Re: Problem with mouse

[Selim T. Erdogan]

pch0317, 16.09.2013:
> 
> My notebook have problem with mouse. When I started system
> everythink work correctly over few minutes and then right mouse
> don't work corectly or left don't work. But icon on desktop work
> corectly all time - I can launch it. It is problem with X or Xfce or
> with mouse?
> My notebook - Compaq 615
> http://www.notebookcheck.pl/Recenzja-Compaq-615.18363.0.html with
> Debian 7.1 and Xfce4.

Is the problem with the touchpad or with an external mouse?  I have had 
strange mouse problems when connected through low-priced usb hubs.


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Re: Printer brand recommendations

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Beco, 11.09.2013:
> 
> Please, anyone knows about Epson m105, and Samsung ml_2165w
> ?

I see that you've already bought an Epson printer, but just for the 
record...

I have a Samsung ML-2165 black-and-white laser printer that seems to 
work okay with Debian wheezy.  However, the necessary ppd file is not
in Debian (yet) so one needs to get it from

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696240

(I imagine the wireless version ML-2165W would work fine too.)


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Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Shane Johnson, 28.09.2013:
> I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else
> has been having problems as well?
> 
> I am doing a new install via debootstrap to a lvm2 volume via the
> wheezy rescue disk.
> 
> I got it running in wheezy then went to jessie and while I was running
> the 3.2 kernel from wheezy it booted fine.  Then I upgraded the kernel
> to 3.10 in jessie and it says it can't find the volume goup.   I have
> made sure that initrd is updated and grub is updated.  Not sure on
> what the next step would be or if this is just a bug that I need to
> wait for it to be resolved or if I need to submit a bug?

Is your initramfs-tools package also from jessie?  There was recently a 
thread where somebody using wheezy with an encrypted disk over lvm 
upgraded to a 3.10 kernel from backports and had problems booting until 
also upgrading the initramfs-tools package to the version in backports.


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Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Tazman Deville, 15.10.2013:
> 
> You're talking about moving every .configfile in my $HOME?
> That sounds a bit drastic, and possibly a bad idea.
> Can we narrow it down to what possible files might actually affect
> it without implementing such drastic measures?

I don't know much about pcmanfm, but I looked at the strace output you 
posted, to see if there was anything that looked like it might be a 
filename in your home directory.

Starting on line 645, you have:
---
access("/home/tony/.gtkrc-2.0.64", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)  
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo", O_RDONLY) 
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)  
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo", O_RDONLY) 
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)  
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)  
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo", O_RDONLY) = 
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)  
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo", O_RDONLY) = 
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)  
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)  
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 3  
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"}, 20) = 0  
getpeername(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"...}, [20]) = 0  
uname({sys="Linux", node="deathstar", ...}) = 0  
access("/home/tony/.Xauthority", R_OK)  = 0  
open("/home/tony/.Xauthority", O_RDONLY) = 4  
---

so you might check out /home/tony/.gtkrc-2.0.64 
and /home/tony/.Xauthority and compare them with corresponding files in 
the home directory of the user for whom pcmanfm works.

Searching for "tony", I also noticed that the last line of the strace is
---
connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.pcmanfm-socket--0-tony"}, 30^C 

---


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Re: Thinkpad E320 trackpoint doesn't work every time

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Andreas Rönnquist, 21.10.2013:
> 
> I have recently got my hands on a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E320 - and it
> works very nicely - with one small exception:
> 
> I have got the habit to use the touchpad but not the "mousebuttons"
> underneath the lower part of the touchpad, but instead I use the extra
> buttons just above the touchpad that are intended for usage with the
> trackpoint. - (I have a bit of a hard time pressing the buttons
> underneath the touchpad without moving the mouse by mistake).
> 
> However, every now and then the trackpoint and its buttons are not
> active after a boot - the touchpad still works, and the buttons
> underneath the touchpad, but not the trackpoint and its buttons.
> 
> Does anybody know a way to reactivate them without having to reboot, or
> to make them work every time, or know what is causing my problem?

Have you tried running xinput when they are not active?  You would at 
least see if they are listed.


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Re: Gnome login screen not shown

[Selim T. Erdogan]

bhuvanesh kumar, 26.10.2013:
> This got fixed after todays upate of gdm3
> However, its not completely fixed...The white screen showing error message
> with sad system smiley is gone and actual login screen is shown...when i
> type username password and login...it shows a blank screen with debian icon
> at the bottom and a mouse pointer...nothing else...still not able to use
> desktop directly

Have you tried any different combinations to get more insight:

- you could try to install lightdm or slim, to use in place of gdm3

- you could try to choose a different type of session at the gdm3 login 
  screen.  (I mean a non-gnome session.)

- trying to log in as a different user


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Re: ANDROID

[Selim T. Erdogan]

alex.pad...@laposte.net, 29.10.2013:
> 
> I shall want to buy a SMARTPHONE with a free O.S (GNU).
> Many of my friends say to me that ANDROID is a free system, it is LINUX!
> What do you think about it?
> Does it exist a SMARTPHONE with a system DEBIAN GNU LINUX

Check out 

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile

That page has a lot of info with links such as

https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.lildebi
http://sven-ola.dyndns.org/repo/debian-kit-en.html

that can help you try out Debian within Android.


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Re: ANDROID

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Andrew McGlashan, 30.10.2013:
> On 30/10/2013 2:40 AM, ken wrote:
> > On 10/29/2013 10:56 AM alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote:
> > You might want to look at openmoko.org and openmoko.com.  These offer
> > smartphones with GNU/Linux from the beginning.  So of course you can get
> > all the source code, develop things yourself, etc.
> 
> Latest news, almost 2 years ago!!!

You're right that the openmoko.org page doesn't look like it's very 
active lately, but I think that Golden Delicious is working on it still, 
making small improvements and updates.  

Here are a few links I found that might be of interest:

http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%20Complete
http://www.openphoenux.org/
http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/

(I've never used any of these but have been interested for a long time.  
Somebody else can correct me if this info is incorrect/old.)


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Re: ANDROID

[Selim T. Erdogan]

shawn wilson, 29.10.2013:
> 
> I think the most open platform to date is the Pi - there are only
> certain parts of the processor that are kept under NDA.

Not the most open, according to https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi
(They list some alternatives too.)


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Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Charlie, 19.11.2013:
> 
> Trying to install Debian on this lappy and keep hitting a brick wall.
> 
> The same message with the Jessie or Wheezy netinstall iso or the
> first Install DVD of Jessie or Wheezy:
> 
> "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch
> between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the
> kernel version in the archive."

There was a bug report to the debian-boot list recently:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/11/msg00143.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729855

Sounds like the same problem, but only for jessie and sid, though.

> Then I continue because this can be rectified once a mirror has been
> chosen and there is no Ethernet card found, and there is no wireless
> option when looking for network hardware?

Are you able to proceed with the rest of the install, to get a minimal 
base installed?

> So that's the brick wall. I have the installer search a USB stick that
> has every kind of realtek and every other driver I can find, but no joy.
> 
> I have tried it with different wireless dongles which aren't even
> recognised. Just no Ethernet, never wireless.
> 
> I also get the error message:
> 
> Loading amd64-microcode failed for unknown reasons. Aborting.

I wouldn't worry about that, at least for now.

> The Ethernet device is RTL8101E/RTL8102E Fast Internet controller.
> 
> The wireless device is Device 8179 9 (rev 01)

Googling around, it seems that you probably need proprietary drivers 
from the Realtek website, _for both of these devices_.  (And for the 
wired device, you need to blacklist another module the linux kernel 
chooses by default.)  I didn't really read the details much, but you 
might want to check out
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1964200 (wired)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2162026 (wireless)

Further googling might get you something better/easier.


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Re: No shutdown after processor change

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Artifex Maximus, 18.09.2012:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:29 PM, lee  wrote:
> > Artifex Maximus  writes:
> >
> >> I've changed my processor from E5200 to E8400. Since then my computer
> >> does not shutdown.
> >
> > It's possible that you damaged your board in the process.
> 
> Thanks for your answer. I did it several times and otherwise works
> perfectly so I do not think so.
> 
> >> Sometimes the display and motherboard LEDs become blank but PSU cooler
> >> runs.
> >
> > It's a feature of some PSUs to leave the fan running until they have
> > cooled down some after turning off the computer.
> 
> Never ever did before. I think this is not the case here.
> 
> >> Sometimes Debian stops at System halted line and no blank screen and
> >> machine keeps running.
> >
> > At that point, your system is shut down and the only thing it doesn't do
> > is turning itself off.  That can be a software issue --- I never figured
> > out what kernel modules are needed for that.
> >
> >> I think that only CPU change cannot made such problem. I tried BIOS
> >> default setup loading but no change. Any idea what to change? I have
> >> no idea.
> >
> > You could start by looking at what's in syslog and dmesg and by checking
> > the loaded modules.  You could boot from a live/installer DVD/CD and see
> > if the computer turns off when you shut it down to get an indication if
> > there is a software or a hardware problem.  I don't know if the DVDs/CDs
> > actually turn the computer off, though, something to find out first.
> 
> Thank you. I'll take a look on it.

Did you make any software updates to the system?  I have a pretty old
computer that is using wheezy and as I updated debian within the past 
weeks it went back and forth between turning off properly and stalling 
with "system halted" on the screen.  I don't remember which one it's 
been doing most recently.


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Re: Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Michelle Konzack, 21.09.2012:
> Hello,
> 
> I use currently on my PanelPC "xvkbd" which is the last  crap  on  earth
> and the design is for the ass.
> 
> Does someone know, whether the virtual keyboard from  Android  exist  as
> source which can be used under Debian GNU/Linux?
> 
> Also it would be nice, if it can be activated  with  a  double-click  in
> input fields in programs and websites

To see a few options in Debian:
apt-cache search virtual keyboard

I think I used florence in the past, briefly, and it was okay.  (If
the keys are too small to use comfortably, you can resize the keyboard, 
IIRC.  That helped me a lot.)


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Re: After updating wheezy, sound card not properly recognized anymore

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Simon Hoerder,  9.11.2012:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA224
> 
> On 09/11/12 10:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Check your DE's Pulseaudio settings too.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Using PulseAudio Volume control:
> Nothing is muted, all volume settings are 100%. But it lists "Dummy
> Output" as output device.
> 
> Using PulseAudio Manager:
> As sink only auto_null (Description - "Dummy Output") is listed and
> when I play music (e.g. from Rhythmbox) it is listed for that sink and
> the volume meters are active, indicating the music to be played.
> 
> Server Information:
>  Server Name: pulseaudio
>  Server Version:  2.0
>  Default Sample Type: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
>  Host Name:   [ok]
>  Use Name:simon
>  Default Sink:auto_null
>  Default Source:  auto_null.monitor
> 
> Client Information:
>  Linked to Library Version: 2.0.0
>  Compiled with Library Version: 0.9.8
> 
> The client information looks odd to me.
> 
> I've attached the pulse configuration files. In the .conf files,
> everything seems to be commented out. I've had a quick look at the .pa
> files but decided I better not mess with them.

I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of Pulse Audio but I had a 
problem on a wheezy machine relatively recently that was solved when I 
added the user to the "audio" group.  (PA seems to run either in system 
mode or user mode.  In the latter, only members of audio can use stuff.)

BTW, in your previous message I noticed you used sudo for lspci, lsmod 
and dmesg.  You can run those with just a plain user.  On the 
other hand, if your sound issue was really system vs. user, then maybe 
if you'd run speaker-test with sudo, you'd have heard something. :)


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Re: Audio issue with Intel HDA driver

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Gean Ceretta,  8.11.2012:
> - Original Message -
> From: Emmanuel Bourgerie
> Sent: 11/08/12 08:43 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Audio issue with Intel HDA driver
> 
>  Hi everyone ! I'm having an issue with my new motherboard, I just installed 
> Debian sid and I don't have any sound :( I'm pretty lost, so I post here (if 
> it's the wrong place, feel free to tell me), also I launched the latest 
> Ubuntu live and had sound, so I think there is something I missed ;) Here is 
> the result of alsa-info.sh on _Debian_ : 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=ea68c55b64250b7278305cf46fdc2873356f6d0c 
> And here is the same, on _Ubuntu_ : 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=e10b7f43c8ecbb304b9eef1e7e38dd129488512d 
> >From now, I have no idea what to do... As I said, everything looks perfect 
> on Ubuntu, so I couldn't find on Internet something similar, and all the 
> stuff around ALSA and PulseAudio is pretty obscure to me... In advance, thank 
> you :) -- Emmanuel Bourgerie  Développeur web & 
> Open-Source  Hi Emmanuel, I'm having this problem too, I solved this bug to 
> my user account, making PulseAudio run in System Mode, your is probably 
> running in Use
>  r Mode, but I have changed my user account and the problem is back, If I 
> solve, I will post here.

Try adding your user to the "audio" group.  (And log out and log back in 
for the change to be recognized.)


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Re: ssh issue

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Rainer Dorsch, 11.11.2012:
> Hello,
> 
> I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user rd, 
> not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in the 
> accounts:
> 
> bokomoko:~# diff ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys ~gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_hosts
> bokomoko:~# ls -l ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys ~gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_hosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 gpxrecorder gpxrecorder 222 Nov 11 19:33 
> /home/gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_hosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rd  rd  222 Dec 30  2006 
> /home/rd/.ssh/authorized_keys

How come you're diffing authorized_keys for rd and authorized_hosts for 
gpxrecorder?  Are the contents of those supposed to be the same?


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Re: how do i disable auto-connect to wireless network on wheezy?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Umarzuki Mochlis, 12.11.2012:
> hi,
> 
> i had installed gnome environment on wheezy 64-bit but unlike squeeze,
> i cannot configure a particular wireless network to not auto-connect
> whereas it can be done on squeeze. It is because the network applet is
> not network-manager's?
> 
> when i tried to run nm-applet, i got below messages:
> 
> $ nm-applet
> ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
> ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
> ** Message: Stopping applet secret agent because GNOME Shell appeared
> 
> any tips/hints?
> thanks

I'm assuming that you mean: in wheezy gnome-shell's wireless icon on the 
tab doesn't give you the same setup options that squeeze's gnome 2 did.

One possibility is to choose Gnome Classic mode when you log in to 
gnome.  This will give you something that looks like gnome 2 and you can 
get the old setup options.  After you configure not to auto-connect to a 
particular network, if you want to use gnome shell again, you can log 
out and log back in with that choice.


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Re: iceweasel bookmarks gone

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Curt, 30.04.2014:
> On 2014-04-29, Gary Roach  wrote:
> >
> > Somewhere along the line all of my iceweasel bookmarks disappeared. The 
> > backup copy is still in the system but doesn't appear to contain any of 
> > my old bookmarks. Would the old bookarks be stored someplace other than 
> > .mozilla/firefox/hxwu63mv.default/bookmarkbackups#? Or am I just out of 
> > luck.

What do you mean by "backup copy"?  Is that a copy of the whole 
.mozilla/firefox/hxwu63mv.default directory?  Do you have a 
places.sqlite file in it?  A couple of years ago when I was looking into 
backing up bookmarks I think I saw that they're in the places.sqlite 
file, not in bookmarks.html.

> So, when in the browser itself, you go to Bookmarks/Show All
> Bookmarks/Import and Backup/Restore ...
> 
> there is nothing to restore from (no daily backups)?

