Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

2016-07-27 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for the responses, Lisi: is there some other place where I can upload a PNG file and have it display/transfer properly? Other than Instagram where I don't have an account? Ric: thank you for your comment. The output of `glxgears -info` is here: http://paste.debian.net/785709/ . Seems to

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-27 Thread Glenn English
> On Jul 25, 2016, at 5:53 PM, Glenn English wrote: > > What does "Verifying access point association" mean After some looking around, I found that a failure in that phase of connecting means that wicd tried to ping the AP 10 times, and failed. > what do you do to make it OK? I still have no

Re: Mate problems

2016-07-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/07/16 09:33 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 27/07/16 07:32 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote: Dnia 2016-07-27, śro o godzinie 19:10 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: On 27/07/16 06:41 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote: Dnia 2016-07-26, wto o godzinie 19:07 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: I am running Debian Stre

Re: Mate problems

2016-07-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/07/16 07:32 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote: Dnia 2016-07-27, śro o godzinie 19:10 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: On 27/07/16 06:41 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote: Dnia 2016-07-26, wto o godzinie 19:07 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: I am running Debian Stretch/Sid on AMD64 and noticed for the first tim

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread limpia
On 2016-07-27 16:38, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2016 22:18:36 Felix Miata wrote: Alan McConnell composed on 2016-07-27 16:07 (UTC-0400): > I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. > > Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and > chromium) cras

Re: Mate problems

2016-07-27 Thread Norbert Kiszka
Dnia 2016-07-27, śro o godzinie 19:10 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: > On 27/07/16 06:41 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote: > > Dnia 2016-07-26, wto o godzinie 19:07 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: > >> I am running Debian Stretch/Sid on AMD64 and noticed for the first time > >> a problem with a Mate applicati

Re: Mate problems

2016-07-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/07/16 06:41 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote: Dnia 2016-07-26, wto o godzinie 19:07 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: I am running Debian Stretch/Sid on AMD64 and noticed for the first time a problem with a Mate application. The Mate accounts dialog won't run because it detects gtk2 on the system. (

Re: Mate problems

2016-07-27 Thread Norbert Kiszka
Dnia 2016-07-26, wto o godzinie 19:07 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze: > I am running Debian Stretch/Sid on AMD64 and noticed for the first time > a problem with a Mate application. The Mate accounts dialog won't run > because it detects gtk2 on the system. > > > (mate-accountsdialog:12108): Gtk-E

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 23:01:20 Felix Miata wrote: > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-07-27 22:38 (UTC+0100): > >> so is the problem shortage of memory? > > Memory shortage normally only produces slowdowns (due to swapping), not > crashing or failing even to start. So that is not Alan's problem. I

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 22:50:36 Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/27/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The rest of us aren't having the problem, so it must be something in > > Alan's personal set-up or config files. Having said which, I do find > > that Google Chrome is currently eating memory like t

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Felix Miata
Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-07-27 22:38 (UTC+0100): so is the problem shortage of memory? Memory shortage normally only produces slowdowns (due to swapping), not crashing or failing even to start. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16

Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

2016-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/27/2016 05:19 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: Good afternoon, list, I'm running an up-to-date Stretch operating system on a ca. 2010 Intel laptop chipset. I noticed last night that the toolbars and menus aren't rendering correctly. Can you run glxgears?? Sounds more like a video driver issue th

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/27/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: The rest of us aren't having the problem, so it must be something in Alan's personal set-up or config files. Having said which, I do find that Google Chrome is currently eating memory like there is no tomorrow, so is the problem shortage of memory? Ha

Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 22:19:22 Borden Rhodes wrote: > If you can't load > the photo (because it's converted into plain text), the problem is > that the taskbar background shows artefacts from other windows. I see a large number of back lozenges with ? in them, interspersed with a small number

Re: Jessie does not boot (GRUB2 complains with "mduuid not found"

2016-07-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/07/2016 à 22:16, deloptes a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 26/07/2016 à 23:38, deloptes a écrit : Did you check mdadm.conf - you usually regenerate it and recreate/update initrd Irrelevant. GRUB does not use mdadm.conf for booting. I understood OP has problem with assembling MD a

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 22:18:36 Felix Miata wrote: > Alan McConnell composed on 2016-07-27 16:07 (UTC-0400): > > I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. > > > > Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and > > chromium) crash continually, with messages "We

LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

2016-07-27 Thread Borden Rhodes
Good afternoon, list, I'm running an up-to-date Stretch operating system on a ca. 2010 Intel laptop chipset. I noticed last night that the toolbars and menus aren't rendering correctly. I dumped a PNG here: http://paste.debian.net/785668 (good for 3 days). If you can't load the photo (because it's

