Re: procps with sysvinit: libsystemd0 vs libelogind0

2023-10-17 Thread Bill Brelsford
In article , David Wright wrote: > On Mon 16 Oct 2023 at 16:05:48 (-0700), Bill Brelsford wrote: >> The latest version of procps (2:4.0.4-2) depends on libsystemd0, so >> upgrading 2:4.0.3-1 to it causes libsystemd0 to be installed. But >> on my sysvinit system it confl

procps with sysvinit: libsystemd0 vs libelogind0

2023-10-16 Thread Bill Brelsford
libelogind0? I don't remember if that would cause other problems. Thanks.. Bill

Re: inode issue with cifs

2022-01-22 Thread Little Bill
I dont want to use nfs. And considering the inode appears correct initially. It appears there is a bug somewhere. On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 11:28 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Little Bill wrote: > > Provided the mount? This inode issue doesn't occur on Debian 8 and nfs. > To > > the sa

inode issue with cifs

2022-01-22 Thread Little Bill
not sure which group inode count is wrong on a cifs mount to a synology 394500 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root media 1460761806 Jan 22 09:36 'Magnum P.I - S04E12 - Angels Sometimes Kill.mkv' littlebill@tvmedia:/opt/mounts/vnas/tv/Magnum P.I/Season 04$ sudo find / -inum 394500

Custom mariadb installation

2021-02-26 Thread Bill
he correct way to install mariadb using unique, non-standard root and data directories? Thanks much, Bill -- Sent using Icedove on Debian GNU/Linux.

Raid 1 borked

2020-10-26 Thread Bill
? Thanks in advance, Bill -- Sent using Icedove on Debian GNU/Linux.

Re: Problem with mirrors in a 10.4.0 install

2020-07-21 Thread Bill
(or something similar) So I checked the DNS setting and sure enough one digit was off. Problem solved. Muchas Gracias, Bill -- Sent using Icedove on Debian GNU/Linux.

Problem with mirrors in a 10.4.0 install

2020-07-20 Thread Bill
ng else I can examine through a console or log or config file? Might the installer be using the wrong Architecture or something. What might the source of the error be? All advice appreciated, Bill -- Sent using Icedove on Debian GNU/Linux.

Re: Shutdown delay with LVM and disk encryption (SysV, buster)

2019-08-31 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Sat Aug 31 2019 at 03:40 PM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Am Freitag, 30. August 2019 schrieb Bill Brelsford: > > My 64-bit buster installation was created using its installer, with > > / and /home partitions in an encrypted logical volume (sda3_crypt). > > On shutdown, i

Shutdown delay with LVM and disk encryption (SysV, buster)

2019-08-29 Thread Bill Brelsford
they hung indefinitely. Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions or workarounds (other than systemd)? Thanks.. -- Bill Brelsford wbr...@k2di.net

Re: is xdvi broken?

2019-04-22 Thread Bill Wood
On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 05:17 +, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: . . . > That saves three steps over my current procedure: > > = In Emacs, save the document > = Switch to a virtual terminal > = Execute "latex mydocument.tex" > = Execute "latex mydocument.tex" > = Execute

Re: Emacs without knowing any Lisp (was: text editors)

2019-03-28 Thread Bill Wood
ripts for setting up and managing the directory structure for extracted texts. My first point is, having access to a full-blown programming language for doing task-specific work within an editor is *wonderful*; my second point is, the lisp family of languages are very useful and flexible tools for, among other things, exploratory programming. -- Bill Wood

disk encryption causing kernel panic

2018-10-14 Thread Bill
would I do if there were a lot of files? Thanks much, Bill Please unlock disk md2_crypt: cryptsetup (md2_crypt): set up successfully Please enter passphrase for disk md8_crypt on /text! [ 51.450202] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at(null

Re: udev (without systemd) fails to find devices

2018-09-12 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Wed Sep 12 2018 at 10:10 PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-09-11 19:05 -0700, Bill Brelsford wrote: > > > I recently upgraded the sid installation on an i386 machine. With > > udev upgraded to 239-8, many devices are no longer detected during > > boot, e.g.

udev (without systemd) fails to find devices

2018-09-11 Thread Bill Brelsford
report. Anyone else? Any other ideas? Thanks.. -- Bill Brelsford wbr...@k2di.net

SystemD problem with launching a server

2018-08-08 Thread Bill
? Is this file too sparse? Or am I pining for the fjords? Bill -- Sent using Icedove on Debian GNU/Linux.