The json files in the bookmarkbackups directory should also contain 
backups.  My directory has daily backups going back 10 days, and I don't 
recall changing anything, so it's probably the default.  This might be 
slightly staler than the places.sqlite file, but not by more than a day.  
However, I think the places.sqlite file also contains browsing history
(and maybe other stuff), in addition to bookmarks.


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Re: Upgrade debacle........

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Chris Bannister,  1.05.2014:
> 
> Did you read my bug report?
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742875
> 
> Was it the same package that caused the messages?
> 
> Although, I didn't state it explicitly, I thought the message was a bit
> of a "cop out" like yourself¹. But to top it all off it asked me to run a
> command which didn't even exist on my system, as though I was expected
> to jump through hoops myself. Also, considering that I don't even know
> what this gdk-pixbuf-2.0 program is for, (I've never messed with it.) I
> thought that maybe my setup uncovered a bug in the upgrade process
> (after all, remember we are running testing -- helping the project to
> test for bugs and reporting them when we do find them.) since I don't
> run a DE, and maybe hicolor-icon-theme expects one.
> 
> I reported that bug a month ago, not even an acknowledgment from the
> maintainer. It looks like it hasn't even been looked at. Now, from what
> you have posted regarding booting problems (I'm not even sure if I've
> rebooted myself since then -- unfortunately I'd have too many things to
> restart to test it at the moment -- but if I did, I'd raise the bug 
> level.) Hence the reason I asked if could add anything to it. Was it
> even caused by "Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1)"? If
> not, then add that also.
> 
> ¹ I mean that you think the same! NOT that you're a cop out! :)

I run sid and saw the same warning when updating in early March.  I know 
when it happened, because I copied the message into a file as a note to 
myself but then forgot to look at it!  It was for the same version of 
hicolor-icon-theme, 0.13-1, according to my note.  I've updated the 
system several times since then, but hicolor-icon-theme is still 0.13-1, 
which is the latest version available.

I also tried 
  apt-get install --reinstall hicolor-icon-theme
to see if the message would appear again now, but it didn't.

At the time, I didn't check to see if the file
  /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
existed.  I also didn't run the command
  gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > 
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
However, I checked just now and that file exists, with a non-zero size.  

So either the original warning about the missing file was incorrect, or 
the situation righted itself since.  I see that I also don't have any 
packages which provide gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders, so it's unlikely that 
an update ran that behind the screens.

One thing I noticed, is that the warning message you reported begins with
  (gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:28805)
as does mine, except for the number at the end.  So I suspect that the 
original problem was with gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 doing something 
wrong at the time, which has been corrected since.  Running
  apt-file search gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0
shows me two packages, libgtk-3-0 and libgtk-3-bin, which were both 
updated recently, according to my dpkg.log files.

Conclusion: I think the bug was probably due to another package, which 
has been fixed since, though it might not have entered testing.

(Oh, and just for the record: I run gnome in fallback mode, have 
rebooted several times and don't remember any problems with icons.)


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Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

[Selim T. Erdogan]

O, 12.05.2014:
> Hi Stan et al.,
> 
> Booting from the working kernel, I have dumped dmesg here:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/MBTDfgc4
> 
> I tried to save dmesg booting under the 3.2.0-4_amd64 kernel from within
> initramfs, to no avail (I cannot mount usb drives to save the information,
> and it does not see the network).  However, when I added "debug" to the
> kernel line in the boot command, I was at least able to see the system
> messages while the errors were happening.  Here is the relevant block of
> text, and sas is involved:
> 
> ata7: sas eh calling libata port error handler
> sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Unable to reset I T nexus?
> sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Found ATA device
> sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Unable to soft reset
> sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Found ATA device
> ata7: reset failed (errno=-11) retrying in 10 secs
> 
> Searching the web for "Unable to reset I T nexus" led me to this thread:
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1912604
> 
> ... which was posted a short time ago and appears to be the identical
> problem.  However, I am struggling to understand what I should do in
> response.  It seems to be saying that my hardware and its drivers are too
> "new" for Wheezy, even though this machine is 2 yrs old??   Does this mean
> I have to upgrade to Jessie?

I happened to notice the following bug report while updating last week:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746642

Basically, it seems like people solved this by booting from a rescue
disk and downgrading to an older kernel.

After you fix your system, I recommend installing the apt-listbugs
package.  That's what showed me the bug report while updating.


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Re: Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the linux-image?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Horatio Leragon, 26.05.2014:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5/26/14, Joe  wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the 
> linux-image?
>  To: "Horatio Leragon" 
>  Date: Monday, May 26, 2014, 5:53 AM
>  
> > Try:
>  
> > glxinfo | grep render
> > and you're looking for:
> > direct rendering = No
> > If it's 'Yes', then you have hardware acceleration and you need to 
> > look elsewhere.
> 
> The result of my glxinfo | grep render is: Yes
> 
> Where should I look?

I don't think you have hardware acceleration enabled whenever you see 
direct rendering: Yes.  I am currently using the vesa driver and still:
--
$ glxinfo|grep ender
direct rendering: Yes
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, 
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render, 
--
The llvm stuff above indicates software rendering, I believe.

(BTW, I am using Gnome 3 in flashback mode, in sid.)

> > If the graphics system is very recent, there may not be free 
> drivers available, and even proprietary drivers tend to lag behind the 
> product when Linux is concerned. Intel is generally not too bad in 
> that respect.
> 
> I disagree with what you said about Intel. My duaghter's CPU is the 
> latest Intel i7-4770 (Haswell) with Intel H87 chipset. Graphics 
> capability in integrated in the CPU, right?
> 
> What is strange is this:
> 
> linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64 works flawlessly with my wife's Intel 
> i7-3780 (Ivy-Bridge) with Intel H77 chipset (which is the version 
prior to Haswell). Gnome3 works flawlessly too.
> 
> However I had to upgrade linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64 to Wheezy 
> backported linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 when using Intel i7-4770 
> (Haswell) due to problems of rebooting and shutdown. In addition, 
> Gnome3 failed to load even after the linux-image backported upgrade.
> 
> Should I report this as a bug?

What do you mean when you say Gnome3 is disabled or fails to load? 
What are the actions you take to run gnome 3, and what are the error 
messages or misbehaviors you see?

(And, also, how are you setting things up before running glxinfo as 
above?)


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Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Grześ Andruszkiewicz,  8.01.2013:
> 
> Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? I.e. I heard
> that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual clusters (is it
> actually true?). Are there any other things I need to take into
> account while installing Debian on SSD?
> 
> I bought the Samsung 840 250GB drive, if it makes any difference.

I think you should be okay installing without needing to do anything 
special, but if your computer is somewhat old and doesn't support 
SATA-2 speeds properly, then the wheezy installer doesn't let you 
force SATA-1 speed.  (Actually, this is probably not necessarily an SSD 
problem but I had it when I replaced a dead hard drive with an SSD.)

A few months ago I tried to install wheezy on a new 128GB Kingston SSD 
(bought Fall 2012) placed in a Sony Vaio VGN-NS140, bought Fall 2008.
The laptop theoretically supports SATA-2 but in practice it either 
had problems completing the install or, when it installed okay, quickly 
produced errors.  A guaranteed way to produce the errors right away was 
to measure speed using "hdparm -t /dev/sda" and this would also lead to
messages saying the link speed got dropped to 1.5Gbps (from 3Gbps).  
I think there was a problem with the motherboard trying to do the 
negotiation to determined what speed to use.  (I also read online about 
various laptops being crippled in their BIOS, limiting speed to 1.5G 
with there being an unofficial new BIOS for old Thinkpads to fix this.)
I also noticed later that the old hard drive had a jumper limiting 
operation to 1.5Gbps --- further evidence that the laptop manufacturers 
knew it might have a problem with higher speeds.

Unfortunately, the new SSD had no such jumper, as far as I could find 
out.  Fortunately, there's a kernel module parameter to force this: 
"libata.force=1.5G"  Alas, the new module loading system in Debian, 
kmod, which replaced module-init-tools, had a bug where you couldn't add 
this as a boot parameter.  (It gets parsed incorrectly so it doesn't 
work.)  I filed a bug report with a patch and it's been fixed upstream I 
think, but the fix has not made it back into Debian yet, so the wheezy 
installer won't recognize this boot parameter, AFAIK.  (I was able to 
complete my installation by modifying the initrd.gz of the installer to 
add the module parameter into a file.)

I doubt that many people will run into this issue but I wanted to put it 
out there for the unlucky souls that do. :)


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Re: Pidgin makes noise

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Curt, 21.01.2013:
> 
> Have you seen a case where the pcspkr module is loaded and the bell is
> silent?
> 
> I asked a related question many moons ago when my bell fell inexplicably
> silent (I liked the bell then but live without it).

I don't remember the beginning details of this thread so I'm not sure 
if you had a working bell on your console before.  I've seen it 
mentioned on this list in the past, that a lot of laptops come without 
the pc speaker physically present.  On the laptop I'm typing this on, an 
Averatec bought in 2004, I don't think I ever got a beep on the console,
though pcspkr is loaded.  However, the gnome/kde sound systems have made 
the bell sound under X, and I never dug into really testing things for 
the console.  (The desktop environment bell substitute even lets you 
choose your sound effect: a ring, a bark, etc.)


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Re: GDM3 Duplicates Menus Clocks Workspace Switcher etc.

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Felix Winterhalter, 19.01.2013:
> Hey there everyone,
> 
> I just installed debian wheezy and I get the following problem with
> gdm3: Every time I login the menu items are added again (to the
> already existing items) and the clock is added and the logout menu
> is also added as is the workspace switcher and the taskbar ... So
> after 3 logins I now have three of every sort ... reinstalling gdm
> didn't even remove the menu entries neither did completely rm -R *
> ing the home directory
> 
> I have no idea what to do anymore
> 
> I am using a Dual Screen Setup which I had lots of trouble setting
> up using the free driver for ATI cards so I switched to the
> proprietary one and used the initalize function of aticonfig for two
> monitors. However Gnome shows still only one monitor in its system
> settings, maybe that could be related...
> 
> I am very grateful for any idea!
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> Felix
> 
> Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/PfWgl0f.png

I don't have any help to offer but I have a problem that is somewhat 
similar: the little icons at the top right (wifi, sound, battery) don't 
get drawn correctly.  Sometimes they are just not there at all --- all I 
see is the default black background --- and sometimes they are there but 
not updated.  In either case, bringing the mouse over one of them will 
work properly, display the hint, and interacting with them works fine.  
(But they are not updated after the interaction.)  Another weird thing 
is that when I get a notification, instead of an envelope icon, I get
copies of my battery icon, but I can get rid of them as if they were the 
regular envelope icon.
 
This is on a brand new installation of wheezy, using gnome classic on 
an Averatec laptop (32 bit) with the openchrome xorg driver.  There's no 
problem on a wheezy 64 bit Sony laptop with the intel xorg driver so I 
have been wondering if it is an xorg driver bug, but I haven't had time 
to dig into this.  (Two other problems that smell of the xorg driver are 
colors being wrong in vlc and totem but fine in mplayer, and lots of 
duplicate graphics appearing after hibernation sometimes --- so I may 
have to log out and back in.)


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Re: Root shell bug on Debian wheezy

[Selim T. Erdogan]

frank.jan...@actrix.co.nz, 28.02.2013:
> Greetings,
> 
> A root shell sometimes appears during the login sequence on a Debian
> Wheezy system servicing thin clients. The root shell appears after one
> enters a login and a password then presses random keys until a box appears
> with the root prompt and perhaps the rest of the login window.
> 
> A "whoami" has output "root". A "hostname" shows "ltsp38". The linux
> running appears to be that on the thin client and not the server. The
> filesystem shown is not that of the server and looks like what should be
> on the thin client.
> 
> Doing a "shutdown" shuts down the client and nothing else. Can't create a
> directory in /etc but can output a file in to /home. The file in /home is
> gone after the next login.
> 
> This is a bug, what should be done to deal with it ?
> Thanks in advance.

I don't have any personal experience with thin clients, but I googled 
"root shell pops up on thin client" and found

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/369833

which is about such vulnerabilities in the firmware of eSeSIX 
Thintune brand/model thin clients.  Vulnerability #3 says to press 
 and enter "maertsJ" as password, to get an xterm 
with root privileges.  That's from 2004 but sounds somewhat similar to 
your situation and might still be relevant.  A firmware upgrade or 
deletion of a certain file was recommended.

I don't think this is a Debian bug.  What brand/model is your thin 
client hardware?  Maybe you should search for system-specific 
vulnerabilities of the sort above...

Selim


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Re: Missing Driver isci

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Mustafa Aldemir,  4.03.2013:
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried upgrading my Debian server. During the update, I got a message 
> about a missing driver. Since it's a remote server, it will be a disaster if 
> it has a problem with ethernet driver. What should I do before restarting to 
> avoid problems?
> 
> "Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-48squeeze1) ...
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (2.6.32-48squeeze1) ...
> Running depmod.
> Running update-initramfs.
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/isci/isci_firmware.bin for module 
> isci"
> 
> best wishes...
> Mustafa
> http://mustafa.aldemir.net

On my wheezy system here, running apt-file search isci_firmware.bin 
shows me that that file is in the firmware-linux-free package.  And 
looking at the description for firmware-linux-free, I see
"Intel C600 SAS/SATA controller default parameters, version 1.3 
(isci/isci_firmware.bin)"

However, it looks like the squeeze version of firmware-linux-free 
doesn't include it, so you can try installing the wheezy version of that 
package (or alternatively, download the wheezy .deb, extract the 
firmware file you want, and put it in /lib/firmware/isci/ manually).


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Re: Missing Driver isci

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Mustafa Aldemir,  4.03.2013:
> 
> I read that proprietary drivers were removed from Debian kernel 
> 2.6.29 onwards, and this may be one of them.

It's not one of those because it's in the firmware-linux-free package.

> Do you think Wheezy version will work on it? I must be 100% sure 
> before rebooting.

I would think so, but no guarantees.


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Re: "iwconfig wlan0 power off" on module load

[Selim T. Erdogan]

basti, 11.03.2013:
> I have fixed with
> 
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>   wireless-power off
> 
> in /etc/network/interfaces.
> This works for now.

I did it by adding a line to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="rt2500pci", KERNEL=="wlan0", 
RUN="/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power off"

Selim

> Am 11.03.2013 20:58, schrieb basti:
> >Hello,
> >is the a way to do "iwconfig wlan0 power off" on module load
> >like "options rt2500usb nohwcrypt=1" can be?
> >
> >I don't find anythink about this.
> >Thanks.


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Re: EU Regulation and gvfs

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Ralf Mardorf, 19.03.2013:
> Hi,
> 
> there's an issue with gvfs.
> 
> Regarding to an EU Regulation external drives must spin down after a
> while, but gvfs make external drives spin up and down again and again so
> they don't stay asleep.
> 
> I own a new WD Elements and within one week it aged by years.
> 
> I marked a thread about this issue as solved, but it isn't, it's just a
> workaround. For some drives it's possible to disable it, but for drives
> where you can't open the case it can be impossible to do it.

Another workaround, perhaps:  I remember noticing something for this on 
the hdparm man page.  Checking again now, I see that the -J option is 
for setting WD Green drives' "idle3" timeout value.  It mentions that 
you can even disable it completely.  Maybe it'll work for your drive 
too...

