Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 9 December 2024 18:18:42 CET Richard Hector wrote: > On 10/12/24 02:59, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > As the guest Pc runs Windows, I cannot try kvm/qemu. > > I've run Windows in kvm/qemu before. Bummer, I got it wrong. The host PC is windows and the guest is De

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday, 8 December 2024 23:40:36 CET George at Clug wrote: > Are you going to use Virtual Box on a number of different physical > computers? No. I use VirtualBox only on the compute of a customer that requires me to work on his Windows PC. VirtualBox is my preferred solution to work with Linux

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday, 7 December 2024 07:47:24 CET George at Clug wrote: > What GPU does the computer running the virtual machine use? That is, what > brand and model is the video card on the computer running Virtual Box? AFAIK, there's no specific brand and model. Virtual box emulates VGA and SVGA [1].

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 2 December 2024 04:56:09 CET Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Were you using a Wayland session or an X11 session? > > Wayland On my side, kde6 with wayland does not work in a VirtualBox VM. I had to switch to X11 HTH

Re: How to force Hewlett Packard ScanJet 2410c work?

2024-06-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 12:45:41 CEST Dmitry wrote: > Cannot make this device work. It worked at the Manjaro out of the box, now I > am a Debian User and need to make it run here. See https://fostips.com/setup-hp-printer-scanner-debian12/ HTH

Re: A replacement for gkrellm

2023-10-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday, 28 October 2023 13:18:13 CET gene heskett wrote: > It seems Bill Wilsons site for gkrellm stuff has expired. This site is still active: http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/ All the best

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 19:06:12 CEST Tom Browder wrote: > One major thing I use my windows host for is using my HP multifunction > laser printer to scan to pdf to save locally. I have just installed > gscan2pdf and sane but I am still missing something. HP scanner often requires the inst

Re: How to install the kernel 5.4.14 (source and headers) packages on Debian buster.

2023-09-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 1 September 2023 13:16:31 CEST Mario Marietto wrote: > Hello to everyone. > > I've just installed Debian Buster on my ARM Chromebook,using this image : > > https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/releases?page=12 > > He says that the image is based on the kernel 5.4 and it is. Inf

Re: Emacsclient bug in sid

2023-09-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 1 September 2023 04:37:37 CEST Wang Yizhen wrote: > Whenever I finished editing, I would delete the frame while keeping the > emacs running as daemon in the background. And next time when I wish to > edit anything, I would use the emacsclient command in the terminal. > `emacsclient -c -

Re: pan nntp via stunnel.

2023-06-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday, 28 May 2023 23:44:38 CEST pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > The only email address visible is mine and it's correct. What bad > email address? You can try to run pan with --debug option in a terminal. Pan output will give more details on what's going on when sending the mail. HTH

Debian: perl6 package is replaced by raku package

2022-05-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi Some of you may have wondered by perl6 package vanished from Debian Bookworm (aka testing). Belatedly following the rename of Perl6 language to Raku, I've renamed most Debian packages related to Raku. Among them, perl6 package was renamed raku. You can now install raku package to get rakud

Re: runc CVEs in docker.io

2021-08-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mercredi 4 août 2021 14:41:02 CEST Gareth Evans wrote: > > According to runc security tracker, a fixed runc is available for buster, > > albeit in buster's security repository. > > Thanks Dominique, do you have a link for this please? Sorry, my bad. I misread the report. All the best

Re: runc CVEs in docker.io

2021-08-02 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:07:53 CEST Gareth Evans wrote: > Given that these are all fixed in Bullseye (and at least the grave > apt-listbugs issue has been fixed in eg Ubuntu since March 2020 [1]) why > not also Buster? According to runc security tracker, a fixed runc is available for buster, a

Re: Zoom.

