Re: jackd won't start in X

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-05 01:09, tomdeb wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to migrate away from pulseaudio and currently testing out
jack-audio-connection-kit


Do you *need* jack?  I.e., are you doing sound mixing, editing, etc?


For some unknown weird reason jackd won't start if I launch it via an
X terminal. I get the following:
~ > /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r48000 -p1024
JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to use

realtime scheduling.


Problems with the kernel?


Please check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the following lines
and correct/add them:

  @audio  -   rtprio  100
  @audio  -   nice-10

After applying these changes, please re-login in order for them to
take effect.

You don't appear to have a sane system configuration. It is very
likely that you
encounter xruns. Please apply all the above mentioned changes and
start jack again!
[1]8509 exit 255   /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r48000 -p1024

These settings are set correctly in /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf
and I am member of the audio group.

But it works if I start it on tty1 or if I s...@localhost.

Any clue/help will be much appreciated.


What's wrong with starting jackd before starting X?

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Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-04 23:03, Gero Putzar wrote:

Hi,

I get the following error message from apt-get:

---snip---
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be
installed
  Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1 is to be


That doesn't look right, since lenny only has gcc 4.3.2.


installed
---snap---


You've snipped too much.


I don't understand it. I read it like that:
libc6-i386 needs lib32asound2 version 1.0.20-2 or lower.
But for whatever reason, apt-get wants to install Version 1.0.16-2 of
lib32asound2.

Now 1.0.16-2 is obviously lower than 1.0.20-2. So why does apt-get complain?

Does anybody know, how to interpret this error message?


I don't want to bother you with the details of what I want to install and
how. Only for completeness: It's the amd64 lenny (stable) distro installed


$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list


and I wanted to:

# apt-get --simulate -t testing install shutter


Show us all the output of this command.  Also,

$ apt-cache policy libc6-i386 lib32asound2 lib32gcc1


Thanks, Gero.

P.S. If this is not the right place to ask or if I overlooked that this
question has just been answered somewhere, please give me a hint.


This is the place...

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Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

[Brian Marshall]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:03:37PM +0800, Gero Putzar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the following error message from apt-get:
> 
> ---snip---
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be
> installed
>   Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1 is to be
> installed
> ---snap---
> 
> I don't understand it. I read it like that:
> libc6-i386 needs lib32asound2 version 1.0.20-2 or lower.
> But for whatever reason, apt-get wants to install Version 1.0.16-2 of
> lib32asound2.

It says libc6-i386 *breaks* lib32asound2 <= 1.0.20-2. This means that
the version of lib32asound2 has to be higher than 1.0.20-2 for it to not
be broken. Lenny does not have a version higher than that, hence the
dependency problem.

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jackd won't start in X

[tomdeb]

Hello,

I am trying to migrate away from pulseaudio and currently testing out
jack-audio-connection-kit 


For some unknown weird reason jackd won't start if I launch it via an
X terminal. I get the following: 

~ > /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r48000 -p1024 


JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to use
realtime scheduling.
Please check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the following lines
and correct/add them:

  @audio  -   rtprio  100
  @audio  -   nice-10

After applying these changes, please re-login in order for them to
take effect.

You don't appear to have a sane system configuration. It is very
likely that you
encounter xruns. Please apply all the above mentioned changes and
start jack again!
[1]8509 exit 255   /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r48000 -p1024

These settings are set correctly in /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf
and I am member of the audio group.

But it works if I start it on tty1 or if I s...@localhost.

Any clue/help will be much appreciated.

Tom


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On boot - firewall warning.......

[Charlie]

Get this after booting the system

/etc/rc.firewall: line 394: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change
locale (US) 
/etc/rc.firewall: line 466: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change
locale (US) 
/etc/rc.firewall: line 510: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change
locale (US)

This is guarddog I'm using and the file referred to says don't edit

Googled but don't find anything specific to this?

Is this something to worry about?

TIA
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apt-get error message seems contradictory

[Gero Putzar]

Hi,

I get the following error message from apt-get:

---snip---
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be
installed
  Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1 is to be
installed
---snap---

I don't understand it. I read it like that:
libc6-i386 needs lib32asound2 version 1.0.20-2 or lower.
But for whatever reason, apt-get wants to install Version 1.0.16-2 of
lib32asound2.

Now 1.0.16-2 is obviously lower than 1.0.20-2. So why does apt-get complain?

Does anybody know, how to interpret this error message?


I don't want to bother you with the details of what I want to install and
how. Only for completeness: It's the amd64 lenny (stable) distro installed
and I wanted to:

# apt-get --simulate -t testing install shutter

Thanks, Gero.

P.S. If this is not the right place to ask or if I overlooked that this
question has just been answered somewhere, please give me a hint.


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Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

[Osamu Aoki]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:00:13PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript
> 
> Shellscript:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec xterm -e mutt "$@"
> 
> The xterm only pops up for 1 second.

I use following in lenny and works fine:
--
#!/bin/sh
gnome-terminal -e "mutt $@"
--

these terminal softwares act not exactly the same with -e and -x options.

With gnome-terminal:
  -e, --command=STRING
 Execute the argument to this option inside the terminal.

   -x, --execute
 Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal.

With xterm:
   -e program [ arguments ... ]
   This option specifies the program (and its command line 
arguments) to be run in the xterm window.  It also sets the win‐
   dow  title  and icon name to be the basename of the program 
being executed if neither -T nor -n are given on the command
   line.  This must be the last option on the command line.

Osamu


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Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

[Mike P]

>> $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp
>> ...
>> dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> However, in general, you can bypass this error--"subprocess post-installation
> script returned error"--by removing /var/lib/dpkg/info/$package.postinst.
> There's also $package.preinst, $package.prerm, and $package.postrm.

Boyd,

This did it! I moved postinst and prerm files out of the way and
successfully uninstalled scilab-sivp. This is a very useful thing to
know about dpkg, just in case some packages are misbehaving.
Thank you so much for answering, I really appreciate your help!


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Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

[Charles Kroeger]

>   I used to run IceWm...but recently I have become a convert to
> Fluxbox. It's even lighter than Icewm...and I think more versatile but

I might as well weigh in here in the spirit of Debian and just say that I've
never used Ice but I have used Fluxbox for a time after using Blackbox and
thought Fluxbox was a bit too fiddly so  decided to try the UDE, that's your
Unix Desktop Environment, and I found  it to be just right.

