Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

On 18-01-08 02:35:02, arne wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:32:25 -0500 SDA wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:25:50AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Samuel wrote: > > could you add a support for wiko > > I have a wiko lenny 4 plus > > Sure! Probably a small job.

Re: Kernel problem?

Thanks to everyone who provided help with this failure of the 4.9.0-5-686-pae kernel. I have tried both "nopti" and "pti=off" kernel parameters to see if it is the fix for "Meltdown" which is causing the problem, but neither parameter changes anything. Since the system doesn't even get to the kern

Re: Weired package policy

Hans writes: > I searched the manuals for this point, but this was nowhere mentioned. Of > course, you may say, that this is self-evident, but people might want to have > the repo small and may think, "hey, if I get testing, then all packages of > stable will be available as well." As I under

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 18:15:06 (+), Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 07:46:30 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I know this is not directly on point to the OP's question as subsequently > > But it does treat conversion of files to PDFs, so you are not way off > base. Look at the var

Re: Kernel problem?

On 07/01/2018 21:27, Marc Auslander wrote: The new kernel implements the "fix" for meltdown. You could try booting with the fix turned off - I believe the kernel parameter is pti=off Rob Hurle writes: Hi All, I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-ge

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:32:25 -0500 SDA wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:25:50AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Samuel wrote: > > > could you add a support for wiko > > > I have a wiko lenny 4 plus > > > > Sure! Probably a small job. I'll submit a patch

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

Show who you're quoting with an attribution line, please!

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:25:50AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Samuel wrote: > > could you add a support for wiko > > I have a wiko lenny 4 plus > > Sure! Probably a small job. I'll submit a patch tomorrow to port > debian to android. > Well, Debian does call

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 11:31:58PM +, Yao Wei wrote: > It is caused by a missing dependency libelf-dev. > It is already reported against linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64: > https://bugs.debian.org/886474 > > I have the same symptom of broadcom-sta-dkms > Interesting. I noticed the libelf dependen

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

Hello Dan — thanks kindly, I had indeed not noticed…. I guess I’ll have a chance to test if the libelf-dev issue is really the fix when the patches do roll out. In that vein, I would like to note that https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754

Re: Weired package policy

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 04:37:49PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2018, 16:26:55 CET schrieb Floris: > Hi Floris and all, > > maybe my question was not clearly expressed, due to my English. It was not > aimed to that special package. I would like to know, why packages completely > di

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

Thanks, Yao — in messing around with this, I did end up finding a thread that suggested installing libelf-dev — I did so, but I guess the order in which I did it make me recompile my dkms modules manually. Thanks for the note! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Jan 7, 2018, at 18:31, Yao

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

On 01/07/2018 07:47 PM, Boyan Penkov wrote: > and a backport (4.14.0-bpo2) -- in light of meltdown -- To avoid a false sense of security: according to [1], [2], [3], the current stretch-bpo kernel (linux-image-4.14.0-0.bpo.2-$arch) does *NOT* yet include any mitigations against meltdown. Daniel

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

It is caused by a missing dependency libelf-dev. It is already reported against linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64: https://bugs.debian.org/886474 I have the same symptom of broadcom-sta-dkms On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 at 02:47 Boyan Penkov wrote: > Hello, > > After the latest update to 4.9.0-5, and a backpo

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

On Saturday, January 6, 2018 8:36:38 PM -03 Harry Putnam wrote: > Having a problem getting the vbox guest additions on a `testing' > install to allow for larger monitor resolution. > > When I attempt to install the additions the ouput says it cannot find > the headers for the running kernel. > >

Black screen on boot after upgrade to 4.9.0-4 & 4.9.0-5 kernels

Hello, I have been using the 4.9.0-3 kernel just fine on my Asus UX306U laptop, but when I attempt to boot with 4.9.0-34 or 4.9.0-35, they both boot to a black screen. Here's a sample of the errors in the kernel log files. Appreciate any help! And let me know if further information is useful. J

