Re: no man pages... ??

2012-08-30 Thread songbird
Tony Baldwin wrote: ... try mandb -c as root. songbird -- 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/70u5h9-aii@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: upgrading to wheezy: punctual list of issues

2012-08-31 Thread songbird
/releases/wheezy/releasenotes for your architecture. songbird -- 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/5d28h9-cu4@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: upgrading to wheezy: punctual list of issues

2012-09-01 Thread songbird
Dr Beco wrote: songbird wrote: does update-grub as root accomplish anything? check the release notes (in progress) at: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes for your architecture. songbird Yep! Thanks! Now I got a very nice kernel panic, but booted 3.2! I

dev pts mystery

2012-09-03 Thread songbird
3.5.2-1~experimental.1 i386 Linux 3.5 for modern PCs thanks for any ideas, it sure has me puzzled... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: some problems in mounting usb

2012-09-03 Thread songbird
x from all even with a umask use: $ chmod a-x PIIS0006349512003256.pdf songbird -- 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/jnbgh9-6q6@id-306963.user.uni

Re: broken pacakages in Synaptic

2012-09-04 Thread songbird
Johan Vermeire wrote: Hi, How can I select in Synaptic only the broken pacakages or is there another way to do it ? mine show up using the Status button (right under Sections in the lower left) when they happen. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: dev pts mystery

2012-09-04 Thread songbird
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: somehow (i can't say what happened or i'd have the answer), now it looks like: crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 crw--w 1 me tty 136, 1 Sep 3 20:10 1 crw--w 1 root tty 136, 2 Sep 4 2012 2

Re: dev pts mystery

2012-09-04 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:30:48 -0400, songbird wrote: (...) so are there any ideas on how to remove /dev/pts/2 or reset the whole udev tty virtual device setup? (...) Maybe this helps (or gives you some hints): http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems

Re: dev pts mystery

2012-09-05 Thread songbird
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: somehow (i can't say what happened or i'd have the answer), now it looks like: crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 crw--w 1 me

Re: dev pts mystery [solved]

2012-09-05 Thread songbird
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: p.s. thank you. :) songbird -- 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/efjkh9-3ta@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread songbird
to copy the first dvd and see what happens and what error messages come out of apt-get or synaptic and go from there. ls /dvd01 if you have the first dvd mounted to /dvd01 should give you the top directories and then you can look further down in from there to see how it looks. songbird

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-06 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: songbird wrote: ... if anything just try to copy the first dvd and see what happens and what error messages come out of apt-get or synaptic and go from there. ls /dvd01 if you have the first dvd mounted to /dvd01 should give you the top directories and then you

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread songbird
into the library with the USB stick for the really large files (over 32Mb). otherwise i fire it up later when people won't complain so much about not being able to call and let it run when i'm snoozing or reading. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-17 Thread songbird
? one is distinct from the other... if i am testing things out and need to reboot i use: # shutdown -r now to do a complete shut down before rebooting i use: # shutdown -h now which powers things off for my setup. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup (solved for now)

2012-05-07 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: Camaleón wrote: ... Let the updates do their work :-) thanks, but no change in the situation with latest updates. as it turns out, the Gnome transition going on with updates to sid/wheezy crashed my new Gnome and it retreated to running fallback instead. the fonts

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-08 Thread songbird
. songbird -- 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/m6fn79-vul@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup (solved for now)

2012-05-08 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: ... the fonts work correctly on startup and restarts of Gnome Panel under fallback. I wonder why is that gnome-shell fails. Is that okay for you? right now it is very ok for me. :) if i try to push gnome-shell to the most recent version it wants

Re: Corrupted windows in KDE after last upgrade in debian/testing

2012-05-14 Thread songbird
guess this isn't a kde or gnome problem... songbird -- 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/l3l789-fvm@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade stops with a timeout.

