Re: Installing the installer

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Fung4All wrote: > > > refracta > As far as I can tell it can make any installation into an iso and the iso > can install whatever you configure the live into a partition. Sounds like a generator for Live-ISOs. One would have to try whether it can carry the Debian installer software from an i

Re: Video input vs. systemctl enable.

2017-09-19 Thread Reco
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:01:03PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > * From: Reco > * Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:16:15 +0300 > > ... load appropriate kernel modules. For USB cameras it's uvcvideo usually. > > peter@dalton:~$ lsmod | grep uvc > peter@dalton:~$ > > Indeed; not loaded as a m

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:54:19AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 19/09/17 21:53, Tibor Mate wrote: > >Hello dear support, > >i love debian but since Stretch i have this problem: using laptop there is > >a thin - mosquito-like - noise from HDD [

Re: hdparm reporting a different serial number

2017-09-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 20/09/17 14:53, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, I have a seagate backup plus 5TB. When I plug-in the hdd, I see the serial number (as printed in the back of the HDD) in dmesg. usb 2-1.1: SerialNumber: [5.244161] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [5.245790] sc

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-19 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Gary Roach writes: > Hi all, > While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get > answers faster here than any where else. This problem applies to > Debian, Ubuntu and, to some extent, Mac OS. > > I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer) trying to compile > and link a p

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-19 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 19/09/17 13:57, Gary Roach wrote: > What I need is a cross reference between Mumps, MPI, OpenMP and FETI4I > and the library names in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories. OpenMP is not a library. It is an extension of C to allow convenient parallel programming. It is enabled in GCC with “-fopenm

hdparm reporting a different serial number

2017-09-19 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I have a seagate backup plus 5TB. When I plug-in the hdd, I see the serial number (as printed in the back of the HDD) in dmesg. usb 2-1.1: SerialNumber: [5.244161] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [5.245790] scsi host6: uas [5.246015] usbcore: reg

Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-19 Thread Charles E. Blair
I am using debian version 8.9. I have received several "updates available" notices that include Berkeley database utilities that are described as "blocked". I just tried aptitude. It says that an upgrade of the package db5.1-util from version 5.1.29-5 to 5.1.29-9 is available, but that

Re: Video input vs. systemctl enable.

2017-09-19 Thread peter
* From: Reco * Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:16:15 +0300 > ... load appropriate kernel modules. For USB cameras it's uvcvideo usually. peter@dalton:~$ lsmod | grep uvc peter@dalton:~$ Indeed; not loaded as a module. With several camera related packages installed, no dependancy caught

Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:24:21PM -0500, Charles E. Blair wrote: >I have been seeing a message about Berkeley > database utility v 5.1 update being blocked. > What should I do abot this? > Quote the exact and entire error message. -dsr-

Re: I may not mount usb-stick,

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote about: dd if=/dev/null of=/file.iso > It is supposed to let "/file.iso" grow until the root filesystem is full. Duh. That was long ago. Now reading from /dev/null just gives an End-Of-File. So an empty /file.iso will emerge. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at Mostly Solved

2017-09-19 Thread Martin McCormick
Cron was working all along but I fooled myself. The true problem right now is that all the job output such as error messages or anything else that becomes either standard error or standard output is presently vaporizing somewhere rather than being mailed back to me. I also thought I remembered see

Re: I may not mount usb-stick,

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gdsi Gdsi wrote: > After `dd if=/dev/null of=/file.iso', For what purpose did you do this ? It is supposed to let "/file.iso" grow until the root filesystem is full. > Device    Start  End Sectors  Size Type > /dev/sdb1  2048  4196351 4194304    2G Linux filesystem > ... > root@

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/09/17 21:53, Tibor Mate wrote: Hello dear support, i love debian but since Stretch i have this problem: using laptop there is a thin - mosquito-like - noise from HDD which immediately stop when i mount a partition. Then the noise stop BUT after cca 2-3 minutes starts again and stop just whe

Re: Editing /etc/apt/sources.list breaks update

2017-09-19 Thread Fungi4All
> From: juha.mannine...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hello Debian people! My first post here. > > I have installed Debian 9.1.0 buster for i386 using the small netinst > image. Works well. I tested different desktops, too. Isn't Debian 9.1 Stretch? > I wanted to use the testin

Re: I may not mount usb-stick,

2017-09-19 Thread Pol Hallen
root@debian:~# mount -v  /dev/sdb /mnt sdb? try with: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ (or /dev/sdb2, etc.) Pol

