Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

2010/1/23 Wayne  

> [...]
>
> aptitude install iceweasel=(version you want)
>
> get the full version by doing
> aptitude show iceweasel
>
>
# aptitude show iceweasel
Package: iceweasel
State: not installed
Version: 3.0.6-3
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Eric Dorland 
Uncompressed Size: 3994k
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, procps, debianutils (>= 1.16), libc6 (>=
2.7-1),
 libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>=
 2.12.0), libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1),
 xulrunner-1.9 (>= 1.9.0.3-1)
Suggests: xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support, latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml,
  ttf-mathematica4.1, xprint, mozplugger, libkrb53
Conflicts: firefox (< 2.0+dfsg-1), iceweasel-dom-inspector (< 3.0~b4),
   mozilla-firefox (< 1.5.dfsg-1)
Replaces: firefox (< 2.0+dfsg-1), iceweasel-gnome-support (<= 3.0~b5-2),
  mozilla-firefox
Provides: www-browser
Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
 Iceweasel is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to
Galeon,
 K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and
 designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.

 This browser is based on the Firefox source-code, with minor modifications.
 Historically, this browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix.

How come this could have happened?


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Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

2010/1/23 Sven Joachim 

> On 2010-01-23 04:07 +0100, Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote:
>
> > i had enabled lenny-backports but "aptitude -t lenny-backports install
> > iceweasel" installs Iceweasel 3.0.6
>
> Since the backport is brand new, it simply might not be available for
> your architecture yet.  What does "apt-cache policy iceweasel" print?
>

# apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.6-3
  Version table:
 3.0.6-3 0
500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
 3.0.6-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages


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Re: Unable to start tightvncserver

[Foss User]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Eric Gerlach
 wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:07:57AM +0530, Foss User wrote:
>> foss...@squeeze:~$ ps -aef | grep 4847
>> fossist     4987  3680  0 00:02 pts/3    00:00:00 grep 4847
>>
>> foss...@squeeze:~$ netstat -na | grep tcp | grep 59
>> foss...@squeeze:~$
>
> If you run the ps command again at this point, is it still running (btw, pgrep
> is helpful for this type of command)?  Have you check the vncserver logs (I
> can't recall off the top of my head where they are... maybe ~/.vnc)?  I assume
> you have network interfaces up and running.

Yes, I have included the VNC server logs in my original post. If you
see in the logs, it is unable to find some font directories and thus
ignoring those paths. Could it be a reason for the problem?

Here are the logs again for your convenience:

foss...@squeeze:~$ cat .vnc/squeeze\:1.log
22/01/10 00:01:33 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
22/01/10 00:01:33 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
22/01/10 00:01:33 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
22/01/10 00:01:33 All Rights Reserved.
22/01/10 00:01:33 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
22/01/10 00:01:33 Desktop name 'X' (squeeze:1)
22/01/10 00:01:33 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
22/01/10 00:01:33 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' not found - ignoring


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Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 dependency on Squeeze

[Jerome BENOIT]

Thanks for your reply:
very fortunately, it works.

Jerome

Alan Ianson wrote:

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:45 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

Hello List,

I have recently downloaded a binary file which depends on 
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 ,
an old version of ibstdc++-libc6 : I can run it on an old computer, but I would 
like
to run it on my amd64 Squeeze box ( which has libstdc++.so.6 ).

Is there a way to do so ?


I have an older program here too that needs libstdc++5 to run. There is
no such thing in squeeze so I install that package from lenny and that
old app runs fine.

May or may not work for you but might be worth a try.




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Re: console resolution

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:39:50PM EST, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:

[..]

> > I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that
> > moving the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a
> > framebuffer console than on the vga console. Mind you, since the
> > vesa driver does not support my display's native 1400x1050, I use
> > the atyfb driver. So I'm not sure how it would handle if I used the
> > vga=xxx modes.

> do you know if there is still a limitation of using the nvidia
> framebuffer and the nvidia binary driver ?

[..]

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:-)

I the above question the bizarre joke, or was this meant as a reply to a
different post?

CJ



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Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:


Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:04:24 +0100
From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl 
To: debian-annou...@lists.debian.org
Subject: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated
Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:04:41 + (UTC)
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The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated pr...@debian.org
January 21st, 2010   http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100121
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Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be terminated on February 15th


One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias "lenny" and
nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias "etch"
the security support for the old distribution (4.0 alias "etch") is
coming to an end next month.  The Debian project is proud to be able to
support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year
after a new version has been released.

The Debian project released Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias "lenny" on the
15th of February 2009.  Users and Distributors have been given a one-year
timeframe to upgrade their old installations to the current stable
release.  Hence, the security support for the old release of 4.0 is going
to end in February 2010 as previously announced.

Previously announced security updates for the old release will continue
to be available on security.debian.org.


Security Updates


The Debian Security Team provides security updates for the current
distribution via .  Security updates for the
old distribution are also provided for one year after the new
distribution has been released or until the current distribution is
superseded, whatever happens first.


Upgrading to Debian 5.0 alias "lenny"
-

Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 from the previous release, Debian
GNU/Linux 4.0 alias "etch" are automatically handled by the aptitude
package management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree
also by the apt-get package management tool. As always, Debian GNU/Linux
systems can be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced
downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the release notes[1] for
possible issues, and for detailed instructions on installing and
upgrading.

 1: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes




In trying to follow the convoluted and difficult instructions for the 
forced upgrade, Debian again forcing abortion of a system upgrade, I am 
once again (I was thwarted several months ago, and gave up, as mentioned 
on the mailing list) prevented from performing the required upgrade from 
Debian 4 to Debian 5.


The mailserver is running on a pentium MMX. The kernel version shows as:
"
:~# uname -r
2.4.18-bf2.4
"

The release notes of the installation process, requires the kernel to be 
a 2.6 or later kernel.


In following the instructions, and, tring to install the 486 version of 
the kernel, I get a screen that states:


"Configuring linux-image-2.6.18-6-486

  You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 
2.6.18-6-486) This will not work unless you have
  configured your boot loader to use initrd. (An initrd image is a 
kernel image that expects to use an INITial Ram Disk
  to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for 
booting).


  As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need to add an 
'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz stanza of

  your /etc/lilo.conf

  I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader -- please read your 
bootloader documentation for details on how to

  add initrd images.

  If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this message, 
please put

   "do_initrd = Yes"

  in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do 
not, you will continue to see this message whenever

  you install a kernel image using initrd.

   Do you want to abort now?"

Running man on lilo, refers a user to lilo.conf .

Running man on lilo.conf, gives the following.

"
initrd=
  Specifies the initial ramdisk image to be loaded with the 
kernel.  The image will contain modules needed at
  boot time, such as network and scsi drivers. See man 
pages for mkinitrd(8).

"

Trying that, gives

"
:~# man mkinitrd
No manual entry for mkinitrd
"

And thus, it appears that the upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5, was 
designed by Kafka, as an exercise in "Kafkaesque obscurantism", to quote 
a learned man.


Why is trying to run Debian Linux, designed to be made so increasingly 
difficult, and, is it really possible, to properly upgrade from one 
version of Debian Linux, without having to buy a new computer, every 
time that Debian puts out a new version of Linux, or, was the 
o

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-23 04:07 +0100, Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote:

> i had enabled lenny-backports but "aptitude -t lenny-backports install
> iceweasel" installs Iceweasel 3.0.6

Since the backport is brand new, it simply might not be available for
your architecture yet.  What does "apt-cache policy iceweasel" print?

Sven


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Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

[Wayne]

Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote:

i had enabled lenny-backports but "aptitude -t lenny-backports install
iceweasel" installs Iceweasel 3.0.6

my /etc/apt/sources.list as below

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
main
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib
non-free
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

my /etc/apt/preferences as below

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 100

where is my mistake?



Woops

aptitude install iceweasel=(version you want)

get the full version by doing
aptitude show iceweasel

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Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

[Wayne]

Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote:

i had enabled lenny-backports but "aptitude -t lenny-backports install
iceweasel" installs Iceweasel 3.0.6

my /etc/apt/sources.list as below

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
main
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib
non-free
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

my /etc/apt/preferences as below

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 100

where is my mistake?



aptitude install Iceweasel=3.0.6  ??

Wayne


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cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

[Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar]

i had enabled lenny-backports but "aptitude -t lenny-backports install
iceweasel" installs Iceweasel 3.0.6

my /etc/apt/sources.list as below

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
main
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib
non-free
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

my /etc/apt/preferences as below

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 100

where is my mistake?


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Re: console resolution

[Alex Samad]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:47:29PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote:
> 

[snip]

> I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that moving
> the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a framebuffer
> console than on the vga console. Mind you, since the vesa driver does
> not support my display's native 1400x1050, I use the atyfb driver. So
> I'm not sure how it would handle if I used the vga=xxx modes.


do you know if there is still a limitation of using the nvidia
framebuffer and the nvidia binary driver ?

> 
> [..]
> 
> > All it does is consume resources and slow things down.
> 
> Everything has a price, keeping in mind that it might use fewer CPU cycles
> if the video card is put to good use. 
> 
> Thank you for your comments,
> 
> CJ
> 
> 

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Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:09:40PM EST, Freeman wrote:

[..]

> Is there really even a point to filing a bug report against something
> when the fix is upstream?

What makes you think the bug is upstream?

I recently installed the 0.13 git version of ELinks to resolve an
unrelated issue and since lenny does not feature libtre5, the
./configure step gave me a warning and I was able to compile ELinks.

The resulting ELinks version does not have the regex search capability
on the search dialog, which is not a major problem where I'm concerned
since in some 4-5 years of daily utilization of ELinks, I have never
needed it.

