Re: [SLUG] problem with debian locale?

[Heracles]

On 17/09/15 15:54, Lubos Rendek wrote:

Hi Heracles,

Did you check whether your chrome browser does not have any automatic 
currency converters plugins enabled by navigating to your chrome to: 
chrome://plugins/


Lubos

That was, indeed, the problem. I didn't remember loading it but I have 
now removed it completely and all is well again.

Thanks Lubos
Heracles

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Heracles > wrote:


That should be LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8" which is what exists on
the system. The extra hyphen was a typo!
Sick of seeing everything translated to euros. Any clues on what
to change in my settings to get AU$.

Ashley (Heracles)



On 09/09/15 17:11, Heracles wrote:

Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux
and let it upgrade and ended up with Debian 8.
The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I
get all currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there
another setting I may have missed?

Ashley


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Re: [SLUG] problem with debian locale?

[Lubos Rendek]

Hi Heracles,

Did you check whether your chrome browser does not have any automatic
currency converters plugins enabled by navigating to your chrome to:
chrome://plugins/

Lubos

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Heracles  wrote:

> That should be LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8" which is what exists on the
> system. The extra hyphen was a typo!
> Sick of seeing everything translated to euros. Any clues on what to change
> in my settings to get AU$.
>
> Ashley (Heracles)
>
>
>
> On 09/09/15 17:11, Heracles wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux and let it
>> upgrade and ended up with Debian 8.
>> The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I get all
>> currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there another setting I may have
>> missed?
>>
>> Ashley
>>
>>
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Re: [SLUG] problem with debian locale?

[Heracles]

That should be LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8" which is what exists on the 
system. The extra hyphen was a typo!
Sick of seeing everything translated to euros. Any clues on what to 
change in my settings to get AU$.


Ashley (Heracles)


On 09/09/15 17:11, Heracles wrote:

Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux and let 
it upgrade and ended up with Debian 8.
The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I get all 
currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there another setting I may 
have missed?


Ashley



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[SLUG] problem with debian locale?

[Heracles]

Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my system. I installed Makulu Linux and let 
it upgrade and ended up with Debian 8.
The problem is that even though LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf-8" I get all 
currency in chrome converted to euros. Is there another setting I may 
have missed?


Ashley

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Re: [SLUG] problem upgrading kernel - version mismatch

[David]

On 08/01/15 12:52, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:

"David" == David   writes:

David> Ubuntu 12.04 SERVER (no gui) I've run into this error and don't
David> want to make the problem worse:

Try
apt-get update
apt-get -f install


to resolve dependencies (it may be there's a newer linux-serverimage
to fetch and install, that won't have the problem).

If this fails, you can install just that package, so you can can
complete the upgrade, with
 dpk -i --force-depends-version 
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-server-image-*dpkg

Then do an
  apt-get -f install

to fix the fallout.




thanks, but  failed. One of those circular 
dependency problems.


In case anyone stumbles on this thread, I ended up simply doing

#apt-get remove linux-server
#apt-get install linux-server

That was a pretty scary thing to do - remove "linux-server"??? - but it 
works. Linux-server is just a housekeeping meta package, even though 
it's description says  that it is the kernel.


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Re: [SLUG] problem upgrading kernel - version mismatch

[peter]

> "David" == David   writes:

David> Ubuntu 12.04 SERVER (no gui) I've run into this error and don't
David> want to make the problem worse:

Try
apt-get update
apt-get -f install


to resolve dependencies (it may be there's a newer linux-serverimage
to fetch and install, that won't have the problem).

If this fails, you can install just that package, so you can can
complete the upgrade, with
 dpk -i --force-depends-version 
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-server-image-*dpkg

Then do an
 apt-get -f install

to fix the fallout.

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[SLUG] problem upgrading kernel - version mismatch

[David]

Ubuntu 12.04 SERVER (no gui)

I've run into this error and don't want to make the problem worse:

Setting up linux-image-server (3.2.0.72.86) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-server:
 linux-server depends on linux-headers-server (= 3.2.0.72.86); however:
  Version of linux-headers-server on system is 3.2.0.74.88.
dpkg: error processing linux-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already


The problem started with a full /boot partition (filled with lots of old 
kernels) which prevented the kernels from unpacking/installing.


Current kernel is:
# uname -r
3.2.0-70-generic

I made space by moving all the old kernels up to 3.2.0-68 out of the 
/boot partition:


# mv *3.2.0-{. ,68}* /root/oldkernels

then did

# aptitude safe-upgrade

which didn't work (see above). I'm kinda thinking that 3.2.0-72 has been 
bypassed (3.2.0-74 is the latest) and doesn't need to be installed, but 
not sure how to deal with the situation. Any thoughts please?


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Re: [SLUG] Problem viewing articles in Slashdot ( Optus Cable )

[Adrian Chadd]

On Sun, May 31, 2009, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:

> 4) Using wireshark, I can see that I get a TCP RST during after the
> HTTP GET is sent.
> 
> This started happening yesterday. I let it pass thinking it might be a
> fluke, that maybe someone else will complain and it will be all fixed
> by today. However, I am still experiencing the problem. So I am
> thinking that it maybe related only to Optus ?

That sounds like a busted load balancer or webserver to me.

It could also be a busted squid proxy at Optus. If only Optus would
talk to me about Squid support services, stuff like this wouldn't
happen... :)



Adrian

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[SLUG] Problem viewing articles in Slashdot ( Optus Cable )

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

Is it just me, or is everyone else having problems viewing artciles in /. ?

1) I can view the frontpage
2) I can click on the "Comments" for a specific article and view the
comments for the article
3) When I click "Read More..." for any article, Firefox says:


Connection Interrupted

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection.
Please try again.

4) Using wireshark, I can see that I get a TCP RST during after the
HTTP GET is sent.

This started happening yesterday. I let it pass thinking it might be a
fluke, that maybe someone else will complain and it will be all fixed
by today. However, I am still experiencing the problem. So I am
thinking that it maybe related only to Optus ?

Regards,

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Re: [SLUG] problem in shell script to merge PDF fils

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

2009/2/16 Chris Allen :
> I need to merge several sets of PDF files into a single PDF file

I've had the most luck using pdftk to do this.

http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/


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Re: [SLUG] problem in shell script to merge PDF fils

[peter]

> "Chris" == Chris Allen  writes:

Chris> I need to merge several sets of PDF files into a single PDF
Chris> file For example want to merge the files


spaces in file names are difficult to handle, especially when you have
multiple levels of quoting.

Chris> To make life easier I created the following shell script

Chris> #bash echo echo $0 echo $1.pdf echo \"$2\"* echo echo gs
Chris> -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf
Chris> \"$2\"* echo gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
Chris> -sOutputFile=$1.pdf \"$2\"*

That needs to be "$2" withput the backslashes.

I'd actually want to do something like:

#!/bin/sh
output="$1"
shift
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite  -sOutputFile="$output" "$@"

and list all the filenames (properly quoted) on the command line to
the script, thus:
pdfmerge outfile.pdf "a .b.c .pdf" "foo bah .pdf"
etc

In general, I'd avoid file names with spaces or tabs in them.  There
are too many badly-written scripts in the wild that will do the wrong
thing with them.

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[SLUG] problem in shell script to merge PDF fils

[Chris Allen]

I need to merge several sets of PDF files into a single PDF file
For example want to merge the files

   -rwx-- 1 chris chris 503392 2009-01-24 08:39 beryl callegher 
rvcp induction pg1.pdf
   -rwx-- 1 chris chris 909434 2009-01-24 08:39 beryl callegher 
rvcp induction pg2.pdf

  representing page 1 & 2 of the same certificate for Beryl Callager.

into the file
   -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 1124611 2009-02-15 13:16 
beryl.callegher.induct.pdf

   representing the whole certificate for Beryl

I have learnt ow to do this via ghost script with the following command

$ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite 
-sOutputFile=beryl.callegher.induct.pdf "beryl callegher rvcp ind"*


As a one off job that is not too much work, but I need to do something 
similar with several other sets of "pages 1, 2 & 3" for different people 
/ certificates


To make life easier I created the following shell script

#bash
echo
echo  $0
echo  $1.pdf
echo  \"$2\"*
echo
echo gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf \"$2\"*
echo
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf \"$2\"*


and tried to execute same with
   $ ./join.pdfs beryl.callegher.induct "beryl callegher rvcp ind"

the echo statements produced

   ./join.pdfs
   beryl.callegher.induct.pdf
   "beryl callegher rvcp ind"*

   gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite 
-sOutputFile=beryl.callegher.induct.pdf "beryl callegher rvcp ind"*



The last of these echo's is the displays the correct command.
If I copy and paste that to the terminal it works fine.
But when the script runs  the same command, (just after the last echo) 
it fails with the following out put


   Error: /undefinedfilename in ("beryl)
   Operand stack:

   Execution stack:
  %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push

   Dictionary stack:
  --dict:1150/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:92/200(L)--
   Current allocation mode is local
   Last OS error: 2

it produces the following (almost empty) file
   -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris   2160 2009-02-16 20:23 
beryl.callegher.induct.pdf



I'll admit to being confused.  Can any one explain it?

Regards
Chris Allen

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Re: [SLUG] problem in shell script to merge PDF fils

[Daniel Pittman]

Chris Allen  writes:

> I need to merge several sets of PDF files into a single PDF file
> For example want to merge the files

Personally, I would prefer...

> beryl callegher rvcp induction pg1.pdf
> beryl callegher rvcp induction pg2.pdf
> representing page 1 & 2 of the same certificate for Beryl Callager.

# list the PDF files in the order you want combined
] pdftk ber*.pdf cat output.pdf

The other operations you want to do will almost certainly also be
available in pdftk, and much easier to do than talking to ghostscript
directly.

