WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking time of the WD Green drives. I have seen multiple instances of the use of the wdidle.exe package to reset this to say 30 seconds. But Western Digital emphatically states that that utility in only for about 3 "not-WD1

WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking time of the WD Green drives. I have seen multiple instances of the use of the wdidle.exe package to reset this to say 30 seconds. But Western Digital emphatically states that that utility in only for about 3 "not-WD1

Re: WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/30/2013 04:19 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 31/05/13 11:03, Lisi Reisz wrote: That's a dangerously selective quote. The "for all you know, " is rather significant. Oh, come off it! Dangerous? All he said was that the choice of those particular words, that particular mode of expression h

Re: WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk (SOLVED)

2013-06-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/30/2013 12:34 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking time of the WD Green drives. I have seen multiple instances of the use of the wdidle.exe package to reset this to say 30 seconds. But Western Digital emphatically states

Re: Dangerously high Load_Cycle_Count on my Thinkpad T61 Hitachi drive

2013-06-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/03/2013 06:23 AM, Pertti Kosunen wrote: On 3.6.2013 15:53, Celejar wrote: Isn't that for WD drives? Mine's a Hitachi. Yes, sorry didn't read whole post. Hi all, The method used to fix the idle time on WD drives won't work for the Hitachi. You may want to look at the following url, es

Cut an paste from iceweasel email messages

2013-06-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? All help will be sincerely appreciated Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-07 Thread Gary Roach
My error. I meant icedove not iceweasel and I am using Wheezy. The center wheel nor the shift+insert work for icedove. (See subject change) Sorry Gary R (the dyslexic typist) On 06/07/2013 02:42 PM, George Standish wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/08/2013 12:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? Hi

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/10/2013 02:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/06/13 03:39 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/08/2013 12:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there

PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
Not being able to find another mailing list that seems worthwhile I'm hoping I can get a quick answer here. The following doesn't work. System info: wheezy Apache2 php5 mySQL 5.? My test web page: PHP Information Page echo "Test Message in body"

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 3:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Not being able to find another mailing list that seems worthwhile I'm hoping I can get a quick answer here. The following doesn't work. System info: wheezy Apache2 php5 mySQL 5.? My test web page

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 02:43 PM, David Guntner wrote: Gary Roach grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Does your web page have a .php extension? What do you have in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled? The web page has an .html extension. Is a .php extension necessary if

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 02:58 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 5:37 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 3:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Not being able to find another mailing list that seems worthwhile I'm hoping I can get a quick answer here. The foll

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 03:51 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 6:41 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/21/2013 02:58 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 5:37 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 3:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Not being able to find another

Re: PHP code won't run (SOLVED)

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
I found the problem. When using Blowfish I just click on the browser button to view the page. Blowfish is using the URL file:///var/www/ to access the files. The index.html file doesn't work right when accessed this way. If I hand enter localhost/index.html everything works fine. I don't kn

Re: PHP code won't run (SOLVED)

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 05:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 8:25 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I found the problem. When using Blowfish I just click on the browser button to view the page. Blowfish is using the URL file:///var/www/ to access the files. The index.html file doesn't work right

Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian Wheezy version. Gary R. -- 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/51d9bfbb.9020.

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian Wheezy version. Does wheezy include "Preferred Applications"? If so, call it up and follow your

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel (SOLVED?)

2013-07-08 Thread Gary Roach
ebian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Sunday, July 7, 2013 4:54 PM *Subject:* Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all. > > How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian > Wheezy version. Does wheezy i

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/09/2013 11:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian

Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-09 Thread Gary Roach
I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version but all of the packages shown

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/09/2013 11:40 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From reading, I

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/10/2013 10:39 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:33:13PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/10/2013 02:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Gary Roach <mailto:gary719_li...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:40 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system wi

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 01:47 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Gary Roach wrote: Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory but the P4 system does

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 11:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/11/2013 12:05 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Well I rebooted the system and went to Bios setup. The Bios shows 4, 1GB memory modules. When boot starts the bios memory test ratchets up to 2.5 GB and stops. The problem seems to be with the bios and not the

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they show 2GB no matter which pair I pick. Per the motherboard manual I should be ge

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/12/2013 07:52 AM, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: "David Guntner" I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a week

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/12/2013 12:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 9:49 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/12/2013 12:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 9:49 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/13/2013 03:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: And don't forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all 4 memory chips are detected. Finally we're getting somewhere. The entire length of this thread I was assuming you w

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-16 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/14/2013 03:39 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 7:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/13/2013 03:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: And don't forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all 4 memory chips are detected. Fi

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem (SOLVED?)

