Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

[Javier Barroso]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:31 AM, hadi motamedi  wrote:
> Dear All
> Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I set my Debian server to
> be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times each day ? Please be
> informed that my Debian server version is read as "/proc/version : Debian
> 1:3.3.5-13" and I need it to be automatically rebooted at 2:00 A.M. each day
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=reboot+daily+linux&l=1

Please search in google or any other search engine before asking (this
is a rule in this list) ...

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Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

[hadi motamedi]

Dear All
Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I set my Debian server to
be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times each day ? Please be
informed that my Debian server version is read as "/proc/version : Debian
1:3.3.5-13" and I need it to be automatically rebooted at 2:00 A.M. each day
.
Let me thank you in advance

libc6 upgrade: invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/-query not found.

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

Hi all,

I am running into this issue, there is the solution.
Just for archival purpose.

http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-18679-view-previous.html
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Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

[Alexander Kaphuk]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 14:32:32 Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
  

I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of
'xrandr'.
The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768.



Video card?
  

nVidia GeForce G 103M.


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[OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

[Javier Vasquez]

Hi,

Sorry to ask specially through this list...

I've been a linux user for around 10 years now, however lately some
800MHz Coppermine machines are not performing as well as they used to.

What I've read in this same list in the past, is that for the purpose
of still not letting them die, using openBSD, or perhaps freeBSD, is
the way to go.

However I was looking for benchmarks, or some data that would support
that idea.  The only benchmarks based on data I found, are pretty old,
and pretty much based on networkin/servers, such as:

http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability

I don't use a desktop manager, but still use X with window manager
(fluxbox has been my choice for all these years).

If any one could share pointers to more up to date benchmarks, which
are as well oriented not just to networking and servers, it'd be
great.  The idea is to find data supporting the initial idea of
freeBSD or openBSD providing better performance for old machines...
Well, that might be a wrong assumption to start with, but that's what
I've read...

Thanks,

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Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

[brian]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Alex Samad wrote:

can I suggest probably the easiest way to check is get a latest live  
cd

and boot from there, they normally have the newest kernels on them



Yes !!! Problem solved. I am the proud owner of a Sid, or squeeze (?),  
installation.


I'd like to take a little time to explain what I did for those who  
fall into a similar situation.



I used this iso (The sid distro appears to use the 2.6.30 kernel):

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

Overall I find the linking to all of the different versions somewhat  
confusing.  For example there is a link to weekly builds

which points to  a directory tree which does not have anything in it.

The problem is that getting the right vmlinuz and initrd.gz is  
important and I can't remember where I got them, because of all

the confusing links.  I'm pretty sure it was from here:

/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media

I used the sysconfig method on a flash stick, which was very easy and  
worked exactly as appears in the installation

instructions.

Now here's the really important part:

I HAD TO UNPLUG THE POWER TO THE MOTHERBOARD.

Unbelievably the ethernet hardware seems to have gotten stuck and  
power off-on using the power button did NOT fix it.  The fact
that the ethernet could stay in such a state really points to how bad  
a job someone did on the design of  either the

motherboard or the LAN chip hardware.

The key to this problem, which I was slow to realize, was that lspci  
did NOT show the LAN pci device.


So I physically disconnected power, plugged it back in, and booted  
using the prepared filesystem.


Held my breath and the ethernet was detected !

Strangely the system seems to be referring to "squeeze" instead of sid  
(?).



Well, that was a pain :-(

I don't know whether one of my other install attempts would have  
worked had I realized that
the power needed to be physically disconnected.  I have seen this  
behavior on another computer and what is highly
coincidental is that it was also the ethernet which was having a  
problem on that computer.


I have had some hiccups and have noticed that several times when re- 
starting the installation I have to unplug the power.
Ah, quality Intel hardware.  Well at least it _mostly_ worked out  
of the box...


Brian






There seems to be a lack of coherent information about this stupid
chipset.

realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on
again.  Intel is about to join that list too.

Intel's web page for the board says that Ubuntu 8.10 works with the
"native" drivers.  8.10 is ancient, and is probably the
same vintage as Lenny, right ? So this thing should already be  
working.




Any help _greatly_ appreciated (as you can tell by the time :-)


I was up late goofing around with this.  Linux, still the same after
all these years :-(

Brian





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Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

[shampavman.cg]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
  

Hi,
I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the
output of 'xrandr'.
The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768.
I'd appreciate anyone suggesting how to go about it.



without spending all day relearning how to do it, the basic procedure
is to specify a new mode. 


You can do this dynamically through xrandr at the command line. Read
the manpage for instructions on how to specify a new mode. I believe
it looks similar to the old ModeLine stuff from xorg.conf. Once you've
successfully added the mode through xrandr, you can select it and test
it out. If that works, then you'll want to take the mode line
specification and put it into xorg.conf to make it available to X on
startup. 
  

I would like to add a few issues i've been facing...
I see that by default I can set up a resolution as high as 1280x 
,
But for some reason the refresh rate for that resolution is not 
available and the monitor starts flickering... So im stuck with 1024x768..

Anyway I can increase the resolution and yet not see flickering?


There are a couple of modeline calculators available on the net, and
I'm pretty sure there is one available in the standard repo, but I
don't recall the name. 


hopefully that is enough to get you headed towards a solution.

A
  



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Re: Re: sun-java6-plugin on amd64

[jagginess]

jagginess wrote:

Alex Samad wrote:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:58:44PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
 

I can't seem to get the Java6 plugin working on my 64-bit
testing/unstable system. I have the following installed:

sun-java6-bin   install
sun-java6-jre   install
sun-java6-plugininstall

The Sun JVM seems to be the system default:

$ update-alternatives --display java
java - manual mode
 link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
/usr/bin/gij-4.2 - priority 42
/usr/bin/gij-4.3 - priority 43
/usr/bin/gij-4.4 - priority 1044
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061
 slave java.1.gz: 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java - priority 1043
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/java.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.

and yet Iceweasel steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the java6 
plugin in

about:plugins. Has anyone actually gotten the 64-bit java6 plugin to
work, and if so, what is the missing incantation?




update-alternatives --display  iceweasel-javaplugin.so
iceweasel-javaplugin.so - manual mode
 link currently points to
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so - priority 63
 Current `best' version is
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so.

  
alex, your current one isn't pointing to sun's.. note the "gcj" in the 
plugin name means it isn't from sun..
todd, try to confirm if you have similarly what alex has, but of 
course make sure your link is about the javaplugin..


as a quick test, you can use in the url box-> "about:plugins"


^ yikes -- i dont know how that passed me.. it says 'current best 
version'.. so it must be pointing to sun's..




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Re: sun-java6-plugin on amd64

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:55:34PM -0500, jagginess wrote:
> Alex Samad wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:58:44PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> >>I can't seem to get the Java6 plugin working on my 64-bit
> >>testing/unstable system. I have the following installed:
> >>
> >>sun-java6-bin   install
> >>sun-java6-jre   install

[snip]

> >>and yet Iceweasel steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the java6 plugin in
> >>about:plugins. Has anyone actually gotten the 64-bit java6 plugin to
> >>work, and if so, what is the missing incantation?
> >
> >
> >update-alternatives --display  iceweasel-javaplugin.so
> >iceweasel-javaplugin.so - manual mode
> > link currently points to
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so - priority 63
> > Current `best' version is
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so.
> >
> alex, your current one isn't pointing to sun's.. note the "gcj" in
> the plugin name means it isn't from sun..

yes true, must have done a gcj update recently always seems to point
back to there

> todd, try to confirm if you have similarly what alex has, but of
> course make sure your link is about the javaplugin..
> 
> as a quick test, you can use in the url box-> "about:plugins"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: weird networking issue on lenny!