I don't see why a dependency that would deprive you of an obscure
optional feature such as this, which by the way is correctly handled by
the stock ELinks install, would prevent installation of the debian
package. 

As to the reason why ELinks of late requires libtre5, I suspect it has
something to do with unicode support, which has beeen vastly improved in
recent versions. 

I am not going to investigate this, but the output of 'git log' against
my git clone strongly suggests this.

CJ



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Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

[Freeman]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:24:43PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:21:24PM +, Jeffrey Cao wrote:
> 
> > sure elinks has not been updated for a long time. So, what is changed
> > to make elinks depends on libtre5?
> 
> I don't know about this particular case, but in general, one of two
> things probably happened:
> 
> - The upstream author changed a library dependency. This happens a
>   lot, and is only a bug if the package doesn't track the dependency
>   correctly.
> - The maintainer made an error in a configuration file when building
>   the deb. If you've ever tried to build your own deb files, you'd
>   understand how easy it is for this to happen.
> 
> Either way, you will typically get zero traction with "Why did someone
> break my favorite package?" The correct thing to do is report a bug, if
> no one has already done so, and then either wait for a new package to
> migrate to your chosen repository (such as testing), install from
> somewhere else (e.g. sid or experimental), or roll your own from source.
> 
> If you're tracking packages from testing or unstable, then expect this
> sort of thing to happen from time to time. The only cure is bug reports
> and the occasional invocation of "aptitude dist-upgrade" to ensure that
> you're upgrading things that have problematic library dependencies.
> 
> -- 
> "Oh, look: rocks!"
>   -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks"
> 
> 

Is there really even a point to filing a bug report against something when
the fix is upstream?

Testing is my opportunity as a peon to contribute to the Debian effort by
filing reports when I can correctly assess a bug's existence.  However,
caution toward filing reports necessarily also seems important.

I usually wait a month before thinking much of it when something breaks. 
Most apps start working correctly following an update, sooner than later. 

As I understand, buggy packages occasionally are pushed downstream to avoid
dependency logjams in release development.

I booted into the 2.6.26 kernel to run Google-Earth for 6 months. When it
quit working in that kernel too, I waited another 4 months before
discovering my card was dropped from fglrx. :)

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grub-probe on 4TB disk = painful

[Todd A. Jacobs]

I've been having problems with 64-bit Lenny/Sid during kernel upgrades,
where grub-probe will take huge amount of CPU and a very long time to
complete--and apparently goes through the process numerous times in a
row during the upgrade process.

Part of the problem appears to be that grub-pc (grub2) is building a
blocklist each time. My boot partition is only 100MB, so I'm not sure
why that's such a painful process, but maybe the total size of the disk
is in play (it's a 4TB logical drive).

I was trying to figure out if there was a fix for this. In particular, I
was considering whether I could create a new bios_grub partition and
whether that might fix the problem.

Assuming that it would, my whole drive is already partitioned by parted,
and all physical partitions assigned. So, physical partition 1 is
already assigned to /boot; can I split that into 128K for bios_grub,
with the other 99MB as sda9 for /boot? I've never tried to split a
physical partition like that after all 4 physical partitions have
already been assigned, so I want to make sure that both grub-pc and the
partition table can both deal with that.

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Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:51:23AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Which filesystem is more appropriate for maildir use on a
> Postfix/Dovecot system, ext2/3 or xfs?  This maildir will be storing
> mulitple mail folders and files, some folders containing over 10,000
> email files.

I'd recommend XFS for two main reasons:

1. XFS does dynamic inode allocation, so you aren't wasting space
   for inodes you aren't using. You can tweak the number of inodes
   with ext, of course, but only at format time.

2. XFS handles large directories better, although setting dir_index
   might speed up your ext3 directory access quite a lot.

Of course, XFS doesn't support full journaling, but you probably don't
want that with such high mail volumes anyway. The maildir format is
supposed to be atomic, but it's really up to the MTA/MDA to report
successful delivery only after the file has been successfully written to
disk, and may not work properly on NFS or other filesystems that don't
support the proper semantics.

The whole point of maildir, though, is to treat each email as an
individual file, so this limits your damage even if you pull the plug in
the middle of a write operation. That doesn't mean you can't lose data,
but it sure is a lot harder to have a catastrophic failure that way.

Maildir uses a lot of inodes, though, and this used to be a big issue
for me back in the day when running qmail on ext2, because I had to
configure the filesystem so it wouldn't run out of inodes before it ran
out of disk space. These days, I think XFS is going to be more
efficient, but with a big enough hard drive it probably won't matter
enough to lose sleep over.

> If xfs, what is the most appropriate mkfs.xfs command line for

Unlike ext2/3, I find that the defaults for XFS work just fine. I
typically add "relatime,barrier,logbufs=8" to the mount options, but I
just use the default formatting options. This is definitely a YMMV
situation, though.

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Re: Strange work of eth0.

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0
> SIOCDELRT: No such process

This generally happens when ifupdown wasn't called to enable the
interface. So, if you configured the interface manually, you might get
that sort of error because ifdown doesn't think it's a managed
interface.

There might be other reasons, too, but that's what I see most often on
my laptop. The easy fix is:

sudo ifconfig eth0 down

which will take the interface down directly, rather than calling
ifupdown.

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Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:21:24PM +, Jeffrey Cao wrote:

> sure elinks has not been updated for a long time. So, what is changed
> to make elinks depends on libtre5?

I don't know about this particular case, but in general, one of two
things probably happened:

- The upstream author changed a library dependency. This happens a
  lot, and is only a bug if the package doesn't track the dependency
  correctly.
- The maintainer made an error in a configuration file when building
  the deb. If you've ever tried to build your own deb files, you'd
  understand how easy it is for this to happen.

Either way, you will typically get zero traction with "Why did someone
break my favorite package?" The correct thing to do is report a bug, if
no one has already done so, and then either wait for a new package to
migrate to your chosen repository (such as testing), install from
somewhere else (e.g. sid or experimental), or roll your own from source.

If you're tracking packages from testing or unstable, then expect this
sort of thing to happen from time to time. The only cure is bug reports
and the occasional invocation of "aptitude dist-upgrade" to ensure that
you're upgrading things that have problematic library dependencies.

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Re: How Does One force Use of DSA Keys under Linux?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:31:46AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:

> Is there a way in Linux to make ssh get the type DSA host keys? I
> presently see the following message when adding a new host to

This is actually a good question, and one to which I couldn't find an
easy answer. As far as I can tell, the solution is not to rely on the
SSH client directly; instead, one needs to use ssh-keyscan with the type
flag:

ssh-keyscan -t dsa 

In other words, RSA is the default, and you have to do some work to use
DSA instead. I'm not sure this is a bad thing, mind you, but it wasn't
intuitive for me, either.

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Re: console resolution

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:47:29PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote:

> I prefer a hardware text mode virtual console for a number of
> reasons, but one of them is that it performs better, particularly
> on the ancient under-powered hardware that I tend to use!

PIII 650MHz - 386M of RAM - ATI Rage Mobility (Mach64).

> For example, screen scrolling is quite snappy on a text mode virtual
> console, but on a framebuffer virtual console it can be sluggish,
> depending on processor speed.  

I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that moving
the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a framebuffer
console than on the vga console. Mind you, since the vesa driver does
not support my display's native 1400x1050, I use the atyfb driver. So
I'm not sure how it would handle if I used the vga=xxx modes.

[..]

> All it does is consume resources and slow things down.

Everything has a price, keeping in mind that it might use fewer CPU cycles
if the video card is put to good use. 

Thank you for your comments,

CJ


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Re: Bonding virtual wireless interfaces?

[Alex Samad]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:39:57PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I have a network that caps each MAC address at 384K at the wireless
> access point, and was wondering if it's technically feasible to increase
> throughput by adding additional virtual interfaces.
> 
> My thought is that if I have wlan0, I could add a second interface at
> wlan0:1 to get a second MAC/IP address pair, giving myself access to
> 768Kbps aggregate. Assuming that works, what I can't really figure out
> is how to route round-robin across two interfaces like that.
> 
> Bonding doesn't seem like the answer, insofar as it creates a single
> virtual interface, which then puts me back to 384K. Is what I'm trying
> to do possible, and if so, is there a how-to that explains how to use
> both interfaces simultaneously? 


if the ap is limiting by max, then theoretically you could overload your
wifi card with 2 mac's and you could load balance your tcp / udp across
the 2.

In practise I don't think it is going to work.  look at lartc.org and
multi default gateway's but your problem is that it is the same dgw.

Not sure how you are going to get over the multiple max for your wifi
card.

A
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Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 22 January 2010 16:28:37 Camaleón wrote:
> And went to backport lists and saw some movement on this:
> 
> ***
> Accepted iceweasel 3.5.6-1~bpo50+1 (source all amd64)
> http://lists.backports.org/lurker-bpo/message/20100116.120653.e7d54ae9.en.h
> tml ***
> 
> But I don't know what does it mean. This is the first time I have to deal
> with "backports" infrastructure and I dunno how to interpret those
> messages.

It's just another repository.  It isn't official, yet, but I think there was 
some movement on that.  (It would be nice for backports and volatile to be 
able to use the existing mirror network; I don't know many Debian users that 
can go completely without them.)

The "backports" repository is completely separate from the action "to 
backport" that the security team sometimes does for patches.  "To backport" a 
patch is to take a patch for version X+n of a program and modify it to apply 
to version X of a program.

> So, do you think the package will be available in backports for stable
> release (Lenny) or just indicates the package is being tested for another
> branch (unstable/testing)? :-?

