abcde cddb lookup has stopped working?
hi folks, i use abcde to rip cd's to ogg and flac. in the past it's worked great but i have a bunch of new cd's to burn and for some reason, abcde has stopped contacting the cddb servers. I get this error: Executing customizable pre-read function... done. Getting CD track info... Querying the CD for audio tracks... Grabbing entire CD - tracks: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 CDDB unavailable. this never used to happen, and other programs trying to access the same fredb servers have no trouble. has anyone else experienced this and/or have a likely solution? I thought the issue was in my abcde.conf, but i;ve replaced it with the dpkg-dist version to no avail. i appreciate any help you can give. here's the output of grep ii cddb /etc/abcde.conf, if anyone finds that helpful. thanks! matt -- # CDDB options # If you wish to use a different CDDB server, edit this line. CDDBURL=http://gnudb.gnudb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi; CDDBCOPYLOCAL=y CDDBLOCALDIR=$HOME/.cddb CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE=y #NOCDDBQUERY=n # Select here if you want to use the locally stored CDDB entries. # This is useful if you do a lot of editing to those CDDB entries. # Also, other tools like Grip store CDDB entries under $HOME/.cddb, CDDBUSELOCAL=y # CDDB. #SHOWCDDBFIELDS=year,genre #CDDBTOOL=cddb-tool #CDDBTOOLOPTS= # cddb,read,normalize,encode,tag,move,playlist,clean # tag implies cddb,read,encode # move implies cddb,read,encode,tag # playlist implies cddb ACTIONS=cddb,read,encode,tag,move,playlist,normalize,replaygain,clean # By default, abcde will do the following to CDDB data to get a useful # mungefilename receives the CDDB data (artist, track, title, whatever) # Useful if you have a slow network or CDDB servers seem unresponsive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?
hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are 'audiobook' file, and so when i put the ipod on shuffle, about one in 5 tracks is a harry potter track. this is annoying. fortunately i also have all our music audiobooks on a backup drive in flac format, and was thinking i could perhaps concatenate all the files from each harry potter book into one immense flac (or maybe 23 -- that's the number of cds' in 'order of the phoenix'!), then convert each of these megafiles into aac rename them as m4b files -- which, if i understand correctly, is all i have to do to get the stupid ipod to know that they're 'audiobooks'. unfortunately i can't find the tool that would let me do this -- surely it exists? is the easiest thing to somehow directly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?
On 7/15/07, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are 'audiobook' file, and so when i put the ipod on shuffle, about one in 5 tracks is a harry potter track. this is annoying. fortunately i also have all our music audiobooks on a backup drive in flac format, and was thinking i could perhaps concatenate all the files from each harry potter book into one immense flac (or maybe 23 -- that's the number of cds' in 'order of the phoenix'!), then convert each of these megafiles into aac rename them as m4b files -- which, if i understand correctly, is all i have to do to get the stupid ipod to know that they're 'audiobooks'. unfortunately i can't find the tool that would let me do this -- surely it exists? is the easiest thing to somehow directly sorry, working on an unfamiliar computer, under windows, on dialup, in an unfamiliar place. i meant to say: is the easiest thing to osmehow directly manipulate the underlying flac files themselves? i am not a developer so direct manipulation of the bits is not something i normally do... anyay, appreciate all the help you can give! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?
hi, gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i currently manage from amarok (1.4.6). everything is fine except that, with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up about 20 percent of my music collection. When i put the ipod on 'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the least. i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music but audiobooks (whatever that really means). does anyone know how to do this? if it can be done from amarok that's great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required. thanks very much, as always! matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: gps and linux?]
On 6/1/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that ran Free software, or was at least intercompatible with my debian ubuntu based machines. we will probably have a laptop hooked up for watching video/playing music, and could either run a gps card off of that laptop or have a standalone unit, whichever seems to be a better idea. the set up has to be usable not just by me but by my nongeek family members. has anyone done this/have a suggestion? Matt I just finished testing a new GPS unit I just received so your timing is right on. How about a USB based GPS that mounts on the roof of the car (with its own magnet), requires no batteries, is waterproof, has a 20 channel receiver, is WAAS enabled, has a USB to Serial adapter built in, and uses a driver built into the 2.6.18 kernel. In addition to that is runs with Debian software. ie gpsd, kismet, gpsdrive, and roadnav. In addition it works with Delorme Topo and Streetmap 2008. I ran a comparison of it with my Magellan SportTrak Map. Inside the house the Magellan can't get a lock but this (GlobalSat BU-353) got a lock on 4 Sat's when in the same position. Hung in a window the BU-353 got 7-8 Sat's to 4-5 for the Magellan. Very impressive and was less then 1/4 the price of the Magellan. After a lot of research I got it on Amazon. Lowest price Shipping. Ordered on line on Monday night and arrived today by USPS. It was tested on a Thinkpad T40 running Debian testing and a desktop with Windbloz XP. that does seem really cool. have you tried it in a car yet? can you do any kind of routing are there POI databases available anywhere? i probably need something along those lines to satisfy my family's desires. but even if this device doesn't have those features, i mightget one -- they look very cheap and it'd be fun to experiment with! thanks, matt http://www.buygpsnow.com :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne Sorry for the forward Matt but I see it didn't make it to the list so thought you would want to get it. -- Linux helps those who help themselves ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gps and linux?
hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that ran Free software, or was at least intercompatible with my debian ubuntu based machines. we will probably have a laptop hooked up for watching video/playing music, and could either run a gps card off of that laptop or have a standalone unit, whichever seems to be a better idea. the set up has to be usable not just by me but by my nongeek family members. has anyone done this/have a suggestion? thanks as always, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Latitude D820
On 4/12/07, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anybody Successfully runing any Debian ( based ) Distribution with Xorg on a Dell Latitude D820 http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_Latitude_D820/4507-3121_7-31792100.html Etch? i've been running ubuntu feisty on this machine for some time, works great. the occasional hiccups with hibernation and wireless i've solved pretty easil;y with a couple of little scripts, happy to share them if you need them. i *would* however, love to have a laptop that didn't require nonfree firmware and binary blob drivers to use all of its hardware; i think lenovo's thinkpads are a little better in this regard. matt Thankyou so much :-) Kind Regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??
i, i'm having a problem using make-kpkg to build kernel packages on my laptop, which runs ubuntu feisty and currently has make-kpkg version 10.065ubuntu4. this happens with upstream, debian, and ubuntu sources, as far as I can tell, but most of my experimentation has been with ubuntu's linux-source package. has anyone ever heard of anything like this? the vmlinuz produced by the package is of normal size, but the initrd is huge -- 43 megs! -- and /lib/modules/kernel-version-number/ is on the order of 530 megs!!! obviously a half-gig-sized kernel package is not optimal, i'd very much like to figure out what's going on here... also i should say that the after the build process, the source directory becomes enormous -- 2.7 gigs with ubuntu's 2.6.20 as opposed to a more restrained 700megs back in the old days. so, if anyone's seen anything like this before... please let mek now! thanks, matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:24 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' -- right now, this is MS Office, endnote and Dreamweaver (I'd like to make all 3 disappear, but that's another, longer-term project). Remember KVM _requires_ a CPU with hardware virtualization instructions. Not all CPUs have that. None of mine do so I certainly can't try it out. :) yes, I know. the core-duo hcips seem the obvious hcoice, probably either a thinkpad x60 or a sony sz series. Her main objection right now is that the person trying to convince her is a known linux ideologue who spends hours at a time hacking on his machine, and that she has no interest whatsoever in hacking -- she just wants her computer to work for her in a fully transparent way. Another option is vmware, although that may be too much trouble to use as well. I do want to keep it pretty fast. vmware is fairly straightforward to set up on ubuntu now, htough, so that may actually be a pretty good option. -- Len Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to make work dual monitors with Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad?
just hoping that someone posts these xorg.conf's for the record; I for one may well buy one of these machiens soon and would like to know how to do both things. m On 1/31/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 14:36:18 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: Hi, I am using Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad and would like to use the laptop monitor in parallel with an external one. But whatever I try - if an external monitor is connected, the laptop monitor remains black... If there is anybody who could have a look on my attempts to make this work using the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I would be most grateful :) Is there anything else than changing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf configuration I could / should try? [...] lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) [...] And here some sections from /etc/X11/xorg.conf # I tried to use the following 2 Device sections... Section Device IdentifierGeneric Video Card Drivervesa BusIDPCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Device IdentifierGeneric Video Card - Second Monitor Drivervesa BusIDPCI:0:2:1 EndSection I am not sure about having two Device sections. I have an Intel 855GM Display Controller in my laptop and I only need one Device section to have the two outputs. Your card should use the same driver so I would expect that it should work similarly. I think you should try to have only one Device section which specifies the i810 driver instead of vesa. I also think you can comment out the BusID line. Make sure, however, that the package xserver-xorg-video-i810 is installed because you need it to have the i810 module available at all. I strongly suspect that the package is missing on your system because otherwise the i810 driver should have been chosen automatically during the initial Xorg setup. If your X starts with the i810 configuration then you can try if the external output works at all, either with the built-in keys of the laptop (Fn + something; this does not work for my laptop) or by installing the package i810switch which gives you commands to switch the two outputs on and off (this should work more reliably). If the outputs both work at the same time then you have to decide what exactly you want. If you want the external output to show the same thing as the internal one (e.g. for beamer presentations) then you can either use the i810switch commands to activate and deactivate it as needed or you can define a Cloning configuration in xorg.conf. If, on the other hand, you want the two displays show different things, then you indeed need Xinerama like in your present xorg.conf (which I snipped from this email). I can post a working Cloning configuration and I am sure that somebody else will have an example for a proper Xinerama setup, but first we need to know that the i810 driver works properly for you. (Also, of course, man i810 has more information on the driver and its capabilities.) -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?
Hi there, My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' -- right now, this is MS Office, endnote and Dreamweaver (I'd like to make all 3 disappear, but that's another, longer-term project). Her main objection right now is that the person trying to convince her is a known linux ideologue who spends hours at a time hacking on his machine, and that she has no interest whatsoever in hacking -- she just wants her computer to work for her in a fully transparent way. So I am looking for stories from people who have done this successfully, and if possible some web postings that explain how easy it is to do, who transparently it works, and how happy customers are when they get a look at the superior OS which is GNUlinux (or ubuntu, or gentoo, or debian, or whatever). cross-posting to the 3 communities I sort of belong to (ubuntu, debian, toronto lug), sorry if you get multiple copies. Thanks loads! Looking forward to lots of success stories, Matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: bridging eth1 to eth0
On 12/31/06, Kevin Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got it half right. Turning on ip_forward on the server is only one piece. The other piece is to set the client's default gateway to point to your server, which is 192.168.0.1. You can set this via DHCP options, since you have a DHCP server. well, that I had done, in /etc/dhcpd.conf. I htin the issue probably had to do with routing could have been fixed with iptables, b ut the various internet sources I had pointed me in directions that led nowhere. ANyway I fixed my immediate need by modifying pxeboot files so I could do thi initial install without the internet; then went back and upgraded after that. So all's well, but I wish I'd figured it out. thanks to everyone, matt -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bridging eth1 to eth0
On 12/29/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: From: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bridge eth1 to eth0? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:51:31 -0500 hi, for stupid reasons I need to install via netboot on a compaq tablet (hoping this will work, it's my last shot!). I have an ubuntu desktop with two ethernet cards, eth0 eth1, and have set up dhcp tftp on eth1 as documented in various places on the web, e.g. here: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478 this works fine to a point. I have the ubuntu edgy netboot images in /var/lib/tftpboot, my tablet starts up with pxe, finding the images, and is ready to install but cannot find the broader internet 0-- it doesn't seem to see past the eth1 subnet. So, probably a simple question: how do I enable the eth1 traffic to bridge across to eth0 and thus access the whole internet? I guess it has something to do with ip forwarding or ip masquarading or one of those very scary and arcane pieces of dark magic. yes its ip_forward. not scary or arcane. since you're behind a firewall, you may not have to do anything more than turn it on. not sure if it'll pass through back to you -- that may require ip masquerade. simple easy test: as root echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and see what happens. that should immediately turn on ip forwarding. Thanks Andrew. I tried this to no effect (even rebooting to make sure I wasn't missing a step somewhere). in a small network like this: WAN | | | | cheap linksys router |192.168.2.1 | | | | | (DHCP CLIENT) |(192.168.2.210, 192.168.0.1) (DHCP client) --- --- - laptop || Desktop | |Tablet| --- - - From the Desktop I can ping 192.168.2.1, www.google.com, or the tablet's dhcp-assigned IP address. From the laptop I can ping 192.168.2.1, www.google.com, but not 192.168.0.1 (I suppose that's not really surprising). From the tablet I can ping 192.168.0.1 but nothing else. It's the third part I care about obviously -- do I really not need any more complex set up than turning on ip_forward? If not, then I guessthere's something messed up in the set up for the desktop's networking. Howm ight I diagnose that? Anyway thanks again, Matt because you're already behind a router (firewall too?) you don't need any other bits so that may be enough. you should google on this subject a bit. A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFlZA0aIeIEqwil4YRAg5OAKDgkq/8t5lSaT6rxp553kLzdxoW3gCfUJAo 0bf4D8qBnglaZ8Bj+4M2Yq8= =un0z -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bridging eth1 to eth0
From: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:bridge eth1 to eth0? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:51:31 -0500 hi, for stupid reasons I need to install via netboot on a compaq tablet (hoping this will work, it's my last shot!). I have an ubuntu desktop with two ethernet cards, eth0 eth1, and have set up dhcp tftp on eth1 as documented in various places on the web, e.g. here: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478 this works fine to a point. I have the ubuntu edgy netboot images in /var/lib/tftpboot, my tablet starts up with pxe, finding the images, and is ready to install but cannot find the broader internet 0-- it doesn't seem to see past the eth1 subnet. So, probably a simple question: how do I enable the eth1 traffic to bridge across to eth0 and thus access the whole internet? I guess it has something to do with ip forwarding or ip masquarading or one of those very scary and arcane pieces of dark magic. I don't want to makethis pre-new year's post too long and am not sure which pieces of info arethe most relevant but here's the /etc/network/interfaces on the desktop: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.2.210 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.2.1 auto eth1 #iface eth1 inet dhcp # The second network card with static ip iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 -- I should maybe say that eth0 attaches to a cheap wireless router -- simple but not very flexible. The router is then in turn attached through a cable modem to the local cable network. thanks and please let me know what other info I should provide. Matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valid signature -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minimal kde system for amarok?
