Re: vpnc times out after about 30 minutes i think

[Javier Barroso]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Mitchell Laks  wrote:
> Hi
> I need to connect via a cisco router from a debian machine to a debian 
> machine.
> after i run vpnc and after I am  connected,
> suddenlym after about 30 minutes (i think), i find myself disconnected, even 
> in the
> middle of active interaction.
Here is a "we" too. This seems to be a known issue [1] [2]

[1] known bugs in http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496718


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Re: changing rootdn password

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

> Didar Hossain  :
> > I would like to change that admin password without calling
> > 'dpkg-reconfigure slapd'.
> > Is there an ldap utility or built-in command for that purpose?
> Please, do not cross-post the same message to multiple mailing lists -
> instead use separate messages.

Ok, heard.

> Look for "rootpw" in slapd.conf

After dpkg confguring it, I only have a commented:
  rootdn "cn=admin,dc=malagasy,dc=com"
but no "rootpw".
I am able to bind with the credential provided to the dpkg-reconfigure.

Where is it stored?

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Re: changing rootdn password

[Didar Hossain]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
 wrote:
> Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,
>
> On a Debian and a Ubuntu I install OpenLDAP with the package manager.
> It usually asks for an admin password.
>
> But when looking in /etc/ldap/ I found no place where it is stored
> (even in an encrypted form).
>
> I would like to change that admin password without calling
> 'dpkg-reconfigure slapd'.
>
> Is there an ldap utility or built-in command for that purpose?

Please, do not cross-post the same message to multiple mailing lists -
instead use separate messages.

Look for "rootpw" in slapd.conf

Regards,
Didar


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Keyboard fails at running gksu in KDE-3.5.9

[Sthu Deus]

Good day.


As I run kate from KDE-menu as follows

gksu -u edit kate

I often get my keyboard does not respond and in the process list I see 
dcopserver running under that user w/ 'suicide' parameter. Logging from another 
session and getting my keyboard to work, I'm able to kill the process and in 
the previous session I then get the keyboard to respond - all the keys that 
were present since no respond - take their - therefore I understand that 
keyboard worked and stored the pressing in some buffer...

My question is, How I can avoid this?

I see it only w/ the kate, therefore I suppose there is some fight w/ KDE and 
Gnome apps. - Therefore, may there is a KDE-ish app that can do the same work 
that gksu does?

Or can I somehow remove the buggy dcopserver?


Thanks for Your time.

PS Please, reply to the list only.


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changing rootdn password

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,

On a Debian and a Ubuntu I install OpenLDAP with the package manager.
It usually asks for an admin password.

But when looking in /etc/ldap/ I found no place where it is stored
(even in an encrypted form).

I would like to change that admin password without calling
'dpkg-reconfigure slapd'.

Is there an ldap utility or built-in command for that purpose?

Misaotra, Thanks, Merci.

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vpnc times out after about 30 minutes i think

[Mitchell Laks]

Hi
I need to connect via a cisco router from a debian machine to a debian machine. 
after i run vpnc and after I am  connected, 
suddenlym after about 30 minutes (i think), i find myself disconnected, even in 
the
middle of active interaction.

I tried including the line 

DPD idle timeout (our side) 0

in my default.conf file
but this did not help.

Any other ideas... The administrator of the cisco router says the problem is at 
my end, he still sees
me connected it must be my client that is not working...

Thanks,
Mitchell 


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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Tom H]

>> Do both the "set root" and "search" lines point to the partition where /boot 
>> is?
>> To check the UUID of /boot:
>> grub-probe -t fs_uuid /boot

> Yes.


>> [And (just in case), unlike grub1, for grub2 sda1<-->(hd0,1), 
>> sda2<-->(hd0,2).]

For the sake of thread-completeness, to check the grub device of /boot
grub-probe -t drive /boot


> Today I decided to remove the device.map file and then I could issue:
> `grub-install '(hd0)''
> and it installed to the MBR and a subsequent `update-grub' put the
> 'set root=(hd0,1)' line in grub.cfg correctly even though I was running
> the Sidux kernel and `df' shows my root partition to be /dev/sda1.  I
> did a system restart try a new Sidux kernel and the reboot went fine.
> 'grub.cfg' has all the UUIDs correct for each partition.
> The next test will be whenever the grub packages are updated which is
> usually where this all goes awry as somehow (/dev/sda,1) gets into
> grub.cfg instead of (hd0,1). This is where I think that if Grub would
> just use the UUID that kind of mixup would be much less likely.

Please back up your device.map and run "grub-mkdevicemap". If it
doesn't re-create a proper device.map, you should file a bug. A
"(/dev/sda,1)   /dev/sda1" line is definitely wrong. AFAIK,
"grub-mkdevicemap" should return (for example)

(hd0)   /dev/sda
(hd1)   /dev/sdb
...

No partitions and no system device within the parenthesis of the grub device.


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Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

[Tom H]

>> I think that you mean "set gfxpayload=keep". I did not mention it
>> because it has not worked for me (my boot-up stops with a black
>> screen) but I have seen various sites that recommend it.

> That would (should?) work if you also set $GRUB_GFXMODE to the desired
> mode (which resulted in strange effects for me).

> I'm using "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=1680x1050x8" instead with the attached patch
> (based on the patch in [0]) that I keep in /root and apply after every
> update of the grub package.

> WARNING: due to some recent changes in the grub package the patch needs
> some refreshing, but I'm not familiar enough with diff/patch to
> regenerate it. Use only if you know how the resulting grub.cfg should
> look like.

> [0] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27094

Thinking back, I can only assume that I may have mistyped something
and not noticed or changed a few too many grub2 options simultaneously
or set too many options simultaneously. I will have to try again.

Thanks for the link. If I understand correctly, its purpose is to add
a grub_gfxpayload line to /etc/default/grub so that the /etc/grub.d
scripts have a value to plug in to grub.cfg. I edit my grub.cfg
manually so it does not really matter to me. I would love to know
though from where the gfxpayload variable came from and why the
gfxmode variable is not enough. One of the reasons that I tried it and
avoided it almost immediately is that it seemed to pop out of nowhere
in some fora but was not referenced in the grub.enbug.org, Ubuntu, or
ArchLinux documentation.


