Can't setup a VM using SLIC data to activate Win10 in guest

2022-04-24 Thread Joao Roscoe
this. I'm using debian 11. What am I missing here? Any clues? Thank you in advance, Joao Roscoe

Re: Group ID conflicts between different distros: how to manage them with NIS?

2018-08-20 Thread Joao Roscoe
n, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:51:24AM -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > Hmmm... > > > > If I create a NIS group (with a high ID), called serial_ports, dhould I > > just, as root, chgrp /dev/ttyS0 so that it's group is serial_ports ? > > You could, and it may even work, but it wou

Re: Group ID conflicts between different distros: how to manage them with NIS?

2018-08-19 Thread Joao Roscoe
Hmmm... If I create a NIS group (with a high ID), called serial_ports, dhould I just, as root, chgrp /dev/ttyS0 so that it's group is serial_ports ? João On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 12:47 PM Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 02:48:56PM -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > >Righ

Re: Group ID conflicts between different distros: how to manage them with NIS?

2018-08-17 Thread Joao Roscoe
Right, that's best practice. But, what if I need to include a user who is defined in NIS in lp or ttyS0 group? Would going into /etc/group in *every* machine be unavoidable? João On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:42 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 01:27:32PM -0300, Joao Rosc

Re: Group ID conflicts between different distros: how to manage them with NIS?

2018-08-17 Thread Joao Roscoe
: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:36:38AM -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > I have redhat and debian machines in the same network. Users and groups > are > > controlled via NIS > > > > I have realized that redhat and debian ha

Group ID conflicts between different distros: how to manage them with NIS?

2018-08-17 Thread Joao Roscoe
I have redhat and debian machines in the same network. Users and groups are controlled via NIS I have realized that redhat and debian have different groups definitions for system resources access control. For instance, redhat machines have group lp with GID 4, while debian states that lp group is

Re: Could not find Xprint lib (libXp.so.6) in debian stretch

2018-05-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
It worked perfectly. Thank you for your time. Best regards, Joao On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Joao Roscoe wrote: > Understood. > In simple words, the easy way would be downloading the proper deb, and > using "dpkg -i" on it, right? > > João > > On Fri,

Re: Could not find Xprint lib (libXp.so.6) in debian stretch

2018-05-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
Understood. In simple words, the easy way would be downloading the proper deb, and using "dpkg -i" on it, right? João On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:14:07PM -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > Wouldn't it be risky to the s

Re: Could not find Xprint lib (libXp.so.6) in debian stretch

2018-05-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
Thank you for your attention! Wouldn't it be risky to the system installing another release's package? How should I change sources.list to allow that? Best regards, João On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:17:43AM -0300, Joao

Could not find Xprint lib (libXp.so.6) in debian stretch

2018-05-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
In my environment, I run several applications from a remote NFS filesystem, mounted at /opt/tools. Those are 32bits binaries and I'm running stretch-amd64, but multiarch appears to be solving that, so far. However, trying to run nedit (Nirvana Editor) from that mount resulted in the familiar missi

Re: Jessie: NIS breaks network ?? - SOLVED!!!!

2015-04-08 Thread Joao Roscoe
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jessie implies that you are using default that I cannot name for fear > of starting a flamewar. But it hasn't been heavily tested in > conjuction with NIS/yp. > Since I'm more at a "user" knowledge level, I am neutral about default-that sho

Jessie: NIS breaks network ??

2015-03-31 Thread Joao Roscoe
Dear Srs, I'm preparing a new jessie box (test system, preparing for deploying as soon as it gets into stable). Installed the base system, with kde and gnome, and included a small script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d to set hostname and hosts files with info from DHCP. Worked nicely. Insta

KDE's Dolphin too slow, with wheezy and NFS mounted home

2014-12-12 Thread Joao Roscoe
I'm not a big dolphin user, so this is not day-after-day annoying issue., but... Whenever I launch dolphin, the machine collapses to a crawl. After closing dolphin, everything gets back to normal. While dolphin is running, System Monitor show both CPU cores at 100% load. As soon as I close dolphin,

Re: Problems with lilypond-doc - SOLVED, for now

2014-09-14 Thread Joao Roscoe
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Curt wrote: > dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq lilypond-doc > *That* did the trick. Great Thanks a lot, Curt. Best regards, Joao