Hi, I am building a linux stereo for xmas. Basically I'm making it out of an old ibm thinkpad and an iPod w/ rockbox. I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should act like a smart stereo component, not a slow-bu-versatile computer. I intend to run amarok on the system -- I haven't seen anything that comes close in terms of features and stability. THe thing is, kde always feels REALLY slow on this machine. I mean, REALLY slow. So my question: is it possible to install a MINIMAL kde which can handle amarok but doesn't sap the life out of my poor l'il old cpu? if so how would I do htis? Ir could I e.g. run a very simple wondow manager that doesn't depend even on gtk? I am hesitant to run a mixed gtk/qt system as I have limited resources and responsiveness is a priority. Alternatively, is there a gtk alternative to amaork that comes close? I haven't used banshee for a while -- how is t hat shaping up? Do its mono dependencies make it similarly 'heavy' to amarok? Thanks as always, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian kernel git tree?
Hi, I'm wondering whether there's a git tree somewhere for the debian kernel? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make-kpkg fails with compatibility errors
On 11/27/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: On a mixed sid/ubuntu-edgy system !!! /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dpkg-gencontrol: error: package linux-headers-2.6.19-rc6-ubuntu1-suspend2 not in control info dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280 make: *** [install/linux-image-2.6.19-rc6-ubuntu1-suspend2] Error 1 All of these errors suggest something is badly wrong with the debian/control file for the package you are trying to build. My guess is that you need to perform some other step to create debian/control, but as it's an ubuntu package, I won't try to guess farther. -- thanks joey. I think I may have some issueswith my git tree getting messed up; I'll try a clean tree and see if that fixes the problem. matt see shy jo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFa2W+d8HHehbQuO8RAtdZAKCGIKEJJ0er917SsPZ2zYdXe8g+RQCfaFei C4wXfLqeUwTGjpLEMnkPk4g= =bdN9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg fails with compatibility errors
Hi, On a mixed sid/ubuntu-edgy system I am having errors building the ubuntu kernels from source. The kernel compile seems to go fine but there are issues with make-kpkg and dh_* along these lines: $ sudo make-kpkg --append-to-version=-suspend2 --initrd kernel-image ---[snip]- if [ -x debian/post-install ]; then \ TMPTOP=/home/matt/src/ubuntu-2.6/debian/linux-image-2.6.19-rc6-ubuntu1-suspend2 STEM=linux version=2.6.19-rc6-ubuntu1-suspend2 \ IMAGE_TOP=/home/matt/src/ubuntu-2.6/debian/linux-image-2.6.19-rc6-ubuntu1-suspend2 debian/post-install; \ fi dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. dh_installdirs: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. grep: ../../../config/archmap: No such file or directory Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dh_installdocs: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dh_installchangelogs: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. dh_compress: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. dh_fixperms: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. dh_shlibdeps: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dh_installdeb: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dpkg-gencontrol: error: package linux-headers-2.6.19-rc6-ubuntu1-suspend2 not in control info dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280 make: *** [install/linux-image-2.6.19-rc6-ubuntu1-suspend2] Error 1 --- Yesterday I ubilt a debian-based 2.6.18 kernel with no trouble. I don't know what might cause these issues... anyway, thanks for any help, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ripping several hundred cds?
Hi, for xmas I'm switching our stereo over to an electronic system -- probably a combination of an ipod and a linux player. as part of this project I want to rip all of our cds to mp3 or ogg (if someone has a suggestion ofr an ogg-friendly ipod-replacement?). I'm doing enough of these that I'd like to have as little user interaction as possible -- just shove in the cd, have it automatically rip to a specifed location, then eject and on to the next one. has anyone done anything of this kind before? any suggestions? thanks, matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
umount /proc/bus/usb/ modprobe -r usbcore??
Hi I run a mostly-ubuntu system on my dell latitude d820, but pull a few packages from Sid compile my kernels from debian sources which I patch with the suspend2 patches, because suspending to ram and to disk are both unreliable with the ubuntu kernels. In recent weeks something has happened that makes suspending unreliable even with my custom kernels. fortunately suspend2 at least provides debugging info (unlike the in-kernel swsusp) and the problem seems to stem from the usb subsystem somehow. THis is wierd, because I have no usb devices plugged in and I can't detect ANY differences between the stretches of time when suspending works reliably, and the increasingly frequent periods when it doesn't work at all. But anyway for now I'm just trying to confirm that the problem really is related to usb. so, I'm trying to modprobe -r all the usb-related modules, but I'm not able to do this with usbcore; modprobe -r usbcore returns FATAL: Module usbcore is in use. However, I can unload all the other usb modules and lsmod doesn't show usb being used by anything else. I thought the problem might have to do with the /proc/bus/usb/ filesystem, and indeed I had trouble umounting that, but after umount -l /proc/bus/usb I still get the same FATAL error. so I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me what I need to do to diable the whole usb subsystem before a suspend. obviously re-enabling itwill be its own issue down the road... thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?
On 10/28/06, Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Joey Hess date=Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:46:31PM -0400 Matt Price wrote: can I file a bug somewhere against planet debian? anyone know? I've CC'd mako, its maintainer. The underlying software package, FWIW, is planet. The bug is in the Planet 2.0 codebase that I'm using. I'm on the list and am happy to file this upstream. Thanks for CCing me on the message. I had noticed the issue in question before but didn't realize it was outside of the specification or was causing anyone problem so had ignored it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. thanks mako. and congratulations on the edgy release! matt Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mako.cc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?
hi, my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of machine (limited speed memory, but pretty specialized needs, esp for the touch screen). For now though I just want to try and boot the thing. apparently the external usb hard drive my dad has for the thing won't boot, and I don't have any on hand. I currently have only one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a distro that would run off of a removable medium this small. thanks as always for the help! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?
On 10/27/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: item titleDavid Welton: Passing information to Rails droppables from draggables/title guidurn:uuid:73683519-cc21-4c2e-90b2-5bf2955fc359/guid linkhttp://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2006/10/25/passing-information-to-rails-droppables-from-draggables/link Planet Debian is generating an incorrect RSS feed. According to the spec, the guid element should be an URL, unless it has an isPermaLink=false attribute. can I file a bug somewhere against planet debian? anyone know? matt -- see shy jo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFQmAPd8HHehbQuO8RAnUfAJ4/be4d0G0vDfAFLQkdBtI67B3ZCQCfXClv 4+LY46nK7XUkm6iQr3ZOEUQ= =ODJZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian planet rss feed on firefox?
hi, I'm having a little trouble with the rss feed from planet debian. using firefox 2.0's native live bookmark features, I can generate a bookmark which fetches the titles of articles from planet debian. but when I try to click on them. I often get messages like the following: Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (urn) isn't associated with any program. this happens e.g. with the following example: item titleDavid Welton: Passing information to Rails droppables from draggables/title guidurn:uuid:73683519-cc21-4c2e-90b2-5bf2955fc359/guid linkhttp://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2006/10/25/passing-information-to-rails-droppables-from-draggables/link descriptionlt;pgt;I've been working on yet another rails project lately, and, as usual, having a lot of fun with it. I bumped into a bit of a limitation though, in the default setup. Namely, th at it's difficult to pass much information between draggables and droppables. For example, if you look at the scriptaculous demo here:lt;/pgt; -[snip]- pubDateWed, 25 Oct 2006 21:11:29 +/pubDate /item --- not sure exactly what the problem is, but wondered whether other folks have similar issues. If I keep clicking on such links, I eventually seem to break the whole live bookmark functionality. just wondered if other folks had seen anything similar. thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
routing only certain traffic through vpn?
hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from the vpn. my situation is as follows: I work mostly from home and rely on the university's vpn to be able to access online journals. ths works fine., but when I'm connected to the vpn I can't send mail from my home email account (postfix doesn't work properly). I'm wondering whether I could contact my smtp host from outside of the vpn somehow. has anyone tried this and/or any suggestions? thanks for the help, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?
On 10/19/06, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from the vpn. my situation is as follows: I work mostly from home and rely on the university's vpn to be able to access online journals. ths works fine., but when I'm connected to the vpn I can't send mail from my home email account (postfix doesn't work properly). I'm wondering whether I could contact my smtp host from outside of the vpn somehow. has anyone tried this and/or any suggestions? This sounds like you don't have your routing setup properly. I use a vpn regularly for work and only traffic going to their range of ip addresses goes through the vpn. What does route -n show on your computer? And how do you connect to the internet? to answer both of your questions: The vpn server runs openvpn, which I also use on my computer as a client. this vpn sends all internet traffic through itself; I imagine but don't know for sure that this is done with the redirect-gateway directive as described in the openvpn howto: http://openvpn.net/howto.html#redirect when I'm connected, route -n shows: n$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 128.100.56.140 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 00 eth1 142.150.248.1 142.150.248.165 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 00 tun0 142.150.248.165 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 tun0 192.168.70.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 vmnet1 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 172.16.137.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 vmnet8 0.0.0.0 142.150.248.165 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 tun0 (vmware server is up, I guess that's what the vmnet1 is about) this is all uninterpretable to me so help welcome... thanks, matt Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFN6CnkpJ43hY3cTURAnmNAJ9/Iy6Zr2oQOCTT6PtfkGyNxnHfTwCbB14q e1xwmze9caT/BxRlDkm9+gU= =YTXP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?
On 10/8/06, Avinash Sultanpur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: ah. I hadn't realized this needed to go in my startup scripts -- I'd read about it on a suspend2 mailing list and included it in my hibernate script, but I don't actually know how to include this permanently in the startup scripts. Is there a recommended Debian Way to do this? I do this in initrd, /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/suspend2, the same script which resumes. very nice. thanks for the hint, matt -Avinash -- Avinash Sultanpur http://sultanpur.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?
On 10/6/06, Avinash Sultanpur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt, On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:34:06AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're loaded. I'd like to set up a situation where I can log in to my main x session most of the time, but optionally log in to an x server running with a different xorg.conf. Is it possible to do something like this at the gdm prompt? If not, what might be the best way to do this? May not be the solution you are looking for but you can get your laptop to hibernate with the non-free nvidia drivers (if you are using the suspend2 patch) by running this command before starting X. echo 0 /proc/suspend2 echo 0 /proc/suspend2/extra_pages_allowance/extra_pages_allowance ah. I hadn't realized this needed to go in my startup scripts -- I'd read about it on a suspend2 mailing list and included it in my hibernate script, but I don't actually know how to include this permanently in the startup scripts. Is there a recommended Debian Way to do this? thanks, matt More at http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8762/README/appendix-q.html -Avinash. -- Avinash Sultanpur http://sultanpur.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
switching xorg.conf configurations?
