Re: How to Fix the apt-get install error: “Media change: please insert the disc labeled ...” in Debian 10.

2020-11-19 Thread Edgar Villanueva Jr
Thank you 😊 so much sir! On Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 4:47 PM Daniel Lange wrote: > Hi Edgar, > > Am 19.11.20 um 09:04 schrieb Edgar Villanueva Jr: > > I was amazed by the description that Debian is robust and reliable etc. > > So I decided to install it. But when I try to install from terminal "Fix >

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-03 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 07:30:19AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: [...] > On the contrary. The usb-storage module has a parameter "quirks" > which allows to ignore the write-protect flag for a specific vid:pid > device (I do not remember the exact syntax). I was afraid that it > could be used to b

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/10/2019 à 05:05, David Christensen a écrit : On 10/1/19 11:51 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a physical switch is just communicated to your drivers via some protoco

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 10/1/19 11:51 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a physical switch is just communicated to your drivers via some protocol over USB. I have two such drives, both old and s

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 02 Oct 2019 at 10:06:21 (-0400), Ken Heard wrote: > On 2019-10-01 11:03 p.m., David Christensen wrote: > > > I have read that some USB flash drives will revert to read-only > > mode when they detect an internal error. > > Makes sense I suppose, but in a negative way. I did not know that >

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-02 2:51 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote, in part: > Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in > your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a > physical switch is just communicated to your drivers v

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 11:03 p.m., David Christensen wrote: > I have read that some USB flash drives will revert to read-only > mode when they detect an internal error. Makes sense I suppose, but in a negative way. I did not know that flash drives (some? all?

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 08:03:50PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: [...] > >How could this drive be physically protected from writing to it when > >there is no switch on the drive itself to unable (or release) such > >physical protection? > > > >Regards, Ken > > I have read that some USB flash d

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread David Christensen
On 10/1/19 4:32 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 5:33 p.m., Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 01/10/2019 à 23:09, Ken Heard a écrit : - - after unmounting and closing encryption running as root 'wipefs -a -f /dev/sdd' returns 'wipefs: error: /dev/sdd: p

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 5:33 p.m., Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/10/2019 à 23:09, Ken Heard a écrit : >> >> - - after unmounting and closing encryption running as root >> 'wipefs -a -f /dev/sdd' returns 'wipefs: error: /dev/sdd: probing >> initialization faile

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/10/2019 à 23:09, Ken Heard a écrit : - - after unmounting and closing encryption running as root 'wipefs -a -f /dev/sdd' returns 'wipefs: error: /dev/sdd: probing initialization failed: Read-only file system'. The USB flash drive is probably physically write-protected. Check the ke

USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Messieurs et mesdames: Command 'mount' returns among other things the following two lines: /dev/mapper/fde on /media/fde type ext2\ (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,block_validity,barrier,user_xattr,acl) /dev/mapper/fdc on /media/fdc type ext2\ (ro,n

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-11-11 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 19:31, finn wrote: Greetings, Whenever I boot up my PC I'm getting this error `sudo dmesg` [ 12.432182] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359) [ 12.432241] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution f

How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-11-10 Thread finn
Greetings, Whenever I boot up my PC I'm getting this error `sudo dmesg` [ 12.432182] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359) [ 12.432241] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.B0D4._TMP] (Node

Re: how to change default locale [was Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure]

2018-08-11 Thread Dale Forsyth
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world From: davidson Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2018 8:02 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: how to change default locale [was Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace

Re: how to change default locale [was Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure]

2018-08-11 Thread Dale Forsyth
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world From: davidson Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2018 8:02 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: how to change default locale [was Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace

how to change default locale [was Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure]

2018-08-11 Thread davidson
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, genius wrote: Q: how to change the Language option . my system default language is English , now I want to change it into Chinese.. If there is some connection between the original subject line of your message ("Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure&

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2018-08-05 Thread genius
Q: how to change the Language option . my system default language is English , now I want to change it into Chinese..

