Re: dlink dwa-556

[s. keeling]

lee :
>  Hi,

Hi yourself.  My only purpose here is to note that some of your posts
are excruciatingly long.  This elicits flames (some pay by the byte).
Suggest:

   http://paste.debian.net/

  ---

Thanks for starting this thread.  I'm learning as fast as I can
(friend's D-Link WNA-1330/Atheros AR2413; not my box).  This one works
in Knoppix 6.2.  I'm about to test Xubuntu and Sidux on it to see how
they do it.


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Re: 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:48:24 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> On Tue December 8 2009, Camaleón wrote:
>> I'd say you have installed an application (rkhunter?) to detect any
>> possible hole in the system that is detecting outdated versions of the
>> above services.
> Yes, I use rkhunter, that was an rkhunter log message.
> 
> 
>> For example, the latest available version for Exim is 4.71, but I
>> suppose that having installed a previous version does not mean "per se"
>> to be in risk.
> I update my Debian Lenny system daily, and that is my issue. If 4.71 is
> available, why isn't it available to Lenny, or is this an rkhunter
> failing?

I think nor Lenny nor Rkhunter are "failing". I'll try to explain:

- Debian Lenny (stable) is not a "rolling-update" distribution. So once 
is released, it won't update packages just because there is a newer 
version available "upstream". Lenny just get updated packages when there 
is a security patch available for each of them. That is, "officially" you 
will get only security updates. Whenever a new version of any package is 
available (just the case of Exim) you can install it "by hand" and at 
your own risk (by compiling, by using a backport repository, by 
donwloading .deb file, etc...).

- Rkhunter is just doing its job: it advices you there is a newer version 
available for those packages and that's right. Is up to you upgrading 
them or not.

I, personally, would not take any step :-)

>> Just follow the advice suggested by the program and take a look into "/
>> var/log/rkhunter.log" to get more information (if any).
> 
> basically that's what the rkhunter log says, the packages are out of
> date. But they AREN'T out of date for lenny. SO, is this a Debian Lenny
> issue, of not updating to Exim 4.71, or an rkhunter issue for telling my
> that even though I can't update to  this version, I should beware?

No one's fail. 

Juts remember that upgrading a package is not a easy task: many things 
can fail (other packages can depend on just one package, Exim, by 
instance)and that is the reason why stable  versions are not upgraded "in 
place". Just security patches are included by default.

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Please include Adobe Air in official non free and contrib repository for lenny

[surreal]

Adobe has released AIR runtime for debian users which enables them to run
RIAA. Please include the debian package created by Adobe in lenny stable
contrib or non free catagory in the official repository.

Please check this link - http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air2.html

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Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-12-08 17:05:39, Wayne wrote:
> 
> From: roberto 
 ...
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Wayne  wrote:
 ...
> > Have you checked out the console-tools package?
> >
> > The showkey program for instance.
> 
> yes and i get
> ~$ showkey
> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> 
>  From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the 
> console-tools package installed.  The showkeys program is in that 
> package.  If you need to figure out how/what it is for, I suggest you 
> try reading the man page.

I got the same message (on Fedora 12) when running as a normal user.  
It works when run as root.

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Re: Why CUPS?

[Girish Kulkarni]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Rogério Brito wrote:

But there is some danger here: lprng is an orphaned package in
Debian (which means that it currently has no one looking after it).
If you want to ensure that it has a long life, please help
maintaining it.


Interesting.  And I was going to complain about there being no Debian
package for lprngtool, the LPRng GUI.


,[ NEWS.Debian.gz ]
| lprng (3.8.A-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
|
|   Programs based on the gtk library (which includes a lot of popular
|   programs in Debian) have lost the ability to print to lpr/lprng.
|
|   A way to work around this problem of gtk+2.0, please use:
|
|   + for a one-user setup, include an entry in the file .gtkrc-2.0 in
| your home directory with the line:
|
| gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr"
|
|   + for a system-wide setup, include the same line in the file
| /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
|
|   It may happen that your setup will be broken again if GTK 3.0 doesn't
|   read the gtk-2.0 files or don't provide an appropriate upgrade path.
|
|  -- Rogério Brito   Mon, 18 May 2009 21:36:28 -0300
`


Thanks for pointing out.

Girish.

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Re: Why CUPS?

[Girish Kulkarni]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:

This does not only apply to client applications, but also to
computers configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only
set-up and configure a printer on one server for a whole
network. With a default debian installation, the clients on the
network will discover the printer automatically and 'just work'. I
have never used lprng so I don't know, if it has a similar feature.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is probably true for LPRng too.  You
just configure and run lpd (the LPRng server) on one computer of the
network, alongwith the printer.  The client programs of LPRng (lpr,
lpq, etc.) then --- with a correct /etc/printcap configuration file
--- find that the printer Just Works.

Girish.

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Re: About getting videos from youtube

[Rob Owens]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:43:21PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, Celejar.
> 
> On Dec 08 2009, Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200 Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately,
> > > due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the
> > > testing distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of
> > > a stable release).
> > 
> > Can you explain just *why* the release team won't allow its migration?
> > I took a quick look at the various dev and PTS pages associated with
> > the package, and I couldn't make out the reason.
> 
> The release team won't allow youtube-dl to be part of a stable release
> for fear that the "interfaces" with youtube change during the life cycle
> of the stable release.
> 
> Of course, similar statements could be made about many packages in the
> distribution that rely on services on the web that are beyond our
> control, but...
> 
Would that make it qualify for the "volatile" archive?

-Rob


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Re: Horizontal scroll (synaptics) only works for root?

[green]

Ben Pearre wrote at 2009-11-29 20:38 -0600:
> That works great--as root.  It was working for normal users too, but
> no longer.  I believe it may have been around the time of the KDE4
> upgrade that it stopped working for normal users.
> 
> xev lists vertical (button 4 and 5) scroll events.  If I do "startx --
> :1" as root either from within X or a console, xev has no problem
> seeing oodles of horizontal (button 6 and 7) events.  But for my user
> account, xev lists nothing at all when I touch the touchpad in this
> way, although all other functionality is there.

A shot in the dark, and probably completely wrong, but have you checked 
permissions of everything in /dev/input ?  But probably permissions problems 
would affect the entire operation of an input device rather than just one 
aspect.

Another idea, maybe you could try copying your KDE (and others) configs into 
/root and see if it breaks the touchpad...


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Re: dlink dwa-556

[Celejar]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:18:42 +0100
lee  wrote:

...

> > a) output of 'iwlist wlan0 [or whatever it's called] scan'
> 
> yun:/home/lee# iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0 Scan completed :
>   Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:08:17:73:A9
> Channel:5
> Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
> Quality=53/70  Signal level=-57 dBm  
> Encryption key:on
> ESSID:"WLAN-177334"
> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>   18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
> Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
> Mode:Master
> Extra:tsf=0004e7d2a174
> Extra: Last beacon: 480ms ago
> IE: Unknown: 000B574C414E2D31373734
> IE: Unknown: 010882848B961224486C
> IE: Unknown: 030105
> IE: Unknown: 2A0104
> IE: Unknown: 32040C183060
> IE: Unknown: 
> 2D1AEE1117010C00
> IE: Unknown: 
> 3D1605070100
> IE: Unknown: 3E0100
> IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
> Group Cipher : CCMP
> Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
> Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> IE: Unknown: 
> DD180050F202010103A427A442435E0062322F00
> IE: Unknown: 7F0101
> IE: Unknown: 
> DD8C0050F204104A00011010440001021041000100103B000103104700111023081773A71021000B436F72706F726174696F6E1023000941525634353235505710240008312E30372E3030301042000A4A3833343033363030341054000800060050F204000110110014576972656C65737320526F757465722857464129100800020004
> IE: Unknown: 0706444520010D10
> IE: Unknown: 
> DD1E00904C33EE1117010C00
> IE: Unknown: 
> DD1A00904C3405070100
> 
> yun:/home/lee# 
> 
> 
> Hm, at least wicd seems to have set the ESSID and to have found a
> cell.

??  This output has nothing to do with wicd.

> > b) output of syslog when you try to connect
> 
> Anything in particular I should be looking for? There are messages
> 
> 
> Dec  8 17:33:58 yun dhclient: isc-dhclient-V3.1.3
> Dec  8 17:33:58 yun dhclient: isc-dhclient-V3.1.3
> 
> 
> ... but I'm not using dhcp. And there's a bunch of messages from
> "NetworkManager":

If you're not using dhcp, then no dhclient process should be running.
You should find out what's invoking it and stop it.

...

When debugging, we really don't want anything running except the most
basic of command line utilities - I recommend that you stop all the
higher level managers while we try to figure out the basic issues.  In
any event, you should never have multiple network managers running -
they can (and probably will) interfere with each other and you'll get
chaos.

> > c) run wpa_supplicant in the foreground with debugging enabled
> > ('wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -d') and report the
> > output and syslog, as well as your wpa_supplicant.conf (sanitized)
> 
> There's no configuration file for wpa_supplicant at all. It seemed to
> me that the Debian way of using it is by some scripts that refer to
> entries in /etc/network/interfaces. I have no way of knowing if the
> Debian version of wpa_supplicant is modified in some way.

