Re: replacement for apt-xapian-index?

2025-04-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mike Kupfer wrote: > I see that apt-xapian-index has been removed from Debian Sorry, I should clarify: it's been removed from Testing (Trixie). It's still in older releases, of course. mike

replacement for apt-xapian-index?

2025-04-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
I see that apt-xapian-index has been removed from Debian (and it looks like Ubuntu, too). I can't say I entirely understand the reasons for the removal. At least one justification that was given for Ubuntu is the poor user experience for Synaptic when the index is being rebuilt. And while I agree

Re: laptop options

2025-03-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
wrote: > System76 has usually good and nice offers: > > https://system76.com/laptops FWIW, I bought a System76 desktop (tower) system a couple months ago. Ubuntu and Pop_OS (System76's Ubuntu derivative) are supported. I installed Debian stable on it, and it seems to work fine, except for th

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Richard Owlett wrote: > My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 > > It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril. I can suggest a couple things to try, either of which should get you back to using Atril. 1. Open the MATE Control Center, click on "Preferred Applications" (in the "

Re: apt-get changelog [was: needrestart no longer depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl?]

2024-11-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:22:50 +0100 > wrote: > > > Hm. "apt-get changelog needrestart" works for me? Since apt delegates > > to apt-get, it should do the same... in fact, it works, too. > > > > What's missing? > > Possibly trixie v. bookworm. Specifically, I think it ha

needrestart no longer depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl?

2024-11-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
I noticed that after updating 'needrestart' to 3.6-4+deb12u2, the 'libmodule-scandeps-perl' package now shows up in the autoremove list. (In a VM that still has the 3.6-4+deb12u1 'needrestart', trying to remove 'libmodule-scandeps-perl' will also remove 'needrestart'.) Can someone confirm that thi

Re: needrestart no longer depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl?

2024-11-19 Thread Mike Kupfer
Erwan David wrote: > However the depency is back for 3.7-3 in testing The dependency was removed for 3.7-3.1, which is in unstable at the moment. mike

Re: needrestart no longer depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl?

2024-11-19 Thread Mike Kupfer
Christian Britz wrote: > See the changelog: > * debian/control: Drop Depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl Thanks. I had tried looking at the changelog, but Synaptic and apt were unable to find it. Okay. After some poking around, I now see a couple ways to get at the changelog. One is the copy i

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/ > > > leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in > > > /home/richard/.config/dconf/user . [...] > Besides, it might be a bad idea to change the file while the de

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Richard Owlett wrote: > Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/ > leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in > /home/richard/.config/dconf/user . You can dump the settings that are in dconf with gsettings list-recursively and redirecting the

Re: Uninterruptible sleep apache process while aceessing nfs on debian 12 bookworm

2024-10-07 Thread Mike Kupfer
Carlos Llamas wrote: > I made a PHP script which locks a specific file in a NFS directory, measuring > every step involved. Then exported the results to CSV and graphed it on ELK > because I am more familiar with it. Thanks for the additional details. It sounds like you have a reproducible test

Re: Uninterruptible sleep apache process while aceessing nfs on debian 12 bookworm

2024-10-07 Thread Mike Kupfer
Carlos Llamas wrote: > When this happens, apache2 processes on a backend VM (NFS client > machine) wait in state D for a long time (I was only able to trace a > file, and lasted 90s until file unlocked). It sounds like the process is trying to unlock a file, and the system call hangs for 90 secon

Re: Corrupt MATE configuration due to OPERATOR ERROR

2024-06-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Richard Owlett wrote: > I created a new, _apparently_ identical, panel. > *HOWEVER* > it displays something for each item open/active in *ANY* workspace. > > How do I get back to displaying something for each item open/active in > the *CURRENT* workspace? This is the "window list" applet that

Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?