2012-05-15 Thread songbird
on this problem, only with some similar report for ubuntu. Searching Timeout was reached in aptitude's source code doesn't have any results either... maybe its a bug in something that aptitude depends on (such as apt or dpkg). songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: How does partman works ?

2012-05-23 Thread songbird
of partman could be useful, i did not find any on the web. check debian-boot mailing list and archives... that is the most common place i see talk of partman partition size formulas. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

2012-11-10 Thread songbird
/etc/group | cut -d: -f1` example run: me@ant(16)~$ result=`head /etc/group | cut -d: -f1` me@ant(17)~$ echo $result root daemon bin sys adm tty disk lp mail news songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

thank you debian and debian user community here

2012-04-03 Thread songbird
thank you to the many kind people here who spend their time helping others. songbird -- 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/3tvs49-nsi@id-306963

Re: [OT] Re: thank you debian and debian user community here

2012-04-04 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: thank you to the many kind people here who spend their time helping others. Your welcome. My Paypal account to send donatives is... (just joking) ;-) ha! if you lived locally i'd offer free food. I join to your acknowledgment to debian and its big

learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-11 Thread songbird
comments, and of course i'll keep digging at this when i have time. :) songbird -- 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/utsg59-k4c@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-12 Thread songbird
Alberto Luaces wrote: songbird writes: in the years of tinkering on linux i've never really dug into a lot of things, much preferring to hope packages work out of the box and if they don't give up and go find something else to do (there's always something else to do :) ). [...] ok

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-13 Thread songbird
the complete build environment that i have. all set, good to leave the extra stuff in there, then distcheck works. so taking out the dist-hook for a general release is the proper fix. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-15 Thread songbird
not work for a font display at first, but then work after i refresh something via the accessiblity menu... but then what do i know. thus i ask here. :) thanks, songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-16 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: what controls the display of the fonts in the gnome-panel when it first starts up? Well, starting from gnome-shell, mutter is the window manager which relies in clutter as the graphical library to draw the GUI. ok, thanks for the names. i can look

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-17 Thread songbird
could point me to code and i think by what you've said i may figure something out. i'm finding places to alter and test the result as soon as i can get the build environment set up. i've gone too far ahead for the moment. thank you for your replies, songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-20 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) What VGA driver are you using? Although you firstly thought there is no relation between this and your UI problems, true is that there can be :-) (intel cards use to work smoothly with gnome-shell while ati/nvidia and the closed source

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-21 Thread songbird
graphics driver. i'll look into that next. sorry for being short, this is a quick update. ;) songbird -- 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/jrdc69-u8f

Re: gnome3 mouse issues?

2013-04-28 Thread songbird
or not, but if so, check or change the battery. if you look at the syslog or messages you might see related information. from a text console i will run tailf /var/log/messages or tailf /var/log/syslog to see what is happening as it happens. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
and paste underpinnings... thanks much, songbird -- 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/us445a-10l@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: gnome3 mouse issues?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
out if you open a text terminal and use tailf you may see things as they happen instead of trying to find them later. try plugging the mouse into a different slot. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
. they all translate the text: particle size between 200-500 =C2=B5m before into: particle size between 200=E2=80=93500 mm before regards winfried thanks! not sure where to file a bug report for this? anyone have a good suggestion? songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Darac Marjal wrote: songbird wrote: when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is translating a um into a mm which is a signifcant change for a technical document. =20 the source document used was downloaded from: =20 http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Siard wrote: songbird wrote: when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is translating a um into a mm which is a signifcant change for a technical document. the source document used was downloaded from: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Claudius Hubig wrote: songbird wrote: i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it that it does work correctly, but when i hit return at the end of the line it translates the initial µ into a capital M. this happens on the first