Backports is packages from testing (and rarely unstable) that have been build 
under a stable environment and should be installable without pulling any 
packages from testing/unstable.  They are not part of stable, since the 
upstream version wasn't available or wasn't ready at release time, however 
they should "play nice" with stable.

I've occasionally pulled packages from there, but less so now.  I've been 
following KDE 4.x since 4.2 entered unstable by using a mixed system.  With 
testing/unstable available simply, I don't much use backports.  I did pull 
down pidgin from backports recently though.

As far as iceweasel availability in backports goes, see Sven Hoexter's 
message.
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Re: Bonding virtual wireless interfaces?

[Marco Vaschetto]

Todd A. Jacobs ha scritto:

I have a network that caps each MAC address at 384K at the wireless
access point, and was wondering if it's technically feasible to increase
throughput by adding additional virtual interfaces.

My thought is that if I have wlan0, I could add a second interface at
wlan0:1 to get a second MAC/IP address pair, giving myself access to
768Kbps aggregate. Assuming that works, what I can't really figure out
is how to route round-robin across two interfaces like that.

Bonding doesn't seem like the answer, insofar as it creates a single
virtual interface, which then puts me back to 384K. Is what I'm trying
to do possible, and if so, is there a how-to that explains how to use
both interfaces simultaneously? 

  
let me understand you want make a virtual interfaces on wlan like wlan0 
virtual wlan0:0


and later make a bonding of the hardware interfaces and virtual??

I think you don't need, or better like this you don't make your Ethernet 
more fast because the really interface is only one


if you add a new card the bonding make faster then now your Ethernet if 
you add only one "alias" or virtual interfaces is more


convenient for connect the same card to two different network.

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Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Sven Hoexter]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:39:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-01-22 21:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> 
> > As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for Firefox 
> > releases <3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and Lenny is 
> > shipped with 3.0.6 (this situation was properly advised on Releases 
> > Notes), I wonder what could be the best way to install the latest Firefox 
> > 64 bits version.
> 
> I'm afraid the answer is "build it from source yourself".  There's no
> official 64-bit tarball (and most likely there won't be any before
> Firefox 4.0), and builds from other distributions will likely require
> newer libraries than available in Lenny.

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl added Iceweasel 3.5 and the complementing
xulrunner release to backports.org a few days ago. So far I can see build
packages for amd64 and ppc.
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=iceweasel&suite=lenny-backports

If and when backports of Iceweasel 3.6 will be available depends on when
it will enter testing and if it's possible to build it on lenny.

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Bonding virtual wireless interfaces?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

I have a network that caps each MAC address at 384K at the wireless
access point, and was wondering if it's technically feasible to increase
throughput by adding additional virtual interfaces.

My thought is that if I have wlan0, I could add a second interface at
wlan0:1 to get a second MAC/IP address pair, giving myself access to
768Kbps aggregate. Assuming that works, what I can't really figure out
is how to route round-robin across two interfaces like that.

Bonding doesn't seem like the answer, insofar as it creates a single
virtual interface, which then puts me back to 384K. Is what I'm trying
to do possible, and if so, is there a how-to that explains how to use
both interfaces simultaneously? 

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Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:17:04 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> On Friday 22 January 2010 14:02:13 Camaleón wrote:
>> As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for
>> Firefox releases <3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and
>> Lenny is shipped with 3.0.6 (this situation was properly advised on
>> Releases Notes), I wonder what could be the best way to install the
>> latest Firefox 64 bits version.
> 
> From what I understand, the debian-security guys will still backport
> fixes to iceweasel in Lenny as needed until security support is
> terminated for Lenny.
> 
> That's how I get my "firefox".

That was my first thought, too.

And went to backport lists and saw some movement on this:

***
Accepted iceweasel 3.5.6-1~bpo50+1 (source all amd64)
http://lists.backports.org/lurker-bpo/message/20100116.120653.e7d54ae9.en.html
***

But I don't know what does it mean. This is the first time I have to deal 
with "backports" infrastructure and I dunno how to interpret those 
messages.

And there is also what Sven Joachim said, about Lenny policy on Mozilla 
products... and that time has now come. I'm a bit confused.

So, do you think the package will be available in backports for stable 
release (Lenny) or just indicates the package is being tested for another 
branch (unstable/testing)? :-?

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Re: Re: users-admin on kde

[abdelkader belahcene]

thanks for reply;
so it is n't on CD1KDE, it is missed, I try to find it elsewhere.
regards

Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Rodolfo Medina]

Sven Joachim  writes:

> On 2010-01-22 22:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>>> But, know what?  I thought that eth1 might be the right one and replaced
>>> eth0 with eth1, and now... it works!!  But only from the other pc onto this
>>> one, not viceversa.  Can you please suggest...?
>>
>>
>>
>> I spoke to early!  Now it does not work any more.  What's that?!
>
> What does not work?  Can you ping one host from the other?  Don't bother
> with ssh and rsync yet.


ssh and rsync from computer B complain the Network is unreachable, whereas an
hour ago I copied a directory from B to A!  The same with `ping 192.186.0.1'
from pc B.

What do you suggest?  I'm running Etch on A and Lenny on B.  Do you think it's
a hardware problem (cable or ethernet port)?

Thanks!
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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-22 22:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> But, know what?  I thought that eth1 might be the right one and replaced eth0
>> with eth1, and now... it works!!  But only from the other pc onto this one,
>> not viceversa.  Can you please suggest...?
>
>
>
> I spoke to early!  Now it does not work any more.  What's that?!

What does not work?  Can you ping one host from the other?  Don't bother
with ssh and rsync yet.

Sven


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Re: console resolution

[Stephen Powell]

On 2010-01-22 at 15:50:02 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:08:23PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > So then this is designed to work with framebuffer graphics mode
> > virtual consoles, right?  That wouldn't help me.  I prefer the
> > traditional hardware text mode virtual consoles.  
> 
> Just curious, but what's wrong with using a framebuffer console?

There's nothing "wrong" with using a framebuffer virtual console,
and there's nothing "right" about using a traditional hardware
text mode virtual console.  It's a matter of preference.

I prefer a hardware text mode virtual console for a number of
reasons, but one of them is that it performs better, particularly
on the ancient under-powered hardware that I tend to use!
For example, screen scrolling is quite snappy on a text mode
virtual console, but on a framebuffer virtual console it can
be sluggish, depending on processor speed.  Besides, if I am editing
text, doesn't it make sense to use text mode?  Isn't that what
text mode was created to do?  I'm not against GUI interfaces,
per se.  They have their uses.  And I do use them.  But if
I'm going to be doing some serious text editing, I always
switch to a text mode virtual console and do my editing there.

I don't try to convert others to my way of thinking.  If they
want to use a GUI interface for everything, that's fine with
me.  But I do resent it when the movers and shakers try to
eliminate every last vestige of text mode from the system.
Text mode is simply the fastest and most efficient way to
edit and peruse text.  Surprise, surprise!  In fact, I support
quite a number of machines that don't even have X installed.
Why use a frame buffer virtual console under those conditions?
All it does is consume resources and slow things down.


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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-22 22:02 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Sven Joachim  writes:
>
>> It may be that eth1 is the right device.  Can you please show the
>> contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?
>
>
> There is /etc/udev/rules.d/z25-persistent-net.rules, and here is its content:

Are you still running etch?

> # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
> # program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
> #
> # You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
> # MAC addresses must be written in lowercase.
>
> # Firewire device 00030d53255c8616 (ohci1394)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:53:25:5c:86:16", 
> NAME="eth0"

Ethernet via firewire, or what is that?

> # PCI device 0x1039:0x0900 (sis900)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:33:02:17", 
> NAME="eth1"

This looks like a network card, fine.

Sven


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Re: Unable to start tightvncserver

[Eric Gerlach]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:07:57AM +0530, Foss User wrote:
> foss...@squeeze:~$ ps -aef | grep 4847
> fossist 4987  3680  0 00:02 pts/300:00:00 grep 4847
> 
> foss...@squeeze:~$ netstat -na | grep tcp | grep 59
> foss...@squeeze:~$

If you run the ps command again at this point, is it still running (btw, pgrep
is helpful for this type of command)?  Have you check the vncserver logs (I
can't recall off the top of my head where they are... maybe ~/.vnc)?  I assume
you have network interfaces up and running.

Otherwise... you got me stumped.  That's a good one.

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wpa_supplicant returns too early to ifup? Scripts in /etc/if-up.d executed before network is ready

[Hans Ekbrand]

I recently switch to wpa_supplicant (earlier I used ifup and ifdown
manually). Now, scripts in /etc/if-up.d/ are executed before the net
is ready (so the scripts fail).

Does anyone here at debian-user recognise this problem?

Here is my /etc/network/interfaces

-
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet manual
  wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface work inet dhcp
  wpa-driver wext

iface home inet dhcp
  wpa-driver wext
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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina  writes:

> Sven Joachim  writes:
>
>> It may be that eth1 is the right device.  Can you please show the
>> contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?
>
> But, know what?  I thought that eth1 might be the right one and replaced eth0
> with eth1, and now... it works!!  But only from the other pc onto this one,
> not viceversa.  Can you please suggest...?



I spoke to early!  Now it does not work any more.  What's that?!

Rodolfo


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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Rodolfo Medina]

Sven Joachim  writes:

> It may be that eth1 is the right device.  Can you please show the
> contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?


There is /etc/udev/rules.d/z25-persistent-net.rules, and here is its content:

# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
# MAC addresses must be written in lowercase.

# Firewire device 00030d53255c8616 (ohci1394)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:53:25:5c:86:16", 
NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x1039:0x0900 (sis900)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:33:02:17", 
NAME="eth1"



But, know what?  I thought that eth1 might be the right one and replaced eth0
with eth1, and now... it works!!  But only from the other pc onto this one, not
viceversa.  Can you please suggest...?

