Re: gnome-shell freezing
Any idea where i can look? top doesn't show anything and I dont know
which process i should trace.
Attached the last few lines of /var/log/messages before the freeze.
On 7/31/21 8:53 AM, Sylvain Archenault wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recently, my gnome session has been freezing a bit randomly - but it
> seems to happen quite often when i open a link in thunderbird or use the
> app "grisbi"
>
> I'm running SID with the last kernel: 5.10.46-3 and recent nvidia
> driver: 460.91.03-1 or 470.57.02-1
>
> I'm struggling to find something interesting in any log file though.
> When the freeze happens, the mouse is still moving, I can go to a tty
> and sometimes I'm able to recover by restarting gdm.
>
> Do you have any idea what I could do / look at to get more information
> about the "freeze"?
>
> Thank you
> Sylvain
>
>
>
Aug 3 17:58:04 nautilus[44632]: Error on getting connection: Failed to load
SPARQL backend: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit
tracker-store.service is masked.
Aug 3 17:58:04 gnome-shell[43780]: Couldn't find child [0x55811b3f3490
Gjs_ui_windowPreview_WindowPreview ("Home")] in window slots
Aug 3 17:58:04 gnome-shell[43780]: Couldn't find child [0x55811b3f3490
Gjs_ui_windowPreview_WindowPreview:first-child last-child ("Home")] in window
slots
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6210.771991] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.374:92): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open"
profile="libreoffice-oopslash"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44696
comm="oosplash" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6210.771998] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.374:93): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="file_mmap"
profile="libreoffice-oopslash"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44696
comm="oosplash" requested_mask="rm" denied_mask="rm" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6210.864357] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.466:94): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open"
profile="libreoffice-soffice"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44731
comm="soffice.bin" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6210.864367] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.466:95): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="file_mmap"
profile="libreoffice-soffice"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44731
comm="soffice.bin" requested_mask="rm" denied_mask="rm" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6210.911173] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.510:96): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open"
profile="libreoffice-soffice" name="/proc/44732/comm" pid=44732
comm="soffice.bin" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6210.912939] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.514:97): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open"
profile="libreoffice-soffice"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44732
comm="soffice.bin" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6210.928698] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.530:98): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open"
profile="libreoffice-soffice"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44732
comm="soffice.bin" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:08 kernel: [ 6211.094696] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027888.694:99): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open"
profile="libreoffice-soffice"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/.XInputEventIDs" pid=44731
comm="soffice.bin" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:10 tracker-miner-f[43344]: Error while sending AddMatch() message:
The connection is closed
Aug 3 17:58:10 tracker-miner-f[43344]: Error while sending AddMatch() message:
The connection is closed
Aug 3 17:58:10 tracker-miner-f[43344]: Error while sending AddMatch() message:
The connection is closed
Aug 3 17:58:11 gnome-shell[43780]: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2732: instance
'0x558114bbb8e0' has no handler with id '35437'
Aug 3 17:58:12 kernel: [ 6214.410572] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027892.010:100): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open"
profile="libreoffice-soffice"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44775
comm="sh" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:12 kernel: [ 6214.410581] audit: type=1400
audit(1628027892.010:101): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="file_mmap"
profile="libreoffice-soffice"
name="/usr/local/lib/AppProtection/libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.10" pid=44775
comm="sh" requested_mask="rm" denied_mask="rm" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Aug 3 17:58:43 geoclue[43516]: Service not used for 60 seconds. Shutting down..
gnome-shell freezing
Hi Recently, my gnome session has been freezing a bit randomly - but it seems to happen quite often when i open a link in thunderbird or use the app "grisbi" I'm running SID with the last kernel: 5.10.46-3 and recent nvidia driver: 460.91.03-1 or 470.57.02-1 I'm struggling to find something interesting in any log file though. When the freeze happens, the mouse is still moving, I can go to a tty and sometimes I'm able to recover by restarting gdm. Do you have any idea what I could do / look at to get more information about the "freeze"? Thank you Sylvain
Re: Some packages missing for latest zsh version on stretch security repo
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:14 PM Sylvain Faivre wrote: > > Hello, > > On a Debian Stretch server with the security repo enabled, I have an error > today when trying to install zsh : >The following packages have unmet dependencies: > zsh : Depends: zsh-common (= 5.3.1-4) but 5.3.1-4+deb9u4 is to be > installed > > This is caused by the security repo having only the zsh-common package in > version 5.3.1-4+deb9u4, and missing the zsh package. > > This version was accepted today, as show in the following message : > https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-changes/2020/12/msg4.html > [...] For everyone's information, I got the following reply from Salvatore (Debian Security team) : > Note that stretch is not handled anymore by the Debian security team > but instead by the dedicated LTS team. > > In fact though I can explain what the problem is: The upload for some > binary builds needs manual intervention by the ftp-master team because > zsh-static has a Build-Using on libcap2 which is not prsent in the > security archive. > > I assume that Markus Koschany from LTS will accordingly handle this > soon and the packages should then be available in the archive. > > Hope this helps, And he was right : the zsh package was built and uploaded in the latest hours, like he suggested. Also, thank you Andrei for pointing me to the Debian LTS Team, this might be useful for other requests. Regards, Sylvain
Some packages missing for latest zsh version on stretch security repo
Hello, On a Debian Stretch server with the security repo enabled, I have an error today when trying to install zsh : The following packages have unmet dependencies: zsh : Depends: zsh-common (= 5.3.1-4) but 5.3.1-4+deb9u4 is to be installed This is caused by the security repo having only the zsh-common package in version 5.3.1-4+deb9u4, and missing the zsh package. This version was accepted today, as show in the following message : https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-changes/2020/12/msg4.html `apt-cache policy` shows this : $ > apt-cache policy zsh zsh: Installed: 5.3.1-4+b3 Candidate: 5.3.1-4+b3 Version table: *** 5.3.1-4+b3 500 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ > apt-cache policy zsh-common zsh-common: Installed: 5.3.1-4 Candidate: 5.3.1-4+deb9u4 Version table: 5.3.1-4+deb9u4 500 500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages *** 5.3.1-4 500 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I downloaded the package list at http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/updates/main/binary-all/Packages.gz It contains the following packages : Package: zsh-common Source: zsh Version: 5.3.1-4+deb9u4 Package: zsh-doc Source: zsh Version: 5.3.1-4+deb9u4 But the other packages from the zsh source are missing. I tried reaching out to t...@security.debian.org but they haven't answered yet. Is it the right way to deal with this problem, or should I open a bug on some tracker ?
Laptop with 2 external monitors
Hi, I'm have a laptop with Intel HD 620 graphic card and i'm trying to set it up with 2 external monitors. So i have a usb-c hub where i connect the first monitor with HDMI and the second one with DP. I'm able to have both of them work with the following resolutions: - 1920x1080 : internal display - 1920x1080 @ 60Hz : hdmi display) - 1920x1200 : DP display Having said that the DP monitor can go up to 2560x1440 but I'm unable to use that resolution with the order monitor active. I only see this in the log: /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[1069250]: (EE) modeset(0): failed to set mode: Invalid argument Based on https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/25675/graphics-drivers.html I thought it would be possible to use the highest resolution. If I disable the HDMI display, I can go up to the max resolution. Is there something i'm missing? or somewhere I could look to confirm my graphic card/system doesn't support the configuration I'm trying to do? Thanks signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: libgtk-3.0 debug package?
Perfect, thank you Andreas
libgtk-3.0 debug package?
Hi, Is there a debug package for libgtk-3.0 amd64 for sid? I was only able to find this page: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libgtk-3-0-dbgsym Thanks
Re: Lost group after upgrade and GDM issue
I found this bug report [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747292] that suggested that the init system could be the issue. I turn on systemd - and it works better. On 05/13/2014 09:09 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: Hello, I'm running sid, and after a recent upgrade (I could not pin point exactly which one), my user lost all of the groups it was part of. I added them back manually, but I'm still unable to mount USB drive from nautilus automatically: # groups sylvain sylvain : sylvain adm disk lp cdrom sudo audio video plugdev fuse scanner bluetooth saned Any idea which group i'm missing? Also, from gnome, when I click on logout, X/Gdm3 crashes. I'm not sure what is the pb. I couldn't find a log to give me an idea of the problem, any idea where I should look at? Thanks Sylvain -- 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/5372cfe4.7040...@laposte.net
Lost group after upgrade and GDM issue
Hello, I'm running sid, and after a recent upgrade (I could not pin point exactly which one), my user lost all of the groups it was part of. I added them back manually, but I'm still unable to mount USB drive from nautilus automatically: # groups sylvain sylvain : sylvain adm disk lp cdrom sudo audio video plugdev fuse scanner bluetooth saned Any idea which group i'm missing? Also, from gnome, when I click on logout, X/Gdm3 crashes. I'm not sure what is the pb. I couldn't find a log to give me an idea of the problem, any idea where I should look at? Thanks Sylvain -- 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/5372c23e.1070...@laposte.net
Re: No udev event when i plug an HDMI cable
Anybody having the same issue? On 05/18/2013 12:52 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: Hello, When I plugged a HDMI cable in my laptop, the display used to automatically detect my TV and expand to it. It stopped working a few days ago, I'm not sure what package upgrade triggered this. When I run "udevadm monitor", there is no event generated. It used to work. If I go in "Settings -> Monitor" the tv is detected. I'm running Sid, which is up to date. I don't see any output in the log. I'm not sure where to look at. I tried with this 2 kernels: linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 - Linux 3.6 for 64-bit PCs linux-image-3.8-1-amd64 - Linux 3.8 for 64-bit PCs Let me know if you need more details. Thanks Sylvain -- 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/51ad36ab.5090...@laposte.net
No udev event when i plug an HDMI cable
Hello, When I plugged a HDMI cable in my laptop, the display used to automatically detect my TV and expand to it. It stopped working a few days ago, I'm not sure what package upgrade triggered this. When I run "udevadm monitor", there is no event generated. It used to work. If I go in "Settings -> Monitor" the tv is detected. I'm running Sid, which is up to date. I don't see any output in the log. I'm not sure where to look at. I tried with this 2 kernels: linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 - Linux 3.6 for 64-bit PCs linux-image-3.8-1-amd64 - Linux 3.8 for 64-bit PCs Let me know if you need more details. Thanks Sylvain -- 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/5197b1d7.5020...@laposte.net
Re: protecting web directories in apache2
Hi, A .htaccess seems to be the solution for your problem. Regards. Sylvain Berfini Software Engineer at Belledonne Communications Le 27/11/2012 16:54, Zachary Uram a écrit : Running Apache2 on Debian testing release. Say I have a directory http://www.website.org/files/ And I want to let a user download a file: http://www.website.org/files/example.txt But I don't want them to be able to browse the directory and see the other files in there. So how can I protect the directory? Zach -- 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/50b4e88d.9050...@belledonne-communications.com
Re: Re: Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Alienware M11xR3 laptop
I tried with kernel 3.0.0 and it's working as well. I reported the bug in the BTS: 674243: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674243 Thanks Sylvain -- 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/4fbd9d9d.3090...@laposte.net
Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Dell XPS 14z
[i915] May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.791183] [] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x459/0x49a May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.791254] [] ? sys_ioctl+0x4b/0x72 May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.791316] [] ? sys_read+0x5f/0x6b May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.791373] [] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.791425] Code: 01 00 75 05 83 c0 0f eb 03 83 c0 0d 48 89 fa 4c 8b 15 05 36 5b 00 89 f6 48 c1 ea 1c 81 e2 f0 0f 00 00 48 09 fa 49 8d 34 b2 09 d0 <89> 06 c3 c3 48 c7 c0 60 aa 7f 81 c3 48 8b 05 a5 35 5b 00 48 8b May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.794109] RIP [] gen6_write_entry+0x4c/0x4f May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.796497] RSP I looked online, but I couldn't find a workaround. Let me know if more information are needed. Thanks Sylvain -- 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/4fbae496.90...@laposte.net
Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)
2012/3/7 Camaleón : > Anyway, I would have expected some kind of warning at the logs coming > from backuppc indicating a problem for accessing to the configured mount > point which was not available at that time and thus failing. Me too, and I didn't understand why I wasn't getting anything in the logs until now: the default LogDir (/var/lib/backuppc/log/) is in a subdirectory of the TopDir (/var/lib/backuppc/), which means that if the TopDir doesn't exist, backuppc won't be able to log the error in LogDir. So in order to check the logs to find out what the problem is you first have to solve the problem. :-) Cheers, Sylvain -- 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/CAJwBQFNYny=wdQUBKPCi_Mc4bN1-R=kkU_=T=oftvzlbdnv...@mail.gmail.com
Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)
2012/3/6 Tom H : > AFAICT, a bug should be filed against backuppc to change its init > script to have "$remote_fs" (or "$all"!) in "Required-Start" or > "autofs" in "Should-Start". autofs doesn't seem to be included in $remote_fs, and autofs doen't have anything to do with backuppc so I don't think it should be included in backuppc's init script. 2012/3/6 Camaleón : > On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:35:21 +0100, Sylvain wrote: > >> I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine >> except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the backuppc >> logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start it >> manually with /etc/init.d/backuppc start, it works just fine. There are >> also startup scripts in /etc/rc*.d/. My backuppc version is 3.2.1-2 (I'm >> running a testing install). > > Well, there are some packages that in addition to be installed have to be > configured to be run on booting. I mean, the fact a service is not > started by default cannot be considered a bug or error "per se". Sure, but you usually have either configuration files to edit, or a note in the readme file stating that you'll need some additional steps to make the package work if you're using some special configuration. Also the resolution of the problem was not straightforward; in fact I was writing to the list to get a solution to my problem when the solution came to my mind. >> Note that my /var/lib/backuppc directory points to >> /removable/sbackup/backuppc which is my external USB HDD mounted by >> autofs, which is in /etc/rc*.d/S21autofs (backuppc is >> /etc/rc*.d/S21backuppc). After some investigation I found that adding >> autofs in the Required-Start section of the insserv overrides of the >> backuppc init script solved the problem. > > So backuppc daemon is starting but fails because it cannot access to the > configured external USB hard disk? You can check the service status with > "service backuppc status". Yes, the /removable/sbackup/backuppc directory is empty since autofs has not started yet and thus has not created the directory yet. >> Now I'm not sure how to report >> the bug. Should I report it against autofs (so that autofs gets included >> into $local_fs or in the mountall.sh script but these scripts have >> nothing to do with autofs), or in insserv (again so that autofs gets >> included into $local_fs, but insserv doesn't have anything to do with >> autofs) or in backuppc so that the init script is modified (but again, >> backuppc has nothing to do with autofs)? > > Mmm, I would open a bug against the package it self (that is, backuppc) > to get some feedback from the package maintainers about this situation. > > In principle (though I don't know BackupPC requirements in deep), it > should not require "autofs" by default (nor smb, nfs...) because there > can be people/installations not having that service even installed. Sure. Maybe the best solution is a note in the readme file for autofs users. I'll file a bugreport against backuppc. Thanks for the hints, Sylvain -- 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/CAJwBQFN6GNUmyPDE=mDrYpP4Sd0f3=z3ocm4lf6yqgpb00s...@mail.gmail.com
How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)
Hey there, I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the backuppc logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start it manually with /etc/init.d/backuppc start, it works just fine. There are also startup scripts in /etc/rc*.d/. My backuppc version is 3.2.1-2 (I'm running a testing install). Note that my /var/lib/backuppc directory points to /removable/sbackup/backuppc which is my external USB HDD mounted by autofs, which is in /etc/rc*.d/S21autofs (backuppc is /etc/rc*.d/S21backuppc). After some investigation I found that adding autofs in the Required-Start section of the insserv overrides of the backuppc init script solved the problem. Now I'm not sure how to report the bug. Should I report it against autofs (so that autofs gets included into $local_fs or in the mountall.sh script but these scripts have nothing to do with autofs), or in insserv (again so that autofs gets included into $local_fs, but insserv doesn't have anything to do with autofs) or in backuppc so that the init script is modified (but again, backuppc has nothing to do with autofs)? Thanks for your advice, Sylvain -- 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/CAJwBQFNR=CNtB43SE=-ggizrl8ehqeqgsfruawskjkqmjj8...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Running 2 ssh instances
2012/2/14 Rob Owens : > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:26:54AM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> Hello Sylvain, >> >> Sylvain wrote: >> >Right now I'm a bit confused by the way chroot seems to work with users. >> >I'd be grateful if someone had an idea on how to do have an ssh instance >> >running on a specific port and allowing only certain users. >> >> Check $(man sshd_config) and the AllowUser option. You should then be >> able to create a second SSHd configuration file listening on the >> appropriate port. I would then go on and maybe adapt >> either /etc/init.d/ssh slightly to also start the second server (with >> the appropriate configuration file) or create a second script doing >> the same thing. >> > I agree with Claudius. For your second instance of ssh, you don't need > a chroot. You do need: > > /etc/init.d/ssh.alt > /etc/default/ssh.alt > /etc/ssh/sshd_config.alt (and use the AllowUsers and Port options) > /var/run/sshd.alt (although your init script may create this directory, > if you copy the standard ssh init script) > > I do this on my system. I run LTSP on my LAN, which requires the use of > password authentication for ssh. But for access to my server from the > internet, I require public key authentication. The only way I knew how > to accomplish this was to use two instances of ssh. > > -Rob That worked fine, thanks! I just had to set the PidFile option in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config.alt to reflect the one set in the init script. Sylvain -- 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/cajwbqfpizhfcnkwtvbaynvm_mrlujvdmz8vq8vqgdnbv9-g...@mail.gmail.com
Running 2 ssh instances
Hello, I have a server with an ssh instance configured to run on port 22. I also configured iptables to have a port-knocking mechanism blocking connections on port 22. Now I'd like to run another (restricted) ssh instance for just 1 particular user, without this port-knocking stuff. I tried creating a chroot with a particular ssh config, but even though the ssh instance is running in the chroot environment, it seems to be using the users of the base system, not the ones defined in the jail, which renders the whole thing useless. I found some docs about ChrootDirectory but that won't work since chroot is done after the authentication has completed. Right now I'm a bit confused by the way chroot seems to work with users. I'd be grateful if someone had an idea on how to do have an ssh instance running on a specific port and allowing only certain users. Thanks, Sylvain -- 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/4f398fe7.6050...@gmail.com
Re: [OT] Using dvorak
On 08. 02. 12 09:41, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Now I always thought I need to exchange keycaps to actually use and learn dvorak. It seems to be possible with my ThinkPad keyboards and the other keyboards I have, but now I learn that its not even necessary. Not only it's unnecessary, but it's discouraged as well. Switching your keycaps will make you tend to look at the keyboard when typing, which is obviously not what you want. So I all would do is print myself a - hopefully useful - german dvorak layout somewhere in eyesight and learn it with a regular keyboard? That's your best option if you want to be able to touchtype correctly in dvorak, yes. How does it work when you have to use a qwert(zy) keymapping sometimes? Would that still work out nicely enough? I've been typing in dvorak (actually bépo, which is a french dvorak layout) for about a year and a half now, and I'm still able to type in qwertz as fast as before. I'm using bépo at work (I work as a programmer) and qwertz at home. The only drawback I've experienced with this is the mess it creates in my head, especially because I'm a vim user. I wondered about dvorak for a long time but never took the faith to actually really try it out for me. Especially cause of the fear not to be able to use standard mappings anymore should they be all I have when working at a customer´s machine or so. I don't think you can lose it that easily. I experienced it some time ago when I stopped using qwertz for about a month, but it took me only a couple of minutes to get back to qwertz at full 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/4f32dc59.6010...@gmail.com
Re: Insserv overrides
On 03. 02. 12 12:18, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 07:22:45AM +0100, Sylvain wrote: Hello, I have a setup in which the slim display manager logs in automatically and then starts a program (thanks to the .xinitrc file). This program needs dbus to work correctly and at the moment it crashes every time it's launched because dbus is not yet started (slim starts in runlevel 3). I was told about using insserv overrides but I can't find any good documentation on this, even the manpage is quite vague about the format the override file should have. So I put this in a /etc/insserv/overrides/slim file: First of all, check that the name of this file is correct. Insserv will look for an override based on the name of the file it runs, not based on any links thereto. (This caught me out once. A third party program installed its own init scripts and made a symlink in /etc/init.d/ with a different name). This shouldn't be a problem for slim, though. #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: slim # Required-Start:$local_fs $remote_fs dbus # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs # Should-Start: xfs $named slapd # Should-Stop: xfs $named slapd # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start/stop the SLiM daemon. ### END INIT INFO I'm not sure if I should repeat the whole LSB headers or only the one I want to change (in this case Required-Start). In all cases, this doesn't work since dbus is still not started when the program that depends on it starts. Am I missing something? Should I run an insserv command to take the override file into account? How can I check that the override file is used? I'm not sure that the shebang (#!/bin/sh) is needed; try removing the first two lines of the script. Next, run: # insserv -v -n -d 2>&1|$PAGER and look for lines such as: insserv: Loading /etc/insserv/overrides/slim After many "Loading lines", you'll either get no more information (your initscripts are ordered as per the header comments) or a series of "remove service"/"enable service" lines which tell you what insserv wants to do to re-order your scripts. If you're happy with what it wants to do, re-run the insserv command without "-n". Thanks, that worked! I looked in /etc/rc2.d/ to check and noticed that slim is now after dbus. Cheers, Sylvain -- 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/4f32cafd.5030...@gmail.com
Insserv overrides
Hello, I have a setup in which the slim display manager logs in automatically and then starts a program (thanks to the .xinitrc file). This program needs dbus to work correctly and at the moment it crashes every time it's launched because dbus is not yet started (slim starts in runlevel 3). I was told about using insserv overrides but I can't find any good documentation on this, even the manpage is quite vague about the format the override file should have. So I put this in a /etc/insserv/overrides/slim file: #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: slim # Required-Start:$local_fs $remote_fs dbus # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs # Should-Start: xfs $named slapd # Should-Stop: xfs $named slapd # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start/stop the SLiM daemon. ### END INIT INFO I'm not sure if I should repeat the whole LSB headers or only the one I want to change (in this case Required-Start). In all cases, this doesn't work since dbus is still not started when the program that depends on it starts. Am I missing something? Should I run an insserv command to take the override file into account? How can I check that the override file is used? Thanks, Sylvain -- 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/4f2b7d35.8060...@gmail.com
Re: Python
On 01. 02. 12 07:42, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:24:17PM +0200, cletusjenkins wrote: Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian packages would I need to start coding some basic cgi in apache? Thanks. In addition to what others have said, if you want to do web development using Python, do yourself a favour and look at http://killer-web-development.com and http://www.web2py.com. Regards Johann Also be sure to check out this web framework too, one of the best I've ever worked with: https://www.djangoproject.com/. Cheers, Sylvain -- 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/4f299738.1000...@gmail.com
Re: System hangs due to NFS share
On 24. 01. 12 22:41, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 04:50, Sylvain wrote: On 24. 01. 12 09:28, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 24/01/12 18:50, Sylvain wrote: I tried to SIGKILL the [nfsiod] process but it didn't get killed. I also tried to kill the various rpcbind processes but it didn't change anything. I also tried autofs as Scott suggested, but the same problem occured when I unplugged the network cable (most of the system hangs, can't reboot nor halt). Here's how I configured autofs: /etc/auto.misc: bazinga -retry=1,rw,hard,size=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.2.77:/DataVolume/Public bazinga -fstype=nfs,bg,-retries=1,timeo=1,rw,soft,size=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.2.77:/DataVolume/Public /etc/auto.master: /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout 20 /misc /etc/auto.misc Putting this in my /etc/auto.* files seems to have solved the problem. I can start Dolphin without any problem and I don't experience any freeze anymore (and I can even shut down my computer, yay!). Thanks a lot to all of you for your help. Cheers, Sylvain -- 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/4f23ce24.9000...@gmail.com
