Re: exim4 stopped delivering local mail after upgrade (sid)

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* m s  [2020-06-02 15:28 -0400]:

> I'm running sid and after upgrading packages today, exim stopped
> working. It's keeping all my local mail in /var/spool/exim4/msglog and
> not delivering it, and even when I type "runq" it won't deliver the
> mail.
> 
> # exim4 -qff -v
> LOG: MAIN
>   Warning: No server certificate defined; will use a selfsigned one.
>  Suggested action: either install a certificate or change
> tls_advertise_hosts option
> LOG: queue_run MAIN
>   Start queue run: pid=10734 -qff
> delivering 1jgC7c-00028M-Af (queue run pid 10734)
> R: system_aliases for marie@localhost
> R: userforward for marie@localhost
> R: procmail for marie@localhost
> R: maildrop for marie@localhost
> R: lowuid_aliases for marie@localhost (UID 1000)
> R: local_user for marie@localhost
> T: appendfile for marie@localhost
> LOG: MAIN
>   == marie@localhost R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-6): mailbox
> /var/mail/ has wrong uid (0 != 1000)
> LOG: queue_run MAIN
>   End queue run: pid=10734 -qff
> 
> 
> # dpkg -l |grep exim
> ii  exim4 4.92.3-1
> all  metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) installation
> ii  exim4-base4.92.3-1
> amd64support files for all Exim MTA (v4) packages
> ii  exim4-config  4.94-1
> all  configuration for the Exim MTA (v4)
> ii  exim4-daemon-light4.92.3-1
> amd64lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

First you have to run an update to get a consistent version 4.94-1.

After that you'll find /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/NEWS.Debian.gz with
a proposed instruction to handle $local_user interactions.

Elimar
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Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Andrei POPESCU  [2019-07-07 20:31 +0300]:

> On Du, 07 iul 19, 20:17:41, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > 
> > You need to update your copy of the keys. Those developers have very
> > likely updated the expiration day and moved it again to some point in
> > the future. Debian developers' keys can be updated with WKD protocol
> > usign their debian.org email address:
> > 
> > gpg --auto-key-locate clear,nodefault,wkd --locate-key d...@debian.org
> 
> Apparently a 'gpg --refresh-keys ' is not enough, not sure 
> why...
> 
> My gpg.conf has:
> 
> keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net

Be carefull to use sks keyservers!

Have a look at:
https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f

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Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Richard Owlett  [2019-06-14 06:10 -0500]:

> I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
> between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The
> file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.

There is a fantastic tool to get an overview of your partitions:

# apt get install dfc

Just read the manpage and get famous info's like from:

$ dfc -WT -q name -sf -d -txfs,nfs,ext4

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Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* rhkra...@gmail.com  [2018-12-25 09:21 -0500]:

[...] 
> But now I'm at this point:
> 
> root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   firmware-linux-nonfree
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> root@s31:~#
> 
> I don't know that I'm worried about that, but if someone knows what I need
> to do, I'll try it.

# apt update && apt dist-upgrade

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Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* rh kramer  [2018-12-24 18:10 -0500]:

> On my Jessie system, for something like the last 2 to 3 months, I've been
> getting an error like the following whenever I do an apt-get update /
> apt-get upgrade cycle.

[...]

> Ok, it looks like I have the r8169 as I see this:
> 
> r8169  68066  0

[...]

> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module
> r8169

$ apt-file search rtl8168d-1.fw
firmware-realtek: /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw

You need to
# apt install firmware-realtek
> 
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device

It seems that there is some space missing on your hard drive. What
tells:

$ df -h

?

Elimar
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Re: Sound suddenly not working.

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Default User  [2018-11-03 13:09 -0400]:

> Hi.
> 
> Running Debian, 64-bit Unstable, Cinnamon DE, on laptop.
> 
> Not very knowledgeable about sound stuff.
> 
> Sound okay last night.
> 
> Today did updates, no sound at all. (When in doubt, blame updates.)

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912721

Fix is prepared.

Elimar
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  There are just a few running with Windows or even CE ;-)

Re: Sid: NFS after upgrade

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Grzesiek Sójka  [2018-10-28 11:27 +]:

> Hi there,
> 
> I just upgraded Sid and now I get the following during boot:
> 
> [] Configuring network interfaces.../etc/init.d/rpcbind: 42:
> /etc/init.d/rpcbind: stat: not found
> /run/rpcbind not owned by root failed!
> Starting NFS common utilities: statd

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911510

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Re: Future of systemd-shim?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Stephan Seitz  [2018-07-12 12:59 +0200]:

> Hi!
> 
> I noticed that systemd-shim isn’t compatible anymore to the last systemd
> version in testing, so systemd-sysv will be installed.
> 
> This is mentioned in bug
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903295.
> 
> Is anyone working on this problem? Or does this mean, it’s the end for
> sysvinit (at least for desktops)?

I am running sysvinit server systems with only libsystemd0
installed. Why do you need systemd-shim?

Elimar
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Re: renaming network devices with udev & systemd

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Andrew Wood  [2018-04-06 20:21 +0100]:

> How does one go about renaming an ethernet device from say enps1 to eth0
> under Stretch, the old udev rules I used to use pre systemd under
> /etc/udev/rules.d no longer seem to have any effect.

Set 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0"' in /etc/default/grub, run
`update-grub` and reboot.

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Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* rhkra...@gmail.com  [2018-01-29 10:47 -0500]:

[...] 
> On the other hand, if I download kernel source, I would need GCC, and a 
> version that is sufficient for the code.

One can check the compiler version the running kernel is built with
by:

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.14.15-toy-lxtec-amd64 (riesebie@toy) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Debian 
7.3.0-1)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 30 14:20:49 CET 2018
  
^

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Re: EDA software.

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Joe  [2017-12-06 18:31 +]:

[...]
> I'm not sure what kind of connection with LibreCAD there could be: DXF
> is a much more complex file structure, and I think the most that could
> be done would be to transfer PCB outlines and mounting points. There is
> some provision for component height in PCB, but no easy way to
> manipulate values, and I don't believe LibreCAD can do anything in the
> way of 3D anyway.

kicad seems to be able to im/export dxf format. There are also
existing powerful 3-D libraries [0]. With those implemented you'll
be able to design 3-D pcb's and export them as STEP-214 to pull them
in to a 3-D capable CAD system which is useful to design housings,
complete devices etc. ...

Elimar
[0] http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm
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Re: EDA software.

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* pe...@easthope.ca  [2017-12-06 08:57 -0800]:

> Hi,
> 
> At https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTinker/Desktop#EDA is a list of 
> packages for electronics design automation.  According to various 
> documents, Electric, Fritzing and gEDA, at least, can help to create 
> schematics.  I use librecad but have never used schematic construction 
> software.  Which of the EDA packages will be a good starting point?  
> Is any integrated with Librecad?

I'd give kicad a shot:

apt-cache show kicad

Have a look at http://kicad-pcb.org/ too.

Elimar
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Re: How to change the console font?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Hugo Vanwoerkom  [2017-09-27 21:14 -0500]:

> I used to be able to change the console font with a GUI program.
> But I have forgotten how to do that. Console setup doesn't do it, I don't
> know what that does.

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Elimar
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Re: Stretch vim doesnt cut and paste

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Reco  [2017-08-24 18:16 +0300]:

[...]
> vim(1) does not mention defaults.vim, so it must be a case of obsolete
> documentation.
> That, and I'm too lazy to view vim source.

Read file:///usr/share/doc/vim-common/NEWS.Debian.gz

Elimar
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  can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-)

Re: Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake Hyper-threading bug update

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Hi Henrique,

* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh  [2017-07-23 14:56 -0300]:

> TL;DR: Intel has issued public microcode updates in 2017-07-07, fixing
> the hyper-threading errata on every affected processor.  These updates
> have been included in the stable and oldstable point releases from
> 2017-07-22.
> 
> The microcode updates in the "intel-microcode" packages with the base
> version of 3.20170707.1 fix the hyper-threading defect on every known-
> affected Intel processor, including Kaby Lake and all variants of
> Skylake.
> 
> Updated intel-microcode packages are already available for oldstable,
> stable, testing, unstable, jessie-backports-sloppy and
> stretch-backports.

many, many thanks. You did a famous job!

