Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

[Luis Muñoz Fuente]

El 23/4/24 a las 8:21, Thomas Schmitt escribió:

(I still wonder which software in the Debian ISO needs the symbolic link
"/debian -> ." and which parts of the file tree are accessed via this
link. Probably one can avoid to duplicate the whole tree under /debian.)


Hello:
I have copied the files to the pendrive formatted in fat32 with the command:

cp -a /mnt/. /media/user/USB

and logically it did not copy the symbolic links and I tried installing 
Debian on a computer and it worked perfectly, although I will not use it 
as a method of generating bootable USBs to avoid possible errors that 
are difficult to detect in the future. Clonezilla does not have links 
and that is why it can be copied directly to the pendrive.


Thanks so much

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

[Luis Muñoz Fuente]

I assume the problem is the debian link, which points to the same directory:
$ ls -l tmp/debian
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 1 Apr 22 20:47 tmp/debian -> .
and creates a loop, I guess that's also why if I compress with:
zip -r debian.zip tmp
It never ends but from the graphical environment it does compress well, 
because it will not pay attention to the recursive link.

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

[Luis Muñoz Fuente]

El 22/4/24 a las 20:25, Thomas Schmitt escribió:

Hard to say if you do not show what you do in particular.


Yes, sorry.

$ du debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
644100  debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso

# mount debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt
mount: /mnt: ATENCIÓN: el dispositivo está protegido contra escritura; 
se monta como sólo lectura.


$ du -s /mnt
764031  /mnt

$ cp -r /mnt/. ~/tmp

$ du -s ~/tmp
767072  /home/usuario/tmp

From the Files program, right click properties on the tmp folder:
1.576 elementos, 783,1 MB en total

Now I go into the tmp folder, select everything, right click properties:
3.140 elementos, 1,6 GB en total

but with pcmanfm I always see the size of 749.1 MiB (785,448,960 bytes), 
so it seems that Files does not show me the information well.


Thanks

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

[Luis Muñoz Fuente]

El 22/4/24 a las 19:49, Thomas Schmitt escribió:

Hi,


Thanks for the reply. My question is rather why the size increases so 
much. When I take a folder that occupies 5 GiB and with mkisofs I create 
an iso file, it still occupies 5 GiB. And if I later extract the files 
it takes up 5 GiB again, why does extracting the files from the debian 
iso increase the size so much?

bootable pendrive from zip file

[Luis Muñoz Fuente]

Hello:
I recently used clonezilla and followed these instructions:

https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php#linux-setup

to create a bootable pendrive from a zip file. What I liked about this 
method is that I can continue saving data on the pendrive and if I want 
to delete clonezilla I just have to delete it normally, without the need 
to format.


The usual method of creating a pendrive to install debian is:

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.en.html#usb-copy-isohybrid

but this way I can't write more files to the pendrive, unless I format 
the empty space. And when I want to delete the installation from the 
pendrive I have to use fdisk and mkfs.


I have tried to transform the debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso file into 
zip but the size has gone from 659 MiB to 1.5 GiB, when with clonezilla 
both take up the same size. This increase in size makes it take longer 
to copy the data to the pendrive.

Does anyone know why this happens.
Thanks in advance.

Strange data loss

[Luis Muñoz Fuente]

Hello everybody:
My work laptops come with Ubuntu 20.04 and a very strange thing happened 
to a colleague of mine (I'm asking here because I think what happened 
doesn't depend on the distribution): he was working with Filezilla and 
suddenly he lost all the data (I think it's regardless that you were 
working with Filezilla) from your home folder and it appeared as newly 
installed. However, the rest of the operating system continued to 
function without problems.


He is a person that I trust hasn't done anything "weird". The laptop is 
a Dell Latitude 3510 Intel i3 with a 256 GB SSD M.2 PCIe NVMe drive. The 
entire system is installed on a single partition with ext4.


After the disaster I recovered the data with Photorec and sorted by 
extension, but since most of the filenames are lost the solution is 
partial. In addition, many project files, which are located in folders, 
are scattered by extension, and it is very difficult to restore such data.


This is something that hasn't happened to me in 20 years of intensive 
use of GNU/Linux. I would understand it with a mechanical drive if it 
had taken a hit running but with SSDs I don't understand it.


I did not find any bad sectors with the badblocks command. I checked 
with fsck and it fixed quite a few entries but no lost+found files 
showed up. Gnome-disk-utility tells me that the disk is ok and 
smartmontools tells me that it can't look at the log. Memtest also did 
not give any faults in RAM memory.


Just in case anyone has any idea what might have happened.

Thanks and regards

Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

[José Luis González]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 17:30:38 +0500
"Alexander V. Makartsev"  wrote:

> On 28.02.2022 02:32, José Luis González wrote:
> > Hi,

Hi Alexander,

> > Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a
> > shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings,
> > no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button
> > on my panel appears pressed without the menu unfolded. A second key
> > press shows the CTRL-ESC (xfdesktop --menu) menu, not the app menu.
> >
> > What's going on? I'm suffering from the same in both machines I have
> > with Debian 11.
> It looks like "xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu" is a simple wrapper Bash 
> script.
> All it does is trying to execute "xfce4-panel" with a long line of 
> parameters and if that fails, fallback to execute "xfdesktop --menu" 
> instead.
> Man page for "xfce4-panel" doesn't explain anything about 
> "--plugin-event" parameter, so it looks like it was reworked somehow.
> The problem is that "xfce4-panel" never fails to execute with that 
> undocumented parameter, so fallback option doesn't work.
> You can file a bug report about this, or change a command, assigned to 
> 'Alt+F1' key combination, to
>      "/usr/bin/xfce4-panel --plugin-event=applicationsmenu:popup"

The replacement command you propose doesn't work any better for me. I'm
going to file a bug report.

Best,
José Luis

Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

[José Luis González]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:44:18 +
Ralph Katz  wrote:

> On 2/27/22 14:32, José Luis González wrote:
> > Hi,

Hi,

> > Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a
> > shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings,
> > no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button
> > on my panel appears pressed without the menu unfolded. A second key
> > press shows the CTRL-ESC (xfdesktop --menu) menu, not the app menu.
> > 
> > What's going on? I'm suffering from the same in both machines I have
> > with Debian 11.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> On my Bullseye 11.2 XFCE Dell laptop, I need Fn-ALT-F1 to do that even 
> though ALT-F1 is specified in Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts.

I just tried this and it doesn't work for me (nothing happens when I
add Fn).

XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

[José Luis González]

Hi,

Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a
shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings,
no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button
on my panel appears pressed without the menu unfolded. A second key
press shows the CTRL-ESC (xfdesktop --menu) menu, not the app menu.

What's going on? I'm suffering from the same in both machines I have
with Debian 11.

Re: Stalled system shutdown

[José Luis González]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 19:13:28 -0600
Flacusbigotis  wrote:

> > I wonder if the package ntopng is necessary for something.
> 
> See manpage gor ntopng it's for monitoring network resources/activity.
> 
> So if you aren't interested in doing that  then you don't need it installed.

Yes, I have removed it.

Thanks all for your help.

Re: Stalled system shutdown

[José Luis González]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:03:14 -0600
Flacusbigotis  wrote:

> Just a question to help you start troubleshooting:
> 
> Does the shutdown finish quickly/quicker if you first stop the ntopng
> systemd service manually before doing the full shutdown?

I did a "# service status ntopng" and it seems the daemon is dead and
it has errors:

===

• ntopng.service - ntopng - High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow 
Collection Tool
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ntopng.service; enabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
 Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2022-02-11 11:24:19 CET; 2h 3min ago
   Docs: man:ntopng(8)
 file:/usr/share/doc/ntopng/README.Debian
 file:/usr/share/doc/ntopng/UserGuide.pdf.gz
Process: 698 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntopng /etc/ntopng.conf (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
CPU: 22ms

feb 11 11:24:19 tierra systemd[1]: Starting ntopng - High-Speed Web-based 
Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool...
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra ntopng[698]: 11/Feb/2022 11:24:19 [Ntop.cpp:1902] 
Setting local networks to 127.0.0.0/8
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra ntopng[698]: 11/Feb/2022 11:24:19 [Redis.cpp:111] ERROR: 
ntopng requires redis server to be up and running
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra ntopng[698]: 11/Feb/2022 11:24:19 [Redis.cpp:112] ERROR: 
Please start it and try again or use -r
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra ntopng[698]: 11/Feb/2022 11:24:19 [Redis.cpp:113] ERROR: 
to specify a redis server other than the default
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra ntopng[698]: [Redis.cpp:111] ERROR: ntopng requires 
redis server to be up and running
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra ntopng[698]: [Redis.cpp:112] ERROR: Please start it and 
try again or use -r
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra ntopng[698]: [Redis.cpp:113] ERROR: to specify a redis 
server other than the default
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra systemd[1]: ntopng.service: Succeeded.
feb 11 11:24:19 tierra systemd[1]: Started ntopng - High-Speed Web-based 
Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool.

===

I wonder if the package ntopng is necessary for something. If I remove
it nothing else complains. I didn't know this package before.

By the way, with ntopng uninstalled my system shuts down normally.

Thanks for your help.


> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 5:59 PM José Luis González  wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > When shutting down, after upgrading to Debian 11, system shutdown hangs
> > (freezes) for some time (about 1-2 minutes) anytime, making it
> > bothersome to shut the system down.
> >
> > The freeze happens afther the "Stopped target remote filesystems"
> > status line. After a while "A stop job is running for ntopng" is
> > printed with an "in progress" status in red and a timeout of 1 minute
> > 30 seconds, which is exhausted. So everyt time I shut down I get a 1
> > minute and 30 seconds delay.
> >
> > Anyone can help, please?
> >
> >

/etc/adjtime (setting the hardware clock to local time on Debian 11)

[José Luis González]

According to

https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime

There should be an /etc/adjtime file to configure the timezone for the
hardware clock. I have no such file in my Debian 11 laptop. May I know
if the file was removed and what was it replaced with?

I just want to set the hardware clock to local time since this machine is 
shared with Windows and the clock is actually local time.

Thanks in advance, and best regards.

Stalled system shutdown

[José Luis González]

Hi,

When shutting down, after upgrading to Debian 11, system shutdown hangs
(freezes) for some time (about 1-2 minutes) anytime, making it
bothersome to shut the system down.

The freeze happens afther the "Stopped target remote filesystems"
status line. After a while "A stop job is running for ntopng" is
printed with an "in progress" status in red and a timeout of 1 minute
30 seconds, which is exhausted. So everyt time I shut down I get a 1
minute and 30 seconds delay.

Anyone can help, please?

Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

[José Luis González]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 15:59:34 -0500
Greg Wooledge  wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 09:55:02PM +0100, José Luis González wrote:
> > Thanks everybody for your input.
> > 
> > Does anybody know why the X copy/paste issue is happening? So far I
> > have only got help with time.
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00144.html
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00151.html

Thanks for the tip, but I'm afraid it isn't bracketed paste. I'm suffering from 
this everywhere, not only in bash.

Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

[José Luis González]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 09:17:35 -0500
Greg Wooledge  wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 11:25:36AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > José Luis González wrote:
> > > 2. Copy and paste in X don't work anymore by selecting and clicking on
> > > mouse button 2.
> > 
> > "bracketed paste", maybe ?
> 
> Depends on where he's pasting.  Bracketed paste doesn't actually stop
> middle-click pastes from working in bash in a terminal; it just makes
> it look weird, and requires a confirming Enter keypress if you paste
> commands with newlines in them.
> 
> José, *where* are you trying to paste, that isn't working?  At a bash
> prompt?  Inside an editor running in a terminal?  Inside an editor
> that is a GUI program?  Inside some other GUI program like a web
> browser?

From XFCE's to XFCE's terminal emulator, for instance. Also, I tried now from 
the terminal to Sylpheed (the window where I'm composing this message), and 
from Sylpheed to Sylpheed (same window text edit widget).

Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

[José Luis González]

Thanks everybody for your input.

Does anybody know why the X copy/paste issue is happening? So far I
have only got help with time.


