Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[Bob Proulx]

Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> created a new folder /media/dvd1-mountpoint and mounted the iso using
> the command
>  mount path/to/iso /media/dvd-mountpoint1 -o loop

Looks okay.

> then  in etc/fstab added the line
> /home/neo1691/iso-files/debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /media/apt1 iso9660 
> loop,ro,user,noauto 0 0

To verify that your /etc/fstab line is correct you should mount using
it instead of doing all of it above.

  # umount /media/dvd-mountpoint1
  # mount /media/dvd-mountpoint1

Both of those should be silent with no errors.  They will use the
entries in the /etc/fstab for the configuration.

> recovery...@gmail.com wrote:
> > deb file:/media/apt1 debian main contrib non-free

The file:/ syntax is the one to use.  But the line there is not
correct.  For one there is no release "debian".  It will be "wheezy".
And if it is an official Debian image then there won't be non-free
there since the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) do not allow
nonfree.

Try this one:

  deb file:/media/dvd-mountpoint1 wheezy main contrib

> > 2) Comment out anything else in sources.list.
> >
> > 3) Run apt-get update.

Agreed.  Try it again with the above.  I just tried it on my system to
test it.

Bob


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Re: can't apt-get update

[Bob Proulx]

Diogene Laerce wrote:
> You need to update your /etc/apt/sources.list. You can do so here :
> 
> http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

Wow!  That is a cool tool.  I like it!

Bob


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Re: Network Manager won't forget bad wep key

[John L. Cunningham]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:37:47AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Did you delete the connections in
> 
> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
> 
> ?

THANK YOU! I was able to edit the bad wep key that lived there and now
it works.
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Re: Installing mysqldump - SOLVED

[Bob Proulx]

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> erased my.cnf

That will have no effect at all on the problem.

> purged mysql-server-5.5
> reinstalled
>
> IT WORKS!!!
> Even my tables are there!!

Yay!

Bob


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Re: keyboard+mouse freeze on installation

[Diogene Laerce]

Hi Bob,

Thanks a lot for all those trails ! I gonna check all ASAP.

Diog.



On 08/14/2013 03:14 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:

Diogene Laerce wrote:
   

I even tried to upgrade from 6.x.x which hasn't got this issue, but
as soon as the 7.x.x is installed, the keyboard+mouse freeze. I
tried also to install from 7.x.x firmware-non-free : it didn't do
better.
 

Try booting the older Squeeze 2.6.32 kernel.  Does that work?  If so
then you are running into problems with the newer Linux kernel.

   

My keyboard and mouse are Logitech.

Nota : I have the same issue with the Ubuntu last release (13.x) so
I guess it's a kernel issue but I have no idea of the parameter(s)
to change to resolve this..

It really would help if anybody has a clue on what is really going on.
 

I don't know but in recent Linux kernels there has been a big
reorganization and removal of features.  Unfortunately many of us were
using those features.  So when we install the new kernel it causes
kernel panics and other problems.  One set of problems has to do with
them moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.  In Debian these have
been moved into firmware-linux-nonfree.  If booting the older kernel
works then try installing firmware-linux-nonfree and see if that
helps.  Secondly there have been problems with the graphics
subsystem.  A lot of previously supported video cards lost support in
recent Linux kernels.

You say your keyboard is not working.  Is the system still up and
online and on the network?  Are you able to ping the machine from
another system?  Are you able to log into the machine with ssh from
another system?  If so then you might be able to use that path to
debug and fix this problem.  If not then the problem is deeper than
your keyboard.

Good luck!
Bob
   



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Re: can't apt-get update

[Diogene Laerce]

Hi



good day sir.
i just installed debian wheezy kde from a live cd image. but any time 
i try to apt-get update or aptitude update i get this message=



Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy/main Translation-en_NG
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy/main Translation-en


please what can be done. i am unable to install apps


You need to update your /etc/apt/sources.list. You can do so here :

http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

Good luck

Diog.


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can't apt-get update

[John Akintayo]

good day sir.
i just installed debian wheezy kde from a live cd 
image. but any time i try to apt-get update or aptitude update i get 
this message=


Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy Release
Ign
 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign
 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy/main Translation-en_NG
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130505-13:41] wheezy/main
 Translation-en

please what can be done. i am unable to install apps

Re: Installing mysqldump - SOLVED

[Ethan Rosenberg, PhD]

On 8/13/2013 6:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

===

Dear List -

I am sorry - the mysql log did not have any entries.

I remember changing the local host definition to 127.0.0.1 in my.cnf

I am going to erase my.cnf and see what happens.  I have backed up the 
data files.


I'll keep you posted.

Ethan


Dear List -

erased my.cnf
purged mysql-server-5.5
reinstalled

IT WORKS!!!

Even my tables are there!!

Thanks for all your help.

Ethan



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Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[Anubhav Yadav]

On 8/13/13, Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 August 2013 15:56:36 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>> Get:1 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
>> Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
>> 99% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]
>>
>> 132 B/s 0s^
>>
>> Last line indicates that it have started using the mirrors.
>
> What have you got in your sources.list?  Please quote the whole thing.
>
> I have never used optical disks to install software, so I will leave
> explaining that to others.
>
> Lisi
>
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Here is my sources.list

#

#Added for making the repository from iso
deb file:/media/dvd1-mountpoint debian main contrib non-free

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06]/ wheezy contrib main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06]/ wheezy contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib

# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
# A network mirror was not selected during install.  The following entries
# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate
# for your mirror of choice.
#
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib

# Debian 7 "Wheezy"
#deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

#backports (Did this for installing bumbelbee project for optimus
feature of nvidia)
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib

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Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[Anubhav Yadav]

On 8/13/13, recovery...@gmail.com  wrote:

> Ok, try it like this:
>
> 1) Add to sources.list:
>
> deb file:/media/apt1 debian main contrib non-free
>
> 2) Comment out anything else in sources.list.
>
> 3) Run apt-get update.


This is my output

Ign file: debian Release.gpg

Ign file: debian Release

Err file: debian/main amd64 Packages
  File not found

Err file: debian/contrib amd64 Packages
  File not found

Err file: debian/non-free amd64 Packages
  File not found

Ign file: debian/contrib Translation-en_IN

Ign file: debian/contrib Translation-en

Ign file: debian/main Translation-en_IN

Ign file: debian/main Translation-en

Ign file: debian/non-free Translation-en_IN

Ign file: debian/non-free Translation-en

W: Failed to fetch
file:/media/dvd1-mountpoint/dists/debian/main/binary-amd64/Packages
File not found


W: Failed to fetch
file:/media/dvd1-mountpoint/dists/debian/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages
 File not found


W: Failed to fetch
file:/media/dvd1-mountpoint/dists/debian/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages
 File not found


E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.


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Re: Installing mysqldump

[Ethan Rosenberg, PhD]

On 8/13/2013 6:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.


Those two are problems that need to be fixed.


After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1) ...



[?1049h[?25l(B


And people wonder why I don't like the happy colors in the interface! :-)
Let me clean that up a little bit for the archive.


Package configuration
Configuring mysql-server-5.5
While not mandatory, it is highly recommended that you set a password for the MySQL 
administrative "root" user.
If this field is left blank, the password will not be changed.
New password for the MySQL "root" user:

[] Stopping MySQL database server: ok
[] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . .y .FAIL
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
  mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
   Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.


Failure reported.  The package is not configured yet.  It is not ready
for use.  It is broken.  It won't work right until it is fixed.
Something went wrong.  It reported the error.  These errors cannot be
ignored and just hoping for the best sometime later.


dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  mysql-server-5.5
  mysql-server


As to what the problem is, I do not know.  I have personally often had
problems with mysql upgrades.  But I always had a full database
backup.  Therefore it when things have not worked it was always very
easy to purge all of the packages and then re-install them and then
restore from backup.  But if you don't have a backup then purging the
data would be a very bad thing.