Elimar
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Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* GiaThnYgeia  [2017-03-07 00:11 +]:

> I am not very confident I am doing this right and it seems wrong,  I
> can't locate any documentation that results into proper options.
> I tried backing up an 8gb USB that has 2 partitions in it, one had 1.7gb
> of data on it.
> I used dd if=/dev/sdb of=usbfilename.iso
> The resulting image was the full size of the disk.

/dev/sdX is always the whole device. If you want the two partitions
sepearated you have to choose /dev/sdXA, which in your case should
be /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 I assume.

Elimar
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Re: `No candidate version found for alsa-base'

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Rodolfo Medina  [2017-02-28 13:24 +]:

> Hi.
> 
> I want to install alsa-base but get:
> 
>  No candidate version found for alsa-base

alsa-base has been removed from distribution [0]. It's only purpose was
to clean old conffiles.

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852455

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Re: The same environment variables everywhere

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* GiaThnYgeia  [2017-02-27 11:38 +]:

[...]
> For a while I've been trying to set the locale but everytime I install a
> package it returns locale not set returning to default C
> I used /etc/environment, and no change.
> I suspect this may be due to some skipped step on the original
> installation

Run as root:

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

You should have opened a new thread for that issue.

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Re: Not sure where to report this issue...

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Robin Cook  [2017-01-31 08:12 -0600]:

[...] 

> Error messages from Xorg.0.log
> 
> [   877.670] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank 
> counter

Feed your search engine with
"drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter"

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Re: change password prompt

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Reco  [2016-09-19 18:21 +0300]:

[...] 
> This line in /etc/sudoers works for me:
> 
> Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:"

Try this:
Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="^[[41;33;01mENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE: 
  ^[[00m"

Elimar
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Re: no sound

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Jesse Stephen  [2016-07-15 00:31 -0400]:

> I don't seem to have sound on mazzila. It works playing a dvd but not on
> you tube

If you're running pulseaudio use pavucontrol to choose an
appropriate device. Otherwise run alsamixer and press  to select
your device.

Elimar
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Re: Browser Flakiness under Jessie -- Why?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Lisi Reisz  [2016-07-06 16:12 +0100]:

[...]
> Or, if you don't care about your configuration files, purge firefox-esr in 
> the 
> first place.

That won't purge $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/.default.
Debian's package installation never touches $HOME!

Elimar
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Re: Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Hi Mika,

* Michael Prokop  [2016-07-05 17:34 +0200]:

> Hi,
> 
> here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie.
> 
> If you're interested in all the new features, bugfixes and changes
> that systemd received since its version 215-17+deb8u4 (the one
> available from jessie) you might wanna give it a try.
> 
> The backport is based on what will be released as v230-6 for Debian
> unstable soonish. Once systemd v230-6 migrated to testing and if I
> receive enough feedback I'll upload systemd v230-6 officially
> towards jessie-backports then.

Are you aware of the 'Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release'
thread at debian-devel [0]?

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00054.html

Elimar
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Re: samba4 stopped working [resolved]

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> [2016-07-04 12:36 -0400]:

> On 04/07/16 12:29 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > * Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> [2016-07-04 11:36 -0400]:
> > 
> > > I've been using Samba4 on Debian/Jessie since it became "stable". After 
> > > the
> > > last upgrade however, I got a massive failure.
> > [...]
> > > [2016/07/04 11:29:48.460701,  0]
> > > ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:324(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
> > >/usr/sbin/winbindd: Failed to exec child - No such file or directory
> > What tells
> > $ dpkg -l | grep winb
> > ?
> > 
> > Elimar
> 
> Thanks. Noticing the versions mismatch, I (re)installed winbind and it
> grabbed the current version. Restarting fixed everything.

Status rc means: removed, config left.

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Re: samba4 stopped working

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Gary Dale  [2016-07-04 11:36 -0400]:

> I've been using Samba4 on Debian/Jessie since it became "stable". After the
> last upgrade however, I got a massive failure.
[...]
> [2016/07/04 11:29:48.460701,  0]
> ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:324(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
>   /usr/sbin/winbindd: Failed to exec child - No such file or directory

What tells 
$ dpkg -l | grep winb
?

Elimar
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Re: Neomutt packages available

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Stephen Allen <marathon.duran...@gmail.com> [2016-06-24 11:28 -0400]:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:37:35PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am pleased to announce the availability of neomutt [0] packages for
> > Debian. Hints for installation you'll find at [1].
[...]
> > [0] http://www.neomutt.org/
> > [1] http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv
> > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825821
> > [3] https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt
> 
> I was going to install it, then noticed your note that it will remove
> exiting mutt etc. packages. Why? I don't want that kind of behaviour,
> unless I'm missing something and they can't be on the same system
> together?

Neomutt is the same as pristine mutt but patched with features like
sidebar, notmuch, indexcolor etc. So you can either use neomutt or
the Debian mutt/mutt-patched. The executable binary is /usr/bin/mutt
in both cases. If you want to switch back to Debian mutt you have to
remove/purge neomutt-common first as the mutt package has no Replace
yet.

Your configuration can stay as it is, though. Maybe you want to
configure the neomutt features with some customized rc-files
documented in /usr/share/doc/neomutt-common/examples.

So there is nothing magic with neomutt at all..

Elimar
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Neomutt packages available

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Hi all,

I am pleased to announce the availability of neomutt [0] packages for
Debian. Hints for installation you'll find at [1].

I've packaged neomutt for Debian. A Debian ITP [2] is filed. The
binaries are build in a sid environment. The sources are fetched
from [3]. The neomutt branch is used. I'll update packages as
needed. Please test the packages and let me know of any further
glitches you find. If you want, you can open an issue on [3]. The
Debian Bug Tracking System is not involved as the package isn't
uploaded yet, but will be soon.

Packages for amd64, i386 and ppc can be installed from [1].

Thanks in advance for your cooperation

Elimar

[0] http://www.neomutt.org/
[1] http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825821
[3] https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt

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Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> [2016-05-18 12:31 +0100]:

> On Tuesday 17 May 2016 18:29:36 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
[...]
> > /etc/init.d/networking stop does ifdown -a
> > /etc/init.d/networking start does ifup -a
> 
> But 
> # ifdown -a; ifup -a
> is much more elegant!!

I would use '&&' in favour of ';' as ';' doesn't wait to complete
the job:

# ifdown -a && ifup -a

is much more secure!!

Elimar
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Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocel...@nuagelibre.org> [2016-05-17 19:09 +0200]:

> Le 17/05/2016 à 14:34, Mimiko a écrit :
> > On 17.05.2016 15:16, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated"
> > 
> > This was the only tool to fully restart all networking even the
> > interface thru which connection is made.
> > Are the `ifdown eth & ifup eth` the only option now?
> > 
> 
> Just to add these commands in that thread.
> 
> To restart all the interfaces as they are defined in
> /etc/network/interfaces, I do :
> 
> # ifdown -a; ifup -a

/etc/init.d/networking stop does ifdown -a
/etc/init.d/networking start does ifup -a

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Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Gene Heskett  [2016-05-17 11:26 -0400]:

[...] 
> Because of some rare condition, you make 
> all the other users with a less rare condition suffer?

I was just talking about facts, nothing else. If you open
/etc/init.d/networking (ifupdown_0.7.8) in an editor and scroll down
to a line containing "log_warning_msg" (must be line number 157 and
173) you see what the wheezy standard is..

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Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Gene Heskett  [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]:

> On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
[...]
> > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing
> > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > [1] Schocking Truth! Not everything seen on the Internet is true!
> >
> > -- tomás
> 
> About 4th or 5th down in that list of hits, this one labeled for debian, 
> is a bit long winded  but finishes up recommending one edit his 
> personal .bash-aliases file to contain this:
> 
> alias netrestart="sudo nohup sh -c 'invoke-rc.d networking stop; date; 
> echo sleeping; sleep 2; echo waking; date; invoke-rc.d networking 
> start'"
> 
> Is that simple?  Elegant and correct?  No, if the networking script was 
> broken, its still broken!

Again, I recommend to read [0] and [1].

