Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2014 #1074

2014-08-13 Thread Jason
unsubscribe > On Aug 13, 2014, at 10:21 PM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > wrote: > > Content-Type: text/plain > > debian-user-digest DigestVolume 2014 : Issue 1074 > > Today's Topics: > Re: par2 [ Joel Rees ] > Re: calendar worl

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140813_1033+0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:15:22AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On 8/13/14, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I interpret the quoted string in the Subject: header as being flawed > > > use of English language. 'stop' should be 'stopped'. And, there is a >

Re: How to mount a LUKS partition from within GNOME?

2014-08-13 Thread Joerg Desch
Does nobody have a solution for this? Am Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:21:51 + schrieb Joerg Desch: > My configuration entries are: > > # /etc/crypttab private_luks /dev/sdb7 none luks,noauto > > # /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/private_luks /media/privates ext4 > user,nofail,noauto,noatime\ > 1 2 GNOME

Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc

2014-08-13 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am not sure whether support queries specific to Debian 6 LTS, should be posted to this list, or to the LTS list - on the web page at https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Contact#debian-lts is " Mailing lists debian-lts https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/ (gmane) Description: Discussion and co

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-13 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 3:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 11 aug 14, 07:57:05, Rusi Mody wrote: > > If I start from grub using init=/bin/systemd it boots but networking > > does not work. > > > Please attach the file 'bootlog' after running: > > journalctl -alb > bootlo

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/13/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 09:10:19PM +0200, Slavko wrote: >> Ahoj, >> >> Dňa Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:01:05 +1200 Chris Bannister >> napísal: >> >> > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: >> > > >> > > Our priorities are our users and free software

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/14, Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian writes: > >> On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running >>> exim4-heavy. >> >> Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. >> >>> But still the configuration files loo

Re: default layout for web server (jessie)

2014-08-13 Thread John Bleichert
On 08/13/2014 08:54 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone point to a URL or etc that would show what a default layout might look like. Back when.. /var/www/localhost/htdocs was DocumentRoot and the default cgi-bin directory was: /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin. Apparently `DocumentRoot' is now: /var/

kernel upgrade in squeeze; was Re: TP-link TL-WN722N with Squeeze

2014-08-13 Thread peter
* From: Andrei POPESCU * Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:32:32 +0300 > ... complete output from running apt-get ... root@armada:/home/peter# apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686-pae Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages

default layout for web server (jessie)

2014-08-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Last time I fiddled with setting up a web server was some 4-5 yrs ago. Things appear to have changed a bit. Can anyone point to a URL or etc that would show what a default layout might look like. Back when.. /var/www/localhost/htdocs was DocumentRoot and the default cgi-bin directory was: /var

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:19:09AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Chris Bannister >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:09:24PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> Well, yeah, but ask any marriage counselor what

Re: calendar world cup (portuguese) and others

2014-08-13 Thread Beco
Darac: > > /usr/share/calendar appears to be owned by the "bsdmainutils" package. I > > would suggest filing a wishlist bug against that package with your file > > attached. > > Thanks, Darac! I'll do that. Cheers, Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "I know you think you understand what you thou

Re: par2

2014-08-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:20 AM, AW wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:08:41 -0400 > Gary Dale wrote: > > > Whatever for? There are better checksums and md5 doesn't provide error > > correction? Even the MD5 man page advises using sha checksums instead. > > md5sum provides a relatively quick check

Education for Shot Peening, Flap Peening, Residual Stress Measurement, etc.

2014-08-13 Thread MFN Workshops
Dear Ladies and Gentleman You are probably aware that MFN organises plenty of workshops about Peening, Residual Stress Measurement, etc. around the globe. The following events take place in the coming months: Europe Topic Date Language Bochum, Germany Residual Stress Measurement S

Re: par2

2014-08-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 4:56 AM, AW wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:24:49 -0400 > Gary Dale wrote: > > > Assuming you have both a backup copy and a live copy plus some par2 > > files, you should be safe with the 5% to 10% I suggested. > > If going with an external backup and pars... I'd also ad

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-13 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:50:37 -0400 "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: > Reply To: bobhilli...@gmail.com > > I use a second, larger monitor (my eyes are vary bad). > > [...] > > Any assistance in getting Debian to display on the second > monitor will be greatly appreciated. As other have pointed out

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> My very old, failing Dell Inspiron would connect to the second monitor > by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F8, and would remember that setting across > reboots. It appeared to be a function of the hardware, mot the > software.. Actually it was probably done in the BIOS rather than in the hardware, but yes,

