Upgrading Buster LTS (10) to Bookworm (current stable) concerns
Hi,
I plan to upgrade a server running Buster to Bookworm.
Server is running: {web,mail} servers, mysql and postregre, docker, ssh, ldap,
ferm (firewall), and few other non-critical services.
I'd like to appeal to your experience for a couple concerns:
1) Should I upgrade in two steps from Buster to Bullseye (oldstable), and then
to Bookworm? Or should I go directly from Buster to Bookworm in one step?
The upgrade will be done by changing sources.list
2) To the best of your knowledge, do docker images break between such upgrades?
Unfortunately, I don't have many details on docker because it was set-up by a
previous admin.
If any big break/incompatibility comes to mind for the above services, please
don't hesitate to share your story :)
Cheers!
Nick
Re: mutt imap_headers [solved]
On 2019-03-31 17:07 BST, Nick wrote: > The not so good: no marker appears until I open messages. I > had expected that my imap_headers setting would cause the marker to > appear on all the qualifying messages in the index. How can I make > that happen? Solved: close mutt, delete .hcache files under ~/.mutt/cache, reopen mutt. Thanks to kevin8t8 in freenode #mutt. -- Nick
mutt imap_headers
A question about mutt over imap in stretch. In my .muttrc (what I think are the relevant lines), set imap_headers = "X-SPAM-STATUS" set index_format="%H %Z %d %-15.15F %s" spam "X-Spam-Status: Yes" "spam" The good part: when I open a message having the header "X-Spam-Status: Yes", the "spam" marker appears in the index in place of "%H". The not so good: no marker appears until I open messages. I had expected that my imap_headers setting would cause the marker to appear on all the qualifying messages in the index. How can I make that happen? Thanks -- Nick
Re: Just a test
On 2018-12-16 16:36 GMT, Default User wrote: > You failed. > > : ) Sadly, I did! I wanted to see how compatible my recent postfix changes are with mailing lists. My postfix used header_checks to look for a spoofed From: header, aiming to reject outside mail that pretends to come from my domain. But the copy of my post came back from the list with my original From: so my check rejected it as spoofed. That might not matter so long as I remain subscribed and can see other posts and replies. But then the listmasters told me I might be kicked for bouncing. I don't see an easy way to make the header check ignore mailing lists so I've dropped it now. -- Nick
Just a test
Please ignore or make humorous replies, as you prefer. -- Nick
Passphrase prompt on boot
Short version: why doesn't my PC prompt for its passphrase on tty1? Long version... I have a 'stretch' PC used as a home server, so it doesn't normally require a monitor and keyboard. It has an encrypted filesystem and on boot it asks for the passphrase with this prompt, Please unlock disk sda3_crypt: To do without the monitor and keyboard, I changed my /etc/default/grub to make the prompt appear on a serial console. The non-blank, non-comment lines are GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 quiet" GRUB_TERMINAL="console serial" GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=115200 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1" This works in that with a serial console attached, both the grub menu and the 'Please unlock' prompt appear on the serial console, then I can type the passphrase and boot continues normally. Unfortunately it no longer works with an attached monitor and keyboard. The grub menu appears on the monitor, followed by boot messages but then it stops with no prompt on the monitor. At this point I can go to the serial console and supply the passphrase there, then the messages resume on the monitor. The monitor and keyboard then work normally. How to get the 'Please unlock' prompt on both the serial console and on the local tty1? Thanks -- Nick
VPS and network traffic
This isn't strictly a debian issue but perhaps there are enough people here running debian on VPSs that someone can explain... I configured monit on a low traffic 'stretch' VPS to alert me about upload or downloads that exceed 1.2MB in a ten minute period. For uploads it works. For downloads it doesn't because monit sees downloads continuously at a rate of about 6MB per 10m (it fluctuates around there in range of typically 1 - 2MB). I ran 'nethogs' and saw an unexpected (to me) result. nethogs reports bandwidth between ip addresses where neither address is on my VPS. For example (reformatted and with the addresses changed), PID USERPROGRAM ? root90.94.130.147:80-47.35.225.43:33034 DEVSENT RECEIVED 0.000 1.285 KB/sec Whenever I've checked, 'whois' reports one or both ip addressses as belonging to my VPS provider. nethogs reports dozens of lines like this at a time, i.e. with alien ips, no PID and no DEV. (nethogs has a switch for "sniff in promiscious mode" which I didn't use). I asked my VPS provider what was going on and in summary they said It seems we've a small number of packets being broadcast by the switch/host It's not an urgent priority, as it's not directly an error (a switch is allowed to behave as a hub). We only bill for traffic that leaves our network so it makes no difference to your quota. I'm not a networking expert so I'm willing to take their word for it. Sadly for me it seems to mean I can't monitor my own download traffic accurately due to this unwanted 'background noise'. My questions are... Are these broadcast packets the culprit for monit thinking I'm downloading so much? Why is the linux kernel seeing broadcast packets as downloads to my VPS? Or is monit (which I guess gets its numbers from the kernel) looking at the wrong thing? Is there a way to stop those packets contributing to what monit sees as download traffic? Thanks -- Nick
Re: More then 2800 spams from the list...
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:31:48 + Karol Augustin <ka...@augustin.pl> wrote: > On 2018-03-19 12:58, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello and Listmaster/owner, > > > > I have send on "Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:17:40 -0400" a message > > to the list and now I got already 2800 Spams on one go! > > > > The EMail responsabble for this shit is <helm7...@gmail.com>. [...] 8<-- > > Hello, this is the mail server on frash.longvieace.com. > > > > I am sending you this message to inform you on the delivery status of a > > message you previously sent. Immediately below you will find a list of > > the affected recipients; also attached is a Delivery Status > > Notification [...] > It looks like you are hit by backscatter bounces. Someone uses your > e-mail (in prepared message) as sender and spams the misconfigured > servers which send you bounces as they can't deliver spammers message to > the recipient. +1 Exactly what Karol said - someone has used your email address as the sender for a spamming run, and you're being hit by all the bounces from all the receiving mailservers that quite properly reject the spam, but quite wrongly send a bounce to the supposed sender instead of to the mailserver that established the SMTP connection. It's just your bad luck that it was your address that the spammer chose. It's happened to me before now, and it was the most miserable period of weeks before the flood of backscatter DSNs slowed and then stopped. There is almost no way of filtering the damn things out, because they're coming from all over the Internet and you usually *do* want to see such things. Console yourself with planning what you would do to the spammer if you ever got hold of them. > This is precisely why e-mail server should never send bounces to > non-local senders. When sender is spoofed as in this case then is hit > with thousands of DSNs. Yes ... sigh. Pleasingly, some spammers are being tracked down and are going to jail for long periods of time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/17/spammer_jailed/print.html https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-04-29-spam-sentencing_N.htm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6653892/Godfather-of-spam-jailed-for-four-years.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/spam-emails-millions-us-man-michael-persaud-arizona-jail-time-prison-send-out-spamming-a7577216.html Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight.
Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?
On 2018-01-12 21:09 GMT, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-01-12 10:00:03 -0500, bw wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > # dmesg | grep -i isolation > > > > You should get either > > > > [0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled > > or > > [0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: disabled > > I get neither. > There seems to be something really wrong. I'll report a bug. It might have aged out of the buffer that dmesg reports on. I don't see it in my dmesg either but in /var/log/kern.log.1 there is Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled Try a grep in /var/log ? -- Nick
Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:57:38 -0400 Whit Hansell <skippe...@comcast.net> wrote: > For grins, I tried restarting Firefox w/o plugins. Then went to > youtube and tried a video. Worked perfectly. So knew it was a plug-in. > Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5." disabled it and > Voila' it worked. Thanks for letting us know (I was guessing you had a plugin or extension that disabled vital Google Javascript). But I'd never heard of "Youtube Flash Player - HTML5". nor did its name make any sense, so - fearing you may have been tricked into installing malware - I went off googling. And now I'm really baffled: it's apparently a "lightweight Flash player" dedicated to the single task of viewing Youtube videos, for use when the browser's HTML5 capabilities are not up to the job of running YT's HTML5 player - but this lightweight Flash player *needs* Adobe's full Flash Player to be installed in order to work. So what's the advantage of the lightweight "shim" ???!? You might just as well stick to using the Adobe Flash Player to both watch YT videos and turn your PC into a playground for Bad Guys :) I's be interested in any explanation of this curious situation that anyone may be able to offer. Cheers Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight.
Re: top that shows "Web Content" (was Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?)
On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 07:39:58 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 08, 2017 07:59:40 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 08 Sep 2017 at 17:39:39 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday, September 08, 2017 05:13:31 PM David Wright wrote: > > > > Meanwhile, I have firefox open on the results of a google search. > > > > That's currently reading > > > > firefox-esr 31% + Web Content 28% > > > > > > Hmm, do you have a version of top (or something else) which reports the > > > use of memory for web content? I don't see that in top on Wheezy., but > > > I'd like to get that number. [snip] > > Son of a gun, this morning I looked at top and now there is a task named "Web > Content". That must have been part of a (recent) "security" update ;-) AFAIK the 'Web Content' process was introduced by Mozilla when Firefox switched to a multi-process model for the browser binary - you may have seen people moaning about it: Mozilla calls it 'electrolysis/e10s' and it delivers such things as "only one tab will crash, rather than the whole browser". I noticed the new process for the first time within the last month but wasn't sure how long it had been there ... I was trying to find out where all my RAM was going, and the sight of it made my blood run cold till I found out what it was. I believe the ESR release channel gained the multiprocess feature with the change from release 45.x.y to release 52.x.y (Debian tracks the ESR channel), and my Wheezy systems received FF52.2.0 on 21st.August. Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight.
Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?
On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:19:03 +1000 Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > Nick Boyce <n...@steelyglint.org> writes: > > > I don't want to provoke any religious war here, and sorry if I offend > > anybody, but: > > That doesn't alter the fact that you've disparaged programs in terms > that state an absolute problem inherent to the program. This is not > helpful, because it implies that people who choose those programs are > wrong and should be disparaged themselves. I do disparage software when it seems ungood, but there is no implication from me that people who use that software are in any way to be disparaged - there may be many reasons why they're using that software, and my (possibly mistaken) opinion may even help them realise they have choices they didn't know about. We all have to start learning somewhere - and it never ends. > > For example: > > > emacs is ridiculously heavy-weight > > That's an absolute statement of objective fact. I realise I should have scattered IM(H)Os all through my email, so lets start now: IMO it *is* an objective fact. emacs is *huge* (please don't ask me for numbers) and cumbersome and overengineered if what you want is a lightweight lean fast straightforward text editor (and I usually do). The wags didn't coin the joke about the name deriving from Eventually Mallocs All Computer System for nothing :) > Do you think it is true for everyone? You have > expressed it as though you do. I don't think it *bothers* everyone, no. People's use-cases differ. > You are, in this expression, saying that people who > use Emacs deserve ridicule Not in the slightest - it's horses for courses. I'm stating *my* opinion about the software, and nothing about its users at all. [...] > > vi's power makes light work of many tasks but it's as user-friendly as > > a cornered rat ... novices usually remember their first time trying to > > find out how to exit with a genuine shudder. > > This gets too far into stating objective fact. How do you know the > "usual" experience of novice Vi users, have you surveyed a statistically > powerful sample? No doubt my sample isn't an industry-wide statistically valid sample, but it's based on many many editor conversations with many programmer colleagues in the course of working for a number of large companies. IME, programmers who arrive in the Unix world from other system types are often appalled at the primitive state of the user interface of many of the tools Unix provides (sendmail ...). Note that this is not to decry the many wonders of Unix, or more particularly Linux (which is a far superior animal to all of the commercial Unixen with which I have worked). > I appreciate that it can be fun to rant about difficulties using > programs, and Emacs and Vi are favourite topics of this sort. It sure is :) > We can, and should, do so without also dismissing > other people as inferior. Once again, and to emphasise: I said (and intended) nothing about the users of any software. > When you acknowledge the possibility of provoking offense, > it is on your shoulders to either express yourself in ways > that *don't* implicitly disparage people with different > preferences. I'll allow that I should have prefixed everything I said with IMO. There's no way to criticise an editor which doesn't risk offending some fans of said editor - the preemptive apology is the best I can do to avert that. Luckily, most conversations about software quality that I've had with colleagues have been purely on a technical basis and have remained dispassionate, even when using metaphors like 'cornered rat'. I remember an operating system whose response to commands was only ever 'OK' or 'ER' I don't like to tell you what I thought about that, but some people liked it because it didn't waste their time with verbiage. Cheers Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight.
Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:08:15 +1000 Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > On 06.09.17 05:31, Nick Boyce wrote: [...] > > [Joe is] one of the first things I install on any Linux > > or *BSD system. > > In my decades of leading software teams, one thing I did not do is ask > "What editor do you use?", even in employment interviews. In my > experience, a programmer is most productive using the editor with which > he's most proficient. You're absolutely right. I have sat next to seasoned vi users watching in awe as their fingers flew entering weird totally non-intuitive commands (to me) and achieving great edits in next to no time. Other colleagues lived inside emacs all day long, using it as a sort of OS with an editor attached. I used other editors to achieve the same goals, quite possibly taking more real time than the vi guys. Each to their own. It's interesting how programmers who arrived at Unix via VMS, and programmers who came from the mainframe world, often have correspondingly different software tastes. > > ... and vi's power makes light work of many tasks but it's > > as user-friendly as a cornered rat > > On the three occasions I've had to extract a marsupial possum from our > chimney (they're like a cat on steroids), I've armed myself with thick > leather gloves and grim determination. :) > For vim, a cheat-sheet suffices, > and :help " or google do explain. On DEC Ultrix, Digital Unix (OSF/1 .. Tru64) and on HPUX there is no vim, and the DEC/HP salesmen have delivered no cheet sheets with the beasts, and in vi the F1 key does not summon any help, and from insert mode there is no help command, and in 1995 google has not yet been invented. The unskilled novice smokes a cigarette (it's 1995) to calm down, and gravitates to a different editor > > ... a whole bunch of weird character sequences get entered > > instead of cursor control, which you then spend the next 10 minutes > > removing again. Ugh. > > That's an xterm error, as the arrows simply produce motion even in > Insert-mode, if that's properly set up. Agreed .. or whatever terminal (emulation) you're actually using - in my case very often a real VT220/320/420, attached to a VMS, then TELNETed to a Un*x, where the available /etc/termcap|terminfo may or may not have been well crafted back at the factory. Sometimes an ICL mainframe VDU connected via an obscure 3rd-party emulation converter box to a DEC machine. Latterly it would be some 3rd-party terminal emulator on Windows 3.1/95. I still say ugh, though it may well not be vi's fault. The fact is that miraculously 'joe' seemed to be much more resilient and usable in these circumstances. As did emacs .. if you could afford to wait. I like an editor to appear within 1 second of me calling it (which rules out most GUI editors). > ... unless you also add something like: > > " These days I expect to be out of insert mode, after a vertical move: > inoremap ^[ > inoremap ^[ That's great to have - thanks for that (seriously), along with the other .vimrc tweaks you gave. I realise much can be improved by tweaking .vimrc, as it can be with .muttrc, .bashrc and the like. This is why power users often carry their own personal versions of these rc files with them wherever they roam ... and old greybeards sometimes dispense rc nuggets to neophytes at moments of crisis. Cheers Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight.
Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?
On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 18:21:07 +
Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would especially appreciate other ideas for programming editors for
> novice programmers.
If you really want to have a *simple* non-GUI (i.e. terminal) screen-mode
editor available that novice programmers who are refugee users from Windows
might find comfortable, you could consider 'joe' ("Joe's Own Editor" in classic
Un*x-world recursive acronym naming style), which provides basically a Wordstar
control-key driven modeless editing experience. Yes, I did say "Wordstar" ...
you may need to get off my lawn.
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/joe
http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
I don't like to confess to my august and more sophisticated colleagues here how
much code I've written using joe - albeit in the simpler languages (a variety
of Bash scripts, Perl, C, HTML and similar). There is some syntax highlighting,
but no code-completion or compiler integration or the other trinkets that come
with proper IDEs. It is however, small, fast and reliable - it hasn't had a
new feature in *years* because for it's intended use-cases it's
*feature-complete* !
It's one of the first things I install on any Linux or *BSD system.
I don't want to provoke any religious war here, and sorry if I offend anybody,
but: emacs is ridiculously heavy-weight, and I can never remember whether exit
is Ctrl_C Ctrl_X or Ctrl_X Ctrl_C (yes practice would help) - and vi's power
makes light work of many tasks but it's as user-friendly as a cornered rat ...
novices usually remember their first time trying to find out how to exit with a
genuine shudder. A frequent vi moment for those familiar with modeless editors
is to enter 'insert mode' (when you figure out how), type some text, and then
try to use the arrow keys to move to a different line without remembering to
first exit insert mode - depending on vi version, terminal emulation, Un*x
flavour, phase of the Moon etc., the effect of this is that a whole bunch of
weird character sequences get entered instead of cursor control, which you then
spend the next 10 minutes removing again. Ugh.
(Yes, I do use more sophisticated GUI IDEs for anything serious, but that's not
what OP asked for. Also, I do realise vim is much better than vi.)
Cheers,
Nick
--
Never FDISK after midnight.
Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:45:13 +0900 Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Who can compete when Intel refuses to pay > the price of making CPUs that are unsafe at > progressively higher speeds? Er .. s/unsafe/safe/ ??? But basically +1 to everything (else) you wrote. Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight
Stretch middle button time interval
The middle button of my mouse (actually a 3-button laptop trackpad) seemed to stop working in X after my jessie to stretch upgrade. It no longer pasted text nor opened a web page in a new tab. I since realised that it does still work but requires a limited time interval between pressing and releasing the button. With a quick jab it works, but if the button is held down too long before release it does not work. The interval seems to be less than about 0.5s. Is there any way to change this time interval? Thanks -- Nick
Re: Is this really the way to get your name out?
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 04:49:15 -0600 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > On 11/29/2016 03:23 PM, David Niklas wrote: > > Every so often I see something very much like this on the debian > > mailing list. > > I want to know, do people really get a job this way? > > Is this list really intended for these kinds of emails? [...] > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:37:37 + (UTC) > > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: [...] > >> I am an entry level/junior/beginner Information Technology (IT) > >> Specialist/Systems Engineer/Linux Server Administrator/Helpdesk > >> Support/Computer Technician available for hire anywhere in the > >> world!!! Prospective employers, businesses and companies in any > >> part of the world please feel free to contact me for my curriculum > >> vitae/resume. [...] > There is always LinkedIn, but when you're looking for a job, all > avenues are better than just a few. I wouldn't condemn him, altho I > must say that I would not have thought of this path. I'm afraid I would condemn him ... well 'condemn' is a bit harsh, but I'd criticise him on behalf of myself and all the other overworked sysadmins who get too much email as it is, especially from high-volume lists such as debian-user (which is, after all, *not* a recruitment/job-search mechanism). I would say it's okay to include a .sig describing your employment needs, but that's the limit of acceptability - max 3 lines. Something like "Experienced sysadmin/developer available for hire - 10 years admin on all kinds of Un*x, and 5 years C++ programming. Please email me for more details". And this .sig may *only* be attached to an email on the list which discusses something relevant to the list charter - otherwise it's spam. Sorry. Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight
Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved
On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:35:28 -0400 Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote: > Anyone else seeing this? > > E: Failed to fetch > http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux/linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.36-1+deb8u2_amd64.deb > Could not resolve 'security-cdn.debian.org > It was apparently temporary. Worked when I got home > Any suggestions? In case you don't know by now, it was probably this: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835 https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/dos-attack-on-major-dns-provider-brings-internet-to-morning-crawl/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/ https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/10/21/135241/several-sites-including-twitter-github-spotify-paypal-nytimes-suffering-outagedyn-dns-under-ddos-attack-update http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/dns_devastation_as_dyn_dies_under_denialofservice_attack/ There were apparently at least 3 major phases of attack, with calm between. Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight
Re: kde 5 display problem
Hi Hans I tried it but it didn't work. Last week in the same machine I had installed fedora 22 and I didn't had any problem with the desktop except the sddm screen (it was black and white again.)
kde 5 display problem
Hi all. After upgrade to kde5 my desktop doesn't display icons anymore All icons became black (see the attachments for details or click https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyr3bzuu4mhyfyr/snapshot1_desktop_kde_5_with_dolphin.png?dl=0 and https://www.dropbox.com/s/1azehqpu2evry5j/snapshot1_desktop_kde_5.png?dl=0 ) I use the debian testing release , my video driver is nouveau and my graphics card is an old nvidia FX5200. Does anyone has an idea why this happed? Thanks !
Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all
Hi, Can you please send the output of lspci and lsmod? So we can see if the hardware is their and driver is loaded. best regards Nick Am 28.06.2015 um 13:33 schrieb Lisi Reisz: On Sunday 28 June 2015 11:04:17 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. On my old Hyundai laptop there seems to be no WiFi interface at all: there's no wlan0 entry in ifconfig's output: # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0d:33:02:17 inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe33:217/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:31034 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:32671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27149691 (25.8 MiB) TX bytes:6133808 (5.8 MiB) loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18333 (17.9 KiB) TX bytes:18333 (17.9 KiB) , and also # lshw -c network *-network description: Ethernet interface product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] physical id: 4 bus info: pci@:00:04.0 logical name: eth0 version: 91 serial: 00:03:0d:33:02:17 size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.4 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:19 ioport:d800(size=256) memory:dfffc000-dfffcfff memory:dffc-dffd shows up - as far as I understand - nothing about WiFi. Please help abilitate WiFi connection on that PC. With google I couldn't work it out. Have you got the driver for your wifi card? and is it installed? Lisi -- Nick Metz FHE3 GmbH, Leopoldstr. 5, 76133 Karlsruhe Amtsgericht Mannheim, HRB 702495 Geschäftsführer: Peter Eisenhauer, Michael Feger, Dimitrij Hilt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558fe690.9040...@fhe3.com
Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all
Ah.. sorry you have the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG right? did you modprobe ipw2200 ?? I cant ' t find it on your output of lsmod best regards Nick Am 28.06.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Nick Metz: Hi Rodolfo, sorry i think i missed a reply, is the wirelss card inside or external via usb? Anyway if it is an intel card you have to install and modrobe iwlwifi https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi after modprobe iwlwifi the interface should be their. best regards Nick Am 28.06.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Rodolfo Medina: Nick Metz nick.m...@fhe3.com writes: Can you please send the output of lspci and lsmod? So we can see if the hardware is their and driver is loaded. I read the pc's technical paper and its wireless device should be Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG, whose driver, according to https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi, should be in `firmware-ipw2x00' Debian package which I installed via aptitude. I also installed firmware-realtek as suggested by Sven. I also turned on, as suggested by Lisi, the small switch on the laptop, with `Wireless' written on it. Now, as suggested by Nick, # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] LPC Controller (rev 25) 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2/3 SMBus controller 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 IDE Controller 00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 00:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx] 00:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 00:09.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 00:09.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter , and # lsmod Module Size Used by joydev 20480 0 powernow_k828672 0 snd_intel8x0m 20480 0 snd_intel8x0 36864 0 pcspkr 16384 0 snd_ac97_codec 98304 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m pcmcia 49152 0 psmouse98304 0 evdev 20480 17 snd_pcm81920 3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m yenta_socket 45056 0 serio_raw 16384 0 pcmcia_rsrc20480 1 yenta_socket amd64_edac_mod 32768 0 snd_timer 28672 1 snd_pcm edac_mce_amd 24576 1 amd64_edac_mod pcmcia_core20480 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket snd57344 5 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_intel8x0m k8temp 16384 0 edac_core 40960 2 amd64_edac_mod sg 32768 0 acpi_cpufreq 20480 0 soundcore 16384 1 snd ac97_bus 16384 1 snd_ac97_codec shpchp 32768 0 i2c_sis96x 16384 0 ac 16384 0 video 20480 0 processor 28672 3 powernow_k8,acpi_cpufreq battery16384 0 button 16384 0 parport_pc 28672 0 ppdev 20480 0 lp 20480 0 parport36864 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc autofs436864 2 ext4 462848 2 crc16 16384 1 ext4 mbcache20480 1 ext4 jbd2 77824 1 ext4 sd_mod 40960 4 sr_mod 24576 0 cdrom 49152 1 sr_mod ata_generic16384 0 ohci_pci 16384 0 pata_sis 16384 3 ehci_pci 16384 0 ohci_hcd 45056 1 ohci_pci ehci_hcd 65536 1 ehci_pci firewire_ohci 36864 0 libata163840 2 pata_sis
Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all
Hi Rodolfo, sorry i think i missed a reply, is the wirelss card inside or external via usb? Anyway if it is an intel card you have to install and modrobe iwlwifi https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi after modprobe iwlwifi the interface should be their. best regards Nick Am 28.06.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Rodolfo Medina: Nick Metz nick.m...@fhe3.com writes: Can you please send the output of lspci and lsmod? So we can see if the hardware is their and driver is loaded. I read the pc's technical paper and its wireless device should be Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG, whose driver, according to https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi, should be in `firmware-ipw2x00' Debian package which I installed via aptitude. I also installed firmware-realtek as suggested by Sven. I also turned on, as suggested by Lisi, the small switch on the laptop, with `Wireless' written on it. Now, as suggested by Nick, # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] LPC Controller (rev 25) 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2/3 SMBus controller 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 IDE Controller 00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 00:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx] 00:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 00:09.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 00:09.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter , and # lsmod Module Size Used by joydev 20480 0 powernow_k828672 0 snd_intel8x0m 20480 0 snd_intel8x0 36864 0 pcspkr 16384 0 snd_ac97_codec 98304 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m pcmcia 49152 0 psmouse98304 0 evdev 20480 17 snd_pcm81920 3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m yenta_socket 45056 0 serio_raw 16384 0 pcmcia_rsrc20480 1 yenta_socket amd64_edac_mod 32768 0 snd_timer 28672 1 snd_pcm edac_mce_amd 24576 1 amd64_edac_mod pcmcia_core20480 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket snd57344 5 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_intel8x0m k8temp 16384 0 edac_core 40960 2 amd64_edac_mod sg 32768 0 acpi_cpufreq 20480 0 soundcore 16384 1 snd ac97_bus 16384 1 snd_ac97_codec shpchp 32768 0 i2c_sis96x 16384 0 ac 16384 0 video 20480 0 processor 28672 3 powernow_k8,acpi_cpufreq battery16384 0 button 16384 0 parport_pc 28672 0 ppdev 20480 0 lp 20480 0 parport36864 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc autofs436864 2 ext4 462848 2 crc16 16384 1 ext4 mbcache20480 1 ext4 jbd2 77824 1 ext4 sd_mod 40960 4 sr_mod 24576 0 cdrom 49152 1 sr_mod ata_generic16384 0 ohci_pci 16384 0 pata_sis 16384 3 ehci_pci 16384 0 ohci_hcd 45056 1 ohci_pci ehci_hcd 65536 1 ehci_pci firewire_ohci 36864 0 libata163840 2 pata_sis,ata_generic firewire_core 57344 1 firewire_ohci crc_itu_t 16384 1 firewire_core sis900 28672 0 mii16384 1 sis900 usbcore 176128 4
Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
I have regained access to several debian 8 vms using this method, Yes, it still works. On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, if not it just gives you a root shell. Are you sure Debian still does this? Looking at the bug report which Sven Joachim filed (linked from his post in this thread), it seems to me as if the patch which added this functionality was lost when an important binary was moved to another package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d4a64.2080...@ncktsp.com
Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
On 06/26/2015 04:12 PM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: Not the case. Even in rescue mode I needed to supply the root login. I could use init=/bin/sh but I couln't find anything in the logs in /var/log, so I'm guessing systemd and journalctl keeps the journal in some other place (probably some binary format hidden in a database or something). Matthijs I actually just tried it, sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell it works on jessie at least - Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d551c.6040...@ncktsp.com
Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, if not it just gives you a root shell. - Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d3da9.9030...@ncktsp.com
Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?
On 06/26/2015 03:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: (Please don't top-post.) On 06/26/2015 at 08:49 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, if not it just gives you a root shell. Are you sure Debian still does this? Looking at the bug report which Sven Joachim filed (linked from his post in this thread), it seems to me as if the patch which added this functionality was lost when an important binary was moved to another package. I have regained access to several debian 8 vms using this method, Yes, it still works. How recently? What versions of sysvinit/sysvinit-core and util-linux were installed on the systems in question? It's not impossible that this functionality could be unrelated to the patch from bug 326678 (which is referenced from the new bug 789950), but having reviewed both of those bugs, I'd be surprised if it were. Just tested it on one of the systems I am currently configuring, works like a charm $ dpkg -l | grep sysvinit ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59 amd64 System-V-like utilities $ dpkg -l | grep util-lin ii util-linux 2.25.2-6 amd64 Miscellaneous system utilities ii util-linux-locales 2.25.2-6 all Locales files for util-linux - Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558d52a8.1090...@ncktsp.com
Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE
On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote: That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot. I always thought the current time on the system clock was saved back to the hardware clock again during shutdown too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/558475a0.1060...@nickbooker.uk
Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE
On 16/06/15 19:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE Note all the examples below assume you have sudo enabled (the default if you left the root password prompts blank during installation) and that you're logged in as the initial user or another one set up with sudo privileges. Give them a go and post back if they throw up permissions errors. 1. How do I use file manager with root privileges? The file manager in MATE is 'caja', so... There are two ways to achieve this: A) open up a terminal, and type: sudo caja or sudo caja /path/to/required/directory at the prompt, followed by enter. OR B) Install the package 'caja-gksu' sudo apt-get install caja-gksu log out and back in, and when you right-click a folder on the desktop or in the file manager you should see an option to open it as root. 2. How do I manually (no network physically available) reset the clock? At a terminal: sudo date MMDDhhmmCCYY that's MMonth DDay, hhour, mminute, CCentury, YYear For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: sudo date 020115002014 See man date for further details and options. Hope this helps. Nick Booker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55806df6.6070...@nickbooker.uk
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external monitor (using System - Preferences - Monitors), and :~# lspci -nn | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0416] (rev 06) So, the driver appears to be installed, but not implemented. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55789536.3070...@ncktsp.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55789739.8040...@ncktsp.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset - Nick On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. After appending, the file is thus; :~# cat /etc/default/grub # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2 /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= # Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs # This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...) #GRUB_BADRAM=0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) #GRUB_TERMINAL=console # The resolution used on graphical terminal # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo' #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass root=UUID=xxx parameter to Linux #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY=true # Uncomment to get a beep at grub start #GRUB_INIT_TUNE=480 440 1 And, in running thence, update-grub, I get this; :~# update-grub /etc/default/grub: 7: nomodeset: not found Sould I have entered the string nomodeset, differently? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55789d99.9060...@ncktsp.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:00 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 16:52:50 Bret Busby wrote: ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH. Have you done this? Start with: # aptitude search gcc and if necessary # aptitude install gcc If you already have gcc, then check your PATH as suggested. Lisi Okay. So, I installed gcc, using apt-get, then tried again. Then, got the same error regarding make. So, I installed make, then tried again, and got two further errors. See log file below. And, some may wonder why I prefer software (like hardware drivers) that can be installed using a package manager that takes care of all such problems... :~# cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Thu Jun 11 01:48:43 2015 installer version: 346.72 PATH: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface - Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8. - License accepted. - Installing NVIDIA driver version 346.72. - Performing CC sanity check with CC=/usr/bin/cc. - The CC version check failed: The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the compiler used to build the running kernel. If you know what you are doing you can either ignore the CC version check and continue installation, or abort installation, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler used to compile your kernel, and restart installation. (Answer: Ignore CC version check) ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. I do not know why the hardware manufacturers make getting their hardware operational, so difficult. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55788078.3010...@ncktsp.com
Re: Debian 8 Display corruption and previous desktop revelation during login (nouveau)
On 30/04/15 09:50, Darac Marjal wrote: I would suggest filing a bug against the video driver (nouveau, in this case). Thanks Darac, I've filed a bug in xorg-server-video-nouveau. In case anyone's interested, here's the bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783860 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/554273e2.6000...@nickbooker.uk
Re: various bugs on Debian 8 with Kde
On 30/04/15 17:51, g...@libero.it wrote: Hi Giuseppe. 3. Once in some way one succedes to install the system, every time you install a program the program will not appear in the menu list of installed programs. My guess is the programs you've installed are command-line tools, so would not be expected to show up in the KDE menu (I assume this is the menu you're talking about). Can you please give some examples of programs you've installed and couldn't find? Sorry I can't help with your other questions - I haven't used the live system and tend to install stuff from the command line using apt-get. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55429ffb.3010...@nickbooker.uk
Debian 8 Display corruption and previous desktop revelation during login (nouveau)
Hi. I'm getting display corruption during login on the latest Debian 8 (Jessie), installed from scratch on an emptied hard disk. I have the MATE desktop environment, and am using the nouveau graphics driver. This didn't happen with my previous OSes (Debian Wheezy, Linux Mint 17.1 or Parabola GNU/Linux bleeding edge). If I boot my machine from cold, having just plugged in: Boot messages progress to lightdm fine All looks normal while interacting with lightdm After entering my login details, before showing the usual MATE desktop elements and wallpaper, the screen is corrupted for a couple of seconds. During that period it is green with various coloured (mostly purple) dots in seemingly-random places. If I then reboot or shut down and start back up without unplugging and waiting for the motherboard to power down, during my next login, rather than the green with purple dots, I get a collage of bits of my previous session's windows (even some long closed before shutdown) displayed. Please can anyone help me to debug and fix this issue? I haven't filed a bug because I don't know where the issue lies at the moment (kernel/systemd/xf86-video-nouveau/...?) I don't mind poking around source code if necessary with a bit of hand-holding. Selected details from lspci, glxinfo and dmesg in the following paste: http://paste.debian.net/169967/ Thanks, Nick -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: Debian 8 Display corruption and previous desktop revelation during login (nouveau)
On 29/04/15 20:04, Nick Booker wrote: Selected details from lspci, glxinfo and dmesg in the following paste: http://paste.debian.net/169967/ Sorry that one was set to expire too quickly. Here's a new one set to expire never: http://paste.debian.net/170024/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55413fef.4010...@nickbooker.uk
C++ compiler g++-4.9
Hi guys, I am building a platform and I need to compile apache mesos from sources. The issue is that the guys the require support for specific c++11 features that in the 4.7 compiler currently supported by debian aren't there. Will the g++ compiler will be updated?We would like to use debian as the backbone operating system for our cluster. regards -- \n\m camel is a horse made up in a laboratory
Re: error on sid laptop: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493.....085 does not exist.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 02:42:14AM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Nick Lidakis: I've recently been unable to boot into my thinkpad x200s because of this error: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493085b does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Most of the Google results are of users changin out disks or partitions and the UUID get messed up. I haven't switched any disks or messed with any partitions. Maybe your disk is corrupt. When you have inserted this disk into another system (or if you boot from a rescue CD) you can take a look whether the /dev/disk/by-uuid/493… path exists. You should also see a new device /dev/sdX and the device nodes for your partitions. I Connected the SSD laptop drive on my desktop via SATA and mounted the root partition. Output of /dev: phobos:/dev/disk/by-uuid# ls 1f9bb8e8-9df8-4216-9386-baf7ccebcc59 88d3b128-1ba4-4511-8428-79b4f0fbbf35 ceea9138-fcca-4342-b4b1-abba566e947b 48f73142-3355-4f5d-98a3-360e6ec03296 ab09f8df-6703-4483-a162-26647bd8884d 493046dc-a036-499a-8e17-33f19a65085b b1946e5e-e4ee-4113-82b4-7a40aecf7935 phobos:/dev/disk/by-uuid# So it's there. But I also tried mounting the /home partition and copying some files. I was able to cd to most directories but ons some I would get: ls: reading directory .: Input/output error And dmesg: [ 2460.794520] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 20 00 [ 2460.794539] blk_update_request: 151 callbacks suppressed [ 2460.794543] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 2048 [ 2460.794549] quiet_error: 152 callbacks suppressed [ 2460.794553] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0 [ 2460.794558] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 1 [ 2460.794562] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 2 [ 2460.794565] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 3 [ 2460.794601] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [ 2460.794605] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [ 2460.794608] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 2460.794611] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [ 2460.794613] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 08 00 [ 2460.794624] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 2048 [ 2460.794628] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 0 [ 2468.452821] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [ 2468.452831] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [ 2468.452835] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 2468.452840] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [ 2468.452843] Read(10): 28 00 03 7e 20 00 00 00 20 00 [ 2468.452860] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 58597376 [ 2468.452868] Buffer I/O error on device sdc6, logical block 0 [ 2468.452873] Buffer I/O error on device sdc6, logical block 1 [ 2468.452877] Buffer I/O error on device sdc6, logical block 2 [ 2468.452880] Buffer I/O error on device sdc6, logical block 3 [ 2468.452915] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [ 2468.452919] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [ 2468.452922] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 2468.452926] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [ 2468.452928] Read(10): 28 00 03 7e 20 00 00 00 08 00 [ 2468.452940] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 58597376 [ 2468.452948] Buffer I/O error on device sdc6, logical block 0 I don't know if this is just corrupted data or a dead/dying SSD. I'll look at the man pages for the S.M.A.R.T tools. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140716142812.GA4167@phobos
error on sid laptop: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493.....085 does not exist.
