Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

On 28/12/16 12:34 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: Gary Dale writes: I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I install cdr

Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

On 28/12/16 11:29 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I install cdrtools. K3b refuses to b

k3b can't find cdrecord

I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I install cdrtools. K3b refuses to burn the CD image. There is no package cdrtools but

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On 21/10/16 07:23 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: Thanks. The settings button | History has a "Restore Closed Tabs" option that isn't in the History pulldown. When you first sta

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On 21/10/16 02:50 PM, William Satterthwaite wrote: In that case, you could try this addon. Once installed, you can go session manager > session manager options > Startup and Shutdown > change the startup option to 'show my

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: Are you accessing the restore button through the default home page? If this is where the button has disappeared from, you can try accessing it through the settings button > history > restore. Or enable the menu bar > history > restore. If

Firefox lost restore previous session setting

I'm running Stretch on an AMD64 system. Lately I haven't been able to locate the restore previous session button and Firefox doesn't seem to want to do it automatically either. Has this option been removed? I find it terribly annoying to have to reopen all the tabs I normally have every time

Re: usb 2-4: unable

On 17/10/16 11:58 AM, Manoel Pedro de Araújo wrote: Hi guys, I have the problem. When the notebook start his show the mensagens: * usb 2-4: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/all usb 2-4: can't read configurations, error -110 * What to do to eliminate this error mensagens. I use the

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Online business seems to have hit a roadblock. Is there anything I can change in the about:config that will allow the "next" button to work on the https paypal pages? I have even tried it a

Re: Installing Debian 8

On 24/07/16 09:02 AM, Parsa Hassan Abadi wrote: Dear Sir/Madam: I have an issue installing Debian 8 64 bit on a 32bit grub boot-loader on my Acer Aspire 5228 and I want to know how can I start a 64bit Kernel from a 32bit grub boot loader.** Thanks. I'm looking forward to hear from you,

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 08/07/16 07:06 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 08 Jul 2016 at 18:13:01 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/07/16 02:19 PM, Brian wrote: If you have some way of easily adjusting files in /etc/grub.d to the needs of a user I wish you would say. So that's the problem. You never took the time to RTFM. See

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 08/07/16 03:51 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 08 Jul 2016 at 15:08:21 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/07/16 02:19 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 23:34:11 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/07/16 05:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:18:05 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/07/16 02

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 08/07/16 02:19 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 23:34:11 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/07/16 05:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:18:05 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: The big

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 07/07/16 05:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:18:05 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to updated each time you changed

Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately?

On 07/07/16 03:17 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 14:23 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I admit that I only use Inkscape on an occasional basis but I don't recall it being so atrociously bad in my past experiences with it. However the current round of bugs I'm seeing suggest

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to updated each time you changed something. That fell by the wayside with Grub 2. Now the big selling feature is that it works

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 05/07/16 09:38 AM, Giovanni Gigante wrote: Hello, I am preparing my system for the upgrade from wheezy to jessie. Since ancient ages, this system has been using LILO as the bootloader, because, long ago, it was the only bootloader that was recommended for my setup: this machine has two

why is Inkscape so bad lately?

I admit that I only use Inkscape on an occasional basis but I don't recall it being so atrociously bad in my past experiences with it. However the current round of bugs I'm seeing suggest that the developers aren't really in control of their code. Grouping objects creates different results in

How do you exit from Vi mode in Kate?

