Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thomas Schmitt wrote on 5/6/22 13:24: Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on this list. Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ? I am 83. First desktop was an IBM PC running IBM DOS Version 1, I think. Also saw my firs

Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

2022-04-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
The Wanderer wrote on 4/21/22 17:14: On 2022-04-21 at 14:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16: When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I could copy/paste between host and vm and access host

Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

2022-04-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16: When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks in the vm. And zfs file systems worked. The main problem was that dpkg would

What happened?

2022-04-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks in the vm. And zfs file systems worked. The main problem was that dpkg would kill the system trying to setup linux

Copy/paste between host and KVM/windows 10 guest??

2022-04-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
It doesn't work for me and the suggested solutions I have found are referring to a linux guest. TIA for pointers, suggestions, solutions! Denniis

dpkg --configure -a crashes system

2022-02-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
I can't install/upgrade because I get the message E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. When I run the dpkg command I get one message Setting up linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64 (4.19.208-1) then within a few seconds the system crashes

Form filling, etc.

2021-05-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings, My bank and credit company use javascript or something similar to build the login screen so my password manager can't find the user-id and password fields to fill them in. The fields don't show up in the downloaded source code or in the source code so that is no help. Can anybod

Re: old red cables cause Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Felix Miata wrote on 1/13/21 5:21 PM: Michael Howard composed on 2021-01-13 22:57 (UTC): David Christensen wrote: Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:55:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6 Make sure you

Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure out which drive they are occurring on. I get two messages: [174384.704895] sata_sil :05:00.0: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x address=0xcf99c100 flags=0x] [174384.705153] AMD-Vi: Event logged [I

Re: Monitor resolution wrong

2021-01-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote on 1/9/21 6:22 PM: On 10.01.2021 04:08, Dennis Wicks wrote: Felix Miata wrote on 1/9/21 3:33 PM: Dennis Wicks composed on 2021-01-09 15:00 (UTC-0600): When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is 1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot

Re: Monitor resolution wrong

2021-01-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Felix Miata wrote on 1/9/21 3:33 PM: Dennis Wicks composed on 2021-01-09 15:00 (UTC-0600): When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is 1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot into kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64. Also, when I look at the xfce display settings when I have -13

Monitor resolution wrong

2021-01-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is 1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot into kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64. Also, when I look at the xfce display settings when I have -13 booted it has some generic display listed and only the 1024x768 res. When I am b

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux

Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive? FYI, I have the system disk in sata-1, the drive on sata2 is

Re: Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

2020-09-08 Thread Dennis Wicks
Kushal Kumaran wrote on 9/7/20 7:31 PM: Dennis Wicks writes: Greetings! Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 and vice versa? Assuming you are using qemu-kvm to run your VM, the search keyword would be SPICE. You need to have the appropriate devices

Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

2020-09-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings! Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 and vice versa? Many TIA! Dennis

Re: Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Fabien Roucaute wrote on 9/5/20 1:40 AM: Le 05/09/2020 à 01:57, Dennis Wicks a écrit : I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software? Many TIA! Dennis Either the ISO or the CD-ROM need to be on the hos

Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software? Many TIA! Dennis

Re: Error importing gpg key - Solved!

2020-05-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Reco wrote on 5/16/20 6:14 PM: sed -i '/^keyserver-options/d' ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf Thanks! Solves the problem!

Error importing gpg key

2020-05-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
The tor website says to use the command gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrow...@torproject.org When I do that I get an error message gpg: keyserver option 'ca-cert-file' is obsolete; please use 'hkp-cacert' in dirmngr.conf I have searched the net and man pages and I c

kvm by example

2020-04-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Found a web page that guides you step by step through defining a VM and installing Windows 10 in it. Make a note of this or save it some where in case you or a friend needs it! >> https://getlabsdone.com/10-easy-steps-to-install-windows-10-on-linux-kvm/ << Worked great for me!

kvm CM how to attach existing hdd partition

2020-04-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Well, I have my VM created and installed Windows 10 in it, and everything windows seems to work just fine. Now, how do I make existing partitions available to the Windows system? Can't find anything recent that appears to address the situation. Many TIA! Dennis

Running virtual systems

2020-02-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; The last time that I ran any virtual systems virtualbox and other software was the only way to go. Now I see that there is support in hardware for running virtual systems directly. I am running Buster on AMD Ryzen. What is the best way to run virtual systems, and where can I find s

Best file system to use?

