Open Microsoft Surface

2025-07-20 Thread Andrew W Rambus
Hello , I have a Microsoft Surface 4 ; I bought at a yard sale. ,and I’m trying to turn it on , and I can’t get past the Debian login GNU/Linux 12 login & password !! Can someone please help me , open this laptop

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

2025-03-31 Thread W. Pepperdine
interface. On Thursday, March 27th, 2025 at 12:34 AM, W. Pepperdine wrote: >> Here are outputs of a few queries on log entries >> from one of my XFCE installations. How do they compare >> with your logs? Can you see any reports on your >> computer that could point to what is cau

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

2025-03-27 Thread W. Pepperdine
ly to me. I've been reading that the Lenovo machines can have some peculiar interactions with kernel modules, so I'm now checking into that. On Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 at 6:51 PM, W. Pepperdine wrote: > Debian+XFCE freezes randomly either just before, during, or a couple seconds

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

2025-03-26 Thread W. Pepperdine
Thank you. I don't understand about the linux-image from backports. Would that be the same kernel that is in Trixie? I already tried that. If the problem is with the kernel configuration, is there any way to find the problem working on a single computer?

Frequent freezing around login screens

2025-03-25 Thread W. Pepperdine
Debian+XFCE freezes randomly either just before, during, or a couple seconds after the login screen. It happens about a third the time, both on booting and on changing users. During a freeze, the screen displays but is not updated and the USB ports appear inactive. There is no mouse or keyboard

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread w f
> > That is probably the same problem as described here (including a > > solution): > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059773 > > A work-around at any rate (pardon the pun). The solution/work-around (that worked for me) was in 1059773 ... using dconf to disable attempts to

after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

2025-02-21 Thread w f
Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Force Quit" or "Wait." When I launch it from the command line, I get this: ** (gnome-calculator

Re: Debian 12 "bookworm" full upgrade

2023-06-28 Thread b w
n-reply-to=XiU7aqJHm8EPZSELf5B_eodPqg8yQVS1US81CJSRg_o7YU07_A8R6GHA3ZexhKAuYvB1Yjdu7AzWHUJz5bKAzu6a44i308CGtQ6zDXM_ns8=@protonmail.com >I know a set of "instructions" for the install exists but Not for our needs. That is a ridiculous statement.

Re: how to change boot screen image?

2023-06-09 Thread b w
/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme 6059/6260 96% # First check whether the user has specified a background image explicitly. # If so, try to use it. Don't try the other possibilities in that case # (#608263). if [ -n "${GRUB_BACKGROUND+x}" ]; then set_background

Gnome Panel Doesn't Show Chinese Characters when in Chinese locale

2021-07-16 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
OS: Bullseye, fully updated. Problem: When logged in Simplified Chinese locale, the date and time are shown in English. They are correctly shown in Chinese characters in Ubuntu 20.04.

Re: GPU support for Linux 4.19

2020-05-23 Thread John W
I am using GPU passthrough (via VFIO/IOMMU) on Debian 4.19. I don't think the specific video card really matters. The passthrough happens at the PCIe layer. So, the more important thing is to get a motherboard with good IOMMU groups. Then, whatever you plug into those slots (could be GPU, or whate

Setting up a VLAN tagged bonding device

2019-03-28 Thread John W. M. Stevens
I've tried six different sets of instructions, and at this point, I'm at a loss.  Is it even possible to set up an 802.3ad bond that uses VLAN tagging under Debian 9.1? I have a working setup with bonding.  I need to modify this setup to VLAN tag the bond. The working setup is: auto bond0 i

OpenVPN & Debian Stretch

2018-09-04 Thread Josh W.
Debian Users, I am having a terrible time setting up a free VPN Service! Could "Any Body" point me to an UP To Date way. to set up OpenVPN on Debian Stretch? Your Help is Much Needed!!! Thank you! Joshua

Data Recovery

2018-08-21 Thread Josh W.
Hello World of Debian, I was trying to setup a shared folder between my Debian Stretch system and my Raspberry Pi. I had created an "/export & /export/users directory" and had bound it to my "/home/users" directory. I had given up on the idea of sharing between the two OSes, because i w

20180630223149.b338d4fd2c97ba4b9b246b67

2018-07-02 Thread Josh W.
Hello, I am using Debian Stretch Linux w/ the GNOME desktop. I have been using the same terminals since i upgraded to Stretch ( When first released as stable). It just now stopped showing the colors for the different contents. When i run the $TERM command the output is as follows. xterm-256color

