Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #1217

From: "Gregg Jansen van Vuren" <vurentjie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:38:43 +0200

debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2008 : Issue
1217

Today's Topics:
Re: how to install flash plugin for [ "Star Liu" <
minxinjianxin@xxxxxxxxx ]
Re: Thanks to all the devs and maint [ Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> ]
Any idea why chroot temporarily "can [ David Barrett <
dbarrett@xxxxxxxxxxx ]
Re: Thanks to all the devs and maint [ rusi_pathan <tabrezali@xxxxxxxxx>
]
Re: udev problems after 6/28 upgrade [ "Thomas H. George"
<lists@tomgeorge ]
Re: Update Modified BIOS??? [ "Thomas H. George"
<lists@tomgeorge ]
Re: project: wired/wireless router [ Gregory Seidman
<gsslist+debian@ant ]
Re: wireless with atheros [ Celejar <celejar@xxxxxxxxx> ]
Non rinunciare alle tue vacanze - Sc [ "ItaliaDream" <
news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ]
Re: Open Source Video Codec and Cont [ "Sam Kuper" <
sam.kuper@xxxxxxxxxxx> ]

I installed ia32-libs, then nspluginwrapper, but it seems nothing changes,
iceweasel still says no suitable plugin found for flash.
thank you!

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, michael <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 28 Jun 2008, at 13:00, Star Liu wrote:

I'm afraid ia32 libs won't support amd64, i heard that no solution

provided for x86_64 cpus, but not sure.

From the Debian packages web page, ia32-libs

This package contains runtime libraries for the ia32/i386 architecture,
configured for use on an amd64 or ia64 Debian system running a 64-bit
kernel.

(I did say check the package names! It is ia32-lins not libs for IA32 (?))

M

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM, michael <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 27 Jun 2008, at 23:49, Star Liu wrote:

On lenny amd64, I often get the prompt to install flash plugin, but
result in "unknown plugin... x-shockwave-flash", how could i fix it?
Thanks!

For etch, (from memory so check the package names) I downloaded some ia32
libs and nspluginwrapper and then the flash plugin

--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a
subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

--

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Homepage: http://starliu.9966.org, about Buddha, x86_64 CPU, Debian
GNU/Linux, UEFI/BIOS

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Homepage: http://starliu.9966.org, about Buddha, x86_64 CPU, Debian
GNU/Linux, UEFI/BIOS
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 01:01 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote:

Wholehearted agreement here. Hmm, maybe we should copy in an Ubuntu
mailing list (ditto all other Debian-derived distros) so more
folks can join in the love-in? :)

I think that would only be appropriate if Ubuntu were congruent to the
debian-desktop project instead of being gratuitously different, in
particularly when it comes to package naming and compatibility. Until
then, they're reinventing the wheel, and it's not entirely round.

--
Paul Johnson
baloo@xxxxxxxxx

Can you suggest why I'm seeing the following error when entering a
debootstrap chroot on a Fedora host, and why it spontaneously disappears a
few minutes later?

[root@XXXX svn]# chroot staging/www
id: cannot find name for group ID 0
id: cannot find name for group ID 1
id: cannot find name for group ID 2
id: cannot find name for group ID 3
id: cannot find name for group ID 4
id: cannot find name for group ID 6
id: cannot find name for group ID 10
I have no name!@XXXX:/#

More detail on the mystery problem is on linuxquestions.org [1], but in
short: I created two chroots on a Fedora Core 4 box using debootstrap
(hardy). The chroots work great, and one contains a webserver and the other
contains a database. Everything is awesome except after some period of time
(or some unknown activity), the www chroot temporarily "breaks" and spits
out the error above when I try to enter it.

But the real mystery is it just spontaneously corrects itself a few minutes
later, even though I make no changes to permissions or files. For example,
here's a log of me exiting a broken chroot, and then immediately re-entering
without having made any changes:

I have no name!@XXXX:/etc# exit
[root@XXXX svn]# chroot staging/www
root@XXXX:/#

Even stranger, I've experienced the 'www' chroot having this behavior
(repeatably, for several minutes) even though I can chroot into a 'db'
chroot just fine -- despite both being created with the exact same
debootstrap command.

