Re: why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
On my system I had to disable apt-daily and apt-daily-upgrade through > systemd. This command will tell you if those are installed/enabled on > your system: > > systemctl status apt-daily apt-daily-upgrade > > $ systemctl is-enabled apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily.timer disabled disabled i thin

Re: why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
> > > gee, do you think this PackageKit thing might have something to do with > it? I'm on stretch, about two weeks into the new plasma, the first thing > I did was purge discover, apper, and all the other windows clone stuff. > > yeah, i get that, but the packagekit systemd service is of type dbu

why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
Hi all, i have debian testing/unstable on my laptop. It's been 9 years without any problems whatsoever (thank you debian devs!). Since a couple of weeks i've been having at every boot some job that automatically does apt update, but i've been unable to track it down. Of course, being the unstable

Re: sigabrt chrome

2014-09-27 Thread Ludovico Van
anyone? > hi all > sorry for the little ot, being chrome not open source > on a debian stable, after some upgrades (unfortunately cannot track which one, since i don't own that machine), google chrome stopped working. > When starting from the cli i only get a "Aborted" and then terminates. > T

sigabrt chrome

2014-09-24 Thread Ludovico Van
hi all sorry for the little ot, being chrome not open source on a debian stable, after some upgrades (unfortunately cannot track which one, since i don't own that machine), google chrome stopped working. When starting from the cli i only get a "Aborted" and then terminates. This happens with chr

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-03 Thread ludovico van
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:00 PM, ludovico van wrote: >> i have this in $HOME/.bash_logout : >> # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits. >> >> # when leaving the console clear the screen t

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread ludovico van
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > I noticed that with Debian when I logout of my system, it doesn't > clear the screen to the login screen via bash only (non GUI). i have this in $HOME/.bash_logout : # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits. # when leav

Re: find installed unavailable packages

2010-02-28 Thread ludovico van
> Dear all, > > How to list all packages which are installed but unavailable? maybe $ aptitude search ~i~o bye -- 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/5eb33

Re: HDD powersaving at music playing.

2010-02-09 Thread ludovico van
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > how I can load a lot of files into RAM so that a mplayer would not read from > the HDD? > something like $ cat [list of files] > /dev/null should cache the files. If you have enough unused ram they will stay in memory. or creat

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-24 Thread ludovico van
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:20 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0100, ludovico van wrote: > >>>> so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe >>>> retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, >>

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-20 Thread ludovico van
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:25:07 +0100, ludovico van wrote: > >> so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe >> retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, so >> i can copy on

ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-20 Thread ludovico van
hi all, i have a damaged HD with many bad blocks on it, and i'm trying to recover its files. the first try was using ddrescue, but (even with the --no-split option) it took an entire day to only copy a couple of GiB... since i can successfully mount the disk and browse its files, it would be nic

Re: problemi con gestore pacchetti

2010-01-05 Thread ludovico van
English version below: Qui si scrive solo in inglese. Per aiuto in italiano, scrivi su debian-italian. Comunque per il tuo problema serve vedere l'output di # LANG=en_US aptitude # cat /etc/apt/sources.list ciao If you want to write in italian, please use debian-italian mailing list. If you w

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-11 Thread ludovico van
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Kamil Kułaga wrote: > It looks like udev i blocking boot sequence. 22K svg image attached. I > have no idea how to speedup this. Do you get something like udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED optio

Re: Starting MTA:

2009-09-18 Thread ludovico van
> Agreed.  Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and > various packages install cron jobs implicitly. > > However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is > lighter-weight than exim4? what i do on my computers is putting QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon' in /et

Re: I can't locate locate

2009-08-20 Thread ludovico van
> > I am running up to date Sid and can no longer run the command 'locate'. Has > this been removed from Sid, if so is there an alternative command for > searching a database for files? mlocate is the package you want ciao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: two fingers scroll?

2009-07-20 Thread ludovico van
> > how can i know if two fingers scrolling is supported on my laptop (debian > sid)? the answer is in man synclient, option -m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: two fingers scroll?

2009-07-20 Thread ludovico van
Noone? How can i know my touchpad model? lspci, lsusb and lshw show nothing... On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM, ludovico van wrote: > hi all, > > i have a synaptics touchpad on a sony vaio sr11m laptop (how can i > know the exact touchpad model?), and i try to enable two finger s

two fingers scroll?

2009-07-17 Thread ludovico van
hi all, i have a synaptics touchpad on a sony vaio sr11m laptop (how can i know the exact touchpad model?), and i try to enable two finger scroll with $ xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling" 8 1 1 $ howewer it's not working. Is that enough? how can i

Re: i need ia32-libs. What to do?

2009-06-29 Thread ludovico van
>>> What's the simplest way to get ia32-libs back? > Anyone knows how long will it take for the transition to finish? it seems ia32-libs has been updated to version 18 (??). from http://packages.debian.org/sid/ia32-libs : This is a transitional package that depends on a set of core libraries fo

Re: i need ia32-libs. What to do?

2009-06-24 Thread ludovico van
>> What's the simplest way to get ia32-libs back? Thanks all. For now i'm using a 32-bit chroot. it seemed the simplest way... Anyone knows how long will it take for the transition to finish? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

i need ia32-libs. What to do?

2009-06-24 Thread ludovico van
Hi, currently ia32-libs is uninstallable in sid due to this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533362 unfortunately i upgraded without noticing it would have removed ia32-libs, and i need that package for some 32bit-only closed source software. Does anyone know when the transition