Re: Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-11 17:43, Olivier wrote: On 2020-11-11 18:59, Felix Miata wrote: Thanks for the offers of help. Any competent Linux or BSD user understands that copying a USB flash drive with a live Linux distribution and a diagnostic application to a raw image file is easy. Apparently, Seaga

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-11 Thread dmacdoug
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 06:58:56PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-11-11 at 17:57, mmdebmail2...@marwedels.de wrote: > > > On Wednesday 11 November 2020 07:06:31 The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> At a glance, this doesn't look like it means the program thinks the > >> file isn't present, but that

Re: Celeron vis a vis Pentium (was: An old box running Debian 8)

2020-11-11 Thread Long Wind
On Thursday, November 12, 2020, 5:24:49 AM GMT+8, Felix Miata wrote: Celeron is a budget family of Intel processors, based upon Pentium II, III, 4 and newer Pentium processors. Pentium II Celeron means a Celeron based upon the Pentium II family, the oldest family of Celerons. OP probably

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread riveravaldez
On 11/11/20, Felix Miata wrote: > Charles Curley composed on 2020-11-11 13:43 (UTC-0700): > >> Also consider a lightweight desktop such as XFCE. But I would >> be surprised if that solution helped. > > Why do people keep claiming XFCE is a lightweight? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvJOXypAbk

Re: Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-11 Thread Olivier
Hi David, > We tried to contact you by phone xx, but were unable to reach > you. We understand that you are requesting a binary image of Seagate > SeaTools Bootable available. We regret this, but it is not possible for > us to generate this, the tools we have certain features and some t

Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-11 Thread David Christensen
debian-user & freebsd-questions: Follow-up from Seagate regarding my previous thread. David Forwarded Message Subject: Regarding your case number 10724899[ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ] Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 20:05:19 + (GMT) From: discsupp...@seagate.com To:

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-11-11 at 17:57, mmdebmail2...@marwedels.de wrote: > On Wednesday 11 November 2020 07:06:31 The Wanderer wrote: > >> At a glance, this doesn't look like it means the program thinks the >> file isn't present, but that it thinks the file is in an invalid >> format. > >> Have you confirmed t

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-11 Thread mmDebMail2020
> On Wednesday 11 November 2020 07:06:31 The Wanderer wrote: > > At a glance, this doesn't look like it means the program thinks the > > file isn't present, but that it thinks the file is in an invalid >> format. > >> Have you confirmed that this file is in fact a valid PNG, and can be >> opened a

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
Charles Curley composed on 2020-11-11 13:43 (UTC-0700): > Also consider a lightweight desktop such as XFCE. But I would > be surprised if that solution helped. Why do people keep claiming XFCE is a lightweight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvJOXypAbk -- Evolution as taught in public schools,

Re: Celeron vis a vis Pentium (was: An old box running Debian 8)

2020-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2020-11-11 20:44 (UTC): >On Thursday, November 12, 2020, 1:45:18 AM GMT+8, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running... >...PS: Pentium II and Celeron are two processors. Celeron is a budget family of Intel proc

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:40:50 +0100 Miroslav Skoric wrote: > I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) > running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very > slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try > (if possible at all) to upgrade

Re: Error from dpkg via apt-get.

2020-11-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/11/20 10:00 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > More about wicd later.  This is a more immediate problem. > > An attempt to install a package begins as expected. > For example apt-get install exim4 retrieves exim4-base and > etc.  Then preconfigures. > > Then this. > > Selecting previously unse

Re: MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/2020 15:42, Nicolas George wrote: Tony van der Hoff (12020-11-11): It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented

Error from dpkg via apt-get.

2020-11-11 Thread peter
More about wicd later. This is a more immediate problem. An attempt to install a package begins as expected. For example apt-get install exim4 retrieves exim4-base and etc. Then preconfigures. Then this. Selecting previously unselected package exim4-config. dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, ab

MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented out. Now, this is all very well, and I'm sure there are good reasons for it,

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
Miroslav Skoric composed on 2020-11-11 17:40 (UTC+0100): > I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running > ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after > starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at > all) to upgrad

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread Linux-Fan
Miroslav Skoric writes: I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any experience with

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:40:50PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham > radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting > GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to > up

An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any experience with such old boxes? Misko YT7M

[solved] Re: lpr stange behaviour

2020-11-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Hm. Looking into the Postscript files, tst.ps has one page and tst2.ps has two. So it seems to work as intended. Why do you expect tst2.ps to only yield one page? hi Tomas, you are perfectly right: I used the wrong tool (xv) to display the file. I

Re: lpr stange behaviour

2020-11-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:41:36PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have 2 postscript files, tst.ps and tst2.ps. (cf attached files) > with: lpr -P pdf tst.ps, I get a 1 page tst.pdf > with: lpr -P pdf tst2.ps, I get a 2 pages tst2.pdf > Can anybody help to solve this mystery? Hm. Looking

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
> - use a USB wireless dongle instead of your integrated wireless card. OK, I will try that and I will let you know how it went I have no other option, so I will have to offer myself as some sort of guinea pig and waste time/effort exploring such territories Thank you very much, lbrtchx >

lpr stange behaviour

2020-11-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I have 2 postscript files, tst.ps and tst2.ps. (cf attached files) with: lpr -P pdf tst.ps, I get a 1 page tst.pdf with: lpr -P pdf tst2.ps, I get a 2 pages tst2.pdf Can anybody help to solve this mystery? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel tst.ps Description: PostScript document tst2.ps

Re: MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database > files residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an > error, unless /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has > ProtectHome=true commented out. > Now, this is all very well, and I'm sur