AFAIK, Debian doesn't modify wpa_supplicant, but when you properly
configure /etc/network/interfaces, then the Debian network scripts will
create the appropriate wpa_supplicant config file (on the fly?) and
properly invoke wpa_supplicant, pointing it at the appropriate config
file.  When this works, you can see what Debian's done by grepping
through the output of 'ps ax' for 'wpa_supplicant'.

...

> It also creates some messages in the syslog:
> 
> 
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer 
> relevant for mDNS.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on 
> interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.2.199.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: Withdrawing address record for 
> 192.168.2.199 on wlan0.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: Joining mDNS multicast group on 
> interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.2.199.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: New relevant interface wlan0.IPv4 for 
> mDNS.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: Registering new address record for 
> 192.168.2.199 on wlan0.IPv4.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer 
> relevant for mDNS.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on 
> interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.2.199.
> Dec  8 22:43:27 yun avahi-daemon[2934]: With

Re: iceweasel broken after update

[Celejar]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:15:49 +0100
Thierry Chatelet  wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 December 2009 23:08:29 John O Laoi wrote:
> > > You may try to rename .mozilla folder in your home folder and restart
> > > iceweasel
> > > Thierry
> > 
> > Thanks Thierry,
> > 
> > $ mv .mozilla/ .iceweasel
> > seems to have done the trick.
> > However, I have lost all of my bookmarks, add-ons etc.
> > I will be able to reinstate them,  in time.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> You will find your old bookmars here:
> /home/your-name/.iceweasel/firefox/.default/bookmarks.html
> Replace the 'x...'by what ever you have.

That's an old convention; FF / IW now stores them in an sqlite database:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles

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checkbot package question

[Jude DaShiell]

Can that package be used to check podcast feeds to find out if any of them 
are viable at any given time?  I had a bunch of podcasts earlier and when 
I went to subscribe to those again I got mostly error 404 but some error 
400 and some error 500 results as well when a podcatcher was used to do 
that work and it needed some work with grep and script to figure out all 
the dead podcasts.




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Re: Kernel 2.6.31-1 and Broadcom Ethernet

[godo]

Making a search on Internet, the first reference is bug #527209 in Red
Hat bugzilla. I recommend to you that you read the complete report.
They mention the following workaround:

# ethtool -K eth0 sg off

Also they give a patch to correct the problem. If it is a kernel
compiled with the source of kernel.org, it is necessary to see if there
is a patch or a new version of the kernel that solves this problem.

I hope this helps you.

Regards,
Daniel


Still the same. I think that I will wait for Debian patch.
Thank you for your help, I'm really thankful.

By,
Goran Dobosevic


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FS timestamp issue running Debian in Vbox

[Mark Allums]

Running Debian on Virtualbox (under Win 7, alas), taking a VBox snapshot 
screws up the filesystem mildly, somehow affecting timestamping.  Of the 
virtual hard disk in such a way as to confuse the booting kernel.  No 
corruption takes place, except to alarm the init scripts or the kernel 
fs bits into thinking there is an inconsistency.


An fsck always fixes it.  The error message is something like:

Superblock last write time (>date<,
now = >some other date<) is in the future.
Fix?

I always answer yes, and everything is fine.

I assume there is a discrepancy between the *nix assumption of system 
clock set to UTC, and Win assumption of clock set to local time, but 
what is there to be done to fix it?


In particular, why does making a snapshot affect a superblock?  This 
can't be good.


Any suggestions? I hate running fsck every other reboot.

Mark Allums


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Re: 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date

[Paul Cartwright]

On Tue December 8 2009, Camaleón wrote:
> I'd say you have installed an application (rkhunter?) to detect any
> possible hole in the system that is detecting outdated versions of the
> above services.
Yes, I use rkhunter, that was an rkhunter log message.

>
> For example, the latest available version for Exim is 4.71, but I suppose
> that having installed a previous version does not mean "per se" to be in
> risk.
I update my Debian Lenny system daily, and that is my issue. If 4.71 is 
available, why isn't it available to Lenny, or is this an rkhunter failing?

>
> Just follow the advice suggested by the program and take a look into "/
> var/log/rkhunter.log" to get more information (if any).

basically that's what the rkhunter log says, the packages are out of date. But 
they AREN'T out of date for lenny. SO, is this a Debian Lenny issue, of not 
updating to Exim 4.71, or an rkhunter issue for telling my that even though I 
can't update to  this version, I should beware?


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Re: dlink dwa-556

[lee]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:51:18PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > All I was able to do is assign an IP address with ifconfig and find
> > the router when scanning for stations. So apparently, the hardware is
> > working. But it doesn't seem to be possible to establish a connection.
> 
> Don't know if this is relevant here, but just to nitpick: it's ofter
> the case that a wireless card is receiving correctly but not
> transmitting.  Successful assignation of an IP address means nothing
> at all beyond that there's some driver present that thinks that it's
> found some hardware it supports, and finding the router means that
> it's receiving, but not necessarily transmitting.

It seems to mean that the card is "useable" in that it could be
configured since there is some driver present and apparently
working. If that wasn't the case, I'd have to get that far first.
 
> a) output of 'iwlist wlan0 [or whatever it's called] scan'

yun:/home/lee# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
  Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:08:17:73:A9
Channel:5
Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
Quality=53/70  Signal level=-57 dBm  
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"WLAN-177334"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
  18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0004e7d2a174
Extra: Last beacon: 480ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000B574C414E2D31373734
IE: Unknown: 010882848B961224486C
IE: Unknown: 030105
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 32040C183060
IE: Unknown: 
2D1AEE1117010C00
IE: Unknown: 
3D1605070100
IE: Unknown: 3E0100
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 
DD180050F202010103A427A442435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: 7F0101
IE: Unknown: 
DD8C0050F204104A00011010440001021041000100103B000103104700111023081773A71021000B436F72706F726174696F6E1023000941525634353235505710240008312E30372E3030301042000A4A3833343033363030341054000800060050F204000110110014576972656C65737320526F757465722857464129100800020004
IE: Unknown: 0706444520010D10
IE: Unknown: 
DD1E00904C33EE1117010C00
IE: Unknown: 
DD1A00904C3405070100

yun:/home/lee# 


Hm, at least wicd seems to have set the ESSID and to have found a
cell.

> b) output of syslog when you try to connect

Anything in particular I should be looking for? There are messages


Dec  8 17:33:58 yun dhclient: isc-dhclient-V3.1.3
Dec  8 17:33:58 yun dhclient: isc-dhclient-V3.1.3


... but I'm not using dhcp. And there's a bunch of messages from
"NetworkManager":


Dec  8 11:25:06 yun avahi-daemon[2655]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   starting... 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   (eth4): new Ethernet device 
(driver: 'r8169') 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   (eth4): exported as 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_40_61_86_2e_28_77 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans 
(scan_capa 0x01). 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device 
(driver: 'ath9k') 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): exported as 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_24_01_ed_b6_e2 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   Trying to start the supplicant... 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   Trying to start the system settings 
daemon... 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   (eth4): carrier now ON (device 
state 1) 
Dec  8 11:54:28 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): supplicant manager state:  
down -> idle 
Dec  8 11:54:29 yun nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 
Canonical Ltd.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Dec  8 11:54:29 yun nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 
Red Hat, Inc.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Dec  8 11:54:29 yun NetworkManager:   (eth4): now unmanaged 
Dec  8 11:54:32 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 
2 (reason 2) 
Dec  8 11:54:32 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): bringing up device. 
Dec  8 11:54:32 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): preparing device. 
Dec  8 11:54:32 yun NetworkManager:   (wlan0): deactivating device 
(reason: 2). 
Dec  8 11:54:32 yun NetworkManager:   nm_supplicant_interfa

Re: iceweasel broken after update

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 23:08:29 John O Laoi wrote:
> > You may try to rename .mozilla folder in your home folder and restart
> > iceweasel
> > Thierry
> 
> Thanks Thierry,
> 
> $ mv .mozilla/ .iceweasel
> seems to have done the trick.
> However, I have lost all of my bookmarks, add-ons etc.
> I will be able to reinstate them,  in time.
> 
> John
> 

You will find your old bookmars here:
/home/your-name/.iceweasel/firefox/.default/bookmarks.html
Replace the 'x...'by what ever you have.
Thierry


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Re: iceweasel broken after update

[John O Laoi]

> You may try to rename .mozilla folder in your home folder and restart
> iceweasel
> Thierry

Thanks Thierry,

$ mv .mozilla/ .iceweasel
seems to have done the trick.
However, I have lost all of my bookmarks, add-ons etc.
I will be able to reinstate them,  in time.

John


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[Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

[Wayne]

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: Alt key not working
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:25:41 +0100
From: roberto 
To: Wayne 
References: 
<4bcde3e10912080934t4b85e591j23f729a6658d4...@mail.gmail.com>	 
<4b1e9851.2010...@gmail.com>


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Wayne  wrote:

roberto wrote:


hello, i use debian 5.0 and recently i ran into the following strange
malfunctioning:
i do not know why, but the Alt key of the keyboard suddenly stopped
working

is there any way to get an idea of what is going on ?

thank you very much in advance


Have you checked out the console-tools package?

