Re: [SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.04.2015 um 21:59 schrieb deloptes: > Have you checked what you can do regarding powermanagement - I don't recall > reading this in your postings > > $ qdbus --system org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower | grep > Hibernate > > property read bool org.freedesktop.UPower.CanHibernate

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > With an uncompressed mbox file, using the Content-Length, it could be > faster, but there's still the problem with individual changes. Have you run across Jamie Zawinski's rant against Content-Length? http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html > > But let's say that al

Re: LibreOffice 64 bit suddenly wont save. (Solved -sort of)

2015-04-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/19/2015 05:34 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Has anyone else had the problem that LibreOffice 64 suddenly refuses to save files. If I pull up an old file and change it and save everything seems to be OK. But when I try to open the file again the restore corrupted file screen pops up. When I go th

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-15 13:41:20 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I also notice slowness with a large maildir directory: > > > > > > drwx-- 2 vlefevre vlefevre 8409088 2015-03-24 14:04:33 > > > Mail/oldarc/cur/ > > > > > > In thi

Re: [SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-20 Thread deloptes
W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting deloptes : >> looks like gnome specific. >> did you check permissions? >> I think this was in policykit > > Maybe my original post was not clear: Hibernating works perfectly > fine with Gnome 3 on Jessie, only the actual UI element (button) > is missing in the m

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/20/2015 03:44 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 07:52:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. It does to me. Strange name choice if that is not the case. Would "advanced setup" be better? Ric -- My father, Victor Mo

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 07:52:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Apr 2015 at 12:34:53 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > > > The lesson that I have for others who may find this email while trying > > > to debug a small personal LAN in your

Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I meant 'addresses' gives 100% packet loss. > or succeed as expected, so networking > is up. If ping 8.8.8.8 has 100% packet loss then I would say full networking is down. It will be impossible for DNS to function that way. Does that mean your server isn't routing p

Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:07:40AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > > > That's obviously a problem with aptitude, I don't use it as I find > > apt-get and apt-cache do everything I need. I started using apt, but > > there is no completion, I file

Re: LibreOffice 64 bit suddenly wont save.

2015-04-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/19/2015 05:34 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Has anyone else had the problem that LibreOffice 64 suddenly refuses to save files. If I pull up an old file and change it and save everything seems to be OK. But when I try to open the file again the restore corrupted file screen pops up. When I go th

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > 'Install' gives exactly the same partitioning options as 'Expert > install'. > > Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. > Having booted d-i with 'Install' it is easy enough to get 'Expert' > mode by returning to the main menu to cha

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Apr 2015 at 12:34:53 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > The lesson that I have for others who may find this email while trying > > to debug a small personal LAN in your home is: > > > > Always use 'Expert install' in doing netinst even

Re: Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting martin f krafft (madd...@debian.org): > also sprach Christian Seiler [2015-04-20 17:37 +0200]: > > Well, haven't tried this myself, and don't know about the performance > > (FUSE can be quite slow at times), but you could try bindfs, a FUSE > > filesystem for creating bind mounts that alte

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-15 14:13:43 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Kushal Kumaran (kus...@locationd.net): > > > Moving entries around breaks ongoing readdir operations. If a readdir > > > has gone past the file being removed, and you moved the last entry

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > > > I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can make the > > > disk readonly, but sometimes make it disappear altogether (ie it > > >

[SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting deloptes : looks like gnome specific. did you check permissions? I think this was in policykit Maybe my original post was not clear: Hibernating works perfectly fine with Gnome 3 on Jessie, only the actual UI element (button) is missing in the menu. My relative now uses the power button

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > We have been snipping stuff that seemed to be no longer relevant, so I > have to work from my own memory that I know is flawed. Everything on this list is also at the Debian website. This thread starts at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/20

Re: Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian Seiler [2015-04-20 17:37 +0200]: > Well, haven't tried this myself, and don't know about the performance > (FUSE can be quite slow at times), but you could try bindfs, a FUSE > filesystem for creating bind mounts that alter permissions (it's > packaged in Debian). Interestin

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150420_0911+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:18:58 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150419_0852-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > On your router, depending on make

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-15 14:13:43 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kushal Kumaran (kus...@locationd.net): > > Moving entries around breaks ongoing readdir operations. If a readdir > > has gone past the file being removed, and you moved the last entry > > there, the entry being moved would be missed, desp

