How to change Login Session Manager background colour in debian wheezy gdm3

2015-02-17 Thread Sivabalan
I couldn't change background color in debian wheezy gdm3 at login session manager. Pl help the above problem. -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/How-to-change-Login-Session-Manager-background-colour-in-debian-wheezy-gdm3-tp3493302.html Sent from the Debian User maili

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Okay, you've had two supporting replies, that is virtually none. I would like to say a BIG "NO THANKS" ... Debian is much less than it was for me. You couldn't even bring yourself to say systemd, what's wrong with saying it? Now, just wait un

Re: "This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes"

2015-02-17 Thread David Christensen
On 02/17/2015 07:57 PM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I live in California, USA. I'm looking for Internet service providers, domain registrars, web hosting providers, e-mail hosting providers, virtual private server providers, etc., that respect California's communications privacy laws

"This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes"

2015-02-17 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I live in California, USA. I'm looking for Internet service providers, domain registrars, web hosting providers, e-mail hosting providers, virtual private server providers, etc., that respect California's communications privacy laws [1], by not monitoring or recording customer t

Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-17 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Tue, Feb 17 2015,Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Feb 2015 at 00:05:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: [snipped 22 lines] > > What leads you to believe a .xprofile has any significance on Debian? > ouch! You mean, I can't trust some random page on google? ;) Well, that's what I did; the first

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/17/2015 01:15 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hi, On 17 February 2015 at 18:20, claude juif wrote: Really rude answer. Really bad. I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in total. Extremely rude.

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > which should help answer the question you asked: your work - fantastic > as it is - was *impossible to find*. it doesn't even remotely come up > on the radar of queries. *nobody knows what you've achieved* and > that's somet

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to apologise for my mail I sent about two hours ago. I have > overreacted mainly because of the length of the email, CAPS INSIDE and > also because it's a topic which is being discussed for more than a year > and which ma

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, I'd like to apologise for my mail I sent about two hours ago. I have overreacted mainly because of the length of the email, CAPS INSIDE and also because it's a topic which is being discussed for more than a year and which many of people here are already tired of. I however still think that

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread claude juif
2015-02-17 19:29 GMT+01:00 Nathan Schulte : > Hi Andrew, > > On 02/17/2015 11:58 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in > > total. Extremely rude. > > I for one am grateful Luke took the time to write the email he did. I > understand it wa

Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Feb 2015 at 00:05:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > For some reason that I haven't figured out yet, my screen estate is > not used fully by Debian and I had some black bands around the edges > of the WM. Reading around, I found a combination of gtf and xrandr > with a rather pai

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Nathan Schulte
Hi Andrew, On 02/17/2015 11:58 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in > total. Extremely rude. I for one am grateful Luke took the time to write the email he did. I understand it was long and I believe that most won't even take the time to

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
adam, i apologise for not being in a position to reply in-thread: as mentioned previously i tried (via gmane) but the entire discussion is completely missing, and i forgot to ask people in the original post to cc me if they would like an ongoing threaded reply. i also notice that you removed debia

making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-17 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
For some reason that I haven't figured out yet, my screen estate is not used fully by Debian and I had some black bands around the edges of the WM. Reading around, I found a combination of gtf and xrandr with a rather painful way of discovering that my screen is 1366 x 652 in size. xrandr --new

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 February 2015 at 18:20, claude juif wrote: >> Really rude answer. Really bad. > > I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in > total. Extremely rude. i did apologise in advance, and explained why i to

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Oh, dear, it was so nice to have a break from the systemd flame-wars. Could the troll-feeders please desist? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Blair (c-bl...@illinois.edu): > > > Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/ > > > The permissions should be > > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus [...] dbus-daemon-launch-helper > > > Have they changed, and to what? > >After logging in, becoming superuser, and a little trial- > an

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

2015-02-17 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi, Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2015, 20:40:35 schrieb 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

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hi, On 17 February 2015 at 18:20, claude juif wrote: > Really rude answer. Really bad. I find it really rude to send emails of about 300 lines of text in total. Extremely rude. -- Cheers, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 02/17/2015 at 11:28 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > so, marco, you wrote: > >> Again, you clearly do not understand well how systemd works. > > marco: understanding or otherwise how systemd works is not the > point: the point is that there has been a unilateral decision across > vi

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:20 PM, claude juif wrote: > > > 2015-02-17 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura : >> >> Hi Luke, >> >> On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> wrote: >> > <265 lines of text and counting snipped> >> >> In short, this is TL;DR. We've all got better things

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 06:20:34PM +0100, claude juif wrote: > > > 2015-02-17 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura : > > Hi Luke, > > On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > <265 lines of text and counting snipped> > > In short, this is TL;D

