Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/29/2014 09:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/29/2014 6:19 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/28/2014 08:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:42 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/03/14 01:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/03/14 21:08, Joel Rees wrote:

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 16:35 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > >Do I have to upgrade to 3.13-1-amd64? > > Absolutely not! If your machine is working perfectly, why risk it? Good point :D! OT: We sometimes take a look to our crystal balls and we are unhappy, when e.g. the RT patched kernels > 3.8

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/03/14 09:19, Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/28/2014 08:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 3/28/2014 6:42 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 29/03/14 01:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/03/14 21:08, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:3

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 02:05:57PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:31:03 +0100 > François Patte wrote: > > Hello François, > > >Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, > >but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running > > Unless

Re: Whole System Encryption, LVM & Extended Partition

2014-03-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > > > > Did a couple of trial installs of Wheezy in VirtualBox in > > anticipation of the real thing on an as yet to be purchased > > notebook, and noticed something puzzling with the > > Guid

Re: Whole System Encryption, LVM & Extended Partition

2014-03-29 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Did a couple of trial installs of Wheezy in VirtualBox in anticipation of > the real thing on an as yet to be purchased notebook, and noticed something > puzzling with the Guided-Encrypted-LVM partitioning option. (I've never > done encry

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 3/29/2014 6:19 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 03/28/2014 08:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:42 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/03/14 01:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/03/14 21:08, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Jerry Stuck

Whole System Encryption, LVM & Extended Partition

2014-03-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
Did a couple of trial installs of Wheezy in VirtualBox in anticipation of the real thing on an as yet to be purchased notebook, and noticed something puzzling with the Guided-Encrypted-LVM partitioning option. (I've never done encryption on my systems before.) The installer used a "classic" Ex

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-29 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/28/2014 08:29 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:42 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/03/14 01:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/28/2014 6:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/03/14 21:08, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Jerry Stuckle mailto:jstuc...@attglobal.net>> wrote

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Michaux
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Mark Neyhart wrote: > On 03/28/2014 03:22 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: >> >> Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? >> > > Dirvish just works. I've been using it for years. Where is your bank directory? The example configuration file has /backups but that is not ok

Re: best way to backup USB stick

2014-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:15:56 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > 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 I'd probably dd the whole USB stick device

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-03-29 14:31 keltezéssel, François Patte írta: > > > Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, > > but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running > > 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. > > > > Do

best way to backup USB stick

2014-03-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 29 Mar 2014 at 14:15:42 -0500, Frank Stachyra wrote: > The HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests asking questions > here that are not resolved by reportbug's interactive prompts. Yep. Which interactive prompt concerns you? > Maybe debian maintainers do not want bug report

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Martin Read
On 29/03/14 19:15, Frank Stachyra wrote: Surely there is a way to do this that might be made more readily apparent to anybody who has never used reportbug, and is not adept at using linux terminals. reportbug will be invoking whatever your default text editor is. If the VISUAL or EDITOR enviro

Re: Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Joe
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:15:42 -0500 Frank Stachyra wrote: > The HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests asking > questions here that are not resolved by reportbug's interactive > prompts. > > Maybe debian maintainers do not want bug reports from beginners, That is to some extent

Using reportbug

2014-03-29 Thread Frank Stachyra
The HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting suggests asking questions here that are not resolved by reportbug's interactive prompts. Maybe debian maintainers do not want bug reports from beginners, and deliberately makes using reportbug quite impossible to someone who does not already kno

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-29 Thread Anubhav Yadav
So ultimately the conclusion is that for me to have the most optimized settings, I should change all my colors from xterm*color to XTerm*color Is that right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Another apt-get update: "Hash Sum mismatch"

2014-03-29 Thread Craig L.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Craig L. wrote: > > > > On another system, I have a VM running stable, and another running > > testing. The stable VM has been around for over a year and makes use of > > the local mirror with no p

Re: clean upgrade 32 -> 64?

