Re: Scrolling problem, all apps.

2015-12-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Petter Adsen wrote on 12/17/2015 01:25 AM: On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:35:15 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am running Jessie and XFCE. I have a continuing problem with scrolling that occurs with all programs/applications. I am used to clicking in the scroll bar to move it a page, more o

Kernel Securit Alert

2015-12-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
Will there be a fix for Wheezy Backports? Lisi

Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

2015-12-17 Thread Random832
Sven Arvidsson writes: > dd'ing an image to a raw device does require root. Why? If it's a removable device and not a system filesystem, it wouldn't be unreasonable to give such access to anyone logged in at the console, on the grounds that they could otherwise take the device away and write it o

Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

2015-12-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Writing ISO to USB could also be done through udisks presumably? A safe method which distinguishes removable media from the fixely installed disks would be of great interest for https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

2015-12-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 01:04 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > Interesting! I had no idea such a simple case could be so problematic > (or that the maintainers could be so rude). I think that bug report > covers my case well enough. My immediate issue was that I could not > write a disk image to /dev

Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

2015-12-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 18:56 +, Brian wrote: > I don't think any of the solutions do help you to write to a raw > device, > whether it be a floppy or a USB stick. Writing a Debian ISO to USB is > not uncommon here and I do not appreciate having to be root to do it. > A > mistake in one letter in

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Steve Kleene wrote: > My address (sk...@syrano.acb.uc.edu) has been unsubscribed from the > debian-user mailing list. I understand why. [...] > Do any of you know of another administrator or ombudsman who might actually > respond? We responded on the 8th and told you to resubs

Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-17 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 07:18:31PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 16 Dec 2015 at 11:05:22 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:06:14AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > Please post your .fetchmailrc, obfuscating any identifying > > > information in it. > > > > > > Scripts can

Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

2015-12-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Dec 2015 at 01:04:43 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 22:09 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > >> Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my > >> workstation, and I have to use it occasion

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Saša Janiška
On Čet, 2015-12-17 at 18:51 +0100, Daniel Dominguez wrote: > You need to install wine:i386 and maybe some others 32 bits packages. When I mark wine32-preloader:i386 it synaptic shows it's broken due to missing dependency of wine32 (=1.8~rc4-1)...so have to investigate further what's going on...

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Saša Janiška
On Čet, 2015-12-17 at 18:51 +0100, Daniel Dominguez wrote: > You need to install wine:i386 and maybe some others 32 bits packages. > Dont rembember now but i deal with that issue some time ago and was > that. OK. Will try that... > Aptitude update & upgrade after adding 386 architecture may help

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Saša Janiška
On Čet, 2015-12-17 at 08:53 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > You sure you want to use wine. Yes. I was so happy when recently the need to use vbox with win xp disappeared since my needs for win apps are really minimal. Sincerely, Gour -- One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every ende

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Daniel Dominguez
You need to install wine:i386 and maybe some others 32 bits packages. Dont rembember now but i deal with that issue some time ago and was that. Aptitude update & upgrade after adding 386 architecture may help

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Gary Roach
Hi Sasa You sure you want to use wine. I gave up on wine, started using VirtualBox and just loaded an old copy of windows xp into that. This beats wine or a dual boot system. Gary R On 12/17/2015 08:12 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: Hello, few days ago I migrated from openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Saša Janiška
On Čet, 2015-12-17 at 17:45 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > What parts of Wine do you have installed? It sounds like the above is > the problem. $ dpkg-query -l 'wine*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig- aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Saša Janiška
On Čet, 2015-12-17 at 11:30 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > Do you have the i386 architecture enabled, via 'dpkg --add- > architecture i386'? Yes. > I have: >  > $ dpkg --print-architecture > amd64 > $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures > i386 Same here. > $ apt-cache policy wine32 $ apt-cache p

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 17:12 +0100, Saša Janiška wrote: > I see there is no wine32 and attempt to install wine32-preloader:i386 > does not work showing broken package. What parts of Wine do you have installed? It sounds like the above is the problem. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se P

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-17 at 11:12, Saša Janiška wrote: > Hello, > > few days ago I migrated from openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling) distro to > Debian (Sid) and migration/restoration went fine, but there is only > one problematic issue which I cannot solve - running wine which I > need for few legacy apps. > >

wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread Saša Janiška
Hello, few days ago I migrated from openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling) distro to Debian (Sid) and migration/restoration went fine, but there is only one problematic issue which I cannot solve - running wine which I need for few legacy apps. I did install wine, but when I attempt to install application

Re: awffull?

2015-12-17 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:41:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > As I've said several times, the web page in the sig is this machine. > > But something, on or about Nov 16th, disabled awffull, so I haven't had > any handy stats to look at recently. > > Tonight I read the man p

Re: Problem with systemd and cryptsetup - how to solve it the systemd way?

2015-12-17 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:38:02PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: >> My question is thus: How am I supposed to solve this the "systemd >> way"? I want to be able to start an encrypted block device using a >> normal systemd service/device

nosh version 1.23

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The nosh package is now up to version 1.23 . * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html * https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#The-nosh-Project There is one major item in this release. * I've adjusted console-fb-realizer's keyboard h

Re: Moving Partitions

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 03:39:15PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Question: Must root be on a primary partition (the 8gig is secondary --- I > had > failed to move root to a currently third disk before this so that 8gig might > be preferred.) No, it can go anywhere.