Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 11:39:39AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: In Jessie and Stretch, gnome-disk-utility-3.22.1 (which labels itself "Disks") sometimes balks at the instructions I give it. But that is what happens when you use a GUI instead of the command line, and particularly when the utility

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 03.05.19 18:01, Russell L. Harris wrote: > P.S. Would someone kindly tell me how, while in Mutt and reading a > message such as this, to launch a browser to open links such as [1] > and [2] above? A convenient alternative is to just double-click on a link in mutt's display in an xterm, then

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > it auto-mounted. > > > So as root I did: > > > > cp /dev/sdf > > You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp. This may mean > you have to turn off

Re: Emacs in GUI from two different users.

2019-05-03 Thread An Liu
HI, short answer is yes,you can have both emacs displayed in GUI i think the problem is when you switch to goo,the auth to DISPLAY is lost it depends much on how you switch to goo from foo btw, i guess you login to foo with display-manager such as gdm or something alike,and switch to goo with

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/03/2019 10:56 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 03 May 2019 at 09:40:05 (-0700), Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It

Emacs in GUI from two different users.

2019-05-03 Thread aprekates
 hi. in debian 9 i start emacs as user foo from the terminal and the gui start up. i start emacs from the terminal as another user goo and the text version comes. Can both users have their own gui emacs sessions ? Alexandros

Re: apt pinning: find out from which system version is a package

2019-05-03 Thread Emanuel Berg
tomas wrote: >> That's some heavy parsing, only I don't get >> it to work. I get "no such file or directory: >> " from the first, apt-cache-dump invocation. > > This is because it's spelt "apt-cache dump", > I guess ;-) No, then it says "zsh: command not found:" :) -- underground experts

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-05-03 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:43:55 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:41:18AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >> Alternatively, for internal-only stuff, you can use ULAs. IPv6 > > > >The context of our discussion is seamless and collision-free host access > >across a VPN, not

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:56:43AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Debian 9 (amd64), I installed Mutt. The synaptic description says the package is 1.7.2 and has neoMutt patches. But the "V" command in Mutt reports the version as "NeoMutt 20170113 (1.7.2)". I searched and read a number of

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 02 May 2019 at 23:33:06 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2019 20:49:28 +0100 Brian wrote: > > [...] > > In #917569 > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917569 > > > > Francesco Poli treats upgrading one buster Soekris net5501 installation > > to

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:40:05AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > > AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar... > > I found the war in the threads, but I did not find the outcome. > > > >

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:40:05AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar... I found the war in the threads, but I did not find the outcome. In Buster, Mutt means Mutt, and Neomutt means

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 May 2019 at 09:40:05 (-0700), Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between > > the > > package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It wasn't > > pretty[1,2]. > >

Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Any suggestions of what I could do to diagnose the problem? What do you get from this inspection run: xorriso -indev ...path.to.iso.image... \ -report_system_area plain \ -report_el_torito plain Have a nice day :) Thomas

Link Question

2019-05-03 Thread Jason Russell
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Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread john doe
On 5/3/2019 7:29 PM, Paul Sutton wrote: > > On 03/05/2019 18:24, James Medeiros wrote: >> I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if >> I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make >> sure your USB isn't mounted. >> >> dd if= of=/dev/sdf bs=8M >>

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Paul Sutton
On 03/05/2019 18:24, James Medeiros wrote: > I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if > I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make > sure your USB isn't mounted. > > dd if= of=/dev/sdf bs=8M > > > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Greg

un troll parle de debian pour casser du sucre dessus

2019-05-03 Thread Bernard Schoenacker
bonjour, voici l'article trollesque : https://www.dsfc.net/logiciel-libre/linux/debian-choix-de-la-deraison/ après ça, il continuera de cracher son venin sur les debianeux (Stérile ?) pour mémoire, c'est un formateur consultant en informatique qui utilise microsoft parce que c'est plus

