Re: Re: An error occurred | GStreamer encountered a general stream error.

[Muntasim Ul Haque]

I do not have anything to do with those messages. I just want 'Totem' 
to just works. That's all. I thought these messages could help solving 
the problem Totem encountered. Anyway, I still cannot play mp4, mkv, 
and most other types of video files using Totem. Doesn't any other 
people having the same problem? This bug, or whatever it is, it 
shouldn't have just affected me. Can you help me solving this problem? 
Thanks.

Re: Remove subject

[Mis Ntmurth]

Ok thanks
I will contact debian
regards

2015-05-11 22:45 GMT+02:00 Jochen Spieker :

> [Cc'ed to OP since I am sure (s)he is subscribed]
>
> Mis Ntmurth:
> >
> > Can you please remove the page where my name appears, at this page,
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/06/msg02062.html
> > this subject is very old and have no answer and no interest now.
>
> It appears you do not really understand how mailing lists work.
>
> Every mail you send to a mailing list is distributed to all subscribers
> who are basically random entities.  Each subscriber can do with it what
> she wants. That includes deleting the local copy, forward it to all of
> their friends or publish it on the web.
>
> The link you provided points to a public archive of debian-user that is
> run by Debian. Other recipients of your mail made it available publicly
> as well without Debian's permission. A most probably not comprehensive
> list:
>
> http://www.expert-news.net/index.php?message=26229
> http://osdir.com/ml/debian-user-debian/2010-06/msg02041.html
> http://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=127780632904466&w=2
>
> Even if you manage to convince all of these providers of mailing list
> archives to remove your mail, other people might still have their own
> local copy and publish it without your knowledge or consent.
>
> Given that your mail does not appear to be defamatory or humiliating, I
> would just ignore it. The only thing that makes it look strange (and
> which you repeated in the mail I am replying to) is your choice of
> recipients. I don't know what you wanted to achieve by addressing
> @bugs.debian.org and @packages.debian.org, but you didn't succeed.
>
> If you really care, you can contact listmas...@lists.debian.org and
> kindly ask for removal of your threads. But be aware that other archives
> are not affected by this removal and that you may also want to get your
> previous mail removed as well:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/05/msg00483.html
>
> (In case listmasters really look into this request, I don't mind if my
> message is deleted as well.)
>
> Regards,
> Jochen.
>
> --
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> [Agree]   [Disagree]
>  
>

Re: Help with ddrescue

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days, with no
> positive results.

What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty have a 
clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?

USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more directly?

Lisi


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Re: Lid suspend problem with a Dell Laptop - Jessie

[Ric Moore]

Please don't top post.

On 05/11/2015 04:13 AM, Janis Hamme wrote:

Check /etc/systemd/logind.conf and set

HandleLidSwitch=ignore

I had problems with systemd suspending suspending my nootebook some
months ago. However it seems to respect the settings of the xfce
power-manger now. Maybe the setting does help for you.

Janis


On 10.05.2015 23:17, Charles Fabbri wrote:

Good Afternoon,

  I have weird problem with the lid switch on an old Dell Latitude
D505 laptop. I did a clean install of Jessie and everything is working
fine, except the lid switch freezes the computer.

  It's not a suspend problem, because I can suspend properly from the
shutdown menu and the suspend button on the laptop. The computer
suspends correctly if I do a pm-suspend command.

  However, when I close the lid, the computer screen goes black
except for the cursor and it does not move. I cannot do a ctrl+alt+F1 to
get to a terminal, nor can I restart the X session. I even set the lid
behavior to do nothing, and the same behavior occurs.

  The laptop had Wheezy on it before and the lid switch worked as
expected.

  I did not see anything in /var/log/syslog or
/var/log/pm-suspend.log that could explain this. Could anyone point out
how I can debug/fix the laptop lid switch so it does not freeze the
computer?

Charles Fabbri








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Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed?

[Richard Hector]

On 11/05/15 11:33, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just been trying to test deployment of images using Debian Jessie
> via PXE instead of Wheezy.
> 
> We have a preseed script for deploying near-identical builds of
> machines for appliances.  The script was based off one I initially
> wrote for Ubuntu, which has been ported and extended to Debian
> Wheezy.
> 
> Now I've downloaded today's netboot images, unpack them, and try
> to deploy with Jessie.  Checksums of relevant files (from
> ftp.au.debian.org this morning):
> 
>> b027b65d867ab385a58ce6cff116d37bc006d3ec
>> /srv/tftp/debian-installer/jessie-amd64.tgz 
>> 333240fa0d83c8ffa75177aa217aec9825a0cac0
>> /srv/tftp/debian-installer/jessie-i386.tgz
> 
> obtained by running:
>> wget -O jessie-i386.tgz
>> http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/gtk/netboot.tar.gz
>>
>> 
wget -O jessie-amd64.tgz
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/gtk/netboot.tar.gz
> 
> No dice.  It won't even look at the preseed file.  It instead
> carries on as if nothing has been given on the kernel command line.
> Attached is the kernel command line that I'm using, as seen from
> the console of a VM.
> 
> `wget` successfully downloads this preseed file when I manually run
> it.
> 
> What am I doing wrong that causes the netboot installer to ignore
> me?
> 

Hi Stuart,

I've PXE installed jessie, and I've preseeded jessie, but not at the
same time (I can't get PXE booting to work right in KVM, which is
where I do most installs).

