Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

[Peter Viskup]

Always consider using ddrescue [1] instead of dd - especially once you are
not sure about the state of the drive.
Tool ddrescue is taking 'dd' image of the drive, but will skip all the
areas where the read will return an error. Standard 'dd' will try to
continuously re-read that area which could cause more damages.
Have fun! ;-)

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/

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Peter

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:20 AM, David Christensen <
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> On 06/11/2015 12:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I found out that my extra disk shut down. I don't know what
>> steps to
>> follow from now on. I'm searching online about the error as I found in the
>> logs, and I don't know what steps to follow.
>>
> ...
>
>> I don't know where to proceed from here. The error seems hardware, but
>> I'm not
>> totally sure. After that, what should I try to do to recover as much as
>> possible? I'm reading about ddrescue now.
>> I don't have space in the other partitions to hold all the data in the
>> failed
>> disk, but I'm only interested in recovering some parts of it as safely as
>> possible. Should I just buy a new disk, try to replicate the original one
>> there, and find out which files are damaged? Or should I create an image
>> as a
>> file stored somewhere else?
>>
>
> 1.  Buy a large disk that you can use for backups.  I use 3 TB Seagate
> ST3000DM001 because they have the best gigabyte/dollar ratio that I am
> aware of.
>
> 2.  Try to mount the file system and backup your files.  If you can't get
> the filesystem mounted, copy the raw disk image to a file using 'dd'.  You
> might have to get the image in pieces using the 'skip' and 'seek' options.
>
> 3.  Download the disk drive manufacturer's diagnostic toolset and run it.
> For example:
>
> http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
>
>
> David
>
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Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 05:09 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Petter Adsen  writes:
> 
> > A guess:
> >
> > String "0xe2"
> 
> Sorry, that outputs the literal string as well.
> 
> Ha, what a silly problem...

Maybe this combination of xdotools and xbindkeys might work?
http://superuser.com/questions/469004/remap-superarrow-key-to-home-end

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a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

[Julian Brooks]

Hi all,

I have this message
"a start job is running for create volatile files and directories"
when booting. There is then a "n's/no limit" while it counts up to approx
1m30'ish and then carries on booting.

I'm pretty sure it's to do with installing printer drivers (from searching
around) but I'd like to keep the printer driver.

How can I make this go away?

Had it on Debian 7 and have updated to 8 with no change in behaviour.

Checked in the archives and can't find anything, or at least that text
string.

Many thanks in advance,

Julian

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

[Lisi Reisz]

On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have.

Which version of Windows?  Or are you saying that your printer has drivers for 
all versions of Windows?  In my experience, you have to throw things away 
when the version of Windows changes and there is no driver for that version.  
After you have scoured the Internet.

Lisi


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USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

[Nicos Gollan]

Hi all,

Since I did a dist-upgrade (running unstable) on 2015-06-01, I'm having a 
rather annoying issue that the system will seemingly randomly drop keystrokes 
from my USB keyboard I tried disabling power management for that device, but 
that doesn't help.

This is happening on two different machines with the same keyboard model that 
worked well before the dist-upgrade, and the hardware is fine as witnessed by 
other operating systems. A USB mouse attached to the integrated USB hub works 
without issues.

It used to help to attach the keyboard to a USB3 port, but right now even that 
is acting up.

I have no idea which package may have introduced the issue, a list of all 
packages changing as well as lsusb output is here:
https://gist.github.com/ngollan/8542b21675133c663f97

Any ideas?

Regards,
Nicos


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Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

[tomas]

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:55:53AM +0100, Julian Brooks wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have this message
> "a start job is running for create volatile files and directories"
> when booting. There is then a "n's/no limit" while it counts up to approx
> 1m30'ish and then carries on booting.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's to do with installing printer drivers (from searching
> around) but I'd like to keep the printer driver.
> 
> How can I make this go away?

Duckducking around, I find these, which might be relevant:

 
  (currently unreachable)
 

 
 


I didn't dive into all, but a very superficial perusal seems to suggest
an unhappy combination of systemd, wrong kernel version and/or too many
files in /tmp (yes, it sounds crazy).

Oh, and... keep us posted :-)

Hope that helps
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problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

[Roi Diaz Real]

hi all,

today after a dist-upgrade i have problems with git. these are the 
updated packages


Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main dpkg i386 1.18.1 
[2.939 kB]
Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main 
liblocale-gettext-perl i386 1.05-9 [19,1 kB]
Des:3 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libgnutls-openssl27 
i386 3.3.15-5 [158 kB]
Des:4 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libnettle6 i386 
3.1.1-3 [205 kB]
Des:5 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libhogweed4 i386 
3.1.1-3 [137 kB]
Des:6 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libgnutls-deb0-28 
i386 3.3.15-5 [729 kB]
Des:7 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libldap-2.4-2 i386 
2.4.40+dfsg-1+b2 [228 kB]
Des:8 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libgpg-error0 i386 
1.19-2 [103 kB]
Des:9 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main wget i386 
1.16.3-2+b2 [726 kB]
Des:10 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main apt-listchanges all 
2.85.14 [83,1 kB]
Des:11 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libhtml-tree-perl 
all 5.03-2 [210 kB]
Des:12 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main 
libio-socket-ssl-perl all 2.016-1 [179 kB]
Des:13 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main 
libperl4-corelibs-perl all 0.003-2 [38,0 kB]
Des:14 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libxml-libxml-perl 
i386 2.0116+dfsg-4 [380 kB]
Des:15 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main postgresql all 
9.4+169 [52,5 kB]
Des:16 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main 
postgresql-client-common all 169 [74,3 kB]
Des:17 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main postgresql-common 
all 169 [208 kB]
Des:18 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main rename all 0.20-4 
[12,5 kB]
Des:19 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main librtmp1 i386 
2.4+20150115.gita107cef-1+b2 [64,1 kB]


i have the same problem in different machines.

when i do "git pull" or "git clone", "git" doesnt show errors but it 
doesnt do anything.


Anyone have the same problem with "git"???

thanks!





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Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

[tomas]

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote:
> hi all,

[...]

> when i do "git pull" or "git clone", "git" doesnt show errors but it
> doesnt do anything.

Does "git clone --verbose" shed some light on this?
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Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

[Matthijs Wensveen]

On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote:

On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore  wrote:

On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote:

On 11/06/2015, Nick T.  wrote:

Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list.

- Nick

On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote:

Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary
to install the driver.
Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the
driver after every kernel update.

