Controlling the list?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

How do I get a list of commands for this list server?

What I am looking for is how to start/stop digest mode,
sending me a copy of my own posts, holding (stopping)
the posts while on vacation, things like that.

No matter what I try I get a message back on how to
retrieve things from the archive!

TIA,
Dennis


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Building debian on S/390?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

Has anyone here installed debian on a S/390?

I have downloaded jigdo and libdb3, built and installed libdb3 but I
am getting hung up on making jigdo.

Before I spend anymore time beating my head against the desk I thought
there might be a better way.

I am doing this under TurboLinux 7.0.0 (kernel 2.4.17) on S/390 and
I do not have a cd burner or reader available. I do have net access.

Many TIA!
Dennis
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Help - Can't install on IBM PC

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

Yesterday I tried to install Debian on an IBM NetVista model 2254.
This is a 1.+ Mhz Pentium that was running Win2k satisfactorily but
has recently been replaced.

I tried to install Debian from the iso cd image #1 but no luck.
Same results when I tried several other linux distribs. The machine
resets and reboots at what looks like the end of the hardware
scan phase. At that point the screen goes blank and a few seconds
later it starts the POST.

The machine runs all the DOS type stuff and Partition Magig just fine.

BTW, I put the CD drive and the HDs in an AMD-K? box and I could
install fine on it so the media and storage are definitly OK.

I spent several hours searching the IBM site to no avail. I am
hoping that someone here might be able to shed some light on this
problem, and maybe have a solution too!

Many TIA,
Dennis



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Form filling, etc.

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings,

My bank and credit company use javascript or something 
similar to build the login screen so my password manager 
can't find the user-id and password fields to fill them in. 
The fields don't show up in the downloaded source code or in 
the  source code so that is no help.


Can anybody point me to some software, tutorials, etc. that 
will discover the fields displayed on the screen and enable 
me to fill them in?


Many, many TIA!!
Dennis

dpkg --configure -a crashes system

[Dennis Wicks]

I can't install/upgrade because I get the message


E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to 
correct the problem.


When I run the dpkg command I get one message

Setting up linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64 (4.19.208-1)


then within a few seconds the system crashes.

Any ideas? Is there a log file I can look in that might 
contain something useful? Any help is appreciated!


TIA!!
Dennis

Copy/paste between host and KVM/windows 10 guest??

[Dennis Wicks]

It doesn't work for me and the suggested solutions I have 
found are referring to a linux guest.


TIA for pointers, suggestions, solutions!
Denniis

What happened?

[Dennis Wicks]

When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a 
virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I 
could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks 
in the vm. And zfs file systems worked.


The main problem was that dpkg would kill the system trying 
to setup

linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64.

I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to Debian 10.11. 
That process managed  to install linux-image-4.19.0-19-amd64 
and everything was fine. Then somewhere in the process of 
installing additional software apt? killed the system trying 
to setup linux-image-4.19.0-20-amd64. (I found out that I 
could do dpkg --configure for each package individually and 
skip the linux image and headers.)


And, now I can't copy/paste between host and vm, can't 
access host disks from the vm, and the zfs file system 
doesn't work! And then because dpkg killed the system so 
many times the archive file is locked somehow and the 
various apt(x) programs and dpkg won't run, so I can't 
install any tools or different software to try and fix the 
problems!!


ARGHHH!

If anybody has any hints or tips or pointers toward any 
possible solutions I would appreciate hearing them!


TIA,
Dennis

PS; dpkg says;

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
W: Could not lock the cache file; this usually means that dpkg or another apt tool is already installing packages.  Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved!

Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

[Dennis Wicks]

Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16:
When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a 
virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I 
could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks 
in the vm. And zfs file systems worked.


The main problem was that dpkg would kill the system trying 
to setup

linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64.

I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to Debian 10.11. 
That process managed  to install linux-image-4.19.0-19-amd64 
and everything was fine. Then somewhere in the process of 
installing additional software apt? killed the system trying 
to setup linux-image-4.19.0-20-amd64. (I found out that I 
could do dpkg --configure for each package individually and 
skip the linux image and headers.)


And, now I can't copy/paste between host and vm, can't 
access host disks from the vm, and the zfs file system 
doesn't work! And then because dpkg killed the system so 
many times the archive file is locked somehow and the 
various apt(x) programs and dpkg won't run, so I can't 
install any tools or different software to try and fix the 
problems!!


ARGHHH!

If anybody has any hints or tips or pointers toward any 
possible solutions I would appreciate hearing them!


TIA,
Dennis

PS; dpkg says;

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg 
--configure -a' to correct the problem. W: Could not lock 
the cache file; this usually means that dpkg or another 
apt tool is already installing packages.  Opening in 
read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of 
packages will NOT be preserved!





Mark this SOLVED (partially): software problem.

dpkg continued to kill the system trying to setup 
linux-headers. I discovered that dpkg will purge the 
linux-headers package and then I can try installing again. 
On one try I was running pg on dkms in an attempt to see 
what was going on that killed the machine. Two times I got a 
long screen full of tasks running various types of cc just 
before the crash.


I set up my pg to repeat every few secs and spooled the 
output to a file. Then I started a tail on that spool file. 
Surprise!! It ran to completion!


Here is my analysis: I have a big system. An AMD 8 core 
Ryzen running at 3.8GHz with 64GB of memory. I think that 
without any other load on the machine some task is getting 
started before it should and either steps on a task that 
should have finished by that time or can't find something 
that was supposed to be created by a task that hasn't run 
yet. It has to be something serious because all the 
screens/sessions are cleared and the system is frozen. I 
have to use the reset button to re-start and once or twice I 
have had to cycle the power to get re-booted.


No progress on other problems. I will open other threads for 
them.


Thanks for the comments. They got me thinking!

Dennis

Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

[Dennis Wicks]

The Wanderer wrote on 4/21/22 17:14:

On 2022-04-21 at 14:37, Dennis Wicks wrote:


Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16:


When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a
virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I
could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks
in the vm. And zfs file systems worked.

The main problem was that dpkg would kill the system trying
to setup
linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64.



Mark this SOLVED (partially): software problem.

dpkg continued to kill the system trying to setup
linux-headers. I discovered that dpkg will purge the
linux-headers package and then I can try installing again.
On one try I was running pg on dkms in an attempt to see
what was going on that killed the machine. Two times I got a
long screen full of tasks running various types of cc just
before the crash.


What's "pg"? It doesn't appear to be e.g. a shell builtin ('type pg'
reports 'bash: type: pg: not found'), and I don't find it in the
archive. For example,

$ apt-file search -x /pg$

finds only two results, from the package grass-core, which appear to be
(parts of? related to?) database drivers.


I set up my pg to repeat every few secs and spooled the
output to a file. Then I started a tail on that spool file.
Surprise!! It ran to completion!

Here is my analysis: I have a big system. An AMD 8 core
Ryzen running at 3.8GHz with 64GB of memory. I think that
without any other load on the machine some task is getting
started before it should and either steps on a task that
should have finished by that time or can't find something
that was supposed to be created by a task that hasn't run
yet. It has to be something serious because all the
screens/sessions are cleared and the system is frozen. I
have to use the reset button to re-start and once or twice I
have had to cycle the power to get re-booted.


This doesn't look like a terribly likely scenario to me, but if it *is*
what's happening, that's definitely a bug - though a bug in what is less
than clear.


Sorry, pg = ps

That is the only thing I can think of that it might be. I 
have run dpkg --configure -a or with a specific package name 
and every time the package was linux-image-... or 
linux-headers-... it killed my machine. It happened with 
kernel 4.19.0-18-amd64 and 4.19.0-20-amd64. I ran it a dozen 
or more times with the same results. The two times that I 
caught any output from ps that was useful it was running 
many tasks of cc.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

[Dennis Wicks]

Thomas Schmitt wrote on 5/6/22 13:24:

Hi,

Greg Wooledge wrote:

I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on
this list.


Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ?



I am 83. First desktop was an IBM PC running IBM DOS Version 
1, I think. Also saw my first virus on that machine!


Those were not "the good old days"!

Cheers,
Dennis

Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

[Dennis Wicks]

I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. 
How to I attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some 
software?


Many TIA!
Dennis

Re: Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

[Dennis Wicks]

Fabien Roucaute wrote on 9/5/20 1:40 AM:

Le 05/09/2020 à 01:57, Dennis Wicks a écrit :

I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I
attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software?

Many TIA!
Dennis



Either the ISO or the CD-ROM need to be on the host. If KVM/libvirt
doesn't run on the machine running Virtual Machine Manager, you need to
create a pool for the ISO and upload the ISO there or to insert cd-rom
in the host CD drive.




Yes, everything is in the same box/host. I need to know how 
to mount a physical CD!

TNX!

Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings!

Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to 
VM Win10 and vice versa?


