fast internet connection but very slow browser response

2015-11-23 Thread tom arnall
My browser connection has become very slow. Pinging will show a very fast connection, but my browser response is often so slow that a request times out. Skype will work fine under these conditions, as well as my torrent agent. I looked at 'syslog' and the output below seems to me related to the pr

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/22/2015 02:56 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-11-22 at 15:24, Brian wrote: On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 14:12:09 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-11-22 at 13:26, Brian wrote: * 10-startx-Under-Linux-start-X-on-the-current-VT.patch, 11-startx-Pass-vtX-as-long-as-the-user-did-not-spec

Re: How to interpret transitions list?

2015-11-23 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Jonas wrote: > Is there anywhere a kind of Howto or overview, how to interpret (as > non-Debian-developper) a Debian transition overview page? > For example > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libstdc++6.html > > konsole, kate and a lot of others

Re: no more tmp.mount systemd unit on my Debian Sid GNOME !

2015-11-23 Thread antistress
Thank you Sven :) Le 23/11/2015 21:14, Sven Hartge a écrit : antistress wrote: About 2 weeks ago I couldn't start anymore my graphical Debian Sid GNOME session. I don't know if it was related to the switch to non-root X server. Some people on debian-fr forum helped me to get a graphical sessi

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 23 November 2015 19:03:04 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtz

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:58:47 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > I put a bounty on > wipeing windows from anything I own in about 1997. No regrets yet. SWMBO has some hardware that only speaks Windows, alas... Cheers, Ron. -- There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Re: Freemind stopped working

2015-11-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On 23/11/15 20:54, Alan Chandler wrote: Freemind seems to have stopped working, hanging up in the splash screen. I found something on debian bug lists that said I should comment out the line in /etc/java-7-opensdk/accessibility.properties, but when I tried that all that happened is it got past

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 November 2015 13:16:52 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:11:47 +0200 > > Teemu Likonen wrote: > > Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb > > > > ^^ > > You have these two different c

Freemind stopped working

2015-11-23 Thread Alan Chandler
Freemind seems to have stopped working, hanging up in the splash screen. I found something on debian bug lists that said I should comment out the line in /etc/java-7-opensdk/accessibility.properties, but when I tried that all that happened is it got past the splash screen and then put up a dia

Re: Sendmail compiled with tcpwrappers yet ignores /etc/hosts.deny ?

2015-11-23 Thread jon
On Sun, 2015-11-22 at 23:44 +, jon wrote: > > root@mail:/usr/share/doc# ldd /usr/sbin/sendmail |grep 'libwrap' > libwrap.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libwrap.so.0 (0xb7525000) > root@mail:/usr/share/doc# cat /etc/debian_version > 8.2 > > I want to use sendmail with tcp wrappers but it

Re: no more tmp.mount systemd unit on my Debian Sid GNOME !

2015-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
antistress wrote: > About 2 weeks ago I couldn't start anymore my graphical Debian Sid GNOME > session. I don't know if it was related to the switch to non-root X > server. Some people on debian-fr forum helped me to get a graphical > session again. > But It seems that I have lost the ability

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Martin Smith
On 23/11/2015 19:40, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:18:07 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: OK Ta; changed the CL to what you gave me: root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig --add smb smb: unknown service Just checked in Synaptic, have both Samba, Samba-common and Samba-common-bin installed

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:18:07 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > > OK Ta; changed the CL to what you gave me: > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig --add smb > > smb: unknown service > > Just checked in Synaptic, have both Samba, Samba-common and > > Samba-common-bin installed. > That's probably because th

Re: pointless linguistic one-upmanship (was Re: "operating system")

2015-11-23 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:29:53AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Why am I not surprised that a large thread ostensibly about "Adobe Flash" has > devolved into two people arguing the definition of terms with each other. Can > you at least change the Subject when you change the subject, or better

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 03:16:52PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:11:47 +0200 > Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > > > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb > > ^^ > > You have these two diff

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-23 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lis

Re: No grub after Installing Debian 8 on Laptop

2015-11-23 Thread Amir H. Firouziyan
Hello, It's probably because you don't create EFI partition. If you but by UFEI method (not legacy) you need EFI partition. On November 23, 2015 10:01:18 PM GMT+03:30, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: >Hello. I have a Dell Inspiron 7537 with UEFI and Windows 8.1 installed >on >it. I have installed Debian

No grub after Installing Debian 8 on Laptop

2015-11-23 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Hello. I have a Dell Inspiron 7537 with UEFI and Windows 8.1 installed on it. I have installed Debian 8 on it however I don't get Grub after installation. I have also noticed that Grub did not install during installation. When I turn ON the laptop, it boots to Windows and Grub does not appear. I h

Re: missing bits of graphicsmagick-dev in Jessie?

2015-11-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
> > but now with Jessie basics underlying > their ./configure process reports : > > checking for WriteImage in -lGraphicsMagick... no > ... with consequent inability to draw raster maps. > The common factor is the Debian system basis. > > I hope this points to a useful course of action

Re:

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:28:31 +0100 Adrien WATT wrote: > Hello. I bought this product > http://www.amazon.fr/CSL-Raspberry-Wireless-WPA2-PSK-Compatible/dp/B00YXA751U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1448299606&sr=8-2&keywords=dongle+wifi > but I don't know how to use it with my raspberry pi B+. Thanks for

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:11:47 +0200 Teemu Likonen wrote: > Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb > ^^ > You have these two different characters there: > > - U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS > – U+2013 EN DASH >

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Then there all the new users out there who, having diligently read up on Linux, know exactly how to open a console... -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

no more tmp.mount systemd unit on my Debian Sid GNOME !

