Re: Further to my installation error

On Friday 18 March 2016 20:49:55 David Wright wrote: > It's far more likely that you forgot to format the partition, if > that's indeed what you wanted to do. No. I checked and double checked that the partitions on the disk which I wanted to use for installation were all marked with the F for

Re: flash? [OT]

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is totally > > indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch it on a computer. > > Well, Brian p

Re: "A Modest Proposal" - was [Re: flash? [OT]]

On Wednesday 16 March 2016 00:42:48 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/15/2016 11:45 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 10:35:12 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 3/15/2016 3:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> [snip] > >> > >>> The BBC isn't go

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 22:48:33 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 21:16:14 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:40:07 Brian wrote: > > > Gene Haskett has an HL-3170CDW, which he now knows does AirPrint. I > > > believe he is someone who is u

Re: File corrupt during Jessie installation - I have ot do something tonight, even use another distro. :-((

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 22:20:42 David Christensen wrote: > On 03/15/2016 11:59 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > My husband's computer died today. > > First: > > 1. Back up everything on all of the drives in the old computer. > > 2. Take an image of the system drive in the

Re: Further to my installation error

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 20:22:23 Lisi Reisz wrote: > So I am trying to use Gparted on Knoppix to wipe the disk thoroughly and > I'll try in order (with a good Gparted wipe in between) Net install 8.02 Worked a treat. No further problems. OS and DE fully installed and am installing extra

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:40:07 Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 09:46:26 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 14 Mar 2016 at 13:20:25 (+), Brian wrote: > > > "PDF filter" would be a suitable substitute for "PDF converter". But > > > not "PDF interpreter". > > > > OK. Debating what to

Re: Further to my installation error

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:37:24 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 07:06:17PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I tried another two and the second one the error message changed to > > "Couldn't download package". > > > > Is there a problem on the

Further to my installation error

I tried another two and the second one the error message changed to "Couldn't download package". Is there a problem on the Debian site? Or with whatever mirror it is helping itself to?? Lisi

File corrupt during Jessie installation - I have ot do something tonight, even use another distro. :-((

My husband's computer died today. We rushed out and got another, cheap, temporary one while his main one is being repaired. I said that I could get it up and running quickly. Famous last words. I downloaded the most recent Jessie Net-install + firmware, didn't checksum it because of the

Re: "A Modest Proposal" - was [Re: flash? [OT]]

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 10:35:12 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/15/2016 3:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > [snip] > > > The BBC isn't going to take a blind bit of notice if Brian and I don't > > watch Happy Valley. It really isn't going to care. It has its licence > > mo

Re: flash? [OT]

On Tuesday 15 March 2016 03:51:13 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Every computer that stops using flash will mean some websites will lose > traffic; if they lose enough, then they /may/ change or they may die > along with flash. The BBC isn't going to take a blind bit of notice if Brian and I don't

Re: flash?

On Monday 14 March 2016 21:33:28 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Debian 8.4 and Debian 7.9 are about to come out in a couple of weeks. > > Wheezy is about to be moved to LTS - kernel and the most important packages > only updated. Erm.. 7.9 IS Wheezy. :-( And I have 7.9 already. You must have meant

Re: flash?

On Monday 14 March 2016 18:11:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > My wheezy-backports, and wheezy-update gpg keys are all being reported as > defunct. If they are being reported as outdated, are you not being given the chance to update them? I only did the change I posted and now have FIrefox - FWIW.

Re: flash?

On Monday 14 March 2016 17:39:49 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:28:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And a second question: > > > > How do I modify the apt-get sources files entry for mozilla/firefox so it > > works again? > > I saw this gem in another thread today: > >

Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

I just got the following error after an update: W: Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/Release: Unable to find expected entry 'iceweasel-release/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) It was OK yesterday. Here is the

Re: Scanning on Debian Jessie (kodakaio / sane issue)

On Sunday 13 March 2016 15:02:45 New Linux wrote: > However, any GUI (like xsane/simplescan) that I installed either didn't > recognize the v1.0.23 SANE packages and/or reinstalled the v1.0.24 > packages. In my numerous attempts to get a compatible GUI working with > the 1.0.23 packages, I ended

