Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-06 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, uh, I guess you ought to have used your time to check your machine and read some docs instead of figuring out how to best insult the debian developers ;) (scnr) On 06 Dec 2017 22:52:17 +0100 Urs Thuermann wrote: (...) > I wonder how can such a severe bug make it

Re: bugreport - reportbug 7.1.7 on Debian 9.1

2017-12-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:20:45 +0100 Sophie Loewenthal wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for the info. > > $ python3 -c "import locale; print(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET))" > ANSI_X3.4-1968 > > I’ve not set this Bizarre > this looks like somehow LANG is set to C

Re: bugreport - reportbug 7.1.7 on Debian 9.1

2017-12-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:34:57 +0100 Sophie Loewenthal wrote: > Hi, > > Submitting a bug report via reportbug 7.1.7 programme produced: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2234, in > main() > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 18:09:56 -0500 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Michael Lange composed on 2017-12-02 22:33 (UTC+0100): > > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 23:07:15 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > > > (...) > >> > What bootloader was installed -- LILO, G

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 23:07:15 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: (...) > > What bootloader was installed -- LILO, GRUB, GRUB2, whatever? And, > > where? > > > > > GRUB2 to sda1. > I did not read this thread in detail, so maybe this has already been discussed, but I have just now

[solved]Re: Sound with Intel Baytrail device (Lenovo Ideapad 100S)

2017-11-23 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:25:16 +0100 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: (...) > I also tried to use pulseaudio with the ucm files from > https://github.com/plbossart/UCM/tree/master/bytcr-rt5640 > that have been reported to do the trick, but still no luck uh oh, never

Sound with Intel Baytrail device (Lenovo Ideapad 100S)

2017-11-22 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, although sound has been reported to work with this device (e.g. here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113151 ) I am not able to make it work (with Stretch), maybe someone here has managed to do so and can give me a hint? I compiled a 4.14.0 kernel with a .config someone who

Re: how to add a /home partition

2017-11-03 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 22:34:02 +0100 wrote: > > - copy the contents of /home to its future location: (...) > or cp -a /home/* /mnt to be nitpicking, shouldn't this rather be cp -a /home/. /mnt just to cover the (admittedly unlikely) case there is some

Re: estamated number of Linux users?

2017-10-27 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:37:22 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Phil Dobbin wrote: > > Kingsley Amis on his loss of libido when he turned fifty > > Not a problem any more in our times of digital wonders. > In case of loss, simply re-install >

Re: Turning off VDPAU with graphics

2017-10-15 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:26:39 -0400 Jeffry Smith wrote: > I have an old laptop with a Pentium II (686-pae) and an ATI Rage 128 > (r128.ko) Mobility M3 video card. When attempting to run vlc, > kaffeine, or mpv, they attempt o open up libvdpau_nvidia.so, which > doesn't

Re: Turning off VDPAU with graphics

2017-10-15 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:26:39 -0400 Jeffry Smith wrote: > I have an old laptop with a Pentium II (686-pae) and an ATI Rage 128 > (r128.ko) Mobility M3 video card. When attempting to run vlc, > kaffeine, or mpv, they attempt o open up libvdpau_nvidia.so, which > doesn't

Re: Mismatch of wxglade and wxwidgets

2017-09-12 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:02:35 +1000 "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" wrote: > I'm running Debian 8 Jessie. > > There seems to be a mismatch between wxglade (`python-wxglade`) and > wxwidgets (`python-wxgtk3.0`) > > If I install wxglade and run it, I can choose to

Re: which display manager would you suggest for Stretch?

2017-08-25 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:33:00 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Oh, on looking again, I remembered a question--what do those numbers > represent? When I first saw the list, in order with the higher numbers > first, I thought maybe the numbers represented something like number of > downloads,

Re: which display manager would you suggest for Stretch?