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> One last step may be necessary : update the UUIDs in /etc/fstab and > /boot/grub/grub.cfg, as you created new volumes with new UUIDs instead > of cloning them. Or alternatively, change the UUIDs on the new disk with > tune2fs, mkswap... to match the ones on the old disk. Otherwise you'll > be stu

Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

2014-08-13 Thread Floris
succes, Indeed, those 3 steps and we are running a 2-seater again! With Sid, LXDE and no DM but startx -- -seat seat1, etc. Thanks to Floris and systemd! Seat1 does not fare well from a hibernate/resume cycle, had to reboot this morning to get it going again... Hugo I haven't te

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 13 August 2014 11:03:58 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> Moreover, Churhcill defected from the Liberal party to the Conservative >> party, and then back again. > > T'other way round. > > Lisi > Oops, you are correct. I meant to write that his political trajec

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-13 Thread Doug
On 08/13/2014 02:20 PM, B wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:50:37 -0400 "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: I have a new Dell Ispiron that dual boots Windows 7 and Debian 7.4. The new machine uses the F1 key to connect to the second monitor, but it only works in Windows - In Debian pressing F! is a n

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running >> exim4-heavy. > > Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. > >> But still the configuration files look the same.. I'm not seeing a >> reason why

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Reply To: bobhilli...@gmail.com I use a second, larger monitor (my eyes are vary bad). My very old, failing Dell Inspiron would connect to the second monitor by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F8, and would remember that setting across reboots. It appeared to be a function of the

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/13/2014 02:20 PM, B wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:50:37 -0400 "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: I have a new Dell Ispiron that dual boots Windows 7 and Debian 7.4. The new machine uses the F1 key to connect to the second monitor, but it only works in Windows - In Debian pressing F! is a no

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:50:37 -0400 "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: > I have a new Dell Ispiron that dual boots Windows 7 and Debian 7.4. > The new machine uses the F1 key to connect to the second monitor, > but it only works in Windows - In Debian pressing F! is a noop. These are old but could help

Using a second monitor

2014-08-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Reply To: bobhilli...@gmail.com I use a second, larger monitor (my eyes are vary bad). My very old, failing Dell Inspiron would connect to the second monitor by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F8, and would remember that setting across reboots. It appeared to be a function of the hardware, mot the software..

RE: Boot failure after upgrade to wheezy

2014-08-13 Thread Peter McGill
Nevermind, fixed. Changed initramfs MODULES=dep to MODULES=most and it boots now. /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy # Driver inclusion policy selected during installation # Note: this setting overrides the value set in the file # /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf MODULES=most Seems lik

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Bob Weber a écrit : > > A second way is to start sysrescuecd normally and mount the root file system > to > a directory. Make a directory say x and mount the root filesystem on it. Run > these three commands: "mount --bind /dev x/dev" and "mount --bind /proc > x/proc" and "mount --bind /sy

Boot failure after upgrade to wheezy

2014-08-13 Thread Peter McGill
I have 2 debian virtual machines running under Windows Hyper-V Server 2012. I upgraded them from squeeze to wheezy. They can boot with the squeeze kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 ok. But they cannot boot with the wheezy kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64. Loading, please wait. Gave up waiting for root device. Common pro

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Aug 2014 at 00:03:54 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > > A "correctly" set up X on Debian uses ~/.xsession and not ~/.xinitrc. > > (I kept the quotes because you said they are significant). > > Brian, I can't tell if you are joking or not. :-) But obviously a > correctly

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Bob Weber writes: > I use sysrescuecd (http://www.sysresccd.org/) to make a new drive > bootable. > There are two ways to get a bootable disk with sysrescuecd. > > One way is to use a special boot mode where sysrescue starts its own > kernel to a > system on the hard disk. Once booted you can j

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread Bob Weber
I use sysrescuecd (http://www.sysresccd.org/) to make a new drive bootable. There are two ways to get a bootable disk with sysrescuecd. One way is to use a special boot mode where sysrescue starts its own kernel to a system on the hard disk. Once booted you can just use 'grub-install /dev/sda' t

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/08/14 09:09 AM, Martin G. McCormick wrote: I am the one who posted stating that I can't seem to make a bootable new hard drive for my Linux Squeeze system. It's been quoted, "It ain't what you don't know that will hurt you, but what you know that just ain't so." I think I am in that territo

