Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Jape Person
On 12/10/2014 10:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: In my not so humble opinion, one should be using such a switch to re-examine one's setup, practices, etc. You might discover some interesting stuff. As far as I'm concerned: 1. I'll be looking into disabling periodic checks on all my ext4

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Jape Person
On 12/10/2014 01:40 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 10 dec 14, 11:36:35, Jape Person wrote: Using fsck.mode=force on the linux command line works fine for the purpose of forcing a file system check at home, but I don't see a practical way to use it on the remote systems. Do I really have

Re: Howto add a vnc URL handler to Icedove?

2014-11-01 Thread Jape Person
On 10/29/2014 01:38 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: I want to make things easier for people accepting remote desktop invitations from Krfb. Ideal scenario:- 1. Create a reverse ssh tunnel to middle (an internet accessible server) from the users computer. e.g. port 1234 to port 1235 middle has port

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-01 Thread Jape Person
On 11/01/2014 06:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 31 oct 14, 14:10:20, Charles Kroeger wrote: I have a line in my /etc/fstab file: #/dev/sde1/ /media/lumix-photos vfat users,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 Anytime I want to add photos off the SD card in my camera, I comment out

Re: Problem with external monitor

2014-10-30 Thread Jape Person
On 10/30/2014 01:02 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-30, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I have just realised the presence, and, extent of the presence, of the spelling/typographical errors in the last previous message that I posted about this; above, so am posting it again, hopefully

Re: Problem with external monitor

2014-10-30 Thread Jape Person
On 10/30/2014 03:13 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 31/10/2014, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: On 10/30/2014 01:02 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-30, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I have just realised the presence, and, extent of the presence, of the spelling/typographical

Re: terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-10-30 Thread Jape Person
On 10/30/2014 06:23 PM, Andrés Martinelli wrote: Hello there!! I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on sc, but with some adds like undo/redo.. you can find it here: https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome! Thanks! This is so cool! I

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because *neither init system is

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 07:41 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 07:04:12 schrieb Jape Person: On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 02:42 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/22/2014 07:04 AM, Jape Person wrote: /snip/ I haven't paid a lot of attention to threads concerning systemd because of the (unfortunate, though occasionally entertaining) hyperbole and innuendo employed by so many

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-16 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 02:45 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r

Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
Hi, folks! Sorry about the title. I'm just addicted to movie titles from the 60s. (-: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1 ...

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:34 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:53 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: From dmesg ...[4.853751] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[154]: Failed to determine partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error [4.854298] systemd[151]: /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r = blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, PTTYPE, pttype,

Re: XFCE4 Power Manager Brightness Panel Plugin

2014-10-09 Thread Jape Person
On 10/09/2014 07:13 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 10/06/2014 09:41 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2014 10:49 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: ... What needs to be added or configured to get a brightness slider or other brightness control for the backlight? ... I think at this version they switched from

Re: XFCE icons disappeared on Jessie

2014-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2014 03:06 PM, Ximo wrote: El 06/10/14 a las #4, Jape Person escribió: On 10/06/2014 03:02 PM, Ximo wrote: Hello, After a Jessie update icons of same themes disappeared on XFCE 4.10. On XFCE Settings Appearance Icons I've tried GNOME, HighContrast and Tango. The only that works

Re: XFCE4 Power Manager Brightness Panel Plugin

2014-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2014 10:49 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: I've got xfce4-power-manager 1.4.1-1 in xfce4 on jessie and would like to find a way to dim the LCD backlight. I'm not seeing a brightness panel anywhere like this one: http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/brightness nor does the

Re: XFCE icons disappeared on Jessie

2014-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2014 03:02 PM, Ximo wrote: Hello, After a Jessie update icons of same themes disappeared on XFCE 4.10. On XFCE Settings Appearance Icons I've tried GNOME, HighContrast and Tango. The only that works is HighContrast. Maybe it's a problem with libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0, but I'm not sure.

