Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 14 May 2015, David Wright wrote:


. . .
$ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages
--2015-05-14 11:28:30--  
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages
Resolving ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)... 128.61.240.89, 
64.50.233.100, 2610:148:1f10:3::89
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)|128.61.240.89|:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2015-05-14 11:28:30 ERROR 404: Not Found.
. . .

$ wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages
--2015-05-14 11:53:11--  
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages
Resolving ftp.fr.debian.org (ftp.fr.debian.org)... 212.27.32.66, 
2a01:e0c:1:1598::2
Connecting to ftp.fr.debian.org (ftp.fr.debian.org)|212.27.32.66|:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9019439 (8.6M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: Packages

Packages100%[===>]  
 8.60M  2.32MB/s   in 4.4s

2015-05-14 11:53:16 (1.94 MB/s) - Packages saved [9019439/9019439]


  hi David,
  At least for that problem I found the explanation, and was able to reproduce 
it on
  my personal web server. I imported the index.html from the us and fr sites, 
and the
  3 files, Just try

 wget http://frenkiel-hure.net:8080/pub/us/Packages
 wget http://frenkiel-hure.net:8080/pub/fr/Packages
  By default, the wget command works for us and fr
  If I remove the line
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
  from the mime.conf file of my apache2 config, then wget works only for fr, as 
you can check.
  One have now to understand what difference in the 2 index.html files explains 
that.

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Re: Jessie upgrade now means samba is no longer working

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2015-05-15, Alan Chandler  wrote:
> I recently upgraded from wheezy to jessie.
>
> I was relying in samba providing guest access to various key folders in 
> my home directory for virtual windows machines to have access to key data
>
> After the upgrade samba no longer runs and if I try and start it it says 
> "service is masked"
>
> /etc/init.d/smbd and /etc/init.d/nmbd exist and I can use the service 
> command to start them
>
> But I don't appear to have these shares available to my virtual windows 
> machines.
>
> How can I make it so samba starts automatically (like it used to before 
> the upgrade) and how can I make it so it provides guest access to these 
> shares.

<--SNIP-->

The quick fix is to call the above services in /etc/rc.local, and check
that the systemd rc-local service is enabled:

systemctl status rc-local.service

There's probably a better way though.

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Re: Q: About the futex bug of linux-3.14

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 02:55, Takahide Nojima wrote:
>  Does anyone know which the state of futex bug of linux-3.14 effects
> debian?

Jessie has this specific fix in its 3.16-ckt kernel.  In fact, that
futex fix landed in kernel 3.16.7 through the stable kernel trees, so it
should be present on all relevant stable kernels.

You can verify it yourself checking the git logs for kernel/futex.c on
the git tree for whatever kernel you're using, as you know the name of
the fix commit as well as the name of the commit that introduced the
bug.

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Re: Remove subject

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 11 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > 
> [snip] 
> > I hear that a _lot_.   But I am hearing it more and more in cases 
> > like this above where only the negative makes sense.  When it is written, 
> > some are, I am sure, typos.  But I am equally sure that soemtimes when I 
> > understand the positive the negative is likely to be meant .
> > 
> > > I certainly hope this 
> > > is not becoming a 'modern usage'! (Or should I say 'is becoming a
> > > modern usage'?)
> > 
> > Yes, you certainly should. ;-)
> > 
> > Lisi
> > 
> 
> Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather
> similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no sense.
> I quite often read the phrase: "the importance of this cannot be
> underestimated". It should, of course, be OVER-estimated, or
> alternatively "must not be under-estimated". I think the two usages have

No! Why does it need a hyphen? What is it with all these hyphens
that people are sticking between words these days?

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Re: usb device umount option in menu missing for some devices

[deloptes]

Liam O'Toole wrote:

> 
> Are you using GNOME (the default) in Jessie? If so, the device should
> appear in the nautilus sidebar, with an 'unmount' icon next to it.
> 

No I use trinity, but in my opinion it is not about the desktop but how the
device is associated with the set of options to display.
So it must be something in dbus. I think it gets recognized as a digicamera
as it says extract pictures in one of the options, but of course I don't
see this when I plug a usb stick - so it makes me think something is
missing in this set of options.
So where this gets set on system level?

thanks


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Re: out of the box wifi adapter

[Mark Allums]

On 05/14/2015 08:25 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote:

I need to install a wifi adapter to my newly built desktop machine.

It needs to attach to either usb or the rj45 port, and I'd like to 
avoid models that require downloaded firmware or ndiswrapper or the like.


Any options out there?  I'm willing to buy stuff online if needed.

The N300 from netgear I have isn't installing, even on the netinst cd 
with firmware.



Most USB dongles will require firmware.  The little Edimax dongle 
available on Amazon and everywhere works beautifully with the Raspberry 
PI using Raspbian out-of-the-box, perhaps it would work for you?  It's 
tiny and supports WiFi-N, costs about $10.




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OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)

[The Wanderer]

On 05/15/2015 at 07:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:

>> Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather 
>> similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no
>> sense. I quite often read the phrase: "the importance of this
>> cannot be underestimated". It should, of course, be OVER-estimated,
>> or alternatively "must not be under-estimated". I think the two
>> usages have
> 
> No! Why does it need a hyphen?

To help indicate that you're separating out (and thus focusing on) the
first half of the compound word, while still indicating that you're
using the compound word rather than (incorrectly) the matching two-word
phrase.

> What is it with all these hyphens that people are sticking between
> words these days?

