Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

2011/12/8 hamed hosseini 

> thank you,but tell me why you choice number 1?
> i need to know Debian support  Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 1GB and Atheros
> AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter or Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Network
> Adapter


http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA

i just prefer ath over bcm. most bcm wireless built-in wireless device does
not support monitor mode. at least bcm4312, if you're into sniffin' ;)
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Re: (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

[Jeff Gordon]

Hi, Stephen --

Thanks. :-)  Half those hits appear to be my own message -- sometimes I think
Google must be watching over our shoulders. :-)  Others don't seem to have a
solution, but it looks like this is a prematurely closed Bug, known about back
in October -- #645713.

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On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:55:27PM -0500, Stephen Allen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote:
> > Hi, Folks --
> > 
> > I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer 
> > Aspire
> > 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned
> > problems might clear.  Now I'm stuck at "Could not perform immediate
> > configuration on 'libgstreamer0.10-0'."  I've gone through the man page 
> > twice
> > and checked the example configurations, where it says "Do not set this to
> > 'false', see man page" and have no idea how to get past this blockage --
> > 'purge' wants to remove half the system, "apt-get -f" only returns the
> > same error message, etc.  Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Sorry in a rush right now but lots of Google hits;
> http://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1&nord=1#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&nord=1&site=webhp&source=hp&q=%22Could%20not%20perform%20immediateconfiguation%20on%20'libgstreamer0.10-0&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&fp=99f267389e3105af&ion=1&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=99f267389e3105af&biw=1024&bih=654&ion=1
> 
> Probably find something helpful among them.
> 
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Re: cron.daily error for apt

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, John Hasler wrote:


From debian-policy:

   hi John,
   Thank you for this very useful reply. I think that it is a good
   practice, when giving an information, to give also the way to get it,
   (it is sometimes enough to give the link to the doc, when available)
   I installed the debian-policy package, and found a very clear definition
   of conffiles, at:

  /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-files.html

  10.7.1 Definitions

  configuration file

  A file that affects the operation of a program, or provides site- or
  host-specific information, or otherwise customizes the behavior of a
  program. Typically, configuration files are intended to be modified
  by the system administrator (if needed or desired) to conform to
  local policy or to provide more useful site-specific behavior.

  conffile

  A file listed in a package's conffiles file, and is treated specially
  by dpkg (see Details of configuration, Section 6.7).

  The distinction between these two is important; they are not
  interchangeable concepts. Almost all conffiles are configuration files,
  but many configuration files are not conffiles.

  As noted elsewhere, /etc/init.d scripts, /etc/default files, scripts
  installed in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}, and cron
  configuration installed in /etc/cron.d must be treated as configuration
  files. In general, any script that embeds configuration information is
  de-facto a configuration file and should be treated as such.

   I just think that the name "conffiles" for the file containing the
   list of conffiles is a little confusing. I would have preferred
   conffiles.list (like sources.list)

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Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:

>I won't make furthers comments on this, it's your position and I'll 
>respect it although I don't share your POV :-)

I appreciate Your this "POV"! :)

>> Camaleón, I think we are going in wrong direction here - I just have
>> tried w/ chromium running w/ gksu by newly created user - You'll be
>> surprised - in the user's home dir. there is no .config dir. at all !
>> All gksu has created are:
>> 
>> .dbus  .gconf  .gconfd  .gksu.lock
>> 
>> which contents seems to me similar - differing in numbers only - like
>> diver IDs.
>
>That's okay. 
>
>It can mean your current user's profile (the one that fails to run the 
>apps) has something on it (a folder or file) that is not of the like
>to the two programs you are trying to launch. Remember that gnome and
>others DE also use the "/tmp" folder to store user's settings, so what
>prevents the applications from running can be indeed in another path,
>not just the user's $HOME.
>
>Or it can also mean the problem is elsewhere (a bug in the app).
>
>> Therefore, I suppose that something else has influence on the gksu
>> behavior - as I said before the problem user is long existing user
>> (account) and therefore a lot of diver settings have been stored over
>> time - effecting the gksu. 
>
>(...)
>
>I don't think gksu has nothing to do here. It's a simple application
>that allows you to run GUI programs as another user, no more no less.
>Besides, if the problem were related to gksu the rest of the
>applications will be also affected which is not the case.

