SUCCESS!!! - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

2025-03-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/8/25 3:55 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril. I can suggest a couple things to try, either of which should get you back to using Atril. 1. Open the MATE Control Center, click o

Re: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

2022-10-25 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 05:34, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I always contact the manufacturer of the screws used in the products > > I buy rather than the company who assembled the product using > > said screws. > > Indeed, Ubiquity uses Debian as part of their devices a bit like other > companies us

Re: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

2022-10-25 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 04:54, chris wrote: > I always contact the manufacturer of the screws used in the products I buy > rather than the company who assembled the product using said screws. > > :) > Lol I don't understand. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Si

Re: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

2022-10-25 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 04:31, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25 2022 at 09:56:50 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < > tdtemc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL > > Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Pl

Re: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

2022-10-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I always contact the manufacturer of the screws used in the products > I buy rather than the company who assembled the product using > said screws. Indeed, Ubiquity uses Debian as part of their devices a bit like other companies use screws. Except AFAIK they don't use Debian as-is, so getting g

Re: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

2022-10-25 Thread chris
t; tdtemc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL > > Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus > > > > Good day from Singapore, > > > > I am posting here because UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus is powered by De

Re: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

2022-10-25 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Tue, Oct 25 2022 at 09:56:50 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Subject: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL > Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus > > Good day from Singapore, > > I am posting here because UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus is

I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus

2022-10-25 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Subject: I have achieved PARTIAL SUCCESS in installing Godaddy SSL Certificate in UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus Good day from Singapore, I am posting here because UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus is powered by Debian GNU/Linux 9. I have found many reference guides on installing SSL certificate in UniFi

Re: Success stories - Number one

2022-09-15 Thread DdB
Am 14.09.2022 um 18:43 schrieb Dan Ritter: > The system you have constructed is a kind of configuration > management tool. Existing tools like this include salt, ansible, > puppet, chef, bcfg, cfengine, and more specialized things like > vagrant Hi Dan! A very kind, even somewhat flattering com

Re: Success stories - Number one

2022-09-14 Thread Dan Ritter
DdB wrote: > 3. The simplistic approach: > To get to that goal, i did create a directory purely to hold the > status of my changes in the following form. For every modification > to the system, i considered being worth keeping, i stored 3 files. > 1. the original file as Ubuntu ha

Success stories - Number one

2022-09-14 Thread DdB
1. Introduction: As many other users, i usually ask for help on this list, naming problems, i am facing and hoping to find help. Not this time. Last night, i rectivated an old script of mine, that was still hanging around in my repo since my Ubuntu days. I found it to be so use

Re: [SUCCESS] Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 03:58:27PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/14/2021 09:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 10/14/2021 09:26 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:15:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 10/13/2021 03:22 PM, Tixy wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 20

Re: [SUCCESS] Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/14/2021 09:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/14/2021 09:26 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:15:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/13/2021 03:22 PM, Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that netinst.iso assumes

Re: [SUCCESS] Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/14/2021 09:26 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:15:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/13/2021 03:22 PM, Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that netinst.iso assumes that there are *exactly* two choices for inter

Re: [SUCCESS] Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 09:15:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/13/2021 03:22 PM, Tixy wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > It appears to me that netinst.iso assumes that there are *exactly* two > > > choices for internet connectivity: > > > an ethe

[SUCCESS] Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/13/2021 03:22 PM, Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that netinst.iso assumes that there are *exactly* two choices for internet connectivity: an ethernet device    *OR*    WiFi However, I use a USB device [ an Alcat

Re: Grub Success at Last, but way offtopic

2021-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 June 2021 18:09:34 Martin McCormick wrote: > I did it! It works! > > Okay. Here's the short story. I read some more stuff > about building a boot drive for another system than the one being > used for the rescue. In this thread were the usual tales of woe > which I have als

Grub Success at Last

2021-06-08 Thread Martin McCormick
I did it! It works! Okay. Here's the short story. I read some more stuff about building a boot drive for another system than the one being used for the rescue. In this thread were the usual tales of woe which I have also experienced when misusing grub such as "Oh #%^*! Now I've got 2 s

