Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Russell L. Carter wrote: The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas? hi, did you try to check: the playback device in the preferences/devices menu the temporary files directory in the preferences/directories menu cheers, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:54:49 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 11/06/20

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please enter an appropr

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-12 Thread Robert S
I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolved it (finally

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the preferences dia

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-12 Thread David Christensen
On 06/12/2015 12:45 AM, Peter Viskup wrote: Always consider using ddrescue [1] instead of dd - especially once you are not sure about the state of the drive. Tool ddrescue is taking 'dd' image of the drive, but will skip all the areas where the read will return an error. Standard 'dd' will try to

Re: su chmod -755 /usr

2015-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Julian Brooks wrote: > Cheers Bob :) > > Uuummm - work files yes, system configs/settings not really. > > Any top tips, like where are the permission file/s? I think you are asking what backup software would be recommended? There are many different ones. Let me point to a reference. https:/

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, John L. Ries wrote: Then you can check status, like so: systemctl status ssh.service The output of this command (above) doesn't change after a tunnel is started. My old clunky ps command tells me the tunnel is there: # ps ax |grep ssh 458 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/s

audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the preferences dialog." Click ok, then: 2. An error popup appears s

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-12 Thread gmane
I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolved it (finally

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-12 Thread John L. Ries
On Friday 2015-06-12 15:53, Bob Bernstein wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:53:52 From: Bob Bernstein To: Debian User List Subject: systemd equivalent I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What would be the "systemd-correct" form of this: $ ps ax | grep ssh I use that to check fo

Re: su chmod -755 /usr

2015-06-12 Thread Julian Brooks
Cheers Bob :) Uuummm - work files yes, system configs/settings not really. Any top tips, like where are the permission file/s? On 12 June 2015 at 22:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > Julian Brooks wrote: > > All seems well, valuable lesson(s) learnt. > > Seriously thought it was terminal, appreciate th

systemd equivalent

2015-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What would be the "systemd-correct" form of this: $ ps ax | grep ssh I use that to check for the existence (or, as the case may be) demise) of an ssh tunnel I use for VNC. What should I use? Thanks all, -- These are not the droids you are

forums.debian.net down?

2015-06-12 Thread ami x
Since yesterday (11.06.2015) afternoon FDN is unreachable. Does anyone have any information on this? Thanks.

Re: Debian From Scratch ISO

2015-06-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/06/15 04:37 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I would like to install Debian from Scratch. To do this I need Goerzen's Live CD ISO. I finally managed to find it at https://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/rescue-zfs/. File name is wheezy-live-rescue-zfs0.6.3-jgoerzen-20141008.iso. When I boot the ISO in

Re: su chmod -755 /usr

2015-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Julian Brooks wrote: > All seems well, valuable lesson(s) learnt. > Seriously thought it was terminal, appreciate the wisdom people. Glad to hear you solved your problem. In the future with a similar problem you would be able to restore your current system permissions from your backup. Not the e

Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Reco wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > That use of socat was clever. I didn't like the pkill socat though. > > Wouldn't be good if there were another one running at the same time. > > Yes, there's a room for an improvement. Presumably socat can write own > pid to a user-specified pidfile, but I was

Re: httpd virtual package

2015-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > [...] > > I debootstrapped a Jessie chroot in order to test your case. > [...] > > Bob, just a lurker here. Thanks for this very instructive and well- > written walkthrough! I am glad you found it useful. As long as I am on the topic I should add a s

Debian From Scratch ISO

2015-06-12 Thread Haines Brown
I would like to install Debian from Scratch. To do this I need Goerzen's Live CD ISO. I finally managed to find it at https://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/rescue-zfs/. File name is wheezy-live-rescue-zfs0.6.3-jgoerzen-20141008.iso. When I boot the ISO in a virtualBox, the boot menu lists Live AMD 6

Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly? Thanks

2015-06-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On 06/12/2015 03:34 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/12/2015 at 02:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance. BUT then a friend

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: >> >> >> On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. >> >

Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly?

