Why do I never see /var/run/reboot-required ?

2025-02-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi! According to various online sources, packages are expected to create the file `/var/run/reboot-required` if they wish that the system reboots. I've been running a cron job that checks for this file for 3 months now and it has never seen it. And the system has upgraded its kernel (via a script

Re: Losing video output when hibernating with HDMI plugged

2018-07-03 Thread Christian Jaeger
FWIW, the workaround doesn't fully (or at all?) solve the issue, every few days it will still refuse to show video on the external HDMI until rebooted. 2018-06-08 15:05 GMT+01:00, Christian Jaeger : > I just realized that I can at least implement a somewhat lame > workaround,

Re: Losing video output when hibernating with HDMI plugged

2018-06-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
I just realized that I can at least implement a somewhat lame workaround, which is to automatically switch to the internal screen from the hibernate command. That appears to work okay. It would still be interesting to know how xrandr or whatever is behind it actually works, though (and document it

Losing video output when hibernating with HDMI plugged

2018-06-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I've got a Dell Latitude E6220 (with "Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)" according to lspci) running Debian stretch, with the Xfce4 desktop. After a fresh boot, when I plug an external monitor into its HDMI port, the internal display

Re: Maximum number of clients reache .. can't open display

2013-08-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
2013/8/24 Andrew Sackville-West > not releasing resources it's not using anymore Which resources other than connections (and why do you suspect it would be something else than connections if the error message explicitely mention number of clients is the culprit)? There's one subsystem that's a p

Maximum number of clients reache .. can't open display

2013-08-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I'm running into this the first time (which might suggest that something has changed, perhaps just the duration I'm able to keep running without rebooting?). After running my laptop for a bit over 2 months, I've started getting, for example when running urxvt from another terminal: Maximum nu

Found (one) reason for packages not to do parallel builds?

2012-01-03 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi Many Debian packages don't use more than 1 CPU even when passing -j$n to dpkg-buildpackage with $n > 1. (Concretely, my build command is: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b -r'fakeroot -u' -j2 ) I'm surprised that this is the case even in today's 'testing', considering that most machines are multi

Monitor not shutting down

2011-12-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I've got frequent pains with my monitors, that they don't go off when I expect them to after a 30' timeout (as set in the gnome power management options). First issue was (or was what I suspected to be) mplayer instances started by smplayer still hanging around, so I kill them regularly, but

Re: permissions on /dev/nvidia*

2011-10-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
(Your mail was in my gmail spam folder -- which is why I noticed it :) > to solve the problem i tried to edit the init.d/nvidia-kernel script and > replaced the line >        mknod -m 0660 dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 > with >        mknod -m 0666 dev/nvidiactl c 195 256 Wondering why you changed the

Efficient remotely backed, locally encrypted block devices?

2011-09-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello There are a number of interests in my usage of remote storage that I haven't figured out how to combine without conflict yet: (if you find these cryptic, see my explanation of my current solutions below first) * encryption locally, so that when the remote storage server is hacked, my data i

mlocate gid 130 mystery

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi Short story: /usr/bin/mlocate has changed permissions without reason. Sending this here in case anyone has got an idea or so that if others are seeing the same they could find this in google. Long story: I've got a home server/desktop with an ITX board with Atom D510 that ran perfectly stable

Re: UUID updates for dmcrypt/luks

2011-08-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
PS. some random observations from my time spent with the above: - busybox (which is used in initrd) *does* respect "set -x", but (unlike bash) it does *not* pass it on to subshells. Could that be fixed? - because of this, you need to first add "set -x" just to ./init in the initrd, then you see t

Re: UUID updates for dmcrypt/luks

2011-08-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/8/19 tv.deb...@googlemail.com : > Hi, maybe you should have updated the initramfs too (update-initramfs). I've done that, too, just forgot to mention it. So there's still some other problem. Well, found the problem now: I've been using "file -s /dev/XXX" to get the UUID. But that truncates

