Re: debian installer network console

Hi Andy! On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 5:58 PM Andy Smith wrote: > HI Matt, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 05:40:31PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over > a > > network console on a debian install? > >

debian installer network console

Greetings, I use the network-console for the debian installer - it's great. There are times when I would like to use the console (tty - Ctrl + Alt + F2) to perform some ad-hoc sysadmin'ing during the install. Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over a network

Re: another possible audience for Debian

I was attempting to connect people to social change. Thank you for replying. I appreciate this mailing list. On 12/15/23 23:33, der.hans wrote: Am 15. Dec, 2023 schwätzte Matt so: moin moin Matt, I am a Debian user. An audience for Debian may be the Fediverse because the There are quite

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

Perhaps that is why I run DWM rather than GNOME on this T60 Thinkpad. :p On 12/15/23 23:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:05:41PM -0500, Matt wrote: I had to go to Wikipedia to understand the context of the discussion. I did read all the posted emails in the thread. https

another possible audience for Debian

I am a Debian user. An audience for Debian may be the Fediverse because the Fediverse has a technology focused culture, and its creative endeavors could be in the form of developing Debian if many users are interested. The biases of Debian vary from topic to topic in great depth and detail.

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

I had to go to Wikipedia to understand the context of the discussion. I did read all the posted emails in the thread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Re: install missing unicode fonts

Huzzah! Thanks for the help, Darac! -m On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:58 PM Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 17/11/2022 19:32, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've done some searching but came up empty with the correct way to > > install missing unicode fon

install missing unicode fonts

Greetings, I've done some searching but came up empty with the correct way to install missing unicode fonts. For example, in my terminal I type "exa -l --icons" and I see:  (that is a rectangle with the codepoint: F158) I don't see what F158 is supposed to represent. How do I find the

No filename tab completion in common "Save File As" window after upgrade from 10.12 to 11.3

-4+deb11u2 firefox-esr 91.10.0esr-1~deb11u1 mousepad 0.5.2-1 What I am looking for: -- Hopefully, there is some kind of GTK or Xfce setting that will make this work again. If not, I would like to know the most appropriate package to file a bug against. Thanks! Matt Roberds

Re: Strange permissions issue with virt-install + UEFI

On 5/13/2022 6:53 PM, David wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 10:57, Matt Ventura wrote: On one box (Debian 11.3), my virt-install script works fine: virt-install [...] However, on another box, the same command (minus the final --network option) gives me this: [...] Could not open '/var/lib

Strange permissions issue with virt-install + UEFI

eated: -rw---  1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 540672 May 13 16:39 openwisp_VARS.fd So, I'm really not sure why it thinks it's failing, but it aborts the installation regardless. Any ideas? Matt Ventura

Correct way to build in-tree module?

this, that won't break on a kernel update? Thanks, Matt

minimize daemon downtime for apt upgrade

Greetings! Scenario: I have a Sid desktop computer that acts as a router for my home network. If I wait for a few months to perform an "apt upgrade", many packages get upgraded. The upgrade starts with shutting down isc-dhcp-server (in order to upgrade it), then starts to upgrade all the

Re: Laptop keyboard and touchpad don't work after upgrading fromlinux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64 to any later kernel [SOLVED]

n the lid, and let it come out of suspend. I'm still not sure why changing which *kernel* I booted made this bug appear. Perhaps the old kernel initialized (or didn't initialize) that input device in a different way than the later ones. Thanks for your help! Matt Roberds

Re: Laptop keyboard and touchpad don't work after upgrading fromlinux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64 to any later kernel

won't start lightdm. This machine is configured for dual boot, so I already had grub configured to give me a "which OS?" menu at boot time. From that menu, I just appended " text" to the kernel command line, and booted; that got me into multi-user text mode. Matt Roberds

Laptop keyboard and touchpad don't work after upgrading fromlinux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64 to any later kernel

0, in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/09/msg00115.html . His report on 10 Oct 2020 matches my experience; -9- is the last kernel that works: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00195.html Thanks for your help! Matt Roberds

which package to file a bug against?

