Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/10/2015 08:52 AM, Ken Heard wrote: I just want a tidy ship and all I want is the One True >Directive(TM). Is such a thing possible it IT? This is not, but there no one true. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-09 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-03-10 10:53, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > As someone who is a deb newbie following these posts, can the > gurus make up their collective minds and let forth the mantra > invocation that I need to invoke? ;) > > I just want a tidy ship and a

Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-09 Thread Paul E Condon
I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to partitoning the HD there is trouble. It won't overwrite the NTFS partitions

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-03-09 Thread Tom Roche
Apologies for letting this thread[1] drop--I was forced to handle other interrupts for a few weeks. Basically, I need to make a networking configuration work, but am currently (apparently) blocked by inability to set a route. Details: A brief summary of what I need to do to get back to work on

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-09 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Mar 09 2015,Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 00:58:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: [snipped 20 lines] > But what do we think about this as a procedure? [1] > > apt-get update > apt-get -y upgrade > aptitude -y upgrade > apt-get -y dist-upgrade > aptitude -y dist-upgrade > ap

Re: How to boot with the "irqpoll" option?

2015-03-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 7:30:07 AM UTC+5:30, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: > >> A log message in my /var/log/syslog file says: > >> > >> ... kernel: [ 61.599288] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting

Re: How to boot with the "irqpoll" option?

2015-03-09 Thread Kynn Jones
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: >> A log message in my /var/log/syslog file says: >> >> ... kernel: [ 61.599288] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the >> "irqpoll" option) >> >> I imagine that booting with the "irqpoll"

Re: How to boot with the "irqpoll" option?

2015-03-09 Thread Kynn Jones
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: > A log message in my /var/log/syslog file says: > > ... kernel: [ 61.599288] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the > "irqpoll" option) > > I imagine that booting with the "irqpoll" option is achieved by adding > a suitable entry to /boot/g

How to pinpoint the package responsible for an unhandled IRQ?

2015-03-09 Thread Kynn Jones
My kernel logs a message that includes irq 16: nobody cared ...and proceeds to disable IRQ #16. This unhandled IRQ is causing significant problems in my system, so I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. My understanding is that such unhandled IRQs are usually driver bugs. If this is the ca

systemd uses transient hostname instead of static hostname

2015-03-09 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
Hi list, i just upgraded a few systems to jessie an noticed that all of them "loose" their hostnames on reboot, because systemd is using/reverting to "Linux" as transient hostname. This happens early in the boot process. journalctl -b says: [...] Mär 10 00:00:46 maximilian systemd[1]: Mounting

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-09 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 00:58:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > The Wheezy point releases have no BIND9 updates so, without searching > > further, I am unable to check that new libraries were installed. Even > > if they were they would be from stable, which is ok. > > This was a recent

Advice on package to choose for bugreport : display chunks with xorg intel driver

2015-03-09 Thread Fab Stz
Hello, I have some display chunks as soon as I use some of my swap space. I noticed it first with a VirtualBox VM as it generally needs space from my swap partition. But it also appears when compiling programs as soon as it requires the swap partition. I narrowed the issue down but don't know

svn, subversion, repos

2015-03-09 Thread peter
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.create.html has $ # Create a repository $ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos $ In wheezy this fails of course. Is /var writeable by users in any widely used Linux? peter@dalton:/var$ svnadmin create svn/repos svnadmin: Repository creation failed s

About Jessie, php5-gd and imageantialias

2015-03-09 Thread Vincas Dargis
Hello, Once upon a time there was a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321237 (php5-gd: not using gd bundled with php5) It's about the fact that Debian, by it's policy, does not use bundled libgd from PHP source, and unfortunately upstream libgd had (and still has) missing

Re: How to boot with the "irqpoll" option?

2015-03-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Kynn Jones [2015-03-09 10:41 -0400]: [...] > I would be thankful for pointers to the relevant docs, or for a recipe > aimed to a grub-noob. Check /etc/default/grub. Run: $ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-) Friedrich Ni

Urgente ayuda cambiar fecha de caducidad de repositorios

2015-03-09 Thread Viviana Ayala
saludos desde Ecuador les molesto, serian tan amables de arreglar la fecha de caducidad de los repositorios en debian 7.1 de 64 y 32 bits porque no puedo realizar un apt-get update sale el siguiente mensaje Origin: Debian Label: Debian Suite: stable-updates Codename: wheezy-updates Date: M

FW: Urgente ayuda cambiar fecha de caducidad de repositorios

2015-03-09 Thread Viviana Ayala
From: ayala_yan...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Urgente ayuda cambiar fecha de caducidad de repositorios Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:55:33 -0500 saludos desde Ecuador les molesto, serian tan amables de arreglar la fecha de caducidad de los repositorios en debian 7.1

Re: Debian Customization

2015-03-09 Thread Gajadur Dwijesh
Ok..Thank you very much [?] I will give Xfce a try.. Regarding programming..yes i am quite good with Java..well i am still learning it..Can java be used to develop packages and applications for Debian? On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:08:07 +0400 > Ga

How to boot with the "irqpoll" option?