- Nick



Thank you for that.

The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded.

However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external
monitor (using System -> Preferences -> Monitors), and

I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings.



As I had said, xwindows now no longer works on the system.

What do I need to do, at the command line level, to get xwindows
operable on the system?

In the circumstances, it appears to be a congiuration or settings issue.

Or, despite the information on the nvidia web site, perhaps the driver
simply does not work with Debian 6.

I note that the gcc version issues showed that the gcc version
applicable to the driver, appeared to be an earlier version (4.3, I
think) than the installed version when I installed gcc (4.4, I think)
(but the discrepancy appeared to have been overcome in the procedure
that I followed), indicating (I believe) that Debian 6 should not be a
version to early for thenvidia driver.




It might be that you need to generate an Xorg.conf file from scratch. 
Make sure to backup any existing configuration file first 
(/etc/X11/xorg.conf). You can generate one using the nvidia-xconfig 
package: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Configuration

- Matthijs


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Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

[Julian Brooks]

Hi Tomas,

Cheers for the response.

Ok - seems it would be useful to get to grips with 'chroot'.

Also from recent posts it's not just me that finds printers a ball-ache.

Would be happy with a quick dirty fix tbh. I know the Right thing would be
to track it down and sort it properly but could I, for example, locate
what's setting the 'no limit' and set that to 10ms? Or something.

Jb

On 12 June 2015 at 12:01,  wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:55:53AM +0100, Julian Brooks wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have this message
> > "a start job is running for create volatile files and directories"
> > when booting. There is then a "n's/no limit" while it counts up to approx
> > 1m30'ish and then carries on booting.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure it's to do with installing printer drivers (from
> searching
> > around) but I'd like to keep the printer driver.
> >
> > How can I make this go away?
>
> Duckducking around, I find these, which might be relevant:
>
>  
>   (currently
> unreachable)
>  <
> http://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/2jyquk/systemd_issue_at_boot_a_start_job_is_running_for/
> >
>  
>  <
> http://xyzmind.blogspot.com/2015/01/solving-start-job-is-running-for-create.html
> >
>
> I didn't dive into all, but a very superficial perusal seems to suggest
> an unhappy combination of systemd, wrong kernel version and/or too many
> files in /tmp (yes, it sounds crazy).
>
> Oh, and... keep us posted :-)
>
> Hope that helps
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Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

[Roi Diaz Real]

if i clone a random github project like this:

sunevil@debian:~$ git clone --verbose 
https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client.git

Cloning into 'google-api-php-client'...
sunevil@debian:~$


no erros.

im trying to do it with ssh protocol and goes right

El 12/06/15 a las 13:24, to...@tuxteam.de escribió:

git clone --verbose



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Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

[tomas]

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Now I'm lost: what exactly are you trying to do?

thanks+regards
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Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

[tomas]

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:44:39PM +0100, Julian Brooks wrote:
> Hi Tomas,
> 
> Cheers for the response.
> 
> Ok - seems it would be useful to get to grips with 'chroot'.

Sorry -- I lost you: what has this to do with chroot?

> Also from recent posts it's not just me that finds printers a ball-ache.

I don't like printers either (the devices; the people are a quite nice
species, but on its way to extinction, but I disgress). As far as I can see
the problem (in my short reading, of the refs, I admit) hasn't got directly
to do with printers)

> Would be happy with a quick dirty fix tbh. I know the Right thing would be
> to track it down and sort it properly but could I, for example, locate
> what's setting the 'no limit' and set that to 10ms? Or something.

- From my reading of the refs, I'd try to see whether there are loads of
files in /tmp, compare your kernel version with the one mentioned on
one of the refs.

regards
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Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

[Roi Diaz Real]

im working on bitbucket project for months and today after an 
upgrademy git command doesnt go. im using my git configuration with 
https protocol and i think there is a problem with that upgrade


i can solve this problem with ssh protocol




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Now I'm lost: what exactly are you trying to do?

thanks+regards
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Re: USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

[James Ensor]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Nicos Gollan  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since I did a dist-upgrade (running unstable) on 2015-06-01, I'm having a
> rather annoying issue that the system will seemingly randomly drop keystrokes
> from my USB keyboard I tried disabling power management for that device, but
> that doesn't help.
>
> This is happening on two different machines with the same keyboard model that
> worked well before the dist-upgrade, and the hardware is fine as witnessed by
> other operating systems. A USB mouse attached to the integrated USB hub works
> without issues.
>
> It used to help to attach the keyboard to a USB3 port, but right now even that
> is acting up.
>
> I have no idea which package may have introduced the issue, a list of all
> packages changing as well as lsusb output is here:
> https://gist.github.com/ngollan/8542b21675133c663f97
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Nicos
>
>


I've noticed something similar with my wireless keyboard and mouse.
It usually happens after waking
up from suspend.  Un-plugging and then re-plugging in the usb rf
dongle fixes the problem for me though.
I haven't seen anything in the logs indicating an error or a warning though.


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Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

[tomas]

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:32:31PM +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote:
> im working on bitbucket project for months and today after an
> upgrademy git command doesnt go. im using my git configuration
> with https protocol and i think there is a problem with that
> upgrade
> 
> i can solve this problem with ssh protocol

Ah, understood. Strange that you don't get error messages from
git, though...

(I fear I can't help you on that one anyway. If you're brave, you
might try to issue the git command under strace (use -o for the
output file, since you'll expect lots of output and -f to follow
children processes). Perhaps you can see some pattern in the
output -- the last error returns of open/read calls might tip you
off in some direction)

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Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

[Julian Brooks]

"what has this to do with chroot?"
THe reddit link mentions several times using chroot.

Tmp folder has a couple of these type folders
'systemd-private-3d781014447746cca13e925310f41100-cups.service-b2Piz4',
with empty tmp folders inside
systemd also comes up in the links as a possible culprit
but there isn't loads of files in tmp as mentioned in several links.

Will do more digging and report back.







