Re: drive names and UUIDs, was Re: Intresting dd fsck grub uuid fstab action

2017-06-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 12:24:28 (-0400), Fungi4All wrote: > Why don't just skip all this that we are in perfect agreement with and go to > the juicy part. > After all uuids are unique and fstab are all correct, updating-grub would mix > match uuids in writing > its grub.cfg > Two uuids on the sam

Re: HP CP1215 - CUPS not printing from Stretch to Jessie server.

2017-06-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/06/17 04:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I have an HP Color Laserjet CP1215 printer attached to a Jessie server via USB. I'm trying to print to it from Stretch workstation. This has been failing for a long time now. It's not a new problem. I've tried removing the printer and re-finding it many ti

How to delay resume after suspend to get disks ready, using kernel command line switch?

2017-06-02 Thread Ram Ramesh
Problem: I am having a problem with ubuntu 14.04 resume from suspend. I suspect a race condition in boot process. I have a mpt2sas (LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00)) host adapter to which several of my disks are attached. On occasions, there is a delay before these devices become available.

HP CP1215 - CUPS not printing from Stretch to Jessie server.

2017-06-02 Thread Gary Dale
I have an HP Color Laserjet CP1215 printer attached to a Jessie server via USB. I'm trying to print to it from Stretch workstation. This has been failing for a long time now. It's not a new problem. I've tried removing the printer and re-finding it many times without success. I'm using the HP

Re: Issue with notebook (maybe the battery?)

2017-06-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 27 May 2017 at 21:55:06 (-0300), Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, David. > > On 24/05/17 22:23, David Wright wrote: > > >> When you talk about "the numbers", do you mean to see by the console the > >> values that are obtained for both batteries (voltage, for example) to > >> make a comparison?

Re: Discovering alternative commands

2017-06-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 17:46:31 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:23:58AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 01 Jun 2017 at 09:20:08 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 06/01/2017 08:14 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > >Ha

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 June 2017 10:11:40 Michael Milliman wrote: > On 06/02/2017 08:52 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > > A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user > > for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings > > blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a tr

Re: Proper sources list from Jessie > Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Fungi4All
Sorry for the top-post but I think it is appropriate all good advice below but returning on the initial question without advice, sid/unstable does not have a security.debian.repository so just the two deb.debian are enough. For someone with an urge to try the latest and finest you can go to sid n

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 08:52 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user > for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings > blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a trick. I really enjoy troubleshooting problems, and am not afraid

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 08:54 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 08:40:38AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: >> Thank you Siard and Greg. This does clear up this part of the process. >> Currently, I have my sources.list pointed at Stretch, recently modified >> from pointing to Testing in ant

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 08:40:38AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > Thank you Siard and Greg. This does clear up this part of the process. > Currently, I have my sources.list pointed at Stretch, recently modified > from pointing to Testing in anticipation of potential issues. I think > I'll go ah

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Fungi4All
A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a trick. Let's say once a day, at the time you turn on your pc, you usually do updates and upgrades. What if you rev

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 07:03 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: >> Michael Milliman: >>> As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. >>> At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this >>> correct? >> >> No, that

Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 04:03 AM, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:34:20 -0500 > Michael Milliman wrote: > >> Have you tried the package firmware-realtek?? I'm not absolutely >> positive that the drivers available in this package will work with your >> specific 8812/8821 chipset (th

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: > Michael Milliman: > > As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. > > At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this > > correct? > > No, that is not correct. :-) Testing will be unaffected. >

Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

2017-06-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:53:08PM +, Wei-Shun Lo wrote: > Yes, that is possible, however this card is supplied as a nano USB card > that enable old computers that had no wifi card, so I would like to make a > suggestion to include this card's firmware to Debian live's image. Oh, you want it i

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Siard
Michael Milliman: > As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. > At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this > correct? No, that is not correct. :-) Testing will be unaffected. Depending on how you configure /etc/apt/sources.list, you can either

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-06-02 Thread Dan Purgert
Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:39:07AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Curt wrote: >> > On 2017-05-26, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >>> >> >> It seems like you read my original problem as slowness accessing the >> >> internet. That isn't the problem, I'm concerned about intra-LAN spee

Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:34:20 -0500 Michael Milliman wrote: > Have you tried the package firmware-realtek?? I'm not absolutely > positive that the drivers available in this package will work with your > specific 8812/8821 chipset (there are more than one), but it does have > drivers for some