evince cache of recent files?

[Sharon Kimble]

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Where does Evince store its memory/cache of recent files that its loaded
in bullseye please? Currently it is only showing the last file, but
under Debian 10 it showed the last 10.

Thanks
Sharon Kimble.
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rsync failing to back up to synology server

[Sharon Kimble]

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After enduring a home move, I'm now trying to restart my rsync backups
to my synology server, but none are working!

I have this command for backing up my emacs -

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
/usr/bin/rsync -avhz --update --delete --partial --password-file="$PASS" 
~/.emacs.d/ boudiccas@192.168.1.106::home/back-emacs/
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---

but every time it shows this error message -

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
@ERROR: auth failed on module home
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1817) 
[sender=3.2.3]
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---

It seems that its not getting the correct password to enable the backup
to happen, but what password? Is it my password on my source machine, or
the log-in password for my synology server, or what? I've tried various
passwords, but I still can't get it to backup, so help please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Unable to print with HP Envy 5030 under Debian 11

[Sharon Kimble]

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Hi folks.

I have a problem with my HP envy 5030 printer not being able to print
under Debian 11. It printed okay under Debian 10 and still does so with
debian 10 on my laptop which I haven't upgraded yet until I get this
printer issue sorted out.

The 'hp-systray' gui shows the printer, but shows a small cross on the
printer icon which means that its not connected. And in the 'settings'
section its hows 'HPLIP-3.21.2 version was installed on 19-09-2019.'

With the printer on and connected to the computer via USB, I get these
error reports.

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
~/.emacs.d/org $ hp-systray &
[python3] 633617
~/.emacs.d/org $ 
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.2)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to find hp-upgrade --notify on PATH.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.2)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
\error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): 
hp:/usb/ENVY_5000_series?serial=TH065BJ1QJ
error: Device not found
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
error: Channel write error
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---

- From investigating the problem online, I've tried using 'hp-doctor'
which shows this [fn:1] (warning, a long show so I'll put it as a
footnote), but the first section of the output shows that Debian 11 is
not supported, so does this mean that I need to download and install a
'hplip' package from the
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip page?

According to the
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices/index
page the printer is still supported by them.

So what do I need to do to allow me to print with this printer please?

Thanks
Sharon Kimble.

~

[fn:1]
- --8<---cut here---start->8---

~ $ hp-doctor

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.2)
Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.


HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.2)
Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for mor

Checking for Deprecated items
No Deprecated items are found


Checking for HPLIP updates
error: Failed to locate hp-upgrade utility


Checking for Dependencies
warning: debian-11 version is not supported. Using debian-10.7 versions 
dependencies to verify and install...

- ---
| SYSTEM INFO |
- -- Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) 
GNU/Linux
 Host: london
 Proc: 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) GNU/Linux
 Distribution: debian 11
 Bitness: 64 bit


- ---
| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
- ---

HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.21.2
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
warning: HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is not supported for debian 
distro  11 version 

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf.  Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.21.2

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd/hplip
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc
icon=no
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv
bin=/usr/bin
apparmor=/etc/apparmor.d
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=no
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=yes
foomatic-drv-install=yes
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.21.2
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt5
qt3=no
qt4=no

backb losing its mount point

[Sharon Kimble]

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I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now
happening reasonably regularly, actually twice.

I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/backb. Both are
4tb drives, with backa being 2.74tb and backb 2.81tb.

Backb is now regularly losing its mount point when I reboot, meaning
that only backa is mounted, and backb holds my restic backup.

To regain access to backb I'm having to 'sudo e2fsck -y -b 32768
/dev/sdc2' which rebuilds the mount point such that I can mount it on
reboot, as backb.

So how do I stop it happening again please? And what is the cause of it
all? Should I physically unmount the drives before rebooting?

Thanks
  Sharon.
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Re: backb losing its mount point

[Sharon Kimble]

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Darac Marjal  writes:

Thanks for replying Darac.
  
> On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>> I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now
>> happening reasonably regularly, actually twice.
>>
>> I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/backb. Both are
>> 4tb drives, with backa being 2.74tb and backb 2.81tb.
>
> It might be helpful to see the relevant lines from your /etc/fstab.
>
- --8<--- current fstab ---start->8---
/dev/sda2   /mnt/backb  ext4defaults,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 2
/dev/sdb2   /mnt/backa  ext4defaults,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 2
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---

because the system originally showed this

- --8<--- original fstab ---start->8---
/dev/sda2   /mnt/backa  ext4defaults,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 2
/dev/sdb2   /mnt/backb  ext4defaults,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 2
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---
  
but for some reason it mounted backb on /dev/sda2 so to regain access I
changed it to what is currently showing in fstab.
  
>
>>
>> Backb is now regularly losing its mount point when I reboot, meaning
>> that only backa is mounted, and backb holds my restic backup.
>>
>> To regain access to backb I'm having to 'sudo e2fsck -y -b 32768
>> /dev/sdc2' which rebuilds the mount point such that I can mount it on
>> reboot, as backb.
>
> Firstly, it's usually better to run the "fsck" frontend, which will
> determine which filesystem you've got and run the appropriate backend,
> but I can see that you're passing advanced parameters here, so jumping
> straight to e2fsck isn't that unusual.
>
> Secondly, you're specifying "-b 32768" which is telling fsck to use a
> secondary superblock. Why is this? Generally, the primary superblock
> should be "good enough" to repair a filesystem. The man page does state
> that the primary superblock *should* be updated after the fixes are
> complete, so this shouldn't be necessary. So, why are you having to use
> a secondary superblock? Do you know what's wrong with the primary one?
>
When the problem originally occurred this is what i did

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
 2184  2021-03-18 13:32:51 sudo mount /mnt/backb
 2185  2021-03-18 13:39:33 mount
 2186  2021-03-18 13:43:32 fdisk -l
 2187  2021-03-18 13:43:46 sudo fdisk -l
 2188  2021-03-18 13:48:05 sudo lshw 
 2189  2021-03-18 13:54:04 sudo fdisk /dev/sdc
2192  2021-03-18 14:10:04 sudo mount /mnt/backb
 2193  2021-03-18 14:11:58 sudo fsck /mnt/backb
 2194  2021-03-18 14:12:48 sudo e2fsck -b 32768 /mnt/backb
 2195  2021-03-18 14:13:10 sudo e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sdc
 2196  2021-03-18 14:13:58 sudo e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sdc
 2197  2021-03-18 14:18:46 sudo mke2fs -n /dev/sdc2
 2198  2021-03-18 14:19:16 sudo mke4fs -n /dev/sdc2
 2199  2021-03-18 14:19:54 sudo mke2fs -n /dev/sdc2
2202  2021-03-18 14:02:17 glances
 2203  2021-03-18 14:19:33 man mke2fs
 2204  2021-03-18 13:54:51 sudo fdisk /dev/sdc2
 2205  2021-03-18 13:31:11 sudo gparted
2210  2021-03-18 14:32:49 sudo mke2fs -n /dev/sdc2
 2211  2021-03-18 14:34:32 sudo e2fsck
 2212  2021-03-18 14:35:14 sudo e2fsck p
 2213  2021-03-18 14:35:31 sudo e2fsck /dev/sdc -p
 2214  2021-03-18 14:29:51 sudo gparted
 2215  2021-03-18 14:36:28 sudo e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sdc2
 2216  2021-03-18 14:45:56 man e2fsck
 2217  2021-03-18 14:46:38 sudo e2fsck -y -b 32768 /dev/sdc2
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---
  

>
>>
>> So how do I stop it happening again please? And what is the cause of it
>> all? Should I physically unmount the drives before rebooting?
>
> The answers you seek should already be logged somewhere.  Try the following:
>
> $ journalctl -b -u mnt-backb.mount        # 
> This will show output from
> attempts to mount /mnt/backb since the current bootup

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
journalctl -b -u mnt-backb.mount
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
  Users in groups 'adm', 'systemd-journal' can see all messages.
  Pass -q to turn off this notice.
- -- Journal begins at Wed 2021-02-24 17:51:13 GMT, ends at Wed 2021-03-31 
11:08:09 BST. --
- -- No entries --
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---


  
>
> $ journalctl -b -g sdc2                              # This will grep
> the journal for all messages containing "sdc2" since the current bootup
>

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Re: backb losing its mount point

[Sharon Kimble]

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Darac Marjal  writes:

> On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>> I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now
>> happening reasonably regularly, actually twice.
>>
>> I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/backb. Both are
>> 4tb drives, with backa being 2.74tb and backb 2.81tb.
>
> It might be helpful to see the relevant lines from your /etc/fstab.
>
>
>>
>> Backb is now regularly losing its mount point when I reboot, meaning
>> that only backa is mounted, and backb holds my restic backup.
>>
>> To regain access to backb I'm having to 'sudo e2fsck -y -b 32768
>> /dev/sdc2' which rebuilds the mount point such that I can mount it on
>> reboot, as backb.
>
> Firstly, it's usually better to run the "fsck" frontend, which will
> determine which filesystem you've got and run the appropriate backend,
> but I can see that you're passing advanced parameters here, so jumping
> straight to e2fsck isn't that unusual.
>
> Secondly, you're specifying "-b 32768" which is telling fsck to use a
> secondary superblock. Why is this? Generally, the primary superblock
> should be "good enough" to repair a filesystem. The man page does state
> that the primary superblock *should* be updated after the fixes are
> complete, so this shouldn't be necessary. So, why are you having to use
> a secondary superblock? Do you know what's wrong with the primary one?
>
>
>>
>> So how do I stop it happening again please? And what is the cause of it
>> all? Should I physically unmount the drives before rebooting?
>
> The answers you seek should already be logged somewhere.  Try the following:
>
> $ journalctl -b -u mnt-backb.mount        # 
> This will show output from
> attempts to mount /mnt/backb since the current bootup
>
> $ journalctl -b -g sdc2                              # This will grep
> the journal for all messages containing "sdc2" since the current bootup
>

Following on from my previous posting -

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
 sudo journalctl -b -g sdc2
[sudo] password for boudiccas: 
- -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-02-18 12:51:54 GMT, ends at Wed 2021-03-31 
12:31:04 BST. --
Mar 31 08:21:47 london kernel:  sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4 sdc5 sdc6 sdc7
Mar 31 12:29:51 london sudo[323326]: boudiccas : TTY=pts/28 ; 
PWD=/home/boudiccas ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -b -g sdc2
Mar 31 12:31:04 london sudo[437870]: boudiccas : TTY=pts/30 ; 
PWD=/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/org ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -b 
-g sdc2
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---

and also

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
sudo journalctl -b -u /mnt/backb.mount
- -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-02-18 12:51:54 GMT, ends at Wed 2021-03-31 
12:31:50 BST. --
- -- No entries --
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---

and

- --8<---cut here---start->8---
sudo journalctl -b -u mnt-backb.mount
- -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-02-18 12:51:54 GMT, ends at Wed 2021-03-31 
12:36:23 BST. --
Mar 31 08:21:54 london systemd[1]: Mounting /mnt/backb...
Mar 31 08:21:54 london systemd[1]: Mounted /mnt/backb.
- --8<---cut here---end--->8---

Thanks
  Sharon.
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What command to use to output to a text file?

[Sharon Kimble]

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I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament?

I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive
mounted in a caddy.

How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
syntax of it/them please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

[Sharon Kimble]

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Andrei POPESCU  writes:

> On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> 
>> I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament?
>> 
>> I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive
>> mounted in a caddy.
>> 
>> How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
>> drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
>> syntax of it/them please?
>
> It's unclear what information you expect to have in the text file, 
> please elaborate on that (preferably with examples).
>
> For a simple listing of files with full path something like below should 
> do what you want:
>
> cd /path/to/external_drive
> find > files_on_external_drive.txt
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andrei

Thank you very much Andrei, this solved the problem very easily.

Thanks
Sharon.
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mpd, clementine, lxmusic, qmmp, quodlibet not playing!

[Sharon Kimble]

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After downloading and installing the new kernels yesterday I rebooted.

And now I cannot get mpd to play any sound at all! Juk can play, as can
mpv, but neither can clementine, lxmusic, qmmp, nor quodlibet play!

So how can I get them all playing please? Has there been some changes
resulting from the new kernels that affect audio output please? This is
on a straight debian 11 install, with no debian 10 packages.

Thanks
Sharon.
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no sound from MPV

[Sharon Kimble]

Ever since upgrading to buster I've been completely unable to get any sound out 
of MPV. And I haven't found any way online of how to re-enable sound for it 
either. SMplayer works okay and gives sound, as does mpd, but MPV views a 
television programmes but no sound.

How can I get the sound working again please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: no sound from MPV

[Sharon Kimble]

Thanks to Jonas and Curt for your replies, both of which helped me to resolve 
this issue.

I had never thought of running MPV from the commandline, I'd always just 
right-clicked the programme that I wanted to watch and never considered the 
command-line option. and when i did run it from the line it consistently showed 
as part of its output when running - mpv -v 
/mnt/backc/progs/Our_Lives_Series_3-Series_3-Mountain_Rescue.mp4 -

--8<---cut here---start->8---
[ad] Selected codec: aac (AAC (Advanced Audio Coding))
[lavfi] filter 'drc' not found or failed to allocate
[user_filter_wrapper] Creating filter 'drc' failed.
[cplayer] Audio filter initialized failed!
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

But when I looked closer at the output in my terminal I found this - [cplayer] 
Reading config file /home/boudiccas/.mpv/config - which was what I was 
expecting, but that config file only showed '# Write your default config 
options here'.

And further down the output it showed - '[cplayer] Reading config file 
/home/boudiccas/.config/mpv/mpv.conf'.

This was a revelation to me as I was totally unaware of this file, and in its 
'audio section' it showed several uncommented items, so I commented them all 
out and tested MPV again. And it worked, I had sound again! 

