Re: Epiphany browser very slow

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Kent,

Thanks for testing. On my side I have:
# aptitude show epiphany-browser
Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.20.3-2
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers 

Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 2,116 k
...

The program pops up quickly, but if you try to type anything inside the input
box of ddg.gg it will be terribly slow entering characters. I feel like 1
character per 5 seconds or more. Generally characters are buffered and after
half a minute you end with your search message there but this is quite unusable.

I'm using epiphany as main browser, so may be data cache or something related.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 13:54 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Abou Al Montacir 
wrote:
> > > > I'm using epiphany browser fro long time and was generally happy despite
some missing features.
> > > > > > However since few weeks it become very slowly and almost non usable.
Browsing sites like http://ddg.gg became so painful that I start hating it.
> > Other sites also, like google+, which have forms to fill are slow.
> > 
> > > > I tried searching for this issue and did not find any report. Can 
> > > > anyone try
with a "testing" machine and let me know. I'm using amd64 machine.
> > 
> > PS: Please copy me as I'm not subscribed.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ephiphany-browser on my sid machine pops up quickly; ddg.com loads quickly, 
> > as
does googleplus.com and slashdot.org. "about:" reports "Web Version 3.20.3").
> 
> > But I haven't used it for months (only about two minutes), so if there's 
> > some
sort of slow cruft build-up, that could be relevant.
> 
> --  
> 
> Kent West                    <")))>< 
> Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
> 
> 
> 
> 


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ALSA package

[Artem Oliynyk]

Hello.

I have troubles with my audio card in Debian on Acer Aspire Aspire 
VN7-592G: internal microphone are not working at all and system hangs 
time-to-time.


I'm not sure what package cause this, what package should be reported?


Thank you.


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Best regards,
Artem Oliynyk

Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

[John T. Haggerty]

I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to
differ):

1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever.

2. Postfix gets installed.

3. "Internet site " is enabled fqdn added.

4. Email cannot be sent out to my Gmail address since it magically "times
out" when contacting the servers (even though telnetting to mine and
Gmail's works fine at port 25)

5. In theory thus should mean that they aren't blocking 25, and it should
work.

6. In the core wiki for Postfix I have the MX record of my server updated
from the registrar to mail.whatever.org (pita since it's dynamic and not
static).

7. I want to avoid using gmail's smtp and comcast's servers since I'd love
to host this on my own.

How can this be accomplished in Debian (not Ubuntu, or something else)? (I
get irritated at Ubuntu specific explanations {which usually don't work}
getting all the search results)

Any help would be appreciated as I spent ~3 days of work and wiping the
entire OS in case I went wrong somewhere.

Re: epub files and debian?

[Siard]

Joe Pfeiffer:
> Ben Finney:
> > Dan Ritter:
> > > evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub
> > > files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files
> > > are opened by evince".
> >
> > Bah, you're right. This is a long-standing request (since 2008!) in
> > the Gnome BTS
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539347>.
> >
> > The sticking point appears to be that Evince fundamentally assumes
> > the document naturally has pages, whereas EPub presents a continuous
> > document. No-one has suggested a good resolution to that.
> 
> This surprises me.  I'd expect the sticking point to be that the
> actual content in an EPUB is HTML, and evince doesn't do HTML.

MuPDF does EPUB as well as HTML, which indicates that this could be
true.  From the description:
"MuPDF is a document viewer that can show PDF, XPS, EPUB, XHTML, CBZ,
and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF."

Re: Failure messages relating to strict.pm

[Curt]

On 2016-08-24, Ken Heard  wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me what the foregoing means?  If it is of any help, I
> do have two problems with Stretch.  First I cannot close the computer
> using shutdown -- I have to close it by holding down the start button
> for four seconds.
>

I've had the same problem (periodically--by which I mean at times the
machine powers down and at other times it does not) for years.

When it does not the message "Power Down" appears on the console screen.

The shutdown is "clean," however, so when the failure occurs I just
press the button for four seconds (or is that five?).

Is this what you're referring to?  The terminology is, perhaps, tricky:
my machine shutdown fine; sometimes it just doesn't power off.

Of course, this autobiographical aside is of no help to you, so I'll bow
out of the thread with my customary grace.

Good luck.


