Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)

2019-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 May 2019 at 11:01:58 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > Is Debian slowly becoming systemd proprietary? It would be a great > loss to Linux and its philosophy if true. But that looks to be the > direction Debian is headed. > > Once I suggested on this list when systemd first debuted with

Re: Insidious systemd

2019-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Jun 2019 at 20:53:47 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:39:41 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2019-05-29 12:01:44 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 May 2019 17:43:49 +0200 Vincent Lefevre > > > wrote: > > > > He shouldn't. I've a machine that is st

Re: Insidious systemd

2019-06-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:39:41 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-05-29 12:01:44 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2019 17:43:49 +0200 > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > He shouldn't. I've a machine that is still under sysvinit, and > > > I can install wicd without any dependency

Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)

2019-06-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:30:38 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-05-29 20:47:06 +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2019-05-28 11:18:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 May 2019 20:39:53 +0300 > > >

elinks and paypal anyone?

2019-06-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi folks, The recent paypal makeover has more objects, and fewer links that function from the keyboard. I am wondering if anyone has successfully used elinks, it is *my only* option with paypal? Thanks, Karen

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
# e2fsck -v -f /dev/vgbarley/cache e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information 8410 inodes used (6.42%, out o

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:49 PM Gary Dale wrote: > > I suggest trying gparted to read the partition table on your drive. > There may be a problem and gparted is usually pretty good at finding > partition table errors. > Since the file system is sitting on an LVM logical volume, I don't think the pa

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread mick crane
On 2019-05-31 13:20, Richard Owlett wrote: With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M I edited sources.list to read deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes When running Synaptic's Edit->Reload Package Information I receive an e

Re: Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Blair, Charles E III
> You may indeed have better luck with Ubuntu's installer if it uses the > GPU specific driver. The network installer for ubuntu did work with my hardware, so that's what's on my computer now. Thanks, anyway, for your help.

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Gary Dale
I suggest trying gparted to read the partition table on your drive. There may be a problem and gparted is usually pretty good at finding partition table errors. On 2019-06-01 1:41 p.m., Ross Boylan wrote: df says my volume is 3G, but everything else says it's 4G. What's going on and how can

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/06/2019 à 23:46, Ross Boylan a écrit : # e2fsck -v /dev/vgbarley/cache e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) /dev/vgbarley/cache: clean, 8361/131072 files, 462129/1048576 blocks You must specify -f for a complete check.

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Jun 2019 at 09:12:16 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/31/2019 01:31 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > new idea after googling and finding several examples like Dan Ritter's > > proposal: > > > > Try the "exact path" form of "suite": > > > >deb file:///home/richard/dvd

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
# df -B4096 /var/local/cache/ Filesystem 4K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vgbarley-cache778160 191713529923 27% /var/local/cache # e2fsck -v /dev/vgbarley/cache e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) /dev/vgbarley/cache: clean, 8361/131072 files, 462129/1048576

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-01, Brian wrote: > > It can happen that a line such as > > deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/main/ > > gives the error message " ... does not have a Release file > > Leaving aside the validity of the line,

Re: ISO 8601 Date/Time format in future Debian versions

2019-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 May 2019 at 01:00:27 (+0200), Garret Robinson wrote: > It is extremely frustrating to have different time/date formats scattered > throughout one's operating system. If you say so. I find different formats appropriate in different circumstances. For example, my screen clock is analogue,

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/06/2019 à 19:41, Ross Boylan a écrit : df says my volume is 3G, but everything else says it's 4G. What's going on and how can I correct it? Did you try e2fsck ?

