Re: lenny upgrade: font size

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-04-13 08:07 +0200, Mark Grieveson wrote:

> Hello.  I just successfully upgraded Etch to Lenny.  However, the font
> size is now very small.  I use Fluxbox, and the font size is small on
> the desktop of Fluxbox (the bottom window panel), and within the
> applications as well. Does anyone know how this can be fixed?

Quoting /usr/share/doc/xdm/NEWS.Debian.gz:

,
| xdm (1:1.1.6-4) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   As many other display managers, xdm does not pass -dpi 100 to the
|   X server anymore. xserver-xorg-core now uses 96 instead of 75 by
|   default, it should be fine for most people.
|   In case of problem, the DisplaySize option be used in the Monitor
|   section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to force another DPI. If you
|   have multiple RandR 1.2 outputs, DisplaySize should be specified
|   in each Monitor section.
|   See http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
| 
|  -- Brice Goglin   Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:50:28 +0100
`

> PS, While I'm happy with the upgrade, I'm annoyed that emelfm is not a
> part of Lenny.  Further, the Etch version I had installed did not
> survive the upgrade; so, I'm now suffering from withdrawal.  Does
> anyone know of a similar file manager, that has both the dual planes,
> and the accompanying command-line interface at the bottom?

There is a successor named emelfm2¹ for it that has been ITP'ed but
isn't packaged yet.  You can follow up on bug #433530² if you're
interested, and build from source in the meantime.

Sven 


¹ http://emelfm2.net/
² http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433530


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lenny upgrade: font size

[Mark Grieveson]

Hello.  I just successfully upgraded Etch to Lenny.  However, the font
size is now very small.  I use Fluxbox, and the font size is small on
the desktop of Fluxbox (the bottom window panel), and within the
applications as well. Does anyone know how this can be fixed?

Mark

PS, While I'm happy with the upgrade, I'm annoyed that emelfm is not a
part of Lenny.  Further, the Etch version I had installed did not
survive the upgrade; so, I'm now suffering from withdrawal.  Does
anyone know of a similar file manager, that has both the dual planes,
and the accompanying command-line interface at the bottom?


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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2009 #643

[Amit Uttamchandani]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:34:27 -0400
Leonardo Cuyar Morales  wrote:

> Hello I want to begin a new with this:
> 
> I use sudo user to do some commands like root but after I "sudo su" to
> become root I can't write archives and files owned  by  root, is there  a
> program who  let me  write  this  files

Why don't you simple use 'su' instead of 'sudo su'? Also, check the
file permissions to make sure they are writable. If not, you can use
chmod to make the file writable.


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Re: Display problem after apt-get dist-upgrade

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-04-13 07:48 +0200, Kuang Chen wrote:

> I apt-get and apt-get dist-upgraded everyday and I think
> several xorg-related and intel graphics card got upgraded a
> few days ago. Then the display of my computer got messed
> up. The windows repait themselves slowly when they are moved
> around: one can even see the obvious delay in repainting. So I am
> sure something went wrong with the graphics card configuration or
> things of that kind. I've attached my xorg.conf and
> /var/log/xorg.0.log below. If anything beyond those is needed, I
> can attach them then, as long as you can tell me what I should do,
> since I am inexperienced in Linux. Thanks very much.

If you are inexperienced in Linux, you had better not run Debian
unstable.  Do yourself a favor and stick to stable or testing instead.

The latest Intel video driver seems to have some serious problems, you
may want to check the bug list at [1], especially the newly filed
"important" bugs.

Sven


1. http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xorg-video-intel


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Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

[Amit Uttamchandani]

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:46:30 -0400
"H.S."  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago
> in Sid?
> 
> The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or
> responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core
> Processor 5600+ with 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 8600 Nvidia card. On this
> kind of a machine, the GUI should *not* have been sluggish. I really
> hope the KDE people have not pulled a Vista their uses! :)
> 
> BTW, plugging a card reader and inserting a CF card caused KDE to hang.
> If this repeats, I will file a bug.
> 
> That desktop window which shows all the folders/files on one's desktop?
> That kind of appears to hand if I work on some of the folders there and
> also on a terminal.
> 
> Any other experiences worth sharing?
> 

Been using KDE4.2 from experimental for a while and you're right it
doesn't seem as fast as KDE3. Turning off composite made things a lot
faster. Dolphin and okular are awesome. Kate now has vim mode so that's
also interesting...


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Display problem after apt-get dist-upgrade

[Kuang Chen]

Hi,

I apt-get and apt-get dist-upgraded everyday and I think
several xorg-related and intel graphics card got upgraded a
few days ago. Then the display of my computer got messed
up. The windows repait themselves slowly when they are moved
around: one can even see the obvious delay in repainting. So I am
sure something went wrong with the graphics card configuration or
things of that kind. I've attached my xorg.conf and
/var/log/xorg.0.log below. If anything beyond those is needed, I
can attach them then, as long as you can tell me what I should do,
since I am inexperienced in Linux. Thanks very much.


Kuang 



X.Org X Server 1.6.0
Release Date: 2009-2-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux DebianLab 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 
04:02:59 UTC 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 08 April 2009  11:41:45PM
xorg-server 2:1.6.0-1 (jcris...@debian.org) 
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Apr 12 21:53:47 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Configured Monitor"
(==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen".
Using the first device section listed.
(**) |   |-->Device "IntelCard"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
built-ins
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable 
AllowEmptyInput.
(II) Loader magic: 0xd40
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 5.0
X.Org XInput driver : 4.0
X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(II) Loader running on linux
(++) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0...@0:2:0) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics 
Controller rev 12, Mem @ 0xf810/1048576, 0xe000/268435456, I/O @ 
0x1800/8
(--) PCI: (0...@0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics 
Controller rev 12, Mem @ 0xf820/1048576
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) System resource ranges:
[0] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) MX[B]
[1] -1  0   0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B]
[2] -1  0   0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B]
[3] -1  0   0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B]
[4] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
[5] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension SELinux
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Found

Re: vim

[Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
 wrote:
> 
>
> hr mahan wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to use vim as editor for my Fortran programs.  In Fedora vim
>> colorizes the program's text.  I would like to have this option enabled on
>> my Debian box as well.  What is the solution?

Default Debian setup doesn't install vim , but vim-tiny and/or
vim-common if I am not wrong. So you need to apt-get install vim.
After that check /etc/vim/vimrc and uncomment proper lines, to get
syntax highlighting and file type detection started. This is a system
wide config.
Or you can edit ~/.vimrc for your own customized vim settings.

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Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

[Amit Uttamchandani]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:13:36 -0700 (PDT)
Phillipus Gunawan  wrote:

> 
> Hi There,
> 
> My friend told me about Home Server, and when I have a read about it, wow
> The only feature that interest me is "Drive Extender"
> 
> (taken from Windows Home Server Technical Brief - Drive Extender.docx)
> "
> As you add more hard
> drives to your home server, they are treated as a single large pool of
> available storage space. You no longer need to deal with drive letters (such 
> as
> E:, F:, and G: ) because you can add more hard drives."
> 
> 

[snip]

Although not suitable for production use...you might want to keep an
eye on Btrfs:

http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

Not sure if it has all that you need but it has some interesting
features.


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Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

[Rick Thomas]

I ran into this too.   Same problem -- extra set of quotes in the  
environment variables after doing "sudo -i" .


I put



LANG=C
LANGUAGE=C
export LANG
export LANGUAGE


at the end of /root/.bashrc and the problem went away.  But now that  
two of us have seen it, I think there's a bug in "sudo -i".


Rick

On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:14, Celejar  wrote:



So you seem to be correct; for some reason, in the sudo shell, the  
LC*

variables are getting extra quotes.  Any idea why?  [There's nothing
that looks interesting in root's '.bashrc'; it's basically empty.]


Something to do with the preservation or lack thereof  of  
environmental

variables in sudo? Try putting the env vars in root's .bashrc, maybe?

I don't really know, I use straight "sudo $command" not "sudo -i"


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

[Manon Metten]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Long Wind  wrote:
> I have a cell phone
> it can't play some mp3
> maybe it supports only 128K
> So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K
> Which package in etch?

I would recommend lame; it's in the multimedia repository
(http://www.debian-multimedia.org/).

As the default bitrate is 128k, the command line would be:
  lame --mp3input in.mp3 out.mp3

You might also consider CBR (constant bitrate), as some players cannot
handle VBR (variable bitrate) properly. In that case the command line
would be:

  lame --cbr --mp3input in.mp3 out.mp3

However, when transcoding, there's a caveat: all mp3 tags (ie: album,
song title, artist, etc.) are lost in the process. So maybe you could
write a script that first extracts all tags (mpgtx can read id3v1 &
id3v2 tags) and then uses them in the transcoding process.

  lame --mp3input --add-id3v2 --tt  --ta  --tl 
--ty  in.mp3 out.mp3

Manon.


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Re: Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

[Hal Vaughan]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:42 PM, H.S. wrote:


Hal Vaughan wrote:



rsync -av server::Data /MacRAID/Data/  (Forgot if that one required  
the
"/" at the end or not.  Whichever I used, it did copy directly to  
that

directory without creating an extra subdirectory.)


$> rsync  /source/path /dest

will transfer the directory "path" into /dest directory on the remote
machine. You will contet /dest/path at the remote machine.

$> rsync  /source/path/ /dest

will transfer only the contents of the "path" directory to the remote
machine. You will get /dest/

The trailing slash matters only on the source specification.

Thus, with the trailing slash, the contents of the path directory are
transfered, and without it the directory itself is.


I was playing with that and did get used to it.  Sometimes details  
like that are kind of hard to keep straight.


and it copied all the files from the RAID on the server to the RAID  
on
my iMac.  Of course they were different user names.  In the past I  
used
NIS on my LAN to keep user names the same.  Now that I'm done with  
the
setup, the data on the iMac RAID will change more often and the  
server

is essentially a back-up.

Today it was finally time to set up rsync to do regular backups  
from my

workstation to the server, so I tried:

rsync -avn /MacRAID/Data/ m...@server:Data  (Thanks to H.S. for that  
help

in another recent thread.)


Try the options -auvn

Search the man page for "-u" to see what it means.


I found -u and experimented with that, but was concerned about using  
that long term. (It didn't effect the files concerned except for 2-3  
files that should have been replaced due to my tinkering.)  When I  
looked it over carefully, I found that the problem was basically with  
my music directory, but it wasn't all the files, only the first 3 in  
MOST (not all) directories.  My best guess is that some program I was  
experimenting with, like Amarok or iTunes (which has some serious  
failings) may have added meta-data to the early files in an album  
(since all my tracks have filenames starting with a track number,  
getting the first 3 files is a simple trick) or something else like  
that.


Since I was concerned -u would miss updates later, and since it was  
only 3 files per album (although that was still a lot), I finally just  
bit the bullet and let rsync do them (I tested a few first, just in  
case).  It took a few hours (which gave me time to go out and work on  
my car), but it caught up finally and it's all behaving now.  I've  
finally got the cron jobs in place so about every 6 hours my data on  
my iMac is backed up to the server.  (Now if I could just get a good  
off-site backup setup that didn't cost a fortune!)


Thanks for the help!


Hal


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Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

[Hal Vaughan]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:48 PM, H.S. wrote:


Hal Vaughan wrote:


On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote:


Hal Vaughan wrote:

I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.
Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on  
them so
there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up  
from my

iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).

In the past I could use:

rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing

And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/ 
writing to

the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:

rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing


I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
running on the remote machine, try:
$> rsync -ave ssh m...@server:Writing /data/Writing

where "me" is your username at server machine.


I missed something here.  When I do this, it connects and instead of
using the module I specify, it copies the files to my home (or "me's"
home) directory on that computer.


The above command should copy files from ${HOME}/Writing (without a
path, a directory is assume to be in the starting folder, your home)
from the remote machine to /data/Writing on the machine you are  
running

this command on. If you want to get another path, specify that after
m...@server:


I did several tests and that's what I verified.  There is a way to  
specify it differently, using "-rsa," but in the long run I decided it  
was better to just specify the path instead, using "../.." to get to  
the root directory.  Using just a slash at the start of the path still  
seemed to start with the home directory.  The modules would be nice in  
this case, since I could end up changing the path at some time, but  
for now it works okay.


Thanks for the help!


Hal


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GlusterFS (was Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent)

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:08:30PM -0400, Stefan Monnier 
(monn...@iro.umontreal.ca) wrote:

> > If someone has actual experience about dealing with lost
> > disk in WHS, please tell us.
> 
> Actually, I'd rather you don't tell us: just tell him.
> This is a mailing list dedicated to Debian, so Windows discussions are
> off-topic.

Are comparisons with other OSes also considered off-topic here? 
If so, my apologies. That's anyway my only interest here, I'm just
curious when I heard claims Windows can do something Linux can't.