OK. Let's finish here w/ my notification to developers about the
problem - let remain to them - to investigate the problem any or forget
about it - ether.

Thanks again, very much, for Your time and efforts - trying to help me.
I much appreciate it.

Have a good time of the day!


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Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:32:04 +0330, hamed hosseini wrote:

> hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or
> 2)?

If I'm not reading it wrong, configuration #2 is more powerful, I'd go 
for it :-)

There are basically three main differences:

- Option #2 adds more system ram (8 GiB instead 6 GiB)

- Option #2 adds a better VGA card (GeForce GT 555M 2GB instead GeForce 
GT 550M 1GB)

- The only thing it makes me doubt is that option #2 adds a Broadcom wifi 
card instead Atheros and Atheros cards use to be very well supported 
under linux but I don't think there is any problem with modern broadcom 
chipets, they are now covered by an open source driver ("brcmsmac").

> note:i want best laptop for Debian and Linux OS.

(...)

They are both the same laptop model (Y470) so there won't be many 
differences between the two notebooks in regards with Debian/Linux 
support.

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Re: audio over HDMI

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:53:25 -0500, Rob Owens wrote:

(...)

> The only thing I didn't try yet is blacklisting modules for my onboard
> audio.  Maybe that would simplify things by eliminating one audio
> device.

If you want to completely disable the onboard audio chipset you can also 
try to disable it at BIOS, that way I guess it won't even be detected.

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Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

[steef]

broadcom chips load nowadays with (allmost) no trouble at all with the 
broadcom-sta software.


reg.,

steef



hamed hosseini schreef:

hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or 2)?
note:i want best laptop for Debian and Linux OS.

1.
Notebook Ideapad Y470 59-303427
CPU Intel Core i7 2630QM@2.0GHz (Turbo Boost 2.9GHz), 6MB L3 Cache
Memory  DDRIII 6GB 1333MHz (Dual Channel)
Hard Disk Capacity  750GB SATA 5400RPM
Optical Drive   Dual Layer Multi Burner Drive (DVD-RW)
Graphic Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 1GB
Intel HD Graphics
Display 14" (1366 x 768) LED-Backlight LCD
Communication   Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
Broadcom NetLink 1000 Ethernet
Camera
Bluetooth Broadcom 2.1
SecurityOne Key Recovery
Kensington Lock
Ports   2 x USB 3.0 ports
1 x USB 2.0 ports
VGA Output
RJ45
HDMI
Multi Card Reader
eSATA+USB
Headphone
Mic
Others  Keyboard: Arabic & English
One Key Theatre II
Weight  2.2 Kg
Battery 6Cell 62Wh (Up to 4 hours)
Color   Black - Textured
Operating SystemWindows 7 Home Premium 64-bit


2

Notebook Ideapad Y470 59-303426
CPU Intel Core i7 2630QM@2.0GHz (Turbo Boost 2.9GHz), 6MB L3 Cache
Memory  DDRIII 8GB 1333MHz (Dual Channel)
Hard Disk Capacity  750GB SATA 5400RPM
Optical Drive   Dual Layer Multi Burner Drive (DVD-RW)
Graphic Nvidia GeForce GT 555M 2GB
Intel HD Graphics
Display 14" (1366 x 768) LED-Backlight LCD
Communication   Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
Broadcom NetLink 1000 Ethernet
Camera
Bluetooth Broadcom 2.1
SecurityOne Key Recovery
Kensington Lock
Ports   2 x USB 3.0 ports
1 x USB 2.0 ports
VGA Output
RJ45
HDMI
Multi Card Reader
eSATA+USB
Headphone
Mic
Others  Keyboard: Arabic & English
One Key Theatre II
Weight  2.2 Kg
Battery 6Cell 62Wh (Up to 4 hours)
Color   Black - Textured
Operating SystemWindows 7 Home Premium 64-bit




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Re: Wheezy: Iceweasel: Bank login fails with "Skype buttons for kopete" plugin disabled

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:45:42 -0800, T Elcor wrote:

> I'm experiencing a weird problem when I'm not able to log in to my bank
> account if I disable the "Skype buttons for kopete" plugin in iceweasel.
> Login attempts just fail with a cryptic "Unable to Process Request - Try
> Again Later or Contact Customer Support" message.
> 
> I struggled with this problem for a while and was able to identify it to
> the "pluginreg.dat" file in my profile and then to the enabled/disabled
> state of the "Skype buttons" plugin. If the plugin enabled then I can
> log in, if it's disabled then I can't.

Very weird, indeed.

I neither see a direct link between a plugin and the login process. I 
know a plugin can slow down the whole browser navigation a lot but what 
would this has to do with the login step? :-?
 
> I'm kind of puzzled and concerned why my bank transactions should have
> anything to do with the Skype buttons or Kopete.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks

(...)

I've never faced a similar problem, so I would contact both, kopete 
developers by means of Debian BTS or directly to KDE bugzilla (I think 
they can give you at least a hint for what can be the source of the 
problem here) and also the online bank customer support, although I don't 
think the latter will be able to understand what you are trying to 
explain :-)

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Re: QT appearence in gtk apps

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:22:25 +, Fábio wrote:

> First, sorry for my limited english.

Don't worry, we're on the same boat ;-)

> I'm using the testing repository in my notebook (as default), togheter
> with unstable and experimental.
> 
> The problem is my gtk apps appear ugly, different from qt apps. I have
> select "oxygen-gtk" on System Settings -> Application Appearence -> GTK+
> Appearence, but it still appears ugly.
> 
> Some thoughts?

Mmm, I'm using GNOME so can't directy try it but there is a thread at 
Debian forums that it may help you with this:

[SOLVED] kde look in gtk applications
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=66333

There is also "debian-kde" mailing list, maybe it is worth to ask there, 
they should know better how to deal in testing with GTK+ based 
applications and their appearance :-?

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Counting occurances of a word in a file.

[peasthope]

What is a convenient tool for counting the occurances of 
a specific byte sequence in a file?  Count the occurances 
of "the" or  %13%10"the " in a text file for example.  

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Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:53:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:

> What is a convenient tool for counting the occurances of a specific byte
> sequence in a file?  Count the occurances of "the" or  %13%10"the " in a
> text file for example.

Quick and dirty sample:

***
grep -o "the" /path/to/file.txt | wc -w
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Re: disable beep for wall command

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:15:56 +0100, afuentes wrote:

> when i manually use the wall command (or when i shutdown or halt
> command) i hear a annoying very loud beep. Is there a way to shut it up?

I wish there is a way :-)

> the pcspkr mop is not loaded. the gnome consoles opened have the beeping
> disabled as well in preferences...
> 
> Does anybody knows what is wall calling bypassing these restrictions?

I really don't know. 

The beep started months ago¹ in testing (in that time there was GNOME3 
but no "gnome-shell") and came back again but still have not found a way 
to silence it.

The only thing I've found is that when you stop gdm3 ("service gdm3 
stop") and go to a tty, a "shutdown -r now" won't produce any sound so 
I'm starting to think this loud beep is coming from the GNOME side...

¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/07/msg00698.html

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Re: SGE (grid-engine-*) versus open grid scheduler

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:08:55 -0400, francis picabia wrote:

> Maybe this isn't the best list to discuss grid cluster software, but
> I'll see...

JFYI, there is also:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-gridengine-devel

> Oracle has discontinued the development of the open source Sun Grid
> Engine. 

Was it...?

http://blogs.oracle.com/templedf/entry/oracle_grid_engine_changes_for

Oh, shame on you, Oracle >:-/

> It is currently distributed in Debian 6 in packages beginning
> with grid-engine-*

Here it is:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gridengine.html

> The open source fork continues as Open Grid Scheduler.
> 
> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I can't tell what grid-engine-* packages are using for upstream as it
> refers to SGE, something both upstream sources have in common for
> package and current releases.

Mmm, Oracle's announcement was made on December 23th, 2010, that's almost 
a year ago. And Open Grid Scheduler release version matches with Debian's 
one (6.2u5). Moreover, getting into Debian gridengine sources, the copyright 
points to Sun's license, so it makes sense to think that Debian is using 
Open Grid Scheduler's sources :-?

