why key repeating fails?

2019-03-19 Thread Long Wind
holding down a key is equal to repeatedly pressing a keythis usually work in stretch at firstbut after some time, it mysteriously fails it can't be solved by logging out and logging again how to troubleshoot it?? Thanks!

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread Hans
No, this is not want I want. However, i know ybout kernel params. Best Hans > How about no blanking at all? > consoleblank=0 > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread Felix Miata
Hans composed on 2019-03-19 12:08 (UTC+0100): > on my EEEPC, debian/testing, i386 since last update the blank time of the > console (TTY1 - 5 ) is too short (1 Minute). > I checked with another system, but all configurations are the same. > How can I increase the time, until the console is blan

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > I had the hope, there might be someone pointing me to something else, I > missed somewhere. :) by blank you mean the screen goes dark or the time it waits for password? For me blank is the screen goes dark and this is setting the blanking of the screen - nothing to do with the conso

Re: Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

2019-03-19 Thread Qiming Ye
Have you tried: # su - chomwitt - Qiming On 2019-03-19 10:57+0200, aprekates wrote: > In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that: > > root@s165:~# pwd > /root > > root@s165:~# su chomwitt > chomwitt@s165:/root$ > > ..and from there i cant even execute ls. > > $ man ls > man: can't chan

Re: a lot mail

2019-03-19 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Mar 2019 at 03:45:23 (+0330), Iman P. wrote: > I have received lots of mails in my inbox. I checked account setting, but > didn't find any item about it. > how can I cancel this flow of e-mails? Assuming you're talking about debian-user, you could unsubscribe at https://lists.debian.org/

Re: youtube video downloader for chrome

2019-03-19 Thread riveravaldez
On 3/18/19, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 12:36:37PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >> thank you David for your suggestion. It's exactly what I was doing but >> I don't understand why the gui version works perfectly on my intel >> desktop >> (i.e. I have the youtube video downloade

Re: Strange VLC upgrade

2019-03-19 Thread songbird
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Good morning* > > Some days ago I made an upgrade and now VLC (3.0.6-0+deb9u1) is very > strange: > > 1) If I am with the curser on the VLC window, it show not more the >arrow, but the "Resize Cursor" > > 2) If I have several programs open and more then the half of my

Re: Debian 9 Printer stopped working

2019-03-19 Thread floris
isaac schreef op 2019-03-19 13:27: I went to print 3 pages it printed 2 only and stopped. The printer was Canon MD2160. I then tryed to print from HP laserjet Professional P1102W but still no printing. The the printers have been working fine for a long time and now just stopped. can you help me

Re: a lot mail

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Sutton
On 20/03/2019 00:15, Iman P. wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam > > I have received lots of mails in my inbox. I checked account setting, but > didn't find any item about it. > how can I cancel this flow of e-mails? > > lots of thanks > > Peyvand I am happy for me to correct me on this. If you want to uns

a lot mail

2019-03-19 Thread Iman P.
Dear Sir/Madam I have received lots of mails in my inbox. I checked account setting, but didn't find any item about it. how can I cancel this flow of e-mails? lots of thanks Peyvand

Re: Strange VLC upgrade

2019-03-19 Thread deloptes
Michelle Konzack wrote: > the list continues endless! Hi Michelle, I gave it up on VLC long time ago. ported kplayer to TDE and this is it. I hope someone else will help, but I was in the same situation >10y ago. regards

Re: Buster: do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce
Works perfectly! Thank you very much. Bruce On 3/19/19 10:37 AM, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: I added this line as very first line in /etc/rsyslog.conf :msg, contains, "No irq handler for vector" ~ Basically it means: if message contains "No irq handler for vector" then discard. Once you add th

Buster alpha5 -- was Buster: do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

2019-03-19 Thread ghe
On 3/19/19 8:37 AM, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > It's only a temporary solution until the progem gets fixed, but at > least it allows you to continue doing your work. I installed Buster alpha5 the other day, and the LTO5 tape drive quit working, intermittently. Troubleshooting a tape drive is *slo

Re: what to do when Buster's apt won't purge?