UDE is the bone of stability even in Sid and I like the uber simplicity and
lightness of being.  In fact it is curiously addictive once you know the
controls. I would just venture to say it is the zen of desktop envirnoments.

> the relatively sparse toolbar may put you (and him) off. 

With UDE there is only a black field with an X for a cursor.  If that's
alarming you have instead a choice of British racing green or purple haze,
there being, nothing else. 

UDE likes a three button mouse or a mouse with a wheel that also works as
a middle button.  The one I use is a Logitech laser USB radio mouse.  

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RE: Initial Installation -- Unknown Mode H 74.9KHZ V 59.9HZ Going to Sleep

[Kevin Ross]

> From: Spam Catcher [mailto:spamcatc...@ureach.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:01 AM
> 
> Version: Debian 5.0.2a-i386
> 
> The Bug: Computer goes to sleep during the boot process.
> 
> During the initial boot, after the setup text has scrolled down the
> screen and just before the logon
> screen should appear, I receive the message:
> 
> UNKNOWN MODE
> H 74.9KHZ V 59.9HZ
> GOING TO SLEEP
> 
> After the message has been on the screen for maybe ten seconds, the
> screen goes black, the computer
> goes to sleep and that is all she wrote, the machine can only be
> awakened by pushing the power
> button to shut it off.

This is almost certainly because the X Window environment is trying to
launch with a resolution your monitor doesn't support.  The computer isn't
in sleep mode, only the monitor is.  Try cycling through available
resolutions by pressing Ctrl-Alt-+ or Ctrl-Alt-- (+ or - on the numeric
keypad).

If that doesn't work, switch to a text console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, and
login normally, and edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to include only
resolutions that your monitor supports.  If you don't have an xorg.conf
file, or if it's empty, try generating one with "Xorg -configure", and then
edit to remove resolutions you don't want.

Hope this helps!
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Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Clive Standbridge [090904 16:47 +0100]
> > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript
> > 
> > Shellscript:
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec xterm -e mutt "$@"
> > 
> > The xterm only pops up for 1 second.
> 
> That's very close to the script that is working for me (using
> Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny):
> 
[...]
> exec xterm -e bash -c "set -x; mutt $*; read -p 'Press enter to exit '"

+ subject=%3CLinux%3E%20-%20Google-Suche
+ read -p 'Press enter to exit '
Press enter to exit + mutt
'mailto:?body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.de%2Flinux'
Failed to parse mailto: link

Mutt can't read $*

This is with iceweasel 3.5.2 and 
Mutt 1.5.20+lxtec (2009-07-23)

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Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

[Clive Standbridge]

> I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript
> 
> Shellscript:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec xterm -e mutt "$@"
> 
> The xterm only pops up for 1 second.

That's very close to the script that is working for me (using
Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny):

#!/bin/sh

prefixWords=

if [ -t 0 -a -t 1 ]
then
prefixWords=
else
prefixWords="xterm -e"
fi

set -x
$prefixWords mutt -- "$@"


I don't think your "exec" should cause a problem, but it may be worth
trying without it.

You may need the -- in case any of the arguments begins with '-'. 
I can't think off-hand if that is likely.

By the way, the "if" tests whether you're running from a terminal
already, and opens mutt there if you are. Otherwise it fires up an
xterm.


You might get some more information by temporarily changing your xterm
line to

exec xterm -e bash -c "set -x; mutt $*; read -p 'Press enter to exit '"


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Re: Initial Installation -- Unknown Mode H 74.9KHZ V 59.9HZ Going to Sleep

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:01:16AM -0400, Spam Catcher wrote:
> Version: Debian 5.0.2a-i386
> 
> The Bug: Computer goes to sleep during the boot process.
> 
> During the initial boot, after the setup text has scrolled down the screen 
> and just before the logon
> screen should appear, I receive the message:
> 
> UNKNOWN MODE
> H 74.9KHZ V 59.9HZ
> GOING TO SLEEP

this is almost certainly a message from the *monitor* and not from the
*computer*. The X window system has selected a configuration that does
not work with the monitor and the monitor, not recieving a usable
signal just goes to sleep. 

as a starting point, try Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a virtual
terminal. Assuming that works, you can log in to the console and fix
it up from there.

hth,

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Re: Mail server recommendation

[Michael Ekstrand]

Jesus arteche wrote:
> I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do
> you recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...

I've had good success with Postfix (SMTP) + Dovecot (IMAP/POP3) +
SpamAssassin (spam filtering) on my personal server, using Dovecot's
deliver with the Sieve plugin to deliver mail to individual boxes.

- Michael


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Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

[Chris Jackson]

Elimar Riesebieter wrote:


I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript

Shellscript:

#!/bin/sh
exec xterm -e mutt "$@"


I'm guessing mutt can't parse the mailto: line given out by iceweasel.

Here's a very quick and very dirty bit of perl I knocked up; I'm not 
suggesting it's right, but it'll hopefully give you a starting point:



#!/usr/bin/perl

sub escape {
  $result=$_[0];
  $result=~s{(["\$])}{\\$1}g;
  return "\"$result\"";
}

($dummy, $params)=split /:/, $ARGV[0], 2;
($address, $params)=split /\?/, $params, 2;
print "$params\n";
for $x(split /&/, $params) {
  ($key, $val)=split /=/, $x, 2;
  print "$key: $val\n";
  $paramhash{$key}=$val;
}

$cmd="mutt";
$cmd.=" -s ".escape($paramhash{"subject"}) if($paramhash{"subject"});
$cmd.=" -c ".escape($paramhash{"cc"}) if($paramhash{"cc"});
$cmd.=" -b ".escape($paramhash{"bcc"}) if($paramhash{"bcc"});
$cmd.=" $address";

print "$cmd\n";
exec "$cmd";

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Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 04 September 2009 09:03:34 Mike P wrote:
> $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp
> ...
> dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

This error is because of something that happened before it, that usually 
generates some output.  You appear to have trimmed the output.

However, in general, you can bypass this error--"subprocess post-installation 
script returned error"--by removing /var/lib/dpkg/info/$package.postinst.  
There's also $package.preinst, $package.prerm, and $package.postrm.