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC specs the 4x 1GB DIMMs need to be, an

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/18/2013 09:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC specs the 4x 1GB DIMMs need to be, an

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-09 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/09/2013 08:05 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to corr

Kate plugins

2013-08-22 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I need to install Python and Django plugins for Kate. I downloaded a file from the KDE git repository. It installed a directory tree of files in my home directory. I transfered the directory tree (Kate-plugins) to usr/share/apps as suggested in the documentation.The plugin list in Kate

Clobbered digest volumes

2012-06-14 Thread Gary Roach
I am pasting in a sample of what I am receiving from you. This problem has been around for about a month. I have no idea what is going on. I use Icedove on a Debian Squeeze system and a verizon.net provider. Any help will be appreciated. Gary R. Message as received: ForwardedMessage.eml de

Clobbered digest volumes (more info)

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Roach
Looking closer at the problem, (see "Clobbered digest volumes" in Volume 2012 #1342) I find that I occasionally receive a correct message. The returns of my own are correct and some others. The bad messages all have the header information after the text and trigger the error message: Error:

Avocent 100 KVM switch problems

2012-08-13 Thread Gary Roach
I just purchased an Avocent Switchview 100-4 KVM+Audio switch. I have 2 Debian systems and 1 Windows 2000 system. Everything works fine except that the scroll lock key will not switch channels when connected to a Debian system but works fine when connected to the Windows system. Further, the Nu

Changing to digest form

2012-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
Hi I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to change to the digest form. Can I just re-subscribe to the digest form or do I have to unsubscribe from the standard for as well. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2012 11:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:51 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to change to the digest form. If you want to post repli

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/22/2012 02:16 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: OK, OK I'm convinced. I'll stay with the normal list. :-) I just needed to get used to the difference. I am so very used to seeing threaded message discussions that not having those would drive me craz

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: with acroread (on start): (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "xfce", The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package. If I try to i

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 02:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 14:04 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE. I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space, 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its

Re: Toshiba Satellite U940

2013-12-07 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/07/2013 08:17 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:19:32AM +0100, ha wrote: Anybody tried installing Debian on Toshiba Satellite U940? Any know issues? I cannot find much information on the net. I can see that some Toshiba laptops are not very Deban-frendly (https://wiki.debian

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-07 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/25/2013 02:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 23:04 +0530, AP wrote: DEB vs RPM This are 2 of several formats that are handled by package managers. I prefer DEB over RPM, but what I like the most, is the package format used by Arch Linux. Yes, Linux is the kernel, but the w

Postgresql setup on Debian system

2013-12-10 Thread Gary Roach
I just switched from using PHP and Mysql to Python / Django and Postgresql. I am having trouble with the setup of Postgresql permissions. I am locked out of some parts of the system and am unsure when to use postgres login vs user login. Most of the Postgresql instructions are written for non-d

Re: Postgresql setup on Debian system

2013-12-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/10/2013 11:13 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/12/11 Gary Roach <mailto:gary719_li...@verizon.net>> I just switched from using PHP and Mysql to Python / Django and Postgresql. I am having trouble with the setup of Postgresql permissions. I am locked out of some par

Grub2 menu editing

2013-12-25 Thread Gary Roach
Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. Further, the items are out of order and I have to be careful when rebooting or the wrong OS gets loaded. I'm using Debian Wheezy and AMD 64 OS with an Intel

Re: Grub2 menu editing (solved)

2013-12-28 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/25/2013 12:14 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. Further, the items are out of order and I have to be careful when rebooting or the wrong OS gets loaded

Cant drag windows around desktop

2017-05-25 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all; Recently I completely lost the ability to drag windows around the desktop by left clicking on the windows title bar. Anyone have a fix. Debian testing Gary R.

apt-listchanges error

2017-05-25 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all; A while ago, while updating my Debian testing system, I got the following error: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up apt-listchanges (3.10) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/tmp.kqhvU8IqOr.aptlc/debconf-helper.py", line 6, in import debconf ImportError

Re: apt-listchanges error

2017-05-26 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/25/2017 04:38 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all; A while ago, while updating my Debian testing system, I got the following error: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up apt-listchanges (3.10) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/tmp.kqhvU8IqOr.aptlc/debconf-help

Re: apt-listchanges error

2017-05-26 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/25/2017 04:38 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all; A while ago, while updating my Debian testing system, I got the following error: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up apt-listchanges (3.10) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/tmp.kqhvU8IqOr.aptlc/debconf-help

Re: Cant drag windows around desktop

2017-05-26 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/25/2017 04:15 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all; Recently I completely lost the ability to drag windows around the desktop by left clicking on the windows title bar. Anyone have a fix. Debian testing Gary R. Thanks for your replies. Turns out that I had a python path problem that I fixed

kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, Debian 9 (Stretch) system KDE Desktop MSI970A-G43 motherboard AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very messy project (Elmer fem) and want things completel

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Usually the qemu vm runs from a file (created by qemu-img) set up as a disk drive by qemu. I use Virtual Machine Manager (along with libvirtd) which can do all the hard stuff for you. I usually make my own

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
I really appreciate all of you quick responses. For some unknown reason, when I searched the Debian database virt came up empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-manager, I did get the following error: una

Printer color balance

2016-06-20 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, System Specs: Intel DP55KG with i5-750 quad processor Debian Stretch Kde Desktop HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Printer Cups driver for the 6800 Dell U2412M Monitor Ive had the HP printer for some time but have not paid much attention to photo printing. When I decided to print photos, I found th

Aplication's Help cant find iceweasel

2016-08-06 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, Running Debian Stretch on KDE Desktop I recently switched to Firefox-esr and removed iceweasel from my system. Some application help files now error out with: KDEInit could not launch '/usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel. As an example Rosegarden has the problem. How can I fix this. Gary R

Re: Aplication's Help cant find iceweasel

2016-08-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/06/2016 02:11 PM, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: Hi Gary, I recently switched to Firefox-esr and removed iceweasel from my system. Some application help files now error out with: KDEInit could not launch '/usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel. As an example Rosegarden has the problem. How can I

Multiple versions of postgesql installed

2016-10-24 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have been having trouble with my django development project finding the postgresql database. In the process of looking for the source of the problem I found that there are versions of postgresql installed for 9.1 through 9.6 . Are all of these copies necessary and can I safely remove

Setting up reportbug

2016-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
I have tried several times to set up debians reportbug. I do not have an MTA installed and further I don't whant an MTA installed. I use Mozilla firebird (icedove) mail client and am a happy camper. But every time I try to report a bug, reportbug starts wanting an MTA. How do I get around this

KIO Client

2016-12-24 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, For some time, since I upgraded to Stretch, I have been having trouble accessing help files from various program help menus. The latest is with spyder. It pops a window with a heading of: Sorry - KIO Client and a body that says: KDEInit could not launch '/usr/lib/icewea

Re: KIO Client

2016-12-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/24/2016 10:57 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 12/24/2016 12:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, For some time, since I upgraded to Stretch, I have been having trouble accessing help files from various program help menus. The latest is with spyder. It pops a window with a heading of: Sorry

Errors were encountered while processing python3.5 etc

2017-01-21 Thread Gary Roach
OS Debian Stretch KDE Desktop Attempts to upgrade system fails due to errors installing python3.5-minimal, python3.5, python3-numpy, python3.5-venv and python3.5-dev. The problem seems to be in the python3.5-minimal package. It won't configure. I have tried cleaning the cache, using different

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/21/2017 11:43 AM, Rafael Lauda wrote: Good Afternoon, My name is Rafael Lauda and I’ve tried time and time again to install a dual boot Debian on my MacBook Pro 9,1. I have installed rEFInd on my MacBook Pro, and I have installed the iso image for Debian 8.7.1 1 onto a DVD-R. When the c

Re: Multiple reportbug failure reports

2017-01-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/22/2017 11:32 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Hi.. This is just an observation. I already had 3 half finished drafts to three different threads when a fourth instance of reportbug failure just popped up, as well. Here they are in no particular order: 1) Re: reportbug and remapped "edit"; 2017.

