Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 04/23/2014 09:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as Windows Vista and that occurrence of error message. So w

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 18:12 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:58:39 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > ... > > > IMAP was the recommended way to access free Yahoo Mail with an email > > client. You had to convert to a paid account to get POP access. Don't > > know if that's still t

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> I don't use apt-cdrom. I loop mount images of the DVDs. It may or may not > meet your total needs. I hope to have a detailed write up in about a week. > I'm using Squeeze (6.0.5) and Wheezy (7.1) as test beds. Best of luck on your endeavor and if you need someone to debug, you can always find

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread ty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/2014 05:34 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Ty. > > On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:34:29 -0700, > ty wrote: > >> Perhaps this will work? >> #!/bin/bash >> echo 1 #Non Logged Commands >> echo 2 >> echo 3 >> echo 4 >> ( >> set -x >> echo 5 #Logge

Q: LDAP on Debian easy/short way

2014-04-23 Thread Snow Leopard
Hi, is there an alternative for next book on LDAP (this book is good but quite outdated -- 2003) http://secretoslinux.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/oreilly_-_ldap_system_administration.pdf Particularly I am interested in next 1. [+] installation of slapd (accomplished) 2. [+] configuration of

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Richard Owlett
Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Owlett Sent: 04/24/14 12:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_ I'm working towards a similar goal. My restrictions include: 1. no

Re: libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict

2014-04-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 apr 14, 11:58:49, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running an Intel i5-750, 4 core processor with Debian 3.2.54-2 x86-64 > OS and Debian Squeeze. Recent attempts to update the system, with Aptitude > (and dpkg), have failed because of a conflict between libc-bin and > libc-bin-amd64.

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 apr 14, 11:25:50, Ken Heard wrote: > > > > 0. Make sure your packages are ok > > > > dpkg --audit > > Command returned nothing. Good. > > 1. Confirm which packages need to be downgraded > > > > aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?origin(backports))' > > This command also returned

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 apr 14, 15:14:10, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > > And if the post referenced by > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Debian-8-0-quot-Jessie-quot-Should-Arrive-by-the-End-of-2015-391154.shtml > > is any indication, the official release date of Debian Jessie is end > 2015 (a wait of about

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 apr 14, 09:46:52, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > > 1. When will the next Debian version (codename: Jessie) be released? Jessie will be frozen on 5th of November. If everything goes well the release could happen early 2015. > 2. I read on the internet that there is long-term support (L

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:29:39 +1200 Richard Hector wrote: > On 22/04/14 05:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > FYI: You're > > forced into having a gmail account with an Android phone. > > I think I have a gmail account somewhere. I've never associated it with > my Android phone though. > > That means

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:58:39 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: ... > IMAP was the recommended way to access free Yahoo Mail with an email > client. You had to convert to a paid account to get POP access. Don't > know if that's still the case. Some accounts seem to get free POP, while others don't.

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:22:49 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: ... > http://www.zoho.com do IMAP & POP/SMTP. Mailbox size is 5GB on a free > account. +1 - I use a zoho account with POP3 via getmail - works fine. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:25:41 -0400 Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:50:14PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 19 apr 14, 13:38:06, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > What with my authentication problems with my Yahoo Mail address on this > > > list, anyone have personal reco

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 apr 14, 00:32:21, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Currently it appears that privacy is becoming the new refuge of scoundrels. At least this is what some are trying to make us believe. Kind regards, Andrei P.S. Reply-To: -offtopic -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discuss

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 23:25 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. > > I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't > > want to wade throug

Re: Mysql database dump quit working

2014-04-23 Thread Steve
> I have a mediawiki site running on Mysql db; I just started getting this > message on my automated backup; > > mysqldump: Got error: 144: Table './mywiki/searchindex' is marked as > crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed when using LOCK TABLES The table is marked as crashed, and an autom

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Corey, If you don't like to use unetbootin, you could try one of the following: 1. pendrivelinux (url: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/) 2. rufus (url: http://rufus.akeo.ie/) Both are free and open-source and they don't need to be installed on Windows. Which version of Windows are you using? and i

