Whats the best way to upgrade tools from source?

2009-07-28 Thread ml ml
Hello List,

i need file version 5.x on my system. But Debian etch comes with file
version 4.17.
How do i install 5.x (from source) without messing up my system?

IF i would just install file from source and overwrite the binay
package file, then i risk overwriting my stuff after the next update.

Removing the file is not possible, since i have a couple of dependencies here.

What should i do? Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mario


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libvxssl.so missing

2012-11-30 Thread ml ml
Hello List,

i basically have this problem:

- http://www.symantec.com/connect/de/forums/cannot-launch-vrtsralus-agent-5204
- http://www.tremka.com/showthread.php?12063-Cannot-launch-VRTSralus-Agent-5204

I am looking for libvxssl.so in order to get my symantec backup client
running. And YES i already searched on packages.debian.org

Any idea where libvxssl.so comes from? I cant even find a project page
to compile it myself from source :-(

Thanks,
Mario


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Need help building own Debian Package - dh_install: lighttpd missing files (debian/tmp/usr/sbin/*), aborting

2012-02-11 Thread ml ml
Hello List,

i am trying to build my own Debian Package.

Below is my debian/rules file. I ran dpkg-buildpackage and i get this error:

make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/lighttpd-1.4.26/tests'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/lighttpd-1.4.26/tests'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/lighttpd-1.4.26/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/lighttpd-1.4.26'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/lighttpd-1.4.26'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lighttpd-1.4.26'
touch build-stamp
dh build
 debian/rules binary
#dh --before dh_auto_install install
#dh_auto_install
dh_install --sourcedir=debian/tmp
dh_install: lighttpd missing files (debian/tmp/usr/sbin/*), aborting
make: *** [install-stamp] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2



debian/rules file:
--

#!/usr/bin/make -f

DH_VERBOSE=1

build: build-stamp
build-stamp:
dh build --before auto_configure
dh_quilt_patch
./configure \
--with-attr \
--with-lua=lua5.1 \
--with-openssl \
--with-pcre \
--with-bzip2 \
--with-webdav-props \
--with-webdav-locks \
--prefix=/usr/local/lighttpd-1.4.30/
dh build --after auto_configure
touch $@

install: install-stamp
install-stamp: build-stamp
#dh --before dh_auto_install install
#dh_auto_install
dh_install --sourcedir=debian/tmp
touch $@

binary-arch: install
dh $@

binary: binary-arch binary-indep

override_dh_installinit:
dh_installinit --error-handler=true -- defaults 91 09

%:
dh $@



Anyone any idea? If there is a debian-dev Mailing list for building
packages then let me know. I couldn't find one.

Thanks,
Mario


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DHCP Server - Error: not authoritative for subnet...

2012-02-28 Thread ml ml
Hello List,

i set up a DHCP Server. Here are my installed packages:
--
Server:~# dpkg -l  | grep dhcp
ii  dhcp3-client 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
ii  dhcp3-common 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
ISC DHCP common files (transitional package)
ii  dhcp3-server 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
ISC DHCP client
ii  isc-dhcp-common  4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
ii  isc-dhcp-server  4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment

I am getting this error:
--
dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.99.111 via eth0: not authoritative for
subnet 192.168.99.0
dhcpd: If this DHCP server is authoritative for that subnet,
dhcpd: please write an `authoritative;' directive either in the
dhcpd: subnet declaration or in some scope that encloses the
dhcpd: subnet declaration - for example, write it at the top
dhcpd: of the dhcpd.conf file.

This is my config:
--
Server:~# grep -v ^#  /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf  | grep -v ^$
ddns-update-style none;
option domain-name "example.org";
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.org, ns2.example.org;
default-lease-time 259200;
max-lease-time 26;
authoritative;
log-facility local7;
subnet 192.168.99.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  authoritative;
  range 192.168.99.101 192.168.99.200;
  option domain-name-servers 192.168.99.254;
  option routers 192.168.99.254;
  default-lease-time 259200;
  max-lease-time 26;
}
host backbone-switch {
  hardware ethernet c0:3f:0e:7c:b7:a3;
  fixed-address 192.168.99.101;
}
host foo1 {
  hardware ethernet 00:11:d8:5b:3b:98;
  fixed-address 192.168.99.113;
}
host foo2 {
  hardware ethernet 00:50:fc:a3:1d:c5;
  fixed-address 192.168.99.2;
}
host foo3 {
  hardware ethernet 00:22:19:22:90:57;
  fixed-address 192.168.99.114;
}
host foo4 {
  hardware ethernet 00:11:09:02:07:18;
  fixed-address 192.168.99.110;
}
host foo5 {
  hardware ethernet 00:22:19:19:a8:f7;
  fixed-address 192.168.99.105;
}
host foo6 {
  hardware ethernet 00:1e:37:23:38:75;
  fixed-address 192.168.99.103;
}



Any idea what i did wrong?

Thanks,
Mario


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Re: DHCP Server - Error: not authoritative for subnet...

2012-02-28 Thread ml ml
Thanks Pascal!

Thats it.


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Pascal Hambourg  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ml ml a écrit :
>>
>> i set up a DHCP Server. Here are my installed packages:
>> --
>> ii  dhcp3-server                         4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
>> ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
>> ii  isc-dhcp-server                      4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
>> ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment
> [...]
>> Server:~# grep -v ^#  /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf  | grep -v ^$
>
> Note : as indicated above, dhcp3-* are dummy transitional packages. The
> real packages isc-dhcp-* use config files in /etc/dhcp/, not in /etc/dhcp3/.


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courier-imap uid/gid problem

2008-02-23 Thread ml

Hi,
After upgrading from etch to lenny courier-imap does not seam to like my 
userdb configuration. I can authenticate but not get any mail. No error 
messages are present in mail.log or mail.err. I am running the following 
versions:


courier-authdaemon0.60.1-1+b1
courier-authlib   0.60.1-1+b1
courier-authlib-userdb0.60.1-1+b1
courier-base  0.58.0.20080127-1
courier-imap  4.3.0.20081027-1
courier-imap-ssl  4.3.0.20081027-1
courier-ssl   0.58.0.20080127-1

/etc/courier/userdb originally had:
uid=vmail | gid=vmail

If I turn off IMAP_MAILBOX_SANITY_CHECK in /etc/courier/imapd everything 
works OK, but running authtest against a user then returns the following:

Authenticated: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (uid 0, gid 0)

(I thought the uid and gid should be equal to the vmail user and group 
which is 110, so I think something is still not working correctly)


Now if I change all the gid and uid in /etc/courier/userdb from the 
group *name* to the group *number* gid=vmail to gid=110 (and the same 
for user id and number) and turn IMAP_MAILBOX_SANITY_CHECK back on 
everything works. So it looks to me like courier is no longer converting 
group names to numbers from userdb. If anyone is running a similar setup 
could they please test this out?


The following bug report might be relevant:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456637

Thanks.


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IM server gateway

2010-02-15 Thread ml

Hi,
Is there any linux server software that I can install as a gateway for
multiple IM networks for a few users?
I would like the users to be able to communicate with other IM networks
including XMPP, Facebook, MSN and ICQ without each user having to sign up
with each service. The communication from the users to our server would
ideally be an open protocol such as XMPP.

Thanks.


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Re: Need basic help with KDE Wallet

2005-12-11 Thread ML
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:44 pm, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at 16:28:42 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:50:44PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:37:28 -0700
> > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was confronted recently with a request for the password of my
 KDE Wallet. > > > > I didn't know I had one. I guessed my logon password
 for Debian, but that > > >
> [...]
> > >
> > > kwallet and/or kwalletmanager (the menu entry (Settings->Wallet
> > > Management Tool runs "kwalletmanager %u" - at least in 3.4.2) don't
> > > seem to do anything by themselves - both start here and immediately
> > > terminate, so I'm seeing the same behavior you are.
> >
> > My puzzlement began when a window popped up asking for a password. I
> > have no recollection of setting up a password for a secure
> > repository. If I did, how would I recover the password, or expunge
 the > > repository? How do I know it is working for me, and not for
 someone > > else? I certainly don't have control over it.
>
> That is the main reason I stopped using KDE.  I couldn't see any way to
> get rid of the thing.  Now, I'm really pleased -- much prefer the
 terser > desktops of icewm and windowmaker (and their quick startup),
 even though > I still use a handfull of KDE apps.  Recommended!
>
> --
> richard

If you really don't want it, try removing it from here, and see what happens? 

/home//.kde/share/apps/kwallet

I use it for not all that important passwords, and select never for this site 
when I don't want it to save a particular password. Just another app that you 
can use or not as you choose. Neither good nor bad, unless you judge it so.

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Re: touchpad busted on 2.6 Dell Insp 4k

2005-12-15 Thread ML
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:12 am, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Does anyone else find touchpad support to be broken using Debian's 2.6
> kernels?  I know about psmouse.proto=imps, but I'm really getting
> quite tired of it.  It doesn't seem to work on Debian kernels 2.6.8
> and 2.6.14, and I wonder if I just hacked the touchpad driver in my
> 2.6.11.1 to Work For Me.
>
> I'm using a Dull Insp 4k, and the mouse tends to have trouble
> "zeropointing"; so it has a continual need to move in one direction or
> another.  Besides that, click+drag is broken.  I really don't care
> about palm detection or any of this, I would really like to be able to
> make use of my window system, though.
>
> Please Cc me, thanks.
>
> --
> Clear skies,
> Justin
>

Got this assistance from this list for my Acer, which I thought wouldn't work 
the tap with 2.6.xxx kernels. I had to tweak a few things in the   to make it work nicely though.

Obviously install synaptics driver.

In in XF86Config:

Section "Module"
 ...
Load"synaptics"
>>>

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Touchpad"
Driver  "synaptics"

>>

Section "ServerLayout"
 ...
InputDevice "Touchpad"

Worked a treat. don't know about Dell though?

You will find the post that helped me in the archives I'm certain, but am 
unable to attribute it, because I have shamefully forgotten the persons name. 
Go back about 3 months I think from memory.
HTH as it did me.

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Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread ML
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:20 am, LMa wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm wishing to report a problem with KPPP 2.2.0 (with KDE 3.3.2 under
> Debian GNU Linux 3.1 "Sarge", kernel 2.4.27) which I cannot use
 properly > as a normal user.
>
> I managed to solve all other problems (I "come from" Knoppix 3.4 and I
> couldn't believe there was so much to configure under Debian just to
 get > KPPP to show up to me as a normal user!) and now my last problem
 is: I > just can't get onto the internet with KPPP.
> Even though I tried to copy as many settings from Knoppix 3.4 (which
> altogether worked) as possible to solve all other problems, I'm afraid
> with this last problem it was not enough - and I don't know what to do
 next. >
>
> Here are the messages I get :


I am not certain that this will be of help. I don't use KPPP on this machine 
because I can't configure it to work with my USB to Serial cable attached to 
my external modem.

During the install of Sarge, I configured my connection and now only type 
 in a terminal after allowing my user to be added to  permissions. 
I assume that you are on dial-up? As I am. I have never had any problem with 
connection.

I altered only one thing in my  file:-

mtu 576 

This to make my connection speed work faster and much better.

I'm not certain that if, as root you might not be able to type <# 
dpkg-reconfigure ppp> that you might not be able to grab it that way, and 
connect using 

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Re: KPPP won't go on the internet

2005-12-17 Thread ML
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:27 am, John Hasler wrote:
> No.  Running pppconfig as root and answering the questions will
 suffice.

Thanks John, never having had to do it, I didn't know it was that simple.

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How to set optical device path for Totem in Debian Sarge

2005-12-26 Thread ML
I have been trying to get totem to work on my Acer laptop, and it has worked 
previously, before the kernel had hdc=ide-scsi added, but not now.

There is no entry for the Optical Device Path? I don't know why?

Error message:-
Totem could not play 'file:///cdrom/cdrom0/hdc'.
There is no plugin to handle this movie.

