Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/15 07:52 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Gary Dale writes: run mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf after you have your arrays running. Then do: update-initramfs -u update-grub It says, weirdly, "Invalid argument for option -k." That's because you've combined the two lines into

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread Emanuel Berg
Emanuel Berg writes: > Can I simply disable the attempts at optimization > somehow? With mplayer*, I mean. The reason I don't > want to switch to mpv is I have configs (keys etc.) > for mplayer* and I don't want to loose it over this > silly issue. Oh, I didn't know mpv is an mplayer fork. The k

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread Emanuel Berg
Sven Arvidsson writes: > At least with mpv you can use -vo vaapi for > accelerated video on Intel (with the right vaapi > driver of course) mpv doesn't complain without that option - with it it says: libva info: VA-API version 0.36.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva in

Re: After kernel update boot hangs wth "raised network interfaces"

2015-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Louis Wust (louisw...@fastmail.fm): > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 13:19, Hans wrote: > > "[***] An LSB job is running: Raise network interfaces" > > The "LSB job" portion means that the long-running service is a script in > /etc/init.d. The "Raise network interfaces" description means that it

Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Emanuel Berg
Gary Dale writes: > run > > mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf > > after you have your arrays running. Then do: > > update-initramfs -u update-grub It says, weirdly, "Invalid argument for option -k." -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > On Saturday 18 July 2015 13:13:56 Martin G. McCormick wrote: > > domain = localhost > > I'm sleepy and probably not following very well, but should this really be > localhost? This was passed to the ehlo command where it passed muster: <-- 220 txofep

Re: X11/Thinkpad T430: partially drops input from USB devices after resume

2015-07-18 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:59:16AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 01:05:58AM +, stefan.schwar...@gmx.net wrote: > > > I am using my laptop (lenovo T430, debian testing) > > regularly in a docking station. The dock has a USB > > keyboard, USB mouse and monitor permanently at

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nicolas George (geo...@nsup.org): > Le nonidi 29 messidor, an CCXXIII, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : > > md5_1=$(md5sum $HOME_DIR/.forward|cut -d\ -f1) > > md5_2=$(md5sum $wrk_dir/$fix_name/.forward|cut -d\ -f1) > > You can write "md5="${md5%% *}" instead of using cut, one

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 18 July 2015 13:13:56 Martin G. McCormick wrote: > domain                = localhost I'm sleepy and probably not following very well, but should this really be localhost? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:40 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/18/2015 at 07:18 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:23:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> >>> Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with >>> a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file ...

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 03:48 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Do I even have nvidia? > > $ lspci | grep -i vga > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) At least with mpv you can use -vo vaapi for accelerated video on Intel

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Emanuel Berg (embe8...@student.uu.se): > mplayer (mplayer1) says: > > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory [vdpau] > > and: > > Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 I can provoke these error

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Re: ip address

2015-07-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 18 July 2015 17:39:48 David Wright wrote: > And ip's -o switch makes it even easier > because each item is all on one line. For some, possibly idiosyncratic, meanings of the word "easier". ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Frequent Net Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-18 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 18 July 2015 21:00:10 Brian wrote: > On Sat 18 Jul 2015 at 22:02:21 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Has to do with expiry. Never had notifications of this before, however. > > And > > KWallet "clients" ask for a new login each time, which is a pain in the > > ... > > > > I remember confi

Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/15 04:08 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/07/15 04:01 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: When I boot, it says: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically What does that mean and how do I fix it? run mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf after you have your arrays runnin

Re: open vpn client uses wrong address sometimes

2015-07-18 Thread Louis Wust
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 05:19, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > I need to find out why a plain Debian Wheezy install (fully patched) > acting as firewall router on a remote location sends packets with the > wrong address into the openvpn tunnel. > > 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN > [...] > 2

Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/15 04:01 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: When I boot, it says: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically What does that mean and how do I fix it? run mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf after you have your arrays running. Then do: update-initramfs -u upd

mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Emanuel Berg
When I boot, it says: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically What does that mean and how do I fix it? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Frequent Net Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Jul 2015 at 22:02:21 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Has to do with expiry. Never had notifications of this before, however. And > KWallet "clients" ask for a new login each time, which is a pain in the ... > > I remember configuring something about this a long long time ago. Can someone

