Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Malte Forkel wrote: > Hi, > > according to the man page, dpkg-source -b takes an argument that is "the > name of the directory containing the debianized source tree". But that > does not work for me if the directory is not the current working directory. > > When

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On 09/20/2016 12:58 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/19/2016 11:41 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 16:14:37 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: I've begun to experience problems using the mouse to select a passage in a PDF displayed with xpdf 3.03-10 in order to paste it elsewhere. The ends of li

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On 09/19/2016 11:41 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 16:14:37 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: I've begun to experience problems using the mouse to select a passage in a PDF displayed with xpdf 3.03-10 in order to paste it elsewhere. The ends of lines are truncated to varying degrees.

Re: PXE Booting with uEFI BIOS

Hi Valerio, I was able to do the standard DVD install successfully with uEFI BIOS however I did not install via PXE boot install. Dave On 09/19/2016 07:08 AM, Valerio wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install debian jessie via PXE on a Dell R630 server with uEFI BIOS. I emulated a test bed w

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 16:14:37 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > I've begun to experience problems using the mouse to select a passage in > a PDF displayed with xpdf 3.03-10 in order to paste it elsewhere. > > The ends of lines are truncated to varying degrees. For example in a > PDF with this: > >

Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:14:37 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: ... > Evince apparently does not support selecting text for copying. This does My evince (3.14.1, from 3.14.1-2+deb8u1) does support selecting text for copying. Celejar

Re: VIM halts on backspace to new line

The issue prevails. Current version: --- VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jun 16 2016 10:50:38) Included patches: 1-1689 Modified by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Compiled by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI. Features inc

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script

Hi Thomas The absolute path was the answer. Your explanation has added to my limited knowledge :-) Thanks Clive On 19/09/16 23:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Clive Menzies wrote: rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded" exclude_list=/root/uhuru_b

Re: change password prompt

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > On 09/19/2016 10:21 AM, Reco wrote: >> Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" >> >> Of course you should use visudo, not edit /etc/sudoers directly. > True. But I use mc, have done so for years and that seems to work. What > am I endangerin

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

On 09/19/2016 06:09 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 05:36 PM, emetib wrote: well thank you then ric. glad it's not after hours or i would be doing the same thing. no, i just noticed it today, and i can run the script on my other virtual machines without issue. it's just the debian testi

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

On 09/19/2016 05:36 PM, emetib wrote: well thank you then ric. glad it's not after hours or i would be doing the same thing. no, i just noticed it today, and i can run the script on my other virtual machines without issue. it's just the debian testing that is the problem. whether i am calli

Re: change password prompt

On 09/19/2016 10:21 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by addin

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script

Hi, Clive Menzies wrote: > rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded" > exclude_list=/root/uhuru_backup/exclude_list > rsync: failed to open exclude file exclude_list: No such file or directory (2) The decisive difference between dialog and cron could be t

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

well thank you then ric. glad it's not after hours or i would be doing the same thing. no, i just noticed it today, and i can run the script on my other virtual machines without issue. it's just the debian testing that is the problem. whether i am calling -- python3 script or python script, o

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script - SOLVED

On 19/09/16 22:10, Clive Menzies wrote: It didn't find the exclude_list I created. I modified the script to point to it but clearly the syntax is not right # Good rsync options for uhuru_backups. rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded" # exclude list locat

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script

On 19/09/16 12:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: The classic remedy would be to set the missing variables inside the cronjob script. /root/uhuru_backup/uhuru.daily.sh Consider to put some "echo" commands into the script and direct them to a log file: log_file=/tmp/uhuru_daily_sh.log ...

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

On 09/19/2016 03:08 PM, emetib wrote: i would like to know if others are having any problems with their systems. thanks If this weren't a Debian List I'd be cursing like a drunken sailor. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the S

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:55:32 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > Do you have package 'upgrade-system' installed? And or do you use > deborphan? Do you use both testing and sid repos? I do not have your > problem on "6" testing/sid installs. Good luck. Thanks. No I didn't know about upgrade-syste

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/18/2016 09:42 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/09/16 07:57 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada mailto:bellcanada...@gmail.com>> wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help r

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On 09/18/2016 08:33 PM, Neal P. Murphy wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:57:58 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada mailto:bellcanada...@gmail.com>> wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why p

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On 9/18/2016 9:11 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, September 18, 2016 7:10 pm, Seeker wrote: Is this web page on the PWS or out on the internet? Is the PWS using the same data connection you are using to access the web page? Is there advertising on this page? If you do not leave the page

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 9/19/16 3:36 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 13:43:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/17/2016 06:37 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/15/2016 12:50 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/14/2016 04:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thank you upstream developing and packaging team for replacing the effected packages. Yay! These packages have now been upgraded in Sid, 'gir1.2-gtk-3.0, libgtk-