I'm at a total loss and posting this here because I'm not sure if it's a
Debian or Fedora issue: it's happening inside a Debian chroot, but on a
Fedora host.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

-david

[1]
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/chroot-temporarily-cannot-find-name-for-group-id-0-651928/

Debian is rock solid and very usable thanks to you all. Just wanted to

say that.

+1

Cant imagine myself using anything but Debian.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:15:55PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 13:48:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:

no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing. Everything worked after
yesterday's apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This morning a
startup problem (see posting _Update Modified BIOS ???)_ and when it

was

solved no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing.

My fault. Struggling with the failure to start this morning I booted
from the Grml cd and ran lilo -C /mnt/hdb1/etc/lilo.conf after copying
lilo.conf.grml to lilo.conf. This file was created some months ago and
the default was an older kernel image. This afternoon I decided to tidy
up so restored the current lilo.conf, ran lilo and rebooted. After the
reboot all is well.

My apologies for not recognizing the problem immediately. The changed
boot sequence caused a little panic. I'll replace the battery as
recommended.

Tom

--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:34:14PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote:

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:03:59 -0400, Thomas H. George (

lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor
instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a
hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I found both

ide

hard drives accessible and ok. I re-ran lilo but this did not correct
the problem. Thinking that something had damaged the mbr on the first
ide hard drive I ran lilo again to use the the mbr on the second ide
hard drive. When I went into BIOS to change the boot sequence I found

a

SATA hard drive had been moved to the top of the boot sequence! When
this was corrected I could boot from the first ide drive.

Yesterday - 28 June 08 - I ran apt-get update followed by apt-get
dist-upgrade. Following this everything worked as usual and in the
evening I shut down the system with shutdown - h now. At no time did I
enter BIOS.

Could the upgrade have modified BIOS ????????? If so, should this be

right?

There may be other problems as well. After correcting the boot

sequence

and booting up my Wacom tablet no longer works. My version of

xorg.conf

is unchanged. As yet I have not tracked down the source of this

problem.

A bit of a long shot admittedly, but it could be a dying BIOS battery
and it just being coincidence that you had done the upgrade the day
before.

--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/

Thanks, I'll change the battery.

Tom

>

--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:26:28AM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote:

I can confirm that the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 is very stable under OpenWRT
White Russian, which gives you (yet) another option if you go down the
path of buying a new router/AP device.

Alternatively, if you're set on using your existing box as your
router/AP, why not use a USB Wi-Fi device if you're going to be occupying
the sole PCI slot with an ethernet card? USB Wi-Fi dongles are often
cheaper than Ethernet ones. (NB. If I've failed to notice that your box
doesn't have USB, then please disregard this comment.)

I hadn't even considered USB WiFi. I like the idea. The existing box does
have USB, so that's workable. Now I just need to do a bit of research on
which USB WiFi devices are well supported by 2.6.18 (I think that's what's
in Debian stable).

The box has one PCI slot, several (three? four?) USB ports, and an on-board
wired ethernet port. I also have a wired ethernet PCI card lying around
somewhere and I think I have a suitable wired hub, so it's just a matter of
the USB WiFi. Comparing the certainty of the software being able to run
separate interfaces and route properly, not to mention the familiarity of
Debian, to the WRT stuff where you are restricted to a 2.4 kernel and I
don't feel certain it supports the configuration I need, it looks to me
like my existing box is a better approach.

Now I just need to learn iptables really well so I can configure it. Any
book suggestions?

Sam

--Greg

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:15:17 +1000
Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking to buy an atheros wireless card for my laptop. It has a
pcmcia card slot on it...
(I use debian and a 2.6.25 kernel as well)

So could someone please see if they could show me an online add of an
atheros pcmcia card supported by linux?

The simple, foolproof method for finding Atheros gear is to look for
108 MBps advertised speeds. You don't actually have to use the
proprietary extension to the 802.11g spec, but it's an Atheros
telltale. Just stay away from USB adaptors, which aren't supported by
Madwifi (I don't know about ath5k).

