Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

[Csanyi Pal]

Darac Marjal  writes:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:39:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>> I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. I'm not shure whether
>> are they really needed?
>> 
>> How can I know which modules I don't need so I can have those
>> blacklisted? 
>
> Generally speaking, the kernel only loads modules it needs. Typical
> methods for this include udev discovering hardware (so the kernel loads
> the driver for it) or modules or user-space software depending on other
> modules (such as how the wireless system depends on some of the hashing
> modules).
>
> So, in a normal system, the modules are loaded because they are needed.
> (The corollary to this is that when modules are not needed, such as
> removing a device, they are unloaded).
>
> Blacklisting is usually only needed if you have a broken modules or
> there are two modules that service your needs and you need to use the
> other one (for example, a USB device might be detected as needed
> cdc-ether, but you know that actually it doesn't, so you blacklist
> cdc-ether).

I have an usb ethernet adapter that sometimes freezes my Debian SID
system. I have mailed this problem to the Bugzilla Kernel org here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40372

The developers advices me to reduce loaded modules.
How can I do that?

> As Debian's stock kernel is designed for maximum flexibility, having a
> couple of hundred modules loaded is not unexpected.
Yes, i have 155 modules loaded.

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Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

[Csanyi Pal]

Camaleón  writes:

> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:39:41 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>
>> I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. 
>
> How many, how many? :-)
>
> sm01@stt008:~$ lsmod| wc -l
155

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Re: Dual Boot.

[jeremy jozwik]

just got my duel boot machine running. works great with xp installed
then debian with grub. works very great.


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Re: Dual Boot.

[Heddle Weaver]

On 1 September 2011 13:09, Lennart Sorensen wrote:


If your windows install uses the entire drive for one partition, then
> there isn't really anything the installer can do for you other than to
> wipe out windows.
>
> If on the other hand you have windows on a partition that does not use
> the entire drive, and there is unpartitioned space on the drive, then the
> installer should give you the option of using the largest unused space
> on the drive.  Of course this is essentially never the case unless the
> person installing windows was thinking ahead.
>

Windows people never think ahead.
They let their pogrom do it for them.

But something like Gparted should be able to help?
Other than buying a second drive?
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Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

[Scott Ferguson]

On 01/09/11 00:38, Isaac Freeman wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm looking to set up a PXE server. The
permissions on the directory provided to atftpd are 777 as specified in
the usage. I don't see how host.{allow,deny} make any difference with
whether or not the server starts.


They don't affect the server starting - they are the next obstacle after 
the server starts ("it wouldn't take connections through the default 
inetd stuff" ?).



I'll give tftp-hpa a try, and I'll
look in to gpxe.



Irony(?) - looking through my notes from when I was collecting 
information to build my first pxe server, I see all these Lotus links... 
:-)  I no longer have my IBM logins - but you'll find plenty of internal 
references (redbooks etc).


I used/use a separate machine (IPCop) for my DHCP server - so your setup 
will be different. Post your dhcpd.conf and if you have problems 
connecting clients to a running tftp server.


There's a good guide to a basic single machine setup here:-
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478

NOTE: that is slightly different to Squeeze - replace references to 
/var/lib/tftpboot with /serv/tftpboot


Basic guide (note my point about me not running a dhcp server on the 
same box:-


*Install tftp server
# apt-get install tftpd-hpa

*Check tftp server
# netstat -uap | grep tftp
udp0  0 *:tftp  *:* 
2242/inetd


If you don't get that output, please advise and I'll post the simple fix.

*Setup dhcpd.conf eg.:-


subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
   range 192.168.2.10 192.168.2.20;
   filename "pxelinux.0";
   next-server 192.168.2.1;
   option routers 192.168.2.1;
}

*Setup server directories:-
# mkdir -v /srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
# mkdir -pv /srv/tftpboot/$distro/$release/$arch
^^ eg. /srv/tftpboot/debian/squeeze/i386

*Setup pxelinux.cfg/default (/srv/tftpboot/pexlinux.cfg/default):-
-
DISPLAY boot.txt

DEFAULT squeeze_i386_expert_kde

LABEL squeeze_i386_expert_kde
 kernel debian/squeeze/i386/linux
 append priority=low vga=normal initrd=debian/squeeze 
/i386/initrd.gz  desktop=kde --

LABEL squeeze_i386_rescue
 kernel debian/squeeze/i386/linux
 append vga=normal initrd=debian/squeeze/i386/initrd.gz 
rescue/enable=true --

PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 0


*Setup boot.txt (/srv/tftpbooot/pxelinux.cfg/boot.txt)
NOTE: I found there are limits to the amount of entries in this - if you 
strike problems let me know and I show you the (graphical) workaround.


---
- Boot Menu -
=

squeeze_i386_expert_kde
squeeze_i386_rescue
--

* Setup files to be served eg.:-
# cd /srv/tftpboot/
# wget -t 0 
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/pxelinux.0

# cd /srv/tftpboot/debian/squeeze/i386
# wget -t 0 
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux
# wget -t 0 
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz


* Restart server:-
# service tftpd-hpa restart

Disclaimer - I'm working from notes and memory, *do* check my spelling. 
I've noted anytime I modify the default Debian settings - so if you are 
working with pre-installed packages double check that you didn't change 
default setting, or:-

# dpkg-reconfigure $whatever_package_has_been_tweaked




For gPXE:-
http://etherboot.org/wiki/start

I was initially inspired by this:-
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1911723796712805715

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Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

[Jude DaShiell]

If the mac version is for osx and debian has a dmg extractor, you may be 
able either to run the mac version under debian or build the debian 
version if source code is available then run it.  Mac isn't Linux, but 
it's lots closer to Linux than anything Microsoft ever wrote.  Something 
close to darwin version of Linux than any other version.

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote:

> On 31/08/11 06:06, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I have a pdf text which is hard to read.  It occurred to me to try
> > installing the Nook reader to see if it would improve visibility.  The
> > Barnes&  Noble web site has downloads for Windows, Mac, iPads and
> > Android tablets and phones.  I downloaded the Windows version and
> > installed it with Wine but have not got it working correctly as yet.
> >
> > Has anybody already done this?
> >
> >
> 
> Yes - waste of time (IMNSHO).
> Installing Linux *on* a Nook is a good idea though ;-p
> 
> Seriously - Calibre is (much) better for general e-book reading and
> management. Okular is better for plain pdfs.
> 
> You might want to check what fonts the pdf requires - it may be it doesn't use
> embedded fonts - in which case it will pick from your system fonts (which is
> where the "hard to read" bit may come in).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 

Jude 
"I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet
of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's
got God on his side."
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Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

[Scott Ferguson]

On 01/09/11 00:11, Thomas H. George wrote:

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 31/08/11 06:06, Thomas H. George wrote:

I have a pdf text which is hard to read.





Okular is better for plain pdfs.


Apologies for any confusion - Okular is a very good utility - if you are 
running KDE. I don't know that it's better than other Debian pdf readers 
- it's just the one I use.


Other readers may be able to advise on alternatives if you are not 
running KDE.





These suggestions are very helpful.  I'll try both and forget about the
nook reader.


If the Debian apps/utils do the job, then they'll do it better (IMO).




You might want to check what fonts the pdf requires - it may be it
doesn't use embedded fonts - in which case it will pick from your
system fonts (which is where the "hard to read" bit may come in).

Cheers



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Solved: Re: debmirror starts works stops on error

[Greg Madden]

To be accurate, I haven't figured out specifically the issue. I switched from 
method: ftp to http in debmirror. Possibilities are firewall, ftp 
configuration. 