2020-02-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? I have been using xfs but that is based on info from many years ago. Many TIA! Dennis

Re: How to configure e-net port again -- SOLVED (sort of)

2020-01-31 Thread Dennis Wicks
Michael Stone wrote on 1/31/20 2:00 PM: On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:27:06AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: john doe wrote on 1/31/20 1:00 AM: On 1/31/2020 2:48 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I

Re: How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-31 Thread Dennis Wicks
john doe wrote on 1/31/20 1:00 AM: On 1/31/2020 2:48 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it was but it How did you try to change your e-net to use dhcp? wasn't picking up all the

Re: How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-31 Thread Dennis Wicks
Daryl wrote on 1/30/20 7:52 PM: On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:48:36 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it was but it wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP server, specifically t

How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it was but it wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP server, specifically the IP addr. Now it doesn't work at all. How can I run through the setup/init process that it we

vnc 64bit-32bitor Buster to Bullseye

2019-10-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a vanilla 64-bit install of Buster which claims to be Debian 10.1. I am trying to vnc from there to my old 32-bit machine which is running Bullseye (don't know what it claims to be). Using tightvncserver on the 32-bit side and xtightvncviewer on the 64-bit side I have mana

mount weirdness reloaded

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings once again; Tomorrow morning I am going to reboot and see if my problem happens again. If you have some suggestions on what info to gather then let me know. Bear in mind that during the boot process my system is pretty much unresponsive for the hour or so until the window manager

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Wright wrote on 8/8/19 9:04 AM: On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 08:19:22 (-), Curt wrote: On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that in fact it had not. Nothing

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Curt wrote on 8/8/19 3:41 AM: On 2019-08-08, Curt wrote: On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other te

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Curt wrote on 8/8/19 3:19 AM: On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests told me the same thing. &qu

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 1:58 PM: Hi, more ideas: exit value, verbous mode. mount -v /dev/sdc /wa1 echo $? A nominally successful mount command would yield 0 as "$?". Maybe -v yields some extra insight. Have a nice day :) Thomas Thanks, Thomas! I'll put a note in my fstab so

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Wright wrote on 8/6/19 1:48 PM: On Tue 06 Aug 2019 at 12:18:21 (-0500), Dennis Wicks wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 10:30 AM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. So what do you get from these

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Richard Hector wrote on 8/6/19 12:42 PM: On 7/08/19 5:31 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 8/6/19 10:34 AM: I didn't fully understand your fstab, but is there a typo -- wa11 vs. wa1? No. My current config is;    /wa1 -> wa11 ( soft link )    /wa11    ( <

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
the paths that I have starting with "/wa1/..."! On Tuesday, August 06, 2019 11:09:32 AM Dennis Wicks wrote: Requested info attached: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. Regards, and Thanks! Dennis Andrei POPESCU wrote

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Felix Miata wrote on 8/6/19 10:33 AM: Dennis Wicks composed on 2019-08-06 10:09 (UTC-0500): I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 What is output from ls -ld /wa*/ ? wix@dgwicks:/$ ls -ld /wa*/ drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa1/ drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa11

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 10:30 AM: Hi, Dennis Wicks wrote: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. So what do you get from these shell commands ? I am currently running with "ln -s /wa11 /wa1" so this isn'

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Requested info attached: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. Regards, and Thanks! Dennis Andrei POPESCU wrote on 8/6/19 1:06 AM: On Lu, 05 aug 19, 15:33:57, Dennis Wicks wrote: It seems that something in the mount process does

mount weirdness

2019-08-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
I recently rebooted after an upgrade that generated "Jul 28 17:13 initrd.img-4.19.0-5-686-pae" and when I was finally U&R I discovered that a mount didn't happen. (I am on Debian 10 Bullseye and my last kernel resulted in "Jul 18 17:23 vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-686-pae".) I have mount points /w

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/29/19 1:15 AM: On Vi, 28 iun 19, 11:26:43, Dennis Wicks wrote: andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM: On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on with the boot process

Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-06-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings, I have apache2 installed on my local machine with a bunch of virtual hosts that I use for test and development of html, wordpress, etc. It works fine to access the virt hosts locally, but I want to access them from other systems on my local network; windows/IE of various versions,

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM: On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on with the boot process? You could start by attaching your /etc/fstab and copy-pasting the output of 'lsblk -f'

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Gene Heskett wrote on 6/17/19 11:49 AM: On Monday 17 June 2019 10:54:19 am Dan Ritter wrote: [big snip!] And short of commenting every line in /e/i.d/avahi-* out, I don't know how to stop that PITA from [/big snip] Cheers, Gene Heskett Gene; No need for such butchery! Just insert a state

Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-05-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; During the boot process there are several mount "jobs" started, and they all finish/fail with two messages; Dependency failed for ... Timeout waiting for ... that is except for root. I removed all the mounts for user partitions from fstab and just left the mounts

Problem: Slow Boot -- Hibernation?

2019-05-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; First off, I am running Debian Buster/Sid (that's what it says!) and the kernel is 4.19.0-4-686-pae. 32 bit system, 4 Gig of memory (3.xx usable!), IDE disks. My boots are getting slower and slower. I'll start from the top. The first thing that happens is I get a message R

Need help making new boot vol

2019-01-15 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger device but I think I need to run grub to actually make the disk boot. All of the writeups that I can find are way too old or just old enough that the file names for a lot of things aren't the same as what I have. I am running

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greg Wooledge wrote on 10/26/18 3:16 PM: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:13:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> sudo apt show XYZ > > For the record, you don't need to be root to use apt show, or apt-cache show. > > > Right you are! I guess it has bec

Help with gitlab

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; So far everything I have wanted to get from git has had a button for "download zip file" and everything worked great. I am trying to get a package that doesn't have a download link. Anybody know the secret command to get the source in some usable format? I have tried the regular rt-clk

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM: > Many man pages end with: >> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo >> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly >> installed at your site, the command >> >>     info XYZ >> >> should give you access to the complete manual. >

Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

2018-10-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Mariusz Gronczewski wrote on 10/10/18 8:17 AM: > Hi, > > On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of > user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser" > > In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, > which is pointless

Where is xfce.org?

2018-09-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
What has happened to xfce.org? It seems to have disappeared and left no tracks.

Re: Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 09/27/2018 06:40 PM: > I notice that there is available two different kernels; > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae > > and > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae > > I am running on a Pentium 4. > > Which one of these should I be

Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
I notice that there is available two different kernels; linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae and linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae I am running on a Pentium 4. Which one of these should I be using? And just for curiosities sake, why? TIA! Dennis

VPN suggestions?

2018-07-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house that are all on a local network. And suggestions, hints, warnings? TIA!! Dennis

thunderbird migration problem

2018-05-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When TB starts up it *creates* a .icedove directory even though there is a valid .thunderbird directory. This seems to be an error according of the migration docs that I can find. Then when I shutdown and startup again I get a big message about a migration problem because there is both

xfce problems

2018-03-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
I use xfce and until a few days ago my name, the clock and a few other things were at the right of the top panel and the app icon and the window icons in the current workspace were at the left. All of a sudden everything slides over to the left of the panel and changes size depending on how many wi

XFCE problems

2018-03-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
I use XFCE and usually my name, the clock and some other stuff is at the right of the top status(?) bar and the App icon and window names are at the left. And they stay there. Something has changed. everything is bunched up to the left and changes in size depending on how many windows I have in the

How to mount or link as extention of fs?

2018-03-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings! I have separated my /home file system from root so I can install new systems without clobbering it. To make it most useful is there any way I can mount, link, whatever, it so that it appears to be an extension of, or included in, /home? That is not just another mount on the root fs. TI

phpmyadmin ... need help!

2017-05-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
How do I get the setup procedure to run? I use a url of 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/setup like I found in the docs but it keeps asking for a user and password. I have tried many combos that I have found: root, admin, pma, phpmyadmin. I tried using localhost in the url but it gets changed to www.localhost

Re: Why can't I install wine?

2017-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sven Joachim wrote on 05/06/2017 03:25 PM: > On 2017-05-06 14:48 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > >> I am running Jessie and it is up-to-date. When I try to >> install wine I get: >> >>> The following NEW packages will be installed: >>> fonts-horai-umef

Why can't I install wine?

2017-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am running Jessie and it is up-to-date. When I try to install wine I get: > The following NEW packages will be installed: > fonts-horai-umefont{a} fonts-unfonts-core{a} libcapi20-3{a} > libgphoto2-port12{a} libosmesa6{ab} p7zip{a} wine wine1.9 > wine1.9-i386{ab} winetricks{a} > 0 packages

Need help with Pidgin

2017-05-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
I installed Pidgin from the repository but I can't get it to work. I have setup my user id, and that seems to work. But when I enable that user it never connects. Everything I try indicates that it is not making connection with the chat server. Does anybody have any ideas? I have searched for fi

Did I blow my processor?

