Re: Re: Wrong screen resolution on startup, need to restart
Ananda wrote: You're not using the proprietary ATI driver by any chance are you? I don't think so, I have the openchrome driver installed. By the way, comparing Xorg.0.log (which gave the correct resolution) and Xorg.0.log.old (before the restart, gave the wrong resolution) things seem to start going wrong at: Xorg.0.log: (--) CHROME(0): VT162x: RGB connected. (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect: X Configuration: 0x00 (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect: BIOS Initialised register: 0x07 (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect: CRT. (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect: TV. (II) CHROME(0): ViaModesAttach Xorg.0.log.old: (--) CHROME(0): VT162x: Nothing connected. (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect: X Configuration: 0x00 (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect: BIOS Initialised register: 0x07 (II) CHROME(0): ViaOutputsSelect: CRT. (II) CHROME(0): ViaModesAttach John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrong screen resolution on startup, need to restart
When I start my computer I usually get a screen with the wrong resolution and not centred on the monitor, like this: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aTSyvLB4YWc/SRFI4A9dk2I/ABM/40kB7pOjaz0/Start%20screen.jpeg (without the moiré effect). If I restart my computer I then get the correct screen. Anyone know what is going on here? It only seems to have been happening in recent weeks (I am using Lenny and I keep it up to date). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is now CONFIG_HIBERNATION See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470861 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X server not starting
When my computer first boots up I have been getting a May 17 11:44:03 computer name login[1669]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on 'tty1' FOR `UNKNOWN', User not known to the underlying authentication module error the last couple of days. If I reboot it starts up OK. I am using Lenny and I have updated it most days recently. Syslog has some of these messages: May 18 06:02:42 computer name gdm[1696]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Does anyone know what is happening? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automounting nfs shares
I have a small home network with nfs set up so that the computers can share files. Commonly only one of the computers is running, particularly at first. I would like the running computer(s) to automount the nfs shares from the other computers when they come on line. I have been using a line in etc/fstab to mount the shares. This works with the one problem that a boot time there is a delay and a failure message as the computer tries to mount the shares from computers that are not on line. I use gnome-volume-manager (gvm) to automount hardware devices. This, of course, responds to HAL events and I presume that a computer coming on line on a network does not cause the kernel to generate a HAL event. Is there any way of getting gvm to automount nfs shares? Alternatively, I have read that some people uses autofs to automount nfs shares. Would there be any problems with using autofs alongside gvm and udev? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally
When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into the bottom right. Any ideas about what is happening, how to diagnose it or how to get it working correctly. Currently I am using the latest Debian testing distribution packages, though I have had similar problems with etch. You don't tell use whether your system is a P90 with an et4000/w32 video card, or a 3GHz Core2Duo with an NVIDIA 8900 and the nvidia driver. My system has a Pentium III processor at 1 GHz and I have a 16 MB ATI Rage 128 Pro 4X AGP video card. a) Has it always run this slowly? b) What video driver are you using? c) What *exact* command line are you using to view the movie? d) Does it view acceptably in other players, like vlc or xine? I was trying to run mplayer from the GUI. When I ran it from the command line I got a lot of information. What I have concluded up to now is that the diagonally split screen is to do with interlacing and the slowness is to do with lack of processor time. It seems as if I now need to sort out which are the best video and audio drivers and interlacing. And sort out how to get the GUI to use these settings (I now know about .mplayer/gui.conf). I wish there was a nice clear explanation somewhere of how to find the optimum settings. I will leave it for now as it is taking up to much of my time. Thanks for your help, Ron. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally
When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into the bottom right. Any ideas about what is happening, how to diagnose it or how to get it working correctly. Currently I am using the latest Debian testing distribution packages, though I have had similar problems with etch. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally
On 04/11/08 07:34, John Talbut wrote: When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something like 4 frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if one frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into the bottom right. Any ideas about what is happening, how to diagnose it or how to get it working correctly. Currently I am using the latest Debian testing distribution packages, though I have had similar problems with etch. You don't tell use whether your system is a P90 with an et4000/w32 video card, or a 3GHz Core2Duo with an NVIDIA 8900 and the nvidia driver. My system has a Pentium III processor at 1 GHz and I have a 16 MB ATI Rage 128 Pro 4X AGP video card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Debian on PCs
And then one gets started! http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn -- John Talbut Use Open Source Software: http://why.openoffice.org/ http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/ Why pay Microsoft when you can get excellent software free? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on PCs
Does anyone know if there is a web site with a repository of users' experiences of running Debian or GNU/Linux on PCs, similar to the www.linux-laptop.net site? It would certainly have helped me to install Debian on some PCs if I could have had a sight of .config, xorg.conf and driver information from others who had experience with the same machines. And I could pass on my experiences. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Debian on PCs
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/11/07 06:05, John Talbut wrote: Does anyone know if there is a web site with a repository of users' experiences of running Debian or GNU/Linux on PCs, similar to the www.linux-laptop.netsite? It would certainly have helped me to install Debian on some PCs if I could have had a sight of .config, xorg.conf and driver information from others who had experience with the same machines. And I could pass on my experiences. The snotty answer is http://lists.debian.org/users.html but what you probably want is something like these: http://www.debian-administration.org/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/ - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Interesting sites but not what I am looking for, they have nothing like: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ I have solved my problems - about 2 years to become MS free on a Dell Dimension 4100 followed by about 2 months for a Dimension p133v, 2 weeks for a HP nx9105 and about 3 days for each for a F-S Scenic eD and a GeForce6100SM-M based machine. It saved a fair bit of time with the nx9105 to be able to get a .config from Linux on Laptops. So I would pass the information on if there was a suitable repository (not just post it somewhere on a mailing list). I do have a memory of seeing a list somewhere of machines that Debian had been used on, but I have not been able to find it. -- John Talbut Use Open Source Software: http://why.openoffice.org/ http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/ Why pay Microsoft when you can get excellent software free? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update-grub not listing latest kernel first
I have just done another kernel recompile and when I ran update-grub it listed the previous version of the kernel first (thereby making it the default kernel to boot). I give my kernels a version according to the date on which I compiled them, i.e.: vmlinuz-2.6.21-11sep7 vmlinuz-2.6.21-18jul7 The second of these was listed first. Is this because update-grub puts the kernels in descending order of version numbers, hence 18 comes higher up than 11, rather than, as I expected, by the date and time when the file was modified. Can someone give me a definitive answer, please? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Update-grub not listing latest kernel first
OK Hans, thanks for confirming that. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request
Has anyone got any ideas about this? The full message as logged is: localhost kernel: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request and it is appearing frequently. From googling I found this: This 268435456 value is 0x1000 hexadecimal. The code expects the value zero, and we have a stray bit being set in there, bit 28 to be exact. I do not know what to do with the second bit of information. Also, people seem to think it is something to do with ports and possibly UDP trying different ports. I am running testing with 2.6.18 kernel. My Linux machine is connected via Ethernet to a Netgear DG834GT modem/router/wifi base. My other machine is running Widows XP and is connected over Wifi . The problem occurs even when the XP machine is off. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Flash Memory permissions