There seems to be a combination of keystrokes that I accidentally hit from time to time that puts me into Vi mode. Now I've nothing against Vi but if I wanted to use it, I have the real thing (well Vim anyway) at the command prompt. Unfortunately once in it, I can't figure out how to get out

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote: 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(

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote: I updated one laptop a month or two ago using the process on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html, and it worked smoothly. Then I tried the same thing yesterday on a second laptop, except that I forgot to get

Re: samba4 stopped working

On 04/07/16 12:29 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> [2016-07-04 11:36 -0400]: I've been using Samba4 on Debian/Jessie since it became "stable". After the last upgrade however, I got a massive failure. [...] [2016/07/04 11:29:48.460701,

Re: samba4 stopped working [resolved]

On 04/07/16 12:29 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> [2016-07-04 11:36 -0400]: I've been using Samba4 on Debian/Jessie since it became "stable". After the last upgrade however, I got a massive failure. [...] [2016/07/04 11:29:48.460701,

samba4 stopped working

I've been using Samba4 on Debian/Jessie since it became "stable". After the last upgrade however, I got a massive failure. The first symptom I noticed was that I couldn't grab updates from the Debian servers. However when clients tried to log in, the real problem revealed itself. They could

Re: Test version of the system.

On 23/04/16 01:01 PM, amd amd wrote: At this point in time , none of the test version does not work, weekly, and daily sid broken after the installation will not start. The last working test sid was released 14.3.2016 . Sid is unstable. Testing is currently Stretch. Stretch works somewhat,

Re: Gnome Desktop w/ icons

On 10/04/16 02:05 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > How do I get a desktop with normal icons. All I am getting now is a > heading on the left saying "activities" w/ no ability to place Icons > on the desktop. > > TIA > > Ethan > I don't use Gnome normally but I believe you can drag

Re: Samba (4.1.17) ldap backend create user failed

On 06/04/16 05:59 AM, basti wrote: Hello, I have upgrade my samba PDC from 3.xx (lenny) to 4.1 (jessie). ldap and samba shares work all fine. When I try to add a user I get the following smbpasswd -a foobar New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: ldapsam_create_user: Unable to allocate a

Re: Contemplating new MFC color laser printer purchase

In general, laser is the way to go. However inkjet still rules for printing photos and printing directly onto discs. There are also specialty printing, such as large formats, where you would have a tough time finding lasers. I tend to stay away from Brother myself for the same reason you

Re: Automounting query

On 05/03/16 06:28 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2016 10:39:13 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:31:26 + Lisi Reisz wrote: Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable drives automount to /media/label instead of

Re: Automounting query

On 04/03/16 12:42 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable drives automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ? TIA Cheers, Ron. I believe that if you have the drive identified in /etc/fstab to mount where you want

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

On 02/03/16 08:42 AM, Albin Otterhäll wrote: When doing a guided partition when installing debian, the debian-installer creates a EFI (/boot/efi) partition with approximately 500MB, and a /boot partition with around 250MB. Why this weird ratio between them? To my knowledge only the

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

On 25/02/16 06:38 PM, arian wrote: Debian's Gnome uses Iceweasel much like Windows uses IE. I'm not really sure what you mean. It's Debians default browser in the way I think IE is currently Windows' default browser, but it's not used outside of being used as a browser. Many programs use

Re: Debian package on Windows

I don't see why you object so strongly to the idea of porting apt-get to Windows. The idea may be a little crazy in that Windows programs don't install the same way or use the same libraries but there are lots of other programs that run on Linux and Windows without provoking a hostile

Re: disk space disappeared

On 11/02/16 12:44 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Did you check if something is hidden under the mount points? mount --bind / /mnt du /mnt -hx --max-depth=1 If you're done cleaning up don't forget to umount /mnt Regards, jvp. That was it. I figured it out last night. For some reason

disk space disappeared

I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) with a RAID6 array for /home. df shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out where the space has gone. When I add up all the space in the various directories off /, they don't come

disk space disappeared

I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) with a RAID6 array for /home. df shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out where the space has gone. When I add up all the space in the various directories off /, they don't come

Re: Trouble mounting nfs share

On 07/02/16 12:23 PM, Carlos Kosloff wrote: I am having trouble mounting an nfs share. Here is the scenario: I am on the Debian testing branch, all the necessary nfs packages have been installed from repo, nfsd is running, I have checked with pidof, psaux | grep, top, etc. There are two

Re: Problem to detect external monitor on Lenovo ThinkPad Dock

On 03/02/16 04:27 AM, Fedele Mantuano wrote: Hi, I'm debian jessie user. I can detect external monitor only after restart of gdm.service. Can you help me? xrandrcommand before restart gdm.service: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 eDP1 connected primary

Re: CPUFAN into SYSFAN?

