Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote:
> >>I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco
> >>Silver working again for
> >>secured networks with a newer kernel.  It works fine using
> >>dhclient now on unsecured
> > 
> >using what, wicd or ??
> 
> With dhclient or /etc/network/interfaces.  wicd doesn't see it
> either probably because of the firmware problem.

I doubt that, a firmware problem will affect all frontends equally. You 
might want to check that wicd is trying to access the correct device.

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Re: help

[Chris Bannister]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:59:08PM -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
> 
> True... I think sudo is only installed if you disable root logins, otherwise 
> you're just stuck with su.

Sigh. Are you running Ubuntu? 

Ubuntu is NOT Debian.

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Re: Any package for surveys?

[Chris Bannister]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:43:09PM +, elbbit wrote:
> It is widely accepted that Hollywood is based on real life, as a
> starting reference point in any fiction, and then distorted to a point.

Yeah right, but mainly by naive teenagers, who unfortunately are shaping
the future. :(

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"fields" in files

[Lisi]

In teh following:
-rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt

I can see eight pieces of information:
permissions, directory or file (information that is also at the beginning of 
the permissions), owner, group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or 
directory.

What are these called?  I have always called them fields, but it would appear 
that I am wrong to do so.

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Re: interfaces tab missing in network-admin on Squeeze

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote:


There is a bug report opened:

gnome-system-tools: network-admin does not show the first "Connections"
pane, so cannot modify interfaces
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610020


  yes. Here is the bug report:

   > When I open network-admin (with gksudo) I see no "Connections" pane
   > which would allow me to edit/enable the connections I would like to use.

  and here the answer

  That was disabled in favour of network-admin.
  Cheers,
  Emilio
  it seems that Emilio didn't reread his answer !


Hum... I read it as "network-admin" has been replaced for "network
manager", at least when it comes to managing the network interfaces
settings and that's why it has been removed.


   did he mean that? May-be he will correct his answer. Anyway, NetwokManager
   is a daemon, so you still need a tool to configure the connections,
   like  nm-applet or nm-connection-editor.
   I'll try them when I have some time.

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Re: "fields" in files

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:16 +, Lisi wrote:

> In teh following:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt
> 
> I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or file
> (information that is also at the beginning of the permissions), owner,
> group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or directory.
> 
> What are these called?  I have always called them fields, but it would
> appear that I am wrong to do so.

directory/file 
user perms-group perms-others perms
user-group
size
last modified timestamp
file name

I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical name 
though :-)

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Re: interfaces tab missing in network-admin on Squeeze

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:34:07 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> There is a bug report opened:
>>
>> gnome-system-tools: network-admin does not show the first "Connections"
>> pane, so cannot modify interfaces
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610020
> 
>yes. Here is the bug report:
> 
> > When I open network-admin (with gksudo) I see no "Connections"
> > pane which would allow me to edit/enable the connections I would
> > like to use.
> 
>and here the answer
> 
>That was disabled in favour of network-admin. Cheers,
>Emilio
>it seems that Emilio didn't reread his answer !

I can be wrong, but I think he didn't want to say that :-)

>> Hum... I read it as "network-admin" has been replaced for "network
>> manager", at least when it comes to managing the network interfaces
>> settings and that's why it has been removed.
> 
> did he mean that? May-be he will correct his answer. Anyway,
> NetwokManager is a daemon, so you still need a tool to configure the
> connections, like  nm-applet or nm-connection-editor. I'll try them
> when I have some time.

Yes, NM connections can be managed with the "nm-applet" and I think that 
was the reason for the removement of the connections tab. Anyway, I dunno 
if that is an upstream change (inside the GNOME project) or a decision 
taken by Debian GNOME team :-?

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Re: "fields" in files

[Lisi]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:35:56 Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:16 +, Lisi wrote:
> > In teh following:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt
> >
> > I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or file
> > (information that is also at the beginning of the permissions), owner,
> > group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or directory.
> >
> > What are these called?  I have always called them fields, but it would
> > appear that I am wrong to do so.
>
> directory/file
> user perms-group perms-others perms
> user-group
> size
> last modified timestamp
> file name
>
> I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical name
> though :-)

Thanks, Camaleón!  Yes ,that it what they are in this context.  But in more 
general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the names of 
that particular page etc. -  what are they called?  I want to use it with cut 
if possible, but can't even find if there is a suitable option when I don't 
know what they are called.  Column is too narrow (in the physical sense) a 
definition.  There are 21 of what cut calls columns in the name of the file 
alone in this sample!

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Re: help

[Andrei Popescu]

On Lu, 31 ian 11, 01:01:11, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:59:08PM -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > True... I think sudo is only installed if you disable root logins, 
> > otherwise you're just stuck with su.
> 
> Sigh. Are you running Ubuntu? 
> 
> Ubuntu is NOT Debian.

If you do an expert install you are offered the choice to disable root 
logins and use sudo instead. Yes, this is on Debian, squeeze installer.

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Re: help

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Chris Bannister
 wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:59:08PM -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
>>
>> True... I think sudo is only installed if you disable root logins, otherwise 
>> you're just stuck with su.
>
> Sigh. Are you running Ubuntu?
>
> Ubuntu is NOT Debian.

If you don't set a root password at install time, root's disabled like
on Ubuntu.


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Re: "fields" in files

[Axel Freyn]

Hi Lisi,
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:18:39PM +, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:35:56 Camaleón wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:16 +, Lisi wrote:
> > > In teh following:
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt
> > >
> > > I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or file
> > > (information that is also at the beginning of the permissions), owner,
> > > group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or directory.
> > >
> > > What are these called?  I have always called them fields, but it would
> > > appear that I am wrong to do so.
> >
> > directory/file
> > user perms-group perms-others perms
> > user-group
> > size
> > last modified timestamp
> > file name
> >
> > I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical name
> > though :-)
> 
> Thanks, Camaleón!  Yes ,that it what they are in this context.  But in more 
> general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the names of 
> that particular page etc. -  what are they called?  I want to use it with cut 
> if possible, but can't even find if there is a suitable option when I don't 
> know what they are called.  Column is too narrow (in the physical sense) a 
> definition.  There are 21 of what cut calls columns in the name of the file 
> alone in this sample!

Is that what you want to achieve?

ls -l | sed -e 's/  */ /g'  | cut -f 8 -d " "

This gives the 8's element in the line, that is the filename.
I used "sed" to replace multiple spaces by a single one, and then "cut"
to select an appropriate element

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Re: "fields" in files

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:18:39 +, Lisi wrote:

> On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:35:56 Camaleón wrote:

>> I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical name
>> though :-)
> 
> Thanks, Camaleón!  Yes ,that it what they are in this context.  But in
> more general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the
> names of that particular page etc. -  what are they called?  I want to
> use it with cut if possible, but can't even find if there is a suitable
> option when I don't know what they are called.  Column is too narrow (in
> the physical sense) a definition.  There are 21 of what cut calls
> columns in the name of the file alone in this sample!

Ah!

In the "cut" context they are called "fields" as you said, yep. But 
better if you put and example of what do you want to get and why the 
"name" it is relevant to this case. Hum, oh... maybe something like this? 

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l | awk '{print $9}'

Desktop
Documentos
file:
News
PDF

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Re: "fields" in files

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 30 ian 11, 12:47:43, Camaleón wrote:
> 
> sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l | awk '{print $9}'
> 
> Desktop
> Documentos
> file:
> News
> PDF

No need for awk, ls will do that with the -1 (the digit 1) option or by 
default if the output is not a terminal (ex. a pipe).

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Re: 7zr compress include subdirs?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Anand Sivaram wrote:
> If you are using tar, then try "xz" instead of 7-zip. Both xz and 7-zip use
> lzma2 compression.  But xz command line utility is very similar to
> gzip/bzip2, so most of the gzip options could be used.  In fact tar has a
> filter also for xz which is 'J'.  It can be used just like gzip
> tar cfJ something.tar.xz something (that is the same as, tar cf - something
> | xz > something.tar.gz)
> tar xfJ something.tar.xz

And Debian supports it for packaging source, and automake supports it for
make dist-xz...

Xz is a better choice for software distribution than 7zip, in the general
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Re: "fields" in files - thanks! :-)

[Lisi]

Thanks so much all of you.  I am rushing to go out, but will get straight back 
on this when I get back and start using - or at least analysing - what you 
have so kindly given me.

Lisi


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Re: Testing a network card

[elbbit]

On 30/01/11 05:04, logb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there anyone know how to test PPS (packet per second) of a nic?
> I tried to googled it, only found how to test the bandwidth using
> iperf or netperf. None found for PPS.
> 
> Any hint are welcome.
> 
> TIA.
> 

Maybe you could use a "ping -f "

With the result you could take the delivered packets divided by 1000ms
to equal the amount of packets per second?

Or you could do something else to flood the interface and measure with
iptraf?

iptop and saidar do not seem to show packets/sec.

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Re: "fields" in files

[John Hasler]

Lisi writes:
> Thanks, Camaleón!  Yes ,that it what they are in this context.  But in more 
> general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the names of 
> that particular page etc. -  what are they called?

The appropriate context is "database".  They are fields.  The line is a
record.
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About Asterisk, 'best' practices, suggestions, etc.

[Roman Khomasuridze]

Hello, kind people.

I'm interested if people on the lists are using asterisk (well, of course
they are), but:

In what environments you use Asterisk, is it just small hobby systems, or
small/medium business environments;

Do you use just plain asterisk or with various GUI add-ons such as FreePBX
or Asterisk-GUI;

Do you prefer Debian packaged Asterisk, or you compile it from source, or
are there any other third-party repositories? I'm aware of Xorcom packaged
Asterisk for Debian, but they're leaning towards CentOS based  systems like
Elastix and/or Trixbox, Also, there were lots of third party repositories
for Asterisk, but all of them seem to be dead;

Which is the 'best' way to implement asterisk based Debian box, regarding
problems of upgrading of both, Debian an Asterisk? Right now i administer
over 10 compiled Asterisk Debian Lenny boxes with FreePBX and once Squeeze
will be released, i'm thinking, wouldn't it be better to use Debian packages
of Asterisk instead of compiling?

Are there any Debian based turn-key solutions? All of popular Asterisk
solutions are based on CentOS, even Digiums official AsteriskNOW. and if no,
why?