Correcting bug report

2017-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I sent in a bug report and realized that I had mis-classified the bug. I sent in a correction to "852...@bugs.debian.org" with a body containing the following: Control: severity critical Correction of last email. Hope this one works. This one was also rejected. What'

System appearance , Themes, Colors, Styles. etc.

2017-03-10 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all Debian Stretch amd64 Up until recently, I had a login screen that I liked, a desktop theme that worked reasonably well (with some contrast problems) and desktop background that I liked. Then I killed my system and had to reinstall the OS and load in backup copies. The system has been a

Missing qt modules in python2.7

2015-08-03 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, My IDE is throwing the following error on start up: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ninja_ide/core/plugin_manager.py", line 319, in load dir_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ninja_ide/core/plugin_manager.py", line 297, in _

Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have just installed Redmine by the usual method of "aptitude install redmine. I selected sqlite as the database. I have had Apache2 running for a long time on my jessie system. Usually, I would expect to find a listing in my application launcher. There is none. I have tried systemct

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/18/2015 01:47 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-08-18, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, I have just installed Redmine by the usual method of "aptitude install redmine. I selected sqlite as the database. I have had Apache2 running for a long time on my jessie system. Usually, I would

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-19 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/19/2015 01:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: [...] I thought all of them did it in their free time. It's (as always) a mix. Some companies do give Debian Developers time to work in De

Re: Starting, installing Redmine (starting over)

2015-08-19 Thread Gary Roach
Ok, I did an aptitude purge redmine and found a howto for Wheezy Testing on the redmine.org web site. It has a note at the top ## Added 13.11.2014: this guide doesn't work on Wheezy stable ## (I'm running jessie). I decided to follow it anyway feeling that maybe it would give me some incite i

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-19 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/19/2015 12:52 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: 1. aptitude install redmine redmine-sqlite Did this except redmine is automatically installed with redmine-sqlite 2. Configure database for redmine/instances/default with dbconfig-common? Yes Did this. Nobrainer 3. Database type - for the

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/19/2015 10:17 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:55:46PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 08/19/2015 12:52 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: [...] 8. cp /usr/share/doc/redmine/examples/apache2-passenger-alias.conf /etc/apache2

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/20/2015 02:01 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: I would disable the redmine.conf as it can overlap with apache2-passenger-alias.conf And it makes no sense to have 2 configs for the

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/20/2015 09:39 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 16:25:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 15:30:04 Chris Bannister wrote: To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end user. I've seen some Debian.readme files which talk about about how to

Re: Starting, installing Redmine

2015-08-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2015 12:29 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: what do the log files say? Best is if you look at them (1) just after having restarted Apache. The error log should contain possible warnings about misconfiguration, etc. (2) after having tried an access. The access log should at least show the at

Re: Starting, installing Redmine - Im done.

2015-08-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2015 10:13 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:28:11AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 08/21/2015 12:29 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: what do the log files say? Best is if you look at them (1) just after having restarted

Ruby, Rails, passenger and redmine problems

2015-08-23 Thread Gary Roach
Problem: starting passenger in daemon mode. Debian Jessie I installed ruby with aptitude => ruby2.1 Tested ruby with ruby -v => ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13) [x86_64-linux-gnu] I installed rubygems with aptitude I used gem to install rails gem install rails I used aptitude to install rub

Re: Ruby, Rails, passenger and redmine problems

2015-08-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/24/2015 12:57 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Hi, why not just start from a ruby-less system by merely installing redmine and redmine-sqlite? All dependencies will be fullfilled by apt-get or aptitude. According to /usr/share/doc/redmine/README.Debian, the standalone redmine can If you read

