Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:01 +0100, rjc wrote:
> > Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs'
> > subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~',
> > e.g.:
> > `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively. Is there a
> > Unix
> > command to do that right away?
>
> find top_dir_name -type f -name "*~" -exec rm '{}' \;
No need for -exec rm here ... You can just use -delete (please read the
manpage!).
I'll just point people to http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind
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Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 00:37 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] > but they are for kernel 2.6. This one is really frustrating. > > $ apt-get source linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 [...] > Picking 'linux-2.6' as source package instead of 'linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64' [...] > Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main linux-2.6 3.2.18-1 > (dsc) > [94.2 kB] That is expected as the source package for 3.* kernels is, in fact, linux-2.6. In addition to the wiki page you found already there is also a chapter in the wonderful new book on Debian system administration on kernel compilation [0] and a slightly older chapter in the kernel handbook [1]. The latter also discusses the application of patches [2]. It is typically also a good idea to read the README.source in the source package. I am not entirely sure which procedure to recommend as I had the impression that make-kpkg wasn't the recommended way to build a kernel these days. [0] http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.kernel-compilation.html [1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ [2] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.3 -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 13:04 +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > I am actually looking forward to Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x. > As we all know, Debian 6.0.x is still using the old Linux Kernel > 2.6. > > When will Debian 7.0 be released? Debian with Linux Kernel 3.x > release seems very slow when all the other Linux distros already > have the latest Linux Kernel 3.x. Why do I want Linux Kernel 3.x? > Because I want to play around with Xen virtualization (dom0 > required). You do not have to wait for wheezy's release (which will be released when it is ready) if all you want from it is a new kernel. Recent kernels can be installed quite easily from backports: 1. Follow http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ (you might want "main contrib non-free" if you need firmware) 2. Run: apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') That will install a suitable metapackage for your system from backports and would pull in linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 at the moment. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: cut's counterpart: vcut ?!
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 16:58 +, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hi all, > > a crazy ideia just crossed my mind ? > > Is there a command that allows me to "glue" to text files together line > by line ? more or like the inverse operation of 'cut' ... a vertical Something like "paste" ? babilen@asasello: ~ $ cat a 1 2 3 babilen@asasello: ~ $ cat b a b c babilen@asasello: ~ $ paste -d '' a b 1a 2b 3c -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Howto upgrade perl without removing everything
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:03 +, Richard wrote: > Hi, > Playing dangerously with Sid, and I've reached the limit of what it will > upgrade to > without some help. > Nearly everything has a dependency on perl, the perl version has change, so > how do just upgrade the > perl base. > I can't see the equivalent of rpm --nodeps in apt-get, and clean up the mess > afterwards. Just to make this better known to people on the mailing lists as well ... Perl is currently in the transition from 5.12 to 5.14 and an overview of this particular transition [0] can be seen on [1] and of all other transitions on [2]. It should be quite obvious that the plethora of red in there is bad and that we strive to paint this page in green. More specifically all reverse dependencies have to be rebuilt againt the new perl version and uploaded to sid and this might take a while. The best strategy right now is *not* to upgrade perl-base (et al.) to 5.14, but wait until the transition progressed a bit. The easiest way is probably to run "(safe-)upgrade" instead of "dist-upgrade" right now and to cherry-pick other (unrelated, but held) packages directly. I can only stress once again that it is of uttermost importance to actually read and understand the actions that are proposed by apt-get/aptitude ... You might wonder why I mention this, but we already had a couple of people in #debian who complained that apt-get removed their kernel. (sic!) Furthermore there might still be people who *already* upgraded to the new perl version and face a horrible mess right now. There are a couple of ways to deal with this: 1. Reinstall stable, consider the lesson to be learnt and work on something more important 2. Restore from backups 3. Downgrade selected packages to either the version in wheezy or the previous version. This can be done with "dpkg -i", but using aptitude install foo=1.2.3 or by pinning [3] the packages to a specific version with a priority >= 1001 followed by a dist-upgrade. (which will actually downgrade the packages) 4. Downgrade the complete system to wheezy. The idea is more or less the same as in 3. only that you downgrade all packages from sid to wheezy. This can be done by pinning wheezy to a priority >= 1001 as, for example, with the following /etc/apt/preferences: --- snip --- Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 --- snip --- It should be noted that 3. and 4. are absolutely *unsupported* and might not work at all. People have, however, successfully downgraded their systems. Liek always: Make sure that your backups are up-to-date, complete and that you know how to restore them. [0] A transition occurs when changes in a package require alterations to several other packages which depend on it. To do this, many packages using the package are updated, either being recompiled or updated to a new version; packages blocking a transition might be removed from so it can complete. Transitions can become very large and complex, involving tens or even hundreds of packages. [1] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.14.html [2] http://release.debian.org/transitions/ [3] http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/debian.html#errata http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences "man apt_preferences" -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:18 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam at the > gmail. > Any way to avoid this ? It is because gmail does not send you your own messages. That is no problem though and easily solved: 1. Create a filter for messages from debian-user (Match To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 2. Select "Never move to spam" That should do the trick. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:56 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > I could be wrong :-), seems lkike the DM site upgrades versions quicker. I know nothing about Marillat's packages, but you have to update flashplugin-nonfree manually by running: update-flashplugin-nonfree --install The package itself is not updated for every new upstream release, but the checksum it downloads and the plugin tarball is. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: wheezy konqueror - cannot download Adobe Flashplayer
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 23:21 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Konqueror displays the following when I try to download Ubuntu APT version > --/cfusion/downloadcenter/flashplayer/otherversions/[object > HTMLAnchorElement]/ I am not quite sure why you want to install the flash plugin from Ubuntu because it is packaged in Debian. Just install the flashplugin-nonfree package and you should be fine. Please note that you have to manually update it with: update-flashplugin-nonfree --install as this does not happen automagically once a new version is available from upstream. If this does not suit your needs you might want to elaborate on your requirements. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Why is exim installed by default?
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 22:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the > 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it > actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? You might be interested in: http://lists.debian.org/<20111012213912.GB1964@leaf> -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] Imperial measures
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 15:25 -0400, Doug wrote: > The US pint is 16 ounces, and the US quart and gallon are based on that. > 32 oz. = 1 qt; 4 qts. = 1 gal. > That's why the British gallon is 5 US quarts, or 4 British quarts. > The ounce is the same size, or almost. (As wiki says, research is needed.) > I'm not really sure of the history, but I *think* that all pints > were once 16 ounces, thus the expression, "A pint's a pound, the world > around." Therefore, it would seem that the US, being the colony, > kept on using the old measure, while the mother country modified it. > (Since the Brits like their "pint" of ale, it is logical that they > would take steps to get more ounces in their pint!) > > The fluid ounce is not exactly 1 avoirdupois ounce, but it must be > close, because of that saying. Also, one US gallon of water weighs > just about 8 pounds. Interesting read ... but seriously: WTF? /me prefers litre and (kilo)gram :) -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: wheezy after update significant slow
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 20:47 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2011 schrieb Wolodja Wentland: > > On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:23 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > 7. I reverted to xserver-xorg version before the last one, but although > > > it was a little bit better, it was not good as expected. > > > > Reverted from to which version? Which driver (exactly) are you using? How > > is it installed? > > > I reverted from xserver-xorg 1.7.6 to 1.7.5. > > > Please also read: > > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=166025 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642757 > > > > After I read this, I now reverted to xserver-xorg 1.7.3 and it is working > again like a charm. However, this bugreport is very, very similar to mine. > > > Does it happen if you downgrade to Xorg 1.10 as well? > > I could not find Xorg 1.10, so still at 1.11. > Seems, I am the only one with this problem. You are not -- A bunch of people reported similar problems with 1.11 in #debian-next (irc.oftc.net) and it typically helped to downgrade to 1.10. I was just curious if that works for you as well. You can find old versions on: http://snapshot.debian.org/ I would also recommend to install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges. Good luck! -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: wheezy after update significant slow
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:23 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > 7. I reverted to xserver-xorg version before the last one, but although it > was > a little bit better, it was not good as expected. Reverted from to which version? Which driver (exactly) are you using? How is it installed? Please also read: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=166025 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642757 Does it happen if you downgrade to Xorg 1.10 as well? -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.