[Michael Wagner]

* Tom H  11.11.2009
 
[snipped 260 lines]

> Network Manager must be the culprit.

You have quoted 260 lines and your answer was one sentence still at the
end of the mail. Next time quote only the things which are necessary
for someone else, who read your mail at google for example.

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Re: sun-java6-plugin on amd64

[jagginess]

Alex Samad wrote:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:58:44PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
  

I can't seem to get the Java6 plugin working on my 64-bit
testing/unstable system. I have the following installed:

sun-java6-bin   install
sun-java6-jre   install
sun-java6-plugininstall

The Sun JVM seems to be the system default:

$ update-alternatives --display java
java - manual mode
 link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
/usr/bin/gij-4.2 - priority 42
/usr/bin/gij-4.3 - priority 43
/usr/bin/gij-4.4 - priority 1044
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java - priority 1043
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/java.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.

and yet Iceweasel steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the java6 plugin in
about:plugins. Has anyone actually gotten the 64-bit java6 plugin to
work, and if so, what is the missing incantation?




update-alternatives --display  iceweasel-javaplugin.so
iceweasel-javaplugin.so - manual mode
 link currently points to
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so - priority 63
 Current `best' version is
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so.

  
alex, your current one isn't pointing to sun's.. note the "gcj" in the 
plugin name means it isn't from sun..
todd, try to confirm if you have similarly what alex has, but of course 
make sure your link is about the javaplugin..


as a quick test, you can use in the url box-> "about:plugins"






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Re: sun-java6-plugin on amd64

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:58:44PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I can't seem to get the Java6 plugin working on my 64-bit
> testing/unstable system. I have the following installed:
> 
> sun-java6-bin   install
> sun-java6-jre   install
> sun-java6-plugininstall
> 
> The Sun JVM seems to be the system default:
> 
> $ update-alternatives --display java
> java - manual mode
>  link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
> /usr/bin/gij-4.2 - priority 42
> /usr/bin/gij-4.3 - priority 43
> /usr/bin/gij-4.4 - priority 1044
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061
>  slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63
>  slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java - priority 1043
>  slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/java.1.gz
> Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.
> 
> and yet Iceweasel steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the java6 plugin in
> about:plugins. Has anyone actually gotten the 64-bit java6 plugin to
> work, and if so, what is the missing incantation?


update-alternatives --display  iceweasel-javaplugin.so
iceweasel-javaplugin.so - manual mode
 link currently points to
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so - priority 63
 Current `best' version is
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so.



  ls-l  /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/
  total 0
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2008-07-29 20:49 libjavaplugin.so ->
  /etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2009-08-28 07:33 mozplugger.so ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-qt.so ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-rm.so ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in.so ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2008-07-13 08:54 mplayerplug-in.xpt ->
  ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2008-11-19 07:50 npfreewrl.so ->
  ../../mozilla-firefox/plugins/npfreewrl.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2008-11-19 07:50 vrml.jar ->
  ../../mozilla-firefox/plugins/vrml.jar
> 

it works for me

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Re: port forwarding without using ssh

[green]

Zhang Weiwu wrote at 2009-11-10 20:36 -0600:
> Hello. I have a remote server inside a remote office covered by NAT
> masquerade where port forwarding not possible, and a local server in my
> local office not covered by NAT masquerade. In order to access the
> remote office and hosts in that office, I do this:
> 
> On remote office server, in a screen session I run
> $ ssh -R   local_server
> 
> On my own office, I try to connect to mapped ports on local_server.
> 
> The problem of this solution is security. I do not want to grant shell
> access of local_server to remote_server. What would you recommend me to
> do in this case? I could try to limit access of the account used by
> remote server ssh -R, but should I?

You might want to check out apf-server and apf-client packages.  I use these to 
provide access between masqueraded systems using an intermediary system.  
Server runs on the intermediary and client on the system to be connected to.  
System connected _from_ connects to client through a port on the server.


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Re: weird networking issue on lenny!

[Michael Pobega]

On  0, Zachary Uram  wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I just did fresh install of lenny, I have a DSL modem and run a static
> IP setup so I manually set up my route (DHCP was enabled by default)
> by killing the dhclient process and then setting up /etc/resolv.conf
> and /etc/network/interfaces and doing "/etc/init.d/networking restart"
> and  it went fine, but suddenly after 30 minutes I suddenly lost
> internet connectivity and here is what I saw then:
>
> zu22  3623  0.0  0.3 193952 13388 ?S12:14   0:01 > 
>   nm-applet --sm-disable
>

Mixing /etc/init.d/networking and nm-applet generally causes a lot of problems.
Pick one and stick with it.

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radeon/radeonhd issues with xen domU

[Dan McClung]

I have been trying to export my ATI HD4350 graphics card to a domU. 

The device is blocked in Dom0 using pciback along with a few other
devices and is visible in DomU. All other pci devices work fine. 

I first tried the radeonhd driver version 1.2.5 (needed to run the newer
version from testing to support the 4350 card). 

The tail end of the Xorg.0.log showed the following errors:
(--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an RV710 on an unidentified card
(II) RADEONHD(0): Mapped IO @ 0xfdee to 0xb7a8b000 (size 0x0001)
(II) RADEONHD(0): PCIE Card Detected
(EE) RADEONHD(0): Cannot allocate 0 bytes of memory for BIOS image
(II) RADEONHD(0): Query for AtomBIOS Init: failed
(**) RADEONHD(0): Using AtomBIOS for All
(EE) RADEONHD(0): No AtomBIOS image found but required for AtomBIOS
based mode setting
(II) RADEONHD(0): Query for AtomBIOS Teardown: failed
(II) UnloadModule: "radeonhd"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When starting X, the display would flash 3 times. 

I tried using the radeon driver, and received the following error in the
Xorg log:

(--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an RV710 on an unidentified card
(II) RADEONHD(0): Mapped IO @ 0xfdee to 0xb7a8b000 (size 0x0001)
(II) RADEONHD(0): PCIE Card Detected
(EE) RADEONHD(0): Cannot allocate 0 bytes of memory for BIOS image
(II) RADEONHD(0): Query for AtomBIOS Init: failed
(**) RADEONHD(0): Using AtomBIOS for All
(EE) RADEONHD(0): No AtomBIOS image found but required for AtomBIOS
based mode setting
(II) RADEONHD(0): Query for AtomBIOS Teardown: failed
(II) UnloadModule: "radeonhd"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Strangely enough, installing the proprietary drivers from ATI will allow
DomU to start up up and some applications will function but utilities
like flgrxinfo will error out. The end result was not stable.

Has anyone been able to get this to work? Any hints or ideas?

My goal is to run a mythtv frontend on the server, but would like to
keep it in a DomU so it does not interfere with other server operations.

Any help would be much appreciated. 

