Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-22 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 12/22/14, Joris Bolsens wrote: Subject: gnome wont start To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, December 22, 2014, 9:09 PM [snip] $ sudo systemctl status gdm.service ● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled) Active:

gnome wont start

2014-12-22 Thread Joris Bolsens
Hello all, I recently ran into a problem with Gnome. It fails to start at all. I am able to get a working ui by using the startx command, and it seems like it is a gnomish environment (windows key brings up the Activities selected or what have you) Gnome used to work fine, however I installed KDE

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status strangeness

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Simon Bell wrote: > My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting > this when trying to apt-update: > ... > I managed to correct the issue by pulling some stuff from > /var/lib/dpkg/status-old... Also don't forget about /var/backups. There is a daily copy stored there too.

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > Yes, that makes sense in this case. I'm not in the habit of doing it in > most cases, however, because I commonly-enough need to use find with > commands of the form 'command option {} option +' rather than the form > 'command option {} +'. Yep. That would push you into usin

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
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Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Ric Moore wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On one hand I don't think it's such a big burden to use su/do or similar > > for this type of operation, on the other hand it's slightly easier to > > pick the wrong device and destroy your data. > > Andrei, the issue of IF the pen-drive was automounted

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/12/14 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >> Not you Patrick, someone else. >> I am sort of quoting >> "I still do not know what you have against > suggesting> it is far superior to wordperfect. >> Odd idea about a virtual machine too. >> T

Jessie KDE desktop doesn't communicate with Java

2014-12-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
I'm running Jessie KDE, updated through today with the following Java installed: openjdk-7-jre:amd64 7u71-2.5.3-2 openjdk-7-jre-headless:amd64 7u71-2.5.3-2 I have the following gnome and libbonobo libraries installed: libgnome-2-0:amd642.32.1-5 lib

Testing needed for binutils security update

2014-12-22 Thread Luciano Bello
Hi there, I have been trying to fix the multiple security issues that binutils has pending[1] for wheezy/stable. It have been quite complicated and the patch affects many elements of the code. I would like to avoid regression as much as possible. Please, take a look to it [2] (compiled for amd

Re: bind mount

2014-12-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 dec 14, 11:03:07, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This line in /etc/fstab allows bind mounting, except that > the user option has no effect. > /usr/bin/aos /home/usr/.aoshome none bind,user > > There is no simple way to allow a user? What are you trying to accomplish? Kind regards, Andrei

Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 dec 14, 10:51:26, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files. > > for i in $( echo *.Log ); do > /bin/rm $i; > echo "Removed $i." > done > > In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains. > /bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such fi

Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 Dec 2014 at 11:58:55 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:09AM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: > > >> Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. > > >> So I think this deserves a bug report. > > > > > > Don't get carried away and start typing. > > > >

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Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:51:26AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files. > > for i in $( echo *.Log ); do > /bin/rm $i; > echo "Removed $i." > done > > In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains. > /bin/rm: cannot remove `*.L

bind mount

2014-12-22 Thread peter
This line in /etc/fstab allows bind mounting, except that the user option has no effect. /usr/bin/aos /home/usr/.aoshome none bind,user There is no simple way to allow a user? Thanks,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-22 19:23 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > $ ls -l /bin/dirname > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13880 Jan 30 2007 /bin/dirname > > $ file /bin/dirname > dirname: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped > > Simila

Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:09AM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: > >> Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. > >> So I think this deserves a bug report. > > > > Don't get carried away and start typing. > > > > #758902 > > > Yeah, This bug is bound to bite everybody at least o

Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 22/12/14 19:51, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files. > > for i in $( echo *.Log ); do > /bin/rm $i; > echo "Removed $i." > done > > In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains. > /bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such file or d

Re: shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/22/2014 at 01:51 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files. > > for i in $( echo *.Log ); do > /bin/rm $i; > echo "Removed $i." > done > > In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains. > /bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such fi

shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread peter
This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files. for i in $( echo *.Log ); do /bin/rm $i; echo "Removed $i." done In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains. /bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such file or directory If echo is replaced with ls, it complains when there

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:55:15AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find "dirname" and > > > "basename" when running at system boot, but it

/var/lib/dpkg/status strangeness

2014-12-22 Thread Simon Bell
Hi Everyone, My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting this when trying to apt-update: dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 27803 package 'gcr': field name `°[?@' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) I

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find "dirname" and > > "basename" when running at system boot, but it can find them when run > > from a terminal after boot. > > Maybe

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > I rebooted and found that the path is fine: > > /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin A notable difference to the default PATH of a logged in user (with the standard /etc/profile, anyway) is that init places /bin before /usr/bin. > So I'm still not sure why

[Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.9dev.2

2014-12-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
Latest stable and development info on lynx. Karen On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, Thomas Dickey wrote: The current version of lynx is 2.8.8 It's available at http://lynx.isc.org/ ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.8/ 2.8.9 Development & patches: http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html 20

Re: rezound, twinkle in jessie ?

2014-12-22 Thread Martin Read
On 22/12/14 12:31, Gerard ROBIN wrote: Hello, I installed jessie on a external hard drives, (usb) I use rezound and twinkle which are in squeeze only. They work fine in jessie but the command "apt-get dist-upgade" propose to me to remove five packages and among them rezound and twinkle. My questi

Re: Waiting for what...?

2014-12-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/12/14 03:27 AM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Dear List, I've get updates today but when I wish to see them it always hangs with "Waiting for headers". What happened? Thanks Can you more explicit? What made you think you got updates and what command did you run that gave you the message "w

rezound, twinkle in jessie ?

2014-12-22 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, I installed jessie on a external hard drives, (usb) I use rezound and twinkle which are in squeeze only. They work fine in jessie but the command "apt-get dist-upgade" propose to me to remove five packages and among them rezound and twinkle. My question: rezound and twinkle are they doomed t

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 December 2014 10:29:51 Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 16:46 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:30:39 + > > > > Brian wrote: > > > > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > > > > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file s

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 16:46 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:30:39 + > Brian wrote: > > > > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > > > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdi has > > > been opened read-only. > >

Re: Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-22 Thread alberto fuentes
>> Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable if you ask me. >> So I think this deserves a bug report. > > Don't get carried away and start typing. > > #758902 Yeah, This bug is bound to bite everybody at least one... probably more Severity of this regresion bug is wishlist and maintainer does

Waiting for what...?

2014-12-22 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Dear List, I've get updates today but when I wish to see them it always hangs with "Waiting for headers". What happened? Thanks