Re: new 3.14-1-amd64 kernel will not boot

2014-05-19 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Hello John, You stated you were running Jessie/SID on an i7. Is it a Sandy-Bridge, Ivy-Bridge or Haswell i7? - Original Message - From: Erwan David Sent: 05/19/14 12:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: new 3.14-1-amd64 kernel will not boot Le 18/05/2014 00:24,

Re: new 3.14-1-amd64 kernel will not boot

2014-05-19 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Hello John, What version of i7 do you use? Sandy-Bridge? Ivy-Bridge? Haswell? - Original Message - From: John Bleichert Sent: 05/19/14 04:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: new 3.14-1-amd64 kernel will not boot On 05/18/2014 12:45 PM, Erwan David wrote:

Re: new 3.14-1-amd64 kernel will not boot

2014-05-19 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Subject: Re: new 3.14-1-amd64 kernel will not boot On 05/19/2014 06:20 AM, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: Hello John, What version of i7 do you use? Sandy-Bridge? Ivy-Bridge? Haswell? Haswell: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Re: Tails

2014-05-18 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Doug Sent: 05/18/14 10:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tails Is it possible to remotely install some kind of software onto the BIOS chip? That's what it would seem to require, short of having physical access to the machine. Yes, the

Re: Security updates for hold package

2014-05-18 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Andrei POPESCU Sent: 05/17/14 05:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Security updates for hold package You haven't yet stated why you need the backports kernel, but if you want to keep using it install the backports meta-package. I HAD

Re: Tails

2014-05-17 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Weaver Sent: 05/17/14 03:30 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tails That's exactly what it is. Just trying to keep the girl safe, as she leaves journalist school and heads out into the wild world of investigative journalism, which is

Re: Tails

2014-05-17 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Richard Hector Sent: 05/17/14 05:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tails On 16/05/14 16:42, Weaver wrote: Greetings all, Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? There's a young, female, investigative journalist

Re: [totally OT] experience with Seagate Barracuda and NAS drives

2014-05-17 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Eike Lantzsch Sent: 05/17/14 07:52 PM To: Debian-user Subject: [totally OT] experience with Seagate Barracuda and NAS drives On the contacts for the heads and also on the washer-shaped contacts for the srews I found a brownish-reddish film. I removed

Re: Tails

2014-05-17 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Joel Rees Sent: 05/17/14 07:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tails Maybe the tail mailing list would be more appropriate, but the problem is finding people in Brazil who would be willing to do a free service gig by dd-ing an image of

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Martin Vegter Sent: 05/18/14 01:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: systemd situation in Jesssie Hello, I have servers running Jessie. Can I continue upgrading packages on a regular basis, without having to worry that one of these updates

Re: Tails

2014-05-16 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Brian Sent: 05/17/14 02:26 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tails The adjectives describing journalist are completely irrelevant; what purpose do they serve? Advertising for a sugar daddy on this list is a first. :). I agree with you,

Re: Security updates for hold package

2014-05-15 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Andrei POPESCU Sent: 05/15/14 04:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Security updates for hold package Assumptions: 1. You did not change the default priority for backports How does one change default priority for backports? What will

Re: Security updates for hold package

2014-05-14 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
What happens if I am using Debian current stable but my linux-image is 3.12 (wheezy-backports)? - Original Message - From: Andrei POPESCU Sent: 05/14/14 05:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Security updates for hold package However, if you're on stable (or

Re: reboot required after linux-image upgrade?

2014-05-14 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
I have experienced what you described in your reply. That is why I always issue the command sudo update-grub after a linux-image upgrade. I can't trust the OS to be perfect. - Original Message - From: The Wanderer Sent: 05/14/14 07:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: reboot required after linux-image upgrade?

2014-05-13 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Before you reboot, do you need to issue the command sudo update-grub ?? - Original Message - From: staticsafe Sent: 05/14/14 02:39 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: reboot required after linux-image upgrade? On 5/13/2014 05:51, ML mail wrote: Hi, I just

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-08 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Frank McCormick Sent: 05/08/14 09:00 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? Journalist Glenn Greenwald and open-internet activist Alexis Ohanian go head up against American civil liberties lawyer Allan Dershowitz and

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-08 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Stephen Allen Sent: 05/08/14 08:37 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? They have too much to do even that - you gotta keep up to date on recent news my friend. That's the problem with mass surveillance of the world, too

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-07 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Joel Rees Sent: 05/07/14 09:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? But this particular thread is not serving the interests of debian users. Old news. Most of it incorrectly reported. I differ. I do not for once believe

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-07 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Jerry Stuckle Sent: 05/07/14 11:09 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? And their HQ are less than 10 miles from me. In fact, I'll be right over that way Thursday. Jerry Hello Jerry, If you are going to drop by at

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: John Hasler Sent: 05/06/14 09:11 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? Produce specifics. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA Didn't you know that all NSA contractors, including ex-employee Edward

Re: Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: A Debian User Sent: 05/06/14 09:42 AM To: filip, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? So, have you removed it completely from your system, or did you just disable it? How does it break functionality on your end? I removed

