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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1864

Today's Topics: 

  Iceweasel and Icedove not showing ma  [ "Fabrice Colliot"  ]
  Re: libneon25, or libneon26?          [ "Karl E. Jorgensen"  ]
  Re: It was new to me, even if it was  [ Bert Schulze  ]
  Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatic  [ Vincent Lefevre  ]
  Re: syslog-ng and etch                [ Steve Kemp  ]

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:23:34 +0300
From: "Fabrice Colliot" <f.colliot@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Hi,
After upgrading from testing to unstable my mozilla apps are not showing their main window.
The processes are running, icedove even ask me for my email password but their's nothing else.

Do you need help?X

I tried to remove old .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird from my home directory but it did not help.

I also downloaded firefox from mozilla.com and it works.

Has anyone an idea about what's wrong?

Thanks,
Fabrice

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Hi,<br>After upgrading from testing to unstable my mozilla apps are not showing their main window.<br>The processes are running, icedove even ask me for my email password but their&#39;s nothing else.<br><br>I tried to remove old .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird from my home directory but it did not help. <br><br>I also downloaded firefox from mozilla.com and it works.<br><br>Has anyone an idea about what&#39;s wrong?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Fabrice<br><br>

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:27:45 +0200
From: Dan H <dunno@stoptrick.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: archive corrupted ! 

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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200
Till Wimmer <g4-lisz@tonarchiv.ch> wrote:

> Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding...
>
> The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not
> a single file in it.
> "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file
> correctly, not a file in it called "file". Gzip is a stream
> compression, it doesn't know anything about the format of the file
> it (de)compresses. Maybe you can extract parts of your file using
> gzip -d -c | tar x.

Or maybe it is indeed a tar file but compressed with some other program (or not at all) and you're being misled by the .gz extension. Has happened to me, too.

Use

$ file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz

to see what really is in this file, then proceed accordingly.

--D.

Can we help you?X

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:57:54 +0100
From: "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: libneon25, or libneon26?
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:49:35PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I have an Etch system that I keep up to date with nightly downloads=20
> using cron-apt and doing a manual 'aptitude upgrade' every few days. A=
=20
> few days ago I noticed that OOo was being held back. A little research=
=20
> showed that it needed the installation of libneon25. But I already have=
=20
> libneon26 installed. =20

As far as apt(itude) is concerned, libneon25 and libneon26 are=20 *different* packages. The "25" and "26" here are part of the package=20 name, not version number.

Package maintainers sometimes let the major version numbers be part of=20 the package name for libraries to let multiple versions be installed=20 simultaneously. It speeds up the upgrade process; imagine this=20 scenario:
- In january, packages A and B depend on libneon25 - In feb, a new version of libneon (26) is released. But this has ABI=20   changes, so software needs to be recompiled/changed to use it - Package A is recompiled for the libneon26 abi. It now depends on=20   libneon26 rather than libneon25

If it was not possible to have both libneon25 and libneon26 installed=20 simultaneously, then you couldn't have package A and B installed at the=20 same time either.

Can't find what you're looking for?X

> Aptitude shows it as being automatically installed, so it is aware of=20
>the package, but says that it is unused and will be removed. Why dos=20 >aptitude want to remove libneon26 and install libneon25? =20

Aptitude is clever. If nothing depends on libneon26, and it's not one of=20 the packages that you specifically wanted installed, then it's a=20 candidate for removal.

Sounds like you had something installed (at some point) that needed=20 libneon26, but that "something" has been removed again. So aptitude=20 tries to tidy up for you.

> Is there any way to use what I have, or do I need to let aptitude=20
> downgrade libneon?

Unless you need libneon26 for something else outside the package=20 management system (e.g. stuff you manually installed in /usr/local or=20 /opt), I'd say to let aptitude do its thing. It's very good at keeping=20 things tidy.

