Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-25 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Eike. On 25/03/17 20:13, Eike Lantzsch wrote: Last night, when I was going to close my notebook (with Jessie), I unplugged the charger cable waiting for the notebook to automatically go to sleep mode and surprisingly it turned off. It was a bit late so I left the issue to

Re: Need USB Wireless Adaptor for Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1?

2017-03-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Doug wrote: ... > Perhaps you can find an interface card that will > physically interface ... > While I was trying to get the Inspiron wireless to work, I bought a little > USB gadget that was > very small, and while it did work, it had almost no range. The interna

Re: Package name HELP!

2017-03-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:54 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Ayoub Hamdaoui wrote: >> Hi, I am using Debian 9 (Testing) with KDE >> when I press hotkeys for disabling touchpad (FN + F1) the touchpad got >> disabled but when I press the combination again it sends

Re: Package name HELP!

2017-03-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Ayoub Hamdaoui wrote: > Hi, I am using Debian 9 (Testing) with KDE > when I press hotkeys for disabling touchpad (FN + F1) the touchpad got > disabled but when I press the combination again it sends disable command > again! it doesn't toggle thee state, it disable

Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling?

2017-03-25 Thread Jason
Okay, if no one knows how to make zenity --text-info auto-scroll, what other suggestions would you have for displaying output of a shell script that is able to show the output of the current operation but with the option to scroll up to see previous lines? As an example of what I have in mind, I

Re: An INCOMPLETE solution - was [Re: Where is data stored when Synaptic scans DVDs?]

2017-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 10:50:50 (+), Curt wrote: > Actually, srcpkgcache.bin includes the information contained in the files > in /var/lib/apt/lists; that is, all the info you obtain from the internet > via your deb and deb-src lines -- this information changes only on > apt-get update. > > pkg

Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-25 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, 25 March 2017 19:29:59 -03 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Joe. > > On 25/03/17 18:29, Joe wrote: > >> Hi all! > >> > >> Last night, when I was going to close my notebook (with Jessie), I > >> unplugged the charger cable waiting for the notebook to automatically > >> go to sleep mode and

Re: Samba domain provisioning tools issues provisioning error on clean Jessie install

2017-03-25 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
The observation: It does seem like maybe that file shouldn't exist at the beginning if it's causing that kind of thing where the immediate, successful fix is to delete it. Like I said, though.. that's an "uneducated" observation. Perhaps there's a necessary evil of it pre-existing. Perhaps mayb

Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-25 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Joe. On 25/03/17 18:29, Joe wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> Last night, when I was going to close my notebook (with Jessie), I >> unplugged the charger cable waiting for the notebook to automatically >> go to sleep mode and surprisingly it turned off. It was a bit late so >> I left the issue to check

Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls"

2017-03-25 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:02 AM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:44:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I'm ftp'ing to a Dell/Quest K1000 System Management appliance, from a > > Debian 9.0 box, and when I execute the command "ls" or "del" or do

Re: SSH Access Issue

2017-03-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 06:56:03PM +, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: [...] > Nevermind. I changed the forward to another box and can't get to it either > so it has to be something in the firewall capturing the connection despite > it showing a clean

Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-25 Thread Joe
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:42:11 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > Last night, when I was going to close my notebook (with Jessie), I > unplugged the charger cable waiting for the notebook to automatically > go to sleep mode and surprisingly it turned off. It was a bit late so > I left the i

Re: Samba domain provisioning tools issues provisioning error on clean Jessie install

2017-03-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/25/17, Joshua Schaeffer wrote: > Ahoy all, I'm experiencing an issue when installing Samba on a fresh Debian > Jessie install and looking to see if others have encountered this issue, if > there is an obvious fix/dependency I'm missing, or if a bug should be > reported. > > *Problem descripti

UID mismatch across systems

2017-03-25 Thread Boylan, Ross
I have a bunch of systems with varying users and groups and varying assignments of UIDs and GIDs to named users and groups. I would like to get them on a common basis, and understand that using LDAP is one way to achieve this. For simplicity I'm just going to talk about users; groups have the s

Re: An INCOMPLETE solution - was [Re: Where is data stored when Synaptic scans DVDs?]