These scripts to arbitrary setup/cleanup for a package, so removing/editing 
them may leave your system in a crufty state.  This can generally be ignored.  
If you want to cleanup doing an install/purge cycle of the same package (once 
your package management is healthy again) will generally work.

If the script has not been mangled by your system (I've seen fs corruption hit 
these scripts before), a bug report may be in order.  As you've noticed, one 
of these scripts being bad can really gum-up apt/aptitude.
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Re: Mail server recommendation

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2009-09-04 11:02:57, schrieb Jesus arteche:
> Hey,
> 
> I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do you
> recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...

Supporting only SMTP or IMAP too?

I suggest you to use the courier suite because it is secure from scratch
and it just works if you use Maildir and ~/Maildir/ as default.

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Re: How to save live video (mms) ?

[a dehqan]

In The Name Of God

Thanks for your attention ;
good day everybody , how is possible to dump seekable mms URL ? this command
used but dumped with not seek ...
  vlc --intf dummy "mms://217.219.38.131/taban tv" :demux=dump
:demuxdump-file="1.asf"  vlc:quit

Regards dehqan

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jochen Schulz  wrote:

> a dehqan:
> >
> > How is it possible to save mms live videos with good quality ?yes mimms
> is a
> > software that perform this but no good quality.
>
> As far as I can see, mimms just downloads what the server sends without
> reencoding it. In other words: you cannot do anything about the quality
> except complain to the people who put these videos in their website.
>
> J.
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dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

[Mike P]

Hi,

After dist-upgrade I am left with the package scilab-sivp which
refuses to be removed and also precludes me from installing anything
else. It seems that scilab-sivp depends on sivp package, but since
sivp is not installed dpkg fails. I can't either install sivp or
uninstall scilab-sivp. Is there a way to forcefully remove this
package? I tried dpkg with --force-all, but that didnt' help. Below is
the output I get when doing apt-get remove scilab-sivp (this is not
exactly what I get but similar to it - I copied it from another forum.
I'm using another computer since I can't install X because of this
problem).

Did anyone encounter this before? Does anyone have any suggetstions on
how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

$ apt-get remove scilab-sivp
...
dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sivp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


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Re: problem installing new packages

[Florian Kulzer]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 13:11:09 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 19:06:41 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> >>Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> >>Before the end of install process, I got
> >>this message :
> >>
> >>"
> >>Configuring libc6
> >[...]
> >
> >>Do you want to upgrade glibc now ?
> >>"
> >>
> >>I replied 'no', and, so far, I have not attempted to continue this
> >>install process of 'audacity' and the upgrade of glibc.

[...]

> Here is what I get :
> 
> 
> r...@new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_*.deb
> dpkg : « ldconfig » introuvable dans la variable PATH.
> dpkg: 1 programme(s) attendu(s) introuvable(s) dans la variable PATH.
> NB : la variable PATH du superutilisateur doit normalement contenir
> /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.
> r...@new-host:/home/bd#
> 
> Maybe I should run 'ldconfig' ?   I wouldn't dare to test this
> without more knowledge ; I wouldn't know what options and arguments
> to add.

The problem is that ldconfig (and probably other important stuff) is
missing on your system; dpkg wants to call ldconfig before it installs
the libc6 package, therefore it is jammed. The next thing you can try is
to split the installation into two steps:

dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb
dpkg --configure libc6

That might work if "--unpack" does not require dpkg to run ldconfig; I
do not know the internals of dpkg well enough to judge the chances of
success.

If the above does not work then you may have to resort to manually
extracting the files contained in libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch02.en.html#_extracting_package_without_dpkg

Alternatively you could try to fool dpkg by copying /bin/true to /sbin
and then rename the copy to "ldconfig". Again I would not dare to
predict the chances of success of this rather dirty trick.

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Re: Nvidia binary driver installation

[thveillon.debian]

>o...@larstennstedt.de wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver.
>It is a time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install
>the driver with apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I
>installed testing/squeeze and sid in virtual machines and was surprised
>that I was force to use module-assistant and so on. It is no problem at
>all.
>1.) Is that the new default way of installing the nvidia driver coming
>with Squeeze or is this a temporary situation because Squeeze is still
>in testing state?
>2.) Is it possible to install the nvidia driver from Sid with
>module-assistant? Apt-pinning is already configured.
>
>Thank you for your help!
>
>Greetings,
>Lars Tennstedt

Hello,
did just that, installing nvidia from Sid in Squeeze, without trouble.
Just used module-assistant to compile (but not install yet)
"nvidia-kernel-source" (manually choosen from Sid with aptitude), then
switch to a console. Uninstall old driver if necessary, install
nvidia-common and the newly compiled nvidia module. Then install all the
rest (nvidia-glx etc...) from Sid as desired.

Here it's:

aptitude search ~S~i~nnvidia
i   nvidia-glx
i   nvidia-glx-ia32
i   nvidia-kernel-2.6.30.5-vanilla64
i   nvidia-kernel-common
i   nvidia-kernel-source
i A nvidia-libvdpau1
i   nvidia-libvdpau1-ia32
i   nvidia-settings
i   nvidia-xconfig

Make sure xorg.conf is properly configured (driver "nvidia" in section
"Device"), and that's all.
If you want the -ia32 packages too, you'll have to play with aptitude to
prevent upgrade of your libc6, but nothing complicated.
I needed to reboot, reloading x wasn't enough (maybe because I was still
running on the previously half-installed nvidia from the infamous ".run").

Runs nicely, kde4 effects are on, Googleearth which wasn't working for
me lately is up and running too.

Tom


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how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

[Elimar Riesebieter]

I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript

Shellscript:

#!/bin/sh
exec xterm -e mutt "$@"

The xterm only pops up for 1 second.

Any hints?

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Re: lenny & VPN (ncsvc juniper netscreen)

[Jerome BENOIT]

Alex Huth wrote:

OK, i see now a little bit more:


Very Good !