Thanks
Rodolfo


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Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Mark]

>On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Sven Joachim  wrote:

>   >On 2010-01-22 21:17 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>
>> From what I understand, the debian-security guys will still backport
> fixes to
>> iceweasel in Lenny as needed until security support is terminated for
> Lenny.
> >
> >Not really, actually security support for Iceweasel could end rather
> >soon.
> >
> http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#mozilla-security
>

So is epiphany a better bet for safe browing if/when this happens?

Mark

Re: console resolution

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:08:23PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote:

[..]

> So then this is designed to work with framebuffer graphics mode
> virtual consoles, right?  That wouldn't help me.  I prefer the
> traditional hardware text mode virtual consoles.  

Just curious, but what's wrong with using a framebuffer console?

CJ







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Re: only scp

[Eric Gerlach]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:35:25PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sat,16.Jan.10, 21:12:17, Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> >> anybody got any tips/howtos/docs for this?:
> >>
> >> - restrict the users, to only use scp ["no shell"]
> >> - but a root, admin can still login with ssh
> > 
> > apt-cache show scponly
> 
> or 'rssh'. I don't know which is "better", though.

I like rssh, but if you don't mind restricting to SFTP only, you can do it
natively in SSH since 4.9.  Instructions here:
http://www.minstrel.org.uk/papers/sftp/builtin

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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-22 21:25 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Here's the output of `ifconfig -a':
>
> # ifconfig -a
> eth0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
> 00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>   inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>   RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:0D:33:02:17
>   BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>   RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>   Interrupt:201 Base address:0xd800

It may be that eth1 is the right device.  Can you please show the
contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?

Sven


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Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-22 21:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote:

> As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for Firefox 
> releases <3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and Lenny is 
> shipped with 3.0.6 (this situation was properly advised on Releases 
> Notes), I wonder what could be the best way to install the latest Firefox 
> 64 bits version.

I'm afraid the answer is "build it from source yourself".  There's no
official 64-bit tarball (and most likely there won't be any before
Firefox 4.0), and builds from other distributions will likely require
newer libraries than available in Lenny.

Try "aptitude build-dep xulrunner-1.9 iceweasel" to install the required
development packages.

Sven


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Re: Re: console resolution

[Nima Azarbayjany]

set gfxpayload=keep will tell Grub2 to hand off the graphics settings 
to the kernel, which if configured properly will carry them forward. 
There are some other settings to tweak as well, insmod vbe and whatnot 
in the appropriate file, but that's about the gist of it. The nice 
thing is it makes for very smooth transitions when switching from 
terminal to x, as the display settings (if correctly configured) are 
already applied, thus, no ugly flashing of the screen and delay.


Best,
Arthur


Would you please explain how and where to insert this into Grub's 
configuration?  I played with /etc/default/grub and update-grub but no 
success.



Jeffrey Cao wrote in another post that grub2 can support the traditional
vga kernel option by means of editing /etc/default/grub and adding the
line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx"

and then running "update-grub" to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg.  But I
haven't tried it myself.  I'm not going to de-install lilo and install
grub2 to find out.  But next time I try a Squeeze install from scratch,
I might give it a try.  
I tried this one but it too didn't work.  It says that vga=xxx is 
deprecated.



Jeffrey Cao wrote in another post that grub2 can support the traditional
vga kernel option by means of editing /etc/default/grub and adding the
line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx"

and then running "update-grub" to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg.  But I
haven't tried it myself.  I'm not going to de-install lilo and install
grub2 to find out.  But next time I try a Squeeze install from scratch,
I might give it a try.  

This one did not work as well.

I guess I'm going to install grub1 for now.

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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Rodolfo Medina]

Sven Joachim  writes:

> On 2010-01-22 19:24 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Still needing your help:
>>
>> following the suggestion come from the list, I edited /etc/network/interfaces
>> on the first pc as follows:
>>
>> auto eth0
>> allow-hotplug eth0
>> iface eth0 inet static
>>  address 192.168.0.1
>>  netmask 255.255.255.0
>>
>> , and on the second the same but with `192.168.0.2' in place of
>> `192.168.0.1'.  Then I did `/etc/init.d/networking restart' on both, and
>> `ifconfig' on the first gives:
>>
>> # ifconfig
>> eth0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
>> 00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>
> This is bad, it should look like the line from your other machine
> instead.
>
> What do you get from `ifconfig -a'?


Here's the output of `ifconfig -a':

# ifconfig -a
eth0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:0D:33:02:17
  BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
  Interrupt:201 Base address:0xd800

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  LOOPBACK  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
  inet addr:151.83.190.177  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:1409 errors:38 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:1547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
  RX bytes:911548 (890.1 KiB)  TX bytes:268897 (262.5 KiB)

sit0  Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
  NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


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Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-22 21:17 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> From what I understand, the debian-security guys will still backport fixes to 
> iceweasel in Lenny as needed until security support is terminated for Lenny.

Not really, actually security support for Iceweasel could end rather
soon.

http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#mozilla-security

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Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 22 January 2010 14:02:13 Camaleón wrote:
> As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for Firefox
> releases <3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and Lenny is
> shipped with 3.0.6 (this situation was properly advised on Releases
> Notes), I wonder what could be the best way to install the latest Firefox
> 64 bits version.

From what I understand, the debian-security guys will still backport fixes to 
iceweasel in Lenny as needed until security support is terminated for Lenny.

That's how I get my "firefox".
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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-22 19:24 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Still needing your help:
>
> following the suggestion come from the list, I edited /etc/network/interfaces
> on the first pc as follows:
>
> auto eth0
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>   address 192.168.0.1
>   netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> , and on the second the same but with `192.168.0.2' in place of `192.168.0.1'.
> Then I did `/etc/init.d/networking restart' on both, and `ifconfig' on the
> first gives:
>
> # ifconfig
> eth0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
> 00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

This is bad, it should look like the line from your other machine
instead.

What do you get from `ifconfig -a'?

Sven


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Re: Why is latexmk in Debian so old?

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-01-22 16:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2010-01-19 17:57:00 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> It is orphaned and waits for someone stepping in to maintain it:
>> 
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/latexmk.html
>
> which says:
>
>   This package has been orphaned, but someone intends to maintain it.
>   ^^

Followed by a link to the bug report where you can see who has/had the
intentions to maintain it.

> Is there really someone who intends to maintain it?

Why don't you ask the person who last ITA'ed the package?

Sven


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Re: [SOT] Preview pane settings Icedove/ Thunderbird

[Eric Gerlach]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:23:10PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> AG wrote:
> > 
> > In Icedove (Thunderbird) v2.0.0.22 on Debian testing is there an option
> > to automatically jump to the bottom of an email using the preview pane
> > to read it?   Anybody been able to make that happen, and if so how?
> 
> Not that I am aware of.  is more than fast enough for me. Between
> , , and  I have nearly mouse free operation.

If you really want to go keyboard-only there's Muttator
(http://vimperator.org/muttator).  I've never used it (happily using mutt
itself), but I loves my vimperator.

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Re: console resolution

[Tixy]

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 13:08 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:

> Jeffrey Cao wrote in another post that grub2 can support the traditional
> vga kernel option by means of editing /etc/default/grub and adding the
> line
> 
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx"
> 
> and then running "update-grub" to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg.  But I
> haven't tried it myself.  I'm not going to de-install lilo and install
> grub2 to find out.

Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

[Camaleón]

Hello,

As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for Firefox 
releases <3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and Lenny is 
shipped with 3.0.6 (this situation was properly advised on Releases 
Notes), I wonder what could be the best way to install the latest Firefox 
64 bits version.

Someone recommended me to perform a download of the package from 
Mozilla's site and just extract the files into a directory and run it 
directly from there, but as all my plugins are also 64 bits version 
(java, flash...) I prefer to install a 64 bits browser.

So I wonder what is the easiest method to get the latest version of 
Firefox (64 bits) without breaking anything :-)

Greetings,

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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Rodolfo Medina]

Michael Mohn  writes:

> Am 22.01.2010 um 19:24:43 schrieb Rodolfo Medina:
>
>> But rsync does not seem to work between the two.  From first pc:
>> 
>> $ rsync -vr --delete test1 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo
>> 
>> , but nothing happens.
>> 
>
> what do you want to accomplish with that command?
> do you have the ssh-server installed on both hosts and does it work?


Well, no.  Should I install the ssh-server?

Rodolfo


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Re: problem whit optic fibre adapter (emulex LP952)

[Gilles Mocellin]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:49:53AM +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote:
[...]

> >Sorry but I use Debian on our SAN, with QLogic and Emulex FC cards.
> >I have no problems, but use different Emulex models...
> >(Zephyr-X LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter)
> Hi, on your infrastructure have a optic fiber switch?
> I read some think about that have some problem whit emulex card
> connect point to point.

Yes, we have brocade FC switchs in Fabric mode.
So point to point, not loop mode.


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Re: How to grab music from remote cdrom?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 22 January 2010 12:50:29 Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd:
> >Once you get the data, you can encode to FLAC, Vorbis, or MP3 on a
> > different, fast machine easily.
> 
> You are correct, but how would You fill its meta data (Artist, Title, etc)
>  in FLAC then?

There are a number of services that match tags to tracks through audio 
fingerprinting, rather than the album fingerprinting that cddb and freedb do.

If you'd rather tag through CDDB-like services, you can use minimal 
compression on FLAC in order to avoid taxing the slow system, but allowing 
tags to be stored with that data.  Then, you transcode FLAC->whatever 
retaining tags on the fast machine, which as much compression as you like.

