pulseaudi and pavucontrol - was - Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/08/2014, Ric Moore wrote: > On 08/21/2014 09:34 PM, Martin Read wrote: >> On 22/08/14 00:49, Ric Moore wrote: >> >>> That's why I go off on a rant once in awhile, that pavucontrol needs to >>> be a pulse depend, or users won't have the tool to setup and adjust >>> pulse with. >> >> It's curr

Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, There's an attractive offer in UK for an HP 255 G2 laptop, from Misco: http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q730917/ and I wondered whether anybody had had good experience running Wheezy on it? I had two queries, touchpad, and UEFI, Searching revealed that its Synaptics touchp

writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running up-to-date Wheezy. I have a script, simplified like this: - #!/bin/bash DEBUG=1 OUT=/dev/null if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then OUT=/dev/stdout fi echo hello > $OUT - This works fine when invoked from the command line, but w

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread emmanuel segura
Maybe, because crond is running as root, try put this lines in your script ls -l /proc/self/fd/1 ls -l /dev/stdout please, you can tell us, how you scheduled the script in crond? Thanks 2014-08-22 11:23 GMT+02:00 Tony van der Hoff : > Hi, > > Running up-to-date Wheezy. > > I have a script, sim

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Running up-to-date Wheezy. > I have a script, simplified like this: > - > #!/bin/bash > DEBUG=1 > OUT=/dev/null > if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then >OUT=/dev/stdout > fi > echo hello > $OUT > - > This works f

Re: Busybox: compile statically?

2014-08-22 Thread antispammbox-debian
- Original Message - From: "antispammbox-debian" To: "debian-italian" ; "Darac Marjal" Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 5:38 PM Subject: Re: Busybox: compile statically? - Original Message - From: "Darac Marjal" Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/08/14 11:35, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Running up-to-date Wheezy. > >> I have a script, simplified like this: > >> - >> #!/bin/bash >> DEBUG=1 > >> OUT=/dev/null > >> if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then >>OUT=/dev/stdout >> fi > >> ech

apt-get update not downloading Packages.gz|bz2 - trying to load Packages which is not on server

2014-08-22 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On a wheezy install (basically default from what I can tell), why would apt-get update try to load Packages file from server when the server serves Packages.gz and Packages.bz2? The repo is a http served mirror created with debmirror. I think I came across this once a few years ago, but for the l

Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

2014-08-22 Thread ds
So I found a simple solution: ... No pulseaudio needed any more! Yeah! Have fun! Great job Hans! Made a python script to automate this - hope might help :-) Here: http://pastebin.com/0pQhmuh4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this is the default and I can run remote X clients without any issues. Since switching to Debian

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Kevin writes: > Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so > XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start > on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. Then why not just use ssh? https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch07.en.htm

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:10:45AM -0500, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: > Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, > so XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to > start on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this > is the default and I c

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
John Hasler writes: > Kevin writes: > > Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so > > XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start > > on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. > > Then why not just use ssh? > https://www.debian.org

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: > # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user tony > MAILTO=t...@vanderhoff.org > SHELL=/bin/sh > > * * * * * /home/tony/scripts/test > tony@tony-fr:~$ ls -al /dev/stdout > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 21 17:30 /d

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:10:45 -0500 "Buchs, Kevin J." wrote: > Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so > XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start > on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument. On CentOS, this is the > default a

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Reco writes: > Hi. > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:10:45 -0500 > "Buchs, Kevin J." wrote: > > > Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so > > XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start > > on Debian without the -nolisten tcp argument

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. Though ssh, vnc, remote XDMCP, Xephr are all fine for running X clients when there is interactive execution of the client by the user, it does not work in my case where there is Open Grid Scheduler batch execution. In my case, the X client of interest

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:09:09PM CEST, Reco said: > Hi. > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:10:45 -0500 > "Buchs, Kevin J." wrote: > > > Thanks for the comment, Nuno. I only want to run a single X client, so > > XDMCP is not the way to go. My problem is solely getting Xorg to start > > on Debian wi

anyone knows this errors ?