2019-03-19 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Ritter composed on 2019-03-19 06:34 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> What does it take to make telnet* go away? Current pae kernel is broken, >> so I need to get linux-image-686 installed. > Option 1: install update-inetd, then try to purge again. > Uninstall update-inetd. > O

Re: Buster: do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

2019-03-19 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
I added this line as very first line in /etc/rsyslog.conf :msg, contains, "No irq handler for vector" ~ Basically it means: if message contains "No irq handler for vector" then discard. Once you add the line, restart rsyslog: systemctl restart rsyslog It's only a temporary solution until the pr

Re: Debian 9 Printer stopped working

2019-03-19 Thread mick crane
On 2019-03-19 12:27, isaac wrote: I went to print 3 pages it printed 2 only and stopped. The printer was Canon MD2160. I then tryed to print from HP laserjet Professional P1102W but still no printing. The the printers have been working fine for a long time and now just stopped. can you help me p

Re: what to do when Buster's apt won't purge?

2019-03-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/19/19, Dan Ritter wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: >> Anything I try to do ends with >> >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) on account of >> >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/telnetd.postinst: 8: >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/telnetd.postinst: update-inetd: not found >> >> or other failure

Debian 9 Printer stopped working

2019-03-19 Thread isaac
I went to print 3 pages it printed 2 only and stopped. The printer was Canon MD2160. I then tryed to print from HP laserjet Professional P1102W but still no printing. The the printers have been working fine for a long time and now just stopped. can you help me please. Isaac Shields

Re: How to slow more copying of files ?

2019-03-19 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 3/19/19 11:40 AM, Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: Le 19/03/2019 à 11:29, Pierre Couderc a écrit : Big copy operations (with cp) may be slow, but it is not my problem. But too,  they slow the full computer ! Is there a way to slow the copy which is not a priority task to let the computer breath

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread Hans
> > > I also know, that the blank time is hardcoded in the kernel (both got > > > the same kernel version) and that it can be set either by a kernel > > > parameter or using a setterm command in a login.def. > > Oh, it sounds like you already knew the answer before you asked us. > For the benefit

Re: How to slow more copying of files ?

2019-03-19 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 3/19/19 11:39 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:29:36AM +0100, Pierre Couderc wrote: Big copy operations (with cp) may be slow, but it is not my problem. But too,  they slow the full computer ! Is there a way to slow the copy which is not a priority task to let the co

Re: Buster: do_IRQ: 1.35 No irq handler for vector

2019-03-19 Thread Bruce Halco
Can you share what changes you made to rsyslog.conf? That's not something I've ever messed with. Thanks. Bruce On 3/18/19 11:07 AM, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: Same problem here. For me the messages appear *only* when I start the Arduino IDE and stops as soon as I close it. I suspect is somethi

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:28:43PM +0100, Martin wrote: > May be, it is bash's TMOUT what you are looking for. No, that makes the shell exit. It doesn't do anything to the monitor. Try looking at setterm(1), perhaps? > Am 19.03.19 um 12:08 schrieb Hans: > > I know of setterm, and I checked /etc

Re: blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread Martin
May be, it is bash's TMOUT what you are looking for. Am 19.03.19 um 12:08 schrieb Hans: > Hi folks, > > on my EEEPC, debian/testing, i386 since last update the blank time of the > console (TTY1 - 5 ) is too short (1 Minute). > > I checked with another system, but all configurations are the sam

Re: How to slow more copying of files ?

2019-03-19 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 19/03/2019 à 11:29, Pierre Couderc a écrit : Big copy operations (with cp) may be slow, but it is not my problem. But too,  they slow the full computer ! Is there a way to slow the copy which is not a priority task to let the computer breath ? I have tried to use "nice" but without ef

blank time in console too short

2019-03-19 Thread Hans
Hi folks, on my EEEPC, debian/testing, i386 since last update the blank time of the console (TTY1 - 5 ) is too short (1 Minute). I checked with another system, but all configurations are the same. How can I increase the time, until the console is blanking? I know of setterm, and I checked /et

Re: How to slow more copying of files ?