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
it in from the character map (U+03BC GREEK SMALL LETTER MU). even when i'm pasting it as a Times New Roman font character. so it does seem to be in the font. as the other person said before, it seems that copy/paste does not preserve fonts/formatting. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-05-01 Thread songbird
Siard wrote: songbird wrote: in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder

slow connection improvement using debdelta

2013-05-13 Thread songbird
from my current update run: Created,time 167.18sec, speed 19kB/sec, locales-all_2.17-2_i386.deb Patching done, time 10.73sec, speed 441k/sec (script 8.94sec 530k/sec) (unaccounted 1.79sec) songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: how to catch the calling library

2013-06-01 Thread songbird
, Jerome what type of executable? possibly gdb can give a backtrace. songbird -- 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/obeo7a-g76@id-306963.user.uni

a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
last 4 give me a completely missing name for some reason i've not dug into yet. 90% of an answer with a few minutes of tinkering with a script is better than doing it manually for sure! happy hacking and thanks for any help :) songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
. kudoes to everyone who's made it happen, who went through the testing and put the efforts into made it work. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ok, figured the four that are missing and generating null file names are local or obsolete packages that i have installed... that i can work around. new version of script (with some simple changes to make things go faster and to make it more flexible for other uses

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... and the next version, which gets me down to 61 missing files. it is getting late so i'll have to take another look at this again later... = #!/bin/sh # # debarch=/archives/debian/jessie dest=/var/cache/apt/archives pkglist=`dpkg -l | egrep '^ii ' | cut

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-18 Thread songbird
Andrei POPESCU wrote: songbird wrote: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory =2E..=20 so here is round 1 of the script (which gets 90% of the packages back for me from my backup archive at /myarchive/debian/jessie).=20

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-19 Thread songbird
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: songbird wrote: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory and while i do keep a backup of them in another directory it is along with all the previous versions too, so it isn't as easy as just copying

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-19 Thread songbird
Andrei POPESCU wrote: songbird wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: songbird wrote: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory =3D2E..=3D20 so here is round 1 of the script (which gets 90% of the packages back for me from my

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-21 Thread songbird
Curt wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Are you aware of snapshot.debian.org? Save yourself time and anxiety. :) yes aware. no anxiety. I believe he wants to keep things local due to a slow and/or problematic internet connection. right. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades [was: Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6]

2014-07-21 Thread songbird
recent media download i would have stopped after about a half hour of attempts and just done that. but it _was_ an interesting exercise... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-22 Thread songbird
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: songbird wrote on 07/19/2014 16:23: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: snip Why not copy all files back and order something like apt-get autoclean to get rid of the older packages? it's a rather huge archive (i think about 18000 debs), but yes that would be another way

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread songbird
out what was going on (turning off quiet boot, turning on persistent journaling, installing a bootable wheezy, etc.). songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: upgrade stuck (and machine too)

2014-08-21 Thread songbird
B wrote: do you have IPv6 disabled? songbird -- 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/3miicb-9d1@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: Increasing Debian's Adoptability [Was: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades]

2014-08-28 Thread songbird
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: songbird wrote: based upon my recent attempt to jump versions it's really much easier to back up your user data and then reinstall. ... if i'd had a more recent media download i would have stopped after about a half hour of attempts and just done

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread songbird
if they can change their practices somehow to facilitate such things for the future? never hurts to ask, worst they can do is ignore you or say no, but perhaps someone will take a look at it. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-09-01 Thread songbird
Rusi Mody wrote: On Monday, September 1, 2014 8:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, songbird wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Context: On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about the difficulties of downloading texlive. - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image - The user

Re: how to reinstall bash

2014-09-14 Thread songbird
rbash - bash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 4 2012 sh - bash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 10 2014 sh.distrib - dash /etc/debian_version says jessie/sid songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: how to reinstall bash

2014-09-14 Thread songbird
Martin Read wrote: songbird wrote: Marko Randjelovic wrote: I don't know what Debian release do you use, but since Squeeze, /bin/sh should point to dash. i'm not sure about that... I suspect it to be the case that if you've been continuously upgrading since before the change was made

