Re: Cannot install Mono Develop on Debian

2016-02-21 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
Hello, Does it work using the standard way for Debian? # apt-get install monodevelop Since with the first way you already verified it's in the repositories, why go the proprietary way of things, instead of using the power of Linux distributions? Regards /peter Am 21.02.2016 um 20:49 schrieb joh

Re: I need help

2016-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Feb 2016 at 03:34:43 (+1300), Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:09:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 18:09:03 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Did you notice I said PAPER tap, not magnetic ;> > > > > Sorry about the typo; my fingers have had

Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-21 Thread Kynn Jones
My system is badly damaged, and it looks like the only way to fix it is to do a full re-install. I figure I will have to back everything up to an external drive, reformat the hard drive, and install everything from scratch. But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not re

Re: odd internal mail failure

2016-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
David Wright writes: > The obvious candidate is /etc/mailname which I don't see > any reference to your changing. /etc/mailname appears to be the culprit ... thanks.

Re: Help! System crashes and locks up.

2016-02-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have a system I just put together. New pwr sup, mobo, and > 1 new SATA disk, 1TB. 2Gig memory. Processor is a Phenom > 9950 4 core. Running Deb 8.3.0 Jessie, new install. > > Every so often it crashes and locks up, and the monitor >

Re: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Thiego writes: > I don't like the idea of Debian allowing the restrictions. I don't know what you mean by that. It's Free Software. They can do with it what the license terms permit and no more absent special permission from the copyright owner. The authors released it under the GPL and that's

Re: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-21 Thread Thiago
So strongly to: new DRMs are NOT needed. Free Software is a permissive license, the GPL is not the problem. Who is accustomed managing the restrictions on computers & softwares that's really bad. I don't like the idea of Debian allowing the restrictions. Free Software is about ethics to the copyri

Re: Help! System crashes and locks up.

2016-02-21 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:44 PM, David Christensen wrote: > I've experienced RAM that passed for a hour or two, but generated a few > errors over 24 hours. So, now I run it for 24 hours if I'm suspicious. Should have explained my entire logic with this process. I've seen RAM fail with Memtest86

Re: Help! System crashes and locks up.

2016-02-21 Thread David Christensen
On 02/21/2016 04:29 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: Sounds like a hardware problem of some sort. First thing I would do it check the RAM. Download Memtest86+ (for the latest version) and boot from the CD or USB device. See if it completes a few passes without error. +1/2. I've experienced RAM that

Re: Help! System crashes and locks up.

2016-02-21 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Does this sound familiar to anybody? Any hints? Sounds like a hardware problem of some sort. First thing I would do it check the RAM. Download Memtest86+ (for the latest version) and boot from the CD or USB device. See if it completes a few p

Help! System crashes and locks up.

2016-02-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a system I just put together. New pwr sup, mobo, and 1 new SATA disk, 1TB. 2Gig memory. Processor is a Phenom 9950 4 core. Running Deb 8.3.0 Jessie, new install. Every so often it crashes and locks up, and the monitor screen has many narrow horizontal lines, mostly the bac

Option "MigrationHeuristic" is not documented by Nvidia

2016-02-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
In stable Jessie I'm currently using 340.96-1 driver for my Nvidia K2100M. I'm having some issues with the card, mostly quite notable latency, while working with Gedit or LibreOffice Write. While looking for options to improve the performance I found that google is full with suggestions to in

Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel [SOLVED]

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 22/02/2016 2:02 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:59:26 + Lisi Reisz > wrote: > And how is password-protection incompatible with free software > principles anyway? It's not /really/ free if it needs me to login to access the resources. A.

Re: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 04:37:27PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > I don't see why you object so strongly to the idea of porting apt-get to > Windows. The idea may be a little crazy in that Windows programs don't > install the same way or use the same libraries but there are lots of other > programs that

Re: Upgraded squeeze-lts server to wheezy -- client exim4 connections over tls give segfault

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 22/02/2016 5:25 AM, deloptes wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > what is the mail server on this system? It should have one - perhaps also > exim It is exim4 as per the packages list. I fixed this by regenerating the certificate, that's all it was. Right now it is using my own self signed

Re: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-21 Thread Gary Dale
I don't see why you object so strongly to the idea of porting apt-get to Windows. The idea may be a little crazy in that Windows programs don't install the same way or use the same libraries but there are lots of other programs that run on Linux and Windows without provoking a hostile response.

Re: odd internal mail failure

2016-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 14:27:01 (-0500), Harry Putnam wrote: > On a recently installed jessie OS I've found an odd situation > happing with the internal mail. > > root is getting a message from root. At least that is what appears in > >From and To. > > However the message is showing up in users d

Cannot install Mono Develop on Debian

2016-02-21 Thread johny jj2
Hello, I cannot install Mono Develop on Debian. * First way Package downloaded from here ( https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/monodevelop/download) does not work because of this error: Cannot install 'libglade2.0-cil'. The details (Lintian output) were as follows: W: monodevelop: debian-n

odd internal mail failure

2016-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
On a recently installed jessie OS I've found an odd situation happing with the internal mail. root is getting a message from root. At least that is what appears in >From and To. However the message is showing up in users directory as a file named `$'. Here is the header: From r...@d.local.l

Re: Setting up HDRI in ImageMagick

2016-02-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 02/19/2016 12:35 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i tried my proposal on Jessie. After ./configure --enable-hdri i see Options used to compile and link: ... CPPFLAGS= -DMAGICKCORE_HDRI_ENABLE=1 -DMAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH=16 while "make" it reports lines lik

Re: Debian security: need recipe for blocking root ssh access AND all ssh password access

