[SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Saturday 06 June 2015 08:41 AM, Kailash Kalyani wrote:



On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:


On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:

Hi All,

Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it

sudo apt-get install privoxy

And configured my browser to use the proxy at
127.0.0.1 port 8118

I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"

I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's 
empty and

the config file has a line:
listen-address  localhost:8118

Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?

Regards,
Kailash



Are you sure that privoxy is running?


Here's the output from ps.
$ps -ax | grep privoxy
   1601 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile
/var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config

So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file.

Thanks,
Kailash



Yes, it does. Does "localhost" resolve to 127.0.0.1 correctly? I would
be surprised if it did not, but it's worth checking.


$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms

I wonder if it's something in the config file, but I couldn't figure 
it out.



Turns out that Liam was correct about the localhost issue. privoxy was 
listening on the ipv6 localhost and not the ipv4.


A search on privoxy.org's mailing list resolved this:
http://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/mailman/message/30642470/

$sudo netstat -tunlp

tcp6   0  0 ::1:8118:::* LISTEN  1601/privoxy

Went into /etc/privoxy/config and changed
listen-address localhost:8118
to
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118

And now the issue's resolved.

Kailash


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Re: privoxy refusing connections?

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:


On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:

Hi All,

Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it

sudo apt-get install privoxy

And configured my browser to use the proxy at
127.0.0.1 port 8118

I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"

I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and
the config file has a line:
listen-address  localhost:8118

Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?

Regards,
Kailash



Are you sure that privoxy is running?


Here's the output from ps.
$ps -ax | grep privoxy
   1601 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile
/var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config

So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file.

Thanks,
Kailash



Yes, it does. Does "localhost" resolve to 127.0.0.1 correctly? I would
be surprised if it did not, but it's worth checking.


$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms

I wonder if it's something in the config file, but I couldn't figure it out.



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Re: privoxy refusing connections?

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:

Hi All,

Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it

sudo apt-get install privoxy

And configured my browser to use the proxy at
127.0.0.1 port 8118

I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"

I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and
the config file has a line:
listen-address  localhost:8118

Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?

Regards,
Kailash



Are you sure that privoxy is running?


Here's the output from ps.
$ps -ax | grep privoxy
 1601 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile 
/var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config


So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file.

Thanks,
Kailash


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privoxy refusing connections?

[Kailash Kalyani]

Hi All,

Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it

sudo apt-get install privoxy

And configured my browser to use the proxy at
127.0.0.1 port 8118

I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"

I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and 
the config file has a line:

listen-address  localhost:8118

Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?

Regards,
Kailash


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Re: Skype video question

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Haines Brown  wrote:

> I used to run skype without a problem, but now when someone calls, they
> can hear and see me. I can hear but cannot see them. My video camera is
> working fine. I installed guvcview and it has no trouble using my
> camera.  When I go to Skype, options, video device, I see that video is
> enabled and I see myself.
>
> But when I try to skype someone, the camera icon on the interface is
> crossed out. And the camera LED does not come on at the beginning. The
> interface proceeds to allow me to leave a voice message.
>
> Have you seen this?
*Question:* Why can't skype use my webcam?
*Answer:* You probably need to preload v4l compatibility.

Try this:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype
src: https://wiki.debian.org/skype

 HTH,
Kailash

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Re: gpm dumping info to /var/log/messages

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 01:17 PM, Mike McClain wrote:

Is there any way to stop gpm from dumping to /var/log/messages every
time I copy/paste without stopping other deamons from writing info
there too? I see no such provisions in the man pages.
Thanks,
Mike
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Hi Mike,

You should look at the manpage and documentation of rsyslog.conf

if you want to discard messages from gpm you could add a line in the 
RULES section which goes

#this discards all messages from gpm
gpm.*   ~

HTH,
Kailash


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Re: Daisy player applications that did not go out with the ark :-(

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:58 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:

I have two separate but related problems.

1. I can find no up to date daisy playing software that will run on
Linux.  Suggestions, please?


Hi Lisi,

I'm not clear on which use-cases you're looking at. Have you looked at 
the following?

1. Emerson Reader: http://code.google.com/p/emerson-reader/
2. Daisy Book Reader: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbr/

Sincerely,
Kailash




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Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Sunday 15 December 2013 09:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

On 12/15/13, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:

On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel?
I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200.
I logout (save session on exit), shutdown.
Un-dock the laptop (disconnecting both monitors).
Now reboot (laptop only). Laptop has 1366x768 resolution.
I log in to linux console, then run startx from there.



left hand dock is visible
bottom dock is not to be seen, even after changing virtual desktops



When you go the xfce-panel preferences you should see a drop-down which
lists all your active panels.


Yes, Panel 0 and Panel 1. Panel 0 is my bottom panel, which I've selected.


http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/preferences


On this page, "Orientation" appears to match what I'm seeing as "Mode".


You could reposition it from there.


I only see General -> Mode ->
[ Horizontal | Vertical | Deskbar ]

and no "panel position" (such as top, bottom, etc).

There is "Lock panel", which, when I disable this, I have panel
handles, and can then move the panel up or down that particular
(xinerama) 'screen', but not onto the other 'screen', and there is no
option in the panel preferences to position the panel.

So no, I can't move my panel so that it is visible.

Even running xrandr does not fix it, with or without the laptop being
docked (and plugged into my external monitors).

Even killall xfce4-panel and restarting them, does not cause my bottom
panel to become visible...

infuriating...



And a related one here:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20380

Hope this helps...
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Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Sunday 15 December 2013 09:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

On 12/15/13, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:

On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel?
I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200.
I logout (save session on exit), shutdown.
Un-dock the laptop (disconnecting both monitors).
Now reboot (laptop only). Laptop has 1366x768 resolution.
I log in to linux console, then run startx from there.



left hand dock is visible
bottom dock is not to be seen, even after changing virtual desktops



When you go the xfce-panel preferences you should see a drop-down which
lists all your active panels.


Yes, Panel 0 and Panel 1. Panel 0 is my bottom panel, which I've selected.


http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/preferences


On this page, "Orientation" appears to match what I'm seeing as "Mode".


