I should place both commands to fire them at system 
> start up?
>  

I would try /etc/profile.

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Re: Permanent basic settings (newbie)

[Andrei Popescu]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:45:51PM +, Oscar Corte wrote:
> 
> Hi:
>  
> I know how to set up the Latinamerican keyboard layout en how to set the 
> http_proxy variable.
>  
> Question: ¿Where exactly I should place both commands to fire them at system 
> start up?

Try .bash_profile

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Re: KDSETKEYCODE: No Such Device. Cannot Set scancode xx to keycode xxx.

[Florian Kulzer]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:05:07 +0800, Michael Yang wrote:
> Hi guys:
> 
> I installed debian 4.0R1 etch on my DELL pc and have been working on it for
> days.
> 
> All of a sudden when I reboot the system (maybe has some thing with what I
> did on gnome package management),

It would help to know which packages you (un)installed right before the
problem started. Check out the /var/log/dpkg.log* files.

>   the system can not start X automatically,
> and there are many error messages during startup:
> " failed to set scancode 89 to keycode 161
> KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> failed to set scancode 85 to keycode 224
> KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> ."
> 
> after I login in, I can start X manually, and the GNOME desktop can be
> started working fine.
> 
> Does anybody has idea of how to repair this? I don't know if there is
> something wrong potentially with the hardware or not.

To rule out hardware problems, test your system with Knoppix or another
suitable live CD.

My guess is that you accidentally uninstalled one of the packages that
handles the keyboard setup. What output do you get for:

dpkg -l \*console\* \*kbd\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'

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missing /dev/lp0 (was: Problems regarding sound ... Or udev?)

[Florian Kulzer]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:57:25 +, s. keeling wrote:

[...]

> This sounds more like a udev problem, and somewhat like what I'm
> having right now with lp0.  It just stopped working:
> 
>(0) heretic /etc/udev_ checkpc
>Warning - cannot chdir to '//var/spool/lpd' as UID 1000, GRP 1000 - 
> 'Permission denied'
>Warning -  bad directory - //var/spool/lpd/lp
>Warning -   Printer_DYN 'lp0' spool dir '/var/spool/lpd/lp' needs fixing
> 
>(0) heretic [root] /root_ checkpc
>Warning - lp0: cannot stat lp device '/dev/lp0' - No such file or directory

Do you have the lp, parport and parport_pc modules loaded?

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log file size limit or file size limit

[ann kok]

Hi all

When starting the radius, the error is showing "the
file size is exceeding" 

the radius log is 2G
After removing, radius can start again

1/ ls the limitation in debian or in freeradius
program?
if it is in debian, can I increase the file size
limit?
I am using debian "Linux radius 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed
Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux"

2/ how can I avoid it but we still keep the log file?

thank you


   

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Re: Network cards changed after kernel upgrade in Etch

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 20:25:12 -0300, Eriberto wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am having problems when I upgrade the Etch in my servers. The NICs
> designations are changing. For example, in a machine the NIC was eth0
> with 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. After the first upgrade, the NIC was renamed
> to eth1. The same fact occurs with 2.6.21-2 kernel (Etch-backports).
> What is the cause of this problem?

Changed module load order in the new kernels and/or a problem with your
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules. You have to make sure that
this file has exactly one entry for each NIC in your computer and that
the correct MAC address is associated with the each eth* name.

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TV card

[Mark Grieveson]

My capture card does not have an audio output jack; so, I get an image,
but no sound.  The help for tvtime stated that I could use sox, with
the following command:

sox -r 32000 -w -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp

This works, provided I run the command "modprobe btaudio" first.
However, it is so cluttered with noise as to make it useless.  Anyone
have any ideas how I can eliminate the noise?

I'm using Etch.

Thanks,
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Re: Two Xorg processes?

[Florian Kulzer]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 00:46:49 +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote:
> Florian Kulzer ha scritto:
>> I would log out and check if the second Xorg process is still there, to
>> see if the problem is tied to your account or not.
>
> Still there.
>
>> Then I would temporarily switch to xdm or gdm and check if the anomaly
>> is still occurring. This will hopefully tell us if we have to start
>> poking around in the kdm configuration or in the configuration files of
>> X itself.
> >
> > /var/log/kdm.log might also be worth a look.
>
> I tried with gdm and I got the same result. I turned then to the kdm log 
> file and to xorg.conf. The only interesting line in kdm.log was the 
> following:
>
> (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
>
> ...which reminds me that my video card has an unused exit port (a DVI port? 
> I can't remember). Could this be the reason? It sounds a bit silly to have 
> an X server running if nothing is connected to the DVI port, but who 
> knows... How can I test this hypothesis?