Re: Installing the installer (don't read if you are eating a meal)

2017-09-19 Thread Fungi4All
> From: scdbac...@gmx.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > Fungi4All wrote: >> "refracta" [...] The most fascinating piece of software >> or should I say family of sftw. since the time of space invaders. > > Can it boot a Debian installation ISO from a disk partition and let > it beha

I may not mount usb-stick,

2017-09-19 Thread Gdsi Gdsi
Hi, I'm in deep frustration. After `dd if=/dev/null of=/file.iso', I may not mount usb-stick. for copying a data (directories) into the stick. I did `fdisk', inspect: root@debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 7.4 GiB, 7900845056 bytes, 15431338 sectors Units: sectors of

blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-19 Thread Charles E. Blair
I have been seeing a message about Berkeley database utility v 5.1 update being blocked. What should I do abot this?

Re: Installing the installer

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Fungi4All wrote: > "refracta" [...] The most fascinating piece of software > or should I say family of sftw. since the time of space invaders. Can it boot a Debian installation ISO from a disk partition and let it behave as if it had booted directly from a whole disk ? > What is also absur

Re: Video input vs. systemctl enable.

2017-09-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:09:01AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi again, > > After upgrade to stretch, "systemctl enable shorewall" > was necessary to allow shorewall to start automatically. > https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/shorewall True. > With a USB camera and a Hauppauge

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gary Roach wrote: > Elmer requires the following libraries: Mumps, MPI, OpenMP, FETI4I Mumps ? Is there a use case for swollen cheeks ? > The problem is that none if the four libraries go > under the names mentioned above. If i know the name of files which are missing, e.g. from an exam

Re: firmware-linux-nonfree needed? (was Stretch and i3-7300T)

2017-09-19 Thread deloptes
solitone wrote: > brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin is the firmware for my Broadcom BCM43602 > wireless card, contained in package firmware-brcm80211. Without it the > wifi network adapter didn't work, so I provided it during installation, > and then that package was automatically installed. I don't und

Re: The mess of package names

2017-09-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:57:54AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers > faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu and, > to some extent, Mac OS. > > I have spent the last month and a half ( or

Re: Installing the installer

2017-09-19 Thread Fungi4All
> From: scdbac...@gmx.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > Richard Owlett wrote: >> > > xorriso -osirrox on ... -extract / /media/richard/netinst1 > > i wrote: >> > (This is just one way to copy the directory tree out of the ISO into >> > a disk tree. xorriso packs them up and packs t

The mess of package names

2017-09-19 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu and, to some extent, Mac OS. I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer) trying to compile and link a program called Elmer FEM. The

Video input vs. systemctl enable.

2017-09-19 Thread peter
Hi again, After upgrade to stretch, "systemctl enable shorewall" was necessary to allow shorewall to start automatically. https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/shorewall With a USB camera and a Hauppauge frame-grabber installed, this stretch system has no /dev/video*. Is a "systemctl enable ..." requ

Re: intel-microcode (was Stretch and i3-7300T)

2017-09-19 Thread solitone
On 19/09/17 19:02, solitone wrote: what about intel-microcode that I've just installed? Can I expect some performance related benefit? I gather that microcode updates are usually issued to fix errata in the CPU's design [1], and without the intel-microcode package installed an older version o

Re: Apache2 SSI Includes not Working

2017-09-19 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Kent West wrote: > > > cat test.shtml > Why isn't this working? > > Arg! > > Result of web-browsing to test.shtml: > > Why isn't this working? >> >> Arg! >> > I had somehow gotten some hidden characters in the text. This little command revealed the issue: > py

Re: Postresql: need a way to initiate a database with a test user

2017-09-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:03:36PM +, Tom Browder wrote: I get the following error when trying to create a table with psql:   psql:  FATAL:   Peer authentication failed for user "sql92"   The spawned command 'psql -f ./t/t.sql -U sql92' exited unsuccessfully (exit code: 2) The sql file has

Re: firmware-linux-nonfree needed? (was Stretch and i3-7300T)

2017-09-19 Thread solitone
On 19/09/17 14:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:54:32AM +0200, solitone wrote: On 18/09/17 07:11, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The packages you need to install are firmware-linux* and intel-microcode. Would firmware-linux-nonfree bring any advantage as far as performance is concern