Re: Creating forlders in Gnome Shell 3.12 without Gnome Software

2014-10-02 Thread Jape Person
On 10/02/2014 10:17 AM, Wash-N-Go wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, filorin wrote: Hi there ! howdy, pardner. I spent too much time on the Internet to find how to create folders in Gnome Shell. i gather you did not intend to reply to the thread regarding security cameras. i imagine, instead,

Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

2014-09-11 Thread Jape Person
On 09/11/2014 02:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Anybody know how to do that? TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C” locale. It wants to see a UTF8 locale, and

Re: networked multi-function colour laser printers

2014-07-14 Thread Jape Person
On 07/14/2014 10:58 AM, Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 14:38:46 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:13:22 +0100 Richard Lyons rich...@the-place.net wrote: Hello Richard, I see that HP and OKI both claim to offer Linux drivers, for example. With HP, by and large,

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 03:35 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: In various logs on these systems I see an indication that touch /forcefsck doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding fsck.mode=force to the linux boot line in Grub is now the proper

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 08:29 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.05.2014 09:35, schrieb Sven Joachim: Something like journalctl -b | grep systemd-fsck. I haven't figured out how to get journalctl -u to work here. That, or something like systemctl status systemd-fsck-root.service or systemctl status

[SOLVED] Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 12:17 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 05/11/2014 03:35 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: In various logs on these systems I see an indication that touch /forcefsck doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding fsck.mode=force

How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-10 Thread Jape Person
Hi, I just used # apt-get install systemd-sysv on several Debian testing systems (fully up-to-date). It has been my habit to use # touch /forcefsck to force a file system check at reboot once per week on each system and to keep track of the results by copying the contents of

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-10 Thread Jape Person
On 05/10/2014 06:32 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Hi, I just used # apt-get install systemd-sysv on several Debian testing systems (fully up-to-date). It has been my habit to use # touch /forcefsck to force a file system

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Jape Person
On 02/26/2014 12:11 PM, Kirt Odle wrote: Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single operation ?? Download or install? If I assume you want to install these packages, and by ALL of its

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude: lqk xReally quit Aptitude?x x [ Yes ][ No ] x mqj and others don't. Can

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude: lqk xReally

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 02:33 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: There are several Debian machines around

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Jape Person
On 10/26/2013 07:46 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Oct 26, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Jape Person wrote: I'm sure you were right to first suspect locale settings. It's really the most obvious culprit. Are those the same for the systems that have the problem and those that don't? In all, egrep -v

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 10:02 AM, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-07, Curtcu...@free.fr wrote: With the wheezy netinstaller you simply choose 'Advanced Options' on the first page you're presented with, then 'Alternative desktop environments, then 'Xfce.' No Gnome. With this version of the netinstaller at least

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
, and was thinking to use XFCE (been fine on my other distros). I'm at best an intermediate level with Linux, so will likely struggle with not installing Gnome (really don't want Gnome or KDE). On 07/10/13 02:31, Jape Person wrote: From my perspective, it looks to me as though the problem is network

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 11:37 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 10/07/2013 10:43 AM, Jape Person wrote: These folks are sophisticated enough to want to use VPN connections when they're connecting to public wireless locations. They just don't know enough about package management to sort this sort of thing

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-07 Thread Jape Person
On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations

You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-06 Thread Jape Person
Heh. Just being a little tongue-in-cheek here. I needed to do a fresh installation of Debian on two systems for friends this weekend. I tried both stable (7.1) and the 10/02/2013 daily of testing -- both of them the netinst image. For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

2013-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote: For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop environment installations. But when the systems rebooted, I was at the Gnome desktop. you do not mention the display manager

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-01 Thread Jape Person
On 09/01/2013 02:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: ... I've been looking at geany, and it looks interesting functionally, but I'm not at all sold on it. Don't like lots of tool panes all over. It's part of the reason I can't quite bring myself to use either netbeans or eclipse regularly. ... As an

Re: Help - Gnome Died After Update/Upgrade

2013-07-05 Thread Jape Person
On 07/05/2013 05:36 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 03. 07. 2013 01:17:15 je David napisal(a): Sounds like GNOME 4 :) +1 Laughed my socks off! :-D Yup, I've been snickering for days! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-07-01 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 11:38 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [JFTR, I hit the same issue a while ago in unstable, and it took a while to clean via aptitude's interactive interface] On Du, 30 iun 13, 17:49:13, Jape Person wrote: So...my problem was that I was just using my package manager improperly

Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
Hi! Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude. I run Debian testing with Xfce, and I'd like to keep it that way. About a year ago I switched out Wicd for network-manager-gnome so that I could

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 10:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Hi! Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude. I run Debian testing

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 11:06 AM, Jape Person wrote: On 06/30/2013 10:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Hi! Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my socks this morning when I ran my daily

Re: Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013

2013-06-30 Thread Jape Person
On 06/30/2013 04:01 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Patrick Wiseman: On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude. I run

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Jape Person
On 06/18/2013 10:31 AM, Chris Purves wrote: On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Purves ch...@northfolk.ca To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM Subject: systems hangs every few days After upgrading to wheezy, I

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