I'm asking this, because, in nearest future I have to implement quite big
VoIP system for one organization, that will contain PBXes, call-center,
billing and routing, gateway servers, and because, I'm much more familiar
with Debian then other distros, I prefer to base those servers on Debian,
and allthrough I have really pleasant experience with Debian + Asterisk
 systems,  right now, I feel that I might build those systems a bit
better...

So any suggestions, personal experience would be very helpful and
interesting..

Sorry for my English, and thanks in advance!


Regards

Roman

Re: Testing a network card

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:04:14 +0700, logb wrote:

> Is there anyone know how to test PPS (packet per second) of a nic? I
> tried to googled it, only found how to test the bandwidth using iperf or
> netperf. None found for PPS.
> 
> Any hint are welcome.

I found an article on the matter:

Benchmark the packets-per-second performance of a network device
http://blog.famzah.net/2009/11/24/benchmark-the-packets-per-second-performance-of-a-network-device/

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logrotate

[Informatik.hu]

  
  
Hi All!

I have got a strange problem, every day, a got the following error:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: apache2_template:1 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: apache2_template:13 unexpected }
error: found error in file apache2_template, skipping


I checked /etc/logrotate.conf and did not find any problem:

# see "man logrotate" for details
  # rotate log files weekly
  weekly
  
  # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
  rotate 4
  
  # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
  create
  
  # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
  #compress
  
  # packages drop log rotation information into this directory
  include /etc/logrotate.d
  
  # no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
  /var/log/wtmp {
      missingok
      monthly
      create 0664 root utmp
      rotate 1
  }
  
  /var/log/btmp {
      missingok
      monthly
      create 0664 root utmp
      rotate 1
  }

and i also checked /etc/logrotate.d/apache2, but also did not find
anything:

"/var/log/apache2/*.log" {
      weekly
      missingok
      rotate 52
      compress
      delaycompress
      notifempty
      create 640 root adm
      sharedscripts
      postrotate
      if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then
      /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > /dev/null
      fi
      endscript
  }

It is an old ETCH box. I do not remember if i ever changed these
config files.
Any suggestions? (Maybe, I am blind?)

vuki


  



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Re: help

[Brad Rogers]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:23:55 +0200
Andrei Popescu  wrote:

Hello Andrei,

> Oh no, skype works (the Ubuntu 64bit version), the repo doesn't...

Sorry, Andrei.  I misunderstood what you meant.  I hadn't tried the
repo.  I have now and got error reports about it.  I even tried to view
the directory in a browser, and wasn't allowed.  Although that may not
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Re: Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:50:59 -0700, david wildgoose wrote:

> I've created a USB installer stick and I am trying to install squeeze on
> my Acer Aspire D250.
> 
> The system boots off the USB stick and brings me to the Installer boot
> menu, but the internal speaker beeps and the system freezes.

(...)

Maybe the method you followed for creating the USB stick was borked 
somehow... I remember (from Debian news) that starting with Squeeze ISO 
images, creation of USB installers is now a easier and can be done 
directly with the ISO file.

Have you tried to create the USB stick in that way? Here it seems to be 
the detailed steps:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/InstallUsingStandardInstaller

If anything fails, you could also try with "Unetbootin" to create the 
stick.

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Re: logrotate

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2011 schrieb Informatik.hu:
>  Hi All!
> 

>  and i also checked /etc/logrotate.d/apache2, but also did not find
> anything:
> 
Is it a typo, or are the > " < at the first line originally in your conf? 

>  "/var/log/apache2/*.log" {
>  weekly
>  missingok
>  rotate 52
>  compress

Maybe, there are errors in file "apache2_template" itself?

Regards

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Re: Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

[Brian]

On Sat 29 Jan 2011 at 21:50:59 -0700, david wildgoose wrote:

> Below is how I'm setting up the USB install stick:
> 
> Downloaded the following files
> http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/20110106/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso
> 
> Extracted boot.img.gz using the following command: gzip -dc
> boot.img.gz > /dev/disk1
> 
> Copied the iso image to the USB stick.
> 
> Any ideas why the installer is freezing?

I did something similar only yesterday except using

   zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX

zcat is equivalent to gzip -d and the image must be written to the disk
not to a partition (e.g. sda1 or sda2) on the disk.

So I've no concrete idea why the installer is freezing but do have a
suggestion. The netinst.iso is now a hybrid iso

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/Debian_USB_install_from_hybrid_iso/

and

http://blog.einval.com/2011/01/07

You could try

   cat debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdX


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Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

[Paul Scott]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote:
> > >>I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco
> > >>Silver working again for
> > >>secured networks with a newer kernel.  It works fine using
> > >>dhclient now on unsecured
> > > 
> > >using what, wicd or ??
> > 
> > With dhclient or /etc/network/interfaces.  wicd doesn't see it
> > either probably because of the firmware problem.
> 
> I doubt that, a firmware problem will affect all frontends equally. You 
> might want to check that wicd is trying to access the correct device.

Could there be something else I have not installed?  I have not had this
problem with other installations.

wicd.log says:

2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Autoconnecting...
2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect 
to wireless network
2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect

Thanks,

Paul





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Re: help

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 30 ian 11, 14:07:30, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:23:55 +0200
> Andrei Popescu  wrote:
> 
> Hello Andrei,
> 
> > Oh no, skype works (the Ubuntu 64bit version), the repo doesn't...
> 
> Sorry, Andrei.  I misunderstood what you meant.  I hadn't tried the
> repo.  I have now and got error reports about it.  I even tried to view
> the directory in a browser, and wasn't allowed.  Although that may not
> mean much.

I'm guessing the problem is that my arch is amd64, while the repo might 
be i386 only.

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Re: help

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:05:48 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Du, 30 ian 11, 14:07:30, Brad Rogers wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:23:55 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> 
>> > Oh no, skype works (the Ubuntu 64bit version), the repo doesn't...
>> 
>> Sorry, Andrei.  I misunderstood what you meant.  I hadn't tried the
>> repo.  I have now and got error reports about it.  I even tried to view
>> the directory in a browser, and wasn't allowed.  Although that may not
>> mean much.
> 
> I'm guessing the problem is that my arch is amd64, while the repo might
> be i386 only.

It can be downloaded from here:

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/post-download/

Not a "repo" but a "deb" file and tagged for "lenny".

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iptables/routing network problem

[geertsky]

Hello,
I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve...
I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using
192.168.2.0/24 range ip's
I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network.
On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow
proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port 3306"
This gives ufw status numbered:
Status: active

 To Action  From
 -- --  
[ 1] 22/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 2] 1723/tcp   ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 3] Anywhere   DENY IN 192.168.254.0/24
[ 4] 192.168.2.1 3306/tcp   ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
[ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
[ 6] 80/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 7] 21/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 8] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.100.0/24
[ 9] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.1.0/24
[10] 217.148.94.148 25  ALLOW INAnywhere
[11] 217.148.94.148 993 ALLOW INAnywhere
[12] 217.148.94.148 995 ALLOW INAnywhere

looks good I thought...
To test I used netcat because mysqld has some restrictions and to rule
any mysql problems out first just a netcat connction...
so on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3306
on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3306
and it timesout unable to connect...
ping 192.168.2.1 on the client gives replys...
iptables -L on the client gives ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT and no further
rules...
hhm... strange...
After this I've been looking everyhere to findout eventually the
following:
ufw delete 4   #delete the existing mysql accept rule
ufw insert 4 allow proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port
3307
ufw status numbered gives:
Status: active

 To Action  From
 -- --  
[ 1] 22/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 2] 1723/tcp   ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 3] Anywhere   DENY IN 192.168.254.0/24
[ 4] 192.168.2.1 3307/tcp   ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
[ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
[ 6] 80/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 7] 21/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
[ 8] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.100.0/24
[ 9] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.1.0/24
[10] 217.148.94.148 25  ALLOW INAnywhere
[11] 217.148.94.148 993 ALLOW INAnywhere
[12] 217.148.94.148 995 ALLOW INAnywhere

on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3307
on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3307
Connected to 192.168.2.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
and i can chat as supposed to be able using nc.

Apparently there is somewhere in the os a rule which disables access
to port 3306, but it's not a iptables rule...
Does anyone have a idea what apart from iptables controls network
traffic?
Thanks cause I'm completely lost...

Greetings,
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Re: iptables/routing network problem

[Mihira Fernando]

On 01/30/2011 08:48 PM, geertsky wrote:

Hello,
I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve...
I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using
192.168.2.0/24 range ip's
I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network.
On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow
proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port 3306"
[snip]

Apparently there is somewhere in the os a rule which disables access
to port 3306, but it's not a iptables rule...
Does anyone have a idea what apart from iptables controls network
traffic?
Thanks cause I'm completely lost...

Greetings,
Geert
Maybe a stupid question but have you enabled network access in the MySQL 
server settings so that MySQL will actually accept connections over the 
network ?


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Re: "fields" in files

[Osamu Aoki]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:53:14PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 30 ian 11, 12:47:43, Camaleón wrote:
> > 
> > sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l | awk '{print $9}'
> > 
> > Desktop
> > Documentos
> > file:
> > News
> > PDF
> 
> No need for awk, ls will do that with the -1 (the digit 1) option or by 
> default if the output is not a terminal (ex. a pipe).

Also "stat" command is quite handy to get file attribute information
directly in a format you wish :-)


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Re: help

[Wolodja Wentland]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:19 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:05:48 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> > On Du, 30 ian 11, 14:07:30, Brad Rogers wrote:
> >> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:23:55 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Oh no, skype works (the Ubuntu 64bit version), the repo doesn't...
> >> 
> >> Sorry, Andrei.  I misunderstood what you meant.  I hadn't tried the
> >> repo.  I have now and got error reports about it.  I even tried to view
> >> the directory in a browser, and wasn't allowed.  Although that may not
> >> mean much.
> > 
> > I'm guessing the problem is that my arch is amd64, while the repo might
> > be i386 only.
> 
> It can be downloaded from here:
> 
> http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/post-download/
> 
> Not a "repo" but a "deb" file and tagged for "lenny".

Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu
64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs,
ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64.
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Re: help

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 30 ian 11, 15:19:13, Camaleón wrote:
> 
> It can be downloaded from here:
> 
> http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/post-download/
> 
> Not a "repo" but a "deb" file and tagged for "lenny".