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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Nate Bargmann]

* Tom H  [2009 Dec 28 20:18 -0600]:
> I am going through this thread backwards, with apologies...
> 
> Do both the "set root" and "search" lines point to the partition where /boot 
> is?
> 
> To check the UUID of /boot:
> grub-probe -t fs_uuid /boot

Yes.

> [And (just in case), unlike grub1, for grub2 sda1<-->(hd0,1), 
> sda2<-->(hd0,2).]

Today I decided to remove the device.map file and then I could issue:

`grub-install '(hd0)''

and it installed to the MBR and a subsequent `update-grub' put the 
'set root=(hd0,1)' line in grub.cfg correctly even though I was running
the Sidux kernel and `df' shows my root partition to be /dev/sda1.  I
did a system restart try a new Sidux kernel and the reboot went fine. 
'grub.cfg' has all the UUIDs correct for each partition.

The next test will be whenever the grub packages are updated which is
usually where this all goes awry as somehow (/dev/sda,1) gets into
grub.cfg instead of (hd0,1).  This is where I think that if Grub would
just use the UUID that kind of mixup would be much less likely.

- Nate >>

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Nate Bargmann]

* Tom H  [2009 Dec 28 19:55 -0600]:

> >From /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib (which is sourced by all files in
> /etc/grub.d):
> 
> 
> # If there's a filesystem UUID that GRUB is capable of identifying, use it;
> # otherwise set root as per value in device.map.
> echo "set root=`${grub_probe} --device ${device} --target=drive`"
> if fs_uuid="`${grub_probe} --device ${device} --target=fs_uuid 2>
> /dev/null`" ; then
> echo "search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ${fs_uuid}"
> fi
> 
> 
> If you do not want the "set root..." line, comment it out.
> 
> If you want the "set root" line to use UUIDs, change "--target=drive"
> to "--target=fs_uuid" (and possibly add "UUID=" after "root=" like the
> "linux" line).
> 
> You _might_ also have to add an "insmod fs_uuid" line above the "set root=" 
> one.

Interesting and thanks much for the sleuth work.  Seems as though this
should be configurable via /etc/default/grub which may make for a nice
wishlist bug report.  I'll have to check into that.

- Nate >>

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Tom H]

> Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition
> /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation? The reason
> I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda,
> but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it. Specifically, installing and updating
> Grub results in "/dev/sda" in /boot/grub.cfg and then boot fails as
> grub evidently sees it as an IDE drive, which it is. It seems as
> though if Grub could use UUI internally as the kernel does, this issue
> would be resolved. So far my Googler has come up empty.

I am going through this thread backwards, with apologies...

Do both the "set root" and "search" lines point to the partition where /boot is?

To check the UUID of /boot:
grub-probe -t fs_uuid /boot

[And (just in case), unlike grub1, for grub2 sda1<-->(hd0,1), sda2<-->(hd0,2).]


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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Tom H]

> I'm not sure that's what the OP was asking for, though, because I'm
> unclear as to how he could have a kernel that treats all drives as sda..

> Sounds pretty risky to me.

This is standard behaviour for Fedora and Ubuntu. The kernel uses
libata for both SATA and PATA.


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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Tom H]

>> Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in
>> squeeze and sid has this:
>> ,[ /etc/default/grub ]
>> | # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to 
>> Linux
>> | #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

> That's not what I'm asking about.  My kernels use UUID just fine and I
> don't want that to change.  I'm asking about having Grub use the UUID
> instead of (hd0,1), etc.

> In other words, and I should have done this initially, look at this
> snippet from /boot/grub/grub.cfg:

> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
> set default=0
> insmod ext2
> set root=(hd1,1)
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 85f5c3de-852d-43bf-a8cd-9001efb0d93c

> Lines 4 and 5 seem to be in conflict with each other.  Why have a "set
> root=(hd1.1)" line when the "search" line that follows specifies the
> correct UUID?  My question was, how can I tell the scripts to not issue
> the "set root" line and just use the "search" line with the UUID?  Will
> Grub2 work with just the UUID (it would seem the Ubunutu folks should
> have solved this already)?  To me it seems that using UUID should be
> preferred.

> While I like the probing features and automatic configuration in
> general, I'd prefer that the more critical settings be overridden by my
> required static defaults.

>From /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib (which is sourced by all files in
/etc/grub.d):


# If there's a filesystem UUID that GRUB is capable of identifying, use it;
# otherwise set root as per value in device.map.
echo "set root=`${grub_probe} --device ${device} --target=drive`"
if fs_uuid="`${grub_probe} --device ${device} --target=fs_uuid 2>
/dev/null`" ; then
echo "search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ${fs_uuid}"
fi


If you do not want the "set root..." line, comment it out.

If you want the "set root" line to use UUIDs, change "--target=drive"
to "--target=fs_uuid" (and possibly add "UUID=" after "root=" like the
"linux" line).

You _might_ also have to add an "insmod fs_uuid" line above the "set root=" one.


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Re (2): configuration file for "Automatically Started Applications"

[peasthope]

Date:   Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:52:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote,
> Here is one of my .desktop files created with Xfce4:
> 
> ,[ .config/autostart/YeahConsole.desktop ]
> | [Desktop Entry]
> ...

Good.  Thanks!  This works here.

# ~/.config/autostart/twinkle.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Twinkle
Exec=twinkle

I didn't try to delete the Type and Name.  Might work just as well.

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Re: Change keyboard layout

[Anthony Baldwin]

--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Andrei Popescu  wrote:

> From: Andrei Popescu 
> Subject: Re: Change keyboard layout
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 3:40 PM
> On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:35:07, Anthony
> Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > I just do
> > $ setxkbmap us intl
> 
> Sure, but this won't survive a restart of X.
> 

That is true.
I rarely restart X.
One could add this to the startup script for X, in all truth,
then it would be run every time.

