Do you have a list of people who work on home computers?

2025-04-19 Thread Matt Timpson
Hello, I know of the index at https://www.debian.org/consultants/, but the first person I reached out to says they only work for businesses, not individuals. Thanks, Matt Timpson 🍉 Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Forwarded Message --- From: Dan Ritter Date: On Wednesday

Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-16 Thread Matt Timpson
Hello, I wanted to follow up on some problems I had running an x64 emulator on a Raspberry Pi. I've tried paying for computer help, but no one I spoke to worked with Linux. Thanks, Matt Timpson 🍉 Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at 15:15, Matt Timpson

Re: Fw: Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-10 Thread Matt Timpson
in Can I ask what this means? Thanks, Matt Timpson 🍉 Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 12:37, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM Matt Timpson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Dan told me to send this

Re: Fw: Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-09 Thread Matt Timpson
Certainly. I used this command: cd /opt/scanner and get this error when I follow it up with either box64 scanner or box64 run_scanner.sh I'd also like to know what "numpy" is and what is does. Thanks, Matt Timpson 🍉 Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, 9 A

Fw: Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-08 Thread Matt Timpson
Hello, Dan told me to send this to the mailing list instead of individual people. This command worked: sudo apt install ./scanner_x86_64_1.7.2312301E.deb However, I still need to find the executable and run it. I think it's "scanner:amd". Thanks, Matt Timpson 🍉 Sent w

Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-07 Thread Matt Timpson
them don't work in Linux. Thanks, Matt Timpson 🍉 Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Forwarded Message --- From: Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Date: On Monday, April 7th, 2025 at 09:21 Subject: Re: Please register an account for me To: Matt Timpson CC: w...@debian.org

Re: debian installer network console

2024-02-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Hi Andy! On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 5:58 PM Andy Smith wrote: > HI Matt, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 05:40:31PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over > a > > network console on a debian install? > >

debian installer network console

2024-02-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, I use the network-console for the debian installer - it's great. There are times when I would like to use the console (tty - Ctrl + Alt + F2) to perform some ad-hoc sysadmin'ing during the install. Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over a network cons

Re: another possible audience for Debian

2023-12-15 Thread Matt
I was attempting to connect people to social change. Thank you for replying. I appreciate this mailing list. On 12/15/23 23:33, der.hans wrote: Am 15. Dec, 2023 schwätzte Matt so: moin moin Matt, I am a Debian user. An audience for Debian may be the Fediverse because the There are quite a

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread Matt
Perhaps that is why I run DWM rather than GNOME on this T60 Thinkpad. :p On 12/15/23 23:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:05:41PM -0500, Matt wrote: I had to go to Wikipedia to understand the context of the discussion. I did read all the posted emails in the thread. https

another possible audience for Debian

2023-12-15 Thread Matt
I am a Debian user. An audience for Debian may be the Fediverse because the Fediverse has a technology focused culture, and its creative endeavors could be in the form of developing Debian if many users are interested. The biases of Debian vary from topic to topic in great depth and detail. Tha

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread Matt
I had to go to Wikipedia to understand the context of the discussion. I did read all the posted emails in the thread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Re: install missing unicode fonts

2022-11-17 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Huzzah! Thanks for the help, Darac! -m On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:58 PM Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 17/11/2022 19:32, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've done some searching but came up empty with the correct way to > > install missing unicod

install missing unicode fonts

2022-11-17 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, I've done some searching but came up empty with the correct way to install missing unicode fonts. For example, in my terminal I type "exa -l --icons" and I see:  (that is a rectangle with the codepoint: F158) I don't see what F158 is supposed to represent. How do I find the package

No filename tab completion in common "Save File As" window after upgrade from 10.12 to 11.3

2022-06-25 Thread Matt Roberds
libgtk-3-0:amd64 3.24.24-4+deb11u2 firefox-esr 91.10.0esr-1~deb11u1 mousepad 0.5.2-1 What I am looking for: -- Hopefully, there is some kind of GTK or Xfce setting that will make this work again. If not, I would like to know the most appropriate package to file a bug against. Thanks! Matt Roberds

