Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:13:48PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote: well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware)  time is always UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.

Re: How/Where to file a feature request

2014-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:48:58PM -0400, Philippe Clérié wrote: keyboard] dialog, with the header Keymap to use:. The first selection in my case is American English, and below that keymaps, for just about every other country/language, including British English. What I would like is to That

Re: apt-get errors

2014-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:20:04PM -0500, John Aten wrote: Hi all, Hi. I recently installed Debian Wheezy on an old Dell Inspiron laptop. It's working pretty well, aside from a few hiccups. One of these happens when updating. apt-get update returns the following errors: Err

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:05:30PM -0500, green wrote: Steve Litt wrote at 2014-09-29 20:30 -0500: On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:13:10 -0400 Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: Also, in terms of upgrading a Debian System - Are you aware that prior to each major release, Debian

Re: Why an mp3 is Not a JPEG file

2014-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 01:06:41AM +0200, Johann Klammer wrote: Well, I know that an mp3 is not a JPEG file. But why does it matter to xine (or libav or whatever). This is what I get on stdout when trying to play some random downloaded podcast using xine. [...] [mp3 @ 0xa660260]

Re: apt-get errors

2014-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
Please reply to the list only. On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:56:09PM -0500, John Aten wrote: Wow!! How long ago did you last update this laptop? IIRC, that url/mirror is no longer in use. I installed Wheezy on the Dell less than a week ago. I selected debian.uchicago.edu, but there was

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/27/2014 02:49 PM, lee wrote: Just ask yourself: Why would someone choose to download an ISO for Debian? For me, it's the safest way to

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 03:05:06PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: 2014/09/28 7:33 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com: On 09/27/2014 02:49 PM, lee wrote: Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: It's a personal choice. If you require a crowd of support as moral justification you're

Re: Data from a serial port

2014-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:13:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I have an Avery Berkel POS [Point Of Sale] scale which I wish to integrate into a POS system. The output is sent to a RS232 port. I do not know how to extract the data. Although this is not a Debian support

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:38:18PM +0200, lee wrote: Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com writes: On 09/27/2014 02:49 PM, lee wrote: Just ask yourself: Why would someone choose to download an ISO for Debian? For me, it's the safest way to install/upgrade. I have had too many problems

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:19:58PM +0200, lee wrote: Sure is, yet why tell me to make software nobody cares about. Maybe to keep you busy? That won't get systemd out of Debian. LOL, neither will ranting and raving and spreading all sorts of FUD. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:48:47PM -0700, koanhead wrote: On 09/25/2014 05:00 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:15:36PM -0700, koanhead wrote: can't use. I brought this up once on #offtopic and was told that sysvinit doesn't work on bsds (that's a paraphrase using

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/27/14, softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:45:26PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/27/2014 04:41 PM, softwatt wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may

Re: bash vulnerability jessie

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 03:44:21PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: PS - I don't really understand the version differences in apt-cache policy and `bash --version'. apt-cache policy bash is the Debian package version bash --version is the actual upstream bash version. -- If you're not

Re: updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:25:23PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: Greeting I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them with respect to upgrading.

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:13:11AM +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: But still, since systemd was the default, a tendency in choosing the default plays such a major role that you may even not realize. A systematic research involving default effect is here: Isaac Dinner et. al., 2011, Partitioning

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:48:59PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's an X thing, plain and simple. There are still

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:15:36PM -0700, koanhead wrote: can't use. I brought this up once on #offtopic and was told that sysvinit doesn't work on bsds (that's a paraphrase using the same words, not a quote) and then ridiculed. It's not that sysvinit doesn't work on bsds, it might, it's

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:07:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 23 Sep 2014 at 12:58:26 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: === Depending on glibc === True, it's a single point of failure, but it's made by GNU, whose agenda is less harmful to Linux than the agenda of Redhat. Misinformation.