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Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

[Celejar]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:37:11 -0500
Paul Cartwright  wrote:

> On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Seconded.  Way to go Paul.  Many people have surrendered due to frustration
> > and given up building a custom kernel.  Kudos to you for sticking it out
> > until you got it the first time.  As Dave states, building others gets
> > easier over time as you learn more and get comfortable with the process and
> > gain intimate knowledge of your hardware.
> >
> I did a second that LOOKED fine, but wireless no longer worked:)
> at least it got smaller in size!!
> my initrd files are still a little BIG, but at least it works.

Yes, well, if you remove the requirement that it actually *work*, then
you can get the size down quite low ;)

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Re: Can I check packages integrity with debsums on sums check failed DVDs?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei:

>What are you trying to accomplish?

My first goal was to check OS packages integrity... -as I have understood it is 
impossible w/ debsums.

Now I try to learn how to do securely w/ updating/installing packages on Debian 
in the view of bad connection to Internet - where an interruption of 
downloading is normal and therefore re-downloading w/ apt becomes almost cycled 
- therefore wget comes for help.

Finally, by whatever way I get a package I want to be sure - it is safe - 
therefore I try to understand hos all this works in Debian - what is required 
at my hand in order to keep my OS safe.


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Re: Change keyboard layout

[pch0317]

Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Sat,26.Dec.09, 20:30:27, pch0317 wrote:
  

Hi list
I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout.
I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure
console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''.
But still I can't type my symbol.
What I can do?
I use Debian testing amd64.



Use 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' and restart X

Regards,
Andrei
  


Yes, this help me under X :)
Thanks


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Re: Exim4 redirect question

[Anthony Campbell]

On 28 Dec 2009, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> Somthing like the following in the .forward file of the account
> which receives that e-mail
> 
> # Exim Filter
> if error_message then finish endif
> if $h_to: contains "a-u...@msn.com" then
>deliver a-differentu...@gmail.com
>finish
> endif
> 
> 
> I actually do something like this but also deliver it to the
> original account.  In which case change the clause to
> 
> if $h_to: contains "a-u...@msn.com" then
>unseen deliver a-differentu...@gmail.com
>save "$home/Maildir/.MailtoAuser/"
>finish
> endif
> 
> 
> Also if you want to apply other rules - don't include the finish.
> 

Thanks very much. I'll try that out.

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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Osamu Aoki]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:57:00PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue,29.Dec.09, 00:25:06, Osamu Aoki wrote:
...
> > $ cd /path/to/source ; cp -a ./ destination/
> > 
> > This does trick since adding ./ after destination/ is still destination/ :-)
> 
> Why is this better than 'cd /path/to/source ; cp -a . destination' ?

Same... I overlooked that line in your post.


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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,29.Dec.09, 00:25:06, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:17:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:27:32, Glenn English wrote:
> > 
> > > I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though.
> 
> Yah ... it will create destination/source/*
 
At least on my machine it doesn't. 'cp -a source/ destination/'
will however, regardless of the appended '/' (unlike rsync)

> If you missed my post, ... here is the better way. 
> 
> $ cd /path/to/source ; cp -a ./ destination/
> 
> This does trick since adding ./ after destination/ is still destination/ :-)

Why is this better than 'cd /path/to/source ; cp -a . destination' ?

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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Osamu Aoki]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:17:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:27:32, Glenn English wrote:
> 
> > I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though.
> 
> I discovered that by chance, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't 
> work.

Yah ... it will create destination/source/*

If you missed my post, ... here is the better way. 

$ cd /path/to/source ; cp -a ./ destination/

This does trick since adding ./ after destination/ is still destination/ :-)

Osamu


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Re: Change keyboard layout

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:35:07, Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> 
> I just do
> $ setxkbmap us intl

Sure, but this won't survive a restart of X.

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Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:07:29AM EST, T o n g wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:44:18 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
> 
> >> I remember having installed a mozilla extension which can give me a
> >> list of urls the web page contains. but I can't find it any more. What
> >> could it be?
> >> 
> >> 
> > mozilla-ctxextensions

> I'm afraid that mozilla-ctxextensions isn't able to give me what I
> want.  Are you sure about it, Klistvud?

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:49:45 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> > What does it do that Ctrl-I does not?
> 
> yes, that's exactly the point. Nothing much.

I  use Seamonkey and the Ctrl-I popup's fifth tab from the left,
appropriately named 'Links', appears to have a list of all the links on
the web page.

I don't see such a tab in FF.

Not sure what you are using, and what you want the list for.. depending
on what you want to do with that list, you could also take a look at
text-mode browsers such as ELinks, or Lynx..?

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Re: Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

[T o n g]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:44:18 +0100, Klistvud wrote:

>> I remember having installed a mozilla extension which can give me a
>> list of urls the web page contains. but I can't find it any more. What
>> could it be?
>> 
>> 
> mozilla-ctxextensions

I'm afraid that mozilla-ctxextensions isn't able to give me what I want. 
Are you sure about it, Klistvud?

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:49:45 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:

> What does it do that Ctrl-I does not?

yes, that's exactly the point. Nothing much.