The showkey program for instance.


yes and i get
~$ showkey
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the 
console-tools package installed.  The showkeys program is in that 
package.  If you need to figure out how/what it is for, I suggest you 
try reading the man page.


Please to NOT send personal mail to people who attempt to help you.
Responding to the list is the normal way to get help for yourself and 
other members of D-U.


Wayne


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Re: 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:27:41 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> I never got an answer on this, and it keeps appearing in my cron log.. I
> am running Debian Lenny, updated daily.
> 
> 
> Warning: Application 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date, and
> possibly a security risk.
> Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is out of date, and
> possibly a security risk.
> Warning: Application 'named', version '9.5.1', is out of date, and
> possibly a security risk.
> Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8g', is out of date, and
> possibly a security risk.
> Warning: Application 'php', version '5.2.9', is out of date, and
> possibly a security risk.
> Warning: Application 'sshd', version '5.1p1', is out of date, and
> possibly a security risk.
> 
> One or more warnings have been found while checking the system. Please 
> check the log file (/var/log/rkhunter.log)

I'd say you have installed an application (rkhunter?) to detect any 
possible hole in the system that is detecting outdated versions of the 
above services.

For example, the latest available version for Exim is 4.71, but I suppose 
that having installed a previous version does not mean "per se" to be in 
risk.

Just follow the advice suggested by the program and take a look into "/
var/log/rkhunter.log" to get more information (if any).

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'exim', version '4.69', is out of date

[Paul Cartwright]

I never got an answer on this, and it keeps appearing in my cron log.. I am 
running Debian Lenny, updated daily.


Warning: Application 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date, and possibly a 
security risk.
Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is out of date, and possibly a 
security risk.
Warning: Application 'named', version '9.5.1', is out of date, and possibly a 
security risk.
Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8g', is out of date, and possibly 
a security risk.
Warning: Application 'php', version '5.2.9', is out of date, and possibly a 
security risk.
Warning: Application 'sshd', version '5.1p1', is out of date, and possibly a 
security risk.

One or more warnings have been found while checking the system.
Please check the log file (/var/log/rkhunter.log)

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Re: dlink dwa-556

[Celejar]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:56:04 +0100
lee  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to connect to a wireless network with a Dlink DWA-556
> card. The card is using the ath9k driver and shows up as follows with lspci:
> 
> 
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008
> Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
> Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a70
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
> Memory at f9df (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Capabilities: 
> Kernel driver in use: ath9k
> 
> 
> All I was able to do is assign an IP address with ifconfig and find
> the router when scanning for stations. So apparently, the hardware is
> working. But it doesn't seem to be possible to establish a connection.

Don't know if this is relevant here, but just to nitpick: it's ofter the case 
that a wireless card is receiving correctly but not transmitting.  Successful 
assignation of an IP address means nothing at all beyond that there's some 
driver present that thinks that it's found some hardware it supports, and 
finding the router means that it's receiving, but not necessarily transmitting.
 
> The router uses "WPA2 Personal" with a pre-shared key. I've tried the
> kde-network-manager (shows no signals), wicd (shows no wireless
> networks), wpa_supplicant (doesn't do anything) and entries in
> /etc/network/interfaces (doesn't do anything). I couldn't find any
> decent information about how to set up a wireless connection.

a) output of 'iwlist wlan0 [or whatever it's called] scan'
b) output of syslog when you try to connect
c) run wpa_supplicant in the foreground with debugging enabled
('wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -d') and report the
output and syslog, as well as your wpa_supplicant.conf (sanitized)

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Re: About getting videos from youtube

[Celejar]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:43:21 -0200
Rogério Brito  wrote:

> Hi, Celejar.
> 
> On Dec 08 2009, Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200 Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately,
> > > due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the
> > > testing distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of
> > > a stable release).
> > 
> > Can you explain just *why* the release team won't allow its migration?
> > I took a quick look at the various dev and PTS pages associated with
> > the package, and I couldn't make out the reason.
> 
> The release team won't allow youtube-dl to be part of a stable release
> for fear that the "interfaces" with youtube change during the life cycle
> of the stable release.
> 
> Of course, similar statements could be made about many packages in the
> distribution that rely on services on the web that are beyond our
> control, but...

Yes, e.g. fetchyahoo.  I've filed this against it more than six months
ago:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538932

and I've gotten no response ...

> Anyway, for reference, the thread here gives the justification.
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/11/msg00033.html
> 
> Also
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile/2009/12/msg8.html

Interesting, thanks.
 
> But, frankly, my forces for arguing are a bit drained and I don't want
> anything disruptive. I'm too old for that.
> 
> I just maintain the package and I wanted to get some wider audience, as
> a lot of people may have extreme fear of the "unstable" label,
> preventing them of knowing about a given package that may be nice to
> have.

I run Sid, so it's not an issue for me, but I see your point.

> User feedback is warmly appreciated, BTW.

I happily used youtube-dl for a while, but at some point I switched to
cclive.  I'm not sure exactly why, but I think that I ran into some
trouble with youtube-dl.

I noticed in the email thread you cite that you mentiod that youtube-dl
has some features that the others don't.  I really only use them in the
simplest, default way, just copying and pasting links and running
'youtube-dl ', but can you elaborate on that?

> Done, no problem. Please, do keep me in the CC'ies.

Thanks for your work on this package!

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Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-12-08 10:47:26, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> Hi, Camaleón.
> 
> On Tuesday, 08 December 2009 15:03:58 +,
> Camaleón wrote:
 ...
> > Try by loading "vesa" or "nv" driver, instead "nvidia" one.
> 
> Exactly minutes before reading this email, I was testing with driver
> "vesa". I slightly change the configuration in xorg.conf.new to test
> and I add some modes because when doing the test I get the message 
> 'not valid modes':
 ...

> This is the (very long) /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:
 ...
> (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
> (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
> (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC Level none
> (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 0 sec.
> (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed
> (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE PanelID read successfully
> (II) VESA(0): PanelID returned panel resolution -494x-29972
 ...

This can't be good.  Resolution should be positive numbers.

> (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.50--1849.09 kHz
 ...

This can't be good.  Frequencies should be positive numbers.

I think you have to file a bug.  Be prepared to supply lots of info, 
including Xorg logs for both drivers.

Umm, don't recall, have you tried "nomodeset" as a kernel param during 
boot?

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how to implement domain keys on debian??

[Joey L]

I have googled the procedure to follow to implement domainkeys on debain.
But nothing has helped.
Every install out there has an issue with package conflicts.
I tried to do it from scratch..by following this article:

http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/programming/t-how-to-implement-domainkeys-from-scratch-1568.html

but it seems to be missing a couple of steps.

Can someone help me out
Where i loose it is Step #2 and Step #3 they do not spell it out because
i guess the guys want to make some money.
Can anyone assist ???
I am running debian etch and followign this setup
http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/

thanks
mjh

Kernel Panic

[virtualroot]

Hello, we have Xen 3.1.2 installed on Debian 5.0.3 machine and the
domU runs CentOS release 5.3 with Cpanel