Terminal Color-Coding

2018-07-01 Thread Josh W.
@Celejar Hello, I am using Debian Stretch-Gnome as my OS. I use the Terminator Terminal and the default Terminal of this system. My default, normally is color-coded, but just recently it not. It used to let me see the directories in blue, executable in green, and plain text in grey. Now it is all

Terminal Color-Coding

2018-06-30 Thread Josh W.
anybody help w/ this?? It would be greatly appreciated! Joshua

i386 game without wine32

2018-03-21 Thread Josh W.
get update && apt-get install wine32 Reading package lists... Done W: chmod 0700 of directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial failed - SetupAPTPartialDirectory (1: Operation not permitted) E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock directory

To many repos??? No Public Key's!!

2018-01-15 Thread Josh W.
So I posted about either having a faulty .iso and non-public keys. I've looked around in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Maybe i have to many repos or just not the right ones... I have tried netselect on a bunch but not really getting any where. Here is the output of my sources.list file as of now.

Faulty .iso? No public key...

2018-01-08 Thread Josh W.
I keep having the issue of no public key available and I don’t know what I should do…. Back up my computer and reinstall or is there a way to patch it up. I am attaching a file that shows what I am going through. I ran into all this this time will trying to install wine and adding to the sources.li

Re: BIND DNS problem after upgrading from Wheezy to Squeeze

2017-12-29 Thread Andrew W
On 27/12/2017 13:18, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Current BIND9 defaults to doing DNSSEC verification. DNSSEC needs large packets. You might have an issue with UDP fragments being dropped at your firewall/NAT Gateway? Thanks for this tip. Looking into it I discovered TCP seems to be recommened fo

BIND DNS problem after upgrading from Wheezy to Squeeze

2017-12-26 Thread Andrew W
I have a server which acts as a DNS server for our LAN. All our internal servers have A records on it using a .local domain and it forwards all other requests out to the root servers using the in built list provided with BIND. All clients on the LAN have this machine set as their only DNS serve

Play On Linux, Wine, & iTunes

2017-11-25 Thread Josh W.
Hello my Linux friends!! I have installed wine and all of its dependencies/recomendeds for wine, Play On Linux and am trying to install iTunes on my Debian stretch system i just cannot find anything that is truly helpful I only have Winetricks in my application menu and have tried several way o

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-10 Thread Andrew W
On 09/11/2017 19:52, Michael Stone wrote: I'd wonder if it's reached the point tha that the hardware is failing. I was a bit premature in thinking it was fixed!  Tried 3 different 3Com cards now plus a Linksys with a Via chipset but got identical behavour on all. Back to the original config:

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2017 #1201

2017-11-08 Thread Josh W.
> Reproducible bug [ Laurent Lyaudet >Re: Ethernet card locking up when ac [ Andrew W < > andrewjamesw...@ymail.com ] > Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firef [ davidson > ] > Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firef [ Greg Wooledge < > wool...@eeg

sudo

2017-11-08 Thread Josh W.
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! Joshua

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Andrew W
On 08/11/2017 14:59, Christian Seiler wrote: Is is possible for you to try a static IP on this interface and see if that solves your problem? Ive cleared the dhcp on br1 (and not assigned a static, left it with no IP) and so far its working OK I will leave it a couple of days and see if it

Release files and Key rings

2017-10-19 Thread Josh W.
Hello. I am having a very hard time setting up repos... each tme it tells me there is no release file and that my repos can't authenticate the key or keyring.. Here is an attached file to show you what i am talking about. Can you help me or at least point me in the right direction. Thank you. Jos

Re: Bug in Brother HL4040 driver?

2017-08-07 Thread Andrew W
/var/log/cups# lpinfo -l -v Device: uri = socket class = network info = AppSocket/HP JetDirect make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = beh class = network info = Backend Error Handler make-and-model = Unknown

Re: Bug in Brother HL4040 driver?

2017-08-06 Thread Andrew W
On 06/08/17 20:53, Gene Heskett wrote: PPD description, you can read it at localhost:631/printers, click on modify after highliting the printer? Cheers, Gene Heskett All web browsers give unable to establish a connection to localhost:631. There doesn't appear to be anything on port 631 even

Re: Bug in Brother HL4040 driver?

2017-08-06 Thread Andrew W
On 06/08/17 19:33, Gene Heskett wrote: That rather sounds as if the cups daemon isn't running. Look for /var/log/cupsd error files, which might illuminate the real error, since no printer is going to work on a modern linux install without its running and waiting for a print request. Cheers, Ge

Re: Bug in Brother HL4040 driver?