Anyway - the difference I notice between your commandline and mine is
that you use "preseed/url=" where I only use "url="; I don't know if
that will make a difference. /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat
shows it as preseed/url, so probably not :-(

The other difference of course is that virt-install is downloading the
installer at runtime from a debian mirror
(http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/)
while you've just got it once - maybe that one happened to have a bug?

HTH,
Richard


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Re: delete message without email client

[Petter Adsen]

On Mon, 11 May 2015 16:58:09 +
Alex PADOLY  wrote:

>  
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> How I can do to delete message without use email client, more
> I would like to do that with cronjob. 

That all depends on where the message in question is stored. It is
quite impossible to tell you more with this little context and
information.

The message could be in a local mail spool, like /var/mail, it could be
in a subdir of your home directory, it could be on a remote IMAP
server, or it could be stored in a database. These are just the first
things I can think of off the top of my head.

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Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Mon, 11 May 2015, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:


(unless the problem
comes from my laptop config, but I don't see how, as I have no problem with 
the Wheezy sources.list)


  It seems I was wrong, as I tried "apt-get update" with a jessie sources.list
  on an other amd64 laptop, and I got no error.
  So the question remains: what can be the origin of the problem on my laptop?

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Re: delete message without email client

[Alex PADOLY]

 

Hi, 

Thank you for your answer, 

The messages are is a local mail
spool.
Regards.

Le 2015-05-12 09:18, Petter Adsen a écrit : 

> On Mon,
11 May 2015 16:58:09 +
> Alex PADOLY 
wrote:
> 
>> Hi, How I can do to delete message without use email
client, more I would like to do that with cronjob.
> 
> That all depends
on where the message in question is stored. It is
> quite impossible to
tell you more with this little context and
> information.
> 
> The
message could be in a local mail spool, like /var/mail, it could be
> in
a subdir of your home directory, it could be on a remote IMAP
> server,
or it could be stored in a database. These are just the first
> things I
can think of off the top of my head.
> 
> Petter

 

Running cool and silent

[Rusi Mody]

For some reason my Dell laptop runs hot and noisy in linux but cool and
silent in Windows-8

Running

# echo "min_power" | tee /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy

makes the fan slow/stop.

But I am not sure what it does!!
[I dont want my laptop fried and its rather HOT out here right now :-) ]

So is this command safe?
Does someone know what it does? [Dont remember where I found it] 


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Re: Remove subject

[Anthony Campbell]

On 11 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 
[snip] 
> I hear that a _lot_.   But I am hearing it more and more in cases 
> like this above where only the negative makes sense.  When it is written, 
> some are, I am sure, typos.  But I am equally sure that soemtimes when I 
> understand the positive the negative is likely to be meant .
> 
> > I certainly hope this 
> > is not becoming a 'modern usage'! (Or should I say 'is becoming a
> > modern usage'?)
> 
> Yes, you certainly should. ;-)
> 
> Lisi
> 

Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather
similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no sense.
I quite often read the phrase: "the importance of this cannot be
underestimated". It should, of course, be OVER-estimated, or
alternatively "must not be under-estimated". I think the two usages have
become superimposed, as it were.

Anthony 


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Re: delete message without email client

[Petter Adsen]

On Tue, 12 May 2015 09:36:17 +
Alex PADOLY  wrote:

>  
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Thank you for your answer, 
> 
> The messages are is a local mail
> spool.

Well, use "find", "grep" or any other tool as appropriate to locate the
file you want and delete it.

What are you trying to do, apart from delete a file? You need a way to
identify the message that you want to delete, eg by date/timestamp,
message content, etc. If the messages are stored in maildir or mh
format, then it is simply a question of locating the message you want
to delete by using the appropriate tool.

If you can identify it by timestamp, then "find" can do everything you
need. If you need to scan the contents to find, for instance, a certain
string in the message, then perl or grep could be useful.

Check out the GNU package "mailutils", maybe it can help you achieve
what you want to do. It has a tool called "readmsg", that can "extract
selected messages from a mailbox" - maybe that would be a good place to
start. It also has "movemail" -- "extract selected messages from a
mailbox", maybe it can delete as well as move - read the man page.

Oh, and please don't top post.

Petter

> Le 2015-05-12 09:18, Petter Adsen a écrit : 
> 
> > On Mon,
> 11 May 2015 16:58:09 +
> > Alex PADOLY 
> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi, How I can do to delete message without use email
> client, more I would like to do that with cronjob.
> > 
> > That all depends
> on where the message in question is stored. It is
> > quite impossible to
> tell you more with this little context and
> > information.
> > 
> > The
> message could be in a local mail spool, like /var/mail, it could be
> > in
> a subdir of your home directory, it could be on a remote IMAP
> > server,
> or it could be stored in a database. These are just the first
> > things I
> can think of off the top of my head.
> > 
> > Petter
> 
>  


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Re: Help with ddrescue

[German]

On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100
Lisi Reisz  wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> > Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days, with no
> > positive results.
> 
> What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty
> have a clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?
> 
> USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more
> directly?
> 
> Lisi
> 
> 

Great. And what this work involves?