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

On Saturday 12 March 2016 19:13:20 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 12 March 2016 18:22:11 Brian wrote: > > > It reminds me of the poking at vegetarians "now are snails > > > > > > > vegetables or not?". Sorry, Brian. Of course you didn't say that. It is one of the snags of KMail that it

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

On Saturday 12 March 2016 18:22:11 Brian wrote: > It reminds me of the poking at vegetarians "now are snails > > > vegetables or not?". Did anyone ever really claim that snails are vegetables??? I find that hard to believe! Lisi

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

On Saturday 12 March 2016 07:50:49 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > So. Now I'll bite off my tongue and take my ball with me. I'm off > this thread. I can't bear the overall animosity and poking of > fun at those who try to put some effort into avoiding binary > blobs. It reminds me of the poking at

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

On Thursday 10 March 2016 05:05:47 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote on 03/09/2016 03:46 AM: > > On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 09:51 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> The display manager is most likely crashing. You need to examine logs > >> and figure out why. > > > > Sorry, X is probably

Re: Help -- Can't logon at GUI session (ctl-alt-F7)

On Wednesday 09 March 2016 02:13:46 Dennis Wicks wrote: > In case it makes a difference, Jessie AMD64 And GNOME? (gdm ???3??) Lisi

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

On Wednesday 09 March 2016 13:16:20 Jarle Aase wrote: > Den 09. mars 2016 14:27, skrev Brian: > > In another mail Jarle Aase said: > I think this printer supports both > > pcl and postscript. Faint alarm bells sounded in my head - inkjet, > > inkjet, inkjet. I ignored the warning; after all he was

Re: SANE scanner error on Debian Jessie

sions first? I have only ever back-ported a higher version. What version of libsane have you got now? Or perhaps you have a missing driver. Lisi > > > > - Original message - > From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject:

Re: SANE scanner error on Debian Jessie

On Tuesday 08 March 2016 20:46:19 New Linux wrote: > Some new information about SANE scanner problem: > > Debian (scanner not working): libsane 1.0.24 libsane-common 1.0.24 > > Ubuntu (scanner working): libsane 1.0.23 libsane-common 1.0.23 > > To experiment, I used synaptic to remove everything

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

On Tuesday 08 March 2016 15:07:35 Haines Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 12:46:14PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > It sounds as though your Jessie is being identified as Wheezy. > > > > > You get that warning with Wheezy, even if it is 64bit Wheezy &

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

On Monday 07 March 2016 18:29:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 07 March 2016 17:14:40 Haines Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:54:22PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Monday 07 March 2016 00:30:44 Haines Brown wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

On Monday 07 March 2016 17:14:40 Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:54:22PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 07 March 2016 00:30:44 Haines Brown wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:43:56PM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

On Monday 07 March 2016 00:30:44 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:43:56PM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > Correct syntax is: > > > > -- > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main > > -- > > > > On 6 March 2016 at 20:10, Haines Brown

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG Meeting on Saturday 19th March at BOSSC

We have our usual Bring a Box meeting from 13:00 to 18:00 on Saturday 19th March at the Broad Oak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. Bring your problems, bring your gadgets, come to chat or come to learn. Bring anything from

Re: Automounting query

On Saturday 05 March 2016 10:39:13 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:31:26 + > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > > > > drives automount to /m

Re: Automounting query

On Saturday 05 March 2016 09:23:03 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2016 17:42:15 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable > > drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? > > > > TIA

Re: Automounting query

On Friday 04 March 2016 17:42:15 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable drives > automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? > > TIA > > Cheers, > > Ron. Is this a GNOME problem?? Lisi

Re: Netinstall senza rete

On Friday 04 March 2016 06:31:21 Fabrizio Carrai wrote: > Ciao a tutti, > Ho fatto una installazione Debian usando la Netinstall. Purtroppo al > momento dell'installazione la rete non era disponibile e quindi potuto fare > solo una installazione minimale. Tutto ok. Ora la connessione di rete è >

Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

On Wednesday 02 March 2016 17:24:36 Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > > I like to avoid the latest and greatest (especially Debian > > latest and greatest, vide infra). > > "Debian vide infra" ? What's that ? "see below" in Latin. Ged is referring to the Schneier URL (s)he gives lower down in

Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?