SOLVED - Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:19:40PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 25/09/17 16:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > This is a strange and unexpected "feature" in the latest Libreoffice > > upgrade on Debian stable: > > in Writer, I can no longer enter more than one space at a time > > (between word

Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Felix Miata
Ben Caradoc-Davies composed on 2017-09-25 17:19 (UTC+1300): > I also have a vague recollection of HTML editors not allowing multiple > spaces. I do not know if this applies to LibreOffice Writer. I have no familiarity with "HTML editors". I use plain text editors for editing HTML. It is totall

Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/09/17 16:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote: This is a strange and unexpected "feature" in the latest Libreoffice upgrade on Debian stable: in Writer, I can no longer enter more than one space at a time (between words or sentences)! This is not like at the end of a line where excess spaces are still

libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

2017-09-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This is a strange and unexpected "feature" in the latest Libreoffice upgrade on Debian stable: in Writer, I can no longer enter more than one space at a time (between words or sentences)! This is not like at the end of a line where excess spaces are still there just not seen, and the correspondin

[Updated] How To Fix: Firewire IRQ Errors on Reboot

2017-08-24 Thread RavenLX
cycle of problems. I finally fixed the errors but the computer is running quite sluggish now (and I haven't used it enough since to see if it was going to freeze or not - probably won't again as I'll just use it as a backup system in case my main system goes down). Anyway, her

Re: How To Fix: Firewire IRQ Errors on Reboot

2017-08-10 Thread RavenLX
ginal post below:] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How To Fix: Firewire IRQ Errors on Reboot From: RavenLX Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 09:25:52 -0400 Message-id: <[?] 5abcce6c-1786-f85c-5ffe-4f9821aac...@sitesplace.net> I would like to share another discovery. This one fixed my firewire I

How To Fix: Firewire IRQ Errors on Reboot

2017-06-07 Thread RavenLX
I would like to share another discovery. This one fixed my firewire IRQ errors when rebooting my ThinkPad T61. (Not-So-Obligatory) Disclaimer: --- While, I do not notice any change in overall functionality of the laptop as a result of this fix, I also do not know wh

How to Fix: tpm0 Errors on Boot (Stretch)

2017-06-07 Thread RavenLX
-- I came across the following errors whenever it would boot or reboot: tpm tpm0: Unable to read burstcount tpm tpm0: tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error -16 tpm_tis 00:05: Could not get TPM timeouts and durations There was no file at /sys/class/misc/tmp0/device/timeout. How To Fix: --- So, I di

Re: How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2017-04-21 Thread Darac Marjal
[\_TZ.TZ01._TMP] (Node 987b7d51de38), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543) How to fix this problem? My understanding is that ACPI implementations are often a bit patchy. I suspect that, in this instance, your ACPI is either declaring that some functions are available and not implementing them, or

Re: How to fix "dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed"

2017-04-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:49:09AM +, 慕 冬亮 wrote: Dear all, After I reverted BIOS back to default setting, I found some errors  at boot stage of My Debian Testing. [    2.513354] dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed How do I fix this problem? A quick googli

How to Fix ACPI Error : Namespace lookup failure

2017-04-20 Thread 慕 冬亮
(20160831/psparse-543) [0.848998] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359) [0.849198] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.TZ01._TMP] (Node 987b7d51de38), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543) How to fix this problem?

How to fix "dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed"

2017-04-20 Thread 慕 冬亮
Dear all, After I reverted BIOS back to default setting, I found some errors at boot stage of My Debian Testing. [2.513354] dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed How do I fix this problem?

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-13 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 09:36:16PM -0500, Bob Weber wrote: > I use a program called ossec. It watches logs of all my linux boxes so I get > email messages about disk problems. I also do periodic self tests on all my > drives controlled by smartd from the smartmontools package. I also use a > pa

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/12/2017 06:36 PM, Bob Weber wrote: After writing this I wonder if I am over doing this. I just don't want to loose data from a failing drive. I lived through 3.5 inch floppies which seemed to always fail. And tape drives that were painfully slow. Not to mention back in the mid 70s savi

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Bob Weber
On 02/12/2017 01:59 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 02/12/2017 08:30 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: >> I do not use LVM over raid 1. I think it can be made to work, >> although IIRC booting from an LVM over RAID partion has caused issues. > my boot partitions are separate. They are not under LVM. >> LVM

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Shapiro writes: > BTW, what is your third partition, and why would you not separate it > now if starting from scratch? My third partition is for backups which I make to protect against software or operator error. At one point it was on a separate disk since disks were small and without LVM

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/12/2017 08:30 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: I do not use LVM over raid 1. I think it can be made to work, although IIRC booting from an LVM over RAID partion has caused issues. my boot partitions are separate. They are not under LVM. LVM is useful when space requirements are changing over t