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Re: Help with ddrescue

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:18:34 German wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100
>
> Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> > > Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days, with no
> > > positive results.
> >
> > What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty
> > have a clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?
> >
> > USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more
> > directly?
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Great. And what this work involves?

People have made a lot of suggestions in this thread.

Lisi


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Re: Help with ddrescue

[German]

On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:31:10 +0100
Lisi Reisz  wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:18:34 German wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100
> >
> > Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> > > > Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days,
> > > > with no positive results.
> > >
> > > What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty
> > > have a clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?
> > >
> > > USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more
> > > directly?
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > Great. And what this work involves?
> 
> People have made a lot of suggestions in this thread.
> 
> Lisi
> 
> 

Just rereading the thread, couldn't find any. What tools to use and how
to use them?


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Re: Help with ddrescue

[Petter Adsen]

On Tue, 12 May 2015 06:18:34 -0400
German  wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100
> Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> > > Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days, with
> > > no positive results.
> > 
> > What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty
> > have a clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?
> > 
> > USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more
> > directly?
> > 
> > Lisi
> > 
> > 
> 
> Great. And what this work involves?

The original drive had a broken file system. You cloned it. "Cloning"
means to make an identical copy. You now have a clone with a broken
file system. That means that you can now try to fix the file system on
that clone - avoiding to touch the original, possibly broken drive.
Read through this thread again, now that you have something to work
with. Many good suggestions have been made here.

The error message you posted even suggests a fix:

"NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important!"

Why not start there?

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Re: Help with ddrescue

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:38:18 German wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:31:10 +0100
>
> Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:18:34 German wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100
> > >
> > > Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> > > > > Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days,
> > > > > with no positive results.
> > > >
> > > > What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty
> > > > have a clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?
> > > >
> > > > USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more
> > > > directly?
> > > >
> > > > Lisi
> > >
> > > Great. And what this work involves?
> >
> > People have made a lot of suggestions in this thread.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Just rereading the thread, couldn't find any. What tools to use and how
> to use them?

You could start with the first two messages in the thread, other than yours.  
Counting yours, the second and fourth:

Gary Dale said:
"Next you can run whatever rescue software you like on the failed.img 
file to see if you can recover anything. I usually start off with 
something simple like fsck before trying testdisk."

The Wanderer gave you a detailed recovery plan.  Try reading what he advised.  
I find I can't really just pick out one little sound bite - but he also says 
to start with fsck.

Lisi



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Re: Help with ddrescue

[Petter Adsen]

On Tue, 12 May 2015 12:25:47 +0100
Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:38:18 German wrote:
> > Just rereading the thread, couldn't find any. What tools to use and
> > how to use them?
> 
> You could start with the first two messages in the thread, other than
> yours. Counting yours, the second and fourth:
> 
> Gary Dale said:
> "Next you can run whatever rescue software you like on the failed.img 
> file to see if you can recover anything. I usually start off with 
> something simple like fsck before trying testdisk."
> 
> The Wanderer gave you a detailed recovery plan.  Try reading what he
> advised. I find I can't really just pick out one little sound bite -
> but he also says to start with fsck.

Just to add to this, take a look at the package "scrounge-ntfs":

Description-en: Data recovery program for NTFS filesystems
 Utility that can rescue data from corrupted NTFS partitions writes the
 files retrieved to another working file system.

AFAIK, there is no "fsck.ntfs".

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Re: Running cool and silent

[Dan Ritter]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:35:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> For some reason my Dell laptop runs hot and noisy in linux but cool and
> silent in Windows-8
> 
> Running
> 
> # echo "min_power" | tee 
> /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy
> 
> makes the fan slow/stop.
> 
> But I am not sure what it does!!
> [I dont want my laptop fried and its rather HOT out here right now :-) ]
> 
> So is this command safe?
> Does someone know what it does? [Dont remember where I found it] 

This command turns on power conservation for your disks. It's
probably a good thing in a laptop.

You should see if installing fancontrol (and subsequently
running pwmconfig to set it up) helps as well.

You can survey power usage in general by installing powertop.

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Re: pam debugging

[Cedric Gava]

No volunteer to help ?

