Chromium and more being broken, stop the breaker
Greetings, Some is offering de-installs of chromium in the normal debian update process, they need to be stopped. This morning someone was trying to get away with de-installing chromium-common and c++ software using the debian update process. They need to be stopped forthwith. Good luck. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Switch user causes screen to go blank
Greetings, When ones does a switch user from the application launch button then the screen goes blank and it stays that way until re-booted. This seems to have been introduced in Debian 12. Looking around there is no fix to this, only work arounds of varying effectiveness. One work around is to do a command line xdg-screensaver lock There might be something one can click on somewhere to have the same effect. With this I've so far been able to start another session without loosing anything. To go back to the first login I had to do a ctrl-alt-f2 then back using ctrl-alt-f7. This is a bug. It needs to be fixed. Initiate a screen saver lock then hack away at ctrl-alt-whatever until one has by-passed the "issues". If there's a better way or actual fix one would interested to know about it. Cheers frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nzZl2TTS
More printers in the Brother printer-driver-brlaser package
Greetings, There are drivers for more Brother laser printers in the package printer-driver-brlaser . One doesn't have to put up with Brother's atrocious install script to set up the DCP-1610W. The driver package from the Debian repository doesn't produce the extraneous squiggles and blobs either. Not so far. Good luck. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz , ZL2TTS
For syslog : apt-get install rsyslog
To restore a readable and accessible syslog in Debian 12.0 enter apt-get install rsyslog One doesn't need to do anything with the journal suite. I installed rsyslog-doc as well. It is in: /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html The logs appear to be set up to rotate etc already in: /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/ This seems to restore other logs as well. To implement and maintain a system there should be a text log which is immediately accessible. The current default logging is unsatisfactory and needs to include a text log. One can easily stop it later. This can be done with rsyslog etc already... Cheers CTF Jansen, frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Where is Debian 11 installer for amd64 that works please ?
Greetings I have been trying to install Debian 11 on an Asus from 2018 with i5 using amd64 install DVD's with 11.1.0 and 11.2.0 and a net install CD with 11.2.0 . All three have fallen over because of installer bugs. There is currently a Debian 9 system on the laptop that went on without difficulty. Am trying to install it to an external hard disk so it can be tested and debugged without much damage to the running Debian 9 system. The Debian 11.2.0 net install CD is the unofficial one with non free firmware. Good to have all the drivers in one go. It comes straight off the Debian website, is unmodified and is on a CD. Where/how do I get one that works please ? An alternate plan is to install from a Debian 10 net inst CD, non free, amd64. This one went on to another machine without difficulty . Then wait and see whether the Debian 12 installer is any better. Thanks. C.T.F. Jansen, ZL2TTS
Where is a list of kernel messages ?
Greetings, Where is there a list of linux kernel messages ? So far not found on : - google - Debian linux or kernel documentation, specifically linux-doc etc. - not seem in /usr/share/doc - www.kernel.org If they are there then it's time for the discovery process to be shortened. Two messages that I'm interested in are : kernel: [ 6997.564065] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#3 data cmplt err -71 uas-tag 4 inflight: CMD kernel: [ 6997.564108] usb 2-1.4: stat urb: status -71 The machine currently has Debian 9 and a new disk dock and new internal hard disk set to go in the disk dock. The messages may be a result of the OS being too back level for the newer hardware. A Debian 11 implementation is in process. Thanks. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Debian 11 freezes/hangs after boot
