How to change the console font?

I used to be able to change the console font with a GUI program. But I have forgotten how to do that. Console setup doesn't do it, I don't know what that does. Can anybody help me out here? Hugo (Sid)

No hibernate.

I always hibernate my system but since the last upgrade when I do "systemctl hibernate" I get: Failed to hibernate system via logind: Sleep verb not supported How do I get hibernate back? Hugo(Sid)

Selecting text

Hi, I usually select pieces of text on the screen running X with the mouse by pointing to it and then dragging to where the end is. The piece will turn blue. Then cntrl+c will copy the piece to the clipboard and cntrl+v will paste it. I now have a strange situation that on one system

Re: Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

On 01/14/2017 09:30 AM, solitone wrote: On Saturday, January 14, 2017 9:15:11 AM CET Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: and on mine not! Are you on stretch as well? Davide Sid. Hugo

Re: Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

t block content on nbc. If so make sure nbc is white listed there also. Flash was blocked on all sites. Thanks Bob! *...Bob* On 01/13/2017 09:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi The Flash Player that comes with Google-Chrome has become more noisy with newer versions of Google-Chrome

Re: Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

On 01/13/2017 11:30 PM, solitone wrote: That's strange. On mine the video is displayed. solitone@alan:~$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable google-chrome-stable: Installed: 55.0.2883.87-1 Candidate: 55.0.2883.87-1 Version table: *** 55.0.2883.87-1 500 500

Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

Hi The Flash Player that comes with Google-Chrome has become more noisy with newer versions of Google-Chrome. In the beginning Flash just displayed the video. Then it displayed the start symbol that you had to click in order for the video to start. Now it displays a puzzle piece with the

Re: How to change the name of a Debian .deb package?

On 12/06/2016 02:11 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:48:17PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have changed the wmtemp package. Now I need to change the version so that it can be distinguished from its origin. How do I do that? Unpack the source, use the "dch" pro

How to change the name of a Debian .deb package?

Hi, I have changed the wmtemp package. Now I need to change the version so that it can be distinguished from its origin. How do I do that? Hugo

Re: Problems with hibernation - randomly cannot resume.

On 11/17/2016 10:36 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> writes: On 11/17/2016 02:23 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: Debian sid laptop. Recently I upgraded some packages. And I have problem with hibernation (to disk). When I turned on it resumes, but immediately r

Re: Problems with hibernation - randomly cannot resume.

On 11/17/2016 02:23 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: Debian sid laptop. Recently I upgraded some packages. And I have problem with hibernation (to disk). When I turned on it resumes, but immediately restart. Unfortunately it is not always. Sometimes it resumes properly. What should I check/test etc? KJ

Wmtemp output wrong with kernel 4.8.0-1-amd64

Hi all. Running Sid which recently went to kernel 4.8.0-1-amd64. But Wmtemp outout is wrong: both CPU and motherboard temps are 41. Wmtemp is a WindowMaker dock applet that displays CPU and motherboard temps as they are gathered by Lm-sensors. Lm-sensors has some programs, one of them the

Re: change password prompt

On 09/19/2016 10:21 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

On 08/11/2016 11:46 AM, Curt wrote: On 2016-08-11, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 03:55:56PM +, Curt wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106180/security/use-the-internet-this-linux-flaw-could-open-you-up-to-attack.html?google_editors_picks=true

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

On 08/12/2016 10:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:10:48PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User. That works and I see all the posts. But I cannot post. The SMTP

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

On 08/11/2016 10:22 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On 08/11/2016 10:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User. That works and I see all the posts. But I cannot post. The SMTP server is set up

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

On 08/11/2016 10:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User. That works and I see all the posts. But I cannot post. The SMTP server is set up like: Desciption: Server Name: smtp.gmail.com

cannot POST in Icedove

Hi all, I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User. That works and I see all the posts. But I cannot post. The SMTP server is set up like: Desciption: Server Name: smtp.gmail.com Port: 465 User Name: Authentication

Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Where does the google-chrome-beta store its temporary files? If it has any? I'm happily using firefox in testing/sid. It uses the .mozilla profile folder in my $HOME on an SSD and a mozilla directory for caching some files which via the XDG_CACHE_HOME environment

Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 22:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Greetings everybody, This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks of 500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB. It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS R

Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

Felix Miata wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom composed on 2016-07-06 22:06 (UTC-0500): This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks of 500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB. It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]". ... I have tried

Problem w. browser when running on SSD

Greetings everybody, This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks of 500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB. It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]". The reason it is a new install is because I have for years run the NVidia closed source

Re: Grub won't install

Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2016 19:57:00 Marc Shapiro wrote: On 05/17/2016 09:13 PM, J Mo wrote: lilo is ultra-ancient. I don't even know if it works with modern kernels. Lilo definitely still works with current kernels. I started out using lilo 17 or 18 years ago and I am still