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

On 08/01/18 02:28, Carl Fink wrote: On 01/06/2018 03:06 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: What kernel version? Do the entries disappear on reboot? This morning I had time to reboot, and I can now confirm that rebooting cleared the dead entries. It sure looks like the already-reported bug. Thanks fo

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

"x9p" writes: > On Sat, January 6, 2018 11:36 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > ... >> (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) > ... > > the line above can explain a lot. Looked at that for some length before posting... it didn't explain dodo to me... didn't understand what I

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 21:41:16 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/7/2018 9:01 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jas

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 1/7/2018 9:01 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to print file

Re: root privilege

On 1/7/2018 9:14 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 08:16:58AM -0700, Gary Sylvester wrote: How do I get root privilege in Debian 9? Thank you, Gary This is a debian-user question. By default, if you step through the installer and _don't_ give a root password, then sudo is s

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sunday, January 07, 2018 01:15:06 PM Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 07:46:30 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > clarified, but I would point out that a variety of programs like txt2pdf > > exist (and work)--I assume, but don't know that they are available in > > the various Debian distr

Re: root privilege

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 08:16:58AM -0700, Gary Sylvester wrote: > How do I get root privilege in Debian 9? > > Thank you, > Gary This is a debian-user question. By default, if you step through the installer and _don't_ give a root password, then sudo is set up such that the first created user is

Re: Problem formatting a column to justify (i.e. line wrap)

On 01/07/2018 12:48 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 11:34:43 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: I'm new to gnumeric and have not used any spreadsheet since mid 70's. I'm running Debian 9.1 with MATE desktop and gnumeric 1.12.32 . I have 2 columns with potentially long lines. I had no

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:51:18 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: > > > > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > > > > print files to. I

Re: Weired package policy

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 04:37:49PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2018, 16:26:55 CET schrieb Floris: > Hi Floris and all, > > maybe my question was not clearly expressed, due to my English. It was not > aimed to that special package. I would like to know, why packages completely > di

Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of greeter

On 1/7/2018 6:52 PM, john doe wrote: On 1/4/2018 10:50 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: Hello John, I've configured a multilingual system based on Debian Jessie last month. The steps I've followed are: 1) Install the language pack of your targeted languages like "task-english", don't miss to install th

Re: Problem formatting a column to justify (i.e. line wrap)

On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 11:34:43 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm new to gnumeric and have not used any spreadsheet since mid 70's. > I'm running Debian 9.1 with MATE desktop and gnumeric 1.12.32 . > > I have 2 columns with potentially long lines. > I had no problem selecting a preferred font si

kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

Hello, After the latest update to 4.9.0-5, and a backport (4.14.0-bpo2) -- in light of meltdown -- my nvidia drivers failed to load. Rebulding the modules manually -- https://askubuntu.com/questions/53364/command-to-rebuild-all-dkms-modules-for-all-installed-kernels/174017 -- did fix it. Did I m

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 07:46:30 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I know this is not directly on point to the OP's question as subsequently But it does treat conversion of files to PDFs, so you are not way off base. Look at the variety of techniques people use: paps, a2ps, enscript, cupsfilter,

Unable to get the temp for one disk in Stretch

Hi all! I recently updated my firewall from Jessie to Stretch and I realized that the check_lm_sensors plugin was apparently not working because it was not possible to get the temperature of one of the disks: # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_lm_sensors --list LM_SENSORS UNKNOWN - Error while execu

Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of greeter

On 1/4/2018 10:50 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: Hello John, I've configured a multilingual system based on Debian Jessie last month. The steps I've followed are: 1) Install the language pack of your targeted languages like "task-english", don't miss to install the language pack for Firefox, Thunderb

Problem formatting a column to justify (i.e. line wrap)

I'm new to gnumeric and have not used any spreadsheet since mid 70's. I'm running Debian 9.1 with MATE desktop and gnumeric 1.12.32 . I have 2 columns with potentially long lines. I had no problem selecting a preferred font size. I created a spreadsheet allowing cells with with long lines to trun

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 11:06:01 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-07, Brian wrote: > >> > > >> > How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > >> > > >> > >> unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > > do it. A sl

Re: Kernel problem?