Or:-

Totem could not play 'file:///cdrom/cdrom0/sr0'.
There is no plugin to handle this movie.

Can I set this manually?

I need totem because it brings the sound through the system without a wire 
required for the speaker. KSCD will play it, but has no wire lead to bring it 
to the speaker. Apparently this is the case with many laptops? So I have been 
informed.

Have googled and can find nothing of benefit, maybe just not using the right 
keywords. and would appreciate any suggestions.

TIA for any help,
Charlie
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Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2005-12-29 Thread ML
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:33 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A little while ago I posted a query on this camera.
> >
> > No answers.
> >
> > It turns out it is supported by gphoto2 w/o problems.
> >
> > However...
> > make sure that you set
> > CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
> > in your kernel. I did not do that and it will not be found without
 it. > >
>
> And another thing: when connecting the USB cable, make sure you have
 the > camera in *playback* mode. If you don't, there won't be any
 connection > and you'll be checking your cables all over the place, like
 I did. >
> You'll then see:
> kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
>
> and away you go...
>
> nice little camera.
>
> Thanks gphoto2!!!
>
> H


Thanks for that information Hugo, I don't have that camera, but it may also 
apply to others. It is kind of you to post this even though no one replied to 
your post, probably because they didn't know how to do what you discovered.

I for one appreciate this. It is very [sharing, co-operative] Linux like.
Thank you and all others who have done and do similarly,

Be well and have the best new year,
Charlie

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Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-07 Thread ML
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:31 am, Robert Thompson wrote:
> Hello All,
>I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a
 USB to > connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras
 work with > Debian?
>
> Thanks
> Eric
>

I have one, an Olympus FE110 digital camera.

It works a treat. I just mount it as a USB device and copy the files onto the 
hard drive, then unplug it. It creates the pictures as .jpg files and the 
movies as .mov files. Very civilised of it I think.

I've never used it in windows, though there is a CD that loads a program for 
loading onto windows. I prefer to use the Gimp for graphics anyway.

I have made a mount point  for it in /etc/fstab and I have just 
one complaint, or two really, that I have not yet found a way to unmount it, 
with different umount commands. 

Also have been unable to delete the files off it. But I think that might be a 
configuration issue, because just writing this I remember that I set it as a 
read only instead of read write permission in fstab. So will have to try that 
next time. Now that I have just changed it.

It is great fun..

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Re[2]: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-10 Thread mazaev . ml
Hi,

   I originally had a similar problem when trying to compile nVidia
and SB Live modules. For some reason, the 2.2.17 source in Debian
excludes modversions.h . I downloaded the regular kernel source from
kernel.org, compiled a kernel from that, and everything works fine
now.

Also, I think the official potato CD's install kernel 2.2.17pre6,
not the final 2.2.17 so this will cause "unresolved symbols"
errors if you use  kernel-headers-2.2.17 with 2.2.17pre6.



Friday, November 10, 2000, 1:22:57 AM, you wrote:

SH> Ben Collins wrote:

>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:52:17AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   I have just switched from RH to debian, and in the process of
>>> trying to compile nvidia and creative drivers have discovered that
>>> the kernel source was not installed. (Due to the fact that the
>>> drivers could not find moduleversions.h) Is this the usual behavior
>>> for Debian installs, or did I miss something?
>>> 
>>> Regardless, how should I get the kernel source installed and in synch
>>> with my current kernel? Will "apt-get source kernel" do the trick? If
>>> so will I then just need to do a "make dep" to allow me to build the
>>> drivers? (I am yet to do a kernel re-compile, so I am a little bit
>>> green in these matters ATM)
>> 
>> If all you need are headers to compile against then:
>> 
>> apt-get install kernel-headers-2.2.17
>> 
>> If you want full source, then:
>> 
>> apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17

SH> Hello, I just set up a new potato box for my friend, and we were trying to
SH> compile his linksys ethernet card driver from source, and ran into the same
SH> problem (can't find moduleversions.h). I ran `apt-get install
SH> kernel-source-2.2.17` and still no moduleversions.h. Does anyone know what's
SH> going on with that? It looks like it was looking in the right place. I
SH> decompressed the source, made a link from /usr/src/linux, and everything.

SH> Thanks.
SH> -samuel





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Unidentified subject!

2000-11-13 Thread Virginie-ML

Hi all,

Sorry I'm new here and start with a question, which is not really
correct, but I've a real problem : I've just installed my debian and all
worked fine, then I upgraded to gnome-helix, installed slrn...and
now apt-get seems to be definitively broken and I don't understand Why
:'((

I tried to remove, purge, reinstall...nothing...I also tried dselect and
hold broken packages...still nothing :'(((
The number of broken packages is growing and standard ones also become
corrupted ...I fear it's serious...

Would anybody have an idea plase ?..


# @*\$# logs:

Configuring packages ...
Can't exec "/var/lib/debconf//config.4814": Permission denied at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188.
open2: exec of /var/lib/debconf//config.4814 configure 1.9.9-4 failed at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 86
Use of uninitialized value at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 478.
leafnode failed to configure, with exit code 13
dpkg: error processing slrn (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slrn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)






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apt-get down :'(

2000-11-13 Thread Virginie-ML
Hi all,

Sorry I'm new here and start with a question, which is not really
correct, but I've a real problem : I've just installed my debian and all
worked fine, then I upgraded to gnome-helix, installed slrn...and
now apt-get seems to be definitively broken and I don't understand Why
:'((

I tried to remove, purge, reinstall...nothing...I also tried dselect and
hold broken packages...still nothing :'(((
The number of broken packages is growing and standard ones also become
corrupted ...I fear it's serious...

Would anybody have an idea plase ?..


# @*\$# logs:

Configuring packages ...
Can't exec "/var/lib/debconf//config.4814": Permission denied at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188.
open2: exec of /var/lib/debconf//config.4814 configure 1.9.9-4 failed at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 86
Use of uninitialized value at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 478.
leafnode failed to configure, with exit code 13
dpkg: error processing slrn (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:

 slrn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Re: apt-get down :'(

2000-11-14 Thread Virginie-ML
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:46:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> i wouldn't expect slrn to affect apt -- gnome-helix is
> an X window environment, so i wouldn't expect much interference
> there, either. did anything interrupt power while installing?
> or maybe a power loss last week might scramble one bit that
> wouldn't leave any fingerprints until now?
> 

Thank you for your answer ...but in fact the problem was simply the
option noexec I put on my /var partition ...no comment :)
It's stupid I know, but I'm new on debian and I didn't realised that
apt-get had to execute scripts there until I read the error messages 
for the 15th time (at least ...)
Sorry for the noise :)



 
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Re: Network config

2000-11-14 Thread Virginie-ML
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:49:24AM +0100, Knud S?rensen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am a new debian user.
> I have some problems getting my network to work.
> 
> What is the best way to config the network in debian 2.2 ?
> 
> It seems that there is a problem finding the eth0 interface.


I personally succeeded, recently, by manually choosing the right driver during
the installation process.  Take a look at the constructor website if
needed. the ethernet-howto can also be usefull.

For the network configuration it depends on your architecture and your kind of
connection. you may have to tell us more once your card is recognized
...



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Re: finding which package a file came with

2000-11-14 Thread Virginie-ML
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:54:38PM -0200, Allan F. Caetano wrote:
> Or, for an even better option, install dlocate and run:
> 
> $ dlocate -S 
> 
> 'dlocate' is to 'dpkg' as 'locate' is to 'find' (roughly
> speaking), it performs all the search operations in the package
> database much faster than dpkg.

It looks fine but there is nothing in my apt-cache about this...
Is it in unstable contribs ? 



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Re: default WM for gnome

2000-11-14 Thread Virginie-ML
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:19:35PM +0100, Michael B?rkle wrote:
> somebody can tell me why gnome ignores my personal properties for the
> default WM? for root i have enlightenment as window manager. but i also have


Maybe you shoud try an exec in your .Xinitrc, or simply choose "debian"
in gnome's graphical startup (in the first menu of the login interface
I think). The 2nd solution worked fine for me.




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Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question.  It
> is probably there but I just can't get the search string right.  Anyway
> I've just installed Potato.  The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't
> work using fvwm.  If I move the mouse it flits around the perimiter of the
> screen but there is no control.  I've listed it as /dev/mouse in
> XF86Config.  /dev/mouse is a link to gpmdata.  It'a a ps/2 mouse.  I've
> edited XF86Config changing to /dev/psaux and changing the permissions to
> 777.  What am I doing wrong?  


Maybe you should try to stop gpm and take it away from your rc*.d
files...that worked for me :)
 

> 

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Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail

2000-11-15 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:43:36AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Hello,
> I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and
> different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I
> am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages).
> Even when I stop Postfix. I guess there has been some change to the path
> where incoming mail is stored. Received mail does appear in /var/mail/.
> 
> Someone know how to fix this?

imho, there is great chance that the problem comes from your canonical
If not done, you should enter sthg like this in /etc/postfix/canonical :

user_name   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Then, in comand line:
# postmap canonical
# postfix reload




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Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-19 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:35:53PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote:
> What kind of mouse is it? Is it by chance an Intellimouse?


No, a cordless logitech, but I don't think that configuration parameters
are really differents (PS/2 - 3 buttons)
gpm and mouse don't seem to work very fine together...




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Re: GPM HELP!

2000-11-19 Thread Virginie-ML
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:09:58PM -0600, dude wrote:
> I accidenlty installedm GPM,
> and now it makes my cursor uncontrollabye with my mouse,
> 
> whtne i removed itmy mouse simple does isnt work any more
> 
> i have set up ln -s psaux /dev/mouse
> i have a lgitech that im treating as a ps2


Same answer as above : 
/usr/sbin/gpm stop
update-rc.d -f gpm remove

Good luck :)



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Routing problems using metric

2001-04-17 Thread fr ml
Hi,

I have some troubles with kernel routes on my Debian Linux
box (Ip @ 192.168.1.100).
This message migth not be a particular debian problem,
but I don't know other mailing list that could help me !

So, I've got two default gateway

Route Gateway Metric
default 192.168.1.254 0
default 192.168.1.253 1

My problem is that when my first gateway (i.e.
192.168.1.254) falls, the kernel routing table does not
switch to the second gateway (i.e. 192.168.1.253).
The system is stil asking arp request to resolve Ip @
192.168.1.254.

I've search in Howto (even in Linux Advanced routing Howto)
but did not find informations for my problem.
I've also look at the /proc/sys/net/* arguments in order to
find something that could activate route/metric switching.

It start getting on my nerves.
Could anybody help me please ... any help needed.

Thanks

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Re: Routing problems using metric [Does somebody undestood !]

2001-04-20 Thread fr ml
Sorry to insist, but does somebody reading this mailing
list have any ideas of the way to resolv this problem.
Or can you give me links or else to help me !

It a project on with I had to figth for Linux to be
considered as an alternative rather than a commercial
router product ! It would be a pity to reconsider this :^(

Fabian
> ---Message d'origine---
> De : fr ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date : 17/04/101 13:11:39
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some troubles with kernel routes on my Debian
Linux
> box (Ip @ 192.168.1.100).
> This message migth not be a particular debian problem,
> but I don't know other mailing list that could help me !
>
> So, I've got two default gateway
>
> Route Gateway Metric
> default 192.168.1.254 0
> default 192.168.1.253 1
>
> My problem is that when my first gateway (i.e.
> 192.168.1.254) falls, the kernel routing table does not
> switch to the second gateway (i.e. 192.168.1.253).
> The system is stil asking arp request to resolve Ip @
> 192.168.1.254.
>
> I've search in Howto (even in Linux Advanced routing
Howto)
> but did not find informations for my problem.
> I've also look at the /proc/sys/net/* arguments in order
to
> find something that could activate route/metric switching.
>
> It start getting on my nerves.
> Could anybody help me please ... any help needed.
>
> Thanks
>
> Fabian
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>
>
>
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Preseed slapd package rootpw

2013-11-14 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I would like to install the slapd package using a response file with puppet in 
order to configure openldap non-interactively. I managed to setup some 
parameters but I am a bit confused about how to configure the OpenLDAP rootpw 
(the root password for openldap access) parameter. 

using the command "debconf-get-selections  | grep slapd|grep password" I find 
the 4 different password paramters:

slapd    slapd/internal/generated_adminpw    password    
slapd    slapd/password2    password    
slapd    slapd/internal/adminpw    password    
slapd    slapd/password1    password    

Which one would be the right one? And another question which format should the 
"password" be? Should it be plaintext, MD5, SSHA?

