Is there something wrong with the sarge archive?
my debmirror won't mirror the sarge archive currently. I get: Get Release files. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release => [0%] Getting: dists/sarge/Release... 200 OK ok http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release.gpg => [0%] Getting: dists/sarge/Release.gpg... 200 OK ok gpg: Signature made Sat 17 Feb 2007 08:26:21 AM EST using DSA key ID 6070D3A1 gpg: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/ etch) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: A999 51DA F9BB 569B DB50 AD90 A70D AF53 6070 D3A1 gpg: Signature made Sat 17 Feb 2007 10:53:35 AM EST using DSA key ID ADB11277 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found Release signature does not verify. Errors: Release signature does not verify. Failed to download some Release or Release.gpg files! WARNING: releasing 1 pending lock... I did notice that Release.gpg now has two signatures in it. apt-key list give me: pub 1024D/8722E71E 2005-08-24 [expires: 2008-01-31] uid secure-testing Archive Key 2005-7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] testing.debian.net> sub 2048g/A04E64FA 2005-08-24 [expires: 2008-01-31] pub 1024D/2D230C5F 2006-01-03 [expired: 2007-02-07] uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pub 1024D/6070D3A1 2006-11-20 [expires: 2009-07-01] uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pub 1024D/ADB11277 2006-09-17 uid Etch Stable Release Key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?
On Aug 10, 10:30 am, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Just remember to tell you editor to "inserts spaces as tab" and set > > the tab width to something reasonable like 4. > > E, yuck! It's code like that which makes me happy for emacs: > >C-x h# mark entire buffer >M-x untabify # replace tab chars with spaces > > I despise tabs. > Check out the "expand" command. It's easier to script when you need to do some directories full of files. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings
Dave Bellows wrote: > Hello all, > > I just got a new ViewSonic VG2230 widescreen LCD monitor for my Debian > Testing box. After I installed it I ran "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh > xserver-xorg". It seemingly correctly configured xorg.conf for a > resolution of 1680x1050 as recommended by the booklet that came with > the monitor. However, when I started up X the vertical is off. > There's about 2 inches of extra screen space at the top so that when I > move the mouse cursor up to the top of the screen the whole screen > shifts and I lose my bottom taskbar (KDE). You should be able to do the natural resolution of the monitor with no problems. (That way you get the shapest image). What you describe is what you get when you have a larger virtual screen running on a smaller physical moniter. > > Also, the screen is huge. I'd never really notice what letters looked > like before. There's a certain fuzziness around each of the letters > on the screen that I think is related to anti-aliasing perhaps. It's > fairly noticeable though I imagine I could get used to it. Again, is > there a setting somewhere that would improve the look? > Huge is a relative term. Try running a 30" (2560x1600) moniter. But the fuzzieness could be from running a LCD at other than its natural resolution. > Thanks, > David Bellows > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get reports no new packages
On Nov 29, 11:00 pm, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a > week.>From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a > friend runsnearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily > updates. Any ideas > what I could check/do? > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently there is a new Debian key making the rounds without good instructions for installing it yet. This broke the local mirror I was using to update my system. See: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=503417 for other discussion -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....
Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian people, > > This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little merit. I > bought myself a new Benq DVD rewriter and stuffed in my box. This one can > handle dual layered DVDs as well as the single ones. > > I then realised after nosing around in the computer shop that dual layered > DVDs have a capacity of 8.5GB c.f. the single layered ones of 4.4GB. > > What a genius this guy is I here you say. > > A doubling of storage is what you would expect. > > My point is that whereas the Sarge 3.1 r3 release contains 15 CDs, Etch > comprises 21 CDs.. > > Or 3 DVDs. But of course these are 3 single layer 4.4 GB DVDs. > > Once Etch comes out and everyones starts to work on Lenny, then maybe it > could get to thirty CDs or 4 or 5 DVDs. > > Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso images be considered to > be parked in the repositories? > > > > Regards > > Michael Fothergill > I've given up making distrubution disks anyway. Now I just get a USB external disk drive and install a debian mirror on it. No need to burn a new media as the updates are released. (Just the network install disk to get a usable OS on the computer) Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bulk mailer
On Dec 11, 9:00 am, "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred > or so recipients. > > I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl". > I installed the package and looked at the example files in > "/usr/share/doc/libmail-bulkmail-perl", but I have been unable to > understand how to use the package. > > "sample.cfg.file" mentions "Mail::Bulkmail", "Mail::Bulkmail::Server", > and "Mail::Bulkmail::Dynamic". > > There appears to be no man page. > > % > > In the Debian "oldstable" archive is package named "bulkmail"; but it > appears to be deprecated. > > RLH > perldoc Mail::Bulkmail Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems booting
On Dec 28, 9:00 am, "Jaume Alonso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a Debian testing user. A few days ago I recompiled the kernel (2.6.18) > and I installed it in the "Debian way" (by creating a .deb package of the > kernel and installing it). But I've got a problem: when I boot the system > with the new kernel, appears a lot of times the message "modprobe: FATAL: > Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-jaume/modules.dep". When it stops, the > system continues booting normally, then it goes into the X and KDE and I > have no problems then, all works perfectly. > > I've tried to do "modprobe -l" and I get the list of the modules located in > that folder (/lib/modules/2.6.18-jaume/). And I've checked with konqueror > that the folder exists and has things inside, including the file " > modules.dep". > > Any idea to solve that? > > Thanks in advance > I got that when I had the wrong startup ram disk (or ram filesystem) Boot your system with the old kernel and run: mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-jaume 2.6.18-jaume (on older systems it will be mkinitrd instead) Then make sure /boot/grub/menu points to this initrd in the proper section (or edit lilo.cof and run lilo if that is your system) Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?
> > That's an oddity. Have you tried http://www.us.debian.org/ ? > > > That works! I also *can't* get to www.debian.org from a Windoze box on > this LAN. > > I'm checking to see if anyone at my ISP is having trouble. > > Thanks, > > Paul > > Could this be a DNS problem? Did you try to access www.debian.org by raw IP address? Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash expansion crap...
On Oct 2, 3:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hey folks, help me out with this...please
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done
> 1
> 2
> 3
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {1..$TEST}; do echo $i; done
> {1..3}
>
> in the first example, its obvious. In the second, $TEST gets replaced
> with 3, but then the {} doesn't get expanded. I'm sure I have to do
> some kind of wacky $({[ type thing, but I'm not able to grok it. any
> ideas?
>
> the purpose is to be able to easily update some loops in a script for
> different numbers of object to iterate over. obvious, I guess.
>
> A
>
> signature.asc
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This works for me, BASH can do arithmetic!
TEST=3; for (( i=1; i<=$TEST; i++)); do echo $i; done
Stuart
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Re: Debian is losing its users
On Mar 26, 12:10 pm, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh. Sorry. This page:http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian > Ah, but compare to other queries like "linux" or "japan" or "massachusetts" or "canada". Maybe there just is a general downward trend for many general terms. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: csh: how to use indirect ref to env vars
On Jun 25, 9:40 am, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have acshscript in which I'd like to do set up a list of vars
> and then to chk each of these are set, something like the below.
> However, I can't find the magic incantation that allows to to check
> ${$Vars} eg if $InMetFiles is set on the first loop - suggestions
> welcome!
>
> #!/bin/csh
> foreach Vars (InMetFiles InTerFile OutDir)
> echo Checking $Vars\.\.\.
> if ( ${?Vars} == 0) then
> echo $Vars not set \- aborting
> exit 1
> endif
> end
>
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its ugly but I think this works
#!/bin/csh
foreach Vars (Var1 Var2 Var3)
echo checking $Vars\.\.\.
setenv temp '${'$Vars'}'
setenv temp2 `eval echo 'X'$temp >&/dev/null`
if ( "$status" != "0" ) then
echo $Vars not set \- aborting
exit 1
endif
end
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Re: csh: how to use indirect ref to env vars
On Jun 25, 12:40 pm, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ah, I see rather than testing a variable we try and use it and catch any
> error... it seems to work as you say... although this seems slightly
> more elegant if less easy to add new VarN to:
>
> if ( $?InMetFiles == 0 || $?InTerFile == 0 {etc}) then
>echo prob
>exit -1
> endif
>
> --
Not quite, see the section for "eval" in the csh man page. The idea
is to use
eval to re-evaluate the variable after the name substitution.
