- Original Message -
From: "Lisi Reisz"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 5:56:13 PM
Subject: Re: Sound on jessie
On Saturday 17 September 2016 14:43:04 Alan McConnell wrote:
> Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!!
- Original Message -
From: "Joe"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:47:10 PM
Subject: Re: Sound on jessie
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:47:23 -0400 (EDT)
Alan McConnell wrote:
>
> This suggests to me, and I hope to my readers he
- Original Message -
From: "Felix Miata"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 1:26:23 PM
Subject: Re: Difficulties with Firefox/iceweasel
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-17 13:05 (UTC-0400):
> I'll have to log in as root to do th
During my experimentation with Iceweasel, described in another post, I
have received warnings from the OS that /tmp was filling up. It seems
that when running a video a buffer is opened in /tmp, and /tmp fills up
rapidly. At the moment, df /tmp tells me that 3% of /tmp is used. When
I'm trying t
- Original Message -
From: "deloptes"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 12:17:55 PM
Subject: Re: Sound on jessie
Alan McConnell wrote:
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Anthony Baldwin"
> To: debian-use
- Original Message -
From: "Anthony Baldwin"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM
Subject: Re: Sound on jessie
I was having a similar problem just last week after an update>safe upgrade..
After scratching my head for several days and trying eve
For some reason, my sound doesn't work on my new machine with its present
jessie install. It worked on my old machine(which had jessie) and it
works fine here on Windoze(I use youtube to play old Bernie Sanders' speeches,
or Mozart). So what do I have to do? I can't find alsa to install, and
pul
Viva yo! I can now Copy and Paste, as a kind and knowledgeable user
prescribe.
What is below is my very own fstab, much sought after by certain parties
a while back. It has absolutely no significance or relevance for anyone
anymore, so this post can and should be Deleted/ignored.
#
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- Original Message -
From: "Felix Miata"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 10:42:22 PM
Subject: Re: NTFS access on Debian boot
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-15 21:02 (UTC-0400):
> Felix Miata composed:
>> I'll provide
- Original Message -
From: "Felix Miata"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 2:20:54 PM
Subject: Re: internet connectivity from Comcast
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-15 13:36 (UTC-0400):
> It certainly isn't DSL. I have an Ethe
- Original Message -
From: "Felix Miata"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 7:05:50 PM
Subject: Re: internet connectivity from Comcast (was: How to get Jessie to
run...)
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-14 17:11 (UTC-0400):
> My fin
- Original Message -
From: "Brian"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:09:12 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
> What is "unenlightening" to you may not be unenlightening to others;
> trust me on that. "garbage" is
- Original Message -
From: "Brian"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 1:51:50 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 11:34:31 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> From: "Felix Miata&q
- Original Message -
From: "Lisi Reisz"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 2:05:47 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
On Wednesday 14 September 2016 19:51:50 Brian wrote:
> You are probably asking the wrong question.
- Original Message -
From: "Felix Miata"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 1:44:14 AM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-13 20:50 (UTC-0400):
> when my home Debian in
2016 08:57:19 Alan McConnell wrote:
> > Warning: This E-mail is for the most part in the nature of a pushback
> > against various insinuations that have been made.
>
> Now I am going to push back Alan.
>
> If you are going to come in here and berate folks about this and that
- Original Message -
From: "Brian"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:40:11 AM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 08:57:19 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Warning: This E-mail is
un at boot time -- Problem solved
On Monday 12 September 2016 19:14:53 Alan McConnell wrote:
> Maybe I should apologize for "hijacking a thread"?
Yes, you should. It has left the person whose thread you have hijacked high
and dry. It is most definitely "not done" to hijack t
x27;t really tried simply cd-ing to e.g. /dev/sda1, which
is the partition
containing my Windoze stuff. Is that what you dual OS users do? is there some
subtle mount
command that you use? I shall be most grateful for any instructions, or even
suggestions.
Best wishes to all,
Alan McConnell
I tried to send this only to Brian, but he has set his system to
not accept messages to him. So I have to send this to the whole
List. Sorry.
- Forwarded Message -
From: "Alan McConnell"
To: "Brian"
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 3:38:06 PM
Subject: Re: How to
- Original Message -
From: "Brian"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 1:32:54 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved
On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 11:13:45 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Addendum: during my Jessie
- Original Message -
From: "Felix Miata"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 11:33:46 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-10 17:45 (UTC-0400):
> Good grief. I just wrote that I am now l
ple with a working dual boot system? I'd like a
response
from one of them(if they exist here) letting me know how it works, and
also:
what is the content of their /boot/grub/ directory.
