Re: Latest gcj update breaks many java packages, how can I fix?

2015-02-01 Thread David Z
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/02/2015 02:34 AM, David Z wrote: [snip] > I certainly rely on OpenJDK and the other packages that apt wants > to remove... Is this just a simple packaging error? Should I report > this as a bug. It seems that the gcj updates are "low" urgency,

Latest gcj update breaks many java packages, how can I fix?

2015-02-01 Thread David Z
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ant ant-optional ca-certificates-java default-jdk default-jre defaul

Re: Sound in Jessie

2015-02-01 Thread Joel Roth
Paul E Condon wrote: > 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 >

Re: Sound in Jessie

2015-02-01 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/01/2015 11:59 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1324951&page=2&p=10741579#post10741579 The fix the user there suggested for the exact same error message was: usermod -aG audio [user] This thread is familiar. If you all already addressed that as a possi

Re: Sound in Jessie

2015-02-01 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/31/15, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Anyway, it would be nice to have fully functional sound. My compute is > a HP Pentium desktop several years old, nothing special, but it is the > best computer I have ever had, so I expect to be keeping it thru the > life of Jessie, and beyond. > > For now, I c

Re: Error on upgrade..............

2015-02-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:41:25AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > Debian Jessie, tried to upgrade today and received this message: > > Extracting templates from packages: 100% > Preconfiguring packages ... > Setting up libdb5.3:i386 (5.3.28-7~deb8u1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ... >

tzdata=2015a-0wheezy1 breaks other packages

2015-02-01 Thread zonjai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The package tzdata candidate 2015a-0wheezy1 has recently been released to the repositories. If I update this package then I am asked to remove OpenJDK-7-jre and OpenJDK-6-jre. This is due to the package tzdata-java depending on tzdata=2014j-0wheezy1.

gedit bug with long lines. (was RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file)

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Wayne Hartell wrote: > I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, > not that it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit > and it takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower > than I was expecting. To make things worse the perfo

Re: NFS server write issues using netgroup

2015-02-01 Thread deloptes
Peter Viskup wrote: > root@media:~# grep netgroup /etc/nsswitch.conf > netgroup:       files on the server here it is also disabled #netgroup: nis I assume your file is also the server side one. The server here was configured years ago, so I am not sure why it is commented out, bu

Error on upgrade..............

2015-02-01 Thread Charlie
Debian Jessie, tried to upgrade today and received this message: Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up libdb5.3:i386 (5.3.28-7~deb8u1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ... (Reading database ... 240422 files and directories currently installed

NFS server write issues using netgroup

2015-02-01 Thread Peter Viskup
Would like to discuss the issue I am facing before opening bug report. NFS System: latest Debian Jessie NFS: nfs-kernel-server 1:1.2.8-9 Export config: /data/folder @clients(rw,no_subtree_check,root_squash) Netgroup config: root@media:~# cat /etc/netgroup clients (dm800,-,), (laptop,-,) root@me

Re: 2 TB HDD not automounting under Debian.

2015-02-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 02/02/2015, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Maybe the drive is formatted NTFS? NTFS drives won't automount under > my Ubuntu system, either. However, the older FAT partitions had a file > size limit that was too low for todays media so newer large drives > don't use it. > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM,

Re: 2 TB HDD not automounting under Debian.

2015-02-01 Thread songbird
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Maybe the drive is formatted NTFS? NTFS drives won't automount under > my Ubuntu system, either. However, the older FAT partitions had a file > size limit that was too low for todays media so newer large drives > don't use it. possibly, the OP should know what the file sy

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Wayne Hartell wrote: > I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that it appears > to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it takes about 45 seconds to open > the file. That is a whole lot slower than I was expecting. To make things worse the > pe

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

2015-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
David Christensen wrote: > 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? > ... > W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not > updated

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

2015-02-01 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: It's working today: 2015-02-01 08:43:44 root@cd2533 ~ # apt-get update Hit http://approx wheezy Release.gpg Get:1 http://approx wheezy/updates Release.gpg [836 B] Hit http://approx wheezy Release Get:2 http://approx wheezy/updates Release [102 kB] Hit http://approx wheezy/main Trans

Re: 2 TB HDD not automounting under Debian.