Re: System hangs due to NFS share
On 24. 01. 12 09:28, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 24/01/12 18:50, Sylvain wrote: I tried to SIGKILL the [nfsiod] process but it didn't get killed. I also tried to kill the various rpcbind processes but it didn't change anything. I also tried autofs as Scott suggested, but the same problem occured when I unplugged the network cable (most of the system hangs, can't reboot nor halt). Here's how I configured autofs: /etc/auto.misc: bazinga -retry=1,rw,hard,size=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.2.77:/DataVolume/Public /etc/auto.master: /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout 20 Here's what I found in the syslog: Jan 23 22:59:17 cid kernel: [ 510.944160] nfs: server 192.168.2.77 not responding, still trying Jan 23 23:01:22 cid kernel: [ 635.616161] nfs: server 192.168.2.77 not responding, still trying Jan 23 23:01:46 cid sm-notify[841]: DNS resolution of Bazinga.local failed; retrying later Jan 23 23:03:51 cid sm-notify[841]: DNS resolution of Bazinga.local failed; retrying later Jan 23 23:05:56 cid sm-notify[841]: DNS resolution of Bazinga.local failed; retrying later Jan 23 23:07:56 cid sm-notify[841]: Unable to notify Bazinga.local, giving up I'm not sure why it's trying to resolve the "bazinga.local" name, and even when it gave up with the resolution, it didn't unfreeze anything. Also nfs seems to be still trying to reach the server (the cable was unplugged at 22:56). Thanks for your help, Sylvain What do you have in /etc/hosts? Just the usual stuff: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 cid.localdomain cid # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters On 24. 01. 12 09:28, Tom H wrote: It's avahi that's trying to resolve "Bazinga" through "Bazinga.local". Is Bazinga the hostname of 192.168.2.77? Did ifs quit after avahi failed? No, nfs didn't quit after avahi failed (the nfsiod process is still here). Also I don't know the hostname of 192.168.2.77, because it's just a NAS box on which I don't have any control. Sylvain -- 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/4f1eef69.6090...@gmail.com
Re: Clipboard issues
2012/1/24 : > Hi all, > > I am seeing this issue on my debian wheezy/sid. The clipboard contents are > disappearing when the window is closed. Can someone help me please if they > have to faced this issue ? > > Steps: > open any window application (even xterm ) > Mark the contents of the window (which is copying ) > > a) Close this window and open another window and try to paste the copied > text. The copied text has disappeared and last text is remembered and > pasted! > b) before closing the window if you try to paste the paste works fine. > > thanks all I think that's the normal behaviour of X (as strange as it seems). You can install a clipboard manager (such as parcellite) to keep the contents of the clipboard after your application has been closed. Sylvain -- 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/CAJwBQFNcaGAKp+rW6FhGs=as4ffpwwyhlvx6cog9-oxbebk...@mail.gmail.com
Re: System hangs due to NFS share
2012/1/23 Frank : > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 11:47 +0100, Sylvain wrote: > >> I already tried this option too, but it didn't help. Also according to >> the manpage: >> >> > The intr / nointr mount option is deprecated after kernel 2.6.25. Only >> > SIGKILL can interrupt a pending NFS operation on these kernels, and if >> > specified, this mount option is ignored to provide backwards compatibility >> > with older kernels. > > OK, the man page is not yet available on lenny. > > Have you tried to kill the process using SIGKILL? What happens if you > do? I assume this behaviour is related to the state TASK_KILLABLE which > was introduced in kernel 2.6.25. In previous kernels a process waiting > for I/O was in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and never get the signal you send > it. > > Frank I tried to SIGKILL the [nfsiod] process but it didn't get killed. I also tried to kill the various rpcbind processes but it didn't change anything. I also tried autofs as Scott suggested, but the same problem occured when I unplugged the network cable (most of the system hangs, can't reboot nor halt). Here's how I configured autofs: /etc/auto.misc: bazinga -retry=1,rw,hard,size=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.2.77:/DataVolume/Public /etc/auto.master: /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout 20 Here's what I found in the syslog: > Jan 23 22:59:17 cid kernel: [ 510.944160] nfs: server 192.168.2.77 not > responding, still trying > Jan 23 23:01:22 cid kernel: [ 635.616161] nfs: server 192.168.2.77 not > responding, still trying > Jan 23 23:01:46 cid sm-notify[841]: DNS resolution of Bazinga.local failed; > retrying later > Jan 23 23:03:51 cid sm-notify[841]: DNS resolution of Bazinga.local failed; > retrying later > Jan 23 23:05:56 cid sm-notify[841]: DNS resolution of Bazinga.local failed; > retrying later > Jan 23 23:07:56 cid sm-notify[841]: Unable to notify Bazinga.local, giving up I'm not sure why it's trying to resolve the "bazinga.local" name, and even when it gave up with the resolution, it didn't unfreeze anything. Also nfs seems to be still trying to reach the server (the cable was unplugged at 22:56). Thanks for your help, Sylvain -- 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/cajwbqfoiao3eee_or-ijxv5c_ryu+6bistemp1jdsvukhpw...@mail.gmail.com
Re: System hangs due to NFS share
2012/1/23 Frank : > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 11:15 +0100, Sylvain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have an NFS share mounted on my Debian testing computer with default >> mount options. It works fine but as soon as my computer loses network >> access or the NAS is disconnected or shut down, the system becomes >> unstable: >> >> - In KDE, everything is frozen (because of the file manager I think) >> - If I try to cd to the mountpoint, it makes the console hang forever >> - I can't umount the mountpoint, as the umount command hangs. Also the >> -f flag doesn't change anything >> - I can't even shutdown my computer anymore and I'm forced to use the >> magic keys to be able to reboot it >> >> I tried different network managers (wicd, network-manager), different >> ways to connect (wifi, wired), and different mount options (using a >> hard nfs mount, specifying the retry option) but that didn't help. I >> really don't know what to try next and this is really driving me mad. > > Mount option intr should help. > > man nfs > > Frank I already tried this option too, but it didn't help. Also according to the manpage: > The intr / nointr mount option is deprecated after kernel 2.6.25. Only > SIGKILL can interrupt a pending NFS operation on these kernels, and if > specified, this mount option is ignored to provide backwards compatibility > with older kernels. Sylvain -- 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/CAJwBQFNiDLHpk60k2-cCXaa=g3phga24v8g4sogmxir2s8f...@mail.gmail.com
System hangs due to NFS share
Hi, I have an NFS share mounted on my Debian testing computer with default mount options. It works fine but as soon as my computer loses network access or the NAS is disconnected or shut down, the system becomes unstable: - In KDE, everything is frozen (because of the file manager I think) - If I try to cd to the mountpoint, it makes the console hang forever - I can't umount the mountpoint, as the umount command hangs. Also the -f flag doesn't change anything - I can't even shutdown my computer anymore and I'm forced to use the magic keys to be able to reboot it I tried different network managers (wicd, network-manager), different ways to connect (wifi, wired), and different mount options (using a hard nfs mount, specifying the retry option) but that didn't help. I really don't know what to try next and this is really driving me mad. Thanks, Sylvain -- 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/CAJwBQFM0922jJLjzHSCJMA=uckn4xdlepyvppmmfmabrp0m...@mail.gmail.com
Re: GRUB broken after upgrade on Macbook
I managed to fix this. I should have run "grub-install /dev/sda" at a moment instead of "/dev/sda3/" which lead to a corrupt mbr. I fixed this by clearing the mbr (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=811240): dd if=fakembr80.tx of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 and reinstalling grub: gptsync grub-install /dev/sda3 update-grub Sylvain. -- 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/4c3afe80.3060...@laposte.net
GRUB broken after upgrade on Macbook
Hello, After upgrading GRUB to 20100706, I am no more able to boot linux on my macbook. When i choose from the refit menu to boot on my linux partition,GRUB is stuck with this message : "GRUB _" I boot with a live cd and chroot to the partition to reinstall it, but it didn't help. gptsync is happy: Current GPT partition table: # Start LBA End LBA Type 1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT) 2 409640162946551 Mac OS X HFS+ 3 162946552319196552 Basic Data 4 319196553488392064 MS Reserved Current MBR partition table: # AStart LBA End LBA Type 1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective 2 409640162946551 af Mac OS X HFS+ 3 *162946552319196552 83 Linux 4 319196553488392064 c0 Unknown Status: Tables are synchronized, no need to sync. When running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc, I got this: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This is a BAD idea.. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. Installation finished. No error reported. I choosed /dev/sda3, which is my linux partition. The last grub version working was 20100617, so I tried to reinstall it, but it fails. I think something is wrong with the device map. dpkg: warning: downgrading grub-common from 1.98+20100706-1 to 1.98+20100617-1. (Reading database ... 133357 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace grub-common 1.98+20100706-1 (using grub-common_1.98+20100617-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement grub-common ... dpkg: warning: downgrading grub-pc from 1.98+20100706-1 to 1.98+20100617-1. Preparing to replace grub-pc 1.98+20100706-1 (using grub-pc_1.98+20100617-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement grub-pc ... Setting up grub-common (1.98+20100617-1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ... Processing triggers for install-info ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100617-1) ... Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This is a BAD idea.. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: cannot read `/boot/grub/core.img' correctly. Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-2-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-2-686 How could i fix this? or having more info on why grub is stuck at boot time ? Thanks, Sylvain. -- 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/4c38a640.2010...@laposte.net
Asus WL-167g (rt2500usb) DHCP fails
Hello, I'm trying to make my wifi dongle work on my sid box (kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686). It is correctly recognized, the WPA authentication works fine as well, but it fails getting an address from DHCP. Here is the relevant syslog output: >> Feb 28 11:36:21 ticho wpa_supplicant[2442]: Trying to associate with >> 56:40:0e:80:29:24 (SSID='TichoNetworkHome' freq=2412 MHz) >> Feb 28 11:36:21 ticho NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection >> state: scanning -> associating >> Feb 28 11:36:21 ticho kernel: [ 3819.416888] wlan0: deauthenticating from >> 56:40:0e:80:29:24 by local choice (reason=3) >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho kernel: [ 3819.616436] wlan0: direct probe to AP >> 56:40:0e:80:29:24 (try 1) >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho kernel: [ 3819.622320] wlan0: direct probe responded >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho kernel: [ 3819.622325] wlan0: authenticate with AP >> 56:40:0e:80:29:24 (try 1) >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho kernel: [ 3819.624074] wlan0: authenticated >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho kernel: [ 3819.624092] wlan0: associate with AP >> 56:40:0e:80:29:24 (try 1) >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho kernel: [ 3819.626316] wlan0: RX AssocResp from >> 56:40:0e:80:29:24 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2) >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho kernel: [ 3819.626319] wlan0: associated >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho wpa_supplicant[2442]: Associated with 56:40:0e:80:29:24 >> Feb 28 11:36:22 ticho NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection >> state: associating -> associated >> Feb 28 11:36:23 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port >> 67 interval 10 >> Feb 28 11:36:23 ticho NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection >> state: associated -> 4-way handshake >> Feb 28 11:36:23 ticho NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection >> state: 4-way handshake -> group handshake >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho wpa_supplicant[2442]: WPA: Key negotiation completed >> with 56:40:0e:80:29:24 [PTK=CCMP GTK=TKIP] >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho wpa_supplicant[2442]: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - >> Connection to 56:40:0e:80:29:24 completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=] >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection >> state: group handshake -> completed >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0/wireless) >> Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network >> 'TichoNetworkHome'. >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of >> 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled. >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of >> 5 (IP Configure Start) started... >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: (wlan0): device state change: >> 5 -> 7 (reason 0) >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Beginning >> DHCP transaction (timeout in 45 seconds) >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: dhclient started with pid 5641 >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of >> 5 (IP6 Configure Get) scheduled... >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of >> 5 (IP Configure Start) complete. >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of >> 5 (IP6 Configure Get) started... >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of >> 5 (IP6 Configure Get) complete. >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client >> V3.1.3 >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems >> Consortium. >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: All rights reserved. >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: For info, please visit >> https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho NetworkManager: DHCP: device wlan0 state >> changed normal exit -> preinit >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:17:31:3a:ef:15 >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:17:31:3a:ef:15 >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback >> Feb 28 11:36:24 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 6 >> Feb 28 11:36:31 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 9 >> Feb 28 11:36:33 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port >> 67 interval 11 >> Feb 28 11:36:40 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 15 >> Feb 28 11:36:44 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port >> 67 interval 15 >> Feb 28 11:36:55 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 9 >> Feb 28 11:36:59 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port >> 67 interval 8 >> Feb 28 11:37:04 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 9 >> Feb 28 11:37:07 ticho dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port >> 67 interval 10 >> Feb 28 11:37:10 ticho NetworkManager: (wlan0): DHCP transaction took >> too long, stopping it. >> Feb 28 11:37:10 ticho NetworkMan
Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool
Hello, On 18-09-2009, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:03:47 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >>> This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my >>> notebook and desktop (at home and at work). Any good recommendation? >>> . . . >> Hi, so far I have not found any nice and useful software that can do >> this (I mean with gui and so on) >> >> The mentioned unison program failed the tests. May be rsync but not sure >> it didn't do the things I wanted and I wanted to do it the way you can >> do it in i.e. windows with some commercial software. >> >> I was also thinking unison is just the right thing, but then I noticed >> it's not really syncing like it should and leading to inconsistency. > > Thanks for your feedback, Emanoil. Could you elaborate more? unison > "looks" promising to me, and I've just learned that there are no ocaml > runtime dependency for it on i386, amd64. So usability is the most > important issue to me now. Anyone has positive experience with unison? > I am using it daily for synchronization of my /home between: - home computer and server - home computer and work computer - home computer and notebook I also from time to time synchronize part of my /home tree to Windows (i.e. the part containing my source code). Works flawlessly (and automatically) since years. Never have problems, except very long transfer when there was very big files... (but this is due to standard bandwidth problems). If there is any inconsistency I think it related to software that use file synchronized. I.e. if you don't close iceweasel and synchronize its files, you can get inconsistency because iceweasel can still handle data not on your hard drive during synchronization. The other most obvious problem that can exists is also for the first synchronization. In this case unison don't know yet what host to trust for synchronization. E.g. if both computers hold a copy of file A, unison don't know in which way it should be synchronized. It is the same if there is a file A on one host and not on the other. Once this first synchronization is done, unison remember the state of the last synchronization point and use it: if you remove file A on one host it will understand that it should remove it on the other host. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool
On 18-09-2009, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can > synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on > different hosts, propagating the changes between them? > > This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my > notebook and desktop (at home and at work). Any good recommendation? > > syrep is too limited, unison seems to be the exact tool that I'm looking > for, just I want to avoid its dependency (OCaml) if possible. > If unison is the exact tools you need, just stop searching. You don't need to learn OCaml to use Unison... (maybe on some arch you will need to download runtime dependency for it, but that's all -- and this is not the case for i386, amd64). Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing
Hello, On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > It also seems that things are not so rosy on the > server itself. I ran "aptitude build-dep approx" > to try and solve the other part of my problem > (approx-import missing from v3.3.0). One of the > things it wanted to install is ocaml-interp. At > about 33% downloaded this tanks with the same > type of message: > > approx: Removing > debian/pool/main/o/ocaml/ocaml-interp_3.10.2-3_amd64.3018.199742079 > (size: 400459) > approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception: > Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0) > It is your lucky day, fetch this package: http://people.debian.org/~gildor/download/approx_4.0-3_amd64.deb I have rebuilt last version for lenny. If the bug is still there, submit a bug report to the approx debian package (stating that you are using a backport made by me). If the bug is still in v4.0, it should be corrected and discussion should continue on a bug report. If it works correctly with v4.0, answer on this mailing list. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installation on Intel Core i7
On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > --00163642729ff6ff900470395e87 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > >> On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The >> installation >> > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on >> > screen and I don't see anything else. >> > >> >> I use a core i7 920 since 6 months. Never had such a problem during >> install (which just run fine without any problem). >> >> I don't think the problem is about the processor... >> >> Regards, >> Sylvain Le Gall >> >> > My configuration is i7 920, MSI X58M motherboard, three hard drives of 1T > each, 12 G of RAM. Anything could cause a problem? What baffles me the most > is that installation seems to be fine, and Ubuntu live CD runs fine. > i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. A horizontal cursor flashes means nothing to me... If you succeed installing you should be OK with hard drive. Give more information (kernel version should appear un GRUB menu e.g., do you use IDE/SATA or (fake) RAID for install, what hard drive layout did you choose when installing...) Regards Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installation on Intel Core i7
On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The installation > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on > screen and I don't see anything else. > I use a core i7 920 since 6 months. Never had such a problem during install (which just run fine without any problem). I don't think the problem is about the processor... Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> > >> >> You can try using "curl http://.../Packages..."; from the machine >> hosting approx, even if it sounds weird it can give you hints on what is >> happening (I say curl because approx use curl). If the problem is at the >> download level, there is probably a problem with curl from this specific >> computer. The same problem can disappear using apt/wget/iceweasel/... >> from the same machine. > > Sorry, this got put on the back burner for a couple > of days. Things seem to have worked themselves out > on the server itself (lenny). I tried running curl > on the cl. That worked, so I tried aptitude update > with sources.list pointing to the localhost approx > proxy. Don't understand why, but it is working. > > The problem persists from a remote client (a squeeze box), > though. Packages file downloads variously to between 4 & > 6 per cent, then the download stalls for a minute or two. > The partially downloaded file then disappears and returns > as a zero length file which then downloads to between 4 & 6 per cent ... > >> >> Another point is to look at the log in /var/log/* to see what happens >> when the problem appears. You will probably find there some valuable >> information (error messages...). > > And you were right: > > approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception: > Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0) > > appears over and over again in /var/log/syslog when the remote > clients chokes and starts the download over. Googling that only > turned up one bug report that seems to my naive eye to not > be a related problem, and anyway, was fixed in approx 3.3.0 > which is what I am running. > > Does the nethttpd error mean anything to anyone? Nethttpd server is probably not complete enough to answer specific option used by aptitude... Can you try a simple "apt-get update" or "curl http://host:port/.../Packages"; from the squeeze box (where host/port match approx host/port). Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing
On 29-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:09 +, "Sylvain Le Gall" > wrote: >> On 28-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org >> wrote: >> > I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on >> > lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get >> > caught in an infinite loop updating the Packages >> > files? I've tried from localhost and a remote >> > machine. On both machines, running "aptitude >> > update" causes the Packages file to start >> > downloading (you can watch it grow with repeated >> > "find /var/cache/approx -type -f -ls"), then >> > after awhile the file disappears, and a few >> > seconds later appears once more continuing >> > to grow until it disappears again. In short, it >> > ain't working for me. >> > >> >> Using approx since three years, never seen such a behavior. >> >> - you can download from the machine hosting approx the Package file, >> from internet without problem (e.g. using curl). > > If I switch /etc/apt/sources.list back to pointing directly to > a debian mirror, the file downloads just fine. This is true > both from an remote machine, and from the machine on which I > am trying to build the approx package proxy. It is only > when the sources.list files (on the remote machine, or on > the machine hosting the approx repository) that the weird > incomplete download loop happens. > You can try using "curl http://.../Packages..."; from the machine hosting approx, even if it sounds weird it can give you hints on what is happening (I say curl because approx use curl). If the problem is at the download level, there is probably a problem with curl from this specific computer. The same problem can disappear using apt/wget/iceweasel/... from the same machine. Another point is to look at the log in /var/log/* to see what happens when the problem appears. You will probably find there some valuable information (error messages...). Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing
On 28-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on > lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get > caught in an infinite loop updating the Packages > files? I've tried from localhost and a remote > machine. On both machines, running "aptitude > update" causes the Packages file to start > downloading (you can watch it grow with repeated > "find /var/cache/approx -type -f -ls"), then > after awhile the file disappears, and a few > seconds later appears once more continuing > to grow until it disappears again. In short, it > ain't working for me. > Using approx since three years, never seen such a behavior. You should check that: - you have enough space where the Package files is downloaded - your internet connection doesn't failed while downloading - you can download from the machine hosting approx the Package file, from internet without problem (e.g. using curl). Take a look at /var/log/*, there should be plenty information (and especially related events to your failure). Regards Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Operating system-level virtualization: how to make it?
Hello, On 22-05-2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > How I can organize a Operating system-level virtualization on a server > for every service I would isolate? > > Thank You for Your time. > > Use a chroot (standard) or a vserver (search for vserver in debian archives there is a kernel version and two packages for userland tools). vserver is more flexible and allow you to assign IP address et al. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: Informations about LVM2
ok, but how i can compare 2 snapshots ? How access to snapshot's blocks (data modified) ? Can you help me please, i cannot any more what to do ! Thanks. Sylvain Dauthieux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Informations about LVM2
Hi all, I'm a student in Master in French and i'm working on lvm2 (OS : Linux Debian etch) I need to use "lvmsar" and "lvmsadc" to collect informations about data in snapshots. I would like to compare 2 snapshots (modified block). My problem is : "lvmsar" and "lvmsadc" are not implemented. I have : testbox3:/lib/lvm-200# dpkg -l | grep lvm ii lvm-common 1.5.20 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux (common ii lvm2 2.02.06-4etch1 The Linux Logical Volume Manager I tested the last version of LVM but not implemented too. I am in training course of end studies, i'm blocked in my project. Could you help me please ? In advance, thanks. Cordially, Sylvain Dauthieux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: extract debian package default config
Hi Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Sylvain Viart wrote: Is there some command which can extract the apache2.conf from the package or is it extracted somewhere? I use mc for that. Thanks, you're right. This is like extracting the package with ar or dpkg -x mc - midnight commander - a powerful file manager Regards, Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: extract debian package default config
Hi Jeffrey, Jeffrey Cao a écrit : Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? Example: I would like to get the original packaged apache2.conf Is there some command which extract this from the package or is it extracted somewhere? Normally, there's a backup configure file somewhere. Use "dpkg -L packge" to check. Hum, nope it doesn't works dpkg -L apache2.2-common |grep apache2\\.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/examples/apache2/apache2.conf.gz zcat /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/examples/apache2/apache2.conf.gz | diff -q /etc/apache2/apache2.conf - Files /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and - differ For PierPaolo suggestion : dpkg --reconfigure apache2.2-common dpkg: unknown option --reconfigure --configure package...|-a|--pending Reconfigure an unpacked package. If -a or --pending is given instead of package, all unpacked but unconfigured packages are configured. Configuring consists of the following steps: 1. Unpack the configuration files, and at the same time back up the old configuration files, so that they can be restored if something goes wrong. 2. Run postinst script, if provided by the package. Not that way, still searching... dpkg --force-confnew --configure apache2.2-common dpkg: error processing apache2.2-common (--configure): package apache2.2-common is already installed and configured Errors were encountered while processing: apache2.2-common Thanks for your suggestions. Regards, Sylvain.