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread Martin G. McCormick
AW writes: > 1. As far as I know, it's not possible to simply copy a working /dev tree. > These are special files which are generated with the mknod utility. > > 2. Booting a computer is fairly complex. Everything needs to be at a > specific > location on the drive, needs to occupy the appropria

Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

2014-08-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom : Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:50:02 +0200 John Hasler wrote: > Churchill: "If you're not a liberal when you're young there's something > wrong with your heart. Hummm..that's interesting I lived in Britain for 13 years from the late 60's through the seventies and heard that expression a lot but no one

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:50:30PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >+OK Pop server at jorel.newsguy.com signing off. > >Connection closed by foreign host. > > > > At a successfull login you can use commands like "list", "retr 1", "dele 3". > > I'm afraid I have been screeching wolf when its o

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:50:02 +0200 > Tom H wrote: > >> Debian isn't as special as you think, at least not from this perspective. > > Everybody earns money and needs money in this development. Organizations like > Debian go forward by peopl

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread AW
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:09:41 -0500 "Martin G. McCormick" wrote: > but I am curious as to why the first method simply has never booted? 1. As far as I know, it's not possible to simply copy a working /dev tree. These are special files which are generated with the mknod utility. 2. Booting a c

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:19:09AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:09:24PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> Well, yeah, but ask any marriage counselor what tends to happen when > >> one partner decides arbitrarily what

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 09:10:19PM +0200, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:01:05 +1200 Chris Bannister > napísal: > > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: > > > > > > Our priorities are our users and free software > > > > > > We will be guided by the nee

Re: par2

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:40:40AM -0400, AW wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:30:14 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > That's dammned expensive and not useful at all!!! > > It's very useful. Consider the yearly savings in electricity. And if you You snipped it!! Read what you wrote, again.

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 13 August 2014 11:03:58 Liam O'Toole wrote: > Moreover, Churhcill defected from the Liberal party to the Conservative > party, and then back again. T'other way round. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 13 August 2014 11:03:58 Liam O'Toole wrote: > Also note that the British meaning of "liberal" is different from its > meaning in the US, and was even more so in the early 20th century. As has been shown by the original quote's referring to "communists". Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive; more

2014-08-13 Thread Martin G. McCormick
I am the one who posted stating that I can't seem to make a bootable new hard drive for my Linux Squeeze system. It's been quoted, "It ain't what you don't know that will hurt you, but what you know that just ain't so." I think I am in that territory now. What I have been doing was to format the ne

sid - vlc - changing application-internal volume, above or below 100%, produces high level distortion

2014-08-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I'm on sid, running vlc 2.1.4. No pulseaudio installed. Just alsa. By default, VLC sets its "internal" volume to 100%. When I change that "application-internal" volume, either above or below 100%, high level distortion is produced. Changing it back to exactly 100%, normal sound resumes. Any ide

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Nemeth Gyorgy a écrit : >> > Yes, it can work as a short go-nogo test. But the suggestion was not > mentioned it, that it is only for that. And it is very likely that when > the OP tries this and it 'works' (I mean the Windows machine behind the > Linux works well), then the rules will remain. I w

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-08-12, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:46:38 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > >> Charles Kroeger writes: >> > You know what they say, If you're not a communist when you're young, >> > there's something wrong with your heart. >> >> Churchill: "If you're not a liberal when you're young

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:15:22AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/13/14, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I interpret the quoted string in the Subject: header as being flawed > > use of English language. 'stop' should be 'stopped'. And, there is a > > That would definitely be clearer. > > I was in

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I interpret the quoted string in the Subject: header as being flawed > use of English language. 'stop' should be 'stopped'. And, there is a > bug in the script that fails to evaluate the variable USER and > therefore fails to print the name

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Richard Hector wrote: > On 11/08/14 06:05, Sven Hartge wrote: >> The release will be sometimes after that, probably in the spring. > Ahem. Spring happens at different times in different places (if at > all). I don't consider it an appropriate description on an > international list ;-) Right. I

Re: calendar world cup (portuguese) and others

2014-08-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 04:43:46PM -0300, Beco wrote: >Hi guys, >Last semester I made some calendars. >Specially a brazilian one, that is not current on the system. >I wonder, to whom should I send them, to ask Debian to keep them in the >next version? >Thanks! >Beco. >

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-13 Thread saint
Bob Proulx writes: > And so there is the explanation. If the .xinitrc script exits then > that indicates to xinit that the user is done and that xinit should > exit, ending the X windows session. Therefore we put the window > manager at the end and run it in the foreground not the background.