On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 18:54:26 +
Brian  wrote:

> On Sun 06 Feb 2022 at 12:09:39 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 10:42:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > That said, I notice you have ntp installed. Does that mean that
> > > you're keeping your time synchronised with ntp and, if so, what
> > > do you do about systemd-timesyncd, which I understand is enabled
> > > by default since several Debian versions ago.
> > 
> > If an NTP package is installed, systemd-timesyncd is not used.  It
> > just never starts.
> > 
> > On my system, it's not even installed.
> > 
> > After digging around a bit, I think Debian has changed something on me,
> > which I didn't notice until now.
> > 
> > In older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd and ntp (or chrony, etc.)
> > would coexist.  systemd-timesyncd.service was configured so that the
> > daemon wouldn't be started if any of the other NTP daemons existed on
> > the system.
> > 
> > I can no longer see that in the systemd-timesyncd.service file (which
> > I'm viewing as
> > 
> > because it's not on my system).
> > 
> > Instead, the ntp and systemd-timesyncd *packages* now appear to have
> > 
> > Provides: time-daemon
> > 
> > which might make them mutually exclusive.
> 
> It does. Installation of chrony or ntp removeds the traditional
> systemd-timesyncd package.
> 
> -- 
> Brian.
> 

Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

[José Luis González]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 11:20:37 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater"  wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 11:58:08AM +0100, José Luis González wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Upon upgrading to Debian 11 several things broke.
> > 
> > The two that come to my attention now are:
> > 
> > 1. System time is one hour more than it should. Timezone (as set by
> > tzdata) is correct.
> > 
> 
> Hi 

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for stepping in.

> System time:  what time does the motherboard think it is - so BIOS / firmware?

It seems date was set for localtime at the BIOS, so I have updated it to UTC so 
that it works with Debian.

> Is the system dual booting with another OS which assumes that it has 
> control of the clock (usually Windows and setting local timezones
> with daylight saving time)?

No, the system only has Debian. No dual booting.

> Hope this helps, any more details you can give may be helpful.

It seems with the BIOS adjust it's running right. Thanks for your input. You 
made me realize what it was.

date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11

[José Luis González]

Hi,

Upon upgrading to Debian 11 several things broke.

The two that come to my attention now are:

1. System time is one hour more than it should. Timezone (as set by
tzdata) is correct.

2. Copy and paste in X don't work anymore by selecting and clicking on
mouse button 2.

I'm running XFCE, if it is of any help.

Re: Re: bluetooth audio

[Luis Mochan]

Thanks!

-- 
WLM

bluetooth audio

[Luis Mochan]

After a recent update/upgrade in debian/bookworm my bluetooth
earphones and my bluetooth earphones stopped working.
I found a solution in the discussion of at

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997862&archived=no&mbox=no&mboxmaint=no

related to bug #997862 which seemed to work for me, that is,
installing a package libspa-0.2-bluetooth.

I'm not sure what is happening, but I guess it should have been
installed automatically if it was required not to break my system (and I
guess others).

I would like to file a bug report, but I'm not sure the origin is in
the wireplumber package (I don't know why it got installed in my
system).

I will appreciate any advice.

Regards,
Luis


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Fwd: ajuda

[Luis Inocêncio]

Boa Noite.
Antes de mais agradecer a vossa atenção. Deixo abaixo mais detalhadamente
os problemas que tenho, agora que parece que já consegui instalar (isso
após tentar se sucesso com outras Distros) pela primeira vez o Debian:
1- Tendo uma placa grafica Nvidia (julgo que é por isso) nunca consigo
entrar diretamente pelo Grub, sem antes trocar na lina relativa ao linux no
Grub ‘quiet’ por ‘nomodeset’. A primeira duvida é essa, como configurar
definitivamente isso para não ter que estar sempre a alterar no Grub? Ou
será que quando conseguir as drives (especificas) do Nvidia isso fica
resolvido?
2- Ao tentar entrar como rooter (no terminal) utilizando sudo -s, apesar de
inserir corretamente a senha é me sempre informado que a senha não é
correta e nunca tenho acesso como rooter. Já alterei a senha e o problema
persiste :( ... Isso apesar de conseguir aceder gestor de pacotes synaptic
 utilizando no caso exatamente a mesma senha que não é aceite no terminal.
Isso é normal? Como resolver isso?
3- Enfim, preciso conseguir entrar como rooter senão não conseguirei fazer
nada como o Debian e será até já 100% frustrante minha experiencia com o
Linux :(
Agradeço antecipadamente a vossa atenção e ajuda

Good evening. First of all thank you for your attention. I leave below in
more detail the problems I have, now that it seems that I already managed
to install (this after trying to be successful with other Distros) for the
first time Debian: 1- Having an Nvidia graphics card (I think that's why) I
can never get directly through Grub, without first switching to the linux
related to Grub 'quiet' by 'nomodeset'. The first question is this, how to
definitively configure this to not have to be constantly changing in Grub?
Or will it be that when you get the (specific) Nvidia drives this is
resolved? 2- When trying to enter as a rooter (in the terminal) using sudo
-s, despite correctly entering the password, I am always informed that the
password is not correct and I never have access as a rooter. I have already
changed the password and the problem persists :( ... That despite being
able to access synaptic package manager using in this case exactly the same
password that is not accepted in the terminal. Is this normal? How to solve
this? 3- Anyway, I need to be able to log in as a rooter otherwise I will
not be able to do anything like Debian and it will be even 100% frustrating
my experience with Linux :( Thank you in advance for your attention and help


-- Forwarded message -
De: Luis Inocêncio 
Date: sáb., 27 de fev. de 2021 às 17:05
Subject: ajuda
To: 


Boa Tarde
Desculpem, sou novo no Debian e tudo é novidade e não sei onde conseguirei
encontrar ajuda para o problema que tenho?? (ou o Debian tem?)
Tenho o Debian instalado no meu computador, e apesar de ainda só conseguir
entrar no ambiente do Debian depois de aceder via "comando" nomodeset no
Grub... :(
Tentando atualizar o Debian por forma a ir colocando-o
operacional/funcional logo na minha primeira tentativa a aceder ao root
(via terminal) esse acesso me é negado (não é aceite a password que
escolhi???)
Entretanto com a mesma password consigo aceder ao gestor de Pacotes
Synaptic - que no entanto não me ajudou (nada) porque através dele tambem
não foi aceite/instalado nenhum programa do meu interesse.
Podem me ajudar (ou indicar alguem ou um link) para que consiga fazer o
Debian ser minimamente util para mim (ter net, mail, office, musica, pdf)
Fico a aguardar um feedback vosso
Obrigada

-- 
Luis Inocêncio


-- 
Luis Inocêncio

ajuda

[Luis Inocêncio]

Boa Tarde
Desculpem, sou novo no Debian e tudo é novidade e não sei onde conseguirei
encontrar ajuda para o problema que tenho?? (ou o Debian tem?)
Tenho o Debian instalado no meu computador, e apesar de ainda só conseguir
entrar no ambiente do Debian depois de aceder via "comando" nomodeset no
Grub... :(
Tentando atualizar o Debian por forma a ir colocando-o
operacional/funcional logo na minha primeira tentativa a aceder ao root
(via terminal) esse acesso me é negado (não é aceite a password que
escolhi???)
Entretanto com a mesma password consigo aceder ao gestor de Pacotes
Synaptic - que no entanto não me ajudou (nada) porque através dele tambem
não foi aceite/instalado nenhum programa do meu interesse.
Podem me ajudar (ou indicar alguem ou um link) para que consiga fazer o
Debian ser minimamente util para mim (ter net, mail, office, musica, pdf)
Fico a aguardar um feedback vosso
Obrigada

-- 
Luis Inocêncio

Re: pulseaudio records too high [SOLVED]

[José Luis González]

Hi Klaumi,

Your message helped me solve the problem.

It turned out that setting the microphone level in Input devices
unlocked the recording volume setting, and ever since this setting the
volume in "Recording" tab works!

Now I have been able to lower the volume and get the microphone working
back to sensible levels.

Thank you so much!


On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:16:20 +0100
Klaumi Klingsporn  wrote:

> Am / On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:42:01 +0100
> schrieb / wrote Sebastian Ramacher :
> 
> > On 2021-02-17 15:28:54, José Luis González wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have problems recording audio with pulseaudio.
> > > Recording volume is noticeably too high: there is a lot
> > > of background noise and my voice on a loop test sounds
> > > completely distorted and too loud.
> > > 
> > > The problem is I can't change recording volume at all.
> > > If I lower volume, recording volume doesn't change,
> > > even if I set it to silence.
> >...
> > For user support please contact 
> > debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> Beside this general advice from Sebastian:
> 
> You probably have to adjust the recording-level and/or the
> level of the monitor-device of your soundcard. Use
> pavucontrol to do this. 
> 
> The recoding-level is in the recording tab, the monitor
> level in the tab 'input devices'. The later you have to set
> to see 'all input devices' at the bottom of the tab to see
> the montoring device.
> 
> Set the input device of your recording program to alsa and
> default. Start the playing program and then the recording
> program. 
> 
> In the recording tab of pavucontrol you see now your
> recording program and that is recording the Monitor of your
> soundcard. If not change it to the monitor! The level should
> be set to 100%. 
> 
> In the input device tab of pavucontrol you see the level of
> the monitor which you can adjust to your needs.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> 
> 
> Klaumi
> 
> 
> ---
> Klaumi Klingsporn 
> mail: klaumi...@gmx.de
> web: www.klaumikli.de

pulseaudio records too high

[José Luis González]

Hi,

I have problems recording audio with pulseaudio. Recording volume is
noticeably too high: there is a lot of background noise and my voice on
a loop test sounds completely distorted and too loud.

The problem is I can't change recording volume at all. If I lower
volume, recording volume doesn't change, even if I set it to silence.

I'm experiencing this with Skype and Teams, but it happens with other
apps as well. For instance, a web mic test shows the same problem.

It's been happening since today (probably). Several days ago I was
using the microphone without problems. The only thing I did that may
have to do with it today is installing Bluetooth packages and the
dependencies (and tarball) for SoundWire Server.

Anybody can help, please?

Thanks a lot in advance.

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[Luis Octavio Montes Sanchez]

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Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

[Luis Finotti]

Thanks once more for the support!  The problem is now solved.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:20 AM David Wright 
wrote:

> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:48:06 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> > # dpkg -P sendmail-base
> > (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...
> > update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add
> > dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--purge):
> >  installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned
> > error exit status 255
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  sendmail-base
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I would take a look at the pre-removal script sendmail-base.prerm to
> see what it's trying to do. If there are parts that aren't sensible,
> you could comment them out, alter things so that they can work, or
> even just make them "succeed" with "|| true" so you get to the end
> of the script. (Check sendmail-base.postinst while you're about it.)
>
> The scripts will contain a record of what modifications they intended
> to make to your system, so ultimately all you need to do is nullify
> those changes, remove the files in sendmail-base.list and convince
> dpkg that the package is purged. Manually if necessary.
>

Thanks for the pointer!   sendmail-base.prerm had the line:

update-inetd --group MAIL --disable smtp,smtps,submission;

and I was getting the error

update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add

So, I changed it to:

update-inetd --disable smtp,smtps,submission;

and was then able to uninstall it.

Thanks again for your help.

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

[Luis Finotti]

Thanks for the reply again.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM David Wright 
wrote:

> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> > # apt remove sendemail
>
> Oops.
>
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Package 'sendemail' is not installed, so not removed
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> > 1 not fully installed or removed.
> > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> > Setting up sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...
>
> sendmail-base is what you should be trying to remove.
> And you should be using dpkg directly, not messing around with apt.
> As you can see, you asked apt to remove something and it tries to
> configure something instead. If you're going to use sid or a
> sid lookalike, you're going to have to use the appropriate tools.
>
> > dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--configure):
> >  installed sendmail-base package post-installation script subprocess
> > returned error exit status 255
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  sendmail-base
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > 
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> You see—you want to know what dpkg itself is doing.
>

Here it is:

# dpkg -P sendmail-base
(Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...
update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add
dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--purge):
 installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned
error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sendmail-base

Any suggestions?

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

[Luis Finotti]

Firstly, thanks for the reply!

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:04 AM David Wright 
wrote:

> On Mon 27 Aug 2018 at 12:38:42 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well,
> > aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually).
>
> Perhaps their forums might help.
>

I tried:
http://www.aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=18661#18661

I've got some of the hints that I mentioned I've tried already from them.


>
> > I tried to install and it failed: https://pastebin.com/Qu2jRqsn
> >
> > 'apt -f install' did not fix it, nor did 'dpkg --configure -a'.
> >
> > Since it was not essential (and did not install correctly), I tried to
> > uninstall it, but it also fails:
>
> […]
>
> > One notices in the failed install attempt (the pastebin link above):
> >
> > --
> > adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/sendmail' does not belong
> to
> > the user you are currently creating.
> > update-inetd: warning: cannot add service, /etc/inetd.conf does not exist
> > --
> >
> > I had:
> > --
> > # ls -ld /var/lib/sendmail
> > drwx-- 2 smmta smmta 4096 Aug 22 15:06 /var/lib/sendmail/
> > --
> >
> > Changing ownership to root did not allow me to uninstall it.
>
> What's the output from this attempt?
>

Here it is:


# ls -ld /var/lib/sendmail/
drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 15:06 /var/lib/sendmail/

# apt remove sendemail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'sendemail' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...
Usage: update-inetd [...]  