Selim

> One way to safe lifetime then is to touch the drive in short intervals,
> to avoid a spin down and the other way is to remove gvfs and to mount
> block devices, not only USB devices, by a workaround.
> 
> Other USB gear, but block devices, don't need gvfs, such as WiFi
> adapters.
> 
> Since I'm short in time at the moment, I only tested Arch Linux and
> Ubuntu Linux intensively [1].
> 
> I'm cross-posting this information, hopefully you understand why I'm
> doing this.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> [1]
> From: Ralf Mardorf
> To: linux-audio-user
> Subject: [solved] External USB 2 HD for real-time recording
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:43:57 +0100
> 
> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > The issue that the drive will spin up and down again and again can be
> > avoided.
> > 
> > I removed
> > 
> > - thunar-volman
> > - tumbler
> > - gvfs
> > 
> > on Arch Linux. No packages depend on those packages for my Arch Linux.
> > The drive keeps asleep, even with still one partition mounted.
> > Later I'll add one package after the other, to find out what does cause
> > the access and I also will take a look at Ubuntu.
> 
> Arch Linux:
> 
> Only gvfs needs to be removed, no need to remove thunar-volman and
> tumbler. However, thunar-volman without gvfs seems to be useless.
> Tumbler doesn't cause issues, but I don't know what it's good for. To
> see thumbnails with Thunar it isn't needed.
> 
> I keep thunar-volman and tumbler on Arch and only removed gvfs. For my
> Arch nothing depends on gvfs, so it was the only package I had to remove.
> 
> 
> 
> Ubuntu Quantal:
> 
> root@q:~# apt-get purge gvfs
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   brasero* gvfs* gvfs-backends* gvfs-fuse* nautilus* nautilus-sendto*
> nautilus-share*
> 
> Who cares about the packages that depend on it? I anyway use Thunar
> instead of Nautilus and K3b instead of Brasero.
> 
> 
> 
> Résumé:
> 
> So who is to blame?
> 
> 
> By EU Regulation external drives must spin down.
> 
> I even didn't completely read the German blah blah blah,
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Ab-2010-Maximal-2-Watt-im-Standby-Betrieb-von-Haushaltsgeraeten-PCs-und-Unterhaltungselektronik-Update-193947.html
> and I won't search for links in English.
> 
> Xfce doesn't depend on gvfs, neither the Arch, nor the Ubuntu packages.
> Until now it seems to be, that without gvfs, partitions can't be mounted
> with a file browser, they have to be mounted by CLI. It's not only an
> issue for the USB drive, but also for USB sticks.
> 
> It takes 30 minutes, then the WD Elements spins down and stays asleep.
> If you don't like this,than blame the EU.
> If you like it, then blame gvfs.
> 
> Does VirtualBox still see my iPad 2 connected by USB when gvfs is
> removed?
> 
> No problem, even an USB stick and even the
> external USB hard disk are available by VirtualBox.
> 
> 
> Is my KORG nanoKONTROL still accessible after removing gvfs?
> 
> It still does show up in QjackCtl's ALSA tab.
> 
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Re: tar command and -X -T options.

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Franco Martelli, 28.03.2013:
> Hi,
> I'm on Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 amd64, I always used tar command for my
> backups using a couple of file to include and exclude directories.
> Now something strange it happens:
> (username) means the name which it's used to login to the system.
> 
> root@mitas:~# tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.23
> root@mitas:~# tar zcpf /tmp/bck.tgz -X out -T in
> root@mitas:~# cat out
> /home/(username)/linux-source-2.6.32
> 
> root@mitas:~# cat in
> /home/(username)/linux-source-2.6.32/.config
> 
> root@mitas:~# ls -l /tmp/bck.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 27 mar 15.33 /tmp/bck.tgz
> 
> Tar command creates an empty bck.tgz file (45 bytes length) could
> anybody tell me why isn't .config file archive by tar?

Aren't you excluding it by what you have in file "out"?  (The pattern
to exclude is a superset of the pattern to include.)


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Re: gnome3 mouse issues?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

chris, 28.04.2013:
> I've been running gnome3 on wheezy for about a month now. I've noticed
> that gnome3 will periodically (several times an hour) seem to stop
> responding but doesn't completely freeze. When this happens I can move
> the mouse and keyboard works in already open windows but mouse clicks
> do not register in any application nor can I even click builtin parts
> of the shell like the clock or pull up the activities bar. Somehow
> after alt+tabbing and clicking around it will eventually come back to
> normal but I am unable to find a specific pattern I am doing that
> restores things to normal. I think most likely after some time thing
> happens behind the scenes that brings it back to life.

> Anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas how to troubleshoot further?
> It's a shame because I was actually really liking gnome3 but this is a
> major annoyance that hinders productivity.

When gnome3 first came into the unstable repositories (more than a year 
ago?) I remember having a similar problem, where the mouse would freeze 
and it would take a couple of seconds to start responding again.  
Eventually, I figured out that the system setting to disable the 
touchpad when typing had been activated.  I turned off this option and 
things were back to normal.


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Re: Error install postgresql-9.1

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Fernando ff77, 17.05.2013:
> hello,
> i update my server from sarge to wheezy (stable). (dist-upgrade)

Are you really trying to go from *sarge* to wheezy?  Sounds like asking 
for trouble.

> All package is ok... thanks aptitude !!!
> 
> The problem is postgresql-9.1, during the installation i read this error...
> 
> Configurazione di postgresql-9.1 (9.1.9-1)...
> [] Starting PostgreSQL 9.1 database server: main[] Use of
> uninitialized value $logsize in numeric gt (>) at /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster
> line 215. Use of uninitialized value $logsize in numeric gt (>) at
> /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 215. Use of uninitialized value $logsize in
> numeric gt (>) at /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 215. Use of uninitialized
> value $logsize in numeric gt (>) at...
> 
> invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: errore nell'elaborare postgresql-9.1 (--configure):
>  il sottoprocesso installato script di post-installation ha restituito lo
> stato di errore 1
> Si sono verificati degli errori nell'elaborazione:
>  postgresql-9.1

Can you try removing the package and reinstalling it?  Maybe the new 
version's post-install script is looking for something that doesn't 
exist in your old version from sarge.

> I searched on Google but have not found a solution.

A very quick google search on your error message showed up some 
cases when a file didn't exist, but I'm not sure how similar the 
situations were to yours.  Do you know where $logsize is supposed to 
come from?


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Re: How to investigate system hangs?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Dawid Toton, 16.05.2013:
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> I am running wheezy. It worked perfectly for a year or two.
> But yesterday (and today again) my system got deadlocked. I'm not sure
> where to look for causes.
> Both events went like this:
> * I open the lid, the system resumes
> * I enter the password, I get applications apparently working
> * after short time, like few mouse clicks, everything becomes unresponsive
> * the mouse cursor can move
> * the system is still able to log USB mouse plug event, however the
> plugged mouse is apparently not listened to
> * ctrl+alt+f1 doesn't bring me a terminal (even after SysRq+R)
> * SysRq commands are logged and executed, so I can reboot with it

I wonder if it's Xorg that's having problems.  Can you go stop X and 
go to a virtual console before suspending?  If resuming from that works, 
that would mean it's Xorg.

Also, if you can use another computer to connect to the laptop after 
it freezes, you could try killing Xorg.

Another thing you can test is to just use ctrl+alt+f1 to go to a 
terminal as soon as you resume.  Then wait a while to see if the freeze 
happens even when you're sitting in the console.

> I have looked at nearly everything at /var/log, but I see nothing
> suspiscious for my untrained eye.
> 
> May I ask some advice? Do you know of some recent major changes that
> would e.g. affect some WiFi operation or something else that activates
> few seconds after system resume?
> How do I check what package upgrades preceded the hangs?

You could try /var/log/dpkg.log, /var/log/dpkg.log.1, etc.


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Re: (X/Xmonad) us-intl, some dead keys do not work in terminal emulator

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Franco, 16.05.2013:
> Hello Debianer, I have a problem with US-international keyboard 
> layout and X (I use Xmonad as WM).
> 
> As you know, dead keys like '`' allow you to make combinations 
> such as '`'+'e'='è'.
> 
> This works in any X application (midori, etc.), but *not* in terminal 
> emulators (like xterm, urxvt).

Are you looking for the "compose" feature, that works using a key like 
the left windows key (lwin)?  In this case, you would have to press the 
'lwin' key before (or at the same time as) '`'+'e'.

> I poked a bit at the config files, with no luck. What do?
> 
> setxkbmap -print leads to:
> 
> xkb_keymap {
>   xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
>   xkb_types { include "complete"  };
>   xkb_compat{ include "complete"  };
>   xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us(intl)+inet(evdev)"   };
>   xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)" };
> };

You should be able to add the compose feature with the command

setxkbmap -symbols "pc+us(intl)+inet(evdev)+compose(lwin)"

If you want to use a key other than lwin, have a look in the file
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/compose


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Re: Wheezy LXDE - desktop user unset

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Klistvud, 16.05.2013:
> Hello fellow Debianites!
> 
> Plain vanilla wheezy-LXDE install here - as installed from a
> wheezy-lxde-desktop-amd64 installation CD.
> 
> When I issue 'users' or 'who' in a virtual terminal, the desktop
> session user - although logged in - is not shown. On the other hand,
> if I run lxterminal - the default LXDE terminal emulator - *inside*
> the desktop environment and issue the above commands, the user is
> listed correctly.
> 
> On my old squeeze GNOME install, the above commands always show the
> logged-in GNOME session user - which is how things 'should' be I
> suppose?
> 
> Any hints? TIA

On wheezy with gnome, I don't see the gnome-session user.  All I see is 
a list with one user per gnome-terminal tab.  Same thing when I try in 
an xterm or lxterm.  (Of course, now with another user for xterm/lxterm.)


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Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

[Selim T. Erdogan]

rlwbonsai,  6.05.2013:
> I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to
> Wheezy on 5/5/13.  The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor
> and Unichrome graphics.  The only non-Debian software
> installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox.  This laptop has
> successfully run Sarge, Etch, Lenny and Squeeze and was
> successfully upgraded to Squeeze following the instructions in
> the Debian.org site. The following problems occurred during the
> upgrade to Wheezy:
> 
> -the upgrade stopped twice because of errors, once for libav-?
> and once for libreoffice-?
> 
> -I had to issue the command 'apt-get install -f' two separate
> times to get the upgrade completed, in addition to issuing the
> command 'apt-get dist-upgrade' two times in the middle of the
> upgrade.
> 
> -Gnome 3 will not run.  Default Gnome is very limited in this
> machine.
> 
> -xfce runs OK but the default terminal has no prompt.  Changing
> to each of the three rxvt versions will crash X when started.
> xterm will work.
> 
> 
> I upgraded the laptop first to see what would happen.  My main
> computer is a desktop machine running Squeeze but also with
> Unichrome graphics and and AMD Athlon 686 processor.  I will not
> upgrade this desktop machine if it ends up like the laptop,
> which is barely usable.

FWIW, I am running wheezy on an Averatec 3250 laptop (Athlon XP-M 
2200+, with unichrome for graphics).  Got it in December 2004.

(I ran sid on this laptop for years, but a few months ago I did a 
re-install to encrypt the disk, and since then I've been running wheezy.  
Will probably move up to sid again soon, now that wheezy is out.)

I run gnome 3 in fallback mode (classic) and it seems okay, though I 
should note that I have 1GB memory, as opposed to the 512MB that it came 
with.  The amount of memory is probably a big deal for these machines.

The openchrome driver for unichrome does seem to have some issues,
though I haven't verified for sure that the problems below are 
openchrome-related.

I didn't notice any stutter while playing videos in totem, like you 
mentioned in your other thread, but some flash videos stutter in 
iceweasel, using gnash.  (If a youtube video stutters too much, I use 
clive to download it.)

vlc and totem have colors mixed up though mplayer is fine.

My gnome-panel icons on the right, for battery, sound, wifi, don't 
get updated but work okay when I click on them or bring the mouse over 
them.


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Re: Error install postgresql-9.1

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Fernando ff77, 20.05.2013:
> Update:
> 
> I tried to install all the packages postgresql from SID. I have not solved.
> 
> I can not understand where is the problem.

I don't know what the problem is either, since I don't use postgresql, 
but I noticed the following in the release notes for wheezy:
http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

-
The list of obsolete packages includes: 

* postgresql-8.4, successor is postgresql-9.1. Wheezy provides only an 
updated postgresql-plperl-8.4 package that is linked against the new 
version of libperl in order to enable upgrading to the new Perl version 
in wheezy without making existing postgresql-8.4 installations unusable. 
Once the operating system upgrade is finished, you should plan to also 
upgrade your PostgreSQL 8.4 database clusters to the new PostgreSQL 
version 9.1 using the pg_upgradecluster tool. 
-

Note that it mentions an upgrade tool for upgrading databases.  Even if 
this doesn't solve your immediated problem, you might need it later.


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Re: building vloopback

[Selim T. Erdogan]

peasth...@shaw.ca, 12.06.2013:
> Kernel header package is installed.
> 
> root@dalton:/usr/src# ls
> linux-headers-3.2.0-4-686-pae  linux-kbuild-3.2  vloopback.tar
> linux-headers-3.2.0-4-common   modules
> 
> vloopback-source is installed.
> 
> root@dalton:/usr/src# cd modules/vloopback
> root@dalton:/usr/src/modules/vloopback# ls
> debian  Makefile  vloopback.c
> 
> According to /usr/share/doc/vloopback-source/README.Debian .
> 
> root@dalton:/usr/src/modules/vloopback# module-assistant build ./vloopback.c
> ./vloopback.c, what is ./vloopback.c?
> 
> Does anyone recognize what is missing?

I think you need to type "module-assistant build vloopback" instead.


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Re: Wheezy (Deb 7.1) Windows Focus?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Tom Browder, 27.06.2013:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Tom Browder  wrote:
> > I just installed Deb 7.1 on Oracle VM and it's much better than my
> > first experience with 7.0.  However. I cannot find out how to get the
> > cursor focus to be in the active window as in Deb 6+.
> 
> I forgot to say I'm using the Gnome Classic desktop.

In the Applications menu, go to System Tools and choose dconf Editor.
(You might need to install the dconf-tools package.)

In dconf editor, choose org->gnome->desktop->wm->preferences and edit 
focus-mode.


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Re: command line hesitations and pixel fuzz (blit leakage?) in xfce4-terminal

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Joel Rees, 16.07.2013:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Joel Rees  wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Mike Kupfer  wrote:
> >
> >> Joel Rees wrote:
> >>
> >> > > Anybody else seen this? Have an idea what's going on?
> >>
> >> I haven't seen this, nor do I know what's going on, but here are some
> >> things I would check if I were seeing that sort of video breakage:
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for responding. I was wondering if everyone had kill-filed me.
> >
> >
> >> Do you have compositing enabled (under Window Manager Tweaks)?  If you
> >> do, does the problem go away if you disable compositing?
> >>
> >
> > Compositing is not enabled, according to the GUI. Maybe I should try
> > enabling it. (My son's monopolizing the box right now.)
> >
> 
> Hmm. I enabled compositing and, while the blit leftovers don't immediately
> go away, sometimes, but not always, several seconds after they appear, they
> go away.
> 
> 
> > I'm assuming that you're using more or less standard Xfce.
> >
> >
> > Haven't been ambitious enough to do a lot of modding, so it should be. But
> > I'm not confident I got all the implicit dependencies taken care of when I
> > upgraded from squeeze to wheezy.
> >
> >
> >>  If that's
> >> incorrect, a more detailed description of your desktop setup would be
> >> helpful.
> >>
> >> And do you know what video card you're using and what driver?
> >>
> >
> > On-board graphics on a cheap AMD (Sempron) motherboard -- VIA KM266pro, I
> > think, maybe KM400, + VT8237 -- from about eight or nine years ago.
> >
> 
> >From "lspci -nn | grep VGA" :
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] [1106:7205] (rev 01)

I actually have the same card (in an Averatec 3200 series laptop from 
2004, with an AMD Athlon processor) and I might have a solution for you.  
For several months now, I've had some minor problems where I suspected 
the video driver was the issue and finally this weekend I dove into the 
code to check things out.  So your timing is good. :)

The "leftover stuff" problem isn't actually one that I'm having directly 
but it is similar to something I've seen.  For a long time, when I 
turned the computer on after hibernating, sometimes my graphics would be 
messed up and I would have to log out and back in to fix it.  I haven't 
had it happen very much recently but I'm not sure it was fixed directly 
because it seems related to my next problem...

