Bug (?) affecting dramatically laptop battery life introduced in the latest debian testing updates

pinpoint which is the package responsible for that, although I suspect it might be either the ACPI package or the battery module of the kernel: could you perhaps please suggest me the best way to pinpoint the culprit for producing a detailed bug report? Thanks in advance! Cheers, Pietro --

TTYSnooping error

site for the project ? https://sourceforge.net/projects/ttysnoop/ Having the latest source would help me as I could start to debug the code without being in doubt of fixing an already fixed bug, Thanks a lot. Pietro.

Lenovo T430 Video Graphics - second screen -

Hello all, I bought a Lenovo laptop T430 wich work perfectely with wheezy if I don't mind about my video card, the second monitor is not detected and I can just see "Unknow" and got a ridicolus resolution. The video card is 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core

PPPoE Server Problem

um.org/archive/index.php/t-104060.html My Ubuntu system runs a version of the ppp packet 2.4.5 but, again, I am not able to perform a downgrade because I can't see through apt-cache showpkg ppp any older versions. Any help will be really appreciated. Pietro Paolini pulsarpie...@aol.com --

pppoe-server

Hello all, I installed successfully the roar-penguin pppoe-server and I try to use it without success, what I don't understand is that I put in my /etc/ppp/pppoe-server-options debug logfile /var/log/pppoe-server-log But that file is not created then I don't understand what happen and is really

RE: More on port forwarding(ssh, netcat and amule!)

gs RST set on. Hope this can help you. Pietro. -Original Message- From: robo...@news.nic.it [mailto:robo...@news.nic.it] On Behalf Of houkensjtu Sent: giovedì 11 ottobre 2012 10:53 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: More on port forwarding(ssh, netcat and amule!) Hi debianer!

KDevelop Problem

working and after program simply show me nothing, no file directory tree no source, nothing! Maybe someone can help me ? Many Thanks, Pietro .

force_igmp_status does not work

sion But without success, any suggestion ? Thanks, Pietro Paolini.

Disable X-Server temporary

Hi all, How disable the X-Server temporary ? Thanks, Pietro.

Configure Virtual IP interfaces

suggestion ? Thanks in advance, Pietro.

sony vaio pcg-c1 and debian

Good morning, I tried to found information about which version of Debian could be istalled on my sony vaio pcg-c1, cpu 266 Mz, ram 64Mb and 64 Mb video without any results. Could be so kind to let me known if there is a version of the Debian O.S. that works with the above mentioned computer? Man

Re: Can Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel 50 run Debian

Hi, I have the same problem; have you found any solution yet? I'll try with a friend of mine who develops Debian. I'll let you know if I have some news. Regards Pietro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xrandr extensions as normal user

Hi, I've searched the archives for analogous problem, but found nothing, so forgive me if the question has already been asked! This is the problem: if I run startx as root the xrandr extensions runs, but if I run startx as normal user they do not run: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pietro]$ xrandr

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Re: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

off the top by something low-level; I was advised to use the exact amount of memory listed at the very beginning of the boot sequence, and no more. I was also advised to use the KB units, not MB. To me, the quantity above looks like more than 256 MB, but I guess it is in "kibibytes". Wh

Re: NETWORK ROUTES

instance, on network 172.16.4.0/24, if the router nic is on 172.16.4.1, the default gateway on any other host must be 172.16.4.1 (hope i've been clear :-) ) eventually, you can try to dump completely static routing. static routing is good for causing headaches. hope this helps. pietro.

Re: mrtg configuration

on the boxes you want to monitor; then use cfgmaker to configure mrtg on the box you install it on. hope this is correct and helps - worked for me :-) pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache and Caps

Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is there anyway to tell Apache to ignore Caps? > > try mod_speling, see documentation in apache-doc package. hope this helps. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

g like $ ls > list then edit the list file to delete the file names not to be removed, add the rm command and the quotes, and execute it with $ sh list kinda clumsy but it should work anywhere. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

it with rm, but I > have had no such luck with it so far by quoting, escaping, using "--", > "./" or any other magic I can think of. with a little help from man ls && man bash: ls --escape will print the escape sequences for funky characters; rm $'' will th

Re: how long does stuff in /var/tmp stick around?

