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#1251 Re: Other Issues » Troubles playing audio CD on SMPlayer » 2019-01-05 02:32:10

One way is by a command:

$ file $(which mpv)

or if that says "symbolic link" you may need:

$ file $(readlink -f $(which mpv))

#1252 Re: Other Issues » Troubles playing audio CD on SMPlayer » 2019-01-05 00:00:57

With my infinite "google fu" I dredged up this comment from 2017:  (https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20550#c5)

José Jorge 2017-04-22 21:39:55 CEST wrote:

I got it. mpv refuses cdda://1, it only works with cdda:// . It is an upstream problem to report either to smplayer or mpv if you want, to get this bug fixed.

Presumably that's still standing.

You might possibly be able to make your own patch by wrapping mpv through a script that makes any cdda://1 argument (or part of argument) be a cdda:// argument (or part of argument). Maybe mpv is a script already, and then it'd be a walk in the park. By the looks of it in the OP log, that cdda://1 is passed in to mpv rather than being invented by it. Perhaps it gets 1 from an environment variable (perhaps  media-title). Or, by increasing convolution, perhaps the 1 gets passed in via stdin, embedded in some way? A wrapper script might deal with any of those.

#1253 Re: Other Issues » Troubles playing audio CD on SMPlayer » 2019-01-04 21:51:51

Please confirm that you have a /dev/cdrom link that resolves properly to the CD device, typically /dev/sr0.

#1254 Re: Other Issues » Troubles playing audio CD on SMPlayer » 2019-01-03 23:28:55

Maybe a red herring, but error code 2 traditionally is EACCESS, which would mean that there is a permission problem for some file, or even that some intermediate directory is missing when the program attempts to access a file. You might be able to use strace to follow up on it, or maybe there is some debug argument to start mpv with.

#1255 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Can someone explain... » 2019-01-02 20:54:37

The first points of call are /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*; especially the latter: maybe your server upgrade dropped a new source point for you?

#1256 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » shutdown does not poweroff nor restart » 2018-12-29 23:34:00

Do you have live-tools installed?
If so, you should disable /bin/live-medium-eject, e.g by renaming it to /bin/live-medium-ejectOFF.

Basically, live-tools inserts a next-to-final step in the shutdown sequence that by default will want to eject the live medium, and then wait indefinitely for user confirmation. That step has many failure cases that simply end in silently waiting indefinitely (before allowing halt to happen), and yet it's not a needed step at all. You might even want to patch it more elegantly, i.e., exclude it from the shutdown and reboot sequences, if this seems to fix your problem.

#1257 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Freshclam error (?) message [SOLVED]. » 2018-12-22 22:56:38

It appears some friends on the World Wide Web discussed this very issue some almost 4 years ago:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/589318/ … und/632911
maybe that solution applies for you too?

#1258 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Can't use keyboard after unlock sleep » 2018-12-07 22:22:40

Is this a matter of slock not returning the keyboard focus back to the application it stole it from? Or it could be that that prior process doesn't deal with keyboard focus events properly? Which program is it, that should receive that typing that it seemingly doesn't receive?

#1259 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved] ifstat.eth0 on Boot » 2018-12-07 22:00:43

It would appear the boot up is held back due to a problem with the network configuration.

Firstly, could you please confirm it really is ifstat and not ifstate? The latter would be the status files used and maintained by the ifupdown networking package, whereas I couldn't find out which package would be using the former (with a cursory web search).

Perhaps you have multiple and conflicting network configuration methods activated, in which case it could help to reduce that to a single one? Which network configuration method(s) do you use?

If it already is only a single method, perhaps it'd help to make a change to that, such that networks are configured later? Or maybe, if it's a viable choice,  changing to a method that configures the network interfaces asynchronously with respect to the boot up process? Which network configuration method do you use?

#1260 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-07 11:14:29

@MiyoLinux: I gather esr's tax identity is Eric S. Raymond, and his CV, would he present one, would or at least could be jam packed with notes about contributions to open source software.

Of course I would agree that the style of "barging in" and presenting an authoritarian opinion is ill suited to this community. But it's certainly worth to hear him out. I think his points are more directed to end-user distribution aims, than to the core Devuan project of maintaining a systemd free platform. Even so, they can well be discussed on this thread.

#1261 Re: Other Issues » Can't start UGENE » 2018-12-06 03:30:46

Copper36, I think it's the "then" fork that is selected, not the "else" fork. Perhaps you should add a line before the "if" saying

echo "$dirname/$appname" "${params[@]}"

which would tell which program is actually run.

It looks though like it's problem is that it cannot find the appropriate translation file(s) so that it can tell what it's problem is, so you might not gain anything more from this than knowing which program has a problem.

EDIT: there is also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=868885 to ponder.

#1262 Re: Other Issues » Apt-get: DNS problem » 2018-11-29 19:56:55

I think there may well be explanation stories making ipv6 the culprit, and If you don't need it, you should disable it. E.g. put the following into a file /etc/sysctl.d/noipv6.conf and reboot:

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1

#1264 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Equivalent to Systemd Service Unit/Socket » 2018-11-24 04:40:03

When I write the first few lines in my firewall script, they are not executed.

