Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

On Sun, 04 May 2014 21:18:14 -0400 "Theodore Alcapotaxis" wrote: > > Safe from what? from whom? > > It's not safe from spying eyes. If you run a tool like bleachbit, you may think that you have deleted all your history, but at first sight the version shipped by Debian doesn't delete the Zeitg

Problems with mdraid on initrd

Dear list, I recently upgraded to Wheezy a system that has its root filesystem on top of LVM and mdraid, and it gained a problem in booting, in that the initrd calls mdadm to scan for the mdraid devices before the kernel is done with detecting the physical drives on the machine. As such, mdadm

Contribute a Graphic for Tweakengine: Debian's Configuration Portal

G'day Debian Community! The Tweakengine team is wondering if a member of the Debian community might be interested in helping us with a logo or similar branding graphic for the project. *Project In Brief* This project is a new one to develop a moderated community messageboard service that plugs

Fuse module won't install in stable (Wheezy)

I was just trying to load the fuse module to run sshfs, but the module wouldn't load. The 'modprobe fuse' command gives the error: ERROR: could not insert 'fuse': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter The log files show the message: fuse: Unknown symbol nosteal_pipe_buf_ops (e

SOLVED: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

summary: 1. Repo=debian-testing was the fix. 2. Where to put bug on package=icedtea-netx ? 3. Pointers to recommended docs on setting up a VM for running a VPN are appreciated. details: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00294.html [Sven Joachim Sun, 04 May 2014 22:21:45 +0200] >

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

> Is this thing safe? How does uninstalling it break functionality? > > P.S. This package is also recommended by software-center. Safe from what? from whom? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

How to remove Google from the "Start screen"?

First of all, sorry for using the term "Start screen" :P But when you do a search for applications in a GNOME 3 desktop, two buttons appear below the screen: "Wikipedia" and "Google". Apparently, clicking on either of them will open the browser with a Wikipedia or Google search using your sea

Is zeitgeist safe?

From the package description of zeitgeist or zeitgeist-core: "Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user's activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, et.c ) and makes the relevant information available to other applications." "It serves as a c

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:50:58AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Although, if we wanted to get really crazy, we could say this is a bug in > the spec of ld. But if we go there, we have to acknowledge that the spec of > ld matches the general C/*nix run-time spec, so the bug is in ... (chasing > our se

Re: hdparm -t yields incorrect timings when Intel hyperthreading is enabled

On Sun, 04 May 2014, Paul Ausbeck wrote: > when I build a new system. Recently I built a system based upon the > Intel Atom dn2800mt motherboard. When I went to vet disk bandwidth, Please, can you give us the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" ? > I obtained unexpectedly slow readings from hdparm. I f

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:44:30AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > > Well, okay, we need to start somewhere, and, while we suspect ld, we > don't > > really know for sure. And we suspect that the actual fix may not end up > > being in ld. > > > > So,

Faster instantiation of xfce4-appfinder

Hi all, This happened on Ubuntu 14.04, so I don't know how applicable it is to Debian, but in case you encounter it, try to remember this... For years I've used xfce4-appfinder, hotkeyed to Ctrl+Shift+; to run many of my apps. Easy, quick, requires little (human) memory, reduces keystrokes. But

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:44:30AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Well, okay, we need to start somewhere, and, while we suspect ld, we don't > really know for sure. And we suspect that the actual fix may not end up > being in ld. > > So, what is the name of the package that is trying to load libc6:i38

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > [...] > > > >> So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is > there any way to get the installer's partitio

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > >> On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:03:17PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> > But installing libc6:i386 and a few others allows firefox to work: >> >> Meaning installing the :i386 versions of the librarie

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Rick Thomas [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: > > [...] >> root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda >> /dev/sda >>#type name length base >> ( size ) system >> /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 04 mai 14, 10:17:51, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > A bit of investigation found that libudev0 is also not available in > > unstable. I figured this would be fixed quickly and was part of the > natural > > growing pains of the Testing distr

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Tom Roche wrote: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00291.html [Tom Roche > Sun, 04 May 2014 16:04:30 -0400] > >> me@it ~ $ inxi -r > >> Repos: Active apt sources in file: > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list > >>deb http://dl.googl

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:10:02PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium-browser.html a new > version of chromium depending on libudev1 got uploaded on 2014-05-03. I've installed it (once I fixed up apt-pinning, which I hadn't bothered to do before

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

On Sun, 04 May 2014 17:10:28 -0400 Tom Roche wrote: > ... is that correct? If so, which repo to add? My guess is > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > > No? > > TIA, Tom Roche > > At this point, you should install the non-standard browser in a virtual machi

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

On Sun, 04 May 2014 17:10:28 -0400 Tom Roche wrote: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00291.html [Tom Roche > Sun, 04 May 2014 16:04:30 -0400] > >> me@it ~ $ inxi -r > >> Repos: Active apt sources in > >> file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list deb > >> http://dl.googl

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:03:17PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > But installing libc6:i386 and a few others allows firefox to work: > > Meaning installing the :i386 versions of the libraries was (part of) the > solution, not the problem. Any bug repo

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00291.html [Tom Roche Sun, 04 May 2014 16:04:30 -0400] >> me@it ~ $ inxi -r >> Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list >>deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main >>Active apt source

Re: Bash printf oddity; octal?

