RTL8852 driver for Debian 11
This is for a new consumer-grade HP laptop which seems to be (according to Windows) running a Realtek 8852 wireless connection (no standard Ethernet jack on this laptop). Debian 11 doesn't seem to detect the wireless NIC. Does anyone know what driver is used for this? -- "The world's 500 richest people have more money than the annual earnings of the poorest 3 billion." -- George Monbiot.
Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot
On a new HP Laptop pre-installed with Win10 Home edition installed on an SSD. In the laptop's BIOS Secure Boot was turned off. A fresh copy of Debian 11 was installed into the machine's 1TB HD. After reboot, GRUB comes up normally and Linux works fine. But once Windows is chosen from GRUB Windows overwrites the MBR and on subsequent boots GRUB has been disappeared and the machine boots straight into Windows every time. Question: How can Windows be lobotomized to stop it from overwriting the MBR and doing this behavior? -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- 5 star General and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, just a few months after taking office -- a time when the economy was booming and unemployment was 2.7 percent.
Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot -- SOLVED
The problem was that Win10 would constantly overwrite the MBR and blow away
GRUB which forced the computer to boot straight into Windows.
The solution is to go into Windows, open a command prompt/shell as the
Windows administrator and run:
"bcedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\debian\grubx64.efi"
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from the infamous Blue Screen of Death from Microsoft Windows95.(and they
weren't lying!)
Re: Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot -- SOLVED
> does it automatically boot to Debian with Windows listed in your GRUB menu?
Yes, exactly. It works as it should: Upon boot the GRUB menu is presented,
with Debian, its emergency option, and the option of booting into Windows.
Thus, all is right in the world. :-)
That was done by disabling secure boot in the BIOS and running the
"bcedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\debian\grubx64.efi"
command as administrator in a Windows shell/command prompt.
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and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of
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movement.
Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``? (colored prompt examples)
> In /root/.bashrc I use this to give a red prompt including host and > full path followed by a new line. I take this idea a bit further, setting a longer prompt and setting workstation hosts for specific colors for user logins, and then doing a red prompt for servers. Part of my ~/.bashrc: # Set the hostname to a specific color HostName=`hostname -s` if [ $HostName = "capncrunch" ]; then HostColor="\[\033[1;36m\]" # Bright Cyan elif [ $HostName = "piglet" ]; then HostColor="\[\033[1;35m\]" # Bright Purple elif [ $HostName = "wiseguy" ]; then HostColor="\[\033[1;32m\]" # Bright Green elif [ $HostName = "munchkin" ]; then HostColor="\[\033[1;34m\]" # Bright Blue elif [ $HostName = "bingo" ]; then HostColor="\[\033[1;33m\]" # Bright Yellow # Now set red colors for servers: elif [ $HostName = "toto" ]; then HostColor="\[\033[1;31m\]" # Bright Red elif [ $HostName = "dorothy" ]; then HostColor="\[\033[1;31m\]" # Bright Red # set any other machine to Bright White else HostColor="\[\033[1;37m\]" # Bright White fi # Check to see if the script is being run by root and set # appropriate prompts: if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then PromptSymbol="$" UserNameColor="\[\033[1;32m\]" else # let's make the root user's prompt a blinking red prompt PromptSymbol="\[\033[1;31m\]\[\033[5m\]#\[\033[0m\]" UserNameColor="\[\033[1;31m\]" fi # And everyone wants a 3-line prompt that gives a little more info than the # default bash prompt, right?! # # E-mail messaging might screw this up a little, but try this as your PS1 # prompt: PS1="┌─[$UserNameColor\u\033[0m@$HostColor$HostName\033[0m][\033[1;33m\] \w\033[0m]\n│ [\033[1;36m\]\t \d\033[0m]\n└─$PromptSymbol " # # That PS1 above, of course, should be all on one line. # We'll unset the temporary variables we set above just to clean things up: unset HostName HostColor PromptSymbol UserNameColor # I like to tweak the Bash colors a bit for "ls" listings. This might give # someone some ideas: LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;33:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31: *.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35: *.tif=01;35:*.mpg=01;37:*.mp4=01;37:*.avi=01;37:*.mkv=01;37:*.gl=01;37:*.dl=01;37:' # That LS_COLORS line should, of course, all be on one long line. # Then we need to export them so the shell picks things up. export PS1 LS_COLORS That's worth playing with to change some of the default settings if one wants to play with the colors of a terminal (I use KDE's "konsole" rather than xterm, but it's the same idea. -- "I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country." -- Mark Twain, 1907.
