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#1376 Re: Other Issues » Samba/filesharing problems » 2017-08-29 05:22:12

fsmithred wrote:

There's also sshfs, which is more secure, but won't work right for audio/video (it plays on the server instead of the client.)

What does that mean? afaik sshfs is just a mounted (remote) file system for the client??
In fact as recent as last week, I used it with my mplayer on the client.

#1377 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Connecting to a BBB using SSH SOLVED » 2017-08-15 09:44:10

According to the hopefully relevant web page, here, you need to add a udev rule, which they provide a script for. That script however seems to concern a different idVendor:idProduct device from yours, and it would therefore not be immediately applicable.

However, since the script merely creates a new file to the udev configurations, /etc/udev/rules.d/73-beaglebone.rules, it is safe to try it, but first edit the script: replace the two occurrences of 0403 with your idVendor code, 1d6b, and the two occurrences of a6d0 with your idProduct code, 0104, before running the script (as root).

If it's helpful, it's all good, and if not, you can just remove the file.

#1378 Re: Other Issues » iPhone and PTP Camera are not being mounted » 2017-08-08 07:41:22

Also, you should check permissions on /dev/bus/usb/001/00[56]
If udev doesn't recognize their vendor/product id, it'll just set up "generic" nodes, which probably are not accessible by a user.

#1380 Hardware & System Configuration » Laptop not sleeping » 2017-08-01 22:51:41

ralph.ronnquist
Replies: 0

This is a quick note that might help someone, although I haven't worked out the proper solution yet.

The deal is that recently my laptop stopped suspending properly. It suspends on closing the lid, but then immediately wakes up. It has Jessie installed since beta, then occasionally upgraded, and it has linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 from jessie-backports installed.

Eventually I worked out that apparently it is the xhci_pci module that gets a phantom signal from somewhere, and wakes up the system. I believe the module handles USB transport (esp. 3.0), and it is brought in when I plug in a USB stick.

So, my laptop is sleeping fine until I plug one in, and thereafter it keeps bouncing up, refusing to sleep, until I unload that  module.

Perhaps there's some module option to avoid the misbehaviour. I'll add an edit here if I find something.

EDIT 1: I've realized this to be an age old problem, though ascribed to the xhci_hcd module rather.

EDIT 2: See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66171#c67 which suggests the fix of having

options xhci-hcd quirks=270336

in an /etc/modprobe.d/ file, so as to make the module load with that parameter. I'll try that for a while...

#1381 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Can I use Debian multimedia? » 2017-07-18 22:28:59

Some people would use "code" blocks to make their posts readable.
Other people don't bother and don't get read.

#1382 Re: Forum Feedback » [SOLVED] About SOLVED questions » 2017-07-17 11:41:57

The original poster does that by editing the "subject" line of the first post. You can try it out on this topic, if you think this answered your question.

#1383 Re: Other Issues » HDD thrashes when file moved to trash or other location » 2017-07-16 03:52:56

a) any hardware loggging in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/kern.log ?
b) is Trash and file on the one and same partition ?
c) which actual program is it? ("mv" or "rm" or gui dnd)

E.g., by hearsay I think on an ext* file system, "rm" of a huge file will stall the system because it locks the directory while reclaiming the blocks, whereas an intra-partition "mv" however is instantaneous, being just some top level pointer juggling in the directory tables.

#1384 Re: Forum Feedback » Certificate expiry? » 2017-07-05 21:37:17

Yeah. By the looks of it, it's all set up perfectly fine, and renewal should have happened nicely and smoothly already last month. It didn't. As the "certbot" is something opaque in too many lines of python, it's become a matter of tracing it more tightly for the next time...

#1385 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Issues with Laptop Lid Suspend/Hibernate and Panel Plugins » 2017-07-02 23:10:25

I'm afraid I overlooked the importance of having a working event declaration file in /etc/acpi/events. Mine is:

event=button[ /]lid
action=/etc/acpi/lidbtn-suspend.sh %e

and my script is named accordingly.