2015-03-09 Thread Kynn Jones
A log message in my /var/log/syslog file says: ... kernel: [ 61.599288] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) I imagine that booting with the "irqpoll" option is achieved by adding a suitable entry to /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but this file clearly states that it should not be

Which pkg should this bug be reported under?

2015-03-09 Thread Kynn Jones
I described the situation in more detail in a different [thread][1], but, in brief: my mouse lags significantly after the monitor wakes from sleep. I suspect that this may be worth reporting as a bug to Debian. The guidelines for doing this say that bugs should be reported in association with a s

Re: USB disk is sdf instead of sde

2015-03-09 Thread Sven Hartge
basti wrote: > I use a USB disk for weekly backups. > Today the disk is always named sdf instead of sde. > fdisk show's no sde > udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --name=/dev/sde found no node > cat /dev/sd > sda sda2 sdb sdb2 sdc sdd sdf sdf2 > sda1 sda3 sdb1 sdb3 sdc1

USB disk is sdf instead of sde

2015-03-09 Thread basti
Hello, I use a USB disk for weekly backups. Today the disk is always named sdf instead of sde. fdisk show's no sde udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --name=/dev/sde found no node cat /dev/sd sda sda2 sdb sdb2 sdc sdd sdf sdf2 sda1 sda3 sdb1 sdb3 sdc1 sdd1 sdf1 Is the

Re: Debian Customization

2015-03-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 17:46:59 +0400 Gajadur Dwijesh wrote: > Hello..I wanted to know where is the location of files which can be > used to customise the Debian user interface? > i want to customise my screenlock, login screen and panels. > Is there any software package that can be installed to help

USB disk is sdf instead of sde

2015-03-09 Thread basti
Hello, I use a USB disk for weekly backups. Today the disk is always named sdf instead of sde. fdisk show's no sde udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --name=/dev/sde found no node cat /dev/sd sda sda2 sdb sdb2 sdc sdd sdf sdf2 sda1 sda3 sdb1 sdb3 sdc1 sdd1 sdf1 Is the

Debian Customization

2015-03-09 Thread Gajadur Dwijesh
Hello..I wanted to know where is the location of files which can be used to customise the Debian user interface? i want to customise my screenlock, login screen and panels. Is there any software package that can be installed to help personalise your Debian interface? please help. With regards Dwi

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-03-09 Thread francois
Hello, On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:31:32PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Has anyone had any luck using apt-offline to install a package? > Any tips? If I make no mistake you need to use apt-get for installing the package after retrieving the bundle. The workflow would then be like : isolated$

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-09 Thread Emil Payne
On 03/03/15 09:28 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 03/03/2015 09:13 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-09 Thread Brian
On Mon 09 Mar 2015 at 15:37:15 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The Debian 7.8.0 installation disk Rescue Mode has, as one of its > screens, the text > > "Enter a device you wish to use as your root filesystem > > Device to use as root filesystem: > /dev/sda (list of all such values for the system

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-09 Thread Curt
On 2015-03-09, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I don't know if it will be of any help at this point, but from what I > remember I believe the Ubuntu Server images has a rescue mode. > Seems there's a recovery mode from the grub menu you can boot into. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode -- To UNSU

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:37:15 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have managed to find a copy of the apparently last properly > functioning grub.cfg file, using the Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD file > manager, and have posted a copy of the file, to the GRUB help mailing > list. > > The file apparen

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-09 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:08:34 -0400 Celejar sent: > Yep - mine are 6+ GB, for a system containing only several tens of GB > (at most) of indexable documents. > > > Now I just use the find feature of mc, or grep. > > Doesn't that take quite a long time and lots of disk access for large > collecti

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-09 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have managed to find a copy of the apparently last properly functioning grub.cfg file, using the Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD file manager, and have posted a copy of the file, to the GRUB help mailing list. The file apparently sits in the Ubuntu installation partition, and it apparently shows