You could reposition it from there.


I only see General -> Mode ->
[ Horizontal | Vertical | Deskbar ]

and no "panel position" (such as top, bottom, etc).

There is "Lock panel", which, when I disable this, I have panel
handles, and can then move the panel up or down that particular
(xinerama) 'screen', but not onto the other 'screen', and there is no
option in the panel preferences to position the panel.

So no, I can't move my panel so that it is visible.

Even running xrandr does not fix it, with or without the laptop being
docked (and plugged into my external monitors).

Even killall xfce4-panel and restarting them, does not cause my bottom
panel to become visible...

infuriating...



Hi Zenaan,

There's a similar bug report here:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7272
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677645

Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel?

I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200.

I logout (save session on exit), shutdown.

Un-dock the laptop (disconnecting both monitors).

Now reboot (laptop only). Laptop has 1366x768 resolution.

left hand dock is visible

bottom dock is not to be seen, even after changing virtual desktops

I log in to linux console, then run startx from there.

TIA
Zenaan



Hi Zenaan,

When you go the xfce-panel preferences you should see a drop-down which 
lists all your active panels.


http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/preferences
You could reposition it from there.

Sincerely,
K.


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Re: (SOLVED) Re: Backported Kernel - install question

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Saturday 14 December 2013 02:22 PM, Reco wrote:

  Hi.

On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:06:15 +0530
Kailash Kalyani  wrote:


Apt-get gave me the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.110~)
but 0.109.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

And so I installed initramfs-tools from wheezy-backports first and then
the linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae

However, was apt-get correct in not attempting to upgrade
initramfs-tools as well?


Yes, it was. Compare this:

# apt-get install linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.110~)
but 0.109.1 is to be installed E:
Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages


To this:

apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64

The following extra packages will be installed:
   initramfs-tools
Suggested packages:
   linux-doc-3.11 debian-kernel-handbook
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64
The following packages will be upgraded:
   initramfs-tools


Unless you allow apt to search dependencies outside of preferred
release (wheezy) - it will try to install from backports only the
package you've told it to install (i.e. linux-image).

Reco



Thanks for the clarification! Much appreciated!
K


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Re: (SOLVED) Re: Backported Kernel - install question

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Saturday 14 December 2013 12:06 PM, Kailash Kalyani wrote:

On Friday 13 December 2013 02:32 AM, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:33:45 +0100
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:


On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 21:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:


I experienced that synaptic for *buntu Saucy is broken, perhaps it's
for
Debian broken too. Sometimes nothing is inconsistent, but Synaptic
claims that a dependency should be broken. After closing and opening
Synaptic everything is ok.


If apt-get does work, than a not buggy Synaptic must work too ;).


apt, aptitude and synaptic handle package install conflicts differently.

These tools do the same in trivial situations like installing or
removing package from the main archive.

But, put a number of packages with the same name and different versions
(add versioned dependencies to the picture) - and these 3 tools start
behaving differently. Add the fact that any package in backports
archive has special version that is _lower_ that any version in main
archive - and sometimes these tools may produce funny results.

Basically, apt provides you with the most dumb solution possible
(works most of the time) - install what you want, upgrade dependencies.

Aptitude gives you multiple ways of installing package (and one has to
choose carefully) - install what you want, upgrade/downgrade
dependencies (and may remove something just for fun :).

Synaptic assumes that you are not lazy, and will use Ctrl+E (IIRC, may
be wrong) to force particular versions for needed packages.

So, it's possible to use Synaptic for the task, it just will violate
the great IBM principle - 'People should think, machine should work'.

Reco



Hi,

Apt-get gave me the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.110~)
but 0.109.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

And so I installed initramfs-tools from wheezy-backports first and then
the linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae

However, was apt-get correct in not attempting to upgrade
initramfs-tools as well?

Thanks,
Kailash

FYI only.

My new install of the kernel caused VirtualBox to stop functioning:
I followed the following steps:
1. Installed the wheezy-backports version of VirtualBox (no change- the 
kernel modules failed to start)
2. Tried to check versions of dkms - have the latest stable (no updates 
in backports)
3. After looking through VirtualBox installation page 
(http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#install-linux-host)

I figured I was missing the headers for the new kernel.
4. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae
followed by
sudo apt-get install virtualbox/wheezy-backports --reinstall

fixed the issue.

Hope this helps.
K.


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Re: Up-to-date kernels

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Friday 13 December 2013 10:29 PM, Rares Aioanei wrote:

Hello everyone,

I have a question : since I usually make debs for myself from the
latest vanilla kernels, I wondered if those would help somebody else,
for example in cases of needed hardware support or some bugfixes. I
know about Debian's policy about untrusted software sources as well as
the thorough testing done, but I see some usefulness for these kernels
(for example I'm compiling 3.13-rc3, while the latest in experimental
is 3.11-rc4, if I'm not mistaken). The config is the exact Debian one
with added hardware support. If anyone thinks this is a good idea,
please let me know and I'll try to get some hosting space.

Thanks.



Hi Rares,

I'd appreciate it. :) I'm a relative noob and still have a ways to go 
before I get to compiling my own kernel.


K.


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Re: How to install Packages on Debian-Wheezy

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Friday 13 December 2013 07:08 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:

I've also noticed a graphical package installer that was included in
the initial install of Debian-Wheezy called, "GDebi Package
Installer".

Has anyone utilized this for installing .deb packages?

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf
 wrote:

On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 01:29 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 13/12/13 00:59, Wally Lepore wrote:

http://www.aboutdebian.com/packages.htm


Wow! What a... site :/


For newbies it's hard to search for information about Linux, because
they don't know the terms, as long as they don't know the structure of
Linux and in addition it's hard to distinguish the good, the bad and the
ugly websites.


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Yeah, I have, but I still prefer synaptic.

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(SOLVED) Re: Backported Kernel - install question

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Friday 13 December 2013 02:32 AM, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:33:45 +0100
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:


On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 21:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:


I experienced that synaptic for *buntu Saucy is broken, perhaps it's for
Debian broken too. Sometimes nothing is inconsistent, but Synaptic
claims that a dependency should be broken. After closing and opening
Synaptic everything is ok.


