Re: Problem compiling libpoppler=0.48.0-2 in Jessie

2016-11-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 4:52 AM, Davide Anchisi wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to compile "libpoppler" in Debian Jessie (amd64) from testing > sources: > apt-get -b source libpoppler64=0.48.0-2 > I resolved the build dependencies: > apt-get build-dep libpoppler64=0.48.0-2 > > The build begin

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 14:43:34 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > The reason it doesn't always report all recent previous commands > under multiple open tabs/windows is that it appears to cherry pick > the commands from the last window closed at any given point. Each time you close a window, its

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Felix Miata
oldbluebear composed on 2016-11-25 15:21 (UTC): I am at the point where I am now seriously going to look at what other Linux versions are available or maybe pull one of the earlier Debian Distro CDs I still have in my store and load that simply to get back an environment in which I can work. ..

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:34:01 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2016-11-25 at 14:02, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > > > Seriously tho; If you had RTFM you would have known systemd and > > friends were going to be the default on upgrade and taken steps to > > migrate your init.d scripts beforehand.

Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s

2016-11-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Celejar wrote: > applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running > kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 from backports. Don't. That kernel is very broken. Switch to the latest 4.8 kernel available from either unstable or kernel.org, or compile the latest 4.4-longte

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 21:26:06 +, Latincom wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:31:54 +, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +, oldbluebear wrote: > > > > [...Lots of disgruntlement snipped...] > > > >> How can I at this stage bring this machine back nearer to SySV? > > >

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Felix Miata
oldbluebear composed on 2016-11-25 15:21 (UTC): I am at the point where I am now seriously going to look at what other Linux versions are available or maybe pull one of the earlier Debian Distro CDs I still have in my store and load that simply to get back an environment in which I can work. ..

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/11/2016 à 19:31, Jan Bakuwel a écrit : For reasons beyond my understanding grub complains about being installed in a partition instead of the MBR ("embedding is not supported and a BAD idea", yet it works fine). The GRUB BIOS boot loader is split off in three main parts : - the boot imag

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-25 Thread Dan Norton
Thank you Hans, Alexandre, and Jan for your quick response. update-grub2 has enabled booting to all (2) of my OSes :-) Now the prospect of massive, messy recovery is gone. I like Jan's idea of a small "boot/rescue" OS, especially if it could be on a USB flash drive. Something to work on later.

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Robert Latest
Hi all, I solved my problem: Somehow I must have corrupted the metadata in my volume groups. Scanning through the directory /etc/lvm/archive on the NAS and my linux box, there were several historical configuration files for each of my disks. I found the files that represented the last working setu

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Latincom
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:31:54 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +, oldbluebear wrote: > > [...Lots of disgruntlement snipped...] > >> How can I at this stage bring this machine back nearer to SySV? > > You can bring it back in all its glory with > > apt-get install sysv

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/11/2016 à 20:43, Cindy-Sue Causey a écrit : For new users: If provided as a terminal's feature, up and down arrows will present previous commands issued up to some finite point. Command history has nothing to do with the terminal. It is a shell (command interpreter) feature.

having issue on been in new 8.6 installation

2016-11-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear all i am seeing this issue. erst: can not request [mem 0xd7e6e000-0xd7e6] for erst Loading, please wait... mdadm: No device listed in conf file were found. Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enou

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-11-25 at 14:02, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > Seriously tho; If you had RTFM you would have known systemd and > friends were going to be the default on upgrade and taken steps to > migrate your init.d scripts beforehand. To be fair, it's entirely reasonable to expect that a change in what

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread David Christensen
On 11/25/2016 07:21 AM, oldbluebear wrote: > Hi, I am one disgruntled punter. ... I've been doing console/ server Debian since 1.5 and daily graphical desktop since 5. cdrtools was a problem. systemd is worse. I'm currently on 7 and considering replacing Debian when Wheezy is retired. You mig

Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s

2016-11-25 Thread Celejar
Hi, I recently installed Debian Jessie on a ThinkPad W550s. It's a pretty standard installation, beginning with a fairly minimal package set, then adding Xfce and a bunch of other stuff, including some Gnome / GTK applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running kernel 4.7.0-0.b

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/24/16, Robert Latest wrote: > Hey all, > > I got it to work ONCE, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do > it again. > > This is what I think I did the first time, but for the second time it just > doesn't work. > > root@dotcom:~# mdadm --assemble --scan > mdadm: /dev/md/2 has b

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Sorry I can't resist; Seriously tho; If you had RTFM you would have known systemd and friends were going to be the default on upgrade and taken steps to migrate your init.d scripts beforehand. Also you heavily modified base (which by your own admission, you had - "stripped down") and you expect

Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/25/16, oldbluebear wrote: > > This time I find the current Debian as part of the install process has > created a "Document" where it wants to save any .doc file. I do not > want this, I want them on my Desktop from which I move them manually. > How do I get rid of this action which I do n

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-25 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Dan, Hans, > On 26/11/2016, at 04:51, Hans wrote: > > Am Freitag, 25. November 2016, 10:15:09 CET schrieb Dan Norton: > > Hi Dan, > > I have a similar problem with Kali-Linux and Debian. Everytime I upgrade a > kernel in kali-linux (which is on second drive), it overwrites grub on the >

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Robert Latest
Hi guys, thanks for trying to help. Here's the whole story: The two 1 TB disks originally were in a Synology NAS unit, not configured (to my knowledge) as any kind of RAID. The second disk was only physically installed in the NAS after the first one had been filling up. The NAS GUI showed the dis

Network connection fails during boot [Was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:21:23PM +, oldbluebear wrote: > Hi, I am one disgruntled punter. > > I have been using Debian since early 1990s. I use it to do useful work so > any problem with the o/s is a pain in the butt. meaning I have to spend > scarce time resolving bugs that should have been

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +, oldbluebear wrote: [...Lots of disgruntlement snipped...] > How can I at this stage bring this machine back nearer to SySV? You can bring it back in all its glory with apt-get install sysvinit-core -- Brian.

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-25 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Hello, You can try, running in terminal: sudo update-grub2 Le 25/11/2016 à 16:15, Dan Norton a écrit : > Net install noticed that Windows 7 was present, said it would provide > a choice to select it in the boot menu, but failed to do that. The > boot menu has Debian Jessie and the advanced boot o

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-25 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 25. November 2016, 10:15:09 CET schrieb Dan Norton: Hi Dan, I have a similar problem with Kali-Linux and Debian. Everytime I upgrade a kernel in kali-linux (which is on second drive), it overwrites grub on the first drive. My solution: I am booting "super-grub-disk-2" (google for

Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread oldbluebear
Hi, I am one disgruntled punter. I have been using Debian since early 1990s. I use it to do useful work so any problem with the o/s is a pain in the butt. meaning I have to spend scarce time resolving bugs that should have been removed before it was released. -classic garage software I suppose

Dual Boot

2016-11-25 Thread Dan Norton
Net install noticed that Windows 7 was present, said it would provide a choice to select it in the boot menu, but failed to do that. The boot menu has Debian Jessie and the advanced boot option. Thinking I must have screwed something up, I deleted the Debian partition and re-installed carefully

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 24, 2016, at 2:26 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quartidi 4 frimaire, an CCXXV, Robert Latest a écrit : >> root@dotcom:~# lvmdiskscan > ... >> 15 partitions >> 0 LVM physical volume whole disks >> 2 LVM physical volumes >> >> ---Still looking good. Now I'm supposed to find the logical

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Hello Try using lvscan ? Le 24/11/2016 à 19:35, Robert Latest a écrit : > Hey all, > > I got it to work ONCE, but for the life of me I can't figure out how > to do it again. > > This is what I think I did the first time, but for the second time it > just doesn't work. > > root@dotcom:~# mdadm --

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