Many TIA!
Dennis

Re: Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

[Dennis Wicks]

Kushal Kumaran wrote on 9/7/20 7:31 PM:

Dennis Wicks  writes:


Greetings!

Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10
and vice versa?



Assuming you are using qemu-kvm to run your VM, the search keyword would
be SPICE.

You need to have the appropriate devices attached to the VM (a spice
channel at the minimum), and the corresponding driver software installed
in the VM.

https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html#agent
https://www.spice-space.org/download.html#windows-binaries

Thanks for the pointers! Finally got all the pieces in place 
and it copy/paste works great!


Again, Many Tnx!

Linux not seeing all SATA drives

[Dennis Wicks]

I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red 
cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but 
when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I 
have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive?


FYI, I have the system disk in sata-1, the drive on sata2 is 
not seen, but the drive on sata3 is seen and in use. The 
CD/DVD drive is on sata6 and is also seen.


Thanks for any and all help!
Dennis

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

[Dennis Wicks]

David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM:

On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote:
I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red 
cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them 
but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. 
Do I have to do something to linux so it sees the third 
drive?


FYI, I have the system disk in sata-1, the drive on sata2 
is not seen, but the drive on sata3 is seen and in use. 
The CD/DVD drive is on sata6 and is also seen.


Thanks for any and all help!
Dennis


Run the following commands as root.  If you need help 
interpreting the results, post your console session:


# lsblk

# fdisk -l

# mount | grep sd


David


Thanks for the tip, but none of those commands show the 
third disk, just two.
What might be /dev/sdc doesn't show up with any command I 
have tried.


Thanks!
Dennis

Monitor resolution wrong

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is 
1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot 
into kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64. Also, when I look at the xfce 
display settings when I have -13 booted it has some generic 
display listed and only the 1024x768 res. When I am booted 
in -12 the display is listed as an LG 23", which it is, and 
a bunch of different resolutions that could be used.


I have tried rebuilding the kernel and initrd to no avail. 
It looks to me like the kernel is not recognizing the 
monitor for some reason but beyond that I haven't the 
slightest idea as to where to look!


Any ideas??

Many TIA!!
Dennis

Re: Monitor resolution wrong

[Dennis Wicks]

Felix Miata wrote on 1/9/21 3:33 PM:

Dennis Wicks composed on 2021-01-09 15:00 (UTC-0600):


When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is
1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot
into kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64. Also, when I look at the xfce
display settings when I have -13 booted it has some generic
display listed and only the 1024x768 res. When I am booted
in -12 the display is listed as an LG 23", which it is, and
a bunch of different resolutions that could be used.



I have tried rebuilding the kernel and initrd to no avail.
It looks to me like the kernel is not recognizing the
monitor for some reason but beyond that I haven't the
slightest idea as to where to look!


This situation is often a case of missing firmware, but it's unusual that it
happens simply due to a minor kernel upgrade. Please upload /var/log/Xorg.0.log
from a -13 boot to http://pastebin.com/ or equivalent, and provide here the
resulting URL, so that we may try to determine what is happening. Also please
paste here output from: 'inxi -GSa', for similar reason.



The log file is in pastebin at
  wix-Xorg.0.log

The output from inxi is attached,and pasted below, for both 
-12 and -13. There is a difference between them!


System:Host: ichiban Kernel: 4.19.0-12-amd64 x86_64 
bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 
(buster)
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] driver: 
nouveau v: kernel
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: 
modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz

   OpenGL: renderer: NV106 v: 4.3 Mesa 18.3.6


System:Host: ichiban Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64 x86_64 
bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 
(buster)
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] driver: 
nvidia v: 418.152.00
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: 
nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 
1024x768~76Hz
   OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) 
v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6


Many TIA, again!
Dennis
System:Host: ichiban Kernel: 4.19.0-12-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 
4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: 
fbdev,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
   OpenGL: renderer: NV106 v: 4.3 Mesa 18.3.6 


System:Host: ichiban Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 
4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] driver: nvidia v: 
418.152.00 
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau unloaded: 
fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~76Hz 
   OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 

Re: Monitor resolution wrong

[Dennis Wicks]

Alexander V. Makartsev wrote on 1/9/21 6:22 PM:

On 10.01.2021 04:08, Dennis Wicks wrote:

Felix Miata wrote on 1/9/21 3:33 PM:

Dennis Wicks composed on 2021-01-09 15:00 (UTC-0600):


When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is
1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot
into kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64. Also, when I look at the xfce
display settings when I have -13 booted it has some generic
display listed and only the 1024x768 res. When I am booted
in -12 the display is listed as an LG 23", which it is, and
a bunch of different resolutions that could be used.



I have tried rebuilding the kernel and initrd to no avail.
It looks to me like the kernel is not recognizing the
monitor for some reason but beyond that I haven't the
slightest idea as to where to look!


This situation is often a case of missing firmware, but 
it's unusual that it
happens simply due to a minor kernel upgrade. Please 
upload /var/log/Xorg.0.log
from a -13 boot to http://pastebin.com/ or equivalent, 
and provide here the
resulting URL, so that we may try to determine what is 
happening. Also please

paste here output from: 'inxi -GSa', for similar reason.



The log file is in pastebin at
  wix-Xorg.0.log

The output from inxi is attached,and pasted below, for 
both -12 and -13. There is a difference between them!


System:    Host: ichiban Kernel: 4.19.0-12-amd64 x86_64 
bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 
(buster)
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] 
driver: nouveau v: kernel
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: 
modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz

   OpenGL: renderer: NV106 v: 4.3 Mesa 18.3.6


System:    Host: ichiban Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64 x86_64 
bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 
(buster)
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] 
driver: nvidia v: 418.152.00
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: 
nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 
1024x768~76Hz
   OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) 
v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6


Many TIA, again!
Dennis
You have installed unsupported nvidia driver version for 
your VGA. Last version that supports your adapter is 390, so 
you need to install "nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver".
You will need to remove 418 driver after installation, or 
switch to 390 version by typing:

# update-glx --config nvidia
to make sure your system will use it. You can use "glxinfo" 
utility from "mesa-utils" package to see what driver is 
currently in use.

$ glxinfo | grep -e 'OpenGL' -e 'glx'



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Alexander;

My most fervent and heartfelt thank you!

That solved the problem completely. The system crashed on 
the first try while it was updating the initrd but after I 
rebooted it worked fine and the remainder of your procedure 
went smoothly.


Again, Thank You!
Dennis

Disk errors ...

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure 
out which drive they are occurring on. I get two messages:



[174384.704895] sata_sil :05:00.0: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT 
domain=0x address=0xcf99c100 flags=0x]



[174384.705153] AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=05:00.0 
domain=0x address=0xdf853000 flags=0x]


Several of each of them occur at once, every few seconds.
Is there any way that I can figure out which drive is 
causing the problem?


Many TIA!
Dennis

Re: old red cables cause Disk errors ...

[Dennis Wicks]

Felix Miata wrote on 1/13/21 5:21 PM:

Michael Howard composed on 2021-01-13 22:57 (UTC):


David Christensen wrote:



Michael Stone wrote:



On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:55:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:



If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6



Make sure you wear a beaded neckless while doing that under a full moon.



I used to think "a cable is a cable, color does not matter", but I
have experienced many storage hardware issues over the years that were
caused by red SATA cables.  Other readers on this list have had
similar experiences.  The explanation is chemistry -- the red dye
slowly corrodes the conductors and/or contacts.



Very interesting, if true, and I'm not saying it isn't. I too have had


It's been posted time and again in various forums. IME the problem seems to be
limited to a more or less crimson or wild cherry shade of red:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1426/0052/products/reds_0246cf19-67e7-4e1e-93d7-ef51f4cb3d8a_2000x.png?v=1601311774


cable problems with those thin red efforts but put it down to them not
being of the locking variety or just bad quality.

Dye that causes corrosion == bad quality. :)



Well, this is all very interesting! I have *two* 
SATALink/SATARaid expansion cards and neither of them have 
any red cables! They are at pci addresses 05:00 and 05:01! 
How do I tell which is which?

Problem: Slow Boot -- Hibernation?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

First off, I am running Debian Buster/Sid (that's what it 
says!) and the kernel is 4.19.0-4-686-pae. 32 bit system,

4 Gig of memory (3.xx usable!), IDE disks.

My boots are getting slower and slower. I'll start from the top.

The first thing that happens is I get a message

Resuming from hibernation

I have never put my system in hibernation! It seems to just
sit there for several minutes with no disk access and no 
messages. Then it continues on. Is this a problem? I don't 
think it would make a big difference to eliminate it, but it 
would get rid of one message!


TIA!
Dennis

Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

During the boot process there are several mount "jobs" 
started, and they all finish/fail with two messages;


Dependency failed for ...
Timeout waiting for ...

that is except for root.

I removed all the mounts for user partitions from fstab and 
just left the mounts for root, boot, home and home2 but got 
the same results for the four that were left. Incidentally, 
when I run the user mounts after the system is "up" it takes 
just a few seconds to mount 14 partitions.