I use gnome-3 in fallback mode and the icons at the top right --- 
battery, sound, network --- wouldn' get updated to reflect the 
current state, though the hovering-clicking functions worked correctly.  
They would only get refreshed when I went to a virtual terminal with 
ctrl-alt-f1 and came back with alt-f7.

This weekend I figured out that this not-refreshing is due to the driver 
switching its default to Exa, from Xaa.  When I put

Option "AccelMethod""Xaa"

in the Device section of my xorg.conf, the icons are refreshed 
properly.  Maybe this could fix your problem too.  (This is just a 
workaround at the moment but I'm going to look into this some more.)

The other problem I've noticed was that colors were cockeyed --- like 
the blue and the red were flipped or something --- when I played videos 
in vlc.  I now have a patch that fixes this.  

Playing videos in totem also has problems, which I thought I'd noticed 
around the time I noticed it in vlc, but checking it again, it's a 
different problem --- videos show as a single garbled image --- and I 
haven't investigated that yet.

I will be filing bugs for the exa-not-refreshing and flipped-colors 
issues this week but I wanted to test things one last time.  I'll let 
the list know when I file the bugs.

> I guess this is the appropriate comment on the state of the driver:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
> --- hardware acceleration has been ripped out of the sourceforge code.
>
> Which sounds like some NPE went after the project.

I looked up NPE and got Non-Practicing Entity.  Is that what you 
meant?  That wasn't what happened for this driver, as far as I know.  
In fact, at the url you gave above:
---
Support for hardware acceleration (XvMC) for all chipsets has 
subsequently been ripped out of the unichrome.sf.net driver. Therefore 
your only option if you wish to make use of the acceleration features of 
your VIA chip with free and open-source drivers is to use this version 
of the driver. 
---
Meaning XvMC acceleration support is in the openchrome driver in debian.

Here's the story: there was/is a driver called unichrome for these via 
cards that had both video acceleration and 3d.  
(The debian package description even has a URL for it: 
http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/)  But the main developer of unichrome 
thought the code quality of the people working on the XvMC stuff was not 
good enough and there were disagreements.  Eventually, he ripped 
that stuff out and o

Re: No nscd as far as I can tell.

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Hendrik Boom, 15.07.2013:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:21:59 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:01:56 +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote:
> > 
> >> Do you have nscd running by any chance?
> > 
> > Doesn't look like, unless it hides under an alias:
> > 
> > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# ps -Al | grep nscd
> > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik#
> 
> OK, OK.  It might even bbe part of the kernel and not be a program at all.
> How *do* I tell if I'm using nscd?

If you don't know about it, chances are that you don't even have it 
insalled.  On my wheezy, it's not installed, by default or by any 
package I've actively added.   Try "dpkg --get-selections |grep nscd"


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Re: which package is involed for this bug ?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

r...@libertysurf.fr, 15.07.2013:
> Hello, 
> I installed wheezy, tried gnome but apparently it does not seem to be very 
> well designed for 2 screens. So I am using gnome classic, which is very nice. 
> I have a problem with resizing the borders however : the border responsive 
> for click and drag is very thin. This problem does not happen with main 
> gnome. 
> I would like to file a bug, but what package is involved with this ? 

I don't know what to file a bug against, but in the meantime, you can 
also resize windows by right-clicking on the window title and choosing 
resize.  (Or just try alt-F8.)


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Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

[Selim T. Erdogan]

This is a long shot but for some reason I was reminded of
having trouble with a non-debian script a few months ago, that 
also asked to be run by /bin/sh (as your attachment did).

At the time, on my wheezy system (while it was still in testing), 
/bin/sh pointed to dash, not bash, so the script didn't work 
right.  I fixed it with "dpkg-reconfigure dash".

So you could check if the /bin/sh on the two systems points to
the same shell with the same version.

Selim


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Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Chris Bannister, 25.07.2013:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:31:34AM -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> > This is a long shot but for some reason I was reminded of
> > having trouble with a non-debian script a few months ago, that 
> > also asked to be run by /bin/sh (as your attachment did).
> > 
> > At the time, on my wheezy system (while it was still in testing), 
> > /bin/sh pointed to dash, not bash, so the script didn't work 
> > right.  I fixed it with "dpkg-reconfigure dash".
> > 
> > So you could check if the /bin/sh on the two systems points to
> > the same shell with the same version.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to change the line in the script to point to bash?

Yeah, maybe.  I don't really know enough about the differences between 
bash and dash.  I can't remember if I considered changing the one line, 
but I had the impression that bash was the default for a long time, and 
that dash was relatively new, so I must have thought going back to bash 
would be safe.  Also, there were a number of scripts and more than one 
had problems.

Selim


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Re: GnomeControlCenter - Funny stuff

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Jean-Marc, 25.07.2013:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Are you a Gnome3 user ?
> Do you want to try something funny ?
> Just open the System Settings, click on "User Accounts" and try to change 
> your name.
> You can do it just in clicking on your name to switch to an edit mode.
> Click on it and wait 5 seconds.
> 
> Thank's for sharing this experience of what you will see with me.

After reading the reports of what happens, I tried this, and nothing 
happens.  This is on wheezy, using Gnome 3 but I am in fallback mode 
(forced by my graphics card not being up to snuff).


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Re: Deleting chromium DNS cache entry doesn't seem to help.

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Hendrik Boom,  3.08.2013:
> 
> Every other program on my laptop finds the right IP number for slashdot.  
> It's just Chromium that doesn't.  Even Chrome gets it right.  Somewhere  
> Chromium has hidden state I can't expunge.

You could try purging the package ("apt-get remove --purge ...") and 
get rid of all not-user-specific state.  And then you could install 
again and see if the problem persists.  I don't use chromium much but 
*presumably* your bookmarks and other info you'd like to keep are stored 
in your home directory and will live through the purge.


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Re: Winfast TV 2000XP Expert with Squeeze

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Gábor Hársfalvi, 11.08.2013:
> Dear Users,
> 
> I wish to use my TV/Radio-Tuner but when I run Gnomeradio and found
> stations I can't hear any sounds from it.
> 
> I've set all the available options without any success. :(
> 
> Please Help using Tuner

Around nine or ten years ago I used a TV card and I remember that it 
showed the picture without sound, until I used a small cable to connect 
the audio output of the TV card to the input of the sound card.


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Re: wireless problem

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Robert Holtzm, 19.08.2013:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:07:57PM -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> > I have a wireless connection that disconnects sponaneously. NM claims
> > I'm connected but I'm not. Can't ping the router (operation not
> > permitted). Ethernet connection is no problem when wireless is down.
> > Tried installing wicd with no luck. Not only no luck but with wicd I 
> > couldn't turn on the xciever. At one time wicd wouldn't play nice w/ NM.
> > IIRC this is no longer true. Can anyone confirm?
> > 
> > I just purged wicd and NM fired up my wireless connection w/ no problem.
> > I'll see how long it lasts.
> > 
> > FWIW I'm running Wheezy fully updated w/ fxce4 DE.
> 
> Well, that didn't last long. Wireless ran fine until this AM when it
> died and won't restart. As before, ethernet is fine. I'm floundering
> here and could use a hand. Not sure what areas to research. Anyone have
> any ideas?

Can you unload and reload the wireless module using modprobe?


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Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Karen Lewellen, 26.06.2012:
> Hi Lici,
> That was the nicest way to say...get to the point!
> Honestly, I cannot speak to how layout appears for others.
> I actually have the same question when I use, pico, the editor here.
> In google mail there is an option.  Wrap lines to  fit displayed area?

I use nano instead of pico and I can get lines to wrap by putting

unset nowrap

into my .nanorc file.  You could try putting that into your .picorc 
file.  (Create that file if it doesn't exist already.)


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Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Gary,  4.08.2012:
> Brian wrote:
> 
> > On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 19:43:25 +0100, Gary wrote:
> > 
> > > Sven Joachim wrote:
> 
> > > > No, squeeze-backports has binary packages (linux-image-3.2*) that you
> > > > can just install.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > That didn't go well :(
> > 
> > It might not be a bad idea to detail what didn't go well. How you went
> > about getting the kernel and firmware-ralink packages, commands used,
> > which kernel etc.
> > 
> > > I installed the packages, and then the one that that process
> > > complained was missing/out of date (our old friend the realtek
> > > package). Restarted. After selecting one of the 3.2 kernel options,
> > > the computer effectively froze, with lines all over the screen. So
> > > badly I had to pull the plug :(
> > 
> > Any progress here?
> 
> As mentioned, I installed the binary packages. Essentially I added
> http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports to the software 
> sources, setting Dist to squeeze-backports and Components to main &
> non-free. Then I performed
>   apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-3.2
> and
>   apt-get -t squeeze-backports install firmware-realtek
> 
> They seemed to go okay but the system doesn't start with the new
> kernels - on startup it gets part way through before covering the
> screen with horizontal lines and seems to hang.
> 
> The kernel is 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-rt-amd64.
  ^^ 
Don't know if it matters but "rt" above is the realtime kernel.  You 
might want to try with one of the other 3.2 kernels on backports to see 
if it helps.


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Re: The "Oh, No..." error when gdm is trying to start

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Paul Johnson, 15.08.2012:
> 
> In the olden days, I'd just remove gdm and then run "startx" from the
> command line to start X11. But now, as far as I can tell, the Gnome
> system pre-supposes a session-managed display manager.

I run gnome with startx.  You need the gnome-session package installed
but you can remove gdm3, gnome and gnome-core.  

NB: This is on sid.  Make sure you check what else it says it might 
remove if you remove those packages.



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Re: PCMCIA Smart Card Reader O2Micro SmartCardBus Reader V1.0

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Justin,  8.12.2013:
> 
> I have a problem with what I believe to be a pcmcia Smart Card
> Reader.  I'm running Debian version jessie/sid. When I execute the
> lspcmcia -a command I get the following output:
> 
> Socket 1 Device 0:[-- no driver --](bus ID: 1.0)
> Configuration:state: on
> [io  0x flags 0x100]
> [io  0x flags 0x100]
> [mem 0x flags 0x200]
> [mem 0x flags 0x200]
> [mem 0x flags 0x200]
> [mem 0x flags 0x200]
> 
> Product Name:   O2Micro
>  SmartCardBus Reader
>  V1.0
> 
> Identification:manf_id: 0xcard_id: 0x0001
> prod_id(1): "O2Micro
> " (0x94f31211)
> prod_id(2): "SmartCardBus Reader
> " (0x4f67a249)
> prod_id(3): "V1.0
> " (0xf28411a8)
> prod_id(4): --- (---)

I have no experience with this card, but googling a little got me this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485516

It looks like there's no official debian package but there's a driver 
that people have used successfully and somebody even made an unofficial 
package a few years ago.  (If that's out of date for recent kernels, 
maybe you can contact the author and ask for an update.)


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Re: dselect in wheezy; Old timers question

[Selim T. Erdogan]

John W. Foster, 14.12.2013:
> I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
> putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
> yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get
> distupgrade and all went as expected and the system is running fine.
> However after I did the upgrade from old stable to wheezy, I decided
> that I needed to get an upgraded openjdk-7-jre installed for the game
> systems I'm running. When I did that the dselect decided I needed a lot
> of extra stuff to go along and I hit 'ctrl x' to abandon those changes.
> I reloaded the selections available and went into get ONLY the jre that
> I needed using apt-get install  & the entire load of X related stuff
> popped up. Now I have tried to clear the caches of dselect and apt but
> they all seem stuck. Running apt-get clean & autoclean do not clear the
> dselect picked dependencies.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get the dependencies & suggested selections cleared
> out.

Hello, fellow dselect old-timer. :)  You should have hit X, not Ctrl-X, 
Anyway, here's what 'man dselect' says:

   If  you  mistakenly  establish some settings and wish to revert all the
   selections to what is currently installed on the system, press the  'C'
   key.  This is somewhat similar to using the unhold command on all pack‐
   ages, but provides a more obvious panic button in cases where the user
   pressed enter by accident.

(The previous paragraph was about using X to back out changes.  The 
screen in which you should have done that is the context of the "pressed 
enter by accident".)

I never tried this.  Let us know how it works.


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Re: [SOLVED] Re: setting up usb wireless

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Frank McCormick, 19.12.2013:
> On 19/12/13 10:25 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >On 19/12/13 01:32 AM, Charlie wrote:
> >>On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:09:03 -0500 Frank McCormick sent:
> >>
> >>>It appears it is supported - I have the ralink-firmware installed, but
> >>>when Debian (sid) boots it tries dhcpdiscover 255.255.255.255  about
> >>>10 times then gives up after getting no reply.
> >>
> >>There has been a recent thread about wireless. Some interesting
> >>information.
> >>
> >>I have no idea at all about wireless.
> >>
> >>Try 'iwconfig" as root and see what wlan should be seeking. I wore
> >>myself out putting wlan1 in my /etc/network/interfaces and jumping
> >>through all manner of hoops. It should have been wlan2 and when I
> >>changed it, all was well.
> >>
> >
> >Well it's really frustrating! iwconfig output looks ok then again I
> >am not really sure what I should be looking for.
> >
> >root@frank-debian:/home/frank# iwconfig wlan0
> >wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any
> >   Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=20 dBm
> >   Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >   Encryption key:off
> >   Power Management:on
> >
> >
> >
> >This is from syslog
> >
> >Dec 19 10:17:37 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
> >255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> >Dec 19 10:17:44 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
> >255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> >Dec 19 10:17:52 frank-debian dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
> >255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
> >database - sleeping.
> 
> 
>   Solved my problem. +1 for wicd in the Debian repositories...-10
> for gnome-nettool :)
> 
> 
> If you are having wireless setup problems, it's the tool to goto.

FWIW, I have a cheap usb wireless adabter with the same identifier
listed in your lsusb (ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 
Wireless Adapter) and it's been working fine with Network Manager in 
Gnome (in fallback mode) in wheezy.  Haven't needed wicd, or anything 
else for that matter, to get it working.  (The performance isn't too 
great but that's probably due to the driver and/or hardware.)

Anyway, it's good that you solved your problem, whichever way was handy.


