Is Me-TV killing mainboards?

Hello all, there is a weired thing happening. Maybe it is by chance, but maybe it is a bug. As my TV is dead, since 4 weeks I am looking television with my notebook. The application for dvb-t I am using is me-tv. Now it happens, that 14 days ago my first notebook suddenly switched off, but c

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

Le 2017-02-16 à 19:40, Jape Person a écrit : > On 02/16/2017 06:11 PM, Benjamin Rochefort wrote: >> It's been weeks, maybe even months now. I found this suggestion >> somewhere on the web after searching for something like 'random >> thunderbird crash'. I have no idea what behavior this setting c

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 02/16/2017 06:11 PM, Benjamin Rochefort wrote: Le 2017-02-16 à 15:20, Paul van der Vlis a écrit : Op 16-02-17 om 13:31 schreef Benjamin Rochefort: I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 21:26, Glenn English wrote: > No. I've never used it, but a friend of mine does. And it takes forever > for him to do a backup. So I assumed it was dd. Maybe it's that other > OS X disk clone 'backup.' > > But when he's done, he doesn't have an incremental backup, just a clone. > Be

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

Le 2017-02-16 à 15:20, Paul van der Vlis a écrit : > Op 16-02-17 om 13:31 schreef Benjamin Rochefort: >> I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie >> by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's >> config editor. > > Interesting. Why do you

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 15.02.2017 23:43, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Isn't there a plan to migrate back to Thunderbird anyway, just as > Iceweasel has been replaced with firefox? > > I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right > now) Well, it's also crashing like hell here (45.6.0-3) Cheers,

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:43:27AM +0100, Francesco Porro wrote: > On 16/02/2017 03:39, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I use rsnapshot. > > Very nice one! This has what I was looking for, indeed there's a link in > the main page to the article that I posted before. I'll give it a try, > for sure

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 17/02/17 09:50, Jape Person wrote: The crashes occur *only* when I have the message pane open and am moving through the message list. (I always use the keyboard arrow keys for this, so don't know if same would happen with mouse.) This was also the trigger for the crashes I saw: switching qui

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 02/16/2017 03:40 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 17/02/17 01:31, Benjamin Rochefort wrote: I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's config editor. +1. I had terrible problems with icedov

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 17/02/17 01:31, Benjamin Rochefort wrote: I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's config editor. +1. I had terrible problems with icedove segfaults on sid last year and this option was t

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: > > Are you sure? No. I've never used it, but a friend of mine does. And it takes forever for him to do a backup. So I assumed it was dd. Maybe it's that other OS X disk clone 'backup.' But when he's done, he doesn't have an incremental

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

Op 16-02-17 om 13:31 schreef Benjamin Rochefort: > I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie > by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's > config editor. Interesting. Why do you think this helps? How long are you running without crashes

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 18:27, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Francesco Porro > wrote: > > > When I was on Mac OS X, several years ago, I used to use CCC (carbon > copy cloner) which I liked a lot, and never found any similar on PC > (Win

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 17:33, Erwan David wrote: >> I've already tried the latter before, when I was on Ubuntu (it comes >> preinstalled in ubuntu). The thing I didn't like too much of deja-dup >> was the inability to set a threshold for the backups to keep. I mean: i >> wasn't able to say: hey, keep N back

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 17:36, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > On 02/16/2017 11:27 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: >> On 16/02/2017 15:03, Boyan Penkov wrote: >>> I similarly found this to be a pain, and then decided to wrap a few >>> calls to duplicity-clean, and --keep-all-but-N in a shell script that >>> gets anac

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: > > When I was on Mac OS X, several years ago, I used to use CCC (carbon > copy cloner) which I liked a lot, and never found any similar on PC > (Win/Linux). > That would be dd (CLI). I believe that's what's under the CCC GUI on OS-X. --

Re: Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on an old Toshiba-Laptop

Hi Daniel, thanks for your answer. I just tried it. Since I did not know anything about 'nomodeset', I looked for it on the internet. I found this link: https://support.reliablesite.net/kb/a240/how-to-set-nomodeset-into-the-grub-bootloader-debian-and-ubuntu-intel-core-i7-3770.aspx and followed

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 14:50, Hans wrote: > Yes, of course. I did not see, that you meant "daily backups". For daily > backups try "back-in-time", it is nicely configurable and is based on rsync > and > some other tools. And you can configure time based backups and restores. Yes I forgot to say some det

Re: User-oriented backup tools

Le 02/16/2017 à 15:01, Francesco Porro a écrit : > On 16/02/2017 14:45, Boyan Penkov wrote: >> >> On 02/16/2017 08:33 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: >>> >>> If I'm not wrong, this one is based on "dup" and works the same way? >> >> I don't think so; which "dup" are you referring to? -- the most I know

