Re: [SOLVED] Trailing ms at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:51:05 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Here's how I fixed it, or rather, how I worked around it. ... For those of you who are interested, I wrote up what I learned about serial terminals and serial consoles and put it in my lilo web page at http

Re: Debian Jessie, gnome-panel no menu.

2015-04-11 Thread Stephen Allen
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[SOLVED] Trailing ms at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-06 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Trailing ms at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:01:10 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ... But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case ms at the end of each line. How does the terminal handle control-m carriage returns? Normally at the terminal will receive a CR-NL pair and will move

Re: Trailing ms at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
. (It is a non-standard clear code, so the standard code used by (a)getty does not clear the screen. But the clear command works.) None of these things can be done on a line-mode (dumb) terminal, such as a mechanical teletype machine. It is more than a glass teletype. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Trailing ms at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
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Purge by Default

2015-04-03 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi all, Is there a way to --purge by default when using apt-get or aptitude? I often browse the apt repo and install various things I find (mostly games) to discover it, then remove them in a few hours/days/weeks. I'm afraid of leaving tons of config files laying on my system. Thanks, Steve

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-14 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:11:13 -0700 Joris Bolsens jo...@linux.com wrote: Mail server, I thought about this, but from what i understand, mail servers are notoriously difficult to secure properly. Nah, I definitely wouldn't say notoriously difficult. There's some out there that are generally

What happened to my mail log?

2015-03-13 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
I have Postfix and Dovecot running on my Debian Jessie/testing system. When I first setup the system a few months ago, I know that Postfix and Dovecot were both logging to /var/log/mail.log through syslog because I was using it to diagnose issues. I can also view entries in the old rotated files

Re: What happened to my mail log?

2015-03-13 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:51:06 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-03-13 21:12 +0100, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: I have Postfix and Dovecot running on my Debian Jessie/testing system. When I first setup the system a few months ago, I know that Postfix and Dovecot were both

Re: Xfce Not Closing

2015-03-12 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:11:59 +1100 David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 March 2015 at 01:32, Stephen R Guglielmo srguglie...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running Xfce 4.10 on Jessie. After booting, I log into the console with my user account, start my network interface, then run startx to run

Re: Xfce Not Closing

2015-03-08 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 19:44:30 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 10:32:52 -0400, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: I'm running Xfce 4.10 on Jessie. After booting, I log into the console with my user account, start my network interface, then run startx to run Xfce. When

Re: Xfce Not Closing

2015-03-08 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 20:03:32 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Essentially, I do the same as you and have no problem. Your output is the same as mine. In particular, you have 'Active=yes'. Mine is a new Jessie install. What about yours? Pretty much the same. I installed Jessie from the

Xfce Not Closing

2015-03-08 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Greetings, I'm running Xfce 4.10 on Jessie. After booting, I log into the console with my user account, start my network interface, then run startx to run Xfce. When I select the Logout menu option, I get prompted with a list of choices (Logout, Reboot, Shutdown), none of which seem to do

Re: Recompiling debian kernel

2015-03-06 Thread Stephen Powell
believe you will get good results. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:08:49 -0500 Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:03:30PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: I did a bit of reading and would prefer the Gnome Classic interface. Is there a way to install this type of minimal gnome without breaking it too

My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment because I don't want a lot of stuff on my system. Everything there is essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another GUI program or two, but that's it. Everything else, I do in a terminal. I even use

Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

2015-02-22 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I have a VPS with a company. The image I initially chose was Debian Wheezy. I immediately upgraded to Jessie. I updated the kernel and rebooted. However, it seems I can't use iptables: $ sudo iptables --list modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:557 kmod_search_moddep() could not open

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:46:35 +0100 Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Stephen R Guglielmo: I'm not sure why the automatic partitioner didn't provide for enough space for future updates. See below for the relevant logs. There's been several complaints about similar issues

Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-11 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I updated my apt repo and there was a kernel update. I ran the update, and received an error claiming no space left on device. Normally, I would do a force-uninstall for the currently running kernel (freeing space), then install the new kernel and reboot. However, this is an update, not

Re: Re: Linux based cellphones

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen
Actually Ubuntu sells a phone too. -- Best Regards, Stephen Allen http://webweenie.blogspot.com http://webweenie.blogspot.ca/

Re: Upgrading Iceweasel; Other Packages from Experimental?

