Re: Kmail - slow or no erasing of mails when deleting fast

2018-04-23 Thread David Baron
My Debian testing version is inoperative. Can no longer connect to Gmail. Message preview box is black. A long time now. Latest upgrade is no better. Since the main and left panes of system setup is also black, problem may be kde. On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 8:59 AM Hans wrote: > Hi Marc, > thanks fo

Re: Kmail - slow or no erasing of mails when deleting fast

2018-04-23 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > Hmm, I think this behaviour was ignored since a long time. I dunno, I > believe I mentioned it some years ago in the forum, too, but nothing > changed since. > > And I am not sure, if that can be fixed at all. Because: Who is to blame? > (Sorry, if "blame" might be the wrong word, m

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Kenneth Parker writes: > Isn't this what this is all about? I now have a happy Debian user, who > was previously a marginalized Mac user, down on his luck, and unable > to afford the expensive new Macs! > > Now, he is up to date, and able to use Firefox, LibreOffice, and other > Debian Packages,

Re: Kmail - slow or no erasing of mails when deleting fast

2018-04-23 Thread Hans
Hi Marc, thanks for your reply. > Well , > > Question, what version of KMail are you using (Help:About KMail)? > The version I am running here is 5.7.3, which is debian/testing and 32-bit. However, I have to tell, that I am watching this behaviour since a lng time, almost since the

A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello, I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent Chicken and Egg Issue, helping a friend install Debian 9.4 on an expired MacBook, which Apple states can't run anything later than OSX Lion. The

Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread David Christensen
On 04/23/18 06:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: For more details on iproute2 superseding net-tools, see . Thanks for the link. So, ifconfig was superseded by iproute2 and is unrelated to systemd. David

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/23/2018 01:08 PM, Gdsi wrote: Hi all. On my disk is a little free space at which I wish put another Debian, and with its command line. A few times I tried doing it but always there was a excess , as the installer don't say exactly what is into minimal inst-ion, and I'm afraid there's kern

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-23 Thread mark
On Monday, April 23, 2018 4:08:38 PM EDT Gdsi wrote: > Hi all. > On my disk is a little free space at which I wish put another Debian, and > with its command line. A few times I tried doing it but always there was a > excess , as the installer don't say exactly what is into minimal inst-ion, > and

Re: Kmail - slow or no erasing of mails when deleting fast

2018-04-23 Thread mark
On Monday, April 23, 2018 3:07:49 AM EDT Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > I believe, that akonadi is to slow to write the changes into its database. > When erasing mails slowly, then it is fast enough. > Well , Question, what version of KMail are you using (Help:About KMail)? I'm using vers

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-23 Thread Dan Purgert
Gdsi wrote: > Hi all. > On my disk is a little free space at which I wish put another Debian, > and with its command line. A few times I tried doing it but always > there was a excess , as the installer don't say exactly what is into > minimal inst-ion, and I'm afraid there's kernel only. If I shal

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-23 Thread Kenneth Parker
When I recently wanted a *truly* Minimal Debian 8 system (so I could study systemd from the ground up), I installed from the "netinst" CD, with the Ethernet Cable disconnected. It gave me Exactly what I was looking for, took little space, and I (after fixing /etc/apt/sources.list) was able to add

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Gdsi: > > On my disk is a little free space at which I wish put another Debian, > and with its command line. How much is "little free space"? > A few times I tried doing it but always there was a excess , as the > installer don't say exactly what is into minimal inst-ion, and I'm > afraid there's

I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-23 Thread Gdsi
Hi all. On my disk is a little free space at which I wish put another Debian, and with its command line. A few times I tried doing it but always there was a excess , as the installer don't say exactly what is into minimal inst-ion, and I'm afraid there's kernel only. If I shall not be setting c

Re: Install 9.4 on acer V15 Nitro 4K -> black screen after choosing installation method; Kali live running and Ubuntu installation no problem

2018-04-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/23/2018 02:20 AM, Dr. Volker Jaenisch wrote: Dear Jimmy! On 23.04.2018 02:06, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I'm setting here looking at the secs for your laptop and it say's you have an Intel computer with Nvidia Video, but the first thing to do is make sure you have the firmware meta package ins

Re: Intel - Sky Lake Processor?

2018-04-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 05:24:52PM -0700, HP Garcia wrote: > Does any else have a Debian installed on a pc with a Intel Sky Lake > processor? Has anyone got it configured properly without any boot > errors? Yes. Stretch works beautifully on Skylake systems, without needing anything from stretch-b

Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:47:48AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Proving, disproving, and/or improving the hypothesis would require > researching ifconfig(8), systemd(1), and the reasons why the former was > dropped from the default installation when the latter was introduced into > Debian (Jes

Re: Install 9.4 on acer V15 Nitro 4K -> black screen after choosing installation method; Kali live running and Ubuntu installation no problem

2018-04-23 Thread Francisco M Neto
Here are a few ideas bases on my own experience: 1) Is your BIOS up to date? I'm not trying to pin this issue down on BIOS issues, but who knows. 2) What is your exact BIOS/UEFI configuration? When I installed Debian on my laptop I couldn't get grub to install correctly at first, but I managed it

Re: encryption

2018-04-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Apr 2018 at 18:15:00 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 22 Apr 2018 at 17:46:12 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Sun 22 Apr 2018 at 11:10:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Sat 21 Apr 2018 at 12:43:54 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > > > On 04/21/18 08:20, Brian wrote

Re: Install 9.4 on acer V15 Nitro 4K -> black screen after choosing installation method; Kali live running and Ubuntu installation no problem

2018-04-23 Thread Dr. Volker Jaenisch
Dear Jimmy! On 23.04.2018 02:06, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > I'm setting here looking at the secs for your laptop and it say's you > have an Intel computer with Nvidia Video, but the first thing to do is > make sure you have the firmware meta package installed, first you need > to add non-free to you

Re: encryption

2018-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Sun 22 Apr 2018 at 17:46:12 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Sun 22 Apr 2018 at 11:10:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 21 Apr 2018 at 12:43:54 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > On 04/21/18 08:20, Brian wrote: > > > >On Fri 20 Apr 2018 at 17:07:10 -0700, David Christensen wrote:

Kmail - slow or no erasing of mails when deleting fast

2018-04-23 Thread Hans
Hi folks, there is a thing, I am noticing since kmail changed to akonadi. It would be nice, if someone can confirm or deny my noticing. The issue: When I want to delete lots of mails in my inbox folder, I am using the "delete" key of my keyboard. Doing so, one after the other mail is moved i