2024-05-29 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > But i am not sure whether the commercial package which i have to keep > will be preserved with "apt autoremove". > Is there a way to do a dry run which only tells what would happen if i > were more courageous ? When I use "apt autoremove", I am given a list of proposed rem

Re: Aw: Re: Re: very poor nfs performance

2024-03-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Stefan K wrote: > > Can you partition the files into 2 different shares? Put the database > > files in one share and access them using "sync", and put the rest of the > > files in a different share, with no "sync"? > this could be a solution, but I want to understand why is it so slow and fix >

Re: very poor nfs performance

2024-03-07 Thread Mike Kupfer
Stefan K wrote: > 'sync'-mountoption is important (more or less), but it should still be > much faster than 20MB/s I don't know if "sync" could be entirely responsible for such a slowdown, but it's likely at least contributing, particularly if the application is doing small I/Os at the system cal

Re: xfce screen detachment

2024-01-07 Thread Mike Kupfer
Dan Ritter wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor [...] > That sounds something like having an X11 screen larger than the > monitor it is on, and X panning around that. Typically, though, > panning requires the mouse to hit the

Re: xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

2023-02-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Celejar wrote: > The logs show regular deactivate events like the following every 20 > seconds: > > ClientMessage DEACTIVATE: already inactive, resetting activity time > > I saw this: > > https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#no-blank > > I guess I have to figure out what application is se

Re: xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

2023-02-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Celejar wrote: > I'm running Debian Sid with XFCE. Xscreensaver used to work, but a > number of months ago, it broke badly: it now fails to fails to activate > via the "Preview" button or (more importantly) via the "Blank after" > setting. Thank you for bringing this up. I just noticed yesterday

Re: Xfce destop environment

2023-01-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
William Torrez Corea wrote: > On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 00:07 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > What happened with my desktop environment? > > > > My desktop environment has problems, the title bar is hidden. [...] > The problem started 1 month ago. I don't know what caused the problem, a >

Re: /boot size and kernel updates

2022-11-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Hi Stefan! Stefan Monnier wrote: > I use `MODULES=dep` and my kernel+initrd uses less than 20MB still so my > 250MB /boot partition is currently 21% full with 2 kernels installed. Ah, thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try, as well as trying more aggressive compression (thanks, Peter!). > Th

Re: /boot size and kernel updates

2022-11-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > It now appears that the automatic installer does not get size of /boot > right - even with only one new kernel update wanting to install itself > it often fails with lack of space. I have had this problem, too, so thank you for bringing it up on the list. > One solutio

Re: /boot size and kernel updates

2022-11-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Ideally, you shouldn't need more than the current kernel and, perhaps, the > previous version. If the current kernel works on the reboot, then you should > be able to remove all previous variants with the same major version number. It used to be that I could leave the o

Re: declarative (config file) way idea of handling the OS by way of the old system

2022-05-29 Thread Mike Kupfer
Emanuel Berg wrote: > Have a look at this blog post and program: > > Managing OpenBSD installed packages declaratively > > https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-05-05-openbsd-declarative-packages-with-pkgset.html [...] > Anyone has that for Debian and Debian-like systems? I have half of that,

process for getting dbgsym packages updated

2022-05-02 Thread Mike Kupfer
On Debian 11.3, I've discovered that I can reliably get a core file from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitWebProcess by using Atril to view a PDF file (any PDF file that I've tried). But the dbgsym packages for libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 and libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 (version 2.34.6-1~de

Re: Mtp-tools, wa: "Could not display mtp://XXXXX" error no such interface 'org.gtk.vfs.mount' on object at path /org/gtk/vfs/mount/1"

2022-03-21 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I can see mtp-tools is a meta-package for: [...] > Which one do I need to configure/troubleshoot my issue? I'm afraid I've pretty much exhausted my knowledge in this area. The only other things I can offer are 1. My phone (Android 11, Samsung One UI 3.1) defaults to an M

Re: "Could not display mtp://XXXXX" error no such interface 'org.gtk.vfs.mount' on object at path /org/gtk/vfs/mount/1"