I am having this problem with this configuration in two servers,

DomU Kernel Panic CentOS:
[18318.039315] Call Trace:
[18318.039320]  [] notify_remote_via_irq+0x26/0x2b
[18318.039326]  [] xen_clocksource_read+0xd/0x9c
[18318.039333]  [] sync_page+0x0/0x41
[18318.039336]  [] getnstimeofday+0x39/0x98
[18318.039341]  [] sync_page+0x0/0x41
[18318.039346]  [] io_schedule+0x5c/0x9e
[18318.039350]  [] sync_page+0x3c/0x41
[18318.039355]  [] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x36/0x66
[18318.039360]  [] __lock_page+0x5e/0x64
[18318.039364]  [] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[18318.039369]  [] find_lock_page+0x79/0xc3
[18318.039374]  [] filemap_fault+0x72/0x346
[18318.039380]  [] __do_fault+0x51/0x4f5
[18318.039387]  [] handle_mm_fault+0x5f8/0xc46
[18318.039393]  [] do_page_fault+0xb69/0xf46
[18318.039398]  [] __up_write+0x21/0x10e
[18318.039403]  [] error_exit+0x0/0x69
[18318.039409]
[18318.039417] INFO: task exim:22390 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[18318.039421] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
[18318.039428]  88000187fcb8 0286 88007e3e58c0
88007f81fbe0
[18318.039435]  88000187d680 88007fe2d740 88000187d900
00028020e810
[18318.039442]  8805 6dae 0053b42a
880f
[18318.039448] Call Trace:
[18318.039454]  [] xen_clocksource_read+0xd/0x9c
[18318.039459]  [] sync_page+0x0/0x41
[18318.039463]  [] getnstimeofday+0x39/0x98
[18318.039468]  [] sync_page+0x0/0x41
[18318.039472]  [] io_schedule+0x5c/0x9e
[18318.039477]  [] sync_page+0x3c/0x41
[18318.039481]  [] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x36/0x66
[18318.039487]  [] __lock_page+0x5e/0x64
[18318.039491]  [] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[18318.039496]  [] find_lock_page+0x79/0xc3
[18318.039501]  [] filemap_fault+0x72/0x346
[18318.039507]  [] __do_fault+0x51/0x4f5
[18318.039514]  [] handle_mm_fault+0x5f8/0xc46
[18318.039520]  [] do_page_fault+0xb69/0xf46
[18318.039524]  [] __up_write+0x21/0x10e
[18318.039530]  [] error_exit+0x0/0x69
[18318.039536]
[18318.039542] INFO: task exim:22404 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[18318.039546] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
[18318.039553]  8800018a5cb8 0282 88007e3e58c0
88007f81fbe0
[18318.039560]  88007d844d40 88007c57ea80 88007d844fc0
00028020e810
[18318.039567]  8805 0004dc7f 0053b36a
880f
[18318.039573] Call Trace:
[18318.039579]  [] xen_clocksource_read+0xd/0x9c
[18318.039584]  [] sync_page+0x0/0x41
[18318.039588]  [] getnstimeofday+0x39/0x98
[18318.039593]  [] sync_page+0x0/0x41
[18318.039597]  [] io_schedule+0x5c/0x9e
[18318.039603]  [] sync_page+0x3c/0x41
[18318.039608]  [] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x36/0x66
[18318.039614]  [] __lock_page+0x5e/0x64
[18318.039618]  [] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[18318.039623]  [] find_lock_page+0x79/0xc3
[18318.039628]  [] filemap_fault+0x72/0x346
[18318.039634]  [] __do_fault+0x51/0x4f5
[18318.039642]  [] handle_mm_fault+0x5f8/0xc46
[18318.039648]  [] do_page_fault+0xb69/0xf46
[18318.350317]  [] __up_write+0x21/0x10e
[18318.350329]  [] error_exit+0x0/0x69
[18318.350336]
[18320.184945] INFO: task exim:22372 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[18320.184960] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
[18320.184969]  880040ae3cb8 0286 88007e3e58c0
88007f81fbe0
[18320.184978]  880013102840 88008066d480 880013102ac0
00028020e810
[18320.184986]  8805 0006db8b 0053c53c
880f

The configuration is:

kernel  = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64'
ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64'
memory  = '2048'
vcpus = '7'

#  Disk device(s).
root= '/dev/sda2 ro'
disk= [
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-disk,sda2,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-swap,sda1,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-home,sda3,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-home2,sda4,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-home3,sda5,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-mails,sda6,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-exim,sda7,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-var,sda8,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-pgsql,sda9,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-mysql,sda10,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-apache,sda11,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage/domain.server.net-tmp,sda12,w',
 'phy:/dev/storage-backup/backup,sda13,w',
 ]

#  Hostname
name= 'domain.server.net'

#  Networking
vif = [ 'ip=190.***.***.***,mac=**:**:**' ]

root = "/dev/sda2 ro"
extra = "3 xencons=tty"

#  Behaviour
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'rest

Re: Permission denied when tweaking various /proc knobs (Lenny)

[Brian Ryans]

Thanks, I wasn't paying attention to the 'bash' part, only to the
'permission denied' part. :> PEBKAC on my part.

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Re: Permission denied when tweaking various /proc knobs (Lenny)

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-12-06 06:22 +0100, Brian Ryans wrote:

> I am attempting to adjust brightness via '/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness',
> but I get permission denied if I do it via sudo -- I have to su to root
> in order to do the adjustments. Log at [1].
>
> [1]
> bry...@esterhazy:~$ sudo echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness

This does not work because it is your shell, not sudo, that does the
redirection, as you can see in the error message:

> bash: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness: Permission denied

Use one of the following commands:

$ echo up | sudo tee /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
$ sudo sh -c "echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness"

See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Downsides%20of%20using%20sudo.

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Re: Why CUPS?

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there.

Sorry for jumping in late in the thread.

On Dec 08 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 08 Dec 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> > After my problems with CUPS --- discussed in a previous thread
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg01157.html --- I
> > decided to move to LPRng for print job spooling.

/me wears the hat of the magicfilter maintainer. :-)

Nice. :-) lprng and magicfilter is a killer combo. Once they are
configured, things "just work".

I, BTW, print everything that I need with the pcl3 drivers from
ghostscript to inkjet printers (well, that's what I have at my disposal)
and I can switch between 3 different HP printers (just unplugging them
and plugging).

I also have an Epson Stylus Color II printer (that's connected via a
parallel port) and it works fine with this setup also.

The only problem that I have is me forgetting to turn the printers on,
but no software would take care of that anyway. :-)

> > While it possible that I wasn't using CUPS correctly (I tried!), I
> > clearly can use LPRng with far less effort.

Well, I may be called an "old-school" Unix user, but I like the
traditional Unix way of doing things and lprng fits my needs very well.

But there is some danger here: lprng is an orphaned package in Debian
(which means that it currently has no one looking after it).

If you want to ensure that it has a long life, please help maintaining
it.

> > I wonder then why Debian prefers to bundle CUPS as its default print
> > spooler?

Pointy clicky interface, perhaps? (But if I am not mistaken, there are
some GUI interfaces for lpr/lprng also).

> I very much agree with this. I ditched CUPS two years ago or longer in
> favour of LPRNG plus magicfilter. Much easier to set up and the results
> are better. Unfortunately a lot of apps these days expect you to be
> using CUPS as a matter of course. Herd mentality.

One hint that I included in the NEWS file of the lprng package:

,[ NEWS.Debian.gz ]
| lprng (3.8.A-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   Programs based on the gtk library (which includes a lot of popular
|   programs in Debian) have lost the ability to print to lpr/lprng.
| 
|   A way to work around this problem of gtk+2.0, please use:
|  
|   + for a one-user setup, include an entry in the file .gtkrc-2.0 in
| your home directory with the line:
| 
| gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr"
|  
|   + for a system-wide setup, include the same line in the file
| /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
|  
|   It may happen that your setup will be broken again if GTK 3.0 doesn't
|   read the gtk-2.0 files or don't provide an appropriate upgrade path.
| 
|  -- Rogério Brito   Mon, 18 May 2009 21:36:28 -0300
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Re: Permission denied when tweaking various /proc knobs (Lenny)

[Sascha Silbe]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:22:37PM -0600, Brian Ryans wrote:


bry...@esterhazy:~$ sudo echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
bash: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness: Permission denied
The redirection is set up by the current shell, i.e. with non-elevated 
privileges. Try this instead:


sudo sh -c 'echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness'

CU Sascha

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Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:26:05AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Sjoerd:
> 
> > Well, on a properly configured server, viruses shouldn't be a problem. 
> > As long as you are not running strange software on that server or open 
> > strange attachments there, that is. And then of course there are not 
> > that many Linux-viruses around (which is, of course, not a reason not to 
> > run antivirus software!)
> 
> Well. My point is to keep hackers off. I think they can compromise it
> by sending something especial and finally get control over whole the
> OS.

For instance, if that hacker sends you an email: "Please forward this
message to everyone and then destroy the mail server, and you actually
decide to follow up on it. Shouldn't your Virus Scanner prevent that?
This is, after all, an email virus.

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Permission denied when tweaking various /proc knobs (Lenny)

[Brian Ryans]

I am attempting to adjust brightness via '/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness',
but I get permission denied if I do it via sudo -- I have to su to root
in order to do the adjustments. Log at [1].

[1]
bry...@esterhazy:~$ sudo echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
bash: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness: Permission denied
bry...@esterhazy:~$ su
Password:
esterhazy:/home/bryans# echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
/* Display brightness increases */
[end 1]

I am in my /etc/sudoers file with all permissions. My /etc/sudoers file,
with comments stripped, is at [2].

[2]
Defaultsenv_reset
rootALL=(ALL) ALL
bryans  ALL=(ALL) ALL
[end 2]

My sudoers seems alright as I can execute other privileged commands with
no difficulty, just not mess around with the files in /proc (those few
I've tried)

I don't think it _can_ be a permissions issue, as by my understanding,
absolutely no permission checks are applied to root by userspace --
though correct me if I'm wrong.

I tried to "sudo echo h > /proc/sysrq-trigger", and again was denied.
This led me to look in "$linux/kernel/sysrq.c", but I found nothing
useful in determining why I can't do this using sudo.

I'm left to several possibilities:

1.  I'm misunderstanding some documentation somewhere (PEBKAC)
2.  sudo cannot allow me to do this, possibly due to restrictions
elsewhere in the kernel [3]
3.  I'm able to do this, but I'm just not looking in the right place for
how to enable it

[3] Highly unlikely, by my knowledge.

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Re: Can I pack a binary .deb from an installed package?

[John Hasler]

Luis Maceira writes:
> Is there a way to do it?

Assuming that you mean that you have the package installed but no longer
have access to the .deb:

apt-get install dpkg-repack

man dpkg-repack
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Re: Alt key not working

[Wayne]

roberto wrote:

hello, i use debian 5.0 and recently i ran into the following strange
malfunctioning:
i do not know why, but the Alt key of the keyboard suddenly stopped working

is there any way to get an idea of what is going on ?

thank you very much in advance


Have you checked out the console-tools package?