> Is Debian basing grid-engine on the new open source project? If so, I'd
> expect the grid-engine-* project might remain around and it will
> eventually update to the more recent releases from gridscheduler.

You can open a wishlist bug report against the package requesting an 
upgrade to the latest available version and exposing your reasons for that.

> Alternately, the grid-engine used Oracle's SGE as the upstream and this
> package will soon be EOL.  If so, will there be a new package based on
> Grid Scheduler?

I think the current is already based on it, but that's just my 
understanding, I would ask to the package maintainers :-)

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Re: disable beep for wall command

[Go Linux]

--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Camaleón  wrote:
> 
> The only thing I've found is that when you stop gdm3
> ("service gdm3 
> stop") and go to a tty, a "shutdown -r now" won't produce
> any sound so 
> I'm starting to think this loud beep is coming from the
> GNOME side...
> 
> 

Perhaps /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults has the solution? 

# Play system beeps - especially the one when the greeter is ready
/desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds   false

I have it set to false and NEVER hear a system beep EVER.  But then I'm on 
Suueeze not Gnome 3.




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Re: SGE (grid-engine-*) versus open grid scheduler

[francis picabia]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Camaleón  wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:08:55 -0400, francis picabia wrote:
>
> > Maybe this isn't the best list to discuss grid cluster software, but
> > I'll see...
>
> JFYI, there is also:
>
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-gridengine-devel


Thank you for the response.

Very good to see this mailing list.
I saw a reference at one package site to that, but thought
perhaps it was for internal use only.  It didn't appear on a list
of Debian mailing lists I saw.  I'll join.



>
> > Oracle has discontinued the development of the open source Sun Grid
> > Engine.
>
> Was it...?
>
> http://blogs.oracle.com/templedf/entry/oracle_grid_engine_changes_for
>
> Oh, shame on you, Oracle >:-/
>

Oracle is dumping everything open source which Sun had set up.
Solaris users are fleeing.  We are paying about $1000/server
for software maintenance, necessary to get patches.  Oracle
only wants a few fortune 500 customers and government
as customers.


>
> > It is currently distributed in Debian 6 in packages beginning
> > with grid-engine-*
>
> Here it is:
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gridengine.html
>
> > The open source fork continues as Open Grid Scheduler.
> >
> > http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > I can't tell what grid-engine-* packages are using for upstream as it
> > refers to SGE, something both upstream sources have in common for
> > package and current releases.
>
> Mmm, Oracle's announcement was made on December 23th, 2010, that's almost
> a year ago. And Open Grid Scheduler release version matches with Debian's
> one (6.2u5). Moreover, getting into Debian gridengine sources, the
> copyright
> points to Sun's license, so it makes sense to think that Debian is using
> Open Grid Scheduler's sources :-?
>

I thought I saw that both Open Grid and SGE had releases of 6.2u5.
That is what caused me to wonder.   The Debian package homepage
links to Oracle as the upstream, and files like
 /usr/share/doc/gridengine-common/copyright
indicate Sun Microsystems is the upstream.  But perhaps these
things are out of date.  I'll soon found out hopefully.

Re: Full Disk Encryption

[Steven Rosenberg]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:15 PM, J. Bakshi  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + 3 GB ), 
> but what makes me stop
> is the thinking of performance lag. Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( 
> i5 + 4 GB ) with full
> disk encryption and it is performing normal, haven't found any lag...


I've been running Debian with encrypted LVM for a long time, from
Lenny through Squeeze, and I don't detect any performance lag.


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xfce4-panel often stops running?

[Bob Proulx]

Is anyone else seeing a lot of crashes of xfce4-panel in stock Squeeze
stable?  It frequently drops off the screen and stops running.  No
messages related to this are logged to ~/.xsession-errors.  Restarting
it with Alt-F2 xfce4-panel brings it back up again.  But of course it
shouldn't be crashing and the loss confuses users.

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determining package creating group

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups
(notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines.  Is there a way to
determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the
packages?

I realize I could just create the groups by hand, but presumably there
are some files that are expected to be in these groups.


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Re: determining package creating group

[Bob Proulx]

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups
> (notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines.  Is there a way to
> determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the
> packages?

I would grep through the postinst scripts for packages that create
those groups.  On my machine:

  $ cd /var/lib/dpkg/info

  $ find . -name '*.postinst' -exec grep -l -e netdev -e bluetooth {} +
  ./avahi-daemon.postinst
  ./gnome-bluetooth.postinst
  ./bluez.postinst
  ./wpasupplicant.postinst

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Re: determining package creating group

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Bob Proulx  writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups
>> (notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines.  Is there a way to
>> determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the
>> packages?
>
> I would grep through the postinst scripts for packages that create
> those groups.  On my machine:
>
>   $ cd /var/lib/dpkg/info
>
>   $ find . -name '*.postinst' -exec grep -l -e netdev -e bluetooth {} +
>   ./avahi-daemon.postinst
>   ./gnome-bluetooth.postinst
>   ./bluez.postinst
>   ./wpasupplicant.postinst

This is exactly what I needed -- thanks!

(I wasn't aware the postinst scripts were kept around)


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Re: determining package creating group

[Bob Proulx]

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> This is exactly what I needed -- thanks!

Great!

> (I wasn't aware the postinst scripts were kept around)

They are used by dpkg-reconfigure to re-configure the package.

  # dpkg-reconfigure foopackage

That runs the postinst script for the named package in an officially
supported way.  You can also run the scripts manually for some special
case administration fixes.

And here is the full documentation with everything you would ever want
to know about the internals and programming of them.

  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html

Bob


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Disabling Keyboard shortcuts in Wheezy (Gnome 3)

[Andrew Wood]

Hi

Im having a problem disabling keyboard shortcuts in Wheezy with Gnome 3 
/ Gnome Shell.


Ive gone through all the ones in the list in System Settings and set 
them to disabled, yet pressing the Windows key still switches to 
activities, and Alt-` still switches between open windows.


How can I disable these?

Thanks
Andrew


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Why is it...

[Phil Dobbin]

... I tried to install Fedora & ended up with half a boot partition,
tried CentOS (I'm taking my RHCE exam soon) & the laptop ended up D.O.A.
(wouldn't even boot from a rescue disk) so I tried Debian Squeeze which
I use on my desktop machine & the laptop is now sitting there quite
happily without a care in the World.

Thank you Debian.

Cheers,

Phil...


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Re: Why is it...

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Phil Dobbin  wrote:

> ... I tried to install Fedora &
> ended up with half a boot partition,
> tried CentOS (I'm taking my RHCE exam soon) & the
> laptop ended up D.O.A.

You evidently made a mistake (or several) during the installation.  You need to 
discover what BEFORE taking that exam.  Won't impress a future employer or 
client of your talents if you can't even install Red Hat.

FWIW, I've never experienced your problem, and I've been using Fedora since 
Core 3.  Now, switching to Debian for the longer support time.  I've done 
dozens of Fedora/CentOS installations on various machines--desktops & 
notebooks--over the years with few problems.  And computers are not even my 
profession.

> (wouldn't even boot from a rescue disk) so I tried Debian
> Squeeze which
> I use on my desktop machine & the laptop is now sitting
> there quite
> happily without a care in the World.

I consider Debian to have one of the best auto-installers around.

B  


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Re: determining package creating group

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Bob Proulx  writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> This is exactly what I needed -- thanks!
>
> Great!
>
>> (I wasn't aware the postinst scripts were kept around)
>
> They are used by dpkg-reconfigure to re-configure the package.
>
>   # dpkg-reconfigure foopackage
>
> That runs the postinst script for the named package in an officially
> supported way.  You can also run the scripts manually for some special
> case administration fixes.

Since the packages themselves are kept around, I'd assumed that they
were re-extracted.  Never assume, as they say; with a bit of reflection
the fact that you can delete the package and then do a dpkg-reconfigure
implies the scripts *have* to still be there somewhere...

> And here is the full documentation with everything you would ever want
> to know about the internals and programming of them.
>
>   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html

Thanks again!


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true to gnu, making cash too ? perhaps in single purpose too...