2014-08-22 Thread laurent debian
I have this in my syslog and I am wondering what it is pool[1655]: segfault at 72200 ip 7fa419598200 sp 7fa4149d30c0 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7fa41955+19f000] and kernel: [ 507.759144] perf samples too long (2509 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 5 kernel:[

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Buchs, Kevin J. writes: > Marc (and Gian hinted at) mentioned that /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc has > the "-nolisten tcp" in it. This was as he said. However, editing the > file did not stop Xorg from getting started with the very same > parameter. It must be buried in another place, I fear, ha

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:02:19 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > List, good morning, > > There's an attractive offer in UK for an HP 255 G2 laptop, from Misco: > > http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q730917/ > > and I wondered whether anybody had had good experience running Wheezy > on it? I haven't had

Fwd: Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
sorry - wrong button :( Original Message Subject: Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:58:20 +0200 From: Tony van der Hoff To: Sven Hartge On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Cron task is invoked from a

Re: anyone knows this errors ?

2014-08-22 Thread Florent Peterschmitt
Hi, I had almost the same problem of segfault with my machine, after I changed the RAM. You should run a memtest, then try to cleanup your RAM and slots, the re-run the memtest. You can also connect one memory module and run memtest on each one. For me, I think I had some dust of bad contacts i

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 22 August 2014 16:09:22 Steve Litt wrote: > It makes me sad that, since my kids went away to college in 2011, the > price of 4GB RAM laptops have remained stagnant. This laptop translates > into $361.32 USD, a price you could get in 2011 if you aggressively > shopped back to school sales

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
SAS as in http://www.sas.com - confusing. When I do a nmap scan of port 6000 on my machine from the remote one it reports the Host is up, so I don't think it is blocked. I've used host name and IP address to the same effect when trying to run the X clients on the remote host. I might be able

Re: upgrade stuck (and machine too)

2014-08-22 Thread niff
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:47:43 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > To me it looks like systemd is unable to start any service, maybe > because of the missing/unconfigured libpam-systemd. I would probably > try to dpgk --force-depends libpam-systemd or something like that. But > I am just guessing. Well,

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread niff
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:02:19 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: good morevening, > There's an attractive offer in UK for an HP 255 G2 laptop, from Misco: > > http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q730917/ As the others, I'd say "there's a wolf" (fr expression to show that something's very wrong), look at the pr

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:48:19 +0200 Erwan David wrote: > > Running a single application remotely is hardly a justification to > > running main Xorg in insecure mode. > > Listeniçng on tcp does NOT mean insecure mode. > see Xsecurity(7) First, $ man 7 Xsecurity No manual entry for Xsecurity in s

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >>> Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: >>> # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user tony >>> MAILTO=t...@vanderhoff.org >>> SHELL=/bin/sh >>> >>> * * * * * /home/tony/scripts/te

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:28:07 -0500 "Buchs, Kevin J." wrote: > SAS as in http://www.sas.com - confusing. > > When I do a nmap scan of port 6000 on my machine from the remote one it > reports the Host is up, so I don't think it is blocked. I've used host > name and IP address to the same effect

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:34:04 +0200 "Gian Uberto Lauri" wrote: > Reco writes: > > Running a single application remotely is hardly a justification to > > running main Xorg in insecure mode. > > If you know what you do you can set up things whith an appropriate level > of security. > > Even for

Re: anyone knows this errors ?