Yes, but

$ aptitude search ~o
i   skype   - Skype 

An I will not be aware of new versions unless I check the website. I got 
spoiled with apt :)

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Re: iptables/routing network problem

[Anand Sivaram]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 20:48, geertsky  wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve...
> I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using
> 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's
> I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network.
> On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow
> proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port 3306"
> This gives ufw status numbered:
> Status: active
>
> To Action  From
> -- --  
> [ 1] 22/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 2] 1723/tcp   ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 3] Anywhere   DENY IN 192.168.254.0/24
> [ 4] 192.168.2.1 3306/tcp   ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
> [ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
> [ 6] 80/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 7] 21/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 8] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.100.0/24
> [ 9] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.1.0/24
> [10] 217.148.94.148 25  ALLOW INAnywhere
> [11] 217.148.94.148 993 ALLOW INAnywhere
> [12] 217.148.94.148 995 ALLOW INAnywhere
>
> looks good I thought...
> To test I used netcat because mysqld has some restrictions and to rule
> any mysql problems out first just a netcat connction...
> so on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3306
> on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3306
> and it timesout unable to connect...
> ping 192.168.2.1 on the client gives replys...
> iptables -L on the client gives ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT and no further
> rules...
> hhm... strange...
> After this I've been looking everyhere to findout eventually the
> following:
> ufw delete 4   #delete the existing mysql accept rule
> ufw insert 4 allow proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port
> 3307
> ufw status numbered gives:
> Status: active
>
> To Action  From
> -- --  
> [ 1] 22/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 2] 1723/tcp   ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 3] Anywhere   DENY IN 192.168.254.0/24
> [ 4] 192.168.2.1 3307/tcp   ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
> [ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp ALLOW IN192.168.2.0/24
> [ 6] 80/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 7] 21/tcp ALLOW INAnywhere
> [ 8] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.100.0/24
> [ 9] 192.168.2.0/24 DENY IN 192.168.1.0/24
> [10] 217.148.94.148 25  ALLOW INAnywhere
> [11] 217.148.94.148 993 ALLOW INAnywhere
> [12] 217.148.94.148 995 ALLOW INAnywhere
>
> on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3307
> on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3307
> Connected to 192.168.2.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> and i can chat as supposed to be able using nc.
>
> Apparently there is somewhere in the os a rule which disables access
> to port 3306, but it's not a iptables rule...
> Does anyone have a idea what apart from iptables controls network
> traffic?
> Thanks cause I'm completely lost...
>
> Greetings,
> Geert
>
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* Could you try it after completely disabling the firewall once, to make
sure that 3306 works.
* Also to see the stats, use "iptables -L -vn" to get the packet stats
also.  Take two of these logs before and after
trying to connect to 3306, see which particular rule counter is going up.

Re: help

[Brad Rogers]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:05:48 +0200
Andrei Popescu  wrote:

Hello Andrei,

> I'm guessing the problem is that my arch is amd64, while the repo
> might be i386 only.

IDK, TBH.  Like you, I use AMD64.

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Re: logrotate

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <4d45715f.8090...@informatik.hu>, Informatik.hu wrote:
>
>
>  
>
>
>  
>  
>Hi All!

http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct

Specifically: "Never send your messages in HTML; use plain text 
instead."

I've left some of the worst parts quoted; you can see what makes them 
difficult to read.  In fact, you message got marked as SPAM by my 
automated SPAM filtering system.

>  
>  # no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
>  /var/log/wtmp {
>      missingok
>      monthly
>      create 0664 root utmp
>      rotate 1
>  }
>  

>"/var/log/apache2/*.log" {
>      weekly
>      missingok
>      rotate 52
>      compress
>      delaycompress
>      notifempty
>      create 640 root 
adm
>      sharedscripts
>      postrotate
> 
>&nb
>sp;   if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then
>&nb
>sp;  
>/etc/init.d/apache2 restart > /dev/null
>&nb
>sp;   fi    
>endscript
>  }
>

Etch is no longer supported at all.  Upgrade to Lenny if you want any 
support.  Then, upgrade to Squeeze if you don't want to see your support 
gradually disappear over the next year or so.
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Re: Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

[david wildgoose]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Brian  wrote:
> On Sat 29 Jan 2011 at 21:50:59 -0700, david wildgoose wrote:
>
>> Below is how I'm setting up the USB install stick:
>>
>> Downloaded the following files
>> http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/20110106/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso
>>
>> Extracted boot.img.gz using the following command: gzip -dc
>> boot.img.gz > /dev/disk1
>>
>> Copied the iso image to the USB stick.
>>
>> Any ideas why the installer is freezing?
>
> I did something similar only yesterday except using
>
>   zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX
>
> zcat is equivalent to gzip -d and the image must be written to the disk
> not to a partition (e.g. sda1 or sda2) on the disk.
>
> So I've no concrete idea why the installer is freezing but do have a
> suggestion. The netinst.iso is now a hybrid iso
>
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/Debian_USB_install_from_hybrid_iso/
>
> and
>
> http://blog.einval.com/2011/01/07
>
> You could try
>
>   cat debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdX
>
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Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I ended up using Unetbootin to create the USB installer stick and that worked.

However I have a new problem with the installer.

When it comes to installing the GRUB boot loader, it fails with the
following error:

"Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda"
Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed.
This is a fatal error.

I have Windows XP on a 70gig NTFS partition and would love to keep it
as I need it at work :/

Any ideas? Thanks so much!

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Re: help

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:56:29 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Du, 30 ian 11, 15:19:13, Camaleón wrote:
>> 
>> It can be downloaded from here:
>> 
>> http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/post-download/
>> 
>> Not a "repo" but a "deb" file and tagged for "lenny".
> 
> Yes, but
> 
> $ aptitude search ~o
> i   skype   - Skype
> 
> An I will not be aware of new versions unless I check the website. I got
> spoiled with apt :)

Ask Skype why they have removed the repos ;-)

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Re: help

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:45 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:19 +, Camaleón wrote:

>> It can be downloaded from here:
>> 
>> http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/post-download/
>> 
>> Not a "repo" but a "deb" file and tagged for "lenny".
> 
> Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu
> 64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs,
> ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64.

Dunno :-?

Is the Ubuntu 64-bits deb file a native 64-bits compilation?

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Re: "fields" in files

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:53:14 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Du, 30 ian 11, 12:47:43, Camaleón wrote:
>> 
>> sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l | awk '{print $9}'
>> 
>> Desktop
>> Documentos
>> file:
>> News
>> PDF
> 
> No need for awk, ls will do that with the -1 (the digit 1) option or by
> default if the output is not a terminal (ex. a pipe).

To get the filename, yes, but how about if you want to fetch a fancy file 
attributes combo output? :-)

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l --full-time | awk '{print $6, $9}'
 
2011-01-30 Desktop
2010-05-16 Documentos
2009-11-14 file:
2009-12-27 News
2010-12-02 PDF

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Re: logrotate

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:10:39 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote:

(...)

> I have got a strange problem, every day, a got the following
> error:
> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: 
> error: apache2_template:1 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename
> (possibly in double quotes) 
> error: apache2_template:13 unexpected }
> error: found error in file apache2_template, skipping 

Apparently, the double quotes are valid :-?

I would check the whole "/etc/logrotate.d/apache2" file and search for 
any unexpected/hidden characters... you can even create a new file from 
scratch (do not copy/paste, manually write all the stanzas) and then run 
a simulacrum with "/usr/sbin/logrotate -d").

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Re: logrotate

[Arturo R.]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Informatik.hu  wrote:
>
> It is an old ETCH box. I do not remember if i ever changed these config
> files.
> Any suggestions? (Maybe, I am blind?)

Maybe you just can't see them. :) A common cause found on a quick
Google search seems to be CRLF line endings on the configuration
files. Maybe one of them got saved in DOS mode by accident?

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Re: help

[Wolodja Wentland]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 17:26 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:45 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote:

> > Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu
> > 64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs,
> > ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64.
> 
> Dunno :-?
> 
> Is the Ubuntu 64-bits deb file a native 64-bits compilation?

It is not, but it is at least installable on an amd64 system. You still
need some 32bit libraries. This *might* have changed though and I would
try the lenny package first. 

It's just that I sucessfully installed skype from the Ubuntu package on
amd64 systems in the past, so that definitely works.
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Re: Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

[Brian]

On Sun 30 Jan 2011 at 10:08:45 -0700, david wildgoose wrote:

> However I have a new problem with the installer.
> 
> When it comes to installing the GRUB boot loader, it fails with the
> following error:
> 
> "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda"
> Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed.
> This is a fatal error.
> 
> I have Windows XP on a 70gig NTFS partition and would love to keep it
> as I need it at work :/
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks so much!

Don't feel insulted by the first sentence :).

http://wiki.debian.org/GrubRecover


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No sudo, no root, on a fully encrypted LVM filesystem

[David Starner]

I've managed to remove suid bits from all the files in my /usr/bin
directory. As I have no root password, and I have a fully encrypted
LVM filesystem, I'm at loss at how to recover them without deleting
everything and starting all over. (It's not a disastrous option, I
guess, since it's a fairly fresh install, but I'd rather not.) If I
backed up the / partition, reformatted and restored it to an
unencrypted partition that I could edit from a bootable disk, would
that work, or would LVM get in my way?

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Re: About Asterisk, 'best' practices, suggestions, etc.

[Nuno Magalhães]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 13:57, Roman Khomasuridze
 wrote:
> wouldn't it be better to use Debian packages of Asterisk instead of
> compiling?

I'd say it depends: if the Debian package has everything you want,
cool, use it; if not, compile it. Or both, you can use checkinstall
and similar to compile your own and still have a .deb, or just simply
compile and shove the binary in a .deb.

> I'm much more familiar with Debian then other distros, I prefer to base those 
> servers on Debian,

There's no harm in trying other distros and OSes, quite the contrary.
VMs are great for that.

These are general though, not Asterisk-specific obviously. I don't use
it, although i've thought of giving it a try just to get my hands
dirty, but a simple 56K modem won't cut it (apparently you need a
specific card) and now my ISP's voice is fiber/VoIP, so there's not
much point anymore,

My 2¢
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Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

[consul tores]

2011/1/30 Paul Scott :
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote:
>> > >>I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco
>> > >>Silver working again for
>> > >>secured networks with a newer kernel.  It works fine using
>> > >>dhclient now on unsecured
>> > >                                         
>> > >                                        using what, wicd or ??
>> >
>> > With dhclient or /etc/network/interfaces.  wicd doesn't see it
>> > either probably because of the firmware problem.
>>
>> I doubt that, a firmware problem will affect all frontends equally. You
>> might want to check that wicd is trying to access the correct device.
>
> Could there be something else I have not installed?  I have not had this
> problem with other installations.
>
> wicd.log says:
>
> 2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Autoconnecting...
> 2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect 
> to wireless network
> 2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul

What happend if you do:

ifconfig wlanx up
iwconfig wlanx essid "your_essid"
dhclient wlanx

As root and x= your wifi card?


