Re: Issues with power management

2017-02-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:37:48 CET solitone wrote: > today I tried to re-enable hibernation, and discovered that now it does > not work at all. Perhaps it was a recent stretch update, but now > hibernation can't be used at all. Previously it worked at least when the > monitor was on. Now ev

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/12/2017 06:36 PM, Bob Weber wrote: After writing this I wonder if I am over doing this. I just don't want to loose data from a failing drive. I lived through 3.5 inch floppies which seemed to always fail. And tape drives that were painfully slow. Not to mention back in the mid 70s savi

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Bob Weber
On 02/12/2017 01:59 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 02/12/2017 08:30 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: >> I do not use LVM over raid 1. I think it can be made to work, >> although IIRC booting from an LVM over RAID partion has caused issues. > my boot partitions are separate. They are not under LVM. >> LVM

Bitmask Leap and Open-VPN

2017-02-12 Thread GiaThnYgeia
The good people of leap.se as far as I can tell have rewritten their 0.9.2 stable package for Stretch (and Sid I believe) and as of today it works again as it was broken and only worked for jessie for a while. Their experimental 0.9.4 worked for stretch in a limited fashion. https://bitmask.net/en/

sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-12 Thread Ian Jackson
If you are running testing (stretch) and using sysvinit, I'd appreciate it if you could install the new sysvinit packages from unstable (sid). This version, 2.88dsf-59.9, is a rather-late update to fix some bugs which are important for stretch. In particular, I would like to know whether this sys

Re: Chromium: all apps gone, reinstalling fails

2017-02-12 Thread Sven Hartge
Markus Grunwald wrote: > Just now I noticed, that all the apps/extensions from my chromium are > gone :( Quoting from News.Debian of chromium: chromium-browser (55.0.2883.75-4) unstable; urgency=medium * External extensions are now disabled by default. Chromium will only load extensions

Slight correction was Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 12 February 2017 20:40:40 Lisi Reisz wrote: > and didn't read carefully enough. and *** I *** didn't read carefully enough. (As it stands it is open to being misread.) Lisi

Chromium: all apps gone, reinstalling fails

2017-02-12 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, Just now I noticed, that all the apps/extensions from my chromium are gone :( I tried to reinstall them, but everything that I get is a non-helpfull message that installing the app didn't work... % dpkg -l chromium\* | egrep '^ii' ii chromium 55.0.2883.75-6 amd64web brose

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Shapiro writes: > BTW, what is your third partition, and why would you not separate it > now if starting from scratch? My third partition is for backups which I make to protect against software or operator error. At one point it was on a separate disk since disks were small and without LVM

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 12 February 2017 13:44:02 Sven Hartge wrote: > >> I think the main point is being missed. > > > > Yes, by you.  You asked whether Adobe Acrobat, which is a proprietary > > program belonging to Adobe, would run on Debian.  Sven said no. > > No, the question was, if it is available "with De

Re: Question about wifi web service with debian

2017-02-12 Thread Robert Crawford
I'm using my HP Probook 6450B with Xubuntu 16.04.1. This laptop uses the following iswifi chipset robert@HP-Probook:~$ lspci | grep -i wireless 44:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Wireless work out of the box with Xubuntu. If you n

Re: Issues with power management

2017-02-12 Thread solitone
On Friday, 10 February 2017 12:31:39 CET solitone wrote: > After a fresh boot, suspend does work. However, after resume, a second > suspend attempt doesn't work--the system automatically resumes after a > couple of seconds. Now it always resumes immediately after suspend. I have no idea why initia

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/12/2017 09:26 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: songbird wrote: ... years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory on an external USB drive. it worked ok, but i did have to tell in the apt sources list that i was using a file and not a dvd. i am pretty sure i used a "cp -r"

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/12/2017 08:30 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: I do not use LVM over raid 1. I think it can be made to work, although IIRC booting from an LVM over RAID partion has caused issues. my boot partitions are separate. They are not under LVM. LVM is useful when space requirements are changing over t

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-12 Thread Glenn English
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Henning Follmann < hfollm...@itcfollmann.com > wrote Actually the current Bind in stable is just a blessing in this respect. > It -by default- just allows recursion for localnet, localhost. > This server is still Wheezy. The virtual websites didn't work on Jess

Problems with emacs+ess

2017-02-12 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Hello! I am on a debian stable+testing system, with cinnamon. For quite some time emacs (gui) is misbehaving. I have installed both emacs 24 and emacs25 packages, same issue with both. I have installed ess (emacs speaks statistics) which is very useful with R. Usually, I run emacs, and open a b

eCryptfs slow on CIFS share

2017-02-12 Thread Michael Luecke
Hello, I tried to set up an eCryptfs onto an CIFS share which resulted in an incredibly slow transfer rate. The CIFS share is located on a QNAP NAS with Gbit-Ethernet connection. The CIFS share was normally mounted with: $ mount -o username=guest,password=guest -t cifs //nas/Public /tmp/test/

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Shapiro writes: > the past couple of weeks. AIUI you can use LVM over raid. Is there > any actual advantage to this? I was trying to determine the > advantages of using straight raid, straight LVM, or LVM over raid. If > I decide, later, to use raid, how dificult is it to add to a curren

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: >songbird wrote: ... >> years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory >> on an external USB drive. it worked ok, but i did >> have to tell in the apt sources list that i was >> using a file and not a dvd. >> >> i am pretty sure i used a "cp -r" to do it too... >> >> fw

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Bob Weber
I use raid 1 also for the redundancy it provides. If I need a backup I just connect a disk, grow each array and add it to the array (I have 3 arrays for /, /home and swap). It syncs up in a couple hours (depending on size of the array). If you have grub install itself on the added disk you have

Re: (d@@g) Bug #849382: apt

2017-02-12 Thread Martin Read
On 12/02/17 14:19, Markus wrote: Does anyone know when version 1.1 gets into the stable release (Jessie)? Probably never. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849382#30 to understand why.

Re: (d@@g) Bug #849382: apt

2017-02-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/02/2017 à 15:19, Markus a écrit : Does anyone know when version 1.1 gets into the stable release (Jessie)? Please create a new thread instead of hijacking an existing one with an unrelated subject.

(d@@g) Bug #849382: apt

2017-02-12 Thread Markus
(d@@g) Hello everybody, I am running Debian Jessie. Since a few days I abort dist-upgrades because apt-listbugs warns me about this bug in apt: critical bugs of apt (1.0.9.8.3 → 1.0.9.8.4) version> b3 - #849382 - [apt] Every package on the system gets silently upgraded to backports. The result

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-12 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 04:11:13PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Henning Follmann > wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:58:54AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > > [...] > Does your DNS answer recursive queries? > > > > Oh, my lord. I didn't think it did -- I

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-12 Thread Sven Hartge
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 12 February 2017 02:49:41 John Culleton wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:13:20 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:54:34PM -0500, Doug wrote: On 02/10/2017 03:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > John Culleton wrote: >> All I need from Debi

Re: Oddity noticed installing caja-gksu, Bug?

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/30/2017 11:49 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 29 Jan 2017 at 08:58:17 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: I using Debian 8.6.0 [with *NO* updates] from set of purchased DVDs. I use the Mate desktop. When I installed caja-gksu, it did not apparently have any effect until after a reboot. Is this

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-12 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Lisi Reisz: >> I think the main point is being missed. > > Yes, by you. You asked whether Adobe Acrobat, which is a proprietary program > belonging to Adobe, would run on Debian. Sven said no. > > Other people found that too short and are trying to find a way to help. You > have your answer

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 10:55 PM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... Didn't get to it as soon as expected. Just copying /etc/apt/sources.list and /var/lib/apt/lists is not enough. Using either synaptic or apt-get I get an error message telling me to run apt-cdrom so the cdrom can be recognized. The

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 07:45 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 16:25:50 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/29/2017 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/29/2017 10:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:17:34AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm tracking down some probl

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 11-02-2017 21:11, Glenn English wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Henning Follmann > mailto:hfollm...@itcfollmann.com>> wrote: > > Does your DNS answer recursive queries? > > > Oh, my lord. I didn't think it did -- I tried to configure BIND to do > recursion only from my net. I jus

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 12 February 2017 02:49:41 John Culleton wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:13:20 -0700 > > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:54:34PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > > On 02/10/2017 03:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > > >John Culleton wrote: > > > >>All I need from Debian is Adobe Acro

Re: Question about wifi web service with debian

2017-02-12 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 12/02/2017 à 05:55, Doug a écrit : > > > > On 02/11/2017 11:02 PM, Billy O wrote: >> hello my name is William O'Brien >> >> I have been using and researching debian for alittle while now and >> have been trying to access wifi I have tried several different ways >> and researched many tutorials a

Re: Question about wifi web service with debian

2017-02-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le 12/02/2017 à 05:02, Billy O a écrit : > hello my name is William O'Brien > > I have been using and researching debian for alittle while now and have > been trying to access wifi I have tried several different ways and > researched many tutorials and help sections with very little success and >