Commands:
  --add   add 
  --remove   remove 
  --enable [,...]enable  (comma-separated list)
  --disable [,...]   disable  (comma-separated list)

Options:
  --group add entry to section 
  --pattern  use  to select a service
  --comment-chars use  as comment characters
  --multi allow multiple removes/disables
  --fileuse  instead of /etc/inetd.conf
  --verbose   explain what is being done
  --debug enables debugging mode
  --help  display this help and exit
  --version   output version information and exit

In order to prevent the shell from changing your  definition you
have to quote the  using single or double quotes. You can use
tabs
(tab character or \t) and spaces to separate the fields of the .

Note: users must use --comment-chars '#' to disable a service for that
setting
to survive upgrades. Package maintainer scripts should use the default
--comment-chars. See update-inetd(8) for details.

Usage: update-inetd [...]  

Commands:
  --add   add 
  --remove   remove 
  --enable [,...]enable  (comma-separated list)
  --disable [,...]   disable  (comma-separated list)

Options:
  --group add entry to section 
  --pattern  use  to select a service
  --comment-chars use  as comment characters
  --multi allow multiple removes/disables
  --fileuse  instead of /etc/inetd.conf
  --verbose   explain what is being done
  --debug enables debugging mode
  --help  display this help and exit
  --version   output version information and exit

In order to prevent the shell from changing your  definition you
have to quote the  using single or double quotes. You can use
tabs
(tab character or \t) and spaces to separate the fields of the .

Note: users must use --comment-chars '#' to disable a service for that
setting
to survive upgrades. Package maintainer scripts should use the default
--comment-chars. See update-inetd(8) for details.

Usage: update-inetd [...]  

Commands:
  --add   add 
  --remove   remove 
  --enable [,...]enable  (comma-separated list)
  --disable [,...]   disable  (comma-separated list)

Options:
  --group add entry to section 
  --pattern  use  to select a service
  --comment-chars use  as comment characters
  --multi allow multiple removes/disables
  --fileuse  instead of /etc/inetd.conf
  --verbose   explain what is being done
  --debug 

Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

[Luis Finotti]

Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well,
aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually).

I tried to install and it failed: https://pastebin.com/Qu2jRqsn

'apt -f install' did not fix it, nor did 'dpkg --configure -a'.

Since it was not essential (and did not install correctly), I tried to
uninstall it, but it also fails:

-
# apt remove procmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf
sensible-mda
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  procmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 4,213 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 1537409 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sendmail (8.15.2-11) ...
Removing sensible-mda (8.15.2-11) ...
Removing sendmail-bin (8.15.2-11) ...
Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...
update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add
dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--remove):
 installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned
error exit status 255
Removing procmail (3.22-26) ...
Removing sendmail-cf (8.15.2-11) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sendmail-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


One notices in the failed install attempt (the pastebin link above):

--
adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/sendmail' does not belong to
the user you are currently creating.
update-inetd: warning: cannot add service, /etc/inetd.conf does not exist
--

I had:
--
# ls -ld /var/lib/sendmail
drwx-- 2 smmta smmta 4096 Aug 22 15:06 /var/lib/sendmail/
--

Changing ownership to root did not allow me to uninstall it.

Aptosid itself does not come with a mail daemon installed, so I must have
installed at some point some daemon that created the /var/lib/sendmail.
(If I were to try to install again, I'd probably opt for a lighter
alternative, something like ssmtp.  So, right now, I just want to remove
sendmail.)  So, I have sendmail-base stuck as not fully installed.

It was recommended I install 'openbsd-inetd' (it was not installed, neither
was xinetd), but it still fails to install: https://pastebin.com/sStYqMYi
(I also still cannot uninstall it...)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Cannot start davmail service

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On jueves, 26 de abril de 2018 13:35:41 (CEST) Alexandre Rossi wrote:
> davmail is an executable jar which uses jarwrapper which uses
> binfmt_misc[1] to make arbitrary files executable.
> 
> It seems the binfmt-support service has not run properly on your
> machine. Does restarting it fix the problem?

Thanks!

This is the problem, I have the binfmt-support service disabled by default. 
Enabling this makes davmail working again.

Best regards,

Luis

Cannot start davmail service

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

Hi list:

I have a problem with davmail package in debian testing and need some advise. 

If I install it I can start and stop the service via systemctl without any 
problem and it works flawlessly.

However, after a reboot, the service does not start. I get the following 
error:

abr 26 10:51:00 localhot systemd[17207]: davmail.service: Failed to execute 
command: Exec format error
abr 26 10:51:00 localhot systemd[17207]: davmail.service: Failed at step EXEC 
spawning /usr/bin/davmail: Exec format error

If I *uninstall* and then reinstall the package (and some java dependencies) 
then it works again, I can start and stop the daemon and everything works fine 
until next reboot. This does not work if I only reinstall the package without 
uninstalling first. So this suggest that has to do with some of the 
dependencies.

If I run as a user directly the file /usr/bin/davmail   then:
- Just after an install, davmail starts as a desktop app and no problem.
- After a reboot, I get the following error on a fish shell:
Failed to execute process '/usr/bin/davmail'. Reason:
exec: Exec format error
The file '/usr/bin/davmail' is marked as an executable but could not be run by 
the operating system.

on bash I only get a set of meaningless symbols. Until I reinstall it.

I suspect that there is a problem with the java configuration on my system. 
But I have no idea what to look for. 

Any advise?

Luis

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

[Luis Speciale]

Le 26/02/2018 à 17:54, Charlie Gibbs a écrit :

On 25/02/18 01:57 AM, deloptes wrote:


Long Wind wrote:


but this is China, we have very low moral standard than you(your email
shows that you are from USA) the big ? in China is freedomgoogle,
facebook, twitter ... are all blocked by governmentif we demand justice,
these should receive more priority than stealing (sharing) bandwidth


Sometimes I think it might be worth blocking google or the stupid social
media platforms. Google as search engine is the only thing I use, but 
I can
imagine there would be other ways to find information if google was 
banned.


Certainly there is.  Try DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com), MapQuest
(https://www.mapquest.com), etc.



And Qwant too

https://www.qwant.com

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 04/09/2017 à 19:56, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :

That's a good sign. If it does not offer resistence then it s not worth.


Como en el truco. Lo que cuesta, vale.

;)

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 04/09/2017 à 19:56, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :

Hi,

i wrote:

This would be a preparation for a method that works by unpacking.


Luis Speciale wrote:

?


There are two ways to bring a bootable ISO onto a USB stick:

- The old way is to create a partition with a filesystem (FAT32 is not
   the best choice because it has so poor filenames),
   to copy the files out of the ISO into the created filesystem,
   and to install a boot loader which starts the same programs as the boot
   loader in the ISO would do if the ISO gets booted from a DVD.
   This needs knowlege about how the software in the ISO works. So you
   normally find instructions for a particular GNU/Linux distro like
   Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Arch, Gentoo, ...

- The new way needs a hybrid ISO image with a Master Boot Record and a
   partition table with EFI system partition. These two structures get used
   by PC BIOS or EFI, respectively, when they encounter the ISO on a hard
   disk or USB stick.
   To become recognizable by the firmware, the MBR has to sit at block 0
   of the disk or USB stick. It also hosts the partition table or the
   indication that there is a GUID partition table (GPT). So both firmwares
   demand that the ISO image copy begins at block 0.
   Thus the ISO needs to be copied onto the overall disk device file,
   not onto a disk partition device file, and especially not into the
   directory where some filesystem of the USB stick is mounted.
   No filesystem of the USB stick should be mounted when it gets overwritten,
   because afterwards its old data are likely to be gone.



I expect that now your self-made FAT32 is gone from the USB stick,
because the partition table was overwritten by the ISO.
Nevertheless, there is again a FAT filesystem, which contains initial EFI
boot equipment of the ISO.



??


By using the second way, you overwrote the MBR and partition table of the
USB stick. So now it bears the MBR and partition table of the ISO.
The partition table of the ISO contains this

   $ /sbin/fdisk -l firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso
   
   Disk firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso: 325 MiB, 340787200 bytes, 665600 sectors

   Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disklabel type: dos
   Disk identifier: 0x7db1c45b

   DeviceBoot StartEnd Sectors  Size Id Type
   firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso1 *0 665599  665600  325M  0 Empty
   firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso2   3984   4815 832  416K ef EFI 
(FAT-12

Partition 1 can be used to mount the ISO. Its type 0 = "Empty" is
a necessity of our crammed hybrid ISO. We need to please EFI firmware.

As you can see, partition 2 is a FAT12 of type 0xef = "EFI". Let's have a
look into it:

   $ sudo mount -o loop firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt/iso
   mount: /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

Being involved expert, i know that /boot/grub/efi.img is the ISO filename
of the data file which is marked by partition 2:

   $ sudo mount -o loop /mnt/iso/boot/grub/efi.img /mnt/fat

(There are ways to find out the name or to mount it by its partition info.)

Now i can list the files in the FAT filesystem

   $ find /mnt/fat
   /mnt/fat
   /mnt/fat/efi
   /mnt/fat/efi/boot
   /mnt/fat/efi/boot/bootx64.efi

So the FAT12 filesystem contains just the single data file which EFI will
look for on a amd64 machine, normally known by its DOS name:
   \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI

This file was made by program grub-mkimage. Its only purpose is to find
the device on which the ISO is presented and to load and start the GRUB2
configuration in the ISO directory /boot. At its end one can see these
GRUB2 configuration commands as human readable text:
   search --file --set=root /.disk/info
   set prefix=($root)/boot/grub
   source $prefix/x86_64-efi/grub.cfg
   (memdisk)/boot/grub
The existence of file /.disk/info is considered a unique property of the
Debian ISO (Steve: Is this really good enough ?). So the first filesystem
with that file gets used as source of further GRUB brain.
The starting point of that brain is file
   /mnt/iso/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/grub.cfg
which loads
   /mnt/iso/boot/grub/grub.cfg
In there you will find texts which you also can see in the first menu
of the booting Debian ISO:
   menuentry --hotkey=g 'Graphical install' {
   menuentry --hotkey=i 'Install' {
   submenu --hotkey=a 'Advanced options ...' {
   menuentry --hotkey=s 'Install with speech synthesis' {

Let's revoke "sudo mount" before we go on:

   $ sudo umount /mnt/fat
   $ sudo umount /mnt/iso



I forgot to tell that I omited this jessie part. I only did
apt-get update
apt-get install firmware-realtek
apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree


First:
Very very good you skipped the reference to the old-stable system.
Obviously the non-free-firmwar

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 04/09/2017 à 18:27, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :

Hi,

Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:

Are you saying that it looks like he copied straight to
the device instead of to a mount point?


Yes, i believe it is so.
I cannot be totally sure, because i have no MacOS at hand.
But /dev/disk1 is a whole disk device, according to web and other
confirmations. No Unix puts a file into the filesystem of a disk if
you copy it to the disk device file.
On GNU/Linux, "cp" does the same as "dd" in such a case. It copies the
ISO image bytes plainly onto the disk device, overwriting the partition
table and possibly establishing an own partition table.


That's what I think too. That's maybe also the reason why I had the 
message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." at 
the end of the cp command. My iMac did not understood the animal




This plain copying of the ISO to the disk device is the recommended way
to use a Debian i386 or amd64 installation ISO on a USB stick.
Unpacking and installing to the hard disk happens by a GNU/Linux system
which gets booted out of the ISO. Either by bootloader ISOLINUX on PC BIOS
firmware, or by bootloader GRUB2 on EFI firmware. Both are ready in the ISO.

So no need to unpack the ISO before booting the USB stick.
There are old instructions around to do so. They might still have a benefit
if you want to boot more than one system from the USB stick.



I regularly mount partitions to do debootstrap installs so I do
understand that method.


That's an alternative way to install Debian without a bootable ISO but
rather by help of an already running operating system (must it be a
GNU/Linux ?) and access to a Debian repository.
One could possibly use a Live-CD ISO as such a running operating system.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 04/09/2017 à 14:05, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :

I don't understand some things you wrote, so I'll mark this items by a 
question mark…



I formated the USB as FAT32 in my iMac


This would be a preparation for a method that works by unpacking.


?


I downloaded the firmware version firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso


This could have been the decisive trick. Laptop and the need for
non-free firmware are a known combination.


Good!


sudo cp firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/disk1


You copy to the device file, not to the mount directory. At least on
GNU/Linux this is like "dd". On MacOS it might differ but it will not
put the ISO as file into the FAT32 fileystem and not unpack the ISO
into the FAT32 filesystem.

I expect that now your self-made FAT32 is gone from the USB stick,
because the partition table was overwritten by the ISO.
Nevertheless, there is again a FAT filesystem, which contains initial EFI
boot equipment of the ISO.


??


"The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1


Looks like you slightly confused the operating system.
One should unmount the filesystem before overwriting it, not afterwards.


My bad. I forgot that before the cp command I unmonted de disk. The 
system saw it after that the command ends and asks what to do with the 
stranger





Then all went well. But not the resolution.
So after a little Googling I found this
https://gist.github.com/ed-flanagan/929633981ea548e97f1d


Indeed a firmware issue then. But not solved by the non-free firmware ISO.
Maybe one should file a bug towards that ISO ?


I don't know what to say. I believe that it must be a myriad of firmwares


https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware could need an update about Debian 9
and a hint what package is in charge of bugs.

I assume that after equipping your Debian 9 "stretch" with
/etc/apt/sources.list content for Debian 8 "jessie", you have to expect
trouble.


I forgot to tell that I omited this jessie part. I only did
apt-get update
apt-get install firmware-realtek
apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree


Better return to the original state of that file now.
(If you are in trouble already, better repeat the installation and
  take care to use that "jessie" repository only for getting the firmware,
  and only if you cannot get it from a "stretch" repository.)


I wonder, though, how you could execute apt-get when your installation
did not finish.
Is there some step missing, e.g. how to get to a shell prompt of the
incompletely installed system ?


Sure thing. I spend all my weekend in a fierce battle with this monster 
and I was near (a couple of times) of giving up.



Whatever: Welcome, fellow Debian user.


Yes, you can call me that now!

Thanks for your answers

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% (SOLVED)

[Luis Speciale]

Oups. Forgot to mark this thread as SOLVED

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 19:40, Thomas Schmitt a écrit

I will explain (what I remember) what I did tomorrow.


Don't forget it.




I formated the USB as FAT32 in my iMac

I downloaded the firmware version

firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Then I did

sudo cp firmware-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/disk1

When this command finished I had a system message:

"The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."

and I did

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1

Then all went well. But not the resolution.

So after a little Googling I found this

https://gist.github.com/ed-flanagan/929633981ea548e97f1d

and now it's working like a charm.


And thanks again to all of you


Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Guess what?

I have a Debian installed with Cinnamon.
I'm beginning to explore it.
I'm a little tired now but I will explain (what I remember) what I did 
tomorrow.


Thank you again to all of you. Without your help I should ended giving up.

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

INTERLUDE (and somehow off topic)

I'm asking myself if it could be a good idea to provide a program (for 
Windows and Mac OS) which could create an USB bootable Debian install.
People who want to try Debian could download this program, insert an USB 
disk, et voilà!


I'm pretty sure that this would significantly increase the number of users!

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 14:48, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :

Le 03/09/2017 à 14:26, Luis Speciale a écrit :

Le 03/09/2017 à 14:00, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :

Le 03/09/2017 à 13:32, Luis Speciale a écrit :

ls gives me

(hd0) (hd0,gpt6)(hd0,gpt5)(hd0,gpt4)(hd0,gpt3)(hd0,gpt2)(hd0,gpt1) 
(hd1) (cd0)


Obviously hd0 is the internal disk. So hd1 must be the USB drive. 
However ls should show partitions on it. I wonder if the image was 
properly copied. Can you check the partition table on the USB drive ?


I don't see how I can do this. In my Mac, I get
The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.


Never mind. I misread what you wrote and though that you got the error 
when booting from the USB drive. Reading more carefully, I understand 
that the installation process completed without error or freezing and 
you are now rebooting from the internal drive.


cmdpath=(hd0,gpt1)/EFI/BOOT

indicates that the EFI firmware loaded GRUB from /EFI/boot, which 
contains the fallback boot loader. However it should load GRUB from 
/EFI/debian as specified in the EFI boot entry that should have been 
created during the installation of GRUB. Both locations contain the same 
GRUB executable if you replied yes to the question about installing a 
copy of GRUB in the removable device path. Otherwise, EFI/boot may 
contain an obsolete version of GRUB from a previous installation.


$prefix and $root indicate that this GRUB expects its files to be 
located on partition 2, which should be the root partition. You wrote in 
a previous message that this partition contained the system directories. 
What is the output of


ls /boot

If there is a grub directory, what is the output of

ls /boot/grub




When you told me that you thought my USB wasn't maybe ok, I did another 
USB following this instructions this time

https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-drive-for-mac-in-os-x--cms-21253

I'm now reinstalling the whole thing

In some minutes I could answer your question

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 14:00, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :

Le 03/09/2017 à 13:32, Luis Speciale a écrit :

ls gives me

(hd0) (hd0,gpt6)(hd0,gpt5)(hd0,gpt4)(hd0,gpt3)(hd0,gpt2)(hd0,gpt1) 
(hd1) (cd0)


Obviously hd0 is the internal disk. So hd1 must be the USB drive. 
However ls should show partitions on it. I wonder if the image was 
properly copied. Can you check the partition table on the USB drive ?


I don't see how I can do this. In my Mac, I get
The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 13:38, Brian a écrit :

On Sun 03 Sep 2017 at 02:28:26 +0200, Luis Speciale wrote:


Found the 2 files in (hd0.gpt2) (and others post named as old)
Then I did

set root=(hd0.gpt2)

And it says nothing, but it complains when I do
linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2

Unknown command `linux`

What am I missing (or doing wrong) here?

Thanks again !


Apologies. Typos.

linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ---> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
initrd initrd---> initrd /initrd.img


Still
Unknown command `linux`



(Check that (hd0,gpt2) has initrd.img).


Yes.



See where this gets you:

Boot the installer from the USB stick. Choose "Advanced options" and
"Rescue mode". Eventually you will be asked for the device to use as
the root file system. On the next page you can choose to reinstall
GRUB.


I don(t see that and not been asked for the device to use
I have

Choose language
(Others…)
Abort the installation

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 13:22, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :


Now I think that it's linux.mod my problem


No it's not. normal.mod comes first. Until this module is loaded, the 
grub rescue command set is very limited.


Please provide the _exact_ output of the following commands :

ls

set

 From the "set" output, I only need the "prefix" and "root" values.


ls gives me

(hd0) (hd0,gpt6)(hd0,gpt5)(hd0,gpt4)(hd0,gpt3)(hd0,gpt2)(hd0,gpt1) (hd1) 
(cd0)


set gives me
cmdpath=(hd0,gpt1)/EFI/BOOT
prefix=(hd0,gpt2)/boot/grub
root=hd0,gpt2

Thanks again


Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 13:10, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :


Consider that what I wrote here it's a transcription and maybe there's some
bad typing


It will improve the probability of getting help from experts if you
give them the exact strings to search for.
So it would be very significant to know whether the problem message says
indeed:
   /boot/grub/x86_g4-efi/normal.mod


No, it's x86_64-efi. As I said, was a type error.



(I assume normal.mod in the /boot tree of the ISO is not the copy
  wanted by grub-update when GNU/Linux is already installed on disk and
  GRUB shall be enabled to boot that disk installation. The wanted file
  would rather have to come from a GRUB package installed on disk.

  But before looking into that, one needs to find out which program
  is actually at endless work.)


Have a nice day :)


Yes! You too and thaks for the answer

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 12:43, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :


sudo dd if=./debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m


Looks good.


Good.


error: file `/boot/grub/x86_g4-efi/normal.mod`not found
Entering rescue mode...


"x86_g4-efi", really ? Should be "x86_64-efi".


My bad it's x86_64-efi

Now I think that it's linux.mod my problem, I can't see where it is

When prompted at
grub rescue>

set root=(hd0,gpt2)
It accepts (it doesn't complain, at least)
insmod /boot/grub/linux.mod
error: file `/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod`not found

Thanks for your answer

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 11:58, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :


I doubt that the way of copying to USB stick is to blame,
because Luis came to GRUB installing, which happens from the running
GNU/Linux, afaik.


Seems to be that now I'm dealing with grub, who has a problem. More on 
that: an ls command (at boot grub rescue>) over (hd0,gpt3) shows

lib
cache
backups
local
(others folders and…)
www

I presume that it's usr (or equivalent, knowing that I chose separated 
partitions with LVM (which I believe it's a software that helps to do or 
adapt partitions on the fly)


over (hd0,gpt2) shows
boot
home
tmp
var
etc
(others folders and…)
vmlinuz.old
initrd.old
vmlinuz
initrd

I presume that it's the system

And last but not least over (hd0,gpt1) shows
(hd0) (hd0.gpt6) (hd0) (hd0.gpt5) (hd0) (hd0.gpt4) (hd0) (hd0.gpt3) (hd0)
(hd0.gpt2) (hd0) (hd0.gpt1) (hd0) (hd1) (cd0)


Consider that what I wrote here it's a transcription and maybe there's 
some bad typing


So far, my objective now is this grub guy (I'm still being polite with 
him ;), and the LAST issue is that I can't figure where the linux.mod 
file is


set root=(hd0,gpt2)
insmod /boot/grub/linux.mod (I believe, after Googling it, that here is 
my drama)

linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
initrd initrd.img
boot


More technical, the Debian amd64 ISOs have their MBR from ISOLINUX file
"isohdpfx.bin" without "partok" feature (= MBR file "isohdppx.bin").
I.e. it would not boot ISOLINUX and then a Linux kernel if it sat in
a partition with nonzero offset from the device start.
   http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid#MBR_selection

If the machine boots via EFI, then it would not have found the partition
table of the ISO which marks the EFI system partition.


Regrettably i cannot say anything that would help Luis, but that the problem
must be somewhere else. The message (is it literally that text ?) indicates
that it could be related to program grub-update in the booted GNU/Linux.


Have a nice day :)


I will ;)

Thanks for the answer

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 10:28, Dominique Dumont a écrit :


sudo dd if=./debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m


Shouldn't that be:
sudo dd if=./debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk bs=1m

Assuming disk naming is the same on Mac compared to Debian, you've written the
iso image in the first partition (/dev/disk1) instead of writing it to the
device (/dev/disk).



I don't know if both name the volumes the same way. Looking at this with 
a command that lists the volumes, I have this



➜  ~ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:   TYPE NAME   SIZE   IDENTIFIER
   0:  GUID_partition_scheme*1.0 TB disk0
   1:EFI EFI209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:  Apple_HFS 999999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:   TYPE NAME   SIZE   IDENTIFIER
   0: Apple_partition_scheme*16.0 GBdisk1
   1:Apple_partition_map4.1 KB disk1s1
   2:  Apple_HFS426.0 KB   disk1s2



First impression I have is that /dev/disk (as you propose) does not 
exists. Am I right?



Thanks for your answer.


Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 02/09/2017 à 20:50, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit :

On 02/09/17 12:23, Luis Speciale wrote:

Installing GRUB boot loader

66%
Running "update grub"…

I'm going to wait a little and see if it ends the install


When I installed Debian 9, the installer wanted to install grub on a
wrong path. I had to specify the path manually.

Try to specify the path manually to /dev/sdX (where X is one of “a”,
“b”, ... as corresponds to your disk).



I am having problems with GRUB  too.

Someone suggests this when prompted by grub rescue>

set root=(hd0.gpt2)
linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
initrd initrd.img
boot

But it complains about

Unknown command linux

Seems that the solution could be something like this

insmod /wherethisfileis/linux.mod

But I didn't find yet this famous file


Thanks for your answer. ¡Gracias!

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 03/09/2017 à 01:17, Brian a écrit :


Mac OS is a mystery to me, but I believe it is UNIX based. dd looks like
a decent command to use.


Good.


Then I did the install, but now I have this at startup


And it installed. So that part is ok. Progress.


Same as before


grub rescue>
(hd0) (hd0.gpt6) (hd0) (hd0.gpt5) (hd0) (hd0.gpt4) (hd0) (hd0.gpt3) (hd0)
(hd0.gpt2) (hd0) (hd0.gpt1) (hd0) (hd1) (cd0)



One of those partitions should have the files vmlinuz and initrd.img
on it. Look at the contents of each partition with 'ls (hd0.gpt1)/',
'ls (hd0.gpt2)/' etc to find them. Then at the prompt (if the partition
is (hd0.gpt1):

set root=(hd0.gpt1)
linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
initrd initrd.img
boot

/dev/sda1 becomes /dev/sda2 if the partition is (hd0.gpt2).


Found the 2 files in (hd0.gpt2) (and others post named as old)
Then I did

set root=(hd0.gpt2)

And it says nothing, but it complains when I do
linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2

Unknown command `linux`

What am I missing (or doing wrong) here?

