Lightweight Emacs for container?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I usually use Emacs on full-blown Debian distributions, so I don't pay much 
attention to how large it is. But I'm now starting to
play around with lightweight LXC containers, obviously headless, and would like 
to keep using Emacs in these, but just for basic 
text editing and so forth, I don't need a whole IDE environment. But to my 
surprise, even emacs-nox is a gigantic installation, 
that even wants to pull in MySQL, for heaven's sake.

Is there some package, or a simple workaround, that will allow me to use a 
basic Emacs without all the cruft?

Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 I wonder if there might be any other thoughts on this (aside from that of 
replacing Pulseaudio with its successor, which I'm not comfortable with)? 

The flakiness is particularly worrying--that only certain applications will 
crash with it.

Thanks.
 On Friday, December 3, 2021, 10:46:23 AM EST, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum 
 wrote:  
 
 For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems to 
happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC,or 
watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when listening to audio 
through an audio player, or having Zoom calls. After a crash,the Pulseaudio 
Volume Control will give a "connecting to Pulseaudio" error. Restarting with 
either "pulseaudio --start" or "pulseaudio -k" will hang for10-20 seconds, and 
then "work", in that "ps" will show Pulse is running, but I still can't play 
music (through anything), and the volume app shows thesame error. This will 
last a few minutes, until sound starts again.
This was on Bullseye; I recently upgraded to Bookworm (for other reasons, 
though I hoped it would help with this), and it's still happening, althoughnow 
"pulseaudio --start" will respond almost instantly. However, it still takes a 
few minutes for sound to come back.
Where do I look for help on this? /var/log/messages shows warnings about a 
deprecated module, but nothing more serious than that. I'm not sure wherethese 
crashes might be recorded, or what else to do. But having sound is very 
important to me, so I'd love to fix this!  

Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems to 
happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC,or 
watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when listening to audio 
through an audio player, or having Zoom calls. After a crash,the Pulseaudio 
Volume Control will give a "connecting to Pulseaudio" error. Restarting with 
either "pulseaudio --start" or "pulseaudio -k" will hang for10-20 seconds, and 
then "work", in that "ps" will show Pulse is running, but I still can't play 
music (through anything), and the volume app shows thesame error. This will 
last a few minutes, until sound starts again.
This was on Bullseye; I recently upgraded to Bookworm (for other reasons, 
though I hoped it would help with this), and it's still happening, althoughnow 
"pulseaudio --start" will respond almost instantly. However, it still takes a 
few minutes for sound to come back.
Where do I look for help on this? /var/log/messages shows warnings about a 
deprecated module, but nothing more serious than that. I'm not sure wherethese 
crashes might be recorded, or what else to do. But having sound is very 
important to me, so I'd love to fix this!

How to request a package be updated? (Solaar, for controlling Logitech MX Master 3 mouse)

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

How does one ask for a package to be updated? The Solaar package, which 
provides functionality for Logitech mice (and keyboards), is at 1.0.4 in 
bullseye and sid, but the current version is 1.0.6, which was released on June 
16. (And 1.0.5 came out in February, so it's been a while.)
Apparently these last two releases provide greatly enhanced functionality; I 
just got an MX Master 3, which (despite the info on the package) isn't 
supported by Logitech software, and I would like to be able to do things like 
use the second scroll wheel, reprogram keys, etc., and I was hoping this might 
be possible.
The manual installation instructions on the Solaar GitHub page make it seem a 
bit fiddly, so I'd rather do it through the official repo if possible.

USB audio device no longer showing up

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I've been using a Schiit Modi 3 D/A converter for my main desktop audio for a 
year or two. In the last week, it's been sporadically vanishing from PulseAudio.
It's normally plugged into a USB port on my monitor, which has several such 
ports, all of which work with other devices. When I plug it in, dmesg shows me:
[2126764.183346] usb 3-3.4: new full-speed USB device number 75 using 
xhci_hcd[2126765.035388] usb 3-3-port4: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is 
bad?[2126765.887389] usb 3-3-port4: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is 
bad?[2126765.887461] usb 3-3-port4: attempt power cycle[2126768.319399] usb 
3-3-port4: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?[2126769.171424] usb 
3-3-port4: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?[2126769.171483] usb 
3-3-port4: unable to enumerate USB device
I get similar messages from other ports; other devices show up fine. This port 
is successfully providing power to the Schiit.
Though "Maybe the USB cable is bad?" is a dubious-sounding message, I did swap 
out the existing random cable with a brand-new good-quality one, with no 
difference.
I also tried to plug the Schiit into a Debian laptop, with the same results as 
above. Confoundingly, after this test, I re-plugged it into my monitor and it 
magically started to work -- it showed up in dmesg, it started to play audio.
However, hoping it magically works isn't a good long-term solution. Is there 
any way to figure out what's causing this? Could it be a hardware problem with 
the Schiit? If so, how do I report it to them?

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 Yes, I can at least scan. I'll keep fiddling, but the important thing is that 
I can use it.

OK, thank you so much for your help, and sorry for the top-post at the end.
On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 08:44:25 AM EST, Brian  
wrote:  
 
 On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 13:22:30 +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:

>  
>    On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 08:07:37 AM EST, Brian 
> wrote:  
>  
>  > On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 12:55:07 +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> >
> > Can you scan by choosing airscan, eSCL (note the lower case e), from
> > simple-scan's drop-down menu.
> 
> This did work at first, and I was very excited! However, it worked on
> a text scan; whenI tried an image scan, it hung for several minutes
> with the error"Unable to find colord device airscan:e0:Canon LiDE 300
> (USB): property match 'Serial'='sane:airscan:e0:Canon LiDE 300 (USB)'
> does not exist",and then after that I was unable to do another text
> scan--with no error, it justhung.

This is now getting above my pay grade, Jennifer. Could be a simple-scan
bug or one in the device's firmware or in sane-airscan. Try switching
the Canon off and disconnecting from USB. Re-power and re-plug after
about a minute.

> > > > Would you also try
> > > >
> > > > xsane "airscan:e0:Canon LiDE 300 (USB)">
> > > > and
> > > >
> > >  > xsane ?
> > > I don't have xsane installed. Is that just for background info? I've
> > > used it in the past, and always foundit far too complicated to bother
> > > with.
> >
> > You can always remove it afterwards, but I wanted to know which of
> > the options it offers work. A preview is enough to do.
> xsane works perfectly, whether or specify airscan from the
> commandline, orif I just run it bare and then select either the pixma
> or the eSCL airscandevice from the select box.

This, at least, gives you working scanning.

-- 
Brian.

  

  

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 Just to clarify what someone else in the thread asked about, the user I'm 
running this under _does_ appear in the scanner group.
On Friday, January 8, 2021, 07:07:40 PM EST, Brian  
wrote: 
 On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 17:28:16 -0500, Jen Nussbaum wrote:

>> When I run simple-scan, it detects the printer and announces itself
>> ready to go, but when I try to scan anything, I get the message
>> "Failed to scan Unable to connect to scanner". I Googled for anything
>> related to this; there's a bunch of stuff on Ubuntu and Mint forums
>> about purging the "ippusbxd" package, but this isn't on Debian.
>
> ippusbxd is certainly not on Debian but ipp-usb is. See the wiki.

Yes, and I do have that; the point was just that the solution that worked 
onMint (to remove ippusbxd and install ipp-usb) isn't relevant here.
>> I then ran simple-scan with the debug flag, and at the moment I try to
>> initiate a scan, I got:
>> 
>> [+20.83s] DEBUG: simple-scan.vala:1817: Requesting scan at 150 dpi from 
>> device 'escl:http://127.0.0.1:6'
>> [+20.83s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:1683: Scanner.scan 
>> ("escl:http://127.0.0.1:6;, dpi=150, scan_mode=ScanMode.GRAY, depth=2, 
>> type=single, paper_width=0, paper_height=0, brightness=0, contrast=0, 
>> delay=3000ms)
>> [+20.83s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:828: Processing request
>> [+20.83s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:889: sane_open ("escl:http://127.0.0.1:6;) 
>> -> SANE_STATUS_NO_MEM
>> [+20.83s] WARNING: scanner.vala:893: Unable to open device: Out of memory
>
> Nothing about the pixma backend (driver)?

pixma only appears during the startup:
[+7.62s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:353: Device: name="pixma:04A91913_47A8A4" 
vendor="CANON" model="CanoScan LiDE 300" type="multi-function peripheral"

> Just to confirm your experience, what happens with scanning with
>
 > simple-scan "pixma:04A91913_47A8A4"

This fires up simple scan, and when I click on "scan" it scans the document 
successfully.

> and
>
> simple-scan "escl:http://127.0.0.1:6;

This does _not_ work; the response here is the same as when I run it normally, 
i.e. the "Unable to contact scanner" error.

>> I don't know why I tried this, but I then ran simple-scan as root,
>> and...it worked perfectly.
>
> I do not understand why this should be so. Do both the previous commands
> work as root?

The "pixma" version worked as root, as it did as the regular user. Curiously, 
the "escl" version did not work as root,even though when I run simple-scan 
without any arguments, it did work as root.

> > I'm bewildered by this--any idea what I should be looking at?
>
> Yes; there is a possible solution. Give what you get for
>
> lsusb -v | grep -A 3 bInterfaceClass.*7

---$ lsusb -v | grep -A 3 bInterfaceClass.*7Couldn't open device, some 
information will be missing      bInterfaceClass         7 Printer      
bInterfaceSubClass      1 Printer      bInterfaceProtocol      4       
iInterface              0 can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily 
unavailableCouldn't open device, some information will be missingCouldn't open 
device, some information will be missing--      bInterfaceClass         7 
Printer      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Printer      bInterfaceProtocol      4   
    iInterface              0 Couldn't open device, some information will be 
missingCouldn't open device, some information will be missingcan't get debug 
descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailableCouldn't open device, some 
information will be missing---
(The "Couldn't open device" line was repeated multiple times wherever it 
appeared;I deleted it here for brevity.)
> and
>
>  systemctl list-units "ipp-usb*" | grep service

---$ systemctl list-units "ipp-usb*" | grep service  ipp-usb.service loaded 
active running Daemon for IPP over USB printer support---
Thank you.
  

simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

After using a rather old Canon scanner for many years, I recently upgraded to 
the Canon LiDE 300,and installed the drivers as directed, on a Bullseye system 
(10.2.0-17).
The printer is recognized:
$ scanimage -Ldevice `pixma:04A91913_47A8A4' is a CANON CanoScan LiDE 300 
multi-function peripheraldevice `escl:http://127.0.0.1:6' is a Canon LiDE 
300 (USB) flatbed scanner
When I run simple-scan, it detects the printer and announces itself ready to 
go, but when I tryto scan anything, I get the message "Failed to scan Unable to 
connect to scanner". I Googled foranything related to this; there's a bunch of 
stuff on Ubuntu and Mint forums about purging the"ippusbxd" package, but this 
isn't on Debian.
I then ran simple-scan with the debug flag, and at the moment I try to initiate 
a scan, I got:
[+20.83s] DEBUG: simple-scan.vala:1817: Requesting scan at 150 dpi from 
device'escl:http://127.0.0.1:6'[+20.83s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:1683: 
Scanner.scan ("escl:http://127.0.0.1:6;, dpi=150,scan_mode=ScanMode.GRAY, 
depth=2, type=single, paper_width=0, paper_height=0, brightness=0,contrast=0, 
delay=3000ms)[+20.83s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:828: Processing request[+20.83s] 
DEBUG: scanner.vala:889: sane_open ("escl:http://127.0.0.1:6;) 
->SANE_STATUS_NO_MEM[+20.83s] WARNING: scanner.vala:893: Unable to open device: 
Out of memory

I'm not sure what could be going on, as I have a ton of memory on my system.
I don't know why I tried this, but I then ran simple-scan as root, and...it 
worked perfectly.
I'm bewildered by this--any idea what I should be looking at?

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Re: Pulseaudio not starting, after no obvious changes [SOLVED]

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

>
>I just returned home after a short vacation to my running, completely 
>up-to-date jessie system, and discovered that Pulse had stopped running, and I 
>dont know how to get it going again.
>
>

>Various of the startup commands give an error :"E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed 
>to initialize daemon." I've searched this up and down, and tried to remove the 
>.config/pulse directory (there's no ~/.pulse), which had no effect.

After a bunch more playing around, I discovered that the culprit was two lines 
in my default.pa calling update-sink-proplist to rename one of my sources. I 
don't know why this stopped working, but for now, commenting it out solved the 
problem. Will figure out the renaming problem some other time, but meanwhile, I 
have sound again.

Jen

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

- Original Message -
 From: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Cc: 
 Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 11:05 AM
 Subject: Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?
 
 On 02/03/15 08:22 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
 
  Hi, i have a USB keyboard that, every week or three, will drop off, and 
 require replugging to work again. It is immediately recognized and works fine 
 after I do this This was the case on a previous Wheezy system, and it still 
 happens on a Jessie box I built.
 
  The problem is that the new box has hard-to-access USB ports, so in order 
 to replug the keyboard, I have to remove a panel, so its not just a quick 
 step.
 
  I realize that there's probably no easy solution--if the keyboard 
 doesn't respond, i cant enter a command to re-recognize it--but are there 
 any things i can try that would help prevent this from happening in the first 
 place?
 
 
 In order to fix a problem, you first need to identify what is causing 
 it. Is there any log entry(s) related to the keyboard?


Sorry for the delay, i needed to wait for it to happen again.

No, there are no useful log messages. When the keyboard drops off, there is 
nothing in the logs to indicate this; when i re-plug it, I get a usual list of 
messages with nothing indicating that theres a problem.

At the (obvious in retrospect) suggestion of someone elsethread, I did just get 
a 6 extention cable, thus making it trivial to re-plug it when this happens. 
I'd rather it just works in the first place, but this will have to do. (The 
keyboard is a custom build and cannot be replaced.)

Thanks.

Jen


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USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi, i have a USB keyboard that, every week or three, will drop off, and require 
replugging to work again. It is immediately recognized and works fine after I 
do this This was the case on a previous Wheezy system, and it still happens on 
a Jessie box I built.

The problem is that the new box has hard-to-access USB ports, so in order to 
replug the keyboard, I have to remove a panel, so its not just a quick step.

I realize that there's probably no easy solution--if the keyboard doesn't 
respond, i cant enter a command to re-recognize it--but are there any things i 
can try that would help prevent this from happening in the first place?


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Installing new Opera version?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi, it seems that lst month there was a new stable version of Opera for Linux 
released, but for Ubuntu only. One of the Opera devs has a blog about 
installing it on non-Debian-based distros

http://ruario.ghost.io/2014/12/19/installing-opera-on-distributions-other-than-debian-ubuntu-or-derivatives/


 but it doesn't say how to install it on Debian itself. I tried just installing 
the Ubuntu package but that required a version of libc6 more advances than 
what's on Debian without getting from Experimental, and that seems like a bad 
idea anyway. The version from Debian is still 12.16 which is years old.

Is there a way to install this on Debian. Im running Wheezy.

Thanks.

Jen


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Pulseaudio not listing sound source

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi.

Im running Pulseaudio on a pretty stock Wheezy installation. Im trying to get a 
USB audio output device to work, but it's not showing up in my Pulseaudio 
volume control.

The device is an Audioengine AW1, and Id previously used this on my system with 
no problems. But now when I plug it in, it simply doesn't show up. It IS there 
when i scan things in various ways, e.g.

$ aplay -l

[...]
card 2: AW1 [Audioengine AW1], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[...]

or 

$ pacmd list-sinks

[...]
name: alsa_output.usb-BeAutiful_Qing_Audioengine_AW1-00-AW1.iec958-stereo
driver: module-alsa-card.c
flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY FLAT_VOLUME DYNAMIC_LATENCY
state: RUNNING
[...]

(with much other output that I dont know is relevant.

Any ideas why its not getting shown? I have several other device, including a 
pair of USB desktop speakers and a D/A converter, and unplugging and replugging 
these works fine--they show up right away. Ive tried different USB ports, but 
it doesnt matter (and if the thing is showing up on the list anyway, clearly 
the system knows its there).

Thanks!

Jen

Can't force unmount device

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I know this problem has been discussed endlessly online, but i cant get any of 
the suggestions to work.

I have a Debian laptop that, when im at home, I mount via nfs to a local 
fileserver. Sometimes for no clear reason, i cant unmount it, and when this 
happens, i cant put the laptop to sleep. There's no swap on this drive, and 
it's not an encrypted filesystem. There are no symbolic links pointing to this 
device. I dont think anything is accessing the device, and I'm not in a 
directory on this disk, but nothing to figure this out works:

  $ sudo umount /mnt/RemoteDisk
  umount.nfs: /mnt/RemoteDisk: device is busy
  umount.nfs: /mnt/RemoteDisk: device is busy
  $ sudo umount -f /mnt/RemoteDisk
  umount.nfs: /mnt/RemoteDisk: device is busy
  umount.nfs: /mnt/RemoteDisk: device is busy
  $ 

So i try:

  $ sudo lsof | grep Remote

This hangs, as does a simple lsof.

So i try:

  $ sudo fuser -m /mnt/RemoteDisk

This also hangs. So does:

  $ sudo fuser -u /mnt/RemoteDisk

I end up having to power the computer down, which is extremely annoying.

What could be causing this? Ive googled this up and down but still dont know 
what to try.


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Re: Can't force unmount device

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Monday, May 26, 2014 11:39 AM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi.
 
 On Mon, 26 May 2014 08:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  I end up having to power the computer down, which is extremely annoying.
 
 Try 'unmount -l' for the offending filesystem. It is usually enough to
 fool suspend scripts into 'no nfs mounted, really' state.

Wow, that did it! Thanks!

  What could be causing this? Ive googled this up and down but still dont 
 know what to try.
 
 What version of NFS are you using? Are you using 'hard' mount option
 (hint: don't). Did you tried 'intr' mount option?
 
 I've seen similar things for NFS4 with Kerberos authentication if
 client desynchronise with a server (~10 minutes of clock difference).


Not actually sure what version I'm using. I mount the share using:

$ sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.5:/volume1/DiskStation /mnt/RemoteDisk

Is there something else i should be doing? Is using umount -l a satisfactory 
way to solve this?

Thank you!

Jen


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Re: Can't force unmount device

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Monday, May 26, 2014 12:32 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote:
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 On 05/26/2014 11:02 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
 
  I know this problem has been discussed endlessly online, but i cant
  get any of the suggestions to work.
 
  I have a Debian laptop that, when im at home, I mount via nfs to a
  local fileserver. Sometimes for no clear reason, i cant unmount it,
  and when this happens, i cant put the laptop to sleep. There's no
  swap on this drive, and it's not an encrypted filesystem. There are
  no symbolic links pointing to this device. I dont think anything is
  accessing the device, and I'm not in a directory on this disk, but
  nothing to figure this out works:
 
 As confirmed elsewhere, lazy unmount gets this unmounted and lets 
 you
 suspend the laptop.
 
 As far as the hangs themselves - first, I'd like to clarify something.
 
 You say you mount the laptop by NFS to a local fileserver. I'm not clear
 which direction you mean the mounting is done in.
 
 
 That is:
 
 Machine A has a NFS share defined.
 
 Machine B runs an appropriate NFS mount command, and gains access to
 files which are stored on machine A.
 
 Is the laptop machine A, or machine B?
 
 The former is what your phrasing (I ... mount [the laptop] via NFS to a
 local fileserver) leads me to expect, but the latter would be the more
 common scenario.


Yes, that's right. I have a fileserver at home that has an NFS share defined; 
this share is used by various machines on my home network, and by the laptop
when i have the laptop at home. As said elsewhere in thread, i mount the share 
on
the laptop by saying

  $ sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.5:/volume1/DiskStation /mnt/RemoteDisk

where 192.168.1.5 is the address of the fileserver, and /volume1/DiskStation is 
the
NFS share.

When im leaving home and the laptop doesnt need access to this, i (try to) 
unmount
the share so i can suspend the laptop and leave.

Does that help?


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Re: Can't force unmount device

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Monday, May 26, 2014 1:01 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote:

  -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA512
 
 On 05/26/2014 12:40 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
 
 
  On Monday, May 26, 2014 12:32 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm
  wrote:
 
  As far as the hangs themselves - first, I'd like to clarify
  something.
 
  You say you mount the laptop by NFS to a local fileserver. I'm not
  clear which direction you mean the mounting is done in.
 
 
  That is:
 
  Machine A has a NFS share defined.
 
  Machine B runs an appropriate NFS mount command, and gains access
  to files which are stored on machine A.
 
  Is the laptop machine A, or machine B?
 
  The former is what your phrasing (I ... mount [the laptop] via 
 NFS
  to a local fileserver) leads me to expect, but the latter would 
 be
  the more common scenario.
 
  Yes, that's right. I have a fileserver at home that has an NFS share
  defined; this share is used by various machines on my home network,
  and by the laptop when i have the laptop at home.
 
 So the laptop is machine B, then?

In your scheme, yes.
 
 That fits with the sort of scenario I would have expected. It's just
 that I read mount [a machine] via NFS as mount a directory 
 that's
 being shared by [a machine] over NFS, so I found the phrasing confusing.

Sorry, my unclearness.
 
 By any chance, when the suspend failure and NFS hang occurs, is there an
 'updatedb' or 'updatedb.mlocate' process running on the laptop?

No, i dont think so. This runs in the middle of the night and this is not
when i remove the laptop.

 updatedb normally runs once a day, by cron job, and scans all mounted
 filesystems for changes. It's supposed to ignore any filesystems of
 types listed in the PRUNEFS variable in /etc/updatedb.conf ; however,
 there appears to be a longstanding bug such that it does not in fact do
 this for (some?) NFS mounts. I can dig up one or more existing Debian
 bug reports for this if necessary.

Also updatedb never seems to index the NSF-mounted files.

And nfs/NFS are listed in this conf file.

  When im leaving home and the laptop doesnt need access to this, i
  (try to) unmount the share so i can suspend the laptop and leave.
 
 If you always do unmount the share before taking the laptop off-network
 in this way, or if the problem sometimes occurs even when you did
 remember to unmount it, then I'm probably barking up the wrong tree.

I dont always unmount the share; sometimes i forget. But the problem occurs
even when i do try to unmount it, or rather i cant unmount the system as 
described
in my first message.

 However, if you ever suspend the laptop with the NFS share mounted, then
 wake it up again while not connected to the appropriate network to talk
 to the fileserver, that could produce the behavior you're seeing.

This does sometimes happen--i syspend the laptop, take it somewhere else, then
it cant find the fileserver when it wakes up. How can i solve this? (Apart
from just remembering to always unmount it before leaving home.)

 (The behavior could also occur if e.g. the laptop connects only
 wirelessly, and the wireless network connection drops during the time
 when updatedb wants to be scanning that filesystem. That's a less likely
 scenario, however.)

I connect the laptop both wired and wifi, but as said above it doesnt seem
to scan the filesystem using updatedb.


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Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I'm running Debian Wheezy 7.4 on a server in Amazon's EC2, that i installed, 
recently, from the official Debian AMI. I havent made any changes to the 
package infrastructure.

I'm trying to fix the Heartbleed bug, but my system seems to think everything 
is up to date. 

My /etc/apt/sources.list has:

  deb http://cloudfront.debian.net/debian wheezy main 
  deb-src http://cloudfront.debian.net/debian wheezy main 
  deb http://cloudfront.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main 
  deb-src http://cloudfront.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main


I run sudo apt-get update, and things get pulled down.


But when I run sudo apt-get upgrade, I get:

  $ sudo apt-get upgrade 
  Reading package lists... Done 
  Building dependency tree 
  Reading state information... Done 
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


My openssl is not up-to-date:

  $ openssl version -a 
  OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 
  built on: Sat Feb  1 22:14:33 UTC 2014 
  platform: debian-amd64 

  [...]

I've waited a day in case theres some issue with the m irrors not getting 
updated, but this still happens. Whats the right way to make my system safe? 
All the instructions Ive seen say apt-get update  apt-get upgrade will do 
it, but not in my case!

Thanks!

Jen


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Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:01 AM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote:
  Le 2014-04-10 14:56, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum a écrit :
  I'm running Debian Wheezy 7.4 on a server in Amazon's EC2, that i
  installed, recently, from the official Debian AMI. I havent made any
  changes to the package infrastructure.
 
  I'm trying to fix the Heartbleed bug, but my system seems to think
  everything is up to date. 

...

 
 
 Add the security repositories to your mirror lists ?
 
 deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
 
 deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free


Thanks that did it!