Does anyone else on the list have any suggestions at this point?


Bob,

The best thing to do would be for Ethan to look at the MySQL log to see 
what the failure was.  He was asked to do this before but never 
responded with the messages in his log.


A clean install may or may not fix the problem - it all depends.  For 
instance, if he changed some of the server settings so they are no 
longer compatible with the Debian defaults, then the server won't start 
(unless ALL MySQL data is deleted).


The MySQL log will show the problem.

For the record, I've had problems with MySQL upgrades in the past - but 
all were caused by parameters I changed.  The MySQL log always showed 
the problem, and resetting the defaults from the upgrade to the values I 
use fixed the problems.


===

Dear List -

I am sorry - the mysql log did not have any entries.

I remember changing the local host definition to 127.0.0.1 in my.cnf

I am going to erase my.cnf and see what happens.  I have backed up the 
data files.


I'll keep you posted.

Ethan


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Re: Installing mysqldump

[Jerry Stuckle]

On 8/13/2013 6:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.


Those two are problems that need to be fixed.


After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1) ...



[?1049h[?25l(B


And people wonder why I don't like the happy colors in the interface! :-)
Let me clean that up a little bit for the archive.


Package configuration
Configuring mysql-server-5.5
While not mandatory, it is highly recommended that you set a password for the MySQL 
administrative "root" user.
If this field is left blank, the password will not be changed.
New password for the MySQL "root" user:

[] Stopping MySQL database server: ok
[] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . .y .FAIL
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
  mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
   Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.


Failure reported.  The package is not configured yet.  It is not ready
for use.  It is broken.  It won't work right until it is fixed.
Something went wrong.  It reported the error.  These errors cannot be
ignored and just hoping for the best sometime later.


dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  mysql-server-5.5
  mysql-server


As to what the problem is, I do not know.  I have personally often had
problems with mysql upgrades.  But I always had a full database
backup.  Therefore it when things have not worked it was always very
easy to purge all of the packages and then re-install them and then
restore from backup.  But if you don't have a backup then purging the
data would be a very bad thing.

Does anyone else on the list have any suggestions at this point?


Bob,

The best thing to do would be for Ethan to look at the MySQL log to see 
what the failure was.  He was asked to do this before but never 
responded with the messages in his log.


A clean install may or may not fix the problem - it all depends.  For 
instance, if he changed some of the server settings so they are no 
longer compatible with the Debian defaults, then the server won't start 
(unless ALL MySQL data is deleted).


The MySQL log will show the problem.

For the record, I've had problems with MySQL upgrades in the past - but 
all were caused by parameters I changed.  The MySQL log always showed 
the problem, and resetting the defaults from the upgrade to the values I 
use fixed the problems.



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Re: Email Issues (was: Installing mysqldump)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 17:14 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I don't know how well the box drawing characters will come through

Perfectly here :).

>   5496 r  Aug09 Ethan Rosenberg (1.2K) Installing mysqldump
>   5497Aug09 Gary Roach  (1.7K) ├─>
>   5498Aug09 To debian-user@ (2.4K) ├─>
>   5499Aug10 Lisi Reisz  (1.3K) │ ├─>
>   5500Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (2.9K) │ ├─>
>   5501Aug11 Lisi Reisz  (1.7K) │ │ ├─>
>   5502Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (2.0K) │ │ └─>
>   5503Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (0.8K) │ └─>
>   5504Aug12 The_Ace (1.7K) │   ├─>
>   5505 r  Aug12 Ethan Rosenberg (1.1K) │   └─>
>   5506Aug12 To debian-user@ (1.6K) │ ├─>
>   5507 r  Aug13 Ethan Rosenberg (2.5K) │ └─>
>   5508Aug12 To debian-user@ (3.1K) │   ├─>
>   5509 N  Aug13 Ethan Rosenberg (7.2K) │   └─>
>   5510 N  Aug13 To debian-user@ (5.9K) │ └─>
>   5511Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (2.0K) └─>


> I am sure this sounds critical.  Don't take it harshly.

It's helpful for Ethan. Often I don't have the time to encrypt the
jigsaw puzzle mails, maybe it's to time consuming for others too.

Regards,
Ralf


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Re: Network Manager won't forget bad wep key

[Ralf Mardorf]

Did you delete the connections in

/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

?

Did you run

nm-connection-editor

?


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Email Issues (was: Installing mysqldump)

[Bob Proulx]

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Also, please indicate the errors in my Thunderbird email.  I will
> address them.

I don't know how well the box drawing characters will come through but
hopefully they will survive.  I will just give it a try and worry
about them being garbled if they are garbled.  Here is the structure
of the discussion thread.  If the chars don't come through the right
side is using box drawing characters as arrows to indicate the flow of
the discussion.

  5496 r  Aug09 Ethan Rosenberg (1.2K) Installing mysqldump
  5497Aug09 Gary Roach  (1.7K) ├─>
  5498Aug09 To debian-user@ (2.4K) ├─>
  5499Aug10 Lisi Reisz  (1.3K) │ ├─>
  5500Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (2.9K) │ ├─>
  5501Aug11 Lisi Reisz  (1.7K) │ │ ├─>
  5502Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (2.0K) │ │ └─>
  5503Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (0.8K) │ └─>
  5504Aug12 The_Ace (1.7K) │   ├─>
  5505 r  Aug12 Ethan Rosenberg (1.1K) │   └─>
  5506Aug12 To debian-user@ (1.6K) │ ├─>
  5507 r  Aug13 Ethan Rosenberg (2.5K) │ └─>
  5508Aug12 To debian-user@ (3.1K) │   ├─>
  5509 N  Aug13 Ethan Rosenberg (7.2K) │   └─>
  5510 N  Aug13 To debian-user@ (5.9K) │ └─>
  5511Aug11 Ethan Rosenberg (2.0K) └─>

All of the message numbers here are unique to my mailbox.  But I will
reference them for this discussion anyway.  Your numbers will be
different in every other mailbox.

Your message 5509 seemingly replied to my message number 5508 but the
headers are wrong for it.  Your message 5509 says it is a reply to
5507 which is your message before it and ignores my message 5508.  But
you quoted lines from 5508.  Therefore you must have read 5508.  But
your mailer did not include any In-Reply-To or References headers from
it.  The message id on my message.

  Message-ID: <20130813050328.gb12...@dismay.proulx.com>

Your Thunderbird should reference it.  It should append it to the
list in the References header.  It should create an In-Reply-To header
like this and insert it into your message.

  In-Reply-To: <20130813050328.gb12...@dismay.proulx.com>

Your mailer instead included a In-Reply-To header to your own
message, my number 5507 in the above.  It included these headers.

  References: <52050537.2070...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  <20130809185125.gd4...@hysteria.proulx.com>
  <52082c31.8070...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  <52095a1b.9000...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  <5209b77d.9040...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  In-Reply-To: <5209b77d.9040...@hygeiabiomedical.com>

That is just plain broken!  That is the wrong header values.  Unless
you were replying to your own message.  In which case it would be the
right headers then.  But if were replying to my message then the
headers should be these:

  References: <52050537.2070...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  <20130809185125.gd4...@hysteria.proulx.com>
  <52082c31.8070...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  <52095a1b.9000...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  <5209b77d.9040...@hygeiabiomedical.com>
  <20130813050328.gb12...@dismay.proulx.com>
  In-Reply-To: <20130813050328.gb12...@dismay.proulx.com>

It appears to the rest of us as if you are never replying to our
messages but to the messages previous to it in the mailbox.  And then
it appears as if you are cutting and pasting in all of our text.
Bizarre!  Message 5500 and 5503 both appear as a reply to my message
5498.  But that is also incorrect since 5500 is actually a reply to
Lisi's message 5501 but the headers are wrong for it too and reference
the message before it.  Truly goofy.

Also take a look at your reply as the rest of us see it:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00436.html

Your quoting is horrid.  Sorry to say it so harshly.  But it is really
awful.  Your are keeping all of the original message without any
quoting characters, the '>' char, on the left side.  This is explained
in more detail here.  Also in a dozen dozen other guides on the net.
If you search a little about how to quote email you should find dozens
of guides on it.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting

Without those quote characters it is difficult to see what you wrote
and what we wrote.  And it makes trimmed replies confusing.  So please
add a '>' quote character to the front.  Thunderbird should do this
automatically.  For some reason it is not for you.

And then another problem is that you leave the entire message in its
entirety and bottom post your message after it.  Instead please trim
the message to just enough context to make understood to what you are
referring.  Brian and Ralf do a good job of this in their replies to
you.  Here are two examples:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/07/msg01230.html
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/07/msg01249.html

Notice how they trim your reply down to just the relevant parts.  Like
I have done on my messages.  It makes it much easier to read and to
understand and to respond.  And when looking for help maki

Network Manager won't forget bad wep key

[John L. Cunningham]

How do I get Network Manager to prompt me for a wep key again? I accidentally
typed in the wrong wep key, and now it just says:

Connection Failed Activation of Network Failed

whenever I try to connect.

I have told it to "forget network" once, in the hopes that it would try
to get the credentials again, but it didn't work.  

I tried grepping .gconf to find the xml file that has the bad wep key,
but that didn't work either.

I'm running Gnome on Debian Wheezy.


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Les événements déclencheurs d'un comportement

[Bernard]

Bonjour


Les événements déclencheurs d'un comportement


Un comportement  est toujours la conséquence d'un événement, ou/et un moyen de 
communication pour obtenir ou éviter quelque chose.

les accompagnants est d'en identifier la cause, surtout si la personne n'a pas 
les moyens de s'exprimer.

Le comportement problématique peut être tout à fait inhabituel, inattendu, mais 
aussi se répéter souvent et depuis longtemps.

Re: Installing mysqldump

[Bob Proulx]

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.

Those two are problems that need to be fixed.

> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1) ...

> [?1049h[?25l(B

And people wonder why I don't like the happy colors in the interface! :-)
Let me clean that up a little bit for the archive.

> Package configuration
> Configuring mysql-server-5.5
> While not mandatory, it is highly recommended that you set a password for the 
> MySQL administrative "root" user.
> If this field is left blank, the password will not be changed.
> New password for the MySQL "root" user:
> 
> [] Stopping MySQL database server: ok
> [] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . .y .FAIL
> failed!
> invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
>  mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
>   Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.

Failure reported.  The package is not configured yet.  It is not ready
for use.  It is broken.  It won't work right until it is fixed.
Something went wrong.  It reported the error.  These errors cannot be
ignored and just hoping for the best sometime later.

> dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  mysql-server-5.5
>  mysql-server

As to what the problem is, I do not know.  I have personally often had
problems with mysql upgrades.  But I always had a full database
backup.  Therefore it when things have not worked it was always very
easy to purge all of the packages and then re-install them and then
restore from backup.  But if you don't have a backup then purging the
data would be a very bad thing.

Does anyone else on the list have any suggestions at this point?

If there are no other better ideas I would save off a copy of the
/var/lib/mysql directory as backup.

  cp -a /var/lib/mysql /var/backups/mysql.$(date +%F)

Then I would purge mysql-server-5.5 to clean up this package
installation mess.

  # apt-get purge mysql-server-5.5

I just tested this on my system and it did not actually remove the
/var/lib/mysql directories.  Which is good and what we want even if it
does not comply with policy.  It is the safer behavior.  But make sure
you have a backup anyway.  Then after it has been removed verify that
it is removed.

  # dpkg -l mysql-server-5.5
  dpkg-query: no packages found matching mysql-server-5.5

Then install it again.

  # apt-get install mysql-server
  ...press enter to each of the three questions about changing the
  mysql root access password...this will preserve the previous
  password that you set before without changing it...

Of course if you should have a database password set.  This will
preserve it to the previous value.  If you didn't previously set one
then recover first and then change it later.

I believe that a clean installation should fix your installation
problem and return things to a sane state.

  # dpkg -l mysql-server-5.5
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name   Version  Architecture Description
  +++-==---=
  ii  mysql-server-5 5.5.31+dfsg- amd64MySQL database server binaries an

If they do not then report what problem is being reported.  Your
system seems pretty messed up so I wouldn't be surprised if you have
yet another problem below this one.

After getting this fixed with mysql you can clean up the old mysql
backup.  And set up regular future backups.  I always have this
following on my systems.

File /etc/cron.d/local-mysql:
  30 3 * * *   root umask 077 ; mysqldump 
--defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf --all-databases --events | gzip > 
/var/backups/mysql.dump ; savelog -q -d -l -C /var/backups/mysql.dump

That will result in these following files being compressed sql dumps
which I then simply back up normally.  YMMV.

  $ ls -l /var/backups/
  -rw--- 1 root root140177 Aug  2 03:30 mysql.dump.20130802033001
  -rw--- 1 root root140177 Aug  3 03:30 mysql.dump.20130803033002
  -rw--- 1 root root140177 Aug  4 03:30 mysql.dump.20130804033002
  -rw--- 1 root root140177 Aug  5 03:30 mysql.dump.20130805033002
  -rw--- 1 root root140177 Aug  6 03:30 mysql.dump.20130806033001
  -rw--- 1 root root140177 Aug  7 03:30 mysql.dum

Re: How to get logwatch to ignore something

[David Guntner]

Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner wrote:
>> Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>> If the documented procedure isn't working then please file a bug
>>> against it.
>>
>> Where/how does one do that, exactly?
>
> [Info and "rant" removed]

Thanks for the info.  Who knows, maybe by now they've fixed the GUI
issue with reportbug and it works flawlessly!  But I'll take your advise
for now and just use the text interface - I'll get brave and try the GUI
another time. :-)

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Re: keyboard+mouse freeze on installation

[Bob Proulx]

Diogene Laerce wrote:
> I even tried to upgrade from 6.x.x which hasn't got this issue, but
> as soon as the 7.x.x is installed, the keyboard+mouse freeze. I
> tried also to install from 7.x.x firmware-non-free : it didn't do
> better.

Try booting the older Squeeze 2.6.32 kernel.  Does that work?  If so
then you are running into problems with the newer Linux kernel.

> My keyboard and mouse are Logitech.
> 
> Nota : I have the same issue with the Ubuntu last release (13.x) so
> I guess it's a kernel issue but I have no idea of the parameter(s)
> to change to resolve this..
> 
> It really would help if anybody has a clue on what is really going on.

I don't know but in recent Linux kernels there has been a big
reorganization and removal of features.  Unfortunately many of us were
using those features.  So when we install the new kernel it causes
kernel panics and other problems.  One set of problems has to do with
them moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.  In Debian these have
been moved into firmware-linux-nonfree.  If booting the older kernel
works then try installing firmware-linux-nonfree and see if that
helps.  Secondly there have been problems with the graphics
subsystem.  A lot of previously supported video cards lost support in
recent Linux kernels.

You say your keyboard is not working.  Is the system still up and
online and on the network?  Are you able to ping the machine from
another system?  Are you able to log into the machine with ssh from
another system?  If so then you might be able to use that path to
debug and fix this problem.  If not then the problem is deeper than
your keyboard.

Good luck!
Bob


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Re: How to get logwatch to ignore something

[Bob Proulx]

David Guntner wrote:
> Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > If the documented procedure isn't working then please file a bug
> > against it.
> 
> Where/how does one do that, exactly?

