Re: Empty logs

2016-04-04 Thread anxiousmac
On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 05:50:04 UTC+1, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hello! > > > I have /var/log/messages since some days empty. How could I repair that? > Before it when I run sudo tail -F /var/log/messages I always could see > everything. > > > Please help! Have a look at the "Wireless Disc

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

2016-04-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 06:36:14AM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Thanks for the answer. > > grep 2000 /etc/services > cisco-sccp 2000/tcp # Cisco SCCP > cisco-sccp 2000/udp > I see that... > > And I don't use any program with cisco phone - but I th

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4 [workaround]

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
My personal workaround... yesterday, I had used GNOME3 Classic which reduced the freezes down to "every3 hours". ;-) Today morning, I've downgrades the kernel back to the previous version and I'm back to GNOME3 and Firefox for 2 hours now. No freeze so far... What I've done is: aptitude insta

Empty logs

2016-04-04 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hello! I have /var/log/messages since some days empty. How could I repair that? Before it when I run sudo tail -F /var/log/messages I always could see everything. Please help!

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

2016-04-04 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Thanks for the answer. grep 2000 /etc/services cisco-sccp 2000/tcp # Cisco SCCP cisco-sccp 2000/udp I see that... And I don't use any program with cisco phone - but I think I have the program installed because of something else. So how could I get rid of that? How could I remove program which u

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's >> > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first >> > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it. >> My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just >> "right-click

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 01:33:52 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's > > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first > > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it. > > My experience is the exac

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it. My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just "right-click => Save Video

Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question

2016-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 April 2016 21:51:23 Alan McConnell wrote: >  I don't know why LinuxCollections >          offers such a silly coupling for sale. Because it is useful? If you were someone who installs frequently (many people do) then you need both to cover a variety of computers. Some don't have o

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

2016-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 April 2016 14:34:38 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > What is it https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cisco-sccp&oq=cisco-sccp&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.1299j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 > - and why it is in Debian? It isn't. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cisco-sccp&sear

Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question

2016-04-04 Thread Alan McConnell
- Original Message - From: "Brian" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 3:18:49 PM Subject: Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 16:42:35 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > Well, it doesn't contain emacs or tex or mutt, or ImageMag

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-04-04 Thread deloptes
Glenn Holmer wrote: > On 04/04/2016 10:21 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: >> Unfortunately, these people are what most of the population consist of. > >> On 04/03/2016 02:17 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: >>> On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:15:54 -0400 >>> Carl Fink wrote: >>> Does this list have moderators? Because

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 18:18:12 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 23:12:41 -0500 David Wright > wrote: > > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 09:38:00 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:34:58 -0500 David Wright > > > wrote: > > > > When flash streams a movie, a copy is dow

Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question

2016-04-04 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 16:42:35 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > Well, it doesn't contain emacs or tex or mutt, or ImageMagick. Why > are you > telling me what it 'should' have? I have touched on this in another post but here is a fuller answer: A netinst image is about 300M. Th

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

2016-04-04 Thread deloptes
Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > What is it - and why it is in Debian? What is it doing here? > > Thanks for the answers! https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/86036/ip-phone-sccp-sip-phone-registration-process-cucm so if you see this here grep 2000 /etc/services cisco-sccp 2000/tcp

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-04 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/02/2016 04:28 AM, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Hello all, > > I use Xfce, but I also like having a few KDE apps installed (namely, > k3b, konquest and a few others, but the problem here pertains to knotify > in general). I haven't the full KDE desktop and I don't want it. I'm on > a up-to-date stre

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 15:14:10 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2016 14:04:41 Brian wrote: > > > > This is becoming painful to hear about. :) > > Yes. ;-) I didn't raise it. I was responding to the suggestion that there > isn't a problem. Someone said that the kerfuffle was for

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-04-04 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 04/04/2016 10:21 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > Unfortunately, these people are what most of the population consist of. > On 04/03/2016 02:17 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:15:54 -0400 >> Carl Fink wrote: >> >>> Does this list have moderators? Because this is absurd. >> >> Yes. Bu