UUID updates for dmcrypt/luks

2011-08-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I've used the Debian installer (Sarge) for installing a system onto an SSD, using this layout: /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda5 luks, -> sda5_crypt with "/" /dev/sda6 /usr After the installation finished, I realized that I should have aligned the partition boundaries. So I booted into GRML, ba

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
I run Squeeze on the computer where I prepare the usb flashdrive, and Lenny on the computer where I want to install mythbuntu (the T61). I don't think asking fellow Debian users about compiling software on Debian is offtopic. I have checked Arnt advice by setting the boot flag on the partition "b

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
Many of your answers are rather aggressive, I won't reply to those. > It (the .iso) is a single file. Recursive does not apply. This is how I read it, too, but unetbootin does it different, it copies the *contents* of the iso (like mounting the iso then cp -r). When I say that the Ubuntu questio

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/8/9 Wolodja Wentland : > Why don't you follow the method > outlined in the installation guide? > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en I'm trying to follow "4.3.3. Manually copying files to the USB stick — the flexible way". Here are the questions not answered by this

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
I wanted to try this, but erroneously gave /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb to fdisk (fdisk -l already showed weird information, and cfdisk would even give a fatal error, but I was too stupid to realize my mistake and thought that gparted, which I used to partition the flashdrive, made the new partiti

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
> 1. unetbootin is still broken (unable to make *any* image work on flashdrive) Well: typing from within the boot menu, then changing the first two paths (something like "/ubnkern initrd=ubninit") to "/install.amd/vmlinuz initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz" does make Debian boot!!! So this *almost* q

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
So, I've downloaded http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.2.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso, run "gparted /dev/sdb" to make a new partition table on my flashdrive and one fat32 fs partition, run unetbootin and selected the downloaded iso file and the flashdrive as target, try to b

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
Oh, I only realize now that I made the mistake of trying "IA64" instead of x86_64, of course. Going to try with the right Debian image. Thanks for spotting this! Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
It's got a Core 2 duo CPU, and I'm currently running the 64 bit version of Lenny on it. Also, I've tried the MythBuntu and XMBC 32 bit versions. Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello This is not the first time I'm struggling trying to make a bootable USB flashdrive. In fact, I've spent like 5-10 hours across various times already, and I realize that I've been too stupid to document my last endeavours enough to help me to get it to work this time (or maybe I did and just

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
> So, yes, it is possible, but not easy. :) That's a different issue. (I can confirm that the first time I used the new installer with LVM+luks, me too was a bit puzzled at first, but that's unrelated to the bug that I've run into here, which AFAICT is not something that can be avoided by using t

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-14 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/6/14 Wayne Topa : > I am not in an 3G area (that is what an ATT tech says) but I do get 3G > connections 'sometimes' but mostly connect at ~20kbs.  Nor good but > better then the 2kbs phone line performance here in the boondocks. In case you're not using one already, it sounds like you could

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/6/13 Scott Ferguson : > Bell don't do a prepaid deal do they? No (my deal was the cheapest monthly contract, includes 500 MB with the monthly fee) Chr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
> which is.. sorry, I tend to hit sent too quickly. number => "*99#" apn => "inet.bell.ca" PS. here's how this thread started a year ago: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?31,107067,202298 Also, for archival purposes (in case anyone ever replies me there), here's a link to my post on the network-

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Let's see if we can get it working with it's (the modem's) current > settings first - acting on the presumption (assumption?) that it would > work as it stands, should you plug it in to a Windoof box. (I meant modifying the source in places where it is sending AT commands that are not persistent

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
I wrote: > the modem hasn't crashed > anymore, I don't know yet whether that's just because I'm lucky or the > newer version fixes the issue, I'll tell after more testing I was just lucky, it still crashes. So I intend to play with changing the AT commnds in the mm source. (Hm, I guess I should p

