Reporting bugs with Apport
Posted on July 12, 2012
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
| 8 minutes
| 1653 words
|
So yet another bug reporting tool. :-)
When I prepared Apport for Debian, I wasn’t sure how it will look going forward. If you look at the current one lying in experimental, it just detects your crashes and pops up in your systray. It doesn’t have the mechanism to interact with BTS.
So, like the title of this post says, this is the first worthy feature for Apport in the context of Debian.
[Read More]Laptop Mode Tools - 1.61
Posted on May 17, 2012
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
| 1 minutes
| 184 words
|
Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.61, has been released and will land up soon for Debian. This is the version that would be targetting Wheezy.
This release includes many bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.
This is mainly a bug fix release. Some parallel module execution approach has been used which could show runtime improvements.
Changelog:
1.61 - Thu May 17 17:44:26 IST 2012
* Handle devices with persistent device naming.
[Read More]Cancer cure drugs now more affordable
Posted on May 5, 2012
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
| 3 minutes
| 560 words
|
Now these are the kind of moves that needs to happen more often. Whether this will cause a negative impact on the overall market, and the further invention of drugs (including patent control), but the affordability of the medicatoin to an average citizen is a great move.
The typical Chemotherapy can be on an average of 22 times. When summed up with the dosage (somewhere around 250 mg IIRC), the cost comes to approx: (22/4) * 15000 = 82k, which now, will be affordable at 27k.
[Read More]Kscope 1.6
Posted on April 7, 2012
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
| 2 minutes
| 274 words
|
In the 3.x days of KDE, there were some wonderful applications. One of them I still admire, is kscope. Recently, I stumbled upon this blog entry and thought of sharing my living with kscope.
The move from KDE 3 to KDE 4 was a big one. During that move, the kscope author decided to port kscope to a Qt only application. That is what we have as the latest kscope, 1.
[Read More]Debian SAN
Posted on April 7, 2012
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
| 1 minutes
| 171 words
|
Many of the SAN components in Debian have me involved. So I think out to give an update on what the state of SAN would be in Debian Wheezy.
Open-iSCSI : Just uploaded a newer version to experimental which eventually will crawl into testing. It should fix all release goals for Wheezy. Please give it a good test
iscsitarget : Same goes here. This one is already in testing. Please test.
[Read More]Apport for Debian
Posted on April 7, 2012
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
| 3 minutes
| 462 words
|
apport just cleared the new queue and is now available in experimental. For those who do not know what apport is:
Debugging program crashes without any automated tools has been pretty time consuming and hard for both developers and users. Many program crashes remain unreported or unfixed because:
Many crashes are not easily reproducible. End users do not know how to prepare a report that is really useful for developers, like building a package with debug symbols, operating gdb, etc.
[Read More]Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex
Posted on November 7, 2011
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
| 4 minutes
| 641 words
|
I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB hard drive. It is a 2.5" compact disk that you connect over USB. It draws its power from the USB controller. My previous Extern HDDs were all 2.5" laptop drives, for which I bought a USB enclosure. Those devices always worked perfect, as in:
They were automatically detected Partitions/File Systems understood Desktop systems would prompt for actions The typical kernel messages I got for these devices were:
[Read More]OpenXenManager
Posted on October 19, 2011
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
| 1 minutes
| 127 words
|
OpenXenManager cleared the NEW queue and is now available in the archive.
What it is:
rrs@champaran:~$ apt-cache show openxenmanager Package: openxenmanagerVersion: 0.r80+dfsg-1Installed-Size: 3051Maintainer: Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs@debian.orgArchitecture: allDepends: pythonDescription: full-featured graphical management tool for xen using xenapi OpenXenManager is a graphical interface to manage XenServer / Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) hosts through the network . OpenXenManager is an open-source multiplatform clone of XenCenter (Citrix)Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxenmanager/Section: adminPriority: extraFilename: pool/main/o/openxenmanager/openxenmanager_0.r80+dfsg- 1_all.debSize: 396322MD5sum: 64df482dac6b99bc3403bcc0740f8718SHA1: 9c746f524c3c29eb88de7ae702c96cbca162f577SHA256: 454641eb26c57ba35ad573a3a8493ac6dbd82f7920c8b926049ef892724147e0
[Read More]Laptop Mode Tools - 1.60
Posted on October 14, 2011
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
| 2 minutes
| 248 words
|
Hello World,
I am very pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.60.
This release includes lots of bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.The battery polling daemon now, more reliably, gets triggered and killed based on power states.
This release also includes 2 helper scripts to trigger suspend and hibernate, in case anyone is interested.
Given the advancements of Linux PM ( All thanks to Rafael J.
[Read More]File System corruption and Recovery
Posted on August 16, 2011
(Last modified on November 12, 2014)
| 3 minutes
| 588 words
|
So this is the 2nd time I ran into a problem like this again. My FAT32 file system on the external USB HDD, all of a sudden, started reporting:
00:47:32 rrs@champaran:/tmp$ sudo dosfsck /dev/sdb1dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFNLogical sector size is zero.
I had been taking a lot of care to ensure that I don’t run into situation like this. No body likes losing data. The good part is that I’ve been lucky enough that, even without backups (now who’s gonna backup a backup disk), I have recovered all my data.
[Read More]