Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:51:39 -0500
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: fdisk + disk identifier
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Hi,
When I use fdisk I get back (among others):
...
Disk identifier: 0x0843f502
...
Can I get the disk model/type from that? I don't find that identifier in
anything that hdparm outputs.
Hugo
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:44:51 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Please introduce a sane way to merge config file differences
during package installation
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:11:00PM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Package: debconf
> Version: 1.5.14
> Severity: Wishlist
>=20
> Everyone will know a message like this:
>=20
> Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf'
=2E..
>=20
> What I would want is something like
>=20
> M: merge files interactively
>=20
> which would then call vimdiff, probably via $DIFF_EDITOR
> or some other variable if something like it does already exist.
>=20
wow. yes please!!
A
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:23 -0500
From: Don <debuser1@azark.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: libpango update broke iceape synaptic and more
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I am using "sid" and yesterday my update/upgrade broke iceape, synaptic,
and some others. I've had problems with libpango before, but this one
has me stumped. I don't see anyone else having this problem, so I must
conclude something is wrong with my installation.
Here is some output (sorry for some of the line wrapping):
don@kali:~$ uname -a
Linux kali 2.6.18-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 21 17:21:28 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
don@kali:~$ iceape
/usr/lib/iceape/iceape-bin: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_impl
don@kali:~$ sudo synaptic
synaptic: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0:
undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_impl
don@kali:~$ cd /usr/lib
don@kali:/usr/lib$ ls -l libpango*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 334978 2007-09-02 13:03 libpango-1.0.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 816 2007-09-02 13:03 libpango-1.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-09-03 11:29 libpango-1.0.so ->
libpango-1.0.so.0.1800.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-09-04 10:29 libpango-1.0.so.0 ->
libpango-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248244 2007-09-02 13:03 libpango-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42912 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangocairo-1.0.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 846 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangocairo-1.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-09-03 11:29 libpangocairo-1.0.so ->
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1800.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-09-04 10:29 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 ->
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33360 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 319564 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangoft2-1.0.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 834 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangoft2-1.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-09-03 11:29 libpangoft2-1.0.so ->
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.1800.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-09-04 10:29 libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 ->
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183484 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.1800.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2005-10-18 05:20 libpangomm-1.0.so.1 ->
libpangomm-1.0.so.1.5.11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138316 2005-08-02 03:09 libpangomm-1.0.so.1.5.11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-05-19 22:26 libpangomm-1.4.so.1 ->
libpangomm-1.4.so.1.0.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 171544 2007-05-18 13:53 libpangomm-1.4.so.1.0.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122144 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangox-1.0.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 822 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangox-1.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2007-09-03 11:29 libpangox-1.0.so ->
libpangox-1.0.so.0.1800.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2007-09-04 10:29 libpangox-1.0.so.0 ->
libpangox-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42004 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangox-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26706 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangoxft-1.0.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 834 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangoxft-1.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-09-03 11:29 libpangoxft-1.0.so ->
libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.1800.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-09-04 10:29 libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 ->
libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.1800.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24204 2007-09-02 13:03 libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.1800.1
don@kali:/usr/lib$
Can anyone give me some assistance on this? (A "cc:" to debuser1 at
azark dot com would be appreciated)
Don
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:01:42 -0700
From: "Matthew Lennig" <matt@lennig.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: System freeze in Lenny
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I'm experiencing a system freeze-up in Lenny. Which package should
this be reported against?
Some details:
System: Abit AB9Pro motherboard
CPU: Intel Core Duo E6600
Memory: 4GB
The system boots normally. With very low load, it can run for several
hours (e.g., if I just run top). However, when I start to put any
substantial load on the system it dies.
I tried changing the motherboard, CPU, and memory. This did not solve
the problem.
Please advise me what package to submit this against and what
diagnostics to collect.
Best regards,
Matt.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:35:11 -0400
From: KS <lists04@fastmail.fm>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Grub issues on Mac Mini?
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Charles Turner wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I have a new Core 2 Duo Mac Mini, and have been trying to install
> Debian Lenny on an external FireWire disk via the i386 netinst CD of
> 01sept2007.
>
> I waded through the older install documentation around the web that
> seems geared to earlier machines, have what I think is a satisfactory
> disk partition (ie MBR), but now I'm hung at boot with Grub giving me a
> "Hard Disk Error". My reading of this error is that it involves a disk
> geometry problem.
>
> I've now checked the geometry prior to installing Grub via netinst and
> sfdisk reports:
>
> Kernel's idea (-g): 28615 64 32
> Disk geometry (-G): 3648 255 63
>
> After grub's installed, the "geometry" command:
>
> geometry (hd1)
>
> returns 3648 255 63, but I still get my "Hard Disk Error" on boot.
>
> Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'd be happy to supply more info;
> I know I've been brief here...
>
> Thanks! Charles Turner
>
>
I installed Debian on a USB key without GRUB and without touching the
HDD on my Macbook Pro. You can read the instructions here
http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html if you want to try that
method.
