dvb HVR900 unable to enumerate USB device on port

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Hi,

I am using lenny stable on a server like machine where I have dvb hvr900
installed. Yesterday I had to reboot and the message below makes it unable
to use the dvb device.
I recently upgraded to lates level of updates (dbus and udev among all)

The kernel it was working with was 2.6.28. I now tried the lates kernel but
with same result.

Does anybody know a nice fix for this.

Thanks in advance.

PS: This is the message:

usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 118
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 119
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 17



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Re: [Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit]

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

2009/9/10 Ron Johnson :
> On 2009-09-09 15:55, michael wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as
>> per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably
>> updating? Thanks, M

There's always bug fixes as long as Lenny support is still available
AFAIK. If you what you meant upgrade (as in from 2.22 to 2.26), then
that is _upgrade_

>
> Updating what?  Lenny's GNOME from 2.22 to 2.26, or Lenny to Squeeze?
>
>>  Forwarded Message 
>>>
>>> From: Evolution 
>>> To: c...@networkingnewsletter.org.uk
>>> Subject: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit
>>> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:35:38 + (UTC)
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594608
>>>
>>>
>>> Akhil Laddha  changed:
>>>
>>>           What    |Removed                     |Added
>>>
>>> 
>>>             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEEDINFO
>>>                 CC|                            |lak...@novell.com
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Comment #1 from Akhil Laddha  2009-09-09 17:05:35
>>> IST ---
>>> This bug was reported against a GNOME version that is now not supported
>>> anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so
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Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

[Israel Garcia]

On 9/9/09, Ron Johnson  wrote:
> On 2009-09-09 23:30, Israel Garcia wrote:
>> On 9/9/09, Cameron Hutchison  wrote:
>>> Israel Garcia  writes:
>>>
 I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find
 a way to know remotely on every server:
 1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using.
 2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons.
 3. Version of the latest package (from deb mirros) used by these
 daemons.
 I tried to make a script but didn't resolve my problem.
>> Hi Camaron
>>
>> That's really nice. It gives what I'm looking for..BUT, I have other
>> daemons installed from source, so dpkg -S returns an error.  In my
>> case ruby. See below:
>
>
> Right after the "bin=$(readlink /proc/$pid/exe)", I'd add a check
> which checks for the string "/usr/local" inside ${bin}, then skips
> down to the end of the while loop if the string actually is in ${bin}.
Hi Ron,

Could you please add this check you're talking about  to Cameron's script :-)

Thanks
regards,
Israel.

>
>> server:~# /usr/local/bin/check.sh
>> /opt/splunk/bin/python2.6 on port 8000/tcp from package splunk
>> (version 4.0.3-65638)
>> /usr/sbin/mysqld on port 3306/tcp from package mysql-server-5.0
>> (version 5.0.51a-24+lenny2)
>> /usr/sbin/monit on port 80/tcp from package monit (version 1:5.0.3-3)
>> /usr/local/bin/ruby on port 1/tcp from package  (version
>> 3.1102.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny40.7.20.2+lenny10.7.20.2+lenny10.4.11.11-1~lenny10.60.6-16.0-0-5.12.61-81:1.10.1-31:1.4-p6-131.9.6+nogfdl-320080123.16.7.dfsg-5.15lenny43.5.203.2-42.18.1~cvs20080103-71:2.3.dfsg-58.1.2-0.20071201cvs-36.1.101:2.13.1.1-111.420070509-1.11.0.5-1200808090.4.520.48-84.7.2-12.1-1.41.3-16.10-62.9-134:4.3.2-24.3.2-1.13.0pl1-1054.6.21-111.2.1-5+lenny11.2.1-5+lenny11.5.241.5.247.0.152009.01.312.300.11.10-0.23.1.1-6+lenny33.1.1-6+lenny30.98.122.8.1-121.45-23.5.20-8+lenny12.9-12:1.02.27-42.0.301.14.251.14.251.14.251.41.3-11.41.3-10.7-30.11.4-30.11.4-31.112.7.59-94.26-14.4.0-22.5.35-62.6.0-32.6.0-34:4.3.2-24.3.2-1.11:3.1.5.dfsg-4.14:4.3.2-24.2.4-64.3.2-1.14.3.2-1.12.22.0-12.22.0-10.17-40.17-48.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny11.4.9-3+lenny11.4.9-3+lenny12.5.3~dfsg-61.18.1.1-218.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny11:8.11+u.cutted
>> here
>> /usr/sbin/sshd on port 22/tcp from package openssh-server (version
>> 1:5.1p1-5)
>> /usr/lib/postfix/master on port 25/tcp from package postfix (version
>> 2.5.5-1.1)
>> /opt/splunk/bin/splunkd on port 8089/tcp from package splunk (version
>> 4.0.3-65638)
>> /usr/sbin/sshd on port 22/tcp6 from package openssh-server (version
>> 1:5.1p1-5)
>> /usr/sbin/collectd on port 32918/udp from package collectd (version
>> 4.7.2-1)
>>
>> Ruby was compile from source, How can I modify this script to remove
>> this error or better run -v option on daemons not installed by APT.
>>
>> thanks again.
>> regards,
>> Israel.
>>
>>> Here's a script I just wrote to do what you want (it was an interesting
>>> diversion).
>>>
>>> For requirement #3, I'm not sure exactly what you wanted, so I took the
>>> easy way out. I assumed you wanted the latest version for the
>>> distribution you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list. To make the script
>>> work, run apt-get update first so that your apt-cache has the latest
>>> versions from your mirror.
>>>
>>> netstat -lntup \
>>> | awk '/^tcp/ { print $4"/"$1, $7 } /^udp/ { print $4"/"$1, $6 }'
>>> \
>>> | sed -n 's|^[^ ]*:\([^ ]*\) \([0-9]*\)/.*|\1 \2|p' \
>>> | while read port pid ; do
>>> bin=$(readlink /proc/$pid/exe)
>>> pkg=$(dpkg -S $bin | cut -d: -f1)
>>> version=$(dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Version}' $pkg)
>>> latest=$version
>>> latest=$(apt-cache show -a $pkg | grep "^Version:" | {
>>> while
>>> read x ver ; do
>>> if dpkg --compare-versions $latest lt $ver ; then
>>> latest=$ver
>>> fi
>>> done ; echo $latest; } )
>>>
>>> echo -n "$bin on port $port from package $pkg (version
>>> $version"
>>> if [ $latest != $version ] ; then
>>> echo -n ", $latest available"
>>> fi
>>> echo ")"
>>> done
>>>
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Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-09 23:30, Israel Garcia wrote:

On 9/9/09, Cameron Hutchison  wrote:

Israel Garcia  writes:


I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find
a way to know remotely on every server:
1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using.
2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons.
3. Version of the latest package (from deb mirros) used by these daemons.
I tried to make a script but didn't resolve my problem.

Hi Camaron

That's really nice. It gives what I'm looking for..BUT, I have other
daemons installed from source, so dpkg -S returns an error.  In my
case ruby. See below:



Right after the "bin=$(readlink /proc/$pid/exe)", I'd add a check 
which checks for the string "/usr/local" inside ${bin}, then skips 
down to the end of the while loop if the string actually is in ${bin}.