I've recently been unable to boot into my thinkpad x200s because of this error: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493085b does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Most of the Google results are of users changin out disks or partitions and the UUID get messed up. I haven't switched any disks or messed with any partitions. Mounted the disk on desktop to grab the grub.cfg and fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=493046dc-a036-499a-8e17-33f19a65085b / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation UUID=ceea9138-fcca-4342-b4b1-abba566e947b /home ext3defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=b1946e5e-e4ee-4113-82b4-7a40aecf7935 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 I'd figure I'd ask the list first before I royally screw something up. Any suggestions? Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140708213326.GA5939@phobos
h.264 IP camera stream in iceweasel or chrome. which plugin?
I have an Axis M5014 IP camera working and I can watch the Motion JPEG stream in both browsers without issues. I can't view any of the h.264 in iceweasel or Chrome. I've verified the streams using VLC. I need to use the browser so I can use the PTZ controls. I've tried mozplugger and mozilla-mplayer plugins without success. mozilla-mplayer just shows a grey background with a start button in the middle that does nothing when pressed. Though, when I right click in the box I'm able to copy the URL and open the stream in VLC. Any suggestions? I'm running Debian Sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140325142724.GA15375@phobos
XServer Segmentation Fault
Γεια σας Μετά την τελευταία αναβάθμιση όλα έγιναν μαύρα. Το γραφικό περιβάλλον (kde) δεν εμφανίζεται και τη θέση του έχει πάρει μια μαύρη οθόνη. Οι τελευταίες γραμμές του Xorg.0.log είναι οι ακόλουθες|:| |(EE) (EE) Backtrace: (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x4f) [0xb777999f] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0xb75d2000+0x1ab774) [0xb777d774] (EE) 2: linux-gate.so.1 (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb75b040c] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libglx.so (0xb5be9000+0x1203d5) [0xb5d093d5] (EE) 4: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0xb70e2a63] (EE) (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0 (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting (EE) (EE) Το PC μου τρέχει Debian testing και λίγο unstable. Η κάρτα γραφικών είναι η nvidia FX5200. (Είναι λίγο παλιό αλλά τη δουλεια του την κάνει) Έχεις κανείς καμιά ιδέα για το πως διορθώνεται το πρόβλημα;; Ευχαριστώ. |
Embed text into video file and search video from text?
I have a text file that includes time stamps. I also have video (H.264, MPEG-4 or JPEG stills) recorded from an IP camera. I'm trying to find a way to jump to certain points of he videos based on events in the text file at hand. The text file is generated from an RS-232 port. The IP camera, from Axis, has support for dynamic text overlay but I'm not sure if that could be searched. I've tried Google and have not found anything. I was hoping there was something out there in he scientific realm, i.e., video text overlay searchable by event, i.e, temp. change. This is related to thread I posted a while back: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/04/msg00399.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140209182903.GA3937@phobos
Re: [debian-user] Howto build Debian source packages (tar.gz)??
Dear all,
here is how it worked for me:
apt-get install debhelper ### (= 9)
apt-get install dkms
apt-get install quilt
apt-get install nvidia-support
Some packages I got from elsewhere (by googling), e.g.:
+
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/amd64/glx-alternative-mesa/download
+
http://pkgs.org/debian-wheezy/debian-backports-contrib-amd64/glx-alternative-nvidia_0.4.0~bpo70+1_amd64.deb.html
+ http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/libvdpau1/download
+ http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/nvidia-kernel-common/download
+ http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/nvidia-xconfig/download
... to be installed by (not sure whether exactly in this order):
dpkg -i glx-diversions_0.4.0~bpo70+1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i glx-alternative-nvidia_0.4.0~bpo70+1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i glx-alternative-mesa_0.4.0~bpo70+1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libvdpau1_0.4.1-7_amd64.deb
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-common_20120630+3_amd64.deb
dpkg -i nvidia-xconfig_304.48-1_amd64.deb
cp nvidia-graphics-drivers_${ORIGVERSION}.orig.tar.gz debdir/workdir
cp nvidia-graphics-drivers_${DEBVERSION}.debian.tar.gz debdir/workdir
cd debdir/workdir
tar fvxz nvidia-graphics-drivers_${ORIGVERSION}.orig.tar.gz
tar fvxz nvidia-graphics-drivers_${DEBVERSION}.debian.tar.gz
mv nvidia-graphics-drivers_${ORIGVERSION}.orig.tar.gz ..
mv nvidia-graphics-drivers-${ORIGVERSION}.orig/* .
rmdir nvidia-graphics-drivers-${ORIGVERSION}.orig
rm nvidia-graphics-drivers_${DEBVERSION}.debian.tar.gz
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
Now the created DEBs can be installed by (that order works):
dpkg -i libcuda1
dpkg -i nvidia-alternative
dpkg -i libgl1-nvidia-glx
dpkg -i libnvcuvid1
dpkg -i libnvidia-compiler
dpkg -i libnvidia-encode1
dpkg -i libnvidia-ifr1
dpkg -i libnvidia-ml1
dpkg -i nvidia-cuda-mps
dpkg -i nvidia-detect
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-source
dpkg -i nvidia-libopencl1
dpkg -i nvidia-opencl-common
dpkg -i nvidia-opencl-icd
dpkg -i nvidia-smi
dpkg -i nvidia-vdpau-driver
dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-dkms
dpkg -i nvidia-driver
dpkg -i nvidia-glx
In the end:
nvidia-xconfig
shutdown -r now
Thanks for the help, again.
Cheers, Nick
2013/11/26 Nick Rudnick nick.rudn...@gmail.com
Dear all,
how to build Debian source packages,
e.g. nvidia-graphics-drivers_331.20-1.debian.tar.gz (
http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/nvidia-graphics-drivers)??
It seems different to common DEB as well as tarballs with configure/make.
Even a search term would help, as trying with Google/Wikipedia/Debian.org
wasn't too lucky yet.
Thanks in advance and cheers, Nick
[debian-user] Howto build Debian source packages (tar.gz)??