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 03:27:42 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror & my mirror
> script as a cron job for at least two previous releases. This has stopped
> working with my upgrade to Squeeze.  I have enclosed the part of the output
> cron sends to me.
>
> Not sure if relevant but the dl stops, on a daily basis, on this very large
> package, libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb,  smaller packages,
> up to this point, are okay.
>
>
> [  45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtoctave/qtoctave_0.10.1-2_amd64.deb
> 
> [  45%] Getting: pool/main/q/qtoctave/qtoctave_0.10.1-2_i386.deb
> 
> [  45%] Getting:
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> ###
> snip
> ##
> Unable to close datastream at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1649
>  failed:Opening BINARY mode data connection for
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4-dbg_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb (26711
> 8854 bytes).
> [ 45%] Getting:
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4_2.1.0~2011week13-2_amd64.deb
> #getsockname() on closed socket GEN41 at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/IO/Socket.pm
> line 245.
>  failed:Connection closed at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1655.
> [  45%] Getting:
> pool/main/q/qtwebkit/libqtwebkit4_2.1.0~2011week13-2_i386.deb #
> failed:Connection closed at /usr/bin/
> debmirror line 1655.
>
>
>
> --
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>
> Greg


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Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

[Heddle Weaver]

On 31/08/2011, D G Teed  wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Andrew McGlashan
>>
>>
>> I cannot believe this thread is still going -- it is way beyond funny now
>> it's ludicrous to say the least
>>
>> Your Ethernet device is broken and if it is not broken, then get someone
>> else to fix this problem for you as you are only going around in circles
>> and
>> getting nowhere.
>>
>>
>>
> I should add, your earlier suggestion to boot from a Live CD is a very good
> one.
>
> It would provide a very quick method to determine if the hardware
> or the OS install was faulty.  If the Live CD works to get on the 'net,
> then the notebook hardware is fine and the install/configuration is botched.
>
Yes, I wanted to try this earlier, but had no way to download an iso.

But, as things have turned out, there's no longer a problem.
As the wheezy weekly build netinstall couldn't seem to see the XP
partition on the PC, I was forced to install Debian on the laptop.
I did an expert install and besides not selecting kernel options like
remote install through ssh, I also foregoed ppp and pppd-udeb
installs. Dhcp picked up the router during network detection
automagically and I'm posting this from the laptop on a wheezy install
on a stable, consistent connection.

My humble thanks to all for the time and trouble they've put in.
It has been much appreciated.
Regards,

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Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

[Brian]

On Wed 31 Aug 2011 at 21:39:35 +, Walter Hurry wrote:

> At the risk of butting in, in case it helps. my notes say:
> 
> See 
> and
> 

You are hardly butting in. This is very helpful and should get me to
understand what I am doing. I really should have made more of an effort
to find it. Thank you.


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Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

[Walter Hurry]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:37:10 +0100, Brian wrote:

> On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 21:48:47 +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> 
>> The simplest solution I have found is to override the default
>> consolekit permissions. In the case of suspend and hibernate, these are
>> specified in the file
>> /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy. To override,
>> create a new file in
>> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/, give it a .pkla extension,
>> and add the following content:
>> 
>>  [upower]
>>  Identity=unix-user:*
>>  Action=org.freedesktop.upower.*
>>  ResultAny=yes
>> 
>> With that, I have the freedom to suspend and hibernate when using slim
>> and startx. I have been able to remove gdm3, an important step towards
>> removing all things GNOME-y in wheezy :-)
> 
> This appears to be a very elegant solution and far better than
> downgrading consolekit or altering a file in /etc/pam.d. For a start, it
> gives better granuality and flexibility. It also has the the advantage
> of fitting in better with the existing consolekt/policykit setups, For
> example, I changed the second line to 'Identity=unix-group:powerdev' to
> reflect the usual Debian way of allowing users to access a service.
> 
> Apologies for being a little lazy but is there documentation for the
> stanza you have given above? I'd guess it's something to do with d-bus
> but would not be surprised to be wrong.

At the risk of butting in, in case it helps. my notes say:

See 
and



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Re: missing modules

[owens]

- Original Message -
From: Bob Proulx 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: 8/31/2011 7:48:53 PM
Subject: Re: missing modules


ow...@netptc.net wrote: 
> This is probably an Apache issue but with so much expertise on this 
> list I thought I'd try here first. 

The debian-user list is available for all questions about using 
Debian. This question seems perfectly on topic here. :-) 

> The problem is on my system these modules do not exist (either in 
> mods-available or mods-enabled). 

They should exist. Look for these files: 

/etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf 
/etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load 

Those files are part of the apache2.2-common package which is a 
dependency pulled in by the apache2 package. 

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 

If you wish to verify your installation you might look at the files 
listed in the apache2.2-common package: 

$ dpkg --listfiles apache2.2-common | grep userdir 
/etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load 
/etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf 

You might also try looking at the md5sums associated with the package. 

$ sudo apt-get install debsums 
$ debsums --config apache2.2-common | grep userdir 
/etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load OK 
/etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf OK 

> Googling has found some Apache2 configurations with the modules 
> available and enabled and others with the modules available but not 
> enabled but none with my configuration. 

You mentioned mods-available and mods-enabled but those files should 
be there. But just in case let me walk through the steps for others 
that might be reading along with us. 

$ sudo a2enmod userdir 
$ sudo service apache2 restart 

Your apache configuration file is by default in the 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default file but possibly in another file 
that you configured for it. I like to explicitly configure the 
directory. Because I use a different default and because other 
modules such as the php5 module also modify it. 

Optional configuration: 
 
# Default is simply public_html in $HOME/public_html 
UserDir /srv/www/public_html 
 
YMMV. 

> Any suggestions (I would hate to reinstall Apache2 but if I must I must)? 

Even re-installing apache isn't difficult. It is the apache2.2-common 
module you would want. Make sure you have a backup of your 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default and 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl files which should be the 
only ones from the package that you would configure. 

apt-get install --reinstall apache2.2-common 

Bob 



Bob et al

Thanks for the rapid response.  I have verified that the userdir module is NOT 
in either mods-available NOR mods-enabled on my system.  As per your suggestion 
I reinstalled apache2-common but am left with the same situation (no userdir).  
I viewed the contents of the Debian apache2-common package prior to 
installation and verified that this module IS contained but for some reason it 
is not being transferred with the reinstall.  Do you have any other suggestions 
(other than to reinstall Apache which I plan to do tomorrow)?

Larry

Re: SOLVED: can't get GRUB to install from netinstall cd's - THANKS!

[Brian]

On Wed 31 Aug 2011 at 09:47:53 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:

> So, the netinstall image finally installed Grub, but left me with a very
> minimal system. I had to learn to manually configure the network and
> install the desktop. But I was able to do these things and I am glad I
> did- this way I can start with a fresh un-bloated system and add packages
> as I want them.

You've done brilliantly. The detailed descriptions you gave helped
tremendously.


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Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

[Brian]

On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 21:48:47 +, Liam O'Toole wrote:

> The simplest solution I have found is to override the default consolekit
> permissions. In the case of suspend and hibernate, these are specified
> in the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy.
> To override, create a new file in
> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/, give it a .pkla extension, and
> add the following content:
> 
>   [upower]
>   Identity=unix-user:*
>   Action=org.freedesktop.upower.*
>   ResultAny=yes
> 
> With that, I have the freedom to suspend and hibernate when using slim
> and startx. I have been able to remove gdm3, an important step towards
> removing all things GNOME-y in wheezy :-)

This appears to be a very elegant solution and far better than
downgrading consolekit or altering a file in /etc/pam.d. For a start, it
gives better granuality and flexibility. It also has the the advantage
of fitting in better with the existing consolekt/policykit setups, For
example, I changed the second line to 'Identity=unix-group:powerdev' to 
reflect the usual Debian way of allowing users to access a service.

Apologies for being a little lazy but is there documentation for the
stanza you have given above? I'd guess it's something to do with d-bus
but would not be surprised to be wrong.