General info:

DomU kernel version (matches Dom0):
Linux version 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (Debian 2.6.26-19lenny2)
(da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian
4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 23:23:33 UTC 2009

DomU cmdline:
root=/dev/xvda1 ro console=hvc0 swiotlb=force quiet

xorg.conf:
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool,
using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades
*only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically
updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
Driver  "kbd"
Option  "XkbRules"  "xorg"
Option  "XkbModel"  "pc104"
Option  "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI"
Driver  "radeonhd"
BusID   "PCI:0:1:0"
EndSection

#Section "Monitor"
#   Identifier  "Configured Monitor"
#EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "Default Screen"
#   Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection


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sun-java6-plugin on amd64

[Todd A. Jacobs]

I can't seem to get the Java6 plugin working on my 64-bit
testing/unstable system. I have the following installed:

sun-java6-bin   install
sun-java6-jre   install
sun-java6-plugininstall

The Sun JVM seems to be the system default:

$ update-alternatives --display java
java - manual mode
 link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
/usr/bin/gij-4.2 - priority 42
/usr/bin/gij-4.3 - priority 43
/usr/bin/gij-4.4 - priority 1044
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java - priority 1043
 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/java.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.

and yet Iceweasel steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the java6 plugin in
about:plugins. Has anyone actually gotten the 64-bit java6 plugin to
work, and if so, what is the missing incantation?

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Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-11 17:15:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
> > resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
> > This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the
> > output of 'xrandr'.
> > The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768.
> > I'd appreciate anyone suggesting how to go about it.
> 
> without spending all day relearning how to do it, the basic procedure
> is to specify a new mode. 
> 
> You can do this dynamically through xrandr at the command line. Read
> the manpage for instructions on how to specify a new mode. I believe
> it looks similar to the old ModeLine stuff from xorg.conf. Once 
> you've successfully added the mode through xrandr, you can select it 
> and test it out. If that works, then you'll want to take the mode 
> line specification and put it into xorg.conf to make it available to 
> X on startup. 

Before doing that, take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/
xorg.conf, and see why the modes aren't available.  If they're all 
disabled due to "out of range", look at the "Configured Monitor" lines, 
and possibly edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf "Monitor" section to broaden the 
range(s) (but don't exceed the manufacturer's specs!  If the laptop 
display vertical range is 60 - 60, then perhaps 59 - 61 will fix it).


> There are a couple of modeline calculators available on the net, and
> I'm pretty sure there is one available in the standard repo, but I
> don't recall the name. 

I see that cvt and gtf are in Lenny.


> hopefully that is enough to get you headed towards a solution.
> 
> A

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Re: debian source.list

[jagginess]

Ravi wrote:

Hi List,

I am new to Debian (in fact using Debian 4.0 "etch" version), I have 
been fighing to have a valid source.list, when I try to run apt-get 
update I most of the time servers are not found..and not able to 
upgrade to some of the pacakges on my box.

Could somebody help here please?

Regards
Ravi


Try adding lenny repos in sources.list, apt-get update, then apt-get 
dist-upgrade, then try apt-get upgrade..


After you succesfully upgrade, see if you can use apt-get autoremove, 
and then comment out all etch entries in sources.list.



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Re: Console Font Size?

[jagginess]

Thomas H. George wrote:

What is the relation between consolechars, charset and the
/etc/console-tools/config file?  


On boot up the console characters are hard to read without glasses.
The command consolechars -d changes to a very bold font.
The man page for charset indicates the default font is cp427 or iso01.
The entries in /etc/console-tools/config set APP_CHAR_MAP=utf8 and
SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold16

After experimenting I edited /etc/console-tools/config to change the
line 


SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold16

to

SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold32x16

which gave me a console font I can read without glasses.

This works for me but I am left wondering about the different options.

Tom


  
You may like to reverse the settings to their defaults and first try 
vga=ask (append to kernel boot line in grub config file).
Once you find the vga= option you like, you can then set it like this-> 
vga=0x (eg: if you typed 317 it would be vga=0x317).


This sets up the textual console resolution. You can then check out if 
you need further refinement with the character sets..





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Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
> resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
> This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the
> output of 'xrandr'.
> The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768.
> I'd appreciate anyone suggesting how to go about it.

without spending all day relearning how to do it, the basic procedure
is to specify a new mode. 

You can do this dynamically through xrandr at the command line. Read
the manpage for instructions on how to specify a new mode. I believe
it looks similar to the old ModeLine stuff from xorg.conf. Once you've
successfully added the mode through xrandr, you can select it and test
it out. If that works, then you'll want to take the mode line
specification and put it into xorg.conf to make it available to X on
startup. 

There are a couple of modeline calculators available on the net, and
I'm pretty sure there is one available in the standard repo, but I
don't recall the name. 

hopefully that is enough to get you headed towards a solution.

A


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Re: weird networking issue on lenny!

[Tom H]

> I just did fresh install of lenny, I have a DSL modem and run a static
> IP setup so I manually set up my route (DHCP was enabled by default)
> by killing the dhclient process and then setting up /etc/resolv.conf
> and /etc/network/interfaces and doing "/etc/init.d/networking restart"
> and  it went fine, but suddenly after 30 minutes I suddenly lost
> internet connectivity and here is what I saw then:
>
> # route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>
> As you can see there is no longer a routing table!
>
> # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:1d:2c:a0:78
>          inet6 addr: fe80::224:1dff:fe2c:a078/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:114835 errors:0 dropped:15769089116 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:66868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:169505917 (161.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4876501 (4.6 MiB)
>          Interrupt:253
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)
>
> As you can see my "inet addr" is now gone!
>
> Here are the processes running:
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         1  0.0  0.0  10312   748 ?        Ss   12:12   0:00 init [2]
> root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [kthreadd]
> root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [migration/0]
> root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
> root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [watchdog/0]
> root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [migration/1]
> root         7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:01 [ksoftirqd/1]
> root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [watchdog/1]
> root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [events/0]
> root        10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [events/1]
> root        11  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [khelper]
> root        46  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [kblockd/0]
> root        47  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [kblockd/1]
> root        49  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [kacpid]
> root        50  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 
> [kacpi_notify]
> root       132  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 
> [ksuspend_usbd]
> root       138  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [khubd]
> root       141  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [kseriod]
> root       194  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:12   0:00 [pdflush]
> root       195  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:12   0:00 [pdflush]
> root       196  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:01 [kswapd0]
> root       197  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [aio/0]
> root       198  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [aio/1]
> root       731  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [ata/0]
> root       734  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [ata/1]
> root       735  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:12   0:00 [ata_aux]
> root       827  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
> root       828  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
> root       829  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
> root       830  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
> root      1018  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_4]
> root      1019  0.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:02 [usb-storage]
> root      1171  0.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:02 [kjournald]
> daemon    2354  0.0  0.0   8020   532 ?        Ss   12:13   0:00 /sbin/portmap
> statd     2365  0.0  0.0  10136   764 ?        Ss   12:13   0:00 
> /sbin/rpc.statd
> root      2765  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:00 [kondemand/0]
> root      2767  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:13   0:00 [kondemand/1]
> root      2807  0.0  0.0 121708  1848 ?        Sl   12:13   0:00
> /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c3
> 101       3178  0.0  0.0  42720  1020 ?        Ss   12:13   0:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> root      3317  0.0  0.0 120956  1880 ?        Ss   12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
> root      3324  0.0  0.0 133676  3356 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
> root      3327  1.6  0.8 103296 34092 tty7     Ss+  12:13   0:35
> /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gd

Re: Notebook

[Mark]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:59 AM, pch0317  wrote:
Hi List

I would like to buy notebook.
I choose: hp compaq 610 nx550ea and hp compaq 615 nx567ea.
Which is better to Debian?