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread Emanuel Berg
The Wanderer writes: > If you have problems with a package obtained from > there, you probably need to contact the person who > maintains that site and builds its packages. > If you're lucky, you might find someone here who > also uses that repository and knows its ins and > outs, but I wouldn't

Frequent Net Disconnect/Reconnect

2015-07-18 Thread David Baron
Has to do with expiry. Never had notifications of this before, however. And KWallet "clients" ask for a new login each time, which is a pain in the ... I remember configuring something about this a long long time ago. Can someone refresh my memory? Ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: IP address

2015-07-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Dan Ritter wrote: I find that a bizarre attitude. I'm so sorry. I hope the experience was not too uncomfortable for you. Please forgive me. I have many personal shortcomings, and frequent descents into bizarro-world figures prominently in any comprehensive list of them

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 18/07/2015 9:40 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > mmv "file.~*~' "file.#1" Okay, well from the OP ... $ cp --backup=t file /destination/file First time use of mmv: $ mmv "file.~*~" "file.#1" However, the next time you try the cp again, it will create a new ~1~ as it doesn't exist and using

Re: After kernel update boot hangs wth "raised network interfaces"

2015-07-18 Thread Louis Wust
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 13:19, Hans wrote: > "[***] An LSB job is running: Raise network interfaces" The "LSB job" portion means that the long-running service is a script in /etc/init.d. The "Raise network interfaces" description means that it must be /etc/init.d/networking because that script ha

Fwd: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Alex Naysmith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Frederic Marchal Date: 18 July 2015 at 12:41 Subject: Re: Changing the terminal character set To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:52:33 Alex Naysmith wrote: > I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wilko Fokken (wfok...@web.de): > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:23:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with > > a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file .../destination/file. When > > periodically run it produces file, file.~1

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 1er thermidor, an CCXXIII, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : > Will that work with ANY shell? Of course not: it will not work with csh, antiquated Bourne shell nor with COMMAND.COM ;-) But will work with any standard-compliant implementation of sh, including dash and bash. > Again will that w

Re: ip address

2015-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting bri...@aracnet.com (bri...@aracnet.com): > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:25:45 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting John J. Boyer (john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org): > > > Thanks for all of your answers. The problem was that ifconfig is in sbin > > > not bin. > > > > I think you're better off

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 17/07/2015 9:16 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 messidor, an CCXXIII, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : >> HOME_DIR=$(grep ^${fix_name}: /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f6) > > "eval HOME_DIR=~$fix_name" is much simpler, more efficient, and would work > with NIS- or LDAP-based user database

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > David Wright writes: > > > Supported authentication methods: > > > PLAIN LOGIN > > > > I see no encryption here. I think this is why it is telling you that > > it "cannot use a secure authentication method". I wrote "Yo

Re: Rif BugReport #701674

2015-07-18 Thread Louis Wust
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015, at 02:21, Antonello Alonzi wrote: > The package maintainer does not respond, what to do? In general, you will want to follow the recommendations in the Debian Developer's Reference, section 7.4 "Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers." The first step is to cont

Re: IP address

2015-07-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Patrick Wiseman writes: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:25 PM, John J. Boyer > wrote: >> I have net-tools. ifconfig works only for root. WHY? On other distros >> ordinary users can use it. > > You haven't been listening to what others have been telling you. > ifconfig resides in sbin, which is in ro

Re: IP address

2015-07-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"John J. Boyer" writes: > Why isn't ifconfig available on Jessie? There id no package. The > command produces an error message that it has not been found. > > John > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:44:35PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> John J. Boyer wrote: >> >I have Jessie set up for CLI only. T

Re: IP address

2015-07-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"John J. Boyer" writes: > None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not available on Jessie. ip > seems to be inapropriate. dig produces nothing. I have used ifconfig on > other distros. > > John > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:41:27PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> * John J. Boyer [2015-0

Re: ip address

2015-07-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : > > the output of ip is a bit of a mess. > > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > what the hell ? i have no idea what tha means. It is specific to IPv6 addresses. When an interface gets IPv6 addresses assigned by stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC)

Re: ip address

2015-07-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/07/15 15:25, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: the output of ip is a bit of a mess. valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever what the hell ? i have no idea what tha means. i know i'll do man ip, it's probably got an explanation. no. it doesn't. It's saying that the valid and preferred remai