server:~# /usr/local/bin/check.sh
/opt/splunk/bin/python2.6 on port 8000/tcp from package splunk
(version 4.0.3-65638)
/usr/sbin/mysqld on port 3306/tcp from package mysql-server-5.0
(version 5.0.51a-24+lenny2)
/usr/sbin/monit on port 80/tcp from package monit (version 1:5.0.3-3)
/usr/local/bin/ruby on port 1/tcp from package  (version
3.1102.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny40.7.20.2+lenny10.7.20.2+lenny10.4.11.11-1~lenny10.60.6-16.0-0-5.12.61-81:1.10.1-31:1.4-p6-131.9.6+nogfdl-320080123.16.7.dfsg-5.15lenny43.5.203.2-42.18.1~cvs20080103-71:2.3.dfsg-58.1.2-0.20071201cvs-36.1.101:2.13.1.1-111.420070509-1.11.0.5-1200808090.4.520.48-84.7.2-12.1-1.41.3-16.10-62.9-134:4.3.2-24.3.2-1.13.0pl1-1054.6.21-111.2.1-5+lenny11.2.1-5+lenny11.5.241.5.247.0.152009.01.312.300.11.10-0.23.1.1-6+lenny33.1.1-6+lenny30.98.122.8.1-121.45-23.5.20-8+lenny12.9-12:1.02.27-42.0.301.14.251.14.251.14.251.41.3-11.41.3-10.7-30.11.4-30.11.4-31.112.7.59-94.26-14.4.0-22.5.35-62.6.0-32.6.0-34:4.3.2-24.3.2-1.11:3.1.5.dfsg-4.14:4.3.2-24.2.4-64.3.2-1.14.3.2-1.12.22.0-12.22.0-10.17-40.17-48.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny11.4.9-3+lenny11.4.9-3+lenny12.5.3~dfsg-61.18.1.1-218.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny11:8.11+u.cutted
here
/usr/sbin/sshd on port 22/tcp from package openssh-server (version 1:5.1p1-5)
/usr/lib/postfix/master on port 25/tcp from package postfix (version 2.5.5-1.1)
/opt/splunk/bin/splunkd on port 8089/tcp from package splunk (version
4.0.3-65638)
/usr/sbin/sshd on port 22/tcp6 from package openssh-server (version 1:5.1p1-5)
/usr/sbin/collectd on port 32918/udp from package collectd (version 4.7.2-1)

Ruby was compile from source, How can I modify this script to remove
this error or better run -v option on daemons not installed by APT.

thanks again.
regards,
Israel.


Here's a script I just wrote to do what you want (it was an interesting
diversion).

For requirement #3, I'm not sure exactly what you wanted, so I took the
easy way out. I assumed you wanted the latest version for the
distribution you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list. To make the script
work, run apt-get update first so that your apt-cache has the latest
versions from your mirror.

netstat -lntup \
| awk '/^tcp/ { print $4"/"$1, $7 } /^udp/ { print $4"/"$1, $6 }' \
| sed -n 's|^[^ ]*:\([^ ]*\) \([0-9]*\)/.*|\1 \2|p' \
| while read port pid ; do
bin=$(readlink /proc/$pid/exe)
pkg=$(dpkg -S $bin | cut -d: -f1)
version=$(dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Version}' $pkg)
latest=$version
latest=$(apt-cache show -a $pkg | grep "^Version:" | { while
read x ver ; do
if dpkg --compare-versions $latest lt $ver ; then
latest=$ver
fi
done ; echo $latest; } )

echo -n "$bin on port $port from package $pkg (version
$version"
if [ $latest != $version ] ; then
echo -n ", $latest available"
fi
echo ")"
done


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Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

[Israel Garcia]

On 9/9/09, Cameron Hutchison  wrote:
> Israel Garcia  writes:
>
>>I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find
>>a way to know remotely on every server:
>
>>1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using.
>>2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons.
>>3. Version of the latest package (from deb mirros) used by these daemons.
>
>>I tried to make a script but didn't resolve my problem.
>
Hi Camaron

That's really nice. It gives what I'm looking for..BUT, I have other
daemons installed from source, so dpkg -S returns an error.  In my
case ruby. See below:

server:~# /usr/local/bin/check.sh
/opt/splunk/bin/python2.6 on port 8000/tcp from package splunk
(version 4.0.3-65638)
/usr/sbin/mysqld on port 3306/tcp from package mysql-server-5.0
(version 5.0.51a-24+lenny2)
/usr/sbin/monit on port 80/tcp from package monit (version 1:5.0.3-3)
/usr/local/bin/ruby on port 1/tcp from package  (version
3.1102.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny42.2.9-10+lenny40.7.20.2+lenny10.7.20.2+lenny10.4.11.11-1~lenny10.60.6-16.0-0-5.12.61-81:1.10.1-31:1.4-p6-131.9.6+nogfdl-320080123.16.7.dfsg-5.15lenny43.5.203.2-42.18.1~cvs20080103-71:2.3.dfsg-58.1.2-0.20071201cvs-36.1.101:2.13.1.1-111.420070509-1.11.0.5-1200808090.4.520.48-84.7.2-12.1-1.41.3-16.10-62.9-134:4.3.2-24.3.2-1.13.0pl1-1054.6.21-111.2.1-5+lenny11.2.1-5+lenny11.5.241.5.247.0.152009.01.312.300.11.10-0.23.1.1-6+lenny33.1.1-6+lenny30.98.122.8.1-121.45-23.5.20-8+lenny12.9-12:1.02.27-42.0.301.14.251.14.251.14.251.41.3-11.41.3-10.7-30.11.4-30.11.4-31.112.7.59-94.26-14.4.0-22.5.35-62.6.0-32.6.0-34:4.3.2-24.3.2-1.11:3.1.5.dfsg-4.14:4.3.2-24.2.4-64.3.2-1.14.3.2-1.12.22.0-12.22.0-10.17-40.17-48.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny11.4.9-3+lenny11.4.9-3+lenny12.5.3~dfsg-61.18.1.1-218.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny11:8.11+u.cutted
here
/usr/sbin/sshd on port 22/tcp from package openssh-server (version 1:5.1p1-5)
/usr/lib/postfix/master on port 25/tcp from package postfix (version 2.5.5-1.1)
/opt/splunk/bin/splunkd on port 8089/tcp from package splunk (version
4.0.3-65638)
/usr/sbin/sshd on port 22/tcp6 from package openssh-server (version 1:5.1p1-5)
/usr/sbin/collectd on port 32918/udp from package collectd (version 4.7.2-1)

Ruby was compile from source, How can I modify this script to remove
this error or better run -v option on daemons not installed by APT.

thanks again.
regards,
Israel.

> Here's a script I just wrote to do what you want (it was an interesting
> diversion).
>
> For requirement #3, I'm not sure exactly what you wanted, so I took the
> easy way out. I assumed you wanted the latest version for the
> distribution you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list. To make the script
> work, run apt-get update first so that your apt-cache has the latest
> versions from your mirror.
>
> netstat -lntup \
> | awk '/^tcp/ { print $4"/"$1, $7 } /^udp/ { print $4"/"$1, $6 }' \
> | sed -n 's|^[^ ]*:\([^ ]*\) \([0-9]*\)/.*|\1 \2|p' \
> | while read port pid ; do
> bin=$(readlink /proc/$pid/exe)
> pkg=$(dpkg -S $bin | cut -d: -f1)
> version=$(dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Version}' $pkg)
> latest=$version
> latest=$(apt-cache show -a $pkg | grep "^Version:" | { while
> read x ver ; do
> if dpkg --compare-versions $latest lt $ver ; then
> latest=$ver
> fi
> done ; echo $latest; } )
>
> echo -n "$bin on port $port from package $pkg (version
> $version"
> if [ $latest != $version ] ; then
> echo -n ", $latest available"
> fi
> echo ")"
> done
>
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Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze [SOLVED]

[Jivan Amara]

   I am pretty sure that you will not even haven to use the
   workaround if
   you make the suggested change to /etc/hosts.

   Florian



   Just an update - I deleted the redundant "localhost" entry in the 
   /etc/hosts file as suggested and accepted the Tor and Privoxy upgrade, 
   keeping my original config file when asked to keep/ update.


   So far - all seems to be well.

   You were a tremendous help with this issue and I am very grateful.

   Thank you for sharing your expertise with me.

   Best wishes to you.

   AG
 



Hi guys, I just wanted to confirm the issue.  I just performed a fresh 
install.  I used a USB boot disk with the 'debian-502-i386-netinst.iso' 
image.  I then set my /etc/apt/sources.list file to use 'testing' and 
did a full safe-upgrade.  When I installed Tor and Privoxy the same 
issue was encountered and eliminating the localhost entry from the IPv6 
::1 line in /etc/hosts resolved the issue.


I don't know much about IPv6.  Who should be notified of this?  Is this 
a problem with the default /etc/hosts file or an issue with Privoxy's 
defaults?


Jivan


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Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

[Cameron Hutchison]

Israel Garcia  writes:

>I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find
>a way to know remotely on every server:

>1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using.
>2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons.
>3. Version of the latest package (from deb mirros) used by these daemons.