Thanks again !

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 02/09/2017 à 19:54, Brian a écrit :


Use 'cp debian.iso /dev/sdX' if you have another Linux computer to
hand.


I'm on Mac OS. After some ggogling, I did install the ISO on a new USB 
key like this


unmountDisk /dev/disk1
sudo dd if=./debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m

Then I did the install, but now I have this at startup

error: file `/boot/grub/x86_g4-efi/normal.mod`not found
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>

Did more googling an I saw that some people did an ls command here, 
which I did


grub rescue>
(hd0) (hd0.gpt6) (hd0) (hd0.gpt5) (hd0) (hd0.gpt4) (hd0) (hd0.gpt3) 
(hd0) (hd0.gpt2) (hd0) (hd0.gpt1) (hd0) (hd1) (cd0)


That I think means the disks I have (I did chose a LVM with a home, tmp, 
etc)


Any ideas?




You shouldn't have to wait so long. My installs take about 10 minutes.


Well, now it goes faster, I must admit, but still no real luck ;)

Thanks again


Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 02/09/2017 à 19:54, Brian a écrit :


It would be helpful if you could remember. However, it seems you have
not followed the advice in section 4.3.1. at

  https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en

Use 'cp debian.iso /dev/sdX' if you have another Linux computer to
hand.


I'm going to try this now.
Thank you again.

Luis

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Le 02/09/2017 à 19:06, Brian a écrit :
> On Sat 02 Sep 2017 at 18:24:32 +0200, Luis Speciale wrote:
>
>> What should/could I do now?
>
> Please tell us how you put the amd64 on the USB.



Thanks for answering, Brian

The laptop had Window$ 10 installed. I did some Google search and I 
finally install a software (I can't remember now, sorry) to put the ISO 
on the USB.


But now the thing has changed and it seems that the install advances: 
it's installing GRUB now, after ask if I wanted to install an EFI 
fall-back which I accepted. So now I have


Installing GRUB boot loader

66%
Running "update grub"…

I'm going to wait a little and see if it ends the install

Luis

Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

[Luis Speciale]

Hello

I will try to explain the problem I have but I maybe forgot something
because I'm trying to install since yesterday without luck

I want to install Debian 9 on this laptop (hp-pavilion-g6-2100).
What I did…
   • Downloaded the amd64 and put it on my USB
   • I started the laptop from the USB and chose graphical install
 but the process never ends and or becomes unresponsive
Now I try the expert install but
   • I can't chose the language (defaults to en)
   • I can change to azerty (it's a french laptop)
   • Then it ask to chose some options (chose UTF-8)
   • It asks to install a loader and I chose GRUB

Now I have a blue screen and I'm here waiting since 1 hour (+ or -)

What should/could I do now?

Thanks in advance

Luis

Re: stretch not booting

[Luis Finotti]

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Luis Finotti 
wrote:

[snip]


> Any suggestions would be appreciated...
>
>
>
Never mind.  The screen just went red and opening up to check the video
cable I just broke the trackpad (which was secured only by tape).  (And it
did not fix the screen.)

I will just forget about it.

Thanks for all the help, though!

Re: stretch not booting

[Luis Finotti]

Thanks for your continued help!

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Brian  wrote:

>
> GRUB does its job but it appears the problem occurs when control is
> handed over to the init system.
>
> At the GRUB menu edit the linux line to add systemd.unit=rescue.target
> or systemd.unit=emergency.target.
>
>
systemd.unit=rescue.target gets stuck (just as before).

systemd.unit=emergency.target boots!  I can log in as root, but journalctl
-xb gives nothing.  (And I don't know what else I can do then.  The system
is read-only...)


>  https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/
>
> You might get to a terminal to look at what the journalctl command and
> /var/log/syslog reveal.
>

I tried a few of the grub commands in there, such as

  systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console console=ttyS0,38400

and

  systemd.journald.forward_to_console=1 console=ttyS0,38400

but no new messages seem to go to the boot screen.

I also tried

  systemd.debug-shell=1

but either tty9 looks exactly the same as the one from boot, or it is not
switching.

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Re: stretch not booting

[Luis Finotti]

> No.  I get stuck again.

>
> You were able to type these commands? What do you mean by "stuck"? After
> pressing ENTER do you get anything on the screen? What do you see?


Yes, I am able to type those and boot starts, but gets stuck in the
middle.  No HD activity and Ctrl+Alt+Del (or any other command) does
nothing.

It starts well.  I see no errors (all green "OK"), the video changes the
dpi (modesetting?).  It stops a different places, seemingly at random.  I
has stopped after setting the swap partition, after changing the name from
wlan0, after adjusting display brightness.  (Those are the last messages
seen before it freezes, but they all seem to have been successfully.)  And
I've seen it pass all of those at times.  (The order in which they happen
doesn't seem to always be the same.)

All In can do is a hard reboot (holding the power button).

Re: stretch not booting

[Luis Finotti]

> Let me know if I can provide anymore info or if this gives you any idea of

> > what is wrong...
>
> At the GRUB menu hit "c" and type
>
>  set root=(hd0,msdos1)
>  linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
>  initrd /initrd.img
>  boot
>
> and hit the ENTER key.
>
> Do you boot into the OS?


No.  I get stuck again.

Something weird just happened, though.  I decided to try to disconnect the
ethernet cable.  I started the computer and got to grub, but the keyboard
was not working, so I could not select recovery-mode.  But the system
booted fine in graphical mode (with keyboard and touchpad not working)!  I
forced a reboot (still with ethernet disconnected), grub came up and the
keyboard was working, but now it got stuck again.  I tried in graphical and
recovery modes, both get stuck.

I am not sure if it is relevant at all, but the touchpad did not work
during the installation, but it did work after I installed LXDE.

Thanks again for your help!

Re: stretch not booting

[Luis Finotti]

Thanks for the reply!

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Brian  wrote:

> On Wed 17 May 2017 at 13:41:03 -0400, Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> > I've installed stretch from a DI RC3 image (from here:
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/
> cd-including-firmware/)
> > a couple of weeks back on an old Dell Inspiron Mini 1018.
>
> Is this the only OS on the machine?
>

Yes.


> > The install went without a problem and I could reboot just fine.  I then
> > updated it, installed LXDE and a few more packages, but after that I
> cannot
> > reboot.  Even in recovery mode it gets stuck.  It seems that the point at
> > which it gets stuck varies, but it never finishes booting.
>
> Installing extra packages (if that is all you ever did) should not lead
> to non-booting.
>
>
Indeed.  I think I did do a "dist-upgrade", which could be the cause.


> > Since I don't get a prompt, I don't know how to get more info.  Since I
> > could reboot, I don't think it was an installation problem.
>
> You obviously get the GRUB menu. When it appears hit the "c" key and type
>
>  set pager=1
>  set
>
> What is do "prefix=" and "root=" say?
>

prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub
root=hd0,msdos1


>
> Press the Esc key and hit the "e" key when the OS to be booted is
> highlighted.
>
> What does "set root=" say?
>
>
Selecting the safe-mode:

set root='hd0,msdos1'

Let me know if I can provide anymore info or if this gives you any idea of
what is wrong...

Best,

Luis

stretch not booting

[Luis Finotti]

Dear all,

I've installed stretch from a DI RC3 image (from here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/)
a couple of weeks back on an old Dell Inspiron Mini 1018.

The install went without a problem and I could reboot just fine.  I then
updated it, installed LXDE and a few more packages, but after that I cannot
reboot.  Even in recovery mode it gets stuck.  It seems that the point at
which it gets stuck varies, but it never finishes booting.

Since I don't get a prompt, I don't know how to get more info.  Since I
could reboot, I don't think it was an installation problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Luis

Re: What happened with Samba??

[Luis Speciale]

Le 23/03/2017 à 19:41, Gábor Hársfalvi a écrit :

Dear Community!

I've installed succesfully samba-updates today on our Debian 8 server.
After it can't use my backup - Windows 7 built in backup software -
because of this error:

Error 0x80070032

What happened and why?

How could I repair my previous backup-method to continue this as it
worked great before??

Thanks for the replies!!


Maybe this can help ?

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3816

Re: intel_pstate vs acpi-cpufreq freq scale

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On lunes, 16 de enero de 2017 1:13:09 (CET) Julian Brooks wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Julian,

> Fresh install of Sid, with
> liquorix 4.9-3 (2017-01-07) x86_64 kernel (for RT audio work).
> Have also installed linrunner's TLP.

Have you tried to see if this happens with debian's official kernel?

> My understanding is that the x230's Ivy Bridge processor should make use of
> intel_pstate for frequency scaling but I can't seem to load the kernel
> module at boot.

Is it a module? At least on debian kernels, intel_pstate is inside the kernel, 
not as a separate module.

$ grep -i pstate config-4.8.0-2-amd64
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE=y

however, on liquorix

$ grep -i pstate config-4.9.0-3.2-liquorix-amd64
# CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE is not set

So it seems that liquorix kernel has not compiled intel_pstate. So could try 
to recompile it as a module for your running kernel of rebuild liquorix kernel 
with intel_pstate support.

Luis

Re: LibreOffice toolbars

[Luis Sánchez Bejarano]

A workaround to fix this problem is to install the package libreoffice-gtk3

Re: LibreOffice toolbars

[Luis Sánchez Bejarano]

A workaround to fix the problem is to install the package libreoffice-gtk3

Re: ThinkPad fan

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On sábado, 18 de junio de 2016 11:41:36 (CEST) Francesco Montanari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions. I tried the following, which didn't change much
> the situation. Can it be that the CPUs just warm up more when getting old,
> or it shouldn't matter if cleaned properly?
> 
> a) I disassembled and cleaned the fan. Fairly dusty (it's about 5 years I
> have the laptop), I used a vacuum cleaner to remove the dust. I have the
> impression that the fan now pushes out more air.
> 
> b) I installed and configured thinkfan (despite the buggy installation
> [1]). The package description [2] says it is helpful in the case the fan is
> running too much (not really my problem), but it actually provides an easy
> way in general to set the fan levels for given temperature ranges [3]. In
> comparison to before, the fan runs faster now when above 60C.
> 
> c) I also tried to turn on by hand the disentangled mode (~5500rpm instead
> of ~4500rpm) [4].
> 
> d) I had a look to the script suggested by Tom (thanks), but didn't try it
> since I managed to install thinkfan. FYI, I think that
> /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal is no longer the way to get the temperature.

I have the very same model and also suffer from the high temperature problem. 
I should probably clean the fans, but another thing I usually do for normal 
usage is to limit the cpu speed.

As root:

#echo 60 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct

Or whatever number you feel good with. Unless I am doing heavy usage, I do not 
notice performance penalties and temperatures do not get that high.

Luis

Re: gtk key theme

[Luis Finotti]

OK, I think I've figured it out.  It seems that Firefox (and other GTK
programs, like Chromium) are still reading .gtkrc-2.0.  Adding the key
theme line to it fixed my problem.

gtk key theme

[Luis Finotti]

Running Sid (and KDE), it seems that I cannot get GTK key theme "Emacs" to
work.

I used to have a file .gtkrc-3.0 with the line:

gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

which gave me Emacs style key bindings on applications like Firefox.  It
stopped working recently, as apparently a new version of GTK came in (3.20
I think).

Googling around, it seemed like the configuration file now has to be on
.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.  So, I've added the line above to this new
configuration file.  I thought it worked for a while (maybe I'm mistaken ,
though), but it is not working now.  (I have now both files with the key
theme line.)

The closest I've come to a solution was these threads:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269058
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766166

I've tried making a file (as in the second thread) for the usual key
bindings named .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with the content

-
@binding-set text-entry
{
  bind "a"
  {
"move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, -1, 0)
  };
  bind "e"
  {
"move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, 1, 0)
  };
  bind "k"
  {
"delete-from-cursor" (paragraph-ends, 1)

};

  bind
"u"


{

"move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, -1,
0)

"delete-from-cursor" (paragraph-ends,
1)


};

  bind
"w"


{

"delete-from-cursor" (word-ends,
-1)


};

}



entry { -gtk-key-bindings: text-entry;
}

textview { -gtk-key-bindings: text-entry; }
-

but also did not work.  (I also tried adding the content above directly on
settings.ini, but did not work either.)

I'm at a loss.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Luis

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On sábado, 16 de abril de 2016 12:05:05 (CEST) Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
 
> 38# df -h /mnt/test/
> Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
> /dev/sdg 699G 17M 466G 1% /mnt/test

df is not reliable for btrfs raids, it is better to use btrfs fi df to check 
actual used space.