But, more on-topic: it just occurred to me the suggested
(hypothetical) functionality could be achieved with GlusterFS.
I haven't actually tried it, but it should allow for a setup
where each disk has its own filesystem from the server's point
of view yet are shown as a single whole to the clients.
Every individual file would be on only one disk, but there'd
be no need to decide manually which goes where.
If you pull a disk out, only files on that disk are lost -
and are easily recoverable by plugging it in another machine even
without GlusterFS (obviously, if you pull a disk while it's being
mounted some files may end up corrupt, but no worse than
with single standalone disks).

Of course, it also allows bundling multiple servers
so that their disks appear as one to clients - that's
what it's actually designed for. But offhand I can't
see why it couldn't be used with a single server this way.

Has anybody here used GlusterFS with Debian?
Would (ab)using it that way make sense?

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Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

[James Richardson]

H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query
> about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a
> related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router
> for my home lan such that it can send email to an external email
> address. It does not need to receive any public email at all.
> 
> I have already tried heirloom and I can send email to my gmail account
> if I put my gmail log in info in my mail's conf file.
> 
> Now I am wondering if I can allow outgoing email (need to have port 25
> open?) with no need nor requirement to receive any in coming email from
> the WAN without having to use a particular email's log in info. The idea
> is that email from that machine (and perhaps from lan machines) may be
> sent to any valid email address with reply-to address changed to a fixed
> email address.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
I use Exim on my f/w on my router. It accepts email from all the nodes
on my home network and now forwards it to my mail server on my vps.
Previously, it forwarded mail through my isp. If I remember correctly
when sending mail through my isp the from header was always rewritten to
be from my isp email address.

If you have a static ip you may be able to send mail directly to
mailservers around the internet, however if you have a dynamic ip, it
will be blocked by most mailservers. Also your isp may block outbound
port 25 traffic. Mine just redirects all outbound port 25 traffic to
their mail servers. I get around this by having a vpn between my home
network and my vps.

I know you said you did not need to receive any incoming email, just be
sure to keep port 25 into your network closed.


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Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:14, Celejar  wrote:



> So you seem to be correct; for some reason, in the sudo shell, the LC*
> variables are getting extra quotes.  Any idea why?  [There's nothing
> that looks interesting in root's '.bashrc'; it's basically empty.]

Something to do with the preservation or lack thereof  of environmental
variables in sudo? Try putting the env vars in root's .bashrc, maybe?

I don't really know, I use straight "sudo $command" not "sudo -i"


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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[Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

[Celejar]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:14:50 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."  wrote:

> In <20090412201956.993b4446.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote:
> >~# man cp
> >man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> >
> >Or, while running aptitude:
> >
> >perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> >perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > LANGUAGE = (unset),
> > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8""
> >are supported and installed on your system.
> >perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> >/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are
> > correct
> >
> >I've tried 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'
> 
> I've seen it before, and the dpkg-reconfigure usually addresses it.
> 
> >, and even purging and
> >reinstalling locales, to no effect.
> 
> That usually doesn't help if the dpkg-reconfigure doesn't.
> 
> >Is anyone else seeing
> >this?  Is this a bug, or some misconfiguration on my system?  Note that
> >my regular user account works fine.
> 
> I usually run local-gen manually then log out and log back in and things 
> work.

Doesn't help.
 
> Actually, looking at your error message in more detail, it looks like your 
> LANG variable is set improperly.  For some reason your LANG variable is set 
> to '"en_US.UTF-8"'--including the double-quotes.  It should be set to 
> 'en_US.UTF-8'.  Double check your root shell startup files and see if 
> something could be wrong there.

And here we have the problem!  I noticed that when I log in as root
directly, either to a getty or via 'su', then I don't see the problem.
It only appears in root shells obtained with 'sudo -i'.  'locale' in
the latter case gives:

~# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
directory LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_NUMERIC=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_TIME=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_COLLATE=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_MONETARY=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_MESSAGES=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_PAPER=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_NAME=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_ADDRESS=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_TELEPHONE=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_MEASUREMENT=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_IDENTIFICATION=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_ALL=

While 'locale' in the former case gives:

# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

So you seem to be correct; for some reason, in the sudo shell, the LC*
variables are getting extra quotes.  Any idea why?  [There's nothing
that looks interesting in root's '.bashrc'; it's basically empty.]

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Re: Locale errors

[Celejar]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:51:53 -0700
Kelly Clowers  wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:19, Celejar  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been seeing all sorts of errors related to locales in the root
> > account, e.g.:
> >
> > ~# man cp
> > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> >
> > Or, while running aptitude:
> >
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >        LANGUAGE = (unset),
> >        LC_ALL = (unset),
> >        LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8""
> >    are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> >
> > I've tried 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', and even purging and
> > reinstalling locales, to no effect.  The only locale I have selected is
> > 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' (that's the only one I've manually selected, and
> > the only one uncommented in /etc/locale.gen).  Is anyone else seeing
> > this?  Is this a bug, or some misconfiguration on my system?  Note that
> > my regular user account works fine.
> 
> Oh man, I hate this one. I have had this issue several times in the past
> but although I eventually fix it, for some reason I never remember how.
> 
> Anyway, to start with, what is the output of "locale", and have you tried
> running local-gen (although I think dpkg-reconfigure should do that...)?

~# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
directory LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_NUMERIC=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_TIME=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_COLLATE=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_MONETARY=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_MESSAGES=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_PAPER=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_NAME=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_ADDRESS=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_TELEPHONE=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_MEASUREMENT=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_IDENTIFICATION=""en_US.UTF-8""
LC_ALL=

Running locale-gen doesn't help.
 
> Also check /etc/default/locale

The only uncommented line:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

> I hope some of this helps or at least give you other ideas...

Thanks.  I'm still stumped, but I'm hoping we'll figure this out!

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Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

[Raquel]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:53:11 -0400
"H.S."  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers)
> query about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an
> mta or a related application on my Debian machine which is being
> run as a router for my home lan such that it can send email to an
> external email address. It does not need to receive any public
> email at all.
> 
> I have already tried heirloom and I can send email to my gmail
> account if I put my gmail log in info in my mail's conf file.
> 
> Now I am wondering if I can allow outgoing email (need to have port
> 25 open?) with no need nor requirement to receive any in coming
> email from the WAN without having to use a particular email's log
> in info. The idea is that email from that machine (and perhaps from
> lan machines) may be sent to any valid email address with reply-to
> address changed to a fixed email address.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I can give you a few suggestions, but email here won't be enough.
Read EVERYTHING you can find about mail servers.  Think 3 or 4 times
about setting up your own mail server.  The trouble is that if you
don't do things right, you can end up as an open relay.  If you have
static IPs, you can end up having your server blacklisted.  If you
have dynamic IPs, you may be blacklisted because of having dynamic
IPs, which may even happen for the same reason if you have static
IPs.  Many ISPs won't let you run your own servers.  Most "private
citizens" who set up servers, shouldn't.

Of course, you're free to do what you want.

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Re: Locale errors

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <20090412201956.993b4446.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote:
>~# man cp
>man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>
>Or, while running aptitude:
>
>perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>   LANGUAGE = (unset),
>   LC_ALL = (unset),
>   LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8""
>are supported and installed on your system.
>perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are
> correct
>
>I've tried 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'

I've seen it before, and the dpkg-reconfigure usually addresses it.

>, and even purging and
>reinstalling locales, to no effect.

That usually doesn't help if the dpkg-reconfigure doesn't.

>Is anyone else seeing
>this?  Is this a bug, or some misconfiguration on my system?  Note that
>my regular user account works fine.

I usually run local-gen manually then log out and log back in and things 
work.

Actually, looking at your error message in more detail, it looks like your 
LANG variable is set improperly.  For some reason your LANG variable is set 
to '"en_US.UTF-8"'--including the double-quotes.  It should be set to 
'en_US.UTF-8'.  Double check your root shell startup files and see if 
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Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers (in sid)

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 22:45, niclas w  wrote:
> 'xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers'
> error message when starting amarik.
> No sound when using amarok(or any other player).
> But I hear the startup and shutdown jingle...
>
> Any ideas whats wrong or how to find whats wrong?
>
> Using SID.

Do you use PulseAudio or ALSA or what?

If you invoke mplayer on a sound file from the command line,
does it work and what does it say about the audio driver? It
will be something like:
AO: [pulse]
or
AO: [alsa]


Cheers,
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Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott  wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott  wrote:



>>> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database!  I clearly totally
>>> missed some basic changes in Xorg.  I have been looking for documentation
>>> on
>>> this change and haven't found enough.
>>
>> That seems really weird. I am pretty sure that if you have a fairly
>> current and correctly installed hal, you should have those entries,
>> whether or not X is making correct use of them.
>
> I have basic PS2 keyboard and mouse.  Is that what evdev is for?

I think in the past evdev was usb only (or at least that is how people
used it). But now evdev should work with ps/2, and the evdev X driver
is required to use the hal/autoconfig system in X.

But evdev is an X component and should not affect hal's detection
of your mouse and keyboard.

>>
>> You say you are running "squeeze/sid (mostly sid)." Is your
>> hal the sid version?
>
>
> AFAIK everything relevant here is the latest from sid.  There are no
> relevant upgradable packages as determined by aptitude.  Over the last few
> days I had downgraded several xorg packages but I reupgraded them all
> yesterday before this thread.

Maybe try reinstalling hal/hal-data? And do you have console-setup installed?
I don't know that it is relevant, but it might be (it gives the console the same
keyboard config system as X).

The other thing you could do is switch back to the non-hal system for now.

you will need to add in at least this stuff to xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier   "Keyboard"
Driver  "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier   "Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Keyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
EndSection


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Re: X and tty7

[Mike McClain]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:08:16PM +0930, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed?  E.g. to tty24?
> #
> # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
> # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
> 
> Why?  How can I get it out of the way?

First let me say I use openvt and only have 2 vts opened in /etc/inittab.
I run with several vts open at a time like you and start X with startx.
I boot into the commandline, login then open as many vts opened as I 
please using Alt+uparrow which are tied in /etc/inittab with this line:
# Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow).
kb::kbrequest:/usr/bin/openvt -su
The advantage of 'openvt -su' is that I only have to login once.
Using startx X starts on the next unused vt. If you really want to
use tty24, you can open the first 23 vts in /etc/inittab.
HTH,
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Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

[Paul Scott]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott   
wrote:


On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:


On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote:


Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need
xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you
still
have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log.

[1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to get rid of  
it,

and
yes, the new way does work.



I have all of those.  Log is attached.  I'm not sure how this  
Mac (my

current access to the problem machine) will show it.


Ok, I compared to my log and there are things just missing from  
yours :/


I assume hal is running on that machine. Also check the output of
'lshal' and look for the devices that have 'input.x11_driver'  
option set
(maybe post the relevant entries here), because only such devices  
are
eligible for X11 input devices. Maybe hal just doesn't recognize  
your

stuff.



There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database!  I clearly  
totally
missed some basic changes in Xorg.  I have been looking for  
documentation on

this change and haven't found enough.


That seems really weird. I am pretty sure that if you have a fairly
current and correctly installed hal, you should have those entries,
whether or not X is making correct use of them.


I have basic PS2 keyboard and mouse.  Is that what evdev is for?



You say you are running "squeeze/sid (mostly sid)." Is your
hal the sid version?



AFAIK everything relevant here is the latest from sid.  There are no  
relevant upgradable packages as determined by aptitude.  Over the  
last few days I had downgraded several xorg packages but I reupgraded  
them all yesterday before this thread.


Thanks,

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related to mail servers, mta and mda

[H.S.]

Hello,

This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query
about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a
related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router
for my home lan such that it can send email to an external email
address. It does not need to receive any public email at all.

I have already tried heirloom and I can send email to my gmail account
if I put my gmail log in info in my mail's conf file.

Now I am wondering if I can allow outgoing email (need to have port 25
open?) with no need nor requirement to receive any in coming email from
the WAN without having to use a particular email's log in info. The idea
is that email from that machine (and perhaps from lan machines) may be
sent to any valid email address with reply-to address changed to a fixed
email address.

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Re: Locale errors

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:19, Celejar  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been seeing all sorts of errors related to locales in the root
> account, e.g.:
>
> ~# man cp
> man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>
> Or, while running aptitude:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>        LANGUAGE = (unset),
>        LC_ALL = (unset),
>        LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8""
>    are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>
> I've tried 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', and even purging and
> reinstalling locales, to no effect.  The only locale I have selected is
> 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' (that's the only one I've manually selected, and
> the only one uncommented in /etc/locale.gen).  Is anyone else seeing
> this?  Is this a bug, or some misconfiguration on my system?  Note that
> my regular user account works fine.

