Debian Etch Install

[Cecil Knutson]

Dear List,
I just tried to install Debian 4.0r4a-i386 (Etch) on a Dell Dimension 
8400, 
Pentium 4/3.oGHz, 4GB RAM, using two different sets of DVDs.  With either set 
of DVDs, the install routine would hang just after the Tasksel dialog box 
asking to choose the software to install.  I tried it several different ways: 
with and without the mirror, few and all selections, etc.  They all hang at 
the "Select & Install Software"  - Please wait" message.  There would be no 
hard drive activity and the DVD would spin down after a minute or so.  I 
don't know how long it would sit like that, but it sits for over 15 minutes.  
I began to suspect the partitioner, as it seemed to format 160GB in record 
time.  I have never seen any drive format as quickly.  Anyone have any ideas 
as to what could be happening?  Thanks.

Cecil


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Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

[Girish Kulkarni]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote:

It is probably gone. Poppler was forked from xpdf a long time ago,
and AFAIK it is better in every way. So just use a Poppler based
program, such as Okular or Evince (or evince-gtk, which has no gconf
or gnome keyring support).


In my experience xpdf works much faster than Evince, especially while
showing PDF files with a lot of graphics.  Is there a way I can use
Evince better?

Thanks,
Girish.

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RE: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/Cygwin 1.5.25

[David Christensen]

Debian User:

I received three copies of my message from each of three lists.  If
everyone else receives three copies, I apologize for the extraneous
copies.  :-(


Does anybody know why, and how to prevent such?


TIA,

David


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Re: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

[Stan Hoeppner]

David Christensen put forth on 12/19/2009 11:37 PM:
> Debian Users, Cygwin, & Rsync:
> 
> I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from
> Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25.  I posted to the Debian User and Cygwin
> mailing lists [1] and thought I was done two days ago, but I wasn't --
> after several hours of use of the Windows machine, rsync would again
> hang on Debian.
> 
> 
> To summarize, rsync pulls in perhaps 1,000 files from C:\Documents and
> Settings, and then hangs indefinitely.
> 
> 
> Adding the --timeout parameter seemed to fix the problem last night, but
> it's back again tonight.
> 
> 
> I've tried adding ten levels of verboseness to rsync (-vv), but
> no additional information is produced beyond three (-vvv).  I don't see
> any clues in /var/log on either machine.  Are there any other means for
> giving visibility to what's going on, other than compiling a debugging
> version, running rsync in a debugger, etc.?
> 
> 
> A new cygcheck.txt and console session are attached.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?

When did you last run a full check/repair (chkdsk/scandisk/other tools) on the
file system(s) from which you're pulling the files?  If this is a nightly batch
job, are you possibly also firing off some nightly cron process on the Debian
box that may be monkeying with the network interface, causing an unrecoverable
network reset or something similar?

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Re: Inquiry: How would you prepare an image list

[Kevin Ross]

T o n g wrote:
Hi, 

This is a situation that I feel hard to find a good solution -- We've 
taken hundreds of digital pictures. Now it is time for some big batch 
printings, each batch contains about a hundred pictures.


Previously, when selecting pictures in a small scale (<30~40), I use pfm 
to do it 
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2064/)


Now with batches this big, I'd rather hand over the picking job to my 
wife. The problem is, she is not computer savvy at all. And I found it 
very hard to find a good solution for her. 

Any suggestions/comments welcome. 
Thanks.


PS. If anyone interested, I'm about to experience some internet printing 
services as cheap as about USD $0.08c per print overall. 

  


How about something simple, like copying all the pictures to another 
folder, then launch your favorite image viewing program, such as Eye of 
Gnome, and tell her to hit the delete key on any pictures she doesn't 
want printed, and PageUp/PageDown through the rest.  Then when she's 
done, you will have a folder with pictures to print.



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Re: Problem installing libglu1-mesa-dev

[jidanni]

Here's what I see every day,

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input-4 which is a virtual package.
 Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-5 which is a virtual package.
  libgl1-mesa-dri: Depends: libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.13) which is a virtual 
package.

$ cat sources.list
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

I wonder what I should do about it.


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RE: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

[David Christensen]

Debian Users, Cygwin, & Rsync:

I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from
Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25.  I posted to the Debian User and Cygwin
mailing lists [1] and thought I was done two days ago, but I wasn't --
after several hours of use of the Windows machine, rsync would again
hang on Debian.


To summarize, rsync pulls in perhaps 1,000 files from C:\Documents and
Settings, and then hangs indefinitely.


Adding the --timeout parameter seemed to fix the problem last night, but
it's back again tonight.


I've tried adding ten levels of verboseness to rsync (-vv), but
no additional information is produced beyond three (-vvv).  I don't see
any clues in /var/log on either machine.  Are there any other means for
giving visibility to what's going on, other than compiling a debugging
version, running rsync in a debugger, etc.?


A new cygcheck.txt and console session are attached.


Any suggestions?