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Re: Fw: Re: flash video sound issue

[Anthony Baldwin]

--- On Mon, 12/21/09, Marc Shapiro  wrote:

> From: Marc Shapiro 
> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: flash video sound issue [resolved]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 2:13 AM
> Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 12/20/09, Marc Shapiro 
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Marc Shapiro 
> >> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: flash video sound issue
> [resolved]
> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 8:02 PM
> >> Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> >>> Hmmmturns out /etc/init.d/alsa-utils
> restart does
> >> the
> >>> trick.
> >> I have had other, intermittent, flash video sound
> issues
> >> that, while not identical, are similar enough that
> the same
> >> fix might work.  Nothing else that has been
> suggested
> >> has solved the problem, so I am going to try this
> the next
> >> time my sound goes into an endless loop.
> >> 
> >> -- Marc Shapiro
> >> mshapiro...@yahoo.com
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > I wonder if other sound programs I'm using are somehow
> contributing
> > to this issue, since restarting the sound system seems
> to resolve it,
> > temporarily.
> 
> I think it is strictly flash related.  I almost never
> use other multi-media type software and IIRC the only time
> that I have a problem is with flash.  In fact, it
> almost always occurs when my daughter is on a flash game, or
> other flash kid's site.
> 

I thought this was resolved, but, honestly, it isn't.
I can restart alsa, and immediately have the same issue.
(At one point, restarting alsa seemed to, at the very least, temporarily
resolve this issue, but not anymore).
It's really starting to annoy me, in fact.  Can't watch any
videos on Youtube, and any other flash animation (all those nauseatingly
cute eCards your AOL using Grandma sends for the holidays) etc.
My Ubuntu laptop doesn't seem to be having any such issue,
but I didn't update the flash plugin on that one (think it 
has flash plugin 9, while I updated on this Lenny box
to flash10...although, the problem was here before I updated
the flash plugin, so I don't think that has anything to do with it).
I still use firefox as my browser on the ubuntu (jaunty) laptop.
So:
Experiencing the delayed, then skipping sound on Debian Lenny,
regardless of browser (iceweasel, chrome, epiphany, etc.), with 
both flash9 or (newly updated) flash10, using ion3 wm.
Not having any such problem in ubuntu jaunty with firefox with flash9, ion3 wm.
My daughter's machine, lenny, xfce with iceweasel and flash9 has the same issue 
as my lenny box.
My box is updated far more regularly.  Probably haven't updated my kid's 
box in 3 to 6 months, in all truth, but ran aptitude safe-upgrade on my
lenny box about a week ago.
Doesn't seem related to browser or wm, or even specifically one flash plugin.  
It just seems I have this problem on Debian Lenny.
So, is it, indeed, a flash bug?  
or a Debian bug?
or, maybe just a Lenny bug (are squeeze and sarge users seeing this same issue)?

/tony

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Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

[Anthony Baldwin]

--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Kevin Ross  wrote:

> From: Kevin Ross 
> Subject: Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 3:21 AM
> Jack Dodds wrote:
> > If anyone can identify this problem, or offer
> suggestions about how to
> > further narrow it down, I would appreciate it.
> > 
> > Jack Dodd
> 
> How much memory is Iceweasel using when it starts acting
> up?  Firefox on my Windows machine does the same, when
> I have about 20 tabs open and it's using about 1.5 GB of
> memory.
> 
> 

I thought it was just that the internet is too full of flashy,
spinny, beeping, overloaded garbage, as my iceweasel was hanging and 
hanging, despite my having a blazing fast cable connection...
But I've now switched to google chrome as my default browser,
and have recovered the speed I expect from my connection.
I think iceweasel just sucks, now.

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Re: Change keyboard layout

[Anthony Baldwin]

--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Andrei Popescu  wrote:

> From: Andrei Popescu 
> Subject: Re: Change keyboard layout
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 10:45 AM
> On Sat,26.Dec.09, 20:30:27, pch0317
> wrote:
> > Hi list
> > I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout.
> > I want to change it to polish, so I type
> ''dpkg-reconfigure
> > console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''.
> > But still I can't type my symbol.
> > What I can do?
> > I use Debian testing amd64.
> 
> Use 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' and restart
> X
> 

I just do
$ setxkbmap us intl

Then I have US Intl. keyboard layout (allows diacritical marks,
such as ñ, ¿ ¡ ç ö á è, þ µ ß, etc., since I type in 4 languages, EN, ES, FR & 
PT).
I don't even have to restart X.

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Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi[Solved]

[Sebastian]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:15AM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote:
> Hello Sebi,

Hello Ogya

> This is to inform you that my wifi is working. The problem was that I supplied
> a wrong passphrase.

Glad you got it going.

> Thank you very much for your help in the last three days. I do appreciate it 
> so
> much.

Glad to help

> Kind regards,
> Ogya

Cheerio!

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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:27:32, Glenn English wrote:

> I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though.

I discovered that by chance, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't 
work.

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:14:14AM EST, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Chris Jones  [2009 Dec 28 05:49 -0600]:

[..]

> > unclear as to how he could have a kernel that treats all drives as
> > sda..

> All Ubuntu kernels treat any drive as an sd? and since I'm
> experimenting with a Sidux kernel to get the PREEMPT capability to
> improve desktop performance, it does the same thing.  Actually, it
> seems as though by treating every drive as an sd? that a lot of these
> sorts of issues are solved.

> > Sounds pretty risky to me.

Oh, OK.. they still have distinct identifiers, sda, sdb.. etc. right?

> I don't know why.  The CD recording software has done that for years
> regardless of whether the writer is actually an IDE or SCSI device.

To the casual onlooker, what you initially wrote made it sound as if
your kernel referred to all drives as /dev/sda .. I was merely hinting
that you probably needed to give a bit more detail about this.

> > The good news is that I read somewhere that the grub folks now have
> > dedicated someone to documenting the program ;-)

> That would be most helpful.  

I think I got this from the #grub irc channel, from s/o who appeared to
be a reliable source.

> I've yet to try your suggestion as this weekend was one full of
> shoveling snow and other winter time duties. I will play with it once
> Ma Nature leaves us alone for a while.

Not holding my breath.. doesn't look promising, does it..? :-)

As to my suggestion, that's something else I got from the irc channel
and it did the trick for my USB stick clone. 

I'm quite sure that update-grub does not tamper with the stanzas that
you create manually in /etc/grub.d/40_custom, so if you don't specify a
"set root=" there, the gen'd /boot/grub/grub.cfg should only contain
references to the UUID.

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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Glenn English]

On Dec 28, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> Unless I'm doing something wrong 'cp -a .*' will try to copy the parent 
> directory as well

Hmm. Bears looking into. But I swear I've been doing '.*' forever. Maybe that 
explains the high disk drive bills :-)

> The correct solution 
> from my tests seems to be to use '.' with either
> 
> cp -a source/. destination/

That looks like a request to copy a directory. So '.' gets invisibles? Didn't 
know that... 

