Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 07:02:42PM +0200, François Patte wrote: > Le 04/07/2014 16:12, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > I had no trouble installing the backported kernel, but I > > specifically instructed aptitude to use wheezy-backports > > repository. <-t wheezy-backports install> > > OK thank this wor

Re: sudo path

2014-07-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 11:43:05PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:42:31AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > I still don't understand why sudo works on two systems (both upgraded > > from squeeze) but not on the third (bare metal wheezy installation), but > > there you

Re: The case of the read-only USB sticks.

2014-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:18:11 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:38:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Sb, 22 feb 14, 14:33:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> I have a problem with my USB sticks mysteriously becoming read-only. >> >> You didn't provide any information about make, m

Re: wifi & bluetooth deactivation problem

2014-07-04 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:23:40 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: > Check if the LEDs in question are accessible > through /sys/class/leds Unfortunately not (dir is empty:( -- "One size fits all": Doesn't fit anyone. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: wifi & bluetooth deactivation problem

2014-07-04 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/4/2014 2:16 PM, B wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 22:36:43 +0200 B wrote: Ze ozer problem iz: I'd like to independently turn on/off wifi& bt. I answer myself: rfkill block wifi||bluetooth but LEDs stays on, which isn't very useful :(( Check if the LEDs in question are accessible thro

Re: raid/mdadm help -- Part duex {working}

2014-07-04 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 06:19:19 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > > > > reboot and see if everything works fine... Been up and running all day, and rebooted to see if it would mount, as suggested. It did Many thanks for the help , and guidance -- Rodney D. Myers They that can give up essential

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 22:58:05 +0100, Brian wrote: > Use the hd-media vmlinuz and initrd with file=/hdmedia/preseed.cfg, The > partition the insatllation ISO is on is automatically mounted. (It has ^^^ On /hd-media. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 17:26:25 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 07/04/2014 05:07 PM, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 16:30:28 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> I expect that (he?) wants to have the process be more-or-less fully > >

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 05:07 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 16:30:28 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 07/04/2014 04:25 PM, Brian wrote: >>> What problem are you trying to solve? >> >> I expect that (he?) wants to have the process be more-or-le

Re: wifi & bluetooth deactivation problem

2014-07-04 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 22:36:43 +0200 B wrote: > Ze ozer problem iz: I'd like to independently turn on/off wifi & > bt. I answer myself: rfkill block wifi||bluetooth but LEDs stays on, which isn't very useful :(( -- Hi arthur Yop So you're going on holiday with my sister? Yes You'll s

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 16:30:28 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/04/2014 04:25 PM, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 15:17:14 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > > > >> In an installation from CD (or, second best: USB stick) with no > >> internet access, how can I make a preseed.cfg file availabl

wifi & bluetooth deactivation problem

2014-07-04 Thread Bzzzz
Hi list, I just finished dist-upgrading my new laptop (msi CX61 2PC-802XF) to sid and now have wifi & bluetooth working. The problem is: the key controlling wifi & bt on/off that formerly worked in stable doesn't work anymore :( Ze ozer problem iz: I'd like to independently turn on/off wifi & bt

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 04:25 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 15:17:14 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > >> In an installation from CD (or, second best: USB stick) with no >> internet access, how can I make a preseed.cfg file available to the >> Debian ins

Re: How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 15:17:14 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > In an installation from CD (or, second best: USB stick) with no internet > access, how can I make a preseed.cfg file available to the Debian installer > as early as possible in the install sequence? > > The preseed.cfg originally lives in

Re: Modifying gtk2 fonts

2014-07-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 21:05:10 +0200, Siard wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > lxappearance does its magic by writing the *correct* stuff to > > ~/.gtkrc-2.0. > > The traditional way to set gtk2 fonts used to be: either from within > Gnome or by running gnome-settings-daemon. > But editing ~/.gtkrc-2

Re: Modifying gtk2 fonts

2014-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 21:05:10 +0200 Siard wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > lxappearance does its magic by writing the *correct* stuff to > > ~/.gtkrc-2.0. > > The traditional way to set gtk2 fonts used to be: either from within > Gnome or by running gnome-settings-daemon. > But editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0

How to make preseed.cfg available in no-internet install?

2014-07-04 Thread Kynn Jones
In an installation from CD (or, second best: USB stick) with no internet access, how can I make a preseed.cfg file available to the Debian installer as early as possible in the install sequence? The preseed.cfg originally lives in a separate USB stick. (I don't want to burn the preseed.cfg into t

Re: Modifying gtk2 fonts

2014-07-04 Thread Siard
Steve Litt wrote: > lxappearance does its magic by writing the *correct* stuff to > ~/.gtkrc-2.0. The traditional way to set gtk2 fonts used to be: either from within Gnome or by running gnome-settings-daemon. But editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0 is indeed the easiest and most hassle-free way when not using G

Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

2014-07-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-04, Rares Aioanei wrote: > >> rm -rf NativeCache AssetCache APSPrivateData2 >> >> ? >> >> Just to be certain that we're speaking about the same thing, >> flash-cache emptying-wise. >> >> > Where are those located? On my machine ~/.adobe/Flash_Player/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-04, François Patte wrote: > > OK thank this worked... I thought that adding backports repository to > the source.list file was enough! This is quite redondant! > The repository is desactivated by default; otherwise, well, I'll leave that as an exercise ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