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:50:57PM -0700, Corey Blair wrote: > >So I can just do a file copy in Windows of the .iso to the thumb >drive?  Not actually extracting the iso image?  I will try that later >tonite, but also seems odd to me that it would work.  No, copying the file directly from Windows

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. > I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't > want to wade through seven files to turn those things off. Basically, > I'd like someth

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Corey Blair
So I can just do a file copy in Windows of the .iso to the thumb drive?  Not actually extracting the iso image?  I will try that later tonite, but also seems odd to me that it would work.  From: Jeremy T. Bouse To: Theodore Alcapotaxis Cc: Steve McIntyre ;

libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict

2014-04-23 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I am running an Intel i5-750, 4 core processor with Debian 3.2.54-2 x86-64 OS and Debian Squeeze. Recent attempts to update the system, with Aptitude (and dpkg), have failed because of a conflict between libc-bin and libc-bin-amd64. I have not been able to resolve the conflict. My dpk

Re: Re: grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> - Original Message - > From: Muntasim Ul Haque > Sent: 04/24/14 12:43 AM > To: mailingl...@darac.org.uk > Subject: Re: Re: grub2 menu problems > > I'm using Debian Wheezy and grub2 is default here. And I do not have Windows > Vista installed. It's just as I told you, grub2 detected Wind

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> - Original Message - > From: Brian > Sent: 04/24/14 03:03 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux > 7.4.0 _Wheezy_ > > I am not a developer or a maintainer; the only thing I am intent on is to > maintain my sa

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> - Original Message - > From: Richard Owlett > Sent: 04/24/14 12:49 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux > 7.4.0 _Wheezy_ > I'm working towards a similar goal. My restrictions include: 1. not only > minimal

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 23.04.2014 14:57, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve McIntyre Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM To: Corey Blair Subject: Re: UEFI install Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unn

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: debian-user lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:33:14 +0200 Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 PPS: If you're using #!/bin/sh for Linux you at least should take care that your scr

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Apr 2014 at 09:46:52 -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > P.S.: If you are one of the developers/maintainers, it would be good if you > could help us (users) out. I am not a developer or a maintainer; the only thing I am intent on is to maintain my sanity. You will have to submit any

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> - Original Message - > From: Steve McIntyre > Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM > To: Corey Blair > Subject: Re: UEFI install > Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot of > problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary > unetbootin will not start t

encfs systemd startup script - how to ask for a password?

2014-04-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hello! I have a sysvinit script which reads something like this (boring bits such as error checking and log messages omitted): #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: mountencfs # Required-Start:mountall # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: S # Default-Stop: # X-Interactive: true

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> - Original Message - > From: Corey Blair > Sent: 04/23/14 10:11 PM > To: Steve McIntyre > Subject: Re: UEFI install > > I downloaded debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and then used unetbootin to make a > bootable USB flash drive from it. I changed UEFI boot to legacy mode and > booted off t

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Apr 2014 at 10:45:13 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > On 2014-04-23 05:08, Brian wrote: > > > > python-dev isn't required to set up printing. > > It is required if I want to set it up -- or have to set it up -- using > http://hplipopensource.com. You have already been told: it is not require

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 19:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 13:10 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > > Good, but I think you can avoid the positional params by just using $@ > > If you use $1 $2 $3 ..., then you at least should use a loop, by taking > care of the count of paramete

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 13:10 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > Good, but I think you can avoid the positional params by just using $@ If you use $1 $2 $3 ..., then you at least should use a loop, by taking care of the count of parameters, using $# which does show how much parameters are used. I usu

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Steve Litt wrote, On 04/23/2014 12:07 PM: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:06:41 -0300 > Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >> >> Hi all! >> >> I'm writing a bash script that runs several routing commands. I would >> like these commands, on a part of the script, plus run, are saved to a >> log file. >> >> I guess m

Re: Sudo Autoremove wanting to kill my system?