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 02/16/2017 10:34 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: > On 16/02/2017 14:50, Hans wrote: > Ok, now I'm trying back-in-time. After some setting up, it's working and > copying 60+ GB from my Home to the external usb3 drive. And it's quite fast! I've been using backintime for years and am very satisfied wit

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 15:03, Boyan Penkov wrote: > I similarly found this to be a pain, and then decided to wrap a few > calls to duplicity-clean, and --keep-all-but-N in a shell script that > gets anacron'd... Well this is the workaround! :) I'll try it later. Thanks! -- fp pgp: 0x45399C26

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On Thursday 16 February 2017 05:08:34 Francesco Porro wrote: > On 16/02/2017 01:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Very simple: amanda > > Well, Amanda looks a bit too complex for my typical home needs, and > seems to me more server,centralized-backup oriented. However it seems > also very powerful and f

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

Hi, Jörg. On 16/02/17 05:26, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/15/17 23:52: > >>> I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right >>> now) >> >> It looks like it's currently in Sid. Has anyone tried it? >> >> https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

Hi, Benjamin On 16/02/17 09:31, Benjamin Rochefort wrote: > I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie > by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's > config editor. Thanks for the tip. I applied this change. Let's see if it makes any dif

Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on an old Toshiba-Laptop

Hi, Michael. On 16/02/17 10:37, Michael Siemmeister wrote: > Thanks for your answers! > > I am going to try the upstream repository in the evening. > > Nevertheless, as written in my first mail, I got problems with > installing Debian-Testing on my old Toshiba laptop. I just checked the > model

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 14:45, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > On 02/16/2017 08:33 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: >> >> If I'm not wrong, this one is based on "dup" and works the same way? > > I don't think so; which "dup" are you referring to? -- the most I know > is that DejaDup is a GTK front-end for it. Oh sorry,

Re: Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on an old Toshiba-Laptop

Thanks for your answers! I am going to try the upstream repository in the evening. Nevertheless, as written in my first mail, I got problems with installing Debian-Testing on my old Toshiba laptop. I just checked the model number. It's a Toshiba Satellite P300-1BB. Model No.: PSPCCE-01K001GR. Deb

Re: User-oriented backup tools

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:24:11PM +0100, Francesco Porro wrote: > On 16/02/2017 12:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Now if you are talking about "Real Snapshots" (i.e. files don't change > > during backup and stuff) > > > With rsync you'll always have

Re: User-oriented backup tools

> Hi, I've used Clonezilla a couple of months ago for cloning my sister's > Windows partition. But perhaps this tools is more recommended for > cloning disks/partitions than for a daily backup. Yes, of course. I did not see, that you meant "daily backups". For daily backups try "back-in-time",

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 02/16/2017 08:33 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: > > If I'm not wrong, this one is based on "dup" and works the same way? > I don't think so; which "dup" are you referring to? -- the most I know is that DejaDup is a GTK front-end for it. -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com signature.asc Desc

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 12:18, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Francesco Hi Daniel > Another alternative could be to use Dirvish. As stated in Dirvish' website: «Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system. With dirvish you can maintain a set of complete images of your filesystems with unat

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:47:25PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On a system with predictable names running? Or on a system > pre-upgrade? > > Because if you have a system that's being upgraded at the > moment, the following command _might_ work _after_ you've > upgraded udev and _before_ you'v

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 13:14, Boyan Penkov wrote: > http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ > > I use it on remote backups when I don’t trust the destination > (therefore, all encryption happens locally), and on local-to-local > copies (copy home to, say, another partition). > > About the only caveat is it cannon to

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 12:23, Hans wrote:> Has anybody already mentioned "clonezilla"? > > Just usefull in case at also physical defects. Hi, I've used Clonezilla a couple of months ago for cloning my sister's Windows partition. But perhaps this tools is more recommended for cloning disks/partitions than

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 12:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Now if you are talking about "Real Snapshots" (i.e. files don't change > during backup and stuff) > With rsync you'll always have some skew (i.e. the world is changing > while the backup is running). Well, with the word "snapshot" I meant a "dump" of

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's config editor. -- Benjamin Rochefort http://benwen.info

Re: IPv6 connection problem with https://www.flickr.com/

On 2017-02-16 12:34:47 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've eventually found: > > https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/72157676769425294/ > "Flickr broken over ipv6 from some networks" > > which was posted yesterday. So, this appears to be a problem > on the Flickr side. Actually it may be a pr

Re: User-oriented backup tools

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ I use it on remote backups when I don’t trust the destination (therefore, all encryption happens locally), and on local-to-local copies (copy home to, say, another partition). About the only caveat is it cannon to synthetic fulls on th

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

On 02/16/2017 12:24 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I understand that the predictable nic names can be turned off > using > > net.ifnames=0 > > on the kernel command line, but I wonder if there is a shell > script to actually predict the "enpYsZ" from the old style > "ethX" initially assigned by

Re: IPv6 connection problem with https://www.flickr.com/

On 2017-02-16 09:40:27 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Vincent Lefevre: > > > > On my Debian/unstable machine at home, IPv6 connection to > > https://www.flickr.com/ freezes most of the time: > > I do not have this problem with native IPv6 at home (Debian sid ad > well). I've eventually found:

how to compute predictable network interface names?