I can't speak to all of them, but in a large fraction of cases, they're
extremely helpful for communicating the way in which you intend words to
group together.

I've done (and am still, perpetually, working on) an extensive, informal
study of word grouping, pauses in speech, the way the latter can
interact with the former, and the ways to represent both in text. It's a
complex and, at least to me, interesting subject.

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persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw



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Re: Remove subject

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On 05/12/2015 10:34 AM, Mis Ntmurth wrote:

Ok thanks
I will contact debian
regards



You're also good to contact
GMAne
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/385152/match=problem+installing+gplflash
Marc Info:
http://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=127780632904466
Google:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.debian.bugs.dist/_fuA6BTRsro
Derkeiler:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2010-06/msg02060.html

And *ALL* the websites that could have took the public information, 
because retiring your message from the debian list archives does not 
imply retiring from those ones...


I wish you good luck.


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Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Juha Heinanen  writes:

> Rodolfo Medina writes:
>
>> Thanks, but still no sound when running mplayer.  What's missing?  I did:
>> 
>>  # aptitude install alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils
>> alsamixergui bluez-alsa gstreamer0.10-alsa libalsaplayer0 libasound2
>> libasound2-data libasound2-dev libasound2-plugins libsox-fmt-alsa
>> python-alsaaudio
>> 
>> .  Besides, it complains `No candidate version found for bluez-alsa'.  
>
> you did not mention what output device you try to use.  bluetooth sound
> does not work in jessie. bluez-alsa was leftover from my wheezy upgrade.
>
> after installing the packages (- bluez-alsa) you need to configure alsa
> by creating .asoundrc file

Thanks, but I don't know how.

> or, if the default device is correct, use alsamixer to turn on volumes of the
> default card.

By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on.  But still no sound.

Rodolfo


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Jessie - MATE - Places dropdown menu has strange entry

[Richard Owlett]

I just installed Jessie from a purchased set of DVDs.
The installation went smoothly.
The hardware is a Lenovo R61 Thinkpad, 2GB RAM, 80GB hard drive.
It is a system set aside for experimenting with configuration 
experiments.

It has had multiple installs of Squeeze and Wheezy without problems.

Current partitions and function:
sda1 ext2 10GB Squeeze 6.0.5
sda2 swap  3GB
sda3 extended partition 67GB
sda5 ext2 10GB Jessie 8.0
sda6 ext2 11GB Squeeze 6.0.10

Both Squeeze 6.0.5 and 6.0.10 Gnome2 "Places" dropdown show the 
labels for Jessie's partition and the other Squeeze partition.


Jessie MATE "Places" dropdown shows labels for both Squeeze 
partitions *AND*

something labeled "Debian squeeze 20111014-10:28".

The error message when clicking on it to mount identifies it as 
/dev/sda3.


Should this be filed as a bug against Jessie or against MATE?





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Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

[Juha Heinanen]

Rodolfo Medina writes:

> By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on.  But still no sound.

check with alsamixer that everything is un-muted (no MM
letters). also check with 'aplay -l' which card you want to use.  then
make test 'aplay -c  '

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Re: OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)

[Anthony Campbell]

On 15 May 2015, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 05/15/2015 at 07:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> >> Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather 
> >> similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no
> >> sense. I quite often read the phrase: "the importance of this
> >> cannot be underestimated". It should, of course, be OVER-estimated,
> >> or alternatively "must not be under-estimated". I think the two
> >> usages have
> > 
> > No! Why does it need a hyphen?
> 
> To help indicate that you're separating out (and thus focusing on) the
> first half of the compound word, while still indicating that you're
> using the compound word rather than (incorrectly) the matching two-word
> phrase.
> 
> > What is it with all these hyphens that people are sticking between
> > words these days?
> 
> I can't speak to all of them, but in a large fraction of cases, they're
> extremely helpful for communicating the way in which you intend words to
> group together.
[snip]  

Agreed. And it isn't "these days"; in fact, in earlier times people used
hyphens more than they do now. But I think the fashion pendulum is
beginning to swing back (and it's largely a question of fashion).

But not entirely fashion. Omitting hyphens can sometimes cause the
reader to check momentarily, a kind of mental stumble. E.g. the hyphen
in the subject line of this thread is useful; "misusages" would be
confusing. It's a question of courtesy to readers.

AC
AC

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Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

[Pete Orrall]

>> after installing the packages (- bluez-alsa) you need to configure alsa
>> by creating .asoundrc file
>
> Thanks, but I don't know how.

I'm running openbox on my Wheezy systems at home (a ThinkPad and a
massive workstation) and haven't needed to create an .asoundrc file.

>> or, if the default device is correct, use alsamixer to turn on volumes of the
>> default card.
>
> By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on.  But still no sound.

Other questions:

1) What is your sound card's make/model?
2) What are you using as a listening device, ie headphones, basic
multimedia speakers, stereo receiver?
3) Did you check your connections.  Are your (assuming) speakers
plugged into the audio OUT of your soundcard, and not MIC or Line IN?
4) Did you check volume levels on speakers?

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Gnome Update Notifications in Jessie

[Manuel Lorenzo]

Hello all,

Gnome Update Notifications seem not to work in my vanilla installation
of Jessie.
I have read that Gnome-Packagekit should be taking care of this and
that it's a bug that is supposed to be solved [1], but actually in my
system it doesn't look for updates automatically.

On the other hand, running manually Update Manager works as
expected.So I suppose the problem is related to auto checking them.