Re: Re: Boot fails after power outage

2018-07-18 Thread Bill Horton
Darac, thanks, will try when I can spare the down time.

Boot fails after power outage

2018-07-17 Thread Bill Horton
Debian 9.5 on Dell Poweredge T310. After power outage, during boot, got the below messages on the console: Loading Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... /dev/sda3: clean, 279518/18317312 files, 11798527/73242112 blocks 6.912603] ACPI Error: SMBus/IPMI/GenericSerialBus write

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-12 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Fri Oct 13 2017 at 01:20 AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Bill Brelsford wrote: > > > This doesn't explain why I got the EBDA message in the first place, > > but all is working now.. > > once again the question: why not use grub? Lilo has always met my needs well, so,

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-12 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Mon Oct 09 2017 at 12:50 AM +0200, Bill Brelsford wrote: > After the stretch 9.2 kernel upgrade to 4.9.0-4, lilo gives, at > boot, "EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" > and freezes. Problem solved. This is a dual-boot system, with the Win 10 bootloa

New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-08 Thread Bill Brelsford
i686 with similar configuration, except that the failing one installs the boot loader in a partition rather than in the MBR. Suggestions? -- Bill Brelsford wbr...@k2di.net

trouble setting up raid1

2016-11-12 Thread Bill
with it, but why is Partman rejecting my overtures? And BTW is there any way to unlock or back out of a raid setup during configuration just in case I need to change something. How can I delete a raid device and start over if I have to? fdisk? Bill

Re: MySQL access denied for user

2016-08-14 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> wrote: > I'm getting the following: > > $ mysql -h localhost -u user > Enter password: > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using > password: YES) > > This user was created with a fresh install

MySQL access denied for user

2016-08-14 Thread Bill Wohler
trying to create a database user for Drupal, but am not having any luck. Help for a MySQL newb is very much appreciated. This is on jessie with MySQL 5.5. -- Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> aka <bill.woh...@nasa.gov> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
port back, assuming that the results of this adventure don't brick my machine /and/ my network. :-) Bill

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Bill Harris <bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com> writes: > - I have yet to do the `apt dist-upgrade` (I downloaded all the packages > and then quit), so I've got to do that at some time. > > - My question was whether I > > - reinstall the packages first, and then d

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> writes: > On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote: >>> The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending >>> packages. Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't >>> try this at home but it may res

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> writes: > On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote: >> Summary: >> emacs24(1 bug), dbus(1 bug), gnome-settings-daemon(1 bug), libxml2(1 bug), >> debhelper(1 bug), openbsd-inetd(1 bug), smartmontools(1 bug), ruby-hpricot(1 >> bu

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
the newest version." I thought I had seen that apt could do that. Thanks. > Just thinking out loud. :) Thanks, Cindy. Is there an easy way to `apt-get install --reinstall` and have it pick up those packages with bugs, or is it easier to enter the command once for each package? Bill

Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
I use Gnus. - I'll likely replace gutenprint with what comes with the latest hplips. - Still, I would use emacs24, gnome, and others here. - Pin them all (there are a lot). - If you suggest this, advice on how would be helpful. I only get Y/n options, no ability to pin one package at a time. - Something else? Thanks, Bill

Re: aptitude/dpkg fails at Preparing to unpack

2015-08-19 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Wed Aug 19 2015 at 11:40 AM +0200, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:32:24AM -0700, Bill Brelsford wrote: Recent security updates on jessie (i486) have failed: # aptitude update ... # aptitude -DPR safe-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded

aptitude/dpkg fails at Preparing to unpack

2015-08-18 Thread Bill Brelsford
Recent security updates on jessie (i486) have failed: # aptitude update ... # aptitude -DPR safe-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common ... Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 72512 files and

