Re: cannot install libsnmp-dev in stretch, wondering about reasonable next steps

2017-10-12 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:19:49PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: >> Awesome, thanks Roberto. >> > Please don't top post. It is considered impolite here and on many other > mailing lists. > >> The output of apt-cache policy libsnmp-dev systemd

Re: reconstitute /boot on stretch

2017-10-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Harry, On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:06:40PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I managed to delete /boot and all contents, on a `stretch' system. > > Of course it will not boot now. So maybe work from a live cd or > install media... Did you reboot? If not then you should be able to fix this relative

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-12 Thread deloptes
Bill Brelsford wrote: > Lilo has always met my needs well, so, although I've considered > grub, I've never felt the need to switch.  But it was one of the > next steps I was considering in this case -- especially if the > problem turned out to be lilo. if there was no need grub would not exist -

Re: cannot install libsnmp-dev in stretch, wondering about reasonable next steps

2017-10-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:19:49PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Awesome, thanks Roberto. > Please don't top post. It is considered impolite here and on many other mailing lists. > The output of apt-cache policy libsnmp-dev systemd is: > > libsnmp-dev: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 5.7.3+dfsg

Re: cannot install libsnmp-dev in stretch, wondering about reasonable next steps

2017-10-12 Thread Dan Hitt
Awesome, thanks Roberto. The output of apt-cache policy libsnmp-dev systemd is: libsnmp-dev: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7 Version table: 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7 500 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-12 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Fri Oct 13 2017 at 01:20 AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Bill Brelsford wrote: > > > This doesn't explain why I got the EBDA message in the first place, > > but all is working now.. > > once again the question: why not use grub? Lilo has always met my needs well, so, although I've considered grub

Re: cannot install libsnmp-dev in stretch, wondering about reasonable next steps

2017-10-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 08:15:21PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm trying to install libsnmp-dev in stretch (debian 9) using the command >sudo apt-get install libsnmp-dev > > This results in an error: > -- > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an

cannot install libsnmp-dev in stretch, wondering about reasonable next steps

2017-10-12 Thread Dan Hitt
I'm trying to install libsnmp-dev in stretch (debian 9) using the command sudo apt-get install libsnmp-dev This results in an error: -- Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that

Re: x : keyboard not working

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 21:16:36 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:02:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:22:41PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > > [X keyboard not working] > > > > This depends on a couple of things. E.g. is your X using X

reconstitute /boot on stretch

2017-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I managed to delete /boot and all contents, on a `stretch' system. Of course it will not boot now. So maybe work from a live cd or install media... How can I go about reconstituting the /boot directory and contents that match my install? Not sure how to create the initrd, Sysmap, grub directory

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 12:37:12 (-0500), David Wright wrote: > […] The unification resides in the dongle, not the PC, > so as I said it doesn't matter where you do it. The above implies that you can unify a device with two dongles, and I haven't tested that. Experimenting with my wife's kbd/ mouse

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 18:08:06 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:17:39AM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > >On 13/10/17 09:43, David Wright wrote: > >>On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 16:22:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 October 2017 19:37:02 Matthew Moore wrote: > On 2017-10-12 11:44:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, > > the the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? > > > >I took that to mean that it could work for b

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Matthew Moore
On 2017-10-12 11:44:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, the the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? I took that to mean that it could work for both their (logitech's) keyboards or mice, possibly at the same time so t

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 October 2017 16:48:11 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 13/10/17 09:22, Gene Heskett wrote: > > There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root of a disk > > that would force an e2fsck on the next reboot, do you recall it? > > "touch /forcefsck" no longer works. systemd uses

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-12 Thread Emanuel Berg
Brian wrote: > In line with bw's suggestion you can now > provide some hard information to base > theories and solutions on. > > We surmise your computer is connected to > a router by an ethernet cable. Boot the > installer in expert mode and go through the > first two screens. Say "no" to providi

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 October 2017 16:43:41 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 16:22:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root of a disk > > that would force an e2fsck on the next reboot, do you recall it? > > That's out of date. Nowadays you a