Greetings, Installed the Debian 11 Live DVD on a USB stick then a DVD. Both hardly respond to the keyboard or mouse after some minutes. Seen the full desktop once. The desktop usually stops when the pointer appears on the grey screen. A ctrl-alt-f2 and ctrl-alt-f3 sometimes shows a prompt at first then stops after the second or third command. The escape key sometimes shows a usual boot sequence without any error indications. Got a peek at the bottom page of the syslog which had a repeated sequence of "PCIe Bus Error " messages . Not sure if these are relevant. There are plenty of "failed to start Journal Service" messages but these might not be relevant either. Scattered on the ctrl-alt-f1 , f2 and f3 screens. On one file on the last page saw a number of messages which included localhost systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in First Boot Complete being skipped After that there were a number of further "Condition check resulted in being skipped" messages. These, at a guess, look like they may be relevant. The machine is an Asus X541U, Intel I5 chipset. Three and a half years old. No modifications. It loaded Debian 9 without problems. The wifi/blue tooth card is turned off because of voluminous error messages. Saw on forums.debian.net a possible fix : edit /etc/default/grub so that it has the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash reboot=pci" the "reboot=pci" is the necessary change. Any comments ? Does this work ? Thanks. I intended to see what surprises may be lurking within by trying to run the Debian 11 Live DVD, amd64, KDE. The current plan is to collect possible fixes then install Debian 11 amd64 KDE on an external disk so I can get at the logs and generally experiment with it. When it works sufficiently then install it on the main system. Cheers frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nzZL2TTS
Documentation for gufw message "UFW AUDIT"
Greetings, Where is documentation that describes the messages from gufw or ufw please. Of particular interest are lines in syslog and journalctl output with UFW AUDIT in them. What does this mean ? There are queries on the Ubuntu forums but no usable answer. Nothing in the man pages or /usr/share /ufw or for gufw. Seen nothing yet in the iptables documentation. Nothing of use in /usr/share/doc/gufw or ufw. The website referred to here for ufw.org has nothing to do with firewalls. Haven't read the gufw source code yet ... frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Hex editor with ASCII line underneath the line of hex.
Greetings, Which hex editor shows a line of hex with the corresponding ASCII under the line of hex ? Having the ASCII off to the right is of limited use. Looking at a formatted dump one sees the ASCII, EBCDIC etc *under* the hex and not far away on the other side of the page. shed is the closest so far with the hex in a column down the page and the corresponding ASCII etc next to it. It is not that easy to read, having the hex across the page with the corresponding ASCII etc directly underneath is preferred. Thanks. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Brother DCP-1510 drivers wipe /opt on install
Greetings, The Brother DCP-1510 printer drivers etc installer wiped /opt except for it self . The same as over four years ago. One shudders to think that one actually pays them to produce that. The instructions to do before running the installer use two commands which are not to be found on the system or repository; lppasswd and aa-complain. Did none of the pre-install instructions. The installer ran to completion. It did install three 32 bit libraries for c and c++ . The test page printed ok. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Do Brother DCP-1510 drivers install ok ?
Greetings, Do the Brother DCP-1510 printer drivers install ok ? The last time the install script wiped /opt except for it self . So far on having a look one sees that they say to run lppasswd except this command is not on the system and has been deprecated from cups. On a previous release of Debian neither lp nor lpadmin in /etc/group has any entries yet I can print and root can modify cups as necessary. I'll have a closer look at lpadmin for whatever it sets up in cups. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Wifi/Bluetooth from Realtek in Asus X541U does "correctable" errors.