As Update Manager doesn't have any configurable options, I used dconf
to check org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates (which is the only
place I found that has Updates related configurations) and all seems
to be OK: it's activated and configured to check for updates every 24
hours (86.400 s) and notify them every 7 days (604.800 s).

I know I can use unattended-upgrades and other tools, but I want to
know what is happening to Update Manager: if I have to configure
something manually or I am doing something wrong.

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

Manuel


[1] 
http://blog.tenstral.net/2014/11/the-state-of-appstreamgnome-software-in-debian-jessie.html


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Qs re: capture card, composite input, devices

[Kent West]

I want to rip some programs off a TIVO to a DVD, figuring to do so with 
a Debian box.


I tried with Debian; failed. So I wiped the box and installed the latest 
Ubuntu, thinking it might be more "user friendly"; I failed with it 
also, so I wiped it and went back to Debian (8), which just "feels" cleaner.


westk@jennisis:~$ uname -a
Linux jennisis 4.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.2-1 (2015-05-11) x86_64 
GNU/Linux


I've inherited a Dell Dimension 9200 PC with a TV card. On the back of 
the PC are two interfaces in slots next to each other; they are both 
identical, having an S-Video input and a "Comp Vid" RCA-style input 
(yellow) and a red and a white RCA-style input (stereo Audio, I'm sure), 
except one interface also has an FM In coax connector and a TV In coax 
connector.


I don't understand the relationship between the term "tv card" and 
"capture card" and /dev/videoX and ivtv and v4l2 and the various utils 
related to those last two and the video card and the video card driver 
and acceleration and X and Wayland. I'm sure I don't need to know all of 
those details, but my lack of understanding seems to be preventing me 
from successfully troubleshooting my problem, which is that I can't seem 
to see any image with my test setup of plugging the output of a VCR to 
the Comp Vid input of the PC, using MythTV, or xawtv, or tvtime, or VLC, 
or qv4l, or "cat /dev/video0 > temp.mpg", etc. I'm hoping someone might 
be able to guide me to my goal. Thanks!


I currently have an RCA-style cable (yellow-tip) going from the VCR's 
composite video output to the "Comp In" (yellow) input on the interface 
that also has the coax connectors. I also have a stereo RCA cable (red & 
yellow tips) going from the VCR's audio outputs to the red & white RCA 
jacks on the same interface card.


If I start VLC, and go to the Media menu, then Open Capture Device, the 
capture mode is set to "Video camera"; the standard is "Undefined", and 
the Video and Audio device name fields are blank. I think I've tried 
every combination of the Capture mode and Video and Audio device names, 
and the best I can get is the VLC logo, or dark-snow raster (on Video32 
& 33 I think), or sometimes a half-painted screen of skewed yellow/black 
bricks (Video31, I think). This is pretty consistent whether I'm 
actually at the computer or remoted in with "ssh -Y".


In dmesg I see references to tveeprom and ivtv and Hauppage PVR 500 (and 
a second instance; the second interface?). Does "/dev/video0" refer to 
the first interface card as a whole, and then the commands like 
"ivtv-ctrl --set-input=2" tell that card which input to output to the 
computer? If so, how do i refer to the second interface card. Why would 
there even be a second interface card? I don't even know the right 
questions to ask. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


Here are relevant data immediately after a boot, booting to the KDM 
login screen and not logging in locally, and then logging in remotely 
from across the room via ssh:


westk@jennisis:~$ ls -l /dev/vid*
crw-rw 1 root video 81, 0 May 14 16:07 /dev/video0
crw-rw 1 root video 81, 5 May 14 16:07 /dev/video1
crw-rw 1 root video 81, 3 May 14 16:07 /dev/video24
crw-rw 1 root video 81, 8 May 14 16:07 /dev/video25
crw-rw 1 root video 81, 1 May 14 16:07 /dev/video32
crw-rw 1 root video 81, 6 May 14 16:07 /dev/video33


westk@jennisis:~$ dmesg
[0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[0.00] Linux version 4.0.0-1-amd64 
(debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-16) ) 
#1 SMP Debian 4.0.2-1 (2015-05-11)
[0.00] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.0.0-1-amd64 
root=UUID=a68561a0-750d-4c23-a939-cd7fd929a37d ro quiet

[0.00] Disabled fast string operations
[0.00] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x-0x0009fbff] usable
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000f-0x000f] 
reserved

[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0010-0x7fe53bff] usable
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x7fe53c00-0x7fe55bff] 
ACPI NVS
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x7fe55c00-0x7fe57bff] 
ACPI data
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x7fe57c00-0x7fff] 
reserved
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xe000-0xefff] 
reserved
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xfec0-0xfed003ff] 
reserved
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xfed2-0xfed9] 
reserved
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xfee0-0xfeef] 
reserved
[0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xffb0-0x] 
reserved

[0.00] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[0.00] SMBIOS 2.3 present.
[0.00] DMI: Dell Inc. Dell 
DXP061  /0CT017, BIOS 2.4

Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

[Patrick Wiseman]

I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my
authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not
available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to
install the package from Sid, but dpkg complains that apache2.2-common
is not installed, which is indeed the case, as it's no longer a part
of the apache2 package apparently.

Any thoughts on a fix?

