Fwd: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

[Gustavo]

Hais.
You could see on your crontab or at jobs if there's anything down there, also 
make sure you don't have any application running like monit which can restart 
mysql.

Send from iGustavo


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> Date: 5 de mayo de 2011 17:38:09 GMT+02:00
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?
> 

> Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at 
> midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change this. 
> I've also searched online and can't find an answer. Any ideas?
> 
> Much appreciated!
> 
> 
> Abraham
> 

firmware-realtek (0.29) can't work at amd64

[spp mg]

hi
I have rtl8191su wireless chip,and os is debian amd64 testing.

I can compile source from RealTek in kernel 2.6.26,but the newer can't.
So I try to use apt install the firmware-realtek (0.29).(I believe rtl8192
and rtl8191 use same source.),but it can't work too.

And I try to use the i386 system( kernel 2.6.38, installed firmware-realtek
(0.29)),it work perfect!

How to solve this problem? thanks a lot .

Re: rootfs on SSD

[Andrei Popescu]

On Du, 08 mai 11, 23:23:52, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> 
> rd@blackbox:~$ mount|grep rootfs
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
> rd@blackbox:~$ 

I don't have any 'rootfs' in the output of mount, instead I have this:

/dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)

I have a feeling there's more to your setup that is missing here. Could 
you please post your complete /etc/fstab and full output of 'mount'?

Regards,
Andrei
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Disk Space Issues

[Daniel Linux]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues.

Thanks,

D.A
Why do you live?

Re: Disk Space Issues

[Ron Johnson]

On 05/09/2011 03:23 AM, Daniel Linux wrote:

Hi,

Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues.



Too generic.  Not enough information.

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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Daniel Linux]

Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what filesystem is
almost full. What should I do?

Thanks,

DA


On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Ron Johnson  wrote:

> On 05/09/2011 03:23 AM, Daniel Linux wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues.
>>
>>
> Too generic.  Not enough information.
>
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Re: cannot resolve hostname [SOLVED]

[AG]

On 07/05/11 14:14, AG wrote:





Dear List

I am pleased - & very relieved!! - to report that for the first time in 
several days now I have been able to reboot the machine and it retains 
connectivity!!  This is great news, and although I still don't know what 
the cause of the problem was, but suspect that a configuration file or 
two was being over-written, at least now I can be productive again and 
have confidence in using the machine reliably.


I want to thank everyone here who has contributed so much to helping me 
through this issue, and without alienating anyone else, I'd especially 
like to thank Camaleón for having stuck through this with me with sage 
advice and spot-on recommendations.  If these lists had an award for 
most helpful members of the community, Camaleón would get my 
nomination.  Also thanks to Brian, Klistvud, Hans and the others who 
made suggestions, helped me think through the issues and didn't get 
frustrated with my computing naivete.


All the best, & I hope that one day I might pay these good favours 
forward to some other poor schmuk who finds themselves overwhelmed by a 
mysterious computing issue.


AG


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Tom Grace]

On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote:

Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what
filesystem is almost full. What should I do?
du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to 
limit the output.



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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Daniel Linux]

What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general
question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an
answer.

Thanks,

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Tom Grace
wrote:

> On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote:
>
>> Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what
>> filesystem is almost full. What should I do?
>>
> du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to limit
> the output.
>
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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Ron Johnson]

You look for the biggest file.  (I feel a GOML moment approaching.)

On 05/09/2011 03:48 AM, Daniel Linux wrote:

What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general
question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an
answer.

Thanks,

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Tom Grace
wrote:


On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote:


Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what
filesystem is almost full. What should I do?


du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to limit
the output.



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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Lisi]

On Monday 09 May 2011 09:48:44 Daniel Linux wrote:
> What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general
> question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an
> answer.

I currently have this problem on two of my disks.  As I see it, I have 3 
realistic choices: delete enough stuff to free up a realistic percentage if 
the disks; buy myself 2 new larger disks; and copy a large chunk of stuff I 
want to keep, but only need rarely, onto another (external?) disk.  I am 
trying the last first, and have bought an external drive.  But I haven't yet 
done it, and may not succeed in moving enough!

Lisi


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Tom Grace]

On 09/05/11 09:48, Daniel Linux wrote:

What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a
general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and
nobody had an answer.


It all depends on context, you'll need to add a little more detail. For 
instance:
As an administrator, you'd probably go find big files and go shout at 
their creator.

As an application developer, you'd need to gracefully handle the error.


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Brad Alexander]

Depends. Best case, you built your system using LVM and have reserved space.
You can check this using the df command. If your filesystems start with
/dev/mapper, then you are using LVM. You can check for free space using the
vgdisplay command (as root):

# vgdisplay
...Snip...
  Alloc PE / Size   96637 / 377.49 GiB
  Free  PE / Size   80065 / 312.75 GiB

The free PE/Size line shows you the available space. You could then extend
the filesystem that is having issues:

# lvextend -L+10G /dev/VG00/foo

If you are using standard hard drive partitions (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb2, etc),
then you have to do it the old school way.

Using a tool like df, find a directory tree that is large enough that moving
it off of the filesystem would make a difference, then copy it to a
partition with more space, then symlink it back to its original location.

This is an older and uglier way to do it as you could, over time wind up
with a bunch of these symlinks all over your hard drive.

--b

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Daniel Linux wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> D.A
> Why do you live?
>

Re: Disk Space Issues

[Michiel Piscaer]

Op 9-5-2011 10:48, Daniel Linux schreef:
What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a 
general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and 
nobody had an answer.


Thanks,

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Tom Grace 
> wrote:


On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote:

Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what
filesystem is almost full. What should I do?

du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth
to limit the output.


With # du -h --max-depth=1 you can find what directory is taking all of 
the space. Next is take the right action, by emtying /  deleting the 
file, or moving the directory to an new disk.


Also when you  reply on en mail please place your text below.

Kind regards,

Michiel Piscaer

Re: Disk Space Issues

[Lisi]

On Monday 09 May 2011 07:58:22 Michiel Piscaer wrote:
> With # du -h --max-depth=1 you can find what directory is taking all of
> the space. Next is take the right action, by emtying /  deleting the
> file, or moving the directory to an new disk.

Thanks, Michiel.  I had correctly selected the largest directory - but 
incorrectly managed ot find out its size.  I now know that the external HDD 
that I had bought is not big enough, so won't bother to try moving onto 
it. ;-(

Now, if I had asked

Lisi




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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Brad Rogers]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 04:40:56 -0400
Daniel Linux  wrote:

Hello Daniel,

> Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what
> filesystem is almost full. What should I do?

Your question is still too vague to give sensible answers to.  Some
options;

1) Buy a new computer.

2) Buy a new hard drive.

3) Buy more RAM.

4) Read
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LinuxQuestions_org/How_To_Ask_a_Question

5) Delete some files.

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Suite à une visite sur votre site

[Emilie Rondo]

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réussi d'ailleurs,

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avec la présentation de votre entreprise.



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"http://creanimstudio.fr/demo/demo.php?X=180&Y=100&adress={"; )site} ( 
"http://peter-wilson.fr/demo3.php?X=180&Y=100&adress={essai}"; )
 
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Qu'en pensez-vous ?



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indépendant
l'URL de votre site ainsi que son contenu reste inchangé.


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 5/9/2011 1:58 AM, Michiel Piscaer wrote:

Op 9-5-2011 10:48, Daniel Linux schreef:



Yes, I need generic steps. After running df -h I know what
filesystem is almost full. What should I do?

du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth
to limit the output.



With # du -h --max-depth=1 you can find what directory is taking all of
the space. Next is take the right action, by emtying / deleting the
file, or moving the directory to an new disk.


The first step should be to identify all files that are known to 
compress w/ a decent ratio:


1.  Text (logs)
2.  HTML
3.  etc

A/V files typically don't compress well.  Many binaries don't compress 
well.  Depending on the primary use of the machine in question it may 
have a lot of disk space eaten by highly compressible files.  If so, 
compress those files.


If the files taking up much of the space are infrequently used, move 
them to a D2D backup server, CD/DVD, or to tape.  If they will never be 
used again (large temp files) simply delete them.


The answer the professor is looking for is not the action you end up 
taking, but the logic process you use to figure out what you should 
do--i.e. what steps you take, and how thorough they are, in determining 
the best course of action.


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi Lisi,

Lisi wrote:

On Monday 09 May 2011 09:48:44 Daniel Linux wrote:

What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general
question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an
answer.