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find what breaks, to help us to get a Debian system we can all be proud of instead of

Re: pc version of yahoo.com

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 03:09:39PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:41:18AM -0400, Scott Lair wrote: Anyone having trouble getting to yahoo.com pc version in wheezy? I keep getting the mobile version. I have tried updating iceweasel to the backported version, cleared

Re: apt-get update problem

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 06:20:38PM -0700, John Conover wrote: Running apt-get update on one of my machines gives: W: Failed to fetch

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:35:49AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 9/23/2014 8:26 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: It woun't kill any detractors

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:50:04AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 + Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:11:03PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 22 sep 14, 21:17:28, Marty wrote: 1) The goal is modular Debian. Multi-init is the means to achieve it. Being tied to one init system is what caused Debian’s problems, and the replacement did not fix it. A modular

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 09:56:43PM +0400, Reco wrote: In the light of the current discussion, this seems particulary fitting: Social human behaviour experts There is no such thing, not at least by that name. Anthropologists spring to mind, but I think you don't mean it in that sense.

Re: systemd/cgroups changing permissions (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:35:59AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: 2014/09/22 5:21 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org: Hi Joel, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: (6) systemd and cgroups (at minimum) end up overriding the permissions system. It's bad enough having SELinux and ACLs brought

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Obviously it is important enough to enough users that it continues here. And shutting people up is not going to make the problem go away. It will, however, make users go away. I, for one, am looking at other systems now. And

Re: Booting Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on MacBookPro 8.2

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 07:02:39PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 09/21/2014 06:54 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:43:40PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: I've installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.6 (wheezy) from a mini.iso CD image on a MacBookPro 8.2. The installation seemed to go

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:13:10AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 9/22/2014 10:55 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Obviously it is important enough to enough users that it continues here. And shutting people up is not going to make

Re: pc version of yahoo.com

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:41:18AM -0400, Scott Lair wrote: Anyone having trouble getting to yahoo.com pc version in wheezy? I keep getting the mobile version. I have tried updating iceweasel to the backported version, cleared the cache, but still get the mobile version. Even when I click on

Re: The way of becoming a DM/DD?

2014-09-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:43:30AM +, lumin wrote: Hi there, I want to take some action to participate in Debian, but I don't know if I am on the right way. I found some related resources here: https://www.debian.org/devel/ and I want to know if I should read it __recursively__. You

Re: Booting Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on MacBookPro 8.2

2014-09-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:43:40PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: I've installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.6 (wheezy) from a mini.iso CD image on a MacBookPro 8.2. The installation seemed to go smoothly, including What was url from where you got the mini.iso CD? -- If you're not careful, the

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 07:36:06AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:55:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Erwan David writes: It is also importat to know if it is worth the effort to report

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 01:48:41PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: P.S. please note the 'apt' command is only available since apt 1.0.0 bash completion isn't working for me. Is it for you? bash completion works fine for apt-get and dpkg. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 09:14:08PM +0400, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:59:56 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a router and the connection would be between clients directly. A

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:02:48PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 9/17/2014 10:48 AM, Slavko wrote: Dňa Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:40:40 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com napísal: If yes, then something is rotten in the state of Denmark ... Alas, poor Slavko ;-) I am sorry, i don't

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:04:02PM +0100, J Rowan wrote: I'm aware that nothing can possibly be set in stone yet, but the people responsible for systemd-shim and other compatibility components must have a fair idea whether these are intended as temporary workarounds until 'all' packages are

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:55:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Erwan David writes: It is also importat to know if it is worth the effort to report bugs on software which happen in a systemd-shim or sysvinitcore without any systemd Yes. Provide patches when possible. If reportbug is used

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:56:47PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Slavko writes: I was try this some days ago (when latest systemd-shim goes into testing). By my understand of the root of problem, the policykit based users rights depends on libpam-systemd which relies on the libsystemd-login0

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 08:36:53AM +0300, softwatt wrote: On 09/18/2014 08:50 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: On some systems it has been necessary (during the Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade) to first use only apt-get upgrade after upgrading apt and dpkg and then issuing the full dist-upgrade as final

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 08:52:55AM +0300, softwatt wrote: On 09/18/2014 11:54 PM, Gary Dale wrote: If you didn't do a dist-upgrade since Jessie came out, you could be running the older wheezy packages as part of your system. Not recommended. What about the claim that it's best to do

Re: Choice of init system?