Use the 'reportbug' tool.  Start off by browsing the man page so that
you are familiar with the basic capabilities.  Such as that it can
report bugs against packages and that it can deduce the package itself
if given a file name.  There is a *lot* of useful information in the
man page.  But don't get overwhelmed.  The tweaking is only important
after you have filed a dozen bugs and want to tune it for the next
hundred.

  man reportbug

It is important to only use the text interface.  'reportbug -u text'
or setting "ui text" in the ~/.reportbugrc file.  If it opens a
graphical interface please exit it and try again until you get the
text interface.  Some time ago I and another person here got into a
*huge* fuss because they said reportbug always failed and crashed for
them and I couldn't understand why since it is so simple that it
always works for me.  I would recommend reportbug.  They would
disparage it.  We were in severe disagreement.

It finally turned out that they were using the gtk graphical mouse gui
interface to reportbug and it was the graphical gui that was crashing.
I have been using reportbug for many years but didn't even know it had
a graphical interface!  A bad feature apparently.  The text interface
is rock solid however so I recommend to use it.  If the gui works for
you then that is fine but you have been warned.

Then use reportbug to report the bug on the package.

  reportbug PACKAGENAME

It will ask you for a bug title, and some other information and then
start up an editor on a template.  Fill out the template with the
information needed to recreate the bug.  You are in an editor at that
time so just edit the file with the needed information.  Whatever the
maintainer will need to replicate the bug.  If they can't understand
the bug or can't replicate it then they won't be able to deal with it.

The template always starts out with some boilerplate to help you fill
out the report.  Things to get you thinking about the problem.  It
isn't necessary to answer each question specifically because not all
bugs make sense with those questions.  For example they don't make
sense for a documentation bug.  It says the following:

  Dear Maintainer,
  *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

 * What led up to the situation?
 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
   ineffective)?
 * What was the outcome of this action?
 * What outcome did you expect instead?

  *** End of the template - remove these lines ***

You would be surprised at how many people leave that template in place
and never edit or remove it!  What are they thinking?  I have no idea.
But leaving that in place clearly says they weren't following the
directions.  Because what does it say?  It says "End of the template -
remove these lines"!  :-) And I have seen people answer each of those
in turn for things like a documentation bug.  Those are not rigid form
processed by a computer.  Humans read those bug reports.  Just say
that there is a spelling error and where and the correction.  You are
talking to a human when you fill out that bug report.

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to rant about people who leave
those lines in the bug report. :-)

Here is the official documentation on reporting bugs in Debian.
Please take a moment and browse it before reporting a bug.  It has a
lot of useful information there.

  http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

And it describes how bug reports are simply an email message.  If you
can send email then you can submit a bug report.  So if the system you
want to report a bug about isn't on the network that is no problem.
Simply send an email from a connected machine.  Don't like the
reportbug interface?  That is no problem if you can send an email and
submit a bug that way.

Bob


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Is heimdall capable of flashing to s5670 froyo?

[Luther Blissett]

Hello all,

I've been trying to flash freer and newer firmware to a Samsung Galaxy
Fit s5670b, Froyo, 2.2.1 using a jessie box.

The official install procedure on xda-devel forums only support windows,
through Odin and gives little info on the actual flashing procedure.
Though some people said Heimdall would be capable of achieving this, I
have no clue as to which firmware file to use. Is heimdall compatible
with beni.ops?

I spent much time reading contradictory / unreliable info on web. Could
anyone provide some sort of info on the logic of flashing rom?

Until now, I have only succeeded on "rooting" and installing busybox, su
and Superuser.apk. I went on to make those permanent and now I'm unsure
how to proceed. What does Odin and Heimdall do that couldn't be done
using standard shell features? 

I have logs for heimdall and adb. Fastboot does not work. Since the logs
are pretty verbose, I'll send them privately to those who volunteer to
help me.

Thank you all,



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Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

[Bob Proulx]

Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> without problems. So, it could very well be something with the
> virtio_net module. Will be interesting to see what solves this.

Good luck!

> > BTW...  What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf?  Hope it just says
> > "files dns" there.
> > 
> >   $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> >   hosts:  files dns
> 
> I didn't touch that, so it is whatever wheezy installed by
> default.

Well, there is by default and then there is depending upon what other
packages have also been installed.  For example libnss-mdns adds
avahi mdns stuff there and that causes me problems.

> Yes, when I run grep like you show above, I get back exactly
> what you did. It has other lines in there, so the whole file doesn't
> just say 
> 
> hosts:  files dns

That is normal and good.

> all by itself. So, I assume you're asking if that one line just says
> hosts:  files dns, not that the entire file consists of that,
> and only that. If that is the intended question, the answer is
> yes.

That was exactly what I was asking.  There are other configurable
services in that file.  But I was only asking about the hosts lookup
network service.

> Thanks again for your help Bob.

I will be curious to hear what you find out about your problem.
System crashes are always especially difficult for me to debug.

Bob


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Re: Partitions

[Klaus Jantzen]

On 08/11/2013 04:36 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:

On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:58:19 -0400 (EDT), Klaus Jantzen wrote:

by "some magic" the partitions on a HDD receive a block-id
or UUID (for fstab).

Does the ID of a partition change when the partition is moved
or when a new partition is created in the unallocated space
between two partitions?

Thanks for any info.

The UUID is assigned when the partition is formatted, not when
it is allocated.  Commands such as mke2fs or mkswap do the
formatting.  Moving or resizing a partition will not change its
UUID, nor will allocating or deallocating another partition
in any location.  However, reformatting the partition will
normally change its UUID unless the old UUID is explicitly
specified as an option during formatting.  For example, I've heard,
though I have not personally verified it, that the Ubuntu installer
has a habit of reformatting swap partitions during installation
that were originally created by the Debian installer, thus messing
up the Debian system's use of the swap partitions.



Hello,

thank you for the information.
It was helpful because I wnated  to reduce and  to move partitions of 
existing systems

before installing Wheezy.
Everything worked and the old systems are alive.

Thanks.

K.D.J.


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Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

[Catalin Soare]

On Aug 13, 2013 8:42 PM, "green"  wrote:
>
> Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500:
> > Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi:
> > THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot!
> > Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi:
> > temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40 46 56 N/A N/A N/A
> > N/A N/A
> > Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.435288] Critical temperature
> > reached (103 C), shutting down.
> > Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity shutdown[4494]: shutting down for system halt
>
> Hm, why does the list of temperatures not include the cited 103 degC?
>
> > After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the
> > cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that
> > might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU
> > cooling.  I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync
> > copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating.
>
> Assuming that the processor is actually overheating, perhaps it would
> help to remove the heatsink and replace the thermal compound (Arctic
> Silver seems to be the recommended replacement).

Hi Alphonse,

You said you installed wheezy, and a new hdd. I want to ask you if you
previously had squeeze? Maybe wheezy isn't behaving as well for your
laptop? I'd backup as much as possible and try the same operations with
squeeze too.

Hope you get your answers soon!
Good luck!

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Re: Installing mysqldump

[Ethan Rosenberg, PhD]

Ethan,

I see that you are using Thunderbird.  A lot of people do.  But why
are your messages always broken?  You never reply to the message you
are quoting and seem to be replying to but the message before it.
Strange.  And your quoting is really painful.  I am sure it is not a
problem with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully.

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-server


I had asked for the 'env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l' so that the columns would
not go out too far and would not be hard to read.


iU  mysql-server  5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 all  
MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)
rc  mysql-server-5.1  5.1.66-0+squeeze1 i386 
MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
iF  mysql-server-5.5  5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 
MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
ii  mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 
MySQL database server binaries


But yours go out to column 144 so of course I know you didn't use the
command I asked you to use.  Sigh.

And the above clearly shows the problem.  I will chop it down.