After the mounts "fail" the boot process stops in Emergency 
Mode, and I have the choice of logging on to root to fix the 
problem, or entering ctl-d to continue on. If I log on to 
root I find that all four of the volumes are mounted and 
nothing is wrong. If I choose ctl-d the boot process will 
continue with no problems.


How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system 
continue on with the boot process?


Many TIA!
Dennis

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

[Dennis Wicks]

Gene Heskett wrote on 6/17/19 11:49 AM:

On Monday 17 June 2019 10:54:19 am Dan Ritter wrote:


[big snip!] And short of commenting every

line in /e/i.d/avahi-* out, I don't know how to stop that PITA from

[/big snip]

Cheers, Gene Heskett



Gene;

No need for such butchery!
Just insert a statement that contains just

exit 0

right after "SCRIPTNAME=...".

If you look around you can quickly figure out how to produce 
some suitably profane messages before the exit instruction!


Cheers to you too!
Dennis

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

[Dennis Wicks]

andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM:

On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote:


How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on
with the boot process?


You could start by attaching your /etc/fstab and copy-pasting the output
of 'lsblk -f' with all partitions mounted.

It would also be useful to know what init system you are using
(ls -l /sbin/init) and if your mounts have any specials (LVM, encrypted,
NFS, RAID, etc.) basically anything besides plain extX filesystems
mounted from internal drives.

Kind regards,
Andrei


No need for all that!

All my mounts are local PATA and SATA drives. The SATA 
drives are on an adapter card. All the file systems are xfs, 
ext2, ext4 or swap and use either /dir/dir, LABEL= or UUID=.
All very vanilla. No LVM, encrypted, NFS, RAID, etc. Doesn't 
make any difference as *all* of the mounts are failing on 
the first pass!


I found a work around on a forum. Put "nofail" in the 
options field of fstab. So now my entries contain 
"defaults,nofail" or "sw,pri=100,nofail" in the options field.


Doesn't make any difference though. All the
   Dependency failed for ...
Timeout waiting for ...
messages still occur, they just don't stop the boot process 
and the mounts get done successfully later on.(??)


I can't tell what might have caused this as I don't re-boot 
after every update, just when an update to the kernel 
occurs. I think it was about the time that systemd was 
implemented as the boot screen looked different when the 
mount failures started happening.


Just an update in case someone else runs into the problem. 
In fact I am surprised that no once else has. Must be 
something different about my system that I don't know about 
and that isn't obvious! (Something from SysV that is 
incompatible with systemd?)


Regards,
Dennis

Setting up bind9/DNS

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings,

I have apache2 installed on my local machine with a bunch of 
virtual hosts that I use for test and development of html, 
wordpress, etc. It works fine to access the virt hosts 
locally, but I want to access them from other systems on my 
local network; windows/IE of various versions, smart phones, 
tablets, laptops, etc.


They all can access my base host name because my DSL 
modem/router has DHCP and DNS in it and when it sets up an 
address with DHCP it puts an entry in its DNS and everything 
is fine. (All systems on the local net use the modem/router 
for dns.) But nothing like this happens with the virtual hosts!


I was thinking that I could setup a nameserver on my machine 
with enries in it for the virtual hosts and have my local 
network address in the list of nameservers in my 
modem/router, and that is where I need the help.


I have installed bind9, running on buster. So how do I set 
up the name server and populate it with the info for my 
virtual hosts? Pointers to forums, cookbooks, etc. would be 
appreciated as well as hints and tips!


TIA!
Dennnis

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

[Dennis Wicks]

andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/29/19 1:15 AM:

On Vi, 28 iun 19, 11:26:43, Dennis Wicks wrote:

andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM:

On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote:


How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on
with the boot process?


You could start by attaching your /etc/fstab and copy-pasting the output
of 'lsblk -f' with all partitions mounted.

It would also be useful to know what init system you are using
(ls -l /sbin/init) and if your mounts have any specials (LVM, encrypted,
NFS, RAID, etc.) basically anything besides plain extX filesystems
mounted from internal drives.

Kind regards,
Andrei


No need for all that!


Hmm...
  

All my mounts are local PATA and SATA drives. The SATA drives are on an
adapter card. All the file systems are xfs, ext2, ext4 or swap and use
either /dir/dir, LABEL= or UUID=.
All very vanilla. No LVM, encrypted, NFS, RAID, etc. Doesn't make any
difference as *all* of the mounts are failing on the first pass!

I found a work around on a forum. Put "nofail" in the options field of
fstab. So now my entries contain "defaults,nofail" or "sw,pri=100,nofail" in
the options field.

Doesn't make any difference though. All the
Dependency failed for ...
 Timeout waiting for ...
messages still occur, they just don't stop the boot process and the mounts
get done successfully later on.(??)

I can't tell what might have caused this as I don't re-boot after every
update, just when an update to the kernel occurs. I think it was about the
time that systemd was implemented as the boot screen looked different when
the mount failures started happening.


There are a lot of eyes on this list and someone might spot something
that you don't even think might have an impact.

But then it's your system, your rules ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei



OK! Be my guest!!

One thing I have noticed is that it seems to do everything 2 
or 3 times while it is booting, and it takes about 30 mins 
before my desktop (xfce) is up and functioning.


TNX!
wix@dgwicks:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier and label for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= or LABEL= as a more robust way to name 
devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#   
 
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
LABEL=Root  /   xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200   0
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
LABEL=Boot  /boot   ext2
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200   0
# /home was on /dev/sda4 during installation
LABEL=Home  /home   xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200   0

# /home2 contains some files required for system setup. eg, etc2
LABEL=Home2   /home2  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200 0

# this is on sysres and is only used for rescue mode when other vols are not 
mounted
# LABEL=SwapResnone   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0

LABEL=Swap1   none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0
LABEL=Swap2   none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0
LABEL=Swap3  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0
/wa3/Swap4  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0
/wa1/Swap5  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0
/wa2/Swap6  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0
/pvt04/Swap7  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=20  0   0

LABEL=PubDtaMaster  /edrv   xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200 0
LABEL=PubDtaMirror  /edrv-mirrorxfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200 0
LABEL=Painter-C /Painter-C  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200 0
LABEL=Painter-D /Painter-D  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200 0

LABEL=Volume1   /b1 ext4
defaults,nofail,x-sys

mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

I recently rebooted after an upgrade that generated
"Jul 28 17:13 initrd.img-4.19.0-5-686-pae"
and when I was finally U&R I discovered that a mount didn't 
happen. (I am on Debian 10 Bullseye and my last kernel 
resulted in "Jul 18 17:23 vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-686-pae".)


I have mount points /wa1-/wa4 and I have been using them 
literally for years with no problem.


So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it 
seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that 
in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests 
told me the same thing. "umount /wa1" said "not mounted"!


After trying many things I discovered that 1) I can mount 
/dev/sdb2 on any mount point except /wa1 and 2) I can't 
mount any /dev/sdxx on /wa1!! So I mounted sdb2 on /wa11,
"rmdir /wa1"and "ln -s /wa11 /wa1" and everything seems to 
work OK.


It seems that something in the mount process does not like 
"wa1" for a mount point. Anybody have similar recent problems?

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

Requested info attached:

I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1
but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point.

Regards, and Thanks!
Dennis

Andrei POPESCU wrote on 8/6/19 1:06 AM:

On Lu, 05 aug 19, 15:33:57, Dennis Wicks wrote:


It seems that something in the mount process does not like "wa1" for a mount
point. Anybody have similar recent problems?
  
Please show your fstab and the output of 'lsblk -f'.


Kind regards,
Andrei



# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier and label for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= or LABEL= as a more robust way to name 
devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#   
 
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
LABEL=Root  /   xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600   1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
LABEL=Boot  /boot   ext2
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600   2
# /home was on /dev/sda4 during installation
LABEL=Home  /home   xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600   2

# /home2 contains some files required for system setup. eg, etc2
LABEL=Home2 /home2  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 2

# this is on sysres and is only used for rescue mode when other vols are not 
mounted
# LABEL=SwapRes   none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0

LABEL=Swap1 none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0
LABEL=Swap2 none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0
LABEL=Swap3 none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0
/wa3/Swap4  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0
/wa1/Swap5  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0
/wa2/Swap6  none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0
/pvt04/Swap7none   swap
sw,pri=100,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=60  0   0

LABEL=PubDtaMaster  /edrv   xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
LABEL=PubDtaMirror  /edrv-mirrorxfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
LABEL=Painter-C /Painter-C  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
LABEL=Painter-D /Painter-D  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0

LABEL=Volume1   /b1 ext4
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
LABEL=Volume2   /b2 xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0

# General work and storage areas
UUID=20173008-eeaa-41cd-b862-f7d0b871895d   /wa11  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=200 0
UUID=9092610b-7eec-40b6-956c-8deea77d65a9   /wa2xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
LABEL=Work-Area-3   /wa3xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
UUID=cde81105-e821-4630-8bc0-e56e7deaa63e   /wa4xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
UUID=0848ac45-2c69-4a0f-9b72-b9f870496df1   /work3  ext4
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0

UUID=f4043585-df77-4553-9acc-cdb969a348e6   /work4  ext4
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0


UUID=2a6011d2-666e-4d2c-8ed1-4fa3fe3fa6ff   /pvt01  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
UUID=56131889-1a09-43cb-a367-6751f3a08761   /pvt02  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
UUID=462287b5-a363-4089-999d-649b54ad973c   /pvt03  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0
UUID=fdbb6809-77c2-4f74-ad64-310677f8ac34   /pvt04  xfs 
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=600 0

/dev/sr0/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 
user,noauto 0   0

NAME   FSTYPE   LABELUUID 

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 10:30 AM:

Hi,

Dennis Wicks wrote:

I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1
but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point.


