Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze

2015-06-07 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-06 10:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: > Right click the nm-applet in your xfce4 desktop notification area for > settings. Don't see it? Run ~$ nm-applet & Not found? > Install network-manager-gnome. > > Or use nmcli. man nmcli for help. > > Good luck and have fun! > Ralph Thanks a lot for y

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-07 Thread Mart van de Wege
Francis Gerund writes: > Does anyone here have any inside information on what is happening (or > not happening) with the Devuan project? > > It seems to be dead, or at least dying. > > I am (more than) starting to think the whole thing was just a sick, > sleazy hoax/disinformation campaign by y

Re: multitouch / touchscreen support in Debian

2015-06-07 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/08/2015 12:47 AM, Frank Loeffler wrote: My question is mainly in which direction I should look. Google wasn't particularly helpful, as most hits point to Ubuntu (no, I don't want to switch to Ubuntu). The recommended solution there seems to be either Unity, or a tool called touchegg, which

Re: multitouch / touchscreen support in Debian

2015-06-07 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/08/2015 12:47 AM, Frank Loeffler wrote: My question is mainly in which direction I should look. Google wasn't particularly helpful, as most hits point to Ubuntu (no, I don't want to switch to Ubuntu). The recommended solution there seems to be either Unity, or a tool called touchegg, which

multitouch / touchscreen support in Debian

2015-06-07 Thread Frank Loeffler
Hi, I am interested in some basic touchscreen / multitouch support on my xfce desktop. There are two actions I am particularly interested in (single touch handled as 'click', and two-finger scroll), but I wouldn't say no to more. I want this in every application, not just some browser (even scroll

Re: ppas in debian

2015-06-07 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/07/2015 03:59 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On 06/07/2015 08:42 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Anil Duggirala wrote: is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? Debian does not (yet) have anything like a PPA. And using Ubuntus PPAs in Debian is a bad ide

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/06/15 04:11 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: (sending again through hotmail's web interface -- apologies for anything my MUA may do to the content) Seems to have worked this time. Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 14:23:40 -0500 From: deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk Quoting Gary Dale: Arno Schuring said: "rec

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150607_2026-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > The can't be much wrong except for configuration because I can > print documents from a modern MacBook Pro laptop running Mac OS X. In addition, I can print LibreOffice documents with no problems. But LibreOffice has a full function printer

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Rob Hurle
You should be able to use the CUPS interface: http://localhost:631 I use this for my Canon LBP7200Cdn printer, but I haven't gone to Jessie yet. It handled the setting up in the change from squeeze to wheezy. Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobil

CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
My printer was working a few weeks ago at printing files in Emacs, but now I get an error message that the default printer has not been set. I don't recall having done any setting of the default when it was working. I had thought it happened automagically because of some special code in some packag

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Leslie Rhorer (lrho...@mygrande.net): > On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 4:00:04 AM UTC-5, Reco wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any ideas how I could get curl to handle the task, since > > > wget is failing? Some other utility? > > > > Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wg

NFSv4+Kerberos shares and ownership (root:root)

2015-06-07 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I'm trying to setup a new NFSv4 server with Kerberos as authentication. The shares are exported as expected and I'm able to mount them using krb5i authentication on the NFS clients. My problem is ownership and permission management on the exported shares. I need the shares and their conten

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Arno Schuring a écrit : > > It does, but what it breaks is the installed bootloader, not the grub > installation. So "it needs to be reinstalled" is correct, but "aptitude > reinstall grub-pc" is the wrong solution. You should be running > update-grub and grub-install I'd run them in the reverse

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Leslie Rhorer
> > > Instead of returning the main page, it just returns: > > > > > > Object moved > > > Object moved to here. > > > > > This is most probably the sign of a redirect (see below) > > [...] > > > Well, for starters, try using the URL > > https://mytotalconnectcomfort.com/portal/ (note trailing

Re: check file system on virutal server - Wheezy

2015-06-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:10:52PM +0200, Chris wrote: > I have a virtual server running on my provider. It is an up-to-date VM Wheezy > system running under Parallels. I've beem wondering about fsck, the provider > says its a virtual file-system and that for this reason the fstab entry is 0, >

