Package Identification Assistance

I need to identify the package responsible for creating the software sources window. There is a minor bug/typo where the first tab reads "Ubuntu Software" Thanks!

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:19:27 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 Sep 2016 at 18:55:03 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > The existence of ~/.xessionrc appears to cause more problems than it > > purportedly solves. > > And it still won't lie down and die. It is determined to take over the > traditional role o

Re: Recent linux-image update broke CPU fan

On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 21:12:29 -0500 "Neal P. Murphy" wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:18:51 -0500 > "Neal P. Murphy" wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:35:15 +0100 > > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 02:16 -0500, Ne

Re: 'Wiring down' hard disks

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:03:46 + (UTC) wrote: > Hi > Could someone please advise me the best way to ensure a particular hard disk > (SATA) always appears at a specific device node, i.e how can I be sure > /dev/sdb for example is always going to refer to a specific drive even if > others are

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:57:58 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > > wrote: > > > > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help > > > > roberto > >

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:21:57 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > My limited G4 data allocation is being depleted much too rapidly for my > budget. I suspect that the culprit is the web page of a personal weather > station (PWS) in which page measurements are updated every ten minutes. I > keep a

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:46:03 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 09/13/2016 04:40 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 15:12:17 (-0400), Doug wrote: > >> On 09/13/2016 01:07 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: > >>> > On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freev

Re: Network issue........

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:40:20 +1000 Charlie wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:18:50 -0400 Neal P. Murphy sent: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:00:51 +1000 > > Charlie wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:31:36 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer sent: > >

Re: Network issue........

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:00:51 +1000 Charlie wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:31:36 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer sent: > > > > Kernel IP routing table > > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > > > 0.0.0.0 10.80.2.85 0.0.0.0 UG 00 0 eth0 > > > 10.80.2.84 0.0

Re: icedove: failed to connect server x...@gmail.com

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:38:56 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > PS I have been trying to help mudongliang, unsuccessfully. But thereby hangs > another thread. Please someone else, his question has still not been > answered. Are all attempts to answer it being spam-checked out of > existence?? > [I

Re: Defining TAP interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:14:15 +0100 Andrew Wood wrote: > Im (slowly) trying to setup bridging and TAP interfaces to use with QEMU > so each VM can have a 'real' IP on the network rather than NAT. > > > I now have a bridge setup (br1) using eth1 which Ive done in > /etc/network/interfaces with:

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:53:20 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:40:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 10 September 2016 10:26:15 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 08:41:53 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > It's in megabytes per seco

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 23:14:30 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 09 Sep 2016 at 20:36:39 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > On 09/09/2016 11:51 AM, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:57:02 -0700 > > > David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiF

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:43:31 -0600 Glenn English wrote: > For remote access, the RPi sounds like a good idea to me. I've had one on the > 'Net for several years, doing things not requiring major CPU power. It's on > my UPS, and it's had no reliability problems. > > A relatively small dedicated

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 22:26:59 +0300 Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in > Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for > longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to > be started at least a few

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:53:08 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Here is my error message: Is this message Flash-related? > > > Your connection is not secure > > The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security. > > www.youtube.com uses security technology that is outdated and vulnerable

Re: mount MTP phone

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 22:52:33 -0400 Anthony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/04/2016 10:01 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 09:30:38PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >> On 09/04/2016 09:22 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > >>> On 09/04/2016 09:13 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I'm at a loss, friends:

Re: mount MTP phone

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 21:40:13 -0400 Tony Baldwin wrote: > I've tried two USB ports, three charger chords, screen locked/unlocked. > rebooting both machines in various combos/orders.. > The only thing I haven't done is sacrifice a goat first. > ./tony > Are you using a USB3.0 port? Is the kernel u

Re: Debian iso for machine learning?

On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 08:28:23 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > Is there a distribution specced out for R/Python/Julia based tools > with all their related packages? I've been trying to do a custom VM > image with the packages installed along with a few editors and doing a > rank amateur mupp

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 03:43:15 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > Version 4.7 of the kernel contains a fix, which only required changes to > one source file, so I assume it's a question of back porting that fix into > the Jessie version of the kernel. I might take a look at trying that and > submit a pat

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:06:16 +0200 No Spam wrote: > Hi, > > So it is 12 years later; > > has someone found something working? > > greets > > J More years ago, BeOS' email client was perfect for me. It use separate files and made very liberal use of BFS' equivalent of attributes to sort and

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:35:01 +0200 Frederic Marchal wrote: > The attack is also useless if the attacker can't spoof the source IP > address. Routers in corporate environments usually block this by design or > due to VLAN. For that reason, the attack can't come from the same LAN to > bypass the

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade?