2017-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 12:59:50 (+), Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Mar 2017 at 16:31:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 23 Mar 2017 at 11:29:38 (+), Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 23 Mar 2017 at 10:12:57 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:08:28PM -0500, Richa

Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-25 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, David. On 25/03/17 16:34, David Wright wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> Last night, when I was going to close my notebook (with Jessie), I >> unplugged the charger cable waiting for the notebook to automatically go >> to sleep mode and surprisingly it turned off. It was a bit late so I >> left the iss

Re: Need USB Wireless Adaptor for Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1?

2017-03-25 Thread Doug
On 03/25/2017 07:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 04:15 deloptes wrote: Tom Browder wrote: Dell 1800 What is this Dell 1800 - what is the wireless card model and driver? In the subject you ay Dell Inspiron 11, which has DW1707. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Dell_Wireless_1707_(

Samba domain provisioning tools issues provisioning error on clean Jessie install

2017-03-25 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
Ahoy all, I'm experiencing an issue when installing Samba on a fresh Debian Jessie install and looking to see if others have encountered this issue, if there is an obvious fix/dependency I'm missing, or if a bug should be reported. *Problem description* After a clean install of Debian Jessie an

Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 13:42:11 (-0300), Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > Last night, when I was going to close my notebook (with Jessie), I > unplugged the charger cable waiting for the notebook to automatically go > to sleep mode and surprisingly it turned off. It was a bit late so I > left th

Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
songbird: > Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: >> >> One more O.T. observation: Debian let me do a truly dumb thing, but I >> wouldn't have it any other way. > > who here hasn't done an erroneous rm or some > other fumble fingered thing? > > a few weeks ago i was working on tagging some > pictures and

Re: SSH Access Issue

2017-03-25 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:49 PM Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:08 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2017 25 Mar 12:36 -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > > > One obvious aspect is firewalling. Rest assured I have opened TCP 22 and > > ofrwarded to the correct host(the debi

Re: SSH Access Issue

2017-03-25 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:08 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2017 25 Mar 12:36 -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > > > One obvious aspect is firewalling. Rest assured I have opened TCP 22 and > > ofrwarded to the correct host(the debian box). I can access all the other > > forwarded services I've

Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-25 Thread songbird
Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: >Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Chuck Hallenbeck: >> > >> > # apt-get remove upgrade-system apt >> >> Nice one! This brightens my day a little as it reminds me how I found >> out the relationship betweent the commands available on MSDOS 5.0 and >> the contents of the C:\DOS dire

Re: SSH Access Issue

2017-03-25 Thread David Christensen
On 03/25/2017 10:35 AM, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: I've recently installed a new server for a client, using Deb 8.5 net install. 2017-03-25 11:05:42 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version 8.7 Your Debian is stale. Please 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade'. Linux localhost(masked f

Re: SSH Access Issue

2017-03-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 25 Mar 12:36 -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > One obvious aspect is firewalling. Rest assured I have opened TCP 22 and > ofrwarded to the correct host(the debian box). I can access all the other > forwarded services I've configured without issues but not SSH on the Deb > box. I can se

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 March 2017 11:43:51 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:49:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > I'd assume that if I suffered a disk failure, replaced the disk, > > > re-installed Jessie and tried to use Amanda

SSH Access Issue

2017-03-25 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
Hi All, Long time linux/debian/ssh user here. I've never seen this particular problem I'm experiencing which has left me scratching my head for answers. At this point I'm still trying to eliminate sources so please bare with me... I've recently installed a new server for a client, using Deb 8.5 n

Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-03-25 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! Last night, when I was going to close my notebook (with Jessie), I unplugged the charger cable waiting for the notebook to automatically go to sleep mode and surprisingly it turned off. It was a bit late so I left the issue to check it out today. I re-plugged the charger cable and KDE dis