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VM speed benchmark

[T o n g]

Hi,

Talking about VM, some prefer virtulbox, some VMWare. Don't know how many 
of you prefer kvm. I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of 
your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host.

The reason that I'm asking -- recently I noticed that my kvm is extremely 
slow, its disk access seems at least 10 times slower (*12 hours* to 
restore a 600M partition?!). Googling revealed that's a known problem. 
e.g., 
http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/03/qemu-slow-disk-throughput.html

"... I uses Qemu for hosting the guest OS for my development environment.

For 2 days, I keep wondering why Zope/Plone loads damn slow on the qemu 
machine eventhough I have allocated both cores of the processor, and 
512RAM for it. 15 minutes simply to start up is really not desirable. I 
kept on investigating and guess what:

[root@unapcict ~]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB in 3.03 seconds = 5.95 MB/sec

Just for a comparison, the host hdd's speed:

[root@Nobuyuki ~]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.01 seconds = 57.71 MB/sec

Darn.. So, thats what the reason. . . "

See, it *IS* at least 10 times slower. 

Please comment. 

Thanks

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Re: help

[Doug]

On 01/30/2011 07:01 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:59:08PM -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:

True... I think sudo is only installed if you disable root logins, otherwise 
you're just stuck with su.

Sigh. Are you running Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is NOT Debian.


You may have the sudo script, but you may not be listed in it, in
which case you'll get a sort of nasty message saying something
like "You don't have permission to use Sudo.  It will be reported
to the administrator."  You need to look at a file where the user
_is_ permitted, and then, using a vi-like editor called sudoers,
modify the sudo file with your user name, not commented out,
and close the file.  Then you will be able to use sudo.  (I assume
that the sudo script exists in your distro.  If not, you'll have to
get it somewhere.)

I don't understand why any distro does _not_ have this sudo
available, and already set up for the admin of the system. It
is certainly safer to use than su root, which will leave the user
who is not careful in the root forever.  Ubuntu has sudo set up.
PCLOS did not, and I had to fix it.  Apparently Debian is also
that way--I haven't looked.  (Altho I have Deb installed on a
machine, I frankly don't like its politics, and I don't use it.)

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Re: approx for new "netinst" installation

[Paul E Condon]

On 20110129_230759, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Greg Madden  [110126 03:45]:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use "approx" in
> > > order to minimize download time and bandwidth during a new "netinst"
> > > installation.
> ...
> > During the 'net-install' when the choose mirror screen appears you need to 
> > scroll 
> > to the top of the list, choose manual entry or some such, point it at a 
> > local 
> > url, proxy etc.
> > 
> > This choice is apparent in all install modes, default to expert.
> 
> I tried that, entering "192.168.0.200" (the LAN address of my approx
> server) as the "Debian archive mirror hostname" and

Have you tried "192.168.0.200:" ? I think you need the port number
and the default port for approx is .

HTH

> "/var/cache/approx/debian" as the "Debian archive mirror directory".

I have been using approx for over a year and don't recall ever
specifying a "Debian archive mirror directory". I think there is an
approx demon which is listening on port , and the demon already
knows where it is maintaining its database and proxy repository.  Look
at /etc/approx/approx.conf on your server.

> 
> Inspecting the installation log with F4, I saw the following error
> message:
> 
>choose-mirror[30711]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>http://192.168.0.200/var/cache/approx/debian/dists/squeeze/Release
>-0 - | grep -E `^(Suite|Codename:`
> 
>choose-mirror[30711]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the
>specified release (squeeze)
> 
> However, the approx server has been used less than a week ago to
> install files to a new Squeeze system (which was installed using
> the netinst Release Candidate 1 CD).
> 
> RLH
> 
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Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

[Nick Lidakis]

I have been buying music from a website called HDtracks.com recently using my
Debian Sid desktop. They're wensite requires your run a download manager that 
is a Java application for all music downloads. I have downloaded 2 albums
this past October without incident but ran into problems trying to buy music
yesterday.

In trying to track down what was going on, I realized I had the Sun Java jre
installed from the non-free repository and openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless. I tried using update-aletrnatives --config java to
pick between the two to no avail. I removed the openjdk packages and
currently only have Sun's Java installed.

phobos:/home/nick# dpkg -l | grep java
rc  ca-certificates-java 20100412
Common CA certificates (JKS keystore)
pi  java-common  0.40
Base of all Java packages
ii  javascript-common8
Base support for JavaScript library packages
rc  libaccess-bridge-java-jni1.26.2-5
Java Access Bridge for GNOME (jni bindings)
ii  plasma-scriptengine-javascript   4:4.4.5-1
the JavaScript script engine for Plasma
ii  sun-java6-bin6.22-1
Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files)
ii  sun-java6-fonts  6.22-1
Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
ii  sun-java6-jre6.22-1
Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files)
ii  sun-java6-plugin   

As a simple test, when I try to visit this site, http://www.time.gov/, which
uses Java to show real time, the browser freezes for about 15 seconds, the
page loads but no Java clock is shown.

So I tried installing Java on my Debian Sid laptop via apt-get install
sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin and all works well. The Java clock works and I
was able to download my music from HDtracks.

On the laptop:

thinkpad:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.22# dpkg -l | grep java
ii  java-common  0.40
 Base of all Java packages
ii  sun-java6-bin6.22-1
 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent
files)
ii  sun-java6-jre6.22-1
 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent
files)
ii  sun-java6-plugin 6.22-1
 The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
thinkpad:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.22#


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Re: iptables/routing network problem

[geertsky]

On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Mihira Fernando  wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 08:48 PM, geertsky wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve...
> > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using
> > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's
> > I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network.
> > On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow
> > proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port 3306"
> > [snip]
>
> > Apparently there is somewhere in the os a rule which disables access
> > to port 3306, but it's not a iptables rule...
> > Does anyone have a idea what apart from iptables controls network
> > traffic?
> > Thanks cause I'm completely lost...
>
> > Greetings,
> > Geert
>
> Maybe a stupid question but have you enabled network access in the MySQL
> server settings so that MySQL will actually accept connections over the
> network ?
>
> Mihira.
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Hi Mihira,
I'm not trying connecting to mysql, well not with the tests atleast...
I'm using netcat to try to make a connection to port 3306 and that
even fails...

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Re: iptables/routing network problem

[geertsky]

On Jan 30, 5:00 pm, Anand Sivaram  wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 20:48, geertsky  wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve...
> > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using
> > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's
> > I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network.
> > On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow
> > proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port 3306"
> > This gives ufw status numbered:
> > Status: active
>
> >     To                         Action      From
> >     --                         --      
> > [ 1] 22/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 2] 1723/tcp                   ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 3] Anywhere                   DENY IN     192.168.254.0/24
> > [ 4] 192.168.2.1 3306/tcp       ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp         ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 6] 80/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 7] 21/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 8] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.100.0/24
> > [ 9] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.1.0/24
> > [10] 217.148.94.148 25          ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [11] 217.148.94.148 993         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [12] 217.148.94.148 995         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
>
> > looks good I thought...
> > To test I used netcat because mysqld has some restrictions and to rule
> > any mysql problems out first just a netcat connction...
> > so on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3306
> > on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3306
> > and it timesout unable to connect...
> > ping 192.168.2.1 on the client gives replys...
> > iptables -L on the client gives ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT and no further
> > rules...
> > hhm... strange...
> > After this I've been looking everyhere to findout eventually the
> > following:
> > ufw delete 4   #delete the existing mysql accept rule
> > ufw insert 4 allow proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port
> > 3307
> > ufw status numbered gives:
> > Status: active
>
> >     To                         Action      From
> >     --                         --      
> > [ 1] 22/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 2] 1723/tcp                   ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 3] Anywhere                   DENY IN     192.168.254.0/24
> > [ 4] 192.168.2.1 3307/tcp       ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp         ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 6] 80/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 7] 21/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 8] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.100.0/24
> > [ 9] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.1.0/24
> > [10] 217.148.94.148 25          ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [11] 217.148.94.148 993         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [12] 217.148.94.148 995         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
>
> > on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3307
> > on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3307
> > Connected to 192.168.2.1.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > and i can chat as supposed to be able using nc.
>
> > Apparently there is somewhere in the os a rule which disables access
> > to port 3306, but it's not a iptables rule...
> > Does anyone have a idea what apart from iptables controls network
> > traffic?
> > Thanks cause I'm completely lost...
>
> > Greetings,
> > Geert
>
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> * Could you try it after completely disabling the firewall once, to make
> sure that 3306 works.
> * Also to see the stats, use "iptables -L -vn" to get the packet stats
> also.  Take two of these logs before and after
> trying to connect to 3306, see which particular rule counter is going up.
HI,
I forgot to mention... but also disabling the firewall completely
results in a timeout...
I guess it has to be some client side setting...
Your iptables suggestions  are not going to show anything I 'm
afraid... cause completely disabling the firewall doesn work...

Greetings,
Geert


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Re: iptables/routing network problem

[geertsky]

On Jan 30, 5:00 pm, Anand Sivaram  wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 20:48, geertsky  wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve...
> > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using
> > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's
> > I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network.
> > On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow
> > proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port 3306"
> > This gives ufw status numbered:
> > Status: active
>
> >     To                         Action      From
> >     --                         --      
> > [ 1] 22/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 2] 1723/tcp                   ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 3] Anywhere                   DENY IN     192.168.254.0/24
> > [ 4] 192.168.2.1 3306/tcp       ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp         ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 6] 80/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 7] 21/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 8] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.100.0/24
> > [ 9] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.1.0/24
> > [10] 217.148.94.148 25          ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [11] 217.148.94.148 993         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [12] 217.148.94.148 995         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
>
> > looks good I thought...
> > To test I used netcat because mysqld has some restrictions and to rule
> > any mysql problems out first just a netcat connction...
> > so on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3306
> > on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3306
> > and it timesout unable to connect...
> > ping 192.168.2.1 on the client gives replys...
> > iptables -L on the client gives ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT and no further
> > rules...
> > hhm... strange...
> > After this I've been looking everyhere to findout eventually the
> > following:
> > ufw delete 4   #delete the existing mysql accept rule
> > ufw insert 4 allow proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port
> > 3307
> > ufw status numbered gives:
> > Status: active
>
> >     To                         Action      From
> >     --                         --      
> > [ 1] 22/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 2] 1723/tcp                   ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 3] Anywhere                   DENY IN     192.168.254.0/24
> > [ 4] 192.168.2.1 3307/tcp       ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 5] 192.168.2.1 80/tcp         ALLOW IN    192.168.2.0/24
> > [ 6] 80/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 7] 21/tcp                     ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [ 8] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.100.0/24
> > [ 9] 192.168.2.0/24             DENY IN     192.168.1.0/24
> > [10] 217.148.94.148 25          ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [11] 217.148.94.148 993         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
> > [12] 217.148.94.148 995         ALLOW IN    Anywhere
>
> > on the server: nc -vl 192.168.2.1 3307
> > on the client: telnet 192.168.2.1 3307
> > Connected to 192.168.2.1.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > and i can chat as supposed to be able using nc.
>
> > Apparently there is somewhere in the os a rule which disables access
> > to port 3306, but it's not a iptables rule...
> > Does anyone have a idea what apart from iptables controls network
> > traffic?
> > Thanks cause I'm completely lost...
>
> > Greetings,
> > Geert
>
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>
> * Could you try it after completely disabling the firewall once, to make
> sure that 3306 works.
> * Also to see the stats, use "iptables -L -vn" to get the packet stats
> also.  Take two of these logs before and after
> trying to connect to 3306, see which particular rule counter is going up.