Thanks!!
ML

Preseed single encrypted partition (without LVM)

2014-12-01 Thread ML mail
Hello,

Anyone knows the correct preseed and debconf commands/HD recipe in order to 
encrypt a single partition with partman-crypto for an automated install? I do 
not want to use LVM and I could not find any single documentation mentioning 
how to do that whith wheezy.

Basically my HD partitioning would be /boot (unencrypted) and / (encrypted with 
dm-crypt). Sounds easy but I can't get to preseed that simple config, only with 
LVM crap and I really do not want LVM.

Cheers!


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Preseed single encrypted partition (without LVM)

2014-12-01 Thread ML mail
Hello,

Anyone knows the correct preseed and debconf commands/HD recipe in order to 
encrypt a single partition with partman-crypto for an automated install? I do 
not want to use LVM and I could not find any single documentation mentioning 
how to do that whith wheezy.

Basically my HD partitioning would be /boot (unencrypted) and / (encrypted with 
dm-crypt). Sounds easy but I can't get to preseed that simple config, only with 
LVM and I really do not want LVM.

Cheers!


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checkinstall: error creating directory

2012-10-13 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I created a package for some software using the checkinstall command. When I 
try to install that package using "dpkg -i packagename.deb" it fails due to 
some missing directories in /etc. The exact output is the following:

(Reading database ... 53664 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking ganeti-instance-debootstrap (from 
ganeti-instance-debootstrap_0.11-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing ganeti-instance-debootstrap_0.11-2_amd64.deb (--install):
 error creating directory `./etc/ganeti/instance-debootstrap': No such file or 
directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ganeti-instance-debootstrap_0.11-2_amd64.deb

Indeed, the /etc/ganeti/instance-debootstrap directory does not exist. But 
isn't the checkinstall or dpkg software supposed to create it for me somehow?

Cheers,
ML

USB-to-Serial adapter on OpenBSD 4.9

2012-11-06 Thread ML mail
Hi,

On my OpenBSD 4.9 i386 PC there is no serial port so I bought a USB-to-Serial 
adapter in the hope to be able to use it but I can't figure out which device in 
/dev to use for that. When I connect the adapter I have the following dmesg 
entries:

uplcom0 at uhub2 port 1 "Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller D" rev 
1.10/3.00 addr 2

ucom0 at uplcom0

So I guess the serial device I should use is ucom0 but there is no /dev/ucom0...

Anyone has an idea of what I am missing?

Best,
M.L.

Re: USB-to-Serial adapter on OpenBSD 4.9

2012-11-06 Thread ML mail
Sorry wrong mailing list :(



 From: ML mail 
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"  
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 1:20 PM
Subject: USB-to-Serial adapter on OpenBSD 4.9
 

Hi,

On my OpenBSD 4.9 i386 PC there is no serial port so I bought a USB-to-Serial 
adapter in the hope to be able to use it but I can't figure out which device in 
/dev to use for that. When I connect the adapter I have the following dmesg 
entries:

uplcom0 at uhub2 port 1 "Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller D" rev 
1.10/3.00 addr 2

ucom0 at uplcom0

So I guess the serial device I should use is ucom0 but there is no /dev/ucom0...

Anyone has an idea of what I am missing?

Best,
M.L.

Locale issue

2012-12-07 Thread ML mail
Hello,

Since now already a few weeks I noticed that my locale settings on various 
Debian 6.0 servers got by some mysterious way broken... For example any 
tool/command using PERL will issue the following warning:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").


I suspect maybe some package upgrade generate this issue and I was expecting it 
to get fixed with a new package upgrade but now time passes and the problems is 
still there. Does anyone have an explanation on how this could happen? and how 
to fix it?

Best,
ML


Re: Locale issue

2012-12-07 Thread ML mail
Thanks for your mail, hopefully this will also get fixed into squeeze. It's 
quite annoying to have this warning everytime PERL gets called...



 From: Osamu Aoki 
To: ML mail  
Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"  
Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Locale issue
 
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:17:20AM -0800, ML mail wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Since now already a few weeks I noticed that my locale settings on various 
> Debian 6.0 servers got by some mysterious way broken... For example any 
> tool/command using PERL will issue the following warning:
> 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>     LANGUAGE = (unset),
>     LC_ALL = (unset),
>     LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
>     LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Debian 6.0 = squeeze

This is typical if you use  perl under LANG = "en_US.UTF-8".
This was fixed for wheezy ay perl

| perl (5.12.2-2) experimental; urgency=low
| ...
|     + Squelch useless locale warnings during package maintainer scripts.
|       (Closes: #508764)
|     + Improve LC_NUMERIC documentation. (Closes: #379329)
|     + Fix sprintf not to ignore LC_NUMERIC with constants. (Closes: #601549)
| ...
| 
|  -- Niko Tyni   Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:34:32 +0200

libvirt and QEMU Debian packages with support for GlusterFS?

2014-04-30 Thread ML mail
Hi,

I am planning to install OpenNebula 4.6 on Debian 7 to be used with GlusterFS 
storage servers. In the documentation of OpenNebula 4.6 one care read the 
following:

"The hypervisor nodes need to be part of a working GlusterFS cluster and the 
Libvirt and QEMU packages need to be recent enough to have support for 
GlusterFS."

So my question here is: does Debian's wheezy packages of libvirt and QEMU have 
both support for GlusterFS? or else how can I find out?

Regards
ML


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reboot required after linux-image upgrade?

2014-05-13 Thread ML mail
Hi,

I just upgraded my debian wheezy linux-image from 3.2.54 to 3.2.57 using 
apt-get update/upgrade and was wondering if I need to reboot my system or not 
in order for Linux to use the new kernel?

Cheers


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/etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread ML mail
Hello,

On my system the /etc/mailname file has permission 600 and some tools such as 
git tries to access to this file. Due to this restrictive permission it can't 
access it. Now what should be the permission of this file on a Debian 7 wheezy 
server? I guess 644 should be fine, there is in my opinion nothing "secret" in 
that file which would require a permission of 600?

Regards
ML


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Re: /etc/mailname file permission

2014-06-13 Thread ML mail
Thanks for your feedback. I believe my puppet changed the mode of this file for 
some unknown reason and I will reset it back to 644.




On Friday, June 13, 2014 12:53 PM, Andrei POPESCU  
wrote:
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 01:46:03, ML mail wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On my system the /etc/mailname file has permission 600 and some tools 

Both my wheezy and sid installs have 644.




> such as git tries to access to this file. Due to this restrictive 
> permission it can't access it. Now what should be the permission of 
> this file on a Debian 7 wheezy server? I guess 644 should be fine, 
> there is in my opinion nothing "secret" in that file which would 
> require a permission of 600?

Sounds reasonable.

Kind regards,
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Exim4 tuning on Debian squeeze

2013-04-04 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I have setup a Debian squeeze server as an SMTP relay server with the standard 
Debian Exim4 configured for STARTTLS and SMTP-AUTH. This SMTP server will be 
used for sending mails from a newsletter tool which sends one mail after the 
other to one single e-mail address.

Now with the default configuration of Exim4 on Debian sending 8 mails takes 56 
seconds so in average 8 seconds per mail for a simple mail of a few kilobytes.  
Sending the same 8 mails through another mail server takes around 16 seconds in 
total.


Is there any ways to fine tune the default configuration of Exim4 on Debian in 
order to allow faster processing of the mails?

Many thanks in advance for any input or suggestions.

Regards,
M.L.


8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

2013-04-24 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I am trying to configure an 8 port serial PCI card and managed to get the 3 
first ports working but the 5 others do not work. The ouput of 
/proc/tty/drivers/serial is the following:

0: uart:TI16750 port:03F8 irq:4 tx:2608 rx:0 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR
1: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001000 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
2: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001200 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
3: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001400 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
4: uart:16550A port:1040 irq:19 tx:11 rx:0 RTS|DTR
5: uart:16550A port:1048 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
6: uart:16550A port:1050 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0

7: uart:16550A port:1058 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0


serial port 0 is the serial port of the main board then the serial port card 
starts at position 1. So you see here that the port 1, 2 and 3 are configured 
correctly but the rest  are not. I already added the two kernel parameters 
"8250.runtime_uarts=8 8250.nr_uarts=8" but that didn't help. Does anyone know 
what could be wrong here?

I am using Debian 6.0 and the 8 port serial PCI card is the following: 
http://www.exsys.ch/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=626&language=en

Last, here is the ouput of "lspci -v" on that card:

0d:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c308 (prog-if 02 
[16550])
    Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c308
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
    Memory at a500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Memory at a520 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
    Memory at a540 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=16 Masked-
    Kernel driver in use: serial


Thanks for your help.

Regards,

M.L.


Re: 8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

2013-04-25 Thread ML mail
Dear Rob,

Thanks for your help. So to answer your question of where I added the 8250 
kernel parameters, that would be in /etc/default/grub file in the 
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable.

With your hints I was now able to find out that somehow my machine (a Soekris 
net6501-30 board) has one console serial port and 4 additional unused (no 
cables or plugs) serial ports. So this means I had to use the "13" parameter to 
the 8250.runtime_uarts and 8250.nr_uarts kernel boot config options. Now I can 
see all my ports but the order is somehow mixed up :( have a look here at the 
output of /proc/tty/driver/serial :

0: uart:TI16750 port:03F8 irq:4 tx:2608 rx:0 RTS|DTR
1: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001A00 irq:19 tx:11 rx:0 RTS|DTR
2: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001C00 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
3: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001E00 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
4: uart:16550A port:1040 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
5: uart:16550A port:1048 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
6: uart:16550A port:1050 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
7: uart:16550A port:1058 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
8: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001000 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
9: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001200 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
10: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001400 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
11: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001600 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
12: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001800 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0


So 0 is the serial console port (ttyS0) then 1-3 are 3 ports of my serial card, 
4-7 are then 4 serial ports from the net6501-30 mainboard and finally 8-12 are 
the rest 5 ports of my serial port card. As you can see it's a big mess and I 
don't understand how my 8 port serial card gets splitted like that. Any clues 
how to bring some order here?

Best regards,
M.L.


- Original Message -
From: Rob van der Putten 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: 8 port serial PCI card on squeeze

Hi there


ML mail wrote:

> I am trying to configure an 8 port serial PCI card and managed to get the 3 
> first ports working but the 5 others do not work. The ouput of 
> /proc/tty/drivers/serial is the following:
>
> 0: uart:TI16750 port:03F8 irq:4 tx:2608 rx:0 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR
> 1: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001000 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
> 2: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001200 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
> 3: uart:16C950/954 mmio:0xA5001400 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0

That's 4 working ports. Which is the default.

> 4: uart:16550A port:1040 irq:19 tx:11 rx:0 RTS|DTR
> 5: uart:16550A port:1048 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
> 6: uart:16550A port:1050 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
>
> 7: uart:16550A port:1058 irq:19 tx:0 rx:0
>
>
> serial port 0 is the serial port of the main board then the serial port card 
> starts at position 1. So you see here that the port 1, 2 and 3 are configured 
> correctly but the rest  are not. I already added the two kernel parameters 
> "8250.runtime_uarts=8 8250.nr_uarts=8"

Where?

