[fixed] Re: Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-07-01 Thread Steven Post
(Please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list) On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 14:56 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 22:15 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > (Please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list) > > > > On

Re: Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-06-25 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 22:15 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > (Please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list) > > On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 19:16 +0300, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Lu, 13 mai 19, 11:29:10, Steven Post wrote: > > > > > &g

Re: Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-06-24 Thread Steven Post
(Please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list) On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 19:16 +0300, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Lu, 13 mai 19, 11:29:10, Steven Post wrote: > > > > Recently the numeric keypad stopped working on the Gnome lock screen. > >

Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-05-13 Thread Steven Post
Hi, Recently the numeric keypad stopped working on the Gnome lock screen. When booting, the numlock is in the 'off' state and I can simply turn it on by pressing the numlock key'. When I lock the screen (Super+L), the numlock light is still on, but pressing a number activates the second function (

Re: systemd unable to enter emergeny mode (and failing to skip mount)

2014-07-29 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 12:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 iul 14, 00:47:21, Redalert Commander wrote: > > > > When specifying init=/bin/sh on the kernel command line in grub, > > I can boot into a shell, remount the root filesystem as rw (it's > > mounted ro when doing this), > > and ed

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-07-26 Thread Steven Post
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 21:33 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > Am 25.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Steven Post: > > > I'm running Jessie (lagging about 5 days behind with the updates) and > > use systemd-sysv. Today I noticed that there is no visual feedbac

fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-07-25 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, I'm running Jessie (lagging about 5 days behind with the updates) and use systemd-sysv. Today I noticed that there is no visual feedback from fsck when checking an ext4 filesystem at boot time. Since it appears the system is stuck (apart from the HDD LED) I would consdider this a bug.

Re: Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the linux-image?

2014-05-26 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 02:21 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: > > On Mon, 5/26/14, Joe wrote: > > Subject: Re: Why is Gnome3 still disabled after having upgraded the > linux-image? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, May 26, 2014, 1:49 A

Start pacat on boot (or after xbmc)

2014-02-17 Thread Steven Post
Hi, I have a script that starts and kills pacat (pulseaudio cat) in order to get my USB turntable to work. It is a rather simple script, reproduced below for reference. I want to run this script at boot, but whatever I try, it doesn't seem to work. When started at boot (using an init script, or r

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Steven Post
Hi, On Thu, February 13, 2014 16:03, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to use rdesktop, it showed me > > ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname Looks like a DNS issue to me, getaddrinfo is the part where the hostname is resolved to an IP. Try to ping the remote host and see if i

Re: dvd Jessie images

2013-10-16 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 11:44 -0500, Catherine Gramze wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:33:39 +0300 > andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > > > hi all. > > I want download full set of dvd Jessie images. But on official site > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.2.0/i386/iso-dvd/ i can find > > only

Re: Permissions

2013-08-27 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 13:43 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > I apologize for this "needle in a haystack" but... > > This was originally posted on the PHP list, but has changed into a > Debian question... > > Tried to run the program, that we have been discussing,{on the PHP list

Re: apt autoremove

2013-08-21 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 22:24 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > The Wednesday 21 August 2013 21:50:17, Verde Denim wrote : > > Running updates this morning and got this - > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > > required: > > dbconfig-common libapache2-mod-php5 l

Re: Mousewheel doesn't work in preview pane of evolution

2013-07-27 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 16:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > This is a known bug for Evolution and has nothing to do with Debian, > there's no workaround. I'm using Evolution on Arch Linux and I'm > subscribed to the Evolution mailing list. > > Regards, > Ralf Thanks Ralf. After some google-foo I fou

Mousewheel doesn't work in preview pane of evolution

2013-07-27 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, Does anyone else have this issue and/or a solution? The scroll wheel works as normal in other applications as well as the folder list and the list of mails, but not in the preview pane. When double clicking an e-mail, the scroll wheel also works. In very select cases it does work in th

Re: Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-02 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 07:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several years. I > performed a "routine" update/upgrade on Sunday, and I seem to have > lost gnome. At first, I could not log in, but I got that fixed. > However, when I log in, all I get i

Re: Tray Icon

2013-06-23 Thread Steven Post
[...] > > Assuming Gnome: > IIRC, update-manager has been removed from testing, and I don't think > it is installed > by default in Wheezy (stable). It has been superseded by another > graphical update manager: gnome-packagekit. > This new update manager (part of upstream Gnome) also has an icon i

Re: open office install fails

2013-06-22 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 10:34 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: [...] > > Maybe it was replaced in Debian, but Open Office is still very much > alive and well (and owned by ASF). > > I'm with Jeff - I prefer OpenOffice over LibreOffice. > > I prefer LibreOffice and follow David's advice. In any case,

Re: open office install fails

2013-06-22 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 06:17 -0400, Jeff Shearer wrote: > Good morning, > > I am using Debian 7. I "upgraded" from 6 recently. My attempt to > install the open office productivity suite seems to have failed. > While synaptic indicates it is installed, I cannot find it on the > reall bad new GUI.

Re: Just a question...........

2013-06-20 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 14:43 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Conrad Nelson" > > > > I think the number one reason why Linux package management via > > Torrent > > never took off is because it is frankly an incredibly terrible idea. > > > > Look, peer-to-peer is a

Re: iptables and networking

2013-06-20 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 12:53 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: [...] > > Hi Steven and thanks for your reply :-) You're welcome. > > This is my full iptables config: [... snip iptables rules...] > > with this way my actually server runs perfectly. Is there other rules to > block ddos attack, or other ty

Re: iptables and networking

2013-06-19 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 20:07 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hey all :-) > > take again iptables, I need to configure another server. > > On my server I've: > > eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:55:d0:c4:f8:1b > inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > route

Re: How to get multiarch support

2013-05-09 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 13:39 +0530, J B wrote: > On Wed, 08 May 2013 12:44:00 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2013-05-08 12:14 +0200, J B wrote: > > > > > When trying to install the skype 4.1 I get > > > > > > #dpkg -i skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb > > > > > > (Reading database ... 22715

Re: /dev/dsp diparait souvent et...

2013-04-28 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 13:49 +0400, effemer...@gmail.com wrote: > Bonjour, Bonjour, > > ...et est remplacé (ou est accompagné par) par /dev/dsp1...ou 2. > > Bref qd j'ai pas /dev/dsp je peux pas me servir de skype (ou j'ai pas > le son sur youtube etc...) > > Un alsa force-reload résout le pb

Re: Und last aptitude safe-upgrade

2013-04-25 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:52 +0200, Dan wrote: [...] > > > I checked, and the kernel has not been updated. > > That's strange, if you downgraded to the old version of X and the kernel > version still is the same, but it doesn't work, then so

Re: mod-security update

2013-04-13 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 11:08 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jens Tobiska wrote: > > After the latest update of mod-security for debian squeeze, I am receiving > > the error message: > > There is no "mod-security" for Squeeze. You must have installed it > from elsewhere. Check it with: My guess is he

Re: Scheduling btrfs scrub on desktop systems

2013-04-03 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 07:30 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 12:12:10PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:25:48PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > > But what if the system is powered down during a scrub? Will it continue > >

Re: Scheduling btrfs scrub on desktop systems

2013-04-01 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 01:12 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm using btrfs on several systems, both servers and desktops, and I > > have scheduled scrub jobs for the servers. &g

Scheduling btrfs scrub on desktop systems

2013-04-01 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, I'm using btrfs on several systems, both servers and desktops, and I have scheduled scrub jobs for the servers. But what would be the best way schedule these jobs on desktop systems where you don't know exactly when they will be powered on? The desktops in question are running Debian

[Workaround] Re: account used for meeting request replies in evolution?