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 16:29 -0500, c. marlow wrote: > Holy cow Andrei, that package you told me to install, installed like a > ton of things that were not even in the iso I downloaded from > debian.org. > > So far so good, going to go back and reinstall all the codecs for flash etc. > > I went t

Re: Re: grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Muntasim Ul Haque
I'm using Debian Wheezy and grub2 is default here. And I do not have Windows Vista installed. It's just as I told you, grub2 detected Windows 8 as Windows Vista. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 12:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 > Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: > > > When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. > > So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as > > Windows Vista and that occurre

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Richard Owlett
Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: There is nothing for you to do; you have achieved your objective and updated your sources.list. The bug appears to be fixed in Jessie. OMG, far from it, I have yet to achieve my objective, which is to install essential packages such as xorg, gnome-core or gnome-ful

Re: Bug #693630: Dconf unknown method 'Change'

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 16:38 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > You know, I think exactly the same [snip] > the mailing-list's discussions about bloat-wares, gnome, systemd, > etc... :D I was thinking to send it to the off-topic list instead, but decided to mention that dconf is less op

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-23 Thread Alberto Luaces
Slavko writes: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:20:54 +0200 Alberto Luaces > napísal: > >> In order to get the clipping coordinates, "display" from the same >> package bringing "convert" can be used: press "c" and then drag the >> mouse to define the region. >> >> "display" loading is almost i

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > What I meant is to have a group of commands in a script that, in > addition to being executed, I want these commands are stored in a log. LOG=/var/log/...logfile... ExecAndLog() { # Season with date, PID, user, etc., to taste echo "$*" >>"$LOG"

Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: > When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. > So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as > Windows Vista and that occurrence of error message. So what's the > remedy? Grub used to be go

[Debian testing] Reopen bug 504297

2014-04-23 Thread ano mous
Hi, I had a try to reopen the bug 504297 but it failed. I have an ultrabook which has a soldered ssd on the motherboard. The ssd is dead an since the death of ssd I get this error during boot: ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) I have tried to disable the ssd by putting libata.force=2:disable in gru

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:06:41 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm writing a bash script that runs several routing commands. I would > like these commands, on a part of the script, plus run, are saved to a > log file. > > I guess maybe it could be done by putting the commands in a va

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Richard Hector wrote: > On 22/04/14 05:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > FYI: You're > > forced into having a gmail account with an Android phone. > > I think I have a gmail account somewhere. I've never associated it > with my Android phone though. > > That means of course that

Re: Mysql database dump quit working

2014-04-23 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:33:34AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have a mediawiki site running on Mysql db; I just started getting this > message on my automated backup; > > mysqldump: Got error: 144: Table './mywiki/searchindex' is marked as > crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed when usin

Mysql database dump quit working

2014-04-23 Thread John Foster
I have a mediawiki site running on Mysql db; I just started getting this message on my automated backup; mysqldump: Got error: 144: Table './mywiki/searchindex' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed when using LOCK TABLES Any ideas? Thanks John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-23 03:00, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 22 apr 14, 23:49:42, Ken Heard wrote: >> >> Is there a way to replace python and python-minimal version >> 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 without >> destroying anything else? > > T

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 April 2014 15:59:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 15:45:13 Ken Heard wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 2014-04-23 05:08, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 23:49:42 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > > >> I just acquired a HP Laser

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 April 2014 15:45:13 Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2014-04-23 05:08, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 23:49:42 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > >> I just acquired a HP LaserJet Pro 400 multi-function printer > >> model M475dw. I am now tryi

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-23 05:08, Brian wrote: > On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 23:49:42 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > >> I just acquired a HP LaserJet Pro 400 multi-function printer >> model M475dw. I am now trying to set it up in my Debian Squeeze >> 6.0.9 box by using co

Re: Bug #693630: Dconf unknown method 'Change'

2014-04-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.04.2014 15:33, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : The idea of make a configuration file a binary file is the most serious bug of dconf. It's bad by design and when ever possible, we should avoid using software that needs dconf. As user use an editor that is dependent to dconf, to edit a file with roo

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 14:08 +, mailer-dae...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address. > > : > Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 : Recipient address > rejected: Mail appeared to be SPAM or forged. Ask your Mail/DNS-Administrator > to correct HELO and

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/04/14 23:40, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 14:24:25 Henning Follmann wrote: >> This is also why I do not like gmail, >> yahoo, fb so much. But everybody has to make his/her own decisions. > > Yes, but you have been very rude about those who make a decision which is > differ