On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:53:33 -0700 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:33:07 -0700 > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > >On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:50:28PM +, Brian wrote: > >> On Wed 09 Dec 2015 at 11:19:00 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 01:17:25PM +0100

Re: Locale-related questions

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:01:40 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > (Sun is also responsible for making java's char type 16-bits and strings > UTF-16. This is another case of headdesk, or possibly headwall, although > entirely unrelated to the wchar_t issue. For those who do not know, > basically UTF-16 ma

Re: A stop job is running for...

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:48:07 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:12:24PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > In the meantime, its hit another 200 users, discouraging them from ever > > touching linux again. In that regard, we are our own worst enemy at > > times. Unfortun

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 13:34:58 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:47:00PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > Le 02/12/2015 20:41, Chris Bannister a écrit : > > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:21:04PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > > >> I often counter that by passing my would-be repl

Re: Recent linux-image update broke CPU fan

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:18:51 -0500 "Neal P. Murphy" wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:35:15 +0100 > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 02:16 -0500, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > > I think the last linux-image update broke my CPU fan. OK, it didn&#x

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

I'll top-post here because I am replying to the entire message (quoted below). Whether you top-post, in-post or bottom-post depends on the nature of that to which you reply. When you reply to and critique an essay, you would likely reply in top-post form and leave the essay at the bottom so tha

Re: Recent linux-image update broke CPU fan

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:31:46 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 30 November 2015 15:02:01 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 12:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 November 2015 22:18:51 Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > > > As of 28 November 20

Re: Debian Wheezy boot messages

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:04:08 +0100 Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hallo, > > where are the messages stored that Debain produces during booting (checking > of various components, startup of e.g. postgresql, messages issued by > /udev, > error messages in case a routine could not be started, etc). > > I

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:01:07 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > That is a real question. $USER doesn't appear to need root rights to > > access a different VT. > > Input to an un-logged-in active VT is collected by a copy of getty > running as root. If there's a getty running on

Re: Recent linux-image update broke CPU fan

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:35:15 +0100 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 02:16 -0500, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > I think the last linux-image update broke my CPU fan. OK, it didn't > > actually break it. But since the last update, my CPU fan (stock with > > vi

Recent linux-image update broke CPU fan

again)? Thanks, Neal

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Friday, July 11, 2014 01:51:11 AM Balint Szigeti wrote: > exactly. why does Linux want to be a Windows DE? (multi-graph-sessions)? > because someone calls 'it is a modern system'? > usually, if one system is used by several people, that is a server and > the servers (if its admin learnt a little

Re: UEFI

On Wednesday, July 09, 2014 02:08:41 PM Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:49:12 +0800 Bret Busby > > napísal: > > On 09/07/2014, B wrote: > > > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > > > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > > > laptop a

Re: Re (2): HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

On Wednesday, July 09, 2014 08:54:53 AM pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: "Weaver" > Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:28:35 -0700 > > > ... what's wrong with just getting a screengrab, > > then trimming it through the 'tolls' menu in GIMP. Then save it in your > > preferred format. > > For one or two pix

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:06:28 AM Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:55:15 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > > * No mechanism for process monitoring and restarting beyond inittab. > : > :-) Maybe start your processes with Daemontools. > > I'm serious. If a process is that important that it need

Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 02:32:37 AM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:07:24 -0700 > > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a > > pixel map? Conversion should apply on text, tables, images > > and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5. > > > > rs

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): > > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 27 > > $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 75 > > Yup, the boot speed improvements c

Re: what was broken with sysvinit? some thoughts on initialization "systems"

On Sunday, July 06, 2014 10:19:33 PM Joel Rees wrote: > It took me several years (and playing with MSWindows's Wrong Way To Get It > Right) to see that ad-hoc nature of sysvinit was, indeed, a feature, not a > bug. SysV init was a feature of the first computer I bought for my own use decades ago;

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

Other than not being fully automated, what would be wrong with: - use dd to copy the first 10MiB of the old drive to the new, - use dd to skip all but the last 10MiB of the old drive and seek to the same spot on the new drive - use dd if=/dev/zero to zero the first MiB of each partition.