Greetings, Buying the said Asus X541U notebook, Microsoft Windows does not show errors but other people complain of spotty performance from the Realtek Wifi/Bluetooth unit in it. Install Debian 9 then the console shows a stream of "correctable errors" from the said Realtek Wifi/Bluetooth unit. Fortunately the file systems here are large so /var does not fill. Suggest installing the hwinfo package to give useful information about what is going on in this machine. Haven't seem any mention of that anywhere. The pcie address/port/etc has a 1c.5 on the right. This is the same on all units. They do not all have loose boards or hardware faults. It appears that Intel has upgraded the processor but that the Realtek Wifi/Bluetooth unit has not kept up, it is a back level or otherwise sufficiently defective unit. One could turn off the error notifications but some consider these necessary information. Other people tie themselves in knots experimenting with alternate drivers but not to any useful effect. One could also replace the Realtek Wifi/Bluetooth unit with one that works properly. Is there a suitable replacement that a technician could install in the computer ? At the moment I'm inclined to blacklist the driver rtl8723be and use a wifi dongle in a USB port when necessary. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Zerodium buying Debian zero days
Greetings, On Friday 29 June slashdot.org had an article on Zerodium offering tens of thousands of dollars to buy Debian, other linux and BSD zero day security vulnerabilities. A heads up. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Brother DCP-1510 driver install script empties /opt
Greetings, Set up a Brother DCP-1510 laser printer and went to the Brother website for the drivers and install script for Debian systems. Downloaded the drivers and install script then ran the install script. It seemed to work without significant errors and completed with no error messages and the correct test page was printed from cups. Have Debian 7 using gnome classic. Later use showed that the previous contents of /opt had disappeared and there was only a brother directory in it. It did have firefox and thunderbird in it. These were duly restored. Haven't noticed anything else broken, yet. The Brother driver install script has a serious bug and should not be used unmodified. This is a major black mark for Brother, something for them to correct forthwith. Cheers frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546fab88.7090...@actrix.gen.nz
Grub2 missed Microsoft Windows 8.1 during Debian install
Greetings, Grub2 missed Microsoft Windows 8.1 on the internal hard disk during the install of Debian 7.1 to an external hard disk. It failed to detect another operating system in the mbr and was primed to over write it. A trap waiting to be sprung. This was on a Toshiba C50D-A with the UEFI settings all disabled and so on in the "Bios" so it would boot non UEFI media. Does that properly. The install worked well and Debian booted and worked well except for cosmetic screen effects when it changes environments. All AMD processor et al chips, no Intel or NVidia. No tweaks or additional action to get Debian going. The external hard disk is a USB3 unit connected to the notebook's USB3 port. Seat of the pants impression of overall performance doing web browsing and word processing is no noticeable waits. USB handling has improved. Cheers. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5380636a.2060...@actrix.gen.nz
Default kernel network variables, sysctl, not secure enough.
Greetings, Did a security audit on Debian 7 using tiger and found some less than secure settings for network variables in the kernel. One of the variables flagged was net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter . This and the rest in this group can be set in /etc/sysctl.conf . The commented out values in this file look for all the world like the correct settings for a reasonably secure system. The default values are different and leave openings that may be exploited. The "documentation" referred to at the top of /etc/sysctl.conf has no useful information in it. Haven't found any man pages yet that define these variables. Had a look at www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages but this was not sufficiently informative. Had a look in /usr/share/doc . Didn't notice anything. Looked through the package library for kernel documentation, information on sysctl and more besides : apt-cache search kernel this yielded a list : linux-doc-3.2 debian-kernel-handbook linux-doc Installed them and looked for man pages, nothing found, then through /usr/share/doc again. This had a number of extra files in it that seemed relevant but the variables set were not found as such. A look in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-32/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt defines the values for the previously mentioned variable, with rp_filter at the end of it. The variable itself was not listed in this file so a grep did not find it. One had to look through each possible relevant file, a number of them (by the way), and discover that the variable definitions were listed according to their relevant directory in /proc . In this case : /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter The actual value in /proc , the one being used by the system, was the default which needs to be tightened up. Editing /etc/sysctl.conf and uncommenting most of the settings will improve the situation. Someone put a README* in /etc/sysctl.d that suggested one put a local.conf file in /etc/sysctl.d . This may be a better way to do it but isn't documented anywhere, I think. It is less than obvious and may be hard to find later. Putting sysctl commands in start-up scripts may be challenging to find later but site procedures vary. The variables can be set using sysctl as well. How about modifying the supplied /etc/sysctl.conf so that the currently commented out settings are uncommented since these are obviously better and as recommended by various bodies as sound practise etc. No need to take these ideas on the chin Bob :-) Cheers, frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ed95a8.90...@actrix.gen.nz
put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB
Greetings, Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't be installed, don't know if it actually works with disks over 2TB. gparted worked but it had to be installed first, it was not on the system already. It is not on the base, minimum, system. Suggest that it be put on the minimum system since it should work with whats out there and these sizes will become more and more common. Saw quite a few web pages by people struggling with this. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52eae563.8030...@actrix.gen.nz
Security Audit of Debian 7 after install
Greetings, What security holes have been found in Debian 7 after installing it ? In the releases 5 and 6 tiger was run after the install and the significant events noticed were a world writable directory that shouldn't have been world writable. Just in case tiger or myself miss something ... Thanks for any information. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5250b1ad.9010...@actrix.gen.nz
No keyboard and mouse clicks after Debian 7 install
Greetings, Installed Debian 7.1.0 , amd64, seemed to go without any problems, but after the boot it only shows a watch symbol, this can be moved by the mouse but the keyboard and mouse clicks do nothing. Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing. Powered done and used rescue OS to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log . No relevant errors or warnings. Did see a number of [mi] EQ overflow messages. Have Nvidia video chipset on Asus PRO50G notebook. Had the same problem on Debian 6 install, no difference according to my notes. What fixed that was to modify /etc/default/grub file by changing line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.noaccel=1" then run the relevant grub command to put changes to this file into effect. Would this fix apply to Debian 7 as well ? Strange that the bug hasn't been fixed. Linus T. has a point regarding Nvidia ... Good thing Debian 7 was installed to an external hard disk first, so the production Debian 6 is unaffected, thought there might be problems with the graphics. Thanks for any information. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52475ee9.6090...@actrix.gen.nz
How to install Debian 7 to external hard disk
Greetings, Is there a preferred way to install Debian 7 from DVD to an external (USB) hard disk ? The whole external hard disk is to be used instead of the internal hard disk. This is to experiment with the new release (and discover fish hooks like graphics that don't work) while leaving the internal hard disk with the production Debian 6 on it completely alone. One then boots from either the external hard disk or the internal hard disk. A live Debian is not to be set up. Grub and the rest of the boot processing also goes on the external hard disk. To set this up, at what stage in the install process does one actually put the new release on to the external disk ? Does one need to also tell the install program where to put grub ? or does it do that automatically ? Is there any other special configuration one needs to do to properly put the new release on to the external hard disk ? It is vastly preferable not to unplug the internal hard disk or otherwise disrupt the functioning system. Of course the internal hard disk will be backed up before the attempted install ... Thanks for any information. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/521b2e0b.2080...@actrix.gen.nz
Re: Random root shell on logon screen
>> A Debian wheezy server sometimes shows root shells on the logon window. >You say Debian Wheezy. Good. You say services thin clients. How? >By what methods are the thin clients serviced? Are they NFS diskless? >Are they X terminals using XDMCP? Other? Its an xfce4 based system. The root shell, sometimes shells, overlay the login pane on the login screen. There is supposed to be no command line visible. >Most importantly you say a "root shell on the login window" but that >needs more description. Are you running a graphical login manager >such as xdm, gdm, gdm3, kdm, lightdm? If so which one are you using? Users have to enter a logon and password to login. >Is this a "kiosk" system with autologin enabled? The people there have been asked to collect information, when the root window appears, by entering : netstat -a -p -W -v -e -e > netstatdatetime ps -ef > psdatetime which will hopefully narrow down the process, parent process and so on. Haven't noticed anything in particular in /var/log about the ip address for that terminal. Thanks for any information. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51059ae6.3050...@actrix.gen.nz
Solved : firefox error libstdc++.so.6 missing
Greetings, Got an error about shared library libstdc++.so.6 missing after inadvertently downloading the 32 bit firefox on to an amd64 system. The firefox website gives makes no mention of 32/64 bit suitability. Did ldd on the firefox executable and it pointed to some libraries in the 32 bit directory ... It listed as missing the aforementioned file which is definitely in /lib , 64 bit by default. Hunted around for a 64 bit firefox and found one mentioned on the firefox support website in /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-86_64/en-US there are two other English "variants". Worked like a charm after this one went in. Iceweasel is too far behind and firefox seems to have improved enough. Cheers. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, Z2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b049ce.9040...@actrix.gen.nz
firefox error libstdc++.so.6: cannot open
Greetings, installed firefox but when it is run it falls over with error message : firefox: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This file is at /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.13 Tried putting a symlink in /lib /usr/local/lib and the main firefox directory which has the firefox files, /opt/firefoxx/firefox . The symlink is libstdc++.so.6 -> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13 None of the symlinks have worked yet, same error message. It is an amd64 system. Any ideas on how to cause firefox 17.0 on debian squeeze to pickup the "missing" library ? Thanks. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b0125f.3010...@actrix.gen.nz
Setting /tmp size.