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
I've now downloaded the source of the modemmanager package, both stable and testing; it doesn't really explain anything either: The only references to $CNTI are in plugins/mm-modem-novatel-gsm.c (there are references to *CNTI in replugins/mm-modem-sierra-gsm.c), and it's this code that emits the $

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
I wrote > AT$CNTI=0. > > Going to try to look up what the latter command means. > 27007-3d0.pdf does not reference it. Googling "AT$CNTI=0" turns up http://www.slideshare.net/Dominque23/novatel-u740-firmware-upgrade-272-release-notesdocdoc "Fixed AT Argument Pointer Issue (raised from the AT$CNT

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
ps. forgot to put up the log from today's crashed run; now here: http://christianjaeger.ch/scratch/bell_novatel/crashrun2/ Same thing as yesterday, the crash happens exactly at (or then within +-1 second of) the time nm sends AT+CSQ and then AT$CNTI=0. Going to try to look up what the latter comm

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/6/12 Scott Ferguson : > What colour is the blinking light? I think it just blinks in the color in which it was lit before the 'crash'; I've run another test now and it was yellow then blinked in yellow. (BTW I've tried 'screen /dev/ttyUSB1' and sending ATZ and ATH0, and while these give me O

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Are you in a marginal signal area? No (rarely, and not now). > You *don't* want EDGE (I guess so; also, I think 2G isn't even supported by my contract at all.) > (it's about 3-4 times GPRS == 4 strings, 8 tin cans) Heh, took me a while to get the analogy. > I collect things. Manuals, docume

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
> So this must be your problem. (not sure what you mean) > I have something here: > http://rjnoe.home.xs4all.nl/0/linux/3g/at-commands/ Thanks. I'll have to further study that, on cursory look I didn't see anything to fix the modem at UMTS (to prevent the switch to HSPA, as suggested by Scott).

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/6/11 Scott Ferguson : > On 12/06/11 04:19, Christian Jaeger wrote: > >> * after the mode switch runs, the modem LED is blinking in blue > > > UMTS Well, as I said, as long as it's blinking, it isn't connected, at least as far as the computer is concerned. O

Re: Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
>> option                 12918  2 >> usb_wwan                6147  1 option >> usbserial              21120  7 option,usb_wwan >> > > I am worried about this 'usb_wwan', it seems to do exactly what 'option' is > supposed to do. rmmod usb_wwan ? Is it nm doing this ? As you can see from the lsmod

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
> This is weird, when I last tried I didn't experience any problem and all > required packages were installed. Which install mode did you use, from > what media (if you have the download url that would be even better) ? I used jigdo-lite to expand the .jigdo file found on the official page, http:/

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
See my other reply, it seems pretty clear that there is a bug in the debian installer (assuming that the installer is *meant* to support installing a system with encrypted root and that the result boots). Glad it worked for you; please tell if you can add information to pin the problem down more.

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
Thanks for your reply. I got it to work now. 2011/6/10 tv.deb...@googlemail.com : > Hi, I can confirm that it works, my main system is fully on Luks ( To be > precise it is luks on raid1, and /home is decrypted with pam, swap with > decrypt_derived.). (The additional RAID layer might make a diffe

How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I'm trying to install squeeze with "/" being a partition dmcrypt'ed with luks. Is Debian supposed to support that or not? For me the debian installer failed to do it, so I sent mail to debian-boot about it [1] and then since I didn't get a reply reported a bug against initramfs-tools [2], where

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-05-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Reading your first post on this issue I see that you remove the option module > in > favor of usbserial. That advice is all over the net. Are you still doing that > ? > I think it is -basically- wrong: 'option' is the specialised driver for this > and > many other 3g modems. 'usbserial' is -on

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-05-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
Another update in my quest to get that UMTS modem work properly: Bell technical support told me that I should run a firmware upgrade on the stick (and gave me a link to the exact file). Of course that's a windows .exe. I tried to run it in a second hand computer store that let me plug in my Bell s

Re: Suggestion for a smartphone running natively LINUX? :)

2011-03-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/3/15 green : > I purchased the N810 hoping naively that I could run mainline Linux on it > eventually.  It does not and probably never will.  The N900, if that page I > linked is correct, does not; it might never. Which page? https://elektranox.org/n900/status/kernel.html only specifies what'

Re: Going remote - some advice please

2011-02-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
Oh, PV=photovoltaics (I was thinking "RV"), well, I've been looking around for that too, and come to the conclusion that if you want the solar panel to be portable, then you can't use laptops (10W+ power usage) nor netbooks (5W+), only ARM based tablets will be feasible (around 2W or below, so a 6W

Re: Going remote - some advice please

2011-02-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I've seen there are rugged tablets for field work, in case you need that level of robustness and can pay for it (probably not), for example: http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1885&review=getac+v100+rugged+tablet 3G network "dongles" seem to work *mostly* of the box with Network

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2010-11-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
Following up to myself again, in the meantime I think I've narrowed down the problem with my disconnects a bit: It seems that I'm loosing connection whenever the stick changes connection mode, or at least when it changes from UMTS to HSPA or HSUPA. Meaning, it connects with UMTS and I'm getting in

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2010-11-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
Following up to myself on what I did, because people keep asking me privatly about this. No, I didn't get it to work with plain pppd, although I mostly stopped looking into that. Instead I first tried with Ubuntu, got it partially working (usb modeswitch didn't work reliably), so installed another

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark : > Unless I'm reading the ThinkWiki wrong Tp_smapi is not compatible with my > machines... Then I don't know, you'll have to find out about alternatives yourself or hope someone else points them out, if they exist (I also guess not all hardware allows to do that). Ch. -- To UNS

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark : > Thank you Christian.  Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here.  So is there a > way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%?  Both > machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one XPS, both 5+ years > old. Yes, see the Tp_smapi link posted above (al

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark : > Or do you shutdown  when the battery > reaches, say, 5%? > > I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries (as all modern devices are using either of those)? Then you do rather *not* want to deep discharge

Re: Intel Atom N450 & Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
How do you read the possible cpu frequencies? Your kernel needs cpufreq support and ondemand, powersave, etc. governors; check with cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors cat /sys/devices/system/cp

Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

2010-07-28 Thread Christian Jaeger
> for MAGFILE in $MAGDIR/*.zip Don't forget the double quotes around variable references. It's better to always do that by default than to fix it afterwards (either because you feed it paths with whitespace in them yourself at some point or because someone else is trying to close the safety holes

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
PS. and I personally would: - either write a program that scans the partition for known fragments of the files you want to be gone (perl with Sys::Mmap is an efficient choice) to verify; - or backup all good files from the partition, then overwriting the block device, recreate the partition and co

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
Why calculate the sizes when you can just use cat until it stops because the disk is full? cat /dev/zero > /mnt/yourfilesystem/thebigfile BTW don't forget to proberly umount /mnt/yourfilesystem afterwards, of course, to force a sync. (Just in case there might be a file system that doesn't send t

Re: help needed in installing 3G+ usb modem

2010-07-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Whenever I plug that modem in a usb slot, it first acts as if it was a mass > storage device. Nothing wrong with this, have I been told : the data space > contains programs for MSWIN install. The device must therefore be switched > so as to be reckognized as a modem, which may be done using vario

How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2010-07-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I'm trying to get a UMTS/HSPA/HSAP+ usb stick from Bell Canada working with their network. I'm on Lenny, with a 2.6.33.6 kernel compiled from kernel.org. At first I'm "activating" the stick through that usual "mount then eject the flash volume" handling, and reloading the usbserial kernel m

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
Chris Burkhardt wrote: My question in this particular case is, should bug reports be opened against librsvg, strigi, and the others requesting that they not directly allocate memory for the xmlEntity structure? I can take the time to do it, if it should be done. Well IHMO either a bug that t

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-26 Thread Christian Jaeger
Chris Burkhardt wrote: Thanks, Christian, for filing the report and spending your Saturday making stack traces. I just upgraded to version 2.6.32.dfsg-3 of libxml2 from Unstable and it works (thanks Mike!). Hopefully it will be in Lenny and Etch soon. There has just been a new DSA 1631-1 ha

Re: Gnome hosed--theme crashing!

