Re: man page for cut

Richmond writes: > In the man page for cut it says: > > -b, --bytes=LIST > select only these bytes > > But there is no equals sign in the actual syntax: > > echo hello|cut -b 2-5 > ello > > echo hello|cut -b=2-5 > cut: invalid byte/character position ‘=2-5’ > Try 'cut --help' for

Re: No Release file for Security Update

Thomas George writes: > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-security  main non-free > non-free-firmware > Err:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-security Release >   404  Not Found [IP: 151.101. Your source is incorrect. The security repo is at

Re: /mnt usage

hw writes: > /tmp is volatile nowadays and not temporary. That's particularly Volatile storage is, by definition, temporary. > braindead when you want Libreoffice to be able to recover files after > a crash, which, by default, autosaves in /tmp. /tmp is a terrible place to store recovery

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

hw writes: >> > > It says 'made thread ... (at nice level 0) owned by 1000'. This is > inconclusive at best: The thread is obviously _at_ some nice level or > _at_ some priority and was made owned by 1000. > > If it had changed the priority it should say that, but it doesn't. It does say

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

Felix Miata writes: > /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # > How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? By having some kind of SD card slot or similar.

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

hw writes: > Aren't there going to be lots of problems with things not working when > you don't have dbus? Fewer than when things don't work when you *do* have dbus, apparently ;) There doesn't seem to be an overwhelming need for it once you step away from the DE's.

Re: nftables firewall question: matching udp in ipv6

Ralph Aichinger writes: > I am currently fighting with the following problem: I've got a system > that has 3 relevant interfaces: ppp0, en0 and en2, for external, > internal and dmz respectively. > > The dmz is IPv6 only, a homelab testbed more or less. > > I've got the follwing rules in

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

Eric S Fraga writes: > anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of > Debian on an Asus EEE PC? This is a small notebook sized laptop with > Celeron cpu and little space & memory. I've just found one in one of > my boxes and thought I'd see if I can make use of it.

Re: Test

Pocket writes: > On 12/22/23 16:08, Tixy wrote: >> On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 12:15 -0500, Pocket wrote: >>> This is a test of the emergency broadcast system >> Please stop spamming the 1000 or so people subscribed to this list. > > I am not spamming this list I am trying to determine if my email

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towait for it to respond

gene heskett writes: > It is a separate 6 port sata controller because the mobo is out of > ports. There is no obvious lag during bios post or grub booting it. That *should* rule out DNS then, unless something really strange is going on. What does mdadm tell you about the raid device, and its

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing to wait for it to respond

gene heskett writes: > I thought I was doing things right a year back when I built a raid10 > for my /home partition. but I'm tired of fighting with it for > access. Anything that wants to open a file on it, is subjected to a > freeze of at least 30 seconds BEFORE the file requester is drawn on

Re: From which kernel should I upgrade my installed Debian to linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64?

Kevin Price writes: > 6.1.0-15 brought not only the ext4-bugfix, but along with it introduced > a terrible new bug: Most computers work fine with -15, except for some > of those that have wifi, depending upon the driver. There was a certain > change in Linux's cfg80211 kernel module, which

Re: Boot Problem

"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > On 12/05/2023 12:47 PM, Tom Furie wrote: >> "Stephen P. Molnar" writes: >> >>> I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this >>> morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I

Re: Boot Problem

"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this > morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back > tot he login screen, over and over and . I got the When you say "back to the login screen", do you mean

Re: Found a liar

John Hasler writes: > Why did you install zsh and then immediately remove it? Or possibly: 1 - Install zsh 2 - switch to zsh 3 - uninstall zsh from within zsh.

Re: ntpsec as server questions

gene heskett writes: > Mon Dec 4 15:47:44 UTC 2023 > Mon 04 Dec 2023 03:47:16 PM UTC > WTH? Where is that false 12 hour offset coming from? There's no offset. 15:00 UTC *is* 03:00 PM UTC ^^

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

jeremy ardley writes: > I don't think it is actually a lack of memory. What I do see is all > the web browsers are up there on CPU along with nvidia-modeset. What do you consider to be "up there"? 4.3% (your highest CPU usage in this output) hardly seems to qualify as something to be concerned

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

jeremy ardley writes: > I noticed my Firefox -esr browser becoming progressively more > sluggish. Then suddenly I was back to the system login screen > > This is not the first time this has happened although previously when > it started getting sluggish I killed all Firefox related process > >

Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...