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN - some success

2021-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
On 2/17/21 10:03 AM, IL Ka wrote: paul@Joy4:~/music/pima$ systemctl status ssh`` ● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)   Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-02-16 11:53

No success trying to get vinagre (Gnome Remote Desktop Viewer) to work with Raspberry Pi (RealVNC server)

2020-12-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
I posted the following to the Gnome Reddit and receive no response, so I'm wondering if anyone here has been able to get this combination working. --- I've been trying to get Vinagre 3.22.0 on my Debian Gnome 3.38.2 desktop (already installed dependency) to work with the RealVNC s

Re: Special Key Assignment? Success

2020-10-31 Thread Thomas George
want to assign a unicode character to an unused key on my keyboard. For example F6 currently is assigned ~, name of my home directory. I would like to change it to ♠. I have tried xmodmap -e keycode 71 = U2660 and several other variations without success Looking at the EXAMPLES section of the

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
James Allsopp wrote: > Thanks for that. Is it simply a case of installing the DKMS module, > building the pool (two drives in my case), formatting and mounting? You want to read, at a minimum: https://pthree.org/2012/12/04/zfs-administration-part-i-vdevs/ It may be 8 years old, but it's substan

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-30 Thread James Allsopp
llsopp wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a > ZFS > > > > partition in Debian Buster? > > > Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a > > > laptop. > > > > An

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
elvis wrote: > > On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > James Allsopp wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS > > > partition in Debian Buster? > > Yes, on a largish number of servers plu

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-29 Thread elvis
On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS partition in Debian Buster? Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a laptop. And a follow up, why do you use it? -dsr- --

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS > partition in Debian Buster? Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a laptop. -dsr-

Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-29 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS partition in Debian Buster? Thanks James

Re: Success of udev rule depends on if user has local or NIS account

2020-01-10 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hi, On 2020-01-09 18:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:56:53PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: Does anybody know what happened in newer kernels that makes OWNER="$result" fail for NIS accounts? At a guess, it's bug #878625 again. Does it start working again if you install ns

Re: Success of udev rule depends on if user has local or NIS account

2020-01-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:56:53PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Does anybody know what happened in newer kernels that makes OWNER="$result" > fail for NIS accounts? At a guess, it's bug #878625 again. Does it start working again if you install nscd, or one of its alternatives? Or if you over

Success of udev rule depends on if user has local or NIS account

2020-01-09 Thread Christoph Pleger
bian 10 as well as in Ubuntu 18.04. Searching for the reason gave the result that the success of the udev rule depends on the kernel version (it worked in Ubuntu 18.04 with Kernel 4.15.0-50-generic, but does not work with Kernel 4.15.0-74-generic) as well as on if the user has a local or a NIS acco

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thank you Greg for the clarification. I find your third link https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles very worth reading. Regards, Jörg Greg Wooledge wrote on 05/06/2019 14:52: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> As user of thunderbird you best set the environment vari

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > As user of thunderbird you best set the environment variable LC_TIME in your > profile, e.g. via ~/.bash_profile . Check it with the command > > $ locale > > You have to log out (from desktop and from computer) before changes in

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As user of thunderbird you best set the environment variable LC_TIME in your profile, e.g. via ~/.bash_profile . Check it with the command $ locale You have to log out (from desktop and from computer) before changes in .bash_profile get applied. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-05, Ken Heard wrote: > > The latest version of Thunderbird for Debian Stretch, 70.7 which I now > use, still allows only the US date format, MM-DD-, but for me at > least expresses the time as HH:MM (24 hour clock). In a partially > successful attempt to change the date format I di

Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-04 Thread Ken Heard
The latest version of Thunderbird for Debian Stretch, 70.7 which I now use, still allows only the US date format, MM-DD-, but for me at least expresses the time as HH:MM (24 hour clock). In a partially successful attempt to change the date format I did the following. 1. Ran update-locales 'LC

Reporting success info and a bug against a help request from Bits From Debian

2019-02-16 Thread Erkki Lintunen
Hello, answering to the following: Help test initial support for Secure Boot, Bits from Debian, Sat 02 Feb 2019 <https://bits.debian.org/2019/02/testing-initial-secure-boot-support.html> I had success on my Asus Vivobook E200HA. I tested the Secure Boot enabled with both the ins