Regards,
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[SLUG] problem in shell script to merge PDF fils

[Chris Allen]

I need to merge several sets of PDF files into a single PDF file
For example want to merge the files

   -rwx-- 1 chris chris 503392 2009-01-24 08:39 beryl callegher
rvcp induction pg1.pdf
   -rwx-- 1 chris chris 909434 2009-01-24 08:39 beryl callegher
rvcp induction pg2.pdf
  representing page 1 & 2 of the same certificate for Beryl Callager.

into the file
   -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 1124611 2009-02-15 13:16
beryl.callegher.induct.pdf
   representing the whole certificate for Beryl

I have learnt ow to do this via ghost script with the following command

$ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sOutputFile=beryl.callegher.induct.pdf "beryl callegher rvcp ind"*

As a one off job that is not too much work, but I need to do something
similar with several other sets of "pages 1, 2 & 3" for different people
/ certificates

To make life easier I created the following shell script

#bash
echo
echo  $0
echo  $1.pdf
echo  \"$2\"*
echo
echo gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf \"$2\"*
echo
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf \"$2\"*


and tried to execute same with
   $ ./join.pdfs beryl.callegher.induct "beryl callegher rvcp ind"

the echo statements produced

   ./join.pdfs
   beryl.callegher.induct.pdf
   "beryl callegher rvcp ind"*

   gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sOutputFile=beryl.callegher.induct.pdf "beryl callegher rvcp ind"*


The last of these echo's is the displays the correct command.
If I copy and paste that to the terminal it works fine.
But when the script runs  the same command, (just after the last echo)
it fails with the following out put

   Error: /undefinedfilename in ("beryl)
   Operand stack:

   Execution stack:
  %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
   Dictionary stack:
  --dict:1150/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:92/200(L)--
   Current allocation mode is local
   Last OS error: 2

it produces the following (almost empty) file
   -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris   2160 2009-02-16 20:23
beryl.callegher.induct.pdf


I'll admit to being confused.  Can any one explain it?

Regards
Chris Allen


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Re: [SLUG] Problem with USB ports

[Jonathan]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:04:51 pm you wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:54:04 +1100
>
> Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chris Allen wrote:
> > > I have a Dell system loaded with Hardy Heron.
> > > The screen has 2 USB ports.
> > > With Dapper drake they worked just fine.  Every time I plugged in a
> > > Flash Drive  or digital camera, an appropriate Icon appeared on the
> > > desktop (and in the places menu) for me to view and transfer data.
> > > I have lost that since my upgrade to Hardy Heron. With the flash
> > > drive I get no response at all.  The digital camera detects that
> > > the PC is connected but the PC will acknowledge the camera.
> > >
> > > Can any one advise how to solve this problem?
> >
> > Start with tail -f /var/log/messages, plug in the device, see if it
> > gives you any insights.
> >
> > Also lspci, lsusb.
>
> I just had a similar problem on a Lenny installation. The problem was
> permissions. Check under System -> Users and groups. Make sure that you
> have permission to access external storage devices.
>
> Alan

Yeah, I have a similar problem. I've been getting around it by setting up a 
mount point through webmin (something ubuntu hasn't had, and still doesn't 
have in its repository for ages for some reason) Anyway, today I realised if 
I simply made the folder it mounted to readable by all users, then "KwikDisk" 
does a good job of mounting and unmounting.

Have a look though at the error message in dolphin/ Konqueror, mine said that 
HAL was unavailable or something like that.

cheers

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with USB ports

[Alan L Tyree]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:54:04 +1100
Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Chris Allen wrote:
> > I have a Dell system loaded with Hardy Heron.
> > The screen has 2 USB ports.
> > With Dapper drake they worked just fine.  Every time I plugged in a 
> > Flash Drive  or digital camera, an appropriate Icon appeared on the 
> > desktop (and in the places menu) for me to view and transfer data.
> > I have lost that since my upgrade to Hardy Heron. With the flash
> > drive I get no response at all.  The digital camera detects that
> > the PC is connected but the PC will acknowledge the camera.
> >
> > Can any one advise how to solve this problem?
> Start with tail -f /var/log/messages, plug in the device, see if it 
> gives you any insights.
> 
> Also lspci, lsusb.

I just had a similar problem on a Lenny installation. The problem was
permissions. Check under System -> Users and groups. Make sure that you
have permission to access external storage devices.

Alan


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Re: [SLUG] Problem with USB ports

[Sonia Hamilton]

Chris Allen wrote:

I have a Dell system loaded with Hardy Heron.
The screen has 2 USB ports.
With Dapper drake they worked just fine.  Every time I plugged in a 
Flash Drive  or digital camera, an appropriate Icon appeared on the 
desktop (and in the places menu) for me to view and transfer data.
I have lost that since my upgrade to Hardy Heron. With the flash drive 
I get no response at all.  The digital camera detects that the PC is 
connected but the PC will acknowledge the camera.


Can any one advise how to solve this problem?
Start with tail -f /var/log/messages, plug in the device, see if it 
gives you any insights.


Also lspci, lsusb.

Sonia.
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[SLUG] Problem with USB ports

[Chris Allen]

I have a Dell system loaded with Hardy Heron.
The screen has 2 USB ports.
With Dapper drake they worked just fine.  Every time I plugged in a 
Flash Drive  or digital camera, an appropriate Icon appeared on the 
desktop (and in the places menu) for me to view and transfer data.
I have lost that since my upgrade to Hardy Heron. 
With the flash drive I get no response at all.  The digital camera 
detects that the PC is connected but the PC will acknowledge the camera.


Can any one advise how to solve this problem?
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with TAR gunzip

[Peter Chubb]

> "Hasnain" == Hasnain  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hasnain> Hi Peter, Basically, Is there anyway to recover those gzip
Hasnain> files? or do you think we can ignore that corrupted block and
Hasnain> extract rest of the file?


You can extract from the start of the file to where the corruption is.
Because of the way that gzip works, decompression depends on the
pattern of bytes you've already seen (unless hte file was compressed
with the rsync-friendly restart every n k (--rsyncable) flag.)

Try zcat file.tgz > file.tar
then tar xvf file.tar

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with TAR gunzip

[Hasnain]

Hi Peter,

Basically, Is there anyway to recover those gzip files? or do you think we
can ignore that corrupted block and extract rest of the file?

Thanks in advance,
Hasnain

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> > "Hasnain" == Hasnain  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hasnain> Hi Everyone, i was having a bit of issue with a tarball on
> Hasnain> friday night as i got the following error.
>
> Hasnain> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar:
> Hasnain> Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar:
> Hasnain> Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> You have a corrupt tarball.  Gzip decompressed to a certain point, but
> the end of the file was ignored.  Then when tar tried to read the
> result, it found the archive was curtailed.
>
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with TAR gunzip

[Peter Chubb]

> "Hasnain" == Hasnain  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hasnain> Hi Everyone, i was having a bit of issue with a tarball on
Hasnain> friday night as i got the following error.

Hasnain> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar:
Hasnain> Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar:
Hasnain> Error is not recoverable: exiting now

You have a corrupt tarball.  Gzip decompressed to a certain point, but
the end of the file was ignored.  Then when tar tried to read the
result, it found the archive was curtailed.

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[SLUG] Problem with TAR gunzip

[Hasnain]

Hi Everyone,

i was having a bit of issue with a tarball on friday night as i got the
following error.

gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


its on 4.6 RH and 1.14 tar version. Did anyone come across with that problem
before?

Thanks in advance for help,
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Re: [SLUG] problem with Displaying German characters under mozilla in Linux

[david . lyon]

Hi Masood,

Thank you very much for that... perfect... such a simple thing but you  
have saved me many hours of work.


:-)


Quoting Masood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


The problem is the meta tag sets a wrong encoding for the xhtml documents.
in 
change iso-8859-1 to utf8 :



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Re: [SLUG] problem with Displaying German characters under mozilla in Linux

[Masood]

Hi David

The problem is the meta tag sets a wrong encoding for the xhtml documents.
in 
change iso-8859-1 to utf8 :

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="de" xml:lang="de" >

LG GDR-H30N



.
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having a problem under linux.. with my html... with german
> characters..
>
> Nothing is wrong with the system, every other german web page displays
> properly.
>
> Problem is the word "höchsten" in the following page. When it gets
> displayed in the browser it gets shown as "höchsten".
>
> I know something is wrong - just not sure what it is.
>
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="de" xml:lang="de" >
> 
> LG GDR-H30N
> 
> 
> 
>  cellpadding="0">
> 
> 
>  DVD-Rom Laufwerk
>  
> 
> 
>  cellspacing="0">
> 
>  src="
  ../Images/LG-GDR-H10N_350_lge.jpg
 "/>
> 
> 
>  Mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 16x (22.1 MB/Sek) wird das LG GDR-H30N
> höchsten
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Specs:
> 
> 
>  52 Speed
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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[SLUG] problem with Displaying German characters under mozilla in Linux

[david . lyon]

Hi all,

I am having a problem under linux.. with my html... with german characters..

Nothing is wrong with the system, every other german web page displays  
properly.


Problem is the word "höchsten" in the following page. When it gets  
displayed in the browser it gets shown as "höchsten".


I know something is wrong - just not sure what it is.

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="de" xml:lang="de" >

LG GDR-H30N






  DVD-Rom Laufwerk
 




height="421" src="
  ../Images/LG-GDR-H10N_350_lge.jpg
 "/>



  Mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 16x (22.1 MB/Sek) wird das LG  
GDR-H30N höchsten

 




  Specs:


  52 Speed
 












 








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Re: [SLUG] Problem with an upgrade to Hardy.

[Andrew Bennetts]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Many thanks for the advice.
> 
> I've done as requested with the xrandr command and the outputs
> with/without the Docking Station are attached. I'd like to understand
> this, as I notice that some other person on a Hardy Helpline has the same
> problem. It may be that the final answer (if there is one) to can go to
> him as well.

The xrandr output indicates that the laptop has correctly detected the external
VGA display, and is trying to use it.  The “*” is next to the resolution it is
trying to use.  You could try "xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768" or similar
to try a different resolution, but I'd be surprised if that helped.

So Xorg certainly thinks it is using the external display.  So if you are
getting no output then there's probably some sort of fundamental driver bug
involved.  I have no idea how to go about tracking that down, but I do suggest
filing a bug against the relevant xserver-xorg-video-FOO package.  (Where FOO is
the Xorg video driver you're using, e.g. on my laptop the package is
xserver-xorg-video-intel.)

-Andrew.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with an upgrade to Hardy.

[jam]

On Monday 26 May 2008 22:19:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> With Xorg 7.3 (as on Hardy) you might find that you are better off
> just removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and letting "bulletproof X" do it's
> thing. It will create a new sensible xorg.conf that *should* work.
> (You have some crud in the old one that didn't migrate properly)
>
> Failing that, run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and then
> "xrandr" (or the screen resolution GUI) to tweak it.

Martin ?? on Hardy I find 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

does everything (mouse, keyboard) EXCEPT let you choose the X server. On 3 
differant machines I wanted to specify nvidia insted of nv or vesa and needed 
to do it by hand,

This is changed behaviour from gutsy, so how do you reconfig the X server?

James

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with an upgrade to Hardy.

[wbennett]

Many thanks for the advice.

I've done as requested with the xrandr command and the outputs
with/without the Docking Station are attached. I'd like to understand
this, as I notice that some other person on a Hardy Helpline has the same
problem. It may be that the final answer (if there is one) to can go to
him as well.

Regards,

Bill Bennett.


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Re: [SLUG] Problem with an upgrade to Hardy.