1/2 a year > etc. when I least expect it. apt-get install tmpreaper pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't delete a file

don't modify it, but the directory that contains it. so to remove a file you need write permission on the directory, and the permissions on the file are almost completely irrilevant. hope this helps. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: dpkg "status" file lost

libraries which may be useful to get it back to work "just in case". Thanks in advance you could be able to find a copy of your lost files in the lost+found directories. there's one under every mount point. the files are all renamed, but an editor should let you spot the old s

Re: man or info?

Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. Paul apt-get install pinfo or if you have apache installed apt-get install info2www hope this helps pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Setting system time on startup

Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, What is the advantage to keep the clock on GMT? it keeps your system simpler and cleaner. believe me, it's worth it! for instance, linux needs the bios clock on gmt, so adjusts it at boot and at shutdown. if you don

Re: Setting system time on startup

o set the system clock to local time? debian readjusts the clock on shutdown, maybe there's something broken somewhere; check the console output on shutdown. if you use just linux on the box, it's better to keep the clock on GMT: adjust UTC=* in /etc/default/rcS . pietro. --

Re: Locale Q:

E="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= what happens if you set LC_CTYPE to C too? pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale Q:

the list, you found the problem! man 7 locale will give you some info about the locale system. hope this helps. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Man page output

text format to print it, the best thing is to use man -t , which will give you nicely formatted postscript output. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vfat and samba

give everybody write access on vfat, but could solve the problem. hope this helps. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting disconnected from a mounted smbfs

for this?IIRC nfs > has one. > > dayalan i had the same problem: it disappeared when i installed adrian bunk's "kernel 2.4 on potato" kit from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/, even if the kernel was still 2.2; it looks like a umount bug that got fixed. hope it helps. pietro --

Re: chmod

good laugh and you'll take pity on me and answer anyway! if you need to make something serious with unix, get a copy of Kernighan & Pike's "the unix programming environment"; it's partly outdated, but still incredibly useful for shell scripting and general unix manglin

Re: apt/dpkg problem

/lib/dpkg/status (yes i know it can be dangerous). is there any line number specified for the error? you can try posting the relevant section of the file. hope it helps. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOS

assare il login di root esiste ma non e' banale (volutamente!). ripeti la richiesta (in inglese!) se non riesci davvero in nessun modo a ricordare la password immessa durante l'installazione. ancora meglio, usa gli archivi di questa lista (http://lists.debian.org/) per avere la risposta alla

Re: Microsoft Access

CSV module (package libdbd-csv-perl). you can access the exported tables with sql statements: quite fast, very powerful! (been there, done that) pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Was: Unix(LF) files to MSDOS(CRLF) and vice versa

ts? recode is a very general character conversion tool. apt-get install recode pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rawrite2

. None of these works. But rawrite2 works fine on rescue.bin.What is wrong? -Cong the floppies don't use a ms-dos readable format. you can read them properly on a linux machine. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Restore CD image equiv.

.net/~hugo/ it is packaged for woody. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400

is why I would like to try > Debian instead, please, someone, help me get my Debian system > running I'm not a Linux expert (yet), so please explain in an easy > way what I should do.. > > Thanks a lot for all (hopefully) help... http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=96 it worked perfectly for me. hope this helps. pietro.

Re: Xfree 4.1 on potato

ll. follow the instructions in the READ.THIS files. pietro.

Re: kernel 2.4.x

using the forms at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages you can get the debs from any branch, then install them with dpkg. kernel sources don't have many library dependencies :-) pietro. (ma guarda te se dobbiamo parlarci in inglese :-)

Re: ssh-client & gui

> Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? > > THX > Ines xterm -e ssh -X :-) really, it's hard to me to understand what exactly should do a gui for ssh. maybe you need a way to launch gui apps via ssh? if so, you just need the -X switch. pietro.

