[solved] Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2017-02-27 20:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >>> Any openbox users out there? >>> >>> I installed x-window-system-core and openbox but startx gives error: >>> `unable to connect to X server: Connection refused'. What am I missing? > > Yo

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Ben Caradoc-Davies writes: > On 26/02/17 02:04, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> How do I check if my machine is `64 or 32 bit' > > I use "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'", to find the model name and > look it up on Wikipedia or Google for the manufacturer data sheet. 64-bit > support is often call

Re: Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-27 Thread Jessica Litwin
Is this by chance a 32 bit cepstral package for a 64 bit system that doesn't have 32 bit libs installed? On Feb 27, 2017 19:03, "Chuck Hallenbeck" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm attempting to install a tommercial TTS from Cepstral on my Debian > Stretch system, and get the following when running

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread John Conover
Richard Owlett writes: > > > >> A little research indicates that Tcl/Tk plays well with sqlite. A > >> couple of years ago I started learning it for a now abandoned > >> project. I'll follow up on that combo. > > > > Funny that you mention that: Sqlite's main author, D. Richard Hipp > > has been al

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2017 06:06 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 28/02/17 02:17, Richard Owlett wrote: The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository? I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2017 02:46 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] A little research indicates that Tcl/Tk plays well with sqlite. A couple of years ago I started learning it for a now abandoned p

Re: apache2 security update

2017-02-27 Thread davidson
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Dr. John A. Zoidberg MD wrote: This post concerns: Debian Security Advisory DSA-3796-1 (appended below) The package involved is apache2. I have two "live" internet webservers, one an uptodate jessie, the other a long-maintained wheezy. The jessie machine upgraded easily t

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 27 February 2017 19:59:17 sunrise wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:46:16 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 02/27/2017 09:44 AM, Joe wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:53:30 -0600 > >> > >> Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> On 02/27/2017 07:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > LibreOffice

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 27 February 2017 13:17:56 Richard Owlett wrote: > I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" system > provided no intrinsic way to increase fonts to a legible size. You prompted me to look. As you say, it is unusable and ctrl-+ has no effect at all. It is clearly i

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 27 February 2017 13:28:44 Christian Seiler wrote: > often [Ctrl] + [+] will help > increase font sizes. Not in this case. Lisi

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 28/02/17 02:17, Richard Owlett wrote: The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository? I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" system provided no intrinsic way to inc

Cepstral swift and Debian Stretch

2017-02-27 Thread Chuck Hallenbeck
Hi everyone, I'm attempting to install a tommercial TTS from Cepstral on my Debian Stretch system, and get the following when running swift: /usr/local/bin/swift: 12: exec: /opt/swift/bin/swift.bin: Exec format error My system dual-boots Debian Stretch and Arch Linux, and the same Cepstral exec

Re: apache2 security update

2017-02-27 Thread Dr. John A. Zoidberg MD
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Dan Ritter wrote: No, the version in wheezy is probably also affected. However, wheezy is now supported by the Long Term Support project, and you need to make changes to get those packages. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using THANK YOU! I'm trying desperately to get out

Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 27.02.2017 um 22:00 schrieb Sven Joachim: >> [38.828] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10 >> [38.829] (EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect > > And the vesa driver does not work either because it needs root rights > which the X server does no longer have. See > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-co

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Feb 2017 at 11:13:00 (+), GiaThnYgeia wrote: > testingAmd64LXDE > > I have never, not once, been able to run synaptic in any similar system > without a root or a sudo password. Not to execute a command, just to > get the gui up you need a password. Why would that be? You should be

Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-02-27 20:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> Any openbox users out there? >> >> I installed x-window-system-core and openbox but startx gives error: `unable >> to connect to X server: Connection refused'. What am I missing? You need to install the firmware-amd-

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Copied from a friend that dealt with such antiquities > On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:46:16 -0600 > Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 02/27/2017 09:44 AM, Joe wrote: >>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:53:30 -0600 >>> Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/27/2017 07:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > LibreOffice Base is

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > A little research indicates that Tcl/Tk plays well with sqlite. A > couple of years ago I started learning it for a now abandoned > project. I'll follow up on that combo. Funny

Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Any openbox users out there? > > I installed x-window-system-core and openbox but startx gives error: `unable > to connect to X server: Connection refused'. What am I missing? ...I'm attaching ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log: [38.808] X.Org X Server 1.19.1 Release

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread sunrise
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:46:16 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: >On 02/27/2017 09:44 AM, Joe wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:53:30 -0600 >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> On 02/27/2017 07:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> LibreOffice Base is, AFAIK *not* a relational database, but just >>>

Re: apache2 security update

2017-02-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:48:46PM -0500, Dr. John A. Zoidberg MD wrote: > This post concerns: > > Debian Security Advisory DSA-3796-1 (appended below) > > The package involved is apache2. > > I have two "live" internet webservers, one an uptodate jessie, the other a > long-maintained wheezy. Th

an answer plus minimal font size (was: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. > What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository? no idea. i've used about a dozen different ones over the years and even written parts of one. my guess is th

