Re: Installing Openbox

On 03/11/2015 01:39 AM, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: There is a very nice Openbox guide in https://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/ > EMACS is my operating system; Linux is my device driver. Sure you got that right?? Here's a quote from "The design of the unix operating system", Maurice J.

Re: Installing Openbox

There is a very nice Openbox guide in https://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/ -- EMACS is my operating system; Linux is my device driver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: Installing Openbox

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Derek Jansen wrote: > Openbox refuses to start after its installation. I get dropped into > TTY1. Using startx works, but Debian will not automatically bring my > to TTY7 for Openbox to start. This is normal. (And the way I wanted it.) I use Openbox only -- no DE or login m

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:31:31 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > [lotsa snipping] > > Now, I gotta go find some PVC fittings. Anybody know where I can find a > circular saw that can cut an 19" diameter hole in a 40+ yo concrete > floor? That will at least start the 23" deep, 18" diameter sump pit > ne

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

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> [ ... snip ... ] > suggestion of running CHKDSK wasn't tried in the manner that I'm sure > was intended because by the time I got

usermod and systemd

Hello folks! I have a weird behavior on my system, I'm trying to change a home directory with "usermod -d newhome foo" but the system denies because "usermod: user foo is currently used by process ", when I look for PID I see "/lib/systemd/systemd --user". Does anyone knows why this is ha

Re: old software

On 03/10/2015 08:23 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-03-10, James wrote: I installed Debian7 but it has old software. I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default). I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current version is 2.2.0. I followed the

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

On 03/04/2015 09:33 PM, Ken Heard wrote: > In the next month or so I will have to do a clean OS installation in > two desktops. Jessie is now frozen (Debian's contribution to retarding > global warming?); and there are apparently fewer RC bugs at this point > after the freeze than there were at the

Re: Installing Openbox

On 2015-03-10, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:33:28 -0500 > Derek Jansen wrote: > >> Openbox refuses to start after its installation. I get dropped into >> TTY1. Using startx works, but Debian will not automatically bring my >> to TTY7 for Openbox to start. >> >> I’ve installed xorg and ope

Re: old software

On 2015-03-10, James wrote: > I installed Debian7 but it has old software. > I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default). > > I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current > version is 2.2.0. > I followed the instructions on the videolan.org web

Re: old software

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 23:36:42 James wrote: > I installed Debian7 but it has old software. > I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default). > > I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current > version is 2.2.0. > I followed the instructions on the

old software

I installed Debian7 but it has old software. I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default). I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current version is 2.2.0. I followed the instructions on the videolan.org website to add the backports repository b

Re: Fwd: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/15 03:55, Bret Busby wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Busby > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:54:42 +0800 > Subject: Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to > squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 11:52:13 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2015-03-10 13:36 +0100, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, > > but Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png > > images of a circuit board he has designed. >

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 11:06:26 The Wanderer wrote: > On 03/10/2015 at 10:31 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Complicated by any attempt to pre-clear the address bar so you can > >> try the paste again causes the paste buffer to be overwritten by >

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 10:59:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: > > I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click "Copy > > Link Location", switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with > > Ctrl-T, and hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied U

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 10:56:03 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: > > Above, you say that you're running kmail 1.13.7. > > However, according to 'apt-cache policy' on my computer, the version > > of kmail in current stable (which is codenamed wheezy) is 4

Re: Installing Openbox

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:33:28 -0500 Derek Jansen wrote: > Openbox refuses to start after its installation. I get dropped into > TTY1. Using startx works, but Debian will not automatically bring my > to TTY7 for Openbox to start. > > I’ve installed xorg and openbox using apt-get build-dep first th

Installing Openbox

Openbox refuses to start after its installation. I get dropped into TTY1. Using startx works, but Debian will not automatically bring my to TTY7 for Openbox to start. I’ve installed xorg and openbox using apt-get build-dep first then apt-get install xorg openbox second. I finished with a reboot, b

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

On 03/10/2015 02:00 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Comments? Suggestions of things to try? Boot the installer up to the point where it reads the disks. Do a 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1M' to try to forcibly erase the boot sector and any EFI stuff that might be on the disk. If that fail

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

Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and > > > install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of > > > de

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

On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > 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 hav

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 10:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: > On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 March 2015 08:59:29 Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time > >>> kernel,

Re: Odd Jessie Package Programs Shown in Gnome?