2008-08-25 Thread Christian Jaeger
Christian Jaeger wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/25/2008 09:12 PM, ZephyrQ wrote: PauL Lane wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:38:00PM -0500, PauL Lane wrote: Hello, have you recently upgraded libxml2? I had the same problem. Try; $ dpkg -l libxml2 If it comes back; ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-3

Re: Gnome hosed--theme crashing!

2008-08-25 Thread Christian Jaeger
Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/25/2008 09:12 PM, ZephyrQ wrote: PauL Lane wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:38:00PM -0500, PauL Lane wrote: Hello, have you recently upgraded libxml2? I had the same problem. Try; $ dpkg -l libxml2 If it comes back; ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library Try downg

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-22 Thread Christian Jaeger
Chris Burkhardt wrote: Hi Christian, thanks for the warning and solution. After my dist-upgrade last night, gdm would not start (it gave me a "The greeter program appears to be crashing" message, and never got to the login screen). But I could start Xorg with 'startx' and all my Gnome programs w

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-22 Thread Christian Jaeger
Christian Jaeger wrote: Thanks in advance to the security team for fixing the fixes. PS. in case it's needed here is some information: - System is x86_64, core 2 duo - see attached backtraces from two Gnome apps (xchat segfaulted too, as did Ekiga iirc). Christian. #0 0x7f6038a

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-22 Thread Christian Jaeger
o the security team for fixing the fixes. Thanks, Christian. Christian Jaeger wrote: Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it left me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation, because basically all Gnome applications stopped working.

Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-22 Thread Christian Jaeger
Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it left me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation, because basically all Gnome applications stopped working. After a bit over 2 hours worth of investigation, I've found out how to solve the issue; since I first

Re: indexing particular file types

2008-06-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
Mag Gam wrote: Is it possible to index all symbolic links (source and destination) of a filesystem? For example, in my university we have a project where professors use vast amount of disk space -- over 10 TB a month. For scanning, it's not the amount of bytes which is relevant but the number

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
Haines Brown wrote: (...) 3. Decide whether the problem is within a partition or at the level of the partition table by zeroing the partition. Unmount the device and do (example assumes the device interface is /dev/sdd): # cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdd1 or # dd if=/dev/zer

Re: netstat output evidence of a cracker?

2007-11-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
Adam Hardy wrote: One routine check that I do on my webserver to check it's OK is netstat, and this time it looks like I was under attack from some muppet out there via what seems to be a brute force attempt to crack my ssh login. (We're all seeing this all the time.) Trying to understand th

Re: Mount HFS+

2007-11-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: webjay wrote: On Nov 11, 12:00 pm, Davide Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: webjay ha scritto:> # mount -t hfsplus -r /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk ^^^ Shouldn't this be sda1? Just a thought, I do not use HFS+. No, I tried that with th

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
Haines Brown wrote: I didn't realize you ran these commands on a partition rather than the device, but in any case, after doing it and mouting, the files remain. You always have to care where your filesystem resides. Usually (practically always) physical devices have a partition table on

Re: rsync question

2007-11-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
John Schmidt wrote: If you put a trailing slash on the first directory, i.e. rsync -aPn directory/ machineB:~/directory you will get a new directory created on machineB, i.e. ~/directory/directory No, it's the other way round. If you put a slash at the end of the source directory, it wil