Id expect that security updates would be automatic in sources.list. It is for 
me from now on!


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Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:30 AM, David Glover m...@davidglover.org 
 wrote:
  Debian patched the wheezy version of OpenSSL without changing the version 
 number.
 
 Run:
 dpkg-query -l openssl
 
 You should see version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u5.
 
 The +deb7u5 indicates the heartbleed patch is installed.


No, i didnt have that originally, only after i added security to my 
sources.list. The original update didnt update this, so it wasnt just the 
version-number.

I also checked the site using the http://filippo.io/Heartbleed test, and it 
came up vulnerable. But things are fixed now.


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Fonts providing emojis?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

What Debian font packages provide emojis? At least, thats what i think they 
are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular boxes with 01f 44d and 01f 
1e7 in them, and some googling suggests these are thumbs-up signs and things 
like that. How doe i get these to display?

(Also how do i look these up? Literally. I google and get a bunch of random 
things, without very much work. If I know its some kind of font, what do i 
type? 01f 1e7 codepoint or 01f 1e7 unicode don't work.)

Thanks!

Jen


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Re: Fonts providing emojis?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson 
 scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
  On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  What Debian font packages provide emojis?
 
 apt-file search and apt-cache search
 give nothing.
 
 Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know it's part of Symbola.

  At least, thats what i
  think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular boxes with
  01f 44d and 01f 1e7 in them, and some googling 
 suggests these are
  thumbs-up signs and things like that. How doe i get these to
  display?
 
  (Also how do i look these up? Literally. I google and get a bunch of
  random things, without very much work. If I know its some kind of
  font, what do i type? 01f 1e7 codepoint or 01f 1e7 
 unicode don't
  work.)
 
 Type in what? A search engine to find it?
 https://www.google.com/search?q=emojis+filetype%3Attf

That doesnt find anything.

 Hint: https://www.google.com/search?q=Symbola+filetype%3Attf
 :)

That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my question is, 
if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box with 01f 1ey in it, how 
do i figure out what that is?


[snipped]

 # mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
 # cp Symbola.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
 # mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
 # mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
 # ls /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Symbola
 fonts.dir  fonts.scale  Symbola.ttf
 
 Rinse and repeat for SymbolaGoomoji.ttf
 
 I use and highly recommend fontmatrix - a font manager/viewer/wizard.

Thanks for these instructions. Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built 
package for this in Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely 
used.

Jen


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Re: Fonts providing emojis?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On , Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote:

 That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my question 
 is, 
 if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box with 01f 
 1ey in it, how do i figure out what that is?


Typo--i meant '01f 1e7, as in my original message. I gather 01f 1ey wouldnt 
be much of anything :-)

Jen


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Re: Fonts providing emojis?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf 
 ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
  On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in
  Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used.
 
 For my exotic audio production needs I prefer Arch Linux over Debian.
 
 If you have other exotic needs, you perhaps are more lucky with a distro
 that fits to that needs. The huge amount of Debian packages is caused by
 splitting upstream to packages for libs, headers, bins, not because
 Debian does provide most software.
 
         [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi ttf-symbola | grep
         Description
         Description    : Font for unicode symbols (part of Unicode Fonts
         for Ancient Scripts).
 
 I have got doubts that Fonts for Ancient Scripts are 
 increasingly
 widely used. Assumed that font is the only exotic thingy you need, it
 shouldn't cause that much work to get it without a package provided by
 the official Debian repositories. AFAIK there's no distro that fits to
 all needs, that's why I'm using several distros, among others mainly
 Debian and Arch Linux.


I didnt think that this qualifies as an exotic need, i guess. I see this kind 
of thing on Twitter, in forums, in messages my kids send me from their phones. 
Thats why i said i thought they were widely used.

In general Debian has worked well for me, and ive gotten good help from this 
list when ive been stuck. I wouldnt lightly abandon Debian just because some 
other distro might be better in some edge cases. Even if viewing emojis is an 
edge case, which i didnt think it was.

Jen


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Re: Fonts providing emojis?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf 
 ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
  On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in
  Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used.
 
 For my exotic audio production needs I prefer Arch Linux over Debian.
 
 If you have other exotic needs, you perhaps are more lucky with a distro
 that fits to that needs. The huge amount of Debian packages is caused by
 splitting upstream to packages for libs, headers, bins, not because
 Debian does provide most software.
 
         [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi ttf-symbola | grep
         Description
         Description    : Font for unicode symbols (part of Unicode Fonts
         for Ancient Scripts).
 
 I have got doubts that Fonts for Ancient Scripts are 
 increasingly
 widely used. Assumed that font is the only exotic thingy you need, it
 shouldn't cause that much work to get it without a package provided by
 the official Debian repositories. AFAIK there's no distro that fits to
 all needs, that's why I'm using several distros, among others mainly
 Debian and Arch Linux.


I didnt think that this qualifies as an exotic need, i guess. I see this kind 
of thing on Twitter, in forums, in messages my kids send me from their phones. 
Thats why i said i thought they were widely used.

In general Debian has worked well for me, and ive gotten good help from this 
list when ive been stuck. I wouldnt lightly abandon Debian just because some 
other distro might be better in some edge cases. Even if viewing emojis is an 
edge case, which i didnt think it was.

Jen


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Re: Fonts providing emojis?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf 
 ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
  On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in
  Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used.
 
 For my exotic audio production needs I prefer Arch Linux over Debian.
 
 If you have other exotic needs, you perhaps are more lucky with a distro
 that fits to that needs. The huge amount of Debian packages is caused by
 splitting upstream to packages for libs, headers, bins, not because
 Debian does provide most software.
 
         [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi ttf-symbola | grep
         Description
         Description    : Font for unicode symbols (part of Unicode Fonts
         for Ancient Scripts).
 
 I have got doubts that Fonts for Ancient Scripts are 
 increasingly
 widely used. Assumed that font is the only exotic thingy you need, it
 shouldn't cause that much work to get it without a package provided by
 the official Debian repositories. AFAIK there's no distro that fits to
 all needs, that's why I'm using several distros, among others mainly
 Debian and Arch Linux.


I didnt think that this qualifies as an exotic need, i guess. I see this kind 
of thing on Twitter, in forums, in messages my kids send me from their phones. 
Thats why i said i thought they were widely used.

In general Debian has worked well for me, and ive gotten good help from this 
list when ive been stuck. I wouldnt lightly abandon Debian just because some 
other distro might be better in some edge cases. Even if viewing emojis is an 
edge case, which i didnt think it was.

Jen


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MTP and Android phones

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi, i'm running Wheezy. I used to have an older Android phone that Just Worked 
with my system, but I upgraded it to one running Android 4.2, and now i can no 
longer figure out how get it to talk to my computer.

Ive Googled and tried to read up about MTP, but im still not sure how to get 
things working--different sites have you download and compile things from 
scratch, which seems crazy that you can't just plug your phone in. I did 
install mtp-tools, but i can't find mtpfs that many of the sites say you need 
to have.

All i want is to be able to plug my phone in via USB and have it visible in the 
filesystem, whether through Thunar or on the commandline. Being able to have it 
work with Banshee wuold be nice too, but i assume that if the phone is visible 
then it will work with any tools.

Thank you.

Jen

Re: MTP and Android phones

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:46 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk 
wrote:
 
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 07:28:06AM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
    Hi, i'm running Wheezy. I used to have an older Android phone that Just
    Worked with my system, but I upgraded it to one running Android 4.2, and
    now i can no longer figure out how get it to talk to my computer.
    Ive Googled and tried to read up about MTP, but im still not sure how to
    get things working--different sites have you download and compile things
    from scratch, which seems crazy that you can't just plug your phone in. I
    did install mtp-tools, but i can't find mtpfs that many of the sites say
    you need to have.

MTPFS is only available in Squeeze and Sid.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mtpfs 



Hmm. Maybe I should use this as an excuse to upgrade to Sid. If I do, will 
this Just Work, or will I still have to jump thruogh elaborate tasks to set 
things up?


Jen

Re: MTP and Android phones

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 11:43 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net 
wrote:

On 2014-01-07 15:46:10 +, Darac Marjal wrote:

 MTPFS is only available in Squeeze and Sid.
 http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mtpfs 
But it doesn't work with Android phones.

Wait, so explain how i can get my phone connected to my computer? There have 
now been several different and contradicting explanations :-(


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Re: Advice on new desktop/building?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Thank you to everyone who replied. 

I think the best thing for me right now would be to NOT try to build my own. 
Some of the low-profile ones taht people suggested--Acer, Zotac--seem like 
theyd be powerful enough for my needs and able to be modified appropriately 
e.g. with an SSD. 

(I had a Zotac a few years ago and I really liked it, in fact; I put Ubuntu on 
it and used it as a HTPC, but eventually stuck it back on the shelf because i 
needed Netflix so replaced it with a Mac Mini.)

I do keep thinking about virtualization, and wanting to have enough computing 
power for that. But realistically, evey time i try to run a virtual machine, i 
play around with it for a while and get it to work and then conclude i don't 
really need to run a VM, so I delete it and stick with my real box. So whatever 
desire i have to have a powerful machine that can run several VMs, i force 
myself to conclude that im just not going to do this.

Ken specifically--i do have GigE on my router and NAS, and I do regularly move 
huge files around, so its a real-world need.


On Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:00 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
 
Jen,

First, congratulations on going about this the correct way, i.e., 
delineating what you want to do with the machine before going shopping. 
  Most people buy a computer first, then try to do things with it that 
the machine will do only poorly, if at all.

I'd recommend instead as a general strategy to buy an already-built 
computer... what just about everybody does.  Take your specifications 
(pretty much what you emailed to the list) to your local computer outlet 
and have the salesperson actually write down which machines they sell 
which satisfy those specs.  Alternatively, you could email your specs to 
an online salesperson and have them reply to your email with machines 
they sell which satisfy the specs.

If you can't find a ready-made machine that's what you want, then you'll 
have to fill in the gaps by installing cards in slots.  It should be, 
for example, fairly easy to buy a card which gives you a couple more USB 
ports.  Note though that the card you buy has to match the slot.  This 
might be especially critical if you need to install a second video card. 
  Don't actually buy the machine until you're certain that all the cards 
you're going to need to install will fit-- physically and technically-- 
into the slots on the motherboard.  This goes of course for the RAM too, 
though this is hardly ever as problematic.

Re: gigabit ethernet:  Are all the other nodes on your local networks 
also running this, including your router?  If not, then it's a 
questionable feature.


That's enough for now.
Good luck,
ken



On 10/19/2013 02:58 PM Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
 My current desktop has been having some issues lately and I think its
 time to consider replacing it. Ive been having trouble finding exactly
 what I want, even tho' this is straightforward, so i though I'd ask here
 to get some advice, maybe even about building my own machine (which Ive
 never done but am willing to learn).

 This is to run Wheezy for simple desktop use--web surfing, running home
 music network, some videos, some coding, but no gaming, no video/sound
 editing, no real storage needs.

 I DO want:

    Small or smallish form factor (currently using a slim tower), attractive
    SSD (small capacity--everything impt is on a NAS elsewhere, i just
 want the system to run fast)
    Ability to have two monitors (currently using VGA and HDMI 'cause
 that's the ports i have)
    Optical drive
    Lots of USB ports (3.0 not really necessary but wouldnt hurt I guess)
    Gigabit Ethernet
    Relatively quiet, energy efficient
    8 GB RAM (for future-proofing, don't normally need much)

 I DONT want or don't care about:

    Massive speed and 16 cores (but want enough that I wont need to
 replace in a year)
    Fancy video card (built-in has always been fine, if I can watch
 movies that's all i need)
    Fancy sound card (I use USB into a DAC for serious things)
    Massive mechanical HD

 When i look at computers from HP or Lenovo, it looks like it costs a
 fortune to add a SSD (and i dont want to buy a separate one from Crucial
 and then have the original one in a box on my shelf) and memory. The
 cheaper machines seem to be worrisomely basic, like in a year they won't
 be able to run YouTube, and the more expensive ones still need upgrades
 of SSD and RAM. And in particular the smaller form factors tend to be
 pretty spendy.

 But i have literally no idea how to assemble a machine from scratch, and
 in trying to browse i dont even know how to find a smaller form
 factor--i cant find an elegant slim case, just huge fancy gaming ones,
 or dull ugly boxes of various sizes.

 All advice appreciated, thank you!

