Re: Cannot open *.asc files with gpg -- because no pinentry

On 2023-01-06 22:48, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, I had some similar issue a long time ego. So far I can remember the following page was very useful, in particular section 9.2: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG best, Jerome Thanks for the tip, it looks good. When I have a chance to test

Cannot open *.asc files with gpg -- because no pinentry

When I try to do so I receive the following message: [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 091EE1D5633F19F2 16 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0 gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG key, ID 091EE1D5633F19F2, created

Re: Will my reconstructed fstab work?

On 2022-11-04 01:52, mick.crane wrote: On 2022-11-03 04:52, Ken Heard wrote: A few days ago using vim I added to my desktop fstab file a line for a new portable storage device.  in the process I somehow managed to screw up fstab.  Unfortunately I saved the screwed up version of fstab before I

Will my reconstructed fstab work?

age device on line 26. Lines 27-40 were spared the overwrites. I have no idea how these overwrites happened; it certainly was not the result of any conscious action on my part. Regards, Ken Heard

Re: printing pages in reverse order not possible in LO 7.2.5.2.0+

On 2022-02-13 18:09, Ken Heard wrote: In order to print documents on both sides of the paper using a printer without collating ability, I always printed first in reverse order the even pages.  I then  print in numerical order the odd pages on the back side of the paper on which the even pages

Dcopserver not loading

Very soon after I started to use the TDE 14.0.11 version I began receiving DCOP error messages, having the effect of preventing use of various applications like Firefox and LibreOffice. After online research and experimentation on my part I discovered that I could solve such preventions if before

Access to files in wiki.debian.org.

Does anybody know when access to wiki.debian.org will be opened? There are two files there, UEFI and GrubEFIReinstall, that I need in order to find out how to install a boot loader in my desktop. On 2021-09-11 I was able to read these files on another computer; but not thinking that it would be

Bullseye installation failure because boot loader not installed

I recently upgraded a desktop computer by replacing major parts in it including the mainboard and CPU. I now want to install in it a more up to date operating system than Wheezy which was the one used before the upgrade. Having noted that the release of Bullseye is imminent I decided to use the

Re: Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

Hello, On 19/03/20 05:44 PM, Ken Heard wrote -- my original post on the subject: I think that this particular laptop has mono sound.  I have been using it temporarily to stream content by HDMI to a LG HD monitor and then by fibre optical cable to a NED D3020 V2 hybrid amplifier and finally

Re: Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

On 19/03/20 09:10 PM, Joe wrote: If you're getting convincing stereo, then the problem is elsewhere in the path. I always suspect HDMI of anything that involves it. Yes, it can do many channels, and something with 'HDMI' stamped on it should do at least stereo, but that may be the weak link

Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

the sound card. Lack of such specs indicates to me that Acer does not want people to know that this laptop is mono only. Is mono sound the norm for low market laptops such as this one and notebooks? Ken Heard

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-26 9:55 p.m., The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-10-26 at 21:33, Ken Heard wrote: > >> The tar scripts now look like this. >> --- >> #!/bin/bash # Script to b

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

still using in Toronto. So I may be on the thread again in Thailand, and or possibly again in Toronto in April 2020. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2UnM6QmZNwUCXbTz8gAKCRCU2UnM6QmZ N1ZGAJ9oiCkQsjTrdBa3HC5p5+CqybdO4ACeIex9comH1W7x1H3mbt7N1T

Re: Firefox Seems to Have a Mind of It's Own

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spelling error in the title. 'Its' as a possessive adjective does not have an apostrophe. "It's" with the apostrophe is only used as a contraction of 'it is' or 'it has'. Regards, Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-24 8:40 p.m., deloptes wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > >> Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it >> >> #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory >> /home/ken/mozilla. START

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-24 7:12 p.m., Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >> tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - >> --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst &g

Script does not do what it is told to do

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - --wildcards -T

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At about 04:35 EDT today 2019-10-22 Tuesday I ran 'sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sdb'. At 12:48 I ran the command in the next line. The result is below after the next paragraph. Based on the results below relating to /dev/sdb and the results relating

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As instructed at approximately 19:00 on 2019-10-21 Monday I ran first 'sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda' which returned the following: ken@SOL:~$ sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-9-amd64] (local build)

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Bob Weber wrote, in part: > I would first check if the raid was working. Use "cat > /proc/mdstat". You will see something like this for each raid drive > configured: > > md0 : active raid1 sdb1[3] sda1[2] 28754230 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] >

Signs of hard drive failure?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the past week or so some in my computer procedures have become sluggish, and some others have not worked at all. For example the following script works: #! /bin/bash CURPWD=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kfinancescurrent.tgz

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-02 2:51 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote, in part: > Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in > your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a > physical switch is just communicated to your drivers

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 11:03 p.m., David Christensen wrote: > I have read that some USB flash drives will revert to read-only > mode when they detect an internal error. Makes sense I suppose, but in a negative way. I did not know that flash drives (some?