Re: simple database solution without root access

On Sunday, July 06, 2014 01:21:31 AM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have some data in text format organized as follows > > field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 > val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 > val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 > ... > val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 > > > I w

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Saturday, July 05, 2014 03:09:52 PM Erwan David wrote: > I also think that the transition was far too fast : The testing fast, > see wether it breaks anything should have been done *before* setting it > the default. Not after. A variant of the old corporate 'if it compiles, throw it over the wa

Recent net stats oddity with Wheezy KVM sessions

In the past month or two, I have consistently encountered an odd problem with Wheezy on an AMD 8350 CPU. I never had this problem with my quad Phenom-II. The problem --- When I install recent builds of 32- and 64-bit Smoothwall Express 3.1 in a KVM on 64-bit Wheezy, everything seems to w

Re: Great Debian experience

On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 07:18:09 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Deo Soli Debianae Invicto Seculari > > While we are correcting each other, Liddle and Scott prefers > saeculari. You must be American! Bohemians. The whole lot of us. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 05:56:24 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 December 2013 16:50:54 Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I presume that entering a password in those fields results in root > > having its own password and the first user account not being a > > member of the sudo group. > > That i

Re: Some objections (was Re: Package Request)

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 06:29:47 AM Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:14:24PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > Commands are usually bound to keys on a mnemonic basis (problem: > > > mnemonic but in English only), with many command operat

Re: Some objections (was Re: Package Request)

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 06:24:28 AM Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:14:24PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Commands are usually bound to keys on a mnemonic basis (problem: > > mnemonic but in English only), with many command operating on > > character, word or paragra

Re: gdm3 issue [boot loader digression]

On Monday, December 09, 2013 06:06:24 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:15 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > > The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is > > on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and > > since then I've had this i

Re: Reporting missing package during install

On Sunday, December 08, 2013 07:27:41 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 08 dec 13, 19:14:49, Neal Murphy wrote: > > For me, I usually set up 'sudo su' > > sudo has the '-s' and '-i' switches, why mix with 'su'? > > Kind regard

Re: Reporting missing package during install

On Sunday, December 08, 2013 07:01:50 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 07 December 2013 21:36:30 Bob Proulx wrote: > > If you look back in the mailing list archives you will find a > > recent discussion where there were some people who didn't like > > sudo. I was shocked by that because I always

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

On Friday, December 06, 2013 05:04:49 PM Gary Roach wrote: > On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > with acroread (on start): > > (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in > module_path:

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Friday, December 06, 2013 04:55:11 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > To click and type a search term for many _users_ is easier to do than to > remember a command they only need once every 2 years and than to add a > cryptic search syntax. This is a very good statement, one worth rephrasing: It is

Re: "Best Mail Client" - Was: [closed] A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 06:06:14 PM AP wrote: > On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 07:05:50 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I can see it in the header of your mail: > > > > "KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.7.10-1.16-desktop; KDE/4.10.5; i686; ; )" FWIW, > > your mail seems to be perfect :) but I didn't check if

Re: Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 05:26:37 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have had another failed upgrade. Before I tried to upgrade, I ran > dpkg --get-selections and saved the result in a file. > > I am obviously going to have to install Wheezy from scratch. Is there > any way I can make use of Squeeze'

Re: "Best Mail Client" - Was: [closed] A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 01:05:50 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm a dyslexic and spell checking is > a default for all MUAs I use ... but not really helpful. Spell checking > doesn't notice the difference between "be" and "bee" or "then" and > "than", it still allows me to write as an idiot :D.

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 02:04:18 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Sorry for the extra broken English, I've got a cold :S and better don't > correct or try to rephrase my mails I quite understand. My fingers get stuffy. What I type seems oddly, mmm, distant, blurred. And my messages are often garbl

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Monday, December 02, 2013 11:38:47 PM Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:17:20 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 08:09 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > Sorry, don't know rocketmail. > > > > Nowadays occupied by Yahoo, POP and SMPT settings seems to be equal. > > Don't u

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

On Saturday, November 30, 2013 02:57:13 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 20:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 00:16 +, Joe wrote: > > > I haven't tried KDE for a while, and I'm not really interested in a big > > > beast. I do keep a Knoppix DVD handy for emer

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

On Friday, November 29, 2013 02:44:58 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > Now some people might claim that GNOME *is* the operating system. But > don't believe it. It is not. This is proven by the number of people > that use Debian every day but do not have GNOME on the system at all. I would say they don'

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

Bash does not have a split function. To split in bash, one has to do it the old-fashioned way: declare -i i declare -a myArray OIFS=$IFS IFS=":" set `egrep root /etc/passwd` IFS=$OIFS # Store the new positional parameters in indexed array myArray. i=0 while [ ! -z $1 ]; do myArray[$i]=$1 sh