Wireless Disconnects, Requires Reboot

2016-04-04 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Greetings. I'm running Jessie on an Acer Aspire 5745DG laptop with a Broadcom BCM43225 wireless chip. Wireless LAN has always worked flawlessly until recently when it started disconnecting abruptly, showing not available then disappearing from Network Manager. This can happen anytime between 10 mi

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-04-04, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> > >> > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  >> > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/late

Re: bug reporting and packages

2016-04-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/4/16, Alan Fujinami wrote: > Hi, > I was going to use the bugreport feature of my Debian 8.3 install... it say > if I don't know the package then I should contact you... > my bug is that I have a ps2mouse. Whenever the computer goes into > screensaver mode, the mouse icon disappears. I have t

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Mas
Le 04/04/2016 15:13, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > I think that with this option (or with --force-confnew), > one must look carefully at the differences between the .dpkg-dist > config files and the keeped ones. We do look from time to time to .dpkg-dist files, in order to update our puppet m

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Intense Red
> It now crashes /usr/bin/X after a minute or so of using iceweasel. I'm also getting the same type of random lockups though I haven't isolated it to Iceweasel (though FWIW, Iceweasel is typically running when it locks up). Like you, the system was rock solid until the 8.4 upgrade (which

Re: Bug report (ASUS M2NPV/VM: Garbled screen instead of GUI)

2016-04-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/4/16, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2016 05:01:57 Manfred wrote: > >> >If you are unable to determine which package your bug report should >> > be filed against, please send e-mail to the Debian user mailing list >> > asking for advice. >> >> Ok, so I'm asking for advice, since Deb

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:11:15AM +, Joerg Desch wrote: > I have an extremely hard problem after upgrading Debian Jessie from 8.3 > to 8.4 today. The system is a Dell Vostro with an AMD/ATI Turks PRO > [Radeon HD 7570]. The free radeon driver is used for X. Desktop is GNOME3. >

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/in > > de > > x. > > html > > > > I crea

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 23:12:41 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 09:38:00 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:34:58 -0500 David Wright > > wrote: > > > When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my > > > disk. One beneficial effect of this is tha

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/inde > x. > html > > I created the following file in ~/.local/share/applications > > eiffel-estudio.desktop

Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:27:32 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Adam Wilson composed on 2016-04-03 22:11 (UTC+0300): > > > Both the USA and the USSR claimed to be democracies- and neither > > were. > > Only the misinformed and uninformed claim the USA is or ever has been > a democracy. Unfortunately, t

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 14:52 +, Joerg Desch wrote: > > You might want to file a bug if there isn't one open already. > For the kernel-image package? Is the "radeon" stuff part of that > package? Yes, the drivers consist of several different parts, and this looks like a problem in the kernel dri

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 08:42:17 (+0200), Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > See package youtube-dl. Just give the URL you see in your browser > as argument to the youtube-dl command (beware of special characters, > better use "...", see man youtube-dl). > This works also for other sites with movies. Silly

Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 08:56:23 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016, 17:11 Floris wrote: > > > Op Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:46:09 +0200 schreef Alan McConnell > > : > > > > > Well, I finally got my Jessie installed! I had to pick a > > > different kernel than then one > > > suggested, but

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Some additional information... After the X-Crash, neither CTRL-ALT_F1 nor CRTL-ALT-DEL works. Even CRTL- ALT-BACKSPACE doesn't work. But I've tried ALT-PRINT-REISUB and the system reboots.

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:36:17 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:56 AM Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > The discussion of "security" in non-free software is something of a > > meaningless distinction, since non-free software is compromised by > > default. Adobe Flash was always evil

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:21:09 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > 3.16 was mentioned later in the thread: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/9/373 OK. If I find some time, I will have a look at this. > You might want to file a bug if there isn't one open already. For the kernel-image package? Is the "r

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> There are evidently serious flaws in Flash, either its design or its > implementation, that warrant all the negativity, but the odd thing is that > the clear technical unbiased treatment of the issue seems to be completely > swamped by quasi religious fervour. Those of us who haven't seen the fac

Re: restarting network [SOLVED]

2016-04-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/03/16 15:42, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 02:10:08PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 29/03/16 14:00, Brian wrote: On Tue 29 Mar 2016 at 13:37:19 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 29/03/16 12:58, pedantsunited wrote: On Tue 29 Mar 2016 at 11:14:56 +0100, Tony van der