On 2015-03-10, Thomas H. George wrote: > The gnome activities show all applications produces three pages of > program icons many of which are gray gear wheel icons. I clicked on a > few which did nothing. Trying apt-cache show on some of these icons' > names I determined they related to screen sa

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

Quoting Darac Marjal (mailingl...@darac.org.uk): > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 07:49:04PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > 3rd option. > > Do the addition to the linux (ie kernel) line of /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > > > Yeah the file says dont do that. > > The grub guys make that suggestion but dont really fol

Re: Fwd: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Bret Busby > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:54:42 +0800 > Subject: Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to > squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable > To: debian-...@lists.debian.org I hav

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On 2015-03-10, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 March 2015 15:06:26 The Wanderer wrote: >> However, I also sometimes right-click, "Copy Link Location", hit F6 to >> shift focus into the address bar (thereby highlighting the existing >> URL), and hit Ctrl-V to paste; it also works flawlessly. > >

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

Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > 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 H

Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

On 3/10/15, Bret Busby wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Bret Busby > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:54:42 +0800 > Subject: Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to > squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable > To: debian-...@lists.debian.org > > On 10/03/2015,

答复: Debian 6 lifetime

Thanks everyone, I have known😃 发件人: Markus Schönhaber 发送时间: ‎2015/‎3/‎10 23:18 收件人: debian-user@lists.debian.org 主题: Re: Debian 6 lifetime Am 10.03.2015 um 15:39 schrieb 梅凱: > What time

Re: Debian 6 lifetime

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:39:50PM +0800, 梅凱 wrote: > What time will be stopped its support for debian 6 >From https://wiki.debian.org/LTS " [L]ong term support for the [Debian 6] distribution is going to be extended until February 2016, i.e. five years after the initial release.

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 15:06:26 The Wanderer wrote: > However, I also sometimes right-click, "Copy Link Location", hit F6 to > shift focus into the address bar (thereby highlighting the existing > URL), and hit Ctrl-V to paste; it also works flawlessly. Thanks, Wanderer! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Debian 6 lifetime

Am 10.03.2015 um 15:39 schrieb 梅凱: > What time will be stopped its support for debian 6 https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze -- Regards mks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On 03/10/2015 at 10:31 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Complicated by any attempt to pre-clear the address bar so you can >> try the paste again causes the paste buffer to be overwritten by >> the contents of said malformed address bar. So instead of fi

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

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 2:40:05 PM UTC+5:30, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 07:49:04PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > 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 A

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: > I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click "Copy Link > Location", switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with Ctrl-T, and > hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied URL. It works flawlessly. Thank you for that! I have just tri

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 14:31:53 The Wanderer wrote: > Above, you say that you're running kmail 1.13.7. > However, according to 'apt-cache policy' on my computer, the version of > kmail in current stable (which is codenamed wheezy) is 4.4.11. That's > quite a version difference. > > What exact ver

Fwd: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

-- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Busby Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:54:42 +0800 Subject: Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable To: debian-...@lists.debian.org On 10/03/2015, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Debian 6 lifetime

What time will be stopped its support for debian 6

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 10 March 2015 08:59:29 Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time >>> kernel, but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And >>>

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

On 3/10/15, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 07:49:04PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: >> 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 messa

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

On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > 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 > partiton

Odd Jessie Package Programs Shown in Gnome?

The gnome activities show all applications produces three pages of program icons many of which are gray gear wheel icons. I clicked on a few which did nothing. Trying apt-cache show on some of these icons' names I determined they related to screen savers. Can I get rid of them? I realize that s

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 08:59:29 Brian wrote: > On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, > > but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the > > wheezy kmail is font broken, using TDE R14,

Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

On Tue 10 Mar 2015 at 08:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but > not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the wheezy > kmail is font broken, using TDE R14, where kmail Just Works(TM). > > Over on another list,

iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't

Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel, but not running it. Using a 64 bit 3.2.0 instead. And because the wheezy kmail is font broken, using TDE R14, where kmail Just Works(TM). Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png images of a circuit boar

Mrtg error

Hello! A few days to hj'm getting a mail from my server with the following error: Cron if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ] && [ -d "$(grep '^[[:space:]]*[^#]*[[:space:]]*WorkDir' /etc/mrtg.cfg | awk '{ print $NF }')" ]; then mkdir -p /var/log/mrtg ; env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/

Re: How to pinpoint the package responsible for an unhandled IRQ?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:18:25PM -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: >> 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 syst

Re: FW: Urgente ayuda cambiar fecha de caducidad de repositorios

> 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 > los repositorios de la pagina de colombia http://debian.unal.edu.co por es la > que mas cerca esta a mi pai

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

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 07:49:04PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > 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: > >

Re: How to pinpoint the package responsible for an unhandled IRQ?

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:18:25PM -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > 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 under

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

On 03/10/2015 04:53 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2015 03:53:29 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: all I want is the One True Directive(TM) Ubuntu?? ;-) Sorry, Sivaram. But this is Debian. People don't usually use Debian if they want the One True Directive! We all have different opinio

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 03:53:29 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > all I want is the One True Directive(TM) Ubuntu?? ;-) Sorry, Sivaram. But this is Debian. People don't usually use Debian if they want the One True Directive! We all have different opinions. A lot depends on which version you ar

Re: svn, subversion, repos

On Monday 09 March 2015 19:14:21, pe...@easthope.ca wrote : > 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

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

On 3/9/2015 9:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: 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 trou

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

On 09/03/2015, 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. > " That is the solution. I downloaded a Ubuntu 14.04 Server image, wrote it to a disk, and ran it in Rescue Mode, set th

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

On 09/03/2015, Curt wrote: > 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