Again: TIA.
Alan McConnell
(Please excuse my cc to Mr Cater)
- Original Message -
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 2:42:28 PM
Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:58:03PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
meone who also has a dual-bootable system(with Windows 10 and Jessie)
please tell me how you choose, at boot-time, which of your systems you wish to
boot?
TIA
Alan McConnell
of it
is because of attempts to start/stop/do something with
COMRESET. Eventually, after a minute, the boot process 'gives
up'.
What is COMRESET? What does it do? can I get rid of these
attempts?
TIA for anticipated information/help.
Alan McC
like to know why firefosESR doesn't run. And I haven't a clue why
things are, suddenly, so terrible in jessie, when they worked fine in
wheezie.
Alan
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I was alive in the wood . . ./ I am killed by the cruel ax. /
While living, I was silent, / In death I sweetly sing.
/var/log the error messages for this
failure are kept? Or perhaps someone has suggestions about what
to change in my .cache or .config directories?
Alan, whose animus against Debian is increasing hourly because of
the wretched failures of the jessie installation
--
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"Illegal instruction", I should be
most grateful. [ Only with jessie have I had to use
'tail -f' on various /var/log files, and even there I am
floundering.
Alan
--
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in
order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing.
ISP.
Do others have this problem? Is it part of the general unreliability of
jessie?
Thoughts, and possible assistance, appreciated.
Alan
--
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"St Francis! preaching to the birds! if he had really
wanted to save birds, he'd have preached to the cats."
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:21:34PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:02:25 -0400
> Alan McConnell wrote:
>
> Hello Alan,
>
> >I can't find this module on my system, presumably because it is hidden
> >in some sub-directory. I think that I'
this module on my system, presumably because it is hidden in
some sub-directory. I think that I'm actually looking for
libcanberra-gtk-module.
Has anyone else had this difficulty? do you know where
libcanberra-gtk-module is hiding?
TIA for assistance!
Alan
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tting tired of "Well, this is embarrassing!",
so I'd like to ask: how does one get firefox-esr, and what
does one do to replace iceweasel with it?
TIA for all constructive suggestion!
Alan
--
Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/
What is the diffe
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 11:15:22PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote:
> > I would be very grateful for any aid. Just to show how bad things
> > are: I try to access http://localhost:631 on my iceweasel and I get
> > the messag
on my iceweasel and I get
the message: Unable to connect.? ? ? ?Aaaagghhh!!
Alan
--
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The beauty of an object, a song, or a dance can never be altogether
intrinsic, independent of old associations and acquired understanding.
{FND} Feature Token_Method not defined
when I try the simplest festival command. I expect that there are
path difficulties involved . . .
Any help/suggestion provided will be greatly appreciated!
Alan
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"Laughter is the closest distan
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Arvidsson"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 4:24:51 PM
Subject: Re: canberra-gtk-module not loaded?
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 19:35 +, Blair, Charles E III wrote:
> I have just installed the stable jessie using netinst on
First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, containing
4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408 bytes.
Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I know I should use checksums or something
like that, but I don't know anything about that ]
Second
Problems are solved! For the answer, see below. I suspect that, for the
first time, I am making a useful contribution here that may help others.
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Fletcher"
To: "Alan McConnell" , debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, April
Assembled Wisdom!
The first and most important problem is: my iceweasel crashes instantaneously
upon
being invoked, whether from the Activities list on the LH side or from the
command
line. It was totally reliable under wheezy.
Second: my mutt, invoked from the terminal/command line. cras
New developments! When I turned my machine on this morning, I was given
a lovely blue screen with "Alan McConnell" in a box in the center and a space
for
the password just below. I typed in my password and was presented with a bunch
of
icons on the left hand side of the screen. V
- Original Message -
From: "Brian"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 3:18:49 PM
Subject: Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question
On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 16:42:35 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Well, it doesn't contain emacs
- Original Message -
From: "Brian"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2016 3:17:09 PM
Subject: Re: Modified Rapture, and a new question
On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 13:46:09 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Well, I finally got my Jessie installed! I
Well, I finally got my Jessie installed! I had to pick a different kernel than
then one
suggested, but things finally went through. I was even able to use the
partitions I had
prepared and carefully sized.