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: A Debian User Sent: 05/06/14 09:44 AM To: Theodore Alcapotaxis, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? Unintentional data leakage? Script kiddies, marketers, spammers, ad networks? With NSA, nothing is unintentional

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Stephen Allen Sent: 05/07/14 09:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? You give them more credit then deserved. They gather so much data they can't analyze it all at this point in time - they still don't know how much

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Doug Sent: 05/07/14 09:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? They don't try to analyze it all. They look for keywords--like bomb, shoot, jihad, and who knows what others. Then they just analyze texts that include them

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Patrick Wiseman Sent: 05/07/14 05:40 AM To: Debian User Lists Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? Will you people please take this crap off-list? Patrick Patrick, which parts of the topic make you uncomfortable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: John Hasler Sent: 05/07/14 04:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? Version, file name, line number. BTW do you know the meaning of the word libel? As I wrote earlier, NSA contractors are sworn to secrecy about the

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-06 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Paul E Condon Sent: 05/07/14 06:09 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? I think this claim about Linus Torvalds is apocryphal I hate to prove you wrong. Linus' father, Nils Torvalds, is a Member of the European Parliament.

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-05 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: filip Sent: 05/05/14 02:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? It's not safe from spying eyes. If you run a tool like bleachbit, you may think that you have deleted all your history, but at first sight the version

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-04 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Is this thing safe? How does uninstalling it break functionality? P.S. This package is also recommended by software-center. Safe from what? from whom? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

[drm] nouveau: Init table command not found

2014-04-29 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
During the boot up process of Debian 7, about 3 to 4 lines appear on the black screen: {string of numbers} [drm] nouveau {a string of alphanumeric characters} : Init table command not found {string of numbers} Is there any fix for the above? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mobile Broadband with Btooth

2014-04-26 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Gábor Hársfalvi Sent: 04/26/14 05:30 PM To: Joe Subject: Re: Mobile Broadband with Btooth But when I try connecting - network manager always disconnect. And I found in the logs: modem-manager: Got failure code 3: Operation not allowed and Error

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
There is nothing for you to do; you have achieved your objective and updated your sources.list. The bug appears to be fixed in Jessie. OMG, far from it, I have yet to achieve my objective, which is to install essential packages such as xorg, gnome-core or gnome-full off the USB flash/thumb

Re: grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
What are the specifications of your hardware? - CPU (brand and model) - chipset (brand and model) - RAM (brand, model and capacity) - hard disk drive (brand, model and capacity) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Corey wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. If you don't mind me asking: what is the brand and model of your new laptop? Before wiping your hard disk

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Corey Blair Sent: 04/23/14 10:11 PM To: Steve McIntyre Subject: Re: UEFI install I downloaded debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and then used unetbootin to make a bootable USB flash drive from it. I changed UEFI boot to legacy mode and booted off the UEFI

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Steve McIntyre Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM To: Corey Blair Subject: Re: UEFI install Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary unetbootin will not start the

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Richard Owlett Sent: 04/24/14 12:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_ I'm working towards a similar goal. My restrictions include: 1. not only minimal

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Brian Sent: 04/24/14 03:03 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_ I am not a developer or a maintainer; the only thing I am intent on is to maintain my sanity.

Re: Re: grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
- Original Message - From: Muntasim Ul Haque Sent: 04/24/14 12:43 AM To: mailingl...@darac.org.uk Subject: Re: Re: grub2 menu problems I'm using Debian Wheezy and grub2 is default here. And I do not have Windows Vista installed. It's just as I told you, grub2 detected Windows 8

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Corey, If you don't like to use unetbootin, you could try one of the following: 1. pendrivelinux (url: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/) 2. rufus (url: http://rufus.akeo.ie/) Both are free and open-source and they don't need to be installed on Windows. Which version of Windows are you using? and

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-23 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
I don't use apt-cdrom. I loop mount images of the DVDs. It may or may not meet your total needs. I hope to have a detailed write up in about a week. I'm using Squeeze (6.0.5) and Wheezy (7.1) as test beds. Best of luck on your endeavor and if you need someone to debug, you can always find

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-22 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Hello Brian You are right. According to /etc/fstab, /dev/sdb1 has a mount point /media/usb0 However I had to mount it first: sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 and then followed by the command: sudo apt-cdrom -d /media/usb0 add And the error message is always the same, viz: Using CD-ROM mount

Re: Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-22 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
It should say 'Using CD-ROM mount point /media/usb0', then tell you it is unmounting the CD-ROM and ask for a disc to be inserted. No. I confirm that the line indeed states 'Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom' and not './media/usb0' {I reinstalled Debian just to make sure that what I

Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 7.4.0 _Wheezy_

2014-04-20 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
I installed Debian 7 using a USB flash drive burned from the first DVD ISO of the Debian installation CD/DVD. I did a very minimal install without Debian desktop environment, Print server and Standard system utilities. After installation and a reboot, I was presented with a console with the