Re: MariaDB database under /home

2020-11-11 Thread Nicolas George
Tony van der Hoff (12020-11-11): > It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files > residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless > /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented out. > > Now, this is all very well, and I

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 November 2020 07:06:31 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-11-11 at 06:12, Malte Marwedel wrote: > > Hello, > > since recently, several applications (firefox, pavucontrol, > > pidgin...) fail to load images with gtk. > > This happens when logging in as different user too, so its unlikely

Re: Local shared storage configuration

2020-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 nov 20, 10:50:29, Didar Hossain wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:59:52AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 03 nov 20, 17:34:48, Joe wrote: > > > > > > Those of us who use NTFS do so deliberately to provide compatibility > > > with Windows. It's not that long ago that Linux NTFS

Re: Local shared storage configuration

2020-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 nov 20, 09:23:07, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > On Mi, 11 nov 20, 08:44:18, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> > >> > On Ma, 03 nov 20, 17:34:48, Joe wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Those of us who use NTFS do so deliberately to provide compatibility > >>

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-11-11 at 06:12, Malte Marwedel wrote: > Hello, > since recently, several applications (firefox, pavucontrol, pidgin...) > fail to load images with gtk. > This happens when logging in as different user too, so its unlikely this > is a setting in the ~ directory. > The error message is as

GTK can't load images

2020-11-11 Thread Malte Marwedel
Hello, since recently, several applications (firefox, pavucontrol, pidgin...) fail to load images with gtk. This happens when logging in as different user too, so its unlikely this is a setting in the ~ directory. The error message is as following: $ pavucontrol (process:13818): Gtk-WARNING *

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 10 novembre 2020 à 14:20:06 UTC+1, Albretch Mueller a écrit : [...] > // __ nach installation: ls -l "/lib/firmware/b43" [...] > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31176 Nov 7 17:59 ucode11.fw [...] > // __ journalctl | grep -i firmware > Nov 07 17:44:06 debian kernel: acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware

Re: turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread 황병희
Dear Michael, "Michael Morgan" writes: > ... not to receive email? Use Gmane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane Sincerely, Gmane fan Byung-Hee -- ^고맙습니다 _和合團結_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 09:44:45AM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:13:39AM -0600, Michael Morgan wrote: > >> Dear friend, > >> > >> > >> > >> A simple and silly question: how to subscribe to this mail list and set up > >> not to receive email? I only found

Re: turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread Kamil Jońca
writes: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:13:39AM -0600, Michael Morgan wrote: >> Dear friend, >> >> >> >> A simple and silly question: how to subscribe to this mail list and set up >> not to receive email? I only found a digest option when subscribing. > > Hmmm. What advantage do you expect from

Re: turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 nov 20, 09:38:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:34:41AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 11 nov 20, 02:13:39, Michael Morgan wrote: > > > > > > A simple and silly question: how to subscribe to this mail list and set up > > > not to receive email? I only foun

Re: Local shared storage configuration

2020-11-11 Thread Kamil Jońca
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Mi, 11 nov 20, 08:44:18, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU writes: >> >> > On Ma, 03 nov 20, 17:34:48, Joe wrote: >> >> >> >> Those of us who use NTFS do so deliberately to provide compatibility >> >> with Windows. It's not that long ago that Linux NTFS support w

Re: turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:34:41AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 11 nov 20, 02:13:39, Michael Morgan wrote: > > > > A simple and silly question: how to subscribe to this mail list and set up > > not to receive email? I only found a digest option when subscribing. > > As already mentioned

Re: turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 nov 20, 02:13:39, Michael Morgan wrote: > > A simple and silly question: how to subscribe to this mail list and set up > not to receive email? I only found a digest option when subscribing. As already mentioned, you can post (to all Debian lists) without being subscribed. You might w

Re: Building my own packages

2020-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 nov 20, 12:27:48, Victor Sudakov wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > > > > The problem is I don't need a ton of information :-) I need to hear from > > > someone who has already done that for themselves: "I use such and such > > > tools, and publish my repo this way..." > > > > Well, I use deb

Re: turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:13:39AM -0600, Michael Morgan wrote: > Dear friend, > > > > A simple and silly question: how to subscribe to this mail list and set up > not to receive email? I only found a digest option when subscribing. Hmmm. What advantage do you expect from being subscribed wit

Re: Building my own packages

2020-11-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 12:27:48PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > deloptes wrote: [...] > > You have to rebuild all dependencies if you rebuild one package. You simply > > can not just build and replace a package in production environment without > > testing it, making a backup or whatever. > >

turn off receiving email

2020-11-11 Thread Michael Morgan
Dear friend, A simple and silly question: how to subscribe to this mail list and set up not to receive email? I only found a digest option when subscribing. Thank you very much. Michael

Re: Building my own packages

2020-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 nov 20, 12:15:07, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > It's strange that there is nothing (or I have not found yet) as > intuitive and working mostly OOTB like FreeBSD's poudriere. I'm guessing Debian is primarily addressing users who are happy with getting the packages pre-compiled for them. Th

Re: Local shared storage configuration

2020-11-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 nov 20, 08:44:18, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > On Ma, 03 nov 20, 17:34:48, Joe wrote: > >> > >> Those of us who use NTFS do so deliberately to provide compatibility > >> with Windows. It's not that long ago that Linux NTFS support was a bit > >> flaky, so we don't

Re: Local shared storage configuration

2020-11-11 Thread Kamil Jońca
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Ma, 03 nov 20, 17:34:48, Joe wrote: >> >> Those of us who use NTFS do so deliberately to provide compatibility >> with Windows. It's not that long ago that Linux NTFS support was a bit >> flaky, so we don't do it solely by our own choice. > > One use case that is sig