Re: extract debian package default config
Hi Celejar, Is there some command which extract this from the package or is it extracted somewhere? There are probably better ways, but you can usually purge and reinstall Yes, that's what I've done. But doing that way I loose enabled modules and sites for apache. Not that hard to reinstall, but could be worse. I can also extract from source may be. I just hope there's some good switch to apt-get or dpkg? you can extract the package content also: cd /tmp mkdir apache2_tmp cd apache2_tmp ar -x /var/cache/apt/archives/apache2.2-common_2.2.9-10+lenny2_i386.deb tar tvf data.tar.gz | grep apache2.conf drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-01-20 18:24 ./etc/apache2/conf.d/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1464 2009-01-20 18:24 ./etc/apache2/conf.d/security -rw-r--r-- root/root 269 2009-01-20 18:24 ./etc/apache2/conf.d/charset -rw-r--r-- root/root 10104 2009-01-20 18:24 ./etc/apache2/apache2.conf -rw-r--r-- root/root 5774 2009-01-20 18:31 ./usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/examples/apache2/apache2.conf.gz No better way? Thanks for your suggestions. Regards, Sylvain.
extract debian package default config
Hi, Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? Example: I would like to get the original packaged apache2.conf Is there some command which extract this from the package or is it extracted somewhere? Regards, Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Merits of approxy
On 05-10-2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:39:33 -0700 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:38 -0400, Celejar wrote: >> > approx >> > >> > [I use approx; various readers of this list have their own preferences.] >> >> I'm curious, what does approx bring to the table in comparison to the >> others? > > If by others you mean apt-proxy and the other apt proxies, I don't mean > to imply that it brings anything. I had tried apt-proxy and had had > some trouble with it, and I switched to approx. The problem may have > simply been some unrelated temporary network or repository difficulty, > but regardless, I have been happily using approx since, and I mentioned > it simply because that's what I'm currently most familiar with. > I was using apt-proxy 3 years ago and it randomly have failures (404 from time to time). It was also quite slow to my mind (considering the fact that it is a proxy). Since then, I use approx (etch version and now backport version). Never had a failure and it is fast (as I expected a proxy to be). Regarding features, maybe apt-proxy is better, but I don't think I will go back to it. Better have something working that something with a lot of features not working. Regards Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synchronize two folders in both way; criteria: last changed
On 25-07-2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --9JSHP372f+2dzJ8X > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:23:46PM +0200, Dvorzhetsky wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First I'll explain the situation: I have an archive folder with images, = >=20 >> text and other type of files. I used to backup this folder from time to = >=20 >> time but at some point I stop doing that and got confuse (or messy:) and = >=20 >> start to edit files in the backup and/or to add files to the 'current' = >=20 >> folder. >> >> I'd like to rationalized that by synchronizing the backup and current in = >=20 >> both way: >> >> - keeping only the version of the files which have been the most =20 >> recently changed. >> - if a file or a subfolder is present in one folder and not the other =20 >> I'd like to always keep it. >> >> I look into mann rsync but I'm always asked to choose one source and one = >=20 >> destination, which is obviously not what I want to do. Is there a way to = >=20 >> do that with rsync? How? >> >> Maybe with another software? > > you could get unison to do it I think. That seems to fit the model of > what it does. I use it, but it's been so long since I started using > it, that I don't know how it reacts the first time you use > it. Certainly worth a shot though. > Unison when first running will give you a pretty good choice folloing your criteria... But this is not for sure. You can tune the way it do it through option like -prefer and -preferpartial... Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX / kernel upgrade with etch stable?
On 02-05-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 02.05.2008 um 14:09 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: >> On 02-05-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Am 02.05.2008 um 11:01 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: >>>> The solution is to upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.22.6, to >>>> have the >>>> working r8169 kernel module. >>> >>> I've been seeing different comments on this list recently regarding >>> mixing >>> stable with testing or unstable or backports etc. Generally this >>> should be >>> avoided. Would this mean, since I need a newer kernel than the one in >>> etch >>> stable, that I should not run Etch stable but go for lenny or sid >>> instead? >> >> You have 2 solutions: >> - use r1000 (a driver from realtek for this card) with kernel >> 2.6.18 in >> etch > > For anyone else looking for this (Realtek's website is a bit > disorganised > and searching for the driver on it took me a while), here's the link: > ><http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx? > Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false> > Errm... No this one doesn't work (well) because of misaligned data structure. You will have a lot of packet miss after several hours of uptime. Better use: http://fr.kontron.com/_etc/scripts/download/getdownload.php?downloadId=NTYyMQ== which is a corrected version of the link above. > > Now I'm researching which case to get. Ideally I want a tiny one but > which allows two or more 2,5" HDDs in it. (Perhaps I later also want to > install a TV (DVB-T) card in it, too.) So far I haven't found a good > one. > http://www.serener.com/ (preferred) http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.87/.f Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX / kernel upgrade with etch stable?
On 02-05-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 02.05.2008 um 11:01 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: >> On 02-05-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The solution is to upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.22.6, to >> have the >> working r8169 kernel module. >> >> Since network issue is solved, this motherboard is working great. >> >> I don't have tested graphics and RAID. >> >> Regards, >> Sylvain Le Gall > > I've been seeing different comments on this list recently regarding > mixing > stable with testing or unstable or backports etc. Generally this > should be > avoided. Would this mean, since I need a newer kernel than the one in > etch > stable, that I should not run Etch stable but go for lenny or sid > instead? > You have 2 solutions: - use r1000 (a driver from realtek for this card) with kernel 2.6.18 in etch - just recompile a newer kernel or use one from backports.org (http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/linux-image-2.6-686), which is version 2.6.22 In the two cases, you doesn't need to mix unstable/stable. I think going to lenny just for the kernel is not a good idea. > As for the RAID: I plan to use software RAID rather than use 'hardware' > RAID of the controller. That should be possible, shouldn't it? > This is possible and far more better than using fake intel RAID... Performance will be equal and you will have something working better. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX
On 02-05-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at the mini-ITX board "Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX" ><http://emea.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/embedded > +motherboards/ > miniitx+motherboards/986lcdmmitx.html> > and am wondering if anyone has used this for a Debian system. Are the > chipsets > supported, or do you recognise any that are not working well/at all? > > * Intel 945GM Intel ICH7R Embedded Chipset consisting of: >+ Intel 82945G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) >+ Intel ICH7R I/O Controller Hub (ICH7R) >+ 8 Mbit Firmware Hub (FWH) > * graphics: Intel GMA950 Controller with 2D/3D Graphics Engine > * ethernet: Realtek RTL8111B (with 3 ethernet connectors!) > * Winbond W83627THF LPC Bus I/O Controller > * Intel 82801G ICH7 USB Universal Host Controller > * Intel 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller > * Intel 82801G ICH7 Ultra ATA Storage Controllers > > The manual also says: > "OS support: Linux: Feodora Core 5, Suse 10.01 (limitations may apply)" > and > "The SATA controller supports AHCI mode and has integrated RAID > functionality > with support for RAID modes 0, 1, 5 and 10 (Linux O/S only support > for RAID 0 > and 1)." > I have this kind of motherboard inside a Hush B3. It takes time at the beginning to work. Most of the part are working except the network (RTL8111B). The solution is to upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.22.6, to have the working r8169 kernel module. Since network issue is solved, this motherboard is working great. I don't have tested graphics and RAID. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unison on testing and stable
Hello, On 30-04-2008, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using unison to keep my Docs, my music and my pics in sync between > my laptop, my desktop and my server. The laptop and the desktop are > running testing and the server is running stable. With the latest > upgrade of unison in testing the version in stable and testing no longer > want to speak to each other. My solution so far is to keep the version > from stable on my testingmachines, but is there anywhere where I can > find newer versions of unison for stable? > Ask yourself the question in the other way: is there a way to find an older version in testing? Answer: http://packages.debian.org/sid/unison2.13.16 This package should enter testing in 7 days. But you can download it directly and install it by hand. It will also work fine. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Man pages specification ?
I haven't seen section 7 for man which give all specifications. Thanks 2008/4/13 Javier Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello ! > > > > I'm searching for man pages specification but I could'nt find it on the > > net, most of the commands (.TH, .SH, .PP, \fB, \fP, ...) are comprehensible > > but I need full specification. > > Can you help me please ? > > > Could be search inside of groff manual ? > > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/groff/groff_toc.html#SEC_Contents > > >
Man pages specification ?
Hello ! I'm searching for man pages specification but I could'nt find it on the net, most of the commands (.TH, .SH, .PP, \fB, \fP, ...) are comprehensible but I need full specification. Can you help me please ? Best regards
Re: Is there a site(http/ftp) having all the available deb packages?
On 21-11-2007, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --=_Part_15973_24419047.1195638090242 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > Hi All: > > I'm wondering if there is a good site besides "debian.org" where we can > search all the available deb packages, description, and download info? > > It's similar to the "rpmfind.net" managing all the packages so that whenever > I need one specific package that is not in the official mirror list, I can > direct myself to the site. > > Unofficial: http://apt-get.org/ Backports (packages for stable from unstable): http://www.backports.org Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xen or xen-vserver - difference?
Hello, On 30-08-2007, askxuefeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30-08-2007, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What the differece between this packages? >> >> xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-686 - XEN system with Linux 2.6.18 image >> on i686 >> xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-vserver-686 - XEN system with Linux >> 2.6.18 image on i686 >> >> >> >> XEN is a patch on the linux kernel to enable running linux as domX vserver > is a patch on the linux kernel to create vserver in linux (sort of super > chroot). >> >> -xen-686 is a package with only the first patch >> -xen-vserver-686 is a package with the two patches >> >> Have a look at : >> http://linux-vserver.org/ >> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/ >> >> (in fact xen+vserver is a proof of concept that you can build a kernel > with this two patches) >> >> Regards, >> Sylvain Le Gall > > if i want to install xen on debian and make windows xp as guest operating > system, which packages should i install? > i saw someone said: > xen-linux-system-2.6.8-5-xen-686 > libc6-xen > bridge-utils > xen-tools > xen-ioemu-3.0.3-1 > > but i don't know what these packages use for. > Unfortunately, i stop using xen because it doesn't fit my need and was not as flexible and lightweight as vserver is (but you can run only linux distribution inside this kind of super chroot). Using my ancient memory, i can try to guess something: - xen-linux-system-2.6.8-5-xen-686: the kernel - libc6-xen: the libc6 you need to use with the kernel above - bridge-utils: what you need to create bridged network to make domU/dom0 communicate through a kind of network - xen-tools: some utils to manage xen - xen-ioemu: tools to use the Intel VT technologies (but i never use it, so it is really a guess) I think, all this packages are mandatory. Take a look at: http://wiki.debian.org/Xen http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Xen Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xen or xen-vserver - difference?
On 30-08-2007, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What the differece between this packages? > > xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-686 - XEN system with Linux 2.6.18 image > on i686 > xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-vserver-686 - XEN system with Linux 2.6.18 > image on i686 > > XEN is a patch on the linux kernel to enable running linux as domX vserver is a patch on the linux kernel to create vserver in linux (sort of super chroot). -xen-686 is a package with only the first patch -xen-vserver-686 is a package with the two patches Have a look at : http://linux-vserver.org/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/ (in fact xen+vserver is a proof of concept that you can build a kernel with this two patches) Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-caher or approx?
On 22-06-2007, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El vie, 22-06-2007 a las 15:50 -0300, Andrés Ghigliazza escribió: >> Hi there, >> >> We will soon have, 5 or 6 Debian boxs (servers and desktops), in our >> LAN. We would like to know, if it is better to use apt-cacher o approx >> for the updates. >> >> I couldn't find enough documentation of any of them, to see some >> features, before installing one. >> >> Thanks very much, >> >> tizo > > I tested apt-cacher, apt-proxy and approx. > > My recomendation is approx: simple and stable. > Just forgot to add some details about approx: for now it doesn't handle pdiff files (Eric Cooper working on it). This is a missing features but i think upstream will make it work soon. Moreover: upstream is reactive and looking for user feedback. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-caher or approx?
On 22-06-2007, Andrés Ghigliazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > We will soon have, 5 or 6 Debian boxs (servers and desktops), in our > LAN. We would like to know, if it is better to use apt-cacher o approx > for the updates. > > I couldn't find enough documentation of any of them, to see some > features, before installing one. > I am using approx for a at least one year now. I used apt-proxy before. Approx is fast and simple. There is almost no configuration (just add the repository you want to use) and change the sources.list of your host. Concerning speed, i move from apt-proxy which can achieve 1MBps to approx (2-4MBps). I cannot compare with apt-cacher since i have never used it. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with usb wifi dongle
Hi,
I'm trying to make my wifi dongle working on my debian sid box (Asus
wl-167g).
