Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
I know I just wrote a long e-mail on this, but I think I just figured out in my own mind exactly what is going on and wanted to document it. As others have said the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg file is the issue. It seems that what is happening is this: 1. For some reason the first use of

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
Firstly, thanks to all of those who have participated in this thread. I have some follow up comments and responses. This is a long reply, so the executive summary is that I managed to solve the issues on all my Stretch systems. There is a main issue and some kindred issues that manifest under diff

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 20:50 +0930, Wayne Hartell wrote: > > > Er ... sorry that last email should read " Phil Wyett's > > > suggestion" in > > > > this thread. > > > > Yes, trying Phil's suggestion and will report back once

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> Er ... sorry that last email should read " Phil Wyett's suggestion" in this thread. Yes, trying Phil's suggestion and will report back once I have had the time to explore it properly (several systems now exhibiting this problem). As a teaser, it seems that even software-properties-gtk creat

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> > > Read this: > > > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75807/no-public-key-availab > > > le-on-apt-get-update > > > > > > > Thanks. Yeah I have tried importing keys (even though they already exist as > > confirmed with 'apt-key list' and it makes no difference. All the keys > > co

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> The OP did not say, but I believe the problem is coming from a 9.1-live-dvd > install, I had to same problem using it. The problem does not occur using the > net-install. I have not tested any other installers but the rc3-live did not > seem to have the problem, cause I > used it and installed

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> Out of the head, but you did check install media with MD5 or SHA sums? > Also, many people did do clean install of Jessie. Though, it is annoying bug for sure. But it is probably not so widespread. Perhaps you could give it a shot on a clean install with root enabled from start, you can always al

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> > W: GPG error: http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release: The following > > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > > NO_PUBKEY 8B48AD6246925553 NO_PUBKEY 7638D0442B90D010 NO_PUBKEY > > CBF8D6FD518E17E1 NO_PUBKEY EF0F382A1A7B6500 > > W: The repository 'ht

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> 1. Comment out DVD repository from /etc/apt/sources.list (add # before deb > cdrom:...). > 2. Try to # apt-get update > 3. Check if it work. If not, manualy download latest debian-archive-keyring > for stretch (from repository) and install it like > this: #dpkg -i /path/to/debian-archive-keyrin

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> On 04-07-17, Wayne Hartell wrote: > > > > > >Did you try to change mirror you use in your sources.list? > > > > > > > I did and it doesn't help (I get the same error with multiple > > different sources). > > > > GPG e

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
>How about this solution, it worked in similar case: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/05/msg00467.html I saw that discussion earlier, but if you follow the thread through you'll note that the claim of "solution" was a false alarm. I will give it a try none the less, since I am clutc

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> Wayne Hartell composed on 2017-07-04 15:46 (UTC+0930): > > > ...I managed to solve this error after checking that the > > permissions on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg were 0600 and edited them to be > > 0644. (Is this the correct default permission for the file trusted.gpg?)...

RE: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Wayne Hartell
> On 04-07-17, Wayne Hartell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I'm a Linux novice and have run into a problem with a clean Stretch >> install and apt. >> >> >> >> I started tinkering with Debian late in the game with Wheezy

Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-03 Thread Wayne Hartell
Hi all, I'm a Linux novice and have run into a problem with a clean Stretch install and apt. I started tinkering with Debian late in the game with Wheezy and have used Jessie pretty much without problem. After setting up some new Stretch systems (amd64) I am running into issues when using a

RE: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

2015-08-13 Thread Wayne Hartell
> I am currently a Debian Jessie XFCE user. > I want to have your views on Gnome VS XFCE. > I want to try Gnome but I want to know if Gnome is stable and works > constantly without freezing and crashing. > Please share me your experience with Debian Gnome. > With Kind Regards, > Dwijesh I haven

RE: Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2015-02-03 Thread Wayne Hartell
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/2/15, Wayne Hartell wrote: > > Michael Collins wrote: > > > >> Log in with the user account. Left-click the user account name > >> (upper right corner), select system settings, select user, left-click > >> Unlock.

RE: Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Hartell
Michael Collins wrote: > SANG KIM msn.com> writes: > > > > I recently installed debian 7.1 and I reinstalled it at least five > times. I've tried installing it with a root password created and without and > Debian still won't let me log in as root. It says "authentication failed" > after I t

RE: gedit bug with long lines. (was RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file)

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Hartell
Curt wrote: > The *gedit faq* is edifying on the long lines issue (seems like you missed > reading it in your "research): > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/FAQ I was searching for bug reports; I hadn't expected an FAQ to exist on the very topic I was interested in. Quite honestly that's a firs

gedit bug with long lines. (was RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file)

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Wayne Hartell wrote: > I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, > not that it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit > and it takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower > than I was expecting. To make thin

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Wayne Hartell wrote: > I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that it appears > to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it takes about 45 seconds to open > the file. That is a whole lot slower than I was expecting. To make things

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Linux-Fan wrote: > In my experience, VIM is slow with long lines (which are automatically > wrapped and often look strange if the result is too large to fit on a single > page) and > syntax highlighting. Using many short lines, VIM has always been good enough > for me (even with several MiB fil

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Why did a _text_ file need converting? Or do you not mean .txt? Yeah just a regular ASCII text file, but as another reply pointed out new lines are handled slightly differently under Windows vs Unix/Linux. I don't think that is the problem though. Cheers, Wayne. -- To UNSU

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Unix text files end lines with , Windows with . That was the purpose of pre-processing the file with dos2unix. It didn't seem to help. I think the file I have simply does not have many line feeds. Is that abnormal for Linux perhaps? Wayne. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI said: > Possibly non-formatted, with one line per paragraph ? That's what it looks like with line numbers on (very big paragraphs too), but my question is why would this slow gedit down and is there any way around it? It seems to present the content as I would expect. Cheer

gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Wayne Hartell
I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower than I was expecting. To make things worse the performance within gedit is very sl

RE: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-09 Thread Wayne Hartell
Bob, Trying my best with the trimming; I'll keep observing how other people do it and try to learn from that. > > It does work in other Linux distros that I have tried. > > If it works anywhere then it should be possible to learn why and/or why not and > to transfer that knowledge. > > The othe

RE: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-09 Thread Wayne Hartell
. Thank you. So far I am liking what I see. > On Friday 09 January 2015 06:07:52 Wayne Hartell wrote: > > Thanks. I'm sure to violate some conventions here in reply format or > > what have you. Just let me know if I do and I'll try to remedy in future. > > You hav

RE: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-08 Thread Wayne Hartell
old, and rather than run from issues I want to learn not only how to tackle the issues, but the processes that go along with Debian in general. Thanks, Wayne. Wayne Hartell wrote: > I'm a new Debian/Linux user and brand new to this mailing list. Welcome. > To that end I have been t

Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-08 Thread Wayne Hartell
Hi, I'm a new Debian/Linux user and brand new to this mailing list. I'm here primarily because I'm not impressed with the way Windows (particularly the latest technical preview) is heading and am looking for alternatives. To that end I have been tinkering with various Linux distros an