Greetings d-u, I have a new-ish laptop and a pair of the function keys (screen brighter/dimmer) are mapped to the wrong function (mic mute/unmute). Where should I look to file the bug? I'm aware it is ACPI related, but I do not have any packages installed that have "acpi" in the package name.

Re: relational database tracking of packages and updates

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:38 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:55:20PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other > > GNU/Linux OSes) ? > > > > I'm thinking something th

relational database tracking of packages and updates

Greetings, Does anyone know of a "software inventory" solution for Debian (or other GNU/Linux OSes) ? I'm thinking something that keeps track of packages. I.e. when various package versions become available and when upgrades happen to said packages. There are a variety of ways of attacking this

OT: NFS resource(s)

Greetings, I am hitting a strange NFS issue and I'm trying to find some sort of interactive resource (user mailing list, or IRC, or etc.) to ask some questions on. I see there is an NFS kernel mailing list, but I doubt they want to help me debug my problem. Is anyone aware of good NFS (v4)

Re: Super (Mod4) + L behavior for MATE

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagr...@d.umn.edu> wrote: > Greetings, > > Just upgraded to MATE 1.20.0 (Debian Sid) and I'm noticing something that > I had not before... > > If I hit Super + L, I get a screen lock. However, screen lock is bound to >

Super (Mod4) + L behavior for MATE

Greetings, Just upgraded to MATE 1.20.0 (Debian Sid) and I'm noticing something that I had not before... If I hit Super + L, I get a screen lock. However, screen lock is bound to Ctrl + Alt + L. Anyone have ideas as to what is up? Thanks! -m

Re: ipv6 apt issue

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > apt uses SRV records: > > $ dig +short -t SRV _http._tcp.ftp.us.debian.org > 0 2 80 ftp-nyc.osuosl.org. > 0 1 80 debian.gtisc.gatech.edu. > 0 1 80 ftp-chi.osuosl.org. > > That's where you're getting the host name

Re: ipv6 apt issue

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2017-03-28 13:24 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > > I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu. > > > > I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt > to > > connect to:

ipv6 apt issue

Greetings, I'm hitting an IPv6 snafu. I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt to connect to: # apt update 0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2) but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete its connection. If I look at my sources lists: %

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hi debian http://kryspol.pl/fellow.php?bob=cy2e0nqqw9d86c Matt

Scroll Lock on VT prevents reboot/shutdown

I'm not sure which package this bug should be filed against, partially because I'm not entirely sure of the root cause. I'm able to replicate it on our systems every time, though I have not tried on a fresh install of Debian - our images aren't really that much different anyway. We don't

Re: Thin Mate window edges

to make this easier, such as choosing a window style with thicker borders? Not a solution to the border problem, but alt-rightclick drag allows you to resize windows (in some window managers) without having to grad the border. Matt Ventura

Keyboard doesn't work with GNOME or GNOME Classic

put driver specified, ignoring this device. [ 1950.379] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. I'm running sid and I don't remember changing anything recently related to this. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this or what might be wrong? -- Matt

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

that the parent had already installed. So separating it would still help in that situation. If I were searching for inappropriate imagery, 'apt-cache search' is one of the last places I'd look. Matt

Re: How to make "headless" system?

On 11/07/2015 12:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res monitors of 800x600 at best.

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

ntion that my hardware has bluetooth and wireless combined, and bluetooth doesn't work. It would be great if anyone could suggest the proper drivers. Thanks for help! Regards, Himanshu Shekhar Looking at that, it doesn't look like it supports AP mode. If it does, it would say "AP" and/or "AP/VLAN" under "Supported interface modes". Matt Ventura

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

On 10/24/2015 01:26 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: I'm not sure about that, I just told n-m to create a new network, and it did ad-hoc even though my card supports AP mode. Can you check in iwconfig to confirm it's actually an AP? iwconfig does

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

Debian do not. It also might not have AP support on all bands. Matt Ventura

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

On 10/23/2015 01:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 19:13 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I have spent couple of hours about using hotspot on my Debian laptop. The hotspotd method didn't work. So, I tried ap-hotspot after knowing that the hotspot which the GNOME network manager

Re: is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys.