Re: [solved] intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 messidor, an CCXXIII, Gene Heskett a écrit : > This time it wasn't running, so I click keep, then ran linuxcnc and > loaded the circle. Perfect! Nother lesson learned. You cannot > completely reconfigure the screen when an application is using it, even > if no motion is taking pl

Re: ip address

2015-07-18 Thread briand
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:25:45 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Quoting John J. Boyer (john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org): > > Thanks for all of your answers. The problem was that ifconfig is in sbin > > not bin. > > I think you're better off forgetting about ifconfig and using ip in > its place; that's th

Re: [solved] intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2015 08:43:52 Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 30 messidor, an CCXXIII, Dan Ritter a écrit : > > > Does anyone know how to get a square pixel on this gfx set? > > > > Sounds like you need to set DisplaySize in the Monitor section > > of your Xorg.conf. > > Certainly not. > > Th

Re: intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 messidor, an CCXXIII, Dan Ritter a écrit : > > Does anyone know how to get a square pixel on this gfx set? > Sounds like you need to set DisplaySize in the Monitor section > of your Xorg.conf. Certainly not. The DisplaySize option is informative: its value is available for applicati

Re: intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Does anyone know how to get a square pixel on this gfx set? > > It works well on a 4x3 monitor, but circles are squashed on a 16x9. > Sounds like you need to set DisplaySize in the Monitor section of your Xorg.co

Re: IP address

2015-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:27:04PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > > >Yes but depending on how your path is set it may not simply work. > > NO. > > There ought to be no monkeying EVA with the default PATHs (for root > and other users) created by th

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-18 Thread Martin G. McCormick
David Wright writes: > > Supported authentication methods: > > PLAIN LOGIN > > I see no encryption here. I think this is why it is telling you that > it "cannot use a secure authentication method". I wrote "You might > want to check out port 587 but I think you'll be disappointed"

Re: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:52:33 Alex Naysmith wrote: > I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 > character set. > > How can I change the character encoding in the XFCE terminal [v0.4.8] from > UTF-8 to CP437 or IBM437? > > Alternatively, I did attempt to change the

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/18/2015 at 07:18 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:23:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > >> Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with >> a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file .../destination/file. When >> periodically run it produces file,

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:23:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with > a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file .../destination/file. When > periodically run it produces file, file.~1~, file.~2~, etc. > > How do I get rid of the

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-18 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Curt writes: > You don't seem to be following the instructions here: After a good night's sleep, I notice that too. I fixed it and now there are only moving parts, one of which is broken instead of 1.:-) Unfortunately, authentication is loaded with these series-connected

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/18/2015 at 04:38 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> Where did you get this mplayer from? >> >> I compile MPlayer myself, and I'd expect this to happen when the >> copy of MPlayer in question was compiled against libvdpau_nvidia >> but that library has been uninstalled (or

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-18 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Bob Bernstein writes: > At some point in this process try using your POP credentials (username > martin, password martin's pop password) when trying to send. Y'know, when > suddenlink told you that 'martin' had been already taken as a username for > smtp, of course it had, by YOU, for your POP acco

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Re: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 messidor, an CCXXIII, Alex Naysmith a écrit : > I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 > character set. Why exactly? All the characters in CP437 are present in Unicode, as far as I can see. Therefore, you could just map the code point in the antiquated enc

Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Alex Naysmith
I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 character set. How can I change the character encoding in the XFCE terminal [v0.4.8] from UTF-8 to CP437 or IBM437? Alternatively, I did attempt to change the system locale from en_GB.UTF-8 to one that contained CP437/IBM437. How

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Wright a écrit : > Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): >> David Wright a écrit : >>> Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): >>> May I also ask why you created a separate /boot ? >>> Perhaps he read your >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00717.h

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread Emanuel Berg
The Wanderer writes: > Where did you get this mplayer from? > > I compile MPlayer myself, and I'd expect this to > happen when the copy of MPlayer in question was > compiled against libvdpau_nvidia but that library > has been uninstalled (or when the compiled mplayer > binary has been moved to an

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-18 Thread Curt
On 2015-07-18, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > The fun never ends. I installed msmtp and as near as I can tell > it works as advertised. My SMTP smarthost at > Suddenlink.net presents the following banner which nicely > explains what one needs to do to get real work done. I've had a > little trouble