Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-26 5:42 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Problem seems to be that the NFS mounts are mounted directly after > the root fs, before the network is set up properly. Also, the mountnfs > if-up.d hook from /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs doesn't work for > systemd systems. > > Here's the relevant output

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread briand
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:28:37 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > Maybe rpcbind was started too late, see bug #763315[1] on that topic. > What is the output of "systemctl status rpcbind.service"? > > Cheers, >Sven > > > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763315 > i have a s

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-26 Thread briand
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:51:54 +0100 Brian wrote: > It's a warning - not an error - and can be ignored. It will appear when > a printer is installed. It's a dbus thing. ok. > > > Did you try purging the cups install then reinstalling and adding > > the printer back in? > > Not warranted. colord

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-26 Thread briand
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:46:48 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > On 26/06/15 01:37 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. > > > > > > failed to CreateDevice: > > org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-DCP8110DN' > > alr

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Seeker
On 6/26/2015 6:12 AM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: On 06/26/2015 01:55 PM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you ne

Re: reboot and poweroff fails on Zotac ZBOX Nano CI320

2015-06-26 Thread Jesse Molina
I have resolved my problem. I will document here to help out anyone else who has this issue in the future. This is a Zotac ZBOX Nano CI320 (ZBOX-CI320NANO). My BIOS version is "B219P 026 x64" with a date of "05/19/2015". That is current as I write this. I also saw this problem with previous

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 13:34:00 Brian wrote: > [Beware! Rampant snipping in progress] > > On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 09:38:53 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > How do you live stream BBC iPlayer on a computer without the use of > > Flash? > > A well formulated question. :) > > Think in these terms: > > 1. Us

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 22:54:37 Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 22:06:26 +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:07 -0500 > > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> I'm looking for a USB modem for

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 22:06:26 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:07 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a > > >> WiFi hot spot (mini

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 09:06:40 Brenton Horne wrote: > I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 [snip] > one named debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso. As has been pointed out, these contradict each other. You want Jessie, the current Stable. https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ When you have the c

Re: Connecting laptop to internet via cell network

2015-06-26 Thread Joe
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:07 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I'm looking for a USB modem for cell network (preferred) or a > >> WiFi hot spot (minimally acceptable). > >> > >> Where might I find info on what wor

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 08:59:42PM +0200, Dan wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Hope that helps! > >Thanks a lot for the great explanation! > >I think it would be helpful for other users to put all this in the >Debian Wiki. Maybe you can paste your answer in a ne

Re: network configuration

2015-06-26 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/26/2015 05:13 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: notoneofmyseeds wrote: >Bob Proulx wrote: > >I must say you have written a book here on this topic, Rob. I've learned a >lot. I printed it out. To your questions now. Sometimes people say I write too much. But the details are important.:-) And this is

Re: Getting DeVeDe to Work Question

2015-06-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 12:54 -0500, David Paulson wrote: > "Conversion > failed. It seems a bug of Mencoder." > > Is there a way to fix this? After much Googling I still haven't found > a way > to fix the problem. > > I really like DeVeDe and would appreciate some help getting it to > work. Pro

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>Hi Steve, >>As you suggested I use the option "Force Grub installation to the EFI >>removable media path" and it works :) > > OK, cool. > >>Is there any disadvantage using this option? What is the difference >>between this option and the reg

Re: Getting DeVeDe to Work Question

2015-06-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:54:54 -0500 David Paulson wrote: Hello David, >to Debian Jessie DeVeDe doesn't work. I get an ERROR message "Conversion >failed. It seems a bug of Mencoder." The Debian package page https://packages.debian.org/jessie/devede tells me that mencoder is a suggests dependency,

Getting DeVeDe to Work Question

2015-06-26 Thread David Paulson
In the past I have used DeVeDe to make video dvd's but after reinstalling to Debian Jessie DeVeDe doesn't work. I get an ERROR message "Conversion failed. It seems a bug of Mencoder." Is there a way to fix this? After much Googling I still haven't found a way to fix the problem. I really like DeV

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Petter Adsen: > > the 850 EVO does not support queued TRIM. Is that a problem for > everyday desktop use? No. It only means that TRIM commands must not be queued by the drive but executed instantly (after clearing the existing commands in the queue, I guess). For desktop use this means that a we

RE: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: svenj...@gmx.de > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:28:37 +0200 > > On 2015-06-26 18:38 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: >>> >>> # systemctl status var-vmail.mount >>> ● var-vmail.mount - /var/vmail >>> Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab) >>> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2015-06-26 16:29:02 >>>