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Shapiro writes: > the past couple of weeks. AIUI you can use LVM over raid. Is there > any actual advantage to this? I was trying to determine the > advantages of using straight raid, straight LVM, or LVM over raid. If > I decide, later, to use raid, how dificult is it to add to a curren

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Bob Weber
I use raid 1 also for the redundancy it provides. If I need a backup I just connect a disk, grow each array and add it to the array (I have 3 arrays for /, /home and swap). It syncs up in a couple hours (depending on size of the array). If you have grub install itself on the added disk you have

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/11/2017 05:22 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
Marc Auslander composed on 2017-02-11 20:22 (UTC-0500): IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Are you sure? Laptops have been outselling desktops for years. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread Marc Auslander
You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from all the raid partitions, pop in a new disk, part

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread David Christensen
On 02/10/17 23:39, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christens

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christensen wrote: > Sometimes you get lucky an

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/09/2017 12:13 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: You shared your philosophy ("tear it all down and rebuild it from scratch every two years") I don't know where you got this. The OP was having one helluva time with a harddrive. I suggested that he create a partition to store his personal files "m

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 12:03:18PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > How so?? Don't "many other operating systems" have different > configuration files in many other locations?? I wouldn't expect BSD > config files to migrate to Linux, or Windows to do anything useful. When I shared my $HOME between Ope

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-09 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/09/2017 08:10 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: Careful there, I would not copy any of the /home/username/dot-files or dot directories over, except like .mozilla and .thunderbird, so you don't carry over some old and crufty setting that mig

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > Careful there, I would not copy any of the /home/username/dot-files or > dot directories over, except like .mozilla and .thunderbird, so you > don't carry over some old and crufty setting that might have been > problematic. I have the

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, February 08, 2017 06:37:55 PM Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Careful there, I would not copy any of the /home/username/dot-files or > > dot directories over, except like .mozilla and .thunderbird, so y

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christensen wrote: > Sometimes you get lucky and the tool is a live CD: > > www.seagate.com/file

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/08/2017 03:37 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was f

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was fine. Then I made a clonezilla live CD and bo

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was fine. Then I made a clonezilla live CD and booted from it. It stopped on the first rea

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-08 Thread David Christensen
On 02/07/17 23:37, Marc Shapiro wrote: > How it went is not well. > David Christensen wrote: >> Run memtest86+ for 24+ hours to verify that you don't have a memory >> problem. Did you test the memory? If not, test it now just to be sure. >> Use SeaTools to wipe the new 1 TB drive and run the

HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was fine. Then I made a clonezilla live CD and booted from it. It stopped on the first read error with a message saying to restart using the rescue option. I did that. After 5 hours it finished without mentioning any erro

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 01:38:58PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I had been trying as root (see above). I do not have smartmontools > currently installed. If I remember correctly, that is only going to be > useful if it was already installed so the daemon could be capturing data > when the problem

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-06 Thread David Christensen
On 02/06/17 13:15, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am pasting the result of smartctl -x /dev/sda below as I have no real clue what to do with the information, but I have a few questions first. 1) I have purchased a new, very similar, Seagate 1TB drive and I plan to install it and copy the whole system to

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-06 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2017-02-06 12:28 (UTC-0500): That cold spare will eventually develop stiction, seizing the parked haed to the surface of the disk solidly enough that the disk motor cannot break it loose to spin the disk up. Such is best treated by hooking up the cables, but holding the

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-06 Thread David Christensen
On 02/06/17 09:28, Gene Heskett wrote: That cold spare will eventually develop stiction, seizing the parked haed to the surface of the disk solidly enough that the disk motor cannot break it loose to spin the disk up. Such is best treated by hooking up the cables, but holding the drive in your h

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-06 Thread David Christensen
On 02/06/17 07:22, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: David Christensen writes: I've found (and heard) that the worst thing I can do to a HDD is put it on the shelf and let it rot. I've had more than a few that failed shortly after being put into a computer. I hadn't heard this... I've got a drive I've be

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/03/2017 11:13 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/03/17 13:47, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: Have you downloaded and run the manufacturer diagnostic utilities for all your drives? What do they say? I have now downloaded and run Seagate's tools and