2017-08-25 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:17:10 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: (...) > it will list the most popular package first. However, I left the > default as is. I prefer having the most popular package at the bottom > as it minimizes "the eyeball movement". Consider, for

Re: which display manager would you suggest for Stretch?

2017-08-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi Raju, On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:37:41 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: (...) > The popsort.py utility is written by me. It can be downloaded from > https://gitlab.com/d3k2mk7/rutils/blob/master/bin/popsort.py and is > documented at >

Re: Debconf python module

2017-08-15 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:59:12 +0100 Gustavo Ferreira wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading about debconf internals lately and I've seen some > references to the "debconf python module". > > Even the man page for *debconf-devel* mentions it: > > "Perl programmers

Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux

2017-08-14 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 04:11:31 + (UTC) Long Wind wrote: > even simple task like recording from line in can't be donethough i try > very hard mencoder has many advanced featuresall seem useless have you checked if your sound card's IGain is muted or set to a very low

Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH

2017-08-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 04:56:58 +0800 spp mg wrote: (...) > For example , some guy put a "rm" but named "ls" to ~/bin . This "ls" > can be virus or ransomware , user may not know it's not which he > want("ls"). a user without administrator privilege can generally put

Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH

2017-08-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 03:11:48 +0800 spp mg wrote: > Hi all > > In the ~/.profile has below default setting: > > -- > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > fi > -- >

Re: Hello

2017-07-18 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:20:10 +1000 julius wrote: (...) > > http://security.debian.org/dists/stretch/updates/InRelease: > The key(s) > in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as the > file is not > readable by user '_apt' executing > apt- >

Re: Einstellungen in Kontact

2017-07-05 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 21:42:20 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​Dear Sir, > > Please use a German mailing list. > > Regds > > MF > > ​ > > Zieht den Bayern die Lederhosen aus > > Voller Spannung und voller Spass, > leg ich mich ins grüne Gras. > Es ist Samstag

Re: Driver/firmware for Realtek RTL8814U WiFi USB Adapter?

2017-07-05 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 20:14:20 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Wed 05 Jul 2017 at 20:55:43 +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: > > > On 05.07.2017 20:41, Larry Dighera wrote: > > > > > Which Debian Stretch package provides firmware for the Realtek > > > RTL8814U chip? In particular, the

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, I'm glad you could finally fix the issue. On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:15:33 +0930 "Wayne Hartell" wrote: > I know I just wrote a long e-mail on this, but I think I just figured > out in my own mind exactly what is going on and wanted to document it. > > > > As

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 23:58:17 +0930 "Wayne Hartell" wrote: I did not read this last post or the whole thread very carefully, but now something hit my eyes: > 4. sudo apt-get update > [generated errors] > Err:16 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian >

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:19:24 +0100 Phil Wyett wrote: > Additional info. Why via synaptic the 'trusted.gpg' file is being > created needs investigation. > > The file is a 32 byte file (way to small to be a valid key) is not > even viewable by normal key view methods i.e.

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 18:47:14 +0930 "Wayne Hartell" wrote: > > Wayne Hartell composed on 2017-07-04 15:46 (UTC+0930): > > > > > ...I managed to solve this error after checking that the > > > permissions on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg were 0600 and edited them to be > > >

Re: Debian installation issues

2017-06-09 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 14:34:47 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: (...) > > I am willing to bet the image written through rufus is fine, your > > problem is booting up from usb as people have mentioned before. I > > like to assume that you did not install win10 in

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

2017-06-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:33:01 +0100 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > Same problem also with this iso image: at the beginning the machine > seems to boot into the Debian

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

2017-06-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 16:59:37 +0100 Steve McIntyre wrote: > We've supported the wacky "64-bit platform, 32-bit UEFI" devices > (e.g. Bay Trail) ever since the first Jessie release. If you grab a > multi-arch netinst or DVD image, it will boot via 32-bit but let you > start a