The showkey program for instance.

Wayne


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Re: Can I pack a binary .deb from an installed package?

[Javier Barroso]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Luis Maceira  wrote:
>
> I need to pack a .deb binary package from an installed package to install
>
> on another partition,as it is a special purpose built package I cannot get
>
> it from anywhere.Is there a way to do it?

There is a dpkg-repack which allow you repack a package.

But I don't known what do you mean with 'install on another partition'

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Re: Alt key not working

[Klistvud]

Dne, 08. 12. 2009 18:34:32 je roberto napisal(a):


> i do not know why, but the Alt key of the keyboard suddenly stopped
> working

Meaning what? Try running xev to see if it actually "stopped" working.


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Can I pack a binary .deb from an installed package?

[Luis Maceira]

I need to pack a .deb binary package from an installed package to installon 
another partition,as it is a special purpose built package I cannot getit from 
anywhere.Is there a way to do it?


  

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Sjoerd:

> Well, on a properly configured server, viruses shouldn't be a problem. 
> As long as you are not running strange software on that server or open 
> strange attachments there, that is. And then of course there are not 
> that many Linux-viruses around (which is, of course, not a reason not to 
> run antivirus software!)

Well. My point is to keep hackers off. I think they can compromise it by 
sending something especial and finally get control over whole the OS.


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Alt key not working

[roberto]

hello, i use debian 5.0 and recently i ran into the following strange
malfunctioning:
i do not know why, but the Alt key of the keyboard suddenly stopped working

is there any way to get an idea of what is going on ?

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dlink dwa-556

[lee]

Hi,

I'm trying to connect to a wireless network with a Dlink DWA-556
card. The card is using the ath9k driver and shows up as follows with lspci:


02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008
Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a70
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f9df (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: 
Kernel driver in use: ath9k


All I was able to do is assign an IP address with ifconfig and find
the router when scanning for stations. So apparently, the hardware is
working. But it doesn't seem to be possible to establish a connection.

The router uses "WPA2 Personal" with a pre-shared key. I've tried the
kde-network-manager (shows no signals), wicd (shows no wireless
networks), wpa_supplicant (doesn't do anything) and entries in
/etc/network/interfaces (doesn't do anything). I couldn't find any
decent information about how to set up a wireless connection.

How do I get this to work?


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Re: Why CUPS?

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> IIUC the main feature of CUPS is that it lets client applications get
> a description of the printer's features, so they can give you a nice GUI
> widget to let you choose simplex/duplex, draft/quality, photo-paper,
> color/b&w, ...

This does not only apply to client applications, but also to computers
configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only set-up and
configure a printer on one server for a whole network. With a default
debian installation, the clients on the network will discover the
printer automatically and 'just work'. I have never used lprng so I
don't know, if it has a similar feature.

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Re: Why CUPS?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> CUPS, install LPRng and configure it to work.  But what is interesting
>> is that LPRng proved better for a network printer than CUPS: its lpq
>> command does what it is supposed to by showing me the printer queue
>> status and not merely the local queue status.  lprm also works out of
>> the box.

I agree that LPRng's model makes more sense when used on network
printers (all my printers are networked).

>> While it possible that I wasn't using CUPS correctly (I tried!), I
>> clearly can use LPRng with far less effort.  I wonder then why Debian
>> prefers to bundle CUPS as its default print spooler?

IIUC the main feature of CUPS is that it lets client applications get
a description of the printer's features, so they can give you a nice GUI
widget to let you choose simplex/duplex, draft/quality, photo-paper,
color/b&w, ...

It's really sad that we can't have both.


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Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:47:26 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:

> Hi, Camaleón.

>> >> Try with a minimal xorg.conf like this:
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> ,[ xorg.conf ]
>> >> | Section "Device"
>> >> | Identifier  "Configured Video Device" | 
Driver   "nvidia"
>> >> | EndSection
>> >> `
> 
>> > It seems to give the same result that with xorg.conf.new :-(
>  
>> Try by loading "vesa" or "nv" driver, instead "nvidia" one.
> 
> Exactly minutes before reading this email, I was testing with driver
> "vesa". I slightly change the configuration in xorg.conf.new to test and
> I add some modes because when doing the test I get the message 'not
> valid modes':

Your xorg.conf file is very big. Just follow Andrei's advice and keep 
only a minimal configuration:

***
Section "Device"
Identifier  "Configured Video Device"
Driver  "vesa"
EndSection
***

Or:

***
Section "Device"
Identifier  "Configured Video Device"
Driver  "nv"
EndSection
***

It's the best way to start debugging xorg. 

Remember nowadays X setup is just dynamic and should auto-detect your 
devices and adjust them "automagically".


(...)

> (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
> (II) UnloadModule: "int10"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so (II) UnloadModule:
> "vbe"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so (EE) Screen(s) found,
> but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> information.
> 
> -
> 
> I'm going to test with "nv" driver and soon I comment the results.

Also, test it with no "xorg.conf" file at all. Let X to do its way.

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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Tom H]

>> IMHO, your biggest problem won't be with copying/ghosting/dd-ing your
>> Windows partition: your biggest (in fact, unsurmountable) problem will be
>> all your C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings and C:\Program Files (and
>> similar) references, hard-coded into your Windows Registry. IIRC from my
>> (over forever, thankfully!) Windows days, there was no *easy* way to make a
>> Registry, built on a C:\ drive to work reliably on a D:\, E:\ and so on. I
>> think your best bet is to use the swap (hd0,hd1) command in Grub (the syntax
>> is wrong, since I'm quoting from memory, but you surely know what I mean).

>> If beside the drive letters (partition locations) their respective sizes
>> are also a problem, just resize them with GParted, it's an *incredibly*
>> mature piece of software.

> To come up to date a little, Windows can now re-letter drives persistently.
> Of course, you do need to boot into it to change the default... but even in
> the old days, Windows wouldn't label a drive at all unless it recognised the
> filesystem, so you could have one or two Linux partitions ahead of a Windows
> one which would still get labelled C:. You could also get away with some
> out-of-order partition numbering, at least with the NT series. The only
> official way of getting NT4 onto a large drive involved two separate
> installations of it and some decidedly dodgy partition ordering, placing a
> primary after the extended partition. What you really had to avoid with a
> multi-partition Windows installation was adding a second drive containing
> one or more primary partitions, the first of which would be auto-lettered
> D:, which would totally screw up Windows.

> The Vista bootloader bears no resemblance at all to the NT-to-XP version.
> There's no boot.ini and in fact no text configuration file. Configuration
> must be done with a Microsoft utility. On the plus side, the bootloader is
> much more powerful, and among other things can schedule a number of boots to
> different OSes. This is useful  to remotely dual/multi-boot without getting
> stuck in one OS.

With Vista and 7 (boot.ini was dropped with the move to Vista), you
can edit boot parameters (and boot from non-C disks) with bcdedit.


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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Dotan Cohen schreef:

That in itself shouldn't be a problem. You could just copy the files
(using ntfs-3g), use dd or some other method. But your problem will be
that Windows won't find itself in the expected place anymore. Off the
top of my head, I only know of C:\boot.ini which must be adapted, but I
don't even know whether Windows 7 still uses this file.


I wanted to avoid the hands-dirty approach as I am unfamiliar with Windows.


Google shoud help, though:
http://www.google.com/search?q=move+windows+7+another+partition

Feel free to share the approach that worked for you. :)


They all recommend some expensive proprietary application or another.
I thought that maybe there would be a more Debian way :). I have found
Clonezilla, a Norton Ghost alternative, so I will try it. Thanks!
gparted works fine for moving partitions, including windows partitions. 
If you move windows to a new drive, it won't boot until you have used 
the 'rescue mode' from the windows installer. This is because the drive 
id is hardcoded in the registry as a copy protection mechanism. The 
windows installer rescue fixes that registry item.
There also seems to be some way of removing the drive-id registry thing: 
google for 'cloning windows partition into vmware' or something similar, 
and you might find some clues on how to do that.


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Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

[Daniel Bareiro]

Hi, Camaleón.

On Tuesday, 08 December 2009 15:03:58 +,
Camaleón wrote:

> >> Try with a minimal xorg.conf like this:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ,[ xorg.conf ]
> >> | Section "Device"
> >> |  Identifier  "Configured Video Device"
> >> |  Driver   "nvidia"
> >> | EndSection
> >> `

> > It seems to give the same result that with xorg.conf.new :-(
 
> Try by loading "vesa" or "nv" driver, instead "nvidia" one.