2017-08-06 Thread Andrew W
On 06/08/17 15:05, Curt wrote: The Brother HL404CN does not exist. So this is all a figment of the OP's imagination, I take it. Maybe he left out a trailing digit by inadvertence: https://www.brother-usa.com/Printer/ModelDetail/1/HL4040CN/Overview B Sorry yes 4040CN

Bug in Brother HL4040 driver?

2017-08-05 Thread Andrew W
Can anyone help me determine the location of an annoying bug which seems to persist in the driver(s) for the Brother HL404CN laser printer please? It has existed since Wheezy and is still present in Stretch. Printing from most apps (but interestingly not GIMP) will often fail with the printers

Re: Getting 404 from security.debian.org trying to install a package

2017-06-22 Thread John W
Bah, I figured it out (: Just needed 'apt-get update' first ... -John On 6/22/17, John W wrote: > I am using Debian 7.4 (wheezy) which I realize is on LTS. > > I'm trying to install a package, but I get a 404 error: > > $ sudo aptitude install libmagick++5 &g

Getting 404 from security.debian.org trying to install a package

2017-06-22 Thread John W
I am using Debian 7.4 (wheezy) which I realize is on LTS. I'm trying to install a package, but I get a 404 error: $ sudo aptitude install libmagick++5 The following NEW packages will be installed: libmagick++5 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 315 not upgra

Re: Bluetooth speaker: visible, but no sound

2016-06-09 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2016-06-08 10:30, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > pavucontrol shows the speaker as "Output Device". But xfce4-mixer, > while showing the speaker in the "Sound card" dropdown, does not > allow me to actually select the device. Also, I wonder what device > string

Bluetooth speaker: visible, but no sound

2016-06-08 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I'm trying to use a bluetooth speaker, but don't get any sound. bluetoothctl shows the device as paired, trusted, and connected and lists it as "serial port", "headset", "audio sink", and some others. pavucontrol shows the speaker as "Output Device". But xfce4-mixer, while showing the speake

Re: Debian 8 - Jesse - Letsencrypt deployments

2016-01-14 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Frank Pikelner : Has anyone deployed "letsencypt" to their Debian 8. There do not seem to be any packages for Jesse (though are in the works) and only way seems to be to pull a package from testing. I deploy the official Debian packages on Jessie using of a Stretch chroot. Cheap workaro

Solved: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-09 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Many thanks to Christian, David, and Pascal! With your hints I was able to solve the problems. Lessons learned: 1. d-i needs to be in "low" questions mode (expert) to allow manual selection of partition type (e.g. DOS/MBR or GPT). 2. d-i seems to call grub-install on /dev/md0, even if user

Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top separate swap and root. The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason, grub does not install on the fourth disk. It turns out, that the fou

Re: Locale-related questions

2015-12-09 Thread Morten W. Petersen
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 9 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Morten W. Petersen a écrit : > > I was looking for a locale that would enable me to putwchar a 32-bit > > Unicode character to stdout and have things handled correctly, > > automatic

Re: Locale-related questions

2015-11-29 Thread Morten W. Petersen
> Le nonidi 9 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Morten W. Petersen a écrit : > > I was looking for a locale that would enable me to putwchar a 32-bit > > Unicode character to stdout and have things handled correctly, > > automatically. Without any re-encoding to UTF-8 and so on. > > I do

Re: Locale-related questions

2015-11-29 Thread Morten W. Petersen
t;https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/> could help you. > > Cheers, > Alex > > On 29/11/2015, Morten W. Petersen wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > I have some questions about building/enabling a UTF-32 locale in Debian > or > > Linux in general, who could I talk

[SOLVED] Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting deloptes : looks like gnome specific. did you check permissions? I think this was in policykit Maybe my original post was not clear: Hibernating works perfectly fine with Gnome 3 on Jessie, only the actual UI element (button) is missing in the menu. My relative now uses the power button

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-18 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2015-04-17 20:23, deloptes wrote: > I had to downgrade upower package (look for a posting in this forum "No > suspend in XFCE without systemd") to get it work again. > It looks like upower dropped the freedesktop actions exposed to dbus and now > the system dows not know of such possibility - ho

Re: Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-17 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2015-04-17 02:00, Michael Biebl wrote: > While you can configure the actions on power button, sleep button and > lid switch events (via dconf-editor or gsettings [1]), ttbomk there is > no config option to adjust gnome-shell and you'll need to resort to a > extension for this. OK, setting the p

Hibernate option in Gnome menu? (Jessie)

2015-04-16 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I just upgraded my relatives notebook from wheezy to jessie, but now her hibernate option is gone from the right side menu. There is only shutdown, which changes to suspend with alt. Both are not needed by my relative, she always wants hibernate. Any idea how to get this back? Please without

Re: Fvwm.... this actually didn't work........