Here is a cleaner version of the concept:
#!/bin/csh
setenv Var1 3
foreach Vars (Var1 Var2 Var3)
echo checking $Vars\.\.\.
setenv temp '${?'$Vars'}'
eval "setenv temp2 $temp"
if ( "$temp2" != "1" ) then
echo $Vars not set \- aborting
exit 1
endif
end
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Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso
On Jun 26, 2:40 pm, James Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 June 2008, Vwaju wrote: > > > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > >http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be > > about the right size > > (163,392KB), but it fails to boot > > If you copied the iso, then that's not surprising. You need to burn the iso > as an image. > > Jim Try mounting the CD on a working computer. If the CD contains one file (i.e. debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso) then you burned it wrong. If it contains many files and directories, then you probably burned it correctly. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I recover LVM at boot
I have a Debian Stable system which I just did the apt-get upgrade for the new linux kernel version. The system has two software raid volumes md0 and md1. md0 is /boot. md1 is a lvm2 volume group "VG" with four partitions "lvol0" throuth "lvol3" containing "/", "/ home", "/var" and "/chroot" During the upgrade I got the message that I needed to check mdadm.conf and should see /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3 It was still the initial file so I added a DEVICE line with the four devices that make up the two MD arrays, and using the example form "man mdadm" used: mdadm --detail --scan >> mdadm.conf to add the details for my raid. I then renamed /var/lib/mdadm/CONF-UNCHECKED to CONF-UNCHECKED.old and did update-initramfs -u -k all as directed by the README. Now the system doesn't boot but tells me the volume group "server" is not found. How do I fix the system to boot properly. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I recover LVM at boot
I should add that both md0 and md1 appear and md0 can be mounted from the limited shell I get dropped into. If I boot from a system recovery CD I can do vchange -a y VG and then mount the volumes in that system. But I am clueless as to how to get the Debian system to boot. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I recover LVM at boot
On Jul 27, 5:40 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try putting back your old mdadm.conf > > this is how mine looks > > = > # mdadm.conf > # > # Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file. > # > > # by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks. > # alternatively, specify devices to scan, using wildcards if desired. > DEVICE partitions > > # auto-create devices with Debian standard permissions > CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes > > # automatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system > HOMEHOST > > # instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts > MAILADDR root > == > > the array definition are not really needed, if your partition types are > set to FD > > > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:33:15AM -0700, ss11223 wrote: > > I should add that both md0 and md1 appear and md0 can be mounted from > > the > > limited shell I get dropped into. > > > If I boot from a system recovery CD I can do > > vchange -a y VG > > > and then mount the volumes in that system. > > > But I am clueless as to how to get the Debian system to boot. > > > Stuart > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > "Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our > students in America." > > - George W. Bush > 02/03/2003 > Bethesda, MD > > signature.asc > 1KDownload I tried that but same result. I wasn't surprised as the md volumes exsit, its the lvm volume name thats wrong. (server vs VG) Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I recover LVM at boot
On Jul 27, 7:20 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 27, 5:40 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > try putting back your old mdadm.conf > > > this is how mine looks > > > = > > # mdadm.conf > > # > > # Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file. > > # > > > # by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks. > > # alternatively, specify devices to scan, using wildcards if desired. > > DEVICE partitions > > > # auto-create devices with Debian standard permissions > > CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes > > > # automatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system > > HOMEHOST > > > # instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts > > MAILADDR root > > == > > > the array definition are not really needed, if your partition types are > > set to FD > > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:33:15AM -0700, ss11223 wrote: > > > I should add that both md0 and md1 appear and md0 can be mounted from > > > the > > > limited shell I get dropped into. > > > > If I boot from a system recovery CD I can do > > > vchange -a y VG > > > > and then mount the volumes in that system. > > > > But I am clueless as to how to get the Debian system to boot. > > > > Stuart > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > > "Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our > > students in America." > > > - George W. Bush > > 02/03/2003 > > Bethesda, MD > > > signature.asc > > 1KDownload > > I tried that but same result. I wasn't surprised as the md volumes > exsit, its the lvm volume name thats wrong. (server vs VG) > > Stuart > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two more insights. In the shell I get dumped into on boot, I can enter the command "/sbin/ vgchange -a y' and it finds my logical volumes. If I then exit it tells me it connot find server-server1 Then I had a memory revalation In a previous life, I had a logical volume on this machine with the volume group "server" and logical volumes "server1" through "server7". So where is this old info lurking on the disk so I can change it. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I recover LVM at boot -- SOLVED --