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 09/19/2016 12:11 PM, Kent West wrote: There's a lot of conflicting documentation out there for installing WordPress on Debian, so I thought I'd come to you folks, who generally have a lot of wisdom and knowledge in all things Debian. This will wind up being more a theoretical discussion than

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May I share my Debian Sid/testing XFCE4 desktop with you, someplace I found this nice Fantasy Nature picture to put on my desktop and I like it. :) https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14409518_993783114063978_434103725657510507_o.jpg I know I sometimes I behave like a child. :P -- Jim

Re: How to arrange for booting to console

On Monday 19 September 2016 21:23:05 Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote: > > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:48:35 > > From: David Wright > > Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: How to arrange for booting to console > >

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 09/19/2016 03:36 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 13:43:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wro

Re: How to arrange for booting to console

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:48:35 From: David Wright Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to arrange for booting to console Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:48:54 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@list

Re: WordPress on Debian

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installe

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/19/2016 11:36 AM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:10:21 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/14/2016 01:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/01/2016 08:51 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or right click and Search is affected too. Than

Re: How to arrange for booting to console

On Sat 17 Sep 2016 at 02:34:11 (-0400), Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote: > > >Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:38:31 > >From: David Wright > >Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: How to arrange for booting to console >

Re: WordPress on Debian

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 13:43:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin > > wrote: > > > >> On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> > >>> On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >>> > >>> I ma

anyone having problems with python on debian testing

is anyone having problems with their deb testing systems? i have a python3 script that isn't giving any output where the other linux systems that i have tested it on are. other systems have differing versions of python and what looks like gcc also. i'm thinking that it's something to do with gc

Re: /etc/fstab and systemd

On 09/19/2016 06:15 AM, Pol Hallen wrote: hi all :-) I migrated my pc to systemd (!), in /etc/fstab I've /dev/sdb1/testext4x-systemd.automount00 (I use UUID but to semplify I wrote /dev/sdb1) this line works but only on some pc what is the correct way to mount a disk autom

Re: WordPress on Debian

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Kent West wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin > wrote: > >> On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>> >>> I make a new user on the server for each new WP site, and then install their

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:10:21 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 09/14/2016 01:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > On 09/01/2016 08:51 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or > >> right click and Search is affected too. > > > > Thank you upstream

Re: WordPress on Debian

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> >> I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on >>> my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I >

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 20:22:06 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > I didn't understand the final sentence first time round. After mulling > > on it I still don't understand it. Any enlightenment in the offing? > > I understand he means that you do not need additional software for scannin

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

Brian wrote: > I didn't understand the final sentence first time round. After mulling > on it I still don't understand it. Any enlightenment in the offing? I understand he means that you do not need additional software for scanning, although such software is offered by the vendor (Brother). IMO

Re: Sound on jessie

On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 12:05:15 +, Curt wrote: > On 2016-09-17, deloptes wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> He keeps saying that he is using Jessie.  Why do you think he is using > >> Ubuntu? > > Sorry I seem to have misread something. > > > > Easy to do in these protracted, tangential, ni

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

On 09/14/2016 01:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/01/2016 08:51 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or right click and Search is affected too. Thank you upstream developing and packaging team for replacing the effected packages. Yay! These p

Re: Rebuilding Debian package from source

> > > I doubt it's possible to make build paths containing spaces work correctly > in the general case, even if the original poster does manage to hack > it up this one time. My advice would be to stop attempting to use a > directory with a space in its name as part of a build setup. It's doomed.

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 19:29:54 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Pick a Brother with BRScript3 (their version of PostScript), an > ethernet port, and a duplexing feature (model name will have a D > near the end). Should be in the $100-150 range. > > You can run it under CUPS with no bizarre driver do

Re: Sane issue

On Monday 19 September 2016 18:06:59 Brian wrote: > On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 18:24:00 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > > In the same machine, xsane don't find any devices... > > This is where we came in. :) > > If scanimage works for scanning I cannot see why xsane or simple-scan > should not work too; bo

Re: Sane issue

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 18:24:00 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > In the same machine, xsane don't find any devices... This is where we came in. :) If scanimage works for scanning I cannot see why xsane or simple-scan should not work too; both are simply frontends to the same system. The only thing I

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the Debi

Re: Sane issue

2016-09-19 18:19 GMT+02:00 Brian : > On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 17:50:16 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > >> El 19 sept. 2016 17:41, "Brian" escribió: >> > >> > You should now be able to scan from the machine the scanner is plugged >> > into. Try >> > >> > scanimage > file.pnm >> > >> > Does the scanner