I don't think that this is related to the two Xorg processes. I see the
same warning with my Intel Q965 graphics card, simply because it shows
up under two bus addresses in lspci, but I don't have two Xorg processes
running.

Maybe the full Xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) has more clues.

Maybe the fglrx driver is to blame; did you already check if you still
see two Xorg processes with the basic "vesa" driver enabled instead?

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Re: unable to install Dell Photo Printer 720

[Mark Grieveson]

On Wed,  5 Sep 2007 19:42:28 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> This what I did:
> 
> - downloaded the driver.  The Dell 720 is a rebranding of Lexmark and
> RedHat has a package for the driver.
> - I untarred the tarball
> - used alien to create .deb files
> - used dpkg -i to install the .deb files
> - used "Add a Printer"
> - it detected my printer USB port but could not offer me the z600*
> driver
> 
> I'm using etch and gnome.  Anybody have success installing this
> printer?
> 
> Phill


You've likely tried all the normal tricks for a printer, but, just in
case, here are my generic suggestions (I'm not familiar with the
specific printer):

Check out http://localhost:631/, and see if you can configure your
printer there (assuming you have cupsys installed).

Install printconf, and run it in your terminal as root.  

Install foomatic-filters-ppds and/or linuxprinting.org-ppds, and try
http://localhost:631/ and/or printconf once again.

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Firefox on AMD64 Debian Etch

[Masatran, R. Deepak]

I am not able to change the default fonts in Firefox, in both my AMD64
systems. The problem is absent in I386 systems. All these systems are
running Debian Etch. The AMD64 systems simply ignore the default font
setting--both font family, and font size.

I have been using Linux, and Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox, since 2000, but I am
unable to figure this out. No back-ports are present. I created a new
profile, but it has the same problem. Google search does not show any
similar problems; has nobody else faced this? Kindly suggest a solution.

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Permanent basic settings (newbie)

[Oscar Corte]

Hi:
 
I know how to set up the Latinamerican keyboard layout en how to set the 
http_proxy variable.
 
Question: ¿Where exactly I should place both commands to fire them at system 
start up?
 
Thanks for any hints and regards
 
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Re: What would *really* help you (was Re: Thinking about ...)

[blues]

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> > This is where I am up to this point:  I have an IMac running Yellow
> > Dog, and an old 733Mhz PC running Knoppix Live, and they are both
> > connected to a router via ethernet cablesI also have PCs running
> > XP and Vista that I can connect to the router whenever I need to, but
> > at the time they are connected wirelessly to the main router in the
> > houseI am now going to try to run some of the things suggested
> > earlier in this post and read, read ,readwish me luck!!
>
> Add a 2nd NIC (and wireless card) into your oldest/slowest
> (expandable) Linux box and make that into your firewalling router.
> (You might have to buy a $50 desktop, though, and make that the router.)
>
> Or if that's not physically possible or maybe too noisy, buy any one
> of a number of supporters wifi routers and upgrade it to a fully
> functional Linux 
> system.http://openwrt.org/http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware?action=show&redirect=toh
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I do have a very limited knowledge of Linux and the distros.  I bought
YDL 3 years ago when I first got into Linux OS because I had 3 old-
world PowerMacs and I wanted to start learning how to use Linux to
network.  However, I never had any success in getting the old worlds
to even install, and I tried many, many times!  Since I had a copy of
YDL, I bought a new world IMac and had no trouble installing YDL, but
I have not used it much.  Since then, I have been dual-booting FC2 and
XP on my favorite desktop, but I rarely use FC2 - I just did the dual-
boot to see if I could do it right and have a Linux partition to play
around with.

Now, I am about to graduate from the Univ of Memphis with a degree
from our business college (I dont know why) in Information Systems,
but in all honesty, we have had very little hands-on experience with
Linux.  So, I want to set up a network in my room, consisting of
whatever hardware needed (I have a lot of old stuff and am willing to
buy more if needed) and learn the skills I will need to achieve my
goal, which is to be a Sys Admin and maintain a network.

