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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2107

Today's Topics:

  Re: video editing of digicam avi fil  [ Andrew Sackville-West  ]
  Re: eclipse, amd64, lenny             [ Hans Gubitz  ]
  Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?  [ Kamaraju S Kusumanchi  ]
  Re: Filesystem corruption on md (Sof  [ michael@estone.ca ]
  Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware  [ Ron Johnson  ]
  Re: ntfs mount errors                 [ David Brodbeck  ]
  Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware  [ Kamaraju S Kusumanchi  ]

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:19:21 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: video editing of digicam avi files Message-ID: <20070806161921.GK23207@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:13:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/05/07 11:12, H.S. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi
> > files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what
> > steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too
> > concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi
> > files, I suppose I would need to have either 24 or 30 fps.
>=20
> avifile-utils and mencoder are where I would start.

Do you need help?

I would second the use of mencoder. I've dont it with videos from my Canon A80. mencoder has too many options, but something along the lines of:

mencoder mymovie.avi -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts \ vcodec=3Dmpeg4:acodec=3Dmp3:vhq -o mymovie.mpg

that is not going to work, but should get you started. Sometimes mencoder gives good error messages about what you need to do and the man page is pretty extensive.

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:02:07 +0100
From: graham <graham@theseamans.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: cups yet again

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Yet another cups problem (the one program which makes me feel like I do when running windows - like putting a foot through the computer).

I have a standard printer with a reliable driver (Brother HL5040). It was working using the parallel port on my old PC. Said PC died, replaced it with a new one, installed 64bit lenny. Configured cups for printer, all appears ok (ie. ppd file ok, printer status recognized etc). On printing anything at all (including the test page) all I get is what appears to be misinterpreted postscript. One line of gibberish per page, followed by a page feed. Feels like I've hit a time warp and ended up in 1990.

Any ideas? Logs are quiet. cupsd.conf refers to a /var/run/cups/printcap, which doesn't exist, but says it will be created automatically (there's no /etc/printcap)

Have uninstalled and reinstalled cupsys, no change.

Thanks
Graham

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:42:13 +0200
From: Hans Gubitz <gubitz@netcologne.de> To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: eclipse, amd64, lenny
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Sorry, solved.

I manually updated /etc/eclipse/java_home

Hans

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:51:28PM +0200, Hans Gubitz wrote:
> Hi,

>=20

> eclipse worked well on a new amd64-machine with lenny (About two
> months ago).

>=20

> Now: after some upgrades of lenny, eclipse doesn't start any longer,
> just eats both processors, all ram and swap and the machine dies.

>=20

> Any hints?

>=20

> Hans
> --=20
> Hans Gubitz <gubitz@netcologne.de>

>=20

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:08:50 -0400
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?

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John Hasler wrote:

> Ron Johnson wrote:

>> python-apt broke, and was fixed soon after.  Unless you are running
>> Stable, you are supposed to tolerate this kind of activity.
>=20

> Vincent Lef=C3=A8vre writes:

>> These kinds of answers really become annoying. Why should I if there i= s a

>> better solution?
>=20

> What is it?

The point of this thread is to find out if there is a better solution. I think the question is perfectly legitimate one to ask considering the apt-listchanges' fiasco over the last couple of days.

To the OP, sadly there is no alternative for apt-listchanges other than manually going to http://packages.debian.org/changelog:packagename and checking out the changelogs manually.=20

Confused? Frustrated?

hth
raju

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:22:01 -0400
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware

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Samuel B=C3=A4chler wrote:

> Hi Everyone

>=20

> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old
> desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such
> as web- and mail-sever.
> I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.

>=20

> Question A:
> Can someone recommend a router with the following properties:
> -NAT
> -port forwarding

>=20

I can vouch for Linksys WRT54G v 2. I dont know if the later versions are= as
good as this. But this one does both the jobs you mentioned perfectly fin= e.
I also had a pretty bad experience with D-Link routers. The connection us= ed
to drop after some time for no reason. However there are no such problems with the wrt54g routers.

Another option is to get hold of some old hardware and build your own router.

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:27:54 -0400
From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Syntax error in bitops.h:244

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Adam Gray(adam@bandstand.org.uk) is reported to have said:
> Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:
> > ISTR that hotplug was removed, when udev was installed, because udev
> > now includes the hotplug feature.
> >
> > Yep, I guess it does....
> >
> > apt-cache show udev
> > Description: /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
> > udev is a daemon which dynamically creates and removes device nodes
> > from /dev/, handles hotplug events and loads drivers at boot time.
> >
> > Might that be your problem?
> >
> > Wayne
>
> Ah, I remember now; my main problem with udev was that it rendered my
> USB mouse completely useless. I think that's why I went back to
> hotplug...!
>
> Any ideas on this syntax error thing though? I guess a version
> conflict between gcc (3.3.5) and whichever package provides
> asm/bitops.h?