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:49:39PM +, John Talbut wrote: As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes back settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked through the various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I cannot work out how I end up with the line: /dev/myFlash /media/usbdisk vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8 0 0 in /etc/mtab , particularly the umask=077 . Does anyone know where this value comes from and hence what to change in order to change the permissions? Wang Xu wrote: Did you ever check the ``mount_option'' written in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi ? Yes, all that seems active there is ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !-- -*- SGML -*- -- deviceinfo version=0.2 /deviceinfo Everything else is between !-- --, i.e. commented out. So it does not seem as if the settings are coming from there. Sven Arvidsson wrote: I think you need to edit the source for gnome-volume-manager to change that value. After all, g-v-m is what is running pmount when your usb stick has been detected. I do not understand what you mean by the source for gnome-volume-manager. As I wrote, from what I can find out about g-v-m it gets settings via pmount-hal etc. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Flash Memory permissions
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 08:15 +, John Talbut wrote: I do not understand what you mean by the source for gnome-volume-manager. As I wrote, from what I can find out about g-v-m it gets settings via pmount-hal etc. Sven Arvidsson wrote: If I'm not mistaken, g-v-m will call pmount-hal by default, and depending on the device, pmount-hal will mount with different settings. But I also think g-v-m can specify additional settings pmount-hal should use. At least a quick grep through the g-v-m source finds most of the available mount options that can be used with pmount. Am I right in understanding that you are suggesting I go the the g-v-m source code, alter that and then recompile it? If so, I have some difficulties: I only download the .deb packages so for the moment I do not have the source code, I think I would not know what I was doing sufficiently well and it seems a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut! Looking at the g-v-m binary suggests that what it does with pmount is just to take the settings it is provided with. I appreciate that there is probably a workaround possible involving getting g-v-m to ignore some settings. However, I would prefer to do it properly by locating the setting in the appropriate configuration file. But, back to my original question, where is it? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Flash Memory permissions
I am having difficulty changing the permissions for my flash memory sticks. As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes back settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked through the various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I cannot work out how I end up with the line: /dev/myFlash /media/usbdisk vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8 0 0 in /etc/mtab , particularly the umask=077 . Does anyone know where this value comes from and hence what to change in order to change the permissions? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox user agent settings for Iceweasel
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Firefox/2.0 John Talbut wrote: Yes. And which line does that go on? And what goes on the other lines? Mathias Brodala wrote: Only one is necessary: general.useragent.extra.firefox. OK, thanks, I know this works, at least it works with http://local.live.com/ . However, this is a fixed change to Iceweasel whereas I was wanting to use the user agent switcher ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/ ). OK, I know that there is no point in Iceweasel reporting itself as such and it might as well say it is Firefox. By the way, is Debian allowed to use the word Firefox in this instance? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox user agent settings for Iceweasel
Could someone please give the information for inserting in Iceweasel Tools User Agent Switcher Options User Agents Add so that it reports as Firefox ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Firefox user agent settings for Iceweasel
My problem is not how to change the settings - the path I gave in the first place works perfectly well for doing this. It is what to enter, without doing a fair amount of guessing and experimenting. For instance, the values for IE are: appname Microsoft Internet Explorer appversion 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) description Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP) platformWin32 useragent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) vendor vendorsu What are the values for Firefox? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox user agent settings for Iceweasel