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550240
[1] 
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

Elimar
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Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> [2016-05-17 15:08 +0200]:

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated"
> 
> I don't know about yours, but *my* /etc/init.d/networking is alive
> and healthy! More to the point, it's so useful to me that I'd rewrite
> it, should it fall off Debian.
> 
> Instead of scaring off people by some strange warning picked out of
> the huge echo chamber of the Intertubesi [1], how about doing some
> real research and explain to people what's up?

I don't understand why  "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" is
scaring off people? It is a matter of fact! Reading the results will
give all answers a user want.

> /etc/init.d/networking will bring your system to its default state
> (like after a reboot). Thus, the interfaces marked with "auto" in
> /etc/network/interfaces will be up, all others, down.

Well, you must be sure that all interfaces in your system get their
assigned names. To make sure they will, you have to define udev
rules, probably by hand if not done by udev itself ( i.e.
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules).

> Anything you changed manually since boot (e.g. by issuing an
> explicit "sudo ifup eth0", same for an ifdown) will be gone.
> This could be, depending on circumstances, somewhat unexpected,
> unwanted, or totally intended.
> 
> In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing
> what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me.

On modern systems running systemd (and in some circumstances
sysvinit sytems as well) you may get unwanted if names. So
users have to keep their eyes on what is deprecated (which may be
valid only for future updates) and can be obtained on legacy
installations as well. Just FYI:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

So rely on the kernel in naming network interfaces is nothing else
as a guess.

Sigh
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Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Gene Heskett  [2016-05-17 08:05 -0400]:

> Greetings all;
> 
> 32 bit Debian wheezy, updated at least daily.
> 
> This fact was brought to my attention because I needed a path to a router 
> I needed to do a hard reset on, and reconfigure to do my stuff, but my 
> normal home network isn't on the usual 192.168.1.1 class C, and a hard 
> reset puts the router back to the 1.1 address.
> 
> So in order to use eth1 as a path to this router, I have to do a separate
> 
> sudo ifconfig eth1 up
> 
> as a sudo service networking restart will not restart the second eth1 
> stanza in my interfaces file, starting only eth0.
> 
> Normally the interface is not even graced with a cat5 in the socket, and 
> ATM it is but the far end of 5 feet of cat5 is laying on the floor.
> 
> Is it possible to make this init.d/networking script start everything it 
> finds in the interfaces file?

Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated"

Elimar
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Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Ralph Sanchez  [2016-05-05 03:17 -0400]:

> Update: like i said, i am running from the install from within the Live
> boot from usb. I configured network, partitioning, etc and got to
> installing system. Bar is about 95 percent full and says retreiving file 1
> of 2 when it switches to a windows saying ::/media/cdrom/:Please insert
> the disc labeled: 'Debian GNU/Linux 8 _jessie_-Official Snapshot amd64
> LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20160402-2159' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press
> enter.

Can you post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list ?

Elimar
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Re: apt cache full, mandb update failed

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Bonno Bloksma  [2016-04-20 06:52 +]:

> Hi,
> 
[...]
> 
> My /var partition had filled up, it seems out of the 3GB there was about 
> 2.5GB in /var/cache/apt/archives.
> The solution was simple, just an apt-get autoclean, I now have 2.2GB free on 
> my /var partition. ;-)
> 
> But. What wanted apt write to that mandb and was that important? 
>   /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/8774: No space left on device
> Was that that man page for ssh or something like that?
> 
> After cleaning up I did another apt-get upgrade but it reported nothing to do.
> So if it failed to update some files why did it complete anyhow?

Because /var/cache/man/ resides on the apt-get autocleaned /var
partition?

Sigh
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Re: exim4 - tls errors

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Kamil Jońca  [2016-04-11 06:43 +0200]:

> tls_advertise_host = !*

I've tls_advertise_hosts = * and it works.

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Re: Jessie unable to start lvm2 on boot (raspbian)

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Jari Fredriksson  [2016-03-27 14:02 +0300]:

> arian kirjoitti 17.3.2016 17:50:
> >raspbian is not mainline debian. Maybe ask on raspbian support channels?
> >
> >>vgchange -a y
> >>service lvm2 start
> >>mount -a
> >
> >why the service lvm2 start? is lvm service disabled?
> >
> >please provide output of those commands.
> >
> >>Every time after a reboot the boot sequence aborts and sshd is not up
> >>(maybe because the /home is an lvm2-partition...)
> >
> >sshd should not bother about /home not being available. default setups
> >won't find users' authorized keys anymore obviously.
> 
> Output from those commands is expected: the services start.
> 
> They do not start on boot for *some reason I'm trying to figure out here in
> this post*. The "fix" to make the services startable seems to be the
> "vgchange -a". The boot process just cancels and no services will be up,
> including the sshd...
> 
> But why is this like it is...

Workaround:
cat /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/vgscan

#!/bin/sh
vgchange -ay

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Re: No links?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Hi Hans,

* Hans  [2016-03-14 09:30 +0100]:

> Hi list,
> 
> when I am updating my system I get the following messages:
> 
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1 is not a symbolic link
> 
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1 is not a symbolic link

Those files are not found in Debian packages. They seem to come from
some "Brother Printer" config files. Check whether you need them
(running a Brother device?) otherwise it should be save to delete
them.

Elimar

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Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Steve Matzura  [2016-01-10 11:19 -0500]:

> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:48:55 +0100, Sven wrote:
> 
> >You might want to check /var/log/messages for more verbose error
> >message. 
> 
> In three days, this is all messages has in it:
[...]

Well, that sould be /var/log/syslog.

> >And perhaps also run mount with the -v flag (or possibly -vvv).
> 
> # mount.cifs //box1/d /mnt/d -v -overs=2.1,username="Steve
> Matzura",password=""
> mount.cifs kernel mount options:
> ip=192.168.1.140,unc=\\box1\d,vers=2.1,user=Steve
> Matzura,pass=
> mount error(13): Permission denied

What happens if you just do

mount.cifs //box1/d /mnt/d -v -ousername="Steve Matzura"

Yes, without the _vers_ and _pass_ option.


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Re: dig works, but domain name still cannot be resolved

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Yang Yu  [2016-01-07 23:46 -0600]:

> dig can get A records of the domain name in question. But it looks
> like the response got rejected by the OS. Is it related to the
> wildcard?
> 
> 
> $ dig mint.lc.intuit.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u4-Debian <<>> mint.lc.intuit.com
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28437
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mint.lc.intuit.com.IN  A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mint.lc.intuit.com. 44  IN  CNAME   
> app.shared-prod.lc.a.intuit.com.
> app.shared-prod.lc.a.intuit.com. 59 IN  CNAME
> *.pod-2-prod-2.lc-shared-production.lc.a.intuit.com.
> *.pod-2-prod-2.lc-shared-production.lc.a.intuit.com. 59 IN CNAME
> lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com.
> lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com.
> 59 IN A 52.10.3.222
> lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com.
> 59 IN A 52.35.237.236
> lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com.
> 59 IN A 52.35.104.45
> 
> ;; Query time: 61 msec
> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 08 00:40:36 EST 2016
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 261
> 
> 
> $ ping mint.lc.intuit.com
> ping: unknown host mint.lc.intuit.com
> 

mint.lc.intuit.com is an alias of an alias of an alias:

$ host mint.lc.intuit.com
mint.lc.intuit.com is an alias for app.shared-prod.lc.a.intuit.com.
app.shared-prod.lc.a.intuit.com is an alias for 
*.pod-2-prod-2.lc-shared-production.lc.a.intuit.com.
*.pod-2-prod-2.lc-shared-production.lc.a.intuit.com is an alias for 
lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com.
lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com has 
address 52.35.237.236
lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com has 
address 52.35.104.45
lc-pod-2-prod-elb-1kic5vmf4eodj-1038427872.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com has 
address 52.10.3.222

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Re: how execute a script

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* shawn wilson  [2015-11-17 13:08 -0500]:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bannister
>  wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:

[...]

> >> communicated (via its extension). If you create a pdf, it is bad to not
> >> have the pdf extension - you've lost data.
> >
> > How have you lost data?
> >
> 
> You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
> an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
> cares as long as it works) but not so good for data that is processed
> by another program or a script I want to edit.

PDF files are recognized by their header not their extension. Create
a test.pdf. Copy it to test and test.blo. They will always be
recognized as pdf documents from evince and alike.