Re: icedove corrupts accented letters

2019-06-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 26 May 2019 at 20:46:10 (+0100), Frederik AA de Jonge wrote: > since upgrading to stretch > all emails sent from icedove > have their accented letters corrupted > > email with text like this > problema com acentos > a??e??i?? > o > alterao > > is received like this > problema c

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Jun 2019 at 16:34:13 +0100, Brian wrote: > I think I will use this portion of the thread to talk to myself out > loud. :) Further musings. > The URI given in the first post is actually correct and the file > URI type is perfectly acceptable. When dvdmount in /home/richard > is accesse

Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/06/2019 à 18:58, Blair, Charles E III a écrit : A common workaround is to boot the installer in BIOS/legacy/CSM mode instead of EFI native mode. setting the GRUB variables gfxmode and/or gfxpayload to specific values (hardware dependent) before booting the kernel may fix the issue on s

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 10:41:20AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > df says my volume is 3G, but everything else says it's 4G. What's > going on and how can I correct it? > > This question concerns the total reported space, not the free space. > > The volume is an LVM logical volume on buster with an

df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
df says my volume is 3G, but everything else says it's 4G. What's going on and how can I correct it? This question concerns the total reported space, not the free space. The volume is an LVM logical volume on buster with an ext4 file system. I originally mistakenly created it as 4TB in size. Th

Re: Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Blair, Charles E III
> Well known, yes. Easily fixed, no. > A newer kernel may fix the issue. > A common workaround is to boot the installer in BIOS/legacy/CSM mode > instead of EFI native mode. > setting the GRUB variables > gfxmode and/or gfxpayload to specific values (hardware dependent) > before booting the

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

2019-06-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-05-31, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> "BR" == Brad Rogers writes: > >BR> Not from Debian. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8 > >BR> Short version: It's been removed and (to me it looks like) won't >BR> be back. > > Do they run IcedTea against the OpenJDK 11 ? > Java Web Start

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Jun 2019 at 10:39:26 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 31 May 2019 at 13:31:51 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 31 May 2019 at 07:20:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: > > >dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > > > I edited sources.list to

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/31/2019 01:31 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, new idea after googling and finding several examples like Dan Ritter's proposal: Try the "exact path" form of "suite": deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/main/ deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/contrib/ or the usual form without

Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/06/2019 à 13:51, Blair, Charles E III a écrit : I had hoped the "row of thumbnails at top of blank screen" was a well-known, easily fixed, problem. Well known, yes. Easily fixed, no. It is an issue with the graphic EFI driver. A newer kernel may fix the issue. A common workaround is t

Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

2019-06-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 01/06/2019 16:52, senthil kosapeta wrote: [...giant snip] I looked into the firmware-atheros package in Debian Stable (9), backports, testing and unstable. Only the version in unstable currently has the firmware file you need to make your wifi chip work (/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/f

Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)

2019-06-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-05-29 20:47:06 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2019-05-28 11:18:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 May 2019 20:39:53 +0300 > > > Reco wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 09:49:45AM -0700, Pa

Re: Insidious systemd

2019-06-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-05-29 12:01:44 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2019 17:43:49 +0200 > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > He shouldn't. I've a machine that is still under sysvinit, and > > I can install wicd without any dependency issue. > > What version OS you running? Fully up-to-date? GNOME? Or so

Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

2019-06-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
> The opinion is that it is a bug. See > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/06/msg0.html Thank you for the feedback. I have filed a bug report for this issue. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929834 Please note that this issue does not occur if using the slick-greet

Re: Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Blair, Charles E III
>The monitor then shows a row of what look like > tiny screen images at the top, with the rest of > the monitor all black. Crtl-Alt-F1, etc makes > changes in the tiny images at the top, but the > all-black rest of screen is unchanged. As you suggested, I changed the installer's >> linux

Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

2019-06-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 31 May 2019 at 12:19:31 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 5/31/19 11:16 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > > that, neither moving the mouse no

Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

2019-06-01 Thread senthil kosapeta
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:02 PM tv.deb...@googlemail.com < tv.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, most people on this list prefer bottom-posting rather than > top-posting, so I'll stick with the convention and post my answer at the > bottom of the message, suggesting you do the same in the future

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

2019-06-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 31 May 2019 15:55:55 + Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Hello Gian, >Do they run IcedTea against the OpenJDK 11 ? I don't run IcedTea myself. I found no need for it. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I must

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

2019-06-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 31 May 2019 at 13:31:51 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 31 May 2019 at 07:20:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: > >dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > > I edited sources.list to read > >deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib