Wireless disabled in Debian after MacOS use (stuck)

2015-07-20 Thread Michael Bonert
I had the wireless (AirPort) working on my MacBook Pro 8.1 with a dual boot MacOS/Debian setup without any difficulty for a couple of years. A couple of days ago, I decided to try MacOS to configure a new modem, as the wired connection in Debian would just show "connecting"... and sit there. I ver

(solved) Re: / 100% used

2015-07-20 Thread Beco
Reporting solution. There was basically --- * Immediate problem: --- 1) Identify what was filling /var and stop it. In a terminal, trying to keep system useful, this command saved the

OffTopic - of irrational Trumpets and such - was Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/07/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 21/07/2015, Bob Holtzman wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:19:53AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > >>> >>> "Why sure Bob. Thanks so much. All I got to say is: >>> >>> TRUMP IN '16 >> >> For what? Dog catcher? >> > > W > Trying for a third time - plurr

Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/07/2015, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:19:53AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> >> "Why sure Bob. Thanks so much. All I got to say is: >> >> TRUMP IN '16 > > For what? Dog catcher? > W -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 15:57:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > > > > > If I were the OP I'd be thinking I was in la-la land by now. > > > > Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and > >

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-20 Thread Joel Rees
I don't seem to be able to string two sentences together these days. I mean, I think Jape suggests removing the entries entirely. That's one possibility. I would also suggest being sure that the UUID is correct, since you swapped actual media: See https://wiki.debian.org/fstab if you are not f

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-20 Thread David Fuchs
Thanks Joel and Jape for the responses! I did indeed have entries for this disk in /etc/fstab (and /etc/crypttab, since it's an encrypted disk). Per your suggestion I've removed those to make sure. The issue isn't just that the FS isn't mounted anymore, though - as far as the host is concerned, th

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 3:46 AM, David Fuchs wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an issue with an external hard drive that I'm at my wit's end with. > I'll try to keep it short: > > My system is connected to an external SATA HD via USB 3 (used for backups). > For 6+ months, this setup has worked flawlessl

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

2015-07-20 Thread Emanuel Berg
Pascal Hambourg writes: > Well, it seems that you don't have any software > RAID. Otherwise, you should know you do. So the > message is normal, and you can uninstall mdadm if it > bothers you so much. OK :) Thank you! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 -- To UNSU

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 22:50:30 Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 15:57:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > > If I were the OP I'd be thinking I was in la-la land by now. > > > > Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and > > No,

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 22:49:34 Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 22:11:28 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I feel that he must at least have run it once, even if he did nothing > > with it. And that it may have tinkered with some settings and not > > restored them when it was purged. > > Instead of

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 15:57:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > > > If I were the OP I'd be thinking I was in la-la land by now. > > Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and > No, is going back to his installer for advice. My pos

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 22:11:28 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I feel that he must at least have run it once, even if he did nothing with > it. > And that it may have tinkered with some settings and not restored them when > it was purged. Instead of having a "feeling" you could run the software

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 21:57:36 David Wright wrote: > Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and > No, is going back to his installer for advice. My posting was in reply > to Lisi. Going by the people whom I support, having been told that we couldn't offer himn a simple

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 13:29:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > > > > > It is possible, is it not, that pocketshinx mutes something by default > > > and > > > hasn't unmuted it? > > > > I haven't come to gri

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 18:04:33 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian.

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-20 Thread Jape Person
On 07/20/2015 02:46 PM, David Fuchs wrote: Hi all, I have an issue with an external hard drive that I'm at my wit's end with. I'll try to keep it short: My system is connected to an external SATA HD via USB 3 (used for backups). For 6+ months, this setup has worked flawlessly. About a week ago

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 19:05:11 Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 18:42:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Post hoc yet again not meaning propter hoc ;-) > > Please do not try to bedazzle us Redbrick types with your fancy Latin. > It puts us off our drink. :) :-)) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:19:53AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >Back when I was working as a Chief Engineer/Chief Operator/Chief > >BOFH, that happened to much of my operating staff once, until he > >got to me. > > The devil made me do it! Honest! He

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

2015-07-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Emanuel Berg a écrit : > > $ sudo blkid > /dev/sda1: UUID="e3dc978c-2ee3-4db8-a0cf-0a216a76930e" TYPE="ext4" > PARTUUID="0006dea8-01" > /dev/sda5: UUID="abb7084e-c4da-4b9e-9477-3ae4aca56be8" TYPE="swap" > PARTUUID="0006dea8-05" Well, it seems that you don't have any software RAID. Otherwise, yo

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 13:29:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > > > It is possible, is it not, that pocketshinx mutes something by default and > > hasn't unmuted it? > > I haven't come to grips with sound on jessie yet, so an earlier thread > this mont

Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-20 Thread David Fuchs
Hi all, I have an issue with an external hard drive that I'm at my wit's end with. I'll try to keep it short: My system is connected to an external SATA HD via USB 3 (used for backups). For 6+ months, this setup has worked flawlessly. About a week ago, I disconnected the external drive (a Seagat

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: > > > >I'm new to Debian. > > > > > > > >Someone else configured the system for me. It wa

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 18:42:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Post hoc yet again not meaning propter hoc ;-) Please do not try to bedazzle us Redbrick types with your fancy Latin. It puts us off our drink. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 13:41:12 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/07/15 01:04 PM, Brian wrote: > >Only in the sense that it is possible there are fairies at the bottom > >of my garden. :) > > > >More seriously: the OP never ran the program. The installation-purging > >cycle is easy enough for anyone

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 01:04 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured th

Re: GTK3-apps: Scrollbar jumps to the bottom after scrolling with mouse wheel when regaining focus

2015-07-20 Thread Joe
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:06:02 -0400 Louis Wust wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 07:08, Nils Dallmeyer wrote: > > I use XFCE and if I move the cursor to the taskbar and back > > > I use Stretch as well. > > I'm using Xfce on sid. The behaviour has improved in the last day or two, but it still

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 18:04:33 Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: > > > > >I'm new to Deb

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 11:43 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 16:37:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 11:13 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 15:53:33 Gary Dale wrote: Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). The OP used Synaptic. Can this b

Re: GTK3-apps: Scrollbar jumps to the bottom after scrolling with mouse wheel when regaining focus

2015-07-20 Thread Louis Wust
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 07:08, Nils Dallmeyer wrote: > I use XFCE and if I move the cursor to the taskbar and back > again to evince and then I scroll a little bit up or down, the > scrollbar jumps to the bottom (thus evince jumps to the last page). I use Openbox without any desktop environment a

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: > > > >I'm new to Debian. > > > > > > > >Someone else configured the system

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: > > >I'm new to Debian. > > > > > >Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. > > > > > >Then I downloaded and install

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: > > > >I'm new to Debian. > > > >Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. > > > >Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package > >manager) a speech re

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 11:13 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 15:53:33 Gary Dale wrote: Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). The OP used Synaptic. Can this be done in Synaptic? Lisi Yes. You mark the package for complete removal instead of just

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:25:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > > > > > But I did enable a cron log, which for some reason was disabled on my > > > system. I'll have to wait a week to see what that log ha

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used it

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Guyot
Hi, William. Did you try to purge the package using apt-get purge pocketsphinx? This will remove its config files, which are usually left behind on uninstall to quickly restore the previous config if you ever re-install it. Note that this doesn't mean you don't have to provide the data Jape asked

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Jape Person
On 07/20/2015 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used it

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 15:20:26 William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: > I'm new to Debian. > > Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. > > Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a > speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever

audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread William Hadfield-Burkardt
I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used it. Now the audio does not work. Neither in the browser

xbindkeys action in case of a long/double click

2015-07-20 Thread B. M.
Dear list, I'm currently trying to get a mouse shortcut working. A certain click shall invoke a perl script (which is working fine). I got it to work with simple actions like if the middle mouse button is pressed. But: can I also define a more complex mouse action as required, i.e. a long left

Re: Transition to KDE 5 in testing : some glitches...

2015-07-20 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 02:21:05PM CEST, Erwan David said: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:28:07PM CEST, Rubin Abdi said: > > I just spent the last 5 hours in dependency hell while trying to figure out > > how > > to upgrade to Plasma 5 during a dist-upgrade on Sid. Horrible. > > > > My system is

Re: Transition to KDE 5 in testing : some glitches...

2015-07-20 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:28:07PM CEST, Rubin Abdi said: > I just spent the last 5 hours in dependency hell while trying to figure out > how > to upgrade to Plasma 5 during a dist-upgrade on Sid. Horrible. > > My system is somewhat coherent again after a bunch of searching for things. > > As f

Re: Transition to KDE 5 in testing : some glitches...

2015-07-20 Thread Rubin Abdi
I just spent the last 5 hours in dependency hell while trying to figure out how to upgrade to Plasma 5 during a dist-upgrade on Sid. Horrible. My system is somewhat coherent again after a bunch of searching for things. As far as sound goes, I needed to install kmix to get the volume control butto

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-20 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:25:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > > > But I did enable a cron log, which for some reason was disabled on my > > system. I'll have to wait a week to see what that log has to say. I > > don't know how to set its level, or if

Transition to KDE 5 in testing : some glitches...

2015-07-20 Thread Erwan David
Hi, My testing begins to install some KDE 5 packages, and I have 2 small problems : 1) Now at login I must unlock Kd5 wallet and Kde4 wallet. Is there a way to use only one of them ? 2) sound is now only on internal speaker of the PC, I cannot get it to work on Line Out or headphones,