Dear all, how to build Debian source packages, e.g. nvidia-graphics-drivers_331.20-1.debian.tar.gz ( http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/nvidia-graphics-drivers)?? It seems different to common DEB as well as tarballs with configure/make. Even a search term would help, as trying with Google/Wikipedia/Debian.org wasn't too lucky yet. Thanks in advance and cheers, Nick
DKMS: Rebuilding an in-kernel driver with patches
Is there a known working recipe for rebuilding a patched in-kernel driver (in my case, those related to the Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus DVB-S card) using DKMS, to trigger automatic rebuilds whenever the kernel is updated. I'm running Jessie. All DKMS-related posts that I have seen (and similarly most blog posts) refer to building an out-of-mainline driver (typically the nvidia binary blob or another third-party driver) but none refer to rebuilding an in-kernel driver with patches. I'm happy with the former. In my specific case, I need to patch the isl6421 module on each kernel upgrade to allow use of an alternative source for providing the tone signal to the LNB from the Nova-S, as the card's normal source has seemingly failed. Fortunately the Nova-S has another chip that can provide this signal and just requires patching the driver [1]. Currently I check out the latest linux-media source and patch that, but it would be a lot cleaner to patch the current kernel source instead (the Nova-S-Plus is very mature now after many years, and it doesn't seem the patch in the bugzilla report is going to be added as an option to the isl6421module). [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9476 Thanks for any suggestions, Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caoqwjw32zy7sttmuzr7gfyk5mwgxidoenxeyeu2hajegv9z...@mail.gmail.com
Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, is backups, IMHO. That said: Long term integrity of the data, i.e., avoiding bit rot/silent data corruption. Regular backups offer no such protection. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:07:57PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: With one user reading one FLAC file at a time from a machine running ZFS does one need a modern CPU and gobs of RAM? I understand ECC RAM and a 64 bit OS is recommended. Omitting ZFS, absolutely not. I'd be very surprised if you couldn't do this with ZFS too, even on something like a Raspberry Pi. I used to use mt-daapd to real- time decode MP3s, AACs and FLACs to 16/44.1 WAV and stream over 801.11g to various devices, using an old ARM-powered NAS device (thecus n2100) which is very underpowered by today's standards. Omitting ZFS, I have no issues serving FLAC files the same with a Pentium III. But I'm reading that ZFS needs *some* muscle for checksums and other such operations. The questions I'd like answered is whether I can get away with using older hardware for ZFS and a single user reading data whilst still using it as my desktop. Or, older hardware would be fine for a dedicated NAS box running ZFS. If I do use my desktop as a ZFS/NAS server, does the root file system have to be ZFS as well? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130924183335.GA1930@phobos
ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian
I have been Googling for the last week on file systems like ZFS and the best way to store and preserve data that needs to be read on a regular basis. I've read many conflicting opinions, in particular about ZFS, and was hoping to get some opinions on this list. Like many music lovers I've ditched the CD player and have a Debian based music server that fetches music from a big hard drive on my desktop box via NFS. Most of my music is ripped from my personal collection of CDs I've amassed over the years. But I've been purchasing quite a few high resolution titles from online sources such as HDTracks and Channel Classics. I'm trying to think of the best way to preserve the integrity of these music files over the long term. I've read good things about FreeNAS and its ZFS implementation but that would require assembling a separate machine. The conflicting reports regard CPU power and the amount of RAM one needs to run ZFS, e.g., 1GB per TB of disk space. With one user reading one FLAC file at a time from a machine running ZFS does one need a modern CPU and gobs of RAM? I understand ECC RAM and a 64 bit OS is recommended. Can my desktop run ZFS on the discs with the music files and use a separate disk with ext3 for my daily tasks? If yes, should I run 64bit Debian or just use lots of RAM and PAE? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130924030757.GA20255@phobos
Re: Frequent kernel panics
On 16/09/2013 13:15, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Of course the computer hasnt crashed for the last four days now. I did run some of the tests suggested, and everything checks out OK. Theres no new hardware in the system, no new accessories. ... I dont think that I installed any new software thats relevant. I'm hesitant to suggest more paranoid possibilities in the absence of more concrete evidence, but it seems worth one of us mentioning the non-hardware, non-software possible cause (especially given the sporadic timing and circumstances of the crashes) : there may be a Bad Guy somewhere trying out an exploit technique to crack your system and gain privileged access. The kernel is pretty tough, but bugs are discovered fairly often which may allow some form of unauthorised code execution or privilege elevation. The exploits for these bugs often contain parameters (e.g. addresses of kernel functions or data structures) which the Bad Guy must tweak for the particular kernel he's trying to break into, and until the parameters are suitably tuned a common side effect of each exploit attempt is a kernel crash. The Bad Guy may either be remote (trying to break in across the network, assuming your workstation has Net access), or may have already broken in to your system via an unprivileged account, and be trying to elevate privilege to root. In the former case you would need to harden the kernel somehow: remove unnecessary drivers or subsystems, firewall the system, etc. In the latter case, you would need to back up your data, wipe and reinstall the system, and reinstall the data - and /then/ harden the system :) I know diagnosing sporadic problems is the hardest thing. But this is so frustrating. Maybe I should just build a new machine Yes, maybe a new machine - flaky hardware is probably more likely (as others point out) - but if a wipe reinstall would be easy for you then it may help to eliminate Bad Guy paranoia. IMO we can't dogmatically advise that installing the latest kernel will keep the Bad Guy out, cos often the relevant bugs only exist in newer kernels. By the same token, the bugs sometimes exist in old device drivers that aren't receiving any developer-love any more cos they've been superseded by a new driver-family. But what may help is simply *changing* the kernel version, either up or down. [This is all probably a silly side-track, for which I apologise. Bad Guy attacks aren't that common. It's just that you seem to have covered all the other bases.] Good luck. Nick -- Firefox 3.6? Dude we're on 8.0 now. You're like 3 weeks behind ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/523718f7.60...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk
Re: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: | When I run apt-get update, I get: | | root@up:/home/dmd# apt-get update | Hit http://opensource.wandisco.com squeeze Release.gpg | Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com/debian/ squeeze/svn17 Translation-en | | Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com/debian/ squeeze/svn17 Translation-en_US | | Hit http://opensource.wandisco.com squeeze Release | | Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com squeeze/svn17 amd64 Packages | | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/unstable Translation-en | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/unstable Translation-en_US | | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-updates Release.gpg | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main Translation-en | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main Translation-en_US | | Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com squeeze/svn17 amd64 Packages | | Hit http://opensource.wandisco.com squeeze/svn17 amd64 Packages | | Hit http://backports.debian.org squeeze-backports Release.gpg | | Hit http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main | Translation-en | Ign http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main | Translation-en_US | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release | | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-updates Release | | Hit http://backports.debian.org squeeze-backports Release | | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Sources | | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-updates/main Sources/DiffIndex | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex | | Hit http://backports.debian.org squeeze-backports/main amd64 Packages | | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-updates/main amd64 Packages | Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg | Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en | Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US | Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release | Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources | Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages | W: Failed to fetch | http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find | expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file | (malformed Release file?) | | | Here is my sources.list: | | | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main unstable | deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main unstable | | deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main | deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main | | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main | deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main | | deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main | | | I have tried running apt-get clean and autoremove; no change. | | -- | Daniel M. Drucker, Ph.D. | d...@3e.org | You shouldn't have 'unstable' at the end of the first 2 lines of your sources.list file. Remove that and see how it goes. .nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.neb.4.64.1307111741010.19...@sdf.lonestar.org
Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install
Hello I'm hoping you can help me with this. I installed Wheezy a couple of days ago. Everything went fine. No glitches. Sound, wifi, mail, ssh, X -- all good. i kept the machine running for continuously while getting everything in place. On the first reboot, my main user is unable to startx, while root surprisingly can. I've just added another user, who can also startx. I've had something like this is the past. My solution then was to move the main user's files to another user, deluser the main user, adduser again, and return the files. I'm reluctant to go through that procedure again, there should be a better way. Besides there are 30G of files here. The Xorg.0.log isn't giving me enough of a clue, tthe only errors are (==) : [ 6557.918] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 6557.919] (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Jun 12 08:44:35 2013 [ 6557.919] (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d [ 6557.919] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. Thanks for your thoughts, Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALzQb_k9rEiPr9xMV6gxxfR3sd8BJ8cXHZbHEGREDGRckJr=b...@mail.gmail.com
Re: recommend a laser printer
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:08:40PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I'm trying to buy a black and white laser printer for a family member running Wheezy. Can anybody recommend one that you've purchased recently, which used native cups drivers available in Wheezy, which cost $100US or less? You didn't say if they were using it for home or office, but I'd recommend a used HP 4000 Laserjet TN. I got my second from eBay from a seller that reconditions of lease machines; It had a very low page count. These work out of the box with CUPS, have excellent print quality and is network ready. They've been on the market a long time and parts are readily available for very reasonable prices. Though, they are super reliable. I paid $150 with shipping and the unit looked barely used. These were over $1000 retail when new. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130516200223.GA11767@phobos
stuck on apt-get upgrade; error in version string; apt-get -f install won't help
I don't know how best to proceed without doing more damage. I just recently tried and apt-get upgrade and ran into the following: apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: mjpegtools : Depends: liblavfile-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: liblavjpeg-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: liblavplay-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: libmjpegutils-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: libmplex2-2.0-0 but it is not installed Then: phobos:/home/nick# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libdns81 libgoffice-0.8-8 libgoffice-0.8-8-common libisc83 liblapack3gf Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: liblavfile-2.0-0 liblavjpeg-2.0-0 liblavplay-2.0-0 libmjpegutils-2.0-0 libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 libmplex2-2.0-0 The following NEW packages will be installed: liblavfile-2.0-0 liblavjpeg-2.0-0 liblavplay-2.0-0 libmjpegutils-2.0-0 libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 libmplex2-2.0-0 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 270 not upgraded. 108 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/280 kB of archives. After this operation, 745 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 502642 package 'cnews': error in Version string 'cr.g7-40.4': version number does not start with digit (Reading database ... 186047 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmjpegutils-2.0-0 (from .../libmjpegutils-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmjpegutils-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmjpegutils-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking liblavfile-2.0-0 (from .../liblavfile-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavfile-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblavfile-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking liblavjpeg-2.0-0 (from .../liblavjpeg-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavjpeg-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblavjpeg-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking liblavplay-2.0-0 (from .../liblavplay-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavplay-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblavplay-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 (from .../libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmpeg2encpp-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking libmplex2-2.0-0 (from .../libmplex2-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmplex2-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmplex2-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmjpegutils-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavfile-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavjpeg-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavplay-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libmplex2-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The initial error on the first attempt was the version string errors. I know sid in kinda crazy right now but what's the best way to proceed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130517002724.GB11767@phobos
Re: text from serial port + IP camera + Debian for loss prevention?
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:28:44AM +0200, sp113438 wrote: I know there is a program that records audio. It records several seconds/minutes to memory and writes the interval to disk when a button is hit. I forgot it's name :-( You need something similar, but for video. Timemachine is the program: Timemachine writes the last 10 seconds of audio _before_ the button press and everything from now on up to the next button press into a WAV-file. The idea is that you doodle away with whatever is kicking around in your studio and when you heard an interesting noise, you'd press record and capture it, without having to try and recreate it. But I don't want to record just triggered events. The IP camera will be recording from open to close. I'd like to archive the whole day's cash registers journal as well. Integrating the two and searching based on triggers or text would be the key. If I wanted to search latte the DVR would show me all the video footage of lattes being rung up; same for when the No Sale key was hit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130410114714.GA7446@phobos
INN2 and Authentication.
I am in the process of setting up an INN2, newsgroup server for small community discussion. So far I have INN2 working fine with no authentication and no SSL, but I will definitely need these working before I am confident in letting this service out. Does anyone have any experience with setting this up? I have read the man pages and google, and have seen some reference to ckpassword (which is not available for debian?). Anyone help with authentication would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! nick
text from serial port + IP camera + Debian for loss prevention?
Forgive me if I'm not using the proper terminology or not explaining this properly. This aspect of running a small business is foreign to me. My wife and I run a small independent coffee shop and I'm the geek in charge. I've got m0n0wall running great with the customer wifi on DMZ and all our machines on a private LAN. We've got a recycled Pentium 4 running Debian stable for our Music Player Daemon server. Motherboard is a Tyan with real serial ports. We have a mid-line Casio cash register setup that has 2 serial ports. 1 is dedicated to the credit card machine. The other can be connected to a serial pole display. I understand that this second serial port outputs formatted text of all buttons pressed and transactions processed. This is also useful for overlaying this text with a CCTV camera connected to a DVR. Though, this setup limits how you can search for mistakes or theft, having to sift through hours of video. I'd like to do the following with Debian: Use the text from the serial port in conjunction with an IP network camera connected to our server. I'd like to be able to search the text for particular triggers, e.g., look at video whenever someone hits the NS (no sale) key to open the drawer. I think I can connect the Casio to one of the serial ports on the server and capture data through tty(?). The text would not necessarily need to be overlayed but must sync with the video. The Casio has a pretty accurate clock, running on 60Hz; the IP camera can sync via NTP on our m0n0wall router. I've Googled a few commercial solutions but they are very expensive and are proprietary. One is this: http://www.geovision.com.tw/english/Prod_GVDataV3E.asp I'm thinking something like this must have been done with Linux for other fields, e.g., scientific sensors outputting text on a live stream. Any ideas or suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130409235527.GA28874@phobos
Re: What's Up With Debian.org?
don't look now but it's april fools... On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote: On Seg, 01 Abr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: Just went to www.debian.org and all the spelling is strange both on Chrome and Iceweasel like iz for is, and sistem instead of system, etc. This is only on the home page. Other pages look fine. Hint: What day is today? -- Say no, then negotiate. -- Helga Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.orgwith a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/**20130401180623.Horde.um8_** ssEIZryaDojnvimwqQ6@mail.**kalinowski.com.brhttp://lists.debian.org/20130401180623.horde.um8_sseizryadojnvimw...@mail.kalinowski.com.br -- Nicholas Falcone 440-488-7704
Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:11:36AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com wrote: linux is stable, or is it? Sure, but there is difference between stable and never crashes, ever. Namely one is a real thing, and the other does not and cannot exist, it is purely theoretical. Even with a provably correct program (and we cannot prove anything so complex as a full featured OS kernel, much less desktop, etc), hardware could fail in one way or another... a cosmic ray could hit a memory cell or a cpu transistor, and it could crash. You can add error handling to try to deal with all sorts of errors but you can't catch everything, and the error handling code has bugs of its own. Not to hijack the thread, but I was thinking about this and desktop systems. That is, whether folks use ECC RAM for their desktops. Also, how many crashes might be attributed to RAM errors. I can't find the link, but I once came a across a Google study that claimed it happens a lot more often than not. Though, one would need to buy or currently be using a motherboard that supports ECC. I generally use Tyan boards and most have supported ECC RAM. Personally, I don't see the cost as prohibitive as I only upgrade maybe once every 5-8 years. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130313183525.GA2529@phobos
Apache2 issue after migrating from squeeze to wheezy.
