Re: hard drive error
Patrick Olson wrote:
> > > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > > ide0: reset: success
> > >
> > I don't really know what causes this error, but I receive it also. The only
> > cure I've found was to recompile the kernel with "Use DMA by default when
> > available" /disabled/.
> >
> > I've been told that this can be fixed with the hdparms package, but it's
> > never worked correctly for me.
>
> For what it's worth, I had this error back in the days of Debian 1.3 (I
> don't remember the kernel version, probably 2.0.something). It finally
> got to the point that the computer wouldn't do anything, not even root
> login or shutdown.
>
> I turned the computer completely off for about 5 minutes, checked all the
> IDE cables for loose connections, and haven't had the problem since. If
> your system is on all the time, it MIGHT be worth a try, although I fear
> that it was probably just something weird that the computer did.
>
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I wish that would solve my problem my harddrive is on it's way to Quantum :(
Re: hard drive error
Michael Fox wrote: > By any chance, you don't happen to have IDE power down set in bios.. if so > turn it off.. might fix your problem > > -Original Message----- > From: Andrew Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, 13 August 1999 11:09 > Subject: Re: hard drive error > > > >I wish that would solve my problem my harddrive is on it's way to > Quantum :( > > > > There is a firmware upgrade on Quantum's site for the powerdown bug (Write call to wake up HDD may hang PC, affects Fireball ST drives) Get the ident.exe file from their FTP site, run it, if the firmware version is < 0C00 you should get the fix which is also on the ftp site. I wish this was my problem, I suffer a physical failure of the drive.
PnP SB16 Problems
Has anyone had any success getting an SB16 (Vibra 16 really) PnP to work with debian, I tried configuring the kernel with the same options that CTCM displays when you run it, then booting to DOS, running CTCM and then booting linux via loadlin (with and without sound=0x6220933) Any help would be apreciated (even if it is just to tell me to rip the non-PnP SB16 original out of my other machine) Please CC me. Regards, Andrew Clark --- Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] url : http://www.andrewclark.ddns.org/ or http://andrewclark.freehosting.net/ --- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Apple LaserWriter IINT
Anyone had any success getting a Apple LaserWriter IINT working with linux? Please CC me, Regards, Andrew Clark
Re: Fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
This problem is documented in the FAQ at exim.org. You need to set
localhost as a recognised domain for mail to the machine you are on to
be addressed to, otherwise the relaying controls deny you to relay the
the localhost. You can either set this with eximconfig, or edit the
config file (I can't remember the line that you need to edit, sorry but
you'll have look at the FAQ or wait till I get home from work)
Regards,
Andrew Clark.
Re: fetchmail VS. ?
Fetchmail does devliver to local var/spool/mail dirs. On my machine I have in the ~/.fetchmailrc file: poll mail.dynamite.com.au proto pop3 user ajfclark there is andrew here Then when I run fetchmail, it asks for my password, grabs each mail and delivers it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which sticks it in the mail spool. Regards, Andrew Clark "The box says 'Windows 95 or better' that means it'll run on Linux, right? - Anonymous
Netscape 4.5 has black icons...
I run X in 24bit colour and netscape has black icons, if I run in 16bit colour, netscape has nice colourful icons, is there anyway to get the coloured icons running in 24bit or is netscape 4.5 broken? Regards, Andrew Clark. pls CC me.
Secure Networks?
I have a quick question. I have two networks in different locations, is
there any way to have all traffic between the two networks encrypted (by
the gateway machines I'd assume) ie so that I can just use telnet
between the two networks and it'll be encrypted (as well as all http,
ftp etc)
If this is possible, where would I find information?
Regards,
Andrew Clark.
Pls CC me, I'm not on the list ATM.
printf function
I wonder if anyone can help me out. I need to get a copy of the source for the printf function (I need to write modified version), but I don't want the rest of the standard c library, is there somewhere on the internet I can find it, or can someone email it to me, or should I just install the lib c source and get it myself and then remove the source? Regards, Andrew Clark.
Printers..
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good printer? (I can get a HP DJ 550 off my dad, will that work ok with Linux?) Also is it possible to set a printer on a Linux box on a LAN and have the Win9x/NT machines print on it? If so is it really hard to setup? Any info is appreciated. -- Regards, Andrew Clark.
