Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:06:41 -0600, schreef Bob Proulx: > Linux4Bene wrote: > Since /dev is dynamic anything done to it will evaporate after a reboot. > After a reboot it will all be as if nothing had been overwritten there. > If you get to the point of a reboot then there is nothing lingering

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 17:48:11 +0200 Siard wrote: > Teemu Likonen: > > Nicolas George: > > > Someone recently suggested to use "nodm"; a quick test a few days > > > ago seems to indicate it still works. > > > > It works, indeed. Thanks. > > But how to log out with nodm?? After logging out, I get

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:49:45 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Every file. File by file. I liked this presentation and found it > > > quite interesting. > > > > > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many-Thousands-of-Serve

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:35:16 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I can boot in recovery mode but if I do that as root if I run > > aptitude it doesn't download packages - I think there is no > > internet connection being made. > > That makes me think you are running NetworkMan

Re: multitouch / touchscreen support in Debian

2015-06-08 Thread Seeker
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

Re: multitouch / touchscreen support in Debian

2015-06-08 Thread Seeker
On 6/7/2015 11:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: 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 eith

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/06/15 02:24 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:24:20 +0200 > From: geo...@nsup.org > > More precisely: a conforming UEFI firmware MUST be able to read FAT32 > partitions. It CAN be able to read other types: apple's implementation can > read apple's proprietary filesystem.

Re: much longer boot time with jessie

2015-06-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sven Hartge (s...@svenhartge.de): > David Wright wrote: > > > $ systemd-analyze blame > > 36.727s wicd.service > > 22.102s binfmt-support.service > > 20.789s alsa-restore.service > > 20.618s lm-sensors.service > > 20.565s systemd-logind.service

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Leslie Rhorer (lrho...@mygrande.net): > On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 7:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting 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, > > > > >

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Well, it's on a laptop, so there's no (external) data cable involved. And the resolution seems to be set correctly at maximum, 1366 x 768, IIRC. And the display doesn't look defective or mis-calibrated, just more like 1995 than 2015. I think it just lame fonts in XFCE, not the physical display.

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > On Monday 08 June 2015 23:06:41 Bob Proulx wrote: > > Every file.  File by file.  I liked this presentation and found it > > quite interesting. > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many- > >Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Every file. File by file. I liked this presentation and found it > > quite interesting. > > > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many-Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG-talk-at-Linux_conf_au-2014.html That one definitely wor

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Fothergill wrote: > I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did Testing is a development track. It isn't released. Welcome to the process of making the release. Remember that when running Testing or Unstable that you are part of the development process. You wi

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 23:06:41 Bob Proulx wrote: > Every file.  File by file.  I liked this presentation and found it > quite interesting. > >   > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My-Live-Upgrading-Many- >Thousands-of-Servers-ProdNG-talk-at-Linux_conf_au-2014.html > > Unfortunat

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Leslie Rhorer wrote: > Reco wrote: > > Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wget: That use of socat was clever. I didn't like the pkill socat though. Wouldn't be good if there were another one running at the same time. > Why? The -L option in curl did the trick. Is there some

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Linux4Bene wrote: > schreef Bob Proulx: > thanks for your reply and the time invested. Much appreciated. > It does indeed seem tricky unless you go the full monty and replace the > whole installation except for the special dirs like dev as you noted. > In my test, I didn't get any strange results

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Erwan David wrote: > Note also that using testing give you the advantage of not having to > upgrade all software at the same time, but gradually. Yes. This is just like removing a bandage. You don't have to take it off all at once. You can pull it off very slowly and savor the feeling of each h

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Joe wrote: > Francis Gerund wrote: > > Or, I can always reinstall. The XFCE didplay is so fuzzy, it hurts > > my eyes (even after woring with the gui adjustments). Maybe I will > > go back to being a slave to Gnome - unconfigureable, but looks better. > > That's generally a sign that a non-CRT m

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 7:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Wright wrote: > Quoting 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? > > > > > > D

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Rick Thomas [2015-06-07 19:39]: >> I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200” >> if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit >> hard to interpret… > > From the log it looks like you didn't fin

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Actually, I have been using Debian (off and on), since the 1990's. My first real GNU/Linux distribution was Debian 2.0 - "Hamm"! "I wish I could quit you." - from the movie, Brokeback Mountain I have dabbled a little with testing before, but mostly stayed with stable, when I was usin

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/08/2015 02:34 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 08/06/2015 20:31, Erwan David a écrit : You need xorg.conf when you want something else than the default for the detected hardware. However you can only define your variation from this default. You may even define it through several files in /etc/X11

Re: fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-08 Thread Siard
notoneofmy wrote: > Siard wrote: > > AFAIK, you can do that in the style file, > > i.e. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/Twice. > > Can I do the same with xfce. > I don't like the black on the top of windows. I guess so, because there is no black on the top of windows in xfce here. I hardly know anythin

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jun 2015 at 19:35:53 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 08/06/2015 19:29, Nicolas George a écrit : > > > > If you have decided you are up to the task of using testing, then do it. > > > > Regards, > > > > Note also that using testing give you the advantage of not having to > upgrade all sof

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Nicolas George a écrit : > > Arno Schuring: > >> (which we already knew, as Windows does not support booting in EFI mode >> from an MBR-style disk) > > I am no windows specialist, but I doubt this is true: I can tell from experience that it is true for Windows Vista and 7 at least. I haven't ha

Re: usbkey: mount option gid=100

2015-06-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jun 2015 at 13:53:52 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I hosed a USB key, probably by pulling it out while files still being > copied to it. I'd like to recover the files. Question: What has this to do with the thread you have posted in? Answer: Nothing. Response: Please accept my apologie

Re: check file system on virutal server - Wheezy

2015-06-08 Thread Chris
On Sunday 07 June 2015 22:59:48 Santiago Vila wrote: > 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 fil

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-08 8:34 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Sorry for my poor english. Your poor English was quite rich in details. -- 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/5575

Re: fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-08 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-08 6:08 PM, Siard wrote: > AFAIK, you can do that in the style file, > i.e. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/Twice. > > In the last line, 'background.color: grey20', > change 'grey20' to 'black'. Can I do the same with xfce. I don't like the black on the top of windows. Thanks a lot! -- To U

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread Erwan David
Le 08/06/2015 20:31, Erwan David a écrit : > You need xorg.conf when you want something else than the default for > the detected hardware. However you can only define your variation from > this default. You may even define it through several files in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ( see xorg.conf.d(5) )

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread Erwan David
Le 08/06/2015 20:28, Ric Moore a écrit : > On 06/08/2015 01:38 PM, notoneofmy wrote: >> On 15-06-06 6:59 AM, Ric Moore wrote: >>> It's supposed to be in /etc/X11 >>> Look and see if you have a backup there. Or, just run nvidia-xconfig >>> from command line and reboot. If no xorg.conf file is found,

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds (SOLVED!!)

2015-06-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/06/2015 10:45 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 11:33:07PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 23:18:53 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/05/2015 05:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 22:41:55 Gary Roach wrote: Most of my large downloads are from ftp.us.de

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/08/2015 01:38 PM, notoneofmy wrote: On 15-06-06 6:59 AM, Ric Moore wrote: It's supposed to be in /etc/X11 Look and see if you have a backup there. Or, just run nvidia-xconfig from command line and reboot. If no xorg.conf file is found, it will generate a new one, so if you want a new confi

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/08/2015 01:21 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: But I cannot use the keyboard. On the other hand, an old ps2 keyboard works fine. Have you checked your bios for anything quirky? Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignoranc

RE: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:24:20 +0200 > From: geo...@nsup.org > > More precisely: a conforming UEFI firmware MUST be able to read FAT32 > partitions. It CAN be able to read other types: apple's implementation can > read apple's proprietary filesystem. > > If you KNOW that YOUR firmware suppo

Re: fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 06:08:15PM +0200, Siard wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm running Twice window style under fluxbox. > > ... > > How do I override the Twice style background with black color? > > AFAIK, you can do that in the style file, > i.e. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/Twice. You are q

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Joe
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:09:21 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Do you mean just changing the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list from > "testing" to "stretch"? Would that work? > Yes, there should be no change in operation, as the same repositories will be used. > Or, I can always reinstall. The XFCE d

usbkey: mount option gid=100

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
I hosed a USB key, probably by pulling it out while files still being copied to it. I'd like to recover the files. Dmesg: ... [6990701.755708] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [6990702.003269] EXT3-fs (sdc1): error: unrecognized mount option "gid=100" or missing value

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-06 6:59 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > It's supposed to be in /etc/X11 > Look and see if you have a backup there. Or, just run nvidia-xconfig > from command line and reboot. If no xorg.conf file is found, it will > generate a new one, so if you want a new config file just make sure no > file named

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Erwan David
Le 08/06/2015 19:29, Nicolas George a écrit : > Le decadi 20 prairial, an CCXXIII, Francis Gerund a écrit : >> Do you mean just changing the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list from "testing" >> to "stretch"? Would that work? >> >> Or, I can always reinstall. > Or you could just leave it as is. The ben