Hi again,
Ok, I foundout it cannot be a clientside problem...
I did a test from the client to a other computer on the local network
and the connection can be established!
Could the pptp connection be the problem somehow?

Greetings,
Geert


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nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

[Joel Roth]

Hi all,

Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me.  Does it look
to you like my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries?

First, here's what I expect *and* what I get when
I SSH to an account at maseru.dreamhost.com:

[maseru]$ nslookup debian.org
Server: 66.33.216.127
Address:66.33.216.127#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   debian.org
Address: 206.12.19.7
[...]

[maseru]$ nslookup ftp.us.debian.org
Server: 66.33.216.127
Address:66.33.216.127#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   ftp.us.debian.org
Address: 204.152.191.39
[...]

Now, let's try querying the *same* nameserver from my home computer
via my ISP (hawaiian telecom).

$ nslookup google.com 66.33.216.127
Server: 66.33.216.127
Address:66.33.216.127#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.224.52
[...]

$ nslookup debian.org 66.33.216.127
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

$ nslookup ftp.us.debian.org 66.33.216.127
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

$ nslookup perl.com 66.33.216.127
Server: 66.33.216.127
Address:66.33.216.127#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   perl.com
Address: 208.201.239.101
[...]

I'd like to find some other explanation. This
is with my firewall turned off.

btw, I get the same issues using my ISPs nameserver
via the ethernet modem.


$ nslookup google.com 192.168.0.1
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address:192.168.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.224.83
[...]

$ nslookup debian.org 192.168.0.1
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address:192.168.0.1#53

** server can't find debian.org: SERVFAIL

Finally, here are the queries (external DNS
server, then via ISP's ASDL modem) followed by a 
corresponding wireshark dump of the network
traffic.

Thanks for your attention!


nslookup google.com 66.33.216.127 # succeeds
nslookup debian.org 66.33.216.127
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
nslookup google.com 192.168.0.1   # succeeds
nslookup debian.org 192.168.0.1
** server can't find debian.org: SERVFAIL


No. TimeSourceDestination   Protocol Info
  1 0.00192.168.0.105 66.33.216.127 DNS  
Standard query A google.com

Frame 1 (70 bytes on wire, 70 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: WistronI_19:e6:be (f0:de:f1:19:e6:be), Dst: AniCommu_c5:4f:19 
(00:40:05:c5:4f:19)
Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.105 (192.168.0.105), Dst: 66.33.216.127 
(66.33.216.127)
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 47670 (47670), Dst Port: domain (53)
Domain Name System (query)

No. TimeSourceDestination   Protocol Info
  2 0.03106866.33.216.127 192.168.0.105 DNS  
Standard query response A 74.125.224.81 A 74.125.224.82 A 74.125.224.83 A 
74.125.224.84 A 74.125.224.80

Frame 2 (286 bytes on wire, 286 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: AniCommu_c5:4f:19 (00:40:05:c5:4f:19), Dst: WistronI_19:e6:be 
(f0:de:f1:19:e6:be)
Internet Protocol, Src: 66.33.216.127 (66.33.216.127), Dst: 192.168.0.105 
(192.168.0.105)
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: domain (53), Dst Port: 47670 (47670)
Domain Name System (response)

No. TimeSourceDestination   Protocol Info
  3 7.417343192.168.0.105 66.33.216.127 DNS  
Standard query A debian.org

Frame 3 (70 bytes on wire, 70 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: WistronI_19:e6:be (f0:de:f1:19:e6:be), Dst: AniCommu_c5:4f:19 
(00:40:05:c5:4f:19)
Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.105 (192.168.0.105), Dst: 66.33.216.127 
(66.33.216.127)
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 55129 (55129), Dst Port: domain (53)
Domain Name System (query)

No. TimeSourceDestination   Protocol Info
  4 12.417482   192.168.0.105 66.33.216.127 DNS  
Standard query A debian.org

Frame 4 (70 bytes on wire, 70 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: WistronI_19:e6:be (f0:de:f1:19:e6:be), Dst: AniCommu_c5:4f:19 
(00:40:05:c5:4f:19)
Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.105 (192.168.0.105), Dst: 66.33.216.127 
(66.33.216.127)
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 55129 (55129), Dst Port: domain (53)
Domain Name System (query)

No. TimeSourceDestination   Protocol Info
  5 17.417696   192.168.0.105 66.33.216.127 DNS  
Standard query A debian.org

Frame 5 (70 bytes on wire, 70 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: WistronI_19:e6:be (f0:de:f1:19:e6:be), Dst: AniCommu_c5:4f:19 
(00:40:05:c5:4f:19)
Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.105 (192.168.0.105), Dst: 66.33.216.127 

Re: iptables/routing network problem

[geertsky]

On Jan 30, 10:20 pm, geertsky  wrote:
> On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Mihira Fernando  wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 01/30/2011 08:48 PM, geertsky wrote:
>
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve...
> > > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using
> > > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's
> > > I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network.
> > > On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow
> > > proto tcp from 192.168.2.0/24 to 192.168.2.1 port 3306"
> > > [snip]
>
> > > Apparently there is somewhere in the os a rule which disables access
> > > to port 3306, but it's not a iptables rule...
> > > Does anyone have a idea what apart from iptables controls network
> > > traffic?
> > > Thanks cause I'm completely lost...
>
> > > Greetings,
> > > Geert
>
> > Maybe a stupid question but have you enabled network access in the MySQL
> > server settings so that MySQL will actually accept connections over the
> > network ?
>
> > Mihira.
>
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> Hi Mihira,
> I'm not trying connecting to mysql, well not with the tests atleast...
> I'm using netcat to try to make a connection to port 3306 and that
> even fails...
>
> Greetings,
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Ok, am a bit further now...
So I found out it's the pptp connection who is malicious configured
somehow...
I have other pptp conections also listening on that server and a
connection over one of the other pptp servers succeeds!
Still very strange though... why only the port 3306 is infected by
this...
Anyways... I'll look into it maybe tomorrow or something and I'll
report what I mis configured...

If anyone has suggestions I'm happy to hear it!

Greetings,
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Re: "fields" in files

[Paul E Condon]

On 20110130_134532, Axel Freyn wrote:
> Hi Lisi,
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:18:39PM +, Lisi wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:35:56 Camaleón wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:16 +, Lisi wrote:
> > > > In teh following:
> > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt
> > > >
> > > > I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or file
> > > > (information that is also at the beginning of the permissions), owner,
> > > > group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or directory.
> > > >
> > > > What are these called?  I have always called them fields, but it would
> > > > appear that I am wrong to do so.
> > >
> > > directory/file
> > > user perms-group perms-others perms
> > > user-group
> > > size
> > > last modified timestamp
> > > file name
> > >
> > > I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical name
> > > though :-)
> > 
> > Thanks, Camaleón!  Yes ,that it what they are in this context.  But in more 
> > general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the names of 
> > that particular page etc. -  what are they called?  I want to use it with 
> > cut 
> > if possible, but can't even find if there is a suitable option when I don't 
> > know what they are called.  Column is too narrow (in the physical sense) a 
> > definition.  There are 21 of what cut calls columns in the name of the file 
> > alone in this sample!
> 
> Is that what you want to achieve?
> 
> ls -l | sed -e 's/  */ /g'  | cut -f 8 -d " "
This give the file name field.
An alternative is:
ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 8 -d ' '

But beware. If the file name contains embedded space(s), it will
give only the leading part up to the first space. To get the whole
file name, use:
ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 8- -d ' '

If you are interested in processing the date and time fields, be
aware that the detailed format that is used depends on how old 
the file is at the time of execution of 'ls'. I get around this
pandering to human traditions by defining shell variable

TIME_STYLE=+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S 

This combines date and time-of-day into a single field. A file 
of data about files using this, remains correct when reconstructed
at a later date. A full-up geek design decision with no concession
to human frailty would be to use

TIME_STYLE=+%s

This gives seconds since UNIX epoch. Which might be useful if you are
collecting data from computers that are operating in different time
zones.

hth
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which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

[Russell L. Harris]

Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a
crawl and the processor usage (as displayed by system monitor) stays
at 100 percent.  Almost always, this happens when browsing a web site
which uses drupal as its engine.

I have experienced this phenomenon with Etch, Lenny, and Squeeze, and
on various machines.

Because of a previous experience in which drupal appears to have given
vandals access to my web site, I suspect that the culprit is drupal;
but perhaps the combination of iceweasel and drupal has a synergstic
effect for the worse.

RLH



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Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

[Paul Scott]

On 01/30/2011 01:06 PM, consul tores wrote:

2011/1/30 Paul Scott:
   

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
 

On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote:
   

I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco
Silver working again for
secured networks with a newer kernel.  It works fine using
dhclient now on unsecured
 

 
using what, wicd or ??
   

With dhclient or /etc/network/interfaces.  wicd doesn't see it
either probably because of the firmware problem.
 

I doubt that, a firmware problem will affect all frontends equally. You
might want to check that wicd is trying to access the correct device.
   