TIA,

David


Ref:

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/12/msg00991.html
2009-12-19 20:52:19 dpchr...@a64x2deb ~/a64x2deb/tigerbackup/daily
$  /usr/bin/rsync -rt -vvv --stats --timeout=300 --delete --backup 
--backup-dir='/mnt/q/backup-old/holgerdanske.com/p43400e/cygdrive/c/documents_and_settings/'
 --delete-excluded --exclude='My Documents/accounts/' 
--exclude-from='/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Dpchrist/Tigerbackup/winxp_Documents-and-Settings.exclude'
   'administra...@p43400e.holgerdanske.com:/cygdrive/c/documents_and_settings/' 
'/mnt/q/backup/holgerdanske.com/p43400e/cygdrive/c/documents_and_settings/' 
>rsync.out
io timeout after 300 seconds -- exiting
rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(239) 
[receiver=3.0.3]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (137 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) 
[generator=3.0.3]

2009-12-19 21:03:02 dpchr...@a64x2deb ~/a64x2deb/tigerbackup/daily
$ tail -n 20 rsync.out 
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/.cvsignore,17101)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/.cvsignore is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/.signature-dc2008.txt,17102)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/.signature-dc2008.txt is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/.signature-pe.txt,17103)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/.signature-pe.txt is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/.signature.txt,17104)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/.signature.txt is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/.vimrc,17105)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/.vimrc is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/Makefile,17106)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/Makefile is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/home-unix.tar.gz,17107)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/home-unix.tar.gz is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/home-win32.tar.gz,17108)
dpchrist/My Documents/home/home-win32.tar.gz is uptodate
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/CVS,17109)
recv_generator(dpchrist/My Documents/home/home.tmp,17110)
_exit_cleanup(code=30, file=io.c, line=239): about to call exit(30)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=635): about to call exit(12)



Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Sun Dec 20 05:13:08 2009

Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3

Path:   C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
c:\WINDOWS\system32
c:\WINDOWS
c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\usr\sbin

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 500(Administrator) GID: 513(None)
0(root) 513(None)   544(Administrators)
545(Users)  1006(Debugger Users)

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 500(Administrator) GID: 513(None)
0(root) 513(None)   544(Administrators)
545(Users)  1006(Debugger Users)

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

USER = 'Administrator'
PWD = '/home/Administrator'
CYGWIN = 'ntsec'
HOME = '/home/Administrator'
MAKE_MODE = 'unix'

HOMEPATH = '\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents'
CPAN_AUTHORID = 'DPCHRIST'
MANPATH = ':/home/Administrator/local/man'
HOSTNAME = 'p43400e'
RELEASE_ROOT = '/mnt/z/data/released'
TERM = 'cygwin'
SHELL = '/bin/bash'
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel'
WINDIR = 'C:\WINDOWS'
SSH_CLIENT = '127.0.0.1 1163 22'
CVSROOT = 'dpchr...@cvs.holgerdanske.com:/cvs/dpchrist'
OLDPWD = '/home/Administrator'
USERDOMAIN = 'P43400E'
SSH_TTY = '/dev/tty0'
OS = 'Windows_NT'
ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/TEMP'
COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files'
PAGER = '/usr/bin/less'
PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '15'
FTP_PASSIVE = '1'
MAIL = '/var/spool/mail/Administrator'
SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:'
EDITOR = 'vim'
LANG = 'C'
USERPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator'
TZ = 'America/Los_Angeles'
PS1 = '\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%

Memory card has no UUID. How to give it one?

[jidanni]

I used dosfslabel to give this a label,
# blkid
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="greengiga" TYPE="vfat"
OK, now how can I also give it a UUID?


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Inquiry: How would you prepare an image list

[T o n g]

Hi, 

This is a situation that I feel hard to find a good solution -- We've 
taken hundreds of digital pictures. Now it is time for some big batch 
printings, each batch contains about a hundred pictures.

Previously, when selecting pictures in a small scale (<30~40), I use pfm 
to do it 
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2064/)

Now with batches this big, I'd rather hand over the picking job to my 
wife. The problem is, she is not computer savvy at all. And I found it 
very hard to find a good solution for her. 

Any suggestions/comments welcome. 
Thanks.

PS. If anyone interested, I'm about to experience some internet printing 
services as cheap as about USD $0.08c per print overall. 

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Re: keeping an obsolete package (libx264-78) removes its automatically installed status

[Celejar]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:31:50 -0800
Daniel Burrows  wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:59:28PM -0500, Celejar  was 
> heard to say:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The package 'libx264-78' is installed on my (Sid) system:
> > 
> > ~# aptitude why libx264-78
> > i   gnome-mplayer Depends mplayer (>= 1.0~) | mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~)
> > i A mplayer   Depends libx264-78 (>= 1:0.svn20091101)
> > 
> > Aptitude shows it in the 'Obsolete and Locally Created Packages'
> > section.  When I try to upgrade the system, aptitude (initially)
> > suggests that I keep this package, but whenever I accept the
> > suggestion, the package's status of 'automatically installed' goes
> > away, and it becomes marked as manually installed (which is certainly
> > not what I want, since I have no idea what the thing is - I just want
> > mplayer to be happy).
> 
>   Before you enter the resolver, is libx264-78 being removed as unused?

No, since it's needed by mplayer.

> After you accept its suggestion, is libx264-78 still required by the
> version of mplayer being installed?

Yes.
 
> > This doesn't seem to happen to most packages -
> > does this have anything to do with the fact that it's 'obsolete' (i.e.,
> > currently not available in the archives)? Is this a bug?
> 
>   It sounds like a bug.  The resolver shouldn't touch automatic flags
> except to set them to "true" (for new installs).

