Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-10 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I want to use my right super key (right win) as my compose key to be able to type accented letters.  I have read the online manual regarding the compose key but that does not work: there is no (disabled) "Compose Key" in "Activities- >Keyboard->Typing". (The manual actually say "Activities->K

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:53:20 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:40:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 10 September 2016 10:26:15 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 08:41:53 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > It's in megabytes per seco

Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-10 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-10 17:45 (UTC-0400): Good grief. I just wrote that I am now logged in to a working jessie. So I can run any kind of apt-get, aptitude, etc. So I repeat: apt-cache search grub gives me lots of grub files to install. Do I want to install a different grub?

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 09/10/2016 07:23 PM, Celejar wrote: > FTR: there seem to be more typos / here. The actual figure should be > 11034157.6344 bits/second. Yes, let's whip those typos out of this dead horse some more: On 09/09/2016 08:36 PM, David Christensen wrote: > Benchmarking using WiFi (48 Mb/s): > > 2

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 20:43:44 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 09/09/2016 12:43 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > On 09/08/16 22:57, David Christensen wrote: > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data > >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wired is twice as fast (100 Mbps);

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 20:36:39 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 09/09/2016 11:51 AM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:57:02 -0700 > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data > >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wir

Re: off topic -- Gmane (HTTP) is now online!

2016-09-10 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On 2016년 9월 10일 오후 11시 40분 22초 GMT+09:00, "Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)" wrote: >Just type http://gmane.org in web browser firefox or chrome. > (..) If you have get some bugs such as broken links/newsgroups, please say to newsgroup gmane.discuss(gmane-disc...@quimby.gnus.org) please please please

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:24:47 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 08 September 2016 11:26:43 Mark Allums wrote: > > [...] > > > So I've now commented that line back out of /etc/apt/sources.list. > > > > Your attempt ran into some requirements that are prerequisites for > > libnss3. For insta

Re: no sound?

2016-09-10 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 06:24 PM, deloptes wrote: Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 12:35 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: Suddenly I have no sound. Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to Opeth. Pulseaudio is running: ps aux | grep pulseaudio tony 2340 0.5 0.0 370052 6788

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 03:34 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 03:28 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 03:07 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Anthony Baldwin a écrit : I apologize, but, I've never quite figured out what to do with dmesg, or what to look for in

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-10 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:13:48 +0100 Brian sent: > On Sat 10 Sep 2016 at 14:24:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Firefox is still busted. > > No, it is not. It's your system. > > I only post this because some readers will get the impression that > Firefox on Debian is in some way deficient. I

Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 05:45:51PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > - Original Message - > From: "Brian" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:38:11 PM > Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time > . . . . > > > could install.

Re: laptop power management

2016-09-10 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Nicolas George writes: > Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit : >> I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up >> until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it >> turns off the screen, but leaves the laptop running. Wit

Re: no sound?

2016-09-10 Thread deloptes
Anthony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/10/2016 12:35 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> Suddenly I have no sound. >> Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to >> Opeth. >> >> Pulseaudio is running: >> ps aux | grep pulseaudio >> tony 2340 0.5 0.0 370052 6788 ?S> /usr/bin/

Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-10 Thread Alan McConnell
- Original Message - From: "Brian" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:38:11 PM Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time . . . . > could install. So I ask again, this time from a position of being able to > install > and configur

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 03:28 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/10/2016 03:07 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Anthony Baldwin a écrit : I apologize, but, I've never quite figured out what to do with dmesg, or what to look for in its output, etc.. it really just confuses me... I

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 03:07 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Anthony Baldwin a écrit : I apologize, but, I've never quite figured out what to do with dmesg, or what to look for in its output, etc.. it really just confuses me... I saw this: 15.690807] EXT3-fs (sda1): warning

Re: Tool that says whether IP addresses are routable or reserved

2016-09-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 Sep 2016, Joe wrote: > > - From your question I'm not sure this is the answer you are looking > > for, but I'll give it a try. According to RFC 1918 [1], the following > > address ranges are reserved for "private use": > > > > 10.0.0.0- 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) > >

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Sep 2016 at 14:24:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Firefox is still busted. No, it is not. It's your system. I only post this because some readers will get the impression that Firefox on Debian is in some way deficient. It isn't. Firefox on a staightforward Jessie install can be used wi

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Anthony Baldwin a écrit : > I apologize, but, I've never quite figured out what to do with dmesg, > or what to look for in its output, etc.. > it really just confuses me... > I saw this: 15.690807] EXT3-fs (sda1): warning: checktime reached, running > e2fsck is

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 02:26 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Tony Baldwin a écrit : The output of dmesg will tell you more. perhaps some of this will be useful? # fdisk -l It is a little. But much less than the source of information I mentioned in my first mail and tha

