map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

While working on my Debian box (which btw is a mix of Lenny and Squeeze), I 
find that I type the underscore character ('_') more often than the dash 
character ('-'). It could be file names, variable names while writing code 
etc.,

Typing '_' involves holding the shift key while typing '-' does not involve 
any. I am wondering if there is a way at the OS (or shell) level solution to 
remap '-', '_' one to another so that typing '_' does not involve holding 
shift key but typing '-' does.

Any ideas/comments/suggestions/pointers etc.,?

thanks
raju
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Re: All hung up over netatalk

[Tom H]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Roach  wrote:
>
> I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio "laptop?" that I am upgrading from Lenny
> to Squeeze. Everything worked fine (Using Aptitude) until the installation
> of netatalk started; a program that I really don't need. I get:
>
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
>
> supported_versions: WARNING: Unknown Debian release: 5.0.6
>
> (Reading database ... 91312 files and directories currently installed.)
>
> Preparing to replace netatalk 2.0.3-11+lenny1 (using
> .../netatalk_2.1.2-2_i386.deb) ...
>
> hostname: Unknown host
>
> invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "stop" failed.
>
> dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status
> 1
>
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
>
> hostname: Unknown host
>
> invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "stop" failed.
>
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/netatalk_2.1.2-2_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>
> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>
> update-rc.d: warning: netatalk stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match
> LSB Default-Stop values (1)
>
> insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `netatalk'
> overwrites defaults (1).
>
> hostname: Unknown host
>
> invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "start" failed.
>
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives/netatalk_2.1.2-2_i386.deb
>
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
>
> dpkg: error processing netatalk (--configure):
>
> Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>
> reinstall it before attempting configuration.
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>
> netatalk
>
> Press return to continue.
>
> First /etc/hostname is filled in. When I attempt to reinstall I get the same
> type of error and the process aborts. When I try to remove or purge the
> application I get the same result. An of course, Aptitude won't finish the
> upgrade installation because of this error. I get essentially the same
> result with dpkg. How can I get out of this mess. Help!

Take a look at the netatalk maintainer scripts in "/var/lib/dpkg/info"
to see why they are failing.


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Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

[Andrew Peng]

Hello!

Please take a look and see if this helps

http://www.columbia.edu/~djv/docs/keyremap.html



--Andrew



On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
 wrote:
> While working on my Debian box (which btw is a mix of Lenny and Squeeze), I
> find that I type the underscore character ('_') more often than the dash
> character ('-'). It could be file names, variable names while writing code
> etc.,
>
> Typing '_' involves holding the shift key while typing '-' does not involve
> any. I am wondering if there is a way at the OS (or shell) level solution to
> remap '-', '_' one to another so that typing '_' does not involve holding
> shift key but typing '-' does.
>
> Any ideas/comments/suggestions/pointers etc.,?
>
> thanks
> raju
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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Re: linux-image for i586

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Johan:

> The i486 kernel will run on an i586 box.  Even if you compile the
> kernel for i586 how much speed are you really going to get?  A few
> percent? And how much time do you spend in kernel as opposed to
> userland?  Maybe 3-20 percent depending on what you are doing right?
> So, in rough numbers, that's a 10% off on 10% of what you do for a
> net of roughly 1%.

Actually I am not so much concerned as to speeding up the machine as
for using its all abilities - MMX tech. for example. I do not in any
case - know if it helps - just my opinion as there are different
packages for different CPUs. In past times I saw for i586 CPU packages
in another distro.

> If you actually care about speed, you might upgrade to a new cpu.
> People should be giving away pentium-iii and early athlon boxes for
> free.  (Depending on where you live &c.)

As soon as I find such a person - so I would do.


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Re: linux-image for i586

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt:

> > What are the hardware specs of the machine you have?  Exactly which
> > CPU, how much RAM, what hard disk (size and rpm), etc.  Please
> > provide the following output:
> > 
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > lspci
> > free -m
> > dmidecode
> > 
> > (If your machine is very old, dmidecode may not work).  
> 
> ..'top|head -n 20 ' to see what's eating your iron.

Could You please tell me what is for? What do we want to conclude from
the given info - that will be a lot - speaking about the last utility?

Actually, I though we had already come to the topic's end a while ago -
having found out that there is no linux-image-*i586.deb for the CPU.

It is really funny to continue for me still. - I feel myself owe to
answer in the topic - for You still pay attention to it - the thing I
greatly appreciate. But myself - I think we are just trying to find
something that we/i did not loose. :)


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Re: usb-modeswitch

[Sthu Deus]

Good day, Jochen. You wrote:

> That won't happen. Debian stable doesn't get new packages. There might
> be a package on backports.org, though.

I think it is not there. But Stanisław can use ubuntu for that - a VM
at least using host's USB controller for that.


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can't serve php files in apache2

[Zachary Uram]

Running Debian testing, I installed libapache2-mod-php5, php5,
php5-common, php5-cgi, php-pear and created a test file "info.php"
which is 1 line ""
However when I go to http://myserver.org/info.php it prompts me to
download the PHP file instead of executing it and displaying the
result. I've tried with firefox and IE and get the same result. Any
idea how to get this working?

Zach

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Re: linux-image for i586

[Dirk Neumann]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:49:11 +0700
Sthu Deus  wrote:

> Thank You for Your time and answer, Johan:
> 
> > The i486 kernel will run on an i586 box.  Even if you compile the
> > kernel for i586 how much speed are you really going to get?  A few
> > percent? And how much time do you spend in kernel as opposed to
> > userland?  Maybe 3-20 percent depending on what you are doing right?
> > So, in rough numbers, that's a 10% off on 10% of what you do for a
> > net of roughly 1%.
> 
> Actually I am not so much concerned as to speeding up the machine as
> for using its all abilities - MMX tech. for example. I do not in any
> case - know if it helps - just my opinion as there are different
> packages for different CPUs. In past times I saw for i586 CPU packages
> in another distro.

Not all i586-CPUs have MMX, so I'm not sure if the kernel would use MMX
in i586-mode (despite for runtime-mmx-detection, but this option you
can have without march=i586). And you are always free to 
a) compile a kernel with march=i586
b) use mmx in your favorite userland application

Dirk.


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Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

[Sthu Deus]

Good day.

I have some trouble with growing number of

Load_Cycle_Count

parameter of my HDD. And the

Temperature_Celsius

as well. - Shown by smartctl utility.

So, my question is, How I can stop it spin down? - As I do understand,
w/ the help of sdparm utility (it is SATA drive).

Or may returm to the manufacturer defaults of the drive if any? - As I
tried before to play w/ laptop-mode-tools package, and I did not like
the results.

Or where I can look for a utility that spins it down? In the BIOS I saw
no option for spinning it down - so it is out of culprit list.


Thank You for Your time.


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failure of gnome baker

[Francesco Pietra]

In my updated debian i386 sqeeze/gnome and debian amd64 lenny/gnome i
have no more workable cd-dvd burners. Gnome-baker reports burning (CD
data disk) OK, however the CD is unreadable. In contrast, k3b works
fine for both CD and DVD data disks. However, installation of k3b

apt-get update
apt-get install k3b

brought other problems in:

--command "k3b" also started the  viewer VMD, which had to be closed
twice in order that k3b could be used.

--On restarting the computer, gnome could no more be called and a
RedHat window was brought in instead.

I liked gnome for years, and I use certain gnome-specific scientific
applications, such as GChempain. However I notice now that KDE has a
much more versatile burner (k3b), even if gnome baker could be used.
Also the pdf viewer "okular" (better that Adobe for certain scientific
uses) is part of KDE and alleviated from having to install Adobe. I
believe that gnome developers should consider these observations.
Lukily, okular can be used without problems even in gnome.

Thanks
francesco pietra


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about cd/dvd burners

[Francesco Pietra]

Hello:
gnomebaker returns OK burned, however the CD (data) is unreadable
(debian i386 squeeze). I tried brasero with same issues. The same with
amd64.

 Finally I installed k3b on i386 squeeze,, getting fully functioning
data CD and DV D. Unfortunately, k3b installs too much kde, preventing
startx to launch gnome (a window from RedHat is called instead). Also,
command 'k3b' calld VMD (a viewer package); until VMD is closed twice,
k3b does not work. I had to --purge remove everything about k3b and
kde.

This means that I was unable - at this moment - to get a comfortable
cd/dvd burner with debian-gnome.

thanks for your attention

Francesco Pietra
Accademia Lucchese di Scienze Lettere e Arti
I-55100 Lucca.
email chiendar...@gmail.com or francesco.pie...@accademialucchese.it


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Re: Problems with /etc/modprobe.conf

[Rodolfo Medina]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:55:47 -0500 (EST), Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 
>> Installing the driver for my new printer Samsung ML-1915 (the official
>> Samsung driver) created the file /etc/modprobe.conf, containing the
>> following stuff:
>> 
>>  options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
>> 
>> Since then, at every boot the following warning message appears:
>> 
>>  /etc/modprobe.conf exists but does not include /etc/modprobe.d!
>> 
>> Besides, in the virtual consoles the characters have got smaller, and a few
>> more strange things happen.  So I want to get rid of that file.  But if I
>> remove it, or even only append to it the line:
>> 
>>  include /etc/modprobe.d/
>> 
>> , the error message disappear but the printer does not work.  It may have
>> something to do with the load of /dev/mfp4, the printer port.


Stephen Powell  writes:

>>> [...] First, eliminate the "include" record that you added to
>>> /etc/modprobe.conf.  Then issue the following commands:
>>>
>>> # mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf
>>> # update-initramfs -uk `uname -r`
>>> # shutdown -r now


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:38:28 -0500 (EST), Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> [...] the warning message disappears but the printer
>> doesn't work.  With /etc/modprobe.conf, the printer works normally.


Stephen Powell  writes:

> So the warning message disappears.  Good.  But what about the virtual console
> characters?  Are the characters still smaller than they were before?  What
> about the other "strange things"?  Are they still strange?  In other words,
> is the failure of the printer to work the only symptom of moving
> /etc/modprobe.conf to the /etc/modprobe.d directory and naming it
> parport.conf?  Does everything else in your system behave the way it did
> before you installed the printer driver?  Or is something else different?


After moving /etc/modprobe.conf to the /etc/modprobe.d directory and naming it
parport.conf and rebooting, apparently everything else in my system behaves the
way it did before I installed the printer driver.  The only problem is that the
printer doesn't work.  If I want it to work, I have to leave /etc/modprobe.conf
there where Samsung put it.

Thanks
Rodolfo


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Re: can't serve php files in apache2

[emmanuel segura]

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

2010/11/12 Zachary Uram :
> Running Debian testing, I installed libapache2-mod-php5, php5,
> php5-common, php5-cgi, php-pear and created a test file "info.php"
> which is 1 line ""
> However when I go to http://myserver.org/info.php it prompts me to
> download the PHP file instead of executing it and displaying the
> result. I've tried with firefox and IE and get the same result. Any
> idea how to get this working?
>
> Zach
>
> <>< http://www.fidei.org ><>
>
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Making /tmp noexec

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I was reading this page about making tmp non-executable
(http://pario.no/2007/10/04/making-tmp-non-executable/) but it seems a
little out of date as I'm using Squeeze.

I changed fstab, and edited by 70debconf to

DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"mount -o remount,exec
/tmp";"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
DPkg::Post-Invoke{"mount -o remount /tmp";};

is this correct? Aptitude still works fine, but I was wondering if
anyone had experience of pitfalls with this?

Would I replicate this for my /var partition and is there any point to
doing this with /home?

Thanks,
Jim


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Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:11:11 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:

(...)
 
> What I would really like to do is have the second display tied to the
> login session of the first display but as a separate workspace.  In
> other words, when logged in I could set it to workspace 5 while I use
> 1-4 on my main display.  In other words, I'd like to keep a couple of
> applications visible/running on the second display while I do whatever
> on the first.  Is such an arrangement even possible?  Has no one else
> thought of this before?

I dunno how that adapter works (and it's quite expensive and low 
performance! wouldn't have been better to replace your current VGA card 
with a new one featuring 2 VGA outputs? :-?) but if I understood you 
correctly, you are looking for a Xinerama/Dual view separate layout, what 
is quiteeasy to get from one VGA card with dual outputs.

The problem I see here is to understand how Xorg sees the USB adapter and 
how could you configure a dual view setup with that device or even 
whether if it is possible to achieve that (I'm not sure Xorg can manage 
two separate VGA adapters and join both desktops but run as independent 
screens).

Greetings,

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Re: can't serve php files in apache2

[Zachary Uram]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:13 AM, emmanuel segura  wrote:
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

To which file do I add this?