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Haines Brown wrote: When I try: $ lsusb -v -D /dev/sdd Cannot open /dev/sdd That doesn't mean anything, I'm getting the same with my perfectly working usb stick. When I plug in the usb-key, the kernel log sayw: Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: usb 1-2.2:

Re: rsync question

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I have the same structure on 2 machines. I want to keep them in sync. I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD and then rsync from the other as follows ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/ ./Documents/ Password: receiving

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Haines Brown wrote: $ df /media/usb-key Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd1 499440303916195524 61% /media/usb-key Above you're using /dev/sdd1 # dosfsck /dev/sdd Here you're using /dev/sdd (not the partition 1). # mkdo

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Steve Kleene wrote: Is it strange that I can't get past the router with ping or with a browser but I do get name resolution? Surely I have to get past the browser for name resolution. It's not the same thing: your /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to the router, so the router implements a names

Re: User-provided post-install script?

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Kevin Mark wrote: So apt-get calls dpkg and dpkg has 'post-invoke' options that run a shell script. Never tried this but this seem like a place to start. (See my other reply; *maybe* using the apt hooks is easier--but in reality it belongs to the dpkg space. Imagine I download a .deb and

Re: User-provided post-install script?

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Osamu Aoki wrote: dpkg-divert(8) seems to be the answer for your case. (But this is not meant for general user but meant for maintanance script). As I understand, removing divert etc has some pitfalls if you are as good as me. I've been using dpkg-divert for some time already in one case;

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Steve Kleene wrote: I started the tcpdump command, then started "ping debian.org", and got the following: Looks like the replies get lost somehow. At least afaict they do not make it into the interface of your computer (even dropping packets through iptables should still make them appear i

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
Steve Kleene wrote: I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to continue chasing this down. It may go slowly, since the problem is at home but my only connection now is at work. - I'd check the output of "route -n": is "0.0.0.0" going to the router's ip? - try "tcpdump -i eth0 -p -n" during pingi

User-provided post-install script?

2007-11-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello (I haven't found an answer to this in the FAQ and Debian documentation or elsewhere (I did only look for two hours, though; maybe I haven't found the right place for advanced Debian documentation yet?).) Is there a way for me to set up a script/hook locally for a particular package so

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-26 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 17:46 Uhr +0100 26.11.2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: ls -lt --time=use /var/cache/apt/archives|less ls -lrt --time=ctime /var/cache/apt/archives works better (at least if the filesystem is mounted noatime). Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: ProFTPd over NAT

2003-10-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 0:23 Uhr +0200 11.10.2003, Greg Bolshaw wrote: Yeah. Surely there must be something I can do with ProFTPd to force it to use my public IP? MasqueradeAddress 1.2.3.4 - Chj. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache-perl install failure on sid

2003-09-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 7:32 Uhr -0700 25.09.2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else have the problem of Apache-perl hanging on installation? Yes I've seen it too, and downgraded to testing again because of it. (Time for a bug report if not done already) Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: System freeze after random program crashes associated withkernel oops

2003-06-13 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 12:38 Uhr +0200 12.06.2003, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote: I'm guessing time will tell if this memory module was the only/real problem. I will reply here after I've tested the computer and am sure, so you all get to know how it went. FYI: there are two kernel patches for coping with bad RAM: http

Kernel 2.4.20 with skas crashes with user-mode-linux

2003-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I've recently updated an AMD Duron machine to the new debian unstable kernel (I've installed the debian unstable kernel-sources-2.4.20 version -8 package, patched that with the debian skas kernel patch, and compiled it manually with my usual .config). The box ran fine, I started a uml in

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

2003-03-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 13:46 Uhr -0800 30.03.2003, Michael West wrote: I have "X11Forwarding yes" in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. Looks like you're setting $DISPLAY to '0.0' somewhere in your startup scripts? It should either be something like "lo