2015-11-23 Thread antistress
Hi, About 2 weeks ago I couldn't start anymore my graphical Debian Sid GNOME session. I don't know if it was related to the switch to non-root X server. Some people on debian-fr forum helped me to get a graphical session again. But It seems that I have lost the ability mount tmp on a tmpfs b

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2015-11-23 Thread Adrien WATT
Hello. I bought this product http://www.amazon.fr/CSL-Raspberry-Wireless-WPA2-PSK-Compatible/dp/B00YXA751U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1448299606&sr=8-2&keywords=dongle+wifi but I don't know how to use it with my raspberry pi B+. Thanks for answers.

Re: The word 'should'.

2015-11-23 Thread moxalt
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:06:02 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:54:07AM +, Ben Stones wrote: > > Folks, > > > > There are a lot of arguments going around in this e-mail chain and now > > people are just hurting other people's feelings. Arguments are pointless if > > n

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-23 Thread John L. Ries
Actually, if someone is starting X via startx instead of a display manager, it normally means either that the user is trying to test his X configuration, or that X is only intended to run intermittently, with TTY mode being the norm. So having X replace the terminal in that circumstance does n

Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

2015-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrew Puschak wrote: > I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 > jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to > jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with > the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list

No more privilege elevation in graphical mode (Debian Sid GNOME)

2015-11-23 Thread antistress
Hi, About 2 weeks ago I couldn't start anymore my graphical Debian Sid GNOME session. I don't know if it was related to the switch to non-root X server. Some people on debian-fr forum helped me to get a graphical session again. But It seems that I have lost the ability to get privileges in g

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Teemu Likonen
Chris Bannister [2015-11-24 05:48:10+13] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:11:47PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: >> >> > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb >> ^^ >> You have these two different characters th

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 23 November 2015 16:48:10 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:11:47PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb > > > > ^^ > > You have these two different

Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

2015-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:11:13PM +, Andrew Puschak wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 > jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to > jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:11:47PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb > ^^ > You have these two different characters there: > > - U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS > – U+2013 EN DA

Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

2015-11-23 Thread Andrew Puschak
Hi Everyone! I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with the first package being nagios-nrpe. I also get a list of packages dur

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Teemu Likonen
Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb ^^ You have these two different characters there: - U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS – U+2013 EN DASH But you should have “--add”, that is, two times U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS. sign

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
PS Running Wheezy / XFCE, no systemd. Cheers, Ron. -- Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:08:03 +0100 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:59:35 -0300 > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > > Trying to activate Samba with chkconfig, I get: > > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig –add smb 5 > ^ > > >chkconfig -a|--ad

Re: Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:59:35 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Trying to activate Samba with chkconfig, I get: > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig –add smb 5 ^ >chkconfig -a|--add [names] ^^ Try adding another hyphen. Petter --

Prob activating Samba

2015-11-23 Thread Ron
Trying to activate Samba with chkconfig, I get: root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig –add smb 5 Usage: chkconfig -s service on|off|runlevels Yet according to man chkconfig: SYNOPSIS chkconfig -t|--terse [names] chkconfig -s|--set [name state] chkconfig -e|--edit [names] chk

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Useful hints are most often found in Xorg.0.log, which for some people at >> least, is better seen in a "pastebin"[1] than an email attachment. > Please stop suggesting that! Logs inline or as an attachment are fine. Agreed. `pastebin' sucks rocks because when you search the internet for an er

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 23 November 2015 22:15:29 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Since xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1), Xorg log may end up in > > ~/.local/share/xorg/ > > > > I've only got xserver-xorg installed. xorg-server is the name of the source package. xserver-xorg binary packages are built from that source pack

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-23 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/22/2015 10:44 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: Thanks Ric, care to share details on how You managed such a marvel? How did You disable the internal (intel) "video card" (actually inside the CPU chip)? From BIOS? What other configuration did You do? I just disabled the video feature in the bios

Jessie with samba shared folder ufw enable

2015-11-23 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Dear Users! I need some help with my samba sharing. When I try connect to there from another windows machine its ufw alwys block... Please help how to enable samba sharing with ufw-firewall. Many thanks!

Re: Do I need to do fstrim on Jessie?

2015-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Gener Badenas wrote: > I am currently using Ubuntu as my operating system. I have an Asus > laptop where I replaced the disk with an SSD one for performance. I > read before that I need to do fstrim regularly so that performance > will not degrade. > I am currently planning to try Debian Jessie

pointless linguistic one-upmanship (was Re: "operating system")

2015-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Why am I not surprised that a large thread ostensibly about "Adobe Flash" has devolved into two people arguing the definition of terms with each other. Can you at least change the Subject when you change the subject, or better yet, take it off-list?

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:32:43AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2015 05:19:43 Mauro Condarelli wrote: > > In my case there was NO log to /var/log/xorg.0.log. > > Since xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1), Xorg log may end up in ~/.local/share/xorg/ > > Hope this helps I've only go

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-23 Thread Mauro Condarelli
That is indeed the case; thanks. log of the "failing" debian installation is now at: http://paste.debian.net/335212/ The only "strange" thing I see is: "[ 7.709] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support" Is it relevant? If so what does it mean (and how do I fix it)?