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

George Karaolides wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > George Karaolides wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > > > > > Best

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

George Karaolides wrote: > > Hi, > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > Best regards, > there's an hellenic-howto on www.linuxdoc.org. pietro.

Re: Wood + squid problems at some hosts.

e proxy box natted? can you telnet www.sun.com on port 80 from the proxy box? does the timeout error page have the squid signature at the bottom? pietro.

(OT) Re: ma esistono donne che usano debian?????

start a new offtopic thread :-) pietro.

Re: anacron

.daily . if your machine acts just as a router, maybe the best thing is to reduce the filesistem complexity by removing unnecessary packages. you can also edit /etc/crontab to move the anacron jobs to different hours. pietro.

Re: Another update on "The Kernel that Wouldn't Boot"

s? > > Thanks again, > Tim you can try to rename the directory /lib/modules/ and run make modules_install again. pietro.

Re: Locale e caratteri italiani

i butta la seguente su stdout: > Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged > > Ovviamente non vorrei che funzionasse solo con emacs, > ma anche sulla xterm. > > Grazie, > David. se ho capito bene, probabilmente l'unica cosa che ti manca e' la riga set convert-meta off in /etc/inputrc . c'e' anche un italian-howto: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Italian-HOWTO.html pietro.

Re: Newbie question: Setup the network card and DHCP

CP for my computer which is connect the internet > through LAN? man interfaces hope this helps pietro.

Re: Less and .gz files

> On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. Can i > get less to do it also on Debian? try zless (and zgrep, zcat...) pietro.

Re: 2 questions

will happen automagically. pietro.

Re: perl script to replace html login?

> Hi! > > Is there a easy way to make a perl skript to send an http post request > produced by the following html form? > > > > > > > > The reply of the server is not important... install libwww-perl and use LWP::UserAgent . pietro.

Re: Samba clarification

mething it doesn't own :-) you can configure your workstation's printer as a remote unix printer on the samba server, then share it with samba. this way, print jobs will be delivered to the samba server, and it will bounce them to your workstation. never tried myself, but it should work. pietro.

Re: debian newbie : 2 simple questions

ns if you need! pietro.

Re: debiandoc (Latex) for Italian

my system. > > Without hyphnation, it can not make div file without error in italian. > > Anyway to correct this situation? My SGML source (Italian) compiles OK > if I tell it as English by "-l en" for debiandoc2ps. use texconfig as root (menu driven, should be easy). > I speak no Italian :) well you ain't the one :-) pietro.

Re: Login problem

> > any recompiling or upgrading will be useless - you just can't send > > keystrokes to a program that didn't started yet! > > No, they can be buffered on the terminal. Try typing at 'sleep 5; cat >

Re: Login problem

gin 2902-8. > > Thanks for any help, > > Seneca > [EMAIL PROTECTED] any recompiling or upgrading will be useless - you just can't send keystrokes to a program that didn't started yet! getty asks for username, then starts login that asks for the password; the transition from getty to login takes some time... i'm afraid the only thing you can do is wait... pietro.

Re: vi vs ae

Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:40:57AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > type as root: > > > > > > update-alternatives --config editor > > > > > > man update-alternatives will tell you a

Re: vi vs ae

gt; > How do I fix this? ae is not at all what I am accustomed to and was > rather dismayed to find it so prevelant on all my systems overnight. > > Is there some history here I wasn't aware of? type as root: update-alternatives --config editor man update-alternatives will tell you a lot of the history. pietro.

Re: broken "man"

> How can I determine if man is installed and see if all > of the things that man depends on are installed as > well? try "apt-get install man-db" to install the man program. it is not included in the default minimal install, iirc. pietro.

Re: informazioni

e! prova in caso a chiedere aiuto nella mailing list riservata agli utenti italiani (debian-italian). tieni presente che l'inglese ti servira' comunque! in bocca al lupo. pietro.

Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?

t;http://proxy.mycompany.com:8080";; my proxy is squid too, on a potato box. everything works perfectly. try to check the squid logs, if you can access them. pietro.

Re: Looking for lib's

actly what a package is. you should need at least mysql-server and mysql-client, and maybe some perl/python/php/whatever related packages. hope it helps. pietro.

Re: OT: performance problems.

le: [little button up left]->Options->Preferences->Output Plugin Configure->Buffering pietro.

Re: OT: xargs & vi

s inheriting the standard input from his parent process, the shell, which is actually connected to a terminal, and everything works fine. pietro.

Re: FTP install using proxy ?

uot;;; the same thing (with obvious changes) should apply to ftp. hope it helps. pietro.

Re: libraries

libc5 package for the libc and libm you need. try the f2c package for libf2c. pietro.

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

> Whatever that floppy can still not be mounted error message? pietro.

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

> HI, dman, Pietro, Jo-el, & Sam, > > I definitely did not do a sync. Maybe I did a umount, but probably not. > > Why, when one shuts down via, say, poweroff, can unix not do that for you > in the course of closing things down? It seems on of those things that > is go

Re: dd /dev/hda /dev/hdb block size

> Someone mentioned I should specify a block size. What > would be a good block size for 60G HD? don't do that. use tar. really, you can have a LOT of subtle problems. so don't do that. use tar. well, tar instead of dd. rsync is fine. you can even make the initial copy with rsync, and avoid tar. pietro.

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

significant amount of time. > Given the symptoms you describe, I would guess that you didnt do a 'sync' > before you popped the floppy disk, and thus your backups were never > written to floppy before you popped out the drive. the Right Thing to do is umount the floppy before pushing the eject button. pietro.

Re: virtusertable

Roberto Angione wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Pietro Cagnoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Roberto Angione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:41 PM > Subject: Re: virtusertable > > > &g

Re: virtusertable

hum, stai parlando di sendmail, vero? il default di debian e' exim e non sendmail, quindi controlla che il server di posta installato sia sendmail. pietro.

Re: How to get IRQ/io inventory...?

tom schuetz wrote: > > What's the best way to get IRQ and io info on all the devices on my (potato) > system? > > Thanks! $ cat /proc/interrupts $ cat /proc/ioports pietro.

Re: cdrom was /dev/hdd now /dev/scd0. Can someone explain?

i? because somewhere you asked for it :-) try removing the sr_mod kernel module (rmmod sr_mod as root), and see if this changes. you probably tried a command that turned on the scsi emulation for ide cdroms. it's safe anyway to leave it like this. hope it helps. pietro.

Re: Does connection in TIME_WAIT count?

server see it? > > Thank you, > > Jozef no, it's a closed connection. ask for more details if you need! pietro.

Re: OT: perl Crypt::IDEA

Makefiles, etc.). If anyone has any suggestions, I'd > really appreciate it. > > Thanks! uhm, look in the module documentation and see if the module can work with the perl version you have. the problem could be there. however, after a quick grep trough the perl source, i think you can replace 'sv_undef' with 'PL_sv_undef' to compile it. hope it helps. pietro.

Re: xscanimage can't find device...

ut of scanimage --list-devices everything else will be fine (well, it worked this way for me :-). pietro. Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > > Both xscanimage and xsane say they can not find a device. > Am I missing some setup? > > Debian 2.2r3 > Mustek MFS-6000CX on an AHA1542

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

ernel 2.0.38 . it must be a very tough machine, a kind of a rack-mounted pc (well, i saw it just once...). other local machines had cooling fan and power supply failures. never saw a failed hard disk. pietro.

Re: using /home with potato & woody

to see if everything looks ok. i don't think you can do any damage if you don't start typing rm commands randomly... :-) pietro.

Re: UNATTACHED INODE

the way, why isn't it the default? is there anybody supposed to give a meaningful answer to any question about inode 161806 ??? oh yes, maybe i should email the ext2 maintainer... :-) pietro.