>I tried to make a script but didn't resolve my problem.

Here's a script I just wrote to do what you want (it was an interesting
diversion). 

For requirement #3, I'm not sure exactly what you wanted, so I took the
easy way out. I assumed you wanted the latest version for the
distribution you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list. To make the script
work, run apt-get update first so that your apt-cache has the latest
versions from your mirror.

netstat -lntup \
| awk '/^tcp/ { print $4"/"$1, $7 } /^udp/ { print $4"/"$1, $6 }' \
| sed -n 's|^[^ ]*:\([^ ]*\) \([0-9]*\)/.*|\1 \2|p' \
| while read port pid ; do
bin=$(readlink /proc/$pid/exe)
pkg=$(dpkg -S $bin | cut -d: -f1)
version=$(dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Version}' $pkg)
latest=$version
latest=$(apt-cache show -a $pkg | grep "^Version:" | { while 
read x ver ; do
if dpkg --compare-versions $latest lt $ver ; then
latest=$ver
fi
done ; echo $latest; } )

echo -n "$bin on port $port from package $pkg (version $version"
if [ $latest != $version ] ; then
echo -n ", $latest available"
fi
echo ")"
done


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Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:05:27PM +1000, Ross Peachey wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian
> during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure
> mode.
> 
> The following doesn't work:
> 
> * hdparm -r1 
> * mount -o ro,remount /

does it fail because you have open files.

the only other way is to take apart the initrd and force the root fs to
a mount -o ro




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looking for packages versions of running daemons

[Israel Garcia]

I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find
a way to know remotely on every server:

1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using.
2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons.
3. Version of the latest package (from deb mirros) used by these daemons.

I tried to make a script but didn't resolve my problem.

Can you help me?

thanks  a lot

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Re: que bbdd es mejor para sustituir a microsoft

[Ruben Varela]

Jesus,
te recomiendo que envies esto al mailing list en español.
El email es, debian-user-span...@lists.debian.org
Ahi somos muchos los que leemos y tambien los que escriben.


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2009/9/9 Jesus arteche 

> Hola,
>
> Estoy intentando migrar una aplicación que tira contra una base de datos
> que esta en SQL Server, alguien podría darme una idea como migrarla algún
> software en debian...postgresql o mysqly cual seria mejor...es una base
> datos relativamente grande y en la que se realizan consultas y escrituras
> con bastante frecuencia...vamos que tiene mucha carga...
>
> un saludo.
>

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

[Kelly Clowers]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:52, Rick Thomas  wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Mark wrote:
>
>> Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in -- i.e.
>>> not a module.
>>> Does this make it impossible to turn off IPv6?  Or am I missing
>>> something...
>>
>> Had the same issue a while back already, but after a quick google search I
>> found something that was similar to what I did then.
>>
>> alias net-pf-10 off
>> alias ipv6 off
>>
>> Those two, and jam them in a /etc/modprobe.d/00ipv6disable or something
>> along those lines. Don't forget to reboot.
>
> Interestingly,
>
> This didn't work on the Squeeze system, but it worked fine on a Lenny system
> running a stock Lenny 2.6.26-2 kernel, which seems to have been generated
> with ipv6 as a module.

[reformated to bottom post, please don't top post]

That is beacuse those two lines go in /etc/modprobe.d/ which deals with
modules (module probe). So they have no effect when it is not a module.

> Equally interestingly,
>
> The Lenny system had no file called /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/disable_ipv6
>
> Is this new with 2.6.30 (Squeeze) kernels?  Or is it a feature of having
> ipv6 compiled in?

That I don't know.


Cheers,
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Re: How to install updated terminfo entry in home directory?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:00:08PM +0200, Otto Maddox wrote:
> I have been having DEL/delete/backspace problems, the cause of which I
> have traced to the following bug report:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319554
> 
> In summary, version 5.5-5 of libncurses5 (and libncurses5-dev) is
> installed on this system, it has an incorrect terminfo entry for
> xterm-color, and I have no superuser privileges to upgrade it.
> 
> Can somebody please tell me how I can get the latest Debian-compatible
> terminfo entry for xterm-color and install it in my home directory?

ncurses manpage describes TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables
which override ncurses' search for terminal descriptions.

Setting TERMINFO, you can override tic's target for installing updated
terminal descriptions.

infocmp provides a copy of a terminal description which can be edited.

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Re: cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

[Chris Davies]

Mitchell Laks  wrote:
> I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. 

> I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message
> vpnc: response was invalid [1]:  (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7)
> which I cannot figure out the cause for.
> any ideas on   how to handle that?

I /think/ it's due to the server wanting you to change your initial
password. In the end I found I needed to use the Windows CISCO client
to do that bit, and since then I've had no problems using vpnc instead.


> If I do a command such as 'ps aux' from a shell account, then i get
> only 2 lines of output and the shell freezes.

This is on the remote system? Lower your MTU and restart the connection.

Chris


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Re: Uninstall debian

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:05:42 Richard_Felicity wrote:
> Thank you Simon but how do I uninstall debian??

You don't.  You install a different OS which will replace Debian.

If you want to take Debian (really GRUB) out of the boot process, you can 
zero-out your MBR.  Something like:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
should do that.

Neither of these actions will be much help if you can't figure out how to boot 
from CD.
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Re: nameserver during install

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-09 15:50, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Is there any reason why the installer shouldn't contain its own 
nameserver?  It's certainly possible for a Linux system to do its own 
nameserving, so why shouldn't the istaller?  It would remove one step 
that's tricky for beginners from the installation process.


Because neither desktops nor most servers really/rarely need a local 
DNS daemon.


And how can one discover what nameserver one's Linux system is actually 
using?


Usually, look in /etc/resolv.conf from package resolvconf.

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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Elimar Riesebieter  [2009.09.09.2249 +0200]:
> > I don't understand. mutt has no business with $@ or $[0-9], but
> > I think you are probably hit by #545876. Does the patch fix it for
> > you?
> 
> No.

I'll need more information then. Maybe you can isolate the entire
argument line passed to mailto-mutt (e.g.
"mailto:f...@bar.com?cc=a@b.com&subject=bla…) and let me know? The
best way to get that is probably by substituting a script that just
calls   echo "$@" > /tmp/file

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Re: [Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit]

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-09 15:55, michael wrote:

Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as
per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably
updating? Thanks, M


Updating what?  Lenny's GNOME from 2.22 to 2.26, or Lenny to Squeeze?


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From: Evolution 
To: c...@networkingnewsletter.org.uk
Subject: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:35:38 + (UTC)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594608


Akhil Laddha  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEEDINFO
 CC||lak...@novell.com


--- Comment #1 from Akhil Laddha  2009-09-09 17:05:35 IST ---
This bug was reported against a GNOME version that is now not supported
anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so


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[Fwd: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit]

[michael]

Okay, I'm being a bit dense this year, but given that gnome/evo 2.22 (as
per Lenny on AMD64) isn't supported how would I go about reliably
updating? Thanks, M

 Forwarded Message 
> From: Evolution 
> To: c...@networkingnewsletter.org.uk
> Subject: [Bug 594608] hangs on exit
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:35:38 + (UTC)
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594608
> 
> 
> Akhil Laddha  changed:
> 
>What|Removed |Added
> 
>  Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEEDINFO
>  CC||lak...@novell.com
> 
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Akhil Laddha  2009-09-09 17:05:35 IST 
> ---
> This bug was reported against a GNOME version that is now not supported
> anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so
> unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By
> upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new
> functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a
> newer version of GNOME.
> 
> The current stable GNOME and Evolution version is 2.26.
> Please check if the problem you reported here still occurs with a recent
> version of GNOME by reporting back which exact version you tested against"
> 
> Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed for
> your version.
> 
> Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE in 6 weeks.
> 


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nameserver during install

[Hendrik Boom]

Is there any reason why the installer shouldn't contain its own 
nameserver?  It's certainly possible for a Linux system to do its own 
nameserving, so why shouldn't the istaller?  It would remove one step 
that's tricky for beginners from the installation process.

And how can one discover what nameserver one's Linux system is actually 
using?