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-06-26 18:38 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Oops, I searched only in fstab(5) and nfs(5) manpages. Still, the > option doesn't work: > >> # grep nfs /etc/fstab >> nfs-server:/vmail /var/vmail nfs4 _netdev,sec=krb5i,bg 0 0 > > results in unmounted NFS shares after reboot and: > >> [FAILED] Fai

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:16:13PM +0200, Dan wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Dan wrote: >> >>>I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with >>>UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I installed the >>>whole system and I can s

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/06/15 09:51 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 03:46:48 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 26/06/15 01:37 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some > useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. > > My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally > recommended bra

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi again, Am 2015-06-26 18:15, schrieb Sven Joachim: On 2015-06-26 17:42 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: While searching the web I learned that Ubuntu and Redhat based distros seem to support the '_netdev' option to entries in /etc/fstab for such cases, but it seems like Debian doesn't support this

Re: network configuration

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 10:28:08 Proxy One wrote: > Sometimes people say I write too much. There is writing too much and writing a lot. I talk too much. You write a lot. In Latin too much and very much are the same word. In case any modern language does the same thing, Bob is saying that some

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Dan wrote: > >>I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with >>UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I installed the >>whole system and I can see it in the UEFI/BIOS menu. Surprisingly when >>I try to b

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-06-26 17:42 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > While searching the web I learned that Ubuntu and Redhat based distros > seem to support the '_netdev' option to entries in /etc/fstab for such > cases, but it seems like Debian doesn't support this option, right? Huh, what makes you think so? The

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 8 messidor, an CCXXIII, Dan a écrit : >> As suggested I typed efibootmgr -v and everything seems to be fine. I get > > How do you know everything seems fine? Can you read this output in details? > >> BootCurrent: 0001 >> Timeout: 1

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Michael Beck
> Am 26.06.2015 um 17:42 schrieb Jonas Meurer : > > Hello, > > I fail to configure my Debian/Jessie server system in a way that the > NFS mounts are mounted automatically on boot. > > Problem seems to be that the NFS mounts are mounted directly after > the root fs, before the network is set up p

auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I fail to configure my Debian/Jessie server system in a way that the NFS mounts are mounted automatically on boot. Problem seems to be that the NFS mounts are mounted directly after the root fs, before the network is set up properly. Also, the mountnfs if-up.d hook from /etc/network/if-up

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 8 messidor, an CCXXIII, Dan a écrit : > As suggested I typed efibootmgr -v and everything seems to be fine. I get How do you know everything seems fine? Can you read this output in details? > BootCurrent: 0001 > Timeout: 1 seconds > BootOrder ,0001 > Boot0001* UEFI: SanDisk Cruzer B

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Dan wrote: > >>I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with >>UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I installed the >>whole system and I can see it in the UEFI/BIOS menu. Surprisingly when >>I try to b

PXE menu not honoring master passwd

2015-06-26 Thread Bob
Hello list, I have configured a tftp server on debin jessie and the PXE boot is running well. The following is working to protect a single label label Install debian jessie menu label install debin jessie menu passwd mypassword ... ... .. Now I like to secure all the labels with single password

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Dan wrote: >I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with >UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I installed the >whole system and I can see it in the UEFI/BIOS menu. Surprisingly when >I try to boot the system I get "No bootable devices found" > >I tried all

jessie 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel stuck at initramfs prompt due to ata_piix module

2015-06-26 Thread Neil H. Gray
Upon upgrading from wheezy to jessie using linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae_3.16.7-ckt11-1_i386.deb for the kernel, I discovered that I would get stuck at an initramfs prompt complaining about md arrays not being found. When inspecting the directories, the entire /dev/disk directory was missing.

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 03:46:48 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 26/06/15 01:37 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > >I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. > > > > > > failed to CreateDevice: > > org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-DCP8110DN' > > al

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 04:12 PM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: Not the case. Even in rescue mode I needed to supply the root login. I could use init=/bin/sh but I couln't find anything in the logs in /var/log, so I'm guessing systemd and journalctl keeps the journal in some other place (probably some binary

Re: Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Matthijs Wensveen
On 06/26/2015 01:55 PM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boo

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 03:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: (Please don't top-post.) On 06/26/2015 at 08:49 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks for th