Thank you very much, I'm a happy bunny again! :)

Jonas Smedegaard  writes:

> Quoting Sharon Kimble (2019-07-10 12:13:30)
>> 
>> Ever since upgrading to buster I've been completely unable to get any 
>> sound out of MPV. And I haven't found any way online of how to 
>> re-enable sound for it either. SMplayer works okay and gives sound, as 
>> does mpd, but MPV views a television programmes but no sound.
>> 
>> How can I get the sound working again please?
>
> There are many ways audio can get entangled, so no single answer here...
>
> If you try run from the command-line, the output should hint about where 
> MPV sends audio.
>
> Example:
>
> VO: [vaapi] 300x298 yuv420p
> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz stereo 2ch s32
>
> Above tells that audio out (AO) uses the ALSA driver.
>
> If that is the case for you, then the problem might be that something 
> else on your system already occupies ALSA - maybe your web browser, or 
> an audio daemon - most commonly PulseAudio.
>
> You can try explicitly tell MPV to use Pulseaudio, like this:
>
>   mpv --ao=pulse ...
>
>
> If that works, then you can make it the default by adding/extending the 
> configfile .config/mpv/ in the root of your £HOME (or /etc/mpv/mpv.conf 
> as root to cover all users on your system) with this content:
>
>   [default]
>   ao=pulse
>
> If instead your output from running from command-line shows that you are 
> already using Pulseaudio, then you can try check your configuration of 
> Pulseaudio that it is routing the audio to your speakers and is not 
> muted (too big a topic for this email - try search the web!), or you can 
> try temporarily bypass Pulseaudio and use ALSA directly, like this:
>
>   pasuspender -- mpv ...
>
> Beware that it is _not_ enough to tell MPV to use ALSA if you want to 
> bypass Pulseaudio: It imposes as an ALSA driver so needs to be 
> explicitly turned off.
>
> Other kinds of tricks may be needed if you are running KDE (or not, but 
> have some KDE applications open)...
>
>
>  - Jonas

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What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

[Sharon Kimble]

Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the system 
stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with a cursor 
blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I need new drivers 
for it, so my question is -

What do I need to install to get a - Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti - to work using 
Debian 10 please?

I've googled but haven't found anything relevant to Debian 10.

Thanks
Sharon.
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logwatch at midnight?

[Sharon Kimble]

How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of
its current 0738, please?

Thanks
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Re: logwatch at midnight?

[Sharon Kimble]

Dan Ritter  writes:

> Sharon Kimble wrote: 
>> 
>> How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of
>> its current 0738, please?
>
> If I recall correctly, logwatch is run via cron.daily, which
> means anacron does it as part of its own routine.
>
> anacron is fired off via /etc/crontab.
>
> You have two choices:
>
> 1. edit the whole daily anacron job in /etc/crontab, which will
> affect lots of jobs
>
> or
>
> 2. move the logwatch job out of /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.d, then
> reformat it to be a proper cron job (give it a specific time to
> run in crontab format)
>
> -dsr-

Thanks for this Dan, and also Charles.

I took the path of least problems and used option 2. I already had a
logwatch job working in roots crontab, so now I'm just getting the
midnight logwatch, which is what I wanted.

Thanks very much both.
Sharon.
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unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

[Sharon Kimble]

I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently
failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the
beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when
trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh
install so I think that it must be something in my /home because it is a
completely new fresh install. But what?

Can anyone give me some guidance here please, as I've been looking in my
/home for anything 'mariadb' or 'mysql'-like but without any success.

When I input my database details into
'http://localhost/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect' I get an
error message saying -

╭
│DB connection error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (localhost).
│
│Check the host, username and password and try again.
╰

To my thinking, its obviously comparing what I'm inputting into
something, and deciding that they don't match, so therefore giving me an
error message. But what is it comparing to?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

[Sharon Kimble]

mick crane  writes:

> On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently
>> failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the
>> beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when
>> trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh
>> install so I think that it must be something in my /home because it is a
>> completely new fresh install. But what?
>>
>> Can anyone give me some guidance here please, as I've been looking in my
>> /home for anything 'mariadb' or 'mysql'-like but without any success.
>>
>> When I input my database details into
>> 'http://localhost/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect' I get an
>> error message saying -
>>
>> ╭
>> │DB connection error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (localhost).
>> │
>> │Check the host, username and password and try again.
>> ╰
>>
>> To my thinking, its obviously comparing what I'm inputting into
>> something, and deciding that they don't match, so therefore giving me an
>> error message. But what is it comparing to?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharon.
>
> I don't know what error you get if mysqld is not running but best see if it is
>
> "ps ax | grep mysql"
>
>
> mick

Thanks for replying Mick.

This is what I get using a slightly better command than yours (you missed out 
the 'u' in aux :) 

╭
│$ ps aux | grep mysql
│mysql  962  0.0  0.0 698580 65656 ?Ssl  Jul07   0:59 
/usr/sbin/mysqld
╰

Which is about right as I rebooted yesterday. 

And I've just checked and I'm still not able to get past the 'Connect to
database' page in the mediawiki setup process.

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

[Sharon Kimble]

mick crane  writes:

> On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote:
>> On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>> mick crane  writes:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>>>> I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently
>>>>> failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the
>>>>> beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when
>>>>> trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh
>>>>> install so I think that it must be something in my /home because it is a
>>>>> completely new fresh install. But what?
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone give me some guidance here please, as I've been looking in my
>>>>> /home for anything 'mariadb' or 'mysql'-like but without any success.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I input my database details into
>>>>> 'http://localhost/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect' I get an
>>>>> error message saying -
>>>>>
>>>>> ╭
>>>>> │DB connection error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' 
>>>>> (localhost).
>>>>> │
>>>>> │Check the host, username and password and try again.
>>>>> ╰
>>>>>
>>>>> To my thinking, its obviously comparing what I'm inputting into
>>>>> something, and deciding that they don't match, so therefore giving me an
>>>>> error message. But what is it comparing to?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Sharon.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what error you get if mysqld is not running but best see if 
>>>> it is
>>>>
>>>> "ps ax | grep mysql"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> mick
>>>
>>> Thanks for replying Mick.
>>>
>>> This is what I get using a slightly better command than yours (you
>>> missed out the 'u' in aux :)
>>
>> a u x are options
>>> ╭
>>> │$ ps aux | grep mysql
>>> │mysql  962  0.0  0.0 698580 65656 ?Ssl  Jul07   0:59
>>> /usr/sbin/mysqld
>>> ╰
>>>
>>> Which is about right as I rebooted yesterday.
>>>
>>> And I've just checked and I'm still not able to get past the 'Connect to
>>> database' page in the mediawiki setup process.
>>
>> I dunno what you've done or what mediawiki setup does, I think I might
>> have installed it once for curiosity.
>> I know little about mediawiki what I would do is look about for handy
>> mysql commands so you can see what is what.
>>
>> believe you can logon from system root to the root mysql account
>> without a password and have a look what users and databases there are
>> I'd probably do that and delete any mediawiki database and mediawiki
>> users, create new ones with passwords I write down and input that to
>> the mediawiki setup.
>> What I'm uncertain about is changing the mysql root password if I
>> might have told other things what it is.
>>
> thinking a bit about it
> any setup program probably only wants to know the mysql root password to 
> create the users and
> database
> and once its done that it doesn't need it anymore so you could probably go 
> ahead and change the
> mysql password to something you will remember.
> I'm sure if given bad advice will be told off.
>
> mick

Thanks to Mick and John Doe I'm finally back into mediawiki. I used this
page [fn:1] to help me in creating a new root database password, and
then securely setting up the database. And then I deleted the Debian
mediawiki package, and then deleted all the dependant packages after
creating a note exactly which packages I was deleting.

And then I installed mediawiki manually so that I'm now using the most
up to date and stable version. And then my required skin and extensions,
and finally all the mediawiki pages that I've written, and now its all
working nicely, so thanks fellas.

Now to find out how to auto-backup my database tables. Its not essential
as its all on this machine just for developing mediawiki pages on, but
it would still be nice to do.

Thanks
Sharon.

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https://www.howtoforge.com/setting-changing-resetting-mysql-root-passwords
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Unable to install .iso's in virtualbox, but why?

[Sharon Kimble]

I'm having great difficulty in getting virtualbox running. every time
that I try to install an iso it fails and shows this in a pop-up -

--8<---cut here---start->8---
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Debian-64.

VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: ConsoleWrap Interface: 
IConsole
{872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

I've had a look at the bios setup and I can't see anywhere that mentions 'vt-x'.

According to dmidecode this is my bios -

--8<---cut here---start->8---
Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 0701
Release Date: 02/28/2017
Address: 0xF
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 16384 kB
Characteristics:
PCI is supported
APM is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
BIOS ROM is socketed
EDD is supported
5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
UEFI is supported
BIOS Revision: 5.12
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

And this is my motherboard -

--8<---cut here---start->8---
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: PRIME Z270-P
Version: Rev X.0x
Serial Number: 170398734002919
Asset Tag: Default string
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: Default string
Chassis Handle: 0x0003
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

How can I enable 'VT-x' then please so that I can run successfully
virtual machines on this box please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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mouse-wheel on a laptop?

[Sharon Kimble]

I have an Entroware notebook computer, model W950PU, which when it boots shows 
it as a 'style-note', and I can disable the touch pad when I use a USB mouse.

But I can't get the mouse-wheel working!

So how can I get full functions with the mouse please on this laptop?

Thanks
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Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:28:22 +1200
Chris Bannister  wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:34:42PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > >Hugo.
> > >Please adjust you're posting style as it is impossible to read what
> > >you're saying as its indistinguishable from the rest of the
> > >conversation. It just appears that you're signing the email
> > >without any content, which cant be true!
> > >
> > 
> > sorry about that! I post through tbird + this is what I see:
> > http://uppix.com/f-00_posting_tbird521e4f570013cc30.jpg
> > and this is what I see through gmane:
> > http://uppix.com/f-00_posting_gmane521e4de40013cc1d.jpg
> > so I see no problems :-(
> 
> Me neither, all looks good. What mail client are you using Sharon?
> 
Claws-mail 3.9.2.

This is part of Hugo's email of 28-8-13, and thats what I'm seeing. 
>>
>> I get that with dist-upgrade and not with upgrade. Googling the
>> error >> it seems that doing upgrade will resolve that. But I
>> haven't tried that!
>>
> > when I do 'aptitude why' on that file, I get that it is a
> > dependency of > k3b, which is part of the upgrade. What happens if
> > you do 'why'?  
> see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721130  

Hugo

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A notification tray?

[Sharon Kimble]

Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification
messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like
saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new emails,
nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this 'tray'? Can it be
used in fluxbox, or other lighter DE's? Is there anything comparable to
the tray please, because I'd really like it in my fluxbox setup. It
was very useful when I was using cinnamon, but apt-get removed cinnamon
yesterday, and when I went to re-download it today there was a big bug
against it, so its not working at the moment.

But can anybody help re the tray? Could it be accomplished in a bash
script? Does someone with the skill to code it have the same itch and
would find a use for it?

Hopefully, thanks
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Re: A notification tray?

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200
Jochen Spieker  wrote:

> Sharon Kimble:
> > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification
> > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like
> > saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new
> > emails, nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this
> > 'tray'? Can it be used in fluxbox, or other lighter DE's?
> 
> I don't know about fluxbox, but most window managers reserve space for
> the tray in some kind of panel or status bar. Your real question
> probably is which application puts the information you need into the
> tray. One example:
> 
> $ apt-cache search tray icon mail
> checkgmail - alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds
> claws-mail-trayicon - Notification area plugin for Claws Mail
> xul-ext-firetray - system tray extension for Thunderbird/Firefox
> alike apps zim - graphical text editor based on wiki technologies
> 
The notification tray is completely separate from the system tray,
and is I think, a separate package, and that’s what I'm looking for, or
something similar.

> If your window manager lacks a tray area you can try the package
> "trayer".

There already is a system tray in fluxbox, and even though I use tint2
as my panel, it still has a system tray in it. I did try running
'trayer' but it failed because there was a system tray already
running. 'trayeranother systray already running'

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Re: A notification tray?

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:19:13 +0200
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:09 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200
> > Jochen Spieker  wrote:
> > 
> > > Sharon Kimble:
> > > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all
> > > > notification messages until their read and deleted. These
> > > > messages are ones like saying that your backup has just
> > > > started, or you’ve got 3 new emails, nice simple easily
> > > > forgotten ones. But, what is this 'tray'? Can it be used in
> > > > fluxbox, or other lighter DE's?
> > > 
> > > I don't know about fluxbox, but most window managers reserve
> > > space for the tray in some kind of panel or status bar. Your real
> > > question probably is which application puts the information you
> > > need into the tray. One example:
> > > 
> > > $ apt-cache search tray icon mail
> > > checkgmail - alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds
> > > claws-mail-trayicon - Notification area plugin for Claws Mail
> > > xul-ext-firetray - system tray extension for Thunderbird/Firefox
> > > alike apps zim - graphical text editor based on wiki technologies
> > > 
> > The notification tray is completely separate from the system tray,
> > and is I think, a separate package, and that’s what I'm looking
> > for, or something similar.
> > 
> > > If your window manager lacks a tray area you can try the package
> > > "trayer".
> > 
> > There already is a system tray in fluxbox, and even though I use
> > tint2 as my panel, it still has a system tray in it. I did try
> > running 'trayer' but it failed because there was a system tray
> > already running. 'trayeranother systray
> > already running'
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Sharon.
> 
> I hate this notification thingy, that btw. doesn't inform you about
> all incoming mails, but just of the once for your main account.
> However, while I didn't installed the original GNOME thingy, during
> testing Cinnamon and Mate I installed mate-notification-daemon and
> I'll remove it soon. It is active for Xfce too, try the Debian package
> "notification-daemon" and you will be annoyed not only for new emails.
> 
But what/where is the tray that holds the messages from the
"notification-daemon", because that’s what I’m looking for. 

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Re: A notification tray?

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:23:10 +0200
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I hate this notification thingy, that btw. doesn't inform you about
> > all incoming mails, but just of the once for your main account.
> > However, while I didn't installed the original GNOME thingy, during
> > testing Cinnamon and Mate I installed mate-notification-daemon and
> > I'll remove it soon. It is active for Xfce too, try the Debian
> > package "notification-daemon" and you will be annoyed not only for
> > new emails.
> 
> When rereading, I got the impression that it's already installed, but
> not working for your DE?!
> 
Nope, its not in fluxbox, and I've only ever seen it in gnome3 and
cinnamon, but its great! And that’s why I want to keep using it, if
possible. 

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Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:35:39 +0200
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:

> 
> 
> Le 30.08.2013 05:04, Phi Debian a écrit :
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> > Thanx you for getting back to the original post :) while I admit I
> > > did learn a bit of history about distro, display manager,
> > > etc... :)
> >
> > [snip]
> 
> And what about cloning the git of vncserver, install development
> dependencies, and configure/make/make install? That would mean you
> would have fixes from vnc server's team, so that bug would be absent
> like in Ubuntu, and you could stay on Debian.
> 
> There should be no big conflicts, since "usually" make install will
> install in /usr/local/. The only thing I can think about is that you
> will need to update it by hand, with git pull/make/make install. (and
> people here could know how to suppress that problem, but not me :) )
> 
> 

You could use 'myrepos' to control the git sessions, when to update
your local repo its just a simple 'mr update' and let it roll. Makes
life a lot simpler :)

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Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:02:54 +0200
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> 
> > git pull/make/make install
> 
> There's a better way of building packages, but I'm short in time now,
> so at least checkinstall usually does build a "primitive" package,
> IOW I would run
> 
> git pull
> (perhaps ./configure)
> make
> checkinstall
> 
> assumed it needs to be compiled by make.
> 
Its even simpler, 'mr update; cd ~/git/foobar; sudo checkinstall -D',
and just let checkinstall do all the building and install its *.deb
that its just created. If checkinstall bails out you can easily see
what the problem is, and hopefully resolve it. I'm all in favour of
simplifying life! :)

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Re: A notification tray?

