On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:32:44PM +, sare...@att.net wrote:
> Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install
> after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one,
> because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a
> notification woul
the first occasion to reboot this machine since this issue
occurred, and I can now report that a reboot solved it. Both thumb
drives working as expected after a reboot.
Mark
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I think Mozilla's position is reasonable since if you allow this
> sort of thing to remain possible, nobody will fix anything. Broken
> software will ship with instructions for the users to "just make an
&
> Would mozilla.support.firefox on news.mozilla.org be more productive as your
> description suggests an OS independent problem?
I think the issue has been raised and rejected at Firefox. Although OS
independent, I was thinking a work-around might involve the
distro--Chromium is gone but maybe the
summarily
dismissed, but there must be a lot of shops like ours out there. How
do they handle this security issue?
Thanks for reading.
Mark
from there to
underlying Jessie host, no problem. Launch xev or other X app from that
session, including another Xterm, backspace keypresses do not seem to be
getting delivered.
Any ideas how I can diagnose this?
TIA
Mark
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:53:52PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 18/04/2017 à 01:21, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> >
> >I believe the live images only use MBR boot
>
> BIOS boot.
>
Pedant. You knew exactly what I meant.
boot method, presumably
so they can work on the largest number of machines, even old ones
(UEFI-only machines are only just now emerging)
Mark
t; found the instructions to install. The network works fine in Ubuntu?
>
To whom are you addressing this question?
Mark
, cfg->bNumInterfaces );
> 924:list_interfaces( cfg->interface, cfg->bNumInterfaces )
>
> Please log a bug upstream [1] for this issue
>
> All the best
>
> [1] https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Device-USB
Yeah, it looks as if that module was never really more than proof of
concept and suggests a road map
device --> hidapi --> scripting glue (e.g. Perl XS) --> HTTP server
Mark
gt; Reasoning:
> The existing GUI provides tools for selecting/sorting data.
> There are multiple tools for manipulating and printing CSV data.
>
> [As a side note - all folders report "size" of 4.1 kB.
> Likely should be reported as blank or "N/A"]
>
Why not make the bug report yourself? No one else is likely to do it for
you.
Mark
I'm going to break my own self-imposed rule on top-posting to make sure
you see my exhortation not to cc me as I am subscribed to the list
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2017 20:29:26 Gregor Zattler wrote:
> > Hi Mark
one at that. Look what happened to Microsoft with the Windows 8.0/1
> debacle.
>
Counter-argument: One word. Apple.
(Not that I am an Apple fan by any means, but Apple have for decades
been highly successful making zero effort at backwards compatibility. I
speak from experience, running iOS 9 on an iPhone 4s... the 8 can't come
soon enough -- and that is exactly why Apple have been successful)
Mark
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:36 PM, songbird wrote:
> Mark Copper wrote:
>>>
>>> is it missing a build dependency or something?
>>>
>>> what does apt-get build-dep libinline-c-perl do?
>>>
>>
>>
>> The following NEW packages wi
it was an easy-to-fix problem.
Mark
Red-faced question:
There is a Perl package, libdevice-usb-perl, in which C code is
"inlined" (using Perl package libinline-c-perl). The first statement
of the inlined C code is
#include
The query
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=usb.h
shows many results, even f
ility?
>
Maybe a stupid comment but wouldn't this question be better addressed to
the package maintainer, rather than the -users list?
Mark
ink) on this mailing
list about the same subject. The gyst is you need to do a
dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades after installation to create some
config files needed to make the upgrades actually happen.
I suggest you search the archive of this list for the relevant thread.
The details are in there.
Mark
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:32:33PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:58:51PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:02:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:31:45AM +0900, M
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> Op 28-03-17 om 07:48 schreef Frank:
> Mark,
>
> As it turns out the ID 1397BC53640DB551 refers to a subkey of key
> 7721F63BD38B4796. Both seem to be present in google's key file, so I can't
> explain why apt
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > Possibly stupid question -- this is Jessie, does this mechanism of
> > dropping the files in trusted.gpg.d work properly in Jessie or is it
> > new?
>
> It works properly. I h
ng narked off with it after a while especially if there is no
evidence of appreciation from the community.
(I don't know any specifics of the busybox package, but what I describe
wouldn't be atypical)
Mark
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 06:06:05PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> Op 27-03-17 om 17:14 schreef Mark Fletcher:
> >Well, switching from http.debian.net to deb.debian.org seems to have
> >fixed that one. The error relating to that has gone away.
