debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2008 : Issue 1217
Today's Topics:
Re: how to install flash plugin for [ "Star Liu" <minxinjianxin@gmail.com ]
Re: Thanks to all the devs and maint [ Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> ]
Any idea why chroot temporarily "can [ David Barrett <dbarrett@quinthar.co ]
Re: Thanks to all the devs and maint [ rusi_pathan <tabrezali@gmail.com> ]
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@gmail.com> ]
Non rinunciare alle tue vacanze - Sc [ "ItaliaDream" <news@italiadream.it> ]
Re: Open Source Video Codec and Cont [ "Sam Kuper" <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> ]
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@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> 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@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> 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
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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.
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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
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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@tomgeorge.info) wrote:
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> > 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.
>
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Thanks, I'll change the battery.
Tom
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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@iinet.net.au> 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
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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