  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | 
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name   VersionDescription

+++-==-==-
  iU  mysql-server5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
  rc  mysql-server-5.15.1.66-0+squeeze1
  iF  mysql-server-5.55.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
  ii  mysql-server-core-5.5   5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1

mysql-server is Unpacked but not configured.  mysql-server-5.5 install
is marked as Failed.  That is clearly bad.  You can't ignore these
errors.

I would try this first.  Needs root.

  apt-get install -f

That should rerun the configuration of the failed packages.  Since it
produced errors before it will probably produce errors again.  Post
those errors.  They need to be fixed.

After you get the new mysql server installed correctly then, and only
then, purge the previous server.  Doing so will have the side effect
of shutting down the server so it needs to be started again.  But
don't do it until you have the new server installed correctly.

  dpkg --purge mysql-server-5.1
  service mysql start

Bob
===

Bob -

Thanks.

Here is the output from apt-get install -f




Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1) ...
[?1049h[?25l(B 

 
    
   
  

 
   
  
 
    

   
   
   
   

 
    
    
    
    

 
 
 
 

    
    
[?25l[?12l[?25h(BPackage 
configuration┌┤ Configuring 
mysql-server-5.5 ├─┐│ While not 
mandatory, it is highly recommended that you set a password 
│ (B│ for the MySQL administrative 
"root" user.   │ 
(B│ 
│ (B│ If 
this field is left blank, the password will not be changed. 
   │ (B│ 
 │ 
(B│ New password for the MySQL "root" user: 
 │ (B│ 

  │ (B│ 
___ 
│ (B│ 
 │ 
(B│  
 │ (B│ 

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

[green]

Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500:
> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi:
> THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot!
> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi:
> temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40 46 56 N/A N/A N/A
> N/A N/A
> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.435288] Critical temperature
> reached (103 C), shutting down.
> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity shutdown[4494]: shutting down for system halt

Hm, why does the list of temperatures not include the cited 103 degC?

> After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the
> cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that
> might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU
> cooling.  I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync
> copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating.

Assuming that the processor is actually overheating, perhaps it would
help to remove the heatsink and replace the thermal compound (Arctic
Silver seems to be the recommended replacement).


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Re: Moving Nagios3 Apache configuration to a VirtualHost setup

[Luke]

Shaun  gmsl.co.uk> writes:

> 
> HI there,
> 
> When you install Nagios it installs itself so that $SERVER/nagios3/
> takes over your site. I have setup an extra vhost on my apache server
> and I don't want nagios to take over all vhosts. I just want to setup,
> say, nagios.mydomain.com/nagios3/ as being my nagios monitoring station.
> 
> The config that comes with debian is:
> 


I had a similar case and the following is what worked for me (I have a line
in /etc/hosts for nagios.local to resolve to 127.0.0.1):


ServerName  nagios.local
DocumentRoot /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/nagios3 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3
ScriptAlias /nagios3/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3
Alias /nagios3/images /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs/images
Alias /images /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs/images
Alias /nagios3/stylesheets /etc/nagios3/stylesheets
Alias /stylesheets /etc/nagios3/stylesheets
Alias /nagios3/js /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs/js

Options FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order Allow,Deny
Allow From All
AuthName "Nagios Access"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
require valid-user


Options +ExecCGI





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Re: intel VGA driver problem

[Darac Marjal]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:13:08PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>i am using Debian 6.0.7
>motherboard : DZ68DB
> lspci | grep VGA
>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge
>Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
> 
>i was facing issues in ubuntu and had invested almost 3 days and finally i
>came back to Debian but still i am unable to install the drivers. can i
>ask why it is so hard to install drivers in Debian or linux world. why we
>cant do the easy method.
> 
>is there any method to install the drivers easily.

"apt-get install xserver-xorg" should do the right thing. This is
depended on by task-desktop which is normally selected by the installer.

> 
>i tried finding displayconfig-gtk which is discontinued
>i tried installing intel VGA graphis installar , not installing due to
>dependency.

Fix the dependency then. (If you're going to be vague, we can be vague,
too. Otherwise tell us exactly what you did and what error messages you
got as a result)

>now finally i give up and asking the pro how to get out of this
>situations.
> 
>Please help
>Thanks,
> 
>Myk


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intel VGA driver problem

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan]

i am using Debian 6.0.7
motherboard : DZ68DB
 lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)


i was facing issues in ubuntu and had invested almost 3 days and finally i
came back to Debian but still i am unable to install the drivers. can i ask
why it is so hard to install drivers in Debian or linux world. why we cant
do the easy method.

is there any method to install the drivers easily.

i tried finding displayconfig-gtk which is discontinued
i tried installing intel VGA graphis installar , not installing due to
dependency.
now finally i give up and asking the pro how to get out of this situations.

Please help

Thanks,

Myk

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 15:56:36 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
> Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
> 99% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]
>
> 132 B/s 0s^
>
> Last line indicates that it have started using the mirrors.

What have you got in your sources.list?  Please quote the whole thing.

I have never used optical disks to install software, so I will leave 
explaining that to others.

Lisi


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Re: 32-bit problems with nvidia packages

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Am Dienstag, 13. August 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Is it possible that you have some version creep? I had this on my multiarch
> sid system. There was a bug which made all of the VTs disappear. The quick
> fix was to upgrade a few of the packages (including nvidia-glx, iirc) to
> the version from experimental. Well, a few weeks ago, I upgraded and it
> broke several things, including my cisco anyconnect client, whch I only had
> in 32bit. Downgrading everything to the same version (304.88 in sid, which
> I believe is supposed to be a long-term support release of that driver)
> fixed things quite handily.
> 
> HTH,
> --b

Hi Brad!

No, I don't think so. The problem appeared first at multiarch. It was when I 
removed ia32-libs* out of the way. Since that day, the problem appeared. It is 
not only googleearth, which face this, it is also other 32-bit apps, that make 
problems. 

With googleearth the problem is good to see: When everything is running fine, 
the earth appears, if not, you get a gray background. 

My 32-bit flight simulator (X-Plane) for example, does not start, too. And 
notice: The problem does NOT appear, when I install using NVidia's installer! 
So the problem MUST be in the 32-bit part of debian packages. 

As I said, there WAS a bugreport related to this, but maybe it is closed 
meanwhile. If not, hope some developer might be reminded at this.

Best

Hans

  


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Re: 32-bit problems with nvidia packages

[Brad Alexander]

Hi Hans,

Is it possible that you have some version creep? I had this on my multiarch
sid system. There was a bug which made all of the VTs disappear. The quick
fix was to upgrade a few of the packages (including nvidia-glx, iirc) to
the version from experimental. Well, a few weeks ago, I upgraded and it
broke several things, including my cisco anyconnect client, whch I only had
in 32bit. Downgrading everything to the same version (304.88 in sid, which
I believe is supposed to be a long-term support release of that driver)
fixed things quite handily.

HTH,
--b


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I need to use some 32-bit applications on my amd64 system. These are 3d-
> accelerated.
>
> But it looks lioke there is a bug in the packages. When I for example start
> googleearth, it starts, but I cannot see the planet.
>
> This problem exists since the change to multiarch.
>
> However, when I install the installer from Nvidia site (NVidia-bla*.run),
> and
> say, to install the 32-bit libs, too, during that install process,
> verything
> is working fine.
>
> I could do so and do not use the debian packages, but I think, you might
> want
> to get this fixed. Sadly the latest Nvidia modules cannnot be build with
> kernel
> 3.10 (I mean now those from the NVidia-bla*.run installer).
>
> The debian nvidia-kernel module of course can be build (using dkms).
>
> I think, I did not miss some libs, these are installed:
>
> dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
> glx-alternative-nvidia  install
> libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 install
> libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386  install
> libxvmcnvidia1:amd64install
> nvidia-alternative  install
> nvidia-driver   install
> nvidia-glx  install
> nvidia-installer-cleanupinstall
> nvidia-kernel-commoninstall
> nvidia-kernel-dkms  install
> nvidia-support  install
> nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64   install
> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia   install
>
> And of course my system is multiarch. Jus got problems with the nvidia-
> packages.
>
> There is already a bugreport relatd to this, but can't remember the number,
> sorry.
>
> Can someone else either report, if he is managed to run it on a 64-bit
> system
> and how he did? Or confirm my problem somehow? Would be nice, so I can
> look,
> what the reason for this behavior is.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Hans
>
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Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[recoverym4n]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:26:36 +0530
Anubhav Yadav  wrote:

> This is what I did.

