Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 21 November 2017 21:28:55 Dan Norton wrote:

> -Original Message-
>
> >From: Tom Furie 
> >Sent: Nov 21, 2017 3:25 AM
> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root
> >
> >On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> >> That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks
> >> as normally expected from Debian lists. :)
> >
> >That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list,
> > have only a single html part. An incredibly badly constructed html
> > part at that.
>
> All? How far back?
>
Since your first post I believe.

> >Cheers,
> >Tom
>
> I *thought* it was fixed. If this one exhibits some kind of html, let
> me know. This should not occur, even on my wife's lappy, which I'm
> borrowing until I get debian re-installed on my desktop. This being
> written using Earthlink Webmail on 'Doze 10.
>
>  - Dan

This one is fine. No html. Earthlink is one of the better webmail setups.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Sound with Intel Baytrail device (Lenovo Ideapad 100S)

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

although sound has been reported to work with this device (e.g. here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113151 ) I am not able to
make it work (with Stretch), maybe someone here has managed to do so and
can give me a hint?

I compiled a 4.14.0 kernel with a .config someone who reported sound to
work sent me, so I assume the drivers are all present and functional.
My prime suspect is the firmware, so I tried and removed the debian
firmware packages and installed the latest Ubuntu linux-firmware package
(1.170) instead, which appears to be more complete (and possibly more
to-date) than its debian counterparts, but still no luck. I also updated
intel-microcode to the latest version from Sid, just in case that matters.

Still when I try to play back some audio file with plain alsa I get an
error like:

$ aplay Noise.wav
Playing WAVE 'Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz,
Mono aplay: set_params:1363: Unable to install hw params:
(...)

I also tried to use pulseaudio with the ucm files from
https://github.com/plbossart/UCM/tree/master/bytcr-rt5640
that have been reported to do the trick, but still no luck, PA floods the
syslog with messages like

[   82.649840] intel_sst_acpi 80860F28:00: FW Version 01.0c.00.01
[   82.650272]  Baytrail Audio Port: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for
Baytrail Audio Port (...)

The card shows up in /proc/asound/cards but I cannot seem to find a way
to make it work, and it is quite hard to find useful information on the
web. 
Does anyone have an idea what I could try next? Is still some firmware
missing or is it rather a configuration issue?

Best regards and TIA

Michael


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Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Anil Duggirala]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Doug wrote:
> 
> On 11/21/2017 05:04 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>> Kent West wrote:

>>
>>> I've recently discovered sweethome3d, and have enjoyed designing a
>>> new house for myself.
>>>
>> sweethome3d is in my repos but it says it is an "interior" design
>> application and what I need is an "exterior" ditto :)  No sign of
>> DraftSight tho so how would one acquire and install that?  Besides if
>> it is heavy on your boxes I don't think it will even run here.
>> Perhaps I should just do ASCII art in Emacs...

>>> 
> CAD Software Free Download | DRAFTSIGHT™ - Dassault Systèmes®[1]


> https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-software/free-download/> 
> February *2017*: This is a very critical hotfix. All customers who
> downloaded *DraftSight* between 2012 to *2017* must install this
> hotfix to avoid usage interruptions .
DraftSight is proprietary software with various limitations. They only
provide a package for Ubuntu and Fedora, I would not attempt installing
that on Debian as is. Librecad or Qcad are the best options to my
knowledge.
Links:

  1. 
https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-software/free-download/

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

[Tom Furie]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:

> > ...and all of Dan's mails to the list...

> All? How far back?

That was my error, somehow my fingers typed "list" when my brain was
thinking "thread".

Cheers,
Tom

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Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

Anil Duggirala wrote:

> Librecad or Qcad are the best options to
> my knowledge.

Both are in the repos as well.

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Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

Anil Duggirala wrote:

> Librecad or Qcad are the best options to my
> knowledge.

QCad:

QCad has been removed from wheezy for
depending on qt3 and containing non-
distributable fonts, patterns, libraries,
and documentation.