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:33:18 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2013 16:25:08 AP wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > > Much depends on whether you (AP) are ready to get your feet wet > > > and use the CLI (command line interface). By all mea

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:27:03 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2013 16:03:54 AP wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Andrew Wood > > > > wrote: > > > After many years of using Linux on servers and my primary desktop > > > I would only recommend Debian. Its solid and

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

On Saturday, November 23, 2013 04:23:05 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I didn't read the full paper yet, but I'm wondering how/if the > optimization flag plays a part in this. I.e. does "O2" produce these > bugs but "OO" (default) or "Og" (debugging) does not? Or -O3... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f;; > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > '

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:45:53 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: > > Also, you can google "GNU Info Pages online" without quotes. I just > > found http://linux.about.com/od/lts_guide/a/gdelts69t02.htm by entering > > that query which also suggests the first page I have mentioned.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1401

> help Could you be a little more specific? The dearth of data prevents us from offering meaningful, targetted assistance. This has be the least informative request ever seen in a community support forum. . . . Oh, wait. Mayhap the poster was trying to get the mailing list's command/operatio

Re: Automatic installs

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 04:20:25 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > P.S. Yes I know mixing awk and grep is silly since awk can do it all. > > dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print$2}' | grep ^lib) > > I normally would have said this and done it all with awk. > > dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l |

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: remote desktop service difficulties with VNC server

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 03:53:14 PM Reco wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:15:02 + > > Ron Leach wrote: > > X could not detect the attached screen because its cable is switched > > across a KVM which seems to destroy the EDID information; I'd already > > manually configured a Modeline for

Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

On Friday, November 15, 2013 11:38:16 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > Thanks, Andrei, > > On Friday 15 November 2013 16:15:20 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 15 nov 13, 15:06:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I have just upgraded a client's computer to Wheezy. It appeared > > > to go well and there was certain

Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

On Friday, November 15, 2013 02:18:26 PM Glenn English wrote: > On Nov 15, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> Re-adding the two etho lines should fix it all for you - unless a > >> reboot deletes them, somehow! > > > > it did. :-( > > Noob here. How about fixing /etc/network/interfaces, r

Re: (64-bit) linux 3.10 and nouveau oddity

On Friday, November 08, 2013 06:13:44 AM berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 05.11.2013 21:26, Neal Murphy a écrit : > > Is it fair to say this is a bug? In *something*? Or just an > > incompatibility > > between Wheezy and the newer kernel? > > It is indeed a b

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 03:06:23 PM Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2013-11-12 14:32 keltezéssel, Miles Fidelman írta: > > That's a very interesting point, but I wonder if it's true. There are > > real-world reasons to run both windows on linux on the same machine > > (personal example: running Linux

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

On Monday, November 11, 2013 09:28:26 PM Jon N wrote: > Neal, > > Well, I think you've found my weak point. I have been looking at > fairly new stuff. When shopping for processors I found there was > little difference in price between Intel's Haswell verses Ivy Bridge

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

On Monday, November 11, 2013 05:25:18 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:03:44PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been a Debian user for I'd guess 7 or 8 years now. I would > > like to thank all of you that helped create a system that is so > > useful. Des

Re: Why Debian

On Sunday, November 10, 2013 03:54:31 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 14:27 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > linuxfromscratch.org > > IMO there's no need for a user to know all the details, however, > something FreeBSD port like, e.g. Arch Linux IMO is more pleasant than > Linux fro

Re: SSD as Cache?

On Friday, November 08, 2013 09:12:08 AM basti wrote: > Hello, > > on my Webservers, I have 1x 128GB SSD and a Raid 1 (1TB). > > Now I plan to improve the performance of my Webapplication. > The Cache is about 10.0 GB in 200 files. > > Can this cache moved to SSD? > Months ago I read article

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:11:24 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I purchase complete DVD sets. > > I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my "optimum" > > solution. > > Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown > > repository

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 12:11:33 PM Beco wrote: > On 6 November 2013 13:43, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Assuming the problem is /var/log is part of the root filesystem and is > > crammed with millions of files. Assume other drive is /dev/sdb. The > > general process is a

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:44:18 AM Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > This is a bit off main topic, but definitely 'on' for this list. Lets > imagine a scenario there is nothing to delete on the troublesome > partition, but there is another disk. What would be the best tool to > move data to

(64-bit) linux 3.10 and nouveau oddity

Due to GPF problems I've been having with wheezy's linux 3.2, I decided to try testing's 3.10 kernel (only installed the newer initramfs and 3.10 pkgs). Yesterday it ran fine all day, even built my firewall system without a lick of the troubles I've been having with 3.2. (So the GPF problem migh