PXE Booting with uEFI BIOS

Hi all, I am trying to install debian jessie via PXE on a Dell R630 server with uEFI BIOS. I emulated a test bed with virtual machines that were using standard BIOS. Now I am not able to replicate the installation on the server because pxelinux.0 apparently doesn't work with uEFI. Is there any do

Re: WordPress on Debian

On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the Debian Way, aka the Right Way for most stuff), an

Re: WordPress on Debian

I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the Debian Way, aka the Right Way for most stuff), and then ask any questions on #wordpress on f

Re: Sane issue

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 17:50:16 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > El 19 sept. 2016 17:41, "Brian" escribió: > > > > You should now be able to scan from the machine the scanner is plugged > > into. Try > > > > scanimage > file.pnm > > > > Does the scanner operate and do you get file.pnm? > > > > > whe

WordPress on Debian

There's a lot of conflicting documentation out there for installing WordPress on Debian, so I thought I'd come to you folks, who generally have a lot of wisdom and knowledge in all things Debian. This will wind up being more a theoretical discussion than a specific question of how-to, I'm afra

Re: Sane issue

El 19 sept. 2016 17:41, "Brian" escribió: > > On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 13:04:32 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > > Relatively small outputs from commands do not need a pastebin. They are > easier to deal with when posted here. > > Also, you didn't say whether you are subscribed to the list or how you > a

Re: Rebuilding Debian package from source

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:57:13AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Based on the error, it looks as if the build process is attempting to > run a command that uses the full path of the build directory, but does > not quote that path; as a result, the space gets treated as a token > separator. Makefile

Re: Rebuilding Debian package from source

On 2016-09-19 at 11:22, Joshua Schaeffer wrote: > Test... > > "Build Test" is the directory I downloaded everything into (a.k.a. it > was the directory I was in when I ran apt-get source nginx-extras) Based on the error, it looks as if the build process is attempting to run a command that uses t

Re: Sane issue

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 13:04:32 +0200, David Rotger wrote: Relatively small outputs from commands do not need a pastebin. They are easier to deal with when posted here. Also, you didn't say whether you are subscribed to the list or how you are reading list mails. > The output of sane-find-scanner

Re: change password prompt

On 09/19/2016 11:21 AM, Reco wrote: Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" Thanks, this was exactly what I needed! and I'll use visudo, of course. Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time

Re: Rebuilding Debian package from source

Test... "Build Test" is the directory I downloaded everything into (a.k.a. it was the directory I was in when I ran apt-get source nginx-extras) jschaeffer@mutalisk:~/Build Test$ pwd /home/jschaeffer/Build Test jschaeffer@mutalisk:~/Build Test$ ls -l total 2004 drwxr-xr-x 1 jschaeffer jschaeffer

Re: change password prompt

Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > >On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >>I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding > >>something (it was "ENTE

Re: change password prompt

On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding something (it was "ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" in fact) to the sudoers file, but at the moment I can not recall

Re: PXE Booting with uEFI BIOS

Hi, Valerio wrote: > pxelinux.0 apparently doesn't work with uEFI. That's supposed to be normal. http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX#UEFI says: The "(l)pxelinux.0" bootloaders are capable of netbooting BIOS-based clients. Hardware using UEFI has to use the adequate "sys

Re: change password prompt

Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding > something (it was "ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" in fact) to the sudoers file, > but at the moment I can not recall what/how I did it, but I'd like

Re: random I/O errors

On 09/19/2016 09:57 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:27:43AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 09:07 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Go make a backup of everything you care about, today. Copy to a new disk, check it, then disconnect and label your backup. After that, go look at /v

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 09:31:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it could > > be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't selected or a > > desktop 'task' wasn't

Re: Installing a MINIMAL Mate Desktop How?

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 08:17:57 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/11/2016 12:52 PM, Brian wrote: > > > >The meaning of "minimal" is very difficult to define as it very much > >depends on the purpose of the install, what functionality is required, > >how it is to be used now and in the future and

Re: /etc/fstab and systemd

Pol Hallen [2016-09-19 15:15:26+02] wrote: > I migrated my pc to systemd (!), in /etc/fstab I've > what is the correct way to mount a disk automatically at start up of > system? Just like before. There's no need to change anything. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-..