apt-get --allow-unauthenticated should work? On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:36:00AM +0100, peter green wrote: > > Is there a way to tell apt to accept expired keys? googling it I only > find > > either

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

to delete all udev rules at boot. (Idea is that I can swap out boards if they fail and keep the same disk image - which is on SD card). You can also just delete the udev rule that generates the persistent interface names to begin with. Matt Ventura

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

a port be an untagged member of a single vlan, or a tagged member of one or more vlans. It's hard to tell at this point if that's what's actually causing the problem or if that's unrelated. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

Andrew Could you post the DHCPD config? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55ba985a.1070...@mattventura.net

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

experience would be most helpful, I think, but I would appreciate any insights. Thanks for your thoughts, Marc May I ask why you decided against virtualization? It might be something that can be worked around. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: partial hang - can ssh in, ps aux hangs part way through

Hi Zeenan, Found this post : partial hang - can ssh in, ps aux hangs part way through (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00518.html) I am facing a similar issue... may I ask if you found a solution ? Regards, matt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem

On 5/4/2015 7:57 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, I entered the following in .bashrc PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m' to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command fills the console screen with lines

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

. If that fails, then it might come down to some BIOS settings. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54ff6d33.4010...@mattventura.net

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

on the disk itself (not the partition). You can also hop over to a TTY and manually use fdisk to do it (fdisk /dev/device, o, w, then sort out partitioning in the installer). Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Strange entry in my routing table.

On 03/04/2015 03:18 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Here is my routing table: 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 00 eth0 The first entry IS my default gateway as I expected. The second line,

Problem with recent updates+sleep+screen locking

. Is there any way to get gnome screensaver to not lock on suspend/resume? Thanks, Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54d1d7fd.7030...@mattventura.net

Re: Anti-spam recommendations

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Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

static 3: 10.144.0.1 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src ${F5_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} 4: 128.0.0.0/1 via ${F5_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} dev ppp0 proto none metric 1 5: ${F5_VPN_PUBLIC_IPN} via ${OPEN_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} dev tun0 proto none metric 1 Matt Ventura Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:26:48 -0800 [2] (slightly

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

, rather than 0/1 and 128/1. #2 is something you'll probably need to manually add before (or after, not sure) starting the F5 VPN. #1 shouldn't ever be touched by either VPN. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

#=5 ... but which dev should this take? eth0, ppp0, tun0? 9: F5_VPN_PUBLIC_IPN via OPEN_VPN_ENDPT_IPN dev proto none metric 1 # inherited from original route#=3 == OpenVPN route#=8 (absent in F5VPN routeset) 10: default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static Matt Ventura Sat, 24

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

On 01/23/2015 04:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Matt Ventura mattvent...@mattventura.net wrote: me@client:~$ date ; sudo route -n Thu Jan 22 11:48:48 EST 2015 Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 10.144.15.100

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

? If so, how to fix the server firewall? details: Matt Ventura Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:58:38 -0800 [1] First thing to check would be the routing table while the VPN is active. Tom Roche Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:33:43 -0500 [2] The `route -n` for while the OpenVPN connection is active is here[3], which

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

On 1/22/2015 3:55 PM, Tom Roche wrote: summary: me@client:~$ sudo route del default ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -net default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

the VPN, including the traffic to the actual VPN server. Post your 'route' table and I'll have a look. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

server | | | | | client | | security | | | | | | +--+ +---+ +---+ | +-+ Matt Ventura Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:58:38 -0800 [2] First thing to check would be the routing table while the VPN is active

Re: wifi connection tool?

On 12/30/2014 07:26 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Lu, 29 dec 14, 15:58:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote: This is for Network Manager (which I'm not using since it handles the full network configuration, but I already have my own for Ethernet, and I

Re: Image cloning software

On 12/15/2014 03:26 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: On 12/09/2014 11:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You should probably provide more details about the installation to be cloned and hardware where the clone will be used. Kind regards, Andrei Here it is: 'Source 1' hardware: Desktop CPU Celeron

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

On 11/23/2014 2:36 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd, but I was just upgrading a headless system (an old T61p laptop which has no functioning screen any more but which otherwise runs well and which I use as an internal webserver) by running aptitude in

