Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-27 Thread Latincom
On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 18:38:58 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > On 25/11/16 22:26, Latincom wrote: > >> Is there a step by step guide or How to on line? >> I have 1 Wheezy without Systemd, and i would like to upgrade it. >> Thanks. > > You can do both an upgrade and an install f

Re: Stretch/Sid not resuming from suspend

2016-11-27 Thread Lucio Crusca
On April 20, 2016, I wrote: Hello *, I'm using Stretch/Sid amd64 and I update it every few days. Since about a month or so it fails to resume from suspend to RAM. It doesn't happen regularly, it fails about 50% of the times. When it doesn't resume, I get only a black screen in text mode with

Re: Weirdness with two packages.........

2016-11-27 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:19:38 -0500 The Wanderer sent: > I have - different from your own: > > > > $ apt-cache policy libavutil55 > > libavutil55: > > Installed: 10:3.1.2-dmo2 > > Candidate: 10:3.1.2-dmo2 > > Version table: > > *** 10:3.1.2-dmo2 100 > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status >

Re: Weirdness with two packages.........

2016-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-11-27 at 22:14, Charlie wrote: > The sent: Re: Weirdness with two packages. > > Wrote this: > >On 2016-11-27 at 18:57, Charles Schroeder wrote: >> >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> In 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 >>> (2015-08-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux >>

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-27 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Pascal, On 28/11/16 12:48, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 27/11/2016 à 21:02, Jan Bakuwel a écrit : >> >> On 26/11/16 11:01, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> >>> When embedding is not possible, the core image is stored as a regular >>> file in /boot/grub. Then /boot/grub must be on the same drive as the

Re: Weirdness with two packages.........

2016-11-27 Thread Charlie
From my keyboard The sent: Re: Weirdness with two packages. Wrote this: >On 2016-11-27 at 18:57, Charles Schroeder wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> In 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 >> (2015-08-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> I get this message

Re: Weirdness with two packages.........

2016-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-11-27 at 18:57, Charles Schroeder wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > In 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 > (2015-08-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I get this message when I attempt to use Chromium: > > $ chromium > /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: relocation > error: /usr/

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Doug
On 11/27/2016 05:11 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, November 27, 2016 03:02:19 PM Brad Rogers wrote: f3 is in the Debian repos. For anybody that goes looking for it, it is apparently a "current" package for Jessie and Sid, but it is in backports for Wheezy. https://packages.debian.or

Weirdness with two packages.........

2016-11-27 Thread Charles Schroeder
Hello Everyone, In 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 (2015-08-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux I get this message when I attempt to use Chromium: $ chromium /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavformat.so.57: symbol avpriv_dict_set_ti

Re: Stretch Alpha 8 netinst fails

2016-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/17/16, marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 19:19 -0500, Michael Owen wrote: >> Installation fails installing the base system: >> >> /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: line 88 >> >> /lib/partman/active_choices/copy/choices: not found >> >> I've tr

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/11/2016 à 21:02, Jan Bakuwel a écrit : On 26/11/16 11:01, Pascal Hambourg wrote: When embedding is not possible, the core image is stored as a regular file in /boot/grub. Then /boot/grub must be on the same drive as the boot image. However blocklists are not reliable with files, because

*WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

2016-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Hi, All :) Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move. So what had had happened was... I've been attempting to debootstrap DEBIAN Stretch for a few weeks now. It's been failing MISERABLY. This is the first

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, November 27, 2016 03:02:19 PM Brad Rogers wrote: > f3 is in the Debian repos. For anybody that goes looking for it, it is apparently a "current" package for Jessie and Sid, but it is in backports for Wheezy. https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/f3

Re: downloading mail

2016-11-27 Thread Joe
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:37:23 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > fetchmail > fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified. > > which is pretty strange since > > less fetchmail > poll "pop.west.cox.net" > protocol pop3 > username "holtzm" > #password "4vr4m

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:02:50 +0100 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:26:06 + (UTC) Latincom > > wrote: > [snip] > > > Is there a step by step guide or How to on line? > > > I have 1 Wheezy without Systemd, and i would like to

downloading mail

2016-11-27 Thread Bob Holtzman
fetchmail fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified. which is pretty strange since less fetchmail poll "pop.west.cox.net" protocol pop3 username "holtzm" #password "4vr4mz4v3l" password "" mimedecode

Re: stunnel or sibling?