Zach


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Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Artur Frydel]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:29:03 +, Artur Frydel wrote:
>
>> Some times ago I used multimedia.org. Now, I don't use them anymore. But
>> some packages  were installed from theirs source, for example yesterday
>> I discovered old flashplayer-mozilla...
>> 
>> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
>> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
>
> No magical command this time... but GUI :-P
>

Sad but true :)
I've done this in this "synaptic" method. This one works for me.
There was one ugly packet - acroread. Removed. And some libs for dvd
read. I don't want them now.
I've found w32codecs also. Thery are needed by mplayer to work witch
some windows codecs? Am I right? Is any method to replace this packet -
not using multimedia?



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Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Artur Frydel]

Alberto Luaces wrote:
> Artur Frydel writes:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Some times ago I used multimedia.org. Now, I don't use them anymore.
>> But some packages  were installed from theirs source, for
>> example yesterday I discovered old flashplayer-mozilla...
>>
>> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
>> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
>
> If you don't have multimedia.org as a source anymore, aptitude will show
> all its packages as `obsolete'.
>

Any magical command to see all obsolete packets in my system?

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Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Eric Viseur]

Run aptitude with the ncurses interface :
$ aptitude

2010/11/12 Artur Frydel 

> Alberto Luaces wrote:
> > Artur Frydel writes:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> Some times ago I used multimedia.org. Now, I don't use them anymore.
> >> But some packages  were installed from theirs source, for
> >> example yesterday I discovered old flashplayer-mozilla...
> >>
> >> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
> >> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
> >
> > If you don't have multimedia.org as a source anymore, aptitude will show
> > all its packages as `obsolete'.
> >
>
> Any magical command to see all obsolete packets in my system?
>
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> "Always look on the bright side of life."
>
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Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Artur Frydel]

tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> 11/11/2010 14:42, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> tv.deb...@googlemail.com:
>>> 11/11/2010 13:29, Artur Frydel wrote:

 Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
 repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
>>>
>>> aptitude search ~S~i~mmarillat
>> 
>> This will report packages of Christian Marillat from the regular Debian
>> repository as well.
>> 
>> J.
>
> True, forgot about that, then :
>
> aptitude search ~S~i\(~mmarillat\!~Odebian\)
>
> should narrow it to out-of-debian packages.
>

It's magic :) But it's works!
My debian show me this asnwer;

r...@glowny:# aptitude search ~S~i\(~mmarillat\!~Odebian\)
i   lame-extras
- LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
i   libx264-59
- x264 video coding library
i   w32codecs
- win32 binary codecs

Which of them are unnesessary? In common desktop...
How to replace w32 codecs? I strongly prefere mplayer.. vlc is not for
me..

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Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Andy Jacobsen]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:23:44 + (UTC)
Artur Frydel  wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:29:03 +, Artur Frydel wrote:
> >
> >> Some times ago I used multimedia.org. Now, I don't use them anymore. But
> >> some packages  were installed from theirs source, for example yesterday
> >> I discovered old flashplayer-mozilla...
> >> 
> >> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
> >> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
> >
> > No magical command this time... but GUI :-P
> >

Dont know if these commands are magic but they work quite good. ;)

Shows all packages from multimedia.org:
$ aptitude search ~Omultimedia

Shows only the installed one:
$ aptitude search ~Omultimedia |grep ^i


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Re: can't serve php files in apache2

[emmanuel segura]

if using apache2 look in -l /etc/apache2/mod-enable/*.conf

2010/11/12 Zachary Uram :
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:13 AM, emmanuel segura  wrote:
>> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
>
> To which file do I add this?
>
> Zach
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Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:09:08 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> Good day.
> 
> I have some trouble with growing number of
> 
> Load_Cycle_Count
> 
> parameter of my HDD. And the
> 
> Temperature_Celsius
> 
> as well. - Shown by smartctl utility.

And what are those "offending" values"? :-)

> So, my question is, How I can stop it spin down? - As I do understand,
> w/ the help of sdparm utility (it is SATA drive).
> 
> Or may returm to the manufacturer defaults of the drive if any? - As I
> tried before to play w/ laptop-mode-tools package, and I did not like
> the results.
> 
> Or where I can look for a utility that spins it down? In the BIOS I saw
> no option for spinning it down - so it is out of culprit list.

There some documents about that (load_cycle_count), you can review them 
here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop#Hard_drive_spin_down_problem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695

As per temperature, some hard disk manufacturers read raw values and not 
normalized, just be sure you are reading/interpreting in the right manner:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/FAQ#Whyismydisktemperaturesreportedbysmartdas150Celsius

Besides, is hard disk the only device getting warm? Maybe you are facing 
a general cooling problem? :-?

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Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Artur Frydel]

Andy Jacobsen wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:23:44 + (UTC)
> Artur Frydel  wrote:
>
>> Camaleón wrote:
>> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:29:03 +, Artur Frydel wrote:
>> >
>> >> Some times ago I used multimedia.org. Now, I don't use them anymore. But
>> >> some packages  were installed from theirs source, for example yesterday
>> >> I discovered old flashplayer-mozilla...
>> >> 
>> >> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
>> >> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
>> >
>> > No magical command this time... but GUI :-P
>> >
>
> Dont know if these commands are magic but they work quite good. ;)
>
> Shows all packages from multimedia.org:
> $ aptitude search ~Omultimedia
>
> Shows only the installed one:
> $ aptitude search ~Omultimedia |grep ^i
>
>

Are you sure?
This one show me nothing, and I have w32codecs from multimedia.org...

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Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

[Rob Owens]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:02:00AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> While working on my Debian box (which btw is a mix of Lenny and Squeeze), I 
> find that I type the underscore character ('_') more often than the dash 
> character ('-'). It could be file names, variable names while writing code 
> etc.,
> 
> Typing '_' involves holding the shift key while typing '-' does not involve 
> any. I am wondering if there is a way at the OS (or shell) level solution to 
> remap '-', '_' one to another so that typing '_' does not involve holding 
> shift key but typing '-' does.
> 
Use xmodmap and/or a .Xmodmap file in your home directory.  You man need
to use xev to find the keycodes.

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Re: failure of gnome baker

[Rob Owens]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:58:29AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> In my updated debian i386 sqeeze/gnome and debian amd64 lenny/gnome i
> have no more workable cd-dvd burners. Gnome-baker reports burning (CD
> data disk) OK, however the CD is unreadable. In contrast, k3b works
> fine for both CD and DVD data disks. However, installation of k3b
> 
You could also try Brasero.  

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Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Wolodja Wentland]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 13:59 +0100, Andy Jacobsen wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:23:44 + (UTC)
> Artur Frydel  wrote:

> > >> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
> > >> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
> > > No magical command this time... but GUI :-P

> Dont know if these commands are magic but they work quite good. ;)
[…]
> Shows only the installed one:
> $ aptitude search ~Omultimedia |grep ^i

Or combined:

$ aptitude search ~i~Omultimedia

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Nouveau and Nvidia backlight brightness

[Matt Simmons]

Hello,
I am running Squeeze on my laptop: a macbook pro 7,1.Most is going well,
except the backlight screen brightness. Using the nouveau driver (this
laptop has a 320M), it sets my max_brightness to 1025 according to /sys/.
Unfortunately, a brightness of 1025 is extremely dim, and supposedly the
brightness should be more like 40,000 on this guy. Anyway, installing the
NVidia proprietary driver yields strange results (download from NVidia, not
debian repos), there is nothing in the folder /sys/class/backlight at all!
Kernel 2.6.32-5 amd64.

Thanks,
Matt

Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Artur Frydel [10 12:29 +]:
[...]
> Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
> repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?

aptitude show '~i ~O"Unofficial Multimedia Packages"'

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how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

I have just installed debian squeeze from CD-rom 1 (amd64), and from the
command line run sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment.

But on booting the computer I am still dropped to a shell, and the command
startx
do not work.

How do I start gnome from the command line (and how configure debian to start
it automatically on boot?

Kjetil

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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Amar Cosic]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <
kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just installed debian squeeze from CD-rom 1 (amd64), and from the
> command line run sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment.
>
> But on booting the computer I am still dropped to a shell, and the command
> startx
> do not work.
>
> How do I start gnome from the command line (and how configure debian to
> start
> it automatically on boot?
>
> Kjetil
>
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Did you try something like: /etc/init.d/gdm start/restart as root ?



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Search application for desktop in Squeeze?

[Daniel Andersson]

Hi

Beagle is apparently not actively developed anymore.

Does anyone have a tip on a good search application in Squeeze repository?

It must be able to index PDFs in order to be useful for me.


Best Regards,
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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Dirk Neumann]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:39:56 -0300
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen  wrote:

> I have just installed debian squeeze from CD-rom 1 (amd64), and from the
> command line run sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment.
> 
> But on booting the computer I am still dropped to a shell, and the command
> startx
> do not work.

Can you give more details?

> 
> How do I start gnome from the command line (and how configure debian to start
> it automatically on boot?

Install a display-manager.

Dirk.


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Re: Problems with /etc/modprobe.conf

[Stephen Powell]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:29:44 -0500 (EST), Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Stephen Powell  writes:
>> So the warning message disappears.  Good.  But what about the virtual console
>> characters?  Are the characters still smaller than they were before?  What
>> about the other "strange things"?  Are they still strange?  In other words,
>> is the failure of the printer to work the only symptom of moving
>> /etc/modprobe.conf to the /etc/modprobe.d directory and naming it
>> parport.conf?  Does everything else in your system behave the way it did
>> before you installed the printer driver?  Or is something else different?
> 
> After moving /etc/modprobe.conf to the /etc/modprobe.d directory and naming it
> parport.conf and rebooting, apparently everything else in my system behaves 
> the
> way it did before I installed the printer driver.  The only problem is that 
> the
> printer doesn't work.  If I want it to work, I have to leave 
> /etc/modprobe.conf
> there where Samsung put it.

OK, good.  The rest of your system is working as before.  That's what I wanted
to know.  Now look for evidence that the parport_pc module is getting the 
options
passed to it in the options statement in /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf.  For
example:

   dmesg|grep parport

You should see a message that identifies the I/O port address, the interrupt
level (IRQ) and the DMA channel that was specified in
/etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf.

If you do, then it is safe to assume that the correct options are being
passed to the kernel module.  And that, after all, is the intended purpose
of /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf.  If the correct options are being passed
to kernel module parport_pc, then the problem must be that something in the
printer driver, perhaps a boot-up script, perhaps not, is explicitly looking
for /etc/modprobe.conf and trying to parse its data.  If that is the case,
you may be able to find the script and edit it to look in
/etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf instead.  If the logic is in a compiled program,
and the manufacturer does not provide source code for their driver, then
you are pretty much out of luck.

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Re: Search application for desktop in Squeeze?

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:35:18 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote:

Please, next time open a new thread.

> Beagle is apparently not actively developed anymore.

So it seems.
 
> Does anyone have a tip on a good search application in Squeeze
> repository?
> 
> It must be able to index PDFs in order to be useful for me.

"Tracker" was my choice for a GNOME desktop.

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Re: Search application for desktop in Squeeze?

[Wolodja Wentland]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> Does anyone have a tip on a good search application in Squeeze repository?

Have a look at tracker [1] it might be what you are after. I haven't
checked though if it is in active development.

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/
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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:39:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> I have just installed debian squeeze from CD-rom 1 (amd64), and from the
> command line run sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment.
> 
> But on booting the computer I am still dropped to a shell, and the
> command startx
> do not work.

"startx" should be fine.

What error did you get? Maybe a problem with your VGA card?
 
> How do I start gnome from the command line (and how configure debian to
> start it automatically on boot?

It should be automagically done after you installed "gnome-desktop-
environment" :-?

"/etc/inittab" should say:

***
# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:
***

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Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2010 12 Nov 06:38 -0600, Camaleón wrote:
> I dunno how that adapter works (and it's quite expensive and low 
> performance! wouldn't have been better to replace your current VGA card 
> with a new one featuring 2 VGA outputs? :-?) but if I understood you 
> correctly, you are looking for a Xinerama/Dual view separate layout, what 
> is quiteeasy to get from one VGA card with dual outputs.
> 
> The problem I see here is to understand how Xorg sees the USB adapter and 
> how could you configure a dual view setup with that device or even 
> whether if it is possible to achieve that (I'm not sure Xorg can manage 
> two separate VGA adapters and join both desktops but run as independent 
> screens).

Actually, I swerved into getting it working this morning.  No, it's not
ideal, and yes, a dual head card may have been a better choice, but I
got this at a fairly reasonable price.