2014-10-06 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Charlie wrote: > > This actually didn't work in my ~/.fvwm/functions directory: > > # > # This is the Debian menu call as suggested by Vincent W C

Re: [solved] fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-10-03 Thread Vincent W. Chen
> > That's because you didn't follow the steps I laid out. Insert the >> > snippets I provided in step 1 and 2 directly in your config file. >> > Not inside the root menu or any other directives,

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-10-01 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Charlie wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:41 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: > Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires > gvfs). > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Charlie >> wrote: >> > >> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:20:27 +0200

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-29 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Charlie wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:20:27 +0200 lee mentioned this: > Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires > gvfs). > >> >> >> Steve Litt writes: >> >> >> >> Because you use fvwm on a regular basis, you should write some >>

Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

2014-05-22 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:57 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to set up my home headless power pc box as a gateway/router ( GW ). > I can connect to it with SSH only. > > Before, I set up this GW to get an IP address from my ISP with > dhcp.client. > > Now, I ask a static IP address for this GW and do

Re: Confusion

2014-05-09 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 12:13 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 09 May 2014 09:54:04 -0500 > "John W. Foster" wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distri

Re: Confusion

2014-05-09 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: > Hi, > > When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distribution and goes to the > Internet for help, one is always a. assured that there is loads of help > available and b. directed to a maze of mailing lists where any search > immediately returns a

Re: Mysql database dump quit working

2014-04-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 22:13 +0100, Steve wrote: > > I have a mediawiki site running on Mysql db; I just started getting this > > message on my automated backup; > > > > mysqldump: Got error: 144: Table './mywiki/searchindex' is marked as > > crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed when using

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 21:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 3/24/2014 9:31 PM, John W. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 14:30 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 3/24/2014 12:45 PM, John Foster wrote: > >>> I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 21:55 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > 127.0.0.1localhost Yes I have that in /etc/hosts thanks john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.deb

Re: Reverting back to apache2 from lighttpd: have issues

2014-03-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 14:30 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 3/24/2014 12:45 PM, John Foster wrote: > > I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web server but was not > > able to get it properly configured. I kept getting an error message > > saying that localhost was not configured proper

Re: How to use Orca speech output in Libreoffice?

2014-03-21 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting "W. Martin Borgert" : Also, I was under the impression that I don't need to set them anyway, when running Gnome (gnome-shell). Interestingly, when trying on another machine (wheezy with Xfce4 instead of Gnome3) with the variables set, libreoffice talks to me.

Re: How to use Orca speech output in Libreoffice?

2014-03-21 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Scott Ferguson : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Accessibility#Orca ? Yes, I know this page, but setting the variables mentioned there doesn't change anything. Also, I was under the impression that I don't need to set them anyway, when running Gnome (gnome-shell). Thanks anyway!

Re: Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

2014-03-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Scott Ferguson : If it's not possible to make screen read the default rather than an "opt-in via click" I'd call that a bug. I didn't try in any other way. Now it is on, so I'm happy :~) Yes, but one has to configure it explicitly, as it does not respect the global setting. Keyboard

How to use Orca speech output in Libreoffice?

2014-03-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I'm new to Orca, but have to set it up for a friend. I'm using stable with Orca 3.4.2-2. When using Iceweasel (24.3.0esr-1~deb7u1), Orca talks to me, e.g. reads selected text and reads most (but not all!) menu entries. Also, I can press the magic "Orca modifier" (here: CAPSLOCK) to get the c

Re: Gnome (wheezy): How to set GDM speech (Orca) language?