2021-04-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:21:56 CEST Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > I just had to do this AGAIN yesterday. I download the dotDEB file then > "dpkg -i" it. It always fails due to missing dependencies. You should use gdebi. This tool checks and installs required dependencies. HTH

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On jeudi 14 janvier 2021 00:14:16 CET Michael Stone wrote: > A more likely source of problems is the fact that the SATA connector is > actually spec'd for a really low number of cycles. I also had trouble on an Olimex card. I got error when the cable is not coming straight in the connector. Whe

[solved] Re: Ipv6, but no Ipv4 after reboot

2021-01-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
Looks like this problem is gone with latest kernel (5.10). Thanks for your help. Dod

Re: Ipv6, but no Ipv4 after reboot

2020-12-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 10 December 2020 10:34:38 CET Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > This could be the source of your problems. My suggestion would be to > > delete both connections, and create a new one from scratch. > > More in detail, at start Network Manager is using one connection and on > reconnect the othe

Re: Ipv6, but no Ipv4 after reboot

2020-12-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:43:01 CET Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Did something change or has it "always" been like this? What about other > systems on the same network (if any). I had this problem on a tower on the same network. It's now gone (or flapping...) I currently have this is issue on

Ipv6, but no Ipv4 after reboot

2020-12-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi I've run in a weird problem. After a reboot, only Ipv6 address is setup on my wired network card. The workaround is fairly simple: disconnect and reconnect with network manager. Note that Ipv4 is brought up after suspend/resume Still, this is cumbersome. I've found no obvious problems in th

Re: Mounting a USB device

2020-10-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi On Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:51:06 CET Mick Ab wrote: > If a filesystem in /etc/fstab has a noauto entry, can that filesystem only > be mounted manually using the mount command or > is there any chance that it will be automatically mounted by > usbmount ? I wrote a blog on that topic a few y

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: > The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS > selection, Boot up sequence, login/password ( Xorg not running), startx > -> error window. So to answer your question, the message is after > login/password. Rig

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: > I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble > with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install Buster. The installation > went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the > following message: >

Re: xHCI Host Controller page faults

2020-04-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mercredi 22 avril 2020 08:05:49 CEST Jiangsu Kumquat wrote: > When I boot my computer, I get these messages: > > https://pastebin.com/6m4fa65W > > Is it a hardware issue or do I need to configure something? Looks like a known bug that can be worked around: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic

Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior

2020-01-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:03:23 CET Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > - HL-DT-ST_BD-RE_BH08LS20 > > The googled pictures resemble my GGW-H20L from 2008. Does it write BD-RE > with 2.3x speed ? > (At some time the LGs lost that extra speed of 10 MB/s versus 9 MB/s of the > competitors.) dvd+rw-medi

Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior

2020-01-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 11:22:53 CET Thomas Schmitt wrote: > So my question to all owners of optical drives which have a motor to pull in > the tray: > Does the tray stay out for clearly more than 200 seconds ? yes for my 3 drives. I gave up after 10 mns My drives are: - ASUS_BW-16D1HT_KD5IAI

Re: PRoblems uninstalling nvidia

2019-09-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 04:44:50 CEST Carlos Kosloff wrote: > Probem is I cannot uninstall old version because dpkg halts: > > Welcome to the NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux uh, no. That's not dpkg, it Nvidia's own installer. You should ask this question on nvidia user forum. Al

Re: Debian 10 Buster with Radeon FX 580

2019-07-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:23:43 CEST Esteban L wrote: > I installed Debian, but it boots to a blinking _ , otherwise dark screen. FX580 sounds more Nvidia than radeon. (and the symptom looks like nvidia driver are not loaded on an nvidia card) Can you boot in console mode and show the output

Re: why wodim is in section other os

2019-01-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 17 January 2019 08:29:34 CET Long Wind wrote: > it can write CDit more fit in section Utilities > i'm afraid wodim isn't well maintained > BTW can you recommend some dvd writing tool?i use twm, i have no kde or > gnome ...Thanks! I use xorriso to write Dvd or BR.

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mardi 24 avril 2018 18:40:55 CEST John Cunningham wrote: > I cheated and added logrotate to root's crontab as an ugly hack to get them > rotating. What is the *right* way to get it going again? I just noticed a similar problem on my system. I've installed systemd-cron and purged cron. Now sys

Re: Debian stretch -- Installation Guide?

2018-03-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 19 March 2018 16:43:21 CET Richard Owlett wrote: > It's better, but with an HTML document I can simply coerce the document > to display with a comfortably readable font and I find the existence of > functional internal links extremely useful for how I read that type of > document. This

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:12:22 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal user, > even with pulseaudio? ff59 audio works fine on my system. Can you check if ff59 is seen by pavucontrol (in Playback tab) when playing audio ?

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account, > the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago) > So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox" Can you check if "normal user" is

Re: Anyone using AMD Radeon R9 270x under Debian other than vesa drivers.

2018-02-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 11:40:49 CET terryc wrote: > i've just finshed trying amdgp, radeon 7 ati drivers under wheezy and > stretch and it is a total wipeout. All ii can get working is a copied > default single screen under vesa driver. Can you make sure that radeon kernel module is loaded ?

Re: systemd 237-1: problem starting dnsmasq

2018-02-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:12:37 CET Stefan Pietsch wrote: > Jan 31 20:58:11 debiansid systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Permission denied > while opening PID file or unsafe symlink chain: /run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid May be apparmor blocked this request. Can you check your kernel logs ? HTH --

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

2018-01-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:14:24 CET Michael Fothergill wrote: > I ran the tar -xf command: > > root@mikef-PC:/usr/src# tar -xf linux-4.14.15.tar.xz you can use 'a' for automatic and 'v' for verbose. E.g.: tar -axvf linux-4.14.15.tar.xz HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://se

Re: apt-cacher-ng / autoclean

2017-12-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 11:24:30 CET Hans wrote: > What must I do, if this is possible at all? apt-cacher-ng provides a web page to perform maintenance. Open with your favorite browser the page: http://replace-with-your-cache-host:3142/acng-report.html For more details, see https://ww

Precarious status of Shutter in Debian

2017-12-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello Debian is moving away from Gnome2::VFS [1] . This obsolete module will be removed from next release of Debian. Unfortunately, shutter, a very nice Gtk2 screenshot application, depends on Gnome::VFS, which means that shutter will be removed from Debian unless this dependency is removed f

Re: where is updatedb.conf in stretch

2017-12-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 22 December 2017 10:33:42 CET nous wrote: > I cannot locate some files, and I wanted to examine and maybe modify > updatedb.conf and do no more find it in stretch. > Where is it ? Where can I find default values and modify them? $ apt-file search updatedb.conf mlocate: /etc/updatedb.

Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 10

2017-12-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 07:30:54 CET Siju George wrote: > What is the problem? how to fix it? A quick search on google yields: https://askubuntu.com/questions/605369/mce-hardware-error-machine-check-events-logged-appears-in-syslog-what-sho#608156 HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o-

Re: VirtualBox: shared folder broken ?

2017-11-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 14:28:03 CET Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Which Debian version/branch are you using - stable/testing/unstable? > > Where did you get Virtualbox packages from? Sorry, I forgot to mention that. I'm on Debian/sid with using latest Debian packages: $ dpkg -l virtualbox* |g

VirtualBox: shared folder broken ?

2017-11-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi Since the last few days, VirtualBox can not mount shared drive because vboxsf module is not loaded. And modprobe refuses to load vboxsf: $ sudo modprobe vboxsf modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': No such device dmesg does not help in this case: [ 441.872189] vboxguest: PCI device no

Re: KDE Plasma Date & Time Format

2017-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 18 September 2017 15:59:22 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: > In KDE4 I use the long date with the short day: "Mon, September 19, 2017". > Is there an easy way to do this in Plasma5? Even better would be long > date with short day and short month: "Mon, Sep 19, 2017" Is there a > config file