[Sam]

yet without erasing the source code or lying about how it works either,
perhaps the software bits are the key to not cash but to make mroe physical
goods via cnc...

yet the point, is that the web site with the gnu/debian is not very user
friendly, nor specific in intent...

how about a nice little 'meta app p2p' client, like an app store, with some
'packages' for jobs like farmer, or assault cuber ;p, along with solid
network p2p options to share the bits and the information, and perahps
coordinate the physical goods there too, for we can't really look around
here  ?


why doesn't google maps zoom in further or have infared or the other color
direction ?



and why are the games all so similar, battlefield 3 like 2 like 42,

with more cheaters too



option b , perhaps, is the distro cds, that boot and run ez mode and do
'something useful' even with bad hardware, maybe on a car too, or in cnc,


and the open source hardware? with the woven nanowires ?




you build it with 3d printing and cnc, both blocked by the copyright on
physical shapes, like gears from the watermill that spun the great clutch
wire system of rome


and are also in cars.



on a side note, guns are those too, the power is really just compressed
fuel and air true

Re: Re: no sound with flash videos....

[Guo, Xunhua]

Same problem here.

It worked some time ago. But after some upgrading the sound for flash
was gone. Really weird.

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Re: Why is it...,

[Phil Dobbin]

On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 19:40 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:

> You evidently made a mistake (or several) during the installation.
>You need to discover what BEFORE taking that exam.  Won't impress a
>future employer or client of your talents if you can't even install Red
>Hat.
> 
> FWIW, I've never experienced your problem, and I've been using Fedora
>since Core 3.  Now, switching to Debian for the longer support time.
>I've done dozens of Fedora/CentOS installations on various
>machines--desktops & notebooks--over the years with few problems.  And
>computers are not even my profession.
> 

Maybe so but I correctly partitioned the drive using QTParted, followed
procedures down to the letter & still no deal. Could be due to my
incompetence, bad install iso (although I verified them), the ThinkPad
having an off-day or the fact it's a full-moon.

Have installed CentOS before using the same modus operandi. Who knows?
Debian worked OK...

Exam entails empty drive & RedHat & I've another machine & a copy of
Shrike so onwards & upwards.

Cheers,

Phil...




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uid and gids not mapped in nfs

[land fish]

Hello,I have a nfs setup with the server running wheezy and the clients are 
running squeeze.In the server nfskernelserver 1:1.2.52+b1 is installed and the 
clients have nfscommon version 1:1.2.24 installed with nis.In the clients the 
uid and gid s are not mapped, file permissions are showing nobody nobody .But 
this problem is not occuring for one client that has wheezy installed.Things 
used to work ok till I upgraded my server from squeeze.Do I have to compile the 
latest nfscommon in squeeze ?Please suggest.Dear debianuser! Get Yourself a 
cool, short @in.com Email ID now!

Re: uid and gids not mapped in nfs

[Erwan David]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:53:38AM CET, land fish  said:
> Hello,I have a nfs setup with the server running wheezy and the clients are 
> running squeeze.In the server nfskernelserver 1:1.2.52+b1 is installed and 
> the clients have nfscommon version 1:1.2.24 installed with nis.In the clients 
> the uid and gid s are not mapped, file permissions are showing nobody nobody 
> .But this problem is not occuring for one client that has wheezy 
> installed.Things used to work ok till I upgraded my server from squeeze.Do I 
> have to compile the latest nfscommon in squeeze ?Please suggest.Dear 
> debianuser! Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now!


Try to force nfs v3, or configure idmap for nfsv4.


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Re: Re: no sound with flash videos....

[Jeff Gordon]

Hi, Xunhua --

Some possibilities:  If you've got alsa installed, and pulseaudio just came
in with the upgrade, they may be fighting for control of the audio.  That has
killed sound for me more than once.  My solution is to remove or disable
pulseaudio; someone else might approach it differently.

Also, I don't know what led up to it, but on one occasion all that was
needed was to reinitialize alsa.  I think "alsactl init" was the command
I used on that occasion.

 -- Jeff --

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:21:21PM +0800, Guo, Xunhua wrote:
> Same problem here.
> 
> It worked some time ago. But after some upgrading the sound for flash
> was gone. Really weird.
> 
> --
> Xunhua
> 
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