> but that didn't help. Does anyone know what could be wrong here?
>
> I am using Debian 6.0 and the 8 port serial PCI card is the following: 
> http://www.exsys.ch/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=626&language=en
>
> Last, here is the ouput of "lspci -v" on that card:
>
> 0d:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c308 (prog-if 02 
> [16550])
>      Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c308
>      Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
>      Memory at a500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>      Memory at a520 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
>      Memory at a540 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
>      Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>      Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>      Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=16 Masked-
>      Kernel driver in use: serial

Are you quite sure that the motherboard only has one serial port?
Sometimes the second port needs a IDC + ribbon + bracket with RS232 
connector. Consult the motherboard docs.

Check CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS= and CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS= 
in your kernel config.
The first is the maximum number of RS232 ports, the second the default.
Th first has to be >= the total number of RS232 ports.

Edit /etc/default/grub; GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="8250.nr_uarts=9"
Or 10, if your motherboard has 2 ports.
Run update-grub.
Check /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Reboot.


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Rep: mlnospam

2013-05-06 Thread ML mail
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ML mail


Preseed with wheezy overwritting interfaces file

2013-05-19 Thread ML mail
  
Hello,

I
 am installing wheezy automatically by using preseed and am using its 
late_command feature to run a script at the end of the installation. 
This script is actually modifying the /etc/network/interfaces file to 
setup bonding and VLAN access. This all used to work fine on squeeze but
 now with wheezy it looks like the /etc/network/interfaces file gets 
rewritten after the late_command of preseed.

Does anyone know more about this or have any tips?

Regards.
John


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Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

2013-05-19 Thread ML mail
Hi Brian,

I am preseeding a server so no wireless only standard ethernet. I am installing 
the bare minimum possible so the only task I preseed is the openssh server, 
then I add a few additional useful server packages such as lvm, ethtool, etc.

Here below is the content of /e/n/i as overwritten by the installer:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp


Regards
J.



- Original Message -
From: Brian 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

On Sat 18 May 2013 at 06:44:49 -0700, John Ron wrote:

> I am installing wheezy automatically by using preseed and am using its
> late_command feature to run a script at the end of the installation.
> This script is actually modifying the /etc/network/interfaces file to
> setup bonding and VLAN access. This all used to work fine on squeeze
> but now with wheezy it looks like the /etc/network/interfaces file
> gets rewritten after the late_command of preseed.
> 
> Does anyone know more about this or have any tips?

Over which type of network connection did you install Wheezy? Wired or
wireless?

What tasks did you choose to install? DE, basic system utilities etc?

Please post the contents of /e/n/i which you have after the install on
first boot.


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Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

2013-05-20 Thread ML mail
Hi Andrei,

I would really like to use the preseed config file to configure my /e/n/i file 
but right now it's just not possible. I need to setup ethernet bonding with 
VLAN and bridging. All netcfg in the deban installer can do is simple wireless 
and ethernet so that's why I have to use a late_command script to "patch" my 
/e/n/i file.

Regards,
John



- Original Message -
From: Andrei POPESCU 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

On Du, 19 mai 13, 12:58:59, ML mail wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I am preseeding a server so no wireless only standard ethernet. I am 
> installing the bare minimum possible so the only task I preseed is the 
> openssh server, then I add a few additional useful server packages 
> such as lvm, ethtool, etc.
> 
> Here below is the content of /e/n/i as overwritten by the installer:

I'm guessing you have to preseed the network configuration (as opposed 
to doing it with a separate script), because otherwise the installer has 
no way of telling that you are changing /e/n/i so it does what it 
usually does (write to it the configuration used during the install).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

2013-05-20 Thread ML mail
Thanks for taking the time and testing this issue. I will definitely open a bug 
for that one on the netcfg package as you recommend. This has for sure been 
changed between squeeze and wheezy as with squeeze I was using exactly the same 
procedure and it worked just fine.

J.


- Original Message -
From: Brian 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

On Sun 19 May 2013 at 12:58:59 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> I am preseeding a server so no wireless only standard ethernet. I am 
> installing the bare minimum possible so the only task I preseed is the 
> openssh server, then I add a few additional useful server packages such as 
> lvm, ethtool, etc.
> 
> Here below is the content of /e/n/i as overwritten by the installer:
> 
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp

Your assumption that /e/n/i is being rewritten has a high probability of
being correct. I have experienced something similar myself and have
confirmed today (by editing /target/e/n/i just before finishing the
installation) that what you experience does happen. There have been
changes in netcfg for Wheezy and they are, in my opinion, the cause of
what you experience.

There is little you can do about it apart from reporting it as a bug
against netcfg after reading the existing bug reports. If you do decide
to do this I would say its severity is at least 'important'.


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Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

2013-05-20 Thread ML mail
Just to let you know that I've now opened a bug on Debian with important 
prirority. Let's see what they say...

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709017




- Original Message -
From: Brian 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

On Sun 19 May 2013 at 12:58:59 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> I am preseeding a server so no wireless only standard ethernet. I am 
> installing the bare minimum possible so the only task I preseed is the 
> openssh server, then I add a few additional useful server packages such as 
> lvm, ethtool, etc.
> 
> Here below is the content of /e/n/i as overwritten by the installer:
> 
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp

Your assumption that /e/n/i is being rewritten has a high probability of
being correct. I have experienced something similar myself and have
confirmed today (by editing /target/e/n/i just before finishing the
installation) that what you experience does happen. There have been
changes in netcfg for Wheezy and they are, in my opinion, the cause of
what you experience.

There is little you can do about it apart from reporting it as a bug
against netcfg after reading the existing bug reports. If you do decide
to do this I would say its severity is at least 'important'.


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Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

2013-05-20 Thread ML mail
Actually it is a bit more complex. I use the late_command to download and then 
run a PERL script which is chrooted in /target as you can see here:

d-i preseed/late_command string \
    in-target wget http://x.x.x.x/d-i/wheezy/postinst.pl -O /tmp/postinst.pl; \
    in-target /bin/chmod 755 /tmp/postinst.pl; \
    in-target /tmp/postinst.pl;


Maybe I could add an extra command to late_command after running my PERL script 
such as:

cp /target/etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces

but I am not sure if it is possible to mix "in-target" commands with no 
"in-target" commands in one single late_command config param. Did you maybe 
already try that and know?  else I will simply give it a try later on.



- Original Message -
From: Brian 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

On Mon 20 May 2013 at 03:40:41 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> Thanks for taking the time and testing this issue. I will definitely
> open a bug for that one on the netcfg package as you recommend. This
> has for sure been changed between squeeze and wheezy as with squeeze I
> was using exactly the same procedure and it worked just fine.

It was remiss not to ask what your late_command is. I'd assumed it is
along the lines of

   /bin/echo  >> /target/e/n/i

When you set up the network at the start of the installation an
interfaces file is written to /etc/network. This file is copied to
/target/etc/network during the install of the base system. On Squeeze
it is this interfaces file in /target which ends up as the one on the
installed system. If you alter it with the late_command then this
altered file is the one put on the installed system. All nice and
straightforward.

On Wheezy you still have an interfaces file in /e/n/; it is still
copied to /target/e/n and it still gets altered by late_command at the
'Finish the installation' stage.

However, netcfg on Wheezy has a script (not present on Squeeze) which
is run when the install finishes. With a wired network it copies the
existing /e/n/i to /target/e/n/i. This copied file is the one you get.

In your situation you could work round the problem with

   /bin/echo  >> /e/n/i

But don't decide to switch to using a wireless network for installing
because a different procedure is used. Before being copied to /target
/e/n/i is rewritten to contain only a loopback interface. Not only
will you lose any changes made by late_command but you won't even have
any connectivity when you boot into the new system!



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Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

2013-05-20 Thread ML mail
Thanks again for all your help and ideas. I went for the easiest way and tried 
to adapt my preseed late_command in order to invoke a copy of /target/e/n/i to 
/e/n/i once my post installation PERL script has finished running. So my 
late_command looks like that now:

d-i preseed/late_command string \
    in-target wget http://x.x.x.x/d-i/wheezy/postinst.pl -O /tmp/postinst.pl; \
    in-target /bin/chmod 755 /tmp/postinst.pl; \
    in-target /tmp/postinst.pl; \
    cp /target/etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces;


Just did a test preseed installation using that and it worked perfectly. Nice 
and easy workaround for a weird modification in netcfg as you say... I guess a 
few other people will get stuck too. I am still suprised that netcfg does not 
support the configuration of bonding, VLAN or bridging. But until it does 
people will have to find solutions like mine and modify /e/n/i afterwards.



- Original Message -
From: Brian 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Wheezy preseed overwritting interfaces file

On Mon 20 May 2013 at 08:54:21 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> Maybe I could add an extra command to late_command after running my
> PERL script such as:
> 
> cp /target/etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> but I am not sure if it is possible to mix "in-target" commands with
> no "in-target" commands in one single late_command config param. Did
> you maybe already try that and know?  else I will simply give it a try
> later on.

I've not tried it. Please let us know if it works.

A couple of ideas, neither tested:

1. Backup /target/e/n/i. At least it will be on the new system and give
   you less work should you want to use it.

2. Delete /usr/lib//finish-install.d/55netcfg-copy-config at some stage
   of the install. This will effectively give you a Squeeze situation.

   55netcfg-copy-config is a pain anyway. It appears to focus on making
   sure someone who installed GNOME and Network Manager has a connected
   system.

   If you go for a minimal install with ifupdown it seems you are
   penalised. Installing over a wireless connection without a DE surely
   epitomises that. No network connection on first boot and not a single
   indication in the installer or in the documentation it might happen.
   This removal of connectivity legitimately configured during the
   install must be a first in Debian's history.


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xmit_hash_policy (bonding) not working

2013-07-11 Thread ML mail
Hi,

I am running Debian 7 with two NICs bonded using 802.3ad and would like to 
change the xmit_hash_policy from the default layer2 to layer3+4. For this 
purpose I have added to my bond0 iface definition in /etc/network/interfaces 
the following parameter:

    xmit_hash_policy layer3+4


Unfortunately it looks like it has no effect because /proc/net/bonding/bond0 
still shows:

Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)


Also manually trying to set this option fails:

# echo 1 >/sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/xmit_hash_policy
bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted

Does anyone have any idea?

Regards,
M.L.

Re: xmit_hash_policy (bonding) not working

2013-07-11 Thread ML mail
Found the issue, the correct option for the bond iface definition is:

    bond_xmit_hash_policy layer3+4





 From: ML mail 
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"  
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:54 AM
Subject: xmit_hash_policy (bonding) not working
 


Hi,

I am running Debian 7 with two NICs bonded using 802.3ad and would like to 
change the xmit_hash_policy from the default layer2 to layer3+4. For this 
purpose I have added to my bond0 iface definition in /etc/network/interfaces 
the following parameter:

    xmit_hash_policy layer3+4


Unfortunately it looks like it has no effect because /proc/net/bonding/bond0 
still shows:

Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)


Also manually trying to set this option fails:

# echo 1 >/sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/xmit_hash_policy
bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted

Does anyone have any idea?

Regards,
M.L.

preseed root password with !

2013-07-16 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I would like to have the root password set to "!" in order to disable it. For 
that I found the following documentation in the Debian installation guide:

"The passwd/root-password-crypted and passwd/user-password-crypted variables 
can also be preseeded with “!” as their value. In that case, the corresponding 
account is disabled." 

Reference: 
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en#preseed-account

So I added the following config parameter in my preseed file:

d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password "!"

It works but the funny thing is that in /etc/shadow it exactly gets added with 
the double quotes as such:


root:"!":15902:0:9:7:::


I would like it just to have ! without the quotes so I tried the following in 
my preseed file:


d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password !

With that parameter it does not work, the debian installer stops and asks me 
for a root password...

Any ideas what's wrong? maybe a bug? Btw: I am using Debian 7.

Regards,
M.L.


Compiling megaraid_sas driver on Debian 6.0 squeeze

2012-08-07 Thread ML mail
Hello,


I just bought a new LSI MegaRAID SAS 9266-4i RAID card and noticed that Debian 
6.0 squeeze does not recognize this RAID card as it is pretty new. So no 
problem I thought I would simply download the source driver directly from LSI 
(megaraid_sas-v00.00.06.18-src.tgz) and compile the module myself in order to 
replace the current module using the dkms tool.