I tried with the official drivers (rt2500 or rt2x00) and with ndiswrapper.
With the official drivers, iwconfig detects nothing (module is loaded)
and I noticed nothing in the logs.
With ndiswrapper, it's not better. The driver seems to be well installed
$ndiswrapper -l
rt2500usb : driver installed
device (0B05:1706) present
I noticed this error in syslog :
May 31 20:40:17 localhost kernel: ioctl32(loadndisdriver-:4696): Unknown
cmd fd(0) cmd(40056e00){00} arg(ffcc61c4) on /dev/ndiswrapper (deleted)
It may be the cause of the problem.
Does anyone made this chipset working ? (I made it last summer, can't
remember kernel version).
Thanks for your help.
PS: I tried with kernel 2.6.18-4 and 2.6.21 (installed from official
debian package, I used amd64 ones).
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[SOLVED] Re: Gigabit ethernet low traffic and high latency
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15-05-2007, Sylvain Le Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have spend the two last day, trying to solve a strange problem. I have > 2 hosts connected using Gigabit Ethernet link and a switch between: > * host giga: NFS server, Cat6 SFTP link, RTL8111/8168B NIC (r8169), Core 2 Duo > T7600, 1GB RAM, SATA drive (xen dom0), linux 2.6.18, etch > * host grand: NFS client, Cat6 SFTP link, 3C940 NIC (skge), P4 SMT, 1GB > RAM, linux 2.6.21.1, sid > * switch 3Com OfficeConnect 8 port Gigabit, all links negotiate > 1000BaseT/full > > The directory /home/share/backup/old/gildor/ contains a lot of hidden > files (former home dir). > > Here is my test : > grand$> umount /home/share && mount /home/share > grand$> time ls /home/share/backup/old/gildor/ > ... > real0m59.553s > user0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > > giga$>ping -i 0.2 grand > > grand$> umount /home/share && mount /home/share > grand$> time ls /home/share/backup/old/gildor/ > ... > > real0m0.470s > user0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > When a ping is running hitting the host, the NFS returns almost > immediatly. It is possible to run the ping on both host, but you need to > ping the other end. This has no effect when you ping broadcast, or > another non existing host. > > I try to : > * change the switch > * use other host as NFS client > * follow indication of http://dsd.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html and > http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/howto/tcp.html > * change cable > * connect directly one host to another > * add hosts to /etc/hosts > * disable/enable host caching in nscd > > Does anyone already solve this problem ? > > Regards, > Sylvain Le Gall > > OK, i have worked and solved this problem... This was a driver problem. Taking a look at the SCM of Linux kernel, i see that there was a lot of patch on r8169 since the 2.6.18-4 release. Since, i don't want to change my kernel for now, i decided to use realtek r1000 module... It changes my life: grand:~$ umount /home/share && mount /home/share grand:~$ time ls /home/share/backup/old/gildor real0m0.006s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s This is **amazing**! I mean it is really fast. I think that r8169 in 2.6.21.1 should have the same speed. I just need to take time to build a kernel (and replace realtek driver by linux driver). Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGS4y5ir2bofsN/psRAncHAJ437odHkmEvDx0BXokds5oOLXX/3gCfe+NH ZberxaQhKfjQfp70+xRWFlw= =wwOy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gigabit ethernet low traffic and high latency
Hello, I have spend the two last day, trying to solve a strange problem. I have 2 hosts connected using Gigabit Ethernet link and a switch between: * host giga: NFS server, Cat6 SFTP link, RTL8111/8168B NIC (r8169), Core 2 Duo T7600, 1GB RAM, SATA drive (xen dom0), linux 2.6.18, etch * host grand: NFS client, Cat6 SFTP link, 3C940 NIC (skge), P4 SMT, 1GB RAM, linux 2.6.21.1, sid * switch 3Com OfficeConnect 8 port Gigabit, all links negotiate 1000BaseT/full The directory /home/share/backup/old/gildor/ contains a lot of hidden files (former home dir). Here is my test : grand$> umount /home/share && mount /home/share grand$> time ls /home/share/backup/old/gildor/ ... real0m59.553s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s giga$>ping -i 0.2 grand grand$> umount /home/share && mount /home/share grand$> time ls /home/share/backup/old/gildor/ ... real0m0.470s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s When a ping is running hitting the host, the NFS returns almost immediatly. It is possible to run the ping on both host, but you need to ping the other end. This has no effect when you ping broadcast, or another non existing host. I try to : * change the switch * use other host as NFS client * follow indication of http://dsd.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html and http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/howto/tcp.html * change cable * connect directly one host to another * add hosts to /etc/hosts * disable/enable host caching in nscd Does anyone already solve this problem ? Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crazy screen
On 06-11-2006, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have just launch a diagnose software provided by Dell: >> the video memory seems corrupted (error in writting or reading). >> >> What may I do ? >> >> Jerome >> >> Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> thanks for your answer: >>> unfortunately I am now far away from the external screen >>> (this happened during a workshop). >>> >>> I have indeed a switch button on my Dell Inspiron 8200 (fn + F8): >>> I used it to get the image on the external screen, but I forget >>> to switch back, hence the troubles I guess. >>> >>> Is there a (simple) way to reset the settings ? >>> One way is to run "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg". Another solution, is to find any CRT or LCD that can fit to your external screen laptop port. I suggest using a CRT, which has more tolerance regarding bad settings. Then you can try to reset things. FYI, i am NOT sure this will fix anything. Maye your problem is of another kind. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crazy screen
Hello, On 05-11-2006, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > two days ago I plugged my daily updated Etch laptop to an external screen > (in practice a projector) and everything went fine until the shutdown. > But since then my screen is `crazy': at start up, I funny caracter appear > everywhere; in console mode the size of the caractere are no more apropriate; > in console mode, vertical and horizontal line appear and disappear in > different > colours; in gnome session the same happens. > I guess that something was modified and need to be reset, > but I do not know what to do ? May be my screen is dying ? > > Any idea is welcome. > Maybe, you switch your computer to external screen output (sometimes there is a button Fn + F7 to do it). And your OS and X server try to synchronize things using the settings of this output which doesn't exist, hence the problem... What should be done : - try to switch again to external screen (do the same manipulation once or twice, sometime there is settings for LCD -> External -> External + LCD), - try to replug your computer to the external screen. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
On 26-10-2006, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by this to please pardon me. > > Here goes my new list (If you don't use certain things, please leave > the brackets blank like I did for audio editor, instead of leaving > them occupied with previous entries; this is to make the counting more > accurate): > * audio editor [ ] * audio player [ beep-media-player ] * cd-ripper [grip ] * Desktop Environment [ xfce4 ] * DBMS [ sqlite ] * development [ OCaml, GTK+ ] * disc burner [ XCdroast ] * e-mail client [ mutt, sqwebmail ] * file manager [ thunar ] * finance [ ] * ftp [ lftp ] * image editor [ gimp ] * image viewer [ gqview ] * instant messenger [ gaim ] * mathematics [ ] * misc utilities [ sudo, fakeroot ] * p2p [ mldonkey ] * package manager [ apt-get, synaptic ] * pdf-reader [ ] * spreadsheet [ Ooo ] * tag editor [ ] * terminal emulator [ xterm ] * text editor [ vim, emacs ] * 3D animation [ blender ] * video player [ vlc ] * web browser [ firefox, dillo, w3m ] * word-processor [ Ooo ] * (unreleased) [ ] * (great honours) [ ] > > note: you don't have to be a user of an application in order like it ;-) > > Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: idsoftware games
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Le 29-09-2006, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello All, > > I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from > idsoftware. > I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the MB > and it has always worked well enough to make me happy. > > > It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working > with > these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what king of > sound card you use and if you are happy with it? > > Humm, your sound is maybe blocked by another application. If you use Gnome or Kde, there is a sound daemon that prevents you to open the sound device. If this is the case, you must turn off the sound daemon while you are playing : - - esdctl standby for Gnome (package esound-client), - - something similar for ARTS/Kde (artsctl standby ???). Then you should hear the sound with Quake 3. You can test if you have a sound daemon with : "ps aux | grep esd" or "ps aux | grep arts" Kind regard Sylvain Le Gall -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFHZfAir2bofsN/psRAqn/AJ48x6iTLafDyBsTkYxyk2lJh5/YcQCcCRIa JOdQqU7Drw7HkPlE7UDH4qY= =c1Ub -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JE CHERCHE DES ACHETEURS DE L'OR
BONJOUR CHER Ami Cest avec un grand plaisir que je vous envoie cette lettre pour vous dire que jai de lor dune quantité de 300 kilos.Si vous pouvez maider à trouver les client faire couler le produit je vous vendrai le kilo à 6.500 EURO. Je vous faire savoir lor se trouve au TOGO également si vous ètes interresser vous pouvez me contacter sur mon numero dès que vous me contact sur mon numero on fait négocier. Je vous prie vivement de maider en tant que mon partenaire. Jai 42 ans avec trois enfants (02 garçons et 01 fille). Mon nom est SYLVAIN kokou Plus grande chose à ajouter. Recevez, chers ami(e), mes salutations les plus distinguées Votre future partenaire.SYLVAIN kokou Cel :(00228)9244863 NB/ si vous avez trouvez le preneur vous avez votre poucentage. Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. Téléchargez la version beta.
JE CHERCHE DES ACHETEURS DE L'OR
BONJOUR CHER Ami Cest avec un grand plaisir que je vous envoie cette lettre pour vous dire que jai de lor dune quantité de 300 kilos.Si vous pouvez maider à trouver les client faire couler le produit je vous vendrai le kilo à 6.500 EURO. Je vous faire savoir lor se trouve au TOGO également si vous ètes interresser vous pouvez me contacter sur mon numero dès que vous me contact sur mon numero on fait négocier. Je vous prie vivement de maider en tant que mon partenaire. Jai 42 ans avec trois enfants (02 garçons et 01 fille). Mon nom est SYLVAIN kokou Plus grande chose à ajouter. Recevez, chers ami(e), mes salutations les plus distinguées Votre future partenaire.SYLVAIN kokou Cel :(00228)9244863 NB/ si vous avez trouvez le preneur vous avez votre poucentage. Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. Téléchargez la version beta.
EXIM Anyone can help me ?
Hello, I've a debian box with exim+amavis+spamcheck and all it's ok. I can send and receive mail from over the world...buti can send only from my debian box. I want to send mails from my network using my debian box and it's ok if the recipient is local but not if recipient is non local :( i just want to authorize any hosts on my network to send mails all over the world as they can do from webmail on debian box... Can you help me ? I join my exim.conf Sorry for my english Sylvain exim.conf Description: Binary data
Re: Rescue disk?