On 12 June 2015 at 13:13,  wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:44:39PM +0100, Julian Brooks wrote:
> > Hi Tomas,
> >
> > Cheers for the response.
> >
> > Ok - seems it would be useful to get to grips with 'chroot'.
>
> Sorry -- I lost you: what has this to do with chroot?
>
> > Also from recent posts it's not just me that finds printers a ball-ache.
>
> I don't like printers either (the devices; the people are a quite nice
> species, but on its way to extinction, but I disgress). As far as I can see
> the problem (in my short reading, of the refs, I admit) hasn't got directly
> to do with printers)
>
> > Would be happy with a quick dirty fix tbh. I know the Right thing would
> be
> > to track it down and sort it properly but could I, for example, locate
> > what's setting the 'no limit' and set that to 10ms? Or something.
>
> - From my reading of the refs, I'd try to see whether there are loads of
> files in /tmp, compare your kernel version with the one mentioned on
> one of the refs.
>
> regards
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Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

[Gerard Hooton]

Hi All,
I have included  the following in my named.conf

logging {
  channel bind_log {
file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity info;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
print-time yes;
  };
  category default { bind_log; };
  category update { bind_log; };
  category update-security { bind_log; };
  category security { bind_log; };
  category queries { bind_log; };
  category lame-servers { null; };
};

However I get the following error

Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration from 
'/etc/bind/named.conf'
Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: /etc/bind/named.conf.log:1: unknown 
option 'logging'

Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration: failure
Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: exiting (due to fatal error)

I have the following
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
BIND 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1

Thanks
//Ger




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No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

[Robert S]

Hi.

I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2.  I did an
upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs.

Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST
screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it.

I've managed to boot my system with a live USB stick and have entered
my system in a chroot.

In the chroot I tried downgrading to grub-legacy and got the same
result.  I purged all of the config files from GRUB2 then reinstalled
GRUB2 from scratch.

I have repeatedly run update-grub/update-grub2, and grub-install /dev/sda

Here is as much info as I can give:

Hardware: Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-1900 with Samsung SSD 850 EVO 4G RAM.
Debian - x86

debian:~# dpkg -l |grep grub
ii  grub-common  2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
rc  grub-legacy  0.97-70
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
ii  grub-pc  2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
ii  grub-pc-bin  2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS binaries)
ii  grub22.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)
ii  grub2-common 2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2)

debian:~# update-grub2
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
done

debian:~# grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.

My grub.cfg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xz5mrbagwcgpp5/grub.cfg?dl=0

debian:~# gdisk /dev/sda -l
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 234441648 sectors, 111.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): F387E81C-204F-43B0-ACA8-C169094F79B5
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 234441614
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 126167917 sectors (60.2 GiB)
Number  Start (sector)End (sector)  Size   Code  Name
   12048  206847   100.0 MiB   EF02  BIOS boot partition
   2  20684841166847   19.5 GiB8300  root
   34116684845361151   2.0 GiB 8300  Linux swap
   44536115287304191   20.0 GiB8300  var
   587304192   108275711   10.0 GiB8300  home

I would be very grateful if someone could help here.


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Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

[Gerard Hooton]

Hi All,
I already sent that was but before I subscribed to the list.

I have included  the following in my named.conf

logging {
  channel bind_log {
file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity info;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
print-time yes;
  };
  category default { bind_log; };
  category update { bind_log; };
  category update-security { bind_log; };
  category security { bind_log; };
  category queries { bind_log; };
  category lame-servers { null; };
};

However I get the following error

Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration from 
'/etc/bind/named.conf'
Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: /etc/bind/named.conf.log:1: unknown 
option 'logging'

Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration: failure
Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: exiting (due to fatal error)

I have the following
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
BIND 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1

Thanks
//Ger

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Re: Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

[tomas]

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:21:26PM +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote:
> Hi All,
> I already sent that was but before I subscribed to the list.
> 
> I have included  the following in my named.conf
> 
> logging {
>   channel bind_log {
> file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m;
> severity info;
> print-category yes;
> print-severity yes;
> print-time yes;
>   };
>   category default { bind_log; };
>   category update { bind_log; };
>   category update-security { bind_log; };
>   category security { bind_log; };
>   category queries { bind_log; };
>   category lame-servers { null; };
> };
> 
> However I get the following error
> 
> Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration from
> '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: /etc/bind/named.conf.log:1:
  HERE^^^
> unknown option 'logging'
> Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration: failure
> Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> I have the following
> 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> BIND 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1

Just a shot in the dark: your /etc/bind/named.conf seems to include
/etc/bind/named.conf, which itself most probably has a "logging"
stanza itself.

Perhaps this error message is Bind9's idiosyncratic way to tell
you that it doesn't like to see two logging entries?

Anyway, it might seem better for the sysadmin's sanity to modify
the logging stuff in /etc/bind/named.conf.log

regards
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Re: Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

[Gerard Hooton]

On 12/06/15 15:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:21:26PM +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote:

Hi All,
I already sent that was but before I subscribed to the list.

I have included  the following in my named.conf

logging {
   channel bind_log {
 file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m;
 severity info;
 print-category yes;
 print-severity yes;
 print-time yes;
   };
   category default { bind_log; };
   category update { bind_log; };
   category update-security { bind_log; };
   category security { bind_log; };
   category queries { bind_log; };
   category lame-servers { null; };
};

However I get the following error

Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration from
'/etc/bind/named.conf'
Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: /etc/bind/named.conf.log:1:

   HERE^^^

unknown option 'logging'
Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: loading configuration: failure
Jun 12 14:21:52 scoil named[7161]: exiting (due to fatal error)

I have the following
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
BIND 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1

Just a shot in the dark: your /etc/bind/named.conf seems to include
/etc/bind/named.conf, which itself most probably has a "logging"
stanza itself.

Perhaps this error message is Bind9's idiosyncratic way to tell
you that it doesn't like to see two logging entries?

Anyway, it might seem better for the sysadmin's sanity to modify
the logging stuff in /etc/bind/named.conf.log

regards
- -- tomás
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Thanks Tomás for you reply.
The only place that I have logging is in the named.conf.log which I 
include in named.conf as follows

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.log";

//Ger

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Re: Re: Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'[Solved]

[Gerard Hooton]

OK solved.
I had the include "/etc/bind/named.conf.log"; statement in the wrong 
place in the named.conf file.