Especially the %e on the invoked command is important; it gets replaced with the triggering input line from acpid

button/lid LID close
or
button/lid LID open
or
any other acpid event lines

and it thus gives three arguments to the script, the third of which is the lid action. The script I suggested peeps a those, and requires the third to be close in order to suspend.

Note that your alternative pattern lines are all ok, I think, in the sense of matching the event line. An observation though (irrelevant as it is), since the pattern is a regular expression, an ending of d* says that there must be zero or more d at that match point. I guess you intended it to be d.* (saying "a d followed by whatever"). But "followed by whatever" is implied unless there is a $ at the end.

Hopefully that can make it work for you.

#1386 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Issues with Laptop Lid Suspend/Hibernate and Panel Plugins » 2017-06-30 22:07:31

I'm not sure what that "obscure" scripting attempts to do, but you really only need the following script as /etc/acpi/lid.sh:

#!/bin/bash

if [  "$3" = "close" ] ; then
     /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
fi

The program pm-suspend is from the pm-utils package.

Of course, if you want screen lock, the script needs some more, and it depends of which screen locking you are using.

#1387 Re: Forum Feedback » Showing users online » 2017-06-27 23:34:53

"Everything is possible, though some things cost more."

It's far from immediately apparent to me that it'd be an advantage to anyone, although I must admit that I don't really see much advantage in the having of that information either. But a quick glance at a couple of other forums suggests that the common practice is to tell who are logged on to everyone.
Perhaps you have a compelling reason for us to be different?

#1388 Re: Forum Feedback » How can dev1g username be changed? » 2017-06-22 23:08:35

You may note that everything previously ascribed to the old user id is now ascribed to the new user id, except where it occurs within posts (unless the poser used the "user" markup).

Cheers.

#1389 Re: Forum Feedback » How can dev1g username be changed? » 2017-06-22 21:39:18

Nope. Just ask a friendly administrator to work their magic. Bribes are not necessary.

#1390 Re: Forum Feedback » New Purpy forum skin » 2017-06-22 21:34:41

Whilst I agree on the idea that strong contrast is better, a glance at the forum style usage rather shows that most people (88%) find the default anywhere on the scale from pleasant to  sufficiently acceptable, to not bother to change.

#1391 Re: Forum Feedback » Hard-working cookies » 2017-06-18 21:43:25

From a quick glance at the source, it looks like both of them essentially are timestamps. The first one is used for deciding about requiring re-login, and the second is for aging a "visit".

#1392 Re: Forum Feedback » dev2galaxy email notifications does not? » 2017-06-13 01:55:50

I believe the email sending includes an amount of temporal reasoning, which avoids sending emails for posts that are older than your most recent log in. In other words, to gain an email, you must happen to be logged out when a post is made to a thread or forum that you subscribe to, and still remain logged out when some time later the mailer wakes up to consider sending you an email about it.

#1393 Re: Other Issues » Devuan Git repository visibility problem. » 2017-06-09 07:51:17

If you select "edit project" in the "settings" pull-down menu on the project web gui page,  you should be able to view the detailed permission settings.
Maybe there's something wrong there?

#1394 Re: Installation » No Internet (wlan0) after boot of PC » 2017-06-08 06:22:48

It seems that in February last year, there was a bug report for ifupdown on Ubuntu's "launchpad", with discussion and fix to something that sounds like your particular problem.  One way to verify would be if you can find the same error line

ifup: recursion detected for parent interface wlan0 in post-up phase

in /var/log/syslog, and if so, you should make a bug report to Devuan's BTS.

You might also want to compare the versions of ifupdown and wpasupplicant on your two systems; especially if they are respectively the same, it would talk against having that problem.