Obscure Hardware
I'm wondering if anyone out there knows where I could get a pH probe
with serial output and a water hardness probe with serial output.
--
Regards,
Andrew Clark.
Re: Network sniffer
Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a Debian net. sniffer. > A month ago, somebody demoed a Windows net. sniffer. If I'm not > mistaken, the name was "NeoSniffer". Is there anything like it for Deb. > Linux? I use two packages for watching network traffic, iptraf and ipgrab. iptraf allows you to view any connections on your segment of the network, the data throughputs and port etc. ipgrab dumps each packet to stdio (or to a file). Last time I used ipgrab I was being dns flooded and ipgrab let me see what the query was requesting (Although it generated about 2mb in 5 seconds) Is that what you're after? > > > I just want to test ssh, and look for the differences if I were using > telnet. What do you mean? One's plain text and the other is encrypted (and optionally compressed) If you want to see how easy it is to grab passwords and so forth from a telnet session, use ipgrab. > > > TIA, > Oki > > -- > Shells >Command shells. Friendly user interfaces for beginners. > >http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Regards, Andrew Clark. CCs of replies to mailing list post welcome.
APT doing strange things...
When I run apt-get update it displays the following: Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages 45625% [1 stable/main 7300] 713B/s 69d 16h28m3s How do I fix this or should I just ignore it? -- Regards, Andrew Clark. CCs of replies to mailing list post welcome.
Problem with 2.2r0 install.
Hey guys, I just installed 2.2r0 on one of my machines. Root can log in, but no other users I create can, they get "Could not cd to [home directory]" and if I try to su to the account from root I get No Shell. Any help would be appreciated and can replies please be cc'd by [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not currently subscribed to the mailing list. R, Andrew.
RE: Windows Acting Funny After Install
I have also got this before. I could be wrong but I think it had something to do with either: - table=/dev/hd? missing from lilo.conf - forgot to set windows partition as a boot/active partition I could be wrong though, it's been a while since it happend. Quoting Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 11:12 PM 3/22/01 , you wrote: > >Everyone please jump on me if I'm incorrect, but I think once you've > seen > >the "Starting Windows 95" text anything that happens is beyond the > control > >of lilo? > > > I realize it's beyond the control of LILO, but it obviously has > something > to do with Debian. This is the second time this has happened to me > right > after installing Debian. > > Ben > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > R, AJFC
IP Masq On/Off on a running kernel
I know that you can turn IP forwarding on and off on a running kernel with something like: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I was wondering if the same was possible with IP Masq? Also, is there a library for tftp clients? All I need to do is send a file to a server and be able to pull a file from a server (That's about all it can do isn't it?) Regards, Andrew Clark Please CC replies to this post to me, I'm not on the list.
Re: Start up?
Joshua Kruck wrote: > > hello, > Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can > put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i > would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an > easy way to do this? The easiest way I have found to do SMB mounts at boot time is to put entries in /etc/fstab for them. IIRC: mount -t smbfs //winpc/share /mnt/winpc/ -o username=Administrator,password=blahblah translates to: //winpc/share /mnt/winpc smbfs username=Administrator,password=blahblah 0 2 > Thanks > Joshua > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Horde
Horde keeps dumping from the configure with pgsql extension for php4 found. Include of /etc/horde/apache.conf found in apache config files. index.php settings in /etc/apache/httpd.conf found! index.php3 settings in /etc/apache/httpd.conf found! Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database. This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, or if the password was incorrect. use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure. Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database. This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, or if the password was incorrect. use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure. I've tried reconfiguring, creating the db, creating the user, to no avail. Does anyone have horde working on an unstable machine? If so, how did you do it? R, AJFC Please CC replies.
pflogsumm for sendmail?
Just wondering if anyone knew of a package/app that works like pflogsumm but operates on sendmail logs? Please CC replies to me. R, Andrew Clark
Horde Setup in unstable
Has anyone else received the following error message when trying to install IMP on an unstable box? Setting up horde (1.2.6-2) ...Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database. This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, or if the password was incorrect. use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure.Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database.This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, orif the password was incorrect.use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure.Reloading apache modules. Any ideas on how to fix it? The package has been broken like this for a few months now R, AJFC. PS. Please CC me, I'm not currently subscribed.