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-07-27 16:07 (UTC-0400): I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and chromium) crash continually, with messages "Well, this is embarrassing" and "Aw, snap" continually appearing. T

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/27/2016 04:07 PM, Alan McConnell wrote: Alan, whose animus against Debian is increasing hourly because of the wretched failures of the jessie installation Got a big harddrive?? Could you create another partition and install Jessie clean to it? You might have some cruft left over from

Re: Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 04:07:55PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. > > Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and > chromium) crash continually, with messages "Well, this is embarrassing" > and "Aw, snap" continually

Re: Jessie does not boot (GRUB2 complains with "mduuid not found"

2016-07-27 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, deloptes. On 27/07/16 17:16, deloptes wrote: >>> Did you check mdadm.conf - you usually regenerate it and recreate/update >>> initrd >> Irrelevant. GRUB does not use mdadm.conf for booting. > I understood OP has problem with assembling MD after boot. It is not clear > to me if his / is on r

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Re: Jessie does not boot (GRUB2 complains with "mduuid not found"

2016-07-27 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 26/07/2016 à 23:38, deloptes a écrit : >> Daniel Guillermo Bareiro wrote: > (...) >>> The idea was to re-install without losing the containers I had >>> created. After finishing the installation process, GRUB failed >>> to boot with this message: > > > >> Did you che

Another appeal about Flaky browsers

2016-07-27 Thread Alan McConnell
I wrote about this a while ago, but have to repeat my appeal. Under jessie all the gui browsers I have tried(iceweasel and chromium) crash continually, with messages "Well, this is embarrassing" and "Aw, snap" continually appearing. This happened only rarely with jessie's predecessor, wheezy.

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-27 19:29 +0100, Brian wrote: > A 686-class processor is required for stretch > > Within the meaning of the Act - what is meant by "686-class processor"? > Is this something to do with processor instructions and can it be > determined from 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'? Yes, this is already men

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Hans
Hi Brian, > > URI, please. > sorry, there is no URL to download it at the moment (my site is down). I attached the files to the message I sent to mentors. > Becuase, up until now, nobody has packaged and submitted it. Hmm, so kali-linux is not debian, I understand. But as it is in kali, it is

Re: Newer mutt in stable

2016-07-27 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2016-07-27 08:56 keltezéssel, Andre Majorel írta: On 2016-07-26 18:35 +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: 2016-07-26 14:38 keltezéssel, Andre Majorel írta: This will be the next step. Good point about build dependencies, will need to find a way around that. I have a feeling that brute force will be inv

Re: Instralling from offline sources: broadcom

2016-07-27 Thread Brian
On Tue 26 Jul 2016 at 14:24:15 -0700, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I need to install the broadcom-wl wireless adaptor drivers. I have no This was the first thing that struck me - there is no broadcom-wl package. > connection to the internet on this new installation. So it's either this This was the

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Brian
On Wed 27 Jul 2016 at 18:47:34 +0200, Hans wrote: > package is made and upoaded to mentors.debian.org. Thanks for all the help so > far. It is my first self-made package. URI, please. > Meanwhile I heard, there is already a sakis3g-package in kali-linux, so > someone was faster than me. Howev

Re: Networking nonfunctional on 8.0

2016-07-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/07/2016 à 15:43, Steve Matzura a écrit : My 8.0 system has been running great up until Monday evening when users started reporting they were unable to connect. Sure enough, I couldn't even connect from my LAN. I rebooted, looked at messages from dmesg, and saw nothing unusual--nothing that

Re: Jessie does not boot (GRUB2 complains with "mduuid not found"

2016-07-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/07/2016 à 23:38, deloptes a écrit : Daniel Guillermo Bareiro wrote: (...) The idea was to re-install without losing the containers I had created. After finishing the installation process, GRUB failed to boot with this message: Did you check mdadm.conf - you usually regenerate it and

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-27 Thread Brian
On Wed 27 Jul 2016 at 11:18:21 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 26 Jul 2016 at 21:17:40 (-0400), Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 19:05, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > One issue though: I have a useful laptop that has a nifty 686 (AIUI) > > > Pentium M processor, but I have

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Hans
Hi folks, package is made and upoaded to mentors.debian.org. Thanks for all the help so far. It is my first self-made package. Meanwhile I heard, there is already a sakis3g-package in kali-linux, so someone was faster than me. However, I am wondering, why it is not in debian. Whatever, the kal

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Jul 2016 at 21:17:40 (-0400), Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 19:05, David Wright wrote: > > > > One issue though: I have a useful laptop that has a nifty 686 (AIUI) > > Pentium M processor, but I have to run linux-image-3.16.0-4-586 on it > > because it lacks the PAE.