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 4:00:04 AM UTC-5, Reco wrote: > > Does anyone have any ideas how I could get curl to handle the task, since > > wget is failing? Some other utility? > > Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wget: Why? The -L option in curl did the trick. Is there

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 07 June 2015 19:38:45 Francis Gerund wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 07 June 2015 02:54:56 Francis Gerund wrote: > > > upgrading in place sounds good in theory, but > > > never quite works right > > > > What do you think will happen when Stretch b

RE: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Arno Schuring
(sending again through hotmail's web interface -- apologies for anything my MUA may do to the content) > Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 14:23:40 -0500 > From: deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk > > Quoting Gary Dale: >> Arno Schuring said: >>> "reconfigure grub" in this case meant uninstalling grub-pc and >>> instal

Re: ppas in debian

2015-06-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/07/2015 08:42 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Anil Duggirala wrote: >>> is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? >> >> Debian does not (yet) have anything like a PPA. >> >> And using Ubuntus PPAs in Debian is a bad idea, won't work half the >> time

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gary Dale: > Arno Schuring said: >> "reconfigure grub" in this case meant uninstalling grub-pc and >> installing grub-efi, right? > No actually. I never uninstalled grub-pc. The machine seemed to have > grub-efi-amd64 all along. What I meant was the more mundane > update-grub sequence. Also

Re: KVM

2015-06-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 22:03 +0300, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > Guest (Debian jessie) operating system on KVM creating "Failed to > access Perfct ms" My error. What could be the reason? > Google suggests that's just a warning and your problem lies elsewhere. If you have trouble booting, try r

KVM

2015-06-07 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Hello Guest (Debian jessie) operating system on KVM creating "Failed to access Perfct ms" My error. What could be the reason? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.d

[OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-07 Thread Francis Gerund
Does anyone here have any inside information on what is happening (or not happening) with the Devuan project? It seems to be dead, or at least dying. I am (more than) starting to think the whole thing was just a sick, sleazy hoax/disinformation campaign by you-know-who to confuse and disillusion

Re: ppas in debian

2015-06-07 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/07/2015 08:42 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Anil Duggirala wrote: is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? Debian does not (yet) have anything like a PPA. And using Ubuntus PPAs in Debian is a bad idea, won't work half the time and will wreck your system the other

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jun 2015 at 00:12:48 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Francis Gerund wrote: > > FWIW, here is the new /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > > # > > > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official Multi-architecture > > amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150$ > > > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-07 Thread Francis Gerund
Well, too late now! Guess I'll just fight with testing, until it breaks. Or Devuan gets released (Hurry!!) On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 07 June 2015 02:54:56 Francis Gerund wrote: > > upgrading in place sounds good in theory, but > > never quite works right >

check file system on virutal server - Wheezy

2015-06-07 Thread Chris
Hi, I have a virtual server running on my provider. It is an up-to-date VM Wheezy system running under Parallels. I've beem wondering about fsck, the provider says its a virtual file-system and that for this reason the fstab entry is 0, i.e. no fsck on boot. I've googled and for similar situat

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 12:49:22PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've gotten some help on the Ubuntu list, and can start the system by > putting "term" at the end of the grub menu "linux" line. My daemons all > start normally, and I can log in via SSH on the LAN. > > Unfortunately, while "start

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : > On 06/06/15 06:23 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Gary Dale a écrit : >>> I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition >>> table and wanted to convert it to GPT. >> May I ask why ? > Yes you may. GPT is the superior partition table, especially when > dual

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : > On 06/06/15 07:14 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> How could "the grub menu look fine" if "the grub boot loader doesn't >> appear to be executing" ? >> > If you read what I wrote, I said the "grub menu looks fine on the HD". Well, that did not make much sense to me because the

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 07:14 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : The problem is that the grub boot loader doesn't appear to be executing. The grub menu looks fine on the HD, but grub itself doesn't even get to the point of failing. How could "the grub menu look fine" if "the grub boot loader do

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 06:23 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition table and wanted to convert it to GPT. May I ask why ? Yes you may. GPT is the superior partition table, especially when dual-booting, as it allows more partitio

Re: option to favor GNU tools instead of SunOS binaries?

