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debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1897

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1897

Today's Topics: 

  Re: Postscript conversion             [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Danguardian Problem?                  [ David Baron  ]
  Re: samba and files rename            [ Pol Hallen 

Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:59:32 +0200


From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Postscript conversion

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 16:38:25 +1000, Will Parkinson wrote:

> Just wondering if anybody knows how to convert a color postscript document 
> to a black and white one? I need to send it though a hylafax and the 
> quality is better if everything is black and white.

You can use ghostscript with the "psgray" device:



gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=psgray -sOutputFile=gray.ps color.ps


Do you need help?X

You can also try half-toned images produced by "psmono":



gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=psmono -sOutputFile=mono.ps color.ps


-- 
Regards,            | 
http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |


Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:17:07 +0100
From: Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ALSA problem - TV tuner no sound
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Michael Bonert wrote:

> I recently upgraded kernels (2.6.18-4-k7 -> 2.6.11-1-k7) and sound systems (OSS -> ALSA).
> 
> Sound, aside from the TV tuner, works fine.
> 
> My TV tuner worked like a snap under OSS and made use of the following drivers:
>  bttv
>  bt878
> 
> I've discovered that 'bttv' is need for 'xawtv' to load.  It appears
> to be essential for the video.
> bt878, as far as I can tell, is the OSS driver.
> 
> 
> I thought replacing 'bt878' with 'snd_bt87x' would be the fix -- NOPE.
> 
> I thought things might work with the compatibility package, i.e. 
> "apt-get install alsa-oss" & "apt-get install oss-compat" -- NOPE.
> 
> 
> I ran into this problem about 2 years ago (see: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-01/4381.html )
> -- gave-up and went back to OSS.  Seems the problem-- still isn't 
> resolved cleanly.
> 
> 
> I blacklisted 'bt878' as described here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/29789
> 
> # vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
> -----------------------------
> 	# added by MB - 2 Jul 2007
> 	# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/29789
> 	blacklist bt878
> -----------------------------
> 
> # vi /etc/discover.conf 
> -----------------------------
> 	# the following was added by MB -- to avoid that the OSS driver loads
> 	# see: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/alsa.html
> 	skip bt878
> -----------------------------
> The two things above avoided that 'bt878' loads on boot-up... but gots me no further ahead on the TV tuner sound.
> 
> 
> Software:
> ---------
> ALSA version:
> $ more /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC).
> 
> Kernel:
> $ more /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.18-4-k7 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (waldi@debian.org) 
> (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #
> 1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:57:15 UTC 2007
> ---------
> 
> 
> I read about a problem with artsd (KDE), bttv and ALSA.  Turning off the KDE sound system didn't change things.
> 
> 
> Looking at the modules...
> $ more /proc/asound/modules
>  0 snd_emu10k1
>  1 snd_mpu401
> 
> ---------
> I haven't figured-out what 'snd_mpu401' is... 
> 
> 
> I did try:
> # modprobe -r snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart
> 	This didn't make a change I noticed (other sound still worked).
> 
> 
> It bothers me that I only find my sound card:
> # cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [Live           ]: EMU10K1 - SBLive 5.1 [SB0060]
>                       SBLive 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102) at 0xd400, irq 217
>  1 [UART           ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
>                       MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10
> ---------
> I'm not sure what 'MPU-401' is. (My sound card uses: 'snd_emu10k1'.)
> 
> 
> 'lspci' finds the sound hardware:
> $ lspci 
> <snippage>
> 01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
> 01:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
> 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
> 01:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07)
> <snippage>
> ---------
> 
> 
> My impression is that the problem lies at the level of the kernel-- after
> looking at the boot log with 'dmesg':
> 
> If I block loading of 'bt878' with blacklisting in "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" and "/etc/discover.conf" dmesg looks like:
> 
> $ dmesg |grep bt
> bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
> bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:01:07.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe4000000
> bttv0: detected: ATI TV Wonder [card=63], PCI subsystem ID is 1002:0001
> bttv0: using: ATI TV-Wonder [card=63,autodetected]
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
> bttv0: using tuner=19
> bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
> msp3400 2-0040: MSP3430G-A4 found @ 0x80 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
> tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> bttv0: registered device video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> bttv0: unloading
> bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
> bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:01:07.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe4000000
> bttv0: detected: ATI TV Wonder [card=63], PCI subsystem ID is 1002:0001
> bttv0: using: ATI TV-Wonder [card=63,autodetected]
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
> msp3400 2-0040: MSP3430G-A4 found @ 0x80 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> bttv0: using tuner=19
> bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
> bttv0: registered device video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 . ok
> bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
> bt878_probe: card id=[0x11002], Unknown card.
> bt878: probe of 0000:01:07.1 failed with error -22
> bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
> btaudio: driver version 0.7 loaded [digital+analog]
> btaudio: Bt878 (rev 2) at 01:07.1, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe4001000
> btaudio: using card config "default"
> btaudio: registered device dsp1 [digital]
> btaudio: registered device dsp2 [analog]
> btaudio: registered device mixer2
> bttv0: unloading
> btaudio: driver version 0.7 loaded [digital+analog]
> btaudio: Bt878 (rev 2) at 01:07.1, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe4001000
> btaudio: using card config "default"
> btaudio: registered device dsp1 [digital]
> btaudio: registered device dsp2 [analog]
> btaudio: registered device mixer2
> bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
> bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:01:07.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe4000000
> bttv0: detected: ATI TV Wonder [card=63], PCI subsystem ID is 1002:0001
> bttv0: using: ATI TV-Wonder [card=63,autodetected]
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
> msp3400 2-0040: MSP3430G-A4 found @ 0x80 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> bttv0: using tuner=19
> bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
> bttv0: registered device video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
> -------------------
> 
> Without modifications to "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" and "/etc/discover.conf":
> 
> $ dmesg |grep bt
> bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
> bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:01:07.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe4000000
> bttv0: detected: ATI TV Wonder [card=63], PCI subsystem ID is 1002:0001
> bttv0: using: ATI TV-Wonder [card=63,autodetected]
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
> bttv0: using tuner=19
> bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
> msp3400 2-0040: MSP3430G-A4 found @ 0x80 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
> tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
> bttv0: registered device video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
> bt878_probe: card id=[0x11002], Unknown card.
> bt878: probe of 0000:01:07.1 failed with error -22
> bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
> -------------------
> 
> I have the feeling that the kernel doesn't play nice with the bt878 driver.
> ( bt878: probe of 0000:01:07.1 failed with error -22 )
> 
> The 'BTTV HOWTO' ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/BTTV/ ) 
> looked good.  I gave it a read... but it didn't help me further.
> 
> 
> The questions I have are:
> 1. Is there anything specific one has to do to enable the 'alsa-oss' package?
> 2. Is there an easy way to downgrade to OSS?
> 3. What role does the driver 'btaudio' have?
> 4. How can I further trouble shoot the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 
> Hardware:
> ========================================
> Athlon 2200 XP
> ASUS A7N8X (Motherboard)
> 512 MB RAM
> 
> TVCard: ATI-TV Wonder
> Sound: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 
> 
> Software:
> ========================================
> Debian GNU/Linux -- testing
> Kernel -- Linux version 2.6.18-4-k7 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:57:15 UTC 2007
> KDE -- 3.5.7
> 


A similar problem was resolved in the recent thread "Some ALSA apps stopped
working" [1]. As far as I know, OSS apps (eg XMMS, which is configured for OSS
by default) should work under ALSA, but they require the /dev/dsp device. You do
not need the alsa-oss package for this.

I suggest that you check that /dev/dsp exists:

	# file /dev/dsp
	/dev/dsp: ERROR: cannot open `/dev/dsp' (No such file or directory)

If you get an error, re-create it and check again:

	# modprobe snd_pcm_oss

	# file /dev/dsp
	/dev/dsp: character special (14/3)

Check that your OSS app now works.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg02712.html

-- 
Chris.



Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:40:54 +0200
From: Sjoerd Hardeman <srhardem@science.uva.nl>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Strange symbols in konqueror blank page and metabar
Message-ID: <468CAE96.4070903@science.uva.nl>
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When I open a new tab with no content (about:blank) in konqueror, I get
a bunch of Chinese looking symbols. I've pasted the contents below:
=E3=B1=A8=E7=91=AD=E6=B0=BE=E3=B1=A8=E6=95=A1=E6=90=BE=E3=B1=B4=E6=A5=B4=E6=
=B1=A5=E3=B9=A1=E6=89=AF=E7=95=B4=E3=A9=A2=E6=B1=A1=E6=B9=AB=E3=B0=AF=E7=91=
=A9=E7=91=AC=E6=94=BE=E3=B0=AF=E6=A1=A5=E6=85=A4=E3=B8=BC=E6=89=AF=E6=91=B9=
=E3=B8=BC=E2=BD=A2=E6=BD=A4=E7=A4=BE=E3=B0=AF=E6=A1=B4=E6=B5=AC

Also, when I open the metabar, such signs show instead of a normal
metabar. Does anybody else have this problem? Thanks for any help.

Sjoerd



Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:44:55 +0100
From: Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: backports
Message-ID: <468CAF87.4090607@untrammelled.co.uk>
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Hello Steffen and Florian.

Steffen Joeris wrote:

> HI mate
> 

[...]

> 
> white@katha:~$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key 4B2B2B9E
> gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server keyring.debian.org
> gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: "Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>" not 
> changed
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:              unchanged: 1
> 
> 
> Works here. Maybe you should check your connection, it should be able to reach 
> keyring.debian.org .
> 


Strange. I can ping the Debian keyserver:

$ ping keyring.debian.org
PING keyring.debian.org (192.25.206.59) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from raff.debian.org (192.25.206.59): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=158 ms

but I cannot get the key from it. This is for a new user "dave":

dave@desktop:/home/chris$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key
4B2B2B9Egpg: directory `/home/dave/.gnupg' created
gpg: can't open `/gnupg/options.skel': No such file or directory
gpg: keyring `/home/dave/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/home/dave/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server keyring.debian.org
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: read_block: read error: invalid packet
gpg: Total number processed: 0
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error


The public keyserver works on the first occasion:

dave(at)desktop:/home/chris$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 4B2B2B9E
gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: /home/dave/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: public key "Daniel Baumann
<daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

but when I try again I get the message "1 new signature" and the keyserver times
out:

dave(at)desktop:/home/chris$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 4B2B2B9E
gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: "Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>" 1 new
signature
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:         new signatures: 1
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

Next time I get the message "not changed" and the keyserver times out.

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 4B2B2B9E
gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: "Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>" not
changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

Florian Kulzer wrote:

> The "ultimately trusted" key should be your own. Did you experiment with
> gpg in the past and generate a key (pair) which you deleted again?


The new user "dave" had not previously used gpg.

Perhaps I need to configure an ultimately trusted key (for the new user) to
avoid these keyserver errors?

-- 
Chris.



Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:02:07 +0200
From: "Ph. Marek" <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Problem bootstrapping a sarge installation
Message-Id: <200707051102.08215.philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at>
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Hello everybody,

I'd like to use some newer packages on an old installation (Suse 7.3, 
with 2.4.25 running).

As there are no new packages available, I'd have to compile them myself; 
but that would mean upgrading a lot of system libraries, too (like libxml 
and others), which could make problems with other installed software.

So I had the idea to put the binaries in a chroot jail.
Sadly that doesn't work, as current (unstable) packages include a newer
ld-linux.so which says "FATAL: kernel too old".

So I'd like to get a minimum installation of an older debian release.


I try 
	/usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch i386 sarge /home/flip/download/apache2-deb/ http://http.us.debian.org/debian
but get 
	...
	I: Validating libcap1
	I: Validating libcomerr2
	I: Validating libconsole
	I: Validating libdb1-compat
	I: Validating libdb2
	I: Validating libdb3
	E: Couldn't download libdevmapper1.00

Any other ideas? Why can't it download that package?