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Tony Baldwin a écrit : > >The output of dmesg will tell you more. > perhaps some of this will be useful? > # fdisk -l It is a little. But much less than the source of information I mentioned in my first mail and that you utterly ignored. > /dev/sdb2 * 4

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 September 2016 11:26:43 Mark Allums wrote: [...] > > So I've now commented that line back out of /etc/apt/sources.list. > > Your attempt ran into some requirements that are prerequisites for > libnss3. For instance, dbus needs to be a certain minimum version, > and wheezy is too ol

Re: Tool that says whether IP addresses are routable or reserved

2016-09-10 Thread Joe
On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:58:50 +0200 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 07:36:11PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > > Is there a tool which would take IPv4 addresses on the command > > line and say whether or not they are regular and routable ? > > >

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 01:53 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Tony Baldwin a écrit : ls: cannot access winhome: Input/output error ls: cannot access myown: Permission denied ls: cannot access win7: Input/output error If you are lucky, fsck (or the windows equivalent) will

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 01:45 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: Suddenly I can't mount my 2nd hdd, it's been fine, but after a reboot today, I get I/O errors trying to mount the two partitions on it with this script: #!/bin/bash if [ $(whoami) != "root" ]; then echo "must be root, bitch" exit else mou

Re: Tool that says whether IP addresses are routable or reserved

2016-09-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 07:36:11PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > Is there a tool which would take IPv4 addresses on the command > line and say whether or not they are regular and routable ? > > host(1) is not very useful for that as it doesn't seem to

Re: mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Tony Baldwin a écrit : > ls: cannot access winhome: Input/output error > ls: cannot access myown: Permission denied > ls: cannot access win7: Input/output error If you are lucky, fsck (or the windows equivalent) will fix this. If you are less lucky, you need t

mount problems

2016-09-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
Suddenly I can't mount my 2nd hdd, it's been fine, but after a reboot today, I get I/O errors trying to mount the two partitions on it with this script: #!/bin/bash if [ $(whoami) != "root" ]; then echo "must be root, bitch" exit else mount /media/win7 mount /m

Tool that says whether IP addresses are routable or reserved

2016-09-10 Thread Andre Majorel
Is there a tool which would take IPv4 addresses on the command line and say whether or not they are regular and routable ? host(1) is not very useful for that as it doesn't seem to distinguish between an address which happens not to used by a domain name at this time (eg 9.9.9.9) and one which cou

Re: [Probable resolutuio] How to diagnose an "apt-get instal"l problem

2016-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 10 September 2016 11:17:28 Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Owlett composed on 2016-09-10 09:50 (UTC-0500): > > Made multiple further tries installing various packages. Got > > inconsistent results. The pattern leads me to believe the drive > > is becoming flaky. I will create an ISO from

Re: no sound?

2016-09-10 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 09/10/2016 12:35 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: Suddenly I have no sound. Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to Opeth. Pulseaudio is running: ps aux | grep pulseaudio tony 2340 0.5 0.0 370052 6788 ?S I have verified that there is no hardware problem. I

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 10 September 2016 10:53:20 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:40:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 10 September 2016 10:26:15 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 08:41:53 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > It's in megabytes per

Re: A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-10 Thread mo
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, mo a écrit : Should i even attempt to manage cgroups this way? (Sorry, this must sound quite "noobish") Have you checked whether systemd can do the kind of control over users that you want to? I know it uses cgroups intensively, so perhaps it already has a n

Re: A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, mo a écrit : > Should i even attempt to manage cgroups this way? (Sorry, this must sound > quite "noobish") Have you checked whether systemd can do the kind of control over users that you want to? I know it uses cgroups intensively, so perhaps it already has a

A few questions about cgroups in Debian 8 (Jessie)

2016-09-10 Thread mo
Hello fellow Debian users :) First off, some general information regarding my Debian install: $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie) Release:8.5 Codename: jessie Now to my problems: I'm currently looking into cgroups. (Planning to use

Re: laptop power management

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Joe Pfeiffer a écrit : > I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up > until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it > turns off the screen, but leaves the laptop running. With a recent > update (possibly

laptop power management

2016-09-10 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I'm using an old 32 bit laptop (Samsung N120) running Debian testing; up until recently I've been able to configure it so when I close the lid it turns off the screen, but leaves the laptop running. With a recent update (possibly this morning, but I couldn't swear to it) I'm not able to do this an

Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Sep 2016 at 11:40:28 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > > Boot your install medium - enter rescue mode - reinstall grub? > I tried Rescue Mode. Maybe I'm not doing it right, but I got thrown > into > "Chose language", "Choose Keyboard" . . . just as if I were doing a > f

no sound?