Hello I recently migrated my primary web server to wheezy from squeeze in order to get some new packages and just be ready for the switch. This web server hosts a few sites for a few subdomains and was working great with squeeze. Anyway after the upgrade the first default site hosted by apache works fine in (/var/www), it is the subdomains that I store in other /var folders that do not work anymore. I get this error in /var/log/apache2/error.log: SoftException in Application.cpp:350: UID of script /var/paste/index.php is smaller than min_uid Using my google-fu I found out it is supposed to be a permissions issue, so I chown (ed) the various web folders to www-data. Still the issue persists. Am I missing something here? Thanks Nick Falcone
Re: Apache2 issue after migrating from squeeze to wheezy.
That is so strange, I disabled suphp mod for apache and everything is all good now, is suphp something new? Is it critical to run? When I was searching around for an answer suphp never came up. Thanks! On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de wrote: On 02/06/2013 07:34 PM, Nick Falcone wrote: Hello I recently migrated my primary web server to wheezy from squeeze in order to get some new packages and just be ready for the switch. This web server hosts a few sites for a few subdomains and was working great with squeeze. Anyway after the upgrade the first default site hosted by apache works fine in (/var/www), it is the subdomains that I store in other /var folders that do not work anymore. I get this error in /var/log/apache2/error.log: SoftException in Application.cpp:350: UID of script /var/paste/index.php is smaller than min_uid Using my google-fu I found out it is supposed to be a permissions issue, so I chown (ed) the various web folders to www-data. Still the issue persists. Am I missing something here? Thanks Nick Falcone Hi, Sounds like suphp, you can try to change min_uid in suphp.conf http://www.suphp.org/Documentation.html Regards, Alex -- Nicholas Falcone
Re: Debian on HP Servers
Iya memang mau untuk virtualization mesinnya. kalau udah install debian baru dijadiin KVM host saya pake KVM ajah, enteng jalannya :D From: faizal abidin rachman faisal.abi...@gmail.com To: debian-user-indonesian@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:07 PM Subject: Fw: Debian on HP Servers --= Sinyal hilang ga nyambung-nyambung. =-- From: faizal abidin rachman faisal.abi...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:48:16 + To: masetiomase...@gmail.com ReplyTo: faisal.abi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Debian on HP Servers knapa ga pake virtualization aja mas bro...mungkin bisa pake proxmox (free) khan debian base juga tuh..kalo ga pake ESXi punya si vmware khan gratis juga...klo udah virtual isu tentang hardware compatibility bisa di minimalis...met mencoba ya mas bro... :-bd --= Sinyal hilang ga nyambung-nyambung. =-- From: masetio mase...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:36:40 +0700 To: Nicknicknackn...@yahoo.com Cc: debian-user-indonesian@lists.debian.orgdebian-user-indonesian@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian on HP Servers Dear, Kalau spek yang ada di Jakarta semua ada kok, tinggal cari saja, pengalaman install debian lancar-lancar saja di server HP, Raid controller sudah auto detect. Kalau ternyata tidak terdeteksi, buat custom kernel installer yg sudah terinstall driver RAIDnya. Gtalk : masetio YM : masetio email : masetio at gmail dot com 2012/11/16 Nick nicknackn...@yahoo.com Salam, milis user... saya berniat untuk mencoba infrastruktur server HP dengan OS debian ( squeeze ), apa ada di sini yang menggunakannya ? kira2 di Jakarta yang mudah didapat spec server HP yang mana ya ? Blade / Rack / Microserver ? lalu apa perlu tweak2 khusus untuk berjalan dengan OS debian ? takutnya controller RAID / NIC-nya tidak berjalan out of the box ... Mohon tips dan saran.. Terima Kasih.
Re: Debian on HP Servers
Sip.. Terima kasih nih untuk input bahan belajaran baru :D From: Masim Vavai Sugianto va...@excellent.co.id To: debian-user-indonesian@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:39 AM Subject: Re: Debian on HP Servers - Original Message - From: Nick nicknackn...@yahoo.com To: debian-user-indonesian@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 5:07:39 PM Subject: Re: Debian on HP Servers Iya memang mau untuk virtualization mesinnya. kalau udah install debian baru dijadiin KVM host saya pake KVM ajah, enteng jalannya :D Kalau untuk KVM Virtualization, lebih mudah pakai Proxmox VE, basisnya Debian juga kok. http://www.excellent.co.id/product-services/proxmox/kumpulan-tutorial-mengenai-proxmox-virtual-environment/ -- Best Regards, Masim Vavai Sugianto - Talk is Cheap, Show Me the Code! PT. Excellent Infotama Kreasindo, http://www.excellent.co.id Authorized VMWare, Zimbra SUSE Linux Enterprise Red Hat Partner Implementasi, Training, Konsultasi Audit Sistem : http://bit.ly/J5sSKY -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-indonesian-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1864477164.9.1353094772084.javamail.r...@excellent.co.id
usernames installed by packages
Having failed in my web searching, I ask for wisdom... Suppose I have a web app where people can register, choosing a username. The app takes the username and creates an operating system account on a Debian server. Naturally I don't want to let people choose 'root' or 'nobody' or 'www-data' or 'bind' or... How can I get a list of all the possible usernames that might be required by packages on a server? Or is this a misguided way to do it and I should instead modify the user's choice by applying a prefix or some such? Thanks, -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121031213514.GA12345@nickpad.nicklan
Right arrow key quits working in X after a while
I seem to be having an issue with my right arrow key in X. It's quits working after a while. It works fine in a VT, though. Using xev | grep keycode, I get: state 0x0, keycode 111 (keysym 0xff52, Up), same_screen YES, state 0x0, keycode 111 (keysym 0xff52, Up), same_screen YES, state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES, state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES, state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES, state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES, but nothing for the right arrow. Now, running vim in an xfce term, the solid cursor just blinks when I hit the key. I do use s2ram for this desktop and rarely shut it down. Any clues? Keyboard is a Happy Hacking Lite PS/2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120813155445.GA5167@phobos
replying to a thread on the list that is not in my inbox?
How does one reply to a thread on this list if I accidentally erased the threads or the thread was never in your inbox to begin with? I want to reply to this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/07/msg01613.html I had an issue with Verizon's email server where the my OP and replies never showed up in my inbox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120725030351.GB17619@phobos
Re: Re: linux cash register software, i.e, a simple point of sale?
Richard Owlett wrote: You might ask on debian-embed...@lists.debian.org ? The POS terminals are standard x86. Any other reason to ask that list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500f6800.2040...@verizon.net
Re: replying to a thread on the list that is not in my inbox?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:22:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:03:52 -0400 Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: How does one reply to a thread on this list if I accidentally erased the threads or the thread was never in your inbox to begin with? I want to reply to this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/07/msg01613.html Just click on the link under Reply - it's a mailto: url that will pass your MUA the proper headers. Thanks. It will bring up Icedove. How do I get that header info to Mutt? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120725033253.GC17619@phobos
Re: Re: linux cash register software, i.e, a simple point of sale?
Andrei POPESCU wrote: My brother tested several POS programs for his restaurant, but found nothing that matched his needs (he needed a software that could do recipes as well), but in his opinion LemonPOS was quite good. Unfortunately there is no Debian package :( (but there is an Ubuntu PPA package that worked on squeeze). I found this interesting piece of software called DHPOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHPOS It's for DOS and written in QuickBasic. Closed source and no price look up buttons for infrared touch screens. Though, it has a ton of features for small and medium businesses. It works under dosemu when I played with it today. I can't believe something like this has not been written for Linux. A simple ASCII/ncurses cash register that is GPL. Ugh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500f69fe.3020...@verizon.net
linux cash register software, i.e, a simple point of sale?
