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Change default program
by Colin Fee 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

I've been going around in circles in various forums and on google chasing this. I'm running Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) Update 4 with Cinnamon. I've installed MS Office 2010 via PlayOnLinux and now want to alter the behaviour of the desktop, nautilus and the like such that if I dbl-click a .pptx file it open will open in PowerPoint 2010. The prescribed method is right-click on a file of this type in Nautlius, then go Properties -> Open With -> Show Other Applications and then choose the one you want. But Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 is not an option present (nor for that matter are the other Office apps). So, how do I either get them in that list or what can I edit directly to make it so? -- Colin Fee tfeccles(a)gmail.com

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autofs timeout >15 not working
by James Harper 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

I'm using autofs to handle automatically unmounting USB disks used for backup. If I set the autofs timeout to 15 or less it works fine, but 16 seems to not automatically unmount in the desired amount of time. It might happen after quite a while but definitely not in 16 seconds. So I'm thinking that there is some process running that somehow touches the mounted volume every 15 seconds causing autofs to think that the mount is in use... can anyone suggest what that might be? 15 seconds is okay, but the volumes are ext3 and Linux gets unhappy when these are mounted and unmounted too many times so I want a longer time to keep the volumes mounted during idle periods of the backup job to avoid excessive mount/unmount cycles. Thanks James

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printing with HL2130 in fedora
by Bianca Gibson 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Hi all, I'm having trouble getting the Brother HL2130 mono laser to print in fedora. When setting it up in ubuntu I just plugged in it, and it automatically added to the list of printers and worked. A forum post about a similar problem with another brother printer suggested installing some foomatic packages, so I've installed all of them in the fedora repos. I've also installed both the drivers available from the brother website for the HL2130 ( http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.…) and rebooted both the computer and printer. It is now recognising the printer and identifying its' model correctly. If I send any job to it, whether it be to print something, even the printers own test page (which is stored in the printer) or checking the toner levels I just get a notification say that's it's starting the job, and then another one that it's completed, without anything being printed or any of the LEDs on the printer changing. I just checked as I wrote this that it still works fine with ubuntu. Any ideas? Cheers, Bianca

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How to force install of Thunderbird 13.0.1 on Lucid 10.4
by Carl Turney 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hi to any Thunderbird wizards out there, Have tried to install a copy of TB 13.0.1 onto my desktop system, as somehow my laptop has that, and it is running smoothly there. Have gone to this web page, and followed the instructions on "install the newest release". > https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-linux Have rebooted, and run System > Admin > Update Manager. But all I get on the new desktop system install is 13.0 not 13.0.1 Hmmm. Thanks very much for any info, or pointers to good web pages on this particular topic. Carl Turney, Bayswater Mobile 0427 024 735 Home 9720 3975

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by Kan Kim 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

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Re: Any USB 3G broadband usable under Linux?
by Tony Langdon 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

At 10:36 AM 7/10/2012, Lindsay Sprinter wrote: >Aother point, I believe some of these USB GSM modems on power up appears >as a cdrom, a linux progam does exist that will switch the rest of the >devices on, I have never used it though but it should not be to diffcult >to find. Newer kernels can do this switch automatically, IIRC. It's been a few years since I've configured a USB key, but this wasn't an issue on the kernel I was using at the time, the kernel was already able to handle the mode switch itself. I didn't need to run usb_modeswitch. I remember being a bit surprised that it "just worked". 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com

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btrfs and corruption
by Russell Coker 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

One of my Xen DomUs is getting memory corruption. I'm not sure why. I've replaced all the RAM in the system and run memtest86+. The other DomUs work well. Everything was fine before I upgraded to Debian/Testing a week ago, so presumably it's a software bug. The most common symptoms are application SEGVs and GLIBC reporting heap corruption for no apparent reason. Anyway I moved that system to btrfs and since then I've got a couple of corrupted files. Both files were from Debian packages so the --reinstall option to apt-get fixed that. It seems that when a file on disk has a checksum mismatch for all copies you get ESTALE as well as messages on the system console like the following: [ 6747.164889] btrfs: corrupt leaf, bad key order: block=1116618752,root=1, slot=0 BTRFS is doing some good already! -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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strange mysqld CPU use
by Russell Coker 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

# strace -p 20033 Process 20033 attached - interrupt to quit restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>^C <unfinished ...> Process 20033 detached The below is from a system running a recent update of Debian/Testing. Running strace on process 20033 shows that it's stuck in a system call (see the above strace output). So it appears that one of the child threads of 20033 is using the CPU time. How do I determine which one it is? Does anyone have any general suggestions for debugging the case where mysqld is using a lot of CPU time while not doing anything? The mysql command "show processlist;" shows that there are currently NO connections to mysqld at all. top - 17:23:54 up 22:44, 2 users, load average: 1.22, 2.00, 2.59 Tasks: 191 total, 1 running, 190 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 21.6 us, 2.6 sy, 0.0 ni, 75.0 id, 0.8 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 2034264 total, 1621676 used, 412588 free, 51228 buffers KiB Swap: 1949692 total, 66244 used, 1883448 free, 879412 cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20033 mysql 20 0 344m 37m 1480 S 130.9 1.9 33:31.93 mysqld 27420 root 20 0 23300 1548 1084 R 5.9 0.1 0:00.02 top -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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ZFS and kernel 3.2.0
by Russell Coker 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

I have a Debian/Squeeze system that's running ZFS quite nicely. Now I've just tried to install ZFS via the http://zfsonlinux.org/ method on a Debian/Testing system. I'm deploying a new server in the next week or so and it'll ramp up to full production over the course of the month after that, so it seems best to start with Wheezy even a little before the full release to avoid a painful upgrade later. The code doesn't currently build with kernel 3.2.0. Has anyone got it to work? Also has anyone got root on ZFS to work with Debian? ZFS wants to partition the disks itself so it can use 4K sectors and properly align things. I don't want to mess with that and the server in question will have an internal USB port that's ideal for booting such configurations. So I want to get a USB device with GRUB and an initramfs that starts ZFS for the root filesystem. I have already had a hack at it on Squeeze, but I wasn't able to get it going in the time I had available. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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USB TV card and Linux
by Andrew Greig 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

Hi all. I have searched for info on setting up a USB TV card under Linux and have been overwhelmed with the amount of info. Harvey Norman have a Kaiser Baas USB TV stick on sale at present for $48 and a Kaiser Baas dual device for $87. I thought I would take my notebook (Suse 64 12.1) down there and try the device in-store. What programs should I install before I get there, please? What is the advantage of the dual tuner stick? Thanks Andrew Greig

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