Re: Strange permissions issue with virt-install + UEFI

2022-05-13 Thread Matt Ventura
On 5/13/2022 6:53 PM, David wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 10:57, Matt Ventura wrote: On one box (Debian 11.3), my virt-install script works fine: virt-install [...] However, on another box, the same command (minus the final --network option) gives me this: [...] Could not open '/va

Strange permissions issue with virt-install + UEFI

2022-05-13 Thread Matt Ventura
is/ created: -rw---  1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 540672 May 13 16:39 openwisp_VARS.fd So, I'm really not sure why it thinks it's failing, but it aborts the installation regardless. Any ideas? Matt Ventura

Correct way to build in-tree module?

2021-10-28 Thread Matt Ventura
best) way to do this, that won't break on a kernel update? Thanks, Matt

minimize daemon downtime for apt upgrade

2021-04-08 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings! Scenario: I have a Sid desktop computer that acts as a router for my home network. If I wait for a few months to perform an "apt upgrade", many packages get upgraded. The upgrade starts with shutting down isc-dhcp-server (in order to upgrade it), then starts to upgrade all the packag

Re: Laptop keyboard and touchpad don't work after upgrading fromlinux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64 to any later kernel [SOLVED]

2020-10-20 Thread Matt Roberds
he lid, let the laptop suspend, open the lid, and let it come out of suspend. I'm still not sure why changing which *kernel* I booted made this bug appear. Perhaps the old kernel initialized (or didn't initialize) that input device in a different way than the later ones. Thanks for your help! Matt Roberds

Re: Laptop keyboard and touchpad don't work after upgrading fromlinux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64 to any later kernel

2020-10-20 Thread Matt Roberds
27;t start lightdm. This machine is configured for dual boot, so I already had grub configured to give me a "which OS?" menu at boot time. From that menu, I just appended " text" to the kernel command line, and booted; that got me into multi-user text mode. Matt Roberds

Laptop keyboard and touchpad don't work after upgrading fromlinux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64 to any later kernel

2020-10-20 Thread Matt Roberds
ly: This may be the same bug that Jose Mojada first mentioned on 5 Sep 2020, in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/09/msg00115.html . His report on 10 Oct 2020 matches my experience; -9- is the last kernel that works: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00195.html Thanks for your help! Matt Roberds

which package to file a bug against?

2020-06-20 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings d-u, I have a new-ish laptop and a pair of the function keys (screen brighter/dimmer) are mapped to the wrong function (mic mute/unmute). Where should I look to file the bug? I'm aware it is ACPI related, but I do not have any packages installed that have "acpi" in the package name. T

Re: relational database tracking of packages and updates

2019-09-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:38 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:55:20PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other > > GNU/Linux OSes) ? > > > > I'm thinking somethi

relational database tracking of packages and updates

2019-09-10 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other GNU/Linux OSes) ? I'm thinking something that keeps track of packages. I.e. when various package versions become available and when upgrades happen to said packages. There are a variety of ways of attacking this

OT: NFS resource(s)

2019-08-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, I am hitting a strange NFS issue and I'm trying to find some sort of interactive resource (user mailing list, or IRC, or etc.) to ask some questions on. I see there is an NFS kernel mailing list, but I doubt they want to help me debug my problem. Is anyone aware of good NFS (v4) resou

Re: Super (Mod4) + L behavior for MATE

2018-02-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Greetings, > > Just upgraded to MATE 1.20.0 (Debian Sid) and I'm noticing something that > I had not before... > > If I hit Super + L, I get a screen lock. However, screen lock is bound to > Ctrl + Alt + L. &