 Jen

Advice on new desktop/building?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

My current desktop has been having some issues lately and I think its time to 
consider replacing it. Ive been having trouble finding exactly what I want, 
even tho' this is straightforward, so i though I'd ask here to get some advice, 
maybe even about building my own machine (which Ive never done but am willing 
to learn).

This is to run Wheezy for simple desktop use--web surfing, running home music 
network, some videos, some coding, but no gaming, no video/sound editing, no 
real storage needs.

I DO want: 

  Small or smallish form factor (currently using a slim tower), attractive
  SSD (small capacity--everything impt is on a NAS elsewhere, i just want the 
system to run fast)
  Ability to have two monitors (currently using VGA and HDMI 'cause that's the 
ports i have)
  Optical drive
  Lots of USB ports (3.0 not really necessary but wouldnt hurt I guess)
  Gigabit Ethernet
  Relatively quiet, energy efficient
  8 GB RAM (for future-proofing, don't normally need much)

I DONT want or don't care about:

  Massive speed and 16 cores (but want enough that I wont need to replace in a 
year)
  Fancy video card (built-in has always been fine, if I can watch movies that's 
all i need)
  Fancy sound card (I use USB into a DAC for serious things)
  Massive mechanical HD

When i look at computers from HP or Lenovo, it looks like it costs a fortune to 
add a SSD (and i dont want to buy a separate one from Crucial and then have the 
original one in a box on my shelf) and memory. The cheaper machines seem to be 
worrisomely basic, like in a year they won't be able to run YouTube, and the 
more expensive ones still need upgrades of SSD and RAM. And in particular the 
smaller form factors tend to be pretty spendy. 

But i have literally no idea how to assemble a machine from scratch, and in 
trying to browse i dont even know how to find a smaller form factor--i cant 
find an elegant slim case, just huge fancy gaming ones, or dull ugly boxes of 
various sizes.

All advice appreciated, thank you!

Jen

Re: Frequent kernel panics

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Thanks for the various suggestions.

Of course the computer hasnt crashed for the last four days now. I did run some 
of the tests suggested, and everything checks out OK.

Theres no new hardware in the system, no new accessories. And i dont have 
replacements for every bit that i can swap in and wait for a month to see if 
its OK. That is i dont have a spare power supply, spare memory, etc. I dont 
think that I installed any new software thats relevant.

I know diagnosing sporadic problems is the hardest thing. But this is so 
frustrating. Maybe I should just build a new machine and give up on this; it 
isnt a super powerful box anyway.

Jen




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To: Marko Randjelovic marko...@eunet.rs 
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Frequent kernel panics
 

Hi,

I would suggest at first doing a fsck on your HDD, then testing RAM
(with memtest maybe or using another RAM), as almost everybody said,
this is due to hardware problems.





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On 12 September 2013 15:13, Marko Randjelovic marko...@eunet.rs wrote:
 Eike Lantzsch zp6...@gmx.net wrote:
 If it is always the same error (there you need to have a look into
 the log)  it might be a recently installed driver or firmware. The
 log may give you an idea which one.
 Do you use binary blobs like video drivers?
 Has there been a recent update?
 Any new hardware installed?
 Again, starting with a live CD might rule out the usual hardware
 suspects or confirm it.


 Kernel is updated in repo from 3.2.41 to 3.2.46 at 8/29.
 @Jennifer: Check if you are running the newest version of kernel. If
 not, update to newest. If it doesn't solve the problem, you could also
 use 'stress' program to deliberately cause the crash. You could do it
 from Live CD with different kernel version to see if the problem is
 with your current kernel and find kernel version that works well.

 You can use software from your HDD manufacturer to test HDD.
 To test memory, you can use memtest86+.
 To test CPU, you can use cpuburn.
 To check your CPU and other temperatures/voltages you can use
 lm-sensors.

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Re: Frequent kernel panics

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I did look in both places and did not see the crash report there. Also looked 
at /var/log/messages--same thing, no crashes shown there.

Jen




 From: laurent debian laurent.deb...@gmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; bg271...@yahoo.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Frequent kernel panics
 


Hi all,
Normally you could find it in 
/var/log/syslog and in /var/log/kern.log
Regards,
Le 12/09/2013 13:49, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum a écrit :

Im running an up-to-date Wheezy on a newish desktop box. In the past the 
machine would crash with apparent kernel panics on occasion, but in the last 
week or 2 the machine is crashing almost every day. Ill step back to it and 
there will be a crash screen with a timestamp log beginning cut here and 
some sort of kernel BUG at, followed by a lot of glop. Apparently i can 
only fix it by powercycling it.


I dont know where these messages is being logged or Id show a whole one: they 
do change though, its not the same one every time.


I know this isn't much to go on, but could someone tell me how to evaluate 
whats going on, or how to give more detail so someone can help? Its getting 
very difficult to deal with.


Thanks.


Jen

Frequent kernel panics

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Im running an up-to-date Wheezy on a newish desktop box. In the past the 
machine would crash with apparent kernel panics on occasion, but in the last 
week or 2 the machine is crashing almost every day. Ill step back to it and 
there will be a crash screen with a timestamp log beginning cut here and some 
sort of kernel BUG at, followed by a lot of glop. Apparently i can only 
fix it by powercycling it.

I dont know where these messages is being logged or Id show a whole one: they 
do change though, its not the same one every time.

I know this isn't much to go on, but could someone tell me how to evaluate 
whats going on, or how to give more detail so someone can help? Its getting 
very difficult to deal with.

Thanks.

Jen

Re: PulseAudio--simultaneous output stopped working

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

- Original Message -
 From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Cc: 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:42 PM
 Subject: PulseAudio--simultaneous output stopped working
 
 I use PulseAudio on Debian Testing. For the most part it Just Works and i 
 didnt 
 have to do any elaborate configuration juju.
 
 I have it set up to do multiple simultaneous output, i do this just by 
 clicking 
 Simultaneous Output - Add virtual output device for simultaneous
 output on all local sound cards in PulseAudio Preferences, not by editing 
 the config files. I have two USB output devices and a pair of desktop
 speakers plugged into the audio-out on the computer.
 
 Until recently this worked, but after some or other recent update, it stopped 
 working. PulseAudio Volume Control does give me various options,
 for playing each individual device and then Simultaneous output to [device 
 1, device 2, etc.]. Now, I can click from one to the other and move the
 sound around seamlessly on each device, but the Simultaneous one is dead 
 silent 
 on all devices. The volume meter does boogie with the sound,
 but there is not output.
 
 Can someone suggest what to look at to solve this? I did wait a week or so in 
 case it was some bug that would get fixed.

I dont know if this helps but i was trying to play around with this--switching 
to the 
Simultaneous Output tab while music was playing--and it crashed with this error:

pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated at 
/usr/bin/../share/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_gstreamer-0.10.pm


(i get the same problem with other sources, i.e. if I play a song with 
Audacious it will
also not play with Simultaneous Output. But gmusicbrowser is my main source for 
audio.)


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PulseAudio--simultaneous output stopped working

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I use PulseAudio on Debian Testing. For the most part it Just Works and i didnt 
have to do any elaborate configuration juju.

I have it set up to do multiple simultaneous output, i do this just by clicking 
Simultaneous Output - Add virtual output device for simultaneous
output on all local sound cards in PulseAudio Preferences, not by editing the 
config files. I have two USB output devices and a pair of desktop
speakers plugged into the audio-out on the computer.

Until recently this worked, but after some or other recent update, it stopped 
working. PulseAudio Volume Control does give me various options,
for playing each individual device and then Simultaneous output to [device 1, 
device 2, etc.]. Now, I can click from one to the other and move the
sound around seamlessly on each device, but the Simultaneous one is dead silent 
on all devices. The volume meter does boogie with the sound,
but there is not output.

Can someone suggest what to look at to solve this? I did wait a week or so in 
case it was some bug that would get fixed.

Thanks!

Jen


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Re: USB speaker as internal audio?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

- Original Message -

 From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Cc: 
 Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:56 PM
 Subject: Re: USB speaker as internal audio?
 
 On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:32:44 -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
 
  Hi, Im running Debian testing with XFCE, and PulseAudio as my sound
  system.
 
  I currently have a pair of cheap speakers plugged into the sound 
 out
  on my computer, and then two different USB speakers for higher-quality
  stuff.
 
  I want to get a pair of small USB speakers as my main desktop
  speakers. Is there a way to tell the system to use these speakers as my
  internal audio device? I want to be able to hear system sounds 
 etc.
  thru these speakers. Right now if I unplug the normal sound out
  speakers, i get no system sounds at all, nothing goes automatically to
  either of the USB speakers. In the PulseAudio volume control, the
  system sounds just has a volume slider, it doesn't let you 
 choose an
  output device.
 
 This is from PA wiki:
 
 http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/DefaultDevice
 
 Which seems to point pavucontrol, as well as this other site:
 
 How do I switch to another audio output sink in XFCE?
 http://askubuntu.com/questions/107277/how-do-i-switch-to-another-audio-output-sink-in-xfce



Thank you! I did look at the docs but i thought that this still couldnt apply 
to internal audio. But
this seems to be the trick. I dont mind the manual setup; once its done 
it's done.

Jen.


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USB speaker as internal audio?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi, Im running Debian testing with XFCE, and PulseAudio as my sound system.

I currently have a pair of cheap speakers plugged into the sound out on my 
computer, and then two different USB speakers for higher-quality stuff.

I want to get a pair of small USB speakers as my main desktop speakers. Is 
there a way to tell the system to use these speakers as my internal audio 
device? I want to be able to hear system sounds etc. thru these speakers. Right 
now if I unplug the normal sound out speakers, i get no system sounds at all, 
nothing goes automatically to either of the USB speakers. In the PulseAudio 
volume control, the system sounds just has a volume slider, it doesn't let 
you choose an output device.

Thanks!


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RE: acsblog.es

[Jennifer Saad | TwinLinx]

Hello,

I'd like to wish Happy New Year to you and your family.

Let's do a 3-way link swap with your website http://acsblog.es. I'll give you 
two links in exchange for one from you.

3-way linking is a very effective link building strategy. Since you're getting 
the links from third party websites, they appear
totally natural to search engines. Such inbound links help your website rank 
higher in Google and other search
engines.

Visit http://twinlinx.us to submit your website.

Thanks,
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Founder  CEO, TwinLinx



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Help! Can't log in as self

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Im running Xfce4 on Debian testing. I recently rebooted the machine, and i 
didnt intentionally make any changes
to anything that i think would be relevant. On reboot, I was not able to log in 
as my usual user; i get to the Xfce
Welcome to [machine name] screen, and enter my username/password, and it 
hangs for a sec and returns.

Logging in as root i tried to reset the password of this account, but it had no 
effect. I created a test user, and this user 
WAS able to log in.

I cant find anything useful in the logs. There's nothing in /var/log/messages 
that seems relevant. In auth.log
i just see three lines, pam_unix(xdm:session): session opened for user [foo] 
by [foo](uid=0), something from 
pam_cd_connector, and then pam_unix(xdm:session): session closed for user 
[foo]. The only thing is that user 
[foo] is uid=1000, not uid=0, but the test user had the same thing, so this 
can't be it. There's nothing that seems
relevant in xdm.log.

What might this be, and where can I look? 

Thanks!


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Re: Help! Can't log in as self

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Well, that was wierd.

I experimented with every possible thing, and finally, i moved my .xsession 
file out of the way and that did it.
It was a new file, but it contained only the line xset b 0, and I dont know 
why this would cause the entire
start to crash.

But i seem to be back in business!

Jen


- Original Message -
 From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Cc: 
 Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 7:19 PM
 Subject: Help! Can't log in as self
 
 Im running Xfce4 on Debian testing. I recently rebooted the machine, and i 
 didnt 
 intentionally make any changes
 to anything that i think would be relevant. On reboot, I was not able to log 
 in 
 as my usual user; i get to the Xfce
 Welcome to [machine name] screen, and enter my username/password, 
 and it hangs for a sec and returns.
 
 Logging in as root i tried to reset the password of this account, but it had 
 no 
 effect. I created a test user, and this user 
 WAS able to log in.
 
 I cant find anything useful in the logs. There's nothing in 
 /var/log/messages that seems relevant. In auth.log
 i just see three lines, pam_unix(xdm:session): session opened for user 
 [foo] by [foo](uid=0), something from 
 pam_cd_connector, and then pam_unix(xdm:session): session closed for user 
 [foo]. The only thing is that user 
 [foo] is uid=1000, not uid=0, but the test user had the same thing, so this 
 can't be it. There's nothing that seems
 relevant in xdm.log.
 