Daniel Dalton

Celejar
--
mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email
ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator

ItaliaDream <http://www.italiadream.it>

La tua guida al turismo in Italia

* Prenota subito le tue vacanze!*

* ItaliaDream è la guida che ti permette di contattare e prenotare*

* direttamente le tue vacanze nelle migliori strutture d'Italia*

Alcune Strutture Consigliate

* Hotel Le Rotonde<http://www.italiadream.it/it/2373_hotel_ristorante_le_rotonde_massaciuccoli_lucca_toscana.htm>- Toscana
*

* Hotel Pineta<http://www.italiadream.it/it/4003_hotel_pineta_serrada_trento_trentino_alto_adige.htm>- Tentino Alto Adige
*

* Villa Lucia<http://www.italiadream.it/it/4005_villa_lucia_floridia_siracusa_sicilia.htm>- Sicilia
*

* Agriturismo Borgo d'Asolo<http://www.italiadream.it/it/2369_agriturismo_borgo_asolo_san_vito_di_altolive_treviso_veneto.htm>- Veneto
*

* Last Minute in tutta Italia*

* dove vuoi e quando vuoi!*

* *

* >> seleziona qui adesso << <http://www.italiadream.it>*
------------------------------

* Seleziona qui e * *>> Inserisci la tua Struttura <<<http://www.italiadream.it/Page_Inserimento_struttura.htm>
*

Tantissime persone ogni giorno consultano ItaliaDream per vacanze e viaggi
di lavoro!

Un grande successo dedicato al turismo in Italia!

* www.italiadream.it - www.italiadream.com *

Il presente messaggio non è da considerarsi spam ma un punto di incontro
tra le strutture e i clienti che amano prenotare direttamente senza
intermediari. Qualora avessimo disturbato la tua privacy ti preghiamo di
rispondere

al presente messaggio inserendo la dicitura "no mail"

News Letters Luglio 2008

Simon,

I have several points.

* For a (very) in-depth discussion of the merits of various codecs for
distributing video via the web, look for the "Theora" thread (the really
long one) in the WHATWG HTML5 mailing list archive.

* Since you're "not a fanboy of Adobe's proprietary products, pricing
policy, etc", I wonder why AVI is acceptable to you. It's not an Adobe
standard, but Microsoft's approach to licensing and pricing is certainly
closer to Adobe's than, say, Debian's.

* I was planning to say, "Your three requirements (1. distribute over www,
2. FLOSS-friendly, 3. highly cross-platform compatible) cannot be met." But
then I realised that actually they can. I'd suggest doing what Wikipedia
does: transcode your video to Ogg Theora, and make it playable on your forum
by embedding a Java applet Theora player. This meets all three requirements.

Regards,

Sam

Follow-Ups:
- Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #1217
  - From: Daniel Dalton

Prev by Date: Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily "cannot find name for group ID 0"?
Next by Date: Re: CUPS and Device Permissions
Previous by thread: Non rinunciare alle tue vacanze - Scegli l'Italia!
Next by thread: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #1217
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread

Relevant Pages

unsubcribe
... I've installed a Debian box that must connect directly ... install Antivirus 2009 which is a fairly well known mallware. ... I have experienced file system crash on my USB ... Contact Acer and ask them for information on that card. ...
(Debian-User)
Re: usb to serial
... serial I must use --}> usb to serial. ... so I use USB to serial adaptors for my serial ... both have attractive silver cables ... I have used a USB to RS232 Cable for some years with Linux Debian, ...
(Debian-User)
Repost of some earlier described "challenges"
... My GF installed a USB mouse, ... My GF also can't mount a memory stick using a Dazzle ... I/F with Windows on a laptop, then e-mail herself using a dial- ... to an account she can read with Debian. ...
(Debian-User)
HOWTO: setup full Debian on USB and boot from there, problems solved
... This involves a boot image containing all files booted into memory and run from memory. ... I also tried to do it with full SUSE and Debian but failed initially. ... Lately I noticed that when I copied a Debian partition to a different partition, the kernel would boot completely due to partition info stored in initrd.img by mkinitrd.yaird which is executed at install time. ... That gave me the idea that perhaps that was what needed to run on USB as well. ...
(Debian-User)
Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change
... The current Debian release will be supported until one year after the ... The buildds build packages in chroots. ... Debian than the one a package gets built for in a chroot. ...
(Linux-Kernel)