Since FLAC is a losses format, the encoder on the fast machine will get the 
exact same input data that the slow machine read from the CD.

> >I'm not sure unfiltered remote access to attached SCSI devices is a
> > "better solution".
> 
> Pardon, what do mean by saying "unfiltered"?

If you can write to the character device, you can send raw commands to the 
SCSI device.  While most devices are designed to fail before they do damage to 
them, you might not be that lucky.  At the very least, an attacker could be 
very annoying by locking the device closed when it doesn't have a disk in it, 
and always ejecting the device when a disk was in it.
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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

[Rodolfo Medina]

Michael Mohn  writes:

> sorry for my post... i didn't look right... seems...
>
> network is still broken.


>From what do you see the network is broken?

Rodolfo


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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection (was: Synchronize two computers)

[Michael Mohn]

Am 22.01.2010 um 19:51:00 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:

> On Friday 22 January 2010 12:24:43 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Johannes Wiedersich  writes:
>>> Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"
>>> 
>>> "ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem.
>> 
>> Still needing your help:
>> The `ping' command from first machine:
>> 
>> $ ping 192.168.0.2
>> PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 
>> --- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
>> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4000ms
>> 
>> , and analogously from second.
> 
> Most likely, the two computers still can't send packets to each other.  Make 
> sure you are using the correct type of cable.  You'll need a crossover cable 
> if neither side is a 1Gbit card.  You should probably use a crossover cable 
> anyway.
> 
> Make sure the cable runs to/from the physical port that is eth0 on both side.
> 
> There could be some routing issues, too.  But that would only be if one of 
> your other ports was using a 192.168.0.x address as well, or if you've got 
> some routing customizations.
> 
> Until you can get the pings to work ("X packets transmitted, X received, 0% 
> packet loss") any other sort of network protocol is not going to work either.



sorry for my post... i didn't look right... seems...

network is still broken.

sorry,


bye.

Michael.



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Re: How to grab music from remote cdrom?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd:

>Once you get the data, you can encode to FLAC, Vorbis, or MP3 on a different, 
>fast machine easily.

You are correct, but how would You fill its meta data (Artist, Title, etc) in 
FLAC then?

>I'm not sure unfiltered remote access to attached SCSI devices is a "better 
>solution".

Pardon, what do mean by saying "unfiltered"?


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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection (was: Synchronize two computers)

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 22 January 2010 12:24:43 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich  writes:
> > Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"
> >
> > "ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem.
> 
> Still needing your help:
> The `ping' command from first machine:
> 
> $ ping 192.168.0.2
> PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 
> --- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4000ms
> 
> , and analogously from second.

Most likely, the two computers still can't send packets to each other.  Make 
sure you are using the correct type of cable.  You'll need a crossover cable 
if neither side is a 1Gbit card.  You should probably use a crossover cable 
anyway.

Make sure the cable runs to/from the physical port that is eth0 on both side.

There could be some routing issues, too.  But that would only be if one of 
your other ports was using a 192.168.0.x address as well, or if you've got 
some routing customizations.

Until you can get the pings to work ("X packets transmitted, X received, 0% 
packet loss") any other sort of network protocol is not going to work either.
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Re: lenny boot problem

[amka]

Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 à 11:56 +, Christian Koerner a écrit :
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Christian Koerner wrote:
> 
> >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, amka wrote:
> >> 
> >> And : ls -l /dev/sd*
> >> brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 8, 0 Jan 20 22:22 /dev/sda
> >> brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 8, 1 Jan 20 22:22 /dev/sda1
> >> brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 8, 2 Jan 20 22:22 /dev/sda2
> >> 
> >> But df prints sdc1 (CD resue mode).
> >> 
> >> An other thing :
> >> I am using an 'old' mainboard and the disk is new (WD1500HLFS).
> >> I allready had problems when I trid to use a too big HDD (1TB) ; it was
> >> not recognised and Tyan informed me that I have to upgrade my BIOS.
> >> 
> >> I doubt this can have 'kernel panic' result.
> >
> > Not sure, it could be that the disk geometry is not detected properly and 
> > so 
> > it fails.
> > IMO all your configs are ok.
> >
> > Alternativ is to give grub a go but you said you had problems with grub as 
> > well.
> 
> Another possibility is to re-install Lenny when you have connected your new 
> HDD only.

OK, Christian, I think that I will try.

Thanks for all, regards,

Amel

> Regards,
> Christian
> 


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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection (was: Synchronize two computers)

[Michael Mohn]

Am 22.01.2010 um 19:24:43 schrieb Rodolfo Medina:

> Johannes Wiedersich  writes:
> 
>> Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"
>> 
>> "ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Still needing your help:
> 
> following the suggestion come from the list, I edited /etc/network/interfaces
> on the first pc as follows:
> 

{ network ok }

> But rsync does not seem to work between the two.  From first pc:
> 
> $ rsync -vr --delete test1 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo
> 
> , but nothing happens.
> 

what do you want to accomplish with that command?
do you have the ssh-server installed on both hosts and does it work?



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Re: rsync with crossover cable connection (was: Synchronize two computers)

[Rodolfo Medina]

Johannes Wiedersich  writes:

> Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"
>
> "ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem.



Still needing your help:

following the suggestion come from the list, I edited /etc/network/interfaces
on the first pc as follows:

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

, and on the second the same but with `192.168.0.2' in place of `192.168.0.1'.
Then I did `/etc/init.d/networking restart' on both, and `ifconfig' on the
first gives:

# ifconfig
eth0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:219 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:7884 (7.6 KiB)

, and on the second

# ifconfig
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:8b:a2:6b:02  
  inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::223:8bff:fea2:6b02/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:8928 (8.7 KiB)

, that look ok.  The `ping' command from first machine:

$ ping 192.168.0.2
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4000ms

, and analogously from second.

ssh from first pc gives:

# ssh -vvv 192.168.0.2
OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.0.2 [192.168.0.2] port 22.

, and analogously from second.

But rsync does not seem to work between the two.  From first pc:

 $ rsync -vr --delete test1 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo

, but nothing happens.

Further suggestions appreciated.

Rodolfo


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Solution to Connecting to Verizon MiFi

[Wayne]

In an effort to give back to the Debian Community, here is a rundown on
How I get wireless working with Verizon's MiFi hub.


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Working on DJ, an AMD64 system, running Debian Testing, and connecting 
to a Verizon MiFi.


These package were installed to get this working:
wicd, wpasupplicant, dhcp3-client, dhcp3-common, iproute, resolvconf.

The ath5K drivers at 


or from here;  
More info at :  

Using wicd version 2.0 as the network manager and the MadWifi ath5k 
drivers and kernel 2.6.30.


This requires removing the ath9k driver (modprobe -r ath9k) and 
installing the ath5k drivers (modprobe ath_pci).  When testing with the 
ath9k drivers the system would lock up and required a reboot.  The card 
worked for some time prior to the kernel Panic.


I added a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file with a "blacklist ath9k" 
line (no quotes) to solve that problem.


When used with the MiFi the gateway is 192.162.1.1.  The dns-domain is 
myvzw.com.  I found that the DNS server changes, so I configured the 1st 
nameserver as 66.174.95.44, the 2nd as 8.8.8.8 and the 3rd as 8.8.4.4. 
The latter 2 being public servers belonging to google.  So far this is 
working OK.  The MiFi uses WPA-TKIP security and allow up to 5 computers 
to connect to it at the same time.


I am using the dhcp3-client package mainly because I could not connect 
with the dhcpd package.


Download speeds from my location, Cell tower about 3 miles away, is 
running from ~100kBs  to >900 kBs on the Verizon 3G Network.  This 
replaced a AT&T Sierra modem which averaged 12-15 kbs on the GSM 
Network. Note: AT&T claims a faster 3G Network then Verizon but it
is not available here.  Cost of either service is $60/mo with a 5190 MB 
download Cap.


Note:  If not able to connect to the internet, disable your firewall. 
If you can then connect, fix your firewall.  I use firehol.


Thanks Again Stan for all of your help.

Wayne




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Re: console resolution

[Stephen Powell]

On 2010-01-22 at 12:08:56 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> set gfxpayload=keep will tell Grub2 to hand off the graphics settings to the
> kernel, which if configured properly will carry them forward. There are some
> other settings to tweak as well, insmod vbe and whatnot in the appropriate
> file, but that's about the gist of it. The nice thing is it makes for very
> smooth transitions when switching from terminal to x, as the display
> settings (if correctly configured) are already applied, thus, no ugly
> flashing of the screen and delay.

So then this is designed to work with framebuffer graphics mode virtual
consoles, right?  That wouldn't help me.  I prefer the traditional
hardware text mode virtual consoles.  That's why I use the vga option
and lilo.  I've even configured lilo to do all of its own output in text mode.

Jeffrey Cao wrote in another post that grub2 can support the traditional
vga kernel option by means of editing /etc/default/grub and adding the
line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx"

and then running "update-grub" to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg.  But I
haven't tried it myself.  I'm not going to de-install lilo and install
grub2 to find out.  But next time I try a Squeeze install from scratch,
I might give it a try.  For now, I'm very happy with my old friend lilo.


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Re: Bug with translation

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:48:28 +0100, Daniele Di Sarli wrote:

> Hi,
> I don't know where to report a problem in the translation of the Lenny
> release notes.

Hello,

I would try first by contacting the italian localization/translation team:

http://wiki.debian.org/L10n/Italian

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How Does One force Use of DSA Keys under Linux?

[Martin McCormick]

I recently needed to clear out some old entries from the
.ssh/known_hosts file on a Debian system and discovered that I
couldn't tell which system key was which because they were all
type rsa keys instead of the type DSA keys which do contain a
field with either the host name or its IP address.