Hm, I thought I had already filed one, but it seems that I hadn't.
Well, now I have:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561747

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Re: Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

[green]

Wayne  wrote at 2009-12-14 07:12 -0700:
>   I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject device  
> on Debian?  My research has shown that some have had success on Ubuntu  
> 9.1 but I have not been able to locate any Debian success posts.
>
> This is a 3G modem and, in my remote location, gets much faster  
> downloads, on winbloz, then anything else I have tried.  It beats the
> AT&T sierra device by far.  Sierra is supported in the kernel but not  
> this Novatel USB760 AFAIK.
>
> Any info or pointers are welcomed.  I really need to get this working on  
> Debian and don't want to switch to Ubuntu if possible.
>
> TIA
>
> Wayne
>
> PS  The Novatel is really strange.  Just tried to burn a Ubuntu cd to  
> check it out and the Novatel had to be unplugged before k3b would run.
> It seems the system thinks it is a cdrom device

This might be related to the purpose of the usb-modeswitch package.  Perhaps 
that will help get you started.


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Re: Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault

[Mike Bird]

On Sat December 19 2009 15:14:26 thing wrote:
> So basically I cant install any web based webmail packages without
> totalling apache.

I've never had any problems with squirrelmail with these versions:

# dpkg -l | grep -i '\(apache\|php\|squirrel\)' | sort -n | cut -b-68
ii  apache2   2.2.9-10+lenny6
ii  apache2.2-common  2.2.9-10+lenny6
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork   2.2.9-10+lenny6
ii  apache2-utils 2.2.9-10+lenny6
ii  libapache2-mod-perl2  2.0.4-5
ii  libapache2-mod-php5   5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
ii  libapr1   1.2.12-5+lenny1
ii  libaprutil1   1.2.12+dfsg-8+lenny4
ii  libphp-phpmailer  1.73-6
ii  libphp-snoopy 1.2.4-1
ii  php5  5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
ii  php5-common   5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
ii  php5-curl 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
ii  php5-gd   5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
ii  php5-mysql5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
ii  php-gettext   1.0.7-6
ii  squirrelmail  2:1.4.15-4+lenny2

(You may not need all those PHP packages.)

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Fw: Re: flash video sound issue [resolved]

[Anthony Baldwin]

http://www.baldwinlinguas.com
translations & interpreting

Así también, la lengua es un miembro pequeño,
y se gloría de grandes cosas.
He aquí, un pequeño fuego
¡Cuán grande bosque enciende!


--- On Sat, 12/19/09, Anthony Baldwin  wrote:

> From: Anthony Baldwin 
> Subject: Re: flash video sound issue [resolved]
> To: "Paul Cartwright" 
> Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 11:31 PM
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 12/19/09, Paul Cartwright 
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Paul Cartwright 
> > Subject: Re: flash video sound issue
> > To: "Anthony Baldwin" 
> > Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 10:53 PM
> > On Sat December 19 2009, you wrote:
> > > Thanks for that, Paul.
> > >
> > > Now, I'm on Lenny.  I assume you must be using
> either
> > testing or unstable,
> > > because, I don't find alsasound in /etc/init.d
> > 
> > actually I am on Lenny..
> > 
> > > I do have alsa-utils in there.  I know I'm
> using
> > alsa, because I use
> > > alsamixer to adjust volumes, etc.
> > # ls -l /etc/init.d/alsa*
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5695 2007-09-24 12:42
> > /etc/init.d/alsasound
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8820 2008-02-25 18:55
> > /etc/init.d/alsa-utils
> > 
> > 
> 
Hmmmturns out /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart does the
trick.

Thanks for your assistance, Paul.

:)
tony

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Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

[Thierry Chatelet]

Actually, the patch given here: 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22001 solved the problem for a 
few people. As for me, the problem is not annoying me that much that I will go 
and compile my own kernel. I use the trick of starting a second user, and 
switch back and forth until the brightness come back to a decent level, 
waiting for 2.6.31 hoping it will solve it.
Thierry


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Re: Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault

[thing]

Hi,

This also happens on installing phpgroupware...

So its more likely to be an Apache/php issue I suppose.

:/

So basically I cant install any web based webmail packages without 
totalling apache.


:(

regards

Steven

Nick Douma wrote:

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Hi,

Can anyone recommend a webmail package as an alternative to squirrelmail?

regards

Steven





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Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:13:26 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:

> On Saturday 19 December 2009 19:56:10 Camaleón wrote:
>> 
>> Can you both please run "dmesg | grep brightness" and copy/paste the
>> output after you press the function key to change the brightness of the
>> screen?
>> 
>> BTW, it seems to be related to this kernel bug:
>> 
>> Buggy _BCM - acer aspire 5720G, 5710Z, 5315
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121
>> 
>> (see comment #28 for other possible affected Acer laptop models)
>> 
> Here it is:
> ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness
> 
> but when the backligth is really dim and I press the function key for
> brightness, I get a message saying somethng about wrong value for it. I
> will write it when it happen. ( I don't want to stop/start the laptop
> until it goes wrong. Every forth, fifth time).

It seems many other people is experiencing that same issue:

***
Unable to set brightness
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76799
***

And they also point-out to the kernel bug.

Carefully review the messages posted on that forum and look for any 
possible bypass mentioned, if any :-?

Greetings,

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Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

Use the label function in fstab

regards

Steven

Johannes Wiedersich wrote:

Jason Filippou wrote:
  

I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I
noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means
that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure that caused everybody
(including myself) a lot of grief, my Debian disk rescue mode was installing
the new GRUB on (hd0), which was, however, on the brand new disk (NTFS
formatted), which does not hold and will not hold any operating systems.
Thus, I was still seeing grub_printf_ as missing when I logged in. So I was
just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard
drive and mount it on /dev/sdb, so that I can access it as (hd1) in GRUB
notation, next time the boot loader fails (which, I have to say, has been
reather frequent lately).



FWIW, you don't mount a disk on /dev/sdb. You mount it on whatever
directory you assign to it wihtin the / (root) file system. /dev/sdb is
the 'name' assigned to the *dev*ice by the kernel. In order to work
around some arbitraryness in this assignment due to disks present or not
on boot and/or different boot processes, you should mount by id or by
label.

I can't help you with the grub issues. (FWIW, lenny's grub works fine
for me.) You could try to switch cables or try to configure your bios to
access both disks in a specified, reproducible order.

HTH,
  

Re: perl question

[Alex Samad]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:00:07AM -0500, Chris Dale wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
> > I have a set of constants setup in my script
> > 
> > RC_OK
> > ...
> > ...
> > 
> > I use LWP::Simple  which also uses RC_OK, and I get a main::RC_OK
> > redifinition 
> > 
> > is there some way around this with out renaming my constants. 
> 
> You can suppress symbol importing, and then call methods the long way:
> 
>   use LWP::Simple qw();
>   my $html = LWP::Simple::get("http://...";);
> 
> Or just import what you want:
> 
>   use LWP::Simple qw(get);
>   my $html = get("http://...";);
> 
> See http://perldoc.perl.org/Exporter.html.

thanks for that.  Did some more reading and it seems constants don't
really have a scope which is why I was having the problem.

> 
> cd
> 
> 

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flash video sound issue

[Anthony Baldwin]

Hi,

I've been seeing this problem for a while now, and it's starting to annoy me.

The video from Flash and youtube videos plays fine, but they start without the 
sound.  A few moments later, sound starts to play, but it is garbled, skips, 
etc., and even after stopping the video and/or closing the page it's on, the 
sound continues for a while.
If I restart my browser, sometimes the videos will play fine again, for a 
while, but eventually this phenomenon occurs again, and continues until I close 
and restart the browser.
I thought the problem was just with iceweasel, but I added the latest flash 
plugin to google chrome, and experience the same thing, now, in chrome, which I 
am now using as my default browser.
I added the libasound2-plugins as recommended here:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2009/01/01/adobe-flash-sound-not-working-with-iceweasel-on-debian/
but that doesn't seem to have resolved anything.
I haven't a clue what I should do to further diagnose or resolve this issue.

Any and all assistance appreciated.

thanks,
tony


  


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Re: Compiling Linux kernel

[Daniel Bareiro]

Hi, Sven.

On Friday, 18 December 2009 17:34:22 +0100,
Sven Joachim wrote:

> > I was trying installing and booting 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel and then
> > compiling 2.6.32 kernel of the traditional way:
> >
> > # cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.32
> > # cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
> > # make menuconfig
> > # make
> >
> > In this case I didn't use the ARCH=x86_64 variable and after to
> > execute 'make menuselect' to select the configuration parameters,
> > when invoking 'make', this worked without doing any type of
> > question. Could this be due to I booted previously with amd64
> > kernel?
 
> Not really, make menuconfig selects the defaults for options which did
> not exist in previous kernels.  Note that it will use the architecture
> of the running kernel if you do not specify ARCH.

Perfect.

> > I assume that it must have differences between both kernels
> > versions; for that reason, as I've mentioned in another mail of this
> > thread, after to have copied the file, I followed a similar
> > procedure to which mentioned above, but with the ARCH=x86_64
> > variable:
> >
> > # cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.32
> > # cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
> > # make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig
> > # make
> >
> > But in spite of to have used 'make menuconfig', 'make' did 'restart
> > config' beginning to do questions to me.

> If you are not running a 64-bit kernel, you have to specify
> ARCH=x86_64 for _all_ make invocations.

Well. I didn't know that there was to do it with all. Using the
following steps I was not interrogated:

# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.32
# cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config

# make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig
# make ARCH=x86_64
# make ARCH=x86_64 modules_install
# make ARCH=x86_64 install


But when boot, the process is interrupted with the following message:

request_module runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c


It draws attention to me that this has not happened after compiling
after to have booted with amd64 kernel using the same environment (KVM
VM with host amd64). The unique difference in the process was the
aggregate of the ARCH=x86_64 variable with each invocation of make.


Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
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Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Saturday 19 December 2009 19:56:10 Camaleón wrote:
> 
> Can you both please run "dmesg | grep brightness" and copy/paste the
> output after you press the function key to change the brightness of the
> screen?
> 
> BTW, it seems to be related to this kernel bug:
> 
> Buggy _BCM - acer aspire 5720G, 5710Z, 5315
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121
> 
> (see comment #28 for other possible affected Acer laptop models)
> 
> Greetings,
> 
Here it is:
ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness

but when the backligth is really dim and I press the function key for 
brightness, I get a message saying somethng about wrong value for it. I will 
write it when it happen. ( I don't want to stop/start the laptop until it goes 
wrong. Every forth, fifth time).
Thanks
Thierry


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Re: motherboard battery low?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Stan Hoeppner wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 12/18/2009 12:27 PM:

Hi,

I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been changed.

I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off.

Is that because the battery is low on power?

I don't suppose there is a way to change the battery without losing all
the BIOS settings.

What is a way to check the motherboard battery?


If it's 4.5 years old, don't test it, just replace it.  The mere fact
that you're even looking at the battery as a possible problem source
says it's dead.  5 years is about average life on these for systems that
are power cycled and left off overnight regularly.  I've had some last
10 years.  Then again, I never power my systems off, so my batteries
rarely cycle.  I dunno if Newegg ships to Mexico, but here's what you need:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1689929&cm_re=CMOS_battery-_-99-200-009-_-Product

Never buy just one of anything this cheap.  Buy at least 3, given the
cost of shipping, and the fact you might get one dead out of the
package.  You should be able to buy this locally somewhere though.  It's
a pretty standard watch battery size.  Pull it and take it to the
nearest store that sells camera and watch batteries.  Match it up and
buy a couple or three.  Usually the best place to find these in the U.S.
is drug stores.



Unfortunately NewEgg does not ship to Mexico. But I found an outfit that 
sells all sorts of batteries here in town, 'Steren', a few blocks from 
here and bought a lithium cr2032 from them. See how it goes.



Hugo


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Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:16:07 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:

> On Saturday 19 December 2009 18:07:11 Thomas McCullough wrote:
>> Hi all,

> Same problem with Acer Aspire 5712Z. I posted here some time ago about
> it, but got no answer solving the problem. And then it want away with a
> kernel upgrade, and came back with a new upgrade. I found 2 others ways
> to get out of it when it happen: I have created a second user, and
> logging back and forth to the second user brings back the backlight to
> full strength. No way to set it using the function, but it's work. The
> second way is to go to console, CTRL+ALT+ F1, try to change the
> brightness, it will show an error, then go back to the regular user,
> problem is fixed! At least, I dont have to go back to vista!

Can you both please run "dmesg | grep brightness" and copy/paste the 
output after you press the function key to change the brightness of the 
screen?

BTW, it seems to be related to this kernel bug:

Buggy _BCM - acer aspire 5720G, 5710Z, 5315
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121

(see comment #28 for other possible affected Acer laptop models)

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Re: motherboard battery low?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Camaleón wrote:

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:27:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:


I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been
changed.

I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off.

Is that because the battery is low on power?


What changes, BIOS time or operating system time? :-?


The BIOS time is not updating




If it's BIOS time, at least it seems a symptom of "low battery".




Hugo


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Re: Testing update: can't resolve dependencies with epiphany packages

[Matteo Riva]

Quoting Johan Grönqvist:

> The description of the epiphany-gecko in squeeze
> () says:
> 
> "This package has been made obsolete by epiphany-browser 2.28.0, and
> is safe to remove. "
> 
> So just uninstalling epiphany-gecko and upgrading the rest at the
> same time might work, but I have not tested that.

Ah yes, upgrading epiphany-browser also removed epiphany-gecko -- I
didn't proceed earlier because I was fooled by the -231 score.  Now it's
ok, thanks.


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Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Saturday 19 December 2009 18:07:11 Thomas McCullough wrote:
> Hi all,


Hi,
Same problem with Acer Aspire 5712Z. I posted here some time ago about it, but 
got no answer solving the problem. And then it want away with a kernel 
upgrade, and came back with a new upgrade. I found 2 others ways to get out of 
it when it happen: I have created a second user, and logging back and forth to 
the second user brings back the backlight to full strength. No way to set it 
using the function, but it's work. The second way is to go to console, 
CTRL+ALT+ F1, try to change the brightness, it will show an error, then go 
back to the regular user, problem is fixed!
At least, I dont have to go back to vista! 


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Re: Testing update: can't resolve dependencies with epiphany packages

[Johan Grönqvist]

Matteo Riva skrev:

aptitude dist-upgrade gives me this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.26.3-2 is installed and it 
is kept back.
  epiphany-gecko: Depends: epiphany-browser-data (< 2.27) but 2.29.3-1 is to be 
installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

I don't care about epiphany at all, but it seems all gnome
depends on it so getting rid of it isn't an option.  How can I resolve
these dependencies?



The description of the epiphany-gecko in squeeze 
() says:


"This package has been made obsolete by epiphany-browser 2.28.0, and is 
safe to remove. "


So just uninstalling epiphany-gecko and upgrading the rest at the same 
time might work, but I have not tested that.


/ johan




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Testing update: can't resolve dependencies with epiphany packages

[Matteo Riva]

aptitude dist-upgrade gives me this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.26.3-2 is installed and it 
is kept back.
  epiphany-gecko: Depends: epiphany-browser-data (< 2.27) but 2.29.3-1 is to be 
installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
epiphany-browser [2.22.3-9 (now)]
epiphany-browser-data [2.26.3-2 (now)]
epiphany-extensions [2.26.1-1 (now)]

its suggestion is basically to do nothing, which clearly doesn't solve
the issue.  I don't care about epiphany at all, but it seems all gnome
depends on it so getting rid of it isn't an option.  How can I resolve
these dependencies?


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Re: keeping an obsolete package (libx264-78) removes its automatically installed status

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:59:28PM -0500, Celejar  was heard 
to say:
> Hi,
> 
> The package 'libx264-78' is installed on my (Sid) system:
> 
> ~# aptitude why libx264-78
> i   gnome-mplayer Depends mplayer (>= 1.0~) | mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~)
> i A mplayer   Depends libx264-78 (>= 1:0.svn20091101)
> 
> Aptitude shows it in the 'Obsolete and Locally Created Packages'
> section.  When I try to upgrade the system, aptitude (initially)
> suggests that I keep this package, but whenever I accept the
> suggestion, the package's status of 'automatically installed' goes
> away, and it becomes marked as manually installed (which is certainly
> not what I want, since I have no idea what the thing is - I just want
> mplayer to be happy).

  Before you enter the resolver, is libx264-78 being removed as unused?
After you accept its suggestion, is libx264-78 still required by the
version of mplayer being installed?

> This doesn't seem to happen to most packages -
> does this have anything to do with the fact that it's 'obsolete' (i.e.,
> currently not available in the archives)? Is this a bug?

  It sounds like a bug.  The resolver shouldn't touch automatic flags
except to set them to "true" (for new installs).

  Daniel


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Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

[Thomas McCullough]

Hi all,
I am not sure who this should be addressed to, so here it is.  I have
checked all the bugs I could find online and I don't think this one is
documented yet.  I am experiencing a seemingly random backlight problem with
my installation (squeeze, constantly updated on an ACER Aspire 7720 laptop
with two SATA hard drives; the original vista on the first 160 Gb drive and
linux on the second identical 160 Gb drive with grub2 fully installed).  I
have no brightness control using the keyboard (fn+left/right arrows) and no
OSD.  Most of the other hotkeys seem to work;  fn+f4 for sleep, volume is
controllable (more or less) with the side wheel and mute fn+f8, wireless
button, etc.  If I put the computer to sleep then wake it up it (usually?)
comes back with very reduced backlight brightness.  When the problem
appears, I get either very low backlighting or no backlighting at all.  Once
it has happened, it won't even turn on during bios boot.  It can be restored
by removing the battery, by booting into vista, which is done blindly, or...
by installing ubuntu live 9.10 cd.  when I insert the cd and reboot the
computer, the backlight does not come on until the X server starts.  I am
thinking there is a bios bug, since even the acer splash screen is dark, but
apparently the ubuntu team has found a workaround that restores whatever has
been changed in persistent memory.  I would be glad to send all data from my
system that can help.  I am fairly well versed in linux and am comfortable
using the command line.  This is a very annoying bug that completely
disables the computer until one of the above resets is accomplished.  Please
let me know what I can do to help resolve this issue.

thanks in advance,
tom mccullough

lcd brightness goes up when starting X

[Arun G Nair]

Hi,

   I  installed Lenny on my ThinkPad R51. It has an Intel 82852/855GM
graphics card. After executing startx the LCD goes 100% bright. Same
thing happens if I wake up the LCD from sleep (xset +dpms). My Fn +
Home/End keys work fine and i can adjust the brightness. But its
annoying to do it everytime I boot up and start X. Any solutions ?

-Arun

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Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

[Glenn English]

> >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Jason Filippou  
> >wrote:
> >So I was
> > just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard
> > drive and mount it on /dev/sdb

Careful!


Define "new hard drive". What appears where in /dev is a function of your BIOS, 
the kernel, and udev.

If it's IDE, ATA, or ATAPI it shows up as a /dev/hd. And those seem to be 
nicely mapped to IDE controller number / master / slave. 

Unless it's serial-ATA, of course, in which case it's a /dev/sd :-/ 

All SCSI, SATA, and USB are a /dev/sd -- which sd depends on what your BIOS 
sees first at boot. My (Dell) servers look at the USB ports first, so a USB 
stick becomes /dev/sda. Then it looks for SATA, and finally SCSI. The Sun box 
looks at SCSI first...

So when my grub config said to load / off /dev/sda (Debian lenny installer 
default), and I accidentally left a USB stick in one of the ports, the machine 
wouldn't boot. I don't remember if (hd0) was hosed as well.

Oh. And the /dev directory is created by udev these days. It can name things 
anything it wants.


It's much more repeatable to specify the filesystem's UUID (vol_id /dev/sd??) 
instead of the device node. In both grub's config and in fstab.

I've never tried it, but I don't think you can mount anything on /dev/sdb -- 
that's a device node, not a filesystem node. But you can mount /dev/sdb on 
/mnt...

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Re: perl question

[Chris Dale]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
> I have a set of constants setup in my script
> 
> RC_OK
> ...
> ...
> 
> I use LWP::Simple  which also uses RC_OK, and I get a main::RC_OK
> redifinition 
> 
> is there some way around this with out renaming my constants. 

You can suppress symbol importing, and then call methods the long way:

  use LWP::Simple qw();
  my $html = LWP::Simple::get("http://...";);

Or just import what you want:

  use LWP::Simple qw(get);
  my $html = get("http://...";);

See http://perldoc.perl.org/Exporter.html.

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Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

[Mark]

>On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Jason Filippou 
>wrote:
>So I was
> just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard
> drive and mount it on /dev/sdb
If it's an internal hdd, all you need do is edit /etc/fstab to mount
/dev/sda to a directory of your choice automatically every time the computer
boots.

Mark

Re: Debian AMD64 Sid - "packages have unmet dependencies"

[Rick Thomas]

On Dec 19, 2009, at 6:59 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote:


Rick Thomas skrev:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 xserver-xorg-video-apm: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>=  
2:1.6.99.900) but 2:1.6.5-1 is installed.
and a bunch of other xserver-xorg-video-* packages have the same  
problem.



See news.debian.net at  which states


"Some X.Org drivers (packages xserver-xorg-input-* and xserver-xorg- 
video-*) that were meant to be uploaded to experimental landed in  
unstable instead (see sbuild’s bug #559659). If you see packages  
with a Depends: on xorg stuff from experimental, do not update and  
wait until xorg-server 1.7 moves to unstable."


Perhaps downgrading some packages to their testing versions would be  
a way to solve the issue.



Hope it helps

/ johan


Yes, it helps a great deal.  It appears that it will take a while  
(probably some weeks?) for this problem to resolve, but at least folks  
are aware of it and (presumably) working towards a solution.


For me, for now, I'll just accept the warnings and ignore them, since  
hey don't seem to be doing any harm.


Thanks for the insight,

Rick

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Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

[Rick Thomas]

On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Frans Pop wrote:


On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:

It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great length that it's not an installer problem at  
all)

but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever package it
does belong to.  You've given me a few hints as to how to figure out
what package that might be.  Any further help -- from anyone more
knowledgeable than I -- will be appreciated, of course.


This looks like a fairly likely reason:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome-core

For some reason the package was forced to testing even though it was  
not

available on all architectures.

If that is the reason, then it means that Gnome is currently not
installable on all but 5 architectures. With powerpc probably the  
only one

very many people will really care about (though that's a steadily
declining number).

It's almost certain that both the relevant package maintainer and the
release team are already aware of this and that it has been a  
conscious
choice to accept the breakage. Whether or not it should block the  
release

of D-I is up to others.

How did I get there (I needed the roundabout way because I don't  
have a

powerpc box; it would have been trivial to check in aptitude)?

- http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/
- choose squeeze -> in the most recent run, choose powerpc ->
http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/results/testing/1261006803/powerpc/list.php

And notice that gnome-accessibility (and a few others, but that  
seems the

most likely cause) is listed, and check the reasons.

A new version of the package (1:2.28+3) has been built for all arches:
https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/package.php?p=meta-gnome2
But looks to be blocked by other packages for now:
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=meta-gnome2


Here, for the record, is the log of an attempt to do "aptitude full- 
upgrade" on my Debian Squeeze PowerPC test machine.


Here's the part that first indicates there might be trouble...


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 epiphany-extensions-more: Depends: epiphany-extensions (< 2.27) but  
2.28.1-2 is to be installed.
 epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.29.3-1 is to be  
installed.

 grdc: Depends: remmina which is a virtual package.
 gnome: Depends: tomboy (>= 1.0) but it is not installable



Happy Solstice!

Rick


greybox:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information   
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages are BROKEN:
  epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions-more gnome grdc 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gir1.0-clutter-0.8{a} gir1.0-freedesktop{a} gir1.0-glib-2.0{a} 
gir1.0-gstreamer-0.10{a} gir1.0-gtk-2.0{a} 
  gnome-disk-utility{a} gnome-js-common{a} libclutter-0.8-0{a} 
libclutter-cairo-0.8-0{a} libclutter-gtk-0.8-0{a} 
  libgdu-gtk0{a} libseed0{a} 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  binfmt-support{u} cli-common{u} libart2.0-cil{u} libgconf2.0-cil{u} 
libglade2.0-cil{u} libglib2.0-cil{u} 
  libgmime-2.0-2a{u} libgmime2.2a-cil{u} libgnome-vfs2.0-cil{u} 
libgnome2.24-cil{u} libgnomepanel2.24-cil{u} 
  libgtk2.0-cil{u} libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil{u} libmono-addins0.2-cil{u} 
libmono-cairo2.0-cil{u} libmono-corlib2.0-cil{u} 
  libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil{u} libmono-posix2.0-cil{u} 
libmono-security2.0-cil{u} libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil{u} 
  libmono-system2.0-cil{u} libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil{u} libndesk-dbus1.0-cil{u} 
mono-2.0-gac{u} mono-gac{u} mono-runtime{u} 
  swfdec-mozilla{a} tomboy{u} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  epiphany-browser-data epiphany-extensions epiphany-gecko gnome-accessibility 
gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment 
  gnome-office 
9 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 28 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.5MB of archives. After unpacking 17.7MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  epiphany-extensions-more: Depends: epiphany-extensions (< 2.27) but 2.28.1-2 
is to be installed.
  epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.29.3-1 is to be installed.
  grdc: Depends: remmina which is a virtual package.
  gnome: Depends: tomboy (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
epiphany-extensions-more
epiphany-gecko
gnome

Keep the following packages at their current version:
grdc [Not Installed]

Score is 266

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] r gnome  UNINST
Rejecting the removal of gnome
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
epiphany-browser [2.26.3-2 (now)]
epiphany-browser-data [2.26.3-2 (now)]
epiphany-extensions [2.26.1-1 (now)]
epiphany-gecko [2.26.3-2 (now)]
gnome [1:2.26+0 (now)]
gn

Re: Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault

[Nick Douma]

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On 19-12-2009 5:08, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a webmail package as an alternative to squirrelmail?
> 
> regards
> 
> Steven
> 
> 

I use Roundcube for its simplicity, and Horde for its groupware
capabilities (calendar, notes, tasks, etc).
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Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

[Jens Van Broeckhoven]

On Friday 18 December 2009 04:39:49 Nick Boyce wrote:

> That's good to know. Now maybe I can remove the wrapper script for
> apt-get that I put on some of our Debian boxes at work for the benefit
> of other sysadmins who were accustomed to using apt-get, which simply
> displays "You probably want to call 'aptitude' rather than 'apt-get',
> because .. blah blah".
> 
> Cheers
> Nick Boyce

Your users will still have to run autoremove  manually.
IMO, using two different package managers in a work environment will always 
make it harder to track everything that happened.

