Problem upgrading bluez

2016-11-19 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Upgrading bluez/bluetooth packages fails on testing with: bluetoothd[14901]: D-Bus setup failed: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Permission denied Permissions on the file are srw-rw-rw- 1 root root I've ii libapparmor1:amd64 2.10.95-6 and ii

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/19/2016 5:07 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 12:51:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* purpose. It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network connection between them.

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 12:51:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* > purpose. > It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. > There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network connection between them. No connection to the internet

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Jape Person
On 11/19/2016 03:09 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 13:21:23 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote: I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my 10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Jape Person
On 11/19/2016 02:47 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 13:16:57 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 10:55 AM, Brian wrote: Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look at it this way: A printer is choc-a-bloc full of firmware. None of this firmware is accessible to a user

[REPOST] Recovering when di misleads Synaptic et al.

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
This is *NOT* a bug report. I have a _USED_ laptop set aside for learning and experimentation. It has had as many as a half dozen clean installs in a single day ;/ The CD drive has finally died [no plans to replace]. With dd I have copied DVD 1 of Jessie to a USB flash drive. Install from the fl

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:51:58PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* > purpose. > It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. > There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network conne

logrotate error (was A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life!)

2016-11-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
> [rsyslog maintainer speaking here] > >> One of the culprits in my full /var partition was a 3 gig syslog file >> which has only been getting bigger since January despite running >> logrotate -f. I try to run it this time but I'm told that it can't > > I'd be interested to find out, why logrotatio

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 13:21:23 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > On 11/19/2016 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote: > >>>I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my > >>>10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP has finally broken down and

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 13:16:57 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > On 11/19/2016 10:55 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look at it this way: > > > >A printer is choc-a-bloc full of firmware. None of this firmware is > >accessible to a user, even if something like

Re: Extending Debian partition under VMware

2016-11-19 Thread Jorge Expósito
A I had done the first part throught gparted there were only two commands left for running: lvextend -L +1G /dev/mapper/j0003--vg-root resize2fs /dev/mapper/j0003--vg-root Thank you. 2016-11-19 14:15 GMT+01:00 Dan Ritter : > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:28:57AM +0100, Jorge Expósito wrote: > > I

Recovering when di misleads Synaptic et al.

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
This is *NOT* a bug report. I have a _USED_ laptop set aside for learning and experimentation. It has had as many as a half dozen clean installs in a single day ;/ The CD drive has finally died [no plans to replace]. With dd I have copied DVD 1 of Jessie to a USB flash drive. Install from the fl

Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* purpose. It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network connection between them. When I plug one into my Debian machine I want totally unfettered read/write access. [when lo

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Jape Person
On 11/19/2016 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote: I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my 10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP has finally broken down and good second-hand parts are not easy to find in Brazil :-( Why is it

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Jape Person
On 11/19/2016 10:55 AM, Brian wrote: It was sub-thread of another thread. Starts here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/10/msg01016.html Thanks. I think I get the idea, but I'll read that to see if I can get myself educated a little better. Why is it important for the printer t

Re: The difference between XTerm and UXTerm?

2016-11-19 Thread Teemu Likonen
Sven Joachim [2016-11-19 12:46:39+01] wrote: > Nowadays uxterm is pretty much obsolete, but 15 years ago UTF-8 > locales were rather esoteric, and the uxterm wrapper allowed people to > easily test them without changing their normal environment. If you > already use a UTF-8 locale like almost ever

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Jape Person
On 11/19/2016 09:30 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Jape Person wrote: What about hplip? Doesn't inclusion of the hp-setup program in hplip sort of violate the spirit of having only FOSS in the main repository when executing No, it doesn't violate the spirit. HPLIP

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Jape Person
On 11/19/2016 06:48 AM, Brian wrote: You've probably seen http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/combined.html so can match up your requirement with what is on the market from HP. It does appear to be limited but your choice could be widened by including inkjet printers in the

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 18:04:17 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 03:55:52PM +, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look at it this way: > > Horses for courses :-) > > If the printer wants to be bought by me, being blobless

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 14:31:49 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote: > > > I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my > > > 10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP has finally broken down and > > > good second-hand parts are not easy t

[OT] Last Avidemux appimage

2016-11-19 Thread maderios
Hi Last Avidemux appimage is available for all Debian versions or any other Linux distro here. It works fine. https://www.fosshub.com/Avidemux.html/avidemux_2.6.15.appImage http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/news.html Greetings -- Maderios