Re: Ruby, Rails, passenger and redmine problems (dead)

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/24/2015 08:42 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 08/24/2015 12:57 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Hi, why not just start from a ruby-less system by merely installing redmine and redmine-sqlite? All dependencies will be fullfilled by apt-get or aptitude. According to /usr/share/doc/redmine

Too many system names

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Roach
I've been fighting a redmine installation on my jessie system for a couple of weeks but have finally got it working with one minor flaw. The program will only start if I use my FQDN supercrunch.quantum. Now this is not a big problem in itself. But..., I am afraid that if I don't clean up a few

Re: Too many system names

2015-08-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/27/2015 01:33 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Jochen Spieker: David Wright: Quoting Jochen Spieker (m...@well-adjusted.de): Using an IP address as ServerName is odd. You have to use the hostname that you want to use in URLs here. The latter seems odd, seeing as the first thing you would norm

Re: Too many system names

2015-08-28 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/28/2015 06:24 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Gary Roach wrote on 08/28/2015 01:01: The requested URL /redmine was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) Server at supercrunch Port 80 I'm wondering why the server can't fine redmine. The redmine.conf is in the sit

Re: is google earth safe to install?

2015-09-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/01/2015 04:22 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: I keep forgetting about WINE -- likely because I never have used WINE. >From the WINE HQ web site, it appears that WINE may be a reasonable solution, and even a way to circumvent the problems of running the intel code on an amd machine. https:

System hangs on boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-09-15 Thread Gary Roach
] Hi I have a Qosmio G25 lap top that I haven't used for a while. I now need it and decided to upgrade to the latest stable release (jessie). I updated wheezy to its latest version before upgrading to jessie. I then changed the sources.list to stable and proceeded with the upgrade. Everything

Installing debian on qosmio laptop

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Roach
Hi I have a Qosmio G25 that I have had for some year. It has been a dual boot system with Windoz XP on one 60GB drive and Debian Wheezy on the other 60GB drive using a Grub2 loader. I recently tried to up grade to Jessie and the installation now hangs on boot. There is also problems with the

Re: Installing debian on qosmio laptop

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/17/2015 12:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 11:43 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi I have a Qosmio G25 that I have had for some year. It has been a dual boot system with Windoz XP on one 60GB drive and Debian Wheezy on the other 60GB drive using a Grub2 loader. I recently

Re: Installing debian on qosmio laptop (SOLVED)

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/17/2015 03:28 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 17 September 2015 22:52:04 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 17 September 2015 21:21:37 Gary Roach wrote: No debian netinstall disk that I have tried has worked. I have never had one that didn't work. Have you checked your downloads?

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/02/2015 10:42 AM, John L. Ries wrote: Debian might well work for your purposes as it's relatively easy to set up and has a huge software repository; but your problem appears to be memory. If your CAD software was sluggish even when you were running Windows 7 directly, it's not going to b

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349 *T *// @jonmcopeland

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349 *T *// @jonmcopeland

LibreOffice 64 bit suddenly wont save.

2015-04-19 Thread Gary Roach
Has anyone else had the problem that LibreOffice 64 suddenly refuses to save files. If I pull up an old file and change it and save everything seems to be OK. But when I try to open the file again the restore corrupted file screen pops up. When I go through that routine the file opens with non

Re: LibreOffice 64 bit suddenly wont save.

2015-04-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/19/2015 05:34 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Has anyone else had the problem that LibreOffice 64 suddenly refuses to save files. If I pull up an old file and change it and save everything seems to be OK. But when I try to open the file again the restore corrupted file screen pops up. When I go

Re: LibreOffice 64 bit suddenly wont save. (Solved -sort of)

2015-04-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/19/2015 05:34 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Has anyone else had the problem that LibreOffice 64 suddenly refuses to save files. If I pull up an old file and change it and save everything seems to be OK. But when I try to open the file again the restore corrupted file screen pops up. When I go

Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 mode. All of my circles are now elipses. Is there a solution to this problem. Is

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