Albretch Mueller writes: > How can you list just the direct dependencies? and how safe is it > downloading and installing only those via dpkg? 'apt depends ' would list the direct dependencies without recursion. Why do you want to download them individually and install directly with dpkg when

Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...

Albretch Mueller writes: > https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/wget > > shows 8 packages as "depends" > > dep: libc6 (>= 2.28) > dep: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) > dep: libidn2-0 (>= 0.6) > dep: libnettle8 > dep: libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22) > dep: libpsl5 (>= 0.16.0) > dep: libuuid1 (>= 2.16) > dep:

Re: didn't can use "fdisk"!

fuf writes: > Hello all. > I'm embarrassed because didn't can use "fdisk"! > I work as normal user, open the terminal, switch to "root" user but > get: > root@debian:/sbin# fdisk  -l > bash: fdisk: command not found > > whereas: > root@debian:/sbin# ls -al > . > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    

Re: debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso usb grub boot error "invalid buffer alignment"

Zenaan Harkness writes: > Attempting a fresh Debian stable install with > debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso (latest default amd64 boot image), `cp > deiban-...iso /dev/sdX; sync`, and rebooted to the usb stick with the You can't just copy the iso to the stick and get it to boot. This stick must

Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 09:00:00PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Since Debian erases /tmp at each boot anyway: wouldn't it be > much easier to set up an entry in fstab along the lines of > > tmpfs/tmptmpfsdefaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 > > (assuming you want a tmpfs there,

Re: Mailing list usage questions

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:51:43PM +0200, zithro wrote: > I already sent "help" to the ML but it did not provide any hints. > Hence my question here ; ) Oh! Yes, I see the reply to that message is much less useful than it once was... Previously it would supply a list of commands for subscription

Re: Mailing list usage questions

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:22:59PM +0200, zithro wrote: > I have two questions about the Debians ML usage. > > 1. when subscribing, the confirmation message says "By default, copies of > your own submissions will be returned." > What is the meaning of "default" and "returned" here ? > I

Re: questions about cron.daily

On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 08:05:18AM +0800, k...@openmbox.net wrote: > Are the time format in /etc/crontab just random? why they are 6:25, 6:47 > etc? They aren't *random*, though they are somewhat arbitrary. The daily tasks run at 6:25, a time chosen by someone somewhere back in the mists of time

Re: questions about cron.daily

On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 09:02:15AM -0700, Fred wrote: > I also would like to know when cron.daily scripts run. Greg's command does > not appear to reveal the time for that script. I ran Greg's command and got > the same result. Then you need to read the documentation for cron. I'd suggest

Re: debian 11 vs ubuntu 22

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 02:44:18PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > I did mean that 10 years of security updates. > Most Ubuntu users know this news, i think. Perhaps they would, though I have my doubts about *most*. Regardless, this isn't an Ubuntu list so no Ubuntu knowledge should be assumed.

Re: debian 11 vs ubuntu 22

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:05:28AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > I have experience both Ubuntu and Debian. Google cloud vm is running > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (+ESM). Then my desktop is Debian 11 under Chromebook. > > Ubuntu's advantage is 10 years. I can't interpret what this 10 year advantage

Re: How do I specify a custom apt dependency between kernel image and its headers?

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 12:19:05PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > Ram Ramesh writes: > > > How do I tie the install of linux-image to linux-header so that I cannot > > install image without the headers. > > In my experience it's been enough to install linux-image-amd64 and > linux-headers-amd64.