Hope this helps
--=20
Karl E. Jorgensen
karl(at)jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl(at)jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com =3D=3D=3D=3D Today's fortune:
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:09:17 +0100
From: "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: No Sound After Playing XMMS Message-ID: <20070629080917.GB12125@einstein.jorgensen.org.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:51:29AM -0600, TW wrote:
> Hi,

>=20

>    After playing music with the XMMS application, I seem to be unable=20
> to hear sound after closing the XMMS app and going to watch videos at=20
> Google Video (or anywhere else on the web). I've looked over the net=20
> and couldn't find the answer to this. The sound is fine, but, after=20
> listening to XMMS audio, I have to log out (and back in) in order to=20
> hear sound over the internet. The reverse isn't a problem, though,=20
> meaning that I can listen to Google Video and then play XMMS without=20
> problems. What am I missing? Thanks in advance. ~Telly

esd getting in the way?

How is your XMMS configured? ALSA? Esd?

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365X

--=20
Karl E. Jorgensen
karl(at)jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl(at)jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com =3D=3D=3D=3D Today's fortune:
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:34:36 +0200
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Any ksh Raw binaries Out there that work for linux i386? 

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> > Ore writes:
> > > I know that it's in the repository but I need the raw binary for 38=
6.

Why?

Do you need help?X

I am afraid only statically linked binary can do that since many distros = use
different libraries. It will be huge and not flexible, andc even that mig= ht
not work on some distros with special environments.

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:54:55 -0500 John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wro=
te:
> > I don=B4t understand what you mean by =A8raw binary=A8. What=B4s wro=
ng with the
> > binary in the ksh package?

On 27.06.07 08:33, Orestes leal wrote:
> Well, I don't speak english to good, I meant a Ksh Binary that works in
> every linux distro, hope that makes clear the point.

please set up your mailer to wrap lines below 80 characters per line.

--=20
Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar(at)fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.=20

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:42:20 +0100
From: "Nick Adie" <nick.adie@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: apt-get install problem
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Hi

I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK]
i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK]

I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and files.

When I now run: apt-get install mediawiki

It searches the repository tells me everything is OK and installs nothing.

How do I reinstall?

Regards
Nick

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Hi


 


I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK]


i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK]


 


I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and files. 


 


When I now run: apt-get install mediawiki


 


It searches the repository tells me everything is OK and installs nothing.


 


How do I reinstall?


 

<div>Regards</div>
<div>Nick</div>

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:43:20 -0700
From: Bert Schulze <potassium.xyanide@googlemail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old... Message-ID: <1183106600.251129.215950@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

> apt-cache madison ...
> apt-cache's madison command attempts to mimic the output format and
> a subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool,
> madison. It displays available versions of a package in a tabular
> format. Unlike the original madison, it can only display information for
> the architecture for which APT has retrieved package lists
> (APT::Architecture).

>

Don't you think the list will be able to read the apt-cache manpage? (;

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:46:18 +0000
From: "Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian.... Message-ID: <BAY104-F21786B36CE55CC1CF9A5D791080@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed 

>From: Alan Ianson 
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....
>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:20:24 -0700
>
>On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 13:54 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>
>Sorry, this was meant fort the list.. :)
>

> > Dear Debianists,
> >
> > I have been working with an engineering modelling program called ASCEND.
> > You can get it from sourceforge and it has a wikipedia page.
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/
> >
> >
> > I have a version of it compiled on my AMD64 box here that works OK 
>courtesy

> > of the kind assistance of one of the developers, John Pye.
> >
> > I have been distracted with stuff for a while but I am eventually going 
>to

> > try to make a deb file for Etch for the AMD64 version of ASCEND and
> > distribute it.
> >
> > I have read a few web pages on making deb files and I guess there will 
>be a

> > steep learning curve involved to get the deb file checked out and 
>registered

> > (or whatever happens to them) by the Debian community.
>
>Good idea. If the package is useful to others why not try to get one of
>the debian developers or package maintainers to package it and have it
>added to the debian archive. They will need your assistance if they
>don't use the software themselves. They could likely roll it out without
>much further ado whereas you or I would lose some of our hair.. :)

Don't know where to look next?X

>
>It would need to enter experimental or unstable first so it may take
>time for it to become "stable".
>
>I forget exactly how to ask that a package be added to debian, something
>along the lines of a bug report requesting the software be packaged.
Can't find what you're looking for?X

I have started to read the Debian policy tome and will then move on to the maintainers guide tome. I will need to find out exactly what kind of license this software has got. Then I can figure out whether it belongs in Debian free or non free. 