I had it inside the options { }

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Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

[Sven Joachim]

On 2015-06-12 13:16 +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote:

> hi all,
>
> today after a dist-upgrade i have problems with git. these are the
> updated packages
>
> Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main dpkg i386 1.18.1
> [2.939 kB]
> Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main
> liblocale-gettext-perl i386 1.05-9 [19,1 kB]
> Des:3 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main
> libgnutls-openssl27 i386 3.3.15-5 [158 kB]
> Des:4 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libnettle6 i386
> 3.1.1-3 [205 kB]
> Des:5 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libhogweed4 i386
> 3.1.1-3 [137 kB]
> Des:6 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libgnutls-deb0-28
> i386 3.3.15-5 [729 kB]
> Des:7 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libldap-2.4-2 i386
> 2.4.40+dfsg-1+b2 [228 kB]
> Des:8 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libgpg-error0 i386
> 1.19-2 [103 kB]
> Des:9 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main wget i386
> 1.16.3-2+b2 [726 kB]
> Des:10 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main apt-listchanges
> all 2.85.14 [83,1 kB]
> Des:11 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libhtml-tree-perl
> all 5.03-2 [210 kB]
> Des:12 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main
> libio-socket-ssl-perl all 2.016-1 [179 kB]
> Des:13 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main
> libperl4-corelibs-perl all 0.003-2 [38,0 kB]
> Des:14 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main
> libxml-libxml-perl i386 2.0116+dfsg-4 [380 kB]
> Des:15 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main postgresql all
> 9.4+169 [52,5 kB]
> Des:16 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main
> postgresql-client-common all 169 [74,3 kB]
> Des:17 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main postgresql-common
> all 169 [208 kB]
> Des:18 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main rename all 0.20-4 
> [12,5 kB]
> Des:19 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main librtmp1 i386
> 2.4+20150115.gita107cef-1+b2 [64,1 kB]

Try upgrading libcurl-gnutls to version 7.42.1-3 from unstable.

Cheers,
   Sven


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Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

[Gary Dale]

On 12/06/15 10:01 AM, Robert S wrote:

Hi.

I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2.  I did an
upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs.

Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST
screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it.

I've managed to boot my system with a live USB stick and have entered
my system in a chroot.

In the chroot I tried downgrading to grub-legacy and got the same
result.  I purged all of the config files from GRUB2 then reinstalled
GRUB2 from scratch.

I have repeatedly run update-grub/update-grub2, and grub-install /dev/sda

Here is as much info as I can give:

Hardware: Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-1900 with Samsung SSD 850 EVO 4G RAM.
Debian - x86

debian:~# dpkg -l |grep grub
ii  grub-common  2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
rc  grub-legacy  0.97-70
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
ii  grub-pc  2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
ii  grub-pc-bin  2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS binaries)
ii  grub22.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)
ii  grub2-common 2.02~beta2-22
i386 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2)

debian:~# update-grub2
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae
done

debian:~# grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.

My grub.cfg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xz5mrbagwcgpp5/grub.cfg?dl=0

debian:~# gdisk /dev/sda -l
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
   MBR: protective
   BSD: not present
   APM: not present
   GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 234441648 sectors, 111.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): F387E81C-204F-43B0-ACA8-C169094F79B5
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 234441614
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 126167917 sectors (60.2 GiB)
Number  Start (sector)End (sector)  Size   Code  Name
12048  206847   100.0 MiB   EF02  BIOS boot partition
2  20684841166847   19.5 GiB8300  root
34116684845361151   2.0 GiB 8300  Linux swap
44536115287304191   20.0 GiB8300  var
587304192   108275711   10.0 GiB8300  home

I would be very grateful if someone could help here.



I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolved it (finally) with a 
BIOS upgrade.



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Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

[Emanuel Berg]

Sven Arvidsson  writes:

> Maybe this combination of xdotools and xbindkeys might
> work?
> http://superuser.com/questions/469004/remap-superarrow-key-to-home-end

Again, 'xdotool key 0xe2' works in xterm but not if
put in .xbindkeysrc and then invoked with the
keystroke. I have xbindkeys up and running and
everything else works, so I don't know why.

Here is the file:

http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/.xbindkeysrc

Anyway, I managed to solve the problem another way!

First I put this in .xinitrc to make CAPS produce the
letter 'a', which I can later handle, contrary to CAPS
(?) when later telling zsh what to do with the char.

setxkbmap -option caps:none  # disable caps lock
xmodmap -e 'keycode 66=a'# rebind CAPS (66)

M-a seems to (in zsh) execute a command while not
removing it (the command, i.e. its text) from the
input line. I can live without that, so I can instead
do:

bindkey -M main"\ea" enable-caps-mode

So now, yes, M-CAPS in xterm does enable-caps-mode!

Only, CAPS in X suddenly outputs an "a", but that's
OK. In the Linux VTs and in particular in Emacs I have
that something useful which isn't applicable to
X/xterm, so I won't hit it in X anyway. But the M-CAPS
enabling of caps-mode is consistent, at last...

Thank you both - interestingly, I wouldn't have had
the energy to solve it it without you making
suggestions, even tho they didn't work :) But if you
get it to work with xdotool/xbindkeys pleas tell me,
of course.

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Empathy unusable

[David Demelier]

Hello,

I have Debian Jessie installed and empathy is just unusable. I just
cannot add an account, the combobox is empty in the question "What kind
of chat account do you have?"

Am I missing something?

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Re: Empathy unusable

[Tim Dengel]

Am 12.06.2015 um 18:39 schrieb David Demelier:
> I have Debian Jessie installed and empathy is just unusable. I just
> cannot add an account, the combobox is empty in the question "What kind
> of chat account do you have?"
> 
> Am I missing something?

Empathy uses telepathy to support chat protocols, so I’m guessing you
don’t have those installed. Try installing telepathy-haze for example,
which contains support for many protocols.


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Re: adding network printer

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:24:52PM +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 03:35 PM, Brian wrote:
> >Just to be clear on how you solved your problem: was it by installing
> >the Debian cups-backend-bjnp package or by following the advice at the
> >link given?

So you already had the cups-backend-bjnp package installed or not?

> I used the directions on the link provided earlier in this thread. This
> link:
> 
> http://setdosa.blogspot.se/2009/02/setting-up-canon-pixma-mx850-on-ubuntu.html
> 
> That post was in 2009 and it still works. I tried finding a way to thank the
> owner but could not find his contact information.
> >
> >As a matter of interest and of possible help to future users, would you
> >please say which PPD you are using and also post the outputs of
> >
> >   lpstat -v 
> device for Canon-MX850-series: bjnp://10.0.0.8:8611

Is that all?

> >   nmap (printer_IPaddress>
> The printer address is given above, before the port number.

Right, and the output of the command is?

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Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly?

[Thomas H. George]

Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed to 
display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be displayed so 
the popup is only a minor annoyance.


BUT then a friend send a link to photos at shutterfly which I can't view 
as Flash Player is required.


I tried installing Flash Player by downloading the tar.gz version and 
following the installation instructions. Popup is still there.  Next I 
downloaded the .rpm version and used alien and dpkg to install it. Popup 
is still there and no photos.


