Bug#883938: RFT: Candidate fix for boot failure of Debian 8.10 on various x86 systems

2017-12-18 Thread Jim Cobley
Thank you. The update has just been applied and my systems are now up and running again with no UUID error.

Bug#883938: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on boot after upgrading to debian 8.10 kernel 3.16.51

2017-12-14 Thread Jim Cobley
Also unable to boot since update to 3.16.51 on Intel 2nd Gen i7-2600 @ 3.4GHz on Asus P8 H67-M (1 CPU, 8 core) ***UUID*** not found Booted from another drive, downloaded linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 with 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 and extracted files over boot/lib/usr on main drive. Now booting with no

Bug#878410: Problem has gone away

2017-11-12 Thread Jim Cobley
This problem has not occurred for around a week on either system therefore I assume it has been fixed. But I don't know how, when or why.

Bug#878410: Spurious mouse double clicks on 2 different systems starting mid-2017

2017-10-13 Thread Jim Cobley
Package: libinput5 Version: 0.6.0+dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,    * What led up to the situation? An update to Debian several months ago on 2 separate systems in different locations and both protected with UPS's Had no problems before this but it took a while to recognise the

Bug#861018: Permissions on folders and access problems

2017-04-27 Thread Jim Cobley
apparmor use with Thunderbird is the culprit - on my system Disabled use with Thunderbird (sudo aa-disable /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird) and now I can attached from any of my folders and also click on a link to open it. I had a quick look through but couldn't immediately see why - I do

Bug#861018: Permissions on folders and access problems

2017-04-27 Thread Jim Cobley
Bit more info - dmesg - sorry didn't think about it before! audit: type=1400 audit(1493287998.510:88): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="thunderbird" name="/mnt/Z/temp/Bluebell/TyreSize.jpg" pid=4537 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1900 ouid=1900 audit:

Bug#861018: Permissions on folders and access problems

2017-04-27 Thread Jim Cobley
Addition - Group membership jimc@jupiter2:$ groups paws4pets adm lp cdrom tape sudo audio video plugdev staff users netdev fuse lpadmin scanner bluetooth mysql vboxusers wireshark mediatomb sambashare jimc admin janjim

Bug#861018: Permissions on folders and access problems

2017-04-27 Thread Jim Cobley
Oh well - the problem persists. It does appear that Thunderbird needs some setting on the fileshares that is not obvious to me. The one folder > /mnt/44864d9b-2a13-4bcf-a0d3-ee42099439ea is on a local hard drive and is mounted through fstab: (As far as I remember this was initally mounted from

Bug#861018: Permissions on folders and access problems

2017-04-24 Thread Jim Cobley
Thank you for your input - looks like I will have to have a serious play around. I also don't understand why you using a folder /mnt/44864d9b-2a13-4bcf-a0d3-ee42099439ea and how this is mounted and how this is related to Thunderbird? This is not actually related to Thunderbird - just a

Bug#861018: thunderbird: Unable to save your message as a draft. Unable to open the temporary file

2017-04-24 Thread Jim Cobley
Well - that permission change in my previous message (only sent to the bug) didn't help - same error - so I need some pointers here

Bug#861018: Permissions

2017-04-24 Thread Jim Cobley
No change to any permissions etc since using Icedove - simply "updated" Thunderbird and then unable to send attachments. Testing further with the following results:- I can send an attachment from this Temp folder in my home directory jimc@jupiter2:~$ ls -l | grep Temp drwxr-xr-x 3 jimc

Bug#758872: Sigificant improvement after updates today

2016-05-30 Thread Jim Cobley
Hi Margarita Thank you for checking up. The problem doesn't happen to me now because my Internet connection (for the Router VPN to the remote NAS) is much more stable and therefore the mounts generally succeed every time I start my system. When a tree branch brought down my telephone line a

Bug#766241: gnome: dist-upgrade on 20-Oct lost gnome pixbufs and several tweak settings reset

2014-11-17 Thread Jim Cobley
Have checked dpkg.log for the date of the problem. The version of dpkg doesn't appear to be listed. Problem has not recurred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#766241: gnome: dist-upgrade on 20-Oct lost gnome pixbufs and several tweak settings reset

2014-11-17 Thread Jim Cobley
tks for ptr to alt log files! Checked /var/log/apt/*.log* from 1st Aug to 20th October. The only ref to an update to dpkg was dated 31 Aug dpkg:amd64 (1.17.10, 1.17.13) same for dpkg-dev and libdpkg-perl My current version on 17 Nov is 1.17.21 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#766241: gnome: dist-upgrade on 20-Oct lost gnome pixbufs and several tweak settings reset

2014-11-03 Thread Jim Cobley
Hi Michael I did the dist-upgrade late on the 20th - about 10 hours after the updates for that day had been set - going from the date stamps shown whilst the update was downloading. So I would assume that this problem had been introduced on that day - rather than being fixed! The only

Bug#766241: gnome: dist-upgrade on 20-Oct lost gnome pixbufs and several tweak settings reset

2014-10-25 Thread Jim Cobley
Being able to login in text mode means that the whole system is not broken = downgrading the severity a little bit. Just a very little bit! What exactly makes you unable to login? Do you see a graphical login screen at all? I got the graphical login, press space, enter password and then - as

Bug#758872: Sigificant improvement after updates today

2014-09-21 Thread Jim Cobley
Open Nemo, bookmarks on non-mounted drives do not appear - OK No problem Mount drive - boomarks do not appear - Ah .. Close Reopen Nemo and the bookmarks now appear in LHS pane. Thank you to whoever made the appropriate change wherever it was - that is now much more useable. Just a

Bug#758864: cups: jessie update/upgrade - cups fails libcups2 (= 1.7.4-4) but 1.7.5-1 is installed FIXED

2014-08-31 Thread Jim Cobley
OK - done the init=/lib/sysvinit/init boot No graphical interface - just a blank screen which accepts and echos characters Switched Ctl-Alt-F2, logged in, update and dist-upgrade appeared to go through OK Reboot as normal CUPS now appears to have been updated to 1.7.5 and test prints working.

Bug#758872: [pkg-cinnamon] Bug#758872: jessie: nemo 2.2.4 After upgrade on 21/8/14 not all bookmarks directly accessible on LHS

2014-08-30 Thread Jim Cobley
Hi Thank you for asking - much appreciated - Yes it is still the same issue OK Reboot from scratch Start Terminal - nemo jimc@jupiter2:~$ nemo blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah (nemo:2753): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due

Bug#758864: Reply to Didier's questions

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Cobley
Tks Brian Have read Bug 758914 Message 44 says fixed the install problem but still have problem with CUPS which he is not worried about as he has other CUPS servers he can use. So I didn't have the fstab / mount problem but I am no further forward with the CUPS issue which I am worried about

Bug#758864: Sudden thought about IPv6 and CUPS problem

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Cobley
I mentioned that the same problem with updating CUPS occured a few weeks ago. I think I have remembered that I had disabled IPv6 before the problem and soon after I found a reference to things not working if IPv6 was disabled. I have a funny feeling that I then enabled IPv6 again and the next

Bug#758864: Reply to Didier's questions

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Cobley
On 26/08/14 20:09, Brian Potkin wrote: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/disable_ipv6 First part:- root@jupiter2:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 0 root@jupiter2:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/disable_ipv6 0 root@jupiter2:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/disable_ipv6 0

Bug#758864: Reply to Didier's questions

2014-08-24 Thread Jim Cobley
Hi Didier _What init system do you use? (sysvinit, systemd) _ Good question! That stumped me for a minute! I installed the system and don't remember being given a choice - I haven't studied the differences HOWEVER - System Monitor shows systemd processes running and no sysvinit -

Bug#758864: closed by Didier Raboud did...@raboud.com (Re: Bug#758864: cups: jessie update/upgrade - cups fails libcups2 (= 1.7.4-4) but 1.7.5-1 is installed)

2014-08-23 Thread Jim Cobley
Well - all I am doing is what I expected to do. I have just done the update, upgrade, install -f, upgrade and dist-upgrade again and it still fails I don't have a modified install The last time I had this problem, a month or so back, the same situation occured for a week or so and then it went

Bug#748556: SOLVED - System will now SHUTDOWN when asked

2014-05-28 Thread Jim Cobley
OK - no input on this thread but after a couple of days of intermittent searching and fiddling we got there - we shouldn't have had to but there we go. Problems shown above with gdm3 and lightdm were actually fixed with 2 or 3 more switches between gdm3 and lightdm with reboots - that was all

Bug#748556: Desktop Environment

2014-05-20 Thread Jim Cobley
Gnome / lightdm gdm3 is installed (also re-installed) but not quite sure what is going on as cannot switch. root@jupiter2:~# dpkg-reconfigure lightdm [ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done. ERROR: /lib/systemd/system/gdm3.service is the selected default display manager but does