Is there a way in Linux to make ssh get the type DSA host keys?
I presently see the following message when adding a new host to
known_hosts:

Warning: Permanently added 'remote.host.okstate.edu,192.168.8.9' (RSA)
 to the list of known hosts.

When a FreeBSD system connects to a Debian host as an
example, it automatically knows to add the dsa host key.

This is no show stopper by any means, but why is this
happening? Thanks.

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Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group


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Re: console resolution

[Arthur Machlas]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:

> On 2010-01-22 at 09:00:54 -0500, Javier Barroso wrote:
> > Seem like gfxpayload is the substitute, but now I can't find where is the
> > doc (it doesn't appear in kernel-parameters.txt).
>
> I'm really going out on a limb when I talk about grub2, since I only used
> it for a very short time, but I seem to remember that gfxpayload sets the
> video mode for grub itself.  I don't think it applies to the kernel proper.
> The doc for grub2, such as it is, is at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html.  I gave up on grub2
> rather quickly and went back to lilo when I couldn't get the vga option
> to work; so I know very little about it.
>
>
set gfxpayload=keep will tell Grub2 to hand off the graphics settings to the
kernel, which if configured properly will carry them forward. There are some
other settings to tweak as well, insmod vbe and whatnot in the appropriate
file, but that's about the gist of it. The nice thing is it makes for very
smooth transitions when switching from terminal to x, as the display
settings (if correctly configured) are already applied, thus, no ugly
flashing of the screen and delay.

Best,
Arthur

Re: dpkg-reconfigure affected by environment variables

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 22 January 2010 10:03:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Is it normal that dpkg-reconfigure can be affected by environment
> variables?

That's pretty normal.  Most programs don't go out of their way to ignore your 
environment settings.

dpkg-reconfigure also uses things like LANG and LC_* for when it invokes 
debconf.

> For instance, I have PERL5LIB set to /home/vlefevre/lib/site_perl,
> and when I do a "su", this variable is kept in the environment,
> and in the strace output on a dpkg-reconfigure, I could see that
> $PERL5LIB was searched for Perl modules.

You can use (su -) to get a "clean" environment.  sudo also has features for 
cleaning the environment when changing users.
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Is it normal that dpkg-reconfigure can be affected by environment
variables?

For instance, I have PERL5LIB set to /home/vlefevre/lib/site_perl,
and when I do a "su", this variable is kept in the environment,
and in the strace output on a dpkg-reconfigure, I could see that
$PERL5LIB was searched for Perl modules.

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Re: dealing with grub2?

[Liviu Andronic]

On 1/22/10, tv.deb...@googlemail.com  wrote:
>  Hope it helps.
>
It does, thanks. I went back to grub-pc, and with os-prober installed
it seemed to have recognised both Win and Ubuntu. At least grub.cfg
seems to have the relevant entries. Fingers crossed on reboot.

Best
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Re: console resolution

[Stephen Powell]

On 2010-01-22 at 09:00:54 -0500, Javier Barroso wrote:
> Seem like gfxpayload is the substitute, but now I can't find where is the
> doc (it doesn't appear in kernel-parameters.txt).

The "vga" kernel option is a strange option.  It's really more of
a bootloader option than a kernel option.  The bootloader itself has to have
support for it.  The actual change of video mode is done by means of a
video BIOS call.  This is an old-fashioned DOS-style interrupt call,
which must be done in real mode.  I believe the bootloader itself makes the 
call,
while it is still running in real mode.  The bootloader switches to protected
mode prior to passing control to the kernel.  Somehow, the kernel is told
what the video mode is, so that it can allocate the proper amount of memory
for a virtual terminal buffer, but I don't believe that the kernel itself
actually makes the video BIOS call.  That's the way it worked under lilo and 
grub1
anyway.  This is for text-mode virtual consoles.

I'm really going out on a limb when I talk about grub2, since I only used
it for a very short time, but I seem to remember that gfxpayload sets the
video mode for grub itself.  I don't think it applies to the kernel proper.
The doc for grub2, such as it is, is at
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html.  I gave up on grub2
rather quickly and went back to lilo when I couldn't get the vga option
to work; so I know very little about it.


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Re: Upgrading OO.o, right hand doesn't know what left hand is doing

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Patrick Wiseman  wrote:
> Updating my testing system this morning, I noticed that OpenOffice was
> being upgraded, so I shut down my open spreadsheet.  When configuring
> openoffice.org-writer2latex, aptitude complained "OpenOffice.org is
> running right now. This can cause problems with (de-)registration of
> components and extensions.  You should close all running instances of
> OpenOffice.org (including any currently running Quickstarter) before
> proceeding with the package upgrade."  So I opened a root terminal,
> did 'ps aux | grep office', found soffice.bin running, killed it, and
> proceeded.  A little later, aptitude complained again of
> OpenOffice.org running.  As I was watching the upgrade output, I saw
> docvert REstart OpenOffice, so that soffice.bin was running again!  I
> killed it again and the upgrade proceeded without further incident.
>
> I've submitted a bug report against docvert (there being some 32
> packages associated with OO.o!!  I knew it was bloatware, but 32?!)
> This is just FYI should someone else encounter the same issue.

Yesterday, six weeks later, it happened again.

Patrick


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Re: Why is latexmk in Debian so old?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2010-01-19 17:57:00 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> It is orphaned and waits for someone stepping in to maintain it:
> 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/latexmk.html

which says:

  This package has been orphaned, but someone intends to maintain it.
  ^^

Is there really someone who intends to maintain it?

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Re: dealing with grub2?

[tv.deb...@googlemail.com]

Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all
> Could you help to either completely get rid of grub2 or properly
> configuring it (to recognise the other two OSs, Windows and Ubuntu)?
> 
> For the first part, I've uninstalled grub-pc and reinstalled
> grub-legacy, I've run update grub and checked /boo/grub/menu.lst (and
> it contains Windows and Ubuntu entries). However, on reboot I only see
> the Debian entries. I also installed os-prober, but it doesn't seem to
> affect behaviour of update grub.
> 
> Before uninstalling grub-pc, I updated menu.lst and ran update grub,
> to no avail.
> 
> What else should I try? Thank you
> Liviu
> 
> 
> 

Hi,

if you want to get rid of grub-pc (aka "grub2") you have to reinstall
grub-"legacy" in the mbr (or elsewhere, depends on your setup) with
"grub-install".

If you want to give grub2 a chance, and you should, you can install the
package "os-prober", which only helps with grub2 and does nothing with
grub-legacy.
Also with grub2 you have to look for /boot/grub/grub.cfg and not
"menu.lst". If os-prober fails to find the other OS, you can add an
entry in /etc/grub.d/40_custom and then run "update-grub". Don't edit
grub.cfg because it's overwritten every time grub is updated or a kernel
is installed/updated.

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Re: console resolution

[Stephen Powell]

On 2010-01-22 at 08:26:27 -0500, Jeffrey Cao wrote:
> On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to 
> > work fine right now.
> >
> > I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the 
> > console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed at 
> > the startup says.  What should be passed to the kernel instead of, for 
> > example, vga=0x361?  Let me add that I have upgraded the kernel to 
> > 2.6.32 from sid.
> 
> For the new grub, edit the file /etc/default/grub, add the following line:
> 
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx"
> 
> And then run 'update-grub' to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Thanks, Jeffrey.  I routinely use the "vga" option too, and I couldn't get it
to work with grub2 either.  To avoid confusion between grub2 and grub1,
I decided to go back to lilo.  The next time I do a Squeeze install from
scratch, I'll your suggestion a try.


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Re: console resolution

[green]

Nima Azarbayjany wrote at 2010-01-22 06:08 -0600:
> I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem
> to work fine right now.
>
> I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the
> console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed
> at the startup says.  What should be passed to the kernel instead
> of, for example, vga=0x361?  Let me add that I have upgraded the
> kernel to 2.6.32 from sid.

I removed 'vga=' and now I get a full 1400x1050 on a T61 (using 
linux-source-2.6.32).  Excellent!


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Re: Kernel modification environment

[Stephen Powell]