My question: how do I install "new" SW? E.g. emacs, and mutt, and
ImageMagick? These
- Original Message -
From: "David Christensen"
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:30:49 AM
Subject: Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie
On 03/29/2016 01:08 PM, Alan McConnell wrote:
> ... The _many_ install attempts crashed at
Long before I joined this List, I purchased a DVD and a thumb device from
LinuxCollections. The DVD contained the first Jessie DVD, and, I'm guessing,
the thumb device contained the rest.
I kept the same partitions that I had had on my old squeezy install.
the first was /boot, the fifth was /, th
o concerned youselves with this problem. It seems to me
that it wasn't an obvious problem given that so many
erroneous suggestions were made. I think it fortunate
that this E-list contains an expert of the quality of
Mr Mieta.
Best wishes,
Alan
--
Alan McCo
the machine will boot from a DVD if one is present,
or from a USB thumb device, if one is plugged in?
TIA for anticipated help!
Alan
--
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"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy
to be substantially true." (Sophia Loren)
t from anything but my /boot, with its functioning grub.
In other words, the computer works fine, except that it
can boot only from the SW I have in my /boot and /boot/grub
directories.
Alan
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"Women run for office to
ssie using
these purchases. But I can't if I can't get anything
to boot except the old wheezy kernels that have been
on my system for ever.
Sorry for the confusion.
Alan
--
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"Women run fo
But it does give a URL for Tech Support: register.msi.com .
There you have to sign up. I've tried to sign up, but without
success.
There you have it. I'm stymied on all fronts. Again I plea
for help!
TIA,
Alan
--
Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/
"Women run for office to
lost. ]
Thanks in advance for all help and suggestions!
Alan
--
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"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."(Bierce)
Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote:
> Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 09:34 -0500:
> > I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also
> > at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be
> > different files. I have greped "ne
x on his ancient Compaq laptop, learn
> the ins and outs of finding/installing drivers for various things,
> and teach himself some C and Python along the way - so you never
> know.
Great! I congratulate him; and you!
Best wishes,
Alan McConnell, in Silver Spring MD
>
in /etc/mailcap, and I found the line
message/rfc822; mutt -Rf '%s'; edit=mutt -f '%s'; needsterminal
I don't dare monkey with this! unless I am granted permission
by Higher Authority(initials: K.A.)
Please straighten me out! TIA,
Alan the Timid
--
Alan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Assembled Wisdom!
>
> I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my
> Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from
> Debian etch to Debian squeeze and got mutt 1.5.20. It has
> o
.conf
in a bunch of places. It isn't in /etc/X11, nor is anything
similar there, as far as I can tell.
Has this file been renamed? how does one configure X11 these
days?
TIA for anticipated help!
Alan McConnell
--
Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan
A great war leaves a c
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:34:52AM +0200, Bj?rn Michelsen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
>
> > I am starting to feel that the database of all that is one these
> > disks is not available to me. Are the disks perhaps flawed? (hard
>
hat apt-cache and aptitude work as well
as they did with my 'etch' DVDs?
TIA for anticipated help, and greetings to all!
Alan McConnell
--
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I was alive in the wood . . ./ I am killed by the cruel ax. /
While living, I wa
? at one point the
upgrade process did seem to know about my DVD apparatus. And it knows
about the DVDs. But it can't make the connection, it seems.
Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem will be very gratefully
received!
Alan
--
Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan
the issues of starting KDE. With the issues separated,
you will be able to resolve your KDE problems more
easily, I am sure.
If you need help with .xinitrc, let us know. I have a
nice one, but so do many others.
Very best wishes,
Alan
--
Alan McConnell
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:55:41PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote:
> > I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, and have purchased a 3 DVD
> > Debian etch set. However my DVD player/reader is external, attached
> >
or on my machine, and then do a minimal
install and get the rest of the stuff from the DVDs on my external
DVD reader?
Or can someone suggest a different path to this goal?
TIA for anticipated help,
Alan
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"He lies. He spies. He w
y,
often useful, that does what its name suggests: rpm2tgz.
TIA for answer.
Alan
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Pixel Analysis have US jets gone howling over country X, "surgically
[EMAIL PROTECTED] striking". Restraint is so often wisdom!
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