Hello Sthu, On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:16 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >Is it actually slower? What is the output of: > > Yes. Extremely slowly. > > >$ glxinfo | grep -e 'direct\|renderer' > > direct rendering: Yes > OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS480 That is the output I was hoping for as it means that you do indeed have hardware 3D acceleration. I will get back to you once I've finished my coffee and can think of other reasons for your system behaving so slow despite having hw accel. What exactly is slow? May you have a nice day -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 14:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: > > >> I have slow 3D rendering on ATI card after full upgrading to wheezy. > >> > >> Is there any strategy how I can investigate the bottle neck so that I > >> might file a bug report against it? > Hmm. To me whole the problem is strange - I think there should be no 3D > or it should be at some little variable FPS change after the upgrade, > but it works as follows : from about 420 in Squeeze down to 60 Wheezy... Is glxgears your only benchmark for establishing that 3D rendering is slow? If so, it is most likely that it is a faulty benchmark as I am sure that 60FPS is due to the FPS being synchronised to the VSYNC (refresh rate) of your TFT (i.e. 60Hz). Is it actually slower? What is the output of: $ glxinfo | grep -e 'direct\|renderer' -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to set up the portable hard drive
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 21:32 +0800, lina wrote: > No primary partitions are marked bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot this. > reboot to updateToggle bootable flag of the current partitione(8), kpartx(8) > or > > if I just choose WRITE, it showed me above information in cfdisk interface. Don't worry about that. Bootloaders of some (old) operating system need/use this flag to figure out which partition they have to boot. It is not of any relevance for Linux and even more so if you do not plan to boot from it. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_flag for a little more information. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Thanks for clarifying that. > One final question. What happens to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? It still > exits. Just delete or move it somewhere else. It is not needed anymore if all other devices are configured correctly when it is missing. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to set up the portable hard drive
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 20:46 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: > >> > > >> > Could you give us the output of > >> > > >> > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > > > > Sorry, I meant "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525167 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xa9a5ecc3 > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 63 1953520127 976760032+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Ok, that is fine. One thing you might want to consider is to create two partitions on the drive. That would allow you to use the first with an ext3/4 filesystem for Debian and the other with an vfat filesystem for Debian, MS Windows and OSX. You can use, cfdisk, fdisk, parted and other programs to partition. cfdisk is probably easier to user use than fdisk and you can run it with "cfdisk /dev/sdb" -- Delete the existing partition and create two new (primary) ones. Something like 950GB for ext4 and the rest for vfat might make sense, but that depends on your usage. You can then create the ext3/4 filesystem (on /dev/sdb1) with the commands I mentioned in my other post and the vfat one with "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb2". You find mkfs.vfat in the dosfstools package. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to set up the portable hard drive
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: > > > > Could you give us the output of > > > > # fdisk -l /dev/sda Sorry, I meant "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to set up the portable hard drive
> > On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:13:58 +0800, lina wrote: > It's surprisingly cool, when I tried to mount it on another computer > which is sid one, > > it works, I can copy and paste and also no problems create new folder. > > and the mount information is different: > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive type fuseblk > (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions) > > seems I don't need reformate? That just means that NTFS support is already active/configured. If you use this drive exclusively from Debian and in particular if you need it for backups I would recommend to use a different filesystem such as ext3 or ext4. Read the following wiki page for more information on NTFS http://wiki.debian.org/NTFS -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to set up the portable hard drive
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 18:33 +0800, lina wrote: > > Run "mount" and put here the result. > /dev/sdb1 on /media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive type ntfs > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,uhelper=udisks) Ok, you have a drive with at least one partition (/dev/sdb1) and a NTFS file system on it. > >> how do I reformat it? > > > > Using gparted, parted, cfdisk... as usual :-) > > I have never used above gparted, parted, cfdisk, I will check now. These programs are used to change the partition layout of your drives, not to "format" them. The latter typically just means that you create a filesystem on a already partitioned drive. Could you give us the output of # fdisk -l /dev/sda > >> Thanks for any suggestions, (no need very intelligent set up, just basic > >> one, so I can use it to backup.) > > > > Then use a most suitable filesystem format, such as ext3/ext4/reiserfs/ > > xfs... YMMV. > > Which one is the best choice, better can be used both in linux and Mac. What do you want to use this drive for? How large is it? Do you need to use it from other operating systems as well? If so: which? If you want to use this drive only from Debian and the fdisk command above just lists a single partition I would recommend to create an ext3 or ext4 filesystem on it: # mkfs.ext3 -L NAME_OF_YOUR_CHOICE /dev/sdb1 or # mkfs.ext4 -L NAME_OF_YOUR_CHOICE /dev/sdb1 You might have to change the permission of the filesystem if you want to be able to write as your normal user: # mkdir /media/blargelbars # mount /dev/sdb1 /media/blargelbars # chown YOURUSER:plugdev /media/blargelbars # chmod 770 /media/blargelbars # umount /media/blargelbars # rmdir /media/blargelbars For this to work your user should be a member of the plugdev group, which you can check by running "groups" as your user. If it is not run "adduser YOURUSER plugdev" and log out/in. You could also change the chmod command to "chmod YOURUSER:YOURUSER /media/blargelbars" or "chmod root:plugdev /media/blargelbars". If for some reason you already have a directory /media/blargelbars please let me know as I will invite you for a beer/wine/tea/nous nous/... and notice that you would have to use another name. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:04 +1000, yudi v wrote: > This is where the wiki gets confusing. It says I need to Install the NVIDIA X > driver and user-space libraries - step 3. > > I believe I read somewhere that the nvidia-kernel-dkms also installs the > driver > and user space libraries. > > Is this step deprecated? To be honest: I find the wiki article to be quite confusing and unclear... or rather way too long and, well, complete. But to answer your question I would ask you to take a look at the nvidia-kernel-dkms package and in particular its relations to other packages. You will notice that it recommends nvidia-glx and the "-r" option of aptitude will ensure that recommended packages are installed, which essentially means that this single command installs the dkms module and the user-space libraries. > file name "20-nvidia.conf" - is the name arbitrary or does it have to be that > exact name? The name is arbitrary to a certain extent and the only invariant is that it *has* to end in .conf to be used during the configuration. It is, however, a custom to use a naming scheme such as: NN-SECTION.conf NN-DEVICE.conf where NN is an arbitrary two digit number and SECTION or DEVICE are replaced by the name of the section or device you are configuring in the given file. The files themselves are read in alphanumerical order, such that a 10-synaptics.conf will be read before a 25-nvidia.conf and we strive to maintain the order of the original xorg.conf. But don't worry: Just use your favourite numbers and (who knows?) a 42-answer.conf might even unlock certain easter eggs. (Sadly it does not). Have a nice day and let me know if you need anything else. You can also pop into #debian and ask me directly. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 23:50 +1000, yudi v wrote: > I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods > > First method > this taken from irc dpkg bot > "aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` > nvidia-kernel-dkms && mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; echo -e 'Section > "Device"\n\ > tIdentifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver "nvidia"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ > 20-nvidia.conf" > > this uses the xord.conf.d directory but it also has /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. > What happens in this case? AFAICT this does not use a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but a device specific configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Since Xorg in Squeeze configures itself automagically it is (IMHO) preferred to manually configure just the devices that you actually want to configure. It might help if I break this command down for you: 1. aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` This installs the kernel headers which are needed to compile the nvidia module. The `uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` command will just expand to your architecture: $ uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,' amd64 nvidia-kernel-dkms and this package contains/pulls-in the nvidia driver itself. 2. mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\t Identifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver "nvidia"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf" This command will create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file with the following content: Section "Device" Identifier "My GPU" Driver "nvidia" EndSection which configures Xorg to use the nvidia driver in lieu of the nouveau one. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Upgrading Squeeze to SID
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:53 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > I want to upgrade my desktop Debian Squeeze to Debian SID. > > I'm serching for howto how can I achieve my goal on debian website > but without any success. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ > doesn't provide me with any information about upgrading from the > stable or testing version to SID. > > Any advices will be appreciated! Please also read http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable in addition to the article on Raphaël's blog. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 14:25 +1000, yudi v wrote: > I plan to install nvidia's driver and I had a problem before where every time > after a kernel update (this was under Ubuntu), nvidia driver would break. I > don't want to be in the same situation again. > > Once I setup the system I don't want to spend too much time fixing it. Whats > the best option under this situation? Camaleón told you what you need to get your device running, but I just want to mention that the problem you describe above is due to the fact that the nvidia kernel module needs to be compiled for every kernel. That means that you either have to compile it yourself when you install a new kernel or have this triggered automatically whenever you tinker with the installed kernels. Luckily the DKMS infrastructure does this for you, which means that you can just install: nvidia-kernel-dkms and the module will be recompiled whenever needed. Note that this may not work with backported kernels. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: which is the best alterative package for kbibtex
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 21:58 +0800, lina wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Johann Spies wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 04:02:25PM +0200, lina wrote: > > > >> before I used kbibtex, but this time when I tried to install it, seems > >> lots of KDE staff, I use gnome desktop mainly? > >> so what's the best alterative choice for bibtex edit. > > > > I do not know kbibtex. I am using Emacs to edit my bibtex-files while in > > Auctex-mode. > > > Thanks for Cristian and Johann's advice, > > I think I will be back to gvim. Good choice. In addition to jabref I like referencer and a lot of my fellow students use Mendeley which is, however, proprietary and therefore not an option. -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 19:56 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote: > 1. unetbootin is still broken (unable to make *any* image work on flashdrive) Yes, unetbootin is and has been broken. Why don't you follow the method outlined in the installation guide? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: thread issue