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Matthijs Wensveen
Hey everybody, I'm mailing this from my own system! That means it worked! I still have a few lines in the boot journal I might want to fix but now I can do it from the comfort of a running linux system. Feels great! Regards, Matthijs On 06/26/2015 02:56 PM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: Hi, Firs

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 12:48:22 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-06-26, Brian wrote: > > [Beware! Rampant snipping in progress] > > > > > > On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 09:38:53 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> How do you live stream BBC iPlayer on a computer without the use of Flash? > > > > A well formula

Re: Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Matthijs Wensveen
Hi, First of all, thanks for all the helpful replies!! I've setup a root password by using chroot on a livecd and I'm now able to use that pw in emergency mode, like The Wanderer suggested. I didn't have a root password because my user account has generous sudo permissions. Never needed one b

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
(Please don't top-post.) On 06/26/2015 at 08:49 AM, Nick T. wrote: > On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: >>> Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub >>> menu, from there it asks for the root password IF there is one, >>>

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
I have regained access to several debian 8 vms using this method, Yes, it still works. On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very threa

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/26/2015 at 08:40 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me > some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to > ask. > > My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a > generally recommended brand, but acco

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-26, Brian wrote: > [Beware! Rampant snipping in progress] > > > On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 09:38:53 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> How do you live stream BBC iPlayer on a computer without the use of Flash? > > A well formulated question. :) Right. I interpreted "How do you live stream" diff

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/26/2015 at 03:40 AM, Arno Schuring wrote: > Hi, > >> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:46:33 -0600 From: b...@proulx.com >> >> The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> In which case I return to my original comment on that point: >>> although there might be situations where this setup could make >>> sense, they

Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Petter Adsen
I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand, but according to https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e64f638483

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Dan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM, wrote: [...] > No I do not know that. I am a scientist, and I use the computers as a > tool to do simulations that I write in C++ with (Threading Building > Bl

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: > On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very >> thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only >> log in as root. Then you need your root password. > > Ubuntu an

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Brian
[Beware! Rampant snipping in progress] On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 09:38:53 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > How do you live stream BBC iPlayer on a computer without the use of Flash? A well formulated question. :) Think in these terms: 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. 2. Wouldn'

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 22:35:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 20:54:55 Brian wrote: > > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > And do you know a way - any way, however closed source - to play 4OD in > > > Debian? I suspect that purge iceweasel and in

Re: Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Martin Read
On 26/06/15 13:10, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 26 June 2015 12:47:23 Martin Read wrote: Comment out the lines starting "deb cdrom:" by putting a '#' at the start, and see if things work. He will need to update. Oops! Thank you for remedying my omission. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:10:12 +1000 Brenton Horne wrote: Hello Brenton, >`Media change: please insert the disc labeled > 'Debian GNU/Linux 8.1.0 _Jessie_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 >20150606-13:00' Comment out the relevant CDROM line(s) in sources.list, then 'apt-get update'. -- Regards

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:55:42AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 07:40:21AM +, Arno Schuring wrote: > > Hi, > > [...] > > > Having a single root account for administration is also bad from an > > accountability viewpoint [...] > > > So while you think it is c

Re: Suspending and lid-switch

2015-06-26 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:01:20 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > Running wheezy. I've been suspending to ram (hibernate-ram --force) my > > ThinkPad T61 for several years with no problems. Recently, I installed > > acpi-support to enable suspending via lid closure (by enabling > > LID_SL

Re: Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 12:47:23 Martin Read wrote: > On 26/06/15 12:10, Brenton Horne wrote: > > `Media change: please insert the disc labeled > > 'Debian GNU/Linux 8.1.0 _Jessie_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 > > 20150606-13:00' > > in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter` > > > > And I'm

Re: Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 12:10:12 Brenton Horne wrote: > Hi, > > After I previously attempted to install the testing version of Debian > (although I thought it was the stable 8.1 version) on a virtualbox machine > I decided to use the debian-8.1.0-i386-kde-CD-1.iso ISO. This installation > occurred w

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, f

Re: Debain 8 installation on NM2600 cedartrail

2015-06-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 16:32 +0530, venkat wrote: > HI all . > I have N2600 NM10 chipset board. > I would like to use Debian. I Just need 2D graphics to run a browser > and > GTK app with dual screen control.. > > I raise this because with GMA500 driver is not well supported . > When i switch to

Re: Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Martin Read
On 26/06/15 12:10, Brenton Horne wrote: `Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 8.1.0 _Jessie_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20150606-13:00' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter` And I'm wondering what's this is about. There is a file on your virtual machine

