Re: systemd upower polkit

2014-08-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 1:10:01 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 25 aug 14, 07:47:54, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Two related questions > > aptitude tells me "upower and upower:i386 are recommended" > > When I do > > aptitude install upower upower:

systemd upower polkit

2014-08-25 Thread Rusi Mody
Two related questions aptitude tells me "upower and upower:i386 are recommended" When I do aptitude install upower upower:i386 I get all this -- The following NEW packages will be installed: libacl1:i386{a} libblkid1:i386{a} libcryptsetup4:i386{a} libdbus-glib-1-2:i386{

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:42:16 -0700 (PDT) > Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > If any of you writes ePubs, you'

Re: Sigil

2014-08-23 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at > least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't used > Sigil for awhile, you might not be aware that it's really grown up in > the pa

Re: pppd not starting scripts for connect and disconnect

2014-08-23 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, August 24, 2014 2:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, lee wrote: > Hi, > what might be the reason that pppd does not start the scripts given in > the config in use with the connect and disconnect options? I had a thread out here on ppp not starting on startup as it used to The conclusion was - if mach

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-21 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian6

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running > several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got > windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the > grub2 osp

Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

2014-08-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Hans wrote: > ! > > Works like a charm! How in the world did you figure that out? > > Hugo > Hi Hugo, > to figure this out was by chance and a littlen bit thinking. > Someone in the skype forum told, he installed skype 4.2 and it connected. So

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote: > Hi all, > I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but > no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first > attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. > Has anyone out there m

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian6

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:50:01 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > > Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the > > former isn't early enough. > You are mixing two things up here: > /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for sp

Re: Irony

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 15, 2014 1:50:02 AM UTC+5:30, Paul E Condon wrote: > Comments (opinion) supporting your position that SQL logging is silly. > It is my understanding that SQL is a query language that is designed > to query (and update) a *relational*database* that has been designed > according t

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > >>> Aug 14 08:13:15 debian6

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > > Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No > > such file or directory > Since you don't have the /dev/ppp device

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > To add to my earlier report: > > I managed to remove graphviz and its associated libraries. > > So that now aptitude dist-upgrade gives me only 1 '

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:00:03 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Could you please post the version of udev (and systemd) you are using? > > > Thanks Michael To add to my earlier report: I managed

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:40:03 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 um 05:32 schrieb Rusi Mody: > > Aug 14 08:13:15 debian64 pppd[594]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No > > such file or directory > Since you don't have the /dev/ppp device

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-13 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 3:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 11 aug 14, 07:57:05, Rusi Mody wrote: > > If I start from grub using init=/bin/systemd it boots but networking > > does not work. > > > Please attach the file 'bootlog' after

networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-11 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > &

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 8, 2014 5:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:19 AM, AW wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:44:39 -0400 > > Tom H wrote: > > > journalctl has output options: > > > -o, --output= > > > Controls the formatting of the journal entries that are shown. Takes

Re: dieting/losing weight programs?

2014-08-07 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've recently been looking in the jessie repos for any programme relating > to diet management, or weight management, i.e. anything at all about > dieting or losing weight. And I can't find any! The nearest I could find > was f

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:40:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > I don't necessarily disagree, but I very strongly believe its first > step should be to go to a text file with one line per event, or perhaps > some sublines. If that text file were designed correctly, perhaps with > field separat

Re: need help on sound recording using bplay

2014-08-06 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 3:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, Long Wind wrote: > I run arecord -L, the output is for programmers, not for an average > end user, I think > I have no success on SUSE either, Linux is hard to use sometime > below is output by arecord -L on SUSE: If you are a 'average end user' w

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:17:15 -0700 > Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Aug 2014, Slavko wrote: > > > To be precise, i often read about these things: monolitic, binary > > > files and boot speed. I don't like first two and i am n

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > &

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 3:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:04:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Friday, August 1, 2014 1:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > [...] > > > > tl;dr: > > > http://knowyourmeme

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 1:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 12:13:43AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > >

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > So now the question is: > > What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' > > at boot/ifup time? >

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-07-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. Some progress... and a different question: Doing: # pon

auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-07-31 Thread Rusi Mody
After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) auto starting of ppp has stopped working. So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Kitty Cat wrote: > I have two questions: > 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you > think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or > Newegg.com, etc.? > 2. Do you know of a Debian CD o

Re: Boot hangs with Debian Jessie on Toshiba Satellite C55-A

2014-07-02 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, July 3, 2014 5:00:01 AM UTC+5:30, Sander Marechal wrote: > On 07/01/2014 06:13 PM, Sander Marechal wrote: > > I have a brand new Toshiba Satellite C55-A-1ND. I have installed it so > > that it dual-boots Win8 and Debian (this was an adventure in itself). > > The problem is that I canno

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-30 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 14:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > >>> I use the grub command configfile (also mul

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 4:00:01 AM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 10:09:28 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 09:00:30 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > > > On Satur

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 09:00:30 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Saturday 28 June 2014 05.55:39 Rusi Mody wrote: > > > PS. No I am not defending grub2 -- I find its documentation almost > > > non-e

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-27 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:50:01 AM UTC+5:30, slitt wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:33:57 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM, [...] > > > Grub is a *boot loader*. > > Lately (last few years), it seems to be trying to do a lot more. > > > What do you expect it to do? Min

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, June 13, 2014 3:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-( Just too > many > sites won't talk to me. Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I have > both? TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5. I have been running this for th

Re: ntp and multiple OSes -- Where the UTC goes

2014-06-12 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, June 13, 2014 5:30:01 AM UTC+5:30, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jun 9, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Ubuntu does not seem to have the 3 line structure of adjtime -- just 1 line. > > In particular it does not have the UTC/LOCAL 3rd line: > > # mount LABEL=Ubu

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-12 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, June 13, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you have indeed a UTC vs. local problem you need to check > > /etc/adjtime on all systems. If all files show the same ntp can take > > care of your hardware clock. > Try this and see if it says somethi

Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "xfce"

2014-06-10 Thread Rusi Mody
Following http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=109825 with some struggle I was finally able to get my Canon printer working with debian Jessie 64 bit. [For years Ive found that 64-bit + Canon is a hopeless case and many sites imply the same] However there is a minor nuisance. Running the

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, June 9, 2014 11:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Monday, June 9, 2014 8:40:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you have indeed a UTC vs. local problem you need to check > > /etc/adjtime on all systems. If all files show the same ntp can take > >

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, June 9, 2014 8:40:02 PM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you have indeed a UTC vs. local problem you need to check > /etc/adjtime on all systems. If all files show the same ntp can take > care of your hardware clock. Aha.There it is That seems to bring me closer to identifying

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, June 9, 2014 4:10:01 PM UTC+5:30, B wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:02:21 -0700 (PDT) > > Rusi Mody wrote: > > > > Rebooting one and then another causes errors of > > "superblock time in future" > > > > Either, as you've b

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, June 9, 2014 3:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:38 PM, wrote: > > except that each time I have read a reference to PA, it was to say that it > > does not work correctly, and often, removing it seemed to solve the problem? > PulseAudio does have its pr

ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-08 Thread Rusi Mody
I have a couple of debians (32 and 64 bit) and an ubuntu on different partitions. Rebooting one and then another causes errors of "superblock time in future" My guess is that in some cases the ntp stores the date in UTC in some in local. All have ntp+ntpdate installed with no special configs A

Re: package recommendation for daily journal

2014-06-03 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a package, which can act as a smart diary or > journal to help me remember the records of small things, such as > "obtain a licensed software, not installed yet", "uninstall the > harden-client". emacs' org m

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