Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/01/2015 12:09 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Doug wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency.

GPG error: http://approx wheezy/updates Release

2015-01-31 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I seem to be having trouble getting security updates. Is this a problem with my client system, my Approx server, the Release file on the Debian servers, or something else? David 2015-01-31 22:44:57 root@cd2533 ~ # apt-get update Hit http://approx wheezy Release.gpg Get:1 htt

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Rusi Mody wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Rusi Mody wrote: > > > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? > > > > Try: > > > > apt-mark showmanual > > Thanks > I think this will be very useful > [have yet to check - need to replicate some machines] Ah! You are trying to rep

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Doug wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Rusi Mody wrote: > > > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? > > > > Try: > > > > apt-mark showmanual > > > > That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, > > not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command

Re: Not sure which package to report problem under

2015-01-31 Thread deloptes
Jim Cobley wrote: > I think that the problem I have is in the Kernel - but it affects CUPS > 1.7.5 - running on Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 64-bit with all updates > installed. In the specs it says INTERFACES Interfaces RS-232, Drawer kick-out, Bidirectional parallel so I would tipp on the driv

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-31 Thread deloptes
Karen Lewellen wrote: > hi All, > If this is not the best place for such a question, direct me elsewhere. > Still I am wondering if there are open source /Linux based mobile > devices? If so who manufactures them? > thanks, > Karen Since Nokia dropped their N9 series and was sold to MS the only

Sound in Jessie

2015-01-31 Thread Paul E Condon
Today, for the first time in many weeks, my computer, running Jessie, started to have sound. It must have something to do with last night install of updates of .deb packages. But there are problems. I have no software control over the volume. Only way to turn done the volume is to turn anti-clockwi

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/29/15, Ric Moore wrote: > On 01/29/2015 02:08 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Stephen wrote: >> >>> I wouldn't mind building it by hand, I'm trying to get more 'hands on' >>> (pun completely intended) with Debian. I am just a novice user though >>> so I have a very faint clue what your talking abo

Nvidia Geforce 2 legacy driver vs OpenGL/Nouveau drivers?

2015-01-31 Thread Stephen
Okay, so I just installed the propietary Nvidia drivers for my computer. I have an older Pentium 4 tower (oooh yeah) with a Geforce MX200 in it. Since it's an older card I have to use the Nvidia 96.43.23 legacy drivers. I followed the instructions here for the install: https://wiki.debian.org/N

sendmail on debian testing

2015-01-31 Thread Michael Grant
Today I upgraded a test machine from wheezy to testing. It seemed to install systemd, I'm not sure if it's using it or not. One thing I noticed though was that sendmail no longer starts at boot. Even if I run: /etc/init.d/sendmail start or if I cd to /etc/mail and run: make restart or if I do

Re: nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field

2015-01-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:01:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:03:44PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward >> > email to the smtp server of my mykolab.co

Not sure which package to report problem under

2015-01-31 Thread Jim Cobley
I think that the problem I have is in the Kernel - but it affects CUPS 1.7.5 - running on Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 64-bit with all updates installed. If my memory serves me correctly I did some testing around 3 months ago on the same system and had no problem with the same printer - but this

Re: nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:03:44PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email > to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account. That account requires that > "From" in the header matches the account email. > Cron on my sys

Re: nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:01:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:03:44PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email > > to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account. That account requir

Re: nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:03:44PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email > to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account. That account requires that > "From" in the header matches the account email. > Cron on my sys

Re: Can't add pendrive stick as installation media (was: Network install)

2015-01-31 Thread Brian
On Sat 31 Jan 2015 at 16:50:52 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Nothing, and nothing. I also tried with Jessie, testing, but it seems there's > no way to make Debian add pendrive sticks as installation media. > sources.lists > is not at all modified, and the pendrive stick is not accepted as inst

Re: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del in systemd

2015-01-31 Thread Ray Andrews
> > Change that symlink to point to poweroff.target: > > # ln -s /lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target/etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target That worked fine to change ctrl-alt-del to 'poweroff' butis it possible to return to the old 'cold reboot' behavior? I like to go right back to the bootl

nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field

2015-01-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account. That account requires that "From" in the header matches the account email. Cron on my system insists to send email (as e.g. produced by a logcheck cron job) using "Fro