LibreCAD is the community-maintained qt4
port of QCad and has superseded Qcad in
Debian as the package "librecad".

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

Identifying needed wifi driver

[Richard Owlett]

I had installed Stretch from a DVD set.
It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have.
I made a handwritten which is not completely legible [iwlwifi is legible].
I've not _intentionally_ deleted any log files.
Where would the desired information be?
TIA

Re: Identifying needed wifi driver

[Jeroen Mathon]

Could you run `lspci` and send us the output?


On 11/22/2017 03:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I had installed Stretch from a DVD set.
> It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have.
> I made a handwritten which is not completely legible [iwlwifi is
> legible].
> I've not _intentionally_ deleted any log files.
> Where would the desired information be?
> TIA
>
>
>




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Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

[Dan Norton]

-Original Message-
>From: Tom Furie 
>Sent: Nov 22, 2017 5:48 AM
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root
>
>On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
>
>> > ...and all of Dan's mails to the list...
>
>> All? How far back?
>
>That was my error, somehow my fingers typed "list" when my brain was
>thinking "thread".
>

THAT's a relief :-) I will search for the culprits when I get a little more 
time.
Thanks for letting me know.

>Cheers,
>Tom
>
>-- 
>BOFH excuse #185:
>
>system consumed all the paper for paging

Re: Identifying needed wifi driver

[David Wright]

On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 08:06:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I had installed Stretch from a DVD set.
> It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have.
> I made a handwritten which is not completely legible [iwlwifi is legible].
> I've not _intentionally_ deleted any log files.
> Where would the desired information be?

# grep firmware /var/log/installer/syslog

iwlwifi would be a likely candidate. The firmware packages
contain numerous iwlwifi-*-[0-9].ucode files.

Cheers,
David.

Does not Debian support mobile broadband anymore?

[wglxy]

Hi, everyone,

Since my Debian testing was upgraded on Oct 29, the mobile broadband in my 
laptop could not be used. The mobile broadband is missing in the 
network-manager UI, and wvdialconf can not configure the broadband either. The 
message of wvdialconf is as below,

**
Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'.

Scanning your serial ports for a modem.

ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- and failed too at 115200, giving up.
Modem Port Scan<*1>: S1   S2   S3   
WvModem<*1>: Cannot get information for serial port.
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- [01]
ttyUSB0<*1>: failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- [01]
ttyUSB0<*1>: failed with 9600 baud, next try: 9600 baud
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- [01]
ttyUSB0<*1>: and failed too at 115200, giving up.


Sorry, no modem was detected!  Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?

Please read the FAQ at http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?WvDial
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My laptop is Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th, and its mobile broadband device is Sierra 
Wireless EM7455. This function works fine before the upgrading. 

Does not Debian support mobile broadband anymore? Or who known how to resolve 
this problem? Thank you very much!



Best regards,
Gulfstream

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Doug]

On 11/22/2017 05:36 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote:

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Doug wrote:


On 11/21/2017 05:04 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:

Kent West wrote:



I've recently discovered sweethome3d, and
have enjoyed designing a new house
for myself.



  CAD Software Free Download | DRAFTSIGHT™ - Dassault Systèmes®
  


https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-software/free-download/
February /2017/: This is a very critical hotfix. All customers who 
downloaded /DraftSight/ between 2012 to /2017/ must install this 
hotfix to avoid usage interruptions .


DraftSight is proprietary software with various limitations. They only 
provide a package for Ubuntu and Fedora, I would not attempt 
installing that on Debian as is. Librecad or Qcad are the best options 
to my knowledge.
The only limitation I know of is against using it for business. For home 
use, no problem. Install on PCLOS (rpm version) works. You must use "no 
deps" in the command, because it wants to
install some kind of sound, and PCLOS doesn't know what to do with that. 
If there is an Ubuntu version then it should certainly install in 
Debian, which INVENTED the .deb system. Try it--the
AutoCad commands may be useful if you ever get into a business situation 
where AutoCad is the primary 2D program. Of course, you CAN use it for 
business--you just have to buy it. It is

VERY MUCH cheaper than any version of AutoCad!