On 03/02/16 10:09 AM, Andre Müller wrote: This works maybe. Some motherboards don't boot, when there is no speed signal at the cpu fan connector. German > schrieb am Mi., 3. Feb. 2016 um 16:01 Uhr: Hi people, Here is the thing.

Re: Loss of lan after memory upgrade (SOLVED)

On 14/01/16 04:38 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I want to thank everybody for their suggestions. I still don't know what the problem was but solved it by booting up the stretch installation / rescue disk. Going through the initial setup, including the network setup, cleared the problem. A search of

Re: Using bind mount

On 12/01/16 10:23 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:12:11 -0300, Daniel wrote: M... I used the following syntax: mount --bind /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc That works for you? Sorry ... mount: mount point docs does not exist That error would indicate that

Re: Using bind mount

On 12/01/16 10:41 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: Gary: I just tried something similar with an NFS share and was able to do it. My situation was I have ///mnt mounted in ~/mnt. I was then able to (as root) mount -o bind ./mnt/archives ./mnt1 while in my normal ~ folder. You could also try mounting

Re: Using bind mount

On 12/01/16 09:17 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: I am trying to get around the restriction of symlinks not resolving in FTP when the account is DefaultRoot'ed and CHRoot'ed. I mounted a NAS volume, some directories of which I want to appear as being rooted elsewhere, thus: # mkdir -p /mnt/nas #

Re: gettext is one minor rev too old

On 11/01/16 09:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 January 2016 13:30:41 Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Jan 2016 at 13:16:07 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 January 2016 05:19:52 Santiago Vila wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 08:39:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: running 99% wheezy,

Re: gettext is one minor rev too old

On 10/01/16 08:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; running 99% wheezy, trying to build gEDA because whats in the repos is very old. geda-gaf is refusing to autoconfig, gettext is 0.18.1-1.9, and I need 0.18.2 or better. Is there a deb repo I can raid just for that? Thanks. Cheers,

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

On 10/01/16 07:15 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: After solving all my mount problems and changing from dynamic to static addressing by editing /etc/network/interfaces, I reboot the system and was greeted with: Welcome to emergency mode. "systemctl default", "systemctl reboot" to try again, or press

Re: DVI swtch is not working with Debian 8.0

On 10/01/16 01:47 AM, German wrote: Hi list, I recently bought this DVI KVM switch: http://en.mt-viki.com/product/KVM/usbkvm_dvi/2014/0712/577.html It claims to support linux and from what I understand it is hardware switch, so it should work. It isn't. To be specific, mouse and keyboard don't

Re: DVI swtch is not working with Debian 8.0

On 10/01/16 08:50 AM, German wrote: On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 08:26:03 -0500 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: On 10/01/16 01:47 AM, German wrote: Hi list, I recently bought this DVI KVM switch: http://en.mt-viki.com/product/KVM/usbkvm_dvi/2014/0712/577.html It claims to support

Re: fstab syntax question

On 06/01/16 12:25 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: I have two things that need to go into /etc/fstab. One's a network share with a username and password. The other is a Windows share which is public, no username and password for that one. Both shares will bmnounted on the Debian system read-only. I know

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

On 04/01/16 07:16 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 04.01.2016 um 22:43 schrieb Gary Dale: The link is to /bin/systemctl which is NOT world executable and is owned by root:root. Therefore it should not be executable by anyone other than root. $ ls -al /bin/systemctl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651512

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

On 04/01/16 12:14 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:16:03PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 04/01/16 10:55 AM, Floris wrote: Dear list, Often there are multiple users working on my multiseat [1] system, some of them are kids