I'd like to transition our medium sized coffee/shop bakery to some kind of open Linux cash register. I say register because I don't need the advanced features of a POS, i.e., inventory control, invoices, etc. I'd like to replicate what we have now which is this: http://www.cashregisterstore.com/xcart/product.php?productid=77cat=23page=1 Flat PLU buttons for drinks and pastries, electronic reporting, VAT tax, i.e., our prices include sales tax and are rounded off to the quarter. We program a flat key for $2.25 and the Casio takes care of adding the tax to the total price, reporting the taxes at the end of the day on the Z report and breaking it down on a customer's receipt. With a ton of professional IBM POS terminals (all x86 based, infrared touch screens) available on eBay, I thought I could recycle some old hardware and run a Linux ncurses based simple cash register. Something configured with a text file. But I can't find anything in the Debian repos or via Google. The closest was Kvark but it's written in Russian and seems abandoned: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvark/ The Casio has no network capabilities; is very difficult to program; writes the Z reports to a compact flash which must be physically pulled from the machine at the end of the night or get a paper Z report; has cryptic error codes when one of the baristas does something it doesn't like; is very closed hardware and software wise. I'd like to stay away from proprietary systems if I can. iPad POS systems (Shopkeep; Square register) are all the rage these days amongst espresso shops like ours but I don't do Apple and the hardware is not up to snuff (consumer grade; wireless only; delicate ports) behind a bar with hot liquids and food, in my opinion. Any simple Linux cash registers out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120723050342.GA17619@phobos
sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses
Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Over the years I've become more fond of the console and ncurses applications. I've recently found myself using sc as my first spreadsheet application for our new small business. Doing initial sales calculations, the program is fast, easy to use, and being ncurses very easy on the eyes. There's a bit of info about sc online but not much. I found a nice, albeit dated, mini-manual online: www.economics.utoronto.ca/jfloyd/stats/minmansc.pdf I can foresee issues exchanging data with people who use Excel. But then I don't know if any of the graphical clients have that capability either. Thoughts? P.S. I also find the command line accounting program ledger very intriguing as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120712172914.GA727@phobos
Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:28:46PM -0400, John Cunningham wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: Thoughts? At first I really liked it, but I found the lack of Undo functionality too aggravating to continue using it. man sc reveals: u Undo But I haven't tried it yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120713051402.GA7217@phobos
Re: Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:43:00PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Stan Hoeppener gave you good advice. Take it. Hobbyists waste a lot of time tweaking systems because that's their hobby. Any SSD is going to be faster than your old HD. And unless your life is measured in milliseconds, you won't be able to tell the difference between them for anything you're likely to do. There are some applications where one make a difference over another but then you wouldn't be making the purchasing decision - your IT staff would. The technology is constantly improving so get a recent model - not something from three years ago. Get one that is as fast as your SATA ports. Get one that is large enough to hold everything but your /home folders unless you are independently wealthy. Enjoy the speed. Don't fret over whether it's setup to squeeze out the ultimate performance. Perhaps I was misunderstood. I was never fretting milliseconds. I wasn't too concerned with speed either. The 7200rpm spinning disk was fine. The drive started to fail. I use the laptop constantly on a New York City ambulance. Partners have dropped my bag (with laptop inside) while it was still hibernating. I've hit big bumps going to calls while the machine was still hibernating. I went SSD to obviate all that disk trauma. But this being new tech, and with new tech in Linux needing manual setup and tweaking on occasion, I thought I'd ask the list to make sure I wasn't overlooking something obvious. My priority is longevity of the SSD and data integrity. So I took Stan's advice and I'm only going to worry about reading the rsync man page and doing more regular backups of /home. Thanks again to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120709133204.GA3929@phobos
Re: Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:02:47AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/4/2012 4:15 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: Stan, you gave me rant because you assumed my computer case has lots of blue LEDs. You can try again or just don't bother. I gave you all of the information you need. Do you feel you are missing necessary information? I did a standard install with ext3, just like I've done with all my other disks in the past.You didn't mention any advice on file systems or journaling. Thoughts? Didn't mess with anything else. I did partition (/ and /home) using the entire disk. Should I have left some space? Or just don't use up the whole disk? Or just don't care? Laptop sure is a hell of a lot faster. Hibernate is super fast and I don't have to baby it while it's doing it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120709023225.GA5740@phobos
Re: Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 01:03:34AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: People often need to be presented with a healthy dose of realism--what you call harsh. Once the OP asked about alignment I knew he needed a dose... I don't need a dose, thank you. All my questions are valid and you did a piss poor job of answering them. I did what was required before I posted to the list: I Googled for 2 days; found a lot of conflicting information; found information that might be outdated considering the changes in SSD flash and controllers. I'm not a tweaker; I need to get work done on my laptop. Also, I need the drive to perform reliably for as long as possible. My data is important to me and I try to use my computer hardware for as long as possible --not subscribing to the idea of disposable consumerism that is prevalent today. Again, at the end of the day, the OP in this thread will notice ZERO performance difference whether he wastes his time on things like erase block alignment and TRIM, which is another can of worms. Real time TRIM or batch TRIM? The XFS devs recommend batch TRIM with a cron job, because real time TRIM kills performance, with the current Linux implementation of real time TRIM support. So we've come full circle. From what I Googled: TRIM support is included in the latest kernels and hdparm utility. Are you telling me that the kernel kernel devs included useless code that I should not bother with? Alignment was mentioned in several Debian websites including the SSD wiki. It was valid for me to ask. Camp #1 or camp #2? My original harsh response got the point across with about 1000 less characters. Replace harsh with direct or no bullshit. Stan, you gave me rant because you assumed my computer case has lots of blue LEDs. You can try again or just don't bother. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120704211541.GA19850@phobos
Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian
I've decided to replace the failing hard disk on my Debian Thinpad with an SSD. As I use the laptop in a harsh mobile environment, I decided to get and SSD. This one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167122 Then, I decided to Google SSD in relation to formatting, partitions and Debian/Linux. Seems there's a lot of old information; people saying some techniques for SSD setup are plain wrong; arguments about enabling TRIM; laptop setup vs SSD and HDD setup; etc., etc. The Debian SSD wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/SSDoptimization) leaves out An important aspect in optimizing SSD performance is the file system and partition layout. Ths wiki page does not cover these issues. So, it's 2012 and I'm a heavy Firefox user on Thinkpad with 3gigs of RAM. I'd like to install via a new install cd. What are the current recommendations? Do I have to do an alignment? Does the Debian net install have the tools necessary to do this or is SSD an option and things happen automagically? Which file system is recommended for and SSD in a laptop. fstab options? Anything else before I do my install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120703114917.GA5803@phobos
Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks
On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote: If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use luksKillSlot to remove the first slot. luksDelKey or luksKillSlot ? I don't yet understand the relationship between them, nor when it is necessary to kill a key slot. I did this several times without problems, although I would suggest unmounting the filesystem and closing the device. Um ... I'd have to be in single-user mode then I guess ... assuming there's even enough software in /boot (and/or the initramfs) to fiddle with unmounted encrypted root filesystems. Cheers Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206261540.06390.n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk
Re: SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze
On Wednesday 27 Jun 2012 00:30:20 Mark Panen wrote: When i reboot grub appears and then i get a message Please wait loading and then a whole lot of other sh!t. I think you'd better tell us what some of that doodookaka actually says :) Knoppix does not pick up the 2TB drive so i can't edit the fstab to get rid of the entries i put in. What version of Knoppix ? ISTR there's a disk size limit of around 2Tb+ after which you need a UEFI BIOS to handle the drive - or at least a BIOS that can handle GPT partition format disks. What's the motherboard in this machine ? Could someone please tell me how the f*** to edit fstab? I think my first move would be to physically disconnect the 3 smaller drives, and try booting then - just the data cables, you can leave the power cables connected if that helps. Bet you've tried that by now :) Cheers Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206270146.46709.n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk
Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks
On Monday 25 Jun 2012 09:16:23 Claudius Hubig wrote: Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote: The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from the pass- phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an on-volume header protected by the pass-phrase. Are you sure about that? I’ve set up quite a few systems and it always used LUKS. No, I'm not sure - but I picked up that understanding from reading a lot of forum threads about setting up new systems with encrypted disks. I gained the distinct impression that current distribution installers use 'dm- crypt' for simplicity, and that this is the same as 'cryptsetup' in plain mode as opposed to 'LUKS' mode.. Now that I've been reading more in-depth history of Linux filesystem crypto tools, I think the problem is that quite a lot of the documentation out there is old, obsolete and misleading :) Many pages report the home of dm-crypt as being : http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ but I now think that site is woefully out of date, and consequently somewhat misleading. Among other things, it says this : Clemens Fruhwirth is maintaining an enhanced version of cryptsetup with the LUKS extension that allows you to have an on-disk block of metadata which is superior to the current mechanism and was my long term plan anyway but I didn't find the time to implement that yet and this : Because the way using dmsetup directly is too complicated for most people I'm currently writing a native cryptsetup program to behave like one of the patched losetup's out there The Debian Installation Manual [3] says : debian-installer supports several encryption methods. The default method is dm-crypt I think it all needs updating and clarifying ... Anyway, I was concerned not to attempt to do a 'cryptsetup luksDelKey/luksAddKey' if there isn't actually an on-disk LUKS header to be manipulated (for fear of corrupting the start of a plain-mode encrypted volume). You can check with # cryptsetup luksDump device Hmm .. well thanks for that command (I'm a novice) ... which confirms what you say - my single encrypted raw disk partition (containing the LVM mapped system volumes) does indeed have a LUKS header, with 8 keyslots; slot 0 is marked ENABLED, while the other 7 are DISABLED. I think I'll proceed by doing a 'luksHeaderBackup', and then trying a pass- phrase change. The subject will be 350Gb of data which has taken two months to set up, so I'll be holding my breath :-/ Thanks a lot for the clues ! [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#partman-crypto Cheers Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206252154.23102.n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk
Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks
I recently set up a Debian Squeeze system, using the installer's option to encrypt the hard disk. It's working very well :-) Good practice dictates that I should change the pass-phrase for this disk from time to time, but my research ([1],[2]) suggests this is is not straightforward because of the scheme used by the installer. The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from the pass- phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an on-volume header protected by the pass-phrase. Therefore, changing the pass-phrase requires all data to be decrypted and re-encrypted - a slow and cumbersome process. This must be done either in situ (which is dangerous) or using a second filesystem (which is expensive on disk space). Just to put my mind at rest (...), can anyone here confirm my understanding: the passphrase on a Debian-6.0 installer-encrypted disk volume can't currently be changed unless you unload all the data, re-create the volume with a new pass-phrase, and reload the data ? Refs: [1] http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ (FAQ section) Q: What if I want to change my passphrase? A: At the moment you'll need to reencrypt your device because the passphrase is directly tied to the key If you want to reencrypt your filesystem you'll have to recreate a new one and move your files. [2] http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions (question 6.11) Q: What does the on-disk structure of dm-crypt look like? A: There is none. dm-crypt takes a block device and gives encrypted access to each of its blocks with a key derived from the passphrase given ... If you want to change the password, you basically have to create a second encrypted device with the new passphrase and copy your data over Thanks in advance, Nick Boyce -- Never FDISK after midnight -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206250349.14318.n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk
83 key IBM model m XT keyboard with Debian?
Anybody using an 83 key IBM model M keyboard with a modern PC? Clickykeyboards.com has info about a key codes adapter here: http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11298/subcatid/0/id/500722 Was wondering if anyone is a fan of the old 83 key keyboards and if there any glitches when using one of these adapters, i.e., limits on maximum typing speed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120618024010.GB3197@phobos
RE: Install a package from testing?
Yuck, I'm not sure I can turn html off from the hotmail interface. I use hotmail for stuff like this for the sake of safety. FWIW, I do have html disabled by default on Icedove, but I don't have this email account tied to that, so I have to use the web interface. I will ry to figure that out, but in the meantime I'll abstain from posting again, and... Apologies to all! Nick To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: noela...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Install a package from testing? Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:23 + On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:19:58 -0500, Nick Meyers wrote: Good evening all, Hi... please, turn off html when posting, thanks :-) (...) How hard would it be to install just that package from the testing suite, and if it is not too much trouble, would someone be willing to direct me? I can't tell how hard it can be but have you considered in getting the deb file from the upstream site¹? It says it's for Ubuntu but it may also also work for Debian :-? ¹http://www.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/#downloads Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jnj85n$5ol$4...@dough.gmane.org
Install a package from testing?