So what do you get from these shell commands ?
I am currently running with "ln -s /wa11 /wa1" so this isn't 
the config I booted with. Anyway;


   ls -ld /wa1 /wa11


wix@dgwicks:~$ ls -ld /wa1 /wa11
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root4 Aug  1 17:40 /wa1 -> wa11
drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa11
wix@dgwicks:~$



   find /wa1


wix@dgwicks:~$ cd /
wix@dgwicks:/$ find /wa1
/wa1
wix@dgwicks:/$ lg wa1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 4 Aug  1 17:40 wa1 -> wa11/
drwxrwxrwx  17 root root  4.0K Jun 17 14:07 wa11/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 7 Aug  1 17:43 www -> wa1/www/
wix@dgwicks:/$



What happens if you create a new /wa1 ?

   mv /wa1 /wa1_old
   mkdir /wa1
   mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1



Same failure. One of the many things I tried to get the 
mount on /wa1 to work, without any success.





As for your fstab, there is this "x-systemd.device-timeout=20" where
all others have "=60". But the web says this is for automounting.


This param is to stop the boot process from stopping because 
all of the mounts have failed, temporarily. A previous 
thread from a few weeks(?) back.


I fail to imagine any explanation for the symptoms you report. Especially
the silent failure riddles me.


Me too! Happens during boot and when done manually!


Have a nice day :)


Thanks! You too!


Thomas


Regards!
Dennis

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

Felix Miata wrote on 8/6/19 10:33 AM:

Dennis Wicks composed on 2019-08-06 10:09 (UTC-0500):


I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1


What is output from ls -ld /wa*/ ?

wix@dgwicks:/$ ls -ld /wa*/
drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa1/
drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa11/
drwxrwxrwx  8 root root  111 Jun 11 11:58 /wa2/
drwxr-xr-x  6 wix  wix72 Jun 11 11:58 /wa3/
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Feb  2  2019 /wa4/
wix@dgwicks:/$

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 8/6/19 10:34 AM:

I didn't fully understand your fstab, but is there a typo -- wa11 vs. wa1?

No. My current config is;

   /wa1 -> wa11 ( soft link )
   /wa11( <- /dev/sdb2 )

with sdb2 mounted on /wa11 so I don't have to find and 
change all the paths that I have starting with "/wa1/..."!


On Tuesday, August 06, 2019 11:09:32 AM Dennis Wicks wrote:

Requested info attached:

I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1
but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point.

Regards, and Thanks!
Dennis

Andrei POPESCU wrote on 8/6/19 1:06 AM:

On Lu, 05 aug 19, 15:33:57, Dennis Wicks wrote:

It seems that something in the mount process does not like "wa1" for a
mount point. Anybody have similar recent problems?


Please show your fstab and the output of 'lsblk -f'.

Kind regards,
Andrei

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

Richard Hector wrote on 8/6/19 12:42 PM:

On 7/08/19 5:31 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:

rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 8/6/19 10:34 AM:

I didn't fully understand your fstab, but is there a typo -- wa11 vs.
wa1?

No. My current config is;

    /wa1 -> wa11 ( soft link )
    /wa11    ( <- /dev/sdb2 )

with sdb2 mounted on /wa11 so I don't have to find and change all the
paths that I have starting with "/wa1/..."!


So you're trying to mount on a symlink, instead of a directory? I don't
think that's going to work. Why not mount on /wa11, as you describe?

Or does /wa11 only exist because you can't mount on /wa1, and you were

   Exactly!!

trying to mount on /wa1 when /wa1 was a directory? In which case - it
would help to provide the requested files in the state where the problem
exists :-)

   fstab says wa1 but I would have to reboot to get the
   exact config back, and that takes over an hour!


(also, one vs ell is confusing ... I assume you've got the right el^Wone :-)

   Oh yeah! One of the many things I verified! Been using
   /wa1 for years as is. Keep copying the fstab so it is
   tried and true; until the last aptitude upgrade.


Cheers,

Richard



On Tuesday, August 06, 2019 11:09:32 AM Dennis Wicks wrote:

Requested info attached:

I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1
but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point.

Regards, and Thanks!
Dennis

Andrei POPESCU wrote on 8/6/19 1:06 AM:

On Lu, 05 aug 19, 15:33:57, Dennis Wicks wrote:

It seems that something in the mount process does not like "wa1" for a
mount point. Anybody have similar recent problems?


Please show your fstab and the output of 'lsblk -f'.

Kind regards,
Andrei

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

David Wright wrote on 8/6/19 1:48 PM:

On Tue 06 Aug 2019 at 12:18:21 (-0500), Dennis Wicks wrote:

Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 10:30 AM:

Dennis Wicks wrote:

I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1
but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point.


So what do you get from these shell commands ?

I am currently running with "ln -s /wa11 /wa1" so this isn't the
config I booted with. Anyway;


ls -ld /wa1 /wa11


wix@dgwicks:~$ ls -ld /wa1 /wa11
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root4 Aug  1 17:40 /wa1 -> wa11
drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa11
wix@dgwicks:~$



find /wa1


wix@dgwicks:~$ cd /
wix@dgwicks:/$ find /wa1
/wa1
wix@dgwicks:/$ lg wa1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 4 Aug  1 17:40 wa1 -> wa11/
drwxrwxrwx  17 root root  4.0K Jun 17 14:07 wa11/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 7 Aug  1 17:43 www -> wa1/www/
wix@dgwicks:/$



What happens if you create a new /wa1 ?

mv /wa1 /wa1_old
mkdir /wa1
mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1



Same failure. One of the many things I tried to get the mount on /wa1
to work, without any success.


Shouldn't that fail with:

~# mkdir /wa1
~# mount /dev/sda4 /wa1
mount: /dev/sda4 is already mounted or /wa1 busy
/dev/sda4 is already mounted on /ya
~#


No, it won't fail because the first mount to /wa1 did not 
succeed! And the system does not object or give an error 
when you mount the same partition on two diff dirs anyway!







As for your fstab, there is this "x-systemd.device-timeout=20" where
all others have "=60". But the web says this is for automounting.


This param is to stop the boot process from stopping because all of
the mounts have failed, temporarily. A previous thread from a few
weeks(?) back.


I fail to imagine any explanation for the symptoms you report. Especially
the silent failure riddles me.


Unfortunately there's too much reported speech in this thread,
and not enough direct speech. Some timely copy/paste might help.


Me too! Happens during boot and when done manually!


Cheers,
David.

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 1:58 PM:

Hi,

more ideas: exit value, verbous mode.

   mount -v /dev/sdc /wa1
   echo $?

A nominally successful mount command would yield 0 as "$?".
Maybe -v yields some extra insight.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas




Thanks, Thomas!
I'll put a note in my fstab so the next time I boot I can 
find it if the mount fails again!


You too!
Dennnis

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

Curt wrote on 8/8/19 3:19 AM:

On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks  wrote:



So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests
told me the same thing. "umount /wa1" said "not mounted"!


Would this be the result if /dev/sdb2 were already mounted (i.e. nothing?).
System does not care if device is already mounted somewhere 
else.





Many other tests. What about 'mount' from an xterm to see what's mounted
and what ain't and where?

Did you show your /etc/fstab file (cut and paste)? If so, I must've missed
it.

Yep. Sometime back.


BTW, what's with the exclamation points? Makes you seem enthusiastic.

Nope. Surprised!


;-)

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

Curt wrote on 8/8/19 3:41 AM:

On 2019-08-08, Curt  wrote:

On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks  wrote:



So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests
told me the same thing. "umount /wa1" said "not mounted"!


Would this be the result if /dev/sdb2 were already mounted (i.e. nothing?).

Many other tests. What about 'mount' from an xterm to see what's mounted
and what ain't and where?

Did you show your /etc/fstab file (cut and paste)? If so, I must've missed
it.

BTW, what's with the exclamation points? Makes you seem enthusiastic.