As a part-time job, I have about 50 customers (mostly over the age of
60) that I do at-home computer support and teaching.  My job consists
mostly of assisting them with email (attachments and such), web
browsing and just general computer usage.  All of this is Xp or Vista,
of course, and therefore I maintain a laptop running Vista (which I
regret buying) and a desktop running XP so that I can stay current.
All of this is to say that if I had a choice, I would run everything
Linux...but I have to try to stay current with MS for the sake of my
part-time job, which has paid a lot of my bills recently.


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Re: date/time problem since kernel change

[Julien Barnier]

Hi,

> And is your hardware clock actually set to local time?

How do you see that exactly (sorry if this a dummy question, but I'm
quite lost with local/universal, UTC, CEST, etc.) ? 

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Re: inserting line breals

[Nathan]

Michael Marsh wrote:

On 9/5/07, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Michael Marsh wrote:

The following one-liner should do it (it works for me):

perl -pe '$_ .= "\n"' 

You could also do the following:

perl -pi.bak -e '$_ .= "\n"' 

 will now contain the double-spaced text, and .bak
will contain the original file.

That seems to do the trick, however I'm finding that it isn't matching
when I do a case insensitive search for something that isn't a complete
word.  For example a user name of " nathan " or " Nathan " works.  But
DOMAIN\Nathan gets skipped.

How can I fix that?  Thanks for all of the help!


There's no matching going on here.  What are you trying to do that
isn't working?




My mistake.  I used the perl statement above in another script.  That 
script does the searching/matching.  So disregard that last question. 
Thanks for the help with the line breaks though!


Nathan


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Re: date/time problem since kernel change

[Julien Barnier]

Hi,

> And what is the content of "/etc/adjtime"?
> I ask, because the behaviour of "hwclock" depends on the contents of
> this file (man hwclock).

The last line of /etc/adjtime is "LOCAL".

In fact, after some Google searching, I wonder if the problem doesn't
come from the way the kernel access /dev/rtc. I've read somewhere taht
you qometimes have to add the "--directisa" to hwclock. I've tried and
it seems to work. I will see tomorrow when I'll restart my machine.

Thanks for your help.

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Re: date/time problem since kernel change

[John Hasler]

Julien Barnier wrote:
> | # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
> | UTC=no

And is your hardware clock actually set to local time?
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Re: date/time problem since kernel change

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Julien Barnier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Are the packages "initscripts" and "tzdata" installed?
> 
> Yes, they are.
> 
>> What is the result of the command
>>   grep UTC /etc/default/rcS
> 
> Here it is :
> 
> ,
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep UTC /etc/default/rcS 
> | # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
> | UTC=no
> `
> 
>> (see man rcS(5))? What is the content of the file "/etc/timezone"?
> 
> It is "Europe/Paris", which is correct.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 

And what is the content of "/etc/adjtime"?
I ask, because the behaviour of "hwclock" depends on the contents of
this file (man hwclock).
On my system "/etc/adjtime" contains as the last of three lines "UTC",
in "/etc/default/rcS" there is "UTC=yes". So the hardware clock is run
in UTC. The system time zone is defined by "/etc/timezone" and the
summer time setting by "/etc/localtime". Both files can be reconfigured
in the Debian way:
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
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Re: mysqld in hosts.allow / hosts.deny ?

[Michael Shuler]

On 09/06/2007 05:43 AM, Pratchaya Chatuphian wrote:
> Now, Can i use tcpwrapper with mysql on debian ?

Yes (this is how I do a quick check on a binary w/o going to find
compiled options):

$ ldd /usr/sbin/mysqld | grep wrap
libwrap.so.0 => /lib/libwrap.so.0 (0xb7ec7000)

> If it can be used.
> Which config. that i correct ?
> ( If i want to only allow from my LAN ( 192.168.2.x netmask 255.255.255.0 )

It is the *daemon* that you wish to wrap that is the first argument in
hosts.[allow,deny] - in this case mysqld.  Your network/netmask looks
fine.  'man hosts.allow'

> 1.
> hosts.allow
> #
> mysqld: 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> hosts.deny
> #
> mysqld: ALL

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Re: Display JPEG compression

[Benjamí Villoslada]

El Dimecres 05 Setembre 2007, Florian Kulzer va escriure:
> $ identify -verbose The-Horse-in-Motion.jpg | grep Quality
>   Quality: 85

Thanks, Florian and Oscar.  Identify works fine :)

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mysqld in hosts.allow / hosts.deny ?