And there it was The Grub menu.lst file was corrupted in the line specifying the /dev/ mapper command. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords
On Jul 28, 12:00 pm, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > generally iceweasel remembers my passwords and logins to site. > i think at one site i by accident clicked on 'dont remember login > for this site' or something. now it expects me to enter > the id and password by hand which is irritating. > > although by now I remember my 14 digit number login to the > public library :) > > i would like to reset it * for this site only* to remember it > automatically > > where is that kind of control data stored for iceweasel? > > thanks > mitchell > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferences -> security -> Passwords Section / Exceptions button -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't reboot after update
On Jul 29, 10:50 am, "Zembower, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm hoping someone can help me with this urgent problem. I just applied > the updates that became available in the last couple days to my Debian > etch host running on a Dell PowerEdge 2450 server. This included an > update to the kernel, so I rebooted the host. The host failed to > restart. The first error message on the console was '/init /init cannot > open /dev/root no such device.' Just before that, it said "mounting root > file system. Running /scripts/local-top." It finally ended by dropping > me into BusyBox, with which I'm not familiar. > > There were no earlier indications of problems with the output to the > console. All the output concerning /dev/sda, where all my directories > are partitioned, seemed normal. This host uses a Dell PERC 3/Si card to > provide RAID-5. > > Can anyone help me correct this problem? Any suggestions of commands to > run in BusyBox to either fix or diagnose this? > > Thanks in advance for your help, advice and suggestions. > > -Kevin > > Kevin Zembower > Internet Services Group manager > Center for Communication Programs > Bloomberg School of Public Health > Johns Hopkins University > 111 Market Place, Suite 310 > Baltimore, Maryland 21202 > 410-659-6139 I had a possibly similar problem (although in my case it was a LVM volume that couldn't be found). In my case the cause was the grub menu.lst file was rebuilt with some boot parameters wrong. Check /boot/grub/menu.lst to make sure all is well there. (clearly to do this the system has to be booted, but you should be able to boot from a livecd and mount the partition to do this) (you can edit the grub menu while booting also) Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding module to apache
I am using apache2 in etch. As far as I can tell debian does not incude mod_logio in the distribution. I want to us this to monitor the actual line traffic from my server. (after dynamic compression) How would I add this module to my server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade
I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- upgrade' today. Now my keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard works on the non-x screens). As far as I can tell, none of my xorg config files have changed. Is this just me, or did this last upgrade brake something (and what is the fix?) Thanks, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade
On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- > upgrade' today. Now my > keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard > works on the > non-x screens). > > As far as I can tell, none of my xorg config files have changed. > > Is this just me, or did this last upgrade brake something (and what is > the fix?) > > Thanks, > Stuart > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some more experimentation shows that it is only Gnome that is broken this way, and then only when started from gdm. (When I do a startx from root the keyboard stays working) ?? Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade
On Jun 3, 8:10 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- > > upgrade' today. Now my > > keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard > > works on the > > non-x screens). > > > As far as I can tell, none of my xorg config files have changed. > > > Is this just me, or did this last upgrade brake something (and what is > > the fix?) > > > Thanks, > > Stuart > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Some more experimentation shows that it is only Gnome that is broken > this way, and then only > when started from gdm. (When I do a startx from root the keyboard > stays working) > > ?? > > Stuart > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Further update, I created a new user and gnome works. Something in the gnome config for my default user got corrupted and killed the keyboard. Any easy way to correct this without losing all of my settings? Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: doing jobs at an remote machin, how to do it in an cshell scripts ?