Thanks
Patrick


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Re: out of the box wifi adapter

[Raymond Jennings]

I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to
the trailer :P

But thanks everyone for trying to help.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Mark Allums  wrote:

>
>
> On 05/14/2015 08:25 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>
>> I need to install a wifi adapter to my newly built desktop machine.
>>
>> It needs to attach to either usb or the rj45 port, and I'd like to avoid
>> models that require downloaded firmware or ndiswrapper or the like.
>>
>> Any options out there?  I'm willing to buy stuff online if needed.
>>
>> The N300 from netgear I have isn't installing, even on the netinst cd
>> with firmware.
>>
>
>
> Most USB dongles will require firmware.  The little Edimax dongle
> available on Amazon and everywhere works beautifully with the Raspberry PI
> using Raspbian out-of-the-box, perhaps it would work for you?  It's tiny
> and supports WiFi-N, costs about $10.
>
>
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What package pulls in default fonts?

[Sven Arvidsson]

Hi,

I got missing Unicode in the latest xkcd comic[0]. Turns out it's trying
to show emoji icons and these doesn't seem to be available on a standard
Debian desktop install. There are similar issues with the BBS on Boing
Boing (On all Disqus forums?) and I'm sure, many other sites.

I'm guessing these fonts are provided OOTB on Windows and Mac, and it
would be nice to provide the same on Debian. At least the
ttf-ancient-fonts package provides this, but I'm not sure where to file
a bug for it to be installed by default. 

Which package pulls in the default fonts for a desktop installs?

0. http://xkcd.com/1525/

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Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

[Don Armstrong]

On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my
> authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not
> available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to
> install the package from Sid, but dpkg complains that apache2.2-common
> is not installed, which is indeed the case, as it's no longer a part
> of the apache2 package apparently.
> 
> Any thoughts on a fix?

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666826 for the
whole saga; basically, this means that someone needs to actually step in
and fix this module so that it can build with apache2.4 (and probably
help maintain it too.)


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Jessie i386 8.0.0 + icecast2 + liquidsoap general protection error

[Detrick Merz]

Howdy Folks,

I had a streaming server running for a while (wheezy i386 v7.8.0 + icecast2
v2.3.2 + liquidsoap v1.0.1) with liquidsoap sending mp3 data to icecast,
and it was doing fine. I upgraded it to jessie and started seeing general
protection errors in /var/log/messages:

May 15 11:53:28 fluffy kernel: [ 3874.762067] liquidsoap[1515] general
protection ip:b682f0c9 sp:b28f9538 error:0 in
libmp3lame.so.0.0.0[b6801000+48000]

In trying to hunt down the root cause I've gone through a few rebuilds.
It's a dedicated system so not running a bunch of extra stuff. During the
netinstall I pick the basic (non-graphical) install at the beginning, and
only install sshd and general system utilities (no print server, X, etc.).
Once the build is complete I install icecast2 and liquidsoap. I save my
config files for both of these and implement them each time. The build is
quite repeatable in this manner.

After upgrading to or doing a fresh install of jessie, if I ask liquidsoap
to output using another encoding method (e.g. vorbis) it works fine, it's
only mp3 encoding that seems to have a problem (I haven't tested them all,
of course). I can go with extremely simple config files for both icecast
and liquidsoap and it all behaves the same. No errors are shown in the
icecast or liquidsoap specific log files.

If I run a clean wheezy install it works fine again, of course.

I've tried taking clean wheezy installs and slowly upgrading them to see if
I could at least narrow down where the issue is being introduced. After the
wheezy install is complete and I verify that icecast and liquidsoap are
both playing nicely, I point /etc/apt/sources.list to jessie, apt-get
update, then have done the following tests:

1a) apt-get install icecast2; brings icecast up to v2.4.0; everything works
fine even through reboots

1b) After upgrading icecast, apt-get install liquididsoap; brings
liquidsoap up to v1.1.1; everything works fine even through reboots

1c) After upgrading icecast and liquidsoap, apt-get upgrade; upgrade
appears to go fine with no errors shown in /var/log/messages, and even when
it has completed icecast reports the stream as live, but next time
liquidsoap is restarted the general protection error shows up and
liquidsoap can no longer send mp3 to icecast

While I can coax this along and find a way to make it work, Ideally I'd
like to be on something stable, so I can apt-get update and apt-get
dist-upgrade to keep all of the packages happy. I could stay on wheezy, but
that's less than ideal. There are features in the newer icecast versions
that I'd like to leverage.

Any thoughts on where to go next to figure out the root cause, short of
going through the 193 packages upgraded by apt-get upgrade?

Thanks,

-detrick

[solved] Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Juha Heinanen  writes:

> Rodolfo Medina writes:
>
>> By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on.  But still no sound.
>
> check with alsamixer that everything is un-muted (no MM
> letters). also check with 'aplay -l' which card you want to use.  then
> make test 'aplay -c  '

Unmuting everything via alsamixer was sufficient.  Thanks!

Rodolfo


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Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Pete Orrall  writes:

>>> after installing the packages (- bluez-alsa) you need to configure alsa
>>> by creating .asoundrc file
>>
>> Thanks, but I don't know how.
>
> I'm running openbox on my Wheezy systems at home (a ThinkPad and a
> massive workstation) and haven't needed to create an .asoundrc file.
>
>>> or, if the default device is correct, use alsamixer to turn on volumes of
>>> the default card.
>>
>> By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on.  But still no sound.
>
> Other questions:
>
> 1) What is your sound card's make/model?
> 2) What are you using as a listening device, ie headphones, basic
> multimedia speakers, stereo receiver?
> 3) Did you check your connections.  Are your (assuming) speakers
> plugged into the audio OUT of your soundcard, and not MIC or Line IN?
> 4) Did you check volume levels on speakers?