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Corey Blair
I downloaded debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and then used unetbootin to make a bootable USB flash drive from it. I changed UEFI boot to legacy mode and booted off the UEFI USB. The installer runs fine, but I have trouble loading the components from "cd-rom", so I execute a shell and mount /dev/

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Corey, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 07:11:45AM -0700, Corey Blair wrote: >I downloaded debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and then used unetbootin to >make a bootable USB flash drive from it. I changed UEFI boot to >legacy mode and booted off the UEFI USB. The installer runs fine, >but I have trouble lo

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 09:24 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > Pointless and wrong too. The fact that the ads don't make it to your screen > doesn't mean you are not targeted. > > See the point I am trying to make here: our "free" culture has a very high > social price. The fact that you do not pay

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 02:40:40PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 14:24:25 Henning Follmann wrote: > > This is also why I do not like gmail, > > yahoo, fb so much. But everybody has to make his/her own decisions. > > Yes, but you have been very rude about those who make a de

Re: grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:54:22PM +0600, Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: >Hi, >I dual-booted Debian with Windows 8. Windows 8 is shown as Windows Vista >in grub menu. When I select that Windows Vista and press the Enter key, an >error message occurs saying: > >error: no argument spec

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> Corey wrote: > I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB > image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use > strictly Debian. If you don't mind me asking: what is the brand and model of your new laptop? Before wiping your hard d

Re: grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
What are the specifications of your hardware? - CPU (brand and model) - chipset (brand and model) - RAM (brand, model and capacity) - hard disk drive (brand, model and capacity) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Bug #693630: Dconf unknown method 'Change'

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The idea of make a configuration file a binary file is the most serious bug of dconf. It's bad by design and when ever possible, we should avoid using software that needs dconf. As user use an editor that is dependent to dconf, to edit a file with root privileges and than try to use a MUA that's de

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> There is nothing for you to do; you have achieved your objective and updated > your sources.list. The bug appears to be fixed in Jessie. OMG, far from it, I have yet to achieve my objective, which is to install essential packages such as xorg, gnome-core or gnome-full off the USB flash/thumb

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 April 2014 14:24:25 Henning Follmann wrote: > This is also why I do not like gmail, > yahoo, fb so much. But everybody has to make his/her own decisions. Yes, but you have been very rude about those who make a decision which is different from yours. Those who disagree with you ar

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:56:28PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 13:22:25 Henning Follmann wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Patrick

Re: Bug #693630: Dconf unknown method 'Change'

2014-04-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.04.2014 09:00, James Collier a écrit : Hello everyone, first time posting here. Yay! I've been having trouble with this dconf bug for some time now. And no solution on google seems to help. To get this error all I need to do is try to change a setting. e.g. open terminal: $ gnome-calcula

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/04/14 22:56, Lisi Reisz wrote:> On Wednesday 23 April 2014 13:22:25 Henning Follmann wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Henning Follmann wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tu

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 April 2014 13:56:28 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I don't get any ads. I sometimes do. Sorry. Just not always. But I never see them. I have to make a special effort to do so, and I don't make the effort. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 April 2014 13:22:25 Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Henning Follmann wrote: >

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Ty. On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:34:29 -0700, ty wrote: > Perhaps this will work? > #!/bin/bash > echo 1 #Non Logged Commands > echo 2 > echo 3 > echo 4 > ( > set -x > echo 5 #Logged Commands > echo 6 > echo 7 > echo 8 > ) 2>> log > echo 9 #Non Logged Commands > echo 10 > > Output of termina

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:25:18AM -0700, Patrick B

grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Muntasim Ul Haque
Hi, I dual-booted Debian with Windows 8. Windows 8 is shown as /Windows Vista/ in grub menu. When I select that Windows Vista and press the Enter key, an error message occurs saying: * error: no argument specified** **press any key to continue...* When I press Enter then it boots into Windows

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:11:44PM -0700, Roger Klorese wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Henning Follmann > > wrote: > > E. Wrong. > > You pay with being spied on for marketing purposes. > > > > - > > And to some of us that is an unacceptable cost, and to others, an acceptable >

Re: Sudo Autoremove wanting to kill my system?