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Re: missing modules

[Bob Proulx]

ow...@netptc.net wrote:
> This is probably an Apache issue but with so much expertise on this
> list I thought I'd try here first.

The debian-user list is available for all questions about using
Debian.  This question seems perfectly on topic here.  :-)

> The problem is on my system these modules do not exist (either in
> mods-available or mods-enabled).

They should exist.  Look for these files:

  /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf
  /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load

Those files are part of the apache2.2-common package which is a
dependency pulled in by the apache2 package.

  $ sudo apt-get install apache2

If you wish to verify your installation you might look at the files
listed in the apache2.2-common package:

  $ dpkg --listfiles apache2.2-common | grep userdir
  /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load
  /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf

You might also try looking at the md5sums associated with the package.

  $ sudo apt-get install debsums
  $ debsums --config apache2.2-common | grep userdir
  /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load OK
  /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf OK

> Googling has found some Apache2 configurations with the modules
> available and enabled and others with the modules available but not
> enabled but none with my configuration.

You mentioned mods-available and mods-enabled but those files should
be there.  But just in case let me walk through the steps for others
that might be reading along with us.

  $ sudo a2enmod userdir
  $ sudo service apache2 restart

Your apache configuration file is by default in the
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default file but possibly in another file
that you configured for it.  I like to explicitly configure the
directory.  Because I use a different default and because other
modules such as the php5 module also modify it.

Optional configuration:

# Default is simply public_html in $HOME/public_html
UserDir /srv/www/public_html

YMMV.

> Any suggestions (I would hate to reinstall Apache2 but if I must I must)?

Even re-installing apache isn't difficult.  It is the apache2.2-common
module you would want.  Make sure you have a backup of your
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default and
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl files which should be the
only ones from the package that you would configure.

  apt-get install --reinstall apache2.2-common

Bob


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missing modules

[owens]

List

This is probably an Apache issue but with so much expertise on this list I 
thought I'd try here first.

I am running an up-to date Debian Stable System for my own use as well as a 
central backup (using backuppc and samba) for my family.  I also use the Apache 
home page to keep system info available for the family.  My family now wishes 
me to serve individual web pages for each of them.  I believe this is done by 
configuring the userdir modules within Apache2.  The problem is on my system 
these modules do not exist (either in mods-available or mods-enabled).  
Googling has found some Apache2 configurations with the modules available and 
enabled and others with the modules available but not enabled but none with my 
configuration.  Any suggestions (I would hate to reinstall Apache2 but if I 
must I must)?

Larry

Re: SOLVED: can't get GRUB to install from netinstall cd's - THANKS!

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:47:53 -0700, keitho wrote:

(...)

> Camaleón said: "For GRUB2, you can leave it uninstalled and boot the
> installed system from a LiveCD/LiveUSB or SGD. Once you're in, install
> GRUB2 as usual." I had tried this with no luck. For a beginner,
> installing Grub manually is actually quite complex- I tried several
> different approaches. Do a search on "grub rescue>" and see how many
> problems and solutions are out there...

Very true, it can sound complex but I guess in Debian will be a matter of 
selecting "grub-pc" package and following on-screen instructions, the 
same way you do within the installer. 

Anyway, I'll add that a beginner should not install "testing" flavour but 
"stable", just to avoid such problems :-)

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SOLVED: can't get GRUB to install from netinstall cd's - THANKS!

[keitho]

Thanks so much to all those who took the time to respond to my anguished
plea for help trying to get Wheezy installed from a netinstall cd image
but the install kept failing to install GRUB. Evidently, this is a common
problem with netinstall images.

Thanks to Pelle Carlson,rlharris, David Christensen, Brian, and Camaleón.

Pelle Carlson confirmed for me that at least one of the weekly builds was
working (Aug22) so that I understood I needed to look more closely at 
something I was (or wasn't) doing rather than keep trying different
builds.

rlharris recommended doing a minimal install first, which is pretty much
what I wound up doing.

David Christensen also recommended using the simplest installer. David- I
mostly agree with you about having a small seperate boot partition and may
do that again in the future, but for now it seemed simpler to go with the
recommended "all files in the same partition".

Brian (ad44) who said:
> "in-target: E: Package 'grub-pc' has no installation candidate."
> "grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub-pc' failed"

"This is [a problem]. Returning to the 'Install the base system' step is
an option."

This is probably the key piece of info that I needed to hear. When I would
get to the error message "Debootstrap Warning. WARNING: Failure while
configuring base packages. This will be attempted up to five times" I had
been just ignoring it and giving up. I figured that if it didn't work the
first time it probably wasn't going to work doing it more times. Well, I
was wrong. Forcing it to try again (at this step) in fact did accomplish
loading Grub. It may have helped also that I took other peoples advice and
was in the simplest install menu (many things automated)- not sure.

Brian- also said "Unless there is an overwhelming need to get to testing
from a testing installer you can do a Squeeze install of the base system,
change /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Wheezy and 'apt-get
dist-upgrade'."

This was an option that I had already tried. AFAIK when you install
Squeeze then full-upgrade to Wheezy you are only updating the packages-
NOT the kernel. I needed the 3.0 kernel to fix the problem with my
Thinkpad T520 laptop not resuming from sleep properly and to get other
features (like TRIM for my SSD). I had also for weeks tried compiling a
3.0 Squeeze kernel to no avail as well- choosing kernel compile options is
tricky (for a beginner). At this date, you can't get a 3.0 kernel any way
other than a netinstall or compiling your own kernel (AFAIK).

Camaleón said: "For GRUB2, you can leave it uninstalled and boot the
installed system from a LiveCD/LiveUSB or SGD. Once you're in, install
GRUB2 as usual." I had tried this with no luck. For a beginner, installing
Grub manually is actually quite complex- I tried several different
approaches. Do a search on "grub rescue>" and see how many problems and
solutions are out there...

So, the netinstall image finally installed Grub, but left me with a very
minimal system. I had to learn to manually configure the network and
install the desktop. But I was able to do these things and I am glad I
did- this way I can start with a fresh un-bloated system and add packages
as I want them.

Again, thanks to all.
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Re: mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:54:18 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Camaleón  wrote:

(...)

>> There is a package (gnome-gmail) that automates this, but I see it only
>> available for wheezy/sid.
> 
> It's available to me on my testing (which I guess is wheezy) system.
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I may try it, although I think it's a bug in
> Iceweasel.

Hum... I just have tested on my wheezy and you seem to be right, I get a 
blank page when I set "Gmail" as default app directly in Iceweasel.

It works though if I set it to "ask" and then, when I click on a mailto: 
link I choose to open with "Gmail" and check "[x] remember this...". 
After that "mailto:"; links are opened with Gmail. Weird.

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MTU and Postfix

[Camaleón]

Hello,

I've been busy on these days trying to solve a problem with Postfix that 
drove me nuts.

Sporadically (let's say one in hundred e-mails) my Postfix had problems 
for delivering messages with ~3 MiB of attachment to some e-mail hosts. 
DSN service returned the final notice of delivery to the user and logs 
displayed an error like "timed out while sending message body". 

These hosts were not of those "difficult" ones like Hotmail, Gmail, 
Yahoo! or the like that because to their high volume of traffic implement 
additional (and sometimes strambotic) measures to prevent spam and such 
"anti-all" systems that may require a different transport definiton in 
Postfix to get e-mails delivered. 

Moreover, these hosts were not e-mail servers that are behind Cisco PIX 
devices or using MS Exchange servers that are also well-known to be 
conflictive to "dialogue" with.

Nope, I was having problems for delivering to common, small hosts of mid-
size companies, one of the hosts running a Debian system, like mine. So I 
had to run some tests to find out what could be the problem here.

