Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-06 Thread Riley Baird
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 06:44:37 +0200 Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Hi, > > After the last kernel update and restart, a wheezy-based machine (laptop > running 7.9) boots to some point, however it freezes just before opening > GUI. Access to CLI (Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc) is also not possible. What to do to >

Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-06 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi, After the last kernel update and restart, a wheezy-based machine (laptop running 7.9) boots to some point, however it freezes just before opening GUI. Access to CLI (Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc) is also not possible. What to do to recover? Regards, M.

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/05/2015 05:50 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2015 19:58:19 Timothy Hobbs wrote: >> Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by the >> addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. >> http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/05/2015 09:51 PM, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: Also, would you complain about RedHat for their business model? Peter, That's a can-of-worms you just opened.. I don't complain, but, I do feel RedHat is not the heart of Linux, as you say RedHat is a bu$ine$$ model, while Debian is free and mo

Re: USB storage devices not being recognized

2015-10-06 Thread Floris
When I plug my Canon SX100 in, I get this from journalctl -r (left off the rest because it was from before the camera was plugged in): Oct 06 10:35:11 transponder org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor[2378]: (process:3953): GVFS-GPhoto2-WARNING **: device (null) has no BUSNUM property, ignor

pyqt5-examples qtdemo doesn't load documentation

2015-10-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
I have the pyqt5-examples package installed which suggests qt5-doc which further suggests qttools5-dev-tools which provides 'assistant' but the qtdemo.py program still is unable to load the documentation. I've not found a README.debian that explains how this all should fit together. If anyone has

Re: Bypass Disk Usage Analyser

2015-10-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 18:07 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Whenever I want to open any file directly from search, or places, or > and > disk after mounting, it directs to Disk Usage Analyser, which I want > to be > Nautilus instead. > Is there any method to fix this? Sounds like something has sc

Re: Mouse blanker?

2015-10-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@shentel.net): > On Saturday 03 October 2015 17:43:49 Mike Castle wrote: > > > Installed by default, meh. > > > > But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default. > > > > cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > > # /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter > > # This file is sourced

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:53:58PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:21:59PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 06/10/15 17:59, Reco wrote: > > > > > > > > Allow me to explain then. > > > > > Thank you, Reco, I'm really grateful. I'm learning a lot h

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:21:59PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 06/10/15 17:59, Reco wrote: > > > > > Allow me to explain then. > > > Thank you, Reco, I'm really grateful. I'm learning a lot here! You're welcome. > OK, here goes: > > root@tony-lx:~# cat /proc/mdstat > Per

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/10/15 17:59, Reco wrote: > > Allow me to explain then. > Thank you, Reco, I'm really grateful. I'm learning a lot here! > You did not run update-grub, so whatever changes you made to grub.cfg > were expected to be honored on reboot. > Yet on reboot "insmod mdraid1x" was there. > That can

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:16:29PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 06/10/15 16:03, Reco wrote: > > I propose an experiment. > > > > 1) Remove "insmod mdraid1x" from grub.cfg. By using any text editor, *do > > not* run update-grub. > > 2) Reboot. > > 3) While in grub, press 'e' wh

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/10/15 16:03, Reco wrote: > I propose an experiment. > > 1) Remove "insmod mdraid1x" from grub.cfg. By using any text editor, *do > not* run update-grub. > 2) Reboot. > 3) While in grub, press 'e' while the default boot entry is selected. > 4) Check whenever boot entry still contains "insmod

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:03:37PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >>> > >>> As long as "uname -v" output is consistent with "apt-cache policy > >>> linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64" output there's nothing to worry about IMO. > >>> > >>> They stopped to change kernel version (i.e. 3.2.0-4)

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2015-10-06 Thread Candice at Namaya

Re: Configure Grub2 with Multiple Boot Options?

2015-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
I probably should have include this in the original post (my apologies). The additional menu entry was added to /etc/default/grub per "Configuring grub v2" at https://wiki.debian.org/Grub: $ sudo cat /etc/default/grub [sudo] password: # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to upd

Re: USB storage devices not being recognized

2015-10-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/10/15 05:35 PM, Floris wrote: Op Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:34:10 +0200 schreef Gary Dale : I'm running an up to date Stretch/AMD64 system with Plasma desktop. I just plugged in my camera through its USB cable but didn't get a notification window. The camera shows up in lsusb but there is no

Configure Grub2 with Multiple Boot Options?

2015-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
I'm having trouble learning how to add multiple boot configurations to Debian's Grub2. Debian has Grub pages at https://wiki.debian.org/Grub and https://wiki.debian.org/GrubConfiguration, but they lack practical examples for multiple boot configurations. Would someone please update update the pag

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/10/15 13:22, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:46:31AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 05/10/15 18:33, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 05/10/15 17:38, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:46:31AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 05/10/15 18:33, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> On 05/10/15 17:38, Reco wrote: > >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Tony van der H

Update-alternatives: error: alternative path doesn't exist

2015-10-06 Thread ThanhVu (Vu) Nguyen
I am using Debian Jessie 8 and got some problems below when using update-alteranatives. I suspect something is wrong with my update-alternatives setting but not sure how to check or fix. Any suggestion ? Installing clang $ sudo apt-get install clang Reading package lists... Done Building depen

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:50:38AM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > In light of the recent Java API copyright rulings, I think that this > license may need to be explicit. Personally, I am tending towards > the idea that there would be a new license cate

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 18:33, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 05/10/15 17:38, Reco wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Thanks for the quick response, Reco. >> >> 1. Kernel is stock wh

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Timothy Hobbs
On 10/06/15 11:19, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:58:19PM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: Dear list, I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a source of software that is safe. That is, the software that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Thank you all for your replies. I was particularly pleased with Sven Arvidsson's reply with his link to the DuckDuckGo discussions. I am glad that the iceweasel advertising issue is being resolved. Timothy Hobbs

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:58:19PM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Dear list, > > I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a > source of software that is safe. That is, the software > that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-ware, nor malicious in > any othe

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-06 Thread Gabriel Corona
Hi, > Another interesting example is that of the open source Atom text editor: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747824 Atom is, as far as > I can tell, mostly a front end to github's closed source services. No it is a real (purely local/non-Sass) text editor which has some git