If apt-get does work, than a not buggy Synaptic must work too ;).


apt, aptitude and synaptic handle package install conflicts differently.

These tools do the same in trivial situations like installing or
removing package from the main archive.

But, put a number of packages with the same name and different versions
(add versioned dependencies to the picture) - and these 3 tools start
behaving differently. Add the fact that any package in backports
archive has special version that is _lower_ that any version in main
archive - and sometimes these tools may produce funny results.

Basically, apt provides you with the most dumb solution possible
(works most of the time) - install what you want, upgrade dependencies.

Aptitude gives you multiple ways of installing package (and one has to
choose carefully) - install what you want, upgrade/downgrade
dependencies (and may remove something just for fun :).

Synaptic assumes that you are not lazy, and will use Ctrl+E (IIRC, may
be wrong) to force particular versions for needed packages.

So, it's possible to use Synaptic for the task, it just will violate
the great IBM principle - 'People should think, machine should work'.

Reco



Hi,

Apt-get gave me the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.110~) 
but 0.109.1 is to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

And so I installed initramfs-tools from wheezy-backports first and then 
the linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae


However, was apt-get correct in not attempting to upgrade 
initramfs-tools as well?


Thanks,
Kailash


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Re: Jesse install images?

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Thursday 12 December 2013 07:29 AM, Shane Johnson wrote:

Sorry I also should have stated that you can use either a Live CD or a
Rescue CD.

Shane


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Shane Johnson
mailto:s...@rasmussenequipment.com>> wrote:

Nope, It's a little more difficult, but you can do a bootstrap
install following these instructions adapted to Debian.

Ubuntu Debootstrap instructions


Shane


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jon N mailto:jdnandr...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I have a new computer that needs (AFAIK) the kernel version 3.10 or
better to support my ethernet (Qualcomm Atheros AR8171).  I was
hoping
I could do this with a small download, like the net insttall
ISO, but
so far I haven't been able to find one.  Are by only choices to
install Jesse to download multiple CD or 1 DVD file?

Thanks,
Jon


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Hi,

The I've found that the netbootcd works best for me...
http://netbootcd.tuxfamily.org/

You can choose the distro and the release at install time.

Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: sound problems after upgrade

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:12 PM, Christopher Judd wrote:

Hi,

I have a testing box, kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64, using KDE. After an upgrade
earlier this week, I am having problems with sound. The system is an MSI
760GM-P23 motherboard with onboard RealTek ALC887, and sound has always
worked fine previously.

The problem is that there is no sound output from Amarok, or when I try
to test the various sound devices from the KDE system config window.
Sound works fine in VLC, however.

I have phonon configured to use the VLC-phonon backend; pulseaudio is
not installed.

How can I determine where the problem is, or which package is broken?
Thanks.

-Chris



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Hi Chris,

I seem to recall something similar reported in this mailing list's 
archives. Something about volume being set to zero after the upgrade...


http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00215.html

Hope this helps,
Kailash


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Re: XFCE4 DateTime applet - custom timezone

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Thursday 12 December 2013 02:34 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

I would like a second copy of DateTime in my panel, with a custom
timezone - UTC for now.

Is this possible with xfce4-panel ?



Seen this?
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23218/how-to-add-a-custom-timezone-clock-to-an-xfce-panel

Sincerely,
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Re: nautilus -> spacefm

[Kailash Kalyani]

I'm using 'nemo' now, and things like my
kindle appear when plugged in but need to be manually mounted, but I
can live with that.


Have you looked at udisks-glue?

udisks-glue is useful for automatically mounting removable devices or
running arbitrary commands.

Sincerely,
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Re: nautilus -> spacefm

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Wednesday 11 December 2013 12:58 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:16:47 -0500
Dave Woyciesjes  wrote:


On 12/10/2013 12:38 PM, Tixy wrote:

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:25 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:03:33 +
Sharon Kimble  wrote:



I'm trying to move over to spacefm from nautilus because it
automount

s

my usb drives and kindle, but I've hit a snag. I occasionally
need to mount a partition via shfs of my website on a remote
server, but I cant see how to do that in spacefm. Can anyone help
me please?


Answering my own question, neither pcmanfm nor spacefm could do
it, bu

t

thunar can. The first two also didn’t show hidden files [think
'.foobar'] but thunar can, so I'm moving over to thunar as it, so
far at least, does everything that I've asked of it.

Thunar can -
* automount usb drives,


pcmanfm can do that, in pcmanfm it's a tickbox under the 'Volume
Management' tab of the Preferences menu.


* mount sftp drives,


pcmanfm can do that, if you have gnome vfs packages installed
(gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse I beleive).


* show hidden files,


pcmanfm do that, it's the 'Show Hidden' option in the 'view' menu,
and it will remember you're last preference for that setting.

And I would expect other file managers to also support these things.


Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus was...
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198



Thanks for this Dave. I had just installed 'nemo' when I installed
'cinnamon' to try out, but hadn't thought to try nemo, but now I have,
and so far it does the job!

Thanks again
Sharon.

Ah, found an article (on Ubuntu, but checked it on my Debian install and 
it works fine).

Using dconf-editor you can edit the automount behavior here:
org.gnome.desktop.media-handling

And here's the article with screenshots.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/89244/how-to-disable-automount-in-nautiluss-preferences

Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: nautilus -> spacefm

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Wednesday 11 December 2013 12:58 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:16:47 -0500
Dave Woyciesjes  wrote:


On 12/10/2013 12:38 PM, Tixy wrote:

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:25 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:03:33 +
Sharon Kimble  wrote:



I'm trying to move over to spacefm from nautilus because it
automount

s

my usb drives and kindle, but I've hit a snag. I occasionally
need to mount a partition via shfs of my website on a remote
server, but I cant see how to do that in spacefm. Can anyone help
me please?


Answering my own question, neither pcmanfm nor spacefm could do
it, bu

t

thunar can. The first two also didn’t show hidden files [think
'.foobar'] but thunar can, so I'm moving over to thunar as it, so
far at least, does everything that I've asked of it.