Re: cgi and bash

2017-09-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 14:09:19 CEST Max wrote: > I need use html Then have your script output HTML with tags like ... HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org

Re: cgi and bash

2017-09-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 13:46:50 CEST Pol Hallen wrote: > How format output like a bash script (with newline)? You can try to set your cgi script to use text/plain content type instead of text/html HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

2017-09-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 11:07:36 CEST Luis Speciale wrote: > First impression I have is that /dev/disk (as you propose) does not > exists. Am I right? Yes. I'm out of ideas. Sorry -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- i

Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

2017-09-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:07:37 CEST Luis Speciale wrote: > unmountDisk /dev/disk1 > sudo dd if=./debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m Shouldn't that be: sudo dd if=./debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk bs=1m Assuming disk naming is the same on Mac compared to Debian, y

Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting

2017-08-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 11:46:34 CEST James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > LABEL=ExternalHD /media/ExternalHD auto defaults,noatime,auto,nofail 0 2 > > LABEL=ExternalHD /media/ExternalHD auto > > defaults,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=5,noatime,noauto 0 > > 2 > One odd thing, with those

Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting

2017-08-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 28 August 2017 14:25:15 CEST James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Can anybody advise me on how to set this thing up so that if it's > plugged in, it will mount, to a consistent mountpoint, whether anybody's > signed on to Gnome or not? And when it's inevitably replaced, its > replacement will co

Re: dhclient or network problem

2017-07-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 10 July 2017 11:28:12 CEST Franz Angeli wrote: > for example interface name eno52 (tg3, Broadcom Limited NetXtreme > BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) : I had a similar issue due to a missing firmware. I think it was on a broadcom card. Please check the kernel logs (journalctl -k

Re: systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount

2017-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 5 May 2017 18:32:09 CEST Charles Kroeger wrote: > the whole error message is: systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount > unit five /run/systemd/generator/-.mount as it already exit possible > duplicate entry in /etc/fstab? I believe this error message is correct. All HDDs in you

Re: where is usb.h?

2017-04-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:00:28 CEST songbird wrote: > Can't locate object method "nNumInterfaces" via package > > > "Device::USB::DevConfig" at ./read_usb.pl line 26, line 1. Looks like a typo in Device::USB::DevConfig synopsis: nNumInterfaces is referenced only there. On the other hand bNu

Re: upgraded config files in /lib/systemd/system

2017-02-28 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 14:01:18 CET Harald Dunkel wrote: > short question about /lib/systemd/system: AFAICS the config > files here are supposed to be overridden by local config files > in /etc/systemd/system, using the same path, as described in > systemd.unit(5) > > How can I make sure tha

Re: how to deploy common ssh_config and sshd_config settings on all hosts?

2017-02-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 2 February 2017 09:40:48 CET Harald Dunkel wrote: > Problem: Deploying a custom ssh authentication scheme common to > all Debian hosts in the lan appears to be apita, esp. since the > next openssh upgrade might put the default config files upside > down again. Another possibility is t

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 9 January 2017 22:49:02 CET Steffen Dettmer wrote: > I'm looking at Jessie (Debian 8) man fsck. I found no refernce > to systemd. I think this is some compatiblity feature of systemd. See systemd.mount(5) and systemd.swap(5) Compatiblity is done by systemd-fstab-generator HTH --

Re: New version of lcdproc in experimental

2017-01-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 9 January 2017 20:28:46 CET Brian wrote: > What will happen to a bug report which is clearly an upstream issue and > tagged as such which is sent to the BTS? I forward manually upstream issue to upstream bug tracker. That process does not scale and is often late... All the best --

Re: Upgrade Wheezy to Jessie - gave up waiting for root device

2017-01-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 6 January 2017 14:38:01 CET Steven Kauffmann wrote: > When booting I get the following output: give up waiting for root device ... Looks like the kernel boots but cannot find the disk that contains '/' > I can still boot into the old kernel (3.2.0-4-amd64). While in grub menu, check t

