Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-12, Reco wrote: > > You're right in the case of conventional LVM. But OP is using an > encrypted one, and resizing an encrypted LV is much more complex > (it requires lvresize, cryptmount and resize2fs in the right sequence). > It's presumably possible (never done it personally), but co

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stephen R Guglielmo: > > I updated my apt repo and there was a kernel update. I ran the update, > and received an error claiming "no space left on device." Normally, I > would do a force-uninstall for the currently running kernel (freeing > space), then install the new kernel and reboot. However,

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:35:32AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-12, Reco wrote: > > > > You're right in the case of conventional LVM. But OP is using an > > encrypted one, and resizing an encrypted LV is much more complex > > (it requires lvresize, cryptmount and resize2fs in the right sequence

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Taking a look into /lib/modules could tell if any older (possibly dispensible) kernel versions are present on your system. Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Is there a way to undo web browser changing desktop manager

2015-02-12 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is what it is named). I have three web browsers open; Arora, Konqueror and Rekonq. Each of the web browsers, is used for different reasons. None of them, appear to have provision for saving sessions. In accessing a parti

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 12 February 2015 09:46:35 Jochen Spieker wrote: > > I'm not sure why the automatic partitioner didn't provide > > for enough space for future updates. See below for the relevant logs. > > There's been several complaints about similar issues on this list. I am > not sure whether there we

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 12 February 2015 11:31:43 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2015 09:46:35 Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > I'm not sure why the automatic partitioner didn't provide > > > for enough space for future updates. See below for the relevant logs. > > > > There's been several complaints

mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Charles Blair
I use claws-mail for e-mail. When I am running iceweasel/mozilla and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://

Mount local NFS share on boot

2015-02-12 Thread Laverne Schrock
Hi folks, I am running Jessie (amd64), and I have set up a backup system using http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto/1.2/rsnapshot-HOWTO.en.html as a guide. In particular, Section 7.2 describes how I've set up my system. (The exception being that I opted to use "snapshots" instead of ".snapshots") In su

Re: Mount local NFS share on boot

2015-02-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:50:46 -0600 Laverne Schrock wrote: > So here is my question: What is the best way to automatically mount a > NFS share on the system acting as the server? Try using automount feature of systemd for NFS share. That way you'll delay actual mounting of said filesystem u

Re: Is there a way to undo web browser changing desktop manager

2015-02-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-02-12, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is > what it is named). > > I have three web browsers open; Arora, Konqueror and Rekonq. > > Each of the web browsers, is used for different reasons. > > None of them, appear to have pr

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-12, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> This is good to know. However I don't understand what you get for your >> money using an encrypted *LVM* file system if the commodity of resizing >> (or reallocation) is more or less removed from the picture. > > Using LVM-on-encryption means that you only n

WANTED: Dual Band WIFI USB stick

2015-02-12 Thread chymian
hey, I’m looking for an small/nano dualband WIFI USB stick which is natively supported by newer kernels? after tinkering around with an edimax 7711MAC with an mediatek chip mt7610u without success, (neither edimax nor mediatek give support, or feel them self in charge to distribute driver-so

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 Feb 2015 at 08:41:00 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >I use claws-mail for e-mail. When I am running iceweasel/mozilla > and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened. A script, mailto-claws: #!/bin/bash claws-mail --compose "$1" Use the script for "mailto" in P

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:41:00 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > I use claws-mail for e-mail. When I am running iceweasel/mozilla >and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened. > > Which desktop environment? You might have forgotten what is called "Preferred Applications" in Xfce

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-12, Charles Blair wrote: >I use claws-mail for e-mail. When I am running iceweasel/mozilla > and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened. > > In Preferences/Applications search 'mailto' as a Content Type and there's a dropdown menu with choices for Actions whe

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-12, Brian wrote: > On Thu 12 Feb 2015 at 08:41:00 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > >>I use claws-mail for e-mail. When I am running iceweasel/mozilla >> and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened. > > A script, mailto-claws: > > #!/bin/bash > claws-mail --comp

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Joe
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:55:42 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: > On 11/02/15 10:01 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I updated my apt repo and there was a kernel update. I ran the > > update, and received an error claiming "no space left on device." > > Normally, I would do a force-uninsta

Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 Feb 2015 at 17:42:56 +, Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-12, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 12 Feb 2015 at 08:41:00 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > > > >>I use claws-mail for e-mail. When I am running iceweasel/mozilla > >> and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened. > > >

