Re: Latest kernel update for Wheezy not compatible

2018-01-09 Thread Felix Miata
Paul Zimmerman composed on 2018-01-09 23:43 (UTC): > After running "aptitude update" and "aptitude safe-upgrade" on my Wheezy > boxes, I find I have TWO kernels installed. One of them, the new patch for > this "Meltdown" problem, does not boot. It hangs. Fortunately, they were > smart enough to ke

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-09 at 22:54, John Hosack wrote: > Hello, > > This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not > seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: Bug reports need to be filed in the Debian bug tracker, on bugs.debian.org, not mailed to debian-user. You can

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread David Christensen
On 01/09/18 19:54, John Hosack wrote: This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debi

Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread John Hosack
Hello, This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debian-9.3.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso and

Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2018-01-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 09.01.18 15:04, Christian Groessler wrote: > I just edited the password file directly, "vipw" and "vipw -s", and renamed > the pi user. When doing that, there is merit in running pwck before any powerdown/reboot, as any illegality in a line stopped processing of all following when I last tried

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

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 19:21:39 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 18:18:33 (+), Brian wrote: > > > > Unlike David Wright, I've not noticed the font quality to be poor when > > the magnification ability (left click with the mouse) of gv is used to > > examine characters in the

Re: Latest kernel update for Wheezy not compatible

2018-01-09 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:43:23 + (UTC) Paul Zimmerman wrote: > After running "aptitude update" and "aptitude safe-upgrade" on my > Wheezy boxes, I find I have TWO kernels installed. One of them, the new > patch for this "Meltdown" problem, does not boot. It hangs. > Fortunately, they were s

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

2018-01-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:01:50PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 23:20:55 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Modern (La)TeX implementations should be able to cope with UTF-8 [...] > Thanks. I feel ashamed that I'm wasti

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-09 Thread Felix Miata
Rob Hurle composed on 2018-01-07 13:58 (UTC+1100): > 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 syst

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

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 23:20:55 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:09:22PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > For me, this is a new take on document conversion methods. > > > > FWIW my test file produced 30819 "Missing character" errors which > > is hardly surpr

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

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 20:47:44 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > > > > Oh. pdftex is now being fed a latex file, not a plain text file. > > Previously: > > > > > pdftex will actually create a pdf out of a *text file* > > That's right. No contradiction. I just added a data p

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

2018-01-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:09:22PM -0600, David Wright wrote: [...] > For me, this is a new take on document conversion methods. > > FWIW my test file produced 30819 "Missing character" errors which > is hardly surprising as TeX was released 40 year

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-09 Thread deloptes
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: > I did an upgrade from debian 7 wheezy to debian 8 jessie on the master of > a cluster (1 master + 8 nodes). It seemed all went well. Then I rebooted > the machine and the problems began. I can't boot the master anymore > returning an error: > > *Running scripts/local-

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 09 Jan 2018, Elisabetta Falivene wrote: > Hi, > I did an upgrade from debian 7 wheezy to debian 8 jessie on the master of a > cluster (1 master + 8 nodes). It seemed all went well. Then I rebooted the > machine and the problems began. I can't boot the master anymore returning > an error: >

System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-09 Thread Elisabetta Falivene
Hi, I did an upgrade from debian 7 wheezy to debian 8 jessie on the master of a cluster (1 master + 8 nodes). It seemed all went well. Then I rebooted the machine and the problems began. I can't boot the master anymore returning an error: *Running scripts/local-block* *Unable to find LVM volume*

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

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > > Oh. pdftex is now being fed a latex file, not a plain text file. > Previously: > > > pdftex will actually create a pdf out of a *text file* That's right. No contradiction. I just added a data point. -- "Ruling a large nation is like cooking a small fish" - L

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

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 20:36:23 +, Brian wrote: > I am not playing your games. Exotica is outside my field of interest. ^ ^are Just in case there is a nitpick. -- Brian.

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

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 19:41:35 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > > > > There are quite a few in this thread. Clue us in? > > The person who responded directly to David's question quoted above, > whose name, exotic in the regions from which I hail, escapes my > remembrance. I am

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

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 19:41:35 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: > >> >> > >> >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to > >> >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf > >> >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. >

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

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Brian wrote: >> >> >> >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to >> >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf >> >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. >> > >> > So could you now elaborate on step 1 of this "one-step

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

2018-01-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 15:29:08 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: > >> > >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to > >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf > >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. > > > >

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-07, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Building the main Guest Additions module ...fail! > (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) > Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. > You have performed apt-get install build-essential module-assistant and m-a

Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2018-01-09 Thread Christian Groessler
On 01/09/18 16:01, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Don't forget about occurrences of 'pi' in the group files (use 'vigr' and 'vigr -s' to catch those). Yep. Forgot to mention that. regards, chris

Re: old Wheezy will not upgrade linux-kernel

2018-01-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 06:51:22AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > I understand the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade, but could not > find a reason for needing dist-upgrade A new package is being installed.