--doug (retired RF engineer)
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Re: Identifying needed wifi driver

[Richard Owlett]

On 11/22/2017 08:15 AM, Jeroen Mathon wrote:

Could you run `lspci` and send us the output?


No mention of anything "wifi".
My reading of the man page suggests that it's information is derived 
from the device driver -- no driver implies information available.






On 11/22/2017 03:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:

I had installed Stretch from a DVD set.
It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have.
I made a handwritten which is not completely legible [iwlwifi is
legible].
I've not _intentionally_ deleted any log files.
Where would the desired information be?
TIA

Re: Identifying needed wifi driver

[Richard Owlett]

On 11/22/2017 09:24 AM, David Wright wrote:

On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 08:06:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:

I had installed Stretch from a DVD set.
It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have.
I made a handwritten which is not completely legible [iwlwifi is legible].
I've not _intentionally_ deleted any log files.
Where would the desired information be?


# grep firmware /var/log/installer/syslog

iwlwifi would be a likely candidate. The firmware packages
contain numerous iwlwifi-*-[0-9].ucode files.



One line of the output is:
Oct 17 17:38:39 check-missing-firmware: missing firmware files 
(iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode) for iwlwifi


That is consistent with the barely legible portion of my handwritten note.

Thank you.

upper limit size for loopback storage

[FHDATA]

hello,

i am creating a test 400mb loopback storage:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/jnkdsk  bs=400M  count=1
# losetup  /dev/loop1 /jnkdsk
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/loop1
# mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/jnkdsk


in day to day usage of loopback storage
in terms of I/O performance, susceptibility
to data corruption ,etc,etc   what is
the upper limit size after which it's not
recommended to use loopback storage?



thank you,
F-

cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Pierre Frenkiel]

hi,
For the first time in my life, I was unable to configure a printer for
Linux,
Before trying to replace it, I'm curious to know whether
somebody could make it(or a similar model) to work.
I had no problem with the wifi config. and no problem also when printing
from Windows, but no way with CUPS.  Of course, I looked at Google,
and tried several protocols, but none worked. 
Has anybody an idea?


best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On 22-11-2017 16:52, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> For the first time in my life, I was unable to configure a printer for
> Linux,
> Before trying to replace it, I'm curious to know whether
> somebody could make it(or a similar model) to work.
> I had no problem with the wifi config. and no problem also when printing
> from Windows, but no way with CUPS.  Of course, I looked at Google,
> and tried several protocols, but none worked. Has anybody an idea?
>

This printer requires proprietary drivers, but they work well. Did you
try installing the drivers from
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as


-- 
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of blood form on your forehead.

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Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Siard]

Pierre Frenkiel:
> [...] but no way with CUPS.

Did you try the CUPSwrapper driver for your model supplied by Brother
itself?

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=gb&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as&os=128

I have a similar driver for another Brother model, and it works fine
with it.

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Jape Person]

On 11/22/2017 01:52 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> For the first time in my life, I was unable to configure a printer for
> Linux,

Which GNU/Linux? Debian? If so, you should specify whether
you're using a release or testing or unstable. It could make a
difference, particularly with respect to the drivers available
in CUPS.

> Before trying to replace it, I'm curious to know whether
> somebody could make it(or a similar model) to work.
> I had no problem with the wifi config. and no problem also when printing
> from Windows, but no way with CUPS.  Of course, I looked at Google,
> and tried several protocols, but none worked. 
> Has anybody an idea?

Since you didn't say exactly what you tried, it's hard to know
what to suggest.

I'm sure most people just download and install the drivers that
Brother supplies on their support site. However, those are a
real mess, IMO. But they do work.