Thank you for your help!


Regards,

Phil



Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:01:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: Kent Tong <kent@cpttm.org.mo>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  disable saving persistent net rules
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Hi,

How can I prevent udev from saving the MAC address of eth0 into the
persistent net rules file? I am using Debian Etch.

Thanks!



Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:40:22 +0300
From: David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Danguardian Problem?
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Takes a long long time to start. Any ideas?


Do you need more help?X

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:23:22 +0200
From: Pol Hallen <grungadeben@fuckaround.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mat=EDas_Palomec?= <matias.nnss@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: samba and files rename
Message-ID: <468CD4AA.1080608@fuckaround.org>
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> So when you remane the X file to "x", really windows doesn't care
> about it. I have a samba installed at work and I tested it, and when I
> rename the file in my Debian its OK, but when I rename the file in
> Windows is just an ilution (it never remanes if I just change the
> case). But it changes the name in the server when I change really the
> name (from "x" to "othe name").

Ok,
if i try to rename (from win host) the whole file then the rename is 
correct (i rewrite whole file) but if i rename only some letters don't 
happen.

Thanks

Pol



Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:28:03 +0200
From: Philipp Kalder <pkalder@kalder.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: trouble detecting my network card
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Sorry,

allright the issue is closed or rather solved. I instellaed it via the
cd standard installation. Like I said, that worked. Allthough I do get a
error message in the upper Panle that there is no network
connection. ???????
Whatsoever that means. I guess its the cable! I don't know where I got
it from but it's not 4 Twisted-Pairs of wire. Its just two or 1 and a
half. Weired. But it works . . . 
Thanks for the help so far . . . 

Greetings
Philipp
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello there,

I was trying to install Debian etch on an "older" (2003/ AMD Athlon 1700
+ System. But the installer was unable to correctly detect or rather
install the correct driver for my network card.
It's an OnBoard chip on an AsRock K7VT2 Board using a VIA KT266A
Chipset.
The installer requests a Floppy with the driver. Oh, by the way: The
driver has a download size of 3,05MB.

Other Distros like Ubuntu 7.04 do correctly detect it. But I want to use
Debian. So is there any way to fix this? Easily?

Greetings Philipp
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Some more detailed information:

Installing Etch in as virtual machine using virtualbox I faced no error.
I used the standard installer (textmode). On this AMD-System I tried
expert-mode, expertgui-mode, installgui-mode with the mentioned result.
Installing as usual the Installer was able to determine and set up my
Network Card.

Sounds like a problem with the installer?

Greetings Philipp



Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:57:26 -0300
From: Zoho Vignochi <zoho.vignochi@gmail.com>
To: Debian-User list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Text focus
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Hello,

I have a problem with text/cursor focus. I use GNOME from unstable.
Sometimes I will start my webbrowser, epiphany, and type in a url I am
interested in. Once the page loads I click in a text box on the webpage
and type but nothing happens. I have to go back and click on the url
text box, type something, and then I can go and type in the text box on
the webpage. 

If this only happened in epiphany I could blame the browser but it
happens in evolution mailer, gnome terminal, and gedit with slightly
different circumstances. 

For gedit if I have two tabs open, and I am editing tex files, sometimes
when I switch back and forth between tabs I can't type in the new tab. I
have to go back to the tab I was just typing in and give it focus, type
something, and then I can go back to the second tab. 

In evolution I haven't discovered why something I can't type but I will
open a new message and simply can't type in any text fields. I have to
shutdown evolution and start it up again!

I use metacity for my window manager if that matters. Does anyone have
any ideas of what might be causing this problem?