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

2017-06-06 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:50:55 +0100 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Since a new 8.8.0 Debian version is available for downloading, I want > to try again to install Debian on my tablet-laptop Acer One 10, which > wouldn't allow Debian installation some months ago... Can

Re: RTL8812/8821 network cards

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:34:20 -0500 Michael Milliman wrote: > Have you tried the package firmware-realtek?? I'm not absolutely > positive that the drivers available in this package will work with your > specific 8812/8821 chipset (there are more than one), but

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:02:06 +0200 solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:27:22 CEST Michael Lange wrote: > > I would try to install a different kernel (if possible with external > > keyboard) and boot into that one, if the problem disappears th

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:13:44 +0200 solitone wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: > > I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. > > To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to > what component might

Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch

2017-03-27 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:12:00 + kAt wrote: > Is there a reason to update the current system and/or reboot with the > updated kernel before jumping to a new system, or is everything set up > in a way that once updated and upgraded into the target system the >

Re: [OT]Re: why??why?why??

2017-03-13 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:51:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: > The past few Fridays it has become my joy for the weekend to install in > small drives some debian based distro ... I tried Q4os and siduction > ... the experience has been a disastrous weekend over another ...

[OT]Re: why??why?why??

2017-03-12 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:58:58 + Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > It is only those whose mother tongue is English surely, who would even > consider spelling "want to" as "wanna". Those whose mother tongue is > NOT English might well not know what "wanna" meant. That is

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-06 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:11:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: > I am not very confident I am doing this right and it seems wrong, I > can't locate any documentation that results into proper options. > I tried backing up an 8gb USB that has 2 partitions in it, one had

"apt-get changelog" usage

2017-02-27 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to use apt-get changelog correctly. According to the manpage, when it is called without any further arguments, as in apt-get changelog it should display the changelog of the installed version of , here however it apparently displays the changelog of the

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

2017-02-17 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:42:34 +0100 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > referred to as "Reichsbürger", who, as a common base, neglect the legal > existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and declare their own Oops, I guess I picked the wrong English word, I

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

2017-02-17 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:07:13 + Andre Müller wrote: > You can get more information on our page: > http://verfassunggebende-versammlung.org (of course it's in german) Hahaha, I wish you guys a lot of fun in your parallel universe! ;-) And a word to all non-german users

Re: Install problem.

2017-02-17 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:18:34 +0530 Pranav Gade wrote: > Hello there! I installed debian 8.7.1 Jessie for i386 through the CD > image. After install, I was surprised to find that I had a command line > interface, instead of Graphical Interface. I have installed the

Re: testing reportbug broken?

2017-02-15 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:05:47 -0500 songbird wrote: > anyone else seeing this? > > $ reportbug > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2234, in > main() > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1084, in main > if

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:00:08 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I should resist, but the chance to make two (or three?) smart ass > comments to one post is tough to resist--no offense intended to > anybody. Sorry! > > On Saturday, February 11, 2017 07:32:44 AM Michael Lange wrote:

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-11 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:35:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: (...) > One thing I have not been able to find in synaptic or elsewhere is a way > to keep track of what has been installed and when. If you know where > such a log habitates or can be created let me/us

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:27:12 -0500 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > > > On 02/10/2017 08:11 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:32:45 +1100 > > Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Have I missed s

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:32:45 +1100 Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Have I missed something here? > > .pdf files are portable, right? > > > How can I as a creator specify that you as the reader MUST use a > specific program to read them? Maybe by adding a "feature" that

Re: Automatically spoof MAC address when interface is brought down

2017-02-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:26:35 -0800 commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Debian 8.7 user. > I use the default Network Manager. > > I would like to know if there is a way to automatically spoof the MAC > address of my wireless interface every time I bring down (and up)? > >

Re: Debian natively on Android device

2017-02-02 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 08:53:39 + Joe wrote: > I wouldn't know where to start trying to get another OS running on this > kind of thing, so we must hope some smart people with lots of time are > looking into it. > > Here is some progress, but there is a long way to go: > >

