Re: Package kde-config-mobile-networking - what does it do?

On 01/04/2025 16:01, Hans wrote: Hi, just a question: today I stumbled over the package "kde-config-mobile- networking" and installed it. But I saw no change of my system. I even did not find any change in kde-systemsettings. Is this an older and unneeded package? Network-manager is already cre

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

First all, sorry for top posting. The original thread is in the cylindrical filing cabinet. I started my day by checking my always on desktop and found it to be frozen. At the time I was running KDE and VirtualBox (with a Trixie instance) amongst other things. This is of no great concern to me

Re: Problem with /var

On 07/03/2025 01:24, Maureen Thomas wrote: I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that my /var is almost full.  What can I safely delete to make more room for it.  It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.  I also have a 2TB Seagat

Re: Writing passwords down

On 17/12/2024 17:44, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 17 Dec 2024 06:45 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de: Then follow Bruce Schneier's advice and*write them down*. Do you have a reference? I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice, too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

On 03/12/2024 00:11, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Once upon a time I had Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs running under VirtualBox on Debian 10 or earlier. Now I need one for some primitive, but essential program I cannot remember how I created the VMs (Gene's disease, 88 come S

VirtualBox and Windows VMs

Once upon a time I had Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs running under VirtualBox on Debian 10 or earlier. Now I need one for some primitive, but essential program I cannot remember how I created the VMs (Gene's disease, 88 come Sunday) and would welcome any reminders. The sources are a

Re: Edge on debian

On 04/11/2024 12:15, Hwa Peer wrote: Hello list, Have you anybody tried MS Edge browser on Debian desktop? I would be happy to hear your viewpoints on this app. Thanks. Why???

Re: password manager

On 09/10/2024 00:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager i've always used firefox's builtin manager but it's gotten to where it only works about half the time it's a pita looking up and typing long cryptic passwords and i'm lazy I've relied on P

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

On 07/10/2024 15:07, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote: I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own password, and now works correctly. It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you. I'm using a rec

Re: counting commas

On 19/01/2024 23:02, David Wright wrote: On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: I won, and you lost There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in the closely related expression "I won, you lost." Anything other

Re: Help: network abuse

On 21/12/2023 15:11, Pocket wrote: On 12/21/23 09:58, Alain D D Williams wrote: [cut] Use a firewall and set it up correctly. Assuming a residential environment. Firewall the router and server(s) as well as all the client machines. I have nginx, dovecot and exim4 and other daemons running

Re: Password managers

On 10/11/2023 10:32, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM Timothy M Butterworth > wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:11 AM John Conover mailto:cono...@panix.com>> wrote: John Darrah writes: > On Thu, 2023-1

Re: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

On 26/10/2023 14:39, Hans wrote: Hi folks, is there a very easy way, if I want to install packages from trixie oder sid into my bookworm installation? I read about apt pinning, but as far as I understood, I have to name explicitily each package I want to install from sid. This can be much work,

Re: Lost HDMI monitor connection

On 18/07/2023 12:00, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 17/07/2023 20:29, riveravaldez wrote: On 7/17/23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I recently upgraded 2 laptops from Bullseye to Bookworm and no longer have access to my external monitor from one of them. My environment consists of a couple of

Re: Lost HDMI monitor connection

On 17/07/2023 20:29, riveravaldez wrote: On 7/17/23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I recently upgraded 2 laptops from Bullseye to Bookworm and no longer have access to my external monitor from one of them. My environment consists of a couple of laptops connected to an external monitor via an

Lost HDMI monitor connection

I recently upgraded 2 laptops from Bullseye to Bookworm and no longer have access to my external monitor from one of them. My environment consists of a couple of laptops connected to an external monitor via an HDMI Switch that, until the upgrades, gave excellent service. The only diagnostic I

Re: Upgrade to Debian 11 and still have the same problems.