2015-02-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
Maybe the drive is formatted NTFS? NTFS drives won't automount under my Ubuntu system, either. However, the older FAT partitions had a file size limit that was too low for todays media so newer large drives don't use it. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, > This is on

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Wayne Hartell wrote: > I think the file I have simply does not have many line feeds. Is that > abnormal for Linux perhaps? You mean such as your reply line above which is a very long line and pushes off the right side of the screen? More typically it would be word wrapped to make reading it easi

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Linux-Fan wrote: > In my experience, VIM is slow with long lines (which are automatically > wrapped and often look strange if the result is too large to fit on a single > page) and > syntax highlighting. Using many short lines, VIM has always been good enough > for me (even with several MiB fil

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Linux-Fan
On 02/01/2015 01:42 PM, Wayne Hartell wrote: > I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that > it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it > takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower than I > was expecting. To make

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Why did a _text_ file need converting? Or do you not mean .txt? Yeah just a regular ASCII text file, but as another reply pointed out new lines are handled slightly differently under Windows vs Unix/Linux. I don't think that is the problem though. Cheers, Wayne. -- To UNSU

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Unix text files end lines with , Windows with . That was the purpose of pre-processing the file with dos2unix. It didn't seem to help. I think the file I have simply does not have many line feeds. Is that abnormal for Linux perhaps? Wayne. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

2 TB HDD not automounting under Debian.

2015-02-01 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, This is on a testing machine What happened is I bought a 2 TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim couple of days ago. The system is an old system having few USB 2 ports while the HDD is USB 3 but supposedly backward compatible. I can see the HDD via lsusb and fdisk but for some reason it's unable to a

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Sorry, Wayne. :-( This was meant to go to the list. I hope that someone can > explain the answer! > > On Sunday 01 February 2015 12:42:00 Wayne Hartell wrote: >> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not >> that i

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
Sorry, Wayne. :-( This was meant to go to the list. I hope that someone can explain the answer! On Sunday 01 February 2015 12:42:00 Wayne Hartell wrote: > I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not > that it appears to make a difference) Why did a _text_ file need

[solved] Re: Can't add usb stick as installation media (was: Network install)

2015-02-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Sun 01 Feb 2015 at 12:01:53 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > 1. Boot into your Wheezy install and login as root. >> > >> > 2. Insert the USB stick. There should be a message on the screen giving >> >you a device name. I get sdg. >> > >> > 3. The net

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

2015-02-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Feb 2015 at 12:01:53 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > 1. Boot into your Wheezy install and login as root. > > > > 2. Insert the USB stick. There should be a message on the screen giving > >you a device name. I get sdg. > > > > 3. The netinst is on the first partit

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI said: > Possibly non-formatted, with one line per paragraph ? That's what it looks like with line numbers on (very big paragraphs too), but my question is why would this slow gedit down and is there any way around it? It seems to present the content as I would expect. Cheer

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Ron
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 23:12:00 +1030 "Wayne Hartell" wrote: > One thing I have noticed under vim is that if I turn on line numbers the > document is showing as several large chunks of text on a handful of lines, > as opposed to a large number of short lines. Would this be tripping up > gedit perfor

gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower than I was expecting. To make things worse the performance within gedit is very sl

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

2015-02-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > 1. Boot into your Wheezy install and login as root. > > 2. Insert the USB stick. There should be a message on the screen giving >you a device name. I get sdg. > > 3. The netinst is on the first partition, sdg1. Use dmesg to check. I >have 'sdg: sdg1'. > > 4. I'll mount my

Re: Tried to boot my laptop from a cafe...

2015-02-01 Thread Floris
Op Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:24:08 +0100 schreef Jarle Aase : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Normally I use my laptop as a workstation, with wired Internet and a 1 T extra disk in the cd-tray. Today I tried to boot it in a cafe, off-line and without the extra disk. It was not possible

Re: list non auto packages

2015-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Rusi Mody wrote on 01/31/2015 03:15: > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? > > Yeah I know that > dpkg --get-selections > will get ALL packages > > How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually > installed? > > Yeah I remember some answer to thi

Re: Tried to boot my laptop from a cafe...

2015-02-01 Thread Floris
Op Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:24:08 +0100 schreef Jarle Aase : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Normally I use my laptop as a workstation, with wired Internet and a 1 T extra disk in the cd-tray. Today I tried to boot it in a cafe, off-line and without the extra disk. It was not possible

Tried to boot my laptop from a cafe...

2015-02-01 Thread Jarle Aase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Normally I use my laptop as a workstation, with wired Internet and a 1 T extra disk in the cd-tray. Today I tried to boot it in a cafe, off-line and without the extra disk. It was not possible. Systemd would just wait indefinitely for some start-up j