Good luck,
/KS
Date: 04 Sep 2007 13:10:30 -0400
From: Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys
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I am a long-time Debian user and sysadmin and I'm very frustrated
these days. There seems no way out of my problem, other than to
re-install the entire OS from scratch and then simply *not* attempt to
replace cupsys, which still doesn't work. I have fallen into this
"now start all over" trap several times over the past year or so. It
is really bad, and advice would be welcome.
Once again, I've just installed a new OS (this time, lenny, but the
same problem has occurred repeatedly with etch) using the Sep 2 2007
daily build of netinst.
I don't know how to prevent cupsys from being installed, so, once
again, I've hoped that cupsys and all its gnome-trickery would work
properly. Unfortunately, it still doesn't, at least insofar as my
microsopic remaining patience with it allows me to determine.
Once again, I've tried to use aptitude to remove cupsys and replace it
with lprng.
Cupsys once again fails to remove itself, failing on the removal of
python-qt3 and/or python-sip4. Worse, once this failure occurs,
aptitude doesn't work any more. Thereafter, all
installations/de-installations fail with messages that include:
warning: Python C API version mismatch for module time: This Python has API version 1012, module time has version 1013.
warning: Python C API version mismatch for module _locale: This Python has API version 1012, module _locale has version 1013.
warning: Python C API version mismatch for module select: This Python has API version 1012, module select has version 1013.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1394, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1388, in main
rv = action.run(global_options)
File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 879, in run
pkg.read_version_info()
File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 544, in read_version_info
self.version_info = pyversions.parse_versions(self.version_field)
File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 29, in parse_versions
import operator
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/operator.so: undefined symbol: PyInt_FromSsize_t
For months, now, the API mismatch has been the same two version
numbers: 1013 and 1012.
Many weeks ago, thinking that it was a problem with Python 2.5, I
wrote to the maintainer of that package. No answer. Anyway, I'm
not sure that it's his problem.
All advice welcome.
Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant
Coolheads Consulting
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Co-editor, draft Topic Maps -- Reference Model (ISO/IEC 13250-5)
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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:44:13 +0200
From: "Roland M. Kruggel" <rk.liste@bbf7.de>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LVM
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Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 17:10 schrieb Yuriy Padlyak:
> ok, but I don't know how to move ext3 file system or it's content
> without loosing any file attributes, etc either :)
cp -a /src/* /dest
--
cu
Roland M. Kruggel
mailto:rk.liste@bbf7.de http:www.bbf7.de
System: Intel, Debian etch, 2.6.21, xfce4, KDE 3.5
------------
Zufallszitat
Ein Kluger bemerkt alles, ein Dummer macht über alles seine
Bemerkungen.
-- Heinrich Heine
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:58:23 -0400
From: Charles Turner <vze26m98@optonline.net>
To: KS <lists04@fastmail.fm>
Cc: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Grub issues on Mac Mini?
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:35:11 -0400, KS wrote:
> I installed Debian on a USB key without GRUB and without touching the
> HDD on my Macbook Pro. You can read the instructions here
> http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html if you want to try that
> method.
Hi KS-
Thanks for this. I haven't tried it yet, but it's already revealed
something. Your paragraph:
>> At the point where the installer asks to install GRUB at the MBR,
>> choose "No". After this the installer will ask you where to install
>> GRUB, choose the USB disk device which was /dev/sdb for me. Install
>> GRUB and continue to finish installation. When installation is done,
>> Debian will ask you to take the disk out of the tray and reboot.
Led me to believe I must have accidentally installed Grub in the MBR on
the Mini's drive. Anyway, Christoph Pfisterer's disktype shows a Grub
there pointing to a 2nd disk. I also get a Tux w/HD icon when my Linux
disk is offline!
Also point of clarification: In the above, are you installing Grub to
the device /dev/sdb, or to the root partition dev/sdb#?
Best! Charles
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:16:31 -0400
From: KS <lists04@fastmail.fm>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Grub issues on Mac Mini?
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Charles Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:35:11 -0400, KS wrote:
>
>> I installed Debian on a USB key without GRUB and without touching the
>> HDD on my Macbook Pro. You can read the instructions here
>> http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html if you want to try that
>> method.
>
> Hi KS-
>
> Thanks for this. I haven't tried it yet, but it's already revealed
> something. Your paragraph:
>
>>> At the point where the installer asks to install GRUB at the MBR,
>>> choose "No". After this the installer will ask you where to install
>>> GRUB, choose the USB disk device which was /dev/sdb for me. Install
>>> GRUB and continue to finish installation. When installation is done,
>>> Debian will ask you to take the disk out of the tray and reboot.
>
> Led me to believe I must have accidentally installed Grub in the MBR on
> the Mini's drive. Anyway, Christoph Pfisterer's disktype shows a Grub
> there pointing to a 2nd disk. I also get a Tux w/HD icon when my Linux
> disk is offline!
>
> Also point of clarification: In the above, are you installing Grub to
> the device /dev/sdb, or to the root partition dev/sdb#?
>
> Best! Charles
>
Oops, I should have pointed out that I didn't install GRUB on the main
HDD on the Macbook Pro but on the USB key. I installed GRUB on the
/dev/sdb device (USB key) and not on the partition. From what I
understand this should write on the MBR of the the USB disk.
I need to update the instructions too as I found some typos and that I
have a bigger 4GB USB disk to test various drivers for the MBP.
Thanks,
/KS
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:43:20 +0000 (UTC)
From: Simon Brandmair <sbrandmair@gmx.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: System freeze in Lenny
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Hi,
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:30:09 +0200 Matthew Lennig wrote:
>=20
> The system boots normally. With very low load, it can run for several
> hours (e.g., if I just run top). However, when I start to put any
> substantial load on the system it dies.
>=20
> I tried changing the motherboard, CPU, and memory. This did not solve
> the problem.
So, if I understand you right, you can reproduce the freeze with any
hardware (available to you of course)? I am wondering, because a system
freezing under heavy load sounds very much like a hardware problem to me.
Maybe you want to check other components like your PSU or graphics card a=
s
well.
Cheers,
Simon
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:01:56 +0530
From: "Masatran, R. Deepak" <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?
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* Masatran, R. Deepak <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> 2007-08-30
> I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager,
> but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen
> is locked with a screen-saver.
>
> I am using Debian 4.0, with GDM, and Sawfish.
Some more information: I want this for listening to music, with MPD as the
server, and Sonata as the client. I made "/etc/X11/Xmodmap" with contents:
keycode 151 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 159 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 178 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 236 = XF86AudioNext
and "HOME/.xbindkeysrc" with contents:
"mpc toggle"
XF86AudioPlay
"mpc stop"
XF86AudioStop
"mpc prev"
XF86AudioPrev
"mpc next"
XF86AudioNext
Now, the only problem is that XBindKeys does not work when I am not logged in.
--
Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:43:26 -0700
From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>
To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Shut down or leave on?
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On Sep 1, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> The most common failure mode of drives is bearing failure.
Hmm, weird. I haven't had a bearing failure since I was using 5.25"
MFM and RLL drives in the PC-AT days. My hard disk failures have all
been head crashes, gradual bit rot, or controller failures. I
haven't had an IDE, SCSI, or SATA drive yet that failed by not
spinning up.
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 20:32:13 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: "libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file"
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:34:45 -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote:
> I'm trying to run the latest build of the Eclipse IDE on Debian. When
> I try to start the program I receive an error about a shared library:
>
> "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory"
>
> I've never had trouble running Eclipse before, although they may have
> added a dependency to this library in the latest version. I looked
> online for a libgtk-x11-2.0 deb, but I couldn't find one.
Install the "apt-file" package; it has a tool that allows you to search
filenames in all packages known to apt. In your case
apt-file search libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
will tell you that your missing library is part of the "libgtk2.0-0"
package.
--
Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
Florian |
Date: 04 Sep 2007 14:35:44 -0400
From: Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction
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I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed
lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly,
it worked fine.
So I reviewed what I had done the last time, and, yes, I had installed
a few other packages before attempting to remove cupsys. They were:
emacs, cvs, ssh-server, and, very interestingly, python-2.5.
I think if you install lenny from netinst, then install python-2.5 and
*then* attempt to remove cupsys, the problem will be reproduced.
So maybe it's a problem with the python-2.5 package, after all.
Steve
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 20:37:20 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Two Xorg processes?
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 00:55:36 +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote:
> I have noticed that I have two Xorg processes running, one of which is=20
> always stuck at CPU=3D0.0% but nevertheless shows the same memory usage a=
s=20
> the other process.
>
> From top:
> 3062 root 15 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.7 5.9 10:34.47 Xorg
> 3140 root 20 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.0 5.9 0:00.00 Xorg
>
> Is this normal? I am running Sid on AMD64.
>
> Snippet from the pstree output:
> $ pstree root
> init=E2=94=80=E2=94=AC=E2=94=80acpid
> [snip]
> =E2=94=9C=E2=94=80kdm=E2=94=80=E2=94=AC=E2=94=80Xorg=E2=94=80=E2=94=
=80=E2=94=80Xorg
> =E2=94=82 =E2=94=94=E2=94=80kdm=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80startk=
de=E2=94=80=E2=94=AC=E2=94=80kwrapper
> =E2=94=82 =E2=94=9C=E2=94=80seahorse-agent=E2=
=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80{seahorse-agent}
> =E2=94=82 =E2=94=94=E2=94=80ssh-agent
> [snip]
>
> Xorg spawning itself?!
I also run Sid on AMD64 and I see only one Xorg process:
=E2=94=9C=E2=94=80kdm=E2=94=80=E2=94=AC=E2=94=80Xorg
=E2=94=82 =E2=94=94=E2=94=80kdm=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80startkde=E2=
=94=80=E2=94=AC=E2=94=80kwrapper
=E2=94=82 =E2=94=94=E2=94=80ssh-agent
Did you already try to log out and restart kdm?
--=20
Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
Florian |
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