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-06 7:07 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > Kevin, I know you know all the helpful types fled the various flavors > of *ubuntu and came here. I think we can take it as a compliment. You > might as well install Jessie and make this your new home. :) Ric ..because I share this so well, I am inclined to

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 prairial, an CCXXIII, Francis Gerund a écrit : > Do you mean just changing the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list from "testing" > to "stretch"? Would that work? > > Or, I can always reinstall. Or you could just leave it as is. The benefits of waiting after each release to branch on tes

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 5 juin 2015, 20:51:01 Kevin O'Gorman a écrit : > I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at > 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in because > the keyboard and mouse are being ignored. What type or brand of keyboard and mouse a

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 17:36:36 Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian Folks, > > I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did > aptitude safe-upgrade. > > It worked OK or so it seemed. > > But then I decided to try aptitude dist-upgrade afterward. > > That wanted to rehas

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 prairial, an CCXXIII, Siard a écrit : > Ah, I use Fluxbox, so I can only log out, then shut down from the > console. Looks like nodm is no option here. Why do you need to log out? Just open a terminal emulator to shutdown. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description:

I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian Folks, I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did aptitude safe-upgrade. It worked OK or so it seemed. But then I decided to try aptitude dist-upgrade afterward. That wanted to rehash the xorg-server video package and after doing it when I boot up the wind

correction was Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 17:21:35 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 08 June 2015 17:09:21 Francis Gerund wrote: > > Do you mean just changing the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list from > > "testing" to "stretch"? > > Yes, taht uis what I mean. Yes, that is what I mean. Sorry. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8

2015-06-08 Thread Fekete Tamás
Hy again, I realised that I mistyped one character in /etc/pam.d/common-session. I wrote in it "pam.umask.so" and not "pam_umask.so", that was the problem. Sorry for the inconvinience I have caused. Tamas Fekete 2015-06-08 16:51 GMT+02:00 Fekete Tamás : > Hello everyone, > > I use wheezy 7.8 on

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 17:09:21 Francis Gerund wrote: > Do you mean just changing the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list from "testing" > to "stretch"? Yes, taht uis what I mean. > Would that work? Yes. > Or, I can always reinstall. The XFCE didplay is so fuzzy, it hurts my eyes > (even after w

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Siard
Lisi Reisz: > Siard: > > But how to log out with nodm?? After logging out, I get immediately > > logged back in. > > You have to shut down. Ah, I use Fluxbox, so I can only log out, then shut down from the console. Looks like nodm is no option here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-08 Thread Siard
Haines Brown wrote: > I'm running Twice window style under fluxbox. > ... > How do I override the Twice style background with black color? AFAIK, you can do that in the style file, i.e. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/Twice. In the last line, 'background.color: grey20', change 'grey20' to 'black'. --

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Do you mean just changing the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list from "testing" to "stretch"? Would that work? Or, I can always reinstall. The XFCE didplay is so fuzzy, it hurts my eyes (even after woring with the gui adjustments). Maybe I will go back to being a slave to Gnome - unconfigureable, b

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 17:00:31 pjw wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015, at 08:41 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 8/06/2015 4:55 AM, Francis Gerund wrote: > > > It seems to be dead, or at least dying. > > > > systemd is a huge mistake for Debian and other distros, a very sad > > mistake, Devuan or BSD

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 16:48:11 Siard wrote: > Teemu Likonen: > > Nicolas George: > > > Someone recently suggested to use "nodm"; a quick test a few days > > > ago seems to indicate it still works. > > > > It works, indeed. Thanks. > > But how to log out with nodm?? After logging out, I get immedi

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread pjw
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015, at 08:41 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/06/2015 4:55 AM, Francis Gerund wrote: > > It seems to be dead, or at least dying. > systemd is a huge mistake for Debian and other distros, a very sad > mistake, Devuan or BSD will be a far better option for servers, if not > much m

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 10:02:47 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:54:09 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > > On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 > > >> > > >> Bret Busby wrote: > > >>> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bar

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 09:18:25 Bret Busby wrote: > The telinit s command, whilst taking the computer to single user mode, > unfortunately did not turn off the GUI, so I still got the same error. Have you tried booting into single user mode in the first place? The GUI will not have been started,

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Siard
Teemu Likonen: > Nicolas George: > > Someone recently suggested to use "nodm"; a quick test a few days > > ago seems to indicate it still works. > > It works, indeed. Thanks. But how to log out with nodm?? After logging out, I get immediately logged back in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 10:53:40 Juha Heinanen wrote: > Teemu Likonen writes: > > > It seems that it has no effect anymore in Debian 8 (Jessie), probably > > > because of the new init system (systemd). So how do I get similar > > > functionality with the new systemd init system? > > > > One option i

unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8

2015-06-08 Thread Fekete Tamás
Hello everyone, I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do. Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it to be 007