These installations may have been at least partially successful, gnome 
now includes Adobe Flash Player in the list of applications. Maybe it 
always did and I never noticed before.


Any advice on getting this working?

Tom

Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly?

[notoneofmy]

I know I was able to install it using the apt-get option.

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

You may need to add the non-free to /etc/sources.list. I can't be sure.


On 15-06-12 8:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed
> to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be
> displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance.
>
> BUT then a friend send a link to photos at shutterfly which I can't
> view as Flash Player is required.
>
> I tried installing Flash Player by downloading the tar.gz version and
> following the installation instructions. Popup is still there.  Next I
> downloaded the .rpm version and used alien and dpkg to install it.
> Popup is still there and no photos.
>
> These installations may have been at least partially successful, gnome
> now includes Adobe Flash Player in the list of applications. Maybe it
> always did and I never noticed before.
>
> Any advice on getting this working?
>
> Tom 

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

[Bret Busby]

On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen  wrote:
>
>
> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore  wrote:
>>> On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
 On 11/06/2015, Nick T.  wrote:
> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list.
>
> - Nick
>
> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote:
>> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary
>> to install the driver.
>> Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall
>> the
>> driver after every kernel update.
>>
>> - Nick
>>

 Thank you for that.

 The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded.

 However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external
 monitor (using System -> Preferences -> Monitors), and
>>> I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings.
>>>
>>>
>> As I had said, xwindows now no longer works on the system.
>>
>> What do I need to do, at the command line level, to get xwindows
>> operable on the system?
>>
>> In the circumstances, it appears to be a congiuration or settings issue.
>>
>> Or, despite the information on the nvidia web site, perhaps the driver
>> simply does not work with Debian 6.
>>
>> I note that the gcc version issues showed that the gcc version
>> applicable to the driver, appeared to be an earlier version (4.3, I
>> think) than the installed version when I installed gcc (4.4, I think)
>> (but the discrepancy appeared to have been overcome in the procedure
>> that I followed), indicating (I believe) that Debian 6 should not be a
>> version to early for thenvidia driver.
>>
>>
>
> It might be that you need to generate an Xorg.conf file from scratch.
> Make sure to backup any existing configuration file first
> (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). You can generate one using the nvidia-xconfig
> package: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Configuration
> - Matthijs
>
>

Hello.

As previously mentioned, that wiki web page refers to only Debian 7
and 8, and not to Debian 6, which is the applicable version.

I will reboot into Debian 6 (I am currently in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which
allows use of the external monitor, and which provided installation of
an earlier (v3.3) nvidia driver), and see what I can find in the
specified path.


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Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

[notoneofmy]

On 15-06-12 11:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Which version of Windows?  Or are you saying that your printer has drivers 
> for 
> all versions of Windows?  In my experience, you have to throw things away 
> when the version of Windows changes and there is no driver for that version.  
> After you have scoured the Internet.
This is increasingly the case, ever since XP was put to death.

And another reason I can't wait to say I have completely abandon that OS.

Slow work in progress, but coming along. And once it's done, I think I'd
be the loudest advocate for Linux, Debian, to be exact.

Cheers


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Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

[Brian]

On Thu 11 Jun 2015 at 21:16:51 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:26 -0400
> Gary Dale  wrote:
> 
> 
> > Despite the occasional problem, I find Linux to be far superior to 
> > Windows. While CUPS may send you looking for a driver sometimes, it's 
> > far worse for Windows where the manufacturers often don't produce 
> > updated drivers for the latest Windows version. At that point you are 
> > usually out of luck.
> > 
> 
> Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have.
> 
> i find CUPS to be excruciating to set up.

99.99% of users have no problem with a supported printer

> Time to give it another try since it's so darn easy. Who knew ?

The 99.99% of users who have no problem?


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grsync network share

[notoneofmy]

Hallo,

Care to give a quick hand here.

I have a USB drive that I want to copy data ftom. I want to copy my NAS.
The USB drive is attached to my Debian laptop. The laptop and NAS are on
the same network.

I want to use grsync.

Selecting the local source is not problem, but grsync does not seem to
have a way to connect to the network.

Or, if you know of a way I could do this without grsync, I'd try that too.

I must keep data integrity; so I'm looking for a very secure byte to
byte copy.

And many, many thanks in advance.

Cheers

Fwd: grsync network share

[notoneofmy]

Hallo,

Care to give a quick hand here.

I have a USB drive that I want to copy data ftom. I want to copy my NAS.
The USB drive is attached to my Debian laptop. The laptop and NAS are on
the same network.

I want to use grsync.

Selecting the local source is not problem, but grsync does not seem to
have a way to connect to the network. And I forgot to mention that I did mount 
the share on the laptop, before starting grsync.

Or, if you know of a way I could do this without grsync, I'd try that too.

I must keep data integrity; so I'm looking for a very secure byte to
byte copy.

And many, many thanks in advance.

Cheers




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Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly?

[The Wanderer]

On 06/12/2015 at 02:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:

> Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed
> to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be
> displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance.
> 
> BUT then a friend send a link to photos at shutterfly which I can't
> view as Flash Player is required.
> 
> I tried installing Flash Player by downloading the tar.gz version and
> following the installation instructions. Popup is still there.  Next
> I downloaded the .rpm version and used alien and dpkg to install it.
> Popup is still there and no photos.

First, if you need the Flash Player, I recommend installing it via the
'flashplugin-nonfree' package.

Did you restart Iceweasel after the install?

In my experience, Firefox / Iceweasel / other-variants-of-the-same does
not recognize changes in the Flash plugin (and possibly in other
similarly interfaced plugins) until after the browser has been restarted.

Also, what does about:plugins say about the situation?


I've been experimenting with the Shumway extension, which is an attempt
to implement a Flash player in JavaScript, as part of Mozilla's effort
to kill the need for the binary Flash plugin. It's certainly not 100%
compatible yet (or anything near it, really), but it's surprisingly good
in a lot of cases.

If you care enough about trying to use only free software, and tend to
use only the sorts of Flash found on the major sites that rely on it, it
may be worth giving Shumway a try.

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Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

[Bret Busby]

On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby  wrote:
> On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore  wrote:
 On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 11/06/2015, Nick T.  wrote:
>> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list.
>>
>> - Nick
>>
>> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote:
>>> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary
>>> to install the driver.
>>> Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall
>>> the
>>> driver after every kernel update.
>>>
>>> - Nick
>>>
>
> Thank you for that.
>
> The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded.
>
> However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external
> monitor (using System -> Preferences -> Monitors), and
 I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings.