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 February 2017 10:22:54 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > David Christensen writes: > > On 02/04/17 07:18, Ric Moore wrote: > >> I'm looking at a Seagate 750 gig drive that went south on me with a > >> pile of errors. Good luck getting Seagate to give a good gosh darn. > >> In the past I have had

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Christensen writes: > On 02/04/17 07:18, Ric Moore wrote: >> I'm looking at a Seagate 750 gig drive that went south on me with a pile >> of errors. Good luck getting Seagate to give a good gosh darn. In the >> past I have had mixed results replacing the drive motherboard. I saved >> two out

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-04 Thread David Christensen
On 02/04/17 07:18, Ric Moore wrote: I'm looking at a Seagate 750 gig drive that went south on me with a pile of errors. Good luck getting Seagate to give a good gosh darn. In the past I have had mixed results replacing the drive motherboard. I saved two out of three. I doubt I will buy anything S

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/03/2017 04:47 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: Have you downloaded and run the manufacturer diagnostic utilities for all your drives? What do they say? I have now downloaded and run Seagate's tools and it does show a does show a disk error. Sinc

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-03 Thread David Christensen
On 02/03/17 13:47, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: Have you downloaded and run the manufacturer diagnostic utilities for all your drives? What do they say? I have now downloaded and run Seagate's tools and it does show a does show a disk error. Since it

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: Have you downloaded and run the manufacturer diagnostic utilities for all your drives? What do they say? I have now downloaded and run Seagate's tools and it does show a does show a disk error. Since it stops on the first error I do not know

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/03/2017 06:50 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:34:03PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Have you looked at the SMART reports? Please paste the following command into a root shell, run it once for each drive (replacing /dev/sdX with the corresponding device name), and paste bo

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:34:03PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > >Have you looked at the SMART reports? Please paste the following command > >into a root shell, run it once for each drive (replacing /dev/sdX with the > >corresponding device name), and paste both the command and the output into >

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/02/17 13:05, Marc Shapiro wrote: I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as possible because I don't know when it will happen again. ... What operating

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread David Christensen
On 02/02/17 13:05, Marc Shapiro wrote: I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as possible because I don't know when it will happen again. ... What operating system are you running? Please paste the followin

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/02/2017 04:20 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: A few observations. Are your filesystems journaled. They say ext3, which IIRC does support journaling? the flashplayer should not be able to trash the file system. /var/log/syslog is a place to look for io errors. If you are having them you likel

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread Marc Auslander
A few observations. Are your filesystems journaled. They say ext3, which IIRC does support journaling? the flashplayer should not be able to trash the file system. /var/log/syslog is a place to look for io errors. If you are having them you likely have a failing disk and need to replace it ASA

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/02/2017 01:40 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/02/2017 01:19 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 01:05:47PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/02/2017 01:19 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 01:05:47PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as possible

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 01:05:47PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs > sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as > possible because I don't know when it will happen agai

How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as possible because I don't know when it will happen again. This problem started a bout two weeks ago. I woke up to find a black screen and a kernel panic. I reboote

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 12 January 2017 at 18:50, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12 January 2017 at 17:50, Cathy Gramze wrote: > >> And what video card/chipset do you have? I got the 1024x768 until I >> installed firmware-Linux-nonfree to get the firmware for my integrated >> Intel

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-12 Thread Cathy Gramze
And what video card/chipset do you have? I got the 1024x768 until I installed firmware-Linux-nonfree to get the firmware for my integrated Intel graphics. Perhaps you, too need some firmware. It's the best bet when other distros Just Work, as they include non-free drivers by default, and Debian

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 January 2017 10:34:23 manashpal wrote: > After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 > screen resolution, but my monitor can render 1366*768. it is unlikely to > have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other > hand ubuntu, fedo

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-11 Thread Cathy Gramze
We'd be happy to help. What videocard/chipset do you have? What driver is currently in use? It really sounds like a simple driver problem. cathy On 01/09/2017 05:34 AM, manashpal wrote: After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-09 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:34:23 +0100 schreef manashpal : After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 screen resolution, but my monitor can render >1366*768. it is unlikely to have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other hand ubuntu

How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-09 Thread manashpal
After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 screen resolution, but my monitor can render 1366*768. it is unlikely to have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other hand ubuntu, fedora, kali and many more linux distros has never disappoint

DBus error: how to fix.