2014-07-04 Thread Rares Aioanei
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2014 04:57 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2014-07-04, Rares Aioanei wrote: >>> >>> Have you tried emptying the flash cache and/or playing with >>> the flash settings (by right clicking in a flashy window and >>> going from there)? >>> >>> >> Tried t

Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2014-07-04 Thread Doug
On 07/04/2014 11:58 AM, Guillermo Hernandez wrote: hi, you should use de option "n" to create a new partition. Regards, Guillermo The easiest partitioner I know of is gparted. You can download a bootable disk with gparted on it. * Perform actions with partitions such as: o create or d

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 04 July 2014 15:30:10 Linux-Fan wrote: > On 07/04/2014 04:12 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 04 July 2014 14:42:47 Stephen Powell wrote: > >> Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I assume > >> that you are running wheezy. You need to install the initramfs-too

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 04 July 2014 18:02:42 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 04/07/2014 16:12, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > On Friday 04 July 2014 14:42:47 Stephen Powell wrote: > >> Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I > >> assume that you a

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 04/07/2014 16:12, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > On Friday 04 July 2014 14:42:47 Stephen Powell wrote: >> Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I >> assume that you are running wheezy. You need to install the >> initramfs-tools pack

Recent net stats oddity with Wheezy KVM sessions

2014-07-04 Thread Neal Murphy
In the past month or two, I have consistently encountered an odd problem with Wheezy on an AMD 8350 CPU. I never had this problem with my quad Phenom-II. The problem --- When I install recent builds of 32- and 64-bit Smoothwall Express 3.1 in a KVM on 64-bit Wheezy, everything seems to w

Re: Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2014-07-04 Thread Guillermo Hernandez
hi, you should use de option "n" to create a new partition. Regards,Guillermo

Modifying gtk2 fonts

2014-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I use dwm, a window manager that gives you no help with fonts: You need to modify fonts yourself. Thunar and xchat had the tiniest fonts you can imagine. The ldd command revealed both are gtk2, so I followed tens of suggestions listed on the web (many contradictory, few explicit), to cha

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Linux-Fan
On 07/04/2014 04:12 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2014 14:42:47 Stephen Powell wrote: >> Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I assume >> that you are running wheezy. You need to install the initramfs-tools >> package from wheezy-backports too, version 0.115~bp

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 04 July 2014 14:42:47 Stephen Powell wrote: > Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I assume > that you are running wheezy.  You need to install the initramfs-tools > package from wheezy-backports too, version 0.115~bpo70+1, I think. I had no trouble installing th

Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

2014-07-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-04, Rares Aioanei wrote: >> >> Have you tried emptying the flash cache and/or playing with the >> flash settings (by right clicking in a flashy window and going from >> there)? >> >> > Tried that too, to no avail. Since this happens on so many browsers, I > can only think, however ou

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:25:51 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: > > I don't understand the following: > > # apt-get install linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 > linux-headers-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some p

unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I don't understand the following: # apt-get install linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 linux-headers-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installe

Re: tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html (Flash) just shows a black screen. Other Flash sites work.

2014-07-04 Thread Rares Aioanei
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/2014 04:13 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2014-07-02, Rares Aioanei wrote: >> >>> >> The CPU is a Core2Duo, so I do have SSE2. I have the latest >> version of Flash. >>> > > http://www.tvrplus.ro/tvr-1.html works for me (the flash conent, > that is

Re: sudo path

2014-07-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:42:31AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I still don't understand why sudo works on two systems (both upgraded > from squeeze) but not on the third (bare metal wheezy installation), but > there you go. I've now applied the fix to all three, so the problem's > gone away :

Re: raid/mdadm help -- Part duex

2014-07-04 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:22:02 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 23/06/2014 17:22, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, > > > So what HTH you says is the good way: create one partition

Re: sudo path

2014-07-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/07/14 09:42, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I still don't understand why sudo works on two systems (both upgraded > from squeeze) but not on the third (bare metal wheezy installation), Hum, that's not the entire truth. I rsync'd most of /etc after installation. -- Tony van der Hoff| ma

Re: New 64-bit install

2014-07-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 03 July 2014 20:32:23 David's IMAP wrote: > Due to disk failure, have started with new 64-bit wheeze 7.5 install. > > Apt/apt-listbugs broken. How to get out of this, i.e. get rid of listbugs > meanwhile? I had a problem with apt-listbugs when I installed a fresh Amd64 system on a lapt

Re: sudo path

2014-07-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/07/14 23:01, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Klaus wrote: >>> Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone please tell me where $PATH is set for sudo with wheezy? It seems that my sudoer has no access to /sbin on one of my machines, but does on others, with a seemin

Re: New 64-bit Installation, comments

2014-07-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-04, David's IMAP wrote: > > 3. As previously stated, apt is broken because of apt-listbugs which is > apparently broken because of (Ruby) gettext? Some way to get around > this meanwhile? -- Apper (KDE replacemtn of kpackage, I suppose), does > not hit apt-listbugs. Was functional b

New 64-bit Installation, comments

2014-07-04 Thread David's IMAP
Actually was quite painless, rapid, certainly OK! However: 1. Opted for use whole (new) disk, separate partitions (LVM would have made logical partitions on one big physical partition). I could not figure out how to modify them so have most of 1T disk as /home. No room for /opt, /usr/local and