Aidan Shaw wrote: > Hi List ... > the problem is, I need an pretty and consice scripts in c-shell. can anybody > help me? > > Any suggestion is welcom. > > Thank you all. > Are you really confined to using csh? There are better scripting solutions. see: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading MS word files
On Oct 30, 6:50 pm, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that to __edit__ MS word files, the only fully functional > option is OpenOffice. > > However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking > that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text > but collumns, tables, images, the works. > > Is there a way to convert them to PS and view with gv? > > Thanks, > > Doug. Unfortunatly to be able to convert them to PS properly implies that you can open them already. The only reliable way I have found to do that is to convert them on a Windows machine to PS and then send them out. OO usually works but does foul up some complicated documents. Then again, I get Windows word documents that I cannot open properly on my Word for Mac, so MS isn't even compatable with themselves. Move to Massachusetts and insist on ODF documents :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debmirror broken
Sometime in the last week the "debmirror" script broke for me. It used to work fine, now I get: Mirroring to /home/ss/Download/DebianMirror/etch from http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ Arches: i386,amd64 Dists: testing Sections: main,contrib,non-free Pdiff mode: none Will clean up AFTER mirroring. Attempting to get lock, this might take 2 minutes before it fails. Get Release files. http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/dists/testing/Release => [0%] Getting: dists/testing/Release... Use of uninitialized value $file_length in numeric lt (<) at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 845. Use of uninitialized value $file_length in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 847. Transfer truncated: only out of 96468 bytes received WARNING: releasing 1 pending lock... Is this me, or is the package really broken now? Stuart
Re: apache error
On Feb 18, 4:10 pm, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > Restarting web server: apache2(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not > bind to address [::]:80 > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 > no listening sockets available, shutting down > Unable to open logs > failed! > When I see socket already in use it usually means that apache is already running. check with "ps -A | grep apache" and then "killal apache2" and try again Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Local mirroring How-To?
On Mar 12, 12:40 pm, "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: > > From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 AM > > Subject: Local mirroring How-To? > > > Greetings; > > > I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this > > but I can't locate it. > > > Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that > > I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these > > runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection. > > > I have the space to install a local mirror of one or two > > releases of Debian so I can do updates over my local net at > > 100 Mbs and speed things up considerably. > > > But ... I can't find anything current about how to do that. > > > Does anybody have any pointers to a good, and current, set > > of directions on how to do this? Or have a cookbook that > > works for you? > > You probably don't want a full mirror. They are big (last doc I saw said > 60GB per architecture/version). You want something that will only > provide the packages you need/use. > I use the debmirror package to keep a local mirror of Lenny and Testing. (main, contrib and non-free). It "only" takes up about 28GB Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Partitioning Scheme
On Oct 25, 1:10 am, "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to install a new Debian system. Previously what I've done > is to create 3 partitions (/, /boot, swap), but now that I have the > oporttunity, I'd like to do things differently. I was reading the > Debian reference guide (the security part), and also openBsd > partitioning schemes, and they both agree that having specific storage > areas in different isolated sections (partitions in this case), would > help a lot for security reasons, so that for example a section won't > grow beyond its limits (inhibiting other pieces of the system to > operate correctly), and also some speed reasons are argued as well, > :)... > > Well, The following scheme is proposed (from what I read btoh from > openBsd and Debian reference guide): > > Partition Suggested Size (openBsd) > > / 150 M > /usr 6 G > /var 80 M > /tmp 120 M > /home 4 G > /boot > /opt > > /usr/local > /usr/src 4 G <= Source compilation oriented. > /var/log 150 M > /var/tmp 1 G > /var/www > /var/mail > > /var/spool/mail > /var/cache/apt > > However I'm not sure about those numbers, and besides there's no clear > size for ALL targets. Is there some other documentation around with > sizes suggestions? I understand this, like anything else is, "well, > it depends"... My intention is to install a web/mail/printer/... > server, multiuser, and I also want users to still be able to keep > multimedia at their homes, and I want a secure scheme as possible as > well, etc. I count with a 180 G... > > Any suggestions, specially to fill in the sizes, would be helpful. > Notice my previous approaches would consist on a 500M /boot, a 1G swap > (the box has 512M ram), and ~6.5G /, but I want to change that, :) > > Thanks, > > -- > Javier Although it's not always recommended to have / on a LVM, I have successfully used three partitions on my systems: /boot LVM Group swap and then create in the LVM all of the other partitions I want. Then, if needed, it's easy to change the size of any partition if I had the initial size wrong. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No Sound Card found on Testing Install
I installed testing on an older machine with an Intel ICH9 controller on the mother board. Alsa reports that there is no audio card found. (This used to work under windows until I defenestrated the machine:-) I got the impression that there are options to put into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf that might fix this, but I haven't found any options that worked. Anyone out there know the solution? Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/3ac8e3ac-f1fb-48fe-a6cb-397e0a85e...@googlegroups.com
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
On Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:50:01 PM UTC-4, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 01 iul 12, 16:51:28, ss11223 wrote: > > I installed testing on an older machine with an Intel ICH9 controller on the > > mother board. Alsa reports that there is no audio card found. > > Show us :) > Please also include outputs of the following commands: > > aplay -l > aplay -L > cat /proc/asound/cards > lsmod | grep snd > lspci -nn | grep -i audio > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- Ah, today /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start no longer complains of no sound card, but the sound still only comes out of the motherboard speaker. I get: ajms@escort:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. ajms@escort:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start [ ok ] Setting up ALSA...done. ajms@escort:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ajms@escort:~$ aplay -L default Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server sysdefault:CARD=Intel HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output ajms@escort:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0x9322 irq 47 ajms@escort:~$ lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_codec_idt 44792 1 snd_hda_intel 21856 2 snd_hda_codec 63477 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hwdep 12943 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm53390 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel snd_page_alloc 12867 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel snd_seq39487 0 snd_seq_device 13016 1 snd_seq snd_timer 22356 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd42691 12 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt soundcore 12921 1 snd ajms@escort:~$ lspci -nn | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ee7dcddf-46d1-4240-a713-78b898553...@googlegroups.com
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
On Friday, July 6, 2012 5:00:01 AM UTC-4, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 03 iul 12, 14:25:21, ss11223 wrote: > > > > Ah, today /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start no longer complains of no sound > > card, but > > the sound still only comes out of the motherboard speaker. > > Play with your mixer settings while running > > speaker-test -c2 > > (you can stop it with Ctrl+C), or post the output o 'amixer'. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Not sure what this is supposed to do. amixer gives: ajms@escort:~$ amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 Mono: Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined penum Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 65536 Front Left: Capture 29274 [45%] [off] Front Right: Capture 29274 [45%] [off] ajms@escort:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart speaker-test -c2 only hisses for the left speaker. The only mixer options I get is Master for built-in audio analog sterio Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d618c86a-b3c5-4aa5-b229-58a1a9408...@googlegroups.com
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install
> > speaker-test -c2 only hisses for the left speaker. > > Only left, are you sure? It should alternate between left and right, so > you might want to check your cables and speakers (and any volume/balance > settings they might have). > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- Remember, it is playing out of the chassis (motherboard) speaker, not the audio connectors! --Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bb143c45-8a20-4207-8d80-f9a259fc4...@googlegroups.com
Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install - SOLVED
OK, this is embarrassing, but I have solved the problem. The system had a headphone plugged in that had fallen behind the system unnoticed (and I thought the sound from its one speaker was the motherboard speaker). Unplugged the item and all is well. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9e4a4b48-9e47-436a-b4d9-81efd61de...@googlegroups.com
Re: X crashes since last upgrade
On Apr 13, 1:50 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:40, S Scharf wrote: > > I am running Testing, with the nvidia driver installed, and two screens with > > xinerama ( a 30" and a 90 degree rotated 20") > > First try the nv driver. And check /var/logs/X.0.log or something, if > it's an X error it should be there. > > HTH > I don't think there is a nv driver any more. In my X.0.log.old I found this: - [177518.084] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" [177518.084] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105" [177518.084] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us" [177925.793] Backtrace: [177925.793] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4aacc8] [177925.793] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x61e59) [0x461e59] [177925.793] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fc541772000+0xef60) [0x7fc541780f60] [177925.793] 3: /usr/bin/X (doListFontsWithInfo+0x1d3) [0x427493] [177925.793] 4: /usr/bin/X (ProcessWorkQueue+0x21) [0x42ad21] [177925.793] 5: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x82) [0x45ef32] [177925.793] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x48602) [0x448602] [177925.793] 7: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x257ab) [0x4257ab] [177925.793] 8: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fc5404d5c4d] [177925.793] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x25339) [0x425339] [177925.793] Segmentation fault at address 0x86c7ff90 [177925.793] Fatal server error: [177925.793] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting [177925.793] [177925.793] Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [177925.793] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [177925.793] [177925.844] (II) Power Button: Close [177925.844] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [177925.896] (II) Power Button: Close [177925.896] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [177925.920] (II) Dell Dell Smart Card Reader Keyboard: Close [177925.920] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [177925.922] (II) Logitech USB Receiver: Close [177925.922] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [177925.922] (II) Dell WMI hotkeys: Close [177925.922] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" - The segfault looks like the thing Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ab3e3a45-d631-4da6-a114-3ab4fb623...@v16g2000vbq.googlegroups.com
SELinux help
Is there a forum for Debian SELinux help. I am trying to set up a server, but with SELinux enabled some functions are subtlety broken and it looks like some rules need tweaking. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/11483370.691.1334704922921.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynbv36
