Re: Synaptic problem - physical access to CD drive related
Richard Owlett composed on 2018-01-05 09:44 (UTC-0600): > I have 3 machines with differing problems physically accessing the > CD/DVD drive. To install Debian I routinely use a USB connected drive > WITHOUT any problem by using the BIOS option to select a boot device. > The SOURCES.LIST(5) man page hints that I should be able us something like > file:/media/richard/Debian%209.1.0%20i386%201 > or > file:/media/richard/Debian 9.1.0 i386 1 > Neither worked. Man page suggest the space characters to be the problem. > So eliminate the problem. Whitespace characters (& dots & underscores) in filenames produce more trouble than they avoid. It doesn't happen with downloads on my machines. e.g., that above would be: file:/media/richard/debian09010-i386-1 and next, likely file:/media/richard/debian09020-i386-1 and eventually, likely file:/media/richard/debian10010-i386-1 cf. my archive of mozilla.org Firefox downloads: -rw-rw-r-- 1 18999452 Jan 3 2013 firefox-10012esr64.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 23590858 Nov 13 2013 firefox-17011esr64.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 38882500 Sep 24 2014 firefox-3111esr64.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 46359449 Apr 26 2016 firefox-3880esr64.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 51807116 Apr 18 2017 firefox-4590esr64.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 57712454 Dec 7 10:26 firefox-5252esr64.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 57692607 Dec 27 10:47 firefox-5253esr64.tar.bz2 ls -gG produces same result as ls -gGrt :-) With any luck the Rapture will occur before Firefox versions reach triple digits. ;-) Dots and underscores in filenames do little more than make filenames longer and harder to touch type, but commonly also cause alphabetical sorts to undesirably differ from age/version sorts[1]. Here, Shift-F6 in OFM fixes any created by other than myself. [1] e.g. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/ http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100701T034005Z/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-intel/ $ ls -gG *nel-def*64* -rw-rw-r-- 1 58886019 May 3 2017 kernel-default-4.10.13-1.2.x86_64.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 58571199 Aug 13 13:27 kernel-default-4.11.8-2.4.x86_64.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 58047527 Feb 21 2017 kernel-default-4.9.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm vs. $ ls -gGrt *nel-def*64* -rw-rw-r-- 1 58047527 Feb 21 2017 kernel-default-4.9.11-1.2.x86_64.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 58886019 May 3 2017 kernel-default-4.10.13-1.2.x86_64.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 58571199 Aug 13 13:27 kernel-default-4.11.8-2.4.x86_64.rpm -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
Re: Synaptic problem - physical access to CD drive related
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had tried "umount /media/richard/Debian 9.1.0 i386 1", but umount objected > to the spaces in the file name. Use quotation marks to make the directory path a single "word" umount "/media/richard/Debian 9.1.0 i386 1" (It is somewhat astounding that you can mount /dev/sr1 several times. On ye olde Jessie kernel i have to use "-o loop" for the further mounts.) > > > When I run Synaptic, it complains about a line in sources.list > > >file:/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd stretch main contrib non-free In my /etc/apt/sources.list there is the word "deb" or "deb-src" before the URL. man 5 source.list says: The format for a sources.list entry using the deb and deb-src types is: deb [ options ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...] This matches the complaint about "Type 'file:...'". So if you don't have it yet in the file, then try prepending "deb" deb file:/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd stretch main contrib non-free Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: Synaptic problem - physical access to CD drive related
On 01/05/2018 10:28 AM, bw wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: Synaptic still returns E: Type 'file:/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list "Type" is probably referring to the deb or deb-src entry that is missing. I've been staring at screen too long. That at least allows Synaptic to start. As CD's are not "signed" so to speak I still can't access it. But I had a closely related problem in April 2014. I have to reread that thread to become re-educated ;/ Have you already used the repository to update your sources? why do you want to add the cd/dvd back? Because I don't always have internet and there are physical/mechanical problems using the installed drive. The portable drive is convenient and sometimes required. I have found that immediately after install, a commented line in sources.list resembling: #deb cdrom:[debian_installer_version_arch_24-date_etc] stretch main and if I uncomment this line, and mount the install media at /media/cdrom then apt is able to continue installing pkgs from it. If that won;t work for you, try apt-cdrom I'll check that out tomorrow. Thanks good luck
Re: Synaptic problem - physical access to CD drive related
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 10:15:45AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/05/2018 09:55 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Richard Owlett wrote: > >>root@stretch17oct2017:/home/richard# mount /dev/sr1 > >>/home/richard/Desktop/testcd > >>... > >>>E: Type 'file:/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd' is not known on line 2 in > > > >"testcd" is not the same as "testdvd". > >(Copy+paste error or the cause of your problem ?) > > > > > Now findmnt returns > ├─/media/richard/Debian 9.1.0 i386 1 /dev/sr1iso9660 > ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000, > ├─/home/richard/Desktop/testcd/dev/sr1iso9660 > ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf > └─/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd /dev/sr1iso9660 > ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf > > I had tried "umount /media/richard/Debian 9.1.0 i386 1", but umount > objected to the spaces in the file name. I don't know about Synaptics, but for the command line you have to put a file name in quotes whenever it contains spaces (this is due to the shell separating arguments (by default) at whitespace: umount sees four arguments then: "/media/richard/Debian", "9.1.0", "i386" and "1". None of those are a mount point or device (lucky you ;), thus umount complains). Regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlpPp9wACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbBWQCcDLa+ZEXeo9mhdFMa2SrUMjtn YNwAn3qimJVHKfuHM4JZ8yYMEaoM8YDk =WOSs -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Synaptic problem - physical access to CD drive related
On 01/05/2018 09:55 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: root@stretch17oct2017:/home/richard# mount /dev/sr1 /home/richard/Desktop/testcd ... E: Type 'file:/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd' is not known on line 2 in "testcd" is not the same as "testdvd". (Copy+paste error or the cause of your problem ?) Now findmnt returns ├─/media/richard/Debian 9.1.0 i386 1 /dev/sr1iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000, ├─/home/richard/Desktop/testcd/dev/sr1iso9660 ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf └─/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd /dev/sr1iso9660 ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf I had tried "umount /media/richard/Debian 9.1.0 i386 1", but umount objected to the spaces in the file name. Synaptic still returns E: Type 'file:/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list E: The list of sources could not be read. Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem. E: _cache->open() failed, please report. Is the problem that the dvd is automounted at boot? Thank you
Re: Synaptic problem - physical access to CD drive related
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > root@stretch17oct2017:/home/richard# mount /dev/sr1 > /home/richard/Desktop/testcd > ... > > E: Type 'file:/home/richard/Desktop/testdvd' is not known on line 2 in "testcd" is not the same as "testdvd". (Copy+paste error or the cause of your problem ?) Have a nice day :) Thomas