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:03:15 +0200
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:

> 
> 
> Le 29.08.2013 17:20, Sharon Kimble a écrit :
> > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification
> > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like
> > saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new e
> mails,
> > nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this 'tray'? Can it
> > > be used in fluxbox, or other lighter DE's? Is there anything
> > > comparable > to
> > the tray please, because I'd really like it in my fluxbox setup. It
> > was very useful when I was using cinnamon, but apt-get removed >
> > cinnamon yesterday, and when I went to re-download it today there
> > was a big > bug against it, so its not working at the moment.
> >
> > But can anybody help re the tray? Could it be accomplished in a bash
> > script? Does someone with the skill to code it have the same itch
> > and would find a use for it?
> >
> > Hopefully, thanks
> > Sharon.
> 
> I am confused by your message.
> 
> Are you speaking about the tray area, which is where the icons rely,
> like for opera, transmission-gtk, skype, the hour, or whatever? Or
> are you speaking about bubbles that some softwares are able to spawn
> on the desktop?

The tray that I'm talking about sits next to the status tray and is
separate from it. 
> 
> If you are speaking about the bubbles, notifications, then you should
> take a look at package "notification-daemon" and which packages
> depends on it, it may help you in your quest :) .

'notification-daemon' is installed and working well, but I'm after the
tray to hold the notification messages overnight if necessary. 

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Re: Thanks

[Sharon Kimble]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 07:01:42 -0400
"Thod Motte"  wrote:

> Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and
> unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable.
> 
> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked.

Instead of shooting the upgrade, how about using a different desktop
environment, like LXDE, XFCE, fluxbox, and several others? That way you
can still keep the goodness of wheezy but its still usable. But the
choice is yours.

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Re: itunes under debian

[Sharon Kimble]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 13:00:56 -0400
Mike McGinn  wrote:

> My sons computer with Windows 7 has become non-functional. He is
> willing to switch to linux, but having itunes work with his iPod and
> the music store is a must have for him. So far I have tried
> PlayonLinux v 4.2.1 under Squeeze, which informed me that USB does
> not yet work under Wine. I have Wheezy and Ubuntu 12.04 installed in
> VMs. I had no luck yet with getting it to work under 12.04, I will be
> trying with the Wheezy VM as soon as I get a chance.
> 
> Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under
> Linux? 
> 
Would this help?
Package: tunesviewer
Version: 1.4.99.2-1
Installed-Size: 171
Maintainer: Rogério Brito 
Architecture: all
Depends: python (>= 2.6), python-gtk2 (>= 2.16), python-lxml (>= 2.0),
python-notify, python-support (>= 0.90), python-webkit (>= 1.1)
Recommends: rhythmbox-plugins (>= 0.12) Suggests: soundconverter (>=
1.0), vlc (>= 1.0) Description-en: program to access media and podcasts
from iTunes U TunesViewer is a small, easy-to-use program to access
iTunesU media and podcasts from Linux.  TunesViewer lets you:
 .
  * Search, browse, and download videos, audio lectures, and ebooks.
  * Go directly from the "loading iTunes-U..." page to viewing podcast
with TunesViewer.
  * Reveal the standard RSS-podcast-feed of an iTunes podcast, for use
in podcast software.
  * Log in to download students-and-staff-only media.
Description-md5: 5e097622991887eec4d571f2a62b123b
Homepage: http://tunesviewer.sf.net/
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tunesviewer/tunesviewer_1.4.99.2-1_all.deb
Size: 55124
MD5sum: 04481a01ac12c34accc48fab8af368f0
SHA1: a5e07994d8857bbf5a67a89a73d494ce3780facb
SHA256: 7ab10a5d7cb8d09edebf60c78bf45d0282a82abae39281a09c4a32131459

This is from the jessie/sid repos, but it may well have a version on
wheezy.

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Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:51:09 +1000
Zenaan Harkness  wrote:

> On 9/6/13, peasth...@shaw.ca  wrote:
> > Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo,
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) ,
> > and a Kingston flash store.
> >
> > # These lines for udev.
> >
> > root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n 8 /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
> > # Persistent device names.
> > # The Sony mylo.
> > KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTR{size}=="1752512", SYMLINK+="mylo", \
> >  OWNER="peter", GROUP="floppy"
> > # The KingstonUSB.
> > KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTR{size}=="499712", SYMLINK+="KingstonUSB", \
> >  OWNER="peter", GROUP="users"
> >
Where do these pieces of information come from please? What command do
you use to get the output please? 

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Re: dictd

[Sharon Kimble]

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:41:50 +0800
lina  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What is the purpose of the dictd, do I need a local server? for dict?
> 
> tcp0  0 127.0.0.1:2628  0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN  2886/0
> 
> # more /proc/2886/cmdline
> dictd 1.12.0: 0/0
> 
> 
> I am not so clear about it,
> 
> THanks again,
>
Package: dictd
Version: 1.12.0+dfsg-5
Installed-Size: 334
Maintainer: Robert Luberda 
Architecture: i386
Provides: dict-server
Depends: adduser, dictzip (>= 1.12.0+dfsg), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13),
netbase, ucf (>= 3), update-inetd, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,
libc6 (>= 2.11), libmaa3 (>= 1.2.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Recommends:
dict | dict-client Suggests: dict-foldoc, dict-gcide |
dictd-dictionary, dict-jargon, dict-wn Conflicts: dict-server
Description-en: dictionary server This package provides a TCP-based
server that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set
of natural language dictionary databases. .
 Many dictionary databases have been packaged for use with dictd. They
are described in the /usr/share/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz file.
 .
 Either dict-gcide or dict-wn is essential for a useful English
 language dictionary server.  It is strongly recommended that both be
 installed.  If you are interested in computer terminology, it is
 recommended to install at least dict-jargon, dict-foldoc, or
 dict-vera.
 .
 The client program, dict, is packaged separately and is needed on all
 machines that will use the server.

Does this clarify things for you? I just did 'apt-cache show dictd'

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Re: How to setup notify-osd

[Sharon Kimble]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:01:17 +0800
斟酌鵬兄  wrote:

> I got these errors when trying to start the daemon:
> 
> 
> ** (notify-osd:4791): WARNING **: dbus_create_service_instance(): Got
> error "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
> application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
> blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network
> connection was broken."
> 
> 
> ** (notify-osd:4791): WARNING **: Could not register instance
> 
> I don't know how to fix it.
> I've removed package notification-daemon but it seems gnome is still
> using it when I run:
> notify-send test.
> 
> 
> What do I do now?

You give us *full* information, like what version of debian? What
command did you run to try to start the daemon? How did you remove
'notification-daemon'? Which version of Gnome?  

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Re: sid upgrade

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:44:46 +0200
François Patte  wrote:

> Bonjour,
> 
> I made an attempt to upgrade sid (amd64); apt-get report some bugs:
> 
> grave bugs of upower (0.9.21-2 -> 0.9.21-3) 
>  #722474 - upower: on update fails with critical glib errors & doesn't
> work properly after reboot
> serious bugs of libklibc (2.0.1-3.1 -> 2.0.2-1) 
>  #720290 - klibc: FTBFS on mips*
> serious bugs of debhelper (9.20130630 -> 9.20130720) 
>  #722501 - FTBFS with perl 5.18 (POD error: trailing space in L<..>)
> serious bugs of dh-python (1.20130807-1 -> 1.20130903-1)  pending a fix>
>  #722307 - dh-python: dh_python2 creates dependencies on non-existing
> python2
> Summary:
>  libklibc(1 bug), debhelper(1 bug), dh-python(1 bug), upower(1 bug)
> 
> is it safe to proceed or shall I wait untill these bugs are corrected?
> 
> Thank you.

That’s par for the course with you running 'sid', you might be better
off trying 'testing' aka 'jessie'. If you run 'sid' then you must
expect things to be broken occasionally. What you do is up to you, it
depends on how much you depend on those programmes and on whether you
want to use them possibly in a degraded state? As I said, its up to you.

I am using 'testing' and occasionally something is broken and needs to
be fixed, but mostly its good with having to report the occasional bug. 

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Re: nm eth0 connection

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:13:30 -0700
Robert Holtzman  wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> 
>snip...
> > 
> > What's "no-auto-default=00:21:CC:B6:06:8F,"?!
> > 
> > I've never seen "no-auto-default=..." before but I'd blame it for
> > your NIC not coming up automatically since "00...8F" is its MAC
> > address!
> 
> That line is commented out. Not sure why it didn't show up that way
> in my post. Tried uncommenting it with no effect. I don't understand
> what it's doing there. Pinging my router as root still gives
> "Operation not permitted". It says I'm sending packets but none are
> received.
> 
> At this point I'm completely snowed to the point where I'm tempted to
> try the M$ solution (reload the OS). So far I'm fighting the
> temptation.

Daft as it sounds, have you tried rebooting? That might well clear the
bottleneck, hopefully :)

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Re: Audio vanished with jessie

[Sharon Kimble]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:33:39 + (UTC)
Hendrik Boom  wrote:

> It's an ASUS 1HE running  jessie.
> 
> Today sound wouldn't work, though it worked a few weeks ago.
> 
> I won't say nothing has changed; I have been doing regular upgrades
> using aptitude.
> 
> I don't even know how to begin diagnosing the problem.  No sound,
> neither in audacity nor in VLC.
> 
> Neither paplay nor aplay give me any sound.
> 
> The audio device is *Enabled* in the BIOS.
> 
> What tests should I be performing to narrow down the problem.  Or is
> this already a well-known bug in jessie?
> 
> -- hendrik
> 
In a situation like this, no sound when I know there should be, and
nothing has changed, I'd try rebooting! That normally tends to fix the
problem, except for the time that I spent two hours looking for the
problem only to find eventually, that I'd unplugged my speakers at the
mains!

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Re: access please

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:57:56 +0300
Andrei POPESCU  wrote:

> On Mi, 24 iul 13, 13:31:07, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > 
> > 
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> Could you please rephrase this please? :p
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

What is there to rephrase? This is an old email dated 24th July
2013, when I was requesting being subscribed to this list from my home
account in place of my gmail account. 

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Bash history not propagating.

[Sharon Kimble]

I'm having a problem with bash history. Basically, I do a lot of stuff
in tmux windows, and then when I open up another terminal window, but
not in tmux, it does not have the same history as in the tmux windows.
How can I get it so that they both mirror each other please?

I find it very easy to check on this as each command line has its
number place in the history file, so its easy to use in various
windows. 

Thanks
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Re: Bash history not propagating.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:23:25 + (UTC)
Curt  wrote:

> On 2013-09-29, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
> >
> > I'm having a problem with bash history. Basically, I do a lot of
> > stuff in tmux windows, and then when I open up another terminal
> > window, but not in tmux, it does not have the same history as in
> > the tmux windows. How can I get it so that they both mirror each
> > other please?
> >
> 
> This looks promising:
> 
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/preserve-bash-history-in-multiple-terminal-windows
> 
Thanks for this Curt, I'm now evaluating it to see if it does work
okay. Just got to wait for a download to finish before restarting tmux.

Thanks
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Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

[Sharon Kimble]

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I am attempting to connect to, but it
uses the mtp protocol. So after much googling I have
created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules which says
`SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="6860",
MODE="0600", OWNER="boudiccas"` and have also installed - mtp-tools,
libmtp9, libmtp-runtime, mtpfs, kio-mtp, libmtp-common - from 'testing'
repo. 

When I run 'lsusb' its shown as - 'Bus 002 Device 032: ID 04e8:6860
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-P7500
[Galaxy Tab 10.1]' so its at least seen and recognised.

I have then - 'sudo mkdir /media/galaxy
sudo chmod 775 /media/galaxy' and then tried to mount it with - 
'sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/galaxy' but this fails saying -
sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/galaxy
Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT
P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab
7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y. Found 1 device(s): Samsung: GT
P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab
7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y (04e8:6860) @ bus 2, dev 32 Attempting to
connect device PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after
resetting USB interface LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
usb_clear_halt() on IN endpoint: Protocol error usb_clear_halt() on OUT
endpoint: Protocol error usb_clear_halt() on INTERRUPT endpoint:
Protocol error ignoring usb_claim_interface = -99LIBMTP PANIC: failed
to open session on second attempt Unable to open raw device 0'

Has anyone been able to mount this phone under debian please? And has
anyone got any ideas of what I could try next to mount my phone please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:34:20 +0100
Sharon Kimble  wrote:

> I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I am attempting to connect to, but it
> uses the mtp protocol. So after much googling I have
> created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules which says
> `SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="6860",
> MODE="0600", OWNER="boudiccas"` and have also installed - mtp-tools,
> libmtp9, libmtp-runtime, mtpfs, kio-mtp, libmtp-common - from
> 'testing' repo. 
> 
> When I run 'lsusb' its shown as - 'Bus 002 Device 032: ID 04e8:6860
> Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-P7500
> [Galaxy Tab 10.1]' so its at least seen and recognised.
> 
> I have then - 'sudo mkdir /media/galaxy
> sudo chmod 775 /media/galaxy' and then tried to mount it with - 
> 'sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/galaxy' but this fails saying -
> sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/galaxy
> Listing raw device(s)
> Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT
> P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab
> 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y. Found 1 device(s): Samsung: GT
> P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab
> 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y (04e8:6860) @ bus 2, dev 32 Attempting to
> connect device PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again
> after resetting USB interface LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
> usb_clear_halt() on IN endpoint: Protocol error usb_clear_halt() on
> OUT endpoint: Protocol error usb_clear_halt() on INTERRUPT endpoint:
> Protocol error ignoring usb_claim_interface = -99LIBMTP PANIC: failed
> to open session on second attempt Unable to open raw device 0'
> 
> Has anyone been able to mount this phone under debian please? And has
> anyone got any ideas of what I could try next to mount my phone
> please?
> 
Following up on this. 

With 'usb-debugging' enabled on the phone, its now able to 'copy data
between computer and the device' [quoted from the pop-up on the phone]. 

If you dial '*#7284#' you can enter either PDA-mode or MODEM-mode, the
default is PDA-mode. In PDA-mode lsusb sees it as 'Bus 002 Device 048:
ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II],
GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]' in MODEM-mode its not seen at all.

The phone has two SDcards - an internal, non-removable, one and an
external removable one. 

When the phone and the computer are connected with a usb cable, you get
this - 
nautilus can mount them, but it cant read them. 
dolphin doesn't see them at all
thunar doesn't see them at all
pcmanfm mounts them, and reads them under gphoto2://[usb:002,046]/store_00020002

Success! But I don’t know if creating the udev rule helped or not, and
neither do I know if its using all the extra files I installed from
'testing', but hey, it works!