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 21:12 +0800, lina wrote: > I noticed when make -j 8, the 8 cores can be fully occupied. > > can I use some way to enable 8 cores at the same time when I run > something, such as a bash script? Not sure what you really want to do, but GNU/parallel [0] might be of interest. It has unfortunately not yet been packaged for Debian as it conflicts with a binary of the same name in the moreutils package. [1] Also an often overlooked tool called "nproc" combines nicely with parallel, as it returns the number of usable cores. (think "-j $(nproc)") ... but what are you really trying to parallelise? [0] http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/ [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597050 -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: I can't
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:08 -0500, Kevin Williams wrote: > I can't go into single user mode. Do I need to reinstall Please try the method pointed out to you earlier. I would also kindly ask you to reply to a single thread and do not open a new one for every reply you send. It makes it unnecessarily hard to help you. Make it easy for us to be helpful, we are all volunteers who put in their personal time and you should provide as much information as you can when you ask a question. That way you even get better answers ;) -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: how to add debian repository to mac source.list
Hi Lina, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 18:50 +0800, lina wrote: > I tried simply added the debian repository into fink's sources.list, > seems not work. > ## Debian Main Repos > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main non-free [...] > Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages > 404 Not Found [IP: 64.50.236.52 80] Could you try: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free please? I am also not sure if this will work with fink at all and I would strongly recommend to ask about this on the fink mailing list. [0] It might very well be that Debian packages are /not/ immediately compatible with fink, but I don't know enough about fink to make an authorative statement. [0] http://www.finkproject.org/lists/fink-users.php -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: broken dpkg status
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:44 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived > to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never > thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake! > > Anyway, the most pressing problem at the moment is that apt fails, > due to missing status data: > > E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file > or directory) > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > How do I recover from this? Uh, tough one. You can try the following which relies on the fact that every package install documentation in /usr/share/doc/PKG and will reinstall all those packages: find /usr/share/doc -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -not -name texmf \ -not-name debian -printf 'install %f\n' \ | xargs aptitude --schedule-only reinstall; aptitude install;; Unfortunately that also means that the information about automatically/manually installed packages is lost. There are certainlt other ways, but I like this one. I will think about how you could get the manually/automatically installed information back. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: console screen
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:06 -0400, Tom H wrote: > "info grub" lists these variables in one of its sections (there's a > way of going straight to that section but I don't know it). $ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: get package name from file name
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 13:39 +0100, kuLa wrote: > On 07/07/11 13:17, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > As always there are multiple to do this :) > > > > * dpkg -S /path/to/file > > * apt-file search /path/to/file > > * dlocate -S /path/to/file > > > > I prefer to use either apt-file or dlocate. The former comes in quite handy > > as > > it also works for packages that are not installed and it supports regular > > expressions. If you are looking for an executable, but don't know the full > > path you can search for: > > > > $ apt-file search -x "bin/foo$" > > > > which will find all files named "foo" that are in a bin/ directory > > somewhere. > > In particular this will not match "bin/foobar". dlocate on the other hand > > is a > > bit faster than "dpkg -S" and has other goodies too ... have a look. > Yeee, many ways to the same goal but dlocate or apt-file aren't present > in Debian by default like dpkg is :-) Sure, but that applies for a lot of software. :) I typically don't have a problem to install packages I want, but YMMV. It is just that "dpkg -S" is only useful when you try to figure out where a file on your system came from, not which package you have to install in order to get a specific one. I find that I need to figure out the latter much more often, hence my recommendations. But this is moot as you are probably aware of all this and I can just stop now. Slainte! -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: get package name from file name
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:22 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > how can I tell which package installs a given file ? > something like: > > # find-package-from-file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 > libxml2 As always there are multiple to do this :) * dpkg -S /path/to/file * apt-file search /path/to/file * dlocate -S /path/to/file I prefer to use either apt-file or dlocate. The former comes in quite handy as it also works for packages that are not installed and it supports regular expressions. If you are looking for an executable, but don't know the full path you can search for: $ apt-file search -x "bin/foo$" which will find all files named "foo" that are in a bin/ directory somewhere. In particular this will not match "bin/foobar". dlocate on the other hand is a bit faster than "dpkg -S" and has other goodies too ... have a look. have fun -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Adobe flash sound issues
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 21:25 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:50:13 +0100 > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/iceweasel > >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/chromium > > Thanks for this! I noticed some weird sound artifacts in flash videos, but > didn't have the time to investigate. Next thing I open debian-user ML folder, > and the solution (well, workaround really) is staring right at me. :) Please note that the paths changed due to the multiarch [0] transition. You now have to use: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc/memcpy-preload.so Have fun! [0] http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: No input devices in wheezy
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 19:34 +0100, AG wrote: > My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the > kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the > default), neither mouse nor keyboard works. Quite likely due to the /run + udev + initscripts transition that is still ongoing in wheezy (\o/ Md) For now do either: 1. "rm -rf /run" + reboot 2. Upgrade udev, base-files and all binary packages built from the initscripts source package to the versions in sid. Probably the easiest way is to set the default release to "wheezy" and "aptitude -t sid" them. FWIW - I recommend the first approach. If you have further question either come back here, or join #debian-next on irc.oftc.net. Good luck -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Adobe flash sound issues
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 14:01 +0300, John Kapnogiannis wrote: > I got an annoying problem with flash sound. On some services (eg > Grooveshark) I hear scratches and deformities during playback. The actuall > track is heard on the background though. I have flash installed through the > flashplugin-nonfree packages. The problem even exists on Google Chrome, > which is supposed to use a flash installation of its own. As far as I know > flash version is not the latest. I am using Debian testing on a Dell Studio > 1555 laptop with kde and alsa. I guess that you are using amd64 and that the problem you are seeing is due to a difference in the memcpy implementation in libc6. Could you try to run iceweasel or chromium in the following way: $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/iceweasel $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/chromium You can find details about this in /usr/share/doc/libc6/README.Debian.gz and I would suggest to create a little shell script like the following: --- snip --- #!/bin/sh LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/iceweasel --- snip --- and place is somewhere in your PATH (~/bin comes to mind) if that does indeed solve the problem. Note that the path to memcpy-preload.so will change to a multiarch conforming one in the next libc6 version that will hit wheezy. You can then find it in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc/memcpy-preload.so - but you will be automatically informed about this is you have apt-listchanges installed. If you don't install it and apt-listbugs with it. :) I recommend reading the bug report on RedHat's bugtracker, it is worth your time if you want to understand what is going on here. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian Questions on apt-get
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:00 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > To see what was delivered:- > cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less Much easier to just use (IMHO): dpkg -L PKG_NAME or (if installed): dlocate -L PKG_NAME -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 15:41 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R. And > since the kernel included with Squeeze crashes when I unplug the USB > headset, I need to run a newer kernel that has a patch for that > problem. (I'm afraid of testing because it does not appear it ever > pauses for a "snapshot." If Debian testing had "freeze points" like > "Fedora 14" or "Ubuntu 11.04" or such, I would probably run testing. > But testing never pauses for a mostly working snapshot. Right?) I summarised a couple of methods to obtain newer software on stable releases in [0] and you can, for example, easily install a newer kernel from backports. Both LyX and R might be harder to upgrade, but it is probably a good idea to search for backports too or attempt the "ssb" (simple sid backports) method outlined in the referenced mail. That might or might not be an easy thing to do, which depends entirely on the dependencies of these packages. I would, however, strongly advise against mixing stable and testing/unstable as this will just lead to madness. If all this doesn't work out for you, you might still want to try running Wheezy, which will require more work but gives you access to newer software. It is hard to find a good balance and you have to take this decision yourself. If you are interested in pursuing this approach I would recommend to read [1] or to pop into #debian-next on irc.oftc.net to discuss your needs. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01325.html [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:17 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even the > bt43 WiFi wasn't that bad) except the start (ubuntu) menu (and I'm not crazy > about the quick launch bar or it being on the left). How do I get a "normal" > start menu? One way to solve this issue is to install Debian [0] and another would be to ask on an Ubuntu mailing list. [1] I would recommend the former, but you might prefer the latter. That being said: I would be surprised if your login manager (e.g. gdm3) wouldn't allow you to choose a different session. You are looking for the Gnome session, not the unity one. [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/ https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > upgrades...which are: > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 -> 1.60-24 > [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 -> 170-1 > = > > Strange you have udev 169-1..mine was upgraded to 170-1 which > created the problem. That is interesting as from what I've heard on #debian-next (irc.oftc.net) udev 170 fixed a lot of the problems introduced in the 169 version. (#627446 for example). This *might* very well be a new issue, but I would suggest to check the BTS for applicable reports. What symptoms do you experience exactly? If you want you can also come to #debian-next and we can work on this issue or you could file a new bug report if there is no applicable one already. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:24 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > > (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in > > > a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > A list of the packages that were upgraded would help tremendously, but my > > gut > > feeling says udev. There were a couple of RC bugs against udev 169 (check > > the > > BTS) so it would be interesting to know which version you have installed. > I have udev_169.1. I am almost entirely certain that udev is to blame, but luckily udev 170 has just been uploaded and I would recommend to upgrade to that version. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in > a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. > > Any suggestions? A list of the packages that were upgraded would help tremendously, but my gut feeling says udev. There were a couple of RC bugs against udev 169 (check the BTS) so it would be interesting to know which version you have installed. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to get apt source code via VCS?