2016-11-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Peter E. wrote: > accept = localhost:80 > connect = en.wikipedia.org:443 > ... Firefox continues to access http servers as if stunnel > isn't present I get a bit further with accept = localhost:30080 connect = en.wikipedia.org:443 and in iceweasel as URL http://localhost:30080 Bu

Re: How to get ssh to run in daemon script

2016-11-27 Thread Russell Gadd
On 27/11/16 13:00, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: ... What user runs the daemon? If it is a separate user then run the ssh with that user interactively. If the user does not have the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file or the destination host is not in it, then you will have problems. I've now discovered that the da

Re: stunnel or sibling

2016-11-27 Thread peter
* From: "Thomas Schmitt" n.wikipedia.org:443 ... Firefox continues to access http servers as if stunnel isn't present and the http-only client freezes when a connection is expected. I don't understand this case. Anyone have any other ideas to offer? Thanks again Thomas. Good to have PO

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:43:52 -0600 Doug wrote: Hello Doug, >That's a very old page. Does any reader know of an up-to-date Linux >program that serves this purpose? f3 is in the Debian repos. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediat

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-27 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Pascal, Thanks for responding. On 26/11/16 11:01, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > 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 wo

No Front Panel Audio On Asus ROG Ranger VIII

2016-11-27 Thread Zack
Hello Debian Users! Before I start out, I want to mention that I have already emailed the alsa-user list, but haven't gotten any replies. I have an ASUS ROG Ranger VIII mother board. The rear panel audio works, but the front panel audio output does not (though input works). The system recognizes

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Doug
On 11/27/2016 11:28 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/27/2016 10:07 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2016-11-27 07:02 (UTC-0500): ... It may be an interesting exercise, before first use of a brand new flash drive, to examine it via Gparted and "wipefs /dev/sdX"... I first tes

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/27/2016 10:07 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2016-11-27 07:02 (UTC-0500): ... It may be an interesting exercise, before first use of a brand new flash drive, to examine it via Gparted and "wipefs /dev/sdX"... I first test that the claimed capacity is valid: https://fi

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive (was: Error message from GParted...)

2016-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-11-27 07:02 (UTC-0500): ... It may be an interesting exercise, before first use of a brand new flash drive, to examine it via Gparted and "wipefs /dev/sdX"... I first test that the claimed capacity is valid: https://fightflashfraud.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/h2tes

Re: How to get ssh to run in daemon script

2016-11-27 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2016-11-27 11:55 keltezéssel, Russell Gadd írta: I am trying to add a command into a script to shut down my NAS when the UPS detects a power loss. There is a daemon apcupsd which gets a signal from the UPS and runs various scripts which can be modified by the user. I have a script doshutdown

Re: Package configure problem during Installation.

2016-11-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:33:58AM +0530, amir khan wrote: (Please keep the Debian user mailing list in the loop. First of all, there are lots of people there far more knowledgeable than me, thus raising the probability for you to get good help, secon

Re: Package configure problem during Installation.

2016-11-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Brian wrote: > The only thing I vaguely understand about the difference between the > two is that httpredir.debian.org uses the traditional mirror network > whereas deb.debian.org uses the Fastly CDN (Content Delivery Network) > and there is some caching going on. Fastly and Cloudfront are used

Re: Error message from GParted, means what?

2016-11-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/27/2016 3:15 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 26/11/2016 à 23:42, Richard Owlett a écrit : I've been getting a strange error messages when looking at some 8 GB flash drives from different manufacturers purchased months apart. There is a title bar at top saying "Libparted Warning (as superuse

Re: sudo + gpg - howto?

2016-11-27 Thread Michael Luecke
On 11/27/2016 10:10 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: 2. cannot run pinentry (my guess is that tty is owned by user kjonca and pinentry should be as user backup) That's the problem. The owner of ttyX must match with the user for which pinentry is running. You could change the permissions of tty to the

How to get ssh to run in daemon script

2016-11-27 Thread Russell Gadd
I am trying to add a command into a script to shut down my NAS when the UPS detects a power loss. There is a daemon apcupsd which gets a signal from the UPS and runs various scripts which can be modified by the user. I have a script doshutdown as follows #!/bin/sh ... various messages and sle

sudo + gpg - howto?

2016-11-27 Thread Kamil Jońca
I have gpg-encrypted backups made by amanda (gnutar). Decrypting was done by call gpg with --passphrase-fd option. Recently I have to see some backup contensts and as usual I wrote: --8<---cut here---start->8--- sudo amrecover ... --8<---cut here---

Re: Error message from GParted, means what?

2016-11-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/11/2016 à 23:42, Richard Owlett a écrit : I've been getting a strange error messages when looking at some 8 GB flash drives from different manufacturers purchased months apart. There is a title bar at top saying "Libparted Warning (as superuser). The body of the message box has: 1. an Ex

Re: stunnel or sibling?

2016-11-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Peter E. wrote: > For example, a > local elementary browser is not SSL capable but a connection to https > is required. > Can stunnel or something else do that? I use stunnel for connecting my old POP3 client to a SSL POP3 server. Configuration file: ---