[Martin Visser]

With Xorg 7.3 (as on Hardy) you might find that you are better off
just removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and letting "bulletproof X" do it's
thing. It will create a new sensible xorg.conf that *should* work.
(You have some crud in the old one that didn't migrate properly)

Failing that, run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and then
"xrandr" (or the screen resolution GUI) to tweak it.

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just recently I upgraded from Feisty to Hardy Heron.
>
> It was suggested that I do this in two stages: first to Gutsy Gibbon and
> thence to Hardy.
>
> I'd upgraded to Gutsy before, but had been so cheesed off with the
> problems that I returned to Feisty. It may have been a grade behind Gutsy,
> but at least it worked.
>
> The first jump, to Gutsy, was completed and I noticed a problem that I
> encountered before with Gutsy. I use a docking station and whilst the
> background filled the Samsung monitor, the rest of the Desktop was the
> same size as the laptop's monitor. I assumed that this would probably be
> one of the problems fixed with the move to Hardy and resolutely pressed
> onward.
>
> The upgrade to Hardy was completed. The monitor problem had changed: now
> there is no picture whatsoever on the Samsung and it is indicating that
> nothing is emanating from the docking station.
>
> So what's gone wrong? I'd appreciate any advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Bennett.
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with an upgrade to Hardy.

[Mary Gardiner]

On Sat, May 24, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So what's gone wrong? I'd appreciate any advice.

What is the output of "xrandr" when disconnected from the docking
station, and when placed in the docking station?

-Mary
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[SLUG] Problem with an upgrade to Hardy.

[wbennett]

Just recently I upgraded from Feisty to Hardy Heron.

It was suggested that I do this in two stages: first to Gutsy Gibbon and
thence to Hardy.

I'd upgraded to Gutsy before, but had been so cheesed off with the
problems that I returned to Feisty. It may have been a grade behind Gutsy,
but at least it worked.

The first jump, to Gutsy, was completed and I noticed a problem that I
encountered before with Gutsy. I use a docking station and whilst the
background filled the Samsung monitor, the rest of the Desktop was the
same size as the laptop's monitor. I assumed that this would probably be
one of the problems fixed with the move to Hardy and resolutely pressed
onward.

The upgrade to Hardy was completed. The monitor problem had changed: now
there is no picture whatsoever on the Samsung and it is indicating that
nothing is emanating from the docking station.

So what's gone wrong? I'd appreciate any advice.

Regards,

Bill Bennett.
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[SLUG] Problem with ppp

[Jobst Schmalenbach]

Hi!

I have a problem with ppp (rp-pppoe-3.8-1).
I have been running rp-ppoe for years, never had problems, now I have on 1 
machine.


Upon booting I see the following in the syslog:

  Apr  4 09:46:35 piquet syslogd 1.4.2: restart.
  Apr  4 09:46:35 piquet pppoe[1887]: PPP session is 5943 (0x1737)
<===OUCH!
  Apr  4 09:46:35 piquet kernel: klogd 1.4.2, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
  Apr  4 09:46:35 piquet kernel: Linux version 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) 502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007
  Apr  4 09:46:35 piquet kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
  ...
  Apr  4 09:47:00 piquet kernel: DAC960: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 
2.5.48 of 14 May 2006 *
  Apr  4 09:47:00 piquet kernel: DAC960: Copyright 1998-2001 by Leonard N. 
Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Apr  4 09:47:00 piquet kernel: DAC960#0: Configuring Mylex DAC960PRL PCI RAID 
Controller
  ...
  Apr  4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at MMIO 
0xef003000, 00:A0:CC:3D:18:9C, IRQ 20.
  Apr  4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 17 
(level, low) -> IRQ 21
  Apr  4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: tulip1:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 
7809 advertising 01e1.
  Apr  4 09:47:04 piquet kernel: eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at MMIO 
0xef007000, 00:A0:CC:3C:75:E8, IRQ 21.
  Apr  4 09:47:05 piquet kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
  Apr  4 09:47:05 piquet kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 
(level, low) -> IRQ 22
  Apr  4 09:47:05 piquet kernel: eth2: RTL8169s/8110s at 0xf884c000, 
00:18:4d:ef:f6:56, IRQ 22
  ...



Right there "<===OUCH" pppoe is already starting, it shouldnt cause 
*NOTHING* 
else is up at that time, even the DAC960 is loaded later, neither are the
ETHX based drivers.


I want rp-ppoe start after the other ETHX cards are up, how do I do that???



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Re: [SLUG] Problem with new kernel in Ubuntu

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 21, 2008 2:29 AM, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My wireless does not work and other random things going wrong.  Booting
> with the old kernel works fine.  I have tried the suggestion and also
> switch APIC and LAPIC around.

What was the old kernel and what is the new kernel?  Have you checked
the changelog?
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with new kernel in Ubuntu

[Kelvin Nicholson]

> Any suggestions would be great.

[snip]

> [   35.088320] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device
> :00:1d.0

[snip]

Maybe isolate exactly what PCI device is acting crazy.  Try a 'lspci -vv
| more' and look on the left side.  What devices come up under 00:1d.0,
00:1d.1, 00:1d.2?

Also, have you tried booting with 'acpi=noirq'?

Doubt this will be of much help, but maybe!

Good luck,

Kelvin


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[SLUG] Problem with new kernel in Ubuntu

[Ken Foskey]

My wireless does not work and other random things going wrong.  Booting
with the old kernel works fine.  I have tried the suggestion and also
switch APIC and LAPIC around.

Any suggestions would be great.

[   35.088301] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[   35.088306] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it
helps, 
post a report
[   35.088320] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device
:00:1d.0
[   35.088359] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device
:00:1d.1
[   35.088393] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device
:00:1d.2
[   35.094344] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[   35.094347] NET: Registered protocol family 20


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Re: [SLUG] Problem with Feisty Totem.

[Sonia Hamilton]

* On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:35:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had trouble playing a dvd using Totem---I was told that I did not have
> the correct plugins.

Not sure on your level of experience - if you're new to Linux, check out
Ubuntu Restricted Formats at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with Feisty Totem.

[jam]

On Sunday 19 August 2007 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had trouble playing a dvd using Totem---I was told that I did not have
> the correct plugins.
>
> Went looking for help and was told to use the command
>
> apt-get install totem-xine
>
> which I did. As well as installing totem-xine, totem-gstream was removed---
> presumably they can't both exist on the same machine.
>
> Tried the DVD again. Error message Totem has not got the plugin to handle
> DVD/
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Any help gratefully received.
 Look where Linux Mint gets libdvdcss from and do likewise
umm I think
## Medibuntu (Codecs and extra applications)
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free

Actually linux mint is a pretty good way to go in general 
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[SLUG] Problem with Feisty Totem.

[wbennett]

I had trouble playing a dvd using Totem---I was told that I did not have
the correct plugins.

Went looking for help and was told to use the command

apt-get install totem-xine

which I did. As well as installing totem-xine, totem-gstream was removed---
presumably they can't both exist on the same machine.

Tried the DVD again. Error message Totem has not got the plugin to handle
DVD/

What am I doing wrong?

Any help gratefully received.

William Bennett.
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with keys ` ' and ~

[Michael Lake]

Michael Lake wrote:
On a new Debian 4.0 installation I have a problem with some keyboard 
characters - I have to hit the key twice for them to appear. This occurs 
with the opening and closing quotes (` and ') and with the tilde ~. With 
the closing quote if I enter ' followed by a space I get a plain ' but a 
double '' generates what looks like one of those smart quote characters. 
All other keys are fine and do generate the correct characters.


The terminal is a gnome-terminal, and keyboard was set to US and charset 
ISO8859-1

via a dpkg-reconsigure console-data.


Well I have found the problem is that "dead keys" are enabled. This is what is 
causing the problem above. I have done the following


dpkg-reconfigure locales
generated en_AU UTF-8
generated en_AU ISO-8859-1
set default locale to be en_AU

dpkg-reconfigure console-data
set keyboard layout = US american
set keyboard variant = standard
set keymap = Standard

Now in a non-Gnome environment like a login with no X all keys are fine !!
In Gnome environment the ~ is now a horizontal bracket thing, and the # is a pounds 
sign but the quote keys are no longer dead keys.


So the problem is with Gnome settings. Now any advice is appreciated.

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[SLUG] Problem with keys ` ' and ~

[Michael Lake]

Hi all

On a new Debian 4.0 installation I have a problem with some keyboard characters - I 
have to hit the key twice for them to appear. This occurs with the opening and 
closing quotes (` and ') and with the tilde ~. With the closing quote if I enter ' 
followed by a space I get a plain ' but a double '' generates what looks like one of 
those smart quote characters. All other keys are fine and do generate the correct 
characters.


The terminal is a gnome-terminal, and keyboard was set to US and charset 
ISO8859-1
via a dpkg-reconsigure console-data.

I'm not sure where the problem lies; terminal settings, console, keyboard, character 
set, locate etc. Something is wrong and when programming its damned annoying.


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[SLUG] Problem with Gnome log out box

[Leslie Katz]

I suppose I did something to cause this problem, which has just arisen 
for the first time, but I can't imagine what.


Whether, after opening the Gnome log out box using Fedora, I choose log 
out, restart or shutdown, nothing happens, except that the box 
disappears and then the system hangs.


I don't know enough about what goes on behind the curtains to know what 
to try to fix, so, for the time being at least, I'm opening a terminal 
and using the shutdown command whenever I want to shut down.


Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the log out box working again?

Leslie
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with Apache after upgrade: how do I turn off Jakarta or gte a mod_so.info file?

[Daniel Bush]

G'day Michael,

On 19/09/06, Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi

I got my apache working via a cludge. I moved the mod_jk.so in 
/usr/lib/apache/1.3/
to one level up :-) Hence apache ain't looking for it no more.
I also did a "apache-modconf apache-perl disable mod_sk"
which didn't complain. apache then started OK.

Now what should I do?



Sorry can't help much.

I had to set up mod_jk and mod_jk2 on apache2 last year (the latter is
deprecated).  From your post I can't tell how much you know about it.
Basically we used it to connect to tomcat, so that on certain url's
apache would pass thru the request.
If you are also running Tomcat there in the background, you might have
broken something or someone's java project (or at least the connection
to it).

I didn't know there was any connection with perl although it looks
like you are using perl to configure apache (?) which I can't help you
with.

