Re: Partition information as text file?

On 28-01-2019, at 06h 48'00", Richard Owlett wrote about "Re: Partition information as text file?" > On 01/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Sat 26 Jan 2019 at 15:10:55 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On 01/26/2019 01:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > >>>Richard Owlett composed on

Re: issues with stretch, part 1 of many

On 30-11-2018, at 21h 22'48", Étienne Mollier wrote about "Re: issues with stretch, part 1 of many" > > Good Day Ionel, Salut Étienne, > > I haven't checked in Debian 8 how the thing behaves, but it > sounds like a change of default value in a configuration option. > More specifically, I have

Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

On 27-11-2018, at 13h 52'25", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with stretch, issue 2 from many" > Dear all, [...] > Question 2.1: Why .xsession is not read and .xsessionrc is read? > Question 2.2: Who starts the second call of fvwm? If I comment out the >

Re: issues with stretch, part 1 of many

On 8-12-2018, at 13h 59'28", Stefan Krusche wrote about "Re: issues with stretch, part 1 of many" > Good day, Ionel, Hi Stefan, > > This is just a guess. Maybe you are looking for this option > in /etc/ssh/ssh_config: > > # StrictHostKeyChecking ask Mine is set to no. I did it way

Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

On 30-11-2018, at 10h 25'17", Greg Wooledge wrote about "Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many" > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > @ Brian, here is my formal .xsession (currently .xsessionrc) file: > > I assume you mea

Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

On 27-11-2018, at 13h 52'25", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with stretch, issue 2 from many" > Dear all, > > I have issues with stretch, to many to count... > This one will focus on the window manager startup. > [...] > Question 2.1: Why .xsession is

Re: issues with stretch, part 1 of many

On 27-11-2018, at 13h 33'55", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with stretch, part 1 of many" > > > Dear all, > > I have many issues with stretch which I cannot figure it out. I will > post one at the time, to keep it clear and simple. > &g

issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

Dear all, I have issues with stretch, to many to count... This one will focus on the window manager startup. I did a fresh install of Debian stretch using net install disk. I use Debian (and Linux) from 1997. In all this time I used fvwm2 as windows manager. I also used Unix in 1995-1996 with

issues with stretch, part 1 of many

Dear all, I have many issues with stretch which I cannot figure it out. I will post one at the time, to keep it clear and simple. I use Debian since 1997. I never had an issue with any release, except stretch. I installed fresh using net install disk. The install went OK (except I was forced

Re: issues with stretch, part 1 of many

On 27-11-2018, at 13h 33'55", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with stretch, part 1 of many" > > > Dear all, > > I have many issues with stretch which I cannot figure it out. I will > post one at the time, to keep it clear and simple. > > I use

Re: question about ls

On 28-09-2018, at 17h 52'07", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: question about ls" > > Eww. Tab completion also gets screwed up by this: > > richard@zircon:~/test$ rm > file isone this > > .. but you can't actually complete from any of those. > Hi, I am not a bash user, but if I try

Re: I am new to proxy

it seems to work also for apt. Next step try to ssh out via proxy... Kind regards, Ionel În mie., 12 sept. 2018 la 13:22, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă < i.m.ciob...@gmail.com> a scris: > Hi, > > I change my work place and I can have a Linux computer at work. The > network at work is wi

I am new to proxy

Hi, I change my work place and I can have a Linux computer at work. The network at work is with proxy, so after reading about it I was able to make apt from the netinstall disk to talk with proxy. I have now a working Debian stable running. The proxy settings were in fact a *.pac file, which I

Re: df -h shows insufficient precision

On 26-08-2018, at 01h 08'57", Roberto C. Sánchez wrote about "Re: df -h shows insufficient precision" > > > Have you looked at the -k and -B options? Also, di has the -d option > > > > I assume you mean "du"? > > > No. I actually meant 'di': > That is useful! I already made an alias df to

Re: Beowulf gone?

