Buffer I/O Error ... End_request

[Zaki Akhmad]

Hello,

After I chose my Debian on grub, there's message like this:

...
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 358650
End_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1434600
...

Can somebody help me, what does it mean? Thanks!

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Re: snd-hda-intel Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5 support in lenny

[Kelly Clowers]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 13:51, Emanoil Kotsev  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can someone help me to get sound in lenny with the intel (Codec: IDT
> 92HD73E1X5) snd card
>
> I read in the bugreports that alsa 1.0.19 should support it and installed
> from source but still no sound. I'm not sure it was really  the 19 version
> because it said it was 1.0.19 but after installing in
> cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3

This might be because you didn't upgrade all of alsa.

Part of my alsa (Sid packages) is 1.0.19, but cat /proc/asound/version
says Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a.

> or something
>
> the board is DG45FC. If someone could point me to a good howto it would be
> enough


http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Quick_Install

When I had sound card issues, I found building alsa-drivers was enough.

Make sure you have the linux-headers* package for your kernel

Download the alsa-drivers tar.bz2 package to /usr/local/src/

# unpack
tar -xvjf alsa-driver-1.0.19.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.19/

#build
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-isapnp=no
make

# become root to install
make install

reboot (or a correct modprobe invocation might suffice)
of course this doesn't make .debs, but it works, and is easy


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Troubleshooting sendmail smart_host relay session

[T o n g]

Hi, 

Somehow my sendmail SMART_HOST stops working now,

- It was working fine, and I didn't change any sendmail configurations.
- Test sending mails through my ISP's SMTP sever using Thunderbird proved 
to be working fine. 

The, /var/log/mail.log says, DSN: User unknown:

  $ grep 14778 /var/log/mail.log
  Mar 16 21:12:56 helios sendmail[14778]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.104) failed: 1
  Mar 16 21:12:56 helios sendmail[14778]: n2H1CuXA014778: from=a...@isp.net, 
size=15, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<200903170112.n2h1cuxa014...@helios.selfip.org>, relay=r...@localhost
  Mar 16 21:12:56 helios sendmail[14778]: n2H1CuXA014778: to=u...@external.com, 
ctladdr=a...@isp.net (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, 
pri=30015, relay=mailrouter1.isp.net. [199.166.6.105], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User 
unknown
  Mar 16 21:12:56 helios sendmail[14778]: n2H1CuXA014778: n2H1CuXB014778: DSN: 
User unknown
  Mar 16 21:12:57 helios sendmail[14778]: n2H1CuXB014778: to=a...@isp.net, 
delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=3, 
relay=mailrouter1.isp.net. [199.166.6.105], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK 
id=1LjNrT-0005d1-L4)

The actual session that sendmail relayed messages through smart_host:

  % (echo subject: test; echo) | sendmail -Am -v -f a...@isp.net 
u...@external.com
  u...@external.com... Connecting to mailrouter1.isp.net. via relay...
  220 mailrouter4.execulink.net ESMTP Exim 4.43 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:12:55 -0400
  >>> EHLO helios.selfip.org
  250-mailrouter4.execulink.net Hello node-13261.pppoe.isp.net [216.75.189.214]
  250-SIZE 20971520
  250-PIPELINING
  250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
  250 HELP
  >>> MAIL From: SIZE=15 auth=a...@isp.net
  250 OK
  >>> RCPT To:
  >>> DATA
  550 relay not permitted
  503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA
  >>> RSET
  250 Reset OK
  >>> RSET
  250 Reset OK
  a...@isp.net... Using cached ESMTP connection to mailrouter1.isp.net. via 
relay...
  >>> MAIL From:<>
  250 OK
  >>> RCPT To:
  >>> DATA
  250 Accepted
  354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
  >>> .
  250 OK id=1LjNrT-0005d1-L4
  a...@isp.net... Sent (OK id=1LjNrT-0005d1-L4)
  Closing connection to mailrouter1.isp.net.
  >>> QUIT
  221 mailrouter4.execulink.net closing connection

Anyone has any idea what could be wrong? (I'm using Debian Lenny)

Thanks a lot!


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Rescue Linux partition

[Martin Willcocks]

Hi all:

Is there a bootable utility that can be installed on a CD and rescue or 
back up the data in the Linux ext2 partitions on my HDD and write them 
to a CD using the CD writer on my system.  I have a DVD/CD drive as well 
as the CD writer, but the system running Windows 98 will not boot from a 
floppy in the A drive, although it will boot from CD.  The partition 
information I've checked using VCom Partition Commander 10 runnig  in 
Linux off the CD, and there is enough space to reinstall Corel Linux 
(Debian based) but I can't do that, unless the floppy drive works.  The 
data in the ext 2 partitions is small enough to fit onto a CD.  I don't 
want to install a different Linux version if I can't backup what's 
already there.  I could boot to the VCom CD and then run a  backup 
utility from a different CD if necessary.  I can't backup from Windows98 
as it doesn't know there is a Linux partition and can't access it 
anyway.  I also need a utility to determine why the floppy won't boot, 
even though it reads and writes once the system is booted to Windows.  
Any help appreciated!


Regards
Martin Willcocks
Taylorsville, UT, USA.


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gnome on PowerPC Debian Squeeze: error dialog box when starting root-terminal

[Rick Thomas]

Has anybody else seen this?

More or less bog-standard powerpc squeeze installation on PowerMac G4

When I choose the "Root Terminal" in the accessories menu, I get an  
error dialog box with error messages like this:


There was an error loading a terminal keybinding. (Failed to contact  
configuration server; some possible causes are that
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale  
NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:  
Failed to get connection to session: Did not
receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did  
not send a reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network  
connection was broken.))





The .xsession-errors file is appended to bug number 520165, if that's  
any help in figuring out what's going on...


Thanks for any help!

Rick


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Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

[Dave Witbrodt]

Chris Jones wrote:

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:49:10PM EDT, Dave Witbrodt wrote:

  To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer?  I have some framebuffer
  issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable
  people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe.


You can subscribe - or browse the archives at:

  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-devel
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-users

The fbdev-users list is probably what you want unless you are submitting
bug reports or patches.


  Good info.  Thanks!

DW


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Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

[Richard Hector]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I was thinking to let my firewall
> > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ...
> 
> Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly
> 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries.

Especially if you can use a syslogd on another machine.

Richard



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Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:49:10PM EDT, Dave Witbrodt wrote:

>   To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer?  I have some framebuffer
>   issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable
>   people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe.

You can subscribe - or browse the archives at:

  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-devel
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-users

The fbdev-users list is probably what you want unless you are submitting
bug reports or patches.

CJ



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Re: Moving to LVM

[Stefan Monnier]

> That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
> long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
> have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that
> directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a
> symbolic link). I could create a "more..." symlink on disk1 pointing
> to disk2, but I really want everything in one directory,
> alphabetically. 

You can play around with unionfs or "mount --bind" and things like that,
but my recommendation is to not bother: they can be very useful for
various situations, but from what I can tell it won't bring enough
benefits in your case (e.g. in a unionfs, erasing a directory will only
erase it from the top directory, not the underlying one).