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 16:29 -0500, c. marlow wrote: > I guess I am going to have to re install tonight.. :( > bummer You should make backups in the future, so you could restore a broken install from a backup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Debian Noob and MSCORE fonts

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 03:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:43:59PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:39:11 -0500 > > "c. marlow" wrote: > > > > Hello c., > > > > >Ok I removed the ones that said SOURCE CODE > > > > They're handy to have. It wasn't

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:18:49 +0100 Nuno Magalhães wrote: Hello Nuno, >I guess misinformed agreement is the user's problem,not Google's, but Indeed it is. If you're offered the opportunity to read the T&Cs, it's up to the user to do so. If the user blindly accepts the T&Cs, they can't go cryin

Re: Compromised ext4 filesystem after mdadm manipulation error

2014-04-23 Thread L. M. J
On 23 avril 2014 12:12:17 CEST, Ron Leach wrote: >On 22/04/2014 20:50, L.M.J wrote: >> >> I would like to know if there is a last chance to recover ma data ? >> >> > >The people that will know are on the linux-raid list, here: > >http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid > >I haven't seen

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Corey wrote: > >I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a >USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe >and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing >GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something t

Re: Compromised ext4 filesystem after mdadm manipulation error

2014-04-23 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/04/2014 20:50, L.M.J wrote: I would like to know if there is a last chance to recover ma data ? The people that will know are on the linux-raid list, here: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid I haven't seen a reply to your message so, if you still have the problem, (i)

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Roger Klorese wrote: > If I agree to let you watch me 24/7, you 're not spying. People just click agree without reading - otherwise they have no access to the service, so i'm not sure if the argument applies. I guess misinformed agreement is the user's problem,no

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 23:49:42 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > I just acquired a HP LaserJet Pro 400 multi-function printer model > M475dw. I am now trying to set it up in my Debian Squeeze 6.0.9 box by > using command "hplip-3.14.4.run" provided by > http://hplipopensource.com. One of the packages req

Re: Why pack open movie editor is not in the repositories?

2014-04-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Apr 2014 at 14:47:44 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 23/04/14 12:42, Marco Flores wrote: > > > > > <<< > > > > 1. Why pack open movie editor is not in the repositories? I consider > > it an indispensable program and best video editor. > > "Pack Open Movie Editor"? > Nev

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Apr 2014 at 01:30:07 -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > I took up on your suggestions and below is the feedback: > > After typing the command 'sudo apt-cdrom -d /media/usb0 ident' the response > was: > > Using CD-ROM mount point /media/usb0/ > Mounting CD-ROM > Identifying{a lon

Re: Securing apache

2014-04-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Sven Hartge: > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Makes sense. I hope they find a nice upgrade path for all involved >> packages. The transition to Apache 2.4 is probably going to be painful >> for years to come. > > Right now packages with DDs who care about easy backporting carry code > like this in t

Re: Securing apache

2014-04-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Sven Hartge: >> Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> I didn't check, but I would be surprised if it was possible to only >>> install Apache 2.4 from testing without upgrading half of your >>> system. What you need is a backport -- Apache 2.4 compiled against >>> the library version

Re: Sudo Autoremove wanting to kill my system?

2014-04-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 22 April 2014 23:56:00 Tom Furie wrote: > If there is a package on my systems which I know nobody uses it gets > removed, simply because it doesn't need to be there. But then, I come > from an age when every byte mattered and think if people were as frugal > now as they were then our mod

Re: Securing apache

2014-04-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Sven Hartge: > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> I didn't check, but I would be surprised if it was possible to only >> install Apache 2.4 from testing without upgrading half of your system. >> What you need is a backport -- Apache 2.4 compiled against the library >> versions available in wheezy. Curren

Bug #693630: Dconf unknown method 'Change'

2014-04-23 Thread James Collier
Hello everyone, first time posting here. Yay! I've been having trouble with this dconf bug for some time now. And no solution on google seems to help. To get this error all I need to do is try to change a setting. e.g. open terminal: $ gnome-calculator Open preferences, change e.g. word size from 6

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

2014-04-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 22 apr 14, 23:49:42, Ken Heard wrote: > > Is there a way to replace python and python-minimal version > 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 without destroying > anything else? This situation probably qualifies for using dpkg directly. Beware, what I'm suggesting below is danger