Hosting Provided By

debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1911

From: <debian-user-digest-request(at)lists.debian.org>
Date: Sat Jul 07 2007 - 13:38:34 EDT

Content-Type: text/plain

debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1911

Today's Topics:

  Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [  [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: lenny comfortable yet?            [ Alan Ianson  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ andy  ]
  Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilati  [ Alan Ianson  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ andy  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ Tom Rauchenwald  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ Jeff D  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ andy  ]
  Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0  [ ArcticFox  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ Jeff D  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ Wayne Topa  ]
  Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidt  [ Ron Johnson  ]
  Re: Installing a JRE plug-in          [ andy  ]

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:23:50 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [SOLVED]

Message-ID: <20070707152350.GA16794@localhost>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 19:49:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:

[...]

> I've now discovered why /dev/dsp disappeared - /dev/dsp is deleted when I run
> alsaconf! This might be related to unreproducible bug #406738: alsa-utils:
> Running alsaconf stops sound card from working[1]. Not quite the same because my
> sound card(s) work but the OSS apps (eg XMMS) do not.
>
> Should I report this as a new bug?

Do you need help?

I am not even sure if this is really a bug. It seems that alsaconf loads the correct alsa driver in your case. This is all it is supposed to do, if I understand the script correctly. (The relevant line is "modprobe $CARD_DRIVER".) I do not know if this is supposed to trigger the loading of snd_pcm_oss. (Some people might not want to have the OSS legacy support modules loaded by default.)

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

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:20:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0707070916110.9628@proto.technobounce.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
> Dear each
>
> Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I need
> for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the
> appropriate plug-in), but:
> (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
> (ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
>
> Many thanks
>
> A
>
>
The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude install sun-java6-bin -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:11:15 -0700 From: Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lenny comfortable yet? Message-id: <200707070811.15814.agianson@gmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline On Sat July 7 2007 07:54:21 am Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > Check your locale settings. I think that starting with Etch, the
> > default locale is set to a UTF8 locale. That means that every
> > application has to treat everything as unicode. AIUI, that makes things
> > slower. This is espcially noticable on an older machine.
>
> Thanks. Its probably set to en_CA.UTF-8. I'm not convinced I need it
> on any of my systems. Having some UTF and others 'C' makes it a pain
> when ssh-ing back and forth, running things like mutt and mc, and runing
> X apps.
My default locale is en_CA although I compile a few others as well. A couple of the apps I use on the console don't look right when I use UTF-8. BTW, I installed lenny last night with unstable lines added to sources.list. I installed gnome for the desktop along with nspluginwrapper & friends and it installed without issue. I can't get x to start up though, it can't seem to find the nvidia driver. I'm going to go and see if I can make it work now and if not switch over to the nv driver for the time being.