Zoho



Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:38:03 +0000 (UTC)
From: Christoph Pilka <c.pilka@slashconcept.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Howto for ADempiere ERP under Debian Etch released
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Dear community,

looking for an ERP system for our purposes we decided to use ADempiere
which fulfills all the features we need. We know from experience that
to setup ADempiere is not a trivial procedure. So we documented all steps
in-depth attaching our ADempiere instance. For all of you interested in
ADempiere running on a Debian Etch server you'll find the complete and
working step-by-step Howto at

http://blog.slashconcept.com/2007/07/04/adempiere-erp-unter-debian-linux-=
40-etch-howto/

The Howto is written in German but the steps described therein are
self-explanatory. With increasing demand I'll translate it into English.
So if you like you can leave any questions and proposals using the blog's
comment function.

Regards,
Christoph Pilka



Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 10:28:39 +0200
From: "Gudjon I. Gudjonsson" <gudjon@gudjon.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)
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Hi
   Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I tried 
to install it with debootstrap but I can only make it boot on kernel 2.6.8. 
When I try to boot on kernel 2.4 it shows the message
/sbin/init 432: cannot open dev/console
I did not find any helpful recommendations on the internet but I hope the 
install disk works.

Thanks
Gudjon



Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:33:38 -0400
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Floppy disk filesystem
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:47:09AM -0000, rocky wrote:

> 
> I'm following Pocket Linux Guide from www.tldp.org. The 2nd chapter
> 2.3.1 talks about prepare the book disk media.
> 
> I got a blank floppy disk, inserted it in and did the following
> $-----code1 begin---------$
> ronie:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440
> dd: writing `/dev/fd0': Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.803137 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
> $-----code1 end--------$


If you get an error in one command, don't expect sucess is later
commands.  '0+0 records out', 'Input/output error'.  These things should
tell you something.

Doug.



Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:52:19 -0400
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:01:16PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to do
> may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn my
> data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content into a hard
> disk I got I/O errors and some directories could not be copied.
> 
> The problem disappeared when I changed the DVD with a brand new one, but now I
> feel not sure: how can I know when my actual backup DVD should in case be
> damaged as well?  Is there any tool for that?
> 


Look at cdck.  

The procedure I use is to verify the burn (I happen to use K3B which has
a verify option) which calculates the md5sum of the image file and the
CD/DVD and compares them.  Then I use cdck to do finer-grained testing.

Here's the readme for cdck:


CD/DVD check tools
==================

Actually cdck is a simple program to verify CD/DVD quality. The known
fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable, some sectors
having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the future.

To get an idea about disc cdck reads it sector by sector, keeping all
reading timings and then tells you its verdict. Optionally it can write
timing table into text file usable by gnuplot(1) program, so you can draw
some graphs out of it.



Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:04:39 -0300
From: Zoho Vignochi <zoho.vignochi@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: System freeze when copying files
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Hello,

There was a thread back in Feb:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00129.html regrading a
total system freeze while copying files. I have the same problem. Cannot
ssh in, no response at all from the keyboard and I must reboot via the
power button. The two computers in question are a PPC Oopen Desktop
Workstation and a Linksys NSLU2. Both have debian sid installed. 

hdparm for the PPC.
/dev/hda:
 multcount     = 16 (on)
 IO_support    =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq     =  1 (on)
 using_dma     =  1 (on)
 keepsettings  =  0 (off)
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 geometry      = 16383/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0

The NSLU2 has a 1 GB usb keychain (sda) which the os is installed on and
a 100 GB external USB hard drive (sdb) for data storage.

/dev/sda:
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 121/255/63, sectors = 1952767, start = 0

/dev/sdb:
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0

No matter what I do, the PPC freezes hard if I try to transfer a file
larger than 1 GB. The NSLU2 does not freeze. Here are the methods I have
tried all of which caused a hard freeze before the file was completely
transferred.

1) Mount the partition from the NSLU2 over nfsv4 and cp a file
2) Mount the partition from the NSLU2 over ssh using fuse and cp a file
3) scp the file from PPC to NSLU2
4) scp the file from NSLU2 to PPC
5) wget from the NSLU2 to a file offered up on a webserver located on
the PPC.

The previous thread noted that DMA should be turned on. Can you do that
for a usb external harddrive? And might that be the reason for the hard
freeze? Like I said, the NSLU2 does not freeze but the PPC does.

Thanks for any advice,

Zoho

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