On 05/04/2014 03:57 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:54 PM, ~Stack~ > wrote: > > That makes sense. But why does it only fail on 08 and 09? Shouldn't it > also fail on 01-06? > > Isn't that obvious? Unless in your world, octal 6 is different th

Re: Bash printf oddity; octal?

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:54 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > That makes sense. But why does it only fail on 08 and 09? Shouldn't it > also fail on 01-06? > Isn't that obvious? Unless in your world, octal 6 is different than decimal 6 :-) -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because

Re: Bash printf oddity; octal?

On 05/04/2014 03:42 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: [snip] > > verifiednum=`printf %02d $uservar` > > This works really well when they enter only a single digit or 01-07. > However, on 08 or 09, this fails. > [snip] > 1) Does anyone know wha

Re: Security updates are untrusted

Carl Johnson writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > >>> On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 14:58:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >>> I was just noticing that aptitude warns that a number of packages are listed as untrusted. I checked using 'apt-cache policy' and those >>> >> >> I just now told aptitude to

Re: Bash printf oddity; octal?

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > Greetings, > > I know this isn't explicitly a Debian problem, but I have seen many > really smart Bash programmers on this list so I figured this was a good > place to ask. :-) > > $ bash --version > GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-l

Bash printf oddity; octal?

Greetings, I know this isn't explicitly a Debian problem, but I have seen many really smart Bash programmers on this list so I figured this was a good place to ask. :-) $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu $ cat /etc/debian_version 7.5 I have a Bash script I

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

* Rick Thomas [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] > root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda > /dev/sda > #type name length base > ( size ) system > /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > ( 31.5k) Partition m

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

On 2014-05-04 22:04 +0200, Tom Roche wrote: > summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on > libgif4:i386, but > > - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64 It seems you are running some derivative which ships an older version of libgif4 than the one in jessie/si

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 04:04:30PM -0400, Tom Roche wrote: > summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on > libgif4:i386, but > > - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64 > - important apps depend on libgif4:amd64 Is this the same box that you were having the f

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:03:17PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > But installing libc6:i386 and a few others allows firefox to work: Meaning installing the :i386 versions of the libraries was (part of) the solution, not the problem. Any bug report would have to go against a part of the system that was par

[multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on libgif4:i386, but - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64 - important apps depend on libgif4:amd64 details: As detailed @ http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=164522 I am forced to run a 32-bit java p

Re: Dualboot: Strange behavior

On 04/05/14 17:07, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hi, > > I successfully installed Windows 7 and Wheezy on my DELL laptop E6530. > > As I do not use WIN7 very often and really don't look at the GRUB menu > when starting my machine as Wheezy is supposed to start automatically, > I discovered only two days

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

On Sun, 4 May 2014 11:41:12 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: > I learn something every day. I always thought the office suite and > browser were part of the base OS. > > Thanks for the enlightenment. :-) Well, that's certainly a goal Bill Gates is working to bring us closer to, but we Linux peopl

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 03:10:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Robert Holtzman writes: > > Those packages should be part of an OS install, not a DE, or am I > > wrong? > > Why would you want an office suite and a graphical browser on a > server? Damn! I hadn't thought of that. You're right, of co

hdparm -t yields incorrect timings when Intel hyperthreading is enabled

Running Wheezy 7.4, kernel 3.2.0-4-686-pae, also on Debian backports kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: # Hyperthreading enabled in bios Timing buffered disk reads: 36 MB in 3.06 seconds = 11.77 MB/sec # Apparently not correct /dev/sda: # Hyperthreading disa

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 04:34:30AM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:19:50PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > tasks-xfce-desktop is a meta package that includes xfce, and also a set > > > of additional packages that are typically used on a desktop system, > > > like lib

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

Sven Joachim wrote: > Because chromium still has not been built on i386 in unstable, the > latest version failed because the linker ran out of address space. It could work by disabling the build of debug symbols. At least this was hinted at in some bugs in the upstreams Chromium bug tracker. O

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

On Lu, 05 mai 14, 00:32:55, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > If you are much lazier, just > bump apt preferences to make them automatically installed. See: > > $ man apt_preferences This is however not supported and not recommended. https://lists.debian.org/20140427123500.ga2...@formorer.de Kind regards,

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 05:38:03PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Yes, the security upload of chromium that became part of Debian 7.5 had > a newer version than was available in testing, so to fulfill the rule > "packages must not have a higher in stable than in testing" the package > from the point