2022-03-19 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Why is it always a pain to mount my Android phone on my Laptop? Do you have mtp-tools installed? I found that mounting my phone got a lot more reliable after I installed that package. best regards, mike

Re: converting Python2 to Python3

2022-01-31 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-01-30 at 23:01, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > FWIW, here are my notes from converting a couple small private scripts: > > > > * Note that 2to3 does not change the shebang line. And the actual > > command in Debian10 [and 11] is

converting Python2 to Python3 (was: sparse dictionary)

2022-01-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > In my case, I started with the last Debian package version before the > removal, imported the source package into git, dropped the debian/ > directory because that doesn't belong in the upstream codebase, ran the > '2to3' tool (from the package of the same name) against the c

Re: AMD EPYC throttled to 400 mhz

2022-01-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Simon Kainz wrote: > #Governor: > root@node3:~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor > schedutil Maybe try a different governor? I had a different problem (CPU running too hot) after upgrading to Bullseye, and the problem went away after I switched to the ondemand governor.

Re: Debian 11.1, xfce4-terminal, select entire line, middle-click, newline not pasted

2021-12-05 Thread Mike Kupfer
David Christensen wrote: > On Debian 9 (and 10, and earlier?) with Xfce Terminal, when I select > an entire line of text in one terminal and then middle click paste in > another terminal window, the entire line is pasted; including the > newline. [...] > On Debian 11, when I select an entire line

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > how do I fix the problem? > > Settings Manager - Desktop - Wallpaper for my desktop appears to be > completely grayed out and is unresponsive. Is xfdesktop running? If not, start it. It sometimes goes AWOL for reasons I've never tracked down. regards, mike

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have > some ideas. So were there any errors or warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? I'd also check for error messages in $HOME/.xsession-errors. regards, mike

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > I have a funny problem since I upgraded my laptop to buster: xterm does not > have any title. > > It is the only window that has this problem. I did not see anything special in > the .Xresources. > > Anyone having this issue ? I can't reproduce the problem (MATE, marco, x

Re: dmenu and xmonad in buster not working together

2020-06-05 Thread Mike Kupfer
Philipp Kemmeter wrote: > When I start dmenu, the input of neither mouse nor keyboard is registered > anymore, and as xmonad freezes by purpouse until dmenu returns something, I'm > stuck. The only way to work further is switching to a non-X terminal and > killing dmenu. FWIW, dmenu works fine fo

Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

2020-01-26 Thread Mike Kupfer
Curt wrote: > I heard about one fellow whose window background color was strangely > similar to his emacs highlighting color, and this explained why his > highlighting efforts were suboptimal and even quite close to being > totally invisible. I had something similar to this happen to me with Emac

Re: [solved] passphrase feedback when unlocking disk at boot

2020-01-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
David Wright wrote: > It would be interesting to know why installing plymouth made any > difference. My system prints asterisks even though plymouth is > not installed. > > Were there any other packages installed along with plymouth? Hmm. When I installed plymouth, the only thing it pulled in w

[solved] passphrase feedback when unlocking disk at boot

2020-01-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 23 ian 20, 07:49:01, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > With the first system, when I enter the passphrase at the "please unlock > > disk" prompt, there is no visual feedback. With the second system, I > > get a "*" for each char

passphrase feedback when unlocking disk at boot

2020-01-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
I have 2 systems running Buster with encrypted disks. The first system was upgraded to Buster; I think the original install was Stretch. The second system was installed with Buster. With the first system, when I enter the passphrase at the "please unlock disk" prompt, there is no visual feedback

Re: at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/19/2019 5:54 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, mike, I don't know, but, as soon as I read "Orca", I thought of > > the Debian-Accessibility list: > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/ Thanks, Cindy Sue, I may give that a try. > I am not running Orca,

at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-19 Thread Mike Kupfer
I have a system running bullseye. When I try to log out, or shut down, from MATE, I invariably get a popup that tells me that at-spi-dbus-launcher is not responding. I click on "logout anyway", and the system does eventually log me out, but there's a delay. I tried disabling the AT-SPI daemon an