John Talbut wrote: My problem is not how to change the settings - the path I gave in the first place works perfectly well for doing this. It is what to enter, without doing a fair amount of guessing and experimenting. For instance, the values for IE are: appnameMicrosoft Internet Explorer appversion4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) descriptionInternet Explorer 6 (Windows XP) platformWin32 useragentMozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) vendor vendorsu What are the values for Firefox? Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Firefox/2.0 Yes. And which line does that go on? And what goes on the other lines? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conexant PCI ADSL modem
Hi I have managed to get and keep my conexant modem working with a Debian system. Below are my notes about how. John Make sure we are talking about the same modem - this one: http://www.themad-house.co.uk/Conexant/conexant-specification.html . All packages apart from those below are installed from Debian, notably PPP over ATM. Currently I am on kernel 2.6.18 and Debian testing, though I have managed to get it to work with all kernels from 2.4 onwards. Read this in conjunction with the instructions at http://patrick.spacesurfer.com/linux_conexant_pci_adsl.html . Requirements: Package: lsb-base (2.0-7) is required (for killall) A symlink is required in /usr/src, e.g.: ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18 /usr/src/linux Setting up Conexant modem Patch the files in CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1 using: patch -p1 --verbose CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1.patch-2.6.10 Copy CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1 to CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1-patched-1.5 Patch files in this directory using: patch -p1 --verbose patch_PIM-2.6-1.4-to-1.5 (CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.5 does not work, the key differences with the above patched files are: if grep -q \[pppoatm\] /proc/kallsyms; then rmmod pppoatm --- if grep -q \[pppoatm\] /proc/ksyms; then rmmod pppoatm (i.e. my system has kallsyms), and: INITSCRIPTDIR=/etc/init.d --- INITSCRIPTDIR=/etc/rc.d/init.d (my system has /etc/init.d)) Made sure in file /CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1-patched-1.5/cnxadslctl That line is not: killproc /usr/sbin/pppd but: killall /usr/sbin/pppd Then, cd /downloads/CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1-patched-1.5 make clean make make install Module turns up in /lib/modules/kernel ver./extra cd /lib/modules/2.6.18-cur ver/kernel /sbin/depmod -a modprobe -l to check that it is there. /etc/init.d/cnxadslctl start -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Lucida Unicode
The Lucida Unicode font only appears to be available as part of a Java or TeX package. This, or one of the packages listed at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2003/fontsupport.htm seems to be required. Yelp, for instance, uses the u+2003 character. If Lucida Unicode available in a Debian font package, or does there need to be a request to package it separately? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
etc/group * or ! for password
In etc/group I have the lines: man:*:12: sasl:*:45: plugdev:!:46:hal,john Can anyone explain the * and the ! ? All the other entries have x. I cannot find any explanation for anything other than a password or x in this field. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quickcam pro 4000, pwc
Can anyone explain the official Debian set up for pwc based web cams? After a good few hours of trying to work it out, this is what I have come up with. My usb set-up seems to be working OK under udev. lsusb reports: Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:08b2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 4000 Both gqcam and xawtv recognise the device, but the former just outputs a green rectangle and the latter a grey screen. Most of the references that report success suggest installing the pwc module from Luc Saillard. The only Debian package for pwc is pwc-source . According to the copyright information fro this package: This package was debianized by Victor Seva [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:51:35 +0100. It was downloaded from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/pwc-10.0.6a.tar.bz2 (C) 1999-2003 Nemosoft Unv. (C) 2004 Luc Saillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C) 2005 Victor Seva [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Package Maintainer ) (C) 2005 Sean Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Package Sponsor ) Upstream Author: Luc Saillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] So presumably it is the aforementioned module. However, acquiring the Debian package and attempting to compile it seemed simply to add source files to /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15/drivers/usb/media , though I get the impression they were there in the first place. Is that correct, is this module now incorporated in linux-source-2.6.15? Or do I need to recompile the kernel now? The compilation and attempt to install did not seem to come up with any external modules, so it seems as if in Debian pwc is only run in the kernel. If so, how do I get my webcam to work? If not, what am I doing wrong? John Talbut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firestarter not starting