Can't help on the .info thing.
For mod_jk setup, I had a LoadModule directive which pointed to the
mod_jk.so file, and then several other things besides including links
to tomcat connector files:
   LoadModulejk_module
/usr/local/tomcat5.0-connector/native/apache-2.0/mod_jk.so
   # Declare the module for  (remove this line on
Apache 2.0.x)
   #AddModule mod_jk.c

   # Where to find workers.properties
   JkWorkersFile /usr/local/tomcat5.0-connector/conf/workers.properties
   ... etc ...
(this was a non-debian apache setup)


Rgds
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with Apache after upgrade: how do I turn off Jakarta or gte a mod_so.info file?

[Michael Lake]

Hi

I got my apache working via a cludge. I moved the mod_jk.so in 
/usr/lib/apache/1.3/
to one level up :-) Hence apache ain't looking for it no more.
I also did a "apache-modconf apache-perl disable mod_sk"
which didn't complain. apache then started OK.

Now what should I do?

Michael Lake wrote:

I'm stuck after upgrading a Debian stable server tonight.

Setting up libapache-mod-perl (1.29.0.3-6sarge3) ...
Error: mod_jk.so does not have a corresponding .info file.
The above errors might cause apache to not work properly or start
Please refer to the documentation on how to fix it or report it to
Debian Apache Mailing List  if in doubt
on how to proceed
dpkg: error processing libapache-mod-perl (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-perl:
apache-perl depends on libapache-mod-perl (>= 1.29.0.2-9); however:
 Package libapache-mod-perl is not configured yet.
apache-perl depends on libapache-mod-perl (<< 1.30); however:
 Package libapache-mod-perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apache-perl (--configure):

I have tried a dpkg --configure libapache-mod-perl but it wont configure 
as mod_jk aint got this info file.


For now I just commented out the place in httpd.conf where it loads the 
mod_jk.conf

file like this:
Include /etc/apache-perl/conf.d
#Include /etc/apache-perl/mod_jk.conf

but it still gives the same error. Thus I tried to make sure that mod_jk 
wasnt used so at least my apache will run again.


vs:/etc/apache# apache-modconf apache-perl disable mod_jk
Error: mod_jk.so does not have a corresponding .info file.
The above errors might cause apache-perl to not work properly or start

/etc/apache-perl# apache-modconf apache-perl   Error: 
mod_jk.so does not have a corresponding .info file.


How can I just turn off Jakarta or get this info file?




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[SLUG] Problem with Apache after upgrade: how do I turn off Jakarta or gte a mod_so.info file?

[Michael Lake]

Hi all

I'm stuck after upgrading a Debian stable server tonight.

Setting up libapache-mod-perl (1.29.0.3-6sarge3) ...
Error: mod_jk.so does not have a corresponding .info file.
The above errors might cause apache to not work properly or start
Please refer to the documentation on how to fix it or report it to
Debian Apache Mailing List  if in doubt
on how to proceed
dpkg: error processing libapache-mod-perl (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-perl:
apache-perl depends on libapache-mod-perl (>= 1.29.0.2-9); however:
 Package libapache-mod-perl is not configured yet.
apache-perl depends on libapache-mod-perl (<< 1.30); however:
 Package libapache-mod-perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apache-perl (--configure):

I have tried a dpkg --configure libapache-mod-perl 
but it wont configure as mod_jk aint got this info file.


For now I just commented out the place in httpd.conf where it loads the 
mod_jk.conf
file like this:
Include /etc/apache-perl/conf.d
#Include /etc/apache-perl/mod_jk.conf

but it still gives the same error. Thus I tried to make sure that mod_jk wasnt 
used so at least my apache will run again.

vs:/etc/apache# apache-modconf apache-perl disable mod_jk
Error: mod_jk.so does not have a corresponding .info file.
The above errors might cause apache-perl to not work properly or start

/etc/apache-perl# apache-modconf apache-perl   
Error: mod_jk.so does not have a corresponding .info file.


How can I just turn off Jakarta or get this info file?

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Re: [SLUG] Problem in using scp

[Peter Hardy]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:59 +1000, David Gillies wrote:
> Gavin Carr wrote:
> > sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > /home/someplace'
> 
> Wouldn't that need to be:
> 
> sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat - > /home/someplace'

Doesn't need to be. cat will just take input on stdin if you don't give
it a filename.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem in using scp

[Michael Lake]

David Gillies wrote:

Wouldn't that need to be:
sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat - > /home/someplace'
 ^^^


Yes. Thanks Dave and Gavin. It's ssh I should use.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem in using scp

[Michael Lake]

Hi all

James helped me out and his suggestion of using ssh worked perfectly.
Thanks James.

James Polley wrote:

of coruse scp doesn't - would cp or rcp?
try something like this:

cat file | sed s/this/that/g | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat - >
/home/someplace/somefile"





On 8/9/06, Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am trying to do this:

cat file | sed s/this/that/g | scp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/someplace/

As I want to replace some strings in file and copy it to another 
server in

a Makefile
line. It looks like scp doesn't recognise - as "take input from its
stdin".


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Re: [SLUG] Problem in using scp

[David Gillies]

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Gavin Carr wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:42:13PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am trying to do this:
>>
>> cat file | sed s/this/that/g | scp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/someplace/
>>
>> As I want to replace some strings in file and copy it to another server in 
>> a Makefile line. It looks like scp doesn't recognise - as "take input from 
>> its stdin".
>>
>> How can I do what I intend?
> 
> sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > /home/someplace'

Wouldn't that need to be:

sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat - > /home/someplace'
 ^^^
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Re: [SLUG] Problem in using scp

[Gavin Carr]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:42:13PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am trying to do this:
> 
> cat file | sed s/this/that/g | scp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/someplace/
> 
> As I want to replace some strings in file and copy it to another server in 
> a Makefile line. It looks like scp doesn't recognise - as "take input from 
> its stdin".
> 
> How can I do what I intend?

sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > /home/someplace'

Cheers,
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[SLUG] Problem in using scp

[Michael Lake]

Hi all

I am trying to do this:

cat file | sed s/this/that/g | scp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/someplace/

As I want to replace some strings in file and copy it to another server in a Makefile 
line. It looks like scp doesn't recognise - as "take input from its stdin".


How can I do what I intend?

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[SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

[Leslie Katz]

Steve Kowalik wrote:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:18:45 +1000, Leslie Katz uttered
  

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr
Status Information:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol and accepts 
connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports



I think this is your problem. That looks like lpr is trying to talk to
the local LPD. I'm not sure about Damn Small Linux at all, but on
Debian/Ubuntu, there is a cupsys-bsd package which gives you a lpr
that talks to CUPS instead of LPD.

Cheers,
  
Thanks for your reply, Steve. I know now that I must've got my printer 
working in Fedora more by good luck than good management. I'd followed 
the instructions in chapter 14 of Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook, 
"Printing with CUPS", which made me think that it was as simple as 
installing CUPS and then one more file only, a .ppd appropriate to the 
printer. Obviously, more can be involved, as I'm now realising.


Can I also, in this post, thank Scott Ragen for his earlier reply to my 
original post. It occurred to me today that I hadn't seen the digest 
which had included my own original post, so I browsed the list and 
found, not only my original post, but also Scott's reply to it. I'm 
trying to adopt his advice about the error log, but am having some 
difficulty which may be specific to DSL.


Thanks again,

Leslie
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

[Steve Kowalik]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:18:45 +1000, Leslie Katz uttered
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr
> Status Information:
> sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
> cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
> Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol and accepts 
> connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports

I think this is your problem. That looks like lpr is trying to talk to
the local LPD. I'm not sure about Damn Small Linux at all, but on
Debian/Ubuntu, there is a cupsys-bsd package which gives you a lpr
that talks to CUPS instead of LPD.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

[Scott Ragen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/04/2006 04:03:02 PM:


> However, when, on the laptop, I create a test file in a text editor and 
> try to print it, the text editor says, "Problem encountered when trying 
> to print" and nothing prints out.
> 
> Then, when I open CUPS in my browser and go to "Jobs", I'm told "No 
> Completed Jobs" and, when I click on "Show Active Jobs", nothing opens.
> 
> I don't have sufficient knowledge to know what to try next in an attempt 

> to get the printer working with the laptop.
> 
> If anything is apparent to those more knowledgeable, I'd be grateful for 

> some advice.

Have a look at the cups error.log. On my Debian systems this is in 
/var/log/cups/ 
If that doesn't give enough information, try increasing the verbosity  of 
'Log Level' in cupsd.conf (debug2) restart cups, try printing again, and 
check the logs again.

Good Luck,

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[SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

[Leslie Katz]

Matthew Hannigan wrote:

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:03:02PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
  
The printer manual lists, under "Features", "Interfaces that switch 
automatically". It then continues, "A parallel and USB interface, which 
is automatically switched according to the data source, comes standard."


I take that to mean that I can have two computers connected to the 
printer simultaneously and print from either.



I suspect not; I think that that might mean alternately, not simultaneously.
i.e. only interface is active until its disconnected.

  

Thank you for replying.

Acting on your suspicion, I turned on my laptop computer only.

When I opened CUPS in my browser, I got the same information as I 
mentioned in my original post.


I then opened a terminal. I set out below my commands and the response:

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpstat -p -d
printer Okipage_8z is idle. enabled since Jan 01 00:00
system default destination: Okipage_8z
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr
Status Information:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol and accepts 
connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$"

I don't know whether the responses I got suggest the error(s) on my part 
and how to correct it (them).


I should add that I've never had any difficulty printing out a man page 
on my desktop computer using the same printer, .ppd file and command.


Leslie
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:03:02PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
> The printer manual lists, under "Features", "Interfaces that switch 
> automatically". It then continues, "A parallel and USB interface, which 
> is automatically switched according to the data source, comes standard."
> 
> I take that to mean that I can have two computers connected to the 
> printer simultaneously and print from either.

I suspect not; I think that that might mean alternately, not simultaneously.
i.e. only interface is active until its disconnected.
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[SLUG] Problem with Okipage 8z printer, CUPS and .ppd file

[Leslie Katz]

I have an Okipage 8z printer, which has both parallel and USB 
interfaces. With CUPS and a .ppd file that I got from 
www.linuxprinting.org, the printer prints satisfactorily from my desktop 
computer, being connected to it via a parallel cable. (The computer's 
using Fedora Core 3.)


The printer manual lists, under "Features", "Interfaces that switch 
automatically". It then continues, "A parallel and USB interface, which 
is automatically switched according to the data source, comes standard."


I take that to mean that I can have two computers connected to the 
printer simultaneously and print from either.


I installed Damn Small Linux on an old laptop. I downloaded to it CUPS 
and the same .ppd file that I'm already using successfully on the 
desktop computer. I then connected it to the Okipage 8z via a USB cable.


I then issued the following command as root:

lpadmin -p Okipage_8z -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -m Okidata-Okipage_8z-oki4w.ppd

The only difference between that command and the one I issued when 
setting up the desktop computer is that, instead of using 
"usb:/dev/usb/lp0" with the desktop computer, I used "parallel:/dev/lp0".