Anyway, I have specified all devices in xorg.conf now and have the
USB2VGA display as "Screen 1" to the right of the main display.  XFCE
treats it as a separate workspace and switching workspaces on the main
display ("Screen 0") has no effect on it, exactly as I want.  The only
problem is that its slowness does show when running a program that
continuously updates the screen (Fldigi) but other software does not
have a problem.

Thanks for the reply.

- Nate >>

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RE: tool to benchmark CPU MIPS/FLOPS

[owens]

>
>
>
> Original Message 
>From: zhangwe...@realss.com
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE: tool to benchmark CPU MIPS/FLOPS
>Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:09:46 +0800
>
>> Hello. Failed to google a result (keyword: MIPS FLOPS Linux) here I
>ask
>>in the list. Wikipedia mention MIPS (million instructions per
>second)
>>and FLOPS (similar but calculate float point) for some of CPU
>>performance indicators. Is there some tool to benchmark this in
>Debian?
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
MIPS and FLOPS are artificial measurements that don't necessarily
relate to the actual applications you are running.  Do a Google on
Linux Performance Testing to get a large list and select the tool or
tools that most closely match your application who's performance is
of interest.
Larry
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Re: tool to benchmark CPU MIPS/FLOPS

[owens]

>
>
>
> Original Message 
>From: s...@hardwarefreak.com
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: tool to benchmark CPU MIPS/FLOPS
>Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:35:44 -0600
>
>>Zhang Weiwu put forth on 11/11/2010 9:53 PM:
>>>  On 11/12/2010 10:57 AM, David Jardine wrote:
 Google will probably lead you to an explanation of
 what BogoMIPS are.
>>> 
>>> Sure, I checked bogomips before posting a message to this list. I
>guess
>>> it is not too relative to the original question as bogomips counts
>only
>>> the instructions that does nothing. Or am I wrong?
>>
>>
>>http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/cpu2006.html
>>
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>>
I'm also with Stan on this one.  For a general performance tool the
"spec" has been proven to be very valuable.
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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

see  below.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:20, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:39:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
>> I have just installed debian squeeze from CD-rom 1 (amd64), and from the
>> command line run sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment.
>>
>> But on booting the computer I am still dropped to a shell, and the
>> command startx
>> do not work.
>
> "startx" should be fine.
>
> What error did you get? Maybe a problem with your VGA card?

I had done
apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

then
startx
gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command."

Now I have also done
apt-get install gdm
apt-get install gnome


then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in,
but am only given a blue screen without anything!!!

What to do?

Kjetil

>
>> How do I start gnome from the command line (and how configure debian to
>> start it automatically on boot?
>
> It should be automagically done after you installed "gnome-desktop-
> environment" :-?
>
> "/etc/inittab" should say:
>
> ***
> # The default runlevel.
> id:2:initdefault:
> ***
>
> Greetings,
>
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Re: failure of gnome baker

[Alan Ianson]

Francesco Pietra wrote:

In my updated debian i386 sqeeze/gnome and debian amd64 lenny/gnome i
have no more workable cd-dvd burners. Gnome-baker reports burning (CD
data disk) OK, however the CD is unreadable. In contrast, k3b works
fine for both CD and DVD data disks. However, installation of k3b

apt-get update
apt-get install k3b

brought other problems in:

--command "k3b" also started the  viewer VMD, which had to be closed
twice in order that k3b could be used.

--On restarting the computer, gnome could no more be called and a
RedHat window was brought in instead.

I liked gnome for years, and I use certain gnome-specific scientific
applications, such as GChempain. However I notice now that KDE has a
much more versatile burner (k3b), even if gnome baker could be used.
Also the pdf viewer "okular" (better that Adobe for certain scientific
uses) is part of KDE and alleviated from having to install Adobe. I
believe that gnome developers should consider these observations.
Lukily, okular can be used without problems even in gnome.


I use k3b in gnome under squeeze because it has features I need at 
times. You'll need to install a whack of kde depends along with it if 
you don't have something kde installed already but it works, at least 
for me. I have a few kde apps installed that I can't find gnome 
equivalents for and they work well.


I've often thought that gnome could use a better or more full featured 
burning app. I rarely burn cd's any more so brasero may be a solution to 
but I haven't needed to use it so I can't say from experience.



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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:20, Camaleón wrote:

>> What error did you get? Maybe a problem with your VGA card?
> 
> I had done
> apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
> 
> then
> startx
> gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command."
> 
> Now I have also done
> apt-get install gdm
> apt-get install gnome
> 
> 
> then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in, but am only
> given a blue screen without anything!!!
> 
> What to do?

By any chance... did you install "gnome-core"?

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Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

[Dan Ritter]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:37:13PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:11:11 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> 
> (...)
>  
> > What I would really like to do is have the second display tied to the
> > login session of the first display but as a separate workspace.  In
> > other words, when logged in I could set it to workspace 5 while I use
> > 1-4 on my main display.  In other words, I'd like to keep a couple of
> > applications visible/running on the second display while I do whatever
> > on the first.  Is such an arrangement even possible?  Has no one else
> > thought of this before?
> 
> I dunno how that adapter works (and it's quite expensive and low 
> performance! wouldn't have been better to replace your current VGA card 
> with a new one featuring 2 VGA outputs? :-?) but if I understood you 
> correctly, you are looking for a Xinerama/Dual view separate layout, what 
> is quiteeasy to get from one VGA card with dual outputs.
> 
> The problem I see here is to understand how Xorg sees the USB adapter and 
> how could you configure a dual view setup with that device or even 
> whether if it is possible to achieve that (I'm not sure Xorg can manage 
> two separate VGA adapters and join both desktops but run as independent 
> screens).

This used to be a simple matter of proper xorg configuration. I
don't know if it still applies, but basically:

Add a second "Device" section for your new adapter. Let's say
the identifier is "USBadapter".

Add a second "Monitor" section for the attached monitor.
Identifier is "Monitor2".

Add a new "Screen" section:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Second Screen"
Device "USBadapter"
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
Virtual 12801024 # or whatever
EndSubSection
EndSection

and finally, modify your section "ServerLayout" to add this
line:

Screen "Second Screen" RightOf "Default Screen" # or
LeftOf, or Above or Below

Restart X, and it ought to be good.

You may need to increase your default Virtual to encompass both
screens.

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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

see below ...

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:15, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:20, Camaleón wrote:
>
>>> What error did you get? Maybe a problem with your VGA card?
>>
>> I had done
>> apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
>>
>> then
>> startx
>> gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command."
>>
>> Now I have also done
>> apt-get install gdm
>> apt-get install gnome
>> 
>>
>> then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in, but am only
>> given a blue screen without anything!!!
>>
>> What to do?
>
> By any chance... did you install "gnome-core"?

don`t know. Go and see now...

Thanks, kjetil

>
> Greetings,
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Re: Problems with /etc/modprobe.conf

[Rodolfo Medina]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:55:47 -0500 (EST), Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 
>> Installing the driver for my new printer Samsung ML-1915 (the official
>> Samsung driver) created the file /etc/modprobe.conf, containing the
>> following stuff:
>> 
>>  options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
>> 
>> Since then, at every boot the following warning message appears:
>> 
>>  /etc/modprobe.conf exists but does not include /etc/modprobe.d!
>> 
>> Besides, in the virtual consoles the characters have got smaller, and a few
>> more strange things happen.  So I want to get rid of that file.  But if I
>> remove it, or even only append to it the line:
>> 
>>  include /etc/modprobe.d/
>> 
>> , the error message disappear but the printer does not work.  It may have
>> something to do with the load of /dev/mfp4, the printer port.


Stephen Powell  writes:

>>> [...] First, eliminate the "include" record that you added to
>>> /etc/modprobe.conf.  Then issue the following commands:
>>>
>>> # mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf
>>> # update-initramfs -uk `uname -r`
>>> # shutdown -r now


Stephen Powell  writes:

> Now look for evidence that the parport_pc module is getting the options
> passed to it in the options statement in /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf.  For
> example:
>
>dmesg|grep parport
>
> You should see a message that identifies the I/O port address, the interrupt
> level (IRQ) and the DMA channel that was specified in
> /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf.
>
> If you do, then it is safe to assume that the correct options are being
> passed to the kernel module.  And that, after all, is the intended purpose
> of /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf.  If the correct options are being passed
> to kernel module parport_pc, then the problem must be that something in the
> printer driver, perhaps a boot-up script, perhaps not, is explicitly looking
> for /etc/modprobe.conf and trying to parse its data.  If that is the case,
> you may be able to find the script and edit it to look in
> /etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf instead.  If the logic is in a compiled program,
> and the manufacturer does not provide source code for their driver, then
> you are pretty much out of luck.


# dmesg|grep parport
[   11.593036] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[   71.028713] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).


Then I edited the `install.sh' script as you suggested.  I'm pretty sure to
have replaced all the possible occurrences of any expression resulting in
/etc/modprobe.conf with the corrispondent instance that gives
/etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf in a clever manner.  Then I reinstalled and
rebooted, but the printer is dead.  It lives up again if I restore things as
the manufacturer wants: /etc/modprobe.conf.  Editing that script is just the
same as merely replacing by hand /etc/modprobe.conf with
/etc/modprobe.d/parport.conf.

Now I wish to uninstall all and use the debianized packages at:

  http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/

Are they the same that you use?  Can you check the toner level with them?
That's the only reason Samsung software is useful.  If there's another way, I'm
going to uninstall it.

Thanks
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Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:

> And what are those "offending" values"? :-)

I will not bring them here - so You may not say, Ah it is ok - there
are even worse cases do exist! - For what is ok for one - not so for
another. :) I just saw better values - and want to restore it - before
my experiments w/ laptop-mode-tools.

> There some documents about that (load_cycle_count), you can review
> them here:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop#Hard_drive_spin_down_problem
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695

Could You please share w/ me how You found those? - I would like to
have some googling search study - for I was searching before giving my
question here - but it did help me a little. I was looking for the
parameter name itself, sdparm, HDD life lengthening in general.

> Besides, is hard disk the only device getting warm? Maybe you are
> facing a general cooling problem? :-?

Yes, it is w/ HDD only - but it is not so much w/ temperature my
worries are as for spinning down.


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Re: linux-image for i586

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Dirk:

> Not all i586-CPUs have MMX, so I'm not sure if the kernel would use
> MMX in i586-mode (despite for runtime-mmx-detection, but this option
> you can have without march=i586). And you are always free to 
> a) compile a kernel with march=i586
> b) use mmx in your favorite userland application

Could You be a bit more specific here w/ b) option?
Thank You, once again.


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Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:35:31 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
> 
>> And what are those "offending" values"? :-)
> 
> I will not bring them here 

Ouch!

> - so You may not say, Ah it is ok - there are
> even worse cases do exist! - For what is ok for one - not so for
> another. :) I just saw better values - and want to restore it - before
> my experiments w/ laptop-mode-tools.

Okay, okay... I know comparisons can -sometimes- be counterproductive but 
most of the time help a lot :-)
 
>> There some documents about that (load_cycle_count), you can review them
>> here:
>> 
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/
Laptop#Hard_drive_spin_down_problem
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695
> 
> Could You please share w/ me how You found those? - I would like to have
> some googling search study - for I was searching before giving my
> question here - but it did help me a little. I was looking for the
> parameter name itself, sdparm, HDD life lengthening in general.

X-)

Well, no "black magic"... I was aware of the problem (maybe I read about 
that behaviour in another mailing list or just noticed via RSS, anyway, 
it was "old news" for me -it was noticeable in other distros, BTW-). 

For instance:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=839&q=load_cycle_count&btnG=Google+Search
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&biw=1280&bih=839&q=load_cycle_count+smartctl&btnG=Search

Can give you a start point for digging.

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kernel option for scsi emulation

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I have 2 kernels: Debian's 2.6.32-5-686 and my own 2.6.36-hvw.

The former no longer has /dev/hd* the latter does as shown by blkid. [1] 
blkid for 2.6.32-5-686 and [2] for 2.6.36-hvw.


What kernel option is responsible for that? Obviously I don't have that 
set in 2.6.36-hvw.


Thanks.