Using btrfs-tools and kernel from sid (4.4):

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1 bs=1 count=0 seek=750M
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# dd if=/dev/zero of=disk2 bs=1 count=0 seek=500M
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# dd if=/dev/zero of=disk3 bs=1 count=0 seek=250M

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# mkfs.btrfs -f -draid1 -mraid1 disk1 disk2 disk3
btrfs-progs v4.4
See http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for more information.

Label:  (null)
UUID:   4fbfda48-3a10-4e1b-92d8-96be759c2a8c
Node size:  16384
Sector size:4096
Filesystem size:1.46GiB
Block group profiles:
  Data: RAID183.00MiB
  Metadata: RAID183.00MiB
  System:   RAID112.00MiB
SSD detected:   no
Incompat features:  extref, skinny-metadata
Number of devices:  3
Devices:
   IDSIZE  PATH
1   750.00MiB  disk1
2   500.00MiB  disk2
3   250.00MiB  disk3

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# losetup /dev/loop0 disk1
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# losetup /dev/loop1 disk2
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# losetup /dev/loop2 disk3

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# mkdir test
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# mount /dev/loop0 test

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# btrfs fi df test/
Data, RAID1: total=75.00MiB, used=0.00B
System, RAID1: total=8.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
Metadata, RAID1: total=75.00MiB, used=112.00KiB
GlobalReserve, single: total=16.00MiB, used=0.00B

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# df -h test/
S.ficheros Tamaño Usados  Disp Uso% Montado en
/dev/loop0   750M17M  491M   4% /mnt/temporal/test

Like in your case, df thinks that there are only 491M usable. However, if I 
try to fill the volume

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal# cd test/
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal/test# dd if=/dev/zero of=file.zero
dd: escribiendo en 'file.zero': No queda espacio en el dispositivo
1345402+0 registros leídos
1345401+0 registros escritos
688845312 bytes (689 MB, 657 MiB) copied, 3,10508 s, 222 MB/s

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal/test# ls -lh
total 657M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 657M abr 16 13:24 file.zero
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal/test# df -h .
S.ficheros Tamaño Usados  Disp Uso% Montado en
/dev/loop0   750M   674M   64K 100% /mnt/temporal/test

With the 75M of metadata, you can check that this fills the three devices. 
Moreover

root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal/test# rm file.zero 
root@mychabol:/mnt/temporal/test# df -h .
S.ficheros Tamaño Usados  Disp Uso% Montado en
/dev/loop0   750M17M  657M   3% /mnt/temporal/test

Try to do the same to see if df gets more accurate.

Still btrfs is quite young, I am not sure if there are serious issues in 3.17, 
I would make some experiments before actual use.

Bests

Luis

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On sábado, 16 de abril de 2016 9:00:00 (CEST) Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have 3 hard drive with 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB. I want to use btrfs as
> filesystem. This will be my first test installation of btrfs.
> 
> My target is to get redundancy as well as a 750 GB data capacity. So I was
> thinking to create a raid0 with the 500 and 250 GB drive. This would result
> in a raid0 with 750 GB capacity. I want to add this raid0 as a mirror in a
> raid1 with the other 750 GB drive.
> 
> But how do I do that?
> 
> Thanks
> Matthias

Disclaimer: I have necer made anything further than a btrfs raid1 with two 
equally sized devices.


If you create a raid1 with the three devices you will get 750GB with 
redundancy. Current Btrfs raid1 means "data and metadata is copied twice in 
different devices". And btrfs is smart enough to not copy the data in the two 
smaller disks. I am not sure if this web page is accurate http://
carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/ but you can take a look.

You can also create a single virtual device from the 250 and 500 devices using 
mdadm or lvm and then create a btrfs raid1 out of the 750GB device and the 
virtual device.

With the "pure" btrfs setup, if you lose a single device you will be able to 
mount the device as "degraded".

With the mixed setting, you can lose a single device and read the data. 
Moreover, you can lose the two small devices and still be able to mount the 
volume.

luis

Re: Problem with TP-Link network card

[Luis Eduardo Cortés]

>
> Well, after some time, I have returned to this matter.
>
> I have done one more test that I think is is conclusive. As I said, this
> Debian GNU/Linux firewall PC has two network cards:
>
> * eth0: RealTek RTL8139 (to the ADSL router)
> * eth1: VIA Rhine II (to the local network)
>
> The problem was with the RTL8139 card connected to the router. This only
> worked when setting up it to 10 Mbps. The VIA card connected to the
> switch of the local network never gave problems.
>
> So I now exchanged the configuration of the cards. Now the eth0 Realtek
> card connects to the internal network. It runs smoothly at 100 Mbps,
> full duplex and auto negotiation. So I think it was not a problem with
> the Realtek card. In fact, now the VIA card (that previously worked
> properly connected to the internal network switch) only works against
> ADSL router when it is set to 10 Mbps.
>
> All this makes me think the problem is in the ethernet interface of the
> ADSL router.
>
> I have requested a new router to Telefonica. I hope they send me a good
> one. This Zyxel router worked smoothly for quite some time. I also hope
> it have a default password to access the router and make the necessary
> settings (such as SNMP monitoring).
>
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel
>


Try installing "firmware-realtek" package to solve the original problem.

Regards.

Re: [SOLVED] application autostart

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On Sunday 24 January 2016 14:42:17 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> Try
> 
> Hidden=true

Thanks! This worked. I missinterpreted the Hidden key in

http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html

with the contents of the desktop file.

application autostart

[Luis Tabera]

Hi,

I am currently running a plasma desktop fron debian sid. The package 
korganizer adds a .desktop file in

/etc/xdg/autostart/korgac.desktop

That launches korganizer daemon at start of a plasma session. This launches 
akonadi that launches kdewallet that ask for passwords and delays startup. I 
am in a laptop and I do not like this behavior by default. I prefer to loose 
reminders until I start korganizer/kontact myself.

What would be the correct way of disabling that file? Of course deleting the 
korgac.desktop file works, but that is not OK and this would not work if I had 
not administrative rights.

I have copied the file to:

.config/autostart/korgac.desktop

and commented out the line

NoDisplay=true

but korgac still starts at launch.

Any ideas?

Re: how execute a script

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On Tuesday 17 November 2015 20:21:23 Brian wrote:
> 
> I've also asked for a *concrete example* of a program not opening a file
> because of the lack of an extension. It hasn't yet been given.

$ gunzip file 
gzip: file: unknown suffix -- ignored

$mv file other.gz
$gunzip other.gz 
$ls
other

Re: Hibernation in Jessie with Thinkpad T420

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On Monday 03 August 2015 07:37:23 d...@661.org wrote:
> 
> Can someone help me understand why hibernation won't work in Jessie on my 
> Thinkpad T420?  If I try, the machine reboots instead.  Looking at 
> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/T420/jessie, I see a 
> question mark by the line item for hibernation.  I could use more 
> information.
> 
> 

Hi dave,

I have also a T420 and hibernation works out of the box. It used to work with 
sysvinit + pm-hibernate (testing jessie) and it works now with systemd 
hibernate (stable jessie).

Just in case I have only integrated intel graphics. I also have the following 
power management settings in /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf

options i915 i915_enable_rc6=7 i915_enable_fbc=1 lvds_downclock=1 modeset=1

but this should not interfere with hibernation.

Do you have special configuration? Enough swap space?

Best regards,

Luis

Re: Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

[Luis Finotti]

Yes, without success, but thanks for the suggestion!


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Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

[Luis Finotti]

Dear all,

I've been trying to fix this problem, but have not found a solution
yet. (I've also asked at the aptosid list without success.)

Before I resigned myself to a reinstall, I thought I'd post the output of

strace apt-get dist-upgrade

(I killed the process a few seconds after it got stuck.)  The first
4000 lines are here:

http://www.math.utk.edu/~finotti/misc/DU.log

At line 37886, we start to see

pselect6(43, [0 40 42], NULL, NULL, {0, 50}, {[], 8}) = 0 (Timeout)
wait4(8948, 0x7ffd2430a5c0, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0

repeat over and over. At line 38006, we see:

select6(43, [0 40 42], NULL, NULL, {0, 50}, {[], 8}) = 1 (in
[40], left {0, 264028})
read(40, "(Reading database ... \r", 1024) = 23
write(1, "(Reading database ... \r", 23) = 23
write(4, "(Reading database ... \r", 23) = 23
wait4(8948, 0x7ffd2430a5c0, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0

before the pattern above starts to repeat again.

Of the last 117592 lines, most are the (repeating ones) above, only
1012 are different. I've post these different ones, i.e., the result
of

tail -117592 DU.txt | grep -F -v 'wait4(8948, 0x7ffd2430a5c0,
WNOHANG, NULL) = 0' | grep -F -v 'pselect6(43, [0 40 42], NULL, NULL,
{0, 50}, {[], 8}) = 0 (Timeout)'

here:

http://www.math.utk.edu/~finotti/misc/DU2.log

Again, just a last attempt.

Best to all,

Luis


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apt stuck at "Reading database"

[Luis Finotti]

Dear all,

I had a power failure while I was away and when I came back the boot
failed, asking to run fsck manually, which I did.

*Many* errors where fixed and I could reboot to what it seems to be a
 normal session, except I cannot "dist-upgrade" or "upgrade" (I'm on
 sid, BTW):

-
[snip]
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ...

-

At this point, it gets stuck. I can see two processes running:


# psf apt
 3988 pts/5S+ 0:23 apt-get dist-upgrade
 4411 pts/14   Ss+0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 43 --unpack
--auto-deconfigure
/var/cache/apt/archives/bsdutils_1%3a2.25.2-6_amd64.deb

---

dpkg.log does not help:


---
# cat /var/log/dpkg.log
2015-04-06 02:55:55 startup archives unpack
2015-04-06 03:01:22 startup archives unpack

---

I could not find anything wrong in other logs.


I've also tried "apt-get clean", to redownload the files, as well as
things like "apt-get -f install/dist-upgrade", "dpkg --configure -a",
moving /var/lib/apt/lists/ and /var/lib/dpkg/status. Nothing has
worked so far.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best to all,

Luis


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Re: Linux based cellphones?

[Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso]

On Thursday 29 January 2015 19:44:10 Karen Lewellen wrote:
> hi All,
> If this is not the best place for such a question, direct me elsewhere.
> Still I am wondering if there are open source /Linux based mobile  
devices?
> If so who manufactures them?
> thanks,
> Karen

Karen,

The Jolla phone has a SailfishOS linux distribution. There is a closed-source 
alien-dalvik in it and there may be other closed-source parts. Depending 
on your point of view it is either semi-open or semi-closed.

A nice thing is that it allows you root access to the device.

Bests,

Luis

Re: Re: VPN routing on Sid

[Luis Finotti]

> On 13/11/14 11:10, Luis Finotti wrote:
> > Ah, that worked!  Could you explain the "192.168.29.0/24" syntax
> > though?  I'm having a hard time finding what it means.  (Is it a range
> > 0 to 24?)
>
> The "/24" means that only the first 24 bits of the address are
> significant for matching purposes. So, 192.168.29.0/24 matches all
> addresses in the range 192.168.29.0 through 192.168.29.255.
>
> (Do say if that's not enough detail.)

Thanks for your help!  It makes sense now.


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Re: VPN routing on Sid

[Luis Finotti]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Pascal Hambourg  wrote:
> Luis Finotti a écrit :
>>
>> When I first started using the VPN service, I could not SSH to my
>> desktop from outside the network anymore.  After a lot of googling, I
>> found out a solution (https://forums.openvpn.net/topic7163-15.htm):
>> I've added the following script to /etc/network/if-up.d:
>>
>> --
>> !/bin/bash
>>
>> ip rule add from 192.168.29.120 table 10
>> ip route add default via 192.168.29.1 table 10
>> 
>>
>> where 192.168.29.120 is the IP of the desktop and 192.168.29.1 is the
>> IP of the router.
>>
>> recently, when I run the script above (as I've been doing for a
>> while), I can still connect from *outside* my network, but *not* from
>> inside (i.e., other computers connected to the same router).  From
>> within the network, nothing works (SSH, Samba, minidlna...).
>
> Apparently your router is doing a bad job, not forwarding packets from
> LAN to LAN. Anyway, it is better to add an exception to the default
> route for the LAN subnet in table 10 to make the routing direct :
>
> ip route add 192.168.29.0/24 dev eth0 table 10
>
> (If required, replace "eth0" with whatever the LAN interface is.)

Ah, that worked!  Could you explain the "192.168.29.0/24" syntax
though?  I'm having a hard time finding what it means.  (Is it a range
0 to 24?)

I wonder how the problem started as I've made no changes in the router
configuration...

Thanks for the help.  I greatly appreciate it!