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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* martin f krafft [090909 20:29 +0200]
> also sprach Elimar Riesebieter  [2009.09.09.1918 +0200]:
> > This is somewhat overscripted from madduck ;-) The faxt is, that my
> > mutt (hg version from Mutt 1.5.20+lxtecppc (2009-08-04) doesn't
> > interpret neither $@ nor $[0-9]. I'll get over to mutt-dev with
> > this.
> 
> I don't understand. mutt has no business with $@ or $[0-9], but
> I think you are probably hit by #545876. Does the patch fix it for
> you?

No.

Elimar

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Re: why does a minimal lenny install want to use LILO as the bootloader?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   since i saved the output from "dpkg --get-selections" from the
> previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood
> that i could do a bare-bones install, then use "dpkg
> --set-selections" to reproduce the package selection and install.
>
>   so, just for fun, i deselected every selection in the package
> groups list, and now i'm being asked about where i want to install
> LILO. why?  if you choose to do a minimal install, is grub somehow
> considered too fancy or optional?  that's just weird.  would
> selecting one of those choices give me the grub option back again?

  wait, i might have the answer, here:

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2008-08/msg02319.html

except that i *did* make a separate, primary partition for /boot --
/dev/hda1, right at the front of the hard drive.  does it have to be
bootable?  is that what i might have forgotten?

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why does a minimal lenny install want to use LILO as the bootloader?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  since i saved the output from "dpkg --get-selections" from the
previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood that
i could do a bare-bones install, then use "dpkg --set-selections" to
reproduce the package selection and install.

  so, just for fun, i deselected every selection in the package groups
list, and now i'm being asked about where i want to install LILO.
why?  if you choose to do a minimal install, is grub somehow
considered too fancy or optional?  that's just weird.  would selecting
one of those choices give me the grub option back again?

rday
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Re: df/du shows big difference of used space

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-09 13:10, Mike Castle wrote:

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclasw wrote:

I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted.
Different commands shows different usage:

As root, from root directory:
df -m
Filesystem   1M-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted
on
/dev/mapper/d   1390840   128452535665  98% /

That is 1284G used of 1391G which would be like 92%!
Not 98%
Why does it say 98%


Traditionally, 5% of every file system is reserved for root to do with
as it pleases.  In some filesystem (particularly older ones), all
sorts of things could go wonky whenever the system got 100% full.


Not only that, but "df -m" reports power-of-2, but "du -sh" reports 
power-of-10.


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Re: during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install
> > and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV
> > partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var).  at this point, it doesn't seem
> > like i can back up and manually modify that LVM partitioning scheme.
> > do i need to start the install over again?  any attempt i make to
> > modify the LV layout tells me that the "lenny503" (my chosen VG name)
> > volume group is already in use.  so ... restart install?
>
> Isn't it maximum 2 minutes to reach that point in the install process?
> If yes, why don't you just start over?

  but even when i restarted, i was still having trouble finding where
to do the manual config.  but i eventually worked it out, so i'm fine.

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Re: Internet interface problem

[Florian Kriener]

Let me ask this first, as it is quite important: Do you have internet by 
chance? My guess is that you do, seeing that you use Thunderbird under 
X11.

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 20:28:00 LM--- wrote:
> > Situation # 1
> > KNetworkConf (in KDE ConfigCentre – Network parameters) does show
> >  eth0 _alone_ , but it is not given any IP address (although DHCP
> > is the preselectioned IP detection mode); nothing changes before
> > detection is restarted by deactivating then reactivating the
> > interface in this module. Situation #2
> > knetworkmanager, the applet I installed to ease connection and
> > deconnection to the network, is as much “confused”; after KDE
> > starts it “runs empty” can't/won't connect to any interface for
> > about 20 seconds, to finally systematically choose the wrong one:
> > “usb0”
> 
> I don't know that tool and I would not trust it. But did you by
>  chance install the network-manager? dpkg -l network-manager will
>  tell you.
> 
> --> Yes it is installed.

Okay, read the manual, read what it does and check if that is of help to 
you.

> > This confirms what I see under KDE:
> > something (what?) makes the system (which element, routine, module,
> > programme, package?) choose the wrong interface “usb0”.
> >
> > How to solve this problem? This is the whole headache here!
> >
> > My other problem is, I don't really know which other tests to carry
> >  out to find out which setting I have to try with which programme,
> >  routine or module or else... - before thinking of filling any bug
> >  report for a particular package...
> 
> Please check if you have network-manager installed. You could also
>  try `ip addr` and the like.
> 
> --> What is `ip addr`? Can you explain?

The ip util is the new kid on the block, replacing ifconfig/route/etc. 
again, read the manual.


> > BEGIN---
> > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your
> > system # and how to activate them. For more information, see
> > interfaces(5).
> >
> > # The loopback network interface
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> > address 127.0.0.1
> > netmask 255.0.0.0
> >
> > # The primary network interface
> > allow-hotplug eth0
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> > auto eth0
> >
> > END---
> >
> > I've had five versions and none worked as I wished...
> 
> Did you try commenting out allow-hotplug eth0?
> 
> --> Yes, that is gone in my present /etc/network/interfaces file.

Okay, then you probably know, that network-manager does not meddle with 
your eth0 anymore.


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Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

[Rick Thomas]

Interestingly,

This didn't work on the Squeeze system, but it worked fine on a Lenny  
system running a stock Lenny 2.6.26-2 kernel, which seems to have been  
generated with ipv6 as a module.


Equally interestingly,

The Lenny system had no file called /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/ 
disable_ipv6


Is this new with 2.6.30 (Squeeze) kernels?  Or is it a feature of  
having ipv6 compiled in?


Very curious!

Rick

On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Mark wrote:


Rick Thomas wrote:
The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in --  
i.e. not a module.
Does this make it impossible to turn off IPv6?  Or am I missing  
something...


Had the same issue a while back already, but after a quick google  
search I found something that was similar to what I did then.


alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Those two, and jam them in a /etc/modprobe.d/00ipv6disable or  
something along those lines. Don't forget to reboot.


An other option is to build your own kernel, or fix the ipv6 setup  
(DNS issue maybe?)


,Mark



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Re: during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install
> and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV
> partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var).  at this point, it doesn't seem
> like i can back up and manually modify that LVM partitioning scheme.
> do i need to start the install over again?  any attempt i make to
> modify the LV layout tells me that the "lenny503" (my chosen VG name)
> volume group is already in use.  so ... restart install?
>
>
>   

Isn't it maximum 2 minutes to reach that point in the install process?
If yes, why don't you just start over?



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Re: Uninstall debian

[Tim Tebbit]

Richard_Felicity wrote:

Hello,
Thank you Simon but how do I uninstall debian??

Richard



You don't. You wipe a disk or partition table and start from scratch.


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RE: Uninstall debian

[Richard_Felicity]

Hello,
Thank you Simon but how do I uninstall debian??

Richard

-Original Message-
From: Simon Paillard [mailto:simon.paill...@resel.enst-bretagne.fr] 
Sent: September 9, 2009 2:48 PM
To: Richard_Felicity
Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Uninstall debian

Hello,

debian-www list is about the Debian website.
Please use debian-user list for support (about Debian should I precise ?
-)

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:19:27PM -0400, Richard_Felicity wrote:
> I need to uninstall debian from an old Compaq Deskpro to use on another
> project. However I don't seem to be able to and the Deskpro ignores any
> attempt to boot Windows from CD. I have set the CD as the first Boot
device
> using F10 at start up but it doesn't have any effect - debian boots up
> anyway from the hard drive.

Well, Debian is not loaded at the moment you attempt to boot from the
Windows CD.
It's up to your BIOS to boot on the CD.

Certainly this CD is not bootable.

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Re: fixing ulimit -n at system level ?

[Javier Barroso]

Hi,
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
 wrote:
>
> In <4aa76c0d.8080...@esiee.fr>, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> >Is there a way to fix at bootup for all users the ulimit -n statement
> >(lenny) ?
>
> Yes.

More specificly, maybe in /etc/security/limits.conf ?
>
> >The default value is ridiculously 1024
>
Why do you want more open files ? Why is it ridiculous?

