Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread seeker5528
On 12/13/2014 3:43 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: What packages should I make sure are properly installed? Where can I find a check list of what needs to be done. While I'm typing this I realize I might need to become a member of a special access group, but what is the name of the group? These are thi

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141213_1034-0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:47:55PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 12/12/2014 at 08:53 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it > > > prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, December 14, 2014 1:30:04 AM UTC+5:30, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:53:48 -0500 > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:48:41AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> Bret Busby wrote: > > >>> Surely, it would have all been so much simpl

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER > > had a dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice > > thing is it is a very fast check. My 16GB / checked in

Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141213_1643-0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Jessie on my deaktop from some time before the end > of September. The last time a checked, which was quite a while ago, > sound was working. But it might have been before I migrated from > Wheezy to Jessie. Now realize I don't know wh

xfs and other filesystems (was Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?)

2014-12-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/13/2014 at 02:45 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER >> had a dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice >> thing is it is a very fast check. My 16GB / checked i

making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
I've been running Jessie on my deaktop from some time before the end of September. The last time a checked, which was quite a while ago, sound was working. But it might have been before I migrated from Wheezy to Jessie. Now realize I don't know what to do to get sound working in Jessie. I got Jessi

Re: multihomed server with ipv6

2014-12-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, li...@onemanifest.net a écrit : > > I've setup static adressing for both NICs for ipv4 and ipv6 like this: > > # The primary LAN network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.xx > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.1.1 > >

Re: Unable to install bootloader on software raid

2014-12-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Johann Spies a écrit : > > In the end I configured my partions to exclude the first 250Mb (/boot) from > the raid and I could install Grub just to have a working system. > > It is not the best solution. Obviously it's not. /boot should be on a RAID (and the bootloader installed on all disks, whi

Re: multihomed server with ipv6

2014-12-13 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 12 December 2014 at 12:07, wrote: > Hi all, > > > I’m trying to setup a multi-homed server with dual stack networking. > > I’ve setup static adressing for both NICs for ipv4 and ipv6 like this: > > # The primary LAN network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > ad

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER had a > dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice thing is it > is a very fast check. My 16GB / checked in less than 5 seconds, and the > 205GB /home in about 1

Re: Unable to install bootloader on software raid

2014-12-13 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for your reply, Ron. In the end I configured my partions to exclude the first 250Mb (/boot) from the raid and I could install Grub just to have a working system. It is not the best solution. The installer should work as expected. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love i

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Joe
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:53:48 -0500 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:48:41AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Bret Busby wrote: > >>> Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the original > >>> poster in the thread, had put the question "To w

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Patrick Bartek [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: > > [...]> I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root > before > > shutdown -r now: > > > > touch /forcefsck > > > > On booting, fsck is run on all partitions, then the empty file > > f

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Jape Person
On 12/13/2014 12:26 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-12-13, Jape Person wrote: Would anyone happen to know if plans are afoot to eliminate use of /forcefsck? I haven't the slightest idea, but I read somewhere recently that it might be preferable to go the kernel parameter route, which avoids writing

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour, On 13/12/14 19:21, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:47:02 +0100 Jerome BENOIT > wrote: > >> Hola, this is an English Forum. Cheers, Jerome > > It pains me, especially at this Xmas time, to see this kind of > un-helpful rebuke given without any sort of useful reply t

Re: Transition to Debian

2014-12-13 Thread detwyad7
Please ask your question on the Spanish mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/ Por favor, pregunte a su pregunta en la lista de correo español: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:47:02 +0100 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hola, this is an English Forum. > Cheers, Jerome It pains me, especially at this Xmas time, to see this kind of un-helpful rebuke given without any sort of useful reply to the original query, or at least some pointer where the enquirer

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:15:05 -0500 JAWV WV wrote: > por ejemplo instalé la > versión 7.7.0 y dentro de 5 o 6 meses la versión estable mejorada es > liberada , me toca re-instalar o simplemente puedo actualizar la versión > 7.7.0 para que pase a ser la 8.0.1 . Pues en verdad actualizar es instalar

Re: Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hola, this is an English Forum. Cheers, Jerome On 13/12/14 18:15, JAWV WV wrote: > Hola disculpas ante todo x la pregunta es muy sencilla espero no > quitarles mucho tiempo, mi inquietud es sobre actualizaciones en cada > versión estable de Debian, es decir cada que sale una nueva versión > anu

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-13, Jape Person wrote: > > Would anyone happen to know if plans are afoot to eliminate use of > /forcefsck? > I haven't the slightest idea, but I read somewhere recently that it might be preferable to go the kernel parameter route, which avoids writing to a potentially corrupted file

