Re: Print Settings issue

2020-01-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 11:50:13 +0800 kaye n wrote: > Printing service not available. Start the service on this computer or > connect to another server. > > Also the Add button is greyed out. > > Is this normal? How do I add a printer? It's an Epson printer, if it > matters. I have the best succe

Print Settings issue

2020-01-06 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends! I have successfully installed: debian-live-10.2.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso onto my laptop computer. If I open Print Settings, I get the following message on its GUI Printing service not available. Start the service on this computer or connect to another server. Also the Add butt

Re: how to create debian live usb

2020-01-06 Thread kaye n
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 4:44 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > kaye n wrote: > > it seemed ok, but this is what gparted is showing: > > First partition is a mere 2.88MB FAT32 partition. The rest is > unallocated > > partition, 14.43gb. Obviously it failed again. > > Not necessarily. > As said, t

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 04.01.2020 15:54, skrev john doe: [mail] without ncurses? ... I also need to configure IMAP and SMTP access, is there a MUA which does IMAP SMTP that does not rely on ncurses? nmh (and its various front-ends) do not depend upon ncurses. There are front-ends written in emacs-lisp (mh-e)

Re: errors installing new kernal

2020-01-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/6/20 5:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2020-01-06 16:28 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Updating Debian Sid today.. a new kernel was part of the installation..apt spit out a couple of pages of this error: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open buil

Buenos dias, Plan de Empleados 2020

2020-01-06 Thread Samantha Figueroa Salas
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Re: errors installing new kernal

2020-01-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-01-06 16:28 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Updating Debian Sid today.. a new kernel was part of the > installation..apt spit out a couple of pages of this error: > > > > depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could > not open builtin file > '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_q

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:33:25PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Why can't you just "apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics"? Is the machine lacking a network connection? You don't have to reinstall from scratch for this. Thanks. I have been using synaptic for so long that I forgot about apt-ge

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 ian 20, 20:22:14, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:12:45PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Sounds like you need to install firmware-amd-graphics. It's in the > > non-free section, so make sure you've enabled non-free and contrib. > > I did that when setting up the m

errors installing new kernal

2020-01-06 Thread Frank McCormick
Updating Debian Sid today.. a new kernel was part of the installation..apt spit out a couple of pages of this error: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_q9Lba2/lib/modules/5.4.0-2-amd64/modules.builtin.bin' depmod:

[solved] Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:58:06PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:33:25PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Why can't you just "apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics"? Is the machine lacking a network connection? You don't have to reinstall from scratch for this. Thanks

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > I have found, in troubleshooting complex systems, that blaming > all the working things for the failure of the non-working thing > doesn't lead to good results. I am not sure what you mean exactly, but everyone is allowed to have his or her point of view.

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 02:11:52PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Based on this, it sounds like the X server is starting and then dying quickly. The next step would be to find its log file -- either ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log depending on stuff. (EE) open /dev/dri/card

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:12:45PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: Sounds like you need to install firmware-amd-graphics. It's in the non-free section, so make sure you've enabled non-free and contrib. I did that when setting up the mirror (which is debian.org via my approx server). Again, I have

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:22:14PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:12:45PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Sounds like you need to install firmware-amd-graphics. It's in the > > non-free section, so make sure you've enabled non-free and contrib. > > I did that when se

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread ghe
On 1/6/20 10:48 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:42:46AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: >> That's funny:  I installed Buster on a Laptop just last week via >> netinst, and >> selected xfce (Expert Install menu), and got lightdm.  What's >> different with >> the Original Post

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:00:10PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > It might also be helpful to show the output of "lspci -nn" > > VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, > Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7540D] [1002:9991] > > > > output of "dmesg | grep -i firmware" > >

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 05:48:24PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Why be imprecise like this? Why not type out the exact error message? Here is a transcript from the screen of about a half of the lines displayed (offhand, I do not

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:01:24PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 05:48:24PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Why be imprecise like this? Why not type out the exact error > > message? > > Here is a tr

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Brian
On Mon 06 Jan 2020 at 09:42:46 -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 4:18 AM ghe wrote: > > > > > > > > On Jan 6, 2020, at 01:37 AM, Russell L. Harris > > wrote: > > > > > > I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified > > > xfce. The system boots but no lo

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 05:48:24PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > P.P.S. Typing "startx" at the CLI returns an error message, something > like "xserver not available"... Why be imprecise like this? Why not type out the exact error message? Anyway, it *maybe* sounds like X isn't installed. I

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:42:46AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 4:18 AM ghe wrote: > On Jan 6, 2020, at 01:37 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified > xfce. The system boots but no login screen or GUI

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 07:54:44 +0100 > john doe wrote: > >> Yes there is, I connect to a VM using SSH and my Windows screenreader >> does not like curses interface and maybe .other interface(s) as well > > Since there are plenty

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:00:38PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Related to above (but I guess only trims content, not headers) is the > Debian package t-prot - a tool written for mutt but according to the > package description should also be usable with mailx. That does sound like a good ide

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Dan Ritter
deloptes wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Can you have pulseaudio on your system to make desktop environments happy > > and disable pulseaudio and run using alsa and jack? ??I got information > > uninstalling pulseaudio is not an option with gnome but disabling > > pulseaudio may work. > > I

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Greg Wooledge (2020-01-06 18:50:30) > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:43:40AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 07:54:44 +0100 > > john doe wrote: > > > > > Yes there is, I connect to a VM using SSH and my Windows > > > screenreader does not like curses interface and maybe .