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:19:42 +0100 From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <468FBD1E.7030004@dsl.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Martin Marcher wrote:
>> Hi Martin
>>
>> Thanks for this info - I wasn't aware of a native Debian install.
>>
>> However, now that I have installed sun-java6-jre & bin the plug-in still
>> doesn't appear to work. Has this been your experience, and if so do you
>> have a suggestion on how to work this or ... ?
>
> forgetting everytime that gmail doesn't handle mailing lists well.
>
> make a symlink from your JRE_HOME (in your case the same as java home)
> to you mozilla plugins directory
>
> e.g ln -s $JAVA_HOME/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> ~/.mozilla/<profile>/plugins
>
> paths may differ but in general that's the manual way how to do that.
> Also I suggest that you make a symlink something like
>
> ln -s ~/actual_java_version ~/java
>
> this way you will have a stable JAVA_HOME and just need to replace the
> symlink ~/java points to everything else will follow automagically
> then (which was the case when i was using linux as a desktop system on
> all the boxes i used, so it seems quite stable)
>
Hi Apologies if this sounds really dumb, but I can't track down where sun-java6-jre was installed, so can't really make any symlinks until I track it down. Thanks A -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:01:47 -0700 From: Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21 Message-id: <200707070801.47064.agianson@gmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline On Sat July 7 2007 05:00:06 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Jim McCloskey wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia
> > graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia
> > kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all
> > worked fine.
> >
> > A few days later, I upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2-686 (from
> > lenny) to resolve a problem with the on-board audio controller:
> >
> > Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
> > (rev 01)
> >
> > The kernel upgrade did indeed resolve the problem with the audio
> > controller, but it meant a re-install of the nvidia kernel module. I
> > tried to do that as follows:
> >
> > % aptitude install nvidia-kernel-common
> > % module-assistant -i prepare
> > % module-assistant a-i -t -f nvidia-kernel
> >
> > However, the build failed. The crucial error seems to be this (from
> > /var/cache/modass/nvidia-kernel-source.buildlog.2.6.21-2-686.1183784666):
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > LD [M] /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nvidia.o
> > Building modules, stage 2.
> > MODPOST 1 modules
> > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol
> > 'paravirt_ops' make[4]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> > make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.21-2-686'
> > NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
> > nvidia.ko failed to build!
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The compiler used was gcc-4.1 version 4.1.1 (the kernel seems to have
> > been compiled with 4.1.2), but the error-message seems to suggest that
> > the issue is in some sense legal rather than technical.
> >
> > (There is a similar bug report---No. 430577---against the
> > nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx package.)
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this problem, or does it come from some
> > stupidity on my part? I could use the nvidia installer, I suppose,
> > but I'd really prefer to do things the Debian way. Does anyone know of
> > a workaround?
>
> Extensively discussed here:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=90214
Very informative thread, thanks for posting that. After following a few links I ended up at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419943 . At the end of that page it says paravirt_ops is no longer a GPL-only export. I'm very much looking forward to that filtering down into the debian kernel for lenny. I just installed it yesterday and it's ready to go but gdm won't fire up, I think that's an x problem though but I'll switch over to the nv driver for now until I can get whatever needs sorting sorted.
> The problem is that post 2.6.18 Debian kernels have PARAVIRT_CONFIG and
> nvidia does not like that.
>
> You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that off (Note: but in that
> case I had hard hangs in qemu!) *or* use the descriptions in that page
> to rebuild the kbuild .deb and install nvidia so it does not mind paravirt.
>
> You'll hit the problem both with m-a *and* the nvidia installer.
>
> Hugo

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:29:54 +0100 From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <468FBF82.7070501@dsl.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff D wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>
>> Dear each
>>
>> Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which
>> I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which
>> is the appropriate plug-in), but:
>> (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
>> (ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> A
>>
>>
>
> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude install
> sun-java6-bin
>
>
Thanks I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it reports that java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue Martin's earlier suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down where sun-java6-jre was installed. A -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:39:47 +0200 From: Tom Rauchenwald <its.sec@gmx.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <87d4z45fsc.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> Jeff D wrote:
>>
>> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
>> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude
>> install sun-java6-bin
>>
>>
> Thanks
>
> I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of
> the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it reports
> that java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue Martin's earlier
> suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down where sun-java6-jre was
> installed.
Have you installed sun-java6-plugin as well? I thought it would be pulled in automagically, but i might have been wrong.
> A
Tom

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:45:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0707070941130.9628@proto.technobounce.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
> Jeff D wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>>
>>> Dear each
>>>
>>> Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I
>>> need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the
>>> appropriate plug-in), but:
>>> (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
>>> (ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>>
>>> A
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
>> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude install
>> sun-java6-bin
>>
>>
> Thanks
>
> I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of the
> three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it reports that java6
> is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue Martin's earlier suggestion re:
> symlinks, but cannot track down where sun-java6-jre was installed.
>
> A
>
>
Thats odd, it should create a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you? it should give you something like this: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.

Do you need more help?