>>> As I had said, xwindows now no longer works on the system.
>>>
>>> What do I need to do, at the command line level, to get xwindows
>>> operable on the system?
>>>
>>> In the circumstances, it appears to be a congiuration or settings issue.
>>>
>>> Or, despite the information on the nvidia web site, perhaps the driver
>>> simply does not work with Debian 6.
>>>
>>> I note that the gcc version issues showed that the gcc version
>>> applicable to the driver, appeared to be an earlier version (4.3, I
>>> think) than the installed version when I installed gcc (4.4, I think)
>>> (but the discrepancy appeared to have been overcome in the procedure
>>> that I followed), indicating (I believe) that Debian 6 should not be a
>>> version to early for thenvidia driver.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It might be that you need to generate an Xorg.conf file from scratch.
>> Make sure to backup any existing configuration file first
>> (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). You can generate one using the nvidia-xconfig
>> package: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Configuration
>> - Matthijs
>>
>>
>
> Hello.
>
> As previously mentioned, that wiki web page refers to only Debian 7
> and 8, and not to Debian 6, which is the applicable version.
>
> I will reboot into Debian 6 (I am currently in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which
> allows use of the external monitor, and which provided installation of
> an earlier (v3.3) nvidia driver), and see what I can find in the
> specified path.
>
>

Okay.

In running ls on /etc/X11/ , a file xorg.conf was listed, as was a file named
xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original

The latter file showed no content, in running cat on it.

The former file had content;

"
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 346.72
(buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-19)  Tue May  5 18:19:38 PDT
2015

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen  0  "Screen0"
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName  "Unknown"
HorizSync   28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth24
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
EndSubSection
EndSection
"

In thinking about it, as the creation of that file, had rendered
xwindows inoperable, I renamed the file, with an extra extension, and
rebooted.

So, I now have xwindows operating again, on Debian 6, on this
computer, but, the only way that I can get the external monitor to
work, is by running one of the two Ubuntu installations; 12.04 or
14.04. Unfortunately, they both involve GNOME3, and what I think of
GNOME3, is not polite.

So, I still can not get the external monitor to run, with Debian 6 or
7, on this computer, with its nvidia GEForce GT750M device.

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Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly? Thanks

[Thomas H. George]

On 06/12/2015 03:34 PM, The Wanderer wrote:

On 06/12/2015 at 02:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:


Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed
to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be
displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance.

BUT then a friend send a link to photos at shutterfly which I can't
view as Flash Player is required.

I tried installing Flash Player by downloading the tar.gz version and
following the installation instructions. Popup is still there.  Next
I downloaded the .rpm version and used alien and dpkg to install it.
Popup is still there and no photos.

First, if you need the Flash Player, I recommend installing it via the
'flashplugin-nonfree' package.

Right. Added non-free to entries in sources.list. Updated, ran 
dist-upgrade and then install flashplugin-nonfree and it still was not 
found. Then remembered the sources.list entries always used to be main 
contrib non-free. With this change flashplugin-nonfree was found and 
installed.



Did you restart Iceweasel after the install?
just to be sure I rebooted the system and now it all works. Iceweasel 
and shutterfly.


In my experience, Firefox / Iceweasel / other-variants-of-the-same does
not recognize changes in the Flash plugin (and possibly in other
similarly interfaced plugins) until after the browser has been restarted.

Also, what does about:plugins say about the situation?


I've been experimenting with the Shumway extension, which is an attempt
to implement a Flash player in JavaScript, as part of Mozilla's effort
to kill the need for the binary Flash plugin. It's certainly not 100%
compatible yet (or anything near it, really), but it's surprisingly good
in a lot of cases.

If you care enough about trying to use only free software, and tend to
use only the sorts of Flash found on the major sites that rely on it, it
may be worth giving Shumway a try.




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Debian From Scratch ISO

[Haines Brown]

I would like to install Debian from Scratch. To do this I need Goerzen's
Live CD ISO. I finally managed to find it at
https://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/rescue-zfs/. File name is
wheezy-live-rescue-zfs0.6.3-jgoerzen-20141008.iso.

When I boot the ISO in a virtualBox, the boot menu lists Live AMD 64 and
Install options. It will not boot. I suspect this is a 64 bit ISO, and I
need a 32 bit. Can anyone point me to one?

Is it difficult instead to build Linux from Scratch and then add to it
Debian's apt package system?

Haines Brown


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Re: httpd virtual package

[Bob Proulx]

to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> [...]
> > I debootstrapped a Jessie chroot in order to test your case.
> [...]
> 
> Bob, just a lurker here. Thanks for this very instructive and well-
> written walkthrough!

I am glad you found it useful.  As long as I am on the topic I should
add a small additional hint.

  debootstrap jessie jessie-oc-test http://httpredir.debian.org/debian
  echo owncloud-test > ./jessie-oc-test/etc/debian_chroot
  chroot ./jessie-oc-test su -

By adding /etc/debian_chroot into the chroot it can be automatically
included into the shell prompt.  It makes it easier to remember what
environment one is operating.  For example in the above after the
chroot the prompt will then say:

  (owncloud-test)root@havoc:~# 

When switching back and forth between chroots and the native host
little things like that can save a lot of confusion.

Bob


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Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

[Bob Proulx]

Reco wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > That use of socat was clever.  I didn't like the pkill socat though.
> > Wouldn't be good if there were another one running at the same time.
> 
> Yes, there's a room for an improvement. Presumably socat can write own
> pid to a user-specified pidfile, but I was lazy to check a manpage.

I don't think socat does.  But one can use start-stop-daemon to manage
things for you.  The /etc/init.d/rsync file contains an example of
doing such using --make-pidfile and so forth.

> > Some time ago Reco and I were discussing this and Reco noted that curl
> > uses openssl while wget uses gnutls.  That was Reco's reason for
> > prefering curl over wget at that time.
> > 
> >   https://lists.debian.org/20150409082351.GA24040@x101h
> 
> And as the current discussion shows - those reasons are still valid.

Yes.  I was just keeping neutral in the debate.  I note the problem,
and agree it is a problem, and hope that gnutls improves.

My own problem with gnutls is that it seems it requires *all* of the
certificate chains to verify valid instead of *any* of them.  Meaning
that some sites that only include a valid certificate chain for one
path but have at least one path not fully valid will fail the wget
gnutls test but will work with a web browser and (apparently) libnss.
That isn't nice either.