When, on the laptop, I open CUPS in my web browser and go to "Printers", 
I get the following information:


"Printer
Default Destination: Okipage 8z
Okipage_8z Okidata Okipage 8z Foomatic/oki4w (recommended)
Description:
Location:
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0"

However, when, on the laptop, I create a test file in a text editor and 
try to print it, the text editor says, "Problem encountered when trying 
to print" and nothing prints out.


Then, when I open CUPS in my browser and go to "Jobs", I'm told "No 
Completed Jobs" and, when I click on "Show Active Jobs", nothing opens.


I don't have sufficient knowledge to know what to try next in an attempt 
to get the printer working with the laptop.


If anything is apparent to those more knowledgeable, I'd be grateful for 
some advice.

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[SLUG] problem encontrado em mensagem enviada "Emagreca dormindo ___________________________________45"

Atencao: slug@slug.org.au


Um problem foi encontrado numa mensagem de Email que acabou de
ser enviada por voce. 
Este scanner de Email a interceptou e impediu a mensagem de chegar
no seu destino.

O problem foi reportado como sendo: 

Disallowed breakage found in header name - potential virus


Por favor contate o suporte do seu provedor com quaisquer duvidas sobre
esta politica.


Sua mensagem foi enviada com o seguinte envelope:

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... e com o seguinte cabecalho:

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From: "Alessandra Yose Yago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Emagreca dormindo  ___45
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:34:58 -0500
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onde o  pode efetuar maiores diagnosticos nela.

O scanner de Email reportou o seguinte enquanto varria a mensagem:

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[SLUG] problem encontrado em mensagem enviada "Enlouquecendo as mulheres 12"

[MX2]

Atencao: slug@slug.org.au


Um problem foi encontrado numa mensagem de Email que acabou de
ser enviada por voce. 
Este scanner de Email a interceptou e impediu a mensagem de chegar
no seu destino.

O problem foi reportado como sendo: 

Disallowed breakage found in header name - potential virus


Por favor contate o suporte do seu provedor com quaisquer duvidas sobre
esta politica.


Sua mensagem foi enviada com o seguinte envelope:

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[SLUG] problem encontrado em mensagem enviada "Deixe os Homens aos seus Pes 21"

[System Administrator]

Atencao: slug@slug.org.au


Um problem foi encontrado numa mensagem de Email que acabou de
ser enviada por voce. 
Este scanner de Email a interceptou e impediu a mensagem de chegar
no seu destino.

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RE: [SLUG] Problem with DVD+R/RW

[Alex Samad]

Seem to have found a fix 

http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2005/06/msg00049.html


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Alexander Samad
> Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2005 6:30 AM
> To: slug@slug.org.au
> Subject: [SLUG] Problem with DVD+R/RW
> 
> Hi
> 
> Been having some problems with my new dvd-rw drive
> 
> Model Number:   PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-110D
> Serial Number:  EGDC005617WL
> Firmware Revision:  1.08
> 
> 
> I am using dvd+rw tools and so far I have made 6-7 coasters, the problem
> seems to show itself as
> 
> :-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=310h, retry in 47ms
> 
> errors whilst trying to write to the drive.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be that bad as things go, because I have another
> machine with a smiliar drive in it
> 
> Model Number:   PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-108
> Serial Number:  DGDL132757WL
> Firmware Revision:  1.04
> 
> which has the same errors on start up of the write session, this is only
> whilst writing DVD's
> 
> they both also only write at 2x normal speed, even though they are rated
> at 12 and I have 8x media.
> 
> The main problem I have with the frist drive is that it doesn't/can't
> close sessions and thus write the whole disk and then fails to close the
> session - resource unavailable.
> 
> Has any one else seen this
> 
> I am using them through the ide interface on 2.6.12, I must note that on
> early versions of 2.6 I actually got 8x speed through put!
> 
> Alex


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[SLUG] Problem with DVD+R/RW

[Alexander Samad]

Hi 

Been having some problems with my new dvd-rw drive

Model Number:   PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-110D
Serial Number:  EGDC005617WL   
Firmware Revision:  1.08


I am using dvd+rw tools and so far I have made 6-7 coasters, the problem
seems to show itself as 

:-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=310h, retry in 47ms

errors whilst trying to write to the drive.

This doesn't seem to be that bad as things go, because I have another
machine with a smiliar drive in it 

Model Number:   PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-108 
Serial Number:  DGDL132757WL   
Firmware Revision:  1.04

which has the same errors on start up of the write session, this is only
whilst writing DVD's

they both also only write at 2x normal speed, even though they are rated
at 12 and I have 8x media.

The main problem I have with the frist drive is that it doesn't/can't
close sessions and thus write the whole disk and then fails to close the
session - resource unavailable.

Has any one else seen this 

I am using them through the ide interface on 2.6.12, I must note that on
early versions of 2.6 I actually got 8x speed through put!

Alex


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[SLUG] Problem with external modem

[Francis Smit]

Hi I just replaced my mother board as the old one died
now on the old one I connected to the net via an
external modem using /dev/stty0 or some name like
that to get what windows calls com1, and all worked
nicely, with the new mother board a GIGABYTE
2004 RZ series (12BB1-81845GVMRZ-00) I cannot
get the software to find the modem all I get is a fail with
error code 8, but every thing works fine from this XP
boot :(, any idea's please??
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[SLUG] Problem with modem

[Francis Smit]

Hi I have a problem with my external modem on my fedora 4
install, basically since I replaced my mother board with a
Gigabyte 204 RZ series mother board (12BB1-81845GVMRZ-00)
basically I cannot get the software to pick up the modem on
/dev/stty0 or whatever it's called again, where as this XP daul boot
picks it up no trouble :-(  any ideas??
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[SLUG] Problem with iptables (also with Slug archives)

[steven]

Good morning all

I'll start with the 2nd thing.  Everything I type into the search engine 
for Slug archives this morning results on zero items returned.

Back to the first problem.  My problem with iptables is that, for only one 
particular web site it doesn't seem to recognise that the return packets 
are related to my own computers original requests and is thus blocking 
access to that particular site.  Following is a snippet from ethereal.

reading from file pp1, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked)
05:53:58.169345 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.32768 > 
dns.iinet.net.au.domain:  46458+ A? www.patchworkprovisions.com.au. (48)
05:53:58.419363 IP dns.iinet.net.au.domain > 
203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.32768:  46458 1/2/0 A 72.41.32.224 (116)
05:53:58.419536 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33086 > 
72.41.32.224.www: S 2119897742:2119897742(0) win 5440 
05:53:58.676015 IP 72.41.32.224.www > 
203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33086: S 1947729371:1947729371(0) ack 
2119897743 win 5840 
05:54:01.418789 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33086 > 
72.41.32.224.www: S 2119897742:2119897742(0) win 5440 
05:54:01.671964 IP 72.41.32.224.www > 
203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33086: S 1947729371:1947729371(0) ack 
2119897743 win 5840 
05:54:01.677841 IP 72.41.32.224.www > 
203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33086: S 1947729371:1947729371(0) ack 
2119897743 win 5840 
05:54:07.417848 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33086 > 
72.41.32.224.www: S 2119897742:2119897742(0) win 5440 

As you can see my computer makes a DNS request, gets an answer, then makes 
the SYN request to the website and receives the ACK.  It just goes on 
making the SYN's because the ACK is blocked by iptables.

In the following snippet from a www request to cisco all works fine

reading from file cisco, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked)
06:07:33.182686 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.32768 > 
dns.iinet.net.au.domain:  59737+ A? www.cisco.com. (31)
06:07:33.216451 IP dns.iinet.net.au.domain > 
203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.32768:  59737 1/2/1 A www.cisco.com (99)
06:07:33.216770 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33119 > 
www.cisco.com.www: S 2986197184:2986197184(0) win 5440 
06:07:33.432785 IP www.cisco.com.www > 
203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33119: S 4025776358:4025776358(0) ack 
2986197185 win 8192 
06:07:33.432849 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33119 > 
www.cisco.com.www: . ack 1 win 5440
06:07:33.433116 IP 203-206-243-100.dyn.iinet.net.au.33119 > 
www.cisco.com.www: P 1:552(551) ack 1 win 5440

If I turn off firestarter the problem goes away immediately.  However this 
is not a safe solution.  I have tried specifically allowing inbound 
packets from that ip address but that doesn't seem to work either.

The setup is Ubuntu Hoary kernel 2.6.10-5.

Can anyone suggest the cause of this problem

Thank you and regards
Steven
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Re: [SLUG] problem with wireless

[David]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:52:14PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:44 +1000, David wrote:
> > >From a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary, specifying wireless for my net 
> > connection, wireless fails to connect. Signal is NOT a problem.
> 
> You should make sure that you have the required kernel module
> in /etc/modules so that it is loaded at boot time.
> 
> I found that my Centrino 2100 (module: ipw2100) did not work with the
> Ubuntu installer (no I forgot to file a bug :-(.
> 
> I manually set it up in /etc/network/interfaces like:
> 
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> creates eth1
> name Wireless LAN
> pre-up modprobe ipw2100 ifname=eth1
> pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [1] xx
> pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [2] xx
> pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [3] xx
> pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [4] xx
> pre-up iwconfig eth1 nick "name"
> pre-up iwconfig eth1 power off
> wireless_mode Managed
> wireless_nick name
> down modprobe -r ipw2100
> wireless-essid ESSIDNAME
> wireless-key open [2]
> 
> This is more the Debian way than the Ubuntu way I guess.
> 
> As long as you ensure that the module is loaded, it should show up in
> the networking GUI OK.


It DOES show up in the gui. It just does this wierd behaviour where it 
will only work once the ethernet has been brought up. See my previous post 
about faking an ethernet connection to force it to work.
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Re: [SLUG] problem with wireless

[David]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:00:26PM +1000, Visser, Martin wrote:
> David,
> 
> The interfaces that Ubuntu tries to bring up at boot time is determined
> basically by the contents of /etc/network/interfaces. (This is
> configured by the network GUI tool)
> 
> You might want to man "interfaces" and "ifup" to get a feeling of what
> is going on. A simple problem that you might have is that your wireless
> interface (eth1 or whatever) might not be marked as auto.

auto ath0 is not put in the configuration file by the Ubuntu install, but 
I tried putting it there without result. I'm slightly familiar with the 
interfaces file. I've done a kludge which works, although it's pretty 
ugly.

I've configured both eth0 and ath0 in the interfaces file, and put a three 
line script in /etc/init.d/rcS.d which removes the route to eth0 after the 
network comes up.