On 24-06-2018, at 21h 17'25", Hans wrote about "Beowulf gone?" > Hi folks, > > I am interested in clustering a server for educacation purposes, Asd far as > I > remembewr, there had bbeen some debian packages called "beowulf" or so, > > However, I may be wrong and saw them in SuSE-linux not

Re: utf

On 1-04-2018, at 16h 05'41", mess-mate wrote about "utf" > Hi, > > howto change the system utf to eu character set ? > > regards What is "eu character set"? None of the Latin-x or iso8859-y can cover all the gliphs of all the countries in Europe. So, without knowing what do you think is

Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]

On 27-02-2018, at 07h 31'11", David Wright wrote about "Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]" > Yes, you need to read §3.4.2.8 over again: > [...] > IOW you should write a file containing > > I i > II ii > etc. > > and feed it to -s. I can do that. > > > Besides, how this msort will work in a pipe,

Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]

On 27-02-2018, at 08h 36'51", Greg Wooledge wrote about "Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]" > > Did I miss anything? > > Well, this program certainly is ... unusual. Doesn't just *work* by > default. No examples in the man page. Anyway, it looks like you > forgot to specify numeric comparison. > >

Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]

On 19-02-2018, at 03h 23'27", Will Mengarini wrote about "Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]" > * Ionel Mugurel Ciobica [18-02/18=Su 16:55 +0100]: > > [... How can something like > > "III\nII\nI\nV\nIV\nVII\nVI\nVIII\nX\nIX" > > [be sorted? ...] > > See `aptitude show msort`; it

Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]

On 18-02-2018, at 14h 44'27", David Wright wrote about "Re: sort (-g) [offtopic]" > Any script that reads stdin and writes stdout can be used in a pipe. > That's one of the guiding principles of unix. I change the scripts to use read if $# is zero. I could use them in pipes now. But that is not

sort (-g) [offtopic]

Anyone care to explain what exactly means the -g option of sort? The fine manual only says "general numerical", but I doubt that is true, because -g (and all other options I have tried, -n, -M, -h, -V) will all put Roman numeral 9 in between 4 and 5. See here: # echo

Re: I do not want to install Linux

On 8-02-2018, at 09h 10'56", Michael Fothergill wrote about "Re: I do not want to install Linux" > > > > In any case, "Thank you for reminding me of Kali. It may be a tool I > > > > need." > > > > > > ​It sounds like a dietary supplement. > > > > I prefer to drink the estonian Kali. > > > >

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

On 23-01-2018, at 10h 11'43", Curt wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > > Same problem here with bank statements (recent bank statements unviewable in > xpdf but viewable in evince). > > (Actually it appears the pdfs viewable in xpdf are 'PDF document, version 1.4'

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

On 23-01-2018, at 11h 18'26", Michael Lange wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > Hi again, > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:03:24 +0100 > Michael Lange wrote: > > uh no, appears to be rather this bug in libpoppler: > >

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

On 23-01-2018, at 13h 55'49", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > 3) the stderr out from (at least) okular and xpdf look like they might > be useful to someone who understands the topic better, but do look like > something is missing. See attachments.

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > [...] > numerous "Missing or bad Type3 CharProc

Re: IAX VoIP in Debian 9.

On 14-01-2018, at 09h 26'27", pe...@easthope.ca wrote about "IAX VoIP in Debian 9." > Hello, > > Can VoIP be achieved using IAX in Debian 9? If so, can any notes > about installation and configuration be recommended? > > Thanks, ... Peter E. > I do not know about IAX, but

Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)

On 13-01-2018, at 09h 07'58", bw wrote about "Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)" > > On Friday, January 12, 2018 11:14:37 PM Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > > On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about

Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)

On 12-01-2018, at 15h 03'25", David Wright wrote about "Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)" > [...] People use names, computers like numbers. > I do not take sides here, but I can't accept this statement. Numbers are universal, Debian release names

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 10-01-2018, at 10h 46'43", to...@tuxteam.de wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > > But for me, (La)TeX *are* text :-) > +1 Ionel

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 9-01-2018, at 07h 35'28", David Wright wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 13:06:44 (+), Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 9-01-2018, at 13h 06'44", Curt wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > On 2018-01-09, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > On 2018-01-09, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <i.m.ciob...@upcmail.nl> wrote: > >> On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

On 9-01-2018, at 06h 52'16", davidson wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > > > >How does one convert a text file to a PDF using the command line? > > Step 1. Make sure the text file is also a latex document. > Step 2. Use latex. Assuming step 1 is reached, step

Re: please help! debian won't boot

On 13-12-2017, at 23h 02'29", Jason Brenkus wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling > grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now > I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The

Re: please help! debian won't boot

On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : > >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian > >won't boot" &

Re: please help! debian won't boot

On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" > I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went > wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and > then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

On 1-11-2017, at 12h 52'17", to...@tuxteam.de wrote about "Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps" > On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 12:28:51PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > [...] > > > What is a "Devuan"? > > Devuan is a fork of

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

On 1-11-2017, at 02h 01'08", Will Mengarini wrote about "Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps" > * Ron OLGIATI [17-10/31=Tu 19:11 -0300]: > >> [...] Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab [...] > >> under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano [...] >

Re: removing of sddm (debian 9 -kde5) to start in console mode then startx to start kde5

> > [ It might be clearer to write "Desktop Environment" (or DE) instead > of "desktop manager" because of the latter's having the same initials > as Display Manager (or DM). ] You are right. > That said, what are the advantages of running a DM in your case, > compared with using startx? One

Re: removing of sddm (debian 9 -kde5) to start in console mode then startx to start kde5

On 18-10-2017, at 22h 17'14", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: removing of sddm (debian 9 -kde5) to start in console mode then startx to start kde5" > > > > Did they simply throw every window manager under the bus and say "Nope, > > sorry, you gotta run a desktop environment now"? > > Now I'm

Re: BOINC Screensaver

On 7-09-2017, at 10h 24'04", Mike Stroud wrote about "BOINC Screensaver" > I've just installed the BOINC screensaver as well as the BOINC Manager using > Synaptec, and I've upgraded them from the stretch-backports repo. I've got > the BOINC Manager running SETI@home. I installed xscreensaver, and

Re: languages

On 18-09-2017, at 20h 47'28", Pol Hallen wrote about "languages" > Hello all :-) > > studying russian language I've some files with cyrillic file name: using > caja (mate file manager) I see correct file name, but using the shell I see: > > ?? - ?? .txt >

Re: jesse->stretch for DYMO label printer

On 14-07-2017, at 17h 22'40", Brian wrote about "Re: jesse->stretch for DYMO label printer" > On Fri 14 Jul 2017 at 16:26:30 +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > > After jesse -> stretch upgrade my DYMO label printer is using a > > different font. Befo

jesse->stretch for DYMO label printer

Hi All, After jesse -> stretch upgrade my DYMO label printer is using a different font. Before I could fit 6 lines on a label, each line with 18 characters. Now it fits only 5 and a half lines and 16.25 characters in a funny way. The first 3.25 characters do not show up, only the following ones.

dist-upgrade jessie->stretch, texlive problems

Hi all, I performed a dist-upgrade from jessie to stretch on my desktop. It did not went well. I manage to solve many problems except the texlive issue. I finally remove anything tex related and try to slowly install it back. I started with tex-common. That went well. Then with texlive-base. That

Re: Re: dbus

I still have this problem... Renaming all dot-files in $HOME I can only login if I use icewm as window manager. All the other will fail. With icewm I can run some programs, while attempting to open others will log me out. Again, this is for all users. Programs that will crash the window manager

dbus

. I am out of ideas. Anyone? Thank you for any hint. Ionel -- Dr. Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă                Phone:   + 31 (0)40 2473008 Principal Scientist                       Fax:     + 31 (0)40 2455054 Sasol Technology Netherlands BV           e-mail:  i.m.ciob...@tue.nl Eindhoven University

Re: dbus

Thank you, renaming .config doesn't change anything. The folder is not even re-created. I was not aware of the existance of this .config folder. There are not new files in there... Ionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

jeremy jozwik wrote: im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope paste from that page, the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a dpkg-reconfigure locales issue? how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2?