2019-03-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:29:36AM +0100, Pierre Couderc wrote: > Big copy operations (with cp) may be slow, but it is not my problem. > > But too,  they slow the full computer ! > > Is there a way to slow the copy which is not a priority task to let > the computer breath ? This is more comp

Re: what to do when Buster's apt won't purge?

2019-03-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > Anything I try to do ends with > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) on account of > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/telnetd.postinst: 8: /var/lib/dpkg/info/telnetd.postinst: > update-inetd: not found > > or other failure messages related to broken telnet*

How to slow more copying of files ?

2019-03-19 Thread Pierre Couderc
Big copy operations (with cp) may be slow, but it is not my problem. But too,  they slow the full computer ! Is there a way to slow the copy which is not a priority task to let the computer breath ? I have tried to use "nice" but without effect. Thanks in advance. PC

Re: Choosing an image for my cloud server,

2019-03-19 Thread Steve Kemp
> I have a cloud server , but my debian seems a cloned image > and not a new installation. Common for a lot of providers; they create a "master image" and just allow that to be written to a newly provisioned server. > My provider doesnt provide a panel to choose an image at will to > install.

Choosing an image for my cloud server,

2019-03-19 Thread aprekates
Probably little off topic. I have a cloud server , but my debian seems a cloned image and not a new installation. My provider doesnt provide a panel to choose an image at will to install. A choice that i had when i had a virtual server.. Is it standard for a cloud server provider to not giving

Re: Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

2019-03-19 Thread aprekates
Thanks. It worked. Although its still strange why debian 9.8 behaves differently when i execute su foouser as root. On 19/3/19 11:21 π.μ., Qiming Ye wrote: Have you tried: # su - chomwitt - Qiming On 2019-03-19 10:57+0200, aprekates wrote: In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that:

Re: geoip and iptables

2019-03-19 Thread john doe
On 3/19/2019 8:54 AM, lists wrote: > Hi, > > In the past, we achieved this following this page: > How are you doing it now? > http://blog.jeshurun.ca/technology/block-countries-ubuntu-iptables-xtables-geoip > The above URL describes what apparently 'geoip-database-contrib' does, looks like I'll

Strange VLC upgrade

2019-03-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Good morning* Some days ago I made an upgrade and now VLC (3.0.6-0+deb9u1) is very strange: 1) If I am with the curser on the VLC window, it show not more the arrow, but the "Resize Cursor" 2) If I have several programs open and more then the half of my Thinkpad T400 memory (4 GByte) is us

Re: Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

2019-03-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:57:04AM +0200, aprekates wrote: > In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that: > > root@s165:~# pwd > /root > > root@s165:~# su chomwitt > chomwitt@s165:/root$ > > ..and from there i cant even execute ls. It's expected, su(1) says that: The current e

Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

2019-03-19 Thread aprekates
In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that: root@s165:~# pwd /root root@s165:~# su chomwitt chomwitt@s165:/root$ ..and from there i cant even execute ls. $ man ls man: can't change directory to '/root': Permission denied man: command exited with status 255: sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

2019-03-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-19, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > >> Experimental packages (by their very nature) are not backported. >> >> In any case, what good is it supposed to do for this ancient printer? > > For me it was hard decision to give up the old HP 5L, but comparing to newer > models everything was

Re: geoip and iptables

2019-03-19 Thread lists
Hi, In the past, we achieved this following this page: http://blog.jeshurun.ca/technology/block-countries-ubuntu-iptables-xtables-geoip Perhaps it helps you too. MJ On 19-3-2019 7:54, john doe wrote: Hi, I want to use geoip with iptables. I have installed the package 'geoip-database-extra'

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

2019-03-19 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > Experimental packages (by their very nature) are not backported. > > In any case, what good is it supposed to do for this ancient printer? For me it was hard decision to give up the old HP 5L, but comparing to newer models everything was outstanding - power consumption, speed, mai