Re: boot problem

2016-03-05 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good afternoon Lina Try holding the alt key as you boot. You should get a few icons to choose osx or linux. If not, please send us output of command df -h Original Message From: lina Sent: Sun Mar 06 17:55:17 AEDT 2016 To: Debian Lists Subject: boot problem Hi, After

Re: Thin Mate window edges

2016-03-05 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, I have the same problem, although with GNOME 3. It was easier to grab the edges in Debian 7. -- Dario Strbenac PhD Student University of Sydney Camperdown NSW 2050 Australia

boot problem

2016-03-05 Thread lina
Hi, After install the debian, it goes to debian OS system directly, without showing me the option of start Mac OS or debian OS. Any suggestions, thanks,

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 05 Mar 2016 at 21:18:55 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > David Wright a écrit : > > > > You can't create files on an unmounted filesystem. > > Of course you can, with the adequate tools. For instance mtools for FAT, > e2tools for ext2, ntfs-3g (previoulsy ntfsprogs) for NTFS. Thank you f

getting correct name on wireless card

2016-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another type of instance happened to me earlier tonight where the wifi adapter did not connect. I was doing some configuration modification on sound card settings and rebooted the computer. No wifi adapter until after another reboot. Apparently touching anything in the usb domain potentially

Re: trying to optimize find's searches ...

2016-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 05 Mar 2016 at 05:23:55 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > find works significantly faster when you bag various search patterns á la: > > -iname '*.ko' -or -iname '*.bin' -or -iname '*.txt' > > but, how could you do that using a batch strategy and setting a > variable with many "-[i]name .

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Ron
On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:57:40 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > always /media/label when automounted. > > Not using udisks2, or maybe you have entries in /etc/fstab? Same behaviour for me, nothing in /etc/fstab but I remember I had to modify something to get that behaviour. Cheers, Ron. --

Re: Converting to Maildir

2016-03-05 Thread Joel Roth
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/03/2016 6:12 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > > What is interesting, is that mb2md prepends a '.' to all of > > the existing mbox folder names it converts. Also, dots in > > existing folder names are converted to underscore. > > > > Is there something magical about th

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Wright a écrit : > > You can't create files on an unmounted filesystem. Of course you can, with the adequate tools. For instance mtools for FAT, e2tools for ext2, ntfs-3g (previoulsy ntfsprogs) for NTFS.

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > It was perceived as an artificial limitation which has no place in > the kernel. Actually, I can conceive use cases for mount shadowing > the content of a directory. Typically : /dev

Re: systemd and php5-fpm

2016-03-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 14:39:01 +0100 basti wrote: > Hello, > > I have some errors with systemd and php5-fpm. > I want to create a dir /var/run/php5-fpm where I can place my sockets. > > With the old sysv-init all is fine I just add a "mkdir" in it. > > In systemd there is a bit different. > I try

Re: help using apt-build

2016-03-05 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 23 February 2016 at 18:46, Javi Barroso wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> El 23 de febrero de 2016 18:08:32 CET, Michael Fothergill >> escribió: >> >Dear Folks, >> > >> >I tried using apt-build to install a source file: >> > >> >

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2016-03-05 at 11:28 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I ask because I have _never_ seen it.  I have also never used GNOME > except on  > live CDs and, very occasionally, other people's computers.  But it > is  > always /media/label when automounted. Not using udisks2, or maybe you have entries in

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 14:42 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udisks#Mount_to_.2Fmedia_.28udisks2.29 Not sure why /media/user

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/03/16 06:28 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2016 10:39:13 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:31:26 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? Is this a

Re: Unsure which package is responsible for bug regarding VDPAU

2016-03-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:46:02 +0100 V wrote: > Hello, > I am unsure which package is responsible for my bug and > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests writing this mail. > > A brief summary about the bug: > Using VLC to play a video with the video output set to VDPAU freeze

Re: Converting to Maildir

2016-03-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 5/03/2016 6:12 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > What is interesting, is that mb2md prepends a '.' to all of > the existing mbox folder names it converts. Also, dots in > existing folder names are converted to underscore. > > Is there something magical about the dot in the Maildir format? Yes, it is

Unsure which package is responsible for bug regarding VDPAU

2016-03-05 Thread V
Hello, I am unsure which package is responsible for my bug and https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests writing this mail. A brief summary about the bug: Using VLC to play a video with the video output set to VDPAU freezes my whole system. The system is frozen as in displaying a freeze f

Re: help using apt-build

2016-03-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 23 February 2016 at 18:46, Javi Barroso wrote: > Hello, > > El 23 de febrero de 2016 18:08:32 CET, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> escribió: > >Dear Folks, > > > >I tried using apt-build to install a source file: > > > >root@rhubarb:/home/michaelmikef/Downloads# ls -l

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
al...@otterhall.com wrote: >On 03/03/2016 12:55 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Basically, there are lots of >> reported (real and potential) issues with smaller sizes, so we've >> picked a larger size by default for the guided partitioning. > >I wasn't aware of the potential problems. Funny that Ubun

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-03-05, Siard wrote: > David Wright: >> David Christensen: >> > $ zcat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz | less >> >> I just write:less /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz >> because I have: >> >> eval $(lesspipe) >> >> in my ~/.bashrc > > Third option:

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-05 Thread Siard
David Wright: > David Christensen: > > $ zcat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz | less > > I just write:less /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz > because I have: > > eval $(lesspipe) > > in my ~/.bashrc Third option: use zless.

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Mar 2016 at 07:39:13 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:31:26 + > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > > > > drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? > > > > Is this a GNOME probl

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 4, 2016, at 5:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2016 03:39:03 jdd wrote: > >> Le 04/03/2016 08:38, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : >>> If memory serves, long, long time ago, "mount" (the system call) >>> refused to comply unless the directory was empty (kernel 2.6.mumble; >>> so

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 March 2016 10:39:13 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:31:26 + > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > > > > drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? > > > > > > Is this a GNOME proble

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Ron
On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:31:26 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > > > drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? > > Is this a GNOME problem?? > Or a systemd one? Neither; non-systemd jessie, with XFCE. I remem

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Mar 2016 at 09:59:54 -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > What else do I have to do to avoid having all these suggested packages > somehow get through to my system? You don't have to do anything. Neither apt-get nor aptitude installs a suggested package by default. In fact, apt-get ignores the Su

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 March 2016 09:23:03 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2016 17:42:15 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > > drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? > > > > TIA > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ron. > > Is

Re: Automounting query

2016-03-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 04 March 2016 17:42:15 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable drives > automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? > > TIA > > Cheers, > > Ron. Is this a GNOME problem?? Lisi

Re: Using an SSD with strictatime mount option

2016-03-05 Thread Joel Roth
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > On 4/03/2016 12:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:53:11PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Joel Roth: > >>> > >>> mount -o remount,strictatime / > >>> > >>> Fixes it. > >> > >> Great! But wouldn't that still be a good idea to switch to Maildir?