>
> Don't be surprised if it comes
d because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991 NO_PUBKEY 1397BC53640DB551
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
CBF8D6FD518E17E1
Which is worse than it was before, it is now complaining about more keys.
Help...
Mark
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:02:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:31:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Tomas has tried to give me pointers on that but I'm afraid I don't
> > understand where to take that. Is th
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:02:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:31:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Tomas has tried to give me pointers on that but I'm afraid I don't
> > understand where to take that. Is th
nfusion could be, so I'm not sure what to potentially link you
> to.
>
> --
I was thinking the same. Essentially posted "I have a basic
misunderstanding. For God's sake don't help me! Instead I want to use
this list as a human search engine"
Takes all sorts I suppose...
Mark
ommand line and what Files is
doing in the background if you use the GUI. It doesn't sit well with me,
as it may with many others, that the GUI does a better job that I can't
replicate on the command line -- means there is something happening that
I don't understand.
Thanks
Mark
approach, that's new to me. Should I
make efforts to remove the old key Google were previously using?
Mark
warnings and not indicative of something ELSE
being wrong?
Thanks
Mark
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le sextidi 6 germinal, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> > Yeah I guess so, but chmod or chown of WHAT, though?
>
> Of the root directory of the drive, i.e. the directory where it is
> mounted: chown you /medi
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:14:02AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le sextidi 6 germinal, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> > However, can't write to it, and I have to drop to the
> > command line and su to root before I can do so.
>
> Obvious guess:
non-root writes.
With both drives mounted, I compared the /etc/mtab entries for the two
and this is what I found:
/dev/mapper/luks-378947be-2ef0-452e-8d80-04064aec5bc7
/media/mark/138b9d59-b0cd-49cc-a738-8fecea5f0035 ext4
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
(that's the first drive,
> from a whole-SSD failure by booting with GRUB and then picking
> the right partition to boot from; when you have time, you can go
> buy a new SSD.
Makes sense, until I get to the point of being more organised about
backing up more of my network.
Thanks for your advice
Mark
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:49:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > I'd assume that if I suffered a disk failure, replaced the disk,
> > re-installed Jessie and tried to use Amanda to restore my backups of
> >
-i on it.
Check the dependency this for the package and consider whether you might
need to (re-)download any of those in addition. Hopefully not, but...
Mark
to the realisation I am nowhere near ready in my
understanding...
I know there are some long-standing users of Amanda on here so I'm
hoping someone can help me figure out what I am missing...
Thanks in advance
Mark
apart? That doesn't sound right.
Maybe the wheezy one _was_ recompiled... Although I'm at a loss to
explain how that could happen without you, as the owner of the box,
knowing about it...
Mark
allation just doing
aptitude install octave
HTH
Mark
another of those threads where the OP never returns after
dropping their troll bomb... the only why oh why here is why oh why do
we collectively never learn not to feed the trolls...
Mark
THINK,
certainly it can burn CDs / DVDs.
In both cases the .ISO that is generated will be big enough to
accommodate the data actually on the source disk (or SSD or USB or
whatever) and no bigger.
Mark
aren't running a Microsoft operating system, but those are
thankfully still rare. There are more of them here in Japan where
consumers tend to be more docile... I hope that isn't a trend that is
going to reach the rest of the world in force.
Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI
> > can. YMMV ;!
>
> aptitude is great on the command line. And does some things (but not all)
> m
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:25:43AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:53:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:35:16PM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> > > Il 22/02/2017 15:39, Eero Volotinen ha scritto:
> > >
will be in place so the install is
easy.
There was some discussion on this list of how I went about it at the
time, you can see that in the archives.
Hope that helps
Mark
is way when upgrades happen APT
will tell you if there is going to be a problem upgrading the libraries
instead of just doing it and breaking the package you built from source.
Mark
ck kernel and not one you
built yourself or had someone build for you, and assuming you have
installed the firmware deloptes mentioned, what is the output of:
$ ip link
?
Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> if VurtualBox is not available in Stretch then you can use Vrtualboxe's
> repository. The project provides their own repository for Debian.
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_
step-by-step instructions on migrating the disks, and Teemu for pointing
out I will need to get the new machines as close in spec as possible to
the old ones so Windows doesn't barf. (Guests are Windows 7)
Much appreciated guys
Mark
there an alternative solution in Debian that
allows for that easy migration path -- any recommendations?
Thanks
Mark
; Paul
>
Isn't there a plan to migrate back to Thunderbird anyway, just as
Iceweasel has been replaced with firefox?
I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right
now)
Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:29:39PM +0800, mkprint4u wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
Someone just broadcast their password to the world...
Any idea
what's up with that?