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:57 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:29:45PM +0800, Edmond Halley wrote: > > I would like to get apt source code via VCS(git,bzr,svn...). I do not > > find the repository of apt. [...] > > Your first stop for checking something like this would be > http://packages.qa.debian.org/ > which in this case redirects to > http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt.html > Generally, if the package maintainers have included links to their VCS > repo (via adding the appropriate headers to the package control file) > then they are displayed here. If not, you could try checking the > copyright file and/or the homepage of the software project in question, > if available. … and you can easily checkout the code with "debcheckout PACKAGE" -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: xorg "freezes/sticks" under kernel 2.6.38
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 01:07 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > On 2011-05-10 20:40:21 GMT, Bill Brelsford wrote: > > > Since upgrading to kernel 2.6.38, I've been experiencing freezes > > in X. ... Anyone else experiencing this? Suggestions? > > On one of my Wheezy 2.6.28 machines (but not on the other), an xorg upgrade > wrecked my fvwm X Windows display. I got it working again by undoing the X > upgrade, and those packages are now being held back. Someday when newer ones > come along I may try again. > > More details are here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622761 I wanted to let you know that you can reassign the bug yourself. Have a look at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control and the "bts" tool from the devscripts package. (I've done that for now) Regarding your problem, it might be a good idea to follow the instructions on: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/XserverDebugging Good luck and happy hunting! -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: I am not receiving my discussion mail.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 15:43 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011 20:53:14 +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > > > Please reply me, let me test, whether I am getting reply of email or > > not.. > > Are you using Gmail's smtp service? > > If yes, it's normal you don't get your own postings (this is a well-known > "bugture": a bug that is called a "feature" :-P) From [0]: --- If you are sending messages from Gmail, you can get the sent messages to appear in the Inbox, but not the incoming messages. There is a documented and undocumented way to do it: Documented: make the mailing list a custom From address. (Unfortunately, the confirmation message will go to the list.) Undocumented: Set up a filter for "to:mailing_list_address", and apply the "Never send to spam" action. --- [0] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=737a9de8dc7f8cb7 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
#debian-next - channel for testing/unstable discussions
Hi all, I wanted to announce the creation of a new IRC channel #debian-next on irc.debian.org / irc.oftc.net. The channel is dedicated to the discussion and (reasonable) support of testing, unstable and (if it ever sees the light of the day) rolling. The policy in #debian regarding testing and unstable is essentially that users that decide to track one of those should have the skills to deal with broken systems and that neither of them are officially supported in the main channel. This did not necessarily mean that users were unable to get help in the channel, but we had the feeling that the creation of a dedicated channel for testing/unstable users is, especially in the light of recent discussions on d-d, needed if Debian wants to welcome users of these "rolling" releases. We also believe that additional support for skilled testing/unstable users would help to triage and find bugs faster and that it therefore helps to increases the quality of the stable releases. If you use testing or unstable or are interested in helping users you are more than welcome to idle on the channel or to ask your questions there. Please note that the creation of this channel does *in no way* constitute an endorsement to run testing or unstable and we still strongly encourage everybody to use the stable releases. Users of testing or sid are encouraged to read the sid faq [1], follow the discussions on debian-devel, debian-release and be aware of ongoing transitions [2]. Best Wolodja (a.k.a. babilen) [1] http://bit.ly/8Xb0Lg [2] http://bit.ly/kT6hpV -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: changing my e-mail address
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:25 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I want to change the address used for my subscription to this list. > On other lists, there is generally an option to modify the e-mail address > used for subscribing, but I didn't find that for debian lists. > Otherwise, I can of course unsubscribe, and subscribe with the new one > Weird thread ... :) Unfortunately you can't change your email address and the only way to achieve what you want is to subscribe and unsubscribe (yes, in that order or you will lose mail - filtering duplicates is easy). The question is therefore: "How to mass subscribe/unsubscribe easily?" * Mass (un)subscribe pages [1] * Mail to majord...@lists.debian.org Instructions can be found on [2] about the relevant commands. I find this method to be the most easy/fast one. You will still have to send a bunch of confirmation back and forth. I hope this helps and you will succeed in changing your email address. [1] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe [2] http://www.infodrom.org/projects/majorsmart/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Suggestions for bayesian network software
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 13:31 +0300, George wrote: > I'm looking for suggestions on good bayesian network software that > runs on debian. A search on the standard repos was fruitless. I would > prefer free software, but I'm also willing to try any good solution, > even if it is through Wine. It would help tremendously if you could tell us what you are actually trying to do. I still don't know if what you are looking for a library or a application and if you need one that models generic bayesian networks or sequences (think HMM, CRF, ...). If you look for a library you might want to tell us which programming language(s) you are planning to use. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Downgrading Udev
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 15:20 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 04:13:36PM +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > > Last Udev version have an important error: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087 > > > > Where can I find and download the previous 166 version? > > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/udev/166-1/ > > Note that downgrading base-files (which removes /run) will > also do the same job: > > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/base-files/6.1/ Just downgrading base-files to 6.1 did unfortunately not work for me because /run was not removed due to being "not empty" and I had to remove it manually. Good to see you here Roger. I handled the bug by downgrading udev, libudev, libgudev-1.0-0 to 166-1 and base-files to 6.1, but am not sure if that is actually the best way to deal with it. I guess that the underlying problem (initscripts) has to be solved first and that base-files 6.2 (6.3 / 6.2-1?) should have a versioned dependency on the not yet uploaded initscripts version. I am therefore unsure if a downgrade of udev is actually a good idea, advisable or necessary, but it seems to me as if the init script of udev is buggy in that it does not fall back to /dev if /run is not writable. What would be, in your opinion, to be the best way to deal with it? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Downgrading Udev
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 16:13 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Last Udev version have an important error: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087 > > Where can I find and download the previous 166 version? You can get them from: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/udev/166-1/ I assume that you are actually trying to fix a different bug, namely one introduced by the premature installation of base-files 6.2 which created the /run directory. The fastest fix is probably to just remove /run and be done with it. IMHO the best way to deal with this is to remove it *and* downgrade udev, libudev, libgudev-1.0-0 to 166-1 and base-files to 6.1. One might argue that only a downgrade of base-files to 6.1 and the removal of /run is needed though, but udev 167-1 is buggy in the sense that its init script fails to start udev if /run is present, but not writable. See #620995, #620191, #621036 and [0] for details. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00353.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: My posts to list not echoed
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 08:46 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2011 02:54:17 George Standish wrote: > > On 02/04/11 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: > > > I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed > > > back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been > > > received by the list and distributed. > > > > > > I used to have all my posts echoed and wondered why now they are not. > > > Is such echoing controlled at my end (I am using icedove) or at the list > > > end? > > I have notice the exact same behaviour here. If I send an email to this > > list, I can see my own reply using the Gmail web interface, but my email > > never shows in Icedove? > > If you use the Gmail SMTP servers, Gmail will dispose of the posting by the > list of your message, presumably on the logic that you know what you said - > but you do not then know whether your post ever reached the list. It is > presumably meant to be a "feature", but I find it very annoying. You might try the solutions in the last comment: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=737a9de8dc7f8cb7 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 16:00 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote:
> I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA
> proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after
> recent updates, logging into my debian box is only possible through
> text mode, no X server is started. Whenever I try to install the
> downloaded NVIDIA driver (I have 260.xxx and 256. in my home
> folder) with superuser rights, I receive a SIGTERM signal right after
> accepting the license. As a result, I can't run an X server. I also
> have the package nvidia-kernel-dkms in my system, if that helps in any
> way.
I would recommend to remove every trace of the nvidia driver you installed
from the NVIDIA website and use the following method to install it:
1. Add non-free sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
You should have a line like:
deb http://ftp.XX.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
Where XX has to be replaced with your country code. The important part is
the "non-free" in the end. You don't necessarily need contrib, but if you
have non-free it makes sense to include it as well.
2. Run "aptitude update"
3. Install the kernel headers
# aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,')
4. Install the nvidia dkms drivers
# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
5. Configure Xorg
# mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf{,_old}
# mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
# echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\tIdentifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver
"nvidia"\nEndSection' >
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
6. Restart the system
Hope that works out for you. Have fun!