Hugo

[1]
/dev/sda1: LABEL="6Y080P0.01" 
UUID="1205def1-2141-4b3a-97d0-0b94ca1c4ff2" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="6Y080P0.05" 
UUID="dc767bc6-ebe4-4dfb-a8f1-739709598dc7" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="6Y080P0.06" 
UUID="a7cfe5f2-b136-4a73-ac8a-f3e2121102c8" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="6Y080P0.07" 
UUID="45ee8af8-c443-42d4-ae59-6f68e33932e8" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="ST380011A.01" 
UUID="1ab511e2-8e17-460e-91e2-a46d85c55654" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="ST380011A.02" 
UUID="4c899a3a-4a3c-4910-aa35-a86a24e9c036" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="ST380011A.03" 
UUID="4c899a3a-4a3c-4910-aa35-a86a24e9c036" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb5: LABEL="ST380011A.05" 
UUID="3ff336b4-c16e-43c4-868a-b50dd22ebe59" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb6: LABEL="ST380011A.06" 
UUID="1d4e5f26-36a2-49d2-840d-83206ddedb44" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb7: LABEL="ST380011A.07" 
UUID="5bf6de45-0c3a-453c-9faf-34905b1cc654" TYPE="ext2"

/dev/sda8: LABEL="win_D" UUID="4131-BA32" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="6Y080P0.09" 
UUID="5a09faf0-6f8e-4c72-a23b-46fe963754ef" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda10: LABEL="6Y080P0.10" 
UUID="66c1d026-1e4c-4392-8aa0-e0d9f2cb4277" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.01" 
UUID="51c42282-286b-4675-874d-a91a71b6e390" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc2: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.02" 
UUID="ca8ce431-52ae-4368-8e55-a93085d39d09" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc3: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.03" 
UUID="276a49d4-e31c-4b5e-aecc-e25558dd6b2c" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc5: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.05" 
UUID="62f0736f-460e-4b2d-90e9-a165f935ff66" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc6: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.06" 
UUID="c1301727-ecc3-480f-8749-e5326f2e6dfe" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc7: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.07" 
UUID="7c5f6382-76dc-40a6-9916-234b6797ad34" TYPE="ext2"

/dev/sdd1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="GLADYS" UUID="38B9-234F" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sde1: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.01" 
UUID="b2310659-60e2-4af2-8211-aae960c18bce" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sde2: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.02" 
UUID="257fbb4c-4526-4da0-a287-4f6b93c3ca87" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sde3: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.03" 
UUID="56b87482-73bf-4343-af80-4ddd98c1e377" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sde5: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.05" 
UUID="cd0db4e9-1ef7-49fb-afa9-415cc83da95c" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sde6: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.06" 
UUID="d8701e3c-8357-4069-9e96-66ee307d69aa" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sde7: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.07" 
UUID="89f34b01-5d68-4bb6-927f-ee5b6b7c0a46" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sde8: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.08" 
UUID="4fbe9d8e-2efb-4ef8-8189-a9fb494b347d" TYPE="ext2"


[2]
/dev/sda1: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.01" 
UUID="51c42282-286b-4675-874d-a91a71b6e390" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.05" 
UUID="62f0736f-460e-4b2d-90e9-a165f935ff66" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.06" 
UUID="c1301727-ecc3-480f-8749-e5326f2e6dfe" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.07" 
UUID="7c5f6382-76dc-40a6-9916-234b6797ad34" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.01" 
UUID="b2310659-60e2-4af2-8211-aae960c18bce" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.02" 
UUID="257fbb4c-4526-4da0-a287-4f6b93c3ca87" TYPE="ext2" 

/dev/sdb3: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.03" 
UUID="56b87482-73bf-4343-af80-4ddd98c1e377" TYPE="ext2" 

/dev/sdb5: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.05" 
UUID="cd0db4e9-1ef7-49fb-afa9-415cc83da95c" TYPE="ext2" 

/dev/sdb6: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.06" 
UUID="d8701e3c-8357-4069-9e96-66ee307d69aa" TYPE="ext2" 

/dev/sdb7: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.07" 
UUID="89f34b01-5d68-4bb6-927f-ee5b6b7c0a46" TYPE="ext2" 

/dev/hda1: LABEL="6Y080P0.01" 
UUID="1205def1-2141-4b3a-97d0-0b94ca1c4ff2" TYPE="ext2" 

/dev/hda5: LABEL="6Y080P0.05" 
UUID="dc767bc6-ebe4-4dfb-a8f1-739709598dc7" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hda6: LABEL="6Y080P0.06" 
UUID="a7cfe5f2-b136-4a73-ac8a-f3e2121102c8" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hda7: LABEL="6Y080P0.07" 
UUID="45ee8af8-c443-42d4-ae59-6f68e33932e8" TYPE="ext2"

/dev/hda8: LABEL="win_D" UUID="4131-BA32" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/hda9: LABEL="6Y080P0.09" 
UUID="5a09faf0-6f8e-4c72-a23b-46fe963754ef" TYPE="swap"
/dev/hda10: LABEL="6Y080P0.10" 
UUID="66c1d026-1e4c-4392-8aa0-e0d9f2cb4277" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hdc1: LABEL="ST380011A.01" 
UUID="1ab511e2-8e17-460e-91e2-a46d85c55654" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hdc2: LABEL="ST380011A.02" 
UUID="4c899a3a-4a3c-4910-aa35-a86a24e9c036" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hdc3: LABEL="ST380011A.03" 
UUID="4c899a3a-4a3c-4910-aa35-a86a24e9c036" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hdc5: LABEL="ST380011A.05" 
UUID="3ff336b4-c16e-43c4-868a-b50dd22ebe59" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hdc6: LABEL="ST380011A.06" 
UUID="1d4e5f26-36a2-49d2-840d-83206ddedb44" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hdc7: LABEL="ST380011A.07" 
UUID="5bf6de45-0c3a-453c-9faf-34905b1cc654" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.02" 
UUID="ca8ce431-52ae-4368-8e55-a93085d39d09" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="wd80_0jd-60.03" 
UUID="276a49d4-e31c-4b5e-aecc-e25558dd6b2c" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb8: LABEL="WD16_00AAJB.08" 
UUID="4fbe9d8e-2efb-4ef8-8189-a9fb494b347d" TYPE="ext2"



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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Florian Kulzer]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

[...]

> I had done
> apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
> 
> then
> startx
> gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command."
> 
> Now I have also done
> apt-get install gdm
> apt-get install gnome
> 
> 
> then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in,
> but am only given a blue screen without anything!!!
> 
> What to do?

Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done
automatically when you install gnome, AFAIK (to allow people to run the
X server on another computer if they want to).

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Re: Nouveau and Nvidia backlight brightness

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:51:39 -0500, Matt Simmons wrote:

> I am running Squeeze on my laptop: a macbook pro 7,1.Most is going well,
> except the backlight screen brightness. Using the nouveau driver (this
> laptop has a 320M), it sets my max_brightness to 1025 according to
> /sys/. Unfortunately, a brightness of 1025 is extremely dim, and
> supposedly the brightness should be more like 40,000 on this guy.
> Anyway, installing the NVidia proprietary driver yields strange results
> (download from NVidia, not debian repos), there is nothing in the folder
> /sys/class/backlight at all! Kernel 2.6.32-5 amd64.

Maybe related to this (message #25)?

pommed: brightness control no longer working on macbook pro
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591264

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Re: linux-image for i586

[Dirk Neumann]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:38:03 +0700
Sthu Deus  wrote:

> Thank You for Your time and answer, Dirk:
> 
> > Not all i586-CPUs have MMX, so I'm not sure if the kernel would use
> > MMX in i586-mode (despite for runtime-mmx-detection, but this option
> > you can have without march=i586). And you are always free to 
> > a) compile a kernel with march=i586
> > b) use mmx in your favorite userland application
> 
> Could You be a bit more specific here w/ b) option?
> Thank You, once again.

Don't expect any "WOW". If your application uses MMX, it does not lose
this option on a non-mmx-kernel, and vice versa.

Dirk.


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GDB and ld.so?

[Oliver Schneider]

Hi folks,

does anyone here know the magic incantation required to get GDB to accept a 
breakpoint within the loader (ld.so), in particular on dl_main(), on a x86_64 
system?

(gdb) set environment LD_PRELOAD /path/to/debug/ld.so
(gdb) b dl_main
(gdb) run ...

does not seem to do the job.


Thanks in advance,

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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer
 wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I had done
>> apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
>>
>> then
>> startx
>> gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command."
>>
>> Now I have also done
>> apt-get install gdm
>> apt-get install gnome
>> 
>>
>> then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in,
>> but am only given a blue screen without anything!!!
>>
>> What to do?
>
> Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done

did not do that!
next ...
kjetil

> automatically when you install gnome, AFAIK (to allow people to run the
> X server on another computer if they want to).
>
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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

below ...

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
 wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer
>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I had done
>>> apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
>>>
>>> then
>>> startx
>>> gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command."
>>>
>>> Now I have also done
>>> apt-get install gdm
>>> apt-get install gnome
>>> 
>>>
>>> then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in,
>>> but am only given a blue screen without anything!!!
>>>
>>> What to do?
>>
>> Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done
>
> did not do that!
> next ...
> kjetil

Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel
started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic:
After login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking
the mouse, it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from
there. But the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual.
There must still be something missing?

Kjetil

>
>> automatically when you install gnome, AFAIK (to allow people to run the
>> X server on another computer if they want to).
>>
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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:57 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

>>> Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done
>>
>> did not do that!
>> next ...
>> kjetil
> 
> Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel
> started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic: After
> login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking the mouse,
> it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from there. But
> the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual. There must still be
> something missing?

Don't you see the task bar, desktop icons...? Nothing?

"dpkg -l | grep "gnome-"

And put here the output so we can see what packages you have installed.

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Re: kernel option for scsi emulation

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:06:16 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> I have 2 kernels: Debian's 2.6.32-5-686 and my own 2.6.36-hvw.
> 
> The former no longer has /dev/hd* the latter does as shown by blkid. [1]
> blkid for 2.6.32-5-686 and [2] for 2.6.36-hvw.
> 
> What kernel option is responsible for that? Obviously I don't have that
> set in 2.6.36-hvw.

(...)

In brief, if I got it correctly, your Maxtor hard disk (IDE) is being 
detected as "/dev/hd*" in 2.6.36 (using legacy pata module) and as "/dev/
sd*" in 2.6.32 (using new libata module).

Back to days I was using openSUSE, pata modules were loaded by telling 
the kernel "hwprobe=-modules.pata" at GRUB prompt (or by stating so in 
menu.lst). Maybe you are inadvertenly loading legacy pata module or you 
have compiled the kernel with that flag switched on :-?

Compare both "lsmod | grep ata" outputs.

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Re: can't serve php files in apache2

[Zachary Uram]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:02 AM, emmanuel segura  wrote:
> if using apache2 look in -l /etc/apache2/mod-enable/*.conf

Adding "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" to
/etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf and restarting apache2 worked!
Thanks :)

Zach


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Re: can't serve php files in apache2

[Bob Proulx]

Zachary Uram wrote:
> Running Debian testing, I installed libapache2-mod-php5, php5,
> php5-common, php5-cgi, php-pear and created a test file "info.php"
> which is 1 line ""
> However when I go to http://myserver.org/info.php it prompts me to
> download the PHP file instead of executing it and displaying the
> result. I've tried with firefox and IE and get the same result. Any
> idea how to get this working?

It reads as if the module is not enabled.  The module is enabled by
default after installation in the postinst script but in your case
there seems to have been a problem with that step.  Is your
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf missing?

Enable the module.

  $ sudo a2enmod php5
  $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The a2enmod and a2dismod utilities manage the symlinks in
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled.  Those symlinks point to the contents of
the files in /etc/apache2/mods-available.  It is similar to the
a2ensite and a2dissite utilities.

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Re: kernel option for scsi emulation

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 11/12/2010 01:49 PM, Camaleón wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:06:16 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:


I have 2 kernels: Debian's 2.6.32-5-686 and my own 2.6.36-hvw.

The former no longer has /dev/hd* the latter does as shown by blkid. [1]
blkid for 2.6.32-5-686 and [2] for 2.6.36-hvw.

What kernel option is responsible for that? Obviously I don't have that
set in 2.6.36-hvw.


(...)

In brief, if I got it correctly, your Maxtor hard disk (IDE) is being
detected as "/dev/hd*" in 2.6.36 (using legacy pata module) and as "/dev/
sd*" in 2.6.32 (using new libata module).

Back to days I was using openSUSE, pata modules were loaded by telling
the kernel "hwprobe=-modules.pata" at GRUB prompt (or by stating so in
menu.lst). Maybe you are inadvertenly loading legacy pata module or you
have compiled the kernel with that flag switched on :-?

Compare both "lsmod | grep ata" outputs.



Good suggestion:

h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.32-5-686.lsmod
ata_generic 2047  0
libata115745  3 ata_generic,sata_via,pata_via
pata_via5701  4
sata_via5608  0
scsi_mod  101401  6 
ums_cypress,usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata

h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.36-hvw.lsmod
ata_generic 2075  0
libata116648  2 ata_generic,sata_via
sata_via5380  0
scsi_mod  100151  5 sg,sd_mod,ums_cypress,usb_storage,libata


So both kernels have libata, but only 2.6.32-5-686 has pata_via and sr_mod.