I'd still like to get it being seen, mounted, and read by nautilus
though as its my file-manager of choice. But two out of three isn’t
bad! :) So if anyone can help getting it read by nautilus, it would be
great!

Sharon.
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[SOLVED] Re: Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 13:15:14 +0100
Sharon Kimble  wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:34:20 +0100
> Sharon Kimble  wrote:
> 
> > I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I am attempting to connect to, but
> > it uses the mtp protocol. So after much googling I have
> > created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules which says
> > `SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="6860",
> > MODE="0600", OWNER="boudiccas"` and have also installed - mtp-tools,
> > libmtp9, libmtp-runtime, mtpfs, kio-mtp, libmtp-common - from
> > 'testing' repo. 
> > 
> > When I run 'lsusb' its shown as - 'Bus 002 Device 032: ID 04e8:6860
> > Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-P7500
> > [Galaxy Tab 10.1]' so its at least seen and recognised.
> > 
> > I have then - 'sudo mkdir /media/galaxy
> > sudo chmod 775 /media/galaxy' and then tried to mount it with - 
> > 'sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/galaxy' but this fails saying -
> > sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/galaxy
> > Listing raw device(s)
> > Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT
> > P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab
> > 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y. Found 1 device(s): Samsung: GT
> > P7310/P7510/N7000/I9070/I9100/I9300 Galaxy Tab
> > 7.7/10.1/S2/S3/Nexus/Note/Y (04e8:6860) @ bus 2, dev 32 Attempting
> > to connect device PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again
> > after resetting USB interface LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
> > usb_clear_halt() on IN endpoint: Protocol error usb_clear_halt() on
> > OUT endpoint: Protocol error usb_clear_halt() on INTERRUPT endpoint:
> > Protocol error ignoring usb_claim_interface = -99LIBMTP PANIC:
> > failed to open session on second attempt Unable to open raw device
> > 0'
> > 
> > Has anyone been able to mount this phone under debian please? And
> > has anyone got any ideas of what I could try next to mount my phone
> > please?
> > 
> Following up on this. 
> 
> With 'usb-debugging' enabled on the phone, its now able to 'copy data
> between computer and the device' [quoted from the pop-up on the
> phone]. 
> 
> If you dial '*#7284#' you can enter either PDA-mode or MODEM-mode, the
> default is PDA-mode. In PDA-mode lsusb sees it as 'Bus 002 Device 048:
> ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S
> II], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]' in MODEM-mode its not seen at all.
> 
> The phone has two SDcards - an internal, non-removable, one and an
> external removable one. 
> 
> When the phone and the computer are connected with a usb cable, you
> get this - 
> nautilus can mount them, but it cant read them. 
> dolphin doesn't see them at all
> thunar doesn't see them at all
> pcmanfm mounts them, and reads them under
> gphoto2://[usb:002,046]/store_00020002
> 
> Success! But I don’t know if creating the udev rule helped or not, and
> neither do I know if its using all the extra files I installed from
> 'testing', but hey, it works!
> 
> I'd still like to get it being seen, mounted, and read by nautilus
> though as its my file-manager of choice. But two out of three isn’t
> bad! :) So if anyone can help getting it read by nautilus, it would be
> great!

Sorry, should've labelled the previous mail as SOLVED. 

Yes Chris, I have and 'airdroid' does work well, but it requires you to
have the webpage for it to be opened and airdroid running on the phone
all at the same time, and the webpage does eventually time out. Whereas
pcmanfm works from the desktop and the phone is passive all the time,
and neither times out. 

Sharon.
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Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:52:17 -0500
"Mark Allums"  wrote:

> > On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:34 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> > > The dialogs from Gnome 3 (zenity) serves, so mate-dialogs-gnome
> > > isn't needed if zenity is installed (and mate-dialogs-gnome can
> > > serve in place for zenity as well).
> > 
> > Not really, you at least need to manually add a link, regarding to
> > the different program names.
> 
> I never did, and never had to.  It works fine.
> 
> 
> > 
> > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/matedialog
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 18 18:06 /usr/bin/matedialog -> zenity
> > 
> > ;)
> > 
> > Sure, if mate-file-archiver is installed, you might not need
> > file-roller, but you perhaps want to be able to install a DE by it's
> > meta-packages, but this doesn't work, if one of the DEs is Mate,
> > because those packages cause conflicts.
> 
> 
> Again, never a problem for me, since v. 1.2.  
> 
> I don't have any package named mate-file-archiver installed or
> available to install.  There's engrampa, which does not conflict at
> all with file-roller.

Its all moot anyway as cinnamon is, at the moment, uninstallable! It
fails here 'Failed to fetch
http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gobby-infinote/gobby-0.5_0.4.94-5.1_i386.deb
403  Forbidden' 

You can try 'at-get --fix-missing' but it still fails.

A pity because I really want to use cinnamon again. 

Thanks
Sharon.
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errant mouse-over behaviour.

[Sharon Kimble]

I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over
something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and it is
immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or
[b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of this behaviour. Its developed
overnight for some reason, and has even survived rebooting. I'm not
aware of doing anything to provoke/create this weird behaviour, but its
really winding me up! Can anyone suggest some solutions please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:15:34 +0200
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:08 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over
> > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and
> > it is immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or
> > [b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of this behaviour. Its
> > developed overnight for some reason, and has even survived
> > rebooting. I'm not aware of doing anything to provoke/create this
> > weird behaviour, but its really winding me up! Can anyone suggest
> > some solutions please?
> 
> Did you ensure that the mouse isn't broken?
> 
Nothing changed overnight to cause it to break, it just sat here doing
nowt! 

I've just discovered that its moving folders about and putting them in
not-required places, which has disrupted my backups till corrected. 

Thanks
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Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:42:52 +0200
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:28 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > Nothing changed overnight to cause it to break
> 
> A mouse's switch or microchip can break from one click or movement to
> the other. The PS/2 or USB port can break from one second to the other
> too. Did you run a software update overnight? If so, which packages
> were updated? IIUC there were no changes, also no updates. Regarding
> to the kind of problem it seems to be more likely that the hardware
> is broken, than anything else.
> 
I have just unplugged it for about a minute and plugged back in, and it
doesn’t seem to have made any difference. Maybe I should leave them out
for longer, although I turned the machine off for 15 minutes. 

There were 3 updates from debian-mozilla at teatime yesterday, from the
apt-get.log - 
Start-Date: 2013-10-21  18:11:11
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Upgrade: libnss3:i386 (3.15.1-1~bpo70+1, 3.15.2-1~bpo70+1),
libnspr4:i386 (4.10-1~bpo70+1, 4.10.1-1~bpo70+1), libnss3-1d:i386
(3.15.1-1~bpo70+1, 3.15.2-1~bpo70+1)

Its a usb-mouse and keyboard, both separate items, and I don't have
anything to swap them out with.

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Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:28:29 +0200
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote:
> > On 2013-10-22, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over
> > > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and
> > > it is immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or
> > > [b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of this behaviour. Its
> > > developed overnight for some reason, and has even survived
> > > rebooting. I'm not aware of doing anything to provoke/create this
> > > weird behaviour, but its really winding me up! Can anyone suggest
> > > some solutions please?
> > >
> > > > I'd plug in and test another mouse in order eliminate the defective
> > hardware possibility. 
> 
> Or use this mouse in another port or better with another computer.
> Booting another OS, e.g. a Linux from a live media is useful.

I've just unplugged all usb devices, and powered down and left it for
10 minute’s, restarted and then plugging in the usb devices once I’d
got a desktop again. So now I'm just evaluating whether I've got rid
of the problem. But it doesn't seem to have cleared it, the problem
still remains. 

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:22:13 +0900
Joel Rees  wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Sharon Kimble
>  wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:28:29 +0200
> > Ralf Mardorf  wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote:
> >> > On 2013-10-22, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over
> >> > > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text
> >> > > and it is immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this,
> >> > > and/or [b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of this behaviour.
> >> > > Its developed overnight for some reason, and has even survived
> >> > > rebooting. I'm not aware of doing anything to provoke/create
> >> > > this weird behaviour, but its really winding me up! Can anyone
> >> > > suggest some solutions please?
> >> > >
> >> > > > I'd plug in and test another mouse in order eliminate the
> >> > > > defective
> >> > hardware possibility.
> >>
> >> Or use this mouse in another port or better with another computer.
> >> Booting another OS, e.g. a Linux from a live media is useful.
> >
> > I've just unplugged all usb devices, and powered down and left it
> > for 10 minute’s, restarted and then plugging in the usb devices
> > once I’d got a desktop again. So now I'm just evaluating whether
> > I've got rid of the problem. But it doesn't seem to have cleared
> > it, the problem still remains.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sharon.
> 
> I'll get this kind of sticking with my netbook. Trackpad and mouse
> together seem to conflict. But usually unplugging the mouse and
> plugging it in a different port will clear the problem.
> 
> (I suppose I should see if there is a bug on this.)
> 
> Have you tried a different mouse, or the same mouse in a different
> machine? If you can, it would at least help to eliminate the possible
> hardware issues.
> 
The problem was finally solved today by the arrival of a new usb-mouse.
I'd just done a re-install to correct various problems that I had, but I
was still using the old mouse, and it still had the same problems. In
fact, it had worsened! The left mouse button was now locked into
position and wouldn’t respond to any commands, and it still was randomly
picking up files and/or folders! 

But the new usb-mouse is working very well, and I also bought a spare
at the same time, and a spare usb-keyboard too, just in case. I was
surprised that the original mouse had developed problems when its
only 10 months old, but it was made in china so who knows what
quality-control they have there!

Sharon.
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Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:35:38 -0500
Neal Murphy  wrote:

> On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it -
> > 
> > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker
> > fluxbox -f;;
> > 
> > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines -
> > '   [restart] (Restart)
> > [separator]
> > [exit] (Exit)
> > [end]
> > [end]'
> > 
> > What I want to do is to add this script onto the end of the first
> > command, and it is -
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # title - submenu
> > 
> > echo[submenu] (My Menu)
> > echo[include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)
> > echo[end]
> > echo[separator]
> > 
> > So the final running command will look like this -
> > 'mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker
> > fluxbox -f; submenu;;'
> > 
> > and the main menu will look like this at the end -
> > [restart] (Restart)
> > [separator]
> > [exit] (Exit)
> > [end]
> > [submenu] (My Menu)
> > [include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)
> > [end]
> > [separator]
> > 
> > But how do I do it please?
> 
> sed is your friend. If I've followed your message (you want
> menu-`date` to contain the submenu), this should do the
> trick--*provided* the last [end] is the last line in the file:

No, the menu+date is a backed up copy of the main menu, which is
periodically deleted.
> 
> mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); \
> sed -i -e '$ i \
> \t\t\[submenu] (My Menu)\
> \t\t\[include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)\
> \t\t\[end]\
> \t\t\[separator] ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); \
>   mmakerfluxbox -f; submenu;;
> 
> If the last [end] is the only one in the file at the beginning of the
> line, change the first line of the sed chant to:
> 
> sed -e '/^\[end]/ i \
> 
> (Instead of addressing the last line of the file, address the line
> with [end] at B.o.L.)
> 
> N
But thanks anyway folks, I'll be trying them out tomorrow when I have
more time, so I'll reply better and with a fuller response then. 

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Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

[Sharon Kimble]

I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - 

mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker
fluxbox -f;;

This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines -
'   [restart] (Restart)
[separator]
[exit] (Exit)
[end]
[end]'

What I want to do is to add this script onto the end of the first
command, and it is -
#!/bin/bash
# title - submenu

echo[submenu] (My Menu)
echo[include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)
echo[end]
echo[separator]

So the final running command will look like this - 
'mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker
fluxbox -f; submenu;;'

and the main menu will look like this at the end -
[restart] (Restart)
[separator]
[exit] (Exit)
[end]
[submenu] (My Menu)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)
[end]
[separator]

But how do I do it please?

Thanks
Sharon.


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Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100
Scott Ferguson  wrote:

> On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Try #2 :/
> 
> Try #3 (no sleep last night - trees and power lines down across the
> property in last nights storms)  Sorry.
> This time I remembered to escape those brackets. Please test this - I
> can only check the script works, can't check if mmaker likes it.
> 
> > 
> > Ignore the above - that echo won't reliably create multiple lines,
> > printf will.
> > 
> > Try this which will:-
> 
> echo "
> #!/bin/bash
> # .fmenu
> mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> mmaker fluxbox -f
> printf "\t[submenu] \(My
> Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]" >>
> ~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
> 
> > 
> > 
> > The above will:-
> > create a script ~./.fmenu
> > 
> > Running ~/.fmenu will:-
> > mv your existing ~/.fluxbox/menu to ~/.fluxbox/menu-mmdd-hh:mm
> > create a new ~/.fluxbox/menu
> > append your submenu to it
> > 
> > 
> > If you want to remove the last [end] tag from the main menu (as
> > suggested by Linux Fan try this:-
> 
> echo "
> #!/bin/bash
> # .fmenu
> mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> mmaker fluxbox -f
> sed -i 's/\[end]//g' ~/.fluxbox/menu;sed -i '/^\s*$/d' ~/.fluxbox/menu
> printf "\t[submenu] \(My
> Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]" >>
> ~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
> 
> 
> 
> Someone more awake than I can probably make that double invocation of
> sed into a single call.
> 
Morning Scott.
Thanks for this, I hope you slept better? This is what I currently
have -

#!/bin/bash
# .fmenu
mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}

mmaker fluxbox -f

sed -i 's/\[end]//g' ~/.fluxbox/menu;sed -i '/^\s*$/d' ~/.fluxbox/menu

printf '\t[submenu] \(My
Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]'
>>~/.fluxbox/menu" >~/.fmenu

and the double sed line works okay, but its failing at the 'printf'
line saying -
'tryitout
/home/boudiccas/bin/tryitout: line 21: /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox/menu 

>~/.fmenu'

NB - my working script is always called 'tryitout', just whilst I'm
developing something. 

The new menu is created without the two [end] at its end, but there is
nothing from 'printf' at all.

Sorry
Sharon.


