What's going wrong?

2015-02-14 Thread Jack Chuge
Hi, there! I've installed Java 1.8 successfully thanks to Mr.Hector's support. Afterward, I've come to install CGoban. But a warning prompts that the application blocked for security. Is it controlled by the Java Control Panel and caused by a wrong setting? Thank you. -- I like hk.politics. ^

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Chris Fisichella a écrit :   Using the BIOS to emulate Native Mode IDE is making the machine behave better. What was the previous mode ? AHCI, RAID ? I at least reached a grub> prompt. So, I think it found the disk. Finally. :) How is that better than before ?

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 06:23:05 PM Brian wrote: > On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:05:43 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is > > supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine that's a > > couple decades or more old. > > > > Loo

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 05:41:30 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2015 21:50:15 Ric Moore wrote: > > On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: > > >> On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >>> I have a

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 05:36:28 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > gene@coyote:~/Documents$ file ./Aflac-server.pt > > ./Aflac-server.pt: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines, > > with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators > > If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck t

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/14/2015 05:41 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2015 21:50:15 Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a "save as" grab from an insurance compan

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 04:50:15 PM Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is > >>> s

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-02-14 Thread Linux-Fan
On 01/21/2015 07:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:58:51 Don Armstrong did opine [...] >> If you're still having trouble, the actual logs will be more helpful. >> See >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#di-miscel >> laneous > > That is a dece

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:05:43 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is > supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine that's a couple > decades or more old. > > Looked at in a text editor, it resembles somewhat an .html file, but

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 14 February 2015 21:50:15 Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is > >>> suppos

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Frank
On 14/02/15 04:50 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Frank
On 14/02/15 04:50 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Gene Heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/Documents$ file ./Aflac-server.pt > ./Aflac-server.pt: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines, with > CRLF, CR, LF line terminators If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then maybe it is a duck? Try renaming the file to something ending in .

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine that's a couple decades o

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is > > supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine that's a > > couple decades or more old. > > > > Looked at in

Re: check if a newer version of a package is available

2015-02-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 3:25 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> Alternatively there is apt-show-versions. >> >> $ apt-show-versions xterm >> xterm:amd64/testing 312-1 uptodate >> >> If there were a newer version available it would show "upgradeable 312-1" >> or some such newer version number in

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Brian a écrit : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: grub rescue> ls returns a single blank line. Which dowsn't look very healthy. GRUB doesn't see any disks. Indeed. To be honest, I don't even see how this can possibly happen and how to

Re: check if a newer version of a package is available

2015-02-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> Alternatively there is apt-show-versions. > > $ apt-show-versions xterm > xterm:amd64/testing 312-1 uptodate > > If there were a newer version available it would show "upgradeable 312-1" > or some such newer version number instead of "uptodate". > This works for me. I can use the backticks `

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine that's a couple decades or more old. Looked at in a text editor, it resembles somewhat an .html file, but has an extension of ".pt

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine that's a couple decades or more old. You saved it to a file? Googling shows all sorts of things that it could be. http://www.fil

Re: check if a newer version of a package is available

2015-02-14 Thread Bob Proulx
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > 1) How do I check if a newer version of a package is available from a > perl script? I vaguely remember there to be a perl module interface available for such queries. That might be the "best way" from perl. I don't know it though so will tell you what I would do. >

Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that is supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine that's a couple decades or more old. Looked at in a text editor, it resembles somewhat an .html file, but has an extension of ".pt", and apparently iceweazal is stymied as t

Re: check if a newer version of a package is available

2015-02-14 Thread Lars Nooden
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > 1) How do I check if a newer version of a package is available from a > perl script? I'm not sure there but my guess would be to use one of the CPAN modules related to APT, perhaps Linux::APT > 2) Generalizing the previous question, is there any

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > I updated my apt repo and there was a kernel update. I ran the update, > and received an error claiming "no space left on device." Normally, I > would do a force-uninstall for the currently running kernel (freeing > space), then install the new kernel and reboot. Howeve

Re: WANTED: Dual Band WIFI USB stick

2015-02-14 Thread chymian
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:21 AM, chymian wrote: > > hey, > > I’m looking for an small/nano dualband WIFI USB stick which is natively > supported by newer kernels? > > > > after tinkering around with an edimax 7711MAC with an mediatek chip mt7610u > without success, (neither edimax nor med

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Chris Fisichella a écrit : >> > Using the BIOS to emulate Native Mode IDE is making the machine behave > better. What was the previous mode ? AHCI, RAID ? > I at least reached a > grub> > prompt. So, I think it found the disk. Finally. :) How is that better than before ? What does 'ls' print ?

check if a newer version of a package is available

2015-02-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
1) How do I check if a newer version of a package is available from a perl script? If it is an interactive session, I can do, "sudo apt-get -sV install PACKAGE" and from there I can figure out if apt found a newer version of the package. But here I am interested in doing this via a perl script.