Many thanks to you too.  It's all right now: with alsamixer, I needed unmuting
everything.

Cheers,

Rodolfo


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Re: blackbox: where is bbkeys package?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Siard  writes:

> On Sat, 09 May 2015 13:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but
>> read that, to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed.
>> But it seems to be absent from Debian Stable,
>
> It looks like Blackbox has been abandoned for some time now.
> I'd suggest to install its successor, Fluxbox, instead.  It is very
> similar.  Keystrokes are configurable in ~/.fluxbox/keys
> or /etc/X11/fluxbox/keys.

Thanks to August and Siard.  I installed openbox and started using it as window
manager.

Cheers,

Rodolfo


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Re: Jessie: Set up Samba and Winbind, can't log in to the domain

[Dalton Durst]

After a search of the bug tracker, this is a confirmed issue with the
Winbind package currently in Debian Jessie:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784656

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

[Bob Proulx]

Brian wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > You are currently using:
> > 
> >   deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main
> > 
> > That is okay.  Good!  But for the purpose of this task change that to
> > a different but still valid mirror.  This would be a good time to try
> > out the new http redirector which has just recently become an official
> > Debian resource.[1]
> > 
> >   deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
> > 
> > That httpredir.debian.org was previously known as http.debian.net for
> > those on the list that are familiar with it.
> > 
> > This is a good configuration for anyone geographically anywhere as it
> > will redirect to the best known nearby mirror.  The effect for you
> > with this problem is that it will be a different appearing URL than
> > the previously used ftp.fr.debian.org and will therefore ask for
> > different files.  The previously locally cached files on your disk in
> > /var/lib/apt will be expired as no longer being in your sources.list
> > file.  If mismatched cached proxy files are your only remaining
> > problem then this should fix it.  Make sure to 'apt-get update' after
> > changing the sources.list file.
> 
> A small reservation, much as we are advocates of http.debian.net in
> these parts. If the intention is to eliminate the mirror as a source
> of a problem it may not be sufficient. For whatever reason, the
> redirector may still choose the mirror you do not want as the best
> one to use.

I still consider the redirector somewhat experimental.  There are
reports that it sometimes does not select the best mirror.  It might
not detect that a mirror has gone out of sync fast enough and leave a
time when it would still be redirecting to a bad mirror.  It can't be
perfect.  However none of the other strategies such as the
ftp.XX.debian.org country code alias set are perfect either.  I have
had to report mirrors in the US set being stuck.  But both schemes
seem to be working pretty well.  That is why think of it as a "try it
out" policy.  Try it.  If it works then great.  If it doesn't for some
reason then continue to use the previous country specific mirrors.
That is my thinking.

Bob


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Re: out of the box wifi adapter

[Bob Proulx]

Raymond Jennings wrote:
> I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to
> the trailer :P

My perspective is that nothing is as reliable as hardline wire!  It
will be much more immune to radio noise trouble.  Speedy and
reliable.  Wire will almost always be my choice if possible.

If you didn't think of http://www.monoprice.com/ for that 100 foot
cable let me make a mention of it here for the future.  I am a happy
customer of them.

  http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=105&cp_id=10208&cs_id=1020814

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Re: out of the box wifi adapter

[Raymond Jennings]

good idea, but since it was time sensitive, I opted for best buy at a local
brick and mortar.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Bob Proulx  wrote:

> Raymond Jennings wrote:
> > I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to
> > the trailer :P
>
> My perspective is that nothing is as reliable as hardline wire!  It
> will be much more immune to radio noise trouble.  Speedy and
> reliable.  Wire will almost always be my choice if possible.
>
> If you didn't think of http://www.monoprice.com/ for that 100 foot
> cable let me make a mention of it here for the future.  I am a happy
> customer of them.
>
>   http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=105&cp_id=10208&cs_id=1020814
>
> Bob
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Re: out of the box wifi adapter

[Raymond Jennings]

Pardon, it was a cat5e cable.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Raymond Jennings 
wrote:

> good idea, but since it was time sensitive, I opted for best buy at a
> local brick and mortar.
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Bob Proulx  wrote:
>
>> Raymond Jennings wrote:
>> > I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to
>> > the trailer :P
>>
>> My perspective is that nothing is as reliable as hardline wire!  It
>> will be much more immune to radio noise trouble.  Speedy and
>> reliable.  Wire will almost always be my choice if possible.
>>
>> If you didn't think of http://www.monoprice.com/ for that 100 foot
>> cable let me make a mention of it here for the future.  I am a happy
>> customer of them.
>>
>>   http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=105&cp_id=10208&cs_id=1020814
>>
>> Bob
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About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

[Charlie]

A question about alternatives in stretch:

3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I do:

$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Selection Path Priority Status



0 /usr/bin/iceweasel 70 auto mode

* 1 /usr/bin/chromium 40 manual mode

2 /usr/bin/iceweasel 70 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

I press enter

In claws-mail press a URL and it opens in iceweasel.

Tried it as root, same result.

Three questions:

.1. Is the alternatives script not working or

.2. Is Claws mail not checking it

.3. Can I change this manually and if so where?

Not a biggie but just wondered.

Be well,
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Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

[David Wright]

Quoting Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com):

>   hi David,
>   At least for that problem I found the explanation, and was able to 
> reproduce it on
>   my personal web server. I imported the index.html from the us and fr sites, 
> and the
>   3 files, Just try
> 
>  wget http://frenkiel-hure.net:8080/pub/us/Packages
>  wget http://frenkiel-hure.net:8080/pub/fr/Packages
>   By default, the wget command works for us and fr
>   If I remove the line
>   AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
>   from the mime.conf file of my apache2 config, then wget works only for fr, 
> as you can check.
>   One have now to understand what difference in the 2 index.html files 
> explains that.