Thank you for your very helpful and informative response, Ken. As you can see from my cross posting, I have now worked most of it out. The upshot is that my firewall is and has been operating fine and it starts from ip-up. I have now got rid of the irritation of the error message on boot.. What I now realise I am after is just an applet that produces a reassuring icon in the system tray that shows the state of the firewall. I do not need the Firestarter GUI to be running if there is any other way of doing this. In the mean time, when I get round to it (it won't be for a week or so now) I will try to get the GUI running minimised as you suggest. I am a bit (not much) concerned about the compromise in security that is mentioned. John Talbut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firestarter not starting
Well, of course, Firestarter is not the firewall, iptables is. I do not see how to check whether iptables is running - maybe it runs all the time as much of it is in the kernel and running Firestarter merely updates the configuration. However, it can clearly be in a stopped condition. Anyway, as I wrote, the boot sequence ran /etc/init.d/firestarter. This in turn ran /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh . This, I have discovered, bombed out at line 33 with External network device $IF is not ready. Aborting.. Apparently before it does much at all. So there does not seem to be any point in having it run on boot and I have removed it from the sequence using sysv-rc-conf . That gets rid of the failure message on start up and Firestarter starts as before using the GUI interface, which needs the root password to start it. It seems that there is a bug in the configuration that includes Firestarter in the boot sequence even though it is configured to start on dialup. Now, how to get the ifup script to start Firestarter automatically. John Talbut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Firestarter not starting
Thanks Ken. In fact I knew about the item on the Firestarter site. My problems were with it that it did not give any indication as to how I could find out whether it applied to my dialler and also, since I do not use KDE the workaround would not apply. I have been doing a bit more digging and it seems that my startup setup should run Firestarter at S20 in etc/rc2.d on bootup. This seems to be to one that gives the line Starting the Firestarter firewall: failed Can Firestarter start before the GUI, which starts with etc/rc2.d/S99gdm ? There is a 1Firestarter script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that should start Firestarter when the interface is up. However, this script only appears to start Firestarter if it is already installed. Any more suggestions as to how to get it starting up properly? John Talbut (Using Debian testing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firestarter not starting
Thanks for the further ideas, Ken.
Firestarter certainly does not seem to be starting on bootup. Using ps
as root gives no entries for Firestarter after booting, whereas it does
once I get Firestarter to start.
The boot script /etc/init.d/firestarter is:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Init file for the Firestarter firewall
#
# chkconfig: 2345 11 92
#
# description: Starts, stops, and lock the firewall
#
# Script Authors:
# Tomas Junnonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Paul Drain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# config: /etc/firestarter/configuration
FS_CONTROL=/etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh
[ -x /usr/sbin/firestarter ] || exit 0
[ -x $FS_CONTROL ] || exit 0
[ -s /etc/firestarter/configuration ] || exit 0
RETVAL=0
start() {
echo -n Starting the Firestarter firewall:
$FS_CONTROL start /dev/null
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
echo done.
else
echo may have failed.
fi
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n Stopping the Firestarter firewall:
$FS_CONTROL stop /dev/null
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
echo done.
else
echo failed.
fi
return $RETVAL
}
And the result on bootup is
Starting the Firestarter firewall: may have failed
(Echo message altered to confirm where it is coming from)
Running /etc/init.d/firestarter start as root
gives the result:
Starting the Firestarter firewall: done.
But in fact it is still not running.
The dektop applet configuration is:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Firestarter
GenericName=
Comment=
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/firestarter.xpm
Exec=gksu -g /usr/sbin/firestarter
Terminal=false
Categories=X-Debian-Apps-Net
Running /usr/sbin/firestarter as root does start Firestarter.
So it seems that the binary /usr/sbin/firestarter works but the scripts
starting at /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh do not.
Any more ideas/suggestions?