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 03:55:52PM +, Brian wrote: [...] > Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look at it this way: Horses for courses :-) If the printer wants to be bought by me, being blobless would greatly improve its chances

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote: > > I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my > > 10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP has finally broken down and > > good second-hand parts are not easy to find in Brazil :-( > > Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look

Re: BRIGHTNESS LEVEL FIXED ON SONY VAIO VPCEH38FN

2016-11-19 Thread Atish Pandey
Yeah, the problem was solved by some minor changes /etc/default/grub.dEdit this line:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"toGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor" And it was done. This worked on my Ubuntu 14.04. And fortunately here on debian also.. And yes Cindy, other

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 12:30:47 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Jape Person wrote: > > What about hplip? Doesn't inclusion of the hp-setup program in hplip sort of > > violate the spirit of having only FOSS in the main repository when executing > > No, it doesn't v

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Jape Person wrote: > What about hplip? Doesn't inclusion of the hp-setup program in hplip sort of > violate the spirit of having only FOSS in the main repository when executing No, it doesn't violate the spirit. HPLIP is FLOSS, including the hp-setup program itself. The bina

Re: Extending Debian partition under VMware

2016-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/11/2016 à 11:28, Jorge Expósito a écrit : I've extended the virtual drive on VMware from 7 Gb to 8 Gb. Rebooted my guest Debian with Gparted and extended the drive with the 1 extra Gb successfuly. Rebooting again and starting my virtualized Debian I make a fdisk -l and it seems that the ex

Re: Extending Debian partition under VMware

2016-11-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:28:57AM +0100, Jorge Expósito wrote: > I've extended the virtual drive on VMware from 7 Gb to 8 Gb. > Rebooted my guest Debian with Gparted and extended the drive with the 1 > extra Gb successfuly. > Rebooting again and starting my virtualized Debian I make a fdisk -l an

Re: The difference between XTerm and UXTerm?

2016-11-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-11-19 13:22 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > What's the practical difference between XTerm and UXTerm? I know that > they need different class in .Xresources file. I also know that UXTerm > is a wrapper for XTerm (to change a couple of settings). I have read its > man page. People in the net

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/11/2016 à 12:01, Richard Owlett a écrit : On 11/18/2016 1:58 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Q. Did the operator change anything to the system before it failed ? A. Yes. He created a permanent automatic mount entry in fstab for a removable device which is not always present. BIG mistake. At l

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 18 Nov 2016 at 20:34:03 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > I'm getting ready to replace all of our old equipment that has been used for > well over a decade in our home network. > > I decided to try to do everything with FOSS -- open source Luxul router, > open-source-only drivers for everything

The difference between XTerm and UXTerm?

2016-11-19 Thread Teemu Likonen
What's the practical difference between XTerm and UXTerm? I know that they need different class in .Xresources file. I also know that UXTerm is a wrapper for XTerm (to change a couple of settings). I have read its man page. People in the net say that UXTerm is XTerm with Unicode support. But still

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2016 9:22 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 11/18/2016 06:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: As noted in the "Invoking ddrescue" thread [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00641.html], my laptop [dedicated to educational/experimental projects which could fail spectacularly] used to

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/18/2016 1:58 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 18/11/2016 à 15:25, Richard Owlett a écrit : As noted in the "Invoking ddrescue" thread [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00641.html], my laptop [dedicated to educational/experimental projects which could fail spectacularly] used to

Debian v-8.5.0 Problem with Synaptic.

2016-11-19 Thread S. P. Molnar
I am running Debian v-8.5.0 and am having a problem with Synaptic. I get an error: E: jre1.8.0-112: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127 when I attempt an installation. Apparently the version of jre was not completely removed. How do I solve this probl

Extending Debian partition under VMware

2016-11-19 Thread Jorge Expósito
I've extended the virtual drive on VMware from 7 Gb to 8 Gb. Rebooted my guest Debian with Gparted and extended the drive with the 1 extra Gb successfuly. Rebooting again and starting my virtualized Debian I make a fdisk -l and it seems that the extra Gb is actually there. Device Boot Start

Re: Desktop notifications?

2016-11-19 Thread Teemu Likonen
Reco [2016-11-18 11:03:31+03] wrote: > For your notification to work you need to define the correct value of > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable for your backup script. That is the kind of information I wanted. I had assumed, perhaps naively, that desktop notification system would aut