Re: customizing Emacs

her > people will find editing such a code nightmarish, it's not worth being a > dissenter in this issue. :) well, see Chapter 1 in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle for an authoritative opinion... pietro.

Re: How to use Linux as a dial-up provider?

e my own ISP, allowing > myself to dial into the T1 via my office Linux box. > > Can anyone point me to HOWTOs? Read the PPP-HOWTO, install mgetty and have fun! pietro.

Re: Can Linux use a Microsoft Proxy Server to access theInternet?

7;t find me because I'm behind a > proxy? Can this be corrected? try with the pftp command. hope this helps. pietro.

Re: OT : Internet Services on Unix-like systems

> does anyone know where I can find statistics on Internet Services > (w3, etc) running on unix-like systems ? I.e., how many machines uses > unix-like systems for web services, ftp services, etc ? the command you need is probably netstat. lots of options, see the man page. pietro.

Re: source.list error recovery

e bad packages. remove them (not purging, so you keep the configuration) and reinstall them with the right apt sources. as far as i know, apt-get doesn't allow any downgrading. pietro.

Re: core dump

n I get this info from without bothering the list > with such basic questions? I'm quite sure it is on my HD > somewhere (well I know I could have grep'ed for it). 'man bash', but i have to admit it's quite well hidden... :-) hope it helps. pietro.

Re: How to fix corrupted download

'apt-get clean' to remove the cached deb files, then use 'apt-get install ...' again. hope this helps. pietro.

Re: Apt and MS Proxy server

; so you probably have to write Acquire::http::Proxy "http://luscombes:@msproxy:80"; check if you can configure your linux browser to use the ms proxy; if you can't, apt won't probably work either. hope this helps. pietro.

Re: Problem with ncurses when making "make menuconfig"

libraries > > although I have ncurses installed. > > I can use "make xconfig" in a X environment but I rather do it in a > console. > > I tried to reinstall ncurses (ncurses-base, ncurses-term and > libncurses5) with no sucess in my next attempt. What should be the > problem? install libncurses5-dev pietro.

Re: info to man

> I know there are tools to convert info and man to html, and that's a > decent format when read with lynx. Maybe the answer would be to convert all to > html, and then write a front-end for lynx so I could type (help ) and it > would invoke lynx on the appropriate page. > > Any informatio

Re: Netscape & download

under > /.netscape and $HOME to no avail. > > Any help? use shift + leftclick on the hyperlink sure this helps :-) pietro.

Re: cannot start sshd

a few things you can check: try checking with netstat -a if someone's listening on the ssh port on the server; run sshd -d, and try to connect with a client (your sshd -d dump is regular, it just stops waiting for a connection); grep sshd /var/log/auth.log hope it helps. pietro.

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

>foreach (<*>){ > print "$_\n"; > } > or <*> replaced by glob('*') > > do not work. what happens exactly? any error messages? any output? the glob function is implemented with csh, so this could be a csh problem. pietro.

Re: ssh braindamage (protocols, RSA auth)

> Still interested in comments if anybody's got any. :) uh, maybe you already did that, but... i've always been able to solve my ssh problems using sshd -d and ssh -v hope it helps pietro.

Re: as & ld equivalents of gcc

> So, how do I get these to resolve? i don't know exactly, but if you run $ gcc -v -c hello.cc you will see the calls to as and ld on output, and you can start investigate from there. hope it helps. pietro.

Re: Sylpheed

> How do I upgrade a single package and it's dependencies from the stable > versions to a less stable version like testing? a similar question (about samba) was posted and discussed on Debian Planet: see http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=322 pietro.

Re: mount permission problems

hem all; you'll probably need umask. hope it helps! pietro.

Re: Apache on second ip address?

see my reply to your 'ifconfig remove eth0:1' message on the list... .. and comment out all the Listen and BindAddress directives! everything should work painlessly without any virtual host configuration. pietro. > I'm moving our intranet onto a new box with address x.x.x.23

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