Could there be something else I have not installed?  I have not had this
problem with other installations.

wicd.log says:

2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Autoconnecting...
2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect 
to wireless network
2011/01/22 13:34:02 :: Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect

Thanks,

Paul
 

What happend if you do:
   


I have done these many times but I recently got and compiled a driver 
from Realtek (from Wayne's suggestion).  It isn't named rtl8185 but 
r8185b.  I thought I had tested that well enough and that it wasn't working,



ifconfig wlanx up
iwconfig wlanx essid "your_essid"
dhclient wlanx
   


These now work on my temporarily unsecured home network!

Now on to secured networks.

Thanks,

Paul




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Re: which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

[David Christensen]

Russell L. Harris wrote:

Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a
crawl


I've been running Drupal sites for 2+ years, and haven't had browser 
issues when browsing them with Ice Weasel.  (I have experienced Drupal 
and hosting issues.)



Currently, my system bogs down when I use Ice Weasel to browse Yahoo! 
Groups.  This is especially noticeable when I an entering data into a 
textarea control and Yahoo! seems to be spell-checking each and every 
keystroke.  I haven't tried any other browsers or platforms.



My guess is that the problem has something to do with JavaScript -- 
flaws in the site's JavaScript code and/or flaws in Ice Weasel's 
JavaScript engine.



HTH,

David


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[Solution] Start synergy automatically when X starts (was: /etc/X11/Xsession.d)

[T o n g]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:41:23 +, Camaleón wrote:

>> I want to use it to start an app when X starts, synergyc to be exact,
> (...)
> 
> There is a doc on how to do this, but not sure if that will help:
> 
> http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/autostart.html

Thanks Camaleón. 

Been there, read that. 

However, the offical how-to need us to hack into offical display 
manager's start up files. I thought this was bad, because when the 
display manager is updated, all your hacking is lost.

So I asked myself, "is there any better places, universal to all 3 
display managers and doesn't need to hack into exiting official code"?

First thing I thought of is the .desktop files that freedesktop.org has 
specified as the standard method of how the applications should be 
started when you start a X session. . . 

Read more of my adventure if you are interested, at
http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/start-synergy-automatically-when-x-
starts/

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USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

[Krzysztof Bieniasz]

Hi all!

I'm having an issue with my usb 3.0 port. I've recently bought an Asus
N73JF laptop which has one such port. I'm running a fully updated Squeeze
with the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel image from the Debian repo. During boot I
see lots of:
"hub 1-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5" and the port
doesn't work. When I run "lspci -v" I get the following (among others):

04:00.0 USB Controller: Fresco Logic Device 1400 (rev 01) (prog-if 30)
Subsystem: Device 1d5c:1000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at
d600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50]
Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable-
Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint,
MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

So obviously xhci is used for it, as it should I guess. Some google search
returned, that it might be an issue with ehci getting in the way so I
experimented a bit with modprobe. I disabled ehci_hcd and when I typed
"modprobe xhci_hcd" I got the following response:

FATAL: Module xhci_hcd not found.

It's the same with ehci enabled so I guess this has nothing to do with it.
I looked into /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ and xhci_hcd is there all right.

Does anyone know what I'm missing? It would be nice to be able to use the
usb 3.0 but I can't seem to find any solution. All advice are welcome

Regards,
KB


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Re: "fields" in files

[Lisi]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 21:59:03 Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20110130_134532, Axel Freyn wrote:
> > Hi Lisi,
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:18:39PM +, Lisi wrote:
> > > On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:35:56 Camaleón wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:16 +, Lisi wrote:
> > > > > In teh following:
> > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi19503 2011-01-28 21:12
> > > > > Etch_repositories.odt
> > > > >
> > > > > I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or
> > > > > file (information that is also at the beginning of the
> > > > > permissions), owner, group (or group, owner), size, date, name of
> > > > > file or directory.
> > > > >
> > > > > What are these called?  I have always called them fields, but it
> > > > > would appear that I am wrong to do so.
> > > >
> > > > directory/file
> > > > user perms-group perms-others perms
> > > > user-group
> > > > size
> > > > last modified timestamp
> > > > file name
> > > >
> > > > I call them "file attributes" but not sure if that's the technical
> > > > name though :-)
> > >
> > > Thanks, Camaleón!  Yes ,that it what they are in this context.  But in
> > > more general terms, like page, chapter, section etc., rather than the
> > > names of that particular page etc. -  what are they called?  I want to
> > > use it with cut if possible, but can't even find if there is a suitable
> > > option when I don't know what they are called.  Column is too narrow
> > > (in the physical sense) a definition.  There are 21 of what cut calls
> > > columns in the name of the file alone in this sample!
> >
> > Is that what you want to achieve?
> >
> > ls -l | sed -e 's/  */ /g'  | cut -f 8 -d " "
>
> This give the file name field.
> An alternative is:
> ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 8 -d ' '
>
> But beware. If the file name contains embedded space(s), it will
> give only the leading part up to the first space. To get the whole
> file name, use:
> ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 8- -d ' '
>
> If you are interested in processing the date and time fields, be
> aware that the detailed format that is used depends on how old
> the file is at the time of execution of 'ls'. I get around this
> pandering to human traditions by defining shell variable
>
> TIME_STYLE=+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S
>
> This combines date and time-of-day into a single field. A file
> of data about files using this, remains correct when reconstructed
> at a later date. A full-up geek design decision with no concession
> to human frailty would be to use
>
> TIME_STYLE=+%s
>
> This gives seconds since UNIX epoch. Which might be useful if you are
> collecting data from computers that are operating in different time
> zones.
 Thanks, Paul. :-)

Lisi



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USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

[Krzysztof Bieniasz]

Hi all!

I'm having an issue with my usb 3.0 port. I've recently bought an Asus
N73JF laptop which has one such port. I'm running a fully updated Squeeze
with the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel image from the Debian repo. During boot I
see lots of:
"hub 1-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5",
and the port doesn't work. When I run "lspci -v" I get the following 
(among others):

04:00.0 USB Controller: Fresco Logic Device 1400 (rev 01) (prog-if 30)
Subsystem: Device 1d5c:1000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at
d600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50]
Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable-
Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint,
MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

So obviously xhci is used for it, as it should I guess. Some google search
returned, that it might be an issue with ehci getting in the way so I
experimented a bit with modprobe. I disabled ehci_hcd and when I typed
"modprobe xhci_hcd" I got the following response:

FATAL: Module xhci_hcd not found.

It's the same with ehci enabled so I guess this has nothing to do with it.
I looked into /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ and xhci_hcd is there all right.

Does anyone know what I'm missing? It would be nice to be able to use the
usb 3.0 but I can't seem to find any solution. All advice are welcome

Regards,
KB


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USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

[Krzysztof Bieniasz]

Hi all!

I'm having an issue with my usb 3.0 port. I've recently bought an Asus
N73JF laptop which has one such port. I'm running a fully updated Squeeze
with the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel image from the Debian repo. During boot I
see lots of:
"hub 1-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5" and the port
doesn't work. When I run "lspci -v" I get the following (among others):

04:00.0 USB Controller: Fresco Logic Device 1400 (rev 01) (prog-if 30)
Subsystem: Device 1d5c:1000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at
d600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50]
Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable-
Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint,
MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

So obviously xhci is used for it, as it should I guess. Some google search
returned, that it might be an issue with ehci getting in the way so I
experimented a bit with modprobe. I disabled ehci_hcd and when I typed
"modprobe xhci_hcd" I got the following response:

FATAL: Module xhci_hcd not found.

It's the same with ehci enabled so I guess this has nothing to do with it.
I looked into /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ and xhci_hcd is there all right.

Does anyone know what I'm missing? It would be nice to be able to use the
usb 3.0 but I can't seem to find any solution. All advice are welcome

Regards,
KB


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module kvm-intel causing virtualbox problems

[briand]

I get an error message when I run virtual box and the inter-tubes led
me to the answer of removing the kvm-intel module.

I'm trying to figure out how it got loaded in the first place so I can
keep it from being loaded, but I can't seem to track it down.

Can some kind soul help me out.

Thanks,

Brian


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Re: help

[Tom Furie]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:35:59PM -0500, Doug wrote:

> that way--I haven't looked.  (Altho I have Deb installed on a
> machine, I frankly don't like its politics, and I don't use it.)

Okay, I know I should ignore it, but I can't. If you don't like Debian's
politics and don't use it, what are you here for?

Cheers,
Tom

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Re: approx for new "netinst" installation

[Russell L. Harris]

* Paul E Condon  [110130 21:15]:
> On 20110129_230759, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > * Greg Madden  [110126 03:45]:
> > > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > > I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use "approx" in
> > > > order to minimize download time and bandwidth during a new "netinst"
> > > > installation.
> > ...
> > I tried that, entering "192.168.0.200" (the LAN address of my approx
> > server) as the "Debian archive mirror hostname" and
> 
> Have you tried "192.168.0.200:" ? I think you need the port number
> and the default port for approx is .

Yes.  Thank you!  That was the missing specification -- which I should
have understood from the note in the dialogue box, which told how to
specify an alternate port.

After I specified the server as "192.168.0.200:", the installer
provided (as the default) the directory name "/debian/".  I pressed
ENTER, and it worked.

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Re: Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

[david wildgoose]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Brian  wrote:
> On Sun 30 Jan 2011 at 10:08:45 -0700, david wildgoose wrote:
>
>> However I have a new problem with the installer.
>>
>> When it comes to installing the GRUB boot loader, it fails with the
>> following error:
>>
>> "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda"
>> Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed.
>> This is a fatal error.
>>
>> I have Windows XP on a 70gig NTFS partition and would love to keep it
>> as I need it at work :/
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks so much!
>
> Don't feel insulted by the first sentence :).
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/GrubRecover

Thanks Brain. No worries I didn't :)

I'm sort of at a loss. The guide makes sense but I'm not sure how to
go about getting to the D-I rescue menu. Any ideas?

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Re: module kvm-intel causing virtualbox problems

[Andrew Reid]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 18:15:56 bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> I get an error message when I run virtual box and the inter-tubes led
> me to the answer of removing the kvm-intel module.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how it got loaded in the first place so I can
> keep it from being loaded, but I can't seem to track it down.
>
> Can some kind soul help me out.

  My intertubes told me that kvm is a virtualization module 
associated with qemu -- it may be that if you have the right sort
of CPU, your kernel thoughtfully loaded it up for you, anticipating
that you'd want the functionality.

  You may be able to prevent this by putting the module name
in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.  The comment at the start of that
file describes the scope of the file, and distinguishes between
"hotplug" events and "autoloading", with this file controlling
the former but not the latter.  I confess I don't really 
understand this distinction.