I currently have this problem on two of my disks.  As I see it, I have 3 
realistic choices: delete enough stuff to free up a realistic percentage if 
the disks; buy myself 2 new larger disks; and copy a large chunk of stuff I 
want to keep, but only need rarely, onto another (external?) disk.  I am 
trying the last first, and have bought an external drive.  But I haven't yet 
done it, and may not succeed in moving enough!


Don't count on an external drive surviving.  If the data is important to 
you, then you might want multiple external drives and have one of them 
off-site -- perhaps swap with a family member or colleague?


Data is usually best on some form of protective RAID (not striping 
unless mirrored as well) -- I am preferring RAID6 if I have enough 
drives [6+ makes it worthwhile], RAID1 next and as a third choice, 
RAID5.  But don't forget ... RAID in itself is *NOT* a backup, it simply 
protects against single [up to 2 drives with RAID6] drive failure.


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi,

Daniel Linux wrote:

Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues.


Depending on the size of the file system to start with, you cold use 
find as follows to locate larger files for consideration.


# find /home -size +10M -ls

Generally, larger files once identified can give you a good start.

However, that's just a start ... as others have said, a better 
predefinition of the problem would help.


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote:

What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a
general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and
nobody had an answer.


This is the only full solution:
sudo rm -rf /


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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Darac Marjal]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:59:40AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
>Depends. Best case, you built your system using LVM and have reserved
>space. You can check this using the df command. If your filesystems start
>with /dev/mapper, then you are using LVM. You can check for free space
>using the vgdisplay command (as root):
> 
># vgdisplay
>...Snip...
>  Alloc PE / Size   96637 / 377.49 GiB
>  Free  PE / Size   80065 / 312.75 GiB
> 
>The free PE/Size line shows you the available space. You could then extend
>the filesystem that is having issues:
> 
># lvextend -L+10G /dev/VG00/foo

You probably want to add '-r' to that command to resize the filesystem
on the device, or else you'll need to also run
resize2fs/resize_reiserfs/xfs_growfs as appropriate.



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Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Dotan Cohen]

Windows keyboards come with a Menu key to the right of the spacebar.
Is this key used for anything in Debian? I can find no use for it
whatsoever so I am considering mapping it to something more useful.

Thanks.

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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Brad Alexander]

Yeah, good idea. Answering questions at 5am before coffee is
contraindicated. :)

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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:

> On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:59:40AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
> >Depends. Best case, you built your system using LVM and have reserved
> >space. You can check this using the df command. If your filesystems
> start
> >with /dev/mapper, then you are using LVM. You can check for free space
> >using the vgdisplay command (as root):
> >
> ># vgdisplay
> >...Snip...
> >  Alloc PE / Size   96637 / 377.49 GiB
> >  Free  PE / Size   80065 / 312.75 GiB
> >
> >The free PE/Size line shows you the available space. You could then
> extend
> >the filesystem that is having issues:
> >
> ># lvextend -L+10G /dev/VG00/foo
>
> You probably want to add '-r' to that command to resize the filesystem
> on the device, or else you'll need to also run
> resize2fs/resize_reiserfs/xfs_growfs as appropriate.
>
>

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:02:18 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:

> On 20110508_095510, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> > Whether one of these packages is installed by default depends on how
>> > you installed that particular machine (example: it might not be
>> > installed in expert mode since AFAIR you get a specific question
>> > about which kernel package to install).
>> 
>> I always use the expert installer so that can be the reason I didn't
>> have the meta-package installed by default.
> 
> 
> I always use the expert installer and I always have the meta-package
> installed, Expert mode, for me, always presents a screen for selection
> of a kernel package with the meta-package highlighted. 

Thanks for pointing this, I'll check out the next time I make an 
install :-)

This installation was done over 6 (or more) months ago using a squeeze 
weekly snapshot so maybe something has changed since that. I say this 
because I've also noticed that in all of the systems where I have lenny 
installed there is no kernel meta-package at all, just the kernel package 
itself :-?

> But I also always use aptitude, and I'm not yet convinced that aptitude
> and apt-get always do the same thing.

In this case both tools were showing consistent results.

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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Brad Rogers]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 14:20:10 +0300
Dotan Cohen  wrote:

Hello Dotan,

> Windows keyboards come with a Menu key to the right of the spacebar.
> Is this key used for anything in Debian? I can find no use for it

It'll be the DE that sets this, not Debian, per se.  Here, it brings up
the RMB context menu for whatever has focus.  Setting the correct
keyboard layout may be required, too.

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Re: ReiserFS: "filesystem is not clean" after a kernel update

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 08 May 2011 14:29:12 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> On 5/8/2011 7:44 AM, Camaleón wrote:

>> Yesterday I updated the kernel to 2.6.38-2 on wheezy and now I get (at
>> a random basis) a warning about the ReiserFS filesystem "is not clean"
>> when booting.
>>
>> Despite the boot message, there are no more indications of a filesystem
>> corruption and indeed, the system has been always being shutdown
>> properly.
>>
>> This is a Debian virtual machine (no raid volume nor LVM layout, it's a
>> pretty simple installation) that uses ReiserFS for the "/" partition
>> but AFAICT, this message was not present until yesterday that I
>> upgraded the kernel.
>>
>> Any hints? Is this something known?
> 
> Did you also upgrade the kernel in the underlying hypervisor?  What
> version is it?
> 
> Is the guest Wheezy kernel virtual machine aware?

Wheezy is installed on a virtualbox machine (host is windows xp, guest is 
wheezy).
 
> An exact copy of the error in dmesg or syslog would be helpful.

I saw nothing relevant but the "Filesystem is NOT clean" message, but 
sure, I'll add it as soon as I can access the VM on the afternoon, now 
I'm at work.
 
> Last, why haven't you migrated that guest (and all such systems) from
> ReiserFS to EXT3/4?  Hans is in prison.  Reiser4 still isn't in
> mainline.  The number of eyes currently on Reiser3 code can easily be
> counted on one person's fingers and toes, maybe just fingers...

ReiserFS is a filesystem that I've been using since my first linux 
installation (that's 8 years ago) and have been working rock solid on all 
the machines (servers, workstations and desktop computers). True is that 
all the machines are properly backed by UPS units but this filesystem has 
been recovering very well even when the computers had to be reseted or 
powered down in a not so nicely manner.

In brief, I like ReiserFS and the only thing that refrains me for keeping 
using it is that, AFAIK, nowadays is only receiving patches (no new 
features) in the mainline kernel.

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Single mouse click registers as double click

[Ijon Tichy]

Hi.

I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
computers, and unfortunately I couldn't solve it yet.

Searching through Google and (of course) the Debian mailing lists, I found that:

(1) it seems to be a quite old bug, and
(2) there are several ways to "solve" it (mainly aiming some
modification of xorg.conf).

Unfortunately, as I said before, none of those solutions worked for
me, so I finally decided to reinstall Debian (using a weekly-build)
two months ago. But the problem persists (in both computers). I even
tried a live Knoppix to check out whether the problem was also present
there or not (it was; not surprising, considering that Knoppix is
based on Debian, of course).

So the question is: does anyone know whether there is a solution for this bug?

Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions.

Cheers,
Miguel

pd By the way, I don't have xorg.conf anymore.


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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[AG]

On 09/05/11 12:20, Dotan Cohen wrote:

Windows keyboards come with a Menu key to the right of the spacebar.
Is this key used for anything in Debian? I can find no use for it
whatsoever so I am considering mapping it to something more useful.

Thanks.

Not that I am aware of.  I have it mapped to bring up a terminal window 
(konsole) which is really handy.  The ease of doing so may vary 
depending on the DE/WM you are using though.


HTH

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Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 08 May 2011 22:27:40 +0100, Lisi wrote:

> On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:49:27 Camaleón wrote:
>> Good. And I'm so sorry for NM but is nothing but a headache
> 
> If NM ever gets installed by default, the first thing I do is purge it!
> ;-)

I don't like the idea of not having it installed. 

There can be some programs that directly (or indirectly) depend on it or 
need it and the most important, as I see it, in the event there is a 
problem with the old network management system (ifup) if you have NM 
installed you can still configure the network. 

I see NM as a kind of fallback network system manager that is better 
having it installed _but_ disabled :-)

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Re: Finding Library Dependencies - MxEasy Security Camera Software

[CACook]

On Sunday 8 May, 2011 08:27:27 godo wrote:
> it's happened sometimes that some package missing in testing or sid but 
> from my experience it will come in few days or week.
> 
> If you are in hurry try with sid version and if there is not to much 
> dependencies I think it wont be a problem.

