Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 8/4/2010 12:43 PM, Brian wrote:

On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 10:09:17 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
Correct. It wouldn't be there in the first place and I don't plan on
having my root acoount compromised. Besides, I know my system.


Naive but cute you think that though. You obviously don't to the latter.


You're speaking hypothetically. When rootkits with these capabilities
exist neither chkrootkit nor rkhunter will detect them. By the time
they get round to it my updates will have brought in the fixes, just
as they did when Lion, which chkrootkit spuriously claims to defend
me against, was about.


Let me know when the security industry does not run on theory and 
hypothetical (until proven) proof of concepts.  if it weren't for theory 
and hypothetical situations you would still think MD5 was secure because 
nobody would have hypothesized that if MD5 was vulnerable to clashes and 
then could be vulnerable to rainbow tables, and then come up with a 
proof of concept which is now generally accepted as true and proven by 
the security and non-security industry.  The world runs off of 
hypothetical situations, without them, you would still be using a pen 
and paper sir, actually, possibly and probably not because you wouldn't 
even have fire.


Let me know when you can't noexec mount that drive onto a clean system, 
or onto the current system with a liveCD and check for rootkits so that 
the rootkit can't constantly hide itself, even if it's in the Kernel.


Chkrootkit does not claim to "defend you", "protect you", "warn you 
ahead of  time with constant monitoring", "secure you" or "fix problems" 
it merely only claims to try and find rootkits, they don't say on their 
site "you are protected from rootkits if you use our software", "you 
will be safe from rootkits if you use our software", "rootkits are no 
more with our software!", "we will remove the rootkits for you with our 
software and you will be safe!", no, it only claims to detect them.  As 
a matter of fact, is the tagline of chkrootkit not: "locally checks for 
signs of a rootkit" not "locally checks and removes rootkits".



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Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Eero Volotinen]

2010/8/4 Tingez Unknown :
> Hi all Debian people,
>
> Firstly i am very new to Debian so please excuse me for my lack of
> understanding. I have recently got a Dedicated server box for my gaming Clan
> and have had Debian 5 64bit installed on it. Now as we will eventually be
> using the server for our web site for forums, Emails, sending and receiving
> files and all other aspects web site related, fast redirect downloading
> system for game server maps, mods etc., ftp, Big brother bot game server
> software and game servers of varying games.
>
> I am looking for any suggestions regarding Anti virus and firewall software
> that is suitable with your Debian 5 64bit operating system. Wanting to add
> as much security as possible to our server to reduce any problems we may
> encounter. I would like any suggestions as to the best software that can be
> used either paid for or freeware if you would be so kind.

See CIS instructions for debian, bit old but still working:

http://cisecurity.org/en-us/?route=downloads.show.single.debian.100

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What to put on SSD

[Pasi Oja-Nisula]

I have this:

FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1  37G   14G   22G  39% /
tmpfs 3.9G  8.0K  3.9G   1% /lib/init/rw
udev   10M  640K  9.4M   7% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 328G  204G  107G  66% /home
tmpfs 3.9G   49M  3.8G   2% /tmp
tmpfs 3.9G 0  3.9G   0% /var/lock
tmpfs 3.9G  296K  3.9G   1% /var/run
tmpfs 3.9G   32K  3.9G   1% /var/tmp
/dev/sdb1 917G  289G  582G  34% /root/backup

So basically I have root and home partitions and another disk
for backups of the whole thing.

Now I got a SSD disk, about which I don't really know much.
It's a 160 GB Intel, so it should be quite ok.
The question now is how to best utilize it in my configuration?
Or if I should just find other use for that?

I'm thinking for copying the whole root to SSD. Maybe have
40 GB partition for root and the rest for home. I have more stuff on
my home partition, but the active stuff is much less. So daily
used files would be on SSD and archive stuff on hard disk.

Should I worry about the longetivity of SSD? Maybe set noatime option,
but do I really need to deal with other filesystems than ext3? What about
/var/log and other places where there are lots of writing going on?

Pasi


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Re: What to put on SSD

[Jochen Schulz]

Pasi Oja-Nisula:
> 
> So basically I have root and home partitions and another disk
> for backups of the whole thing.
> 
> Now I got a SSD disk, about which I don't really know much.
> It's a 160 GB Intel, so it should be quite ok.

"Quite ok" is "quite an understatement". :) Intel SSDs are still one of
the best choices in the market, as far as I know.

> I'm thinking for copying the whole root to SSD. Maybe have
> 40 GB partition for root and the rest for home. I have more stuff on
> my home partition, but the active stuff is much less. So daily
> used files would be on SSD and archive stuff on hard disk.

Sounds reasonable. You definitely should boot from the SSD and have all
your applications there. /home is not that important, but as there are
some applications that like writing to your $HOME a lot (Firefox, for
example), having it on your SSD helps performance, too. If you are
working with version control systems (svn, git, hg etc.) then you should
definitely put your repositories / working copies on the SSD.

> Should I worry about the longetivity of SSD?

Generally: no. Intel guarantees five years of 20GB writes per day:
http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/mainstream-sata-ssd-datasheet.pdf

As long as you don't push HD movie files back and forth several times a
day, you don't need to worry. BTW, you can monitor lifetime writes with
recent kernels for each filesystem separately:

$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/manowar-home-crypt | grep ^Lifet
Lifetime writes:  785 GB

This filesystem is almost exactly 13 months old and I think more than
half of the writes on my system go there. The rest is mostly package
upgrades (I am running sid).

What you might want to find out is whether you have a G1 or G2 device.
G2 supports the TRIM command which helps the SSD to keep up performance.
Otherwise, performance degrades over time, especially when you keep the
SSD nearly full. I have read Intel recommends keeping some of the space
(5-10%) unpartitioned in order to avoid that effect.

> Maybe set noatime option,

Good idea, but I do that even on traditional hard disks anyway. I am
using 'nodelalloc' on my ext4, too. 

> but do I really need to deal with other filesystems than ext3?

Not really. I converted my /home to ext4, just to try it out, but I
don't really know what I gain from that. ;-)

> What about /var/log and other places where there are lots of writing
> going on?

Just don't care. A regular desktop system should only write a few
megabytes of logs per day.  You might want to read Ted T'so's blog
entries regarding SSDs:
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/ssd/

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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Tom Ashley]

> On 08/04/2010 02:13 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
> > Hi;
> > I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
> > information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc.
> > Examples are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible
> > projects, book that I might want to buy in the future and on and
> > on. This has generated numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes
> > with the result that chaos reigns. I recently tried knotes which
> > helped a lot but didn't cover tasks. I have now switched to
> > Kontact. This takes care of scheduling things, projects and short
> > term notes. I still am not sure what to do about those notes that
> > could be around for a long time like maybe a note on the "proton
> > boron fusion reaction energy" . I may never use it but would like
> > to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I need a
> > repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I hope
> > this makes some sense.
> >
> > Any suggestions.

I find Gnote useful for keeping notes and use Orage for scheduling tasks/events.


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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 18:23 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:41 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>  Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User
> >>> How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in 
> >>> Ubuntu?
> >>>
> >>> I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have to
> >>> abandom Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.
> >> I see that .debs for Debian are well on the way, but have been held up by 
> >> the 
> >> massive blowout at Pearson Computing. :-(
> 
> 
> > Indeed - I am experimenting with Trinity on Lenny as a Debian repository
> > and full replacement for KDE3.  It is mostly working well.  Kontact is
> > largely fixed and 95% working with Zimbra.  There are a few glitches
> > that I suspect will be quickly remedied as soon as Pearson Computing's
> > build farm comes back on line but I think we will have a Debian KDE3
> > option relatively soon - John
> 
> 
> Thanks John, the last time I looked I didn't see a port for Debian, I'm 
> off to find the repos, if you have a link please post it. :-)
Sure - here is a note from Tim Pearson:

Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
shot? ;-)  Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity

If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
sources.list file:
deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu 
lenny main 
deb-src
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu 
lenny main 
deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu
lenny main 
deb-src
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
main

I believe the repositories are currently down while he awaits the last
of the replacements for the fired power conditioning system.