Thanks


This may help, or may not: http://www.linux-laptop.net/

Mark

Re: ibus-setup

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-11 11:26:45, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> 2009/11/12 Mr. Wang Long 
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 23:52, Umarzuki Mochlis 
> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 2009/11/11 Umarzuki Mochlis 
> > >>
> > >> which package on Debian Lenny that provides ibus-setup?
 ...

Ibus is in Squeeze (Testing) not Lenny (Stable), nor Backports.  (I 
know nothing more about Ibus.)

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Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 14:32:32 Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
> I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
> resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
> This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of
> 'xrandr'.
> The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768.

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re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

[Alexander Kaphuk]

Hi,
I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen 
resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of 
'xrandr'.

The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768.
I'd appreciate anyone suggesting how to go about it.
Thanking you all in advance.
Alexander Kapshuk.


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Heavyweight Lock = Freezeup!

[David Baron]

My daughter was running ppracer in a KDE3.5 session when the system stopped 
cold. At least, the UI, Xorg was frozen, no escape ctrl/alt/F1 to console.

After reboot, had a slew of these in the logs:
Nov 11 20:55:15 d_baron kernel: [drm:drm_lock_take] ERROR 1 holds heavyweight 
lock

Running 2.6.31 kernel.

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Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:31:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> > >>(you need internet to get the packages, so first boot the kernel
> > >>where wifi functions, do the first two commands, then reboot to the
> > >>new and issue the next to commands)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >I seem to remember doing that in the past but the broadcom packages are
> > >apparently not available at the moment.
> > >
> > >Anthony
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Oh, this must be related to the thread "2.6.31 kernels" about the
> > broadcom packages disappearing from the repositories. Why the heck
> > was that??
> > 
> 
> Correct, and the method given on the Debian Wiki didn't work here. I
> first compiled the 32-bit version by mistake so the module didn't load;
> the 65-bit version doesn't compile.

guys I have taken a hybrid approach I have a couple of the broadcom-sta
I did a m-a -t build, which failed, I then cd
/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/amd64 (i think from memeory) then from
tmp/modules (this is where I had grabbed the latest broadcom-sta source
from broadcom) I copied over the directories amd64 to amd64 and i386 to
i386.  The next step was to m-a -O -t build braodcom-sta and done I have
a deb package that I can install against .6.31 the tail versioning is
out but hell it works and its a deb package :)


ask me off list if people want the broadcom-sta package 

> 
> Anthony
> 
> 


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Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:41:54AM -0800, brian wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:42AM -0800, brian wrote:
> >It's an Atom board known as "Johnstown".
> >

[snip]

> 
> And this is for a Johnstown board or some other board that you think
> has the same chipset ?

I think you have read too much into my email, I have no experience with
this board, but I have had problems with realtek nic's before, and the
solution was to use the realtek driver.

can I suggest probably the easiest way to check is get a latest live cd
and boot from there, they normally have the newest kernels on them


> 
> There seems to be a lack of coherent information about this stupid
> chipset.
> 
> realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on
> again.  Intel is about to join that list too.
> 
> Intel's web page for the board says that Ubuntu 8.10 works with the
> "native" drivers.  8.10 is ancient, and is probably the
> same vintage as Lenny, right ? So this thing should already be working.
> 
> >
> >Any help _greatly_ appreciated (as you can tell by the time :-)
> 
> I was up late goofing around with this.  Linux, still the same after
> all these years :-(
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 

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Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

[Dotan Cohen]

> Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype
> was big on popularity, not features. What's missing in what you've
> tried? What comes close?
>

Interoperability with other Skype users. Nothing else provides that.

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Re: Re (2): finding the ip address of an upstream DNS

[Celejar]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:21:11 -0700
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:

> Celejar,

...

> Nobody can suggest where to read the extant 
> number [ip address] for directory assistance 
> [dns of the ISP]?

Reread my original message, in which I told you exactly where to find
the original DNS address(es).

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Re: Notebook

[Celejar]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:59:28 +0100
pch0317  wrote:

> Hi List
> 
> I would like to buy notebook.
> I choose: hp compaq 610 nx550ea and hp compaq 615 nx567ea.
> Which is better to Debian?

I have no idea, but most people here aren't going to take the trouble
of looking up the specs for you.  If you post the detailed specs, you
may get opinions on the Debian compatibility of particular HW
components.

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Re: launch xscreensaver on startup?

[Celejar]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:36:38 -0500
Michael Friendly  wrote:

> [Env: debian stable, KDE 3.5]
> 
> How can I configure things so that a program like xscreensaver is 
> automatically launched when I restart or logout/login?

Google "kde application autostart" - the first hit:

http://l10n.kde.org/docs/admin/autostart-and-runonce.html

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Re: some lenny problems

[Klistvud]

Dne, 11. 11. 2009 18:42:29 je Zachary Uram napisal(a):
> 1) There is no bottom gnome panel only the top panel. I want to add
> the bottom panel which shows the minimized windows, the virtual
> workspaces, etc.. And I want this to show up in every session.

Create another user (better if from the command line; the Gnome applet 
for creating users has some quirks). Does the new user have all the 
panels in place?

> 2) Common packages I could find easily in Ubuntu 9.04 are not in my
> package caches (and yes I just ran apt-get update) such as xchat and
> epic4. I know Debian is more restrictive but what can I add to my
> /etc/apt/sources.list to get these and other apps. Here is my
> sources.list:
> 
Fire up Synaptics. Select the second menu entry from the right (next to 
Help) > Repositories > enable the second and third option (contrib & 
non-free). Close the dialog. Click the "refresh" button. Wait till 
Synaptics does its thing. Now you can use the Search button on its 
toolbar and find out if the apps you want are in the repositories.
 
> 3) Some apps start up with window dimensions that are larger than my
> screen height and thus "fall off" the bottom of the screen! This
> happened with Iceweasel. How can I fix this so that *all* apps will 
> be
> forced to resize their window dimensions so as to fit within my 
> screen
> resolution?
> 
> Thanks!
> Zach

I strongly suspect a wrong (or, more probably -- missing) xorg.conf is 
the culprit. You'll either have to tinker with hal definition files 
(the ones in xml format) or supply the supported resolutions via 
xorg.conf. There's a plethora of template xorg.conf files on the 
Internet, or you could boot a good live CD and copy the relevant lines 
from its xorg.conf.


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Re: what exactly is resident set size in /etc/security/limit.conf and ulimit -m?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:14:43PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> Having read the manual and examples on the Internet, still confused.

As far as I understand it, ulimit is per process. RSS only addresses how
much of the process is resident in RAM, and some googling suggests that
it may not actually be enforced in current kernels. I'd recommend -v to
set the total memory size, including RAM, swap, and so on.