On 17/07/2023 15:58, Default User wrote: On Sun, 2023-07-16 at 17:21 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have been snooping around the system and found this message in the lshw command:  *-generic DISABLED  description: Wireless interface  product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Ada

Re: Monitor Problem

On 05/07/2023 13:42, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 7/5/2023 8:24 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i wrote: I assume that it is a DVD because of:    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038440   "debian-cd: debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso is too big for a CD" I forgot to assume that

Re: Debian USB Wifi

On 06/06/2023 13:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] I know that the subject mentions USB, but I was responding to Stefan's statement regarding "USB or otherwise." He's basically correct, of course, that there are *virtually* no modern WiF

Re: NEW problem PANIC AW: SOLUTION AW: EPSON ...

On 18/05/2023 09:34, CL wrote: Hello, first I have to apologies for being a little bit rude within the next sentences. BUT STOP this stupid conversation. It is quite clear that this is one of following things 1. Stupid freaking AI 2. Psycho test 3. Troll You missed: 4. Child playing with

Re: how to create bootable usb stick from iso file

On 18/05/2023 12:33, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/5/23 11:44, hlyg wrote: in debian, it is as easy as copying iso file to usb device (/dev/sdx), run sync to be safe does this method work for other iso file? http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.1/FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-i386-boo

Re: May I delete their?

On 04/02/2023 10:46, Henning Follmann wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 10:08:06AM +, sim sim wrote: Good day! During the last update through the 'Sinaptic' I saw that was download 'linux-image-5.10.0-21-686-pae' and updated 'linux-image-686-pae' was updated. In my /boot/ among any other are a

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

On 23/09/2022 00:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following p

Re: LibreOffice - any way to recover not saved changes to the file?

On 12/09/2022 23:58, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: I edited a file for hours and then mistakenly clicked "Do not save" while closing file. Auto save is not enabled. No backup exist in LibreOffice Backup folder. The computer is not restarted yet. Temp folder have only old version. Any way to recover th

Re: Synaptic missing in "Bookworm"

On 01/07/2022 01:38, Richard Hector wrote: On 1/07/22 12:08, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: anyone with thoughts, or info about Synaptic missing in "Bookworm"? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synaptic Richard Many thanks. I'll just have to keep watching for it to re-appear. Peter HB

Synaptic missing in "Bookworm"

anyone with thoughts, or info about Synaptic missing in "Bookworm"?

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

On 21/06/2022 12:48, Boyan Penkov wrote: On 6/21/22 07:35, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 21/06/2022 11:53, Siard wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:05 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 20/06/2022 14:55, Siard wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

On 21/06/2022 11:53, Siard wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:05 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 20/06/2022 14:55, Siard wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: Has something changed that makes virtualbox workable again, I have the Virtualbox 6.1.34 package for

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

On 20/06/2022 14:55, Siard wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: Has something changed that makes virtualbox workable again, I have the Virtualbox 6.1.34 package for Debian 11, downloaded from www.virtualbox.org, working fine in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Have you succeed

Re: Texas electricity (Heather Cox Richardson)

And this is relevant to Debian users (and the rest of the world) how? On 14/05/2022 15:23, ghe2001 wrote: [T]he Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has asked consumers to scale back energy use to make up for six power-generation facilities that failed just before a hot weekend. Most

Re: Debian "Bookworm" Installation

On 14/04/2022 09:57, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-04-14 01:07 UTC+0200, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I've just attempted to Install "Bookworm" to a USB stick and it went mostly to plan, apart from the fact that it won't boot. However that's not the issue at ha

Debian "Bookworm" Installation

Hello All, I've just attempted to Install "Bookworm" to a USB stick and it went mostly to plan, apart from the fact that it won't boot. However that's not the issue at hand: I can't find a way to persuade the installer's partitioner to use GPT instead of the MS-DOS partitioning scheme. Anyo

Re: off topic-cura question

On 05/02/2022 12:13, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; Does anyone have an address that willl actually get to the Ultimaker-cura developers? I have a wish, bug to report. Thanks all, pm's ok. Cheers, Gene Heskett. Might this be a good place to start?: https://support.ultimaker.com/hc/en-us

Re: KDE Icon query

On 28/01/2022 21:38, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2022, 18:51:21 CET schrieb Peter Hillier-Brook: Hi Peter, the icons should be below /usr/share/icons/ and then within thwe required themefolder. If dolphin and the other apps are in the menus, but got no icon, try another icon theme in

KDE Icon query

Hello All, can anyone identify the file that holds the following KDE icons: Application Launcher, Dolphin and Konsole? I recently re-booted an already up-to-date bullseye system and they have visually disappeared from the Panel, although the launchers themselves are still present and functio

Re: strange file query

On 17/01/2022 17:00, ghe2001 wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, January 17, 2022 5:06 AM, piorunz wrote: Indeed it is. Mesa is a hero of Linux world. Thanks to it, we have effortless GPU acceleration available everywhere, thousands of games are working flawlessly on Linux, e

Re: More issues

On 05/10/2021 18:21, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > So when I tell synaptic package manager to reload, to get current > information, I see "failed" for two of the things that it's trying > to download. Then I get a box with error messages in it as follows: > > "GPG error: https://download.virtua

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

On 17/08/2021 15:50, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:46:49 (+0100), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 17/08/2021 02:21, Robbi Nespu wrote: >>> I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want >>> to use sid as my daily driver. >

Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

On 17/08/2021 02:21, Robbi Nespu wrote: > I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want > to use sid as my daily driver. > > I change source.list to sid >     $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list >     deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free >     deb-src h

Re: Bullseye - no sound

On 03/03/2021 00:19, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > Running Bullseye on an Acer Aspire 5 I have no sound - "No output or > input devices found" > > Available controllers revealed by lspci are as follows: > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On 12/03/2021 17:41, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:27 AM James H. H. Lampert > wrote: >> >> On 3/12/21 8:09 AM, Larry Martell wrote: >>> I did the same thing - I resisted being on FB for a very long time, >>> but eventually I had to get on because it was how my family was >>> co

Re: Bullseye - no sound

On 03/03/2021 02:14, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 03 Mar 2021 at 04:57:59 (+0300), IL Ka wrote: >>> $ pacmd list-sinks >>> 2 sink(s) available. >> >> pulseaudio is aware of both of your soundcards (although one is physically >> muted). >> Which software reports "No output or input devices found"? >

Re: Bullseye - no sound

On 03/03/2021 01:13, IL Ka wrote: > Hi. > > Running Bullseye on an Acer Aspire 5 I have no sound - "No output or > input devices found" > > > Is it an output of pulseaudio?  > If you run "$ pavucontrol" (Pulse Audio control), or "$ pacmd > list-sinks", what do you see? >   $ pacmd list-s

Bullseye - no sound

Running Bullseye on an Acer Aspire 5 I have no sound - "No output or input devices found" Available controllers revealed by lspci are as follows: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 High Definition Aud

Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7)

On 26/01/2021 10:10, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 09:31 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 25 ian 21, 18:12:18, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote > [...] >>> >>> Hello Dan, I've been using Bullseye for several months, but thought I'd >>> bet

Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7)

On 25/01/2021 17:58, Dan Ritter wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >>>> Trying to install Buster to a new Acer Aspire A515-56. The install (from >>>> live DVD) hangs asking for disk device ID. This info is at least 12 >>>> screws from immediate resolution

Re: Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7)

On 25/01/2021 17:19, Dan Ritter wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> Trying to install Buster to a new Acer Aspire A515-56. The install (from >> live DVD) hangs asking for disk device ID. This info is at least 12 >> screws from immediate resolution, except for the B

Disk problem whilst attempting to install Buster (10.7)

Trying to install Buster to a new Acer Aspire A515-56. The install (from live DVD) hangs asking for disk device ID. This info is at least 12 screws from immediate resolution, except for the BIOS(?)/UEFI output of: HFM512GDJIN-82A0A for the HD Is there anyone with direct experience of this hardwar

Re: Create 3D text?