Hi, I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're loaded. I'd like to set up a situation where I can log in to my main x session most of the time, but optionally log in to an x server running with a different xorg.conf. Is it possible to do something like this at the gdm prompt? If not, what might be the best way to do this? Thanks, matt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
bind my hibernate key to some command?
hi folks, running a debian 2.6.18 kernel on a mostly-ubuntu edgy system, I'd like to find a way to bind the hibernate key on my laptop to some function. the laptop is a dell latitude d820 as far as I can tell the keypress is not being intercepted by acpi. acpi_listen records when the StandBy key is pressed, but not hibernate. xev gives the following information when I press the key: KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x541, root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 343812725, (1029,531), root:(1044,636), state 0x0, keycode 165 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False i'd like to get this key to produce a hibernation event -- in my case, since I'm running a suspend2-patched kernel, the event would be: sudo hibernate -F /etc/hibernate/suspend2.conf Is there a way for me to do this in gnome? I looked through the keyboard settings and I can't see any way to bind to a sleep event. I should perhaps also say that gnome-power-manager is turned off, since it works way less well for both suspend and hiberntion than the hibernate package does. thanks much, matt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: 2.6.18 and ipw3945
On 9/28/06, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: anyway i've run into a little trouble with my kernel. the ubuntu kernel ships with the ipw3945 wireless driver installed. the debian sources, however, don't, and the suspend2 patches don't want to apply against the ubuntu sources, so I have to compile them I guess. but I've never done it before and worry it's gonna be tough. anyonw know a howto somewhere that will help me along? There seems to be one at http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/sarge/ipw3945/ thanks jon, that was helpful. now i'm running into something a little more complex. the instructionsstate that I need to first build the ieee80211 module, available form the same place; i did that with no difficuty. I do notice however that the debian kernel already seems to have the ieee modules integrated! in any case I continued trying to build the ipw3945 modules but end up with this error message: /bin/sh: Syntax error: ( unexpected /bin/sh: Syntax error: ( unexpected sed: can't read net/ieee80211.h: No such file or directory /bin/sh: [[: not found -e WARNING: Your kernel contains ieee80211 symbol definitions and you are not using the kernel's default ieee80211 subsystem. (Perhaps you used the out-of-tree ieee80211 subsystem's 'make install' or have provided a path to the ieee80211 subsystem via IEEE80211_INC.) If you wish to use the out-of-tree ieee80211 subsystem then it is recommended to use that projects' make patch_kernel facility and rebuild your kernel to update the Module symbol version information. Failure to do this may result in build warnings and unexpected behavior when running modules which rely on the ieee80211 subsystem. -e Aborting the build. You can force the build to continue by adding: IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y to your make command line. --- if I try to set that variable, i get further error messages. I take it there's some kind of mismatch between the versions of ieee80211 in the debian-standard kernel and the one I installed with the ieee module package I installed. however removing the latter and reinstalling the original kernel gives the same result. it seems to me that ipw3945 is asking me to have a kernel with a different version of ieee80211 installed in it -- but I don't see how that could possibly happen. does this make any sense? anyone else had this issue? thanks loads for the help, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.18 and ipw3945
hey folks, i'm running ubuntu edgy with a self-compiled 2.6.18 kernel on my dell latitude d820. I did the kernel compile because the standard kernel suspend wasn't working for me; suspend2 usually works great on this machine but is having a little trouble at the moment... anyway i've run into a little trouble with my kernel. the ubuntu kernel ships with the ipw3945 wireless driver installed. the debian sources, however, don't, and the suspend2 patches don't want to apply against the ubuntu sources, so I have to compile them I guess. but I've never done it before and worry it's gonna be tough. anyonw know a howto somewhere that will help me along? thanks much for the help, matt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hibernate desktop?
On 9/12/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anybody done this successfully? Details? H the suspend capabilities of the linux kernel are improving, but not foolproof. if your BIOS supports ACPI susp-to-memory or susp-to-disk you vcan mess around with the files in /etc/acpi. mine doesn't so i use custom kernels built with the suspend2 patches. there are various howtos, i'd siggest www.suspend2net as a starting point (Search the wiki for 'debian', that should help). you may also find some pointers to a set of kernels built for ubuntu. if you run sid, those should work. matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
windows in xen on intel core-duo?
Hi folks, I've just bought a new dell latitude d820, which is lovely. It came with windows pre-installed, and I thught that this time (since I have a huge hard drive) I might leave it installed in a shrunken-down partition. What I'm wondering is whether I can get windows to run from inside linux somehow, using qemu, vmware, or xen. the latitude d820 has an intel core-duo processor, so as I understand it some hardware virtualization is possible -- that is, it may be possible to run windows under xen. but I haven't seen any howtos on this process, and I wondered whether anyone had tried it or seen a useful link somewhere. Thanks much! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
monitoring network uptime
Hi folks, I have a server running in a University netowrk, and it periodically becomes inaccessible for hours at a time. I've spoken the the network admins, who aren't exactly linux- friendly, and they insist the problem must be with my box (I htink it's something to do with the ethernet jack the switch it's connected to). In order to bolster my case, I would like to set up a little program that periodically checks the following: -state of the eth0 device (up or down) -state of the connection to the local gateway I connect through -state of the connection to a laptop connected via a simple 10/100 hub in my office -state of the connection to the outside world (e.g. can I ping google?) -CPU load -memory load Anyone have any suggestions how I might do something like this? In the very best case, the program would dump the data into a form that could easily be plotted on a graph, so I'd get a graph of all these variables over time as the main output. Or ifthere's a tool that does some part of this without me having to do all kinds of programming work, that would be even better -- since I am a LOUSY programmer. THanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help with corrupted lvm/RAID disk
Hi folks, I had a wierd hard crash with amarok running on the first reboot I had a dpkg error when installing/reinstalling some stuff. On the next reboot gdm wouldn't start, ando n the third I couldn't log in even at the console. I've tracked down my Ubuntu Dapper LiveCD and am trying torecover. but gparted crashes when I try to run it: debugreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) debugreiserfs: can not open reiserfs on /dev/mapper/Anarres--64--main-home1: No such file or directory /dev/mapper/Anarres--64--main-root1: No such file or directory fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library glibmm-ERROR **: unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler: what: basic_string::substr aborting... Aborted --- My main system is in an LVM Volume Group called Anarres-64-main, with two partitions: root: the root system home: /home /boot is on a seperate partition. the LVM itself (Anarres-64-main) is itself running on top of a simple software RAID-1 that houses both root and home LV's. The raid uses identical partitions on identical S-ATA disks... but I actually don't know much about RAID and I don't know how to tell if there's some physical corruption causing the malfunction. Anyway, my question: how, given that gparted crashes, can I fix this system? And why is gparted talking about -root1 and -home1 when the names of the lv's are 'root' and 'home' respectively? ANyway, thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help! /usr/lib/ corrupted on XFS! [was: help with corrupted lvm/RAID disk]
On 6/7/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- My main system is in an LVM Volume Group called Anarres-64-main, with two partitions: root: the root system home: /home forgot to mention that /dev/mapper/Anarres--64--main-root is an XFS file system. sorry about the red herrings in my previous email; didn't realize that fsck.xfs does nothing. I found xfs_check and xfs_repair, and discovered many inodes with errors, including (and this is the terrifying bit) the inode for /usr/lib. So when I boot into the system, /usr/lib is missing, and anything that resides there is gone. xfs_repair says something about moving to lost+found, but I don't know really whatthat means. SO now I wonder: what can I do to fix this now? and how could something so catastrophic happen so easily? It turns me rather sour on XFS -- this is my first time trying it out, and I have to say ext3 never gave me problems of this magnitude, no matter how badthe crash... I suppose I could try apt-get install --reinstall everything but even if that works I guess all the other missing inodes will stil lbe missing, right? anyway, thanks for the help, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT-ish] diagnosing serial port functionality?
Hi folks, I'm having lots of trouble syncing my Palm V to my new, fast computer (ASUS A8N-SLI MoBo, amd 380+ dual-core cpu). Usually I use a serial-to-usb adaptor to connect my serial-out cradle to my computer, but I'm beginning to think there's some hardware problem with the adaptor (the data it sends tends to crash the usb modules). SO I want to hook up directly via the serial port. On my laptop this method seems to work (e.g., pilot-link -p /dev/ttyS0 -l is successful). However on my new desktop I get no data coming out of /dev/ttyS0 (cat /dev/ttyS0 produces no output). The serial setup on this board is wierd -- I have to plug a serial adaptor into a spot on the mainboard, and attach it to one of the slots in the case. I wonder whetherthere's any wayto test whether it's attached correctly? THe /dev/ttyS0 device is created and gives no errors when I try to cat it (unlike /dev/tty/S1+), but again, no data comes through when I attach the palm pilot press hotsync. thanks for any advice you got! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gpilot pilot-link messed up after hardware/software upgrade?
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[ 1273.420367] Kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:109
[ 1273.420369] invalid operand: [1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 1273.420373] CPU 0
[ 1273.420374] Modules linked in: rfcomm l2cap bluetooth radeon drm ppdev
cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats freq_table cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand
+cpufreq_conservative video tc1100_wmi sony_acpi pcc_acpi hotkey dev_acpi
container button acpi_sbs battery i2c_acpi_ec ac reiserfs ext3 jbd ipv6 sr_mod
sbp2+lp tsdev analog gameport snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_device rtc parport_pc pcspkr parport psmouse serio_raw kl5kusb105 visor
usbserial
+snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
sk98lin snd_timer snd skge shpchp i2c_nforce2 pci_hotplug i2c_core soundcore
+snd_page_alloc af_packet sg evdev xfs exportfs dm_mod usb_storage raid1 md_mod
ide_generic forcedeth ohci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 ehci_hcd usbcore ide_cd
+cdrom ide_disk generic sd_mod amd74xx sata_nv libata scsi_mod thermal
processor fan capability commoncap vga16fb cfbcopyarea vgastate cfbimgblt
cfbfillrect
+fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor
[ 1273.420417] Pid: 2106, comm: khubd Not tainted 2.6.15-23-amd64-k8 #1
[ 1273.420420] RIP: 0010:[8014fe9e] 8014fe9e{queue_work+62}
[ 1273.420430] RSP: 0018:81007dce1ce8 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 1273.420433] RAX: 8100755f6a28 RBX: RCX: 0034
[ 1273.420436] RDX: RSI: 8100755f6a20 RDI: 810037901860
[ 1273.420440] RBP: 81007abd5248 R08: R09:
[ 1273.420443] R10: R11: 80272db0 R12: 81007abd5240
[ 1273.420447] R13: 81007e640c20 R14: 81007e249478 R15: 81007e6ba800
[ 1273.420451] FS: 2ff135e0() GS:80444800()
knlGS:
[ 1273.420454] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 8005003b
[ 1273.420457] CR2: 00bb7768 CR3: 6e8bd000 CR4: 06e0
[ 1273.420461] Process khubd (pid: 2106, threadinfo 81007dce, task
81007e4acfc0)
[ 1273.420464] Stack: 0001 8830fd69 803103b0
8831f2c0
[ 1273.420470]81007e640c00 8831f300 81007e640c20
880af113
[ 1273.420477]81007e640d10 81007e640c20
[ 1273.420481] Call
Trace:8830fd69{:usbserial:usb_serial_disconnect+105}
[ 1273.420496]803103b0{klist_release+0}
880af113{:usbcore:usb_unbind_interface+83}
[ 1273.420522]802727d5{__device_release_driver+133}
80272b3e{device_release_driver+46}
[ 1273.420534]802721f2{bus_remove_device+146}
80271136{device_del+70}
[ 1273.420547]880b5cbc{:usbcore:usb_disable_device+140}
[ 1273.420563]880af982{:usbcore:usb_disconnect+194}
880b225b{:usbcore:hub_thread+971}
[ 1273.420596]80311460{thread_return+0}
80154d00{autoremove_wake_function+0}
[ 1273.420613]880b1e90{:usbcore:hub_thread+0}
801547d0{keventd_create_kthread+0}
[ 1273.420635]80154999{kthread+217}
80139070{schedule_tail+64}
[ 1273.420643]80110dfe{child_rip+8}
801547d0{keventd_create_kthread+0}
[ 1273.420653]801548c0{kthread+0}
80110df6{child_rip+0}
[ 1273.420667]
[ 1273.420672]
[ 1273.420673] Code: 0f 0b 68 a8 e7 32 80 c2 6d 00 48 8b 07 48 63 d2 bb 01 00 00
[ 1273.420682] RIP 8014fe9e{queue_work+62} RSP 81007dce1ce8
[ 1273.420688] 6note: khubd[2106] exited with preempt_count 1
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I of course know nothing about what this might mean. In any case I'd
love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the
evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me. thanks,
matt
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PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?