Oh man, I hate this one. I have had this issue several times in the past
but although I eventually fix it, for some reason I never remember how.

Anyway, to start with, what is the output of "locale", and have you tried
running local-gen (although I think dpkg-reconfigure should do that...)?

Also check /etc/default/locale

I hope some of this helps or at least give you other ideas...


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Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott  wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote:
>>
 Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need
 xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you
 still
 have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log.

 [1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to get rid of it,
 and
 yes, the new way does work.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have all of those.  Log is attached.  I'm not sure how this Mac (my
>>> current access to the problem machine) will show it.
>>
>> Ok, I compared to my log and there are things just missing from yours :/
>>
>> I assume hal is running on that machine. Also check the output of
>> 'lshal' and look for the devices that have 'input.x11_driver' option set
>> (maybe post the relevant entries here), because only such devices are
>> eligible for X11 input devices. Maybe hal just doesn't recognize your
>> stuff.
>
>
> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database!  I clearly totally
> missed some basic changes in Xorg.  I have been looking for documentation on
> this change and haven't found enough.

That seems really weird. I am pretty sure that if you have a fairly
current and correctly installed hal, you should have those entries,
whether or not X is making correct use of them.

You say you are running "squeeze/sid (mostly sid)." Is your
hal the sid version?


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Locale errors

[Celejar]

Hi,

I've been seeing all sorts of errors related to locales in the root
account, e.g.:

~# man cp
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Or, while running aptitude:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8""
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

I've tried 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', and even purging and
reinstalling locales, to no effect.  The only locale I have selected is
'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' (that's the only one I've manually selected, and
the only one uncommented in /etc/locale.gen).  Is anyone else seeing
this?  Is this a bug, or some misconfiguration on my system?  Note that
my regular user account works fine.

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Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

[H.S.]

Hal Vaughan wrote:
> 
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote:
> 
>> Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.
>>> Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so
>>> there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up from my
>>> iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
>>> could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).
>>>
>>> In the past I could use:
>>>
>>> rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing
>>>
>>> And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to
>>> the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:
>>>
>>> rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing
>>
>> I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
>> running on the remote machine, try:
>> $> rsync -ave ssh m...@server:Writing /data/Writing
>>
>> where "me" is your username at server machine.
> 
> I missed something here.  When I do this, it connects and instead of
> using the module I specify, it copies the files to my home (or "me's"
> home) directory on that computer.

The above command should copy files from ${HOME}/Writing (without a
path, a directory is assume to be in the starting folder, your home)
from the remote machine to /data/Writing on the machine you are running
this command on. If you want to get another path, specify that after
m...@server:


> 
> Maybe it's another obvious point, but I don't see a way to use a single
> colon and have it write to a module I specify instead of to a
> directory.  Is that possible -- to get it to write to an rsync module
> instead of a directory while using ssh?

I think modules are used when you are talking to a rsync daemon.
Directory paths are used when you are talking to a shell at the remote
machine (as you do when using SSH). I do not have experience with the
former. Directory paths are just easier to work with, IMHO, since they
are the ones I use on a daily basis in a shell.



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Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

[Paul Scott]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:


On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote:


Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need
xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you
still
have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log.

[1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to get rid of it,
and
yes, the new way does work.



I have all of those.  Log is attached.  I'm not sure how this Mac (my
current access to the problem machine) will show it.


Ok, I compared to my log and there are things just missing from  
yours :/


I assume hal is running on that machine. Also check the output of
'lshal' and look for the devices that have 'input.x11_driver'  
option set

(maybe post the relevant entries here), because only such devices are
eligible for X11 input devices. Maybe hal just doesn't recognize your
stuff.



There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database!  I clearly  
totally missed some basic changes in Xorg.  I have been looking for  
documentation on this change and haven't found enough.


Thanks,

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Re: Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

[H.S.]

Hal Vaughan wrote:

> 
> rsync -av server::Data /MacRAID/Data/  (Forgot if that one required the
> "/" at the end or not.  Whichever I used, it did copy directly to that
> directory without creating an extra subdirectory.)

$> rsync  /source/path /dest

will transfer the directory "path" into /dest directory on the remote
machine. You will contet /dest/path at the remote machine.

$> rsync  /source/path/ /dest

will transfer only the contents of the "path" directory to the remote
machine. You will get /dest/

The trailing slash matters only on the source specification.

Thus, with the trailing slash, the contents of the path directory are
transfered, and without it the directory itself is.


> and it copied all the files from the RAID on the server to the RAID on
> my iMac.  Of course they were different user names.  In the past I used
> NIS on my LAN to keep user names the same.  Now that I'm done with the
> setup, the data on the iMac RAID will change more often and the server
> is essentially a back-up.
> 
> Today it was finally time to set up rsync to do regular backups from my
> workstation to the server, so I tried:
> 
> rsync -avn /MacRAID/Data/ m...@server:Data  (Thanks to H.S. for that help
> in another recent thread.)

Try the options -auvn

Search the man page for "-u" to see what it means.



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Re: Best way to install a new session manager

[Rick Thomas]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:


On Sat,11.Apr.09, 14:14:12, Rick Thomas wrote:


After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like  
to

make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde).

What's the best way to do that so as to get all packages installed  
the

same way they would have been had I used the associated install CD?

Is this in the manuals or wiki somewhere?  If not, would it be a good
idea to do that?


Use 'tasksel'



Thanks Andrei!

I kinda figured it involved tasksel.  The question is, what particular  
options to tasksel (and surrounding environment[*]) do I need to use  
to get it to install the xfce (or kde, or any other non-gnome) session  
manager with the exact same set of component packages that I would  
have gotten had I used the xfce install CD?


Thanks!

Rick

[*] for an example of what I mean by "surrounding environment", Franz  
Pop suggested I use.



echo "tasksel tasksel/desktop string kde" | debconf-set-selections



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DPL voice meeting live -was Re: Berkeleytip

[john_re]

Thanks for the reminder, Martin. :)

[Reference:
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal  ]


Yes, yesterday I looked through the Debian website to find info about
the elections, & read up on both candidate platforms, & the vote results
had just been posted, & I saw the graph & tallies.  :)

Tragically, in TYPICAL! Debian fashion, there was NO! mention of the
single MOST IMPORTANT ongoing Debian event/activity (the election) on
the main page, & not the news page, & not the Developers page, & not on
the "Major events related to Debian" page, at the least.!!!  (Could
there _possibly_ be a more major event for Debian than a DPL
election?!  <8-0)

& the past president's platform was he had been working to improve
COMMUNICATIONS!  Ack-Gasp!!

The election should have been front page news on the Debian
website.!  I have missed reading about previous elections beforehand
for exactly this same lack of communication reason.  If _you_ hadn't
_told_ me there was an election _underway_ I would never have known
about it.

This is very tragic - because what Debian does (& the DPL is a
significant influencer on what Debian does) has a MAJOR impact on all
these worlds/communities: Debian, Debian derived distros, Linux, GNU,
FOSS, the computing world, & the world in general.  By not having
announced the election widely, all these worlds that have influences
_from_ Debian were not able to 1) become _informed_ about the candidates
platforms, & 2) provide their input to the Debian community.

So, Debian has shot itself in the foot again by failing to seek & listen
to input from the rest of the world(s). - In doing so, it continues to
condemn itself to navel gazing & uninformedness, & lacking to engage
properly & fully with the rest of the world!

Ach.  Tragedy. . . .   Oh, well, lessons to be learned for tomorrow.  ;)

And, I just looked now, & not only is there no info about the result of
the election on the main debian.org webpage, there is STILL NOT EVEN ANY
INFORMATION ABOUT EVEN THE _EXISTENCE_ OF THE _ELECTION_ there.! :( 
 - What in the world!  - Sad.  . . .

[My little rant here will serve me well when I email Steve McIntyre
suggesting he come for a voice chat with BerkeleyTIP & the entire Debian
community, huh? !  ;) ]

BTW, I just counted to get an exact data point: It just took me THIRTEEN
(13!) WEB PAGES opened in my browser to get to the election results,
http://master.debian.org/~secretary/leader2009/results.txt
starting from debian.org.- WTFine?!  ;)

AND THAT IS GIVEN THAT I KNEW IN ADVANCE, FROM JUST LAST NIGHT, EXACTLY
THE PAGE (but not the url) THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!  -
AACK!  <8-0



=
"Steve McIntyre's DPL platform, 2009
...
Standing for re-election

I am the current DPL, and I am standing for re-election this year. I
believe that I have done a reasonable job for the project in the last
year, concentrating on three major themes:
...
External communications - I've represented Debian a lot of times. This
includes talking to the press multiple times: about being elected, about
problems in Debian and how we solve them, and about Lenny and why they
should care about it. I have presented several talks about Debian to a
variety of audiences, and I have been involved in multiple discussions
with other FLOSS projects including some of the other Linux
distributions.

Internal communications - I've spent a lot of time this year talking
with Debian folks: encouraging them to spread the news about what
they're working on, what they need help with, what problems they're
facing. I haven't quite posted as many "Bits from the DPL" mails as I'd
have hoped for this year, and for that I apologise: sometimes there just
aren't enough hours in the day. More about that later! I have also
helped solve a number of disagreements this year, mediating in arguments
before they cause real problems.

==
Goals

Much of this platform will be familiar to people, as it is largely based
on what I have said at this time in previous years. Many of the things I
want to work on in Debian are well known problems, issues that have
affected us for a long time. The two main ones that I see are:

Communications within the project

This is a long-term bugbear; DPL candidates have been promising to work
on improving communication within the project for as long as I can
remember. There are several places where communication has been
problematic in the past. I believe I have already helped with this in
the past, but there is more still to be done.

I'm convinced that the more we talk about what we're doing, the more
motivated others will be to help us in our tasks. A vibrant, open,
friendly project depends on the periodic introduction of fresh blood
wanting to work with us. Let's make that easier!"
http://debian.org/vote/2009/platforms/93sam
=

  ;)


=
Anyway, Martin, it's great to hear from you. Thanks for your

bluetooth headset no longer working

[Celejar]

Hi,

Running fairly uptodate Sid.  In the past (most recently, several
months ago?) I've successfully used a bluetooth headset; it no longer
works.  The headset connects (it shows as connected in the Gnome
bluetooth applet, and I hear the various tones / beeps from the headset
that it uses to signal a connection), but the audio process trying to
send it sound just hangs, and no sound comes from the headset.  It
remains connected until I kill the process.

Details and logs:

The headset is a Plantronics Voyager 510, and the bluetooth adapter
uses a Broadcom chip, supported by the kernel.  From lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2121 Broadcom Corp. BCM2210 Bluetooth

My .asoundrc:

pcm.bluetooth {
type bluetooth
device 00:19:7F:40:06:2D
profile auto
}

[I've tried both with and without the 'profile auto' line, and I've also
tried a plug / slave configuration, with the same results.]

I try (and abort with ^C after some twenty seconds):

~$ aplay -D bluetooth /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav 
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, 
Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
Warning: rate is not accurate (requested = 48000Hz, got = 8000Hz)
 please, try the plug plugin (-Dplug:bluetooth)
^CAborted by signal Interrupt...

>From syslog:

Apr 12 18:44:18 lizzie hcid[4656]: Audio API: received BT_GETCAPABILITIES_REQ
Apr 12 18:44:18 lizzie hcid[4656]: Audio API: sending BT_GETCAPABILITIES_RSP
Apr 12 18:44:18 lizzie hcid[4656]: Audio API: received BT_SETCONFIGURATION_REQ
Apr 12 18:44:18 lizzie hcid[4656]: config sco - device = 00:19:7F:40:06:2D 
access_mode = 2
Apr 12 18:44:21 lizzie hcid[4656]: link_key_request (sba=00:19:86:00:2C:40, 
dba=00:19:7F:40:06:2D)
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie hcid[4656]: SCO fd=18
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie hcid[4656]: Audio API: sending BT_SETCONFIGURATION_RSP
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie hcid[4656]: Audio API: received BT_STREAMSTART_REQ
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie hcid[4656]: Audio API: sending BT_STREAMSTART_RSP
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie hcid[4656]: Audio API: sending BT_STREAMFD_IND
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie kernel: [ 2974.186568] btusb_isoc_complete: hci0 
corrupted SCO packet
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie kernel: [ 2974.186599] hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO 
packet for unknown connection handle 0
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie kernel: [ 2974.186603] hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO 
packet for unknown connection handle 0
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie kernel: [ 2974.186607] hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO 
packet for unknown connection handle 0
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie kernel: [ 2974.186610] hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO 
packet for unknown connection handle 0
Apr 12 18:44:26 lizzie kernel: [ 2974.186614] hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO 
packet for unknown connection handle 0

I simultaneously run 'hcidump > hcidump'.