John Talbut
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Firestarter not starting
When my computer boots I get the Starting the Firestarter firewall: failed Message. This comes after the asdl and ppp routines have started. The ppp link does not get established immediately. I can start Firestarter ok by starting the GUI interface (using the root password). It is configured to start the firewall on dial out, but this does not seem to make any difference. How can I get Firestarter to start automatically? I am using Debian Etch. John Talbut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: make-kpkg modules_clean UTS Release version problem
Thanks I will await 10.037 migrating to testing. Regards John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg modules_clean UTS Release version problem
I am trying to recompile my Kernel using exactly the same steps as I have used successfully previously. When I do make-kpkg modules_clean it exits with: test -d ./debian/stamps || mkdir debian/stamps exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=rev.01 modules_clean The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h does not match current version: 2.6.15 Please correct this. exit 2 make: *** [modules_clean] Error 2 Is this a bug? Has something changed in the package source? An Internet search reveals some other people have had this problem but the only thing that seems to have been solved is a similar bug some time ago. I am using up to date Etch packages, in particular kernel-package (10.036). I note that in the /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset Changelog it states: 2006-02-27 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] * modules.mk (@echo does not match current version): [EMAIL PROTECTED]/kernel-package--devel--9.0--patch-123 Check the version information we shall be feeding the modules versus the stuff in $UTS_RELEASE_VERSION -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade to 2.6.15
I am using etch and it is up to date apart from the kernel. When I wanted to recompile the kernel I found information that suggested that I would need to upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel. So I duly went looking for the kernel-source-2.6.12 package, only to find it nowhere in testing. Instead it seemed I needed to be using the linux-source-2.6.15 package. Is this the right package for me to use? Why the change from kernel-source to linux-source? Why is 2.6.15 the current stable kernel when only even numbered releases were supposed to be stable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch
I would really like to have OpenOffice 2.0 on my system. At present it seems to be available in Etch or as a backport to Sarge. Currently I am on Sarge with at least one package from Etch. My options seem to be: use the backport to Sarge, use the Etch version of OpenOffice, upgrade to Etch or wait until OpenOffice 2.0 migrates to Sarge. Any recommendations or experiences? If I wait, how long is it likely to be before 2.0 gets to Sarge? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: killproc
Tim Ruehsen wrote: I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc. This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge. What is the policy? What is the story? What should be used instead? If you are using killproc for sending signals to processes by name (instead of by processid) give killall a try. It belongs to the packet 'psmisc'. Tim Yes, thanks. pkill also seems to be a possibility. And I would like to know more. Debian does not seem to give any explanation as to why it does not use killproc. Do they suggest an official alternative? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
killproc
I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc. This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge. What is the policy? What is the story? What should be used instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation directory for modules
When I run the Makefile below it installs the module in :
/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra
As far as I can find out, this is the expected behaviour from the kbuild
Makefiles.
However, modprobe looks for modules in
/lib/modules/`uname -r`.
How can I get the modules to install in this directory?
John Talbut
Makefile:
ifeq ($(KDIR),)
KDIR :=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source
endif
EXTRA_CFLAGS := -DNDIS_MINIPORT_DRIVER -DOS_LINUX -I${obj} -nostdinc
-Wno-multichar -DPIM_DEBUG -fno-builtin -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O2
EXTRA_LDFLAGS := -r -g
all:
echo MODLIB = ${MODLIB}
make CnxADSL.ko
obj-m := CnxADSL.o
CnxADSL-objs := ARMAbstract.o BufMgmt.o CardAL.o CardALADSLDiag.o
CardALBdDp.o CardALBd.o CardALTigris.o \
CardALTigrisDiag.o CardALTigrisLC.o CardMgmt.o \
CardMgmtLink.o CardMgmtVc.o CellDataTest.o CellDataTestMgmt.o
ChipALBusCtlP46.o \
ChipALCdsl.o ChipALDMAChanP46.o ChipALIoP46.o CardALTigrisDp.o \
CardALTigrisHal.o ChipALSEmw.o CnxTTY.o FrameAl.o FrameALAAL.o \
FrameALATM.o FrameALATMOAM.o FrameALATMShaper.o FrameALHec.o
KThread.o \
LnxTools.o SmLnxIf.o SmSysIf.o UtilStr.o UtilTmr.o
dpcontroller.o.new
CnxADSL.ko:
make -C $(KDIR) M=`pwd` modules
install: CnxADSL.ko
make -C ${KDIR} M=`pwd` modules_install
clean:
rm -f *.o *~ core .depend dep *.ko CnxADSL.mod.c .*.cmd
rm -rf .tmp_versions/