 What might this be, and where can I look? 
 
 Thanks!
 
 
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Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

- Original Message -
 From: Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Cc: 
 Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:33 AM
 Subject: Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert
 
 2011-08-16 12:20, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum skrev:
 
  Where can i go for docs on how to set this up to Just Work?
 
 
 As I do not know how to do what you want with alsa, I would suggest trying 
 pulse 
 in debian.

Thanks to everyone who replied. I ended up by did deciding to install 
PulseAudio, and i think it will be fine. Right away things more or less worked, 
and i think that the tweeks i need to do to get it completely smooth, are 
possible. I hope it continues to be well integrated with Debian so it gets even 
easier.

Jen


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Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. I used to use Debian but recently have been using Ubuntu. For various 
reasons (mainly hating the Unity interface) i now am back on Debian. I have a 
clean install of Wheezy running under Xfce on a basic desktop computer. I am 
looking to get audio working in a straightforward way, i dont want to be doing 
anything fancy. The basic docs ive looked at are often very complicated and 
talk aboutt hings i dont want to do.

Under Ubuntu, running PulseAudio, sound Just Worked. That's what i want. I dont 
care about PulseAudio specifically but if it works smoothly i'll use it.

Specifically: I want there to be one place where there's a GUI that controls 
the system volume and that controls what audio device is playing. Right now i 
have plugged-in speakers and a USB audio device, and will soon have another USB 
device. In Ubuntu I would go to the Gnome audio thing that was available from 
all the menus, and select the output device, and that's what would work for all 
apps. In Debian the Alsa Mixer that launches from the Xfce widget doesnt seem 
to control where the sound goes, so i have to start messing around in each app 
to choose the output. This is a pain; i want to switch from the plugged-in 
speakers to the USB device in one place and for everything, whether its XMMS or 
Flash videos in Firefox or VLC or whatever.

Where can i go for docs on how to set this up to Just Work?

Also my plugged-in speakers are only playing out of one channel; and I want to 
re-map two keys (scroll-lock and pause/break) to function as volume up/down 
buttons (I dont have a multimedia keyboard with volume buttons) and I dont know 
the commands to map to these keys. But in both cases i assume the answer will 
depend on my overall solution so I am only mention this in passing.

Thank you!


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Ralink driver connection, speed problems

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble with finding the driver for 
my ralink card. I got help with that but now
its working but not in any good way.

The card is:

05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R 
PCIe [1814:3092]

and Im using the rt2800pci driver. The machine itself is running 2.6.38-2-amd64 
#1. 


First, i cant see my 802.11n 5Ghz network at all, it doesnt show up at all, 
with 
iwlist scan or just looking 

at the wicd listings.

Second, even in the 802.11g 2.4Ghz network, i get a very strong signal and have 
no problem connecting, but the 

speed is unusably slow. At best it will be 10K/s, but usually more like 3K/s, 
and it stalls all the time.

In both cases the AP is very close physically, theres a strong signal, and 
another machine running Ubuntu (with
a different card) has no problem.

How do i figure out whats going on? I can post whatever additional info will 
help diagnose this. I did google
but didnt find anything helpful.

Thanks.

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 4:03 AM
 On Sun, 15 May 2011 03:24:16 -0700,
 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
 
  Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble
 with finding the
  driver for my ralink card. I got help with that but
 now its working
  but not in any good way.
 
 (...)
 
 I would first check for a possible driver conflict:
 
 lsmod | grep rt2
 
 There should be only one kernel module loaded for the card
 which is 
 rt2800pci. If you see another modules, you may need to
 blacklist them.

Hm--I see a whole bunch of stuff. Which are the wrong ones, and how do i 
blacklist them?

In my previous thread i mentioned that the rt2800pci module didnt seem to be 
loaded automatically, so i had to put it into /etc/modules. Is 
that relevant at all? Anyway, the output:

$ lsmod | grep rt2
rt2800pci  13507  0 
rt2800lib  38904  1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt  12347  1 rt2800lib
rt2x00pci  12779  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib  33548  3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci
mac80211  180997  3 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
cfg80211  126017  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6   12455  1 rt2800pci

Thank you!

Jen


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Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com  wrote:
 
 On Sun, 15 May 2011 04:11:50 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
 
  ---  On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com  wrote:
 
   Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having  trouble
  with finding the
   driver for my ralink card.  I got help with that but
  now its working
   but not  in any good way.
  
  (...)
  
  I would  first check for a possible driver conflict:
  
  lsmod |  grep rt2
  
  There should be only one kernel module loaded  for the card which is
  rt2800pci. If you see another modules, you  may need to blacklist
  them.
  
  Hm--I see a whole bunch  of stuff. Which are the wrong ones, and how do i
  blacklist  them?
 
 Good question :-)
 
 The working one has to be rt2800pci but  I'm not sure if this module 
 automatically chainloads the other one  (rt2x00pci) :-?
 
 Well, you can try first to unload all of  them:
 
 modprobe -r rt2x00pci
 modprobe -r rt2800pci

I had to do this in the reverse order, but then it worked. lsmod | grep rt2 
came up blank.

 And then load just the one it works:
 
 modprobe  rt2800pci
 
 Then check again the listed modules:
 
 lsmod | grep  rt2
 
 If there are only rt2800* modules loaded try to setup the card  again.

This brought me back t othe same place as before, with the same long list of 
things from lsmod. And the problems were
the same, i.e. no sign of the 802.11n network, and uselessly slow connection 
speed on the 802.11g.

I assume its the same thing, but i have a directory in a Samba share, and when 
i 
try to go into it its incredibly slow,
like 30 seconds before an ls responds. Its instant when i am connected with 
Ethernet.

What to try now? Thanks!


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Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:

 Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  
  and Im using the rt2800pci driver. The machine itself
 is running 2.6.38-2-amd64 
  #1. 
 
 You could try 2.6.39-rc7-amd64 from experimental.

OK, i did give this a try (though i worry about doing stuff like this; 
running a bleeding-edge kernel isnt what i want to be doing). No problem
installing the kernel, and the system came back up, but the wireless
card wasnt up. When i try to bring it back up i get:

$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Input/output error

And for this event dmesg shows:

[  586.402397] phy0 - rt2800_wait_wpdma_ready: Error - WPDMA TX/RX busy, 
aborting.
[  586.402403] phy0 - rt2800pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to 
enter state 4 (-5).

Since all the things that come up when i google that are from people 
talking about kernel debugging, i think that using this kernel may not
be on the right track :-(

Any other ideas? Im really not trying to do anything fancy, i just want 
wireless to work!

Thanks.

Jen


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Getting ralink driver working?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64 
#1.

I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card is:

$ lspci -nn | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R 
PCIe [1814:3092]

The page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi says that the RT3092 card is supported by 
the rt2860sta driver, and the wiki page on that driver says to install 
wireless-tools and firmware-ralink. I did this. But wireless still doesn't show 
up, ifconfig and iwconfig don't show that any wireless thing exists. If i try 
to load module directly:

$ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.

even though firmware-ralink is installed.

Is there something i need to do to activeate this card? 

Thank you and sorry for newbish question!


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Re: Getting ralink driver working?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:


 On 05/14/2011 10:26 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  $ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
  FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.

 $ apt-file find rt2860sta
 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64:
 /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt2860sta.ko

 [...]

 I guess I downgrade is in order?

Is there any way i can just downgrade the kernel and leave the rest of the 
system? Im running wheezy because  in the past Ive never
had a problem running testing versions, and i might as well stay up to date. 
There's nothing specific i need in the testing kernel. 

But it would be a pain to wipe everything and reinstall.

Thanks!

Jen


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Re: Getting ralink driver working?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On 05/14/2011 03:26 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  Hi. I just  installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 
2.6.38-2-amd64  #1.
 
  I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card  is:
 
  $ lspci -nn | grep Network
  05:00.0 Network  controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 
2T/2R PCIe  [1814:3092]
 
  The page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi says that the  RT3092 card is 
  supported 
by the rt2860sta driver, and the wiki page on that  driver says to install 
wireless-tools and firmware-ralink. I did this. But  wireless still doesn't 
show 
up, ifconfig and iwconfig don't show that any  wireless thing exists. If i try 
to load module directly:
 
  $ sudo  modprobe rt2860sta
  FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.
 
   even though firmware-ralink is installed.
 
  Is there something i  need to do to activeate this card?
 
  Thank you and sorry for  newbish question!
 
 
 
 Look  here
 
/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/modules.order:kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko
o

Thanks to both people who pointed this out. This module wasnt loaded by default 
but it worked with modprobe, so i put it into
/etc/modules and its working now.

The one problem is that i dont see any sign of my 802.11n network. Its only 
seeing the 2.4GHz G network. A Ubuntu machine with an Intel 5100 

AGN card does see the 5GHz network. But this is probably a different problem so 
i will play with it for a bit an ask again in the right thread. 


Thanks!

Jen.


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DAAP server for OS X or Debian?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi,

I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very large music library. I want to share this 
music over DAAP to my Debian box (dont really care what client i use, Rhythmbox 
or Banshee or Songbird is all fine), but the iTunes version encrypts it so you 
cant use it with non-iTunes clients.

Is there a current, supported DAAP server that runs on OS X, or alternately, if 
i decided to switch to host my music on Debian (which i dont want to do mainly 
because i have a bunch of useful utilities on the Mac that dont exist on 
Linux), is there a recommended one for Linux?

Ive looked at some of the projects, but they confuse me because there are a lot 
and some of them are no longer supported, or use plugins that are no longer 
supported, etc. So if there's a main one that everyone likes, I will be happy 
to use that.

Thanks.

Jen


  


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Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

--- On Mon, 3/8/10, tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:

 From: tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com
 Subject: Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian?
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 1:26 PM
 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very large music
 library. I want to share
 this music over DAAP to my Debian box (dont really care
 what client i use,
 Rhythmbox or Banshee or Songbird is all fine), but the
 iTunes version encrypts
 it so you cant use it with non-iTunes clients.
  
  Is there a current, supported DAAP server that runs on
 OS X, or alternately, if
 i decided to switch to host my music on Debian (which i
 dont want to do mainly
 because i have a bunch of useful utilities on the Mac
 that dont exist on Linux),
 is there a recommended one for Linux?
  
  Ive looked at some of the projects, but they confuse
 me because there are a lot
 and some of them are no longer supported, or use
 plugins that are no longer
 supported, etc. So if there's a main one that
 everyone likes, I will be happy
 to use that.
  
  Thanks.
  
  Jen
  
  
 Hi, I had good luck using mt-daapd (known also as
 firefly) to serve my
 music (flac and ogg mainly) hosted on my Debian machine.
 Clients running
 Rhythmbox, Amarok2 (Amarok from kde3 had issues with
 mt-daapd), or
 Songbird with a plugin have no trouble playing the files on
 my lan/wlan.
 I had the occasional Mac clients (ITunes) and they were
 able to use the
 mt-daapd share too, even Winamp on Windows.
 I read a while ago that it's possible to run the server on
 Mac OSX
 through Fink or Macport, but since I have no interest in it
 I didn't
 investigate any further, your favourite search engine
 should tell you
 more (maybe there's a native Mac version now).

Firefly is apparently no longer under active development, theres a linux-only 
fork of it though. So i dont feel comfortable going with something that is been 
abandoned.

Jen.


  


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Re: X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote:

 From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk
 Subject: Re: X crashing after upgrade: urgent!
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 12:51 AM
 On 30 Sep 2009, mihkel wrote:
  -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
  Hash: SHA1
  
  Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum kirjutas:
   I am willing to downgrade X but dont know how to
 do this. Or if it will help.
  
  I had the same problem yesterday. In order to
 downgrade X, I booted to single
  user mode, purged all X related packages, changed sid
 to testing in
  /etc/apt/sources.list file and installed X again.
  Since the problem appeared after upgrading
 xserver-common, xserver-xephyr and
  xserver-xorg-core to version 1.6.4-1, I assume you
 really don't need to purge
  all X related packages, just these three.
  
