Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

On Saturday 23 July 2016 02:36:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > I finally gave up on that, > and added a new text box to the picture I was working complaining about > how busted gimp is now and published it on my web page. Couldn't find it. :-( Not that I would have been able to help if I had found it.

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

On Saturday 23 July 2016 02:36:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > Very frustrating that > apparently no one on this list is enough smarter about this that they > can assist me. Is there a GIMP list, and have you tried it?? Lisi

Re: synaptic package manager error

On Wednesday 20 July 2016 04:27:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > The proper command is: > > sudo dpkg --configure -a OR # dpkg --configure -a or Brian's dpkg --configure -a but become root first. We simply don't know enough. But I would assume the existence of root in Debian if there is no

Re: Internationalisation

On Sunday 17 July 2016 15:03:32 Mark Fletcher wrote: > which may mean I've failed to install something I need, ibus-anthy?? Lisi

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Saturday 16 July 2016 14:49:30 Curt wrote: > On 2016-07-16, John Hasler wrote: > > Lisi writes: > >> Not quite accurate... > > > > An accurate summary, the point being that it was not a change in > > conversion factor, it was a change in definition. > > She was putting her

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Saturday 16 July 2016 13:21:35 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > Not quite accurate... > > An accurate summary, the point being that it was not a change in > conversion factor, it was a change in definition. While we are quibbling, a) the date you gave was wrong and b) the change in

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Saturday 16 July 2016 04:48:11 John Hasler wrote: > Dennis writes: > > BTW: one inch now equals 2.54 cm *exactly*, in case you haven't been > > keeping up! (Used to be approx 2.54 cm.) This is what I mean by > > arbitrary. Don't like the conversion ratio? Then just change it! > > It wasn't a

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 21:48:32 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > My solution to that is physical access to the computer, actually sitting > > in front of it - login without a password. > > While I don't need a strong password in such a situation, I do want some > password because I don't like it when

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 20:04:32 Don Armstrong wrote: > Considering that I maintain multiple things > which install daemons in Debian And most of us are very grateful. Lisi

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 20:24:18 Brian wrote: > (For those who think this is about password logins in general - it is > not. It is about logging in as root). Thank you, Brian. You come up trumps again. I said that I hadn't understood the question. I did think it was about password logging in

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 19:16:37 Brian wrote: > On Tue 12 Jul 2016 at 18:09:22 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > This was sent to me separately privately as well. I might have answered > > differently on the list, but I am not writing a second reply to the same > > post, so her

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 18:39:29 Erwan David wrote: > Le 12/07/2016 à 19:34, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > My solution to that is physical access to the computer, actually sitting > > in front of it - login without a password. ALL external access, even > > from the neighbouring c

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 18:14:04 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > This is different from what you originally said. By all means discuss > > this general problem with the developers - but please don't single ssh > > out and mess it up for a good many of the rest of us. > > I think we're miscommunicating:

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 17:53:29 mwnx wrote: > > So, you're blaming a perfectly good (and reasonably secure) way of > > remote access, but somehow assume that weak passwords are ok. > > By that logic you should not stop there. Why not blame any remote access > > mechanism that uses PAM for

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

This was sent to me separately privately as well. I might have answered differently on the list, but I am not writing a second reply to the same post, so here is a copy-and-paste of my reply. On Tuesday 12 July 2016 17:45:58 mwnx wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 02:18:58PM +0100, Lisi Re

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 17:26:08 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I mean, yes, I can (and have) cobbled up some hackish way to plug the > holes I was aware of, but I think it would be better to be able to > specifically only allow weak password authentication for some specific > services and then stop

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 14:53:41 Stefan Monnier wrote: > The original use case > was to provide an account to my daughter who was not (yet) able to > remember a strong password.  She wasn't going to use a console > login either. So a corner - and hopefully transitory ;-) - case. Set your system

Re: openssh-server's default config is dangerous

On Tuesday 12 July 2016 13:50:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > My question would be... what would be the consequences of changing > those defaults? Or perhaps, of asking the user at package config > time? I *was* asked last time I installed open-ssh*, at installation time, but did not understand the