Hugo



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Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Sthu Deus wrote:
> I have some trouble with growing number of
> 
> Load_Cycle_Count
> 
> parameter of my HDD. And the

Tell the HD to stop unloading its heads, and to stop spinning down (it
*has* to unload heads when it will spin down).  It will increase power
consumption, and it will make you more vulnerable to head crashes (while
unloaded, the heads are far more resistant to vibration).   OTOH it will
increase the HD lifetime, as loading/unloading heads slowly damage the
head assembly.

Usually, hdparm -B and hdparm -S can do it.  The BIOS might fight
against you and might set it back behind your back on reboot,
suspend/resume, etc.

> Temperature_Celsius

Get better cooling.  If it is impossible, well, there is nothing you can
do other than stop giving the disk so much work to do until it cools
down.

> So, my question is, How I can stop it spin down? - As I do understand,
> w/ the help of sdparm utility (it is SATA drive).

Use hdparm.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:

> Okay, okay... I know comparisons can -sometimes- be counterproductive
> but most of the time help a lot :-)

Well. - No comparisons!

Though w/ temperature it seems things got normal again - so no question
here any more for now at least.

But w/ the HDD head parking it is still an issue, currently it is:

193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032   080   080   000Old_age
Always   -   204131

and it grows about 1 time per 30 minutes.

> Well, no "black magic"... I was aware of the problem (maybe I read
> about that behaviour in another mailing list or just noticed via RSS,
> anyway, it was "old news" for me -it was noticeable in other distros,
> BTW-). 

I was also reading about ubuntu's issue on this how it was spinning
down HDDs exceedingly often thus reducing its lives...

> For instance:
> 
> https://encrypted.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=839&q=load_cycle_count&btnG=Google+Search
> https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&biw=1280&bih=839&q=load_cycle_count+smartctl&btnG=Search

Thank You again for this.


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Re: about cd/dvd burners

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:59:58 +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:

> Hello:
> gnomebaker returns OK burned, however the CD (data) is unreadable
> (debian i386 squeeze). I tried brasero with same issues. The same with
> amd64.
> 
>  Finally I installed k3b on i386 squeeze,, getting fully functioning
> data CD and DV D. Unfortunately, k3b installs too much kde, preventing
> startx to launch gnome (a window from RedHat is called instead). Also,
> command 'k3b' calld VMD (a viewer package); until VMD is closed twice,
> k3b does not work. I had to --purge remove everything about k3b and kde.
> 
> This means that I was unable - at this moment - to get a comfortable
> cd/dvd burner with debian-gnome.

All that applications share the same backend (growiso, cdrecord/wodim) so 
how about debugging what is failing within brasero? Maybe you could burn 
CD-RW/DVD-RW by calling wodim at command line and see if you see any 
difference :-?

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Re: can't serve php files in apache2

[Bob Proulx]

Zachary Uram wrote:
> emmanuel segura wrote:
> > if using apache2 look in -l /etc/apache2/mod-enable/*.conf
> 
> Adding "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" to
> /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf and restarting apache2 worked!
> Thanks :)

You shouldn't have needed to add it since the default is that it is
already configured there.  Perhaps the contents had become munged up
somehow?  In which case I recommend purging the package and
reinstalling to get a known good copy of the file.

Or possibly you don't have the mime-support package installed?  That
supplies /etc/mime.types which is included into apache by the mime
module (which should also be enabled but might have been disabled).

  $ grep TypesConfig /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mime.conf 
  TypesConfig /etc/mime.types

  $ grep php /etc/mime.types
  application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php
  application/x-httpd-php-source  phps
  application/x-httpd-php3php3
  application/x-httpd-php3-preprocessed   php3p
  application/x-httpd-php4php4
  application/x-httpd-php5php5

Bob

The /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf file from 5.3.3-2.



SetHandler application/x-httpd-php


SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source

# To re-enable php in user directories comment the following lines
# (from  to .) Do NOT set it to On as it
# prevents .htaccess files from disabling it.


php_admin_value engine Off





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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kevin Ross]

On 11/12/2010 11:26 AM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

below ...

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
  wrote:

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer
  wrote:

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

[...]


I had done
apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

then
startx
gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command."

Now I have also done
apt-get install gdm
apt-get install gnome


then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in,
but am only given a blue screen without anything!!!

What to do?

Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done

did not do that!
next ...
kjetil

Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel
started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic:
After login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking
the mouse, it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from
there. But the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual.
There must still be something missing?

Kjetil


The gnome environment is launched by running gnome-session.  This is 
done for you automatically if you're using GDM.  If you're using startx, 
then you need to add "gnome-session" to your .xinitrc file (or is it 
.xsession?  I can't remember, it's been forever since I've used startx).



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Re: kernel option for scsi emulation

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 11/12/2010 02:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

On 11/12/2010 01:49 PM, Camaleón wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:06:16 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:


I have 2 kernels: Debian's 2.6.32-5-686 and my own 2.6.36-hvw.

The former no longer has /dev/hd* the latter does as shown by blkid. [1]
blkid for 2.6.32-5-686 and [2] for 2.6.36-hvw.

What kernel option is responsible for that? Obviously I don't have that
set in 2.6.36-hvw.


(...)

In brief, if I got it correctly, your Maxtor hard disk (IDE) is being
detected as "/dev/hd*" in 2.6.36 (using legacy pata module) and as "/dev/
sd*" in 2.6.32 (using new libata module).

Back to days I was using openSUSE, pata modules were loaded by telling
the kernel "hwprobe=-modules.pata" at GRUB prompt (or by stating so in
menu.lst). Maybe you are inadvertenly loading legacy pata module or you
have compiled the kernel with that flag switched on :-?

Compare both "lsmod | grep ata" outputs.



Good suggestion:

h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.32-5-686.lsmod
ata_generic 2047 0
libata 115745 3 ata_generic,sata_via,pata_via
pata_via 5701 4
sata_via 5608 0
scsi_mod 101401 6 ums_cypress,usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.36-hvw.lsmod
ata_generic 2075 0
libata 116648 2 ata_generic,sata_via
sata_via 5380 0
scsi_mod 100151 5 sg,sd_mod,ums_cypress,usb_storage,libata


So both kernels have libata, but only 2.6.32-5-686 has pata_via and sr_mod.



lsmod | grep sr_mod
h...@debian:/usr/src/linux-2.6.36$ grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR .config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m

that is the SCSI CDrom module and that is set in the kernel.
Don't know why it does not show up in lsmod.

That leaves the pata_via module and that indeed is not set.

So the difference in getting /dev/hd* is solely due to the absence of 
the pata_via module?


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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

see below.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:37, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:57 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
 Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done
>>>
>>> did not do that!
>>> next ...
>>> kjetil
>>
>> Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel
>> started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic: After
>> login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking the mouse,
>> it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from there. But
>> the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual. There must still be
>> something missing?
>
> Don't you see the task bar, desktop icons...? Nothing?
>
> "dpkg -l | grep "gnome-"
>
Here is the output:
ii  gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-1
 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-keyring2.30.3-3
 GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools)
ii  gnome-menus  2.30.3-1
 an implementation of the freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
ii  gnome-mime-data  2.18.0-1
 base MIME and Application database for GNOME.
ii  gnome-power-manager  2.32.0-2
 power management tool for the GNOME desktop
ii  gnome-session-bin2.30.2-2
 The GNOME Session Manager - Minimal runtime
ii  gnome-settings-daemon2.30.2-2
 daemon handling the GNOME session settings
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-172.30.2-1
 Utility library for loading .desktop files - runtime files
ii  libgnome-keyring02.30.1-1
 GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome-menu2   2.30.3-1
 an implementation of the freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.3-3
 PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login

kjetil



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>
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Newbie alert: Single package from unstable

[Matt Simmons]

Hi, how can I install a package from unstable? (currently running testing)
For example, I know it should be something like:
# apt-get install uswsusp/unstable

However, my output is:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Release 'unstable' for 'uswsusp' was not found

But I konw that uswsusp has a package in unstable. Do I need to set
something up in sources.list? If so, this is my current sources.list:
deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

Do I add another line that just contains the same thing, but with sid or
unstable? Like:
deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

 If so, how does apt differentiate between testing and unstable when I want
to install a package? Do I always need to explicitly state /testing
or /stable?

Thank you for your time.

Re: kernel option for scsi emulation

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 11/12/2010 02:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

On 11/12/2010 01:49 PM, Camaleón wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:06:16 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:


I have 2 kernels: Debian's 2.6.32-5-686 and my own 2.6.36-hvw.

The former no longer has /dev/hd* the latter does as shown by blkid. [1]
blkid for 2.6.32-5-686 and [2] for 2.6.36-hvw.

What kernel option is responsible for that? Obviously I don't have that
set in 2.6.36-hvw.


(...)

In brief, if I got it correctly, your Maxtor hard disk (IDE) is being
detected as "/dev/hd*" in 2.6.36 (using legacy pata module) and as "/dev/
sd*" in 2.6.32 (using new libata module).

Back to days I was using openSUSE, pata modules were loaded by telling
the kernel "hwprobe=-modules.pata" at GRUB prompt (or by stating so in
menu.lst). Maybe you are inadvertenly loading legacy pata module or you
have compiled the kernel with that flag switched on :-?

Compare both "lsmod | grep ata" outputs.



Good suggestion:

h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.32-5-686.lsmod
ata_generic 2047 0
libata 115745 3 ata_generic,sata_via,pata_via
pata_via 5701 4
sata_via 5608 0
scsi_mod 101401 6 ums_cypress,usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.36-hvw.lsmod
ata_generic 2075 0
libata 116648 2 ata_generic,sata_via
sata_via 5380 0
scsi_mod 100151 5 sg,sd_mod,ums_cypress,usb_storage,libata


So both kernels have libata, but only 2.6.32-5-686 has pata_via and sr_mod.



lsmod | grep sr_mod
h...@debian:/usr/src/linux-2.6.36$ grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR .config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m

that is the SCSI CDrom module and that is set in the kernel.
Don't know why it does not show up in lsmod.

That leaves the pata_via module and that indeed is not set.

So the difference in getting /dev/hd* is solely due to the absence of 
the pata_via module?


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sid printing from cups and gutenprint v 5.2.5 and it drops the first page

[Mitchell Laks]

for some time the first page of each document has been messed up (usually blank 
or skipped)
in printing from cups + gutenprint v5.2.5 on laserjet 1200 printer
i will upgrade my sid completely today but this has been going on for a while 
lately...
thanks
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Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

[Mitchell Laks]

On 03:02 Fri 12 Nov , Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> While working on my Debian box (which btw is a mix of Lenny and Squeeze), I 
> find that I type the underscore character ('_') more often than the dash 
> character ('-'). It could be file names, variable names while writing code 
> etc.,

i have noticed the same thing. now if we all programmed in lisp this would not 
be a problem :)
I considered switching to common lisp from perl and C and C++ for this reason :)

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new cpu amd 810 Quad core (with 900 pins) some pins are bent any idea how to fix?

[Mitchell Laks]

Hi,

I was making some pcs and after showing him how in another machine,  I assigned 
someone to 
put in a cpu and they bent some of the pins. there are about 900 !!! (around 30 
rows of 30). 
Now it wont install into the socket AM3.

I have tried straighting them by using a credit card (or thin new york 
metrocard) as a group lineup
as  well as using a 
lead pencil 5mm holder to straighten the indiviual tines (pins) as well as a 
thin mending needle.

however it still resists putting into the socket on the asus motherboard.

any other ideas on how to ease it in?

Thanks


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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:31:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:37, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:57 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>>
> Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done

 did not do that!
 next ...
 kjetil
>>>
>>> Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel
>>> started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic:
>>> After login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking
>>> the mouse, it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from
>>> there. But the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual. There
>>> must still be something missing?
>>
>> Don't you see the task bar, desktop icons...? Nothing?
>>
>> "dpkg -l | grep "gnome-"
>>
> Here is the output:
> ii  gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-1  GNOME Desktop icon theme
> ii  gnome-keyring2.30.3-3  GNOME keyring services 
> (daemon and tools)
> ii  gnome-menus  2.30.3-1  an implementation of the 
> freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
> ii  gnome-mime-data  2.18.0-1  base MIME and Application 
> database for GNOME.
> ii  gnome-power-manager  2.32.0-2  power management tool for 
> the GNOME desktop
> ii  gnome-session-bin2.30.2-2  The GNOME Session Manager 
> - Minimal runtime
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon2.30.2-2  daemon handling the GNOME 
> session settings
> ii  libgnome-desktop-2-172.30.2-1  Utility library for 
> loading .desktop files - runtime files
> ii  libgnome-keyring02.30.1-1  GNOME keyring services 
> library
> ii  libgnome-menu2   2.30.3-1  an implementation of the 
> freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
> ii  libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.3-3  PAM module to unlock the 
> GNOME keyring upon login

Uh? Only that? :-?