~# wc hcidump 
  7908  71201 317137 hcidump

hcidump contains:

HCI sniffer - Bluetooth packet analyzer ver 1.42
device: hci0 snap_len: 1028 filter: 0x
< HCI Command: Create Connection (0x01|0x0005) plen 13
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> HCI Event: Link Key Request (0x17) plen 6
< HCI Command: Link Key Request Reply (0x01|0x000b) plen 22
> HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 10
> HCI Event: Connect Complete (0x03) plen 11
< HCI Command: Read Remote Supported Features (0x01|0x001b) plen 2
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> HCI Event: Read Remote Supported Features (0x0b) plen 11
< ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 10
L2CAP(s): Info req: type 2
< HCI Command: Remote Name Request (0x01|0x0019) plen 10
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> HCI Event: Remote Name Req Complete (0x07) plen 255
< ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 12
L2CAP(s): Connect req: psm 3 scid 0x0040
> ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 16
L2CAP(s): Connect rsp: dcid 0x0041 scid 0x0040 result 0 status 0
  Connection successful
< ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 16
L2CAP(s): Config req: dcid 0x0041 flags 0x00 clen 4
  MTU 1013 
> ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 14
L2CAP(s): Config rsp: scid 0x0040 flags 0x00 result 0 clen 0
  Success
> ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 16
L2CAP(s): Config req: dcid 0x0040 flags 0x00 clen 4
  MTU 1013 
< ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 18
L2CAP(s): Config rsp: scid 0x0041 flags 0x00 result 0 clen 4
  MTU 1013 
< ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 8
L2CAP(d): cid 0x0041 len 4 [psm 3]
  RFCOMM(s): SABM: cr 1 dlci 0 pf 1 ilen 0 fcs 0x1c 
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 8
L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 4 [psm 3]
  RFCOMM(s): UA: cr 1 dlci 0 pf 1 ilen 0 fcs 0xd7 
< ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 18
L2CAP(d): cid 0x0041 len 14 [psm 3]
  RFCOMM(s): PN CMD: cr 1 dlci 0 pf 0 ilen 10 fcs 0x70 mcc_len 8
  dlci 2 frame_type 0 credit_flow 15 pri 7 ack_timer 0
  frame_size 1008 max_retrans 0 credits 7
> ACL data: handle 11 flags 0x02 dlen 18
L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 14 [psm 3]
  RFCOMM(s): PN RS

Re: Aptitude issue

[M. Lewis]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I  
was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to  
resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install  
it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove  
openoffice.org-writer2latex.


That indicates a problem with the pre-removal script of this package;
aptitude cannot do much about that.

 I ended up aborting the process and went on  
about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same  
machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head.


The openoffice.org-writer2latex package is in a broken state on your
system (incomplete removal), therefore aptitude has to try to fix it
before it can perform actions on other packages.


rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors


[...]


Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...


At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to  
wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow:



 4726 pts/3Sl+0:03 aptitude install ksensors
 4757 pts/6Ss+0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24
--force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex
 4758 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
 4759 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
 4760 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg
list --shared
 4761 pts/6S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex
 4762 pts/6S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2
 4780 pts/6S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4
 4802 pts/6R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list
--shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1
-env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml
-env:UserInstallation=fi


[...]

It seems that the pre-removal script gets stuck while trying to
determine the full name of the writer2latex extension. You can try this
yourself:

/usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared | grep latex

If that command comes up empty or if it hangs then you might have to
comment out every invocation of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and run "aptitude
install -f" to get the broken package off your system.



Hey Florian. Unfortunately this did not work. The command unopkg did in 
fact hang. I did comment out all of the occurrences of unopkg in 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and ran 'aptitude 
install -f' as you said. Here is the result:


rattler:~# aptitude install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hddtemp ksensors
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  openoffice.org-writer2latex{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libicu38 libkrb53 libmp3lame0 libssl0.9.8 openssl
5 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/11.0MB of archives. After unpacking 504kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 182769 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm: line 7: syntax 
error near unexpected token `}'

dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer2latex (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openoffice.org-writer2latex
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done


Thanks,
Mike

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Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 15:14, Kelly Clowers  wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 14:35, Florian Kulzer
>  wrote:
>
> 
>
>> First of all, I would check if Xorg really uses the list of input
>> devices from HAL. Here is what my log tells me now, with all former
>> InputDevice sections and related entries in ServerLayout commented out:
>>
>> $ grep -i hal /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>> (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
>>        If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable 
>> AllowEmptyInput.
>> (II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
>> (II) config/hal: Adding input device Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse
>> (II) config/hal: Adding input device Dell Dell USB Keyboard
>
> got that
>
>> Furthermore, to see what HAL knows about the keyboard:
>>
>> $ lshal -u $(hal-find-by-capability --capability "input.keyboard")
>> udi = 
>> '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_413c_2003_noserial_if0_logicaldev_input'
>>  info.addons.singleton = {'hald-addon-input'} (string list)
>>  info.callouts.add = {'debian-setup-keyboard'} (string list)
>>  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 
>> 'input.keys', 'button'} (string list)
>>  info.category = 'input'  (string)
>>
>
> looks good
>
>>  [...]
>>
>>  input.product = 'Dell Dell USB Keyboard'  (string)
>>  input.x11_driver = 'evdev'  (string)
>>  input.xkb.layout = 'es'  (string)
>>  input.xkb.model = 'pc105'  (string)
>>  input.xkb.options = 'lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin'  (string)
>>  input.xkb.rules = 'base'  (string)
>>  input.xkb.variant = 'nodeadkeys'  (string)
>>
>> It is important that hal shows the "evdev" driver and all the
>> input.xkb.* properties correctly, as well as the "debian-setup-keyboard"
>> callout. The callout ensures that a script in /usr/lib/hal/ is executed
>> to take over $XKBMODEL, $XKBLAYOUT, $XKBVARIANT, and $XKBOPTIONS from
>> /etc/default/console-setup.
>
> Hmm, everything checks out. The one oddity was that the console-setup
> XKBVARIANT was set to "latin", not OADG109A or nothing. I changed that,
> and I will reboot and see what happens. The other thing is that the last
> time I tried not using setxkbmap was quite some time ago, and there
> have been a few upgrades to xserver and evdev since then.

Well everything works now, for whichever reason.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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Re: Beginner's tip for transferring large directories between systems when sshd not allowed (e.g. between VMWare host and guest)

[Alex Samad]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:00:37AM -0700, DanKegel wrote:
> Here's a tip that might come in handy when
> transferring large directory trees between systems
> where running sshd isn't allowed.
> 
> I use vmware occasionally, and when I do, I sometimes need
> to transfer large directory trees between the host and guest.
> The corporate Linux laptop I'm using doesn't allow
> running sshd, so scp (or, better, tar -f - foo | ssh blah cat)
> isn't an option.
> 
> Instead, I used nc and ufw to create a one-time hole and suck the data

very strange setup to diss allow sshd but to allow nc !

but then again at my work ipsec is dissallowed, but ssh and telnet is
allowed strange 

[snip]

> 

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Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

[Alex Samad]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:45:05PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.   
> Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so  
> there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up from my  
> iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably  
> could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).

Similar situation but with ldap :)

>
> In the past I could use:
>
> rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing
>
> And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to  
> the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:
>
> rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing
>
> I get errors when I do that, so after some tinkering, I got some  
> directories to back up and I see that rsync is saving the files as  
> "nobody:nogroup" or with the user number 65534.
>
> My understanding of rsync is that if I use "n...@system::Service" that  
> it logs into that server using the specified username, but since rsync  
> is saving files as "nobody," then that's not happening.  I do have the  
> systems set up so the server does not allow password logins via ssh and 
> the guest (the iMac) is known user with the rsa id on the server and when 
> I want to ssh to the server, just "ssh server" will get me logged in.
>
> What do I need to do to tell rsync on the host system (the server) to  
> use the specified user name?

There has already been an answer giving before, but I would suggested a
different approach.

on the linux server have something like

/exports/imac/backups

do chown 0.0 /exports/imac ; chmod u=rwx,go= /exports/imac/, just to
stop prying eyes

then export /exports/imac/backups, mount this from  the imac and rsync
locally on the imac, it will preserve the uid,gid

Alex

>
> Thanks for any help on this!
>
>
> Hal
>
>
>
>

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philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they
do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go
to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing,
right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking
sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr
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Problems Upgrading librdf0

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

I'm running a mixed system, and currently have librdf0_1.0.8-1 installed.  
librdf0_1.0.8-2 recently migrated to testing and I keep running into bug 
522103 during the upgrade.

Specifically, librdf0 wants a new version of libsqlite3-0, but it apparently 
has a ABI (and based on my read, API) change that is not reflected in the 
package name and SONAME.  I'm concerned about this, since I have a number of 
packages (18) that depend on libsqlite3-0 and might break because of that.

I'm not sure if there is anything I can add to the bug, but I'd like to know 
how it is going to be addressed and, if there is an ETA, when.  I'd also 
like to increase the visibility of the bug, hence this message.

Based on the Changelog, the upgrade from 1.0.8-1 to 1.0.8-2 only fixed a 
single bug that doesn't affect me, so my existing work-around (don't upgrade 
librdf0) should work as long as I need it to.

This will still cause me a little annoyance, since I run "aptitude search 
'~U'" from a daily cronjob, and this package will remain on the list.  
Pinning the package should alleviate that, I hope.  Any other potential 
work-arounds?
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Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

[Adrian Levi]

2009/4/13 Long Wind :
> Thank Bob, but your command does not work.
>
> Below is output of your command:

> Output #0, mp2, to 'real128.mp3':
>  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128000 kb/s
> Stream mapping:
>  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
> [mp2 @ 0xb7ec5f08]bitrate 128000 is not allowed in mp2
> Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect
> parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

Perhaps look for a switch in the man page to force output to mp3
rather than mp2?

Adrian

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Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 14:35, Florian Kulzer
 wrote:



> First of all, I would check if Xorg really uses the list of input
> devices from HAL. Here is what my log tells me now, with all former
> InputDevice sections and related entries in ServerLayout commented out:
>
> $ grep -i hal /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
>        If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable 
> AllowEmptyInput.
> (II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
> (II) config/hal: Adding input device Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse
> (II) config/hal: Adding input device Dell Dell USB Keyboard

got that

> Furthermore, to see what HAL knows about the keyboard:
>
> $ lshal -u $(hal-find-by-capability --capability "input.keyboard")
> udi = 
> '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_413c_2003_noserial_if0_logicaldev_input'
>  info.addons.singleton = {'hald-addon-input'} (string list)
>  info.callouts.add = {'debian-setup-keyboard'} (string list)
>  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 
> 'input.keys', 'button'} (string list)
>  info.category = 'input'  (string)
>

looks good

>  [...]
>
>  input.product = 'Dell Dell USB Keyboard'  (string)
>  input.x11_driver = 'evdev'  (string)
>  input.xkb.layout = 'es'  (string)
>  input.xkb.model = 'pc105'  (string)
>  input.xkb.options = 'lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin'  (string)
>  input.xkb.rules = 'base'  (string)
>  input.xkb.variant = 'nodeadkeys'  (string)
>
> It is important that hal shows the "evdev" driver and all the
> input.xkb.* properties correctly, as well as the "debian-setup-keyboard"
> callout. The callout ensures that a script in /usr/lib/hal/ is executed
> to take over $XKBMODEL, $XKBLAYOUT, $XKBVARIANT, and $XKBOPTIONS from
> /etc/default/console-setup.

Hmm, everything checks out. The one oddity was that the console-setup
XKBVARIANT was set to "latin", not OADG109A or nothing. I changed that,
and I will reboot and see what happens. The other thing is that the last
time I tried not using setxkbmap was quite some time ago, and there
have been a few upgrades to xserver and evdev since then.



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Re: I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

[Adrian Levi]

2009/4/13 Sthu Deus :
> Good day.
>
> I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows
> blinking HDD.
>
> I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging
> before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on
> mime/types), korhanizer, k3b, terminal-emu...
>
> If You have any suggestion how I can solve it, please, share it with me.
>
> It is Lenny, KDE 3.5.9 . I did install KDE latter after installing my
> base system - therefore, I never seen it is working on the installation.
>
> Thank You for Your time.

What hardware are you running?

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Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

[Long Wind]

Thank Bob, but your command does not work.