Postgresql upgrade 7.1 -> 7.2 issue
I'm having problems upgrading from postgresql 7.1 to 7.2. On attempting to start the postmaster I get: # /etc/init.d/postgresql start The database is in an older format that cannot be read by version 7.2 of PostgreSQL. The postinstallation script should attempt to upgrade the database automatically. If it fails, it must be done by hand. *** READ /usr/share/doc/postgresql/README.Debian.migration.gz FIRST! *** The version 7.2 postmaster cannot be started until this is done. Reading that document says I should run: postgresql-dump -t db.out -dcivlp $PGDATA/../data.save Which produces: Stopping and restarting the postmaster /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/7.1/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data -p 5431 -o -d0 Dumping the database to db.out /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_dumpall connected to template1... process_hba_record: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details psql: Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Finding the default encoding process_hba_record: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details psql: Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details Usage: pg_encoding [options] encoding_name | encoding_number options: -bcheck if encoding is valid for backend Killing the postmaster Smart Shutdown request at Thu Mar 7 11:14:20 2002 This is the ASCII output of the dump for you to check: -- postgresql-dump on Thu Mar 7 11:14:20 EST 2002 from version 7.1 -- -- pg_dumpall (7.2) -- \connect template1 DELETE FROM pg_shadow WHERE usesysid <> (SELECT datdba FROM pg_database WHERE datname = 'template0'); On the basis of this dump, is it OK to delete the old database? [y/n] n Seeing as there is several gig of data in the old database, I'm no really happy with that dump. Any ideas? Which pg_hba.conf file is the postmaster trying to read? Please CC responses, I'm not currently subscribed. Andrew Clark 90East (Asia Pacific) Pty Ltd Canberra, Australia 02 6272 3700 (switch) 02 6272 3010 (facsimile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.90East.com ** Notice: This e-mail may contain personal information as defined in the Privacy Act 1988, or confidential information. Please do not disclose personal information in this e-mail, other than that of the sender, to another party without the consent of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you have received this e-mail in error, please do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use the information. Also, please notify the sender that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete the copy you received. Thank you.
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I have a bunch of packages that I'd like to make available to other people on my network (Slightly hacked version of licq that works with our fire wall) I was wondering how build the package description files and so on such that other Debian users on my network could just add a line to their sources list and FTP the packages automatically. Please CC any replies to me as this address is not subscribed to the list. R, AJFC. Phone: +61262430214
Re:
Does apt-move actually work for anyone? When I run it, it created a lot of directories in the right places, but then it skipped every file in /var/lib/cache/apt and didn't put anything in the mirror. At 12:07 28/03/2001 +0200, Bernhard Wesely wrote: Hi, Two weeks ago I asked the same question. :-) You have to let dpkg-scanpackages create a "Packages" file. This file has to be gzipped and will be downloaded by apt-get to check wich packages are available. There is also a Release File, I forgot the first time, but it was runnning even without it. :-) If you have a woody-system running you can install apt-dev, wich contains the program "apt-ftparchive", which is much more complex than dpkg-scanpackages but is also more advanced. I copied the directory structure from my nearest official debian-mirror (I thought it was the fastest way) :-) The Packages are to be stored at an anonymous ftp-server. In the same directory where the packages are stored, the Packages-file has to be. Ciao, Bernie - Original Message - From: "Andrew Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 5:00 AM > I have a bunch of packages that I'd like to make available to other people > on my network (Slightly hacked version of licq that works with our fire wall) > > I was wondering how build the package description files and so on such that > other Debian users on my network could just add a line to their sources > list and FTP the packages automatically. > > Please CC any replies to me as this address is not subscribed to the list. > > R, > > AJFC. > > Phone: +61262430214 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > R, AJFC. Phone: +61262430214
Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat
Quoting CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ladida... it has... dependencies... bugger. doesn't tell you which ones > haven't been met though. time to slug it out and detect and get that > sorted. > (one bonus point to rpm here. at least it says the src rpm has > dependencies. > src 'deb's' (no such thing really) have to be done by trial and error) Not quite true. I'm not sure if anything validates against it yet, but if you read the dsc file (licq included here), have a look at the build-depends line: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.0 Source: licq Version: 1.0.3-2 Binary: licq-plugin-console, licq-plugin-rms, licq-plugin-qt2, licq-plugin- forwarder, licq-plugin-autoreply, licq-plugin-kde, licq, licq-dev Maintainer: Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.5.2 Build-Depends: automake, debhelper (>= 3.0.0), libtool, libpng2-dev, libqt-dev (>= 2:2.2.4-1), kdelibs-dev, libz-dev, xlib6g-dev Files: 894d7c27c0799c8b31dda134fe14b257 2112461 licq_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz f844edf3ba9ec369561b2cb2929e6d0e 12790 licq_1.0.3-2.diff.gz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 iQEVAwUBOrAF3twPDK/EqFJbAQEVyAf9G0/xYTcnKtGVpRLW0zyNdJAFFZEbM5XN iKR1OTuSSW4GzHXmfb28s9sxgyl0f0N+/bv4kfj1nf7QT1NPxrEDXPdnGeVLDWrn aowEtMp0LQYtzQfYscGuHSGqopnfR583/YheSNv4Y4Pwjh402fu6YQnRfzMx2zYt sYwJ9rTz08f/glVwSi3uauklp3XceY95G4/QD6goorKLcd1Z3HNrYoMN5OpkM0Oh +Ie7OqN09VZUZ17g1xOlwuq6SzvpEq1Y8jlcqYOCMA28gyO3hSdAjv3xZRHqkgMH 4K67tuLhBFdiId4MekvHKLWyxT4oXALOWDzoGMfyWNieggeDtHK53A== =Ien1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- R, AJFC
Logitech Mouseman+/Logitech Mouseman Wheel
Just wondering if anyone has had success getting a Logitech Mouseman+ (aka Logitech Mouseman Wheel) working under XFree86 v4.0.2, wheel and all? R, AJFC
Horde won't install correctly
I've been trying to get Horde to install on my unstable machine, and I've been having no end of problems. Whenever the postinst script runs, either during a fresh install or a dpkg-reconfigure I get the following error message: pgsql extension for php4 found. Include of /etc/horde/apache.conf found in apache config files. index.php settings in /etc/apache/srm.conf found! index.php3 settings in /etc/apache/srm.conf found! Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database. This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, or if the password was incorrect. use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure. Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database. This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, or if the password was incorrect. use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure. Looking through the postinst script, it seems that /usr/share/wwwconfig-common/pgsql-createdb and pqsql-createuser are both failing. I tried to run these manually, and all is well until I get to elif ! $pgsqlcmd $systemdb -c "" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then Which I think would expand to: psql template1 -c "" or psql template1 -c "" -U postgres Which exit with: psql: FATAL 1: user "root" does not exist or psql: Peer authentication failed for user 'postgres' respectivly. If the later is run as the postgres user, it works fine. I'm running: Package: postgresql Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 7948 Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 7.1release-4 Package: postgresql-client Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 676 Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: postgresql Version: 7.1release-4 Package: wwwconfig-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 169 Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.0.10 Package: horde Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 1735 Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 3:1.2.6-1 I can't figure out what's wrong, can anyone else? Please CC any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] R, AJFC
Re: Spam impersonating me (was Re: Spam: the last straw)
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:23:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:17:23PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Cool, didn't know 'whois' took IPs... nslookup wasn't very useful on > > > > that IP address. > > > > > > Right. If whois doesn't return a result, traceroute (or its > > > replacements, which I'm less familiar with) may be useful. As these > > > traverse the network connection, the process is slower. > > > > whois will always return a result; you just have to know how to ask. > > Not strictly true. I've had requests time out, or in certain instances, > be refused (alegedly for overuse from a specific IP or netblock, which I > find implausible). At one point, I tried a whois on a particular address and recieved a reserved reply from the whois server. Using the web interface on ARIN's site whoever, I got multiple records, 1 saying reserved and the other saying National Guard, Pentagon... > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free >Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org > Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
Re: assembler and linux
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:47:31PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > hello, > > In the package "binutils" there are : > > "as" and "ld". > > I did man as, man ld, info as, info ld, but > > I need a tutorial or a book which contain examples of programs... > > (the programs write with tasm of borland don't works with as an ld) > > > > Can someone give me a link to find useful documentations. > > Besides books, you may want to try writing small C programs and > compiling them with gcc, using the -S option. "gcc -o -S input.c" > should give you some nice assembly code in the file input.s. > > J. You could also look at the NASM package, you might have more luck getting that to assemble tasm examples. I have no idea though, I'm just guessing and trying to remember stuff I read years ago. > > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?