New version of lcdproc in experimental

2017-01-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello After a pause of 2 years, lcdproc [1] project is restarting. lcdproc is a LCD display driver useful for Pc based home cinema. It supports quite a lot of LCD displays. Upstream has prepared a release candidate that is now available as a Debian package [2] on experimental [3]. Please test

Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 22 September 2016 22:27:14 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:30:10 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > > > If you're not sure of the syntax of ssh config file, you can use > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > cme=command not found. > > > > You need to install cme packag

Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:29:53 CEST Greg Wooledge wrote: > wooledg@wooledg:~$ apt-cache show cme > N: Unable to locate package cme > E: No packages found Ah sorry, cme package is available on testing and sid. On Jessie, cme command is delivered by libconfig-model-perl. I don't remember h

Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:30:10 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > If you're not sure of the syntax of ssh config file, you can use > > > 'cme edit ssh' to perform this task. > > cme=command not found. You need to install cme package: $ sudo apt install cme This will install al required depende

Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 10:18:55 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > su gene -c "sshfs gene@shop:/ /sshnet/shop" > su gene -c "sshfs gene@lathe:/ /sshnet/lathe" > su gene -c "sshfs gene@GO704:/ /sshnet/GO704" Others have explained how to generate keys. Then you can simplify the process by setting

Re: xaralx package

2016-09-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 15 September 2016 14:24:37 CEST Michael Fothergill wrote: > What I am I doing wrong here? Could you run: $ file xaralx and $ ldd xaralx All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.

Re: rsync deletion target files

2016-06-24 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 24 June 2016 21:10:35 Dominique Dumont wrote: > I have tested though. Oops, my bad: I have NOT tested the options I suggested. Sorry about the confusion All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc:

Re: rsync deletion target files

2016-06-24 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 03 June 2016 18:41:42 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > $ rsync --dry-run -vrt --delete --modify-window=1 Mail News howto ... > /mnt/pendrive/rodolfo May be rsync --dry-run -vrt --delete-excluded --delete --exclude '*' \ --include 'Mail|News|howto' /mnt/pendrive/rodolfo Theoretically, the 2

Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

2016-05-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 10:30:34 Ron Leach wrote: > I assume that I have to mount the USB storage, but where should I find > the reference for the physical device to mount? Best of all would be > to make this process 'automatic', if I could. IIRC, you can use udisks-glue on wheezy. On Jessie

Re: How to change the link to the browser in kmail?

2016-05-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 19:55:26 Hans wrote: > Hello all, > > is there a way to change the browser, which is called, when a html link is > clicked within a mail? This behavior is configured within KDE. You can change this by launching "System Settings". Then click on "Applications" , there you ca

Automount usb device with systemd (Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup))

2016-04-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 20 April 2016 15:49:00 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Anyway, in the past I've read some useful tips for using Systemd on this > list, so here's the blog post should it be of any interest: > > https://jmtd.net/log/mount_on_demand_backups/ Thanks. Here's my small contribution for a similar

Re: cannot run a node.js app using systemd on debian jessie

2016-04-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 12 April 2016 16:52:51 jstaff-emplyprep wrote: > ok, using systemctl status -l => lacks ExecStart setting >=> Executable path is not absolute, ignoring > > don't we have the full path ? what is it looking for ? May be your /usr/local/bin/node is a relative link... > if it's behi

Re: cannot run a node.js app using systemd on debian jessie

2016-04-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 11 April 2016 15:35:19 jstaff-emplyprep wrote: > $ sudo service webpage restart > Failed to restart webpage.service: Unit webpage.service failed to > load: Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status > webpage.service' for details. Could you run 'systemctl status

Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie

2016-04-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le mardi 15 mars 2016, 08:39:21 08:39:21 Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > > This option is the only way for me to burn reliably with my old BR drive > > What are the negative symptoms if you do not use this option ? The burn process DVD-DL at full speed (8x) on a plextor dvd burner apparently works fi

Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie

2016-03-24 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 15 March 2016 08:39:21 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > This option is the only way for me to burn reliably with my old BR drive > > What are the negative symptoms if you do not use this option ? I did a test on a bluray this evening without -speed option and the disk was burnt without issue

Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie

2016-03-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 15 March 2016 09:43:24 Jan Gregor wrote: > Did you experienced same also on other OS or you can write reliably at > higher speed outside linux ? I've not tried outside of Debian/unstable. All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumo

Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie

2016-03-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 15 March 2016 08:39:21 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > What are the negative symptoms if you do not use this option ? It's been a while and I don't remember the exact symptoms. Here's what I've noted at that time: # problem with plextor writer: io error on last files on DL DVD # try : 1 reduc

Re: blu ray burning with samsung se506cb in debian jessie

2016-03-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 15 March 2016 06:56:11 Jan Gregor wrote: > For burning I used growisofs with -Z /dev/sr0=image argument only. Can you > recommend arguments to growisofs or some configuration to the drive to > minimize number of wasted bd-r media ? try with -speed=1 This option is the only way for me t

Re: Verify packages?

2016-02-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello On Friday 26 February 2016 11:42:07 Hans wrote: > is there an easy way to verify installed packages against the repo? > > I want to secure, that my installed files are still the same as those in the > repo. > > Can I use apt or aptitude? You can use debsums All the best -- https://git

Re: Debian security: need recipe for blocking root ssh access AND all ssh password access

2016-02-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 17 February 2016 14:24:02 Darac Marjal wrote: > >2. after initial setup, no ssh access will be allowed via a password > > $ echo "PasswordAuthentication No" | sudo tee -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config That's a bad idea: You may end up with 2 PasswordAuthentication entries in sshd_config. Tha

Re: Debian Home Server

2016-02-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday 31 January 2016 17:25:27 heqamilus wrote: > Are there more fun task to do with an home-server? Set up a backup with another machine which is powered on every now and then. I use such a setup to backup my photos on the system of my parent in-laws (and the reverse: their photos are backe

Re: pan 0.139-4+b1 fails to start

2016-01-28 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 28 January 2016 16:07:39 Daud Daud wrote: > Since this morning's upgrade, pan (0.139-4+b1) fails to start. (Other > details at bottom) I guess that you got bitten by the compatibility issue between pan and gcc5. I'll upload a new version of this week-end with the workaround mentioned

Re: Automounting an eSata drive

2016-01-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 11 January 2016 08:17:12 you wrote: > > You can also add a x-systemd.automount option in /etc/fstab > > See systemd.mount(5) for details > > Thanks; forgot to mention: Wheezy, no systemd. On wheezy, you can try with udisk-glue. HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.c

Re: Automounting an eSata drive

2016-01-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 11 January 2016 11:31:24 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > The simplest way is probably by adding it with the user flag in > /etc/fstab (and any other flags systemd needs to boot without it > present) You can also add a x-systemd.automount option in /etc/fstab See systemd.mount(5) for details HT

Re: systemd and variable network (help needed)

2016-01-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 06 January 2016 12:45:43 deloptes wrote: > I do this with two custom init script > - network script (checks the interface and network/domain) > and updates fstab, resolv.conf + mounts nfs if 1) I do a similar task with a script located in /etc/network/if-up.d/ This i

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 23 November 2015 22:15:29 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Since xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1), Xorg log may end up in > > ~/.local/share/xorg/ > > > > I've only got xserver-xorg installed. xorg-server is the name of the source package. xserver-xorg binary packages are built from that source pack

Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

2015-11-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 23 November 2015 05:19:43 Mauro Condarelli wrote: > In my case there was NO log to /var/log/xorg.0.log. Since xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1), Xorg log may end up in ~/.local/share/xorg/ Hope this helps -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.word

Re: no SMART support for western digital drive

2015-11-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 16 November 2015 00:17:20 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > The hard drive is placed in a Dual Bay external hard drive docking > station which is connected via USB to my computer. Is that a problem? Probably. smartctl man page gives some hint. See --device option Use lsusb (may be with -v o

Re: SDXC, exFAT and all that stuff...