cpufreq_ondemand
+cpufreq_conservative video tc1100_wmi sony_acpi pcc_acpi hotkey dev_acpi
container button acpi_sbs battery i2c_acpi_ec ac reiserfs ext3 jbd ipv6 sr_mod
sbp2+lp tsdev analog gameport snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_device rtc parport_pc pcspkr parport psmouse serio_raw kl5kusb105 visor
usbserial
+snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
sk98lin snd_timer snd skge shpchp i2c_nforce2 pci_hotplug i2c_core soundcore
+snd_page_alloc af_packet sg evdev xfs exportfs dm_mod usb_storage raid1 md_mod
ide_generic forcedeth ohci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 ehci_hcd usbcore ide_cd
+cdrom ide_disk generic sd_mod amd74xx sata_nv libata scsi_mod thermal
processor fan capability commoncap vga16fb cfbcopyarea vgastate cfbimgblt
cfbfillrect
+fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor
[ 1273.420417] Pid: 2106, comm: khubd Not tainted 2.6.15-23-amd64-k8 #1
[ 1273.420420] RIP: 0010:[8014fe9e] 8014fe9e{queue_work+62}
[ 1273.420430] RSP: 0018:81007dce1ce8 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 1273.420433] RAX: 8100755f6a28 RBX: RCX: 0034
[ 1273.420436] RDX: RSI: 8100755f6a20 RDI: 810037901860
[ 1273.420440] RBP: 81007abd5248 R08: R09:
[ 1273.420443] R10: R11: 80272db0 R12: 81007abd5240
[ 1273.420447] R13: 81007e640c20 R14: 81007e249478 R15: 81007e6ba800
[ 1273.420451] FS: 2ff135e0() GS:80444800()
knlGS:
[ 1273.420454] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 8005003b
[ 1273.420457] CR2: 00bb7768 CR3: 6e8bd000 CR4: 06e0
[ 1273.420461] Process khubd (pid: 2106, threadinfo 81007dce, task
81007e4acfc0)
[ 1273.420464] Stack: 0001 8830fd69 803103b0
8831f2c0
[ 1273.420470]81007e640c00 8831f300 81007e640c20
880af113
[ 1273.420477]81007e640d10 81007e640c20
[ 1273.420481] Call
Trace:8830fd69{:usbserial:usb_serial_disconnect+105}
[ 1273.420496]803103b0{klist_release+0}
880af113{:usbcore:usb_unbind_interface+83}
[ 1273.420522]802727d5{__device_release_driver+133}
80272b3e{device_release_driver+46}
[ 1273.420534]802721f2{bus_remove_device+146}
80271136{device_del+70}
[ 1273.420547]880b5cbc{:usbcore:usb_disable_device+140}
[ 1273.420563]880af982{:usbcore:usb_disconnect+194}
880b225b{:usbcore:hub_thread+971}
[ 1273.420596]80311460{thread_return+0}
80154d00{autoremove_wake_function+0}
[ 1273.420613]880b1e90{:usbcore:hub_thread+0}
801547d0{keventd_create_kthread+0}
[ 1273.420635]80154999{kthread+217}
80139070{schedule_tail+64}
[ 1273.420643]80110dfe{child_rip+8}
801547d0{keventd_create_kthread+0}
[ 1273.420653]801548c0{kthread+0}
80110df6{child_rip+0}
[ 1273.420667]
[ 1273.420672]
[ 1273.420673] Code: 0f 0b 68 a8 e7 32 80 c2 6d 00 48 8b 07 48 63 d2 bb 01 00 00
[ 1273.420682] RIP 8014fe9e{queue_work+62} RSP 81007dce1ce8
[ 1273.420688] 6note: khubd[2106] exited with preempt_count 1
-
I of course know nothing about what this might mean. In any case I'd love some
advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination
has been crucial for me. thanks,
matt
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PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?
cpufreq_ondemand
+cpufreq_conservative video tc1100_wmi sony_acpi pcc_acpi hotkey dev_acpi
container button acpi_sbs battery i2c_acpi_ec ac reiserfs ext3 jbd ipv6 sr_mod
sbp2+lp tsdev analog gameport snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_device rtc parport_pc pcspkr parport psmouse serio_raw kl5kusb105 visor
usbserial
+snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
sk98lin snd_timer snd skge shpchp i2c_nforce2 pci_hotplug i2c_core soundcore
+snd_page_alloc af_packet sg evdev xfs exportfs dm_mod usb_storage raid1 md_mod
ide_generic forcedeth ohci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 ehci_hcd usbcore ide_cd
+cdrom ide_disk generic sd_mod amd74xx sata_nv libata scsi_mod thermal
processor fan capability commoncap vga16fb cfbcopyarea vgastate cfbimgblt
cfbfillrect
+fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor
[ 1273.420417] Pid: 2106, comm: khubd Not tainted 2.6.15-23-amd64-k8 #1
[ 1273.420420] RIP: 0010:[8014fe9e] 8014fe9e{queue_work+62}
[ 1273.420430] RSP: 0018:81007dce1ce8 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 1273.420433] RAX: 8100755f6a28 RBX: RCX: 0034
[ 1273.420436] RDX: RSI: 8100755f6a20 RDI: 810037901860
[ 1273.420440] RBP: 81007abd5248 R08: R09:
[ 1273.420443] R10: R11: 80272db0 R12: 81007abd5240
[ 1273.420447] R13: 81007e640c20 R14: 81007e249478 R15: 81007e6ba800
[ 1273.420451] FS: 2ff135e0() GS:80444800()
knlGS:
[ 1273.420454] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 8005003b
[ 1273.420457] CR2: 00bb7768 CR3: 6e8bd000 CR4: 06e0
[ 1273.420461] Process khubd (pid: 2106, threadinfo 81007dce, task
81007e4acfc0)
[ 1273.420464] Stack: 0001 8830fd69 803103b0
8831f2c0
[ 1273.420470]81007e640c00 8831f300 81007e640c20
880af113
[ 1273.420477]81007e640d10 81007e640c20
[ 1273.420481] Call
Trace:8830fd69{:usbserial:usb_serial_disconnect+105}
[ 1273.420496]803103b0{klist_release+0}
880af113{:usbcore:usb_unbind_interface+83}
[ 1273.420522]802727d5{__device_release_driver+133}
80272b3e{device_release_driver+46}
[ 1273.420534]802721f2{bus_remove_device+146}
80271136{device_del+70}
[ 1273.420547]880b5cbc{:usbcore:usb_disable_device+140}
[ 1273.420563]880af982{:usbcore:usb_disconnect+194}
880b225b{:usbcore:hub_thread+971}
[ 1273.420596]80311460{thread_return+0}
80154d00{autoremove_wake_function+0}
[ 1273.420613]880b1e90{:usbcore:hub_thread+0}
801547d0{keventd_create_kthread+0}
[ 1273.420635]80154999{kthread+217}
80139070{schedule_tail+64}
[ 1273.420643]80110dfe{child_rip+8}
801547d0{keventd_create_kthread+0}
[ 1273.420653]801548c0{kthread+0}
80110df6{child_rip+0}
[ 1273.420667]
[ 1273.420672]
[ 1273.420673] Code: 0f 0b 68 a8 e7 32 80 c2 6d 00 48 8b 07 48 63 d2 bb 01 00 00
[ 1273.420682] RIP 8014fe9e{queue_work+62} RSP 81007dce1ce8
[ 1273.420688] 6note: khubd[2106] exited with preempt_count 1
-
I of course know nothing about what this might mean. In any case I'd love some
advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination
has been crucial for me. thanks,
matt
--
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: :' : Debian User
`. `'`hemi-geek
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PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?
hi debian, I was until recently running debian sid on a middle-aged amd k7 system; after the motherboard fried, I upgraded to a very fast new system (amd X2 3800+, A8N-SLI motherboard and installed ubuntu Dapper and debian etch on a new disk. The old system is still around on an old disk, but hard to work with b/c I haven't reconfigured x etc. On my old system, my PDA worked fine -- it's a Palm V, which I ocnnect through the serial cradle that came with it a million years ago. I also have a usb-to-serial connector for it, which in the past has also worked *pretty* well via the kl5105kb kernel module. Now, though, the PDA doesn't work at all. At first it seemed to be a problem with evolution and gnome-pilot, and I *was* briefly able to access the palm's info through pilot-link (pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -l, IIRC). Now even that won't work, and unscrewing the serial-to-usb adaptor plugging in directly to the serial port has no effect either I'm a little concerned that the cradle itself is messed up somehow, partly becuase of some strange stuff in dmesg. serial: serial port seems to be recognized just fine by the kernel, early on in the boot process: [ 85.877857] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 85.877964] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 85.879621] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 85.880057] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize however, there's no traffic on /dev/ttyS0 (cat /dev/ttyS0, and then pressing hotsync button, gives no output) while ttyS1 seems fundamentally messed up: $ cat /dev/ttyS1 cat: /dev/ttyS1: Input/output error USB: If I connect my usb/serial converter, then I have similar problems. Dmesg shows it being recognized, and at FIRST binds to /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1, but if I unplug replug, I only get /dev/ttyUSB0. dmesg: -- [ 99.174740] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic [ 99.174742] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core [ 99.176113] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor / Palm OS [ 99.176123] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 3.5 [ 99.176132] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 5.0 [ 99.176147] usbcore: registered new driver visor [ 99.176149] drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor / Palm OS driver [ 5048.095365] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 [ 5048.249360] usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [ 5048.249403] usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 [ 5048.315832] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for KL5KUSB105D / PalmConnect [ 5048.316216] usbcore: registered new driver kl5kusb105d [ 5048.316222] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: KLSI KL5KUSB105 chipset USB-Serial Converter driver v0.3a [ 5048.352721] visor ttyUSB1: Device lied about number of ports, please use a lower one. [ 5058.370432] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 [ 5058.370587] visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 [ 5058.370658] visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1 [ 5071.074606] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 [ 5071.225553] visor 1-1:1.0: KL5KUSB105D / PalmConnect converter detected [ 5071.225632] usb 1-1: KL5KUSB105D / PalmConnect converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [ 5071.275482] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: klsi_105_chg_port_settings - 5 byte block, baudrate 6, databits 8,+u1 0, u2 1 [ 5071.278465] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: klsi_105_get_line_state - sending SIO Poll request [ 5071.281463] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: klsi_105_get_line_state - read status 40 0 [ 5071.285485] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: kl5kusb105 port stats: 0 bytes in, 0 bytes out [ 5076.487583] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: klsi_105_chg_port_settings - 5 byte block, baudrate 6, databits 8,+u1 0, u2 1 [ 5076.490573] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: klsi_105_get_line_state - sending SIO Poll request [ 5076.493571] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: klsi_105_get_line_state - read status 40 0 [ 5083.217062] drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c: kl5kusb105 port stats: 0 bytes in, 0 bytes out [ 5105.076854] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3 - moreover, if I'm running an SMP, preemptible kernel, I get this message on disconnecting the usb cable: [ 1273.420238] usb 2-7: USB disconnect, address 2 [ 1273.420362] --- [cut here ] - [please bite here ] - [ 1273.420367] Kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:109 [ 1273.420369] invalid operand: [1] PREEMPT SMP [ 1273.420373] CPU 0 [ 1273.420374] Modules linked in: rfcomm l2cap bluetooth radeon drm ppdev cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats freq_table cpufreq_powersave
[Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!