Super (Mod4) + L behavior for MATE

2018-02-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, Just upgraded to MATE 1.20.0 (Debian Sid) and I'm noticing something that I had not before... If I hit Super + L, I get a screen lock. However, screen lock is bound to Ctrl + Alt + L. Anyone have ideas as to what is up? Thanks! -m

Re: ipv6 apt issue

2017-04-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > apt uses SRV records: > > $ dig +short -t SRV _http._tcp.ftp.us.debian.org > 0 2 80 ftp-nyc.osuosl.org. > 0 1 80 debian.gtisc.gatech.edu. > 0 1 80 ftp-chi.osuosl.org. > > That's where you're getting the host name ftp-chi.osuosl.org from. > T

Re: ipv6 apt issue

2017-03-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-03-28 13:24 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > > I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu. > > > > I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt > to > > connect to: >

ipv6 apt issue

2017-03-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu. I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt to connect to: # apt update 0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2) but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete its connection. If I look at my sources lists: % gre

Hi debian

2016-11-13 Thread Matt Johnson
hi debian http://kryspol.pl/fellow.php?bob=cy2e0nqqw9d86c Matt

Scroll Lock on VT prevents reboot/shutdown

2016-09-29 Thread Matt Sickler
I'm not sure which package this bug should be filed against, partially because I'm not entirely sure of the root cause. I'm able to replicate it on our systems every time, though I have not tried on a fresh install of Debian - our images aren't really that much different anyway. We don't have

Re: Thin Mate window edges

2016-03-02 Thread Matt Ventura
make this easier, such as choosing a window style with thicker borders? Not a solution to the border problem, but alt-rightclick drag allows you to resize windows (in some window managers) without having to grad the border. Matt Ventura

Keyboard doesn't work with GNOME or GNOME Classic

2016-01-31 Thread Matt Kraai
put driver specified, ignoring this device. [ 1950.379] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. I'm running sid and I don't remember changing anything recently related to this. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this or what might be wrong? -- Matt

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Matt Ventura
at the parent had already installed. So separating it would still help in that situation. If I were searching for inappropriate imagery, 'apt-cache search' is one of the last places I'd look. Matt

Re: How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-09 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/07/2015 12:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res monitors of 800x600 at best. Also

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-27 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/24/2015 01:26 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: I'm not sure about that, I just told n-m to create a new network, and it did ad-hoc even though my card supports AP mode. Can you check in iwconfig to confirm it's actually an AP? iwc

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-27 Thread Matt Ventura
't mention that my hardware has bluetooth and wireless combined, and bluetooth doesn't work. It would be great if anyone could suggest the proper drivers. Thanks for help! Regards, Himanshu Shekhar Looking at that, it doesn't look like it supports AP mode. If it does, it would say "AP" and/or "AP/VLAN" under "Supported interface modes". Matt Ventura

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/23/2015 01:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 19:13 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I have spent couple of hours about using hotspot on my Debian laptop. The hotspotd method didn't work. So, I tried ap-hotspot after knowing that the hotspot which the GNOME network manager st

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Ventura
ort AP mode while the ones in Debian do not. It also might not have AP support on all bands. Matt Ventura

Re: is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys.

2015-10-18 Thread Matt A
apt-get --allow-unauthenticated should work? On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:36:00AM +0100, peter green wrote: > > Is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys? googling it I only > find > > either instructions to download updated keys

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-29 Thread Matt Ventura
a command to rc.local to delete all udev rules at boot. (Idea is that I can swap out boards if they fail and keep the same disk image - which is on SD card). You can also just delete the udev rule that generates the persistent interface names to begin with. Matt Ventura

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-01 Thread Matt Ventura
best practices. You either want to have a port be an untagged member of a single vlan, or a tagged member of one or more vlans. It's hard to tell at this point if that's what's actually causing the problem or if that's unrelated. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-07-30 Thread Matt Ventura
anks Andrew Could you post the DHCPD config? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55ba985a.1070...@mattventura.net