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

2019-10-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 14/09/19 22:30, Mike Kupfer ha scritto: > > > Andrea Borgia wrote: > >> how do I get xfce to use xscreensaver as > >> locking when suspending? > > > For Xfce4 4.12, it's on the Advanced tab of the Session and Startup > &g

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

2019-09-14 Thread Mike Kupfer
Andrea Borgia wrote: > how do I get xfce to use xscreensaver as > locking when suspending? For Xfce4 4.12, it's on the Advanced tab of the Session and Startup settings. mike

Re: Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

2019-08-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Tom Browder wrote: > When I use -Q highlighting works! That points at something in your .emacs.d settings as being the culprit. > I installed emacs-lucid (which removed emacs-gtk) and now highlighting > works (but other colors are changed). IIRC, GTK3 lets the user (theme) specify the color to

Re: Emacs probs in buster: selected text not highlighted

2019-08-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Tom Browder wrote: > Since installing buster on a new laptop I have noticed that selected > text doesn't show as highlighted. > > I have had no such problems with stretch, but they were upgrades > in-place from previous installations--buster was installed new. I can't reproduce that problem with

Re: xfce launchers

2019-04-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On at least one machine, some of the Xfce launchers are inoperative, > including the launcher for Synaptic and the launcher for Midnight > Commander I don't know about MC, but for Synaptic, is policykit-1-gnome installed on that system? (cf. https://bugs.debian.org/cg

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Kupfer
john wrote: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) >string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) >rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) >rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff" > "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t) >rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil ("/var/spool/mail/jpf

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread Mike Kupfer
John wrote: > Mail is delivered into a mbox on the Debian server, and the disk is > mounted on the user machine via NFS so the mail can be read into emacs > from a simple file. This has worked for many years. But now with the > jessie->stretch upgrade it fails with emacs barfing. Can you give m

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > I used sha256sum instead of sha512sum, but I otherwise followed > > the above instructions. The checksum from the dd pipeline does not > > match the checksum of the original .iso file. > > That's not good. > Espe

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-14 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Since the OP's problems were with 9.4, I haven't tried a more recent > ISO, but I'll download an image and test it. (If this turns out to be > fixed in 9.4, I will be very embarrassed and will happily buy y'all > a meal if you're eve

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-14 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > If I plug the stick into the laptop when it's running, the stick is > > mounted okay. [...] didn't notice anything odd, but then I'm not familiar > > with the contents of a hybrid image ISO. > > They have a

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-14 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Does the live image always succeed and the netinst image always fail ? > Is always the same USB stick affected ? (Or do you have one for each ISO ?) > How do you actually "select" between installer and live ? I made some changes between the initial attempts and what I'm do

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-14 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Just to make it clear: > Was this kernel loaded from the very same USB stick which it then cannot > inquire properly and in some cases cannot read from ? Yes. Oh, and I tried it again this morning, after the laptop had been off all night, and this time it worked

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The bad log has two suspicious lines before that range: > [6.997775] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=abcd, idProduct=1234 > [7.000181] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, > SerialNumber=3 > Looks much like phony default values. > They are

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-13 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > I have a copy of kern.log from the first (successful) boot, and I have > > the dmesg output from the second (failed) boot. If anyone wants to look > > at them, let me know. > > I am interested. Especially whether ther

Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

2018-05-12 Thread Mike Kupfer
Kent West wrote: > I have a Dell Latitude E7250 laptop. I'm trying to install Debian to it using > a USB stick. [...] > The real problem is that after going through the first three or four > screens, the install halts, complaining about not being able to read > the CD-ROM. Yes, I ran into the s