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

On 04/01/16 03:19 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: On 05/01/16 03:14, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:16:03PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 04/01/16 10:55 AM, Floris wrote: Dear list, Often there are multiple users working on my multiseat [1] system, some of them are kids

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

On 04/01/16 04:05 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: On 05/01/16 06:30, Gary Dale wrote: Possibly but I note that systemctl is owned by root:root so that typical users can't execute it anyway. They get execute rights from the links. Errm, no they wouldn't. Not if they were symlinks. Hardlinks, maybe

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

On 04/01/16 03:39 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:25:02PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 04/01/16 12:14 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] Dunno about systemctl, but FWIW you can't change the permissions of a symlink. It's

Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl

On 04/01/16 10:55 AM, Floris wrote: Dear list, Often there are multiple users working on my multiseat [1] system, some of them are kids and they are not paying attention if someone else is logged in. They can shutdown the computer even if someone else is logged in and have an active session.

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

On 02/01/16 02:47 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: I have a Windows machine called 'box' with a directory called 'users' which is shared publicly with no access username or password as 'users2'. On my Jessie system, I created the mount point successfully: mkdir -p /mnt/users I then installed the

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

On 02/01/16 05:24 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:52:54 -0500, you wrote: The correct mount options are half of what you're actually asking about in this thread, so we should settle those out by the time the thread is done with. For the "dump" and "pass" columns, in my

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

On 02/01/16 04:15 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:00:31 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: I presume that the user as which you are attempting to run the later mount command has write and execute permission on this new directory. Yes. It's root, which means it's

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 31/12/15 06:15 AM, Fernando Arenas wrote: First my sincere congratulations to the entire team that works every day to improve this wonderful operating system. The reason for writing to you is to have found in a package called openclipart2 clipsarts clearly sexist content in which women are

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

On 31/12/15 03:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 31/12/15 06:15 AM, Fernando Arenas wrote: First my sincere congratulations to the entire team that works every day to improve this wonderful operating system. The reason for writing to you is to have found in a package called openclipart2 clipsarts

Re: Laptop + VGA + X

On 29/12/15 07:00 PM, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: Hi. The monitor of my laptop is broken, thus the screen frequently becomes white. Then, it is needed to turning off the energy and restart the laptop (not always with success). Therefore, I plugged a VGA monitor. However, the VGA

Re: Recovering from Debian Wheezy RAID-1

On 22/12/15 04:44 PM, Narunas Krasauskas wrote: I have this HDD (WD3200BPVT) which used to be part of the RAID-1 array which has been created with Debian (Wheezy) installer, then AES encrypted, then split into LVM volumes. Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]

Re: Updating Debian Jessie

On 20/12/15 10:08 AM, michael bailey wrote: Updated Debian Jessie 8.0 using :- apt-get -u update apt-get -u upgrade apt-get -u dist-upgrade but now find that the PC won't reboot. Am getting messages such as 'couldn't start the load kernel modules' and 'couldn't start /boot/efi' Can anyone

Re: "lvmetad is not active yet"

On 16/12/15 03:10 PM, Carlos Davila wrote: Hi, During boot I am getting the following message: lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysinit "disk/by-uuid-": Invalid path for Logical Volume. But I have no logical volumes on my system (Stretch on sdb). The system

Re: command not found

On 15/12/15 05:02 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall. Reinstalled all my s/w including msmtp and fetchmail. I brought .fetchmailrc over from my backup as well as .msmtprc. Both had been working flawlessly on the previous install. Now

Re: Jessie CUPS print class problem [RESOLVED]

On 10/12/15 06:22 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Dec 2015 at 18:25:35 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Jessie/64 on a laptop and wanted to route print to one of 3 printers, so I created a print class called "photo" to handle the job management. I use lpr to actually start the prin

Jessie CUPS print class problem

I'm running Jessie/64 on a laptop and wanted to route print to one of 3 printers, so I created a print class called "photo" to handle the job management. I use lpr to actually start the printing using the command: lpr -P photo $1(where $1 is the name of the file to be printed - in this

Re: Testing Jessie in a chroot?

On 24/11/15 10:22 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am still running Wheezy and would like to test Jessie before committing to it. Is a chroot a viable method? If so, can someone point me to a link on how best to set it up and use it. I will want to test it with, and without, systemd. Would a dual

[RESOLVED] Re: lost onboard network connection on stretch

On 17/11/15 10:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: After an upgrade & reboot last week, I lost my onboard network connection on my Stretch/AMD64 system. I can still see the device using lspci: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethe

lost onboard network connection on stretch

After an upgrade & reboot last week, I lost my onboard network connection on my Stretch/AMD64 system. I can still see the device using lspci: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) but it doesn't come

Re: What software can I use to remind me of daily tasks?

On 09/10/15 05:08 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Hello. I'm looking for a free (as in freedom) software that will remind me of daily tasks. That is it: one in which I can program reminders to be shown daily at a certain hour as a window to catch my attention or as a sound. I have searched

Re: Upstart inclusion in Debian

On 09/10/15 11:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 08:15:57PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hey guys! Do anybody have any idea about upstart to replace systemV in sid: the next release. By default? Probably not going to happen. Upstart lost out to systemd in the tech-ctte vote.

Re: USB storage devices not being recognized

On 08/10/15 07:31 AM, Floris wrote: Op Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:03:51 +0200 schreef Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net>: On 06/10/15 03:58 PM, Floris wrote: When I plug my Canon SX100 in, I get this from journalctl -r (left off the rest because it was from before the camera was plugged in):

Re: USB storage devices not being recognized

On 06/10/15 03:58 PM, Floris wrote: When I plug my Canon SX100 in, I get this from journalctl -r (left off the rest because it was from before the camera was plugged in): Oct 06 10:35:11 transponder org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor[2378]: (process:3953): GVFS-GPhoto2-WARNING **: device

Re: USB storage devices not being recognized

On 02/10/15 05:35 PM, Floris wrote: Op Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:34:10 +0200 schreef Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net>: I'm running an up to date Stretch/AMD64 system with Plasma desktop. I just plugged in my camera through its USB cable but didn't get a notification window. The camera sh

Re: USB storage devices not being recognized

On 02/10/15 05:35 PM, Floris wrote: Op Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:34:10 +0200 schreef Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net>: I'm running an up to date Stretch/AMD64 system with Plasma desktop. I just plugged in my camera through its USB cable but didn't get a notification window. The camera sh

USB storage devices not being recognized

I'm running an up to date Stretch/AMD64 system with Plasma desktop. I just plugged in my camera through its USB cable but didn't get a notification window. The camera shows up in lsusb but there is no storage device showing when I try ls /dev/sd*. I took the SD card out from the camera and

Re: Mdadm grub install problem

On 13/09/15 04:28 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: I am trying to replacing 1 TB drives with 2TB i am using RAID 1 mdadm i successfully replaced the first drive and it is synced and working normally. i also installed grub by this commad "grub-install /dev/sdc" /dev/sdc is my new drive. Please

Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository!

On 06/09/15 10:58 AM, Hans wrote: Hello list, at the moment it looks like the repository is rather broken. If you want do an upgrade or change from stable to testing, or if you want to upgrade testing, be very carefully. Otherwise you might break your system! Just take a look: Aptitude konnte

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

On 26/08/15 12:47 PM, Tim Tepatti wrote: Hi all, I've just done a fresh minimal install of Debian Stretch, and noticed something odd. In ifconfig and iwconfig, all of my adapters have weird names, like ens2 instead of eth0. Can anyone tell me why this is? I tried to look it up online but

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

On 20/08/15 06:53 AM, ken wrote: One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? The decision isn't that simple. As others have pointed out, the no

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Raid1 with disk fails not boot

On 14/08/15 03:25 AM, Jose Legido wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 13/08/15 06:01 AM, Jose Legido wrote: Hello! I have a software RAID1 with 2 discs. When I get out one disk, the system not boot directly, I have to do mannually actions: Loading