Unfortunately, while running dkms build (dkms build -m megaraid-sas -v 
00.00.06.18) the compilation fails and the make.log file contains the following:

DKMS make.log for megaraid-sas-00.00.06.18 for kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 
(x86_64)
Wed Aug  8 08:42:11 CEST 2012
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64'
CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.o
/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.c: In function 
'megasas_change_queue_depth':
/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.c:3208: error: 
'SCSI_QDEPTH_DEFAULT' undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.c:3208: error: 
(Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.c:3208: error: 
for each function it appears in.)
/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.c: At top level:
/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.c:3236: warning: 
initialization from incompatible pointer type
/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.c:5166: warning: 
initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build/megaraid_sas_base.o] 
Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/megaraid-sas/00.00.06.18/build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64'


No I am no programmer and honestly don't have much a clue what is really going 
wrong here... So just wanted to ask if someone has an idea what could be 
possibly wrong here? or maybe someone already has experience compiling the 
latest megaraid_sas module from source?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
M.L.


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How to add self-compiled kernel module in debian installation

2012-08-09 Thread ML mail
Hi,


I have a new LSI MegaRAID card which is not recognized by the Debian 6.0 
squeeze installer so I thought I would modify the initrd.gz installation image 
which gets loaded at PXE boot in order to include my self-compiled latest 
version of that module (megaraid_sas.ko). I unpacked then the initrd.gz using 
cpio and looked at its /modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi to notice 
that it's all empty. I conclude here that the SCSI card drivers are not located 
in the initrd.gz image.

Do you know where and how I can get my version of megaraid_sas.ko module driver 
loaded at installation time instead of the default one?

Cheers,
ML


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Re: How to add self-compiled kernel module in debian installation

2012-08-09 Thread ML mail
Indeed yes, I managed to compile the megaraid_sas module by using an older 
version of it (looks like the latest source code from LSI has an issue with 
Debian). I see you follow very well what happens on this mailing list :)


Thanks for your suggestion of the USB key, unfortunately that's exactly what I 
would like to avoid as I want to setup a fully automated installation using 
Debian's preseed so going to the server and add a USB key is not really an 
option. Can't I somehow modify the PXE netinstall initrd.gz image to add there 
directly my self-compiled version of the kernel module?

Cheers,
ML 



- Original Message -
From: Camaleón 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: How to add self-compiled kernel module in debian installation

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:46:26 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> I have a new LSI MegaRAID card which is not recognized by the Debian 6.0
> squeeze installer so I thought I would modify the initrd.gz installation
> image which gets loaded at PXE boot in order to include my self-compiled
> latest version of that module (megaraid_sas.ko). 

So you finally managed to compile the driver for Debian, congrats! :-)

> I unpacked then the initrd.gz using cpio and looked at its
> /modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi to notice that it's all
> empty. I conclude here that the SCSI card drivers are not located in the
> initrd.gz image.
> 
> Do you know where and how I can get my version of megaraid_sas.ko module
> driver loaded at installation time instead of the default one?

A dirty trick can be placing/copying the kernel module under "/lib/
modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/scsi" from the installer itself. 

You will need to put file into a USB stick and jump to a console to 
manually mount the USB disk ("mount /dev/sdb1" /mnt) and then issue a 
simple "cp /dev/sdb1/megaraid_sas.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/
drivers/scsi/" (note that YMMV with names and paths, do not copy/paste 
"as is"). After that I supoose you will have to "modprobe megaraid_sas" 
so the module becomes available from the partitioner.

P.S. Remember that the kernel module you have self-compiled has to match 
with the kernel version you are going to use, otherwise it will fail to 
load ;-(

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Re: How to add self-compiled kernel module in debian installation

2012-08-09 Thread ML mail
Well I am also starting to develop some kind of love/hate relationship with 
these RAID cards...


Unfortunately, the link doesn't help much and I am still trying to figure out 
where these RAID card modules are loaded from during the installation...

I thought adding a new RAID card module to the installation would be as "easy" 
as adding a closed-source firmware network adapter module such as bnx2... but 
it looks like this is not the case.


Best,

ML



- Original Message -
From: Camaleón 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: How to add self-compiled kernel module in debian installation

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:50:47 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> Indeed yes, I managed to compile the megaraid_sas module by using an
> older version of it (looks like the latest source code from LSI has an
> issue with Debian). I see you follow very well what happens on this
> mailing list :)

I have an special interest when it comes to hardware RAID controllers 
(I've developed a love-hate relationship with them).

> Thanks for your suggestion of the USB key, unfortunately that's exactly
> what I would like to avoid as I want to setup a fully automated
> installation using Debian's preseed so going to the server and add a USB
> key is not really an option. 

Mmm... then maybe you can add the kernel module to the ISO before you 
burn the image into a CD/DVD :-?

> Can't I somehow modify the PXE netinstall initrd.gz image to add there
> directly my self-compiled version of the kernel module?

For this I can't tell. I know the initrd can be tweaked for preseeding 
but to include a kernel module, I don't know.

Check if this helps:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CustomKernel

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No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
Hi,

I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed automatically 
over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no swap space but I have 
the problem that if I do not specify a swap space in my preseed configuration 
file the automated Debian installation stops and opens a dialog for configuring 
swap space.

I deduct here that it is not possible to have a fully automated installation 
without a swap space. Am I right? Or are there any tricks to overcome this 
necessity of swap space?

Cheers,
ML


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Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed config 
files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems package 
from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the following to 
my debian preseed file:

d-i partman-basicfilesystems/no_swap boolean false

and am going to test it right now :)




- Original Message -
From: Brian 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed
> automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no
> swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap
> space in my preseed configuration file the automated Debian
> installation stops and opens a dialog for configuring swap space.
> 
> I deduct here that it is not possible to have a fully automated
> installation without a swap space. Am I right? Or are there any tricks
> to overcome this necessity of swap space?

No tricks involved. Download the partman-basicfilesystems udeb and
search for 'no_swap' in the templates file.


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Debian freezes while booting

2014-02-09 Thread fa-ml
Hello Debian users,
I recently bought a gluglug X60s laptop and once received I installed
Debian on it (wheezy i386).

The installation was done using the netinstall CD; I only installed base system
plus laptop programs and apt-get install'd other stuff (xorg, alsa, etc.) later
on.

The problem is that more often than not, when I boot debian, after typing the
password for the encrypted volume, the boot process hangs (black-but-not-off
screen, unresponsive to key presses). I say more often than not because once
in, say, 20 boots everything goes smoothly (so I can login in a terminal,
start x, etc.).
I documented my actions during boot taking pictures [1] (resized them via
command line, I hope they are readable enough).

After browsing for solutions, I found that putting 'nomodeset' as a kernel
boot option allows me to reach login without any error. Unfortunately, after
logging in, I cannot 'startx' (error: no screens found,
I attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log).

I am puzzled about this and am not sure what to do next to diagnose the
problem. Any idea on how to address the matter is welcome! Thanks
-F


[1] http://ariis.it/share/dump/debian-boot-bug/

[34.899] 
X.Org X Server 1.12.4
Release Date: 2012-08-27
[34.899] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[34.900] Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 i686 Debian
[34.900] Current Operating System: Linux x60s 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 
3.2.54-2 i686
[34.900] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae 
root=/dev/mapper/x60s-root ro nomodeset
[34.900] Build Date: 17 December 2013  08:37:13PM
[34.900] xorg-server 2:1.12.4-6+deb7u2 (Julien Cristau 
) 
[34.900] Current version of pixman: 0.26.0
[34.900]Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[34.900] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[34.901] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Feb 10 05:26:44 
2014
[34.905] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[34.906] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[34.906] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[34.907] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[34.907] (**) |   |-->Monitor ""
[34.910] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[34.910] (==) Automatically adding devices
[34.910] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[34.919] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[34.919]Entry deleted from font path.
[34.926] (WW) The directory 
"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist.
[34.926]Entry deleted from font path.
[34.926] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
built-ins
[34.926] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[34.926] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input 
devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable 
AutoAddDevices.
[34.926] (II) Loader magic: 0xb77235a0
[34.927] (II) Module ABI versions:
[34.927]X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[34.927]X.Org Video Driver: 12.1
[34.927]X.Org XInput driver : 16.0
[34.927]X.Org Server Extension : 6.0
[34.928] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:27a2:17aa:201a rev 3, Mem @ 
0xe430/524288, 0xd000/268435456, 0xe440/262144, I/O @ 0x50a0/8
[34.928] (--) PCI: (0:0:2:1) 8086:27a6:17aa:201a rev 3, Mem @ 
0xe438/524288
[34.928] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
[34.928] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[34.930] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[34.934] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[34.934]compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[34.934]Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[34.934]ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[34.934] (II) Loading extension SELinux
[34.934] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[34.934] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[34.934] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
[34.934] (II) Loading extension DPMS
[34.934] (II) Loading extension XVideo
[34.934] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[34.934] (II) Loading extension X-Resource
[34.934] (II) LoadModule: "dbe"
[34.935] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
[34.936] (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[34.936]compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[34.936]Module class: X.Or

Re: Debian freezes while booting

2014-02-11 Thread fa-ml
fa-ml  ariis.it> writes:
> 
> The problem is that more often than not, when I boot debian, after typing the
> password for the encrypted volume, the boot process hangs (black-but-not-off
> screen, unresponsive to key presses). I say more often than not because once
> in, say, 20 boots everything goes smoothly (so I can login in a terminal,
> start x, etc.).

After many attempts, I found a solution. Add

idle=halt

to kernel booting options. I wish I had explanation for that too, but ref.
doc [1] is pretty dry.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt


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Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze

2011-03-11 Thread ML mail
Dear Debian users,

I would like to know if it is possible to use a Debian lenny package on a 
Debian 
squeeze installation and if yes how (what apt-get commands and/or modifications 
in sources.list)? 


Let me explain why: I am using Bacula to do backups on a Debian lenny box and 
upgraded one server being backed up to Debian squeeze. Since then the backups 
are not running because Debian squeeze uses Bacula version 5.0 and the backup 
server (lenny) uses Bacula version 2.4. It is know that these two versions are 
not compatible together anymore (rejected hello command error).

So I was wondering if it is somehow possible to install the Debian lenny 
versions of bacula-common and bacula-fd packages on Debian squeeze...?

Many thanks in advance for your help.
Regards



  


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Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze

2011-03-11 Thread ML mail
Dear Alex,

Many thanks for your answer and great help. I tried the second variant (getting 
bacula 2.4 from the sources of lenny) and saw that there are all these 
dependencies:

pkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libjconv-dev libsqlite0-dev 
libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-8.3 | 
postgresql-server-dev-8.2 libwrap0-dev python-dev libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10) 
libgnome2-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev libacl1-dev libkrb5-dev libgnomeui-dev libx11-dev 
mtx bc libxt-dev libqt4-dev libqwt5-qt4-dev

Do you know what is the procedure for all the dependencies? Do I need for all 
of 
these to do a "apt-get source oldpackage=oldversion" and build them using 
debuild?