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

On 11/23/2014 8:31 PM, John Hasler wrote: Joel Rees writes: So, what should Patrick file the bug against? I'd file against udev. That may not be correct but if not the maintainers will sort it out. Just explain that you are not certain of the exact package and why. I think the bug here IMO

What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel config and now I no longer have those (neither before mounting root nor when fully booted). If I go back to my old kernel config, it works fine. What do I need to

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

On 11/19/2014 12:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 19 nov 14, 11:45:40, Matt Ventura wrote: What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel config and now I no longer have those (neither before mounting root nor

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

On 11/19/2014 12:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-11-19 20:45 +0100, Matt Ventura wrote: What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? Those are created by udev, the rules are in the file /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules. I'm asking because I

Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

On 11/18/2014 10:29 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, Out of interest, if I installed two Kaveri motherboads side by side in the same box (if there would be enough room e.g. in a HAF-x box, could I use something like Beowulf to run them in tandem? Could I not set it up so that I

Re: test message

Hello. On Nov 12, 2014 2:55 PM, Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: greetings -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Lennart Poettering Linux -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

On 11/9/2014 11:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Andrew McGlashan: Forwarding a message as is from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. No, it is not. Sorry, but requiring an up-to-date kernel (or any other infrastructure you rely on) instead of

Re: Best way to pin a kernel

from kernel version numbers that have my custom suffix to be the highest kernel. On 09/12/2014 05:57 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:27:46AM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when I update it, since I have a custom

Best way to pin a kernel

Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when I update it, since I have a custom kernel on a particular machine. When I install a new kernel from apt, I don't want to immediately use it. What's the cleanest way of doing this? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Make n-m not touch WWAN

but for WWAN cards? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/540a0baf.8050...@mattventura.net

Re: Make n-m not touch WWAN

On 9/5/2014 2:10 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 05.09.2014 21:14, schrieb Matt Ventura: I don't recall this happening until recent updates, but on my laptop with testing installed, any time network-manager starts/restarts, it will rfkill my WWAN card. I use the card exclusively as a GPS, so I

Re: Make n-m not touch WWAN

On 9/5/2014 7:24 PM, B wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:12:32 -0700 Matt Venturamattvent...@mattventura.net wrote: I'll probably file a bug report somewhere about this, but in the meantime, is there a way to just get it to ignore the card? Or does enabling mobile broadband in the menu

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

, Mike Can you post the exact output of the nslookup attempt from the win2k box? Thanks, Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e5a085.6010

xfwm troubles and systemd questions

1. My xfwm4 seems to remember what workspaces I have windows on for the next time I open them. The problem is, I don't want it to do this because it will do things like open a window on another workspace minimized so I can't even see where it is without flipping through every workspace. I want

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

On 7/6/2014 1:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:20:55 +0200 Blazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leachronle...@tesco.net wrote: Is there, in Lenny, a command or tool for cloning a GPT? Use dd, it'll take a looong time but you'll have a bit

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

On 7/6/2014 1:56 PM, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 13:41:15 -0700 Matt Venturamattvent...@mattventura.net wrote: You don't need to know, you just use dd over the entire disk (i.e. sda instead of sda1). Yup. Just to be clear, you're trying to copy the entire disk with all its partitions

Re: wifi bluetooth deactivation problem

On 7/4/2014 2:16 PM, B wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 22:36:43 +0200 Blazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: Ze ozer problem iz: I'd like to independently turn on/off wifi bt. I answer myself: rfkill block wifi||bluetooth but LEDs stays on, which isn't very useful :(( Check if the LEDs in question

Re: GTK crashing X?

On 6/30/2014 4:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment

Re: GTK crashing X?

On 6/30/2014 10:13 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 09:11:01 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: The system otherwise works completely fine. Packages operations work fine, so I don't think that's where the problem lies. There was no downgrading, just upgraded to testing and it didn't work

Re: GTK crashing X?

On 6/30/2014 11:53 AM, rob wrote: On 29/06/14 19:16, Matt Ventura wrote: I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fine (lightdm

Re: GTK crashing X?

On 6/30/2014 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 10:23:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: Well, all I did was netinstall stable with xfce, log in once, add testing repos, and dist-upgrade. I could just try directly netinstalling testing, and if it's broken out of the box then it's almost

Re: GTK crashing X?

On 6/30/2014 2:54 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 13:12:01 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: On 6/30/2014 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: 6. Hopefully report success. :) ... Could be hardware, I suppose. Switch to a tty with CTL-ALT-F1. Login as a user and get the video card data from the command

Re: GTK crashing X?

On 6/30/2014 4:29 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 15:41:48 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: The card shows up as: 01:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage XL PCI (rev 27) I'm hesitant to apt-get --purge autoremove since it wants to remove systemd. If I

Re: flakey wifi access

On 6/30/2014 5:20 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 06/29/2014 07:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in

GTK crashing X?

I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fine (lightdm worked, xfce worked). Did a dist-upgrade to testing (also tried unstable),

Re: flakey wifi access

I've had something similar happen, but it turned out that the problem wasn't wicd but rather the driver for the card itself. Can you check if the problem occurs with something other than wicd? Also, what wifi card? On 6/29/2014 7:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

The Gnome2 fork is called MATE, I have been using it for the past few months and have had no problems with it, though I have not tried that magnification shortcut you mentioned. On Nov 14, 2012 5:04 PM, GEOFF BAGLEY geoff.bag...@btinternet.com wrote: I have been looking forward to the update of

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

Hi Tom, On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matt Zagrabelny mzagr...@d.umn.edu wrote: I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze install: /boot - Software RAID5 / - LVM on top of Software RAID5 I

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: A suggestion. You may have lost the mbr when the disk failed. If you completely reinstalled your system oncluding reformat of drives that option should have been offered. Do you recall that occuring. Hmmm. If I recall

GRUB no long gives menu on boot

Greetings, I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze install: /boot - Software RAID5 / - LVM on top of Software RAID5 I lost a disk of my RAID array a few months ago and ever since replacing it and rebuilding the arrays, I no longer get a menu of kernels to boot

ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

Greetings, I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is the way to do this. I have adjusted the init script as so: # head -n 25 /etc/init.d/sendmail #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:

Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is the way to do

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cybe R. Wizard cybe_r_wiz...@earthlink.net wrote: Attempting to install gnome-desktop-environment gets me: gnome-desktop-environment:  Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed  Depends: alacarte but it is not going to be installed  Depends:

Wireless usb device not working

I recently purchased a Linksys wireless USB device. When I plug it in and run lsusb I see the following: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1737:0078 Linksys WUSB100 v2 RangePlus Wireless Network Adapter [Ralink RT3070] I install firmware-ralink and wireless-tools after checking the Debian Wiki and

Re: Wireless usb device not working [SOLVED]

I found a post on the Linux Mint Forums that fixed my issue. I ran the following commands: echo 'install rt2870sta modprobe --ignore-install rt2870sta ; /bin/echo 1737 0078 /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2870/new_id' | tee /etc/modprobe.d/rt2870sta.conf modprobe -rf rt2870sta modprobe rt2870sta dmesg |

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually serve any purpose on

Re: How to unlock apt-get?

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Bill.M bi...@uniserve.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm having a problem with apt-get. I seem to be locked out of /var/lib/dpkg/lock and /var/lib/dpkg when I try to do an apt=get update , How can I clear these locks? And if there's another process using apt, how can I

Re: Num Lock off but on

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just the other day  i noticed when the Num Lock LED is off i can type with the keypad numeral's. But when the LED is on it is dead. Any ideas? Worked fine for ages. Cheers Mark Are you using numlockx by

Re: USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

(garbage printed and then the printer locking up, requiring a power down.) -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAEjOhSQAV=4vy2fts6zgkek

Re: Tap to click not working

touchpad.conf as follows: nano /etc/modprobe.d/touchpad.conf In the editor type: options psmouse proto=imps Save and reboot.tap to click should work. HTH -Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7

stuff like the raid controller and make sure you can either run it with open drivers or that a blob is available for it. http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Debian Questions on apt-get

I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. Giving Debian a whirl now. Installed Debian on a 1U box. Used a 1TB drive and EXT4. Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 root@debian:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 916G 661M 868G

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