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > The telinit s command, whilst taking the computer to single user mode, > unfortunately did not turn off the GUI, so I still got the same error. It would appear that there's some sort of disagreement over terminology here. X will not be running while in

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:59:16 -0600, schreef Bob Proulx: > This is one of those hard topics. It seems easy enough. But the > reality is that there are many subtle problems. It comes up for > discussion every so often over the years. I don't think there has ever > been a completely satisfactory

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/06/2015 4:55 AM, Francis Gerund wrote: > 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. Not so quick. systemd is a huge mistake for

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 prairial, an CCXXIII, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > Fortunately I haven't noticed anything in years. I've been using i3 > window manager so maybe I'm unaware of some services that modern > desktops might use or depend on. The issues are discreet, but if you end up falling on one, you will

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas [2015-06-07 19:39]: > I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200” > if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit > hard to interpret… >From the log it looks like you didn't finish the installation. These are the last messages in the log:

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150608_1040+0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:43:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > 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. > > [...] > > Questions: > >

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 07:17:24AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Not my impression at all. The Alpha 2 installer just came out. I was > able to install devuan in a virtual box without a problem, and so now > one of my virtual desktops is now a Devuan version of Jessie. Systemd is > not installed. I

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 07:17:24AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Not my impression at all. The Alpha 2 installer just came out. I was > able to install devuan in a virtual box without a problem, and so now > one of my virtual desktops is now a Devuan version of Jessie. Systemd is > not installed. I'

fluxbox: overriding style background color

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running Twice window style under fluxbox. I want to change its default background color from gray to black. I can make the background black with the command fbsetroot -solid black, but it does not persist. When fluxbox is restarted, it reverts to grey. I tried putting fbsetroot |-foreground

Re: [OT] Is Devuan a hoax?

2015-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:20:41AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > 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

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Teemu Likonen
Nicolas George [2015-06-08 11:55:17+02] wrote: > Rule of thumb: if you are using rc.local, then you are doing something > quick-and-dirty and preparing no end of problems for later. > > In this particular instance, you are not registering the X11 session > with the various session-management daemo

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 prairial, an CCXXIII, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > One option is /etc/rc.local: > > /bin/su -l USER -c /usr/bin/startx /dev/tty8 2>&1 & > exit 0 Rule of thumb: if you are using rc.local, then you are doing something quick-and-dirty and preparing no end of problems for later. In

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Juha Heinanen
Teemu Likonen writes: > > It seems that it has no effect anymore in Debian 8 (Jessie), probably > > because of the new init system (systemd). So how do I get similar > > functionality with the new systemd init system? > > One option is /etc/rc.local: > > /bin/su -l USER -c /usr/bin/startx /d

Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

2015-06-08 Thread Teemu Likonen
Teemu Likonen [2015-06-04 12:26:08+03] wrote: > When my machine boots it logs in to X session automatically without > user login and password prompt. > Upto Debian 7 I have had this line in my [/etc/inittab] file: > > oma:2:once:/bin/su -l dtw -c /usr/bin/startx /dev/tty8 2>&1 > > It seems th

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Nicolas George
There are a few approximations, let me add a few comments. In short, most of what you wrote is good practice, but not actually required. Arno Schuring: > There's still some confusion here: > - The ESP (Efi System Partition) is recommended to be around 100-200MB It needs to be big enough to contai

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 7, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> * Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-18 13:42]: >>> The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: >> ... >>> May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determin

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:54:09 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 > >> Bret Busby wrote: > >> > >>> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > If it's enabled, CTRL-

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 08/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI stuff, >>> > and drop you to a termina

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 08/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> >> >> > >> > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI stuff, >> > and drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the nVidia >> > driv

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:43:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > 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. [...] Questions: - the error message

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:03:29PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 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,

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:10:23 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI stuff, > > and drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the nVidia > > driver, etc., just type startx. > > > > B > > > >

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 27/05/2015, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 27/05/15 18:33, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 27/05/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:15:36 +0800 >>> Bret Busby wrote: Or, is a way available, without causing damage, that I can do something like go to a console () and turn off,

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 27/05/2015, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > If it's enabled, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will halt X and all GUI stuff, and > drop you to a terminal. Once you've installed the nVidia driver, > etc., just type startx. > > B > I tried that,and got no response, so I assume that it is not enabled. How do I

RE: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 23:23:26 -0400 > From: garyd...@torfree.net > >> >> On top of that, grub installs its stage2 bootloader in the unclaimed >> space between the MBR and the first partition. That space is not unused >> in the GPT disk format, so when you simply convert your existing >> partit

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