Elimar
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Re: alsa troubles

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* to...@tuxteam.de  [2015-10-19 18:12 +0200]:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:32:38AM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
[...]
> > > root@sbox:~# alsamixer
> > > ALSA lib dlmisc.c:254:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library 
> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
> > > cannot open mixer: No such device or address
> > 
> > Going down that series of directories with 'ls ', I don't
> > seem to have alsa-lib. I looked on the web, and all I could find
> > was source code for it. I doubt that compiling the code is
> > required for such a (seemingly) common library.
> > 
> > 'find / -iname "*alsa-lib*"' shows nothing anywhere.
> 
> What lets you think you need a package (or file) named alsa-lib?

He is right!

> There's no package alsa-lib; apt-file (recommended) shows a couple of
> packages having directories with that name, and there's a virtual
> package called just "alsa" -- I guess this will be all you need?

$ apt-file search libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
libasound2-plugins: 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so

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Re: jessie-backport bug

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> [2015-09-13 06:11 +1200]:

> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 06:18:09PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > * Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> [2015-09-12 18:03 +0200]:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Could you please post the output of commands in English, this can be
> > > > achieved by using 'LANG=C' before the actual command on the command
> > > > line.
> > > 
> > > LANG=C does not work. But try instead LANG=LC_ALL, this will work. :)
> > 
> > $ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > 
> > would be the correct command.
> 
> When did LANG=C stop working? and why?

It doesn't.

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Re: jessie-backport bug

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Hans  [2015-09-12 18:03 +0200]:

> 
> > Could you please post the output of commands in English, this can be
> > achieved by using 'LANG=C' before the actual command on the command
> > line.
> 
> LANG=C does not work. But try instead LANG=LC_ALL, this will work. :)

$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

would be the correct command.

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Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Tony van der Hoff  [2015-09-01 14:17 +0200]:

> On this jessie box I have started to see /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
> gradually filling the entire 2.7 GiB /var partition with hundreds of
> smallish files. Google show some results for a similar, but not
> identical problem for Ubuntu but I can't find anything matching this.
> 
> This problem has developed over the last few days.
> 
> A partial directory listing is attached (to circumvent wrapping).
> 
> Can anyone suggest a remedy to this problem, please?

Try

# apt-get clean

From apt-get(8):

clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It
removes everything but the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/.

So after an apt-get update /var/lib/apt/lists/partial should be
recharged at least to zero size.

Elimar


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Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Tony van der Hoff  [2015-09-01 17:47 +0200]:

[...] 
[...]
> Running apt-get update manually showed an error:
> Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-backports/non-free amd64 Packages
> and the directory started filling.

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie-backports non-free

works flawlesly here.

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Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk [2015-08-27 13:29 -0500]:

 Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de):
  * rlhar...@oplink.net rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]:
  
  [...]
   
   How can I determine the address without reinstalling?
  
  $ host $(hostname)
 
 $ host junk
 Host junk not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
 $
 
 ... whether junk is localhost, another PC on the LAN, or indeed junk.

So junk isn't assigned to your LAN's DHCP/DNS server.

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Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* rlhar...@oplink.net rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]:

[...]
 
 How can I determine the address without reinstalling?

$ host $(hostname)

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Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* ken geb...@mousecar.com [2015-08-20 06:53 -0400]:

 One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs
 Blu-Ray.  I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling
 reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?

Isn't a second hd in the CD-tray a better option? You have the
choice to configure:

Raid or
2nd data store or
install another os or
create a video pool or
copy whatever you want to boot on it or
use it just as a backup medium or
install as much as the capa admits ISO-Images on it or


Elimar 

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Re: unable to upgrade kde-full on sid

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Peter Baranyi peter.bara...@gmail.com [2015-08-09 10:46 -0400]:

[...]
 Following your link I did not find any information for users, only
 developers. Do I have to wait until all packages are updated or is there
 another way?

Іf you want to stay with sid: No.

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Re: unable to upgrade kde-full on sid

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* Peter Baranyi peter.bara...@gmail.com [2015-08-09 08:51 -0400]:

 hi,
 
 I have a unstable debian installed and I cannot upgrade kde-full

It seems to be a matter of the gcc-5 transition [0].

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/08/msg0.html

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Re: Openstack images default password

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* Valerio Pachera siri...@gmail.com [2015-08-07 14:57 +0200]:

 Hi all, I downloaded debian image from
 
 http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/
 
 What is the root default password?

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Re: IP address

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* John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org [2015-07-17 08:32 -0500]:

 I have Jessie set up for CLI only. The machine is on a local network 
 using dhcp. What command will tell me what ip address it is using?

$ dig  +short `hostname -f`

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Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

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* August Karlstrom fusionf...@gmail.com [2015-07-01 08:30 +0200]:

 I run Debian 8.1. With X-Windows running in tty1, if I login on tty2
 (without X) and then logout, instead of seeing the tty2 login prompt the
 system switches to tty1 and X freezes; I cannot move the mouse, not even
 switch to a different tty. The only keyboard command that seems to work is
 Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Has anyone experienced this?

How did you managed to run X from tty1?

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Re: Debian 8 no network...

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* Gábor Hársfalvi hgab...@gmail.com [2015-05-07 21:15 +0200]:

 Hello,
 
 I've got the problem yet - and I don't know why.
 
 Everything uses my Internet connection - browsers, online games etc. - but
 the system update manager always gives me an error about no network
 connection.

So you have to check your system update manager's network
settings.

 This is the same when I wish to install a .deb package from the PC. But
 when I use Terminal commands - for example apt-get install .deb it always
 work with the same network connection for downloading packages.

You can't install Debian binaries via apt-get. You can only install
packages like:

apt-get install packagename


 I'm using PPPOE connection with dsl-provider - and I wish to use that for
 the future too.

Should be no problem.

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Re: nfs problems

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* Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no [2015-05-08 13:03 +0200]:

 On Fri, 8 May 2015 06:51:43 -0400
 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
 
  On Friday 08 May 2015 02:55:53 Petter Adsen wrote:
   That _is_ what you want, isn't it?
  
  root does not need write perms, but I do.  If it takes root to do 
  something, that is what the ssh -Y session as me, using sudo is for.
 
 If you want to read/write file as your normal user, just make sure that
 the UID is the same on both systems. You might want to edit /etc/passwd

Or even run nis within your LAN...

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Re: Architecture independent package

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* sppmg sm.sp...@gmail.com [2015-04-09 19:57 +0800]:

 Hi all
 I want type Chinese in skype in Debian (testing) amd64, so I need this
 package :
 
 hime
 (skype need hime-qt4-immodule:i386 , I google to get this .)
 
 It's will depend hime-data:i386. But  hime-data is architecture
 independent package, there is no :i386 .
 How can i solve this ?

$ apt-cache show hime-data

Package: hime-data
Source: hime
Version: 0.9.10-5
Installed-Size: 740
Maintainer: IME Packaging Team pkg-ime-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Architecture: all
Description-en: icons, locales and scripts for HIME
 HIME Input Method Editor is a input method platform, which is forked
 from the famous gcin input method.
 .
 This package contains icons, locales, scripts and other architecture-
 independent things.
Description-md5: a10a92078a29a5c3ad9fecec03c0526b
Homepage: http://hime.luna.com.tw
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/h/hime/hime-data_0.9.10-5_all.deb
Size: 488682
MD5sum: f27f73cb00f2af7d3c73a02a87dac598
SHA1: 70f97d94037998074025f34e5f591573bda01707
SHA256: d306968cc0c24dcf8301e4ae6ab136ff1de15431181f181f3b3541ef0038bf7f

architecture-independent means this package contains only files
which are readable on any arch. Just install it and be happy.

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Re: firefox-37, where to put

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* Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]:

 Greetings all;
[...]
 
 So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it into 
 my home dirs bin subdir.  But thats likely not going to be great as it 
 probably looks someplace else for its libraries  such.
 
 So where is the std place it would normally live?  If it can still find 
 the old iceweasel password cache, that would be a huge plus.

Did you checked out:

http://mozilla.debian.net/
http://mozilla.debian.net/pool/iceweasel-release/i/iceweasel/

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Re: firefox-37, where to put

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* Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]:

[...]
 So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it into 
 my home dirs bin subdir.  But thats likely not going to be great as it 
 probably looks someplace else for its libraries  such.