Hi Kent, >>The problem : the new hard disk is too big to be correctly recognized by the >>BIOS, so I disabled it in the BIOS configuration. I have burned Sarge 3.1 >>netinst CD, and ran the install without any problem, with Grub on /dev/hda >>(the new hard disk). This computer has no floppy drive : only CD-ROM drive. >>I booted the computer on the CD-ROM drive, using the well known (for me, under >>Woody) commando by lilo prompt : rescue root=/dev/hda1 >>But this time, it does not function. >>Is there any rescue possibility in Sarge? >>I have read there about Tomsrbt or Damn Small Linux to repair problem with >>MBR/Grub : but I am not looking for such a solution, but only a convenient >>method to boot on a CD and then use /dev/hda1 as root. > I'm confused by your description. Sorry : my english knowledge is a little bit old : it is difficult for me to be completely clear! > First you say the problem is that your hard drive is not recognized by > the BIOS. Exactly. > Then you imply that's not a problem, because the install proceeded > without a problem. Exactly : I boot from the Netinst Sarge CD, then install Sarge without any problem till the first reboot (after Grub install on MBR). > Then you indicate you're trying to boot via CD. Why? Is it because the > machine can't find the hard drive and boot from it? What CD are you > booting from? The Sarge installer? The machine can not find the hard drive : I must boot from the CD (this is the only other peripheral that I may use). The CD I am booting from : the Netinst Sarge CD. > What is not working about "rescue root=/dev/hda1"? What errors/symptoms > are you getting? Does this CD use lilo, or Grub? AFAIK, it uses Isolinux: - when I try : rescue root=/dev/hda1 I become : "Could not find kernel image: rescue" - then, I have tried : linux root=/dev/hda1 and also : linux root=0301 (that should be /dev/hda1) and the boot process functions till the error message : VFS : Cannot open root device "0301" or unknown block(3,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,1) Thanks, Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading security-related packages (eg. clamav, chkrootkit)
Hi Robert, > To keep up to date should I just use the "official" debian "stable" sources, > or should I use "unofficial" sources (such as backports.org)? There is something new in Sarge for this purpose : http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ ch-whats-new.en.html#s-volatile Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rescue disk?
Hi! I am facing a "little" problem with my Sarge install. I was an happy Woody user for a long time, and I need to do a fresh install of Sarge on a computer with BIOS problem. This computer ran Woody without any problem, but I have received a new hard disk for this one, on which I would like to install Sarge. The problem : the new hard disk is too big to be correctly recognized by the BIOS, so I disabled it in the BIOS configuration. I have burned Sarge 3.1 netinst CD, and ran the install without any problem, with Grub on /dev/hda (the new hard disk). This computer has no floppy drive : only CD-ROM drive. I booted the computer on the CD-ROM drive, using the well known (for me, under Woody) commando by lilo prompt : rescue root=/dev/hda1 But this time, it does not function. Is there any rescue possibility in Sarge? I have read there about Tomsrbt or Damn Small Linux to repair problem with MBR/Grub : but I am not looking for such a solution, but only a convenient method to boot on a CD and then use /dev/hda1 as root. I thank you in advance for any tip, Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is zlib?
Hi! > Please help me to find out "zlib" library's location. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages Keyword : zlib I would say : zlib1g and zlib1g-dev packages. Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Not optimal display -> DRI activation with ATI Radeon 9000
On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:57, you wrote: > Hi. Thanks for helping me. > Here is what I get when I try "cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 | grep -i dri" > Load"dri" > Driver "keyboard" > Driver "mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Driver "ati" > Section "DRI" Maybe the content of this section "DRI" would be interesting to look at as well. > And here is what I get about dri in /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > (II) LoadModule: "dri" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a > (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 This seems good. > and > (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled > (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled > (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled > (II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 866) > (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1152 x 7321 > (**) Option "dpms" > (**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled > (WW) RADEON(0): Option "UseInternalAGPGART" is not used Maybe this is not very good, I don't know. For X, it is just a warning... > (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled Seems good. > > Hummm. I don't know what to look for. Should I follow the instruction at > (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html) or > it's not relevant to my problem? This site you indicated seems very good, that's all I can say. Do you know Armagetron? Does it work nice in your config? And the screen saver you've been talking about, maybe its buggy? Do other screen savers using GL work nice? Good luck whatever you try now. I don't think I can help you out. I hope you'll find your way. Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 -- Lernu! http://www.lernu.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:57, linux wrote: > >Use "chroot install" to install the Knoppix to a hard drive. > >Knoppix is based on Debian, so I assume Roberto means "chroot install" > > using just your Knoppix CD, that's it. > >[..] Sylvain. > > I may be missing something, but you suggest to install Knopix over > Debian? I have to admit I do not have all the previous conversation in > my mail box. Sorry for that. I usually just read and try to learn, so > when I am doing something and run into problem I go into my saved > disscusition and pull the one out. > ed. Well...I didn't suggest anything, actually. I just tried to answer your question on "chroot install". Better ask Roberto for more details. Regards, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 -- Lernu! http://www.lernu.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to find swap space signature
On Friday 15 October 2004 23:02, messmate wrote: > Hi folks, > what can this mean ' unable to find swap space signature' > on boot ? > Thanks for the info Hi, Apparently it means that the kernel couldn't activate the swap space (a region on a hard disk used for storing temporary information when RAM isn't enough). This is annoying, swap is important. For now, could you tell more about your problem and its severity? Does the boot continue after this error, or is it blocked? Your system runs very slow? How did you install? Any errors during installation? If the boot just stops there, then the best might be to go back to the installation steps. If you can boot you could check the result of the 'free' command, and also see what you have concerning the swap in /etc/fstab ( % more /etc/fstab | grep sw ). I've heard of the command 'swapon', perhaps you could try it as well. Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 -- Lernu! http://www.lernu.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:29, Eric Wagar wrote: > > > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > > > from the initial install? I see a lot of > > > documentation > > > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them > > > > running > > > > > from the beginning. > > > > Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" > > What is a "chroot install"? You mean boot Knoppix and > then within one of its shells, to load the Debian CD's > and install? Hi, Use "chroot install" to install the Knoppix to a hard drive. Knoppix is based on Debian, so I assume Roberto means "chroot install" using just your Knoppix CD, that's it. (Never tried it myself, though, I installed Debian from the internet, using 2 floppies.) Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 -- Lernu! http://www.lernu.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Not optimal display -> DRI activation with ATI Radeon 9000
Hello Jean-François, > Here's what I get with "glxinfo" > > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: No So, it looks like DRI is not around, at least for OpenGL. > I don't know what to do? Is my kernel too old? I don't think so (I assume that someone would have told you so already). You could check if the Xserver tries to load the direct rendering: % cat /etc/X11/XF86Config | grep -i dri What does this return on your machine? It is necessary that this file (XF86Config) contains something like: Load "dri" If it doesn't, then you ought to add it in /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "Module" of this file will then look like this: Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load"dbe" # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection "extmod" Option"omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load"type1" Load"freetype" # This loads the GLX module Load "glx" Load "dri"<=== somewhere in section "Module" EndSection If adding this line doesn't help or if it was present already in XF86Config, then... you could have a look at the latest X log file - I assume it is /var/log/XFree86.0.log - and check for error messages related to DRI. What does your log file say? Cheers, Sylvain.
Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine
Hello Don, Maybe another suggestion (since you have 2 disks): install so that the most often used resources will be on one hard disk, and the swap on the other. ? But I'm wondering, will this really improve the speed of the OS ? Advanced users, please comment. Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La lingvo internacia: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Japanese characters in firefox
BTW, Maybe checking the results in Mozilla as well will help you find the way out. I remember doing this before I got FireFox working with japanese fonts. Experiment a little, you'll find out. Cheers, Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Japanese characters in firefox
On Friday 24 September 2004 21:02, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages > properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck. > > I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge. > > Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get > represented as a box with a four-character alphanumeric (hex?) code in > it. Here's a screencap: > http://shorty.ca/logs/yahoojp.png I had the same before. > > Now, I've installed a bunch of Japanese fonts as instructed here: > http://www.mayin.org/aragorn/Japan/linux.html > > And they seem to work ... when I open a kterm window and cat a japanese > text file, it displays fine. > > Also, firefox seems to _think_ it's working: The menu under > View -> Character Encoding shows that it's autodetecting Japanese > (sometimes Unicode, sometimes Shift_JIS), but still I get the same junk > displayed. Also, manually selecting Unicode or Shift_JIS makes > essentially no difference (The alignment moves around a bit, but I still > get no Japanese characters). > > So how do I get this working? > > > Cheers! Hi ScruLoose, totoro% apt-cache search ja | grep font This command will mostly show you some packages available for japanese fonts. You could pick up one package after the other until you get some results. Only a few of these package are really necessary, actually, but which ones? If it can help, here are the japanese font packages I have on my Debian. Personaly, I'm still using an old FireFox 0.8 and the japanese fonts display nicely (www.asahi.com for instance) ... after digging into it for a few hours! totoro% dpkg -l | grep font (and I removed some irrelevant lines by hand) ii asiya24-vfont 1-10 Japanese Maru Gothic font in Zeit's Syotai C ii defoma 0.11.7 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config ii dvi2ps-fontdat 1.0.1-2Font data for dvi2ps-j and dvi2dvi rc dvi2ps-fontdat 1.0.1-2Font data of Adobe Japanese fonts (futomin, ii figfonts-cjk 2.2.1-1Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet ii fontconfig 2.2.2-2generic font configuration library ii gsfonts8.14-2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s) ii gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6 Japanese symbol fonts for the ghostscript in ii gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6 Japanese gothic fonts for the ghostscript in ii gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6 Japanese mincho fonts for the ghostscript in ii gucharmap 1.2.0-4Unicode character picker and font browser ii hbf-kanji481.0-2 Japanese Kanji 48x48 bitmap font (JIS X-0208 ii konfont0.1-7 Public domain japanese fonts for KON2 ii libconsole 0.2.3dbs-50Shared libraries for Linux console and font ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2generic font configuration library (shared l ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2generic font configuration library (developm ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files ii libfreetype6-d 2.1.7-2FreeType 2 font engine, development files ii libxft-dev 2.1.2-6FreeType-based font drawing library for X (d ii libxft14.3.0-7FreeType-based font drawing library for X (v ii libxft22.1.2-6FreeType-based font drawing library for X ii t1lib1 1.3.1-9Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime ii t1utils1.32-1 A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulat ii ttf-freefont 20030519-1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts ii ttf-kochi-goth 1.0.20030809-1 Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font wi ii ttf-kochi-minc 1.0.20030809-1 Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font wi ii ttf-mikachan 8.9-1 handwritten Japanese Truetype font ii xfonts-100dpi 4.3.0-7100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-100dpi- 4.3.0-7100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 106 ii xfonts-75dpi 4.3.0-775 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi-t 4.3.0-775 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 1064 ii xfonts-a12k12 1-712-dot Kanji & ASCII fonts for X ii xfonts-ayu 1.7+0a-1 Gothic 18/20 dot Japanese and ISO-8859-1 X11 ii xfonts-base4.3.0-7standard fonts for X ii xfonts-base-tr 4.3.0-7standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10 ii xfonts-intl-ja 1.2.1-2International fonts for X -- Japanese ii xfonts-intl-ja 1.2.1-2International fonts for X -- Japanese big ii xfonts-kaname 1.1-8 Kaname Cho 12 dot Japanese Kanji, Latin 1 fo ii xfonts-kappa20 0.396-1X11 Kappa 20dot Fonts (10x20 8859-1..4/9/10/ ii xfonts-mplus 2.1.4-1M+ bitmap 10/12 dot Latin/Japanese fonts for ii xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0-7scalable fonts for X ii xfonts-shinono 4-1Various 12,14,16 dot Japanese Kanji, iso8859 Good luc
Re: sarge release
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 22:21, John Fleming wrote: > > _good_ and _stable_ > > That's what's really important, no? > > Really naive question It depends what "_good_" means, don't you think? > - Could recently-released SpamAssassin 3.0 still make > it into Sarge, or is that way too new and not enough time to make it into > Sarge? I wasn't sure if certain popular packages had a faster track through > the process. - John Security is important, I agree. Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La lingvo internacia: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge release
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 18:36, Jianbo Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know the frozen, release data of sarge? Thanks!
>
> Regards!
>
> Jianbo
Hello Jianbo,
We can only make forecasts based on the following figures:
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
because the final Sarge "will be ready when it will be ready", and it will be
_good_ and _stable_
That's what's really important, no?
If you cannot wait, you can already install Testing ("pre-Sarge") using
debian-installer RC1. You'll have a system that is usable and good enough if
stability is not critical for you, and you'll be able to upgrade some
packages using 'apt-get install '.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2004/20040807
Personaly, I installed it on a laptop a while ago for someone I know who's
very happy with it!
You can also try "unstable".