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Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 07:28 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: >I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a > system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign > next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then > remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc. I definitely > did NOT want that to happen and exited from aptitude immediately. It has already been pointed out that you want to mark gcc as automatically installed. Just wanted to note that you should consider installing the "build-essential" package which depends on a couple of packages you might also want to keep. $ apt-cache depends build-essential build-essential |Depends: libc6-dev Depends: libc6-dev Depends: gcc Depends: g++ Depends: make Depends: dpkg-dev > >How do I get aptitude to cancel that request from future > sessions? That would be "aptitude keep-all", see the description in the manpage: Cancels all scheduled actions on all packages; any packages whose sticky state indicates an installation, removal, or upgrade will have this sticky state cleared. Have fun -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:44 +0100, Estelmann, Christian wrote: > Hi, > > After installing all updates on the weekend the mouse pointer > disappeared. It was like the size of the pointer were set to 0px. > Klicking and moving was possible - but without seeing the pointer, > it was quite hard do know where you are. > > I downgraded package for package. Now I can say, that when doing this step: > [AKTUALISIERUNG] linux-base 2.6.32-30 -> 2.6.32-31 > [AKTUALISIERUNG] linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-30 -> 2.6.32-31 > [AKTUALISIERUNG] linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common 2.6.32-30 -> 2.6.32-31 > [AKTUALISIERUNG] linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-30 -> 2.6.32-31 > after a reboot the mouse pointer is not showed. After installing the > packages in version 2.6.32-30 it is back again. > > I am using kde and kdm. But I for testing I have installed gdm and > xfce - the mouse was not visible there, too. > While starting a program, the "jumping" icon is showed and can be > moved - like nothing is wrong. > > I'm not sure if this is the right list, but I thought I will try. > If you need more information just ask about it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619019 Looks as if downgrading the kernel (as you did) is a workaround for the time being. You do have an intel card, don't you? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Aptitude safe-upgrade..........
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:22 +1100, Charlie wrote: > > Have never seen this previously with and just > wondered what was going on? Using 100%of CPU? > > Current status: 44 updates [+44], 2054 new [+252]. > There are 10 newly obsolete packages: libebml0, libgs8, libmatroska0, > librasqal2, libwpd8c2a, libwpg-0.1-1, > > libwps-0.1-1, openoffice.org-base-core, openoffice.org-core, > openoffice.org-report-builder-bin > > root@tao:~# aptitude safe-upgrade > Resolving dependencies... > open: 26929; closed: 16283; defer: 97; conflict: 8 You almost certainly want to run "aptitude full-upgrade" in this case, in order to allow the removal of packages that is needed in this case to come up with a solution. Please read "man aptitude" to learn about the differences of safe-upgrade and full-upgrade. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help needed
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 15:02 +0530, BALAJI :) wrote: > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. > I am very new to linux. Welcome! You should be aware that there has been a new stable release of Debian named "Squeeze". I would recommend to upgrade your system to Squeeze by following the extensive notes in the Release notes [3]. If you have just installed Lenny and haven't configured it much yet it might, however, be easier to just reinstall your system using one of images for Squeeze. They can be found at http://www.debian.org/CD/ and the installation process is detailed in the Installation Guide which is available online at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC (maybe to a > CD) and later restoring from it when required. Also let me know if I can > install any Open source S/W that can do the above task (something like > scheduled backup). Implementing a backup strategy for your data is very good idea and there are a variety of tools that ease and automate this task. A good overview of the available programs can be found on the Debian Wiki [0] which also contains a plethora of other information you might find useful. A number of other resources are also linked in that article and you might want to read them as well. I would personally recommend dirvish [1] or backuppc [2] for your backups, but this really depends on your needs and the hardware you have available. I like to have backups created on a daily, weekly and monthly basis around which I can access directly without the need for specific restore tools. I therefore use dirvish and am happy with it, but other tools such as rsnapshot, duplicity or rsync based backups in general serve the same purpose. It should be noted that I do not backup to CDs but rather to removable media such as an external USB disk. I'd like to note that most of the packages in Debian install documentation to /usr/share/doc// and it is typically wise to have a look at the README.Debian file and other examples. A guide for dirvish can, for example, be found in /usr/share/doc/dirvish/HOWTO.Debian.gz and example configuration files in the examples/ directory. Have fun! [0] http://wiki.debian.org/BackupAndRecovery [1] http://www.dirvish.org/ http://www.dirvish.org/debian.howto.html [2] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/BackupPC [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found SOLVED
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 16:40 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:17 +0000, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > > Which version of libc-bin do you have installed (dpkg -l libc-bin). If you > > have 2.11.2-12 you might have run into [...] > > [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23615806#10 > That's it! Pulled version 2.11.2-13 of the libc-involved libraries, run > dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 to generate a new ramdisc > and it works! Wonderful :) > P.S. Heard about apt-listbugs the 1st time, installed it but it seems to > have an issue itself: > apt-listbugs apt > > E: apt Pre-Install-Pkgs is not giving me expected 'VERSION 2' string. I have never attempted to run apt-listbugs manually. It is typically automatically invoked during the install/upgrade process and queried for applicable bugs for the packages you are about to install/upgrade. If there are indeed serious or grave bugs that apply to one of these packags, you can choose to abort the installation altogether or pin selected packages to the version you have installed. While we are at it, another useful tool that is comparable to apt-listbugs is apt-listchanges, which will bring important changes to your attention. A quick look at the manpage reveals that you have to specify one of the supported commands. Let's try "list": $ apt-listbugs list apt/0.8.11.5 serious bugs of apt (0.8.11.5 -> 0.8.11.5) #558784 - apt: re-adds removed keys Summary: apt(1 bug) voilà! -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > I conclude then, there's an issue with the update script. (I'm running > Debian sid, btw.) An important piece of information. Which version of libc-bin do you have installed (dpkg -l libc-bin). If you have 2.11.2-12 you might have run into [0], but you probably would have mentioned the other symptoms that accompany that bug as well. As always: It is a good idea to have apt-listbugs installed. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23615806#10 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Switching to NVIDIA
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:59 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running Sid, and have just switched my video from Intel on-board > to a NVIDIA based GE 5200. I would recommend to use the DKMS [0] packages to install the proprietary driver for nvidia cards. Which package? == Depending on your chipset you need one of the following packages: 1. nvidia-kernel-dkms 2. nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-dkms 3. nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms 4. nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-dkms (only in sid) You can check the list of supported chipsets on the nvidia page to find which driver supports your card. http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.36/README/supportedchips.html http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/195.36.24/README/supportedchips.html Installation and Configuration == The installation of the dkms driver is more or less the same for each of these pacakges. Enable non-free sources --- Make sure that each deb/deb-src lineends in "main contrib non-free". So, for example, the following line: deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main should be changed to: deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free Note that "contrib" is not really needed, but you might want to add it nonetheless if you plan to install packages like "flashplugin-nonfree". You can learn more about the "cdn" mirror at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror Package installation Change the "nvidia-kernel-dkms" package to the one you actually need. # aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` nvidia-kernel-dkms Configuration -- The Xorg version in squeeze is most elegantly configured by using an empty, or rather nonexisting, /etc/X11/xorg.conf and by using device specific config snippets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Every file whose filename ends in ".conf" is included. So you basically do the following: # mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (if it does not exist) # $EDITOR /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf With the following content: --- snip --- Section "Device" Identifier "My GPU" Driver "nvidia" EndSection' --- snip --- Notes = Using the DKMS approach has the advantage that the module will be compiled whenever you install a new kernel. I can understand that you find the wiki page a bit confusing, but hope that you can follow my instructions. This is the procedure we typically recommend in #d these days. Have a nice day [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: bug in the install
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 04:39 -0500, Travis wrote:
> any ways, do an install with b43 wireless card and don't feed it
> firmware. this breaks the network and then the updates and then the
> voltial line in apt sources. in other words if someone attempts to
> install debian on a laptop its going to be a bitch to get working if
> they haven't used linux for years.
This is simply not true, but rather the effect of missing information.
There are a variety of different images and one of them will certainly
suit your needs.
It is my impression that you either want a CD1, DVD1 or BD1 image or a
netinstall image with firmware [0]. Or you can prepare a USB stick with
all needed firmware packages in the second partition [1] or just
download a firmware tarball and follow the method at [2].
I fail to see how this is a bug though. I would rather think that you
did not follow the installation guide.
> the tail-tell sign is, after the get there system installed synaptic works
> funny, but works-ish, and if they try apt-get it fails with a
> method
> error
It works funny? Is it telling jokes? What is a "method error"?
You have to realise that we are willing to help you, but we need more
detailed information in order to accomplish that. Make it easy for us
please.
> sorry but i hate all linux's for what they've become ( i miss old mandrake 7.2
> ) and debian was the last hope, now i'm not so sure :-(, automagic is EVIL!
There is no single "Linux" entity, but I much prefer some of the
automagic that is happening now to the manual work needed earlier. A
good example for automagic gone wrong is grub2, where very few users
actually understand how they are supposed to configure it if they *know*
what they want and the scripts just don't come up with that.
An example of automagic done right is Xorg. It configures itself
correctly most of the time and if you need to change something you can
place a little snippet in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that contains exactly
the single setting you want to change.
If you hate Linux use something else and be happy with it.