IIRC, "gnome-desktop-environment" and "gnome-core" should be also installed.

If the above both packages are not installed, get them by now :-)

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Re: Re: All hung up over netatalk

[Gary Roach]

On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote:

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Roach  wrote:
   

I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio "laptop?" that I am upgrading from Lenny
to Squeeze. Everything worked fine (Using Aptitude) until the installation
of netatalk started; a program that I really don't need. I get:


hostname: Unknown host



First /etc/hostname is filled in. When I attempt to reinstall I get the same
type of error and the process aborts. When I try to remove or purge the
application I get the same result. An of course, Aptitude won't finish the
upgrade installation because of this error. I get essentially the same
result with dpkg. How can I get out of this mess. Help!
 

Take a look at the netatalk maintainer scripts in "/var/lib/dpkg/info"
to see why they are failing.
   

The /bin/hostname is not returning the hostname. Is this a bug?

Gary R


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Re: Recovery from hard drive failure

[Peter Tenenbaum]

Hi again --

As I'm studying the situation, my plan for how to do this recovery has
evolved a bit.  What I'm planning now is the following:

1.  Install the new hard drives
2.  Boot off the rescue CD
3.  Use fdisk to set up one of the drives as the system / boot drive, with 3
DOS-style partitions (boot, swap, and everything else)
4.  Install grub in the boot partition
5.  Recover my backup to the new system disk via restore
6.  Update /etc/fstab to match the configuration I set up in (3) and (4),
since I'm not setting up the new hard drives exactly the way that the old
drive was configured
7.  Follow the instructions at
http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_Software_Raid_1_Setup to incorporate the system
disk and the second disk as a RAID-1 array.

If anyone wants to jump in and shout, "No, you fool!" when they see this
plan, let me know.

Mark -- I've decided against using LVM because (a) it adds another level of
complication to the overall recovery / RAID-ification procedure, which at my
low level of expertise I really do not need, and (b) it's not clear to me
that LVM offers that much benefit for a relatively simple home system with
more hard drive capacity than I really need.  Maybe on my next system...

-PT

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Klistvud -- excellent, thanks, that is definitely the way to go!  I can see
> that the rescue CD from live.debian.net (actually from
> cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_live_beta1/amd64/iso-hybrid/) contains
> everything I need, so I'll use that.
>
> Now:  in the interim, I've decided to take this opportunity to make my
> system RAID-1, so that I get an extra level of protection and also so that
> if I ever have another drive failure I can limp along on the other drive for
> the few days it will take me to get myself organized to recover.  Also, I
> get to set up a RAID-1 array, which I don't yet know how to do, and learning
> is fun.  As I understand it, the steps I need to take are:
>
> 1.  Install the new hard drives
> 2.  Boot off the rescue CD
> 3.  Use fdisk and mdadm to set up the 2 drives as a RAID-1 array
> 4.  Use LVM (or fdisk?) to partition the resulting array (boot, linux, and
> swap)
> 5.  Recover my backup to the array via restore command.
>
> So now, a few new questions:
>
> 1.  Is the list above generally correct?
> 2.  When I installed Debian back in the summer I let the install script
> handle the disk partitioning.  This time I have to do it manually.  What
> size should I use for the boot and swap partitions?
> 3.  Do I need to manually install and configure grub in order to make the
> RAID-1 array the boot disk?  Again, this was handled for me by the installer
> script the first time around.
> 4.  What, if anything, do I need to do so that the RAID-1 array is
> activated at boot time?
>
> Whew!  Sorry for the huge stack of questions, any and all help,
> encouragement, etc, is welcome!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -PT
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <
> peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone -- a few days ago the hard drive in my home Debian system
>> started making unhappy noises and refuses to boot.  I discussed the
>> situation with knowledgeable people and they diagnosed that indeed the hard
>> drive had failed and needs replacement.
>>
>> I have a recent backup of the hard drive which I made using dump, and I
>> have a new hard drive on order.  My recovery plan is as follows:
>>
>> 1.  Burn a new netinst CD from a recent build (I am running Squeeze, btw)
>> 2.  Replace the hard drive
>> 3.  Use the netinst CD to set up the filesystem on the new hard drive
>> 4.  Recover the backup using restore.
>>
>> Here's my question:  should I allow the netinst CD to install Debian on
>> the new hard drive, given that I plan to use restore to restore everything
>> and thus would overwrite any new installation?  I realize that I can
>> probably tune the action of the restore command so that it only restores
>> what I need from the backup and doesn't touch a new OS install; but I think
>> that the process of making the decisions for what needs to be restored and
>> what does not would be complex, time-consuming, and error-prone; so I would
>> rather just restore the whole thing.
>>
>> Any advice you can offer would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> -PT
>>
>
>

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

see below.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:01, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:31:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:37, Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:57 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>>>
 On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>>>
>> Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done
>
> did not do that!
> next ...
> kjetil

 Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel
 started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic:
 After login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking
 the mouse, it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from
 there. But the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual. There
 must still be something missing?
>>>
>>> Don't you see the task bar, desktop icons...? Nothing?
>>>
>>> "dpkg -l | grep "gnome-"
>>>
>> Here is the output:
>> ii  gnome-icon-theme                     2.30.3-1  GNOME Desktop icon theme
>> ii  gnome-keyring                        2.30.3-3  GNOME keyring services 
>> (daemon and tools)
>> ii  gnome-menus                          2.30.3-1  an implementation of the 
>> freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
>> ii  gnome-mime-data                      2.18.0-1  base MIME and Application 
>> database for GNOME.
>> ii  gnome-power-manager                  2.32.0-2  power management tool for 
>> the GNOME desktop
>> ii  gnome-session-bin                    2.30.2-2  The GNOME Session Manager 
>> - Minimal runtime
>> ii  gnome-settings-daemon                2.30.2-2  daemon handling the GNOME 
>> session settings
>> ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17                2.30.2-1  Utility library for 
>> loading .desktop files - runtime files
>> ii  libgnome-keyring0                    2.30.1-1  GNOME keyring services 
>> library
>> ii  libgnome-menu2                       2.30.3-1  an implementation of the 
>> freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
>> ii  libpam-gnome-keyring                 2.30.3-3  PAM module to unlock the 
>> GNOME keyring upon login
>
> Uh? Only that? :-?
>
> IIRC, "gnome-desktop-environment" and "gnome-core" should be also installed.
>
> If the above both packages are not installed, get them by now :-)
>
> Greetings,

I certainly at some point said
apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
apt-get install gnome-core
(in that order). Why are them not installed then? Try it again.

kjetil


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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Bob Proulx]

Camaleón wrote:
> Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> >> "dpkg -l | grep "gnome-"
> > Here is the output:
> 
> Uh? Only that? :-?
> IIRC, "gnome-desktop-environment" and "gnome-core" should be also installed.
> If the above both packages are not installed, get them by now :-)

I am thinking that perhaps running 'tasksel' and letting it install a
base installation might be a good idea.

  $ sudo tasksel

Then select 'desktop' and let it install the base packages.  That is
probably equivalent to doing:

  $ sudo aptitude --without-recommends -o APT::Install-Recommends=no install 
'~t^desktop$' '~t^gnome-desktop$'

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Re: Making /tmp noexec

[David Sastre]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:30:49PM +, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> I was reading this page about making tmp non-executable
> (http://pario.no/2007/10/04/making-tmp-non-executable/) but it seems a
> little out of date as I'm using Squeeze.
> 
> I changed fstab, and edited by 70debconf to
> 
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"mount -o remount,exec
> /tmp";"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
> DPkg::Post-Invoke{"mount -o remount /tmp";};
> 
> is this correct? Aptitude still works fine, but I was wondering if
> anyone had experience of pitfalls with this?
> 
> Would I replicate this for my /var partition and is there any point to
> doing this with /home?

I use almost the same configuration:

# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20tmpperms
DPkg::Pre-Invoke{"mount -o remount,exec /tmp";};
DPkg::Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount /tmp";};

And my fstab looks like this:

# grep tmp /etc/fstab
/dev/mapper/root_vg-tmp_lv /tmp ext3 defaults,noexec,nosuid 0 2

It works OK. Regarding var, I wouldn't do it. Some files need execute
permissions. Others might have another opinion, though.
And /home, well, some of us like to have /home/${USER}/.dist/bin or
something similar in our ${PATHS}, so it depends on your setup.

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Re: kernel option for scsi emulation

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:10:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> On 11/12/2010 01:49 PM, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> Compare both "lsmod | grep ata" outputs.
>>
>>
> Good suggestion:
> 
> h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.32-5-686.lsmod 
> ata_generic 2047  0
> libata115745  3 ata_generic,sata_via,pata_via 
> pata_via5701  4
> sata_via5608  0
> scsi_mod  101401  6 
> ums_cypress,usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata 

If that's correct, then I'm missing :-)

kernel 2.6.32 was not the one using legacy driver _but_ it is 
loading it (pata_via).

h...@debian:/$ grep ata 11.2.6.36-hvw.lsmod 
> ata_generic 2075  0
> libata116648  2 ata_generic,sata_via 
> sata_via5380  0
> scsi_mod  100151  5 sg,sd_mod,ums_cypress,usb_storage,libata
> 
> 
> So both kernels have libata, but only 2.6.32-5-686 has pata_via and
> sr_mod.

Yep, but 2.6.32 was using "/dev/sd*" nomenaclature for Maxtor disk >:-?

2.6.32-5-686
/dev/sda1: LABEL="6Y080P0.01" UUID="1205def1-2141-4b3a-97d0-0b94ca1c4ff2" 
TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="6Y080P0.05" UUID="dc767bc6-ebe4-4dfb-a8f1-739709598dc7" 
TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="6Y080P0.06" UUID="a7cfe5f2-b136-4a73-ac8a-f3e2121102c8" 
TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="6Y080P0.07" UUID="45ee8af8-c443-42d4-ae59-6f68e33932e8" 
TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda8: LABEL="win_D" UUID="4131-BA32" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="6Y080P0.09" UUID="5a09faf0-6f8e-4c72-a23b-46fe963754ef" 
TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda10: LABEL="6Y080P0.10" UUID="66c1d026-1e4c-4392-8aa0-e0d9f2cb4277" 
TYPE="ext2"

2.6.36-hvw
/dev/hda1: LABEL="6Y080P0.01" UUID="1205def1-2141-4b3a-97d0-0b94ca1c4ff2" 
TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/hda5: LABEL="6Y080P0.05" UUID="dc767bc6-ebe4-4dfb-a8f1-739709598dc7" 
TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hda6: LABEL="6Y080P0.06" UUID="a7cfe5f2-b136-4a73-ac8a-f3e2121102c8" 
TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hda7: LABEL="6Y080P0.07" UUID="45ee8af8-c443-42d4-ae59-6f68e33932e8" 
TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hda8: LABEL="win_D" UUID="4131-BA32" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/hda9: LABEL="6Y080P0.09" UUID="5a09faf0-6f8e-4c72-a23b-46fe963754ef" 
TYPE="swap"
/dev/hda10: LABEL="6Y080P0.10" UUID="66c1d026-1e4c-4392-8aa0-e0d9f2cb4277" 
TYPE="ext2"

Is that right?

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Re: Re: All hung up over netatalk

[Bob Proulx]

Gary Roach wrote:
> >Take a look at the netatalk maintainer scripts in "/var/lib/dpkg/info"
> >to see why they are failing.
> The /bin/hostname is not returning the hostname. Is this a bug?

The hostname should be set during boot time.  The actual script is
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh using the contents of /etc/hostname.  If the
hostname isn't getting set then it will cause problems.

Why isn't your hostname set at boot time?  You will need to debug what
changed to cause that problem.

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Re: linux-image for i586

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:41:26 -0500, Johan wrote in message 
<87aalgiw61@emmy.axel.nom>:

> Sthu Deus  writes:
> 
> > Good day.
> >
> > Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586,
> > especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up?
> 
> I don't think all that many people have i586 boxen.  They were current
> in the timeframe 1995 through 1997.  That's over a dozen years ago.

..and now they can be had for free, and made use of.
In other cases, access is expensive, so old junk is
left in service.

> The i486 kernel will run on an i586 box.  Even if you compile the
> kernel for i586 how much speed are you really going to get?  A few
> percent? And how much time do you spend in kernel as opposed to
> userland?  Maybe 3-20 percent depending on what you are doing right?
> So, in rough numbers, that's a 10% off on 10% of what you do for a
> net of roughly 1%.

..se my response to Sthu Deus.

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Re: new cpu amd 810 Quad core (with 900 pins) some pins are bent any idea how to fix?

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Friday 12 November 2010 21:49:06 Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was making some pcs and after showing him how in another machine,  I
> assigned someone to put in a cpu and they bent some of the pins. there are
> about 900 !!! (around 30 rows of 30). Now it wont install into the socket
> AM3.
> 
> I have tried straighting them by using a credit card (or thin new york
> metrocard) as a group lineup as  well as using a
> lead pencil 5mm holder to straighten the indiviual tines (pins) as well as
> a thin mending needle.
> 
> however it still resists putting into the socket on the asus motherboard.
> 
> any other ideas on how to ease it in?
> 
> Thanks

Did it the same way once. Look at the pins with a light source hitting them at 
various angles. It will show which one are not straighten-up. When it fits on 
the socket, try to exchange the CPU for a new one, (as I did).
Thierry


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Re: linux-image for i586

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:57:09 +0700, Sthu wrote in message 
<4cdd0f80.ce7c0e0a.2046.a...@mx.google.com>:

> Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt:
> 
> > > What are the hardware specs of the machine you have?  Exactly
> > > which CPU, how much RAM, what hard disk (size and rpm), etc.
> > > Please provide the following output:
> > > 
> > > cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > > lspci
> > > free -m
> > > dmidecode
> > > 
> > > (If your machine is very old, dmidecode may not work).  
> > 
> > ..'top|head -n 20 ' to see what's eating your iron.
> 
> Could You please tell me what is for? What do we want to conclude from
> the given info - that will be a lot - speaking about the last utility?

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:41:26 -0500, Johan wrote in message 
<87aalgiw61@emmy.axel.nom>:

> The i486 kernel will run on an i586 box.  Even if you compile the
> kernel for i586 how much speed are you really going to get?  A few
> percent? And how much time do you spend in kernel as opposed to
> userland?  Maybe 3-20 percent depending on what you are doing right?
> So, in rough numbers, that's a 10% off on 10% of what you do for a
> net of roughly 1%.


..it depends, 'top |head ' tells us another wee story: ;o)
top - 21:36:01 up 11 days, 20:14, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.02,
1.01 
Tasks:  57 total,   1 running,  56 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie 
Cpu(s): 95.9%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 1.5%id, 0.2%wa, 1.3%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st 
Mem: 155764k total, 149516k used, 6248k free, 8400k buffers 
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 111296k cached
  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+   COMMAND 
12009 root  20   0 51868  15m 1612 S 89.1 10.0 952:08.72 motion
12691 arnt  20   0  2320 1004  780 R  5.0  0.6   0:00.08 top 
1 root  20   0  2024  488  396 S  0.0  0.3   1:09.26 init 
a...@bacdor:~$
a...@bacdor:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
cpu family  : 5
model   : 8
model name  : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping: 12
cpu MHz : 500.103
cache size  : 64 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow
  k6_mtrr 
bogomips: 1000.20
clflush size: 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes   : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:


..dmidecode |less snip:
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 32 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: Socket-7 M/B
Type: Central Processor
Family: K6
Manufacturer: Advanced Mirco Devices,Inc  
ID: 8C 05 00 00 55 00 00 00
Signature: Family 5, Model 8, Stepping 12
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
DE (Debugging extension)
TSC (Time stamp counter)
PAE (Physical address extension)
Version: AMD-K6(R)-2 with 3DNow TM   
Voltage: 2.2 V
External Clock: 66 MHz
Max Speed: Unknown
Current Speed: 500 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: ZIF Socket
L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005
L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006
L3 Cache Handle: No L3 Cache


..the cool breezy competition:
top - 21:49:26 up 11 days, 20:13,  1 user,  load average: 0.36, 0.38,
0.36 
Tasks:  60 total,   1 running,  59 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie 
Cpu(s): 60.7%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 38.6%id, 0.1%wa, 0.4%hi, 0.1%si,
0.0%st 
Mem: 92336k total,76504k used,15832k free, 4772k
buffers 
Swap:   265032k total, 2696k used, 262336k free,47080k cached

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND 
22145 root  20   0 49820  13m 1692 S 42.1 14.7 697:25.47 motion 
22966 root  20   0  2324 1036  808 R  1.9  1.1   0:00.04 top 
1 root  20   0  2028  236  208 S  0.0  0.3   0:35.17 init 
cm46:~# 
cm46:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model   : 6
model name  : Celeron (Mendocino)
stepping: 5
cpu MHz : 467.782
cache size  : 128 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
  cmov pse36 mmx fxsr up 
bogomips: 935.56
clflush size: 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

cm46:~# dmidecode |less 
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: SLOT 1
Type: Central Processor
Family: Pentium II
Manufacturer: Intel
ID: 65 06 00 00 FF F9 83 01
Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 6, Stepping 5
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
VME (Vir

Re: sid printing from cups and gutenprint v 5.2.5 and it drops the first page

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:36:25 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:

> for some time the first page of each document has been messed up
> (usually blank or skipped) in printing from cups + gutenprint v5.2.5 on
> laserjet 1200 printer i will upgrade my sid completely today but this
> has been going on for a while lately... 

I would try with another driver (no need to edit the current printer, 
just add in CUPS as many instances as you need). 

Possible candidates:

HP-LaserJet_1200-pxlmono.ppd (recommended PXL)
HP-LaserJet_1200-Postscript.ppd (generic PS)
hp-laserjet_1200-pcl3.ppd (from HPLIP)

You're lucky for having more than one option :-)

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Re: Making /tmp noexec

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-11-12 14:30 +0100, James Allsopp wrote:

> Hi,
> I was reading this page about making tmp non-executable
> (http://pario.no/2007/10/04/making-tmp-non-executable/) but it seems a
> little out of date as I'm using Squeeze.
>
> I changed fstab, and edited by 70debconf to
>
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"mount -o remount,exec
> /tmp";"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
> DPkg::Post-Invoke{"mount -o remount /tmp";};

A better option would be to set APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir to a
directory where programs can be executed.  See apt-extracttemplates(1).

> is this correct? Aptitude still works fine, but I was wondering if
> anyone had experience of pitfalls with this?

While dpkg is running, programs in /tmp are executable.  If you're
paranoid enough, this may worry you.

> Would I replicate this for my /var partition

If you do this, you have to relocate /var/lib/dpkg/info to another
filesystem and bind-mount or symlink it so that the package maintainer
scripts can be run.

> and is there any point to doing this with /home?

It may help a little if you cannot trust your users, but note that they
can still run (at least) shell, perl and awk scripts by invoking the
interpreter.

Sven


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Re: new cpu amd 810 Quad core (with 900 pins) some pins are bent any idea how to fix?

[Bob Proulx]

Mitchell Laks wrote:
> ... they bent some of the pins...
> there are about 900 !!!

938 pins

> Now it wont install into the socket AM3.
> ...
> however it still resists putting into the socket on the asus motherboard.
> any other ideas on how to ease it in?

There really isn't any substitute for carefully straightening the
pins.  It is tedious but can be successfully accomplished.  Just work
carefully and patiently.  If you find yourself frustrated then pause,
take a break, and then come back to it.  This is a task that requires
careful patience rather like straightening a bicycle wheel.  In
addition to the techniques you described you may need to squeeze a pin
to straighten it if it is curved.  A pair of flat tweezers has worked
for me for that purpose.

Be careful of electro static discharge and do not "zap" it while
trying to fix it!  Also be careful of bending any individual pin too
much.  It work hardens the metal and in a bad case might break off.

Side Note: Professional shops often have a metal block with the holes
drilled representing the socket holes.  The holes are beveled to guide
the pins into the right locations.  This type of custom made jig is
often used to straighten pins.  We had several at my previous
employer.

Inspect the socket carefully.  It is possible that one of the bent
pins bent one of the socket connections.  If so then that may be
causing you the difficulty.  The problem may now be in the socket
instead of the part.  You will probably need a magnifying glass in
order to see well enough to inspect the socket pins since very little
is visible.  Open and close the socket without the part in place and
look to see if there is any visible blockage of any of the pins.

Good luck!

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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Andrei Popescu]

On Vi, 12 nov 10, 11:53:45, Kevin Ross wrote:
> 
> The gnome environment is launched by running gnome-session.  This is
> done for you automatically if you're using GDM.  If you're using
> startx, then you need to add "gnome-session" to your .xinitrc file
> (or is it .xsession?  I can't remember, it's been forever since I've
> used startx).

startx will just start your x-session-manager, which can be configured 
with update-alternatives:

,
| ~# update-alternatives --config x-session-manager 
| There are 5 choices for the alternative x-session-manager (providing 
/usr/bin/x-session-manager).
|
|   SelectionPath  Priority   Status
| 
| * 0/usr/bin/startlxde 50auto mode
|   1/usr/bin/lxsession 49manual mode
|   2/usr/bin/openbox-session   40manual mode
|   3/usr/bin/startkde  40manual mode
|   4/usr/bin/startlxde 50manual mode
|   5/usr/bin/xfce4-session 50manual mode
|
| Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 
`

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Re: Newbie alert: Single package from unstable

[Andrei Popescu]

On Vi, 12 nov 10, 15:32:05, Matt Simmons wrote:
> Hi, how can I install a package from unstable? (currently running testing)
> For example, I know it should be something like:
> # apt-get install uswsusp/unstable

Yes

> However, my output is:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Release 'unstable' for 'uswsusp' was not found
> 
> But I konw that uswsusp has a package in unstable. Do I need to set
> something up in sources.list?

Yes

>   If so, this is my current sources.list:
> deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> Do I add another line that just contains the same thing, but with sid or
> unstable? Like:
> deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> 
>  If so, how does apt differentiate between testing and unstable when I want
> to install a package? Do I always need to explicitly state /testing
> or /stable?

You should

# echo 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf

which is just the simplest way of pinning. But just for one package I 
would first try to download it from packages.debian.org and use
'dpkg -i' to install it.

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Re: Recovery from hard drive failure

[Bob Proulx]

Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> 1.  Install the new hard drives
> 2.  Boot off the rescue CD
> 3.  Use fdisk to set up one of the drives as the system / boot drive, with 3
> DOS-style partitions (boot, swap, and everything else)

Because the debian-installer has a nice interface to setting up raid I
recommend using it to do the heavy lifting.  You can always stop after
getting a filesystem and then restore your present system onto the old
system.

Plus if you want raid then you probably want swap on raid too.
Otherwise if you have a disk failure and it is on the disk with the
swap then your system crashes.  If swap is on raid too then the system
keeps running.  And nicely that keeps both disks identical.

> 4.  Install grub in the boot partition

For Lenny remember to install grub on both disks in the RAID.  For
Squeeze that has been improved and I think is done automatically.  But
for Lenny you will definitely need to manually ensure that grub is on
both drives.  Otherwise if your first boot drive fails the second
drive won't have the boot code on it.  You can always boot a rescue
disk to recover from that problem if you hit it.

> 5.  Recover my backup to the new system disk via restore
> 6.  Update /etc/fstab to match the configuration I set up in (3) and (4),
> since I'm not setting up the new hard drives exactly the way that the old
> drive was configured

Also plan to do a dpkg-reconfigure of your old kernel to regenerate
the initrd with the new raid configuration.

> Mark -- I've decided against using LVM because (a) it adds another level of
> complication to the overall recovery / RAID-ification procedure, which at my
> low level of expertise I really do not need, and (b) it's not clear to me
> that LVM offers that much benefit for a relatively simple home system with
> more hard drive capacity than I really need.  Maybe on my next system...

Personally I always set up lvm.  It is worth the extra complexity.

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Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:21:52 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
> 
>> Okay, okay... I know comparisons can -sometimes- be counterproductive
>> but most of the time help a lot :-)
> 
> Well. - No comparisons!

Pardon me... I couldn't resist O:-)
 
> Though w/ temperature it seems things got normal again - so no question
> here any more for now at least.
> 
> But w/ the HDD head parking it is still an issue, currently it is:
> 
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032   080   080   000Old_age Always  
> -   204131
> 
> and it grows about 1 time per 30 minutes.

JFYI (from my notebook):


9 Power_On_Hours  0x0032   049   049   000Old_age   Always   -  
 20456
193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032   074   074   000Old_age   Always   
-   261161
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   37 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/52)


All that attributes are tagged as "old_age" not "pre-fail" which is soothing.