On 2010-01-22 at 07:54:05 -0500, Praseen Preman wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> Thanks a lot for the reply. I put my query in the debian
> distributions list since internally Ubuntu is a debian based distribution.
> Well I had installed a version of Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS from an installation
> CD. The version of the linux kernel in the package was 2.6.24-26 and I was
> not able to get the source for the above mentioned kernel version. In the
> kernel source tree I saw versions with only 4 sub classes like 2.6.24.6 and
> 2.6.24.7. Later on I checked out the version of the installed kernel in the
> /boot/config and found out that it was 2.6.24.6. So I compiled the source
> for 2.6.24.6 on my 2.6.24-26 kernel and later installed it using the dpkg
> command. Later I did "sudo update-grub" to modify the menu.lst file so that
> I can boot into the 2.6.24.6 kernel. Now since we had seen that the
> 2.6.24-26 kernel was actually the 2.6.24.6 version kernel, I tried to build
> a "hello world" module in the 2.6.24.6 source and insert it into the
> 2.6.24-26 kernel which was currently running. The insmod and the modprobe
> commands failed. The insmod failed with a struct_module version mismatch
> error.
> 
> So I rebooted into the 2.6.24.6 kernel from GRUB and I noticed that my
> devices like NVIDIA which worked on the 2.6.24-26 kernel refused to work on
> the new kernel.After a few days, these devices failed to work even in my
> first 2.6.24-26 kernel too. I infer that this issue could be as a result of
> the fact that both my 2.6.24.6 and 2.6.24-26 grub entries use the same
> filesystem. Please let me know how to solve such an issue. Let me know how
> to use a different filesystem for a different kernel version so that such
> conflicts can be avoided.
> 
> Thanks a ton in advance,
> Praseen
> 
> On 22 January 2010 07:08, Stephen Powell  wrote:
> 
> > On 2010-01-21 at 20:10:49 -0500, Praseen Preman wrote:
> > I currently have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS-Hardy running on my
> > machine. I am learning about linux device drivers and hence I have to
> > compile and run the kernel after modifications, also I have to insert my
> > own
> > custom built modules. Please suggest how to create an environment that
> > does
> > not mess up with existing running setup, when I compile and boot into my
> > custom built kernel.The issue here probably is that for all my custom
> > compiled kernels and the currently stable kernel, the filesystem is the
> > same
> > and as a result when the custom kernel boots up, it probably screws up my
> > driver nodes in the /dev directory. I would like to keep the filesystem
> > for
> > the custom compiled kernels seperate from the stable kernel installed
> > from
> > the CD. Please suggest, how to proceed.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Praseen
> >
> > PS: I have already lost my current stable installation of the kernel
> > after I
> > booted into my custom compiled kernel :(
>
> Forgive me for stating the obvious, but I must start with the disclaimer
> that
> this forum provides user-to-user assistance for Debian, not Ubuntu.  While
> Ubuntu is Debian-based, it is not Debian.  I have no experience with Ubuntu
> proper, and advice that I may give based on my Debian experience may not
> work
> with Ubuntu.  As always, use at your own risk.
>
> Second, I'm not sure what you mean by "the filesystem is the same".  Do you
> mean that the custom kernels and the stock kernel are sharing each other's
> modules (i.e. /lib/modules/...) and are therefore interfering with each
> other?
> That I can understand and recommend a fix for, at least under Debian.
> But from your description, it doesn't sound like it.  You seem to be
> concerned that the device nodes in /dev are getting messed up somehow.
> In modern kernels, most of the device nodes are created dynamically by udev
> anyway.  I guess I'm really not sure what you're asking.  You can control,
> in the boot loader (lilo, grub, etc.) what partition, or more rigorously,
> what file system residing on a partition, gets mounted as /, but that may
> not be what you're asking either.  For a general tutorial on building
> custom kernels in Debian, I can point you to
> http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm
> .
> How well that will adapt to Ubuntu, I don't know.
> I really wish I understood your question better.
>

A few logistical items first.  (1) Please do not "top post".  It is confusing.
Instead, use the "usenet" style of in-line quoting.  (2) Please reply to the
list, not to the person from whom you expect to receive help.  See the mailing
list policy at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.html#codeofconduct.
Strictly speaking, I should not be quoting you here, since it was received
in a private e-mail; but I'm assuming that you intended to reply to the list
and replied to me alone by mistake.  (And there is nothing of a personal or
confidential nature in it.)  I normally quote only the portions of the
original post to

ejabberd...

[cosme]

Hi

I need store all convertatios from users in my ejabberd,i use Debian Lenny

I probbed with mod_logxml from
http://svn.process-one.net/ejabberd-modules/mod_logxml also i used the
guide but nothing happen, i really don't understand which is my error???

The last probbe was download mod_logxml.erl and put in to
/var/lib/ejabberd/ but nothing

put in /usr/src/ but nothing

I used to execute build.sh in
http://svn.process-one.net/ejabberd-modules/mod_logxml/trunk/build.sh but
nothing happen.

Please i need the module to do that???

I use ejabberd 2.0.1

This is the error report=INFO REPORT 2010-01-21 20:05:39 ===
D(<0.347.0>:ejabberd_s2s_out:800) : terminated:
{shutdown,wait_for_validation}

=INFO REPORT 2010-01-21 20:05:39 ===
D(<0.343.0>:ejabberd_s2s_out:800) : terminated: 
{shutdown,stream_established}


=ERROR REPORT 2010-01-21 20:05:43 ===
E(<0.37.0>:gen_mod:66) : {undef,
 [{mod_logxml,start,
   ["jabber2.rosrt.cu",
[{stanza,[message,other]},
 {direction,[internal,external]},
 {orientation,[send,recv]},
 {logdir,"/var/log/ejabberd/convertations/"},
 {timezone,local},
 {rotate_days,1},
 {rotate_megs,no},
 {rotate_kpackets,no},
 {check_rotate_kpackets,1}]]},
  {gen_mod,start_module,3},
  {lists,foreach,2},
  {ejabberd_app,start,2},
  {application_master,start_it_old,4}]}

What happen???

Thanks,
Cosme



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dealing with grub2?

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear all
Could you help to either completely get rid of grub2 or properly
configuring it (to recognise the other two OSs, Windows and Ubuntu)?

For the first part, I've uninstalled grub-pc and reinstalled
grub-legacy, I've run update grub and checked /boo/grub/menu.lst (and
it contains Windows and Ubuntu entries). However, on reboot I only see
the Debian entries. I also installed os-prober, but it doesn't seem to
affect behaviour of update grub.

Before uninstalling grub-pc, I updated menu.lst and ran update grub,
to no avail.

What else should I try? Thank you
Liviu



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Re: /etc/resolv.conf and resolvconf

[Ed Jabbour]

On Thursday 21 January 2010 08:44:38 pm Tom H wrote:
> > Sometime ago, I switched to OpenDNS using the resolvconf program.  I now
> > want to switch back to the default DNS provided by the gateway -
> > 192.168.1.254, which, I think, passes over to ATT's server. I'd use
> > resolvconf, but I forgot how and the man page isn't much help to me. So,
> > I purged resolvconf; now the only instance of resolvconf  is the deb file
> > in apt archives and /etc/resolv.conf is no longer a symlink.   I then
> > manually
> > changed /etc/resolv.conf.  However, upon a dhcp request resolv.conf
> > reverts to OpenDNS.  I tried  entering "prepend domain-name-servers
> > 192.168.1.254" in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf - but no relief.  What's
> > overwriting resolv.conf, and how do I stop it?
>
> If you are using NetworkManager, you have to set your DNS server in the NM
> GUI.

I use wicd, and the DNS is set correctly.

Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Yes.  ATT calls it a "residential gateway".  It's a dsl modem and
>>  router in one package.

>I have a seperate router and cable modem but when I want to switch
> DNS I have to set up the new one in the router. I am not sure about DSL
> but my resolve.conf points to the router (192.168.1.1). The router then
> requests DNS services according to what's been set-up in it.

The DNS server, i.e. the .254,  is hard-wired into the router.  It can't be 
changed.  That's why I have to set it up on the computer.


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Re: problem whit virtual interfaces [SOLVED]

[Marco Vaschetto]

Camaleón ha scritto:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:09:48 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote:

  

Camaleón ha scritto:


On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:11:18 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote:


  

iface eth0 inet static




Shouldn't that read "iface eth0:1 inet static"? :-?
   ^^


  

I have try whit static configuration for eth0 and the alias, like:



(...)
 
  

And I try to configure (*eth0*)* *whit the local Ethernet ip address and
the alias (*eth0:1*) whit the public ip but I got always the same error,

so if the configuration of "/etc/network/interfaces" is right I'm
thinking, is possible, I didn't enable in the kernel some modules;

but if the unload modules, I didn't know witch one I must load for make
the alias working.



No additional module should be needed to load for using virtual 
interfaces. It must be a very an error in the config file we are 
both failing to see :-)


Just try with a simpler file, something like this:

5.4.3. The virtual interface
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_virtual_interface

And see what happens.

Greetings,

  
yes, is about metric the problem, and I think must configure the virtual 
interface like is a normal hardware..


now I have configure like this

#eth0 public ip
allow-hotplug
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   address 195.137.146.82
   netmask 255.255.255.248
   network 195.137.146.80
   broadcast 195.137.146.87
   gateway 195.137.146.81
metric 0
#eth0:1 local ethernet
allow-hotplug
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
   address 192.168.0.50
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   network 192.168.0.0
   broadcast 192.168.0.255
   gateway 192.168.0.254
   dns-nameserver 192.168.0.1
metric 1

and is work fine.

Tank's for your help.

Marco


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Re: problem whit virtual interfaces

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:09:48 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote:

> Camaleón ha scritto:
>> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:11:18 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote:
>>
>>
>>> iface eth0 inet static
>>> 
>>> 
>> Shouldn't that read "iface eth0:1 inet static"? :-?
>>^^
>>
>>
> I have try whit static configuration for eth0 and the alias, like:

(...)
 
> And I try to configure (*eth0*)* *whit the local Ethernet ip address and
> the alias (*eth0:1*) whit the public ip but I got always the same error,
> 
> so if the configuration of "/etc/network/interfaces" is right I'm
> thinking, is possible, I didn't enable in the kernel some modules;
> 
> but if the unload modules, I didn't know witch one I must load for make
> the alias working.

No additional module should be needed to load for using virtual 
interfaces. It must be a very an error in the config file we are 
both failing to see :-)

Just try with a simpler file, something like this:

5.4.3. The virtual interface
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_virtual_interface

And see what happens.

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Re: modprobe vboxdrv failed (virtualbox-ose 3.1.2-dfsg-1+b1)

[Jacek Politowski]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:38:58PM +0100, Florian Kriener wrote:

>> It sounds as if dkms hasn't been installed. There is a reference
>> somewhere on the VirtualBox web site.

>You could be wrong, because I had exactly the same problem. After a 
>kernel update (from ..-n to ..-n+1 - I don't know the exact versions) 
>the module would not load anymore.

Same here. After kernel upgrade (some time ago) vboxdrv failed to
load. Reinstalling virtualbox-ose-dkms (after purge!) didn't help
either.

I had to manually remove modules from
/lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-686/updates/dkms/ (they weren't, removed
even on purge, neither were they updated on kernel upgrade).