Using symlinks might not always do exactly what you want, but symlinks
are well understood by all the usual tools and can be manipulated
without needing root proviledge, so it'll always be easy to see what's
going on and to fix things.  That's not necessarily the case with
funny mounts.


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Re: Moving to LVM

[Stefan Monnier]

> The comfort of administering just one LV, covering both disks carries
> the risk that most of the data will be useless on failure of one disk
> and possible data recovery will be difficult to predict.  The 'classical'
> two partition approach at least gives the possibility to save some
> crucial data to *both* disks.

You could also create 2 LVs: one spread over both disks, and the other
mirrored on both disks, so you'd put the important stuff on the mirrored
one and then use the rest for disposable files.


Stefan


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Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about
>>> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently
>> For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years
>> of constant write access.  So I wouldn't worry about it.
> Well several years is not very precise. I was thinking to let my firewall
> run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ...

Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly
0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries.


Stefan


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Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Douglas A. Tutty at 2009-03-18 10:59...

Two questions:


Thanks for your reply.


1.  Does this still happen if your kernel command line has
vga=normal? (I'm assuming that you're using a framebuffer), and if you
don't use a special font?


Yes it does still happen with vga=normal.  I don't honestly know if I'm 
using a framebuffer or not - this is plain vanilla Etch, defaults as 
installed.  (I have to confess that despite having been using Linux for 
about 12 years, I'm not entirely sure what a frambuffer is nor why I 
should want one - things have generally worked to my satisfaction and 
thus I have never investigated.)



2.  What happens if you blindly type "reset" or setterm -reset?
Both these get the prompt/cursor back to the top of the screen, but 
still in the same gigantic font.


Cheers

M


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Re: stitching a filesystem

[Mag Gam]

I was wondering if there was some clever technique you can do with
symbolic links and exports.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty  wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:22:13PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
>> Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one?
>>
>> For example, you have 2 volumes:
>> /vol0 (500GB)
>> /vol1 (500GB)
>>
>> I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume.
>
> Are they already ext? or are they plain partitions.  If just plain
> partitions (or other block devices), then use LVM to combine them, put a
> filesystem on the resultant LV, then mount that.
>
> Doug.
>
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Re: stitching a filesystem

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:22:13PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one?
> 
> For example, you have 2 volumes:
> /vol0 (500GB)
> /vol1 (500GB)
> 
> I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume.

Are they already ext? or are they plain partitions.  If just plain
partitions (or other block devices), then use LVM to combine them, put a
filesystem on the resultant LV, then mount that.

Doug.


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Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:36:51AM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote:
> This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have 
> found mildly annoying.  Now close to completing the configuration of my 
> new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to 
> "serious nuisance."
> 
> The issue is this:
> 
> * Boot machine.
> * Console font size is sensible.
> * Run xorg (startx).
> * Close xorg.
> * Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being 
> unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.)
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me as to why this happens and what I can do to 
> regain my regular console font size once I quit xorg?

Two questions:

1.  Does this still happen if your kernel command line has
vga=normal? (I'm assuming that you're using a framebuffer), and if you
don't use a special font?

2.  What happens if you blindly type "reset" or setterm -reset?

Doug.


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"Domain of sender address does not resolve" in mail logs

[Robert S]

I have started getting a lot of these messages over the last few days
in my mail logs.  These messages refer to legitimate addresses eg:

Mar 17 08:59:10 debian sm-mta[29154]: n2GLwjk7029154:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=,
relay=dmz017.dpa.act.gov.au [136.153.14.117], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain
of sender address x...@act.gov.au does not resolve
Mar 17 09:16:50 debian sm-mta[29224]: n2GMGPd8029224:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=,
relay=mail.gsahs.health.nsw.gov.au [202.59.31.130], reject=451 4.1.8
Domain of sender address x...@gsahs.health.nsw.gov.au does not
resolve
Mar 17 13:57:14 debian sm-mta[30575]: n2H2ullN030575:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=,
relay=mail.tigerairwaysnews.com [202.172.235.34], reject=451 4.1.8
Domain of sender address n...@tigerairwaysnews.com does not resolve

It appears that at least some of the messages are actually getting
through - there have been no complaints from the staff (maybe they
just don't know whether the messages should have been sent!) and I
sent a test email from one of these domains which got through -
despite an error message in the log with my username from that domain.

I use a Netgear DG834 router which is set to get DNS settings
automatically from my ISP.  I'm running Lenny (recently upgraded from
Etch), Sendmail-8.14.3-5

my /etc/resolv.conf
domain XXX.net.au
nameserver 192.168.0.1

192.168.0.1 is my router address
NB: anything with XX is fictitious.


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Re: stitching a filesystem

[Eduard Bloch]

#include 
* Mag Gam [Tue, Mar 17 2009, 07:22:13PM]:
> Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one?
> 
> For example, you have 2 volumes:
> /vol0 (500GB)
> /vol1 (500GB)
> 
> I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume.

Kind of stitching (the size reporting might confuse but the contents
appear merged):

apt-cache show funionfs (FUSE variant)
apt-cache search unionfs (kernel implementations, aufs and unionfs modules)

"man funionfs" will tell you more.

Regards,
Eduard.

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wunderbare Sache.
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Dual framebuffers/text consoles?

[Pieter]

I'm busy building a new Debian 5.0 system (on new hardware), which will
be a XEN host running multiple VM's for testing various solutions, as
well as run inhouse server related stuff. Currently I use my existing
system in text mode (yes, really!), but would love to have 2 screens
on the new one. My idea is to use the primary screen in text mode,
or something as close as possible to text mode, maybe framebuffer if
it's fast enough. The secondary screen would then be used for graphics,
eg. directfb related stuff like directvnc, or as another text screen
(using con2fb) to monitor logs or something. It seems dual framebuffer is
the only way to go and only a few select Matrox cards can do this? From
my research it seems that mainstream GPU's like nVidia and ATI would
only give me a dual framebuffer if I used 2 cards, so there's extra
expense, and I'm unsure of the framebuffer support in the latest cards
(my ThinkPad T61 with nVidia Quadro NVS140M doesn't seem to be supported
by nvidiafb). The current circa 2000 Framebuffer HOWTO doesn't help
either. Is there anything more recent that I can read? Note that I really
have NO desire to run X (no konsole/xterm in maximized screen either),
since it wastes too much resources in my opinion and I can work faster
in text mode. Would the Matrox option give me a dual framebuffer that
can do the above? Any other options? Anybody doing something similar?

thanks,
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Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

[Dave Witbrodt]

Chris Jones wrote:

.. oh bugger.. I meant the framebuffer lists, naturally.


  To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer?  I have some framebuffer 
issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable people, 
but I don't know where to look or subscribe.



Dave W.


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mixer problem? Ekiga and skype calls together give audio errors

[H.S.]

Hello,

Perhaps I am trying to do something that is not possible, though
certainly it is inconvenient.

If I try to make a call with ekiga when a skype call is active (and the
other way around), I get an error saying there is a problem with a sound
device. I was under the impression that the mixer takes care of such
simultaneous use of audio devices. Other applications seems to work
together without any problem. What am I doing wrong here? Is this even
supposed to work?