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Re: Uninstall debian

[Simon Paillard]

Hello,

debian-www list is about the Debian website.
Please use debian-user list for support (about Debian should I precise ?
-)

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:19:27PM -0400, Richard_Felicity wrote:
> I need to uninstall debian from an old Compaq Deskpro to use on another
> project. However I don't seem to be able to and the Deskpro ignores any
> attempt to boot Windows from CD. I have set the CD as the first Boot device
> using F10 at start up but it doesn't have any effect - debian boots up
> anyway from the hard drive.

Well, Debian is not loaded at the moment you attempt to boot from the
Windows CD.
It's up to your BIOS to boot on the CD.

Certainly this CD is not bootable.

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Re: Internet interface problem

[LM---]

Hello Florian, hello everyone,



On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:03:04 LM--- wrote:



And then, I don't know why, once the booting process is over and I
 log in, everything goes wrong...

- Under KDE:
Situation # 1
KNetworkConf (in KDE ConfigCentre – Network parameters) does show
 eth0 _alone_ , but it is not given any IP address (although DHCP is
 the preselectioned IP detection mode); nothing changes before
 detection is restarted by deactivating then reactivating the
 interface in this module. Situation #2
knetworkmanager, the applet I installed to ease connection and
deconnection to the network, is as much “confused”; after KDE starts
 it “runs empty” can't/won't connect to any interface for about 20
 seconds, to finally systematically choose the wrong one: “usb0”


I don't know that tool and I would not trust it. But did you by chance 
install the network-manager? dpkg -l network-manager will tell you.


--> Yes it is installed.




This confirms what I see under KDE:
something (what?) makes the system (which element, routine, module,
programme, package?) choose the wrong interface “usb0”.

How to solve this problem? This is the whole headache here!

My other problem is, I don't really know which other tests to carry
 out to find out which setting I have to try with which programme,
 routine or module or else... - before thinking of filling any bug
 report for a particular package...


Please check if you have network-manager installed. You could also try 
`ip addr` and the like.


--> What is `ip addr`? Can you explain?




PS Here is the contents of the first /etc/network/interfaces file
 (the one generated at install)

BEGIN---
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth0

END---

I've had five versions and none worked as I wished...


Did you try commenting out allow-hotplug eth0?

--> Yes, that is gone in my present /etc/network/interfaces file.


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during install, how can i back out of my LVM configuration?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install
and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV
partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var).  at this point, it doesn't seem
like i can back up and manually modify that LVM partitioning scheme.
do i need to start the install over again?  any attempt i make to
modify the LV layout tells me that the "lenny503" (my chosen VG name)
volume group is already in use.  so ... restart install?

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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Elimar Riesebieter  [2009.09.09.1918 +0200]:
> This is somewhat overscripted from madduck ;-) The faxt is, that my
> mutt (hg version from Mutt 1.5.20+lxtecppc (2009-08-04) doesn't
> interpret neither $@ nor $[0-9]. I'll get over to mutt-dev with
> this.

I don't understand. mutt has no business with $@ or $[0-9], but
I think you are probably hit by #545876. Does the patch fix it for
you?

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Re: df/du shows big difference of used space

[Chris Jackson]

Mike Castle wrote:


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclasw wrote:

I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted. ...



Traditionally, 5% of every file system is reserved for root to do with
as it pleases. ...



Additionally, depending on what filesystem you're using, you may have a 
journal on there.


If you're using ext3, dumpe2fs  will tell you how big that is.

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Re: df/du shows big difference of used space

[Mike Castle]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclasw wrote:
> I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted.
> Different commands shows different usage:
>
> As root, from root directory:
> df -m
> Filesystem   1M-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted
> on
> /dev/mapper/d   1390840   128452535665  98% /
>
> That is 1284G used of 1391G which would be like 92%!
> Not 98%
> Why does it say 98%

Traditionally, 5% of every file system is reserved for root to do with
as it pleases.  In some filesystem (particularly older ones), all
sorts of things could go wonky whenever the system got 100% full.

Depending on the filesystem you're using, you can view or change that
reservation, though you may not really want to.

> du -sh *
> adds up to about 933G
>
> So the question is why the big difference of used space between df and du
>
> du shows 933G used
> df shows 1284G used
>
> Can anyone explain the big difference, 350G, of used disk space between du
> and df commands?

Two things.

First, your du -sh * misses . files/directories.  Depending on what's
going on, that could be significant.  I always use [du -sh .] myself.
Well, strictly speaking, the . isn't necessary (at least with GNU df,
not sure about others any more), but my fingers have been using that
for years and it's ingrained.

Second, on unix-like systems, it's possible to have a file open and
deleted.  It's common to do that with temp files, for instance.   It
could be that some process is running that still has a large file
open, but there's no corresponding file name to find for du to find
and account for, but df knows is still taking up space.

Tools like lsof may help in cases like that.  It has options to show
deleted files.  Though, personally, I tend to do something like:
ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep deleted

Mostly, because I learned that before lsof was written and I've never
really bothered to learn the ins and outs of lsof.

mrc


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df/du shows big difference of used space

[niclasw]

I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted.
Different commands shows different usage:

As root, from root directory:
df -m
Filesystem   1M-blocks  Used Available Use% 
Mounted on

/dev/mapper/d   1390840   128452535665  98% /

That is 1284G used of 1391G which would be like 92%!
Not 98%
Why does it say 98%

du -sh *
adds up to about 933G

So the question is why the big difference of used space between df and du

du shows 933G used
df shows 1284G used

Can anyone explain the big difference, 350G, of used disk space between 
du and df commands?


/Niclas



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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* green [090909 07:51 -0500]
> Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-09 01:10 -0500:
> > * green  09.09.2009
> > > Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-08 15:11 -0500:
> > > > * Michael Wagner  08.09.2009
> > > > > * Elimar Riesebieter  04.09.2009
> > > > > > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript
> > > > 
> > > > Apart from my other message you can also make it like this:
> > > > 
> > > > settings -> apps -> mailto -> /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

This is somewhat overscripted from madduck ;-) The faxt is, that my
mutt (hg version from Mutt 1.5.20+lxtecppc (2009-08-04) doesn't
interpret neither $@ nor $[0-9]. I'll get over to mutt-dev with
this.

Thanks you all
EOT

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Re: debian testing libdrm2 and fglrx - 2D operations extremely slow

[Kelly Clowers]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 09:49, ein gedanke wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> does anybody run the combination debian testing + fglrx graphics drivers?
>
> I have the problem that when I upgrade libdrm2 to the version from the
> testing repos, the 2D operations like moving and resizing of windows
> are becoming extremely slow. For now (since weeks) I have to keep the
> stable libdrm2 version, because this one works perfectly.
>
> Any idea if this a bug or do I need to tweek some settings?
>
> My graphics card is a ATI Mobility Radeon 2400 HD.

Do you need 3D? If not, you might try the Radeon driver.
I never used the fglrx driver, so I can't help there.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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debian testing libdrm2 and fglrx - 2D operations extremely slow

[ein gedanke]

Hello everybody,


does anybody run the combination debian testing + fglrx graphics drivers?

I have the problem that when I upgrade libdrm2 to the version from the
testing repos, the 2D operations like moving and resizing of windows
are becoming extremely slow. For now (since weeks) I have to keep the
stable libdrm2 version, because this one works perfectly.

Any idea if this a bug or do I need to tweek some settings?

My graphics card is a ATI Mobility Radeon 2400 HD.


Greetings,
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Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

[Rick Thomas]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Mark wrote:


suggesting disabling the ipv6 module in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf



Rick Thomas wrote:

Sadly, it was a good idea but it didn't work.
Apparently, having the module compiled in prevents any of the  
modprobe stuff from having any effect on it.

However, Kelly gave me a pointer that led me to the right fix.


Yeah, I noticed.
I don't think this is a debian stock kernel tho..

lsmod |grep ipv[4-6]
(incase the ipv5 virus is spreading :P)

Jokes aside.. I got a feeling this is a hand made kernel, the ipv6  
bit has (to what I could find in the change logs) not been jammed in  
the kernel itself.