#!/bin/bash
route del default eth0
echo "Horrible Kludge"

That actually works! I can't say I really know why. If I don't remove the 
route, there are two default routes which causes networking to get 
confused. Needless to say, I'm not using ethernet :-) The only good thing 
is that the people using the machine will never know how ugly that is.

> 
> Also of consideration is that depending on how your wireless interface
> is physically integrated (my HP/Compaq laptop uses a special USB
> interface) might also determine when it is available to be "upped" (it
> might be hotpluggable). Do you have a Function-F2 or somesuch that turns
> wireless on or off - this might also cause the non-appearance of the
> device?

The pcmcia card is hotpluggable (which I only know because it comes to 
life during the hotplug boot process). I don't know anything about 
a special function key (how would I find out? is this hardware specific?), 
but the wireless always connects but only after eth0 is activated. 

> 
> You probably need to check out the tail of /var/log/kern.log and
> /var/log/messages for pertinent warnings/errors. 
> 

I've left it at the office, so next time I've got the machine in my hands 
I'll check the logs. For some reason I didn't think to do that. Lots of 
other people seem to be using the atheros cards without any problems, so I 
guess it's something specific that I'm doing. This problem exists after a 
bog standard, unammended Ubuntu Hoary install.

Many thanks...

David.

> 
> I can't get my wireless to connect at boot. This is causing me
> embarrassment because I keep telling everyone they should use Linux :(
> 
> >From a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary, specifying wireless for my net
> connection, wireless fails to connect. Signal is NOT a problem.
> 
> HOWEVER: If I deactivate wireless, manually create an ethernet
> connection 
> with the network panel, activate ethernet, deactivate ethernet, then 
> activate wireless.. i get my wireless back! I've been able to replicate 
> this consistantly.
> 
> Simply restarting networking doesn't work. I have to go through that 
> ritual.
> 
> Without doing that, all the settings in the network panel look OK 
> but the MAC address shown by iwconfig is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and the 
> flashing lights indicate no connection. ifconfig gives the right ip 
> address etc and route shows the right gateway (192.168.0.1) on ath0
> 
> Dell Inspiron 4000, Netgear WGT624v2 AP, Netgear WG511T pcmcia card,
> atheros chipset, using WEP 64bit key and static IP.
> 
> This is getting to be a showstopper for using Ubuntu. Works fine for 
> WinME dual booted on the same machine :(
> 
> If anyone is getting good results using a similar set up, I'd love to
> know 
> what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> 
> regards...
> 
> David.
> 
> PS: i've tried apt-get update, apt-get upgrade but that made no 
> difference.
> 
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Re: [SLUG] problem with wireless

[Simon Wong]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:44 +1000, David wrote:
> >From a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary, specifying wireless for my net 
> connection, wireless fails to connect. Signal is NOT a problem.

You should make sure that you have the required kernel module
in /etc/modules so that it is loaded at boot time.

I found that my Centrino 2100 (module: ipw2100) did not work with the
Ubuntu installer (no I forgot to file a bug :-(.

I manually set it up in /etc/network/interfaces like:

iface eth1 inet dhcp
creates eth1
name Wireless LAN
pre-up modprobe ipw2100 ifname=eth1
pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [1] xx
pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [2] xx
pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [3] xx
pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [4] xx
pre-up iwconfig eth1 nick "name"
pre-up iwconfig eth1 power off
wireless_mode Managed
wireless_nick name
down modprobe -r ipw2100
wireless-essid ESSIDNAME
wireless-key open [2]

This is more the Debian way than the Ubuntu way I guess.

As long as you ensure that the module is loaded, it should show up in
the networking GUI OK.

HTH



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RE: [SLUG] problem with wireless

[Visser, Martin]

David,

The interfaces that Ubuntu tries to bring up at boot time is determined
basically by the contents of /etc/network/interfaces. (This is
configured by the network GUI tool)

You might want to man "interfaces" and "ifup" to get a feeling of what
is going on. A simple problem that you might have is that your wireless
interface (eth1 or whatever) might not be marked as auto.

Also of consideration is that depending on how your wireless interface
is physically integrated (my HP/Compaq laptop uses a special USB
interface) might also determine when it is available to be "upped" (it
might be hotpluggable). Do you have a Function-F2 or somesuch that turns
wireless on or off - this might also cause the non-appearance of the
device?

You probably need to check out the tail of /var/log/kern.log and
/var/log/messages   for pertinent warnings/errors. 

Regards, Martin 


  

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Network and Security Consultant 
Consulting & Integration
Technology Solutions Group - HP Services

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David
Sent: Monday, 11 July 2005 10:45 AM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] problem with wireless 

I can't get my wireless to connect at boot. This is causing me
embarrassment because I keep telling everyone they should use Linux :(

>From a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary, specifying wireless for my net
connection, wireless fails to connect. Signal is NOT a problem.

HOWEVER: If I deactivate wireless, manually create an ethernet
connection 
with the network panel, activate ethernet, deactivate ethernet, then 
activate wireless.. i get my wireless back! I've been able to replicate 
this consistantly.

Simply restarting networking doesn't work. I have to go through that 
ritual.

Without doing that, all the settings in the network panel look OK 
but the MAC address shown by iwconfig is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and the 
flashing lights indicate no connection. ifconfig gives the right ip 
address etc and route shows the right gateway (192.168.0.1) on ath0

Dell Inspiron 4000, Netgear WGT624v2 AP, Netgear WG511T pcmcia card,
atheros chipset, using WEP 64bit key and static IP.

This is getting to be a showstopper for using Ubuntu. Works fine for 
WinME dual booted on the same machine :(

If anyone is getting good results using a similar set up, I'd love to
know 
what I'm doing wrong.


regards...

David.

PS: i've tried apt-get update, apt-get upgrade but that made no 
difference.

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[SLUG] problem with wireless

[David]

I can't get my wireless to connect at boot. This is causing me 
embarrassment because I keep telling everyone they should use Linux :(

>From a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary, specifying wireless for my net 
connection, wireless fails to connect. Signal is NOT a problem.

HOWEVER: If I deactivate wireless, manually create an ethernet connection 
with the network panel, activate ethernet, deactivate ethernet, then 
activate wireless.. i get my wireless back! I've been able to replicate 
this consistantly.

Simply restarting networking doesn't work. I have to go through that 
ritual.

Without doing that, all the settings in the network panel look OK 
but the MAC address shown by iwconfig is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and the 
flashing lights indicate no connection. ifconfig gives the right ip 
address etc and route shows the right gateway (192.168.0.1) on ath0

Dell Inspiron 4000, Netgear WGT624v2 AP, Netgear WG511T pcmcia card,
atheros chipset, using WEP 64bit key and static IP.

This is getting to be a showstopper for using Ubuntu. Works fine for 
WinME dual booted on the same machine :(

If anyone is getting good results using a similar set up, I'd love to know 
what I'm doing wrong.


regards...

David.

PS: i've tried apt-get update, apt-get upgrade but that made no 
difference.

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Re: [SLUG] problem with my ubuntu

[QuantumG]

ray wrote:
hey there all i have a major problem with my
Ubuntu platform it won't start up anymore and tells me the X sever has 
inexplicable errors and that i need to reset it to get the GDM working 
properly .Any how its all too complicated for my meager abilities and 
I can't start the thing to get on line and find the  answers ( i'm 
sending this from my brotheres computer ) My mate in Coffs said it 
sounds like a harddrive error and I've lost data but  he's so far away 
and not sure and it costs a fortune to call ,I'm at a loss what to do 
any suggestions ,RAY 

The basic process is to look at your  /var/log/Xfree86.0.log and 
determine what isn't working.  Then you modify your 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to fix it.  But you'll probably need someone to 
walk you through it.

Trent
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[SLUG] problem with my ubuntu

[ray]

hey there all i have a major problem with my
Ubuntu platform it won't start up anymore and tells me the X sever has 
inexplicable errors and that i need to reset it to get the GDM working 
properly .Any how its all too complicated for my meager abilities and I 
can't start the thing to get on line and find the  answers ( i'm sending 
this from my brotheres computer ) My mate in Coffs said it sounds like a 
harddrive error and I've lost data but  he's so far away and not sure and it 
costs a fortune to call ,I'm at a loss what to do any suggestions ,RAY


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From: "Grant Parnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:34 PM
Subject: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Open Computing in Government 2005 - Comming soon!


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Hello all,
Open Computing in Government 2005 conference (OCG 2005) is only two
weeks away, and we have even more great speakers for you!
The Minister responsible for AGIMO - the Australian Government
Information Management Office, Senator Eric Abetz, will be launching the
Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies.  And
the team from AGIMO will present the Guide in detail, giving you a
chance to get first-hand information on the future of open-source
software in government from the team who set the standard.
Registrations are open at http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg
The conference will be held at the Manning Clark Centre at The
Australian National University, Canberra, on 18 and 19 April 2005.
A list of speakers, and their focus areas is listed at
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg/speakers.html.  No matter what
aspect of IT in government interests you, you'll find a presentation to
spark your interest.
Plus, it's not all hard work  :-)  The Conference Cocktail Reception on
the Monday evening gives you the chance to meet the speakers and other
delegates.
If you have any questions about the conference, please don't hesitate to
ask.
Regards
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Open Computing in Government 2005
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg
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Re: [SLUG] problem solved, dilemma using samba please give comments

[Michael Fox]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:58:43 +0800 (WST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Whats urban myth? what's very poorly?

I think that was on early kernels and early drivers for the realtek
cards... I believe it has matured alot now and thus the problems once
experienced no longer occur.

I've never owned realtek cards or boards with this onboard chipset.
But I do recall the early problems. But don't hear much of that now
days.
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Re: [SLUG] problem solved, dilemma using samba please give comments

[jam]

Hi

> > another dilemma. is any slugger thinks that samba for
> > roaming profiles needs a very high end computers.
> > currently I am using Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz with 512 Mb
> > RAM + 120 Gig Hard Drive, and the samba is serving 3
> > clients only with ok big profiles. do you thinks it is
> > very bad using this configuration for a samba server
> > running
> 
> well if it performs up to your expectations then it would
> be fine.
> 
> my home server is a p3 1ghz w/ 256mb ram an 8 gig, a 20 gig
> 4 x 40gig and 2 x 200gig drives. which serves data out
> to about 6 computers around the house. i run the 8 and the
> 20 off the two onboard ata33 controllers and the 4 40 gigs
> have their own ata133 controller and the two 200's get their
> own channel on their own controller. i really need rounded
> cables. i dont have raid or anything set up.
> 
> but i dont see any reason to upgrade the hardware any time
> soon. certainly ill be replacing 40s with 200's but thats about
> all. i might drop more ram in if any falls into my lap but
> im certainly not worried.
> 
> i would be carefull with network cards as the onboard realtek
> performs very poorly, i use a 3c905 instead.