On Sun, 04 November 2001, Courtney Thomas wrote: > > Greetings ! > > If said card is usable, what module can be used ? > > Appreciatively, > Courtney Last time I used a Netgear card (310tx) there was a code for the appropriate kernel module on the disk. If there isn't, it might be the tulip driver. > > > > > -- > Naturity: > in contradistinction to the oxymoronic humanity, > and as evidenced by the natural mercy of death releasing living > beings from the unnaturalness and "inhumanity" of man. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] R, Andrew.
NTP no server suitable for synchronization found
I'm having problems getting NTP to work on my network. My gateway syncs fine, but whenever I try to sync off the gate way, I get: no server suitable for synchronization found For instance: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 /usr/doc/ntp # ntpdate -q 192.168.1.1 server 192.168.1.1, stratum 2, offset -0.882461, delay 0.02628 16 Jan 10:53:16 ntpdate[1422]: no server suitable for synchronization found Any ideas? Please CC responses, I'm not subscribe at this account ATM. Cheers, Andrew Clark 90East (Asia Pacific) Pty Ltd Canberra, Australia 02 6272 3700 (switch) 02 6272 3010 (facsimile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.90East.com Notice: This e-mail may contain personal information as defined in the Privacy Act 1988, or confidential information. Please do not disclose personal information in this e-mail, other than that of the sender, to another party without the consent of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you have received this e-mail in error, please do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use the information. Also, please notify the sender that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete the copy you received. Thank you.
Re: Is this video card i810 supported?
On Mon, 04 June 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi everyone. > > > Yes, I mean in unstable ; in potato uses 3.3.6 and it > is not supported AFAIK; I need this information before > going to install. This is Intel i810, and there is > driver from intel to work with 3.3.6 but I know for > XFree 4.0x, it is supported. At least Mandrake 8.0 has > it ; but I dont like to use mandrake anyway :-); > > So please help Thanks > > = > S.KIEU I had a lot of issues getting this chipset to work well with 3.3.6, 4.0.1 worked fine though. The options for i810 in the 2.4.x kernels made life a fair bit easier... R, Andrew.
How to change GDM3 login screen background
Hi, I'm trying to update my gdm3 login screen background. I followed the instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/GDM : Customizing the GDM appearance GDM v3.0+ allows for some basic customization, such as changing the logo icon, display background, and GTK theme. To do so: Edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults as root Uncomment and/or modify the desired settings Save and close the editor Finally, run as root: dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 The command 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm3' will cause gdm to reload its configuration upon the next logout or reboot. Note: When changing the background image, the target file must be world-readable. But this did not work, I still have the default background. Here's my greeter.dconf-defaults (other changes here have been picked up): aclark@pleco 0 /etc/gdm3 $ egrep -v '(^#|^$)' greeter.dconf-defaults [org/gnome/desktop/interface] [org/gnome/desktop/background] picture-uri='file:///usr/share/backgrounds/TNAwallpaper4K.jpg' picture-options='zoom' [org/gnome/login-screen] logo='/usr/share/images/vendor-logos/logo-text-version-128.png' disable-user-list=true [org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power] The background exists and is world readable: aclark@pleco 0 /etc/gdm3 $ ls -l /usr/share/backgrounds/TNAwallpaper4K.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2310969 Apr 3 10:34 /usr/share/backgrounds/TNAwallpaper4K.jpg Running testing: aclark@pleco 0 /etc/gdm3 $ cat /etc/debian_version buster/sid Checking gdm3 is actually running, not light dm or something: aclark@pleco 0 /etc/gdm3 $ ps -ef | grep '[g]dm3' root 942 1 0 11:24 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm3 aclark2779 2756 0 12:05 tty2 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session /usr/bin/gnome-session gdm3 version: aclark@pleco 0 /etc/gdm3 $ dpkg -l gdm3 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==---= ii gdm3 3.30.2-3 amd64GNOME Display Manager What am I missing? -- Cheers, Andrew.
