Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > email, for the latter, due to the power of PINE), and both show no > presence of a Reply-To value having been set. This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again here. If you do really w

need to roll back nvidia driver

2014-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
I'm having a bunch of java problems and it seems many are rolling their nVidia driver back to 327.23. I currently have 331.67 installed. Since I refuse to use anything other than debian packages, and I am running Jessie, I would like to do this without blowing everything up. Thanks for any ass

Re: Resume from Suspend does not work anymore

2014-06-19 Thread Rainer Dorsch
On Wednesday 18 June 2014 23:36:33 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > since last weekend I have an issue on my jessie system with resume from > suspend. The system seems to hang during resume: the screen does not get a > signal, caps lock does not react, the SSH server does not come up, I see no >

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > What practical alternative suggestion do you have in response? > > First, try to understand why fsck has failed; is it > "just a small error"?, may be due to a power failure, > or is it a big failure? may be due to the HD falling > apart. > What exactly failed,

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Richard wrote: > In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of > xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really something else. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Maximum Number of Usable Chars in Password

2014-06-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:13:51 -0400 Kenneth Jacker wrote: > But how long can they effectively be? I.e., if I enter 100 chars into > the 'passwd' command, how many are actually used? It depends on password hasing algorithm used by passwd. For example, [1] declares that there's an artificia

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-06-19 20:56 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:21:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > >> > >> > Does anyone know where the manpages for sy

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-19 20:56 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:21:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> >> > Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. >> >> In the usual places, "dpkg -L systemd | grep /usr/share/ma

Re: Disturbing ICEWEASEL behavior

2014-06-19 Thread Kruppt
On 2014-06-19, Jeff Bauer wrote: > I'm using Iceweasel 24.6.0 with Wheezy: both religiously updated. The > disturbing behavior is my preferred "top of the browser" toolbar is > getting mysteriously, and without an apparent pattern, changed. > > Preferred: http://alienjeff.net/browser1.png > > Ch

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:21:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. > > In the usual places, "dpkg -L systemd | grep /usr/share/man". > > > e.g. there is no vconsole.conf man(5) > > That'

Re: Maximum Number of Usable Chars in Password

2014-06-19 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:13:51 -0400 Kenneth Jacker wrote: > But how long can they effectively be? I.e., if I enter 100 chars > into the 'passwd' command, how many are actually used? > > All 100? ... I kind of doubt it ... > > I want to use the longest password possible in "wheezy", but don't >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-19 Thread Floris
Op Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:18:34 +0200 schreef : Le 11.06.2014 14:42, Floris a écrit : If someone have any tips, tricks or commands on the shell script. I love to hear them. if [ "$(dpkg --print-architecture)" = "amd64" -a "$(dpkg --print-foreign-architectures)" != "i386" ]; then This synta

Maximum Number of Usable Chars in Password

2014-06-19 Thread Kenneth Jacker
I searched (web and source code), but didn't find ... :( Short passwords are not good. Long passwords are better. But how long can they effectively be? I.e., if I enter 100 chars into the 'passwd' command, how many are actually used? All 100? ... I kind of doubt it ... I want to use the long

Re: Confict [debian installer] vs [installer documentation] ?

2014-06-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > >No. That's for all bugs. > > In that case I have no idea what "Add 'smtphost reportbug.debian.org' to > ~/.reportbugrc for direct access." means. reportbug.debian.org is a special alias for whatever host is currently accepting B

Simple system-wide autoconfiguration for GNOME 3

2014-06-19 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hi, I can somewhat influence GNOME 3 (wheezy) to my taste, with the following commands, to be run under X11/GNOME and valid for the logged user only: gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop volumes-visible true gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true gsettings

Re: Disturbing ICEWEASEL behavior

2014-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 19 June 2014 13:38:17 Jeff Bauer wrote: > I'm using Iceweasel 24.6.0 with Wheezy: both religiously updated. The > disturbing behavior is my preferred "top of the browser" toolbar is > getting mysteriously, and without an apparent pattern, changed. > > Preferred: http://alienjeff.net/bro

Re: [SOLVED] Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > This syntax "$(command)" is not portable. It is a POSIX shell construct. Anything that doesn't implement it should not be linked to /bin/sh in the first place. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html sec

Re: [SOLVED] Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-19 Thread Martin Read
On 19/06/14 14:18, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: This syntax "$(command)" is not portable. The $() syntax for command substitution is *not* a bashism. It's been a POSIX Shell Command Language construct for at least a decade. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu

Re: Disturbing ICEWEASEL behavior

2014-06-19 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 06/19/2014 02:38 PM, Jeff Bauer wrote: > I'm using Iceweasel 24.6.0 with Wheezy: both religiously updated. The > disturbing behavior is my preferred "top of the browser" toolbar is > getting mysteriously, and without an apparent pattern, changed. > > Preferred: http://alienjeff.net/browser1.p

Re: [SOLVED] Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.06.2014 14:42, Floris a écrit : If someone have any tips, tricks or commands on the shell script. I love to hear them. if [ "$(dpkg --print-architecture)" = "amd64" -a "$(dpkg --print-foreign-architectures)" != "i386" ]; then This syntax "$(command)" is not portable. If you want to w

Re: Disturbing ICEWEASEL behavior

2014-06-19 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 06/19/2014 08:38 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: I'm using Iceweasel 24.6.0 with Wheezy... I forgot to mention installed addons, which are: Flash and Video Download 1.57 Flashblock 1.5.17 Ghostery 5.3.1 Shortly URL Shortner 1.04 Simple Adblock 1.0.8 Again, TIA, Jeff -- hangout: ##b0rked on irc.fr

Disturbing ICEWEASEL behavior

2014-06-19 Thread Jeff Bauer
I'm using Iceweasel 24.6.0 with Wheezy: both religiously updated. The disturbing behavior is my preferred "top of the browser" toolbar is getting mysteriously, and without an apparent pattern, changed. Preferred: http://alienjeff.net/browser1.png Changed: http://alienjeff.net/browser2.png Any

Re: Confict [debian installer] vs [installer documentation] ?

2014-06-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: Although the problem exists in BOTH Squeeze and Wheezy but cannot be classed as a security issue won't it just be tagged "won't fix" and then ignored. If the bug has already been fixed in the development version of the installer,

Re: downgrading a virtualbox guest

2014-06-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.06.2014 20:54, Linux-Fan a écrit : On 06/16/2014 03:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hello. I made some virtual computers with my desktop computer, which runs a ( mostly ) Debian testing. Now, I have noticed that even with virtualbox's backports, the computer on which I wan