I'm afraid this is an aspect that I have little to no knowledge of.
I did take a look out of interest at the output from
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386
wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386
and a comparison of them turned up nothing that looked significant.
I noticed that on repeating the former, I got a very different file,
and this might be because ftp.us.debian.org had resolved to a different
IPv4 address (but IPv6 was the same).

$ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386
--2015-05-15 17:03:15--  
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386
Resolving ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)... 128.61.240.89, 
64.50.233.100, 2610:148:1f10:3::89
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)|128.61.240.89|:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/ 
[following]
--2015-05-15 17:03:15--  
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/
Reusing existing connection to ftp.us.debian.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘binary-i386’

binary-i386 [ <=>]  
   569  --.-KB/s   in 0s

2015-05-15 17:03:15 (11.7 MB/s) - ‘binary-i386’ saved [569]

$ 

$ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386
--2015-05-15 19:17:14--  
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386
Resolving ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)... 64.50.233.100, 
128.61.240.89, 2610:148:1f10:3::89
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)|64.50.233.100|:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/ 
[following]
--2015-05-15 19:17:14--  
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/
Reusing existing connection to ftp.us.debian.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘binary-i386’

binary-i386 [ <=>]  
 3.22K  --.-KB/s   in 0s 

2015-05-15 19:17:14 (7.87 MB/s) - ‘binary-i386’ saved [3302]

$ 

The appearance of the webpage had also changed since yesterday, with
logos from Oregon State University, Open Source Lab, TDS and Friend of
OSL scattered around that weren't there before.

But, having no idea what goes on between apt etc and web servers, I'll
have to leave this for others to help you.

Cheers,
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Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

[Bob Proulx]

David Wright wrote:
> I noticed that on repeating the former, I got a very different file,
> and this might be because ftp.us.debian.org had resolved to a different
> IPv4 address (but IPv6 was the same).

  $ host ftp.us.debian.org
  ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.61.240.89
  ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.233.100
  ftp.us.debian.org has IPv6 address 2610:148:1f10:3::89

It is at this moment a list of two different IPv4 addresses and one
IPv6 address.  Looking up those will find that debian.gtisc.gatech.edu
has both IPv4 and IPv6 available.  ftp-nyc.osuosl.org only shows the
IPv4 address.  So basically two mirror sites are available.

Depending upon various things you will somewhat randomly get one or
the other site.  After having gotten one site it will be sticky for
the dns time to live value after which it will expire and the
selection process will repeat.

> The appearance of the webpage had also changed since yesterday, with
> logos from Oregon State University, Open Source Lab, TDS and Friend of
> OSL scattered around that weren't there before.

Basically the difference is:

  http://64.50.233.100/debian/
  http://128.61.240.89/debian/

When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all
three of the above in some order.  If your system is IPv6 capable it
will prefer the IPv6 address and always use it.  If not then it will
select one of the two IPv4 addresses and use it.  The different mirror
sites are using different software.  Some sites advertise their own
information and others do not.  The archive data provided is the same
in either case.  And regardless the Release file is cryptographically
signed and checksumed such that it can be trusted regardless of the
host transporting it.  We appreciate the mirrors making their
bandwidth and hosting available for Debian mirrors.

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Re: out of the box wifi adapter

[Andreas Ronnquist]

On Thu, 14 May 2015 18:25:46 -0700
Raymond Jennings  wrote:

>I need to install a wifi adapter to my newly built desktop machine.
>
>It needs to attach to either usb or the rj45 port, and I'd like to
>avoid models that require downloaded firmware or ndiswrapper or the
>like.
>
>Any options out there?  I'm willing to buy stuff online if needed.
>
>The N300 from netgear I have isn't installing, even on the netinst cd
>with firmware.
>
This seems like a great alternative:
https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-wireless-adapter-gnu-linux-libre-tet-n150

(I haven't tried it myself though).

/Andreas
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Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

[Bob Proulx]

Charlie wrote:
> A question about alternatives in stretch:

> $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> * 1 /usr/bin/chromium 40 manual mode
>...
> In claws-mail press a URL and it opens in iceweasel.

Sounds like claws does not call x-www-browser but instead calls
iceweasel directly.  However I installed claws in order to test this
and for me it did call x-www-browser okay.  So I think it must be
calling x-www-browser okay.

>   .1. Is the alternatives script not working or

Very likely the alternatives for x-www-browser are correct.  Did you
try it?  Please try it and check that it works.  Check that it returns
a non-zero exit code.

  $ x-www-browser
  $ echo $?

What starts?  Chromium?  Then your configuration is fine.  If not then
that is the problem.  But that is unlikely if your Testing is up to
date.  Does it return an exit code of 0 okay?

>   .2. Is Claws mail not checking it

For me when I installed claws just now as a test, set x-www-browser to
chromium, and then clicked on a link to open in a web browser window
it opened chromium.  Therefore it isn't a systematic problem.  It must
be something in your environment.

>   .3. Can I change this manually and if so where?

Almost certainly.  You did very good starting with the alternatives
for x-www-browser.  That's great.  I would start there too.  But since
it works for other people (me!) the problem must be something specific
to your environment.

Bob

P.S.