Thunar can -
* automount usb drives,


pcmanfm can do that, in pcmanfm it's a tickbox under the 'Volume
Management' tab of the Preferences menu.


* mount sftp drives,


pcmanfm can do that, if you have gnome vfs packages installed
(gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse I beleive).


* show hidden files,


pcmanfm do that, it's the 'Show Hidden' option in the 'view' menu,
and it will remember you're last preference for that setting.

And I would expect other file managers to also support these things.


Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus was...
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198



Thanks for this Dave. I had just installed 'nemo' when I installed
'cinnamon' to try out, but hadn't thought to try nemo, but now I have,
and so far it does the job!

Thanks again
Sharon.


Hi Sharon,

Do you have Gnome installed? I have nautilus installed (default Debian 
install) as well and it seems to automount my usb disks and my kindle 
and my Kobo reader just fine.


Maybe I'm missing something.

Re hidden files, it's a preference - see attachment.

Sincerely,
Kailash
<>

(SOLVED) Re: gdm3 issue

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Tuesday 10 December 2013 07:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 02:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:08 +, Tom H wrote:

The Ubuntu-created grub.cfg cannot be blamed for a GDM problem. If GDM
is being launched, grub's job has been done many seconds ago.


This seems to be true here, but you're mistaken, a boot option could
still cause something when a DE session already is running, e.g.
"threadsirq", "noatime", sure, "noatime" won't brake something, but
"threadirqs" at least could slow down GUI performance, assumed it's a
lowlatency kernel.


PS: Let alone options such as e.g. "single" ;).




Thank you all for your assistance!
After reading your posts, I decided to tentatively look at causes other 
than grub. I searched the gnome.org mailing archives and googled the 
issue some more. The solution that worked for me was to run check the 
debian boot partition with gparted (e2fsck -cfkp). While I did not note 
any addition bad sectors, etc. the issue seems to have been resolved.


Thanks again,
Kailash




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Re: gdm3 issue

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 09 December 2013 08:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae' --class debian --class 
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
 load_video
 insmod gzio
 insmod part_msdos
 insmod ext2
 set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
 echo'Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ...'
 linux   /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae 
root=UUID=ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776 ro  quiet
 echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
 initrd  /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
}

I can't speak for such default crap as load_video, but at least the
options ro and quiet shouldn't cause an issue.

My grub.cfg does start with

$ cat /mnt/saucy/boot/grub/grub.cfg
set timeout=8
set default='0'; if [ x"$default" = xsaved ]; then load_env; set 
default="$saved_entry"; fi
set color_normal='light-blue/black'; set color_highlight='light-cyan/blue'

# 2013-Dec-05

menuentry

and then there are only menu entries, nothing more. I also don't add the
quiet option and should delete the set default line.



Thank you for your feedback Ralf,

Yeah grub as a culprit would've been nice and easier to tackle. :)

I've also tried the following:
apt-get install gdm3 metacity --reinstall

But that did not resolve the issue. I'll keep looking.

From my research it seems that switching display managers will remove 
my problem, however, for now I'd rather stick to gdm3 and figure out the 
issue.


Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: gdm3 issue

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 09 December 2013 07:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:25 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote:

Thanks, I tried that using update-grub2 from my Debian install. That
did not resolve the issue :(


JFTR did you install GRUB by Debian. If not, at least copy
the /boot/grub/grub.cfg to the Ubuntu install.


I think it's a PAM issue with gdm - can't say if I'm making any sense,
but I haven't found a explanation of how they hang together.


I don't know.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html

But at least removing the Ubuntu kernel wouldn't cause to change
something for the Debian install.

You could take a look and/or post the /boot/grub/grub.cfg entry that is
used by grub to boot Debian, maybe there is a bad boot option.




Hi Ralf,

Here's the boot.cfg (attached).

Thank you for the link! It will at the very least give me some 
understanding of PAM.


Sincerely,
Kailash


#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
  set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
  if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
  fi
}

function load_video {
  insmod vbe
  insmod vga
  insmod video_bochs
  insmod video_cirrus
}

insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  load_video
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod part_msdos
  insmod ext2
  set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
  set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
  set lang=en_IN
  insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
insmod png
if background_image /usr/share/images/desktop-base/joy-grub.png; then
  set color_normal=white/black
  set color_highlight=black/white
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae' --class debian --class 
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
echo'Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ...'
linux   /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae 
root=UUID=ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776 ro  quiet
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
}
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (recovery mode)' 
--class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
echo'Loading Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae ...'
linux   /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae 
root=UUID=ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776 ro single 
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, experimental multiboot)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 
ddea8c2f-f4b3-4c3f-8809-a3c6c1309776
multiboot   /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial co

Re: gdm3 issue

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 09 December 2013 04:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:15 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote:

The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is
on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and
since then I've had this issue.


So the answer already seems to be there. Ubuntu did likely automatically
write a broken grub.cfg with what ever obscure boot option that does
break to log in your Debian.

If possible you should use a good boot loader instead of GRUB, e.g.
Syslinux. I use GRUB 2 just for fun too, but edit grub.cfg manually.

Use GRUB 2 from Debian, hopefully it's defaults are more sane than those
of *buntus and automatically generate a saner grub.cfg.

Regards,
Ralf


Hi Ralf,

Thanks, I tried that using update-grub2 from my Debian install. That did 
not resolve the issue :(


I think it's a PAM issue with gdm - can't say if I'm making any sense, 
but I haven't found a explanation of how they hang together.


Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: compose:menu in xfce

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 09 December 2013 12:36 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

I've used setxkbmap -option compose:menu multiple times in XFCE, but for
some reason, something keeps kicking it back over to the same useless
functionality that the menu key has in Windows.  What's the real way to
bind compose to the menu key and make it stick?

Hi Paul,

You could add the command to a start-up script.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28

Sincerely,
Kailash


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gdm3 issue

[Kailash Kalyani]

Hi All,

Issue:
This issue started the day before. I log into Debian and instead of a 
login screen I get a message about gnome-fallback session failing to 
load and an alert asking me to contact the administrator.