This is on Debian Testing.

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stitching a filesystem

[Mag Gam]

Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one?

For example, you have 2 volumes:
/vol0 (500GB)
/vol1 (500GB)

I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume.


Any ideas?

TIA


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Re: Ext3 for flash drive

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> does it apply on CF cards? The name says flash, so I would assume yes?
>> But still, I think it really reasonable to consider the life of the
>> media.
> 
> Yes, same thing.  BTW, regarding the life of the media: let's say the
> internal maximum write speed is 50MB/s, an expected lifetime of
> 10-writes, and a capacity of 30GB, that gives you a "minimum time to
> write failure" of 2 years (30GB * 10 / 50MB/s).  I.e. it will take
> about 2 years of continuous write operation before the flash will fail
> because of excessive writes.  As I said: I wouldn't worry about it.
> 
> 
> Stefan

thanks


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Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:12:50PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:06:51PM EDT, Matthew Smith wrote:
> > Hi Folks
> > 
> > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have 
> > found mildly annoying.  Now close to completing the configuration of my 
> > new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to 
> > "serious nuisance."
> 
> would go as far as "show stopper" myself.
> 
> > The issue is this:
> > 
> > * Boot machine.
> > * Console font size is sensible.
> > * Run xorg (startx).
> > * Close xorg.
> > * Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being 
> > unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.)
> > 
> > Can anyone enlighten me as to why this happens and what I can do to 
> > regain my regular console font size once I quit xorg?
> 
> Enlighten.. I'm unfortunately incapable of .. 
> 
> I would suspect your card's Xorg driver.. _my_ understanding is that the
> previous state of your display should have been saved when launching "X"
> and restored transparently upon exiting. 
> 
> You may want to try a generic (vesa?) driver instead of your card's
> specific driver to confirm my speculations - sorry I can't be more
> specific but it's been a while since I had to grapple with such issues.
> 
> You mention having experienced this same symptoms with "various distros"
> I assume this was with the same hardware?
> 
> One place to look for help with such issues is the framebugger lists..
> some guys hang in there that _really_ understand this stuff.

.. oh bugger.. I meant the framebuffer lists, naturally.


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Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:06:51PM EDT, Matthew Smith wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have 
> found mildly annoying.  Now close to completing the configuration of my 
> new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to 
> "serious nuisance."

would go as far as "show stopper" myself.

> The issue is this:
> 
> * Boot machine.
> * Console font size is sensible.
> * Run xorg (startx).
> * Close xorg.
> * Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being 
> unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.)
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me as to why this happens and what I can do to 
> regain my regular console font size once I quit xorg?

Enlighten.. I'm unfortunately incapable of .. 

I would suspect your card's Xorg driver.. _my_ understanding is that the
previous state of your display should have been saved when launching "X"
and restored transparently upon exiting. 

You may want to try a generic (vesa?) driver instead of your card's
specific driver to confirm my speculations - sorry I can't be more
specific but it's been a while since I had to grapple with such issues.

You mention having experienced this same symptoms with "various distros"
I assume this was with the same hardware?

One place to look for help with such issues is the framebugger lists..
some guys hang in there that _really_ understand this stuff.

CJ


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Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

[thveillon.debian]

>Alex Samad wrote :
> 
> Hi 
> 
> Sorry to revive an old thread, but I was wondering if any one has used
> Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF
> 
> looking for a pan tilt webcam I can use under linux ?
> 
> Alex
> 

I know that Paulo Assis, developer of the admirable Guvcview

http://guvcview.berlios.de/  (publicity inside !)

is using it, and was quite satisfied with the quality, and I believe he
added support for the autofocus and such in Guvcview. Maybe you can drop
him a message on it's Berlios.de page (see link), and be sure to try
Guvcview too ! (it's in Debian, but sadly outdated (0.9.3 when 1.0.2 is
out)).

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Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

[Alex Samad]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:25:22PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:49:27PM +, thveillon.debian wrote:
> > H.S. a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 ($130)
> > > Logitech Quickcam Connect Webcam ($29)
> > > Logitech Quickcam Deluxe For Notebooks ($83)
> > > Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks ($35)
> > > Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro ($60)
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I use a Logitech QC Pro 9000, bought it for ± £60, it's expensive but
> 
> you talking about one of these
> 
> 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 9000
> 
> 
> > working really well. It works with UVCvideo driver, which is included in
> > kernels since 2.6.26 I think, or available as a module to build with
> > module-assistant for earlier kernels.
> > 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> > Any uvcvideo compatible webcam should work with minimum hassle, if any.

Hi 

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I was wondering if any one has used
Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF

looking for a pan tilt webcam I can use under linux ?

Alex

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Console font size change on xorg exit

[Matthew Smith]

Hi Folks

This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have 
found mildly annoying.  Now close to completing the configuration of my 
new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to 
"serious nuisance."


The issue is this:

* Boot machine.
* Console font size is sensible.
* Run xorg (startx).
* Close xorg.
* Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being 
unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.)


Can anyone enlighten me as to why this happens and what I can do to 
regain my regular console font size once I quit xorg?


Cheers

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Re: interfaces changed after upgrade

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Girish Kulkarni at 2009-03-17 18:44...
...

After the upgrade I find that the network interfaces eth0 (wired
ethernet) and eth1 (wifi) have now been renamed to eth1 and
wlan0_rename.  Plus, a new interface eth2 has been added, to which no
device is attached, but which is still DHCP queried at every boot.

How do I remove wlan0_rename and attach the wifi device to eth2?


That sounds like udev being "helpful" and going and changing everything, 
as it does.


This may not be for your wireless card (it's the one for mine) but if 
you have a look at the section "Common problems and errors" it should 
help resolve your issue:



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snd-hda-intel Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5 support in lenny

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Hello,

can someone help me to get sound in lenny with the intel (Codec: IDT
92HD73E1X5) snd card

I read in the bugreports that alsa 1.0.19 should support it and installed
from source but still no sound. I'm not sure it was really  the 19 version
because it said it was 1.0.19 but after installing in
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3

or something

the board is DG45FC. If someone could point me to a good howto it would be
enough

thanks in advance

here is some information about the system

uname -a
Linux tora 2.6.28.5eko2 #1 SMP Mon Feb 16 19:04:54 CET 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio
Controller

cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
  HDA Intel at 0xff95 irq 22

cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#2
Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5
Address: 2
Vendor Id: 0x111d7676
Subsystem Id: 0x80865003
Revision Id: 0x100202
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
rates [0x5e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000
bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
formats [0x1]: PCM
Default Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
Default Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x7f, nsteps=0x7f, stepsize=0x02, mute=1
GPIO: io=8, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=1, wake=1
  IO[0]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[1]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[2]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[3]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[4]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[5]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[6]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[7]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
Node 0x0a [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x173f: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger ImpSense
Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80
  Pin Default 0x0221401f: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Front
Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0xf
  Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=30, enabled=1
  Connection: 6
 0x15 0x16 0x17 0x18 0x19* 0x1e
Node 0x0b [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x173f: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger ImpSense
Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80
  Pin Default 0x02a19020: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink
DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 6
 0x15* 0x16 0x17 0x18 0x19 0x1e
Node 0x0c [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x1737: IN OUT Detect Trigger ImpSense
Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80
  Pin Default 0x01113014: [Jack] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Blue
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x4
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=22, enabled=1
  Connection: 6
 0x15* 0x16 0x17 0x18 0x19 0x1e
Node 0x0d [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x003f: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger ImpSense
  Pin Default 0x01114010: [Jack] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=23, enabled=1
  Connection: 6
 0x15 0x16 0x17 0x18 0x19* 0x1e
Node 0x0e [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x1737: IN OUT Detect Trigger ImpSense
Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80
  Pin Default 0x01a19030: [Jack] Mic at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink
DefAssociation = 0x3, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 6
 0x15* 0x16 0x17 0x18 0x19 0x1e
Node 0x0f [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0037: IN OUT Detect Trigger ImpSense
  Pin Default 0x0012: [Jack] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x2
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=25, enabled=1
  Connection: 6
 0x15* 0x16 0x17 0x18 0x19 0x1e
Node 0x10 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0037: IN OUT Detect Trigger ImpSense
  Pin Default 0x01116011: [Jack] Speaker at Ext Rear
Conn = 1/8, Color = Orange
DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x1
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=26, enabled=1
  Connection: 6
 0x15 0x16* 0x17 0x18 0x19 0x1e
Node 0x11 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400183: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: N/A
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0037: IN OUT Detect Trigger ImpSense
  Pin Default 0x40f000f0: [N/A] Other at Ext N/A
Conn = Unknown, Color = Unknown
DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 6
 0x15 0x16 0x17* 0x18 0x19 0x1e
Node 0x12 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400081: Stereo
  Pincap 0x00

Re: Several segmentation faults after upgrade to Lenny

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <49bd35e3.7000...@henrik.synth.no>, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
>I just did a aptitude upgrade on an early lenny (testing) system to
>lenny release, which has resulted in an unusable system.

You made sure to change all occurrences of "testing" to "lenny" or "stable" 
in your apt sources, right?  I hope you didn't pull in any Squeeze packages 
yet.

The upgrade is complete, right?  'aptitude install' doesn't want to perform 
any actions?

>Several
>programs (bind, apache, greylist and a couple of others)  segfaults on
>startup:

Apache and bind and running fine here on Lenny.  Install debugging symbols 
and gdb, get backtraces, open bugs, and possibly move back to known good 
versions until it can get fixed.  Etch is still available as oldstable on 
the normal Debian mirrors and continues to get security support if you need 
to downgrade.

>Attached is the strace output from one of the of the failing commands
>(update-python-modules --post-install python-support.dirs).  I'm not
>strace expert, but it seems to fail on "futex(0xbfde8b00,
>FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)".

Odd, I was fairly sure even Etch kernels had support for futexes, and glibc 
should be able to fall back to something else anyway.

>My server is running as a xen instance on a 2.6.18 etch xen kernel.  I
>tried booting a 2.6.26 kernel as well, this didn't help.

That really shouldn't be much of an issue, libs and binaries in Lenny are 
required to run on Etch kernels so that upgrading from a fresh install of 
4.0r0 to 5.0r works.

If the kernel you are running on was not an Etch kernel, it would be 
possible that you would be missing a kernel option that is required for 
correct operation of a Lenny system.

Any unusual messages in /var/log/messages or dmesg?
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Re: Several segmentation faults after upgrade to Lenny

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 15.03.09 18:07, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
> I just did a aptitude upgrade on an early lenny (testing) system to 
> lenny release, which has resulted in an unusable system.  Several 
> programs (bind, apache, greylist and a couple of others)  segfaults on 
> startup:

lenny is not testing anymore. You may have some dependencies broken...

> My server is running as a xen instance on a 2.6.18 etch xen kernel.  I 
> tried booting a 2.6.26 kernel as well, this didn't help.

try 2.6.26 ...

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Re: [SOLVED] pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

[Martin]

To answer my own question:

To get this to work all you need to do is map uniqueMember to member

in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf:
nss_map_attribute   member  memberUid

2009/3/12 Martin :
> Hi,
>
> 2009/3/12 Dave Ewart :
>> On Wednesday, 11.03.2009 at 22:01 +0100, Martin wrote:
>>
>>> OK I Managed to get at least group memberships (somehow working):
>>>
>>> # getent group testers users; id john.doe
>>> testers:*:5001:cn=Dummy,uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc=name
>>> users:*:5000:cn=Dummy,uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc=name
>>> uid=1000(john.doe) gid=5000(users) groups=5000(users)
>>>
>>> now, why doesn't it work so that I just have john.doe as a member but
>>> instead the full DN of the ldap object?
>>
>> Your 'cn=testers' entry includes the full DN, so that's what gets
>> returned.
>
> Well that is somewhat "on purpose" the goal of the project is to only
> have to maintain groups like this:
>
> dn: cn=testers,ou=Group,dc=marcher,dc=name
> objectClass: groupOfNames
> objectClass: posixGroup
> objectClass: top
> cn: testers
> gidNumber: 5001
> member: uid=john.doe,ou=People,dc=marcher,dc=name
>
> (mind the "member" attribute) with rfc2307bis posixGroup is auxilliary
> and libnss-ldap should be able to handle that. I just can't figure out
> how :(
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Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

[Norbert Zeh]

> xset s off does not seem to have worked either.

What do you use as your screensaver?  If it's nothing, the above should
work (and does for me on Lenny).  If it's xscreensaver,
gnome-screensaver or other, they already do what xset s off would
achieve and control blanking the screen themselves.

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python/smtplib fails on rebuilt system

[Frank Miles]

A hard drive failure forced me to rebuild my main system.  Just a few
things haven't been restored; one of them is a python script which is
used to email users of important events.

In attempting to diagnose the cause, I tried directly executing the
lines:

import  smtplib
s= smtplib.SMTP('localhost')

but this causes an error with a traceback:

File "", line 1, in 
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py", line 310, in connect
raise socket.error, msg
socket.error: (97, 'Address family not supported by protocol')

This is with exim4 and python2.5 on a newly installed lenny system.
No error messages appear in /var/log or /var/log/exim4 directories.

Helpful clues or pointers to relevant documentation would be
appreciated!

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Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

[Brian]

--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Norbert Zeh  wrote:

> From: Norbert Zeh 
> Subject: Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking
> To: "Brian" 
> Cc: "Debian User" 
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:15 AM
> > xset -s noblank
> 
> I believe what you want here is "xset s off".  At
> least that's what I
> do, and if I understand the manpage correctly, xset s
> (no)blank does not
> affect the activation of the screensaver, only what it does
> when it
> activates.
> 
> Cheers,
> Norbert

xset s off does not seem to have worked either.

Is there something that has changed with Lenny?  My configuration worked fine 
in Etch.

Thanks, Norbert, for the idea though.

Brian



  


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Re: Moving to LVM

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <20090317141915.ga61...@fuchs>, André Berger wrote:
>That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
>long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
>have to access just one directory.

You might want to look into unionfs (or other "layered" file systems), that 
is probably closer to what you want.  The "unioned" file system will still 
become unavailable if you don't have both ext3 file systems, but since the 
underlying file systems are separate, losing one will not affect the other 
at all.