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:15:57PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? Seems like it will offer a choice. How obvious that there is a choice, I have no idea about, you/we will have to wait until Jessie is declared the new Stable.

Re: /etc/network/interface file auto reset.

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:56:14AM +0300, softwatt wrote: But that is not risk-free. What if the thing that's overwriting the file on startup dislikes not being able to write to the file and crashes? At least a culprit is proven. By the way, my solution would fail if the overwriting is

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 06:30:13AM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: T.J. Duchene writes: Pulseaudio has had a long history of being poorly handling certain audio chipset drivers, I'm afraid. You may be able to solve your problem by adjusting the the driver parameters in the file:

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:20:46PM +0200, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Often in the past young people arrived screaming We have the great new thing that will change all, and a lot of great new things were lost in time like tears in rain... Ummm, what has the Macintosh got to do with this? :) --

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 05:16:32PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Sorry, I see only that he represented his views, which also happens to coincide with my own. Please, if you have to label someone, you've lost your argument's points from the get-go. :) Ric Also his views were known long before 1995

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:00:40AM +0200, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Sorry? Should we add some dressing to the barbecue? O.K. I am not an English native speaker. Not a good idea, it only causes eye watering smoke to billow everywhere. You are better off adding dressing to the food once it has

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:24:07PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:15:59 -0700 Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: Yes, please. The pro/anti systemd discussion isn't on topic for this mailing list. Precisely. Bugs and user difficulties produced by innumerable

Re: mysql command waiting endlessly (lenny)

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:08:23PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hello. Hi, [...] Does someone have any idea about what could be the problem, and/or how to fix it? I suggest you'd be better off asking on a mysql support list, but be prepared to be flamed for not providing

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:20:04AM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: On 14Sep16:1203+0100, Martin Read wrote: Debian users, on the other hand, are very much *not* a strongly-identifiable group; there is no formal mechanism whatsoever for being endorsed as an Official Debian User. As such, a

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy -- Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:15:59PM +0200, lee wrote: Supporting systemd violates Debians' social contract. Hogwash!! Has this bug report already been filed? https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and

Re: Update issue

2014-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 01:22:29AM -0400, Björn Djisktra wrote: I just got one question: how do I update my debian lenny 5.0 (lenny) system? I was searching the information at debian.org, but I don't get it. Please help me with this. Thanks. Put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list deb

Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

2014-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 04:35:05PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On 09/11/14 06:14, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 23:35:53 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Activities - Show

Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:46:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The printing is along the length of the paper, as opposed to perpendicular. Known as landscape and portrait respectively. How do I change it? Depends on the application you are printing from, but it's usually under

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am concerned that, should I simply delete the file, the system will crash or otherwise damage to the boot session, would occur. I very much doubt that any such damage would occur by deleting it, but the following

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:36:42AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Before seeing the above message, after someone previously saying that deleting the file would not cause any (extra) problems, but would not free up disc space, I deleted the file, then ran Empty Trash Can, but, no disc space was

Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:23:02AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: On 09/09/2014 02:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:46:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The printing is along the length of the paper, as opposed to perpendicular. Known as landscape and portrait

Issues upgrading Wheezy -- Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:21:57PM +0200, lee wrote: John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes: It appears that there is a good chance that the upgrade to Systemd when upgrading to Jessie will not be automatic (or at least not silent). I would be majorly pissed if a distribution upgrade

Re: Bibletime encoding problem

2014-09-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 10:01:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: OK I have read the FAQ on the Bibletime website and according to it I You have to install an unicode font like Code2000, Arial Unicode MS or Bitstream Cyberbit to display the special unicode characters. I can find none of the

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 06:29:08PM +0200, lee wrote: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes: how would I figure out what the last commit to a remote repo was without first fetching or pulling the remote repo? For now, I'm going with 'git status'. See https://github.com/lee-/git-newer I'd

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 10:27:58PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: it will be the only. The more noise made, the better chance someone will hear. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Silence is golden. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- If