On 10/09/2020 02:53, Carl Fink wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program to create 3D text? > I'll do CAD if I must, but I haven't touched the stuff for years (and I > was never very knowledgeable or skilled). > > Thanks. > GIMP ? A quick search for "3D text + Linux"

Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

On 30/05/2020 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > I the recent thread about returning a Debian installation to its > original state "popularity-contest" was mentioned. > > I wished to compare it to other tools mentioned in that thread. > Obvious stating point -- read the man page. > As I never installe

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

On 31/03/2020 00:13, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:02:05AM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 30/03/2020 19:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:38:29PM +0200, Michael wrote: >>>> On Monday, March 30, 2020

Re: what do you guys think of this method of installing virtualbox

On 30/03/2020 19:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:38:29PM +0200, Michael wrote: >> On Monday, March 30, 2020 8:19:31 PM CEST, kaye n wrote: >> >>> But what if I want to get the latest version of virtualbox which is 6.1.4 ? >> >> you can get a list of all available versions

Re: Sudo

On 28/01/2020 16:00, Harold Hartley wrote: I’m reading the thread. And I did fix it by re-installing with non-graphic install. The first time was a graphical install. I think that you're missing the obvious. When using the graphical install there comes a point when you're asked for a root password

Re: Is this ALL good advise

On 05/12/2019 18:18, Joe wrote: I can't take any more of this thread. It's "ADVICE" ! :-) > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 09:14:31 - (UTC) > Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-12-05, ghe wrote: >>> >>> I found out about it in an article on Internet security/privacy on >>> the New York Times -- it's safe for mo

Re: virtualbox 5.1 guest utils problem

On 30/09/2019 16:45, Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > I have virtualbox 5.1.38 running (host:buster, guest:sid): > > ii virtualbox-5.1 5.1.38-122592~Ubuntu~bionic amd64 > Orac > ii virtualbox-dkms4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1all > x86 > ii virtual

Re: Virtual Box

On 02/08/2019 18:03, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Thanks to all for useful input. Thanks to a little brain fade I hadn't been able to find the Oracle repository, but all is now well. Peter HB

Re: Virtual Box

On 02/08/2019 22:42, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 18:03:51 +0100 > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dep

Re: Virtual Box

On 02/08/2019 21:44, Erwan David wrote: > > On 8/2/19 7:03 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dependency problems, inclu

Re: Virtual Box

On 02/08/2019 18:39, Étienne Mollier wrote: > phb, on 2019-08-02: >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the >> Buster repositor

Virtual Box

Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the Buster repositories. Anyone have any thoughts? Peter HB

Synaptic failure to function

Hello All, just a little information which may be useful. I recently experienced a system crash caused by a power failure and was left with no access to Synaptic after re-starting and cleaning up as much of the mess as possible. Googling wasn't very helpful so I tried creating another user account

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

On 26/01/18 16:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:45:22PM +0000, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: >>> $ while true; do echo a>>a; done >>> >>> makes bash crash when file size is reached > &

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: > Hi list, > setting > > ulimit -f 1024 > > and running (for example) > > $ while true; do echo a>>a; done > > makes bash crash when file size is reached > > Warning: Program '/bin/bash' crashed. > > $ du a > 1024 /home/fe

Re: vbox installation

On 14/12/17 13:57, Jack Dangler wrote: > All > > Just letting you know that virtualbox on a linux host stops at 5.0.4 for > the moment if you intend to install the extension pack. I installed 5.2 > this morning on a new deb box i built and when i installed the ext pack, > 5.2 was removed from the

Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?