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 01:39:12PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I'm going to suggest that amanda is not the best solution for > you in this situation. I was actually starting to think the same thing myself as I was writing my original mail last night, but I do intend to expand my setup to include

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:49:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > I'd assume that if I suffered a disk failure, replaced the disk, > > re-installed Jessie and tried to use Amanda to restore my backups of > > my stuff, I'd be hosed right now

Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

2017-03-25 Thread Teemu Likonen
Rodolfo Medina [2017-03-07 15:41:54Z] wrote: > Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be > configured. But it does not print, and, when I get into `jobs', I see > they are stopped with "Filter failed" claim. What can I do? Please > help. Thanks. I had a "filter failed" problem

Re: An INCOMPLETE solution - was [Re: Where is data stored when Synaptic scans DVDs?]

2017-03-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Mar 2017 at 16:31:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 23 Mar 2017 at 11:29:38 (+), Brian wrote: > > On Thu 23 Mar 2017 at 10:12:57 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:08:28PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >On 03/17/2017 08:47 AM, Richard Owlett wr

Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

2017-03-25 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Mar 2017 at 18:29:01 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > Post the output of 'ls -l /usr/lib/cups/filter'. > > Here it is: > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/filter > total 1332 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43168 Jan 19 13:44 bannertopdf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1907 Jan 19 13:44

Re: Where is data stored when Synaptic scans DVDs?

2017-03-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 21 March 2017 12:11:00 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:27:47AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Brian, I squirmed. "Data is" ... I can just about handle. I CANNOT > > (yes, I can shout too!) handle "agenda is". Agenda are always more > > than one thing. > > That is n

Re: Need USB Wireless Adaptor for Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1?

2017-03-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 04:15 deloptes wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: > > Dell 1800 > What is this Dell 1800 - what is the wireless card model and driver? > In the subject you ay Dell Inspiron 11, which has DW1707. > https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Dell_Wireless_1707_(DW1707) The Dell Wireless 1800 is wha

Re: Need USB Wireless Adaptor for Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1?

2017-03-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 17:11 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > On 25/03/17 01:40, Tom Browder wrote: > > 1. What specific model of USB wireless ethernet adaptor does anyone > > recommend that has worked for them out of the box? > > TP-Link TL-WN722N: > http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-

Re: repairing damage to package manager

2017-03-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 24 March 2017 19:57:56 Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > One more O.T. observation: Debian let me do a truly dumb thing, but I > wouldn't have it any other way. :-))) +1 Lisi

Re: An INCOMPLETE solution - was [Re: Where is data stored when Synaptic scans DVDs?]

2017-03-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-03-24, David Wright wrote: > > Good point. I noticed that the two .bin files in /var/cache/apt/ that > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00722.html > mentioned, come and go with apt-get update and clean respectively. > I had overlooked how ephemeral they are. They're built fr

Re: Thin Client

2017-03-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 05:08:34 +, David wrote: > On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 19:48 +, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 24 Mar 2017 at 19:20:54 +, David wrote: > > > > > Dear Group, > > > > > > Has anybody put Debian onto a thin client? > > > > > > If so what version? > > > > > > I'm going to try

Re: Need USB Wireless Adaptor for Dell Inspiron 11 2-in-1?

2017-03-25 Thread deloptes
Tom Browder wrote: > Dell 1800 What is this Dell 1800 - what is the wireless card model and driver? In the subject you ay Dell Inspiron 11, which has DW1707. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Dell_Wireless_1707_(DW1707) I've been using Dell Latitude in the past 12y and never had a problem with wireless.

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 24 March 2017 18:25:30 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:18:31 + > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 24 March 2017 12:06:58 Joe wrote: > > > I've mentioned recently that I once did a non-expert netinstall, in > > > the days when I used static addresses and no DHCP, and was miffed >

Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls"

2017-03-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:44:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm ftp'ing to a Dell/Quest K1000 System Management appliance, from a > Debian 9.0 box, and when I execute the command "ls" or "del" or do a > tab-completion, the commands act on the local di