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Re: Acpi "Lid" Suspend with Eeepc 900 Not Working

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Patrick Bartek, 21.12.2013:
> Installed Wheezy-LXDE 32-bit off LXDE flavor ISO via thumb drive to
> replace Eeebuntu 3.0 that I installed on it 3 years ago or so.  Chose
> Base, Desktop GUI and Laptop tasks.  Nothing else.  All went well and
> as far as I can tell everything works, except Suspend (sleep, not
> hibernate) when the lid is closed.  Don't want hibernate anyway. Instead
> of sleeping, the display is shutdown, but the computer itself is still
> fully powered and running.  (The "sleep" key combo FnF1 works however.) 
> 
> I installed the eeepc-apci-scripts from the repo thinking that might
> solve the problem. It didn't, but fortunately those scripts are
> compatible with the others, so no conflicts.
> 
> I finally traced the "problem" to lid.sh from the original acpi
> scripts.  Full script is below. Toward the top, this if-then is not
> being triggered.  Don't know why.
> 
>   if [ x$LID_SLEEP = xtrue]; then
>   pm-suspend
> 
> Any answers come to mind?

I had a look at the /etc/acpi/lid.sh script below, which appears to be 
the same as what I have.  Based on line 7 of that script, I checked
/etc/default/acpi-support, where I saw

# Uncomment this to enable ACPI sleep when the lid screen is closed.
#LID_SLEEP=true

Did you try uncommenting that?

(I didn't try this out because my laptop has problems suspending.)

Selim


> I did a work-around by having the "lid" event call my own suspend.sh
> action directly.  It works, sort of:  Goes back to sleep after initially
> waking up, requiring a second key press, then it sticks.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> B
> 
> 
> /etc/acpi/lid.sh follows
> 
> = >8 ==
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs || exit 0
> 
> . /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs
> . /usr/share/acpi-support/policy-funcs
> . /etc/default/acpi-support
> 
> [ -x /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre ] && /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre
> 
> CheckPolicy && exit
> 
> grep -q closed /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state
> if [ $? = 0 ]
> then
> . /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank
> if [ x$LID_SLEEP = xtrue ]; then
>   pm-suspend
> fi
> else
> d=/tmp/.X11-unix
> for x in $d/X*; do
>   displaynum=${x#$d/X}
>   getXuser;
>   if [ x$XAUTHORITY != x ]; then
>   export DISPLAY=:$displaynum
>   if [ x$RADEON_LIGHT = xtrue ]; then
>   [ -x /usr/sbin/radeontool ] && radeontool light on
>   fi
>   case "$DISPLAY_DPMS" in
>   xset)
>   su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xset dpms force on"
>   ;;
>   xrandr)
>   su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xrandr --output LVDS --auto"
>   ;;
>   vbetool)
>   /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on
>   ;;
>   esac
>   if pidof xscreensaver > /dev/null; then
>   if on_ac_power; then 
>   su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xscreensaver-command -unthrottle"
>   fi
>   su $XUSER -s /bin/sh -c "xscreensaver-command -deactivate"
>   fi
>   else
>   if [ -x$DISPLAY_DPMS_NO_USER = xtrue ]; then
>   [ -x /usr/sbin/vbetool ] && /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on
>   fi 
>   fi
> done
> fi
> [ -x /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.post ] && /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.post
> 
> 
>  
> 
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Re: beaglebone black lxde hdmi problem

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Andre Marschalek, 23.11.2013:
> 
> installed debian wheezy 7.2 (http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/wheezy/) and
> additional lxde on a beaglebone black which works everytime as expected as
> long as i connect a pc monitor with a hdmi to dvi adapter to beaglebone's
> hdmi port
> 
> but if i connect the hdmi port to my full hd tv my tv responds no device
> connected (even if i reboot beaglebone afterwards)
> 
> if i than connect my pc monitor instead of the full hd tv (without a reboot
> between) i can see something but its not readable (like a wrong frequency) 
> 
> one important note, beaglebone is not able to provide sound with any
> resolutions over hdmi so i would need to have different settings
> 
> please can you guide me to fix this issue?
> 
> please correct me if this is the wrong list to solve the problem

If you're still having this problem, you could try the debian-arm list.


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Re: since last upgrade unable to upgrade, install whatever...

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Erwan David,  6.01.2014:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:24:44AM CET, François Patte 
>  said:
> > Bonjour,
> > 
> > Since the last upgrade, I am unable to run any apt command (install,
> > upgrade...) all end like this:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:24:in `require': no such file to
> > load -- debian_version (LoadError)
> > from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:24
> > from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:269:in `require'
> > from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:269
> > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error
> > code (10)
> > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10
> > 
> > 
> > file debian_version is on my system.
> > 
> > What to do?
> 
> Bug is in ruby-debian which does not provide debian_version.so for ruby 1.8
> 
> You may comment out everything in /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs until it is 
> fixed.

Another option would be to remove the apt-listbugs package (temporarily)...


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Re: since last upgrade unable to upgrade, install whatever...

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Erwan David,  6.01.2014:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:56:35AM CET, François Patte 
>  said:
> > Le 06/01/2014 11:30, Erwan David a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:24:44AM CET, François Patte 
> > >  said:
> > >> Bonjour,
> > >>
> > >> Since the last upgrade, I am unable to run any apt command (install,
> > >> upgrade...) all end like this:
> > >>
> > >> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:24:in `require': no such file to
> > >> load -- debian_version (LoadError)
> > >>  from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:24
> > >>  from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:269:in `require'
> > >>  from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:269
> > >> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error
> > >> code (10)
> > >> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> file debian_version is on my system.
> > >>
> > >> What to do?
> > > 
> > > Bug is in ruby-debian which does not provide debian_version.so for ruby 
> > > 1.8
> > > 
> > > You may comment out everything in /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs until it 
> > > is fixed.
> > 
> > # ls /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbug
> > /bin/ls: cannot access /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbug: No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> > # ls /etc/apt.conf.d/
> > /bin/ls: cannot access /etc/apt.conf.d/: No such file or directory
> > 
> > hum!
> 
> Maybe it differs for you but that's where my jessie stores the fact
> that apt* should launch apt-listbugs before install
> 
> Maybe in apt.conf for you ?

Mine was in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs
 ^
 (note extra "apt/", and final "s")


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Re: Unable to run 'evernote-mode'

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Sharon Kimble, 22.12.2013:
> Has anyone got emacs 'evernote-mode' to work on debian please? Every
> time that I try I'm left with this error message which I don’t
> understand - 
> 
> error in process sentinel: enclient.rb exited abnormally with code 1
> -e:1: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or
> tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END :1: Use RbConfig instead of
> obsolete and deprecated Config. ^
> 
> enutil-aget: Wrong type argument: listp, -e:1:
> 
> If I try to run 'RbConfig' then it says 'Command not found'.
> 
> So whats the next step forward in getting it to run please?

I've never used evernote-mode and I don't use Ruby, but
"apt-file search RbConfig" leads me to suggest that you might try 
installing a newer version of Ruby.  (e.g. ruby1.9.1)


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Re: since last upgrade unable to upgrade, install whatever...

[Selim T. Erdogan]

François Patte,  6.01.2014:
> Le 06/01/2014 11:38, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit :
> > Erwan David,  6.01.2014:
> >> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:24:44AM CET, François Patte 
> >>  said:
> >>> Bonjour,
> >>>
> >>> Since the last upgrade, I am unable to run any apt command (install,
> >>> upgrade...) all end like this:
> >>>
> >>> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:24:in `require': no such file to
> >>> load -- debian_version (LoadError)
> >>>   from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/debian.rb:24
> >>>   from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:269:in `require'
> >>>   from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:269
> >>> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error
> >>> code (10)
> >>> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> file debian_version is on my system.
> >>>
> >>> What to do?
> >>
> >> Bug is in ruby-debian which does not provide debian_version.so for ruby 1.8
> >>
> >> You may comment out everything in /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs until it 
> >> is fixed.
> > 
> > Another option would be to remove the apt-listbugs package (temporarily)...
> 
> and install bugged upgrade without any warning?

That's what I would do, though you might want to check bug reports for 
"critical" packages, to be on the safe side.  Hopefully the bug will be 
fixed soon and you can reinstall apt-listbugs.

Actually, after looking at 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734256,
what you could do is to remove apt-listbugs, install ruby1.9.1, and then
reinstall apt-listbugs.


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Re: debian-live-7.2 doesn´t start

[Selim T. Erdogan]

peter.gierschner, 11.01.2014:
> >
> 
> Yes, tried debian-live-7.2-i386-gnome-desktop+nonfree.iso

...

> In Internet I can find many people, who had succeeded in installing
> Linux on a d530, why can´t I?  :-(((

Are you using debian-live because you want to try it out first, before 
installing?  If your goal is to install, you might be better off trying
one of the other ways of getting debian (http://www.debian.org/distrib/),
such as the network installer (http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst).

(I seem to recall seeing reports of problems with the live cd at some 
point in the past.  The network installer's probably much better tested.)


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Re: Installing Mahara from source on Debian SID.

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Csanyi Pal, 11.01.2014:
> 
> 6.
> Mahara Configuration
> 
> cd /usr/share/mahara/htdocs/
> sudo cp config-dist.php config.php
> sudo nano config.php
> 
> 
> $cfg = new stdClass();

Here you have "$cfg = new stdClass();"

> 
> $cfg->dbtype   = 'postgres';
> $cfg->dbhost   = 'localhost';
> $cfg->dbport   = null;
> $cfg->dbname   = 'mahara';
> $cfg->dbuser   = 'mahara';
> $cfg->dbpass   = 'SecretPassword';
> 
> $cfg->dbprefix = '';
> 
> $cfg = new stdClass();

I don't know about any of this software you're trying to set up... but 
is this second copy of "$cfg = new stdClass();" supposed to be here?


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Re: xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds ?? (sid, xfce4)

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Zenaan Harkness, 13.01.2014:
> xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds. This
> causes my xscreensaver unlock/password dialog window to open up all
> the time...
> 
> Any idea how I can find out what's calling this command every 30 seconds?

Try running top and press V to get the "forest view" mode.  (Like pstree.)


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Re: Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Martin McCormick, 16.01.2014:
>   We just switched telephone carriers and our new one has
> callerID so I want to capture that information on a debian
> system.
> 
>   While going through a box of older stuff, I found the
> Apple usb modem my parents were using on their Mac. My father is
> now on regular cable-supplied internet service and we haven't
> used dial-up since about 2000 so here are my questions.
> 
>   The usb modem does it all with DSP so it is little more
> than a bump in a cable with a usb plug on one end and a RJ11 on
> the other. I suspect it is much like a winmodem which is useless
> without the drivers. Does anybody know if these things were
> capable of reading CallerID in the first place?
> 
>   If any part of it is useble in Debian, shouldn't it have
> registered a new device or two in /dev?
> 
>   Here is what it did place in syslog minus all the time
> stamp information:
> 
>  usb 4-2.1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
>  usb 4-2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1401
>  usb 4-2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
>  usb 4-2.1: Product: Apple USB Modem
>  usb 4-2.1: Manufacturer: Motorola, Inc.
>  usb 4-2.1: SerialNumber: 00
>  usb 4-2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>  usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

It looks like you're out of luck with this modem (though you could
try loading the cdc-acm module as suggested, in case anything got
improved in the years since these reports):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497361
https://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2008/08/msg00035.html


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Re: apt conf

[Selim T. Erdogan]

james gray, 22.01.2014:
> 
> the machine i am engaged with =  Intel 64 bit.
> 
> Ivy Bridge i3-3110M 2.4 GHz
> 
> from z reason in berkeley. good machine.
> 
> #dpkg --print architecture
> 
> amd64

I don't know if this confused you, but it's actually correct.
Intel 64-bit processors use amd64.  (The name is amd64 because
AMD introduced this 64-bit architecture first but then Intel
started to use it too.)  So you don't need to worry about this.


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Re: zenbook not booting after failed suspend/resume (debian/testing)

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Jogi Hofmüller, 28.01.2014:
> Dear all,
> 
> Zenbook bootable again.  The fix was actually really easy:
> 
>   apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64

If the machine wasn't booting, how did you get to a state where you 
could run that?  Did you use a rescue usb/cd?


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Re: network setup for xen on a laptop

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Henning Follmann,  7.02.2014:
> Hello,
> I just setup a laptop for development.
> I usually have multiple XEN instances for development purposes. My previous
> setup was a desktop with e static ethernet setup. that was fairly easy.
> I had one iface br0 instance in my /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> With the laptop it is different. Most of the time I still use a ethernet
> connection. Here I basically use the same setup. I have a br instance in my
> interfaces.
> I noticed however that the networkmanager (which I use for wifi) knocks
> this out. After switching a wifi connection on and off again all the
> settings the ethernet got through dhcp were overwritten.
> 
> So know I wonder if there is a "right" way to manage bridge setups for xen.
> Is it best to keep everything in /etc/network/interfaces? WIFI too?
> How to I bridge the wifi too?
> And how do I deal in this case with different wifi locations?
> 
> I am open to any suggestions.

I don't know anything about bridging but I might be able to help with 
your wired ethernet dhcp settings getting messed up by network manager.  
To fix that, I have the following in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf 
--
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=true
--
This lets the traditional /e/n/i setup and network manager work together 
nicely.  (I forgot what keyfile does.  It's probably unrelated.)

(You'll have to restart network manager for this to take effect.)


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Re: trouble installing on old laptop

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Marcus,  7.02.2014:
> I'm trying to install Debian on an old laptop (Dell Lat 420) to do
> some development work. I'm getting the message that I need the
> non-free iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode file
> 
> I've tried installing without thinking that I can apt-get firmware
> after installing but base install fails because it “can't find a
> kernel” ???

Could the installer you downloaded be for amd64 (64-bit), though your 
laptop needs i386 (32-bit)?  (Though I don't know if the installer would 
even boot in such a case.)


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Re: USB wireless network adaptor

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Manikandan M,  8.02.2014:
> 
> I'm having a HP laptop running wheezy. The built-in wireless adaptor wasn't
> working fine. So bought a Asus usb-n10 wireless adaptor. installed the
> drivers and it works fine.
> But once i shutdown or restart my laptop, its not working. The lsusb
> command shows the wireless adaptor, but the adaptor is not working (not
> getting detected in network manager in gnome). only way to make it work is
> to restart.
> Has anyone faced a similar situation and is there any fix for this issue.
> Thanks in advance.

You could try removing and reloading the relevant kernel module, which
might be r8712u, based on https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x
So, try "modprobe -r r8712u && modprobe r8712u" as root.

I have to do this for a pci wifi adapter, when I start the laptop after 
hibernation.  Actually, that reminds me: I also have a usb adapter which 
occasionally has the problem you have, though caused by the built-in pci 
adapter.  It might be related to them both being part of the rt2x00 
driver family.  After waking up from hibernation, if the pci adapter 
--- using rt2500pci --- was in use before, I have to either reload or 
remove its module, to get the usb adapter --- using rt2800usb --- to work.
But if I've removed the rt2500pci module, then the rt2800usb module 
will survive the hibernation.