On 19/10/17 18:55, Gene Heskett wrote: > Since the last update to firefox-esr, none of the usual internet buying > options work, or even show up after you've clicked add to cart. > > clamav also claims that ~/firefox/browser/omni.ja is infected, > with but several re-installs of firefox-esr has n

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

On 31/03/17 14:34, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the >> Thursday before last Thursday". >> >> To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the >> Thu

Re: HP Printer (OfficeJet 8730) Installation

On 30/03/17 18:28, Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Mar 2017 at 16:15:18 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> On 29/03/17 18:27, Brian wrote: >>> >>> The changelog at backports has >>> >>> hplip (3.16.7+repack0-1) unstable; urgency=medium >>>

Re: HP Printer (OfficeJet 8730) Installation

On 29/03/17 18:27, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Mar 2017 at 17:59:03 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> Fully up to date Jessie installation >> >> my printer recently died and I replaced it with a new OfficeJet as >> above. Regrettably support is not available wit

Re: HP Printer (OfficeJet 8730) Installation

On 29/03/17 18:27, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Mar 2017 at 17:59:03 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> Fully up to date Jessie installation >> >> my printer recently died and I replaced it with a new OfficeJet as >> above. Regrettably support is not available wit

HP Printer (OfficeJet 8730) Installation

Hello All, Fully up to date Jessie installation my printer recently died and I replaced it with a new OfficeJet as above. Regrettably support is not available with hplip in Jessie, nor with version 3.16.11 that is current in hplip downloads. Has anyone achieved success with this device and, if s

Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

On 15/03/17 14:45, Dean Valentine wrote: > I don't have debian installed on my computer yet, nor can I access the > internet with it (because my wifi is down) so i don't understand how I > would install the non-free package? This may help you. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

On 17/02/17 12:46, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 02/17/2017 02:20 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox >> is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the stable >> distro shortly. > > Hi Mark, > > if Vurtu

Re: PROGRESS - was [Re: My bash script is missing something - what?]

On 10/10/16 16:46, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/10/2016 10:04 AM, Nicolas George wrote: >> Le nonidi 19 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : >>> 1. What Debian oriented Bash Tutorial should I be reading? >> >> My first tutorial advice: do not do bash. I advise to do either or >> both of

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

On 04/08/16 08:18, Emile Antonios wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed that over the last few weeks Icedove is crashing. I've > never had a problem with that before. It typically happens when clicking > on or deleting an email. I don't get any error, it just closes. > > I'm running Jessie KDE > > sa

Re: KDE & removing items from the panel

On 29/06/16 07:20, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 29/06/2016 07:26, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 6/14/16, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >>> On 14/06/16 18:17, Hans wrote: >>>> Did you unlock the widgets? >>>> >>>> Hans >>>>

Re: KDE & removing items from the panel

On 14/06/16 18:17, Hans wrote: > Did you unlock the widgets? > > Hans > They've never been locked, but locking and un-locking did not improve the situation. > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:10:48 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> I've recently noticed that the right

KDE & removing items from the panel

I've recently noticed that the right-click menu no longer offers an option to remove the clicked-upon icon from the panel. Anyone any suggestions for removing icons (not the application). I'm running up-to-date Debian 8.5 (64 bit). Thanks in advance. Peter HB

Re: swap on second hard drive

On 19/05/16 06:46, deloptes wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> On 18/05/16 22:02, deloptes wrote: >>> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >>> >>>> On 17/05/16 18:02, Felix Miata wrote: >>>>> Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-05-17 16:4

Re: swap on second hard drive

On 18/05/16 22:02, deloptes wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> On 17/05/16 18:02, Felix Miata wrote: >>> Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-05-17 16:41 (UTC+0100): >>> >>>> I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that

Re: swap on second hard drive

On 17/05/16 18:02, Felix Miata wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-05-17 16:41 (UTC+0100): > >> I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that I use for >> experimenting with various distributions. A consequence is that previous >> UUIDs have

swap on second hard drive

I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that I use for experimenting with various distributions. A consequence is that previous UUIDs have disappeared into the bit bucket but, during booting of my main system a script somewhere is trying to use the swap partition that used to exist

Re: Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

On 02/04/16 08:50, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-04-02 06:51 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > >> On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:58:17 +0200 >> Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2016-04-01 13:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >>> >>>> Peter Hillier-Brook composed o

Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

Following an overnight shut down I couldn't reach the desktop manager the following day. Running a live system I was able to extract the following via 'dmesg'. Does anyone recognise this, or can offer a pointer to the problem? ++

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

On 09/11/15 22:01, Alan Chandler wrote: [cut] > Up until last April, I ran Windows 7 under virtual Box on my Debian > machine for my daily work almost every day for about 2 years. I > have cut down now to one day a week, and generally do that on a > Macbook Air, also running Virtual Box. It wor

Re: Fall-back after "upgrade"?