No, wait a minute. '.' is the current dir. So 'source/.' should mean 
'source/'?? What shell are you using? 

... 

Nope. You're absolutely right. In bash, 'ls .*' does what I expected, but 'cp 
-a .*' does do the parent, like you said. 'cp .*' doesn't, though. It just 
doesn't copy invisible directories. Huge apologies -- especially to the OP. Now 
I wonder what it is I *have* been doing for all that cp'ing for so long...

I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though.

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon,28.Dec.09, 15:04:01, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:24:19, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>  
> > Lines 4 and 5 seem to be in conflict with each other.  Why have a "set
> > root=(hd1.1)" line when the "search" line that follows specifies the
> > correct UUID?  My question was, how can I tell the scripts to not issue
> > the "set root" line and just use the "search" line with the UUID?  Will
> > Grub2 work with just the UUID (it would seem the Ubunutu folks should
> > have solved this already)?  To me it seems that using UUID should be
> > preferred.
> 
> According to the thread at [0] it seems grub should work fine with 
> either of the two lines (and you can even use the label instead of UUID) 
> and the 'search ... --set' actually overrides the 'set root' directive.
> 
> Why the 'set root' is still kept beats me...

...oops forgot the [0]

[0] http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=38599&p=221676

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:24:19, Nate Bargmann wrote:
 
> Lines 4 and 5 seem to be in conflict with each other.  Why have a "set
> root=(hd1.1)" line when the "search" line that follows specifies the
> correct UUID?  My question was, how can I tell the scripts to not issue
> the "set root" line and just use the "search" line with the UUID?  Will
> Grub2 work with just the UUID (it would seem the Ubunutu folks should
> have solved this already)?  To me it seems that using UUID should be
> preferred.

According to the thread at [0] it seems grub should work fine with 
either of the two lines (and you can even use the label instead of UUID) 
and the 'search ... --set' actually overrides the 'set root' directive.

Why the 'set root' is still kept beats me...

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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon,28.Dec.09, 04:49:07, Glenn English wrote:
> 
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> >> I always just say 'cp -a .* ' in addition to what you 
> >> already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. 
> > 
> > Why would '.*' be better than a simple '*'?
> 
> Because '*' doesn't get the invisible files, and Merciadri'd already 
> done the visibles. As someone else suggested, 'cp -a * .* ' 
> would do it all in one step. 

Unless I'm doing something wrong 'cp -a .*' will try to copy the parent 
directory as well, which is not what the OP wanted. The correct solution 
from my tests seems to be to use '.' with either

cp -a source/. destination/

or

cd source
cp -a . destination

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Nate Bargmann]

* Andrei Popescu  [2009 Dec 28 04:42 -0600]:
> Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in 
> squeeze and sid has this:
> 
> 
> ,[ /etc/default/grub ]
> | # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to 
> Linux
> | #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
> `

That's not what I'm asking about.  My kernels use UUID just fine and I
don't want that to change.  I'm asking about having Grub use the UUID
instead of (hd0,1), etc.

In other words, and I should have done this initially, look at this
snippet from /boot/grub/grub.cfg:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 85f5c3de-852d-43bf-a8cd-9001efb0d93c
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
  fi
fi
set locale_dir=/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
set timeout=10
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###


Lines 4 and 5 seem to be in conflict with each other.  Why have a "set
root=(hd1.1)" line when the "search" line that follows specifies the
correct UUID?  My question was, how can I tell the scripts to not issue
the "set root" line and just use the "search" line with the UUID?  Will
Grub2 work with just the UUID (it would seem the Ubunutu folks should
have solved this already)?  To me it seems that using UUID should be
preferred.

While I like the probing features and automatic configuration in
general, I'd prefer that the more critical settings be overridden by my
required static defaults.

- Nate >>

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Nate Bargmann]

* Chris Jones  [2009 Dec 28 05:49 -0600]:
> I am able to boot a clone of my "lenny" system that lives on a USB stick
> and I actually had to manually remove the "set root=" statement, because
> it was confusing grub2 - namely a "set root=(hd1,1) .. or hd2, or hd3..
> or sda, sdb, sdc.. always resulted in some message or other to the
> effect that there was no such partition.

That's what I'm running into.

> I'm not sure that's what the OP was asking for, though, because I'm
> unclear as to how he could have a kernel that treats all drives as sda..

All Ubuntu kernels treat any drive as an sd? and since I'm
experimenting with a Sidux kernel to get the PREEMPT capability to
improve desktop performance, it does the same thing.  Actually, it
seems as though by treating every drive as an sd? that a lot of these
sorts of issues are solved.

> Sounds pretty risky to me.

I don't know why.  The CD recording software has done that for years
regardless of whether the writer is actually an IDE or SCSI device.

> The good news is that I read somewhere that the grub folks now have
> dedicated someone to documenting the program ;-)

That would be most helpful.  I've yet to try your suggestion as this
weekend was one full of shoveling snow and other winter time duties.  I
will play with it once Ma Nature leaves us alone for a while.

- Nate >>

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Re: Exim4 redirect question

[Alan Chandler]

Anthony Campbell wrote:

On 27 Dec 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

Anthony Campbell wrote:

I receive emails from a-u...@msn.com. I would like to redirect these
(and only these) to a-differentu...@gmail.com.

Is this possible with exim4? From reading the docs I think it should be
possible to do so using redirect but I cannot find an example of a
suitable script. Can anyone provide such an example and indicate where
it should go?

This is possible with filters. See
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/filter.html for the syntax.

Your ~/.forward file can be an exim filter. I don't know if this is
configured by default in Debian's exim, but it's just a simple setting
in the config file:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html#toc0207

It's also possible to use a system filter, but that would affect all users.




I'd already found those. There's a lot of information but I couldn't see
an example of the (probably very simple) kind of script I would need to
put in ~/.forward.