2014-03-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-29 18:35 +0100, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Thanks! Finally got the new machine set up to try the crossgrading, and > everything worked just fine. There's just one issue remaining: a huge > number of i386 packages on the machine show dependencies on either apt > or dpkg, so any attempt to

Re: v4l error using vlc

2014-03-29 Thread Fabrice Vaillant
Yes it is a different url. The link you are giving is the one of a webpage with a player in it, and it's the player that acces to the real video stream. Howewer there is probably a way to get the correct url, but I'm no expert. On 03/29/2014 05:00 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 03/29/2014 02:44 A

Re: v4l error using vlc

2014-03-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 29 Mar 2014 at 09:00:00 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 03/29/2014 02:44 AM, Brian wrote: > >It should be sufficient to do > > > >vlc "your_url" > > > >to view streaming video. Some idea of where you are trying to stream > >from, including providing the suggested "your_url", might help.

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:01:21 -0400 Steve Litt napísal: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:31:28 +0100 > Slavko wrote: > > > Dňa Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:22:07 -0700 Peter Michaux > > napísal: > > > > > Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that the project has > > > been inactive since 2008. Per

Re: clean upgrade 32 -> 64?

2014-03-29 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Darac Marjal writes: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a >> 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box >> into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'l

Re: Another apt-get update: "Hash Sum mismatch"

2014-03-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Craig L. wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a local mirror of stable, and last night I added the testing > repository and apparently successfully mirrored it. > > On another system, I have a VM running stable, and another running > testing. The stable VM has been arou

Another apt-get update: "Hash Sum mismatch"

2014-03-29 Thread Craig L.
Hello all, I have a local mirror of stable, and last night I added the testing repository and apparently successfully mirrored it. On another system, I have a VM running stable, and another running testing. The stable VM has been around for over a year and makes use of the local mirror with no pr

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2014-03-29 14:31 keltezéssel, François Patte írta: > Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, > but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running > 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. > > Do I have to upgrade to 3.13-1-amd64? If yes how to proceed? > Do you have lin

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:31:28 +0100 Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:22:07 -0700 Peter Michaux > napísal: > > > Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that the project has > > been inactive since 2008. Perhaps Dirvish is such a simple layer > > over top of rsync that its bee

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 29 Mar 2014 at 08:31:00 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10:50AM +, Brian wrote: > > > > You might have been less surprised after reading the release notes: > > > >https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2014/20140319 > > OK Touche - Still not u

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 14:05 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > Either install the latest kernel manually or, if you prefer to have > kernels handled by your usual update routine, install > linux-image-amd64, which depends on the latest kernel version. IOW a meta package does handle upgrades. But as Brad

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:31:03 +0100 François Patte wrote: Hello François, >Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, >but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running Unless an additional package is installed, kernels are exempt from upgrade. >Do I hav

Re: kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 14:31 +0100, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > > Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, > but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running > 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. > > Do I have to upgrade to 3.13-1-amd64? If yes how to procee

kernel upgrade

2014-03-29 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, Since I installed debian sid (august 2013), I regularly made upgrade, but the kernel doesn't appear to be upgraded. Why? I am running 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. Do I have to upgrade to 3.13-1-amd64? If yes how to proceed? Thanks. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Labo

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Andrei, thank you. On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 13:19 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I seems to me like your intention is to run stable, but with select > packages from either backports or testing/sid as needed. Correct. Cliffhanger: I guess I'll continue maintaining my Debian install on Monday.

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-03-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10:50AM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 19:33:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > After the installation, my wifi wasn't configured (despite it being > > configured during the net-install) and was very surprised to have Xfce > > as +my default desktop enviro

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 mar 14, 13:19:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Further on you should check your system for packages installed that do > *not* come from wheezy (apt-showversions or aptitude can do that) and That's 'apt-show-versions' of course, shouldn't have relied on my memory. Kind regards, Andrei -

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:22:07 -0700 Peter Michaux napísal: > Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that the project has been > inactive since 2008. Perhaps Dirvish is such a simple layer over top > of rsync that its been stable and hasn't needed attention in all this > time. I know no

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 mar 14, 07:06:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS: JFTR: > > root@debi386:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences > # /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: release n=wheezy > Pin-Priority: 400 What's the point of this (considering that the default priority for it would be 500)? > Package: * > Pin

Re: v4l error using vlc

2014-03-29 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 19:52:55 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 03/28/2014 11:00 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > >On 03/28/2014 10:35 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>I am trying to use vlc to view streaming video. I start vlc, then go to > >>Media/Open Network Stream and enter the stream URL and click on Play.