> > Which might be different behavior from web
> > browsers as most web browsers use openssl. 
> 
> A minor nitpick here.
> 
> Iceweasel/Firefox use libnss, not openssl.
> Chrome/Chromium use libnss.
> Anything based on webkit-gtk actually uses gnutls.
> I'm unsure about webkit-qt, though.
>
> About the only browser that actually uses openssl I can remember is w3m.

Good update.  I hadn't internalized that the web browsers used libnss
instead of openssl.  Thanks!

Bob


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Re: su chmod -755 /usr

[Bob Proulx]

Julian Brooks wrote:
> All seems well, valuable lesson(s) learnt.
> Seriously thought it was terminal, appreciate the wisdom people.

Glad to hear you solved your problem.  In the future with a similar
problem you would be able to restore your current system permissions
from your backup.  Not the entire backup files.  But by using the
permissions stored on the backup files you could reset the permissions
on the live files.

You do have a backup plan, right?  :-)

Bob


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Re: Debian From Scratch ISO

[Gary Dale]

On 12/06/15 04:37 PM, Haines Brown wrote:

I would like to install Debian from Scratch. To do this I need Goerzen's
Live CD ISO. I finally managed to find it at
https://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/rescue-zfs/. File name is
wheezy-live-rescue-zfs0.6.3-jgoerzen-20141008.iso.

When I boot the ISO in a virtualBox, the boot menu lists Live AMD 64 and
Install options. It will not boot. I suspect this is a 64 bit ISO, and I
need a 32 bit. Can anyone point me to one?

Is it difficult instead to build Linux from Scratch and then add to it
Debian's apt package system?

Haines Brown


There are other ways of building Debian from the ground up but why 
bother? Debian already lets you remove non-essential packages and 
replace default ones with alternatives. The whole point of using a 
distro is that you don't have to do everything from scratch.


You can try Slackware if you want to start with a barebones system and 
build it up, but in my experience, Debian is very good already at doing 
that.



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forums.debian.net down?

[ami x]

Since yesterday (11.06.2015) afternoon FDN is unreachable.
Does anyone have any information on this?
Thanks.

systemd equivalent

[Bob Bernstein]

I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What 
would be the "systemd-correct" form of this:


$ ps ax | grep ssh

I use that to check for the existence (or, as the case 
may be)  demise) of an ssh tunnel I use for VNC. What 
should I use?



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Re: su chmod -755 /usr

[Julian Brooks]

Cheers Bob :)

Uuummm  - work files yes, system configs/settings not really.

Any top tips, like where are the permission file/s?

On 12 June 2015 at 22:07, Bob Proulx  wrote:

> Julian Brooks wrote:
> > All seems well, valuable lesson(s) learnt.
> > Seriously thought it was terminal, appreciate the wisdom people.
>
> Glad to hear you solved your problem.  In the future with a similar
> problem you would be able to restore your current system permissions
> from your backup.  Not the entire backup files.  But by using the
> permissions stored on the backup files you could reset the permissions
> on the live files.
>
> You do have a backup plan, right?  :-)
>
> Bob
>

Re: systemd equivalent

[John L. Ries]

On Friday 2015-06-12 15:53, Bob Bernstein wrote:


Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:53:52
From: Bob Bernstein 
To: Debian User List 
Subject: systemd equivalent

I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What
would be the "systemd-correct" form of this:

$ ps ax | grep ssh

I use that to check for the existence (or, as the case
may be)  demise) of an ssh tunnel I use for VNC. What
should I use?



My usual approach is to look for the name of the service, like so:

systemctl -a|grep ssh

On my Debian/Jessie box, I get:

  ssh.service 
loadedactive   running   OpenBSD Secure Shell server


Then you can check status, like so:

systemctl status ssh.service

Assuming it's running, the output should include a listing of the sshd 
processes running.


I still find systemd to be excessively complicated and the tools 
(especially systemadm) primitive, but at least now I have some idea as 
to how to work the system.


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Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

[gmane]

I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2.  I did an
upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs.

Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST
screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it.



I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolved it (finally) with a BIOS 
upgrade.


Sadly this problem started AFTER I upgraded my BIOS.  I have tried 
installing debian (AMD64) from scratch and am unable to boot from this 
either.  I can't find any way to downgrade the BIOS and there is only one 
BIOS upgrade file on the Gigabyte website.


The only small piece of good news is that I've been able to restore my disk 
from a backup (prior to the debian upgrade).


Where should I go to from here? 




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audacity startup fails stretch amd64

[Russell L. Carter]

Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
the following happens:

1.  I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files.  Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."

Click ok, then:

2.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()."  A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.

Click continue, then:

3.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."

Continue then segfaults.

The googleman doesn't provide any clues.  Ideas?

Many thanks,
Russell


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Re: systemd equivalent

[Bob Bernstein]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, John L. Ries wrote:


Then you can check status, like so:

systemctl status ssh.service


The output of this command (above) doesn't change 
after a tunnel is started.


My old clunky ps command tells me the tunnel is there:

# ps ax |grep ssh
  458 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
  904 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/bash /home/bob/.xsession
 3503 pts/1S+ 0:00 ssh b...@fanatick.org
 3613 ?S  0:00 ssh -N -T -L 4900:localhost:5901 sixtiessurvivor.org 
&
 3624 pts/3S+ 0:00 grep ssh

But systemd tells me only:

# systemctl status ssh.service
● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; 
enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-06-09 
21:12:58 EDT; 2 days ago

 Main PID: 458 (sshd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/ssh.service
   └─458 /usr/sbin/sshd -D

Jun 09 21:13:02 newtroll sshd[458]: Server listening 
on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jun 09 21:13:02 newtroll sshd[458]: Server listening 
on :: port 22.


Hrrrmmm

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Re: su chmod -755 /usr

[Bob Proulx]

Julian Brooks wrote:
> Cheers Bob :)
> 
> Uuummm  - work files yes, system configs/settings not really.
> 
> Any top tips, like where are the permission file/s?

I think you are asking what backup software would be recommended?
There are many different ones.  Let me point to a reference.

  https://wiki.debian.org/BackupAndRecovery

Personally I always used to use rsync scripts for years.  These days I
am enjoying using BackupPC.  But isn't to say that amanda or bacula or
any of the others are not good too.  They are all the same and all
different.