I've found libsdl1.2debian-all in Ubuntu Natty, which this software was 
packaged for, and the only two operative files in it are:
/usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.3

There is a libsdl1.2debian-all for Debian Testing, which I'm running, but it's 
not built for amd64 yet.  There is a libsdl1.2debian-all for squeeze, and it 
has exactly what Natty's has.

And the kicker is that libsdl1.2debian (no -all) which I have installed, has 
these exact files with these exact names as well.  So I think the software is 
looking for the package name with -all, and when it doesn't find it it fails.  
I overrode dependencies and installed it anyway, but inexplicably it does 
everything but show video.

There is a way to determine what libraries are required by an executable, but I 
don't remember what it is.


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no network after hibernate

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

I am using Debian squeeze on Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop.

When I boot from scratch, the network works fine. However, if I do "sudo 
hibernate" and reboot, the network does not come up automatically. I have to 
do "/etc/init.d/networking restart" every time I resume from hibernation. It 
works after that.

Any ideas/suggestions on how to rectify this?

$cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$  

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf managed
wpa-ssid 
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk 


Here are the relevant (I think) stanza's on network configuration from lshw

   *-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:0b:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 02
serial: 00:13:02:9e:cc:1b
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet 
physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl3945 ip=192.168.1.21 
latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
resources: irq:27 memory:dfcff000-dfcf


   *-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:15:c5:19:9c:1a
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 
10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 
driverversion=2.0 latency=64 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:17 memory:df9fe000-df9f



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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 14:56, Brad Rogers  wrote:
> It'll be the DE that sets this, not Debian, per se.  Here, it brings up
> the RMB context menu for whatever has focus.  Setting the correct
> keyboard layout may be required, too.
>

True. I suppose if I have gotten this far with never using it then I
can sacrifice it. I just don't want to paint myself into a corner by
removing a feature that I may some day want (Like OpenSUSE removing
CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE).

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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[David Jardine]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:20:10PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Windows keyboards come with a Menu key to the right of the spacebar.
> Is this key used for anything in Debian? I can find no use for it
> whatsoever so I am considering mapping it to something more useful.

In _text_ mode I have it mapped to AltLock and haven't noticed any 
undesirable consequences.  X may be a different story.

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Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 00:12:23 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 13:28, Camaleón  wrote:

>>> There is a point when I don't care about being right or wrong, I made
>>> my say and I'll not argue over trivial things with people who I'd
>>> really rather get along with.
>>
>> Fine, but doing so in a public (and mostly technical) mailing list
>> generates other people reply to your "considerations" about a web
>> service that has been there providing a useful service since years.
>>
>>
> I mentioned problems with the service, both here-and-now problems and
> potential issues about the future. That does not mean that I intend to
> debate the subject for three days over tens of posts.

As I see it, you did more than just noting the tinyurl service was having 
any kind problem at your side or stating your concerns about its usage 
privacy issues. Again, I think your response was a bit exaggerated.

>>> I'm not trying to force anyone, nor am I making blame. I am giving
>>> tangible arguments in favour of my position. If someone wishes to
>>> disregard my arguments, even if it is to my detriment and the
>>> detriment of the fine archives, so be it.
>>
>> You are charging against Tinyurl and blaming over it because of some
>> obscure privacy concerns you have... but you are writing on a public
>> mailing list, you use Gmail and you still worry about privacy? That
>> makes no sense.
>>
>>
> Feel free to ignore the privacy aspects if they don't concern you. 

I'm concerned about privacy but clicking on a tinyurl link is not what I 
take for that.

> How about the ability to mask a malicious link? 

Irrelevant, as _any link_ (shortened or not) can be easily bypassed and 
point to a malicious site. 

> How about adding redundant layers to an already tenuous HTTP
> connection? 

Today's Internet is plenty of add-on layers, most of them useless.

> How about the future viability of the links when the shortening service
> has a server failure, or goes out of business, is bought, or hacked, or 
> shut down by law?

Again, *any* web URI can fail because of the same things. Should we care 
about all of the possibilities that can make a link is not functioning 
anymore? We can go crazy...

>> I used the Gmail argument because is a service that you are using but
>> apparently you are also much worried about your privacy. That's an
>> oxymoron. Probably by using Gmail's e-mail service you are being more
>> watched than by following a tinyurl link.
>>
>>
> I use Gmail for public mailing lists. I have my private and business
> mail at my own domain dotancohen.com.

And the same argument can be taken by people who use tinyurl services: 
they use it on mailing lists but not for their personal or business e-
mail communication.

>> I believe there is nothing wrong in using them. Heck, this is the web!
>> Most of the "plain" URIs are not available anymore because people
>> closes their sites and they stop caring about making a redirect to the
>> new ones. Links dead, regardless of the usage of URL shortening
>> services or no.
>>
>>
> That's a red herring argument. Do you also not wear a seatbelt because
> we are all going to die anyway? Same argument.

No, it's not. I'm just using an "ad-hominem" argument: what you say that 
is bad for tinyurl is also bad for any other URI.

>>> So why use it?
>>
>> To make a bunch of text short. To give the reader some sort of
>> usability (there are e-mail clients that do not wrap well a long
>> formatted URL or they even broke the full link). To provide "clarity"
>> to the whole message.
>>
>>
> The shortening services do not provide clarity. 

Nor plain URLs do. I hope you've heard about "phishing" and what it 
involves.

> Here is a clear URL:
> http://dotancohen.com/eng/noah_ergonomic_keyboard_layout.html You know
> where it is going, and the topic under discussion. You might recognize
> the domain name if it is a common one and base your trust on that. I'll
> open links to http://debian.org, but I won't open links to
> http://debian.on.nimp.org and seeing the URL is critical in that
> decision.

No, I don't know if that URL is a trusted source or not. I don't know 
you, nor I don't know if your webserver has been cracked by someone or if 
it contains malware on it... in fact no one can know it "beforehand".
 
> Here is a non-clear URL:
> http://tinyurl.com/2ajjgt
> Where does that go? Yes, I know about the "preview feature". I still
> have to invoke tinyurl to invoke the "preview feature".

I don't care where it goes. But _I do care_ if someone on this list 
points to me to that URI, shortened or not. Someone that is replying to 
me in order to help me.
 
>> There is a saying that says: "When the wise man points at the moon, the
>> idiot looks at the finger". In brief, I think that Tinyurl is no the
>> main question here.
>>
>>
> I counter with the saying "When the sage lifts his book, the slave
> lowers his pen". Tinyurl gives no benefit and [causes problems || has
> the poten

Re: Disk Space Issues

[Lisi]

On Monday 09 May 2011 10:57:55 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote:
> > What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a
> > general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and
> > nobody had an answer.
>
> This is the only full solution:
> sudo rm -rf /

:-)

You don't think that that solution might bring other, worse problems in on its 
tail?? ;-)

Lisi


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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Brad Rogers]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:52:20 +0300
Dotan Cohen  wrote:

Hello Dotan,

> True. I suppose if I have gotten this far with never using it then I
> can sacrifice it. I just don't want to paint myself into a corner by

Probably.  TBH, I rarely use the menu key as it's set up here.  I keep
forgetting it.

> removing a feature that I may some day want (Like OpenSUSE removing
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE).

Hmmm.  Can it be re-enabled by altering/creating the relevant section in
xorg.conf, perhaps?

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Lisi]

On Monday 09 May 2011 13:01:18 Ijon Tichy wrote:
> I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
> click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
> computers,

That's not a bug, that's a feature!  It is Windows that has the bug with all 
those double-clicks.

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Re: Finding Library Dependencies - MxEasy Security Camera Software

[godo]

And the kicker is that libsdl1.2debian (no -all) which I have
installed, has these exact files with these exact names as well.  So
I think the software is looking for the package name with -all, and
when it doesn't find it it fails.  I overrode dependencies and
installed it anyway, but inexplicably it does everything but show
video.

There is a way to determine what libraries are required by an
executable, but I don't remember what it is.



If you run executable through shell I think it show you where is the
problem.
So if app name is 'mxeasy':
$ /usr/bin/mxeasy
and it should be wright every step.

Does MxEasy maybe need any extra video codec?

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Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list

[Lisi]

On Sunday 08 May 2011 22:12:23 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> That does not mean that I intend to
> debate the subject for three days over tens of posts.

So why are you doing it??

Here's a revolutionary idea: you could let someone else have the last word and 
get on with your life.  No-one but you yourself is making you debate the 
subject.