  Whenever I have wanted to prevent a module from loading, 
adding the module to that file has always done the trick 
for me.

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Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

[Jochen Schulz]

Nick Lidakis:
> 
> In trying to track down what was going on, I realized I had the Sun Java jre
> installed from the non-free repository and openjdk-6-jre
> openjdk-6-jre-headless. I tried using update-aletrnatives --config java to
> pick between the two to no avail. I removed the openjdk packages and
> currently only have Sun's Java installed.

Java includes tons of alternatives, not only "java". I guess you still
have other alternatives pointing to openjdk. Use
'update-java-alternatives' to fix them all at once and try again.

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Re: No sudo, no root, on a fully encrypted LVM filesystem

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In , David 
Starner wrote:
>I've managed to remove suid bits from all the files in my /usr/bin
>directory. As I have no root password, and I have a fully encrypted
>LVM filesystem, I'm at loss at how to recover them without deleting
>everything and starting all over.

If the root account is disabled properly (probably the case; "*" or 
something starting with "!" in the password field in /etc/shadow), then 
using the single-user mode option should mount up all your file systems 
and give you a root shell (on the local console) without prompting for a 
password.[1]

Debian GRUB scripts should already provide an single-user menu entry.  
If you are using GRUB, but do not have an entry, use the menu system to 
append "single" (and, optionally remove "quiet") from the kernel 
command-line.  If you are not using GRUB, you may be able to do 
something similar, but I'm not familiar with any other boot loaders.

Things might still be a little "off" since there could be some programs 
automatically started that drop root privileges and then need a suid in 
/usr/bin to do something that requires elevated permissions.  Still, 
from your root shell you should be able to fix things and reboot into 
full multi-user mode.

[1] If root has a password, even one that can't legitimately be typed 
from the local console, you get a root password prompt instead. :(
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Re: which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <20110130220014.ga2...@rlharris.org>, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a
>crawl and the processor usage (as displayed by system monitor) stays
>at 100 percent.  Almost always, this happens when browsing a web site
>which uses drupal as its engine.

Drupal shouldn't be a specific culprit.  There's enough layers between 
Iceweasel and Drupal so make their interaction minimal.

Still, Iceweasel could be bogging down on the amount of ECMAScript, any 
embedded objects (like Flash video), or just a hugely complex HTML 
structure.  It's even theoretically possible that Drupal is bogging down and 
some AJAX running in Iceweasel is choosing/having to wait on slow requests.

If the Drupal site is yours, you might view the source and see if you and 
simplify it.  If not, probably just have to deal with it or use a different 
or newer browser.
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Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

[Paul Scott]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:39:20PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:

> >>Paul
> >What happend if you do:
> 
> I have done these many times but I recently got and compiled a
> driver from Realtek (from Wayne's suggestion).  It isn't named
> rtl8185 but r8185b.  I thought I had tested that well enough and
> that it wasn't working,
> 
> >ifconfig wlanx up
> >iwconfig wlanx essid "your_essid"
> >dhclient wlanx
> 
> These now work on my temporarily unsecured home network!
> 
> Now on to secured networks.

A few minutes with man and I am now connected to a secured network.  wicd seems 
to work now that I am connected already.  I don't know why it didn't work before
and I don't know whether it will work if I shut down the card.

Thanks for everyone's help up to here,

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Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem *solved*

[Paul Scott]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 06:30:53PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:39:20PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> 
> > >>Paul
> > >What happend if you do:
> > 
> > I have done these many times but I recently got and compiled a
> > driver from Realtek (from Wayne's suggestion).  It isn't named
> > rtl8185 but r8185b.  I thought I had tested that well enough and
> > that it wasn't working,
> > 
> > >ifconfig wlanx up
> > >iwconfig wlanx essid "your_essid"
> > >dhclient wlanx
> > 
> > These now work on my temporarily unsecured home network!
> > 
> > Now on to secured networks.
> 
> A few minutes with man and I am now connected to a secured network.  wicd 
> seems 
> to work now that I am connected already.  I don't know why it didn't work 
> before
> and I don't know whether it will work if I shut down the card.

After a reboot I got a connection to this secured network automatically!  The 
only slightly 
strange thing is that wicd says it is now scanning and hasn't stopped for 
several minutes.

Thanks,

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How to find (and remove) all installed recommended packages

[S D]

Hi,

Is there a way to find all recommended packages that were automatically 
installed? It appears aptitude now installs recommended packages by default.

Thanks



  


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panning using xrandr

[T o n g]

Hi,

How to do panning using xrandr? Wouldn't 

 xrandr --panning x

be the same as 

 xrandr -s x

But it won't work -- I need to put --output  before --panning. 

The problem is, I've searched everywhere, but every possible string I 
tried didn't work.

warning: output LVDS1 not found; ignoring
warning: output LVDS not found; ignoring
warning: output --auto not found; ignoring
warning: output VGA-0 not found; ignoring
warning: output VGA not found; ignoring
. . . 

on and on. 

Anyone can help me out here? 

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Re: help

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 31 ian 11, 01:01:11, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:59:08PM -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
> > > 
> > > True... I think sudo is only installed if you disable root logins, 
> > > otherwise you're just stuck with su.
> > 
> > Sigh. Are you running Ubuntu? 
> > 
> > Ubuntu is NOT Debian.
> 
> If you do an expert install you are offered the choice to disable root 
> logins and use sudo instead. Yes, this is on Debian, squeeze installer.

Oh!  ok. Then again, "expert" does imply that you know what you are
doing, which seems a bit backwards.

Maybe it is meant for installing to many machines - i.e. a lab or
classroom?

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installing rtl8187B on debian lenny with kernel 2.6.26 - need help on installing backport kernel to recognise chipset

[Rico D]

i'm trying to follow this article: http://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x

But i'm very new to linux and i'm having trouble in installing the back 
port kernel.


I know of the basic command which is

|apt-get -t lenny-backports install "package"

|

and I tried running this command -

aptitude -t lenny-backports install linux-image-2.6-$(uname -r | sed 's,.*-,,') 
wireless-tools

but the above command failed. from they way i understand it, it's trying 
to install backported version of wireless tools..


at the top of the article it says: Support for some RTL8187B chipsets 
was introduced in Linux 2.6.27 - so i guess i'm after at least that kernel
I'm still unsure of how to search or install for the correct backported 
kernel for this purpose.  Could someone please help me and tell me what 
command would install the backported kernel? thanks

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

[Joel Roth]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:26:37AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me.  Does it look
> to you like my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries?

At any rate, I can easily work around the issue by 
adding the entries I need to /etc/hosts.

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Re: How to find (and remove) all installed recommended packages

[elbbit]

On 31/01/11 01:56, S D wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to find all recommended packages that were automatically 
> installed? It appears aptitude now installs recommended packages by default.
> 
> Thanks

My understanding of the Aptitude package management system is that once
you have installed a package which has recommended dependencies and you
later remove the package which sucked in the extra packages, it is
possible to remove the packages which are not required by issuing:
  apt-get autoremove




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Re: No sudo, no root, on a fully encrypted LVM filesystem

[Sascha]

Am 30.01.2011 20:14, schrieb David Starner:
> I've managed to remove suid bits from all the files in my /usr/bin
> directory. As I have no root password, and I have a fully encrypted
> LVM filesystem, I'm at loss at how to recover them without deleting
> everything and starting all over. (It's not a disastrous option, I
> guess, since it's a fairly fresh install, but I'd rather not.) If I
> backed up the / partition, reformatted and restored it to an
> unencrypted partition that I could edit from a bootable disk, would
> that work, or would LVM get in my way?
> 

Of course, you can also mount your encrypted lvm from a live-system and
chroot into it to repair your files. I am using encrypted LVM for about
a year now and i sometimes do that. I prepared a small script that is
saved in my /boot to easily manage that.
You have to do the following steps:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdaX tmp
vgchange -a y
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/ 
mount /dev/mapper/ mountpoint

For me, that looks like:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 tmp
vgchange -a y
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/eeepc-root root
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/eeepc-home home
mkdir /mnt/mapper/root
mkdir /mnt/mapper/home
mount /dev/mapper/root /mnt/mapper/root
mount /dev/mapper/home /mnt/mapper/home

After doing that, you can access the files, chroot into /mnt/mapper/root
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Re: module kvm-intel causing virtualbox problems

[briand]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:38:12 -0500
Andrew Reid  wrote:

> On Sunday 30 January 2011 18:15:56 bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> > I get an error message when I run virtual box and the inter-tubes
> > led me to the answer of removing the kvm-intel module.
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how it got loaded in the first place so I
> > can keep it from being loaded, but I can't seem to track it down.
> >
> > Can some kind soul help me out.
> 
>   My intertubes told me that kvm is a virtualization module 
> associated with qemu -- it may be that if you have the right sort
> of CPU, your kernel thoughtfully loaded it up for you, anticipating
> that you'd want the functionality.
> 

So I ran dpkg --list to see what qemu packages were installed and got
rid of something which looked promising:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  qemu-kvm*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 4,411 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
(Reading database ... 173975 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing qemu-kvm ...
Module kvm_intel not loaded ... failed!
Purging configuration files for qemu-kvm ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...


That looks promising.

I have no need for qemu, or at least I don't think I do, so just to be
sure I uninstalled everything having to do with qemu.

Virtual box still runs just fine, so there doesn't appear to be any 
interdependencies.

Thanks.