Sorry. I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do so, no, I have no clue other then you are running a really old version of gcc. All my boxen here have gcc 4.1.1.

Wayne

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:33:33 -0700 From: michael@estone.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption on md (Software) RAID Message-ID: <20070806093333.w99aae7bwg0kskco@estone.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Sebastian Flothow <flothow@gip.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting massive filesystem corruption on an md RAID comprising 4
> SATA disks. I tried ext3, xfs and reiserfs on RAID level 5 as well as
> ext3 on RAID level 1 (using only 2 disks); all can be crashed reliably
> by running bonnie++ for just a few minutes. In the case of ext3, I
> usually get dmesg output like this:
>
> [...]
> md0: rw=3D1, want=3D1482184800, limit=3D490223232
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> md0: rw=3D1, want=3D1482184800, limit=3D490223232
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> md0: rw=3D1, want=3D1482184800, limit=3D490223232
> Buffer I/O error on device md0, logical block 185273099
> lost page write due to I/O error on md0
> Aborting journal on device md0.
> EXT3-fs error (device md0) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborte=
d
> EXT3-fs error (device md0) in ext3_dirty_inode: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device md0) in ext3_new_blocks: Journal has aborted
> ext3_abort called.
> EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journa=
l
> Remounting filesystem read-only
>
> The filesystems are impossible to repair afterwards, e2fsck in
> particular will run for ages, and eventually segfault.
>
> By contrast, ext3 directly on the physical disk partition works fine and
> withstood days of continouus bonnieing.
>
> This is with Etch, kernel 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem. FWIW, the machine used to
> run Sarge with a 2.4 kernel, where the RAID worked fine.
>
> Now, it seems quite unlikely that RAID is completely broken in 2.6, so I
> suppose it might be related to the hardware: it's a Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz,
> 1.5 GiB RAM, the SATA Controller is a Promise S150 SX4 using the
> sata_sx4 kernel module.
> > Defintely sounds like hardware is failing. You could try installing smartmontools onto your system and use it to scan your drives. It might tell you if you have some bad sectors, or some other failing component. Also, try not using the bigmem kernel. AFAIK, its designed for 32 bit =20 systems with RAM exceeding 4 Gigs. ?? (Although I would guess that =20 shouldn't make a difference)

Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:36:19 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware Message-ID: <46B74E03.9000408@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/07 11:22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Samuel B=C3=A4chler wrote:
>=20 >> Hi Everyone >> >> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old >> desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services suc= h >> as web- and mail-sever. >> I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem. >> >> Question A: >> Can someone recommend a router with the following properties: >> -NAT >> -port forwarding >> >=20
> I can vouch for Linksys WRT54G v 2. I dont know if the later versions a=
re as
> good as this. But this one does both the jobs you mentioned perfectly f=
ine.
> I also had a pretty bad experience with D-Link routers. The connection =
used
> to drop after some time for no reason. However there are no such proble=
ms
> with the wrt54g routers.
>=20
> Another option is to get hold of some old hardware and build your own
> router.
Now you want the WRT54GL. (Note the extra L, which means Linux.) The WRT54G stopped using Linux in v5.0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G - -- 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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGt04DS9HxQb37XmcRAgrcAJ0ZhRIcZ017g2DtE8CmRQKGjL6BrQCgyDaE 8ga9s2BbGndfbLhNamI9pRg=3D =3DAWNq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:52:17 -0700 From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: ntfs mount errors Message-Id: <7A3030F5-279D-47A6-AF1D-618AE79F60EA@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I also read that if you mount >> windows xp as vfat you can write to it. Even more sceptical. >
> What do you mean by that? You can safely mount fat partitions for a
> long
> time now.
Yup, been there, done that, it works fine. It has consequences for the XP side, though -- VFAT doesn't support alternate data streams or file permissions, so you lose some functionality. Those features are mostly only useful if you have multiple users on one machine, though. Note that you have to install XP from the start on a FAT partition -- Microsoft has tools to let you convert FAT to NTFS, but there's no way to go back without reformatting. A good alternative I've sometimes used is to create a second, FAT- formatted partition and use it for stuff I want to access from both operating systems.