The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is 
on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and 
since then I've had this issue. Ubuntu has its own swap and home 
directories.


Looking at the error messages I found this in auth.log:

Dec  9 14:25:57 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: pam_unix(gdm-welcome:session): 
session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
Dec  9 14:25:57 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: 
pam_ck_connector(gdm-welcome:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Dec  9 14:29:40 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Registered 
Authentication Agent for 
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.42 
[/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object 
path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_IN)
Dec  9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818 
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ") 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error 
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534 
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec  9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818 
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ") 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error 
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534 
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec  9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818 
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ") 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error 
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534 
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec  9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818 
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ") 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error 
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534 
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec  9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818 
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ") 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error 
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534 
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec  9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm3][3827]: pam_unix(gdm3:session): session 
opened for user kailash by (uid=0)

Dec  9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm3][3827]: pam_ck_connector(gdm3:session):
So the error appears with the gdm greeter being rejected.
nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Dec  9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: pam_unix(gdm-welcome:session): 
session closed for user Debian-gdm
Dec  9 14:29:48 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered 
Authentication Agent for 
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name 
:1.42, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale 
en_IN) (disconnected from bus)
Dec  9 14:29:52 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Registered 
Authentication Agent for 
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (system bus name :1.63 
[/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object 
path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_IN)
Dec  9 14:30:04 Sthir login[3617]: pam_unix(login:session): session 
opened for user kailash by LOGIN(uid=0)
Dec  9 14:32:08 Sthir sudo:  kailash : TTY=tty1 ; PWD=/var/log ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/less auth.log
Dec  9 14:32:08 Sthir sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by kailash(uid=0)
Dec  9 14:33:00 Sthir sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root


Is this relevant? If not, what should I be looking at?

Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: CD drive not showing up anymore

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Wednesday 04 December 2013 02:54 PM, Kailash Kalyani wrote:

On Wednesday 04 December 2013 12:46 AM, Slavko wrote:

Ahoj,

Dňa Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:38:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf
 napísal:


On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:23 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:

Can this be a dbus issue?


MO it could, but as written off-list in German, udev might be the
culprit too. And for GNOME-like DE's such as Xfce, it should be the
task of gvfs, while for KDE it might be KIO.


A security issue might be possible too, perhaps the kid family is
broken, policy kit or whatever might have to do with it.


My daughter has similar problem. I investigated it remotely only, but
it seems, that the CD/DVD drive is not recognized at boot time. Then it
is not a DE's related problem. I cannot tell more yet.


Hi Matthias,

I'm not an expert, but from my reading of the manpages for udev and
udisks if you run the following command in the terminal
udisks --monitor
and try and load a cd and later eject it. You should see some messages
at this point.

If this works, your udev rules are fine. You'd then have to look at the
desktop side - gvfs in gnome's case.

In case this doesn't work your issue lies somewhere between the kernel
and udev - driver issue or rules issue.

Sincerely,
Kailash




Hi,
For looking into D-BUS you can run
dbus-monitor
from the terminal and try popping in a CD to see if it shows messages 
being passed.


For automount it seems that nautilus is the actor in Gnome:
https://wiki.debian.org/Gnome/nautilus_vs_gnome-volume-manager

In XFCE, when you install xfce4-goodies it includes a mount plugin 
(xfce4-mount-plugin)


But as Chris put it, it could simply be the trigger action that's needed.

Kailash


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Re: CD drive not showing up anymore

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Wednesday 04 December 2013 12:46 AM, Slavko wrote:

Ahoj,

Dňa Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:38:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf
 napísal:


On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 10:23 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:

Can this be a dbus issue?


MO it could, but as written off-list in German, udev might be the
culprit too. And for GNOME-like DE's such as Xfce, it should be the
task of gvfs, while for KDE it might be KIO.


A security issue might be possible too, perhaps the kid family is
broken, policy kit or whatever might have to do with it.


My daughter has similar problem. I investigated it remotely only, but
it seems, that the CD/DVD drive is not recognized at boot time. Then it
is not a DE's related problem. I cannot tell more yet.


Hi Matthias,

I'm not an expert, but from my reading of the manpages for udev and 
udisks if you run the following command in the terminal

udisks --monitor
and try and load a cd and later eject it. You should see some messages 
at this point.


If this works, your udev rules are fine. You'd then have to look at the 
desktop side - gvfs in gnome's case.


In case this doesn't work your issue lies somewhere between the kernel 
and udev - driver issue or rules issue.


Sincerely,
Kailash




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Re: Debian 7 installation

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 18 November 2013 05:28 PM, Chris Davies wrote:

Kailash Kalyani  wrote:

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote:

I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So,
I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black
and I have no idea what is going on.



I've had this happen when I used a x64 image. I'd recommend a 32 bit
image if your case is similar.


And I encountered a different problem with Debian that might possibly
be related to this when I sneezed last week. But I'm not going to give
out any details either.

Sigh.
Chris


Ah, the benefits of responses like yours... soon enough, I'll have skin 
like a Rhino's.


K.


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Re: Install Google Chrome

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 18 November 2013 10:10 AM, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote:

Dear List -

I have done the following -

Downloaded chrome from site into /opt

root@meow:/opt# ls
google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

install -

root@meow:/opt# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

now I get

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable:
  google-chrome-stable depends on gconf-service; however:
   Package gconf-service is not installed.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1); however:
   Package libgconf-2-4 is not installed.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0); however:
   Package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 is not installed.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0); however:
   Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.20.1-2.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libnspr4 (>= 1.8.0.10); however:
   Package libnspr4 is not installed.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libnss3 (>= 3.14.3); however:
   Package libnss3 is not installed.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.6); however:
   Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.4.5-8.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1); however:
   Version of libx11-6 on system is 2:1.3.3-4+squeeze1.
dpkg: error processing google-chrome-stable (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

What should I do?

TIA

Ethan

Hi Ethan,
apt-get -f install

That should take things forward.

Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: Debian 7 installation

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Sunday 17 November 2013 04:16 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote:

Hello,

I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So,
I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black
and I have no idea what is going on.