Hi folks, I understand that the predictable nic names can be turned off using net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line, but I wonder if there is a shell script to actually predict the "enpYsZ" from the old style "ethX" initially assigned by the kernel? Something like % predict_n

Re: User-oriented backup tools

Has anybody already mentioned "clonezilla"? Just usefull in case at also physical defects. Best Hans

Re: User-oriented backup tools

Hi, Francesco On 15/02/17 19:37, Francesco Porro wrote: > Hi guys, It's the first time I'm posting here. I'm both a Fedora and > Debian user. > > Which backup tool do you use? > At this time I feel comfortable with rsync, which I use to sync my home > to an external Usb drive. No automation, no

Re: User-oriented backup tools

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:44:32AM +0100, Francesco Porro wrote: > > > On 16/02/2017 09:15, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > rsync. > > > > To a LUKS-encrypted USB drive (my laptop's drive is LUKS, so it seemed > > to be a majot weak point to have all on

Re: User-oriented backup tools

Sorry guys, I'm new to mailings list so I made a little mess sending replies first to you mailbox and than to the correct mailinglist address, resulting in two copies... -- fp pgp: 0x45399C26

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 09:15, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > rsync. > > To a LUKS-encrypted USB drive (my laptop's drive is LUKS, so it seemed > to be a majot weak point to have all on an unencrpted thumb I could lose > anytime ;-) > [cut] that's very similar to my current backup-style, I use rsync with a lot

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 06:44, solitone wrote: > I'm happy with backup2l [1]. It's very simple to configure, supports > incremental backups, and it's fully automated. A bit of configuration is required but it seems ok and easy enough! > I also like it because it is simple to extract specific files you ma

Re: User-oriented backup tools

On 16/02/2017 03:39, Martin McCormick wrote: > I use rsnapshot. Very nice one! This has what I was looking for, indeed there's a link in the main page to the article that I posted before. I'll give it a try, for sure! Thank you Martin! -- fp pgp: 0x45399C26

Re: User-oriented backup tools

Hi Greg! On 15/02/2017 23:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Why? What do you want to do that your existing solution doesn't do? > Just swapping out a working solution for something more complex without > some compelling reason is not a good idea. Two reason: 1) In my home environment I'd like to test

Re: Rie4wudu

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:29:39PM +0800, mkprint4u wrote: > Subject: Re: Rie4wudu That looks a *lot* like the output of pwgen. I strongly recommend using a password manager :) -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

On 16-02-17 10:10, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > > > Paul van der Vlis: >> On 15-02-17 15:56, GiaThnYgeia wrote: >> See: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828069 >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827267 >> >> With regards, >> Paul van der Vlis > > Have you tried inst

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

Paul van der Vlis: > On 15-02-17 15:56, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > See: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828069 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827267 > > With regards, > Paul van der Vlis Have you tried installing the debug part of icedove? "This package conta

Re: IPv6 connection problem with https://www.flickr.com/

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:58:36 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, >On my Debian/unstable machine at home, IPv6 connection to >https://www.flickr.com/ freezes most of the time: Debian testing, native IPv6 (i.e. no tunnelling over an IPv4 connection) and flickr doesn't freeze here. I don'

Re: IPv6 connection problem with https://www.flickr.com/

On 2017-02-16 09:40:27 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Vincent Lefevre: > > On my Debian/unstable machine at home, IPv6 connection to > > https://www.flickr.com/ freezes most of the time: > > Does OpenSSL have this problem as well? Does it maybe report something > with respect to a TLS problem? >

Re: Rie4wudu

now we can all get smart Mark Fletcher: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:29:39PM +0800, mkprint4u wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > Someone just broadcast their password to the world... > -- "The most violent element in society is ignorance" rEG

Re: IPv6 connection problem with https://www.flickr.com/

Vincent Lefevre: > > On my Debian/unstable machine at home, IPv6 connection to > https://www.flickr.com/ freezes most of the time: I do not have this problem with native IPv6 at home (Debian sid ad well). Does OpenSSL have this problem as well? Does it maybe report something with respect to a TLS

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/15/17 23:52: >> I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right >> now) > > It looks like it's currently in Sid. Has anyone tried it? > > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=thunderbird > I'm using a mixed testing/sid syst

Re: User-oriented backup tools

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Francesco Porro wrote: > Hi guys, It's the first time I'm posting here. I'm both a Fedora and > Debian user. > > Which backup tool do you use? > At this time I feel comfortable with rsync [...] rsync. To a L