2016-09-10 Thread Tony Baldwin
Suddenly I have no sound. Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to Opeth. Pulseaudio is running: ps aux | grep pulseaudio tony 2340 0.5 0.0 370052 6788 ?S/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start tony 2402 0.0 0.0 4324 104 ?S12:24 0:00 /bin/sh

Re: [Probable resolutuio] How to diagnose an "apt-get instal"l problem

2016-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/10/2016 10:17 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2016-09-10 09:50 (UTC-0500): Made multiple further tries installing various packages. Got inconsistent results. The pattern leads me to believe the drive is becoming flaky. I will create an ISO from the DVD for use on a flash

Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time

2016-09-10 Thread Alan McConnell
(Please excuse my cc to Mr Cater) - Original Message - From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 2:42:28 PM Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:58:03PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > This one shoul

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 09/10/2016 07:53 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:40:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: >> You make an assumption many folks do, but theres a start bit and a stop >> bit so the math is more like 1000/10=100 Mb/s. > > > Well, 1000/8 is still 125 ;-) but I wouldn't have

Re: [Probable resolutuio] How to diagnose an "apt-get instal"l problem

2016-09-10 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-09-10 09:50 (UTC-0500): Made multiple further tries installing various packages. Got inconsistent results. The pattern leads me to believe the drive is becoming flaky. I will create an ISO from the DVD for use on a flash drive. 50+ years of trouble shooting in div

Fwd: Re: system monitor

2016-09-10 Thread roman_calin
So users my quetion is the same in what category to place these bug: https://postimg.org/image/yj08o66rh/ here are available categories: https://postimg.org/image/tfx1lty63/ Roman Calin Original Message Subject: Re: system monitor Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:39:50 +0300 From:

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:40:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 10 September 2016 10:26:15 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 08:41:53 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > It's in megabytes per second, so assume 1000/8 = 250 MB/s is the > > > bandwidth of a gigabit et

[Probable resolutuio] Re: How to diagnose an "apt-get instal"l problem

2016-09-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/9/2016 10:18 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I was experimenting with a custom minimal install. [ALL installs are from purchased DVDs as I have minimal connectivity.] I installed Jessie (8.0.0) using expert mode on a machine set aside for experiments. I explicitly chose no desktop environment. The

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 10 September 2016 10:26:15 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 08:41:53 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > It's in megabytes per second, so assume 1000/8 = 250 MB/s is the > > bandwidth of a gigabit ethernet NIC. > > Sorry, I tend to pick at nits, but, for the record, 100

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 10, 2016 08:41:53 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > It's in megabytes per second, so assume 1000/8 = 250 MB/s is the > bandwidth of a gigabit ethernet NIC. Sorry, I tend to pick at nits, but, for the record, 1000/8 is 125 Mb/s. It doesn't (really) change your conclusions. regards, R

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-09-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 01:22:45AM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 23:14:30 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > Good eye! I was going to say it's not possible to get 110Mb/s over 802.11g; > 40-50 is closer tothe best I get. And 193Mb/s over 100Mb/s ethernet is right > out; best I'

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Rob van der Putten a écrit : > I use netcat6. From man nc; > nc6 --continuous --exec cat -l -p > So the data goes from nc to cat and then back to nc. > > Timestamps (epoch.microseconds) are dumped to a file on transmission and to > an other file on reception o

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-10 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 10/09/16 13:37, Nicolas George wrote: Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Rob van der Putten a écrit : So the question should have been 'Is delayed ack disabled'. I have a hard finding decent information on the subject, so I did a bit of experimentation; I send tiny bits of data

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-10 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Rob van der Putten a écrit : > So the question should have been 'Is delayed ack disabled'. > I have a hard finding decent information on the subject, so I did a bit of > experimentation; > I send tiny bits of data (two bytes at a time) to a little echo server.

Re: Is nagle disabled?

2016-09-10 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 09/09/16 19:57, Rob van der Putten wrote: I thought I overlooked something. And this is it. Thanks! So the question should have been 'Is delayed ack disabled'. I have a hard finding decent information on the subject, so I did a bit of experimentation; I send tiny bits of data (t

Re: Installing Lenny -- how to deal with expired repo signing keys?

2016-09-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:05:13PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > It's a long story, but I need to install a fresh-out-of-the-box Debian amd64 > Lenny system. > > I found ftp.us.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ which has installer images > for old Debian releases, including Lenny. The README file s

Re: gdm3 doesn't work any more after the upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie 8.5

2016-09-10 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote: > [...] > Check that logind is properly installed and pam_systemd is getting used at login. > [...] Could you check if you have libpam-systemd package installed? And also please check if "loginctl" shows sessions. Cheers, Laurent Bigonville