[Pratchaya Chatuphian]

mysqld in hosts.allow / hosts.deny ?
===
Now, Can i use tcpwrapper with mysql on debian ?
If it can be used.
Which config. that i correct ?
( If i want to only allow from my LAN ( 192.168.2.x netmask 255.255.255.0 )

1.
hosts.allow
#
mysqld: 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0


hosts.deny
#
mysqld: ALL



2.
hosts.allow
#
mysql: 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0


hosts.deny
#
mysql: ALL



Thank you very much for advance.
Pratchaya


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apt-get problems (lm-sensors)

[chris]

Hi,

I just upgraded (partialy) to ETCH from Sarge.

but some dependencies did not meet.

when I try e.g.
apt-get install nmap

i get following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libxft1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
  pm-dev: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
  xfonts-100dpi-transcoded: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not
installable
  xfonts-75dpi: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
  xfonts-75dpi-transcoded: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not
installable
  xfonts-base: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
  xfonts-base-transcoded: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not
installable
  xfonts-scalable: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
  xlibs-static-dev: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).

then I try:
apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libfontenc-dev libxfont-dev x11proto-fonts-dev xfonts-100dpi-
transcoded
  xfonts-75dpi xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base xfonts-scalable
  xlibs-static-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libxft1 pm-dev xfonts-base-transcoded xlibs xlibs-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libfontenc-dev libxfont-dev x11proto-fonts-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
  xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-
base
  xfonts-scalable xlibs-static-dev
6 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 5 to remove and 189 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/24.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 8937kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

pressing Y
i get at the end:
(Reading database ... 110426 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace lm-sensors 1:2.10.1-3 (using .../lm-
sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lm-sensors ...
/etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found
Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found
Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/lm-
sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
/etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found
Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/lm-sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I really don't understand what it means using .../lm-
sensors_1%3a2.10.1-3_i386.deb (I did not want to install it - I
already installed lm-sensors 1:2.10.1-3

can anybody suggest anything to try to move forward with this.

thanks
chris


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Re: apt-get update error

[Julien Barnier]

Hi,

> One reply suggested the following:
> gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 6070D3A1
> gpg --export --armor 6070D3A1 | apt-key add -
>
> Another reply suggested:
> gpg --recv-key A70DAF536070D3A1
> gpg --export A70DAF536070D3A1|apt-key add -
>
> When I run the first line of either pair, the command times out after
> 2 minutes and returns the following message:

To query a key this way, you have to be able to connect to the
keyserver on the hkp port (which is number 11371 I think). Do your
firewall, if you have one, allow this ?

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Re: apt-get update error

[JC]

The original message in this thread referred to this URL:
http://ftp.debian.org. 

I'm having the same problem but the URL is security.debian.org. 


One reply suggested the following:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 6070D3A1
gpg --export --armor 6070D3A1 | apt-key add -

Another reply suggested:
gpg --recv-key A70DAF536070D3A1
gpg --export A70DAF536070D3A1|apt-key add -

When I run the first line of either pair, the command times out after
2 minutes and returns the following message:

gpg: requesting key 
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

Any help will be appreciated.

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Re: KDSETKEYCODE: No Such Device. Cannot Set scancode xx to keycode xxx.

[Michael Yang]

I just installed the tool and selected the keyboard I am using, PC105, the
problem still exists after reboot the system.

I'm wondering how could that be  the cause of the X failure, sounds strange.

Now I can startX manually, but it is not what I want.

During the startup, the error message still be coming out, and also at the
end of the login, "no IPV6 routers present". But I don't think I did some
thing related to ipv6.

Thank you guys. Really appreciate it if you could help!

Michael

On 9/6/07, ChandleWEi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> try xkeycaps
>
> 在 2007-09-06四的 16:34 +0800，Michael Yang写道：
> > Any body has idea about this?
> >
> > your helps are really appreciated!
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > On 9/6/07, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi guys:
> >
> > I installed debian 4.0R1 etch on my DELL pc and have been
> > working on it for days.
> >
> > All of a sudden when I reboot the system (maybe has some thing
> > with what I did on gnome package management), the system can
> > not start X automatically, and there are many error messages
> > during startup:
> > " failed to set scancode 89 to keycode 161
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > failed to set scancode 85 to keycode 224
> > KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> > ."
> >
> > after I login in, I can start X manually, and the GNOME
> > desktop can be started working fine.
> >
> > Does anybody has idea of how to repair this? I don't know if
> > there is something wrong potentially with the hardware or not.
> >
> > Thank you guys.
> > Michael.
> >
>
>

What would *really* help you (was Re: Thinking about ...)