KSig for Debian 11/bullseye
KSig is a graphical editor for e-mail signature lines with a handy random function that can be plugged into KMail and other programs. For some reason it was dropped from Debian way back when. Someone recompiled it, made a *.deb and it ran fine in buster. But that binary *.deb requires KDE 4 libraries and other things that are not in bullseye. Does anyone know if a *.deb has been made for KSig to run in bullseye? (Or a similar functioning GUI editor for signatures?) TIA. -- "You’re talking about the American dream. You find something that you love and then you twist and you torture it, try to find a way to make money at it. You spend a lifetime doing that and at the end you can’t find a trace of what you started out loving." -- From the 1998 movie Hope Floats.
Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos
How can I convince Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos? I have various h265 CODECS installed and other sources on the net report than VLC can play these files -- but not Bullseye's VLC. Can anyone whack me with a clue-bat? TIA. -- "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not." -- Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007.
Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos
> Works out of the box on mine. Played H265 4K no problem. What is the > error you're getting? VLC doesn't give an error, it just endlessly tries loading and reloading the file (a video from a security camera). I'm guessing it's some oddity in the file format produced by the cheap Chinese security camera. Purportedly ffmpeg can convert the file to another more common format; that's my next step to deal with the issue. >> "I have various h265 CODECS installed" > VLC does not require any codecs to work, what do you mean by that? That was me foolishly installing various CODECs in the hope it might help. :-(⠀⠀ -- "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." -- Henry Kissinger, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped direct the US overthrow of an elected socialist government in Chile, and the establishment of a fascist dictatorship there which filled soccer stadiums with victims and murdered tens of thousands of Chileans.
Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos
On Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:34:57 PM CDT Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > If VLC is not hard requirement then you can try SMPlayer/mpv or mpv only. Thanks! Both smplayer and mpv will play the videos. -- "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." -- Russian revolution Vladimir Lenin.
URI for USB-connected Samsung CLX-4195 multifunction printer
I had this working but now after a Linux reinstall I cannot get it to work again. :-( Using Samsung/HP's proprietary driver package at (https://support.hp.com/ us-en/drivers/selfservice/samsung-clx-4195-color-laser-multifunction-printer- series/16462344) the driver installs the printer into CUPS. system-config-printer's GUI shows a CLP-300 printer added; everything looks cool so far -- but it doesn't work. system-config-printer shows the printer's device URI is "mfp:/dev/mfp4" but under /dev there is no mfp* devices. As I remember, the previous working printer config used a URI of "USB- something" indicating that the printer was connected via a USB cable (which it is). So my question is: How do I detect a printer connected via USB? What is the USB URI for such a printer? -- "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not." -- Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007.
Re: URI for USB-connected Samsung CLX-4195 multifunction printer [SOLVED]
The core of my problem was that the printer was not being seen on the USB bus. Playing around with cables, various USB plugs/ports, etc. I got the printer to show up on a "lsusb" command. Once that was done the proprietary drivers "saw" the printer, the KDE desktop similarly saw the desktop and either the drivers or KDE configured things. Similarly, CUPS on the localhost now sees things too. So all is well. Now just to modify CUPS to allow anything on the LAN to print to the printer... -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Republican President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.
Re: Torrents for 10.12
> Are there torrents for Debian 10.12 which was just announced? I think you mean 11.3. Either way, it usually takes a few hours or the next day before torrents are created and the web pages are updated. https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ -- Fast fact: 90% of the American media is controlled by only 5 companies: Comcast(NBC Universal), TimeWarner, NewsCorp, Disney, and National Amusement(Viacom/CBS).