2013-03-06 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 20:19 +0100, Steven Post wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 10:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 10:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 23:08 +0100, Steven Post wrote: > > > > Is there a way to configure e

Re: account used for meeting request replies in evolution?

2013-03-06 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 10:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 10:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 23:08 +0100, Steven Post wrote: > > > Is there a way to configure evolution to select the correct address when > > > accepting meetin

account used for meeting request replies in evolution?

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, I'm using Wheezy and evolution to handle e-mail. I have multiple accounts set up in Evolution, first one is a smtp only account which uses the smtp server provided by my ISP. Other SMTP only accounts are set up for Google's gmail, and another one for a different SMTP host. Then there i

[solved] Subsonic (Was: Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver))

2013-01-21 Thread Steven Post
[...] > Myself on some arbitrary date: > > Another user from this list (replied off list) hinted at subsonic, > > which > > seems to fit the bill very nicely. Debian/Ubuntu package is available > > from the website, but not the Debian repositories. [...] > > I'll have a look at that as well. At f

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 21:48 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] > > I had a look at this yesterday, you can combine the mpd package with > > the > > fookebox package, that last one is a web interface for mpd. > > Sounds interesting, maybe I'll try to take some time to test it, > be

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-27 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 04:12 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] > > So, the actual solution you are using is using a www website which > distributes m3u files, and the user just use that m3u which point to a > web address, it the user's music software is just playing the stream? B

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-26 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 03:44 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking > > for > > but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm > > wanting to have a go at). I will look further into it. > Yes, it's gr

Re: how to restore grub boot manager

2012-12-25 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 18:33 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I install squeeze at sda3 > then I install Windows 2k at sda1, grub boot manager removed > > fortunately I have another PC running squeeze > so I plug the hard disk to it and mount it at /mnt/deb > and I try the command: > > grub-install --roo

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread Steven Post
On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 17:58 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > [...] > > You asked for an alternative to the client, but I will give you both > server and client alternatives. > > I am using mpd (music player daemon) which is playing my music, and > have no interface (it's a daemon

obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-25 Thread Steven Post
Hi, Could anyone recommend a viable alternative to obsidianmusic? It appears to be unmaintained and has some issues where not all music is accessible. What is obsidianmusic? It is a web interface to your amarok music library (when using mysql as the DB back-end), so that music can be streamed ove

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, November 19, 2012 11:28, Mark Allums wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:06:46 -0600 >> "Mark Allums" wrote: >> >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? >> > > I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue >> and >> > > also lost

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:00:41PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > So since I don't have 'aptitude or aptitude-common' installed, why is > > apt-get > > trying to remove all my non-free programs? > > > > Does it need to remove the non-free

evolution and exchange calender (and contacts?)

2012-10-23 Thread Steven Post
Hi list, (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed) Due to several bugs in the libmapi0 libraries I can't use the evolution-mapi plugin (see [1] and [2] for details). Thus I'm connecting to the server using IMAP and SMTP, however using this method I cannot access the calendar or the contacts. Has anyone

[probably solved] Re: MS-Tech MC380 Remote control not working with XBMC wheezy

2012-08-12 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 16:18 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > Hello list, > > As the title suggests, I have a HTPC running Wheezy sitting in a MS-TECH > MC380 enclosure which includes a remote control. > The remote however is not working. > > That same enclosure/remote control

MS-Tech MC380 Remote control not working with XBMC wheezy

2012-08-12 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, As the title suggests, I have a HTPC running Wheezy sitting in a MS-TECH MC380 enclosure which includes a remote control. The remote however is not working. That same enclosure/remote control was used before with Squeeze, it worked out of the box there. I replaced the hardware (except

[Solved] Re: Wheezy as internet gateway: lost connections

2012-06-06 Thread Steven Post
Hi again, I'll post the solution here as I'm quite confident some will find it useful. In my searches for several things, I keep bumping into my own mails to this list. On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 21:48 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a small home network

