Had an issue connecting to a wifi network on debian stretch. I would connect and then get then get the error:
wlp4s0: deauthenticating from b6:fb:e4:14:aa:f8 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
This would happen after a successful authentication where it would then timeout after 45 seconds trying to get an IP address.
I'm not entirely sure what this issue is, or why it's happening, but it was fixed after finding the following blog post:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg01045.html
Which instructed me to do the following:
sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link
A reboot later and it works as expected...
posted at: 19:58 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
Debian packages the firefox-esr release which works quite well most of the time, but I find often the newest browser is often required for some functionality. I've put together a little script that basically sets this up with a local firefox install in ~/.opt
You can copy/paste this into a terminal and it will download the latest firefox, extract it to ~/.opt/firefox and setup a desktop file so that it will appear in the desktop menu
mkdir -p ~/.opt
cd ~/.opt
FFCHANNEL=latest
LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
VER=${VER:-$(wget --spider -S --max-redirect 0 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-${FFCHANNEL}&os=linux${LIBDIRSUFFIX}&lang=${FFLANG}" 2>&1 | sed -n '/Location: /{s|.*/firefox-\(.*\)\.tar.*|\1|p;q;}')}
echo $VER
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/${VER}/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-${VER}.tar.bz2 -P /tmp
tar jxvf /tmp/firefox-${VER}.tar.bz2
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
BASEDIR=`pwd`
cat <<EOF >> ~/.local/share/applications/firefox-stable.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox
Comment=Web Browser
Exec=${BASEDIR}/firefox/firefox %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=${BASEDIR}/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
StartupWMClass=Firefox
StartupNotify=true
EOF
sudo ln -sf ${BASEDIR}/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox
More information in the debian wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox
posted at: 19:34 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
I couldn't seem to find this information anywhere, and I just spend longer than I'd like to admit sorting this issue out. I use the Logitech Media Server (v7.9.1 as of now) and I just reinstalled it on my server. After doing that the "Server IP Address" was getting picked up as my public ip address on my gateway server, and not the local network address of 192.168.0.1. This was causing the settings interface to be inaccessible on the local network with an error in the server.log file of Access to settings pages is restricted to the local network or localhost.
Fixing this was as simple as editing the /etc/default/logitechmediaserver file and setting the following line:
SLIMOPTIONS="--playeraddr 192.168.0.1"
Not the httpaddr or cliaddr options which is what I was setting, because I didn't read the help page closely enough.
posted at: 23:49 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
I've used mpd on various desktops for a long time, and I've always just set the output directly in the mpd.conf file, but that leads to the sound device being tied up if you ever want to do anything else with it. I finally got around to setting this up properly with pulse audio. This setup uses mpd running as the mpd user, and sets up pulse audio (which is running as the desktop user) to allow network access on localhost. MPD then connects to pulse audio to send the audio stream.
# give mpd access to use pulse sudo usermod -aG pulse,pulse-access mpd # configure pulse to allow access from localhost echo "load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1" >> /etc/pulse/default.pa # restart pulse audio as the user pulseaudio --kill pulseaudio --start
Then configure /etc/mpd.conf with the following audio_output:
audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "MPD PulseAudio Output"
server "127.0.0.1"
# set sink to name from "pacmd list-sinks"
sink "alsa_output.usb-Burr-Brown_from_TI_USB_Audio_DAC-00-DAC.analog-stereo"
}
Restart mpd, and then it should start playing through pulse audio. (should be able to see it playing in pavucontrol). Lots more detailed information here for different configurations: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio
posted at: 22:55 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
I wanted to setup claws-mail to be able to load contacts from owncloud recently. There is no direct way to do this as far as I can tell, but I did find some people exporting the contacts list to a vcf file, and then pointing claws-mail to use contacts from this file. This ends up working pretty well, and automating it with a script to update makes it a good enough solution.
I had a lot of trouble finding the proper url to wget the addresses from in owncloud 8.2 which is what I'm using. What ended up working, and wasn't really documented anywhere I was looking was https://${HOST}/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/${USER}/contacts?export - The key bit being the ?export at the end of the url.