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 5:33 p.m., Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/10/2019 à 23:09, Ken Heard a écrit : >> >> - - after unmounting and closing encryption running as root >> 'wipefs -a -f /dev/sdd' returns 'wipefs: error: /dev/sdd: prob

USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

place. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2UnM6QmZNwUCXZPAiAAKCRCU2UnM6QmZ N5HJAJ9S/haC6nE8/EkuhXtCETZimi8mzQCeO7BmV2pKWO4TuPMkcJTH/71nMDY= =04oO -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Cannot connect to HP printer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am presently using stretch. I have a USB connection between the computer and the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M475dw. Command lsusb shows the connection. Command HP-setup finds the printer, but the last line says: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3

Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

The latest version of Thunderbird for Debian Stretch, 70.7 which I now use, still allows only the US date format, MM-DD-, but for me at least expresses the time as HH:MM (24 hour clock). In a partially successful attempt to change the date format I did the following. 1. Ran update-locales

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

On 26/01/19 03:06 AM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:24:56 -0800 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: Fellow List members: Would anybody care to voice an opinion on USB external hard drives in the 2 terabyte size range, for automated backup purposes? We've been looking at the Seagate

Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable

On 2018-10-02 3:07 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:47:52PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: $ LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 thunderbird This command doesn't work for me. You have to generate the locales that you want to use. dpkg-reconfigure locales > Check it by running &quo

Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable

On 2018-08-20 3:27 p.m., Stefan Pietsch wrote: On 20.08.18 11:57, Curt wrote: On 2018-08-20, Stefan Pietsch wrote: Dear list, after the upgrade from Thunderbird 52.9.1 to 60.0 (Debian sid) it seems for me that the environment variable LC_TIME is ignored. I used the following command to set

Calculator with "tapes"

Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of the tape produced by mechanical machines to show the entire calculation. I find such "tapes" essential when for example I am adding a long list of numbers and need to check after the addition is done to verify that all the

Display full date in Thunderbird

I start Thunderbird with the following script: #! /bin/bash export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 && thunderbird "$@" For emails sent or received today only the time is shown, e.g., 13:17. For emails sent or received more than a week ago, the year, month, day and time are shown, e.g., 2018-06-13 07:43.

Re: I do not want to install Linux

On 2018-02-08 15:57, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Actually Kali Linux [1] is pretty cool and definitely worth a look. > And, as a Debian derivative, it is a wonderful illustration of the > things the Debian culture makes possible (another being Ubuntu, of > course). > >> ​I guess I could give it

Cannot read my draft emails.

none of the options in the Thunderbird Enigmail menu is operative. If something else is needed, what would it be? In short, can anyone tell me what is going on? I want my email client back! Regards, Ken Heard

Re: Installed Stretch, but no command line

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2017-07-23 19:08, Felix Miata wrote: > Ken Heard composed on 2017-07-23 18:25 (UTC-0400): > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> Ken Heard composed on 2017-07-23 12:21 (UTC-0400): > >>>> Ctrl-alt-F1 shows th

Re: Installed Stretch, but no command line

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2017-07-23 16:12, Felix Miata wrote: > Ken Heard composed on 2017-07-23 12:21 (UTC-0400): > >> Ctrl-alt-F1 shows the blank screen which appears at the end of >> the boot. I think the problem is that what appears on opening >

Re: Installed Stretch, but no command line

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2017-07-23 07:43, songbird wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> >> Just finished installing Stretch, using a RAID1, LVM and >> encryption for home (passkey) and swap (random key). It is at >> the moment a basic installation wi

Installed Stretch, but no command line

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just finished installing Stretch, using a RAID1, LVM and encryotion for home (passkey) and . It is ant the moment a basic installation with X-server-Xorg, but no DE yet. As part of the boot it accepts my /home password, but I do not get the command

Stretch installer: cannot encrypt /home

nyone found a solution I would appreciate knowing how you did it. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAllIXiUACgkQlNlJzOkJmTft3ACdGhTQ0iWyx3g1FKQCenD4Hz3W hTAAn1tnH16y78wlc19PpvsMhTwQdvXN =VR1d -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: why can't I visit this web site

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/17 08:44 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Just as a data point, it seems to work for me in Wheezy / Iceweasel > / Firefox ESR--I see lots of content, but all in a foreign language > using--what's the right word?--pictographs?--those "picture >