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Re: some lenny problems

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 12:14:33 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Zachary Uram wrote:
> > 2) Common packages I could find easily in Ubuntu 9.04 are not in my
> > package caches (and yes I just ran apt-get update) such as xchat and
> > epic4. I know Debian is more restrictive but what can I add to my
> > /etc/apt/sources.list to get these and other apps. Here is my
> > sources.list:
> >
> > #
> > # deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> > Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> > main
> > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> > Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> > main
> > #
> >
> > deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> > Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> > main
> > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> > Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> > main
> >
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
> >
> > deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
> > deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
> 
> You don't have any mirror listed, no wonder you cannot find packages.
> Try adding a line like
> 
> deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

Try without the "contrib" and "non-free" parts first.  Those are not 
officially part of Debian.
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Re: port forwarding without using ssh

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:36:20AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> The problem of this solution is security. I do not want to grant shell
> access of local_server to remote_server. What would you recommend me
> to do in this case? I could try to limit access of the account used by
> remote server ssh -R, but should I?

You don't have to grant the remote server shell access if you don't want
to. You can use the port-forward feature of ssh to just create ports
without a shell with the -fN flag.

Also, the -R and -L flags look the same, but define which end the
traffic originates from. So, it's hard to say if you're using -R
correctly, or if you should be using -L instead.

This is untested, but should work to tunnel SMTP from localserver to
remoteserver when the connection is opened from the remoteserver side:

remoteserver$ ssh -fN -R25:localhost:25 localserver

to make it work securely, though, you need to do a few more things.

1. Add the "no-pty" option to your authorized_keys file so that no
   shell is allowed for that key.

2. See whether you can limit the forwarded ports with "permitopen"
   in authorized_keys. This may or may not work with -R; the man
   page says it's for -L only.

3. Consider creating a non-root user for ports that don't require
   binding to privileged ports. For example, you could tunnel git on
   port 9418 as some other user rather than root.

If you want a real SSH-based VPN, and are willing to pay the encryption
overhead, you can investigate SSH + TUN forwardings. See these articles
as a starting point:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/539
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH_VPN
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_VPN_over_SSH_and_tun

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Re: some lenny problems

[Rob Owens]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:42:29PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:
> Ok I just did a fresh install of lenny (so using default gnome
> settings, default metacity settings, default X settings) and I have 3
> problems.
> 
> 1) There is no bottom gnome panel only the top panel. I want to add
> the bottom panel which shows the minimized windows, the virtual
> workspaces, etc.. And I want this to show up in every session.
> 
Maybe it's there, but off the screen?  That could happen if your
resolution was off, but it's never happened to me...

> 2) Common packages I could find easily in Ubuntu 9.04 are not in my
> package caches (and yes I just ran apt-get update) such as xchat and
> epic4. I know Debian is more restrictive but what can I add to my
> /etc/apt/sources.list to get these and other apps. Here is my
> sources.list:
> 
You can remove those restrictions by adding "contrib non-free" after
"main" in each of your sources lines.  But you shouldn't need to do that
for xchat and epic4, because they are in "main".

You might also be interested in the debian-multimedia and
debian-backports repositories.

> 
> 3) Some apps start up with window dimensions that are larger than my
> screen height and thus "fall off" the bottom of the screen! This
> happened with Iceweasel. How can I fix this so that *all* apps will be
> forced to resize their window dimensions so as to fit within my screen
> resolution?
> 
Ah, sounds like your resolution is set incorrectly.  You could try
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and see if that fixes it.  If not, stop
X by issuing this command:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

Then log in at the command line and issue this command:

X -configure

That should create an xorg.conf file for you.  Then:

/etc/init.d/gdm start

and see if things are any better.

-Rob


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Re (2): finding the ip address of an upstream DNS

[peasthope]

Celejar,

Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:24 -0500,
> From the [dnsmasq] manpage:
> 
> -
> In order to configure dnsmasq to act as cache for the host on which it
> is running, put "nameserver  127.0.0.1"  in /etc/resolv.conf ...

Certainly that condition exists on my system 
and certainly it isn't from me editing resolv.conf.  
This is the entire content of /etc/resolv.conf.
 
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.0.1

Given the number of cooks [softwares] in the 
kitchen [system], I can only guess how the 
spice ["nameserver 127.0.0.1"] came to be in 
the soup [network configuration].

In any case, the number [ip address] for 
directory assistance [dns of the ISP] is 
somewhere in the kitchen [system].  According 
to my understanding, this number was brought 
by a well known delivery service [dhcp3-client].

Nobody can suggest where to read the extant 
number [ip address] for directory assistance 
[dns of the ISP]?

Pardon the analogy [humour].

Thanks,... Peter E.


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weird networking issue on lenny!

[Zachary Uram]

Greetings!

I just did fresh install of lenny, I have a DSL modem and run a static
IP setup so I manually set up my route (DHCP was enabled by default)
by killing the dhclient process and then setting up /etc/resolv.conf
and /etc/network/interfaces and doing "/etc/init.d/networking restart"
and  it went fine, but suddenly after 30 minutes I suddenly lost
internet connectivity and here is what I saw then:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface

As you can see there is no longer a routing table!

# ifconfig
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:1d:2c:a0:78
  inet6 addr: fe80::224:1dff:fe2c:a078/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:114835 errors:0 dropped:15769089116 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:66868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:169505917 (161.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4876501 (4.6 MiB)
  Interrupt:253

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)

As you can see my "inet addr" is now gone!

Here are the processes running:
USER   PID %CPU %MEMVSZ   RSS TTY  STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root 1  0.0  0.0  10312   748 ?Ss   12:12   0:00 init [2]
root 2  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [migration/0]
root 4  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [migration/1]
root 7  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:01 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 8  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [watchdog/1]
root 9  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [events/0]
root10  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [events/1]
root11  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [khelper]
root46  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [kblockd/0]
root47  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [kblockd/1]
root49  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [kacpid]
root50  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root   132  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root   138  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [khubd]
root   141  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [kseriod]
root   194  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S12:12   0:00 [pdflush]
root   195  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S12:12   0:00 [pdflush]
root   196  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:01 [kswapd0]
root   197  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [aio/0]
root   198  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [aio/1]
root   731  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [ata/0]
root   734  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [ata/1]
root   735  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:12   0:00 [ata_aux]
root   827  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root   828  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root   829  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root   830  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root  1018  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:00 [scsi_eh_4]
root  1019  0.1  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:02 [usb-storage]
root  1171  0.1  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:02 [kjournald]
daemon2354  0.0  0.0   8020   532 ?Ss   12:13   0:00 /sbin/portmap
statd 2365  0.0  0.0  10136   764 ?Ss   12:13   0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
root  2765  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:00 [kondemand/0]
root  2767  0.0  0.0  0 0 ?S<   12:13   0:00 [kondemand/1]
root  2807  0.0  0.0 121708  1848 ?Sl   12:13   0:00
/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c3
101   3178  0.0  0.0  42720  1020 ?Ss   12:13   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
root  3317  0.0  0.0 120956  1880 ?Ss   12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root  3324  0.0  0.0 133676  3356 ?S12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root  3327  1.6  0.8 103296 34092 tty7 Ss+  12:13   0:35
/usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
root  3340  0.0  0.0  12208   848 ?Ss   12:13   0:00
/usr/sbin/anacron -s
daemon3348  0.0  0.0

Re: some lenny problems

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Zachary Uram wrote:
> 2) Common packages I could find easily in Ubuntu 9.04 are not in my
> package caches (and yes I just ran apt-get update) such as xchat and
> epic4. I know Debian is more restrictive but what can I add to my
> /etc/apt/sources.list to get these and other apps. Here is my
> sources.list:
>
> #
> # deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> main
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> main
> #
>
> deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
> Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
> main
>
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
>
> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
> deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
>   

You don't have any mirror listed, no wonder you cannot find packages.
Try adding a line like

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

to that file, substituting for a mirror close to you.