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:46:35 +0100 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Stephen R Guglielmo: > > I'm not sure why the automatic partitioner didn't provide > > for enough space for future updates. See below for the relevant > > logs. > > There's been several complaints about similar issues on this list. I > am

Re: WANTED: Dual Band WIFI USB stick

2015-02-12 Thread Robert Crawford
This Ralink usb wireless adapter works with Debian. Just install ralink chipset driver. Here is the link. http://www.ebay.com/itm/150M-USB-WiFi-Wireless-LAN-Adapter-Antenna-802-11b-g-n-ralink-rt5370-WIN7-XP-/121567605250?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4dfe7202 I've used many of these, they alwa

Re: Can't hibernate/suspend or play video

2015-02-12 Thread david.wahlst...@gmail.com
On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 12:50:04 PM UTC-8, JMB wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having a problem over the last couple months or so. > Periodically, something will happen and I will not be able to suspend or > hibernate my machine, and it's always accompanied with an inability to > play video (

/ and separate partitions (was) Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Iain M Conochie
It was until fairly recently general practice to allocate a few hundred MB to / if /usr and /var were separate. It's only in the last few years that the size of /lib/modules has really exploded, and /usr now needs (in practice) to physically live under /. I once tried to put /lib/modules under i

Re: Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Charles Blair
I tinkered with "Preferences/Applications". Did not do anything about a special kind of Preference. If this message gets posted, the thing worked :) If so, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links

2015-02-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 Feb 2015 at 18:01:48 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > I tinkered with "Preferences/Applications". Did not > do anything about a special kind of Preference. If > this message gets posted, the thing worked :) > >If so, thanks! We would have guess what form your tinkering took. :) For

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2015-02-12 Thread Jack Chuge
test -- I like hk.politics. ^_^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mbjg2p$nql$1...@dont-email.me

about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Chuge
I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the other hand, I'm a newby to it. Any support is appreciated. -- I like hk.politics. ^_^ -- T

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Jack Chuge : I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the other hand, I'm a newby to it. Any support is appreciated. -- I like

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/12/15, Chris Fisichella wrote: > Quoting Jack Chuge : > >> I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is >> there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think >> debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the >> other hand, I'm a n

javascript:void(0)

2015-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations saying javascipt doesn't work? There are quite a few javascript "engines" installed, but I haven't managed to find that Magic Twanger yet. Is this a conscious effort to get rid of javascript? Or can it be fixed wit

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/12/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/12/15, Chris Fisichella wrote: >> >> http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html >> >> They say to run the following: >> >> su - >> echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty >> main" | tee /etc/apt/

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Chuge
Chris Fisichella 於 2015-2-13 9:50 寫道: Quoting Jack Chuge : I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the other hand, I'm a newby to it.

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Chris Fisichella
Quoting Jack Chuge : Chris Fisichella 於 2015-2-13 9:50 寫道: Quoting Jack Chuge : I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on the other h

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Chuge
Jack Chuge 於 2015-2-13 11:40 寫道: Chris Fisichella 於 2015-2-13 9:50 寫道: Quoting Jack Chuge : I want to install the latest version of Java on my debian desktop. Is there any quick way like using a terminal command? Though, I think debian is the most stable Linux distro I've ever used so far, on

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Chuge
Cindy-Sue Causey 於 2015-2-13 11:20 寫道: On 2/12/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 2/12/15, Chris Fisichella wrote: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html They say to run the following: su - echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty ma

Re: Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-12 Thread Charles Blair
Thanks for all previous suggestions. An "updates available" message resulted in an update that stopped in the middle because of insufficient space. This has left me with a system in which character-based programs are working, but any attempt to use a program that tries to open an X-window l

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/02/2015 2:52 PM, Jack Chuge wrote: > I know it means nothing to me until I want to install CGoban, a go > client been maintaining by kgs(www.gokgs.com). And I found my debian > pre-installed a java version of 1.6.0, seems odd for ever. Keep in

Re: Is there a way to undo web browser changing desktop manager

2015-02-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/02/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-02-12, Bret Busby wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I am running Debian 6 LTS, with the GNOME Desktop Manager (if that is >> what it is named). >> >> I have three web browsers open; Arora, Konqueror and Rekonq. >> >> Each of the web browsers, is used for differen

Re: about installing Java

2015-02-12 Thread Dalios
On 02/13/2015 05:54 AM, Jack Chuge wrote: > Jack Chuge 於 2015-2-13 11:40 寫道: snip > Finally, I typed sudo before the code every time and it proceeded > successfully until the last line code proceeding. It said: Can't locate > the packages of oracla-java8-installer. Where occurs errors? > This m