2017-02-20 Thread Dennis Wicks
I built myself another computer and it wouldn't boot up. No messages or anything. I finally discovered that I missed plugging in the 12V power to the MoBo. I did that and it still won't boot up, and still no messages diaplayed on the screen or any other indication of life. Have I ruined my pr

Can I use more than one nic?

2017-02-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
I find myself with several unused NICs (network interface cards) and some empty ports on my switches. Would it be beneficial to have more than one network connection on a system? If so, what would I do with it, and how would I set it up? Pointers to tutorials and how-to's would be nice! Ma

What file system to use?

2017-02-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am going to install some more disks and I was wondering which file system to use. I have several ext? and a few with Reiserfs. Is there a better choice than Reiser now? Also, is there any way to convert from my existing fs to the recommended one? BTW, I am running "Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jess

[Solved] NFS msg: Unable to find suitable address

2017-01-20 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 01/19/2017 10:01 AM: The directory is exported as: /znfs/edrv/ *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,root_squash) Contrary to the documentation a single "*" does not work to allow world access! Even though exportfs displays that it thinks that it does. exportfs

Re: NFS msg: Unable to find suitable address

2017-01-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Kent West wrote on 01/19/2017 10:07 AM: On Jan 19, 2017 10:03 AM, "Dennis Wicks" mailto:w...@mgssub.com>> wrote: This is what happens: sudo mount //robin/znfs/edrv -o user=,password= /mnt Unable to find suitable address. What happens if you us

NFS msg: Unable to find suitable address

2017-01-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
This is what happens: sudo mount //robin/znfs/edrv -o user=,password= /mnt Unable to find suitable address. The server is Jessie 8.7 and NFS-V4 (I think!) The directory is exported as: /znfs/edrv/ *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,root_squash) And the mount is: > /dev/sdf1 on

Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files

2016-12-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 12/17/2016 07:36 PM: I am trying to install Qt on Debian Thanks for all the help! All that was required was to set TMPDIR to point to a different tmp directory in a partition with more room!

Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files

2016-12-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 12/17/2016 07:36 PM: I am trying to install Qt on Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 and I get a message that there is not enough disk space to store temporary files. It needs 580+ meg and only has 300+ meg. After searching here and there I tried entering the command sudo

Help! -- Note enough space to store temporary files

2016-12-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am trying to install Qt on Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 and I get a message that there is not enough disk space to store temporary files. It needs 580+ meg and only has 300+ meg. After searching here and there I tried entering the command sudo mount -o remount,size=1G tmpfs /tmp whi

Re: off topic Question of the day..

2016-07-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Doug wrote on 07/10/2016 10:22 PM: I've seen several places where this definition is shown, so it must be correct. If you Google for paper weight, there will be at least one site that mentions paper weight in pounds and also in grams / cm-squared, which may make sense to the Europeans reading th

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

2016-03-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sven Arvidsson wrote on 03/09/2016 03:46 AM: On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 09:51 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: The display manager is most likely crashing. You need to examine logs and figure out why. Sorry, X is probably crashing! If the display manager was crashing you wouldn't be able to log in :)

Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

2016-03-08 Thread Dennis Wicks
I fill in user-id and password, click "Sign In" and the screen goes blank, flashes a few times, then comes right back to the sign in screen. Trying to log on with root does the same thing, even though I am supposed to be able to do it. I can logon at terminal screens (ctl-alt-f1 etc) with eith

How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

2016-02-24 Thread Dennis Wicks
I wish I could remember all of this stuff! What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. Many TIA! Dennis

apttude program list

2016-02-24 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am installing deb on several different machines and partitions. Is there any file that contains a list of all installed packages that I could use to install all non-standard packages on the new installs so they start out all the same? Many TIA! Dennis

Help! System crashes and locks up.

2016-02-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a system I just put together. New pwr sup, mobo, and 1 new SATA disk, 1TB. 2Gig memory. Processor is a Phenom 9950 4 core. Running Deb 8.3.0 Jessie, new install. Every so often it crashes and locks up, and the monitor screen has many narrow horizontal lines, mostly the bac

Need help with disk config.