[0]
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.0/
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#ftn.id561911
(footnote 4)
[2] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s04.html.en
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/
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Re: best labtop for debian
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 15:23 -0500, Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them. A lot of important aspects have already been noted in this thread, but apart from superb Linux support, wonderful keyboards, durable hardware and the good looks (sic!) another *very* important aspect is the hardware maintenance support from IBM/Lenovo. What I mean by that: * You have access to the original hardware maintenance manuals, used by Lenovo/IBM technicians themselves. (c.f. [0] for T60) These manuals contain detailed instructions to perferm almost *any* maintenance work you might ever want/have to perform on your Thinkpad. * You can easily order original replacement parts (CRU/FRU) directly from IBM/Lenovo or from third party retailer. You know the exact part numbers and have access to the complete range from screws to displays or mainboards. [1] Have a look! Where do you get this level of information and support? * You are *allowed* to perform a wide range of things without voiding your warranty. I am not aware of any other vendor that provides this kind of support for laptops or other hardware in general. [0] http://bit.ly/bCAun7 (ibm.com) [1] http://bit.ly/2LWxkr (ibm.com) http://bit.ly/eI1Smo (ibm.com) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: best labtop for debian
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 15:23 -0500, Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them. A lot of important aspects have already been noted in this thread, but apart from superb Linux support, wonderful keyboards, durable hardware and the good looks (sic!) another *very* important aspect is the hardware maintenance support from IBM/Lenovo. What I mean by that: * You have access to the original hardware maintenance manuals, used by Lenovo/IBM technicians themselves. (c.f. [0] for T60) These manuals contain detailed instructions to perferm almost *any* maintenance work you might ever want/have to perform on your Thinkpad. * You can easily order original replacement parts (CRU/FRU) directly from IBM/Lenovo or from third party retailer. You know the exact part numbers and have access to the complete range from screws to displays or mainboards. [1] Have a look! Where do you get this level of information and support? * You are *allowed* to perform a wide range of things without voiding your warranty. I am not aware of any other vendor that provides this kind of support for laptops or other hardware in general. [0] http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-62733.html [1] http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-62741 http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-50278.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: help
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 17:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:45 +0000, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu > > 64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs, > > ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64. > > Dunno :-? > > Is the Ubuntu 64-bits deb file a native 64-bits compilation? It is not, but it is at least installable on an amd64 system. You still need some 32bit libraries. This *might* have changed though and I would try the lenny package first. It's just that I sucessfully installed skype from the Ubuntu package on amd64 systems in the past, so that definitely works. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: help
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:05:48 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Du, 30 ian 11, 14:07:30, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:23:55 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> > >> > Oh no, skype works (the Ubuntu 64bit version), the repo doesn't... > >> > >> Sorry, Andrei. I misunderstood what you meant. I hadn't tried the > >> repo. I have now and got error reports about it. I even tried to view > >> the directory in a browser, and wasn't allowed. Although that may not > >> mean much. > > > > I'm guessing the problem is that my arch is amd64, while the repo might > > be i386 only. > > It can be downloaded from here: > > http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/post-download/ > > Not a "repo" but a "deb" file and tagged for "lenny". Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu 64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs, ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: editing /var/lib/dpkg/available
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:44 +, Waqqas Dadabhoy wrote: > SOLVED: I edited the available file manually, then used "dpkg > --update-avail /var/lib/dpkg/available". No problem, but why did you edit it? My point was that it does not make sense to edit that file manually, becauseit is *very* easy to recreate it either from backups or with the commands I told you. Be that as it may, good that you solved your problem. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: editing /var/lib/dpkg/available
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 22:36 +, Waqqas Dadabhoy wrote:
> I played around with Zimbra a while ago, but have removed it now. I
> get the following error whenever I use apt-get:
>
> warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8727 package
> 'zimbra-ldap':
> error in Version string '6.0.8_GA_2661.DEBIAN5_64': invalid character
> in version number
Have a look at /var/lib/dpkg/available-old as well, as it should contain
a recent backup of the available file. I wouldn't necessarily edit those
files, because you just might make it worse.
If available-old does not help, you can:
1. apt-cache dumpavail > /var/lib/dpkg/available
dumpavail prints out an available list to stdout. This is
suitable for use with dpkg(1) and is used by the dselect(1)
method.
2. dpkg --update-avail /var/lib/dpkg/available
Update dpkg's and dselect's idea of which packages are available.
With action --merge-avail, old information is combined with
information from Packages- file. With action --update-avail, old
information is replaced with the information in the
Packages-file. The Packages-file distributed with Debian is sim‐
ply named Packages. dpkg keeps its record of available packages
in /var/lib/dpkg/available.
A simpler one-shot command to retrieve and update the available
file is dselect update. Note that this file is mostly useless if
you don't use dselect but an APT-based frontend: APT has its own
system to keep track of available packages.
OR (alternatively)
1. rm /var/lib/dpkg/available
2. dselect update
Hope that solves your problem.
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Re: aptitude upgrade errors
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote: > hi > > have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: > > dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line [...] > Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system. > Anyone come across this and know how to fix? or is a system re-install needed? The easiest way is to restore that file from your backups. Don't have any? Make some now and: No problem (in this particular case) because the system kept some for you. Have a look at: /var/backups/dpkg.status.* The file named "dpkg.status.0" should be identical to the original status file. There is also /var/lib/dpkg/status.old and other older versions in /var/backups/, but I would just move the corrupted file somewhere else, and copy /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 over instead. Does that solve your problem? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: Lenny or Squeeze?
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:59 -0500, Matt Harrison wrote: > However, that being said, I am looking to switch back. I know Lenny > is currently Stable but I have seen posts suggesting Squeeze will be > out within a few months hopefully so I am wondering if I should just Squeeze is expected to be released on the 5./6. February. [0] > put it off until Squeeze becomes the current Stable or if I should > install the RC of Squeezeor...just install the current version of > Lenny and then upgrade to Squeeze when it becomes Stable. You could install using the rc2 installer, but there are still some problems. Check [1] and [2] > I know the Ubuntu upgrade between distros is crap so I really don't > want to just finish customizing Lenny to the way I want it to only > have an upgrade reinstall all of the packages that I just uninstalled. Debian has typically no problems to upgrade between releases. The key is to follow the release notes. They describe the complete process in great detail. [3] [0] http://lists.debian.org/20110118193635.gc4...@halon.org.uk [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ [2] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 14:09 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a > seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a > couple of years. > > When I built my first Debian machine, I had to use testing (Etch at the time) > because stable (Sarge) didn't yet support my NIC. Is there anything in new > hardware that I should particularly avoid because it might not be suppprted > by Lenny? I'll be keeping the old peripherals, so this only concerns the > components inside the case. You might want to consider installing Squeeze given that it will be released soonish (expected for 5./6. February [0]). You can obtain images from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and follow the installation guide for Squeeze: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual If that is indeed not an option for you, I would advise you to check hardware compatibility on one of the HCL sites like [1]. A Live CD [2] / [3] might give you some ideas what works and what will not work. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg3.html [1] http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ [2] http://live.debian.net/ [3] http://grml.org/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: transition from Ubuntu -> Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:09 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian? Sure. You are more than welcome to try and use Debian. > 1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no) Unity has to my knowledge not even been packaged for Debian [4]. Given that Debian uses the Gnome desktop as standard desktop if you install the "desktop" task you will more or less end up with the Gnome version in testing [1] at the time of the release. I would like to note that it is easily possible to install *any* desktop environment or window manager on Debian (and probably Ubuntu) and that you don't have to use the default one. I typically don't install any tasks when I install a new system and add additional packages after the initial minimal installation. > 2. How can I make a transition to Debian from Ubuntu? So I need to > change my apt repositories and then do what else? If glibc or the > kernel headers are new, I'll have to recompile everything I've built, > but that's OK. You can not transform an Ubuntu system to a Debian system and you have to install Debian from scratch if you want to use it. Given that Squeeze will be released soonish I would recommend to install it instead of Lenny (on your personal machine!): http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual > 3. If I make this change Ubuntu -> Debian, will I end up back in > "Nvidia Hell" where the OS updates frequently break the > commercial/proprietary video drivers? I understand that nouveau is > providing reasonable 2D for Nvidia cards, but my job requires the 3D > support that seems available only from the commercial driver. Nvidia drivers are available in Debian's non-free archive and well supported. 1. Enabling non-free sources in /etc/apt/sources.list 2. Installing kernel headers for your kernel: "aptitude install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r |sed 's,.*-,,'` 3. Installing the drivers (DKMS flavour [2]) nvidia-glx nvidia-xconfig 4. Generating a suitable Xorg configuration file nvidia-xconfig -o /etc/X11/xorg.conf > I'm not trolling, not trying for a flame war here. If you like Unity, > more power to you. If you like Ubuntu, OK, it has been good for me > too. Your question was not perceived as trolling. I would like to point out that you can probably install a different desktop environment or window manager of your liking on Ubuntu as well and that you therefore don't necessarily need to install Debian. If you, however, decide to do so: Welcome and may you enjoy your stay! Further information on Debian can be found in the Debian Reference [3]. [1] See http://www.debian.org/releases/ for a short overview of "stable", "testing" and "unstable" [2] http://pkg-dkms.alioth.debian.org/ [3] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609278 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 17:04 +, Neil Youngman wrote:
> On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:45:41 you wrote:
> > Neil Youngman wrote:
> > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to
> > > the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to
> > > respond to anything else.