Re: vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Harry Putnam wrote: > root # bash ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run > Verifying archive integrity... All good. > Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.0.40 Guest Additions for Linux 5.0.40 is pretty old, and Googling for "virtualbox linux 4.14 guest" shows a couple reports about the Guest Additions not

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

2017-11-11 Thread Mike Kupfer
Kent West wrote: > I walked away then and came back in a few minutes to find it had finished, > but didn't pay attention to any other messages, and then tried booting it > on another year-old Dell PC. It gave me the grub menu, but then when I > tried to boot Debian Live, I got an error about an in

Re: How to change date and time format for quoting in Thunderbird?

2017-08-26 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > When replying to a message in Thunderbird as packaged in Debian 9, the > date and time is automatically placed before the quote, like this: “On > 22/08/17 17:31, $NAME wrote:”. How can I change the format used for the > date and time? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

2017-07-02 Thread Mike Kupfer
wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > This doesn't sound to me like you're being logged out. Rather it sounds > > like light-locker is locking your screen, which is does by bringing up a > > new lightdm instance. > > B

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

2017-07-01 Thread Mike Kupfer
tony mollica wrote: > I let the xscreensaver run overnight and it appears that after some > time, whatever amount of time that is, the system still falls back to > the lightdm greeter for logging in. However, after logging in again I > now get the xscreensaver unlock input window, This doesn't s

Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues)

2017-06-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ralph Katz wrote: > While purging xscreensaver removed 2 or 3 packages, installing now would > bring in a host of packages, for whatever reason. I don't need a > screensaver as much as I need the lock. Take a look at /usr/bin/xflock4. It's just a script that runs through a fixed list of lock pr

light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues)

2017-06-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ralph Katz wrote: > Yes! apt history shows light-locker was installed by the dist-upgrade. > I've just purged xscreensaver and can confirm that the time-out errors > in syslog occur on resume from screen blanking. Did you also kill the xscreensaver daemon? You might have been getting odd behav

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ralph Katz wrote: > > 2) Returning from xscreensaver screen blanking sometimes shows the > > lightdm log in screen. Ctrl-alt-F7 once or twice can get my session > > back after an annoying pause. This never happened on jessie. This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but is light-locker running? mi

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
Michael Milliman wrote: > I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has > ceased to be displayed. [...] > I have attempted to re-set the desktop > background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop > background on the desktop to no effect. I don't know wha

Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust

2017-05-20 Thread Mike Kupfer
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > If I try to change my images via either "Settings > Desktop" or right > click on the desktop, that directory and many others are now faded > out/washed out/blanked out in that way our systems do so that > something is not clickable. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
dmacdoug wrote: > sure enough there is no DISPLAY environment variable set. So I set it and > then the error message became: > > Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session > manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined > > I notice there are several other

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Kupfer
dmacdoug wrote: > It is installed and I've tried running it from a shell. The man page > says it should be started without arguments, but when I do that it > says "Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:" I get that message if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, or if it's set

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Kupfer
dmacdoug wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > Is xfdesktop running? > No, it isn't. It looks like pretty much everything else in > xfce is running, but xfdesktop isn't. Assuming it's installed (good point, Lisi), I would try j

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
dmacdoug wrote: > A month or two ago I moved a certain computer from jessie > to stretch and after doing so found that neither the right > nor the middle mouse buttons have any effect when clicked > on the XFCE desktop. Is xfdesktop running? mike

Re: open on nfs server -> resource temporarily unavailable

2016-08-06 Thread Mike Kupfer
Andrey wrote: > me@cli:~$ mount > ... > serv:/home/me/data-t on /home/me/dt type nfs4 > (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,sync,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,acregmin=0,acregmax=0,acdirmin=0,acdirmax=0,hard,noac,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.209.1