Iceweasel 37.0 is available in experimental:

iceweasel:
  Installed: 37.0-1
  Candidate: 37.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 37.0-1 0
100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 31.6.0esr-1 0
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

Just run:
apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel

You need at least
deb http://$YOUR_MIRROR/debian/ experimental main
in sources.list to get it.

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Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy

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* Andrew Wood and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk [2015-03-17 12:18 +]:

[...]
 It just lists one
 
 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller Silicon Motion SM712
 
 I suspect what may be happening is its defaulting to video out on the LVDS
 and turning the VGA port off. Is there a way to configure it to mirror the
 output on both ports simultaneously?

Maybe https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

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Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

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* Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de [2015-03-13 19:33 +0100]:

 * Jape Person jap...@comcast.net [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]:

[...]

  However, I can't get grub-set-default to redesignate that new menu entry as
  the default.
 
 Here is how I use it:
 
 The first menu entry is 0 which points to my latest kernel.
 
 The second menu entry points to a submenu where all kernels are
 listed. So if I want to boot the third entry in the second menu I
 just type as root:
 
 # grub-reboot 12

Forgot to mention that grub-set-default works the same way ;-)

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Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

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* Jape Person jap...@comcast.net [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]:

 
 
 On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:

[...]

 For remote systems, where you don't have a sideband channel like iLO,
 you could use grub-set-default, to choose the boot entry for the next
 boot. See man 8 grub-set-default.
 
 
 Hi, Michael.
 
 Well, I almost got it.
 
 Adding a new menu entry to run fsck was easy enough. I modified the
 /etc/grub.d/40_custom script and ran update-grub, and the new entry thus
 created works when chosen from the grub menu.
 
 However, I can't get grub-set-default to redesignate that new menu entry as
 the default.

Here is how I use it:

The first menu entry is 0 which points to my latest kernel.

The second menu entry points to a submenu where all kernels are
listed. So if I want to boot the third entry in the second menu I
just type as root:

# grub-reboot 12

As we all know, grub starts counting at 0 ;-) so this means:

Reboot the _third_ (2) entry in the _second_ (1) menu.

grub-reboot(8):
...

MENU_ENTRY  is  a number, a menu item title or a menu item identifier. Please
note that menu items in submenus or sub-submenus require specifying the submenu
components and then the menu item component. The titles should be  separated
using the greater-than character () with no extra spaces. Depending on your
shell some characters including  may need escaping. More information about
this is available in the GRUB Manual in the section about the 'default'
command.

...

HTH
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Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

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* Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com [2015-03-12 19:41 +]:

 On 2015-03-12, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote:
[...]
  I am running sid / sysvinit here.
 
  $ dpkg -l | grep systemd
  ii  libsystemd0:amd64
 
  Elimar
 
 Running jessie here, with systemd 215-12. At the time of writing that's
 also the version of systemd in sid. Those options don't appear in the
 man page for shutdown(8), so I'm puzzled by the fact that you can see
 them. What package owns the file /sbin/shutdown on your system?

sysvinit-core

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Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

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* David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk [2015-03-12 11:04 -0500]:

 Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net):

[...]

  Hi, Elimar.
  
  So, are you suggesting that this shutdown function (-F, for forcing
  fsck at boot) is available with the shutdown command if I switch
  from systemd-sysv to sysvinit, or that it is available regardless of
  init system in Sid?

Indeed, yes.

 
 If you run systemd, halt, poweroff, reboot and shutdown are all links
 to systemctl. No -F option.
 
 If you run sysvinit, you should have package sysvinit-core installed,
 wherein halt (poweroff, reboot) and shutdown are binaries. Their
 manpages indicate support for -F.

Thats correct

 I can't check whether it then actually works because this laptop is
 running systemd; though I may be reverting for reasons that I might
 outline in a different thread, perhaps No feedback from systemd ...

It runs perfect here.

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Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

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* Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com [2015-03-11 20:44 +]:

 On 2015-03-11, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote:
[...]
  According to shutdown(8)
 
  ...
 -f Skip fsck on reboot.
 
 -F Force fsck on reboot.
  ...
 
  Elimar
 
 Those options are indeed available in the case of the wheezy version of
 /sbin/shutdown, which belongs to the sysvinit package.

I am running sid / sysvinit here.

$ dpkg -l | grep systemd
ii  libsystemd0:amd64

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Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

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* Jape Person jap...@comcast.net [2015-03-11 14:04 -0400]:

[...]
 I maintain some remote systems that I don't want running a full file system
 check at inopportune times, but I do make certain that I force a check and
 examine the results on a regular basis. Anyway, that's why I don't simply
 modify grub behavior to include fsck.mode=force on these systems.

According to shutdown(8)

...
   -f Skip fsck on reboot.

   -F Force fsck on reboot.
...

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Re: How to boot with the irqpoll option?

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* Kynn Jones kyn...@gmail.com [2015-03-09 10:41 -0400]:

[...]
 I would be thankful for pointers to the relevant docs, or for a recipe
 aimed to a grub-noob.

Check /etc/default/grub.

Run:
$ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

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Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

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* Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com [2015-02-25 01:05 +]:

 On 2015-02-24, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tuesday 24 February 2015 14:11:13 Lisi Reisz wrote:
  I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and
  pleasant to use.  GUI based.  For the use of non-geeks as well as myself.
 
  Many thanks to all who replied.  I looked at all the suggestions, but have 
  chosen gFTP - partly because it will talk to the misconfigured PASV FTP
  server belonging to the project that is the main reason I wanted this in 
  the 
  first place!
 
  One happy bunny.  Thank you to everyone who replied.
 
  Lisi
 
 
 
 I'm glad you found a solution. I've long been a fan of gftp,
 particularly the gftp-text variant. Note however that gftp is not
 currently in testing, and so (as things stand) will not be included in
 the next stable release.

AFAIK there is no further development on gftp:
http://gft.seul.org

https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=gftp

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Re: wifi driver problem

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* Ashish Kumar ashishku.kumar...@gmail.com [2015-02-16 20:16 +0530]:

 sir i have a prob in instaling my wifi driver
 
 i have bcm 43142
 my laptop is hp pav p 027
 kali linux 1.1.0 amd 64

[...] 

 plz plz plz plz help sir as it is being very fruatating to use
 kali without wifi

Go ahead on https://www.kali.org/community/

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Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

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* August Karlstrom fusionf...@gmail.com [2015-02-07 10:43 +0100]:

 Does anyone know if there is a package in Debian Wheezy that provides
 playback of FLAC files in Iceweasel? On the page
 http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/ all clips work for me except the last
 one.

$ apt-cache show moc
$ apt-cache show vorbis-tools

For more:
$ apt-cache search flac

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Re: Help me run an old Windows game. PlayOnLinux? Wine?

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* Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com [2014-12-29 14:58 -0800]:

 I have an image of the old Windows 98 Entertainment Pack floppy.  I'd like
 to run one of the games that's on it, TIC.EXE.  It's not in PlayOnLinux's
 list of applications or games, and I'm completely new to trying this.
 
 I could use help, advice, warnings or pointers to a better place to get
 help.

$ apt-cache show dosemu

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Re: unstable system

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* jesus_...@posteo.de jesus_...@posteo.de [2014-12-16 11:35 +0100]:

 Hello everyone!
 
 I don't no which package really cause the errors, so I write to the
 mailing list. When I'm using my wifi-stick USRobotics - USR8005423
 my syslog file don't stop growing till my root partition  is
 overflowing. This error always repeats:
 
 Dec 16 09:28:28 jonny kernel: [   24.672140] usb 2-1.5: firmware: failed
 to load zd1211/zd1211b_ub (-2)

# apt-get install firmware-zd1211

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Re: How is typical home computer used today?

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* Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 18:07 -0500]:

[...]
 I kept a Unisys 5000/90 that required 220V at 80 amps

17600 Watts! Unbelievable! Where are thus circuits fused?

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Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

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* Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]:

[...] I prefer to manually fsck.  Easier.  I just do this as root before
 shutdown -r now:
 
 touch /forcefsck
 
 On booting, fsck is run on all partitions, then the empty file
 forcefsck is deleted. So, this only works for that particular boot.

shutdown(8)

..
   -f Skip fsck on reboot.

   -F Force fsck on reboot.
..


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Re: New user question

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* Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 10:00 +]:

 On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote:
  Hi.  I'm pretty new to Debian.  I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and
  have just installed it.  I have a question about the date display on the
  top panel.
 