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Monday 11 July 2016 05:02:42 David Wright wrote: > "Please remember that the greater the "lb" > associated with a paper not always determines that it is a thicker > sheet. Notice that the 67lb Vellum Bristol has a lower gsm than a 65lb > cover because they are two different categories of

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 23:51:15 Gene Heskett wrote: > I've obviously got too many hobbies. No such thing as too many hobbies!! ;-) Lisi

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 23:21:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:58:16 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Does the image cover the whole sheet of paper?? > > I can make it pretty close to borderless with another 1 or 2 percentage > points of size increase. I was won

[Hampshire] July Portsmouth LUG meeting

I apologise for this announcement being late. The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 16th July, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. The tennis is over, so

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 19:47:19 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2016 14:26:01 John Hasler wrote: > > Gene writes: > > > Anything but letter, or maybe legal, is special order on this side > > > of the pond. > > > > Lots of outfits such as OfficeMax claim to stock A3. > >

Re: off topic Question of the day..

Does the image cover the whole sheet of paper?? On Sunday 10 July 2016 05:09:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 July 2016 21:51:52 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, July 09, 2016 07:14:24 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I believe it is. Checking, yes. If that is the correct size, and

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On Sunday 10 July 2016 05:09:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I don't know how easy it is to buy A series paper in the US Gene, you haven't answered this. I would say, about as easy as these pesky non-memorable American sizes are to buy over here!! Lisi

FIXED - I hope!! Laptop wireless problem

On Saturday 02 July 2016 01:15:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > The built in wireless on the Dell Inspiron 9300 suddenly stopped working. > > Having poked around a bit with wicd and network-manager (not > simultaneously), I am checking whether the problem is sudden hardware > failure. I p

Re: Linux has come a long way

On Sunday 10 July 2016 07:02:42 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Linux has come a long way! I have been dreading to go wireless on my > desktop for a while. A while ago, the process was like this - grab > drivers from manufacters website, custom compile kernels, read > documentation on how to connect

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG Past and Future Speakers

The last speaker, Prue Amner, sent me her slides on the Saturday she spoke to us, and I am very remiss in not having passed them on sooner. I cannot open them in Power Point to check what happens, because I have not got it, but they appear to open reasonably in Google slides and Impress. They

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On Thursday 07 July 2016 07:33:57 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Let's make it (GRUB2) impenetrable boilerplate, then. :-) +1! Lisi

Re: Bash command completion

On Wednesday 06 July 2016 22:52:58 Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Charlie Kravetz > > wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > There should be a set of commands towards the bottom > > of /etc/bash.bashrc to

Re: Browser Flakiness under Jessie -- Why?

On Wednesday 06 July 2016 16:36:56 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> [2016-07-06 16:12 +0100]: > > [...] > > > Or, if you don't care about your configuration files, purge firefox-esr > > in the first place. > > That won't p

Re: Browser Flakiness under Jessie -- Why?

On Wednesday 06 July 2016 15:24:35 Alan McConnell wrote: > > Jessie has moved to FireFox -- have you tried that? > >       Yes.  I have replaced the   iceweasel   that jessie > installed with    firefox-esr .  It doesn't open At All, unless > I run  'firefox-esr --version'

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Tuesday 05 July 2016 16:32:32 David Wright wrote: > I have a suspicion that, at some time in the past, not every kernel's > ipw2200 module has worked properly (even with the firmware apparently > correctly loaded). MIne (or rather, my client's) isn't doing now. We have proved that it can

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Tuesday 05 July 2016 16:02:52 David Wright wrote: > It would be nice to know what the "it" is that chooses that default. > I have a laptop with the same IPW2200 wireless, and it has always > defaulted to eth1 in the same way as Lisi's did. > > If it's a "default", that would imply that there's

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

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 > > > > &

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

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=NETG

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

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 >

??? the manual wireless connection that seemed to work

Brian's method seemed to work. My router said that it allowed the card to connect. So why could I not ping??? Lisi

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

On Monday 04 July 2016 21:52:49 Bill Harris wrote: > Gary Dale writes: > > On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote: > >>> The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending > >>> packages. Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't > >>> try this at

Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

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

Re: Guygyyiy g the same time I see you e

On Monday 04 July 2016 23:14:49 Glenn Holmer wrote: > On 07/04/2016 04:52 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2016 20:40:07 Glenn Holmer wrote: > >> Is it sensible to blame spam on the list subscribers? > > > > Who is doing so?? > > > >> I'

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

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 w

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

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

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

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

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 19:58:15 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2016 17:21:29 deloptes wrote: > > Perhaps you can try with a live ubuntu just to see if it works > > I tried. A screen full of coloured squiggly lines. I tried ctrl-alt F2. > Got a blank screen with

Re: Guygyyiy g the same time I see you e

On Monday 04 July 2016 20:40:07 Glenn Holmer wrote: > On 07/04/2016 12:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2016 19:37:10 Doug wrote: > >> Is it legal to send encrypted messages over the Internet? > > > > Is it sensible to reply to spam??? > > >

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 21:13:13 deloptes wrote: > Let us know if it helped solve the problem. :-) I am at Royal Mail's mercy!! Thanks for all the patient help. Lisi

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 17:21:29 deloptes wrote: > Perhaps you can try with a live ubuntu just to see if it works I tried. A screen full of coloured squiggly lines. I tried ctrl-alt F2. Got a blank screen with a small horizontal flashing cursor and nothing else. Tried ctrl-alt F7, ctrl-alt

Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Monday 04 July 2016 19:32:47 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Thanks for the help.  I either try and make a fool of myself, or learn > nothing. Sorry, again. Punctuation. Try; and make a fool of myself; or don't try, and learn nothing. Lisi

Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Monday 04 July 2016 19:00:02 Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 18:30:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# wpa-cli > > bash: wpa-cli: command not found > > Do you think I would deliberately give a command which does not exist? > Try using a

POSSIBLY SOLVED Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 18:43:08 Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 17:58:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2016 17:21:29 deloptes wrote: > > > I've been using the ipw2200 for few years on one siemens-fujitsu > > > notebook with out issues. There was f

Re: Guygyyiy g the same time I see you e

On Monday 04 July 2016 19:37:10 Doug wrote: > > Is it legal to send encrypted messages over the Internet? Is it sensible to reply to spam??? Lisi

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 17:58:58 Lisi Reisz wrote: > # Bring up wireless > # auto wlan0 > # iface eth1 inet dhcp >   #      wpa-ssid NETGEAR08 >    #     wpa-psk dao45eeWcartwheel Bother. Sent in error. I'd better change that fast. :-( I'm going for a cup of tea. :-( Lisi

Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

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

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 17:21:29 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2016 14:20:23 deloptes wrote: > >> Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > >> > >> on my one it looks like this > >>

Re: wheezy packages problems

On Monday 04 July 2016 14:50:21 Giovanni Gigante wrote: > Hello, > I have a wheezy installation (itself upgraded from previous versions) > that I now want to upgrade to jessie. > I was following the instructions for the preparation to the upgrade to > jessie, and I got this: > > # dpkg --audit >

Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Monday 04 July 2016 15:16:23 Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 14:53:13 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 02 July 2016 14:07:45 deloptes wrote: > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Where next? > > > > > > reload wifi kernel modules and get d

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 14:20:23 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > > on my one it looks like this > > # PCI device 0x8086:0x08b1 (iwlwifi) > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",

Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Saturday 02 July 2016 14:07:45 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Where next? > > reload wifi kernel modules and get dmesg > > try iwlconfig > > check if you have the appropriate firmware sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ dmesg | grep 2200 [ 11.175897] ipw2200: Inte

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Monday 04 July 2016 08:48:46 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 03 July 2016 21:36:58 deloptes wrote: > >> Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > .  It would obviously be helpful, but I have always heretofore > >> > just accepted the interface name I w

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Sunday 03 July 2016 21:36:58 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > .  It would obviously be helpful, but I have always heretofore just > > accepted the interface name I was given!  Google here I come again. > > just comment out the eth1 lines from the udev file and re

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

On Sunday 03 July 2016 19:59:50 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have discovered something I find interesting in this, which does not > > seem to be directly in reply to anything that has gone before - so it was > > difficult > > to place it in the thread.