2015-06-07 Thread Emanuel Berg
The Wanderer writes: > Modify your shell config file to prepend > /it/sw/gnutools/bin/ to PATH, then launch a new > instance of the shell. > > I don't know the filename or appropriate syntax for > that file for zsh, but with bash it would be > ~/.bashrc (or /etc/profile, or any file invoked from

Re: ppas in debian

2015-06-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Anil Duggirala wrote: > is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? Debian does not (yet) have anything like a PPA. And using Ubuntus PPAs in Debian is a bad idea, won't work half the time and will wreck your system the other. Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core du

ppas in debian

2015-06-07 Thread Anil Duggirala
is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? thanks -- 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/1433680465.1004144.288941825.01294...@web

Re: option to favor GNU tools instead of SunOS binaries?

2015-06-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/07/2015 at 08:18 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > On my school's SunOS there are a lot of tools that > sound the same but aren't exactly the same as the GNU > tools that I'm accustomed with from Debian. This is > confusing and error-prone. > > For example > > du > > isn't GNU du(1) but a bin

Re: Grub2 Timeout Setting

2015-06-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 19:20 +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Just as what you said , I should see the boot menu by the setting of > LinuxMint. > This setting will wait 10 seconds for me to press key to continue! > Why I can not see the boot menu? And when I delete the > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT and GRUB_HID

option to favor GNU tools instead of SunOS binaries?

2015-06-07 Thread Emanuel Berg
On my school's SunOS there are a lot of tools that sound the same but aren't exactly the same as the GNU tools that I'm accustomed with from Debian. This is confusing and error-prone. For example du isn't GNU du(1) but a binary on the SunOS system: /usr/bin/du and there is also /u

Re: Grub2 Timeout Setting

2015-06-07 Thread mudongliang
On 06/07/2015 06:52 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 18:37 +0800, mudongliang wrote: Today I compile the linux kernel 4.0.0 in LinuxMint!When I update grub and reboot into the system , I can only get into 4.0.0 kernel! The content of /etc/default/grub is following: GRUB_DEFAULT

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:04:39AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 06/07/2015 12:31 AM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > I had a script running just fine under Debian Squeeze, but that server is > > now offline for repair and upgrade to Jessie, so I a

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 06/07/2015 12:31 AM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > I had a script running just fine under Debian Squeeze, but that server is now > offline for repair and upgrade to Jessie, so I am now running the script > under Jessie, and the script is failing when attempting to scrape data off a > website using w

Re: Grub2 Timeout Setting

2015-06-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 18:37 +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Today I compile the linux kernel 4.0.0 in LinuxMint!When I update grub > and reboot into the system , I can only get into 4.0.0 kernel! > The content of /etc/default/grub is following: > > GRUB_DEFAULT=0 > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 > GRUB_HIDDEN

Grub2 Timeout Setting

2015-06-07 Thread mudongliang
Today I compile the linux kernel 4.0.0 in LinuxMint!When I update grub and reboot into the system , I can only get into 4.0.0 kernel! The content of /etc/default/grub is following: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 07 June 2015 02:54:56 Francis Gerund wrote: > upgrading in place sounds good in theory, but > never quite works right What do you think will happen when Stretch becomes Stable? You will upgrade in place, instantly, totally uncontrolled by you. Ignoring all release notes. Much better

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-07 Thread Tomas Nordin
> Note: Installing something from backports is not considered to be > "forced". Packages from backports are expected to work fine with the > rest of the system. Right, i didn't really mean force, I meant installing from a later version like you say. > You have to install the package containing th

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 20:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas how I could get curl to handle the task, since > wget is failing? Some other utility? Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wget: socat TCP4-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr,fork \ OPENSSL:m