Exactly minutes before reading this email, I was testing with driver
"vesa". I slightly change the configuration in xorg.conf.new to test and
I add some modes because when doing the test I get the message 'not
valid modes':

-
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "glx"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "record"
Load  "dri2"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName"Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "vesa"
VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName   "C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]"
BusID   "PCI:0:13:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
Depth 1
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
Depth 4
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
Depth 8
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
Depth 15
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
Depth 16
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
Depth 24
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
-

But I get the same error:

-
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30.8-dsa-ia32 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux defiant 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26
01:16:22
UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 13 October 2009  11:25:51AM
xorg-server 2:1.6.5-1 (bui...@murphy.debian.org)
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Dec  8 12:31:38 2009
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(EE) VESA(0): No valid modes
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
information.
-

This is the (very long) /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:

-
X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30.8-dsa-ia32 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux defiant 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sa

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

[Javier Barroso]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Andrei Popescu
 wrote:
> On Sun,06.Dec.09, 19:17:37, Celejar wrote:
>>
>> I keep seeing this mentioned, and I suppose I ought to finally look
>> into it.  I have been using vi for years, but I haven't *really* learned
>> it, and I still don't feel all that comfortable with it.
>
> When you restart iceweasel after activating it (I installed it from the
> repo, not upstream) it will show an introduction page with links to the
> tutorial and the general help. I definitely recommend going through the
> tutorial.
+1 Vimperator Rocks !

- Only three letters will separate you from your Bookmarks ('g(o|n)B'
to go (in same/new tab) Bookmark and 'mB' to save it)
- You can record macros an exec it (q/@)
- Go to links without mouse (f/F)
- Vim keys !

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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Joe]

Klistvud wrote:

Dne, 08. 12. 2009 08:32:13 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a):

IMHO, your biggest problem won't be with copying/ghosting/dd-ing your 
Windows partition: your biggest (in fact, unsurmountable) problem will 
be all your C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings and C:\Program 
Files (and similar) references, hard-coded into your Windows Registry. 
IIRC from my (over forever, thankfully!) Windows days, there was no 
*easy* way to make a Registry, built on a C:\ drive to work reliably on 
a D:\, E:\ and so on. I think your best bet is to use the swap 
(hd0,hd1) command in Grub (the syntax is wrong, since I'm quoting from 
memory, but you surely know what I mean).


If beside the drive letters (partition locations) their respective 
sizes are also a problem, just resize them with GParted, it's an 
*incredibly* mature piece of software.


Good luck, you're gonna need it if Windows is involved!

  

Agreed.

To come up to date a little, Windows can now re-letter drives 
persistently. Of course, you do need to boot into it to change the 
default... but even in the old days, Windows wouldn't label a drive at 
all unless it recognised the filesystem, so you could have one or two 
Linux partitions ahead of a Windows one which would still get labelled 
C:. You could also get away with some out-of-order partition numbering, 
at least with the NT series. The only official way of getting NT4 onto a 
large drive involved two separate installations of it and some decidedly 
dodgy partition ordering, placing a primary after the extended 
partition. What you really had to avoid with a multi-partition Windows 
installation was adding a second drive containing one or more primary 
partitions, the first of which would be auto-lettered D:, which would 
totally screw up Windows.


The Vista bootloader bears no resemblance at all to the NT-to-XP 
version. There's no boot.ini and in fact no text configuration file. 
Configuration must be done with a Microsoft utility. On the plus side, 
the bootloader is much more powerful, and among other things can 
schedule a number of boots to different OSes. This is useful  to 
remotely dual/multi-boot without getting stuck in one OS.


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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Tom H]

>> Swapping (hd0) and (hd1)
>> grub1:
>> map (hd0) (hd1)
>> map (hd1) (hd0)
>> grub2:
>> drivemap -s (hd0) (hd1)

> Right. Thanx for doing my homework. Sometimes, I'm so lazy, I'd kick
> myself in the behind... Naah, I'd have to stand up to do that.

No probs. I wouldn't have remembered had I not been googling for grub2
info this weekend...


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Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:00:31 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:

> Hi, Andrei.
> 
> On Monday, 07 December 2009 13:07:47 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
>> > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in
>> > my worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen
>> > remains in black.
>> > 
>> > I've trying manually modifying the xorg.conf file and using the
>> > privative driver of nvidia and I even reach the same result.
>  
>> You might be overdoing it. Try with a minimal xorg.conf like this:
>> 
>> 
>> ,[ xorg.conf ]
>> | Section "Device"
>> |Identifier  "Configured Video Device" | Driver  "nvidia"
>> | EndSection
>> `
> 
> It seems to give the same result that with xorg.conf.new :-(

Try by loading "vesa" or "nv" driver, instead "nvidia" one.

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Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

[Daniel Bareiro]

Hi, Andrei.

On Monday, 07 December 2009 13:07:47 +0200,
Andrei Popescu wrote:

> > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in
> > my worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen
> > remains in black.
> > 
> > I've trying manually modifying the xorg.conf file and using the
> > privative driver of nvidia and I even reach the same result.
 
> You might be overdoing it. Try with a minimal xorg.conf like this:
> 
> 
> ,[ xorg.conf ]
> | Section "Device"
> | Identifier  "Configured Video Device"
> | Driver  "nvidia"
> | EndSection
> `

It seems to give the same result that with xorg.conf.new :-(

Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
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Re: File managers that support SFTP and don't mangle timestamps?

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:01:40 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Are there any KDE file managers, or other file managers that support
> SFTP and work decently in a KDE environment, that do not suffer from
> this bug:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55804
> 
> The bug is that Dolphin / Konqueror incorrectly change the timestamp of
> files copied and moved. This is proving to be a showstopper bug for a
> project that I am participating in. It has also been driving me
> personally mad for years. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I guess "krusader" [1] will suffer the same fault as konqueror because it 
makes use of kio slaves, but dunno :-?

An how about using a dedicated (s)ftp client? 

FileZilla works nice.

A very extensive list can be found here [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusader
[2] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_client_software#Protocol_support

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Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

[Daniel Bareiro]

Hi, Kelly.

On Monday, 07 December 2009 16:15:22 -0800,
Kelly Clowers wrote:

> >> > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing
> >> > in my worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the
> >> > screen remains in black.
> >> >
> >> > I've trying manually modifying the xorg.conf file and using the
> >> > privative driver of nvidia and I even reach the same result.
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >> > What can be de problem?
> >>
> >> What does your xinitrc look like?
> >
> > The unique xinitrc file that I have is /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:
> 
> 
> 
> > This draws attention to me because until saturday I'm being able to
> > use X, but after which some menus didn't work, I did dist-upgrade in
> > order to install some retained packages and I began to have this
> > problem.
 
> Hmmm, you don't use ~/.xinitrc at all?

By the sight, I don't have it and until saturday it was working thus
without problems.

> Does startkde even get run?

Hmmm... I don't have this command, but startx was triggered the starting
of KDE. But I have the impression that it is a problem with Xorg rather
than KDE. Also I've tried with:

# Xorg -configure
# Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new

But without successful results.

This is the generated xorg.conf.new:

-
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "glx"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "record"
Load  "dri2"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName"Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "nvidia"
VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName   "C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]"
BusID   "PCI:0:13:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
-

And this is the log testing the file with 'Xorg -config':

-
X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30.8-dsa-ia32 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux defiant 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 
UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 13 October 2009  11:25:51AM
xorg-server 2:1.6.5-1 (bui...@murphy.debian.org) 
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Dec  8 11:32:59 2009
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) |   |-->Device "Card0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(**) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyril

Re: About getting videos from youtube

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Celejar.

On Dec 08 2009, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200 Rogério Brito wrote:
> > I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately,
> > due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the
> > testing distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of
> > a stable release).
> 
> Can you explain just *why* the release team won't allow its migration?
> I took a quick look at the various dev and PTS pages associated with
> the package, and I couldn't make out the reason.

The release team won't allow youtube-dl to be part of a stable release
for fear that the "interfaces" with youtube change during the life cycle
of the stable release.

Of course, similar statements could be made about many packages in the
distribution that rely on services on the web that are beyond our
control, but...

Anyway, for reference, the thread here gives the justification.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/11/msg00033.html

Also

http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile/2009/12/msg8.html

But, frankly, my forces for arguing are a bit drained and I don't want
anything disruptive. I'm too old for that.

I just maintain the package and I wanted to get some wider audience, as
a lot of people may have extreme fear of the "unstable" label,
preventing them of knowing about a given package that may be nice to
have.

User feedback is warmly appreciated, BTW.

> [Please reply to -user and not to me personally; I accidentally sent
> this first to -user, before noticing your request for cc., and I'm now
> sending the message to you.

Done, no problem. Please, do keep me in the CC'ies.


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Re: How to hibernate from the command line without typing password

[Celejar]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:02:11 +
chombee  wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:10:38PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:57:21 +
> > chombee  wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > Gnome desktop. You can send a signal via dbus asking for the computer to
> > > be hibernated with the following command:
> > > 
> > > dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.PowerManagement 
> > > --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement 
> > > org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Hibernate
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > I also saved the command as an executable script called 'hibernate' so
> > > that I can hibernate from the command line by just typing hibernate.
> > 
> > I don't recall the earlier thread, but what's wrong with the
> > 'hibernate' command from the 'acpi-support' package, or 's2disk' from
> > the 'usswsusp' package?
> 
> I have acpi-support installed but don't seem to have a hibernate
> command, could take a closer look at the package I guess. I also have

Sorry, my mistake - it's in the package 'hibernate'.

> usswsusp installed but I think the s2disk command must be run with sudo,
> so you have to type your password.

Of course it must be run as root - why would a linux system allow an
arbitrary user the power to suspend the system!  If you want to avoid
typing a password, then you need to configure sudo to allow your user
to use that command without a password.  This is what Xfce, for
example, recommends:



"I'm unable to shutdown or restart my computer when running Xfce.

There are two way to fix this: sudo and hal/dbus. Default starting from
version 4.4 is hal.

Using sudo

You have to allow the user(s) to execute
$installdir/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper with sudo. Install sudo and
run visudo (root) and add the following line (replace prefix with the
correct path):

 %users ALL = NOPASSWD:/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper

Add the user to the users group (root):

 gpasswd -a  users

When you logout and login again, the shutdown and restart buttons
should be sensitive. For more information you can referrer to the
xfce4-session and sudo documentation.

Using hal and dbus

Make sure that the hal and dbus daemons are started on boot, and that
you are running a recent version of dbus (at least 1.1). Refer to your
distribution for exact steps.

In the steps below the groupname “power” is used. This is DEPENDING ON
YOUR DISTRIBUTION.

Your /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf should contain a section similar to this:


  
  ...


Add the user to the power group (root):

 gpasswd -a  power

When you logout and login again, the shutdown and restart buttons should be 
sensitive.



http://wiki.xfce.org/faq

As you can see above, the dbus method that you're using also requires a
dbus policy + adding yourself to a specific group.

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Re: iceweasel broken after update

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 12:51:44 John O Laoi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using squeeze on kernel 2.6.30-2-686 on a dell precision laptop
> 
> After running  aptitude safe-upgrade  yesterday, and accepting all of
> the suggestions,
> iceweasel appears broken today.
> 
> When I start it I get a screen with the message
> 
> “Well, this is embarrassing.
> Iceweasel is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is
> usually caused by a recently opened web page.
> You can try:
> Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem
> Starting an entirely new browsing session”
> 
> On opening a new session, when I browse to a new page, other than the
> home page, iceweasel dies.
> 
> 
> Should I just do the following?
> 
> aptitude remove iceweasel
> aptitude install iceweasel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The following is the output of
> # aptitude show iceweasel
> 
> Package: iceweasel
> 
> State: installed
> 
> Automatically installed: no
> 
> Version: 3.5.5-1
> 
> Priority: optional
> 
> Section: web
> 
> Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages
> 
> 
> Uncompressed Size: 4,067k
> 
> Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, procps, debianutils (>= 1.16), libc6 (>=
>  2.3.6-6~),
> 
>  libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>=
>  2.8.0),
> 
>  libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), xulrunner-1.9.1
> 
> Suggests: xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support, latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml,
> 
>   ttf-mathematica4.1, xprint, mozplugger, libkrb53
> 
> Conflicts: iceweasel-dom-inspector (< 3.0~b4)
> 
> Replaces: iceweasel-gnome-support (<= 3.0~b5-2)
> 
> Provides: www-browser
> 
> Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
> 
>  Iceweasel is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to
>  Galeon,
> 
>  K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and
> 
>  designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.
> 
> 
> 
>  This browser is based on the Firefox source-code, with minor
>  modifications.
> 
>  Historically, this browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix.
> 

You may try to rename .mozilla folder in your home folder and restart 
iceweasel
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Re: File managers that support SFTP and don't mangle timestamps?

[Celejar]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:01:40 +0200
Dotan Cohen  wrote:

> Are there any KDE file managers, or other file managers that support
> SFTP and work decently in a KDE environment, that do not suffer from
> this bug:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55804
> 
> The bug is that Dolphin / Konqueror incorrectly change the timestamp
> of files copied and moved. This is proving to be a showstopper bug for
> a project that I am participating in. It has also been driving me
> personally mad for years. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I don't have much (any?) experience with it, but mc apparently supports
FISH, which can manage ssh.  I'm not sure if that's included in "work
decently in a KDE environment" ;)

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Re: About getting videos from youtube

[Celejar]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200
Rogério Brito  wrote:

> Dear users,
> 
> I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately, due to
> a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the testing
> distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of a stable
> release).

Can you explain just *why* the release team won't allow its migration?
I took a quick look at the various dev and PTS pages associated with
the package, and I couldn't make out the reason.

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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Klistvud]

Dne, 08. 12. 2009 13:35:07 je Tom H napisal(a):

> Swapping (hd0) and (hd1)
> 
> grub1:
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> 
> grub2:
> drivemap -s (hd0) (hd1)
> 

Right. Thanx for doing my homework. Sometimes, I'm so lazy, I'd kick 
myself in the behind... Naah, I'd have to stand up to do that.

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Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

[Daniel Bareiro]

Hi, David.

On Monday, 07 December 2009 20:03:43 +,
David Claughton wrote:

> Might be worth checking if you have compositing turned on - that has
> the same effect on my machine, though I would have thought it would
> work with an nvidia card ...
> 
> -- ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc
> |
> | [Compositing]
> | AnimationSpeed=3
> | Backend=OpenGL
> | DisableChecks=false
> | Enabled=false
> |
> ---
> 
> If yours says "Enabled=true" change it to false and see what happens.

I don't have a Compositing section in the kwinrc file. But even so,
according to log that I send in the initial mail, it seems that would be
activated with "nvidia" driver at least:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.

Something that I would add is that with the configuration mentioned in
the first mail of this thread (driver "nvidia"), the screen is black
with thing lateral edge of very tenuous violet colour of the right side
until I press Ctrl+Alt+F1. This way I return to the console and this is
hung until I press Ctrl+C:

-
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Dec  8 10:33:44 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Parse error on line 9 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Ignoring obsolete keyword "RgbPath".
(EE) Failed to load module "xtrap" (module does not exist, 0)
SELinux: Disabled on system, not enabling in X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:  Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but  has 2
> symbols
>   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:  Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but  has 2
> symbols
>   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:  Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but  has 2
> symbols
>   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:  Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but  has 2
> symbols
>   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
(EE) HID 0566:3107: failed to initialize for relative axes.
^C
waiting for X server to shut down

xinit:  unexpected signal 2.
-


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Re: fetchmail + exim + winmail.dat

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

I have just install the add-on LookOut : it works great !
I guess that it should be packaged.

thanks,
Jerome

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

On Ter, 08 Dez 2009, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

Hello List,

I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local 
smtp, and Thunderbird to read them:

what is the best Debian way to manage `winmail.dat' files ?


There's a Thunderbird extension to read the files. It is listed, among 
with other possible solutions, here:


http://kb.mozillazine.org/Winmail.dat_attachments





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Re: fetchmail + exim + winmail.dat

[Jerome BENOIT]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

On Ter, 08 Dez 2009, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

Hello List,

I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local 
smtp, and Thunderbird to read them:

what is the best Debian way to manage `winmail.dat' files ?


There's a Thunderbird extension to read the files. It is listed, among 
with other possible solutions, here:


http://kb.mozillazine.org/Winmail.dat_attachments



I read this page before, but I am looking for Debian packages.

Thanks,
Jerome






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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Tom H]

> IMHO, your biggest problem won't be with copying/ghosting/dd-ing your
> Windows partition: your biggest (in fact, unsurmountable) problem will
> be all your C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings and C:\Program
> Files (and similar) references, hard-coded into your Windows Registry.
> IIRC from my (over forever, thankfully!) Windows days, there was no
> *easy* way to make a Registry, built on a C:\ drive to work reliably on
> a D:\, E:\ and so on. I think your best bet is to use the swap
> (hd0,hd1) command in Grub (the syntax is wrong, since I'm quoting from
> memory, but you surely know what I mean).

Swapping (hd0) and (hd1)

grub1:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

grub2:
drivemap -s (hd0) (hd1)


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Re: fetchmail + exim + winmail.dat

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:11:22 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

> I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local
> smtp, and Thunderbird to read them: what is the best Debian way to
> manage `winmail.dat' files ?

That kind of files are usually generated by Outlook MUA. And there are 
(at least to my knowledge) two kind to "winmail.dat" files:

1/ Mail formatting ones
When Outlook users make use of rtf formatting (mails created within MS 
Word editor), it is attached across the e-mail that file, which only 
other Outlooks can manage properly (that is, kmail or Thunderbird just 
displays the file attached to the e-mail).

Usually contains no useful info (just message formatting, no content)

2/ Calendar cites
Another "winmail.dat" files are just the way Outlook sends appointments 
to another users via e-mail (I wish I knew a way I can make Outlook to 
send an ".ical" file). These files are important as they contain starting 
and ending dates for tasks or appointments so better do not miss these 
ones :-)

Kmail can "read" these files (by means of "ktnef") but under Gnome I 
dunno what program can read them. I am using a java utility to access 
their content.

Anyway, you have more information about this here:

Winmail.dat attachments
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Winmail.dat_attachments

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iceweasel broken after update

[John O Laoi]

Hello,

I am using squeeze on kernel 2.6.30-2-686 on a dell precision laptop

After running  aptitude safe-upgrade  yesterday, and accepting all of
the suggestions,
iceweasel appears broken today.

