Die Media Library von s9y hat ordentlich an Leistungsfähigkeit aufgeholt, seit ich sie mir zuletzt näher angeguckt habe. So kann man Bilder inzwischen drehen und sogar resizen. Wenn jetzt noch ein Crop-Tool hinzukommt, kann man wirklich in allen Lebenslagen direkt vom Mobiltelefon aus bloggen, ohne den Umweg über die Bildbearbeitung am heimischen Rechner.
A few months, I blogged about the pains I had with my nVidia FX 5200 graphics card, Debian and current kernels.
I have solved the issue in the mean time and would like to document what I did. This has been updated to reflect driver 173.14.20 from July 2009.
Continue reading "nVidia and current Kernels II"Dear lazyweb, how do I pin lenny now and have that pin hold after lenny's release?
This is just a small reminder (for me and others) that Debian is currently migrating from console-tools to kbd (back again, yes, those who have been around for a few years remember).
This information is obviously a closely-guarded secret. Console-tools is still Priority: important, and kbd is still Priority: extra. However, kbd seems to be much better maintained (current uploads happening, while console-log has seen its last maintainer upload two years ago), and unfortunately, neither package description suggests which package is the way to go. And Debian-installer still installs console-tools by default.
However, a few bugs were filed a year ago by the console-tools maintainer to drop console-tools from depends as console-tools is going away. So I guess that he knows what he's doing...
Before I get around to adding console-tools back to console-log's depends (as I almost did accidentally), I'll better blog this to remind people of console-log going away. Maybe we'll get the Priorities changed just in time for lenny.
Ich glaube, ich erwähnte es schon, aber LVM ist einfach cool. Ich bereue keinen Meter, schon seit 2002 LVM grundsätzlich auf jedem Linux-System das ich installiere einzusetzen. Damals war ich hauptsächlich scharf darauf, Festplattenpartitionen mit "sprechenden" Namen zu haben, die obendrein auch noch unabhängig davon sind, mit welcher Schnittstelle eine Platte an das System angebunden ist.
Aber auch Snapshots und die Möglichkeit zum Resize haben mir inzwischen schon öfter den Arsch gerettetdie Arbeit erleichtert.
grub> root (hd0,1)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
Glücklicherweise hat sich herausgestellt, dass grub lediglich - wenn ohne root-Rechte gestartet - eher irreführende Fehlermeldungen absondert. Die Platte war natürlich dort wo sie erwartet wurde.
This article was updated, and the issue seems solved. Please look at the last paragraph before adding comments.
Exim has the habit of trying to find out about its host names and IP addresses when it starts up. This has, in the past, been an issue for the Debian packages, since a Debian system might be on a dial-on-demand modem line with expensive costs and thus should not do unnecessary DNS lookup when the MTA is started.
This article tries to describe the issue and which countermeasures debian took, and asks for tips how to solve this in the case of IPv6, where our past measures unfortunately do not directly apply.
I'd like to solicit opinions from people who are more experienced than me with Unix, the local resolver library including /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf, DNS, and - especially - the customs that apply on a system running IPv6.
Continue reading "Does Debian need the local host name in /etc/hosts for IPv6?"For various reasons, I have the kernel and the initrd that my notebook needs to boot Linux on an USB stick. I recently added the Debian Installer and grml to the stick to allow additional uses of the stick.
Continue reading "Universal boot stick for Debian, grml and the Debian installer"Sometimes a bug report is a labyrinth. #348046 is an example of this. It is a horrible mess of at least three different issues with half of the original participants having become unresponsive. I would like to pull the issues apart into different bug reports to be able to deal with them (and their probably unresponsive submitters) individually.
Obviously, cloning and renaming is not an option since this copies the mess.
So, it would probably be desireable to download the bug mbox and to bounce individual messages to new bugs (that have been created before), but the BTS recognizes the dupes and bins them. Blars has helped me by looking at BTS mail log, so it was clear that removing the X-Loop, X-Debian-PR, X-Spam, Resent- and Received headers from the mbox before loading it into mutt to do the actual bouncing works fine.
A command line to do this:
rm -f mboxout; < mboxbug formail -d -I Received -I X-Debian-PR -I X-Loop -I X-Spam -I Resent -s >> mboxout
After trying this in "production", one needs to send one message per BTS pulse, or one will totally mess up the order of the messages. That's a real pity and an annoyance.
For various reasons, I usually carry an USB stick with me that holds a single ext2fs and has grub installed. This blog entry quickly documents how to copy a Debian-Installer to it to be able to quickly install Debian without the need to burn a CD.
Continue reading "Debian Installer from an USB stick"Sometimes, it is nearly as frustrating to use Debian than it is to use commercial software. For example, when one sees a simple bug completely unreacted on for more than one year. #405040 has passed its first anniversary since it was reported and touched for the last time. Visible reaction of the package maintainer: Nil.
It's a small thing, but an annoying one. And I still consider it unacceptable to let bugs rot for a year without the slightest trace of action.
In a nutshell: If your system is kind of older than sarge (as in installation date, updates done in the mean time don't matter), beware of 2.6.23.x or update your grub boot sector, which Debian doesn't do automatically on package installation.
Continue reading "Beware of 2.6.23.x kernel on systems that were installed a long time ago"Judging from the long list of exim4 bugs, especially #446036, I find myself between a rock and a hard place, and having to choose between staying with GnuTLS and accepting a probably continuing flow of technical issues, or moving over to OpenSSL, setting an example against GNU software, and probably generating a new flow of license issues.
Continue reading "exim4 vs. OpenSSL vs. GnuTLS"Dear Lazyweb, which burning hoops need I to jump through to be able to listen to music played by Amarok without having to disable the KDE sound system in Control Panel before?
If I don't, Amarok complains that it cannot initialize any sound driver."
Continue reading "Concurrently playing sounds still an issue in 2007?"In the last few days, I have replaced the two 20 inch CRT monitors that I have hardly used the last years with two 20 inch TFT displays, and my company (finally) gave me a 19 inch TFT display to accompany my notebook display at work. Maybe I should take that as a hint that they want to see me in the office more frequently rather than in my home office which I generously use these days. At home, I built a "new" computer from mainly used parts to drive the two 20 inchers.
I have learned a lot about X in the last days, but spent too much time with it.
Continue reading "A thousand things I never wanted to know about X"