20090904134653.678992 ncsvc[7837] ncsvc.info New ncsvc log level set to 5
(nccommon.cpp:75)
20090904134653.681107 ncsvc[7837] ncsvc.info Connecting to .xx.xxx.xxx:443
(ncsvc.cpp:461)
20090904134653.686965 ncsvc[7837] dsclient.para DSClient::authenticate():
user:huth&ewmr, password:... realm:Users (dsclient.cpp:212)
20090904134653.690287 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Starting a timed
connect with SSL session 0x8db1238, proxy 0:0, and timeout 30
(http_connection.cpp:171)
20090904134653.690306 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Entering
state_start_connection (http_connection.cpp:281)
20090904134653.691264 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Entering
state_continue_connection (http_connection.cpp:298)
20090904134653.691329 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Entering
state_ssl_connect (http_connection.cpp:467)
20090904134653.698877 ncsvc[7837] dsssl.para SSL connect ssl=0x8dba0f0/sd=4
connection using cipher RC4-MD5 (DSSSLSock.cpp:470)
20090904134653.698965 ncsvc[7837] dsssl.info ive_cert_hash =
eef47e27e290be450bb5351766e4a8de, computed_hash =
3822371386517bf8a8025caab65bcfee (DSSSLSock.cpp:519)
20090904134653.698980 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Returning DSHTTP_ERROR
from state_ssl_connect (http_connection.cpp:482)
20090904134653.699021 ncsvc[7837] DSInet.error failed to connect to
(sa01.de.tmr.net) error 15 (dsinet.cpp:349)
20090904134653.699037 ncsvc[7837] dsclient.error unable to open URL:
(https://xxx.xx.xxx.xx/) with error -7 (dsclient.cpp:226)
20090904134653.699052 ncsvc[7837] ncapp.error Failed to authenticate with IVE.
Error 2 (ncsvc.cpp:192)
20090904134653.699071 ncsvc[7837] dsncuiapi.para DsNcUiApi::~DsNcUiApi
(dsncuiapi.cpp:72)

But what kind of Authentication error is this? Certificate? I have export the
certificate in the browser from the vpn server.


Try the jnc script wit a valid cafile : it will upload the pem, and so forth.
Then try with the pem file as done in the Perl scrip jnc.
On my side, in the jnc configuration file, the certfile option does not work as
expected (I wrote to the author), while the cafile option works.
So you may try.

Jerome




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Alex Huth wrote:

Hi Jerome!

Oh, yes that's what i meant with solved the library problem:

sudo ldd /home/ahuth/.juniper_networks/network_connect/ncsvc
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7f16000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f04000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7eef000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ed8000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7eb4000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d61000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f17000)

Alex

* Jerome BENOIT schrieb:

Hello Alex !

Alex Huth wrote:

Hi!

I have Debian Lenny installed on a AMD64bit laptop. Unfortunately i can't get
a vpn connect to my companys juniper netscreen. Not via browser (Iceweasel)
and not manually. I have already solved the library problem and used the
wrapper script jnc.
When trying to execute manually i get the error message ncsvc execution
failed. Nothing written to the log.

Has anybody got it working on a 64bit machine with Lenny?

I do !

Have you check the all the required 32 bits libraries are present on your box ?

To do so:

ldd ncsvc


hth,
Jerome


Thx

Alex


Next you may try as root ncsvc directly with log_level 5 to see
if the trouble come from the script or from ncsvc itself:
For usage:

ncsvc -h



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Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd

[thveillon.debian]

Peter Crawford wrote:
> Tom,
> 
>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:19:40 +0200
>> From: thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote,
>> relates to the default "lastused = True" in wired-settings.conf, if
>> there is no "lastused" settings it fails instead of using default
>> profile (would look like a bug...). Did you try setting [lastused =] False ?
> 
> Promising but no improvement.  
> 
> DN servers are specified in wired-settings.conf 
> but wicd failed to set them. Here is 
> /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf and /var/log/wicd/wicd.log.
> 
> [wired-default]
> afterscript = None
> broadcast = 142.n.107.254
> dns3 = None
> postdisconnectscript = None
> search_domain = pathology.ubc.ca
> dns_domain = None
> lastused = False
> use_static_dns = True
> default = 1
> netmask = 255.255.255.128
> gateway = 142.n.107.254
> dns2 = 142.n.1.1
> beforescript = None
> predisconnectscript = None
> ip = 142.n.107.139
> dns1 = 137.82.1.1
> use_global_dns = False
> 

[snip logs]

> 
> When eth2 is reinstated in /etc/network/interfaces, the 
> Linksys USB200M works again.
> newton:/var/log/wicd# ifconfig eth2
> eth2  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:gd:7e:00:ff:98
>   inet addr:142.n.107.139  Bcast:142.n.107.255  Mask:255.255.255.128
>   inet6 addr: fe80::gd:7eff:fe00:ff98/64 Scope:Link
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>   RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>   
> Incidentally, I've heard of "search domain".  What 
> is dns_domain?
> 
> Any further ideas for tips?
> 
> Thanks,... p. crawford
> 

Sorry your last messages slipped through my filters.

AT this point I am running out of ideas regarding your problem, I never
had to set in such details WICD conf files, including now that I have
one laptop juggling with four wlans and one lan...

You should definitely try the wicd forum, so far I have always found the
devs helpful and reactive.

http://wicd.net/punbb/

Hope you'll find more help there.

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static ip address is being reset constantly

[John O Laoi]

> Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is  none 
> remove the network manager.
>
Thanks Frank.
Indeed there was DHCP processes running:

# ps aux | grep dhc
root  3650  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?Z08:31   0:00
[dhclient] 
root  4044  0.0  0.0   2204   608 ?S

Re: lenny & VPN (ncsvc juniper netscreen)

[Alex Huth]

OK, i see now a little bit more:

20090904134653.678992 ncsvc[7837] ncsvc.info New ncsvc log level set to 5
(nccommon.cpp:75)
20090904134653.681107 ncsvc[7837] ncsvc.info Connecting to .xx.xxx.xxx:443
(ncsvc.cpp:461)
20090904134653.686965 ncsvc[7837] dsclient.para DSClient::authenticate():
user:huth&ewmr, password:... realm:Users (dsclient.cpp:212)
20090904134653.690287 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Starting a timed
connect with SSL session 0x8db1238, proxy 0:0, and timeout 30
(http_connection.cpp:171)
20090904134653.690306 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Entering
state_start_connection (http_connection.cpp:281)
20090904134653.691264 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Entering
state_continue_connection (http_connection.cpp:298)
20090904134653.691329 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Entering
state_ssl_connect (http_connection.cpp:467)
20090904134653.698877 ncsvc[7837] dsssl.para SSL connect ssl=0x8dba0f0/sd=4
connection using cipher RC4-MD5 (DSSSLSock.cpp:470)
20090904134653.698965 ncsvc[7837] dsssl.info ive_cert_hash =
eef47e27e290be450bb5351766e4a8de, computed_hash =
3822371386517bf8a8025caab65bcfee (DSSSLSock.cpp:519)
20090904134653.698980 ncsvc[7837] http_connection.para Returning DSHTTP_ERROR
from state_ssl_connect (http_connection.cpp:482)
20090904134653.699021 ncsvc[7837] DSInet.error failed to connect to
(sa01.de.tmr.net) error 15 (dsinet.cpp:349)
20090904134653.699037 ncsvc[7837] dsclient.error unable to open URL:
(https://xxx.xx.xxx.xx/) with error -7 (dsclient.cpp:226)
20090904134653.699052 ncsvc[7837] ncapp.error Failed to authenticate with IVE.
Error 2 (ncsvc.cpp:192)
20090904134653.699071 ncsvc[7837] dsncuiapi.para DsNcUiApi::~DsNcUiApi
(dsncuiapi.cpp:72)

But what kind of Authentication error is this? Certificate? I have export the
certificate in the browser from the vpn server.

* Jerome BENOIT schrieb:
>
>
> Alex Huth wrote:
>> Hi Jerome!
>>
>> Oh, yes that's what i meant with solved the library problem:
>>
>> sudo ldd /home/ahuth/.juniper_networks/network_connect/ncsvc
>>  linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7f16000)
>>  libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f04000)
>>  libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7eef000)
>>  libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ed8000)
>>  libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7eb4000)
>>  libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d61000)
>>  /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f17000)
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> * Jerome BENOIT schrieb:
>>> Hello Alex !
>>>
>>> Alex Huth wrote:
 Hi!

 I have Debian Lenny installed on a AMD64bit laptop. Unfortunately i can't 
 get
 a vpn connect to my companys juniper netscreen. Not via browser (Iceweasel)
 and not manually. I have already solved the library problem and used the
 wrapper script jnc.
 When trying to execute manually i get the error message ncsvc execution
 failed. Nothing written to the log.

 Has anybody got it working on a 64bit machine with Lenny?
>>> I do !
>>>
>>> Have you check the all the required 32 bits libraries are present on your 
>>> box ?
>>>
>>> To do so:
>>>
>>> ldd ncsvc
>>>
>>>
>>> hth,
>>> Jerome
>>>
 Thx

 Alex
>
>
> Next you may try as root ncsvc directly with log_level 5 to see
> if the trouble come from the script or from ncsvc itself:
> For usage:
>
> ncsvc -h
>
>
>
> Jerome
>


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Re: Nvidia binary driver installation

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

o...@larstennstedt.de schreef:

  Hello,

Hello,

Next time, begin a new message and don't reply to a message already in 
the list. Now your message appears as a reply to "Re: ssh hardly usable 
after login", which probably causes many people not to read your mail.
I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver. It 
is a time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install the 
driver with apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I installed 
testing/squeeze and sid in virtual machines and was surprised that I was 
force to use module-assistant and so on. It is no problem at all.
1.) Is that the new default way of installing the nvidia driver coming 
with Squeeze or is this a temporary situation because Squeeze is still 
in testing state?
Squeeze used to have the kernel modules already compiled for 2.6.26 in 
the non-free reps, I thought. They're not yet available for the new 
2.6.30 kernel, which came in testing a few weeks ago. But, yes, I expect 
that when squeeze gets stable, there will be precompiled modules in the 
non-free reps.
2.) Is it possible to install the nvidia driver from Sid with 
module-assistant? Apt-pinning is already configured.

Yes, no problem. Same kernel anyway.

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Re: Mail server recommendation

[frank]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 11:02 +0200, Jesus arteche wrote:

> I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do
> you recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...

Depends on your needs. I like sendmail, postfix and qmail (the bad, the
weird and the ugly ;)

Frank


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Re: problem installing new packages

[Bernard]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 19:06:41 +0200, Bernard wrote:
  

Florian Kulzer wrote:


On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote:
  

Florian Kulzer wrote:


On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
  

Before the end of install process, I got
this message :

"
Configuring libc6


[...]

  

Do you want to upgrade glibc now ?
"

I replied 'no', and, so far, I have not attempted to continue this
install process of 'audacity' and the upgrade of glibc.


[...]

  

Ever since then, I am encountering problems and error messages when
trying to install something. For instance, if I do :

#apt-get install gphoto2

the install process starts... then :

"
Can't exec "locale": no file or directory of this type at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar
chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
dpkg : « ldconfig » not found in the variable PATH.
dpkg: 1 expected program not found in the variable PATH.
NB : the variable PATH of the superuser should contain
/usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)



[...]

  

new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -l libc6\* libc-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
rc libc-bin 2.9-25
un libc-dev 
ii libc6 2.7-18
ii libc6-dev 2.7-18
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18
un libc6.1 



[...]

  

Here is what I get :

file /sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig: ERROR: cannot open `/sbin/ldconfig' (No such file or directory)

dpkg -L libc6 | grep ldconfig
(it just returns the shell, nothing else)



It seems that dpkg is confused: It claims that libc6 version 2.7-18 is
installed without problems, but it does not know about /sbin/ldconfig
and the file itself is not present on your system.

  

r...@new-host:/home/bd# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin



That is OK at least.

I propose to try reinstalling libc6 2.7-18 with dpkg. The necessary .deb
file should still be in your apt cache, so this might work:

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_*.deb
  


Here is what I get :


r...@new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_*.deb
dpkg : « ldconfig » introuvable dans la variable PATH.
dpkg: 1 programme(s) attendu(s) introuvable(s) dans la variable PATH.
NB : la variable PATH du superutilisateur doit normalement contenir 
/usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.

r...@new-host:/home/bd#

Maybe I should run 'ldconfig' ?   I wouldn't dare to test this without 
more knowledge ; I wouldn't know what options and arguments to add.



If the .deb is missing then you can download it manually with your
favorite browser:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libc6

(Scroll down to the section "Download libc6" and click on the link for
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Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

[frank]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 11:51 +0100, John O Laoi wrote:

> Some daemon is resetting the NIC address to null.

Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is
none remove the network manager.