Re: What file system to use?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2017-02-03 03:03, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/02/17 20:58, Ken Heard wrote: >> I use USB flash drives and 480 GB SanDisk portable drives for >> some backups. I started by using ext4 on one of the flash drives. >> The nex

Re: What file system to use?

not capable of journalling. So I either had to use ext4 with the journalling feature disabled or revert to ext2 for these drives. I chose the latter, as simpler and less susceptible to errors. I have had no trouble with them since. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1

Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt partitions on boot

e computer with the Alt-S command. I hope that somebody or bodies can tell me what to do to make this computer usable again -- short of having to do a completely new installation. Regards, Ken Heard -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

DBus error: how to fix.

d: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/debus-daemon-launch-helper: Success That directory exists and the script file (if that is what it is) is also exists. Is there something that script file should do but cannot do for some reason? Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuP

Extending file system after enlarging a logical volume

are being used by the computer? I think I read somewhere that to resize an ext4 partition did not require unmounting it. Perhaps it it is required. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlfyvooACgkQlNlJzOkJmTcX4ACcCD/QlTflgyvQv1dQ/NAKdYHT C

Mount /tmp on tmpfs jessie and stretch -- howto?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like in my jessie and stretch boxes (one of each, both with systemd) to mount /tmp on tmpfs instead of a hard drive partition tmp or /dev/mapper/SOL1-tmp. I assumed that to do so I could not have either of those partitions; so I unmounted

Re: Failure messages relating to strict.pm -- shutdown

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-08-25 16:31, Ken Heard wrote: > Shutdown however does not seem to work. Selecting turning off the > computer from the DE closes the DE and opens tty1 which is ready > for a login. Logging in as root and running "shu

Re: Failure messages relating to strict.pm

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-08-25 07:39, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Looks like you have a local (broken) perl installation in > /usr/local that is interfering with the > /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper. > > deb-systemd-helper has a shebang line of #!/usr/bin/env perl, which >

Failure messages relating to strict.pm

. Regards< Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAle92+IACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeh5ACfQTV1v1+PHiE1odUMGo+WUTpf PcEAnRva7BRqOoNR+B20/TbsrzrQ8rhQ =pkJe -END PGP SIGNATURE-

*ERROR* Unable to find select subconnector property

] [drm:select_subconnector_show] *ERROR* Unable to find select subconnector property [ 80.885065] [drm:subconnector_show] *ERROR* Unable to find subconnector property Are these errors something about which I need to concern myself? Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: Using sudo in a script.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-08-03 15:16, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Why not try a -H switch on the sudo line in your script and see > what happens? I did. The answer was nothing. Regards, Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: Using sudo in a script.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-08-03 12:21, Ken Heard wrote: > I would like to create a short script to mount and unmount SCXC > cards. For these exfat cards to do either in Jessie has to be done > as root. > > I have set up sudo so that my user can run any

Using sudo in a script.

/media/xca, but I would like a similar script named uxca to do the same thing for unmounting. Is there a way to make sudo do its thing in these scripts so that I can mount and unmount the SDXC card by running the script commands mxca and uxca by themselves? Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP

Re: iceape availability

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-02-26 16:33, Bret Busby wrote: > On 26/02/2016, Ken Heard <kensli...@teksavvy.com> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2016-02-25 22:46, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >

Re: iceape availability

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-02-25 22:46, Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/02/2016, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 2/25/2016 7:38 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Thursday 25 February 2016 12:59:29 Siard wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:08:20 +0800, Bret Busby

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-01-25 10:34, Francis Gerund wrote: >>> >>> -- or, would something else be better? >>> >> >> Something else would be better- not using jessie-backports. If >> you're already using testing, enabling jessie-backports is >> pointless and will

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-01-25 09:29, Adam Wilson wrote: > Something else would be better- not using jessie-backports. If > you're already using testing, enabling jessie-backports is > pointless and will put you halfway into FrankenDebian territory. > Beware. > >

Konqueror default view mode -- how to make it ‘really’ permanent?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My default view profile for Konqueror is ‘File management’. In that profile I have set the ostensible default view mode to ‘detailed list’. However, during a Konqueror session it does not always stay that way; sometimes it reverts to ‘icon view’.