Right. Could you tell us a bit more about the laptop, or is it a secret?
What image are you using?


Hi,

I've had this happen when I used a x64 image. I'd recommend a 32 bit 
image if your case is similar.


Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 11 November 2013 11:11 PM, Curt wrote:

On 2013-11-11, Chris Bannister  wrote:



Will the nouveau driver be "unblacklisted" after the purge?


Ask yourself - "Would you, as system administrator, expect this?" then


Oh, sorry, I thought you were answering the OP, a newbie who asked for
the procedure (even a wiki) involved in going back to the nouveau driver
from the nvidia packages, which might involve manually unblacklisting
the nouveau driver (or not), a potentially lethal point which I don't
believe you mentioned.



Hi All,

I've used the sgfxi script and it supports removing non-free drivers and 
installing free ones instead.


http://smxi.org/site/about.htm#sgfxi
What is sgfxi (simple graphics installer - s gfx i)

The primary purpose of sgfxi is to install non-free graphics drivers. It 
also supports removing non-free graphics drivers and replacing them with 
the free version. To do this it cleans out the system of any previous 
drivers, then installs the latest versions of the driver you have 
requested.



Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: Problem with halt

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Thursday 14 November 2013 06:40 PM, Curt wrote:

On 2013-11-14, Kailash Kalyani  wrote:



In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which
points to script that could run
shutdown -hP


Thank you. I was unfamiliar with the program alacarte; however, prior to
resorting to such an expedient I have experimented with the -P flag in
an xterm and unfortunately the results are far from encouraging
(meaning: it didn't produce the desired effect).



Hi Curt,

so you used:
shutdown -hP now

and that did not produce the result. From debian wikis it appears to be 
an APM issue.


aptitude search "~i firmware"
should show if you've got the free & nonfree firmware installed.
I generally prefer to install the metapackage firmware-linux which 
installs both.


Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: problem with selinux and Iceweaseal

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Thursday 14 November 2013 02:38 AM, i...@thepostglobal.com wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with selinux and Iceweaseal.

I install a fresh debian wheezy amd64 on my machine, and then selinux.

If I set selinux enforce to " 1 " from " 0 " icewaesel don't start anymore.

I don't make any change in iceweasel, no plugin, no flash.

King Regards,

Lorenzo



Hi Lorenzo,

From what I understand, you'll probably need to tweak your policy for 
selinux. On the selinux site issues with mail apps not getting access to 
directories, keys etc. is listed as a common issue.


Just my 2 cents. Never used selinux, but that's what my brief reading 
dug up.


Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: Problem with halt

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Wednesday 30 October 2013 02:17 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:




On 29 October 2013 17:13, Bob Proulx mailto:b...@proulx.com>> wrote:

Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:
 > Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The
 > experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop
power for
 > my computer.

How did you move from Ubuntu to Debian?  Fresh installation?

Yes.

I have this very, very vague memory that if pm-utils and
powermgmt-base packages are not installed that this problem ensues.
Not very sure of this however.

[...]
Seems that both are in:
root@rome:~# aptitude versions pm-utils
Package pm-utils:
i A 1.4.1-9
stable500
p A 1.4.1-12
testing   500
root@rome:~# aptitude versions powermgmt-base
Package powermgmt-base:
i A 1.31
stable,testing500
root@rome:~#

I also looked at their dependencies and all nothing obvious us missing.
I'll check the firmware thread.

Thanks,
Wawrzek

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Hi,

Do you get something similar when you run the following search?
$aptitude search "~i pm-u" "~i firmware" "~i acpi"

i   acpi- displays information on ACPI 
devices
i   acpi-support-base   - scripts for handling base ACPI 
events such
i   acpid   - Advanced Configuration and Power 
Interface
i   firmware-linux  - Binary firmware for various 
drivers in the
i   firmware-linux-free - Binary firmware for various 
drivers in the
i A firmware-linux-nonfree  - Binary firmware for various 
drivers in the
i A pm-utils- utilities and scripts for power 
management


Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: Problem with halt

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Thursday 14 November 2013 12:45 AM, Curt wrote:

On 2013-11-13, Curt  wrote:

On 2013-11-13, Antonio Paiva  wrote:


Have you tried using 'shutdown -h -P now' ?


No.


I was having similar issues with some machines not powering down after
shutdown and that solved it for me. In my case, I simply set that as the
exit command for my window manager, and I have no idea how you might go
about doing it in a desktop env.


You'd type the command in an xterm and press enter.



Actually I think in gnome you could just create a little launcher (or
something), for example.  Well, at least in the old gnome everyone
regrets you could.

Thank you, at any rate. I'll experiment with the -P flag later this
evening.


In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which 
points to script that could run

shutdown -hP

K.


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Re: No Display was Nvidia Problems

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Wednesday 13 November 2013 10:01 AM, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com 
wrote:


Dear List

After removing all th eNvidia d\riversd I fouind that I did not have a
default window manager.

/etc/X11/default-desktop-
manager did not exist.

so

nano   /etc/X11/default-desktop-manager and set the value to /etc/gdm3
dpkg-configure gdm3
service gdm3 start

reboot
Login screen
login
all the screen shows is the time..no icons.  The desktop files exist..

Added another user to see if my desktop files were corrupted.

With Gnome classic, the login screen has four icons on the top right
[on/off sound language and  applications for hard of hearing, or
vision].  After login, a blank screen that reverts to the login
screen.

TIA.

Ethan


Hi Ethan,

For starters, could you tell us what version of Debian you're using?

Have you run:
apt-get -f install

Sincerely,
Kailash


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Re: How to disable UTC time?

[Kailash Kalyani]

Yuwen Dai wrote:

On 7/9/13, Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 22:12 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

Yuwen Dai  writes:


Dear all,

My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC
time,
so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct.
I do
these actions to disable UTC:

1.  add UTC=no in /etc/init.d/rcS




/etc/default/rcS
_not_
/etc/init.d/rcS



Sorry, my typo.  I also modify /etc/default/rcS in fact.