Re: we've been hosed, Tommy

2003-01-25 Thread Christian Jaeger
Some ideas: - Use apt pinning. /etc/apt/preferencesman apt_preferences i.e. Packages: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 2000 Packages: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Packages: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 400 then put all three of stable,testing a

Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote username differs

2003-01-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
Make sure that the user's home dir on the remote host is not group writeable (and the .ssh subdir as well). sshd does some checks before using some files. Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 15:40 Uhr + 19.01.2003, Hugh Saunders wrote: ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill Possibly those are threads, not distinct processes. If this is the case (in case of threads ps aux reports the same amount of memory for each; only looking at the xine docs or source can

Re: CVS Attic question

2003-01-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 12:41 Uhr -0500 07.01.2003, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I am using the woody release of CVS and I have two quick questions regarding setup. Is there a way to disable CVS using the "Attic"? When files are removed, I wish they would be deleted instead of moved. Not that I know of. (But why woul

Re: lsof +L1 - mysql.err.1 unlinked ...

2003-01-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
Sorry, I've restarted mysql again and am seeing that it normally does not only write "mysql ended" but a whole bunch of other lines to the logs. So yes it is a problem. Christian. At 15:11 Uhr +0300 07.01.2003, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: Hi everybody, I have always these mysql.err.1

Re: lsof +L1 - mysql.err.1 unlinked ...

2003-01-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 15:11 Uhr +0300 07.01.2003, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: Hi everybody, I have always these mysql.err.1 files not unlinked in all my mysqlservers, and only a mysqld restart resolve these (nor reload neither mysqladmin refresh doesn't unlink them). Does anybody in the list encounter t

Re: Macintosh formatted FD's usable in Debian?

2002-12-23 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 13:36 Uhr -0500 23.12.2002, Toku wrote: Hi, I would like to just occasionally transfer a file to an olde Macintosh LC II that is not connected to any network to utilize a laser printer attached to it. The filesystems are either hfs (older macs) or hfs+ (the default since MacOS 8 I think, th

utf8 in emacsen

2002-11-15 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I'd like to edit & save some files in UTF-8, preferably with xemacs-21(-mule), if not possible then with emacs(-21). I won't type any other characters than latin1, but they should be stored as utf-8 and any other chars (even chinese) should not be damaged, but I don't need them to be dis

Re: modprobe is automatically calling ifup/ifconfig. Why?

2002-11-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 8:24 Uhr -0800 10.11.2002, Joe Emenaker wrote: The problem seems to be that, when I run modprobe to load the driver for my ethernet interface, ifup or ifconfig seems to get run as well. Since I have my 3c95x driver in my /etc/modules, it gets loaded at boot time and then the interface actually

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
Additionally, you need to set the encryption type, i.e. with: M-x set-variable RET crypt-encryption-type RET (C-h will show you help at this point) "gpg" RET then: M-x crypt-rebuild-tables Well, but I then get "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". Don't have the time to investigate further now. c

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-09 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 17:39 Uhr -0500 07.11.2002, Levi Waldron wrote: On November 7, 2002 02:28 pm, Jeff wrote: emacs asks for the "encryption key", so I enter the passphrase, because if I hit "return to ignore" is see the scrambled data.  After entering the passphrase, emacs reports "Searching for program: no s

Re: galeon --server

2002-11-04 Thread Christian Jaeger
Try with .Xsession instead of .xsession. It depends on the version of X (3.x vs. 4.x) which files are being read. (BTW my .Xsession file is *not* executable, just rw-r--r--.) Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: galeon --server

2002-11-04 Thread Christian Jaeger
Try with .Xsession instead of .xsession. It depends on the version of X (3.x vs. 4.x) which files are being read. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My first Linux crash

2002-11-04 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 14:50 Uhr +0100 04.11.2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote: I was surprised that this issue took down the system on Linux. I understand, as nate explained, that hardware errors will always result in trouble but I expected the kernel to react differently. (Or is this a limitation of x86 or the issue you

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