  My understanding is that clicking on the date on the top panel should
  display my appointments from Evolution, but it's not working.  I have
  lots of appointments, but nothing shows up.
 
  Is there some other connection I should be making?
 
  Thanks.
 
 Gnome 3??

According to his mail headers:

X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-3

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Re: Shared libraries not found during build

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* Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com [2014-11-12 10:08 -1000]:

 
 Hi list,  
   
   
   
 I'm running sid. For the first time in many months, I'm
 trying to build a package from source. After compiling I'm
 getting library-not-found errors, for example: 
 
 apt-get source ntfs-3g
 
 debuild -b -uc -us
 
 Which eventually triggers a library not found error:
[...]
 dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot continue due to the errors listed above
 Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have 
 any shlibs or symbols file.
 To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to use -l.

Try

# apt-get build-dep ntfs-3g

first and run the build again. All header dependencies for the build
should be installed now.

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Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

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* David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il [2014-11-02 00:28 +0200]:

 On Saturday 01 November 2014 22:58:05 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
  * David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]:
   On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
  [...]
  
It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. BUSYBOX=y is
essential.
   
   This is what the install gave me.  I have not touched it.
   Where do I tell it to mount /usr?
  
  No need to. initramfs-tools does it by default. Check dmesg or
  journal.
  
  Elimar
 New to .118 version?
 If I upgrade to that, the Failed to remount message will no longer happen?

Go and find it out.

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Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

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* David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]:

 On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

[...]

  It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. BUSYBOX=y is
  essential.
 
 This is what the install gave me.  I have not touched it.
 Where do I tell it to mount /usr?

No need to. initramfs-tools does it by default. Check dmesg or
journal.

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Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

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* David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il [2014-10-31 10:22 +0200]:

 On Thursday 30 October 2014 19:46:26 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
[...]
  To mount /usr at boottime you need to boot with an initramfs.
  
  Therefor you need at least
  
  ii  initramfs-tools  0.118
  ii  util-linux   2.25.2-2
  
  which are available in sid. I don't know wheather this works on an
  encrypted /usr, but at the end it works on sysvinit, upstart and
  systemd. Check the BTS for initramfs-tools and util-linux.
  
  Elimar
 
 Cool. I have not yet upgraded to 0.118 because of serious bugs.
 How might I set it up to mount /usr at boot time?

Just upgrade to sid. Didn't found the way to jessie yet because of
some RC bugs.

 (Alternatively: Used to be possible to demand certain modules be
 included in the initrd. Initramfs now defaults to all/most. I
 used to use dep. Were some item in /usr... be actually needed at
 boot, could that be specified for inclusion to initramfs?)

It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. BUSYBOX=y is
essential.

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Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

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* Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de [2014-10-30 10:27 +0100]:

 Dear maintainers,
 
 completely without starting any flamewars: 
 
 I am using systemd and I have /usr mounted on a separate partition as well as 
 /var, /home, /boot and /.
 
 Additionally /usr, /var and /home are luks encrypted. 
 
 Due to this profile, I get a lot of annoying errors, as systemd does not find 
 /usr when it is started, because it produces an error and then switches to 
 verbose mode. This is very annoying!

To mount /usr at boottime you need to boot with an initramfs.

Therefor you need at least

ii  initramfs-tools  0.118
ii  util-linux   2.25.2-2

which are available in sid. I don't know wheather this works on an
encrypted /usr, but at the end it works on sysvinit, upstart and
systemd. Check the BTS for initramfs-tools and util-linux.

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Re: no soundcards found after Debian upgrade

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* Menashè Eliezer melie...@ogs.trieste.it [2014-09-11 10:41 +0200]:

 Thanks Elimar.
 
 $ dpkg -l | grep alsa\|asound :
 
 
 ii  alsa-base 1.0.27+1
 ii  alsa-oss 1.0.28-1
 ii  alsa-tools 1.0.28-1
 ii  alsa-tools-gui 1.0.28-1
 ii  alsa-utils 1.0.28-1
 ii  alsamixergui 0.9.0rc2-1-9.1
 ii  libalsaplayer0 0.99.81-1
 ii  libasound2:amd64 1.0.28-1
 ii  libasound2:i386 1.0.28-1
 ii  libasound2-data 1.0.28-1
 ii  libasound2-dev:amd64 1.0.28-1
 ii  libasound2-plugins:amd64 1.0.28-1+b1
 ii  libasound2-plugins:i386 1.0.28-1+b1

Looks ok, but it seems your kernel is buggy?

What tells
$ cat /proc/version
$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
$ cat /etc/debian_version
?

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Re: no soundcards found after Debian upgrade

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* Menashè Eliezer melie...@ogs.trieste.it [2014-09-10 11:34 +0200]:

 Hello, I have /Debian testing/ in which the sound was fine. Few days ago,
 after an update, I have no soundcards found with aplay -l. lspci:
 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04). I've tried everything and
 searched everwhere. I prefer not reinstalling the OS. I hope someone can
 help me.

What tells:
$ lsmod | grep snd

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Re: no soundcards found after Debian upgrade

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* Menashè Eliezer melie...@ogs.trieste.it [2014-09-10 17:33 +0200]:

 Thank you Raffaele and Elimar, but  lsmod | grep snd produces no results. I
 should have mentioned it before.
 
 Thanks Floris, I'm in the audio group. It happens even with a Root user.

$ dpkg -l | grep alsa\|asound
?

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Re: exail missing plugin

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* Matthias Bodenbinder matth...@bodenbinder.de [2014-09-07 09:50 +0200]:

 I got it.
 
 exaile needs gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3

which isn't listed in Suggests:. Thats worth for a bug report.

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Re: exail missing plugin

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* Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz [2014-09-06 23:48 +1200]:

 On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 12:33:37PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I just installed exaile 3.3.2-1 for debian testing. But when I try to
  play my mp3 files it says: no suitable plugins found. What is
  missing? 
 
 root@tal:~# apt-cache show exail
 N: Unable to locate package exail
 E: No packages found
 root@tal:~#

$ apt-cache show exaile

Package: exaile
Version: 3.4.0.2-1
Installed-Size: 5602
Maintainer: Vincent Cheng vch...@debian.org
Architecture: all
Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, librsvg2-common, python (= 2.5), 
python-dbus, python-gobject (= 2.18), python-gst0.10, python-gtk2 (= 2.17), 
python-mutagen (= 1.10), python:any (= 2.6.6-7~)
Recommends: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, python-cddb, python-mmkeys, python-notify
Suggests: exaile-plugin-contextinfo, exaile-plugin-ipod, exaile-plugin-moodbar, 
exfalso, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, ipython, 
notify-osd, python-avahi, python-beautifulsoup, python-eggtrayicon, 
python-pymtp, streamripper
Description-en: flexible, full-featured audio player
 Exaile is a media player which incorporates many of the cool things from
 Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art,
 handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via
 Wikipedia, last.fm support, and optional iPod support (assuming you have
 python-gpod installed).
 .
 In addition, Exaile also includes tabbed playlists (so you can have more
 than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don't
 get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from
 fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to last.fm.
 .
 Exaile aims to be similar to AmaroK, but uses Python and GTK+.
Description-md5: 1ebcebcbb43ac9da7b5974eb9b02fe9f
Homepage: http://www.exaile.org/
Tag: implemented-in::python, interface::x11, role::program,
 scope::application, sound::player, uitoolkit::gtk, use::playing,
 works-with-format::mp3, works-with-format::mpc,
 works-with-format::oggvorbis, works-with::audio, x11::application
Section: sound
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/exaile/exaile_3.4.0.2-1_all.deb
Size: 1117542
MD5sum: 057e60321bd665f12bd90f1d31ebd697
SHA1: a3190ff3c1fa5ecf6741593e522f215ee41ee3a0
SHA256: bdc39e91c1a9258f809e82a952cf07bd134b7409a8e8c04ca36f837688ec90cd


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Re: Using a second monitor

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* Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com [2014-08-14 17:42 +0800]:
[...]
 After reading the thread, and the above response, it occurred to me,
 that this could be worthwhile to add to the debian.org web site, as a
 HowTo, for whoever has the privileges.
 