Re: How to change GDM3 login screen background
Thanks curt, that works for me. So the commentary in the comments in the source file supplied by the gdm3 package don't work, along with the instructions in the wiki page pointing to them, should I log a bug? On Sun., 7 Apr. 2019, 18:35 Curt, wrote: > On 2019-04-07, Andrew Clark wrote: > > > > What am I missing? > > > > It appears the wiki's wrong and has been wrong for quite a while now (if > not from the very start). > > Maybe the following method might work (it seems like an incredible > rigamarole for such a trivial user customization, but there you go). > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Log-in_screen_background_image > >
ImageMagick on armhf
I have been having some issues getting captions to work with imagemagick on an armhf machine. As per http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption_paragraphs I was trying to get the captions to read in from a file. On my amd64 machine, the following works and prompts on stdin for the caption: convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 12 -size 320x caption:@- caption_file.gif On the armhf machine, it doesn't even wait for stdin, it just exits and caption file just contains the @- as the caption. Package version: amd64 8:6.8.9.9-7+b2 armhf 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u2 Imagemagick reports: amd64: Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2016-04-08 http://www.imagemagick.org armhf: Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 arm 2016-05-16 http://www.imagemagick.org Any ideas why the arm version doesn't appear to support reading from files with the @ notation? Cheers, Andrew.
Re: ImageMagick on armhf
So it turns out the policy.xml files are different between the two versions and removing the restrictions on @ in /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml almost works. Well, it does work to read from files, but not from stdin. Interesting. I went back and downloaded the source tarball that the armhf deb package was built from. If I compile that, caption:@- operates as expected: pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ ./utilities/convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 12 -size 320x caption:@- caption_file.gif Test pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ After a make install to /usr/local/bin/ the previous weird no prompt behaviour returns: pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ /usr/local/bin/convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 12 -size 320x caption:@- caption_file.gif pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ Digging a bit, the system version of the libs is being used. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the libraries in /usr/local/lib/ are used and correct behaviour returns, even when using the system version of convert: pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ /usr/local/bin/convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 12 -size 320x caption:@- caption_file.gif This is a test pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ /usr/bin/convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 12 -size 320x caption:@- caption_file.gif This is a test pi@raspberrypi:~/src/ImageMagick-6.8.9-9 $ So the issue is coming from a library. Removing /usr/local/lib/libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.2 so that the system version starts getting used again and the problem resurfaces. Does it sound like this is most likely a bug introduced by the Debian or Raspian maintainer then? On Sat, 21 May 2016 at 16:28 Andrew Clark wrote: > I have been having some issues getting captions to work with imagemagick > on an armhf machine. As per > http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption_paragraphs I was trying to > get the captions to read in from a file. > > On my amd64 machine, the following works and prompts on stdin for the > caption: > > convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 12 -size 320x > caption:@- caption_file.gif > > On the armhf machine, it doesn't even wait for stdin, it just exits and > caption file just contains the @- as the caption. > > Package version: > amd64 8:6.8.9.9-7+b2 > armhf 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u2 > > Imagemagick reports: > amd64: Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2016-04-08 > http://www.imagemagick.org > armhf: Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 arm 2016-05-16 > http://www.imagemagick.org > > Any ideas why the arm version doesn't appear to support reading from files > with the @ notation? > > Cheers, > Andrew. >
Re: Syslog-NG
I don't have my pi with me, but in Debian, the logrotate package handles regular rotation and signaling daemons to open new files. You should be able to figure out a suitable configuration from one of the files already in /etc/logrotate.d/ As for the large log file you already have, I think split should be able to break it into multiple pieces that you can read. On 3 June 2016 at 16:42, David wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am running Syslog-ng on a Raspberry Pi, it stores the data sent to it > on a 64G memory stick. It's working very well. > > I retrieve the syslog file by SSHing into the Pi and copying the file to > my main PC. > > The problem I have is that the file has now grown to 3.7G and normal > text editors wont open it. > > Can anybody recommend a text editor or text viewer that will work with > large files? > > The solution going forward is to get Syslog-ng to start a new file every > month, anybody know if this is possible? > > regards, > > David. > > > -- Cheers, Andrew.
