Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-18 Thread Eugene Zhukov
Hi Osamu, On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: >> 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 wor

unattended-upgrades uncertainty with Unable to get Terminal Size

2015-02-18 Thread Brent Clark
Good day Guys I just installed and new to unattended-upgrades. Looking at the logs this morning I see the folllowing. cat /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2015-02-19_06\:48\:53.476190.log (Reading database ... 60516 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:04:22 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-18, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > You can try running the installer with the "--ignore-errors" > > option, or "--extract=DIR" to extract the bundle at running the > > installer manually. > > Isn't there a "verbose" option or someth

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > As I had earlier posted, I have recently upgraded to Jessie. During > bootup I see lots of stuff being started like Exim, ldap etc. I'd > like to disable lots of these stuff if it doesn't interfere with KDE > the environment that I

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 09:32:42 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:46:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 07:01:19 PM BUCH wrote: > >> [...] > > > > ...sure learned a lot about installing the plugs on a piece of cat5. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/18/15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: >> 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

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Joseph Loo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/2015 08:06 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 19/02/15 15:32, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Point of contention -- if the BUCH is only using cat5 in his >> install, the fact he's getting gbit for any time at all is a >> miracle. Min requirement for gig

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/15 15:32, Dan Purgert wrote: > Point of contention -- if the BUCH is only using cat5 in his > install, the fact he's getting gbit for any time at all is a > miracle. Min requirement for gig over copper is 5e (with cat6 > being preferred). My

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:46:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 07:01:19 PM BUCH wrote: >> [...] > ...sure learned a lot about installing the plugs on a piece of cat5. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Good stuff in the whole post. Point of contention -- if the BUCH is only us

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 07:01:19 PM BUCH wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to fire a bug report on Wheezy but I am not an experienced > linux user, nor do I know any of the procedures. > > The problem is related to my NIC card downgrading its connection to > 100Mb/s when it is a Gigabit N

Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-18 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 18 2015,Brian wrote: [snipped 24 lines] > Try ~/.xsessionrc. Thanks, that worked. sivaram -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87

Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread BUCH
Hello, I would like to fire a bug report on Wheezy but I am not an experienced linux user, nor do I know any of the procedures. The problem is related to my NIC card downgrading its connection to 100Mb/s when it is a Gigabit NIC and should be running at 1000Mb/s. The only solution that wor

Occasionally jessie stalling at boot

2015-02-18 Thread David Wright
Hi, my experience of jessie is not issueless, unfortunately. One niggle is that if/when it decides to fsck my disks, including when I request it, I'm lucky if I get a progress bar. The first I know about it is that the drive light stays on for rather a long while and then I see the root filesystem

Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Blair (c-bl...@illinois.edu): > There are a number of files in your list for which I have > no counterpart. Two likely reasons: I've got some software installed that you don't, or my listing is from a different version. > The sizes of some directories are different. The digits be

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

2015-02-18 Thread Charles Blair
> Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/ After numerous mistakes, I finally have: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus 298544 Dec 3 15:03 dbus-daemon-launch-helper > Here's some edited output from my laptop, ~60 lines. They're > most of the files where the permissions mean that ownership > is import

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Mehmet Recep Turkoglu
It is working now Thank you very much. Mehmet Recep Türkoğlu <--/ www.turkoglu.me /--> 2015-02-18 21:55 GMT+02:00 Jarle Aase : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/18/2015 09:42 PM, Mehmet Recep Turkoglu wrote: > > Hello I solved the problem by deleting vmware files und

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Jarle Aase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/2015 09:42 PM, Mehmet Recep Turkoglu wrote: > Hello I solved the problem by deleting vmware files under /etc. > Installation is successfull but now I am dealing with this problem > http://www.turkoglu.me/snapshot1.jpeg as seen You need to in

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Mehmet Recep Turkoglu
Hello I solved the problem by deleting vmware files under /etc. Installation is successfull but now I am dealing with this problem http://www.turkoglu.me/snapshot1.jpeg as seen thanks Mehmet Recep Türkoğlu <--/ www.turkoglu.me /--> 2015-02-18 21:21 GMT+02:00 Jarle Aase : > > -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Jarle Aase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/2015 07:58 PM, Mehmet Recep Turkoglu wrote: > Hello > > I tried to install both vmware 10 and 11 with sh but I cant succeed. There > are no errors. İt just print the screen: > > The product is ready to be installed. Press Enter to begin > in

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Mehmet Recep Turkoglu
The options you can see at http://pubs.vmware.com/workstation-11/index.jsp#com.vmware.ws.get_started.doc/GUID-42F4754B-7547-4A4D-AC08-353D321A051B.html @Peter I extracted another directory but I don't know how to install manually. I also used Ignore but nothing changed. Thanks Mehmet Recep Türk

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-18, Petter Adsen wrote: > > You can try running the installer with the "--ignore-errors" option, or > "--extract=DIR" to extract the bundle at running the installer manually. Isn't there a "verbose" option or something to get an idea why it's barfing? > Don't know if any of those will

Re: Error compiling Emacs cvs at `make bootstrap'