What do you mean by that?
Which are your "first few lines in my firewall script"?
And where do you write them?
Are you confused about how to run the redirection rule by hand?

The second seems a bit more complicated

Which is "more complicated" than what here?

Isn't it that you want your machine set up such that a certain program runs upon tcp connection to a certain port, with that socket IO being standard input/output for the program? Since that notion is almost as old as me, there are more than a few ways available for it, including those packages, as well as direct approaches using nc or socat.

I think I would do this by adding a start-up script to start the port service when I log in to the desktop management system, with the particular port service I have chosen; probably using micro-inetd, which has this as its central use case. If I would find myself wanting similar but different set ups for several ports, I would probably eventually move over to be using openbsd-inetd instead. But I know folks that certainly would make other choices.

#1265 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Equivalent to Systemd Service Unit/Socket » 2018-11-23 21:12:53

The first facility is traditionally serviced by loading the  netfilter-persistent package.

The second facility is traditionally serviced by the openbsd-inetd package, which also has a number of "improved" variants on the scale from the minimalistic micro-inetd to the "gruesomely over-featured inetd replacement" rlinetd package.

#1266 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » persistent network interface names with multiple interface cards » 2018-11-20 22:38:21

Firstly, do these interfaces really initialize in different orders at different boots, or are they always in the same order?

The example you present suggests that "04:4b:80:08:80:03" is first, then "00:01:29:d3:0f:01", and then "00:15:e9:bd:1c:b7". If that is always the boot order, then you would do best in naming the first one "eth0", the second one "eth1" and the the third one "eth2", since that coincides with what they are initialized as.

If there is initialization randomness, then you do best in naming them on a naming scheme apart from "ethN", since that will avoid name clashes. The suggestion by @fsmithred might work if their "bus addresses" remain fixed, but it's probably better if you use a scheme of your own, say "eN".

If you also really need them to be named "ethN" in your way, then you must rename twice: first to a different scheme, then back to the "ethN scheme". In that case, you cannot really rely on udev to configure them, since the configuration has to be postponed until after the double renaming (and not on "first sight"). I think you are in scripting territory with that.

#1267 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » PCManFM-Qt: eject or unmount USB? » 2018-11-18 21:43:19

Isn't eject just umount for all partitions on the "drive", followed by an eject command to the drive; though USB drives typically ignores that, unless it's a USB CD drive, or something.

#1268 Re: Other Issues » How to get youtube-dl-gui? [solved] » 2018-11-16 13:54:32

Not my language, but I guess "orden" is for the command to execute, and then that is where the full pathname to the program should be. The next field, "directario de trabajo", is probably the working directory, and I would suggest you pinpoint one of your own directories there.

#1269 Re: Other Issues » ACPI error at start-up » 2018-11-16 00:55:38

@Sevilla.Larry Those and other kinds of ACPI parsing complaints are typically nothing to worry about. Just copy the error messages into a web search tool, and browse a few of the discussions it will find to learn some more.

Welcome to the forum.

#1271 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 05:01:18

If you feel like using the "big stick", then you simply
a) install the devilspie package, then
b) put

(if (is (application_name) "Atril Document Viewer") (maximize))

into the file $HOME/.devilspie/maximize_atril.ds, then
c) run devilspie (e.g. via a session application startup thingy).

Thereafter, supposedly, atril will be maximized when started.

#1273 Re: Other Issues » qt speech cannot find in Synaptic » 2018-10-16 07:17:19

Perhaps joive, which apparently is a "text-to-speech system" that the okular package has as suggested.

#1274 Re: Installation » [Solved] Wicd 1.7.4 question » 2018-10-16 07:13:44

Good find.

There is also the per-AP settings in /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf which have a possible line of automatic = 1 or automatic = 0. That line tells wicd whether to connect to the AP automatically when in range, or not. To be sure, the wicd-curses UI offers a toggle for achieving this (without manual file editing), and I would guess the other UI's do as well.

#1275 Re: Installation » Latest devuan jessie update causing authentication problems » 2018-10-08 23:59:41

do any of these issues have to do with using pkgmaster.deuvan.org instead of deb.devuan.org

No. deb.devuan.org is resolved into any one of a number of actual hosts (IP addresses):

% host deb.devuan.org
deb.devuan.org is an alias for deb.roundr.devuan.org.
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 37.220.36.58
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 5.196.38.18
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 95.216.15.86
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 195.85.215.180
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 185.203.112.44
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 31.220.0.151
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 130.225.254.116
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 141.24.220.40
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 200.236.31.1
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 91.121.196.103
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 37.187.111.86
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 46.4.50.2
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 185.26.197.8
deb.roundr.devuan.org has address 185.183.113.129

and all of those are mirror hosts provided by good and friendly individuals and organisations; they are all rsync mirrors of the ultimate source of pkgmaster.devuan.org. If there are differences in using the one or the other, this system is set up to only have temporary, transitional such issues, that occur when something is updated (in pkgmaster.devuan.org, then shortly thereafter mirrored to the deb.devuan.org hosts).

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