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Sunday 03 July 2016 15:05:00 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:56:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote: > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > &g

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Sunday 03 July 2016 17:11:43 Wes wrote: > On 2016-06-30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I ran > > # aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb > > and aptitude just carried on without asking as is correct when there > > is only one package; but it proceeded to

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:56:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > > > worked fine for several years, and stopped working suddenl

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has > > worked fine for several years, and stopped working suddenly on Friday > > afternoon, on the clients' premises,  while c

Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

I have discovered something I find interesting in this, which does not seem to be directly in reply to anything that has gone before - so it was difficult to place it in the thread. I have deliberately broken the "conversation", but not the thread. From the router's log: Every time I try

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Sunday 03 July 2016 12:53:22 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have just checked.  It is not working.  I suspect that none of the GUI > > software, this being an old 32 bit laptop, can handle IPv6.  But it seems > > very odd that the card is finding the networks (an

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Sunday 03 July 2016 10:41:31 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:6f:00:3a:b3 > > Ah and check txpower with iwconfig > > sometimes it is set to 0dB rendering wireless useless. > example > iwconfig eth1 txpower 10 roo

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Sunday 03 July 2016 10:25:55 deloptes wrote: > now what I don't understand is can you use your intel/build in. No. That was the original problem and why I was trying to use an external card in the first place. > you also > did not post the intel dmesg firmware loading lines, but i assume if

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Saturday 02 July 2016 19:28:00 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 02 July 2016 17:02:03 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > In case it's really Intel, is the package firmware-iwlwifi installed? > >> > >> It wasn't.  Is now in the process of inst

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Saturday 02 July 2016 17:02:03 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > In case it's really Intel, is the package firmware-iwlwifi installed? > > It wasn't.  Is now in the process of installing.  Odd.  It has been working > for several years and stopped suddenly late on Friday afternoon.  B

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Saturday 02 July 2016 15:33:40 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote on 07/02/16 02:15: > > The built in wireless on teh Dell Inspiron 9300 suddenly stopped working. > > Having poked around a bit with wicd and network-manager (not > > simultaneously), > >

Re: Laptop wireless problem

On Saturday 02 July 2016 14:07:45 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Where next? > > reload wifi kernel modules and get dmesg > > try iwlconfig iwlconfig doesn't seem to exist, anyhow in Debina so: root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# iwconfig lono wirel

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

On Saturday 02 July 2016 15:33:32 brian wrote: > Amy recommendations, please? If it were sound, Audacity would be perfect. No help to you though. :-( How are you recording them in the first place? Lisi

Re: Laptop wireless problem - further progress

On Saturday 02 July 2016 06:23:34 Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 01:46:37AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [...] > > Please you are already a prolific poster, try at least to reply > to your own threads with the proper `In-Reply-To` header or we'll > get one

Re: Laptop wireless problem

wireless MAC address> Saturday, July 02,2016 00:37:32 There were loads of the unknown MAC all afternoon. :-( Lisi On Saturday 02 July 2016 01:15:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > The built in wireless on teh Dell Inspiron 9300 suddenly stopped working. > Having poked around a bit with wi

Laptop wireless problem - further progress

The following lines in /e/n/i worked and wireless is now running (I am connected over it with ssh), so the hardware is fine - though it is the onboard card that is working, and the USB card is still not!! sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network

Laptop wireless problem - further to this

When booting up the messages reported failure to load something to do with the wireless cards. It went by too fast and too small for me to read it properly. And I have tried one modification of the /e/n/i file, but if the drivers haven't loaded, it won't do any good. Original message. The

Laptop wireless problem

The built in wireless on teh Dell Inspiron 9300 suddenly stopped working. Having poked around a bit with wicd and network-manager (not simultaneously), I am checkinh whether the problem is sudden hardware failure. I plugged in a USB network card. Here is what I get: sarah@debian-wheezy:~$

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 19:07:11 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Try this when you open a root session (in a typical console, and > > > certainly in a

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 18:18:42 Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Jul 2016 at 17:59:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 01 July 2016 17:52:08 Curt wrote: > > > On 2016-07-01, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 17:52:08 Curt wrote: > On 2016-07-01, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Try this when you open a root session (in a typical console, and > >> certainl

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 17:39:57 Curt wrote: > On 2016-07-01, Brian wrote: > >> >> > Must be progress. GNU grep 2.12 here. > >> > > >> > Bug #678652. > >> > >> He didn't write that. > > > > No, you wrote it and I accidentally snipped a line when replying. But > > now we know

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Try this when you open a root session (in a typical console, and > certainly in a typical graphical terminal): > > stty sane No output in either. Lisi

Re: systemd I/O error :-(

On Friday 01 July 2016 16:12:39 Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 30.06.2016 um 17:25 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > > [24772.681833] systemd-logind[21814]: Failed to enable subscription: > > Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 > > [24772.681890] systemd-logind[21814]: Failed to

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 16:06:30 Ralph Katz wrote: > On 07/01/2016 10:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > ... > > > Aptitude has served me well, reliably and faithfully for 14 years. I was > > not rushing to blame it in this case. > > > > But until I do find out what went w

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 13:19:46 Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Jul 2016 at 00:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > assumed, it wasn't asked to remove anyt

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 07:00:08 Dario Strbenac wrote: > Have you considered upgrading your customer's computer to Windows 10 > instead ? It's free to do until the end of the month! :-)) ROTFLOL! It hasn't ever seen Windows, this lucky computer. So I can't upgrade!! Lisi

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 00:35:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2016 19:25:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 30 June 2016 21:12:46 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Thats not excusable behavior, bu

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > assumed, it wasn't asked to remove anything. It was asked to add one > > thing which in now way depended on anything removed. That is what > > puzzles me. And

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Thursday 30 June 2016 21:12:46 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats not excusable behavior, but whats worse is that debian's people are > > denying there is a problem. 'scuse me? I swear, they couldn't smell > > coffee with a nose full of it.

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Thursday 30 June 2016 17:25:41 Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 05:27:16PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I ran > > # aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb > > and aptitude just carried on without asking as is correct when there > > is only on

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Thursday 30 June 2016 20:27:03 Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Jun 2016 at 19:59:52 +0200, Hans wrote: > > Correct myself: > > > I used the log file and edited it that way, that I took all the > > > packagages from it and made an "aptitude reinstall" in front of the > > > package list. > > > > Then I

Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

On Thursday 30 June 2016 21:12:46 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats not excusable behavior, but whats worse is that debian's people are > > denying there is a problem. 'scuse me? I swear, they couldn't smell > > coffee with a nose full of it.

Re: systemd I/O error :-(

My current init system would appear to be systemd and I do have libpam-systemd installed. Sorry, I am having to use the Gmail interface, and I don't get on very well with it. Lisi On 30 June 2016 at 17:22, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2016-06-30 16:25 +0100, Lisi Re

aptitude again

aptitude upgrade is now removing things. I ought, of course, to have typed safe-upgrade, but I thought only full-upgrade was supposed to remove anything. Am I dealing with root-kit or malware of some kind?? Lisi

catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

I ran # aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb and aptitude just carried on without asking as is correct when there is only one package; but it proceeded to uninstall my entire desktop environment, hundreds of packages. I couldn't believe it and used the bash history to confirm that that

Re: Rephrased - how to make the upgrader skip a step when it is hung without halting the entire process?

Too late. :-( apt-get install cups gets the same error message as above now. On 30 June 2016 at 13:25, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Brian. > > ctrl-C had no effect at all. So I shut the terminal down. Then coudl > not restart a terminal so went into

Rephrased - how to make the upgrader skip a step when it is hung without halting the entire process?

I am rephrasing my question: - how do I make the upgrader skip a step when it is hung, without halting the entire process? Sorry, I really dislike impatient questioners, but I am at a client's hose and I am not keen to use ctrl-C because I don't know what else still needs doing. I just want to

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