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:55:28 -0700 From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Opinions XFS Message-Id: <9FEC05A8-BF28-4ED2-B360-E843E1B5C864@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Aug 4, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I'd have to modify that. Instead of NIH, my worry is that since XFS
> was designed for a different kernel, it's been "shimmed" into Linux
> and so doesn't integrate as well as ext2/3 and ReiserFS. Same
> concern with jfs.
I suppose that's a valid concern, but in the absence of any evidence of problems caused by it I can't say I'm going to lose any sleep. :)

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:56:58 -0700 From: Sam <transiency@transiency.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Hard disk dying? Message-ID: <fb41b4360708060956r3046c477i44c84f4f95bef13b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_106757_30240137.1186419418933" ------=_Part_106757_30240137.1186419418933 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi All, I noticed this in dmesg the other day hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 and i have started to get corrupted data off of it. I assume it is dying, but thought to ask, as its rather new (*Power On Hours* 827) its a maxtor 160gb. -- blog.transiency.org -- T's Abstract Art Blog ----------------------------------------- transiency.org/index.php/Transiency/Home -- T's Wiki ------=_Part_106757_30240137.1186419418933 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi All, I noticed this in dmesg the other day hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 and i have started to get corrupted data off of it. I assume it is dying, but thought to ask, as its rather new ( Power On Hours 827) its a maxtor 160gb. -- blog.transiency.org -- T's Abstract Art Blog ----------------------------------------- <a href="http://transiency.org/index.php/Transiency/Home"> transiency.org/index.php/Transiency/Home</a>  -- T's Wiki ------=_Part_106757_30240137.1186419418933--

Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:59:42 -0400 From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware Message-ID: <f97k2e$9rk$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Ron Johnson :
>
> Now you want the WRT54GL. (Note the extra L, which means Linux.)
> The WRT54G stopped using Linux in v5.0.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G
>
Thank you Mr. Johnson for up-to-date information. The wikipedia link is great. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:00:51 +0200 From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: "percy tiglao" <prtiglao@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Issues with ethernet in testing/lenny Message-Id: <200708061900.51879.cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Saturday 04 August 2007 08:14, percy tiglao wrote:
> Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get
> Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it
> did not autodetect my ethernet card. It is a 82562V-2 integrated card,
> at least according to the Windows Vista devise manager.
Hi Percy. As nobody has replied yet, I may as well throw in some stuff. If Vista is correct the vendor/device id's for the card should be 8086 10c0. If you run lspci -v , is the card showing on the list? >
> Anyway, I do have a very basic system up and running. No internet
> support or anything, so I can really only do stuff from the Windows
> side of my system right now. I'm not sure how I can get logs of what I
> do to my email from Debian so I'm sorry about the lack of the logs.
> I'll do my best to describe the error messages however.
>
> As I stated earlier, the installer did not detect the network card. I
> tried loading the "e1000" module inside the installation program which
> according to intel should be the module I need:
> http://downloadmirror.intel.com/9180/ENG/README.txt
>
> The installer wouldn't acccept it, it would just loop back to the
> "select module" screen. I tried to "modprobe e1000" manually during
> the installation, but that didn't work either. No error messages come
> up.
I've had problems with Debian detecting my Realtek 8139 card (8139too driver), and had to add to /etc/modules the line. 8139too After that the networking worked ok (after a reboot that is) It may be worth doing just that with the e1000 module. When you modprobe the e1000 after booting up what does running lsmod show? You should see 2 modules to do with the network. These are mine for mii, and 8139too. See below. 8139too 23936 0 mii 4864 1 8139too >
> After that, the rest of the system installed without any hassle, but
> obviously I cannot connect to the internet right now without any
> network card, so I don't have anything installed aside from whatever
> is on the base netinstall on Lenny.
>
> I've tried to "modprobe e1000" after the installation, and there seems
> to be no errors that happen. I use dmesg and aside from the loading
> message from e1000, no other messages pop up. I've also added "iface
> eth0 inet dhcp" into my /etc/network/interfaces file, and tried to do
> "ifup eth0", but that fails with the message: 'Device "eth0" does not
> exist'
I've never used dhcp, but always static addresses, as I have a bunch of distros that run on these 2 machines, and like to have the addresses always the same, but here is my /etc/network/interfaces for eth0. # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 (this points to the smoothwall firewall) >
> Thank you for reading this message. I'd really like to get Debian up
> and running as soon as possible so please help. As an aside, all error
> messages and other logs are from memory + google. So they may not be
> 100% correct but they're the best I got right now.
I've done a bunch of Googling today about this card, and found some stuff for ubuntu using the 2.6.20 kernel, where the e1000 module isn't working correctly. Which kernel are you using? I only have a 2.6.17 one on both my Etch, and Lenny installs. The ubuntu bug link is below, preceded by my Google search line. Linux driver for 82562V-2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+bugs The bug is 5th from the bottom, see below. 121187 E1000 driver for 82562V-2 (8086:10c0) device I can't say much more at the moment, and have only CC'd you as you havn't had a reply since Saturday, and may not be viewing the list. Perhaps someone more clued up than me may reply to my reply to your original post. All the best. Nigel. End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2107 ************************************************** Received on Mon Aug 6 13:20:09 2007

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