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:35:54 +0100 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > On 29. jan. 2015 20:12, Stephen wrote: > > On 01/29/2015 11:08 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> If you are a novice user, the glibc is the _last_ thing you want to mess > >> with. > >> > >> Grüße, > >> Sven. > >> > > Hmm, that is scary

Re: Upgrade wheezy->jessie: Network interface: eth0 (atl1c) shows excessive power consumption

2015-01-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:07:58 +0100 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > it uses after the upgrade to jessie an excessive amount of power > > The battery reports a discharge rate of 9.75 W > The estimated remaining time is 2 hours, 10 minutes > > Summary: 585.9 wakeups/second, 50.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0

Re: Can't add pendrive stick as installation media (was: Network install)

2015-01-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 31 January 2015 16:49:46 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 19:36:03 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Brian writes: > >> > By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the > >> > installer menu and then finish the install by booting into the

Can't add pendrive stick as installation media (was: Network install)

2015-01-31 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > I download the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and put it onto pendrive > stick, then start the installation trough the Debian Installer. Everything > goes fine all the way through the installer me

Can't add pendrive stick as installation media (was: Network install)

2015-01-31 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 19:36:03 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > By "install Debian" do you mean you go all the way through the installer >> > menu and then finish the install by booting into the new system? >> >> >> I'll try to explain better (strange, i

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 10:30:05 AM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rusi Mody wrote: > > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? > > Try: > > apt-mark showmanual Thanks I think this will be very useful [have yet to check - need to replicate some machines] -- To UN

Upgrade wheezy->jessie: Network interface: eth0 (atl1c) shows excessive power consumption

2015-01-31 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi, even though I do not use the eth0 interface root@nanette:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 04:7d:7b:5f:06:cd UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5943 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5010 errors:0 dropped:0 ove

Re: Network install

2015-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > Even if they were he would have to have some way of configuring a PPP > connection within d-i to be able to use them. He can configure PPP with a text editor (copy the files from another machine where it has been configured with some tool such as pppconfig) and start it with a comm

Re: Network install

2015-01-31 Thread Brian
On Sat 31 Jan 2015 at 10:24:15 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-01-30, Brian wrote: > >> > >> apt-cdrom -d=/mnt add > > > > About a year ago I spent an afternoon investigating why this didn't work > > for me. Locating the notes I made would take time. > > > > I can't find the bug today, although I

Re: Network install

2015-01-31 Thread John Hasler
> As has already been mentioned, it looks as though the 'pon' command is > no longer in the ppp package, or is that now understood and I'm > missing something? I was wrong: it's there. It's evidently missing from the udeb. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Network install

2015-01-31 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Feb 2015 at 00:40:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:23:25PM +, Brian wrote: > > 3. Your attention should focus on the pool directory. > > > > 4. 'ls -l /mnt/pool' and 'ls -l /mnt/pool/main' gets you exploring. > > > > 5. After checking, install the ppp p

Re: Network install

2015-01-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:23:25PM +, Brian wrote: > 3. Your attention should focus on the pool directory. > > 4. 'ls -l /mnt/pool' and 'ls -l /mnt/pool/main' gets you exploring. > > 5. After checking, install the ppp package with > > dpkg -i /mnt/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.5-5.1+b1_i386.

Re: Network install

2015-01-31 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-31, Curt wrote: > >>From what I read last night this is not the case in jessie. > You didn't say that, B., sorry, I did. -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” —Robert Graves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-31 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 29. jan. 2015 20:12, Stephen wrote: On 01/29/2015 11:08 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: If you are a novice user, the glibc is the _last_ thing you want to mess with. Grüße, Sven. Hmm, that is scary. I don't want to break anything. I am quite adventurous but I can handle not playing VV until Je

Re: Network install

2015-01-31 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-30, Brian wrote: >> >> apt-cdrom -d=/mnt add > > About a year ago I spent an afternoon investigating why this didn't work > for me. Locating the notes I made would take time. > I can't find the bug today, although I did last night, but there is indeed one in wheezy in the sense that y

Re: PDF forms and field issues

2015-01-31 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-30, Joel Rees wrote: > > (I want to raise Cain with the US government for deciding that PDF > with forms should be the only way to submit certain kinds of > documents. When is the government of the "land of the free" going to > recognize that formats from companies that claim to own the