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 12:01:54PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 21:12:47 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 10:27:58PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: it will be the only. The more noise made, the better chance someone will hear

Re: exail missing plugin

2014-09-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 12:33:37PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Hi, I just installed exaile 3.3.2-1 for debian testing. But when I try to play my mp3 files it says: no suitable plugins found. What is missing? root@tal:~# apt-cache show exail N: Unable to locate package exail E: No

Re: exail missing plugin

2014-09-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 04:36:25PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Am 06.09.2014 um 13:48 schrieb Chris Bannister: On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 12:33:37PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Hi, I just installed exaile 3.3.2-1 for debian testing. But when I try to play my mp3 files it says

Re: apt-get update during boot

2014-09-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:21:09AM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: Hi, somehow my system is running an apt-get update or something similar during boot. Whenever I login after boot I can do a apt-get dist-upgrade directly because the package list is already up to date. If I am too fast

Re: Bibletime encoding problem

2014-09-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:56:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Johann Spies wrote: With Xiphos currently not available for Testing I want to use Bibletime but it's output is unreadable indicating an encoding problem. I cannot see anywhere in the configuration options of Bibletime where

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +, KD wrote: Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org writes: Reading: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all Linux distros, not in the minor sense of

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 10:09:47AM +0200, Milosz Galazka wrote: W dniu 02/09/2014 09:22, Diogene Laerce napisał(a): And I can't get pass through this step : gzip -d ../cd/install/2.6/initrd.gz | \ cpio --extract --verbose --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames As I systematically get

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:35:24PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Am 02.09.2014 22:18, schrieb Rob Owens: I removed the systemd package from my Jessie system, and it took brasero with it. Brasero depends on gvfs, and gvfs has some trail of dependencies that leads to systemd. I'm

Re: Loking for TV tuner / media player help

2014-08-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 08:09:00PM -0700, Timothy Danielson wrote: Hi, I am looking to finish installing a card= Happauge 2250 dual tuner into Debian. I would also like to have a comparable Media center software that would allow recording as I did in win media center as wekk as watch live

Re: Help: Ubuntu 12.04LTS/14.04LTS PXE/netboot/preseed - does not initiate installation

2014-08-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 03:58:54PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 25/08/2014, Snow Leopard snow.leopard@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I stumbled on a problem with Ubuntu installation PXE/netboot/preseed. OS: Ubuntu 12.04LTS/14.04LTS Is this a troll? This reply could certainly be taken as

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: You asked to which version of CentOS I was referring: it is 6.5, the latest version. Honestly, having been involved in computing since the first days of X-Window, I can't think of another case where I observed the X server locked

Re: iso and disk space problem

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 07:33:23AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 8/17/14, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:03:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: I purged my system of Wine sometime back to lessen my tears. We REALLY need a Dragon Killer app for Linux. Ric Check out: FreeSpeech, Julius, Palaver, Simon, and/or Speech-App -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 05:38:13AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: More specifically my concerns are: 1. Which apt package 'owns' which file? Use 'dpkg -S' e.g.: root@tal:~# dpkg -S /bin/systemd systemd: /bin/systemd root@tal:~# dpkg -S /lib/systemd/systemd systemd: /lib/systemd/systemd -- If you're

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:56:53PM -0400, Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Your vote has no affect whatsoever on what the default DE will be. The only way you can influence the decision is to install

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER

2014-08-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:35:11AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: In English, both 'stop job' and 'stopped job' are an adjective modifying a noun. The noun in both cases is 'job'. 'stop job' is a noun phrase expressing

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER

2014-08-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 09:38:14AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Some processes don't work well together, and systemd can maintain a database of such processes, perhaps in Postgres, to prevent one of those processes from running if the other is already running, unless the processes themselves tell

Re: par2

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:40:40AM -0400, AW wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:30:14 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: That's dammned expensive and not useful at all!!! It's very useful. Consider the yearly savings in electricity. And if you You snipped it!! Read

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 09:10:19PM +0200, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:01:05 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz napísal: On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: Our priorities are our users and free software We will be guided