2014-03-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I set my system language to es_AR.UTF-8, but Orca seems to ignore this. When logged in, I can configure Orca to use Spanish, but what about GDM, i.e. before log in? The buttons etc. are in English, but Orca pronounces it all in English. Thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

2014-03-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Scott Ferguson : I'm sorry, I know nothing of GNOME or Orca - I use KDE and it's accessibility reader (which also uses espeak). *But as no one else has replied yet...* This should 'probably' exist:- /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop Yes, with gdm3 instead of light

Re: Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

2014-03-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Darac Marjal : First of all, I'd consider installing "task-spanish-desktop". This will install language packs for the common desktop applications (mainly libreoffice and iceweasel). Good hint! Interestingly, this installed also ant{,-optinal}. This does not really fit my idea of a deskt

Re: lighttpd server configs

2014-03-20 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 16:58 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 20/03/14 14:08, John Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 22:40 +, Steve wrote: > >>> nginx which was too hard to manage also. I now have lighttpd installed > >>> which seems simple to manage but out of the box Debian install do

Gnome (wheezy) questions: Language setting, speech synthesis, visually impaired user

2014-03-18 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I'm trying to configure a laptop (Debian wheezy) for a visually impaired user, who speaks Spanish. I'm not sure, which desktop to install for her, so I tried the default (Gnome). It's been some time, that I tried Gnome, so I'm a little bit stupid with it: 1. How to configure the language (Sp

SOLVED: Re: Issue importing a large MYSQL database.

2014-03-02 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 23:41 +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 01:33:44PM -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > > Yep this is Debian specific. I have a system running Debian Wheezy; up > > to date; AMD 6 core processor; 4GB ram. Terabytes of disk spa

Issue importing a large MYSQL database.

2014-03-01 Thread John W. Foster
Yep this is Debian specific. I have a system running Debian Wheezy; up to date; AMD 6 core processor; 4GB ram. Terabytes of disk space. This computer is in my office, not a remote. I am trying to use command line instructions to restore/import a database that I exported a few weeks back from a remo

Re: Am I paranoid?

2014-02-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:17 +0100, ha wrote: > FYI, this was a log entry that caught my attention: > > vmusr[3785]: [ warning] [vmtoolsd] The vmusr service needs to run inside > a virtual machine. > > > ... And I repeat once again: This is not a virtual machine and I did not > install any VM

additional info on pkgs of Debian 7 Install

2014-02-17 Thread W. Anderson
I have just recently installed Debian 7.3 via Net Install. There was /"no"/ problem with the install, however I could find "pkg install" info on the : /*Standard Systems Utilities*//* *//*Web server *//* *//*File server*/ Where exactly are applications installed for Web Server, including for

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-14 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:38 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > > dist-upgrade. I normally do this b

Re:

2014-02-06 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 14:50 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > hi community. > i installed new hardware to my my computer. Namely ide cd-dvd rw. The > device is presenting in /dev directory but i can not see it in file > manager. i can not use it. What is correct way to install new hardwa

Problem: make-jpkg usage to compile 'server-jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz'

2013-12-17 Thread John W. Foster
I have compiled & installed the pakages below that I downloaded directly from Oracle; jdk-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz However when I try to compile this one: server-jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz I get a message saying it can not find the matching plugin & the compilation aborts

Re: dselect in wheezy; Old timers question

2013-12-17 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 16:09 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > John W. Foster, 14.12.2013: > > I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except > > putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to > > yesterday it worked well as

dselect in wheezy; Old timers question

2013-12-14 Thread John W. Foster
I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get distupgrade and all went as expected and the system is running fine. However after I did the upgra

GTK Apps not themed after KDE installation (Debian 7.1.0)

2013-12-02 Thread Joseph W. Joshua
Hello all, I have installed KDE on my 7.1.0 box. However when I log in under KDE, all GTK apps such as synaptic or firefox are unthemed (then have the old windows 9x style). How can I fix that? Josh

Re: [debian-user] Howto build Debian source packages (tar.gz)??

2013-11-26 Thread Vincent W. Chen
Hi Nick, On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Nick Rudnick wrote: > Dear all, > > how to build Debian source packages, e.g. > nvidia-graphics-drivers_331.20-1.debian.tar.gz > (http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/nvidia-graphics-drivers)?? > It seems different to common DEB as well as tarba

Re: Choosing default OS in multi boot system

2013-11-04 Thread John W. Foster
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 14:04 +, Kruppt wrote: > On 2013-10-30, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > I've wondered about this or something similar. Has anyone tried having > > each OS install their grub to their partition, rather than the MBR ??? and > > then having a separate grub configuration that in

Re: Unknown script command ??

2013-10-31 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 15:15 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > John W. Foster wrote: > > This is causing a error on one of my servers during a file import. > > Likely being called by a script (that I didn't write). > > any Ideas? > > > > sh: /usr/bin/pl >

evolution error

2013-10-31 Thread John W. Foster
Any way to get rid of this. Ive tried to fix it for some time but still pops up. FYI: I do NOT want to use mbox The reported error was "Failed to append to mbox:///home/frosty/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder URI 'mbox:///home/frosty/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent' Ap

Unknown script command ??