2015-11-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 07:43:34 Erwan David wrote: > As root I can mount through mount.exfat, but not as user. Please make sure that you are part of "fuse" group. All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc:

Re: kde5 programs crash

2015-10-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 22 October 2015 14:50:57 Ariel Molinuevo wrote: > Kate and Dolphin do not start. The output running them from a command line > is "Segmentation Fault". I had similar problems on sid yesterday. After today's dist-upgrade, kde5 programs are working. All the best -- https://github.co

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 17 October 2015 12:47:36 Miles Fidelman wrote: > For a lot of drives, the first line - raw read errors, can be very telling - > anything other than 0, and your disk is failing. Sorry, the FAQ [1] on smartmontools.org does not agree with your statement: * What details can be interprete

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 17 October 2015 14:15:52 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Can anyone please explain what it means, and whether I should be worried? You should check the drive with smartctl. See http://www.smartmontools.org/ HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http:

Re: Bug report

2015-09-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday 13 September 2015 19:53:52 Peter Gonsalves wrote: > I'm guessing my bug may have already been reported but have no idea what > categories to use for reporting so I can't check. The bug is brightness on > an HP EliteBook 8560w. The buttons adjust the app but this has no effect on > the scr

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 21 August 2015 12:37:44 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > "All packages must be signed with the GnuPG key" > > > > Either "dpkg-buildpackage without -us -uc" or debsign applied to > > the changes file. > > Will try. And also the proposal to use debuild instead of > dpkg-buildpackage, wh

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 20 August 2015 01:02:32 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If it is not too daring, then i would propose this roadmap > for refurbishing the burner corner of Debian: > > - I learn what kind of signing is meant with > http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > "All packages must be sign

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 19:38:16 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I see. The man page effect again. > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#copyright You can also use "cme update dpkg-copyright" to update debian/copyright file. See [1] for more details. [1] https://ddumont.wor

Re: Making DXF files, if possible with perl

2015-08-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 08:36:30 a...@alphanet.ch wrote: > I need to make a program (if possible in perl) which does DXF files, having > some splines. > > It seems that it's no splines in CPAN CAD::Drawing module, so I wonder what > to do... > > Have please someone an advice for me ? How

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 18 August 2015 19:58:21 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing > orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on > Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: > > i fetched the Debian source and ran dch > > apt-get source l

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello On Monday 08 June 2015 19:21:28 Dominique Dumont wrote: > > I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at > > 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in > > because > > the keyboard and mouse are being ig

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 11 June 2015 23:46:02 Alejandro Exojo wrote: > This is the whole smartctl output: > > http://paste.debian.net/220687/ > > Can I understand the following line as that the disk might be fine? > > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Details show that no bad sectors

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 11 June 2015 08:05:37 Dominique Dumont wrote: > I wonder why is a hub found instead of a keyboard ... Duh ... because I plugged the wrong cable ... This morning, the HP keyboard is recognized as soon as plugged. I don't know what changed... All the best -- https://gi

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 08 June 2015 14:24:09 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/08/2015 01:21 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > But I cannot use the keyboard. On the other hand, an old ps2 keyboard > > works fine. > Have you checked your bios for anything quirky? Ric Yes. Support for legacy usb is on

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 5 juin 2015, 20:51:01 Kevin O'Gorman a écrit : > I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at > 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in because > the keyboard and mouse are being ignored. What type or brand of keyboard and mouse a

Re: sshfs: problem with rsync

2015-04-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le lundi 30 mars 2015, 10:45:25 Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : > I'm using sshfs to copy some files from my PC to Android devices. > With the cp command, no problem, but trying with "rsync -av" > gives the error: > > rsync: rename "/gs2/mnt/sdcard/.file.txt.xK3ZiH" -> "file.txt": > Operation not p

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