X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Any openbox users out there? I installed x-window-system-core and openbox but startx gives error: `unable to connect to X server: Connection refused'. What am I missing? Thanks for any help, Rodolfo

"apt-get changelog" usage

2017-02-27 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to use apt-get changelog correctly. According to the manpage, when it is called without any further arguments, as in apt-get changelog it should display the changelog of the installed version of , here however it apparently displays the changelog of the

systemd service environment

2017-02-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
Nicolas George [2017-02-27 19:09:15+01] wrote: > I do not know what shell systemd uses to start user programs: It doesn't use shell at all. Systemd has its own parser for units' ExecStart= lines and it's a lot more restricted than shells'. If more control is needed the usual way is to have a laun

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Yes, all of those! But I don't see how that's an answer to the OP's > legitimate question: how to keep things that belong together in one > place, instead of repeating it in every bit of config? I use always /etc/profile for non user specific or X stuff. Never had a prob

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 9 ventôse, an CCXXV, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > I moved my variable assignments to ~/.environment.sh and source that to > ~/.profile and ~/.xsession. Zsh has a ~/.zshenv that is meant exactly for that. It is sourced by all zsh instances, even those started as interpreters. It is very conv

apache2 security update

2017-02-27 Thread Dr. John A. Zoidberg MD
This post concerns: Debian Security Advisory DSA-3796-1 (appended below) The package involved is apache2. I have two "live" internet webservers, one an uptodate jessie, the other a long-maintained wheezy. The jessie machine upgraded easily to the new apache2 packages, but apt on my wheezy doe

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
That is an accessibility bug and ought to be reported as such and cargon copied to debian-accessibility. On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:17:56 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user Subject: A minimal relational database in Debian? Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Feb

Re: mdraid will no start at boot

2017-02-27 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.2 name=srv01:0 > UUID=42c30af1:e6986757:2c6bf608:34582a76 > ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=srv01:1 > UUID=05b45cf9:2bf2dae8:8b4ea488:8cb4c214 > # this line dones not start on boot > ARRAY /dev/md2 metadata=0.90 UUID=63226122:8d9b97bb:99109359:8e81e636 >

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
David Wright [2017-02-27 10:56:55-06] wrote: >> systemctl --user import-enviroment > > Is that typo actually in the file? No. I just (mis)typed those "files" here. In practice they contain quite a lot more than that. >> ~/.xsession: >> >> . ~/.profile > > My profile has side effects. Ca

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-27 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:16:27PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >> I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that >> i don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. >> >> It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. >> >> Is it ? >> >> I've

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 Feb 2017 at 15:19:27 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de [2017-02-27 09:12:28+01] wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:07:19AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > >> So I do distinguish between settings for X session and for not X > >> session - at least two places for the variables

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2017 09:44 AM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:53:30 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/27/2017 07:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: LibreOffice Base is, AFAIK *not* a relational database, but just a -possibly graphical- user interface to one. Relational databases, as I know them, ha

Re: mdraid will no start at boot

2017-02-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi basti, On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:21:51AM +0100, basti wrote: > on one of my debian machine i have a error with one md raid. > > There are > md0 => / > md1 => /backup > md2 => /samba > > md2 is not start/assemble after reboot, I had a similar issue when I did not include the driver for some

Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:53:30 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/27/2017 07:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > LibreOffice Base is, AFAIK *not* a relational database, but just > > a -possibly graphical- user interface to one. Relational databases, > > as I know them, have no "fonts", for ex

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Hans: > Hi, > I am just clickingin LXDE menu on the icon to start, then a popup menu opens > and asks for my password (the user password NOT root) and I can install just But is that user a member in the sudo group? I had to use root till I added the user to the group > Best > > Hans >> >> Wha

Firefox Developer Edition (firefox-aurora) status

2017-02-27 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hello! I'm using Firefox Developer Edition 52.0a2 I added the repo for Firefox Developer Edition (Firefox Aurora) from http://mozilla.debian.net/ but now the page says "Sorry, this version is not available." for version "aurora". Is this a temporary outage or firefox-aurora repo will be no longe

A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?]

2017-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2017 07:43 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:17:56AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. An IBM PC-XT IIRC Hm. A strange "rel

Firefox Developer Edition (firefox-aurora) status

2017-02-27 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hello! I'm using Firefox Developer Edition 52.0a2 I added the repo for Firefox Developer Edition (Firefox Aurora) from http://mozilla.debian.net/ but now the page says "Sorry, this version is not available." for version "aurora". Is this an outage or firefox-aurora repo will be no longer maintai

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:28:44PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 02/27/2017 02:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the > > Debian repository? > > Well, I've nev

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:16:27PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that i > don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. > > It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. > > Is it ? > > I've been looking at the LDAP ho

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Pontus Goffe
Den 2017-02-27 kl. 12:20, skrev Hans: If so, then why not working so in KDE? And if this is intended, then this is a bug and a security hole, which should be fixed. Hans A fresh vanilla install of testing with LXDE installs both sudo and gksu. Without configuring any, starting synaptic from

