Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Chris Fisichella a écrit :   Using the BIOS to emulate Native Mode IDE is making the machine behave better. What was the previous mode ? AHCI, RAID ? I at least reached a grub> prompt. So, I think it found the disk. Finally. :) How is that better than bef

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Brian a écrit : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: grub rescue> ls returns a single blank line. Which dowsn't look very healthy. GRUB doesn't see any disks. Indeed. To be honest, I don't even see how this can possi

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Chris Fisichella : Quoting Brian : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? grub

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Brian : On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +, Chris Fisichella wrote: Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ? grub rescue> grub rescue>

Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Pascal Hambourg : Chris Fisichella a écrit : I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64 on an HP dc5850. The install went fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads and reports: error: no such disk Before displaying the boot menu or after starting a boot

Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes

2015-02-13 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I'm trying to install 7.8.0-AMD64  on an HP dc5850. The install went fine. After it asked me to remove the DVD so it could reboot, Grub loads and reports: error: no such disk I booted into rescue mode using DVD 1, went to a shell and ran: # fdisk -l /dev/sda boot   

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Jack Chuge : Chris Fisichella 於 2015-2-13 9:50 寫道: Quoting Jack Chuge : I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Jack Chuge : I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the other hand, I'm a newby to it. Any support is appreciated. -- I like

Re: '2' characters, rapid succession, in every dialog

2015-01-10 Thread Chris Fisichella
Oh shoot. I do see it in Windows. It takes a while to manifest itself, by I can see my password dialog has been filled in for me. Sorry to bother you all, this is not a Debian issue. Best, Chris Quoting Chris Fisichella : This time without HTML encoding...sorry about that. Hi, I am

'2' characters, rapid succession, in every dialog

2015-01-10 Thread Chris Fisichella
This time without HTML encoding...sorry about that. Hi, I am trying to install 7.7.0 on a Dell Inspiron. It previously had (Debian) 6.0.6 and it ran well. On this install, I could not load Gnome or KDE because they were both too sluggish. I did notice in KDE 22 kept poppi

'2' characters, rapid succession, in every dialog

2015-01-10 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I am trying to install 7.7.0 on a Dell Inspiron. It previously had (Debian) 6.0.6 and it ran well. On this install, I could not load Gnome or KDE because they were both too sluggish. I did notice in KDE 22 kept popping up in text entry boxes. I tried to install the LXD

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
Ralf Mardorf : That's the culprit: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2389): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Error enumerating temporary authorizations: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.EnumerateTemporaryAuthorizations() on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi Ralf, Thanks for the debugging help. That makes sense about X being a little messed up, since I was installing X libraries last night. I'll attach the output to those commands. I am seeing X-type errors in .xsession-errors. This, in particular I think is the smoking gun: (polkit-gnome

gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
I thought I had a good system. I was installing software from tarballs and putting them in /usr/local/. That worked well. Yesterday, I tried to install various versions of pcb-20110918. Among the commands I executed were sudo apt-get install libglw1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev libgtkglext-dev

Re: pkg-config not returning correct version number - help please

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Fisichella
Alberto Luaces : > Chris Fisichella writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I did something to cause pkg-config to not return the correct >> version number. I issue: >> >> $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' >> Requeste

pkg-config not returning correct version number - help please

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I did something to cause pkg-config to not return the correct version number. I issue: $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' but version of Fontconfig is 2.10.2 This is after I (believe I) successfully installed from sources fontcon