Open ports

2015-05-09 Thread Bill
Hi, I'm still running wheezy but noticed a couple of open ports the other day. This is just a simple laptop - no nfs access needed, no need for a networked port mapper, and certainly not a dns server. So why are they there, what uses them and why shouldn't I close them? (I'm assuming there

Re: Unable to complete package upgrade in jessie

2015-04-27 Thread Bill Baker
On 04/27/2015 07:04 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Have you rebooted, using that kernel? What does uname -r say? I have rebooted, but the new kernel has not installed. Here is uname -r: 2.6.32-5-486 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Unable to complete package upgrade in jessie

2015-04-27 Thread Bill Baker
On 04/27/2015 07:05 PM, The Wanderer wrote: A few thoughts: 1. Is there a reason why you need 'apt-get -f install packagename'? Does it error out if you just run 'apt-get install packagename'? I used -f because the output suggested I use it. 2. What happens if you try to install

[SOLVED] Re: Unable to complete package upgrade in jessie

2015-04-27 Thread Bill Baker
On a whim, I decided to see what would happen if I uninstalled consolekit. Lo and behold, after uninstalling it, I was able to upgrade the kernel normally and run a normal upgrade. Thanks to everyone who offered help. Replying to your responses helped me think through this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Unable to complete package upgrade in jessie

2015-04-27 Thread Bill Baker
On 04/27/2015 09:26 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 04/27/2015 at 09:19 PM, Bill Baker wrote: On a whim, I decided to see what would happen if I uninstalled consolekit. Lo and behold, after uninstalling it, I was able to upgrade the kernel normally and run a normal upgrade. Thanks to everyone

Unable to complete package upgrade in jessie

2015-04-27 Thread Bill Baker
Over the weekend, I upgraded my headless ssh server from wheezy to jessie. It's an older computer, built in the year 2000 with an AMD-K6 processor. Uname -a returns the following: Linux shunnel 2.6.32-5-486 #1 Mon Feb 25 00:22:26 UTC 2013 i586 GNU/Linux Since upgrading, whenever I try to do an

Re: Unable to complete package upgrade in jessie

2015-04-27 Thread Bill Baker
On 04/27/2015 06:23 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 28.04.2015 um 00:05 schrieb Bill Baker: Over the weekend, I upgraded my headless ssh server from wheezy to jessie. It's an older computer, built in the year 2000 with an AMD-K6 processor. Uname -a returns the following: Linux shunnel 2.6.32-5

Xorg / vt blank-screen problem

2014-11-24 Thread Bill Brelsford
? Thanks.. Bill -- Bill Brelsford wbr...@k2di.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1xt4mg-0006pd-hw...@k2di.net

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Unruh
I knew because you said that you had tried to backup some files to storage and sdb13 was not mounted on storage. So where those files went was into / partition. When you mounted sdb13 on top of /storage, all those files became inaccessible but they were still there taking up stace. This happened

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Wood
as a metaphorical term for the effort involved in concentrated thought such as problem solving. Given that concentrated thinking burns energy, hence calories, just as physical exercise does, it's not a bad image. -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-17 Thread Bill Wood
for Economics and Social Philosophy will bury Socialism by von Mises so deep I won't see it? Some think it nifty while it scares the hell out of others. -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-16 Thread Bill Wood
the recent Target exploits. Apparently the goal is usually to obtain health services and prescriptions from another person's insurance. The consequences of the corruption of the victim's medical records can be devastating. -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-15 Thread Bill Wood
in recent years. Does anyone know if there have been any exploits of Heartbleed in this sector, or if any healthcare organizations have said anything about fixing the problem? -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Bill Wood
-- why? -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1395518578.7408.1.camel@bills-debian

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-03-11 Thread Bill Wood
://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib It appears that none of the entries start with ftp:. So is there a possible Plan B at the OS or am I really going to have to hammer on Comcast? Thank you and thanks to all who replied to my earlier posts about this, -- Bill Wood