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-07 Thread Matt Ventura
experience would be most helpful, I think, but I would appreciate any insights. Thanks for your thoughts, Marc May I ask why you decided against virtualization? It might be something that can be worked around. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: partial hang - can ssh in, ps aux hangs part way through

2015-06-29 Thread Cool Matt
Hi Zeenan, Found this post : "partial hang - can ssh in, ps aux hangs part way through" (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00518.html) I am facing a similar issue... may I ask if you found a solution ? Regards, matt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem

2015-05-04 Thread Matt Ventura
On 5/4/2015 7:57 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, I entered the following in .bashrc PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m' to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command fills the console screen with lines of

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Ventura
k. If that fails, then it might come down to some BIOS settings. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54ff6d33.4010...@mattventura.net

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Ventura
g enter on the disk itself (not the partition). You can also hop over to a TTY and manually use fdisk to do it (fdisk /dev/, o, w, then sort out partitioning in the installer). Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Strange entry in my routing table.

2015-03-04 Thread Matt Ventura
On 03/04/2015 03:18 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Here is my routing table: 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 00 eth0 The first entry IS my default gateway as I expected. The second line,

Re: Anti-spam recommendations

2015-02-04 Thread Matt Ventura
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-confirmed_reverse_DNS Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54d264de.5010...@mattventura.net

Problem with recent updates+sleep+screen locking

2015-02-04 Thread Matt Ventura
ing. Is there any way to get gnome screensaver to not lock on suspend/resume? Thanks, Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54d1d7fd.7030...@mattventura.net

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-25 Thread Matt Ventura
ot; route#=1? 2: default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static 3: 10.144.0.1 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src ${F5_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} 4: 128.0.0.0/1 via ${F5_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} dev ppp0 proto none metric 1 5: ${F5_VPN_PUBLIC_IPN} via ${OPEN_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} dev tun0 proto none metric 1 Matt Ven

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Matt Ventura
scope link metric 1000 # OpenVPN route#=7 8: OPEN_VPN_PUBLIC_IPN via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 # almost F5VPN route#=5 ... but which dev should this take? eth0, ppp0, tun0? 9: F5_VPN_PUBLIC_IPN via OPEN_VPN_ENDPT_IPN dev proto none metric 1 # inherited from "original" rout

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Matt Ventura
ms to be adamant about having route #4 in place, so we don't need to worry about that. As mentioned above, you should remove the default routing to the OpenVPN server and just have 134.x.x.x route through the 10.8.0.5, rather than 0/1 and 128/1. #2 is something you'll probably need to

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 01/23/2015 04:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Matt Ventura wrote: me@client:~$ date ; sudo route -n Thu Jan 22 11:48:48 EST 2015 Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 10.144.15.100 128.0.0.0 UG1 0

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-22 Thread Matt Ventura
On 1/22/2015 3:55 PM, Tom Roche wrote: summary: me@client:~$ sudo route del default ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -net default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -ne

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-22 Thread Matt Ventura
warranted? If so, how to fix the server firewall? details: Matt Ventura Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:58:38 -0800 [1] First thing to check would be the routing table while the VPN is active. Tom Roche Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:33:43 -0500 [2] The `route -n` for while the OpenVPN connection is active is here[3]

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-21 Thread Matt Ventura
de(s) | | OpenVPN | | server + | | F5VPN server | | | | | client | | security | | | | | | +--+ +---+ +---+ | +-+ Matt Ventura Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:58:38 -0800 [2] First thing to check would be the rou

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-21 Thread Matt Ventura
se it's trying to send all traffic through the VPN, including the traffic to the actual VPN server. Post your 'route' table and I'll have a look. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: wifi connection tool?