Re: Lockup problems with new 8.4 update

2016-04-04 Thread David
On 4 April 2016 at 08:25, Intense Red wrote: >I've got a box running KDE and Debian stable, has been running fine for > months, and today I did the update from 8.3 to 8.4. No problem; since it > installed a new kernel, I told it to reboot. > >Ever since then I've been getting random lockup

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 April 2016 14:04:41 Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 20:42:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 01 April 2016 11:39:29 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth > > > mentioning that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:27:02 +0100 Oliver Elphick wrote: > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/index. > html > > I created the following file in ~/.local/share/applications > > eiffel-estudio.desktop

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread David
On 4 April 2016 at 21:11, Joerg Desch wrote: > I have an extremely hard problem after upgrading Debian Jessie from 8.3 > to 8.4 today. The system is a Dell Vostro with an AMD/ATI Turks PRO > [Radeon HD 7570]. The free radeon driver is used for X. Desktop is GNOME3. > The resolution is 25560x1440.

Re: page up down keys fail to work in gmail

2016-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 02:30:54PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Just quickly, I think you will find that gmail intercepts keystrokes and > gives them their own "function", rather nasty I think, to break standard > UI interface of a browser tab. > Not by default: There is a setting to enable thi

Re: Sudo

2016-04-04 Thread Michael Milliman
On 04/03/2016 01:33 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:30:03 -0500 Michael Milliman wrote: On 03/20/2016 03:26 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:30:57 + Joe wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:57:56 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 18:38 +, J

Re: debian Jessie iceweasel mit flash macht bei bestimmter Seite Rechner platt

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:38:36 +0200 Thomas wrote: > Hallo, > bei einer bestimmten Seite wird wohl der ganze Speicher aufgefressen > und "nichts" geht mehr, ich muss Stecker ziehen weil man auch nicht > mehr auf die Console kommt. > Wie kann ich diesen flash Kram "entsorgen". > Gruss This is a mai

debian Jessie iceweasel mit flash macht bei bestimmter Seite Rechner platt

2016-04-04 Thread Thomas
Hallo, bei einer bestimmten Seite wird wohl der ganze Speicher aufgefressen und "nichts" geht mehr, ich muss Stecker ziehen weil man auch nicht mehr auf die Console kommt. Wie kann ich diesen flash Kram "entsorgen". Gruss

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:56 AM Adam Wilson wrote: > > The discussion of "security" in non-free software is something of a > meaningless distinction, since non-free software is compromised by > default. Adobe Flash was always evil- if this perceived "insecurity" is > enough to help make people want

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:41 +, Joerg Desch wrote: > > Looks like it might be this: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/257 > The 3D part seems to be the correct location, but the mentioned > kernel is  > older. 3.16 was mentioned later in the thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/9/373 You migh

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >Ah -- the "things" in --force-things is a syntactic metavariable[1] :-) > > Actually, I tried > aptitude --force-things confol

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-04-03 at 17:42, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 18:53:26 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > >> On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 21:45:15 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz >> wrote: >> >>> second, with the command-line program youtube-dl (package of the >>> same name) movies can be downloaded from youtub

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Jean-Louis Mas wrote: aptitude -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold safe-upgrade We use this command with apt-get instead of aptitude for our debian servers since February. It works fine so far. We sometime have trouble, for examp

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:42 PM Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > See package youtube-dl. Just give the URL you see in your browser > as argument to the youtube-dl command (beware of special characters, > better use "...", see man youtube-dl). > This works also for other sites with movies. > > > H How ver

Re: Grossly OT SO STOP IT ALREADY!