Below is output of your command:

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads
--enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts
--enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared
--prefix=/usr
  libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
  libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
  built on Mar 26 2007 15:50:40, gcc: 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease)
(Debian 4.1.1-21)
Input #0, mp3, from 'real.mp3':
  Duration: 00:04:48.3, start: 0.00, bitrate: 112 kb/s
  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 112 kb/s
Output #0, mp2, to 'real128.mp3':
  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128000 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
[mp2 @ 0xb7ec5f08]bitrate 128000 is not allowed in mp2
Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect
parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height




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> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:05:49 -0400, Long Wind (longwind2...@gmail.com) 
> wrote:
>
>> I have a cell phone
>> it can't play some mp3
>> maybe it supports only 128K
>> So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K
>> Which package in etch?
>> mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options?
>> Thanks!
>
> ffmpeg -ab 128000 -i high_quality.mp3 lower_quality.mp3
>
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Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 13:51:21 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 00:02, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sat,11.Apr.09, 12:45:34, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >> I have personally not gotten the fdi file to have any effect, so I
> >> use setxkbmap in my xinitrc. However, I have seen plenty of
> >> blog posts where people got it working with no trouble.
> >
> > For the keymap you don't need an .fdi file, see
> > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz. Just install console-setup
> > and 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' (or edit /etc/default/console-setup
> > if you prefer the manual way).
> 
> Well, I have had console-setup working for some time , and it is fine
> for the console. But it does not affect X at all. X still tries to use a 105
> US keymap, whereas I need the JP 106 with the OADG109A variant .

First of all, I would check if Xorg really uses the list of input
devices from HAL. Here is what my log tells me now, with all former
InputDevice sections and related entries in ServerLayout commented out:

$ grep -i hal /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable 
AllowEmptyInput.
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Dell Premium USB Optical Mouse
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Dell Dell USB Keyboard

Furthermore, to see what HAL knows about the keyboard:

$ lshal -u $(hal-find-by-capability --capability "input.keyboard")
udi = 
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_413c_2003_noserial_if0_logicaldev_input'
  info.addons.singleton = {'hald-addon-input'} (string list)
  info.callouts.add = {'debian-setup-keyboard'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 'input.keys', 
'button'} (string list)
  info.category = 'input'  (string)

  [...]

  input.product = 'Dell Dell USB Keyboard'  (string)
  input.x11_driver = 'evdev'  (string)
  input.xkb.layout = 'es'  (string)
  input.xkb.model = 'pc105'  (string)
  input.xkb.options = 'lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin'  (string)
  input.xkb.rules = 'base'  (string)
  input.xkb.variant = 'nodeadkeys'  (string)

It is important that hal shows the "evdev" driver and all the
input.xkb.* properties correctly, as well as the "debian-setup-keyboard"
callout. The callout ensures that a script in /usr/lib/hal/ is executed
to take over $XKBMODEL, $XKBLAYOUT, $XKBVARIANT, and $XKBOPTIONS from
/etc/default/console-setup.

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Re: xserver woes (ATI Radeon) after upgrade to xorg 1.7.4

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:46:31PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

> However, I still cannot get the desktop extended across both monitors.
> I can either get one monitor or a clone mode, but xrandr fails this
> command:
> 
> $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of DVI-1
> xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 2048x1600 (desired size 3200x1200)
> 
> (Each monitor runs in 1600x1200 resolution)

Thanks to Mark McCorkell; adding a "Virtual 3200 1200" line
seems to have done the trick!

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Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 00:02, Andrei Popescu  wrote:
> On Sat,11.Apr.09, 12:45:34, Kelly Clowers wrote:



>> I have personally not gotten the fdi file to have any effect, so I
>> use setxkbmap in my xinitrc. However, I have seen plenty of
>> blog posts where people got it working with no trouble.
>
> For the keymap you don't need an .fdi file, see
> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz. Just install console-setup
> and 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' (or edit /etc/default/console-setup
> if you prefer the manual way).

Well, I have had console-setup working for some time , and it is fine
for the console. But it does not affect X at all. X still tries to use a 105
US keymap, whereas I need the JP 106 with the OADG109A variant .


Cheers,
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Re: Making ATI and Broadcom work on a Lenny laptop

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:01, Klistvud  wrote:
> Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 21:26:49 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a):
>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:03, Klistvud  wrote:
>> > Howdie!
>> >
>> > Anyone tried to make an ATI 1200 and a BCM4328 work on a Lenny laptop? I
>> > am trying to finalize my Lenny installation on a HP Compaq 6715b and have
>> > a few questions:
>> > Should I just leave the graphics as it is, or is it advisable to install
>> > the proprietary ATI Catalyst drivers (and WHICH ones and HOW)?
>>
>> An x1200 should just work, with 3d acceleration, with the "radeon" driver.
>>
>> > Is the Broadcom hybrid driver still the best option for making the
>> > BCM4328 wireless chip work? Is the patch needed? How do you go about
>> > compiling, installing the driver, and making the driver permanent (i.e.
>> > load at every boot)? In short, what is your experience, what would be my
>> > best bet for the above graphics chip and wireless chip in Debian Lenny?
>>
>> It looks like b43 does not support the 4328, so ndiswrapper is probably
>> the best bet. This might be a place to start:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff
>
> Thanx for answering. Anyway, I'm prejudiced against ndiswrapper (used to be a
> Windows user for many years, so now I shiver at every gates/windows I see). So
> I've tried to compile the original broadcom ("hybrid" or "wl") driver from the
> Broadcom website and it does work. No need to install the patch either
> (although there are some indications that ssh won't work). Only nuisance: you
> have to recompile it every time the kernel gets updated :(.
>
> Best instructions I've managed to find:
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=30648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=2782df86cc404fde6d75b631594c3053
>
> P.S. Of course, the driver is every bit as tainted as ndiswrapper. But at
> least it's not M$-tainted... ;)

Ah, I was not aware of that driver. I'll keep it in mind for the next time
someone asks about Broadcom.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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apt-p2p

[Erik Xavior]

Is apt-p2p safe? I just read it on
slashdot,
does anybody use it?

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 12 April 2009 20:51, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer pisze:
> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker
> >>> I've  heard and used before).
> >>> I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker.
> >>> But, I get missing dependencies:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> How I can install missing dependencies or newer version of
> >>> soundtracker?
> >>
> >> Right now it might still be possible to install the package if you add
> >> both "testing" and "stable" to your sources list (and run "apt-get
> >> update" afterwards).
> >>
> >> You could also try the soundtracker-gtk2 package mentioned in bug
> >> #519641.
> >
> > soundtracker-gtk2 wasn't installed, because of dependency lack: gtk+-2.0
> > but, after adding lenny repo as you told me, i have possibility to
> > install soundtracer with whole gtk1.2 dependencies. great, but din't it
> > harm my system? and should i add lenny updates to it or not? i worry
> > about packages conflicts too.
>
> I don't think you will harm your system; however, make sure that you
> have the Lenny security updates in your sources list as well.
>
> I have have no idea if the soundtracker program itself will still work -
> see also Nigel's earlier message about its state on Lenny - and keeping
> soundtracker installed and running on Sid will probably become more and
> more difficult as Sid evolves further and further away from Lenny.
>
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Hi Florian.

I've just booted up my Etch install, which is on the same machine as Lenny.and 
soundtracker works ok, without any problem on Etch. It appears to be an 
earlier version of Soundtracker though (0.6.8-2 (stable)).

Perhaps I should contact  the Soundtracker maintainer who appears to be:
Junichi Uskawa

It's a shame when the authors/maintainers of packages have lost interest in 
providing support for the packages that they have been maintaining. 

I suppose we could always install soundtracker from a source tarball. I've 
dealt with dependency hell before, and it's not a lot of fun, but sometimes 
with a bit of help from the lists, you can get the app up, and running.

Nigel.


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Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

[Stefan Monnier]

> So I want to convert high quality mp3 to 128K
> Which package in etch?

Not sure about MP3, but at least for Ogg `sox' works fine for such tasks
and it does support MP3.


Stefan


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Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

[Stefan Monnier]

> If someone has actual experience about dealing with lost
> disk in WHS, please tell us.

Actually, I'd rather you don't tell us: just tell him.
This is a mailing list dedicated to Debian, so Windows discussions are
off-topic.


Stefan


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Re: reduce XFS

[Stefan Monnier]

>> ps.: or is there any other stable FS that supports online shrink/extend?
> ext3 (probably also ext4), but I never tried it myself.

Everytime I tried, ext3 refused to shrink online.


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Re: disk space used by apt

[Jochen Schulz]

Javier Barroso:
>> * Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200]
>>> 
>>> Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt?
-- snip
> This option in apt config help: APT::Archives::MaxAge

Thanks for that! Unfortunately, the only place where I can find it
documented is /etc/cron.daily/apt. But better than nothing.

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I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

[Sthu Deus]

Good day.

I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows
blinking HDD.

I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging
before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on
mime/types), korhanizer, k3b, terminal-emu...

If You have any suggestion how I can solve it, please, share it with me.

It is Lenny, KDE 3.5.9 . I did install KDE latter after installing my
base system - therefore, I never seen it is working on the installation.

Thank You for Your time.


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Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

[Hal Vaughan]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote:


Hal Vaughan wrote:

I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.
Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them  
so
there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up from  
my

iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).

In the past I could use:

rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing

And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to
the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:

rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing


I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
running on the remote machine, try:
$> rsync -ave ssh m...@server:Writing /data/Writing

where "me" is your username at server machine.


I missed something here.  When I do this, it connects and instead of  
using the module I specify, it copies the files to my home (or "me's"  
home) directory on that computer.


Maybe it's another obvious point, but I don't see a way to use a  
single colon and have it write to a module I specify instead of to a  
directory.  Is that possible -- to get it to write to an rsync module  
instead of a directory while using ssh?


Thanks!


Hal


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Re: disk space used by apt

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:46:23 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
> Javier Barroso pisze:
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Elimar Riesebieter  
>> wrote:
>>   
>>> * Marcin Kłapkowski [090412 18:19 +0200]
>>> 
 Hi,

 I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some
 upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update,
 or whatever with apt, it gives me that results:

[...]

>> This option in apt config help: APT::Archives::MaxAge
>>   
> It's good option.
>
> BTW. When I can read about all option of APT? I tried google it, but i  
> didn't find...

The options are collected in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz.

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Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
> Florian Kulzer pisze:
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker 
>>> I've  heard and used before).
>>> I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker.
>>> But, I get missing dependencies:

[...]

>>> How I can install missing dependencies or newer version of soundtracker?
>>> 
>>
>> Right now it might still be possible to install the package if you add
>> both "testing" and "stable" to your sources list (and run "apt-get
>> update" afterwards).
>>
>> You could also try the soundtracker-gtk2 package mentioned in bug
>> #519641.
>>
>>   
> soundtracker-gtk2 wasn't installed, because of dependency lack: gtk+-2.0
> but, after adding lenny repo as you told me, i have possibility to  
> install soundtracer with whole gtk1.2 dependencies. great, but din't it  
> harm my system? and should i add lenny updates to it or not? i worry  
> about packages conflicts too.

I don't think you will harm your system; however, make sure that you
have the Lenny security updates in your sources list as well.

I have have no idea if the soundtracker program itself will still work -
see also Nigel's earlier message about its state on Lenny - and keeping
soundtracker installed and running on Sid will probably become more and
more difficult as Sid evolves further and further away from Lenny.

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Re: disk space used by apt

[Marcin Kłapkowski]

Javier Barroso pisze:

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Elimar Riesebieter  wrote:
  

* Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200]


Hi,

I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some
upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update,
or whatever with apt, it gives me that results:

# du --max-depth 1 -h / | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
3,0G   var
2,5G   var/cache

# du --max-depth 1 -h /var/cache/apt | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
2,5G   var/cache/apt/archives

Unexpeclty i found that i have zero space, which don't allow me to
normal office work
of cource cleanig /var/cache/apt is remedy, but only for a while.

Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt?
  

run 'apt-get clean'

The cache will be reduced of all the .deb.

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This option in apt config help: APT::Archives::MaxAge

Regards,


  

It's good option.

BTW. When I can read about all option of APT? I tried google it, but i 
didn't find...