[SOLVED] [Xfce] firefox-esr keeps reloading previous tabs on startup

2016-06-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Thanks to everyone for your comments. The problem appears to be caused by this entry in /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/firefox.desktop: X-XFCE-Commands=%B -remote "openURL(about:blank,new-window)";%B; Copying that file to $HOME/.local/share/xfce4/helpers/firefox.desktop and changing that line to

[Xfce] firefox-esr keeps reloading previous tabs on startup

2016-06-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
Is anyone else on Jessie (x86_64) seeing a problem where Firefox (45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1) wants to reload the tabs from the previous session, even when the preferences are set not to do that? I normally use "show a blank page" on startup, but I was getting either the previous tabs or the "this is emba

Re: Cannot mount a NFSv3 Share in Debian

2016-05-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
RA DW wrote: > I try to mount a NFSv3 share to one FreeNFS server (in Win7), however, > after following almost all the guides in the web to mount it, I get an > authentication error, even if the server gives rpcinfo from Debian8, > and add the rpcbind : line in /etc/hosts.allow > (https://justpas

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mike Kupfer wrote: > To use paste.debian.net, start a browser > and go to http://paste.debian.net/. Click on Browse, select the file, > add a note to indicate which log file it is (if it's not obvious), click > on Send. Oops, forgot to mention: that should take you to a new p

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have a copy of Xorg.0.log for both Wheezy and Jessie. How do I post > them to paste.debian.net? Well, I don't have a preference as far as using paste.debian.net or posting straight to the list. To use paste.debian.net, start a browser and go to http://paste.debian.net/.

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/30/2015 04:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > - Boot a Live image and see what resolution it gives you. > I can still boot into Wheezy and get 1920x1080. I meant a Jessie Live image. Though given that you didn't find an old xorg.conf file, the odds of the

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
Marc Shapiro wrote: > My problem now is screen resolution. All I get is 1024x768. Under > Wheezy I get 15 different resolutions from 720x400 and 640x480 up to > 1920x1080. Jessie says that the monitor is "Unknown" and only allows > me to use 1024x768. How do I get X to recognize my monitor und

Re: NFS rename sometimes hangs for 15 seconds after upgrade to Debian 8

2015-10-01 Thread Mike Kupfer
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is there a way to get traces as a normal user? Not that I know of. mike

Re: NFS rename sometimes hangs for 15 seconds after upgrade to Debian 8

2015-09-28 Thread Mike Kupfer
Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > Am 28.09.2015 um 18:59 schrieb Mike Kupfer: > > In the deb7 trace, the other client is .4, not .3. It does not get > > a delegation when it opens file2 (see packet 39), so the server > > can process the RENAME immediately. > Hang on, the two

Re: NFS rename sometimes hangs for 15 seconds after upgrade to Debian 8

2015-09-28 Thread Mike Kupfer
Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > The big difference happens at packets 58/54 (Deb7/Deb8). For Deb7, the > RENAME call is immediately answered by an NFS4_OK, whereas for Deb8 as > the client it's an NFS4ERR_DELAY. I haven't seen any reason on the > client communication that would explain that, however thi

Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-24 Thread Mike Kupfer
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I have permanent mounts of that "shop" machine in my /etc/fstab > > here this machine "coyote" [...] > The other two work normally. All have identical auto.master > files with "/net -hosts" enabled. I'm no

Re: sid: ssh session hangs when logging in

2015-08-27 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mike Kupfer wrote: > I recently set up a VirtualBox guest that is running Sid. I can ssh > from it to the host. But if I connect to my employer's network (using > OpenConnect), I cannot connect to any systems on that network. [...] > From a different VM, which is running Stret

sid: ssh session hangs when logging in

2015-08-10 Thread Mike Kupfer
I recently set up a VirtualBox guest that is running Sid. I can ssh from it to the host. But if I connect to my employer's network (using OpenConnect), I cannot connect to any systems on that network. Using "ssh -v" I see ... debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Lo

Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs

2015-08-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta' > key not being recognized. How to fix that? If you're running Emacs in tty mode, then I think the Meta key support is done by the terminal emulator. What terminal emulator are you using? As for