Re: udev /dev/sdaX lenny2squeeze

Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: Hi, I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing all new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process asking for the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where X=2,6,7,8,9. All are valid partitions. root is /dev/sda5

Re: udev /dev/sdaX lenny2squeeze

Thierry Chatelet wrote: So, I guess you are better to switch now to UUID, it should solve your problem, and give you a head on future changes. Thierry As I said in one of my previous posts, udev will not create /dev/sdaX, nor their counterpart using names or uuid. So I can't do that.

Re: udev /dev/sdaX lenny2squeeze

Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: I think I know what went wrong. I used an older net-install disk from testing when lenny was not stable. I misslabeled the CD. My bad! Sorry, that was about another problem I had. It was late when I wrote the above message. While installing a new system

udev /dev/sdaX lenny2squeeze

Hi, I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing all new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process asking for the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where X=2,6,7,8,9. All are valid partitions. root is /dev/sda5 and it is the only partition

Re: udev /dev/sdaX lenny2squeeze

Stephen Powell wrote: If you've been around that long, then why is it that you didn't know to reply to the list instead of to me personally? Please post *and* reply *only* to the list. You can CC someone if they ask for a CC, but always include the list as one of your recipients. As I said

intel fortran compiler

Hi all, I downloaded the intel compiler form Intel and I want to check it on my pentium IV computer. I run unstable with 2.4.10 kernel. The tar file from Intel contain 5 rpm packages (for RH 6.2) and an install script. I can't run the install script. I try to make .deb out of .rpm using alien,

Re: X problems

On 12-10-2001, at 08h 27'18, Kurt Lieber wrote: I had a similar problem -- check to make sure you aren't also running gpm (General Purpose Mouse interfaces) It doesn't always play nicely with X. I know, it was the first think I checked. After that I looked at IRQ. Everything seams fine.

X problems

I have a problem with the X server. I have a new PC, with P IV on a Intel 850 chip set with a PS2 mouse and keyboard. I run Xfree 4.1.0.1-3 and kernel 2.4.10ac12. My problem is that I can't use the mouse and sometime the keyboard. The error is not reproducible. By simply restarting X I can have

newbie xmms

Hi, Is someone using xmms under woody? I can't make it work. It say: | e164179:~ xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav | | Segmentation fault | | You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit | http://www.xmms.org/bugs and fill out a bug report. What ever is the file I give it, or also

Re: newbie xmms

În data de 13/09/2001, 16:26:30, Hereward Cooper a scris: Is someone using xmms under woody? I can't make it work. It say: | e164179:~ xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav | | Segmentation fault | | You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit |

hp ps 500 printer/scanner/copier

Hi all, I would like to know if someone has a HP PSC 500 printer/scanner/copier (http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/hppsc500ps18676.html)? I have seen on http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml that this is supported by linux. If someone has already such all-in-one product, I would like

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Re: make a deb package

On 14/08/2001, 08:27:29, Nantenaina Tianarivo Ulrich wrote: Hello, Try the tricks at this URL: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html#s-sourcebuild It's a step by step on building a .deb package. Thank you. It is not usefull in my case: | You will need all of foo_*.dsc,

Re: make a deb package

On 13/08/2001, 22:41:41, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ionel Mugurel [iso-8859-2] Ciobîc? wrote: Which kind of documentation I should read? This is not as hard as it probably looks. Before jumping in at the deep end, I suggest sitting down and reading through the New

make a deb package

Hi all, I want to make a .deb package. In order to to that I try simply to see if I can remake an existing one. I took the hello package and I did 'dpkg -i hello_1.3-16.deb test/'. Then I went in the test directory and I did `dpkg-deb -b --nocheck . hello_1.3-16.deb'. I used --nocheck because I

dselect

For some time now I have some errors when I upgrade some packages. The error message is like that: | Preparing to replace dpkg 1.9.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.16_i386.deb) ... | Unpacking replacement dpkg ... | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.16_i386.deb (--unpack): |

ISO-8859-16 fonts

Someone care to test (taste) ISO-8859-16 fonts? It was finally accepted. Have a look at http://httpd.chello.nl/s.ciobica/romanian.text Ionel Ciobîcă

www.debian.org

Hi, Is www.debian.org down? Ionel