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Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Csanyi Pal,  3.02.2014:
> Csanyi Pal  writes:
> 
> > Csanyi Pal  writes:
> >
> >> Scott Ferguson  writes:
> >>
> >>> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>  Scott Ferguson  writes:
>  
> > On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> >> Scott Ferguson  writes:
> >>
> >>> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> 
>  I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter.
>  I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless
>  Access Point. 
> 
> > 
> 
>  However, I can't find the installed driver, and I don't know how can 
>  I
>  load it as a kernel module? 
> >>>
> >>> Had you read this wiki page about that chipset?
> >>> https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x
> >>
> >> Yes, I had. There I found that that my USB Wifi adapter is supported:
> >>
> >> when I plug in the WiFi usb adapter, lsusb shows the following:
> >> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS
> >> 802.11n WLAN Adapter
> >>
> >> and on the webpage https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x there is this davice
> >> listed:
> >>
> >> USB: 0BDA:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN
> >> Adapter 
> >>
> >> On the web page: https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x there I found the
> >> following information:
> >>
> >> rtl8192cu (supported devices)
> >>
> >>  Supports USB devices based on the RTL8188CUS and RTL8192CU chips.
> >>
> >>  Introduced in Linux 2.6.39, enabled at 
> >>  linux-2.6  2.6.39~rc7-1~experimental.1. 
> >>
> >> So now what should I do to get this USB Wifi adapter works?
>  
> > Did you install the matching headers? 
>  
>  I did install the linux-headers-2.6-powerpc.
>  
> > Do you get a match on the chipset series when greping through the
> > likely modules after piping through string? 
>  
>  When I run 'make menuconfig' in the kernel source directory, I found the
>  Realtek RTL8192CU/RTL8188CU USB Wireless Network Adapter
>  module
>  
>  in the 
>  
>  Linux/powerpc 2.6.39.4-4 Kernel Configuration / \
>   Device Drivers / Network device support / Wireless LAN 
>  
>  In menuconfig I saved the setup in to .config file.
>  
>  But when I run after 'make menuconfig' the 'make' command, I get
>  error message: 
>  
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c: In function ‘fix_alignment’:
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c:704:33: error: variable ‘instruction’ set
>  but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
>  cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>  make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/align.o] Error 1
>  make: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2
>  
>  What could be the problem here?
> >>>
> >>> Sorry (again). But I don't have clue.
> >>> I can tell you how to suppress the warning (--disable-werror):-
> >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html
> >>>
> >>> but not how to fix the problem that generates it.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to fix this problem with installing gcc-4.4 on my Debian
> >> Wheezy system.
> >>
> >> Now when I have installed the gcc-4.4, I made a symbolic link:
> >> ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 febr   2 06:34 /usr/bin/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-4.4
> >>
> >> The gcc symbolic link are linked before this to the /usr/bin/gcc-4.6.
> >>
> >> Now I'm running the 'make' command in the kernel source file with the
> >> .config setup file. Sofar it is successfull, but it is ongoing yet. I'm
> >> waiting the make command to terminate successfull.
> >
> > It's done ( after 8 houers ):
> >
> > sudo dpkg -i bubba3-kernel-headers-powerpc_2.6.39.4-13_powerpc.deb
> > bubba3-kernel_2.6.39.4-13_powerpc.deb
> > (Adatbázis olvasása ... 76193 files and directories currently
> > installed.)
> > bubba3-kernel-headers-powerpc 1:2.6.39.4-13 cseréjének előkészítése (e
> > csomaggal: bubba3-kernel-headers-powerpc_2.6.39.4-13_powerpc.deb) ...
> > Csere kicsomagolása: bubba3-kernel-headers-powerpc ...
> > Selecting previously unselected package bubba3-kernel.
> > dpkg: considering removing bubba-kernel in favour of bubba3-kernel ...
> > dpkg: yes, will remove bubba-kernel in favour of bubba3-kernel
> > Kicsomagolás: bubba3-kernel innen: bubba3-kernel_2.6.39.4-13_powerpc.deb
> > ...
> > Beállítás: bubba3-kernel-headers-powerpc (1:2.6.39.4-13) ...
> > Beállítás: bubba3-kernel (1:2.6.39.4-13) ...
> > WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/2.6.39.4-13/modules.builtin: No
> > such file or directory
> >
> > Well, about this WARNING at the end: is this serious?
> >
> > Should I reboot my Bubba box now safely?
> 
> I did the followings.
> 
> 1.
> dget -xu \
> http://b3.update.excito.org/pool/main/l/linux/linux_2.6.39.4-13.dsc
> 
> 2.
> cd linux-2.6.39.4/
> 
> 3.
> make menuconfig
> 
> 4.
> Load the default excito configuration: From the menu, select Load an
> Alternate Configurat

Re: nm-applet reports 802.11 connected, but can't actually communicate over network?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Carl Fink, 10.02.2014:
> I'm trying to use my Testing system with a Realtek rtl8188ce 802.11 adapter.
> I use Gnome's nm-applet to connect to the wireless access point, and it
> accepts the passphrase and connects, fine. However, all attempts to do
> anything over the network fail, e.g. ping, traceroute, attempts to open a
> web page all time out with no result.
> 
> My first thought was name resolution but I get the same thing with an IP
> address.
> 
> My Windows 8.1 ultrabook connects to this network fine. So does my Android
> phone. So does my (company-issue) iPad. Why is the Debian system failing?
> 
> I do have the Realtek nonfree firmware installed and this system worked OK
> in another building using a different WiFi router.

Did that router use the same kind of encryption as this one?  Or are 
there any other differences you can think of?
 
> Output of ifconfig:
> loLink encap:Local Loopback  
>   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>   inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>   UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
>   RX packets:4151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:4151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>   RX bytes:883087 (862.3 KiB)  TX bytes:883087 (862.3 KiB)
> 
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:a1:07:a5  
>   inet addr:192.168.1.109  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fea1:7a5/64 Scope:Link
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:796 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:828 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>   RX bytes:251403 (245.5 KiB)  TX bytes:103301 (100.8 KiB)
> 
> 
> 
> Output of route: -v
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
> default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0  00 wlan0
> 192.168.1.0 *   255.255.255.0   U 0  00 wlan0
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Any chance you need to register your MAC address for this network?


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Re: Apple Magic Trackpad/Mouse support in Debian Testing (Jessie) with GNOME 3?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Oliver Propst, 10.02.2014:
> I consider to purchase a Apple Magic Trackpad (and maybe a Magic Mouse) to
> use mostly for web-browsing and are wondering what gesture support Debian
> Testing (Jessie) with GNOME 3 provide. Anyone who have any experience with
> any of the devices?
> 
> The most important feature for me are smooth two finger scrolling.

I have no experience with those devices but googling for "apple magic 
trackpad debian" got https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/AppleMagicTrackpad
as the first result.  It sounds like two-finger scrolling works fine for 
recent Ubuntu, so I imagine you can get it to work with Debian jessie too.


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Re: how to change double click as the middle button

[Selim T. Erdogan]

lina, 11.03.2014:
> Hi,
> 
> Originally I have  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, which I used the double
> click as the middle button. Three clicks as the right button,
> 
> The 50-synaptics.conf is under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
> 
> 
> In my situation, I installed a new kernel, which seems that the new
> kernel use the bcm5974 to determine the behavior of the mouse, which
> ignores the synaptic setting,
> 
> I wish to come back to the old days use the double tap as the middle
> button, any suggestions, thanks.

Hi Lina,

I don't have any experience with this issue but I googled and found
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=27888
which pointed to
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=27822

Based on those pages ...

> # more /var/log/Xorg.0.log  | grep bcm
> [41.968] (II) config/udev: Adding input device bcm5974
> (/dev/input/event11)
> [41.968] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
> [41.968] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"
> [41.968] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "Default clickpad buttons"
> [41.968] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "Disable clickpad buttons
> on Apple touchpads"
> [41.968] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"

... the lines above might indicate that some settings are trying to be
applied multiple times, possibly problematically.  One suggestion on the
pages linked above is to ...

> [41.980] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'bcm5974'
> [41.980] (**) bcm5974: always reports core events
> [42.089] (II) synaptics: bcm5974: found clickpad property
> [42.089] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: x-axis range -4415 - 5050 (res 0)
> [42.089] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: y-axis range -55 - 6680 (res 0)
> [42.089] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: pressure range 0 - 256
> [42.089] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: finger width range 0 - 16
> [42.089] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: buttons: left double triple
> [42.090] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: Vendor 0x5ac Product 0x245
> [42.090] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: touchpad found
> [42.090] (**) bcm5974: always reports core events
> [42.139] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "bcm5974" (type:
> TOUCHPAD, id 11)
> [42.139] (**) synaptics: bcm5974: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant
> deceleration 2.0
> [42.139] (**) synaptics: bcm5974: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 2.00
> [42.139] (**) synaptics: bcm5974: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.075
> [42.140] (**) bcm5974: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
> [42.140] (**) bcm5974: (accel) acceleration profile 1
> [42.140] (**) bcm5974: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
> [42.140] (**) bcm5974: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
> [42.141] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: touchpad found
> [42.142] (II) config/udev: Adding input device bcm5974
> (/dev/input/mouse0)
> [42.142] (**) bcm5974: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad
> ignore duplicates"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> :/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d# more 50-synaptics.conf
> # Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
> # to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
> # InputClass.
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
> # it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
> # /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
> # Additional options may be added in the form of
> #   Option "OptionName" "value"
> #
> Section "InputClass"
> Identifier "touchpad catchall"
> Driver "synaptics"
> MatchIsTouchpad "on"
> # This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
> # enabled by default. See the following link for details:
> # http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
> #   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"

... try uncommenting the line above.  Let us know if it works.

Selim


>   Option  "MinSpeed"  "0.5"
> Option  "MaxSpeed"  "1.0"
> Option  "AccelFactor"   "0.075"
> Option  "TapButton1""1"
> Option  "TapButton2""2" # multitouch
> Option  "TapButton3""3" # multitouch
> Option  "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1" # multitouch
> Option  "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "1" # multitouch
> Option  "VertEdgeScroll""1"
> Option  "CoastingSpeed" "8"
> Option  "CornerCoasting""1"
> Option  "CircularScrolling" "1"
> Option  "CircScrollTrigger" "7"
> Option  "EdgeMotionUseAlways"   "1"
> Option  "LBCornerButton""8" # browser "back" btn
> Option  "RBCornerButton""9" # browser
> "forward" btn
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputClass"
> Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
> MatchIsTouchpad "on"
> MatchOS "Linux"
>

Re: USB WiFi adapter doesn't work with Wheezy (but does work with Ubuntu)

[Selim T. Erdogan]

dclinton, 28.02.2014:
> 
> On 14-02-28 10:16 AM, Klaus wrote:
> >On 28/02/14 14:53, dclinton wrote:
> >>On 14-02-27 03:13 PM, Klaus wrote:
> >>>3.12 *OR* newer :-)
> >That's at least what I gathered from here:
> >, though you also
> >made it working in your Ubuntu installation with kernel 3.11.
> >
> >>No. 3.12 is the latest (and, I believe, only) Yocto image available.
> >Only? Didn't you show us something with "3.8.7-yocto-standard"
> >earlier? ;-)
> I never actually thought about that numbering. Now that you mention
> it though, it seems to have nothing to do with the Linux kernel -
> Yocto itself is meant to enable embedding kernel images in
> non-mainstream hardware platforms.

I don't know much about Yocto, but www.yoctoproject.org/downloads 
doesn't show anything that looks like 3.8.7.  So I think that number 
must refer to the linux kernel and you should make sure you're trying 
out the dongle on your Galileo when it's running the latest (3.12) 
image.

There are usually two drivers for Ralink devices: one from the 
manufacturer, and one from the rt2x00 project.  The driver you showed 
working in Ubuntu was from the manufacturer, which is not part of the 
mainline linux releases.  I think your device is also supported 
by the rt2x00 project (see below) but maybe not by the kernel you're 
using.  From my experience, if it were just a missing firmware issue, 
you might see something more in dmesg output, trying to load the 
correctly identified driver but complaining about missing firmware files.

I think the rt2x00 driver supports your dongle, based on messages on 
their mailing list:

- It looks like your devices usb id got added in July 2013
  
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2013-July/006283.html

- Some people report using very similar (one maybe the same?) devices 
  recently (November and February), though with problems using hostapd
  
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2013-November/006525.html
  
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2014-February/006553.html
  
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2014-February/006555.html

Anyway, you might get better help writing to the rt2x00 list, or maybe 
try e-mailing the specific people who wrote the messages above what they 
did to get their devices working.  (It's not a very active list.)
List info:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/mailman/listinfo/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
Archives:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/

Selim


> >Have you checked the USB dongle with the 3.12 kernel, maybe on another
> >Debian box (or virtual machine)?
> >From your earlier post it wasn't clear whether this usb dongle
> >requires any firmware?
> I'm still not 100% sure, but I'm beginning to suspect that the
> dongle does require firmware...which isn't good news.
> Thanks,


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Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Csanyi Pal,  2.03.2014:
> 
> However, I'm still trying to set this to work. I'm trying to test
> hostapd by using the file hostapd-minimal.conf:
> interface=wlan0
> driver=nl80211
> ssid=test
> channel=1
> bridge=br0
> 
> 
> and when I run the following command:
> 
> csanyipal@b2:~$ sudo hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd-minimal.conf 
> Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd-minimal.conf
> rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device
> Could not set interface mon.wlan0 flags: No such device
> nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode
> nl80211 driver initialization failed.

Can you check whether your device is capable of being put into AP mode?  
(Some devices don't support it, as far as I know.)  I don't remember the 
exact command, but you should be able to do it using iw or iwconfig.


> but does'n lose the ssh connection anymore with Bubba Two. :)
> 
> Now I have the followings in my interfaces file:
> auto lo br0
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # Internet on eth0
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
>
> # wifi on wlan0
> allow-hotplug wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet manual
> 
> # Bridge setup
> # for dhcp address
> iface br0 inet dhcp
> bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
>
> # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
> # I want to remain my wired LAN
> # LAN on eth1
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet static
> address 192.168.10.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.10.0
> broadcast 192.168.10.255
> gateway 192.168.10.1
> dns-nameservers 192.168.10.1
> dns-search localdomain
> 
> 
> With this setup I can't only reach the Internet, but can to ssh into
> Bubba Two.

Several questions, for clarification:

You ssh from your sid desktop into the Bubba Two, right?
Do you define a static IP on your sid desktop for this?

It's the desktop that can't reach the Internet, right?
Once you ssh into the Bubba Two, can you reach the Internet on the 
command line of the Bubba Two?
Were you able to reach the Internet from you desktop, going through the 
Bubba Two, before attempting to se up the AP?  (If not, I think you 
should try to achieve that first, before confusing things further 
with the AP setup)

For the AP, the diagram you sent in earlier messages showed it being 
attached to eth0.  Is that correct?  I would have thought it should be 
attached to your LAN (thus to eth0).  
Do you plan to define static IP addresses on the wireless devices you'll 
use with your AP, or are you planning on using dhcp?

Selim


> The command sudo ifconfig gives to me the followings:
> br0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:02:00:07:3c  
>   inet addr:95.85.167.81  Bcast:95.85.167.255
>   Mask:255.255.252.0
>   inet6 addr: fe80::222:2ff:fe00:73c/64 Scope:Link
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:7577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>   RX bytes:360740 (352.2 KiB)  TX bytes:8581 (8.3 KiB)
>
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:02:00:07:3c  
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:7577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>   RX bytes:588072 (574.2 KiB)  TX bytes:8047 (7.8 KiB)
>   Base address:0x8000 
>
> eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:02:00:07:3d  
>   inet addr:192.168.10.1  Bcast:192.168.10.255
>   Mask:255.255.255.0
>   inet6 addr: fe80::222:2ff:fe00:73d/64 Scope:Link
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:3116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:4157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>   RX bytes:318666 (311.1 KiB)  TX bytes:343364 (335.3 KiB)
>   Base address:0xc000 
> 
> loLink encap:Local Loopback
>   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>   inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>   UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>   RX packets:2524 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:2524 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>   RX bytes:215081 (210.0 KiB)  TX bytes:215081 (210.0 KiB)
> 
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:81:92:0e  
>   BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>   RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> 
> 
> How can I setup my home network so I can use wifi AP and the eth1 LAN at
> same time?
> 
> What can I do further to get this works?
> Any advices will be appreciated!


