debian installer 4k sectors

2016-04-07 Thread Pavel Kosina
Hi, several times I tried install Debian stable/testing. I have MB Asrock UEFI D1800B-ITX and HDD WD20EFRX. Debian installer /part where partitioning and formatting happens/ never formats to correct sectors 4k. It always formats to 512b: -- linuxbox:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/s

Re: Network-Manager icon in systray keeps disappearing

2016-04-07 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Patrick Wiseman writes: > Debian testing; xfce systray. > > 'sudo service network-manager restart' doesn't bring it back. Networking > continues to work, but I can't control VPN connections and disconnections. > This morning, after a reboot (seemed the quickest way to get the icon back) > it let

PXE install

2016-04-07 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - After a little bit of searching the problem causing the "no boot filename found" error is the lack of a PXE server. I tried to modify a template for a server https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall. The modified file is attached. Running Debian 8.4.. Whatismyip gives 67.83.96.1

Re: Use of attachments

2016-04-07 Thread Felix Miata
Gary Roach composed on 2016-04-07 16:03 (UTC-0700): I have tried to use an attachment to this site a couple of times and the email seems to go into a black hole. Are attachments not allowed on this site? I not, how do I pass along things like screen shots. Im using icedove email client. One op

Re: Use of attachments

2016-04-07 Thread Dan Purgert
Gary Roach wrote: > I have tried to use an attachment to this site a couple of times and the > email seems to go into a black hole. Are attachments not allowed on this > site? I not, how do I pass along things like screen shots. Im using > icedove email client. > > Gary R. Link to an external s

Use of attachments

2016-04-07 Thread Gary Roach
I have tried to use an attachment to this site a couple of times and the email seems to go into a black hole. Are attachments not allowed on this site? I not, how do I pass along things like screen shots. Im using icedove email client. Gary R.

bugreport: install fails on configuring python3.4(amd)

2016-04-07 Thread Kapula Gábor
First things first: I totally new to Debian and even Linux. I downloaded the debian-8.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso burned to CD and start installing. But it is not completed. The install process is stopped at "configuring python3.4(amd)". I wait about 8-10 minutes and not hapend anything. So I dow

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-07 Thread John T. Haggerty
So I was able to get into the advice on these installations but it seems that I've hit another snag on this, namely activating fast cgi, and getting it to be loaded by RT. Apparently fastcgi is installed in Apache, but getting Apache to load RT's call to fastcgi (? I guess) is failing. The apache.

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 04/07/2016 10:41 PM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > That was able to work, however at the moment I've run into an issue that I > think I had years before namely the inability of the base installation > (even with the questions that the system asks during configuration of > request-tracker4) failing t

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On 04/07/2016 01:12 PM, Felix Miata wrote: If you'd like to continue with Firefox, turning off hardware acceleration might help. This was fixed upstream quite some time ago, but maybe that problem has returned. Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General tab -> Browsing section -> unselect "

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

2016-04-07 Thread John T. Haggerty
That was able to work, however at the moment I've run into an issue that I think I had years before namely the inability of the base installation (even with the questions that the system asks during configuration of request-tracker4) failing to give anything but a 404 error when hitting up localhos

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Felix Miata
Harris Paltrowitz composed on 2016-04-07 11:05 (UTC-0400): On 04/07/2016 10:25 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: If you do have hardware rendering: * What process uses the CPU? Firefox, Xorg or something else? * Does it happen with other browsers, like Chromium too? Very interesting -- the problem

Re: How to get debug information?

2016-04-07 Thread Johann Klammer
On 04/06/2016 05:10 PM, Floris wrote: > Op Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:50:10 +0200 schreef Floris : > >> I'm testing the new Nvidia driver module with drm enabled. It is very >> experimental so I know there are bugs in it. I think I found a problem and I >> want to get more information about it from the

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 07 April 2016 16:05:51 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > I didn't address your other questions, Sven, because this seems pretty > conclusive I shall note for my own use and retire! Glad you have got there. Lisi

Best use of program 'debfoster' to back-up package lists and packages?

2016-04-07 Thread Tom Browder
I am in the process of reinstalling Debian 8 after my desktop died, and want to make sure I keep a list of packages installed. Following various debian threads I'm going to do this: # dpkg --get-selections "*" > /backup/dpkg-get/selections # apt-key exportall > /backup/repositories.keys and afte

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On 04/07/2016 10:25 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: If you do have hardware rendering: * What process uses the CPU? Firefox, Xorg or something else? * Does it happen with other browsers, like Chromium too? Very interesting -- the problem does NOT occur on Chromium! I have the latest Chromium ( Ve

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 12:45 -0400, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > Here's my problem -- when I stream certain videos on Youtube, I  > consistently get choppy playback performance, whereby the video > freezes  > and restarts randomly, with the audio getting out of sync from that  > point forward.  The pr

Re: Three Problems Yet Remaining

2016-04-07 Thread Alan McConnell
Problems are solved! For the answer, see below. I suspect that, for the first time, I am making a useful contribution here that may help others. - Original Message - From: "Mark Fletcher" To: "Alan McConnell" , debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 10:13:22 AM Subj

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 07 April 2016 14:14:15 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > On 04/07/2016 09:04 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 07 April 2016 13:12:45 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > >> Intel Corporation Atom > >> Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics > > > > What kernel have you got? > > > > $ uname -v > > M

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On 04/07/2016 09:04 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2016 13:12:45 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics What kernel have you got? $ uname -v My output from that command is: #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-1 (2016-03-06) I have found

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 07 April 2016 13:12:45 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > Intel Corporation Atom > Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics What kernel have you got? $ uname -v I have found this https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/s20-30 which seems to have same graphics, and "which kernel" see

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On 04/06/2016 08:31 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: Why did you install the 32-bit version? You have a 64-bit system, right? Well from what I had read, I saw my RAM as borderline (4gb) and I read something stating that with a low-end CPU, things should run faster with the 32-bit version. A few mont

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On 04/06/2016 03:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I don't see Bay Trail on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets which likely means your laptop's construction design predates Jessie's original release a year ago. Maybe Stretch has support for it? I unfortunately don't know how to dete

Network-Manager icon in systray keeps disappearing

2016-04-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Debian testing; xfce systray. 'sudo service network-manager restart' doesn't bring it back. Networking continues to work, but I can't control VPN connections and disconnections. This morning, after a reboot (seemed the quickest way to get the icon back) it let me connect to a VPN but then disappea

Re: Choppy video on Youtube

2016-04-07 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On 04/06/2016 02:16 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 04/06/2016 12:45 PM, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: - Graphics: Intel Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2 I would love to receive help from this list... thanks much much in advance! Do you have your Intel video driver installed?? Video played back here just fine u

Re: How do I set different JAVA_HOME for different users?

2016-04-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > The trouble is, often you need to know where to look, The collective brain here always has interesting proposals. :)) > A shell script exactly like that was what what I started out with! > It worked ONLY for that terminal. You'd need to put start of the whole android development into tha

Re: How do I set different JAVA_HOME for different users?

2016-04-07 Thread Jaimz Fairfax
From: Thomas Schmitt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 16:50 Subject: Re: How do I set different JAVA_HOME for different users? Hi, Jaimz Fairfax wrote: > The internet seemed to be convinced that it had to be done via systemd > user.conf. That opinio

Fwd: Debian 8 fresh install, lost MATE desktop (lightdm) after first reboot, cannot recover graphical login

2016-04-07 Thread Tom Browder
I just realized I didn't post my reply to the list. -Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: *Tom Browder* Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Subject: Debian 8 fresh install, lost MATE desktop (lightdm) after first reboot, cannot recover graphical login To: arian On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:

Re: Three Problems Yet Remaining

2016-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 10:06 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > Three:  where is the utility  file  ?  I used this all the time in > previous > Debian installations. Do you mean /usr/bin/file? If so the package is also called file. --  Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

Re: CUDA 6.x in testing?

2016-04-07 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2016-04-06 18:17 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> Some weeks ago, nvidia drivers v352 entered in testing. Since those >> drivers no longer support older cards, a v340 legacy driver package was >> created. That is what I am using currently. >> >> The problem now is with