-- 
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Hunter."
— African proverb

Re: Failure messages relating to strict.pm

[Kushal Kumaran]

Ken Heard  writes:

> At the end of a package update and upgrade today of Stretch the
> following messages appeared.
>
> apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: news for SOL
> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate strict.pm:
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22.2/strict.pm: Permission
> denied at (eval 1) line2.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 2.) -- aborting
> (Reading database ... 76727 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~rc2_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.3~rc2) over (1.3~rc1) ...
> Setting up libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.3~rc2)
> (Reading database ... 76727 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~rc2_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.3~rc2) over (1.3~rc1) ...
> Can't locate strict.pm:
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22.2/strict.pm: Permission
> denied at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 52.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 52
> .
> dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit
> status 13
> dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
> Can't locate strict.pm:  Permission denied at
> /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 52.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 52
> .
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-GpvFkF/1-apt_1.3rc2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 13.
> Can't locate strict.pm:
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22.2/strict.pm: Permission
> denied at /usr/bin/deb-systemd- helper line 83.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/deb-systemd- helper line 8
> 3.
> Can't locate strict.pm:
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22.2/strict.pm: Permission
> denied at /usr/bin/deb-systemd- helper line 83.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/deb-systemd- helper line 8
> 3.
> Can't locate strict.pm:
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22.2/strict.pm: Permission
> denied at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper line 83.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/deb-systemd- helper line 8
> 3.
> Can't locate strict.pm:
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22.2/strict.pm: Permission
> denied at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 52.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 52
> .
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-GpvFkF/1-apt_1.3rc2_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg/ returned an error code (1)
>

Looks like you have a local (broken) perl installation in /usr/local
that is interfering with the /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper.

deb-systemd-helper has a shebang line of #!/usr/bin/env perl, which is
picking up the first perl available in $PATH, which is
/usr/local/bin/perl in your case.

Remove /usr/local/bin from your PATH and try again.  If you have the
PERLLIB or PERL5LIB environment variables set, unset them as well.

# export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin
# unset PERLLIB
# unset PERL5LIB
# apt, etc...

If this fixes your problem, consider reporting it as a bug on the
init-system-helpers package.  The deb-systemd-invoke and
deb-systemd-helper scripts should be using the #!/usr/bin/perl shebang
to always use the system perl.

> 

--
regards,
kushal

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

[Mark Fletcher]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 at 18:16, John T. Haggerty  wrote:

> I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to
> differ):
>
> 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever.
>
> 2. Postfix gets installed.
>
> 3. "Internet site " is enabled fqdn added.
>
> 4. Email cannot be sent out to my Gmail address since it magically "times
> out" when contacting the servers (even though telnetting to mine and
> Gmail's works fine at port 25)
>
> 5. In theory thus should mean that they aren't blocking 25, and it should
> work.
>
> 6. In the core wiki for Postfix I have the MX record of my server updated
> from the registrar to mail.whatever.org (pita since it's dynamic and not
> static).
>
> 7. I want to avoid using gmail's smtp and comcast's servers since I'd love
> to host this on my own.
>
> How can this be accomplished in Debian (not Ubuntu, or something else)? (I
> get irritated at Ubuntu specific explanations {which usually don't work}
> getting all the search results)
>
> Any help would be appreciated as I spent ~3 days of work and wiping the
> entire OS in case I went wrong somewhere.
>
Gmail doesn't block port 25 but they do refuse all non-secured attempts to
connect.

Mark

Re: firefox, av synch

[Curt]

On 2016-08-24, Gene Heskett  wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> How can I fix the current firefox so the audio and video stay in synch?

By the usual troubleshooting techniques? You're talking about flash
video and audio?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/978503

> Regardless of the site, video plays noticeably slower than the audio. And 
> even a news story loses a lot of its impact when the guy/gal is talking 
> about a feature the video doesn't show for another 10+ seconds.  But the 
> video is not stuttering, its playing smoothly. Its the audio thats 
> playing at an auctioneer speed.
>
> Fully uptodate as of yesterday, wheezy. On an amd quad core phenom.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


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Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think you looking for TOX!
> Visit TOX Project website:
> https://tox.chat

Thanks.  That does look promising (although I don't see any mention of
reliable delivery),


Stefan


> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Stefan Monnier 
> wrote:

>> I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP,
>> ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not
>> connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll only receive them
>> when I'm back online.  ]
>> 
>> IIUC there is some XMPP features that allow such reliable delivery, but
>> it seems that it's not widely supported by clients.  What Debian
>> clients, using which protocols, can provide reliable instant messaging?
>> 
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>> 
>> PS: Bonus points if that feature is also available on an Android
>> application that's Free Software.
>> 
>> 

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

[John T. Haggerty]

So how do you dynamically specify getting a connection to be secured or
not. If it's only Gmail, why van I telnet to their port and get their mail
server?

Seems counterintuitive.