Re: SID Update Feb 02

Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Good Morning: Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the issue. After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't play). So, what

Re: SID Update Feb 02

Stephen Allen wrote: Good Morning: Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the issue. After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't play). So, what package would be relevant - this is media streams in browser, both Google-Chrome and

Re: List of System Calls

Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:04:39PM +0530, Akhil Krishnan S wrote: Hi List. Any command to get list all Syscalls in Linux with corresponding numbers? This should get it all: grep __NR /usr/include/$(dpkg-architecture -q DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)/asm/unistd* Requires

Re: systemd-logind emitting messages

David Niklas wrote: Hello, I forget who asked how to copy lines from their terminal (Alt-F0-9), and I know how and thought I'd share. Use gpm. On my system it's shift left-mouse to highlight and shift right-mouse to paste to your prompt. you cant then echo the output to a file, pipe, or directly

Wheezy Installer?

Hi, Where do I find the latest Wheezy installer now that Jessie has gone stable? Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

John Hasler wrote: The Wanderer writes: The original question was What package contains the daemon that updates the time from a central site?. The ntp package contains such a daemon - indeed, until systemd, almost certainly the primary such daemon. The chrony package provides a time daemon

Re: audio restore functionaility

Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 18:04:33 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to

Re: ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

Sven Hartge wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1. I run the firewall via Firehol and use 'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE=ULOG'. Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG. That is because ulogd2 failed

ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

Hi, Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1. I run the firewall via Firehol and use 'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE=ULOG'. Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG. That is because ulogd2 failed with: May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: Can't create ULOG handle May

Re: thank you debian developers, helpers, translators, contributors!

songbird wrote: Jessie is out! that makes for a lot of time for folks on the installer, release team, debuggers, documentors, etc. i appreciate and applaud each of you when i see what is happening. every day your work is helpful to me and to others that i help. THANK YOU again,

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

Harry Putnam wrote: Running jessie Using an lxde desktop... for a long time now (Note: for lack of a fuller vocabulary, the word icon is used to cover a few different things below:) (Attached at bottom is a screen grab showing what I'm talking about) snip Running uptodate sid with lxde.

Re: [OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. Is there an alternative of a free dsn server? Hugo Thanks everybody. I switched to noip. Like Scott said, it works with ddclient. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

[OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

Hi, It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. Is there an alternative of a free dsn server? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. Is there an alternative of a free dsn server? I meant dnsdynamic of course... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

Paul Scott wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 07:40:42AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. Is there an alternative of a free dsn server? I meant dnsdynamic of course... You give no description

Re: the developers have spoken

Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2014 14:11:18 songbird wrote: kudoes, much love, go jessie! :-)) +1 Lisi This was intended for the list, not to go off-list. Sorry again, Songbird. I need to press L for the Debian list, not click on reply. And I don't remember to do it.

Re: the developers have spoken

Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2014 16:49:13 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2014 14:11:18 songbird wrote: kudoes, much love, go jessie! :-)) +1 Lisi This was intended for the list, not to go off-list. Sorry again, Songbird. I need

Re: OT (Sorta): Pepperflash Now Working on Wheezy 64-bit

Patrick Bartek wrote: Just got latest upgrade of Chrome Stable (38.0.2125.104-1) for my Wheezy 64-bit (Openbox WM only) directly from Google repo. Pepperflash player (15.0.0.189) now working. And it only took a month and a half. ;-) B with libc6 from Jessie? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

Philippe Clérié wrote: On 09/27/2014 07:17 AM, lee wrote: Hm, you don't use UPSs? :-) It's a long story. I'll make it short: I'm in Haiti. Grid power is an iffy proposition. :-) So we have to have heavy backups. That means generators and large inverters. There is always a slight delay

Re: How to write an init.d script which runs a perl program?

Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 19 sep 14, 13:47:50, Thomas H. George wrote: My system is Wheezy and I would like to add a script to init.d run a simple perl program at startup. ... Can someone give me a simple example script? /etc/init.d/skeleton Neat! Never knew that was around... Hugo

Re: Hibernate not working anymore

Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:14:42 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org napísal: Hello I used to have a working hibernation. But I upgraded RAM from 8G to 16G So I also made a bigger swap partition for hibernation. Now I see the disk activity when going to hibernation, when

Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

Hans wrote: Hi folks, I managed to get an older version of skype (the multiarch debian package) getting connected to skype. As you might have noticed, the new version is pulseaudio needed /what a crap!) and the older version (4.2) inhibits to connect to the server. So I found a simple

Re: Render lag/delay on Testing

Jonas Lippuner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Debian users, Ever since the xserver on Debian Testing was upgraded to 1.16 (and after the issue with the lacking Nvidia driver was fixed), I've been having rendering issues. Sometimes (it randomly comes and goes), some

Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: snip Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors attached and 2 USB mice and I run

Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:29:50 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: I forgot to ask: is systemd also necessary? Hugo you need loginctl, so the answer is yes, you need systemd success, Right. I found your bug 711351. Hugo That bug is already solved. systemd

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

Zenaan Harkness wrote: Debian sid systemd currently fails to poweroff for me XFCE (appears to) exit, the mouse point shows for a while, then the kernel/ shutdown log appears. The last message is: A stop job is running for Session 2 of user me Red asterisks (up to 3) appear to oscillate at

Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: snip Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd

Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:16:58 +0200 schreef Floris jkflo...@dds.nl: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: snip Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards

Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:16:58 +0200 schreef Floris jkflo...@dds.nl: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: snip Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2

Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:49:38 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: ... 'Tis amazing. I am going to have to try this because I have the hardware lying around. Any further links are welcome. Thanks! I forgot to ask: is systemd also necessary? Hugo you need

Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:02:42 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: Floris wrote: Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:49:38 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com: ... 'Tis amazing. I am going to have to try this because I have the hardware lying around. Any further

Re: clean up my system

Floris wrote: snip It has a out-of-the-box working multi-seat. Yes, even with the nvidia module it is a no pain configuration. In other words two (or more) computers for one price. snip Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2

Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

John Holland wrote: working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583cid=47639701 That does not say how Netflix support was installed. With pipelight-multi? And what is that google-chrome-unstable deb? Does that have a version number?

Re: 30 second wait kernel 3.14.12-1

Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.07.2014 04:44, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Anybody venture a guess as to what is happening? I have a 5 second rootdelay specified in the kernel parameter list and this happens after that. I get no messages during the wait. If you edit /lib/udev/net.agent and change

Re: 30 second wait kernel 3.14.12-1

Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.07.2014 16:27, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.07.2014 04:44, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Anybody venture a guess as to what is happening? I have a 5 second rootdelay specified in the kernel parameter list and this happens after that. I get

30 second wait kernel 3.14.12-1

Hi, Running Sid and sysvinit. With the recent kernel upgrade in Sid from 3.14.10-1 to 3.14.12-1 there appeared a 30 second wait in the boot process. It shows up in kernel.log, like so: ... Jul 24 21:02:30 hda5 kernel: [ 11.363107] input: HDA NVidia Front Mic as

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 6/13/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just too many sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I have both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. I have taken to installing

Re: no plugins under Chrome

Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2014, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have been trying to get pipelight to run under Sid and Chrome, in order to use Netflix, to no avail, when I stumbled upon this: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/249016 Which says in effect release 34 removed

no plugins under Chrome

Hi, I have been trying to get pipelight to run under Sid and Chrome, in order to use Netflix, to no avail, when I stumbled upon this: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/249016 Which says in effect release 34 removed the complete NPAPI plugin interface, so its not possible to

Re: No suspend-to-disk with kde

Filip wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:39:43 +0200 Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Hi folks, I am looking for a problem in KDE. Problem: I cannot suspend to disk in KDE from the menu. The button exists, but has no effekt. Suspend-to-ram is working well in KDE. On the other hand the

Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 15:10 +, Curt wrote: On 2014-05-12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:43:16 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought in 2012 but it has never

Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 15:10 +, Curt wrote: On 2014-05-12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:43:16 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought

[OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

Hi, I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought in 2012 but it has never been unpacked and has been sitting on the shelf all this time. How long can it be considered 'new'? Is it safe to use? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want to have a normal boot without X. I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system. Thank you. from

Re: Hibernate fails

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running the latest Sid on a PC. After hibernating for years it suddenly fails with these messages: serial 00:08: disable failed dpm_run_callback(): pnp_bus_freeze+0x0/0x10 returns -5 PM: Device 00:08 failed to freeze: error -5 How does one figure out what device

Hibernate fails

Hi, Running the latest Sid on a PC. After hibernating for years it suddenly fails with these messages: serial 00:08: disable failed dpm_run_callback(): pnp_bus_freeze+0x0/0x10 returns -5 PM: Device 00:08 failed to freeze: error -5 How does one figure out what device 00:08 is and a return

Duplicate sources.list entry

Hi, Running Sid with the same sources.list for about a year now. Suddenly when running 'apt-get update' I get: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages

Re: Duplicate sources.list entry

John Hasler wrote: Hugo writes: But my sources.list is: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ sid main and there are no duplicate entries. What's

Re: Duplicate sources.list entry

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: John Hasler wrote: Hugo writes: But my sources.list is: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ sid main

Re: best way to backup USB stick (2)

PaulNM wrote: On 04/13/2014 10:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, So I got a script that backs up the USB stick to a file and restores a (larger) USB stick from that file all using dd. It is here: http://paste.debian.net/93598 That's small enough that you should have included

best way to backup USB stick (2)

Hi, So I got a script that backs up the USB stick to a file and restores a (larger) USB stick from that file all using dd. It is here: http://paste.debian.net/93598 the relevant parts are the backup: dd conv=notrunc,noerror bs=4096 if=$usbDrive | gzip $backupFilename and the restore:

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free

DynDNS no longer free.

Hi, DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Sure: http

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Sure: http

best way to backup USB stick

Hi, I boot my PC from a USB stick with legacy grub. I want to back that up to disk and then restore it to another USB stick that is of different size. What's the best way? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

Brian wrote: On Thu 27 Mar 2014 at 20:49:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? Just so we see what you see, are these blobs round or square? How are you attempting to get accented

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

Brian wrote: On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 09:45:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that has them, because I can see them in X. Your problem is unreproducible here. The mouse was used to copy and paste the page at http

how to show accented characters on console (not X)

Hi, Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? The console-setup config has: # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-6] CHARMAP=UTF-8 CODESET=Lat15

Netflix on Sid, no wine.

Hi, A few days ago Google News carried this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-enable-silverlight-watch-netflix-linux/ I tried it and it works as advertized, an easy installation and Netflix works. IMO the latter is overrated: mostly old hat hu hum movies. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

Zhang Weiwu wrote: Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except announcing the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the command. snip I would install systemd and see what that would do. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

USB keyboard: what driver(s)?

Hi, I have a Bus 004 Device 002: ID 047b:0011 Silitek Corp. SK-1688U Keyboard that works perfectly. But not with the mondorescue DVD. So I need to find out what modules are needed for that keyboard to function. How do I do that? Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: USB keyboard: what driver(s)?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a Bus 004 Device 002: ID 047b:0011 Silitek Corp. SK-1688U Keyboard that works perfectly. But not with the mondorescue DVD. So I need to find out what modules are needed for that keyboard to function. How do I do that? Thanks! when I do a 'lsusb -t' I see

Re: [SOLVED] google-earth-stable: no imagery.

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running uptodate Sid and google-earth-stable 7.1.1.1888-r0. I get political boundaries, roads, placenames, the weather but no imagery at all, just pure black. I see a bunch of these messages: ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

Rick Thomas wrote: Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the

Re:[SOLVED] k3b: no optical device found

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running current Sid. k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical device. Hal and udisks are installed. The device is /dev/sr0 and wodim runs and finds it just fine. User is part of cdrom group. /dev/sr0 lists cdrom as its group

Re: [SOLVED] k3b: no optical device found

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running current Sid. k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical device. ... per http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=260t=117063 you need to install udisks2. It used to be that k3b needed hal and udisks. Who knows

k3b: no optical device found

Hi, Running current Sid. k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical device. Hal and udisks are installed. The device is /dev/sr0 and wodim runs and finds it just fine. User is part of cdrom group. /dev/sr0 lists cdrom as its group. listdevmapper is installed. Anyone

google-earth-stable: no imagery.

Hi, Running uptodate Sid and google-earth-stable 7.1.1.1888-r0. I get political boundaries, roads, placenames, the weather but no imagery at all, just pure black. I see a bunch of these messages: ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. This strikes a bell with someone?

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

Jesse Molina wrote: Hi I have a Debian unstable host which successfully boots from the linux-image-3.10-1-amd64 kernel package. However, I recently installed the linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 kernel package, and it is unbootable. When I boot from the linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 package kernel,

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying

Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 09/30/2013 02:03 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 09/29/2013 05:24 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:52:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Shane Johnson wrote: I have been fighting this all night and was wondering

Re: DRBD protocol A understanding.

Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: just asking for understanding/learning, i have been using DRBD Protocol C for quite some time. however it is said that Protocol A, is for WAN. and my question is why it is suitable for WAN. as per my understanding with Protocol A. for example if my TCP buffer size

Re: virtualbox fails to compile module on 3.10

Kent West wrote: I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb

Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 09/29/2013 05:24 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:52:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Shane Johnson wrote: I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else has been having problems as well? I am doing a new install via

Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

Shane Johnson wrote: I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else has been having problems as well? I am doing a new install via debootstrap to a lvm2 volume via the wheezy rescue disk. I got it running in wheezy then went to jessie and while I was running the 3.2

Re: Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?

Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 09/23/2013 10:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [I do have *DO* have Wheezy, but that machine no work - unrelated problems] I just installed Wine including (so Synaptic verifies) the documentation. Can't find it. Where should it have been put? Only half of of the

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