Let me suggest an alternate strategy if you wish to avoid using
the Brother drivers. I have a Brother MFC-9340CDW. It, like your
HL-L2340DW, is not listed in CUPS. I just use the CUPS driver
for the MFC-9320CW. Works like a charm, but for the printing
functions only. I use a Brother applet on my Android phone for
handling scanning. This allows me to use the printer and the
scanner without installing the driver package from Brother.

I notice there's a driver for the HL-L2320D or similar listed in
CUPS and in the system-config-printer utility. You could try
setting that as the driver for your printer. Can't hurt to try.

BTW, I'm using Debian testing. If you're using one of the named
releases, then CUPS may have fewer driver choices available for
you to try. Just try the driver whose supported model number
comes closest to your printer's model number.

My printer is actually supposed to be driverless, but Brother
screwed up (apparently) on its firmware so that it reports the
wrong resolution when queried by the system. This functionality
has to be disabled on my printer in order for me to be able to
use an alternate driver without having the printer show up twice
in CUPS or systems-config-printer.

If none of this applies to your situation, you'll probably need
to provide a great deal more information about things like which
OS (exactly) and desktop environment you are using. Also, you
should specify whether you are connecting to the printer
directly or via a router. I'm assuming it's a wireless
connection of one type or the other, since you mentioned
wireless configuration.

> 
> best regards,
> 

Good luck!
JP

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[arne]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:52:59 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

> hi,
> For the first time in my life, I was unable to configure a printer for
> Linux,
> Before trying to replace it, I'm curious to know whether
> somebody could make it(or a similar model) to work.
> I had no problem with the wifi config. and no problem also when
> printing from Windows, but no way with CUPS.  Of course, I looked at
> Google, and tried several protocols, but none worked. 
> Has anybody an idea?
> 
> best regards,

Hi,

Did yo install the file brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd?

I have my Brother-HLL2340DW working with it, Debian Stretch.

John

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Ric Moore]

On 11/22/2017 02:26 PM, Siard wrote:

Pierre Frenkiel:

[...] but no way with CUPS.


Did you try the CUPSwrapper driver for your model supplied by Brother
itself?

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=gb&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as&os=128

I have a similar driver for another Brother model, and it works fine
with it.


Agreed, once you figure out their driver install system, it works just 
fine. But, I'm using USB to avoid adding wifi to the problem. I also 
installed Gutenprint, which it seems to like. Ric



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Debian 9 tftp issue

[Catalin Soare]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to setup a PXE server on a computer on which I've just
installed Debian 9.2.

So I've installed tftpd-hpa, and left the configuration as it was:
TFTP_USERNAME="tftp"
TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp"
TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69"
TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure"

But, I can't connect to port 69, from other computers. I'm getting a timeout

This seems very strange, since I can see the tftp service in netstat:

:~$ sudo netstat -tulpn
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address   Foreign Address State
 PID/Program name
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:22  0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
488/sshd
tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
922/exim4
tcp6   0  0 :::22   :::*LISTEN
488/sshd
tcp6   0  0 ::1:25  :::*LISTEN
922/exim4
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:68  0.0.0.0:*
 535/dhclient
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:69  0.0.0.0:*
 1117/in.tftpd
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:53530.0.0.0:*
 465/avahi-daemon: r
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:19000.0.0.0:*
 664/minissdpd
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:51554   0.0.0.0:*
 465/avahi-daemon: r
udp6   0  0 :::52077:::*
465/avahi-daemon: r
udp6   0  0 :::5353 :::*
465/avahi-daemon: r

The firewall was left with its defaults on this computer:

:~$ sudo iptables -L -nv
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 968 packets, 96829 bytes)
 pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
 destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
 destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 525 packets, 129K bytes)
 pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
 destination


However, if I check the ports from other computers, it seems that nothing's
listening there:

:~$ nc -vz lab 69
lab.home.org [192.168.1.179] 69 (?) : Connection refused
:~$ nc -vz lab 22
lab.home.org [192.168.1.179] 22 (ssh) open

But, if I try to connect from localhost, I can get a test file that I've
created in /srv/tftp/:

:~$ echo "get hello.txt" | tftp 192.168.1.179
tftp> Received 7 bytes in 0.0 seconds
tftp>

Does anybody know what's happening here? What I should check?
Please help me with any suggestions or ideas you might have.