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Tuesday, November 05, 2013 02:21:36 AM Richard Hector wrote: > On 05/11/13 16:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root > > filesystem that has run out of inodes. You need to ask yourself why you > > have 1.7M files in your rootfs. That's very

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

On Monday, November 04, 2013 01:20:01 PM Tony van der Hoff wrote: > No, it didn't work for me. I would have much preferred to automate this. > However, AFAICT the tools aren't available, and the time comes where you > feel you're beating your head against a wall. That's when I gave up. > > I'm not

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

On Saturday, November 02, 2013 08:23:45 AM Joel Rees wrote: > I'm repeating myself, but good engineers don't do that. No, they don't. They prepare new footings and pour a new foundation before moving the house to the new location. It's nice to know I haven't misperceived the situation. -- To

Re: sd card not detected

On Saturday, November 02, 2013 06:55:39 AM Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > I use xfce4 4.10, but in this case I think it has nothing to do with the > problem. > The problem is that the device is not detected by the kernel . > > it is not visible in the dmesg output and not visible in the output of > fd

Re: Hosting advice

On Friday, November 01, 2013 01:46:26 PM Celejar wrote: > I'm curious: how important is getting updates fast in the context of a > server? I understand that for desktops, some want the latest features, > or support for new hardware, etc. but servers? Doesn't it make more > sense to just run somethi

Re: Hosting advice

On Friday, November 01, 2013 08:49:28 AM Craig L. wrote: > Good points. The reason for going for hosting at the moment is it will > give us a quick and easy solution. The reason for the Linux requirement > is that we will be looking into a dedicated or virtual solution in the > future. If I am goin

Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)

On Thursday, October 31, 2013 02:56:21 PM ken wrote: > On 10/31/2013 02:02 PM Beco wrote: > > On 31 October 2013 13:12, ken > > > > wrote: > > Alex, > > > > As you can see (from this long conversation), there are a variety of > > interpretations of wha

Re: Only in America! ? (was ... Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question]))

On Thursday, October 31, 2013 02:22:40 PM Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:38:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Case 1: I find that someone in my family who lives in my house has > > rumaged through my underwear drawer. A violation of trust has > > occurred. I am unhappy and wi

Re: Choosing default OS in multi boot system

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:48:55 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > Don't know if I'd call Grub2 bloated, but Grub-legacy was friendlier. Maybe not bloated, but grub2 was certainly broken the last time I tried it. Specifically, (1) when I installed a system using grub2, it would install on the fi

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 05:48:20 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 04:55:44PM -0400, John wrote: > > Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over > > init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency? > > I think it's largely driven by frus

Latest kernel update fixed crashes?

The latest kernel update seems to have fixed the panics and GPFs I was experiencing. I was experiencing nearly predictable crashes whenever RAM was filled with cached disk blocks. At that point, it seemed that anything that addressed the cache would cause a crash: use a program that needed RAM

Re: [R] Installing R-2.15.2 in Debian Wheezy/Testing

have: deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/ Neal -- 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/87vcbhx3fv.wl%n...@walfield.org

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:54:33 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > ... My humour is less good than Chaplin's ... OK. Pointed, direct humor back at you. What was the shortest book ever published? "One Thousand Years of German Humor", which consisted of the frontispiece, the preface, and the introd

Black Screen of Death

Last night, I got two BSODs while building my firewall (actually building its toolchain). General Protection Fault. I snapped a pic of the second one. This is on wheezy, 64-bit, updated, using the latest 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. I last saw similar problems some years back when I had hardware troubl

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

On Sunday, November 18, 2012 01:43:54 PM Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Try 'sync' after the write is supposedly complete; see what happens > > when the system actually tries to write to the device. Open a shell > > and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to see if anything is griping about > > the device du

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

On Sunday, November 18, 2012 07:57:09 AM Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:58:29AM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > Hi guys! > > > > > > I have a problem copying big files to an USB-stick using thunar in > > > > ... > > > > > I do this to copy ripped DVD's

Re: CPU scaling problems

On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:34:11 PM Mark Allums wrote: > > Francesco wrote: > I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U. > > My problem is the following: when the `ondemand' governor is active, the > processor clock never scales up, it always stays at 800Mhz.

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Shortcuts to resize the view do > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to the > applications you're using, the view shortcuts are at least common for > all web browsers I know. I've found works on a number of

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:19:34 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 21:57 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Does your box have a serial port? > > No. USB and LAN ports. I investigated SOL, serial over LAN, and IPMI, > but can't get access to it; apparentl

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