Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread Kent West
On 4/16/25 7:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/15/25 11:01 AM, Kent West wrote: $ pdftotext -f 106 -l 107 TFP2021.pdf TFP2021.txt As I replied to Nicolas I'll try both that and also a run with the "-layout" option. I typed the wrong line here (I should have copied/pasted

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-15 Thread Kent West
, change the selection criteria to "Fixed width", and then in the "ruler" bar above the text, click where you want a column divider (like at Columns 39, 60, and 76; just eyeball it. Finish importing the document, and now you have a spreadsheet with the info you want that should

Unnamed Popup from Klaro about cookies

2025-02-06 Thread Kent West
;m not about to start giving permissions based on some rando pop-up. Anyone who can shed light on this? Thanks! -- Kent

Re: Unnamed Popup from Klaro about cookies

2025-02-06 Thread Kent West
On 2/6/25 13:06, Kent West wrote: On 2/6/25 13:01, Kent West wrote:  A few times recently, while using Debian unstable with KDE on Wayland, browsing with Firefox Nightly, I've had a pop-up come up in the "System Tray" area that starts out with "A few settings are requir

Re: Unnamed Popup from Klaro about cookies

2025-02-06 Thread Kent West
On 2/6/25 13:01, Kent West wrote:  A few times recently, while using Debian unstable with KDE on Wayland, browsing with Firefox Nightly, I've had a pop-up come up in the "System Tray" area that starts out with "A few settings are required to be able to use certain func

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-14 Thread Kent West
nates currently-installed software as the culprit. 2) Try squeezing (not crushing) various parts of the laptop when it's exhibiting the problem; if squeezing affects the manifestation, it's a hardware issue. (The reverse is not necessarily true.) -- Kent West<

Re: Lost internet access on Trixie this morning.

2024-09-16 Thread Kent West
Can someone help me diagnose the problem ? What happens if you try: # systemctl restart networking I've had to do that several times today on my sid box. I've not gotten around to pursuing the problem, as the above solves my problem (at least temporarily). -- Kent West

Re: Debian Sid. General questions.

2024-07-22 Thread Kent West
sitories. My understanding of a "rolling release" is, "Here's the next thing we're giving you." My understanding of Debian Testing, and Sid to a greater extent, is, "Here's the next thing we plan to give you, but it may be broken; use with care, and repor

Re: Debian 12.6: Screen won't come back on if monitor is power cycled

2024-07-17 Thread Kent West
computer (Intel NUC7i5BNK) is hooked up by DisplayPort to my monitor. Is there anyone else experiencing this problem? -- Johan Sjölin Try pressing a shift key a couple of times, and then blindly typing your user password. My guess is that the screensaver/lock is wonky. -- Kent

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Kent West
;ve never done gaming or video-intensive stuff, so can't speak to that. Since these apps (VB and Virt-Man) are both free (mostly, at least), try it; the worst that'll happen (probably) is a waste of time. -- Kent

Re: OT: coloured text?

2024-01-07 Thread Kent West
hell is to use ANSI Terminal Escape Sequences. Not 100% portable, but probably suitable for what you want. Something like: #!/bin/env sh printf "\033[31m" printf "Now we're printing in Red\n" printf "\033[0m" printf "Now we're printing in the system default color.\n" -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 3:30 PM Kent West wrote: > > > On 12/19/23 10:53, John Conover wrote: >> > Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > John >> > > Yes. > > I have ver

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Kent West
On 12/19/23 10:53, John Conover wrote: > > Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire? > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > Yes. I have version 5.17.0 of the desktop client running on my sid/trixie box at this very moment. -- Kent West

Re: Hardware Misses on MacBook Air M1 2020

2023-11-10 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 10:39 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kent West wrote: > >> I have an M1-chip 2020 MacBook Air on which I have dual-booted with >> Debian 12 initially, then "up

Re: Hardware Misses on MacBook Air M1 2020

2023-11-10 Thread Kent West
[Sorry; sent to Jeremy only the first time; meant to send it to the list.] Sorry, no clue. Don't even know how I'd ascertain that, but if you can give me a simple test, I'd be happy to try it for you. On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 7:22 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 10/11/23 0

Hardware Misses on MacBook Air M1 2020

2023-11-09 Thread Kent West
. So if anyone has any help for these issues, especially audio and the keyboard backlight, I'm all ears. Thanks! Linux debian kernel 6.1.0-rc8-asahi #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 21:41:25 CET 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux trixie/sid -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Adjustment of left/right fields on Trackpad?

2023-07-29 Thread Kent West
would do what I'm imagining? Maybe not, but maybe it's soft-coded in a compilable piece of Plasma's mouse-driver that I could modify? Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Kent West
highest level of system security - the Blue Screen Of > Death > Although tomas originally wrote "Microsoft didn't invent anything", when you quoted him, you lost the quotation markers, so it *looks* like you said it. jeremy did actually quote wh

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Kent West
them to be something like "First" or "Secundo" or "Twelve" -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

OT: Kmail/Akonadi insists on using Gmail account even on non-Gmail email account

2023-06-26 Thread Kent West
derstand how Akonadi fits into Kmail/Yahoo, but, meh; my real question is: Does anyone here know if KMail *requires* a Gmail account to access a non-Gmail email account (and if so, that seems really stupid)? If not, how do I get around this failing new-account wizard issue? Thanks! -- Kent West

Re: Is DocumentRoot in Apache2 Hard-coded?

2023-05-26 Thread Kent West
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:35 AM Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:18:27AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I'm just tinkering, trying to wrap my brain around Apache2. I've done a > > clean-install, and when I look through /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, I

Is DocumentRoot in Apache2 Hard-coded?

2023-05-26 Thread Kent West
my Apache2 server is not broken if I don't have any sites in the sites-available directory and the main conf file does not specify the DocumentRoot? Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Where is "LADSPA Noise Suppressor for Voice" for Kdenlive?

2023-05-25 Thread Kent West
;s my step-by-step for building/installing it on Debian, in case anyone else searches the archives for this info. LADSPA Noise Suppressor for Voice on Debian, for Kdenlive as of 24 May 2023 Kent West - kent.west@(that .com that swore to not be evil) 1. The "librnnoise_ladspa.so" shar

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-16 Thread Kent West
Just for kicks, unplug the keyboard and see if the mouse starts behaving. > > -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-15 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 2:16 PM Joe wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2023 13:26:06 -0500 > Kent West wrote: > > > On 5/15/23 11:57, Joe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Upgraded sid two days ago for the first time for a week or so. Today > > > have seriou

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-15 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 2:16 PM Joe wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2023 13:26:06 -0500 > Kent West wrote: > > > On 5/15/23 11:57, Joe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Upgraded sid two days ago for the first time for a week or so. Today > > > have seriou

Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-15 Thread Kent West
Setup, and make sure the mouse works properly there (assuming your hardware has such a setup). I would try a different (new) user. I would try in console-mode only (may have to install 'gpm'). Then go from there. -- Kent

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-23 Thread Kent West
t "remove" or "purge". But don't even bother uninstalling it (unless you need the drive space); just install a different DE of your preference, and then on your login screen you can choose which DE to use. Install several DEs, and swap between them whenever you feel like. -- Kent

Re: what's $_ in bash

2023-04-08 Thread Kent West
On 4/7/23 23:40, davidson wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 t...@myposts.ovh wrote: Hello in bash shell, what's "$_" variable? kent@westk-9463:~$ ls *html morsekeyer.html  morse.html  myGameEasier.html  myGame.html The 'ls *html' "expands" to "ls morse

Re: laptop frozen when opening apps, debian testing with gnome

2023-01-23 Thread Kent West
oes that option have the same freezing issues? -- Kent West<")))>< IT Support::Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:58 AM Kent West wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:33 AM Kent West wrote: > >> I just installed 11.6 (Bullseye) on a VM. Before I start using it for its >> intended purpose, I thought I'd take the opportunity to experience a new >> in

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:33 AM Kent West wrote: > I just installed 11.6 (Bullseye) on a VM. Before I start using it for its > intended purpose, I thought I'd take the opportunity to experience a new > install as a new user, just to see what they might experience. > > When

Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Kent West
trib" and "non-free" (didn't think that'd make a difference, but thought I'd try). Are these GUI front-ends for "apt" that broken? Or just this one? Or am I doing something wrong? Just curious; I can always use "aptitude" to do what I want, but if

Re: Networking pb

2022-05-09 Thread Kent West
; I'm suspecting that you need to go into the Mac's System Preferences / Sharing, and turn on File Sharing. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: extract values from a string

2022-04-16 Thread Kent West
$price. We will retail it for \$$retail.\n" done <$file -- $./test.sh -- The price of 'black berry ' is $12. We will retail it for $24. The price of 'blue berry ' is $14. We will retail it for $28. The price of 'raspberry ' is $9. We will retail it for

Re: konqueror - no browsermode

2022-02-03 Thread Kent West
swer, but I'd *try* logging in as a different user into a different desktop environment, and seeing if conqueror works there. -- Kent >

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Kent West
ne of the packages and won't have a working network connection at that time. If I'm not worried about dwindling drive space, this is the one I use every few "aptitude full-upgrade"s. I believe apt-get and apt have the same options. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Update Debian 9 to 10

2021-12-13 Thread Kent West
do it, and selecting that environment on login. -- Kent

Re: Problems with "Bible Time" and "Xiphos"

2021-12-13 Thread Kent West
ig files belonging to your local user. You can probably find and delete those files, but it might be "cleaner" just to create a new local user and log in as that new user for testing, maybe even logging into a different windowing/desktop environment as part of the testing process. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: installation catch 22

2021-11-22 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 7:47 AM wrote: > I am able ro login in safe mode which has few commands and I am a new user > so I don't know enough. > See reply below (so messages are read in order). > -Original Message- > From: Kent West > To: debian-user@lists.d

Re: installation catch 22

2021-11-19 Thread Kent West
stem, but that you are getting to a login prompt? If so, after logging in, what happens if you run "startx"? -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: VMWare Horizon Client has glitchy graphics after update to Bullseye

2021-11-11 Thread Kent West
there. > > Any idea why this might be happening? > > I don't know the history of your issue, but the first two thoughts that come to my mind: 1) Try a different Desktop Environment (e.g xfce4 instead of Gnome, etc) 2) Try the HTML interface (assuming it's a

Re: Google sites don't work

2021-08-02 Thread Kent West
cookies again, and still had the F12 Console open, I'm seeing things like this: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://ssl.gstatic.com/dynamite/images/cleardot.gif?zx=aojuhxxm7pdi. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Google sites don't work

2021-08-02 Thread Kent West
become unusable for me, when using Google products. As far as I can discern, FF works fine on every other site/product. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Not Sure Which Package to Submit Bug Against

2021-04-12 Thread Kent West
why I couldn't unmute it, and when I handed the laptop to the hardware tech, logged in as user X, bingo! He umuted it. I don't know if this would be a kernel package bug, or an X package bug, or a keyboard-input package bug, or an audio-package bug, or Any ideas? Thanks! -- Kent

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-10 Thread Kent West
h testing has less churn than unstable, that also means that when a bug does creep through, it may take a week or two to see the next release of the software, whereas unstable might see the fix come in later that same day. It's a trade-off. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

2021-03-10 Thread Kent West
lect your alternative, and log back in. If KDE proves to be too sluggish, log out/in, switching to a leaner alternative. You can install and try dozens of alternatives. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)

2021-02-25 Thread Kent West
of them. > Man pages can be less than "useful: to 1st time user. > > Or links2, which is my usual go-to text-based browser. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Help Understanding Samba/ssh/LDAP/sssd/Kerberos/File Sharing?

2021-02-23 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:10 PM Kent West wrote: > Ultimate goal: > 1. Allow Windows/Mac users to map drives to Debian fileshares. > 2. Allow Windows/Mac users to ssh into same Debian box. > > Near as I've been able to figure out (the web documentation seems to be > a

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 1:37 PM Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:52 AM Nicholas Geovanis > wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 5:09 PM Kent West wrote: >> >> Brand new Debian box (tried Buster, then when that didn;' work, upgraded >&g

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:52 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 5:09 PM Kent West wrote: > > Brand new Debian box (tried Buster, then when that didn;' work, upgraded > tp unstable - meh, it's a test box to get things sorted out before > productio

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-21 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Kent West wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 6:10 PM Tibz Loufok wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I suppose realmd configured sssd. >> > > Yes. > > You may need to authorize your users to login. (By using AD gpo or

Re: AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-21 Thread Kent West
ecially since the specifics don't match Debian setups Also, about every other hit is behind a paywall, though. For example, just now I searched for "access_provider", and the first hit I tried was a Redhat link, and ran into a paywall. Arg. Again, thanks for the response! -- Kent Rega

AD user can't ssh in

2021-02-21 Thread Kent West
leshooting skills, and don't know where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Help Understanding Samba/ssh/LDAP/sssd/Kerberos/File Sharing?

2021-02-18 Thread Kent West
e logins, ssh logins, and mapping drives shared from the Debian box, close to correct? Thanks! -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Any hams here? Is there a program that lets me use a mouse as a CW paddle?

2021-02-09 Thread Kent West
http://goshen.acu.edu/westk/KCARC/MorseKeyer.html On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:17 PM Kent West wrote: > Years ago I wrote a *very* rudimentary html document that allows you to > use the left and right arrows for dits and dahs. It doesn't work well, but > it might give you an idea fo

Re: Any hams here? Is there a program that lets me use a mouse as a CW paddle?

2021-02-09 Thread Kent West
and dahs for training purposes; > > > > 2) (optional) could also be used to pilot a transceiver. > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Ottavio Caruso > > > > Have a look at things like cwcp and the general programs in the ham radio > category? > >

Re: can't boot to a graphical interface.

2020-10-03 Thread Kent West
he same problem. > > On my bullseye/sid lappie, for comparison to yours: kent@westk-9463:~$ ls -lah /usr/share/dbus-1/ total 84K drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 17 19:55 . drwxr-xr-x 610 root root 20K Sep 5 16:26 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 6 20:50 accessibility-services drwxr-xr-x 2 r

Re: where is the download page?

2020-08-17 Thread Kent West
thingy embedded in the huge banner. > > (I've told people before that putting important things in web banners is > a bad idea, because decades of the web have trained us not to look at > web banners.) > > Ha! I got to debian.org every so often (usually to download an .iso), a

Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

2020-08-10 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:49 PM Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > Am 10.08.20 um 17:39 schrieb Kent West: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM Joachim Fahnenmüller < > jfahnenmuel...@web.de> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi everybody, > >> > >> since I

Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

2020-08-10 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:39 AM Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM Joachim Fahnenmüller < > jfahnenmuel...@web.de> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> since I upgraded to Bullseye, Gimp does not start any more. I get the >> followi

Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

2020-08-10 Thread Kent West
0) > gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol: gegl_rectangle_subtract > > Any idea? > > What happens with: ~$ ls -lah /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 13 10:36 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 -> libbabl-0.1.so.0.17

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-28 Thread Mick Kent
Way down at the bottom of the screen you may see a line with some instructions. Hit the one for 'commands' and you will get 'grub' and a cursor. I found a list of instructions for 'grub' but they didn't help me much. I'm stuck there. Mick -- Original Message -- From: "gajuph4...@yahoo.

Re: Debian 10.4 blank screen After new install

2020-07-21 Thread Edward M Kent
Thanks Umarzuki, I will take your advice and make a bootable repair disk tomorrow. Too late tonight. I used f10 on reboot and now have win10. Mick On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:33 PM Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 11:21, Edward M Kent wrote: > > > > Hello All

Debian 10.4 blank screen After new install

2020-07-21 Thread Edward M Kent
Hello All, I am an old Nube trying to get set up to use a Beaglebone on some projects. I thought I had a successful install after a list of tasks was displayed down the screen's left hand edge. The list went blank and left a - in the upper left corner. This curser soon disappeared leaving a bl

Re: Switching from Kubuntu to Debian(latest version)

2020-05-16 Thread Kent West
buntu, or even into Windows, and be prepared to fix the issue (such as running whatever Windows's boot-repair option is available on whatever version of Windows you have). If you enjoy tinkering, you can have a lot of fun and learn a lot. If you just want things "to work",

Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

2020-04-23 Thread Kent West
emoving the drive and see if the BIOS is still slow. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Netbeans/Java Tutorial - Hangs

2020-04-20 Thread Kent West
nor NetBeans works "out of the box" on Debian just adds to that sentiment. I think I'll stick with tinkering in Python, Bash, C, and Julia, at least for now. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Netbeans/Java Tutorial - Hangs

2020-04-17 Thread Kent West
bullseye/sid, Cinnamon Desktop Netbeans IDE 10.0 kent@westk-9463:~/NetBeansProjects$ aptitude search jdk i default-jdk - Standard Java or Java compatible Development Kit p default-jdk:i386 - Standard Java or Java compatible Development Kit i A

Re: javascript

2020-04-16 Thread Kent West
): File: libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.soPath: /usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so Version: 32.0.0.344State: EnabledShockwave Flash 32.0 r0 A new window opened, with a blocky flash icon, which I clicked on, and then had to give permission to run Flash on this site, an

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

2020-04-09 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:32 AM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 09/04/2020 15:45, Kent West a écrit : > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:29 AM Bernard > <mailto:bdebr...@free.fr>> wrote: > > > > > > > > I just realized that in

Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]

2020-04-09 Thread Kent West
en you tried running tasskel and installing a simpler Windowing setup? -- Kent

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
"normal" your system is.) Maybe even install links2 and see if you can web-browse from the terminal. $ sudo aptitude install links2 $ links2 slashdot.org 'q' to quit Maybe install a simpler X system, like XFCE: $ sudo tasksel then try "startx'. Any success? Any new errors/symptoms/insights? -- Kent

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:28 AM Kent West wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West wrote: > >> >> Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >>> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, prin

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West wrote: > > Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in >> red characters : >> >> EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read su

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-05 Thread Kent West
Things are looking a bit more promising now... On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:14 PM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 03/04/2020 21:05, Kent West a écrit : > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:41 PM Bernard > <mailto:bdebr...@free.fr>> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

2020-04-03 Thread Kent West
ear how far you're getting. Can you boot normally and get to a login prompt on a text-only screen? -- Kent

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Kent West
very minimal Debian. Can you ping anything (like "ping 8.8.8.8"? Ctrl-C to stop the ping attempts.)? If so, we can probably pick up the pieces from here (try "tasksel", and installing the X11 windowing system/Gnome/KDE/etc). If you can't ping any

Re: libreoffice crash

2020-02-09 Thread Kent West
back to find that LO was no longer open. I looked into it a bit, but not a lot, figuring, "Meh, I run sid; expect brokenness." Then after a week or two, another full-upgrade seems to have solved the problem. Sorry I don't have better info to help, but maybe there's a clue

Re: help with installation?

2019-12-24 Thread Kent West
need depending on your equipment) Of course, for this to work, you'll need access to the Debian repository, which means one of the three solutions already suggested: 1) different (non-free) installer, 2) a wired connection, or 3) a fuller CD/DVD/local repository. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: New Install Boots to Grub

2019-12-16 Thread Kent West
> Thank you, > > Jason > Grub should have given you a menu with (probably) two options; something like: Debian GNU/Linux Advanced Options If you did not get such a menu, something went wrong during the install. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Macbook Post-Installation Issue

2019-12-16 Thread Kent West
typing > su - > (and give the root password) > or > sudo -s > (and give your own password) > > Now you have root privileges. > > type > apt install kde-full > to install KDE. > > > > Unless things have changed recently (and I don't believe they have), you could also run "sudo tasksel" and pick the Desktop Environment[s] you prefer. -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-18 Thread Kent West
Ls and some give ipp:// URLs. Thank you! Good information! -- Kent

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-12 Thread Kent West
On 11/12/19 9:02 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other Network Printers, there are four Internet Printing Protocol options: https ipp

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 1:44 PM, Kent West wrote: On 11/11/19 1:38 PM, Kent West wrote: On 11/11/19 10:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other

Re: Semi-OT: IPP doesn't auto-configure CUPS?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 2:02 PM, Kent West wrote: What I mean more specifically is, when I go into the CUPS web interface to set up a new printer, and go through the Add Printer stuff, and select "Other Network Printers" / "Internet Printing Protocol (ipps)" (because the printer is o

Semi-OT: IPP doesn't auto-configure CUPS?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
t I was expecting?). (If I select that IPP Everywhere option, the next screen errors out saying "Unable to open PPD file: Missing asterisk in column 1", so I suspect that option is not doing what I was expecting.) Any info to help me understand better the process would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Kent

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 1:38 PM, Kent West wrote: On 11/11/19 10:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my Debian box, Administration / Add Printer / Other Network Printers, there are four Internet

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/19 10:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:18:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: Probably answered somewhere, but I've been DuckDuckGo-ing for the past two hours and can't find the answer. When adding a printer via the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) on my

Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-11 Thread Kent West
g Protocol options: https ipp http ipps Which one do I want to select? What are the differences? Thanks! -- Kent

Re: Security Issue with sssd / AD authentication?

2019-11-08 Thread Kent West
On 11/8/19 11:53 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:36:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Probably not the best place to put this information, but I figure here is better than no where... I'm tinkering with authentication a Debian (10.1) box via Active Directory, so th

Security Issue with sssd / AD authentication?

2019-11-08 Thread Kent West
as the local "westk". The result is that if I have a local account that belongs to a completely different person than a person with a domain account of the same name, the domain account person, upon login, becomes the local account person, with full access as that person. Advice? Suggestions? Questions? Thanks! -- Kent

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Kent Dorfman
;d make a strong argument that removing the common drivers from whatever kernel is used in "testing" is more an "unstable" action. My percpetion of debian/testing was more like fedora without the ridiculously short release/EOL (forced upgrade) issues. On 11/2/19, John Has

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Kent Dorfman
On 11/1/19, Kent Dorfman wrote: > title says it all. > Would be nice if the netinstall actually worked so that I could better > evaluate whether to take debian seriously. > a couple of points going forward: 1) I do not sign up on every list where I need support. If I did, I

no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-01 Thread Kent Dorfman
title says it all. There are no ethernet drivers in the modules directory for the netinstall image, other than a single broadcomm file...and no, it's not an obscure nic that requires custom firmware. It needs the humble e1000 driver. I'm looking to replace fedora with something having better lon

OT: Brainstorming in Favor of FOSS

2019-09-20 Thread Kent West
f co-workers on a LibreOffice document, and get to your documents from anywhere with network connection and a web-browser. Not exactly Debian-related, but Debian-inspired, so thought I'd throw it out into the universe. -- Kent

Re: Installation problem

2019-09-13 Thread Kent West
have a partition that Windows calls "D:", using an NTFS file system. Debian generally wants an EXT4 file system, not an NTFS partition. Is drive "D:" missing from Windows after the install? -- Kent

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
On 7/15/19 3:54 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Kent West (12019-07-15): - They plainly state that they support Ubuntu 18.04, but not Debian. So, did I get this right: this is a software, if you install it on Ubuntu 18.04, it can tell you on what OS and version it runs, REMOTELY. Is that it

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
On 7/15/19 3:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Well, in this particular case, the Quest SMA is a Systems Management Appliance, which provides management and data-collection capabilities of devices on a network. When a sysadmin wants to use

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

2019-07-15 Thread Kent West
ion is not very informative, but it seems to mean something to the Suits (and to the programmers of the Quest SMA). Go figure. -- Kent

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