Anthony




Somthing like the following in the .forward file of the account which 
receives that e-mail


# Exim Filter
if error_message then finish endif
if $h_to: contains "a-u...@msn.com" then
   deliver a-differentu...@gmail.com
   finish
endif


I actually do something like this but also deliver it to the original 
account.  In which case change the clause to


if $h_to: contains "a-u...@msn.com" then
   unseen deliver a-differentu...@gmail.com
   save "$home/Maildir/.MailtoAuser/"
   finish
endif


Also if you want to apply other rules - don't include the finish.





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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Glenn English]

On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

>> I always just say 'cp -a .* ' in addition to what you 
>> already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. 
> 
> Why would '.*' be better than a simple '*'?

Because '*' doesn't get the invisible files, and Merciadri'd already done the 
visibles. As someone else suggested, 'cp -a * .* ' would do it all in one 
step. 

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:40:52AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,25.Dec.09, 16:19:13, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition
> > /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation?  The reason
> > I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda,
> > but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it.  Specifically, installing and updating
> > Grub results in "/dev/sda" in /boot/grub.cfg and then boot fails as
> > grub evidently sees it as an IDE drive, which it is.  It seems as
> > though if Grub could use UUI internally as the kernel does, this issue
> > would be resolved.  So far my Googler has come up empty.
> 
> Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in 
> squeeze and sid has this:
> 
> 
> ,[ /etc/default/grub ]
> | # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to 
> Linux
> | #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
> `

But you still end up with an initial "set root=(hd0,1)" or such like at
the beginning of you grub.cfg stanzas. Which to me does not make sense,
since the ensuing "search" and "linux" statements refer to the UUID of
the partition, and are sufficient to find you kernel and boot it. 

And either the "search" or maybe the "linux" statement, if successful,
appear to point grub to the correct place, since it is also able to find
the initrd image.

I am able to boot a clone of my "lenny" system that lives on a USB stick
and I actually had to manually remove the "set root=" statement, because
it was confusing grub2 - namely a "set root=(hd1,1) .. or hd2, or hd3..
or sda, sdb, sdc.. always resulted in some message or other to the
effect that there was no such partition.

I'm not sure that's what the OP was asking for, though, because I'm
unclear as to how he could have a kernel that treats all drives as sda..

Sounds pretty risky to me.

The good news is that I read somewhere that the grub folks now have
dedicated someone to documenting the program ;-)

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Re: Bug Perhaps: Debian Testing AMD64 2009-12-27 Daily Build NetInst

[Andrei Popescu]

On Mon,28.Dec.09, 00:22:35, Chris Brandstetter wrote:
> 
> Now the system asks to load the tigon/tg3_tso.bin firmware. (Broadcom
> Network Card firmware)
> 
> I selected no and continued on the install.  (Strange, did it get the
> firmware from somewhere else, or was there an open source alternative?)
 
In recent kernels (2.6.31?) a lot of previously included firmwares have 
been moved to separate packages (firmware-linux-nonfree in this specific 
case).

Since this will make a lot of users unhappy[0] the installer offers to 
install the additional firmware, probably from some external source, 
like a USB stick or similar.

[0] it's quite difficult do do a *net*install without a working network 
card ;)

> It does not indicate that there is a problem, or that the netinst will
> or will not work without the firmware.  Perhaps a better message saying
> what requires the firmware, whether or not there is an open source
> option, and the ability to use it, and whether or not the device will
> work.
> 
> Overall the message is very, vague to an end user, a little
> clarification would be good.

You are probably right about this. If it hasn't been requested before 
you might want to file an installation report.

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Re: Change keyboard layout

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sat,26.Dec.09, 20:30:27, pch0317 wrote:
> Hi list
> I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout.
> I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure
> console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''.
> But still I can't type my symbol.
> What I can do?
> I use Debian testing amd64.

Use 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' and restart X

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Re: offtopic: /lib/libc.so.6

[Eric Meijer]

Jerome BENOIT wrote:

[ ... /lib/libc.so.6 appears executable and prints version info ... ]


It is good to know. Nevertheless I am curious to know how we can make 
a libXXX.so file prints something.

Does anyone have any hint ?


Interesting.  I found this reference: 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2003-07/msg00196.html

Did not try it out.

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Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED-THANKS!

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> --
> Stan
>
> P.S.  If you care to diff the files or just manually browse for
> differences, here's the .config that results in my 1.5MB kernel package.
>  Also note that I do not use an initrd, but boot the kernel directly, and
> that this is a headless server so there's no need for a GPU driver and the
> space it eats.  I'm no "expert" custom kernel guy, so I'm sure there are
> some optimizations and such that I've missed, or places where I've been
> lazy or unsure of an option. However, my kernel is small by most server
> standards, and my system does everything I throw at it, so apparently I'm
> not missing anything critical.
without the initrd my system didn't boot.. how do yo do that?

>
> A couple of hints to start getting your kernel size down:
> 
thanks for the hints, I'll do some more trimming!

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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?

[Andrei Popescu]

On Fri,25.Dec.09, 16:19:13, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition
> /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation?  The reason
> I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda,
> but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it.  Specifically, installing and updating
> Grub results in "/dev/sda" in /boot/grub.cfg and then boot fails as
> grub evidently sees it as an IDE drive, which it is.  It seems as
> though if Grub could use UUI internally as the kernel does, this issue
> would be resolved.  So far my Googler has come up empty.

Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in 
squeeze and sid has this:


,[ /etc/default/grub ]
| # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
| #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
`

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Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> P.S.  If you care to diff the files or just manually browse for
> differences, here's the .config that results in my 1.5MB kernel package.
>  Also note that I do

oh, and THANKS! I almost overlooked the bottom part of your message, I thought 
it was the SIG lines starting!!!

I'll definitely take a look at this later this week!! now it's back to WORK..