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Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:15:21 +
Sharon Kimble  wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100
> Scott Ferguson  wrote:
> 
> > On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Try #2 :/
> > 
> > Try #3 (no sleep last night - trees and power lines down across the
> > property in last nights storms)  Sorry.
> > This time I remembered to escape those brackets. Please test this -
> > I can only check the script works, can't check if mmaker likes it.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Ignore the above - that echo won't reliably create multiple lines,
> > > printf will.
> > > 
> > > Try this which will:-
> > 
> > echo "
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # .fmenu
> > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> > mmaker fluxbox -f
> > printf "\t[submenu] \(My
> > Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]"
> > >> ~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The above will:-
> > > create a script ~./.fmenu
> > > 
> > > Running ~/.fmenu will:-
> > > mv your existing ~/.fluxbox/menu to ~/.fluxbox/menu-mmdd-hh:mm
> > > create a new ~/.fluxbox/menu
> > > append your submenu to it
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If you want to remove the last [end] tag from the main menu (as
> > > suggested by Linux Fan try this:-
> > 
> > echo "
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # .fmenu
> > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> > mmaker fluxbox -f
> > sed -i 's/\[end]//g' ~/.fluxbox/menu;sed -i '/^\s*$/d'
> > ~/.fluxbox/menu printf "\t[submenu] \(My
> > Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]"
> > >> ~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Someone more awake than I can probably make that double invocation
> > of sed into a single call.
> > 
> Morning Scott.
> Thanks for this, I hope you slept better? This is what I currently
> have -
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # .fmenu
> mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> 
> mmaker fluxbox -f
> 
> sed -i 's/\[end]//g' ~/.fluxbox/menu;sed -i '/^\s*$/d' ~/.fluxbox/menu
> 
> printf '\t[submenu] \(My
> Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]'
> >>~/.fluxbox/menu" >~/.fmenu
> 
> and the double sed line works okay, but its failing at the 'printf'
> line saying -
> 'tryitout
> /home/boudiccas/bin/tryitout: line 21: /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox/menu 
> 
> >~/.fmenu'
> 
> NB - my working script is always called 'tryitout', just whilst I'm
> developing something. 
> 
> The new menu is created without the two [end] at its end, but there is
> nothing from 'printf' at all.
> 
> Sorry
> Sharon.
> 
I've been doing some more testing and now got the 'submenu' being
generated at the end, which is good. But, the sed lines are also
stripping out *all* of the [end] lines which separate the sections of
the menu, which are needed for it to function properly. So how can we
get it to just strip out the two [end] at the end of the main menu, and
leave all of the other [end] in the script intact please?

Thanks
Sharon.


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Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:15:21 +
Sharon Kimble  wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100
> Scott Ferguson  wrote:
> 
> > On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Try #2 :/
> > 
> > Try #3 (no sleep last night - trees and power lines down across the
> > property in last nights storms)  Sorry.
> > This time I remembered to escape those brackets. Please test this -
> > I can only check the script works, can't check if mmaker likes it.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Ignore the above - that echo won't reliably create multiple lines,
> > > printf will.
> > > 
> > > Try this which will:-
> > 
> > echo "
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # .fmenu
> > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> > mmaker fluxbox -f
> > printf "\t[submenu] \(My
> > Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]"
> > >> ~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The above will:-
> > > create a script ~./.fmenu
> > > 
> > > Running ~/.fmenu will:-
> > > mv your existing ~/.fluxbox/menu to ~/.fluxbox/menu-mmdd-hh:mm
> > > create a new ~/.fluxbox/menu
> > > append your submenu to it
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If you want to remove the last [end] tag from the main menu (as
> > > suggested by Linux Fan try this:-
> > 
> > echo "
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # .fmenu
> > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> > mmaker fluxbox -f
> > sed -i 's/\[end]//g' ~/.fluxbox/menu;sed -i '/^\s*$/d'
> > ~/.fluxbox/menu printf "\t[submenu] \(My
> > Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]"
> > >> ~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Someone more awake than I can probably make that double invocation
> > of sed into a single call.
> > 
> Morning Scott.
> Thanks for this, I hope you slept better? This is what I currently
> have -
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # .fmenu
> mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
> 
> mmaker fluxbox -f
> 
> sed -i 's/\[end]//g' ~/.fluxbox/menu;sed -i '/^\s*$/d' ~/.fluxbox/menu
> 
> printf '\t[submenu] \(My
> Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]'
> >>~/.fluxbox/menu" >~/.fmenu
> 
> and the double sed line works okay, but its failing at the 'printf'
> line saying -
> 'tryitout
> /home/boudiccas/bin/tryitout: line 21: /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox/menu 
> 
> >~/.fmenu'
> 
> NB - my working script is always called 'tryitout', just whilst I'm
> developing something. 
> 
> The new menu is created without the two [end] at its end, but there is
> nothing from 'printf' at all.
> 
> Sorry
> Sharon.
> 
I've got it working with this line -
mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}; mmaker fluxbox -f;perl -0777
-pi -e 's/(.*)\[end]/$1/s;s/(.*)\[end]/$1/s;s/^\s*\n//gm'
~/.fluxbox/menu;printf '\t[end]\n\t[separator]\n\t[submenu] (My
Menu)\n\t[include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)\n\t[end]\n\t[end]'
>>~/.fluxbox/menu

Thanks for all those who offered solutions.

Sharon.


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Re: Script to tell if Qpopper is running.

[Sharon Kimble]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:13:54 -0800 (PST)
Account for Debian group mail  wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 
> > On 11/22/2013 3:54 PM, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
> >> >> >> Hello all,
> >> >> Once in a while the Qpopper on our mail server will just die. I
> >> >> have to
> >> go in and issue a "/etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart" and it will
> >> be backup and running.
> >> >> Has anyone written a script that will run under a cron job that
> >> >> checks
> >> to make sure that the pop3 server is running and if not will
> >> restart it?
> >> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Ken
> >> >> >
> > The bigger question would be - why is it dying?  I think I'd try to
> > figure > that out instead.
> >
> > I've been running qpopper for > 10 years, and never had it "just
> > die". It's > been 100% solid.
> >
> > Jerry
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> Trying to figure out why it dies once a year (or so) on a machine
> that is processing a lot of mail is not a question of why but rather
> get the pop3 server back up now.
> 
> I've tried to write a little script using expect, but my programing
> skill, at last are not that good anymore.
> 
> I have such scripts running for many programs on my computers that
> check to make sure everything is running as it should and if there is
> a problem restart that program.
> 
> So once again I ask, does anyone have such a script for their pop3
> server?
> 
Ken.
If you've already got working scripts for checking various things
then you could try adapting one to fulfil your new purpose. That
shouldn't be too hard, and would be better because you would know
*exactly* what everything in it was doing,

Sharon. 



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Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

[Sharon Kimble]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:39:20 -0800
Rick Thomas  wrote:

> 
> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from
>   sudo aptitude install wordpress
> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working
> wordpress website on the same machine?
> 
> I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the
> stuff in examples/ but they are just hints, I think.
> 
> I've googled till I'm blue in the face, but all I find is people who
> insist on installing wordpress from the downloadable tarball at the
> wordpress development site and ignore the debian package entirely.
> I'd much rather do things the "Debian way".
> 
> Somebody must have done it, I would think -- or what's the point of
> having a Debian package in the first place?  If you have, can you
> share your recipe?
> 
> All help will be appreciated!

Rick.
A few months ago I was considering doing this, hosting my wordpress
blog on this computer, but after considering all the disadvantages of
self-hosting I chose someone to do it for me in a local web-hosting
company for 4UKP a month, which is a very good price. Since then we've
worked together to reduce the sites footprint in size and speed it up.
Now I take full backups of it twice a day, and they just take a few
minutes over a distance of about 25 miles. I can only suggest you do the
same as it saves a lot of heartache and worry too. 

Sharon.
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Removing unwanted language files from texlive.

[Sharon Kimble]

I've installed texlive getting *everything* which also includes getting
many language files that I am never going to use, such as cjk [japanese
I think], etc. How do I go about removing them in a sane way please? Is
it as simple as `sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-*', and then just
adding back those that I do actually want and need, please? Will this
autorun things like `mktexlsr' which seems to be needed a lot judging by
today’s tex update?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: Removing unwanted language files from texlive.

[Sharon Kimble]

Jörg-Volker Peetz  writes:

> How did you install texlive?
>
> What is the output of
>
>   apt-mark showmanual | grep texlive
>
> ?
Through the jessie repository.

Your command gives the output - texlive-full

Thanks
Sharon.
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udev rules for wheezy

[Sharon Kimble]

i'm trying to get udev rules for my usb phone, and they are ...
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce:2138",
SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
AND
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce",
SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
but neither work.
lsusb shows .. Bus 001 Device 034: ID 0fce:2138 Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB Xperia X10 mini pro (Debug)

Where am i going wrong please? the rules are saved to
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules and also to
/lib/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: udev rules for wheezy

[Sharon Kimble]

On 10 September 2012 19:29, Siard  wrote:
> Op Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:26 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> i'm trying to get udev rules for my usb phone, and they are ...
>> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce:2138",
>> SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
>> AND
>> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce",
>> SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
>> but neither work.
>> lsusb shows .. Bus 001 Device 034: ID 0fce:2138 Sony Ericsson Mobile
>> Communications AB Xperia X10 mini pro (Debug)
>>
>> Where am i going wrong please? the rules are saved to
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules and also to
>> /lib/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules
>
> If I have an udev rule like one of the above in Wheezy, then there is a
> boot message complaining that SYSFS{idVendor} is an 'unknown key'.
> In Wheezy's version of udev, you have to use ATTRS{idVendor} instead.
>
> This udev rule works well with my SE Xperia X8:
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fce", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
>
> (Not sure whether 'GROUP="plugdev"' is really necessary.)
> Note that, AFAIK, it should be saved to
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules, not 99-android.rules.
>
>
Thanks, this rule is working  and I'm one step further to my goal.

Sharon.


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Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

[Sharon Kimble]

On 15 September 2012 19:45, Dmitriy Matrosov  wrote:
> On 09/15/12 21:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>> On Sb, 15 sep 12, 12:53:46, Ed Jabbour wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace
>>> some from the Debian repos.  However, removing them will also remove a
>>> bunch  of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53
>>> yields:
>>>
>>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 190 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>>
>>> I'm not up to reinstalling 190 packages.  apt-get install that pkg
>>> just tells me that "libavcodec53 is already the newest version".  Is
>>> there any way around this?  Is it possible to easily replace the deb-
>>> multimedia pkgs with the Debian ones?
>>
>>
>> It's possible. I've done it with aptitude by looking up each package
>> from the list generated by the command below and selecting the Debian
>> version instead of the deb-multimedia version.
>>
>>  aptitude search ~S~i~Omultimedia
>>
>> With apt-get you would have to build up a big command line like
>>
>>  apt-get install package1/version1 package2/versions ...
>>
>> because there are lots of interdependencies which would get in the way.
>
> You can find packages from deb-multimedia without aptitude as well. Like so
>
> $ dpkg-query -Wf '${Package}\n' \
>  | xargs -d'\n' sh -euf -c '
> apt-cache showpkg "$@" \
> | sed -ne"
> s/^Package: //p;
> /^Versions:/,/^Reverse Depends:/{
> \_^[^[:space:]].*(/var/lib/dpkg/status)_p;
> };" \
> | sed -ne"N; /_deb.multimedia_/P;"
> ' sh
>
I tried this on a wheezy installation, and it failed, so I tried
sending it to a 'dpkg.txt' and I got a null output on it although I
know that I do have some files from that repository. I'd like to know
how to get it working on wheezy please?

Thanks
Sharon.

> Result of this command will be list of packages, which are installed
> (referenced
> from /var/lig/dpkg/status) and that are available from deb-multimedia. If
> this package
> version also available from other source (like squeeze repository), it
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Notifications changed in LXDE under wheezy

[Sharon Kimble]

Since yesterday mid-morning my notifications have changed back to ones
similar to Gnome/XFCE being a black box with white text in it, which is
saved to a notification file in the status bar. Previously my notifications
from LXDE were light grey blocks with black text which weren't apparently
logged at the desktop.

Can anybody help me please to regain my LXDE styled notifications? I've
tried googling but without much success.

Thank you
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Re: Notifications changed in LXDE under wheezy

[Sharon Kimble]

I do have Evolution installed, but I've never run it as I regard it as the
spawn of the devil! :) I just want to get rid of the file that's recording
all the emails and other notifications on the desktop, then I'd die happy!
I've just rebooted to test a theory of mine that its related to my desktop
settings, so time will tell.

Thanks
Sharon.


On 30 November 2012 10:38, Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 08:40 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > Since yesterday mid-morning my notifications have changed back to ones
> > similar to Gnome/XFCE being a black box with white text in it, which
> > is saved to a notification file in the status bar. Previously my
> > notifications from LXDE were light grey blocks with black text which
> > weren't apparently logged at the desktop.
> >
> >
> > Can anybody help me please to regain my LXDE styled notifications?
> > I've tried googling but without much success.
>
> I was able to fix an issue for my Xfce, when using Evolution by
> following this:
>
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/204390/evolution-the-background-of-messages-is-always-grey
>
> I still get those evil notifications myself, but perhaps it can be
> solved in a similar way for Xfce and LXDE as the issue for Evolutions
> bad colours can be solved.
>
> Soon or later we all will be forced to use Unity or GNOME3. Current
> Evolution 3.6 and current Xfce 4.10 used together does lead to slow
> performance, the need to delete ~/cache. every few minutes, spam can't
> be filtered etc. pp.. This is for other installs that are more up to
> date than Debian is, but I don't expect that Debian will become better
> than other distros in the future. Upstream will force us by insane
> dependencies to do everything that is decided by Red Hat and GNOME,
> alternatively we can choose what Mr. Shuttleworth does enforce. I don't
> upgrade old Linux installs any more and for good reasons I take a look
> at FreeBSD after using Linux only for around 10 years.
>
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Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

[Sharon Kimble]

James Cloos  writes:

>>>>>> "SK" == Sharon Kimble  writes:
>
> R>> https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs
>
> SK> Thanks, I was able to download a binary from there, "go-mtpfs.x86",
> SK> and made it executable and then ran -
>
> Is your kernel 32 bit or 64 bit?  If the latter, you should try
> the .x86_64 version instead of the .x86 version.
>
> Or follow the compilation instructions at that site.

32-bit, which is why I chose the "go-mtpfs.x86" version.

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unable to access website, getting "502 Bad Gateway" errors

[Sharon Kimble]

I am totally unable to access two websites that are very important to
me, they're my own! And they are both listed in the sig of this email. I
have tried with the following browsers - chromium, google-chrome,
iceweasel, konqueror, opera, midori, qupzilla, conkeror, links, and in
all of them I get "502 Bad Gateway", or "504 Gateway Time-out". They are
both wordpress sites, but I can't even access the home page. 

Both of these sites show as being up and running with
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ which shows both sites up and running
OK.

I've cleared the cache of each browser, I've rebooted, I've restarted my
router, and I've turned it off and disconnected it for 30 minutes, but
am still unable to access these two sites, although everything else
seems to be working OK.