On Sunday 28 February 2016 18:39:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 28 February 2016 12:31:46 Joel Roth wrote: > > A "hardware" solution is to make a cardboard cover for the > > touchpad. > > In the Ripley's Believe it or Not category, that was tried, and the &%$# > thing could still see a thumb

Re: [Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March

On Saturday 27 February 2016 15:04:29 Ben Parsonage wrote: > This is a summary some aspects are intentionally wrong in order to > simplify, other areas may be incorrect due to my ignorance or poor memory. > This has been written all from memory with no sources if this information > is mission

[Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March

Jeffrey Best will be talking to us about ""Developing a CouchDB Application Using CouchApp"?, about which more anon. But meanwhile, we have a connection problem. Jeffrey has a laptop with a DisplayPort port. He also owns an HDMI adapter for it. So we need to be able to adapt: ideally,

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

On Thursday 25 February 2016 21:01:43 Daniel wrote: > While not relevant to Debian, Pale Moon for Windows is neat. Pale Moon can be used in Debian too. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Pale+Moon+debian=Pale+Moon+debian=chrome..69i57.3921j0j7=chrome_sm=93=UTF-8 Lisi > From: H Kyu

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

On Thursday 25 February 2016 20:39:59 H Kyu wrote: > But if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have > to also switch away from Debian. You are confusing Debian with Gnome. Debian is the distro. Gnome is the Desktop environment. I believe that Gnome uses Iceweasel by

Re: aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages

On Thursday 25 February 2016 14:12:16 Felix Miata wrote: > Keith Christian composed on 2016-02-25 06:45 (UTC-0700): > > Running Debian Jessie on a non-critical system at home. Wanted to use > > xine-ui instead of vlc as a video player, since there appeared to be > > some sort of conflict. > > > >

Re: iceape availability

On Thursday 25 February 2016 12:59:29 Siard wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:08:20 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > I searched for a .deb package, for iceape, so that I could download > > the package for the iceape suite, to try to install it. > > AFAIK, Iceape, being the Debian version of Seamonkey,

Re: Encrypted PDF isn't

On Wednesday 24 February 2016 21:16:46 David Wright wrote: > encrypted.pdf No, sadly it is not! Sorry, David. ;-) Lisi

Re: nytimes pages that fail in iceweasel [SOLVED]

On Saturday 20 February 2016 16:17:22 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > On 21/02/2016 2:12 AM, Steve Kleene wrote: > > user_pref("dom.indexedDB.enabled", false); > > > > When I changed this to "true" in my original prefs.js, the web > > pages

Re: View all Inboxes on a Debian mail app

On Friday 19 February 2016 22:19:02 Andrew Wood wrote: > Is there any mail program for Debian which has the option to show the > inboxes of multiple mail accounts as one consolidated view a bit like > the 'All Inboxes' option on the iPhone/iPad/Mac Mail? KMail-Trinity. I didn't realise that it

[Hampshire] Final Reminder - Portsmouth LUG meeting 20th February 2016 at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club

The next Portsmouth LUG meeting will be at the Broad Oak Sports and Social Club on Saturday 20th February from 13:00 to 18:00. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Note that we now have a good Internet connection. It will be the usual bring a box meeting. Bring your problems, bring

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

On Wednesday 17 February 2016 16:54:15 John L. Ries wrote: > > Seriously, when does bash-completion actually help someone on the > > command line? The only time I notice it is when a pattern is buggy and > > doesn't let me complete a filename even when it's completely valid. > > It apparently

[Hampshire] Lift from Southampton to Portsmouth LUG meeting on Saturday

Is anyone coming from Southampton and could offer a lift? Thanks! Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

[Hampshire] Help at next Portsmouth LUG meeting with Raspberry Pi display

I have had a plea for help at the next Portsmouth LUG meeting with a Raspberry Pi and display, in particular the "R-Pi 7" display, which I can't get to work at all! I spent much of the last weekend assembling/disassembling it, without seeing any sign of 'life'. I'm tempted to return it

Re: Apt-get question

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 14:20:19 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 02:08:53PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 February 2016 13:21:04 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > if that interests others

Re: Apt-get question

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 13:21:04 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > if that interests others, I'd be glad to > post my upgrade notes Yes, please. Lisi

Re: Apt-get question

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 11:35:16 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:36:33 +0100 > > arian wrote: > > you might want to use aptitude (synaptics probably works too), as it > > makes figuring out why it does what much easier, among other things. For > > a

Re: Squeeze Support

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 04:42:53 Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/02/2016, Trent Taylor wrote: > > Hi! I'm Trenton Taylor, and am participating in a CCDC competition this > > Saturday the 20th. When in February does support for Squeeze end? Is > > there a set date in

Re: Flash problems again.

