Following full-upgrade panel icons cannot display the image files

2018-01-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Running stretch as guest vm on Openindiana (a solaris 11 off shoot) inside Virtualbox Using lxde desktop, but set to boot into console mode, and I use startx to get to X with I want it. Following a startx, I see the buttons on bottom panel just show a white rectangle with red X in it. I s

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
My guess is Adobe's security features are getting in your way. Files have to be unprotected before any full accessibility checks can be done on them and the security protection adobe put in on their newer pdf files defeats accessibility checking when enabled. If whatever software you use does

Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

2018-01-22 Thread Nishan Singh Mann
Thank you davidson, Davor and Ben. I appreciate your help and have resolved the issue. I am not well versed with such details and yes I agree this question would have been better posed on an Ubuntu mailing list. Next time, I will be more careful. Regrads, Nishan On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 at 10:34 davids

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 23-01-2018, at 13h 55'49", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > 3) the stderr out from (at least) okular and xpdf look like they might > be useful to someone who understands the topic better, but do look like > something is missing. See attachments.

Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 04:24:32PM -0500, mizuki wrote: > since the netboot kernel was updated in Dec 5 2017 for Debian 8.10, we were > not able to install any of the physical systems (vms works). […] > 2) The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(1,0,0), > partition #7 (sda

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > [...] > numerous "Missing or bad Type3 CharProc ent

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/01/18 13:28, Greg Marks wrote: > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > The PDF file in question can be downloaded from the site: > >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11856-0

PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-22 Thread Greg Marks
I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. The PDF file in question can be downloaded from the site: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11856-017-1616-6 however, you might need an instituti

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 Jan 2018 at 17:21:23 (-), Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <20180119151835.GA8374@alum>, >David Wright wrote: > > I have one valuable use for IPv6 which is point-to-point connections. > > I plug a CAT5 cable into the two ends and use predefined functions > > to bu

(resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-22 Thread mizuki
(Re-sending this msg, 1st was sent on Jan 19 2018, not sure why it did not reach the mailing list...) Hi, In our organization, we are using netboot to auto provisioning the systems, since the netboot kernel was updated in Dec 5 2017 for Debian 8.10, we were not able to install any of the physica

Re: IPv6 SLAAC and RFC 7217

2018-01-22 Thread John Naggets
Thanks Andy for the tip about the stable_secret sysctl, I will try this out soon and see how it behaves. On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi John, > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:29:23PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: >> I was wondering if there is a "standard" way in Debian 9 thro

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-22 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <20180119151835.GA8374@alum>, David Wright wrote: > I have one valuable use for IPv6 which is point-to-point connections. > I plug a CAT5 cable into the two ends and use predefined functions > to bulk-transfer files with scp. Why? > 1) I don't have to touch the IPv4 confi

Advise needed about access to network and local foreign filesystems

2018-01-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i could need some proofreading and special advise for my emerging wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/JigdoOnLive My plan is to offer it to Debian as link target in the official page https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd where the advise to users of foreign systems is to go to http://atterer

Re: Problem using "dpkg -i"

2018-01-22 Thread Karol Augustin
On 2018-01-15 9:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/15/2018 02:25 AM, Bernd Gruber wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> Received error message: >>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of amaya: >>>amaya depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1); however: >>> Package libssl0.9.8 is n

Re: Iptables at boot

2018-01-22 Thread Karol Augustin
On 2018-01-21 1:02, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 20-01-18, Jacques Rodary wrote: >> Hi >> How can I start iptables at boot. I don't find  an equivalent to  " service >> iptables start" with systemd and does'nt know how to create a new >> iptables.service. The manpages aren't quite clear for me. Thanks f

Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

2018-01-22 Thread davidson
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, davidson wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Nishan Singh Mann wrote: Hello, on Ubuntu 17.10 which to my knowledge is based on Debian unstable, installing Emacs via $sudo apt install emacs and then trying to view the Emacs manual using C-h r fails with error "Info file emacs does

Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

2018-01-22 Thread davidson
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Nishan Singh Mann wrote: Hello, on Ubuntu 17.10 which to my knowledge is based on Debian unstable, installing Emacs via $sudo apt install emacs and then trying to view the Emacs manual using C-h r fails with error "Info file emacs does not exist" The same set of instructions