#1395 Re: Forum Feedback » Let's make this forum multilingual! (Calling for language authors) » 2017-06-03 17:10:49

We have now added 'Italiano' as another of the dev1galaxy display languages. A huge thank you, (and by google translate: 'merci', 'grazie' and 'dziękuję ci') to the contributors for these.

I'm still struggling with Swedish myself, and we look forward to more people stepping up for more languages.

The task is a plain translation task. You don't need to program or know how to program; you only need an average amount of language skill to map a spreadsheet with a number of English phrases and words into the corresponding expressions in your language. Could it be easier? As I mentioned above, some languages are almost complete and only need some few hundred translations, while "new" languages will require the full 1510 translations.

Step forward now, and get Your language installed even before Swedish!

#1396 Re: Installation » Unsuccessful installation! » 2017-05-26 02:24:29

Let's see if I can help.

1) I always chose auto.mirror.devuan.org which I believe resolves into something good. Did you use that as well, and had problems (even with a working network)?

2) It may depend on the "tasksel" choices. To be sure, you should stop at the grub installation dialog, and type ctrl-alt-f2 to gain command line access on vt2. At that point you can install e.g. either wicd-curses (for use without desktop environment), or wicd (otherwise). The command sequence would be as follows:

# chroot /target /bin/bash
# apt-get install wicd-curses
# exit

Thereafter you go back to the grub installation dialog with ctrl-alt-f5 (if you were doing "Graphical install"), or ctrl-alt-f1 (if you where doing just "Install"), and continue from there.

#1397 Re: Forum Feedback » Let's make this forum multilingual! (Calling for language authors) » 2017-05-21 12:54:35

Great. The answer is "Yes and No". With start-point in those packages, I've prepared spreadsheets containing the "problem case" for this forum, which simply are the phrases (seemingly) without translation; one row for each phrase, associating it with the internal key and the English phrase.

For Italian, it's merely 135 "problem" cases, as all email templates are translated.

I was thinking it would be easiest for an author to work in a "problem" spreadsheet, and then send it back to for mapping into the required format. (Note that this forum has a couple of phrases more than the originating fluxbb).

I'll talk to golinux to get the spreadsheet sent to you.

#1398 Forum Feedback » Let's make this forum multilingual! (Calling for language authors) » 2017-05-18 01:29:57

ralph.ronnquist
Replies: 44

Flerspråkighet för dev1galaxy! Hurra!

Technically it is easily done. This software is well prepared for the notion; its just a matter of installing a "language pack" that provides the localized translations for the ~1500 words and phrases, and the ~20 email templates used by the forum.

But alas, the language packs available at fluxbb resources are not many (30), and they all suffer some flaws that stops us from installing them. Many of the packs are almost finished, and would only require a couple of hours from a translator to map some (<300) missing words and phrases. A few packs (like the Swedish pack) are lacking significantly, and might need even some few days of translation effort before they can be used.

The "easy ones" are named: Arabic, Basque, Brazilian_Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified_Chinese, Spanish, Traditional_Chinese, Turkish, and Ukrainian. The more involved ones are named: Catalan, Czech, Danish, Icelandic, Persian, and Swedish.

I'm presently doing Swedish, which is one of my languages. We need authors for all other languages; any one of those mentioned, or any language not mentioned that you wish for the forum. Please contact golinux who will synchronize this effort, and tell her which language you will do. She will then send you a translation spreadsheet for the needed translations.

Note that we do expect posts to be in English. This localization primarily applies to the forum display, as it is unlikely to induce much new language knowledge to people posting here.

#1399 Re: Other Issues » Devuan and Java 8 » 2017-05-15 06:47:21

There is openjdk-8-jre in jessie-backports.

#1400 Re: Forum Feedback » Bad HTTP_REFERER » 2017-05-11 07:46:51

Thanks.

The forum software was indeed sprinkled throughout with that unnecessary constraint on the referrer attribute. This has now been corrected, and it should be possible for you to post and update your profile, with or without a referrer attribute.

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