firmware-nonfree hasn't been uploaded in a while

2018-07-05 Thread Carl Suster
I've had issues with some hardware on my Lenovo X1 notebook, particularly with Bluetooth, but when I investigated I found that there are old reported bugs for exactly these issues on the BTS and fixes implemented in the git repository of firmware-nonfree some time ago. Despite this the package

Re: Gimp broken in Debian Sid?

2018-07-05 Thread Joe
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 07:58:41 +0200 Thierry Rascle wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian Sid. Gimp does not seem to work any more (the user > interface does not show up). I've tried in Xmonad and in Openbox. > > I have no idea what causes this. I don't see any error message. > > Does anyone else hav

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread David Baron
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018, 5:57 AM Matthew Crews wrote: > On 07/05/2018 06:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no > >> problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically

Gimp broken in Debian Sid?

2018-07-05 Thread Thierry Rascle
Hi, I'm using Debian Sid. Gimp does not seem to work any more (the user interface does not show up). I've tried in Xmonad and in Openbox. I have no idea what causes this. I don't see any error message. Does anyone else have the same problem ? Thanks! Thierry

Re: Laptop recommendation

2018-07-05 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-07-06 08:43:44, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Default answer to many folks these days⦂ https://puri.sm/ I think they are in the market for a used ThinkPad. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:27:31AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 11:11:19 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > On 7/5/18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > >> 1. ctrl-alt-F1 > > > > > > Note: since stretch things have... changed

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread Matthew Crews
On 07/05/2018 06:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no >> problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 >> and it broke the nvidia driver. >> >>

Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-05 Thread Alex Gould
Thanks for everyone's help. I looked into what deloptes and tv.debian suggested. In the course of this I have become convinced that I am afflicted by bug #902943 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902943 . So I'll subscribe to the bug and see if there's any way I can help troubles

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread Mark Allums
Sorry, I failed to read your whole message. Make sure you have installed the the kbuild and headers for your current running kernel. Then consider upgrading your nvidia driver to the latest version (in sid, still, I believe). If you do the latter, be sure and use the kernel parameter I show

Re: Laptop recommendation

2018-07-05 Thread Doug
On 07/05/2018 06:43 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 09:11:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 12:39:18PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 03:38:17PM +0200, Jonas Hedman wrote: Hello I hope that is not OT for this list. Basically I'm

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: Hey all, I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 and it broke the nvidia driver. Running 'dkms autoinstall --all' does not help, it compl

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 14:08:21 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 12:57:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 12:42:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:06:22AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > But if you're a sysadmin who has

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 16:29:30 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:46 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:27:44PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > (1) You foolishly relied on the value in /etc/debian_version when > > > > It is not a fucking conf

Re: How to upgrade the linux-image package on Debian 8.7 OS

2018-07-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 05/07/18 19:39, Latif Shaikh wrote: Hi, As Nessus scan report, they are suggested to upgrade the kernel/linux version with *linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.**16.56-1* but this version is not available for upgrading on your Debian portal. Can you please help us to upgrade the linux version *3.16

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread Matthew Crews
You sure you have the 4.16 headers installed and not the 4.15 headers? Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com), Swiss-based encrypted email. Original Message On Jul 5, 2018, 15:42, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 39

Re: Laptop recommendation

2018-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 09:11:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 12:39:18PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 03:38:17PM +0200, Jonas Hedman wrote: > > > Hello I hope that is not OT for this list. > > > > > > Basically I'm on the hunt for a newish lapto

Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread Francisco Mariano-Neto
Hey all, I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 and it broke the nvidia driver. Running 'dkms autoinstall --all' does not help, it complains about not finding kernel headers (which are i

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:46 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:27:44PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > (1) You foolishly relied on the value in /etc/debian_version when > > It is not a fucking configuration file that you edit. > It is supposed to be read only. > Only a craz

Re: Xfce4 - uninstalled pulseaudio - no volume control for alsa for the panel

2018-07-05 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:08:05 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > you might want to have a look at pnmixer. > > It works with both pulseaudio and plain alsa and should work with any > > DE's system tray. > > Sounds great. By default, it simply starts, in XFCE, in the tray. > > The man page needs a p

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:27:44PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > (1) You foolishly relied on the value in /etc/debian_version when It is not a fucking configuration file that you edit. It is supposed to be read only. Only a crazy idiot would manually edit the file that tells you what version

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Joe
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 14:57:03 -0500 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I am rightly accused of relying too heavily on /etc/debian_version to > detect my running release. But it seems clear > to me that the "right", canonical way to detect this is to query the > installed package base to extract a version/r

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:16 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > So surely there is an > > "approved" tool for doing that. Hopefully OTHER THAN > > apt, aptitude, synaptic or apt-get; ideally simpler and easier to > > script than that.

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I am rightly accused of relying too heavily on /etc/debian_version to > detect my running release. But it seems clear > to me that the "right", canonical way to detect this is to query the > installed package base to extract a ver

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I am rightly accused of relying too heavily on /etc/debian_version to detect my running release. But it seems clear to me that the "right", canonical way to detect this is to query the installed package base to extract a version/release number from a package name and/or version. So surely there is

Re: Kernel upgrade = freeze on boot (linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64)

2018-07-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:02:15 +0200 Guillaume Clercin wrote: Hello Guillaume, >I upgrade nvidia-driver to version 390.67-2 and I can boot without >option "slab_common.usercopy_fallback". Thanks for all your input on this, Guillaume. If you hadn't pointed out the workaround, I'd have been well a

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 12:57:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 12:42:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:06:22AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > But if you're a sysadmin who has a script that wants/needs a version > > > *number* for any reason, th

Re: Kernel upgrade = freeze on boot (linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64)

2018-07-05 Thread Guillaume Clercin
Le jeudi 5 juillet 2018, 08:25:15 CEST Ric Moore a écrit : > On 07/04/2018 09:12 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > > On 07/02/2018 04:49 AM, Guillaume Clercin wrote: > >> You need to update "/etc/default/grub" and add parameter to boot with. > >> In this > >> file, you need to edit the line starting with GRUB

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 12:42:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:06:22AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > But if you're a sysadmin who has a script that wants/needs a version > > *number* for any reason, then /etc/debian_version is the safest file > > to modify. > > I strong

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:06:22AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > But if you're a sysadmin who has a script that wants/needs a version > *number* for any reason, then /etc/debian_version is the safest file > to modify. I strongly disagree. The safest file to modify would be the broken shell script

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/5/18, Dave wrote: > > On 7/5/18 9:18 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: >>> after hibernation the terminal will not wake ( apparently, no signal ) >>> >>> the computer wakes, the keyboard lights up. >>> >>> I just installed deb 9.4 amd / the bios wa

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 11:11:19 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/5/18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:18:38AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: > >> > > >> > af

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 11:53:45 (+0100), Joe wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:09:36 + (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > > > > > The problem I'm looking at is that the Debian testing/unstable > > releases do not have a version number and are not going to be > > receiving one any time soon (the tradition

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/5/18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:18:38AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: >> > >> > after hibernation the terminal will not wake ( apparently, no signal ) >> > the co

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:33:52AM -0400, Dave wrote: > > > I cannot SSH in to this sytem. > > I have tried Ctrl Alt F1 or F2 does not work. You'll need to reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del should work. -dsr-

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Jul 2018 at 12:58:21 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > On 05/07/18 03:53, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 04 Jul 2018 at 13:18:14 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 02/07/18 05:31, David Wright wrote: > >>> On Sun 01 Jul 2018 at 22:44:17 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > On 28/06/18

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread Dave
On 7/5/18 10:23 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:34:48AM -0400, Dave wrote: On 7/5/18 9:18 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: after hibernation the terminal will not wake ( apparently, no signal ) the computer wakes, the keyboard lig

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:18:38AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: > > > > after hibernation the terminal will not wake ( apparently, no signal ) > > > > the computer wakes, the keyboard lights up. > >

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:34:48AM -0400, Dave wrote: > > On 7/5/18 9:18 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: > > > after hibernation the terminal will not wake ( apparently, no signal ) > > > > > > the computer wakes, the keyboard lights up. > > > > >

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread Dave
On 7/5/18 9:18 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: after hibernation the terminal will not wake ( apparently, no signal ) the computer wakes, the keyboard lights up. I just installed deb 9.4 amd / the bios was just updated. By terminal, do you mean mo

Re: Fwd: terminal will not wak after hibernation

2018-07-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:33:12PM -0400, Dave wrote: > > after hibernation the terminal will not wake ( apparently, no signal ) > > the computer wakes, the keyboard lights up. > > I just installed deb 9.4 amd / the bios was just updated. By terminal, do you mean monitor? If so: 1. ctrl-alt-F

Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-05 Thread deloptes
Alex Gould wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, at 3:08 PM, deloptes wrote: >> Alex Gould wrote: >> >> > I imagine I will need to fix some settings for initramfs, grub, >> > crypttab, fstab, or something, but I'm not sure how to proceed. >> >> I would compare content of new and old initrd >> >> lsinit

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 10:09:29AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 04 Jul 2018 at 09:55:54 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > > Sorry, but I thought a "configuration file" was supposed to > > influence the behaviour of _software_ in some way. Are files which > > only provide info for humans also co

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-05, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:09:36 + (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > >> >> The problem I'm looking at is that the Debian testing/unstable >> releases do not have a version number and are not going to be >> receiving one any time soon (the tradition of not according a number >> t

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Joe
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:09:36 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > > The problem I'm looking at is that the Debian testing/unstable > releases do not have a version number and are not going to be > receiving one any time soon (the tradition of not according a number > to these two releases being of the utmo

Re: Debian testing - release number

2018-07-05 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-05, Richard Hector wrote: > > Equally, if I want to know what the time is, I can ask you. > If you don't know, I can tell you. > Then I can ask you, and now you'll know, and I'll find out. > > Right? > > We must be looking at different problems. > > I'm assuming that if you're trying to