Jens.
 


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Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Jason Filippou wrote:
> I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I
> noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means
> that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure that caused everybody
> (including myself) a lot of grief, my Debian disk rescue mode was installing
> the new GRUB on (hd0), which was, however, on the brand new disk (NTFS
> formatted), which does not hold and will not hold any operating systems.
> Thus, I was still seeing grub_printf_ as missing when I logged in. So I was
> just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard
> drive and mount it on /dev/sdb, so that I can access it as (hd1) in GRUB
> notation, next time the boot loader fails (which, I have to say, has been
> reather frequent lately).

FWIW, you don't mount a disk on /dev/sdb. You mount it on whatever
directory you assign to it wihtin the / (root) file system. /dev/sdb is
the 'name' assigned to the *dev*ice by the kernel. In order to work
around some arbitraryness in this assignment due to disks present or not
on boot and/or different boot processes, you should mount by id or by
label.

I can't help you with the grub issues. (FWIW, lenny's grub works fine
for me.) You could try to switch cables or try to configure your bios to
access both disks in a specified, reproducible order.

HTH,
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Liberia, and the United States.

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Re: Debian AMD64 Sid - "packages have unmet dependencies"

[Johan Grönqvist]

Rick Thomas skrev:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:


  xserver-xorg-video-apm: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900) 
but 2:1.6.5-1 is installed.


and a bunch of other xserver-xorg-video-* packages have the same problem.




See news.debian.net at 
 
which states


"Some X.Org drivers (packages xserver-xorg-input-* and 
xserver-xorg-video-*) that were meant to be uploaded to experimental 
landed in unstable instead (see sbuild’s bug #559659). If you see 
packages with a Depends: on xorg stuff from experimental, do not update 
and wait until xorg-server 1.7 moves to unstable."


Perhaps downgrading some packages to their testing versions would be a 
way to solve the issue.



Hope it helps

/ johan


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Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

[Jason Filippou]

Hello,

I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I
noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means
that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure that caused everybody
(including myself) a lot of grief, my Debian disk rescue mode was installing
the new GRUB on (hd0), which was, however, on the brand new disk (NTFS
formatted), which does not hold and will not hold any operating systems.
Thus, I was still seeing grub_printf_ as missing when I logged in. So I was
just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard
drive and mount it on /dev/sdb, so that I can access it as (hd1) in GRUB
notation, next time the boot loader fails (which, I have to say, has been
reather frequent lately).

Thanks,

Jason

Re: perl question

[Niu Kun]

How about setting it a "local" variable?
And I think that you'd better send such a question to a perl mailing list.

Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a set of constants setup in my script
>
> RC_OK
> ...
> ...
>
> I use LWP::Simple  which also uses RC_OK, and I get a main::RC_OK
> redifinition 
>
> is there some way around this with out renaming my constants. 
>
> Alex
>
>   


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Re: perl question

[Gabor Urban]

Hi,

did you check this issue on Perl sites? Try to start with
www.cpan.org. BTW this is a very great site.

Good luck,
Gabor

2009/12/19 Alex Samad :
> Hi
>
> I have a set of constants setup in my script
>
> RC_OK
> ...
> ...
>
> I use LWP::Simple  which also uses RC_OK, and I get a main::RC_OK
> redifinition
>
> is there some way around this with out renaming my constants.
>
> Alex
>
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Re: Debian PowerPC Squeeze - "packages have unmet dependencies"

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 18 December 2009 12:12:52 Rick Thomas wrote:
> I understand "normal churn" in testing and unstable, but these
> problems have persisted for over a week.
> 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   epiphany-extensions-more: Depends: epiphany-extensions (< 2.27)
> > but 2.28.1-2 is to be installed.
> >   epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.29.3-1 is to be
> > installed.
> >   grdc: Depends: remmina which is a virtual package.
> >   gnome: Depends: tomboy (>= 1.0) but it is not installable

> If I should file a bug
> report,

Based on the replies I've seen to your other thread, the release team is aware 
of the issue, but I really don't think a bug report would hurt.  You might 
want to let Steve Langasek, Frans Pop, Philipp Kern, and Luk Claes know the 
bug number, they seem to be working the issue -- or at least they have 
provided some analysis that has been cross posted to a number of lists.  
Besides those 3 individuals, you may also want to notify the Gnome, PowerPC, 
and release teams; they should have at least one member on the respective 
public discussion lists.

> which package should I file it against -- there are so many
> that seem to be involved?

gnome or meta-gnome2
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[Alex Samad]

Hi

I have a set of constants setup in my script

RC_OK
...
...

I use LWP::Simple  which also uses RC_OK, and I get a main::RC_OK
redifinition 

is there some way around this with out renaming my constants. 

Alex



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