Re: Predictable Network Interface Names
> Some people get excessively worked up over things like interface names > and like to throw around strong words for dramatic effect. Just ignore > the noise. I've just come to accept that the actual interface name is going to be some bizarre name. So I look it up, and then promptly rename it in "/etc/network/ interfaces" like so: - - - snip - - - iface enp18s0f0 inet manual auto LAN iface LAN inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.168.1 dns-search locallan.net bridge_ports enp18s0f0 - - - snip - - - This uses Debian's bridge-utils package to rename the interface. From then on, my machines have an interface named LAN, WAN, DMZ, etc. -- all "logical" names and I don't have to deal with enp18s0f0 or enp18s1e0 or some such nonsense. -- "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -- Frederic Bastiat, 19th century French author and economist.
Re: No HDMI Audio
Just caught the tail end of this and thought I'd add in my $0,02 worth of experience. Using the latest Debian stable with KDE I had my PCMCIA sound come up "silent." Toying with KDE's controls and changing the sound driver and output (a confusing thing because there are multiple locations/widgets to do this) would fix the problem. At the same time the video (again, PCMCIA) would intermittently "blink" hinting at a driver issue. But sometime an apt-get update (or a reboot?) somehow seemed to fix things -- it no longer experiences those problems. -- "A king who does not protect the environment does not deserve to be called king." -- Chinese philosopher and politician Guan Zhong 700 B.C.
baloo_file_extr -- how to disable or remove it?
On my KDE/stable box I have the baloo_file_extr process running hog wild. It takes up fully 1/2 of the memory and significant amounts of CPU. I gather it's some sub-function of Dolphin but there's no way I want this "service" running on my computer. Can someone shed some light on how to disable or remove the baloo_file_extr? -- "A policeman's job is only easy in a police state." -- Orson Welles.
Re: baloo_file_extr -- how to disable or remove it?
> Can someone shed some light on how to disable or remove the > baloo_file_extr? To answer my own question, as root run the following: # balooctl disable # balooctl stop Then it'll be likely you'll need to run: # killall -9 baloo_file baloo_file_extractor For me I had to run these repeatedly but eventually that !&@)$ thing stopped. -- "We don't need to run America like a business or like the military. We need to run America like a democracy." -- Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate 2012.
Problem enabling IOMMU with Buster and Xen
A box booting Xen with an updated Debian 10/Buster setup as Xen's dom0, a Ryzen CPU and Radeon-based GPU. /etc/default/grub has been modified to include: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet iommu=1 amd_iommu=on" and grub has been updated. After a reboot Xen reports: # xl dmesg | grep IOMMU (XEN) AMD-Vi: IOMMU Extended Features: (XEN) AMD-Vi: IOMMU 0 Enabled. Cool. But GNU/Linux says: # dmesg | grep IOMMU [2.536053] AMD IOMMUv2 driver by Joerg Roedel [2.536054] AMD IOMMUv2 functionality not available on this system WTF?! Can someone whack me with a clue-bat? TIA. -- "It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word." -- US President Andrew Jackson.
Re: Problem enabling IOMMU with Buster and Xen
> Have you enabled SR-IOV in the bios? I love how the various BIOS entries have zero help even though AMI has an empty help/description field. No, that was not enabled -- thanks! -- but even enabling it, doing a cold/poweroff boot cycle does nothing. It still gives the exact same error message. > I also suspect that Xen doesnt allow to PCI passthrough host device > right? I actually haven't tried that. All of the various Xen "docs"/how-tos I've read say that each preceding step must be done or it won't work. (Based on your input, I'll try that but I'm not hopeful.) At this point I've read that Xen's passthrough might not work with some motherboard chipsets, so I'm wondering if Xen is a bit too cutting edge for what I want to do. What I want to do is to run multiple secure/separated VMs on a machine. One of those VMs will be to handle an Internet connection and firewall. Another VM will do filesharing via NFS and Samba; another VM is to run Kodi and output videos/TV via HDMI to a TV/monitor. From everything I've read, Xen is the ideal choice -- but only if I can get it to run. :) -- The first known legal proclamation in the history of the world is on display in Paris, in the Louvre. It was given about 2400 B.C. by Enmetena, ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash. It was a decree of debt cancellation.
Re: Is Linux a single-user system ? was: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -"
> What about the really big iron ? The heck with mainframes. Back in the 1990s I had PC-based Debian boxes with users working on dumb terminals hooked up to the PC via serial cables. That certainly seemed "multi-user" to us and it didn't require big iron. -- "There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." -- Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world.