Re: PARTIAL success - was [Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE]

2019-02-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/06/2019 03:29 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:47:26PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/04/2019 12:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] If [as root] I do > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/pluma before > visudo things *approximately* work ;/ Pluma, not nano, is invoke

Re: PARTIAL success - was [Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE]

2019-02-06 Thread tomas
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:47:26PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/04/2019 12:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > If [as root] I do > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/pluma > before > > visudo > things *approximately* work ;/ > > Pluma, not nano, is invoked. Not bad :-) > $EDITOR is not preser

PARTIAL success - was [Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE]

2019-02-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/04/2019 12:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/04/2019 11:32 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [snip] Although it seems visudo can cope with a graphical editor [1], I've never tried that. Perhaps someone around here has. I can cope {if grumpily} with any editor. I prefer Pluma, but that hardly

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/11/2018 02:47 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/05/2018 à 19:54, Richard Owlett a écrit : I posted after having purged my system of the offending and was writing from memory. I believe there were two source directories     /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 p

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/11/2018 12:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [rofl] I suspect, if we could get Richard to talk, that he too was a nerd before the word was invented. Maybe, but he got a later start... ROFL My father was an EE, My mother an RN Married day before Pearl Harbor nuff said ;/

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/05/2018 à 19:54, Richard Owlett a écrit : I posted after having purged my system of the offending and was writing from memory. I believe there were two source directories    /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13     and     /root/.loca

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/11/2018 09:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/05/2018 à 14:59, Richard Owlett a écrit : On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm attempting to backup current partition  to a USB connected 1 TB drive. I get: root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / "/media/richard/MISC backu

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 May 2018 11:28:08 Curt wrote: > On 2018-05-11, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 05/11/2018 08:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:59:30AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Ric

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/11/2018 10:28 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-05-11, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/11/2018 08:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:59:30AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I've

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-11, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/11/2018 08:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:59:30AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> I've been introdu

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 May 2018 at 07:59:30 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >I'm attempting to backup current partition  to a USB connected 1 TB drive. > > > >I get: > > > >>root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / "/media/richard/MISC > >>backups/dev_sda14/" >

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 08:22:41AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > I don't recall being whimsical. > Weird. Possibly. Been told that for >70 years ;} :-) Cheers - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECA

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/05/2018 à 14:59, Richard Owlett a écrit : On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm attempting to backup current partition  to a USB connected 1 TB drive. I get: root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / "/media/richard/MISC backups/dev_sda14/" cp: cannot stat '/media/richard/M

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/11/2018 08:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:59:30AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I've been introduced to many commands and some of the "logic" of the Linux way of

Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:59:30AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > I've been introduced to many commands and some of the "logic" of the > Linux way of doing things. > > Thanks everybody. Thanks f

SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

2018-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm attempting to backup current partition  to a USB connected 1 TB drive. I get: root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / "/media/richard/MISC backups/dev_sda14/" cp: cannot stat '/media/richard/MISC backups/dev_sda14/home/richard/.local/share/T

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 11:00:34 (+0200), Jochen Spieker wrote: > Kenneth Parker: > > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > > systems, has been going for a while, > > It has been going

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Long Wind
Congratulation! such success story is hardly surprising to me debian has lots of such story if i meet problem, usually i can get help from this list sometimes i can't solve it even after seeking help but debian is still best in my experience On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 1:39:03 PM

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
Kenneth Parker: > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > systems, has been going for a while, It has been going on since at least 2008, so calling these changes "recent" uses a quite fl

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running systems, has been going for a while, and also learning more about the systemd changes. I will also add the Bios to UEFI transition, which the last two

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Congratulations, Kenneth! I’m proud to have been of help! Rick On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have > trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent > Chicken and Eg

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 04:04:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Kenneth Parker writes: > > > Isn't this what this is all about? [...] > Excellent work, and a great result. Thanks for reporting it to us! Seconded. Thanks for the report. That's the spi

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Kenneth Parker writes: > Isn't this what this is all about? I now have a happy Debian user, who > was previously a marginalized Mac user, down on his luck, and unable > to afford the expensive new Macs! > > Now, he is up to date, and able to use Firefox, LibreOffice, and other > Debian Packages,