 
 A lot of people seem to have been bitten by this one. It
 hit me
 yesterday on my Thinkpad Z61M (quite similar to the T60). I
 then
 remembered that I'd just upgraded xserver-common and
 xserver-xorg-core.
 Fortunately both earlier versions were still in the cache
 so I
 downgraded both (not being sure which was the culprit) and
 X came back
 to life. From another post on this list it seems it would
 be necessary
 to go back to lenny for an earlier version if you no longer
 have it in
 the cache.

Thank you to everyone who responded!!!

To solve this i remove xserver-common and xserver-xorg-core, swittched from Sid 
back to Testing in my sources.list, and reinstalled.

And it worked right away (not counting another problem that was just my 
stupidity).

In response to the people who said i shouldnt run Sid on an important system, 
Id say that its been working fine for me all along. 
There have been a few times when Ive messed things up but this has always been 
because i wasnt paying attention. 
But on its own, Sid has been totally stable. And Ive sometimes wanted newer 
packages

My big mistake here was to upgrade right before a presentation. Otherwise i 
would have been able to figure things out without panicing. And I should have 
been able to figure this out anyway!!!

This time Im bringing an Ubuntu LiveCD with me, Just-In-Case.

Thanks again.

Jen


  


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X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. Im running Sid on a Thinkpad T60, and recently rebooted my machine after 
having done several updates recently. I now find that X is crashing hard on 
boot, rendering the system unusabler. My Xorg log shows the same backtrace 
thats reported in this thread:

http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-user/369120-x-server-hangs-debian-squeeze-after-upgrade.html

But my system doesnt crash randomly, it wont even start in the first place.

I reinstalled all xorg modules, and the mesa libraries (someone in that thread 
suggested this) but it still crashes in the same way. Im not using a config 
file, i just use the automatic one, and i dont want to do anything fancy.

I am supposed to give a presentation tomorrow with this laptop and its the only 
one i have so Im DESPERATE to get this resolve 

Would be very very grateful for any help at all!

I am willing to downgrade X but dont know how to do this. Or if it will help.

Thanks!

Jen


  


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FF 3.5 in Unstable?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi, 

Im running Debian Unstable, and had hoped that the new version of FireFox would 
be in Unstable pretty quickly. But its not there yet.

Im using it happily on my Mac system, and i'd really like to get it on Debian 
as well. Is there a safe way of getting it now? I guess i can get it from the 
Mozilla site, but then i dont want to be in a position where my Debian packages 
are out of whack because i did this, or where i dont know of any updates.

Thanks!

Jen.


  


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X problem after upgrade--help!

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. I just upgraded from testing to unstable, in order to get some updated 
packages I need.

X is now not working, and i dont know why. There are no useful messages in 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log, that i can tell--no errors are reported adn the only thing 
that looks bad is SELinux: Disabled on system, not enabling in X server.

There are no useful messages in /var/log/messages.

In /var/log/gdm/:0.log I get an error RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion 
failed to open the DRM and then [dri] Disabling DRI.; but then perhaps 
better, Unhandled monitor type 0 after xf86InitialConfiguration Output LCD1 
disable success. At the end of this log there is /usr/bin/X: symbol lookup 
error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so: undefined symbol: 
atiddxAbiDixLookupPrivate.

This is on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60, so the monitor should be supported. But when 
I look at my xorg.conf file, there's almost nothing there (i had an 
autogenerated file). When I try to rerun it with dpkg-reconfigure -phigh 
xserver-xorg, it gives me the same thing.

How can i get X working again?  This is crucial for my system! If theres more 
info i can give ill give it!

Thanks.

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Re: Sound woes

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

  And opening up a new browser, sound doesnt work in
 that one either. As
  long as the original browser is open, weather or not
 theres sound
  playing, nothing else can get sound.
  
  does that help narrow things down?
 
 One thing you could try is editing
 /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc and changing
 the wrapper to auto.  See
 /usr/share/doc/iceweasel/README.Debian for more
 info.
 
 I don't know anything about how PulseAudio and the
 setting in this config
 file relate to each other, so sorry if this doesn't
 help!

Im afraid that didnt help.

It looks like the browser, or Flash, when it grabs the sound card, doesnt let 
anything else have it, weather or not its using it. If I shut the browser, then 
other programs can use sound, but if i keep it open, then they cant. Simple as 
that.

I dont know if its a Pulse thing or a FireFox thing or a Flash thing. Is there 
any way to determine this?

Jen


  


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Re: Sound woes

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 
 Iceweasel itself shouldn't grab the soundcard if your
 not on a site that uses 
 flash for audio. If you close the webpage after listening
 to flash audio the 
 soundcard is still in the being used state,
 correct?
 
 Try these two commands below, which should show what is
 using the soundcard.
 
 lsof -n | grep /dev/dsp
 lsof | grep /dev/snd

The second command does show (i guess) that FireFox is the thing blocking the 
soundcard:

$ lsof -n | grep /dev/snd
mixer_app  4559  jen   21u  CHR  116,0  0t0 5715 
/dev/snd/controlC0
firefox-b  9631  jen  mem   CHR 116,16  5691 
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
firefox-b  9631  jen  151u  CHR 116,16  0t0 5691 
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

Im not sure where that leaves me, though.

 You could also install the alsa-oss package if it's not
 installed, and start 
 Firefox Iceweasel on the command line as below,
 which should allow you to 
 use other sound apps.
 
 aoss firefox

I tried this, but with no effect: restarting FireFox (i.e. Iceweasel) and i get 
the same thing--i can use other audio apps, until the first time i run an audio 
Flash app in FireFox, and then nothing else is available.

 I don't know much about pulseaudio, except that it is
 known to be responsible 
 for some problems, which is why I normally remove it, then
 your sound apps 
 use alsa directly.

If Alsa would do a good job with USB audio, id be more than thrilled to use it. 
I dont need fancy network sharing of my audio streams, or whatever else Pulse 
does.

Thanks again

Jen


  


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Sound woes

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I keep having problems with sound on my system that i just dont know how to 
describe any more. If there is a way to say whats going on, i want to know 
this, so i can get help better, and figure out myself how to keep things 
working. I dont want to do any thing fancy, i just want sound to *work*!

Right now on my Debian unstable system, i run Pulseaudio (for good USB audio 
support). Recently many things have stopped working. I can watch YouTube videos 
with sound, and click on MP3s and hear them, both from within FireFox. But when 
I open up another browser at the same time, that gets no sound. If I try to 
play an MP3 or a movie on my filesystem, i get no sound, whether i use 
Audacious or mplayer or totem or anything else. Most of the time there are no 
useful debug messags, but mplayer gives this:

[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device
Failed to initialize audio driver 'sdl'
Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound.


 If I go to System - Preferences - Sound, where it is configured to use the 
PulseAudio Sound Server for all output, i dont see what elese i can 
adjust--clicking on any of the Test buttons gives me no sound.

This is getting beyond frustrating as the only thing i want to do is listen to 
stuff on my computer, thats it, im not trying to network audio to a bunc hof 
devices. 

Are there steps i can take to try to narrow this down when it happens? Usually 
things fail all together but the fact that im getting sound from some apps but 
not others makes it really hard to figure out what do look at.

Thanks

Jen


  


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Re: Sound woes

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 Right now on my Debian unstable system, i run Pulseaudio (for good USB audio 
 support). Recently many things have stopped working. I can watch YouTube 
 videos with sound, and click on MP3s and hear them, both from within FireFox. 
 But when I open up another browser at the same time, that gets no sound. If I 
 try to play an MP3 or a movie on my filesystem, i get no sound, whether i use 
 Audacious or mplayer or totem or anything else. 

After some further playing around, this does have something to do with Flash 
grabbign the sound for itself. when i restarted FireFox, before i played a 
YouTube video in it, i ran another app, and sound worked fine. After I played a 
Flash video, that app could no longer get sound.

And opening up a new browser, sound doesnt work in that one either. As long as 
the original browser is open, weather or not theres sound playing, nothing else 
can get sound.

does that help narrow things down?

Jen


  


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Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi, I have Pulseaudio set up on my sid machine, and after following the 
configuratoin examples, things have been working fine.

But recently some parts (i dont know the right word--channel, track, source?) 
stop working and i cant tell why.

When I first boot the machine everything works. But right now, for instance, i 
can play YouTube videos and get sound, but thats it. I get no sound with Totem, 
or Audacious, or even with another web browser.

I dont even know what details to report--i look at the Pulseaudio Manager and 
things look OK, but i dont know what to look for. There are no message in 
/var/log/messages. And i dont know why this starts to happen, its not connected 
to anything like suspend/resume. All i know is that right now i can watch 
YouTube but cant play an mp3.

Where do i go to try to figure this out?

Thanks!

Jen


  


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Upgrading flashplayer?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. Im running...well, I guess Sid. Im using testing for my 
/etc/apt/sources.list file.

A few days ago flashplugin-nonfree went away, or something, and i can no longer 
get flash to work. I installed flashplayer-mozilla but it doesnt work.
I looked at the Adobe site and they do have a Linux download for Flash 10, but 
i thought there has to be a version already packaged.

Is there a way to install the flashplugin-nonfree package from unstable, or 
something? Or any other way to get flash to work again until testing is
back in order?

Thanks!

Jen


  


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Re: Upgrading flashplayer?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:56, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
  A few days ago flashplugin-nonfree went away, or something, and i can no 
  longer get flash to work. I installed flashplayer-mozilla but it doesnt 
  work.
  I looked at the Adobe site and they do have a Linux download for Flash 10, 
  but i thought there has to be a version already packaged.
 
  Is there a way to install the flashplugin-nonfree package from unstable, or 
  something? Or any other way to get flash to work again until testing is
  back in order?

Testing is squeeze now, sid always the name for unstable.

 It appears that flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound is still in testing,
 but flashplugin-nonfree is not. I don't know why that would be,
 but it is still present in sid. You can download it from here:
 http://packages.debian.org/sid/flashplugin-nonfree

 At the bottom, select i386 if you are 32-bit, amd64 if you are
 using 64-bit. Then select any mirror and download the deb.
 As root, use dkpk -i (path/to/download/)flashplugin-nonfree_2.5_i386.deb
 to install.

Hmm. Thanks, i had tried this before but it still didnt work andi thought i 
must have done something wrong, but now im more confused.

I did this and it shows up as installed. But its not working in Firefox. (Which 
is why i thought it wasnot working at all.) But it IS working in Epiphany and 
Opera. I dont think i have anything in Firefox preventing Flash from working, 
and it was working before this latest change...is there
any reason why it would be failing in one browser but OK in the others?

Thanks!

Jen


  


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Re: Upgrading flashplayer?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com
 Subject: Re: Upgrading flashplayer?
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 11:45 AM
 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:56, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
 bg271...@yahoo.com wrote:
   A few days ago flashplugin-nonfree went away, or
 something, and i can no longer get flash to work. I
 installed flashplayer-mozilla but it doesnt work.
   I looked at the Adobe site and they do have a
 Linux download for Flash 10, but i thought there has to be a
 version already packaged.
  
   Is there a way to install the flashplugin-nonfree
 package from unstable, or something? Or any other way to get
 flash to work again until testing is
   back in order?
 
 Testing is squeeze now, sid always the name for
 unstable.
 
  It appears that flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound is
 still in testing,
  but flashplugin-nonfree is not. I don't know why
 that would be,
  but it is still present in sid. You can download it
 from here:
  http://packages.debian.org/sid/flashplugin-nonfree
 
  At the bottom, select i386 if you are 32-bit, amd64 if
 you are
  using 64-bit. Then select any mirror and download the
 deb.
  As root, use dkpk -i
 (path/to/download/)flashplugin-nonfree_2.5_i386.deb
  to install.
 
 Hmm. Thanks, i had tried this before but it still didnt
 work andi thought i must have done something wrong, but now
 im more confused.
 
 I did this and it shows up as installed. But its not
 working in Firefox. (Which is why i thought it wasnot
 working at all.) But it IS working in Epiphany and Opera. I
 dont think i have anything in Firefox preventing Flash from
 working, and it was working before this latest change...is
 there
 any reason why it would be failing in one browser but OK in
 the others?

Sorry, Im an idiot :-( 

Im running the Flashblock add-on, and though I knew about it, there was some 
way it was failing. When I disabled it I got my Flash again.

Will try to figure out the problem with it but it must be something Im doing 
wrong.

Thanks, and sorry.

Jen


  


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Lots of Gnome missing from Sid?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

A while ago i asked for advice about upgrading--i wanted more up to date 
packages on my Lenny laptop. Thanks to some helpful suggests, i concluded that 
it was safe to go to unstable. I change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny to 
sid, and away i went.