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-12 Thread songbird
whatever i learned to get things going tends to get overwritten by whatever else comes along later. so while i may have a general idea of what i need to do, i'll still always have to refigure out the syntax of certain commands or options or whatever before i can get going again. songbird

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-10 Thread songbird
? Kind regards, Andrei :) man bash describes it well, but as the OP says they don't know it is a builtin (until they poke at it): $ umask -h # does reply: $ bash: umask: -h: invalid option $ umask: usage: umask [-p] [-S] [mode] songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-11 Thread songbird
Andrei POPESCU wrote: songbird wrote: are you suggesting which be altered or the manual page be amended to include more information about what to do when which fails to report any matching command? I'd rather see which(1) be more informative about built-ins. there's a lot of room

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread songbird
much functioning brain power. H264 has only always and never. Flash has all three, but once I have set it to ask to activate, where is the .mp4 link to which you refer? i suspect he means the link of the .mp4 file that you are trying to play. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Web site conformance and various browsers

2014-11-17 Thread songbird
infrastructure as Iceweasel. any web developers who struggle with this and if I'm missing something obvious (like use a different browser like Opera or ...)? thanks! songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Web site conformance and various browsers

2014-11-17 Thread songbird
or there i'll also volunteer to help them test newer versions. songbird -- 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/6vopjb-fmd@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread songbird
the vote is in. let us thank each one of them for their efforts to continue making Debian what it is: a fractious and wonderful expression of free source code, the ability to distribute such in a relatively sane and safe manner. kudoes, much love, go jessie! songbird

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread songbird
Lisi Reisz wrote: 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. I'll plead old age, ;-) i

Re: curl: (35) error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error

2014-11-20 Thread songbird
of thing, but have you tried --sslv2 instead? i think ssl3 has been largely removed from many places because of exploits/vulnerabilities. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Purging a package...............

2014-11-23 Thread songbird
find more each time through). songbird -- 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/pv4akb-09c@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

partclone (was: missing segfault messages

2015-02-06 Thread songbird
Petter Adsen wrote: songbird wrote: a while ago i was looking for a program that would allow me to copy partition images and restore them -- now i wish i had been a little more persistent in that search... :) Like http://partclone.org ? :) currently the package is broken via unstable

missing segfault messages

2015-02-05 Thread songbird
the message to systemd and not getting through or what... any hints on trying to get this resolved would be great. thanks! in the meantime i'll see if i can revert to previous systemd and see if that solves the issue... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: missing segfault messages

2015-02-06 Thread songbird
Petter Adsen wrote: songbird wrote: a while ago i was looking for a program that would allow me to copy partition images and restore them -- now i wish i had been a little more persistent in that search... :) Like http://partclone.org ? :) i'll take a look at it, thanks. re: bug

Re: missing segfault messages

2015-02-06 Thread songbird
them -- now i wish i had been a little more persistent in that search... :) songbird -- 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/f26fqb-qj8@id-306963

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover

2015-02-07 Thread songbird
Thomas H. George wrote: ... What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl commands? Any suggestions? i'd go to single user mode and use: apt-get purge gdm3 xdm and then try to install gdm3 again and see how that goes... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-07 Thread songbird
without having to redownload them. the other thing to look at is the output of: % df -i to make sure your inodes aren't running out. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover - need help with systemctl - more details

2015-02-08 Thread songbird
error message and perhaps something in the X session logs. songbird -- 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/8iikqb-dd4@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

2015-02-08 Thread songbird
if they are there will be the most current. songbird -- 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/t69kqb-181@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: Writing to 2 TB USB hard drive fails

2015-02-11 Thread songbird
drive.=20 How do you back up? What software? Is there a verbose/debug/logging option? and what file systems have been set up on them? songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Writing to 2 TB USB hard drive fails

2015-02-11 Thread songbird
NTFS driver for FUSE also, scrounge-ntfs can be a useful utility if you have stuff on a damaged ntfs partition that you want to try to recover. there's probably other utilities out there to find stuff if needed (ddrescue, testdisk are two that i've used in the past). songbird

Re: Delay playing videos, was Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread songbird
within the browsers, but apart from that see if youtube-dl will work for you (there are others too)... songbird -- 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/0jqpqb

Re: 2 TB HDD not automounting under Debian.