> >
> > What upgrade did you do? From Sid to Squeeze or from Squeeze to Sid?
> > Was that a dist-upgrade?
>
> Lenny to sid, with apt-get dist-upgrade.
So, what did you do exactly? I am asking, because upgrading from Lenny
to sid is *not* as easy as replacing "lenny" with "sid" in your
sources.list and running "apt-get dist-upgrade".
It is a much better idea to follow the process outlined in the release
notes [1] in order to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. You can upgrade to
sid afterwards.
It would be great if you could save the attached script and provide the
output of the following command:
# for dist in lenny squeeze sid; do
echo $dist;
list_repositories | grep $dist | wc -l;
done
That will give us an idea of how many packages have been upgraded and
how many are still in some kind of limbo. Once we are sure that you have
indeed upgraded your complete system to sid (why sid anyway?) we can
start working on your performance problems.
Best
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes
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Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:34 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > I just can't google for it: > I'm searching for a "bash" "one liner" (awk, perl, or anything) for this: > there are text files, in several directories: […] How do you define a word? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:04 +, Tom Furie wrote: > On 10/12/2010 10:04, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > >On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote: […] >>> you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze' now as they are >>> currently the same thing. Then when squeeze goes stable you could >>> change to 'stable', this will allow you to track the stable >>> distribution and it will upgrade to the next stable 'wheezy', when >>> that is released. >> I wouldn't suggest that as it can deal to unexpected surprises. >> Of course, you can do as you see, but in order to track Stable, I >> always suggest doing it by tracking codename changes, so stay with, >> say, squeeze till you know wheezy has come Stable and you are ready >> for the upgrade, then change the codename on your sources and do it. > Why? What's the difference between having stable in the source list > and automatically upgrading when the new stable is released - all > upgrade issues *should* be worked out by then - versus switching the > codename once the new version becomes stable? Upgrading between releases is typically not just a simple apt-get/aptitude upgrade (dist-,full-) run. The upgrade process and things you have to consider when you upgrade are documented in the release notes and it is a good idea to follow them, as there might be substantial changes to the system that have to be taken care of. The release notes for Squeeze [1] break the update down into a couple of steps: 1. Checking system status update packages, verify enough space is available, disable pinning/backports, … 2. Upgrading packages - Use apt-get and *not* aptitude for this - Minimal system upgrade - Upgrading the kernel and udev This step is very important, because you have to make sure that you upgrade the kernel *and* udev together and - *Reboot the system* - Only now can you upgrade the rest of the system with a "apt-get dist-upgrade" run. This a, of course, a highly simplified view of the upgrade process, but it exemplifies that you definitely don't want to plunge into the process without preparation by running "aptitude full-upgrade" before you had your coffee. I would therefore *strongly* recommend to use the actual names in your sources.list and upgrade once you are ready and have read the release notes. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: Can't find latex
Hi Andreas, On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 19:56 +0100, Andreas wrote: > I have just installed my Linux: "debian-504-i386-netinst.iso". You should make sure that you update your packages to the latest version, by issuing: # aptitude full-upgrade > No comes the problem. TexLive is installed. But it does not contain LaTeX! I > searched in the KPackage software manager for "latex" but could only find > some additional packages like latex-cjk-korean. > > How do I get LaTeX? Tex-Live should have latex included! LaTeX is typically not included in the tasks you've installed, but that does not mean that you can not install it. It has already been noted in this thread that you have to install the "texlive-latex-base" package to get a (minimal) LaTeX installation. I have never user KPackage and therefore can't help you with it and it seems as if it has been deprecated. Could you please issue the following commands in order to figure out if your packaging system is configured correctly: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-cache policy # apt-cache policy texlive-latex-base Unless there is an error in your configuration you should be able to install LaTeX with the following command: # aptitude install texlive-latex-base Note that there are a bunch of frontends for Debian's packaging system, most notably synaptic and aptitude-gtk (not in Lenny). -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 13:08 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:51 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > by US native speakers of English. I was taught that "it" refers to > > the most recent prior noun. > ii. Takeshi parked his car in the garage after driving it around ... > iii. Mary and Noam went to the pub, because she needed a dram. > "she" and the most likely antecedent "Mary" and clearly violates the > rule you have been taught in school. Or not … :-) But ii. is still a valid example that violates your rule-of-thumb. Sorry for the confusion! -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:51 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20101130_124754, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > > If the logfile is not accessible, > > > the messages will be kept in memory until it is. > I am a native speaker of US English. I think the rules that I learned > many years ago for the proper use of the word "it" are mostly violated > by US native speakers of English. I was taught that "it" refers to > the most recent prior noun. That rule is a crude generalisation of how the antecedent of an anaphora should be determined. It tries to capture *one* important aspect of that process, namely recency, but misses other important ones like congruence and the semantics of sentences. Consider, for example, the following sentences: i. Cookies are eaten by a lot of people, because they are tasty. ii. Takeshi parked his car in the garage after driving it around ... iii. Mary and Noam went to the pub, because she needed a dram. The first two sentences exemplify the role of semantic constraints on the antecedent. It should be obvious that "they" in i. refers to "Cookies" and not to "people" because cookies are more likely to be considered to be "tasty" than people. In ii. only a small minority of people would consider "the garage" to be the antecedent of "it", because in general "garages" can not be driven around. The third sentence exemplifies gender agreement between the anaphora "she" and the most likely antecedent "Mary" and clearly violates the rule you have been taught in school. > In this case the most recent prior noun is "memory". So if the rule > that I learned in school is applied, the sentence makes no sense. You should note that "messages" is unlikely to be referred to by "it" because this would mean that the anaphoric expression (i.e. "it") and the antecedent do *not* agree in number. (singular vs plural) > I think computer documentation, when written in English, should avoid > the use of pronouns, as is suggested above. I do not think that the quoted sentence is ambiguous and would rather consider it to be a fine example of a very concise and elegant statement. YMMV :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: To make unreadable a functional system.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 23:34 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > after a system has been installed and configured - to make it > encrypted so that it will make impossible (or almost so) to read its > files, configuration, etc (even though the HDD be removed from the > host and connected to another running OS) - yet that it will run from > turning on power on the host itself (boot). > - In short - possible to use, impossible to read w/o a password. I am not entirely sure what you are trying to achieve, but I think you aim for full disk encryption and user/root passwords. Take a look at the following links, which describe methods to setup disk encryption: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/09/cryptroot/ http://linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.html I followed the second approach and am very happy with it. If these approaches do not cover your usecase you might want to desribe your objectives in more detail. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: lotsa udev warnings after lenny->squeeze upgrade
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:53 +0100, baldyeti wrote: > I've performed a mostly uneventful lenny->squeeze upgrade > On bootup though I see a lot of udev-related messages scrolling > by (see below for exmaples). Can someone comment if these are > harmless and how to get rid of them ? Before trying to debug what is wrong with each of these rules it might be a good idea to remove configuration files of no longer installed packages. These configuration files and, in particular, udev rules are not updated if the package is no longer installed but still linger around. The easiest way to get rid of these removed (but not purged!) packages is to execute: # aptitude purge ~c Please review the list of packages that are going to be purged carefully as you might not want to remove configuration files for all of them. If that does not help, we can start to have a look at the specific errors. Have fun -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: Search application for desktop in Squeeze?
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > Does anyone have a tip on a good search application in Squeeze repository? Have a look at tracker [1] it might be what you are after. I haven't checked though if it is in active development. [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 13:59 +0100, Andy Jacobsen wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:23:44 + (UTC) > Artur Frydel wrote: > > >> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org > > >> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command? > > > No magical command this time... but GUI :-P > Dont know if these commands are magic but they work quite good. ;) […] > Shows only the installed one: > $ aptitude search ~Omultimedia |grep ^i Or combined: $ aptitude search ~i~Omultimedia Have fun -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: minimum number of days between password change
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:55 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:40:15 +0100, Lukas Baxa wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > > I would like to file a new bug report, but I'm not sure against which > > package. I'm considering either passwd or libpam-modules. > "passwd" (as Wolodja suggested) should not allow the user to change his > password if "/etc/shadow" states so. Anyway, I would not worry about the > "correctness" of the package against you are to report the bug as devels > will change it if they estimate it convenient. Exactly. Given that we do not know what causes this bug, we have no way to assign it to the correct package. I would therefore file a bug against the package that ships the program that exhibits the buggy behaviour. Kind Regards -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: minimum number of days between password change
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 11:28 AM, Lukas Baxa wrote:
[…]
>> Minimum number of days between password change : 76
>> Maximum number of days between password change : 90
>> Number of days of warning before password expires : 14
>> However, I'm able to change my password when logged in as guest as
>> many times I want the same day
> If someone learns my password on day 2, they have full access to my
> account for 74 days, or I must beg for SysAdmin help?
> "Minimum number of days" isn't a very bright idea.