But you ask about permission files.  I think perhaps I wasn't clear
enough.  For example I could run 'find' down the backup tree and print
the file modes of the files there.

  cd /path/to/backup
  find . -type l -prune -o -printf "chmod %m %p\n"

There are no whitespace in most files in /usr and therefore the above
would print out a series of commands such as:

  chmod 755 .
  chmod 755 ./bin
  chmod 755 ./bin/vnc4server
  chmod 755 ./bin/xkbevd
  chmod 755 ./bin/pavucontrol
  chmod 755 ./bin/sg_dd
  chmod 755 ./bin/glxgears
  chmod 755 ./bin/sensors-conf-convert
  chmod 755 ./bin/etags.emacs24
  chmod 755 ./bin/qemu-armeb
  ...
  chmod 4755 ./bin/sudo
  ...
  chmod 2755 ./games/hack

Could then inspect the output for anything strange such as whitespace
in filenames.  Then run it as a script, perhaps after editing it.

Bob


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Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

[David Christensen]

On 06/12/2015 12:45 AM, Peter Viskup wrote:

Always consider using ddrescue [1] instead of dd - especially once you are
not sure about the state of the drive.
Tool ddrescue is taking 'dd' image of the drive, but will skip all the
areas where the read will return an error. Standard 'dd' will try to
continuously re-read that area which could cause more damages.


Yes, that sounds like just the tool for the job!  :-)


David





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Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

[Ric Moore]

On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote:

Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
the following happens:

1.  I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
 temporary files.  Please enter an appropriate directory in the
 preferences dialog."

Click ok, then:

2.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
 failed in getPlayDevIndex()."  A backtrace is available but
 doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.

Click continue, then:

3.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
 failed in getRecordDevIndex()."

Continue then segfaults.

The googleman doesn't provide any clues.  Ideas?


You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch 
amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric




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Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

[Robert S]

I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2.  I did an
upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs.

Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST
screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it.



I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolved it (finally) with a 
BIOS upgrade.


Sadly this problem started AFTER I upgraded my BIOS.  I have tried 
installing debian (AMD64) from scratch and am unable to boot from this 
either.  I can't find any way to downgrade the BIOS and there is only one 
BIOS upgrade file on the Gigabyte website.


I have managed to make my system bootable by installing LILO.  Could 
somebody let me know if this is likely to be obsoleted any time?  I haven't 
received any indication that it will be.





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Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

[Russell L. Carter]

Hi!

On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote:

On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote:

Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
the following happens:

1.  I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
 temporary files.  Please enter an appropriate directory in the
 preferences dialog."

Click ok, then:

2.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
 failed in getPlayDevIndex()."  A backtrace is available but
 doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.

Click continue, then:

3.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
 failed in getRecordDevIndex()."

Continue then segfaults.

The googleman doesn't provide any clues.  Ideas?


You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch
amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric


This is an agressively cut down system w/o gnome, kde, etc.  Just wdm
and fvwm.  I have pulse installed and it is running.  So I am missing
an early dependency somewhere.  I wonder what that could be?

Thanks,
Russell









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Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

[Petter Adsen]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800
Bret Busby  wrote:

> On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby  wrote:
> > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote:
> >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore  wrote:
>  On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 11/06/2015, Nick T.  wrote:
> >> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list.
> >>
> >> - Nick
> >>
> >> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote:
> >>> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages
> >>> necessary to install the driver.
> >>> Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to
> >>> reinstall the
> >>> driver after every kernel update.
> >>>
> >>> - Nick
> >>>
> >
> > Thank you for that.
> >
> > The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded.
> >
> > However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the
> > external monitor (using System -> Preferences -> Monitors), and
>  I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings.
> 
> 
> >>> As I had said, xwindows now no longer works on the system.
> >>>
> >>> What do I need to do, at the command line level, to get xwindows
> >>> operable on the system?
> >>>
> >>> In the circumstances, it appears to be a congiuration or settings
> >>> issue.
> >>>
> >>> Or, despite the information on the nvidia web site, perhaps the
> >>> driver simply does not work with Debian 6.
> >>>
> >>> I note that the gcc version issues showed that the gcc version
> >>> applicable to the driver, appeared to be an earlier version (4.3,
> >>> I think) than the installed version when I installed gcc (4.4, I
> >>> think) (but the discrepancy appeared to have been overcome in the
> >>> procedure that I followed), indicating (I believe) that Debian 6
> >>> should not be a version to early for thenvidia driver.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> It might be that you need to generate an Xorg.conf file from
> >> scratch. Make sure to backup any existing configuration file first
> >> (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). You can generate one using the nvidia-xconfig
> >> package:
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Configuration
> >> - Matthijs
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > As previously mentioned, that wiki web page refers to only Debian 7
> > and 8, and not to Debian 6, which is the applicable version.
> >
> > I will reboot into Debian 6 (I am currently in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,
> > which allows use of the external monitor, and which provided
> > installation of an earlier (v3.3) nvidia driver), and see what I
> > can find in the specified path.
> >
> >
> 
> Okay.
> 
> In running ls on /etc/X11/ , a file xorg.conf was listed, as was a
> file named xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original
> 
> The latter file showed no content, in running cat on it.
> 
> The former file had content;
> 
> "
> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> # nvidia-xconfig:  version 346.72
> (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-19)  Tue May  5 18:19:38 PDT
> 2015
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Layout0"
> Screen  0  "Screen0"
> InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> # generated from default
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> # generated from default
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Unknown"
> ModelName  "Unknown"
> HorizSync   28.0 - 33.0
> VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Device0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Device0"
> Monitor"Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth   24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> "
> 
> In thinking about it, as the creation of that file, had rendered
> xwindows inoperable, I renamed the file, with an extra extension, and
> rebooted.
> 
> So, I now have xwindows operating again, on Debian 6, on this
> computer, but, the only way that I can get the external monitor to
> work, is by running one of the two Ubuntu installations; 12.04 or
> 14.04. Unfortunately, they both involve GNOME3, and what I think of
> GNOME3, is not polite.
> 
> So, I still can not get the external monitor to run, with Debian 6 or
> 7, on this computer, with its nvidia GEForce GT750M device.

If it works under Ubuntu, have you considered copying the
(working) xorg.conf file from there and trying it in y

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Russell L. Carter wrote:


The googleman doesn't provide any clues.  Ideas?


  hi,
  did you try to check:
the playback device in the preferences/devices menu
the temporary files directory in the preferences/directories menu

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