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Networking nonfunctional on 8.0

2016-07-27 Thread Steve Matzura
My 8.0 system has been running great up until Monday evening when users started reporting they were unable to connect. Sure enough, I couldn't even connect from my LAN. I rebooted, looked at messages from dmesg, and saw nothing unusual--nothing that said networking couldn't start, or there was a ha

Re: Advanced RAID configuration in preseed

2016-07-27 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
This is how we do 2x RAID1, altho on same disk (one for boot, other for LVM) # Parameters are: # \ # d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string \ 1 2 0 ext2 /boot\ /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 \ . \ 1 2 0 lvm -

Advanced RAID configuration in preseed

2016-07-27 Thread Robert Haist
Hi everyone, I am currently trying to write a debian8 preseed config that creates two different software RAIDs (Mirror). I am trying to achieve the following layout: 2 x 128GB SSD -> /dev/sda & /dev/sdb -> / 2 x 1TB HGST -> /dev/sdc & /dev/sdd -> /var As far as I read in all examples and blog

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Brian
On Wed 27 Jul 2016 at 09:39:04 +0200, Hans wrote: > I want to create a debian package with my own additions (added an icon > and a button for the kde-menu, changed groups and user rights). > > But there is a problem: > > The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they > want t

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-27 11:29 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi Sven, > > great, your foo-file helped me a lot, the package is almost finished. > I can build it now. YES! > > However, the installed package is still root:root, but should be root:dig. > I suppose, this can be preset? Or do I have to edit the packages

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried xenity yet? On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Hans wrote: Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:39:04 From: Hans To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How to create package without source code Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:39:25 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi folks, I

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/27/2016 10:49 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-07-27 10:14 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> Here is the manual describing how to build binary packages: >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ > > This is over ten years old and only for hardcore

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Hans
Hi Sven, great, your foo-file helped me a lot, the package is almost finished. I can build it now. YES! However, the installed package is still root:root, but should be root:dig. I suppose, this can be preset? Or do I have to edit the packages manually after the build? > > I have attached a

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Thomas also said: > "After investing due effort to find answers myself, i post packaging > questions to > debian-ment...@lists.debian.org > Is it not worth considering that advice? We seem still in the 'due effort' stage. Sven's skeleton package would be my best bet to

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Hans
Hi Lisi, > > Is it not worth considering that advice? You might get better answers. > of course. And if I am stuck, I will do that. However, Sven Joachim sent me a foo.file, which helped me a lot. At the moment I am testing and reading the manuals of dh_install. I already made the structure

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > this doesn't help me at all. All manuals I read assume, I have a programm in > source code. But I repeat: it is just a shell script! This assumption includes the possibility of zero source code, which needs no further preparation. A Makefile would be a way to interface with Deb

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 09:36:13 Hans wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > this doesn't help me at all. All manuals I read assume, I have a programm > in source code. But I repeat: it is just a shell script! > > Of course, each user can download it, put it below /usr/bin/, set manually > owners to root:dig, a

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-27 10:14 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Here is the manual describing how to build binary packages: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ This is over ten years old and only for hardcore users. Creating a source package (even if it's just a

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Tom Grace
On 27/07/2016 09:24, Hans wrote: However, I did not quit understand. Can I add several files instead of a single one? And will it preserve rights, as I set? Yes, both these are possible - have a look at the Wiki for more examples https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-27 09:39 +0200, Hans wrote: > I want to create a debian package with my own additions (added an icon and a > button for the kde-menu, changed groups and user rights). > > But there is a problem: > > The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they want to > compile s

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Hans
Hi Thomas, this doesn't help me at all. All manuals I read assume, I have a programm in source code. But I repeat: it is just a shell script! Of course, each user can download it, put it below /usr/bin/, set manually owners to root:dig, and off he goes. But I want a debian package, to make it

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/27/2016 09:39 AM, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want to create a debian package with my own additions (added an icon and a > button for the kde-menu, changed groups and user rights). > > But there is a problem: > > The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they want t

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Hans
Hi Tom, sounds good at a first view. > It's sort of cheating, and wouldn't allow you to upload to the Debian > archive, but for personal/internal use something like FPM might work. > See https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/PackageSimpleFiles for an > example. However, I did not quit under

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I read in the dokus, Did you already read https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/first.en.html especially https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/first.en.html#simplemake ? It should be possible to make a Makefile that makes nothing. E.g.: (echo "all:" ; echo $'\t'"ec

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Tom Grace
On 27/07/2016 08:39, Hans wrote: The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they want to compile somehow. I imagine, to pack all the files with the correct user rights into a folder, then pack it into maybe *.tgz and then change it somehow into a *.deb. Maybe there is a more

How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I want to create a debian package with my own additions (added an icon and a button for the kde-menu, changed groups and user rights). But there is a problem: The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they want to compile somehow. I imagine, to pack all the file