Transición a Debian

2014-12-13 Thread JAWV WV
Hola disculpas ante todo x la pregunta es muy sencilla espero no quitarles mucho tiempo, mi inquietud es sobre actualizaciones en cada versión estable de Debian, es decir cada que sale una nueva versión anual o semestral, simplemente puedo actualizar el sistema para que se renueve o toca reinstala

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:48:41AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the original poster in the thread, had put the question "To what personal uses, do people put their computers?". What correlation need the

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Jape Person
On 12/13/2014 10:31 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Joel Rees writes: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > shutdown(8) > > > >-F Force fsck on reboot. > > Sshhh. Don't remind us to read the man pages. By the way the -F flag causes /forcefsck to

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:48:41AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: > > > >Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the original poster > >in the thread, had put the question "To what personal uses, do people > >put their computers?". > > What correlation need there be be

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Joel Rees writes: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter > wrote: > > shutdown(8) > > > >-F Force fsck on reboot. > > Sshhh. Don't remind us to read the man pages. By the way the -F flag causes /forcefsck to appear -- /\ ___

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:47:55PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 12/12/2014 at 08:53 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > When my ISP encounters an email that it cannot scan for viruses, it > > prepends ***UNCHECKED*** to the subject. This occurs on every > > encrypted email I receive. It's highly annoy

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Dec 2014 at 20:26:02 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Patrick Bartek [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: > > > > [...]> I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before > >> shutdown -r now: > >> > >> touch /forcefsck >

Iceweasel and kprinter4

2014-12-13 Thread b-misc
Hi all, Does anybody know how to configure Iceweasel to use the KDE printer dialog - I found instructions on the net but they seem to be quite outdated and don't work anymore. Thanks a lot. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:42:47 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > I kept a Unisys 5000/90 that required 220V at 80 amps > 17600 Watts! Unbelievable! Where are thus circuits fused? I remember the first computer I worked with, a great 4Kb memory in ferrite torus, that had in the middle of the c

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Patrick Bartek [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: > > [...]> I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before >> shutdown -r now: >> >> touch /forcefsck >> >> On booting, fsck is run on all partitions, then the empty file >>

Re: New user question

2014-12-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:04:02AM -0500, detwy...@riseup.net wrote: > > ... clicking on the date on the top panel should display my > > appointments from Evolution... > > Is this documented? Please provide a reference If you have Gnome installed and Online Accounts configured; usually Evolution

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 13 December 2014 05:47:25 Ric Moore wrote: > Our computers are the worst of > mistresses. Logical, consistent, predictable, biddable ... oh yes, and demanding. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Patrick Bartek [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: [...]> I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before > shutdown -r now: > > touch /forcefsck > > On booting, fsck is run on all partitions, then the empty file > forcefsck is deleted. So, this only works for that particular boot.

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ric Moore [2014-12-12 18:07 -0500]: [...] > I kept a Unisys 5000/90 that required 220V at 80 amps 17600 Watts! Unbelievable! Where are thus circuits fused? Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a computer. Since there are no stupid computers humans can't be stupid. There are ju

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-12, Brian wrote: > > You have a very strange idea of what constitutes data. Here are some > more data (or non-data if you prefer :) ), > He also says nothing about what forced him to reinstall so many times, nor why he concludes it is due to an absence of fsck file system checks, thus

Re: Unable to install bootloader on software raid

2014-12-13 Thread Ron
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:36:58 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: > What is the way to install Debian onto a software raid? I have installed 7.7.0-64 from the DVD without any problem. So it might be something in Testing ? Did you try to install from a Live-CD/DVD ? ISTR that in that case you must add dm

Unable to install bootloader on software raid

2014-12-13 Thread Johann Spies
After two of my hard disks failed, I decided to use a software raid in future and tried to install Debian Testing on the raid. The configuration of the raid and software installation went well until I tried to install the bootloader. Both Grub and Lilo refused to install. If it is not possible t

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Joe
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:53:59 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: > On 12/12/2014 06:30 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:07:03 -0500 > > Ric Moore wrote: > > > >> So maybe we could consider a standard for "home computer" that it > >> "runs on 110V with less than X amount of watts"? >

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-13 Thread seeker5528
On 12/12/2014 2:35 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 12.12.2014 06:13, seeker5528 a écrit : Personally I would prefer software X gets a poke in the arm and a message indicating network status changed, screen orientation changed, configuration changed here, there was an event in so