>Could "mount --bind" come to the rescue? But if I mounted one
>directory 'over' another, it would 'cover' the original one, which
>wouldn't be accessible any more, would it?

That's exactly right.  So, it's not as simple as a single mount --bind.

If you are using directories/folders to organize the files at all, you might 
be able to partition the directories between the file systems and just bind 
mount the directories to one consistent view and avoid using unionfs.
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Re: reboot/shutdown hangs at 'acpid:exiting'

[Michael Yang]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Thorny  wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:39:05 -0400, Michael Yang wrote:
>
> > After recent upgrade, my system becomes kind of mess up.
> >
> > My story is that I did a apt-get upgrade of some packages to squeeze/sid
> > by accident(I didn't change the 'testing' in my source.list). So I
> > downgrade most of packages back to dist lenny by pinning packages except
> > the kernel (2.6.24 kernel) and few packages. Everything works well but
> > the acpid.
> >
> >
> Michael, it probably would have been better to have left this in the other
> thread because it really is a continuation of your original problem and
> that way, others could have the full story. Remember I warned you that
> there were no guarantees with an APT pinning downgrade from a mixed system.
>
> Because you had that mixed system and what you tried (downgrade) is not
> really supported, this current problem could be related.


Sorry about that, Thorny. I posted this as a separate thread because I
thought it could be a different problem in lenny and I metioned what
happened in my case. Actually everything works fine after I downgrading from
my mixed system by pinning packages. Most of packages are downgraded to
lenny version and few still remains in testing version. But the system is
running very well without any problems.

I have to admit that I did one more step after that. To get a pure lenny
dist, I performed a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which upgrades the kernel as
well, from 2.6.24 to 2.6.26. That's when I found the problem of acpid. Then
I went back to .24 kernel, the problem still exists. That's why I thought if
it could be problems related to lenny dist.


>
> > The problem is every time when I reboot or shutdown the system, the
> > screen hangs at the message 'acpid exiting'.
> >
> > The version of acpid is 1.0.8-1 which is lenny version.
> >
> > I also tried the new version but didn't get through.
>
> Presumably, you upgraded to that 2.6.24 kernel while your system was Etch
> because you need some functionality that it provided. It would be good if
> you could remember (or check your system log) if anything else had to be
> upgraded at the time you did the original upgrade to 2.6.24.
>
> I'm not clear what you mean by "didn't get through" but it probably
> doesn't matter, a squeeze version won't necessarily solve your problem.
>
> >
> > Anybody has ideas of how to resolve the problem.
> >
>
> If it were my system, I would try a newer kernel, the one from the release
> version of Lenny. It might work better with the version of acpid that you
> now have.
>
>
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PHP5 Warning: pg_connect() Cannot create new link.

[Pet]

Hi,

I've php5-pgsql installed, but php-scripts throw

Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Cannot create new link.

For any help, many thanks


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confused about gcc-4.3 version in my system

[shaul Karl]

dpkg (dpkg -l gcc-4.3) reports that 4.3.3-3 is installed.
The latest entry in /var/log/apt/term reports 4:4.3.3-2 were set up.
To add to my confusion, I seem to remember that the head of 
/usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/changelog.Debian.gz pointed to 4.3.3-3 before the 
mentioned entry in var/log/apt/term.
How can it be?


  


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nfs not mounting, lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist

[Pet]

Hi,

I have mount on nfs, which doesn't work. Error:

lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist, not mounting failed!

Can it be fixed?
Thanks for any help!

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SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

[Robert Hodgins]

On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:13 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote:
> Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling
> around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know.
> 
> 
Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. Over the
weekend, I had noticed that SBM wasn't detecting the DVD/CD player
all the time. Yesterday, the hard drive was undetectable. Given that both units
function on other machines, I believe that the computer's drive
controller was slowly dying while I was working with it and ultimately
gave up the ghost Monday.

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Re: Random crashes in squeeze

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:53:46AM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
 03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
 Host Adapter (rev 22)
 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
 Adapter (rev 12)
 03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller 
 (rev ff) 
>>
>> What kernel? My 2.6.27.7 is customized specifically because the 2.6.27
>> in debian at the time didn't have that card reader enabled and I
>> needed it for boot (encryption key on sd card). So, maybe it is the
>> card reader. I've since switched to a usb key and could abandon that
>> kernel and see what happens.
> Strange, I had the card reader already working in de debian-packaged  
> 2.6.24. Only I had to pass the bootoption "noirqdebug" to the kernel to  
> get it working.

I *think* (no notes onthis, sorry) that I had it working out of the
box with debian-packaged 2.6.26 and when I upgraded to 2.6.27 I had to
recompile to get it as it was not configured. but now that I think
more about it, that might be a vanilla kernel. I'll have to review my
setup and see if I can recreate what I did... must learn to take
notes.

Again, what kernel are you running when this happens?

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Re: iomega portable hard drive

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

2009/3/16 Douglas A. Tutty :
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:47:16PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
>> 2009/3/16 Douglas A. Tutty :
>> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:11:55AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
>> >> is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb
>> >> powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I can't mount it. I
>> >> googled a bit too, but without success besides the fact that there is
>> >> no direct linux support for it.
>> >
>> > It may not need direct support. ?When you plug it in, udev should create
>> > a /dev/sd* node for it and report this in /var/log/syslog.
>> >
>> > At a command line, run:
>> > $ tail -f /var/log/syslog
>> >
>> > and plug in the drive.
>> >
>> > See what shows up, then mount the drive.
>>
>> here follows the output. Sorry for the long log...
>>
>> Mar 16 19:36:24 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6171.730447] usb 3-2: Product:
>> Iomega HDD USB2.0 Drive
>
>> Mar 16 19:36:24 yggdrasill NetworkManager:  [1237242984.480140]
>> nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is
>> '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_59b_272_56780D96EC35').
>
>> Mar 16 19:36:29 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6177.517493] scsi 5:0:0:0:
>> Direct-Access     ST912082 2A                PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
>> Mar 16 19:36:29 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6177.540014] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda]
>> 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
>
>> Mar 16 19:36:29 yggdrasill NetworkManager:  [1237242989.522010]
>> nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is
>> '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_59b_272_56780D96EC35_if0_scsi_host').
>
>> Mar 16 19:36:59 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6177.554886]  sda:<6>usb 3-2:
>> reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
>> Mar 16 19:37:30 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6247.201428] usb 3-2: reset full
>> speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
>
>> Mar 16 19:39:35 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6386.107479] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda]
>> Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
>> Mar 16 19:39:35 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6386.107479] end_request: I/O
>> error, dev sda, sector 0
>> Mar 16 19:39:35 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6386.107479] __ratelimit: 4
>> messages suppressed
>> Mar 16 19:39:35 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6386.107479] Buffer I/O error on
>> device sda, logical block 0
>> Mar 16 19:40:06 yggdrasill kernel: [ 6420.388444] usb 3-2: reset full
>> speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
>>
>> and nothing appears in /dev, like /dev/sda... so I can't mount it.
>> What is going wrong?
>
> Remember what I said about Desktop Environments?  Network Manager with
> hal is part of a desktop environment.  Its fitzing with the drives.
>
> Your kernel is seeing the drive, assigning it to /dev/sda (around
> 19:37).  A couple of minutes later (19:39:35) something causes the drive
> to abort.
>
> Perhaps someone can tell you how to get out the DTE while you
> troubleshoot this.
>
> Doug.
>

Thanks to your help, I know now where start to search! :)

Marcelo


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Re: Consolechars Question

[Thomas H. George]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:37:26PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:18:40PM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > maybe, but I have no such command.  
> 
> Sorry .. was in too much of a rush to proofread before posting.
> 
> The command is "showconsolefont" and it's part of the kbd package.
> 
>   http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fcky/showconsolefont.png
> 
Interesting.  Installing kbd removed console-tools.  With kbd installed
showconsolefont displayed the current character set, exactly what I
wanted to see.  Next I followed the link you gave and googled kbd
reaching http://freshmeat.net/projects/kdb but neither site gave any
information regarding the tools included in kbd.