It does honor any KDEDIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS settings for users operating
in Kiosk mode like we are.

Another note from Tim:
If you install KDE3 and Trinity side-by-side, remember to select Trinity
from the Sessions menu in KDM before logging in, otherwise you will get
a stock KDE3 session.

For those not using KDM (e.g., we do not in our X2Go environment-
another great project - http://www.x2go.org), simply point
at /opt/trinity/bin/startkde instead of /usr/bin/startkde  The start
script will handle the rest.

To enable side by side installations, Trinity stores everything
in /opt/trinity.  It also stores user configuration in ~/.trinity
instead of ~/.kde so, if you want to maintain your configuration, you
will need to copy the .kde contents into .trinity.

In my case, I had to do an apt-get -f in order to properly pull in the
builddeps - I believe the various kdelibs packages. That could be
because of our someone unusual vserver/x2go environment.

Hope this helps and, again, Tim seems to be putting in countless hours
and lots of personal funds to do this and can use all the good help he
can get (I assume) - John


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Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2010 02 Aug 10:23 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Lenny, and I have no problem mounting my WD external harddrive,
> and using my ASUS USB-N13 wireless NIC. 
> 
> Still, when I put a couple of my flash drives into a usb slot, very little
> happens.

I've been seeing something similar over the past couple of months on my
Sid box.  I also found that issuing the `lsusb' command seems to "wake
up" the system in some way and KDE's Device Notifier will become active
and I can mount the flash drive.  I've also noticed that I need to do
the same for a USB-serial converter to be recognized.  Hoever, any
devices plugged in upon system start are recognized.

- Nate >>

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Re: Argument to start_daemon, use of --

[Malte Forkel]

Am 01.08.2010 16:03, schrieb Malte Forkel:
> 
> The example init script init.d.lsb.ex provided by dh-make 0.46 contains
> this call to start_daemon:
> 
>start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
> 
> This always passes "--" as first argument to my daemon. Wouldn't
> 
>start_daemon -p $PIDFILE -- $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS
> 
> be the proper call?
> 

Thanks for all of your input.

I have filed a bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591747 (#591747 -
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/init.d.lsb.ex: init.d.lsb.ex passes
-- as first argument to daemon - Debian Bug report logs)


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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[pierre poulos]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Jochen Schulz  wrote:

> pierre poulos:
> > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jochen Schulz 
> wrote:
> >> pierre poulos:
> >>>
> >>> Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;//
> >>> www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web
> >>> proxy.
> >>
> >> What error message do you get?
> >
> > It just sits on connecting then times out (sorry about the typo)
>
> And what is the exact error message Iceweasel shows? I am asking because
> I suspect you may have a global proxy configured somewhere and the
> message would indicate that. You can also try
>


Failed to Connect

Iceweasel can't establish a connection to the server at www.debian.org.

Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a
connection.

* Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later.
* Are you unable to browse other sites?  Check the computer's network
connection.
* Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy?
Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.

$ env | grep -i proxy
>

Nothing, even as root


> to see whether that is the case. Can you ping www.debian.org?


PING www.debian.org (61.5.210.7) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=56.8 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=53.2 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=57.3 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=53.6 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=61.4 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=6 ttl=50 time=79.6 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=7 ttl=50 time=51.1 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=8 ttl=50 time=53.1 ms
64 bytes from www.debian.org (61.5.210.7): icmp_seq=9 ttl=50 time=56.3 ms
^C
--- www.debian.org ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 received, 0% packet loss, time 8032ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 51.189/58.093/79.622/8.136 ms

Have you
> tried editing your sources.list to use ftp:// instead of http://?
>

Ok changing to ftp now..

cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux] - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1

deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://mirror.optus.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb ftp://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main

Now I do

>
>
apt-get update
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
[189B]
Hit ftp://http.us.debian.org stable
Release.gpg
Get:2 ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/main
Translation-en_AU
Ign ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/main
Translation-en_AU
Get:3 ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib
Translation-en_AU
Ign ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib
Translation-en_AU
Hit ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny
Release.gpg

Get:4 ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/main
Translation-en_AU

Get:5 ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free
Translation-en_AU

Ign ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/main
Translation-en_AU

Get:6 ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/contrib
Translation-en_AU

Ign ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/contrib
Translation-en_AU

Get:7 ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/non-free
Translation-en_AU

Ign ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/non-free
Translation-en_AU

Hit ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny
Release

Get:8 ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/main
Packages/DiffIndex

Ign ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free
Translation-en_AU

Ign ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/main
Packages/DiffIndex

Get:9 ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/contrib
Packages/DiffIndex

Ign ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/contrib
Packages/DiffIndex

Get:10 ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/non-free
Packages/DiffIndex

Ign ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/non-free
Packages/DiffIndex

Hit ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/main
Packages

Hit ftp://http.us.debian.org stable
Release

Hit ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/contrib
Packages

Hit ftp://mirror.optus.net lenny/non-free
Packages

Get:11 ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/main
Packages/DiffIndex

Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main
Translation-en_AU

Get:12 http://dl.google.com stable Release
[2544B]

Hit ftp://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny
Release.gpg

Ign ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/main
Packages/DiffIndex

Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main
Packages/DiffIndex

Get:13 ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib
Packages/DiffIndex

Hit ftp://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main
Translation-en_AU

Get:14 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages
[1067B]

Ign ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib
Packages/DiffIndex

Hit ftp://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny
Release

Get:15 ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free
Packages/DiffIndex

Hit ftp://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main
Packages/DiffIndex

Ign ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free
Packages/DiffIndex

Hit ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/main
Packages

Hit ftp://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib
Packages

Hit ftp:

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[pierre poulos]

>
> And additionally the following might show something interesting too.
>
>  # find /etc/apt -type f -exec grep -i proxy {} +
>

OK
/home/pierre# find /etc/apt -type f -exec grep -i proxy {} +
nothing

>
>
>

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[George-Cristian Bîrzan]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 21:56 +1000, pierre poulos wrote:
> Cannot initiate the connection to security.debian.org:21
> (2001:388:1034:2900::26). - connect (101 Network is unreachable) [IP:
> 2001:388:1034:2900::26 21]

Try, as root:
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

You seem to have a default route for IPv6, but no connectivity, so if
you want IPv6, you could try to fix that.

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Разрешения экрана

[муромцев антон]

У меня возникла проблема, в debian максимальное разрешения экрана 1400х1050 а у 
меня 1920х1080 из за этого сильно искажается картинка, что делать? 


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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[Jochen Schulz]

George-Cristian Bîrzan:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 21:56 +1000, pierre poulos wrote:
>> Cannot initiate the connection to security.debian.org:21
>> (2001:388:1034:2900::26). - connect (101 Network is unreachable) [IP:
>> 2001:388:1034:2900::26 21]
> 
> Try, as root:
> sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
> 
> You seem to have a default route for IPv6, but no connectivity, so if
> you want IPv6, you could try to fix that.