I'm using the following bash script to do the export, which was adopted from an older blog post doing the same thing:
#!/bin/bash
# Script to read Addresses from ownCloud an put it in a file that can read by
# Claws-Mail
# output file location
ADDR_FILE=~/.owncloud_contacts.vcf
TIMEOUT=30
# config file location
CONFIG=~/.owncloud_contacts.cfg
source ${CONFIG}
if [ -z "$USER" ] || [ -z "$HOST" ] || [ -z "$PASS" ]; then
echo "ERROR: config file is not setup correctly"
echo "create ${CONFIG} with the contents:"
echo "HOST="
echo "USER="
echo "PASS="
exit 1
fi
# owncloud link to export contacts
LINK=https://${HOST}/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/${USER}/contacts?export
# Get the data!
OPTIONS="--output-document=$ADDR_FILE --auth-no-challenge --timeout=$TIMEOUT --http-user=$USER"
wget ${OPTIONS} --http-password="${PASS}" ${LINK}
Running the above script will output a ~/.owncloud_contacts.vcf file which can be loaded into claws mail as a new VCard address book. Running the script again will overwrite the file with updated data, and claws mail sees the new addresses.
posted at: 01:33 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
I upgraded my debian desktop from wheezy to jessie today, and in doing so my triple monitor setup stopped working. This was originally a complicated thing to setup, and I had originally done it with a very specific xorg.conf file using Xinerama and some LeftOf RightOf screen setups. This didn't work after the upgrade, and X just launched into a black screen, and the Xorg.0.log just ended with a weird message about "dropping master: -22(invalid argument)".
So anyways I was messing around with the xorg.conf without any luck, and finally stumbled upon some useful information searching for a solution.
It turns out you can now just configure this whole thing with xrandr. In my case I was able to just run:
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0
This enables the second video card. And then I used a program (apt-get'able of course) called arandr which let me activate the third monitor on the second video card, and drag and drop the monitors into the correct physical layout location. arandr allows you to save a script that just runs the xrandr command needed. I had to add the bit from above to give me the following:
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0 xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1440x900 --pos 2880x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --off --output HDMI-1-2 --off --output DVI-I-1-2 --off --output VGA-1-2 --mode 1440x900 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1440x900 --pos 1440x0 --rotate normal
Put that into your .Xsession or whatever you run on startup, and your monitors will get setup correctly.
posted at: 18:48 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
Purchased this little DS-30. portable document scanner recently, and although it was quite easy to setup in linux, I'd thought I'd post the steps if anyone else is looking for it.
I installed this in Debian, but any deb or rpm based distro should work pretty much the same. First Search for "ds-30" at the epson linux download page.
You'll need to download three files:
- first go to the core package&data package download page, and download iscan_2.30.0-1~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb and iscan-data_1.33.0-1_all.deb
- second go to the iscan plugin package download page and download iscan-plugin-ds-30_1.0.0-3_amd64.deb
Then go ahead and install these files with dpkg:
sudo dpkg -i iscan_2.30.0-1~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb iscan-data_1.33.0-1_all.deb iscan-plugin-ds-30_1.0.0-3_amd64.deb
And if that all went ok, you can then run iscan, or aquire image from iscan in the gimp (file->create->iscan).
The scanner itself won't do anything when you plug it in. The light only comes on when iscan is loaded and connected to the scanner.
posted at: 15:00 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
I installed a fresh copy of wheezy on a laptop recently, and I was getting a ton of Translation-<language code> updates that I didn't really need. You can disable them by added a apt.conf.d file like so:
echo 'Acquire::Languages "en";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations
Do an apt-get update and it should only update the english translations.
posted at: 14:24 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
I wanted to setup gpxview on my n900 phone to use GeoToad to download caches near to my location, so I installed the default package, however it turns out the packaged version is rather out of date. 3.12.1 vs the current 3.17.1, which I noticed because 3.12.1 fails to download any caches. This looks to be a known problem with that version as it's very out of date now, so the solution is to upgrade. The problem however is that the n900 does not have a newer package available. However I was able to just install the geotoad_3.17.1-1_all.deb from the GeoToad download page. It depends on ruby and libopenssl-ruby so make sure those are installed first. Since that package is not platform dependent it installs fine and works just perfectly now.
posted at: 04:14 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry
zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sde mount /dev/sde /mnt cp debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso /mnt/ umount /mntFor whatever reason, this seems to boot just fine on this gigabyte board, where doing the same thing onto a partition would give the "Boot Error:" message.
posted at: 19:11 | path: /debian | permanent link to this entry