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gview and viewing .gz text files
Once upon a time I could view various types of file from Nautilus using gview. Now it offers to open files using gview but comes up with an error when I try. And gview does not seem to exist anywhere any more, not on my system nor in Debian. What has happened to it and what has replaced it? What is the best Gnome viewer for .gz compressed text files? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing mplayer
It appears from http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html that the nearest there is to an official Debian version of mplayer is at http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge . I am having difficulty installing this. I do not seem to be ending up with, in particular, the codec files referred to in mplayer-doc. Can anyone give me or point me to precise instructions as to how to do this? I use Aptitude to get packages. Or should I give up with Christian Marillat's package and go with the precise instructions given at www.princessleia.com/MPlayer.html (though I am not on Etch)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing mplayer
(Repeat posting, to disconnect it from another thread) It appears from http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html that the nearest there is to an official Debian version of mplayer is at http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge . I am having difficulty installing this. I do not seem to be ending up with, in particular, the codec files referred to in mplayer-doc. Can anyone give me or point me to precise instructions as to how to do this? I use Aptitude to get packages. Or should I give up with Christian Marillat's package and go with the precise instructions given at www.princessleia.com/MPlayer.html (though I am not on Etch)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thunderbird sort order
The sort order in Thunderbird keeps changing - 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.6 . I usually use date - descending, but it frequently changes to ascending. Any ideas why this might happen? Is there a way of setting the default sort order for all folders? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conexant Accessrunner
Hi again Is there any chance I might get some answers to this? If not, any suggestions as to how I might get some help? John Hi I have managed to install Woody 3.0r3, and otherwise I am new to Linux. I am trying to install a driver for my Conexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL modem. The (18 page!) instructions for installing the Linux drivers that came with the modem start by by stating: To use the Conexant ADSL drivers, you must upgrade your Linux kernel to add support for ATM and the required encapsulation protocols. The drivers will not work on Linux kernels without this support. Currently, we support the Red Hat 6.2 and 7.1 distributions. For Red Hat 6.2, the resulting upgraded kernel is 2.2.16. For Red Hat 7.1, Red Hat recommends upgrading to kernel 2.4.3-12, which we support. Since I obtained the modem in March and I have only just obtained Woody, I would think that my kernel is sufficiently up to date. Is that so, and if not how do I update it (or where do I find the instructions on how to do so)? The instructions then say I need a PPP Daemon. Woody seems to have PPP support, is that so? Then the instructions say: Get the distributed driver RPM file for your product and Linuxkernel version (from CD, website, etc.) from the appropriate driver directory and place it the /usr/src directory (e.g., the driver for kernel version 2.2.16 would be named CnxADSL-TgrATM_k2.2.16_6.1.2.007-7.i386.rpm and found in the directory Tigris_K2.2.16_Driver): So, what is the name of the driver I need and where can I find it? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conexant Accessrunner
Hi I have managed to install Woody 3.0r3, and otherwise I am new to Linux. I am trying to install a driver for my Conexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL modem. The (18 page!) instructions for installing the Linux drivers that came with the modem start by by stating: To use the Conexant ADSL drivers, you must upgrade your Linux kernel to add support for ATM and the required encapsulation protocols. The drivers will not work on Linux kernels without this support. Currently, we support the Red Hat 6.2 and 7.1 distributions. For Red Hat 6.2, the resulting upgraded kernel is 2.2.16. For Red Hat 7.1, Red Hat recommends upgrading to kernel 2.4.3-12, which we support. Since I obtained the modem in March and I have only just obtained Woody, I would think that my kernel is sufficiently up to date. Is that so, and if not how do I update it (or where do I find the instructions on how to do so)? The instructions then say I need a PPP Daemon. Woody seems to have PPP support, is that so? Then the instructions say: Get the distributed driver RPM file for your product and Linux kernel version (from CD, website, etc.) from the appropriate driver directory and place it the /usr/src directory (e.g., the driver for kernel version 2.2.16 would be named CnxADSL-TgrATM_k2.2.16_6.1.2.007-7.i386.rpm and found in the directory Tigris_K2.2.16_Driver): So, what is the name of the driver I need and where can I find it? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