ACK, that appears to be the problem. To make the sysctl setting
permanent, you need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add a line

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

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Re: Разрешения экрана

[Alexander Batischev]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:16:30PM +0400, муромцев антон wrote:
> У меня возникла проблема, в debian максимальное разрешения экрана 1400х1050 а
> у меня 1920х1080 из за этого сильно искажается картинка, что делать? 
It's English-only mailing list. You better ask your questions in
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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Thomas H. George]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:36:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-08-04 15:57 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 
> > After installing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 the console fonts are so
> > small I must use reading glasses to make them out.  I have experimented
> > with the consolechars -H 16 -d  command but this just makes the characters
> > brighter.
> >
> > I assume the problem may be the setting of the monitor resolution.
> 
> This is now done by the kernel for both Nvidia and Radeon cards, yes.
> It uses the native resolution of your display which gives you a sharp
> picture but also a small font by default.
> 
> > The
> > monitor is 23" LCD monitor capable of 1920x1080 resolution.  Indeed, the
> > small font is very sharp when viewed with my reading glasses but I wish
> > it was twice as large so I would not have to bother with the glases.
> 
> This should be easy to fix, fortunately.
> 
> > On the other hand, the font sizes and resolution in X windows is fine as
> > it is.
> >
> > Is there a way change the console font size without changing the X
> > windows resolution?
> 
> Make sure you have the console-setup and kbd packages installed and use
> 
> # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
> 
> to choose a console font that suits your taste; it will be set up on
> each boot.  You can also use the setfont utility to change the font
> temporarily.  Fonts are in the /usr/share/consolefonts directory.
> 
> Sven
> 
I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
height of 32 and then rebooted.  The boot screen and initial scripts
were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT

About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
fonts.  There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
kbd-compat was already installed.

What now?

Tom

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-08-05 15:59 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote:

> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
> fonts.  There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
> height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
> kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
> kbd-compat was already installed.
>
> What now?

Replace kbd-compat and console-tools by kbd, it is in my experience
*much* less buggy.

Sven


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repair partition: wrong size

[hugo vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong.

debian:/# fsck -f /dev/sdb2
fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1953905 blocks
The physical size of the device is 487974 blocks
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
Abort? yes

These are the sizes reported:

debian:/# sfdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start End   #cyls#blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  0+972 973-   7815591   83  Linux
/dev/sdb29731215 2431951897+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb3   121629181703   13679347+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb4   291997286810   547013255  Extended
/dev/sdb5   2919+   3891 973-   7815591   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6   3892+   4864 973-   7815591   83  Linux
/dev/sdb7   4865+   97284864-  39070048+  83  Linux


sdb2 an sdb3 are wrong, they both ought to be 7815591.

How does one repair that?

Hugo


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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:

I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
height of 32 and then rebooted.  The boot screen and initial scripts
were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT

About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
fonts.  There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
kbd-compat was already installed.

What now?

Tom


Don't change the subject line unless you plan to change the topic.

sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst

Edit:
kernel /boot/blah-blah-kernel root=/my/device ro quiet splash

Add:
vga=HEX


Size 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
+--
 8 bits |  0x300   0x301   0x3030x3050x1610x307 0x31C
15 bits |? 0x310   0x3130x3160x1620x319 0x31D
16 bits |? 0x311   0x3140x3170x1630x31A 0x31E

In otherwords, changing the console resolution should solve your 
problem.  You just have to be careful because you could end up with 
squishy text but it will be bigger.



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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[gauthier . v]

> I find Gnote useful for keeping notes and use Orage for
> scheduling tasks/events.

An (unusual) solution is to have a private wiki. You can store it on your own 
machine (I do so on my laptop) with a local server, or on a public server with 
correct management of access. This solution can have sense if you would access 
to your data from differents systems.

There are a lot of well-tried wikis with interessant features for that purpose: 
internal search, linking between documents (of course), index of all pages, 
categorying, tagging with keywords, listing of recent changes, calendar, 
storing of non-textual data (images, pdf...) and so.

I like it, because it's always a way to rediscover your stuff...

It's easy to start a new note, more often, you type the name of a new page 
between [[]].

Good questions for the choice of the candidate are:

- with or without a database ?
- in which format are the data encoded ? Are there still understandable (in 
plain text) if the application crashes or becomes unmaintained ?

I use Oddmuse, packaged for Debian, light, capricious but fun. Pmwiki and 
Mediawiki are also good candidates, but heavier.

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Re: repair partition: wrong size

[George-Cristian Bîrzan]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:07 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong.
> [snip]
> sdb2 an sdb3 are wrong, they both ought to be 7815591.
> 
> How does one repair that?

Try gpart: http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html

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This is a debian (live) Django-OS - Live CD running on hardened kernel and
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Re: repair partition: wrong size

[hugo vanwoerkom]

George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:07 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong.
[snip]
sdb2 an sdb3 are wrong, they both ought to be 7815591.

How does one repair that?


Try gpart: http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html



Gpart finds the partitions allright, but they aren't lost, just the 
wrong size. How do I set the correct size?


Hugo


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Re: repair partition: wrong size

[George-Cristian Bîrzan]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:59 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> Gpart finds the partitions allright, but they aren't lost, just the 
> wrong size. How do I set the correct size?

>From its page:

Now if after the check-phase it says Ok, you should check the proposed
partition table very carefully. After that you may write back the
guessed table by calling "gpart -W /dev/hdc /dev/hdc" (exchange /dev/hdc
with your disk device). When gpart has successfully written the new
primary partition table, cross your fingers and reboot.

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Re: repair partition: wrong size

[hugo vanwoerkom]

George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 09:59 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
Gpart finds the partitions allright, but they aren't lost, just the 
wrong size. How do I set the correct size?



From its page:


Now if after the check-phase it says Ok, you should check the proposed
partition table very carefully. After that you may write back the
guessed table by calling "gpart -W /dev/hdc /dev/hdc" (exchange /dev/hdc
with your disk device). When gpart has successfully written the new
primary partition table, cross your fingers and reboot.




Actually  in my /dev/sdb both partition 2 + 3 are wrong:

num  start should be end should be
28003MB  8003MB  10.0GB 16.0GB
310.0GB  16.0GB  24.0GB 24.0GB

The simplest fix would be to delete both and recreate them because I 
have backups for both. But I would like to see if it can be fixed.


Gpart /dev/sdb gives:

Begin scan...
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(7632mb), offset(0mb)
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(7632mb), offset(7632mb)
Possible extended partition at offset(22897mb)
   Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(7632mb), offset(22897mb)
   Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(7632mb), offset(30529mb)
   Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(38154mb), offset(38162mb)
End scan.

Checking partitions...
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
   Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): logical
   Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): logical
   Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): logical
Ok.

Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
   type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
   size: 7632mb #s(15631176) s(63-15631238)
   chs:  (0/1/1)-(972/254/57)d (0/1/1)-(972/254/57)r

Primary partition(2)
   type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
   size: 7632mb #s(15631240) s(15631245-31262484)
   chs:  (973/0/1)-(1023/254/63)d (973/0/1)-(1945/254/58)r

Primary partition(3)
   type: 015(0x0F)(Extended DOS, LBA)
   size: 53419mb #s(109402650) s(46893735-156296384)
   chs:  (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (2919/0/1)-(9728/254/63)r

Primary partition(4)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r

But I don't think that is right: there are 3 primary partitions and 3 
logical partitions and they should be all 8GB in length except the last 
one that is 40GB in length.


Hugo


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Re: Monitoring tools to use on an account

[hugo vanwoerkom]

Klistvud wrote:

Dne, 30. 07. 2010 18:47:15 je hugo vanwoerkom napisal(a):


But is there such a tool to trace what is being done in IW?



IW? For starters, I would check history (ctrl-h), so you can track what 
sites the person has been to. In my humble experience though, it's 
thermal shutdown. They played a flash game or two, and Iceweasel, 
combined with Flash, is notorious for ramping up CPU usage out of any 
proportion. Thermal shutdowns happen all the time when I let my kids 
play on my laptop. I sure hope Iceweasel/Flash will work better in 
Squeeze ...




I installed the latest flashplayer from Adobe and that fixed the 
problem. Who knows why people like facebook, that was the problem, its 
videos. And why did it bring down X? Who knows.


Hugo


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Popcon usage (online tool)

[Camaleón]

Hello,

I would like to compare the numbers for some packages within the Popcon¹ 
online tool to get a quick feedback, but it seems to be limited to just 
one query at a time (I mean, I would like to get something like "http://
qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=package_one&package=package_two" and 
obtain the stats -in one page- of the selected packages).
 
Is there a (non-obvious-or-tricked) way to get this?

¹ http://popcon.debian.org/

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Anthony Campbell]

On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > 
> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
> height of 32 and then rebooted.  The boot screen and initial scripts
> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
> 
> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
> fonts.  There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
> height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
> kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
> kbd-compat was already installed.
> 
> What now?
> 
> Tom
> 

Isn't this the KMS issue? I solved it by editing
/etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, as suggested by 
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-radeon.

The change to tiny font half-way through booting was exactly the symptom
I had before doing the above.

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Thomas H. George]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:12:20AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
> >height of 32 and then rebooted.  The boot screen and initial scripts
> >were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
> >
> >About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
> >fonts.  There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
> >height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
> >kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
> >kbd-compat was already installed.
> >
> >What now?
> >
> >Tom
> 
> Don't change the subject line unless you plan to change the topic.
> 
> sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> Edit:
> kernel /boot/blah-blah-kernel root=/my/device ro quiet splash
> 
> Add:
> vga=HEX
> 
> 
> Size 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
> +--
>  8 bits |  0x300   0x301   0x3030x3050x1610x307 0x31C
> 15 bits |? 0x310   0x3130x3160x1620x319 0x31D
> 16 bits |? 0x311   0x3140x3170x1630x31A 0x31E
> 
> In otherwords, changing the console resolution should solve your
> problem.  You just have to be careful because you could end up with
> squishy text but it will be bigger.
> 
I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries
and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the
start of the default options list.  Within this list is 

#kopt=root=UUID= where  is the UUID of the root partition which
was previously known as /dev/sdb1

The following entry is

groot=(hd0,0)

though at some point in the original setup I specified writing the MBR
to /dev/sda and to /dev/sdb.  I had used lilo to write a different MBR
to /dev/hda.  Subsequently grub failed to boot the system because it
could not find the root partition but lilo could still boot the system
and running update-grub corrected grub's problem.

After a number of additional default entries the end of the default
options list is reached.  Following this is the entry

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64

followed by several more such entries for earlier kernels and then the
END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST.  Since the current kernel and two
other recent kernels were not included in the above list I added 

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
vga=0x311

to the end of the file, saved the file, ran update-grub and rebooted.
The scripts still change to the tiny font in middle of the reboot.

Questions: Why are the newer kernels not included in the Automagic
listings?  Is there a conflict between root (hd0,0) and root=/dev/sdb1?
Why does the system still switch to tiny fonts during bootup?
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:

> On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote:
>> > 
>> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
>> height of 32 and then rebooted.  The boot screen and initial scripts
>> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
>> 
>> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
>> fonts.  There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
>> height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
>> kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
>> kbd-compat was already installed.
>> 
>> What now?
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>
> Isn't this the KMS issue? I solved it by editing
> /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, as suggested by 
> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-radeon.

This is not a solution but rather a workaround that may stop working at
some time in the future when xserver-xorg-video-radeon starts to
_require_ KMS.  Beside, it already won't work for Nvidia cards if you
want to use the Nouveau X driver.  So far, Thomas has not told anything
about his graphics card.

> The change to tiny font half-way through booting was exactly the symptom
> I had before doing the above.

The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain.

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain.

Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily
missed apparently) that even though he used your "fix" the font resets
back to a small size a little ways into the boot.


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Re: repair partition: wrong size

[Bob McGowan]

On 08/05/2010 07:07 AM, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that the partition sizes on my usb disk are wrong.
> 
> debian:/# fsck -f /dev/sdb2
> fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1953905 blocks
> The physical size of the device is 487974 blocks
> Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
> Abort? yes
> 
> These are the sizes reported:
> 
> debian:/# sfdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>Device Boot Start End   #cyls#blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *  0+972 973-   7815591   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb29731215 2431951897+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb3   121629181703   13679347+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb4   291997286810   547013255  Extended
> /dev/sdb5   2919+   3891 973-   7815591   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb6   3892+   4864 973-   7815591   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb7   4865+   97284864-  39070048+  83  Linux
> 
> 
> sdb2 an sdb3 are wrong, they both ought to be 7815591.
> 
> How does one repair that?
> 
> Hugo
> 

Have you tried the '-b' option, to use an alternate superblock?

If the primary has been corrupted, using an alternate would/should fix
the issue, assuming the alternate is OK.

See the man page for e2fsck for a way to figure out where the alternates
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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Javier Vasquez]

On 8/5/10, Sven Joachim  wrote:
> On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
>> On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote:
>>> >
>>> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
>>> height of 32 and then rebooted.  The boot screen and initial scripts
>>> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
>>>
>>> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
>>> fonts.  There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
>>> height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
>>> kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
>>> kbd-compat was already installed.
>>>
>>> What now?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>
>> Isn't this the KMS issue? I solved it by editing
>> /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, as suggested by
>> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
>
> This is not a solution but rather a workaround that may stop working at
> some time in the future when xserver-xorg-video-radeon starts to
> _require_ KMS.  Beside, it already won't work for Nvidia cards if you
> want to use the Nouveau X driver.  So far, Thomas has not told anything
> about his graphics card.
>
>> The change to tiny font half-way through booting was exactly the symptom
>> I had before doing the above.
>
> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain.
>
> Sven


That's right.  Actually I always look for full resolution on console.
Before KMS, for some cards I had to load the corresponding module
through /etc/modules and for some of those, I also had to provide the
resolution parameters through /etc/modprobe.d/.conf.  KMS
seems to always look for full resolution, so I've removed the stuff
from modules and modprobe.conf.  Notice some times uvesafb was the
only alternative to get required resolution, :-)

When you have bigger resolution on console, you need bigger fonts.
The recommendation Sven provided is the correct one (dpkg-reconfigure
console-setup).  However console-tools doesn't handle some fonts sizes
for some particular fonts, and thus, the solution is just to use
original kbd instead (which seems to support more fonts sizes).  This
has been required even before KMS showed up, unless you didn't care
about getting full/bigger resolution on console...

As an additional suggestion, I recommend using console-terminus (if
you want you can also try xfonts-terminus), so you select it as well
when running dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, :-)

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Javier Vasquez]

On 8/5/10, Jordon Bedwell  wrote:
> On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain.
>
> Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily
> missed apparently) that even though he used your "fix" the font resets
> back to a small size a little ways into the boot.

It's not that you got small fonts back.  It's that console-tools
doesn't support the combination of font and size you selected.  A
message is prompted out of dpkg-reconfigure when that happens usually.
 So using kbd instead of console-tools, and then running
dpkg-reconfigure agian, usually takes care of that problem.

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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Gary Roach]

Thanks for all of the responses. I thought that since they were so wide 
ranging that a condensed list might be helpful to others. Obviously I'm 
not the only one with the problem. In no particular order:
Run own (private, locked-down) Mediawiki installation - this 
allows access where ever you are.


Kjots but prefers the zim program (personal wiki). Zim 
outstanding especially in conjuction with iceowl. (2 hits)


Kontact good choice but needs tool to search inside all that 
information. Unsure what tools available in KDE4. Akonadi+strigi+nepomuk 
might do the job.


Tomboy used for this very purpose.

Use text files in a directory system with discriptive names. 
Use a script program to search for hard to find stuff.


Gnote for keeping notes and Orage for scheduling tasks/events.

Email notes to self. You can search the email files.


Again thanks everyone. Seems I have a little research to do here.


Gary R.


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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Tom H]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George  wrote:
>
> I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries
> and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the
> start of the default options list.  Within this list is
>
> #kopt=root=UUID= where  is the UUID of the root partition which
> was previously known as /dev/sdb1
>
> The following entry is
> groot=(hd0,0)
>
> though at some point in the original setup I specified writing the MBR
> to /dev/sda and to /dev/sdb.  I had used lilo to write a different MBR
> to /dev/hda.  Subsequently grub failed to boot the system because it
> could not find the root partition but lilo could still boot the system
> and running update-grub corrected grub's problem.
>
> After a number of additional default entries the end of the default
> options list is reached.  Following this is the entry
>
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro
> initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64
>
> followed by several more such entries for earlier kernels and then the
> END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST.  Since the current kernel and two
> other recent kernels were not included in the above list I added
>
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
> vga=0x311
>
> to the end of the file, saved the file, ran update-grub and rebooted.
> The scripts still change to the tiny font in middle of the reboot.
>
> Questions: Why are the newer kernels not included in the Automagic
> listings?  Is there a conflict between root (hd0,0) and root=/dev/sdb1?
> Why does the system still switch to tiny fonts during bootup?
> initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64

"kopt=..." defines the /boot where the automagic kernels are and the
options to give the kernel line for these kernels (sdb1, in your case)
and "groot=..." defines the /boot where /boot/grub is (that's why it
is (hdX,Y) and not (hdX) even though you've written grub's stage 1 to
the mbr).

Given that you installed grub to sda and sdb, you must have a raid
setup so mixing an sdb1 / and an sda1 /boot is weird but the new
kernels should be seen by update-grub; "should" is the operative
word...

I am curious though. Since you are running testing or unstable, could
it be that your bootloader is grub2 and that update-grub is updating
grub.cfg rather than menu.lst? That would also explain why "vga=0x311"
was ineffective.


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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Cláudio E. Elicker]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:13:35 -0700
Gary Roach  wrote:

> Hi;
> I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of 
> information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc.

There is a nice comparison table of "outliners" in [1].
I like keepnote [2].

[1] http://marktaw.com/reviews/Outliners.html
[2] http://rasm.ods.org/keepnote

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-08-05 20:08 +0200, Javier Vasquez wrote:

> That's right.  Actually I always look for full resolution on console.
> Before KMS, for some cards I had to load the corresponding module
> through /etc/modules and for some of those, I also had to provide the
> resolution parameters through /etc/modprobe.d/.conf.  KMS
> seems to always look for full resolution, so I've removed the stuff
> from modules and modprobe.conf.  Notice some times uvesafb was the
> only alternative to get required resolution, :-)

I remember the times when I fiddled around with uvesafb on my laptop
which has i915 graphics.  "Of course" the crappy BIOS does not even
support the native resolution of the display, so I had to "fix" that
with 915resolution first.  I even wrote custom scripts that did this
from the initramfs to reduce the number of video mode changes.  KMS was
a big relief for me.

> When you have bigger resolution on console, you need bigger fonts.
> The recommendation Sven provided is the correct one (dpkg-reconfigure
> console-setup).  However console-tools doesn't handle some fonts sizes
> for some particular fonts, and thus, the solution is just to use
> original kbd instead (which seems to support more fonts sizes).  This
> has been required even before KMS showed up, unless you didn't care
> about getting full/bigger resolution on console...

I ditched console-tools when it suddenly started to switch to tty6 upon
boot¹.  Moving to kbd solved that problem and some others as well.

> As an additional suggestion, I recommend using console-terminus (if
> you want you can also try xfonts-terminus), so you select it as well
> when running dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, :-)

I did not mention console-terminus because console-setup already depends
on it, but it has some nice fonts indeed.

Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570338


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maintainer not responding

[Jeremiah Mahler]

debian-user list,

Debian is a great distribution thanks to the countless hours
volunteers have contributed.
But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug
reports they are responsible for?

Specifically I am interested in these bugs:
[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=nenolod%40sacredspiral.co.uk].

Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just
need a response like "I don't have time to fix these bugs, could
someone please help.".

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cciss module problem with smart array 642 in lenny

[Antonio Javier Estrada Villegas]

i cannot install lenny in a compaq server with smart array 642.
the array and the disks are detected, but there is no entry for cciss in /dev. 
in /proc/modules i can see cciss module is "loading" and ps shows modprobe and 
/lib/udev/vol_id --export /dev/.tmp-104-0 in D < status
  

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Jimmy Johnson]

John A. Sullivan III wrote:


Sure - here is a note from Tim Pearson:

Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
shot? ;-)  Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity

If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
sources.list file:
deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu lenny main 
deb-src
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu lenny main 
deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu
lenny main 
deb-src

http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
main

I believe the repositories are currently down while he awaits the last
of the replacements for the fired power conditioning system.

It does honor any KDEDIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS settings for users operating
in Kiosk mode like we are.

Another note from Tim:
If you install KDE3 and Trinity side-by-side, remember to select Trinity
from the Sessions menu in KDM before logging in, otherwise you will get
a stock KDE3 session.

For those not using KDM (e.g., we do not in our X2Go environment-
another great project - http://www.x2go.org), simply point
at /opt/trinity/bin/startkde instead of /usr/bin/startkde  The start
script will handle the rest.

To enable side by side installations, Trinity stores everything
in /opt/trinity.  It also stores user configuration in ~/.trinity
instead of ~/.kde so, if you want to maintain your configuration, you
will need to copy the .kde contents into .trinity.

In my case, I had to do an apt-get -f in order to properly pull in the
builddeps - I believe the various kdelibs packages. That could be
because of our someone unusual vserver/x2go environment.

Hope this helps and, again, Tim seems to be putting in countless hours
and lots of personal funds to do this and can use all the good help he
can get (I assume) - John



Except for http://www.x2go.org I'm getting 404 on all the trinity links. :-(
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Re: maintainer not responding

[Patrick Ouellette]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:10:49PM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> debian-user list,
> 
> Debian is a great distribution thanks to the countless hours
> volunteers have contributed.
> But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug
> reports they are responsible for?
> 
> Specifically I am interested in these bugs:
> [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=nenolod%40sacredspiral.co.uk].
> 
> Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just
> need a response like "I don't have time to fix these bugs, could
> someone please help.".
> 
> -- 

Jeremiah,

You link to the bug page for a maintainer, not a specific bug or bugs.
You also don't indicate what efforts you have made to contact the maintainer
(if any), and don't appear to be offering to assist in the resolution of
the bugs.

You may get a useful response if you indicated which specific package(s)
you are interested in and which specific bug(s) you currently experience.
Offering to test or help in some fashion also tends to help motivate
people to work on issues.

Pat


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Re: maintainer not responding

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote:

> But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug
> reports they are responsible for?

> Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just
> need a response like "I don't have time to fix these bugs, could
> someone please help.".

Well, that particular volunteer is busy in other tasks or not motivated
enough to work on his packages. Indeed, help is needed there. Can you
fix some of the bugs? Do you know someone who can? Ask other Debian
developers if they can apply patches and upload new version. Perhaps
package should be orphaned but I'm not familiar with Debian's package
orphaning practices.

