Re: Dual boot. Ubuntu update removes Debian GRUB.

2016-09-05 Thread Felix Miata
Stefan.schultz19.5.1991 composed on 2016-09-05 15:41 (UTC-0400): Thank you Felix for your very informative answers. Being new to open source, I realize from your explanations that I have a lot to learn, like not allowing anything to install in the MBR, and taking steps to minimise the desruption

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 08:43:04PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 09/02/2016 12:53 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 19:09:32 -0700 > > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > > Hello Jimmy, > > > > > Thanks Brad for letting me know that testing was okay, one of my 5 > > > Sid/Testing systems w

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:09:38 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Curt Howland a écrit : > > I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different > > phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, > > nada. > > I have. With FUSE and gvf

Re: ALSA package

2016-09-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 05/09/2016 4:12 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Frank McCormick >> wrote: >>> >>>Or you could install the inxi script from Debian repositories which >>> apparently does this and more. >>> >> Thank

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Re: ALSA package

2016-09-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/09/2016 4:12 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 05/09/16 03:06 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Since you received no replies on this, I thought I would take a stab. I am working on a script that gathers system information in order to

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 20:43:04 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hello Jimmy, >Parole Media Player's menu too. Sid has "gir1*" and "gtk*" package >upgrades that Testing does not have and without Synaptic I really don't 22 gir1.2*, libgirepository*, libpango* and libcogl* packages have just hit testing.

Re: ALSA package

2016-09-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 05/09/16 03:06 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >> Since you received no replies on this, I thought I would take a stab. >> >> I am working on a script that gathers system information in order to >> troubleshoot common problems such as s

Re: Dual boot. Ubuntu update removes Debian GRUB.

2016-09-05 Thread Stefan.schultz19.5.1991
REPLY Thank you Felix for your very informative answers. Being new to open source, I realize from your explanations that I have a lot to learn, like not allowing anything to install in the MBR, and taking steps to minimise the desruption and ease the recovery. At the moment I have no idea how!

Re: Dual boot. Ubuntu update removes Debian GRUB.

2016-09-05 Thread Stefan.schultz19.5.1991
Hello Debian support, David, thank you for your informative answer, and your advice. I installed the grub-customizer PPA in Ubuntu for version 16.04. I had tried the previous version for 14.04. Interestingly both versions only see Ubuntu and Memtest 86 and not Debian, even though the box is che

Re: ALSA package

2016-09-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/09/16 03:06 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Artem Oliynyk wrote: Hello. I have troubles with my audio card in Debian on Acer Aspire Aspire VN7-592G: internal microphone are not working at all and system hangs time-to-time. I'm not sure what package cause

Re: How often are RealTek drivers brought up to date for Debian?

2016-09-05 Thread sebast...@reuter.pw
Hello Debian Support, Thank you Dan Purgert for your answer. I asked whether RealTek drivers for rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux, can be approved for Debian, because in Tails documentation it says the following... Install additional software https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_topics/additional_software/

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-09-05 09:27:06 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > Psychological or not, it certainly works for me. By killing the job > number, it forces it to stop on my computer. Yes, on *your* computer. But for the OP, it appears that the process was not killable (yet), probably because it was in kernel

Re: How to permanently change default sound input source?

2016-09-05 Thread didier gaumet
1) pacmd modifies only a running instance of pulseaudio: all is lost when pulseaudio stops 2) to alter permanently the default source input in pulseaudio, you may edit your client config' file (cf man pulse-client.conf) 3) mate-media depends either on mate-media-gstreamer or mate-media-pulse: if t

Re: ALSA package

2016-09-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Artem Oliynyk wrote: > Hello. > > I have troubles with my audio card in Debian on Acer Aspire Aspire VN7-592G: > internal microphone are not working at all and system hangs time-to-time. > > I'm not sure what package cause this, what package should be reported? >

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup This worked. I now have a sane console setting. :) Thanks for that tip Brian. ~Mayuresh

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 13:47:04 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Have you tried Lucida bright yet? When I was working my employer had a > presentation on that font and had all computers switched over to it to > improve clarity of writing. Me never having seen anything, I don't know how > good that f