Re: Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
Oops I will ammend that original statement of mine. So far values of: * gnome * build-essential seem to be the only ones that trigger this request for me to insert this particular ISO (I have tried values of git, curl, octave and gnome-session without this issue). I have since logged out and rem

Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, After I previously attempted to install the testing version of Debian (although I thought it was the stable 8.1 version) on a virtualbox machine I decided to use the debian-8.1.0-i386-kde-CD-1.iso ISO. This installation occurred without error and the net connection is fine (why I'm even using

Debain 8 installation on NM2600 cedartrail

2015-06-26 Thread venkat
HI all . I have N2600 NM10 chipset board. I would like to use Debian. I Just need 2D graphics to run a browser and GTK app with dual screen control.. I raise this because with GMA500 driver is not well supported . When i switch to VESA driver display seems to be normal and with this I am not

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 8 messidor, an CCXXIII, Dan a écrit : > I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with > UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I installed the > whole system and I can see it in the UEFI/BIOS menu. Surprisingly when > I try to boot the system I get "No

UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
Hi, I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I installed the whole system and I can see it in the UEFI/BIOS menu. Surprisingly when I try to boot the system I get "No bootable devices found" I tried all the options o

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Dan wrote: > >> Yes the calculation is memory/cpu instensive. I can not consider a >> faster (multi-core) processor because I do not have the budget to buy >> a

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 07:40:21AM +, Arno Schuring wrote: > Hi, [...] > Having a single root account for administration is also bad from an > accountability viewpoint [...] > So while you think it is crazy to have to use sudo on a single-user >

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Dan wrote: > Yes the calculation is memory/cpu instensive. I can not consider a > faster (multi-core) processor because I do not have the budget to buy > a new machine. But I need more RAM, the calculation do

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-26, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > How do you live stream BBC iPlayer on a computer without the use of Flash? > Use an Ipad? Now, if you could only "pretend" to be an Ipad (user agent string sleight of hand), maybe ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

2015-06-26 Thread Dan
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:51 AM, rajiv chavan wrote: > On 6/23/15, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:24:52PM +0530, rajiv chavan wrote: >>> Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:16:51 +0530 >>> >>> Is calculation memory/cpu cycle intensive

Re: network configuration

2015-06-26 Thread Proxy One
On 2015-Jun-26 17:27, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:13:20 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > > > Sometimes people say I write too much. But the details are > > important. :-) > > No way Bob. Never too much. > > Personally I read all your posts even if they don't apply to anything I > need or p

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote: > http://i.imgur.com/dRaGiY6.png The image snapshot confirms that you are using stretch (testing). Try Debian stable (aka Debian 8.1, aka Debian jessie). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote: > I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the > netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM. > It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is 64 MB. The > one na

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 09:35:51 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2015 00:06:00 Brian wrote: > > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 22:35:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 June 2015 20:54:55 Brian wrote: > > > > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > Could you let t

Re: Flash update

2015-06-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 26 June 2015 00:06:00 Brian wrote: > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 22:35:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 25 June 2015 20:54:55 Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 25 Jun 2015 at 20:06:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Could you let the rest of us into the secret?? > > > > > > What secret? (He

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
I would have done the text copy if I could. I have set copy-paste to bidirectional in Virtualbox but for whatever reason I can't seem to copy-paste anything from the virtual machine to my host machine. On 26 June 2015 at 18:11, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 8 messidor, an CCXXIII, Brenton Hor

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote: >Hi,  >I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the >netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM. >It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 8 messidor, an CCXXIII, Brenton Horne a écrit : > I then rebooted but all I have is the command-line bash interface (tty1). I > ran `apt-get install sudo` and `apt-get update` as root user, the first > suggested that I should run the second. The second command (`apt-get > update`) gave me

Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM. It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is 64 MB. The one named debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso. The issue is that I set it to

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/06/15 01:37 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-DCP8110DN' already exists Googling turns up lots of hits, not a one of which has been

RE: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:46:33 -0600 > From: b...@proulx.com > > The Wanderer wrote: >> In which case I return to my original comment on that point: although >> there might be situations where this setup could make sense, they would >> _not_ be for the casual user. As a setup for a sole com

Re: network configuration

2015-06-26 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:13:20 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > Sometimes people say I write too much. But the details are > important. :-) No way Bob. Never too much. Personally I read all your posts even if they don't apply to anything I need or particularly interest me. Sometimes they generate intere

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-26 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:59:08PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda > > > > I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in > > /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied > > at 3781, though it is still under observation. > >