Dualboot: Strange behavior

Hi, I successfully installed Windows 7 and Wheezy on my DELL laptop E6530. As I do not use WIN7 very often and really don't look at the GRUB menu when starting my machine as Wheezy is supposed to start automatically, I discovered only two days ago, that the WIN7-entry of the GRUB menu has "disap

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:23:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Roche wrote: >>> >>> summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al >>> >> >> Well, you've actually pinned the problem pretty well. Who,

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

On 2014-05-04 16:17 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > So a few weeks ago Chromium came uninstalled and couldn't be reinstalled. > > When I tried to install it I got this: > > > > root@rocket:/data/vids# apt-get install chromium > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading st

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

Hi, On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have added to my sources.list the following line: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main > > But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't > make the backport appear in interac

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

On 05/04/2014 05:17 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > So a few weeks ago Chromium came uninstalled and couldn't be reinstalled. > > When I tried to install it I got this: > > > > root@rocket:/data/vids# apt-get install chromium > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading st

Re: sudo in X-environment -- polkit solution

Hi, I am wondering why you even need to use wrapper explicitly? On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:43:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 06:29 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > Thanks. As I said earlier, I consider this a bug. What's the point of > > using gksu/gksudo if you have do use a wrap

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

On Du, 04 mai 14, 10:17:51, Carl Fink wrote: > > A bit of investigation found that libudev0 is also not available in > unstable. I figured this would be fixed quickly and was part of the natural > growing pains of the Testing distro ... but it has been a while and hasn't > changed. According to h

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > [...] > >> So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there >> any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new guidelines for >> "Advanced Format" and

Chromium not installable on Testing

So a few weeks ago Chromium came uninstalled and couldn't be reinstalled. When I tried to install it I got this: root@rocket:/data/vids# apt-get install chromium Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed.

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

On Sb, 03 mai 14, 23:28:22, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have added to my sources.list the following line: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main > > But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't > make the backport appear in interactive aptitude, or b

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

On Du, 04 mai 14, 04:01:25, Tom H wrote: > > I've never used this search term but aptitude has a search for new > packages. I assume that a package is somehow marked as new after > "apt-get update" or "aptitude update". New means packages not previously existing in *any* repository, so in the co

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

On Sb, 03 mai 14, 22:17:22, Slavko wrote: > > Why there is not a option to allow to add nonfree repo in installer and > thus allow to load necessary drivers in early stage of the installation? > Perhaps only in expert mode... Yes, this can expect some manual reading > to find this solution (if ti

Re: need a flac utility

On 04/05/14 12:18 AM, Артур Истомин wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 01:18:38PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 03/05/14 11:51 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Frank McCormick: I need a utility to allow me to breakup a FLAC sound file. It's apparently a collection of flac files merged together. I als

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

On Sunday 04 May 2014 07:10:13 Bret Busby wrote: > I did not know that a package could be downloaded and installed and run > within a LIVE session, without Internet access You can't download something without Internet access, be it for a Live session or for installation on an HDD. But you can ce

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:23:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Roche wrote: > > > > > summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al > > > > Well, you've actually pinned the problem pretty well. Who, or, rather, > which tool should be responsible for

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Roche wrote: > > summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al > Well, my understanding is that it's likely a temporary solution. And not a recommended one. (Think carefully about the about the recent fuss about the openssl vulnerability.) You ne

Re: Upgrade debacle........

On 2014-05-03, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Yeah, OK, I retract the last two paragraphs. > Retraction is against list rules; you may, however, attempt to amend what you have posted previously, or simply beg forgiveness. -- The ultimate tendency of the technical discussion is a technicality (or, t

No, Virginia, there is no such think as a dangling hard link (Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???)

Well, at least, if you have a dangling hard link, the file system itself is broken. And it would not be the normal kind of breakage, at all. rm will not actually de-allocate a file until all hard links have been rm-ed, in file systems where multiple hard links are allowed. That is, when you first

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > [...] > > So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is > there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new > guidelines for "Advanced Format" and SSD/flash disks? > Have you tried not using a Macinto

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> With more and more disks being manufactured with "Advanced format" >> (4096-byte physical-sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell the >> Debian-installer partitioner to align all partitions

Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

You need to install 32 compat libs to run 32 binaries. Eero 3.5.2014 5.26 kirjoitti "Tom Roche" : > > For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see > http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=166506&p=855700#p855700 > > But the essence of the problem appears to

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have added to my sources.list the following line: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main > > But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't > make the backport appear in interactive aptitude,

Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

Ralf Mardorf wrote, on 05/04/2014 01:55: > On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 01:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 01:05 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > $ touch x > $ ln -s x firefox-bin >> >> JFTR >> >> I guess your intention was >> >> ln -s firefox-bin x >> >> ;). > > Mumpitz (

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

On Sat, 3 May 2014 23:28:22 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: Is there also a simple list of backported debs that I can browse > on the web to know what is available, or a wiki pointer? I'd rather > not subscribe to another list and monitor it regularly just for the > very rare occation when I actually