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Bill Wood
perhaps the International Committee for the Preservation of the One True Jargon will call a plenary session and vote to change the spelling to nube, in analogy with the English words cube, rube and tube, all rhyming with newb. *sigh* Probably not. -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Test

2014-03-07 Thread Bill Wood
On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 00:11 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: . . . That's not moderation (it would also be impossible to do with open lists), it's just oversight ;) I hope oversight works better here than in other all-to-familiar contexts. -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-03-05 Thread Bill Wood
assistance, -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1394038167.2579.4.camel@bills-debian

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-03-02 Thread Bill Wood
, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Are these servers still available or do I have a problem on my end? Thanks, -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-17 Thread Bill Wood
condition to to failure to access a file server. I am currently running Debian 6.0.9 (Squeeze) stable. I want to upgrade to 7 but don't want to get hung up with bad downloads due to port blocking by the firewall. Thanks, -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-08-04 Thread Bill Harris
been mentioned, but I've found rdiff-backup to work well for several years. I've never had to restore everything, but I have successfully restored files. Bill -- Bill Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

davfs2: umount no longer waits for cache synchronization

2013-06-14 Thread Bill Brelsford
called. Bug? Or do I have something configured wrong? -- Bill Brelsford w...@k2di.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1ungbr-0003sp-md@k2di.net

Re: Wheezy Sleezy Gnome

2013-05-12 Thread Bill Wohler
main squeeze -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com aka bill.woh...@nasa.gov http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Harris
Bill Harris wsharri...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and I booted into W7 and launched IE last night, and then I shut down again. Then I booted Debian. This time

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Harris
can update the kernel with little risk of borking anything, I may try. Bill -- Bill Harris Facilitated Systems http://makingsense.facilitatedsystems.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Bill Harris
. The screen is still as it was, but nothing has any effect: mouse, Alt-tab, attempts to get to virtual consoles. I honestly don't recall if I have blinking cursors :-%, but I certainly don't recall seeing any after a freeze. Bill -- Bill Harris

Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-17 Thread Bill Harris
data (log file, I presume) do you need to help me find and fix the prroblem? Thanks, Bill

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-15 Thread Bill Harris
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: It is quite safe. You can always try it now and if it doesn't have any success for you then you can remove it without lingering issues of having had it installed. Example: Thanks, Bob, for the detailed instructions. Bill -- Bill Harris

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-09 Thread Bill Harris
maybe to try a newer kernel (backports has 3.2). Thanks. I see that now. I'll think about it (and research what I'd have to do in addition to installing it). I've been staying mostly with Stable to reduce risk. Bill -- Bill Harris Facilitated Systems http

Squeeze freeze

2012-12-08 Thread Bill Harris
(partial) from the first freeze and a pointer to bugzilla - dpkg.log (two snippets) - messages upon a suspend recovery failure Bill --- Possibly interesting logfile snippets: ,[ auth.log--the entire contents from the time it wouldn't unsuspend ] | Dec 7 05:13:48 marbach gnome-keyring

Getting rid of Media Cache directory

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Wohler
Does anyone know who keeps creating ~/Media Cache and how I can get them to stop? -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com aka bill.woh...@nasa.gov http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

RE: 6.0.5 ia64 network card question

2012-05-16 Thread Bill Mclain
All, Can anyone assist me with getting drivers and installing a Dynex DX-PCIGB network card? I also have a USB Netgear Wireless n300 adapter as an alternative but I cannot get it to install either. Thanks and any info I did not provide just let me know and I will get it to you. Bill

Re: Evolution and POP3 problem: want to delete from server when moved from Inbox

2012-04-23 Thread Bill Harris
CamaleĆ³n noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:48:01 -0700, Bill Harris wrote: 1. I set up Evolution and imported my Icedove folders, and then I downloaded email for the first time in Evolution. That gave me duplicates of everything. Is there a command or plugin