Thanks
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Error compiling oomon-2.3.1

[Steffan Wood]

OOMon has been configured with the following options:

Binaries: /home/steffan/oomon/bin
 Configuration files: /home/steffan/oomon/etc
   Log files: /home/steffan/oomon/logs
  Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE): no
 GNU Database Manager (GDBM): no
 Asynchronous DNS Library (ADNS): no

Compiler: g++
  Compiler flags: -g -O2 -Wall
Linker flags:
   Libraries: -lresolv -lcrypt -lstdc++  -lnsl

stef...@steffan:~/oomon-2.3.1$ make
g++ -g -O2 -Wall -I./libs -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DBOOST_DISABLE_THREADS - 
DLOGDIR=\"/home/steffan/oomon/logs\" -DETCDIR=\"/home/steffan/oomon/etc 
\"  -c action.cc

In file included from ./libs/boost/config.hpp:35,
 from ./libs/boost/shared_ptr.hpp:18,
 from action.h:29,
 from action.cc:25:
./libs/boost/config/compiler/gcc.hpp:92:7: warning: #warning "Unknown  
compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the  
results"

In file included from userflags.h:28,
 from botclient.h:33,
 from action.h:33,
 from action.cc:25:
botexcept.h: In member function ‘std::string OOMon::errno_error::why()  
const’:

botexcept.h:60: error: ‘::strerror’ has not been declared
In file included from botclient.h:33,
 from action.h:33,
 from action.cc:25:
userflags.h: At global scope:
userflags.h:44: error: multiple parameters named ‘b’
In file included from action.cc:25:
action.h:85: error: explicit qualification in declaration of  
‘boost::shared_ptr Action::parse(BotClient*,  
std::string, const FormatSet&)’
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:55: warning: ‘::_1’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:56: warning: ‘::_2’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:57: warning: ‘::_3’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:58: warning: ‘::_4’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:59: warning: ‘::_5’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:60: warning: ‘::_6’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:61: warning: ‘::_7’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:62: warning: ‘::_8’  
defined but not used
./libs/boost/bind/placeholders.hpp:63: warning: ‘::_9’  
defined but not used

make: *** [action.o] Error 1
stef...@steffan:~/oomon-2.3.1$

Does anyone have a solution for this?

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Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

[Hal Vaughan]

At this point my workstation is an iMac and my server is running  
Lenny.  I've had this happen before, though, with two Linux computers,  
which leads me to think it's rsync and the issue is OS agnostic.


I have two 1-terabyte RAIDs, one on my server, one on my workstation.   
In the past this was about what I had, but due to issues that I don't  
need to go into, essentially the RAID that was on my Debian  
workstation has been taken down and the drives reformatted for Mac and  
are hooked up to the iMac via USB.  When I did that, I used rsync like  
this:


rsync -av server::Data /MacRAID/Data/  (Forgot if that one required  
the "/" at the end or not.  Whichever I used, it did copy directly to  
that directory without creating an extra subdirectory.)


and it copied all the files from the RAID on the server to the RAID on  
my iMac.  Of course they were different user names.  In the past I  
used NIS on my LAN to keep user names the same.  Now that I'm done  
with the setup, the data on the iMac RAID will change more often and  
the server is essentially a back-up.


Today it was finally time to set up rsync to do regular backups from  
my workstation to the server, so I tried:


rsync -avn /MacRAID/Data/ m...@server:Data  (Thanks to H.S. for that  
help in another recent thread.)


When I do that to do a dry run and see what would transfer, ALL the  
files in /MacRAID/Data are set to be transferred.  Most of these files  
have not changed at all since I copied them over, with rsync, to the  
iMac.  The only thing that could be different is the owner, but since  
I'm logging in with "m...@server:Data" the files on the server should be  
in my user name there.  I tested with one smaller section and found  
that they all transferred, all were owned by "me" on the server, just  
as before -- in other words, there was no visible difference in that  
directory before I ran rsync and afterwards, but I know rsync replaced  
all the files with duplicate versions of themselves.


If ownership were an issue, then running rsync again on that directory  
should cause all the files to be updated again, but it doesn't.


So if the workstation files have NOT changed at all since I copied  
them to the workstation RAID with rsync from the server, then why is  
it that now that I'm using rsync to update the newer and changed  
files, rsync wants to update ALL the files?  What is it looking at  
that it sees as different (the dates are the same)?  Is there a way to  
tell rsync to ignore whatever it sees as different?  If there's a way  
to do that, wouldn't I have to do it every time I update with rsync?


Transferring all the files will take over 24 hours if I have to do  
that -- that's what it took the first time to copy them to the  
workstation.


Thanks for any help or insight into this issue!


Hal


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Re: Updated Squeeze, X won't start

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-04-12 18:24 +0200, Carl Fink wrote:

> This morning, I found my Squeeze system totally frozen. Well, that's false,
> it would display the X screen (icewm as wm), but changing to a different
> desktop failed, I couldn't scroll or make any buttons react to the mouse,
> etc.
>
> I could use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to reach a VT, but that also ignored the keyboard.
>
> I switched back to X with Alt-F7 and pressed Ctrl-Backspace, but this only
> had the effect of freezing the mouse pointer.
>
> So I power-cycled.  After that, X came up, but I once more used Ctrl-Alt-F1
> and from the VT, did apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.  59 updates
> later, I now find that X won't start.  Here's a capture when I try using
> startx:
>
> Script started on Sun 12 Apr 2009 12:22:00 PM EDT
> xset:  unable to open display ""
> ca...@newpicking:~$ startx&
> [1] 3381
> ca...@newpicking:~$ 
>
> X.Org X Server 1.4.2
> Release Date: 11 June 2008
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-11)
> Current Operating System: Linux NewPicking 2.6.22 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 14:18:25 
> EST 2008 i686
> Build Date: 20 February 2009  03:06:29AM
>  
>   Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>   to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>   (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>   (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Apr 12 12:22:03 2009
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
> (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) Failed to load module "via" (module does not exist, 0)

It seems you had been using the via driver which is no longer
available, it has been superseded by the openchrome driver.

> (EE) No drivers available.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>
> [1]+  Donestartx
> ca...@newpicking:~$ exit
>
> Script done on Sun 12 Apr 2009 12:22:12 PM EDT
>
> So is this a temporary problem that the X developers will quickly fix? 

No, you need to fix it yourself.

> Something I can fix easily?  Gremlins?

# sed -i -e '/s/"via"/"openchrome"/ /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Or remove the "Device" section entirely, since the X server can figure
out the video driver by itself.

Sven


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Re: Problems when audio capturing with headset

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 15:37:20 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I'm trying to test the operation of my headset in Debian GNU/Linux
> Squeeze to be able to use it with a softphone. Although the sound works
> with the rest of the applications with the headphone, in order to listen
> what I say I must put practically the microphone grazing the mouth :-S

Just to be sure that I understand you correctly: You do hear your voice in the
headphones but the volume is way too low, correct? Or do you suspect that the
microphone is completely muted or broken?

> I'm using a 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel with the following hardware of audio:
> 
> # lspci|grep Audio
> 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
> 
> The headset is a Genius HS-02N with the following characteristics:

[...]

That should be OK. The kind of problem you are having is typically
caused by low settings for the microphone in Capture, Playback or both
(assuming there is no hardware mute button or microphone volume control
on the device that has to be adjusted).

> I tried regulating several parameters in alsamixer but it did not change
> to much the situation. Some idea of how being able to solve it?

Post the output of this, please:

amixer scontrols | cut -d\' -f2 | grep -i mic | while read N; do amixer sget 
"$N"; done

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Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

[Bob Cox]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:05:49 -0400, Long Wind (longwind2...@gmail.com) 
wrote: 

> I have a cell phone
> it can't play some mp3
> maybe it supports only 128K
> So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K
> Which package in etch?
> mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options?
> Thanks!

ffmpeg -ab 128000 -i high_quality.mp3 lower_quality.mp3

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Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

[Hal Vaughan]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote:


Hal Vaughan wrote:

I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.
Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them  
so
there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up from  
my

iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).

In the past I could use:

rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing

And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to
the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:

rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing


I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
running on the remote machine, try:
$> rsync -ave ssh m...@server:Writing /data/Writing

where "me" is your username at server machine.



Okay, that did the trick!  I'm kicking myself because once I saw that,  
I searched the man page for "colon" and found it -- up at the top, in  
the "general" section, the part I skipped while looking for some  
obscure command line option that I was sure would do the trick!  It  
seems the more obvious or basic something is, the more likely I am to  
miss it and start searching for the wrong thing.


Thanks!


Hal


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Re: postgresql & sid

[Florian Kulzer]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 00:58:05 +0430, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
> Dear all,
> When i use dpkg -l "postgresql*" i see following output:

[ snip: the relevant packages seem to be installed ]

> When i use debian:/home/mohsen# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start
> debian:/home/mohsen# 
> 
> I didn't see any output.
> Then i run su postgres
> & run psql & see following output:
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket
> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> 
> What's my problem?Please help me.

Did you check the documentation in /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.3* ,
especially "README.Debian(.gz)" files? (It's been a while since I used
postgresql myself, so I lost track of its current status in Debian.)

You should also check if the process is actually running, as well as
which ports and sockets it has open. Run as root:

ps -ef | grep [p]ostgresql

lsof -U | grep [p]ostgresql

lsof -i | grep [p]ostgresql

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Updated Squeeze, X won't start

[Carl Fink]

This morning, I found my Squeeze system totally frozen. Well, that's false,
it would display the X screen (icewm as wm), but changing to a different
desktop failed, I couldn't scroll or make any buttons react to the mouse,
etc.

I could use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to reach a VT, but that also ignored the keyboard.

I switched back to X with Alt-F7 and pressed Ctrl-Backspace, but this only
had the effect of freezing the mouse pointer.

So I power-cycled.  After that, X came up, but I once more used Ctrl-Alt-F1
and from the VT, did apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.  59 updates
later, I now find that X won't start.  Here's a capture when I try using
startx:

Script started on Sun 12 Apr 2009 12:22:00 PM EDT
xset:  unable to open display ""
ca...@newpicking:~$ startx&
[1] 3381
ca...@newpicking:~$ 

X.Org X Server 1.4.2
Release Date: 11 June 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-11)
Current Operating System: Linux NewPicking 2.6.22 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 14:18:25 EST 
2008 i686
Build Date: 20 February 2009  03:06:29AM
 
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Apr 12 12:22:03 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "via" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

[1]+  Donestartx
ca...@newpicking:~$ exit

Script done on Sun 12 Apr 2009 12:22:12 PM EDT

So is this a temporary problem that the X developers will quickly fix? 
Something I can fix easily?  Gremlins?

Thanks.
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ALSA configuration problems

[Alexander Harizanov]

Hi,
I have Etch on AMD Sempron 3000. i have no problems playing audio CDs or DVDs.  
But if I try stream video there is no sound at all.  Mlayer stated the 
following error: alsa-lib: 'pcm_hw.c:1248:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open 
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy'
I fact the device pcmC0D0p wasn't  busy.
I would appreciate  any advice.

Alexander H 



  

New version of kernel-package now in unstable

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

This brings to an end an enhancement for kernel-package that
 have been in development for over an year. These changes make
 kernel-package more nimble (you can just update the sources, hack on a
 file, and run make-kpkg and it should just work to incorporate your
 changes, no need for clean).

It also pulls out the postint functionality into hook scripts,
 using the same /etc/kernel.d infrastructure as upstreams native deb-pkg
 target, but provides for more packages.

Also supported now is a linux-image-$version-dbg package, that
 contains just the debugging information, and which is compatible with
 SystemTap.

Looking at the reverse dependencies, there should be no impact
 whatsoever on the module packages; everything should still work the
 same.

However, since ./debian is now ephemeral, anyone who puts things
 in ./debian will be affected. Those users should depend on
 kernel-package (<< 12.001).  The only user I know of that did that
 was linux-2.6, but since kernel-package has been deprecated and
 pronounced broken by the kernel team, this is not an issue: if it is
 deprecated, and obsolescent, development if kernel-package need not be
 tied to linux-2.6. In any case, official kernels are no longer
 supported as of k-p 12.001.

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Re: disk space used by apt

[Javier Barroso]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Elimar Riesebieter  wrote:
> * Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200]
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some
>> upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update,
>> or whatever with apt, it gives me that results:
>>
>> # du --max-depth 1 -h / | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
>> 3,0G   var
>> 2,5G   var/cache
>>
>> # du --max-depth 1 -h /var/cache/apt | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
>> 2,5G   var/cache/apt/archives
>>
>> Unexpeclty i found that i have zero space, which don't allow me to
>> normal office work
>> of cource cleanig /var/cache/apt is remedy, but only for a while.
>>
>> Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt?
>
> run 'apt-get clean'
>
> The cache will be reduced of all the .deb.
>
> Elimar
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This option in apt config help: APT::Archives::MaxAge

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Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

[Nelson Castillo]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Long Wind  wrote:
> I have a cell phone
> it can't play some mp3
> maybe it supports only 128K
> So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K
> Which package in etch?
> mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options?
> Thanks!

You can also convert them to WAV an then back to MP3. I would use
LAME. This document might be overkill for what you need but the
information you need is there (you need to find the correct LAME
options).

http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/mp3-encode

I wonder if your player supports variable bit rate... If not I guess
the options "-b 128 --cbr" must be present.


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Re: disk space used by apt

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200]
> Hi,
>
> I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some  
> upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update,  
> or whatever with apt, it gives me that results:
>
> # du --max-depth 1 -h / | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
> 3,0G   var
> 2,5G   var/cache
>
> # du --max-depth 1 -h /var/cache/apt | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
> 2,5G   var/cache/apt/archives
>
> Unexpeclty i found that i have zero space, which don't allow me to  
> normal office work
> of cource cleanig /var/cache/apt is remedy, but only for a while.
>
> Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt?

run 'apt-get clean'

The cache will be reduced of all the .deb.