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

2015-02-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:32:50AM -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > > > Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/ > > > The permissions should be > > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus [...] dbus-daemon-launch-helper > > > Have they changed, and to what? > >After logging in, becoming superuser, a

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread claude juif
2015-02-17 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrew Shadura : > Hi Luke, > > On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > <265 lines of text and counting snipped> > > In short, this is TL;DR. We've all got better things to waste our time > on. Please go away. Nobody's interested in this

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-17 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Feb 16 2015,Brian wrote: [snipped 13 lines] > You do not sound the least bit rude. /etc/init.d and /lib/systemd/system > are places to look for services which are started at boot time. The > files ending in .service given by systemctl are amongst the services > which are activated. > S

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [Tue, Feb 17 2015, 04:28:04PM]: > so to summarise: > > * the use of libselinux1 is dormant (i.e. whilst you can't remove it > without inconvenience, its use is entirely optional, right from the > kernel level) > * its development and documentation is rational

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Ron
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:28:04 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > "i disagree with what you are saying, but i will defend your right to say it". > i believe it was someone famous who wrote that, Attributed to Voltaire; but does not appear in his writings. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hi Luke, On 17 February 2015 at 17:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > <265 lines of text and counting snipped> In short, this is TL;DR. We've all got better things to waste our time on. Please go away. Nobody's interested in this any longer regardless of their position on systemd. Thanks

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

2015-02-17 Thread Charles Blair
> > Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/ > > The permissions should be > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus [...] dbus-daemon-launch-helper > > Have they changed, and to what? After logging in, becoming superuser, and a little trial- and-error with chmod, ls -l now gives -rwSr-xr-- 1 root root

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ok, so there's been quite a discussion, both on slashdot, where amazingly the comments that filtered to the top were insightful and respectful, and also here on debian-devel and debian-users. as i normally use gmane to reply (and maintain and respect threads) but this discussion is not *on* gmane,

Useful hint: limits.conf and root

2015-02-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi! Just a little public service announcement, because I just lost 2 hours if my life figuring out how to apply new limits to processes started by the root user without using a manual call to "ulimit" every time: If you edit /etc/security/limits.conf to, for example, increase the maximum number o

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:22:21PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2015 21:31:19 Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Feb 16, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a > > > separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a we

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Ric Moore wrote: On 02/16/2015 07:47 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: [*SNIP*] so the question then becomes: at a fundamental level (in a distro-agnostic way) how to go about giving people a proper choice (to run systemd and associated components, or not)? And why would their unpaid

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I see that there has been a fair amount of talk on this mailing list > about system , Gnome 3 and some general dislike of Debian Jessie as a > result. So I thought I'd throw in my 2 p > > I recently upgraded my main laptop (a

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Seriously, I can't read ip. I suppose that eventually I shall have to see if if you think "ip" is bad, try your hand at "iw" (the one that replaces iwconfig)... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in

Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Viskup
The first seems to be quick and not-detailed tutorial. The others are more detailed descriptions. What package failed that first approach, in which step and what was the error message? Anyway I found it quite hard to went through the understanding the debian packaging by myself. There are many to

fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-17 Thread Eugene Zhukov
Hello, I came across this building tutorial [1]. It advertises using fakeroot debian/rules binary command to build a package. Needless to say it doesn't work for all packages. I find this tutorial confusing. I know of two other IMHO better pages on the topic [2] and [3]. Did I miss something or th

Re: A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 February 2015 10:40:38 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I see that there has been a fair amount of talk on this mailing list > about system , Gnome 3 and some general dislike of Debian Jessie as a > result. So I thought I'd throw in my 2 p > > I recently upgraded my main laptop (a fancy

A big "Thank You" to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
I see that there has been a fair amount of talk on this mailing list about system , Gnome 3 and some general dislike of Debian Jessie as a result. So I thought I'd throw in my 2 p I recently upgraded my main laptop (a fancy new Dell XPS with more SSD than I've ever had before) from Wheezy to J

Re: multiarch broken?

2015-02-17 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:55:24 +0100 schreef Berthold Cogel : Am 16.02.2015 um 12:39 schrieb Floris: Op Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:32:16 +0100 schreef Berthold Cogel : It seems that some of the amd64 and i386 packages are available in different versions, which causes the conflicts.. You are ri

Dvb usb device crashes khubd in kernel 3.16.7-ckt4-3, how to debug?

2015-02-17 Thread Tilman Schröder
Hello everybody, on recent kernels, my dvb usb device does not work any more and crashes khubd when I remove it. It has worked perfectly on wheezy and works perfectly in Windows, so it is no hardware failure. Since I do not know a lot about the kernel internals I have no idea how to debug this or

Re: Wine in amd64

2015-02-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look at your home directory: ls -lad ~/.wine* If there's a ~/.wine directory, rename it before starting wine64. Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt