One of the Debian packages I maintain was just uploaded to Unstable (going into Squeeze). As this upload closed a Launchpad bug, and I appear as the maintainer of gip in Ubuntu too [1], I had alert the Ubuntu folks in order for them to synchronize the latest package.
The procedure is well described in the Ubuntu wiki [2]. But I thought I would paste a summary and the output of the different commands.
Continue reading “requestsync: package sync requests from Debian to Ubuntu”
For a while, I have been having problems with screen(1) on some of my machines. I am not the “colors in my terminal” type of guy. But unfortunately, when you get used to having “some” colors out there, it is disturbing to lose them when going inside a screen.
The problem was that screen(1) did not source neither /etc/profile nor ~/.profile when it spawned a new shell; only /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc were sourced.
As I don’t like having my preferences included in bash specific files, they were all added in *profile (specifically in /etc/profile.d/).
In order to find the source of the problem, I just added “echo ” in the different files (the ones in the title on this post ;) ). And launched screen to see which files were actually sourced.
The solution was quite simple. Let screen(1) spawn its shells as your login shell using the $SHELL environment variable. Add the following to /etc/screenrc or ~/.screenrc:
# make the shell in every window as your login shell
shell -$SHELL
À bon entendeur, salut!
Cheers,
Ignace M
I have read many tutorials that explain how to install a debian on the G1 phone (running Google’s Android too).
Here is a compilation of what I have done on my Samsung Galaxy (i7500) in order to get a root access and install a debian system on it.
1- Root access
2- Debian installation
Continue reading “Running Debian on a Samsung Galaxy under Android”
This is just a small post that may help those who are trying to install the wifi modules of a BCM4328 card on a debian OS using ndiswrapper.
The debian wiki explains very well how to install the necessary windows drivers using ndiswrapper, so I won’t go into details. Here are the main steps:
$ sudo apt-get install module-assistant wireless-tools
$ sudo m-a prepare
$ sudo m-a a-i ndiswrapper
$ sudo ndiswrapper -i /path /to/your/driver/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf
$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4328) present (alternate driver: ssb)
Continue reading “Debian, BCM4328 and ndiswrapper”
I don’t know how you feel about it, but when my hand touches the touchpad “mouse pad” while I am typing on my keyboard, and changes to windows focus or the mouse positioning, it annoys me, A LOT!
So here’s what I did to get over this issue on my debian box. It shouldn’t be very different on other distributions. (I’ll update this post in case I ever try it somewhere else)
Continue reading “Disable touchpad while typing on keyboard”
I have added a new page to my blog today. It lists commands/tips I collected over the past couple of month. I will be updating it every once in while.
Please don’t hesitate to comment suggesting/correcting commands :)
I hope this can be useful!
Cheers,
Ignace M -ghantoos-
A week ago, I encountered some space problems on my FreeBSD system during a system wide portupgrade. Fortunately, I had backed up my system just before the adventure, so my system was saved.
The procedure I followed to restore my data, was:
1- recreate my partitioning, giving 10 more Gigs to the system, using the FreeBSD installation CD
2- copy all the data on it
Since I backed up my FreeBSD system on an external ext3 hard drive, I needed to copy it back from “outside” my freebsd system. My first option was to use Fixit from the FreeBSD installation CD set, but I had problems mounting my partition because of the inode block size of my ext3 partition. Bref. I decided to mount everything from my Linux (ubuntu) system, and copy everything back from there!
I only way to do this was to recompile my kernel with the right “UFS write” flag. And it JUST WORKED!! I copied back __ALL__ my FreeBSD system on the new slices, rebooted my machine, and here I am writing this post from my old-new FreeBSD system! :)
Continue reading “Mounting UFS in read/write under Linux (debian)”