And was ossec packaged, or did you build it from source?
Cheers
Mark
open source software response applies, I think -- if you feel
that way, why not have a go at writing one?
Mark
think you are not completely correct!"
"Well, I think you are not quite thinking about the problem the right way!"
...
Mark
n I'd
have to guess something you did or something else you installed resulted
in this happening to your conf file. I really have no idea what that
could be though.
Mark
t is probably
a driver or a firmware problem. That will take us down one road. On the
other hand if you have a link but it is not connecting to any WiFi
network, we will need more info about what you are trying and what is
happening to help.
Mark
sdc, Drive 2 =
/dev/sdd, Drive 3 = /dev/sde, Drive 4 /dev/sdf, but at other times they
have been Disk 1 = /dev/sde, Disk 2 = /dev/sdf, Disk 3 = /dev/sdc, Disk
4 = /dev/sdd, and my machine was none the worse for it.
Mark
assume same in
other flavours)
Also it is installed in /usr/sbin which a non-root user doesn't usually
have on their path, which implies it may have to be executed as root.
The # in the sample command line also implies that, but just in case it
wasn't obvious...
Mark
upgrade and the ones it
wants to install. Someone on here can probably call out which package is
the likely culprit.
Mark
I've done worse, by approaching the list for problems with a LFS box,
where the Debian connection was tangential to say the least, and got
help. I was very upfront about that fact though, and if I had been told
to eff off, I would have taken my medicine and effed off. Didn't happen.
Mark
;t a straightforward "Debian doesn't work" problem). In this case,
the suggestion I made about kernel boot parameters is the best idea we
have so far to work with and would bear further research. If you _can't_
get it to respond to those keypresses to enter the BIOS setup utility,
then Patrick has guessed right and you should consider the advice in his
and the rest of this mail more carefully.
HTH
Mark
on my system I get:
root 907 1 0 Jan15 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
root 31985 1 0 07:35 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -f
That is the first possibility to eliminate.
Mark
ils. The closest I have
personally come to this is finding a Bluetooth keyboard not working at
that stage, but a wired USB keyboard did work. That was a release or two
of Jessie ago.
I'd suggest that Google will make short work of searching the archives
of this list to find the answer.
Mark
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 03:32:12PM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:13:56 +0900
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> Hello Mark and River,
>
> >seem to recall Google insist you connect to them using TLS or SSL -- no
> >insecure connections. Beyond that I reca
r. Then I use fetchmail to
download only that folder from Gmail and use mutt to read and/or reply
to it on my local PC.
The one slight non-optimal element of this is I still need to mark the
mails in that folder as "Done" occasionally in Inbox, but that is no
great hardship.
I also se
Jessie is currently broken...
(I thankfully have not had occasion to use it recently, but as I
understand it reportbug in Jessie is OK)
The issue seems to be known and hopefully someone is working on it...
Mark
ur you are seeing.
Type "df" command in Kali and in Debian and post the output here, that
will eliminate that question. Also the content of /etc/fstab
Mark
box-guest-iso, mount
> that, and run the vendor-supplied script.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466
>
> >
Holy bugaboo, I hope virtualbox doesn't fall out of Debian! I've been
using it for a long time, and really don't fancy the idea of having to
learn a new virtualisation solution...
Mark
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 10:43:10PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Mark Fletcher composed on 2017-01-04 23:30 (UTC+0900):
>
> >I've seen several people say or imply this in the past. But I have an
> >ignorant question I am almost too embarrassed to ask (almost). Most
> &
en the two
warnings. How does that happen?
Thanks for looking.
Mark
On Wednesday, 12/28/16 01:00:52 PM Gary Dale wrote:
> 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 e
do you use a special cable that plugs
into one connector at the card end and splits into 2 at the monitor end?
Would that even work? (I would have expected not)
Mark
(from command line) were the preferred
tool instead of apt-get? Will apt-cache still work in that situation? I
am always confused about which tools play nice together and which don't.
Mark
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 04:46:22PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 19:54:34 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > However, I now discover that Avahi is not doing its thing properly any
> > more, and other machines on my network cannot see this machine by name.
> &
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 06:33:11AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> As an alternative to the above, is there any way to have Synaptic use an
> external USB connected drive rather than the internal CD? The external drive
> is moderately faster and has a convent eject button.
>
A CONVENT EJECT BUTTO
ich uses it as a
print server. So the problem most likely is at the affinity end, but I
need help to diagnose it.
TIA
Mark
n of firefox
or some misconfiguration somewhere).
Worth looking at your graphics but also your audio setup, and how
firefox is configured to use them? What happens if you try to watch a
video (any old video) some other way?