Lisi


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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[godo]

On 2011-05-09 16:02, Lisi wrote:

On Monday 09 May 2011 13:01:18 Ijon Tichy wrote:

I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
computers,


That's not a bug, that's a feature!  It is Windows that has the bug with all
those double-clicks.

Lisi



+1 That's one of linux options make me excited after trying him first time.
But if you wont change on 2x click you can do it somewhere in options.

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Brad Rogers]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:02:30 +0100
Lisi  wrote:

Hello Lisi,

> That's not a bug, that's a feature!  It is Windows that has the bug
> with all those double-clicks.

And in KDE is configurable.  Probably in other DEs, too.

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Re: no network after hibernate

[Klistvud]

Dne, 09. 05. 2011 14:20:00 je Kamaraju S Kusumanchi napisal(a):

I am using Debian squeeze on Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop.

When I boot from scratch, the network works fine. However, if I do  
"sudo
hibernate" and reboot, the network does not come up automatically. I  
have to
do "/etc/init.d/networking restart" every time I resume from  
hibernation. It

works after that.

Any ideas/suggestions on how to rectify this?

$cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf managed
wpa-ssid 
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk 


Here are the relevant (I think) stanza's on network configuration  
from lshw


   *-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network  
Connection

vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:0b:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 02
serial: 00:13:02:9e:cc:1b
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list  
ethernet

physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl3945  
ip=192.168.1.21

latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
resources: irq:27 memory:dfcff000-dfcf


   *-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:15:c5:19:9c:1a
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet  
physical mii

10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes  
driver=b44

driverversion=2.0 latency=64 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:17 memory:df9fe000-df9f



Unless you want to set up a custom script for bringing the network up  
after resuming from hibernation, there are wicd (highly recommended) or  
network-manager who will both do what you're after. At least one of the  
two AFAIR also has a companion package for console work (if you need it  
for an X-less environment).


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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 16:56, Brad Rogers  wrote:
> Hmmm.  Can it be re-enabled by altering/creating the relevant section in
> xorg.conf, perhaps?
>

Actually, I'm just going to eliminate it in my custom ergonomic keyboard layout:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/noah_ergonomic_keyboard_layout.html

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Ijon Tichy]

Hi again

>>> I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
>>> click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
>>> computers,
>>
>> That's not a bug, that's a feature!  It is Windows that has the bug with
>> all
>> those double-clicks.
>>
>> Lisi
>>
>>
> +1 That's one of linux options make me excited after trying him first time.
> But if you wont change on 2x click you can do it somewhere in options.
>

OK, I see I haven't explained myself properly :D

I know the feature you talk about. But I'm talking about (random)
single clicks being considered by the system as (undesidered) double
clicks ("random" because it doesn't happen all the time). By the way,
I forgot to mention that it happens with both left and right buttons.

In fact, it's a bug quite annoying:

http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?query=mouse+double+click&DEFAULTOP=and&author=&sort=relevance&HITSPERPAGE=10&language=en

Thanks anyway for your replies.

Cheers.


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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 15:11:24 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:

> On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:02:30 +0100
> Lisi  wrote:
> 
> Hello Lisi,
> 
>> That's not a bug, that's a feature!  It is Windows that has the bug
>> with all those double-clicks.
> 
> And in KDE is configurable.  Probably in other DEs, too.

Sure! In GNOME (as in Windows) you can also configure that by going to 
"Nautilus/Edit/Preferences/Behavior/[·] Double click to activate items".

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#debian-next - channel for testing/unstable discussions

[Wolodja Wentland]

Hi all,

I wanted to announce the creation of a new IRC channel #debian-next on
irc.debian.org / irc.oftc.net. The channel is dedicated to the discussion and
(reasonable) support of testing, unstable and (if it ever sees the light of
the day) rolling.

The policy in #debian regarding testing and unstable is essentially that
users that decide to track one of those should have the skills to deal with
broken systems and that neither of them are officially supported in the main
channel.

This did not necessarily mean that users were unable to get help in the
channel, but we had the feeling that the creation of a dedicated channel for
testing/unstable users is, especially in the light of recent discussions on
d-d, needed if Debian wants to welcome users of these "rolling" releases.  We
also believe that additional support for skilled testing/unstable users would
help to triage and find bugs faster and that it therefore helps to increases
the quality of the stable releases.

If you use testing or unstable or are interested in helping users you are more
than welcome to idle on the channel or to ask your questions there. Please
note that the creation of this channel does *in no way* constitute an
endorsement to run testing or unstable and we still strongly encourage
everybody to use the stable releases. Users of testing or sid are encouraged
to read the sid faq [1], follow the discussions on debian-devel,
debian-release and be aware of ongoing transitions [2].

Best

Wolodja (a.k.a. babilen)

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Re: no network after hibernate

[Brian]

On Mon 09 May 2011 at 08:20:00 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

> $cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
>   
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wpa-conf managed
> wpa-ssid 
> wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> wpa-psk 

I think the wpasupplicant/ifupdown framework does not support the option
'wpa-conf managed'.  Remove it and see how you go on.


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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Darac Marjal]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:01:18PM +0200, Ijon Tichy wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
> click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
> computers, and unfortunately I couldn't solve it yet.
> 
> Searching through Google and (of course) the Debian mailing lists, I found 
> that:
> 
> (1) it seems to be a quite old bug, and
> (2) there are several ways to "solve" it (mainly aiming some
> modification of xorg.conf).
> 
> Unfortunately, as I said before, none of those solutions worked for
> me, so I finally decided to reinstall Debian (using a weekly-build)
> two months ago. But the problem persists (in both computers). I even
> tried a live Knoppix to check out whether the problem was also present
> there or not (it was; not surprising, considering that Knoppix is
> based on Debian, of course).
> 
> So the question is: does anyone know whether there is a solution for this bug?

Might it be the case that Xorg is detecting your mouse twice? Have a
look through /var/log/Xorg.0.log for lines containing "XINPUT:". You
should find at least one that states "Adding input device "Your Mouse"
(type: MOUSE)". If there are two (or more) that may be the cause of your
problem; Xorg sees two mice and sees them both clicking.

To fix that, you probably need to tell Xorg not to auto-add devices and
then you'll need to manually configure your device.



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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[godo]

OK, I see I haven't explained myself properly :D

I know the feature you talk about. But I'm talking about (random)
single clicks being considered by the system as (undesidered) double
clicks ("random" because it doesn't happen all the time). By the way,
I forgot to mention that it happens with both left and right buttons.

In fact, it's a bug quite annoying:

http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?query=mouse+double+click&DEFAULTOP=and&author=&sort=relevance&HITSPERPAGE=10&language=en

Thanks anyway for your replies.

Cheers.



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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Ijon Tichy]

2011/5/9 godo :
>
>> OK, I see I haven't explained myself properly :D
>>
>> I know the feature you talk about. But I'm talking about (random)
>> single clicks being considered by the system as (undesidered) double
>> clicks ("random" because it doesn't happen all the time). By the way,
>> I forgot to mention that it happens with both left and right buttons.
>>
>> In fact, it's a bug quite annoying:
>>
>>
>> http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?query=mouse+double+click&DEFAULTOP=and&author=&sort=relevance&HITSPERPAGE=10&language=en
>>
>> Thanks anyway for your replies.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
> Oh, sorry for misunderstanding.
>

No problem, it was my fault for not being clear enough :)


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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Ijon Tichy]

>> So the question is: does anyone know whether there is a solution for this 
>> bug?
>
> Might it be the case that Xorg is detecting your mouse twice? Have a
> look through /var/log/Xorg.0.log for lines containing "XINPUT:". You
> should find at least one that states "Adding input device "Your Mouse"
> (type: MOUSE)". If there are two (or more) that may be the cause of your
> problem; Xorg sees two mice and sees them both clicking.
>

Thanks for the help.

Here's what I get from "less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | egrep -i XINPUT":

[19.013]X.Org XInput driver : 11.0
[19.648] (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
[20.707]Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[20.707]ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0
[20.708] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button"
(type: KEYBOARD)
[20.857] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button"
(type: KEYBOARD)
[20.866] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated
Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
[20.868] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ImPS/2 Generic
Wheel Mouse" (type: MOUSE)

Just one line for the mouse, so maybe that's not the problem.


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Re: firmware-realtek (0.29) can't work at amd64

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 15:05:12 +0800, spp mg wrote:

> I have rtl8191su wireless chip,and os is debian amd64 testing.
> 
> I can compile source from RealTek in kernel 2.6.26,but the newer can't.
> So I try to use apt install the firmware-realtek (0.29).(I believe
> rtl8192 and rtl8191 use same source.),but it can't work too.
> 
> And I try to use the i386 system( kernel 2.6.38, installed
> firmware-realtek (0.29)),it work perfect!
> 
> How to solve this problem? thanks a lot . 

I'm not sure if you have already tried with any of the mentioned in this 
wiki page:

http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x

It seems the driver has been available since kernel 2.6.32-10 so it 
should also be present for 2.6.38-x and upwards :-?

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Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:45:00 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:

> Ron Johnson  writes:
> 
>> What *exact* command did you run?
> 
> I used the curses interface to aptitude, so I just told it to install
> exim4 and remove postfix.  I just tried a command line equivalent as
> follows:
> 
> # aptitude install postfix- exim4+ exim4-base+ exim4-config+
> exim4-daemon-light+ 

(...)

Errr, just a *very wild guess*, but have you tried by directly install 
Exim4 and let the package manager handles the situation by itself? I say 
this because the system requires at least one mail agent (or akin MDA) to 
be present so maybe the error is being generated from that.

Anyway, IIRC, as soon as you select the Exim package to be installed, 
Postfix is automatically marked to be removed (and viceversa) :-)

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Brad Rogers]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 14:51:33 + (UTC)
Camaleón  wrote:

Hello Camaleón,

> Sure! In GNOME (as in Windows) you can also configure that by going to 
> "Nautilus/Edit/Preferences/Behavior/[·] Double click to activate
> items".

It turns out though, that it's not this feature that Ijon is talking
about, but a bug.  One, I have to say, I've never encountered.

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Re: Disk Space Issues

[godo]

On 2011-05-09 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote:

What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a
general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and
nobody had an answer.

Thanks,



Hi,
I'm not expert at all, but I will first check which directory is to large.
For example var can be to large because old logs or because something 
create them rapidly. That happens to me and kernel and sys log was ~6GB 
each!

Check tmp directory (system and user's); clean all garbage.

If everything is ok run to shop and by bigger hdd :-)

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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Dotan Cohen]

for the same matter, does anybody know of a use for the Scroll Lock
and Pause/Break keys? If I get rid of those keys, into what type of
corner will I be painting myself? I've never used them, but if anybody
does, in any environment, I'd really like to know.

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iceweasle history search by specific time

[lina]

Hi,

I know sometimes I looked through a website, let's say Saturday
07,May,2011 02:47:36 PM SG

actually it's something I downloaded, but I failed to find the exact
URL. and the history list is so long.

How can I find the specific url of that time,

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 14:01:18 +0200, Ijon Tichy wrote:

> I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
> click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
> computers, and unfortunately I couldn't solve it yet.

Now that the main nature of the problem is more clear, I've found that 
there was a bug report opened for a similar problem:

xserver-xorg-input-mouse: Duplicate events for mouse
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444674

But it should have been resolved since years.
 
> Searching through Google and (of course) the Debian mailing lists, I
> found that:
> 
> (1) it seems to be a quite old bug, and 

A bug is not a bug until it has been confirmed to be a bug, so do you 
have a bug report number? :-P

> (2) there are several ways to "solve" it (mainly aiming some
> modification of xorg.conf).
> 
> Unfortunately, as I said before, none of those solutions worked for me,
> so I finally decided to reinstall Debian (using a weekly-build) two
> months ago. But the problem persists (in both computers). I even tried a
> live Knoppix to check out whether the problem was also present there or
> not (it was; not surprising, considering that Knoppix is based on
> Debian, of course).
> 
> So the question is: does anyone know whether there is a solution for
> this bug?

If there is still none, open a bug report so this can be further 
investigated. BTW, I've never experienced such problem :-?

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Re: iceweasle history search by specific time

[Ron Johnson]

On 05/09/2011 11:19 AM, lina wrote:

Hi,

I know sometimes I looked through a website, let's say Saturday
07,May,2011 02:47:36 PM SG

actually it's something I downloaded, but I failed to find the exact
URL. and the history list is so long.

How can I find the specific url of that time,



History->"Show All History"->"Last 7 Days"->"Visit Date"


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Re: iceweasle history search by specific time

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 10 May 2011 00:19:27 +0800, lina wrote:

> I know sometimes I looked through a website, let's say Saturday
> 07,May,2011 02:47:36 PM SG
> 
> actually it's something I downloaded, but I failed to find the exact
> URL. and the history list is so long.
> 
> How can I find the specific url of that time,

You can open "history" and select "view > show column > visit date" to 
sort by that field.

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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[shawn wilson]

On May 9, 2011 12:18 PM, "Dotan Cohen"  wrote:
>
> for the same matter, does anybody know of a use for the Scroll Lock

don't recall using it.

> and Pause/Break keys?

It'll pause your boot sequence but don't recall using it in the OS.

Re: iceweasle history search by specific time

[lina]

Thanks.
Further question, is it possible to find the history which was
cleared, if browser clear history regularly


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Camaleón  wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2011 00:19:27 +0800, lina wrote:
>
>> I know sometimes I looked through a website, let's say Saturday
>> 07,May,2011 02:47:36 PM SG
>>
>> actually it's something I downloaded, but I failed to find the exact
>> URL. and the history list is so long.
>>
>> How can I find the specific url of that time,
>
> You can open "history" and select "view > show column > visit date" to
> sort by that field.
>
> Greetings,
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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 19:39, shawn wilson  wrote:
>
> On May 9, 2011 12:18 PM, "Dotan Cohen"  wrote:
>>
>> for the same matter, does anybody know of a use for the Scroll Lock
>
> don't recall using it.
>
>> and Pause/Break keys?
>
> It'll pause your boot sequence but don't recall using it in the OS.
>


Great, thanks. In any case, they will still be available on other
layouts if I do need them.

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 09 May 2011 16:47, Ijon Tichy wrote:
> Hi again
>
> >>> I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
> >>> click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
> >>> computers,
> >>



> Thanks anyway for your replies.
>
> Cheers.

Hi.

I had this problem on Lenny after some updates back in May 2008, the solution 
for me was as below.

(Quote from my previous post to the list in May 2008)
A private e-mail sent to me from someone on either the Debian-User list, or 
the KDE list, has enabled me to resolve the mouse problem.

All I had to do was edit a line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf relating to the mouse.

Section  "InputDevice"  "Generic Mouse"

Option   "SendCoreEvents"  "true"

I changed the above line from "true" to "false", as suggested, and now the 
mouse works as it always has done in the past.

Having made the changes, a logout, followed by logging back in to KDE did not 
fix the problem. A reboot was necessary.
(End quote)

If you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, create the file, and just add the two 
lines above, making sure that the second line is changed to false.

Hoping it may resolve your problem.

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Re: rootfs on SSD

[Thilo Six]

Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 09.05.2011 09:18

>> rd@blackbox:~$ mount|grep rootfs
>> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
>> rd@blackbox:~$ 
> 
> I don't have any 'rootfs' in the output of mount, instead I have this:
> 
> /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
> 
> I have a feeling there's more to your setup that is missing here. Could 
> you please post your complete /etc/fstab and full output of 'mount'?
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei

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Re: Booting a USB hard drive

[Peter Bonucci]

On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote:
> Sorry,
> 
> I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of
> your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot.
> 
> so long
> 
> klaus

The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives.  The problem 
is this particular drive model (Western Digital My Passport Essential.)

Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an old 
problem.  People solved it under Debian years ago.  I just don't know how they 
solved it and search engines didn't help.

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Re: iceweasle history search by specific time

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 10 May 2011 00:39:42 +0800, lina wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Camaleón  wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 May 2011 00:19:27 +0800, lina wrote:
>>
>>> I know sometimes I looked through a website, let's say Saturday
>>> 07,May,2011 02:47:36 PM SG
>>>
>>> actually it's something I downloaded, but I failed to find the exact
>>> URL. and the history list is so long.
>>>
>>> How can I find the specific url of that time,
>>
>> You can open "history" and select "view > show column > visit date" to
>> sort by that field.

> Thanks.
> Further question, is it possible to find the history which was cleared,
> if browser clear history regularly

Hum... when it comes to a sqlite database storage all is possible. 
 
Take a look into this article, you maybe can still get some data from 
your "places.sqlite" file, but YMMV depending on your Iceweasel version:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite

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How to install using apt-get from local .deb files without Internet OR how to bypass sudo apt-get update

[Narendra Sisodiya]

I recently created a offline installer..  debbundle..
I got a bug in it..
Let me explain the process..

See code ->
http://code.google.com/p/debbundle/source/browse/trunk/OneClickInstall_Deb_Creator?spec=svn10&r=10

To install vim-gtk, I am first downloading all deb package (and not
installing it.)

mkdir -p vim-gtk
mkdir -p vim-gtk/partial
sudo apt-get -y -o dir::cache::archives=./vim-gtk install --download-only
vim-gtk
sudo rm vim-gtk/lock

Now I am copying this folder and another system which do not have Internet..

so on system 2, I am running following commands..

cd /media/usbdrive/vim-gtk
sudo apt-get -y -o dir::cache::archives=/media/usbdrive/vim-gtk install
vim-gtk


This is not installing vim-gtk on second system which is just freshly
installed.

Initially when I created this project few days back, I was using same
machine as build-server and install-test server. SO i was not getting this
error//

Source of Error : basically, a freshly installed system do not have -- sudo
apt-get update
If I run sudo apt-get update command then I command will work..
So basically, on a freshly installed system one has to apply "sudo apt-get
install update" in order to install some package. How I can bypass this
because my second machine do not have Internet.

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Re: Booting a USB hard drive

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 09:02:45 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:

> On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote:

>> I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of your
>> Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot.
>> 
> 
> The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives.  The
> problem is this particular drive model (Western Digital My Passport
> Essential.)
> 
> Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an
> old problem.  People solved it under Debian years ago.  I just don't
> know how they solved it and search engines didn't help.

There shouldn't be any mistery for this. If the BIOS is capable of 
booting from a USB device but the drive where Debian has been installed  
is bypassed by the BIOS, I would check that:

1/ GRUB is installed into the MBR of the USB disk.

2/ Partition where "/boot" is installed is marked with the bootable flag 
(if there is no dedicated partition for "/boot", then "/" should be the 
one to be marked).

3/ The system can be properly booted from an external source (i.e., using 
a LiveCD of SuperGrubDisk).

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Re: Disk Space Issues

[Gilles Mocellin]

Le lundi 09 mai, Michiel Piscaer écrivit :

> Op 9-5-2011 10:48, Daniel Linux schreef:
> >What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a
> >general question that was asked in my class of operating systems
> >and nobody had an answer.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Tom Grace
> > >> wrote:
> >
> >On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote:
> >
> >Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what
> >filesystem is almost full. What should I do?
> >
> >du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth
> >to limit the output.
> >
> >
> With # du -h --max-depth=1 you can find what directory is taking all
> of the space. Next is take the right action, by emtying /  deleting
> the file, or moving the directory to an new disk.
[...]

Just to mention a useful ncurses tool to show and track space usage :
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What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1?

[Jason Hsu]

What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1? Where can I get the *.deb file for it?

I know OpenOffice 2.4.1 is from Debian's Lenny branch, which is now oldstable. 
However, version 2 of OpenOffice is substantially lighter than version 3.

I'm working on the creation of the new version (0.1.0) of Swift Linux, which is 
based on antiX Linux. For all previous versions, I had no problem with 
OpenOffice 2.4.1. But when I try to install OpenOffice 2.4.1 now, apt-get and 
Synaptic can't find the *.deb files.

If you're wondering why I'd offer pre-installed OpenOffice in Swift Linux, the 
idea is to save users the time of having to download OpenOffice and change the 
file associations. While pre-installed OpenOffice means a bigger ISO file, at 
least the process of downloading an ISO file is passive and can be done 
unattended.  (Those who don't like OpenOffice can use Diet Swift Linux, the 
base edition of Swift Linux.)

Pre-installed OpenOffice broadens the appeal of Swift Linux. One group I'm 
appealing to us Puppy Linux users who use OpenOffice.

I'm also appealing to the low-end Ubuntu and Mint users. Anyone scraping by on 
512 MB of RAM will soon be cut off due to the ever-growing system requirements. 
Both Ubuntu and Mint come with OpenOffice pre-installed and still fit on a CD. 
Pre-installing OpenOffice in Swift Linux provides one of the major Ubuntu/Mint 
selling points.

The reasons why Swift Linux needs OpenOffice 2.4.1 and not version 3 or 
LibreOffice are:
1. Swift Linux is designed to work on 10-year-old computers. Thus, this is a 
lightweight distro, with only 128 MB of RAM required and 256 MB of RAM 
recommended. In the speed department, Swift Linux is designed to compete with 
Puppy Linux, not Ubuntu Linux and Linux Mint. The purpose of Swift Linux is to 
provide fast operation like Puppy Linux, a large repository like Linux Mint, 
and the user-friendliness of both.
2. LibreOffice and the newer versions of OpenOffice take up more space. This 
makes it hard to keep the Swift Linux ISO under 700MB so that it fits on a CD 
and doesn't require a DVD.
3. LibreOffice and the newer versions of OpenOffice require more RAM. 128 MB is 
enough for OpenOffice 2.4.1, but LibreOffice and the newer versions of 
OpenOffice require at least 256 MB of RAM, with at least 512 MB recommended.

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Re: What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1?

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:04:18 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote:

> What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1? Where can I get the *.deb file for
> it?

(...)

It's there:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openoffice.org

And also in the snapshot directory:

http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/openoffice.org/

I dunno why your Swift install cannot detect it, maybe because it is 
poiting to Debian stable repos? :-?

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Re: What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <20110509130418.15f3f873.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>, Jason Hsu wrote:
>What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1? Where can I get the *.deb file for it?

Lenny should still be available from most Debian mirrors.  Even when it is 
finally retired, it will be available in the archives.  Finally, almost any 
package that was in Debian since Etch, including packages that were only in 
unstable should be available via the snapshot service.
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Re: Multiple instances of udev daemon?

[Christopher Judd]

On Friday 06 May 2011 11:56:05 Simon Brandmair wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 6/5/2011 15:00 Christopher Judd wrote:
> > Is it normal to have multiple instances of udev daemon running?
> 
> I don't know if it is "normal". But on my system, I have three instances
> of udev daemon as well.

I was curious about this, so I asked the maintainer.  It is intentional, 
similar to apache preforked.

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Tom Furie]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> All I had to do was edit a line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf relating to the mouse.
> 
> Section  "InputDevice"  "Generic Mouse"
> 
> Option   "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
> 
> I changed the above line from "true" to "false", as suggested, and now the 
> mouse works as it always has done in the past.
> 
> Having made the changes, a logout, followed by logging back in to KDE did not 
> fix the problem. A reboot was necessary.
> (End quote)

Probably, a restart of X would have been enough here (something like
/etc/init.d/kdm restart) without a full reboot.

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Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

[Freeman]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:55:27PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>   I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I
> wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4.  I used
> aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base,
> exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light.  It seems to accept the
> selections, but when it actually tries to install it, it gives the error
> message:
> 
> E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4'. Please see
> man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
> 
>   I dropped the statement 'APT::Immediate-Configure "off";' into a file
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, but it still won't install exim4.  Does anybody
> have any idea what I am doing wrong, and what I can do to install exim?
> I am running this on a squeeze system.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.

What happens when you run 

  # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

?

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Upgrade to squeeze some menu stock items disappeared

[Jeroen van Aart]

After I upgraded from lenny to squeeze applets as well as the default 
gnome menus in the panel don't show (some) stock items anymore. I am 
talking about things suchs as 
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/gtk-Stock-Items.html#GTK-STOCK-REFRESH:CAPS


This actually also appears to happen with a vanilla squeeze install.

I have been unable to find much information as to why this happens 
neither do I know exactly which package is at fault so I haven't filed a 
bug about it.


I have tried various things such as using different icon themes and 
change the appearance preferences, even changing the source code of an 
applet I wrote myself. Neither helps much or at all, but I am able to 
get an icon in the "lock to panel" menu item with some appearance/icon 
theme configurations. Which seems a bit odd since I normally never see 
an icon for that particular menu item.


Any ideas on how I can fix this or where can I find more information?
Is this a problem with upstream gnome?