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Re: building a custom kernel:IT WORKED

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sun December 27 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Seconded.  Way to go Paul.  Many people have surrendered due to frustration
> and given up building a custom kernel.  Kudos to you for sticking it out
> until you got it the first time.  As Dave states, building others gets
> easier over time as you learn more and get comfortable with the process and
> gain intimate knowledge of your hardware.
>
I did a second that LOOKED fine, but wireless no longer worked:)
at least it got smaller in size!!
my initrd files are still a little BIG, but at least it works.

> Good job!
thanks! I'll keep playing with it, and drilling down into more options..


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Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Andrei Popescu]

On Fri,25.Dec.09, 15:25:56, Glenn English wrote:
> 
> On Dec 25, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> 
> > You were right. I just made a diff, and folders beginning with a dot
> > were not copied. I was simply using
> > $ cp --recursive --update *.* [...] [...]
> > 
> > What would be these appropriate switches to achieve this? 
> 
> I always just say 'cp -a .* ' in addition to what you 
> already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. 
> If there are switches to do this, I've missed them in my reading of 
> the man page.

Why would '.*' be better than a simple '*'?

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Re: Can I check packages integrity with debsums on sums check failed DVDs?

[Andrei Popescu]

On Fri,25.Dec.09, 20:54:04, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, (sorry for long reply) Boyd:
> 
> >Depends on how you got the package.  There is a "chain of trust" between 
> >your apt keyring and the package contents.  The Release and Packages files 
> >have detached signatures, which APT verifies to ensure they are trusted and 
> >not corrupt.  The Packages file contains multiple hashes for each .deb 
> >package, which APT verifies to ensure they are trusted and not corrupt.  The 
> >.deb package might contain a .debsums file.  If not .debsums can be 
> >generated locally.
> 
> When does apt checks the package integrity: at download or at install 
> moment? - If at install moment - then can I download w/ the help of 
> wget and then put into apt's package dir. so that it will install as 
> if it was retrieved by apt but not installed. Or apt will suppose id a 
> package is there- then it is verified already and will not test its 
> integrity?
> 
> The, at the time of checking apt relies on keyring, then it generates 
> checksums - why do I need them, if apt already has checked the 
> package?

Hello,

As far as I know there are two different mechanisms:

1. secure-apt, which checks the integrity of the .deb files before 
installing them (I'm not sure if this is done before or after the 
download)

2. debsums, which checks the integrity of each file contained in a .deb.  
This method relies on proper information contained in each .deb which 
not all .debs provide.

What are you trying to accomplish?

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Re: LAME for Lenny

[Andrei Popescu]

On Thu,24.Dec.09, 20:19:12, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
> 
> On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3.
> However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where
> to find the appropriate package ?

You already got a solution for your problem, I just want to make a 
suggestion:

Unless you are space constrained or the files are only intended for a 
device which has limited support for other formats you should encode to 
flac [0].

Even if you later realize you do need mp3 (or ogg or whatever other 
format) you can still convert them without worrying about the quality 
because flac is loss-less.

[0] http://flac.sourceforge.net/

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Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

[Andrei Popescu]

On Thu,24.Dec.09, 20:29:19, Tom H wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for the vagueness, but as I'm at work I can't look into
> > /etc/grub/default or /etc/grub.d/debian-05 ... hopefully its enough to
> > google the exact commands.
> 
> I think that you mean "set gfxpayload=keep". I did not mention it
> because it has not worked for me (my boot-up stops with a black
> screen) but I have seen various sites that recommend it.

That would (should?) work if you also set $GRUB_GFXMODE to the desired 
mode (which resulted in strange effects for me).

I'm using "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=1680x1050x8" instead with the attached patch 
(based on the patch in [0]) that I keep in /root and apply after every 
update of the grub package. 

WARNING: due to some recent changes in the grub package the patch needs 
some refreshing, but I'm not familiar enough with diff/patch to 
regenerate it. Use only if you know how the resulting grub.cfg should 
look like.

[0] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27094

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diff -Naur debian/default/grub grub2-1.96+20090725.new/debian/default/grub
--- ../etc/default/grub	2009-07-22 13:08:36.0 -0430
+++ ../etc/default/grub	2009-07-22 13:07:32.014658923 -0430
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
 
+# Uncomment this to enable a higher resolution in kernel boot process
+GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=1680x1050x8
+
 # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
 #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
 
diff -Naur grub2-1.96+20090725/util/grub.d/10_linux.in grub2-1.96+20090725.new/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
--- ../etc/grub.d/10_linux	2009-07-22 13:09:21.302668116 -0430
+++ ../etc/grub.d/10_linux	2009-07-22 09:35:42.428593815 -0430
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@
 prepare_boot_cache="$(prepare_grub_to_access_device ${GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT} | sed -e "s/^/\t/")"
   fi
   printf '%s\n' "${prepare_boot_cache}"
+  if [ "x$5" != "x" ]; then
+  cat << EOF
+set gfxpayload=$5
+EOF
+  fi
   cat << EOF
 	linux	${rel_dirname}/${basename} root=${linux_root_device_thisversion} ro ${args}
 EOF
@@ -136,9 +141,14 @@
 # "UUID=" magic is parsed by initrds.  Since there's no initrd, it can't work here.
 linux_root_device_thisversion=${GRUB_DEVICE}
   fi
-
-  linux_entry "${OS}" "${version}" false \
-  "${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX} ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT}"
+  if [ "x${GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD}" = "x" ]; then
+linux_entry "${OS}" "${version}" false \
+"${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX} ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT}"
+  else
+linux_entry "${OS}" "${version}" false \
+"${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX} ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT}" \
+"${GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD}"
+  fi
   if [ "x${GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY}" != "xtrue" ]; then
 linux_entry "${OS}" "${version}" true \
 	"single ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX}"
diff -Naur grub2-1.96+20090725/util/grub-mkconfig.in grub2-1.96+20090725.new/util/grub-mkconfig.in
--- ../usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig	2009-08-26 12:38:51.0 +0300
+++ ../usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig	2009-08-26 15:15:47.0 +0300
@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@
   GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID \
   GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY \
   GRUB_GFXMODE \
-  GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER
+  GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER \
+  GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD
 
 if test "x${grub_cfg}" != "x"; then
   rm -f ${grub_cfg}.new


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Re: Exim4 redirect question

[Anthony Campbell]