When I start it I get a screen with the message

“Well, this is embarrassing.
Iceweasel is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is
usually caused by a recently opened web page.
You can try:
Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem
Starting an entirely new browsing session”

On opening a new session, when I browse to a new page, other than the
home page, iceweasel dies.


Should I just do the following?

aptitude remove iceweasel
aptitude install iceweasel





The following is the output of
# aptitude show iceweasel

Package: iceweasel

State: installed

Automatically installed: no

Version: 3.5.5-1

Priority: optional

Section: web

Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages


Uncompressed Size: 4,067k

Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, procps, debianutils (>= 1.16), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~),

 libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0),

 libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), xulrunner-1.9.1

Suggests: xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support, latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml,

  ttf-mathematica4.1, xprint, mozplugger, libkrb53

Conflicts: iceweasel-dom-inspector (< 3.0~b4)

Replaces: iceweasel-gnome-support (<= 3.0~b5-2)

Provides: www-browser

Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla

 Iceweasel is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon,

 K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and

 designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.



 This browser is based on the Firefox source-code, with minor modifications.

 Historically, this browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix.


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Re: fetchmail + exim + winmail.dat

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Ter, 08 Dez 2009, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

Hello List,

I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local  
smtp, and Thunderbird to read them:

what is the best Debian way to manage `winmail.dat' files ?


There's a Thunderbird extension to read the files. It is listed, among  
with other possible solutions, here:


http://kb.mozillazine.org/Winmail.dat_attachments



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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Klistvud]

Dne, 08. 12. 2009 08:32:13 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a):

IMHO, your biggest problem won't be with copying/ghosting/dd-ing your 
Windows partition: your biggest (in fact, unsurmountable) problem will 
be all your C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings and C:\Program 
Files (and similar) references, hard-coded into your Windows Registry. 
IIRC from my (over forever, thankfully!) Windows days, there was no 
*easy* way to make a Registry, built on a C:\ drive to work reliably on 
a D:\, E:\ and so on. I think your best bet is to use the swap 
(hd0,hd1) command in Grub (the syntax is wrong, since I'm quoting from 
memory, but you surely know what I mean).

If beside the drive letters (partition locations) their respective 
sizes are also a problem, just resize them with GParted, it's an 
*incredibly* mature piece of software.

Good luck, you're gonna need it if Windows is involved!

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fetchmail + exim + winmail.dat

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

I use fetchmail to fetch my email around the Internet, exim as local smtp, and 
Thunderbird to read them:
what is the best Debian way to manage `winmail.dat' files ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

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Re: How to hibernate from the command line without typing password

[chombee]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:10:38PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:57:21 +
> chombee  wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > Gnome desktop. You can send a signal via dbus asking for the computer to
> > be hibernated with the following command:
> > 
> > dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.PowerManagement 
> > --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement org.freedesktop.PowerM  
> >   anagement.Hibernate
> 
> ...
> 
> > I also saved the command as an executable script called 'hibernate' so
> > that I can hibernate from the command line by just typing hibernate.
> 
> I don't recall the earlier thread, but what's wrong with the
> 'hibernate' command from the 'acpi-support' package, or 's2disk' from
> the 'usswsusp' package?

I have acpi-support installed but don't seem to have a hibernate
command, could take a closer look at the package I guess. I also have
usswsusp installed but I think the s2disk command must be run with sudo,
so you have to type your password.


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Re: Inquiry:Disk full issue?

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

hadi motamedi schreef:

Dear All
Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I clean my Debian 
server disk as it is near to running disk full ? Please find below my 
current disk usage report :


r...@hp001cc42a6011:/tmp# df -m

Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

rootfs 456 316 117 74% /

/dev/root 456 316 117 74% /

/dev/root 456 316 117 74% /dev/.static/dev

tmpfs 4 4 1 79% /dev

/dev/hda5 17 9 7 56% /mnt

tmpfs 443 1 443 1% /tmp

tmpfs 100 2 99 2% /var/log

tmpfs 443 0 443 0% /dev/shm

Can you please let me know how can I free up more space on my Debian HDD ?
You're talking about the 74% root? Since your /var/cache, /home and /usr 
are not separate partitions (and they're usually the space-fillers), how 
much space does each of these directories use? For /var/cache, an 
'aptitude clean' might do wonders, for /home or /usr, its you who has to 
do some cleaning exercises.

Anyway, start with a
 du --summarize -h /home
and similar for /var/cache and /usr. If these dirs are not the problem, 
there are some other options (eg. /var/spool), but these are far less 
likely if you're not running eg. a mail server.


Sjoerd



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Inquiry:Disk full issue?

[hadi motamedi]

Dear All
Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I clean my Debian server
disk as it is near to running disk full ? Please find below my current disk
usage report :

r...@hp001cc42a6011:/tmp# df -m

Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

rootfs 456 316 117 74% /

/dev/root 456 316 117 74% /

/dev/root 456 316 117 74% /dev/.static/dev

tmpfs 4 4 1 79% /dev

/dev/hda5 17 9 7 56% /mnt

tmpfs 443 1 443 1% /tmp

tmpfs 100 2 99 2% /var/log

tmpfs 443 0 443 0% /dev/shm

Can you please let me know how can I free up more space on my Debian HDD ?

Thank you in advance

[solved!] Re: pretty print diff OR print terminal output in color

[Johannes Wiedersich]

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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Hi list,
> I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or
> /usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.:
> 
> Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal
> output (from colordiff, git diff etc.)?
> 
> Preferably, I would like to print in colours just as or similar as on
> the console/terminal.
> 
> If I use konsole's 'print sceen' option, I get a black and white version
>  of just the contents of the current window (not the full output).
> 
> If I redirect the output to file or a2ps, uniprint or other programs, I
> get the 'full' version, but the color coding is missing. Everything is
> dull black on white.
> 
> If I just copy/paste to an editor, the color information is lost as well.
> 
> If I do a screenshot of the window, I usually only get a small portion
> of the output at a time and it will print a pixelised image of the text.
> 
> So, is there an easy way to print the terminal output to pdf (or paper)
> where the color coding (diff, ls, etc.) is preserved?
> 
> I have also tried enscript's --color option, but I don't know how to
> pipe the output of 'git diff' to it.
> 
>   git diff |enscript --pretty-print --color -o diff.pdf
> 
> does not preserve coloured information.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers!

Someone posted this link off-list:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/convert-diff-output-colorized-html

This script converts diff's output (or that of git-diff) to coloured
html. (Which can be printed in colour.)

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File managers that support SFTP and don't mangle timestamps?

[Dotan Cohen]

Are there any KDE file managers, or other file managers that support
SFTP and work decently in a KDE environment, that do not suffer from
this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55804

The bug is that Dolphin / Konqueror incorrectly change the timestamp
of files copied and moved. This is proving to be a showstopper bug for
a project that I am participating in. It has also been driving me
personally mad for years. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

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Re: Why CUPS?

[Anthony Campbell]

On 08 Dec 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> After my problems with CUPS --- discussed in a previous thread
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg01157.html --- I
> decided to move to LPRng for print job spooling.
> 
> The shift itself was easy; it didn't take more than an hour to remove
> CUPS, install LPRng and configure it to work.  But what is interesting
> is that LPRng proved better for a network printer than CUPS: its lpq
> command does what it is supposed to by showing me the printer queue
> status and not merely the local queue status.  lprm also works out of
> the box.
> 
> While it possible that I wasn't using CUPS correctly (I tried!), I
> clearly can use LPRng with far less effort.  I wonder then why Debian
> prefers to bundle CUPS as its default print spooler?
> 
> Girish.

I very much agree with this. I ditched CUPS two years ago or longer in
favour of LPRNG plus magicfilter. Much easier to set up and the results
are better. Unfortunately a lot of apps these days expect you to be
using CUPS as a matter of course. Herd mentality.

Anthony

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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Dotan Cohen]

> That in itself shouldn't be a problem. You could just copy the files
> (using ntfs-3g), use dd or some other method. But your problem will be
> that Windows won't find itself in the expected place anymore. Off the
> top of my head, I only know of C:\boot.ini which must be adapted, but I
> don't even know whether Windows 7 still uses this file.
>

I wanted to avoid the hands-dirty approach as I am unfamiliar with Windows.


> Google shoud help, though:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=move+windows+7+another+partition
>
> Feel free to share the approach that worked for you. :)
>

They all recommend some expensive proprietary application or another.
I thought that maybe there would be a more Debian way :). I have found
Clonezilla, a Norton Ghost alternative, so I will try it. Thanks!

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Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Dotan Cohen]

> I've done this (using ghost) and had to run the windows installer (install
> cd in repair mode) to repair the installation. After this boot from debian
> cd/usb or whatever and rerun grub setup with the new configuration.
> I'm not sure if it's possible with vista or win7. I stopped dealing with M$
> before vista came out.
> Theoretically there is a boot.ini file in the windows root partition. This
> is something like the grub menu.lst file. Google about or have a look in to
> it. I've never used it but read it would be possible to setup different
> boot params in there, like which disk or partition it should boot from,
> however the repair process does it all.
>

Thanks. We do not have a copy of ghost around, but I google for FOSS
alternatives and it seems that Clonezilla may work. Thanks.


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