Whats urban myth? what's very poorly?

I have a handfull of systems with realtek cards, large files (dvd.iso)
small files, I get 6-9 Mbyte/sec depending on disk speed !! using 100MB
link. I've even watched mythtv (across LAN) on 2 hosts at same time and
sent the iso and I'm sure that you can measure the difference, but I
can't feel a difference.

Seems just fine to me
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Re: [SLUG] problem solved, dilemma using samba please give comments

[Dean Hamstead]

another dilemma. is any slugger thinks that samba for
roaming profiles needs a very high end computers.
currently I am using Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz with 512 Mb
RAM + 120 Gig Hard Drive, and the samba is serving 3
clients only with ok big profiles. do you thinks it is
very bad using this configuration for a samba server
running
well if it performs up to your expectations then it would
be fine.
my home server is a p3 1ghz w/ 256mb ram an 8 gig, a 20 gig
4 x 40gig and 2 x 200gig drives. which serves data out
to about 6 computers around the house. i run the 8 and the
20 off the two onboard ata33 controllers and the 4 40 gigs
have their own ata133 controller and the two 200's get their
own channel on their own controller. i really need rounded
cables. i dont have raid or anything set up.
but i dont see any reason to upgrade the hardware any time
soon. certainly ill be replacing 40s with 200's but thats about
all. i might drop more ram in if any falls into my lap but
im certainly not worried.
i would be carefull with network cards as the onboard realtek
performs very poorly, i use a 3c905 instead.
Dean
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[SLUG] problem solved, dilemma using samba please give comments

[pesoy misak]

Dear all

thanx for your reply for the samba problem in
profiles. it seems the users permission is not fix
many thanks again 

another dilemma. is any slugger thinks that samba for
roaming profiles needs a very high end computers.
currently I am using Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz with 512 Mb
RAM + 120 Gig Hard Drive, and the samba is serving 3
clients only with ok big profiles. do you thinks it is
very bad using this configuration for a samba server
running

many thanks for the comment





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Re: [SLUG] problem installing Debian Sarge

[Steven Chang-Lin Yu]

sam rosenfeld wrote:
I am currently running Slackware10 and want to switch to Debian.  I've 
downloaded Sarge 1,2,and 3 from debian.com, but cannot install from CD 
number 1 in the Sarge list.  The installation directly from a BIOS 
setting of CDROM does not copy any files on the CD to my hard disk.  
I'd like to boot from either sarge CD1 or, preferably from my hard 
drive or a floppy.  (My BIOS, an Award, does not understand the 
formatting of a 120gig HD, but I have had no trouble with Slackware.)

BTW, I have tried to read the manuals and relevant docs but clearly 
I've misplaced most of my neurons somewhere.

Any help would be appreciated.
sam
You should be able to isntall it, I personally just download the latest 
sarge cd via bittorrent, have you check the md5 to see if there is any 
checksum error on the image you downloaded?

Steve
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[SLUG] problem installing Debian Sarge

[sam rosenfeld]

I am currently running Slackware10 and want to switch to Debian.  I've 
downloaded Sarge 1,2,and 3 from debian.com, but cannot install from CD 
number 1 in the Sarge list.  The installation directly from a BIOS 
setting of CDROM does not copy any files on the CD to my hard disk.  I'd like 
to boot from either sarge CD1 or, preferably from my hard drive or a 
floppy.  (My BIOS, an Award, does not understand the formatting of a 
120gig HD, but I have had no trouble with Slackware.)

BTW, I have tried to read the manuals and relevant docs but clearly I've 
misplaced most of my neurons somewhere.

Any help would be appreciated.
sam
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with video

[Michael Chesterton]

Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am still having a problem with my display. Whwn I install Morphix I

I don't know the answer to your poroblem, but since it looks like no
one has replied, it can't hurt to have a stab.

> When I click to close a program a small square of the screen is left

My first stab is to set X to use a software cursor.
You'll have to read up on how to do it, it might be something like
Option "SWCursor" in the video card section.

Other stabs would be to reduce the number of colours, turn off
hardware acceleration, I'm sure there are other options that you could
toggle. 
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with speex files from linux.conf.au

[Michael Knight]

Hi Jason!

Jason Rennie wrote:
> I saw the link posted to the speex files from 2004 linux.conf.au, but
> there seems to be something wrong with them.

I downloaded the CD image and have only had a chance to listen to
Tridge's and Conrad's talk so far. I noticed that some way into Tridge's
one the sound cut out but the file continued to play. The sound resumed
again a few minutes later - I just assumed there was microphone trouble.

> I'm using the windows build of speexdec to try and play them, it says
> the files are speex 1.0.2, and the decoder is 1.0.4, so i'm very
> puzzled. Do they play properly under xmms ? 

As a last-ditch effort, have you tried the 1.1.6 unstable release
(that's what I'm using)?

Incidentally I can't get the xmms speex plugin to build :/ I think I
need to fiddle with some libs:
http://jzb.rapanden.dk/projects/speex-xmms

speexdec does the job for now.

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[SLUG] Problem with speex files from linux.conf.au

[Jason Rennie]

Hi all,

I saw the link posted to the speex files from 2004 linux.conf.au, but
there seems to be something wrong with them.

They all appear to be 1 - 2 minutes long, but 10 MB speex files are
not 1 - 2 minutes long.

I'm using the windows build of speexdec to try and play them, it says
the files are speex 1.0.2, and the decoder is 1.0.4, so i'm very
puzzled. Do they play properly under xmms ? I'm trying to convert them
to mp3 so I can listen to them in my car. I got a couple from the
ottowa linux symposium to convert and they sound ok, so this did seem
like a good idea when I started.

Anybody know what is wrong ? 

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[SLUG] Problem with video

[Heracles]

I am still having a problem with my display. Whwn I install Morphix I 
get a very good result and no problems. When I add a couple of programs 
that I require using apt-get install - an upgrade of a reasonable 
number of libraries is performed and a strange thing happens.
When I click to close a program a small square of the screen is left 
around the mouse. If I grab a window by its title bar and move it a 
trail is left on the screen following the mouse. Has anyone got any 
ideas or is this just one of the little joys of using the Debian distros.
This system this is on is an old K6/2 500 with 128MB Ram and 3GB of HDDs 
with an Intel i740 video card (8MB).

Stay well and happy
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Re: [SLUG] problem installing bogofilter

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:59:46PM +1000, David wrote:
>> Alternatively, is there a .deb for bogofilter? If so, where? Does the
>> package have some obscure name that has slipped by me?
>
>It looks like there's one called "bogofilter":
>
>$ apt-cache search bogofilter
>bogofilter - a fast Bayesian spam filter
>
>It exists on testing and unstable systems (no third party sources) that 
>I have access to, no stable system handy to check there.

www.backports.org 's package list shows a bogofilter there.

David, point your browser to backports.org and follow the docs to add
their apt repository to your sources.list and install it from there.

There's a mirror of backports.org at mirror.aarnet and planetmirror, if
I'm not mistaken.

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Re: [SLUG] problem installing bogofilter

[Peter Hardy]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:59, David wrote:
> While configuring bogofilter 0.17.5 I got the following:
> 
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for shared library run path origin... done
> checking how to link with libdb... -ldb
> configure: error:
> 
> Cannot link against libdb? Try 'rm config.cache', then re-configure.
> 

libdb would be the Berkely database library. This is a fairly standard
library, so I'd be very surprised if you didn't have the run-time
package installed.

Whenever you're trying to compile a package and get errors about not
finding a library, it usually means you don't have the development
package for that library installed. Running "apt-cache search libdb dev"
will show you that you need to install either libdb2-dev or libdb3-dev,
depending on the version you already have installed (I'd try libdb3).

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Re: [SLUG] problem installing bogofilter

[Mary Gardiner]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:59:46PM +1000, David wrote:
> Alternatively, is there a .deb for bogofilter? If so, where? Does the
> package have some obscure name that has slipped by me?

It looks like there's one called "bogofilter":

$ apt-cache search bogofilter
bogofilter - a fast Bayesian spam filter

It exists on testing and unstable systems (no third party sources) that 
I have access to, no stable system handy to check there.

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[SLUG] problem installing bogofilter

[David]

While configuring bogofilter 0.17.5 I got the following:

checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking how to link with libdb... -ldb
configure: error:

Cannot link against libdb? Try 'rm config.cache', then re-configure.



naturally I've tried rm config.cache, but that doesn't exist. This is on
Debian Woody.

Alternatively, is there a .deb for bogofilter? If so, where? Does the
package have some obscure name that has slipped by me?

Alternatively, is there a more interesting/better alternative to
bogofilter?


Any help greatly appreciated


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Re: [SLUG] Problem with X Window in Debian 3.0R2 Woody

[Simon Wong]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 20:26, Steven Chang-Lin Yu wrote:
> The error message out of Xfree86 is "Can't find the monitor", however
> just few line before it says moniter information is there, I have
> switch back to Mandrake 10 after trying everything for a week, as I

You should be able to use the X config file you have from your Mandrake
setup.  It's called XF86Config-4 and is located in /etc/X11 in Debian at
least, search for a file of that name.
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[SLUG] Problem with X Window in Debian 3.0R2 Woody

[Steven Chang-Lin Yu]

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Debian, I have been using RH and Mandrake for the past 4 years!!!  Just 
last week I got the 7 CDs of Debian 3.0R2 from UNSW, and installed fine in my 
P3-800.  However the XFree86 doesn't seems to want to work with my 
configuration, I have select NV for my Nvidia GeForce 2MX 32-MB Video Card, 
and enter my own H and V Frequency of my Viewsonic E70-3 17 inch 
monitor.
 
The error message 
out of Xfree86 is "Can't find the monitor", however just few line before it says 
moniter information is there, I have switch back to Mandrake 10 after trying 
everything for a week, as I really need linux for embedded system study.  
The other thing I notice is there seems to be no monitor information database in 
/var/X11/
there is no sub 
directory of "monitor" as state in the Xfree86 manual!!!
 
Sorry I should wrote 
down the acutally error message, however if anyone know what is the problem of 
this, pelease do tell me.  I really want to learn the linux from buttom 
up.
 