I use gnus for my email, and its RSS feeds mechanism, which works with
all other sites, except for the feed for my two sites which fails
saying -
--8<---cut here---start->8---
Contacting host: www.tgmeds.org.uk:80
byte-code: http://www.tgmeds.org.uk/feed/: Bad gateway
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

The two sites are on a server using nginx, which my "net-admin" has
rebooted, and restarted the php-fpm daemon. From his end, its all
working OK, but I'm still unable to access the two sites. 

Yesterday we had a power cut which knocked my system offline, before
that it was all working OK, but now I cannot access them whatever I
do.

What else can I, or should I do, to regain access please?

Thanks
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SOLVED [Re: unable to access website, getting "502 Bad Gateway" errors]

[Sharon Kimble]

Thanks for all the ideas and help folks, I'm back in and regained
control again. The problem seems to be related to a corrupted database
entry from a plugin. With the plugin disabled I can get back in, and now
to find out why it went rogue.

Thanks again folks.
Sharon.

Lisi Reisz  writes:

> On Monday 21 July 2014 15:59:12 Curt wrote:
>> On 2014-07-21, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
>>
>> http://www.tgmeds.org.uk/
>> http://www.sharons.org.uk/
>>
>> I get
>>
>> 502 Bad Gateway
>> nginx/1.2.1
>>
>> for both sites.
>
> I see both, what seems to be, correctly.
>
> Lisi
>
>

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Logwatch output in the "Kernel" section

[Sharon Kimble]

I have two problems that have been bothering me for some time, the first
for about several days, and the second for a week or two.

 - This has begun appearing in my daily Logwatch output, and now using
   these file managers is virtually impossible as they are so
   untrustworthy. But what can I do about them, they only just crash out
   stating that there is a seg fault? Sometimes it crashes after several
   minutes, and sometimes after several hours, nothing seems to be a
   trigger, it just crashes. Even "thunar" crashes too!
 --8<---cut here---start->8---
 WARNING:  Segmentation Faults in these executables
caja :  4 Time(s)
gmain :  1 Time(s)
nautilus :  1 Time(s)
nemo :  2 Time(s) 
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

 - The second one shows every day. sde1 is an external usb drive
   formatted ext4 which is rather important as it is my backup
   drive. How should I resolve it please?
 --8<---cut here---start->8---
 WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
EXT4-fs (sde1): error count: 1 ...:  1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): initial error at 1397381477: _ ...:  1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): last error at 1397381477: _ ...:  1 Time(s) 
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

Both of these errors show up in Logwatch output in the "Kernel" section.

Thanks
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Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

[Sharon Kimble]

Johann Spies  writes:

> This morning my work laptop would not boot.  I could not even get to single 
> user mode initially and when I got  as far as that I could not
> type anything on the terminal.  I suspect some upgrade yesterday caused it.
>
> In the end I had to search for a windows user who could write me a 
> debian-live cd.
>
> Using this, I could, after using some hints shown in 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746358 get my system to 
> boot (taking
> about 10 minutes do do so) and just as I started to work it rebooted 
> spontaneously.
>
> In the end after several experiments, I removed systemd and as a result a lot 
> of other packages, reinstalled sysvinit and it booted normally
> again and now I can work.
>
> I know systemd is not an option any more, but if this is the way it is going 
> to waste my time, I will have to look at a reinstallation of my
> system  and then use something that is less buggy than Debian Testing/Sid. 
>
> I have heard from a colleague of mine that on Mandriva and other systems he 
> has used systemd without such problems.
>
Yesterday I had the same problem when I rebooted, it left me at a tty
screen, where I was prompted to input my login and password, it then
lead on to my lightdm screen, as expected.

Whilst booting it showed an error message, which I've since been unable
to find, that systemd had broken error/start messages.

It was a bit of a shock to find that I was now using systemd, as I was
intending to not use it until forced to, but since then I haven't found
any problems, but then I haven't rebooted since then either.

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Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

[Sharon Kimble]

Sven Joachim  writes:

> On 2014-07-24 16:18 +0200, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> Johann Spies  writes:
>>
>>> This morning my work laptop would not boot.  I could not even get to
>>> single user mode initially and when I got  as far as that I could
>>> not
>>> type anything on the terminal.  I suspect some upgrade yesterday caused it.
>
> There should be at least some message on the terminal, although other
> people have not been able to log in in that situation either[1].
>
>> Yesterday I had the same problem when I rebooted, it left me at a tty
>> screen, where I was prompted to input my login and password, it then
>> lead on to my lightdm screen, as expected.
>
> That's not the same problem.  In fact, it is not even a problem but
> merely the fact that getty starts up much faster than X.
>
>> Whilst booting it showed an error message, which I've since been unable
>> to find, that systemd had broken error/start messages.
>
> You should be able to find them in the journal, see journalctl(1).
> Note that that systemd clears the boot messages by default when it
> starts getty, see [2] on how to change that.
>
> Cheers,
>Sven
>
>
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755581
> 2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages
>
Thanks for this, this is the error message that I saw
--8<---cut here---start->8---
Jul 23 06:34:47 london systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job 
downtimed.service/start
Jul 23 06:34:47 london systemd[1]: Job downtimed.service/start deleted to break 
ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

Hope it helps
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kernel errors present - how to resolve them please?

[Sharon Kimble]

Every day the following appears in my logwatch email
--8<---cut here---start->8---
 WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
EXT4-fs (sde1): error count: 1 ...:  1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): initial error at 1397381477: _ ...:  1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): last error at 1397381477: _ ...:  1 Time(s) 
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

sde1 is an external usb drive formatted ext4 which is rather important
as it is my backup drive.

How should I resolve this situation please?

Thanks
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Re: kernel errors present - how to resolve them please?

[Sharon Kimble]

Curt  writes:

> On 2014-07-25, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
>>
>> Every day the following appears in my logwatch email
>>=2D-8<---cut here---start->8---
>>  WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
>> EXT4-fs (sde1): error count: 1 ...:  1 Time(s)
>> EXT4-fs (sde1): initial error at 1397381477: _ ...:  1 Time(s)
>> EXT4-fs (sde1): last error at 1397381477: _ ...:  1 Time(s)=20
>>=2D-8<---cut here---end--->8---
>>
>> sde1 is an external usb drive formatted ext4 which is rather important
>> as it is my backup drive.
>>
>> How should I resolve this situation please?
>>
>
> Purely "informational," apparently:
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/475273/kernel-errors-present-ext4-fs
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/26/105
>
Thanks for this Curt, its put my mind at rest :)

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how to update TexLive 2014, apt-get or tlmgr?

[Sharon Kimble]

I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a
watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as
they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages
and see that they have recently been updated.

What is the best way of getting the updated packages please? To update
with tlmgr, and then hope that the ~/texmf/tex/latex/foo version
overrides the texlive version, if that’s where they end up? 

Thanks
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dieting/losing weight programs?

[Sharon Kimble]

I've recently been looking in the jessie repos for any programme relating
to diet management, or weight management, i.e. anything at all about
dieting or losing weight. And I can't find any! The nearest I could find
was for "nut-nutrition" which appeared to be console-based and
american-centric although I couldn't access the source to see for
certain.

Are there any programmes in the repos for dieting/losing weight please?

I've done a google search and couldn't really find anything there
either, most of the programs available relate to MS-windows, which I'm
not interested in.

So can anyone help please?

Thanks
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Re: how to update TexLive 2014, apt-get or tlmgr?

[Sharon Kimble]

Norbert Preining  writes:

> On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> > I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a
>> > watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as
>> > they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages
>> > and see that they have recently been updated.
>> > 
>> > What is the best way of getting the updated packages please? To update
>> > with tlmgr, and then hope that the ~/texmf/tex/latex/foo version
>> > overrides the texlive version, if that’s where they end up? 
>
> Wait. I normally do updates of the texlive packages once a month.
>
> If you cannot wait, use tlmgr in self mode, install locally,
> and then make sure that after TL in Debina is updated to remove it again.
>
> These are the two options.
>
Thanks Norbert, that's the definitive answer that I was looking for, and
I shall wait as suggested. :)

Thanks
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Re: dieting/losing weight programs?

[Sharon Kimble]

Florent Bories  writes:

> On 7 August 2014 10:26, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
>
> Are there any programmes in the repos for dieting/losing weight please?
> (...)
> Sharon.
>
> Hi Sharon,
>
> It appears that pondus helps to track weight. Maybe it would be of some helps 
> for you:
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pondus
>
> Regards,
> Florent
>
Thanks Florent, I've just installed it to have a look at.

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Re: dieting/losing weight programs?

[Sharon Kimble]

Rusi Mody  writes:

> On Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> I've recently been looking in the jessie repos for any programme relating
>> to diet management, or weight management, i.e. anything at all about
>> dieting or losing weight. And I can't find any! The nearest I could find
>> was for "nut-nutrition" which appeared to be console-based and
>> american-centric although I couldn't access the source to see for
>> certain.
>
>> Are there any programmes in the repos for dieting/losing weight please?
>
>> I've done a google search and couldn't really find anything there
>> either, most of the programs available relate to MS-windows, which I'm
>> not interested in.
>
>> So can anyone help please?
>
> Not sure what you are looking for...
> Have you seen 
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html
>
Thanks Rusi, it will give me an opportunity/reason to learn a bit more
about org-mode :) I was aware of org-mode-habits but hadn't thought of
using them for this problem.

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backup drive has died.

[Sharon Kimble]

Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it
did give this error message when I tried to access it -

--8<---cut here---start->8---
Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line
`mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sde1"
"/media/boudiccas/back1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs
type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1, missing codepage or helper
program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

Is there any way in which I can access the contents of the drive please?

If not, is it safe to format it and re-use it please? If so, what should
I format it as ? ext3? ext4? Or something else?

It has for some months been showing this message in logwatch -

--8<---cut here---start->8---
 WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
EXT4-fs (sde1): error count since last ...:  1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): initial error at time 13973814 ...:  1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): last error at time 13973814 ...:  1 Time(s)
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

and I did query what it meant and what I should do about it, but I was
reassured that it was OK and nothing needed to be done. In the light of
what's just happened, wrong!

Thanks
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Re: backup drive has died.

[Sharon Kimble]

Gary said:
Install smartmontools on your system and check the backup drive's
SMART status. Something like
  smartctl -H /dev/sde

If it passes, then reusing is OK. Otherwise, try to recover what you
can by making a copy of the disk using dd-
rescue.

Hans said:
To your question for reuse: I would say yes, and if you can reformat it, I 
would use ext4. It is stable and fast.

For the future you might want to install smartd, which checks your harddrive 
at ruinning time, and warns you, if there are defects. It is posible, to lower 
the line, so that smartd is warning much earlier than normal (normal is, when 
I remember correctly, abou 10 percent defections)

Thanks both, unfortunately its a 3tb USB external hard drive, with
smartd installed and working, except, it doesn't work on external USB
drives! And due to its size, it was 93% full with backups, doing a
direct copy is not feasible. The backups are all done with obnam, so it
just seems that I'll have to reformat, and start a new series of backups
on it. And if I get that "Kernel errors report" again, start making
alternative plans for replacing the drive, before it dies on me. It was
formatted ext4 before, which was why I queried if there was anything
better, but I'll have a play with it after dinner.

Thanks
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emacs development?

[Sharon Kimble]

I was a very happy user of the fortnightly 'emacs-snapshot' from
'emacs.naquadah.org' but they stopped producing then back in January.

Has anyone been doing the emacs snapshots since then please? And if so, would
they be willing to share them please?

Has anyone got an url for the testing/development branch of emacs please, as
I've been unable to find one?

Thanks
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you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

[Sharon Kimble]

When copying and pasting some text from a text document into emacs, it starts
out as -
╭
│Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but you don't know if you don't 
ask.
╰
 
but appears as -
╭
│Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but you don\u2019t know if you 
don\u2019t ask
╰

As I've experimented, I've found that if I copy from a pdf in "evince" this is 
the original text
╭
│Injection = £ 23.69 (US $ 44.53)
╰

Which when pasted gives
╭
│Injection = \u2194 23.69 (US \u2729 44.53)
╰

So when it can't read something, it gives it its numeric coding.

The font being used is "DejaVu Sans Mono" which is emacs
default. So what font can render those symbols correctly from the
clipboard and is the same size as the present font? I've tried
"Ubuntu" and also "Times New Roman" but both failed the test. And I
can't find anything about it in google either.

But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts
happening in some other programme please? 

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Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

[Sharon Kimble]

Scott Ferguson  writes:

> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> When copying and pasting some text from a text document into
>> emacs, it starts out as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are
>> not cancerous, but you don't know if you don't ask. ╰
>> 
>> but appears as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are not 
>> cancerous, but you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask ╰
>> 
>> As I've experimented, I've found that if I copy from a pdf in 
>> "evince" this is the original text ╭ │Injection = £ 23.69 (US
>> $ 44.53) ╰
>> 
>> Which when pasted gives ╭ │Injection = \u2194 23.69 (US \u2729 
>> 44.53) ╰
>> 
>> So when it can't read something, it gives it its numeric coding.
>> 
>> The font being used is "DejaVu Sans Mono" which is emacs default. 
>> So what font can render those symbols correctly from the clipboard 
>> and is the same size as the present font? I've tried "Ubuntu" and 
>> also "Times New Roman" but both failed the test. And I can't find 
>> anything about it in google either.
>> 
>> But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts 
>> happening in some other programme please?
>> 
>> Sharon.
>> 
>
> Try enabling utf  (it's the "in" thing).
>
Already done that.

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Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

[Sharon Kimble]

Chris Bannister  writes:

> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts 
>> > happening in some other programme please?
>> 
>> Try enabling utf  (it's the "in" thing).
>
> IOW, what is the output of the 'locale' command?
> If there is no UTF component in the string, e.g. en_NZ.UTF-8 then issue
> 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' as root, and choose the UTF variant.
--8<---cut here---start->8---
locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

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Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

[Sharon Kimble]

Sharon Kimble  writes:

> Chris Bannister  writes:
>
>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts 
>>> > happening in some other programme please?
>>> 
>>> Try enabling utf  (it's the "in" thing).
>>
>> IOW, what is the output of the 'locale' command?
>> If there is no UTF component in the string, e.g. en_NZ.UTF-8 then issue
>> 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' as root, and choose the UTF variant.
> locale
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
>
I've just left-clicked on the large 'U' in the mode-line, and this is
what it told me -
--8<---cut here---start->8---
U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix)

UTF-8 (no signature (BOM))
Type: utf-8 (UTF-8: Emacs internal multibyte form)
EOL type: LF
This coding system encodes the following charsets:
  unicode
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
and that is the encoding of my troublesome document. Still doesn't
explain why its going wrong though.