Thank you,


-- 
Regards,
*Catalin Soare *

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, arne wrote:


Did yo install the file brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd?



 I would be  glad to use it, but it is not listed in the download page
 (the is no HL-Lxxx or HLLxx ppd). Where did you find it?

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Tom Furie]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 01:01:57PM -0500, Doug wrote:

> install some kind of sound, and PCLOS doesn't know what to do with that. If
> there is an Ubuntu version then it should certainly install in Debian, which
> INVENTED the .deb system. Try it--the

The advice to not install an Ubuntu package on a Debian system is not
about any problem with the packaging system, it's about the differences
between the distributions.

Cheers,
Tom

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Re: Debian 9 tftp issue

[Ulf Volmer]

On 22.11.2017 21:24, Catalin Soare wrote:

> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:69              
> 0.0.0.0:*                           1117/in.tftpd       

> :~$ nc -vz lab 69
> lab.home.org  [192.168.1.179] 69 (?) : Connection
> refused

As you can see in the netstat output, tftpd is using UDP but your netcat
tool tries to connect to 69/tcp. add -u to your nc args.

best regards
Ulf

Re: Debian 9 tftp issue

[Glenn English]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Catalin Soare  wrote:

> Does anybody know what's happening here? What I should check?

iptables??

--
Glenn English

Re: Debian 9 tftp issue

[Catalin Soare]

On Nov 22, 2017 22:42, "Ulf Volmer"  wrote:

On 22.11.2017 21:24, Catalin Soare wrote:

> udp0  0 0.0.0.0:69 
> 0.0.0.0:*   1117/in.tftpd

> :~$ nc -vz lab 69
> lab.home.org  [192.168.1.179] 69 (?) : Connection
> refused

As you can see in the netstat output, tftpd is using UDP but your netcat
tool tries to connect to 69/tcp. add -u to your nc args.

best regards
Ulf


Ah, yes you're right! Thanks!
I wasn't checking it correctly!

Now it says the port is open. This rules out the firewall.

However, this means that even though tftpd-hpa is running, it's not bound
to the port 69? Or at least it's not "listening"; this seems to be what the
netstat output is saying (there's no "listening" on the line with tftpd).

Any ideas if I might have to do any additional configuration for tftpd-hpa?
Or maybe use another tftpd server that has some logging that I could rely
on?

Regards,
Catalin Soare

Re: Debian 9 tftp issue

[Ulf Volmer]

On 22.11.2017 22:03, Catalin Soare wrote:
> However, this means that even though tftpd-hpa is running, it's not
> bound to the port 69? Or at least it's not "listening"; this seems to be
> what the netstat output is saying (there's no "listening" on the line
> with tftpd).

That's normal behavior for netstat and UDP ports. My nameserver for example:

tcp0  0 172.17.170.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
   LISTEN  25 13544  3208/named
udp0  0 172.17.170.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
   25 13543  3208/named

> Any ideas if I might have to do any additional configuration for
> tftpd-hpa? Or maybe use another tftpd server that has some logging that
> I could rely on?

You can add (multiple) -v switches to TFTP_OPTIONS for turning on more
verbose logging.

best regards
Ulf

HTML5 problem

[Maureen L Thomas]

I cannot view any HTML 5 video in Firefox.  I have the latest version 
from just a few days ago and still no HTML 5.  I am so tired of this 
crap.  I have tried various ad ons with no luck.  I have the latest 
Debian version and the newest version of Firefox.  What the hell have I 
done wrong this time?


Maureen

Re: Debian 9 tftp issue

[Catalin Soare]

Thank you for that!
Now I can indeed see the files requested by my tests.