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with pptpd PoPToP

[Peter Hardy]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:18, Grant Parnell wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Peter Rundle wrote:
> 
> > Trying to connect from my Linux desktop to a remote Linux server running 
> > pptpd fails with
> > this error in the remote linux servers syslog;
> > 
> >   pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Client 61.95.85.130 control connection started
> >   pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
> >   pppd[21128]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> >   pppd[21128]: Using interface ppp0
> >   pppd[21128]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
> >   pptpd[21127]: GRE: xmit failed from decaps_hdlc: Operation not permitted
> >   pptpd[21127]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(5,6)
> > 
> > Google tells me this error is caused by the firewall blocking GRE, so I 
> > temporarily dropped the
> > firewall on the remote pptpd server;

Have you explicitly allowed GRE, with something like iptables -A INPUT
-p 47 -j ACCEPT ?

> -- snip -- 
> > But no joy, I still get the same error.
> > 
> > My desktop can connect to another remote Linux pptpd server no problems, 
> > and I've compared the
> > /etc/ppp/pptpd.conf and /etc/ppp/pptpd.options files on the two servers 
> > and both are the same
> > (tcpip addresses not withstanding).
> > 
> > Any cluesticks?
> 
> Only that the GRE packets may be blocked elsewhere, ie ISP's have been 
> known to block. Maybe there's a utility like tcpdump that will show GRE 
> packets.

On the server, tcpdumping all traffic from the client IP should show
GRE, if it's getting through.  Likewise a tcpdump on the client should
show outbound GRE. Compare and contrast the two. :-)

Note that (AFAIK) you can't specify the GRE protocol in a tcpdump
filter, so the best way to do it would probably be to show all traffic
from the appropriate IP address (with the notable exception of port 22
if you're logging in remotely :-)

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with pptpd PoPToP

[Grant Parnell]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Peter Rundle wrote:

> Trying to connect from my Linux desktop to a remote Linux server running 
> pptpd fails with
> this error in the remote linux servers syslog;
> 
>   pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Client 61.95.85.130 control connection started
>   pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
>   pppd[21128]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
>   pppd[21128]: Using interface ppp0
>   pppd[21128]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
>   pptpd[21127]: GRE: xmit failed from decaps_hdlc: Operation not permitted
>   pptpd[21127]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(5,6)
> 
> Google tells me this error is caused by the firewall blocking GRE, so I 
> temporarily dropped the
> firewall on the remote pptpd server;
-- snip -- 
> But no joy, I still get the same error.
> 
> My desktop can connect to another remote Linux pptpd server no problems, 
> and I've compared the
> /etc/ppp/pptpd.conf and /etc/ppp/pptpd.options files on the two servers 
> and both are the same
> (tcpip addresses not withstanding).
> 
> Any cluesticks?

Only that the GRE packets may be blocked elsewhere, ie ISP's have been 
known to block. Maybe there's a utility like tcpdump that will show GRE 
packets.

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[SLUG] Problem with pptpd PoPToP

[Peter Rundle]

Sluggers,

Trying to connect from my Linux desktop to a remote Linux server running 
pptpd fails with
this error in the remote linux servers syslog;

 pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Client 61.95.85.130 control connection started
 pptpd[21127]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
 pppd[21128]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
 pppd[21128]: Using interface ppp0
 pppd[21128]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
 pptpd[21127]: GRE: xmit failed from decaps_hdlc: Operation not permitted
 pptpd[21127]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(5,6)
Google tells me this error is caused by the firewall blocking GRE, so I 
temporarily dropped the
firewall on the remote pptpd server;

 # iptables -L -n
 Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
 target prot opt source   destination 

 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
 target prot opt source   destination 

 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
 target prot opt source   destination 
 #

But no joy, I still get the same error.

My desktop can connect to another remote Linux pptpd server no problems, 
and I've compared the
/etc/ppp/pptpd.conf and /etc/ppp/pptpd.options files on the two servers 
and both are the same
(tcpip addresses not withstanding).

Any cluesticks?

Thanks

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Glen Turner]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:43, Bill Bennett wrote:
> I'm easing myself into oocalc, which is the Open Office analogue
> of the dreaded Excel.
> 
> I expected to be able to duplicate most of the functions
> (although, to be fair I was never much chop at Excel either)
> without many hiccups. However this one has given the Excel whips
> pause for thought. You know this when you are continually asked
> "Are you *sure* this is what you want?"
> 
> I have two sets of data (waterplants) that I want to compare.
> The X-axis is time in days. No problem.
> 
> However, I'd like the Y-axis to be a logarithmic scale. To
> base 2.
> 
> To base 10 is easy enough, it seems. Base 2, no.

I'm not a dab hand at OOCalc either.

But have you tried establishing another column containing
the log(2)(n) of the data (n)?

To do this, note the high-school formula:

  log(baseA)(n) = log(baseB)(n) / log(baseB)(baseA)

substituting for your requirement:

  log(2)(n) = log(n) / log(2)

where log() is log(10)() or log(e)() or whatever base
logarithm is convenient in OOCalc.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Michael Lake]

Matthew Palmer wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:29:29PM +1100, Benno wrote:
> 
>>On Mon Nov 10, 2003 at 17:22:11 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>>
>>>GNUPlot is the coolest graphing program around.  It will do absolutely
>>>anything.  Half my marks at Uni I attribute to being able to drive GNUPlot
>>>to extremes.
>>
>>As long as you don't want to do simple things like bar graphs.
> 
> 
> Impulses with wide lines.

If it was just a line graph I would use GNUPlot. For impulses I'd use 
metapost with the graph package. I have just been playing with metapost 
as I needed to do a bar chart with 4 data sections. Its awesome but took 
me quite a time to even start climbing the mountain.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Broun, Bevan]

on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:22:11PM +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> GNUPlot is the coolest graphing program around.  It will do absolutely
> anything.  Half my marks at Uni I attribute to being able to drive GNUPlot
> to extremes.

GNPplot is certainly excellent. xmgrace is also very good.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Richard Neal]

I was just reading about the gnumeric spreadsheet app, and apparently it
not only supports all excel calculations but has a small mountain of
scientific tools not found in excel (and I bet oocalc).

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:13, Bill Bennett wrote:

> 
> Has anyone any experience of this? It may be that
> if it can be done in Excel, then, analogous strokes can do it
> in oocalc. At the minute I can't find anyone who can do it in
> Excel, either.
> 
> Any suggestions, etc
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill Bennett.
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Matthew Palmer]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:29:29PM +1100, Benno wrote:
> On Mon Nov 10, 2003 at 17:22:11 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >GNUPlot is the coolest graphing program around.  It will do absolutely
> >anything.  Half my marks at Uni I attribute to being able to drive GNUPlot
> >to extremes.
> 
> As long as you don't want to do simple things like bar graphs.

Impulses with wide lines.

Next.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Benno]

On Mon Nov 10, 2003 at 17:22:11 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:21:58PM +1100, Erich Schulz wrote:
>> Excell would be able to do this. TRo scale to log base 2 is easy, the 
>> new y value y'= log2(y) is given by: y' = ln(y)/ln(2), where ln is the 
>> natural logarithm.
>
>In fact, it works for a logarithm to any base, as long as the base of the
>numerator and denominator logs are the same.  
>
>Noted in case ooplot has a log10 but no ln.
>
>> Gnuplot will do  this also.
>
>GNUPlot is the coolest graphing program around.  It will do absolutely
>anything.  Half my marks at Uni I attribute to being able to drive GNUPlot
>to extremes.

As long as you don't want to do simple things like bar graphs.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Matthew Palmer]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:21:58PM +1100, Erich Schulz wrote:
> Excell would be able to do this. TRo scale to log base 2 is easy, the 
> new y value y'= log2(y) is given by: y' = ln(y)/ln(2), where ln is the 
> natural logarithm.

In fact, it works for a logarithm to any base, as long as the base of the
numerator and denominator logs are the same.  

Noted in case ooplot has a log10 but no ln.

> Gnuplot will do  this also.

GNUPlot is the coolest graphing program around.  It will do absolutely
anything.  Half my marks at Uni I attribute to being able to drive GNUPlot
to extremes.

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Erich Schulz]

Bill Bennett wrote:
I'm easing myself into oocalc, which is the Open Office analogue
of the dreaded Excel.
I expected to be able to duplicate most of the functions
(although, to be fair I was never much chop at Excel either)
without many hiccups. However this one has given the Excel whips
pause for thought. You know this when you are continually asked
"Are you *sure* this is what you want?"
I have two sets of data (waterplants) that I want to compare.
The X-axis is time in days. No problem.
However, I'd like the Y-axis to be a logarithmic scale. To
base 2.
To base 10 is easy enough, it seems. Base 2, no.

Has anyone any experience of this? It may be that
if it can be done in Excel, then, analogous strokes can do it
in oocalc. At the minute I can't find anyone who can do it in
Excel, either.
Any suggestions, etc

Regards,

Bill Bennett.

The easy solution is to scale the data before you plot it and remember 
that the y scale has been adjusted. I would seriously doubt wether 
Excell would be able to do this. TRo scale to log base 2 is easy, the 
new y value y'= log2(y) is given by: y' = ln(y)/ln(2), where ln is the 
natural logarithm.

Gnuplot will do  this also.

Cheers

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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Benno]

On Mon Nov 10, 2003 at 17:13:21 +1100, Bill Bennett wrote:
>I'm easing myself into oocalc, which is the Open Office analogue
>of the dreaded Excel.
>
>I expected to be able to duplicate most of the functions
>(although, to be fair I was never much chop at Excel either)
>without many hiccups. However this one has given the Excel whips
>pause for thought. You know this when you are continually asked
>"Are you *sure* this is what you want?"
>
>I have two sets of data (waterplants) that I want to compare.
>The X-axis is time in days. No problem.
>
>However, I'd like the Y-axis to be a logarithmic scale. To
>base 2.
>
>To base 10 is easy enough, it seems. Base 2, no.
>
>Has anyone any experience of this? It may be that
>if it can be done in Excel, then, analogous strokes can do it
>in oocalc. At the minute I can't find anyone who can do it in
>Excel, either.
>
>Any suggestions, etc
>

Export it to a text file and use gnuplot?

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[SLUG] Problem with a graph.

[Bill Bennett]

I'm easing myself into oocalc, which is the Open Office analogue
of the dreaded Excel.

I expected to be able to duplicate most of the functions
(although, to be fair I was never much chop at Excel either)
without many hiccups. However this one has given the Excel whips
pause for thought. You know this when you are continually asked
"Are you *sure* this is what you want?"

I have two sets of data (waterplants) that I want to compare.
The X-axis is time in days. No problem.

However, I'd like the Y-axis to be a logarithmic scale. To
base 2.

To base 10 is easy enough, it seems. Base 2, no.

Has anyone any experience of this? It may be that
if it can be done in Excel, then, analogous strokes can do it
in oocalc. At the minute I can't find anyone who can do it in
Excel, either.

Any suggestions, etc

Regards,

Bill Bennett.

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