> 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Just for future reference but the 'uname -a' output showing kernel
version information isn't useful for much these days.  At one time it
was how we told if users were using BSD or HP-UX or Solaris or IBM AIX
or whatever.  But if you say you are using Debian Stretch then we know
you are actually using Debian Testing and that is good enough.  I
prefer to say Testing rather than a name because Stretch is only a
candidate and will change every day for the next two years until it is
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ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1.
I run the firewall via Firehol and use  'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE="ULOG"'.
Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG.
That is because ulogd2 failed with:

May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: Can't create ULOG handle
May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: error starting `ulog1'

When this dist-upgraded system is booted with kernel 3.16.0-4 ulogd2 starts
correctly:

May 15 15:46:24 hdbb ulogd[27455]: building new pluginstance stack:
'ulog1:ULOG,base1:BASE,ip2str1:IP2STR,print1:PRINTPK

But I seem to be the first person that ran into this because I find no 
references to this error. Is it because this kernel is new?


Hugo


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Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong  wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my
>> authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not
>> available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to
>> install the package from Sid, but dpkg complains that apache2.2-common
>> is not installed, which is indeed the case, as it's no longer a part
>> of the apache2 package apparently.
>>
>> Any thoughts on a fix?
>
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666826 for the
> whole saga; basically, this means that someone needs to actually step in
> and fix this module so that it can build with apache2.4 (and probably
> help maintain it too.)

So is that as totally irresponsible as it seems to me? I cannot be the
only person using mysql authentication. As it happens, my institution
is about to make me move to something else (ldap or openid) and so
I'll do that by the time my students need access next Fall. But, if I
may, really??

Patrick


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Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction

[David Wright]

Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
> > 
> Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a
> website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate
> being able to understand the meaning of the prompt.

This conversation made me revisit my own prompt which I have now
modified. I thought I'd share it with you in case any part of it
should be helpful.

LOCAL_COLOR is set in a host-specific file that also sets things like
different colours for midnight commander (mc) so I know which host I'm on.

PROMPT_COMMAND adds a space after the return code and then removes
itself if it would print zero. It also sets the title-bar in an xterm,
again so I know where I am. (I have a couple of dozen xterms, some
ssh'd to other hosts.) Putting the tty number in the title bar makes
it easier to kill an xterm should it freeze.

PS1 makes any non-zero return code stand out; then the local colour
takes over the rest of the prompt. Note that the "0;" is required in
LOCAL_COLOR to cancel the earlier "1;" that highlights the return code.
Breaking the PS1 line into 3 parts avoids another level of quoting.


LOCAL_COLOR='\e[0;34m' # blue (this is in ~/.bash-)

export PROMPT_COMMAND='MYPROMPT="$? " && [ "$MYPROMPT" = "0 " ] && MYPROMPT=""'
case $TERM in
xterm*)
export PROMPT_COMMAND+=" || echo -ne '\e]0;${HOSTNAME^^}  
$(tty)  ${HOSTNAME^^}\a'"
;;
esac

export PS1='\[\e[1;33;41m\]$MYPROMPT\['
export PS1+="$LOCAL_COLOR"
export PS1+='\]\H!\u \t \w \$ \[\e[m\]'
unset LOCAL_COLOR

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Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

[David Wright]

Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com):

> When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all
> three of the above in some order.  If your system is IPv6 capable it
> will prefer the IPv6 address and always use it.  If not then it will
> select one of the two IPv4 addresses and use it.  The different mirror
> sites are using different software.  Some sites advertise their own
> information and others do not.  The archive data provided is the same
> in either case.  And regardless the Release file is cryptographically
> signed and checksumed such that it can be trusted regardless of the
> host transporting it.  We appreciate the mirrors making their
> bandwidth and hosting available for Debian mirrors.

Thanks for that clear exposition. I myself have had no problem with
these differences (assuming they could even be relevant). But can you
throw any light on why Pierre is apparently being served a .xz
compressed file by ftp.fr.debian.org which is making apt-get
(presumably expecting to receive a .gz file) fail to verify the
digest? (I can't even try reproducing this as I'm i386 and he's amd64.)

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Re: ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

[Sven Hartge]

Hugo Vanwoerkom  wrote:

> Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1.
> I run the firewall via Firehol and use  'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE="ULOG"'.
> Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG.  That is
> because ulogd2 failed with:

> May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: Can't create ULOG handle
> May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: error starting `ulog1'

> When this dist-upgraded system is booted with kernel 3.16.0-4 ulogd2
> starts correctly:

> May 15 15:46:24 hdbb ulogd[27455]: building new pluginstance stack:
> 'ulog1:ULOG,base1:BASE,ip2str1:IP2STR,print1:PRINTPK

> But I seem to be the first person that ran into this because I find no
> references to this error. Is it because this kernel is new?

I would think so.

My guess is most people running ulogd run it on their firewall systems,
systems normally not running Sid.

Grüße,
Sven.

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Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

[Sven Hartge]

Patrick Wiseman  wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong  wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

>>> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my
>>> authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not
>>> available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to
>>> install the package from Sid, but dpkg complains that apache2.2-common
>>> is not installed, which is indeed the case, as it's no longer a part
>>> of the apache2 package apparently.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on a fix?
>>
>> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666826 for the
>> whole saga; basically, this means that someone needs to actually step in
>> and fix this module so that it can build with apache2.4 (and probably
>> help maintain it too.)

> So is that as totally irresponsible as it seems to me? I cannot be the
> only person using mysql authentication. As it happens, my institution
> is about to make me move to something else (ldap or openid) and so
> I'll do that by the time my students need access next Fall. But, if I
> may, really??