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:44:54 +0100 From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <468FC306.6040801@dsl.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom Rauchenwald wrote:
> andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
>
>
>> Jeff D wrote:
>>
>>> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
>>> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude
>>> install sun-java6-bin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of
>> the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it reports
>> that java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue Martin's earlier
>> suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down where sun-java6-jre was
>> installed.
>>
>
> Have you installed sun-java6-plugin as well? I thought it would be
> pulled in automagically, but i might have been wrong.
>
>
Yes Tom, I did install the plug-in. A -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:49:28 -0500 From: ArcticFox <genkokitsu@insightbb.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0 Message-Id: <a027461ca0f33489fca4e71f55489630@insightbb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:24:52 -0500, ArcticFox wrote:
>> On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Kent West wrote:
>>> ArcticFox wrote:
>
> [ snip: sftp does not work from Apple box to Debian server, while ssh
> does work. ]
>
>>> You might "tail /var/log/auth.log" for clues.
>>
>> All that tells me is there was a ssh session opened for root then
>> closed a second later. No error messages or anything useful.
>
> I would first try to get it working for a normal user (see below).
>
ssh works for a normal user but not for root, sftp doesn't work for either. But I agree, one problem at a time.
> [...]
>
>>>> Also, I don't know if this is related, but attempting to connect
>>>> through ssh as root gets a "Bad Password" message, yet the
>>>> password is accepted when used locally.
>>>
>>> IIRC, it used to be that sshd_config had "PermitRootLogin=no", but I
>>> think in more recent times it's set to yes (which seems unwise to
>>> me).
>
> Have a look at /etc/pam.d/login, you will probably see this:
>
> # Disallows root logins except on tty's listed in /etc/securetty
> # (Replaces the `CONSOLE' setting from login.defs)
> auth requisite pam_securetty.so
>
> AFAIK, this can block remote root logins even if sshd_config allows
> them.
>
> I agree with Kent that it is better not to allow remote root logins.
Unless you guys have a suggestion that'll let me run root commands as a normal user I kinda have to. Trying to sudo get me the message 'Fox is not in the sudoers file, this incident will be reported.'
>
> It would be nice to have more debugging output from the client. Try to
> run this on the Apple box:
>
> sftp -v username@host
>
> and post the output here. (Replace "username" and "host" as is
> appropriate for your Debian system; you will be prompted for the
> password.)
>
> (I hope that OS X, being BSD based, still has the normal sftp utility.)
>
Here's what it spit out: Last login: Sat Jul 7 11:38:30 on console Welcome to Darwin! genkos-Computer:~ genko$ sftp -v fox@10.0.0.150 Connecting to 10.0.0.150... OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to 10.0.0.150 [10.0.0.150] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /Users/genko/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/genko/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version lshd-2.0.2 lsh - a GNU ssh debug1: no match: lshd-2.0.2 lsh - a GNU ssh debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.5 debug1: An invalid name was supplied Cannot determine realm for numeric host address debug1: An invalid name was supplied Cannot determine realm for numeric host address debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client 3des-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server 3des-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_INIT debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY debug1: Host '10.0.0.150' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /Users/genko/.ssh/known_hosts:6 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: password,publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /Users/genko/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /Users/genko/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Next authentication method: password fox@10.0.0.150's password: debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Sending subsystem: sftp Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0 Connection closed

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:48:30 +0100 From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <468FC3DE.9040800@dsl.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff D wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>
>> Jeff D wrote:
>>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear each
>>>>
>>>> Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE,
>>>> which I need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin
>>>> (which is the appropriate plug-in), but:
>>>> (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
>>>> (ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks
>>>>
>>>> A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
>>> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude
>>> install sun-java6-bin
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any
>> of the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it
>> reports that java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue Martin's
>> earlier suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down where
>> sun-java6-jre was installed.
>>
>> A
>>
>>
>
> Thats odd, it should create a symlink to
> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so
>
> what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you?
> it should give you something like this:
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
Jeff It gives me something very similar: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so I wasn't aware of that command to be honest, so hence was using find and whereis. Thanks - now onto symlinking. Do I have to do this with Konqueror, Galeon, and Opera as well as Iceweasel? A -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:09:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0707070957180.9628@proto.technobounce.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
> Jeff D wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff D wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear each
>>>>>
>>>>> Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE, which I
>>>>> need for a course. I have downloaded jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is
>>>>> the appropriate plug-in), but:
>>>>> (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
>>>>> (ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> A
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
>>>> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude install
>>>> sun-java6-bin
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of the
>>> three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it reports that
>>> java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue Martin's earlier
>>> suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down where sun-java6-jre was
>>> installed.
>>>
>>> A
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thats odd, it should create a symlink to
>> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so
>>
>> what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you?
>> it should give you something like this:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>>
> Jeff
>
> It gives me something very similar:
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> I wasn't aware of that command to be honest, so hence was using find and
> whereis.
>
> Thanks - now onto symlinking. Do I have to do this with Konqueror, Galeon,
> and Opera as well as Iceweasel?
>
> A
>
I can only speak for iceweasel, but there should be a link in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so If everything has been installed from apt you really shouldn't need to symlink anything. in iceweasel, if you put about:plugins in the address bar, does it show that the java plugin is loaded? -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:09:52 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <20070707170952.GB6005@buddy.mtntop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline andy(geek_show@dsl.pipex.com) is reported to have said:
> Jeff D wrote:
> >On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
<--<snip>-->
>
> I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any of
> the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it reports
> that java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue Martin's earlier
> suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down where sun-java6-jre was
> installed.
There are packages that will help you find things. apt-cache show findutils would be a start. Wayne -- It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. _______________________________________________________