2014-08-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:06:54 -0400 laurent debian wrote: > I have this in my syslog and I am wondering what it is > pool[1655]: segfault at 72200 ip 7fa419598200 sp 7fa4149d30c0 > error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7fa41955+19f000] Some binary received SIGSEGV signal. There're many reaso

Re: upgrade stuck (and machine too)

2014-08-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
niff: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:47:43 +0200 > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> To me it looks like systemd is unable to start any service, maybe >> because of the missing/unconfigured libpam-systemd. I would probably >> try to dpgk --force-depends libpam-systemd or something like that. But >> I am just

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:09:22AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:02:19 +0100 > Ron Leach wrote: > > > List, good morning, > > > > There's an attractive offer in UK for an HP 255 G2 laptop, from Misco: > > > > http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q730917/ > > > > and I wondered wh

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Joe
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:48:35 +0200 niff wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:02:19 +0100 > Ron Leach wrote: > > good morevening, > > > There's an attractive offer in UK for an HP 255 G2 laptop, from > > Misco: > > > > http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q730917/ > > As the others, I'd say "there's a

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:26:41 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 22 August 2014 16:09:22 Steve Litt wrote: > > It makes me sad that, since my kids went away to college in 2011, > > the price of 4GB RAM laptops have remained stagnant. This laptop > > translates into $361.32 USD, a price you could

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "R" == Reco writes: R> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:34:04 +0200 "Gian Uberto Lauri" R> wrote: >> Reco writes: > Running a single application remotely is hardly a >> justification to > running main Xorg in insecure mode. >> >> If you know what you do you can set up things whith an appropriate

system-config-printer

2014-08-22 Thread Ric Moore
... is filling up my system log with errors, a LOT of them. According to here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090479 ...so others are seeing it as well. I'm running Jessie, and the version of system-config-printer installed is 1.4.3-4 Is it something I need when I use the cups w

Re: upgrade stuck (and machine too)

2014-08-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/22/2014 11:34 AM, niff wrote: From the point I see it, this shit is gonna push me to reinstall! Gd work systemd, you're drawing Linux down almost to the windows level:((( Are you using Wheezy or Jessie or Sid?? Nonetheless, if Debian devels are unpaid, with no stock options, with n

Re: upgrade stuck (and machine too)

2014-08-22 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:26:47 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Did you only try to force dbus or libpam-systemd as well? Yep, no success though. > I still think > the fact that you cannot start any services is related to systemd. I > just looked up whether you can start a service verbosely with sys

Re: upgrade stuck (and machine too)

2014-08-22 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:13:47 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > Are you using Wheezy or Jessie or Sid?? Trudububu (kidding), I'm using sid. > Nonetheless, if Debian devels are unpaid, with no stock options, with > no retirement plans, etc., I wouldn't take a warm whiz on their shoes > and relate or comp

Re: system-config-printer

2014-08-22 Thread AW
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:12:21 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > Is it something I need when I use the cups web frontend? I believe you can safely remove system-config-printer and use the cups web interface on port 631 instead. Although you may have issues with reverse depends: Reverse Depends: task-

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:23:37AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > Running up-to-date Wheezy. > > I have a script, simplified like this: > > - > #!/bin/bash > DEBUG=1 > > OUT=/dev/null > > if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then > OUT=/dev/stdout > fi > > ech

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-22 Thread Buchs, Kevin J.
Reco, I tried Xephr as you suggested. It seems to get around the -nolisten tcp choice. Since I will have to specify the display for the remote X client, I won't have to map the port, but can just use myhost:1.0 for DISPLAY. I got xclock -display myhost:1.0 working from myhost. Thanks for poin

How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

2014-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Normally, I use the packages given me by a distro. I don't like to gum things up. And because I use Linux for my everyday business, my priority is stability, so of course I use Wheezy. Unfortunately, one program that might be mission critical to my business, Sigil, now requires qt5 to com

sysvinit->systemd transition details

2014-08-22 Thread Alexandre Ferrieux
Hello, I have a Jessie-based system, which up to the last upgrade used sysvinit of course, and where I had added sysv-rc-conf, and was happily juggling with a few runlevels. But after an upgrade (still in Jessie), systemd rules. No problem about this, but what degree of compatibility should I

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

2014-08-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Normally, I use the packages given me by a distro. I don't like to gum things up. And because I use Linux for my everyday business, my priority is stability, so of course I use Wheezy. Unfortunately, one program that might be mission critical to my business, Sigil, now