 Or, if such a thing exists, a Debian HowTo wiki?

https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* Paul Pignon paulspig...@gmail.com [2014-05-30 11:59 +]:

 Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com writes:
 
 

No, please do

# echo options snd-hda-intel model=dell  /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
 I did this, but modprobe snd-hda-intel still says invalid argument and I 
 have no idea why.

As mentioned before, a first step forward would be to post the
outpunt of:

# find /lib/modules -name '*snd-hda*'

to this list, though.

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* Paul Pignon paulspig...@gmail.com [2014-05-28 14:53 +0300]:

[...]
  please post the output of:
  
  root@debianHP: find /lib/modules -name 'snd-hda*'

What gives this for an output?

[...]
 I still don't know what to put instead of dell.

Nothing!

[...]

 Yes, I can see that in future this would matter, but just now
 alsa-base.conf is still there so if it has the correct entry all
 should be well. Nonetheless, I did as you suggested and took away
 the conf lines from alsa-base.conf, put them in a new .conf file
 (/etc/balsa.conf), but that didn't change anything, still get the
 invalid argument error, and have no idea what argument is
 required.

You don't need to put any further phrases to files in
/etc/modprobe.d/

 So, any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I need
 sound, and it used to work fine!

Just be a bit more cooperative ;-)

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Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

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* Muntasim Ul Haque tranjees...@inventati.org [2014-05-25 15:56 +0600]:

 Hi,
 GNOME-Terminal is blank in Awesome WM. It just opens but doesn't show
 anything. Not even by username and hostname. Absolutely nothing. But Xfce
 terminal was working great. Even Terminator is working properly. So what's
 wrong with GNOME-Terminal?

Black fonts on black background?

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* Paul paulspig...@gmail.com [2014-05-23 13:09 +0200]:

[...]
 /That just gets me
 root@debianHP:/usr/lib/pd-extended/extra# modprobe -v snd-hda-intel
 insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec.ko
 ERROR: could not insert 'snd_hda_intel': Invalid argument

please post the output of:

root@debianHP: find /lib/modules -name 'snd-hda*'

 /
 
[...]
 options snd_hda_intel model=laptop
 #options snd_hda_intel index=0 model=auto

Remove those entries.

 //I recently made that change to model=laptop on the advice of someone else
 on this forum AFAIR.
 
 //
 /
 
 No, please do
 
 # echo options snd-hda-intel model=dell  /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
 /I don't want to put dell of course as this is and HP machine, what is the
 recognized identifier in this case?
 And why would it make any difference just now if that line is in some other
 .conf file?

Read this:
 
 as alsa-base.conf will be purged in Jessie. You can choose a filename
 as you want but with the extension .conf.

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* Paul Pignon paulspig...@gmail.com [2014-05-15 12:09 +0100]:

[...]  ... lsmod | grep snd

  snd_pcm 76785 0
  snd_hwdep 13189 0
  snd_page_alloc 13052 1 snd_pcm
  snd_seq 53391 0
  snd_seq_device 13132 1 snd_seq
  snd_timer 22767 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
  snd 61901 5 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm
  soundcore 13065 1 snd
 
 There is now card specific sound driver loaded. You have to find out
 which soundchip you are running and load the respective driver,
 though. But this should be done automagic by udev so there is
 something wrong with your kernel, half configured packages or
 something like that.
 
 *I reverted to the previous kernel, no joy, then re-installed the new one
 (KDE prompted me to do this when it discovered I was running an old
 kernel), so I cannot see how there could be anything wrong with the package
 or configuration, all handled automagically. Have browsed udev rules
 superficially but don't get much at this point.*
 
[...]
  aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...
 
 Because there is no sound driver loaded.
 *OK, even though I unloaded and reloaded all the snd modules, obviously I
 have not understood something.*
[...]
 *It was a warning from KDE saying*
 *This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed:*
 *Capture: HDA ATI  SB (STAC92xx Analog)*
 *Capture: HDA ATI  SB, STAC92xx Analog (Default Audio Device)*
 *Output: HD-Audio Generic (HDMI 0)*
 
 *Output: HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output)*
 *Output: HDA ATI SB (STAC92xx Analog)*
 *Output: HDA ATI SB, STAC92xx Analog (Default Audio Device)*
 
 
  I tried removing and reinstating all the snd modules, to no avail.
 

That is useless with the modules listet above. The sound driver for
your STA92xx is missing!

Just try as root:
# modprobe -v snd-hda-intel

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [2014-05-16 00:49 
+1000]:

 On 16/05/14 00:15, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
  * Paul Pignon paulspig...@gmail.com [2014-05-15 12:09 +0100]:
  
  [...]  ... lsmod | grep snd
  
  snd_pcm 76785 0
  snd_hwdep 13189 0
  snd_page_alloc 13052 1 snd_pcm
  snd_seq 53391 0
  snd_seq_device 13132 1 snd_seq
  snd_timer 22767 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
  snd 61901 5 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm
  soundcore 13065 1 snd
 
  There is now card specific sound driver loaded. You have to find out
  which soundchip you are running and load the respective driver,
  though. But this should be done automagic by udev so there is
  something wrong with your kernel, half configured packages or
  something like that.
 
  *I reverted to the previous kernel, no joy, then re-installed the new one
  (KDE prompted me to do this when it discovered I was running an old
  kernel), so I cannot see how there could be anything wrong with the package
  or configuration, all handled automagically. Have browsed udev rules
  superficially but don't get much at this point.*
 
  [...]
  aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...
 
  Because there is no sound driver loaded.
  *OK, even though I unloaded and reloaded all the snd modules, obviously I
  have not understood something.*
  [...]
  *It was a warning from KDE saying*
  *This is the list of devices KDE thinks can be removed:*
  *Capture: HDA ATI  SB (STAC92xx Analog)*
  *Capture: HDA ATI  SB, STAC92xx Analog (Default Audio Device)*
  *Output: HD-Audio Generic (HDMI 0)*
 
  *Output: HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output)*
  *Output: HDA ATI SB (STAC92xx Analog)*
  *Output: HDA ATI SB, STAC92xx Analog (Default Audio Device)*
 
 
  I tried removing and reinstating all the snd modules, to no avail.
 
  
  That is useless with the modules listet above. The sound driver for
  your STA92xx is missing!
  
  Just try as root:
  # modprobe -v snd-hda-intel
 
 after editing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and adding this line:
 options snd-hda-intel model=dell

No, please do

# echo options snd-hda-intel model=dell  /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf

as alsa-base.conf will be purged in Jessie. You can choose a filename
as you want but with the extension .conf.

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [2014-05-16 03:21 
+1000]:

 On 16/05/14 01:39, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
  * Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [2014-05-16 00:49 
  +1000]:
  
  On 16/05/14 00:15, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
[...]
  That is useless with the modules listet above. The sound driver for
  your STA92xx is missing!
 
  Just try as root:
  # modprobe -v snd-hda-intel
 
  after editing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and adding this line:
  options snd-hda-intel model=dell
  
  No, please do
  
  # echo options snd-hda-intel model=dell  /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
  
  as alsa-base.conf will be purged in Jessie.
 
 
 It's a bit hard to follow the broken threads, but I thought the OP is
 running Wheezy *not* Jessie.

It is always not a good idea to edit configuration files installed
by packages in /etc. They will be purgedi/updated on each update. So
individual configs should be *marked* as such. Please notice, Jessie
is on the way ;-)

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* Paul Pignon paulspig...@gmail.com [2014-05-14 16:08 +0100]:

[...]
 Hi,
 
 
 First, apologies if I'm not posting this request the way one should, I
 don't think I ever tried to ask a question on this forum before, so if I
 should have done it differently please advise me.
 
 
 I'm having exactly the same grief as Arne, since the latest update of
 wheezy on my HP Pavilion dm1. I'm a musician and use pd-extended live on
 stage, not to mention the fact that I cannot play or record anything
 anymore, so I'd be hugely grateful for any help.
 
 As a last resort I could roll back the latest updates from Debian but I
 don't at present know how so that would also be a lot of time-consuming
 work I imagine.
 