2015-02-01 Thread songbird
system is. if it is ntfs then he can install the package: ntfs-3g and see if that works. in hindsight i wish i had not changed the file system on my external drive to ntfs when i first set it up. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-08 Thread songbird
and remove only those that are the largest to get enough space back. songbird -- 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/ckclqb-ah3@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

apt-get upgrade sometimes needs -f

2015-02-09 Thread songbird
/main/l/lame/libmp3lame0_3.99.5+repack1-6_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 64.50.236.52 80] when i use the -f option after the upgrade like: apt-get upgrade -f it will download these files and things work as expected. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-13 Thread songbird
what version of the installer are you using? if it is an older image i'd try the most recent before filing bugs. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Permanent Fave: apt-show-versions -u (Was: help in purging old packages)

2015-02-10 Thread songbird
that i have a faster connection i still use it when i see the MB of updates is more than a few. songbird -- 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/scupqb-5n3

Re: Deb package update in depth

2015-02-10 Thread songbird
installation exists and gets upgraded at times. perhaps examining the PHP debs in conjunction with the documentation will give you the answers. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-21 Thread songbird
Andrés Martinelli wrote: ... What are your suggestions? ts is taken, but: tss, tsh, tssh are not (at least as far as i can tell). songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-23 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: Mike Kupfer wrote: Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before lightdm started. The message was something like /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no success

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: Ric Moore wrote: ... Sorry I missed it, but what version of Debian does this occur on?? My system, which does not have the problem, is on current testing - dist-upgraded just this afternoon. songbird is at least running initramfs-tools from testing (it's the same version

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: songbird wrote: Mike Kupfer wrote: songbird wrote: how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the command given and didn't get it to work and so set it aside until i could read further docs today. I did $ su # cd /root # mkdir initrd # cd initrd

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: songbird wrote: The Wanderer wrote: songbird wrote: doesn't work for me, hmm: =20 # gunzip - /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae | cpio -i =20 gzip: stdin: not in gzip format =20 What does =20 file /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae =20 report? =20 /boot

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: songbird wrote: The Wanderer wrote: songbird wrote: /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) So it's not compressed at all. Try cpio -i /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae to expand it (again, from within an _empty_ directory

Re: udev - set persistent name for WLAN Adapter

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
(not sure if this matters). songbird -- 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/3s9t0c-tu2@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
Mike Kupfer wrote: songbird wrote: how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the command given and didn't get it to work and so set it aside until i could read further docs today. I did $ su # cd /root # mkdir initrd # cd initrd and then ran the pipeline

thank you debian developers, helpers, translators, contributors!

2015-04-26 Thread songbird
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, songbird

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-26 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: songbird wrote: # cpio -i -v /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae kernel kernel/x86 kernel/x86/microcode kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin 22 blocks =20 Yeah, well, you have a multi-segment initramfs. There's an uncompressed

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-21 Thread songbird
into this further but i wanted to reply at least to know you were heard. :) songbird -- 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/892j0c-on1@id-306963.user.uni

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
it aside until i could read further docs today. i meant to reply last night saying that the 401: was likely a line number from init, but got sidetracked... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
Michael Biebl wrote: schrieb songbird: Mike Kupfer wrote: The Wanderer wrote: If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs /= initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it= contains. It may very well be missing either bin/touch or some relate

Re: Appropriate forum to discuss really small Debian [derivative?/blend??]

2015-04-27 Thread songbird
they can. it is a valid use of Debian to construct a derivative, and some of us may find it interesting. :) the last time i did a basic install of Debian it was around 200 packages (base system and a few others i needed), i'm not sure what the base system install for Jessie is like. songbird

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