X11 is annoyed with ya for having ipv6 support, but dropping the  
traffic at the kernel.. it does not understand what happend. X11 has  
"native"ipv6 support (so it seems).


Give us a uname -a for the fun of it.

,Mark




If X11 is upset by turning off ipv6 at the kernel, why does it work  
with "eth0" but not with "all" ??!!


And why is there no "DISPLAY" variable in the shell environment?



It's not a self-made kernel.  I got it from the "testing" repo just a  
couple of weeks ago.


lsmod | grep ipv

gives nothing.

Note that we have "CONFIG_IPV6=y"   not  "=m" in the config file...

Curiouser and curiouser!

Rick
==
rbtho...@frogpond:~$ uname -a
Linux frogpond 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 18:09:19 UTC 2009  
x86_64 GNU/Linux



rbtho...@frogpond:~$ grep -i ipv6 /boot/config-2.6.30-1-amd64
CONFIG_IPV6=y
CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY=y
CONFIG_IPV6_ROUTER_PREF=y
CONFIG_IPV6_ROUTE_INFO=y
CONFIG_IPV6_OPTIMISTIC_DAD=y
CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6=y
CONFIG_IPV6_SIT=m
CONFIG_IPV6_NDISC_NODETYPE=y
CONFIG_IPV6_TUNNEL=m
CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES=y
CONFIG_IPV6_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IPV6_PIMSM_V2=y
# CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 is not set
# IPv6: Netfilter Configuration
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6=m
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_IPV6HEADER=m



rbtho...@frogpond:~$ aptitude -vv show linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 2.6.30-6
Priority: optional
Section: kernel
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team 
Uncompressed Size: 86.5M
Architecture: amd64
Compressed Size: 24.9M
Filename: pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.30-1- 
amd64_2.6.30-6_amd64.deb

MD5sum: 3fa2c05b8d94af7668abdbbadd22996e
Archive: testing
Depends: module-init-tools, initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>=  
0.0.13) | linux-initramfs-tool

PreDepends: debconf | debconf-2.0
Suggests: linux-doc-2.6.30, grub | lilo
Conflicts: initramfs-tools (< 0.55), yaird (< 0.0.13)
Provides: linux-image, linux-image-2.6, linux-modules-2.6.30-1-amd64
Description: Linux 2.6.30 image on AMD64
 This package provides the binary image and pre-built loadable  
modules for Linux kernel 2.6.30 on all 64bit single- and

 multiprocessor AMD and Intel machines.

 This kernel also runs on a Xen hypervisor.  It supports only  
unpriviledged (domU) operation.



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Lenny Missing glx module

[Curt Howland]

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Hi. I've been having problems with my ati graphics, and tried the 
proprietary drivers from AMD without success. However, when I went 
back to the pre-compiled drivers available in Lenny, video sucked 
even worse.

It seems in my attempt to take out the precompiled drivers to try the 
ones from AMD, and then back, the "glx" module was lost:

/var/log/Xorg.o.log:
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)

Here are a couple of package searches that seemed appropriate, to see 
if anything was obviously missing:

# dpkg -l | grep glx
ii  fglrx-glx   1:8-12-4 proprietary libGL for the non-free 
AMD/ATI r
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx 7.0.3-7  A free implementation of the OpenGL 
API -- G

# dpkg -l | grep mesa
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri 7.0.3-7 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- 
D
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx 7.0.3-7 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- 
G
ii  libglu1-mesa7.0.3-7 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  mesa-utils  7.0.3-7 Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities

The various mesa utilities all report "extension "GLX" missing on 
display ":0.0"" which is kind of obvious. But they worked the first 
time I installed the non-free fglrx drivers.

I've looked for "missing dependencies" and found nothing obviously 
missing, and apt would (I expect) have pointed out a gross error, so 
obviously the missing glx driver isn't obvious.

Or at least not obvious to me.

Any suggestions as to packages I should have that I can verify?

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Re: Internet interface problem

[Florian Kriener]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:03:04 LM--- wrote:
> [...]
>
> _The_ _problem_ :
> 
> The selection of the eth0 interface, into which the DSL cable coming
> from the router is plugged does not take place. The system
> “automatically” chooses usb0, which is not wired – unless I interfere
> manually.
> 
> 
> _Description_ _of_ _facts_ :
> 
> During booting, everything seems to go fine: I can read (as I always
> read under etch, which is still on my desktop) the following:
> DHCPOFFER from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
> DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
> bound to xxx(IP address of the "right" interface, eth0)xxx - renewal
>  in . seconds
> done

Looks good. You should be able to ping at least xxx.xxx.x.xxx (DHCPACK 
from ...).
 
> And then, I don't know why, once the booting process is over and I
>  log in, everything goes wrong...
> 
> - Under KDE:
> Situation # 1
> KNetworkConf (in KDE ConfigCentre – Network parameters) does show
>  eth0 _alone_ , but it is not given any IP address (although DHCP is
>  the preselectioned IP detection mode); nothing changes before
>  detection is restarted by deactivating then reactivating the
>  interface in this module. Situation #2
> knetworkmanager, the applet I installed to ease connection and
> deconnection to the network, is as much “confused”; after KDE starts
>  it “runs empty” can't/won't connect to any interface for about 20
>  seconds, to finally systematically choose the wrong one: “usb0”

I don't know that tool and I would not trust it. But did you by chance 
install the network-manager? dpkg -l network-manager will tell you.

> - Under command line:
> if I go to the command line with tty1 --> log in --> turn to root -->
>  to enter instruction "ifconfig -a" , in the first 20 seconds I get
>  this:
> 
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:b3:eb:d8:02
>  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>  RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>  collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
>  RX bytes:1913 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:8587 (8.3 KiB)
> 
> loLink encap:Boucle locale
>  inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
>  adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
>  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>  RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>  collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
>  RX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)  TX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)
> 
> usb0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5e:cd:b5:00:88:c4
>  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>  collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
>  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> 
> and later I get that:
> 
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:b3:eb:d8:02
>  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>  RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>  collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
>  RX bytes:2033 (1.9 KiB)  TX bytes:8587 (8.3 KiB)
> 
> loLink encap:Boucle locale
>  inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
>  adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
>  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>  RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>  collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
>  RX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)  TX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)
> 
> usb0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5e:cd:b5:00:88:c4
>  inet adr:169.254.91.233  Bcast:169.254.255.255 
>  Masque:255.255.0.0 adr inet6: fe80::5ccd:b5ff:fe00:88c4/64
>  Scope:Lien
>  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  TX packets:0 errors:16 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>  collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
>  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


That IP is probably just fine and a zeroconf address (rfc3927), most 
definitely from avahi-autoipd and does not harm nor help. However, it's 
quite strange that your eth0 does not have an ip address.

> This confirms what I see under KDE:
> something (what?) makes the system (which element, routine, module,
> programme, package?) choose the wrong interface “usb0”.
> 
> How to solve this problem? This is the whole headache here!
> 
> My other problem is, I don't really know which other tests to carry
>  out to find out which setting I have to try with which programme,
>  routine or module or else... - before thinking of filling any bug
>  report for a particular package...

Please check if you have network-manager installed. You could also try 
`ip addr` and the l

Re: saving package info for a fresh reinstall

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/debian_notes_cheat_sheets.html#get_and_o
>r_set_list%20_of_installed_packages
>
>but as i read that, i saw references to the two commands:
>
>  debconf-get-selections
>  debconf-set-selections
>
>yet i see only the first of those two on this system (the set
>variation).  that seems odd -- i can't find the first one.  am i
>missing something obvious?

b...@monster:~$ dpkg -S debconf-get-selections
debconf-utils: /usr/share/man/fr/man1/debconf-get-selections.1.gz
debconf-utils: /usr/bin/debconf-get-selections
debconf-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/debconf-get-selections.1.gz
debconf-utils: /usr/share/man/ru/man1/debconf-get-selections.1.gz
debconf-utils: /usr/share/man/de/man1/debconf-get-selections.1.gz

Probably just the debconf-utils package.
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Re: fixing ulimit -n at system level ?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <4aa76c0d.8080...@esiee.fr>, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>Is there a way to fix at bootup for all users the ulimit -n statement
>(lenny) ?

