Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 05:24 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: Thanks everyone for your responses. I did not expect such quick and full response. I also really don't believe it has anything to do with partitioning (Debian deleted the partitions and created exactly corresponding partitions with guided partitioning

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-22 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 09:55:42 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:40:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > > > As I understand it: > > > > * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision > > -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new

Re: Custom Debian LiveCD?

2017-05-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 23/05/17 10:23, Anonymous wrote: I'd like to make my own custom Debian livecd for private use. However, when I search for this on the web it's either posts which talk about discontinued programs which have been abandoned and/or no longer work, or pages with step by step instructions, dozens of

Re: Apt Question

2017-05-22 Thread songbird
Michael Milliman wrote: > I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), > stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and > have it running for some time. On occasion, there is a bug in Stretch > and I revert to the stable version of the package until t

Custom Debian LiveCD?

2017-05-22 Thread Anonymous
I'd like to make my own custom Debian livecd for private use. However, when I search for this on the web it's either posts which talk about discontinued programs which have been abandoned and/or no longer work, or pages with step by step instructions, dozens of pages long, and usually followed by p

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 May 2017 15:12:39 Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot Brian, so right after I install I can change all deb lines > and replace 'testing' with 'stretch' ?? If you are installing from scratch, yes. If you are upgrading, go straight from "stable" or "jessie" to "stretch", and don't bo

Re: Is this sources.list correct?

2017-05-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 May 2017 21:11:48 Michael Milliman wrote: > On 05/22/2017 06:21 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> Original Message > >> Subject: Re: Is this sources.list correct? > >> UTC Time: May 22, 2017 6:09 AM > >> From: compro...@list.comprofix.com > >> fjfj...@protonmail.com > >> > >>

Re: Samsung ML-1915 printer

2017-05-22 Thread Fungi4All
can anyone email attachments to the list, I thought you couldn't do it. maybe use that paste.debian.org? Original Message Subject: Re: Samsung ML-1915 printer UTC Time: May 22, 2017 9:40 AM From: a...@cityscape.co.uk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat 20 May 2017 at 08:27:2

Re: Qs re: ActiveDirectory authentication & perms

2017-05-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Kent West wrote: > I'm not quite sure what questions to ask... > > I have a Debian box used by 10 or 12 people on a university campus; most > of them are using it just as file-storage via Samba from their Windows/Macs > boxes; a few are ssh'ing into it, etc, for o

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks a lot, thanks Micheal, On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 03:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/22/2017 12:28 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > thanks a lot Fungi, > > I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 > > from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installe

Apt Question

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and have it running for some time. On occasion, there is a bug in Stretch and I revert to the stable version of the package until the bug gets worked out. I also,

Re: Qs re: ActiveDirectory authentication & perms

2017-05-22 Thread deloptes
Kent West wrote: > I'm not quite sure what questions to ask... > > I have a Debian box used by 10 or 12 people on a university campus; most > of them are using it just as file-storage via Samba from their > Windows/Macs boxes; a few are ssh'ing into it, etc, for other usages; some > have web site

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/22/2017 02:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:40:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > >> As I understand it: > >> * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision >> -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. >

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/22/2017 12:28 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > thanks a lot Fungi, > I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 > from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > and then after finishing installation will change 'testing' for > 'jessie', can I do that? > than

Re: Is this sources.list correct?

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/22/2017 06:21 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: Is this sources.list correct? >> UTC Time: May 22, 2017 6:09 AM >> From: compro...@list.comprofix.com >> fjfj...@protonmail.com >> >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:45:05AM -0400, Fjfj109 wrote: >> > On

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
thanks a lot Fungi, I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/and then after finishing installation will change 'testing' for 'jessie', can I do that?thanks a lot, P.S. sorry for spamming your email Fungi On Mon,

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This IoT stuff is way too damned close to 1984, the book. > > http://anonymous-news.com/11-year-old-shocks-cybersecurity-experts-anything-wi-fi-can-weaponized/ -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.b

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > > > The only thing to fear is stability, or too much of it. I have run > stretch and sid (testing and unstable currently) and I get a sense that sid > is even lighter and more stable in hardware resources. With all the > fooling around I do I

Qs re: ActiveDirectory authentication & perms

2017-05-22 Thread Kent West
I'm not quite sure what questions to ask... I have a Debian box used by 10 or 12 people on a university campus; most of them are using it just as file-storage via Samba from their Windows/Macs boxes; a few are ssh'ing into it, etc, for other usages; some have web sites on it. For years their acco

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 May 2017 08:28:54 Dan Purgert wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, May 20, 2017 09:38:21 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > >> You'll note no mention of wifi here as its turned off unless I have > >> children visiting with their smart phones. wifi is slower, and > >> subject to

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Fungi4All
Original Message Subject: Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome. UTC Time: May 22, 2017 1:54 PM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. I will follow your advice, and for the first time ever, use Debian Testing. I guess w

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 09:12:39 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot Brian, so right after I install I can change all deb lines > and replace 'testing' with 'stretch' ?? Correct. You will get any updates to testing for a short while. Then it becomes stable (but still stretch). After that yo

Re: Report bug.

