Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what > nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that > information, in Debian 6), I found the following two packages > installed; > > " > xserver-xorg-vi

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 08:11:51 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: > It would, there is an ampersand in there. If you want to pass that URL > from the command line, you have to escape it with a backslash - like this: > > http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html?TOPIC=References\&QUERY=#Listen > doh!

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 13/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 >>> Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen > wrote: >> >> >> On 11-

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:24:21 -0700 wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:57:16 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 12:16:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > > form cupsd.conf > > > > > > Listen localhost:631 > > > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock > > > > Ok. > > > > > Listen 19

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-13 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Saturday 13 June 2015 22:52:22 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Brian wrote: > > You don't mean that, do you? After all, you do use > > its functionality for booting. :) > > Thanks for that. You may be right. > > BUT...hrrrmmm...just to show that I can be as > reasonable as the next

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:57:16 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 12:16:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > form cupsd.conf > > > > Listen localhost:631 > > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock > > Ok. > > > Listen 192.168.1.0/24 > > Why? How does that square with > > > http://loca

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread csanyipal
Gary Dale writes: > On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hello, >> >> on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize >> partitions. So far I did followings: >> >> root@b2:~# df -T >> FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% >> Mounted on >

Re: SMTP/HTTP/Tor Connections Timing Out

2015-06-13 Thread Riley Baird
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:07:50 -0400 (EDT) Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Riley Baird wrote: > > > http://libertybsd.net/debian/reportbug.pcapng > > I cannot get your packet capture onto my computer. > wget, curl and lynx failed in the attempt. It works for me, but try this instead

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root ext3 962184

Re: SMTP/HTTP/Tor Connections Timing Out

2015-06-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Riley Baird wrote: http://libertybsd.net/debian/reportbug.pcapng I cannot get your packet capture onto my computer. wget, curl and lynx failed in the attempt. Perhaps double-check your URL, above? -- These are not the droids you are looking for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Brian wrote: You don't mean that, do you? After all, you do use its functionality for booting. :) Thanks for that. You may be right. BUT...hrrrmmm...just to show that I can be as reasonable as the next fellow, allow me to ask if perhaps there was something actually help

SMTP/HTTP/Tor Connections Timing Out

2015-06-13 Thread Riley Baird
Hi, Many of my connections are timing out. For example, I can't use SMTP to send a message if it's over ~1500 bytes, I can't connect to the Tor network and reportbug crashes when querying the BTS for certain packages. I can do these things on Windows using the same connection. I've made a packet

Re: Jessie failed installation woes

2015-06-13 Thread Robert S
Installation was on second drive, and grub was installed to the MBR of that drive. Restart dropped me into grub rescue mode with the message about normal.mod not being found. After mounting the drive in Wheezy, I find that the directory that normal.mod is supposed to be in, is not there. There

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 June 2015 15:41:03 Brian wrote: > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 > > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i

Jessie failed installation woes

2015-06-13 Thread Bruce Ward
I'm a long-time Debian user and this system (Wheezy) is result of at least 3 dist-upgrades (as well as motherboard upgrades). Last dist-upgrade was not completely successful, so I thought to do a new install of Jessie, onto a second hard drive. Since the current motherboard is AMD FX 64bit capa

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-13 Thread Robert S
I have managed to make my system bootable by installing LILO. Could somebody let me know if this is likely to be obsoleted any time? I haven't received any indication that it will be. Have you explored the new bios settings? If we can assume it is a real working update, you might have some op

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 13:55:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:41:03 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > Ah. It's not the "driver"? It's the scheduler which is misbehaving, > > In what way? > > i might have lead you to believe that it was the driver, so my mistake. > > so can

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 16:35:39 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > >Not sure I follow, why would you use a different way to list > >processes just because you're using systemd? > > Well, the thing is, I am so gunshy about systemd that I am _not_ > using i

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 12:16:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > form cupsd.conf > > Listen localhost:631 > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock Ok. > Listen 192.168.1.0/24 Why? How does that square with http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html?TOPIC=References&QUERY=#Listen ? > # Default

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:41:03 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Windows was no problem at all for the pri

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Not sure I follow, why would you use a different way to list processes just because you're using systemd? Well, the thing is, I am so gunshy about systemd that I am _not_ using its functionality for anything right now! SO, I thought I might coax m

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have. > > > > Which version of Windows? Or are you sayi

Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread csanyipal
Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root ext3 9621848 8293064840008 91% / devtmpfs

CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-13 Thread briand
using the Debian how-to. Now you can add a printer by going to http://localhost:631/ no i can't. however... i did find that for some bizarre reason my localhost interface was not set to auto, so i had to add it. i'm relatively sure that something in my network set-up is fragile and

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:21:26 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:10:58 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > > 99.99% of users have no problem with a supported printer > > really ? i thought it was 99.93%. I receive your correction. Let's split the difference and agree on 99.96%.

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 05:58:16 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:24:52PM +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: > > device for Canon-MX850-series: bjnp://10.0.0.8:8611 > > Is that all? It's sufficient. After the file is processed by cups-filters it is sent to the printer at 10.0.

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have. > > Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers > for > all versions of Windows? In my expe

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:10:58 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 11 Jun 2015 at 21:16:51 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:26 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > > > Despite the occasional problem, I find Linux to be far superior to > > > Windows. While CUPS may send

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 10:36, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:31 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please en

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/13/2015 01:36 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:31 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/12/2015 11:22 PM, Robert S wrote: Sadly this problem started AFTER I upgraded my BIOS. I have tried installing debian (AMD64) from scratch and am unable to boot from this either. I can't find any way to downgrade the BIOS and there is only one BIOS upgrade file on the Gigabyte website.

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:53 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What > would be the "systemd-correct" form of this: > > $ ps ax | grep ssh > > I use that to check for the existence (or, as the case > may be) demise) of an ssh tunnel I use for VNC. Wh

Re: Debian From Scratch ISO

2015-06-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 16:37 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I would like to install Debian from Scratch. To do this I need Goerzen's > Live CD ISO. I finally managed to find it at > https://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/rescue-zfs/. File name is > wheezy-live-rescue-zfs0.6.3-jgoerzen-20141008.iso. > >

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:31 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and > the following happens: > > 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store > temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 01:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 13 June 2015 05:41:02 Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popu

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 13 June 2015 05:41:02 Russell L. Carter wrote: > Hi! > > On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and > >> the following happens: > >> > >> 1. I get a popup with text

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >> On 06/10/201