Re: System freeze using web browsers

2018-05-10 Thread Joe
On Fri, 11 May 2018 11:37:24 +1200 Richard Hector wrote: > On 11/05/18 03:17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Those times it happened, I remember kicking myself (HARD!) for not > > *simply* making sure there were no dust bunnies gathering inside the > > case in the days just prior to the hardware los

Re: Problem with Firefox Quantum v-650.0

2018-05-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 10 May 2018 13:00:27 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > > On 05/10/2018 11:13 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:07:43AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >> I've encountered a strange problem with the latest release of > >> Firefox Quantum v-60.0. > >> > >> Up to th

Re: System freeze using web browsers

2018-05-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/05/18 03:17, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Those times it happened, I remember kicking myself (HARD!) for not > *simply* making sure there were no dust bunnies gathering inside the > case in the days just prior to the hardware loss. :) Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to design/build a dust bu

LVM setup with snapshots

2018-05-10 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
I'm completely new to lvm. lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert root build-vg -wi-ao 463.52g swap_1 build-vg -wi-ao 2.00g I used the default stretch of an lvm partition with the gnome. To me, it seems me the partition is too lar

Auto-assembled SW RAID in rescue mode

2018-05-10 Thread Niclas Arndt
Hello, I have a question that I suspect comes from the way rescue mode auto RAID assembly and grub restoration work. I received unofficial BIOS files from Gigabyte with new versions of Intel ME and CPU microcode. After upgrade, several Stretch machines no longer boot. (Fresh installation wor

Re: iptables geoip not working after update to jessie

2018-05-10 Thread mj
Hi Reco, Thanks for your reply. Holidays here now, I will try your suggestions next week, and report back then. Thanks! MJ On 05/09/2018 10:38 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:37:52AM +0200, mj wrote: Hi, Yesterday I upgraded a server from wheezy to jessie. Went fine

Re: Problem with Firefox Quantum v-650.0

2018-05-10 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Thu, 10 May 2018 11:07:43 -0400 Stephen P. Molnar said: [--8<--] > comp@AbNormal:/opt/firefox$ ./firefox > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/firefox/libnspr4.so: > /opt/firefox/libnspr4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory > Couldn't load XPCOM. > > What I find rea

Re: Problem with Firefox Quantum v-650.0

2018-05-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 05/10/2018 11:13 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:07:43AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I've encountered a strange problem with the latest release of Firefox Quantum v-60.0. Up to this point the previous versions, the 59.x.x, series had been very happily residing in /op

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2018-05-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > However, whether to ship akonadi trunk/beta/final of the next version > > is another question which is still open. In my opinion, Akonadi > > itself is > > > > pretty mature so it might be doable. > > I didn't complain well. This is t

Re: System freeze using web browsers

2018-05-10 Thread Kenneth Parker
I used to have an Acer Netbook, which would, regularly overheat, if I dared use it, more than a 1/2 hour at a time, with the "on-board" Hard Drive. HOWEVER, I had no trouble, running Ubuntu Server 12.04 (as an "always-on" Server), but ONLY on a Thumb Drive. Text only, cover closed, most access thr

Re: STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-05-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/10/2018 10:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [..] I've the "Firefox ESR" that was installed by default. It loaded https://manpages.debian.org/ OK. I don't know if it has JavaScript enabled nor do I know how to check. Don't know how to verify its version either. Tried ff a fe

Re: STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-05-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/10/2018 08:41 AM, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: It loads perfectly and quickly on both Firefox and Tor Browser Bundle. There was just a post on mozilla.support.seamonkey about a apparently different problem. [STOP button being inoperative on a site] A reply said: It seems that th

Re: System freeze using web browsers

2018-05-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 5/10/18, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 10/05/18 17:36, Felix Miata wrote: >> Ben Caradoc-Davies composed on 2018-05-10 17:13 (UTC+1200): >>> Alexander, are there any signs of overheating at the time of the freeze? >> Any _other_ signs? Apparently "random" freezing after 30 minutes heavy >> use

Re: Sid in virtualbox: vbox drivers not built?

2018-05-10 Thread Felix Natter
Patrick Bartek writes: > On Sun, 06 May 2018 15:04:28 +0200 Felix Natter wrote: > >> hello Debian-users, hello Patrick, >> I am using virtualbox-guest-x11 5.2.10-dfsg-6, but when starting X11, >> "vboxvideo" cannot be found. The other utils ("copy and paste") do not >> work either. >> >> I n

Re: Problem with Firefox Quantum v-650.0

2018-05-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:07:43AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I've encountered a strange problem with the latest release of Firefox > Quantum v-60.0. > > Up to this point the previous versions, the 59.x.x, series had been very > happily residing in /opt/firefox. I uncompressed the downlo9a