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:38:28 -0500 Stephen R Guglielmo srguglie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I found the Debian Mozilla team webpage[1], which tells you how to get a more recent version of iceweasel. I am running testing/jessie, and want the release version of Iceweasel. Thus, I added the two

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:02:23 -0700 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: John L. Ries wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything... I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie diagnostics; but I would never use it

Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-07 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of my network activity. Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output overflow? I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at which they overflow? Is it 2^64 bytes? Also, is there a better way to access this

Nvidia Geforce 2 legacy driver vs OpenGL/Nouveau drivers?

2015-01-31 Thread Stephen
Okay, so I just installed the propietary Nvidia drivers for my computer. I have an older Pentium 4 tower (oooh yeah) with a Geforce MX200 in it. Since it's an older card I have to use the Nvidia 96.43.23 legacy drivers. I followed the instructions here for the install:

VMWre Player Full Screen Question

2015-01-30 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
to a user (or as root) in a smaller window. In order to get Debian full screen it is necessary to toggle between Exit full screen mode' and enter full screen mode - usually several times. This is rather annoying. Is there a solution? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D

Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen
but could find no such package. How do I satisfy this dependency then? -many thanks, Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54ca790d.4050...@gmail.com

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen
On 01/29/2015 11:08 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: If you are a novice user, the glibc is the _last_ thing you want to mess with. Grüße, Sven. Hmm, that is scary. I don't want to break anything. I am quite adventurous but I can handle not playing VV until Jessie releases if that is the case.

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen
On 01/29/2015 10:46 AM, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: Or a custom glibc installed in an isolated prefix, then playing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load the new glibc. Or if you don't want to build it by hand, you may do something tricky: extracting the Jessie package by hand in, again, an isolated

Upgrading Iceweasel; Other Packages from Experimental?

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi, I found the Debian Mozilla team webpage[1], which tells you how to get a more recent version of iceweasel. I am running testing/jessie, and want the release version of Iceweasel. Thus, I added the two corresponding lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list. When I synced the package index in apt, I

Re: Linux based cellphone

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen
This isn't exactly what you are talking about but it is still in the spirit: http://www.raspberrypi.org/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-smartphone/ Basically someone built their own d.i.y. smartphone around a Raspberry Pi, so if you were so inclined it could be possible to construct your own

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: hi All, If this is not the best place for such a question, direct me elsewhere. Still I am wondering if there are open source /Linux based mobile devices? If so who manufactures them? thanks, Karen There are a

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen Allen
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Connecting to Wireless 802.1x EAP

2015-01-28 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi guys, I have a debian laptop running jessie using the iwlwifi driver. I can connect to WPA2-PSK networks just fine. However, my campus has a wireless network that uses WPA-EAP/PEAP authentication. I have read the Debian wiki page[1] on the subject and it claims I need to provide a certificate.

Re: File transfer between Debian Wheezy Xfce and iPad, iPod, iPhone

2015-01-07 Thread Stephen Allen
using iDevices with Linux unless the iDevice was jailbreak'ed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150107120108.GB10629@stephen-desktop

Re: New user question

2014-12-13 Thread Stephen Allen
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Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-02 Thread Stephen Allen
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Re: Fwd: Gnome/X/Display device issues since before Testing freeze

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Allen
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Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread Stephen Allen
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Re: Warning - bleachbit might kill KDE

2014-11-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 06:53:07PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 21 November 2014 18:42:20 Stephen Allen wrote: So, do not use this option in bleachbit! I already filed a bugreport and think this warning might help others. You should file a bug report. Run reportbug, should