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Re: CD ISO images for the "testing" release

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:11:15 -0800
"Willie"  dijo:


> > I did find the .jigdo and .template files for testing netinst amd64,
> > and I have downloaded them into a folder ~/Debian. But I am unclear
> > about what to put in for . From a previous
> > message in this discussion I thought it was
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo.
> > But that sends me into a loop where it continually asks for an Ubuntu
> > mirror. Why would the ISO for testing amd64 netinst be on an Ubuntu
> > server? On the other hand, I am doing this from a computer running
> > Jaunty, so that may have something to do with it. Does jigdo work only
> > if the computer is running Debian?
> > 
> > Still confused and still without a CD image for netinst of testing
> > amd64. Luckily I am not in a rush.
> 
> 
> You're trying to make it complicated when it isn't. You don't need to
> download anything. Just install the "jigdo-file" package then run the
> command:
> 
>jigdo-lite 
> 
> jigdo does the rest. There may be one or two initial questions about
> preferred locations but just hitting return should work. It's easier
> than bittorrent.

OK, I think I got it. That is, I now have six files, one of which is
the ISO of 148.1 MB. But after the download finished I got:

"Images offered by 
`http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso':"

Being unsure what to do, I did nothing. After a while I got:

"Number of image to download: "

Apparently the "Images offered by ..." line was supposed to be followed
by a list of images from which I could choose one. But that doesn't
make any sense if it just finished downloading the ISO that I typed at
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some lenny problems

[Zachary Uram]

Ok I just did a fresh install of lenny (so using default gnome
settings, default metacity settings, default X settings) and I have 3
problems.

1) There is no bottom gnome panel only the top panel. I want to add
the bottom panel which shows the minimized windows, the virtual
workspaces, etc.. And I want this to show up in every session.

2) Common packages I could find easily in Ubuntu 9.04 are not in my
package caches (and yes I just ran apt-get update) such as xchat and
epic4. I know Debian is more restrictive but what can I add to my
/etc/apt/sources.list to get these and other apps. Here is my
sources.list:

#
# deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
main
#

deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official
Multi-architecture i386/amd64/source DVD #1 20090413-04:09]/ lenny
main


deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main

3) Some apps start up with window dimensions that are larger than my
screen height and thus "fall off" the bottom of the screen! This
happened with Iceweasel. How can I fix this so that *all* apps will be
forced to resize their window dimensions so as to fit within my screen
resolution?

Thanks!
Zach


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Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

[Brian denheyer]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Jean-François Pirlet wrote:


realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on
again.  Intel is about to join that list too.


Huh, if you blacklist Realtek (Realtek chips are found almost
everywhere...), Intel and Ati, given that Ati belongs to AMD, it's
likely you won't spend much money on computers in the future :-)



maybe that's not a bad thing.  Then I won't be up late at night. :-)




Intel's web page for the board says that Ubuntu 8.10 works with the
"native" drivers.  8.10 is ancient, and is probably the
same vintage as Lenny, right ? So this thing should already be working.


No. 8.10 stands for 2008, October, whereas Lenny was released in
February, 2009. That being said, Lenny is the most vintage of these
distros (shipping with 2.6.26, whereas 8.10 is shipping 2.6.27).



So, more confusing.  Supposedly 8.10 works, so that would lead me to 
believe that Lenny should work.  It seems hard to believe that the driver 
broke from .26 to .27.  More than likely the #...@!^^ wankers at realtek 
rev'ed the chip and so what I have is misidentified or has some other 
ridiculous problem, i.e. it is not the same chip that the MB originally 
started shipping with. This is a common problem.


Realtek is everywhere and yet, miraculously, I seem to be the only one 
with this problem.  I found one other site, also trying to install Lenny, 
and they apparently fixed it with r8138. That didn't work for me.


And really, no one seems to know what's going on, including realtek, who's 
website says it works, but fails to tell you which version.  Very 
frustrating.  And unfortunately, after many years of linux, still very 
common.


Brian

Re: Solved: ? Re: How to change the domainname ????

[Tom H]

>> After emailing you, the .local suffix rang a bell and looking at your
>> emails now confirms it. .local is an avahi-specific suffix and your
>> log message comes from avahi-daemon. There is a setting (through the
>> "hosts" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf, I think, although it does not make
>> sense offhand) which instructs avahi not to append .local when you are
>> using .local as a unicast domain.


> After your reply, i did look some deeper in the avahi-documentation and came
> acros the following tekst:
> http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal

> It seems that avahi uses the .local and with the implamentation of avahi on
> the system, there are some problems using a the .local domain and avahi.
> It is advised NOT to use the .local domain and avahi.


> So the remark in syslog is only a mark of binding the hostname to .local for
> avahi and not the REAL FQDN.

> So it should not give any problem to use the thuis.local domain and avahi.

> I guess problem solved

> Avahi and Unicast Domains .local
> mDNS/DNS-SD is inherently incompatible with unicast DNS zones .local. We
> strongly recommend not to use Avahi or nss-mdns in such a network setup.
> N.B.: nss-mdns is not typically bundled with Avahi and requires a separate
> download and install.
> Background: The Zeroconf protocols Avahi implements are known as mDNS and
> DNS-SD. mDNS (short for Multicast DNS) is based on traditional (unicast)
> DNS, but the two systems do not interact. mDNS is used to manage a special
> cooperative zone .local where all local mDNS servers can freely register
> host names or services. Before mDNS was introduced the domain .local was
> sometimes used in non-public (unicast) DNS servers to assign names in LANs.
> Unfortunately some networks still use this domain that way. If Avahi and
> nss-mdns is installed properly a machine does not contact a unicast DNS
> server when resolving names from the .local domain, thus the unicast DNS
> domain .local becomes unreachable.
> If you come across a network where .local is a unicast DNS domain, please
> contact the local administrator and ask him to move his DNS zone to a
> different domain. If this is not possible, we recommend not to use Avahi in
> such a network at all.

Given this .local info, I would avoid using it.

I have just found the workaround that I had read in my notes. It is
only applicable if you are running a DNS server for .local. In that
case, the DNS entry must come before the two mDNS entries in the hosts
line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. I am not sure whether this would prevent
avahi from appending .local to a hostname in syslog though! Could the
devs not have chosen .avahi or .bonjour or .mdns as a default?


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Notebook

[pch0317]

Hi List

I would like to buy notebook.
I choose: hp compaq 610 nx550ea and hp compaq 615 nx567ea.
Which is better to Debian?

Thanks


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launch xscreensaver on startup?

[Michael Friendly]

[Env: debian stable, KDE 3.5]

How can I configure things so that a program like xscreensaver is 
automatically launched when I restart or logout/login?



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Re: Console Font Size?

[Wayne]

Thomas H. George wrote:

What is the relation between consolechars, charset and the
/etc/console-tools/config file?  