2015-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/12/2015 at 02:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed > to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be > displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance. > > BUT then a friend send a link to photos at shutterfly w

Fwd: grsync network share

2015-06-12 Thread notoneofmy
Hallo, Care to give a quick hand here. I have a USB drive that I want to copy data ftom. I want to copy my NAS. The USB drive is attached to my Debian laptop. The laptop and NAS are on the same network. I want to use grsync. Selecting the local source is not problem, but grsync does not seem t

grsync network share

2015-06-12 Thread notoneofmy
Hallo, Care to give a quick hand here. I have a USB drive that I want to copy data ftom. I want to copy my NAS. The USB drive is attached to my Debian laptop. The laptop and NAS are on the same network. I want to use grsync. Selecting the local source is not problem, but grsync does not seem to

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Jun 2015 at 21:16:51 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:26 -0400 > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > Despite the occasional problem, I find Linux to be far superior to > > Windows. While CUPS may send you looking for a driver sometimes, it's > > far worse for Window

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-12 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-12 11:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers > for > all versions of Windows? In my experience, you have to throw things away > when the version of Windows changes and there is no driver for that version. > After you have

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/06/2015, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > > > On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >>> On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 09:19

Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly?

2015-06-12 Thread notoneofmy
I know I was able to install it using the apt-get option. apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree You may need to add the non-free to /etc/sources.list. I can't be sure. On 15-06-12 8:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed > to display

Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly?

2015-06-12 Thread Thomas H. George
Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance. BUT then a friend send a link to photos at shutterfly which I can't view as Flash Player is required. I tried i

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:24:52PM +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:35 PM, Brian wrote: > >Just to be clear on how you solved your problem: was it by installing > >the Debian cups-backend-bjnp package or by following the advice at the > >link given? So you already had the cups-back

Re: Empathy unusable

2015-06-12 Thread Tim Dengel
Am 12.06.2015 um 18:39 schrieb David Demelier: > I have Debian Jessie installed and empathy is just unusable. I just > cannot add an account, the combobox is empty in the question "What kind > of chat account do you have?" > > Am I missing something? Empathy uses telepathy to support chat protoco

Empathy unusable

2015-06-12 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I have Debian Jessie installed and empathy is just unusable. I just cannot add an account, the combobox is empty in the question "What kind of chat account do you have?" Am I missing something? Regards, -- David Demelier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

2015-06-12 Thread Emanuel Berg
Sven Arvidsson writes: > Maybe this combination of xdotools and xbindkeys might > work? > http://superuser.com/questions/469004/remap-superarrow-key-to-home-end Again, 'xdotool key 0xe2' works in xterm but not if put in .xbindkeysrc and then invoked with the keystroke. I have xbindkeys up and ru

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/06/15 10:01 AM, Robert S wrote: Hi. I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I've managed to boo

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-06-12 13:16 +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote: > hi all, > > today after a dist-upgrade i have problems with git. these are the > updated packages > > Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main dpkg i386 1.18.1 > [2.939 kB] > Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main > liblocal

Re: Re: Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'[Solved]

2015-06-12 Thread Gerard Hooton
OK solved. I had the include "/etc/bind/named.conf.log"; statement in the wrong place in the named.conf file. I had it inside the options { } -- Gerard Hooton. Senior Technical Officer School of Engineering. University College Cork. College Road. Cork. Ireland. Tel: +353 21 4902296 Mobile: +353

Re: Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

2015-06-12 Thread Gerard Hooton
On 12/06/15 15:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:21:26PM +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote: Hi All, I already sent that was but before I subscribed to the list. I have included the following in my named.conf logging { channel b

Re: Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

2015-06-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:21:26PM +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote: > Hi All, > I already sent that was but before I subscribed to the list. > > I have included the following in my named.conf > > logging { > channel bind_log { > file "/var/log/bind

Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

2015-06-12 Thread Gerard Hooton
Hi All, I already sent that was but before I subscribed to the list. I have included the following in my named.conf logging { channel bind_log { file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity info; print-category yes; print-severity yes; print-time yes; };

No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-12 Thread Robert S
Hi. I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I've managed to boot my system with a live USB stick and ha

Bind 9 unknown option 'logging'

2015-06-12 Thread Gerard Hooton
Hi All, I have included the following in my named.conf logging { channel bind_log { file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m; severity info; print-category yes; print-severity yes; print-time yes; }; category default { bind_log; }; category update { bind_log;

Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

2015-06-12 Thread Julian Brooks
"what has this to do with chroot?" THe reddit link mentions several times using chroot. Tmp folder has a couple of these type folders 'systemd-private-3d781014447746cca13e925310f41100-cups.service-b2Piz4', with empty tmp folders inside systemd also comes up in the links as a possible culprit but t

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:32:31PM +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote: > im working on bitbucket project for months and today after an > upgrademy git command doesnt go. im using my git configuration > with https protocol and i think there is a problem wit

Re: USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

2015-06-12 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Hi all, > > Since I did a dist-upgrade (running unstable) on 2015-06-01, I'm having a > rather annoying issue that the system will seemingly randomly drop keystrokes > from my USB keyboard I tried disabling power management for that device, bu

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-12 Thread Roi Diaz Real
im working on bitbucket project for months and today after an upgrademy git command doesnt go. im using my git configuration with https protocol and i think there is a problem with that upgrade i can solve this problem with ssh protocol El 12/06/15 a las 14:07, to...@tuxteam.de

Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

2015-06-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:44:39PM +0100, Julian Brooks wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Cheers for the response. > > Ok - seems it would be useful to get to grips with 'chroot'. Sorry -- I lost you: what has this to do with chroot? > Also from recent posts

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now I'm lost: what exactly are you trying to do? thanks+regards - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlV6y5YACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbyGACfaBCybPB1QSksTlDp3qgECbNJ l3AAn3vTSKEnZCFAXaxC5O5cUEulSA2k =J2KI -E

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-12 Thread Roi Diaz Real
if i clone a random github project like this: sunevil@debian:~$ git clone --verbose https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client.git Cloning into 'google-api-php-client'... sunevil@debian:~$ no erros. im trying to do it with ssh protocol and goes right El 12/06/15 a las 13:24, to...@

Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

2015-06-12 Thread Julian Brooks
Hi Tomas, Cheers for the response. Ok - seems it would be useful to get to grips with 'chroot'. Also from recent posts it's not just me that finds printers a ball-ache. Would be happy with a quick dirty fix tbh. I know the Right thing would be to track it down and sort it properly but could I,

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Matthijs Wensveen
On 11-6-2015 7:13, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages n

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote: > hi all, [...] > when i do "git pull" or "git clone", "git" doesnt show errors but it > doesnt do anything. Does "git clone --verbose" shed some light on this? - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIG

problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-12 Thread Roi Diaz Real
hi all, today after a dist-upgrade i have problems with git. these are the updated packages Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main dpkg i386 1.18.1 [2.939 kB] Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main liblocale-gettext-perl i386 1.05-9 [19,1 kB] Des:3 http://ftp.es.deb

Re: a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

2015-06-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:55:53AM +0100, Julian Brooks wrote: > Hi all, > > I have this message > "a start job is running for create volatile files and directories" > when booting. There is then a "n's/no limit" while it counts up to approx > 1m30'is

USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

2015-06-12 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi all, Since I did a dist-upgrade (running unstable) on 2015-06-01, I'm having a rather annoying issue that the system will seemingly randomly drop keystrokes from my USB keyboard I tried disabling power management for that device, but that doesn't help. This is happening on two different mac

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have. Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers for all versions of Windows? In my experience, you have to throw things away when the version of Windows c

a start job is running for create volatile files and directories

2015-06-12 Thread Julian Brooks
Hi all, I have this message "a start job is running for create volatile files and directories" when booting. There is then a "n's/no limit" while it counts up to approx 1m30'ish and then carries on booting. I'm pretty sure it's to do with installing printer drivers (from searching around) but I'd

Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

2015-06-12 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 05:09 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Petter Adsen writes: > > > A guess: > > > > String "0xe2" > > Sorry, that outputs the literal string as well. > > Ha, what a silly problem... Maybe this combination of xdotools and xbindkeys might work? http://superuser.com/questions

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-12 Thread Peter Viskup
Always consider using ddrescue [1] instead of dd - especially once you are not sure about the state of the drive. Tool ddrescue is taking 'dd' image of the drive, but will skip all the areas where the read will return an error. Standard 'dd' will try to continuously re-read that area which could ca