;-)



Oh, and I forgot: the relevant logs might be clueful and relevant
and of course should be explored for relevant clues.


Tell me what logs and how to view them.

Re: mount weirdness

[Dennis Wicks]

David Wright wrote on 8/8/19 9:04 AM:

On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 08:19:22 (-), Curt wrote:

On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks  wrote:

So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests
told me the same thing. "umount /wa1" said "not mounted"!


Would this be the result if /dev/sdb2 were already mounted (i.e. nothing?).


Try it. I, at least, would be interested in the result.
So far, the voting is 2-1 against seeing what I see:

wren 08:50:11 ~# lsblk -f | grep sda7
├─sda7   ext4swan07  4a4e352f-2180-4083-92b4-f46e4e0104b4 
/wrenbk
wren 08:50:26 ~# mkdir /wa1 /somethingelse
wren 08:50:49 ~# mount /dev/sda7 /somethingelse
mount: /dev/sda7 is already mounted or /somethingelse busy
/dev/sda7 is already mounted on /wrenbk
32 wren 08:51:16 ~# mount /dev/sda7 /wa1
mount: /dev/sda7 is already mounted or /wa1 busy
/dev/sda7 is already mounted on /wrenbk
32 wren 08:51:31 ~# rmdir /wa1 /somethingelse
wren 08:51:53 ~#

By way of explanation, the prompt is
export PROMPT_COMMAND='MYPROMPT="$? " && [ "$MYPROMPT" = "0 " ] && MYPROMPT=""'
export PS1='\[\e[1;33;41m\]$MYPROMPT\[\e[1;37;44m\]\H \t \w\[\e[0m\]\$ ' # blue
but I normally cut it to reduce clutter.


Many other tests. What about 'mount' from an xterm to see what's mounted
and what ain't and where?

Did you show your /etc/fstab file (cut and paste)? If so, I must've missed
it.

BTW, what's with the exclamation points? Makes you seem enthusiastic.


Yes, I couldn't figure that out, nor what good a note in /etc/fstab
would do (in the reply to Thomas). Does one peruse that file each time
one reboots?

Cheers,
David.



Greetings;

What system are you running, David? I am running vanilla 
Debian bullseye, recently upgraded. Been running Debian for 
years and have never gotten those errors. This is what 
happens to me.


 wix@dgwicks:~$ s mount /dev/sdc1 /test1
 wix@dgwicks:~$ s mount /dev/sdc1 /test2
 wix@dgwicks:~$ findmnt /dev/sdc1
 TARGET SOURCEFSTYPE OPTIONS
 /test1 /dev/sdc1 xfsrw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota
 /test2 /dev/sdc1 xfsrw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota
 wix@dgwicks:~$
 wix@dgwicks:~$ s mount -v /dev/sdc1 /work-1
 mount: /dev/sdc1 mounted on /work-1.
 wix@dgwicks:~$ findmnt /dev/sdc1
 TARGET  SOURCEFSTYPE OPTIONS
 /test1  /dev/sdc1 xfsrw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota
 /test2  /dev/sdc1 xfsrw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota
 /work-1 /dev/sdc1 xfsrw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota
 wix@dgwicks:~$

Do you have some environment variable set or something in an 
ini or rc file that makes mount behave in a more strict way 
than standard?


No, I don't look at fstab every time I reboot. Just when I 
get things like failed mounts. In which case seeing that 
note will remind me what to look at/for.


Regards,
Dennis

mount weirdness reloaded

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings once again;

Tomorrow morning I am going to reboot and see if my problem 
happens again.


If you have some suggestions on what info to gather then let 
me know. Bear in mind that during the boot process my system 
is pretty much unresponsive for the hour or so until the 
window manager is up and everything has settled down.


Regards,
Dennis

kvm CM how to attach existing hdd partition

[Dennis Wicks]

Well, I have my VM created and installed Windows 10 in it, 
and everything windows seems to work just fine.


Now, how do I make existing partitions available to the 
Windows system? Can't find anything recent that appears to 
address the situation.


Many TIA!
Dennis

kvm by example

[Dennis Wicks]

Found a web page that guides you step by step through 
defining a VM and installing Windows 10 in it. Make a note 
of this or save it some where in case you or a friend needs it!


 >> 
https://getlabsdone.com/10-easy-steps-to-install-windows-10-on-linux-kvm/ 
 <<


Worked great for me!

Error importing gpg key

[Dennis Wicks]

The tor website says to use the command


gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrow...@torproject.org


When I do that I get an error message


gpg: keyserver option 'ca-cert-file' is obsolete; please use 'hkp-cacert' in 
dirmngr.conf


I have searched the net and man pages and I can't figure out 
how to solve this.
I can't find any file on my system the contains the string 
'ca-cert-file', with or without quotes!


TIA for any pointers or other help!
Dennis

Re: Error importing gpg key - Solved!

[Dennis Wicks]

Reco wrote on 5/16/20 6:14 PM:

sed -i '/^keyserver-options/d' ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

Thanks! Solves the problem!

VPN suggestions?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house
that are all on a local network.

And suggestions, hints, warnings?

TIA!!
Dennis

Which kernel should I use?

[Dennis Wicks]

I notice that there is available two different kernels;

linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae

and

linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae

I am running on a Pentium 4.

Which one of these should I be using? And just for
curiosities sake, why?

TIA!
Dennis

Re: Which kernel should I use?

[Dennis Wicks]

Dennis Wicks wrote on 09/27/2018 06:40 PM:
> I notice that there is available two different kernels;
> 
>   linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae
> 
> and
> 
>   linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae
> 
> I am running on a Pentium 4.
> 
> Which one of these should I be using? And just for
> curiosities sake, why?
> 
> TIA!
> Dennis
> 
> 
>

Thanks guys! Unless RT would give me millisecond response
time on Firefox and Thunderbird it doesn't sound like I need
it. So I will just forget that I ever saw that entry in the
apt list!

Thanks again!
Dennis

Where is xfce.org?

[Dennis Wicks]

What has happened to xfce.org?
It seems to have disappeared and left no tracks.

Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

[Dennis Wicks]

Mariusz Gronczewski wrote on 10/10/18 8:17 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of 
> user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser"
> 
> In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, 
> which is pointless because:
> 
> * I can access /etc/shadow anyway
> * I'm changing it because user forgot it
> 
> Is there any way to set passwd (or PAM) to not ask root for current password 
> on passwd-ing non-root accounts ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mariusz
> 
> --
> Mariusz Gronczewski, Administrator
> 
> Efigence S. A.
> ul. Wołoska 9a, 02-583 Warszawa
> T: [+48] 22 380 13 13
> F: [+48] 22 380 13 14
> E: mariusz.gronczew...@efigence.com 
> 

When I enter  sudo passwd testuser
I get a prompt   Enter new UNIX password:

Perhaps your sudoers file is not set up correctly?

I have mine:

(myid) ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

Good Luck!
Dennis

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

[Dennis Wicks]

Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM:
> Many man pages end with:
>> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo
>> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly
>> installed at your site, the command
>>
>>     info XYZ
>>
>> should give you access to the complete manual.
> 
> I have problems with that.
> 1. I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find
> out whether or
>    not the package might be useful.
> 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser
> acceptable format
>    {plain text fine --  HTML *NOT* needed} is MUCH more
> functional.
> 
> 

I agree, and I have found a lot of info "complete manual"s
to be exactly like the man page!

Another thing you can try is

sudo apt show XYZ

That will give you a bunch of info including a few lines of
description. Usually enough to decide whether to pursue that
package further.

Good Luck!

Help with gitlab

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

So far everything I have wanted to get from git has had a
button for "download zip file" and everything worked great.
I am trying to get a package that doesn't have a download
link. Anybody know the secret command to get the source in
some usable format?

I have tried the regular rt-clk&save approach and a download
manager but it seems the files are actually html!

Any hints, tips, or examples appreciated!

TIA,
Dennis

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greg Wooledge wrote on 10/26/18 3:16 PM:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:13:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>  sudo apt show XYZ
> 
> For the record, you don't need to be root to use apt show, or apt-cache show.
> 
> 
> 
Right you are! I guess it has become such a habit I just do
it automatically!

Need help making new boot vol

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger
device but I think I need to run grub to actually make the
disk boot. All of the writeups that I can find are way too
old or just old enough that the file names for a lot of
things aren't the same as what I have.

I am running buster i386. Does anyone know of an up-to-date
recipe for doing this?

Many TIA!
Dennis

vnc 64bit-32bitor Buster to Bullseye

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have a vanilla 64-bit install of Buster which claims to be 
Debian 10.1. I am trying to vnc from there to my old 32-bit 
machine which is running Bullseye (don't know what it claims 
to be).


Using tightvncserver on the 32-bit side and xtightvncviewer 
on the 64-bit side I have managed to get a connection, but 
no desktop manager. The viewer shows me a window but it is 
just gray, actually very small black and white spots.