Evolution and POP3 problem: want to delete from server when moved from Inbox

2012-04-21 Thread Bill Harris
. Besides, at some time, I'd like to have the emails on my own disk, and my past experience suggests that's not as easy with IMAP as it is with other approaches. Thanks, Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread Bill Harris
/sdb). Check out ddrescue as a replacement for dd, too. I've had luck with it when some files were partially corrupted, but it's been years since I used it. Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: VNC into a Debian Machine

2012-02-01 Thread Bill Dennen
file in your .vnc directory links to metacity. Replace it with gnome-session. Regards -- @ Bill Dennen ieee1...@hotmail.com Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: mcedit copy to cooledit.clip

2012-01-02 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi, When mc runs in forked shell, like script, the ctrl-ins keys in mcedit to copy marked text to cooledit.clip doesn't work. Anybody knows why not? Hugo Have you tried the Learn Keys function in mc? (I prefer using nano instead of the mc editor,

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-29 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: lshw output in my case has no *cdrom entry at all. I rebooted, opened the tray manually, inserted a Knoppix disk and set the BIOS to boot off the cdrom drive. No luck - booted from the hard drive. That sounds like a hardware problem with the cdrom

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-29 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512

Re: which is the best command to use

2011-12-27 Thread Bill Dennen
* should do what you want. -- @ Bill Dennen ieee1...@hotmail.com Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: which is the best command to use

2011-12-27 Thread Bill Dennen
WARNING *.o* :( -- @ Bill Dennen ieee1...@hotmail.com Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-20 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hello there, Is it possible to launch a default application with a file from the command line, e.g. something like: ./myfile.pdf which would retrieve the default PDF viewer and launch it on myfile? For the moment, I have a bash script called with

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-20 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? I can't run anything on the other system right now, but I can mount the disks on a machine that is running OK. Many TIA!

Re: Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Wohler
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: * Bill Wohler: When updating lenny this morning (yes, upgrading is on my todo list), I got the following error: E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package

Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-03 Thread Bill Wohler
security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Dec 3 09:37 security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_non-free_source_Sources Is there an ETA on when these files will be fixed? -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com aka bill.woh...@nasa.gov http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG

Re: Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-03 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler woh...@olgas.newt.com wrote: I still got a zero-sized Packages file: Those are for contrib and non-free, which might be expected. The error was in the main distribution, which does have mostly valid looking content, but which

GNOME 3 mini HOWTOs

2011-11-20 Thread Bill Wohler
! -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com aka bill.woh...@nasa.gov http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r512twgt

Re: [OT] Why not gnome3 (with gnome-shell)?

2011-11-20 Thread Bill Wohler
back button. (DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO MOVE IT) Agreed. That's a really good idea worth getting to the developers. -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com aka bill.woh...@nasa.gov http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-21 Thread Bill Wohler
I tried postfix. I've been running postfix ever since on my client machines (laptops and workstations) and servers alike. -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com aka bill.woh...@nasa.gov http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Whitespace problem with bash script for Icedove

2011-07-25 Thread Bill M
to Local\ Folders from the command line but within the script it's a different story. Bash refuses to recognize Local Folders as a directory and breaks at the whitespace. Here's the script and the error output. Any help appreciated. bill #! /bin/bash # A script to remove duplicate

Lenovo T410 modem difficulties

2011-06-22 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone had succeeded in getting the POTS built-in modem on a T410 to work with squeeze. I only need the modem for a backup on those rare occasions when POTS is all there is, but I would like to have it configured. After a night on Google, I discover that the

Re: Update Manage borked

2011-06-17 Thread Bill
On Fri, 2011-17-06 at 17:53 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: No worries, unlikely anything broken Boot into recovery mode. At the prompt type your root password and hit Enter (gently). make sure you have space on / (or /var if it's separate) # df -h #apt-get -d update if no errors then:-

Update Manage borked

2011-06-16 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I had to shutdown my laptop before update manager had finished completing it's latest updates. Now it hangs when restarting, one part probably thinks it's in the process of doing something, and another part is waiting for it to complete. Anyway all I get is a blank window, and no