A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello, I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent Chicken and Egg Issue, helping a friend install Debian 9.4 on an expired MacBook, which Apple states can't run anything later than OSX Lion. The

[SUCCESS!] Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT

2018-01-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/21/2018 04:39 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/20/2018 04:42 PM, davidson wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip]   # update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser /path/to/seamonkey 20 Worked like a charm. Now to re-read the WebHTTrack documentat

Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Hans, so the radeon driver seems to work but maybe needs some tweaking. 1) Let's have a look at Xorg.0.log. grep -i chipset /var/log/Xorg.0.log grep -i render /var/log/Xorg.0.log (Maybe, append the file to your message) 2) Is there a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf? 3) Take a look at the

Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-10 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, Am 09.10.2016 um 23:46 schrieb Brian: On Sat 08 Oct 2016 at 13:50:19 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: after following the propositions of Brian: dpkg -l | grep fglrx Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot does. and Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hi, I also saw the other

Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 08 Oct 2016 at 13:50:19 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > after following the propositions of Brian: > > > > dpkg -l | grep fglrx > > > >Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot > >does. > and Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > Hi, > > > > I also saw the other e-mail exchange w

Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-08 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, after following the propositions of Brian: dpkg -l | grep fglrx Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot does. and Jörg-Volker Peetz: > Hi, > > I also saw the other e-mail exchange with Brian where you concluded to purge all > "fglrx"-related packages. Si

Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 15:13:28 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > Footnote: > Just tried to ssh in from my box and got this: > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ ssh sarah@debian-wheezy.local > ssh: Could not resolve hostname debian-wheezy.local: Name or service not known > lisi@Tux-II:~$ > > It's connected, but not.

Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 July 2016 15:05:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 05 July 2016 14:54:34 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 July 2016 09:26:00 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 23:39:26 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > status 0 > > > > > > > > bssid=00:8e:f2:8f:58:58 > > > > freq=0 > > > > s

Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 July 2016 14:54:34 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 05 July 2016 09:26:00 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 23:39:26 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > status 0 > > > > > > bssid=00:8e:f2:8f:58:58 > > > freq=0 > > > ssid=NETGEAR08 > > > id=0 > > > mode=station > > > pairwise_cipher=C

Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 July 2016 09:26:00 Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 23:39:26 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > status 0 > > > > bssid=00:8e:f2:8f:58:58 > > freq=0 > > ssid=NETGEAR08 > > id=0 > > mode=station > > pairwise_cipher=CCMP > > group_cipher=CCMP > > key_mgmt=WPA2-PSK > > wpa_state=COMPLETED

Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 23:39:26 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > status 0 > bssid=00:8e:f2:8f:58:58 > freq=0 > ssid=NETGEAR08 > id=0 > mode=station > pairwise_cipher=CCMP > group_cipher=CCMP > key_mgmt=WPA2-PSK > wpa_state=COMPLETED > address=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > uuid= You have a fully functional wireless

Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 July 2016 23:39:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2016 23:36:44 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2016 17:37:00 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 15:37:42 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Monday 04 July 2016 15:16:23 Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > It isn't. It is

Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 July 2016 23:36:44 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2016 17:37:00 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 15:37:42 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Monday 04 July 2016 15:16:23 Brian wrote: > > > > > > It isn't. It is just a short quotation to show the ipw 2200 and the > > > DRI

Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

2016-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 July 2016 17:37:00 Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 15:37:42 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2016 15:16:23 Brian wrote: > > > > It isn't. It is just a short quotation to show the ipw 2200 and the > > DRIVERS=="?*", because it bothered me that the drivers bit just h

Re: drawing tablet success

2015-12-09 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 19:08 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Since I spend a fair amount of time complaining about the OS I > love, I figure it's only fair to point out success when it > happens unexpectedly. > > I gave my son a Monoprice 10x6.5" drawing tablet today. It