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread James Medeiros
I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make sure your USB isn't mounted. dd if= of=/dev/sdf bs=8M On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900,

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Francisco M Neto
On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 10:51 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 08:43 -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between > > the > > package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It wasn't > > pretty[1,2]. > >

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > it auto-mounted. > So as root I did: > > cp /dev/sdf You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp. This may mean you have to turn off your auto-mounter, or (better still) just log out of your Desktop Environment

Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The image is the Windows 10 installer (please don't flame me! It's part of an education project for my son!) which I downloaded from Microsoft, and which they claim should be able to be written to a USB device. Microsoft

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It wasn't pretty[1,2]. It's been blogged too. I think Neo is kind of in your face and it is about the

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 08:43 -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the > package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It wasn't > pretty[1,2]. > > > In Buster, Mutt means Mutt, and Neomutt means Neomutt. Is

Re: apt-cacher-ng's expiry job failing

2019-05-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * David Wright [Sat, Apr 27 2019, 09:31:50AM]: > > /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/_xstore/rsnap/debrep/dists/unstable/45961554550630227606591 > > > > I removed the file and it started complaining about other similar files. > > After deleting a couple, the logs became even more unhelpful: > > > >

Re: linux-kernel needs dist-upgrade (again)

2019-05-03 Thread john doe
On 5/3/2019 3:32 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:10:45AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >> I would like to understand why apt-get upgrade holds backup the upgrade of >> the Linux kernel. > > Because the kernel ABI changed, and a new package has to be installed. > It's not just

Re: linux-kernel needs dist-upgrade (again)

2019-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:10:45AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > I would like to understand why apt-get upgrade holds backup the upgrade of > the Linux kernel. Because the kernel ABI changed, and a new package has to be installed. It's not just an upgrade of an existing package. By default,

linux-kernel needs dist-upgrade (again)

2019-05-03 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, I would like to understand why apt-get upgrade holds backup the upgrade of the Linux kernel. - Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: linux-image-amd64 (4.9+80+deb9u6 => 4.9+80+deb9u7) - So I looked at the Debian changelog for the

Re: apt pinning: find out from which system version is a package

2019-05-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 May 2019 at 03:46:50 (+0200), Emanuel Berg wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > $ apt-cache dump | grep -A 2 '^Package:' | grep -B 2 '^ File:' | sed -e > > 'N;N;s/\n/ /g;s/ \+/ /g;N' | grep -v '^--' | sort >> "$Unique1" > > $ dpkg-query -W -f '^Package: ${Package} \n' | grep --file=-

Re: apt pinning: find out from which system version is a package

2019-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:46:50AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > $ dpkg-query -W -f '^Package: ${Package} \n' | grep --file=- "$Unique1" | > > sort > Also I don't understand where the argument > goes? Where is ${Package} defined, even tho it > didn't (for me) even get

Re: apt pinning: find out from which system version is a package

2019-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:30:13AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Optimally I'd like it like this: > > $ from-what-release w3m-el-snapshot > testing The problem here is the packaging system does not KNOW from which source a package came, after it is installed. The best you can do is try

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 02 May 23:45 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I searched and read a number of list threads on the matter of Mutt vs. > neoMutt, but most of the threads I found were a few years old, so I do > not know the outcome of the matter. I also found a web page which > says that Debian 10 is

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-03 Thread Francisco M Neto
AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It wasn't pretty[1,2]. In Buster, Mutt means Mutt, and Neomutt means Neomutt. I suppose if you want to use "Vanilla" Mutt in Stretch you need to get it some

Re: apt pinning: find out from which system version is a package

2019-05-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:46:50AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > $ apt-cache dump | grep -A 2 '^Package:' | grep -B 2 '^ File:' | sed -e > > 'N;N;s/\n/ /g;s/ \+/ /g;N' | grep -v '^--' | sort >> "$Unique1" > > $ dpkg-query -W -f '^Package: ${Package} \n' | grep --file=-