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:43:40AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 07:54:44 +0100 > john doe wrote: > > > Yes there is, I connect to a VM using SSH and my Windows screenreader > > does not like curses interface and maybe .other interface(s) as well > > Since there are plenty of

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 07:54:44 +0100 john doe wrote: > Yes there is, I connect to a VM using SSH and my Windows screenreader > does not like curses interface and maybe .other interface(s) as well Since there are plenty of programs out there that use curses or ncurses, perhaps a more elegant solutio

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can you have pulseaudio on your system to make desktop environments happy > and disable pulseaudio and run using alsa and jack?  I got information > uninstalling pulseaudio is not an option with gnome but disabling > pulseaudio may work. I think all modern applications shou

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can you have pulseaudio on your system to make desktop environments happy > and disable pulseaudio and run using alsa and jack? I got information > uninstalling pulseaudio is not an option with gnome but disabling > pulseaudio may work. > The wiki claims you

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can you have pulseaudio on your system to make desktop environments happy and disable pulseaudio and run using alsa and jack? I got information uninstalling pulseaudio is not an option with gnome but disabling pulseaudio may work. --

Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?

2020-01-06 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Jan 2020 at 12:42:05 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > Clod Turner composed on 2020-01-05 15:40 (UTC): > > > no matter what options you try to select in the > > partitioning dialogue, the installer will always reformat swap and > > therefore swap gets a new UUID. > > Not true. There's anoth

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
On another system I found pulseaudio blocking speech-dispatcher when festival was used for screen reader output. Pulseaudio works for sound but spd-say part of speech-dispatcher which produces speech gets blocked by pulseaudio. I proved this by removing pulseaudio and choosing alsa as the output

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

2020-01-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > Most bluetooth adapters work when adding nonfree blobs to the mix. > > > > Not to belabor a trivial point, but I wondered whether "natively" (about > whose definition I didn't really reflect when first reading the OP) is > actually

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting john doe (2020-01-06 15:55:12) > On 1/6/2020 8:14 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I appreciate this thread - for me Steve's lumail was new info worth > > a closer look! > > > > I currently use "afew" - a notmuch frontend ising Urwid to draw. > > > > On my laptops I use interimap - a more e

Re: unable to update

2020-01-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On 06/01/2020, Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: > shirish शिरीष a écrit : >> addition at bottom :- >> >> On 06/01/2020, shirish शिरीष wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> This is my /etc/apt/sources.list - >>> >>> >>> Debian testing ### >>>deb

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-06 Thread john doe
On 1/6/2020 8:14 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting john doe (2020-01-06 07:54:44) >> On 1/4/2020 6:12 PM, Steve Kemp wrote: As far as I can tell, Mutt uses the ncurses interface >>> >>> Yes. >>> Can I use Mutt without ncurses? >>> >>> No. >>> If no, is my only alternative Sup

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 4:18 AM ghe wrote: > > > > On Jan 6, 2020, at 01:37 AM, Russell L. Harris > wrote: > > > > I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified > > xfce. The system boots but no login screen or GUI appears. Alt-F4 > > allows me to log in and reboot or shutdo

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:16:28PM -, Curt wrote: > > systemctl stop timidity.service > > systemctl disable timidity.service > > > > would do the trick. > > BTW, it's a long-standing bug. > > 2014: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745373 > 2018: > https://bugs.debian.org/

Re: unable to update

2020-01-06 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
shirish शिरीष a écrit : > addition at bottom :- > > On 06/01/2020, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> This is my /etc/apt/sources.list - >> >> >> Debian testing ### >> deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib >> no

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-06, Selim T Erdoğan wrote: >> >> Try "systemctl stop timidity.service" >> >> After upgrading to buster my sound stopped working as usual and then >> based on stuff I read on this list, I tried the above command, which >> solves it, until a reboot. (I di

Re: unable to update

2020-01-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
addition at bottom :- On 06/01/2020, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear all, > > This is my /etc/apt/sources.list - > > > Debian testing ### > deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib > non-free > deb-src http://cdn-fa

unable to update

2020-01-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
Dear all, This is my /etc/apt/sources.list - Debian testing ### deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free #

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-06, Selim T Erdoğan wrote: > > Try "systemctl stop timidity.service" > > After upgrading to buster my sound stopped working as usual and then > based on stuff I read on this list, I tried the above command, which > solves it, until a reboot. (I didn't investigate further.) > I supp

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 09:18:53PM +0100, Yoann LE BARS wrote: > > > As someone else mentioned, possibly some other process is keeping the > > audio device busy. 'lsof | grep /dev/snd/' (as root) should help. > > Yes, why have I not done this before? > > # lsof | grep /dev/snd/ > lsof: WA

Re: buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread ghe
> On Jan 6, 2020, at 01:37 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified > xfce. The system boots but no login screen or GUI appears. Alt-F4 > allows me to log in and reboot or shutdown. XFCE doesn't have a GUI login; you have to instal

Re: apple mini

2020-01-06 Thread ghe
> On Jan 5, 2020, at 02:54 PM, mick crane wrote: > > yes I know this is Debian user list > yes I know that apple is unix. > I got an apple mini to give to somebody > to clean it up is that > "userdel" > "makeusr" or something like that ? > mick > -- > Key ID4BFEBB31 Plain old dd'l fill a

buster xfce fails to start

2020-01-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
I just installed Buster via netinst on an amd desktop. I specified xfce. The system boots but no login screen or GUI appears. Alt-F4 allows me to log in and reboot or shutdown.

OT: Apple Flame War Ahead (Was Re: apple mini)

2020-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-01-05, mick crane wrote: > yes I know this is Debian user list > yes I know that apple is unix. > I got an apple mini to give to somebody > to clean it up is that > "userdel" > "makeusr" or something like that ? > mick https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496 Of course, if your brother-i