> Hello
> 
> I’am trying to set up pam/ldap authentication on Wheezy, and struggling for 
> many days on these topics since I knew nothing from both of them before 
> beginning (I know more know ;)
> 
> To better understand what’s going on (I have ldap credential issue), I tried 
> to activate debug in pam, like, for example :
> 
> /etc/pam.d/common-auth
> auth[success=2 default=ignore]  pam_unix.so nullok_secure debug
> auth[success=1 default=ignore]  pam_ldap.so use_first_pass debug
> 
> /etc/rsyslog.conf
> *.=debug -/var/log/debug
> tested with : 
> $ logger -p auth.debug test 
> OK rsyslog.conf seems ok
> 
> I TESTED THEN the pam debug messages 
> I tried both : 
> $ pamtester login cedric authenticate
> and login out, login in from sshd or tty, NOTHING is visible in 
> /var/log/debug 
> 
> I thought it was because —enable-debug was not activated  when source where 
> compiled, so I recompiled packages with this option set with ./configure (or 
> dpkg-buildpackage and debian/rules if you prefer). After package 
> installation, I saw dozen of debug messages… Even without setting « debug » 
> in pam.d conf… so it is not a master switch for enabling local debug  of pam 
> modules.
> 
> 
> Any idea why I don’t see any debug message in /var.log/debug if I activate 
> pam debug in /etc/pam.d/common-auth ?
> 
> Thank you
> Cedric
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Re: pam debugging

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 05/11/2015 06:18 PM, Cedric Gava wrote:

Hello

I’am trying to set up pam/ldap authentication on Wheezy, and struggling for 
many days on these topics since I knew nothing from both of them before 
beginning (I know more know ;)

To better understand what’s going on (I have ldap credential issue), I tried to 
activate debug in pam, like, for example :

/etc/pam.d/common-auth  
auth[success=2 default=ignore]  pam_unix.so nullok_secure debug
auth[success=1 default=ignore]  pam_ldap.so use_first_pass debug

/etc/rsyslog.conf
*.=debug -/var/log/debug
tested with :
$ logger -p auth.debug test
OK rsyslog.conf seems ok

I TESTED THEN the pam debug messages
I tried both :
$ pamtester login cedric authenticate
and login out, login in from sshd or tty, NOTHING is visible in /var/log/debug




Stupid question,  did you look in /var/log/auth.log ?
AFAIK the default location for pam logs..



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Re: pam debugging

[Cedric Gava]

Alex, thank you for your answer, which did not helped me at all but committed 
me to verify once again this point.

Yes I looked before at auth.log, but since the auth.log tells the same thing 
whether I activate debug in pam.d/common-auth or not (see below), I decided to 
ask here.

log WITHOUT ACTIVATING debug when I  auth via ssh :
May 12 14:35:49 wheezy-test sshd[20586]: Accepted password for root from 
192.168.56.100 port 37456 ssh2
May 12 14:35:49 wheezy-test sshd[20586]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened 
for user root by (uid=0)

log WITH debug ACTIVATED
May 12 14:37:35 wheezy-test sshd[20637]: Accepted password for root from 
192.168.56.100 port 37457 ssh2
May 12 14:37:35 wheezy-test sshd[20637]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened 
for user root by (uid=0)

So, the difference between debug activated or not in auth.log is not obviously 
different.

moreover, since I tried to catch every debug level message in 
/var/log/debug.log, I hoped that debug messages would go there too…

Did I still ask stupid question ? Please let me sleep tonight less stupid I 
woke up this morning.

Cedric


 Alex Mestiashvili  a écrit :

> On 05/11/2015 06:18 PM, Cedric Gava wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> I’am trying to set up pam/ldap authentication on Wheezy, and struggling for 
>> many days on these topics since I knew nothing from both of them before 
>> beginning (I know more know ;)
>> 
>> To better understand what’s going on (I have ldap credential issue), I tried 
>> to activate debug in pam, like, for example :
>> 
>> /etc/pam.d/common-auth   
>> auth[success=2 default=ignore]  pam_unix.so nullok_secure debug
>> auth[success=1 default=ignore]  pam_ldap.so use_first_pass debug
>> 
>> /etc/rsyslog.conf
>> *.=debug -/var/log/debug
>> tested with :
>> $ logger -p auth.debug test
>> OK rsyslog.conf seems ok
>> 
>> I TESTED THEN the pam debug messages
>> I tried both :
>> $ pamtester login cedric authenticate
>> and login out, login in from sshd or tty, NOTHING is visible in 
>> /var/log/debug
>> 
>> 
> 
> Stupid question,  did you look in /var/log/auth.log ?
> AFAIK the default location for pam logs..
> 
> 
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Re: Running cool and silent

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, May 12, 2015, at 08:44, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:35:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> > # echo "min_power" | tee 
> > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy
> > 
> > So is this command safe?

It varies.  We do not enable it by default because it is known to cause
data loss on some devices: several SSDs are known to corrupt their
contents in "min_power" mode, and there are reports of it causing
oddities on other devices as well, from HDDs to ODDs (for example, some
CD/DVD/BD writers will never complete a sucessful burn in min_power
mode).

Some computer chipsets also have errata that cause misbehavior if
min_power is used, regardless of whether the devices (SSDs, HDDs, ODDs)
support it properly or not.

Therefore, whether it will be safe or not depends not only on your
laptop motherboard, but also on exactly which disks/ssds are installed. 
Even when it works perfectly, it sometimes causes unacceptable slow
downs.

You will have to test it for yourself to know whether it will work
properly for you, but beware the risk of data loss and device
misbehavior.

> > Does someone know what it does? [Dont remember where I found it] 

It enables the highest level of (in this case, SATA) link power
management.

> This command turns on power conservation for your disks. It's

Actually, it is for the connection between the HDD/SSD/ODD and the
chipset.

The HDDs/SSDs have their own set of commands that enable power
management internal to the disk/SSD itself.  Refer to "hdparm -B" for
SATA devices.

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Re: Jessie gnome-settings vs. big-endian 16-bit color

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, May 11, 2015, at 23:32, John Dalbec wrote:
> I recently upgraded my 2001 Quicksilver Power Mac from Wheezy to Jessie. 
> I have a Radeon 9800 Pro Studio Edition in the AGP slot.  There’s an
> endian bug in Mesa that forces me to run GNOME in 16-bit color.  But if I

Is this fixed in any Mesa version? If you know what fixed it, you can
file a bug asking for the fix to be applied to Debian Jessie as well.

Whether the request will be accepted or not depends on how feasible it
is to backport the whole set of fixes (let's hope it is a bunch of
trivial one-liners ;-) ) to the version of Mesa in Debian Jessie.

> try to open the settings panel, GNOME crashes.  CoGL says it can’t find a
> pixel format for R5G6B5 because it thinks the bit depth is 32.  This
> causes a failed assert() and SIGABRT.  How can I work around one or both
> of these issues?

Looks like a bug in CoGL as well, you might want to report that one too.

Sorry, I can't help with this other than suggest using something else
than gnome while you try to get this sorted out.

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Re: pam debugging

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 05/12/2015 02:47 PM, Cedric Gava wrote:

Alex, thank you for your answer, which did not helped me at all but committed 
me to verify once again this point.

Yes I looked before at auth.log, but since the auth.log tells the same thing 
whether I activate debug in pam.d/common-auth or not (see below), I decided to 
ask here.

log WITHOUT ACTIVATING debug when I  auth via ssh :
May 12 14:35:49 wheezy-test sshd[20586]: Accepted password for root from 
192.168.56.100 port 37456 ssh2
May 12 14:35:49 wheezy-test sshd[20586]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened 
for user root by (uid=0)

log WITH debug ACTIVATED
May 12 14:37:35 wheezy-test sshd[20637]: Accepted password for root from 
192.168.56.100 port 37457 ssh2
May 12 14:37:35 wheezy-test sshd[20637]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened 
for user root by (uid=0)

So, the difference between debug activated or not in auth.log is not obviously 
different.

moreover, since I tried to catch every debug level message in 
/var/log/debug.log, I hoped that debug messages would go there too…

Did I still ask stupid question ? Please let me sleep tonight less stupid I 
woke up this morning.

Cedric



Indeed it doesn't work for me too with libpam-ldap.
But it seem to work with libpam-ldapd ( tested on Jessie ).

Your question is absolutely valid, also after some googling I found a 
number of threads confirming that libpam-ldap module ignores debug option:


http://marc.info/?l=pam-list&m=114166927627101
http://serverfault.com/questions/249671/switch-on-pam-debugging-to-syslog

Regards,
Alex


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Re: Security updates for wheezy breaking my FAI-installation

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:27:06PM +1000, Alexis wrote:
> 
> Christian Seiler  writes:
> 
> >Ok, since there appears to be some kind of confusion, I'll explain.
> 
> [snip comprehensive explanatory/summary of what the various official Debian
> repos are used for]
> 
> Thank you very much for all this - it's greatly appreciated! i'd like to
> suggest that this summary (or at least some parts thereof) be put on the
> Debian Wiki, e.g. as an 'OfficialRepositories' page (which seems to not
> exist, currently), and that it be linked to from various relevant pages. i
> feel this information is too valuable to perhaps get lost amongst the welter
> of emails to this list. :-)

Anyone can edit or add to the wiki, even you.

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Re: no root file system after encryption

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, May 11, 2015, at 12:36, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2015 11:50:41 -0300
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh  wrote:
> > In that sense, ext2 is not nearly as good a choice as it once was.  A
> > newly created ext3 with default parameters (yes, that means it gets a
> > journal -- that's how it gets most use and most testing) is a better bet
> > nowadays as far as present and future reliability goes.
> 
> What is the pint of a journal for a fs that does not change outside of
> system upgrades ?

It is not about the filesystem, it is about the reliability of the
kernel code that implements it.

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a replacement for ssh packages in Jessie?

[Paul E Condon]

By accident, while struggling with a number of problems
in my pure Jessie home LAN, I came across some Debian
packages which I had no clue existed. They are:

lsh-client
lsh-server
lsh-utils

The short descriptions in the aptitude display describes them as a new
implementation of the whole ssh secure inter-host communications
system. Since some of my problems with Jessie are manifest as apparent
bugs in open-ssh, I am very interested in the recent experience in
using these packages. To what extent are they direct, drop-in
replacements? Can anyone recommend a HOW-TO for actually doing a
switch? And has anyone tried them and decided they are not yet ready,
in spite of the fact that Jessie is now blessed with the appellation,
Stable. 


TIA
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Re: pam debugging

[Cedric Gava]

> Indeed it doesn't work for me too with libpam-ldap.
> But it seem to work with libpam-ldapd ( tested on Jessie ).
OK, so that’s one argument in favor of libpam-ldapd compared with libpam-ldap

> Your question is absolutely valid, also after some googling I found a number 
> of threads confirming that libpam-ldap module ignores debug option:
My question was about pam_unix module also, which I expected to supply more 
information when the debug option is set. 
Maybe I should contact directly the maintainer of the package providing pam_unix


> http://marc.info/?l=pam-list&m=114166927627101
> http://serverfault.com/questions/249671/switch-on-pam-debugging-to-syslog
> 
> Regards,
> Alex


Cedric

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Re: no root file system after encryption

[Ken Heard]

On 2015-05-05 12:39, David Christensen wrote:




Briefly -- to obtain encrypted file systems, the process is to create
partitions, mark them as encrypted volumes, configure the encrypted
volumes, and then put LVM and/or file systems into the encrypted volumes.


Why not the other way?  I have been doing it the other way for years 
with no perceived difficulties: create RAID1 with two drives, then LVM, 
 and set up encryption for three LVM virtual partitions, swap (random 
key), tmp and home (both with passphrases)-- everything else in 
unencrypted virtual partitions.


Regards, Ken Heard



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Re: Help with ddrescue

[David Wright]

Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com):
> On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:31:10 +0100
> Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:18:34 German wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100
> > > Lisi Reisz  wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> > > > > Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days,
> > > > > with no positive results.
> > > >
> > > > What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty
> > > > have a clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?
> > > >
> > > > USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more
> > > > directly?
> > >
> > > Great. And what this work involves?

It involves taking ownership of the problem, looking round for tools
to use, trying them out, seeing if they recover your data, deciding if
you need to try other tools, how much you're prepared to pay for them,
and so on.

NTFS is a bit of a side-issue on a Debian User list, though it
flattering to be called "experts". There may be better forums to post
in if you get stuck. Grepping /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages for ntfs
doesn't turn up a lot, as might be expected. scrounge-ntfs has already
been mentioned.

Have you googled   ntfs recovery   yet? I see both free and paid-for
tools there, and reviews of the such.

> > People have made a lot of suggestions in this thread.
> 
> Just rereading the thread, couldn't find any. What tools to use and how
> to use them?

No, well, the thread kind of stalled while you were persuaded to
duplicate the drive. You asked

"What will this duplication accomplish? What advantages if I am
duplicate? After I duplicate the drive, what are my next steps?"

and to the reply, you wrote

"What will happen when I duplicate drive? Why is that failed drive is
failed and duplicated drive might be repairable? If it's duplicated, it
will be exactly the same, no? Confused.  And bad drive is physically ok
I think, it is just something wrong with file system. MTF?"

Then we had the command format to discuss:

"Where sdd is my failed drive. sdc is my spare drive. The correct
procedure will be ddrescue if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/sdc ?"

and later

"ddrescue /dev/sdd /dev/sdc /dev/sda2/ddrescue.log will work?"

(The answer is on the manpage, under "synopsis".)

Now you have the disk cloned. This is when the real work begins.
If you're lucky, it may go swimmingly and you'll recover lots.
It may need a lot of decisions, backtracking and so forth.
No one knows until you try. But you're going to have to read
the instructions on using those tools carefully, and follow them.

You may end up having to use tools that we don't have and in which
Debian users don't have much interest. So you really need to drive the
process forward yourself. It just requires a bit of confidence. And
remember, you're working on a copy, so there's room for mistakes.

Good luck!

Cheers,
David.


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Bluetooth Internet Tethering, Using Phone as a Modem in Jessie

[John Kerr Anderson]

Hello all,

I recently upgraded my HP mini from Debian Wheezy to Jessie.  In Debian
Wheezy the bluetooth manager had an easy setting when you set up a
bluetooth phone. It would ask if you wanted to set up mobile broadband with
the phone.  Unfortunately, in Jessie I cannot figure out a  way to do the
same thing.

I have been using the Gnome desktop in both versions and am using the
classic version in Jessie as I have a netbook with little resources.  I am
using the x86 version too, my phone is a Nokia running Symbian S40.  If
there is anyway you can point me in the right direction I would be very
grateful!  Any questions please let me know, thank you all in advance!

Kind Regards,

John Anderson


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Re: a replacement for ssh packages in Jessie?

[Eike Lantzsch]

On Tuesday 12 May 2015 09:04:36 Paul E Condon wrote:
> By accident, while struggling with a number of problems
> in my pure Jessie home LAN, I came across some Debian
> packages which I had no clue existed. They are:
> 
> lsh-client
> lsh-server
> lsh-utils
> 
> The short descriptions in the aptitude display describes them as a new
> implementation of the whole ssh secure inter-host communications
> system. Since some of my problems with Jessie are manifest as apparent
> bugs in open-ssh, I am very interested in the recent experience in
> using these packages. To what extent are they direct, drop-in
> replacements? Can anyone recommend a HOW-TO for actually doing a
> switch? And has anyone tried them and decided they are not yet ready,
> in spite of the fact that Jessie is now blessed with the appellation,
> Stable.
> 
> 
> TIA
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecon...@mesanetworks.net

I'm not in a position that any trials on my part might be significant enough 
for a production environment but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsh
says it all for me to decide to stay away from it.
For my taste it has too many dependencies. Especially during updates of remote 
systems a functioning SSH connection while the target system has minimal 
capabilities during the process, is essential at least to me.
I put more trust into the OpenBSD/OpenSSH developers. Apparent and not-so-
apparent bugs ought to be reported to them IMHO. That way an excellent product 
may become even better.

All the best
Eike

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Re: no root file system after encryption

[David Christensen]

On 05/12/2015 08:34 AM, Ken Heard wrote:

Why not ... create RAID1 with two drives, then LVM,
  and set up encryption for three LVM virtual partitions, swap (random
key), tmp and home (both with passphrases)-- everything else in
unencrypted virtual partitions.


TIMTOWTDI.  I prefer to encrypt everything except /boot, I've put my 
money into backup devices rather than RAID, and I don't need LVM.



I'd like to use ZFS, but it's not supported by the Debian installer and 
rescue mode.



David


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Re: An error occurred | GStreamer encountered a general stream error.

[Curt]

On 2015-05-12, Muntasim Ul Haque  wrote:
>
> I do not have anything to do with those messages. I just want 'Totem' 
> to just works. That's all. I thought these messages could help solving 
> the problem Totem encountered. Anyway, I still cannot play mp4, mkv, 
> and most other types of video files using Totem. Doesn't any other 
> people having the same problem? This bug, or whatever it is, it 
> shouldn't have just affected me. Can you help me solving this problem? 
> Thanks.
>

You have " gstreamer1.0-libav" installed?


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Weird problem with Cinnamon

[Francisco M Neto]

Hello everyone,

   I'm having a weird problem with cinnamon on debian jessie. I 
installed it from regular repositories but for some reason the panel 
does not respond to mouse clicks. If I press the Super key it works 
normally, and I can even select things from the menu using the mouse. 
but the panel itself refuses to acknowledge anything from the mouse.


Any ideas?

francisco


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Bluetooth Internet Tethering, Using Phone as a Modem in Jessie

[Juha Heinanen]

John Kerr Anderson

> I recently upgraded my HP mini from Debian Wheezy to Jessie.  In Debian
> Wheezy the bluetooth manager had an easy setting when you set up a
> bluetooth phone. It would ask if you wanted to set up mobile broadband with
> the phone.  Unfortunately, in Jessie I cannot figure out a  way to do the
> same thing.

I had gprs dialup working in wheezy.  I had done pairing manually and
then created /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf file.  After that I was able to
use ppp /dev/rfcomm0 serial device for the dialup.

I'm not using bluetooth anymore for that purpose, but now when I
checked, jessie upgade had removed my rfcomm.conf file by renaming it
rfcomm.conf.dpkg-remove.  Same had happened to my serial.conf.

Perhaps that means that bluetooth rfcomm is not supported anymore in
jessie the same way as bluetooth audio (using alsa or pulseaudio) is not
anymore supported.

> I have becomm.en using the Gnome desktop ibothmeans versions and am using the
> classic version in Jessie as I hacove a netbook wi say toh little
> resources.  I am using the x86 version too, my phone is a Nokia
> running Symbian S40.

I suggest that you upgrade it to a cheap Android phone that provides you
Wifi base statation.

-- Juha


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transparent terminals in cinnamon

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hi,

I just installed Jessie with Cinnamon, and I notice that there’s no option in 
the terminal for a transparent background. Is there a way to enable this?

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: no root file system after encryption

[Bob Proulx]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> The bathtub curve also applies for software systems, in practice.  When
> you aim for realiability, you need to consider the general maintenance
> state of the underlying kernel code (bitrot that crept in as other parts
> of the kernel changed and evolved, general increase in how brittle the
> code is due to accumulated maintenance, how much testing and attention
> from developers it still gets, etc), not just filesystem features.
> 
> In that sense, ext2 is not nearly as good a choice as it once was.  A
> newly created ext3 with default parameters (yes, that means it gets a
> journal -- that's how it gets most use and most testing) is a better bet
> nowadays as far as present and future reliability goes.

Those are valid points.  However I think you have discredited ext2
much too soon.  It is still widely used.  I think it unlikely that
serious bugs would not get noticed.  On the contrary I think it is
widely used enough that bugs would be quickly noticed.  Plus I rather
think that because ext2 isn't glamorous that the code isn't getting
creeping features added and that is a reason it remains stable.

Bob


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Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

[Bob Proulx]

Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> Get: 11 http://linux.dropbox.com wheezy/main i386 Packages [1,150 B]
> 
> why these references to wheezy?

Check for additional configuration files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
which I expect you to find a file referencing linux.dropbox.com
wheezy.

At a guess I expect that file to be owned by a package.  *If* there is a
file there *then* this will say what package owns it.

  dpkg -S /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

I assume you installed it for a reason.

Myself I find packages that do this type of thing bad because they
cause problems such as the above and I avoid them.  Debian packages
don't do this.  If they did it would be a bug report for them.

Bob


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scrounge-ntfs

[German]

probably stupid question, but do I need the same size drive using this
program? Just to make sure until I got my next decision. Thanks


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Re: scrounge-ntfs

[David Wright]

Quoting German (gentger...@gmail.com):
> probably stupid question, but do I need the same size drive using this
> program? Just to make sure until I got my next decision. Thanks

I typed scrounge-ntfs   into google and looked at the third hit,
the ubuntu man page. The answer appears to be no; just space for the
recovered files. So that could be from zero up to the amount of
filespace you had consumed, plus overheads.

Disclaimer: I've never downloaded/installed/used/observed this
program. (I hadn't heard of it until I decided to leave my wife's
first level of backup on an NTFS partition instead of vfat.) I shall
now run it with -l as advised.

Cheers,
David.


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Re: scrounge-ntfs

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 12 May 2015 22:12:36 German wrote:
> probably stupid question, but do I need the same size drive using this
> program? Just to make sure until I got my next decision. Thanks

Have you heard of google?


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Re: transparent terminals in cinnamon

[Francisco M Neto]

My first guess would be that the terminal emulator you're using does not
support transparency. Gnome-terminal, for instance. Try using one that
does,  like sakura (apt-get install sakura).

Francisco
On May 12, 2015 5:16 PM, "Michael P. Soulier" 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed Jessie with Cinnamon, and I notice that there’s no option
> in the terminal for a transparent background. Is there a way to enable this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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push db backup from one server to another with cron

[Red Henry]

I have a Debian server running PostgreSQL and I want to push a daily backup 
from that server to another server. Although I think I know how many of the 
pieces work to make this happen I don't know how to put it all together in a 
nice Debian way.
Where should I put the bash script that will do the work of making the backup 
and pushing the backup to another server? I think this script must run as the 
`postgres` user.
One thing I really like about my production server is that the only things I 
ever did with root to set it up were install some packages with apt-get, create 
one non-root user, create one database, and create one symbolic link for apache 
configuration. Everything else I did was as that non-root user. So I'd really 
like to keep the creation of this cron backup system as clean and simple as 
possible.
Thanks!
#F00

Re: Re: An error occurred | GStreamer encountered a general stream error.

[Muntasim Ul Haque]

Yep. "gstreamer1.0-libav is already the newest version."

Re: Security updates for wheezy breaking my FAI-installation

[Alexis]

Chris Bannister  writes:


On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:27:06PM +1000, Alexis wrote:


Christian Seiler  writes:

>Ok, since there appears to be some kind of confusion, I'll 
>explain.


[snip comprehensive explanatory/summary of what the various 
official Debian repos are used for]


Thank you very much for all this - it's greatly appreciated! 
i'd like to suggest that this summary (or at least some parts 
thereof) be put on the Debian Wiki, e.g. as an 
'OfficialRepositories' page (which seems to not exist, 
currently), and that it be linked to from various relevant 
pages. i feel this information is too valuable to perhaps get 
lost amongst the welter of emails to this list. :-)


Anyone can edit or add to the wiki, even you.


True. But i'm not willing to copy-and-paste someone's content to 
the Wiki without their permission. And trying to put it in my own 
words is very likely to introduce inaccuracies, given my 
inadequate knowledge in this area (as demonstrated by this 
thread).


i would suggest that the people who should be editing the Wiki are 
those who have good knowledge of the subject area they're editing, 
not those of us still coming to grips with that subject area.



Alexis.


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Re: push db backup from one server to another with cron

[Richard Hector]

On 13/05/15 13:59, Red Henry wrote:
> I have a Debian server running PostgreSQL and I want to push a
> daily backup from that server to another server. Although I think I
> know how many of the pieces work to make this happen I don't know
> how to put it all together in a nice Debian way.
> 
> Where should I put the bash script that will do the work of making
> the backup and pushing the backup to another server? I think this
> script must run as the `postgres` user.

You probably need to run it as postgres to run pg_dumpall or similar,
yes. I'd put it in /usr/local/bin, and call it from a cronjob in
/etc/cron.d. I'd have it write to files with the date in the name (eg
pgdump.20150513.dump or something like that), and then rsync it to the
same directory (I've used /var/backups/pg in the past, but whatever
suits you) on the other server.

Another thing you might like to consider, though not to replace this,
is to use PostgreSQL streaming replication to the other server as well
- that will give you a 'backup' that's about as current as you can
get, though without covering for accidental 'drop table' type events
:-) It's only useful if your other server is also running PostgreSQL,
of course. It's also rather more effort to set up.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication

Richard


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