Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 25 Jan 2016 at 19:11:40 (-0500), Francis Gerund wrote: > [...] > It's not that simple. Years ago, I followed advice to upgrade to > testing by just "edit your /etc/apt/sources.list changing 'stable' (or > the current codename for stable) in the apt lines to 'testing' (or the > current code

Re: Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

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Re: Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

2016-01-25 Thread Timothy Marion
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Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
On 1/25/16, John Hasler wrote: > Francis Gerund writes: >> sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade >> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > >> I presume that's what you meant. Is the answer yes, then? But if so, >> wouldn't that only have to be done once, followed by periodically >> doing: > >> sudo apt-

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Francis Gerund writes: > sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > I presume that's what you meant. Is the answer yes, then? But if so, > wouldn't that only have to be done once, followed by periodically > doing: > sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade No. Testin

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
Hi Lisi. Just got your posting. Yes I did find and read this (among other references). It says: "If you notice that some packages are not upgraded you should also try apt-get dist-upgrade, but beware that this command will also install or remove packages, so do check carefully all proposed actio

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
What was I thinking? (I have some distractions going on right now). dist-upgrades? Of course. Earlier in this sequence I did ask, to track testing permanently, should I do: sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I presume that's what you meant. Is the answer yes,

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 25 January 2016 23:12:09 Francis Gerund wrote: > > I don't feel like testing, unstable, etc. should be only for the > nobles, and denied to the mere peasants (like me). It isn't "only for the nobles". It's for everybody. But they _are_ Testing and Unstable and you have to be prepare

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
Hi, Jochen. 1) You are correct. It should have been: >Then, I did: >sudo apt-get check >sudo apt-get update >sudo apt-get upgrade >sudo clean >sudo autoclean >sudo autoremove My mistake. Sorry. 2) Run dist-upgrades? No one mentioned that (to me), and I did not know anything about that. Ho

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Francis Gerund: > > Then, I did: > > sudo check > sudo update > sudo upgrade > clean > autoclean > autoremove What are these supposed to do? I suppose they are apt operations, but don't make us guess. Always quote the exact commands you are using. > But, should I now do: > > sudo apt-get --dow

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-25 Thread Francis Gerund
I have successfully (I hope) upgraded from Debian 8 (Jessie) stable to permanent testing. I did: sudo check sudo update sudo upgrade then saved /etc/apt/sources.list as /etc/apt/sources.list.old. Here was the original /etc/apt/sources.list: -

Re: Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

2016-01-25 Thread David Christensen
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ICEDOVE - Always asking for login keyring password

2016-01-25 Thread Paulo Roberto
Hi, folks, I'm using Icedove with OpenPGP enabled by Enigmail. Every time I open the application and send my first e-mail, it prompts me for my PGP key. After inserting it and mark to remember, it asks for my Gnome Keyring password. After that, everything works fine and I can send e-mails without

Re: wodim "Cannot open SCSI driver!"

2016-01-25 Thread Emanuel Berg
Gene Heskett writes: > Point being Lisi, that its without a doubt of > Chinese manufacture and the price on your store > shelf should be comparable +- shipping and of course > any resttrictive tarrifs your government may have in > place one way or the other. Some call it a customs > tax, but the

Re: wodim "Cannot open SCSI driver!"

2016-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 January 2016 05:13:23 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 25 January 2016 00:45:58 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I bought the last burner I have, about 3 or 4 years ago at wallmart, > > everything but Blue Ray, for about a $25 dollar bill. Internal, sata > > interface. > > Don't gloat, Gene. ;-)*

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Less important for me but still to figure out, where to put the magic so > that 'systemctl stop /mountpoint' also disables the relevant VG and closes > the luks device. (I would like to do this with a removable drive in the > near future s

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-25 Thread Haines Brown
Well, I was too overconfident, I make sure pulseaudio auto-spans: $ cat /etc/pulse/client.conf | grep autospawn $ ; autospawn = yes I do: $ pulseaudio It says service unkown; ConsoleKit did not provide any .service files. Failed to load modu

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:59:59PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I *think* enabling lvmetad has indeed fixed the requirement to "vgchange -a y > " upon unlocking the LUKS device. Great! Since it is harmless to leave the vgchange in when lvmetad *is* available, I suppose I should leave it in. So

Re: python-wxgtk2.8 dependency issue on Jessie

2016-01-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 08:56 -0600, John Aten wrote: > Hi all, > > I consulted the Trelby mailing list on this, but haven't had a > response. I think it might be a more Debian specific issue anyway. I > tried to install the Trelby screenwriting software on Debian Jessie, > following the instruction

Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:00:30AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It might be something to do with my LVM configuration. I had a hint > elsewhere that lvmetad might address this, so I'll explore that. I *think* enabling lvmetad has indeed fixed the requirement to "vgchange -a y " upon unlocking

Re: python-wxgtk2.8 dependency issue on Jessie

2016-01-25 Thread Brian
On Mon 25 Jan 2016 at 08:56:35 -0600, John Aten wrote: > I consulted the Trelby mailing list on this, but haven't had a > response. I think it might be a more Debian specific issue anyway. I > tried to install the Trelby screenwriting software on Debian Jessie, > following the instructions at linu

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:34:09 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Is this about right, to convert from stable to permanent testing? Or > has having backports enabled already made it not doable? I should think this would work.