Sound from computer to TV monitor via HDMI -- how?

hen I tried any of these and left the other entries in that file open, access to the analogue speakers was cut off. So where do I go now? I will be thankful for any help received from other users on this list. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/

Re: sudo does not respond to settings in /etc/sudoers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-11-16 19:02, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > For what it's worth, if you want to avoid logging out/in you can > temporarily join the group in your shell by using "newgrp sudo". Thank you for that tip; it is useful to know. Ken -BEGIN PGP

Re: sudo does not respond to settings in /etc/sudoers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-11-15 23:26, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Maybe you added the user to the "undo" group Surely you mean the "sudo" group? > but forgot to test it with a new login session. Group changes > don't affect the current login session (unless newgrp is

sudo does not respond to settings in /etc/sudoers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In my Wheezy box I want to be able to run any root command as my user without having to enter a password to do so. I assume that there are two ways to do so: either make my user a member of the sudo group, or add a line to sudoers giving such

BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any limit to the size of a USB flash drive with the ext2 file system encrypted on it which can be addressed through the BIOS interface? (I am using Debian Jessie.) The largest size I am now using is 32 gb drives but would like to use 64 gb

Re: Open URLs in Icedove emails in Iceweasel, how?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-06-20 15:37, Christian Seiler wrote: On 06/20/2015 02:24 PM, Ken Heard wrote: On 2015-06-19 11:27, Christian Seiler wrote: You can try to set a default browser explicitly: xdg-mime default iceweasel.desktop x-scheme-handler/http \ x

Re: Open URLs in Icedove emails in Iceweasel, how?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-06-21 14:29, Christian Seiler wrote: On 06/21/2015 08:19 PM, Ken Heard wrote: On 2015-06-21 12:19, Christian Seiler wrote: Could you check Icedove configuration? Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Tab: General - Config Editor - I know

Re: Open URLs in Icedove emails in Iceweasel, how?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-06-21 12:19, Christian Seiler wrote: On 06/21/2015 05:50 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Before running Christian's xdg-mime command as root I ran it as my user. Since it did not have the desired effect I then ran it as root with the result

Re: Open URLs in Icedove emails in Iceweasel, how?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian, On 2015-06-19 11:27, Christian Seiler wrote: You can try to set a default browser explicitly: xdg-mime default iceweasel.desktop x-scheme-handler/http \ x-scheme-handler/https I ran that command as route and the following was

Open URLs in Icedove emails in Iceweasel, how?

and thanks in advance for any help provided, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlWELKIACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeGnQCfZtHPvksRh+vzJB3qEGyvpcBJ lZ0An27HuWClr3xNTyeOenwfAJt67Adg =Lloc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

On 10/06/15 09:48 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: What does your /etc/fstab look like? Like this: file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/mapper/BDS1-root / ext4errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/mapper/BDS1-boot /boot ext2defaults0

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

On 2015-06-10 13:17, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a list of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I thought it would be a simple matter of changing the relevant UUID to the current one

Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

For reasons which I won't go into now my encrypted home partition was obliterated. (Yes, all the data thereon had been backed up.) I created a new one, but of course it does not have the same UUID as the previous one. Jessie's systemd however on boot continues to look for the old UUID for

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

On 2015-06-09 11:18, Ken Heard wrote: For reasons which I won't go into now my encrypted home partition was obliterated. (Yes, all the data thereon had been backed up.) I created a new one, but of course it does not have the same UUID as the previous one. Jessie's systemd however on boot

Re: no root file system after encryption

have been doing it the other way for years with no perceived difficulties: create RAID1 with two drives, then LVM, and set up encryption for three LVM virtual partitions, swap (random key), tmp and home (both with passphrases)-- everything else in unencrypted virtual partitions. Regards, Ken

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-03-10 10:53, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: As someone who is a deb newbie following these posts, can the gurus make up their collective minds and let forth the mantra invocation that I need to invoke? ;) I just want a tidy ship and all I

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 is it. Regards, Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlT5IagACgkQlNlJzOkJmTenMACcDU5QwjjiXzegcr6Q5cpvQwHQ

Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the next month or so I will have to do a clean OS installation in two desktops. Jessie is now frozen (Debian's contribution to retarding global warming?); and there are apparently fewer RC bugs at this point after the freeze than there were at the

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-12-18 00:01, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: On 2014-12-17 Karen Lewellen wrote: I have a still in the package copy of wordperfect 5.1 for UNIX. I got this because wordperfect is my main word processor on my primary computer and I would

Cannot make update-alternatives do what I want

In my Wheezy machine I use Iceweasel 31.2.0 as my primary web browser. I also have an Lenny version -- I think -- of Iceape installed because I wanted a simple html composer. Unfortunately to have Iceape composer I must install Iceape suite which also includes a browser. So both browsers are