If you want Sarge for a server, then Woody is still good! or wait for the
final Sarge one more 10 weeks, or more, maybe less? (it will be ready when it
will be ready...)
Have fun!
Cheers,
Sylvain.
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Re: Suggestions Invited
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 22:48, Robert Brinson wrote: > Currently, I am a Gentoo Linux user. It is a great distribution for > people who want fine control over their system. I enjoy being able to > just emerge whatever_program. However, I am getting a little tired of > having to compile every little obscure library for a point update. So, > I guess you could say I'm in the market for a new distro. > > I have used Red Hat (not Fedora), Mandrake, and Gentoo. Of all of > them, I enjoy the control I have with Gentoo. I guess I'm looking for > a distro that will allow me to obtain the latest xorg or gnome or > firefox without having to go through a three hour compile session. RPM > is not suitable for this, as I know from experience. Red Hat and > Mandrake are very picky about dependencies making an upgrade of gnome or > kde nearly impossible. One ends up in the RPM equivalent of dll hell. > apt-get seems well suited for my needs. That is why I am posting to this > debian list. However, when I browsed the package repositories on > debian.org, I was disappointed. The stable repository is woefully out of > date. The latest unstable gnome is version 2.6, and xorg is not even > listed. Is it possible to easily have a debian install with the latest > gnome 2.8 and xorg 6.8.1? I did see a debian-based distro called ubuntu > that has gnome 2.8 out of the box. However, their faq says that one > should not mix mainstream debian debs with ubuntu debs. So, that distro > would preclude me from taking advantage of all of the packages in the > debian repository. So, does anyone have advice for this situation? Am I > asking the impossible of the current state of debian? > > Thanks for any insight. > > Robert Brinson > > "The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go > fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." â > John Gierach Hi, Do you really need gnome 2.8 right now? Is it really stable and good? (I don't know. I'm using XFCE). Is it worth using Debian with Gnome 2.6 or rather another distro with Gnome 2.8? I would say it really depends on your priorities and your actual needs. If you don't really need Gnome 2.8 right now, then wait until 2.8 is ready, but enjoy Debian from now on! ...And if you _really_ need Gnome 2.8, then: install Debian, go fishing ;-) and come back when Gnome 2.8 is available as a .deb package! Have fun whatever you choose. Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La lingvo internacia: http://uea.org/index.html
Re: How to obtain older package versions?
On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote: pour Monsieur)> Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in > unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in > sid being 1-7). > > Thanks for help. > > Andrei Hi Andrei, Apparently you can find xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6.diff.gz on the mirrors, which I suppose can be used to install version 1-6 from another version using a diff, but I don't know how to do that. Good luck Andrei. http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6.diff.gz Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La lingvo internacia: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to obtain older package versions?
On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote: > server-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 Hi, You will not find it in testing either, the version there being "1-4" apparently: # apt-get install -s xserver-xfree86 | grep xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86 Inst xserver-xfree86 [4.3.0-7] (4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Debian:testing) Conf xserver-xfree86 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Debian:testing) And on http://backports.org, I don't see it in ...\xfree86\ Good luck. Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La lingvo internacia: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome
On Saturday 11 September 2004 19:14, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have installed Gnome through apt-get install gdm. After doing this and > after rebooting my debian system I get the following message: Hello, Just 1 or 2 remarks if it can help you find a solution. First, you don't install gnome through apt-get install gdm, you just install the Gnome Display Manager: " totoro% apt-cache search gdm gdm - GNOME Display Manager " > > I cannot start the x server (your graphical interface) It is likely that it > is not set up correctly Would you like to view the x server output to > diagnose the problem? (Choises Yes and No). When I press Yes the form which > should contain the diagnose is completely empty. The next message (when I > press Ok in the empty diagnose form) I get is: I will diable this X server > for now. Restart GDM when it is configured correctly. Does anybody know > what is wrong and how I can solve this problem? You could check the X log here: /var/log/ The file is /var/log/XFree86.0.log on my "unstable". % tail /var/log/XFree86.0.log will show you what happened (unless your log is really empty?) And you ought to specify if you had X working before you instaled gdm. Cheers, Sylvain. > > Thanks in advance -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La lingvo internacia: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Linux Unix?
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:04, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:39, Paul Tsai wrote: > > > Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > > > >John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> > > > > GNU == GNU is Not Unix, GNU was synonymous with HURD... Well we shall > > all be switching to it RSN, 2001 is coming faster than you can imagine. > > > > Debian Linux is as close to GNU/Linux as you can get. Debian chose to > > name itself that. Many other distros DO NOT USE this nomenclature. > > can someone say what the status of HURD is? No much talk about it > lately. there used to be a link to it in the main debian page, and > [...] The Debian GNU/Hurd page is available after selecting "Site Map" from the Debian main page:in section "Miscellaneous": Debian GNU/Hurd -> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ Yes, GNU/Hurd is under active development: 'debian-hurd mailing list' -> http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/ I'm looking forward to the first 'stable' or 'testing' release of Debian GNU/Hurd :-) Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La lingvo internacia: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Linux Unix?
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:02, Bill Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:17:18 +0200 > > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if Linux can be considered Unix? > > > > As others in this thread have stated: > > Linux Is Not UniX ;) > > \sorry, couldn't help myself Linus Torvalds should have called it LING... ...because Linux-Is-Not-Gnu either. < http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html > GNU programs + Linux kernel = GNU/Linux Couldn't help it either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing from testing to unstable.
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Basically, yes. "dist-upgrade" implies "upgrade", but more importantly a dist-upgrade installs dependant packages external to those not already installed, which an upgrade does not (see the manpage for apt-get). If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a lower-numbered version, how would I do so? In the first place, the package 'apt-listbugs' can help you avoid some critical bugs (those that are already known at the time you apt-get install ). http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/apt-listbugs http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/apt-listbugs Cheers, Sylvain. Generally you don't -- you wait for the bug to be fixed. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) -- ___ Sylvain Vedrenne Alten Technologies - www.alten.fr Oce Print Logic Technologies 1, rue Jean Lemoinephoneto: +33 (0)1 48 98 81 01 94015 Creteil Cedex, France mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X (resolved)
On Monday 28 June 2004 22:23, Joey Hess wrote: > Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install > > 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. > > > > I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on > > saturday 2004/6/26: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/im > >ages/floppy/ > > Please don't use those images, instead use the ones from here; > > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/ Actually I installed Debian 'unstable' with success yesterday, using the initial floppies _including_ the 'cd-drivers' floppy. I understand we are encouraged to try out the floppies at the location you indicated. http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/ Thanks for the info Joey! Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La internacia lingvo: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X (SOLVED)
On Monday 28 June 2004 17:58, Ketil Froyn wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:28:27 +0200, Sylvain Vedrenne [...] > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian [...] > > on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. [...] > > partman says something like "here are the partitions on your hard drive" > > but there is nothing! but the menu asking me what I want to do next... > > > > It seems the hard drive (4GB, C,H,S: 993,128,63) is not detected. [...] > > Try loading the drivers on the disk cd-drivers.img, I seem to recall > that it has a lot of IDE drivers that aren't included on the other > disks. I had the same problem recently, and that solved the problem > for me. > > Cheers, > > Ketil Froyn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ketil.froyn.name/ Actually I had kind of tried this, but I didn't expect it to work in this situation because of the name of the floppy 'cd-drivers'... Thanks a _lot_ for your help! Debian Installation in progress :-) Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La internacia lingvo: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X
On Monday 28 June 2004 17:28, you wrote: > Hello, > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install > 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. > > I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on > saturday 2004/6/26: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/imag >es/floppy/ > > partman says something like "here are the partitions on your hard drive" > but there is nothing! but the menu asking me what I want to do next... > > It seems the hard drive (4GB, C,H,S: 993,128,63) is not detected. I also > tried "linux hd=993,128,63" when booting with the Sarge installation > disks, but the result is the same. > > Hard disk detection would work fine on this machine with the Woody > installer, but my PCMCIA ethernet card is not recognized, so I intended to > use the future Sarge installer (that sees my network card fine)... More details: The card is a Mentor PCMLAN-100DL. The Sarge installer sees it using module 8139too. Maybe I could have this module loaded during the Woody installation using floppies? (and then upgrade the distribution), but I don't know how to do that. Cheers, Sylvain. > > I hope someone here could propose me something clever to try out. > Thanks in advance! > > Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La internacia lingvo: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X
Hello, I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on saturday 2004/6/26: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/ partman says something like "here are the partitions on your hard drive" but there is nothing! but the menu asking me what I want to do next... It seems the hard drive (4GB, C,H,S: 993,128,63) is not detected. I also tried "linux hd=993,128,63" when booting with the Sarge installation disks, but the result is the same. Hard disk detection would work fine on this machine with the Woody installer, but my PCMCIA ethernet card is not recognized, so I intended to use the future Sarge installer (that sees my network card fine)... I hope someone here could propose me something clever to try out. Thanks in advance! Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La internacia lingvo: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No fonts/text in GTK2 apps
MrVanes wrote: Since some time I don't have any fonts/text in GTK2 apps anymore. Everywhere characters should be , there's void and spacing is like minimal, so it looks like font nothing, with space 0 is selected or so. The configure app switch (for GTK1) has text, switch2 is empty like the rest of the GTK2 apps. I normally use KDE, so it's not a very big deal but Mozilla recently switched to GTK2 for firefox 0.9rc and now it's starting to become annoying. Anybody ANY idea where to start looking? It looks like all dependencies for my packages are met. (lib)Pango, freetype and xft are all installed and up and running (as far as I understand). GTK1 apps work normal, like I said... Regards, Martin Hello list, I guess the fonts on Martin's computer are 'invisible' because very small. From time to time, when I start my Debian sid, gdm displays and the fonts in it are so small that I can't read anything. If I log in (XFCE + GNOME-panel), then all apps have tiny fonts. So I kill gdm and restart it then it is fine, but I don't understand... :-( Several weeks ago, I swear I spent a lot of time googling around, checking man pages and trying to understand more about fonts, but I'm still weak at it. Is it that complicated? Honestly, I don't have time these days to find out more by myself. And you will agree with me that font problems are _very_ disturbing! => Could anyone give us a link to a good Fonts troubleshooting document? Thanks in advance. Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. Regards, Vijaya Hello, Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer. You need to have several partitions on 1, 2 or more disks... And you can share a single swap partition with all the distributions you'll be using on your machine. Cheers, Sylvain. Hello list, I'm assuming this is possible using LILO as boot loader. Am I correct? Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse
Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. Regards, Vijaya Hello, Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer. You need to have several partitions on 1, 2 or more disks... And you can share a single swap partition with all the distributions you'll be using on your machine. Cheers, Sylvain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge dvd iso
Hi Jacques, If you wish to try Sid - and can read French, I suggest you have a look at the document located here: http://people.via.ecp.fr/~alexis/formation-linux/ I hope you will apreciate the quality of this (GPL licensed) document. BTW: I'd appreciate anyone indicating me an equivalent document in English, Esperanto or whatever ;-) Cheers, Sylvain. Jacques wrote: Hi there, I'm a slackware user interested in trying Debian so I'm currently downloading the dvd iso from fsn.hu ftp site. 1. Can anyone let me know if this iso is an installable debian image ? I grabbed the sid dvd iso but it ain't install. Someone told me it is to upgrade a GNU/Linux box from woody or sarge to sid. 2. Which version of kde and Qt is in sarge ? I need Qt >= 3.2.3 (and possibly Qt3.3 would be better) for a work on an free documentation project (regarding C++ programming). Thanks for any help. Regards, Jacques -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail
Hi, I don't know, but did you try % apt-cache search and % apt-cache search | grep qmail to find out? hope this helps. Sylvain. On Wednesday 26 May 2004 21:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Da> Does anyone know what the package name is for qmail on sarge? I have Da> tried to do an apt-get install qmail but it did not work it said the Da> package may not be available any more. Da> Da> -- Config (for wx-users): - wx-2.4.2, - gcc 3.3.3, - GTK-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