How do I get xfce started on that session? Better yet, how 
can I connect to the existing session on :0? I can't seem to 
hook up to that. Strangely, when I connect to a Windows 
machine it seems to do exactly that!


Any assistance greatly appreciated!

Many TIA!
Dennis

How to configure e-net port again

[Dennis Wicks]

I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week.

I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it 
was but it wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP 
server, specifically the IP addr. Now it doesn't work at 
all. How can I run through the setup/init process that it 
went through at install to get back at least a working 
communications port.


Many, many TIA!!
Dennis

Re: How to configure e-net port again

[Dennis Wicks]

Daryl wrote on 1/30/20 7:52 PM:

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:48:36 -0600
Dennis Wicks  wrote:


I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week.

I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it
was but it wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP
server, specifically the IP addr. Now it doesn't work at
all. How can I run through the setup/init process that it
went through at install to get back at least a working
communications port.

Many, many TIA!!
Dennis



What's in /etc/network/interfaces?





A couple of comments, a source cmd for interfaces.d, which 
is empty,another comment, then the following:


auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Re: How to configure e-net port again

[Dennis Wicks]

john doe wrote on 1/31/20 1:00 AM:

On 1/31/2020 2:48 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:

I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week.

I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it was but it


How did you try to change your e-net to use dhcp?


wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP server, specifically the IP
addr. Now it doesn't work at all. How can I run through the setup/init
process that it went through at install to get back at least a working
communications port.



I would say, revert the change(s)that you have done.

--
John Doe




I have tried that to no avail. There are two possibilities:

(1) I don't remember exactly what was there before
(2) One of the two network management programs that are 
running changed something that I don't know about.


In my Notification Area there are two programs that seem to 
be controlling the interfaces, and perhaps causing my 
problems. They are Network Manager Applet and WICD Network 
Manager.

Re: How to configure e-net port again -- SOLVED (sort of)

[Dennis Wicks]

Michael Stone wrote on 1/31/20 2:00 PM:

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:27:06AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:

john doe wrote on 1/31/20 1:00 AM:

On 1/31/2020 2:48 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past 
week.


I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought 
it was but it


How did you try to change your e-net to use dhcp?

wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP server, 
specifically the IP
addr. Now it doesn't work at all. How can I run through 
the setup/init
process that it went through at install to get back at 
least a working

communications port.



I would say, revert the change(s)that you have done.

--
John Doe




I have tried that to no avail. There are two possibilities:

(1) I don't remember exactly what was there before
(2) One of the two network management programs that are 
running changed something that I don't know about.


In my Notification Area there are two programs that seem 
to be controlling the interfaces, and perhaps causing my 
problems. They are Network Manager Applet and WICD Network 
Manager.


Do you remember which one you used? Both can be used, but if 
you try to use both at the same time you'll have problems. 
I'd suggest uninstalling one of them, or at the very least 
make sure that they aren't both trying to control the same 
interface. Neither will modify /etc/network/interfaces, so 
just ignore that.



Michael, thanks for that tip. I got rid of both network 
managers and setup the port in /etc/network/interfaces and 
that works -- sometimes.


If I try to use IP address reservation in my dhcp server 
ifup will not work. I get this:

- - - - -

root@ichiban:~# ifup enp3s0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1
Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/enp3s0/10:7b:44:50:39:8b
Sending on   LPF/enp3s0/10:7b:44:50:39:8b
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on enp3s0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on enp3s0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.2 from 192.168.254.254
DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.2 on enp3s0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPNAK from 192.168.254.254
DHCPDISCOVER on enp3s0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.2 from 192.168.254.254
DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.2 on enp3s0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPNAK from 192.168.254.254

- - - - - 
If I remove IP address reservation ifup works and I get the 
following:

- - - - -

root@ichiban:~# ifup enp3s0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1
Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/enp3s0/10:7b:44:50:39:8b
Sending on   LPF/enp3s0/10:7b:44:50:39:8b
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on enp3s0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.34.220 from 192.168.254.254
DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.34.220 on enp3s0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.34.220 from 192.168.254.254
bound to 192.168.34.220 -- renewal in 6833 seconds.
root@ichiban:~# 

- - - - -
This machine is running Buster 10 64 bit, I have a machine 
that is running Buster 10 32 bit that works fine with 
Network Manager Applet 1.8.22. This machine (64 bit) had 
1.8.20 and it did not work. Just looped continuously until I 
deleted the address reservation from the dhcp server. When I 
run ifup it does the same thing so the problem must be 
buried deeper somewhere.


Thanks for all the help and suggestions!
Dennis

Best file system to use?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the 
current consensus of the best file system to use for general 
data usage? I have been using xfs but that is based on info 
from many years ago.


Many TIA!
Dennis

Running virtual systems

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

The last time that I ran any virtual systems virtualbox and 
other software was the only way to go. Now I see that there 
is support in hardware for running virtual systems directly. 
I am running Buster on AMD Ryzen. What is the best way to 
run virtual systems, and where can I find some good doc? The 
first thing I need to run is Windows 10 so I can get my 
taxes done! Then maybe a couple of small Debian and Windows 
systems for testing and development of WP thems and websites 
and similar.


Many TIA!
Dennis

TV tuner/capture cards?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

Does anybody know of a tv tuner/capture card that will 
work with Debian? An FM tuner option would be nice, but 
not necessary.


TIA!
Dennis


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Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. 
Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive.


Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on 
this hardware? It has integrated camera, wi-fi, sound 
and graphics. Do you think these will function under linux?


If it won't work it is back tot he store with it!

Thanks for any info or pointers, etc.

Dennis


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Re: Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

[Dennis Wicks]

Damon L. Chesser wrote the following on 07/23/2008 
07:00 PM:

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 18:43 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:

Greetings;

We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. 
Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive.


Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on 
this hardware? It has integrated camera, wi-fi, sound 
and graphics. Do you think these will function under linux?


If it won't work it is back tot he store with it!

Thanks for any info or pointers, etc.

Dennis




Dennis,

First of all, I don't know.  But you might also want to check with dell
on linux user list if you don't get info here.

http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops

HTH



Damon,

Thanks! I'll go there and query them!

Dennis


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Wi-Fi in Inspiron 1720 - Help!

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have lenny running very good except for one big 
hangup. I can't get the wireless card to work. It shows 
in lspci as a Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller.


I have read many many how-to's and forum threads on how 
to get it to work, but after several days of attempts 
and retries, no joy.


Has any one gotten one of these "cards" to work?

BTW I am running Lenny at 2.6.25-2-686.

Many TIA for any help.

Dennis


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Strange msgs in syslog

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have just noticed that syslog on my firewall contains 
hundreds if not thousands of messages like this.


Do they indicate an error of some kind?

If not, how do I turn them off?

kernel: BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth1 OUT= 
MAC=00:10:b5:bf:2f:3c:00:0c:f1:a2:cf:0e:08:00 
SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.10.1 LEN=61 TOS=0x00 
PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=48305 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=43182 DPT=53 
LEN=41


Thanks!
Dennis


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Help: Errors from aptitude install

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

Specifically I am trying to install samba and its 
parts, samba-common samba smbclient smbfs, on Lenny and 
I keep getting errors like the following.


Setting up samba-common (2:3.0.30-2) ...
Error: unknown response from debconf:'keep_current'
dpkg: error processing samba-common (--configure):

I have tried all of the options besides "keep_current" 
to no avail.


Any ideas as to what the problem is or how to fix it?

TIA!
Dennis


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Suggestions for video/tv capture?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or 
DVDs.


Any suggestions for a decent capture card?

I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on 
Deb or XP, but that isn't an absolute requirement.


Grateful for any help!

TIA!
Dennis


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Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

[Dennis Wicks]

David Parker wrote the following on 09/29/2009 07:10 PM:

- Original Message -
From: David Parker 
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:08 pm
Subject: Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

 > I have had great luck with my Hauppauge PVR-350 and PVR-150 cards, 
but they are getting harder to find these days.  They use the ivtv 
drivers under Linux, and the manufacturer's drivers under Windows work 
quite well.


 > - Dave

 > - Original Message -
 > From: Dennis Wicks 
 > Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:03 pm
 > Subject: Suggestions for video/tv capture?
 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

 > > Greetings;
 > >
 > > I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or
 > > DVDs.
 > >
 > > Any suggestions for a decent capture card?
 > >
 > > I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on
 > > Deb or XP, but that isn't an absolute requirement.
 > >
 > > Grateful for any help!
 > >
 > > TIA!
 > > Dennis

And sorry everyone for top-posting!  It was an accident!

- Dave


Well, top-posted or bottom-posted doesn't make any 
difference. There don't seem to be any of these cards 
available at any of the usual places.


Anybody have any other suggestions?

Thanks Dave.

Dennis


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Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

[Dennis Wicks]

Thanks for all the help.

I have gotten a card that works extremely well!