Greetings, The 100 Mb recommended size for /tmp is far too small and out of date. Some of the others including / are also too small. I ran out of space for krita, had a look, and decided 5Gb would be a safe over estimate. krita now works. Prior to the /tmp partition increase I put a symlink in /tmp for Krita's big directory to the partition with the home directories which happens to have plenty of space. Crude but effective. You might have difficulty with variable directory names. There's plenty of disk here and no need to scrimp so over sizing /tmp is straight forward. The recommended / size looks smallish, 1 Gb is ample, here. Better too much for / than too little. Here have partitions for /, swap, /tmp, /var and /usr . The home directories are a symlink to /usr because the system does little or no writing to /usr so its no disaster if it fills. Have only one hard disk. Good luck, frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4c93c2.9070...@actrix.gen.nz
Does Debian 6.0.2.1 for amd64 work properly ?
Greetings, Is Debian 6.0.2.1, or something more recent, for the amd64 architecture OK ? It will be used to upgrade Debian 5.0.6 on an Asus PRO50G notebook. Thanks. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e237b3a.5020...@actrix.gen.nz
Problem flushing buffers for USB devices.
Greetings, The flushing of buffers for devices plugged into a USB port is problematic. When writing data to a USB stick it usually took two attempts to write a directory to a USB stick. The first attempt didn't show the directory was there when it was removed then plugged back in. I then used sync a couple of times to flush the buffers after write then lo and behold the data remained on the USB stick after the first write. This is a problem, that data should not need a follow up sync for it to be properly written to the USB stick. Recently a dialup modem was plugged in to the computer using a serial to USB cable. This worked up to a point. Sometimes it is very slow especially on thunderbird (icedove) and on some websites, especially google's. After doing a sync every couple of seconds one notices that the read-data light on the modem comes on soon after the sync command and the data from website comes much more quickly. That is a bug which needs to fixed; one shouldn't have to run a script to do a sync every couple of seconds just so that USB traffic goes to and fro as it should. Is there an adequate fix ? Have Debian 5.04 here on an Asus notebook, a PRO50G . Problem especially noticeable on iceweasel and icedove from this release. Didn't noticed any rise in CPU or memory use for any of the processes, not the kernel processes with a k prefix either. Nothing stood out on the syslog or anything else in /var/log on an initial inspection. Thanks in advance. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d02f903.7060...@actrix.gen.nz
daemon ata/0
Greetings, what does back ground process ata/0 do ? Where is it documented ? Also, what does back ground process ksuspend_usbd do ? Thanks in advance. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
ksuspend_usbd : what does this daemon do ?
Greetings, What does the daemon ksuspend_usb do ? I'm making a list of the back ground processes and what they do then will post it here. Save others hunting around for what what little there is. Haven't found any lists on-line anywhere yet. Apparently there's an O'Reilly book that lists daemons and functions but haven't see it anywhere local. Thanks in advance. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Apt : adding etch CD's to lenny apt archive
Greetings, I'm trying to add a debian 4.0 CD set to a debian 5.0 apt archive using apt-cdrom but the system doesn't recognise the debian 4 CD's. In the release notes for Debian 5.0 there's a section on problems with reading etch cdroms on a lenny system. The suggestions were done but the etch cd's were not read. CD's from a sarge, debian 3.1, were recognised but failed to be added to the archive for signature/key related reasons. Below is the /etc/apt/sources.list file that is supposed to control the apt archive access followed by the trace of an attempt to add a sarge CD to the apt archive and lastly the trace of an attempt to add an etch CD to the apt archive. *** list active lines of /etc/apt/sources.list on debian 5.0 system throwrug:/home/frank666/debian5# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20090214-19:45]/ lenny contrib main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free *** try to add debian 3.1, sarge, CD to debian 5.0, lenny, system : throwrug:/home/frank666/debian5# apt-cdrom add Mounting CD-ROM... Identifying.. [61c302d1350774ad516ba5cbf512d9aa-2] Scanning disc for index files.. Found 0 package indexes, 6 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 2 signatures Found label 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 _Sarge_ - Copyleft Standard i386 Binary-1 (20050405)' This disc is called: 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 _Sarge_ - Copyleft Standard i386 Binary-1 (20050405)' Copying package lists...gpgv: Signature made Tue 05 Apr 2005 07:32:50 NZST using DSA key ID 4F368D5D gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found gpgv: Signature made Fri 21 Nov 2003 08:52:24 NZDT using DSA key ID 38C6029A gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found E: Sub-process gpgv returned an error code (2) W: Signature verification failed for: /cdrom/dists/sarge-secured/Release.gpg E: Sub-process gpgv returned an error code (2) W: Signature verification failed for: /cdrom/dists/sarge-secured/non-US/Release.gpg *** try to add debian 4.0, etch, CD to debian 5.0, lenny, system : *** This CD set does add to a debian 3.1, sarge, system. throwrug:/home/frank666/debian5# apt-cdrom add Mounting CD-ROM... Identifying.. [412d60c1a636b727e0111871e3a54705-2] Scanning disc for index files.. Found 0 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0 signatures E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian Disc throwrug:/home/frank666/debian5# exit What is a method that works for reading previous debian release CD's into the apt archive ? Any reference or ideas would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Disabling bluetooth and wireless
Greetings, What is a method for disabling bluetooth and wireless on a laptop with Debian 5.0 ? The radio link switch on the side can be moved accidentally so the system needs to be modified to stop use of bluetooth and wireless. I disabled a number of daemons to do with bluetooth and wireless, can the computer now no longer be accessed by an external station and will an application trying to use bluetooth or wireless fail to do so ? Ethernet is not needed so it can be broken. The system uses PPP over a USB port and then to the serial port on a modem to do dialup etc to an ISP. The list of daemons disabled is : networking network-manager network-manager-dispatcher bluetooth ifupdown avahi-daemon wpa-ifupdown These would all have been disabled anyway during the lockdown phase in the implementation. Securing wireless and bluetooth needed to be done sooner because the drivers for both are active so its possible that crackers etc in the area can penetrate this system at any time. Do the drivers for wireless and bluetooth need to be disabled ? perhaps using modprobe or something else ? If so, how does one do this and is it documented anywhere ? Debian is great but the documentation is sparse and often widely distributed. Exactly what the daemons listed above do and the effect is of disabling them has not been discovered yet. Information websites that require a response to their port access attempts above 31000 can't be accessed by this particular system. This includes some of the Debian websites, time this "feature" was removed. Thanks in advance. frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz , ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
vmsplice bug, javascript vulnerable ?
Greetings, Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1, relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ? Is it possible for remote programs, say a website that one is browsing with javascript turned on [shudder], to do the vserver/vmsplice root compromise or otherwise use it to degrade the system in some way ? Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vserver root compromise, remote exploitation possible ?
Greetings, Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1, relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ? Is it possible for remote programs, say a website that one is browsing with javascript turned on [shudder], to do the vserver/vmsplice root compromise or otherwise use it to degrade the system in some way ? Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xconfig for Dell LCD's during etch install
Greetings, Is the Xconfig* file in X11, or whatever Xorg (?) uses, correctly setup during the install of Debian 4.0r1 on a Dell 3000 box that has a LCD display ? I ask because Debian 3.1 failed to detect the characteristics of said LCD displays causing some extra running around to find out why and what to do about it. Copied an ok XConfig* file from a knoppix system which despite its small size and being a live CD did correctly figure out all the hardware. Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZL2TTS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 update
Greetings, On the matter of updating the 2.4.27 kernel on the intel 386 architecture, to apply the fixes for DSA10181-1 (CVE-2005-0449). Which of the current files in security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.27-i386 should one download to apply the fix ? Is this the correct directory ? Are other directories used as well ? I'd rather find out the exact files needed then download them then let apt-get get to work on them in my machine. The dial-in line here isn't that hot ... There's also the matter of using root over the internet; never. Thanks Joris H and Tomas B for bringing the matter up. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