I first tried to define a less conservative values (by increasing the 
time) for "smtp_data_done_timeout", "smtp_data_xfer_timeout" and 
"smtp_data_init_timeout" but this had no effect at all and again, some e-
mails were still undelivered.

Googling around I found some posts and articles¹ pointing to the MTU 
value (my bonded interface was set by default to 1500) and as I had 
nothing to lose, I changed this and lowered to 1400.

This turned out to work wonders and since then (that's more than a week 
ago) I still had no other DSN delivery errors. Besides, e-mails in 
deferred queue that could not be sent in that time, after lowering the 
MTU value were also delivered with no apparent problems.

I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such 
errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering MTU "system-wide"?

The server has dual gigabit NIC which are bonded (in backup mode) and 
server itself is behind a FTTH gigabit router. The server also hosts a 
web server.

Any comments or experiences on this are welcome :-)

¹http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/cours/postfix/doc/faq.html#timeouts

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Re: mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:31:41 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>
>> Although I have mailto set to use Gmail in the Preferences, nothing
>> happens when I click on a mailto link.  Any ideas?
>
> What's your DE? GNOME?

It is GNOME, but Iceweasel/Firefox has always handled mailto links
natively in the past.  And it shows every appearance of doing that
now, as the Preferences/Applications page has an option to choose
Gmail to handle mailto links; it's just not working as it should.

>
> I would check if the url handler is set it right in Gconf:
>
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto

That's set to evolution which I never use.  (And which is not invoked
for mailto links in Iceweasel.)

>
> Are you using a custom script to launch Gmail? Does it work when you set
> another e-mail clients (like Icedove, Evolution or mailx/mutt...)?

Iceweasel's application details says the mailto link points to gmail
on the web as one would expect.

>
> There is a package (gnome-gmail) that automates this, but I see it only
> available for wheezy/sid.

It's available to me on my testing (which I guess is wheezy) system.
Thanks for the suggestion.  I may try it, although I think it's a bug
in Iceweasel.

Patrick


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Re: Rsync fails on copying large file [SOLVED]

[Alan Chandler]

On 31/08/11 12:29, Alan Chandler wrote:


After several failed attempts I replaced the :: method with a single
colon one (ie uses ssh) and it works perfectly.

So either there is a setting I need in rsyncd.conf or there is a bug in
this form of the protocol?


It turns out to be a timeout problem in rsyncd.conf I had set a timeout 
of 10 minutes on the daemon, and it turns out not to have been long enough.


I increased it to 30 minutes, and my copy now completes OK.

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Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

[Thomas H. George]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 31/08/11 06:06, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >I have a pdf text which is hard to read.  It occurred to me to try
> >installing the Nook reader to see if it would improve visibility.  The
> >Barnes&  Noble web site has downloads for Windows, Mac, iPads and
> >Android tablets and phones.  I downloaded the Windows version and
> >installed it with Wine but have not got it working correctly as yet.
> >
> >Has anybody already done this?
> >
> >
> 
> Yes - waste of time (IMNSHO).
> Installing Linux *on* a Nook is a good idea though ;-p

I have yet to purchase a tablet as I have two desktops and generally
work from home.  When I get one I will certainly try to install Debian.
>
> Seriously - Calibre is (much) better for general e-book reading and
> management. Okular is better for plain pdfs.
>
These suggestions are very helpful.  I'll try both and forget about the
nook reader.

> You might want to check what fonts the pdf requires - it may be it
> doesn't use embedded fonts - in which case it will pick from your
> system fonts (which is where the "hard to read" bit may come in).
> 
> Cheers
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Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

[Isaac Freeman]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm looking to set up a PXE server. The
permissions on the directory provided to atftpd are 777 as specified in the
usage. I don't see how host.{allow,deny} make any difference with whether
or not the server starts. I'll give tftp-hpa a try, and I'll look in to
gpxe.

Thanks,

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From:   Scott Ferguson 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Isaac Freeman/Raleigh/Contr/IBM@IBMUS
Date:   08/30/2011 07:28 AM
Subject:Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything



On 24/08/11 01:24, Isaac Freeman wrote:
> I have been beating my head against the wall on this for a day and a
> half. I just installed atftpd (0.7.dfsg-9.1) on Squeeze. When I first
> installed it, it wouldn't take connections through the default inetd
> stuff. So I tried editing /etc/default/atftpd and setting
> USE_INETD=false and running it as a daemon. Still nothing. So I tried
> manually running /usr/sbin/atftpd, and no matter what options I give it
> (including none) it just prints the usage and exits, unless I specify
> --daemon and/or --no-fork in which case it just exits with an exit code
> 0 and there is no process running or anything listening on that port.
>
> Please, any ideas, reports or similar (or even different) behavior, or
> any thing else would be greatly appreciated. This is driving me crazy.
> And I can't seem to find any recent howtos on the subject, they all seem
> to be several years old, or they say basically "apt-get it, and it
> should work".
>
> Also, I tried getting tftpd-hpa working too with similar problems, but I
> haven't done as extensive of troubleshooting on that.
>
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> is...@us.ibm.com
> 919-254-0245
>

I've only ever used tftp for pxe servers - deprecated with gpxe (http is
much faster and simpler) - if that's what you want to use tftp for
you'll find tftpd-hpa much simpler to configure.

What permissions do you have on the directory being served??

Have you set up:-
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
??

If you can tell me a little more about what you want to use tftp for
more it may be helpful.

Cheers

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Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

[Darac Marjal]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:39:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. I'm not shure whether
> are they really needed?
> 
> How can I know which modules I don't need so I can have those
> blacklisted? 

Generally speaking, the kernel only loads modules it needs. Typical
methods for this include udev discovering hardware (so the kernel loads
the driver for it) or modules or user-space software depending on other
modules (such as how the wireless system depends on some of the hashing
modules).

So, in a normal system, the modules are loaded because they are needed.
(The corollary to this is that when modules are not needed, such as
removing a device, they are unloaded).

Blacklisting is usually only needed if you have a broken modules or
there are two modules that service your needs and you need to use the
other one (for example, a USB device might be detected as needed
cdc-ether, but you know that actually it doesn't, so you blacklist
cdc-ether).

As Debian's stock kernel is designed for maximum flexibility, having a
couple of hundred modules loaded is not unexpected.

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Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:39:41 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:

> I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. 

How many, how many? :-)

sm01@stt008:~$ lsmod| wc -l
67

> I'm not shure whether are they really needed?

Some modules are automatically loaded on demand or as a requirement for 
another module.

> How can I know which modules I don't need so I can have those
> blacklisted?

Hard to tell... but if they are loaded there must be a good reason for 
it :-?

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Re: Eclipse-pydev: how?

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:42:18 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:

> I am new to eclipse and have installed eclipse and eclipse-pydev.  How
> do I get eclipse to use this plugin without referring it to the
> pydev-site?
> 
> I did not see any documentation with eclipse-pydev on how to get eclipse
> to use this package?
> 
> Efforts to convince eclipse to use the stuff in /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins
> were not successful.

Hum... not sure if you referring to this:

http://pydev.org/manual_101_install.html#installing-with-the-zip-file

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Re: Serial port with Lenny

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:07:56 +0200, alex.padoly wrote:

>  How I can know if the serial port is active, gphoto2 doent find my
>  camera (OLYMPUS C-2000Z), this camera is supported by ghphoto2.

Hum... check if it is listed:

dmesg | grep -i tty

And then review gphoto's FAQ:

http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/FAQ.html#FAQ-camera-support

Remember that some cameras need to be configured as PTP devices in order 
to work.

If anything fails, you may still able to remove the card and use an 
external card reader :-?

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Re: Serial port with Lenny

[Ivan Shmakov]

> alex padoly  writes:

 > How I can know if the serial port is active, gphoto2 doent find my
 > camera (OLYMPUS C-2000Z), this camera is supported by ghphoto2.