> Different roads lead to the same roads I guess! Well you must have
> guessed by now why I want to use CDROM for installation of packages.
> 
> 
> On 8/13/13, Anubhav Yadav  wrote:
> > dvd1-mountpoint is a folder where I mount the iso and /media/apt1 is a
> > symbolic link to dvd1-mountpoint.
> >
> > So now what I will do is I will just mount the iso directly into
> > /media/apt1 where apt1 is a directory not a link.  Will this work?


Ok, try it like this:

1) Add to sources.list:

deb file:/media/apt1 debian main contrib non-free

2) Comment out anything else in sources.list.

3) Run apt-get update.


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32-bit problems with nvidia packages

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Hello list,

I need to use some 32-bit applications on my amd64 system. These are 3d-
accelerated. 

But it looks lioke there is a bug in the packages. When I for example start 
googleearth, it starts, but I cannot see the planet.

This problem exists since the change to multiarch.

However, when I install the installer from Nvidia site (NVidia-bla*.run), and 
say, to install the 32-bit libs, too, during that install process, verything 
is working fine.

I could do so and do not use the debian packages, but I think, you might want 
to get this fixed. Sadly the latest Nvidia modules cannnot be build with kernel 
3.10 (I mean now those from the NVidia-bla*.run installer). 

The debian nvidia-kernel module of course can be build (using dkms).

I think, I did not miss some libs, these are installed:

dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
glx-alternative-nvidia  install
libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 install
libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386  install
libxvmcnvidia1:amd64install
nvidia-alternative  install
nvidia-driver   install
nvidia-glx  install
nvidia-installer-cleanupinstall
nvidia-kernel-commoninstall
nvidia-kernel-dkms  install
nvidia-support  install
nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64   install
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia   install

And of course my system is multiarch. Jus got problems with the nvidia-
packages. 

There is already a bugreport relatd to this, but can't remember the number, 
sorry.

Can someone else either report, if he is managed to run it on a 64-bit system 
and how he did? Or confirm my problem somehow? Would be nice, so I can look, 
what the reason for this behavior is.

Thanks and best regards

Hans


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Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

[Tom Grace]

On 13/08/13 13:19, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:

The system is going down for system halt NOW!

Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out
the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air
directly over the heat sink?

It's for a one off, it gets the dust out from the fins of the heat sync 
and should improve cooling (until it gets dusty again).



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Re: How to get logwatch to ignore something

[David Guntner]

Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner wrote:
>> Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>> It describes the new scheme and describes a /etc/logwatch/conf
>>> directory for local customizations.
>>
>> Which, as I noted, I was originally using and yet was being ignored for
>> some reason.  Maybe the file will have more on why it was ignoring me.
> 
> Oh.  Sorry.  I mis-read your original note.  Sorry about that.  I see
> now that you did say that.
> 
>> Either way, I've modified the
>> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/ignore.conf file to see if that helps.
>>  I guess I'll find out tomorrow. :-)

Well, it's now yesterday's "tomorrow," and the stupid thing is still
producing output about items I listed in *both* files.

> If the documented procedure isn't working then please file a bug
> against it.

Where/how does one do that, exactly?

  --Dave





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Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[Anubhav Yadav]

This is what I did.

deleted the symbolic link on /media/apt1
unmounted dvd1
deleted the folder /home/neo1691/dvd1-mountpoint

created a new folder /media/dvd1-mountpoint and mounted the iso using
the command
 mount path/to/iso /media/dvd-mountpoint1 -o loop

then  in etc/fstab added the line
/home/neo1691/iso-files/debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /media/apt1
iso9660 loop,ro,user,noauto 0   0

ran apt-get update

output
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy Release
Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/main amd64 Packages
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/contrib Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/contrib Translation-en
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/main Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/main Translation-en
Get:1 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
99% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]

132 B/s 0s^

Last line indicates that it have started using the mirrors.

ran the command apt-cdrom -d=/media/dvd1-mountpoint add

output:
Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom/
Identifying.. [60d2d6d8ea51839a2ff8c56c8284e175-2]
Scanning disc for index files..
Found 0 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0
signatures
W: Failed to mount '/dev/sr0' to '/media/cdrom/'
E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian
Disc or the wrong architecture?

Changed entry in /etc/fstab to
/home/neo1691/iso-files/debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /media/apt1
iso9660 loop,ro,user,noauto 0   0

ran apt-get update

output
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy Release
Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/main amd64 Packages
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/contrib Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/contrib Translation-en
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/main Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD
#Binary-1 20130615-23:06] wheezy/main Translation-en
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org wheezy-updates Release.gpg [1,571 B]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org wheezy-backports Release.gpg [1,571 B]
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org wheezy-updates Release [116 kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
12% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [3 Release 11.0 kB/116
kB 9%]689 B/s
2min 32s^

ran apt-cdrom -d=/media/dvd1-mountpoint add

output
Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom/
Identifying.. [60d2d6d8ea51839a2ff8c56c8284e175-2]
Scanning disc for index files..
Found 0 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0
signatures
W: Failed to mount '/dev/sr0' to '/media/cdrom/'
E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian
Disc or the wrong architecture?


Different roads lead to the same roads I guess! Well you must have
guessed by now why I want to use CDROM for installation of packages.


On 8/13/13, Anubhav Yadav  wrote:
> dvd1-mountpoint is a folder where I mount the iso and /media/apt1 is a
> symbolic link 

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[Anubhav Yadav]

dvd1-mountpoint is a folder where I mount the iso and /media/apt1 is a
symbolic link to dvd1-mountpoint.

So now what I will do is I will just mount the iso directly into
/media/apt1 where apt1 is a directory not a link.  Will this work?

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[recoverym4n]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:03:49 +0530
Anubhav Yadav  wrote:
> 
> I added the following line to my etc/fstab file
> 
> /home/neo1691/dvd1-mountpoint /media/apt1 iso9660 rw,user,noauto 00

This is wrong, IMO. Should be something like (see fstab(5)):

path_to_iso /media/apt1 iso9660 loop,ro,user,noauto 0 0

or

/home/neo1691/dvd1-mountpoint /media/apt1 none bind,ro,user,noauto 0 0

Last one assumes you want to mount an iso manually
to /home/neo1691/dvd1-mountpoint before using apt.

Both examples assume that '/media/apt1' is the directory, not a symlink.


> And my first line in /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD #Binary-1
> 20130615-23:06]/ wheezy contrib main
> 
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD #Binary-1
> 20130615-23:06]/ wheezy contrib main

Seems ok to me.

 
> But now if I run say for example apt-get install xchat
> 
> This time it never ask me to insert the cd rom it will search the mirrors.
> 
> I guess I am close to achieving what I want.

Did you run 'apt-get update' or 'aptitude update'?

Also, if you really want apt not to use public Debian mirrors, you
should comment out anything not related to 'deb cdrom' in sources.list.

PS OOPS. Resending to the list.