Returning to a search of Debian packages I learned that console-tools
is a replacement for kbd and a package kbd-compat supplies backward
compatability so I reinstalled console-tools which removed kbd and then
installed kbd-compat.  kbd-compat may provide some backward
compatability but this does not include showconsolefonts.

I returned to a study of the consolechars man page and experimented with
the -sfm (screen-font-map) command both bare and with font names
supplied from the /usr/share/consolefonts and /usr/share/consoletrans
files but failed to find the right combination to get a display of the
character set like that generated by kbd's showconsolefont command.

Perhaps I am being a little thickheaded in failing to understand the
consolechars man page but it seems to me that a couple examples - this
is how to display the characters in the current font and this is how you
display the characters in a specified font - would not be amiss.

Tom
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Re: Moving to LVM

[randall]

André Berger wrote:

* André Berger (2009-03-16):

(Replying to myself and trying to sum up your A&Qs)

Thank you all for the helpful discussion and detailed instructions,
_much appreciated_. 


I'm aware of the significance of backups, and keep redundant backups
of 'important' data. The files in question are 'just movies' I would
miss but could live without. Not that I wanted to avoid lose them
though.

That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that
directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a
symbolic link). I could create a "more..." symlink on disk1 pointing
to disk2, but I really want everything in one directory,
alphabetically. 


Could "mount --bind" come to the rescue? But if I mounted one
directory 'over' another, it would 'cover' the original one, which
wouldn't be accessible any more, would it? 


-André

  



maybe a bit far fetched, but what about AFS instead of the NFS you 
mentioned?

not 100% sure it would be feasible in this case, but still.

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Re: Moving to LVM

[André Berger]

* André Berger (2009-03-16):

(Replying to myself and trying to sum up your A&Qs)

Thank you all for the helpful discussion and detailed instructions,
_much appreciated_. 

I'm aware of the significance of backups, and keep redundant backups
of 'important' data. The files in question are 'just movies' I would
miss but could live without. Not that I wanted to avoid lose them
though.

That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that
directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a
symbolic link). I could create a "more..." symlink on disk1 pointing
to disk2, but I really want everything in one directory,
alphabetically. 

Could "mount --bind" come to the rescue? But if I mounted one
directory 'over' another, it would 'cover' the original one, which
wouldn't be accessible any more, would it? 

-André

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Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

[Norbert Zeh]

> xset -s noblank

I believe what you want here is "xset s off".  At least that's what I
do, and if I understand the manpage correctly, xset s (no)blank does not
affect the activation of the screensaver, only what it does when it
activates.

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grub2 output to both console and serial

[William Thompson]

I am not on the list, keep me in CC.

Is it possible to output to both the vga console and the serial terminal as
with older versions of grub?  I thought I did this at one time but am unable
to do this now.  At this time, the oldest grub version I used is
1.96+20080724-16


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Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

[Brian]

I have a kiosk machine that I just upgraded to Lenny and now it seems that my 
old method of disabling screen blanking does not work.

With Etch all I did was edit the xorg.conf file and commented out

# Options "DPMS"

That worked until the upgrade.  I have tried:

xset -s noblank

and

setterm -powerdown 0

neither of which worked.

Does anybody have any idea on how to disable screen blanking in Lenny?

Thanks,

Brian




  

Re: weird problem in X with recent sid packages

[Florian Kulzer]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:34:14 -0400, charlie derr wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:56:03 -0400, charlie derr wrote:
>>> I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been 
>>> running as Debian unstable for several years.  A week or so ago, 
>>> after upgrading a bunch of packages (including lots of xserver-xorg* 
>>> and the kernel) I found that my keystrokes were not being properly 
>>> registered (but only in X -- the command line and remote SSH sessions 
>>> work fine).  Basically I found that on the gdm login screen when I 
>>> hit a key nothing would happen, but the second time I hit it, the 
>>> character would be rendered on my screen.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> n...@dibble:~$ awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> Driver  "keyboard"
> Option  "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
>
> EndSection

[...]

Try to change the above section (and restart gdm):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

The "keyboard" driver has been superseded by "kdb" for a while; see the
remarks in /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-kbd/NEWS.Debian.gz. The
"xfree86" rules still exist as a legacy symlink, but it cannot hurt to
update the XkbRules line to "xorg" when you are editing the
configuration anyway.

If the new configuration does not solve your problem then I would like
to see the output of this command:

dpkg -l xkb\* x11-\* xserver-xorg-input\* libx11\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}'

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Re: interfaces changed after upgrade

[Celejar]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:44:28 +0530
Girish Kulkarni  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop last month.
> 
> After the upgrade I find that the network interfaces eth0 (wired
> ethernet) and eth1 (wifi) have now been renamed to eth1 and
> wlan0_rename.  Plus, a new interface eth2 has been added, to which no
> device is attached, but which is still DHCP queried at every boot.
> 
> How do I remove wlan0_rename and attach the wifi device to eth2?

udev funkiness.  Try commenting out the relevant lines
in '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules', and then
either rebooting, or possibly just reloading the appropriate kernel
modules or 'udevadm trigger'.

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Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:10:43PM -0700, NFN Smith wrote:
 
> As long as I don't reboot the server, backing out of the problem is 
> doable -- all I have to do is revert to the previous libc6, using:
> 
>   aptitude -t oldstable install libc6
> 
> and things are back to where they were.

That's unix for you; any apps that were accessing the old libc6 will
still be accessing the old libs.

 
> Thus, since the upgrade we wanted wasn't essential, we decided to not 
> bother with it then.  However, we're now to the point where we need to 
> get the machine upgraded to lenny, so we need to figure out a way around 
> the problem.

What exactly is the problem that you're trying to avoid, i.e. what is
preventing you from doing a simple upgrade per the release notes?

> I need to do some checking, but removal of libc6-dev (and possibly other 
> -dev packages) before attempting an upgrade seems to have merit.