Deluged setup instructions/help
I want to set up a deluged server on Debian stable. Installing the relevant packages there are zero -- none, nada, zilch! -- instructions or example config files. From my perspective deluged nor deluge-web does not install itself in any sort of a working or bare-bones configuration which is the norm for debian- packaged programs. Looking on the web there are a ton of various "guides" to install deluged, but nothing for current versions of Debian and many of the guides suggest doing all sorts of "odd" things (like creating /etc/systemd/system/ deluged.service files and other lower-level tasks that it seems normal Debian packages already do. Questions: Can anyone suggest a recent/up-to-date guide on how to get a running deluged up and running? Does this lack of basic documentation/example config files mean a bug report should be filed against deluged? TIA. -- "Lottery: A tax on poor people who are bad at math." -- The cartoon B.C.
Re: Deluged setup instructions/help
> may I ask whether there is anything about deluge/deluged in particular that > makes you want to use it? My default is to use the transmission package but that has a documented bug in which some torrents cause an "invalid argument" error. > Or is it just the one you've used before, so you thought you'd stick > to something familiar? I've used deluge a couple of Debian versions ago I thought I'd give that another try. However, it seems the documentation available online and/or the package's packaging isn't what I remember. -- "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship." -- President Theodore Roosevelt.
Re: Deluged setup instructions/help
> Checking the /etc/default/deluged file would be recommended as well. That just contains a switch to enable the daemon (already done to no effect). > In case you (the OP) end up writing a .service file (system or user) to > replace the init script kindly attach it to a wishlist bug for inclusion in > the package Good idea! I'll submit such a wishlist 'bug' when I get a handle on this. -- "War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength." -- George Orwell.
[RESOLVED] Re: Deluged setup instructions/help
To get Deluge running one should remember that deluged is a Python program which rewrites its variables to a config file on exit. Once the config file is located it can be edited and the variables The initialization problem is a problem. I used update-rc.d to disable the / etc/init.d/deluged script that deluged installs. I then made deluged initialize with systemd by following the directions on this page: https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how-to/systemd-service.html -- "The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful." -- Investigative journalist David Armstrong, explaining the Pentagon's policy of "full spectrum dominance."
/boot/grub/grub.cfg menu entries
On my machine I have 2 bootable Linux installs, one each on /dev/sdf1 and / dev/sdg1. Grub *used to* detect the various partitions and creat entries for each one, but in this install it didn't do that. Looking at /boot/grub/grub.cfg it uses a function format that I don't recognize and cannot make easy sense of -- I just want a simple text entry to give me the option of booting off sdf1 or sdg1 in the grub menu. Can anyone whack me with a clue-bat or ELI5 me how I can edit/add an entry to grub.cfg? TIA. -- "The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values." -- Historian Howard Zinn (https:// www.howardzinn.org/about/)
Re: /boot/grub/grub.cfg menu entries
> To re-enable this, set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in /etc/default/grub. Thanks! But I did that, ran update-grub which reported: > Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions. > Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries. > Found Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) on /dev/sdg1 Which is all way cool -- that sounds like it's going to do what I want. But on reboot, I'm left with my plain old menu listing only the existing menu entry of booting off /dev/sdf1. -- "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Re: /boot/grub/grub.cfg menu entries
> You can also try os-prober as root and see if it detects the other > partitions. That seems to be the problem -- os-prober only shows that /dev/sdf1 has an OS on it, it seems to ignore the linux install on /dev/sdg1. IMO the next question becomes how do I convince os-prober to see /dev/sg1 is bootable or to add it to grub.cfg? The man page for os-prober is non- existent. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Republican President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.
Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?
> Everything online hints that attempting repair is particularly > dangerous, but what else am I to do? You sum up my experience with BTRFS. I too was "scared" off from it and reformatted my BTRFS partitions and went back to ext4 -- it's a known quantity fit for humans with tons of advice of how to handle problems/errors. -- "The US has never had a 'foreign policy' but a fanatical domestic policy which, once it had bled through to the Pacific, sought new hosts on which to feed." -- Patrick Wilkinson.
Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian
> Respectfully, once you're getting above $100 USD, you're better off > getting an cheap android phone/tablet. I didn't catch the first part of this thread, but I agree with you. What I have to wonder about is what is meant by "compatible with Debian". I use a Sansa Clip (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Clip-Player-Black/dp/B002MAPT7U/). It's ~$30, plays MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files, and has a built-in FM radio. I stuck a 16GB memory card in it to hold more music than I'll ever listen to in a day. Like any sane MP3 player or camera or other device, when I plug the Sansa player into its microUSB cable on my Debian box, a window pops open in KDE and it's a drag-and-drop operation to copy/delete files to/from the player. Definitely recommended. -- Bill Gates' wealth equals the combined wealth of the poorest 120 million Americans, or 45 percent of our population. "This is a failure of the political system to defend the people." -- Ralph Nader -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2630928.tAP0VppM9g@shadow
GRUB setup for multi-boot ISO from memory stick
I've been trying to set up Testing/Wheezy's DVD ISO to boot from a memory
card/USB thumb drive, as outlined at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-
multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/
I have the *.iso file renamed "debian.iso" and put in the root directory of
the USB drive/memory card. GRUB is installed on the card just fine and it boots
and acts like it should.
My problem is configuring GRUB to boot the Debian ISO file. My GRUB menu.cfg
entry is:
menuentry "Debian ISO" {
loopback loop /debian.iso
linux (loop)/install.386/vmlinuz boot=install.386 iso-
scan/filename=/debian.iso noeject noprompt splash --
initrd (loop)/install.386/initrd.gz
}
This boots the ISO file and starts the Debian installation. The installation
goes along just fine until the install program asks me where the CD-ROM is. The
computer doesn't have CD-ROM and I want the installer to read the debian.iso
file as the "first" (and only) CD-ROM. But I can't seem to "see" the *.iso file
from the booted kernel even though the kernel is booted from the debian.iso
file.
Does anyone know how to properly configure the grub.cfg entry so that it
will both boot from the *.iso file and so I can tell the installer to use the
same *.iso file as the "CD-ROM"?
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Re: GRUB setup for multi-boot ISO from memory stick
Hi Brian, Thanks for your reply. It was thorough, complete, and all of the steps you listed out were perfectly logical and made sense. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to work. :-) I can't even get to the first step of mounting the memory card. > Are you sure you want to do this? It is easier to get the installer > installing without using GRUB's loopback facility. Okay, I'm game. What is an easier method of booting Debian from a memory card to install it into a machine without a CD-ROM? TIA. -- "I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country." -- Mark Twain, 1907. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201212041542.53038.intns...@golgotha.net
*Another* Backup software question...
Okay, here's a different backup software question. The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to buy "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store them on my file server. (The CDs go into the basement.) Great, I'm happy. I have 12-15 GB of Ogg files. Each Ogg file is stored in a tediously-named subdirectory tree arranged by "Genre -> Artist -> Album". I want to back up this music subdirectory tree. In the past, I've tarred these files up. That's a pain in the butt because my backup medium is DVD-Rs. Not only do I have to re-splice the tar files together after a restore, but the files on the DVDs are not in a usable state (and other backup programs have taught me to be leery of non-native filesystems). So a query: Is there any "copy" program that would logically copy/backup to a DVD and use some intelligence to copy/backup the files so that the DVDs get filled up? I'd love to have these files as raw files on a DVD, but I don't want to wasted DVDs and I'm not going to bother to figure out what files are needed to fill up the DVDs. And given the nature of my backups, I only backup every 6 months or a year, or whenever I go on a CD buying kick (after all, we're not talking about accounting data here!). Does anyone have a suggestion for a "smart copy" program that will logically copy portions of a subdirectory tree in 4.4GB "chunks"? TIA. -- "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201307112354.04273.intns...@golgotha.net
VLC commandline problems in Wheezy
I have a Wheezy (with the deb-multimedia.org repository) computer running a KDE desktop as a HTPC. I use VLC to watch videos. If I run KDE's default VLC invocation, "/usr/bin/vlc VideoFileName.ext", VLC will run fine, popping up in a window on the desktop. However, if I run my own call of VLC, "/usr/bin/vlc VideoFileName.ext -- fullscreen --play-and-exit --no-repeat", then VLC will not load. The setup using commandline parameters has worked fine in the past (this machine has been running Wheezy since its testing days), so I'm thinking this is a change/bug caused by some recent update. Has anyone else experienced oddities with VLC using commandline parameters? -- "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." -- Thomas Jefferson. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201307201446.40159.intns...@golgotha.net