*?*


2. remove UTC , add LOCAL in /etc/adjtime

Neither of the above works.  Yesterday  I set the BIOS clock as UTC
time, then
Linux added 8 hours to it, it's my local time which was correct.  But
this
morning, the system time in Linux is 8 hours ahead again.

So how to disable UTC or set the correct clock?  I'm using Debian
Wheezy.

Best regards,
Yuwen


I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get
it...  but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock?


Then the OP would get the wrong time by the computer e.g. for software
that does run without an OS, for saved BIOS settings.

I use local time too and for Arch Linux ntpdate doesn't set the hardware
clock anymore, so after running ntpdate I run hwclock on Arch, perhaps
this now is needed for Debian too.

My unused Debian install:

[rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/init.d/rcS
#! /bin/sh
#
# rcS
#
# Call all S??* scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ in numerical/alphabetical order
#

[rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ ls etc/rcS.d/
README   S08hwclockfirst.shS35mountall.sh
S45mountnfs.sh
S00live-config   S10checkroot.sh   S36mountall-bootclean.sh
S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh
S02hostname.sh   S11hwclock.sh S36udev-mtab
S47lm-sensors
S02mountkernfs.shS12mtab.shS37mountoverflowtmp
S48console-screen.sh
S03udev  S18ifupdown-clean S38pppd-dns
S49console-setup
S04mountdevsubfs.sh  S20module-init-tools  S39ifupdown
S50alsa-utils
S05bootlogd  S30checkfs.sh S40networking
S55bootmisc.sh
S05keymap.sh S30procps S40pcmciautils
S55urandom
S06keyboard-setupS31hibernate  S43portmap
S70x11-common
S07hdparmS34fuse   S44nfs-common
S99stop-bootlogd-single

[rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/adjtime
0.002664 1363282063 0.00
1363282063
LOCAL

[rocketmouse@archlinux avlinux]$ cat etc/default/rcS
#
# /etc/default/rcS
#
# Default settings for the scripts in /etc/rcS.d/
#
# For information about these variables see the rcS(5) manual page.
#
# This file belongs to the "initscripts" package.

TMPTIME=0
SULOGIN=no
DELAYLOGIN=no
UTC=no
VERBOSE=no
FSCKFIX=no
RAMRUN=no
RAMLOCK=no



The manual of rcS says UTC in rcS is not supported and suggests use
UTCor LOCAL in /etc/adjtime.  I tried both UTC=no in rcS and LOCAL in
/etc/adjtime,  no effect.  And /etc/adjtime seems a dynamically
created file.

Best regards,
Yuwen dai



Hi,

Depending on the version of windows you're using you can configure 
windows to use UTC time. Here's the archwiki link:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time

Best wishes,
Kailash


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Re: goodbye-microsoft.com Install?

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Monday 03 Jun 2013 6:50:03 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The reviews I read said the same or similar, but an Aussie tech
> > magazine from 2007 said that after the standard installer starts,
> > Debian is installed as a single file on the Windows partition--no
> > partitioning needed.
> 
> That was not the case for me.  I was offered to resize the ntfs
> partition to make room for the Debian partition but there was no option
> to "install within a file inside the ntfs partition".
> 
> I remember hearing of such an install method, but AFAIK it was not the
> one offered by the goodbye-microsoft thingy.  And it stands to reason:
> you wouldn't really be able to say "goodbye" if the install went into the
> NTFS partition.
> 
> 
> Stefan
I tried the install a couple of days ago on my laptop. I got an offer to resize 
my windows partition. Can't recall getting an option to install inside the 
NTFS partition.

Kailash


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Re: virtual users

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Sunday 02 Jun 2013 11:08:47 AM Pol Hallen wrote:
> Should be patch postfix or add quote options to courier?

Hi,
I think this is off-topic for this list, however, here's a somewhat dated 
tutorial that might help:
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier
as per the article: (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I'll show
how to patch your Postfix appropriately)

Best wishes,
Kailash


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Re: virtual users

[Kailash Kalyani]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Pol Hallen  wrote:

> Should be patch postfix or add quote options to courier?

Hi,
I think this is off-topic for this list, however, here's a tutorial that
might help:
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier
as per the article: (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I'll show
how to patch your Postfix appropriately)

Best wishes,
Kailash

RE: X Window System error

[Kailash Kalyani]

> I just update debian6 to 7 and bad surprises:
> 
> lazaro@utopian:~$ mtpaint 
> The program 'mtpaint' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> 

> lazaro@utopian:~$ emelfm2 
> (emelfm2:3422): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_store_iter_next: assertion 
> `iter->user_data != NULL' failed
> The program 'emelfm2' received an X Window System error.
> 
> lazaro@utopian:~$ geany 
> The program 'geany' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> 

> I'm using:
> 
> lazaro@utopian:~$ ps fax|grep Xf
> 13474 tty1  S<  3:02 /usr/X11/bin/Xfbdev -screen 1024x768x32 -t 1 -mouse 
> /dev/psaux,5,4 ttys7
> 
> An ancient X server due my OLDER computer. I can't use Xorg, so please, I
> shall be very glad resolving this problem.
> 
> Geany and emelfm2 two are not from debian's repo and their ALL WAYS was
> working to me without problems. I guest the problem is with GTK+
> 
> i   libgtk1.2   - The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X   
> 
> i A libgtk1.2-common- Common files for the GTK+ library   
> 
> i A libgtk2.0-0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library   
> 
> i   libgtk2.0-bin   - programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface 
> library  
> i   libgtk2.0-common- common files for the GTK+ graphical user 
> interface libra
> 
> lazaro@utopian:~$ gimp -v 
> GIMP version 1.2.3
> 
> work fine... the problem is not old or new applications...
> 

Hi Lazaro,

Based on your inputs it may be that the GTK version dependencies may be causing 
this. GIMP works and GTK was built for GIMP, so that's not surprising. Based on 
some reading, it appears that GIMP 1.2.x was built around GTK 1.2
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-1-2&id=61cf583747fbb3b4306bf085b85b1f67e627778c

And you seem to have gtk 1.2 installed in part at least. 