Since then things have been ok; sometimes a package i needed broke but it was 
alwaays back in a day or two. 

Usually i use Synaptic, but today i ran apt-get from the commandline and it 
prompted me to remove unnecessary packages, so i ran this and without paying 
too much attention realized that it had removed 270MB of stuff, including very 
large chunks of Gnome as being unnecessary'. Now my box is sort of unusable.

Is this some very temporary thing, or did i really bite off more than i could 
chew? How do i get back to a usable system?

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Re: Lots of Gnome missing from Sid?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

--- On Wed, 1/7/09, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org 
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:

 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  A while ago i asked for advice about upgrading--i
 wanted more up to date packages on my Lenny laptop. Thanks
 to some helpful suggests, i concluded that it was safe to go
 to unstable. I change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny to
 sid, and away i went.
  
  Since then things have been ok; sometimes a package i
 needed broke but it was alwaays back in a day or two. 
  Usually i use Synaptic, but today i ran apt-get from
 the commandline and it prompted me to remove unnecessary
 packages, so i ran this and without paying too much
 attention realized that it had removed 270MB of stuff,
 including very large chunks of Gnome as being
 unnecessary'. Now my box is sort of unusable.
  
  Is this some very temporary thing, or did i really
 bite off more than i could chew? How do i get back to a
 usable system?
  
  Jen
  
 
 My understanding is that sometimes packages need to get
 uninstalled to solve dependency issues (in order to properly
 process a significant upgrade).  If you're running
 unstable/sid, this will happen sometimes.  As someone
 who's used sid/unstable on my main desktop machines for
 many years I can tell you that most of the time the fix is
 as simple as reinstalling afterwards.  Have you tried yet
 something like (I've been following the advice to use
 aptitude instead of apt-get happily for years now also):
 
 aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment

Thanks. That was, in fact, all it took!

I thought that something had happened requiring Gnome to be removed, or that it 
wouldnt be so simple.
 
 My advice is to be much more careful with the timing of
 attempted upgrades.  When running unstable, you
 shouldn't just blithely upgrade regularly, and when you
 do upgrade, pay more attention to what is proposed for
 removal before allowing it to proceed.  And always give
 yourself a little bit of time afterwards to sort stuff out
 (don't ever attempt upgrades 10 minutes before planning
 to leave your machine/office/home/whatever).

Yeah. I already am sorta careful but ill be much mroe so. And ill totally say 
no if it wants to remove my entire system!

Thanks.

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Difference between Lenny/testing?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I am currently running Lenny on two laptops. I thought i had seen something on 
this list about how, with Lenny close to release, the lenny repositories are 
different from testing, and if we want to keep up to date we should switch to 
testing in sources.list. But the docs say that lenny is just a symlink to 
testing.

Im not trying to be ultra-bleeding-edge, but im willing to trade some stability 
for newer packages. I thought thats what i was doing with lenny. Should i 
switch to testing in sources.list, or am i confused?

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Songbird package?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Now that Songbird has been released as 1.0, will there be a Debian package for 
it? I use Lenny now.

On the Songbird site they only have a source tarball, and the contributed 
builds are for Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, and Gentoo. Are we that much behind 
the times?!? :-)

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Decent fonts in Emacs?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. Im running Gnome under Lenny.

Im trying to get Emacs to work with some decent fonts that show some special 
characters in a document, things like an fi or fl ligature, or
some other odd things like that (ellipsis).

When i look at these files in gedit, or even in the terminal wiht more, they 
look OK, but in Emacs i get square boxes or blank spaces everywhere.

I read the Emacs wiki all over, and i installed emacs-gtk, installed 
x-ttcidfont-conf, restarted X. But things are still difficult.

From the font menu in Emacs i can still only choose the basic fonts, not TTF 
ones. gedit tells me im using the system font, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10, 
but when i try to get the full name for this with xfontsel and then put this 
into Emacs, it looks nothing like it does in gedit,
its much larger, and i still cant select
different things easily.

Is there any simple set of instructions i can get to be albe to have decent 
looking fonts in Emacs for this purpose? Why does it have to
be so hard? :-(

The most important thing is that i can see these different characters.

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Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. Im running Lenny on two computers, and have been very happy with it. 
Nothings ever really been broken, so i dont think that a stable 
version is necessary for what i need.

I dont really want to go unstable--the name alone scares me--but at the same 
time i read the release notes for the new Ubuntu beta, and its
really nice. I *want* Gnome 2.24 (the auto XRandR thing is especially nice, ive 
always wanted multi-head but am skeered to mess with my xorg.conf). I _want_ 
the new version of Network Manager. Etcetera.

Is there any way to get this, but without the risk of the system breaking every 
other day? I dont want my life to be about managing the system,
but im willing to have a little inconvenience in return for more up to date 
features.

Thanks!

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Setting up ad-hoc network?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Im running Gnome on a Lenny laptop.

Is there a simple way to set up an ad-hoc wireless network? I want to do this 
so i can tether an iPhone, to get Net access via the phone.

I expected that the NetworkManager Create New Wirelss Network option would do 
it, but i dont know what this does; its not documented. All i know is
that when i do this, it disconnects from the existing network, tries to join 
the newly created network, and fails.

Id prefer a GUI method, but at this point, whatever works.

Thanks!

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Wireless card not showing up

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi.

This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start.

I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet 
port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up 
in my networking tools, even though the machine does support WiFi.

I rebooted it and i still only have my Ethernet card showing up. And when i 
look over the output of dmesg, theres nothing at all there for my wireless
card, at least nothing i can see.

Im absolutely sure theres a wireless card here; theres even an entry in the 
Network Manager Editor for an interface i sometimes use.

Because its not showing up in dmesg i wonder if its a hardware rather than 
driver problem, but i thought someone hear might have an idea of where to
start looking. I know the machine has never been dropped or damaged.

Thanks.

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Re: Wireless card not showing up

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu:
  Hi.
 
  This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know
 where to start.
 
  I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally
 plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only
 the wired network is showing up 
  in my networking tools, even though the machine does
 support WiFi.
 
  I rebooted it and i still only have my Ethernet card
 showing up. And when i look over the output of dmesg, theres
 nothing at all there for my wireless
  card, at least nothing i can see.

[etc.]
 
 Is there a switch or button to turn the wireless card
 on/off? Is it on?

Yes there is a switch, and its definitely on. I thought that might be it and 
switched it off and on and its on. At least, its in a clearly 
physically different position than off, it clicks into place.

I expected that even if switched off it would show up in dmesg though.

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Re: Wireless card not showing up

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Sebastian Gunther wrote:

 * Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29.09.08 18:28]:

 [WiFi Problem]

 Please submit the results of the following commands:

 # uname -a

 # lspci

 # ifconfig

 # iwconfig

 Then we know a little more about your hardware.

I seem to hvae fixed it.

I cleaned up some old repositories and then rebooted, and noticed that the card 
DID show up in the lspci list (though it hadnt before, im sure of it). It still
wasnt registering anywhere, but i realised that i was using an outdated
version of madwifi that didnt correspond to my current kernel. I recompiled
this and things are working now.

Sorry for the confusion.

Jen


  


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Volume control in Pulseaudio?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi!

I recently installed Pulseaudio because a lot of people said it was the best 
thing, and i'd been having some problems with my audio beforehand. After
following some detailed instructions online i managed to get it running 
smoothly with all my apps.

My one problem is the volume control. The panel volume control app doesnt allow 
you to control Pulseaudio, it only does HDA Intel (Alsa mixer) or Analog 
Devices...(OSS mixer). If i use the Pulseaudio systems, i either have to go to 
Applications - Sound  Video - PulseAudio Volume Control, and then flip 
through a screen or two, or i go t othe panel Pulseaudio Device Chooser item, 
pick Volume Control here, and same thing.

Is there any way to tie a panel object _directly_ into something that will 
control the Pulseaudio volume, so that i can adjust the volume without 
having to click a bunch of times?

Thanks,

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Re: Installing svk on lenny?

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--- On Sun, 7/6/08, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Installing svk on lenny?
 To: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 6:17 AM
 On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:16:49PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer
 Nussbaum wrote:
  Hi,
  
  Im trying to install svk on a lenny system, but its
 not available in the
  lenny sources. A search of the package archives
 suggests that you can
  get it in Etch or unstable, but apt-get install
 svk / stable or
  / unstable just says that svk is not
 available, but is referred by
  another package.
 
 There should be one comig to sid at your mirror soon. 
 
 Full story is:
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/svk.html
 
  Is there a version of it i can use, or a reason why
 its not longer available?
 
 When RC bug exists long time on a pacakage, package is
 removed from
 testing and unstable.
 
 http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=svksearchon=namessuite=allsection=all
 
 It is just uploaded to unstable. Try again! 
 
 Your problem of not installing stable version is unknown to
 me.  Do you
 have apt-line for stable in /etc/apt/sources.list?

Yes i do.

If i try to install from stable or unstable, i get the following message:

---
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  svk: Depends: liblocale-maketext-simple-perl ( 0.16)
E: Broken packages
---

if i try to install liblocale-maketext-simple-perl, it tries to uninstall
perl and everything based on it, and that would nuke my system so i dont
want to do it! Surely there's a way to get svk working?

Jen



  


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Audacious segfaulting

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

There was just a thread about a problem with Audacious, but my problem seems
different.

Fully up-to-date Lenny system, not running anything fancy. Trying to run
Audacious, I get:

$ audacious
amidi-plug(amidi-plug.c:amidiplug_init:97): init, read configuration
amidi-plug(i_backend.c:i_backend_load:107): loading backend 
'/usr/lib/audacious/Input/amidi-plug/ap-alsa.so'
amidi-plug(i_backend.c:i_backend_load:145): backend 
/usr/lib/audacious/Input/amidi-plug/ap-alsa.so (name 'alsa') successfully loaded
Segmentation fault
$ 

Any help? This has been happening for at least a few days.

Thanks!

Jen



  

Installing svk on lenny?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi,

Im trying to install svk on a lenny system, but its not available in the
lenny sources. A search of the package archives suggests that you can
get it in Etch or unstable, but apt-get install svk / stable or
/ unstable just says that svk is not available, but is referred by
another package.

Is there a version of it i can use, or a reason why its not longer available?

Thanks.

Jen


  


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Firefox 3?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Is there a version of Firefox 3--or, i guess, Iceweasel 3--in package form yet, 
or is it still in some kind of testing form where you have to compile it 
yourself?

FF3 on my Windows machine is shockingly much faster, so id like to move over to 
it on my Lenny machine too, if its stable and ready. But its not showing up in 
my lists, unless im searching wrong.

Thanks!

Jen



  

Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi,

Im running Lenny on a ThinkPad T60. I got the computer from a friend and dont 
know if
this worked on it beforehand.

The middle mouse button doesnt work in X--just no response at all to try to 
paste things.
I shut off the trackpad in the BIOS (I only use the clitmouse and it's buttons) 
but i dont see
any BIOS settings about this.

How can i figure out why this isnt working? For all i know it could be a 
hardware problem,
but maybe theres something in my X configuration about it? I didnt touch the X 
configuration
myself, its what the installer generated.

Thanks!

Jen


  

Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi,

I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades
im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently.

Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had
been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now
im running kernel version 2.6.24. And i cant find the
package for ipw2945 2.6.24 anywhere.

I know im just being stupid, but where do i find this?
Or is there some other way to get my wireless working
again?

Thanx!

Jen


  

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Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:26, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
wrote:   
 Hi,

 I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the
upgrades
 im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently.

 Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i
had
 been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and
now
 im running kernel version 2.6.24. And i cant find
the
 package for ipw2945 2.6.24 anywhere.

 I know im just being stupid, but where do i find
this?
 Or is there some other way to get my wireless
working
 again?

 Thanx!

 Jen

Here:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ipw3945searchon=namessuite=testingsection=all

Do you have contrib and non-free in your sources.list?

Yes, i do.

And i did see that, but i was looking for the binary
package. Ive never built from source--what do i have
to do for this?

I dont mind, i just dont know what to do. Im used to
just clicking yes to the updates and everyting just
works. (I know, maybe i shouldnt be using Lenny in
this case.)

Thanx again!

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Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Jeff D wrote:
have you tried to manually load the iwl3945 module? 
I beleive that the
ipw driver has been replaced with the iwl.

Oh, yes, thank you! I found the entry in the Wiki for
doing this, followed everything exactly, and now im
back on wireless.

Thanx all!

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Getting USB audio to work (Lenny)

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I have an up to date Lenny system, and sound works
pretty much fine but i cant get USB audio to play.

I have a pair of altec USB speakers that work on a
Mac. When i plug them in, they show up in the system:
if i go to System - Preferences - Sound, the
Devices tab gives me the option for USB audio for
Sound Events,
Music and Movies, and Audio Conferencing. And, when
i hit Test, it works: it plays through the USB
speakers.

But it doesn't work through anything else. Playing
music through Firefox, or XMMS, or mplayer, just works
through
the system speakers, not the USB speakers.

In XMMS I tried going to the Preferences, select the
ALSA plugin, Configure, and for the mixer card
chose the Altec speakers that display there. But even
this just doesn't play through the speakers.

I guess there's a knob i have to flip to get this to
work. Cna someone tell me what it is?

Thanks!

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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #118

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

  Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:29:16 +
 From: Benjamin M. A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Re: Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?
 
 On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:03:06PM -0800, Dr.
 Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
  How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2
 for
  
  the video chat.)
  
  I cant find any packages in the usual debian
  repositorys,
  and the one on the Skype site is only for Etch.
 Will
  it
  work OK? (And if it does, silly question: whats
 the
  name
  for the QT4 package? I use Gnome. There were a
 bunch
  of
  QT4 packages for design, devel, etc. but no plain
  this
  is the QT4 base package.)
 
 Yes, the package works on Lenny. It depends on
 libqt4-core and
 libqt4-gui; if you install it, Synaptic (or anything
 else) should list
 it as Broken and offer to install the dependencies
 for you.
 
  Or is there a real repository i can add to my
  sources.list?
  Id rather just do this with Synaptic instead of
  manually.
 
 None that I know of, unfortunately.

Thanks! That was easier then i thought, though i would
rather have used Synaptic.

Then i had to figure out how to make my microphone
work, which was harder then i thought, but i got it
in the end.

Thank you!

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Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2 for

the video chat.)

I cant find any packages in the usual debian
repositorys,
and the one on the Skype site is only for Etch. Will
it
work OK? (And if it does, silly question: whats the
name
for the QT4 package? I use Gnome. There were a bunch
of
QT4 packages for design, devel, etc. but no plain
this
is the QT4 base package.)

Or is there a real repository i can add to my
sources.list?
Id rather just do this with Synaptic instead of
manually.

Thanks!

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Adjusting volume, and system beep

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Sorry if this is too basic a question.

I have an IBM ThinkPad T60 running lenny, using GNOME.

There looks like there are two main ways to adjust the volume. I can do it in
software by using the Volume Control or Mixer apps, or similar things from 
the commandline. Then i can use the volume buttons on the computer itself.
These dont seem to have anything to do with with volume displayed anywhere.
(Then some apps have their own volume adjustments too.)

The reason im asking is that right now in order to have a reasonable level of
volume, i have to crank up the computer buttons all the way. If i do this, then
having the software volume at 50% is mildly audible and having it near 100% is
fairly loud. BUT, then the system beep is SUPER loud, it shakes my coffee cup,
my husband yells at me!

But if i turn the computer buttons down to something where the system beep
is normal, i cant hear the speaker volume even at 100%.

Also im running GNOME on a the same model ThinkPad running FreeBSD, and
its different here--at a moderate level of computer-button volume (and 
therefore
system beep) the regular volume is nicely audible.

Can someone explain how these two relate to each other, and how i can control it
better? Is there something im missing here? My goal is to be more like the
FreeBSD machine--a reasonable system beep and good volume level for other
stuff.

Thanks!

Jen

   
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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0? (followup)

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my
questoin. Fortunately or unfortunately i was forced to
reboot the machine for other reasons, and upon
rebooting eth0 was there. Repeated suspends had no
effect, i.e. eth0 was still there (meaning that
suspending isnt what caused it to vanish).

Since i cant repeat the problem i dont know what to do
to try and solve it. But i am keeping the messages
around so that if it does happen again i will be
ready.

Thank you!

Jen

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Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I know this must be an incredibly dumb question, but i cant find my eth0 
interface.

I normally use a WiFi connection on my laptop, running Etch with Gnome. But i 
just brought the computer into an office, plugged in an Ethernet cable, and 
waited for NetworkManager to pick it up. And waited. And waited. Eventually i 
took a look at the Desktop - Administration - Networking tool, and there was 
not eth0 listed there, and then i ran ifconfig and eth0 isnt there either.

My /etc/network/interfaces does have allow-hotplug eth0 in it. And i am 
getting flashing lights from the plugged-in Ethernet port, so it's not a dead 
connection. Why is this interface missing for me, and how do i get it back?

Thanks,

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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
 I know this must be an incredibly dumb question, but i cant find my
 eth0 interface.
 
 I normally use a WiFi connection on my laptop, running Etch with
 Gnome. But i just brought the computer into an office, plugged in an
 Ethernet cable, and waited for NetworkManager to pick it up. And
 waited. And waited. Eventually i took a look at the Desktop -
 Administration - Networking tool, and there was not eth0 listed
 there, and then i ran ifconfig and eth0 isnt there either.
 
 My /etc/network/interfaces does have allow-hotplug eth0 in it. And
 i am getting flashing lights from the plugged-in Ethernet port, so
 it's not a dead connection. Why is this interface missing for me,
 and how do i get it back?
 

The best way to fix this is to install the debian-reference package.

Chapter 10, Network Configuration, will answer all of your questions.

I did read Chapter 10 online, more than once, and im afraid that i didnt see an
answer to my question there. Everything assumed that the interface was 
available,
an everything i did try to do to get it up (i.e. using ifup or ifconfig) just 
gave
me Ignoring unknown interface or No such device errors. Also section 
10.6.5. 
mentions network-manager as something that doesn't exist in Debian yet, 
although it clearly does,
which is a further worry because thats what im trying to use.

If its really there and i just cant see it, i apologize, but i did say it was a 
silly question.

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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Andrew Sackville wrote:
personally, I think network-manager is more trouble
than its worth,
but that's jsut me. 

Im starting to feel that your right--when it works its
nice but when it doesnt i never know what to do.

please provide the exact output of the following:

dmesg | grep -i ^eth

$ dmesg | grep -i ^eth
eth1: Coming out of suspend...
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

cat /etc/network/interfaces

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available
on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see
interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0

[i dont know why eth1 doesnt show here, its my current
WiFi interface]

/sbin/ifconfig

$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:1B:77:8D:24:56
  inet addr:192.168.1.105  Bcast:192.168.1.255
 Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:fe8d:2456/64
Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
Metric:1
  RX packets:1897 errors:12304 dropped:169994
overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:1487 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:491090712 (468.3 MiB)  TX
bytes:230098913 (219.4 MiB)
  Interrupt:66 Base address:0xc000
Memory:edf0-edf00fff

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:775798 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:775798 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:515644253 (491.7 MiB)  TX
bytes:515644253 (491.7 MiB)

[and then a few VMWare interfaces]

And in response to Wayne's question:

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the
/lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, probably run by the
persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on
a single line.
# MAC addresses must be written in lowercase.

# PCI device 0x8086:0x109a (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*,
ATTRS{address}==00:15:58:c8:b5:39, NAME=eth0

# PCI device 0x8086:0x4227 (ipw3945)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*,
ATTRS{address}==00:1b:77:8d:24:56, NAME=eth1

Thank you all!

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Up-to-date Gnome versions?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, which still 
seems to be stuck on Gnome 2.14, even though 2.16 was released about a year ago 
and 2.18 since then.

What are the plans for integrating more up-to-date versions of Gnome into Etch, 
or into later versions of Debian? I dont have any special needs but would 
rather up as up to date as possible with apps and setup and bug fixes.

Thanks,

Jen

   
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2325

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:26:10 -0400
From: Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)

 On Fri,  7 Sep 2007 07:54:23 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a
 single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure
 this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play
 twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def
 systems, but just so i can listen to music while
 getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever.
 
 If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my
 problem is that sometimes i seem to have something
 blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it
 is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then
 if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking
 your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video
 i just get no sound at all.
 
 When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking
 hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play
 what i want?
 
 Thanks.


Sound on laptops can be tricky.  One old laptop I had would not work
with alsa, so I had to enable an oss module on boot up by adding a line
to the /etc/modules file.  But I digress.

I'm going to assume that you're using Etch, with alsa for your
soundcard, and that you're using gnome for your desktop environment (if
these assumptions are not correct, then kindly let us know).  So, to
get sound working on gaim, and other gnome applications, open
Desktop/Preferences/Sound (from the menu in the top left corner), and,
having opened the Sound Preferences dialogue, check the Enable
software sound mixing (ESD) box, along with the Play system sounds
box, and then you will have all the bells and whistles that go with the
desktop environment, and its programs.  Make sure you have gnome-media
installed. 

Yes, this is all correct (Etch, alsa, Gnome). And i'd already checked the ESD 
box (though i kept the system sounds box off, as i dont need to hear this!).

The fact that xmms and/or youtube doesn't give you sound is worrying.
Do you have alsa-base, alsa-oss, alsa-tools, and alsa-utils installed?
If not, install them (via synaptic or aptitude -- aptitude, if you know
what you're doing, is better, but if not, then synaptic is better).
Try restarting your system, to see if sound is set up automatically (it
should).  If not, try running alsaconf in the terminal as root
(without quotes).

I may have been unclear but its not that i dont get sound from these--its that 
when one source IS playing sound, then i cant use any of the others, so if i 
have XMMS playing i cant watch (that is, listen) to YouTube. And then if 
something that I CANT FIGURE OUT is playing, i cant use any of the others and 
dont know what to do about it (ie., if i know im listening to XMMS i can stop 
if i need to watch YouTube but i am getting sound card in use messages when i 
dont think im using anything at all).

Several other people have made suggestions, and i thank you and will try them 
when i get back to my Debian machine!

Jen

   
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Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a
single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure
this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play
twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def
systems, but just so i can listen to music while
getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever.

If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my
problem is that sometimes i seem to have something
blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it
is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then
if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking
your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video
i just get no sound at all.

When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking
hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play
what i want?

Thanks.

Jen


   

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Networking problems

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Im having some big network problems all of a sudden
and am not sure why. This is running an up-to-date
Etch.
I dont do anything fancy.

Im on a wireless network now. I had a system freeze,
and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came up
at
all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but then
again im not sure how to do this anyway.

I rebooted again, this time booting into 2.6.18-4-686
(instead of -5-), and wireless networking did come up
in the boot process. However the Network Manager
applet doesnt show this--its still reporting in grey
no network devices have been found. But if I run
network-admin it
does show that eth1 (my wirelss) is running, and i can
get online.

I also did just upgrade with apt-get and i was able to
install 2.6.18-6, but even though this worked
correctly, i still dont get this option when i boot--i
only have -4 or -5 (and again, -5 doesnt recognize my
wireless).

What can i do to address this? I can give more error
messages if i know what to post. Again I dont want to
do anything fancy, I want this to just work.

Thanks,

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Re: Networking problems

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

 On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 07:20 -0700, Dr. Jennifer
 Nussbaum wrote:
  Im on a wireless network now. I had a system
 freeze,
  and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came
 up
  at
  all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but
 then
  again im not sure how to do this anyway.
  
  I rebooted again, this time booting into
 2.6.18-4-686
  (instead of -5-), and wireless networking did come
 up
  in the boot process. However the Network Manager
  applet doesnt show this--its still reporting in
 grey
  no network devices have been found. But if I run
  network-admin it
  does show that eth1 (my wirelss) is running, and i
 can
  get online.
 
 Hello.
 
 Could you post the contents of your
 /etc/network/interfaces file? If an
 interface is set there, NetworkManager will ignore
 it, so this may be
 the cause.

Here it is:

--- begin included file ---
~ $ more /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available
on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see
interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid 06B410505753

auto eth1
--- end included file ---

I hadnt done anything intentionally to use this--i
wanted to be using NetworkManage for everything. How
do i go back?

Also, theres still the (probably bigger) problem that
2.6.18-5 doesnt find my wireless interface at all. And
that even though i upgraded to 2.6.18-6, this isnt
given to me as an option when i boot. Any thoughts
about those?

Thank you!

Jen



   

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