Re: continual acpid and gdm3 messages in syslog

2017-04-27 Thread Ron Leach
On 27/04/2017 21:57, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-04-27 19:48 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: In syslog there are pretty much continuous messages (extract below) issued by acpid and gdm. The gdm3 message warns that GdmDisplay is lasting a very short time. How about just stopping these services? Y

Re: Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > Is this also something where Felix would participate actively over at > Debian-Mentors? > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ I had considered the mentors list, but, while using the bug tracking system might start to border on the purview of that list, a quick s

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
Kent West writes: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Kent West wrote: > I've got 90% of it done, but I need it to logout after a certain > time of inactivity, but only after the computer has been used at > least once since the last start of X (otherwise it'll just be in a > slow

Re: Program to electronically sign PDF's?

2017-04-27 Thread Fjfj109
How do you do this with Evince? Original Message Subject: Re: Program to electronically sign PDF's? Local Time: April 27, 2017 7:20 PM UTC Time: April 27, 2017 11:20 PM From: d...@randomstring.org To: Fjfj109 debian-user@lists.debian.org On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:41:00PM -040

Re: Program to electronically sign PDF's?

2017-04-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:41:00PM -0400, Fjfj109 wrote: > I've tried GIMP, but the document is password protected and does not give me > the option to input the password. Is there any program people know of in > Debian (stable) that allows me to do this? epdfviewer and evince should both have t

Program to electronically sign PDF's?

2017-04-27 Thread Fjfj109
I've tried GIMP, but the document is password protected and does not give me the option to input the password. Is there any program people know of in Debian (stable) that allows me to do this?

Re: continual acpid and gdm3 messages in syslog

2017-04-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-04-27 19:48 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: > Syslog is logging thousands of reports that I've not seen before, and > I wonder if anybody on the list could advise how I should deal with > these reports. > > In syslog there are pretty much continuous messages (extract below) > issued by acpid and g

continual acpid and gdm3 messages in syslog

2017-04-27 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, Syslog is logging thousands of reports that I've not seen before, and I wonder if anybody on the list could advise how I should deal with these reports. In syslog there are pretty much continuous messages (extract below) issued by acpid and gdm. The gdm3 message warns th

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > Normal Jessie install, but when it came time to do the "tasksel"-looking > stage within the installer, I uninstalled everything. > *unselected everything -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspo

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Fungi4All wrote: > From: we...@acu.edu > To: debian users > > Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie. > > Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after > grub, requiring holding the power button for 8 seconds to power off. Then > power o

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 27/04/17 05:44, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably. >> > > This. Any recent Dell machine will likely have a Skylake or Kaby Lake CPU > and a bad time on the stock jessi

Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?]

2017-04-27 Thread Fungi4All
Original Message Subject: Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?] UTC Time: April 26, 2017 8:26 PM From: rowl...@cloud85.net In the *MAJORITY* of cases that it runs demonstrates that someone at sometime decided to restrict some computer owners

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Fungi4All
From: we...@acu.edu To: debian users Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie. Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after grub, requiring holding the power button for 8 seconds to power off. Then power on, and it boots normally. what do you mean minimal install, can

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

2017-04-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 22 Apr 2017 at 09:43:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/22/2017 08:45 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >Any better? > > > > brian@laptop:~$ lspci | grep Texas > > 00:10.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller > > 00:10.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to work on a home-grown kiosk using Jessie. > > I've got 90% of it done, but I need it to logout after a certain time of > inactivity, but only after the computer has been used at least once since > the last start of X (otherwise it'l

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote: > In /etc/default/grub, I commented out the line that mentioned "quiet", > and in the next line, added between the quotes "nomodeset", ran > "update-grub", and rebooted. > > Frozen Presumably there was more output than just "initializing ramdisk". But in

Re: how i can instal programe to linux Debian ? thank you

2017-04-27 Thread Mostafa Shahverdy
> usually (as root on a system): > > # apt-get install > > will do everything needed. depending upon the > package you may have to configure some things > after it is installed. > > if you do not know the name of the package you > can use search the package list for keywords to > see

Re: how i can instal programe to linux Debian ? thank you

2017-04-27 Thread songbird
Saber Lalam wrote: which program? usually (as root on a system): # apt-get install will do everything needed. depending upon the package you may have to configure some things after it is installed. if you do not know the name of the package you can use search the package list for ke

Re: Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 02:53:28AM +0200, Felix Dietrich wrote: > Looking through bugs in the Mnemosyne package I noticed a couple of > old and stale reports that could have already been closed. This is an endemic problem in Debian: there are far, far too many bug reports and not enough people wo

how i can instal programe to linux Debian ? thank you

2017-04-27 Thread Saber Lalam

Re: No mail after reboot

2017-04-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26/04/17 11:31, Henning wrote: On Apr 26, 2017, at 3:39 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Jessie, postfix/courier on my VPS. I don't often need to restart, which is just as well, as after a reboot, I'm unable to access mail over IMAP. It turns out, that if I run service courier-i