Re: GPU support for Linux 4.19

2020-05-23 Thread John W
I am using GPU passthrough (via VFIO/IOMMU) on Debian 4.19. I don't think the specific video card really matters. The passthrough happens at the PCIe layer. So, the more important thing is to get a motherboard with good IOMMU groups. Then, whatever you plug into those slots (could be GPU, or whate

Setting up a VLAN tagged bonding device

2019-03-28 Thread John W. M. Stevens
I've tried six different sets of instructions, and at this point, I'm at a loss.  Is it even possible to set up an 802.3ad bond that uses VLAN tagging under Debian 9.1? I have a working setup with bonding.  I need to modify this setup to VLAN tag the bond. The working setup is: auto bond0 i

Re: Getting 404 from security.debian.org trying to install a package

2017-06-22 Thread John W
Bah, I figured it out (: Just needed 'apt-get update' first ... -John On 6/22/17, John W wrote: > I am using Debian 7.4 (wheezy) which I realize is on LTS. > > I'm trying to install a package, but I get a 404 error: > > $ sudo aptitude install libmagick++5 &g

Getting 404 from security.debian.org trying to install a package

2017-06-22 Thread John W
I am using Debian 7.4 (wheezy) which I realize is on LTS. I'm trying to install a package, but I get a 404 error: $ sudo aptitude install libmagick++5 The following NEW packages will be installed: libmagick++5 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 315 not upgra

Re: Confusion

2014-05-09 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 12:13 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 09 May 2014 09:54:04 -0500 > "John W. Foster" wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distri

Re: Confusion

2014-05-09 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: > Hi, > > When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distribution and goes to the > Internet for help, one is always a. assured that there is loads of help > available and b. directed to a maze of mailing lists where any search > immediately returns a

Re: Mysql database dump quit working

2014-04-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 22:13 +0100, Steve wrote: > > I have a mediawiki site running on Mysql db; I just started getting this > > message on my automated backup; > > > > mysqldump: Got error: 144: Table './mywiki/searchindex' is marked as > > crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed when using

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 21:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 3/24/2014 9:31 PM, John W. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 14:30 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 3/24/2014 12:45 PM, John Foster wrote: > >>> I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 21:55 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > 127.0.0.1localhost Yes I have that in /etc/hosts thanks john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.deb

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 14:30 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 3/24/2014 12:45 PM, John Foster wrote: > > I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web server but was not > > able to get it properly configured. I kept getting an error message > > saying that localhost was not configured proper

Re: lighttpd server configs

2014-03-20 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 16:58 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 20/03/14 14:08, John Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 22:40 +, Steve wrote: > >>> nginx which was too hard to manage also. I now have lighttpd installed > >>> which seems simple to manage but out of the box Debian install do

SOLVED: Re: Issue importing a large MYSQL database.

2014-03-02 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 23:41 +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 01:33:44PM -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > > Yep this is Debian specific. I have a system running Debian Wheezy; up > > to date; AMD 6 core processor; 4GB ram. Terabytes of disk spa

Issue importing a large MYSQL database.

2014-03-01 Thread John W. Foster
Yep this is Debian specific. I have a system running Debian Wheezy; up to date; AMD 6 core processor; 4GB ram. Terabytes of disk space. This computer is in my office, not a remote. I am trying to use command line instructions to restore/import a database that I exported a few weeks back from a remo

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:17 +0100, ha wrote: > FYI, this was a log entry that caught my attention: > > vmusr[3785]: [ warning] [vmtoolsd] The vmusr service needs to run inside > a virtual machine. > > > ... And I repeat once again: This is not a virtual machine and I did not > install any VM

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-14 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:38 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > > dist-upgrade. I normally do this b

Re:

2014-02-06 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 14:50 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi community. > i installed new hardware to my my computer. Namely ide cd-dvd rw. The > device is presenting in /dev directory but i can not see it in file > manager. i can not use it. What is correct way to install new hardwa

Problem: make-jpkg usage to compile 'server-jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz'

2013-12-17 Thread John W. Foster
I have compiled & installed the pakages below that I downloaded directly from Oracle; jdk-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz However when I try to compile this one: server-jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz I get a message saying it can not find the matching plugin & the compilation aborts

Re: dselect in wheezy; Old timers question

2013-12-17 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 16:09 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > John W. Foster, 14.12.2013: > > I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except > > putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to > > yesterday it worked well as

dselect in wheezy; Old timers question

2013-12-14 Thread John W. Foster
I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get distupgrade and all went as expected and the system is running fine. However after I did the upgra

Re: Choosing default OS in multi boot system

2013-11-04 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 14:04 +, Kruppt wrote: > On 2013-10-30, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > I've wondered about this or something similar. Has anyone tried having > > each OS install their grub to their partition, rather than the MBR ??? and > > then having a separate grub configuration that in

Re: Unknown script command ??

2013-10-31 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 15:15 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > John W. Foster wrote: > > This is causing a error on one of my servers during a file import. > > Likely being called by a script (that I didn't write). > > any Ideas? > > > > sh: /usr/bin/pl >

evolution error

2013-10-31 Thread John W. Foster
Any way to get rid of this. Ive tried to fix it for some time but still pops up. FYI: I do NOT want to use mbox The reported error was "Failed to append to mbox:///home/frosty/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder URI 'mbox:///home/frosty/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent' Ap

Unknown script command ??

2013-10-31 Thread John W. Foster
This is causing a error on one of my servers during a file import. Likely being called by a script (that I didn't write). any Ideas? sh: /usr/bin/pl Thanks John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

SOLVED: Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-17 Thread John W. Foster
Thanks to all of you that assisted. The tip about the odd leftover dns server at GoDaddy was the real culprit. Regardless, this list has once again proven to be the greatest asset of Debian Linux. Thanks john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-17 Thread John W. Foster
> > Ran a few diagnostics (some of which have been reported by others already): > > 1. You definitely have to get your DNS records cleaned up. > > www.physicswiki.net > resolves to 184.168.221.5 > canonical name: physicswiki.net > NOT to 192.65.240.181 > > 184.168.221.5 reverse resolves to > i

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-17 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 18:22 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:02:49AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > the site under construction is www.physicswiki.net > > the numerical address is 192.65.240.181 > > These two do not match up: A DNS lookup re

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-16 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 10:02 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > the site under construction is www.physicswiki.net > the numerical address is 192.65.240.181 > the default 'sites-available file is > > > > > ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost > > >

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-16 Thread John W. Foster
the site under construction is www.physicswiki.net the numerical address is 192.65.240.181 the default 'sites-available file is > > ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost > > ServerName www.physicswiki.net > ServerAlias quark.physicswiki.net > DocumentRoot /var/www >

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
> > nothing else.". What is a startup page? Nobody but you knows what > > this means. > > > > > > On 10/15/13 11:50 AM, John W. Foster wrote: > >> I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. > >> I have full root access

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 19:56 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > I'll have a bite on this one... > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:50:46PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. > > I have full roo

Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. I have full root access. I use Debian linux on my personal system (wheezy) & on the remotely hosted site (squeeze). I use Godaddy as my domain registrar. I have the domain for the remotely hosted VPS site set up at Godaddy. I hav

Re: reinstalling Nginx & others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 11:21 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to > overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a > complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but > so far

reinstalling Nginx & others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread John W. Foster
I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but so far apt uses the existing configs. I end up with a non working server. I had this same

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Pure TeX extension wanted

2013-09-18 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 23:36 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi John, > > looks like I am going to have to write one as its removed from 1.18 > and anyway it was colored and only supported a subset of TeX anyway. > > Thanks, > > Aaron > > > On 17 September 2013 19:

DWWW & its requirements

2013-09-18 Thread John W. Foster
I want to use DWWW as my onboard help system. I have done so for years. Now I want to use nginx as my web server and DWWW will not install without apache. I dont want to install 2 webservers so how do I get around this. There are several applications that seem to have this same issue. Some help pl

Re: How to eliminate these 'Script ETH1START is broken'

2013-09-16 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 16:07 +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-09-12, John W. Foster wrote: > > How to get rid of these messages; > > System is working fine, but I get these now and then when installing or > > uninstalling debian apps > > Didn't Bob Proulx already a

Re: How to eliminate these 'Script ETH1START is broken'

2013-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 13:00 +0530, Kailash wrote: > locate ETH1START root@mysystem:/home/myname# locate ETH1START /etc/init.d/ETH1START /etc/rc2.d/S01ETH1START /etc/rc3.d/S01ETH1START /etc/rc5.d/S01ETH1START FYI I one had 2 ethernet cards in this box and removed one. I'm not sure why this poped u

Re: Php5 error message

2013-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 10:15 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 06:12:52PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I want to get rid of these messages: HOW! > > In the files mentioned, replace the "#" with ";". > > > > > > PHP D

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:36 -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: > > > Greetings All! > > This is a call to Debian programmers who would be interested in > spending a couple hours > a month working with me on developing a "One-Stop Debian Box Config > Tool" -- a tool intended to > become the centra

Php5 error message

2013-09-12 Thread John W. Foster
I want to get rid of these messages: HOW! > PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated > in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 > PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated > in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 >

How to eliminate these 'Script ETH1START is broken'

2013-09-12 Thread John W. Foster
How to get rid of these messages; System is working fine, but I get these now and then when installing or uninstalling debian apps > insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. > insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. > insserv: Script ETH1START is br

Apache2 neds to ne reset

2013-09-09 Thread John W. Foster
I have an installation of Apache2 that is misconfigured & no longer works. Over the last couple of years Apache has become bloated & hard to manage so I tried using webmin to work out the kinks. My lack of experience has caused me to totally screw up my web server so I want to enlist some assistanc

Re: Php5 question

2013-08-06 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 15:36 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > John W. Foster grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Im seeing this type of error in several situations on both my machines & > > on the remote servers that I work with. Any way to get rid of this error > > message.

Php5 question

2013-08-06 Thread John W. Foster
Im seeing this type of error in several situations on both my machines & on the remote servers that I work with. Any way to get rid of this error message. It does not seem to be a fatal issue, just annoying. john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Evolution error message

2013-07-19 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 19:59 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > Does /home/myuser/.local/share/evolution/mail/local exist? > what permissions does the folder have? > do you have free space in your partition? > > I dont use evolution, but there must be in the configuration of your > account somewhere

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy

2013-07-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 11:56 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > I updated and now have the new Gnome. > > The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable. > > I do not have the old desktop entries, and cannot find Google Chrome. > > How do I get the old desktop back? > > Ethan

Re: gnome windows became the old style and gnome-terminal's profile disappeared

2013-07-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 02:06 +0800, Liu Binsheng wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm using the latest Debian testing. My gnome's window appearance > became the old style after a safe-upgrade. For example LibreOffice and > Chromium have the ugly button style. > > GUI of LibreOffice: http://imgur.com/gbzgw

Evolution error message

2013-07-03 Thread John W. Foster
I posted this a week or so back, or tried to. I am getting the error message below every time I send an email. I wish to fix this but really don't know what or how to do it. The reported error was "Failed to append to mbox:///home/myuser/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder URI '

Is there a replacement for Kompozer in debian?

2013-06-29 Thread John W. Foster
I've used Kompozer for debian for several years as a rough out system for web development. It is not available in Wheezy as far as I can tell using the search feature of synaptic, other than the older Squeeze version. Is there a differently named version for Debian or do we have to go 'roll our own

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-29 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 18:28 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:06:01 -0400 > "Jeff Shearer" wrote: > > Hello Jeff, > > >launches fine but not KDE. So far no one has responded to my pleas for > >help to get KDE up and running. > > Select it at the login screen. >

what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-28 Thread John W. Foster
I finally got my drop down menus back by installing nautilus. But I still have no taskbar. I do NOT like the way this last upgrade to Wheezy went at all. I have never encountered the number of issues that came with this upgrade. Some folks may be ok with all the desktop changes, however I am not. I

Evolution error message

2013-06-27 Thread John W. Foster
I am getting this message since I did a dist-upgrade to Wheezy on my evolution set up. > Your message was sent, but an error occurred during post-processing. > > The reported error was "Failed to append to > mbox:///home/frosty/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder > URI 'mbox

Re: Apache2 upgrade issues

2013-06-27 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 22:48 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > John W. Foster wrote: > > I recently did a dist upgrade of my system to Wheezy. I have had a > > number of seriuos issues with this upgrade but the one that has me > > stumped is Apache2. I finally ended up removing i

What does this error message mean?

2013-06-24 Thread John W. Foster
> insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. > insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. > insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. > insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. > insserv: Script ETH1START is b

Apache2 upgrade issues

2013-06-17 Thread John W. Foster
I recently did a dist upgrade of my system to Wheezy. I have had a number of seriuos issues with this upgrade but the one that has me stumped is Apache2. I finally ended up removing it and all of the mods & associated apps. Yep it pretty well screwed the entire system. I now have rescued the instal

Re: Driver issue: ASUS NX1101 gigabit PCI adapter connection issue

2012-10-26 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 15:18 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I have installed a ASUS NX1101 gigabit PCI ethernet adapter features > jumboframes: wharever that is. LOL. > mY question is that I downloaded the latest drivers for RealTek from > stable "backports" & tried/did/

Re: Alternatives for Statgraphics

2012-07-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 08:43 +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Hi folks, > > A friend ask me whether I do know an (FLOSS) alternative to > Statgraphics. Unfortunately I don't know this program neither available > FLOSS possibilities out there. Anyone of you might having an idea? I I > understand him co

Re: Dynamic DNS updater recomendation?

2012-07-18 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 14:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:24:20 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > I need to be able to have afraid.org; a free dns server system, checked > > and updated with the IP address from my DHCP leased router provided by > > Ver

Dynamic DNS updater recomendation?

2012-07-18 Thread John W. Foster
I need to be able to have afraid.org; a free dns server system, checked and updated with the IP address from my DHCP leased router provided by Verizon Fios. I have looked at several of these & have installed a couple. ddclient works flawlessly with DynDns.com but not with afraid.org 'out of the box

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 22:25 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2012 21:21:11 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:20:45PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > Debian testing, i386, KDE 4.8.4, iceweasel 13.0.1 > > > > > > Lately iceweasel suddenly started t

Re: Problem with Evolution

2012-07-09 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:38 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 09 July 2012 10:08:32 Lisi wrote: > > Debian Lenny with Evolution 2.22.3.1. > > > > I tried to run a search on Evolution and it has wiped out ALL my entries. > > Is there any way I can retrieve them? I have done nothing since the search

Re: Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

2012-07-07 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 15:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:44:37 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > Not sure what the issue is, but, I recently installed debian stable > > chromium and set it as the default browser. I'm using only standard > > settin

Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

2012-07-06 Thread John W. Foster
Not sure what the issue is, but, I recently installed debian stable chromium and set it as the default browser. I'm using only standard settings & NO plugins. Any idea why Facebook will not open my or any pages to that browser. There is no error message shown. Just shows the browser bar, opens the

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

2012-06-30 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 13:51 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 27.06.2012 18:35, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > > On 27 June 2012 07:37, Mika Suomalainen > > wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I have three OSes on this computer. They are Debian Sid, Ubuntu Precise > >> > and Windows 7. > >> > > >> >

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > > I can be wrong but I thought the "reload" takes place automatically when > > Synaptic is open :-? > > No it doesn't and it's good that it doesn't. Thank you! This is the answer I need

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of > > of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it > &g

Re: Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:28 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of > > of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it > >

Synaptic preferences question

2012-06-25 Thread John W. Foster
I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it first is opened. I do not 'see' this happening now. It may be doing it but I don't know for sure, since it only pops up the download window when I key it to

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian REPOST OF SOLVED!

2012-06-17 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:46 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree And once again this marvelous list has come thru for me. Thanks John!! That did the trick. I'm surprised I have not heard of this b/4 but will file it away in my tips/tricks area. frosty BTW: I use

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:46 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree And once again this marvelous list has come thru for me. Thanks John!! That did the trick. I'm surprised I have not heard of this b/4 but will file it away in my tips/tricks area. frosty -- To UN

Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread John W. Foster
Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up , asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built in' in Chromium as it is in Google Chrome. I have both installed and that appears to be

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-05-27 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 23:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Recently I've been having a problem with my web browser: it gets slow, > the mouse and the keyboard don't respond any more and I have to unplug > the machine. Ca

Chromium add-ons & extensions

2012-05-23 Thread John W. Foster
Just a quick check from the group...Is it true that Google is the only place to get add-ons & extensions for Linux Chromium. I have found no references to other sites, just Google. Seems odd to me that there is no Debian repository for these, perhaps that have no Google tools built into them. Or is

Re: ..which CAD apps, was: OT: Google chrome stable question

2012-05-21 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 23:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2012 15:00:47 -0500, John wrote in message > <1337630447.30951.5.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.com>: > > > I do use Windows 7 pro for some things but not as a regular thing. > > Just for some CAD apps I need. > > ..which CAD app

Re: OT: Google chrome stable question

2012-05-21 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 12:26 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 18:59 +0200, Siard wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:38 -0500 John W. Foster wrote: > > > I know Google Chrome is not directly supported by the debian > > > community. I do however think

Re: iceweasel preferences

2012-05-21 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 12:19 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Only reason I dont like iceweasel is because when I right click on a > link in an opened web page, the menue that pops up offers to open a new > web page first the it offeres to open a new tab as the second choice > then othe

Re: OT: Google chrome stable question

2012-05-21 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 18:59 +0200, Siard wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:38 -0500 John W. Foster wrote: > > I know Google Chrome is not directly supported by the debian > > community. I do however think there are some of you that use this > > browser and this question is di

OT: Google chrome stable question

2012-05-21 Thread John W. Foster
I know Google Chrome is not directly supported by the debian community. I do however think there are some of you that use this browser and this question is directed to those folks. I have 'debianized' Google chrome stable from their website installed and I am getting an error message on some websit

ddclient question

2012-05-15 Thread John W. Foster
I want to use ddclient to do updates to www.afraid.org to manage webserver forwarding that I have set up there. I currently bounce a request from afraid.org to dyndns.com and use them as the actual dynamic reset system. I want to skip dyndns.com alltogether. afraid.org supports this but ddclient wa

Re: Php update killed my wiki site.SOLVED

2012-05-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 09:59 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:32:20PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > For a couple of years I have used this type of link to bring content > > into my mediawiki: > > Are you using the mediawiki Debian package? > &g

Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 14:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 09:01:21 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > > > On 5/13/12, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> > >> Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the > >> above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but d

Re: To the list admins: Call for Ban on this SPAM

2012-05-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 15:06 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:38:08PM +0100, rjc wrote: > > You can report SPAM using list's web archive interface. > > And you can contact the listmasters via listmas...@lists.debian.org - no > need to further pollute the list. > Thanks I've

To the list admins: Call for Ban on this SPAM

2012-05-13 Thread John W. Foster
I don't know about the rest of you but this is pure nonsense and should be banned from the mailing list and all entries purged from the archives. The mailer is: Sam Can those of you with admin authority do something. I doubt this is actually a real person. Looks like machine generated scripting

Php update killed my wiki site.

2012-05-12 Thread John W. Foster
For a couple of years I have used this type of link to bring content into my mediawiki: {{Offsite Disclaimer}} {{wikipedia::Inductive reasoning}} And it has always worked well. I recently upgraded my Debian Linux Php to: PHP Version 5.3.3-7+squeeze9 Since then This link does not work, nor do an

Re: MySQL seems to be running too slow; LONG

2012-05-06 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 14:09 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 13:26:33 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > I got this output from mysqltuner: > > Any advice is appreciated: The main issues is that this db server > > handles a Mediawiki database and when I uplo

MySQL seems to be running too slow; LONG

2012-05-05 Thread John W. Foster
I got this output from mysqltuner: Any advice is appreciated: The main issues is that this db server handles a Mediawiki database and when I upload files it takes way to long to do its job likewise when serving up the data to produce the webpages. Output: > General Statistics

Re: Apache2 Not starting on reboot

2012-04-30 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 09:18 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 07:11 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > My last upgrade of Debian stable on my production server produced an > > error that is causing issues. Apache2 is not automatically restarting as > > it s

Re: Apache2 Not starting on reboot

2012-04-30 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 07:11 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > My last upgrade of Debian stable on my production server produced an > error that is causing issues. Apache2 is not automatically restarting as > it should when the system is rebooted. This is a nightly occurrence and > is

Apache2 Not starting on reboot

2012-04-29 Thread John W. Foster
My last upgrade of Debian stable on my production server produced an error that is causing issues. Apache2 is not automatically restarting as it should when the system is rebooted. This is a nightly occurrence and is required for hardware testing reasons. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be h

Re: Unneeded directory..from what?

2012-03-26 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 17:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:20:01 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > I'm doing some cleaning of my system and while looking for an answer to > > another issue, I discovered this > > file: /etc/default/kdm.d/10_deskt

powernow-k8 problem

2012-03-26 Thread John W. Foster
I have been seeing a group of error messages that flash across the screen when my system boots up. It seems that something is calling for a powernow-k8 response. I have researched the messages & it appears that this has to do with cpu throttling. I dont wish to have cpu throttling invoked & to my k

Unneeded directory..from what?

2012-03-26 Thread John W. Foster
I'm doing some cleaning of my system and while looking for an answer to another issue, I discovered this file: /etc/default/kdm.d/10_desktop-base I do not use kde at all and have never installed it on this system. I see nothing showing 'residual' files or configs installed, so where did this co

domain name issues

2012-03-20 Thread John W. Foster
Running a full production server with Debian stable only. apache2, MySql, Mediawiki 1.18.1 many other apps that are all working well. The issue is; I keep getting the domain name changed by some software to 'home'. My router is provided by Verizon Fios (Westel) and the router provides primary DNS.

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote: > > > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that > > will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the > > linux system? I'm concerned that running standard-issue

Re: Linux based forum software

2011-12-27 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 23:00 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Do you know any Linux based forum software that is good? > > The word "forum" is the worst to search, I've managed to find > http://www.simplemachines.org/, but was wondering of your opinion on it > and what else are good. > > Thanks

Re: Linux based forum software

2011-12-25 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 23:00 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Do you know any Linux based forum software that is good? > > The word "forum" is the worst to search, I've managed to find > http://www.simplemachines.org/, but was wondering of your opinion on it > and what else are good. > > Thanks

Launcher controllsQuestion

2011-12-04 Thread John W. Foster
I use desktop launchers for a number of .php commands that execute scripts. I run them in the terminal mode. I need to see the output and close the terminal manually. How is this done? Currently the script executs then the terminal screen closes automatically. I figure there is some terminal launch

RE: Launcher controllsQuestion:solved

2011-12-04 Thread John W. Foster
Duh!!! I found the controls in the terminal screen preferences. Don't know what in the world I was thinking. Thanks!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry VERY LONG

2011-11-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:26 -0800, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > So you run the command manually from the command line and get this > error correct ? > > Yes > > http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projectsoes - does this has something to > do with you? > > No, this was in the borrowed source

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 06:43 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? > > Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' > non-compatibility with the newest hard

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