Wheezy as internet gateway: lost connections

2012-06-05 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, I have a small home network and using a Wheezy installation as the gateway here. Since the gateway is running wheezy I'm experiencing dropped (tcp) connections. I observer this behaviour with both another Wheezy installation (desktop) and with a Windows 7 machine. The problem didn't oc

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-27 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 18:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: [...] > > Many thanks for your follow-up. It's definitely of interest to me. Glad someone found it useful. > > I was wondering about d-i's progress with btrfs so I tested Wheezy and > Precise. Wheezy's current dailies and weeklies are broken so I'

[Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-26 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 03:11 +0200, Steven Post wrote: It's been a while since I replied to this thread, and since I solved it (well.. kind of...) I thought I'd mention how I got this working in the end and also what happens when a drive fails. I don't have a blog, so I'll giv

Re: wheezy: ext4 or ext3

2012-05-26 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 15:36 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Hans-J., > > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > On my new drive I chose ext4 (with luks encryption) for as far as I read, > > most > > people are using ext4 instead of ext3 on ssd drives. > > Is this really recommended? > > ext4 provi

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 22:30 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] > > > > > Unfortunately the Debian installer (daily build for wheezy) is unable to > > > > create multi-device btrfs volumes. > > > > > > Yah.. but you probably can do this via shell screen. > > > > I don't think I'm able to do that from

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 20:33 -0400, Tom H wrote: [...] > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538118 > > I don't think that this bug corresponds to your problem because you're > bind-mounting "/dev". > > Does grub-probe work inside the chroot? > > grub-probe --target=abstrac

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 13:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into > > a single btrfs volume (raid10) (

Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-04 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs (previously impossible because of GRUB). Unfortunately the Debian installer (da

[Solved ?] Re: fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-26 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 20:43 +, Camaleón wrote: [...] > > Mmm... what worries me is why an fsck is even needed just because a non- > vital application is not being closed gracefully on shutdown, that's not > something I would consider worth for a fsck >:-? > > Steven, have you considered a ha

Re: fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-23 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 12:07 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: [...] > > Is it possible to shutdown vuze gracefully instead of killing java out > from under it? I couldn't find anything back when I wrote the script besides killing java. But I just did another search and came up with "vuze --closedown" w

Re: fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-23 Thread Steven Post
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 15:09 +, Camaleón wrote: [...] > > "/dev/sdc1" is the partition with data inconsistency, what we have to find > out is why it's left in such state. Another possibility, should you have the > chance, could be backup the full partition, reformat it and start over. Being

Re: fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-19 Thread Steven Post
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:31 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:19:09 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > > I have this really annoying problem when I shutdown the machine using > > sudo /sbin/shutdown -h +1 > > The machine seems to properly shutdown, but I always (a

fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-18 Thread Steven Post
Hi list, I have this really annoying problem when I shutdown the machine using sudo /sbin/shutdown -h +1 The machine seems to properly shutdown, but I always (at least I think) get the message that a filesystem contains errors and needs to be checked. When I use the shutdown option in Gnome, the s

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 12:53 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > Concur with Henrique. If you really want the latest Debian offers, the > proper way to do it would be to add the experimental repository to > your sources.list. The OP offers, among others, 3.3.0rc7. Debian > experimental has 3.3.0rc6 in t

Re: evolution segfaults except when run in gdb

2012-03-03 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 17:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:14:10 +0100, Steven Post wrote: > > > Since the beginning of this week evolution crashes on my user account. > > Running from a terminal window I see all plugins getting loaded fine and > > i

evolution segfaults except when run in gdb

2012-03-03 Thread Steven Post
Hi list, Since the beginning of this week evolution crashes on my user account. Running from a terminal window I see all plugins getting loaded fine and it starts to sync my imap account, then is suddenly disappears with a segfault in the terminal window. The thing is, this doesn't happen on othe