Dennis


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Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still 
be blocking them.


I am on http://www.rhapsody.com/channels trying to play one 
of the music channels.


I tried it on Win XP I'net explorer and it said popups were 
being blocked so I turned off the popup blocker and 
everything worked fine there.


I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, 
even with the popup blocker turned off. No messages or 
anything. It shows the URL when I hold the cursor on the 
icon but nothing changes when I click.


Any ideas?

Many TIA!
Dennis


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unzip -a strange behavior

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows 
line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday 
and today!


Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the 
text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. 
Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file and it was 
unreadable!


Any ideas as to what is wrong here?

Many TIA!
Dennis


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unzip -a strange behavior

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows
line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday
and today!

Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the
text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line.
Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file and it was
unreadable!

Any ideas as to what is wrong here?

Many TIA!
Dennis


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Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

[Dennis Wicks]

Dave Ewart wrote the following on 02/16/2009 10:42 AM:

On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote:


Ron Johnson wrote:

I don't believe it.  Show us!


In the interests of satisfying my curiosity:

vm-linux2:/# rm -rf /
rm: cannot remove root directory `/'
vm-linux2:/#


That's rather annoying.  If I want to shoot myself in the foot, it
should let me.  It's a bug that it doesn't :-)

Dave.



Especially since it will happily process /bin !! At least it
used to, and I still have the scars!

Did you try /* ??

I don't have a test system to play with, and advancing age
has caused me to suppress my curiosity about such things. :)

Dennis


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Re: unzip -a strange behavior

[Dennis Wicks]

dgwicks:~# unzip -v
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005,
by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.

It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, 
which makes me think it might be something else that unzip 
interacts with. But I have no idea what it might be.



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Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

[Dennis Wicks]

Jonathan Kaye wrote the following on 02/17/2009 12:55 AM:

tyler wrote:


Dennis Wicks  writes:


Greetings;

I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking
them.

I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with
the popup blocker turned off. No messages or anything. It shows the
URL when I hold the cursor on the icon but nothing changes when I
click.

Any ideas?


Are you running any plugins: noscript, adblock, flashblock etc.?



Are you in the USA? It only works there. The popup gives this message.
"We're sorry. We have detected that you are outside of the United States.
This service is currently only available to residents within the United
States. 


 For music and entertainment services available in your country please click
here."
This, I got from Konqueror. Firefox doesn't even bother opening the popup as
it knows it would annoy me. ;-)
cheers,
jonathan 


Somebody edited out the part where I said:
I tried it on Win XP I'net explorer and it said popups were being blocked 
>so I turned off the popup blocker and everything worked 
fine there.


Which implies, I guess, that yes, I am in the USA because it 
does work, in at least one config.



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Re: unzip -a strange behavior

[Dennis Wicks]

Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/16/2009 07:05 PM:

On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote:


dgwicks:~# unzip -v
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005,
by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.

It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which 
makes me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with. 
But I have no idea what it might be.


Weird input files?

As it turns out, apparently there is something wrong with 
the input zip file. I tried unzip on another file that I 
know produced correct results and it operates correctly.


The out put from the "weird" file looks OK except for the ^M 
but how can you be sure? Obviously something is wrong with 
it some how.


Thanks for the suggestion. That appears to be the problem.

Dennis


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Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a 
recent email, but the site doesn't respond. I have tried 
several different browsers but they all go into a "waiting 
for reply" mode and nothing comes back.


Any info appreciated.

TIA,
Dennis


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Numeric keypad doesn't work!

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work 
under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. 
(Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the keyboard brands and 
models but nothing makes any difference. Still doesn't work, 
regardless of NumLock setting. And the LED does turn on and 
off with the NumLock.


Anybody have the solution for this problem?

TIA!
Dennis


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Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work!

[Dennis Wicks]

Jeff Soules wrote the following on 02/25/2009 11:36 PM:


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dennis Wicks  wrote:

Greetings;

I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work under Gnome, but
works fine in a console session. (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the
keyboard brands and models but nothing makes any difference. Still doesn't
work, regardless of NumLock setting. And the LED does turn on and off with
the NumLock.

Anybody have the solution for this problem?

TIA!
Dennis


Is the keyboard model correctly set under Gnome's Keyboard Preferences
control panel?  How about in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?  Are either of those
set to a keyboard type that doesn't have a numpad?

Just a shot in the dark, but can't hurt to check.



Good question! In 30 years I don't remember ever having a 
kbd that didn't have a numeric keypad, or one where the 
keypad didn't work. That is why I first thought that my 
keyboard wasn't working. Until I discovered that it worked 
in the console sessions but not in gnome.


Does anybody have a numeric keypad that works? What is your 
keyboard mfg and model set to? Mine is Generic 101 key PC.


Thanks,
Dennis


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Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have two programs that are failing at startup with this 
message;



/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size


Does any one know what the problem is?

I have already installed/reinstalled everything I coould 
find that seemed to be connected with font config.


TIA!
Dennis


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Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work! - Solved

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Pal Trendweaver wrote the following on 02/27/2009 05:33 PM:

Op woensdag 25-02-2009 om 23:27 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Dennis Wicks:

Greetings;

I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work 
under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. 
(Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the keyboard brands and 
models but nothing makes any difference. Still doesn't work, 
regardless of NumLock setting. And the LED does turn on and 
off with the NumLock.


Anybody have the solution for this problem?

TIA!
Dennis



I had this problem too a few days ago, some Ubuntu forum stated I should 
try a [Shift + Num Lock], and it worked.
I have no idea why the keypad ceased to work, but no more troubles 
here 123456789/*-+0


While testing shift-Num Lock and other combos I noticed that 
the mouse pointer was moving around a little when I was 
hitting the keypad keys. That tickled a neuron or two and I 
started searching and found that "Allow to control the 
pointer using the keyboard" was checked in "Keyboard 
Preferences". I unchecked it and that solved the problem!


Thanks for the hints and suggestions!
Dennis


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Re: Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

[Dennis Wicks]

Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 02/28/2009 06:40 AM:

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:

Greetings;

I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message;


/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

Does any one know what the problem is?


FT_Select_Size should be defined in libfreetype.so.6 from the
libfreetype6 package.  You either have an outdated version of this
package, or your libfontconfig.so.1 links against the wrong
libfreetype.so.6 (e.g. a non-Debian version in /usr/local/lib/).

Please post the output of these two commands:

dpkg -l libfreetype6 | tail -n-1

ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1



OK, here are the results


 dpkg -l libfreetype6 | tail -n-1
ii  libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files



ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fb2000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7f03000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7eee000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7ec7000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d6c000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7d53000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fb3000)






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Re: Staying on topic and quoting

[Dennis Wicks]

Steven Demetrius wrote the following on 03/11/2009 02:07 AM:

Staying on topic and quoting.

One of the things that causes confusion is going off topic and improper
quoting.

Staying on topic makes the thread easy to follow and understand. We all
go off topic now and then but we need to curb this as it makes the
mailing list seem chaotic. If you find that you are going off topic may
I suggest staring a new thread.

Improper quoting can also case confusion. A sentence quoted out of
contexts can cause a lot of misunderstanding and as seen before a lot of
arguments. Arguments as opposed to Discussions. If unsure then don't
quote. This way the reader will have to look up the original message
with the full text.


I feel it is better to quote everything if unsure. Why force 
 the next reader to try and find the beginning of the 
thread if they can't even tell what *year* it started in?



Inline quoting can be very useful but I find it better suited for one on
one mailing and does not work very well for mailing lists.


Inline quotes are just fine for a short comment or reply to 
one statement or paragraph in the post.



Please keep in mind the purpose of the Debian user mailing list; A place
for *Debian* users to interact and help each other, A place for
discussions not arguments, a place where users look for advise from more
knowledgeable users and assume the information presented is correct.

Steven.


If you needed to write a lengthy explanation of how to set 
up LVM using striping and RAID5 across eight volumes, then 
it would indeed be preferable to use straight bottom posting 
rather than inline posting.


Dennis


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Local mirroring How-To?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this 
but I can't locate it.


Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that 
I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these 
runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection.


I have the space to install a local mirror of one or two 
releases of Debian so I can do updates over my local net at 
100 Mbs and speed things up considerably.


But ... I can't find anything current about how to do that.

Does anybody have any pointers to a good, and current, set 
of directions on how to do this? Or have a cookbook that 
works for you?


Many TIA!
Dennis


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Samba problem

[Dennis Wicks]

All of a sudden (ie. I can't think of anything that 
changed.) samba on one linux machine is not working.


One symptom is:


dgwicks:~# smbclient -L joyce
Connection to joyce failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)


another is:


dgwicks:~# mount //joyce/edrv
mount error 111 = Connection refused
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)


In order to find/solve the problem I have installed the 
latest version of samba, smbfs, etc. to now avail.


The machine joyce can mount shares from other linux and 
Windows machines but no linux or windows machines can mount 
shares from joyce.