Re: Problems with lilypond-doc

2014-09-12 Thread Joao Roscoe
OK, it is a matter of time, then. Meanwhile, is there any workaround tha will allow me to keep updating my system? João Em 12/09/2014 14:36, "Don Armstrong" escreveu: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > I tried updating my jessie system, and lilypond-doc upgrade

Problems with lilypond-doc

2014-09-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
I tried updating my jessie system, and lilypond-doc upgrade failed: --- ... The following packages will be upgraded: lilypond-doc 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/15.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 19.2 MB will be used. Do you

Setting hostname and dnsdomainname from DHCP lease info (wheezy)

2013-05-16 Thread Joao Roscoe
Dear Gurus, I have several desktop boxes running debian (new image with wheezy is in the oven right now). I got those boxes networking configured via DHCP, and the addresses are reserved by MAC address. To get the hostname/IP/MAC info in a single place, I configured the windows based DHCP server

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time - Solved

2013-01-30 Thread Joao Roscoe
> > > Sorry but I came late to this discussion. If you are still open to > experimenting then I have another one for you. In the > /etc/network/interfaces file do you have the interface listed? Or is > it left to NetworkManager? If it is listed is it listed as > "allow-hotplug eth0"? Yes, lis

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time - Solved

2012-12-04 Thread Joao Roscoe
> If the hardware isn't completely identical then it is reasonable to > have differences in the parallel boot timings. Theoretically, the machines were identical, but I haven't inspected them to make sure. The fact was: timing to suceed binding to NIS server was quite different from one machine t

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time

2012-08-15 Thread Joao Roscoe
> There was quite a long delay in that message! But what is a year > among friends? :-) Thanks for your patience :-) > Seems reasonable. I still use the broadcast protocol instead. But > what you are doing is supposed to work okay and I can only assume that > it does. Tried the broadcast pro

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time

2012-08-08 Thread Joao Roscoe
s, I see a timeout notice at boot ("...backgrounded"), and the system comes up unable to mount the remote users' "home" directories. When that happens, normally rebooting several times doesn't solve enything. Restarting nis and autofs, in this order *does* solve the issue.

Re: Squeeze and bitmapped fonts - solved

2012-06-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
Yes, that solved it (I was missing the font cache part). Thank you very much, Joao On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:37:59 -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > (...) > >> FATAL ERROR from X-windows: XFT available, but not working with P

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time

2012-05-07 Thread Joao Roscoe
s, I see a timeout notice at boot ("...backgrounded"), and the system comes up unable to mount the remote users' "home" directories. When that happens, normally rebooting several times doesn't solve enything. Restarting nis and autofs, in this order *does* solve the issue.

Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time

2011-09-22 Thread Joao Roscoe
Dear Srs, I have a bunch of squeeze boxes running with nis and autofs. All are working well, no performance issues. However, at boot time, sporadically, bind times out, and the machine goes up without nis. Since home folders are NFS via autofs, the machine becames useless, and a reboot is required

Using three monitors

2011-08-24 Thread Joao Roscoe
Does anyone knows if it is possible to use three cheap 1440x900 displays in portrait position (thus, 900x1440), side by side, to compose a 2700x1440 desktop? I have been looking at some adapters, and it seems that all of them require that the displays remain in landscape position, resulting in a 43

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-08-18 Thread Joao Roscoe
It seems that running genkdmconf did the trick. Weird! Thanks, Scott Best regards, João On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Joao Roscoe wrote: > I had to let this issue alone for a few days, to deal with radeon > hardware based DRI - I switched back from proprietary to free driver, > a

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-08-18 Thread Joao Roscoe
I had to let this issue alone for a few days, to deal with radeon hardware based DRI - I switched back from proprietary to free driver, and it was not working properly due to lack of ATI non-free firmware package. Now that this is solved, I got back to the ksplash issue, and I discovered that, now,

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-21 Thread Joao Roscoe
> You don't say which Debian you are running :-( I did it, in the subject of the original post - it's squeeze. > Create a copy of the existing SystemSettings entry in your Menu... > Change the name to "System Settings - As ROOT", and under "Advanced" select > "Run as different user", enter "r

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-20 Thread Joao Roscoe
d, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:15:09 -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > > I almost suceeded removing space fun from my desktop, but I could not > > remove it from kde login splash background. Choosing "default" or "none&q

KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-20 Thread Joao Roscoe
I almost suceeded removing space fun from my desktop, but I could not remove it from kde login splash background. Choosing "default" or "none" in systemsettings' "Look & Feel > Appearance > Splash Screen" had no effect. Any hints? Regards, João