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:19:09AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:09:24PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Well, yeah, but ask any marriage counselor what tends to happen when one partner decides

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:50:30PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: +OK Pop server at jorel.newsguy.com signing off. Connection closed by foreign host. At a successfull login you can use commands like list, retr 1, dele 3. I'm afraid I have been screeching wolf when its only a very

Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: I consider these posts as not OT. Consider Debian social contract: Think again. Our priorities are our users and free software We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software ^

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:35:54 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Olav Vitters, a Gnome guy who always argues on behalf of Gnome/systemd on debian-devel@ (I don't think that he's involved in Debian in any other way), has said

Re: Social Contract (was ... Re: Irony)

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:09:24PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:37:24AM +0200, Slavko wrote: I consider these posts as not OT. Consider Debian social contract: Think again

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:35:47AM +0200, sa...@eng.it wrote: Zenaan Harkness writes: There are tiers of users. There's the users who are not developers. There's the users who are developers. Then there's me. Since I am at the top of the hierarchy, Uh, you are from down

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 08:05:46PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: Gábor Hársfalvi hgab...@gmail.com wrote: I wish to know when will be the final release of Debian Jessie. The soft-freeze will be in September. The hard-freeze is planned for December, AFAIK. The release will be sometimes after

Re: par2

2014-08-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 03:56:14PM -0400, AW wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:24:49 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Assuming you have both a backup copy and a live copy plus some par2 files, you should be safe with the 5% to 10% I suggested. If going with an external backup

Re: TCP fast open IPv6

2014-08-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 11:10:00PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 08/09/2014 03:00 PM, Quentin Bourgeois wrote: On 08/09/2014 11:36 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi everybody, Hi, I wonder if it is possible to enable/disable TCP fast open for IPv6 in Jessie (kernel 3.14)

Re: Fonts for all Unicode glyphs?

2014-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 06:49:10PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: Is there any remotely straightforward way, in Debian, to install font packages to explicitly satisfy the goal of provide suitable glyphs to cover the entire Unicode character space? ('unifont' looks like it would get me started, but

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 10:21:04AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:40:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: I don't necessarily disagree, but I very strongly believe its first step should be to go to a text file with one line per event, or perhaps some sublines. If that

Re: postgresql doesn't start at boot

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 05:19:14PM +0100, Glyn Astill wrote: From: B lazyvi...@gmx.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 15:58 Subject: postgresql doesn't start at boot sid amd64 Hi mailing-listers, since the upgrade from 9.3 to

Re: how to update TexLive 2014, apt-get or tlmgr?

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a watching brief on comp.text.tex where it shows updates to packages as they occur. I'm interested in the tcolorbox and glossaries packages and see that they have

Re: How to use the debian installation iso for installing packages using aptitude

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 05:13:36AM -0700, teddymwas wrote: Commands to use when mounting ISO and installing packages from ISOs. 1. copy over all the ISO images over to the server you want to use 2. Create a directory in /media/ call it mountpoint1 i.e mkdir /media/mountpoint1 3. edit

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:38:24AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: This is where we differ. I'd rather have building blocks from which I could build anything, rather than a monolith I need to trick into doing what I want it to do. Oh, so you don't run a DE then. In that case I suggest either

Re: Debian php5 (Can't get download when doing apt-update)

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 03:13:25PM -0400, Matthew Brown wrote: You are the man! Thanks. How'd I let those # get in the way? LOL! They should be in front of the deb-src lines. Honestly, I don't think you'll need those entries. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: date/time of photos [was: Re: [SOLVED, but...] mounting a Nikon camera]

2014-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:08:38AM -0400, ken wrote: It was quite awhile ago, but I used gthumb to offload photos from my Nikon. I didn't like it though because the datetime of the photos were all changed to the datetime of the download. I much prefer to keep the datetime when the photo was

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 10:58:10AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2014 01:38:56 Chris Bannister wrote: Weird. So on these systems there are old packages which haven't been removed by the package manager? And on my Debian Wheezy system. I have four kernels, including three

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