Re: ssh woes

2011-06-12 Thread Bill
On Sun, 2011-12-06 at 01:09 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: Yes. Try #ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password and paste the output PreferredAuthentications doesn't seem to be a correct option. Nor does it show up in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Perhaps this is because I used

Re: ssh woes

2011-06-12 Thread Bill
On Sun, 2011-12-06 at 03:10 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: It not being in your /etc/ssh/ssh_config means you're not overriding the default, that's all. Ok. Thanks. I was curious. b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

ssh woes

2011-06-11 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I've Googled myself blind over this one, but all I can find are hundreds of people with the same problem and no real solutions. I suspect the answer is staring me in the face but I just don't see it. While I can ssh from my desktop to my laptop, I cannot ssh from my laptop to my

Re: ssh woes [solved] [Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer]

2011-06-11 Thread Bill
On Sat, 2011-11-06 at 21:55 -0700, Bill wrote: Hi folks, I've Googled myself blind over this one, but all I can find are hundreds of people with the same problem and no real solutions. I suspect the answer is staring me in the face but I just don't see it. While I can ssh from my desktop

Wicd Wireless Woes

2011-05-24 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I'm having problems connecting to my wireless access point using wicd. Wicd seems to be running ok. I can connect and disconnect from my wired network at will. Wicd also detects a variety of wireless networks in my neighborhood, including my own, but won't connect. It claims there's a

xorg freezes/sticks under kernel 2.6.38

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Brelsford
to be an issue with the X server and the 2.6.38 kernel. Anyone else experiencing this? Suggestions? Thanks.. Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1qjtjb-0002pg-fk

Annoying iwlagn log spam

2011-04-06 Thread Bill Wohler
it stop temporarily by disconnecting my wireless connection and connecting again. But it always comes back after a few hours. -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com aka bill.woh...@nasa.gov http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Dennen
hang is located, comment the ^%^% out of it to locate the command. Then follow your nose ;) Regards -- @ Bill Dennen ieee1...@hotmail.com Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: allow/deny user power of the os

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Dennen
back on until what I wanted to get done was done. Regards -- @ Bill Dennen ieee1...@hotmail.com Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: how to get pid when I start the process

2010-12-23 Thread Bill Dennen
. Question is, how do I script-lize this? The only difficulty is to get the pid in script. I could use an one-liner awk script to analyses the output of ps, but that sounds overkill. Is there a better way? Best. Thanks in advance! Is not the PID returned in $$ ?? -- @ Bill Dennen

[SOLVED]RE: Number pad doesn't work gnome(squeeze) HPE-337c-b keyboard 5335u

2010-10-26 Thread Bill Nickels
! That fixed it. Thank you! I already suggested that to Bill on this thread but it seems to cause no effect (or at least no response from him) :-? You can have the credit. Yeeepy! :-) Of course, I said the above months ago, in my only other post to this mailing list

RE: Number pad doesn't work gnome(squeeze) HPE-337c-b keyboard 5335u

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Nickels
Oct 2010 11:14:30 -0500, Bill Nickels wrote: (snip) xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us

RE: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Nickels
Recommend burning a super grub iso http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/SGD_Howto_make Boot from it to gain access to file systems. Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and try to boot the system. I am new to linux, just relating what work for me before so, this info is coming with a few grains of salt..

RE: Number pad doesn't work gnome(squeeze) HPE-337c-b keyboard 5335u

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Nickels
:28 -0500, Bill Nickels wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:14:30 -0500, Bill Nickels wrote: should i look elsewhere for the settings or select a different model? Not sure if this will help, but you can click Shift+F8 to enable/ disable numlock standard behaviour. Shift-F8 didn't

RE: Number pad doesn't work gnome(squeeze) HPE-337c-b keyboard 5335u

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Nickels
anything about the keyboard into xorg.conf. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: noela...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Number pad doesn't work gnome(squeeze) HPE-337c-b keyboard 5335u Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:59:56 + On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:42:46 -0500, Bill Nickels wrote: On Mon, 25

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