2016-11-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I last upgraded my Wheezy installation on 2016-11-11. Ever since, whenever I run "apt-get update" or "apt-get upgrade", at the end the following message appears: Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program

Re: how to fix / partition (cylinder problem start) on ssd

2016-05-18 Thread Sven Hartge
e Lpe wrote: > fdisk -l report a warning message of the begining of the partition doesn't > start on a physical cylinder on my ssd. > Ignore ? Fix ? Ignore, most likely. > It's my / partition perahps if i resize it it'll be goog. > Some advise ? Show the output of "fdisk -u -l /dev/sdX" from

how to fix / partition (cylinder problem start) on ssd

2016-05-18 Thread e Lpe
Hi, fdisk -l report a warning message of the begining of the partition doesn't start on a physical cylinder on my ssd. Ignore ? Fix ? It's my / partition perahps if i resize it it'll be goog. Some advise ? If I can avoid too my make a new partition and copying back all my system on it, I prefer

Re: Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I found a solution. I compared this .srt file with another .srt file that works on my version of VLC. I found that the difference is the format of the time tags. I changed it accordingly from: 00:03:47.47 --> 00:03:53 to: 00:03:47,470 --> 00:03:53,000 (which is the format used in the .sr

Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. When I try to watch a video with external .srt subtitles in VLC, I get strings like "98 --> 00:00:11" (which are strings part of the .stt file) instead of the proper text. The problem is the same whether I open the subtitles with the "Open (advanced)" menu option, or name both files the

Re: Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-10-10 at 13:08 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > When I try to watch a video with external .srt subtitles in VLC, I > get > strings like "98 --> 00:00:11" (which are strings part of the .stt > file) > instead of the proper text. The problem is the same whether I open

Re: How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Joe wrote: > I'm assuming this will eventually resolve, presumably this version of > the library isn't very backward-compatible, and we're waiting for a > few hundred (thousand?) packages to be recompiled against it. I don't > recall seeing anything quite like this in the last

Re: How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-18 Thread Joe
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:54:32 +1000 Dorival Pedroso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering if there is a way to fix problems with libstdc++6 > in Debian unstable? > > I'm trying to install blender and/or python-scipy for example. > Waiting is. There are serious upheavals in unstable at the momen

Re: How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/18/15, Dorival Pedroso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering if there is a way to fix problems with libstdc++6 in > Debian unstable? > > I'm trying to install blender and/or python-scipy for example. Are you working with your package manager's absolute latest updates that are drawn from the

How to fix problems with "libstdc++6 breaks [something]"

2015-08-18 Thread Dorival Pedroso
Hi, I'm just wondering if there is a way to fix problems with libstdc++6 in Debian unstable? I'm trying to install blender and/or python-scipy for example. Cheers Dorival

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 14:10:11 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-08-07, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Alright, by all means, let me rephrase: > > > > My computer always breaks immediately after I hover Claws-Mail's > > message list. > > > > What are you, a helicopter? Stop hovering! The way I keep d

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-07 Thread Curt
On 2014-08-07, Steve Litt wrote: > > Alright, by all means, let me rephrase: > > My computer always breaks immediately after I hover Claws-Mail's message list. > What are you, a helicopter? Stop hovering! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:38:26 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-08-06, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > In other words (laugh away, guys and gals), Claws-Mail's message > > list breaks my computer. > > > > *Post hoc ergo propter hoc* (a common logical fallacy when > troubleshooting). Alright, by all me

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 11:22:57 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > [...] > > It's not intermittent anymore. I can reproduce it at will. I can log > > out and rerun X, and do almost anything, including change screen > > resolution, and this symptom will

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > [...] > It's not intermittent anymore. I can reproduce it at will. I can log > out and rerun X, and do almost anything, including change screen > resolution, and this symptom will not appear until I run claws-mail and > cursor over a message in

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:51:19 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned > out not to be helpful: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137080 > > I have Wheezy running

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:47:52 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 > > Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt > >> wrote: [clip Litt's bona-fides on RTFM] > >> > > >> > I have Wheezy r

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt >> wrote: >> > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or >> > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant

Re: How to fix intermittently disappearing mouse pointer ?

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > I've googled this several times, but none of what I saw worked or > > seemed relevant. The following seemed the most relevant, but turned > > out not to be helpful: > > > > https://bbs.a

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