RE: old Wheezy will not upgrade linux-kernel

2018-01-09 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hello Roberto, >> After apt-get update I do an upgrade and it seems the kernel package >> will not install but is held back [] >> # apt-get upgrade -V The following packages have been kept back: >>linux-image-686-pae (3.2+46 => 3.2+46+deb7u1) [] I understand the difference between

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

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: >> >> If you're dealing with latex files, as I have taken some minutes to >> discover (cough), you need 'pdflatex', not pdftex, which will barf >> immediately upon encountering latex commands. > > So could you now elaborate on step 1 of this "one-step" process?

Re: Managing font size issues between apps

2018-01-09 Thread tony mollica
Thanks. I'll look through the info in the links and continue the font fight. I'm feeling like the only reason to post here is to complain, but after using Debian for over twenty years, meaning Linux in general and the endless configurability claims (yeah, I can get it to look just like windoze

Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2018-01-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 03:04:03PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 01/09/18 04:49, Jason wrote: > > > This I'd guess is important, if you have several users. I don't, except > > > for amanda and nut, and thats only on this machine. All the rest have > > > one user, me, known under various al

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

2018-01-09 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 9-01-2018, at 07h 35'28", David Wright wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 13:06:44 (+), Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrot

Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2018-01-09 Thread Christian Groessler
On 01/09/18 04:49, Jason wrote: This I'd guess is important, if you have several users. I don't, except for amanda and nut, and thats only on this machine. All the rest have one user, me, known under various aliases because the idiot installer is now set to give the first user the machines name l

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

2018-01-09 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 9-01-2018, at 13h 06'44", Curt wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > >> PDF-Printer from the command line

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

2018-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 13:06:44 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > >> PDF-Printer from the command line" > >>> > > >>> >How does one convert a text file to

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

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a >> PDF-Printer from the command line" >>> > >>> >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? >>> >>> Step 1. Make sure the te

Re: Faulty .iso? No public key...

2018-01-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
What does "apt policy debian-archive-keyring" show? Which version (if any) do you have installed? You could also try "apt install debian-archive-keyring" This should clear up the issues with stretch-updates, but not the virtualbox repository. For that you'll need to find, verify and import the re

Re: Faulty .iso? No public key...

2018-01-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/01/2018 à 07:33, Josh W. a écrit : > I keep having the issue of no public key available and I don’t know what > I should do…. Back up my computer and reinstall or is there a way to > patch it up. I am attaching a file that shows what I am going through. I > ran into all this this time will tr

Re: Finding material with F1 or in "The Gnumeric Manual"

2018-01-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/08/2018 01:21 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 08 Jan 2018 at 10:58:35 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/07/2018 11:34 AM, 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'm ha

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

2018-01-09 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > PDF-Printer from the command line" >> > >> >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? >> >> Step 1. Make sure the text file is also a latex document. >>

Re: Faulty .iso? No public key...

2018-01-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, besides the good advise of John Doe about verifying an ISO, it should be stated that "no public key available" during installation is not a typical sign for a damaged ISO. I'd rather suspect its intentional content being not being correct or maybe the package mirror server not being up to date

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

2018-01-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:52:08AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a > PDF-Printer from the command line" > > > > > >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the comman

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

2018-01-09 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > > > >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > > Step 1. Make sure the text file is also a latex document. > Step 2. Use latex. Assuming step 1 is reached, step

Re: Booting from USB on an old MacBook

2018-01-09 Thread juh
On 09.01.2018 08:39, john doe wrote: > On 1/9/2018 8:30 AM, juh wrote: >> Is there a hack to boot such a Macbook from USB or do I have to buy a >> new cd drive? >> > > http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/09/14/how-to-start-up-mac-from-bootable-media/ Strange. I tried this before and my stick was n

Re: Booting from USB on an old MacBook

2018-01-09 Thread David Christensen
On 01/08/18 23:30, juh wrote: ... I would like to install debian on my 2009 (or so) 13" MacBook to prevent being vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre. Sadly the internal CD drive is broken and the notebook does not boot from USB. I didn't find any hint in the Bios settings how to boot from a usb de