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Re: Playing Video

Darac Marjal — 2012-05-23T11:27:10

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video, no major browser
supports "video/mov" in a <video /> element. I might be misreading, but
you might have better luck converting it into webm, H.264 or Theora
format.

Re: Verifying integrity of .deb file

Darac Marjal — 2012-05-23T11:17:03

One way to do that would be to set up a repository for the file. That
way, the Packages file will list hashsums for the .deb and apt-get (and
friends) can verify the file as you download it.

This also has the advantage that your end users can get updates as
easily as the rest of their OS.

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-23T10:52:15

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Sepmnkkl#)))nt from my HTC

----- Reply message -----
From: "charlie" <ariestao< at >skymesh.com.au>
To: <debian-user< at >lists.debian.org>
Subject: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........
Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 00:18


On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200
Chris Bannister <cbannister< at >slingshot.co.nz> wrote:


-rwxr--r-- 1 charlie charlie     1273 Feb 10 16:29 .xdvirc
-rwxr--r-- 1 charlie charlie      737 May 22 09:45 .xsession
-rwxr--r-- 1 charlie charlie      690 May 13 15:54 .xsession~
-rw------- 1 charlie charlie 14557184 May 21 16:25 .xsession-errors

.xine:
total 72
drwxr--r--   2 charlie charlie  4096 May  3 20:17 .
drwxr--r-- 104 charlie charlie  4096 May 22 09:46 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 charlie charlie 24048 Sep  9  2011 catalog.cache
-rw-r--r--   1 charlie charlie 20374 May  3 20:17 config
-rw-r--r--   1 charlie charlie 13909 May  3 20:17 keymap
-rw-r--r--   1 charlie charlie   137 Sep  9  2011
xine-ui_old_playlist.tox

.xournal:
total 8
drwxr--r--   2 charlie charlie 4096 Mar  3  2011 .
drw

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

Charlie — 2012-05-23T09:53:45

On Tue, 22 May 2012 23:24:05 +1200
Chris Bannister <cbannister< at >slingshot.co.nz> wrote:


 warning (EE) error (NI) not implemented (??) unknown




No change at all, same ting happens.

Thanks for your help Chris and you also Brian. But I think that it's
something to do with my /home partition and I'm going to format it and
reinstall again and see if something changes.

I have backups of the files and data, so will not lose anything.

Thanks for your help. It's appreciated.

Charlie

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

Brian — 2012-05-23T09:47:04


The idea is to install GRUB independently of the OS it is being put on.


You were previously able to boot and get a menu so the BIOS doesn't
appear to be a problem.

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

Kushal Kumaran — 2012-05-23T08:33:34

flock from the util-linux package:

FLOCK(1)

NAME
       flock - manage locks from shell scripts

SYNOPSIS
       flock [-sxon] [-w timeout] lockfile [-c] command...

       flock [-sxon] [-w timeout] lockdir [-c] command...

       flock [-sxun] [-w timeout] fd

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

Hor Jiun Shyong — 2012-05-23T08:22:58

Hi,

Is this bug (Bug#665000: SUMO2: blank screen after load "radeon" module) 
related to my issue? As I am using Sumo chip too AMD Llano A6-3670 APU 
with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics stepping 00

root< at >szechuan:~#: dmesg | grep -i sumo
[ 7.451590] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (SUMO 0x1002:0x964A 
0x1043:0x84C8).
[ 7.453403] [drm] Loading SUMO Microcode


Thanks.








On 05/21/2012 10:52 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:

Fwd: Re: mp280

steef — 2012-05-23T08:17:29

sorry rob, a wrong movement and i knobbed your private address. sorry again,

steef

Recent NFS problems at boot

Roger Leigh — 2012-05-23T07:54:37

If you were experiencing problems with hanging for 10 mins at boot
until NFS timed out, please could you try the sysvinit/initscripts
packages in experimental?