Regards




- Original Message 
From: Alex Mestiashvili 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 2:33:15 PM
Subject: Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze

On 03/11/2011 12:41 PM, ML mail wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to use a Debian lenny package on a 
>Debian
> squeeze installation and if yes how (what apt-get commands and/or 
modifications
> in sources.list)?
>
>
> Let me explain why: I am using Bacula to do backups on a Debian lenny box and
> upgraded one server being backed up to Debian squeeze. Since then the backups
> are not running because Debian squeeze uses Bacula version 5.0 and the backup
> server (lenny) uses Bacula version 2.4. It is know that these two versions are
> not compatible together anymore (rejected hello command error).
>
> So I was wondering if it is somehow possible to install the Debian lenny
> versions of bacula-common and bacula-fd packages on Debian squeeze...?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help.
> Regards
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
one way is to specify in /etc/apt/sources.list lenny repository
and try to install from it
like apt-get install bacula-fd -t lenny , but in case of bacula
which has many dependencies that probably will not work

another way ( I prefer that one )  is to get the sources for the old 
bacula-*
and compile them on squeeze

you also need to define
deb-src pointing to the lenny repository
like  deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/   lenny  main contrib

than run something like that
mkdir /tmp/bacula
cd /tmp/bacula
apt-get source bacula-fd
cd bacula-$version
  debuild -us -uc

you need devscripts package or pbuilder or ..
most probably you don't have all dependencies , so you'll need to 
install them .
when all dependencies are satisfied it will (or will not ) build the 
package which you can
install  on squeeze .

and the 3'rd case is to update your bacula-director on lenny with
bacula-director -5.0 from http://backports.debian.org .
Anyway one day you'll need to upgrade to squeeze .

Regards ,
Alex


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Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze

2011-03-11 Thread ML mail
As you suggested I installed the package dependencies for Bacula using the 
packages for squeeze, which went fine for some packages but not for the 
libsqlite3-dev pacakge asou you can see here:

# apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libsqlite3-dev : Depends: libsqlite3-0 (= 3.7.3-1) but 3.7.4-2 is to be 
installed
E: Broken packages

Do you have any idea how I can resolve this problem?

Regards




- Original Message 
From: Alex Mestiashvili 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 4:04:01 PM
Subject: Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze


On 03/11/2011 04:40 PM, ML mail wrote:
> Dear Alex,
>
> Many thanks for your answer and great help. I tried the second variant 
(getting
> bacula 2.4 from the sources of lenny) and saw that there are all these
> dependencies:
>
You are welcome
> pkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libjconv-dev libsqlite0-dev
> libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-8.3 |
> postgresql-server-dev-8.2 libwrap0-dev python-dev libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10)
> libgnome2-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev libacl1-dev libkrb5-dev libgnomeui-dev 
libx11-dev
> mtx bc libxt-dev libqt4-dev libqwt5-qt4-dev
>
> Do you know what is the procedure for all the dependencies? Do I need for all 
>of
> these to do a "apt-get source oldpackage=oldversion" and build them using
>
usually higher versions are ok  ( if the api of the new versions aren't 
totally changed )
As you can see for some of them you should have greater than * version -
libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10) for example .

So I would try with current versions from squeeze .

if you don't want to install all the development stuff to the server 
than try pbuilder .
It will create a minimal necessary build environment , install all 
dependencies , build
the package , and clean up it the after all .
But you should mention that you need to build package for squeeze and not
for sid (unstable) which is used by default.

> debuild?
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Alex Mestiashvili
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 2:33:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze
>
> On 03/11/2011 12:41 PM, ML mail wrote:
>
>> Dear Debian users,
>>
>> I would like to know if it is possible to use a Debian lenny package on a
>> Debian
>> squeeze installation and if yes how (what apt-get commands and/or
>>  
> modifications
>
>> in sources.list)?
>>
>>
>> Let me explain why: I am using Bacula to do backups on a Debian lenny box and
>> upgraded one server being backed up to Debian squeeze. Since then the backups
>> are not running because Debian squeeze uses Bacula version 5.0 and the backup
>> server (lenny) uses Bacula version 2.4. It is know that these two versions 
are
>> not compatible together anymore (rejected hello command error).
>>
>> So I was wondering if it is somehow possible to install the Debian lenny
>> versions of bacula-common and bacula-fd packages on Debian squeeze...?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  
> one way is to specify in /etc/apt/sources.list lenny repository
> and try to install from it
> like apt-get install bacula-fd -t lenny , but in case of bacula
> which has many dependencies that probably will not work
>
> another way ( I prefer that one )  is to get the sources for the old
> bacula-*
> and compile them on squeeze
>
> you also need to define
> deb-src pointing to the lenny repository
> like  deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/   lenny  main contrib
>
> than run something like that
> mkdir /tmp/bacula
> cd /tmp/bacula
> apt-get source bacula-fd
> cd bacula-$version
>debuild -us -uc
>
> you need devscripts package or pbuilder or ..
> most probably you don't have all dependencies , so you'll need to
> install them .
> when all dependencies are satisfied it will (or will not ) build the
> package which you can
> install  on squeeze .
>
> and the 3'rd case is to update your bacula-director on lenny with
> bacula-director -5.0 from http://backports.debian.org .
> Anyway one day you'll need to upgrade to squeeze .
>

Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze

2011-03-17 Thread ML mail
Dear Alex,

Sorry for the late reply, I was away a few days. I am pretty sure it is squeeze 
but it was lenny before and has been updated to squeeze recently.

Here is the output of lsb_release -a:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (squeeze)
Release:6.0
Codename:squeeze

And the content of /etc/apt/sources.list:

# squeeze
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/squeeze main contrib non-free
# unstable
#debhttp://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/unstable main contrib non-free
#  Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates  main contrib no
n-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates  main contrib no
n-free
# dotdeb
debhttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable all
deb-srchttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstable all

Hope this helps. Let me know if you need anymore information.

Regards



- Original Message 
From: Alex Mestiashvili 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 5:42:22 PM
Subject: Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze

On 03/11/2011 05:50 PM, ML mail wrote:
> As you suggested I installed the package dependencies for Bacula using the
> packages for squeeze, which went fine for some packages but not for the
> libsqlite3-dev pacakge asou you can see here:
>
> # apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libsqlite3-dev : Depends: libsqlite3-0 (= 3.7.3-1) but 3.7.4-2 is to be
> installed
> E: Broken packages
>
This is strange , are you sure that it is squeeze ? , what does  
lsb_release -a  say ?
could you please post here the content of /etc/apt/sources.list

> Do you have any idea how I can resolve this problem?
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Alex Mestiashvili
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 4:04:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze
>
>
> On 03/11/2011 04:40 PM, ML mail wrote:
>
>> Dear Alex,
>>
>> Many thanks for your answer and great help. I tried the second variant
>>  
> (getting
>
>> bacula 2.4 from the sources of lenny) and saw that there are all these
>> dependencies:
>>
>>  
> You are welcome
>
>> pkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libjconv-dev libsqlite0-dev
>> libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-8.3 |
>> postgresql-server-dev-8.2 libwrap0-dev python-dev libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10)
>> libgnome2-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev libacl1-dev libkrb5-dev libgnomeui-dev
>>  
> libx11-dev
>
>> mtx bc libxt-dev libqt4-dev libqwt5-qt4-dev
>>
>> Do you know what is the procedure for all the dependencies? Do I need for all
>> of
>> these to do a "apt-get source oldpackage=oldversion" and build them using
>>
>>  
> usually higher versions are ok  ( if the api of the new versions aren't
> totally changed )
> As you can see for some of them you should have greater than * version -
> libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10) for example .
>
> So I would try with current versions from squeeze .
>
> if you don't want to install all the development stuff to the server
> than try pbuilder .
> It will create a minimal necessary build environment , install all
> dependencies , build
> the package , and clean up it the after all .
> But you should mention that you need to build package for squeeze and not
> for sid (unstable) which is used by default.
>
>
>> debuild?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> - Original Message 
>> From: Alex Mestiashvili
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 2:33:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: Use Debian lenny package on Debian squeeze
>>
>> On 03/11/2011 12:41 PM, ML mail wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Dear Debian users,
>>>
>>> I would like to know if it is possible to use a Debian lenny package on a
>>> Debian
>>> squeeze installation and if yes how (what apt-get commands and/or
>>>
>>>
>> modifications
>>
>>  
>>> in sources.list)?
>>>
>>>
&g

Re: Changing background for GDM3 in /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults not working

2016-08-07 Thread ML mail
Hi Brian,

Below is the content of my greeter.gconf-defaults file.

Note here that the banner-message does not appear either but the disable-user 
and disable-restart-buttons both work strangely enough.


[org/gnome/desktop/background]
picture-uri='file:///usr/share/images/desktop-base/bg-login.svg'
picture-options='zoom'

[org/gnome/login-screen]
logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'
fallback-logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'
disable-user-list=true
disable-restart-buttons=true
banner-message-enable=true
banner-message-text='Welcome to Debian 8'





On Sunday, August 7, 2016 1:00 AM, Brian  wrote:
On Sat 06 Aug 2016 at 21:37:53 +, ML mail wrote:


> I have a Debian 8 desktop with GNOME and would like to change the default
> dark grey background of the GDM3 login screen. For that I just adapted the
> etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults file and ran "dpkg-reconfigure gdm3" as
> documented on the GDM page of wiki.debian.org. Unfortunately that does not
> work, neither the setting to use a plain color as background.
> 
> Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Please post the adapted file.



aufofs starting before networking at system boot

2015-08-07 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I noticed that on my Debian jessie installation by looking in /etc/rc5.d that 
autofs gets started before the networking script. Somehow I think this does not 
make sense and autofs should get started after the networking script.

For example in my case autofs has to query my internal LDAP server to get its 
autofs maps but the network is not available at that stage. The result is that 
when the desktop is ready for a user to login, I do not have any NFS /home 
directory mounted via autofs...

Any suggestions?

Regards
ML


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Kernel module support for LSI 3008

2015-01-06 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I installed Debian 7.7 (amd64) on a SuperStorage Server from SuperMicro and 
noticed that my disks attached to the LSI 3008 (IT mode) chip on the SuperMicro 
mainboard are not seen by Debian.

Is it possible that Debian 7 does not include any kernel module which supports 
the LSI 3008 chip? I would like to access my disks directly from Debian in 
order to either use RAID 5 with MD or ZFS.

Regards
ML


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CRON: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required

2015-02-05 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I am trying to run cron from /etc/cron.d with the root account which has 
password disabled in order not to be able to login as root but when the cron 
entry wants to run it simply does not and show the following error message in 
the log file:


CRON[16785]: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required


Any idea how to run a cronjob from /etc/cron.d with the root account disabled?

Regards
ML


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Re: CRON: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required

2015-02-06 Thread ML mail
The result of running passwd --status tells me that the password needs to be 
changed as actually I had in my /etc/shadow file only a "!" as password in 
order to safely disable the root account. It looks like this is not compatible 
with the cron.d system. I have changed the password and then locked the account 
(passwd -l) and now it works. The thing is that I wanted to remove the password 
from the /etc/shadow file as with the lock option the password is still there 
but with a "!" before it.




On Thursday, February 5, 2015 10:18 PM, Bob Proulx  wrote:
ML mail wrote:
> I am trying to run cron from /etc/cron.d with the root account which
> has password disabled in order not to be able to login as root but
> when the cron entry wants to run it simply does not and show the
> following error message in the log file:
> 
> CRON[16785]: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required

This reads to me that the password for root has expired.  It is the
state of an expired password that is a problem.

When you say that the root password has been disabled what exactly do
you mean by that statement?  Did you 'passwd -e root'?  If so that is
the source of the problem.  Root should not have an expired password.

What does this say?  Example from a system of mine.

  $ passwd --status root
  root P 05/01/2010 0 9 7 -1


> Any idea how to run a cronjob from /etc/cron.d with the root account
> disabled?

I didn't have time to test this procedure but I would use 'passwd
root' to change the password and to fix the expiration.  (Actually *I*
would simply edit the /etc/shadow file and fix it but for others I
recommend using the tool to avoid a file editing mistake in that very
critical file.)  After updating the password I think the expiration
problem will have been fixed.  You don't actually ever have to use
that password.

Bob 


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Re: CRON: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required

2015-02-06 Thread ML mail
So if I understand correctly it is not possible to use cron.d with simply the 
"!" character in the shadow file? I need to have "!" + password? do I 
understand that correctly?



On Friday, February 6, 2015 12:24 PM, Reco  wrote:
Hi.