It seems this module is dead upstream, given that the same version was
already included in Squeeze and only NMU'd to get into Wheezy.

There is a ticket open on the SF.net site, that advises to use
mod_authX_dbd 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authn_dbd.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authz_dbd.html

Grüße,
Sven.

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Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

[Sven Hartge]

Sven Hartge  wrote:
> Patrick Wiseman  wrote:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong  wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

 I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my
 authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not
 available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to
 install the package from Sid, but dpkg complains that apache2.2-common
 is not installed, which is indeed the case, as it's no longer a part
 of the apache2 package apparently.

 Any thoughts on a fix?
>>>
>>> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666826 for the
>>> whole saga; basically, this means that someone needs to actually step in
>>> and fix this module so that it can build with apache2.4 (and probably
>>> help maintain it too.)

>> So is that as totally irresponsible as it seems to me? I cannot be the
>> only person using mysql authentication. As it happens, my institution
>> is about to make me move to something else (ldap or openid) and so
>> I'll do that by the time my students need access next Fall. But, if I
>> may, really??

> It seems this module is dead upstream, given that the same version was
> already included in Squeeze and only NMU'd to get into Wheezy.

To be precise: the same (upstream) version was already included in
Sarge, released 10 years ago.

But since there is a generic solution available, one that is even
included in apache2 proper, there is no need to yearn for a continuiton
of development of mod-auth-mysql.

On might even be so inclined to file a bug for complete removal from Debian.

Grüße,
Sven.

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Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction (correction)

[David Wright]

Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk):
>   export PROMPT_COMMAND+=" || echo -ne '\e]0;${HOSTNAME^^}  
> $(tty)  ${HOSTNAME^^}\a'"


Forgive the typo; that || was in the penultimate version that I
accidentally included. It should of course be ; otherwise the
title only appears after a non-zero return code. Thus:

export PROMPT_COMMAND+=" ; echo -ne '\e]0;${HOSTNAME^^}  $(tty) 
 ${HOSTNAME^^}\a'"

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Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

[Charlie]

On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent:



> Very likely the alternatives for x-www-browser are correct.  Did you
> try it?  Please try it and check that it works.  Check that it returns
> a non-zero exit code.
> 
>   $ x-www-browser
>   $ echo $?
> 
> What starts?  Chromium?  Then your configuration is fine.  If not then
> that is the problem.  But that is unlikely if your Testing is up to
> date.  Does it return an exit code of 0 okay?



Thank you for these commands Bob,

$ x-www-browser
/usr/bin/x-www-browser: 95: exec: /usr/lib/chromium/x-www-browser: not
found

$ echo $?
127

Alternatives was working while I was using stable [jessie] then I
upgraded to testing and suddenly it reverted back to iceweasel.

Okay,
My system hadn't been upgraded for a week or more, so upgrading now.

I will get back with what happens when the upgrade is complete.

I'm on satellite internet so it will take a bit longer than others who
have ADSL might expect.

In the famous words of Muscles Schwartznegger, "I'll be back".

Thank you for your time and adding to your system [claws-mail] to test
this.

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Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

[Charlie]

On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent:

> For me when I installed claws just now as a test, set x-www-browser to
> chromium, and then clicked on a link to open in a web browser window
> it opened chromium.  Therefore it isn't a systematic problem.  It must
> be something in your environment.

Sorry Bob,

The update won't be done, because:

I held openssl without problems, but can't  hold this because it's
buggy as well:

E: Unable to locate package libgnutls-deb0-28,

So I won't go ahead with the upgrade at this time.

I'll try alternatives again when I can upgrade.

Sorry for your trouble, thanks for your help, it's much appreciated.

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Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

[Charlie]

On Sat, 16 May 2015 14:26:23 +1000 Charlie sent:

> On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent:
> 
> > For me when I installed claws just now as a test, set x-www-browser
> > to chromium, and then clicked on a link to open in a web browser
> > window it opened chromium.  Therefore it isn't a systematic
> > problem.  It must be something in your environment.
> 
> Sorry Bob,
> 
> The update won't be done, because:
> 
> I held openssl without problems, but can't  hold this because it's
> buggy as well:
> 
> E: Unable to locate package libgnutls-deb0-28,
> 
> So I won't go ahead with the upgrade at this time.
> 
> I'll try alternatives again when I can upgrade.
> 
> Sorry for your trouble, thanks for your help, it's much appreciated.
> 
> Charlie

It seems there is a bug here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783858

Since you gave the way of how to discover what I need to know, I
googled it and found that link.

Thanks again,

Charlie

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Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

[Charlie]

On Sat, 16 May 2015 14:41:09 +1000 Charlie sent:

> Since you gave the way of how to discover what I need to know, I
> googled it and found that link.

Alternatives works now:

Did: apt-mark hold libgnutls-deb0-28

That held it.

Upgraded and I saw that it upgraded chromium and now it works.

Thanks again,
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Re: Gnome Update Notifications in Jessie

[August Karlstrom]

On 2015-05-15 17:50, Manuel Lorenzo wrote:

Gnome Update Notifications seem not to work in my vanilla installation
of Jessie.

[...]

I know I can use unattended-upgrades and other tools, but I want to
know what is happening to Update Manager: if I have to configure
something manually or I am doing something wrong.


I can also recommend apticron which simply sends you an email when 
updates are available. It has the advantage of being desktop independent.



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