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Martin McCormick
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > Self-incriminating admission: Me, too. :) > My apologies that a reboot to test my memory and get specifics will... > create too much upheaval just this second, BUT... in the last couple > days, I saw something that I can't quite completely remember. > > Whatever I'm re

Apache2 SSI Includes not Working

2017-09-19 Thread Kent West
I've horked up my Apache installation apparently. # cat /etc/debian_version 9.1 # apachectl -V Server version: Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Server built: 2017-07-18T18:37:33 # ls mods-enabled/ access_compat.loadauthz_host.load dir.load mpm_prefork.load setenvif.load alias.conf

Re: KDE Plasma Date & Time Format

2017-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 18 September 2017 15:59:22 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: > In KDE4 I use the long date with the short day: "Mon, September 19, 2017". > Is there an easy way to do this in Plasma5? Even better would be long > date with short day and short month: "Mon, Sep 19, 2017" Is there a > config file

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > One of that feature's settings was about letting the manufacturer's > design within the hard drive itself have its own head to control > things. > [...] > Maybe "Advanced Power Management " is what I saw Firmware might well offer similar opportunities to tweak your d

Re: Installing the installer

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > xorriso -osirrox on ... -extract / /media/richard/netinst1 i wrote: > > (This is just one way to copy the directory tree out of the ISO into > > a disk tree. xorriso packs them up and packs them out.) > I assumed that using xorriso on both ends would give me a "by

Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at

2017-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Somebody is assuming that the only use for a Pi is to run a home theater and that users can't handle the terrifying task of carrying out a trivial edit of a text file. You probably just need to edit /etc/default/cron. If the Pi is not powered up all the time install anacron. -- John Hasler jhas

Re: Apache2 serves .html, but not .zip

2017-09-19 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Kent West wrote: > > not sure what I did wrong, > > So, Apache2 serves up a .txt and a .html file with no problem; it tries to > offer a text file named .zip. But it "doesn't find" an actual .zip file. > > Never mind; I'm an idiot: UFRII_10.13.01_Mac.zip is not

Apache2 serves .html, but not .zip

2017-09-19 Thread Kent West
I'm not sure if this should be an Apache-forum question, or a Debian-forum question, but since I'm running the Debian version I had a working server, but sometime this past weekend I did Debian update and/or I tweaked/deleted the wrong file - not sure what I did wrong, and have tinkered so muc

Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at

2017-09-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, at 14:35, Martin McCormick wrote: > This raspberry Pi is running jessie lite. Raspberry Pi > documentation says that cron and at jobs are disabled by > default. There is a very odd fix recommended by some > documentation in which one edits a file named > > /home/pi/.kod

Re: Stretch and i3-7300T

2017-09-19 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
On 09/18/2017 06:05 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 09/18/2017 12:50 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: >> >> >> On 09/17/2017 11:50 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >>> Can you provide any error messages? What makes you think 7gen CPU >>> doesn't work? >>> I had some troubles with kernel 4.9 too, but

Re: Installing the installer

2017-09-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/14/2017 09:51 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to "install" to an arbitrary ext2/ext4 partition in such a manner that: 1. Grub2 will recognize it as a legit OS. Why not install - without quotes - Debian to as few partitions as possible ? Because that is NOT my

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/19/17, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > (If you aren't subscribed to the debian-user list, then better do. > Normally replies are sent without Cc: to individual mail addresses.) > > Tibor Mate wrote: >> >> Disclaimer: I am just a user. Self-incriminating admission: Me, too. :) > The noise timin

Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at

2017-09-19 Thread Martin McCormick
This raspberry Pi is running jessie lite. Raspberry Pi documentation says that cron and at jobs are disabled by default. There is a very odd fix recommended by some documentation in which one edits a file named /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.raspbmc.settings/settings.xml You s

Re: o2cb/ocfs2 : cluster is offline after reboot

2017-09-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Roman Serbski wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Roman Serbski > wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> Roman Serbski wrote: >>> >>> Maybe o2cb and ocfs2 need to be ordered after network-online.target? >> >> I thought about it too, but according to /etc/init.