Mark
[1] when mplayer has problems playing a video because not enoug
On Wednesday, 12/14/16 11:06:52 AM Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 December 2016 19:23:49 Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > > > Sorry to seem stubbor
ou (adding the user to sudo group) was the right
> answer.
>
> Anyway if you want unsupwerwised updated
>
> apt-get install cron-apt
>
> Would have been the right choice.
>
>
> -H
Good to know about cron-apt. I'll check it out.
Many thanks,
Mark
e and its
> > operation...usb...ps/2...integrated with keyboard...touchpad...etc. Does
> > the mouse stop working as well?
> >
> > Mark
Hmmmis it hardware or software?
Let's check hardware...(I'm betting on something funky on the hardware end)
Do you have (or
On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full
> > administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on the
> &g
ns
More info. please. Is this a desktop PC, a laptop, or what? If a desktop, is
the keyboard USB or PS/2? How about your mouse and its
operation...usb...ps/2...integrated with keyboard...touchpad...etc. Does the
mouse stop working as well?
Mark
On Sunday, 12/11/16 02:45:41 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mark Neidorff
wrote:
> > I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop.
> >
> > I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package
updates
> > available. I se
. Please let me know.
Thanks,
Mark
ad, no complaints.
On my Jessie install, there are several complaints about missing
firmware for drivers for hardware I don't have... I ignore them. If
memory were tight I might look into suppressing the drivers from being
loaded, but it isn't, and the drivers aren't doing any harm, so I ignore
them on the basis that if I leave them alone, they seem to leave me alone.
Mark
fact that it takes effort to backport things, it can
sometimes be quite hard, and the people doing it aren't getting paid to.
So the things that get backported tend to be the things that either the
package maintainer wants, or that there is a lot of demand (and hence a
high chance of appreciation) for.
Mark
und error and you should be focused on where the binary is. which
fetchail or locate fetchmail may help.
Mark
Nah, not very convincing to me either :)
Would you suggest it has advantages that recommend it over the other options?
Mark
ss) but the machine I am dealing with here is running KDE.
Based on these I'll probably go with systemd-networkd as I have used it
before in recent memory, albeit outside Debian. But I'll read up on the
other two as well. Thanks all!
Mark
stemd-networkd
-- I know that can be made to work but it doesn't seem very Debianesque
to me.
Any suggestions on what I should do to set this up?
TIA
Mark
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I had been removed after becoming unreliable.
Sorry to hear that. Advanced years don't come on their own, do they?
(Sorry, couldn't resist it)
life versions of Debian to be updated with new
software?
Current stable is Debian 8 (Jessie). And it is not likely to pick up new
versions either. It became stable a couple of years back (sorry I don't
remember exactly when and don't have time to look it up, but you can see
on Debian's website). To get updated software you need to be using
testing or unstable.
Mark
soft... yuck!
Sorry I am not able to help, but perhaps the sympathy / validation will
be worth something.
Mark
the pulseaudio package, so likely already
installed.
apt-file search module-udev and apt-file search module-detect show that
they are also in the pulseaudio package.
apt-file is a really useful tool for answering questions like "what
files are in this package?", "What package is this file in?", and "Where
the hell did this file come from?"
Mark
umas has
>
> smtphost "smtp.gmail.com:587"
> smtpuser "olspookishma...@gmail.com"
> #smtppasswd "my password here"
>
> The third line is commented out.
>
This. This is the answer. As usual Brian has nailed it. The OP is not
supplying a password when logging in. Google are not going to be happy
about that.
Mark
ram, however at least one time, I need to force an
Hold on, run that by us again... you run Linux in your "wet ram"??? Are
you trying to tell us you have re-wired your brain to run Linux???
Actually, that could explain quite a lot, now I think on it... :)
Mark
of by that stage, and so loads the
sub-module, and the keyboard and mouse start working...
OR, perhaps less far-fetched, could your running kernel somehow have
access to 2 versions of the ehci_pci module, one with a dependency on
ehci_hcd and one not? And at boot it is picking up the wrong one and
when you run modprobe from the command line it is picking up the other?
Mark
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:58:32AM +0100, steve wrote:
> Le 03-11-2016, à 18:40:57 +0900, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
>
> >>>>aptitude search ~Ajessie~i
> >>>>
> >>>>meet your needs?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>No, it do
ot. When I ran that command it did not produce any
> >output. What is it supposed to do?
>
I'm with Kamaraju on this, zero output. I also tried quoting the search
string in case bash was interfering, made no difference.
Mark
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