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Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

[Sharon Kimble]

Filip  writes:

> On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:23:19 +0100
> Sharon Kimble  wrote:
>
>> Chris Bannister  writes:
>> 
>> --8<---cut here---start->8---
>> locale
>> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
>> --8<---cut here---end--->8---
>> 
>> Sharon.
>
> And 'locale -a' also shows en_GB.UTF-8 ?
>
> Does the problem only occur when you paste into emacs ?
> Is there something special in your .emacs file ? Try starting emacs
> without init file ('emacs -q').
>
We eventually tracked it down to the "simpleclip" programme. Disable
that and everything works as it should, enable it and you will get
problems, sooner or later! So now it is not physically on my system
nor in my .emacs either, its history I'm glad to say! :)

Problem solved!

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Auto-emptying of trash.

[Sharon Kimble]

Revisiting a question that I asked in March last year about how to
auto-empty a trash bin.

This has worked very well until today, when on one of my drives it
also deleted the trash bin as well, so my follow-on script to give
me the size of my trash bin failed as there wasn’t a trash bin to
evaluate!

Here is the script lines -
--8<---cut here---start->8---
find /media/boudiccas/back2/.Trash-1000 -type f -mtime +"$days" -delete;
find /media/boudiccas/back2/.Trash-1000 -depth -type d -exec rmdir 
--ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} +;
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

and this is the evaulation script line -
--8<---cut here---start->8---
echo 'Back2' - $(du -sh /media/boudiccas/back2/.Trash-1000 | cut -f1)
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

How can I get it such that it empties the trash bin but does not
delete the bin itself please?

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rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

[Sharon Kimble]

I have a mobile phone and a kindle fire, both of which can be manually
mounted, but they are given names like "mtp://[usb:002,042]/" currently
the kindle fire. And "mtp://[usb:001,012]/" which is the mobile
phone.

How can I do a rsync backup of them both, or any backup at all really,
just in case the martians invade, again! :)

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Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

[Sharon Kimble]

Reco  writes:

>  Hi.
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:41:08AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> I have a mobile phone and a kindle fire, both of which can be manually
>> mounted, but they are given names like "mtp://[usb:002,042]/" currently
>> the kindle fire. And "mtp://[usb:001,012]/" which is the mobile
>> phone.
>> 
>> How can I do a rsync backup of them both, or any backup at all really,
>> just in case the martians invade, again! :)
>
> If it's really mounted (for example, back in the old days nautilus
> didn't mount smb shares, although it could access them just fine) - all
> you need to do is to run 'mount' and examine existing mountpoints.
> Presumably your devices are mounted either somewhere inside your $HOME,
> or inside /run/media/$USER. And if you get a mountpoint - it's a simple
> matter of running 'rsync -Hax $MOUNTPOINT $YOUR_BACKUP'.
>

Neither of them show in "mount", although I know that I can mount either
using "jmtpfs /media/galaxy". But doing that gives a very flakey
connection, prone to dropping it or i/o errors. Neither of which are
conducive for a successful backup! And currently, only the mobile is
showing in 'lsusb' even though the kindle is mounted as well!

The mtp protocol/file system is very problematic and doesn't appear to
be handled well by linux at the moment, but I return to it every few
months in the hope that it has progressed!

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Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

[Sharon Kimble]

Reco  writes:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:11:41 +0100
> Sharon Kimble  wrote:
>
>> Neither of them show in "mount", although I know that I can mount either
>> using "jmtpfs /media/galaxy". But doing that gives a very flakey
>> connection, prone to dropping it or i/o errors. Neither of which are
>> conducive for a successful backup! And currently, only the mobile is
>> showing in 'lsusb' even though the kindle is mounted as well!
>> 
>> The mtp protocol/file system is very problematic and doesn't appear to
>> be handled well by linux at the moment, but I return to it every few
>> months in the hope that it has progressed!
>
> I've heard good things about [1]. Not that I've tried it personally,
> but…
>
> Reco
>
> [1] https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs

Thanks, I was able to download a binary from there, "go-mtpfs.x86", and
made it executable and then ran -
╭
│./go-mtpfs.x86 /media/boudiccas/galaxy
╰

which resulted in this -
--8<---cut here---start->8---
./go-mtpfs.x86 /media/boudiccas/galaxy
2014/06/27 19:36:21 starting FUSE 70ad1f3 (2013-02-24 20:42:03 +0100)
2014/06/27 19:36:52 fatal error got type 0 (CONTAINER_UNDEFINED) in response, 
want CONTAINER_RESPONSE.; closing connection.
2014/06/27 19:36:52 GetObjectHandles failed: got type 0 (CONTAINER_UNDEFINED) 
in response, want CONTAINER_RESPONSE.
2014/06/27 19:36:57 GetObjectHandles failed: mtp: cannot run operation 
GetObjectHandles, device is not open
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

So we're only slightly further forward. Any ideas please?

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Arrgghh! Libreoffice woes!

[Sharon Kimble]

Yesterday i installed libreoffice 3.6.4.3 alongside Debian libreoffice
3.5.4. today neither worked except via root, so i uninstalled both
libreoffices with synaptic, and then re-installed Debian libreoffice with
apt-get. but it does not open from the menu. how can i get it working again
please?

right, /config/libreoffice is renamed, but user is still unable to open it,
whereas root can open it very easily. the command is ' /usr/bin/libreoffice
--writer' and nothing happens with user it just sits and does nowt, where
as root it opens. any ideas please folks?

My goal is to get the Debian libreoffice working, and dump the source
libreoffice. Is this possible please?

Hopefully
Thanks
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Re: Dead USB drive?

[Sharon Kimble]

Do you think that 'Disk utility 2.30.1'  would be able to rescue a USB hard
drive that has had Debian 6 accidentally installed on it, over the vital
backups? The USB drive has just been sitting on the shelf for two years and
not been used since the unfortunate incident.

Thanks
Sharon.


On 25 December 2012 23:13, Russell L. Harris wrote:

> * Merciadri Luca  [121225 22:42]:
> > Now, the USB stick is clearly recognized as plugged, but nothing more;
>
> As a possible quick fix, ask a friend to plug the usb device into his
> Window$ machine and allow W$ to format the device.
>
> However, on Squeeze, I have found that Disk Utility 2.30.1 almost
> always is able to correct errors I make regarding usb devices.
>
> RH
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Re: Lightdm doesn't load

[Sharon Kimble]

I installed lightdm last night, and got it working okay. Did you do
anything with /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
? I suspect not, but that's where its configurations are set. And once
they're set I rebooted to make sure it would work, and it did.

Good luck
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On 26 December 2012 16:39, Frank McCormick  wrote:

>
>I thought I would try out lightdm today instead of GDM3...but after
> installation and telling the configure script to use lightdm, I end up with
> a blank screen and a cursor...no login facility.
> Am I missing something ? Aptitude installed light dm and the greeter.
>
>
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Re: Lightdm doesn't load

[Sharon Kimble]

I changed virtually all of the [LightDM] section, and some of
the [SeatDefaults], and I'm on wheezy too.

Sharon.


On 26 December 2012 17:41, Klistvud  wrote:

> Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a):
>
>
>>What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of the
>> box"
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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>>
>
> It should, but it doesnt, at least in wheezy it doesn't. It gets stuck
> somehow. I guess the runlevel services get messed up, especially if you
> have GDM, XDM and/or other login managers installed as well. In my case,
> switching to a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) and issuing:
>
> # service lightdm restart
>
> (as root) helped. You could try that, and -- in case of success -- just
> put this line in root's crontab:
>
> @reboot sleep 10; /etc/init.d/lightdm restart
>
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Re: Lightdm doesn't load

[Sharon Kimble]

You need to run this 'dpkg-reconfigure lightdm' and choose 'lightdm', and
you can show this by 'leafpad /etc/X11/default-display-manager' which
should also show 'lightdm'. Then amend 'leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf'
to show ;- [LightDM]
start-default-seat=true
greeter-user=lightdm
minimum-display-number=0
minimum-vt=7
user-authority-in-system-dir=false
guest-account-script=guest-account
log-directory=/var/log/lightdm
run-directory=/var/run/lightdm
cache-directory=/var/cache/lightdm
xsessions-directory=/usr/share/xsessions
xgreeters-directory=/usr/share/xgreeters

[SeatDefaults]
#xserver-command=X
#xserver-layout=
#xserver-config=
xserver-allow-tcp=false
#xdmcp-manager=
#xdmcp-port=177
#xdmcp-key=
greeter-session=lightdm-greeter
greeter-hide-users=true
greeter-allow-guest=false
greeter-show-manual-login=true
user-session=default
allow-guest=false
guest-session=UNIMPLEMENTED
session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession
#display-setup-script=
#greeter-setup-script=
#session-setup-script=
#session-cleanup-script=
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=
autologin-user-timeout=0
#autologin-session=UNIMPLEMENTED
exit-on-failure=false

Save, and then reboot, and it should set you up with lightdm  as your login
client.

Good luck
Sharon.


On 26 December 2012 17:56, Frank McCormick  wrote:

> On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote:
>
>> Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a):
>>
>>>
>>>What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of
>>> the box"
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers
>>> Frank
>>>
>>
>> It should, but it doesnt, at least in wheezy it doesn't. It gets stuck
>> somehow. I guess the runlevel services get messed up, especially if you
>> have GDM, XDM and/or other login managers installed as well. In my case,
>> switching to a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) and issuing:
>>
>> # service lightdm restart
>>
>> (as root) helped. You could try that, and -- in case of success -- just
>> put this line in root's crontab:
>>
>> @reboot sleep 10; /etc/init.d/lightdm restart
>>
>>
>>
>Nope.Didn't work here. Switching to a virtual console I issued
> "startx"...and it did...bring up the Gnome desktop (not my default).
> So it appears X is not even starting (that explains blank screen and
> blinking cursor). The question is why does switching from GDM3 to Lightdm
> cause X not to start ? I guess it's back to GDM3 for now.
>
>
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logcheck and bug #657641

[Sharon Kimble]

I am seeing lots of emails like this from logcheck '/usr/sbin/logcheck:
line 100: kill: (10554) - No such process' which is bug  #657641, and there
is a patch provided. How do I apply that patch please to my 'logcheck' in
wheezy please?

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Re: logcheck and bug #657641

[Sharon Kimble]

Thanks for this Brian, I've patched logcheck as you suggested and left it
running overnight to see what happens. There is no change in its behaviour,
so later on I'll  reboot and see if that fixes it.

Thanks again
Sharon.


On 3 January 2013 18:13, Brian  wrote:

> On Thu 03 Jan 2013 at 17:27:56 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
> > I am seeing lots of emails like this from logcheck '/usr/sbin/logcheck:
> > line 100: kill: (10554) - No such process' which is bug  #657641, and
> there
> > is a patch provided. How do I apply that patch please to my 'logcheck' in
> > wheezy please?
>
> Open /sbin/logcheck in an editor. Find
>
> if [ -n "$LOCK" ]; then
> debug "cleanup: Killing lockfile-touch - $LOCK"
> kill "$LOCK" && unset LOCK
> fi
>
> Replace the third line with
>
> kill -0 $LOCK && kill "$LOCK" && unset LOCK
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Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

[Sharon Kimble]

Thanks for this, but "Yes" to both. I do have sound, I've just watched a
video in 'Movie Player' with good sound, its just it doesn't seem to happen
in mpd/ncmpcpp, and I really miss my steaming radio on mpd. :(

Thanks
Sharon.

[Sent it to Chris only by mistake, so rectified here! :)


On 8 January 2013 16:16, Sharon Kimble  wrote:

> Thanks for this, but "Yes" to both. I do have sound, I've just watched a
> video in 'Movie Player' with good sound, its just it doesn't seem to happen
> in mpd/ncmpcpp, and I really miss my steaming radio on mpd. :(
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
>
>
> On 8 January 2013 15:06, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:16:07PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> > Jan 08 13:46 : output: Failed to open "MPD ALSA" [alsa]: Failed to open
>> > ALSA device "default": Connection refused
>> > Jan 08 13:46 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while
>> playing "
>> >
>> http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_lc1_radio4extra_p?s=1357642801&e=1357657201&h=88c04b2945d4c29c3f3cb0b2e095ea50
>> > "
>> >
>> > I am using 'ncmpcpp' as my client which has worked well in the past, but
>> > this time alsa isn't cooperating and it plain doesn't work!
>> >
>> > Can anyone help me in getting my mpd/ncmpcpp to work with alsa please?
>>
>> Can you play a local file, OK?  I mean like
>> "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav"
>> "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav"
>>
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Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

[Sharon Kimble]

On 9 January 2013 03:07, Chris Bannister  wrote:

> [Please don't top post: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html]
> [ fixed up as best I could.]
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:02:39PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > > On 8 January 2013 15:06, Chris Bannister  >wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:16:07PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > >> > Jan 08 13:46 : output: Failed to open "MPD ALSA" [alsa]: Failed to
> open
> > >> > ALSA device "default": Connection refused
> > >> > Jan 08 13:46 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while
> > >> playing "
> > >> >
> > >>
> http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_lc1_radio4extra_p?s=1357642801&e=1357657201&h=88c04b2945d4c29c3f3cb0b2e095ea50
> > >> > "
> > >> >
> > >> > I am using 'ncmpcpp' as my client which has worked well in the
> past, but
> > >> > this time alsa isn't cooperating and it plain doesn't work!
> > >> >
> > >> > Can anyone help me in getting my mpd/ncmpcpp to work with alsa
> please?
> > >>
> > >> Can you play a local file, OK?  I mean like
> > >> "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav"
> > >> "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav"
> >
> > Thanks for this, but "Yes" to both. I do have sound, I've just watched
> > a
> > video in 'Movie Player' with good sound, its just it doesn't seem to
> > happen
> > in mpd/ncmpcpp, and I really miss my steaming radio on mpd. :(
> :)
>
> As I have no experience with mpd (yet) I don't know what may be causing
> this, but ...
>
> * Can you play local files with mpd/ncmpcpp?
>
No

> * Can you play streaming radio on mpd from another url?
>
No

> * Is it only the mpd/ncmpcpp combination, IOW, what about trying another
>   client.
>
As the client is only the front-end for mpd, and mpd itself isn't
working then no other client works, and I've tried several.
I've also done this ;-
cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Generic]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
  HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb44000 irq 43
 1 [Generic_1  ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
  HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb4 irq 16

This is from the mpd log ;-
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM Generic_1
Jan 09 12:05 : output: Failed to open "MPD ALSA" [alsa]: Failed to open
ALSA device "Generic_1": No such file or directory
Jan 09 12:05 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing
"Ave Maria - Sacred Arias and Choruses/01 Various - Bach - Jesu bleibet
meine Freude.mp3"

Which leads me to think that mpd isn't finding the sound card, but I don't
know how else to enter it. I've tried various permutations of 0, 1,
Generic, and Generic_1 but it still refuses to play. After each change of
the mpd config I'm doing a 'service mpd restart' but it is not playing ball
and working.