Re: Postresql: need a way to initiate a database with a test user

2017-09-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:03:36PM +, Tom Browder wrote: > I get the following error when trying to create a table with psql: > > psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "sql92" > The spawned command 'psql -f ./t/t.sql -U sql92' exited unsuccessfully > (exit code: 2) > > The s

Re: languages

2017-09-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 08:58:49PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 18-09-2017, at 20h 47'28", Pol Hallen wrote about "languages" > > Hello all :-) > > > > studying russian language I've some files with cyrillic file name: using > > caja (mate file manager) I see correct file name, but usi

Re: Editing /etc/apt/sources.list breaks update

2017-09-19 Thread David Margerison
On 16 September 2017 at 23:25, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 16.09.17 15:44, Juha Manninen wrote: >> BTW, the reply address of this mailing list is set wrong. In some >> other lists I can click Reply and it goes to the list. Here it would >> go to the person who sent the last message. I have to e

Re: Stretch and i3-7300T

2017-09-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:54:32AM +0200, solitone wrote: > On 18/09/17 07:11, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > The packages you need to install are firmware-linux* and intel-microcode. > > Would firmware-linux-nonfree bring any advantage as far as performance is > concerned? I don't have it installed, an

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
It is possible that Advanced Power Management feature of your hard drive is to blame. Try to disable it with "hdparm" and those noises should not happen again.     $ sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/path/to/your/hdd On 19.09.2017 14:53, Tibor Mate wrote: > Hello dear support, > > i love debian but since St

Re: BOINC Screensaver

2017-09-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/19/17, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 7-09-2017, at 10h 24'04", Mike Stroud wrote about "BOINC Screensaver" >> I've just installed the BOINC screensaver as well as the BOINC Manager >> using >> Synaptec, and I've upgraded them from the stretch-backports repo. I've >> got >> the BOINC Mana

Re: o2cb/ocfs2 : cluster is offline after reboot

2017-09-19 Thread Roman Serbski
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Roman Serbski wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Roman Serbski wrote: >> >> Maybe o2cb and ocfs2 need to be ordered after network-online.target? > > I thought about it too, but according to /etc/init.d/o2cb and > /etc/init.d/ocfs2 th

Re: Monitor won't come back from power-saving sleep

2017-09-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2017-08-17 13:14:08 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > I just installed Debian on a (legacy) Optiplex 9010 desktop, and I'm > working through some kinks. > > The most serious one, by far, is that the monitor won't wake up after it > goes goes dark to save power. I sometimes have this problem with a De

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (If you aren't subscribed to the debian-user list, then better do. Normally replies are sent without Cc: to individual mail addresses.) Tibor Mate wrote: > Hello dear support, Disclaimer: I am just a user. The noise timing which you describe and the behavior with old systems gives the susp

Re: Resetting USB devices (was Re: making me autocratically logged in?)

2017-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 19 September 2017 01:53:25 Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 17:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 18 September 2017 11:39:26 Tixy wrote: > > > On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 11:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > > My instant problem, a disappearing usb camera, coul

My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-09-19 Thread Tibor Mate
Hello dear support, i love debian but since Stretch i have this problem: using laptop there is a thin - mosquito-like - noise from HDD which immediately stop when i mount a partition. Then the noise stop BUT after cca 2-3 minutes starts again and stop just when i unmount the partition. But then ag

Re: o2cb/ocfs2 : cluster is offline after reboot

2017-09-19 Thread Roman Serbski
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Roman Serbski wrote: > >> /etc/fstab > >> ### >> /dev/drbd0 /var/www ocfs2 noauto,noatime 0 0 >> ### > >> After the reboot, no /var/www is mounted. > > Missing "_netdev"? Thank you. Tried that -- no difference.

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-19 Thread Curt
On 2017-09-19, Curt wrote: > On 2017-09-19, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> This problem might be an easier first step. > > I don't understand what that means. On second thought I think I do. -- "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." Groucho

Re: BOINC Screensaver

2017-09-19 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 7-09-2017, at 10h 24'04", Mike Stroud wrote about "BOINC Screensaver" > I've just installed the BOINC screensaver as well as the BOINC Manager using > Synaptec, and I've upgraded them from the stretch-backports repo. I've got > the BOINC Manager running SETI@home. I installed xscreensaver, and

Re: failure of cheese with a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

2017-09-19 Thread Curt
On 2017-09-19, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This problem might be an easier first step. I don't understand what that means. > lsub detects the LifeCam. > root@dalton:/home/peter# lsusb | grep Micro > Bus 001 Device 007: ID 045e:00f8 Microsoft Corp. LifeCam NX-6000 I read your lifecam is supporte