Note that the laptop has counted almost 2 years of "power on" (although
is indeed 4-5 years old but true is that is not always "on").

>> Well, no "black magic"... I was aware of the problem (maybe I read
>> about that behaviour in another mailing list or just noticed via RSS,
>> anyway, it was "old news" for me -it was noticeable in other distros,
>> BTW-).
> 
> I was also reading about ubuntu's issue on this how it was spinning down
> HDDs exceedingly often thus reducing its lives...

There was a Debian bug report tracking this problem:

acpi-support: excessively load cycles some hard drives
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448673

I would carefully read the comments in there before making any change.

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Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

[Cameron Hutchison]

Rob Owens  writes:

>On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:02:00AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> While working on my Debian box (which btw is a mix of Lenny and Squeeze), I 
>> find that I type the underscore character ('_') more often than the dash 
>> character ('-'). It could be file names, variable names while writing code 
>> etc.,
>> 
>> Typing '_' involves holding the shift key while typing '-' does not involve 
>> any. I am wondering if there is a way at the OS (or shell) level solution to 
>> remap '-', '_' one to another so that typing '_' does not involve holding 
>> shift key but typing '-' does.
>> 
>Use xmodmap and/or a .Xmodmap file in your home directory.  You man need
>to use xev to find the keycodes.

The X11 keysyms for these characters are "minus" and "underscore". If
you run "xmodmap -pke | grep underscore" you should see which keycode has
these keysyms mapped.

For me, this is:
$ xmodmap -pke | grep underscore
keycode  20 = minus underscore minus underscore

I suspect that's a standard keyboard keycode so you'll get the same
results, but run it anyway to be sure.

You can remap this like so:
$ xmodmap -e "keycode  20 = underscore minus underscore minus"

That swaps minus and underscore.

You can put the part between quotes in your ~/.Xmodmap file and GNOME
should auto-load it (although I think I remember reading something
lately that this may change).

Finally, I suggest you not do this. I've make changes to my standard
keyboard in the past and when you switch to someone elses keyboard you
just get annoyed :-) I used to map CapsLock to Ctrl, but if you get too
used to that, YOU JUST END UP SHOUTING when you only meant to press
Ctrl.


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Re: Recovery from hard drive failure

[Jochen Schulz]

Peter Tenenbaum:
> 
> Mark -- I've decided against using LVM because (a) it adds another level of
> complication to the overall recovery / RAID-ification procedure, which at my
> low level of expertise I really do not need, and (b) it's not clear to me
> that LVM offers that much benefit for a relatively simple home system with
> more hard drive capacity than I really need.  Maybe on my next system...

I understand your argument about added complexity, but especially if you
don't know yet how you will use your disk's capacity, LVM is your
friend.

At work today, I prepared a virtual machine for a specific task. When I
realized that I had underestimated one of the filesystem's sizes, I just
needed to follow these steps:

- Add another virtual disk to the system
- Run pvcreate to prepare the disk for LVM
- Run vgextend to add the new space to the appropriate volume group
- Run lvextend to allocate the new space to the volume that was too
  small
- Run resize2fs to grow the filesystem

This was a matter of less than ten minutes (including lookup of the
exact syntax of the LVM commands) and it didn't involve any reboots or
even umounts.

In your case, it gets even easier. Initially, you just need to prepare
one partition for LVM and setup logical volumes for your filesystems
using the size you are sure they will need. If, at one point, you
realize you need more space, you just need to run two commands: lvextend
and resize2fs (assuming you are using ext[234]).

When you have free space in a volume group, you get another benefit as
well: you can snapshot your filesystems for backup runs or before
actions that you are afraid might damage things.

I consider myself to be a quite proficent linux user (almost ten years
of Debian experience), but didn't start using LVM until about a year
ago. I deeply regret that.

J.
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Re: new cpu amd 810 Quad core (with 900 pins) some pins are bent any idea how to fix?

[Klistvud]

Dne, 12. 11. 2010 21:49:06 je Mitchell Laks napisal(a):

I have tried straighting them by using a credit card (or thin new  
york metrocard) as a group lineup

as  well as using a
lead pencil 5mm holder to straighten the indiviual tines (pins) as  
well as a thin mending needle.


however it still resists putting into the socket on the asus  
motherboard.


any other ideas on how to ease it in?

Thanks



Whenever that happens to me, I try to observe the pins at close range  
from various perspectives; it's not that hard to spot any remaining  
irregularities in the pattern of the pins. I then proceed to gently  
straighten the bent pin, by degrees. Wash, rinse, repeat, until no more  
irregularities may be observed. If the CPU still won't stick in, I use  
a magnifying glass. However, if there's more than 10-20 pins that are  
bent, it may be a royal pain in the neck, because tolerances are real  
small on those little bastards...


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Re: new cpu amd 810 Quad core (with 900 pins) some pins are bent any idea how to fix?

[Stan Hoeppner]

Mitchell Laks put forth on 11/12/2010 2:49 PM:

> I was making some pcs and after showing him how in another machine,  I 
> assigned someone to 
> put in a cpu and they bent some of the pins. there are about 900 !!! (around 
> 30 rows of 30). 
> Now it wont install into the socket AM3.

People who lack eye-hand coordination, have poor eyesight, are simply
clumsy, or are young, less than say, generally speaking, excluding
prodigies, 14-15 years old, should not be working on electronics.

Buy another CPU, chuck that one in the can, or hang in in a "trophy
case", and let this be a $50-$200 mistake the individual who dropped the
CPU, and others, can learn from.

Straightening bent CPU pins was much more possible when the pin count
was lower and the spacing wider, say socket 370/A and earlier.  The
current pin densities of 939 and up make straightening more than a few
bent pins fall into the "not worth the effort" category.

If you have more than a dozen bent pins, replace the CPU, each the cost,
learn the lesson.

Bent pins during handling/installation is actually a minor reason why
Intel created the Slot 1 interface.  The major reason was locking out
AMD from selling drop in compatible chips, but warranty claims due to
bent pins was a minor reason as well.

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Re: how to start gnome from the command line

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

If I do
apt-get install gnome-core

and then

dpkg --list | grep "gnome-"

then gnome-core is NOT included in the list. ¿What is happening?

Kjetil

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:01, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:31:56 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:37, Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:57 -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>>>
 On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>>>
>> Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done
>
> did not do that!
> next ...
> kjetil

 Did so. The situation now is: Finally, I am using gmail from Iceweasel
 started from debian gnome. But my gnome setup is still very basic:
 After login, there is basically only a blue screen. By leftclicking
 the mouse, it opens a popup menu, and I could start this browser from
 there. But the window do nao have any re-size icons , as usual. There
 must still be something missing?
>>>
>>> Don't you see the task bar, desktop icons...? Nothing?
>>>
>>> "dpkg -l | grep "gnome-"
>>>
>> Here is the output:
>> ii  gnome-icon-theme                     2.30.3-1  GNOME Desktop icon theme
>> ii  gnome-keyring                        2.30.3-3  GNOME keyring services 
>> (daemon and tools)
>> ii  gnome-menus                          2.30.3-1  an implementation of the 
>> freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
>> ii  gnome-mime-data                      2.18.0-1  base MIME and Application 
>> database for GNOME.
>> ii  gnome-power-manager                  2.32.0-2  power management tool for 
>> the GNOME desktop
>> ii  gnome-session-bin                    2.30.2-2  The GNOME Session Manager 
>> - Minimal runtime
>> ii  gnome-settings-daemon                2.30.2-2  daemon handling the GNOME 
>> session settings
>> ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17                2.30.2-1  Utility library for 
>> loading .desktop files - runtime files
>> ii  libgnome-keyring0                    2.30.1-1  GNOME keyring services 
>> library
>> ii  libgnome-menu2                       2.30.3-1  an implementation of the 
>> freedesktop menu specification for GNOME
>> ii  libpam-gnome-keyring                 2.30.3-3  PAM module to unlock the 
>> GNOME keyring upon login
>
> Uh? Only that? :-?
>
> IIRC, "gnome-desktop-environment" and "gnome-core" should be also installed.
>
> If the above both packages are not installed, get them by now :-)
>
> Greetings,
>
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Re: Re: All hung up over netatalk

[Tom H]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gary Roach  wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Roach
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio "laptop?" that I am upgrading from
>>> Lenny
>>> to Squeeze. Everything worked fine (Using Aptitude) until the
>>> installation
>>> of netatalk started; a program that I really don't need. I get:
>>>
>>> hostname: Unknown host
>>>
>>> First /etc/hostname is filled in. When I attempt to reinstall I get the
>>> same
>>> type of error and the process aborts. When I try to remove or purge the
>>> application I get the same result. An of course, Aptitude won't finish
>>> the
>>> upgrade installation because of this error. I get essentially the same
>>> result with dpkg. How can I get out of this mess. Help!
>>>
>>
>> Take a look at the netatalk maintainer scripts in "/var/lib/dpkg/info"
>> to see why they are failing.
>>
>
> The /bin/hostname is not returning the hostname. Is this a bug?

Check "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/init.d/hostname.sh" and whether there
is an Sxxhostname.sh in "/etc/rcS.d".


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RE: how to resetup fake-raid

[Mike Viau]

So it looks like I can not even access the md device the system created on 
boot. 

Does anyone have a guide or tips to migrating from the older dmraid to mdadm 
for fake-raid?


fdisk -uc /dev/md127  (showing the block device is inaccessible)

Unable to read /dev/md127


dmesg (pieces of dmesg/booting)

[    4.214092] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[    4.214495] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.15.0-ioctl (2009-04-01) initialised: 
dm-de...@redhat.com
[    5.509386] udev[446]: starting version 163
[    7.181418] md: md127 stopped.
[    7.183088] md: bind
[    7.183179] md: bind


Thanks.

-M


> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: how to resetup fake-raid
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:55 -0500
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to re-setup my fake-raid (RAID1) volume with LVM2 like setup 
> previously. I had been using dmraid on a Lenny installation which gave me 
> (from memory) a block device like /dev/mapper/isw_xxx_ and also a 
> /dev/OneTB-RAID1, but have discovered that the mdadm has replaced the older 
> and believed to be obsolete dmraid for multiple disk/raid support.
>
> Automatically the fake-raid LVM physical volume does not seem to be set up. I 
> believe my data is safe as I can insert a knoppix live-cd in the system and 
> mount the fake-raid volume (and browse the files). I am planning on perhaps 
> purchasing another at least 1TB drive to backup the data before trying to 
> much fancy stuff with mdadm in fear of loosing the data.
>
> A few commands that might shed more light on the situation:
>
>
> pvdisplay (showing the /dev/md/[device] not recognized yet by LVM2)
>
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name /dev/sdc7
> VG Name XENSTORE-VG
> PV Size 46.56 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB
> Allocatable yes (but full)
> PE Size 4.00 MiB
> Total PE 11920
> Free PE 0
> Allocated PE 11920
> PV UUID wRa8xM-lcGZ-GwLX-F6bA-YiCj-c9e1-eMpPdL
>
>
> cat /proc/mdstat (showing what mdadm shows/discovers)
>
> Personalities :
> md127 : inactive sda[1](S) sdb[0](S)
> 4514 blocks super external:imsm
>
> unused devices:
>
>
> ls -l /dev/md/imsm0 (showing contents of /dev/md/* [currently only one 
> file/link ])
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 7 08:07 /dev/md/imsm0 -> ../md127
>
>
> ls -l /dev/md127 (showing the block device)
>
> brw-rw 1 root disk 9, 127 Nov 7 08:07 /dev/md127
>
>
> update-initramfs -u (Perhaps the most interesting error of them all)
>
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
> mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/OneTB-RAID1-PV: No such file or directory
>
>
> Thanks for any ones help :)
>
>
  

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Re: Newbie alert: Single package from unstable

[Jesús M. Navarro]

Hi, Matt:

On Friday 12 November 2010 21:32:05 Matt Simmons wrote:
> Hi, how can I install a package from unstable? (currently running testing)
> For example, I know it should be something like:
> # apt-get install uswsusp/unstable

You need:
1) To add sources for "unstable" to your sources list.  I.e.:
/etc/apt/sources.list:
[...]
deb http://apt.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
2) Reload the sources:
apt-get update
3) Install the package telling the system you want the version from unstable:
apt-get -t sid install [my package]

Please pay attention that this will try to bring from unstable needed 
depencies for [my package].  This can be OK or not for you.

If you just want *exactly* foo and anything else, you may need to recompile 
the package, which I consider out of scope for a newbie.

More info reading man page for apt-get and related.

Cheers.


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