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 10:25:08 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:43:16PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >Aptitude says: > >Saving to: > >`/tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.TkQKb4rXAE/google-chrome-stable_48.0.2564. > >109-1_amd64.deb' > > > >

Flash problems again.

Aptitude says: Saving to: `/tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.TkQKb4rXAE/google-chrome-stable_48.0.2564.109-1_amd64.deb' Konsole says: lisi@Tux-II:~$ cd /tmp lisi@Tux-II:/tmp$ ls kde-lisipulse-PKdhtXMmr18n kde-rootpulse-T1Aid8kZJiae ksocket-global

Re: changing partition names

On Monday 15 February 2016 20:05:53 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Why would you want to renumber the partition ? It provides absolutely no > benefit and can break things such as the bootloader which may seek data > on partitions identified by their numbers. If it ain't broke, don't fix it??? ;-) Lisi

Re: Squeeze Support

On Monday 15 February 2016 22:41:01 Trent Taylor wrote: > Hi! I'm Trenton Taylor, and am participating in a CCDC competition this > Saturday the 20th. > > When in February does support for Squeeze end? Is there > a set date in the month? I'm planning to upgrade from Lenny for it, but I'd >

[Hampshire] Dr. Adam Trickett's talks

Some of you may remember that we have had three very good talks from Adam Trickett. Some of you were not lucky enough to catch them. Well, here is your chance to catch up with or review them. At last they are up on our website. Adam gave then to us a long time ago, but we had been unable to

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

On Friday 12 February 2016 02:39:29 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 22:57:02 (+), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 11 February 2016 22:27:30 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > &g

Re: I need help

On Friday 12 February 2016 17:58:06 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And, "I need help" better applies to "I need help" to stop people > > posting messages with useless subject lines like "I need nelp". > > This looks like unnecessary, gratuitous bashing. It looks like > venting of frustration. I'd

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

On Thursday 11 February 2016 22:27:30 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > A point of order here: All this applies to Wheezy; I don't know now > > that Debian has adopted systemd and udev has it as a dependency that > > all this will work

Re: Amarok using 5% CPU when idle

On Thursday 11 February 2016 20:23:36 Martin Read wrote: > Is there a good reason why Amarok consumes 5% CPU even when it isn't > doing anything useful? (2.2GHz amd64 processor) > > The interactive UI is not open, I'm not writing new files into my music > library directory, and it isn't playing

Re: disk space disappeared

On Thursday 11 February 2016 09:11:03 jdd wrote: > Le 11/02/2016 00:17, Gary Dale a écrit : > > I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. > > It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) > > what file system? ext4, BTRFS? > > with a RAID6 array for /home. > > on a differet

Re: Problem to detect external monitor on Lenovo ThinkPad Dock

On Saturday 06 February 2016 13:01:38 Fedele Mantuano wrote: > I used Ubuntu but now I want use Debian because I want to get hands dirty > working under the hood. > I can't resolve my problem because the logs are not clear, so I ask you to > help me. Sounds fair enough to me!! Trouble is, I

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

On Wednesday 03 February 2016 20:56:56 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 21:13:43 +0100 > Andreas Weber wrote: > > Hello Andreas, > > >On 2016-02-02 23:11, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>> Iirc, that changes fonts only in the displayed page, not in the > >>> menus, dialogs,

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

On Tuesday 02 February 2016 00:34:15 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Siard wrote: > > That is a GTK2 setting. Font and font size can be set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, > > it should contain a line like this: > > > > gtk-font-name = "Sans 11" > > > > I have "Liberation Sans 11" myself. > >

Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

On Sunday 31 January 2016 17:35:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:53:55AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Not quite. It still does need the sentence: > > "Please upgrade your kernel before or while upgrading udev." > > Perhaps even better: > &g