It's good that you noticed this and care about the package. You might be
the right person to push things forward, at least a bit.

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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:43 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> 
> > Sure - here is a note from Tim Pearson:
> > 
> > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
> > shot? ;-)  Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
> > https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity
> > 
> > If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
> > sources.list file:
> > deb
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu 
> > lenny main 
> > deb-src
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu 
> > lenny main 
> > deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu
> > lenny main 
> > deb-src
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> > main
> > 
> > I believe the repositories are currently down while he awaits the last
> > of the replacements for the fired power conditioning system.
> > 
> > It does honor any KDEDIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS settings for users operating
> > in Kiosk mode like we are.
> > 
> > Another note from Tim:
> > If you install KDE3 and Trinity side-by-side, remember to select Trinity
> > from the Sessions menu in KDM before logging in, otherwise you will get
> > a stock KDE3 session.
> > 
> > For those not using KDM (e.g., we do not in our X2Go environment-
> > another great project - http://www.x2go.org), simply point
> > at /opt/trinity/bin/startkde instead of /usr/bin/startkde  The start
> > script will handle the rest.
> > 
> > To enable side by side installations, Trinity stores everything
> > in /opt/trinity.  It also stores user configuration in ~/.trinity
> > instead of ~/.kde so, if you want to maintain your configuration, you
> > will need to copy the .kde contents into .trinity.
> > 
> > In my case, I had to do an apt-get -f in order to properly pull in the
> > builddeps - I believe the various kdelibs packages. That could be
> > because of our someone unusual vserver/x2go environment.
> > 
> > Hope this helps and, again, Tim seems to be putting in countless hours
> > and lots of personal funds to do this and can use all the good help he
> > can get (I assume) - John
> 
> 
> Except for http://www.x2go.org I'm getting 404 on all the trinity links. :-(

Yes, that's because he has the systems down until he can rebuild the
fried power conditioning system. Hopefully, they will be back up soon -
John


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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Alan Chandler]

On 04/08/10 19:13, Gary Roach wrote:

Hi;
I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are
notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book
that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated
numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result that chaos
reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but didn't cover
tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of scheduling
things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do
about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe a note
on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may never use it but
would like to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I need
a repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I hope
this makes some sense.

Any suggestions.

Gary R





I use a tiddlywiki on a usb stick.  Take it with me everywhere.

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

and note (and brainstorm with myself) with it lots.

With it being a self contained file that just needs a browser, it works 
on almost everything I need it to (not found a way to access it my my 
iPhone yet :-( )


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Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

[Thomas H. George]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George  wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries
> > and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the
> > start of the default options list.  Within this list is
> >
> > #kopt=root=UUID= where  is the UUID of the root partition which
> > was previously known as /dev/sdb1
> >
> > The following entry is
> > groot=(hd0,0)
> >
> > though at some point in the original setup I specified writing the MBR
> > to /dev/sda and to /dev/sdb.  I had used lilo to write a different MBR
> > to /dev/hda.  Subsequently grub failed to boot the system because it
> > could not find the root partition but lilo could still boot the system
> > and running update-grub corrected grub's problem.
> >
> > After a number of additional default entries the end of the default
> > options list is reached.  Following this is the entry
> >
> > title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64
> > root            (hd0,0)
> > kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro
> > initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64
> >
> > followed by several more such entries for earlier kernels and then the
> > END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST.  Since the current kernel and two
> > other recent kernels were not included in the above list I added
> >
> > title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64
> > root            (hd0,0)
> > kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
> > vga=0x311
> >
> > to the end of the file, saved the file, ran update-grub and rebooted.
> > The scripts still change to the tiny font in middle of the reboot.
> >
> > Questions: Why are the newer kernels not included in the Automagic
> > listings?  Is there a conflict between root (hd0,0) and root=/dev/sdb1?
> > Why does the system still switch to tiny fonts during bootup?
> > initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
> 
> "kopt=..." defines the /boot where the automagic kernels are and the
> options to give the kernel line for these kernels (sdb1, in your case)
> and "groot=..." defines the /boot where /boot/grub is (that's why it
> is (hdX,Y) and not (hdX) even though you've written grub's stage 1 to
> the mbr).
> 
> Given that you installed grub to sda and sdb, you must have a raid
> setup so mixing an sdb1 / and an sda1 /boot is weird but the new
> kernels should be seen by update-grub; "should" is the operative
> word...
> 
I do not have a raid setup and /boot is in the root directory on sdb1.
History: /sdb is a 71G hard drive and all the system subdirectories are
subdirectories of the root directory.  sda is a 300G hard drive added to
store large collections of music, photo and video files.  hda is left
over from the days - long gone - when I thought I occasionally needed 
run windoz.

When I recently updated grub the installation script specifically
recommended installing the MBR on each hard drive.  Earlier I had lilo
put an MBR on hda and this proved useful when the grub boot failed as
the lilo boot still worked.  I just tested booting from hda and found
kernel-2.6.32-5 is now too large but the boot of kernel-2.6.32-3 still
works and the system came up with 640x480 resolution and large fonts.
This is not a result of the changes to grub.  When I was using
kernel-2.6.32-3 I had to restore an old copy of xorg.conf otherwise the
boot would not use the nv driver.  When I switched to kernel-2.6.32-5 I
had to remove the xorg.conf file.


> I am curious though. Since you are running testing or unstable, could
> it be that your bootloader is grub2 and that update-grub is updating
> grub.cfg rather than menu.lst? That would also explain why "vga=0x311"
> was ineffective.
> 
You have pinpointed the problem.  The system is Squeeze and when
update-grub is run it reports updating grub.cfg.
> 
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Re: maintainer not responding

[Jeremiah Mahler]

I will look in to the bugs in more detail and see what exactly needs to be done.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Teemu Likonen  wrote:
> * 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
>
>> But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug
>> reports they are responsible for?
>
>> Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just
>> need a response like "I don't have time to fix these bugs, could
>> someone please help.".
>
> Well, that particular volunteer is busy in other tasks or not motivated
> enough to work on his packages. Indeed, help is needed there. Can you
> fix some of the bugs? Do you know someone who can? Ask other Debian
> developers if they can apply patches and upload new version. Perhaps
> package should be orphaned but I'm not familiar with Debian's package
> orphaning practices.
>
> It's good that you noticed this and care about the package. You might be
> the right person to push things forward, at least a bit.
>
> --
> Feel free to Cc me your replies if you want to make sure I'll notice
> them. I can't read all the list mail.
>
>
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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
> shot? ;-)  Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
> https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity
>
> If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
> sources.list file:
> deb
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
> lenny main deb-src
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
> lenny main deb
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> main
> deb-src
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> main

so, if I wanted to install this, I would
# aptitude install trinity ?


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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Jimmy Johnson]

John A. Sullivan III wrote:

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:43 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:



Except for http://www.x2go.org I'm getting 404 on all the trinity links. :-(




Yes, that's because he has the systems down until he can rebuild the
fried power conditioning system. Hopefully, they will be back up soon -




Thanks, John

I check this group Often, maybe you can post a heads-up when it gets 
back on line or some other status change.


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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Jimmy Johnson]

Paul Cartwright wrote:

On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
shot? ;-) Â Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity

If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
sources.list file:
deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
lenny main deb-src
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
lenny main deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
main
deb-src
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
main




so, if I wanted to install this, I would
# aptitude install trinity ?