On boot up the console characters are hard to read without glasses.
The command consolechars -d changes to a very bold font.
The man page for charset indicates the default font is cp427 or iso01.
The entries in /etc/console-tools/config set APP_CHAR_MAP=utf8 and
SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold16

After experimenting I edited /etc/console-tools/config to change the
line 


SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold16

to

SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold32x16

which gave me a console font I can read without glasses.

This works for me but I am left wondering about the different options.


I had to do the following to get a usable font here

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup.

Wayne


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Re: ibus-setup

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

2009/11/12 Mr. Wang Long 

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 23:52, Umarzuki Mochlis 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2009/11/11 Umarzuki Mochlis 
> >>
> >> which package on Debian Lenny that provides ibus-setup?
> >>
> >> "apt-file search ibus" does not return anything.
> >
> > corection:
> > "apt-file search ibus-setup" does not return anything.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Umarzuki Mochlis
> >> http://gameornot.net
> >
>
> $ dpkg -S `which ibus-setup`
> ibus: /usr/bin/ibus-setup
>
>
I got:
dpkg -S `which ibus-setup`
dpkg-query: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument

Use --help for help about querying packages;
Use --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL).

which ibus-setup returns nothing

My sources.list:
===

deb http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main

deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./


> Regards,
> Wang Long
>



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Console Font Size?

[Thomas H. George]

What is the relation between consolechars, charset and the
/etc/console-tools/config file?  

On boot up the console characters are hard to read without glasses.
The command consolechars -d changes to a very bold font.
The man page for charset indicates the default font is cp427 or iso01.
The entries in /etc/console-tools/config set APP_CHAR_MAP=utf8 and
SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold16

After experimenting I edited /etc/console-tools/config to change the
line 

SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold16

to

SCREEN_FONT=uni3-TerminusBold32x16

which gave me a console font I can read without glasses.

This works for me but I am left wondering about the different options.

Tom


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Re: ibus-setup

[Mr. Wang Long]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 23:52, Umarzuki Mochlis  wrote:
>
>
> 2009/11/11 Umarzuki Mochlis 
>>
>> which package on Debian Lenny that provides ibus-setup?
>>
>> "apt-file search ibus" does not return anything.
>
> corection:
> "apt-file search ibus-setup" does not return anything.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Umarzuki Mochlis
>> http://gameornot.net
>

$ dpkg -S `which ibus-setup`
ibus: /usr/bin/ibus-setup

Regards,
Wang Long


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Re: port forwarding without using ssh

[Mr. Wang Long]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:36, Zhang Weiwu  wrote:
> Hello. I have a remote server inside a remote office covered by NAT
> masquerade where port forwarding not possible, and a local server in my
> local office not covered by NAT masquerade. In order to access the
> remote office and hosts in that office, I do this:
>
> On remote office server, in a screen session I run
> $ ssh -R   local_server
You may want to run ``$ ssh -N -R  _local_server'' instead.
Please refer to the manpage for further details.

>
> On my own office, I try to connect to mapped ports on local_server.
>
> The problem of this solution is security. I do not want to grant shell
> access of local_server to remote_server. What would you recommend me to
> do in this case? I could try to limit access of the account used by
> remote server ssh -R, but should I?
>

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Re: ibus-setup

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

2009/11/11 Umarzuki Mochlis 

> which package on Debian Lenny that provides ibus-setup?
>
> "apt-file search ibus" does not return anything.
>

corection:
"apt-file search ibus-setup" does not return anything.

>
> --
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>
> Umarzuki Mochlis
> http://gameornot.net
>



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ibus-setup

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

which package on Debian Lenny that provides ibus-setup?

"apt-file search ibus" does not return anything.

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Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

[Jean-François Pirlet]

> realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on  
> again.  Intel is about to join that list too.

Huh, if you blacklist Realtek (Realtek chips are found almost
everywhere...), Intel and Ati, given that Ati belongs to AMD, it's
likely you won't spend much money on computers in the future :-)


> Intel's web page for the board says that Ubuntu 8.10 works with the  
> "native" drivers.  8.10 is ancient, and is probably the
> same vintage as Lenny, right ? So this thing should already be working.

No. 8.10 stands for 2008, October, whereas Lenny was released in
February, 2009. That being said, Lenny is the most vintage of these
distros (shipping with 2.6.26, whereas 8.10 is shipping 2.6.27).

Regards.


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Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

[John Allen]

whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote:

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46 +, "John Allen" 
wrote:
  

whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote:


Anybody know what's going on or can help debug
this at least?

Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a 

  * 64MB memory stick and a 
  * 160GB 2.5" HD in a USB linked 
external enclosure


using "mkdosfs -c /dev/sd{ag}1".

  
  

I can report the same happens on Lenny with the latest amd64 kernel.



What kind of medium did you try to format,
and how big is it?

  
2G SD card, it had been reporting read errors in my camera, so I thought 
I'd reformat with -c :(

I tried this with a live grml cd and it choked there
as well.  No luck getting the drive recognized under
dos.  Think I will try making a couple of smaller
partitions and see if that works any better.

Thanks for you comment

will

  



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Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

[brian]

Hi Alex,

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:42AM -0800, brian wrote:

It's an Atom board known as "Johnstown".

Can't get the ethernet to work (it's a gigE, Realtek), the rest of
the installation seems to work fine.

I was hoping someone else on the list has this board and has found a
debian install iso which will work.

5.03 most definitely does not.  It installs the r8169 driver, which
seems to be broken.



> have you tried getting the realtek driver and using it. I had to do  
this

> for 2.6.25-~29 until the mainline r8169 came up to speed

oh, where to begin.

the realtek page (curse them ) says that the kerner driver is just  
fine.


of course, the #...@$! idiots don't tell you which version of the kernel  
that applies to.  $...@!!! morons.


Then there's the problem that using the netinst install doesn't give  
you enough tools to be able to

build a driver anyway.

So I figure my best option is to use a full CD install of either  
debian testing or ubuntu 9.xx to get

the latest drivers in hopes that they will work.

I was hoping someone could identify a disty that would work for sure  
before I descend into hell once more.


I assume from your post that kernels >= 2.26.30 work ?

And this is for a Johnstown board or some other board that you think  
has the same chipset ?


There seems to be a lack of coherent information about this stupid  
chipset.


realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on  
again.  Intel is about to join that list too.


Intel's web page for the board says that Ubuntu 8.10 works with the  
"native" drivers.  8.10 is ancient, and is probably the

same vintage as Lenny, right ? So this thing should already be working.



Any help _greatly_ appreciated (as you can tell by the time :-)


I was up late goofing around with this.  Linux, still the same after  
all these years :-(


Brian



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Re: Slow booting

[Kamil Kułaga]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, ludovico van  wrote:
> Do you get something like
> udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or
> disable the kernel's CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option; udev may fail to
> work correctly
> in your boot messages or logs?

No. I use standard kernel. I uninstalled ifplugd and realized that
net.agent is literally sleeping. I hit CTRL+C after initialization of
PCbeep  and my debian finished faster without any error consequences.
Both bootcharts attached.
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Re: packages cannot be authenticated

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

Sthu Deus wrote:

Good day.

I think after

$ sudo apt-get update

i have got a message on 


$ sudo -t stable apt-get upgrade

stating that some packages can not be authenticated.
Before - all was all right: i was updating and upgrading - no problems, but now 
I have the problem.
  