Re: Correcting bug report

2017-01-27 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:56:23 +0100 Shin Ice wrote: (...) > don't know what kind of "reject" message you got but looking at the bug > report it looks right. That's what I thought at a first glance, too, but apparently he refers to the bug's severity, which is still set

Re: Correcting bug report

2017-01-27 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:36:17 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent in a bug report and realized that I had mis-classified the bug. > I sent in a correction to "852...@bugs.debian.org" with a body > containing the following: > > Control: severity

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

2017-01-27 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:00:19 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > I created that file with this line but it does not help. Still the same > odd pinning after boot. > > So my problem might not be related to /etc/cron.daily/apt. I guess I > have to start searching again

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

2017-01-25 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:18:07 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: (...) > > I do not have that file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic. I put > /etc/cron.daily/apt back where it belongs and this morning the pinning > was screwed up again. This is really weird. Then you

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

2017-01-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:40:32 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: (...)Yes, this is exactly what happens on my PC. But it has no solution. > > In the meantime I found a workaround. I moved /etc/cron.daily/apt out > of the way. It looks like this script is being

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

2017-01-13 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:16:06 +0100 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: (...) > Not sure, you might try to grep through the files in /etc/init > and /etc/init.d if you find the one that calls apt-get update , then see > which package it belongs to and consider removi

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

2017-01-13 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:16:50 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: (...) > I gave it a try. I unplugged the network and did an apt-get update. > This is throwing all the errors that the repos are not available. But > in the end the next "apt-get dist-upgrade" indeed

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

2017-01-12 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:35:59 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Hi, > > I have a weird behaviour on one of my debian boxes. It is running Mint > LMDE and the issue is the following: > > I have several additional sources defined: debian testing, debian > backports,

Re: python time module

2017-01-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 20:29:05 -0700 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: (...) > (2) More seriously, I'm getting the following error and traceback trying > to run my very first script: > > nowball:13$ python box1.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "box1.py", line 1,

Re: Package upgrades why and how to avoid?

2016-12-24 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:47:21 +0900 Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Why this happens and how to avoid this? As an appendix to Joe's extensive reply: Once you found the package(s) that would cause e.g. Skype to be removed, you can put these packages on "hold" (or "lock" in

Re: Installing/running non-Debian executables

2016-12-19 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:23:15 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Jessie with Mate DE. > > I need to run the *IDENTICAL* versions of SeaMonkey (2.40) on > both my Windows and Debian machines. Downloading the appropriate > file, unpacking it, placing results in my

Re: ISO9660 creator in Debian Jessie

2016-12-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:16:23 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > terryc wrote: > > Unfortuantely, all that both machines have is Xfburn, which it gives > > you an option of creating an ISO, it only does so if the burner is in > > that machine. Major bummer. > (...)

Re: Two Chromebooks: was Re: LENOVO IdeaPad 100S 11.6" Laptop

2016-11-14 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:27:57 +0100 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:51:46 + > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't mind about having to struggle > > a little, and Bluetooth doesn't worry me, but sound

Re: How to run a script before shutdown?

2016-11-14 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:34:38 +0100 Robert Latest wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to automatically start a data backup script (to USB or network > drive) at each shutdown of my computer. I did some research into this > and found that several people have the same problem as

Re: Two Chromebooks: was Re: LENOVO IdeaPad 100S 11.6" Laptop

2016-11-12 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:51:46 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I don't mind about having to struggle > a little, and Bluetooth doesn't worry me, but sound is a bit of a > killer. I just looked again at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117141 where the sound issue is

Re: LENOVO IdeaPad 100S 11.6" Laptop

2016-11-12 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:04:21 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am thinking of buying one of these for use with Debian and TDE. What > was said the other day gave me a slight pause for thought, but I was > partly reassured. > > Comments please! > > Lenovo 11.6 Inch Ideapad