 
 Here's the output on my machine as requested of Arne:
 
 
 
 ... lsmod | grep snd
 
 snd_pcm 76785 0
 
 snd_hwdep 13189 0
 
 snd_page_alloc 13052 1 snd_pcm
 
 snd_seq 53391 0
 
 snd_seq_device 13132 1 snd_seq
 
 snd_timer 22767 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
 
 snd 61901 5 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm
 
 soundcore 13065 1 snd

There is now card specific sound driver loaded. You have to find out
which soundchip you are running and load the respective driver,
though. But this should be done automagic by udev so there is
something wrong with your kernel, half configured packages or
something like that.

 
 __
 
 
 ... aplay -l
 
 aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...

Because there is no sound driver loaded.

 
 ... aplay -L
 
 default
 
 Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
 
 __

 ... dpkg -l |egrep alsa

Ok.

[...]

 ... dpkg -l |egrep asound

[...]
 ... cat /proc/version
 Linux version 3.2.0-4-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version
 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u1

Ok, looks not customized.

 alsamixer says there are no sound cards.

Because there is no sound driver loaded.

 
 KDE tells me this:
 
 
 [image: Inline images 1]

Not found. But not common to send to a mailing list anyway.

 
 I tried removing and reinstating all the snd modules, to no avail.

How did you managed that?


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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* sp113438 sp113...@telfort.nl [2014-05-12 22:05 +0200]:

 hello,
 
 I did the latest update on 2 systems amd64 Sid, and now sound does not
 work any longer on both systems.
 The program /usr/sbin/alsa dissapeared after installing the latest
 alsa-base.

/usr/sbin/alsa was a relict from the obsolete alsa-driver package and
is almost not usefull as the sound modules now handled by kmod.

 No mixers are found. Failed to open audio output
 Yesterday sound did work on both systems.

Please post the output of:

$ lsmod | grep snd
$ aplay -l
$ aplay -L
$ dpkg -l | egrep (alsa|asound)
$ cat /proc/version

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Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

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* sp113438 sp113...@telfort.nl [2014-05-13 16:27 +0200]:

 On Tue, 13 May 2014 11:27:50 +0200
 Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote:
 
 Hello,
   hello,
   
   I did the latest update on 2 systems amd64 Sid, and now sound does
   not work any longer on both systems.
   The program /usr/sbin/alsa dissapeared after installing the latest
   alsa-base.
  
  /usr/sbin/alsa was a relict from the obsolete alsa-driver package and
  is almost not usefull as the sound modules now handled by kmod.
  
   No mixers are found.

As you can see bei aplay -L there are mixers avaiable..

   Failed to open audio output
   Yesterday sound did work on both systems.
  
  Please post the output of:
  
  $ lsmod | grep snd
  $ aplay -l
  $ aplay -L
  $ dpkg -l | egrep (alsa|asound)
  $ cat /proc/version
  
 # lsmod | grep snd

Seems to be correct

[...]
 
 # aplay -l

Ok

[...]
 
 # aplay -L
 root@fx4100:/home/arne# aplay -L
 null
 Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
 pulse
 PulseAudio Sound Server

Could you please start alasamixer, choose the Xonar via F6 (
should be the second entry. and test sound again. I assume there is
a prob with pulse.

[...] 
 dpkg -l | grep alsa

Sould be fine.

[...]
 
 # dpkg -l | grep asound

Seems to be ok.

[...]
 
 
 My soundcard is the Asus Xonar STX

I noticed ;-)

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Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

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* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 15:46 -0700]:

 
 On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote:
 
  * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]:
  
  [...]
  root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda
  /dev/sda
 #type name   length   base  
   ( size )  system
  /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple  63 @ 1
( 31.5k)  Partition map
  /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64   
(977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
  /dev/sda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled   51 @ 2018 
(244.1M)  Linux native
  /dev/sda4   Linux_LVM untitled   1953023100 @ 502019   
(931.3G)  Unknown
  /dev/sda5  Apple_Free Extra  49 @ 
  1953525119 ( 24.5k)  Free space
  
  Block size=512, Number of Blocks=1953525168
  DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
  
  When I say sector or logical-sector in the following I mean
  512-byte sector.  When I say physical-sector I mean 8
  logical-sectors (4096-bytes).  When I say megabyte or MiB I
  mean 1048576 bytes or 2048 logical-sectors, or 256
  physical-sectors.
  
  What tells:
  # hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -A15 Configuration:
 
 Thanks Elimar!  Here's what it says:
 
root@bigal:~# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -A15 Configuration:
Configuration:
   Logical max current
   cylinders   16383   16383
   heads   16  16
   sectors/track   63  63
   --
   CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
   LBAuser addressable sectors:  268435455
   LBA48  user addressable sectors: 1953525168
   Logical  Sector size:   512 bytes
   Physical Sector size:  4096 bytes

Well, this hd should be 4k capable.

   Logical Sector-0 offset:  0 bytes
   device size with M = 1024*1024:  953869 MBytes
   device size with M = 1000*1000: 1000204 MBytes (1000 GB)
   cache/buffer size  = unknown
   Form Factor: 3.5 inch

 The disk itself is one of the new Seagate hybrid disks, with 8GB
 of flash and 1TB of Advanced Format spinning iron oxide.
 
 Has anyone tried this with the Wheezy for x86 or amd64?  I'm
 wondering if it's a bug resulting from something having to do with
 PowerPC, or more general than that...

I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there is
one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table partitioned
exactly by the 1MiB steps. I'v done this with gdisk but should also be done
with (g)parted.

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Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-05 01:04 -0700]:

 
 On May 5, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote:
 
  I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there 
  is
  one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table partitioned
  exactly by the 1MiB steps. I'v done this with gdisk but should also be done
  with (g)parted.
 
 Is the partition map on the amd64 machine the one generated by the
 installer?  Or did you tweak it manually?

Done by hand.

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Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

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* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]:

[...]
 root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda
 /dev/sda
 #type name   length   base   
 ( size )  system
 /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple  63 @ 1  
 ( 31.5k)  Partition map
 /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64 
 (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
 /dev/sda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled   51 @ 2018   
 (244.1M)  Linux native
 /dev/sda4   Linux_LVM untitled   1953023100 @ 502019 
 (931.3G)  Unknown
 /dev/sda5  Apple_Free Extra  49 @ 1953525119 
 ( 24.5k)  Free space
 
 Block size=512, Number of Blocks=1953525168
 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
 
 When I say sector or logical-sector in the following I mean
 512-byte sector.  When I say physical-sector I mean 8
 logical-sectors (4096-bytes).  When I say megabyte or MiB I
 mean 1048576 bytes or 2048 logical-sectors, or 256
 physical-sectors.

What tells:
# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -A15 Configuration:

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Re: USB Webcam Grabs ALSA Card Index 0

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Rainer Dorsch m...@bokomoko.de [2014-04-06 11:00 +0200]:

 Hi,
 
 I have two usb devices on my system, which register with the snd_usb_audio 
 module, a USB Headset and a USB webcam (has a microphone built-in). I use
 
 options snd-usb-audio index=-2
 
 in modprobe.d to keep the usb devices away from card index 0, since I want to 
 be snd_hda_intel the default.

Sounds somewhat different than in your bugreport.

 That works well as long as I do not plug in the USB webcam. If I plug in the 
 USB webcam, the webcam grabs card index 0.
 
 Does anybody understand why that is?
 
 Here are some more detailed data (the usb device asr both from Logitech):
 
 blackbox:~# lsusb
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 006: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:0a44 Logitech, Inc. 
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 
 USB-2.0 
 TetraHub
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c05b Logitech, Inc. M-U0004 810-001317 [B110 
 Optical USB Mouse]
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 blackbox:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [U0x46d0x825]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x825
   USB Device 0x46d:0x825 at usb-:00:1a.7-5.4, high 
 speed
  1 [Headset]: USB-Audio - Logitech USB Headset
   Logitech Logitech USB Headset at usb-:00:1a.7-5.1, 
 full speed
  2 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
   HDA Intel at 0xfe7f4000 irq 45
 blackbox:~# cat /proc/asound/modules 
  0 snd_usb_audio
  1 snd_usb_audio
  2 snd_hda_intel


Create as root a file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa_local.conf:

###
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-usb-audio index=1,2 vid=0x46d,0x46d pid=0xa44,0x825
###


This should preserve the first soundslot for your intel card. Your
headset (ID 046d:0a44) will become index 1 and your webcam (ID
046d:0825) index 2 though.

See http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards

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