Good evening all, Got a hopefully easy question. I currently have a dual boot system with Debian (Squeeze) and windows. The only reason I've booted into windows for several months now has been to access MySQL Workbench when I'm not at work. I noticed that MySQL Workbench is available as a package in Wheezy, so I thought I would look into the possibility of installing it from there. I've looked through several of the documents available, but I'm still not clear on how this could be accomplished without doing an upgrade. I updated sources.list and did an update, but when I select the package for install I am prompted to remove several other packages. How hard would it be to install just that package from the testing suite, and if it is not too much trouble, would someone be willing to direct me? Thanks, Nick
Re: steam
Concordo. Ja é alguma coisa, mesmo nao usando Linux para jogos. Em 25 de abril de 2012 10:46, Fred Maranhão fred.maran...@gmail.comescreveu: Boas notícias no mundo dos jogos http://adrenaline.uol.com.br/games/noticias/12241/steam-para-linux-pode-estar-a-caminho.html tudo bem que os produtos da valve não são livres, mas coisas proprietárias que rodam em coisas livres, a meu ver, é andar na direção certa. PS: isto era para ser OFF-TOPIC? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-portuguese-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/capr829mbddmwakcwyofkrwxs3uajn3corhd-ny2zuak0eo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Qualidade de regras Iptables Para Servidor DNS
Acho bom. Em 16 de abril de 2012 15:50, Fagner Patricio fagner.patri...@gmail.comescreveu: Olá Pessoal Estou montando aqui um servidor DNS não recursivo, ou seja apenas atoritativo, que vai reposnder pelo meu domínio, ele será público e montei esse conjunto de regras iptables sendo tudo o mais bloqueado: -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 1024:65535 --dport 53 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 1024:65535 --dport 53 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -s 10.128.0.0/21 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 1024:65535 --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -s 10.128.0.27/32 -p udp -m udp --sport 123 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -m comment --comment Liberação para sincronização de tempo com o servidor ntp interno -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -m comment --comment Liberação da interface loopback -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 53 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -d 10.128.0.0/21 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 22 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -d 10.128.0.27/32 -p udp -m udp --dport 123 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -m comment --comment Liberação para sincronização de tempo com o servidor ntp interno -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -m comment --comment Liberação da interface loopback -j ACCEPT O que acham? -- Fagner Patrício João Pessoa - PB Brasil
Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader
Hi Panayiotis, I too like the idea of e-readers, without spying, adverts, and other freedom impeding 'features.' The Kobo and the Bookeen (recommended earlier in this thread) both look like they use the linux kernel and busybox, so offer source for those, but are otherwise quite proprietary. I can't imagine running your own software freely on them, or modifying their reader software. The only project that I know of that addresses what you want is OpenInkpot - openinkpot.org. They've been quiet lately, but are still active. It's an entirely free, community built Linux distribution (not sure how much gnu stuff is in there), designed for e-readers with e-ink displays. It works well for a few older e-readers - if you wanted new hardware I think you'd have to get quite involved with the project to add support. But if I were you I'd get a second hand oldish ereader based on the Jinke V3 and put OpenInkpot on it. Someday I plan to do that. Apparently the Kindle is very nice hardware, so I'd like someone to finish porting OpenInkpot to that, but I lack the time and money ;) Anyway, the list of supported hardware is here http://openinkpot.org/wiki/Hardware - note that lots of ereaders are rebrands of the Jinke V3, so they should all work. A review of OpenInkpot is at https://lwn.net/Articles/354714/ Resist the dull shiny of android tablets, get a second hand e-reader, with a real community distribution behind it, and read happily! Best of luck, Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120410083508.GA1535@starfish
Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:25:27PM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thank you! I didn't see your post until after I ordered a Pocketbook. :( Darn it - debian-user is hard to keep on top of; sorry I didn't answer sooner. Right now, I plan to install an ssh server and busybox on my new device, and if the Inkpot project isn't abandoned, I can wait for it. I should probably get involved, since I am a programmer, but I don't know if I have the stamina. :-) Do that! Nothing like exercise to improve one's stamina. A little search online suggests that the source code that's free for the pocketbook is at http://pocketbook-free.sourceforge.net/en/sourcecode.shtml Good luck with it, and I look forward to hearing how you get on :) Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120410144057.GA4792@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
Hi Keith, On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: Download the latest alsa-driver package from alsa-project.org. I did this, then installed linux-headers, and did ./configure make sudo make install After rebooting, whatdya know, it works! Horrah! Thanks a lot everybody for helping me to track down the issue. There are a couple of questions I have left: Firstly, should I ask the backports project to backport the new version of alsa-drivers? Are there any guidelines on what criteria they use to decide what to backport? Obviously it would be nicer to use distro-provided packages of some description, for security updates, no problems between kernel versions, etc. Secondly, I checked what the Realtek driver was, as listed on http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#Alternative_Method, and it turns out it's just a repackaged copy of the alsa-driver tarball from http://alsa-project.org. So it probably makes sense to update the wiki to make the alternative method roughly just download the upstream alsa-driver tarball, make it, and restart. Can anyone edit the wiki? Are there people 'responsible' for certain pages who should be consulted before changing stuff? Thanks again folks, very much. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120403141852.GA1880@starfish
No sound with new install
Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64) in order to get my ethernet working, but the same thing happenned with the stock 2.6 kernel too (linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64) Any suggestions at all of things to try would be most appreciated. Below is hopefully relevant output from interesting commands. Many thanks, Nick 'alsactl init' returns the following: Unknown hardware: HDA-Intel Realtek ALC887-VD HDA:10ec0887,1458a002,00100302 0x1458 0xa002 Hardware is initialized using a guess method /usr/share/alsa/init/default:26: control element not found /usr/share/alsa/init/default:26: control element not found /usr/share/alsa/init/default:41: control element not found 'alsamixer' fails with: cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument the relevant part of 'lspci -knnvv': 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 04) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:a002] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 41 Region 0: Memory at f7d0 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: fee0300c Data: 4171 Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 64ns, L1 1us ExtTag- RBE- FLReset+ DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 64ns, L1 1us ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk- ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1 Arb:Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed Status: InProgress- VC0:Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans- Arb:Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256- Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01 Status: NegoPending- InProgress- VC1:Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans- Arb:Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256- Ctrl: Enable+ ID=1 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=22 Status: NegoPending- InProgress- Capabilities: [130 v1] Root Complex Link Desc: PortNumber=0f ComponentID=00 EltType=Config Link0: Desc: TargetPort=00 TargetComponent=00 AssocRCRB- LinkType=MemMapped LinkValid+ Addr: fed1c000 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel 'lsmod|grep snd' output: snd_hda_codec_realtek 188417 1 snd_hda_intel 26023 0 snd_hda_codec 81579 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 13148 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm67465 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_seq44678 0 snd_timer 22658 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 13155 1 snd_seq snd52458 8 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_seq, snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 13014 1 snd snd_page_alloc 12969 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402094905.GB1785@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:14:44PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 02.04.2012 12:49, Nick White wrote: One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. Try installing Pulseaudio. It has fixed same issue for me. Didn't help, unfortunately. Unsuprisingly, given that even alsamixer and friends didn't succeed. Thanks for the thought, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402104332.GC1785@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be. Please also add output of: 'aplay -l' output: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 'aplay -L' output: null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output 'cat /proc/asound/cards' output: 0 [PCH]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7d0 irq 41 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402105757.GD1785@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:06:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: What about 'amixer'? amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402112230.GE1785@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:05:31PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Ok, this all looks good. Please make sure that you turn off any program that may produce sounds[1] and try as root *and* as user: speaker-test -c2 You should hear hissing (pink) noise alternating from the left and right speaker. Use Ctrl+C to interrupt and post error messages here (if any). Sadly I don't hear anything at all. I closed everything including X, so am pretty confident nothing was stealing the soundcard. Also no error messages; the speaker test continued happily sending pink noise nowhere. Thanks for your help so far, Andrei! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402115319.GA16487@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:25:10AM -0400, Tom Ashley wrote: I spent the last 2 days trying to resolve this same issue on a new motherboard. The alternative method from http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA worked for me. Thanks for the tip. However, I'd really like to get this working using a stock kernel with stock modules if possible, to ease upgrading etc. Also I don't know what license that kernel module is, and I generally hate the idea of loading unknown modules into my system. And ALSO I have no idea whether the audio board is realtek. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402115657.GB16487@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Have a look at /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ there are lots of info about hd models (install alsa-base if you don't) look for your souncard model infod in the relevant files and the specify your model in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf using options snd-hda-intel model=MODEL Thanks Raffaele. Is there a good way of finding out the model of soundcard in my computer, without taking the case off (possible, but not ideal)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402115801.GC16487@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:29:56PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: well, as showed from aplay -l your model is : ALC887-VD `cd /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver` and `gunzip HD-Audio-Models.txt.gz` open HD-Audio-Models.txt with your favourite text editor/viewer, rows [128..153] they seems to match your model (-VD apart), have a try according to your computer and/or souncard and/or board I see your card has an spdif so I would guess one of 3stack-dig 6stack-dig 3stack-6ch-dig 3stack-6ch-intel remember to reload alsa after each change (service alsa-utils restart) Thanks alot for the clear advice. Unfortunately none of those made a jot of difference, and nor did trying the other most obvious candidates from the models list. I found the motherboard model this soundcard is attached to online; http://www.gigabyte.tw/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4091#sp - and it does indeed list it as a Realtek ALC887 High Definition Audio device. I suppose I could try the external Realtek driver pointed to from the 'Alternative Method' section of the Alsa wiki page, but as I mentioned earlier I'd far rather find a proper solution to the problem (particularly because I want to use a fully mainline or debian-maintained kernel). Anybody have any other suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402144400.GA1911@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: I've got the same issue on sid. At the moment I'm working around it by killing pulseaudio after booting. When it then autimatically restarts, sound is working for me. Hi Jens-Michael, That doesn't sound like the same issue that I'm reporting at all, actually (read further messages in the thread for more details of my problems). Maybe you should start a new thread for your problem, or open a bug? Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402144609.GB1911@starfish
Re: No sound with new install
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Ok.. I know these may sound really naive... but with the integrated audio thingies sometimes audio is really troublesome to set up even if everything is working correctly, so: - Are you 100% sure you have plugged your headphones/speakers in the right output. This may seem funny but here e.g. I have front and rear headphone jack and these are selectable from the alsamixer. I've seen situations in which only one worked so you should try the combinations. Yeah, those are good thoughts. I haven't actually heard sound from the PC yet (it's new, and didn't come with an OS), so plan to load up a few live CDs to check whether things work better there, and to more closely rule out hardward issues. I have tried plugging my speakers into everywhere, though, so think it's unlikely to be the issue here (and checked that audio was enabled in my bios). - On the same line try playing with levels and switches in (alsa)mixer (or some other gui version) .. I have seen that sometimes when I upgrade, for some unpredictable reason the PCM volume is turned down to 0 (PCM is basically all the audio you'll get from applications). As alsamixer and related applications all don't start due to an error at the moment I can't do this, and it implies that it's more than just a little configuration thing sadly. You would be surprised to know how many times I wasted time debugging audio problems at the driver level and the issue was actually in the (alsa) mixer, cables, plugs etc. I really hope I don't find out that it's something stupid like that in this case! Doesn't seem to be, I think. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402153611.GC1911@starfish
Re: [Off-Topic] problemas com usuários da lista
Oloco! Minha caixa esta com 34.265 msg para serem lidas e eu nem ligo. Boa sorte! Em 21 de março de 2012 16:03, Rodolfo rof20...@gmail.com escreveu: Quando é assunto que não me interessa ou não tenho como ajudar eu deleto, porém, acredito que alguns podem ter marcado como SPAM sem querer, no meito de tanto spams um RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE realmente confunde =D Abraços. Em 21 de março de 2012 11:48, John DeRose hax0...@gmail.com escreveu: Olá Riesdra, Não entendo porque tem gente que se inscreve na lista e marca como spam as mensagens recebidas. Deveria apenas ignorar (ou excluir) as mensagens que não são de interesse próprio. Ou melhor, se não quer acompanhar os tópicos abordados, desinscreva-se da lista. Abraço. John Em 21 de março de 2012 12:42, riesdra ries...@zoho.com escreveu: ** Boa tarde a todos, estou ciente que gerou muitas mensagens o meu tópico Squid transparente + squidGuard, mas me ocorreu um problema devido a alguns usuários aqui da lista, mas precisamente usuários do yahoo. passei o dia de ontém sem poder acessar meus e-mails, pois minha conta ficou inativa, por que diversos usuários cadastrado na lista relataram meu post como spam, sendo que não era. na minha opinião ninguém é obrigado a ler os posts que temos na lista, mas daí marcar como spam, também já não seria o correto, pois fiquei sem acesso ao meu e-mail por causa disto. # # Ricardo Esdra# # # # linux user n° 446011# #
Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:57:22PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: While I admire the work the Nouveau guys are doing, after suffering for more than 4 years with an Nvidia GPU+chipset on my desktop, I just replaced the motherboard with a one based on the AMD E350 fusion chip, and suddenly all my problems are gone. One of the best $200 I've spent recently. Aside from the GPU, what problems did you have with the chipset? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120228044234.GA4280@phobos
Re: New computer planned
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:48:32AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have a limited read/write cycle. Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are unlikely to affect normal usage. Andrei, What do you think about this article on SSD and errors? Link:http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224322/SSDs_have_a_bleak_future_researchers_say -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120222031535.GA21090@phobos