On Aug 25, 2016 5:54 AM, "Mark Fletcher"  wrote:

>
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 at 18:16, John T. Haggerty  wrote:
>
>> I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem
>> to differ):
>>
>> 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever.
>>
>> 2. Postfix gets installed.
>>
>> 3. "Internet site " is enabled fqdn added.
>>
>> 4. Email cannot be sent out to my Gmail address since it magically "times
>> out" when contacting the servers (even though telnetting to mine and
>> Gmail's works fine at port 25)
>>
>> 5. In theory thus should mean that they aren't blocking 25, and it should
>> work.
>>
>> 6. In the core wiki for Postfix I have the MX record of my server updated
>> from the registrar to mail.whatever.org (pita since it's dynamic and not
>> static).
>>
>> 7. I want to avoid using gmail's smtp and comcast's servers since I'd
>> love to host this on my own.
>>
>> How can this be accomplished in Debian (not Ubuntu, or something else)?
>> (I get irritated at Ubuntu specific explanations {which usually don't work}
>> getting all the search results)
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated as I spent ~3 days of work and wiping the
>> entire OS in case I went wrong somewhere.
>>
> Gmail doesn't block port 25 but they do refuse all non-secured attempts to
> connect.
>
> Mark
>

Re: firefox, av synch

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 25 August 2016 10:41:42 Curt wrote:

> On 2016-08-24, Gene Heskett  wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > How can I fix the current firefox so the audio and video stay in
> > synch?
>
> By the usual troubleshooting techniques? You're talking about flash
> video and audio?
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/978503
>
And safe mode works, perfect audio synch. So I  guess I'll unload some of 
the sharp teeth, but ghostery and privacy badger are the only two I have 
consciously installed.

Thanks for that link. I may be able to sort it.

> > Regardless of the site, video plays noticeably slower than the
> > audio. And even a news story loses a lot of its impact when the
> > guy/gal is talking about a feature the video doesn't show for
> > another 10+ seconds.  But the video is not stuttering, its playing
> > smoothly. Its the audio thats playing at an auctioneer speed.
> >
> > Fully uptodate as of yesterday, wheezy. On an amd quad core phenom.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Re: epub files and debian?

[Brian]

On Thu 25 Aug 2016 at 12:01:39 +0200, Siard wrote:

> Joe Pfeiffer:
> > Ben Finney:
> > > Dan Ritter:
> > > > evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub
> > > > files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files
> > > > are opened by evince".
> > >
> > > Bah, you're right. This is a long-standing request (since 2008!) in
> > > the Gnome BTS
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539347>.
> > >
> > > The sticking point appears to be that Evince fundamentally assumes
> > > the document naturally has pages, whereas EPub presents a continuous
> > > document. No-one has suggested a good resolution to that.
> > 
> > This surprises me.  I'd expect the sticking point to be that the
> > actual content in an EPUB is HTML, and evince doesn't do HTML.
> 
> MuPDF does EPUB as well as HTML, which indicates that this could be
> true.  From the description:
> "MuPDF is a document viewer that can show PDF, XPS, EPUB, XHTML, CBZ,
> and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF."

Everybody using Jessie knows mupdf is a pdf viewer only, so I did a
double-take on this. But being aware of the good quality of your
information I checked unstable. Sure enough it has incorporated epub
viewing. Thanks for this excellent addition to a thread which is
already very informative and useful.

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

[Jochen Spieker]

John T. Haggerty:
>
> I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to
> differ):
> 
> 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever.

Please use example.com when you do not want to disclose your real domain
name. The domain whatever.org does not belong to you.

> 6. In the core wiki for Postfix I have the MX record of my server updated
> from the registrar to mail.whatever.org (pita since it's dynamic and not
> static).

You will not be happy with such a setup.

For receiving mails, you would have to update the MX record for your
domain whenever your IP address changes. And you always risk losing mail
to random strangers who happen to use any of your old IP addresses.

For sending e-mails you will notice that *a lot* of receiving systems
will refuse talking to systems on dynamic IP addresses. Also, you can
only expect to send mails from your mail server using e-mail addresses
in your own domain. If you try to deliver an e-mail with a gmail sender
address to gmail's servers, gmail will treat it as spam. The same
probably holds for most other major e-mail providers.

> 7. I want to avoid using gmail's smtp and comcast's servers since I'd love
> to host this on my own.

Then do what I do: rent a small VPS with a static IP address and run
Postfix there. You can configure Postfix to deliver mails of senders
from its own domain directly and use an appropriate relay host for
specific senders / sender domains.

> How can this be accomplished in Debian (not Ubuntu, or something else)? (I
> get irritated at Ubuntu specific explanations {which usually don't work}
> getting all the search results)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated as I spent ~3 days of work and wiping the
> entire OS in case I went wrong somewhere.