Any hints, tips, pointers, etc. greatly appreciated!

TIA,
Dennis


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Need help with Mail::Sender

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

Following the docs I have it working basically, but it is 
not handling html w/inline images correctly.


Instead of getting a html message with inline image it is 
sending a blank email with both the html and the jpg image 
as attachments.


Here is my program. Does anyone see the problem?

Many TIA!
Dennis

 === === program follows  === ===


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::Sender;

my $image = 'kitten.jpg';

my $sender = Mail::Sender->new( {
smtp=> 'smtpout.secureserver.net',
port=> '3535',
from=> 't...@mgssub.com',
auth=> 'LOGIN',
authid  => 't...@mgssub.com',
authpwd => 'xxx'
} );
ref $sender or die
  "Object creation failed: $Mail::Sender::Error\n";

my $recipients = 'gra...@mgssub.com';

 if (ref $sender->OpenMultipart({
   to => $recipients,
   subject => 'Test Sending HTML and inline message',
   boundary => '--boundarytest1',
   multipart => 'related'})) {
   $sender->Attach(
   {description => 'html body',
   ctype => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii',
   encoding => '7bit',
   disposition => 'NONE',
   file => 'test-inline.html'
   });
   $sender->Attach({
   description => 'kitten-1',
   ctype => 'image/jpg',
   encoding => 'base64',
   disposition => "inline; filename=\"$image\";\r\nContent-ID: ",
   file => "$image"
   });
 $sender->Close() or die "Close failed! $Mail::Sender::Error\n";
   } else {
   die "Cannot send mail: $Mail::Sender::Error\n";}



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How to create hidden files?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

Back in the dim distant past I remember that one could 
create hidden or "secret" file with Basic on DOS and at 
least early Windows (3.0). I was never able to figure out 
where those files were.


Any way, is there a way of doing this in linux? I know that 
some commands/programs won't show .xx files by default, but 
that isn't the same sort of thing as Basic did.


Any body have an idea?

TIA!
Dennis


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Need help installing ndiswrapper

[Dennis Wicks]

I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.

In the INSTALL it states:

You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
directory. The command

  ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.

I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel 
source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory & 
file.


How do I get these setup?

TIA!!
Dennis


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Need help installing ndiswrapper

[Dennis Wicks]

I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.

In the INSTALL it states:

You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
directory. The command

  ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.

I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel 
source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory & file.


How do I get these setup?

TIA!!
Dennis


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Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

[Dennis Wicks]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM:

Dennis Wicks wrote:

I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.

In the INSTALL it states:

 You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
 kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
 directory. The command

   ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

 should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.

I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel 
source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory & file.
  


You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files.
These are in the package linux-headers- .



OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked.

I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then:

  ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf
  installing bcmwl5 ...

  modprobe ndiswrapper
  FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers.

So, no difference, no joy ...

Any more help?

TIA!
Dennis








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Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

[Dennis Wicks]

Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 10/07/2008 03:16 PM:

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM:

Dennis Wicks wrote:

I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.

In the INSTALL it states:

 You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
 kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
 directory. The command

   ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

 should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.

I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and 
the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the 
required directory & file.
  

You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files.
These are in the package linux-headers- .



OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked.

I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then:

  ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf
  installing bcmwl5 ...

  modprobe ndiswrapper
  FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers.


It seems that you have not compiled the kernel ndiswrapper module (using
module-assistant):

http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4

If this does not work for you then post the exact commands that you use
and the error messages that you get when trying to follow these
instructions.

(It seems that you attempted to use the generic upstream INSTALL
 instructions; this should not be necessary because module-assistant
 should do all the complicated stuff for you on Debian.)


Thanks Florian!

That was the missing piece!

But one would think that when you do 'aptitude install xyz' everything
needed to install xyz would be done, as is the case with most packages.

Thank goodness for you and others that have somehow discovered where the
secret spells are kept!

Many Thanks!
Dennis


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Can't run aptitude

[Dennis Wicks]

When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get

dgwicks:~# aptitude update
Writing extended state information... Done
Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
  Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect
  (111 Connection refused)

and similar for everything in sources.

I am pretty sure that I haven't changed anything in the last few
days since I used it the last time.

BTW I have the same problem with synaptic.

Other deb systems on my local net work just fine.

Thanks for any help!

Dennis


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Re: Can't run aptitude

[Dennis Wicks]

Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM:

Dennis Wicks:

When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get

dgwicks:~# aptitude update
Writing extended state information... Done
Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
  Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect
  (111 Connection refused)


To me that looks like you have a http_proxy environment variable set.  I
think Synaptic and aptitude honour that. Or you have set the
corresponding option in apt.conf.

J.


Thanks for the pointer! That was the problem, although I have no idea
where the settings came from as I don't have to use proxies.

These are the settings:

HTTP_PROXY='http://localhost:4001 '
http_proxy='http://localhost:4001 '

Does that look familiar to anybody?

Many thanks, "J.", it works much better now!

Dennis


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virtual box version mismatch

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but
both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox
I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbox stuff.

The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version
of VirtualBox application are not matching. You can correct
this by either installing the correct virtualbox-ose-modules
package (if available) through apt-get or by building it
manually with: module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose.
VBox status code: -1912 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_VERSION_MISMATCH).


Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

I also tried the auto-install, which worked, but that doesn't solve the problem
either.

Any ideas what is wrong or how to get out of this?

TIA,
Dennis




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Re: virtual box version mismatch

[Dennis Wicks]

Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote the following on 10/23/2008 11:21 AM:

Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:52 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:



Exactly what it says. 'The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules
and the version of VirtualBox application are not matching.'
You may have upgraded one (or was upgraded during an apt-get upgrade)
and the other is still at the old version. Check their versions and
upgrade the other that isn't.


At the moment, e.g. using Synaptic, you will find that virtualbox-ose is
at version 1.6.6 in Lenny, and virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686 is at
1.6.2. That is the mismatch, which occurs now and then.

What you can do in such a case, is to compile the module yourself, in
the same way as it is explained for Etch here:
http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox?highlight=%28virtualbox%29

In short:

# module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose
# modprobe vboxdrv
# lsmod | grep vbox
vboxdrv55344  0

And do an 'aptitude hold virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686' to
prevent the wrong module from replacing the new one during the next
upgrade.




Thank you all! That solved the problem on both machines.

You need to add for future reference between m-a and modprobe

rmmod vboxdrv

else you still have the same error since apparently modprobe
silently does not replace already loaded modules.

Again, Thank you very much!

Dennis


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Can I expand VBox disk drives?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I installed VBox with Dynamically Expanding Image for the 
disk drives but the C drive has expanded to the point that 
it is nearly full. Is there any way I can expand the 
available space for VBox vdi drives?


Many TIA!
Dennis


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Adobe Reader install fails - out of space

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

When I installed Debian on my laptop I chose the option
to set up various separate file systems. Should have 
followed the KISS principle!


Anyway, I downloaded AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb 
from the Adobe web site and tried to install it with dpkg -i

but I get this result.

Unpacking adobereader-enu (from 
AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb 
(--install):

 failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1):
backend dpkg-deb during 
`./opt/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/EScript.api': 
No space left on device

 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb

The root partition is out of space and suspect that is the 
problem, but what do I know!


Any way, does anybody know how I can fis this problem or 
change the sizes of my file systems without a reinstall?


Many TIA!
Dennis


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Re: Can I expand VBox disk drives?

[Dennis Wicks]

Alex Samad wrote the following on 11/01/2008 04:32 PM:

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:

Greetings;

I installed VBox with Dynamically Expanding Image for the disk drives but 
the C drive has expanded to the point that it is nearly full. Is there 
any way I can expand the available space for VBox vdi drives?

the dynamic relates to the space used on the host filesystem not the
virtual drive. the guest always sees the full size even when it only
takes up say 5% of the physical disk drive


The doc says that it expands up to the size specified when 
defined. The problem is I defined it too small and it has 
now expanded to the max size defined. Can I increase that 
defined max size?


Thanks!




Many TIA!
Dennis


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Where is touch pad configure?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have lenny/gnome installed on a laptop with a touch pad
and I can't find any thing/place to configure/customize it.
It is working, but is way to sensitive.

TIA!
Dennis


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Need suggestions for internet messenger app

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except 
they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam.


Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also
need to work on Yahoo network.

I'm running lenny/gnome.

Many TIA!

Dennis


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Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

[Dennis Wicks]

H.S. wrote the following on 11/12/2008 11:17 PM:

Dennis Wicks wrote:

Greetings;

I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't
support microphone/speaker or webcam.

^


Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also
need to work on Yahoo network.

I'm running lenny/gnome.

Many TIA!

Dennis




Thanks for the suggestions, but the really important thing 
is *webcam*. Grandma has to be able to see those grandkids

grow! ;)

I guess I'll have to resort to running VBox and Windows, if 
that will work.


TNX again!
Dennis


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