On 5/3/06, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord and lm-sensors and find that, even when my system appears to be working fine, I getthe following messages in syslog: Good progress so far. May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: VCore 1: +1.78 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: VCore 2: +1.25 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +2.61 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: +3.3V: +3.10 V (min = +3.14 V, max = +3.47 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: +5V: +4.57 V (min = +4.76 V, max = +5.24 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: +12V: +13.06 V (min = +11.39 V, max = +12.61 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: -12V: -9.93 V (min = -12.63 V, max = -11.41 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: -5V: -4.63 V (min = -5.26 V, max = -4.77 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3013 RPM, div = 8) [ALARM] so those of course don't look so good. Can anyone interpret this for me? I'm afraid I know very little about hardware at this level. One obvious possibility stands out: Your power supply fan is not running, and the heat is causing all your voltages to sag. OK, ruled that out at least. the fan is running smoothly. As a temporary work around, tap the fan blades with a pencil and see whether it'll take off. If it does, you may be ok for the immediate future, like the next couple of days. If you turn off the computer, expect to have to restart the fan again. Use your ears while using the computer. If the fan gets really quiet, have another look. If the supply fan is running, then several possibilities come to mind. (1) Your sensors are out of calibration. (2) Your software is not reading them correctly. (3) Your voltages are out of line. The best way to check this is with a voltmeter. ok, just to quickly ask: does this mean I guy a voltmeter, unplug the MB from the power source check each of the outbound voltages in turn directly off the power source? Or can I somehow actually check the mb voltages directly? I disagree with some of the values stated for voltages. For example, your +5V line should be 5.05V +/- 0.25V. But the voltage ranges given are wider, so you are *way* out of spec. on that one. All your voltages appear to be sagging. If (3) is the case, then there are three likely possibilities: (1) Your power supply is overloaded by too many extra stuff added on by you (2) Your power supply is overloaded by something in your system drawing more power than it should (failing) (3) Your power supply is failing. (1) can be detected by looking in the mirror. (2) can be checked by the burnt finger test. (3) can be checked by substituting another power supply of approximately equal wattage rating. Apropos of (2), check the fan on the processor. If it isn't running, it may cause the processor to overheat, causing crashes, also possibly causing it to draw too much current. That's the first place I'd check for a burnt finger. That may be the fan being reported above. is a burnt finger test putting your finger carefully on various parts checking for excess heat? I can try that... So I did a little investigating: - to rule out software issues, I checked the BIOS values, and they are consonant with the values given here. The voltages in particular are all slumped in the very same manner. I also kept the system running in BIOS mode for 45 minutes or so, and found the CPU temp quickly moved up to 61 C, at which point it stabilized, whilethe MB temp stabilized at 47C. - I opened up the case and found that the CPU fan is indeed running. I also found that the second fan on the MB was unplugged! must have gotten jiggled. HOwever, plugging it back in didn't give me a non-zero reading in the fan 2 sensor, so I'm not sure what's up with that. Also,I'm still getting the same rapid temp increases voltage problems after replugging the fan.This is a fanthat sits on something I imagine might be the coprocessor or something -- a sizable chip next to the CPU slot. I don't know if this is whatthe BIOS calls the system fan. - I do have 3 drives plugged in to this system, and 768 Megs of RAM, but on the other hand it's a 400W power source. Unfortunately the mirror test doesn't work that well for me since I don't know what to look for! -- but I'd be surprisedi f this is the problem. I suppose I could unplug one or 2 drives see ifthat makes a difference? Seems to me the next step is to change
Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!
On 5/4/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3013 RPM, div = 8) [ALARM] Fan2 is the CPU fan in most instances. Does it turn? Did it ever turn? H the CPU fan is turning, and I think it always has. As I indicated in another reply, there WAS a fan unplugged, but it's connected now and seems to be functioning. matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!
On 5/4/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I do have 3 drives plugged in to this system, and 768 Megs of RAM, but on the other hand it's a 400W power source. Unfortunately the mirror test doesn't work that well for me since I don't know what to look for! -- but I'd be surprisedi f this is the problem. I suppose I could unplug one or 2 drives see ifthat makes a difference? Seems to me the next step is to change out the power source -- osund right to everyone? thanks again, matt for what it's worth, I am running little stress test, simultaneousluy playing a dvd in the dvd-drive, and ocmpiling a kernel. I'm getting slight shifts on the voltages: +12v -- +13.31; +5V -- +4.46 cpu temp up to 70. (thisi s an athlon k7 2400+). So I think (a) anything involving the DVD is clearly a bit dodgy; and (b) I probably need a new power supply. matt
Re: tracking down a hard crash
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:49:13PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to date). They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- the computer locks hard in an X session (running xfce4 usually) and is inaccessible by ssh or any other. If amarok is running at the time it will sound as though a 1-second or shorter loop is playing; otherwise the only indication is the disappearance of the cursor and a nonfunctional keyboard/mouse. OTher programs that have been running using a fair bit of cpu at thetime of crash include firefox dvd::rip, as well as openoffice and audacity. I've looked in /var/log/messages/ syslog/ and dmesg and don't see anything special. I suppose probably whatever is causing the crash is also failing to give me the appropriate message. What kinds of things can I do to help identifiy the cause of the crash further? I'm always an advocate of looking for hardware problems for the inconsistent type issues... set up some sensors monitoring maybe and see if you've got anything like a failing power supply for example. I had one that was slowly dying and the only sign was random freezes with no common factors that I could see. But I noticed my voltages were drifting farther and farther out of spec. new power supply solved that problem. ymmv. .02 etc thanks andrew. these hardware monitors -- are they things like xseonsors and mbmon? I've just apt-get installed those and will try them out. other suggestions still welcome! thanks, matt A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEWCudaIeIEqwil4YRAk1GAJ9UCxEzDGUqBd6hyPXgsUKDLjVYFQCg0W7t +yLYh7oOJiNVG8yjNmT8CCc= =4u+4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: tracking down a hard crash
On 5/3/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks andrew. these hardware monitors -- are they things like xseonsors and mbmon? I've just apt-get installed those and will try them out. other suggestions still welcome! er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to tell what I need? thanks, matt thanks, matt A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEWCudaIeIEqwil4YRAk1GAJ9UCxEzDGUqBd6hyPXgsUKDLjVYFQCg0W7t +yLYh7oOJiNVG8yjNmT8CCc= =4u+4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: daylight savings error on reboot
Apologies for a late reply. On 4/28/06, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe my system clock is set to UTC, and I don't have any other OS operating on the system. If your system clock is set to UTC it should never be changed for daylight savings time. If it is changed on every boot than you system probably doesn't know that it is supposed to be on UTC. there you are. In fact I was wrong about UTC -- though I've beenthrough many hardware changes I guess this is the first computer I installed debian on, and the only one I set to local time. Have now fixed this using the appropriate /etc/default/rcS settings, which I wasn't aware of before. and now everything works! thanks, matt
Re: tracking down a hard crash
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to tell what I need? You probably need to setup your lmsensors. try `sensors-detect` to get that going. ok, thanks andrew. after some missteps got everything working anw it's going well. I think I *may* have found my problem though. I was using a powerd usb/kvm switch which failed entirely this morning. Since I disconnected it mypower problems seem to have faded away. Hopefully that will bethe end of it -- and if now I will check the sensord log aftern extcrash. thanks, matt A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEWMTzaIeIEqwil4YRAv+9AKCuHUybQSXLHOU2Ki96+kMQ/5UiwQCgomSe iIwfcpZtq8irRR3Q4wmzChg= =Ilxw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine
Hi folks, My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage without much luck... In lieu of better parenting, I am trying to back up our dvd's using my dvd-burner. Most of these are dual-layer dvd-9 (8+ gigabytes) and I only have single-layer dvd-5 (4.7g) discs, so I need to do some kind of re-encoding. My dvd player claims to support Divx and Mpeg4, so I was *hoping* to do the following: - backup to hd with: dvdbackup -v 2 -M -i/dev/hdd -o/outputdir - transcode the individual VOB files to divx - create a dvd with: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd -dvd-video /outputdir I've hunted around a bit and I don't see a well-documented comprehensive solution to this problem. so my question: - is it actually possible to make a dvd file system using divx video files, or am I missing the boat somehow? If I *am* barking up the wrong tree, what solutions do other people use to make a dvd-9 to dvd-5 backup? I have seen several tools described: lxdvdrip; dvdrip;xdvdshrink;and drip. I'hve had problems with all of these: -drip segfaults; -xdvdshrink doesn't allow multiple audio tracks (so commentaries can't be ripped) and seems to havetrouble with subtitles; - I'm not entirely sure what lxdvdrip is supposedto be doing -- I ran it successfully, but the resulting directory was rather smaller than I expected I'm not sure how to generate an iso from it; - dvdrip almost always freezes up my user interface in any case, once it's finished ripping the files don't appear to have been transcoded and I can't tell what precisely I'm meant to do next. anyway, I would really appreciate any hints folks have or links to useful howtos. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
transcode erros [WAS: Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine]
Hi Andrew, On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: I've had good success with dvdrip, though I use it slightly differently. I'm ripping my dvd's and saving them as .avi's on my file server for easier watching in myth :) hey that's great. I think I might try that, as we are using our myth system pretty extensively now for tv. Unfortunately I am getting terrible transcode errors every time I try this. Here is an example: [transcode] A: import format| 0x2000 AC3 [48000,16,2] 384 kbps [transcode] A: export format| 0x55MPEG layer-3 [48000,16,2] 128 kbps [transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 23.976,1 [transcode] A: bytes per frame | 8008 (8008.00) [transcode] A: adjustment | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [transcode] V: IA32/AMD64 accel | sse (sse 3dnowext 3dnow mmxext mmx asm C) [transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x480 [transcode] warning : (dl_loader.c) loading /usr/lib/transcode/export_xvid4.so failed [transcode] warning : (encoder.c) loading audio export module failed [transcode] warning : failed to init export modules [transcode] critical: plug-in initialization failed --- libxvidcore4 is installed, as are most of the other suggests/recommends. I get similar errors with divx selected. /usr/lib/transcode/export_xvid4.so is installed, but for some reason does not load. gaah! driving me crazy. Thisi s on sid, but haven't done a full update for about 2 months (had sometrouble with evolution I think). matt
sensors, alarms, crashes!
Hi folks, as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord and lm-sensors and find that, even when my system appears to be working fine, I getthe following messages in syslog: May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: VCore 1: +1.78 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: VCore 2: +1.25 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +2.61 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: +3.3V: +3.10 V (min = +3.14 V, max = +3.47 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: +5V: +4.57 V (min = +4.76 V, max = +5.24 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: +12V: +13.06 V (min = +11.39 V, max = +12.61 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: -12V: -9.93 V (min = -12.63 V, max = -11.41 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: -5V: -4.63 V (min = -5.26 V, max = -4.77 V) [ALARM] May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3013 RPM, div = 8) [ALARM] so those of course don't look so good. Can anyone interpret this for me? I'm afraid I know very little about hardware at this level. I've also noticed that the crashes, which can come at just about any time, seem ot come particularly frequently when I'm using the dvd player and when CPU usage is fairly high (50% or more). I have however had top running during crashes and don't notice cpu usage rocketing up or anything. As always I appreciate the help. If I need to provide more specific hhardware info please let me know. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tracking down a hard crash
Hi folks, I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to date). They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- the computer locks hard in an X session (running xfce4 usually) and is inaccessible by ssh or any other. If amarok is running at the time it will sound as though a 1-second or shorter loop is playing; otherwise the only indication is the disappearance of the cursor and a nonfunctional keyboard/mouse. OTher programs that have been running using a fair bit of cpu at thetime of crash include firefox dvd::rip, as well as openoffice and audacity. I've looked in /var/log/messages/ syslog/ and dmesg and don't see anything special. I suppose probably whatever is causing the crash is also failing to give me the appropriate message. What kinds of things can I do to help identifiy the cause of the crash further? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daylight savings error on reboot
Hi Folks, On 4/27/06, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a wierd phebomenon. Every time I reboot, the clock gets set back an additional hour, as though my ocmputer were adjusting for daylight savings time again. I've noticed this ever the latest time change, though I had thought it was an error due to suspend2's hibernate/resume funciton. Now I notice that it happens on normal reboot as well. Any ideas how to diagnose fix this problem? Do you have Windows installed on the same computer as well? If not you should set your hardware clock to UTC. If the clock is set to local time how is it determined whether the daylight savings status has changed since last shutdown? sorry to be so imprecise, and I'm afraid I still have some uncertainties. I believe my system clock is set to UTC, and I don't have any other OS operating on the system. I check the time using date or date -u, also with the xfce clock applet. I use ntpdate (sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org) to update the clock; usually this is done on a cron job, but lately I've been updating by hand because of this problem. when run, ntpdate resets everything to normal, so the problem only lasts from bootup to the first running of ntpdate. I've checked in /var/log/messges and /var/log/syslog, andthe only references to clock arethe following in syslog: Apr 11 22:12:09 anarres kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Apr 20 07:17:36 anarres postfix/cleanup[1599]: warning: file system clock is 3568 seconds ahead of local clock Apr 21 07:00:03 anarres postfix/qmgr[9884]: warning: backward time jump detected -- slewing clock Apr 25 17:20:48 anarres kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Apr 26 06:00:08 anarres postfix/qmgr[9916]: warning: backward time jump detected -- slewing clock Apr 26 06:46:16 anarres kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 These don't seem to me to give much help, escept for the lone postfix message file system clock is ahead of local clock. I'm not exactly sure what that means though, any pointers? Thanks, Matt Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
daylight savings error on reboot
Hi folks, I'm having a wierd phebomenon. Every time I reboot, the clock gets set back an additional hour, as though my ocmputer were adjusting for daylight savings time again. I've noticed this ever the latest time change, though I had thought it was an error due to suspend2's hibernate/resume funciton. Now I notice that it happens on normal reboot as well. Any ideas how to diagnose fix this problem? Thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic
Hi everyone, I read in the recent hullaballoo about the release of gstreamer010 that kde is abandoning arts in favour of gstreamer. Now I don't use kde, but I do use gnome sometimes, and mostly xfce, and in both cases I route sound trhrough esd. This causes any number of incredibly frustrating problems, e.g. firefox now crashes every time it encounters a sound. So when I heard this about kde, I wondered whether it would be possible now to dispense with esd altogether and just make everything go directly through gstreamer (perhaps including system sounds etc). After many years of using these programs, I still don't understand them very well and wondered whether someone might clarify the relations among them the prospects for using gstreamer in the way I've just described. Thanks as always, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lost mysql root password
Hi folks, a while ago I switched over to mysql-5.0, then forgot about it entirely. Now I'm back to configuring some programs that use mysql, and... I can't seem to login as root or any other user. One option is just that I've forgotten all my passwords (it's been a while since I used any of the programs directly). Another is that some configureation issue has reset permissions or something. In any case I would like to avoid losing all my databases, so I'm wondering whetherthere's any way to force a reset of theroot password, or decrypt the permissions table, or whatever. I am *not* a cracker, I'm just a little incompetent. APpreciate any help you might give. Thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost mysql root password
Thanks everyone for your help, see below for more: On 3/3/06, anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 March 2006 09:49 am, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, a while ago I switched over to mysql-5.0, then forgot about it entirely. Now I'm back to configuring some programs that use mysql, and... I can't seem to login as root or any other user. if you installed using apt, you should have a file called /etc/mysql/debian.cnf . you should be able to use that username and password to log in and reset your password. this seemed the simplest of the options presented to me, and fortunately, voila! it owrked. I logged in, and had to use GRSNT statements to reset permissions: mysql grant all privileges on *.* to 'root'@'localhost' identified by 'apassword' with grant option; that worked fine. THen I was looking around and I notice that the user password seemed to have some dublicate rows in it: +--+--+---+ | host | User | Password | +--+--+---+ | localhost| root | hast 1 | anarres | root | hash 1 | | localhost| root | hash 2 | %| root | hash 2 +--+--+---+ [passwords are of course hidden in the above] hmm, that's odd I thought. what to do? It got odder when I tried: select * from user where User='root'; then only the second set of records showed up. on the other hand, mysql select User from user where User LIKE 'root%'; have all four. I guess there must be some white space in the username somewhere. Is there an easy way to identify the precise value of a mysql field (e.g. by dumping to a CSV file)? I'd like to try to figure out what went wrong, and deletethe defective lines. Thanks again for your help, it's so great to have this working. Matt I am *not* a cracker, I'm just a little incompetent. APpreciate any help you might give. Thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` hemi-geek `- -- -- anoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost mysql root password
do: select hex(User) from user where User LIKE 'root%'; that should give you the hex values of the characters that are there. have all four. I guess there must be some white space in the username somewhere. Is there an easy way to identify the precise value of a mysql field (e.g. by dumping to a CSV file)? I'd like to try to figure +--+ | hex(User)| +--+ | 726F6F74 | | 726F6F74202020202020202020202020 | | 726F6F74 | | 726F6F74202020202020202020202020 | +--+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) thanks anoop! I guess those 02's are spaces then... Looks like most of the user lines from my old db are corrupted in this way as well. wierd. Thanks much for your help! matt
Re: cvs for media files?