As the other programs were previously working, the "new" GTK errors might 
indicate a change in the libraries? If so, then knowing the versions of your 
other apps would help determine which GTK version they were based on. What do 
you think?

Kailash
  

RE: wu-ftp substitute

[Kailash Kalyani]

Hope these help
http://www.brennan.id.au/14-FTP_Server.html
http://www.technicalhowto.com/opensource/vsftpd/index.html

Sincerely,
K.

> Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 10:30:23 +0300
> From: andreimpope...@gmail.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: wu-ftp substitute
> 
> On Mi, 08 mai 13, 01:08:14, T o n g wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 May 2013 16:26:58 +1200, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
> > 
> > >> I'm looking for a wu-ftp substitute, i.e., an ftp server that is
> > >> relatively easy to configure the anonymous upload.
> > >
> > > vsftpd
> >  
> > I hope that you *did* notice that I need an ftp server that is
> > *relatively easy* to configure the *anonymous upload*
> > 
> > But these are the only pages I found talking about vsftpd anonymous upload 
> > configuration, 
> > 
> > http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/
> > applications/437065-vsftpd-anonymous-upload.html
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1397075
> > 
> > Needless to say, none of them say that vsftpd anonymous upload is working. 
> > 
> > If you did mean vsftpd for easy anonymous upload configuration, than I'm 
> > sorry, please advice where I can find that easy configuration guide. 
> 
> Maybe configuring it is so easy that it's not necessary to write a guide :p
> 
> SCNR
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
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RE: grub finding but not adding other OS

[Kailash Kalyani]

Hi,

I found this documentation on the Ubuntu site, so I'm guessing it should apply 
for debian too.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#Main_Directories_.26_Files

First you need to ensure that an entry appears in the /etc/grub.d folder. This 
entry must be executable.
chmod +x 

Then you execute update-grub as root.

HTH,
K.

> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 23:59:06 +0800
> From: doubledar...@gmail.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: grub finding but not adding other OS
> 
> Maybe you could edit the configure file /boot/grub/grub.cfg manually to add
> a menu entry for another OS.
> 
> On Thu, 2013-05-09 11:17:41 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 11:17:41 -0400
> >From: Tony Baldwin 
> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: grub finding but not adding other OS
> >
> >Hi.
> >My machine is dual boot, with two hdd.
> >The first one has Fedora 18, the second (which is really the one
> >I primarily use) has Debian, just upgraded to Wheezy yesterday.
> >The BIOS generally chooses the first hdd, with Fedora, and I had
> >grub on there booting Squeeze by default.
> >After upgrading to Wheezy, I booted the fedora and ran grub2-mkconfig,
> >and it found Wheezy, but did NOT add it to the boot menu.
> >I used the BIOS to boot the second drive and updated grub on the Wheezy disk.
> >Same thing, either with grub-mkconfig or update-grub, it finds the Fedora
> >OS, but it does not add it to the grub menu.
> >Personally, I'd like to install grub from the wheezy side, to the fedora 
> >side,
> >with wheezy as the default, but including the fedora as an option.
> >I seem to be finding conflicting information, and my attempts so far have 
> >failed.
> >I'm finding I have to enter the BIOS and choose the second hdd manually to 
> >boot
> >wheezy, which is a PITA.
> >
> >Any and all assistance, as always, appreciated. (alliteration)
> >
> >thanks,
> >tony
> >--
> >http://www.tonybaldwin.me
> 
> 
  

RE: gnome doesn't save brightness value

[Kailash Kalyani]

Sorry that was just the png file. Here's the link to the extension:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/231/brightness-control/

Sincerely,
K.

From: kailash.kaly...@hotmail.com
To: alexsander...@yahoo.com.br; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: gnome doesn't save brightness value
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 13:42:57 +0530




Have you seen this?
https://extensions.gnome.org/static/extension-data/screenshots/screenshot_231_3.png

Sincerely,
Kailash

> Subject: gnome doesn't save brightness value
> From: alexsander...@yahoo.com.br
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:35:12 -0300
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first time on this list. I've just installed the stable
> Wheezy and I'm facing a problem: Gnome isn't saving the brightness level
> in my laptop, so I must set it at each boot.
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RE: gnome doesn't save brightness value

[Kailash Kalyani]

Have you seen this?
https://extensions.gnome.org/static/extension-data/screenshots/screenshot_231_3.png

Sincerely,
Kailash

> Subject: gnome doesn't save brightness value
> From: alexsander...@yahoo.com.br
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:35:12 -0300
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first time on this list. I've just installed the stable
> Wheezy and I'm facing a problem: Gnome isn't saving the brightness level
> in my laptop, so I must set it at each boot.
> 
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RE: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

[Kailash Kalyani]

Hi Curt,

Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why they're used 
with most media. As I understand it you're wondering if it is possible to 
disable write caching in Windows? The answer to that is yes. 

Here's an old support article that describes how: 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259716
If you do a google search you'll find it works similarly for XP. 

>From Kernel 2.6 onwards udev (http://wiki.debian.org/udev) is the dynamic 
>device manager.
But despite searching for a while I've not figured out how to control the rules 
for mounting the devices.

However, fstab entry "sync" or "async" controls what happens:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Sincerely,
Kailash

> From: howl...@priss.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:01 -0400
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> Dear Debian Users,
> 
> I was contemplating today the fact that I know several people who have 
> scrambled various removable disks and thumb drives by failing 
> to "unmount" or "eject" before removing them.
> 
> Mostly this has happened in Windows, not because there isn't 
> an "eject" feature, but through ignorance or accident.
> 
> This happens, I am told, because of unwritten buffers which are 
> emptied only when the device is unmounted or ejected.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Removable media are already a class unto themselves, so why aren't 
> they marked something like "sync immediately"? It's not like a USB 
> drive is being used as multiple fast file accesses, benefiting from 
> buffering in RAM. These are repositories, places where whole files 
> are written or read and then the media removed.
> 
> It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say "sync 
> immediately" or "do not buffer", so that when the drive was inactive 
> it could be yanked without danger of corruption.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Curt-
> 
> 
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