Resolved: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Anthony Baldwin
Sorry for top-posting. Iḿ no t even sure what it was that DID solve this but the phone is now mounting at mtp://[usb:005,012]/ Must have something to do with installing the jmtpfs pkg, because that's the only thing I can think of that I did yesterday that could be making a difference today. I d

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried Lucida bright yet? When I was working my employer had a presentation on that font and had all computers switched over to it to improve clarity of writing. Me never having seen anything, I don't know how good that font is. On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Brian wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Sep 201

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > > "tiny" little fonts is extremely pa

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Tony Baldwin a écrit : > Something has changed since yesterday (IN which I installeed jmtpfs). > Now when I do ls usb, I see this: > Bus 005 Device 012: ID 22b8:2ea4 Motorola PCS > I'm also seeing possibly relevant (I don't know) stuff in dmesg, such as > this: >

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread David Wright
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. I

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 09/05/2016 11:09 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Curt Howland a écrit : I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, nada. I have. With FUSE and gvfs, something like (the compu

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 12:01, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny" > little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. > Yes.

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Dutch Ingraham a écrit : > > SIGTERM (number 15) by default while Ctrl-C sends SIGINT (number 3) by > > default. But both have the same default action of interrupting the process. > The last sentence is inaccurate and imprecise. See man 7 signal, and esp. > unde

Re: Re: How to permanently change default sound input source?

2016-09-05 Thread Frédéric Mesplède
So, here is the name of the usb camera: alsa_input.usb-046d_HD_Webcam_C525_698364D0-00-C525.analog-mono I then tried the command: pcmd set-default-source alsa_input.usb-046d_HD_Webcam_C525_698364D0-00-C525.analog-mono It worked at first but when I rebooted the computer it was set on the regular

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Mayuresh Kathe a écrit : > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny" > little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. You

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:19:38 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: >Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : >> I open a second terminal, then use ps -A to find the command. I can >> kill it with "sudo kill " which kills the job number. It is not >> always instant, but faster than ct

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : > SIGTERM (number 15) by default while Ctrl-C sends SIGINT (number 3) by > default. But both have the same default action of interrupting the process. The last sentence is

Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Hi, Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. ~Mayuresh

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : > I open a second terminal, then use ps -A to find the command. I can > kill it with "sudo kill " which kills the job number. It is not > always instant, but faster than ctrl-c for some things, including rsync > and cp . Not true. T

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Curt Howland a écrit : > I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different > phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, > nada. I have. With FUSE and gvfs, something like (the computer where I did it and kept notes is curre

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:06:27 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: >On 9/5/2016 8:35 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Thank you. >>> Sometimes harware reset is the only thing. >>> The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/ >> >> Your

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, nada. - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Sha

How to use Mate in multi-screen ?

2016-09-05 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Dear all, I'm a visual-impaired people and I'm trying to use the multi-screen capability of the Mate desktop. I've added panels on both the first and second screen to be able to launch applications or anything else more easily. The problem is : when I unplug one of the screens, all the confi

Re: system monitor

2016-09-05 Thread roman_calin
Hi J. Take time and look attentive to both cpu cores and to both ram and swap graph and compare them Roman Calin On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 19:44:34 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > roman_ca...@mail.md: >> hi users i need an advice in what bug category to place these: >> https://postimg.org/image/yj08o66

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/05/2016 05:21 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > "archive" had brought up mental image of dusty back rooms where things > were being preserved for posterity. Not making a copy to actually be used. > > Someone had suggested rsync but that has too many options for me to > bungle. "cp" may be slower b

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 7:46 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM Richard Owlett mailto:rowl...@cloud85.net>> wrote: I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk part

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 8:35 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Thank you. Sometimes harware reset is the only thing. The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/ Your ^C would eventually be honoured by cp. The result will be an incomplete copy,

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2016 04 Sep 22:53 -0500, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > Oh, wait. (Grasping at a straw...) Do you need pkg usb-modeswitch? > There are some USB NADs (Network Access Device) for which udev uses > usb-modeswitch to switch from the default mode that presents the > Windows drivers in a filesystem to a di