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Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[Anubhav Yadav]

On Aug 13, 2013 3:29 PM,  wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> According to apt-cdrom(8), '-d' means:
>
> Mount point; specify the location to mount the CD-ROM. This mount point
> must be listed in /etc/fstab and properly configured. Configuration
> Item: Acquire::cdrom::mount.
>
> Note /etc/fstab part.
>
> Apparently you have entry for /media/cdrom in your fstab, but don't
> have one for /media/apt1.
>
> Reco


I added the following line to my etc/fstab file

/home/neo1691/dvd1-mountpoint /media/apt1 iso9660 rw,user,noauto 00

And my first line in /etc/apt/sources.list

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD #Binary-1
20130615-23:06]/ wheezy contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD #Binary-1
20130615-23:06]/ wheezy contrib main

But now if I run say for example apt-get install xchat

This time it never ask me to insert the cd rom it will search the mirrors.

I guess I am close to achieving what I want.

Re: debian net install CD cashing squid.

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan]

Thanks , i will try both the suggestions, however apt-cacher-ng seems more
nearer to my need.

Re: Winfast TV 2000XP Expert with Squeeze

[Gábor Hársfalvi]

Yes, I used to have connected this cable and it worked without problems
with sound too on other systems.

So I thought this problem is came not from hardware.


2013/8/13 Selim T. Erdogan 

> Gábor Hársfalvi, 11.08.2013:
> > Dear Users,
> >
> > I wish to use my TV/Radio-Tuner but when I run Gnomeradio and found
> > stations I can't hear any sounds from it.
> >
> > I've set all the available options without any success. :(
> >
> > Please Help using Tuner
>
> Around nine or ten years ago I used a TV card and I remember that it
> showed the picture without sound, until I used a small cable to connect
> the audio output of the TV card to the input of the sound card.
>
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Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

[Alphonse Ogulla]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Grace
 wrote:
> On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
>>
>> After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the
>> cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that
>> might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU
>> cooling.  I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync
>> copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating.
>
> You might want to try some canned air on the heatsync attached to the CPU
> fan, or making sure the laptop is near some aircon etc.
>
>
>> root@curiosity:~# echo "level disengaged" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
>> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>> root@curiosity:~# echo "level 7" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
>> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>
> Did you first load the ibm acpi module with the fan_control argument ?
> rmmod thinkpad_acpi
> modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
>
> I had the same issue with my thinkpad, and wrote this [1] to work around it,
> though in the end canned air was the proper solution.
>
> [1] https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon
>
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I hadn't loaded the thinkpad_acpi module with the fan_control
argument. Done that and I'm now able to set the fan speed. Many thanks
for that.

I've followed the instructions at
https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon and no sooner had I
began testing in a another terminal, the laptop shutdown but strangely
without any heavy lifting tasks running in the background.

Message from syslogd@curiosity at Aug 13 14:42:12 ...
kernel:[23090.974571] Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down.
Broadcast message from root@curiosity (Tue Aug 13 14:42:12 2013):
The system is going down for system halt NOW!

Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out
the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air
directly over the heat sink?

--

Many thanks,
Alphonse


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Re: RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land ...

[John Hasler]

Chris Bannister writes:
> Since I expect that anything that affects the kernel itself is going
> to be handled by the Linux kernel developers, you might want to post
> the above questions on the linux-kernel mailing list.

Implementing networking outside the kernel does not affect the kernel.
Just do it.  If you do it well and others agree that it's the right
approach it will soon take over.  
-- 
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jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA


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Re: After Sieve plugin errors

[M.Atıf CEYLAN]

On 08/07/2013 04:48 PM, emmanuel segura wrote:

This workaround is not for you, man mkfs.ocfs2 and look the option

  -T filesystem-type
  Specify how the filesystem is going to be used, so that 
mkfs.ocfs2 can chose optimal filesystem parameters for that use.  The  
supported  filesystem  types

  are:

   mail   Appropriate for file systems that will host 
lots of small files.


   datafiles
  Appropriate for file systems that will host 
a relatively small number of very large files.


   vmstore
  Appropriate for file systems that will host 
Virtual machine images.




2013/8/7 "M.Atıf CEYLAN" >


Count: 243   Next Free Rec: 243
 ##   TotalUsed Free Block#
04096 4096 0 7878657
14096 4096 0 11997697
24096 4095 1 12126721
34096 4095 1 12158977
44096 4094 2 933889
54096  4096
0326657
64096 4096 0 327681
74096 4096 0 12417025
84096 4094 2 329729
94096 4091 5 1224193
10   4096 4090 6 1288705
11   4096 4089 7 1320961
12   4096 4096 0 1385473
13   4096 4096 0 1449985

Perhaps, I must increase the cluster size of ocfs2 :(
Is the discontig-bg a workaround for me? If it's a workaround I'll
make creation new volumes with big block size and move the data to
there.

What is your suggestion to me for mkfs.ocfs2 params? Journal size,
cluster size etc.?
(I have 6 volumes and each size is 140GB)

I have tried with the "-C 32K" parameter. But the result was bad than 
before. http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7008696 it says : " 
In conjunction with fragmentation, the filesystem may run out of a 
contiguous block to alloc for extent_alloc blocks leading to "out of 
space" errors. This is an OCFS2 limitation, and the problem happens 
*only when creating large files on file system with small Cluster 
Size*." I have many small files (millions of files) on all volumes.


When I try with (http://oss.oracle.com/~seeda/misc/stat_sysdir.sh) this 
script on old volumes I don't see any space problem.

some results of output of the script.

//global_bitmap
   ..
Bitmap Total: 44564302   Used: 27804345   Free: 16759957
Clusters per Group: 32256   Bits per Cluster: 1
Count: 243   Next Free Rec: 243
##   TotalUsed Free Block#
0193536   130058   6347815676416
1193536   120736   7280023546880
2193536   126088   6744815740928
3193536   130184   6335215773184
4193536   120517   7301915805440
5193536   115267   7826931514112
6193536   120907   7262915869952
..
Group Chain: 0   Parent Inode: 11  Generation: 3256184013
CRC32:    ECC: 
##   Block#TotalUsed Free Contig Size
015676416  322561509817158503 4032
17838208   3225631432824  511 4032
23 322563225600 4032
323514624  322561787414382446 4032
431352832  322561544016816507 4032
539191040  322561795814298479 4032
...
 //global_inode_alloc
Sub Alloc Slot: Global   Sub Alloc Bit: 4
Bitmap Total: 269   Used: 32   Free: 237
Clusters per Group: 269   Bits per Cluster: 1
Count: 243   Next Free Rec: 1
##   TotalUsed Free Block#
0269  32   237  4

Group Chain: 0   Parent Inode: 8  Generation: 3256184013
CRC32:    ECC: 
##   Block#TotalUsed Free Contig Size
04 269  32   237  237 4032


However I want to try with "--fs-features=discontig-bg" but I use 
squeeze with 2.6.32 kernel. So this feature is not supported by the 
running kernel (or I couldn't run it).


M.Atıf CEYLAN
Yurdum Yazılım

keyboard+mouse freeze on installation

[Diogene Laerce]

Hi,

It is not really a bug I guess (cos maybe it's on purpose) but does 
anyone know
why the new distribution 7.x.x freezes on installation, just passed the 
first

menu (choose your installation mode : graphical expert, etc..) ?

I even tried to upgrade from 6.x.x which hasn't got this issue, but as 
soon as the 7.x.x

is installed, the keyboard+mouse freeze. I tried also to install from 7.x.x
firmware-non-free : it didn't do better.

My keyboard and mouse are Logitech.

Nota : I have the same issue with the Ubuntu last release (13.x) so I 
guess it's a kernel

issue but I have no idea of the parameter(s) to change to resolve this..

It really would help if anybody has a clue on what is really going on.

Thank you


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Re: your thoughts: special post for Debian birthday

[Jeff Bauer]

On 08/13/2013 06:15 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:

Ana, please would you say what the date of the anniversary is.

August 16th


heh - my birthdate, too, although I'm considerably older than 20...