There's really no better way than spending even more time (and some
money). Read the Postfix documentation. Postfix will not do what you
want it to do unless you understats its configuration files.

http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
…

J.
-- 
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[Agree]   [Disagree]
 


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Re: Failure messages relating to strict.pm

[Ken Heard]

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On 2016-08-25 07:39, Kushal Kumaran wrote:

> Looks like you have a local (broken) perl installation in
> /usr/local that is interfering with the
> /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper.
> 
> deb-systemd-helper has a shebang line of #!/usr/bin/env perl, which
> is picking up the first perl available in $PATH, which is 
> /usr/local/bin/perl in your case.
> 
> Remove /usr/local/bin from your PATH and try again.  If you have
> the PERLLIB or PERL5LIB environment variables set, unset them as
> well.
> 
> # export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin

Did that.

> # unset PERLLIB # unset PERL5LIB

Neither of these variables existed, but I unset them anyway.

Running apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade still produces the same
error messages quoted in my original post.

It seems that the downloaded packages are not unpacked or installed.
The first package in the list to be unpacked is apt; it seems to be
the one which causes the error messages. Since this package cannot be
unpacked the whole process is aborted -- none of them is unpacked or
installed.

On the other hand the DE now appears to be stable.  Shutdown however
does not seem to work.  Selecting turning off the computer from the DE
closes the DE and opens tty1 which is ready for a login.  Logging in
as root and running "shutdown now" has no effect.  I have to shut down
by holding the start button down for four seconds.

Another thing I find strange -- after booting and opening my user only
tty1 and tty7 are available.  Tty2 through tty6 do not exist.

Regards, Ken

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Re: epub files and debian?

[Siard]

Brian:
> Siard:
> > Joe Pfeiffer:
> > > I'd expect the sticking point to be that the actual content in an
> > > EPUB is HTML, and evince doesn't do HTML.
> > 
> > MuPDF does EPUB as well as HTML, which indicates that this could be
> > true.  From the description:
> > "MuPDF is a document viewer that can show PDF, XPS, EPUB, XHTML,
> > CBZ, and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF."
> 
> Everybody using Jessie knows mupdf is a pdf viewer only, so I did a
> double-take on this. But being aware of the good quality of your
> information I checked unstable. Sure enough it has incorporated epub
> viewing. Thanks for this excellent addition to a thread which is
> already very informative and useful.

I feel honoured. :-) The latest version is also in testing, which I use.
But for epub viewing I prefer ebook-viewer, provided by calibre,
because of its options to adapt the display to your liking.

$ ebook-viewer file.epub

Re: Failure messages relating to strict.pm -- shutdown

[Ken Heard]

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On 2016-08-25 16:31, Ken Heard wrote:

> Shutdown however does not seem to work.  Selecting turning off the
> computer from the DE closes the DE and opens tty1 which is ready
> for a login.  Logging in as root and running "shutdown now" has no
> effect.  I have to shut down by holding the start button down for
> four seconds.

I did determine that package systemd-sysv, which contains the command
/sbin/shutdown, is installed, but for some reason /sbin/shutdown does
not work.

> Another thing I find strange -- after booting and opening my user
> only tty1 and tty7 are available.  Tty2 through tty6 do not exist.
> 
> Regards, Ken
> 
> 

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Re: epub files and debian?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi everyone,
Profound thanks for a most illuminating thread.
I will share, in case it helps others, what I finally did.
Since I use  a shell service based on Debian, no Linux box as of yet, I 
sought another way to get the files into other formats, rtf for example 
allowing me to run unrtf, or even let gmail convert the file  into html 
for me.

There is an educational service called robobraille.
www.robobraille.org
which by way of its email convert feature will convert epub and mobi files 
into rtf text and html.

so i used their  process to get this done.
Still I appreciate the education regarding what is so richly possible.
Thanks again,
Kare

Recent flex security announcement

[Mark Fletcher]

I have a feeling I'm about to embarrass myself by displaying either
ignorance or a failure to spot the obvious, but here goes...

The other day there was a Debian security advisory about the flex package.
In my Debian machines, the fix can be installed by the usual apt commands.

However I also have Linux machines that don't use a package management
system, and there I also have a version of flex with the vulnerability, so
I wanted to get the source tarball of the fixed version (v2.6.1) so I could
build it for there too.

And the only place I can find 2.6.1 is on debian's package website. The
latest version the upstream site (source forge) has is v2.6.0 which as I
understand it has the vulnerability.

Anyone know what the deal is here?

Mark