Re: /etc/fstab and systemd

Pol Hallen writes: > hi all :-) > > I migrated my pc to systemd (!), in /etc/fstab I've > > /dev/sdb1 /test ext4x-systemd.automount 0 0 > (I use UUID but to semplify I wrote /dev/sdb1) > > this line works but only on some pc > > what is the correct way to mount a disk automati

Re: /etc/fstab and systemd

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:15:26PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > I migrated my pc to systemd (!), in /etc/fstab I've > > /dev/sdb1 /test ext4x-systemd.automount 0 0 > (I use UUID but to semplify I wrote /dev/sdb1) Changing the content of your files is not "simplifying". It's man

change password prompt

I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding something (it was "ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" in fact) to the sudoers file, but at the moment I can not recall what/how I did it, but I'd like to do it again. Anyone? TIA Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all th

USB mouse and keyboard disconnected

Hi, I made a fresh minimal(no desktop environment, open-source "radeon" driver, CEDAR firmware, X and dwm) Debian 8.5 installation few days ago. Since that I have had two occasions where all of the sudden USB devices(USB keyboard and mouse) no longer work. I'm able to access my PC over SSH(or use

Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 05:56:44 -0400, brian wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:34:33 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > >1. Go to > > > > https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/ > > > > and download the latest *.run. > > > >2. 'mkdir plugin' and move your file into it. > >

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Monday 19 September 2016 14:31:10 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it > > could be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't > > selected or a desktop 'task' wasn't inst

/etc/fstab and systemd

hi all :-) I migrated my pc to systemd (!), in /etc/fstab I've /dev/sdb1 /test ext4x-systemd.automount 0 0 (I use UUID but to semplify I wrote /dev/sdb1) this line works but only on some pc what is the correct way to mount a disk automatically at start up of system? than

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it could > be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't selected or a > desktop 'task' wasn't installed. > > Console #7 is the standard console used for X11. Con

Re: Installing a MINIMAL Mate Desktop How?

On 9/11/2016 12:52 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 10:04:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: While waiting for response(s) to my my post I installed marco, xorg, xterm, mate-terminal, mate-panel, mate-session-manager and lightdm. I now have a workable, if ugly *MINIMAL* install. ;) Now

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

2016-09-05 21:21 GMT+02:00 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 ei

Re: random I/O errors

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:46:02AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Yesterday I was getting random I/O errors for stuff as simple as clear (to > clear a terminal), > and I got one for halt, even (I manually shut the machine off, and rebooted) > haven't seen the problem since then but things are sluggis

Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script

Hi, > The daily backup script works fine when run manually as sudo but doesn't > complete when run as a root cronjob. The classic reason for this is difference in environment variables. I.e. the cron job could die from a non set variable. The classic remedy would be to set the missing variables

Re: Sane issue

2016-09-19 12:44 GMT+02:00 Brian : > On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 22:39:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:18:33 Brian wrote: >> > On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 19:31:48 +0200, David Rotger wrote: >> > > I've sane installed and running. Sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L >> > > detect

Crontab doesn't complete a script - was Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

On 17/09/16 17:12, Clive Menzies wrote: WORKING version: # Good rsync options for uhuru_backups. rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded" The exclude_list is a file with one excluded directory per line with an asterisk at the end directory name. $rsyn

Re: Rebuilding Debian package from source

Hello, "cp: cannot stat ‘Test/nginx-1.6.2-5+deb8u2/auto’: No such file or directory" Test or Build Test ? Greetings Zoltán Joshua Schaeffer ezt írta (2016. szeptember 19., hétfő): > I'm trying to rebuild the nginx-extras package from Jessie and I'm running into an error when I run debuild. I

Re: Sane issue

On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 22:39:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:18:33 Brian wrote: > > On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 19:31:48 +0200, David Rotger wrote: > > > I've sane installed and running. Sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L > > > detect my scanner, > > > > That's good. Would yo

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

On 9/18/2016 4:34 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:43:26 Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] 1. Can anyone provide a link to this bug report? *VERY IMPORTANT* ! Here is the discussion in the final email of the relevant discussion (with interleaved quotations!) which includes a

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Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:56:44 -0400, I wrote: >On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:34:33 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> >>1. Go to >> >> https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/ >> >> and download the latest *.run. >> >>2. 'mkdir plugin' and move your file into it. >> >>3. The file

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Monday 19 September 2016 10:18:15 Brian wrote: > TTBOMK the installers (as .debs) are i386 only and there is no source > code for a filter they contain. So the situation is really no better > than at Samsung. Except that Samsung has really good human back-up support for x86 at least!! Lisi

Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:34:33 +0100, Brian wrote: >On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 18:10:39 -0400, brian wrote: > >> My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet >> P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that >> it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless)

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 08:59:53 +0200, gianluca wrote: > On 09/19/2016 08:40 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >If we are putting in plugs for other printers, then Sumsung has brilliant > >support for Linux, once you get past first level support. They have a chap > >(Linux Support Department!), whose pe

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:22:35 +0200, deloptes wrote: >brian wrote: > >> My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet >> P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that >> it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that >> it appar

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 18:10:39 -0400, brian wrote: > My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet > P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that > it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that > it apparently needs a *propri

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On 09/19/2016 08:40 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 23:30:01 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, September 18, 2016 5:10 pm, brian wrote: My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that i