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:28:44PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > Well, I've never used DBaseII, but if you want a small relational > database, take a look at SQLite. There are bindings into most > languages and there's a command line client. The storage is simple > (from an end-user perspective)

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:17:56AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. Hm. A strange "relational" database indeed... > What is a functional equivalent in the

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread James Allsopp
+1 for Sqlite unless you need multiuser access. James On 27 February 2017 at 13:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using dBaseII > on a MS-DOS machine. > What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository? > > I looked at at LibreOffice

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/27/2017 02:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the > Debian repository? Well, I've never used DBaseII, but if you want a small relational database, take a look at S

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
to...@tuxteam.de [2017-02-27 09:12:28+01] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:07:19AM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> So I do distinguish between settings for X session and for not X >> session - at least two places for the variables. Further more there >> are global and user specific ... etc > > Yes, a

A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository? I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" system provided no intrinsic way to increase fonts to a legible size. https:

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 02:26:08PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I would like to hear some ideas on how to set various environment > variables (PATH, MANPATH, EDITOR etc.) in one place that would make them > effective everywhere. My "everywhere" means: > > - X session started through lightdm and

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:16:27PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that i > don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. > > It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. > > Is it ? For a small network where security i

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* GiaThnYgeia [2017-02-27 11:38 +]: [...] > For a while I've been trying to set the locale but everytime I install a > package it returns locale not set returning to default C > I used /etc/environment, and no change. > I suspect this may be due to some skipped step on the original > installa

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:20:50 +0100 Hans wrote: > > Check how synaptic is being started by the menu entry. Typically, > > synaptic will be started by /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec, which uses > > policykit to authorise an effective su for a normal user. The > > executable synaptic is in /usr/sbin, so w

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread GiaThnYgeia
to...@tuxteam.de: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:07:19AM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I would like to hear some ideas on how to set various environment > variables (PATH, MANPATH, EDITOR etc.) in one place that would make them > effective everywhere. My "everywhe

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Hans
> Check how synaptic is being started by the menu entry. Typically, > synaptic will be started by /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec, which uses > policykit to authorise an effective su for a normal user. The executable > synaptic is in /usr/sbin, so will probably not work from a menu. Yes, it is as you sai

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread GiaThnYgeia
testingAmd64LXDE I have never, not once, been able to run synaptic in any similar system without a root or a sudo password. Not to execute a command, just to get the gui up you need a password. I don't know whether creating a user with 100% admin privileges will still require a pass or not, I su

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Joe
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:19:47 +0100 Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > on my system /debian-amd64/testing) I can start Synaptic as a normal > user, just by using the user password. In KDE this is not possible, > there I need the root password. > > I do not have sudo in use. > > As I do not know, if th

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 27. Februar 2017, 21:00:15 CET schrieb Davor Balder: > Hi Hans, > > Question 1 which one: stable, testing or unstable? testing/amd64 > > Generally (to aid in your investigation): > I did, but found nothing unusual. If no one can confirm this, it is a problem on my system! Hans

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Hans
Hi, I am just clickingin LXDE menu on the icon to start, then a popup menu opens and asks for my password (the user password NOT root) and I can install just as I am root. Best Hans > > What, exactly, do you do to start synaptic? Click on something, or run a > command in a terminal? What promp

Re: Swift lang in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 07:33:05PM -0500, Dale Harris wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Brian Sammon > wrote: > > lack of volunteers? > > > > The google password is "ITP" (stands for Intent-to-Package): > > https://bugs.debian.org/788327 > > > > P.S. Not _this_(http://swift-lang.org/) swi

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Davor Balder
Hi Hans, Question 1 which one: stable, testing or unstable? Generally (to aid in your investigation): 1.) It may be a good idea just to recheck your sudo settings first (/etc/sudoers). (relevant uncommented setting on this system: ## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL 2.)

Re: Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:19:47AM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > on my system /debian-amd64/testing) I can start Synaptic as a normal user, > just by using the user password. In KDE this is not possible, there I need > the > root password. > > I do not have sudo in use. What, exactly, do

mdraid will no start at boot

2017-02-27 Thread basti
Hello, on one of my debian machine i have a error with one md raid. There are md0 => / md1 => /backup md2 => /samba md2 is not start/assemble after reboot, my mdadm.conf looks like ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.2 name=srv01:0 UUID=42c30af1:e6986757:2c6bf608:34582a76 ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=

Security hole in LXDE?

2017-02-27 Thread Hans
Hi folks, on my system /debian-amd64/testing) I can start Synaptic as a normal user, just by using the user password. In KDE this is not possible, there I need the root password. I do not have sudo in use. As I do not know, if this is a problem on my system (I have no second one to confirm th

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:07:19AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >>> I would like to hear some ideas on how to set various environment > >>> variables (PATH, MANPATH, EDITOR etc.) in one place that would make them > >>> effective

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I would like to hear some ideas on how to set various environment >>> variables (PATH, MANPATH, EDITOR etc.) in one place that would make them >>> effective everywhere. My "everywhere" means: >>> - X session started through lightdm and ~/.xsession script >>> - Linux conso