2017-05-22 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 22-05-17, G wrote: > well my touchpad works when i start my laptop. Sometimes after a while > it stop working. Touchpad works again after i reboot my laptop. I dont > see how that is a hardware problem. > I got more than two packages that match with the installed > xserver-xorg-input-libinput -

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks a lot Brian, so right after I install I can change all deb lines and replace 'testing' with 'stretch' ?? On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 09:05 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 22 May 2017 at 08:54:59 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. > > I will follow your advice, and f

where to report a bug for touchpad issues (was Re: Report bug.)

2017-05-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 05:09:40PM +0300, G wrote: > well my touchpad works when i start my laptop. Sometimes after a while > it stop working. Touchpad works again after i reboot my laptop. I dont > see how that is a hardware problem. > I got more than two packages that match with the installed > x

Re: Report bug.

2017-05-22 Thread G
well my touchpad works when i start my laptop. Sometimes after a while it stop working. Touchpad works again after i reboot my laptop. I dont see how that is a hardware problem. I got more than two packages that match with the installed xserver-xorg-input-libinput - X.Org X server -- libinput input

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 08:54:59 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. > I will follow your advice, and for the first time ever, use Debian > Testing. I guess when Stretch is released I will be able to install > that, correct? So I will be able to go back to using a stable r

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. I will follow your advice, and for the first time ever, use Debian Testing. I guess when Stretch is released I will be able to install that, correct? So I will be able to go back to using a stable release right? I'm really afraid of testing, the whole reason I like D

Re: Report bug.

2017-05-22 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 22-05-17, G wrote: > Hello. > After a while touchpad stop working. Im trying to report that bug but i > dont know which package to report. > Thanks > 1. For start, are you sure that it is system fault, not hardware fault? If you have another system installed in dual boot, or live dvd/cd/usb,

Report bug.

2017-05-22 Thread G
Hello. After a while touchpad stop working. Im trying to report that bug but i dont know which package to report. Thanks

Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

2017-05-22 Thread Larry Dighera
On Sun, 21 May 2017 09:35:55 -0500, you wrote: >> Check with blkid that sda5 has this UUID. > >Gparted reports that UUID for /dev/sda5 'lsblk --fs' provides a human-friendly "graphical" tree view that includes UUID and LABEL of each partition on each disk.

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-22 Thread Dan Purgert
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, May 20, 2017 09:38:21 AM Gene Heskett wrote: >> You'll note no mention of wifi here as its turned off unless I have >> children visiting with their smart phones. wifi is slower, and subject >> to being used by the neighbors as I found my net usage after the

Re: Is this sources.list correct?

2017-05-22 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 22-05-17, Fungi4All wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: Is this sources.list correct? > UTC Time: May 22, 2017 6:09 AM > From: compro...@list.comprofix.com > fjfj...@protonmail.com > > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:45:05AM -0400, Fjfj109 wrote: > > On Stretch, upgraded from

Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 05:31:26 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/21/2017 09:31 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > >> > >As for number 1 can't say much about it, I do not get it either. But 2 > >happens because you've used apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get > >dist-upgrade. Packages that will uninstall so

Re: Is this sources.list correct?

2017-05-22 Thread Fungi4All
Original Message Subject: Re: Is this sources.list correct? UTC Time: May 22, 2017 6:09 AM From: compro...@list.comprofix.com fjfj...@protonmail.com On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:45:05AM -0400, Fjfj109 wrote: > On Stretch, upgraded from Jessie. https://paste.debian.net/933553/ When

Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

2017-05-22 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 22-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/21/2017 09:31 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > On 21-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > My questions: > > > > > > 1. In the first run, I don't understand: > > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ... > > > update-initr

Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

2017-05-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/21/2017 09:31 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: On 21-05-17, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] My questions: 1. In the first run, I don't understand: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-686-pae I: The initramfs will att

Re: Error on install: Repository "couldn't be accessed"

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 13:46:36 +1000, Matthew McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 01:11:43AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > I think it should be changed when Stretch becomes stable? Just a thought. > > > > It could be done now. Hint, hint. :) > > > > -- > > Brian. > > > > Well I made my firs

Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 11:12:02 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 21-05-17, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 21 May 2017 at 22:18:11 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > > > Sorry, but you are doing it wrong way. Grub 2 should not be customized > > > by editing /boot/grub/grub.cfg , but by editing /etc/default/gru

Re: Samsung ML-1915 printer

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 May 2017 at 08:27:25 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > Any serious problem with this command would mean there had been an utter > > and complete breakdown in the CUPS printing system. Nobody would have > > a hope of printing. > > > > Now do 'lpinfo -v' with the printer

Re: Questions after doing update and upgrade on Stretch

2017-05-22 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 21-05-17, Brian wrote: > On Sun 21 May 2017 at 22:18:11 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > On 21-05-17, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 21 May 2017 at 16:31:55 (+0200), Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > > > > > > > As for number 1 can't say much about it, I do not get it either. But 2 > > > > happens bec

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-22 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:40:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] > As I understand it: > > * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision > -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. > icedove 1:45.