Thanks,
Roger

Re: mp280

Rob Hurle — 2012-05-23T07:42:21

Hi,


I have experience with a Canon LBP7200C.  The printer works well under
debian but it was difficult to set up.  The driver from Canon comes
with no support and I had to hunt around on the web for installation
scripts and a new driver.  It does not recognise postscript but
instead uses CAPT.  Once the setup woes were over, I've been quite
happy with the results, but you should check the availability of a
driver before you buy.

Cheers,
Rob Hurle

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

Craig A. Adams — 2012-05-23T07:34:21

Thank you for the feedback Jon. :-)

On 23/05/2012 09:12 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:

I agree. I suspect using sleep will merely suspend udev operations as well.


Thank you. Not being an experiences bash scripter, I always seem to get 
lost on the proper delimeters.


That is what I am trying to achieve by the progress file. I have noticed 
that sometimes with usb, the device is "discovered" multiple times. So I 
want to prevent multiple instances of the script. I will obviously need 
to find a better locking mechanism.


I am lost here. I thought that this would be a simple mountpoint check. 
Is there a better way to mount and check if the drive is mounted?

Kindest Regards

Craig A. Adams

Re: Hebrew - SOLVED

rjc — 2012-05-23T07:26:50

Hi Ethan,

No need for any launchers on the desktop.

Simply make sure you have, i.e.:

XKBLAYOUT="il,us"

XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_space_toggle"

in your /etc/default/keyboard or /etc/X11/xorg.conf (depending on
Debian version).

Then you can toggle those two layouts with ALT and Space.

Cheers,

Re: Problem updating debian 6

David Seira — 2012-05-23T07:20:55

2012/5/22 Chris Bannister <cbannister< at >slingshot.co.nz>:

Yes. I have another servers with the same configuration in another places.


I remove the index files in the directory you said but the result is the same:

Get:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [912 B]
Get:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en [912 B]
99% [2 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for
headers]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
Ign http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Get:3 http://ftp.es.debian.org squeeze-updates Release.gpg [912 B]
Get:4 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main
Translation-en [912 B]
74% [4 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to ftp.es.debian.org
(82.194.78.250)] [Waiting for headers]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2
file.
Ign http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main
Translation-en
Get:5 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [912 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.es.debian.org squeeze Release [912 B]
Ign http://

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

Jon Dowland — 2012-05-23T07:12:00

It doesn't seem like a bad idea; especially since you get some extras from at
(e.g. mail error output to user) for free. Another approach would be

  { sleep 60; /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh } &

But I don't see why you even need the sleep.


should be backticks here so that date is evaluated e.g.

start_date_time=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`


There is a risk of race conditions here, if two instances of your script
are fired off at similar times. E.g., whilst instance #1 has performed
the check, instance #2 creates the file…  Better would be a proper locking
solution. (sorry I'm not offering one in this reply)


risk of races here


and here

mp280

steef — 2012-05-23T06:54:54

dear all,
just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma mp 280 
printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact printer so i am told.

thanks,

regards,

steef

Automatic Backup Script Help

Craig A. Adams — 2012-05-23T06:30:29

Hi,

I am trying to setup a basic backup script for a Debian 6.0.5 server and 
am wanting to validate the scripts I have so far.

Here is the scenario...

The server has 2 x 1Tb hard drives in RAID 1 config. A third 1Tb hard 
drive is used for scheduled rsync snapshots.

I also have 5 x USB 3.0 1Tb hard drives for taking backups off site.

The aim is to plug one of the external hard drives and rsync the 
snapshot backup to it automatically.

Using udev rules I now have the hard drives being recognised on plug in 
and udev firing off a test script.

As it is not a good idea to block up udev by running the backup script 
from the udev rule, I need a staging script to start the backup, but not 
immediately.