I completely agree¹, but this policy should still be enforced or it
has to be made clear that this setting is deprecated and no longer
enforced.
--- chage manpage ---
-m, --mindays MIN_DAYS
Set the minimum number of days between password changes to MIN_DAYS. A
value of zero for this field indicates that the user may change his/her
password at any time.
--- snip ---
… which is clearly not working in the way it is described. I have not
reproduced this bug myself, but it is exactly that and should therefore
be reported - not by posting to d-d - but rather by executing "reportbug
passwd".
Regards
Wolodja
¹ There might be use cases though ?-)
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Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 23:01 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that > >i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value > >whatever and that i can delete. i recall there's a utility that will > >identify unused libraries but i'm curious about what else i can > >pinpoint that can be removed. > When you remove items, you may want to purge them to be "cleaner". In addition to purging installed packages I would also suggest to purge already removed packages: aptitude purge ~c will take care of that. Another good way to find unused packages is 'popcon-largest-unused' from the popularity-contest package. /me is removing some packages now :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:07 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: > Thing is, you have to > write your own profile/template, which requires an understanding of > how to do it in wpa_supplicant, and then how to modify it as a wicd > template. This might be true for schemes that are not yet supported in wicd, but the aforementioned WPA2/TKIP with MSCHAPV2 is already offered as a choice in wicd. > At that point I gave up and said why learn it twice? The > wicd forums can probably give you a more definitive answer. You might want to try wicd again. :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 22:48 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > It works perfectly with eduroam and Let me elaborate on the eduroam configuration. For eduroam you choose "PEAP with TKIP/MSCHAPV2 Identity: u...@host.tld Password: YourPassword You should also obtain the "GTE Cybertrust Global Root certificate" and save it to (for example) /etc/wpa_supplicant/cert/gte_cybertrust_root.crt You might also want to refer to your university's documentation, which might provide further details. Good luck -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 19:17 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > eduroam-open, which is open and very restricted > eduroam, which requires authentication and is less restricted. > 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager > here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how > to > switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager. You can either (i) use wpa_supplicant directly (this has already been noted in the thread) or (ii) use wicd. I would encourage you to try wicd and switch to wpa_supplicant in roaming mode if you are not happy. It works perfectly with eduroam and provides a ncurses as well as a gtk gui. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Loris Boillet wrote: > Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed > packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, aptitude search '~i!~M' aptitude search '?installed?not(?automatic)' http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Re: 03:02.0 Unassigned class [ffff]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301]
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:17 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > What is the meaning of > 03:02.0 Unassigned class []: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301] Please check [1] and follow the steps outlined there. Let me know if you still have problems. You might want to solve problems like this yourself in the future, or? Just go to [2] and/or [3] to gather information about specific devices. Have fun! [1] http://wiki.debian.org/rt61pci [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DeviceDatabase/PCI [3] http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Anti virus and Firewall
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 22:43 +0100, Tingez Unknown wrote: > Firstly i am very new to Debian so please excuse me for my lack of > understanding. Welcome to Debian :) > I am looking for any suggestions regarding Anti virus and firewall software > that is suitable with your Debian 5 64bit operating system. Wanting to add as > much security as possible to our server to reduce any problems we may > encounter. I would like any suggestions as to the best software that can be > used either paid for or freeware if you would be so kind. It has already been noted in this thread that anti-virus software is not necessarily needed as most viruses target Windows, but you might want to take a look at software that scans for rootkits [1]. I would also encourage you to familiarise yourself with Debian by reading the Debian reference [2] (also available as Debian package "debian-reference-LANG") and the "Securing Debian Manual" [3]. Have Fun Wolodja [1] Examples: chkrootkit - rootkit detector rkhunter - rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ [3] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 15:16 +0800, Guo Jiahua wrote: > I don't know why udev renames the name of my network interface > ---an item in /var/log/syslog : > > kernel: [6.949035] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 Take a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and verify that the rule for your card (check its MAC) is consistent with the naming scheme you want. You can easily edit that file or even remove it if you want to regenerate it from scratch. good luck Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian FS structure.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 16:01 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Having separated programs from data w/ diver partitions, I have put the > following > > /home > /pub > /var /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a better place. What kind of data do you have here? Judging from the name, I think you might want to name that "/srv", but who knows. > on a single partition. All is working well, except I want to be as > close to Debian standards as I can yet reaching my goals, therefore I > would to know what is the best place for those in FS structure, and, > may, Debinish way. > > For now I have located it all in /var/local so that it looks like: > > /var/local/home > /var/local/pub You do not stop to surprise/frighten me :) You typically create a bunch of partitions, or logical volumes if you use LVM, and mount them to the correct path. Let's assume you have 2 partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. You want to seperate your user's data from the operating system and therefore decide to mount /dev/sda1 as / and /dev/sda2 as /home. There is absolutely no need to mount them somewhere else and in particular no need to mount them to /var/local. Your /etc/fstab would contain lines like: # /dev/sda1 / ext3? 0 1 /dev/sda2 /home ext4? 0 2 Good luck -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:10 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files? IRC it will not replace those. Kind regards -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:16 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without > running the purge command? (because of dependencies) Run: aptitude -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" reinstall and (intentionally?) deleted configuration files will be installed again. Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Old package for bluez?
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 00:37 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Can anyone point me at where I can get the one-version-old bluez
> package, that was in squeeze one version ago? I'm having a problem with
> the current version (466-1) and want to compare the old version
> (463-something I think it was) but I got a little too enthusiastic with
> the ole aptitude autoclean... :-(
>
> (Problem is a logitech wireless keyboard and mouse combo has stopped
> working and I want to check /lib/udev/rules.d/62-bluez-hid2hci.rules and
> also the hid2hci binary)
Check http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/bluez/
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Re: [OT] Debian cd supporting ext4.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 16:46 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > >Google for "Kenshi Muto Debian" and "Kenshi Muto > >site:lists.debian.org" > >and you should get enough information to answer that question. I > >am not > >aware of any "official" Debian initiated poll that answers the > >question > >"What do you think of kmuto's work?" and doubt that something like > >this > >will/should ever happen. > > > > Given that there is at least one known *wife-murderer* among > filesystems developers and that, according to lore, there have been > quite some *weed-smokers* among the early GNU developers, isn't all > this overscrutinizing of poor Kenshi Muto starting to feel a bit > disproportionate? I wholeheartily agree (hence my "should" in the laste sentence). I am deeply grateful for everything Kenshi has done for the Debian community and don't think we have to delve any deeper into this. Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 18:00 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Wolodja: > > > Why don't you just use the images provided by kmuto? They are > > exactly what you are looking for. I don't get your resistence ... > > No any resistance absolutely! I think too that it is the thing I'm > looking for. Just two important things remain for me w/ the solution: > > 1. If it is trustable/secure as the stable Debian (for for now all I > have is just phrases like "believe me" w/ no any farther approval from > the Debian project). In other words and including of all I have on > that item is this: I can not make strong relationship of the author's > work w/ the Debian project - I have been told he is one of the > developers but, searching for any info on him at the debian.org or a > list of developers - was unsuccessful for me. So, I even can not > check the fact as if he is still the Debian developer Go to http://db.debian.org/search.cgi and search for First name: Kenshi Last name: Muto Which will provide further information about Kenshi like his IRC name (i.e. kmuto) and his GPG fingerprint. You could also check for his key in the "debian-keyring" keyring. > . Also, I do not know the Debian project developers > opinion|accreditation on his this work (the CDs he makes). Google for "Kenshi Muto Debian" and "Kenshi Muto site:lists.debian.org" and you should get enough information to answer that question. I am not aware of any "official" Debian initiated poll that answers the question "What do you think of kmuto's work?" and doubt that something like this will/should ever happen. > 2. I see that I still will need probably, to have /boot at ext3 - the > thing I do not want, so I want to know a lot on this before I try to > have ext4 again. Using ext4 for /boot is discouraged but you can give it a try. Why do you need /boot to be ext4? Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 13:43 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: > > > This sure looks like it might be a Live CD: > >http://mirror.home-dn.net/d-i/2.6.32/lenny-custom-0116.iso > > How I can be sure it is official and by the Debian security team > supported? Why don't you just use the images provided by kmuto? They are exactly what you are looking for. I don't get your resistence ... so long Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:15 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > > > The "kmuto installer" was mentioned earlier on the list. > > Do You know how safe it is? What do you mean? The "kmuto installer" is an installer for Debian stable releases with up-to-date kernels provided by a Debian developer. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 20:53 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: > Thanks Wolodja for pointing to this site. The installer from Kenshi Muto > worked for me. Now the final test it to make it work with VMware Server. Wonderful. I would suggest to replace the kernel you have now by one from http://www.backports.org as you will receive kernel updates then. kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 16:38 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Wolodja Wentland > wrote: > > Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at: > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ > That's great ! Is this officially part of debian ? I never came across > that link before, that would have been much less pain... Well, it is not really officially supported, but Kenshi Muto is a DD and has provided the images for quite some time. have fun Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