2014-12-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 12/30/2014 07:26 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: On Lu, 29 dec 14, 15:58:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote: This is for Network Manager (which I'm not using since it handles the full network configuration, but I already have my own for Ethernet, and I don't want it to be broken)

Re: Image cloning software

2014-12-16 Thread Matt Ventura
On 12/15/2014 03:26 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: On 12/09/2014 11:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You should probably provide more details about the installation to be cloned and hardware where the clone will be used. Kind regards, Andrei Here it is: 'Source 1' hardware: Desktop CPU Celeron 40

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/23/2014 8:31 PM, John Hasler wrote: Joel Rees writes: So, what should Patrick file the bug against? I'd file against udev. That may not be correct but if not the maintainers will sort it out. Just explain that you are not certain of the exact package and why. I think the bug here IMO is

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/23/2014 2:36 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd, but I was just upgrading a headless system (an old T61p laptop which has no functioning screen any more but which otherwise runs well and which I use as an internal webserver) by running aptitude in an

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/19/2014 12:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-11-19 20:45 +0100, Matt Ventura wrote: What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? Those are created by udev, the rules are in the file /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules. I'm asking beca

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/19/2014 12:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 19 nov 14, 11:45:40, Matt Ventura wrote: What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel config and now I no longer have those (neither before mounting roo

What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Matt Ventura
What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel config and now I no longer have those (neither before mounting root nor when fully booted). If I go back to my old kernel config, it works fine. What do I need to pu

Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

2014-11-18 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/18/2014 10:29 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, Out of interest, if I installed two Kaveri motherboads side by side in the same box (if there would be enough room e.g. in a HAF-x box, could I use something like Beowulf to run them in tandem? Could I not set it up so that I coul

Re: test message

2014-11-12 Thread Matt A
Hello. On Nov 12, 2014 2:55 PM, "Joel Roth" wrote: > greetings > > -- > Joel Roth > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141112195507.GA3134

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/9/2014 11:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Andrew McGlashan: Forwarding a message "as is" from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. No, it is not. Sorry, but requiring an up-to-date kernel (or any other infrastructure you rely on) instead of mainta

Re: Best way to "pin" a kernel

2014-09-12 Thread Matt Ventura
cript to only choose from kernel version numbers that have my custom suffix to be the highest kernel. On 09/12/2014 05:57 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:27:46AM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when I update it, s

Best way to "pin" a kernel

2014-09-11 Thread Matt Ventura
Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when I update it, since I have a custom kernel on a particular machine. When I install a new kernel from apt, I don't want to immediately use it. What's the cleanest way of doing this? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Make n-m not touch WWAN

2014-09-05 Thread Matt Ventura
On 9/5/2014 7:24 PM, B wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:12:32 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: I'll probably file a bug report somewhere about this, but in the meantime, is there a way to just get it to ignore the card? Or does enabling mobile broadband in the menu activate the card without r

Re: Make n-m not touch WWAN

2014-09-05 Thread Matt Ventura
On 9/5/2014 2:10 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 05.09.2014 21:14, schrieb Matt Ventura: I don't recall this happening until recent updates, but on my laptop with testing installed, any time network-manager starts/restarts, it will rfkill my WWAN card. I use the card exclusively as a GPS,

Make n-m not touch WWAN

2014-09-05 Thread Matt Ventura
es but for WWAN cards? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/540a0baf.8050...@mattventura.net

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-08 Thread Matt Ventura
but am at a loss. Suggestions? Thanks, Mike Can you post the exact output of the nslookup attempt from the win2k box? Thanks, Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

xfwm troubles and systemd questions

2014-07-11 Thread Matt Ventura
1. My xfwm4 seems to remember what workspaces I have windows on for the next time I open them. The problem is, I don't want it to do this because it will do things like open a window on another workspace minimized so I can't even see where it is without flipping through every workspace. I want all

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/6/2014 1:56 PM, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 13:41:15 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: You don't need to know, you just use dd over the entire disk (i.e. sda instead of sda1). Yup. Just to be clear, you're trying to copy the entire disk with all its partitions, right? I thin

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/6/2014 1:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:20:55 +0200 B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: Is there, in Lenny, a command or tool for cloning a GPT? Use dd, it'll take a looong time but you'll have a bit copy. But... How do you know how much