Re: How to Install Awstats on a Web Server Running Debian

On Sunday 31 January 2016 22:50:07 g...@maillr.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have a web server running Debian Jessie on my web server running > Apache and for the life of me I can't figure out how to install Awstats. > Can anyone help with this? I've been searching the web for articles and > can't

Re: How to Install Awstats on a Web Server Running Debian

On Sunday 31 January 2016 23:10:32 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 31 January 2016 22:50:07 g...@maillr.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a web server running Debian Jessie on my web server running > > Apache and for the life of me I can't figure out how to install A

Re: avidemux

On Saturday 09 January 2016 17:14:39 Ivan Petrov wrote: > 09.01.2016 22:07, Sven Arvidsson пишет: > > On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 21:52 +0600, Ivan Petrov wrote: > >> Avidemux, Wheezy > >> > >> constantly crashes. > >> > >> Reason? > > > > AFAIK avidemux isn't available in Debian, so you should probably

Re: (Repeat) Incessant Random Eth Disconnect/Reconnect

On Thursday 28 January 2016 19:00:28 David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2016 18:34:36 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 28 January 2016 18:08:50 David Baron wrote: > > > Royal pain in the ... > > > What do I do about this? > > > > > > Running

Re: (Repeat) Incessant Random Eth Disconnect/Reconnect

On Thursday 28 January 2016 18:08:50 David Baron wrote: > Royal pain in the ... > What do I do about this? > > Running on up-to-date 64-bit Sid box, running through netgear router. > > (Saw something about network manager/netcfg conflict but I do not have > netcfg.) I have come across this when a

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

On Thursday 28 January 2016 05:54:43 Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. So, > > as a daily routine I run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-upgrade'. > > I have never had any

Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

On Thursday 28 January 2016 10:28:23 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:38:36PM +0200, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 01:41:24PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 26.01.2016 um 11:08 schrieb Chris Bannister: > > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:58:16AM +0100,

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

On Thursday 28 January 2016 08:45:52 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2016 05:54:43 Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > > I have a fresh install of Jessie GNOME 64 bit since the release date. > > > I've never had a single notification of any available system update. > >

[Hampshire] Last and next Portsmouth LUG meetings

Our last meeting was a great success, with a most interesting talk from Gary Burton, to whom we are very grateful. For any of you who missed his talk, the slides are now available on line. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/201601.html There was also much Linux chat and some problems were

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

On Tuesday 26 January 2016 03:02:09 Francis Gerund wrote: > sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade    (electricity and > networking can fail, you know) What has that got to do with anything?? download-only has its uses, but this does not appear to be one of them. Lisi

Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

On Tuesday 26 January 2016 19:16:04 deloptes wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > I don't know what it means by 'creating the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade > > file.' I'd check to see it it exists prior then after. I'd remove it if > > the latter, e.g. I haven't got one in my system. > > if we read the

Re: Aptitude message.

On Tuesday 26 January 2016 09:22:40 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 01:23:25PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I had this problem once and had to delete the package cache and the > > update to let it rebuild. > > Delete everything in the '/var/lib/apt/lists/pa

Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

On Tuesday 26 January 2016 10:08:35 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:58:16AM +0100, Martin Hanson wrote: > > Please upgrade your kernel before or while upgrading udev. > > > > AT YOUR OWN RISK, you can force the installation of this version of udev > > WHICH DOES NOT WORK WITH

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

On Monday 25 January 2016 23:12:09 Francis Gerund wrote: > > I don't feel like testing, unstable, etc. should be only for the > nobles, and denied to the mere peasants (like me). It isn't "only for the nobles". It's for everybody. But they _are_ Testing and Unstable and you have to be

Re: wodim "Cannot open SCSI driver!"

On Monday 25 January 2016 00:45:58 Gene Heskett wrote: > I bought the last burner I have, about 3 or 4 years ago at wallmart, > everything but Blue Ray, for about a $25 dollar bill. Internal, sata > interface. Don't gloat, Gene. ;-)* Lisi *Tech prices in the USA are very low compared with many

Re: Debian mirrors broke?

On Sunday 24 January 2016 16:31:32 Michael Fothergill wrote: > netselect-apt > > On 24 January 2016 at 16:11, wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Yesterday when doing some work with Dockery against Debian 8, when > > running "apt-get update" it kept failing to load and was issuing

Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie

On Sunday 24 January 2016 21:50:35 Martin Hanson wrote: > > install both at the same time? > > Are you kidding me?! No. # aptitude install linux-image-whatever udev Lisi

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

On Saturday 23 January 2016 10:13:44 Jonas Hedman wrote: > On 16-01-15 14:27:54, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 15 Jan 2016 at 08:53:46 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I ran a netinst installation so no didn't have the nonfree rt2800 > > > package earlier. Anyone know which debian dvd that package

Re: Is anybody Running Debian on Acer Aspire E5-571G

On Saturday 23 January 2016 10:36:50 jdd wrote: > Le 23/01/2016 11:13, Jonas Hedman a écrit : > >> The DVDs contain free software only. > > > > I apologize in advance for my ignorance but is this really true > > regarding the Linux kernel? (blobs?) > > as far as I know, this is Debian specific

Re: Debian user mailing list in Spam folder

On Friday 22 January 2016 20:09:22 Anders Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2016 17:43:04 Anders Andersson wrote: > >> This is why you can tell google not to send debian list emails to t

Re: Debian user mailing list in Spam folder

On Friday 22 January 2016 17:43:04 Anders Andersson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Himanshu Shekhar > > wrote: > > Today, I found too many mails from this mailing list in my Gmail spam > > folder. > > Just wanted to confirm whether I am the only one to have this

Re: Debian user mailing list in Spam folder

On Friday 22 January 2016 16:55:06 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 22 January 2016 10:35:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2016 14:55:38 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:55:55PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > Toda

Re: Aptitude message.

On Friday 22 January 2016 11:49:15 Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jan 2016 at 20:55:05 +1000, Weaver wrote: > > Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'. > > ~~ > > root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update > > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease > > [ ERR] Reading

Correction - sorry - Re: Aptitude message.

On Friday 22 January 2016 13:23:25 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 22 January 2016 11:49:15 Brian wrote: > > On Fri 22 Jan 2016 at 20:55:05 +1000, Weaver wrote: > > > Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'. > > > ~~ > > > root@Telaman:/home/we

Re: Debian user mailing list in Spam folder

On Friday 22 January 2016 14:55:38 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:55:55PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > Today, I found too many mails from this mailing list in my Gmail spam > > folder. > > You mean genuine mails in your spam folder or genuine spam which made > it

Re: Debian on Lenovo ideapad y700

On Thursday 21 January 2016 02:58:35 David Christensen wrote: > On 01/20/2016 05:17 PM, R.C.F.Kloks wrote: > > I recently installed Debian on my laptop Lenovo ideapad y700 with succes. > > On first bootup after grub 2 screen i get an blackscreen. > > Cant find any possible solution on the internet

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

On Thursday 21 January 2016 09:09:12 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > You've asked, you've been polite and patient, you've read the answers > and tried to make sense of all -- you have motivated people here to > figure out things... thanks for your contribution :-) Hear! Hear! You have been great in

Re: A heart-felt thank-you to all

On Thursday 21 January 2016 03:48:16 Steve Matzura wrote: > Thanks to all who've helped me climb the learning curve of Debian 8.2 > to get my system up and running. Specific thanks go, in no particular > order, to Daniel, Gary, Reco, Lisi, Dan, Mudongliang, Joe, the > Wanderer, Rick Thomas, and

Re: Books Inquiry

On Thursday 21 January 2016 20:58:11 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > Google is your friend. > > > > Google isn't your friend, but DuckDuckGo is. > >

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

On Wednesday 20 January 2016 19:30:08 Brian wrote: > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 18:43:31 +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > Sir > > > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical user > > interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > > > It's hard to know how to download Debian ? though I

Re: Books Inquiry

On Wednesday 20 January 2016 20:50:03 Joe wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:21:45 + > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 January 2016 19:30:08 Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 18:43:31 +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > >

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100 > > Jarle Aase wrote: > > I just wanted to share > > Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan > better weigh in here. Maybe we've lost him? I do

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

On Tuesday 19 January 2016 09:59:23 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru > > the router except to view my web page, do I really want to do that in > > the event they do get

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