For the sake of a hard drive, why not install Lenny to a new drive (e.g.
with debootstrap) while still running your old version.  You can run
lenny software with schroot, including getting your new custom stuff
tested out while the old system is still up.  Install the Lenny kernel
on the new drive, add an entry to grub on the old drive, so that when
you are able to take the system off-line, you can do a trial reboot.
When running Lenny, you can run the old system with schroot and not lose
much downtime (just a reboot).  Overall, it gives you a nice transistion
box.  When you get everything tweaked out on Lenny (including booting
from the new drive), you can remove the old drive.  

If you really want to use the old drive (e.g. you used a removable USB
drive for Lenny), you can move things over with tar or something and
just rebuild the initrd (dpkg-reconfigure the kernel).



Good luck.

Doug.


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Re: limits.conf does not work at etch ?

[Sjors Gielen]

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> Hello
> 
> I'm in trouble with the /etc/security/limits.conf file at ETCH AMD64
> it does not apply the following statement after rebooting the machine
> 
> *hardnofile65536
> 
> the nofile ulimit value stay sticked at 1024
> 
> Anyone knows a workaround ?
> 
> Thanks a lot

First of all, can you manually change the ulimit value using ulimit -n?

Second: What happens if you add:

*  soft   nofile  65536

next to the hard limit?

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Re: Ext3 for flash drive

[Johan Kullstam]

"Masatran / Deepak, R."  writes:

> Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
> one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my laptop
> to my work computer, the UIDs on the Ext3 partition are used for the
> permissions, so I am not able to access the data. How can I fix this?
>
> Both computers run Debian Lenny. The laptop runs Sawfish while the work
> computer runs Gnome. I manually mount the flash drive in Sawfish, and I have
> a FSTAB entry to allow this without Sudo. Gnome does an automatic mount. I
> don't have superuser privilege on the work computer.
>
> I am willing to use non-Ext3 filesystems, I just want RWX-RWX-RWX-style file
> permissions.

I use tar.  Leave the format in FAT.  Make tar file (with compression
usually).  Copy tar file to USB drive.  The tar file will contain
permissions.

You might even be able to use tar straight to the flash drive like
  tar cvf /dev/sda files...
I used floppies like that.  But that gives you only one archive per
USB.

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Re: weird problem in X with recent sid packages

[charlie derr]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:56:03 -0400, charlie derr wrote:
I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been running 
as Debian unstable for several years.  A week or so ago, after upgrading 
a bunch of packages (including lots of xserver-xorg* and the kernel) I 
found that my keystrokes were not being properly registered (but only in 
X -- the command line and remote SSH sessions work fine).  Basically I 
found that on the gdm login screen when I hit a key nothing would happen, 
but the second time I hit it, the character would be rendered on my 
screen. Going on a hunch I tried to login by typing every character in 
both my username and password twice and it succeeded.  Once logged in (to 
KDE) things were worse (keystrokes were obviously being mapped to strange 
things, as I couldn't even get any letters to render in a konsole 
session). 


[...]





How is your keyboard configured? Please post the output of these two
commands (you can run them in a non-X terminal, e.g. CTRL+ALT+F1):


Thank you very much for the response.



awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf



n...@dibble:~$ awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option  "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option  "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option  "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
Option  "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option  "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option  "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "USB Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
#Option  "Device""/dev/input/mice"
Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
Option  "Protocol"  "auto"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
Option  "Buttons"   "5"
EndSection



grep -i keyboard /var/log/Xorg.0.log




n...@dibble:~$ grep -i keyboard /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xfree86"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)



Thanks to anyone for any suggestions (or more requests for information).

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Re: problem with downloaded debian 5.0

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

you can do
$ md5sum iso-image

and compare with md5sum value provided on the download mirror

2009/3/17 raman narasimhan 

> i used azureus (also known as vuze) a bittorrent client to download debian
> 5.0  binary 1 dvd from the site
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/bt-dvd/
> after downloading i also performed a data integrity check to see if all the
> chunks have been properly downloaded or not.. i found no problems and vuze
> began to seed the torrent.
>
> but when i burned the image to a dvd and booted the system from it, debian
> installer said that some installer component was missing on the dvd.
>
> i even shifted the download to another torrent client called Deluge and
> performed another data check to see if i'd got all the chunks correctly..
> there was no error..
> how do i check if the image is valid or not??
>
>
>


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problem with downloaded debian 5.0

[raman narasimhan]

i used azureus (also known as vuze) a bittorrent client to download debian
5.0  binary 1 dvd from the site
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/bt-dvd/
after downloading i also performed a data integrity check to see if all the
chunks have been properly downloaded or not.. i found no problems and vuze
began to seed the torrent.

but when i burned the image to a dvd and booted the system from it, debian
installer said that some installer component was missing on the dvd.

i even shifted the download to another torrent client called Deluge and
performed another data check to see if i'd got all the chunks correctly..
there was no error..
how do i check if the image is valid or not??

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

[Dotan Cohen]

> >From that page:
>> It is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small
>> portions of text.
>
> I don't think that this practicable, if you continue to work with your
> document for repeated 'edit, print' cycles.
>

In my experiments so far it's worked fine, but I will have to look at
the more advanced functions to know.

> For batch conversion (and printing) look at
> $ aptitude show unoconv
> [...]
> Description: converter between OpenOffice.org document formats
>  This package provides a commandline utility which can convert from any
> document format that OpenOffice can import to any
>  document format it can export. It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for
> non-interactive conversion of documents.
>
>  Supported document formats include Open Document format, MS Word, MS
> Office Open/MS OOXML, PDF, HTML, XHTML, RTF, Docbook,
>  and more.
> Homepage: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/
>
> (I haven't tried it myself.)
>
> Cheers,
> Johannes
>

I have looked at unoconv and I will look into it again now with a
clear head. Thanks.

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limits.conf does not work at etch ?

[Frank Bonnet]

Hello

I'm in trouble with the /etc/security/limits.conf file at ETCH AMD64
it does not apply the following statement after rebooting the machine

*   hardnofile  65536

the nofile ulimit value stay sticked at 1024

Anyone knows a workaround ?

Thanks a lot



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Re: Print to PDF with lpr

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> But I just 
> discovered this OOo extension which allows the user to save the 
> document as PDF with the ODF file embedded for editing: 
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
> 
> This is, in my opinion, the perfect document format. The only thing 
> missing from the extension is better save support, as the user 
> currently must be careful to export (not save) as a Hybrid PDF file.

>From that page:
> It is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small
> portions of text.

I don't think that this practicable, if you continue to work with your
document for repeated 'edit, print' cycles.

For batch conversion (and printing) look at
$ aptitude show unoconv
[...]
Description: converter between OpenOffice.org document formats
 This package provides a commandline utility which can convert from any
document format that OpenOffice can import to any
 document format it can export. It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for
non-interactive conversion of documents.

 Supported document formats include Open Document format, MS Word, MS
Office Open/MS OOXML, PDF, HTML, XHTML, RTF, Docbook,
 and more.
Homepage: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/

(I haven't tried it myself.)

Cheers,
Johannes


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Re: Package Creation

[lostson]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:34 +0530, hari haran.spc wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>Could any one suggest any link other than debian developer's guide
> for debian package creation. I could not be able to find out very good
> tutorial in order to enrich my knowledge as well as package creation.
> Please help me. 
> 
> -- 
> S.Vellingiri,
> Associate Systems Engineer,
> bk systems,
> chennai.
> hariharan@gmail.com

 This is what i used to learn to build debian packages 

 http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html

 hope that helps.