On 27 Dec 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I receive emails from a-u...@msn.com. I would like to redirect these
> > (and only these) to a-differentu...@gmail.com.
> >
> > Is this possible with exim4? From reading the docs I think it should be
> > possible to do so using redirect but I cannot find an example of a
> > suitable script. Can anyone provide such an example and indicate where
> > it should go?
> 
> This is possible with filters. See
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/filter.html for the syntax.
> 
> Your ~/.forward file can be an exim filter. I don't know if this is
> configured by default in Debian's exim, but it's just a simple setting
> in the config file:
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html#toc0207
> 
> It's also possible to use a system filter, but that would affect all users.
> 


I'd already found those. There's a lot of information but I couldn't see
an example of the (probably very simple) kind of script I would need to
put in ~/.forward.

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Re: Can't manage my iPod

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:19:03 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote:

> I used to be able to manage my iPod fine, but now it's almost
> impossible. The device mounts and is browseable, although I get this
> output from fdisk
> 
>   Disk /dev/sdb: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes 241 heads, 62 sectors/track,
>   535 cylinders Units = cylinders of 14942 * 512 = 7650304 bytes Disk
>   identifier: 0x20202020
>   
>  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
>   /dev/sdb1   1  11   80293+   0  Empty
>   Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 1, 2)
>   Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>phys=(9, 254, 63) logical=(10, 181, 8)
>   Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2 
>   11 536 3919415+   b  W95 FAT32 Partition 2 has different
>   physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>phys=(10, 0, 7) logical=(10, 181, 15)
>   Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
>phys=(497, 240, 62) logical=(535, 88, 61)
>   
> is this normal?
> 
> I tried 5 different softwares (Rhythmbox, Amarok 2.2.1, Songbird,
> Banshee, GTKPod) and currently the only one that sees the iPod is
> Rhythmbox (although its support is partial, as I can transfer files to
> the device but not remove or modify them). The others don't even see it.
> 
> iPod is nano 4GB 1st gen, clean and reinitialized from iTunes on
> windows.
> 
> What can I do to troubleshoot this?

Dunno, but at least for Banshee it seems to be a recent bug:

Underlying distros moving from HAL to DeviceKit breaks Podsleuths ability 
to mount device
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586508

I'd say the other programs can have similar problems with these kind of 
devices as well as other distributions are facing the same problem.

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Re: post script file display differently in /every/ viewer

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:12:11 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> Postscript is always a pain, you can hardly expect it behave the same
> way. However I had more luck with PDFs. Usually PDF opens the same in
> all viewers.
> 
> Here is an example postscript file I fought with it for half a day. It
> displays differently in every viewer, and print wrongly from every
> viewer (including directly print using lp(1) of cups, which generates
> worst print).
> 
> Here is how it expected to look like, look at the right side small
> thumbnail:
> 
> http://realss.6600.org/broken.ps/expected.png
> 
> 
> 
> The screenshots of different viewer viewing it (file name is the viewers
> command line executable name)
> 
> http://realss.6600.org/broken.ps/gv.png
> http://realss.6600.org/broken.ps/gimp.png
> http://realss.6600.org/broken.ps/gs.png
> http://realss.6600.org/broken.ps/evince.png
> 
> And the original postscript file:
> 
> http://realss.6600.org/broken.ps/test.ps

Ugh. I cannot even open the original PS file with Evince (Gnome 2.22 
under Lenny) :-(

Gimp just opens the file "rotated 180".

Acrobat just opens a blank (empty) page.
 
> In most of the time when I have trouble with postscript, the trouble is
> incorrect side (upside down, rotated etc) and incorrect bounding box /
> page orientation (landscape especially), both among the ps I generated
> or received. However I hardly remember any time I receive a PDF and it
> opens with such problems, in both xpdf and evince.
> 
> What should I do to get a right "proff sheet style" output? The effort I
> spent on solving this doesn't worth, making it seems most efficient way
> is to layout pictures /manually/ in software like inkscape or OpenOffice
> Draw and print from there.

Yes, PostScript files a bit "tricky" to manage. I rather prefer giving 
people PDF files mostly because on Windows environments is a bit hard to 
find installed a PS reader.

Anyway, your PS files says:

***
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: Geeqie Version 1.0beta2
%%CreationDate: 
%%LanguageLevel 2
%%DocumentMedia: 
%%Orientation: Landscape
%%BoundingBox: 0.00 0.00 420.00 595.00
%%Pages: 1
%%PageOrder: Ascend
%%Title:
<<
/PageSize [595.00 420.00]
/ImagingBBox [36.00 36.00 559.00 384.00]
/Orientation 1
>> setpagedevice
%% page 1
/pagelevel save def
420 0 translate -90 rotate
gsave
[155.905512 0 0 233.691345 53.641732 106.248816] concat
/buf 1401 string def
467 700 8
[467 0 0 -700 0 700]
{ currentfile buf readhexstring pop }
false 3 colorimage
***

It seems to be created with "Geeqie Version 1.0beta2". The program that 
generates the PS files is very important, because any error on the 
position of the image or its orientation can lead in a document that 
cannot be rendered at all.

Try to use another program to generate that PS file and see if the 
problem persists.

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offtopic: /lib/libc.so.6

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

after upgrading to Squeeze, I looked for a way to get the glibc version on 
different systems:
it appears that entering the command `/lib/libc.so.6' give the answer.
On my Squeeze box:

/lib/libc.so.6

gives

GNU C Library (EGLIBC) stable release version 2.10.2, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.2.
Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.30-2-amd64<< system on 2009-11-24.
Available extensions:
   crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
   GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
   Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
   BIND-8.2.3-T5B
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
.

It is good to know. Nevertheless I am curious to know how we can make a 
libXXX.so file prints something.
Does anyone have any hint ?

Thanks,
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