On 2/28/06, Michael Schurter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: However, the most important tool that AFAIK is missing, is a audio/video differencing tool - like diff for video. Without an AV diff tool you cannot resolve conflicts if two people change the same revision of a video file. If someone out there knows of some such tool - or thinks I'm way off - please respond! so, sounds like this doesn't exist. Bummer! Noneheless, it soundsl ike subversion at least makes the storage of large files more manageable (as compared to cvs). anyway, thanks for the help. Matt Michael Schurter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs for media files?
Hi folks, I'm going to be working on a collaborative audio documentary, probablay using audacity. I would love to do some kind of version control on the project, sowe could all work on the documentary at home then merge (and accept/reeject) our changes somehow. But probably this will involve incremental changes to a significant number of media files. Does anyone know whether there's a version-control system which can handle such changes to binary files easily and clearly? I don't know much about cvs its competitors, so this is just an out--of-the-blue question. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
networked music player that plays local AND remote files
Im not sure that what I am looking for exists, but given the diversity of programs out there, I feel like I must just be missing it. I have set up an old laptop as a stere component -- a kind of giant clunky ipod. Unfortunately, the hard drive is small enough that only a small fraction of my collection fits on it. Lots of the time this is fine, but sometimes I want to play some other stuff. Therefore what Id like best is a music player that (a) runs locally on the old laptop, and allows me to access that local hard drive; (b) can also access files on the local network -- perhaps files made availablethrough some server on my desktop; (c) allows playlists to be constructed on a third, remote computer -- say my new laptop -- through the use of some client program. (d) best case scenario, this whole system somehow integrates with rhythmbox or amarok. Ive looked into this a little bit and it somunds to me that what I am looking for is some kind of combination of slimserver and mpd. Or maybe mpd + nfs mounted file systems (how slow does THAT make things?). Anyone have any hints on how to proceed? Appreciate it as usual! thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues
On 2/18/06, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:42:52PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave this way. Hi Matt, you should google about firefox issue because as of late I saw an article where they exmplained that its memory uses was a 'feature' and not a 'bug'. Something about caches recent pages being more effiecient in the long run. Cheers, Kev ahh. Found that article! thanks. I'm not sure, though, that the memory leak issue is the same as this CPU usage problem. the high memory usage is supposed to make your browsing experience FASTER -- this issue with the cpu makes firefox agonizingly slow -- so slow that pages actually load faster with explorer on my girlfriend's windoze xp laptop, connected by wireless, than with firefox on my debian desktop, connected by ethernet. That doesn't happen with epiphany, for instance (but unfortunately I don'treally LIKE epiphany...). I'll keep hunting around though. Matt -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD952Ov8UcC1qRZVMRAi2RAJ9oL/dB9mi/zVa1B/1Q+gr7R7mHeQCfWQ16 LOyqMAiTg8QR5y/uffDBssE= =vYTo -END PGP SIGNATURE-
long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues
Upgraded recently to firefox 1.5, andhtought for a while that my longstanding issues with cpu usage were solved. Now I'm having the same problems I had long ago -- cpu up to as high as 98+ percent when opening new tabs, loading certain pages, performing actions like e.g. quitting firefox. I have several extensions and perhaps they are to blame, ubt I find it amazing that this application can be so cpu greedy. I've been tracing the cpu usage using 'top', but it would be nice if I could get a more specific sense of what is causing the issue. arethere other tools that one oculd use to diagnose this problem? and is there anyone out there who had had, and then solved, a similar issue? SOmetimes the behaviour can be quite disconcerting -- for instance, as I've been writing this issue, cpu has remained in the 90%+ range even though I was able to successfully close all open windows in tht time. So firefox is still eating cycles, eventhough the windows are all gone. so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave this way. Thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching / to lvm
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can play with things as you like, but I wouldn't do it. I had problems with LVM and got rid of it. Over on Fedora, I've only seen one say I'm glad I used LVM, but on a regular basis someone gets bitten. Agreed. I haven't used LVM, but if you're having problems with a flaky drive, adding another layer of complexity (LVM, software RAID, etc) won't usually end up helping. Well, he did say he was replacing the drive. [snip] well, just to attach the answer to the thread: I tried various things ( installing a number of stock and custom kernels, generating various initrds using initramfs yaird, chroots, grub-installs, etc... In the end, I did the following: -shrank the logical volume with my main system by about 5 gigs -did a quick server install of ubuntu dapper with manual partition -- I used the same /boot partition as I use for the main system, put the new system on the new lv, and left the main lv alone. -at boot time, manually edited the kernel stanza to pointt o my main system. - voila! it worked! Now I've permanently edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and the system seems to be booting just fine. Presumably there was some problem either with the way I was installing grub OR with the menu.lst listings I myself had tried. either way, it works now. not exactly a success, but a crude hack anyway. Matt Mike --
kded crash while running amarok in xfce
hi folks, trying to make amarok work in a minimal laptop environment I want to use as an mp3/ogg player for my stereo. It's an hp omnibook 4000 with 233mHz processor 96megs ram (this may be part of the issue, I don't know). When I try starting amarok, I get (after some harmless stuff I see on other systems): DCOP aborting (delayed) call from anonymous-14452' to 'lded' lded: error: communication problem with kded, it probably crashed .. after which a couple more messages, then the crash. I know nothing about kde -- just that I love amarok! -- anyone have any suggestions? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
switching / to lvm
my /dev/hda is getting a little flaky, so I am replacing it with a new one. I also am tired of constantly juggling partitions around ( I made too many when I setthis ocmputer up) so I am looking to try out lvm. I've set up a new disk as follows: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 31 248976 83 Linux /dev/hde2 329729778991855 Extended /dev/hde5 32972977899153+ 8e Linux LVM within the lvm I have one partition for / and so far no others (may change that e.g. to give /var its own fs). This setup will be great, I hope, but it also means that the lvm needs to be active on boot. I notice two things: 1 -- my current kernel doesn't use an initrd doesn't have lvm support compiled into the main kernel. (I'm assuming this is CONFIG_MD which is set to M -- I don't see any other obvious config options) I think I can do this manually with yaird or mkinitrd -- am I correct in thinking so? I'd like to avoid recompiling as i use several 3rd-party modules the suspend2 patches, which makes compilation cumbersome. 2 -- I notice that the lvm isn't recognized and activated on reboot -- I assume this is because I don't have the requisite vgscan -ay in my init scripts. I don't like messing witht hose manually -- I'm wondering whether I'm somehow missing the package that would have installed these scripts, or whether that package needs to be reinstalled. Haven't found an obvious candidate. Appreciate the help as always. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]
On 1/22/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old fashioned way. If that does not work, mknod /dev/hda b 3 0. tried this with no success -- /dev/hda10 still doesn't get recreated. Let me reiterate the main problem -- I tried to dist-upgrade my system (debian sid, about 6 months outdated, running on a blue white Mac g3), and when udev wouldn't install, I apt-getted a newer kernel to try again; rebooted, now my system doesn't find /dev/hda -- which is where my /var is located, which means apt-get doesn't work at all, so udev can't be installed... Trying to do a better job of diagnosingthis problem. I no longer think the problem is with udev per se, despite the fact that a udev incompatibility is what helped make the system unusable. I tried booting with my old (2.6.10) kernel found that the system boots properly, that hda is found the relevant partitions mounted, that my ethernet is recognized mounted. So the problem -- that, while my scsi disks are recognized mounted, my IDE disk isn't, and my ethernet isn't found -- is presumably to do with the stock 2.6.15-powerpc I installed in an effort to get udev installed my dist-upgrade complete. Unfortunately I do still need this kernel, so that I can finish my system-destroying dist-upgrade. I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up right now (e.g. even gcc is only partly installed) that I don'tthink things like make-kpkg are working. so I'd appreciate help on either of 2 solutions: 1 - find a wayto downgrade udev undo the dist-upgrade, which I can temporarily put off until I get a 2.5.12+ kernel to work properly. 2 - with the system in this somewhat messed up state, figure out what's wrong with the 2.6.15 kernel fix it somehow I'm not especially optimistic -- but thanks for any help you canoffer! matt ps, in case anyone's wondering, I did look a little at my config-2.6.x files. while idedisk support is compiled into my old kernel, it's a module in the new, stock kernel; however, I used modconf successfully to add idedisk tothe running kernel; installation succeeded, but /dev/hda still wasn't recognized.I should perhaps say that my system was already screwed when I installed linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc, I had to manually wget dpkg -i various kernel tools -- yaird some mkinitrd tools as I recall. don't know if this is the root or the problem.
Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up right now (e.g. even gcc is only partly installed) that I don'tthink things like make-kpkg are working. so I'd appreciate help on either of 2 solutions: 1 - find a wayto downgrade udev undo the dist-upgrade, which I can temporarily put off until I get a 2.5.12+ kernel to work properly. 2 - with the system in this somewhat messed up state, figure out what's wrong with the 2.6.15 kernel fix it somehow I'm not especially optimistic -- but thanks for any help you canoffer! matt ps, in case anyone's wondering, I did look a little at my config-2.6.x files. while idedisk support is compiled into my old kernel, it's a module in the new, stock kernel; however, I used modconf successfully to add idedisk tothe running kernel; installation succeeded, but /dev/hda still wasn't recognized.I should perhaps say that my system was already screwed when I installed linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc, I had to manually wget dpkg -i various kernel tools -- yaird some mkinitrd tools as I recall. don't know if this is the root or the problem. There have been some problems with yaird IIRC so this may be your problem. Although I thought it was fixed now (dont use initrd). Couple of things to try. 1) boot from live cd and compile a kernel with 2.6.15 sources. 2) Grab a older kernel from testing 2.6.12 and dpkg-i that. 2) is probably easier. HTH Wackojacko ok, hadn't thought about testing. will try (2) -- if that doesn't work, will attempt the abysmally slow (1) (only have Ubuntu livecd, which runs very slow on my aging g3). Unfotunately I think I do need an initrd -- my / is on a scsi disk so scsi support needs to be preloaded. I'll let you know the results soon... m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up right now (e.g. even gcc is only partly installed) that I don'tthink things like make-kpkg are working. so I'd appreciate help on either of 2 solutions: 1 - find a wayto downgrade udev undo the dist-upgrade, which I can temporarily put off until I get a 2.5.12+ kernel to work properly. 2 - with the system in this somewhat messed up state, figure out what's wrong with the 2.6.15 kernel fix it somehow I'm not especially optimistic -- but thanks for any help you canoffer! matt ps, in case anyone's wondering, I did look a little at my config-2.6.x files. while idedisk support is compiled into my old kernel, it's a module in the new, stock kernel; however, I used modconf successfully to add idedisk tothe running kernel; installation succeeded, but /dev/hda still wasn't recognized.I should perhaps say that my system was already screwed when I installed linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc, I had to manually wget dpkg -i various kernel tools -- yaird some mkinitrd tools as I recall. don't know if this is the root or the problem. There have been some problems with yaird IIRC so this may be your problem. Although I thought it was fixed now (dont use initrd). Couple of things to try. 1) boot from live cd and compile a kernel with 2.6.15 sources. 2) Grab a older kernel from testing 2.6.12 and dpkg-i that. 2) is probably easier. HTH tried (2) -- found a 2.6.12 kernel there -- unfortunately the scsi drivertherein is broken, so nothing mounts at all (!). I did get a hint watching messages fly by -- I see that 2.6.12, at leastthe ubuntu version, detects cd before detecting the hd -- so it sees my partitions as hdcX. acompiling under a livecd is so slow, I have resorted to a variant -- installed server version of ubuntu onto a cleared partition on /dev/hda[c], and am trying to compile 2.6.15 from there. we'll see how it goes. whew! matt Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]
On 1/23/06, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (23/01/06 07:34), Matt Price wrote: To: debian users debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian users debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org From: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade] Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:34:40 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=3.1.0 On 1/22/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip so I'd appreciate help on either of 2 solutions: 1 - find a wayto downgrade udev undo the dist-upgrade, which I can temporarily put off until I get a 2.5.12+ kernel to work properly. 2 - with the system in this somewhat messed up state, figure out what's wrong with the 2.6.15 kernel fix it somehow I'm not especially optimistic -- but thanks for any help you canoffer! matt another snip If you haven't apt-get|aptitude cleaned, you may have an earlier version of udev in /var/cache/apt/archives. If so, just do, as root, dpkg -i udev_0.079-1_i386.deb (or whatever other udev...deb is there. thanks john! that was the way forward -- did as you suggested, compiled a new 2.6.15 kernel that WORKS, and have now completed the dist-upgrade! now if only I could get gnome or kde to install... but I assume that's just an issue with kernel versions. thanks loads! m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1Re6eBOf6ZlCGmMRAi/4AKCsV6eKjYfijGbZtEXq5tbtcOrJ2wCgm0EX Y3q86gVU7ZDiAeMxZfcPXrc= =nWWC -END PGP SIGNATURE-
system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade
hey folks, so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10 kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with 1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certain amount of effort, I installed a 2.6.15 kernel rebooted. first sign something was wrong came when I found I couldn't ssh into the system. fortunately there's a monitor attached, I found I could log in andthat it had booted fine, but that, while partitions on my scsi bus had mounted fine, none of the hda partitions had mounted properly -- I assume because of udev problems. This may be jumping to ocnclusions though; /dev/sda /dev/sdb devices exist, but no /dev/hda can be found. I've never had problems with that disk, though, and it seemsunlikely it just failed right when I was installing an ew system! unfortunately /var/cache/apt/archives is a symlink pointing to a directory on another partition. since I can't mount that partition, I can't run apt-get install -f, so can't install udev, so can't fix the absence of device nodes which makes it impossible to mount the partition which makes it impossible to run apt-get ... So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Can anyone give me some advice? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a ppc-specific problem On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old fashioned way. If that does not work, mknod /dev/hda b 3 0. tried this with no success -- /dev/hda10 still doesn't get recreated. Let me reiterate the main problem -- I tried to dist-upgrade my system (debian sid, about 6 months outdated, running on a blue white Mac g3), and when udev wouldn't install, I apt-getted a newer kernel to try again; rebooted, now my system doesn't find /dev/hda -- which is where my /var is located, which means apt-get doesn't work at all, so udev can't be installed... just tried creating the devices manually as per Linas's suggestion but no go. took a peek in syslog and it seems the cdrom drive is being identified as /dev/hda; the native pci bus is invisible. tried modprobing the generic ide driver but, while that succeeded, no /dev/hd devices were created. So it appears to me that my ide bus is now invisible somehow. tried lspci and it seems some things are missing -- e.g. no ethernet device is showing (and in fact ifup eth0 gives a no such device error); but there is a listing for Silicon Image, Inc.. PCI 0646 (rev 5) Not sure if that is my ide controller or not. Anyway, so something fundamental appears to be screwed up, and Im not sure how to proceed next. I of course appreciate any and all advice on how to proceed. thanks! Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts
hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop I have no idea how to do the same thing there (I've pretty well never used windows except at web kiosks things). so, any suggestions? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts
On 1/20/06, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop I have no idea how to do the same thing there (I've pretty well never used windows except at web kiosks things). so, any suggestions? Yes - try Google before posting here. :-) On the second hit, I got this link: http://accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html ok,ok -- guilty as charged, my apologies, thanks though! matt thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting proper resolution on my lcd
On 1/19/06, Ken Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:42:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, just got a brnad new dell 1905fp, which mostly works great. Having trouble getting it to display at its native 1280x1024, though. Instead I seem to have it at 1162x1054, which would be fine, but the fonts look a little bit unsharp. Hi Matt, I'm no X.org master but I've had this problem before and it turned out that refresh rates that were auto-detected were incorrect. Going on a hunch I looked up the specs for your monitor here: http://urlx.org/dell.com/2e07 and it shows that the max vertical sync rate is 75Hz and horizontal sync rate is 80KHz. Your x.org conf has the max vert as 76.0. Try editing this value to 75.0 and see if that will get rid of those out of range errors and allow you to use 1280x1024. HTH and Good Luck, Ken ken, thanks for the suggestion. I've done as you suggested, at the same time upgraded to xorg 6.9. Not sure which of these solved the problem, but in any case in works now and I haveto say it looks SHARP. matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quickly add jfs support to kernel?
Hi folks, when I made my current kernel I had never heard of jfs , since I was having trouble ocmpiling, unchecked it in make xconfig. Now I want to use jfs for storing large (video) files. Is there a way to quickly add jfs support without recompiling the whole kernel? I use a couple of out--of-tree modules, so it's a real pain to compile the whole thing again. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setting proper resolution on my lcd
) (WW) (1680x1050,DELL 1905FP) mode clock 147.14MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz (WW) (1920x1200,DELL 1905FP) mode clock 193.16MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz (II) NV(0): Not using default mode 1920x1200 (hsync out of range) (II) NV(0): Not using default mode 960x600 (hsync out of range) (II) --- (II) NV(0): Not using default mode 1280x1024 (width too large for virtual size) (II) NV(0): Not using default mode 1280x1024 (width too large for virtual size) (--) NV(0): Virtual size is 1152x864 (pitch 1152) (**) NV(0): *Default mode 1152x864: 108.0 MHz, 67.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz -- So, I don't know much about this, but the display seems to think 1280x1024 is too big -- which I'm pretty sure is false. googling around I found this thread from July 2005: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2005/06/msg00490.html but had trouble interpreting it /or using it as a guide. Does this perhaps suggest I should upgrade my xserver-xorg packages? anyway, all hel as usual thankfully received. Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OOo crashes, fails to restore!!
sorry for the exclamation points. Just lost a crucial day's work -- in fact this is breakdown-inducing stuff -- failed to save regularly, and OOo crashed without warning. Went to restore, and instead of restoring, OOo (2.0.0.4, sid) seems to have just flushed the cache. now I've lost a day's work. partly myself to blame. but partly something is broken in ooo! have to sign off before I start crying. matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OOo crashes, fails to restore!!
On 12/12/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: sorry for the exclamation points. Just lost a crucial day's work -- in fact this is breakdown-inducing stuff -- failed to save regularly, and OOo crashed without warning. Went to restore, and instead of restoring, OOo (2.0.0.4, sid) seems to have just flushed the cache. now I've lost a day's work. partly myself to blame. but partly something is broken in ooo! have to sign off before I start crying. Interesting. The few times that I have used OOo, it has autosaved at regular intervals. When I was brave and running beta versions, the restore always worked after a crash. That said (and I don't mean to start a flame war) why not use something more productive like LaTeX? You don't mention that you are doing database or spreadsheet type things, but if you all you are doing is presentations and document composition, LaTeX is far superior. Though, you do need to get past the learning curve. yes well, never seem to have the time when I need to get my writing done... identified the problem: partition was full (mail attack). OOo couldn't write the backps, and when it did the recovery, it erased the backup files before they were actually restored. It's a bug I guess ,so I will file one upstream when I have a chance. Matt -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
sort amarok playlists on multiple fields?
hi folks, all you amarok fans out there (I know there's lots), anyone know a way to sort amarok playlists on multiple fields? so, for instance, can one sort First by Artist Then by Album Then by track number so that the playlist goes through your collection album by album? I'd really like to be able to do that. thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.
On 12/5/05, Gnu-Raiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11:23, Mon 05 Dec 05, Matt Price wrote: Hi there, I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under Canadian law, so please let's not get into that. I made the copy in the following way: dd if=/dev/hdd of=dvd_file.iso then dvdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao dvd_file.iso I did md5sum checks on the original disk, the copy on my hd, and the copied disk. All come out the same. The .iso file on my computer plays fine under vlc, though I have some trouble with totem and mplayer.However, the copied dvd doesn't play back properly under any player. [...] You also might want to read up on the dvd backup process, most of the time it involves ripping out the vob's off the disk. Once you have the vobs, you should be able to do whatever you need to them. Even if you make a bit copy of a dvd, depending on the dvd, and the drm it might not work. After all it copied all the drm over, and is bitwise correct of the original which might or might not want you to watch the dvd on your computer. THanks for the suggestions. Just for the archive, I hunted faround as per your advice found the source of my problem: I recorded onto a dvd-r disc, which has a copy-protected ring att he beginning of the volume; since, apparently, dvdcss looks for css keys in these opening bits, it doesn't matter that the keys are contained in the backup image I burned; therefore, in order to make a backup, decryption is necessary. So dd won't work, and dvdbackup is necessary isntead. Thus I used this method, found here: http://www.johnvansickle.com/dvdbackup $ dvdbackup -v 2 -M -i/dev/hdd -o/outputdir $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd -dvd-video /outputdir worked great on the first try -- since this was a dvd-5, there was no need to transcode or recompress the files, and the burn took less than half an hour on my cheap plextor 16x burner.
dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.
Hi there, I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under Canadian law, so please let's not get into that. I made the copy in the following way: dd if=/dev/hdd of=dvd_file.iso then dvdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao dvd_file.iso I did md5sum checks on the original disk, the copy on my hd, and the copied disk. All come out the same. The .iso file on my computer plays fine under vlc, though I have some trouble with totem and mplayer.However, the copied dvd doesn't play back properly under any player. I find this odd since, as I said, the md5sums are all the same. When mounted as iso9660, loop, the filesystem looks identical to the one on the hard drive. I can't really figure out what I've done wrong. Are there tricks regarding css, or anything else, that might help me here? was the -dao option a possible source of error? this is the first dvd I've burned so I don't have much experience with this stuff. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stereo component from laptop?
On 12/1/05, Rumble, Lee Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand you want to use debian or some variant there of. Have you thought about QNX ? You can run/install that live from cd or onto Hard drive and it works on most pc's! Granted its in development and more can be done to improve it, but its is very powerful and has a decent music player, and is very easy to use. huh, interesting. I hadn't thought about it at all -- I'm pretty familiar with Debian have a version thereof on this system already -- I was thinking my main objective would be to pare down the system I've got, rather than install something altogether new... Are you saying there's a live CD? Maybe once I get through the registration process on the website I'll figure out how to find it Anyway thanks! I will consider it. Though if someone had some suggestions about debian-based players, I'd also welcome them... Matt -Original Message- From: Matt Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2005 20:10 To: debian users; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: stereo component from laptop? On 11/30/05, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to ^ er, thats 30 gigs, sorry!
merging Openoffice docs in unison
Hi folks, I'm experimenting with Unison to keep my computers in sync with each other. Unison has this cool merge feature which allows you to compare file versions in an external program reconcile changes. It would be great if I could do this with my OOo docs, where most of my work takes place, and where most of my synchronization comfusion comes from. Has anyone tried anything of this kind? Any hints? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stereo component from laptop?