Personally I would use Synaptic so I can see what packages are
available, it could be 'kde-3-desktop' or 'trinity-desktop', john may be
of more help.
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Re: maintainer not responding

[Jeremiah Mahler]

I reviewed the outstanding bugs shown in
[https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#label/debian-lists/12a43a9b406864ec]
and below is a short summary of what I think needs to be done next.
The 'TODO' sections indicate something that needs to be done by a
Debian maintainer (packaging, forwarding, etc).
The 'TODO_USER' sections indicate something that could be done by a
regular user.

  #406051  qpopper corrupts mailbox when quota exceeded
TODO: forward upstream?

  #437746  libgtkglext1: Program exit via window manager window close
crashes xserver
WAITING: message sent asking for info regarding video driver.

  #537575  uninstallable in unstable
seems to be fixed in current version, installed OK
TODO: close?

  #548383 qpopper: The PAM configuration file does not fit to the
latest libpam-modules package
TODO: patch needs to be applied and checked

  #573522  qpopper: error msg.: fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
Some difference between lenny and squeeze causes qupopper to fail.
TODO: Someone familiar with qpopper may have some insight.
Or if the user provided a more detailed description of how to
reproduce this would help.

  #242944 qpopper: RFC incompliant behavior
TODO: forward upstream

  #275918 qpopper ignores -R or set reverse-lookup = false config item.
TODO: report is from 2004, check if bug still present in latest
version.

  #323492  libgtkglext1-dev: example can segfault
TODO: forward upstream

  #337022  libgtkglext1: bug somewhere near gdk_gl_get_proc_address()
in gdkglquery-x11.c:408
reproducible bug
TODO: forward upstream

  #406687  GLXBadContext error happening only with i810 driver with DRI
TODO: forward upstream?

  #471483  not available on ppc
Is libgtkglext1 available for ppc?
According to

[http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libgtkglext1&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all]
it looks like it is available.
TODO: bug is from 2008, it seems powerpc is available now. close bug?

  #516088  E: qpopper: subprocess post-removal script returned error
exit status 1
It seems to be working now.
WAITING: Message sent asking user to verify if problem is still present.

  #518514  pidgin-mpris: Please remove bmpx dependency
TODO: update package to remove obsolete dependency

  #587984  Outdated API - please update to 0.62
TODO: update package for new upstream version

  #486579  qpopper: debian/watch fails to report upstream version
uscan of qpopper says it needs a new version.
TODO_USER: verify problem is still present

  #529137  qpopper: please upgrade your watch file
similar to bug#486579
TODO: merge with #486579?

  #558512  Missing autoreconf to fix 554821 or similar bugs in the future
Detailed description of what needs to be fixed.
TODO: update package for autoreconf

  #590543  audacious-dumb: remove shared library linking
Has patch to removed dependency on libdumb.so
TODO: check if removing dependency makes sense,
  update package if it does.

There are also some wish list bugs (not shown).


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Jeremiah Mahler  wrote:
> I will look in to the bugs in more detail and see what exactly needs to be 
> done.
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Teemu Likonen  wrote:
>> * 2010-08-05 12:10 (-0700), Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
>>
>>> But what can be done when a maintainer is not responding to the bug
>>> reports they are responsible for?
>>
>>> Some have patches, some need to be forwarded upstream, and lots just
>>> need a response like "I don't have time to fix these bugs, could
>>> someone please help.".
>>
>> Well, that particular volunteer is busy in other tasks or not motivated
>> enough to work on his packages. Indeed, help is needed there. Can you
>> fix some of the bugs? Do you know someone who can? Ask other Debian
>> developers if they can apply patches and upload new version. Perhaps
>> package should be orphaned but I'm not familiar with Debian's package
>> orphaning practices.
>>
>> It's good that you noticed this and care about the package. You might be
>> the right person to push things forward, at least a bit.
>>
>> --
>> Feel free to Cc me your replies if you want to make sure I'll notice
>> them. I can't read all the list mail.
>>
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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Lisi]

On Thursday 05 August 2010 22:32:13 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
> >> shot? ;-) Â Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
> >> https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity
> >>
> >> If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
> >> sources.list file:
> >> deb
> >> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubu
> >>ntu lenny main deb-src
> >> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubu
> >>ntu lenny main deb
> >> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> >> main
> >> deb-src
> >> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> >> main
> >
> > so, if I wanted to install this, I would
> > # aptitude install trinity ?
>
> Personally I would use Synaptic so I can see what packages are
> available, it could be 'kde-3-desktop' or 'trinity-desktop', john may be
> of more help.

Paul -

I think it likely that Trinity will be somewhere in the name, so I would use:
$ aptitude search trinity

Then
# aptitude install 

I am going to be away for a couple of weeks.  Once I am back, then as soon as 
it is available I shall be trying to install Trinity using this method.  I'll 
let you know how I get on.

Lisi


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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:34 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
> > shot? ;-)  Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
> > https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity
> >
> > If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
> > sources.list file:
> > deb
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
> > lenny main deb-src
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
> > lenny main deb
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> > main
> > deb-src
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> > main
> 
> so, if I wanted to install this, I would
> # aptitude install trinity ?

I'm sorry; I thought I had included that in my previous post but I see I
did not.

Install desktop-base-trinity, kdebase-trinity, and kdepim-trinity.

I use a preferences file such as:

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-trinity-trinity-builddeps
Pin-Priority: 902

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-trinity-trinity
Pin-Priority: 901

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: rdesktop
Pin: version 1.6.0-3.1
Pin-Priority: 1001



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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 18:28 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:34 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
> > > shot? ;-)  Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
> > > https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity
> > >
> > > If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
> > > sources.list file:
> > > deb
> > > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
> > > lenny main deb-src
> > > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu
> > > lenny main deb
> > > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> > > main
> > > deb-src
> > > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> > > main
> > 
> > so, if I wanted to install this, I would
> > # aptitude install trinity ?
> 
> I'm sorry; I thought I had included that in my previous post but I see I
> did not.
> 
> Install desktop-base-trinity, kdebase-trinity, and kdepim-trinity.
> 
> I use a preferences file such as:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin: release o=LP-PPA-trinity-trinity-builddeps
> Pin-Priority: 902
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin: release o=LP-PPA-trinity-trinity
> Pin-Priority: 901
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 900
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> Pin-Priority: 800
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 700
> 
> Package: rdesktop
> Pin: version 1.6.0-3.1
> Pin-Priority: 1001
> 
> 
> 
I should mention that the kdepim now has full-fledged CalDAV and CardDAV
support.  We use this for using Zimbra as a backend but I'm sure it will
come in handy for other backends as well.  As far as I know, there are
not that many true CardDAV implementations out there.  Most are still
doing WebDAV - John


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Re: Popcon usage (online tool)

[Ralph Katz]

On 08/05/2010 12:18 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to compare the numbers for some packages within the Popcon¹ 
> online tool to get a quick feedback, but it seems to be limited to just 
> one query at a time (I mean, I would like to get something like "http://
> qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=package_one&package=package_two" and 
> obtain the stats -in one page- of the selected packages).
>  
> Is there a (non-obvious-or-tricked) way to get this?
> 
> ¹ http://popcon.debian.org/

You could just grab the files from links on that page and search locally.

Regards,
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Lenny Skype - suddenly garbled mic sounds

[Ralph Katz]

Posted on skype board with no replies to date.  Perhaps one of you can
shed some insight.

Skype worked fine for about 6 weeks since I first installed it.  But
from this last weekend, I get this darth vader mic sound problem.  My
voice is garbled and s-l-o-w-e-d down on playback from skype test call.
Voice calls unusable. Skype call dialog window Error message something
like "problem with audio capture." I hear the other end; other party
hears nothing.

No audio s/w updated nor installed recently. Mic on sound recorder still
works fine.