2016-04-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
Obetter Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 7:42 AM Charlie wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 22:17:41 +0300 Adam Wilson sent: > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 15:15:54 -0400 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > Truth mostly offends people who have been brainwashed so it's probably > better off list. > > No, it's better off list because

Re: Flash update

2016-04-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 20:42:08 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2016 11:39:29 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning > > that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer > > web page it says you ca

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Mas
Le 04/04/2016 12:09, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > aptitude -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o > Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold safe-upgrade > > this command is accepted. > I'll try it as soon as some upgrades are available. We use this command with apt-get instead of aptitud

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Ah -- the "things" in --force-things is a syntactic metavariable[1] :-) Actually, I tried aptitude --force-things confold safe-upgrade aptitude --force-things=confold safe-upgrade aptitude --force-confold safe-upgrade and all

Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/index. html I created the following file in ~/.local/share/applications eiffel-estudio.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Exec=/opt/Eiffel_15.12/s

Re: Live CD - boot option for static IP?

2016-04-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/3/2016 6:42 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 04/03/2016 07:16 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/3/2016 11:02 AM, Ulf Volmer wrote: http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grmlcheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD I clicked on that link and recived a 404 error message. http://grml.or

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:17:53 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > What kernel are you running? Looks like it might be this: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/257 The changlelog of the current kernel image pakcage lists these changes for "radeon": - radeon/cik: Fix GFX IB test on Big-Endian -

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:17:53 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:11 +, Joerg Desch wrote: >> After the upgrade (and a restart), the system freezes from one second >> to the other. It seems to be independent from the used application. >> >> As a work-around, I'm running GN

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:11 +, Joerg Desch wrote: > After the upgrade (and a restart), the system freezes from one second > to  > the other. It seems to be independent from the used application. > > As a work-around, I'm running GNOME classic now. Without the EGL  > features, the desktop is ru

System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
I have an extremely hard problem after upgrading Debian Jessie from 8.3 to 8.4 today. The system is a Dell Vostro with an AMD/ATI Turks PRO [Radeon HD 7570]. The free radeon driver is used for X. Desktop is GNOME3. The resolution is 25560x1440. I've used this resolution for about 3-4 weeks now.

Re: Bug report (ASUS M2NPV/VM: Garbled screen instead of GUI)

2016-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 April 2016 05:01:57 Manfred wrote: > >If you are unable to determine which package your bug report should > > be filed against, please send e-mail to the Debian user mailing list > > asking for advice. > > Ok, so I'm asking for advice, since Debian doesn't even boot > correctly. > > B

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: what is the exact syntax? I tried: apt-get --force-things confold dist-upgrade E: Command line option --force-things is not understood I found this: aptitude -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confo

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:51:56AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Brian wrote: > > >In the dpkg manual you'll find 'confnew' and 'confdef', apt-get accepts > >dpkg paramters. aptitude probably does too. > > > what is the exact

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Brian wrote: In the dpkg manual you'll find 'confnew' and 'confdef', apt-get accepts dpkg paramters. aptitude probably does too. what is the exact syntax? I tried: apt-get --force-things confold dist-upgrade E: Command line option --force-things is not under

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> aptitude | yes n > > I imagine you want to say > > yes n | aptitude Correct! But I guess Brian's suggestion is better. J. -- I eat meat and am concerned about bugs which are resistant to antibiotics. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Jochen Spieker wrote: aptitude | yes n I imagine you want to say yes n | aptitude best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Bug report (ASUS M2NPV/VM: Garbled screen instead of GUI)

2016-04-04 Thread Manfred
>If you are unable to determine which package your bug report should be filed >against, please send e-mail to the Debian user mailing list asking for advice. Ok, so I'm asking for advice, since Debian doesn't even boot correctly. Besides that, my bug report would be as follows: Package: ??? Ve

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 10:12:25 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I would like run "aptitude safe-upgrade" without staying in front of my > screen for hours > A convenient way would be to postpone to the end of the upgrade all > package installs needing an answer, like > > ==> File on system

Re: unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > > Is there a way to run aptitude with "N" as automatic answer? > May-be redirecting input from a file with several "N" lines ? That might interfere with standard questions like the first question that asks whether you actually want to install/upgrade the listed packages. But if

unattended aptitude

2016-04-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I would like run "aptitude safe-upgrade" without staying in front of my screen for hours A convenient way would be to postpone to the end of the upgrade all package installs needing an answer, like ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by packag

Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question

2016-04-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 02:22:10AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 at 04:20, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 08:56:23 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: [...] > download it from Debian.org already. Separate vendors aren'