Sometimes this is caused by something transferred wrongly to your pc, or 
even worse to the mirror you're using. Try again tomorrow.




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packages cannot be authenticated

[Sthu Deus]

Good day.

I think after

$ sudo apt-get update

i have got a message on 

$ sudo -t stable apt-get upgrade

stating that some packages can not be authenticated.
Before - all was all right: i was updating and upgrading - no problems, but now 
I have the problem.

I have tried

$ sudo apt-get -t stable install debian-archive-keyring

it states that it is up to date.

$ sudo apt-key update

no any key changed.

How I can fix it? Thank You for Your time.


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Re: Slow booting

[ludovico van]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Kamil Kułaga  wrote:
> It looks like udev i blocking boot sequence. 22K svg image attached. I
> have no idea how to speedup this.

Do you get something like

udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or
disable the kernel's CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option; udev may fail to
work correctly

in your boot messages or logs?

If so I had a similar delay and i fixed it recompiling a new kernel
with that option disabled.

HTH


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Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

[Anthony Campbell]

On 11 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> >>(you need internet to get the packages, so first boot the kernel
> >>where wifi functions, do the first two commands, then reboot to the
> >>new and issue the next to commands)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I seem to remember doing that in the past but the broadcom packages are
> >apparently not available at the moment.
> >
> >Anthony
> >
> >
> 
> Oh, this must be related to the thread "2.6.31 kernels" about the
> broadcom packages disappearing from the repositories. Why the heck
> was that??
> 

Correct, and the method given on the Debian Wiki didn't work here. I
first compiled the 32-bit version by mistake so the module didn't load;
the 65-bit version doesn't compile.

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Re: Slow booting

[Kamil Kułaga]

Sorry for multiple emails.

It looks like udev i blocking boot sequence. 22K svg image attached. I
have no idea how to speedup this.

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Re: Slow booting

[Kamil Kułaga]

Switching to dependency based didn't help


 [   28.776007] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/input/input9
 [  119.416005] Adding 6000268k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-1
extents:1 across:6000268k

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Kamil Kułaga  wrote:
> I still do not know what is happening between module init and swap
> activation. But i think debconf tries to give me a clue
>
>   info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot.
>
>   error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing.
>   error: Problems detected: insserv: warning: script 'K20atieventsd'
> missing LSB tags and overrides,
>            insserv: warning: script      'S25libdevmapper1.02'
> missing LSB tags and overrides,
>            insserv: warning: script 'atieventsd'      missing LSB
> tags and overrides,
>            insserv: warning: script 'libdevmapper1.02' missing LSB
> tags and overrides,
>
>
> atieventsd? It is not installed. I run aptitude purge ~c already. Is
> it safe to delete it? I do not understand this LSB tags and so on
> terminology.
>
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Re: Slow booting

[Kamil Kułaga]

I still do not know what is happening between module init and swap
activation. But i think debconf tries to give me a clue

   info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot.

   error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing.
   error: Problems detected: insserv: warning: script 'K20atieventsd'
missing LSB tags and overrides,
insserv: warning: script  'S25libdevmapper1.02'
missing LSB tags and overrides,
insserv: warning: script 'atieventsd'  missing LSB
tags and overrides,
insserv: warning: script 'libdevmapper1.02' missing LSB
tags and overrides,


atieventsd? It is not installed. I run aptitude purge ~c already. Is
it safe to delete it? I do not understand this LSB tags and so on
terminology.


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Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

Anthony Campbell wrote:

On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
  

Anthony Campbell wrote:


On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
  

Anthony Campbell wrote:


When I installed kernel 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem my eth1 disappeared, so no
wireless. Not a problem in practice because I simply revert to
2.6.30-1-686-bigmem and it's back, but I'd like to understand what is
happening. Does it need a bug report or is it a "feature"?

Anthony

  

It seems to me strange to lose your wireless just from 2.6.30-1 to 2.6.30-2.
Do you remember if your wless was playing out of the box with 2.6.30-1 ?

Do you happen to use any of those broadcom sta modules?

Boot into 2.6.30-1 where your wireless is recognized and send us an
lspci -v (just the wireless part)

Giorgos



Yes, you are right. I'd forgotten this was a Broadcom wireless. I'm not
sure if the modules are available for the latest kernel.

Anthony
  

I also have such a card. I have noted the following instructions for
doing after a kernel upgrade:

aptitude purge 
aptitude install broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source

# module-assistant prepare broadcom-sta
# module-assistant auto-install broadcom-sta

and reboot!


(you need internet to get the packages, so first boot the kernel
where wifi functions, do the first two commands, then reboot to the
new and issue the next to commands)





I seem to remember doing that in the past but the broadcom packages are
apparently not available at the moment.

Anthony


  


Oh, this must be related to the thread "2.6.31 kernels" about the 
broadcom packages disappearing from the repositories. Why the heck was 
that??




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Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:44:42AM -0800, brian wrote:
> It's an Atom board known as "Johnstown".
> 
> Can't get the ethernet to work (it's a gigE, Realtek), the rest of
> the installation seems to work fine.
> 
> I was hoping someone else on the list has this board and has found a
> debian install iso which will work.
> 
> 5.03 most definitely does not.  It installs the r8169 driver, which
> seems to be broken.
have you tried getting the realtek driver and using it. I had to do this
for 2.6.25-~29 until the mainline r8169 came up to speed


> 
> Any help _greatly_ appreciated (as you can tell by the time :-)
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

[brian]

It's an Atom board known as "Johnstown".

Can't get the ethernet to work (it's a gigE, Realtek), the rest of the  
installation seems to work fine.


I was hoping someone else on the list has this board and has found a  
debian install iso which will work.


5.03 most definitely does not.  It installs the r8169 driver, which  
seems to be broken.


Any help _greatly_ appreciated (as you can tell by the time :-)

Brian





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Re: CD ISO images for the "testing" release

[Willie]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:11 -0800, "John Jason Jordan"
 wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:38:18 -0800
> "Willie"  dijo:
> 
> 
> > > Now I'm off to try to figure out jigdo. Thanks for the link.
> 
> 
> > Now it's me who hasn't made himself clear. There's not much to figure
> > out.
> > First install the "jigdo-file" package as shown above.
> > In the second command, the URL (incorrectly shown on a new line) is an
> > argument to the command "jigdo-lite":
> > 
> >jigdo-lite 
> > 
> > You'll end up with a .jigdo file, a .template file, and the .iso file
> > you're after.
> 
> I did find the .jigdo and .template files for testing netinst amd64,
> and I have downloaded them into a folder ~/Debian. But I am unclear
> about what to put in for . From a previous
> message in this discussion I thought it was
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo.
> But that sends me into a loop where it continually asks for an Ubuntu
> mirror. Why would the ISO for testing amd64 netinst be on an Ubuntu
> server? On the other hand, I am doing this from a computer running
> Jaunty, so that may have something to do with it. Does jigdo work only
> if the computer is running Debian?
> 
> Still confused and still without a CD image for netinst of testing
> amd64. Luckily I am not in a rush.


You're trying to make it complicated when it isn't. You don't need to
download anything. Just install the "jigdo-file" package then run the
command:

   jigdo-lite 

jigdo does the rest. There may be one or two initial questions about
preferred locations but just hitting return should work. It's easier
than bittorrent.


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