Debian Lenny (current updates), Skype Linux 2.1.0.81, backported 2.6.32
kernel, default XFCE debian installation for audio.

So, everything was fine previously. Nothing new installed. No upgrades
should impact audio.
Packages updated recently:
[UPGRADE] ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 -> 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4
[UPGRADE] gs-common 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 -> 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4
[UPGRADE] libgs8 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 -> 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4
[UPGRADE] libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1+lenny1 -> 2.4.11-1+lenny2
[UPGRADE] google-chrome-stable 5.0.375.99-r51029 -> 5.0.375.125-r53311
[UPGRADE] libmozjs1d 1.9.0.19-2 -> 1.9.0.19-3
[UPGRADE] xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.19-2 -> 1.9.0.19-3

Any ideas before I tinker with adding .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf files?
What could have changed that I missed?!

Thanks!



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Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 05/08/10 Nate Bargmann said:

> I've been seeing something similar over the past couple of months on my
> Sid box.  I also found that issuing the `lsusb' command seems to "wake
> up" the system in some way and KDE's Device Notifier will become active
> and I can mount the flash drive.  I've also noticed that I need to do
> the same for a USB-serial converter to be recognized.  Hoever, any
> devices plugged in upon system start are recognized.

lsusb didn't help me at all. I looked for my symptoms via google and found
many running Ubuntu finding the issue, but no real resolution.

Maybe my issue is flakey hardware. Only time will tell.

Mike
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Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2010 05 Aug 20:12 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 05/08/10 Nate Bargmann said:
> 
> > I've been seeing something similar over the past couple of months on my
> > Sid box.  I also found that issuing the `lsusb' command seems to "wake
> > up" the system in some way and KDE's Device Notifier will become active
> > and I can mount the flash drive.  I've also noticed that I need to do
> > the same for a USB-serial converter to be recognized.  Hoever, any
> > devices plugged in upon system start are recognized.
> 
> lsusb didn't help me at all. I looked for my symptoms via google and found
> many running Ubuntu finding the issue, but no real resolution.
> 
> Maybe my issue is flakey hardware. Only time will tell.

It may well be my problem as well.  I have enough live CDs and a couple
of bootable flash drives to get an idea one way or the other.

- Nate >>

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Re: match across line using grep

[Zhang Weiwu]

On 2010年08月04日 04:55, Bob McGowan wrote:
> In fact, the LC_ names all seem to be specific to things
> that would not necessarily impact the regex operation.
>   
It is not totally true. The encoding part might. If it is UTF-8, in
theory, [:digit:] should match more than 0-9. It might, for example,
mache 一-十 (Chinese digits).


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Re: match across line using grep

[Zhang Weiwu]

On 2010年08月04日 00:57, Bob McGowan wrote:
>  I would suspect
> the regex engine is still honoring '. (dot) does not match newline'
> convention but is OK with literals, if present.
>   

It can be a bug in grep implementation.

If your theory holds true, the following should match, but it doesn't.
$ printf "a\nb" | grep -z 'a[^a]*b'
$

Because, if dot does not match newline, like in Java (verified in
Java-based JEdit editor), then dot is equal to

[^\n]

In that case a easy way to workaround it is to replace dot with

[^[:something-horribly-non-existent:]]

P.S. A interesting design might be: for an RE implementation where dot
does not match newline, the very RE implementation should allow [^] to
mean really "matches anything". But the java people didn't do so, they
introduced "DOTALL" mode, if you enter this mode, dot means anything,
otherwise it means [^\n]. This new mode only makes things more
complicated to my understanding.


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Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2010 05 Aug 20:35 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> It may well be my problem as well.  I have enough live CDs and a couple
> of bootable flash drives to get an idea one way or the other.

I booted this machine, an IBM Thinkcentre M51, into Xubuntu 10.04 from
CD-ROM and had the same behavior--I had to run `lsusb' for anything new
to be recognized.  I then booted Fedora 13 from a USB pen and it
wouldn't recognize another USB pen on either the front or rear USB
jacks.

Oh well, I can live with this as the machine was cheap and has good
performance and I don't use a USB pen drive on it all that often.

- Nate >>

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no desktop directory for newly created user and some other issues.

[vishnu vardhan]

no desktop directory for newly created user and some other issues.

OS : Debian Lenny 5.0.4
Desktop Environment : LXDE

I have the following issues and provide some suggestions for the below
numbered list :

issue 1 : no Desktop directory for newly created user :

I have this issue earlier also while installing Debian on my machine.
These are the following steps I took at the time of installation :
[a] install base system
[b] boot into the system and installed lxde.
[c] boot into the system with lxde and unable to find directory folder.
[d] installed GNOME desktop environment and the issue is solved.
[e] purged almost every package related to GNOME.
[f] at present using the system with LXDE desktop environment.

if i open PCMan File Manager and in side pane the defaults are : usr home
folder, Desktop and hard drive volume info. But the Desktop is missing in
the new user and i am also not able to create any files in desktop folder.

I have used the following command to create a new user :
# adduser tmp

provided passwd and details as requested by the command.
shutdown the system with the command : # shutdown 0
booted and directly logged into new user "tmp" and the desktop folder is
missing.

i have observed at the time of creating new user and read the man page of
adduser : adduser command depends on skel directory.

*The skel directory permissions and contents :
*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  675 2008-05-13 00:32 .profile
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 3116 2008-05-13 00:32 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  220 2008-05-13 00:32 .bash_logout
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 17:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 110 root root 4096 2010-08-05 12:10 ..

*the ouput of .profile in skel folder :*

Script started on Thursday 05 August 2010 12:53:52 PM IST
]0;vis...@vishnuvardhan: ~ vis...@vishnuvardhan:~$ cat /etc/skel/.profile
# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
]0;vis...@vishnuvardhan: ~ vis...@vishnuvardhan:~$ exit

Script done on Thursday 05 August 2010 12:54:00 PM IST


*the output of .bashrc in skel directory :
*
Script started on Thursday 05 August 2010 12:54:31 PM IST
]0;vis...@vishnuvardhan: ~ vis...@vishnuvardhan:~$ cat /etc/skel/.profile
bash rc
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
# don't overwrite GNU Midnight Commander's setting of `ignorespace'.
export HISTCONTROL=$HISTCONTROL${HISTCONTROL+,}ignoredups
# ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend

# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)

# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize

# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
#[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"

# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac

# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes

if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\...@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
'
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}...@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt

# If this is an xterm set the title to u...@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot

OTT: OpenFiler vs Thecus N4200?

[Phillipus Gunawan]

Hi There,

Sorry if this is a bit 'Off The Topic' discussion. I am planning to get 
fileserver dedicated for iSCSI.

My option is to grab Thecus N4200 or to build OpenFiler with any Duo-Core CPU, 
>1G RAM, RocketRAID 644 controller, and other basic PC stuff.

I have been googling to compare OpenFiler vs FreeNAS (winner for me: OpenFiler) 
and cheap iSCSI capable barebone NAS from Thecus vs QNAP (winner: Thecus N4200)

When it come to comparing between OpenFiler vs Thecus N4200, I can not get any 
goodies from google. I used OpenFiler for a bit, creating 2 or 3 iSCSI target, 
share folder, but only for short time, just for a fun.

My concern:
- HDD realibility check (live error check, reporting when one of the HDD 
faulty/bad sector/etc)
- RAID/iSCSI re-sizing when I add another HDD
- Easy to maintain

So, if anyone expert can give me a light, would be much appreciated. For a 
started, I will only go with 3x2TB HDD for either option, to be RAID-ed as RAID5


Deeply Thanking you in advance,

Phillipus






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