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

2016-11-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 23:48:53 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Speaking as a Jessie user, changing to root and using lsblk -f is > quicker and easier! Sure, but the OP said that's not an option. I think that the command Brian suggested: udevadm info --query=property

Re: Information about modules

2016-10-30 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 22:59:12 +0100 Datasmurf wrote: > Hello List, > > just a few moments ago I turned off the blinking of the wifi led on my > T61. I did that because I found a website[1] that told me how I have to > do that. I was wondering where else I could find

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

2016-10-26 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:16:56 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > But now I find that my system has lots of packages from Jessie which > are no longer present in either Stretch or Sid. I would like get a > list of all such packages and decide if I want to remove them.

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

2016-10-26 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:36:02 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Thanks for the script. But I do not think it does what I want. For > example, currently there is a python3.4 package installed on my > system. > > % dpkg -l python3.4 | cut -c 1-72 >

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

2016-10-25 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:24:00 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Oooohhh, shiny new toy that I just found because of you. This came via > "man apt-show-versions": > > To upgrade all packages in testing: > >apt-get install `apt-show-versions -u -b | grep

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: > Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. > It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It > was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. Since > I can't

[solved]Re: aptitude cli undocumented behaviour [was: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get ...]

2016-10-05 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 22:37:40 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > You used '~U' in the first and the last command, not '~ahold'. > This last command could also be written shorter: > > aptitude -y -v -s full-upgrade '~U' | ... Thanks!!! You are of course right, that was a copy and

aptitude cli undocumented behaviour [was: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get ...]

2016-10-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:19:52 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: (...) > So my question is: is there a way to include updates to packages put on > hold to the output of "aptitude full-upgrade" as in apt-get, that I have > been missing, or is this simpl

Re: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get (esp. --ignore-hold option)

2016-10-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:35:58 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Your aptitude variant will also list new packages to be installed > (e.g., a package with a version number in its name like libperl5.24). > Yes, that is in fact the point here. This is the same as for the

Re: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get (esp. --ignore-hold option)

2016-10-05 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:41:40 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > aptitude is, generally speaking, a more user-friendly interface to the > apt system. If you're scripting (and especially as it already works), > you should stick with apt-get. apt-get's output tends to be more

aptitude cli options vs. apt-get (esp. --ignore-hold option)

2016-10-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hello, I use the following line (borrowed from apticron) in a script to generate a list of upgradable packages: PKGNAMES=`apt-get -q -y -s --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated dist-upgrade | \ /bin/grep ^Inst | /usr/bin/cut -d\ -f2 | /usr/bin/sort` Now I would like to do the same

Bug in apticron (or dpkg ?) and trying to work around with apt-mark

2016-09-29 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, (sorry, the following is getting lengthy) although I never used it myself, I think I found a bug in apticron. I am using a snippet from apticron in a custom script to create a list of upgradable packages and noticed that sometimes the number of packages reported by apticron's internal logic

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

2016-09-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:32:34 -0700 (PDT) emetib wrote: > michael, > > it's not any modules that i know of. only using re for the three > scripts that i'm using. as stated it's working on all of my other > virts, so i'm not that worried about it right now. > > i

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

2016-09-22 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:36:39 -0700 (PDT) emetib wrote: (...) > whether i am calling -- python3 script or python script, or python3 >>> > or python >>> and typing them in it's not working how it should. > wasted a weekend thinking that i had messed up my code. > > so i

Re: Remove Account

2016-09-21 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:08:12 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > Sadly that doesn't help with the OP's problem. That requires access to > the subscribed email address. He no longer has access to the > subscribed email address and everything is being forwarded to him so he >

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:28:33 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > update into the wheezy repo's? > > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened. Maybe you could

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:54:55 +0100 Brian wrote: > Maybe you could post the URLs of two or three web sites which are now > available to you without security-related error messages which you had > trouble with before. Jessie users would be interested whether they too > have to