[Ron Johnson]

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> 
> This is where I am up to this point:  I have an IMac running Yellow
> Dog, and an old 733Mhz PC running Knoppix Live, and they are both
> connected to a router via ethernet cablesI also have PCs running
> XP and Vista that I can connect to the router whenever I need to, but
> at the time they are connected wirelessly to the main router in the
> houseI am now going to try to run some of the things suggested
> earlier in this post and read, read ,readwish me luck!!

Add a 2nd NIC (and wireless card) into your oldest/slowest
(expandable) Linux box and make that into your firewalling router.
(You might have to buy a $50 desktop, though, and make that the router.)

Or if that's not physically possible or maybe too noisy, buy any one
of a number of supporters wifi routers and upgrade it to a fully
functional Linux system.
http://openwrt.org/
http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware?action=show&redirect=toh

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Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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Re: KDSETKEYCODE: No Such Device. Cannot Set scancode xx to keycode xxx.

[Michael Yang]

Any body has idea about this?

your helps are really appreciated!
Thanks.


On 9/6/07, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi guys:
>
> I installed debian 4.0R1 etch on my DELL pc and have been working on it
> for days.
>
> All of a sudden when I reboot the system (maybe has some thing with what I
> did on gnome package management), the system can not start X automatically,
> and there are many error messages during startup:
> " failed to set scancode 89 to keycode 161
> KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> failed to set scancode 85 to keycode 224
> KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
> ."
>
> after I login in, I can start X manually, and the GNOME desktop can be
> started working fine.
>
> Does anybody has idea of how to repair this? I don't know if there is
> something wrong potentially with the hardware or not.
>
> Thank you guys.
> Michael.
>

Re: date/time problem since kernel change

[Julien Barnier]

Hi,

> Are the packages "initscripts" and "tzdata" installed?

Yes, they are.

> What is the result of the command
>   grep UTC /etc/default/rcS

Here it is :

,
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep UTC /etc/default/rcS 
| # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
| UTC=no
`

> (see man rcS(5))? What is the content of the file "/etc/timezone"?

It is "Europe/Paris", which is correct.

Thanks for your help,

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Re: date/time problem since kernel change

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Julien Barnier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently switched from an own compiled 2.6.20 kernel to the debian
> linux-image-2.6.22 one (I'm using Sid).
> 
> And since I use this new kernel, I get a problem with the time on my
> machine : at each reboot I get two hours more than the real time. I'm
> quite sure it is a problem with syncing system and hardware clock, but
> I'm a little lost.
> 
[...]

Are the packages "initscripts" and "tzdata" installed?
What is the result of the command
  grep UTC /etc/default/rcS
(see man rcS(5))? What is the content of the file "/etc/timezone"?
This can be changed with the command
  dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
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Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

[Jeff D]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote:


Jeff D wrote:

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote:



I am merely surprised that doing an 'update available packages' in dselect 
automatically installed a new  kernel image and made it the default boot 
option in my grub menu.lst.


Now fixed.

Best wishes,  a friendly interaction is always a pleasant one,

Martin



It sounds like you want to put your kernel on hold.  That will stop apt 
and dselect from upgrading a package.  In order to put a package 
on hold for example:

echo ''linux-image-2.6-686 hold'' | dpkg --set-selections

although, you would replace the package name with the one you use.

If you are comfortable with dselect I'd say use it.  I'm just not familiar 
with it myself.  But as I've found out, it's just a front end to apt, hey, 
learn something new every day!



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date/time problem since kernel change

[Julien Barnier]

Hi all,

I recently switched from an own compiled 2.6.20 kernel to the debian
linux-image-2.6.22 one (I'm using Sid).

And since I use this new kernel, I get a problem with the time on my
machine : at each reboot I get two hours more than the real time. I'm
quite sure it is a problem with syncing system and hardware clock, but
I'm a little lost.

Furthermore, if I try to use the hwclock command, I get an error
message : for it to work I must first unload the rtc module.

HEre is the output of the date and hwclock commands on my machine now
(the realt ime is the hwclock one).

,
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date
| jeudi 6 septembre 2007, 11:04:00 (UTC+0200)
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hwclock --show
| jeu 06 sep 2007 09:04:07 CEST  -0.092243 secondes
`

Thanks in advance for any help. And unfortunately, I can't use ntp on
my network...


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