Happy birthday, Debian.


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Re: your thoughts: special post for Debian birthday

[Wouter Verhelst]

Hi Brian,

On 12-08-13 21:09, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Mon 12 Aug 2013 at 11:57:42 +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> 
>> Dear users and contributors,
>>
>> We would like publishing a special post in bits.d.o for the anniversary of
>> Debian.  The idea is publishing anonymous quotes from Debian users and 
>> developers about what Debian means for you. Please send your quotes ASAP 
>> at ana...@debian.org, Francesca and I will get all the emails send there.
> 
> Ana, please would you say what the date of the anniversary is.

August 16th

> Also,
> would you outline in what way it is may be special. Is it twenty years
> since the inception of Debian?

Ian Murdock, founder of Debian and the "ian" in Debian, announced on
usenet that he was working on Debian on August 16th, 1993.

So, yeah, 20 years.

> Doesn't time pass when you are enjoying yourself?

Quite.

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Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

[recoverym4n]

Hi.

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:36:44 +0530
Anubhav Yadav  wrote:

> root@Innovator:/home/neo1691# apt-cdrom -d=/media/apt1 add
> 
> Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom/
... 
> Any help? I want to say some bandwidth as it is not cheap here, and is very 
> slow
> 
> Thanks!

According to apt-cdrom(8), '-d' means:

Mount point; specify the location to mount the CD-ROM. This mount point
must be listed in /etc/fstab and properly configured. Configuration
Item: Acquire::cdrom::mount.

Note /etc/fstab part.

Apparently you have entry for /media/cdrom in your fstab, but don't
have one for /media/apt1.

Reco


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Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

[Tom Grace]

On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:

After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the
cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that
might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU
cooling.  I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync
copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating.
You might want to try some canned air on the heatsync attached to the 
CPU fan, or making sure the laptop is near some aircon etc.



root@curiosity:~# echo "level disengaged" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
root@curiosity:~# echo "level 7" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Did you first load the ibm acpi module with the fan_control argument ?
rmmod thinkpad_acpi
modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1

I had the same issue with my thinkpad, and wrote this [1] to work around 
it, though in the end canned air was the proper solution.


[1] https://github.com/theothertom/thinkpad-temp_mon


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Re: debian net install CD cashing squid.

[Darac Marjal]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:54:19AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>can i cache all installations/files that net-install CD download from
>debian repo during installation.
>I am  using SQUID as a proxy server.

Certainly, Something like this may be useful:
http://itkia.com/using-squid-to-cache-apt-updates-for-debian-and-ubuntu/

>please advice. it is taking hell of a time to install one single server.
>almost taking a day. very frustrating

I hope you're aware that caching the packages for the install of one
machine won't speed things up at all. Well, I can visualise a bizarre
situation where it might...

> 
>Thanks,
>Myk


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Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

[Alphonse Ogulla]

Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya,

I recently swapped a failing 160GB hard drive on my Lenovo Thinkpad
T61 with a 1TB disk then installed Debian Wheezy on the entire GPT
disk with LVM over LUKS. However, whenever I tried copying a 130GB
gzip backup from an external fuseblk USB drive to my new home, the
laptop overheated and shutdown somewhere around the 20-30% mark. The
relevant lines from /var/log/syslog were as follows:

Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi:
THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot!
Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi:
temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40 46 56 N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A
Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.435288] Critical temperature
reached (103 C), shutting down.
Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity shutdown[4494]: shutting down for system halt

After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the
cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that
might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU
cooling.  I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync
copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating.

Next I decided to decompress the gzip archive but once again I found
myself back to square one with overheating issues after an hour or so
of decompressing. The relevant lines from /var/log/syslog.1 are as
follows:

Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity kernel: [15927.185123] Critical temperature
reached (103 C), shutting down.
Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity kernel: [15927.258218] thinkpad_acpi:
THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot!
Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity shutdown[6882]: shutting down for system halt
Aug 12 23:59:14 curiosity kernel: [15927.261302] thinkpad_acpi:
temperatures (Celsius): 88 47 38 62 50 N/A 33 N/A 44 51 58 N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A
Aug 12 23:59:16 curiosity init: Switching to runlevel: 0

It is worth noting that this is the very first time I've encountered
such a problem, coming immediately after upgrading the hard disk from
160GB (MBR, LVM over LUKS) to 1TB (GPT, LVM over LUKS) and Debian
distribution from Squeeze to Wheezy. I also tried setting the fan
speed to maximum "level disengaged" or "level 7" but I got the
following error:

root@curiosity:~# echo "level disengaged" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
root@curiosity:~# echo "level 7" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

The output of /proc/acpi/ibm/fan, /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal and acpi -V,
a few minutes just before the laptop shutdown was as follows:

root@curiosity:~# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
status: enabled
speed:  3068
level:  auto

root@curiosity:~# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
temperatures:   90 46 38 63 50 -128 33 -128 44 51 59 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128

root@curiosity:~# acpi -V
Battery 0: Full, 100%
Battery 0: design capacity 4492 mAh, last full capacity 3798 mAh = 84%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 94.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 100.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 95.5 degrees C
Thermal 1: ok, 90.0 degrees C
Thermal 1: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 127.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: LCD 8 of 15
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10

Other outputs that might be of interest are:

root@curiosity:~# uname -a
Linux curiosity 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@curiosity:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model
model   : 23
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300  @ 2.40GHz
model   : 23
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300  @ 2.40GHz


Please give me hints on how to get this old laptop back to full
functionality without the overheating problem.

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Re: debian net install CD cashing squid.

[Gregory Nowak]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:54:19AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> can i cache all installations/files that net-install CD download from
> debian repo during installation.
> I am  using SQUID as a proxy server.
> please advice. it is taking hell of a time to install one single server.
> almost taking a day. very frustrating
> 

Don't know about squid, but I have apt-cacher-ng installed here, and
it does what you're looking for very nicely. When I want to do an
install with netinst in a virtual machine, I just point it at my
apt-cacher-ng proxy, and away it flies.

Greg


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Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

[Gregory Nowak]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:33:14PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I don't know but for example DNS will start off with a UDP query.  But
> if the response is too large for a single UDP packet then it will
> change to a TCP connection for the larger data exchange.  So let's say
> that UDP always works okay and it is only something about TCP that is
> problematic.  Then you could definitely find issues with some domain
> names and not others if those problematic ones used TCP due to a
> larger amount of data.  Such as if some have many more records than
> others.
> 
> You might compare the sizes of the returned data in a dns query and
> see if there is a correlation.  'dig' should give you that
> information.  But I am not saying that is the problem.  Just saying
> that there will be differences in how the lookups are handled.

Interesting you mention that. I've transferred stuff over ftp/http/ssh
up/down with no problem. On the other hand, as you point out, bind9
uses udp for queries initially, and openswan uses udp as well. I went
ahead and contacted my VPS provider's support, since there doesn't
seem to be much more I can do here on my own. So, we'll see what
finally fixes things. I'll post back here when that happens to close
this out. One more thing I forgot to mention here is that back when
bind9 was causing the machine to crash at boot, I brought down the
eth0 interface, and was able to stop/start bind9 as much as I wanted
without problems. So, it could very well be something with the
virtio_net module. Will be interesting to see what solves this.

> 
> BTW...  What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf?  Hope it just says
> "files dns" there.
> 
>   $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
>   hosts:  files dns
> 

I didn't touch that, so it is whatever wheezy installed by
default. Yes, when I run grep like you show above, I get back exactly
what you did. It has other lines in there, so the whole file doesn't
just say 

hosts:  files dns

all by itself. So, I assume you're asking if that one line just says
hosts:  files dns, not that the entire file consists of that,
and only that. If that is the intended question, the answer is
yes. Thanks again for your help Bob.

Greg


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