The backup script is intended to be run 1 minute after the external hard 
drive is plugged in, and this is what I have come up with:

Staging Script
==============

/data/backups/scripts/start-disk-1.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh | at now + 1 minute

Is this the correct way to c

Re: Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Alienware M11xR3 laptop

elbbit — 2012-05-23T05:36:24

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I suspect this problem may be related to
mine.  I've checked the Dell website for OP and our specs are similar
from the same manufacturer.

On 22/05/12 17:37, Camaleón wrote:

Same here except my pair of Alienware's run Debian/testing.  This
problem exists on both my laptops.

If I run "sudo pm-suspend" -> enter sleep
If I press power button while in Gnome (configured) -> enter sleep
If I do nothing and just close lid -> Kernel oops

That's what I thought.  I put debugging on for the pm-utils scripts and
checked a whole bunch of log files and, like you say, it seems to be a
problem with the Intel software (callback trace suggests it).

When logged into the laptop by OpenSSH the laptop continues to respond,
and in the log file (see pastebin below) you see me attempting to
shutdown the computer (around line 616) which succeeds.  However, once
lid-down-then-up-again the screen is frozen at the Gnome idle/lock
screen until the system cuts the power.  For me this confirms a screen

Playing Video

Ethan Rosenberg — 2012-05-23T03:41:47

Dear List -

This might not be the correct address for this problem.  If it is 
not, please direct me appropriately.

I am trying to play a video. The following code is in Index1.html:

  <video width="320" height="240" controls="controls" src= 
<file:///home/ethan/Gingy/Converted_Files/DSCF0142.mov>"file:///home/ethan/Gingy/Converted_Files/DSCF0142.mov" 
type="video/mov" >

If I try to to call it from index3.html: <a href="Index1.html"></a>

No luck, it will not play.

If I try to play from the terminal - /usr/bin/mplayer 
/home/ethan/Gingy/Converted_Files/DSCF0142.mov

I receive the following errors:

[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.

Help and advice, please.

Ethan

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

Bob — 2012-05-23T03:09:31

Actually I can still boot the system either by entering
the below commands at the grub>
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /initrd.img
boot

Or I have a booting squeeze pen-drive so by mounting the USB HDD Wheeze 
before running update-grub2 I get a working grub entry for the USB HDD 
Wheeze install


I've done this by booting the system and running
apt-get remove --purge grub-pc


I've changed the partition label to USBDeb64 which is a bit shorter and 
more convenient and updated fstab

I've reinstalled grub2
apt-get install grub-pc
And edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg despite that files insistence that you 
not edit it


When I reboot I end up at the grub> prompt again.

I'm not sure what if anything would be added by remotely installing grub 
from a separate environment?

In the below bug report titled "unbootable when installing on USB drive" 
he's talking about a BIOS that identifies the boot partition as a floppy 
drive which mine doesn't so I don't think it's relevant but I'll email 
in my problem and

Re: Hebrew - SOLVED

Ethan Rosenberg — 2012-05-23T02:58:53

  ========================
Dear List -

Sorry for the delay and thanks for all your help.

I tried every way and could not find a mechanism for a keyboard 
shortcut to switch languages.

So............. as I understand........

The installed Hebrew keyboard is a blank keyboard w/o any keyboard 
map or bindings.

To achieve the map and bindings for Hebrew - I setxkbmap il and for 
Engliish - setkbmap us.

Two launchers on the desktop...DONE.

Ethan

How does partman works ?

bibop554 — 2012-05-22T22:56:17

Hi,

I made a custom debian CD that installs fully automatically thanks to a
preseed file.
But i try to understand what happens between the reading of the "recipe" in
the preseed file and the creation of partitions on the disk, because i
don't have expected partitions size...

More particularly, i'm looking for the following informations:
- what is the purpose of "parted_server" in package "partman-base"
- how partman finally creates partitions ? I can't see any call to fdisk in
partman source code.

Also, any documentation about the internals of partman could be useful, i
did not find any on the web.

Cheers