Hi folks, as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to figure out which audio player to use and, more generally, how to configure the interface for maximum efficiency and ease of use by my (non-technical) family members. Here's a few considerations: KERNEL: I want to support my PCMCIA wireless card, the suspend2 kernel patches from suspend2.net, and hopefully ACPI, so I think I will go with a recent 2.6 kernel and udev. I know this is a significant strain on the limited CPU/RAM resources, but I hope it's not fatal. GUI: When I had a little more RAM in this machine I used XFCE4, but I'm wondering if I should switch to something even more stripped down. Because security is of limited importance now (I'd want anyone to be able to just start the thing up) I would also be interested in dropping WDM and just starting X directly (I used to do that at one point; don't really remember how, but am sure I can dredge it back up). My only requirements are that it be pretty to look at and relatively intuitive for a Windows user (so, window behaviour should be pretty similar to 'doze). PLAYER: The idea would be to play mp3's and cd's off of this thing. My family hates using xmms; they find it hard to look at and a little disconcerting, I think mostly because ofthe multiple windows. Also there's no built-in playlist manager, which confuses them. I've lately taken to using Amarok on my desktop, which I find a pretty satisfying experience (though occacionally buggy, e.g. crashes when it encounters a radio stream it doesn't like). But I hesitate to install something that depends so heavily on the kde environment to work. Haven't used Rhythmbox for a while, but it used to crash on my all the time when I did use it. BMP is easier to look at than xmms is, but it still doesn't have a playlist manager (far as I can tell). [by playlist manager I mean a usable GUI that lets you choose among playlist you've created. Not sure this is the right term...] So none of the options with which I'm familiar seem perfect. Does anyone have any suggestions? Like, can amarok work without loading hundreds of megs of kde/qt stuff into memory? Is there a playlist manager plugin for bmp? It would be great if all of this worked well enough for a 10-year-old to be able to use it. SOUND DAEMON: I'm used to using esd , seems to work ifne, thought I'd stick with it unless there are other suggestions... Thanks much fory our help! Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stereo component from laptop?
On 11/30/05, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to ^ er, thats 30 gigs, sorry!
spam howto
Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter spamassassin in the past I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there? Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
post-hibernation tasks
Hi there, I am enjoying having suspend2 running on my desktop (yay!) and now want to tweak it a bit. On resume I'd like to have acouple ofhtings happen: - I want to run getmail for the main user -- this is the mosti mportant - also I'd like to check regarding various cronjobs tht haven't been excuted. I think anacron will do osme of this, but I am thinking about, e.g.: when this machine was always on, I had a script that automatically recorded my favourite radio station during certain hours of hte day (using streamripper). Now I would like to modify this so htat, when the machine wakes up, it checks in with some script to see whether we're in the recordable timeslot; if so, it picks up recording and continues until the end of the timeslot. I htink there may be other similar tasks, which like this one should be run if possible, but if not it'sreally no big deal. SO just wondering if anyone has ideas how to do such a thing. thanks much, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible...
On 11/15/05, Eric van der Paardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Martin Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:20 AM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible... -snip- So far I haven't been able to get all three of these together in one kernel. Suspend2 doesn't appear to be a problem -- though after I apply the suspend2 patch I generally have to uncheck a bunch of extraneous module options in menuconfig. Suspend2 + pcmcia almost works for me; currently my main problem is that, *SOMETIMES*, after suspension, I get this: kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 5 after which eth0 (a pcmcia NIC) is dead till reboot, and in fact even rebooting is blocked by this persistent message, which fills up my kernel log at intervals of 1 to 15 seconds. Hmm, interesting. Probably you should get your 'hibernate' script to forcefully unload the pcmcia modules and the cardbus modules + probably hack it so it does and /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop before it goes to sleep. That way it'd probably be working back once you're resumed. You then just push back in the modules, restart pcmcia and there you go. If you need detailed instructions on how to do that, let me know. I have the same laptop running Debian and can confirm that you have to write some shell scripts to unload the PCMCIA drivers for suspend and resume to work. In addition to the PCMCIA drivers I also had to remove all the audio drivers for sound to work after resume. For me the magic combination was down the network, unload the WLAN, unload the audio, unload the PCMCIA, and then suspend. On resume it was; load audio, load PCMCIA, then load WLAN, and then fire up DHCP... Net result was a machine that suspended, but took nearly as long as shutting it down and restarting it. I don't recall using any kernel patches to do any of this, but as this is my sons laptop it has been a long while... so I could very well be wrong... as I do remember being leery to mess with ACPI as it's horribly broke on this machine and has been known to render them useless. E hmm. Don't have the laptop on me right now, but I know I bring down the PCMCIA interface before hibernation using the hibernate script. I think the unregister_netdevice issue is a problem with the latest kernel, as I haven't really seen it with earlier (2.6.12) kernels. I'm wondering whether either one of you could send me a .config for a working kernel -- Eric, sounds like you don't necessarily have access to yours all the time -- but It would be nice to see if soneone else's config also broke on my system, or whether the problem is in my configuration. A bummer about ACPI. I actually find that, with the exception of rendering cardbus *unusable* on my machine, acpi seems to work pretty well for me, at least with the most recent kernel. I was reminded of why I like it today during lecture, when I went to move my laptop off a piece of paper it was sitting on, accidentally hit the power switch, and powered off accidentally! It would be nice if the power button could be mapped to something else, like e.g. a dialog do you really want to turn off your computer? Anyway thanks, I will certainly add some additional protection to the suspend script see if that helps. Matt
kernel upgrade, no console
recently compiled a new kernel (2.6.14, with suspend2 patches applied) found that a) on boot the screen stayed blank until gdm started up, and b) once the system was up pressing ctrl-alt-f1 gave a wierd mash of colors, so that the console is unusable (or almost -- once or twice I've been able to switch into console and issue a couple of blind commands, like /etc/init.d/gdm restart). I was able to fix the former by removing the vga= option from the kernel line in my grub entry, but the latter remains broken. I assume this has something to do with the framebuffer (maybe?), but I have e.g. VESA and VGA support compiled into the kernel (not modules as I have no initrd on this system -- wasn't working with suspend2, doubtless b/c of my incompetence). Not sure if I'm missing some other crucial factor. Anyone who can tell me where to look in my .config? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel-compile-troubleshooting -- help with a howto
module, and re-run; once or twice I've been unable to do this because the failing module is one I absolutely need. In such cases, I just rerun make-kpkg, cross my fingers, and hope it works this time. Astonishingly, this method sometimes works, which indicates to me that I REALLY don't understand what's going on!. Boot Problems Even when a kernel compiles, sometimes it will not boot properly. Usually this is because some essential options are missing. Listed here are some showstopper options which really must be enabled if your kernel is to work: Device Drivers * ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support o Include IDE/ATA-2 DIST support PCI IDE chipset support Generic PCI bus-master DMA support [your IDE chipset!] File Systems * Second Extended fs support (I also say y to all further ext2 options) Ext3 journalling file system support (I also say y to all further ext3 options) Initrd Support The stock Debian kernels use an initrd or initial Ram Disk to jumpstart the boot process -- a tiny virutal disk is created in memory, and (as I understand it) a bunch of kernel modules are loaded into that virtual disk. This means that, during the inital boot stages, when the kernel may not be able to locate the root filesystems (where modules are normally stored), the most important modules are nonetheless available. Afterwards those modules can be unloaded. This lets you build a very modular kernel. So usually it's a good idea to build an initrd. Sometimes though it doesn't seem to work -- for instance, I just cannot get software-suspend2-patched kernels to load an initrd (despite howtos on the website). In this case all showstopper modules must be built as integral parts of the kernel, NOT as modules. Also, I often uncheck initrd-related options from the kernel when I make a non-initrd version. I think this is just superstition, though. -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unregister_netdevice
Hi folks, with a new 2.6.14 kernel, I am getting this message: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 5 repeated ad nauseum in dmesg after ejecting my pcmcia nic (xircom something or other, rebranded by IBM). not only can I not reload the card, I am unable to shut down properly. I see this has been reported on the net as a kernel bug with previous kernel versions, and I'm wondering whether, if the bug's poppedu p again, there's really any thing to do. thanks, Matt
bash, read, and tab completion
I'm writing a script to make sure I keep good records while experimenting with kernel parameters. between make menuconfig and make-kpkg kernel-image I want to make sure that I save my .config in a safe location. In bash I supose this is easy: echo -n Save this config as: read filename cp .config $filename however, there's no guarantee there that I've inputted a valid path. Is there a way to do the following while 'read'ing: - provide a default value (e.g. /usr/src/configs/latest-config) - provide bash-style tab completion (so that I can be sure I'm saving in a valid directory) I don't notice any hints in this direction in the ABS, but probably I'm just missing them. Guiadance appreciated! thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php5
On 11/9/05, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Wiki wrote:
Is website actualized alaways when new stable is public?
Could you rephrase that please? I don't understand.
this presumably means, is the website updated ('actual' in most
european languages means current, or up-to-date; English isthe
exception) when the transition from one stable distro to the next is
made
answer: yes.
Re: OpenOffice.org Help File??
On 11/9/05, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Grieveson wrote: All of which seem to be for OpenOffice.org 1.1 and will break my OOo 2.0 installation. Paul Scott A quick search of the Debian unstable packages revealed this help package: Package openoffice.org-help-en * unstable http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/openoffice.org-help-en (doc): OpenOffice.org office suite help (English) 1.1+20040420-3: all So, perhaps checking Synaptic to see if this package has been installed will solve your OOo2.0 help issues. Good luck. Again that package is for OOo 1.1x and is incompatible with 2.0. Installing it removes OOo 2.0 Paul as I understand it the ooo-help packages are currently unbuildable using Free java (gij,-4.0, I guess). I think certain functions from propietary Sun java implementations are used in the stnadard help build process. so upshot is: no OOo help in debian. I have not heard that this situation is going to get any better... matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk
On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antonio Paiva wrote: Hi all. I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? Thanks, Please, if you get any progress or regress, let us know! I'd love to be able to have my UPS make my computer suspend to disc when it started to run down. for that I'm pretty sure you would want both suspend2 (suspends very reliably, make your kernel w/out initrd though which means ext2 ext3 as pats of kernel, not as modules) acpi (reads power-related signals from power button etc). I have both working on a desktop w/ 2.6.13.4 kernel, I love it! Now if only I could get suspend2, acpi, and pcmcia all working in the smae kernel build, my laptop would be just as good (sigh). matt
pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade
hi folks, in an effort to get acpi workingo n my laptop (THinkpad 600e) I've upgraded to 2.6.14 kernel. Seemswo work fine! Except I'm having trouble with my wireless card (D-Link DWL-650+). The third-party driver compiled andi nstalled fine, but when I insert the card I get the message: cs: pcmcia_socket1: cardbus cards are not supported. Now, I think that I've configured the kernel to support cardbus -- here's the relevant bits of my config file, as installed by the .deb I made: # Linux kernel version: 2.6.14-suspend2-upstream-p2 # Sun Nov 6 21:34:11 2005 # snip # # Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) # CONFIG_PCI=y # snip # PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support # CONFIG_PCCARD=m # CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS=y CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y # # PC-card bridges # CONFIG_YENTA=m CONFIG_PD6729=m CONFIG_I82092=m CONFIG_I82365=m CONFIG_TCIC=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y CONFIG_PCCARD_NONSTATIC=m # # # Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support # CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES=m # CONFIG_PCMCIA_SPECTRUM is not set CONFIG_AIRO_CS=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_ATMEL=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_WL3501=m # # PCMCIA network device support # CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C589=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C574=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_FMVJ18X=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_PCNET=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_NMCLAN=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_SMC91C92=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_XIRC2PS=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_AXNET=m CONFIG_ARCNET_COM20020_CS=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_IBMTR=m just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy hints as to what I might have done wrong here? Or what the next debugging step would be? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade
On 11/7/05, mikepolniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: hi folks, just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy hints as to what I might have done wrong here? Or what the next debugging step would be? thanks, I think you have all the necessary CONFIG's, but is the cardmgr daemon running (/etc/init.d/pcmcia)? yeah, it's up and running. My very old 10 mbps ethernet card works fine (well, some trouble after resume from suspend, but that's another issue I think); the wireless card, and a newer NIC (IBM10/100etherjet) both produce that cardbus-related error, which I guess comes from yenta (googe locates some patches submitted to the yenta project a year or so ago). so possibly the cardbus support is broken in my kernel? seems weird... matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