2015-12-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk. It will have 4x1TB SATA drives, 4x250GB IDE/PATA drives and all the memory it can use and a fast AMD socket AM2 processor. I'd like some suggestions on how to format/

Re: Scrolling problem, all apps.

2015-12-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Petter Adsen wrote on 12/17/2015 01:25 AM: On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:35:15 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am running Jessie and XFCE. I have a continuing problem with scrolling that occurs with all programs/applications. I am used to clicking in the scroll bar to move it a page, more

Scrolling problem, all apps.

2015-12-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am running Jessie and XFCE. I have a continuing problem with scrolling that occurs with all programs/applications. I am used to clicking in the scroll bar to move it a page, more or less. Now it jumps all the way to the top or bottom of the scroll area, whichever direction I am

Need ftp program with site-to-site capability

2015-11-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Been looking but haven't found it yet. My hosting has changed servers and I have to move all my stuff pretty soon. I need a ftp program that will do site-to-site transfers without having to download to my PC first then upload to the destination. Anybody know of such a one? I used

How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res monitors of 800x600 at best. Also, they are all in the basement, which is a t

Double-click doesn't work in many apps

2015-08-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
I'm running Jessie and double-click-to-open doesn't work in IceDove,FileManager, Libre, every place so far where I am used to it working previous to Jessie, it now doesn't. Anybody have any insight on this? TIA, Dennis

Fall-back after "upgrade"?

2015-07-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings! I am considering upgrading from Jessie 8.1 to Stretch (testing) to see if some problems disappear. Is there any procedure for backing out the upgrade just in case things "don't work out"? TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: bash-complete errors

2015-07-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Wright wrote on 07/27/2015 12:12 AM: Quoting Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com): Frequently when I run a command in a terminal window (Debian 8.1 Xfce) I get a bunch of errors. /bin/bash: _parse_usage: line 16: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /bin/bash: _parse_usage: li

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Mart van de Wege wrote on 07/27/2015 12:49 AM: Gary Dale writes: On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale writes: Upgrading to sid is asking for trouble. Sid isn't called unstable for nothing. I know. I really do. I only have been running Debian since potato. On the other

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote on 07/26/2015 03:40 PM: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:27:50 -0500 John Hasler wrote: I want to be able to set the time if for some reason the clock is completely incorrect (this occurred from time to time in the past). Use your wristwatch. Or better, your cellphone or G

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Paul E Condon wrote on 07/26/2015 10:14 AM: On 20150726_0252-0700, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: Also years ago, and still today, there is approx which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In addition to setting the local clock to the

Icedove does not open messages on double-click??

2015-07-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am running fairly vanilla Jessie 8.1 and now Icedove does not open messages on double-click, only on , at least 90% of the time anyway. And "F" does not go to the next message unless the current one was opened with double-click. Any hints, tips, etc.? TIA! Dennis -- To UNSU

Re: bash-complete errors

2015-07-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Mark Neyhart wrote on 07/23/2015 02:10 PM: On 07/23/2015 08:45 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings, Frequently when I run a command in a terminal window (Debian 8.1 Xfce) I get a bunch of errors. /bin/bash: _parse_usage: line 16: syntax error near unexpected token `(' This will happen i

bash-complete errors

2015-07-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings, Frequently when I run a command in a terminal window (Debian 8.1 Xfce) I get a bunch of errors. /bin/bash: _parse_usage: line 16: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /bin/bash: _parse_usage: line 16: ` -?(\[)+([a-zA-Z0-9?]))' /bin/bash: error importing function definition for `_

What do I use for Flash on firefox?

2015-01-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
I have searched and searched and I can't find a definitive solution. Since Flash is no longer supported or updated by Adobe, what do I use instead and how do I get it installed so firefox and Sea Monkey can use it? Thanks for any help and/or suggestions. TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

How to find dirs with single item

2014-05-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Can't quite figure out how to do this. I'd like to be able to scan a Volume or directory and find all directories that have only one item in them. Either directory or file. Any ideas?? TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: tar message

2013-03-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Andreas Rönnquist wrote the following on 03/19/2013 06:11 PM: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:37:42 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: What does it mean when tar displays message "file changed as we read it"? Is anything wrong? BTW All instances involved jpg files. Are you by any chance adding al

tar message

2013-03-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
What does it mean when tar displays message "file changed as we read it"? Is anything wrong? BTW All instances involved jpg files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is ri

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is ri

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is ri

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