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[hari haran.spc]

Dear Friends,
   Could any one suggest any link other than debian developer's guide for
debian package creation. I could not be able to find out very good tutorial
in order to enrich my knowledge as well as package creation. Please help me.


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interfaces changed after upgrade

[Girish Kulkarni]

Hello,

I upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop last month.

After the upgrade I find that the network interfaces eth0 (wired
ethernet) and eth1 (wifi) have now been renamed to eth1 and
wlan0_rename.  Plus, a new interface eth2 has been added, to which no
device is attached, but which is still DHCP queried at every boot.

How do I remove wlan0_rename and attach the wifi device to eth2?

Thanks,
Girish.

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Re: Moving to LVM

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:18:28AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > In , Stefan 
> > Monnier 
> > wrote:
> >>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
> >>> available?
> >> You lose it all (pretty much).  For that reason, it's not recommended,
> >> unless you have backups elsewhere.
> > 
> > You don't really lose it all.  If the disk is just unavailable, the VG is 
> > just unavailable.  Bringing both disks on-line simultaneously will restore 
> > your access to the VG and all its LVs.
> > 
> > If one disk dies or gets corrupted, you can still recover some of the data 
> > on the other disk.  LVs that reside only on the good disk(s) will be 
> > completely safe.  LVs that reside only on the bad disk(s) will be entirely 
> > lost.
> 
> OP explicitly asked about creating _one_ LV. He also claimed that there
> is no third disk available for backup or data recovery.
> 

Lose one, you've lost everything. [I lost a 2TB array that way].

USB not really reliable enough. [Lost a 750G disk when it fell 40cm to 
a carpeted floor too :( ]

AndyC


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Re: Random crashes in squeeze

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff) 


What kernel? My 2.6.27.7 is customized specifically because the 2.6.27
in debian at the time didn't have that card reader enabled and I
needed it for boot (encryption key on sd card). So, maybe it is the
card reader. I've since switched to a usb key and could abandon that
kernel and see what happens.
Strange, I had the card reader already working in de debian-packaged 
2.6.24. Only I had to pass the bootoption "noirqdebug" to the kernel to 
get it working.


Sjoerd



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Re: reboot/shutdown hangs at 'acpid:exiting'

[Thorny]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:39:05 -0400, Michael Yang wrote:

> After recent upgrade, my system becomes kind of mess up.
> 
> My story is that I did a apt-get upgrade of some packages to squeeze/sid
> by accident(I didn't change the 'testing' in my source.list). So I
> downgrade most of packages back to dist lenny by pinning packages except
> the kernel (2.6.24 kernel) and few packages. Everything works well but
> the acpid.
>
>
Michael, it probably would have been better to have left this in the other
thread because it really is a continuation of your original problem and
that way, others could have the full story. Remember I warned you that
there were no guarantees with an APT pinning downgrade from a mixed system.

Because you had that mixed system and what you tried (downgrade) is not
really supported, this current problem could be related.

> The problem is every time when I reboot or shutdown the system, the
> screen hangs at the message 'acpid exiting'.
> 
> The version of acpid is 1.0.8-1 which is lenny version.
> 
> I also tried the new version but didn't get through.

Presumably, you upgraded to that 2.6.24 kernel while your system was Etch
because you need some functionality that it provided. It would be good if
you could remember (or check your system log) if anything else had to be
upgraded at the time you did the original upgrade to 2.6.24.

I'm not clear what you mean by "didn't get through" but it probably
doesn't matter, a squeeze version won't necessarily solve your problem.

> 
> Anybody has ideas of how to resolve the problem.
> 

If it were my system, I would try a newer kernel, the one from the release
version of Lenny. It might work better with the version of acpid that you
now have.




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Re: update information is outdated?

[Girish Kulkarni]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>> I am getting this message from the update notifier constantly in the
>> notification area on my panel --
>>
>> The update information is outdated.  This may be caused by network
>> problems.  Please update manually by clicking on this icon and
>> then selecting 'Check'.
>>
>> There seem to be no network problems.  The message reappears after
>> "checking" for upgrades with aptitude or apt-get.  What is wrong?
>
> Have you run the updater tool to update the package lists?  If your
> mirror is not down then you need to do that.  Perhaps it was down when
> update-notifier was trying to download the latest package files to see
> if there were any updates?

Thanks for the reply, Daniel.  The message from update-notifier
appears even after I run 'aptitude update'.  I have repeated this
exercise quite a few times and also confirmed that the mirror is up.
But the pop-up persists.

Interestingly, there's a bug reported in the BTS about this --
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506186

Girish.

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Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

[Thorny]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:42:54 -0700, NFN Smith wrote:

[...]
> 
> Following this downgrade, libc6 (and related dependencies) are all still
> at etch versions.
>
>

This from Chapter 4 of the Lenny release notes may be of interest to you,
especially the part at the bottom since you are using Aptitude.

4.5.4. Upgrade apt and/or aptitude first

Several bug reports have shown that the versions of the aptitude and apt
packages in etch are often unable to handle the upgrade to lenny. In
lenny, apt is better at dealing with complex chains of packages requiring
immediate configuration and aptitude is smarter at searching for solutions
to satisfy the dependencies. These two features are heavily involved
during the dist-upgrade to lenny, so it is necessary to upgrade these two
packages before upgrading anything else. For apt, run:

# apt-get install apt

and for aptitude (if you have it installed) run:   

# aptitude install aptitude

This step will automatically upgrade libc6 and locales and will pull in
SELinux support libraries (libselinux1). At this point, some running
services will be restarted, including xdm, gdm and kdm. As a consequence,
local X11 sessions might be disconnected.


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Re: Moving to LVM

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In , Stefan Monnier 
> wrote:
>>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
>>> available?
>> You lose it all (pretty much).  For that reason, it's not recommended,
>> unless you have backups elsewhere.
> 
> You don't really lose it all.  If the disk is just unavailable, the VG is 
> just unavailable.  Bringing both disks on-line simultaneously will restore 
> your access to the VG and all its LVs.
> 
> If one disk dies or gets corrupted, you can still recover some of the data 
> on the other disk.  LVs that reside only on the good disk(s) will be 
> completely safe.  LVs that reside only on the bad disk(s) will be entirely 
> lost.

OP explicitly asked about creating _one_ LV. He also claimed that there
is no third disk available for backup or data recovery.

I agree with Stefan that for the particular scenario OP describes, LVM
may not be the optimum solution. I'd suggest that he'll probably be more
comfortable with just two partitions, splitting his media files, so in
the end he will know which files he will retain in case of disk failure.
The alternative of creating two volumes, each covering one whole disk,
renders the concept of LVM pretty much useless.

The comfort of administering just one LV, covering both disks carries
the risk that most of the data will be useless on failure of one disk
and possible data recovery will be difficult to predict. The 'classical'
two partition approach at least gives the possibility to save some
crucial data to *both* disks.

> IMO, LVM is a replacement for partition tables not for RAID or backups.

Agreed!

Cheers,
Johannes


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