Luis


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Re: VPN routing on Sid

[Luis Finotti]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Igor Cicimov  wrote:
>
> On 13/11/2014 6:17 AM, "Luis Finotti"  wrote:
>>
>> I'm having problems connecting to my desktop (running actually
>> aptosid, which is virtually simply Debian Sid with a different kernel
>> and a few extra tools and customizations).
>>
>> Here is the situation: my desktop is connected to a VPN service.  (The
>> router to which the desktop is connected is not, only the desktop.
>> So, the VPN client runs on the desktop and the other computers on the
>> network connect to the Internet directly.)
>>
>> When I first started using the VPN service, I could not SSH to my
>> desktop from outside the network anymore.  After a lot of googling, I
>> found out a solution (https://forums.openvpn.net/topic7163-15.htm):
>> I've added the following script to /etc/network/if-up.d:
>>
>> --
>> !/bin/bash
>>
>> ip rule add from 192.168.29.120 table 10
>> ip route add default via 192.168.29.1 table 10
>> 
>>
>> where 192.168.29.120 is the IP of the desktop and 192.168.29.1 is the
>> IP of the router.
>>
> And the rules in table 10 are?? Send the output of:
>
> # ip rule show
> # ip route show table 10

Thanks for the reply!

Here they are:

root@debian[/home/finotti]#  ip rule show
0:  from all lookup local
32763:  from 192.168.29.120 lookup 10
32764:  from 192.168.29.120 lookup 10
32765:  from 192.168.29.120 lookup 10
32766:  from all lookup main
32767:  from all lookup default


root@debian[/home/finotti]#  ip route show table 10
default via 192.168.29.1 dev eth0


Let me know if anything else would help.

Luis


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VPN routing on Sid

[Luis Finotti]

I'm having problems connecting to my desktop (running actually
aptosid, which is virtually simply Debian Sid with a different kernel
and a few extra tools and customizations).

Here is the situation: my desktop is connected to a VPN service.  (The
router to which the desktop is connected is not, only the desktop.
So, the VPN client runs on the desktop and the other computers on the
network connect to the Internet directly.)

When I first started using the VPN service, I could not SSH to my
desktop from outside the network anymore.  After a lot of googling, I
found out a solution (https://forums.openvpn.net/topic7163-15.htm):
I've added the following script to /etc/network/if-up.d:

--
!/bin/bash

ip rule add from 192.168.29.120 table 10
ip route add default via 192.168.29.1 table 10


where 192.168.29.120 is the IP of the desktop and 192.168.29.1 is the
IP of the router.

That worked perfectly and until recently.  (I'm sorry I cannot be more
precise about when, but I'd say within the last 30 days or so it
stopped working.)  I could connect to the desktop from anywhere.  But
recently, when I run the script above (as I've been doing for a
while), I can still connect from *outside* my network, but *not* from
inside (i.e., other computers connected to the same router).  From
within the network, nothing works (SSH, Samba, minidlna...).  As soon
as remove the rules (with "ip rule/route del ..."), I can connect
again from inside (but, of course, not from outside anymore).

I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.  (The desktop is up to
date with Sid repositories, by the way.)

Thanks,

Luis


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Creative Bluetooth BT-W1 USB Audio and Voice Transmitter

[Luis Eduardo Cortes]

Anyone is using this dongle?

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Bluetooth-BT-W1-Audio-Transmitter/dp/B008PINWWC/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_t_2

How is detected?

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Re: Sun/Oracle Java

[Luis Eduardo Cortes]

2014-04-16 0:27 GMT-03:00 Oliver Fairhall :
> Hi,
>
> Setting up a new machine, noticed that Sun/Oracle Java is no longer
> available to Debian.
>
> Saw a post here with an explanation:
>
> http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u
>
> Unfortunately, there are limitations and issues with OpenJDK, and
> incompatibilities with various software.
>
> I'm not sure how it has worked in the past, but presumably someone manually
> built the installation package for Debian. Would it be possible to do this
> for oneself? I assume there is no source available to compile. Is it
> feasible to convert an rpm release for use with Debian? I've tried this sort
> of thing before, but with mixed results.
>
> Sorry if this has been covered already - I couldn't see mention of it in my
> email search.


Googling I've found this article:

http://d.stavrovski.net/blog/post/installing-oracle-java-7-on-debian-wheezy

Hope this is helpful for you.

Regards.



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Re: Debian laptop recommendations? Non-proprietary software only.

[Luis Eduardo Cortes]

> I'm currently eying the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E130 and the Thinkpad Edge
> E420. Have any of you had experience with any of these machines or similar
> ones?

I own this, I love it:

http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2012/09/linux-and-samsung-series-9-np900x3c.html

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Build binary package from debian sources.New format 3.Errors.

[Luis Suzuki]

When I needed to build a package from debian sources I used to:
bzcat ../debianpackage.diff.gz | patch -p1 from within the original source.Then:
debuild.And everything went smoothly.

Now I do (and does not work):

>From within the original package sources directory tree:

tar xfz ../debianpackage.debian.tar.gz (the patch tree)

A debian directory appears within the original sources top level directory
and I do:

debuild or
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

And does not work.What am I doing wrong?




  

Re: Audio from TV capture card

[Luis Eduardo Cortes]

2013/11/17 Brad Alexander :
> All right, I'm out of ideas. In my wife's sid machine, she has a Hauppague
> BT878-class TV capture card connected to a cable box. She uses tvtime to
> watch television when she is on the computer. About a week ago, she suddenly
> had no audio from the card. She turned off one evening before going to bed,
> and the next morning, she turned it on, and had no audio. I have looked at
> in kmix, alsamixer, the kde sound settings, and, I think, even the
> pavucontrol app (it was one of the pulseaudio apps, can't remember which one
> -- pulse audio and I have had a contentious relationship at best). Nothing.
> No changes were made between when she turned tvtime off and when she turned
> it back on the next morning. I also tried using vlc to connect to the
> capture card, and still no audio.
>
> Can anyone suggest where the problem might lie?

When I installed tvtime to work with saa7134 driver, I had no sound,
but I solved this issue installing oss-compat package (Debian Wheezy
7.0 stable). Be sure this package is installed. My system uses gnome
and alsa, tvtime uses oss, this package bind both sound systems, alsa
and oss.

Good luck.


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Re: /etc/fstab question

[Luis Bandarra]

Hi,

On 11/10/2013 05:28 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> Le 10.11.2013 18:06, Richard Owlett a écrit :
>> Will doing "chmod -R 777 /owlett" allow all users of any Debian
>> install having the edited /etc/fstab have unrestricted access to all
>> files and folders on that partition?
>>
>> TIA
>
> It will, but remember that it will also allow them to change file
> permissions, and so to remove rights to other users.
>
> In my opinion, if you want such kind of partition, the easier solution
> is to use a partition system which does not have the user right feature.
> The first one which comes to my mind, is the FAT family. Since you
> seems to use ext2, you anyway do not have the log feature ( the thing
> which avoid corrupted files in case of a problem ) so I only see the
> drawback of file names not doing difference between uppercase and
> lowercase characters.
> But, still IMO, this one is more a drawback of ext* partition tables
> than of FAT, since it is not really natural for me and people I know
> to differentiate words by the case of their letters*. On the other
> hand, since you spoke about icons and graphical stuff, I bet that your
> users are not console users, so they won't be that annoyed.
>
> *: and if someone have any clue to allow my terminal to stop bothering
> me with that damned case difference in file names, I would really be
> grateful to know it. For now, I simply stop using case when naming
> files, but it is less readable and is not applicable to other people's
> files...
>
>

I tried something similar - without the mount point in /etc/fstab - and
found the best options was to create a folder with user=someuser
group=somegroup and add the users to that group, and assure the file
permissions for group were rw.
In /etc/fstab i believe you can specify, in the filesystem option, the
owner or the group of the mount point.

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Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor

[Luis Bandarra]

Hi,

On 10/24/2013 09:53 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Our church runs a once a week after school program for the children of
> a neighboring elementary school { in U.S. education-speak it is a
> "title 1 - severely underprivileged school"}. We run on donated
> hardware. Up to now the machines came with misc versions of MS
> Windows. A local company will donate several additional machines. Due
> to license issues, they will come without Windows. One of their staff
> has stated that Linux Mint would be suited for the "obsolete" hardware
> being donated and has volunteered to install it on each of those
> machines.
>
> My question:
> Is there any reason that a Ubuntu version Mint would be any more
> suitable than a custom install of Debian - especially as there is a
> choice of kernels?
> Question is vague, to a degree intentionally. Where/what should I be
> reading?
I don't think anyone suggested, but what about DebianEdu [1]/SkoleLinux [2]?
There target at an educational environment, i believe they can be adapt
to your scenario.


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu
[2] http://www.skolelinux.org

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Re: Debian sid and AMD/ATI Richland [Radeon HD 8670D]

[Luis Bandarra]

Hi,

On 09-10-2013 23:05, MRH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd need some help with ATI GPU. Is it correct that for that processor
> (AMD A10 6700 - with integrated Radeon HD 8670D) I need flgrx non-free
> drivers to enjoy 3d support (ie to get Gnome 3 working - at the moment
> it goes to the fallback mode). I've got xserver-xorg-video-radeon and
> mesa libraries installed.
>
> If I understand correctly, it should change with linux kernel 3.12
> which will support this GPU?
>
> What should I install?
>
> Debian sid, AMD64.
>
> Kind regards,
> Michal

I'm sorry but i can't understand if you tried it or just asking?

The current kernel at sid is 3.10 and fglrx-driver 13.4, acording with
phoronix[1][2][3], the kernel will work, but for the driver it doesn't
see to be prepare to the HD8670D but the 13.8 might work [4].

The fglrx-driver 13.8 is in experimental, or perhaps download from amd.

Hope it helps!

PS: i didn't search in the radeon open source to see if it work with
hd8670D.


[1]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_a10_6800k&num=2
[2]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeon_hd8670d&num=1
[3]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_gallium3d_hd8670d&num=1
[4]http://askubuntu.com/questions/50/no-drivers-for-amd-radeon-hd-8750m-or-amd-radeon-hd-8550

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Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

[Luis Bandarra]

Hi,

On 08-10-2013 13:10, Ezequiel wrote:

Hi all:

I am Sysadmin at a small business. We have a complete mail-web-vpn 
infrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a 
successful case of open software use in the "real world"


But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining 
about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even complain if I 
change OO from 3.2 to 3.3. I believe there were major changes in that 
version.


The question is: Is there any way of freezing OO version indefinetly?

I am currently using oldstable OO but I guess my time is going short. 
What will happen when they release the new version of debian? I don't 
know what to do...


Thanks in advance for any advices.


My advice is not the answer to your direct question, someone may help 
more on that!


What i would do is to implement gradually that change, place in one or 
two computers, probably per department, depending on the size of the 
company, and let them see and know the major differences, show how to 
overcome them and see if there is any problems with corporate templates 
and documents. Them following a schedule that the users know, upgrade 
the other computers.


Can't guarantee full satisfaction but might prevent a riot... that's how 
i brought to the "light" some friends to LibreOffice and Linux.


Sincerely hope it helps!


Zeke

PD: My native language is not English, I'm sorry for any mistakes in 
my writing.


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Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

[Luis Bandarra]

I didn't explain myself well, now that i have time, i'll see to it.

I use Xephyr[1] to create a new X server in the current X host session. 
Then i launch the application i which to use on the new display.


On 18-09-2013 07:49, Anthony Campbell wrote:

On 17 Sep 2013, Luis Bandarra wrote:

This script it's just a automation for speed things (laziness)!

#!/bin/sh

# script to start a new server with i3
DISPLAY=:0
Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2>  /dev/null&
sleep 2
DISPLAY=:1
i3&

but you can use just the command line's commands...

Hope it helps...





I use this:


# switch to icewm
xinit  /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1&



where ,xxinitrc is a modified version of .xinitrc to run icewm (in this
case). I can then switch back and forth between spectrwm and icewm with
Ctrl-Alt-Fx.


I'm a bit fan of i3 and find it more productive in most cases but in my 
desktop i run kde it all the pretty eyecandy "because i can", so some 
times when i don't have time i open a terminal in kde and run:


$ Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2>  /dev/null&  #
$ DISPLAY=:1
$ i3

In the OP, he can change i3 for whatever i would like. This way he can try WM and DE like 
"just another window" with the mouse.