The new kernel implements the "fix" for meltdown. You could try booting with the fix turned off - I believe the kernel parameter is pti=off Rob Hurle writes: >Hi All, > >I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: > >sudo apt-get update >sudo apt-get upgrade > >It seemed to install vmlinu

Re: Weired package policy

On 2018-01-07 at 10:26, Floris wrote: > Op Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:58:57 +0100 schreef Hans > : > >> Hi folks, >> >> there is a thing, I cannot understand. >> >>> From time to time, there appear packages, which are in stable >>> for a long time, and then suddenly they are in unstable and >>> stable

Re: Weired package policy

Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2018, 16:26:55 CET schrieb Floris: Hi Floris and all, maybe my question was not clearly expressed, due to my English. It was not aimed to that special package. I would like to know, why packages completely disappear, instead of just leaving the last well running version ava

Re: Weired package policy

Op Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:58:57 +0100 schreef Hans : Hi folks, there is a thing, I cannot understand. From time to time, there appear packages, which are in stable for a long time, and then suddenly they are in unstable and stable, but NOT in testing. This is a policy, I do not understand! An

Weired package policy

Hi folks, there is a thing, I cannot understand. >From time to time, there appear packages, which are in stable for a long time, and then suddenly they are in unstable and stable, but NOT in testing. This is a policy, I do not understand! An actual example is "cqrlog" which appears in stable

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

On Sat, January 6, 2018 11:36 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: ... > (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) ... the line above can explain a lot. cheers. -- x9p | PGP : 0x03B50AF5EA4C8D80 / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE "I don't know where I'm going fro

Re: T570 Powerkey doesn't work

Op Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:42:34 +0100 schreef Markus Grunwald : Hello, as far as I understand, pressing the power key on my Lenovo T570 should produce some output in the journal like this: Mär 31 18:04:47 my_computer systemd-logind[1402]: Power key pressed. On my laptop, this doesn't work - I

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

Le 04/01/2018 à 05:32, Michael Stone a écrit : No, it's a pretty common shorthand to say "routable" to mean "routable on the public internet", especially where there's no real possibility of confusing it with specifically non-routable blocks like 127.0.0.0/8. This is still a mistake. In tec

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

On 01/06/2018 03:06 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: What kernel version? Do the entries disappear on reboot? This morning I had time to reboot, and I can now confirm that rebooting cleared the dead entries. It sure looks like the already-reported bug. Thanks for the pointer--it never occurred to

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

I know this is not directly on point to the OP's question as subsequently clarified, but I would point out that a variety of programs like txt2pdf exist (and work)--I assume, but don't know that they are available in the various Debian distros. On Sunday, January 07, 2018 05:10:50 AM Brian wrot

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 11:06:01 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-07, Brian wrote: > >> > > >> > How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > >> > > >> > >> unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > > do it. A sle

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 2018-01-07, Brian wrote: >> > >> > How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? >> > >> >> unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > do it. A sledgehammer to crack a nut. Depends on the nut, doesn't it? Anyhoo, I

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 20:45:01 -0600, Jason wrote: > > lpadmin. The wiki should help. > > I had looked into lpadmin and thought that might be what I need but > couldn't find in the man page how to add a printer. I don't have web > access so am asking here rather than looking on the wiki. For a P

Re: Kernel problem?

On 2018-01-07 13:58 +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: > I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > > It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and > image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions. Now the system >

[SOLVED] (was: [Stable/AMD64] Changing gdm background)

Floris writes: >>> I would like to change the default background of gdm login screen on my [...] > There is no easy way to change the gdm3 theme, but you can. The Arch > Wiki has a small how-to: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM Thanks a lot, I managed to change the background using t