Now the funny part is that I've decided to try a VM again, and boot a
netboot.xyz.kpxe file. And that worked!

However, I can still not test to get a file, even with the tftp-hpa client
on the machine where I'm hosting the VM.
Anyway, thank you guys very much! Maybe with time and experiments I'll
figure it out :)

Regards,
Catalin Soare

On Nov 22, 2017 23:15, "Ulf Volmer"  wrote:

> On 22.11.2017 22:03, Catalin Soare wrote:
> > However, this means that even though tftpd-hpa is running, it's not
> > bound to the port 69? Or at least it's not "listening"; this seems to be
> > what the netstat output is saying (there's no "listening" on the line
> > with tftpd).
>
> That's normal behavior for netstat and UDP ports. My nameserver for
> example:
>
> tcp0  0 172.17.170.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
>LISTEN  25 13544  3208/named
> udp0  0 172.17.170.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
>25 13543  3208/named
>
> > Any ideas if I might have to do any additional configuration for
> > tftpd-hpa? Or maybe use another tftpd server that has some logging that
> > I could rely on?
>
> You can add (multiple) -v switches to TFTP_OPTIONS for turning on more
> verbose logging.
>
> best regards
> Ulf
>
>
>

Re: Debian 9 tftp issue

[deloptes]

Catalin Soare wrote:

> However, I can still not test to get a file, even with the tftp-hpa client
> on the machine where I'm hosting the VM.
> Anyway, thank you guys very much! Maybe with time and experiments I'll
> figure it out :)

I use few virtual and physical machines diskless and they boot via PXE - see
the links below.

1. You have to configure at least dhcp and nfs properly.

dhcp

 host vmware3 {
hardware ethernet 00:50:;
fixed-address 192.168..;
option host-name "vmware3";
filename "pxelinux.0";
#tftp server
next-server 192.168.xxx.xxx;
option
root-path 
"192.168.xxx.xxx:/opt/remote/nfsroot/stretch-amd64,retry=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192";
 }

2. you need to setup the kernel boot parameters

3. and of course have a usable initram disk image


https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_system
https://www.gadgetdaily.xyz/use-css3-transforms-and-transitions-to-create-subtle-image-zooms/


good luck

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[arne]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:27:30 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, arne wrote:
> 
> > Did yo install the file brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd?
> >  
> 
>   I would be  glad to use it, but it is not listed in the download
> page (the is no HL-Lxxx or HLLxx ppd). Where did you find it?
> 
> best regards,

Hi,

It is inside hll2340dcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.deb.

In the /opt/brother/Printers/HLL2340D/cupswrapper directory.

I got this deb-file from:

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as

I guess you have to enable 386 files. I have an AMD64 system.

Hope this helps.

Greetings.

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 23/11/17 07:52, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

For the first time in my life, I was unable to configure a printer for
Linux,
Before trying to replace it, I'm curious to know whether
somebody could make it(or a similar model) to work.
I had no problem with the wifi config. and no problem also when printing
from Windows, but no way with CUPS.  Of course, I looked at Google,
and tried several protocols, but none worked. Has anybody an idea?


I have the MFC-L2740DW. I guess that it is similar, but with scanning 
(and fax? Is that still a thing?)?


Mine works fine with these CUPS settings on my WLAN:

http://192.168.1.11/ipp
Name: Brother_MFC-L2740DW
Description: Brother MFC-L2740DW
Driver: Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended)

After configuration, the CUPS page reads:

Description:Brother MFC-L2740DW
Location:   
Driver:	Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended) 
(color, 2-sided printing)

Connection: http://192.168.1.11/ipp
Defaults:	job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm 
sides=two-sided-long-edge


For the record (and I do not think you have scanning capabilities), the 
only proprietary driver is the Brother scanner driver (brscan4 0.4.4-2 
amd64). With this installed, I ran the following and the scanner then 
worked fine in XSane:


brsaneconfig4 -a name=Brother_MFC-L2740DW model=MFC-L2740DW ip=192.168.1.11

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: cups config for Brother HL-L2340DW

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 23/11/17 12:17, arne wrote:

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:27:30 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, arne wrote:

Did yo install the file brother-HLL2340D-cups-en.ppd?