2013-10-31 Thread John W. Foster
This is causing a error on one of my servers during a file import. Likely being called by a script (that I didn't write). any Ideas? sh: /usr/bin/pl Thanks John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

SOLVED: Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-17 Thread John W. Foster
Thanks to all of you that assisted. The tip about the odd leftover dns server at GoDaddy was the real culprit. Regardless, this list has once again proven to be the greatest asset of Debian Linux. Thanks john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-17 Thread John W. Foster
> > Ran a few diagnostics (some of which have been reported by others already): > > 1. You definitely have to get your DNS records cleaned up. > > www.physicswiki.net > resolves to 184.168.221.5 > canonical name: physicswiki.net > NOT to 192.65.240.181 > > 184.168.221.5 reverse resolves to > i

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-17 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 18:22 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:02:49AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > the site under construction is www.physicswiki.net > > the numerical address is 192.65.240.181 > > These two do not match up: A DNS lookup re

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-16 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 10:02 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > the site under construction is www.physicswiki.net > the numerical address is 192.65.240.181 > the default 'sites-available file is > > > > > ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost > > >

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-16 Thread John W. Foster
the site under construction is www.physicswiki.net the numerical address is 192.65.240.181 the default 'sites-available file is > > ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost > > ServerName www.physicswiki.net > ServerAlias quark.physicswiki.net > DocumentRoot /var/www >

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
> > nothing else.". What is a startup page? Nobody but you knows what > > this means. > > > > > > On 10/15/13 11:50 AM, John W. Foster wrote: > >> I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. > >> I have full root access

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 19:56 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > I'll have a bite on this one... > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:50:46PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. > > I have full roo

Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-15 Thread John W. Foster
I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. I have full root access. I use Debian linux on my personal system (wheezy) & on the remotely hosted site (squeeze). I use Godaddy as my domain registrar. I have the domain for the remotely hosted VPS site set up at Godaddy. I hav

Re: reinstalling Nginx & others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 11:21 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to > overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a > complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but > so far

reinstalling Nginx & others usin apt from command line

2013-10-10 Thread John W. Foster
I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but so far apt uses the existing configs. I end up with a non working server. I had this same

Re: Volunteer in need of a mentor

2013-09-23 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Beco wrote: > I'm newbie in the world of packaging, documenting, and so on... so > some patient would be welcome. Also, and that is important to me, I > would like very much to discuss pieces of my C code with a mentor who > 'speaks' this language, to get tips on d

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Pure TeX extension wanted

2013-09-18 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 23:36 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi John, > > looks like I am going to have to write one as its removed from 1.18 > and anyway it was colored and only supported a subset of TeX anyway. > > Thanks, > > Aaron > > > On 17 September 2013 19:

DWWW & its requirements

2013-09-18 Thread John W. Foster
I want to use DWWW as my onboard help system. I have done so for years. Now I want to use nginx as my web server and DWWW will not install without apache. I dont want to install 2 webservers so how do I get around this. There are several applications that seem to have this same issue. Some help pl

Re: How to eliminate these 'Script ETH1START is broken'

2013-09-16 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 16:07 +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-09-12, John W. Foster wrote: > > How to get rid of these messages; > > System is working fine, but I get these now and then when installing or > > uninstalling debian apps > > Didn't Bob Proulx already a

Re: How to eliminate these 'Script ETH1START is broken'

2013-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 13:00 +0530, Kailash wrote: > locate ETH1START root@mysystem:/home/myname# locate ETH1START /etc/init.d/ETH1START /etc/rc2.d/S01ETH1START /etc/rc3.d/S01ETH1START /etc/rc5.d/S01ETH1START FYI I one had 2 ethernet cards in this box and removed one. I'm not sure why this poped u

Re: Php5 error message

2013-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 10:15 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 06:12:52PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I want to get rid of these messages: HOW! > > In the files mentioned, replace the "#" with ";". > > > > > > PHP D

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:36 -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: > > > Greetings All! > > This is a call to Debian programmers who would be interested in > spending a couple hours > a month working with me on developing a "One-Stop Debian Box Config > Tool" -- a tool intended to > become the centra

Php5 error message

2013-09-12 Thread John W. Foster
I want to get rid of these messages: HOW! > PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated > in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 > PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated > in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 >

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