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:25:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > That may have been the problem. It's possible the flash drive HAD BEEN > formatted FAT-32. No way to tell now as I brute forced wiped drive by having > gparted format it as ext2. If you are going to put an extX family filesystem on

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Thank you. > Sometimes harware reset is the only thing. > The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/ Your ^C would eventually be honoured by cp. The result will be an incomplete copy, but the filesystem should be in a consisten

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 7:55 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were encountered. That means the target filesystem does not support symlinks. That may have been the problem. It's possible the

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 7:28 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: I realized I had miss-specified options. As data was multiple GB and target was a USB connected flash drive I wished an immediate termination. Usually there is no clean way to do this, and you ha

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:46AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were > > encountered. > > That means the target filesystem do

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were > encountered. Maybe the filesystem is of a type which does not support symbolic links ? $ cp -R ./test/softlinks /mnt/fat cp: cannot create symbolic

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:43:44AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > >

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were > encountered. That means the target filesystem does not support symlinks. -- Henrique Holschuh

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 07:29:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/t

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > > I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > > I received "illegal opera

Re: Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using >cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > I think what you want is t

Resolved: update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

2016-09-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 09/05/2016 08:39 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Hi, Am 5. September 2016 14:31:45 MESZ, schrieb Tony Baldwin : I have done sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links >from icedove keep opening in i

Re: update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

2016-09-05 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 5. September 2016 14:31:45 MESZ, schrieb Tony Baldwin : >I have done >sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this >past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links >from icedove keep opening in iceweasel, no matter what. >??? Most GUI applic

update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

2016-09-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
I have done sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links from icedove keep opening in iceweasel, no matter what. ??? Thanks, Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Problem selecting options for cp command

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive I received "illegal operation" error messages as symbolic links were encountered. "man cp"

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > I realized I had miss-specified options. As data was multiple GB and target > was a USB connected flash drive I wished an immediate termination. Usually there is no clean way to do this, and you have to wait for the process to notice the signal, and abo

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 09/05/2016 06:50 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Tony Baldwin wrote: I'm at a loss, friends: I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP device, and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8. [snip] I don't know what else to do to try and diagnose or resolve the matter. Anyone? I

How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
The problem occurred when using cp to copy contents of one partition to another. I realized I had miss-specified options. As data was multiple GB and target was a USB connected flash drive I wished an immediate termination. Cntl-C had no apparent result. Closing terminal window apparently did

Re: How to permanently change default sound input source?

2016-09-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-09-05, Frédéric Mesplède wrote: > Hello everyone! > > On my parents' computer I installed debian mate 8.5 and each time that > we use skype they have to (or rather I have to, thanks to teamspeak) > manually change the audio input source setting via Pulseaudio control > panel and set it on

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-05 Thread Dan Purgert
Tony Baldwin wrote: > I'm at a loss, friends: > I have a phone (Motorola Droid Turbo), which functions as an MTP device, > and auto-mounts on Win7, but not on Debian 8. > [snip] > I don't know what else to do to try and diagnose or resolve the matter. > Anyone? Is the phone set to "USB for Charge

How to permanently change default sound input source?

2016-09-05 Thread Frédéric Mesplède
Hello everyone! On my parents' computer I installed debian mate 8.5 and each time that we use skype they have to (or rather I have to, thanks to teamspeak) manually change the audio input source setting via Pulseaudio control panel and set it on the usb camera. The usb camera is already the "de

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 20:43:04 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hello Jimmy, >Here's an update, it seems to be a gtk problem, as the bug effects >Parole Media Player's menu too. Sid has "gir1*" and "gtk*" package >upgrades that Testing does not have and without Synaptic I really don't Thanks for kee

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-05 Thread Joe
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 01:28:28 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/02/2016 02:56 AM, Joe wrote: > > > Everybody's installation is different... 4.6.0.1 boots OK, the new > > 4.7.0.1 didn't (4.7.2-1 I think), doing some kind of segfault. But I > > cleared the cache recently so I don't have the .deb of the