   I would be  glad to use it, but it is not listed in the download
page (the is no HL-Lxxx or HLLxx ppd). Where did you find it?
best regards,

Hi,
It is inside hll2340dcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.deb.
In the /opt/brother/Printers/HLL2340D/cupswrapper directory.
I got this deb-file from:
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2340dw_us_eu_as
I guess you have to enable 386 files. I have an AMD64 system.
Hope this helps.


I used to use the Brother i386 CUPS drivers, but when I switched to 
"Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended)" (the open 
source PCL6 driver in cups-filters), and removed Skype 4 i386, I was 
able to remove the entire i386 architecture from my computer.  :-)


Both my MFC-L2740DW and (according to the online specs) Pierre's 
HL-L2340DW have PCL6 emulation.


Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

[Dan Norton]

-Original Message->From: mrma...@earthlink.net>Sent: Nov 21, 2017 3:37 PM>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>Subject: Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root">>Tom Furie composed:>>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks as>>> normally expected from Debian lists. :)>>> That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list, have>> only a single html part. An incredibly badly constructed html part at>> that.>>As this will be, it was sent using>>		X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0>>with>>		Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8>>The string "Content-Type: multipart" is absent from his message. The only place on Earthlink's web mail site I can find that addresses HTML vs. plain text is in the "Message Display" section of "Preferences", where the label is>>		HTML Message View>>with description>>		" Choose 'off' to view HTML messages as text. ">>which I have set to "off". That said, the page I'm composing on has a link>>		"Use the new WebMail">>I'm not going to click on it and risk not being able to get back to using plain text. I suppose that may be what Dan's using and he hasn't figured out how to not send in HTML.>First, let me apologize to everyone who received some kind of HTML fragment from me simply because they are subscribed to Debian User. I am very sorry to have posted that junk on Debian User. I'm still studying how it happened. Here's what I know so far:1. The preference is still set to use plain text in emails. 2. Going through the archives, my posts appear devoid of html junk. However,3. Looking at the lone entry in my Sent folder I see that it begins "body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial" ! Where did that come from? Doing a search of the archives for this turns up the following in the thread:/debian-user/2017/11/msg00672.html/debian-user/2017/11/msg00644.html/debian-user/2017/11/msg00633.htmlNot one of these displays junk when I clicking on them.4. This laptop I'm borrowing is notorious for having a hyper-sensitive touch pad. You can be typing along in the spot you have chosen for input and suddenly it gets a wild hair and relocates the cursor to somewhere else. As a hunt and peck typist, I've been victimized many times by this and had to undo and start over. The new insertion point is unpredictable AFAICT.5. Anything in the clipboard can be pasted, preferences for no HTML not withstanding. If there is an html fragment in the clipboard6. This list proscribes top posting and often I place replies within or at the end, then hit send (webmail has a button at the bottom as well as the top) without looking at the beginning text. The html-like garbage is at the beginning.Currently, my theory is that somehow(tm) due to 4, *IT JUST DID IT. I AM NOT KIDDING*"body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}"was inserted at the beginning of this text when I pressed the space bar. I cut it out and pasted it above. The mouse was unresponsive to clicks and I had to use the arrow keys to position the pastedue to 4, 5, and 6 the garbage is being copied to the clipboard and pasted to the bogus insertion point. How this occurs, I don't know.>I can't imagine Dan continuing to choose to use Earthlink web mail once the problems this thread is about have been solved. It's a poor UI, like Yahoo and all other web mail I've ever had to fall back on."Desperate men do desperate deeds." :-) - Dan

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[Emanuel Berg]

Librecad seems good and I got it working
instantly on a Debian box.

Only how do I draw a box and then change the
properties to specific side lengths?