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:26:26 -0500 Francis Gerund wrote: > Hello . . . > > Is this mic on? > What?

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:08:57 +0700 Ken Heard wrote: > Is it possible at this stage to use stretch instead of testing? Then > when testing becomes stable it will not be necessary to change the > sources.list again -- unless of course at that point you want to go > directly to the new testing. Ye

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

2016-01-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:15:33 +1100 Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 25/01/16 13:29, Adam Wilson wrote: > > I would do something like this: > > > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing-updates main > > deb http://security.debian.org testing/updat

python-wxgtk2.8 dependency issue on Jessie

2016-01-25 Thread John Aten
Hi all, I consulted the Trelby mailing list on this, but haven't had a response. I think it might be a more Debian specific issue anyway. I tried to install the Trelby screenwriting software on Debian Jessie, following the instructions at linuxg.net: $ wget http://www.trelby.org/files/release/

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I apologize for my ignorance. I didn't realize that aptitude would > install recommended packages Indeed. I put Aptitude::Recommends-Important "False"; in my /etc/apt/apt.conf years ago and never looked back. Stefan

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:11:50AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 02:00:09PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > I found that /etc/apt/preferences/systemd has t

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 02:00:09PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I found that /etc/apt/preferences/systemd has these two lines: > > > > package systemd: *systemd* > > Pin: origin ""\Pin-Priority: -1 > > > > This looked susp

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:10:51PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Aptitude install does not list

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:10:51PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > [...] > > > Aptitude install does not list it as a requirement, but when I go to > > install either pulseaudio or pavucontrol it says the following NEW > > package

Re: Live CD & Debian Testing CD & KDE Built-In Problem

2016-01-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:04:40PM +0800, Deep Blue wrote: [...] > and linux hardware compatibility is pain for me :( i just want install wifi > driver in a few click or one commandline, the fact is i have to download > kernel source code searching f

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:30:32AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > > > > However, Skype's audio breaks up and video is terrible, which > > is why I'm trying to set Skype up on my Sid laptop. > > Are you sue that the wheezy system is responsible for that braking up? > And why wou

Live CD & Debian Testing CD & KDE Built-In Problem

2016-01-25 Thread Deep Blue
I can't install Debian 8.2 on my efi bios tablet until now So, i downloaded debian testing dvd which support efi, New kernel, built-in kde5, almost perfect !! But it doesn't have live cd :( now i'm looking for the livecd in the wiki, trying to find a way made it by myself Why not combine testing &

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-25 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > Also, I'm under the impression that the bug submitter doesn't > automatically get sent any responses to the bug report. I don't know if I receive them all, but I do receive responses to bug reports I submitted. I'm not so sure about bug reports

Re: Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

2016-01-25 Thread basti
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Re: Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

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Re: setting up systemd units for dm-crypt devices

2016-01-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:56:15PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > 2. vgchange -a y ... > I guess having a separate unit for this could be nice, but is it > really necessary? Having used LVM on top of LUKS, I can't recall > having

Re: wodim "Cannot open SCSI driver!"

2016-01-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 25 January 2016 00:45:58 Gene Heskett wrote: > I bought the last burner I have, about 3 or 4 years ago at wallmart, > everything but Blue Ray, for about a $25 dollar bill. Internal, sata > interface. Don't gloat, Gene. ;-)* Lisi *Tech prices in the USA are very low compared with many of

Re: wodim "Cannot open SCSI driver!"

2016-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0 That's another member of the family of medium-not-present messages: 2 3A 00 MEDIUM NOT PRESENT 2 3A 01 MEDIUM NOT PRESENT TRAY CLOSED 2 3A 02 MEDIUM NOT PRESENT TRAY OPEN 2 3A 03 MEDIUM NOT PRESENT LO

Looking for cheap low-end VPS providers in the USA

2016-01-25 Thread J Mo
Hello everyone I am looking for a new low-end VPS provider in the USA. Does anyone have any recommendations? I am dumping one of my old providers soon. It took them 6+ months to support Debian 8 and they just don't seem to care about supporting Debian in general. I don't have a preference

libqt5egldeviceintegration5

2016-01-25 Thread David Baron
Is this obsolete or deprecated? Many held libqt5 packages upgrades want to remove this.