>

> > However, the developers have made an Ubuntu deb file and put on the
> > sourceforge site where it can be downloaded. One of them suggested I 
>try to

> > get it to work under Debian Etch and see if it succeeds. I have a 32 
>bit

> > machine at work (AMD Duron 1200 MHz) that is running the i386 version of
> > Debian Etch 4.0 (r0) and I am going to try installing the deb file and 
>see

> > how it goes.....
> >
> > I downloaded the deb file from the following link:
> >
> >

>https://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=167528&filesize=4682680&filename=ascend_0.9.5.109-1feisty_i386.deb&36060585

I tried installing it on the i386 machine at work and I discovered that it needs llibsundials-serial0, python-matplotlib python-numpy and libktable. I couldn't find the sundial libraries anywhere in Synaptic in Etch 4.0 r(0) i386. Maybe they are there but under some different package name I don't recognise. I couldn't see python-matplotlib or python-numpy in there either. I guess libktable might be part of tktable. I am not sure if tktable is around in i386 Etch.
I am going to nose around on the internet and find individual deb files for these packages and copy them on to a CDROM. I will take them to work and manually install them on my machine with the dpkg command.

If you read the Debian policy tome then it says that there is a general email packages@debian.org or something that goes to a whole tribe of package maintainers somewhere.....
Is that where you are supposed to send an email asking if anyone is interested to help turn it all into a proper Debian package?

> >
> >
> > There is also a deb file in there for Ubuntu Edgy that apparently uses 

>the

> > Debian sundials libraries... Maybe that one would be easier to install 
>in

> > Etch.....
> >
> > The other dumb question I have is what do I do with the single deb file?
> > Normally I read loads of them in from the installation DVD's I burn from 
>the

> > iso files released by hte developers.
> >
> > I have never done anything with an isolated deb file like this before.
> >
> >
> > Can I do something like apt install /home/mikef/ascend/ascend_edgy.deb 
>and

> > it will work or is some other hocus pocus required?
>
>I do dpkg -i /path/to/the/newfile.deb in a case like that.
>
>It may have depends and hopefully they are already or can be satisfied.
>After running dpkg I run aptitude and see if it has any complaints or
>solutions.
>

> > Some useful information on building ASCEND in Ubuntu is here:
> >
> > http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/Building_ASCEND#Ubuntu_6.10
> >
> > >From looking at it I am not sure if all the dependent software will be
> > installed automatically, I think I will have to do some manual stuff as
> > well.
> >
> > Comments appreciated.
> >
> > I guess if I can get one of these deb files to work it could also be 
>billed

> > as a "new" Etch deb file.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Michael Fothergill
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > Who's that on the Red Carpet? Play & win glamorous prizes.
> > 
>
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> >
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:48:31 +0100
From: "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get install problem
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote:
> Hi
> =20
> I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK]
> i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK]

So far, so good
 =20
> I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and =
files.

Which ones?

> When I now run: apt-get install mediawiki
> =20
> It searches the repository tells me everything is OK and installs nothing.
> =20
> How do I reinstall?

According to what I can see in the repository, the "mediawiki" package=20 is just a metapackage. All it contains is a dependency on mediawiki1.7=20 (or 1.9, depending on your release).

The "leftovere" files you removed probably belong(ed) to mediawiki1.7=20 (or mediawiki1.9). If you blow that away (apt-get --purge remove ...)=20 and reinstall it, you might get somewhere...