After that, recompilation by dkms succeeded.


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Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

[John Hasler]

Eduardo writes:
> ...but exim can receive mail via stdin, if called with some
> option. Generally there is a link (/usr/lib/sendmail) that serves that
> purpose.

> But I'm not sure if it will work if exim is not running as a deamon.

It will.
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Re: Printer Lexmark print driver X2690 error

[Marco Vaschetto]

Marco Vaschetto ha scritto:

Marcelo Laia ha scritto:

Hi,

I have posted a issue here
(http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?29,11305).

Please, could you help me?

Thank you very much

  
I can suggestion to look here 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-X2690


or try to search gutenprint I have epson and work fine only whit 
gutenprint driver have a lot of driver isn't supported by cups


if I found back the link for gutenprint I will send you.

bay Marco.


http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ this is the link for gutenprint 
driver I hope can fix your problem.


Marco


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Re: console resolution

[Javier Barroso]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Nima Azarbayjany
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to work
> fine right now.
>
> I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the console
> resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed at the startup
> says.  What should be passed to the kernel instead of, for example,
> vga=0x361?  Let me add that I have upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32 from sid.
>
Seem like gfxpayload is the substitute, but now I can't find where is the
doc (it doesn't appear in kernel-parameters.txt).

Regards,

Re: Printer Lexmark print driver X2690 error

[Marco Vaschetto]

Marcelo Laia ha scritto:

Hi,

I have posted a issue here
(http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?29,11305).

Please, could you help me?

Thank you very much

  
I can suggestion to look here 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-X2690


or try to search gutenprint I have epson and work fine only whit 
gutenprint driver have a lot of driver isn't supported by cups


if I found back the link for gutenprint I will send you.

bay Marco.


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Printer Lexmark print driver X2690 error

[Marcelo Laia]

Hi,

I have posted a issue here
(http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?29,11305).

Please, could you help me?

Thank you very much

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Re: console resolution

[Jeffrey Cao]

On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to 
> work fine right now.
>
> I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the 
> console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed at 
> the startup says.  What should be passed to the kernel instead of, for 
> example, vga=0x361?  Let me add that I have upgraded the kernel to 
> 2.6.32 from sid.
>
For the new grub, edit the file /etc/default/grub, add the following line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx"

And then run 'update-grub' to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Qui, 21 Jan 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:

Aha. Now we get to the crux of the matter.

Is it a feature of SMTP itself, that it cannot send an email without  
port 25 because it has to receive the email it is going to send  
first, even if only locally as in my case, but nevertheless on port  
25?


I don't know about postfix, but exim can receive mail via stdin, if  
called with some option. Generally there is a link (/usr/lib/sendmail)  
that serves that purpose.


But I'm not sure if it will work if exim is not running as a deamon.  
You might want to ask the exim mailing list.



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Re: users-admin on kde

[Brad Rogers]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:40:56 +0100
abdelkader belahcene  wrote:

Hello abdelkader,

> I installed debian-testing-CD1  kde (kde4)  interface, I didn't find
> the interface for user manager, (usually I used gnome, want to check
> kde4)  like users-admin in gnome.

It's System -> KUser.

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Re: problem whit virtual interfaces

[Marco Vaschetto]

Camaleón ha scritto:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:11:18 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote:

  

iface eth0 inet static



Shouldn't that read "iface eth0:1 inet static"? :-?
   ^^

Greetings,

  

I have try whit static configuration for eth0 and the alias, like:

#*eth0:1 alias* local ethernet
auto *eth0:1*
iface *eth0:1* inet static
  address 192.168.0.33
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network 192.168.0.0
  broadcast 192.168.0.255
  gateway 192.168.0.254
  # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if 
installed

  dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1
  dns-search cesin.local
#*eth0* public ip
allow-hotplug
auto *eth0*
iface *eth0* inet static
   address 195.137.146.82
   netmask 255.255.255.248
   network 195.137.146.80
   broadcast 195.137.146.87
   gateway 195.137.146.81

and the second time whit dynamic ip for the alias *eth0:1 *like

#*eth0:1* local ethernet
auto *eth0:1*
iface *eth0:1* inet dhcp

#*eth0* public ip
allow-hotplug
auto *eth0*
iface *eth0* inet static
   address 195.137.146.82
   netmask 255.255.255.248
   network 195.137.146.80
   broadcast 195.137.146.87
   gateway 195.137.146.81

And I try to configure (*eth0*)* *whit the local Ethernet ip address and 
the alias (*eth0:1*) whit the public ip but I got always the same error,


so if the configuration of "/etc/network/interfaces" is right I'm 
thinking, is possible, I didn't enable in the kernel some modules;


but if the unload modules, I didn't know witch one I must load for make 
the alias working.


thank's

Marco


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console resolution

[Nima Azarbayjany]

Hi,

I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to 
work fine right now.


I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the 
console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed at 
the startup says.  What should be passed to the kernel instead of, for 
example, vga=0x361?  Let me add that I have upgraded the kernel to 
2.6.32 from sid.


Thanks.

Nima :)


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Re: problem whit virtual interfaces

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:11:18 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote:

> iface eth0 inet static

Shouldn't that read "iface eth0:1 inet static"? :-?
   ^^

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problem whit virtual interfaces

[Marco Vaschetto]

Hallo to all the mailing list,

I got some trouble for configure two ip address on my eth0 ,

this is the "/etc/network/interfaces" file

#eth0:1 local ethernet
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet dhcp

#eth0 pubblic ip
allow-hotplug
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   address 195.137.146.82
   netmask 255.255.255.248
   network 195.137.146.80
   broadcast 195.137.146.87
   gateway 195.137.146.81

but when in the boot strap is try to up eth0:1 is failed the error I 
receive is this:


failed to bring up eth0:1

I forget some think?

thank's for help.

Marco


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users-admin on kde

[abdelkader belahcene]

Hi everybody
I installed debian-testing-CD1  kde (kde4)  interface, I didn't find the
interface for user manager, (usually I used gnome, want to check kde4)  like
users-admin in gnome.

thanks for help
regards
bela

Re: HTTP Filter Proxy

[Jari Fredriksson]

On 21.1.2010 7:07, Kun Niu wrote:
> With squid you can filter hijacked sites. But I wonder if any server
> side software can control popups. I think that they are blocked by
> client side software.
> 

I use Proxomitron in Windows, and it kills pop ups. While it is really a
client side proxy, it can be used in a server too, and works like a server.

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Re: Synchronize two computers

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> It doesn't work either.  I think that the two pcs don't see each other: also
>> the command `ssh 192.168.0.2' produces nothing.


Johannes Wiedersich  writes:

> Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"
>
> "ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem.


Alexey Salmin  writes:

> 1. Use /sbin/ifconfig to check if interfaces were configured properly
> I think you've missed "auto eth0" in both /etc/interfaces files. That
> means that ifaces will be up only by demand like that:
> $ sudo ifup eth0
> 2. When interfaces are up - use ping to check if machines sees each other
> 3. If ping is ok - use ssh to check if ssh connection works


# /sbin/ifconfig
ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
  inet addr:151.83.161.25  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:552 errors:16 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
  RX bytes:467484 (456.5 KiB)  TX bytes:89543 (87.4 KiB)


# ssh -v rodo...@192.168.0.2
OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.0.2 [192.168.0.2] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.0.2 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.2 port 22: Connection timed out


# ifup eth0
# ping 192.168.0.2
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
135 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 134033ms


I can't read trough all that!
Rodolfo


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Re: Synchronize two computers

[Alexey Salmin]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Rodolfo Medina
 wrote:
> On 10-01-21 14:17:37, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>>>  $ rsync -vru --delete ssh://192.168.0.2/home/rodolfo/test1
>>> /home/rodolfo/
>>>
>>> but got error:
>>>
>>> ssh: ssh: Temporary failure in name resolution
>>> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
>>> [receiver]
>>> rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(453)
>>> [receiver=2.6.9]
>>>
>>> What did I miss??
>
>
> Tony Nelson  writes:
>
>> Proper syntax from the rsync man page.  You're telling rsync to connect
>> to a host named "ssh".  Try "192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo/test1" instead.
>
>
> It doesn't work either.  I think that the two pcs don't see each other: also
> the command `ssh 192.168.0.2' produces nothing.
>
> Further help very much appreciated.
>
> Rodolfo
>
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1. Use /sbin/ifconfig to check if interfaces were configured properly
I think you've missed "auto eth0" in both /etc/interfaces files. That
means that ifaces will be up only by demand like that:
$ sudo ifup eth0
2. When interfaces are up - use ping to check if machines sees each other
3. If ping is ok - use ssh to check if ssh connection works

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Re: Synchronize two computers

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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> It doesn't work either.  I think that the two pcs don't see each other: also
> the command `ssh 192.168.0.2' produces nothing.

Check and possibly post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"

"ssh -v u...@192.168.0.2" might also help to diagnose your problem.

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Re: Synchronize two computers

[Rodolfo Medina]

On 10-01-21 14:17:37, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>>  $ rsync -vru --delete ssh://192.168.0.2/home/rodolfo/test1
>> /home/rodolfo/
>> 
>> but got error:
>> 
>> ssh: ssh: Temporary failure in name resolution
>> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
>> [receiver]
>> rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(453)
>> [receiver=2.6.9]
>> 
>> What did I miss??


Tony Nelson  writes:

> Proper syntax from the rsync man page.  You're telling rsync to connect 
> to a host named "ssh".  Try "192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo/test1" instead.


It doesn't work either.  I think that the two pcs don't see each other: also
the command `ssh 192.168.0.2' produces nothing.

Further help very much appreciated.

Rodolfo


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