Cheers
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Re: problem installing new packages

[Bernard]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 19:06:41 +0200, Bernard wrote:
  

Florian Kulzer wrote:


On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote:
  

Florian Kulzer wrote:


On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
  

Before the end of install process, I got
this message :

"
Configuring libc6


[...]

  

Do you want to upgrade glibc now ?
"

I replied 'no', and, so far, I have not attempted to continue this
install process of 'audacity' and the upgrade of glibc.


[...]

  

Ever since then, I am encountering problems and error messages when
trying to install something. For instance, if I do :

#apt-get install gphoto2

the install process starts... then :

"
Can't exec "locale": no file or directory of this type at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar
chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
dpkg : « ldconfig » not found in the variable PATH.
dpkg: 1 expected program not found in the variable PATH.
NB : the variable PATH of the superuser should contain
/usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)



[...]

  

new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -l libc6\* libc-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
rc libc-bin 2.9-25
un libc-dev 
ii libc6 2.7-18
ii libc6-dev 2.7-18
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18
un libc6.1 



[...]

  

Here is what I get :

file /sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig: ERROR: cannot open `/sbin/ldconfig' (No such file or directory)

dpkg -L libc6 | grep ldconfig
(it just returns the shell, nothing else)



It seems that dpkg is confused: It claims that libc6 version 2.7-18 is
installed without problems, but it does not know about /sbin/ldconfig
and the file itself is not present on your system.

  

r...@new-host:/home/bd# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin



That is OK at least.

I propose to try reinstalling libc6 2.7-18 with dpkg. The necessary .deb
file should still be in your apt cache, so this might work:

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_*.deb
  


I will test this right away. Before doing this, so as to make sure I 
won't forget later, I am pasting an output below :


b...@new-host:/var/cache/apt/archives$ ls -l libc6*
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4437976 aoû 26 03:06 libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3802420 aoû 17 00:05 libc6_2.9-25_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3802602 aoû 31 19:02 libc6_2.9-26_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3377088 jan  5  2009 libc6-dev_2.7-18_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4802506 aoû 17 00:05 libc6-dev_2.9-25_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4803706 aoû 31 19:02 libc6-dev_2.9-26_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1234710 aoû 17 00:05 libc6-i686_2.9-25_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1234902 aoû 31 19:02 libc6-i686_2.9-26_i386.deb

The file dates are interresting. I have several libc6 packages. The ones 
dated aug 31 (libc6_2.9-26_i386.deb and libc6-i686_2.9-26_i386.deb) must 
be the ones that tried to get install in the process of installing 
'audacity 1.3.8 testing'. The install process clearly stated that it was 
going to update my libc6. The only package dated aug 26 must be the one 
that got installed in the process of setting up my new Lenny at that 
date ; there was no associated dev package. I don't know what are 
packages dated aug17, since it was a few days before I installed Lenny ; 
at the time I was still running Sarge and, since I did not upgrade but 
reformated and installed from scratch, I should have no remains from old 
Sarge in my system. What is puzzling me is that the package dated aug 16 
is of a newer version than the one dated aug 26. An other thing that 
come to my attention is that all of these deb package files are 'rw', 
except the first one that appears on the list, dated aug26, the date of 
my Lenny install.


This being said, I will be trying to re-install libc6. Coming back soon.

If the .deb is missing then you can download it manually with your
favorite browser:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libc6

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static ip address is being reset constantly

[John O Laoi]

Hello,
A question for networking gurus:
My ip address keeps on being set to null at my workplace.

I use my laptop at home and work.
At home, I use DHCP to get an ip address from my ISP. No problems.
At work, when I use
#dhclient eth0
it looks for  DHCP leases but finds none.

So, I have a little script which I use to set a static address (I have
been given one to use):

ifconfig eth0 XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW netmask 255.255.255.0  up

route add default gw  XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1

echo "nameserver XXX.YYY.AAA.BBB" >> /etc/resolv.conf


I run this script, but after approx 20 seconds the connection is gone
and when I run

# ifconfig eth0

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:ZZ:AA:BB:CC

  inet6 addr: fe71::205:c5ff:fecc:9284/64 Scope:Link

  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

  RX packets:5729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

  TX packets:9435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes:4332002 (4.1 MiB)  TX bytes:1830420 (1.7 MiB)

  Interrupt:18


Some daemon is resetting the NIC address to null.

I tried editing /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/init.d/networking restart.

I also ensured that my wireless was turn off.

What could be causing this?

John


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Re: Fwd: Nvidia binary driver installation

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello !



o...@larstennstedt.de wrote:

  Hello again,

sorry but I forgot to mention that I want to install the nvidia-driver 
from Sid in my testing/squeeze installation. Maybe "apt-pinning" was a hint.
 


Bye,
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Betreff: Nvidia binary driver installation

Hello,

I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver. It 
is a
time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install the 
driver with
apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I installed 
testing/squeeze and

sid in virtual machines and was surprised that I was force to use
module-assistant and so on. It is no problem at all.
1.) Is that the new default way of installing the nvidia driver coming with
Squeeze or is this a temporary situation because Squeeze is still in testing
state?
2.) Is it possible to install the nvidia driver from Sid with 
module-assistant?

Apt-pinning is already configured.

Thank you for your help!

Greetings,
Lars Tennstedt



Last week, or the week before, a discussion on the same subject
was engaged on the list: you may have a look.

hth,
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Re: lenny & VPN (ncsvc juniper netscreen)

[Jerome BENOIT]

Alex Huth wrote:

Hi Jerome!

Oh, yes that's what i meant with solved the library problem:

sudo ldd /home/ahuth/.juniper_networks/network_connect/ncsvc
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7f16000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f04000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7eef000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ed8000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7eb4000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d61000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f17000)

Alex

* Jerome BENOIT schrieb:

Hello Alex !

Alex Huth wrote:

Hi!

I have Debian Lenny installed on a AMD64bit laptop. Unfortunately i can't get
a vpn connect to my companys juniper netscreen. Not via browser (Iceweasel)
and not manually. I have already solved the library problem and used the
wrapper script jnc.
When trying to execute manually i get the error message ncsvc execution
failed. Nothing written to the log.

Has anybody got it working on a 64bit machine with Lenny?

I do !

Have you check the all the required 32 bits libraries are present on your box ?