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Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

[H.S.]

Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. 
> Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so
> there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up from my
> iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
> could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).
> 
> In the past I could use:
> 
> rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing
> 
> And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to
> the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:
> 
> rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing

I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
running on the remote machine, try:
$> rsync -ave ssh m...@server:Writing /data/Writing

where "me" is your username at server machine.


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disk space used by apt

[Marcin Kłapkowski]

Hi,

I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some 
upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update, 
or whatever with apt, it gives me that results:


# du --max-depth 1 -h / | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
3,0G   var
2,5G   var/cache

# du --max-depth 1 -h /var/cache/apt | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
2,5G   var/cache/apt/archives

Unexpeclty i found that i have zero space, which don't allow me to 
normal office work

of cource cleanig /var/cache/apt is remedy, but only for a while.

Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt?

Thanks
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Re: Flashdrive, read-only, cannot write

[Randy Kramer]

On Sunday 12 April 2009 11:05:29 am Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> I had this flash drive for a few months and a few days ago, I
> couldn't store data in it. I even try to reformat it but it just
> won't let me. Any suggestion before I buy a new one?

There was a thread on slashdot on this subject within the last few 
days--I'd suggest you look for it and read the possibilities for 
failure (that was more the subject than say recovering data).

Some of the reasons for an "instant failure" (like this appears to be) 
included a good jolt of static electricity, or plugging it into 
something that used too high a voltage.  But at least one failure 
sounded potentially easily fixable--sometimes the connector flexes the 
rest of the card too much and some of the connections (or the solder on 
them) crack and fail.

In some cases they can be resoldered.  

> ctrl:~# fdisk /dev/sdc
> You will not be able to write the partition table.

You might also google for that particular error message and see what 
it's telling you and how and whether other people have overcome it.

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Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

[Marcin Kłapkowski]

Florian Kulzer pisze:

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin K�apkowski wrote:
  

Hi,

I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've  
heard and used before).

I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker.
But, I get missing dependencies:

# sudo apt-get install soundtracker
...
Nast�puj�ce pakiety maj� niespe�nione zaleşno�ci:
 soundtracker: Wymaga: gdk-imlib11 ale nie da si� go zainstalowa�
   Wymaga: libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da si� go zainstalowa�
   Wymaga: libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.22.0) ale nie da si� go  
zainstalowa�
   Wymaga: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da si� go  
zainstalowa�
   Wymaga: libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da si� go  
zainstalowa�
   Wymaga: libgnomeui32 (>= 1.4.2-3) ale nie da si� go  
zainstalowa�
   Wymaga: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4) ale nie da si� go  
zainstalowa�



Soundtracker is scheduled for removal:

http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=soundtracker
http://bugs.debian.org/460778
http://bugs.debian.org/519641

  

How I can install missing dependencies or newer version of soundtracker?



Right now it might still be possible to install the package if you add
both "testing" and "stable" to your sources list (and run "apt-get
update" afterwards).

You could also try the soundtracker-gtk2 package mentioned in bug
#519641.

  

soundtracker-gtk2 wasn't installed, because of dependency lack: gtk+-2.0
but, after adding lenny repo as you told me, i have possibility to 
install soundtracer with whole gtk1.2 dependencies. great, but din't it 
harm my system? and should i add lenny updates to it or not? i worry 
about packages conflicts too.


thanks.



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Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

[gn643202]

Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.  
Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so 
there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up from my 
iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably 
could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).


In the past I could use:

rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing

And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to 
the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:


rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing

I get errors when I do that, so after some tinkering, I got some 
directories to back up and I see that rsync is saving the files as 
"nobody:nogroup" or with the user number 65534.


My understanding of rsync is that if I use "n...@system::Service" that 
it logs into that server using the specified username, but since rsync 
is saving files as "nobody," then that's not happening.  I do have the 
systems set up so the server does not allow password logins via ssh and 
the guest (the iMac) is known user with the rsa id on the server and 
when I want to ssh to the server, just "ssh server" will get me logged in.


What do I need to do to tell rsync on the host system (the server) to 
use the specified user name?


   I don't know it this is any help.   I had to move files from one 
computer to another and found that the User Names changed.   The 
following is a script that I wrote to move files with maintaining UIDs 
via SSH.  Using this in two transfers worked great.   Note: it transfers 
UID numbers, not names.


   The key is:
  $ sudo tar -zcpf - /home | ssh r...@123.456.789.123 \
"cd /;sudo tar -zxpf -"

#! /bin/bash
#
# To copy files to another computer retaining owner / group.
#
# - CONFIGURE SECTION --
#
#Your User name on the Server.  Normally should be
# the same as your Computer User Name.
REMOTEUSERNAME="root"
#
#   Remote IP Address.
REMOTEIP="192.168.1.73"
#
# 0 - usr/local/bin
BACKUPLIST="/usr/local/bin"
#
# 1 - home
# BACKUPLIST="/home"
#
# 2 - Samba
# BACKUPLIST="/srv/samba"
#
# 3 - MySQL
# BACKUPLIST="/var/lib/mysql/m* /var/lib/mysql/n* /var/lib/mysql/t* 
/var/lib/mysql/w*"

#
# 4 - WWW
# BACKUPLIST="/srv/www"
#
# 5 - /usr/local
# BACKUPLIST="/usr/local/bin /var/local"
#
# Note, run as root
# - NO EDITING BELOW THIS LINE --
#
for LIST in $BACKUPLIST
do
  echo " "
  echo "Starting $LIST"
  tar -zcpf - $LIST | ssh $remoteusern...@$remoteip \
"cd /;sudo tar -zxpf -"
  echo "finished"
done



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Re: Making ATI and Broadcom work on a Lenny laptop

[Klistvud]

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 21:26:49 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a):
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:03, Klistvud  wrote:
> > Howdie!
> >
> > Anyone tried to make an ATI 1200 and a BCM4328 work on a Lenny laptop? I
> > am trying to finalize my Lenny installation on a HP Compaq 6715b and have
> > a few questions:
> > Should I just leave the graphics as it is, or is it advisable to install
> > the proprietary ATI Catalyst drivers (and WHICH ones and HOW)?
>
> An x1200 should just work, with 3d acceleration, with the "radeon" driver.
>
> > Is the Broadcom hybrid driver still the best option for making the
> > BCM4328 wireless chip work? Is the patch needed? How do you go about
> > compiling, installing the driver, and making the driver permanent (i.e.
> > load at every boot)? In short, what is your experience, what would be my
> > best bet for the above graphics chip and wireless chip in Debian Lenny?
>
> It looks like b43 does not support the 4328, so ndiswrapper is probably
> the best bet. This might be a place to start:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff

Thanx for answering. Anyway, I'm prejudiced against ndiswrapper (used to be a 
Windows user for many years, so now I shiver at every gates/windows I see). So 
I've tried to compile the original broadcom ("hybrid" or "wl") driver from the 
Broadcom website and it does work. No need to install the patch either 
(although there are some indications that ssh won't work). Only nuisance: you 
have to recompile it every time the kernel gets updated :(.

Best instructions I've managed to find:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=30648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=2782df86cc404fde6d75b631594c3053

P.S. Of course, the driver is every bit as tainted as ndiswrapper. But at 
least it's not M$-tainted... ;)


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usermod change username problem

[Zhengquan Zhang]

Dear Debian community:
I have got a specific problem using usermod to change my previous
username olduser to newuser.

This is what I use:
sudo usermod -l newuser -md  /home/newuser olduser[:w

newuser is the new login name and -md use /home/newuser as the new
home directory and moves /home/olduser to /home/newuser.

The problem is after I did all this I found that in /home/newuser
the file ownership becomes newuser:olduser. So the group
ownership is still olduser. I know I can use chgrp to change
group owner olduser to newuser. But I guess there are simpler ways to do
that.

So basically I don't want to use olduser as my username again and want
to change 'everything' associated with olduser to become newuser. such
the home directory, spoolfile, cron, etc... and I dont want the olduser
appear again.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 12 April 2009 16:00, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've
> heard and used before).
> I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker.
> But, I get missing dependencies:
>
> # sudo apt-get install soundtracker
> ...
> Następujące pakiety mają niespełnione zależności:
>   soundtracker: Wymaga: gdk-imlib11 ale nie da się go zainstalować
> Wymaga: libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go
> zainstalować Wymaga: libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.22.0) ale nie da się go
> zainstalować
> Wymaga: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go
> zainstalować
> Wymaga: libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go
> zainstalować
> Wymaga: libgnomeui32 (>= 1.4.2-3) ale nie da się go
> zainstalować
> Wymaga: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4) ale nie da się go
> zainstalować
>
>
> None of these packages can be installed. For this packages I had only
> configuration files ("c" in aptitude, instead of "i"). And when I
> removed it's configuration files, I discovered that they not exists in
> repo any more.
>
> I have in my system installed other similar packages:
> libart-2.0-2
> libartsc0
> libgnomeui-0
> libgnomeui-common
>
> Installing libart2-ruby and libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby don't change situation.
>
> My etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid main
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main
> deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main
> deb http://thomas.pub.enix.org/debian/ sid main
>
> How I can install missing dependencies or newer version of soundtracker?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> martin3z

That's a bit odd. I've just fired up Lenny, and see that I have the same 
Soundtracker version installed that you mention above.

My Lenny started off as Sarge, upgraded to Etch, and is currently Lenny. I 
first installed Soundtracker on 5-June-2005 (version 0.6.7-5). Not sure which 
Debian version it was installed on back then (probably Sarge), but synaptic's 
history shows no deps being installed for it at the same time, and it would 
have been working then, as I installed it to use it.

The current version I have on Lenny (0.6.8-2+b1) is quite old. I've looked 
back through my history-files for updates, and have found Soundtracker being 
updated to the version above on 24:August:2007. Whether it still worked after 
the updates at that time, I don't know, because I don't try everything to see 
if it still works. It possibly did still work, but a lot of time has passed 
since then, and I think that what has happened is that one, or more of 
dependencies for Soundtracker has been updated, and now Soundtracker, as in 
your case will not install.

I've just tried Soundtracker on Lenny, and it tries to open. I get a quick 
glimpse of a small window trying to open (not the main window for 
Soundtracker) then it crashes. I think there is a problem with something to 
do with the graphics, as if I ssh into Lenny from another machine (FC2), and 
run Soundtracker, it works as it should.

I'm listening to DJC_LOTHXM at the moment, using Lenny's Soundtracker, but 
running it from FC2, while ssh'd into Lenny.

I think it's about time we should both post a bugreport that soundtracker is 
broken due to dependency problems.

Hope we can get it fixed.

Nigel.















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Packages cannot be authenticated

[Miguel Obliviemo]

What is the significance of this message, when installing from a
downloaded (with Jigdo) Lenny DVD?

"WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
   postgresql-pltcl-8.3"

(I went ahead and installed it.)

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Re: X and tty7

[Miguel Obliviemo]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:


I would set 'FirstVT=24' in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and then edit /etc/inittab
to add as many consoles as needed if this is what you want (personally


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Re: Ton of Lenny updates

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:17:40PM +0100, Russell Gadd wrote:
>  There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when
> I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening?

5.0r1 http://debian.org/News/2009/20090412

Etch also got another update: http://debian.org/News/2009/20090408

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Missing dependencies of soundtracker

[Marcin Kłapkowski]

Hi,

I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've 
heard and used before).

I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker.
But, I get missing dependencies:

# sudo apt-get install soundtracker
...
Następujące pakiety mają niespełnione zależności:
 soundtracker: Wymaga: gdk-imlib11 ale nie da się go zainstalować
   Wymaga: libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go zainstalować
   Wymaga: libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.22.0) ale nie da się go 
zainstalować
   Wymaga: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go 
zainstalować
   Wymaga: libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go 
zainstalować
   Wymaga: libgnomeui32 (>= 1.4.2-3) ale nie da się go 
zainstalować
   Wymaga: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4) ale nie da się go 
zainstalować



None of these packages can be installed. For this packages I had only 
configuration files ("c" in aptitude, instead of "i"). And when I 
removed it's configuration files, I discovered that they not exists in 
repo any more.


I have in my system installed other similar packages:
libart-2.0-2
libartsc0
libgnomeui-0
libgnomeui-common

Installing libart2-ruby and libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby don't change situation.

My etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main
deb http://thomas.pub.enix.org/debian/ sid main

How I can install missing dependencies or newer version of soundtracker?

Thanks for any help.
martin3z


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Re: Ton of Lenny updates

[Lisi Reisz]

On Sunday 12 April 2009 15:17:40 Russell Gadd wrote:
>  There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when
> I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening?