Thanks,
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Re: findfs does not find rootfs UUID [solved]

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Sonntag, 8. Mai 2011 schrieb Rainer Dorsch:
> Am Sonntag, 8. Mai 2011 schrieb Rainer Dorsch:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I moved my root partition to a new SSD and used ext4 as filesystem.
> > Everything works well, except that I get an error message during boot
> > (which I think was not there before):
> > 
> > findfs: Unable to resolve ...
> > 
> > http://bokomoko.de/~rd/ext4-rootfs-uuid/IMG_6119.JPG
> > 
> > for my root partition. The system boot without a problem though, and when
> > booted findfs works out ok:
> > 
> > blackbox:~# findfs UUID="4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c"
> > /dev/sdb1
> > blackbox:~#
> > 
> > Should I be concerned about this issue?
> 
> Here are some more details:
> 
> From /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> 
> menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem' --class debian
> -- class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='(/dev/sdb,msdos1)'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
> 4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c echo'Loading Linux
> 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem ...'
> linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
> root=UUID=4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c ro quiet quiet elevator=noop
> echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
> initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
> }
> 
> from /var/log/boot:
> 
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Setting parameters of disc:  /dev/sda.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:   /dev/sdb.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: findfs: unable to resolve
> 'UUID="4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c"'
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Activating swap...done.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Usage: mountpoint [-q] [-d] [-x] path
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Checking root file system...fsck from
> util-linux-ng 2.17.2
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: root_ssd: clean, 878324/3055616 files,
> 6715280/12207384 blocks
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: done.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Usage: mount -V : print version
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount -h : print this help
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount: list mounted
> filesystems
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount -l : idem, including
> volume labels
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: The command is `mount [-t fstype] something
> somewhere'.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff
> from /etc/fstab
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount device : mount device at
> the known place
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount directory  : mount known
> device here
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount -t type dev dir: ordinary mount
> command
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Note that one does not really mount a device, one
> mounts
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: a filesystem (of the given type) found on the
> device. Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: One can also mount an already visible
> directory tree elsewhere:
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --bind olddir newdir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: or move a subtree:
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --move olddir newdir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: One can change the type of mount containing the
> directory dir:
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-shared dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-slave dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-private dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-unbindable dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: One can change the type of all the mounts in a
> mount subtree
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: containing the directory dir:
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-rshared dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-rslave dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-rprivate dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011:mount --make-runbindable dir
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or
> /dev/cdrom,
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using 
> -U uuid .
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p
> passwdfd].
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: For many more details, say  man 8 mount .
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Starting early crypto disks...done.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Starting remaining crypto disks...done.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Cleaning up ifupdown
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Loading kernel modules...done.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Activating lvm and md swap...done.
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng
> 2.17.2
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: home_ssd: clean, 257539/4276224 files,
> 11073341/17097176 blocks
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: /dev/sda1: clean, 278/14663680 files,
> 23995714/29304560 blocks
> Sun May  8 15:08:02 2011: /dev/sdb7: clean, 553445/12574720 files,
> 26918497/50293482 blocks (ch

Re: Customising Debian install

[Andrew Wood]

I dont see why Gnome as a whole depends on Empathy.

On a separate note, the task selection in the installer governs which 
packages are installed by default.


If I wanted to make a custom derived distro presumably the first point 
of call (after creating my own repository and copying all the stable 
packages to it) would be modifying the task selector to alter what is 
installed by default?


But Im a bit perplexed by why Gnome as a whole is dependent on what I 
see as simply user apps on top of Gnome which Gnome should be able to 
function perfectly well without.


To me the package dependencies here are screwed? Removing an IM client 
or a web browser shouldnt cause the whole desktop environment to be 
removed too.



 On 08/05/2011 21:12, Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Du, 08 mai 11, 20:36:48, Andrew Wood wrote:

Whats the logic here? Surely it should be the other way round?

The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on
empathy.

I assume you don't mean empathy should depend on
gnome-desktop-environment, but wonder why removing one "leaf" package
can have such an effect ;)

The answer is quite simple: a "Depends:" relationship expresses that a
package A can not function without a particular package B, so removing
the package B will trigger the removal of package A.

Now consider that package A also depends on C and D, and these were
installed only as dependencies of A. Since the package manager considers
that C and D are not needed anymore it offers to remove them.

Regards,
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Re: Customising Debian install

[Erwan David]

Le Mon  9/05/2011, Andrew Wood disait
> I dont see why Gnome as a whole depends on Empathy.
> 
> On a separate note, the task selection in the installer governs
> which packages are installed by default.
> 
> If I wanted to make a custom derived distro presumably the first
> point of call (after creating my own repository and copying all the
> stable packages to it) would be modifying the task selector to alter
> what is installed by default?
> 
> But Im a bit perplexed by why Gnome as a whole is dependent on what
> I see as simply user apps on top of Gnome which Gnome should be able
> to function perfectly well without.
> 
> To me the package dependencies here are screwed? Removing an IM
> client or a web browser shouldnt cause the whole desktop environment
> to be removed too.
> 

gnome is not a real package, but a meta package depending on (almost) all 
gnome components in order to allow installation with a single command.

But if you remove one of the component, you break the dependency of the meta 
package thus it is removed, then other components registered as automatically 
installed, are not needed by the metapackage anymore, and thus are removed.



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Re: Booting a USB hard drive

[Peter Bonucci]

On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2011 09:02:45 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> > On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote:
> >> I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of your
> >> Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot.
> > 
> > The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives.  The
> > problem is this particular drive model (Western Digital My Passport
> > Essential.)
> > 
> > Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an
> > old problem.  People solved it under Debian years ago.  I just don't
> > know how they solved it and search engines didn't help.
> 
> There shouldn't be any mistery for this. If the BIOS is capable of
> booting from a USB device but the drive where Debian has been installed
> is bypassed by the BIOS, I would check that:
> 
> 1/ GRUB is installed into the MBR of the USB disk.

I believe I did this while installing Debian on the USB drive.  How can I 
verify it?
 
> 2/ Partition where "/boot" is installed is marked with the bootable flag
> (if there is no dedicated partition for "/boot", then "/" should be the
> one to be marked).

Already done.  The "/" directory is marked boot.

> 3/ The system can be properly booted from an external source (i.e., using
> a LiveCD of SuperGrubDisk).

The laptop boots from its own hard disk.  

Under SuperGrubDisk, "List devices/partitions", Grub doesn't see the USB 
drive.  None of the other options boot the drive.
 
Selecting the experimental USB support doesn't seem to change anything.

> Greetings,

Thank you for your help,

Peter


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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Tom Furie]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> All I had to do was edit a line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf relating to the mouse.
> 
> Section  "InputDevice"  "Generic Mouse"
> 
> Option   "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
> 
> I changed the above line from "true" to "false", as suggested, and now the 
> mouse works as it always has done in the past.
> 
> Having made the changes, a logout, followed by logging back in to KDE did not 
> fix the problem. A reboot was necessary.
> (End quote)

Probably, a restart of X would have been enough here (something like
/etc/init.d/kdm restart) without a full reboot.

Cheers,
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Re: Booting a USB hard drive

[owens]

- Original Message -
From: Peter Bonucci 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: 5/9/2011 4:02:45 PM
Subject: Re: Booting a USB hard drive


On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote: 
> Sorry, 
> 
> I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of 
> your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot. 
> 
> so long 
> 
> klaus 

The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives. The problem 
is this particular drive model (Western Digital My Passport Essential.) 

Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an old 
problem. People solved it under Debian years ago. I just don't know how they 
solved it and search engines didn't help. 

Peter 
IIRC this WD is "special" (in a not-nice way).  In order to use it on some O/S 
other than windoz you have to remove the hidden partition with WDs "special" 
program and reformat the drive.  

Larry

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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[mark]

On Monday 09 May 2011 07:20:10 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Windows keyboards come with a Menu key to the right of the
> spacebar. Is this key used for anything in Debian? I can find no
> use for it whatsoever so I am considering mapping it to something
> more useful.

In KDE (Lenny) it is mapped to the right mouse button on my mouse.  
The only way that I know that is that you asked and I checked.

Mark


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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Doug]

On 05/09/2011 07:20 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

Windows keyboards come with a Menu key to the right of the spacebar.
Is this key used for anything in Debian? I can find no use for it
whatsoever so I am considering mapping it to something more useful.

Thanks.


Even if it was used for something, if *you* find no use for it, then it
is not used, QED.  Think about making it a compose key.  That's useful
for writing foreign words, foreign currency symbols, some mathematical
signs, a couple of common fractions--lots of good things if you write
very often.  (On my old IBM k/b, I share the right ctrl key for
compose.)  Just my 2¢--that's an example of the use of compose.

--doug

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Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

[Doug]

On 05/09/2011 10:10 AM, godo wrote:

On 2011-05-09 16:02, Lisi wrote:

On Monday 09 May 2011 13:01:18 Ijon Tichy wrote:

I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double
click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different
computers,


That's not a bug, that's a feature!  It is Windows that has the bug 
with all

those double-clicks.