Use statserial(8) to monitor the serial port state in real time.
Try connecting and disconnecting the device to (from) the port.
Watch if anything changes.

If it doesn't, it may be either that the cable or the port (or
both) are inoperational, or it was a wrong port.  (It was quite
typical for a machine to have two serial ports not so long ago.)

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Re: Audio problem on G62-B70SP

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:03:49 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Camaleón  wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:41:07 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote:

(...)

>> > Have anyone experienced this before?
>>
>> Hum... there is a bug opened for that exact device:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611666
>>
>>
> Hello there.
> 
> Well, I have solved the problem by installing Realtek's official driver.
> It can be found here:
> http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
> 
> Also, I had read that upgrading ALSA packages' versions would solve the
> problem, but this wasn't tried.

Yep, it seems its a relative new sound card chipset that needs updated 
drivers in order to work (by means of a new alsa version or as you did, by 
directly fetching the drivers from Realtek). 

You can add your findings to the bug report so people having this problem 
can be aware of this.

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Re: Package removal dependencies

[Scott Ferguson]

On 01/09/11 00:00, Bruno Martins wrote:

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Scott Ferguson
mailto:prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com>> wrote:





Hello mate.

Thanks for your quick response.

So, to avoid this dependency "problems" in the future, I should make a
clean installation of Debian, without GNOME, and then install the GNOME
packages, like 'gnome-desktop-environment', etc?


That's the method I use - there are probably others. It's also 
instructive to look at what other distros do and implement it in Debian.


I install just a minimal debian (no x) - then I strip out all the things 
I don't want, then add things like deborphan and localepurge, then the 
login manager, etc, etc,


It can be a bit fiddly but it's worth it - and:-
dpkg --get-selections > selections
will give you a useful list of packages when you're done.

I don't use gnome so I can't give you much help - but (probably):-
# apt-get -s install gdm gnome-core | more
will get you started on a base gnome.


Use the -s parameter before installing or removing
pipe the output to an aptly named file in root (the recommended and 
suggested can be very useful)

do a:-
# dpkg --get-selections > /root/original_meta_gnome_selections
first so that if something important, but unknown, is missing you can 
track it down.


http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome
will also be a useful guide.

You can use slim instead of gdm if you want.

Lighter is faster is easier to maintain.

You might learn something about Debian, and you *will* learn something 
about yourself ;-p






This should make it easier to install only what's needed.

Best regards,

Bruno Martins


I hope so - I think the power of Debian is wasted when the hitting Enter 
is substituted for configuration and choice. We call it the "chicken 
install" - glue bread to Enter key, strap chicken to desk, install. :-)


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Serial port with Lenny

[alex . padoly]

Hi,

 How I can know if the serial port is active, gphoto2 doent find my camera 
(OLYMPUS C-2000Z), this camera is supported by ghphoto2.

 Thanks you.
 Regards.

 Alex PADOLY

Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:54:18 -0700, keitho wrote:

> For the last several days I have been attempting to install Wheezy from
> one of the daily builds. I have tried four different builds (different
> days)- and they all fail in the same two spots- they won't recognize my
> removable medium (usb thumbdrive) so that I can install firmware, and,
> more importantly, they fail to install Grub.

(...)

Installer for the testing branch are prone to this kind of errors.

For GRUB2, you can leave it uninstalled and boot the installed system 
from a LiveCD/LiveUSB or SGD. Once you're in, install GRUB2 as usual.

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Re: Package removal dependencies

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:02:39 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote:

> Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the
> evolution package.

(...)

This topic comes from time to time :-)

http://www.google.es/search?q=Form+wizard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy&hl=es&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=debian+evolution+remove&pbx=1&oq=debian+evolution+remove&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=d&gs_upl=4029l6359l3l6397l15l8l0l0l0l4l233l1268l1.4.3l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=f09d92834ac5c087&biw=1280&bih=888

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Re: Audio problem on G62-B70SP

[Bruno Martins]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Camaleón  wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:41:07 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote:
>
> > I am running Debian Squeeze on the following notebook:
> >
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02511383&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4315442
> >
> > I can hear no sound from the speakers, but it plays well if I plug in
> > any headphones on it. Still, no sound on the speakers.
> >
> > Some command-line information about the system and the sound card can be
> > found here:
> > http://pastebin.com/62m5ESgF
> >
> > Have anyone experienced this before?
>
> Hum... there is a bug opened for that exact device:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611666
>
> Greetings,
>
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Hello there.

Well, I have solved the problem by installing Realtek's official driver. It
can be found here:
http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Also, I had read that upgrading ALSA packages' versions would solve the
problem, but this wasn't tried.

Sincerely,

Bruno Martins

Re: Package removal dependencies

[Bruno Martins]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Scott Ferguson <
prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31/08/11 21:02, Bruno Martins wrote:
>
>> Hello guys.
>>
>> Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the
>> evolution package.
>>
>> root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove evolution
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree��
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> required:
>>
>
> 
>
>
>  sound-juicer libmusicbrainz3-6
>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>>
>
> Don't worry about the autoremove stuff (unless you actually want to remove
> those packages - they'll still function)
>
>
>  The following packages will be REMOVED:
>> � evolution evolution-exchange gnome gnome-accessibility gnome-core
>> gnome-desktop-environment
>>
>
> gnome is a meta package that pulls in evolution - which is why removing
> evolution removes gnome(meta-gnome-2).
>
> I'd go ahead with the removal - but I'd log out of the desktop first and
> use a console login from gdm as root.
>
> I'm assuming that your original packages are still in
> /var/cache/apt/archives
>
> After:-
> # apt-get remove evolution
> # apt-get -s install gnome-desktop-environment | less
> and make sure gnome-core is going to be installed - add in
> gnome-accessibility if you want. If everything looks ok and evolution is not
> being reinstalled remove the -s and run the install. You might want to add
> your desired mua to the start of the list of packages being installed
> (before gnome-desktop-environment).
>
> Also consider:-
> # apt-get -s remove evolution > /root/remove_evolution
> so that you've got a reference in case you have problems building your
> custom gnome.
> This will show you dependencies and suggested packages:-
> http://packages.debian.org/**squeeze/gnome
>
> 
>
>
>
>> This doesn't happen on Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu,
>> neither in Fedora.
>>
>
> apropos of what? (and you are mistaken about Ubuntu)
>
>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Bruno Martins
>>
>
>
> Cheers
>
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Hello mate.

Thanks for your quick response.

So, to avoid this dependency "problems" in the future, I should make a clean
installation of Debian, without GNOME, and then install the GNOME packages,
like 'gnome-desktop-environment', etc?

This should make it easier to install only what's needed.

Best regards,

Bruno Martins

How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

[Csanyi Pal]

Hi,

I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. I'm not shure whether
are they really needed?

How can I know which modules I don't need so I can have those
blacklisted? 

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Re: Problems updating security update packages.

[Scott Ferguson]

On 31/08/11 22:43, Luis Suzuki wrote:

For several weeks below is the warning I receive when I do apt-get update.

Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
Fetched 836 B in 0s (1,201 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release: The
following signatures were invalid:
BADSIG AED4B06F473041FA Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key
(6.0/squeeze) 

What is the problem with the debian repositories?



NOTE: there's a shorter way to do this using gpg(?) - I just can't 
remember it (bad, bad strigi)


Try:-
# apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.debian.org --recv-keys

should give you:-
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring 
--secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name 
/etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring 
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.debian.org --recv-keys


then:-
# apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.debian.org --recv-keys AED4B06F473041FA

As to what the problem is (I'm not certain) try:-
# apt-get update
# apt-get -s upgrade | less

If you have an upgrade sitting there waiting for you that's the 
problems, so:-

# apt-get upgrade

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Problems updating security update packages.