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:17:39AM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 13/10/17 09:43, David Wright wrote: On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 16:22:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root of a disk that would force an e2fsck on the next reboot, do you recall

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/10/17 09:43, David Wright wrote: On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 16:22:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root of a disk that would force an e2fsck on the next reboot, do you recall it? That's out of date. Nowadays you add the word forcefsck to th

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/10/17 09:22, Gene Heskett wrote: There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root of a disk that would force an e2fsck on the next reboot, do you recall it? "touch /forcefsck" no longer works. systemd uses the "fsck.mode=force" kernel command line parameter. Kind regards, --

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 16:22:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root of a disk that > would force an e2fsck on the next reboot, do you recall it? That's out of date. Nowadays you add the word forcefsck to the linux line in grub.cfg by pressing

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 October 2017 13:37:12 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 12:43:26 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 12 October 2017 11:50:30 David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > What does the

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-12 Thread deloptes
Bill Brelsford wrote: > This doesn't explain why I got the EBDA message in the first place, > but all is working now.. once again the question: why not use grub?

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-12 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Mon Oct 09 2017 at 12:50 AM +0200, Bill Brelsford wrote: > After the stretch 9.2 kernel upgrade to 4.9.0-4, lilo gives, at > boot, "EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" > and freezes. Problem solved. This is a dual-boot system, with the Win 10 bootloader passing control

Re: Debian 9.2 amd64 Xfce lock screen -> 100 %CPU by lightdm-gt+

2017-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 10/12/17 01:00, Curt wrote: On 2017-10-12, David Christensen wrote: Checking the bugs for 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' -- nope: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=lightdm-gtk-greeter Not debian, but, yep ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 12:43:26 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2017 11:50:30 David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not > > > all, the

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 October 2017 12:17:45 Jape Person wrote: > On 10/12/2017 11:50 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings all; > >> > >> What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not > >> all, the the rx buttons for wire

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 October 2017 11:50:30 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not > > all, the the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? > > > > I took

Re: Debian 9.2 amd64 Xfce lock screen -> 100 %CPU by lightdm-gt+

2017-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 10/12/17 03:56, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:13:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:  PID USER  PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9957 lightdm   20   0  587348  51196  25444 R  88.2  2.5   2:41.03 lightdm-gtk-gre ... According to StackOverfl

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Jape Person
On 10/12/2017 11:50 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, the >> the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? >> >> I took that to mean that i

Re: Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, the > the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? > > I took that to mean that it could work for both their (logitech's) > keyboa

Logitech "unifying" receiver buttons aren't?

2017-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, the the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? I took that to mean that it could work for both their (logitech's) keyboards or mice, possibly at the same time so that it might be usable for bot

Re: Blank screen bug

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Oct 2017 at 21:45:29 (+0200), Tim wrote: > I experience this bug in jessie as well. However, that bug got fixed in > stretch. The bug I'm now facing is random (short) periods of a > black/blank screen. Just as anxiousmac nicely summarized said before: […] > I will try this, although I'

Opera/Firefox speed, was Re: flash in stretch again

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
TL;DR perhaps try http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 13:00:35 (-0300), Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > I really recommend that you switch up to Opera and forget about > Chromium and Firefox for a number of reasons. It uses much less > resources, native AdBlock, embedded free

RE: AIDE defaults in debian stretch

2017-10-12 Thread john
Thanks. I will work on the config more. -Original Message- From: Dejan Jocic [mailto:jode...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: AIDE defaults in debian stretch On 10-10-17, j...@bluemarble.net wrote: > The Debian configurati

Re: Debian 9.2 amd64 Xfce lock screen -> 100 %CPU by lightdm-gt+

2017-10-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:13:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 10/11/17 21:43, davidson wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, David Christensen wrote: [cut] If I lock the screen and SSH in from another machine, 'top' says: ...  PID USER  PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM TIME+ C

Re: Debian 9.2 amd64 Xfce lock screen -> 100 %CPU by lightdm-gt+

2017-10-12 Thread Curt
On 2017-10-12, David Christensen wrote: > > Checking the bugs for 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' -- nope: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=lightdm-gtk-greeter > Not debian, but, yep ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1635125 https://bugs.launch