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:00:25 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > OK Stefan. I have to say that i like you. Because you really love Free > Software policy. However i cannot tell people to use Free Software. > Free Software policy is too stric to keep. Instead, i tell poeple that >

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

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:36:27 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Your connection is not secure > > > > The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security. > > > > www.youtube.com uses security technology that is outdated and > > vulnerable to attack. An attacker could

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

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:18:15 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > by chance a couple of days ago I saw on the german debian user list¹ a > > topic that seems similar, the conclusion seemed to be to install > > libnss3 from unstable (iirc this was about firefox and chrome on > >

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

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:23:22 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to > get it from unstable? On wheezy, how? I wasn't aware that you're still with wheezy, I think the issue on the german list referred to stretch.

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

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:53:08 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Here is my error message: Is this message Flash-related? > > > Your connection is not secure > > The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security. > > www.youtube.com uses security technology that

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

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 23:01:43 +0100 Brian wrote: > > Two users. Both using entirely different systems. Both with entirely > different issues. Do you think this is realistically going anywhere? > Especially as the second post in this thread doesn't even come close > to

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

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 14:39:14 -0400 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

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

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 20:18:58 +0100 Brian wrote: > My firefox isn't broken. That doesn't necessarily mean that the OP's isn't broken though. > > How a paypay problem relates to a YouTube problem is beyond me. > > Perhaps the two of you should get together off-list, sort

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:01:02 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:50:12AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:12:36 +0200 > > Victor A. Stoichita <vic...@svictor.net&g

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:12:36 +0200 Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > +1 for Avidemux as a GUI tool. To my knowledge it is the only gui > tool > in linux which allows simple truncation of files > without reencoding. project-x should also be able to do that. Regards Michael

Re: Sound problem : on tablet Z3735 with bytcrrt5640

2016-06-30 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:50:51 +0800 Gener Badenas wrote: > > > But Intel now is out of the game of producing mobile socs. they may not > fix this at all A couple weeks ago when I was looking for a possible way to fix things for my Ideapad I happened to come across

Re: Sound problem : on tablet Z3735 with bytcrrt5640

2016-06-29 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 19:22:34 +0200 F ProTablet10 wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I spent my tablet HP Pro Tablet 10 EE G1 Debian . > I managed to pass ( in pain ;-)) boot efi32 problem. > > > I followed the following tutorial because the characteristics of my >

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-20 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:39:34 +0100 Brian wrote: > > > > why is an upgrade not an option? > > > > > > Upgrade to what? He wants to install Jessie, you can't get a newer > > > stable Debian than that. > > > > I guess he meant a dist-upgrade from an installed wheezy to

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-20 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:43:35 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > > >> I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has > >> been running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably >

[SOLVED (sort of)]Re: apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

2016-06-16 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:13:43 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > Ok, looks like it's a bug in Jessie's apt version. Just for the record, in case anyone reads this: I filed a bug report for apt about this issue ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827365 )

Re: How to execute a scrift after resume from suspend

2016-06-15 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:37:43 +0200 Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > is there a debian way, to execute a script after resume from suspend? > > I need to execute the command > > /etc/init.d/fancontrol restart > > after the system is awaken again. As I am using plasma5,

Re: apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

2016-06-13 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:57:08 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I just encountered an odd problem with a repo hosted on sourceforge, > when calling apt-get update with this repo enabled in the sources.list > I ended with a 301 error. Apparently

apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

2016-06-13 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, I just encountered an odd problem with a repo hosted on sourceforge, when calling apt-get update with this repo enabled in the sources.list I ended with a 301 error. Apparently this happens because sourceforge dropped its http service and now uses https exclusively. It took me a while to find

Re: Big dummy at work again

2016-06-12 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:19:49 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:54:36 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 12:42 (UTC-0400): > > > I am left with nano as the only editor I can find... > > > > > > So, it has emasculated my system,

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