Re: VLC commandline problems in Wheezy [solved]
> No, sorry. But I'd be glad to help you troubleshoot.. Thanks William. I think I've identified what the problem is. What I did under KDE was to create a second "file association" entry that ran VLC with my commandline parameters. Thus, there was 2 VLC file associations for, say, *.avi. I'm assuming that this confused KDE somehow. When removing one of the entries and editing the remaining (original) file association entry by adding my commandline parameters, everything works perfectly. What confuses me about the entire affair was that KDE and VLC ran fine with those dual entries for months. Not being one that likes things to "just break" that baffled me. But there is no problem now. Again, thanks for the offer for assistance. -- "All wars are fought for money." -- Socrates. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201307212119.14411.intns...@golgotha.net
Re: Best Mail Client
> It depends what you need... Exactly. Without specific criteria this will likely just be a sea of opinions. My own preference is KMail. It has its bugs, but the way it handles multiple e-mail addresses and accounts is IMO superior to other clients. -- "The Communists of the USSR told many lies, but everything they said about Capitalism turned out to be the truth." -- A post-Soviet/post-1991 Russian proverb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312051706.18545.intns...@golgotha.net
Re: Dovecot *requires* MySQL?
On Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:04:33 PM Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> Dovecot does not require mysql. The dovecot-common package
> recommends dovecot-mysql. Apt installs recommended packages by
> default, but they are not required. You can exclude recommended
> packages with --no-install-recommends.
And to do this without adding the command-line parameter, edit the file
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20norecommends putting:
APT {
Install-Recommends "false";
};
into it, and/or use the command
echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
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Re: kde4 can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines
> Does anyone else have this problem with KDE4 after Jessie/Stretch upgrade? The changes between KDE in Jessie and KDE in Stretch are substantial, including killing off kdm and replacing it with sddm. On multiple machines I've had the upgrade go pretty rocky, not only at the dm level but on the desktop itself. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." -- Malcolm X.
Re: Laptop randomly reboots
Random reboots can be anything, but often they're a power supply issue, and even more often, a RAM issue. The first thing I'd do if I were you is to try only 1 RAM module, run it for a few days, see if it's still acting up, and then try the other RAM module to see if you can isolate a bad RAM. Also be aware that while you can normally mix and match different RAM modules, sometimes you cannot. This is *especially* true if they're not the same speed and/or amount of RAM, but also even different manufacturers can give you headaches. Like many things in tech, such issues are not supposed to happen, but in the real world they do. Have fun... -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?
> I meant a replacement with a text UI. dselect is still in the repository, though it's deprecated. -- "It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." -- Nelson Mandela.
Lockup problems with new 8.4 update
I've got a box running KDE and Debian stable, has been running fine for months, and today I did the update from 8.3 to 8.4. No problem; since it installed a new kernel, I told it to reboot. Ever since then I've been getting random lockups of the machine -- no keyboard or mouse functionality. Programs running in the background at the time of the lockup continue to run, and I can ssh into the box when it's locked up. At first I thought it might have been a program that was causing the problems, but when ssh'ed into the box and after trying to kill a program, I got this ominous error message: Message from syslogd@shadow at Apr 3 16:59:56 ... kernel:[ 917.582125] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [Xorg:1163] Waiting 22 seconds just results in another similar error message. Running "reboot" when ssh'ed into the box results in nothing happening -- a hard reboot is required. Is anyone else experiencing such issues? Got a clue as to what it might be? TIA. -- "Let's not change bosses; let's change life." -- French graffiti, May 1968.
Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4
> It now crashes /usr/bin/X after a minute or so of using iceweasel. I'm also getting the same type of random lockups though I haven't isolated it to Iceweasel (though FWIW, Iceweasel is typically running when it locks up). Like you, the system was rock solid until the 8.4 upgrade (which went smoothly); the xorg process turns zombie and this is with a box using a Radeon HD 4250. -- "So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life." -- Dr. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software movement.