To do so:

ldd ncsvc


hth,
Jerome


Thx

Alex



Next you may try as root ncsvc directly with log_level 5 to see
if the trouble come from the script or from ncsvc itself:
For usage:

ncsvc -h



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Re: Que servidor de correo recomendais

[Nuno Magalhães]

Hola,

Exim4 vienne con Debian, pero no uso servidores de correo. Puedes (e
debes ;) enviar un mensage en otra lista:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/

Por cierto te ajudaram mui mejor. Perdoname mi portuñol ;)

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Re: lenny & VPN (ncsvc juniper netscreen)

[Alex Huth]

Hi Jerome!

Oh, yes that's what i meant with solved the library problem:

sudo ldd /home/ahuth/.juniper_networks/network_connect/ncsvc
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7f16000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f04000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7eef000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ed8000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7eb4000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d61000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f17000)

Alex

* Jerome BENOIT schrieb:
> Hello Alex !
>
> Alex Huth wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have Debian Lenny installed on a AMD64bit laptop. Unfortunately i can't get
>> a vpn connect to my companys juniper netscreen. Not via browser (Iceweasel)
>> and not manually. I have already solved the library problem and used the
>> wrapper script jnc.
>> When trying to execute manually i get the error message ncsvc execution
>> failed. Nothing written to the log.
>>
>> Has anybody got it working on a 64bit machine with Lenny?
>
> I do !
>
> Have you check the all the required 32 bits libraries are present on your box 
> ?
>
> To do so:
>
> ldd ncsvc
>
>
> hth,
> Jerome
>
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>
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Re: Mail server recommendation

[Jochen Schulz]

Jesus arteche:
> 
> I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do you
> recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...

What exactly do you need? If all you need is an MTA, I propose Postfix
or Exim. But since you brought Zimbra into play I suspect you need more
than plain mail delivery.

So, please be more specific about what you need besides SMTP. Do you
need POP/IMAP? Calendar functions?  Shared mailboxes? Task tracking?

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[SOLVED] Lenny Backports problem

[Dale]

Hi All,

Sorry, I worked out the problem. I had testing and backports in my
sources.list running both at the sametime. As soon as I commented out
testing I got the network-manager stuff from backports correctly.

TY for your time,

Regards
Dale

2009/9/4 Juha Tuuna :
> Dale wrote:
>> ...
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be 
>> installed
>>               Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1 is to
>> be installed
>>               Breaks: lib32stdc++6 (<= 4.4.0-6) but 4.3.2-1.1 is to be 
>> installed
>> E: Broken packages
>> 
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas what going on here and how to fix it?
>> ...
>
>
> Hi, the contents of the following files might help finding the problem:
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> /etc/apt/preferences
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Re: Mail server recommendation

[Florian Kriener]

On Friday 04 September 2009 11:02:57 Jesus arteche wrote:
> I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do
>  you recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...

I had good experiences with Postfix and bad experiences with Qmail and I 
don't like Sendmail. But it boils down to this: What MDA you use should 
depend on the features you need. Other than is probably just a matter of 
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Re: lenny & VPN (ncsvc juniper netscreen)

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Alex !

Alex Huth wrote:

Hi!

I have Debian Lenny installed on a AMD64bit laptop. Unfortunately i can't get
a vpn connect to my companys juniper netscreen. Not via browser (Iceweasel)
and not manually. I have already solved the library problem and used the
wrapper script jnc.
When trying to execute manually i get the error message ncsvc execution
failed. Nothing written to the log.

Has anybody got it working on a 64bit machine with Lenny?


I do !

Have you check the all the required 32 bits libraries are present on your box ?

To do so:

ldd ncsvc


hth,
Jerome



Thx

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Re: Mail server recommendation

[Jerome BENOIT]

Jesus arteche wrote:

Hey,

I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do 
you recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...


exim ?



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Fwd: Nvidia binary driver installation

[o...@larstennstedt.de]

Hello again,

sorry but I forgot to mention that I want to install the nvidia-driver from Sid
in my testing/squeeze installation. Maybe "apt-pinning" was a hint.
 

Bye,
Lars Tennstedt



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Betreff: Nvidia binary driver installation

Hello,

I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver. It is a
time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install the driver with
apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I installed testing/squeeze and
sid in virtual machines and was surprised that I was force to use
module-assistant and so on. It is no problem at all.
1.) Is that the new default way of installing the nvidia driver coming with
Squeeze or is this a temporary situation because Squeeze is still in testing
state?
2.) Is it possible to install the nvidia driver from Sid with module-assistant?
Apt-pinning is already configured.

Thank you for your help!

Greetings,
Lars Tennstedt

Initial Installation -- Unknown Mode H 74.9KHZ V 59.9HZ Going to Sleep

[Spam Catcher]

Version: Debian 5.0.2a-i386

The Bug: Computer goes to sleep during the boot process.

During the initial boot, after the setup text has scrolled down the screen and 
just before the logon
screen should appear, I receive the message:

UNKNOWN MODE
H 74.9KHZ V 59.9HZ
GOING TO SLEEP

After the message has been on the screen for maybe ten seconds, the screen goes 
black, the computer
goes to sleep and that is all she wrote, the machine can only be awakened by 
pushing the power
button to shut it off.

I uninstalled a working version of Debian 4.0 by deleting the partition on 
which it was installed
and reinitialized the partition before performing a clean installation of 
Debian 5.0.2. This is my
third clean installation of 5.0 with the same result. The first two 
installations were performed
with two different CD's from two different downloads. This last attempt was 
done using net-install.

My machine is dual boot with Ubuntu and Puppy (Both of which work fine).

Any suggestions on how to work through the initial triage of this bug?

George



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Nvidia binary driver installation

[o...@larstennstedt.de]

Hello,

I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver. It is a
time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install the driver with
apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I installed testing/squeeze and
sid in virtual machines and was surprised that I was force to use
module-assistant and so on. It is no problem at all.
1.) Is that the new default way of installing the nvidia driver coming with
Squeeze or is this a temporary situation because Squeeze is still in testing
state?
2.) Is it possible to install the nvidia driver from Sid with module-assistant?
Apt-pinning is already configured.

Thank you for your help!