I find some tutorial on the internet:

- http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-620003.html
- http://blog.pesa.se/2009/07/18/experimenting-with-window-managers/
- http://wenlong.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/awesome-xephyr-devils-pie/
- http://www.doublehops.com/tag/xephyr/


[1] - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr/ : Xephyr is a 
kdrive based X Server which targets a window on a host X Server as its 
framebuffer. Unlike Xnest it supports modern X extensions ( even if host 
server doesn't ) such as Composite, Damage, randr etc (no GLX support 
now). It uses SHM Images and shadow framebuffer updates to provide good 
performance. It also has a visual debugging mode for observing screen 
updates.





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Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

[Luis Bandarra]

On 16-09-2013 22:50, Richard Owlett wrote:

Dan Ritter wrote:

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:54PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

2. Given that internet is effectively non-existent and
internal/external disk space is effectively unlimited, how can I
make as many as possible of the DE &/or WM on the distribution DVD
simply available to experiment with?


apt-get install [metapackage name] for each of them. There's no
restriction to only having one installed at a time, you know.



I hoped/suspected apt-get was the answer. But that why I phrased it
in an open ended manner.

An implied questions include:
how do I switch between them while comparing?
In my case, i have a desktop quite powerful for my need, i run KDE just 
because of the eyecandy, but got used to work with a tiling window 
manager: i3-wm. So for been more productive in some corner cases, in my 
X session i run a instance of Xephyr with i3 as window manager (i tested 
for E17 and it worked also).

I have a small script:

#!/bin/sh

# script to start a new server with i3
DISPLAY=:0
Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2> /dev/null &
sleep 2
DISPLAY=:1
i3 &

but you can use just the command line's commands...

Hope it helps...






You have a range of options.

You could start multiple X servers, and run one on each,
simultaneously.

You could switch between them via the per-login option in a
display manager (xdm, gdm, lightdm...)

You could edit your .xinitrc file to start the system that
you want, and then run startx from your machine's virtual
console.


will thy potentially interfere with each other?


Only in the sense that only one can have control of your X
session at a time. Otherwise, they're very good about ignoring
config files that belong to other packages.



Thank you.





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Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems - Solved

[Luis Bandarra]

Hi,

On 02-09-2013 18:54, Thomas H. George wrote:

apt-get install fglrx-driver has solved the problem.

I had overlooked a message at the start of bootup stating a radeon
nonfree display package might be required. (Its on the screen very
briefly - it took me three reboots to read it).
I think i speaking about the package "firmware-linux-nonfree" where 
there is a file for Radeon cards microcode blob.


When i used the free radeon driver, until i installed this package, 
there where some graphic problems, and in dmesg i could read something 
about missing radeon firmware or code, can't remember exactly.



   The notes on the
fglrx-driver actually suggest trying the newest free driver
xserver-xorg-video-radeon.  That came with the netinstall, was properly
installed and the system did come up with a working gnome desktop.

In fact, many users might never encounter the problem I found.  If all
the user wants is a working gnome desktop and has no use for or is
unaware of the tty terminals the netinstalled system is fine.

Tom




Right now, because of the support of a Radeon HD7770 i have the non-free 
fglrx-driver installed but keep the package "firmware-linux-nonfree" 
installed, no complains so far, and when i (re)test the new free radeon 
driver, it will be ready to go.


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Problem with USB Realtek Wifi device

[José Luis Segura Lucas]

Hi!

After a recent upgrade on my i386 Debian system, my Wifi USB dongle
stops working. I tried it on another computer with Debian (amd64),
upgraded and with the firmware-realtek package installed too, and it
works fine.

The device is:

root@osgiliath:~# lsusb  | grep WLAN
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter

I have the latest firmware-realtek package version (0.39) and the
wireless card is up and able to scan networks. But, when I try to
connect to my WPA network, the association is not made. I can see the
following error on /var/log/daemon.log:

Jul 22 16:32:49 osgiliath NetworkManager[2517]:  Config: added
'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
Jul 22 16:32:59 osgiliath wpa_supplicant[2666]: wlan0: Trying to
associate with 00:8e:f2:73:45:d6 (SSID='/home/wireless' freq=2462 MHz)
Jul 22 16:32:59 osgiliath wpa_supplicant[2666]: wlan0: Association
request to the driver failed
Jul 22 16:33:04 osgiliath wpa_supplicant[2666]: wlan0:
Authentication with 00:8e:f2:73:45:d6 timed out.

I tried to rewrite the password, and to stop Network Manager and try to
connect with iwconfig, but I finally get the same wpa_supplicant error.

Is it a known problem? Do you know any solution to it?

Thanks in advance




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Re: Problem with HDMI audio output after upgrade

[José Luis Segura Lucas]

El 06/07/13 06:17, Igor Cicimov escribió:
>
> I guess alsa got upgraded in same time right? Check your ~/.asoundrc
> file, or even better copy and paste it here, to confirm the config
> there still matches the hdmi device as showed by aplay. I've seen
> cases where different versions of alsa show the devices in different
> order.
>

Sorry, I totally forget to paste the content of that file. Sorry:

$ cat ~/.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave.pcm "hdmi"
}

ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card 1
}

pcm.!hdmi {
  type hw
  card 1
  device 7
}

ctl.!hdmi {
  type hw
  card 1
  device 7
}





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Problem with HDMI audio output after upgrade

[José Luis Segura Lucas]

Hi!

I'm having an issue with my HTPC computer. I was using it with WBMC, and
using a HDMI cable to output the video and audio from my computer to the TV.

When I first installed Debian a year ago I have some problems ([1]),but
them was solved using a ~/.asoundrc configuration file.

I was happy with my computer, but a few days ago I realized that my
Debian Sid become a little outdated, when I try to install the
experimental version of XBMC.

Before upgrading XBMC I decided to upgrade the whole system (around 300
packages, only upgrade, not dist-upgrade). The upgrade process was fine
and I rebooted the computer.

The surprise comes when I try to use my XBMC installation and the sound
is not working at all. No errors are shown, the configuration file is in
its place. I checked the "mute" checkboxes on my alsaconfig, and all
appears to be ok.

I don't know where to start to look for a solution.

Anybody knows what can be wrong? Anybody had a similar problem? Thanks
in advance

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/05/msg00056.html

Some (maybe) helpful outputs:

$ lspci | grep -i -e audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 02)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio
Controller (rev a1)

$ aplay -l
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC892 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC892 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output




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Re: fglrx not working with Radon 7770 HD and kernel 3.9-1

[Luis Bandarra]

On 24-06-2013 10:48, Max Linke wrote:

I still have the 3.2.0-3 kernel installed and when I use the driver
their everything works, nothing else is changed. So think that the
fglrx driver and Xserver I have installed now work together.
I have a HD7700 (cape verde XT) running jessie with xserver-xorg 
version: 1:7.7+3 and xserver-xorg-core: 2:1.12.4-6
and fglrx-driver 1:13.4-2. I can't say for 3D, because i don't use but 
no problems with the drivers. Perhaps with the update to the kernel the 
modules doesn't built right... Perhaps "purge" the fglrx-* and 
reinstall, and look for the kernel module built.



On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:28:35 +0200
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:


Catalyst versions only run with some versions of X and some cards are
only provided by some versions of Catalyst.

Current "Catalyst doesn't support xorg-server 1.14.
Catalyst<  12.10 and Catalyst Legacy do not support xorg-server 1.13.
Catalyst<  12.6 doesn't support xorg-server 1.12." -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst#Xorg_repositories

This should be equal for Debian.




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Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

[João Luis Meloni Assirati]

Em 09-04-2013 11:26, Ralf Mardorf escreveu:

On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 11:12 -0300, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:

Em 09-04-2013 08:38, Ralf Mardorf escreveu:

On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 22:56 -0300, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:

Em 08-04-2013 08:03, Ralf Mardorf escreveu:

This is an international mailing list and the rules should be civilized
and not taken from banana republics.

I don't like offtopic subjects, but since I am supposed to be civilized
in this international mailing list I have to ask what are the standards
here. What do you mean by banana republic? Maybe the USA which uses to
promote coup d'état against elected governments all over the world and
invade countries after spreading a lot of FUD? Or England, France
Germany and Japan, which destroyed half of the world with their
imperialism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries?

The real world isn't a strawberry field, but a hard place. Communities
unfortunately have got bat "habits". I'm against this, but getting rid
of it, political correctness isn't the way to go. People need to learn
more from Konrad Lorenz, if they are unable to get enlightenment by them
self.

A "banana republic" in Germany is a term for a community that does fight
against it's own members. IOW, it's not nice, but reality, that one
nation fucks another nation, but within a community (society), we don't
vote with a bullet, as it is done in "banana republics".

If somebody discredit my prophet the Holy Penguin I even don't kill the
ambassador of a _foreign_ nation/community/society. And my prophet by
the way isn't a child molesters as Mohamed was (not meant to offend
somebody, Mohamed lived in another age, sure, in the Occident they were
child molesters too and especially Christians still tend to be it today,
just follow the news, before you claim I offend netiquette, I simply
speak out the truth).

So in the Islamic world they might not have banana plantations, but they
behave in way, we call "banana republic" here.


Your response is anything but civilized. It is arrogant, not to say
irrational. You initially used as a model of the uncivilized the "banana
republics", that are just poor countries that are economically exploited
and politically dominated by powerful empires (as the standard
definition, not the one that you made up) and now you imply that all
muslims are terrorists. You must take more caution with words and
thoughts in an "international mailing list". And by the way, Konrad
Lorenz was a nazi that later denied everything he said about jews and
racist ideas. Maybe you learned your incoherence from him?

Stop spreading lies about me. I never made any claim about terrorism.


Yes you did in an implicit form, like I said. You implied that muslims 
kill the ambassador of a foreign nation/country/society when somebody 
discredited their prophet. Anyone can read this.



And being poor doesn't mean that there is the need to vote with bullets
as it is done in those countries.


I don't understand what you want to say here.


  Konrad Lorenz was a behavioral
scientist and his work is respected and important. A NAZI? Maybe, maybe
not,


He was both and I don't know which is worse when discussing human 
civilizations: to cite an animal behavior scientist or  to cite a nazi. 
Much harm was already done when trying to "apply" darwinism do social 
sciences.



  but if you call me a NAZI you've got a problem now. Get me?!


I never called you a nazi. I was just pointing Konrad Lorenz's 
incoherence in his political life and comparing to the incoherence of 
your post. I know it may be painful for a german to be compared to a 
nazi, as may be painful to a muslin to be compared to a terrorist. It is 
painful to me to see the expression "banana republic" (my country was a 
banana republic for a long time and it still is in some sense) as a 
model of lack of civilization. Maybe you realize now that political 
correctness is important.



You should respect freedom of expression


This is valid for everyone, including you. I fail to see when I 
disregarded freedom of expression.



  and stop making conclusions
about me or anybody else.



I never took any conclusion about you. I was commenting about what you 
have written.



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Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE

[João Luis Meloni Assirati]

Em 09-04-2013 08:38, Ralf Mardorf escreveu:

On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 22:56 -0300, João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:

Em 08-04-2013 08:03, Ralf Mardorf escreveu:

This is an international mailing list and the rules should be civilized
and not taken from banana republics.

I don't like offtopic subjects, but since I am supposed to be civilized
in this international mailing list I have to ask what are the standards
here. What do you mean by banana republic? Maybe the USA which uses to
promote coup d'état against elected governments all over the world and
invade countries after spreading a lot of FUD? Or England, France
Germany and Japan, which destroyed half of the world with their
imperialism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries?

The real world isn't a strawberry field, but a hard place. Communities
unfortunately have got bat "habits". I'm against this, but getting rid
of it, political correctness isn't the way to go. People need to learn
more from Konrad Lorenz, if they are unable to get enlightenment by them
self.

A "banana republic" in Germany is a term for a community that does fight
against it's own members. IOW, it's not nice, but reality, that one
nation fucks another nation, but within a community (society), we don't
vote with a bullet, as it is done in "banana republics".

If somebody discredit my prophet the Holy Penguin I even don't kill the
ambassador of a _foreign_ nation/community/society. And my prophet by
the way isn't a child molesters as Mohamed was (not meant to offend
somebody, Mohamed lived in another age, sure, in the Occident they were
child molesters too and especially Christians still tend to be it today,
just follow the news, before you claim I offend netiquette, I simply
speak out the truth).

So in the Islamic world they might not have banana plantations, but they
behave in way, we call "banana republic" here.



Your response is anything but civilized. It is arrogant, not to say 
irrational. You initially used as a model of the uncivilized the "banana 
republics", that are just poor countries that are economically exploited 
and politically dominated by powerful empires (as the standard 
definition, not the one that you made up) and now you imply that all 
muslims are terrorists. You must take more caution with words and 
thoughts in an "international mailing list". And by the way, Konrad 
Lorenz was a nazi that later denied everything he said about jews and 
racist ideas. Maybe you learned your incoherence from him?



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