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Re: Deb 7.4 Mouse Worked Live Not After Install

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Phil newcombe, 19.02.2014:
> Hi all. Back trying Debian again after many years.
> 
> Am having hard time with mouse pointer in latest linuxes. After
> trying about 7 distros on my machine the Deb 7.4 live CD was the
> only one that worked. But then after installation the mouse pointer
> no longer responds - just sits in the middle of the screen not
> moving (like with many of the other distros - but at least it worked
> live). Something's happening because random icons and buttons
> highlight as I try to move the mouse around and the buttons work.
> 
> I tried firing it up in rescue mode and got the following, repeating
> over and over (I'm not sure which line would be the actual start of
> the block):
> 
> input: PixArt USB Optical Mouse as
> /devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.0/input/input
> generic-usb 0003:093a:2510.000: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11
> Mouse [PixArt USB OPtical Mouse on usb-:00:1d.1-2/input0
> usb 6-2: USB disconnect, device number 
> usb 6-2: new low-speed USB device number  using uhci_hcd
> usb 6-2: New USB device found, id Vendor=093a, id Product=2510
> usb 6-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, Serial Number=0
> usb 6-2: Product: USB Optical Mouse
> usb 6-2: Manufacturer: PixArt
> 
> (Some of the formatting may be a little off as I copied it by hand.)
> Wherever there are <> the item inside increments each time the block
> repeats.
> 
> Any ideas what I can do about it and why would it work perfectly in
> 'live' mode but not after install?

It looks like the usb device is repeatedly connecting and disconnecting.  
Your report that several different distros are showing the same problem 
makes me think of hardware issues.  Are you using a usb hub?  Have you 
tried another mouse, or tried that mouse in another computer?


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Re: can't build modules after update

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Tamer Higazi, 11.03.2014:
> Hi people!
> 
> I have updated the kernel, and removed the old one, sources,
> kbuild,linux-header and modules from the old kernel.
> I have installed the updated, kernel, modules,kbuild,headers with the
> same version number from the current one.
> 
> Now I want to compile manually a module and I receive the error message:
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
> 
> 
> 
> what did I make wrong ?!

What command(s) did you run?  What module are you trying to compile?
What are the old and new kernel versions?  Were you able to compile the
module successfully with the old kernel?


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Re: rubygems

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Brad Alexander, 13.03.2014:
> I have kind of a weird one. I have rubygems installed on a sid server, but
> it is at version 1.3.7 from squeeze. I don't have squeeze in my
   

> sources.list, so it should be upgrading to 1.8.x...But it tells me that
> 1.3.7 is the latest version.
> 
> I only have wheezy, squeeze, and sid in my sources.list.
^

Which is it?

> Ideas on why it's not being upgraded or why how to get it to upgrade
> properly? I can get the debs from online and manually dpkg -i them, but
> that's the ugly approach, and may or may not fix my base problem.
> 
> Thoughts?

What do you get when you run "apt-cache policy rubygems"?

Have you done an "apt-get update" recently"?


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Re: tightvncserver: Could not start screen

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Susam Pal, 23.03.2011:
> 
> Is there a way to start VNC server such that it makes the current
> GNOME desktop available to the remote client?

In the Gnome menu, try under "System->Preferences->Remote Desktop"


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Re: debian 6 - latest release - internet connection

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Johan Scheepers, 20.03.2011:
> 
> After installing debian 6 it was found that it prefers built in wireless 
> connection on my dsl.
> 
> The wire connection was inserted and available.
> 
> The wireless connection works ok at 55% but I would prefer wired connection.
> 
> Fedora, centos, mandriva prefers wired connection on installation.
> 
> Could there be a reason for debian's behaviour.

When you say "inserted and available" do you mean just plugged in, or 
actually working in Debian?  Could it be that the wired ethernet card 
was not recognized and/or no driver was loaded?  Does the wired 
interface work if you turn off the wireless manually?


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Re: debian 6 - latest release - internet connection

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Johan Scheepers, 27.03.2011:
> On 03/26/2011 08:34 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> >Johan Scheepers, 20.03.2011:
> >>After installing debian 6 it was found that it prefers built in wireless
> >>connection on my dsl.
> >>
> >>The wire connection was inserted and available.
> >>
> >>The wireless connection works ok at 55% but I would prefer wired 
> >>connection.
> >>
> >>Fedora, centos, mandriva prefers wired connection on installation.
> >>
> >>Could there be a reason for debian's behaviour.
> >When you say "inserted and available" do you mean just plugged in, or
> >actually working in Debian?  Could it be that the wired ethernet card
> >was not recognized and/or no driver was loaded?  Does the wired
> >interface work if you turn off the wireless manually?
> >
> >
> Good day,
> Was installing debian 6. Went through the fases answer the questions.
> It whent on and installed about 1200 files without asking the wireless 
> password.
> Now I think it must have used the wired connection.

That'a good sign.  If you didn't have to provide any information during 
installation, it would mean the setup was determined automatically.  Is 
the wired connection you're trying to use now the same one you were 
hooked up to during the installation?

> When I rebooted (first reboot after install) it was found that the 
> wireless connection was used.
> 
> It will not auto configure eth0. I can not manually configure eth0.
> I can not answer required questions.

Can you write what specific commands or GUI selections you try and what 
responses (error messages) you see?  And what do you mean by the 
"required questions"?

> Point of interest. Fedora 14 and Mandriva 2010.2 was able to configure 
> and use
>  (1) Wired  (2) Wireless and (3) Mobile broad  on the same machine.
> They are all installed on separate external USB drives on same machine..
> Just switch cables to boot other distro.
> 
> When debian 5.06 was used it connected to the wired connection.
> Did not upgrade (never upgrade) do fresh install always.
> 
> Something must have changed.
> Thanks
> Johan


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Re: System unbootable

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Steffan Harris, 27.03.2011:
> Hi,
> 
> I followed instructions at http://dendiz.com/blog/?p=138 on my MacBook Pro
> 7,1 running Debian Squeeze. Installing ndiswrapper seemed to do something to
> my kernal... after a reboot my system goes through GRUB but then comes up
> with:
> 
> Setting parameters of disk: none
> Setting preliminary keycap: done
> Activating swap? done
> Checking root file system? fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
> /dev/sda3: clean, 154353/11739136 files, 6058946/46948242 blocks
> done.
> Cleaning up ifupdown?
> Setting up networking?.
> Loading kernal modules? [16.584261] firewire_sbp2: fw1.0: orb reply timed
> out, rcode=0x11
> [16.593534] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
> [16.593587] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [16.598551] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
> [16.598601] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [21.381619] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
> [21.381649] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> 
> [77.311460] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! [modprobe:1117]
> udev[464]: worker [1156] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100
> 
> udevd[464]: worker[1156] failed while handling
> '/devices/pci:00/:00:1c.2/:04:00.0/fw1/fw1.0/host2/target2:0:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb'
> 
> I don't know what has happened to my system and whether it can be recovered
> or not... and can I access any system logs for further information?

The error messages you have above don't look like they have anything to 
do with ndiswrapper.  Are you sure that's the only thing that changed 
before the last reboot?  Did you also change the kernel you used?

In grub, can you choose to boot into an older kernel or into recovery 
mode?

Do you have an external hard drive?  If so, can you try without that 
plugged in?

(Googling for "BUG: soft lockup" or for 
"firewire_sbp2: fw1.0: orb reply timed out, rcode=0x11"
returns many hits, some with suggestions, but I don't know which may be 
relevant to your problem.)


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Re: Debian on a Macbook (Leopard): package xserver-xorg-video-intel leads to blank screen on reboot

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Arvind, 11.04.2011:
> 
> Over the weekend, i had time to investigate some more. I purged Xorg
> and all its dependencies. Since my graphics card is intel, X only
> requires xserver-xorg-video-intel, xserver-xorg-video-vesa, 
> xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and xinit (for startx). I installed each of
> these packages alone, and rebooted the machine. It is only the
> xserver-xorg-video-intel package that leads to a blank screen on
> reboot. When i purge this package and install the other three X
> packages, the problem does not recur on rebooting. So presently, i am
> running X only using the generic vesa video driver. That would perhaps
> lead to a sub-optimal use of the video card capabilities. But the only
> workaround is to purge xserver-xorg-video-intel before every shutdown,
> and reinstall it after every boot. I do not like that option.
> 
> A clarification: both xserver-xorg-video-intel and
> xserver-oxrg-video-vesa depend on xserver-xorg-core. I have checked
> and made sure that xserver-xorg-core and its dependencies do not cause
> this problem. It is specifically (and only) the package
> xserver-xorg-video-intel.
> 
> One more clarification: i have not installed X/G/KDM, so X should not
> (try to) start at boot. Davide had suggested that as a possibility. I
> don't think xserver-xorg-video-intel package alone should lead to X
> starting at boot.
> 
> In summary, if i do
> 1) an absolute minimal installation of debian amd64 on a macbook (see
> above for configuration details of the machine),
> 2) install the package xserver-xorg-video-intel and
> 3) reboot
> then the kernel gets selected at the grub prompt, i see few lines
> scrolling down, and then the screen goes blank. I can ssh to the
> machine so i know it does complete the booting process.

Could it be related to KMS?  I really don't have much experience with 
KMS but from reading messages on this list I got the feeling it's 
something that can affect (i.e. possibly screw up) both the console 
and X together, which sounds like your problem.

You might want to look at http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting 
and try the advice under the section "Disabling KMS"...


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Re: Debian on Nokia N900?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Victor Nitu, 27.10.2011:
> Hi there,
> 
> Nokia released some time ago some smartphones using a Debian-based
> OS, which they called Maemo.
> I was wondering if anybody on this list had any previous experience
> with the N900, trying to setup a
> vanilla Debian system. The arch used would be armel, and I guess the
> original phone software (well,
> the important pieces) can still be installed via apt-pinning from
> the Maemo repositories.

Ask the debian-arm list too.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

rose perry,  2.11.2011:
> Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye 
> microsoft does not work, Because
> my network card requires Firmware.  Nothing seems to work for me.  So Im 
> going to try and dl a cd or 2 to 
> 
> get it working, And install from XP if this is possible please let me know.  
> Maybe freeware version of VMware?
> But I think I remember this was possible without vmware?  As long as you had 
> the data on xp.
> I have no cd's or dvd's or usb keys.  Im in the hospital with a broken leg 
> and got another month or 2 here.
> I got other complications too.  So Im looking for a way to install debian the 
> old fashion way.  But
> I can't remember how.  Any Advice or any thing would be greatly appreciated.  

I installed straight from MS Windows for somebody once.  It involved
downloading some files to the hard drive (in MS Windows), putting them
in a certain place, and then running an exe file.  Can't remember the 
exact details since it's been quite a while but AFAICR I just followed 
instructions in the Debian installation manual.

Looking around, I see that
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-win32
has instructions.  It sounds like you need to download 
an installation image (iso file), which will contain the necessary files
(setup.exe and others).  I'm not sure how straightforward it is to get 
those files from the iso without writing it to a cd or usb stick, but 
somebody else might have suggestions on that.

About the firmware, if you can obtain the necessary files, maybe you can 
try copying it to the same place on the the hard drive that you copy 
the Debian installation stuff to.

I'm not sure what you mean by doing this with/without vmware.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

(putting your reply back on the list)

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:42:47AM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> oh vmware used to load the os.
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: Selim T. Erdogan 
> To: rose perry 
> Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" 
> Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Can I insall from xp partition?
> 
> rose perry,  2.11.2011:
> > Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye 
> > microsoft does not work, Because
> > my network card requires Firmware.  Nothing seems to work for me.  So Im 
> > going to try and dl a cd or 2 to 
> > 
> > get it working, And install from XP if this is possible please let me 
> > know.  Maybe freeware version of VMware?
> > But I think I remember this was possible without vmware?  As long as you 
> > had the data on xp.
> > I have no cd's or dvd's or usb keys.  Im in the hospital with a broken leg 
> > and got another month or 2 here.
> > I got other complications too.  So Im looking for a way to install debian 
> > the old fashion way.  But
> > I can't remember how.  Any Advice or any thing would be greatly 
> > appreciated.  
> 
> I installed straight from MS Windows for somebody once.  It involved
> downloading some files to the hard drive (in MS Windows), putting them
> in a certain place, and then running an exe file.  Can't remember the 
> exact details since it's been quite a while but AFAICR I just followed 
> instructions in the Debian installation manual.
> 
> Looking around, I see that
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-win32
> has instructions.  It sounds like you need to download 
> an installation image (iso file), which will contain the necessary files
> (setup.exe and others).  I'm not sure how straightforward it is to get 
> those files from the iso without writing it to a cd or usb stick, but 
> somebody else might have suggestions on that.
> 
> About the firmware, if you can obtain the necessary files, maybe you can 
> try copying it to the same place on the the hard drive that you copy 
> the Debian installation stuff to.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by doing this with/without vmware.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

(putting your reply back on the list)

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 07:00:48AM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> I cant run the install.bat from xp.  It dispalys not enough
> memory.  And its ment fpr 95 and other systems before
> xp.  :(
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -----
> From: Selim T. Erdogan 
> To: rose perry 
> Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" 
> Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Can I insall from xp partition?
> 
> rose perry,  2.11.2011:
> > Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye 
> > microsoft does not work, Because
> > my network card requires Firmware.  Nothing seems to work for me.  So Im 
> > going to try and dl a cd or 2 to 
> > 
> > get it working, And install from XP if this is possible please let me 
> > know.  Maybe freeware version of VMware?
> > But I think I remember this was possible without vmware?  As long as you 
> > had the data on xp.
> > I have no cd's or dvd's or usb keys.  Im in the hospital with a broken leg 
> > and got another month or 2 here.
> > I got other complications too.  So Im looking for a way to install debian 
> > the old fashion way.  But
> > I can't remember how.  Any Advice or any thing would be greatly 
> > appreciated.  
> 
> I installed straight from MS Windows for somebody once.  It involved
> downloading some files to the hard drive (in MS Windows), putting them
> in a certain place, and then running an exe file.  Can't remember the 
> exact details since it's been quite a while but AFAICR I just followed 
> instructions in the Debian installation manual.
> 
> Looking around, I see that
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-win32
> has instructions.  It sounds like you need to download 
> an installation image (iso file), which will contain the necessary files
> (setup.exe and others).  I'm not sure how straightforward it is to get 
> those files from the iso without writing it to a cd or usb stick, but 
> somebody else might have suggestions on that.
> 
> About the firmware, if you can obtain the necessary files, maybe you can 
> try copying it to the same place on the the hard drive that you copy 
> the Debian installation stuff to.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by doing this with/without vmware.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Selim T. Erdogan,  4.11.2011:
> (putting your reply back on the list)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:42:47AM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> > oh vmware used to load the os.

If you mean using vmware somehow to load debian directly onto the hw,
that I don't know about.  If you mean installing a virtual machine
like vmware onto windows xp, and then installing debian within this
vm, that's possible.  A couple of months ago I installed VirtualBox 
(virtualbox.org) on Windows and installed Debian squeeze into it.  
(This was MS Windows 7, I think, but it shouldn't be a problem with XP.)

> > ----- Original Message -
> > From: Selim T. Erdogan 
> > To: rose perry 
> > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 2:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: Can I insall from xp partition?
> > 
> > rose perry,  2.11.2011:
> > > Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye 
> > > microsoft does not work, Because
> > > my network card requires Firmware.  Nothing seems to work for me.  So Im 
> > > going to try and dl a cd or 2 to 
> > > 
> > > get it working, And install from XP if this is possible please let me 
> > > know.  Maybe freeware version of VMware?
> > > But I think I remember this was possible without vmware?  As long as you 
> > > had the data on xp.
> > > I have no cd's or dvd's or usb keys.  Im in the hospital with a broken 
> > > leg and got another month or 2 here.
> > > I got other complications too.  So Im looking for a way to install debian 
> > > the old fashion way.  But
> > > I can't remember how.  Any Advice or any thing would be greatly 
> > > appreciated.  
> > 
> > I installed straight from MS Windows for somebody once.  It involved
> > downloading some files to the hard drive (in MS Windows), putting them
> > in a certain place, and then running an exe file.  Can't remember the 
> > exact details since it's been quite a while but AFAICR I just followed 
> > instructions in the Debian installation manual.
> > 
> > Looking around, I see that
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-win32
> > has instructions.  It sounds like you need to download 
> > an installation image (iso file), which will contain the necessary files
> > (setup.exe and others).  I'm not sure how straightforward it is to get 
> > those files from the iso without writing it to a cd or usb stick, but 
> > somebody else might have suggestions on that.
> > 
> > About the firmware, if you can obtain the necessary files, maybe you can 
> > try copying it to the same place on the the hard drive that you copy 
> > the Debian installation stuff to.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by doing this with/without vmware.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Selim T. Erdogan,  4.11.2011:
> (putting your reply back on the list)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 07:00:48AM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> > I cant run the install.bat from xp.  It dispalys not enough
> > memory.  And its ment fpr 95 and other systems before
> > xp.  :(

As I said, I don't remember the details because it was long ago, but
I'm pretty sure I did it from XP.  Where did you get the install.bat
file from?  I thought there was supposed to be a setup.exe file...
(On the web I see reports of people doing it on XP.)

> > ----- Original Message -
> > From: Selim T. Erdogan 
> > To: rose perry 
> > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 2:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: Can I insall from xp partition?
> > 
> > rose perry,  2.11.2011:
> > > Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye 
> > > microsoft does not work, Because
> > > my network card requires Firmware.  Nothing seems to work for me.  So Im 
> > > going to try and dl a cd or 2 to 
> > > 
> > > get it working, And install from XP if this is possible please let me 
> > > know.  Maybe freeware version of VMware?
> > > But I think I remember this was possible without vmware?  As long as you 
> > > had the data on xp.
> > > I have no cd's or dvd's or usb keys.  Im in the hospital with a broken 
> > > leg and got another month or 2 here.
> > > I got other complications too.  So Im looking for a way to install debian 
> > > the old fashion way.  But
> > > I can't remember how.  Any Advice or any thing would be greatly 
> > > appreciated.  
> > 
> > I installed straight from MS Windows for somebody once.  It involved
> > downloading some files to the hard drive (in MS Windows), putting them
> > in a certain place, and then running an exe file.  Can't remember the 
> > exact details since it's been quite a while but AFAICR I just followed 
> > instructions in the Debian installation manual.
> > 
> > Looking around, I see that
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-win32
> > has instructions.  It sounds like you need to download 
> > an installation image (iso file), which will contain the necessary files
> > (setup.exe and others).  I'm not sure how straightforward it is to get 
> > those files from the iso without writing it to a cd or usb stick, but 
> > somebody else might have suggestions on that.
> > 
> > About the firmware, if you can obtain the necessary files, maybe you can 
> > try copying it to the same place on the the hard drive that you copy 
> > the Debian installation stuff to.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by doing this with/without vmware.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

(putting this back on the list)

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 12:46:18PM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> OkI used the ubuntu windows installer and rebooted to ubuntu,  But it's 
> painfully slow.  But they got wireless working.  No need for firmware.  

The slowness could be due to low memory, which you mentioned in an earlier
message.  How much memory do you have?  If you're using Gnome with little
memory (say, 256MB) you'll be better off using a lighter desktop.  (Like
lxde.)

> Now how do I get debian on here?

I haven't tried installing Debian from an existing GNU/Linux installation
but there are instructions at

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd

Don't know where you should put the firmware files but somebody else
might.


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Re: Nano in squeeze: fill doesn't work

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Eric d'Halibut,  4.11.2011:
> I just dist-upgraded from lenny to squeeze and find that nano, my
> editor-of-choice for use with mutt, no longer honors its .nanorc file:
> 
> set autoindent
> set cut
> set fill 68
> set multibuffer
> set smarthome
> set speller /usr/bin/ispell
> set tabsize 4
> set tabstospaces
> set tempfile
> 
> "set fill 68" appears to have no effect. I have to "manually" hit
> Ctrl-J to get lines to wrap.
> 
> Thoughts, anyone?

I have the same behavior on sid.  It gets "fixed" by adding

unset nowrap

to the .nanorc file.

BTW, I have to thank you because I also use nano in mutt and had been
annoyed by this no-line-wrapping behavior, though not enough to look 
around for how to manipulate it. :) 


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

(putting reply back on the list)

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 01:53:38PM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> It was an app running that made it slwo. I got 1,25 gigs of ram and a 2 gig 
> cpu.
> that for the link.
> 
> 
> 
> ________
> From: Selim T. Erdogan 
> To: rose perry ; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Can I insall from xp partition?
> 
> (putting this back on the list)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 12:46:18PM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> > OkI used the ubuntu windows installer and rebooted to ubuntu,  But it's 
> > painfully slow.  But they got wireless working.  No need for firmware.  
> 
> The slowness could be due to low memory, which you mentioned in an earlier
> message.  How much memory do you have?  If you're using Gnome with little
> memory (say, 256MB) you'll be better off using a lighter desktop.  (Like
> lxde.)
> 
> > Now how do I get debian on here?
> 
> I haven't tried installing Debian from an existing GNU/Linux installation
> but there are instructions at
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd
> 
> Don't know where you should put the firmware files but somebody else
> might.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

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On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 08:45:18AM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> Is there a way to install from a xp partition with out haveing to use 
> 
> a cd?
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -----
> From: Selim T. Erdogan 
> To: rose perry ; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Can I insall from xp partition?
> 
> (putting this back on the list)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 12:46:18PM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> > OkI used the ubuntu windows installer and rebooted to ubuntu,  But it's 
> > painfully slow.  But they got wireless working.  No need for firmware.  
> 
> The slowness could be due to low memory, which you mentioned in an earlier
> message.  How much memory do you have?  If you're using Gnome with little
> memory (say, 256MB) you'll be better off using a lighter desktop.  (Like
> lxde.)
> 
> > Now how do I get debian on here?
> 
> I haven't tried installing Debian from an existing GNU/Linux installation
> but there are instructions at
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd
> 
> Don't know where you should put the firmware files but somebody else
> might.


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Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Selim T. Erdogan,  5.11.2011:
> (putting reply back on the list)
> 
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 08:45:18AM -0700, rose perry wrote:
> > Is there a way to install from a xp partition with out haveing to use 
> > 
> > a cd?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/11/msg00133.html had a link
to instructions for installing from xp.  I don't know any other way.
(Those instructions talk about an iso file that you download onto your
xp partition, but you don't have to make a cd.)


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Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Nate Bargmann,  5.11.2011:
> 
> On a whim I installed GNOME 3 (shell and fallback) recently and gave it
> a spin.  Until I moved my xorg.conf out of the way both modes would fail
> upon startup.  When I did get them running the only possible
> configuration for the second monitor is as an extended desktop.  But
> there was no means that I could figure out to put a panel or do anything
> but simply drag an app to the second screen.  When GNOME shell was
> running, it was not intuitive and was extremely slow, to the point that

You probably don't mean this when you say "slow...locked up", but when
the switch happened on my machine the mouse pointer would freeze for a 
second or two before starting to move.  Finally I realized it happened 
because "disable touchpad when typing" had become set on its own.

> I thought it had locked up.  Fallback mode is a shell of its former
> GNOME 2 self.  Neither mode offered any sort of menu upon right-clicking
> the desktop or panel.  What do they think we have reverted to, an Apple
> single button mouse?  The loss of functionality/capability is insane.

FYI, if you press Alt along with clicking on the panel, you get a menu 
to make changes, though I haven't yet figured our how to add 
shortcuts to main menu items.  (IIRC, right clicking on iceweasel in the
menu would allow me to put a shortcut on the panel.  Now I can't do
that, even with Alt.)


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Re: Debian install , need to add wireless firmware

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Brian,  6.11.2011:
> On Sun 06 Nov 2011 at 04:00:09 -0800, rose perry wrote:
> 
> > Hello, I must clarify a few things,  I have no cd's no usb keys and im using
> > the installer from google goodbye microsoft.  I can't install from network
> > because it can't detect my wireless card.  I have the firmware on my win XP
> > partition but have no idea how to get it to the installer.  Any ideas would
> > be greatly appreciated.  Thank You.
> 
> Borrowing or buying a USB stick would make installing Debian so much
> easier but, if you want an interesting and life-enhancing experience,
> here we go:
> 
> 1. Get the goodbye-microsoft installer going. Do the detection and
>configuration of the network part of the menu. It won't work of
>course, but you will make notes of any messages. Pressing Alt-F4
>will also give you much more information.
> 
> 2. Partition and install the base system. After that there is little
>you can do because there is no net access. Install GRUB to the mbr
>and finish the installation.
> 
> 3. You can now boot Debian - we hope! Still no net access but you have
>a working system which can do many things. One operation you want to
>carry out is to mount the device which has Windows on it. Like so:
> 
>   mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
> 
>You want to do this because you are going to download quite a few
>.deb files in Windows, transfer them to the Debian installation
>using Debian and install them with dpkg. Have you bought that USB
>stick yet?

Once xp is mounted onto debian, I guess one could just copy the 
required firmware files from the xp partition into /lib/firmware (or
wherever they need to be) and then reboot/reload the network driver
to get it going.  (The network setting might have to be set up at 
this point but the defaults could be good enough.)  This should avoid 
downloading lots of .deb files to xp and moving them over.

> 4. I'm assuming the base system has enough to allow mounting of a
>Windows file system. If not you'll need to get files for that first.
>You'll want firmware for your wireless card and wpasupplicant to
>connect to a network. Oh, you'll also want all the dependencies for
>whatever you install, but there is a way of finding out what they
>are.
> 
> All very challenging, but doable and a great learning experience!


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Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

[Selim T. Erdogan]

arno renevier,  8.11.2011:
> Hi,
> I have a hard drive which does not work any more. It's a scsi hard drive over
> usb. I don't remember the numbers of partitions it had, but at least one which
> was crypted with cryptsetup.
> 
> Currently, the drive looks correctly recognized by the system, and it appears
> correctly in /dev/sdb.
> 
> But it seems like no partition at all is recognized. Nothing appears in
> /dev/sdb*, and fdisk -l outputs nothing.
> 
> Do you have any idea on what could possibly be wrong, and how I could debug
> this problem more ?
> 
> Regards,
> arno
> 
> 
> 
> dmesg output when connecting the drive:
> 
> [334008.507212] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
> [334297.396189] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 
> 5
> [334297.532165] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0c25
> [334297.532183] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, 
> SerialNumber=1
> [334297.532196] usb 1-2: Product: USB to Serial-ATA bridge
> [334297.532206] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Co.,Ltd.
> [334297.532217] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 05
> [334297.532516] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [334297.534530] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [334297.535075] usb-storage: device found at 5
> [334297.535082] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> [334302.532535] usb-storage: device scan complete
> [334302.533378] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access Sunplus  USB2SATA bridge  
> 0407 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
> [334302.538188] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> 
> fdisk -l output:
> 
> $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> $
> 
> (nothing was output)

Have you tried running it as root?  I'm not sure if it's needed but in 
case it is...

You might also try cfdisk.  I seem to remember that once I had a problem 
with seeing the partitions with fdisk but cfdisk worked, though I'm not 
absolutely sure.


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Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Ralf Mardorf, 11.11.2011:
> 
> GNOME 3 what an odd DE.
> 
> Is there a way to get back a panel that enables to switch between workspaces 
> and to switch between apps?
>
> Is there a way to get back classic menus to launch apps? Even Ctrl+F2 lost 
> comfort.

Try using gnome-session-fallback.  It's relatively similar to the old 
gnome.  (Though you need to press Alt when right-clicking on the panel.)


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Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Arno Schuring, 12.11.2011:
> 
> Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net on 2011-11-11 23:51 +0100):
> > 
> > Before I run the upgrade I saved a backup of my GNOME 2 Debian. Is
> > there the need to restore Debian from the backup, or is there a way
> > to get back a usable DE, by editing GNOME 3?
> Others have pointed out the fallback mode, but if I try that, X won't
> start at all (can't find session gnome-fallback).

There's a separate package, gnome-session-fallback, that I had to 
install additionally.  (On sid, a few weeks ago.)  Do you have that 
installed?



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Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Joe, 13.11.2011:
> 
> And I hate to invoke the Godwin's Law of Open Source, but my other
> workstation isn't up to running the fancy graphical bits of Windows 7,
> either, but Microsoft provide a perfectly good and fully-functional
> alternative, and don't warn me that it will only work for a while.

(Warning: getting off topic)

I am curious what you meant by the alternative.  Is it Windows 7 with 
some stuff turned off, or is it something else?  (I am not familiar 
with W7 but there are some old machines around with XP on them and 
XP support will end in April 2014.)


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Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

[Selim T. Erdogan]

Joe, 13.11.2011:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:09:49 -0600
> "Selim T. Erdogan"  wrote:
> 
> > Joe, 13.11.2011:
> > > 
> > > And I hate to invoke the Godwin's Law of Open Source, but my other
> > > workstation isn't up to running the fancy graphical bits of Windows
> > > 7, either, but Microsoft provide a perfectly good and
> > > fully-functional alternative, and don't warn me that it will only
> > > work for a while.
> > 
> > (Warning: getting off topic)
> 
> Indeed so, let's run away quickly after this.
> > 
> > I am curious what you meant by the alternative.  Is it Windows 7 with 
> > some stuff turned off, or is it something else?  (I am not familiar 
> > with W7 but there are some old machines around with XP on them and 
> > XP support will end in April 2014.)
> > 
> > 
> 
> There is a substantial step up in resources required in going from XP
> to Win7 or its beta version, Vista. An absolute minimum of a G of
> RAM is necessary, and even bottom-end computers are normally sold
> with 2G. There is a free MS program somewhere that can determine whether
> an XP machine can usefully run Win7.
> 
> Yes, the situation is a bit like Compiz, Windows will either offer the
> fancy 3D Aero features or not depending on a few things, mostly graphics
> power. The point is that the functional features of the DE don't depend
> on how fancy the graphics are, so everything else works the same either
> way, and the non-Aero version will not be withdrawn after a while. You
> don't get a bald statement that Win7 won't run, here's Windows 98
> instead, but don't get used to it.

I haven't understood yet:  Do you mean Windows 7's fancy graphics stuff 
(Aero?) may be turned off for lower-capability machines, or do you mean
MS offers the alternative of Windows 98?  (If the latter, I thought it 
wasn't getting updated anymore.  Is there anything that gives 
no-longer-updated Windows versions an advantage compared to older
versions of Debian that include Gnome 2?)

> I don't see why my old Gnome environment just disappeared down the
> plughole simply because my graphics driver or chipset doesn't do
> hardware 3D acceleration.

Because you're using testing or unstable?


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