I've even tried this, from the mpd.config;-
audio_output {
type"alsa"
name"MPD ALSA"
#device "Generic_1"
mixer_type  "software"
mixer_device"default"
mixer_control   "PCM"
}
In the hope that it would load the default sound card, but it didn't work.

>
> I put into Google:
>
> mpd streaming radio "permission denied"
>
> and got back quite a few hits - maybe one of those will help?
> Web Results 1 - 10 of about 26,000 for mpd streaming radio "permission
> denied". (0.35 seconds)
>
> Ah well, back to googling then, thanks anyway.


> P.S. Probably not a good idea to use 'steaming radio' as a search term. :-D
>
> But it raised a chuckle though :)

Thanks
Sharon.

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Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

[Sharon Kimble]

On 9 January 2013 12:36, Chris Bannister  wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:14:42PM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > On 9 January 2013 03:07, Chris Bannister 
> wrote:
> > > As I have no experience with mpd (yet) I don't know what may be causing
> > > this, but ...
> > >
> > > * Can you play local files with mpd/ncmpcpp?
> > >
> > No
> >
> > > * Can you play streaming radio on mpd from another url?
> > >
> > No
> >
> > > * Is it only the mpd/ncmpcpp combination, IOW, what about trying
> another
> > >   client.
> > >
> > As the client is only the front-end for mpd, and mpd itself isn't
> > working then no other client works, and I've tried several.
> > I've also done this ;-
> > cat /proc/asound/cards
> >  0 [Generic]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
> >   HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb44000 irq 43
> >  1 [Generic_1  ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
> >   HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb4 irq 16
>
> What about:
>
> aplay -l
>
>  List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
>
> card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
>
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662
>> rev1 Analog]
>
>   Subdevices: 0/1
>
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
>

> And 'alsamixer' shows that card 1, the ALC662 is the default card.
>

Accordingly this is now my .asoundrc
pcm.mpd {
  type hw
  card 1
}



>
> > This is from the mpd log ;-
> > ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM Generic_1
> > Jan 09 12:05 : output: Failed to open "MPD ALSA" [alsa]: Failed to open
> > ALSA device "Generic_1": No such file or directory
> > Jan 09 12:05 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing
> > "Ave Maria - Sacred Arias and Choruses/01 Various - Bach - Jesu bleibet
> > meine Freude.mp3"
>
> Googling:
>
> mpd 2 sound cards
> Web Results 1 - 10 of about 122,000 for mpd 2 sound cards. (0.35 seconds)
>
> In particular, this post looks interesting.
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102677
>
> > Which leads me to think that mpd isn't finding the sound card, but I
> don't
> > know how else to enter it.
>
> Let's hope its in one of those google posts, the other people who use
> mpd are keeping suspiciously quiet. hint, hint hint :)
>
> User is in these groups 'boztu cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev
scanner bluetooth netdev ' so no problem there then.

This page seems most useful as they have the same cards as me
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1885433

And this is now my asound.conf ;=
pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave {
pcm "hw:1,0" #delete the first hash for sound over analog
#pcm "hw:1,1" #delete the first hash for sound over optical
#pcm "hw:0,3" #delete the first hash for sound over hdmi
rate 48000
  }
}

speaker-test

speaker-test 1.0.25

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy

but thats because I'm listening to BBC Radio 4 Extra on qmmp.

I've now rebooted and still get no sound from mpd

cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.

 lspci | egrep -i audio
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek HDMI
Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series]
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller
(rev 01)

Running 'alsamixer' as root shows that the default sound card is HD-audio
generic, Chip ATI R6xx HDMI Item S/PDIF and a value of 0.

root@London:/home/boztu# arecord -l
 List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662
rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 2: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662
rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Theres a lot of information there, I've tried to include everything that
may be useful in the hope that someone can tell me what to do, as I'm
totally at a loss!

Thank you
Sharon.
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Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

[Sharon Kimble]

Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosu...@pp.nic.fi
via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=1311182>
 lists.debian.org
12:43 (1 hour ago)
to Debian
On 8.1.2013 16:16, Sharon Kimble wrote:

> ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
> Connection refused
>

Is user in audio group? Have you tried pulse output?

Yes, and yes, no problem with pulse output.


Jan 08 13:46 : output: Failed to open "MPD ALSA" [alsa]: Failed to open
> ALSA device "default": Connection refused
> Jan 08 13:46 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while
> playing
> "http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/**stream/bbcmedia_lc1_**
> radio4extra_p?s=1357642801&e=**1357657201&h=**
> 88c04b2945d4c29c3f3cb0b2e095ea**50<http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_lc1_radio4extra_p?s=1357642801&e=1357657201&h=88c04b2945d4c29c3f3cb0b2e095ea50>
> "
>

Is curl input plugin enabled?

I've done a 'apt-cache search mpd plugins' which showed nothing relating to
mpd and plugins, so I cant really answer this. How can I tell please?

Thanks
Sharon.

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

[Sharon Kimble]

On 9 January 2013 18:36, Sharon Kimble  wrote:

> On 9 January 2013 17:48, Pertti Kosunen  wrote:
>
>> On 9.1.2013 16:37, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>>> I've done a 'apt-cache search mpd plugins' which showed nothing relating
>>> to mpd and plugins, so I cant really answer this. How can I tell please?
>>>
>>
>> /etc/mpd.conf:
>> input {
>> plugin "curl"
>> }
>>
>
> This is already in the default conf, so I've just left it alone.
>
>>
>> You should fix the other error first.
>>
>> # View output devices:
>> aplay -L
>>
>> ...
>> hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
>> HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
>> HDMI Audio Output
>> ...
>>
>> /etc/mpd.conf:
>> audio_output {
>> type"alsa"
>> name"AMD HDMI Output"
>> device  "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0"
>> ...
>> }
>>
>
> .mpd/mpd.conf
> audio_output {
> type"alsa"
> name"AMD HDMI Output"
> device  "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0"
> # format "44100:16:2" optional
> # mixer_device "default" optional
> # mixer_control "PCM" optional
> # mixer_index "0" optional
> }
>
> root@London:/home/boztu# service mpd restart
> [ ok ] Stopping Music Player Daemon: mpd.
> [ ok ] Starting Music Player Daemon: mpd.
>
> When I start '*ncmpcpp' it starts up okay and shows '*AMD HDMI Output' in
> its "Outputs" screen, but also shows "Volume: n/a" and it cant be adjusted.
> When I try to play some music from it, or a radio stream, nothing happens
> and the arrow showing its music position does not move, it just shows
> static. There is no sound output as well.
>
>>
>> Try putting "aplay -L" listed device in mpd.conf.
>
>
> I've done nothing with this, I've been trying the above first.
>
> Thanks for this
> Sharon.
>
>> --
>>
>  Jan 09 18:17 : output: Failed to open "AMD HDMI Output" [alsa]: Failed to
open ALSA device "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0": No such device
Jan 09 18:17 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing
"Ave Maria - Sacred Arias and Choruses/01 Various - Bach - Jesu bleibet
meine Freude.mp3"
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card 'HDMI'
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
Jan 09 18:17 : output: Failed to open "AMD HDMI Output" [alsa]: Failed to
open ALSA device "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0": No such device
Jan 09 18:17 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing
"Ave Maria - Sacred Arias and Choruses/02 Various - Stölzel (attr. Bach) -
Bist du bei mir.mp3"

That's the most recent postings of the mpd.log I hope its useful.

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: [SOLVED] New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

[Sharon Kimble]

On 9 January 2013 18:58, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
>
> On 9 January 2013 18:36, Sharon Kimble  wrote:
>>
>> On 9 January 2013 17:48, Pertti Kosunen  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9.1.2013 16:37, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've done a 'apt-cache search mpd plugins' which showed nothing
relating
>>>> to mpd and plugins, so I cant really answer this. How can I tell
please?
>>>
>>>
>>> /etc/mpd.conf:
>>> input {
>>> plugin "curl"
>>> }
>>
>>
>> This is already in the default conf, so I've just left it alone.
>>>
>>>
>>> You should fix the other error first.
>>>
>>> # View output devices:
>>> aplay -L
>>>
>>> ...
>>> hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
>>> HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
>>> HDMI Audio Output
>>> ...
>>>
>>> /etc/mpd.conf:
>>> audio_output {
>>> type"alsa"
>>> name"AMD HDMI Output"
>>> device  "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0"
>>> ...
>>> }
>>
>>
>> .mpd/mpd.conf
>> audio_output {
>> type"alsa"
>> name"AMD HDMI Output"
>> device  "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0"
>> # format "44100:16:2" optional
>> # mixer_device "default" optional
>> # mixer_control "PCM" optional
>> # mixer_index "0" optional
>> }
>>
>> root@London:/home/boztu# service mpd restart
>> [ ok ] Stopping Music Player Daemon: mpd.
>> [ ok ] Starting Music Player Daemon: mpd.
>>
>> When I start 'ncmpcpp' it starts up okay and shows 'AMD HDMI Output' in
its "Outputs" screen, but also shows "Volume: n/a" and it cant be adjusted.
When I try to play some music from it, or a radio stream, nothing happens
and the arrow showing its music position does not move, it just shows
static. There is no sound output as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> Try putting "aplay -L" listed device in mpd.conf.
>>
>>
>> I've done nothing with this, I've been trying the above first.
>>
>> Thanks for this
>> Sharon.
>>>
>>> --
>
>  Jan 09 18:17 : output: Failed to open "AMD HDMI Output" [alsa]: Failed
to open ALSA device "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0": No such device
> Jan 09 18:17 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing
"Ave Maria - Sacred Arias and Choruses/01 Various - Bach - Jesu bleibet
meine Freude.mp3"
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card 'HDMI'
> ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
> Jan 09 18:17 : output: Failed to open "AMD HDMI Output" [alsa]: Failed to
open ALSA device "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0": No such device
> Jan 09 18:17 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing
"Ave Maria - Sacred Arias and Choruses/02 Various - Stölzel (attr. Bach) -
Bist du bei mir.mp3"
>
> That's the most recent postings of the mpd.log I hope its useful.
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
> --
>
After working with a friend of mine tonight, mpd has started working, so
I'll document everything that was done for the archives.

#/etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave {
pcm "hw:1,0" #delete the first hash for sound over analog
#pcm "hw:1,1" #delete the first hash for sound over optical
#pcm "hw:0,3" #delete the first hash for sound over hdmi
rate 48000
  }
}

aplay -l
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662
rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

.asoundrc
pcm.mpd {
  type hw
  card 1
}

the ALSA output in the mpd.conf
audio_output {
type"alsa"
  name "My ALSA Device"
device "hw:1,0"
#mixer_type  "software"
#mixer_device"default"
#mixer_control   "PCM"
}

And now its all working, apart from the lack of volume control in the
client, but I can live with that.

Thank you to everybody who suggested solutions.

Sharon.
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MPD and Last.FM, not connecting or working.

[Sharon Kimble]

I've spent most of today trying to get mpd playing last.fm music
unsucessfully. First some basic facts - version  0.17.1 [from sid],
mpd.conf
##
# An example configuration file for MPD
# See the mpd.conf man page for a more detailed description of each
parameter.


# Files and directories
###
#
# This setting controls the top directory which MPD will search to discover
the
# available audio files and add them to the daemon's online database. This
# setting defaults to the XDG directory, otherwise the music directory will
be
# be disabled and audio files will only be accepted over ipc socket (using
# file:// protocol) or streaming files over an accepted protocol.
#
music_directory "/home/boztu/Music"
#
# This setting sets the MPD internal playlist directory. The purpose of this
# directory is storage for playlists created by MPD. The server will use
# playlist files not created by the server but only if they are in the MPD
# format. This setting defaults to playlist saving being disabled.
#
playlist_directory "/home/boztu/.mpd/playlists"
#
# This setting sets the location of the MPD database. This file is used to
# load the database at server start up and store the database while the
# server is not up. This setting defaults to disabled which will allow
# MPD to accept files over ipc socket (using file:// protocol) or streaming
# files over an accepted protocol.
#
db_file "/home/boztu/.mpd/tag_cache"
#
# These settings are the locations for the daemon log files for the daemon.
# These logs are great for troubleshooting, depending on your log_level
# settings.
#
# The special value "syslog" makes MPD use the local syslog daemon. This
# setting defaults to logging to syslog, otherwise logging is disabled.
#
log_file "/home/boztu/.mpd/mpd.log"
#
# This setting sets the location of the file which stores the process ID
# for use of mpd --kill and some init scripts. This setting is disabled by
# default and the pid file will not be stored.
#
pid_file "/home/boztu/.mpd/pid"
#
# This setting sets the location of the file which contains information
about
# most variables to get MPD back into the same general shape it was in
before
# it was brought down. This setting is disabled by default and the server
# state will be reset on server start up.
#
state_file "/home/boztu/.mpd/state"
#
# The location of the sticker database.  This is a database which
# manages dynamic information attached to songs.
#
sticker_file   "/home/boztu/.mpd/sticker.sql"
#
###


# General music daemon options

#
# This setting specifies the user that MPD will run as. MPD should never
run as
# root and you may use this setting to make MPD change its user ID after
# initialization. This setting is disabled by default and MPD is run as the
# current user.
#
#user "boztu"
#
# This setting specifies the group that MPD will run as. If not specified
# primary group of user specified with "user" setting will be used (if set).
# This is useful if MPD needs to be a member of group such as "audio" to
# have permission to use sound card.
#
#group  "nogroup"
#
# This setting sets the address for the daemon to listen on. Careful
attention
# should be paid if this is assigned to anything other then the default,
any.
# This setting can deny access to control of the daemon. Choose any if you
want
# to have mpd listen on every address
#
# For network
bind_to_address "localhost"
#
# And for Unix Socket
#bind_to_address "/var/run/mpd/socket"
#
# This setting is the TCP port that is desired for the daemon to get
assigned
# to.
#
port "6600"
#
# This setting controls the type of information which is logged. Available
# setting arguments are "default", "secure" or "verbose". The "verbose"
setting
# argument is recommended for troubleshooting, though can quickly stretch
# available resources on limited hardware storage.
#
#log_level "default"
#
# If you have a problem with your MP3s ending abruptly it is recommended
that
# you set this argument to "no" to attempt to fix the problem. If this
solves
# the problem, it is highly recommended to fix the MP3 files with vbrfix
# (available as vbrfix in the debian archive), at which
# point gapless MP3 playback can be enabled.
#
#gapless_mp3_playback "yes"
#
# This setting enables MPD to create playlists in a format usable by other
# music players.
#
save_absolute_paths_in_playlists "yes"
#
# This setting defines a list of tag types that will be extracted during the
# audio file discovery process. Optionally, 'comment' can be added to this
# list.
#
#metadata_to_use
"artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"
#
# This setting enables automatic update of MPD's database when files in
# music_directory are changed.
#
auto_update"yes"
#
# Limit the depth o