2016-02-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 17 February 2016 14:24:02 Darac Marjal wrote: > >2. after initial setup, no ssh access will be allowed via a password > > $ echo "PasswordAuthentication No" | sudo tee -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config That's a bad idea: You may end up with 2 PasswordAuthentication entries in sshd_config. Tha

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 18:49 +0100, jdd wrote: > forgot to say I can connect to the tablet with ssh, so I can see the  > logs, but with no clue (for me) Xorg logs should be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log in jessie. you can post it here if you need help understanding it. If KMS doesn't work at all, it migh

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread Felix Miata
jdd composed on 2016-02-21 18:46 (UTC+0100): >> Can you double check that you're really running the Xorg intel driver >> and isn't getting fbdev or something similar? > don't know, because it do not start with the default grub config. I have > to add nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 to have a display

Re: Upgraded squeeze-lts server to wheezy -- client exim4 connections over tls give segfault

2016-02-21 Thread deloptes
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I can't find anything that seems to be significant except for the linux > kernel version. the error is not likely to be related to the kernel version > > NB: A simpler VM on the same Xen server has been running Wheezy for quite > a while, but it isn't a mail server. w

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread jdd
forgot to say I can connect to the tablet with ssh, so I can see the logs, but with no clue (for me) jdd

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread jdd
Le 21/02/2016 18:37, Sven Arvidsson a écrit : Can you double check that you're really running the Xorg intel driver and isn't getting fbdev or something similar? don't know, because it do not start with the default grub config. I have to add nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 to have a display, incl

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 11:00 +0100, jdd wrote: > Hello, > > I try to install debian jessie on a windows 10 It Works TW891 tablet  > (with attached keyboard) > > using the hybrid 32/64 bits dvd, I could install jessie with xfce. > > But... it's installed in portrait mode (the screen need to be see

Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel

2016-02-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:12:15 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > What I'd like to know is how iceweasel broke on the OP's system in > > the first place. I did a standard install of the browser on my > > 64-bit Wheezy system years ago, installed Flash, etc

Re: Cannot play any media file using parole in Debian 8 jessie Xfce edition

2016-02-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:47:16 +0600 Muntasim-Ul Haque wrote: > I installed all the gstreamer plugins needed for parole to work. But > that didn't help much. I can now play mp3's, but not any video or > movie file. Define 'any video or movie file'. What formats have you tried to play with parole

Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel [SOLVED]

2016-02-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:59:26 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 February 2016 16:17:22 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Hi, > > > > On 21/02/2016 2:12 AM, Steve Kleene wrote: > > > user_pref("dom.indexedDB.enabled", false); > > > > > >

Re: Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:18:05 +0100 (CET) jds1...@telenet.be wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest Debian CD image > (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-CD-1.iso) > > Installing to bare metal enables the components main contrib and > non-free. > > I

Re: Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-21 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 11:18 +0100, jds1...@telenet.be wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest Debian CD image > (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-CD-1.iso) > > Installing to bare metal enables the components main contrib and non-free. > > Installin

Upgraded squeeze-lts server to wheezy -- client exim4 connections over tls give segfault

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I've been running squeeze-lts VM on a squeeze-lts Xen server. Updated the VM to wheezy and it mostly works okay, but but mail connections fail with a segfault. # swaks -4 -s mail.affinityvision.com.au -tlsc -p 465 --ehlo affintiyvision.com.au -au andrewm -ap -t andrew.mcglas...@affinityvis

Upgraded squeeze-lts server to wheezy -- client exim4 connections over tls give segfault

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I've been running squeeze-lts VM on a squeeze-lts Xen server. Updated the VM to wheezy and it most ly works okay, but but mail connections fail with a segfault #  swaks -4 -s mail.affinityvision.com.au -tlsc -p 465 --ehlo affintiyvision.com.au -au andrewm -ap  -t a

nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel

2016-02-21 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:12:15 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > What I'd like to know is how iceweasel broke on the OP's system in the > first place. I did a standard install of the browser on my 64-bit Wheezy > system years ago, installed Flash, etc., and it works. Maybe, it's > because I don't use

Re: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

2016-02-21 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 19. feb. 2016 23:19, skrev Andrew Wood: > Is there any mail program for Debian which has the option to show the > inboxes of multiple mail accounts as one consolidated view a bit like > the 'All Inboxes' option on the iPhone/iPad/Mac Mail? Icedove (aka Thunderbird) has all kinds of views, inclu

Re: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks for all the suggestions, its for someone else so I will pass them on

Re: how to install debian on iMac

2016-02-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:55:38 +0800 lina wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Rick Thomas > wrote: > > > > On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >> > >> On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote: > >> > >>> Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac

Re: ssh regenerated moduli file much smaller than the one provided by Debian

2016-02-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Just for complement, compare these ssh security tips: Secure Secure Shell https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html Regards, jvp.

rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread jdd
Hello, I try to install debian jessie on a windows 10 It Works TW891 tablet (with attached keyboard) using the hybrid 32/64 bits dvd, I could install jessie with xfce. But... it's installed in portrait mode (the screen need to be seen with the longer size vertical), when the keyboard expect

Re: how to install debian on iMac

2016-02-21 Thread lina
In the partition device provided disk utility, it only has OS x Extended MS-DOS FAT exFAT these format. Thanks, On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:23 PM, lina wrote: > I want to keep current Mac OS and besides I am not sure how to install it. > > Any suggestion about how to partition the hard disk? >

Re: how to install debian on iMac

2016-02-21 Thread lina
I want to keep current Mac OS and besides I am not sure how to install it. Any suggestion about how to partition the hard disk? I prefer using the dis1s2. Thanks' CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found) | +-- Logical Volume Group 9F5EC450-D81F-4DDB-ADB7-A53BCB88C16B ===