Lisi


/snip/

You can customize Windows to run on single clicks, just as you have to 
do for

some versions of Linux.  If I couldn't do that, I wouldn't run the system!
--doug

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Re: Is the Menu key used for anything in Debian?

[Doug]

On 05/09/2011 12:18 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

for the same matter, does anybody know of a use for the Scroll Lock
and Pause/Break keys? If I get rid of those keys, into what type of
corner will I be painting myself? I've never used them, but if anybody
does, in any environment, I'd really like to know.

Thanks!


I've never seen an ap for the scroll-lock key, but the pause key is useful
if you are booting up a long page of stuff and you want to stop and read it
for some reason. It will also work when you first turn on the machine 
and it's
going thru its BIOS boot sequence.  This is where I have found it most 
useful.


--doug

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Re: How to install using apt-get from local .deb files without Internet OR how to bypass sudo apt-get update

[Bjørn Michelsen]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:31:14PM +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:

Hey there,

(...)

> To install vim-gtk, I am first downloading all deb package (and not
> installing it.)
> 
> mkdir -p vim-gtk
> mkdir -p vim-gtk/partial
> sudo apt-get -y -o dir::cache::archives=./vim-gtk install --download-only 
> vim-gtk
> sudo rm vim-gtk/lock
> 
> Now I am copying this folder and another system which do not have Internet..
> 
> so on system 2, I am running following commands..
> 
> cd /media/usbdrive/vim-gtk
> sudo apt-get -y -o dir::cache::archives=/media/usbdrive/vim-gtk install
> vim-gtk

Try

  dpkg -i /media/usbdrive/vim-gtk/packagename.deb

You may also be interested in gdebi-core which "lets you install local
deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the
same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages" (from the
package description).

Did that work?

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Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

[Carl Johnson]

Camaleón  writes:

> On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:45:00 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>
>> Ron Johnson  writes:
>> 
>>> What *exact* command did you run?
>> 
>> I used the curses interface to aptitude, so I just told it to install
>> exim4 and remove postfix.  I just tried a command line equivalent as
>> follows:
>> 
>> # aptitude install postfix- exim4+ exim4-base+ exim4-config+
>> exim4-daemon-light+ 
>
> (...)
>
> Errr, just a *very wild guess*, but have you tried by directly install 
> Exim4 and let the package manager handles the situation by itself? I say 
> this because the system requires at least one mail agent (or akin MDA) to 
> be present so maybe the error is being generated from that.
>
> Anyway, IIRC, as soon as you select the Exim package to be installed, 
> Postfix is automatically marked to be removed (and viceversa) :-)

I hadn't tried it because I hadn't really trusted it, but you are
absolutely right.  It automatically tries to do exactly what I specified
manually, but unfortunately the results and error are exactly the same.

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Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

[Carl Johnson]

Freeman  writes:

> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:55:27PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>>   I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I
>> wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4.  I used
>> aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base,
>> exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light.  It seems to accept the
>> selections, but when it actually tries to install it, it gives the error
>> message:
>> 
>> E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4'. Please see
>> man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
>> 
>>   I dropped the statement 'APT::Immediate-Configure "off";' into a file
>> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, but it still won't install exim4.  Does anybody
>> have any idea what I am doing wrong, and what I can do to install exim?
>> I am running this on a squeeze system.
>> 
>> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> What happens when you run 
>
>   # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
>
> ?
It just reports that exim4-config is not installed.

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Re: Booting a USB hard drive

[Arno Schuring]

Peter Bonucci (peter.bonu...@verizon.net on 2011-05-09 13:21 -0700):
> On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 May 2011 09:02:45 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> > > On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote:
> > >> I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of
> > >> your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot.
> > > 
> > > The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives.
> > > The problem is this particular drive model (Western Digital My
> > > Passport Essential.)
> > > 
> > > Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate
> > > is an old problem.  People solved it under Debian years ago.  I
> > > just don't know how they solved it and search engines didn't help.
Slightly offtopic, but I feel the urge to correct you here: the
bootloader is for its disk I/O completely dependent on what the bios
provides. Therefore, if the bios does not provide int13 services for
USB disks (and older bioses didn't), there is nothing the bootloader
can do about it, except loading its own USB drivers.

Now that isn't the case here, because other disks boot fine. But it's
not a problem that's been "solved in Debian".

> > There shouldn't be any mistery for this. If the BIOS is capable of
> > booting from a USB device but the drive where Debian has been
> > installed is bypassed by the BIOS, I would check that:
> > 
> > 1/ GRUB is installed into the MBR of the USB disk.
> 
> I believe I did this while installing Debian on the USB drive.  How
> can I verify it?
$ file -s /dev/sdX
where X is your usb drive. If GRUB2 is installed in the MBR, you should
see "x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1" or something
like that. Don't know if grub-legacy has a similar signature.

> > 2/ Partition where "/boot" is installed is marked with the bootable
> > flag (if there is no dedicated partition for "/boot", then "/"
> > should be the one to be marked).
As an aside: this is hardly ever necessary. Grub does not use the
active (bootable) flag for anything. The MS-DOS bootloader does use the
active flag, so you need it if grub is NOT installed in the mbr. And in
that case, the partition onto which grub is installed should be marked
active.

> > 3/ The system can be properly booted from an external source (i.e.,
> > using a LiveCD of SuperGrubDisk).
> 
> The laptop boots from its own hard disk.  
:) not an external source. But you already indicated that other USB
disks work fine.

> Under SuperGrubDisk, "List devices/partitions", Grub doesn't see the
> USB drive.  None of the other options boot the drive.
How do you boot SGB? From the internal drive, or another usb
stick/netboot? Because if it's not via USB, it's not too surprising
that usb support is not loaded by the bios.

> Selecting the experimental USB support doesn't seem to change
> anything.
laptops are not known for their strict adherence to hardware standards,
so this isn't very surprising. Do you have a USB Legacy option in your
bios? It might help in this case (although it's primarily meant for
input devices, not disks)


Good luck,
Arno


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Re: Trying to reinstall exim4 [Solved]

[Carl Johnson]

Carl Johnson  writes:

>   I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I
> wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4.  I used
> aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base,
> exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light.  It seems to accept the
> selections, but when it actually tries to install it, it gives the error
> message:
>
> E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4'. Please see
> man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
>
>   I dropped the statement 'APT::Immediate-Configure "off";' into a file
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, but it still won't install exim4.  Does anybody
> have any idea what I am doing wrong, and what I can do to install exim?
> I am running this on a squeeze system.

After trying the other suggestion I decided that it was time to try some
desperate measures.  I forced the removal of postfix without adding exim
(dpkg --force-depends -r postfix) and then added exim4 (aptitude install
exim4).  The removal of postfix temporily broke the dependencies, but
exim4 was then able to install.  I had already checked that exim was
completely gone, so I don't know what was causing the problem.  This was
really a test system in VirtualBox so I wasn't too worried about
breaking it. 

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Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

[Stephen Powell]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 01:45:33 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> 
> The problem I am having is a bit more subtle.  The framebuffer completely 
> fills my 19" monitor, but the framebuffer has gaps on the bottom and right of 
> my 24" monitor.  Both are connected to the same physical card.

Are these two monitors connected simultaneously?  If so, you need to specify
the "video" kernel boot parameter twice, once for each connector.
See the boot messages for the connector names (i.e. VGA-1 & VGA-2 or
VGA-1 & DVI-I-1, etc.)

Also, keep in mind that a fixed-resolution display, such as an LCD display,
will probably use only a portion of the screen if the resolution specified
is not the maximum supported.  A traditional CRT monitor does not generally
act that way.

> 
> I wonder why KMS can't switch between a framebuffer mode and a text mode.  
> 80x24 text mode is a part of the VESA standard, IIRC.

Good question.  I'm not sure.  Perhaps they wanted to speed up transitions
between virtual consoles.  Perhaps they wanted more flexibility in text modes.
I don't know.
> 
> I guess I'll look into kernel / module parameters.

A good place to start is

   http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting

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Re: no network after hibernate

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Brian wrote:

> On Mon 09 May 2011 at 08:20:00 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 
>> $cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
>> auto lo
>> iface lo inet loopback
>> auto wlan0
>> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>> wpa-conf managed
>> wpa-ssid 
>> wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
>> wpa-psk 
> 
> I think the wpasupplicant/ifupdown framework does not support the option
> 'wpa-conf managed'.  Remove it and see how you go on.

I removed the 'wpa-conf managed' line from the interfaces file. The problem 
still remains. Any other suggestions?

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