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:18:12 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth Message-ID: <468FCAD4.2020104@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/07/07 09:31, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Matthew K Poer wrote:
>> On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a
>>> 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon
>>> the first get messages of the day); I'm using only IMAP.
>>>
>>> I think this is due to the fact that it builds a summary (the one shown
>>> in the right bottom corner of the screen) of the new arrived emails by
>>> inspecting all the IMAP folders.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to disable this feature? I couldn't find it in the
>>> preferences...
>>>
>>> thanks in advance
>>> Lorenzo
>>>
>> Look under preferances for a setting called "Fetch Message Headers
>> Only." That should save you from having to download each message at once.
>>
>
> with IMAP I only fetch message headers only (and actually I didn't find
> that option in the preferences); I think the problem still persists also
> when downloading message headers only: thunderbird seems to inspect all
> the folders for new message headers to show the summary... I'd like to
> get rid of that summary...
Ah. Right-click on each folder and choose Properties. Make sure that the "Check this folder for new messages" box is un-checked. Other than that, I think you'll have to suffer. Or revert to Tbird 1.5. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:16:27 +0100 From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Installing a JRE plug-in Message-ID: <468FCA6B.4040600@dsl.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff D wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>
>> Jeff D wrote:
>>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jeff D wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear each
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE,
>>>>>> which I need for a course. I have downloaded
>>>>>> jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but:
>>>>>> (i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
>>>>>> (ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
>>>>> /etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude
>>>>> install sun-java6-bin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any
>>>> of the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it
>>>> reports that java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue
>>>> Martin's earlier suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down
>>>> where sun-java6-jre was installed.
>>>>
>>>> A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thats odd, it should create a symlink to
>>> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so
>>>
>>> what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you?
>>> it should give you something like this:
>>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> It gives me something very similar:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>>
>> I wasn't aware of that command to be honest, so hence was using find
>> and whereis.
>>
>> Thanks - now onto symlinking. Do I have to do this with Konqueror,
>> Galeon, and Opera as well as Iceweasel?
>>
>> A
>>
>
> I can only speak for iceweasel, but there should be a link in
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to
> /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so
>
> If everything has been installed from apt you really shouldn't need to
> symlink anything.
>
> in iceweasel, if you put about:plugins in the address bar, does it
> show that the java plugin is loaded?
>
>
Jeff Yes, about:plugins shows 3 main groups of application/x-java-bean, x-java-vm, and x-java-applet Am I supposed to be seeing something in addition to these? A -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #1911 ************************************************** Received on Sat Jul 7 13:37:51 2007

This message: [ Message body ]
Next message: debian-user-digest-request(at)lists.debian.org: "debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1912"
Previous message: debian-user-digest-request(at)lists.debian.org: "debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1910"

Contemporary messages sorted: [ By Date ] [ By Thread ] [ By Subject ] [ By Author ] [ By messages with attachments ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Mon Jul 09 2007 - 08:50:34 EDT

Can we help you?