2015-02-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > With Debian 8, Sid: I'm trying to compile and install Emacs cvs > > Why the heck do you want to that? Sven, That sounds so adversarial. > Emacs development switched away from CVS _five years_ ago. Of course emacs switched to bzr. But then just re

Re: debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:58:50 +0200 Mehmet Recep Turkoglu wrote: > Hello > > I tried to install both vmware 10 and 11 with sh but I cant succeed. > There are no errors. İt just print the screen: > > The product is ready to be installed. Press Enter to begin > installation or Ctrl-C to cancel. >

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

2015-02-18 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Feb 18 2015,Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snipped 18 lines] > I'm amazed that a typo can bring such an emotional reaction - my email > was really not about systemd, but about the fact that "Debian Works" - > at least for me. I cannot speak for others. As a first time Debian user, the upgra

debian 7.0 unsuccessful VMware 10 and 11 installation

2015-02-18 Thread Mehmet Recep Turkoglu
Hello I tried to install both vmware 10 and 11 with sh but I cant succeed. There are no errors. İt just print the screen: The product is ready to be installed. Press Enter to begin installation or Ctrl-C to cancel. Installing VMware Installer 2.1.0 Uninstalling VMware Installer 2.1.0 Deconf

Re: Error compiling Emacs cvs at `make bootstrap'

2015-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-02-18 13:49 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > With Debian 8, Sid: I'm trying to compile and install Emacs cvs Why the heck do you want to that? Emacs development switched away from CVS _five years_ ago. > but `make > bootstrap' ends up with the following lines: > > Makefile:49: recipe for

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

2015-02-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:29:35 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Okay, you've had two supporting replies, that is virtually none. ...and here's one more. I installed Jessie in a VM a while back, and so far I have no complaints. Granted, I don't use it for anything important (yet), but I will probably

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

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/02/2015 2:26 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2015 10:32:59 Martin Read wrote: >> On 18/02/15 07:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> What I want from a DPL (another thread), is a DPL that will >>> remove systemd (for starters), part

Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > 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 o

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

2015-02-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 18 February 2015 10:32:59 Martin Read wrote: > On 18/02/15 07:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > What I want from a DPL (another thread), is a DPL that will remove > > systemd (for starters), particularly as a system default. I didn't get Andrew's posting (???), so had to go to the arch

Re: Error compiling Emacs cvs at `make bootstrap'

2015-02-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:49:36PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > With Debian 8, Sid: I'm trying to compile and install Emacs cvs but `make > bootstrap' ends up with the following lines: > > Makefile:49: recipe for target '../../info/eintr' failed > make[3]: *** [../../info/eintr] Err

Error compiling Emacs cvs at `make bootstrap'

2015-02-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. With Debian 8, Sid: I'm trying to compile and install Emacs cvs but `make bootstrap' ends up with the following lines: Makefile:49: recipe for target '../../info/eintr' failed make[3]: *** [../../info/eintr] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/rodolfo/emacs/doc/lispintro' Makefile:8

Docbook in Debian - from DSSL to XSL stylesheets

2015-02-18 Thread Markos
Hi, Over the past eight years I have been using Docbook in Debian 5.0 and 6.0 with the script "jw". I received an information that the script "jw" uses DSSSL stylesheets and that it is obsolete and limited. Would be better to migrate to XSL-based system and use XSL stylesheets. But I'm jus

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

2015-02-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/02/15 07:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote: What I want from a DPL (another thread), is a DPL that will remove systemd (for starters), particularly as a system default. The DPL has no authority within the Debian project to unilaterally do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

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

2015-02-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 22:40 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat sceptical > > about. But since I could not come up with any technically sound > > arguments against it (partially caused by my ignor

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

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/02/2015 8:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >> I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat >> sceptical about. But since I could not come up with any >> technically sound arguments against

Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Feb 2015 at 07:54:53 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > 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

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

2015-02-18 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/02/15 23:40, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I also ended up with systemd - which I was also somewhat sceptical > about. But since I could not come up with any technically sound > arguments against it (partially caused by my ignorance of systemd),

Re: dpkg error (I think)

2015-02-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 02:47:58AM -0500, Brian Chrzanowski wrote: > Hello debian heroes, > > I have a problem with installing packages with aptitude, and dpkg. I'm > running debian 7.8, but the problem arose when I foolishly canceled "apt-get > autoremove" > when I saw that gnome was gett

Re: dpkg error (I think)

2015-02-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 02:47:58AM -0500, Brian Chrzanowski wrote: >Hello debian heroes, >I have a problem with installing packages with aptitude, and dpkg. I'm >running debian 7.8, but the problem arose when I foolishly canceled >"apt-get autoremove" when I saw that gnome was getti

Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile

2015-02-18 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-18, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > ouch! You mean, I can't trust some random page on google? ;) > > Well, that's what I did; the first part of finding out the screen real > estate and setting the output worked, so I thought the rest of the > bits would also be true; where to make the

dpkg error (I think)

2015-02-18 Thread Brian Chrzanowski
Hello debian heroes, I have a problem with installing packages with aptitude, and dpkg. I'm running debian 7.8, but the problem arose when I foolishly canceled "apt-get autoremove" when I saw that gnome was getting removed. Now, every time I attempt to install any package, I see something like the