Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-11-29 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 30.11.2017 10:45, solitone wrote: > Hi, since a few days, hyperlink no longer works in my Thunderbird. > When I click a hyperlink in a message, Chromium (my system's default > web browser) should open and display the link. This has been working > fine for long, but now it no longer happens. > I

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-11-29 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/30/17, solitone wrote: > Hi, since a few days, hyperlink no longer works in my Thunderbird. When > I click a hyperlink in a message, Chromium (my system's default web > browser) should open and display the link. This has been working fine > for long, but now it no longer happens. > > I check

Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-11-29 Thread solitone
Hi, since a few days, hyperlink no longer works in my Thunderbird. When I click a hyperlink in a message, Chromium (my system's default web browser) should open and display the link. This has been working fine for long, but now it no longer happens. I checked everything that's pointed out in a

Re: Firefox freezing

2017-11-29 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/11/17 16:11, Noah Duffy wrote: > Not sure what you've done before, but you can try deleting your profile and > settings for Firefox. There is a hidden folder in your home directory > (.mozilla). Try deleting that. ... or just move it, so you can put it back if it didn't help, and not lose

Re: Pycollada doesn't import, even if it is installed.

2017-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Build FreeCad from source. It's easy. They provide exact instructions for building on Debian. You just copy the commands given in the instructions and run them. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Pycollada doesn't import, even if it is installed.

2017-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
So I wanted to use FreeCAD. Debian Testing has no FreeCAD package, so I downloaded the AppImage from their Git page. It starts up and runs OK, but to import Collada meshes it requires PyCollada. So Debian also doesn't have PyCollada. It has "python-collada" but this doesn't satisfy the FreeCAD re

Re: Firefox freezing

2017-11-29 Thread Noah Duffy
Not sure what you've done before, but you can try deleting your profile and settings for Firefox. There is a hidden folder in your home directory (.mozilla). Try deleting that.--NoahOn Nov 29, 2017 8:24 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:Once again I am having problems with firefox.  Every time I do a sea

Firefox freezing

2017-11-29 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Once again I am having problems with firefox.  Every time I do a search on anything the damn thing freezes and I have to shut it down by force.  If I try to restore it without getting rid of all three tabs it locks again and again and again.  I have the latest upgrade from Debian for Firefox an

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 04:29 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 03:57 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filena

Re: Firefox freezes

2017-11-29 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/29/17, bw wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >> Once again I am having problems with firefox. Every time I do a search >> on >> anything the damn thing freezes and I have to shut it down by force. If I >> try >> to restore it without getting rid of all three tabs it

Re: Screensaver/lock xfce debian

2017-11-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Nov 2017 at 13:59:34 (+0100), Basti wrote: > Hello people, > I have a problem with the screensaver/lock screen function in debian. > The problem is, when I lock the screen (hotkey or over the menu), then > the system stops every process and wifi connection (by deactivating the > wifi). Th

Firefox freezes

2017-11-29 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Once again I am having problems with firefox.  Every time I do a search on anything the damn thing freezes and I have to shut it down by force.  If I try to restore it without getting rid of all three tabs it locks again and again and again.  I have the latest upgrade from Debian for Firefox an

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:06:53 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > > > > [1] http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/grub-reinstall.htm > > Well that won't fly. Booted Debian-Live 8.8.0 amd64 Standard and > reached Step 8 in section 1.1 of [1] which called for "grub-install > --root-directory=/x $drive" but gr

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 03:57 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. ERROR

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 03:37 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:37:46 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): > >> After POST, the following appears: > >> [...] > >> PXE-E53: No boot filename received > >> PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. > >> ERROR:No boot

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 01:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): After POST, the following appears: [...] PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. It tries to PXE boot because it fin

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/29/2017 04:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:42:15PM +, Richard Zimmerman wrote: I'm pretty new to the Debian list here Welcome aboard! but over on the CentOS list I'm on, migrating from init system to systemd isn't for the faint of heart as I understand it.

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2017-11-29 13:55 (UTC-0500): > Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500): >> dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda >> Command (m for help): p >> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-29 Thread deloptes
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > however, someone upgrading > from such a long release ago is not something that will have been > thoroughly tested and it's quite possible that an old init script that > was modified (and therefore won't be replaced by package upgrades) could > come along for the ride and

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500): > dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda > Command (m for help): p > Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 11/29/2017 01:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:42:15PM +, Richard Zimmerman wrote: I'm pretty new to the Debian list here Welcome aboard! but over on the CentOS list I'm on, migrating from init system to systemd isn't for the faint of heart as I understand it.

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:19:13 + Joe wrote: Wrong button. Let's try again: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:01 -0500 > Dan Norton wrote: > > > > > After POST, the following appears: > > > > [...] > > PXE-E53: No boot filename received > > PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. > > ERROR:No boot disk has be

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-29 13:07 (UTC-0500): > After POST, the following appears: > [...] > PXE-E53: No boot filename received > PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. > ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. It tries to PXE boot because it finds no bootable storage device: there i

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:01 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On 11/16/2017 03:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Joe composed on 2017-11-16 19:27 (UTC): > > > >> I see the date of the page is 2015, > > IIRC, that 2015 update was all about updating and/or replacing > > broken links. > >> Multiple OSes w

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/16/2017 03:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Joe composed on 2017-11-16 19:27 (UTC): I see the date of the page is 2015, IIRC, that 2015 update was all about updating and/or replacing broken links. Multiple OSes will still use one overall bootloader, which may or may not redirect to other boot

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Norton
On 11/29/2017 03:59 AM, Joe wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:15:22 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of directories. Please say more about how to mou

RE: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-29 Thread Richard Zimmerman
>Backup the data to an external usb drive or the whole source drive if you >are keen on that, for example. Then do a "clean" install of a new system > on the original drive. Otherwise you might run into issues, where you >might miss out on an important package, if you snapshot upgrade one >by on

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

2017-11-29 Thread Jaime T
On 24 November 2017 at 17:33, John Cunningham wrote: > FWIW, I have buster/xfce on a laptop and have the same problem. Backlight is > fine. I thought about the external monitor trick, too, but I haven't tried > it yet. > --John Well I didn't manage to wake the screen (in the end, I just did a "sy

Screensaver/lock xfce debian

2017-11-29 Thread Basti
Hello people, I have a problem with the screensaver/lock screen function in debian. The problem is, when I lock the screen (hotkey or over the menu), then the system stops every process and wifi connection (by deactivating the wifi). This is quite annoying, because I want to lock the screen for pro

Re: Identifying needed wifi driver

2017-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/29/2017 05:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2017-11-22, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/22/2017 09:24 AM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 08:06:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: I had installed Stretch from a DVD set. It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have. I made a handw

Re: Identifying needed wifi driver

2017-11-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-11-22, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/22/2017 09:24 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 08:06:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I had installed Stretch from a DVD set. >>> It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have. >>> I made a handwritten which is not completely l

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:38:59PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: How do you set up LVM so that install does not clobber one of the siblings? During installation, for partitioning, do you pick "Manual" or "Guided -*" ? Manual. Guided -* is very likely to result in you clobbering the existing partiti

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 03:42:15PM +, Richard Zimmerman wrote: I'm pretty new to the Debian list here Welcome aboard! but over on the CentOS list I'm on, migrating from init system to systemd isn't for the faint of heart as I understand it. There's more of a culture of upgrade rather th

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:15:22 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On 11/13/2017 01:55 PM, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:01:27 -0500 > > Dan Norton wrote: > > > > > >> Although I didn't say so, each install would have its own set of > >> directories. Please say more about how to mount the other >