Re: Raid1 with disk fails not boot

On 13/08/15 06:01 AM, Jose Legido wrote: Hello! I have a software RAID1 with 2 discs. When I get out one disk, the system not boot directly, I have to do mannually actions: Loading, please wait... Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check

Re: Login failure after new install

On 07/08/15 10:26 AM, Cobra wrote: I have completed a network installation of 8.1.0. I left the root password blank (i.e., disabled root login), supplied a username and password for a system management account, and selected GNOME as the only additional software to install. After the

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

pptp was an early M$ attempt at vpn. Not recommended. A popular use for vpn these days, at least in Canada, is to get access to U.S. versions of products such as Netflix. On 06/08/15 09:45 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around

Re: mdadm increasing the partition size.

On 29/07/15 06:30 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Dear All, I have 4 partitions in my /dev/sdb total size of a whole drive is 2 TB in where main partition is of 1TB in size. however i want to increase this 1TB partition. therefore i added new 3TB /dev/sda and replicated the partition tables

Re: Samba issue after RAID1 recovery

On 28/07/15 08:11 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: I had a RAID 1 array for our (fileserver)samba setup which is integrated with AD . last weekone drive died along with motherboard.i attached the drive to another one everything seems working fine till today. now i am seeing error on windows

Re: external (USB) disk errors causing hangs and 100% cpu core usage

On 27/07/15 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I have a fairly new external USB disk that frequently throws errors. When these occur, the disk becomes partially or totally inaccessible. Even worse, when I try to umount it, the umount hangs indefinitely, using 100% of one of my cpu cores. I haven't

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

On 26/07/15 08:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:17:02 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:54:35 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: But that is for wheezy and earlier. systemd is, of course, different. Maybe the list should implement a rule, that people

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

On 26/07/15 10:45 AM, John Hasler wrote: It may have been an X-Y question, but the answer to the question actually asked, was ntp. That is *an* answer. The full answer is that the Chrony and Ntp packages provide time daemons. Systemd-timesyncd provides an SNTP client which is probably

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

On 26/07/15 12:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Paul E Condon wrote on 07/26/2015 10:14 AM: On 20150726_0252-0700, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: Also years ago, and still today, there is approx which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: I haven't had any significant problems with systemd but then I waited several months before upgrading my servers to jessie and before upgrading my workstation to stretch. Maybe it's because of MS-DO but I've

Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

On 26/07/15 10:46 PM, David Bruce wrote: I've installed Debian dozens of times since 2002 and I have never run into anything approaching the headaches I am experiencing trying to get the current stable Debian onto a newly rebuilt machine. The box is a straightforward amd64 setup built from a

Re: Boot Error on new PowerPC Mac Mini Installation

On 24/07/15 12:24 PM, Nathaniel Nelson wrote: Hello! I hope this is the proper way to seek Debian support, and that I'm not making a mistake/emailing the wrong list/whatever. I've never used Debian before, and I'm trying to install it on an old Mac Mini with a PowerPC G4 processor. I

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

On 25/07/15 02:52 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: I am wondering if my Jessie system is updating its clock regularly. It gives a different time than my Windows box. What package contains the daemon that updates the time from a central site? Thanks, John ntp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC

On 24/07/15 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 24 Jul 2015 at 20:59:12 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/07/2015 20:55, Gary Dale a écrit : On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying try the net install I've tried the net install

Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC

On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying try the net install I've tried the net install and it still has the same problem. The problem is when the installer gets to Detect and mount CD-Rom it keeps saying no common cdrom

Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC

On 24/07/15 03:21 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/07/15 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 24 Jul 2015 at 20:59:12 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/07/2015 20:55, Gary Dale a écrit : On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying try

Re: audio restore functionaility

On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used

Re: audio restore functionaility

On 20/07/15 11:43 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 16:37:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 11:13 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 15:53:33 Gary Dale wrote: Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). The OP used Synaptic. Can

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