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Brian a écrit : > On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: >> >> grub rescue> ls >> >> returns a single blank line. > > Which dowsn't look very healthy. GRUB doesn't see any disks. Indeed. To be honest, I don't even see how this can possibly happen and how to fix it. Obvious

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-14 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> He said this was an encrypted lvm file system, so I believe there's a >> few more steps involved (although I really know nothing about it). > > No. > >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeEncryptedPartitions > > The logical volumes to be resized ar

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Curt a écrit : > On 2015-02-14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Otherwise, you can extend a mounted ext2/3/4 filesystem on an LVM >> logical volume. However you cannot reduce an ext mounted filesystem. > > He said this was an encrypted lvm file system, so I believe there's a > few more steps involved (

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Chris Fisichella : Quoting Brian : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? grub rescue> grub rescue> l

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Brian : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? grub rescue> grub rescue> ls returns a single blank li

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-14 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Otherwise, you can extend a mounted ext2/3/4 filesystem on an LVM > logical volume. However you cannot reduce an ext mounted filesystem. He said this was an encrypted lvm file system, so I believe there's a few more steps involved (although I really know

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: > Quoting Pascal Hambourg : > > >Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and > >what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? > > grub rescue> > grub rescue> ls > > returns a single blank line

Re: How to install lib* packages "locally"?

2015-02-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote: > As part of a work-related requirement, I need to install ia32-libs on > my (mostly stable) Debian laptop. [...] There's no reason to install ia32-libs anymore, as multi-arch has completely superseded it. Just install the 32 bit libraries that you need (ap

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Feb 2015 at 10:18:10 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Charles Blair wrote: > > I tinkered with "Preferences/Applications". Did not > > do anything about a special kind of Preference. If > > this message gets posted, the thing worked :) > > > >If so, thanks! > > > > I never cli

How to install lib* packages "locally"?

2015-02-14 Thread Kynn Jones
Hi everyone. As part of a work-related requirement, I need to install ia32-libs on my (mostly stable) Debian laptop. Unfortunately, it turns out that ia32-libs conflicts, indirectly, with *the one lone package* that I have explicitly installed from a Debian release other than stable, namely emacs

Re: Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-14 Thread Charles Blair
> Personally, I would chown -R user.user the files and directory > tree-tops I was going to move. That sorts out the permissions > change. Then I would mv -i ... /home/user (the -i is habit, like > with rm -i). Because of the directory recursion, it might take a > while, so mv -iv will give a screa

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Chris Fisichella a écrit : I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64 on an HP dc5850. The install went fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads and reports: error: no such disk Before displaying the boot menu or after starting a boot entry

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-14 Thread Jack Chuge
Richard Hector 於 2015-2-13 20:40 寫道: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/15 16:54, Jack Chuge wrote: They say to run the following: su - echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list It seems

unstable: dpkg: error processing package dbus

2015-02-14 Thread Felix Natter
hello debian users, I just tried to update my unstable VM, but I get this: dpkg: error processing package dbus (--configure): dependency problems - leaving triggers unprocessed dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for dbus: dbus depends on libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.7.6); however: Pac

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Chris Fisichella a écrit : > > I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64 on an HP dc5850. The install went > fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads > and reports: > > error: no such disk Before displaying the boot menu or after starting a boot entry ? > I booted into

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : >> $ df -h >> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/mapper/lapsdeb-root 314M 237M 57M 81% / >> /dev/mapper/lapsdeb-var 2.7G 318M 2.3G 13% /var >> /dev/mapper/lapsdeb-usr 8.2G 2.6G 5.2G 34% /usr >> /dev/mapper/lapsdeb-tmp 360M 2.1M

Re: / and separate partitions (was) Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Iain M Conochie a écrit : > Having said that, with >100GB disks common now, the fallacy that, just > because you cannot have a sub 1G / filesystem, that you have to place > /usr onto that partition, is annoying. In fact, the whole /usr merge to > me is annoying. There is no /usr merge requireme