For example, if I want to picture a building
that is rectangular (from above) with one side
10m and the other 5m?

I managed to make an approximate rectangle with
the "rectangle" tool but how do I bring up
properties so that I can assign the
exact values?

I made a search on Gmane (news.gmane.org) for
"librecad" but apparently no mailing list is
registered there. Also, on aioe (nntp.aioe.org)
there seems to be no Usenet group dedicated to
librecad. Now this speaks volumes.
Aren't people using it?

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

[Felix Miata]

Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-22 19:09 (UTC-0500):
...
> 4. This laptop I'm borrowing is notorious for having a hyper-sensitive touch
> pad. You can be typing along in the spot you have chosen for input and 
> suddenly
> it gets a wild hair and relocates the cursor to somewhere else. As a hunt and
> peck typist, I've been victimized many times by this and had to undo and start
> over. The new insertion point is unpredictable AFAICT.

> 5. Anything in the clipboard can be pasted, preferences for no HTML not
> withstanding. If there is an html fragment in the clipboard

> 6. This list proscribes top posting and often I place replies within or at the
> end, then hit send (webmail has a button at the bottom as well as the top)
> without looking at the beginning text. The html-like garbage is at the 
> beginning.

> Currently, my theory is that somehow(tm) due to 4, *IT JUST DID IT. I AM NOT
> KIDDING*
...
This one is/was 10.5KB, 100% HTML:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
...
body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-ser=
if;background-color:#ff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}-Origina=
l Message-...
-- 
"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you
get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation)

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

The Second OS won't run from GRUB

[Elof Huang]

My HDD status is below.

(parted) print all
Model: ATA ST3320418AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End    Size    Type  File system Flags
 1  1049kB  318GB  318GB   primary   ext4    boot
 2  318GB   320GB  2011MB  extended
 5  318GB   320GB  2011MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)


Model: ATA HDS728080PLAT20 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1  20.5kB  545kB   524kB
 2  545kB   78.4GB  78.4GB  freebsd-ufs
 3  78.4GB  82.3GB  3964MB

How would I edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom?

Re: HTML5 problem

[Georgi Naplatanov]

On 11/23/2017 12:05 AM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> I cannot view any HTML 5 video in Firefox.  I have the latest version
> from just a few days ago and still no HTML 5.  I am so tired of this
> crap.  I have tried various ad ons with no luck.  I have the latest
> Debian version and the newest version of Firefox.  What the hell have I
> done wrong this time?

Hi,

Firefox supports H.264 and WebM. Just try to install

gstreamer1.0-libav

package.

Kind regards
Georgi

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

[hdv@gmail]

On 2017-11-23 02:05, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Librecad seems good and I got it working
> instantly on a Debian box.
> 
> Only how do I draw a box and then change the
> properties to specific side lengths?
> 
> For example, if I want to picture a building
> that is rectangular (from above) with one side
> 10m and the other 5m?
> 
> I managed to make an approximate rectangle with
> the "rectangle" tool but how do I bring up
> properties so that I can assign the
> exact values?
> 
> I made a search on Gmane (news.gmane.org) for
> "librecad" but apparently no mailing list is
> registered there. Also, on aioe (nntp.aioe.org)
> there seems to be no Usenet group dedicated to
> librecad. Now this speaks volumes.
> Aren't people using it?
> 

This was one of the reasons I decided to change to QCAD. If even choose to pay
the € 33 for the Pro version. It works like a charm, has good documentation (I
can recommend the official e-book that can be bought separately), and in many
subtle ways is more user-friendly. My experience with their customer support and
the forum is very good as well. (No I don't have shares, I am just a happy
customer. ;-) )

If you think this type of software is what you need, then I would try out QCAD
instead of LibreCAD. I've been subscribed to their mailing list for almost a
year now and I don't think I've seen more than 3 messages on it. I might be
missing things, but I am inclined to think that LibreCAD is "dead".

Grx HdV