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 05:07:58AM -0500, wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote:
> The '!' Means root login is disabled, not that the root account is disabled. 
> su - 
> With a blank root password lets anyone switch user to root without slowing 
> down to crack the password. That is not a safe goal. 

There's difference between a locked empty password (which is defined by
single exclamation mark in /etc/shadow) and an empty password (no symbol
in /etc/shadow).
A single exclamation mark will prevent using su -.
An empty non-locked password will work the way you describe.

man 5 shadow :)

Reco



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apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Hi,

I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debian wheezy box does not want 
to update the OpenJDK packages as you can see below:


shell$ apt-get upgrade


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless 
openjdk-6-jre-lib
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

Anyone has an idea why they are all kept back? Is something broken on my side 
maybe?

Regards
ML


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Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Hi Patrick


dist-upgrade did it. Now as a general rule is it safe to use a dist-upgrade in 
a production environment? I suppose there is a good reason for having upgrade 
and dist-upgrade.

Regards
ML


On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:39 AM, Patrick Weiden  
wrote:



Hi,

have you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try 
the first and tell us the results. Thanks!

Cheers,
Patrick




On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail  wrote:

Hi,
>
>I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debian wheezy box does not want 
>to update the OpenJDK packages as you can see below:
>
>
>shell$ apt-get upgrade
>
>
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information... Done
>The following packages have been kept back:
>icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless 
>openjdk-6-jre-lib
>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
>
>Anyone has an idea why they are all kept back? Is something broken on my side 
>maybe?
>
>Regards
>ML
>
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Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Yes that totally makes sense, I was actually reading the man page but I did not 
 understand what was the big difference in my case with the OpenJDK packages. I 
only saw that it had to install an additional and new package, maybe that made 
it classify more for a dist-upgrade. Because else it was supposed to be a 
security upgrade so in theory there shouldn't be any wild modifications. 


 On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:21 PM, Patrick Weiden 
 wrote:
   

 Hi,

as the manpage of apt-get tells:

[...]
upgrade
   upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages 
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
   /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new 
versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are 
currently
   installed packages removed, or packages not already installed 
retrieved and installed. **New versions of currently installed packages that 
cannot be
   upgraded without changing the install status of another package will 
be left at their current version.** An update must be performed first so that
   apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.

dist-upgrade
   dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also 
intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages;
   apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will 
attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important 
ones
   if necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore remove some 
packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which
   to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a 
mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual packages.
[...]

I have marked the - in my opinion - important and interesting sentence inside 
the "upgrade" part with two stars, which should be applying here. I hope this 
helps.

Best regards,
Patrick


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:59 AM, ML mail  wrote:

Hi Patrick


dist-upgrade did it. Now as a general rule is it safe to use a dist-upgrade in 
a production environment? I suppose there is a good reason for having upgrade 
and dist-upgrade.

Regards
ML


On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:39 AM, Patrick Weiden  
wrote:



Hi,

have you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try 
the first and tell us the results. Thanks!

Cheers,
Patrick




On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail  wrote:

Hi,
>
>I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debian wheezy box does not want 
>to update the OpenJDK packages as you can see below:
>
>
>shell$ apt-get upgrade
>
>
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information... Done
>The following packages have been kept back:
>icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless 
>openjdk-6-jre-lib
>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
>
>Anyone has an idea why they are all kept back? Is something broken on my side 
>maybe?
>
>Regards
>ML
>
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add vlan tagging at preseed with early_command

2016-04-27 Thread ML mail
Hi,

My network uses VLAN tagging and as such I need to enable VLAN tagging before 
the preseed automated install of Debian 8 start. For that purpose I have used 
the following preseed late_command:


d-i preseed/early_command string \
   modprobe 8021q; \
   vconfig add eth0 20; \
   ip link set eth0 up


Unfortunately it does not work because it looks like netcfg puts all interfaces 
down just before starting DHCP and they do not come backup, as such DHCP fails 
and the automated installation aborts. 

In case that can be useful here is the netcfg part of my preseed file:

### Network configuration
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0.20
# Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over
# values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions
# from being shown, even if values come from dhcp.
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain
# Disable that annoying WEP key dialog.
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string

Anyone has an idea how I could make this work?

Cheers
ML



How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-11 Thread ML mail
Hello,

I have a Sun Netra X1 with two identical 80 GB IDE hard-disks and would like to 
install Debian 6.0 squeeze (sparc) using RAID 1. 

Now I tried various methods but all somehow failed for example by failing to 
install silo at the end... Also my problem is that I can't set the "physical 
volume for RAID" type on the first partition of a hard disk. Is this normal?

Would be really very thankful if someone had a short step-by-step instruction 
on how to do that... or is it simply not possible?

Many thanks

Best regards,
ML 



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Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread ML mail
Thanks for sharing your experience with i686. I have now found out that SILO 
(the boot loader for SPARC architecture) requires the first partition of the 
hard disk not to start at 0 (cylinder I guess) but with the installation of 
Debian I have no way of making the first partition start at cylinder 1 instead. 
If I exit to the shell during install there is not even the fdisk command.

Any ideas how to do that?

Regards
ML



- Original Message -
From: Ad L. 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

First of all, I am not very experienced and use the i686 architecture,
but what I did might help:

I've put a variety of partitions on the 2 disks I use for the purpose
of dual booting. One holds the filesystems etc. for the other OS,
intended for legacy applications that I still use... may use.

I've made the first partition of Debian 6 as single partition of
512MB, to be mounted as /boot.
One of the next primary partitions is set up exactly the same on both
disks, to be used as sRAID devices.
After partitioning, I've set up software RAID using those 2
partitions. mdadm is used for management, and it simply works;
increased read speeds, no errors.
The only thing one might be slightly worried about is gparted not
recognising the filesystems, but e2fsck and similar tools appear to
work as usual.

Hope it helps..


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Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread ML mail
Well what I now did is to create a dummy unused partition of 100 MB at the 
beginning of my hard disk and then create a root and a swap partition which 
both are in a RAID 1 set. For that I followed these 
instructions: http://www.unix.com/linux/141253-sparc-linux-raid1-silo.html

Unfortunately, when I reboot I get error messages:

[   82.380080] SCSI subsystem initialized
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.

Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ..[  183.377052] md: raid1 personality 
registered for level 1
. Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Begin: LoadingSuccess: loaded module 
raid1.
done.
Begin: Assembling all MD arrays ... Failure: failed to assemble all arrays.
done.
done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
 - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
   - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
   - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
 - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT!  /dev/md1 does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!


BusyBox v1.17.1 (Debian 1:1.17.1-8) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs) 


I tried already adding rootdelay=100 as parameter to the kernel but that didn't 
work neither... Any ideas?

Regards
ML




- Original Message -
From: Ad L. 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

I was happy to have a MEPIS Live CD around with ext4 support. I've
used it to move data about and pre-partition/pre-format the
partitions, except for the ones used for sRAID.

I don't know if MEPIS supports the architecture you're using, but
maybe Knoppix would be more suitable. Knoppix has it's Debian base in
common with MEPIS.

Also, when partitioning with a GUI tool, keep 8 MiB free space before
the first partition and appropriate alignment keeping the first
cylinder free is guaranteed as long as the free space is honoured. It
might get you to end up with a second cylinder unused at the
beginning, but that shouldn't be a problem anyhow.


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BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s

2011-10-27 Thread ML mail
Hi,

I am running Debian 6.0 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server with 16 GB RAM 
for virtualization purposes using Debian's Xen packages. Today when I wanted to 
create a new VPS using xen-create-image I got really slow and everthing sort of 
freezed until it was finished. On the console I saw the error message which I 
copy pasted below.

Does anyone have an idea what's wrong here? Hardware looks ok so far... Is this 
maybe a bug or something?

Thanks in advance for any advices.

Regards,
ML

 

[930756.024114] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [kblockd/0:22]
[930756.024114] Modules linked in: dm_snapshot nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl 
auth_rpcgss sunrpc xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state 
nf_conntrack xt_physdev iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ipmi_si mpt2sas 
scsi_transport_sas mptctl mptbase ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler dell_rbu 
xen_evtchn xenfs bridge stp bonding ext2 loop snd_pcm radeon snd_timer ttm 
drm_kms_helper snd drm joydev i2c_algo_bit psmouse soundcore i2c_core dcdbas 
snd_page_alloc serio_raw evdev pcspkr video output e752x_edac rng_core 
processor shpchp edac_core pci_hotplug button acpi_processor ext4 mbcache jbd2 
crc16 dm_mod usbhid hid sd_mod sg sr_mod cdrom crc_t10dif ata_generic 
megaraid_mbox pata_sil680 uhci_hcd floppy ata_piix thermal thermal_sys 
megaraid_mm libata scsi_mod ehci_hcd e1000 usbcore nls_base [last unloaded: 
ipmi_si]
[930756.024114] CPU 0:
[930756.024114] Modules linked in: dm_snapshot nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl 
auth_rpcgss sunrpc xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state 
nf_conntrack xt_physdev iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ipmi_si mpt2sas 
scsi_transport_sas mptctl mptbase ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler dell_rbu 
xen_evtchn xenfs bridge stp bonding ext2 loop snd_pcm radeon snd_timer ttm 
drm_kms_helper snd drm joydev i2c_algo_bit psmouse soundcore i2c_core dcdbas 
snd_page_alloc serio_raw evdev pcspkr video output e752x_edac rng_core 
processor shpchp edac_core pci_hotplug button acpi_processor ext4 mbcache jbd2 
crc16 dm_mod usbhid hid sd_mod sg sr_mod cdrom crc_t10dif ata_generic 
megaraid_mbox pata_sil680 uhci_hcd floppy ata_piix thermal thermal_sys 
megaraid_mm libata scsi_mod ehci_hcd e1000 usbcore nls_base [last unloaded: 
ipmi_si]
[930756.024114] Pid: 22, comm: kblockd/0 Not tainted 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 
PowerEdge 2850
[930756.024114] RIP: e030:[]  [] 
hypercall_page+0x22a/0x1001
[930756.024114] RSP: e02b:88000350ecc8  EFLAGS: 0246
[930756.024114] RAX: 0004 RBX:  RCX: 
8100922a
[930756.024114] RDX: 0001 RSI:  RDI: 

[930756.024114] RBP: 880002f4e000 R08: 88003ebe0690 R09: 
8118aed0
[930756.024114] R10:  R11: 0246 R12: 
88000243f800
[930756.024114] R13: 880002bdc000 R14: 88000243f848 R15: 
8800024369c0
[930756.024114] FS:  7fed4f83e700() GS:88000350b000() 
knlGS:
[930756.024114] CS:  e033 DS:  ES:  CR0: 8005003b
[930756.024114] CR2: 01ac31d0 CR3: 3e46d000 CR4: 
0660
[930756.024114] DR0:  DR1:  DR2: 

[930756.024114] DR3:  DR6: 0ff0 DR7: 
0400
[930756.024114] Call Trace:
[930756.024114]    [] ? check_events+0x12/0x20
[930756.024114]  [] ? xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x9/0xa
[930756.024114]  [] ? check_events+0x12/0x20
[930756.024114]  [] ? __cfq_slice_expired+0xc4/0xd4
[930756.024114]  [] ? xen_irq_enable_direct_end+0x0/0x7
[930756.024114]  [] ? scsi_request_fn+0x41f/0x506 [scsi_mod]
[930756.024114]  [] ? __blk_run_queue+0x35/0x66
[930756.024114]  [] ? blk_run_queue+0x21/0x35
[930756.024114]  [] ? scsi_run_queue+0x2ce/0x36f [scsi_mod]
[930756.024114]  [] ? scsi_next_command+0x2d/0x39 [scsi_mod]
[930756.024114]  [] ? scsi_io_completion+0x3d1/0x3fa 
[scsi_mod]
[930756.024114]  [] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x15/0x34
[930756.024114]  [] ? blk_done_softirq+0x6e/0x7b
[930756.024114]  [] ? __do_softirq+0xdd/0x1a6
[930756.024114]  [] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[930756.024114]  [] ? do_softirq+0x3f/0x7c
[930756.024114]  [] ? irq_exit+0x36/0x76
[930756.024114]  [] ? xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x33/0x42
[930756.024114]  [] ? xen_do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x30
[930756.024114]    [] ? hypercall_page+0x22a/0x1001
[930756.024114]  [] ? hypercall_page+0x22a/0x1001
[930756.024114]  [] ? check_events+0x12/0x20
[930756.024114]  [] ? xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x9/0xa
[930756.024114]  [] ? check_events+0x12/0x20
[930756.024114]  [] ? xen_irq_enable_direct_end+0x0/0x7
[930756.024114]  [] ? scsi_request_fn+0x4be/0x506 [scsi_mod]
[930756.024114]  [] ? check_events+0x12/0x20
[930756.024114]  [] ? generic_unplug_device+0x21/0x34
[930756.024114]  [] ? worker_thread+0x188/0x21d
[930756.024114]  [] ? blk_unplug_work+0x0/0x44
[930756.024114]  [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[930756.024114]  [] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x21d
[930756.024114]  []

Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s

2011-10-27 Thread ML mail
Thanks for your reply. Reading the link you provided it looks like that adding 
"acpi=ht noapic" as boot options to the kernel via grub solves this problem or 
at least for one person. I would like to give it at try but was now wondering 
where would be the best place to add these two options?