Greetings,
Lars Tennstedt 

Re: Segfaults on apt-get update

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:01:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-04 10:33 +0200, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> 
> > I'm running Sid. At some point in the last few days, I lost
> > the ability to update my packages; Synaptic, which I normally
> > use, crashes silently (even when run from the commandline),
> > and "apt-get update" segfaults midway through downloading
> > packages.
> 
> Did you notice bug #544080¹ and friends?

Not till now ;-)

Thanks, that did the trick.

Jesse Sheidlower


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Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

[Brad Rogers]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:31:44 -0500
Ron Johnson  wrote:

Hello Ron,

> That's the USA. 

Well yes, there it's explicitly stated.  However, it's the principle
that democracies are _supposed_ to be based on.

> Canada is "let's all be nice and do what the gov't tells us...".

Unfortunately, true for many other democracies, too.   :-(

Anyhow, enough politics, I think.

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Que servidor de correo recomendais

[Jesus arteche]

Hola,

Tengo que montar un servidor de correo bajo Debian en mi empresa, que
solución es la mejor para una mediana empresa, zimbra, Postfix, Qmail...Cual
recomendais?

Gracias

Mail server recommendation

[Jesus arteche]

Hey,

I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do you
recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix...

Thanks

Re: Segfaults on apt-get update

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-09-04 10:33 +0200, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> I'm running Sid. At some point in the last few days, I lost
> the ability to update my packages; Synaptic, which I normally
> use, crashes silently (even when run from the commandline),
> and "apt-get update" segfaults midway through downloading
> packages.

Did you notice bug #544080¹ and friends?

Sven


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Re: problem installing new packages

[Florian Kulzer]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 19:06:41 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> >>Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >>>On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> Before the end of install process, I got
> this message :
> 
> "
> Configuring libc6
> >>>[...]
> >>>
> Do you want to upgrade glibc now ?
> "
> 
> I replied 'no', and, so far, I have not attempted to continue this
> install process of 'audacity' and the upgrade of glibc.
> >>>[...]
> >>>
> Ever since then, I am encountering problems and error messages when
> trying to install something. For instance, if I do :
> 
> #apt-get install gphoto2
> 
> the install process starts... then :
> 
> "
> Can't exec "locale": no file or directory of this type at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
> Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar
> chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
> dpkg : « ldconfig » not found in the variable PATH.
> dpkg: 1 expected program not found in the variable PATH.
> NB : the variable PATH of the superuser should contain
> /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[...]

> >>new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -l libc6\* libc-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
> >>Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
> >>rc libc-bin 2.9-25
> >>un libc-dev 
> >>ii libc6 2.7-18
> >>ii libc6-dev 2.7-18
> >>ii libc6-i686 2.7-18
> >>un libc6.1 

[...]

> Here is what I get :
> 
> file /sbin/ldconfig
> /sbin/ldconfig: ERROR: cannot open `/sbin/ldconfig' (No such file or 
> directory)
> 
> dpkg -L libc6 | grep ldconfig
> (it just returns the shell, nothing else)

It seems that dpkg is confused: It claims that libc6 version 2.7-18 is
installed without problems, but it does not know about /sbin/ldconfig
and the file itself is not present on your system.

> r...@new-host:/home/bd# echo $PATH
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

That is OK at least.

I propose to try reinstalling libc6 2.7-18 with dpkg. The necessary .deb
file should still be in your apt cache, so this might work:

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_*.deb

If the .deb is missing then you can download it manually with your
favorite browser:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libc6

(Scroll down to the section "Download libc6" and click on the link for
 your architecture in the table.)

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lenny & VPN (ncsvc juniper netscreen)

[Alex Huth]

Hi!

I have Debian Lenny installed on a AMD64bit laptop. Unfortunately i can't get
a vpn connect to my companys juniper netscreen. Not via browser (Iceweasel)
and not manually. I have already solved the library problem and used the
wrapper script jnc.
When trying to execute manually i get the error message ncsvc execution
failed. Nothing written to the log.

Has anybody got it working on a 64bit machine with Lenny?

Thx

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Segfaults on apt-get update

[Jesse Sheidlower]

I'm running Sid. At some point in the last few days, I lost
the ability to update my packages; Synaptic, which I normally
use, crashes silently (even when run from the commandline),
and "apt-get update" segfaults midway through downloading
packages.

I Googled around for similar problems, and I tried a few
suggestions, including deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin and
increasing the cache size with 

apt-get -o APT::Cache-Limit="5000" update

or the like. None of these has been successful.

Any suggestions for what I should try next?

Thanks.

Jesse Sheidlower


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SOLVED: Re: VMI support in lenny kernel 2.6.26-2-686

[Justin The Cynical]

Justin The Cynical wrote:

Short version:

Does a stock 2.6.26-2-686 32-bit lenny kernel have vmi support compiled in?


*snip*

Figured this out today.

Apparently VMWare, in their infinite wisdom, made VMI support depend on 
the guest OS selection.  As etch (the latest supported debian version) 
didn't apparently have VMI support in the kernel, it's disabled and not 
selectable.


Adding the VMI line in the VM config file didn't work for two reasons:

If I touched the VM config via the UI, it removed the added line as long 
as it was set to debian4


I forgot to shut down the VM after making a change to the file.  Note 
for those who may wonder: Rebooting the guest alone doesn't work.


So, changing the guest OS setting to ubuntu and enabling the VMI option 
let it work and I see the correct lines in dmesg now.


I don't know if it's due to the restarts or the setting changes, but my 
load average dropped from an average of 4 to less than 2.  Will have to 
wait and see if it's stable with the setting at ubuntu (I don't know if 
that option makes any real difference, or if it does, if ubuntu is close 
enough to debian for it to work correctly).



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Re: dpkg sees packages that don't exist

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-09-02 22:25 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> I have the following output from dpkg:
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections ia32-cross\*
> ia32-crossover-games-demo   install
> ia32-crossover-gamesdemodeinstall
> ia32-crossover-pro  install
> ia32-crossover-standard install
>
> but I can't remove Crossover Standard because:
>
> $ sudo dpkg -r ia32-crossover-standard
> dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove ia32-crossover-standard which 
> isn't installed.

It seems the package has been marked for installation, but was not
actually installed.  Do you still have an entry for these packages in
your sources.list?

> How do I get dpkg to stop listing a package that it doesn't think is
> installed?

Marking the package for purge should do the trick:

# cat | dpkg --set-selections <