Re: Cannot make update-alternatives do what I want -- workaround

I got around the problem described above -- perhaps the long way around -- first by purging that old version of Iceape. Doing so made Iceweasel the sole browser mentioned in the x-www-browser section of /etc/alternatives. To provide a simple composer that I am used to I installed the latest

Re: Cannot make update-alternatives do what I want

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-11-07 17:47, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 2014-11-07 10:32, schrieb Ken Heard: In my Wheezy machine I use Iceweasel 31.2.0 as my primary web browser. I also have an Lenny version -- I think -- of Iceape installed because I wanted a simple

Using device UUSBs with cryptsetup to open already encrypted USB sticks

could tell me how. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQ5c5AACgkQlNlJzOkJmTcl5wCfRoOH8GJboWcdR7RDFHIZYXQw 4ogAnRODg4/HaT2YmQYDrgtwizzn78WT =oorg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Using device UUSBs with cryptsetup to open already encrypted USB sticks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: The command syntax for opening such a device is sudo cryptsetup luksOpen device name As I understand the syntax, the device designation can be /dev/sd?? where the first question mark is the third letter of the device selected

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dale wrote: On 16/09/14 03:03 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use

Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

partition the new drive the same way as the other drive and copy the files without further human intervention? Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQYiY0ACgkQlNlJzOkJmTc3pQCaA1RHwbzqUChWWwBiqIKYEMXn ascAn27qNBO3OTJUW6NSNAejyPljDzfN =x7+o

Re: Iceape and Debian 7.x

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 iceape browser is available in squeeze-backports, but not in wheezy or jessie. It is however available in sid; so it may in time be moved to jessie. Maybe the sid version may work in jessie now. The squeeze-backports version of squeeze may work in

Re: Debian 5 -- data is plural.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: [snip] Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, is to use bacteria as

Re: Debian 5 -- data is plural.

in the same family are: medium - media, criterion - criteria, bacterium - bacteria. There are several others. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlN7bhoACgkQlNlJzOkJmTe7oACeNY2cIvjwEirsfe/1Qs3zNvCN zf8Anil4a5EjlSVmak26yRpo1xF6sgH6 =79V8

Re: Debian 5 -- data is plural.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-20 12:03, Lisi Reisz wrote: (Sorry, Ken. resending correctly to list.) On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: Please note everybody that the word data is plural. The beginning of the last line quoted above should

Re: Debian 5 -- data is plural.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-20 12:16, Filip wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:03:16 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: (Sorry, Ken. re-sending correctly to list.) On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:00:42 Ken Heard wrote: Please note everybody that the word

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-25 10:03, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 12:55:26 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: I am consequently stuck with python 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 which seems to work with everything using python, but hplip wants the pure version of python rather

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-25 18:07, Ken Heard wrote: On 2014-04-25 10:03, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 12:55:26 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: I am consequently stuck with python 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 which seems to work with everything using python, but hplip wants

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-24 05:29, Curt wrote: On 2014-04-23, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: You have already been told: it is not required if you *want* to set up printing. You may feel the need to *have to* set it up that way but the reasons are

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-23 18:32, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 23 apr 14, 11:25:50, Ken Heard wrote: 0. Make sure your packages are ok dpkg --audit Command returned nothing. Good. 1. Confirm which packages need to be downgraded aptitude search

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-23 11:08, Lisi Reisz wrote: snip And you've no doubt done this. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/search/node/laserjet%20pro%20400 I had already tried both your suggestions and found nothing. The only place I found anything was

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-23 11:08, Lisi Reisz wrote: snip And you've no doubt done this. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/search/node/laserjet%20pro%20400 I had already tried both your suggestions and found nothing. The only place I found anything was

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-24 11:26, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 10:39:19 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: What I do find strange is that I managed to install two packages from squeeze-backports which are no longer in squeeze-backports. Python 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-24 11:20, Brian wrote: snip If you can do without the scanner and fax functions you might find that providing a PPD to CUPS using localhost:631 is sufficient to enable printing, A PPD for your machine should be in

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-23 05:08, Brian wrote: On Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 23:49:42 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: I just acquired a HP LaserJet Pro 400 multi-function printer model M475dw. I am now trying to set it up in my Debian Squeeze 6.0.9 box by using command

Re: In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-04-23 03:00, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 apr 14, 23:49:42, Ken Heard wrote: Is there a way to replace python and python-minimal version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 without destroying anything else

In Squeeze replacing python version 2.6.6-13~bpo60+1 with version 2.6.6-3+squeeze7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just acquired a HP LaserJet Pro 400 multi-function printer model M475dw. I am now trying to set it up in my Debian Squeeze 6.0.9 box by using command hplip-3.14.4.run provided by http://hplipopensource.com. One of the packages required in order to

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