Can I add them in /etc/grub/defaults like that:
GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN="dom0_mem=1024M noreboot acpi=ht noapic"


run grub-update and reboot ?

Regards,
ML 



- Original Message -
From: Camaleón 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:24:36 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> I am running Debian 6.0 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server with 16 GB
> RAM for virtualization purposes using Debian's Xen packages. Today when
> I wanted to create a new VPS using xen-create-image I got really slow
> and everthing sort of freezed until it was finished. On the console I
> saw the error message which I copy pasted below.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what's wrong here? Hardware looks ok so far...
> Is this maybe a bug or something?

(...)

The provided kernel "soft lockup" bug log report sounds similar to this:

http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Freeze-with-2-6-32-19-and-xen-4-0-1rc5-tp2643244p2643496.html

Maybe by reading the full thread you can find something useful for your 
case :-?

Anyway, if you can fully reproduce the freeze and given the nature of 
the error (kernel soft lockup) you can also consider writing a bug 
report.

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Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s

2011-10-27 Thread ML mail
That's a great idea, like that if something goes wrong I can still reboot and 
everything is back to normal. I will give it a go...


- Original Message -
From: Camaleón 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:41:47 -0700, ML mail wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. Reading the link you provided it looks like that
> adding "acpi=ht noapic" as boot options to the kernel via grub solves
> this problem or at least for one person. I would like to give it at try
> but was now wondering where would be the best place to add these two
> options?
> 
> Can I add them in /etc/grub/defaults like that:
> GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN="dom0_mem=1024M noreboot acpi=ht noapic"
> 
> 
> run grub-update and reboot ?

Mmm... maybe better than that, if you want first to give it a try, when 
you are at GRUB's boot menu, type "e" to enter into edit mode and append 
"acpi=ht noapic" to the kernel line. This will be a "one-time setting" 
that will be removed for the next boot. 

If it works fine, then you can consider adding it permantely to the GRUB 
menu (as you have suggested) and if something goes wrong you will have to 
do nothing.

*Be careful* when tweaking acpi/apic kernel values, because they can 
solve some problems but break another things... I mean, carefully watch 
your box when these options are enabled.

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bash bug in vi mode

2006-02-03 Thread ml-debian_user
When I use escape-slash to search my history in bash vi mode I get wierd
results. For example typing this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /ssh

then hitting , gets me this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] t
mjssh -oServerAliveInterval=90 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Or this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] al=90 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I have no idea where the "t" and  "mj" come from, or why it shows up on
a separate line. If I use k to search, it displays correctly.
Does anybody know how to fix this?


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Re: keyboard is stopping

2006-02-04 Thread ml-debian_user
> A couple of questions:
> 
A couple more questions...
1) When the kb locks, can you ssh in from another machine and run programs?
2) If you can, does killing any X apps you have up make them disappear from
   the dead machine's monitor?
3) Have you tried another keyboard?
4) Have you checked /var/log/* and the /proc/bus/usb/ directory (if it's a
   usb keyboard) after it quits on you?


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missing X font

2006-02-04 Thread ml-debian_user
When I run startx, I get the following error:
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed';
the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)
may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not
configured correctly.

But nothing has changed on the box as far as I know.
Where should that font be?


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moving phpbb2 to a new server

2006-02-04 Thread ml-debian_user
I moved a phpbb server to another machine. I backed up the site using
phpbb's backup utility. How can I set up the new server with the old site?


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Re: Sid/Unstable AMD64 where to find

2006-02-06 Thread ml-debian_user
> By reading the page again I decided that I will go for a easier distro
> for the x86_64 computer ;-)
> 
> I read also on usenet that Debian is a purist on 64bit, so 32bit
> application are difficult to run.
I have debian amd64 running on this computer, and I find it quite easy.
It is a pure 64-bit system, but you can easily run  32-bit apps under a
chroot. I've never done it before, but by following this:
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id272095
I set it up in a few minutes.

If you want Sid amd64, just grab any Sarge release from this page:
http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/
and choose to use Sid when asked.
If you need a newer kernel (I did because of my scsi card), you can get the
etch or sid iso.


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Re: Location of gtk-config?

2001-01-02 Thread christophe . barbe . ml
I think the gtk dev files are included in a libgdk-dev package. I'm not sure of 
the exact name of the package but I remember that I've already fight to find 
this gtk-config. 
The problem is that I don't how to fing the (uninstalled) package name 
containing a specified file. I know how to do that for installed packages but 
when you need a file it's useless. The only other solution is to download a lot 
of Contents files and grep these files.

Christophe


On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:00:28 Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote:
> Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > apt-get install libgtk-dev 
> > should do it,as per
> > http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/libgtk-dev.html
> 
> But why isn't it listed in /var/lib/dpkg/available, so I can see it in
> dselect?
> 
> -Jeff
> 
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Re: Grub extra option remain

2006-11-25 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:09:15AM -0400, E0x wrote:
> i use the option vga=791 for get bigger resolution in the console ,
> but when i upgrade the kernel the auto menu update dont add that
> option to the new entry of kernel , i dont want stop  using the auto
> update grub way for i link find a way for put that option al the time
> that the menu update happen

If I'm reading this properly, you want vga=791 to be added to the kernel
lines, even when the kernel is upgraded.

If that's the case, check in /boot/grub/menu.lst for the following
sections and edit as desired:
## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##  kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hda3 ro

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=vga=0x319


So if you wanted vga=791 to be added to *ALL* of the lines, make it look
like this, leaving the "#" at the front:

# kopt=root=/dev/ROOTDEVICE ro vga=791


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Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-05 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:05:17PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> since yesterday evening, firefox is crashing when I log on to the gmail
> account. This happens across all accounts on my box.
[...]

What happens if you try to run it with
MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox

or

MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 iceweasel


?


I can access Gmail fine in Debian Sid using Iceweasel (Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061024 Iceweasel/2.0
(Debian-2.0+dfsg-1).


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Re: /dev/video absent

2006-07-16 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:33:46AM -0700, kruton wrote:
> well, the initial goal was to get a webcam working.
> doing some digging i see that there is no /dev/video..
> so 
> 
> cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV video 
> 
> seemed like an option.. it said
> 
> udev active, devices will be created in
> /dev/.static/dev/
> 
> what is this? how do i get v4l support into the
> machine?
> and ofcourse, the borader goal: how to get the webcam
> working? but first things first...

What type of webcam is it?


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Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-30 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote:
> Hi
> 
> These days I found I almost can't work with my KDE, because it seems there are
> some terrible error with text rendering engine(pango?). Just when I writing
> this post, the text I inputed would disappear after I changed lines or insert
> words . And this appearance not only appeared in the my firefox(it appear only
> in firefox early days,andnot serious), but also any program run in KDE. And 
> the
> text may appeared again after I selected the blank.
> I was driven mad. The text disappeared at least ten times when I wrote this
> post in gmail.
> 
> Can anybody know the reason or help me to solve it?

I doubt it's a problem with KDE itself.  Try changing the anti-aliasing
settings--that solved the problem for me (with my ATI video card).

You'll see lots of posts about this problem with GTK applications and
Nvidia cards too...


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Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:30:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote:
> >> Hi
> [snip]
> > You'll see lots of posts about this problem with GTK applications
> > and Nvidia cards too...
> 
> Really?

Yes, unfortunately. There was a bug filed against gtk+ for this at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313646 and it was found to be
a problem in the proprietary nvidia driver. If you check out the
attachments to that bug, that's what I was experiencing a few months
ago. The problem was *only* in GTK applications and the missing text
would come back after I hovered the mouse over the area. Unlike the
description of that bug, I was NOT using the non-free nvidia driver...

On two different computers I had these same symptoms. One used the xorg
nv driver, the other used the xorg radeon driver. On both PCs, I
resolved the problem by playing with the anti-aliasing settings.


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Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:00:38AM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote:
> Yeah, I checked my xbase-clients , it's 1.7.1-ds3...
> 
> But I fixed the problem now.
> 
> Thanks to Edward.  I closed anti-aliasing, the problem remains. But when I
> reopen it, I found the problem was fixed.
> 
> And this only appeared in the gtk program.
> 
> Thanks for help!

I'm glad that worked for you too. I can't say I understand *why* that
works, but for two of my computers it resolved it for me. It was damn
near impoosible to look at web sites using Firefox or carry on a
conversation in Gaim with most of the text being gone until the mouse
pointer hovered over the missing area. :P It happened for me using any
GTK applications within any window manager/desktop environment.

I remember seeing a bug filed for this within the Debian BTS, but I
can't remember what it was filed against. 


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Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:59:58AM -0400, Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:30:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote:
> > >> Hi
> > [snip]
> > > You'll see lots of posts about this problem with GTK applications
> > > and Nvidia cards too...
> > 
> > Really?

A couple more
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113123
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-393284-highlight-gtk+fonts.html
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=61763

I wasn't able to find anyone mentioning the problem with anything other
than an nvidia card, but I have an ATI AIW 7500 that *did* have the
problem. O.o


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Re: mozilla-firefox keeps crashing

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:23:51AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> It turns out that it's any page that contains flash (I tried both the nonfree
> and the regular (free ???) plugins)

What are the contents of /etc/firefox/firefoxrc?


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Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:23:28AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Joseph.
> 
> > I just installed Debian.  Grub failed to load but lilo worked.  Now
> > that everything is installed, how do I replace lilo with grub?
> 
> Just install it. It will force lilo to be removed.
> 
> Before you do that you should backup the config file from lilo (never used it 
> so
> don’t ask me which one it is) and after the installing you should check grub’s
> menu.lst to make sure that all entries were migrated correctly.

For what it's worth, that file is /etc/lilo.conf.


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Re: memory recognition

2008-05-02 Thread | Dominique H. Schramm (ML) |

Hi,

ChadDavis schrieb:
I have 8gb of memory, bios sees it.  Lenny only sees 3.2 gb. 

Is there a different version of the kernel or parameter to make it see 
all of my memory?


If you compile your kernel by hand, look at menuconfig for 
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G


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Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:49:42PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> >You could always install it directly from adobe.com.
> > 
> >
> Is it there, now?  It certainly wasn't there a few days ago.

Yes, it's at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html


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Re: Help needed: PHP not working with apache 2.2.3-3.1

2006-11-12 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:49:20AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> since the change from apache 2.0 to 2.2 was made with debian
> unstable, I have not been able to get php (4 or 5) working as an
> apache 2.2 module.
> 
> Until before the change, I have been operating a wiki and made
> heavily use of php for dynamic web-pages.
> 

What are the errors, if any, that you're getting? Are there any hints in
/var/log/apache2/* ?


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