As a result of your email I have just updated (last night there were no 
updates!).  There were 53 updates.  Quite a high percentage seemed to be 
OpenOffice.org related.  There was also a new kernel.

Changes in OpenOffice.org do seem to mean a lot of updates.  I don't know 
whether there is anything else.

Lisi


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Re: reduce XFS

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 14:24:10, Erik Xavior wrote:
> I was only thinking that XFS size can be extended with "xfs_growfs" after an
> lvextend - online. But is there a stable way to shrink XFS size online? With
> LVM it would be great :D :)
> Thank you!
 
As far as I recall from several sources (and a Google search with 
keywords xfs online shrink seems to confirm this) it is not possible to 
shrink xfs *online*.

> ps.: or is there any other stable FS that supports online shrink/extend?

ext3 (probably also ext4), but I never tried it myself.

Regards,
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Flashdrive, read-only, cannot write

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

I had this flash drive for a few months and a few days ago, I couldn't store
data in it. I even try to reformat it but it just won't let me. Any
suggestion before I buy a new one?

Disk /dev/sdc: 2004 MB, 2004877312 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x09833398

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   17648 1957872e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)

ctrl:~# fdisk /dev/sdc
You will not be able to write the partition table.

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7648.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 1

Command (m for help): w

Unable to write /dev/sdc

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Vuze, port 27714

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

I'm using lenny amd64. It's weird that vuze keeps pestering me about port
27714 being closed since there's no rule blocking that port on iptables

ctrl:~# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination

and i can telnet to that port on localhost

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Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

[Henri Salo]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:08PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> Here's my current backup arrangement:
> 
> Data is stored in filesystems on LVM volumes over RAID1.  While RAID1
> presents some protection from disk failure, it gives no protection
> against data corruption due to flaky hardware or data loss caused by
> fire or theft.
> 
> Therefore I have an offsite backup arrangement.   This consists of two
> rsync backups.  One backup goes to a local disk (different disk
> manufacturer, different disk controller) and the other rsync backup is
> to a disk at work.  This works a bit but the outgoing bandwidth on my
> cable connection is low (about 0.3 Mbps).  If I make a large change to
> the machine (e.g. dist-upgrade) I physically swap the home and work
> backup disks (this is the main reason for keeping the local backup
> too).  This at least allows me to place an upper limit on the amount
> of data I would lose in the case of (e.g.) a fire.
> 
> However, there are two respects in which I think some improvement
> would be useful:
> 
> (1) Quite a lot of the files on my system are files I never expect to
> change again.  I plan to write a few scripts which will tell me if a
> file that hadn't been modified in, say, two years was in fact recently
> modified.  This could give me early warning that the disk controller
> has gone berserk (again).
> 
> (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g.
> the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a
> year ago), at least for filesystems like /home.
> 
> What are good solutions for doing (2)?   (Please only recommend
> software you're using yourself :)
> 
> Thanks,
> James.

I use duplicity 

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Re: X and tty7

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 14:35:28, Sven Joachim wrote:

> > If I read the comments right gdm will allocate VT 7 to X11 (don't 
> > know what happens if VT 7 is already taken by getty or so).
> 
> I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me.  Why can't it
> just use the first available VT by default, like the X server does by
> itself?

Because it's unpredictable (just guessing)? Maybe I misunderstood the 
comment. Here is the full quote:

,[ from /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf ]
| # Automatic VT allocation.  Right now only works on Linux.  This way we force
| # X to use specific vts.  Turn VTAllocation to false if this is causing
| # problems.
| FirstVT=7
| VTAllocation=true
`

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Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've  
> heard and used before).
> I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker.
> But, I get missing dependencies:
>
> # sudo apt-get install soundtracker
> ...
> Następujące pakiety mają niespełnione zależności:
>  soundtracker: Wymaga: gdk-imlib11 ale nie da się go zainstalować
>Wymaga: libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go zainstalować
>Wymaga: libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.22.0) ale nie da się go  
> zainstalować
>Wymaga: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go  
> zainstalować
>Wymaga: libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5) ale nie da się go  
> zainstalować
>Wymaga: libgnomeui32 (>= 1.4.2-3) ale nie da się go  
> zainstalować
>Wymaga: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4) ale nie da się go  
> zainstalować

Soundtracker is scheduled for removal:

http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=soundtracker
http://bugs.debian.org/460778
http://bugs.debian.org/519641

> How I can install missing dependencies or newer version of soundtracker?

Right now it might still be possible to install the package if you add
both "testing" and "stable" to your sources list (and run "apt-get
update" afterwards).

You could also try the soundtracker-gtk2 package mentioned in bug
#519641.

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Ton of Lenny updates

[Russell Gadd]

 There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when
I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening?

which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

[Long Wind]

I have a cell phone
it can't play some mp3
maybe it supports only 128K
So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K
Which package in etch?
mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options?
Thanks!


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Re: X and tty7

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-04-12 13:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 20:05:30, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
 How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed?  E.g. to tty24?
>>>
>>> It depends on how you start X. Also (not what you asked for), but did
>>> you ever try 'screen'?
>>
>> Well, I asked, HOW does it depend on how you start X?  Gdm is starting
>> X.  I don't want to interfere with that, but I doubt if that has a lot
>> to do with it.
>
> Well, have a look at /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf (but don't edit it) if 
> you don't believe me ;)
>
> If I read the comments right gdm will allocate VT 7 to X11 (don't know 
> what happens if VT 7 is already taken by getty or so).

I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me.  Why can't it
just use the first available VT by default, like the X server does by
itself?

> I would set 'FirstVT=24' in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and then edit /etc/inittab 
> to add as many consoles as needed if this is what you want (personally 
> I'd use screen instead).

I don't see any reason to populate these VTs at all if you don't need
them.  But starting X at a different VT that 7 may make sense, since
pressing Alt-F7 on a virtual console sometimes "leaks" the F7 key to
whatever application that has the focus in X.

Sven


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Re: reduce XFS

[Erik Xavior]

I was only thinking that XFS size can be extended with "xfs_growfs" after an
lvextend - online. But is there a stable way to shrink XFS size online? With
LVM it would be great :D :)
Thank you!

ps.: or is there any other stable FS that supports online shrink/extend?

Re: smbumount would nout unmount as user

[Virgo P?rna]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:52:19 + (UTC), Virgo P??rna  
wrote:
> I just upgraded Debian Eth system to Lenny (and also upgraded kernel and 
> changed
> from k7 version to amd64 version). Now I'm having a problem. When I mount 
> share from 
> Windows XP machine with smbmount, then I cannot unmount it anymore. Both 
> mount.cifs 
> and umount.cifs are SUID root. Samba is version 3.2.5-4, kernel 
> 2.6.26-1-amd64.
>

Well, it seems, that problem is caused by amd64 kernel. Seems that 32 bit  
smbumount 
does not work with amd64 kernel.

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Re: X and tty7

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 20:05:30, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
>>> How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed?  E.g. to tty24?
>>
>> It depends on how you start X. Also (not what you asked for), but did
>> you ever try 'screen'?
>
> Well, I asked, HOW does it depend on how you start X?  Gdm is starting
> X.  I don't want to interfere with that, but I doubt if that has a lot
> to do with it.

Well, have a look at /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf (but don't edit it) if 
you don't believe me ;)

If I read the comments right gdm will allocate VT 7 to X11 (don't know 
what happens if VT 7 is already taken by getty or so).

I would set 'FirstVT=24' in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and then edit /etc/inittab 
to add as many consoles as needed if this is what you want (personally 
I'd use screen instead).

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Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote:

>> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need
>> xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you  
>> still
>> have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log.
>>
>> [1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to get rid of it,  
>> and
>> yes, the new way does work.
>
>
> I have all of those.  Log is attached.  I'm not sure how this Mac (my  
> current access to the problem machine) will show it.

Ok, I compared to my log and there are things just missing from yours :/
 
I assume hal is running on that machine. Also check the output of 
'lshal' and look for the devices that have 'input.x11_driver' option set 
(maybe post the relevant entries here), because only such devices are 
eligible for X11 input devices. Maybe hal just doesn't recognize your 
stuff.

> I don't see much wrong except maybe   
>
> (==) NV(0): Silken mouse enabled   since I have a fairly normal Logitech 
> PS2 optical mouse.

I have that too and seems harmless (it's a message from the video 
driver).

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Beginner's tip for transferring large directories between systems when sshd not allowed (e.g. between VMWare host and guest)

[DanKegel]

Here's a tip that might come in handy when
transferring large directory trees between systems
where running sshd isn't allowed.

I use vmware occasionally, and when I do, I sometimes need
to transfer large directory trees between the host and guest.
The corporate Linux laptop I'm using doesn't allow
running sshd, so scp (or, better, tar -f - foo | ssh blah cat)
isn't an option.

Instead, I used nc and ufw to create a one-time hole and suck the data
through:
  $ ip addr
... 192.168.0.100 ...
  $ sudo ufw allow 5001
  $ nc -l -p 5001 > foo.tgz
on Linux, and
  $ ip addr
  $ tar -czf - --exclude=.svn src | nc 192.168.0.100 5001
then finally
  $ sudo ufw delete allow 5001
on Linux again after the transfer is finished.
You can monitor the transfer by doing
  $ ls -lh foo.tgz
on the linux side periodically, or
  $ watch ls -lh foo.tgz
to show the tarball's size every two seconds.
Works nicely, has a smaller vulnerability footprint than
running sshd, and avoids the extra disk I/O of the simple
"tar it and then scp the tarball" approach.
- Dan

p.s. here's my current reason to want to do this:
I work on the Chromium web browser, and am interested
in reducing the number of proprietary tools we use to
develop it.  In particular, I'm experimenting with
using linux + valgrind + wine instead of windows + purify
to look for pointer problems in our Windows version.
(We already use valgrind to do the same for our Linux and Mac
versions.)
Chromium can't yet be built with mingw,
so I need to build Chromium on Windows in vmware with
visual studio, and transfer the tree to Linux.

Valgrind requires one patch to support .pdb files.  I don't
think the patch has been committed yet, but it's
available if anyone's interested.  (Thanks to everyone
who worked on that patch and on valgrind and wine
in general, btw.)


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Re: Aptitude issue

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I  
> was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to  
> resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install  
> it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove  
> openoffice.org-writer2latex.

That indicates a problem with the pre-removal script of this package;
aptitude cannot do much about that.

>  I ended up aborting the process and went on  
> about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same  
> machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head.

The openoffice.org-writer2latex package is in a broken state on your
system (incomplete removal), therefore aptitude has to try to fix it
before it can perform actions on other packages.

> rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors

[...]

> Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...
>
>
> At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to  
> wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow:
>
>
>  4726 pts/3Sl+0:03 aptitude install ksensors
>  4757 pts/6Ss+0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24
> --force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove
> openoffice.org-writer2latex
>  4758 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
>  4759 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
>  4760 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg
> list --shared
>  4761 pts/6S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex
>  4762 pts/6S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2
>  4780 pts/6S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4
>  4802 pts/6R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list
> --shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1
> -env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml
> -env:UserInstallation=fi

[...]

It seems that the pre-removal script gets stuck while trying to
determine the full name of the writer2latex extension. You can try this
yourself:

/usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared | grep latex

If that command comes up empty or if it hangs then you might have to
comment out every invocation of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and run "aptitude
install -f" to get the broken package off your system.

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Re: [OT] Cursing Re: Dell Precision Workstation T7400 - 32bit

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:18:52AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <49db1705.8060...@gmail.com>, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> >Cassiel wrote:
> >> It comes with the f***ing vista pre-installed and (obviously) I want to
> >> install debian.
> >Also, in general, if it's not appropriate to write a swear word with all
> >its letters, it is generally also not appropriate to just substitute
> >three of them with asterisks.

Far canal, read the list's code of conduct.

[snip illegal swearing]

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Re: Consolechars Question

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:57:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Start mutt like so:
> > chr...@box:~$ LANG=C mutt
> > Once started, type !
> > then when you see "Shell command:" type:
> > echo $LANG
> > it should display:
> > C
> 
> Ah-ha!  The response to echo $LANG is en_US.UTF-8 both before and after

Weird, indeed!, considering you should have started mutt like so:
chr...@box:~$ LANG=C mutt

> I run consolechars -d.  But the problem is not just a mutt problem.  For
> example, the response to sensors is

I still wonder why you run "consolechars -d" as that OVERRIDES any
changes you make.

Obviously, starting mutt in that way only affects mutt.

Try starting mutt without the .muttrc file and try the above again.
 
> Since the problem is not very serious and easily corrected by the
> consolechars -d command I'll just live with it for now.  It is a
> curiosity and if I ever find out the cause I'll be sure to let you know.

So mutt DOES display correctly when you run "consolechars -d"? 

There is something weird with your setup.
Have a look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg00236.html
and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg00402.html

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