Hope this helps
--=20
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karl(at)jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl(at)jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com =3D=3D=3D=3D Today's fortune:
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        An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:01:00 +0200
From: nicals wahlgren <niclas.wahlgren@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: new disk results in boot problem 

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Normally I am using one sata disk, no problem to boot from it. (using amd64 and sid, kernel 2.6.21.2-amd64)
But when I add another sata or ide disk from old Debian systems the system ends up in initramfs.
BIOS still says it boots from original disk.

How do I keep the system to boot from original sata disk when adding more disks?

/Niclas

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:44:17 +1000
From: "Robert S" <robert.spam.me.senseless@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: syslog-ng and etch
Message-ID: <f62nq1$mcr$1@sea.gmane.org>

I would like to replace syslog with syslog-ng on Etch. Am I likely to run into any problems with breakages etc if I do this?

TIA.

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:17:01 +0100
From: "Nick Adie" <nick.adie@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get install problem
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Karl,

Do you need more help?X

Thanks

Nick

On 6/29/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote: 

>

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK]
> > i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK]
>

> So far, so good
>

> > I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and
> files.

>
> Which ones?

All the MediaWiki1.7 folders, can't remember exactly.

> When I now run: apt-get install mediawiki
> >
> > It searches the repository tells me everything is OK and installs
> nothing.
> >
> > How do I reinstall?

>

> According to what I can see in the repository, the "mediawiki" package
> is just a metapackage. All it contains is a dependency on mediawiki1.7
> (or 1.9, depending on your release).
>

> The "leftovere" files you removed probably belong(ed) to mediawiki1.7
> (or mediawiki1.9). If you blow that away (apt-get --purge remove ...)
> and reinstall it, you might get somewhere...
>

> Hope this helps
> --
> Karl E. Jorgensen
> karl(at)jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/
> karl(at)jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com
> ==== Today's fortune:
> Booker's Law:
> An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
>

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Karl,


 


Thanks


 


Nick

 


On 6/29/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote:
> Hi
>
> I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK]

Can we help you?X


> i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK]

So far, so good

> I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and files.

Which ones?


 


All the MediaWiki1.7 folders, can't remember exactly.



> When I now run: apt-get install mediawiki
>
> It searches the repository tells me everything is OK and installs nothing.

>
> How do I reinstall?

According to what I can see in the repository, the "mediawiki" package
is just a metapackage. All it contains is a dependency on mediawiki1.7
(or 1.9, depending on your release).


The "leftovere" files you removed probably belong(ed) to mediawiki1.7
(or mediawiki1.9).  If you blow that away (apt-get --purge remove ...)
and reinstall it, you might get somewhere...

Hope this helps

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:50:14 +0200
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable

        at boot time 

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On 2007-06-28 15:17:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Change the 'auto eth0' line to 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead. That
> triggers the dhcp to happen when the device becomes available. That
> will probably workaround whatever problem you are experiencing. The
> allow-hotplug is now the default in Etch.

This doesn't work. Probably a kernel problem then. I've reported the bug.

> > How can I make pump (the DHCP client I'm using) to try again
> > periodically?

>=20
> I think it should already be trying again periodically.

It doesn't, even with 'allow-hotplug eth0'.

> Perhaps the timeout is very long. You might try dhcp3-client
> instead. I have had good luck with it.

I had problems with it in the past and users recommended pump instead.

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> > Note: When I'm in front of the machine, I still want to be able to
> > use it when the network is not available (to do some local work,
> > while waiting for the network to come back).
>=20
> Sure. Laptops operate that way a lot!

I have a laptop and I've always had to start pump manually or invoke netenv, depending on the context. Do they use 'allow-hotplug eth0' without anything else?

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:27:09 +0800
From: "Kun Niu" <haoniukun@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Can't see my bootsplash image. 

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:28:08 +0100
From: Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: syslog-ng and etch 

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On Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 20:44:17 +1000, Robert S wrote:
> I would like to replace syslog with syslog-ng on Etch. Am I likely to run
> into any problems with breakages etc if I do this?

  No.

Steve 

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