Re: self identifying computer

2018-06-04 Thread john doe
On 6/5/2018 12:56 AM, mick crane wrote: I changed the domain name for couple of home computers from "local" to "home" one of them is win 10 PC. I have ipfire box doing hopefully firewall and DNS and so while I changed domain I let all get address from its DHCP and gave them fixed leases. I ha

Trouble with apt update

2018-06-04 Thread Sonu Sirvee
Hello all, When I run the command: sudo apt update I get this error: $ sudo apt update Ign:1 http://debianmirror.nkn.in/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://debianmirror.nkn.in/debian stretch-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://debianmirror.nkn.in/debian stretch Release Hit:4 http://security.debian

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-06-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Jun 2018 at 20:05:39 (-0400), Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > > > >> > >> >dist-upgrade > >> >dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of > >> upgrade, also intelligently > >> >handles

Re: [Debian-User] Re: [Debian-User] Re: Display image after resume

2018-06-04 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 13:06 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 04/06/18 16:39, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 11:07 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 04/06/18 10:03, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > > What produces the desktop image that is displayed immediately > > > > after >

Re: self identifying computer

2018-06-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 05/06/18 10:56, mick crane wrote: I changed the domain name for couple of home computers from "local" to "home" one of them is win 10 PC. I have ipfire box doing hopefully firewall and DNS and so while I changed domain I let all get address from its DHCP and gave them fixed leases. I have

Re: [Debian-User] Re: Display image after resume

2018-06-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 04/06/18 16:39, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 11:07 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 04/06/18 10:03, Jim Popovitch wrote: What produces the desktop image that is displayed immediately after resuming from hibernation? When resuming, I see the following in order:    1. the

Re: Debian 9 x64 wine32

2018-06-04 Thread likcoras
On 06/05/2018 03:57 AM, --- wrote: > What i did: > > Starting off with: apt install wine32 > > Reading the messages, adding libwine:i386 and tried "apt install" again > > Reading again etc. adding step by step all requested (not suggested) > packages. > > So all in all i entered: > > apt insta

Re: Debian 9 x64 wine32

2018-06-04 Thread davidson
On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, --- wrote: I have already activied the backports and did apt update afterwards. I have tried sudo apt-get install wine wine32 wine64 libwine libwine:i386 fonts-wine If you do not specify that you want the version available from backports, then the backports version will n

self identifying computer

2018-06-04 Thread mick crane
I changed the domain name for couple of home computers from "local" to "home" one of them is win 10 PC. I have ipfire box doing hopefully firewall and DNS and so while I changed domain I let all get address from its DHCP and gave them fixed leases. I have 2 debian PCs I try to find IP address

Re: Debian 9 x64 wine32

2018-06-04 Thread floris
--- schreef op 2018-06-04 21:02: I have already activied the backports and did apt update afterwards. I have tried sudo apt-get install wine wine32 wine64 libwine libwine:i386 fonts-wine the result is the same . . Christian Can you post the output of: sudo apt-get -t stretch-backports

Re: Debian 9 x64 wine32

2018-06-04 Thread ---
I have already activied the backports and did apt update afterwards. I have tried sudo apt-get install wine wine32 wine64 libwine libwine:i386 fonts-wine the result is the same . . Christian Am 03.06.2018 um 20:32 schrieb floris: uli...@web.de schreef op 2018-06-02 13:06: Hi, i am tryin

Re: Debian 9 x64 wine32

2018-06-04 Thread ---
What i did: Starting off with: apt install wine32 Reading the messages, adding libwine:i386 and tried "apt install" again Reading again etc. adding step by step all requested (not suggested) packages. So all in all i entered: apt install wine32 libwine:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-04 Thread deloptes
Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Any idea? yes this systemd thingie is cursed by design, so I have it pretty stable in few devices where inevitable (phone, tablet etc) But everything else I install sysvinit-core and this makes it explicitly the init process (or add init=/lib/sysvinit/init to grub defau

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 05/31/2018 08:01 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading from Wheezy LTS to Jessie, one of my machines having 512 MB RAM, does not power off when it reached target shutdown. It seems some old issue/bug with systemd or else. In fact, everything closes down properly except it does not unmo

Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups?

2018-06-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 10:51:01AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [wall...] > > It has since been superseded by Javascript, web page popups and > > targeted ads. > > The upside is that those powerful new tools are (pretty much) *only* > available to t

Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups?

2018-06-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> [...] Wall, in the wrong hands >> can be quite a nuisance so that's the sort of power one must be >> careful about. In this case, it doesn't really matter since I am >> the only user. > It has since been superseded by Javascript, web page popups and > targeted

Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 03:37:08PM +0200, john doe wrote: On 6/4/2018 3:09 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Anil Duggirala wrote: hello, I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I should have securit

Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread john doe
On 6/4/2018 3:09 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Anil Duggirala wrote: hello, I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I should have security concerns when installing a .deb package "manually" (using

Re: Boot process related logs. What? Where?

2018-06-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Jun 2018 at 04:21:20 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > My explicit question is: >Does an annotated list of boot process related log files and >their locations exist? Not AFAICT. But it's never to late to start writing a wiki. > I did a reasonably typical install from DVD-1 of Deb

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2018-06-03, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > I did so, and noticed just some few Gnome -related things to be active > for the user 106 - myself? (although I logged out from the Mate desktop > and not from Gnome), as well as a few items active for user 1000 i.e. > root (such as 'sudo su' and 'syste

Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread Dan Purgert
Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good > practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to > know if I should have security concerns when installing a .deb package > "manually" (using gdebi for example) ? Do you tru

Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups?

2018-06-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:03:16AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: [...] > [...] Wall, in the wrong hands > can be quite a nuisance so that's the sort of power one must be > careful about. In this case, it doesn't rea

Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:20:34AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good > practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I > should have security c

Re: What's the difference between the dialout and tty groups?

2018-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > Hi, Martin.. I found these descriptions on the Debian Wiki > SystemGroups page [0]: > > tty: TTY devices are owned by this group. This is used by write and > wall to enable them to write to other people's TTYs, but it is not > intended to be used directly. > > dialout:

.deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread Anil Duggirala
hello, I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I should have security concerns when installing a .deb package "manually" (using gdebi for example) ? Is it possible that by downloading the s

Re: Boot process related logs. What? Where?

2018-06-04 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > My explicit question is: > Does an annotated list of boot process related log files and > their locations exist? /var/log/installer ? > I did a reasonably typical install from DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0 . > It is at least partly functional - I can log in as root. > T

Boot process related logs. What? Where?

2018-06-04 Thread Richard Owlett
My explicit question is: Does an annotated list of boot process related log files and their locations exist? I did a reasonably typical install from DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0 . It is at least partly functional - I can log in as root. The only error message during boot was that it could not find

Re: Latest buster upgrade gets stuck -resolved

2018-06-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-06-04 12:20 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running buster on an AMD64 system. I do an apt full-upgrade each night but tonight it's getting stuck. It seems to be building the initramfs image but having trouble with memtest86+. These are the last 6 lines that it displays then stops. The termina

Re: Latest buster upgrade gets stuck

2018-06-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-06-04 12:20 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running buster on an AMD64 system. I do an apt full-upgrade each night but tonight it's getting stuck. It seems to be building the initramfs image but having trouble with memtest86+. These are the last 6 lines that it displays then stops. The termina