Brian


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Re: VM speed benchmark

[Anand Sivaram]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:45, T o n g  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Talking about VM, some prefer virtulbox, some VMWare. Don't know how many
> of you prefer kvm. I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of
> your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host.
>
> The reason that I'm asking -- recently I noticed that my kvm is extremely
> slow, its disk access seems at least 10 times slower (*12 hours* to
> restore a 600M partition?!). Googling revealed that's a known problem.
> e.g.,
> http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/03/qemu-slow-disk-throughput.html
>
> "... I uses Qemu for hosting the guest OS for my development environment.
>
> For 2 days, I keep wondering why Zope/Plone loads damn slow on the qemu
> machine eventhough I have allocated both cores of the processor, and
> 512RAM for it. 15 minutes simply to start up is really not desirable. I
> kept on investigating and guess what:
>
> [root@unapcict ~]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB in 3.03 seconds = 5.95 MB/sec
>
> Just for a comparison, the host hdd's speed:
>
> [root@Nobuyuki ~]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sdc
>
> /dev/sdc:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.01 seconds = 57.71 MB/sec
>
> Darn.. So, thats what the reason. . . "
>
> See, it *IS* at least 10 times slower.
>
> Please comment.
>
> Thanks
>
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Take a look at libvirt.  It is defined to take care of the network/IO
problems of virtual machines.
http://www.libvirt.org/drvqemu.html
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Re: VM speed benchmark

[elbbit]

On 30/01/11 20:15, T o n g wrote:
> I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of 
> your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host.
> 

Inside a VirtualBox guest, running Debian Lenny, using a IDE based hard
disk file (in the VM profile):
 Timing buffered disk reads:   62 MB in  3.09 seconds =  20.08 MB/sec

Inside a VirtualBox guest, running Debian Lenny, using a SATA based hard
disk file (in the VM profile):
 Timing buffered disk reads:   42 MB in  3.15 seconds =  13.31 MB/sec

Inside a VirtualBox guest, running Debian Lenny, using a set of SATA
based hard disk files in a RAID6 array configuration:
 Timing buffered disk reads:   18 MB in  3.10 seconds =   5.81 MB/sec

If useful, the output from /proc/mdstat in this VM contains:
 md0 : active (auto-read-only) raid6 sdb[0] sdh[8](S) sdi[7](S)
 sdj[6](S) sdg[5] sdf[4] sde[3] sdd[2] sdc[1]
  524032 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UU]

Outside on the VirtualBox host hardware, running Debian Lenny, using a
IDE based 1.8" hard disk (connected by ZIF):
 Timing buffered disk reads:   64 MB in  3.05 seconds =  20.96 MB/sec

All hard disk files which are used in my VirtualBox configuration are
full-sized hard disk files, not the ones which "grow" with usage.

If you need to know my hardware these tests where run on a Dell D430.

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Re: VM speed benchmark

[shawn wilson]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:15 PM, T o n g  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Talking about VM, some prefer virtulbox, some VMWare. Don't know how many
> of you prefer kvm. I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of
> your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host.
>
> per vmware benches, afaik, it's against their licensing policy to publish
them. hence, you'll never see such a thing (unless it's vmware propaganda).
everyone else has published strengths and weaknesses.


> The reason that I'm asking -- recently I noticed that my kvm is extremely
> slow, its disk access seems at least 10 times slower (*12 hours* to
> restore a 600M partition?!). Googling revealed that's a known problem.
> e.g.,
> http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/03/qemu-slow-disk-throughput.html
>
> "... I uses Qemu for hosting the guest OS for my development environment.
>
> For 2 days, I keep wondering why Zope/Plone loads damn slow on the qemu
> machine eventhough I have allocated both cores of the processor, and
> 512RAM for it. 15 minutes simply to start up is really not desirable. I
> kept on investigating and guess what:
>
> iirc, qemu is pretty slow. however, your main issue here is probably not
installing the drivers for your guest - no matter what virtual environment
you choose, you should strongly consider installing the 'tools' on the
guests (ie - install them unless you have a good reason not to). also, look
at how the virtual switch is setup, where the virtual disks are stored
(local, nfs, iscsi, firbe, etc) and see that there is no congestion there.
make sure that allocated ram is actually using ram - most virtual solutions
will allow you to store the ram on a disk which is cool but slow as hell.

lastly, i either use virtualbox or proxmox. virtualbox works great if i want
something up and running quick that i don't really need to manage (also has
some pretty cool usb support). proxmox is good, free hardware virtualization
that combines qemu and kvm and has tons of cool (esx like) features for
free. want to pay for stuff and want decent support, install esx. if you
want a ton of windows hosts that won't use too much memory, use hyper-v with
the windows paravirtualization.

 none of this answered your benchmark question. frankly, i probably never
will :) benchmarks cost too much time and money to do right and someone
always wants to argue with them. also, when you bench a vm, you can't rely
on the process monitoring in the vm due to time skew. so, you're left with
tools built for the task which tend to start costing $$$.

... given that i didn't answer your benchmark question, i hope something in
here helped.

Mounting local filesystems...mount: /dev/sdc1 special device doesn't exist failed.

[Csanyi Pal]

Hi,

I just have installed Debian SID.

When I reboot I forgot to plug out my USB stick and when the system
boot, I get error message - warning, something like stand in the subject
of this mail.

How can I get rid of it?

In my /etc/fstab I have the corresponding line for the usb device:
/dev/sdc1   /media/usb0   vfat   users,rw,exec  0 0

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Re: Mounting local filesystems...mount: /dev/sdc1 special device doesn't exist failed.

[Csanyi Pal]

Csanyi Pal  writes:

> When I reboot I forgot to plug out my USB stick and when the system
> boot, I get error message - warning, something like stand in the subject
> of this mail.

Because I plugged it out when the system reboot at, 'BIOS' time.

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Reach ext3 partitions with UUID labels

[Csanyi Pal]

Hi,

I just have installed Debian SID with linux kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1
SMP.

I installed it following http://io.debian.net/~tar/gnustep/install.txt

I have on my PC Box two SCSI hard disks: sda and sdb.
Debian SID is on /dev/sda3 and
the previously installed Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze is on
/dev/sdb5

Debian Squeeze uses UUID's to mount it's partitions, but Debian SID
didn't so I think that cause that that I can't reach partitions of
Debian Squeeze from Debian SID.

How can I convert the way system reach partitions (from /dev/sdaN to
UUID's)? What package must I install for this?

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Re: which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

[Russell L. Harris]

* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.  [110131 04:12]:
> In <20110130220014.ga2...@rlharris.org>, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a
> >crawl and the processor usage (as displayed by system monitor) stays
> >at 100 percent.  Almost always, this happens when browsing a web site
> >which uses drupal as its engine.
...
> If the Drupal site is yours, you might view the source and see if you and 
> simplify it.  If not, probably just have to deal with it or use a different 
> or newer browser.

It is not my site; at this point I have no intention of trying drupal
again.

But I installed Konqueror (I am running Gnome) and discovered that
Konqueror does not exhibit this effect.  So for that web site (and
perhaps for everything else), I now plan to use Konqueror.

RLH


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Re: help

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <20110131040038.GA3315@fischer>, Chris Bannister wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Lu, 31 ian 11, 01:01:11, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:59:08PM -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
>> > > True... I think sudo is only installed if you disable root logins,
>> > > otherwise you're just stuck with su.
>> > 
>> > Sigh. Are you running Ubuntu?
>> > 
>> > Ubuntu is NOT Debian.
>> 
>> If you do an expert install you are offered the choice to disable root
>> logins and use sudo instead. Yes, this is on Debian, squeeze installer.
>
>Oh!  ok. Then again, "expert" does imply that you know what you are
>doing, which seems a bit backwards.

I maintain that experts will be more likely to use sudo than su.  It 
provides better granularity and helps avoid password sharing.  A password 
shared is a password compromised.

I currently maintain 2 physical systems, 2 personal VPS, 1 business VPS, and 
share maintainership of at least 1-2 more.  Most of them have the root 
account disabled.  None of them allow root to connect over ssh.  All have 
sudo available.
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Re: How to find (and remove) all installed recommended packages

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <462154.23638...@web45807.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>, S D wrote:
>Is there a way to find all recommended packages that were automatically
>installed? It appears aptitude now installs recommended packages by
>default.

Not exactly, but something like (aptitude search '~M!~R~i') should get you 
close.

That lists all automatically installed packages that are not a Depend of an 
installed package.
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Finding packages installed from experimental

[Sven Joachim]

How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain
suite, say experimental in this case?  The naïve approach

$ aptitude search "~i ~Aexperimental"

does not work, because it lists all installed packages which have a
version in experimental, even if another version is installed.

Sven


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Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim  wrote:
>
> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain
> suite, say experimental in this case?  The naïve approach
>
> $ aptitude search "~i ~Aexperimental"
>
> does not work, because it lists all installed packages which have a
> version in experimental, even if another version is installed.

aptitude search "?narrow(?archive(experimental),?installed)"


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Re: Mounting local filesystems...mount: /dev/sdc1 special device doesn't exist failed.

[Anand Sivaram]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:27, Csanyi Pal  wrote:

> Csanyi Pal  writes:
>
> > When I reboot I forgot to plug out my USB stick and when the system
> > boot, I get error message - warning, something like stand in the subject
> > of this mail.
>
> Because I plugged it out when the system reboot at, 'BIOS' time.
>
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> http://csanyi-pal.info
>
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Either you could comment out that line or add a noauto option
/dev/sdc1   /media/usb0   vfat   noauto,users,rw,exec  0 0
Then when you connect your usb drive, mount it manually "mount /media/usb0"

Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

[godo]

On 01/30/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote:

I have been buying music from a website called HDtracks.com recently using my
Debian Sid desktop. They're wensite requires your run a download manager that
is a Java application for all music downloads. I have downloaded 2 albums
this past October without incident but ran into problems trying to buy music
yesterday.

In trying to track down what was going on, I realized I had the Sun Java jre
installed from the non-free repository and openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless. I tried using update-aletrnatives --config java to
pick between the two to no avail. I removed the openjdk packages and
currently only have Sun's Java installed.

phobos:/home/nick# dpkg -l | grep java
rc  ca-certificates-java 20100412
Common CA certificates (JKS keystore)
pi  java-common  0.40
Base of all Java packages
ii  javascript-common8
Base support for JavaScript library packages
rc  libaccess-bridge-java-jni1.26.2-5
Java Access Bridge for GNOME (jni bindings)
ii  plasma-scriptengine-javascript   4:4.4.5-1
the JavaScript script engine for Plasma
ii  sun-java6-bin6.22-1
Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files)
ii  sun-java6-fonts  6.22-1
Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
ii  sun-java6-jre6.22-1
Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files)
ii  sun-java6-plugin

As a simple test, when I try to visit this site, http://www.time.gov/, which
uses Java to show real time, the browser freezes for about 15 seconds, the
page loads but no Java clock is shown.

So I tried installing Java on my Debian Sid laptop via apt-get install
sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin and all works well. The Java clock works and I
was able to download my music from HDtracks.

On the laptop:

thinkpad:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.22# dpkg -l | grep java
ii  java-common  0.40
  Base of all Java packages
ii  sun-java6-bin6.22-1
  Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent
files)
ii  sun-java6-jre6.22-1
  Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent
files)
ii  sun-java6-plugin 6.22-1
  The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
thinkpad:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.22#


Any suggestions?



Hi,
does your web browser maybe block java?

What is output of:
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
if output is 1 then:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only

On my Sid and Squeeze box http://www.time.gov/ clock works so I hope we 
can find a solution.



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