Re: wifi & bluetooth deactivation problem

2014-07-04 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/4/2014 2:16 PM, B wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 22:36:43 +0200 B wrote: Ze ozer problem iz: I'd like to independently turn on/off wifi& bt. I answer myself: rfkill block wifi||bluetooth but LEDs stays on, which isn't very useful :(( Check if the LEDs in question are accessible thro

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 5:20 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 06/29/2014 07:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexi

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 4:29 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 15:41:48 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: The card shows up as: 01:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage XL PCI (rev 27) I'm hesitant to apt-get --purge autoremove since it wants to remove systemd.

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 2:54 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 13:12:01 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: On 6/30/2014 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: 6. Hopefully report success. :) ... Could be hardware, I suppose. Switch to a tty with CTL-ALT-F1. Login as a user and get the video card data from the command

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 10:23:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: Well, all I did was netinstall stable with xfce, log in once, add testing repos, and dist-upgrade. I could just try directly netinstalling testing, and if it's broken out of the box then it

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 11:53 AM, rob wrote: On 29/06/14 19:16, Matt Ventura wrote: I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fin

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 10:13 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 09:11:01 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: The system otherwise works completely fine. Packages operations work fine, so I don't think that's where the problem lies. There was no downgrading, just upgraded to testing and it d

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 4:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop e

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread Matt Ventura
I've had something similar happen, but it turned out that the problem wasn't wicd but rather the driver for the card itself. Can you check if the problem occurs with something other than wicd? Also, what wifi card? On 6/29/2014 7:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to w

GTK crashing X?

2014-06-29 Thread Matt Ventura
I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fine (lightdm worked, xfce worked). Did a dist-upgrade to testing (also tried unstable), and

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Matt Jenny
The Gnome2 fork is called MATE, I have been using it for the past few months and have had no problems with it, though I have not tried that magnification shortcut you mentioned. On Nov 14, 2012 5:04 PM, "GEOFF BAGLEY" wrote: > I have been looking forward to the update of > my favourite operating

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

2012-08-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, John Foster wrote: > A suggestion. You may have lost the mbr when the disk failed. If you > completely reinstalled your system oncluding reformat of drives that option > should have been offered. Do you recall that occuring. Hmmm. If I recall correctly, I installed

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

2012-08-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Hi Tom, On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >> >> I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze >> install: >> >> /boot -> Software RAID5 >> / -> LVM on to

GRUB no long gives menu on boot

2012-08-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze install: /boot -> Software RAID5 / -> LVM on top of Software RAID5 I lost a disk of my RAID array a few months ago and ever since replacing it and rebuilding the arrays, I no longer get a menu of kernels to boot f

Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

2012-04-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > >> I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may >> have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is >

ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

2012-04-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is the way to do this. I have adjusted the init script as so: # head -n 25 /etc/init.d/sendmail #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Attempting to install gnome-desktop-environment gets me: > > gnome-desktop-environment: >  Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed >  Depends: alacarte but it is not going to be installed >  Depends: cheese but it is not goin

Re: Wireless usb device not working [SOLVED]

2011-11-17 Thread Matt Harrison
I found a post on the Linux Mint Forums that fixed my issue. I ran the following commands: echo 'install rt2870sta modprobe --ignore-install rt2870sta ; /bin/echo "1737 0078" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2870/new_id' | tee /etc/modprobe.d/rt2870sta.conf modprobe -rf rt2870sta modprobe rt2870sta dmesg

Wireless usb device not working

2011-11-17 Thread Matt Harrison
I recently purchased a Linksys wireless USB device. When I plug it in and run lsusb I see the following: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1737:0078 Linksys WUSB100 v2 RangePlus Wireless Network Adapter [Ralink RT3070] I install firmware-ralink and wireless-tools after checking the Debian Wiki and determ

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail >> Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually >> serve any purpose on an out of the bo

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