Re: Warning - bleachbit might kill KDE

2014-11-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 08:34:08AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 22/11/14 05:53, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 21 November 2014 18:42:20 Stephen Allen wrote: So, do not use this option in bleachbit! I already filed a bugreport and think this warning might help others. You should file

Re: Warning - bleachbit might kill KDE

2014-11-21 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Hans wrote: Hi folks, due to a bug in bleachbit, it might happen, that bleachbit fullfills your partition completely up. This happens, when you activate delete free space. I had the problem, that bleachbit fullfilled my /home/partition, then

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/incr/patch-3.16.5-6.xz any help will be highly appreciated. If you intend to compile a custom kernel, and you've never done it before, I would suggest that you start here: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:00:05PM -0500, John Foster wrote: A good place to start would be with Linux Mint LMDE Why? We have up-to-date Cinnamon in Debian Jessie (testing currently). Besides LMDE isn't supported much anymore, One will have difficulties using the Debian repos with it. -- To

Re: Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:55:57AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 22/10/14 09:13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 21 oct 14, 18:41:53, Steve Litt wrote: Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it still work in Jessie? Steve, I would have expected that of

Re: Synaptic slow when Caribou is running after Gnome-shell update

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 01:20:39AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 13.10.2014 um 00:21 schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 12.10.2014 um 19:01 schrieb Luca Perico: Hi After 3,14 gnome shell update (i use debian jessie) i have see synaptic p.m, very slow to show the package list at startup and also

Re: HTML5 videos in Jessie

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 07:14:19PM +0200, Proxy wrote: Hello, I just installed Jessie on one of my partitions. Most of the stuff works just fine, but I'm having problem playing HTML5 videos on Youtube in Iceweasel. I can't even watch webm videos from here:

Re: About chromium in Jessie - API keys missing and Clang

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 09:43:40AM +0200, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: Hello, I'm curious about two thing in the chromium browser package in Debian Jessie: - I (we?) get a message about Chromium API keys missing. Does that avoid Chromium being able to speak with google for sync and so on?

Re: About chromium in Jessie - API keys missing and Clang

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:06:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Florent, Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2014, 09:43:40 schrieb Florent Peterschmitt: Hello, I'm curious about two thing in the chromium browser package in Debian Jessie: - I (we?) get a message about Chromium API

Re: About chromium in Jessie - API keys missing and Clang

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:06:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Florent, Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2014, 09:43:40 schrieb Florent Peterschmitt: Hello, I'm curious about two thing in the chromium browser package in Debian Jessie: - I (we?) get a message about Chromium API

Re: Synaptic slow when Caribou is running after Gnome-shell update

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 13.10.2014 um 12:06 schrieb Stephen Allen: I too had experienced this, seems to be fixed as of yesterday. Thanks Michael. Unfortunately, this is not fixed yet. Apparently the start is not triggered via the xdg autostart

Using PuTTY with Debian GNU/Linux Systems

2014-10-11 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: Using PuTTY with Debian GNU/Linux Systems

2014-10-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 08:44:51 -0400 (EDT), Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, 07:34:06 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The idea of a wiki article is to document how to use Debian, not how to fix Debian. But I assume you did file bugs ;) Well, the fact that xterm-utf8 is missing

Re: Using PuTTY with Debian GNU/Linux Systems

2014-10-11 Thread Stephen Powell
database of terminals which support color. There's too much chance of these two independent databases getting out of sync, as we see has already happened with xterm-utf8. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: 1) F--- Systemd. 2) CTTE should be disbanded, it was taken over by outsiders.

2014-10-01 Thread Stephen Powell
. It didn't chase the f---ing wind. ... I understand your frustration. But please refrain from using foul language in posts to Debian mailing lists. This is a violation of Debian mailing list policy. See https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux

Re: vsftpd with ssl

2014-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
the certificate has an extension of .crt. Then run the command update-ca-certificates This will update /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt to include the local files in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates. Then switch back to your non-superuser self. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:22:23AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: lee l...@yagibdah.de writes: Karl E. Jorgensen k...@jorgensen.org.uk writes: * not doing crazy things, like running backports or testing/unstable [2], and no grabbing *.debs from weird places. Debian isn't as stable

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:29:22AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 Yes. I'm a huge believer in wiping and

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:58:30AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Me, I'm personally going to continue fresh installing, because I enjoy the spring-cleaning aspect of it, and the fact that I'm starting my new version from a known state. But I'm now aware this is a Steve Litt quirk, not solid advice

Re: Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: That's just for starters. Install the bash-completion package, un-comment the code in ~/.bashrc following the enable programmable completion features comment, and start a new shell. Now when you start typing and press Tab,

Re: vsftpd with ssl

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Powell
. Then proceed from there. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 03:34:58 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Dowland wrote: On 27 Sep 2014, at 02:48, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: PuTTY currently does not support 256-color mode. See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/256-colours.html That page indicates

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
with native PuTTY? Or are you saying that it doesn't work with PuTTY under Windows as the client, but works with ssh as a client from another Linux system on a Linux virtual terminal (vt1, vt2, etc.)? Please be more specific. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:27:54AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Martin Read wrote: On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: I agree that let's wait until we have a good init to move to should have been more seriously considered, but for some reason people were in a big hurry to make a move. The

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 03:05:14PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:27:54AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Martin Read wrote: On 25/09/14 15:42, Rob Owens wrote: I agree that let's wait until we have a good init to move to should have been more

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
. I might write my own web page about it and place it here: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/index.htm Some of my web pages, such as the kernel-building web page and the lilo web page, have gained a measure of popularity. One point: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:11:41PM -0400, Stephen Powell

Re: Cognitively friendly systemd components graphic

2014-09-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Am calling this a cognitive friendly systemd graphic because it is for me: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemd_components.svg It and any similar I find soon will be what I primarily lean on to follow conversations

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

2014-09-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:51:38AM -0700, Gregory Smith wrote: I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message. I posted the message found here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html It was deleted twice and then: You have been

PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
to ~/.screenrc: termcapinfo xterm* 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l' Many people have the above line in this file without the asterisk after xterm. The asterisk causes the line to match any terminal type which starts with xterm. I hope these tips help someone. -- .''`. Stephen Powellzlinux

Re: Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/09/14 23:40, Kenneth Jacker wrote: snip Is this a known bug? With Chrome? With Flash? See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=410805 The suggested place to get a replacement is here

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 06:14:43PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Anyone else experiencing this? Haven't found any reports so far. Chrome Pepper ran fine before update/upgrade a few days ago. Figured I'd check before I started mucking about the system trying to fix it. Downloaded .deb

/etc/rc.local and systemd

2014-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
knows a better way, please let me know. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:44:26 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2014 11:45:40 Stephen Powell wrote: ... Here is how I enabled it. (The following commands are executed as root.) cd /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants ln -s ../rc-local.service rc-local.service

[SOLVED] I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
identical default routes. But with managed=false, only one default route shows up in the output of netstat -rn. And, most importantly, network-manager does not delete my static route commands issued in /etc/rc.local. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:56:53 -0400 (EDT), Stephen L. Novak wrote: I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Also, I would vote change the default highlighter for some of the default menus in the new Xfce to a brighter color. Thanks for all

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:03:54 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: My main objection to GNOME as the default desktop environment is that it *requires* 3D graphics acceleration from the X driver, ... Not quite true. On graphics

Re: Gnome for jessie

2014-08-15 Thread Stephen L. Novak
I'm only submitting that I would vote to see gnome as the default interface for jessie too. Also, I would vote change the default highlighter for some of the default menus in the new Xfce to a brighter color. Thanks for all the work on Wheezy. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dd

2014-08-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:19:16 -0400 (EDT), Martin Smith wrote: On 11/08/2014 12:16, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:15:31 -0400 (EDT), Reco wrote: ... cp -a /var/www/* /media/lin50 This may work if there are no hidden files in the directory (files whose names begin

Re: dd

2014-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
is the OP's intent. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/934232671.292074.1407755806595.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

2014-08-11 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 08:26:35PM -0400, John Holland wrote: working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583cid=47639701 Cool thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-02 Thread Stephen Maxwell
Hello, There was an email sent out by Skype within the last couple of weeks which stated that I was using an old version of skype that would cease to function if I did not update (deleted the email). The below post on the Skype blog states So everyone can benefit from the latest

Debian problems

2014-07-27 Thread Stephen Pruitt
hi i have 2 issues i would like your help with i just installed Debian 7 i whose using microsoft windows 7 and i back up the files on to a USB and i would like to know how to reinstall the files.i also tried to install a video game and it would not install when i try to install i got a could knot

In dire need of assistant desperate lively hood involved.

2014-07-27 Thread Stephen Pruitt
hi i have 2 issues i would like your help with i just installed Debian 7 i whose using microsoft windows 7 and i back up the files on to a USB and i would like to know how to reinstall the files.i also tried to install a video game and it would not install when i try to install i got a could knot

Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink

2014-07-20 Thread Stephen Powell
doesn't it rely on the terminfo information stored in ncurses? In any case, I'm glad you found a solution. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: set boot parameter vga=ask before debian wheezy 7.6 dvd install

2014-07-18 Thread Stephen Powell
didn't read the original post carefully enough. Sorry for the noise. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: set boot parameter vga=ask before debian wheezy 7.6 dvd install

2014-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
for details, particularly the footnote at the bottom of the page. I use lilo as my boot loader. See http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm for details. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: PuTTY SSH client security

2014-07-12 Thread Stephen Powell
not have been suspectible to heartbleed bug, because ssh protocol was not suspectible to it. I think you meant to say susceptible, not suspectible. But otherwise, that's a good point. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: PuTTY SSH client security

2014-07-10 Thread Stephen Powell
the host to translate VT100 box-drawing escape sequences into equivalent UTF-8 sequences. But it can still use the xterm window title commands, which PuTTY does support, even in UTF-8 mode. I hope this is helpful. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:41:08PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: For some time these bugs have existed in SID: critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10

Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-08 Thread Stephen Allen
For some time these bugs have existed in SID: critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) Outstanding #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu grave bugs of isc-dhcp-client (4.2.4-7 → 4.3.0+dfsg-1) Outstanding #749410 - isc-dhcp-client: shutdown/reboot hangs after

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
-tools. Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I assume that you are running wheezy. You need to install the initramfs-tools package from wheezy-backports too, version 0.115~bpo70+1, I think. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

[SOLVED] debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 12:40:38 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: I tried an apt-get dist-upgrade of my jessie system yesterday, with bad results. It seems that debconf is bricked. Currently, there are three packages that are unpacked but not configured: tzdata, locales, and debconf

Re: [SOLVED] debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:12:07 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: I found version 5.20.0-1 in experimental, and installed it. Problem solved. Well, version 5.20.0-1 did solve the problem, as far as eliminating the program exception is concerned. But it also broke packages such as libhtml

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 07:42:33AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: Well then, you probably have gvim installed. Anyway editing the sources list is easy. On your command line simply enter 'apt edit-sources' and your default editor

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:48:30PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:40:32 +0100 Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 03:57:36PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/28/2014 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: Are you sure the apt command is available in

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-06-28 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 07:57:03PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/27/2014 03:18 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: That needs sorting! I should have asked: What GUI/DE (Graphical User Interface/Desktop Environment) are you using? (So I know what editors you are likely to have. Yes, this can be

debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
, and I can't back out. Fortunately, the system still runs (and boots). -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
in the first place. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1204891267.193700.1402864922069.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Sound configuration failure in debian amd64...

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen Powell
driver that is new enough to recognize my hardware. I no longer need to use the above option. But it was necessary to use the above option when I was running wheezy. Let me know if this works for you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 12:14:56AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 15:04 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Hmmm... I originally reported this back in November. After a while, it went away for me. Downloading the latest (about January time-frame) netinst image worked fine

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