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-15 13:41:20 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I also notice slowness with a large maildir directory: > > > > drwx-- 2 vlefevre vlefevre 8409088 2015-03-24 14:04:33 Mail/oldarc/cur/ > > > > In this one, the files are real (145400 files), but I have a Perl > > scr

Re: Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 2015-04-20 15:32, schrieb martin f krafft: Short of the sledgehammer approaches of using either a cronjob to brute-force permissions at regular intervals, or an incronjob to pave over any changes right when they happen, I am at a loss. And I'd like to avoid both those hacks because they a

Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

2015-04-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > That's obviously a problem with aptitude, I don't use it as I find > apt-get and apt-cache do everything I need. I started using apt, but > there is no completion, I filed a bug, but haven't heard anything since. Teemu Ikonen appears to have

Re: Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2015-04-20 15:32 +0200]: > g+s on the directory (as well as the Samba "force directory mode" > setting) do not affect existing files moved into the tree, which is > what happens most of the time actually. ACLs also don't work, since > they are ultimately governed by th

Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread martin f krafft
Hey folks, turning to the larger audience in search for new ideas… since POSIX is based on discretionary access control (meaning that the application/user have the final say), and after Samba 4 dropped the "force directory security mode" & Co. settings, we are finding it really hard to provide a g

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Dark Victorian Spirit
Clear, thanks :) On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:05:17PM +0200, Dark Victorian Spirit wrote: > > I hope i can ask a question on top of this one, > > what if i have a PV which is configured and in use for a while, > > but i found out that i

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:05:17PM +0200, Dark Victorian Spirit wrote: > I hope i can ask a question on top of this one, > what if i have a PV which is configured and in use for a while, > but i found out that i forgot to set the pertition type on LVM. > > Can i still change this without data loss

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Dark Victorian Spirit
I hope i can ask a question on top of this one, what if i have a PV which is configured and in use for a while, but i found out that i forgot to set the pertition type on LVM. Can i still change this without data loss or risk? And if i don't will i face issues of another kind? On Mon, Apr 20, 20

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:33:13 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:26:54AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? > > I don't believe so. The VG is the mapping layer in the LVM stack. It > maps the LVs to the PVs. If you were to share a PV

Re: LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:26:54AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? I don't believe so. The VG is the mapping layer in the LVM stack. It maps the LVs to the PVs. If you were to share a PV between VGs, then you'd need some way to tell the VGs which parts o

Re: [solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
David Wright writes: > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): >> David Wright writes: >> > Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): >> >> Everything else is likely to refer to the mount points in >> >> fstab, and if mounting is by UUID, presumably nothing needs to be done >> >> even there.

Re: LibreOffice 64 bit suddenly wont save.

2015-04-20 Thread lina
I do not have problem with LibreOffice Impress in "Save File". However, once I closed the LibreOffice Impress, restart and re-open the former saved file, it loses 100% fidelity. Some "Connector" have gone; Some lines changed its place or orientation. Thanks, On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Gary

Re: [solved] Re: Change partition numbering

2015-04-20 Thread Joe
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:33:49 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > > David Wright writes: > > > Quoting Joe (j...@jretrading.com): > > >> Everything else is likely to refer to the mount points in > > >> fstab, and if mounting is by UUID, presumably noth

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-20, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Don't confuse primary and secondary with counting. Think 'primary = I'm not confused, nor do I require any lessons from you, nor will I bugger this gnat any further. Let's leave it at that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

LVM question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
Is it possible to have two VGs on the same PV? If so, how can I make a VG with lots of free space smaller? I'm suspecting that the answer to my first question is "no", since this doesn't seem possible from the man pages. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive." pgpkZgFpuk4rE.pg

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... another related question

2015-04-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:18:58 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150419_0852-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > On your router, depending on make and model, there is usually a > > > > page in the web in

Re: pdf reader

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 09:57:04PM +1000, win...@tpg.com.au wrote: > Dear debian-user > How can i install pdf reader for beaglebone debian. Please give me > command line and link.Thanks What have you tried, and what didn't work for you? Have you installed *any* software on it yet? -- "If you're

Re: pdf reader

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:40:47PM +1000, Matthew Chong wrote: > If you have dpkg and frontends (apt, aptitude etc) you can easily install > zathura PDF viewer with "sudo apt-get install zathura", which is a > minimalist PDF viewer. You've done that on the Beaglebone have you? -- "If you're not