[Luis Suzuki]

For several weeks below is  the warning I receive when I do apt-get update.
Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]Ign 
http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-enIgn 
http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_USHit 
http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates ReleaseIgn 
http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates ReleaseIgn 
http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages/DiffIndexHit 
http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 PackagesFetched 836 B in 
0s (1,201 B/s)Reading package lists... DoneW: GPG error: 
http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release: The following signatures 
were invalid: BADSIG AED4B06F473041FA Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key 
(6.0/squeeze) 
What is the problem with the debian repositories?
  

Re: error from Klamav

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 31/08/11 12:17, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 31/08/11 19:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

Thanks for your help, Scott.

On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows:







Yeah, it seems to work OK, always did; even found some MyDoom, and
quarantined it, so I'm not too worried. Thanks for looking.

Cheers,



Glad it's working for you.

The "QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV "" message is just
another broken/undocumented feature in Klamav - nothing to do with a
cron job.


I'm thinking that KlamAV really doesn't deserve to be in Debian Stable!
About time to abandon it!


I thought dcop was deprecated in KDE4, so how come dbus isn't being
used? hmmm :-/

It lead to me reading the clamav documentation and discovering clampipe.
So I now have something else to add to my to-do-when-I-get-time list -
enable clamav scanning of Icedove emails! Then I'll be able to add an
email signature "this email has been scanned with ClamAV". It will make
recipients feel much safer (which is good, right?) :-D


I've always felt messages like that to be the extreme in irony. If I 
wanted to add malware to a mail, I'd also add such a message, just to 
make it more attractive!



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Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:08:03 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> > Editing xorg.conf requires an X-server restart after each setup
>> > change, which is ridiculous.
>> 
>> Why ridiculous? :-?
>> 
>> Xorg is running and you need it to re-read the configuration file again
>> like any other service :-)

> Sorry, I should have boon more clear: It is of course not ridiculous
> that re- reading the config file takes an X server restart. It is
> however ridiculous that changing the monitor setup requires an X server
> restart, so the config file is the wrong place for that.

Ah, okay, I know what you meant. Yes, and that's why Xorg has turned more 
plug&play (but you know... plu&play does not always work as it should, 
and not only for Xorg :-P).

>> > The driver is not the issue though, xrandr works the way it is
>> > supposed to, as far as I can tell. I just want to take some action
>> > when a monitor is connected, which xrandr does detect, it just does
>> > not tell me. That's all :D
>> 
>> I already gave you some hints... krandtray is one option (GUI based)
>> and you can always make your own script to run a set of xrandr commands
>> with just one-click.

> Sure, and I did exactly that (the script) and it is working. It's just
> that I have to call it manually after plugging in the external monitor,
> it'd be better/nicer/cooler if that happened automatically. 

I agree, there could be "profiles" (which holds the settings for added 
monitors, like resolution and screen position) that have been previosuly 
saved by the user and as soon as you connect an additional display, the 
DE should ask you to apply for such profiles and apply them accordingly.

> krandrtray is broken in various ways since testing is still on KDE 4.6,
> see http://www.afiestas.org/display-configuration-in-kde-workspace-4-7-1/

Hmmm, that's a pity (but a matter of time it gets working again ;-(

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Re: Audio problem on G62-B70SP

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:41:07 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote:

> I am running Debian Squeeze on the following notebook:
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02511383&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4315442
> 
> I can hear no sound from the speakers, but it plays well if I plug in
> any headphones on it. Still, no sound on the speakers.
> 
> Some command-line information about the system and the sound card can be
> found here:
> http://pastebin.com/62m5ESgF
> 
> Have anyone experienced this before?

Hum... there is a bug opened for that exact device:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611666

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Re: Package removal dependencies

[Scott Ferguson]

On 31/08/11 21:02, Bruno Martins wrote:

Hello guys.

Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the
evolution package.

root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove evolution
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree��
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:





sound-juicer libmusicbrainz3-6
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.


Don't worry about the autoremove stuff (unless you actually want to 
remove those packages - they'll still function)



The following packages will be REMOVED:
� evolution evolution-exchange gnome gnome-accessibility gnome-core
gnome-desktop-environment


gnome is a meta package that pulls in evolution - which is why removing 
evolution removes gnome(meta-gnome-2).


I'd go ahead with the removal - but I'd log out of the desktop first and 
use a console login from gdm as root.


I'm assuming that your original packages are still in 
/var/cache/apt/archives


After:-
# apt-get remove evolution
# apt-get -s install gnome-desktop-environment | less
and make sure gnome-core is going to be installed - add in 
gnome-accessibility if you want. If everything looks ok and evolution is 
not being reinstalled remove the -s and run the install. You might want 
to add your desired mua to the start of the list of packages being 
installed (before gnome-desktop-environment).


Also consider:-
# apt-get -s remove evolution > /root/remove_evolution
so that you've got a reference in case you have problems building your 
custom gnome.

This will show you dependencies and suggested packages:-
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome





This doesn't happen on Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu,
neither in Fedora.


apropos of what? (and you are mistaken about Ubuntu)



Best regards,

Bruno Martins



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Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

[Brian]

On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 18:54:18 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:

> For the last several days I have been attempting to install Wheezy from
> one of the daily builds. I have tried four different builds (different
> days)- and they all fail in the same two spots- they won't recognize my
> removable medium (usb thumbdrive) so that I can install firmware, and,
> more importantly, they fail to install Grub.
> 
> I have no problem doing an install from a Debian Squeeze install disc I
> have (6.0.1a).

Unless there is an overwhelming need to get to testing from a testing
installer you can do a Squeeze install of the base system, change
/etc/apt/sources.list to point to Wheezy and 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.


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Re: mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:31:41 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

> Although I have mailto set to use Gmail in the Preferences, nothing
> happens when I click on a mailto link.  Any ideas?

What's your DE? GNOME?

I would check if the url handler is set it right in Gconf:

/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto

Are you using a custom script to launch Gmail? Does it work when you set  
another e-mail clients (like Icedove, Evolution or mailx/mutt...)?

There is a package (gnome-gmail) that automates this, but I see it only 
available for wheezy/sid.

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Re: [OT] SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

[Scott Ferguson]

On 31/08/11 20:08, Lisi wrote:

On Wednesday 31 August 2011 06:54:11 Scott Ferguson wrote:

There is no
compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to
stay on
Lenny


KDE 3.5.10.


Actually ^^ Lisi(?) that's not a restriction - it can be be run on
Squeeze


How?

:-) :-D

Well... it's not easy, and probably not sane. Leave it with me for a bit 
and I'll dig through my notes and try and write a useful guide.





and then there's Trinity.


I know.  I have a Squeeze box running Trinity, but not my desktop.  Trinity is
not yet *completely* production ready, if, like me, you cannot code yourself
out of trouble.


I've had it in production of some Asus Eee PC 701SDs for about 6 months 
now - no complaints from the users. The only problem I had was that 
Konqueror doesn't automatically refresh. In the mean time I've become 
very happy with KDE4 (mostly).




It's already great for many purposes, and I was glad to see the change of
policy from "bring a new version out every six months, willy nilly" so that
problems never really had time to be solved and everything was released at
the beta or even alpha stage (à la Ubuntu (is Ubuntu feminine?) - Timothy
Pearson is a Ubuntu user) to "not released until it is ready".


De-coupling from Ubuntu can only be a good thing. The reason people want 
Trinity is stability.




It is a marvellous project and I follow its progress eagerly.  I am really
grateful for the time and trouble of those in it who are able to code.  I
would already use it for some of the people whom I support, whose usage is
different from mine.  But there are one or two GUI apps that I sometimes use
as root, and most can not be used as root in Trinity.