Yes.

>The default value is ridiculously 1024

If you think this is not a sane default, you should probably file a bug.
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Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 19:05:27 +1000, Ross Peachey wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian
> during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure
> mode.
> 
> The following doesn't work:
> 
> * hdparm -r1 
> * mount -o ro,remount /

I suspect that the second command fails because you did not specify both
the device and the directory. AFAIK, only the complete form will make
mount ignore an rw option given in /etc/fstab:

mount -o ro,remount /dev/foo /

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Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Lisi Reisz schreef:
> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 17:19:35 Wayne Topa wrote:
>> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 16:33:00 John Hasler wrote:
 Sjoerd writes:
> Yes, but the point of this questin is:
> $ eject -i
> eject: invalid option -- i
 "-i" takes an argument.  man eject
>>> 
>>> COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
>>>
>>>
>>> -h
>>>  This option causes eject to display a brief description of the command
>>> options.
>>> -v
>>>  This makes eject run in verbose mode; more information is displayed
>>> about what the command is doing.
>>> -d
>>>  If invoked with this option, eject lists the default device name.
>>> -a on|1|off|0
>> Running squeeze with eject version 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6
>>
>> man eject
>> -i on|1|off|0
>>   This option controls locking of the hardware  eject  button.  When
>> enabled, the drive will not be ejected when the button is pressed.
>> This is useful when you are carrying a laptop in a bag or case and
>> don't want it to eject if the button is inadvertently pressed.
>>
>> What version are you quoting from?
>
> Lenny - see Teemu's Email that crossed with mine.
Indeed I found the option now in squeeze. I sent my mail yesterday from
an old ubuntu, there it was not available.

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Internet interface problem

[LM---]

Hello everyone,

Here is what has been giving me (a 15 months-old user of 
Debian-GNU-Linux) a headache since I installed Lenny over two months ago.
I also sport, as you can guess, KDE 3.5.10, any other version numbers of 
programs involved I will let you know if you wish – that's as much for 
software.


As far as hardware is concerned this desktop has an "Ethernet Pro 100 
Intel Corp." NIC (which as far as I can make out is called throughout 
“eth0”) AND a combo card USB/FireWire "Genesis Logic Inc." (which as far 
as I can make out is called throughout “usb0”).



_The_ _problem_ :

The selection of the eth0 interface, into which the DSL cable coming 
from the router is plugged does not take place. The system 
“automatically” chooses usb0, which is not wired – unless I interfere 
manually.



_Description_ _of_ _facts_ :

During booting, everything seems to go fine: I can read (as I always 
read under etch, which is still on my desktop) the following:

DHCPOFFER from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
bound to xxx(IP address of the "right" interface, eth0)xxx - renewal in  
. seconds

done

And then, I don't know why, once the booting process is over and I log 
in, everything goes wrong...


- Under KDE:
Situation # 1
KNetworkConf (in KDE ConfigCentre – Network parameters) does show eth0 
_alone_ , but it is not given any IP address (although DHCP is the 
preselectioned IP detection mode); nothing changes before detection is 
restarted by deactivating then reactivating the interface in this module.

Situation #2
knetworkmanager, the applet I installed to ease connection and 
deconnection to the network, is as much “confused”; after KDE starts it 
“runs empty” can't/won't connect to any interface for about 20 seconds, 
to finally systematically choose the wrong one: “usb0”


- Under command line:
if I go to the command line with tty1 --> log in --> turn to root --> to 
enter instruction "ifconfig -a" , in the first 20 seconds I get this:


eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:b3:eb:d8:02
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:1913 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:8587 (8.3 KiB)

loLink encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
RX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)  TX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)

usb0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5e:cd:b5:00:88:c4
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

and later I get that:

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:b3:eb:d8:02
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:2033 (1.9 KiB)  TX bytes:8587 (8.3 KiB)

loLink encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
RX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)  TX bytes:3500 (3.4 KiB)

usb0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5e:cd:b5:00:88:c4
inet adr:169.254.91.233  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Masque:255.255.0.0
adr inet6: fe80::5ccd:b5ff:fe00:88c4/64 Scope:Lien
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:16 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

This confirms what I see under KDE:
something (what?) makes the system (which element, routine, module, 
programme, package?) choose the wrong interface “usb0”.


How to solve this problem? This is the whole headache here!

My other problem is, I don't really know which other tests to carry out 
to find out which setting I have to try with which programme, routine or 
module or else... - before thinking of filling any bug report for a 
particular package...


If you have ideas, I would be very thankful (if you need other 
information, let me know, I'll get it for you).


Thanks very much in advance.

Ludo


PS Here is the contents of the first /etc/network/interfaces file 

saving package info for a fresh reinstall

[Robert P. J. Day]

  hi, i want to save all my package info off to the side and do a
re-install of lenny so i can restructure my logical volumes.  (i
realize i can do that manually with the various lvm commands but given
how much i want to move things around, and that this install is still
on a new server which isn't being used yet so i have no data to save,
it's just easier to reinstall).

  i can see the idea of using dpkg with --get-selections and
--set-selections, and googling showed me this:

http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/debian_notes_cheat_sheets.html#get_and_or_set_list%20_of_installed_packages

but as i read that, i saw references to the two commands:

  debconf-get-selections
  debconf-set-selections

yet i see only the first of those two on this system (the set
variation).  that seems odd -- i can't find the first one.  am i
missing something obvious?

  in any event, if i have little configuration information to
preserve, what's the simplest recipe to save my pkg info, then restore
it after a really basic fresh install?  thanks.

rday
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Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

[green]

Ross Peachey wrote at 2009-09-09 04:05 -0500:
> Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian
> during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure
> mode.

> Also, the host is running as a Xen virtual machine, so I can't do
> anything on the hardware side.
> 
> Given that the filesystem is set to remount read-only if an error is
> detected, one option would be to deliberately generate a filesystem
> error, but not sure exactly how to achieve this either.

You might want to look into Documentation/fault-injection in the linux-2.6 
kernel source.  I have never used it, nor have I used Xen, but perhaps that is 
what you are needing.


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

[green]

Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-09 01:10 -0500:
> * green  09.09.2009
> > Michael Wagner wrote at 2009-09-08 15:11 -0500:
> > > * Michael Wagner  08.09.2009
> > > > * Elimar Riesebieter  04.09.2009
> > > > > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript
> > > 
> > > Apart from my other message you can also make it like this:
> > > 
> > > settings -> apps -> mailto -> /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt
> > 
> > But this won't work in Lenny... mutt 1.5.18-6 does not seem to include that 
> > file.
> 
> You are right, it's only included in unstable "mutt (1.5.20-2)", but the 
> OP wrote that he works with "iceweasel 3.5" which is in experimental. So 
> I thought a solution for unstable is ok.

Indeed.  I suppose there are many people here who run Lenny and use mutt and 
iceweasel; that note was for their benefit so they need not look for a file 
which does not exist (like I did).


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Re: configuring lenny networking

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

Oguz Altun wrote:

Hi,

I was using a guest lenny VirtualBox as my personal web server. 
Apache, mysql, etc... No X, no Gnome, KDE etc. Everthing was fine. The 
host pc was windows. I had a new pc and so moved lenny virtualbox to 
it by copying virtual harddisks, and VirtualBox's xml files, etc.


In the new environment, Lenny boots fine, but can not connect to 
internet. When I was installing Lenny the first time, I entered DNS ip 
myself, and it got an ip by dhcp. I can't see how I can do the same 
procedure without reinstalling.


As there is no internet, apt-get is useless.

So do you guys know how I should proceed?

Thanks...




Let me understand. You now have a physical machine, running lenny, it 
has a network cable connected to it, and you don't have internet?

If that's the case, then:

(assuming 192.168.1.50 is a free IP address in your LAN, and 
192.168.1.100 is the IP of your local router LAN ip address)


# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0
# route add default gw 192.168.1.100

and then edit /etc/resolv.conf  giving this as the first line:
nameserver 192.168.1.100

after that, you should have internet...