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-09 Thread Mike Kupfer
Francis Gerund wrote: > And the display doesn't look defective or mis-calibrated, just more like > 1995 than 2015. I think it just lame fonts in XFCE, not the physical > display. You could try tuning the font settings (Settings>Appearance>Fonts). The Hinting setting can make a huge difference,

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Sven Hartge wrote: > Just for fun: could you check with > > xdpyinfo | grep resolution > > what DPI value is reported on your system and in the VM? Both report "96x96 dots per inch". mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Sven Hartge wrote: > Pinning the DPI setting in Appearance>Fonts to > a fixed value instead of letting it auto detect the value fixed that for > me. Yes, that worked for me, too. Thanks! mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger > characters in several places, including > > - xfwm4 titlebar > - labels in the Xfce window buttons applet > - Xfce application menu > - Xfce logout dialog [...] > The VM was pr

stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Mike Kupfer
Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger characters in several places, including - xfwm4 titlebar - labels in the Xfce window buttons applet - Xfce application menu - Xfce logout dialog But the Xfce settings dialogs (Appearance, Window Manager) say that the font setti

Re: NFS drive uids/gids completely broken- for a little while

2015-05-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
wrote: > [ 42.426886] NFS: v4 server does not accept raw uid/gids. Reenabling > the idmapper. Here's some background information: In NFSv3, uids and gids are represented as integers. In NFSv4, they are strings. The original specification called for strings of the form "id@domain", and typ

Re: Jessie: XFCE4 Desktop background stopped working

2015-04-29 Thread Mike Kupfer
Johann Spies wrote: > Since Jessie became stable, there is a flat gray background on the XFCE4 > desktop and I cannot change it. My normal configuration is that XFCE4 > should use a list of pictures and change the background regularly > (something that I don't think the other systems can do). Th

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
songbird wrote: > how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the > command given and didn't get it to work and so set > it aside until i could read further docs today. I did $ su # cd /root # mkdir initrd # cd initrd and then ran the pipeline that The Wanderer gave. I think I

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-24 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs / > initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it > contains. It may very well be missing either bin/touch or some related > thing. Indeed, it's missing bin/touch. Thanks for the det

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
songbird wrote: > songbird wrote: > > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > >> Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before > >> lightdm started. The message was something like > >> > >> /init [stuff I didn't catch] to

boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-16 Thread Mike Kupfer
Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before lightdm started. The message was something like /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no success. Is journalctl the right tool to find the messa

hard-to-reproduce bugs (was: plugged in thumb drive, which disconnected another USB drive)

2015-03-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:04:51AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > - Do I need to have a reproducible test case before opening a bug? > > If it is not reproducible, then how does one go about fixing it? I deal with hard-to-reproduce bugs in my day job fa

Re: plugged in thumb drive, which disconnected another USB drive

2015-03-12 Thread Mike Kupfer
David Wright wrote: > Could it be nothing more than a dicky plug contact? > I don't use automount so I'd rattle the connectors around and see if I > got lots of connect/disconnect messages. If it's a powered hub running > off a wall-wart, it might be the power rather than the data cable. The conn

Re: plugged in thumb drive, which disconnected another USB drive

2015-03-12 Thread Mike Kupfer
Curt wrote: > On 2015-03-12, David Wright wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Is that Iomega USB drive healthy? > > > > Do you mean "was it healthy before this incident" > > or are you expressing concern for its health since > > being disconnected. > > I meant the former, though I'm sure you know more abou

Re: plugged in thumb drive, which disconnected another USB drive

2015-03-12 Thread Mike Kupfer
Curt wrote: > On 2015-03-12, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > The other night I plugged a thumb drive into a Belkin 4-port USB hub. > > This had the side effect of disconnecting an Iomega USB drive that was > > plugged into the same hub. > > > > I have since been unable

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