Re: STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-05-10 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > [..] > I've the "Firefox ESR" that was installed by default. > It loaded https://manpages.debian.org/ OK. > I don't know if it has JavaScript enabled nor do I know how to check. > Don't know how to verify its version either. > Tried ff a few time in past. Never liked it. H

Problem with Firefox Quantum v-650.0

2018-05-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I've encountered a strange problem with the latest release of Firefox Quantum v-60.0. Up to this point the previous versions, the 59.x.x, series had been very happily residing in /opt/firefox. I uncompressed the downlo9aded file as a user and thee copied the firefox directory tree as root I

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 09 May 2018 at 22:56:48 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-05-09 at 16:20, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 08 May 2018 at 22:39:55 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > >> What method are you using to delete it? > >> > >> If you haven't already, I'd recommend trying 'rm -r', *very* > >> c

Re: STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-05-10 Thread Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian)
It loads perfectly and quickly on both Firefox and Tor Browser Bundle. Richard Owlett: > On 05/10/2018 07:35 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I'm running Debian 9 installed via netinst in February with some >>> packages added via Synaptic and run neither Update nor Upgrade >>> e

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 09 May 2018 at 16:32:03 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 03:20:06PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > remove-empties () > > { > > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage:$FUNCNAME directories ... > > removes any empty directories under the directories given afte

Re: Backup problem using "cp"

2018-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 May 2018 at 09:29:06 (+0100), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >I thought I had broken the loop by specifying -x. > > > This is one excellent illustration of why cp is the wrong tool for this > job. Excellent illustration? You've

Re: STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-05-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/10/2018 07:35 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 9 installed via netinst in February with some packages added via Synaptic and run neither Update nor Upgrade explicitly. My browser is SeaMonkey 2.49.1 downloaded from https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ . I have

Re: System freeze using web browsers

2018-05-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/05/18 17:36, Felix Miata wrote: Ben Caradoc-Davies composed on 2018-05-10 17:13 (UTC+1200): Alexander, are there any signs of overheating at the time of the freeze? Any _other_ signs? Apparently "random" freezing after 30 minutes heavy use, such as watching a video with a 1GHz CPU and 276

Re: STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-05-10 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Debian 9 installed via netinst in February with some > packages added via Synaptic and run neither Update nor Upgrade explicitly. > > My browser is SeaMonkey 2.49.1 downloaded from > https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ . I have no > add-ins/add-ons/extensions/e

STRANGE problem reaching https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-05-10 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Debian 9 installed via netinst in February with some packages added via Synaptic and run neither Update nor Upgrade explicitly. My browser is SeaMonkey 2.49.1 downloaded from https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ . I have no add-ins/add-ons/extensions/etc installed. I routinely brow

Re: Emails

2018-05-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 23:44 +0100, Dominic Knight wrote: > > > Thank you for the reply. > > > > I have tried Debian 9, but I don't like it, hence I've stayed with > > Debian 8. > > > > I think I'll try option 3. My laptop is currently without Evolution, > > but > > I need a more modern version s

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mardi 24 avril 2018 18:40:55 CEST John Cunningham wrote: > I cheated and added logrotate to root's crontab as an ugly hack to get them > rotating. What is the *right* way to get it going again? I just noticed a similar problem on my system. I've installed systemd-cron and purged cron. Now sys

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

2018-05-10 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, May 09, 2018 10:17:19 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > There are some pdf's that evince can't print, but okular hasn't failed > me, yet. +1 for okular

Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"]

2018-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I thought I had broken the loop by specifying -x. Jonathan Dowland wrote: > This is one excellent illustration of why cp is the wrong tool for this > job. cp -ax is not at fault, as it seems. The reason for the problem has been identified as a file path on the orig

Re: Which packages are my bugs in? (system suspend issues)

2018-05-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:56:14AM +0800, Ryan Lue wrote: Hi, I’m trying to file a couple bugs via reportbug, but I’m not sure which package they fall under: Which desktop environment (if any) are you using? It's a punt but that might be a good first place to file; the bug can always be reassi

Re: Backup problem using "cp"

2018-05-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I thought I had broken the loop by specifying -x. This is one excellent illustration of why cp is the wrong tool for this job. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscri

Re: (solved) Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

2018-05-10 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-10, Long Wind wrote: > but i've just tested two pdf viewers, and they seem goodi needn't try > a thi rd one, thanks anyway besides Zathura is a strange name > mupdf is excruciatingly fast, but that would make four. (BTW, Zathura was the polymorph goddess of document viewing chez the

Re: which program do you recommend to read pdf file

2018-05-10 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 May 2018 22:17:19 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > There are some pdf's that evince can't print, but okular hasn't > failed me, yet. > Not recently, because I don't use it for them, but I've had a number of PDFs fail to render properly in Evince. Generally with drawing stuff in them