Re: drawing tablet success

2015-12-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 09 December 2015 00:08:00 Dan Ritter wrote: > Since I spend a fair amount of time complaining about the OS I > love, I figure it's only fair to point out success when it > happens unexpectedly. > > I gave my son a Monoprice 10x6.5" drawing tablet today. It

drawing tablet success

2015-12-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Since I spend a fair amount of time complaining about the OS I love, I figure it's only fair to point out success when it happens unexpectedly. I gave my son a Monoprice 10x6.5" drawing tablet today. It's relatively cheap - about $50. He plugged it in to his Jessie PC and to our

[PARTAL success] Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015-11-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/17/2015 6:08 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why no

Re: early Lenovo S205 Ideapad + Debian Jessie + Xfce -- success

2015-10-18 Thread rlharris
On Sun, October 18, 2015 5:23 am, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Using the official Debian 8.1.0-amd64-netinst image dated 20150606-14:16 I changed the subject line to make "S205" more prominent; over the years I have spent hours with Google searching for reports on Debian with that specific machine

success with Jessie 8.1.0 + Xfce on an early Lenovo S205 Ideapad

2015-10-18 Thread rlharris
Using the official Debian 8.1.0-amd64-netinst image dated 20150606-14:16 copied to a usb flash stick, I today installed Debian Jessie with Xfce desktop to an early Lenovo S205 Ideapad which utilizes UEFI. The installation boots successfully from the hard drive, and appears to run properly. Howeve

Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

2014-08-13 Thread Floris
succes, Indeed, those 3 steps and we are running a 2-seater again! With Sid, LXDE and no DM but startx -- -seat seat1, etc. Thanks to Floris and systemd! Seat1 does not fare well from a hibernate/resume cycle, had to reboot this morning to get it going again... Hugo I haven't te

Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

2014-08-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom : Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will

Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

2014-08-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom : Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will figure out how to make

Partial (clumsy) success [Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick]

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Rick Thomas wrote: On Apr 12, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. There was no prob

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Hmm, I thought the 'count=' stuff was only needed for CD-ROMs. Again, I > prefer to keep things simple and would rather use just: > > md5sum /dev/sdb This will not give you the MD5 of the image that was copied to the beginning of the storage device, unless the image size is exactly th

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 mar 14, 12:30:54, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 > > > count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc > > > [...] > > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd i

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 22:20, David wrote: On 2 March 2014 23:54, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >> I would like to have more information about this "read ahead bug", but >> I cannot find a full bug report or similar technical discussion of it. > > [snip interesting information] Thank you again Thomas for sha

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I would like to have more information about this "read ahead bug", but > I cannot find a full bug report or similar technical discussion of it. dd count= will not save you from it. It is in the block device driver of Linux for CD reading. CD media can bear sectors which do not represent da

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > My starting point is a purchased multi DVD set of Wheezy(7.1.0). > My goal is a single bootable flash drive with an unstated presumption > that it would be formatted FAT16 or FAT32. isoinfo reports the flash > drive is ISO 9660. Yes, it is. You copied it onto the stick

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 18:39:31 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > >d-i knows how to mount the ISO (otherwise all your installs would have > >failed). Now - what does it know that you don't? :) > > > > You be only one claiming omniscience ;/ The time to get worried is when moun

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom ... Volume size is: 1939608 root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc 1939608+0 record

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 > > count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc > > [...] > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/home/richard/myiso1.iso > > bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/dev/sdb

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/14 22:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then > used dd to copy it to a U

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i am the developer of xorriso, which created the image in question under control of the debian-cd package. Debian i386 images are ISO 9660 filesystems with El Torito Boot Record to boot from CD/DVD/BD, and with Master Boot Record, which enables them to boot from hard d

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 20:41, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom > ... >> Volume size is: 1939608 >> root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 >> count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myi

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do se

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom ... > Volume size is: 1939608 > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 > count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc > 1939608+0 records in > 1939608+

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am the developer of xorriso, which created the image in question under control of the debian-cd package. Debian i386 images are ISO 9660 filesystems with El Torito Boot Record to boot from CD/DVD/BD, and with Master Boot Record, which enables them to boot from hard disk and USB stick. If y

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/14 18:59, David wrote: > On 2 March 2014 18:54, David wrote: >> On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> >>> For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the >>> first one. :/ >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 > > or > > h

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 18:54, David wrote: > On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the >> first one. :/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 or https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/threa

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-01 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the > first one. :/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

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