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configuring lenny networking

[Oguz Altun]

Hi,

I was using a guest lenny VirtualBox as my personal web server. Apache, 
mysql, etc... No X, no Gnome, KDE etc. Everthing was fine. The host pc 
was windows. I had a new pc and so moved lenny virtualbox to it by 
copying virtual harddisks, and VirtualBox's xml files, etc.


In the new environment, Lenny boots fine, but can not connect to 
internet. When I was installing Lenny the first time, I entered DNS ip 
myself, and it got an ip by dhcp. I can't see how I can do the same 
procedure without reinstalling.


As there is no internet, apt-get is useless.

So do you guys know how I should proceed?

Thanks...


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Re: cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

[Mitchell Laks]

On 09:04 Sun 06 Sep , Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. 
> 
> I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message
> vpnc: response was invalid [1]:  (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7)
> which I cannot figure out the cause for.
> any ideas on   how to handle that?
> 
> 

I had to comment out the line
#IKE Authmode hybrid
and match the MTU of my tun0 device
to that setup for the cisco router
then it worked fine

> and so I am using the  proprietary cisco vpnclient which is pretty bad.
> 1. it wont work on my dual core  amd64 machine, it connects and freezes
> 2. while it does work on a regular single core amd64 machine, it does not 
> work well.

forget the cisco client...
does  not work with with dual core amd64 machine
> 
> If I do a command such as 
> ps aux
> from a shell account, then i get only 2 lines of output and the shell freezes.
> 
> if i do 
> ps aux>outuput
> then if I do
> less output
> i can see maybe 13 lines of output then it freezes.

match the MTU will solve this here.
> 
> if i do 
> emacs anyfillename it now also freezes
> although yesterday it actually put me into an emacs 
> and i was able to edit.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> Mitchell
> 
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Re: Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

[Jochen Schulz]

Please don't top-post.

Umarzuki Mochlis:
>
> I also want to know if there's any to tool to convert ms sql db to
> postgres or mysql.

Didn't you look at the existing documentation?

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Converting_from_other_Databases_to_PostgreSQL

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autossh

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi,

I am having issue with autossh host, I get

autossh[13221]: checking for grace period, tries = 0
autossh[13221]: starting ssh (count 1)
autossh[13221]: ssh child pid is 13224
autossh[13221]: check on child 13224
autossh[13221]: set alarm for 600 secs
autossh[13224]: execing /usr/bin/ssh

My Autossh setting in my .bashrc are as  below

export AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0
export AUTOSSH_POLL=100
export AUTOSSH_PORT=20020
export AUTOSSH_DEBUG=1

When i test by disconnecting and reconnecting the internet, It takes
10mins to prompt for a password. Can this time interval be reduced ?

Thanks,

Kaushal


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Re: Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

I also want to know if there's any to tool to convert ms sql db to
postgres or mysql.

2009/9/9 Jesus arteche :
> Hello,
>
> I want to change my database in ms sql server to some database en debian,
> someone knows how can i do it, or give me some step about how to start. Its
> a relative big database, and the write and read frecuency is a kind high.
>
> Thanks
>



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Re: Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-09 04:32, Jesus arteche wrote:

Hello,

I want to change my database in ms sql server to some database en debian,
someone knows how can i do it, or give me some step about how to start. Its
a relative big database, and the write and read frecuency is a kind high.



Look into PostgreSQL.  http://www.postgresql.org/

It's in Debian, it's a *real* RDBMS (as opposed to that toy MySQL), 
there's *excellent* documentation, active mailing lists full of very 
intelligent people, and a lot of companies willing to consult.


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Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-09 04:05, Ross Peachey wrote:

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian
during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure
mode.

The following doesn't work:

* hdparm -r1 
* mount -o ro,remount /

Also, the host is running as a Xen virtual machine, so I can't do
anything on the hardware side.

Given that the filesystem is set to remount read-only if an error is
detected, one option would be to deliberately generate a filesystem
error, but not sure exactly how to achieve this either.

Any pointers or assistance would be greatly appreciated.


"ro" is a valid option in /etc/fstab.

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Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

[Jesus arteche]

Hello,

I want to change my database in ms sql server to some database en debian,
someone knows how can i do it, or give me some step about how to start. Its
a relative big database, and the write and read frecuency is a kind high.

Thanks

que bbdd es mejor para sustituir a microsoft

[Jesus arteche]

Hola,

Estoy intentando migrar una aplicación que tira contra una base de datos que
esta en SQL Server, alguien podría darme una idea como migrarla algún
software en debian...postgresql o mysqly cual seria mejor...es una base
datos relativamente grande y en la que se realizan consultas y escrituras
con bastante frecuencia...vamos que tiene mucha carga...

un saludo.

Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation

[Ross Peachey]

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian
during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure
mode.

The following doesn't work:

* hdparm -r1 
* mount -o ro,remount /

Also, the host is running as a Xen virtual machine, so I can't do
anything on the hardware side.

Given that the filesystem is set to remount read-only if an error is
detected, one option would be to deliberately generate a filesystem
error, but not sure exactly how to achieve this either.

Any pointers or assistance would be greatly appreciated.


Kind Regards,
Ross.




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Re: Compilation from source

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-09-09 02:50, Ashutosh Sharma wrote:

Hello all

Is there and documentaion for cross compiling complete debian system from
source ?



Did you try Googling "debian cross compile"?

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Re: apache on debian

[Nuno Magalhães]

After upgrading my php-cgi to 5.2.10-2.2 both apache and nginx stopped
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fixing ulimit -n at system level ?

[Frank Bonnet]

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Hello

Is there a way to fix at bootup for all users the ulimit -n statement
(lenny) ?

The default value is ridiculously 1024

Thanks

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Re: Untangling print management with CUPS

[Michael Zoet]

>
> So how do I get (Debian) CUPS clients printing to a Debian CUPS server
> send off jobs to the CUPS server and forget about it, like other print
> spoolers?  Once it's sent to the remote system, I shouldn't need to be
> tethered to the network.
>

I do not know if all this is possible with CUPS but as far as I know CUPS
can be configured in many ways ;-). For this I had to read in the CUPS
manuals.

Speaking of CUPS configuration: it would be best if you provide some
detailed infos about your CUPS configuration in /etc/cups on your server
and clients. This way you might get better answers!

Michael


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Re: VNC on server

[Chris Davies]

Bhasker C V  wrote:
> I do not want to put iptables
> to block input and then watch people see the port as filtered
> instead of closed.

Use REJECT instead of DROP
Chris


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Untangling print management with CUPS

[Paul Johnson]

This kind of rambles a little bit, as I'm trying to solve a few minor
issues involving print management.  I've noticed with using CUPS to
manage my printer, there's two unique things going on when it comes to
print job queueing.

1) Print jobs from Windows get sent to the remote CUPS server
immediately, as long as the remote queue is accepting jobs.

2) Print jobs from CUPS clients stay in the local queue on the client
until the CUPS server is ready for it.

I would like CUPS clients to act more like the Windows clients.  That
is, if the CUPS client isn't paused, attempt to send the whole job to
the remote queue (and if the remote queue isn't available, automatically
pause) and let the server worry about it exclusively.  I see this as
solving two problems for me:

1) I want to be able to come home from class, send queued jobs from my
laptop to my print server, and as soon as the local queue is empty, stop
it and take off back to campus while the print server is still working
on committing those jobs to paper.  My fiancee would also like to have
similar offline printing capabilities.

2) Centralize print management.  I would like to be able to stop the
printer while still accepting jobs on the server, and have CUPS clients
not complain that the printer is stopped.  Just send the print jobs and
let the server worry about it if it's still accepting jobs, I don't care
if the client is entirely unaware of the print job once it's sent to the
server.  Eventually, I'd like to set hourly restrictions on this (since
one of our printers is extremely loud, it would be nice to stop that
printer at 10PM and start it at 6AM while still accepting jobs for the
next day at night).

So how do I get (Debian) CUPS clients printing to a Debian CUPS server
send off jobs to the CUPS server and forget about it, like other print
spoolers?  Once it's sent to the remote system, I shouldn't need to be
tethered to the network.


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Compilation from source

[Ashutosh Sharma]

Hello all

Is there and documentaion for cross compiling complete debian system from
source ?


Regards,

Ashutosh Sharma