On 28/07/15 15:43, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 28 July 2015 15:38:41 Dennis Wicks wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> I am considering upgrading from Jessie 8.1 to Stretch >> (testing) to see if some problems disappear. >> >> Is there any procedure for backing out the upgrade just in >> case things "don'

Re: battery

On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows incor

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

On 21/07/12 10:26, L V Gandhi wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: The os-prober program will find the different OS's on the separate partitions or Volumes and add them to grub.cfg when you run the update-grub command or the OS runs it. I have yet to see it not find the

Re: help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

On 08/12/2010 15:58, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 08 December 2010 15:47:19 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: sudo update-grub should do the trick. With grub2 the configuration file (grub.cfg) should not be edited by hand; it's updated every time update-grub is run. Lenny uses grub 1. I think th

Re: help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

On 08/12/2010 14:36, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian Folks, I think this query is better sent to this list not debian amd64 so I have relayed it here. I run Lenny AMD64 on an AMD64 box with 8GB RAM and have two SATA drives. The first drive has the Lenny on it. I installed the other

Re: modprobe vboxdrv failed (virtualbox-ose 3.1.2-dfsg-1+b1)

On 20/01/2010 18:39, Ole Toft Jensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:37:45PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings, # dmesg |tail vboxdrv: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout Greetings, This means that your vboxdrv module is not compiled for your current kernel version, so you

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [cut] I'm glad it works for you. I maintain that there are some sites and some plugins that won't work correctly on amd64, while they work fine on x86. Last time I tried virtualbox, would not start that proprietary OS on amd64, either. VirtualBox (from Sun) works j

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

T o n g wrote: Hi, Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- FAQ#Can_I_restore_it_to_a_s

Re: All headers when printing from Icedove

Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Is anyone else getting *all* headers when printing out emails? Maybe some about:config setting that I missed? http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/icedove.print.all.headers.pdf My wife uses Windows Tbird, and print-outs look normal there. All headers do get printed un

Re: Problems with installation of OpenOffice 3.0

Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Jan 27, 11:30 am, Angus Auld wrote: --- On Mon, 1/26/09, Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: Rodolfo Medina Subject: Problems with installation of OpenOffice 3.0 To: debian-u...@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 11:20 PM From openoffice web site I download

Re: Running Debian Stable

Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add OOo 3.0 to a Debian stable installation? By adding the unstable Debian repository? Pu

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

Fili Wiese wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble setting up a serial connection between two servers using a null modem cable. This link is needed as a redundant connection for Heartbeat. Both machines are indentical (both hardware and software). [cut] I'm really at a loss :S Does anybody have a c

Re: Bug in Console

Joey Hess wrote: Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I've hit a bug in the code that handles character mode traffic and I'd be grateful if someone could confirm the correct element under which to file said bug. 'Console' is not recognised in the bug reporting system kernels p

Bug in Console

I've hit a bug in the code that handles character mode traffic and I'd be grateful if someone could confirm the correct element under which to file said bug. 'Console' is not recognised in the bug reporting system, and yet is the logical description of the failing element, so I'm stuck. Maybe 'T

Re: Support For ATI Sapphire Radeon Graphics Card

Redefined Horizons wrote: I talked a buddy of mine into installing Linux on his new computer in a dual-boot environment with MS Windows. He was able to get the operating system installed without any major problems. However, he is having some problem with his graphics card. He is using the ATI Sa

Re: Warning to ATI's proprietary fglrx users using Testing / Lenny

Andrew J. Barr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ananda Samaddar wrote: Slightly off-topic but does anyone know of any efforts to create Free Software drivers for the newer ATI cards like the Nouveau project is doing for NVidia cards? I'd me more than happy to lend a hand to

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