If necessary, I shall just have to live without them if that is still the
situation when support for Lenny is withdrawn.  But I have a few months yet,
and I was intending to raise this issue on the Trinity users list in the near
future.

Lisi




Agreed that it's a great project (worthy of a donation).
More proof that Open Source is a great development model.

I suspect support for Lenny will run for a long time yet - and for many 
purposes a separate firewall will provide security if and when patching 
stops (I've heard Sarge is still used on some dedicated devices - and 
gets patches from the manufacturers).


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Re: Rsync fails on copying large file

[Alan Chandler]

On 30/08/11 09:56, Alan Chandler wrote:

I use Rsync between two of my machines to facilitate regular backups. In
the case I have a problem with I am attempting to copy a file using the
double colon (::) method to talk to the rsync daemon on the receiving end.

I have been having regular failures of this backup and have traced it
down to copying a 60Gb .vdi (Virtual Box virtual disk image). The manual
command, and error I received when I just tried it was...


rsync Windows\ 7\ Development\ Environment.vdi
owl::alan/backup/"VirtualBox VMs"/"Windows 7 Development Environment"/
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (2966704 bytes received so far)
[sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601)
[sender=3.0.8]


After several failed attempts I replaced the :: method with a single 
colon one (ie uses ssh) and it works perfectly.


So either there is a setting I need in rsyncd.conf or there is a bug in 
this form of the protocol?



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Re: error from Klamav

[Scott Ferguson]

On 31/08/11 19:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

Thanks for your help, Scott.

On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows:







Yeah, it seems to work OK, always did; even found some MyDoom, and
quarantined it, so I'm not too worried. Thanks for looking.

Cheers,



Glad it's working for you.

The "QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV "" message is just 
another broken/undocumented feature in Klamav - nothing to do with a 
cron job.


I thought dcop was deprecated in KDE4, so how come dbus isn't being 
used? hmmm :-/


It lead to me reading the clamav documentation and discovering clampipe. 
So I now have something else to add to my to-do-when-I-get-time list - 
enable clamav scanning of Icedove emails! Then I'll be able to add an 
email signature  "this email has been scanned with ClamAV". It will make 
recipients feel much safer (which is good, right?) :-D


Cheers

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Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

[Brian]

On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 18:54:18 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:

> "grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-legacy
> which isn't installed."

Not a problem.

> "in-target: E: Package 'grub-pc' has no installation candidate."
> "grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub-pc' failed"

This is. Returning to the 'Install the base system' step is an option.


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Package removal dependencies

[Bruno Martins]

Hello guys.

Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the
evolution package.

root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove evolution
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil python-crypto mono-2.0-gac python-tagpy
geoclue-localnet mesa-utils
  libepc-ui-1.0-2 python-pyasn1 geoclue tomboy python-twisted-core espeak
ekiga python-opengl
  python-gst0.10 libmtp8 rpm2cpio libnm-glib-vpn1 gcalctool
freedesktop-sound-theme
  telepathy-salut gnuchess-book gnome-nettool gnome-games-extra-data
libepc-1.0-2
  libgnomepanel2.24-cil libgail-gnome-module libglade2.0-cil baobab
libtelepathy-glib0
  python-mako libportaudio2 mobile-broadband-provider-info
python-zope.interface libglib2.0-cil
  obex-data-server libsrtp0 libgnome-mag2 tcptraceroute gucharmap
network-manager
  python-clientform libdiscid0 gnome-games cheese gnome-session-canberra
gdebi libgconf2.0-cil
  python-twisted-web gnome-bluetooth libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
python-aptdaemon-gtk
  update-manager-core gnome-codec-install python-aptdaemon gnome-cards-data
liferea-data
  totem-plugins cli-common gnome-mag gnome-screensaver gnome-themes-more
rhythmbox
  libgstfarsight0.10-0 gnome-screenshot python-gdata gedit libnm-util1
liblircclient0
  xdg-user-dirs-gtk libgexiv2-0 python-gtksourceview2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf
gnome-office
  apache2.2-bin update-manager-gnome cheese-common python-gtkglext1
libpcap0.8 libart2.0-cil
  epiphany-extensions librpmio1 libapr1 gnome-themes update-notifier-common
librpm1 seahorse
  rpm-common remmina-plugin-rdp empathy gdebi-core totem-common
libaprutil1-ldap gvfs-bin
  update-notifier python-mechanize libgnome2.24-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil
seahorse-plugins
  libgpod4 bluez libgeoclue0 remmina-plugin-vnc xdg-user-dirs
libmono-cairo2.0-cil
  python-utidylib gnome-user-share nautilus-sendto-empathy libgalago3
gedit-plugins
  libtelepathy-farsight0 network-manager-gnome totem-coherence libpcsclite1
libgnome-bluetooth7
  dasher python-configobj gconf-defaults-service guile-1.8-libs shotwell
dnsmasq-base
  python-serial python-beautifulsoup gedit-common gnome-themes-extras
libgmime2.4-cil
  software-center libopal3.6.8 python-pam python-openssl libelf1
libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil
  libgssdp-1.0-2 libcryptui0 libbrlapi0.5 libgdu-gtk0 simple-scan
libtidy-0.99-0
  libmono-addins0.2-cil remmina-plugin-data gnome-orca python-markupsafe
python-pyatspi libgee2
  python-webkit libmono-posix2.0-cil rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
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  mousetweaks aptdaemon usb-modeswitch-data python-nevow gnome-games-data
media-player-info
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  libcheese-gtk18 libnl1 dmz-cursor-theme python-evolution liblua5.1-0
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  libnice0 totem gnome-accessibility-themes binfmt-support liblouis-data
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  libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libavahi-ui0 transmission-common libaprutil1
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Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
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0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 11.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

This doesn't happen on Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu, neither in
Fedora.

Best regards,

Bruno Martins

Eclipse-pydev: how?

[Johann Spies]

I am new to eclipse and have installed eclipse and eclipse-pydev.  How
do I get eclipse to use this plugin without referring it to the
pydev-site?  

I did not see any documentation with eclipse-pydev on how to get eclipse
to use this package?

Efforts to convince eclipse to use the stuff in /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins
were not successful.

Regards
Johann
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Universiteit Stellenbosch.

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Re: [OT] SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 31 August 2011 06:54:11 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > There is no
> > compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to
> > stay on
> > Lenny
> 
>  KDE 3.5.10.
>
> Actually ^^ Lisi(?) that's not a restriction - it can be be run on
> Squeeze

How?  

> and then there's Trinity. 

I know.  I have a Squeeze box running Trinity, but not my desktop.  Trinity is 
not yet *completely* production ready, if, like me, you cannot code yourself 
out of trouble.

It's already great for many purposes, and I was glad to see the change of 
policy from "bring a new version out every six months, willy nilly" so that 
problems never really had time to be solved and everything was released at 
the beta or even alpha stage (à la Ubuntu (is Ubuntu feminine?) - Timothy 
Pearson is a Ubuntu user) to "not released until it is ready".

It is a marvellous project and I follow its progress eagerly.  I am really 
grateful for the time and trouble of those in it who are able to code.  I 
would already use it for some of the people whom I support, whose usage is 
different from mine.  But there are one or two GUI apps that I sometimes use 
as root, and most can not be used as root in Trinity.

If necessary, I shall just have to live without them if that is still the 
situation when support for Lenny is withdrawn.  But I have a few months yet, 
and I was intending to raise this issue on the Trinity users list in the near 
future.

Lisi


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Re: error from Klamav

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

Thanks for your help, Scott.

On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows:

From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon)
To: t...@tony-lx.xxx
Subject: Cron 
/home/tony/.klamav/ScanWithKlamav_170811104108.sh '/home/tony/'
[...]
cat: /home//.DCOPserver_tony-lx_:0: No such file or directory
call failed
QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV ", which already has a
layout


Does anyone have any clues to what this means, and more importantly,
how
to fix it?


[snips]



Therefore it appears that (on Linux at least) the KlamAV script should
be using $LOGNAME rather than $USER. I'll amend that, and report back
tomorrow, after the next cron run at 0600.

If it succeeds, and no-one here has alternative suggestions, I'll raise
a bug.


Well, that partially solved the problem. It got rid of "no such file or
directory" error, but I am still left with

call failed
QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV ", which already has a layout

Now I'm stuck for an idea...



Sorry that didn't solve all the problems - I'll have another look at the
script later this evening - I only had a quick glance last night.


Did it do a scan?

If not:-
Does update work OK? (/var/log/klamav/freshclam.log)
If update (freshclam) hasn't been working then a scan won't either:-
# chmod 777 /var/lib/klamav
also make sure you a member of clamav:-
$ groups | grep clamav



Yeah, it seems to work OK, always did; even found some MyDoom, and 
quarantined it, so I'm not too worried. Thanks for looking.


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Re: error from Klamav

[Scott Ferguson]

On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

Thanks for your help, Scott.

On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows:

From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon)
To: t...@tony-lx.xxx
Subject: Cron 
/home/tony/.klamav/ScanWithKlamav_170811104108.sh '/home/tony/'
[...]
cat: /home//.DCOPserver_tony-lx_:0: No such file or directory
call failed
QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV ", which already has a
layout


Does anyone have any clues to what this means, and more importantly,
how
to fix it?


[snips]



Therefore it appears that (on Linux at least) the KlamAV script should
be using $LOGNAME rather than $USER. I'll amend that, and report back
tomorrow, after the next cron run at 0600.

If it succeeds, and no-one here has alternative suggestions, I'll raise
a bug.


Well, that partially solved the problem. It got rid of "no such file or
directory" error, but I am still left with

call failed
QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV ", which already has a layout

Now I'm stuck for an idea...



Sorry that didn't solve all the problems - I'll have another look at the 
script later this evening - I only had a quick glance last night.



Did it do a scan?

If not:-
Does update work OK? (/var/log/klamav/freshclam.log)
If update (freshclam) hasn't been working then a scan won't either:-
# chmod 777 /var/lib/klamav
also make sure you a member of clamav:-
$ groups | grep clamav


Cheers

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Re: Pixel garbage when opening context menus

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

I don't have another VGA card available, but as I said this is already 
happening on two (counting Steve, three) completely independent machines, so 
I'd say we can rule the hardware out ;-)
Indeed I can not see the garbage in Firefox, but I will have to test again 
when the system is under load.

I am not surprised that a Ubuntu LiveCD does not show the issue, it was not 
present when I used Kubuntu as my main system either.

Thanks for opening a bugreport, I'll subscribe to it!

Kind regards,
Ralf

On Tuesday 30 August 2011 22:15:48 Steve B wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 August 2011 19:13:40 Camaleón wrote:
> > Have you both considered in opening a bug report at Debian BTS for
> > this? :-?
> 
> I checked if a bug report had already been filed in the Debian or KDE BTS.
> I found nothing therefore opened this one :
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639845
> 
> I filed the bug report against kde-window-manager (KWin) but it could be Qt
> or another.
> 
> Please feel free, Ralf or anybody, to complete my description.
> 
> --
> Steve


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Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

> > Editing xorg.conf requires an X-server restart after each setup change,
> > which is ridiculous.
> 
> Why ridiculous? :-?
> 
> Xorg is running and you need it to re-read the configuration file again
> like any other service :-)
Sorry, I should have boon more clear: It is of course not ridiculous that re-
reading the config file takes an X server restart. It is however ridiculous 
that 
changing the monitor setup requires an X server restart, so the config file is 
the wrong place for that.


> > The driver is not the issue though, xrandr works the way it is supposed
> > to, as far as I can tell. I just want to take some action when a monitor
> > is connected, which xrandr does detect, it just does not tell me. That's
> > all :D
> 
> I already gave you some hints... krandtray is one option (GUI based) and
> you can always make your own script to run a set of xrandr commands with
> just one-click.
Sure, and I did exactly that (the script) and it is working. It's just that I 
have to call it manually after plugging in the external monitor, it'd be 
better/nicer/cooler if that happened automatically.
krandrtray is broken in various ways since testing is still on KDE 4.6, see
http://www.afiestas.org/display-configuration-in-kde-workspace-4-7-1/

Kind regards,
Ralf


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Re: Building the kernel myself

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

thanks for that very informative link.
I can confirm however that with current Debian testing, "make deb-pkg" works 
like a charm. It is a good idea to disable debug symbols though 
(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO) to keep the size of the modules reasonably.

Kind regards,
Ralf

On Saturday 27 August 2011 17:57:00 Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:18:10 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Jung wrote:
> > I am trying to build the linux kernel myself... it's one of the things I
> > always wanted to do ;-) plus I submitted some bugerports against the
> > kernel and would like to test the patches there were written to fix
> > them.
> 
> I am in a hurry to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more
> thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at
> 
>http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm


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Re: error from Klamav

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

Thanks for your help, Scott.

On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows:

From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon)
To: t...@tony-lx.xxx
Subject: Cron 
/home/tony/.klamav/ScanWithKlamav_170811104108.sh '/home/tony/'
[...]
cat: /home//.DCOPserver_tony-lx_:0: No such file or directory
call failed
QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV ", which already has a
layout


Does anyone have any clues to what this means, and more importantly,
how
to fix it?


[snips]



Therefore it appears that (on Linux at least) the KlamAV script should
be using $LOGNAME rather than $USER. I'll amend that, and report back
tomorrow, after the next cron run at 0600.

If it succeeds, and no-one here has alternative suggestions, I'll raise
a bug.

Well, that partially solved the problem. It got rid of "no such file or 
directory" error, but I am still left with


call failed
QLayout "unnamed" added to Klamav "KlamAV ", which already has a layout

Now I'm stuck for an idea...

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Re: /dev/xen/evtchn disappears, HVM fails, xen 4.0.1-1 Debian Squeeze

[Erik Hjelmås]

This problem still exists for me, I still have to downgrade to run kernel

linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64_2.6.32-18_amd64.deb (from july 2010)

for it to work.

The discussion not leading to a solution can be found here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-09/msg00488.html

In other words, most recent kernel in Debian stable does not work as a Dom0
kernel for me!

I have to go "in production" by the end of next week and it would feel much
better to use a more recent Dom0 kernel :)

/Erik

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

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

31/08/2011 02:37, Todd Pytel wrote:
> After doing a rather lengthy sid upgrade (it's been a few months, at
> least), my Sun java plugin is no longer working in Iceweasel.
> Alternatives is set correctly and Iceweasel sees the plugin, but it's
> marked INVALID in pluginreg.dat and never loads. I Googled around a bit
> and it seems like Firefox 6 and the v6u26 Sun Java package are supposed
> to work OK, but it's hard to tell for sure given the many platform and
> distribution differences. Any ideas? If this is just the current state
> of affairs on Sid, is there another Java plugin that's functional? I
> tried the icedtea one, but it seemed to have a dependency issue with
> xulrunner that prevented installation.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 
> --Todd
> 
> Machine: Sid, i686
> Iceweasel: 6.0-4
> Sun Java: 6.26-3
> 
> 

Hi, see #636514 regarding the icedtea-plugin dependency problem (with
xulrunner), it's a nice piece of a bug report :-/ .

Regarding sun-java6-plugin I don't know, but Oracle is forbidding
redistribution of his java soon [1], so better fix icedtea anyway.

[1]http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-retires-licence-for-distributing-its-Java-with-Linux-1332835.html


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