Re: thunderbird can not import gpg-key

On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 02:37:10PM +0100, Hans wrote: > LANG=C gpg --export-secret-key > /home/ullhan63/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/123456789.key > > testkey > gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/myusername/.gnupg' > gpg: WARNING: nothing exported > > Strange. Did you read

Re: what's the right way to resolve localhost's IPs

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:06:40AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > You can also output in .json format > > root@debian12:~# ip -j a >

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 09:36:07AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum > verification file and am wondering if that program and the rest of the > shaxxxsum programs have one or more bugs that could account for these > failures.

Re: Falcon BMS

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 10:59:14AM -0300, malpaso wrote: > *Hello!!!Please, I'm looking for guidance to set up a Server, it will not > be public, to host a flight simulator called Falcon BMS, about 12 people > flying online, the machine would be an I5 with 16 GB of RAM, Video Card GTX > 1050 TI

Re: No /

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 05:04:57PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/03/msg00064.html Was the /dev/sdc mentioned there the USB drive? Cheers, Tom -- Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: alias in bash script issue

On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 08:52:15PM +1100, David wrote: > Debian's default shell is 'dash'. Its manual, readable using 'man dash', > says The script explicitly calls bash. The rest of your point is still (coincidentally) valid though, as it would be in most of the popular shells as far as I'm

Re: Bookworm won't route ipv6 requests

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 11:59:55PM +1100, Jason Bigelow wrote: > $ host 04:92:26:d1:fa:77 That isn't an IP address, it's a MAC address. > $ ip addr > 2: enp6s0: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state > UP group default qlen 1000 >     link/ether 04:92:26:d1:fa:77 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Re: TBird mail (was: user perms)

On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 06:58:20PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ locate prefs.js > /home/amanda/.mozilla/firefox/nz58vim6.default-esr/prefs.js > /home/gene/.local/share/digikam/QtWebEngine/Default/user_prefs.json > /home/gene/.local/share/kmail2/QtWebEngine/Default/user_prefs.json >

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 12:24:48AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > #include > > Doesn't make a difference. Do you have libpq-dev installed? Cheers, Tom -- A farmer is a man outstanding in his field. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Log in details

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 03:05:46AM +, Johndy Laviña wrote: > > May I know what is the login and password for Debian GNU / Linux 9? They're whatever you set them to when installing the system. Cheers, Tom -- You could get a new lease on life -- if only you didn't need the first and last

Re: Permission issues - operator error?

On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 08:20:10AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # purge device > root@debian8-6:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4M > root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # force UID/GID to 'richard', label device, > accept standard defaults >

Re: Network Problems

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 02:45:07PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > So, what about locally-created Ethernet devices (e.g. Virtual Machine > interfaces, or devices without a burned-in MAC address)? For these, > you don't need to apply for your own OUI. The MAC address standard > states that if the

Re: Broken kernel?

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 05:51:07AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Call off the dogs, you and several other are correct, and I should not be > posting bad info at 3 or 4 am when the only reason I'm up at all is to > take the recyclables to the curb. Its just that I've been running the 32 > bit

Re: Broken kernel?

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:20:07AM +0100, floris wrote: > Intel says the Intel Atom CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz is 64bit[1]. The am64 kernel > is the right one. Either a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel could be equally valid, depending on other parameters. Cheers, Tom -- All God's children are not beautiful.

Re: Broken kernel?

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:34:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I just happen to have 2 machines on my home network that are Intel D525MW > motherboards, with dual core intel atom 1.8 GHz cpu's. They run > flawlessly from powerbump to powerbump, on an rtai patched but now > elderly kernel, a

Re: Broken kernel?

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 11:42:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > AMD64 would be like its built for an AMD phenom or newer. You want a > kernel built for an intel cpu. AMD64, in the context of package naming, is for any 64-bit x86 compatible CPU. Cheers, Tom -- A girl's best friend is her

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 01:08:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I use the MATE desktop. I had originally thought I could achieve my goals > using MATE's workspaces. I've read this post over, several times, but can't work out what your actual question is. Could you restate it plainly? Cheers,

Re: html page for bug report

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 05:04:25PM +0100, Pétùr wrote: > On 12/01/18 05:57, Dan Ritter wrote: > >Every bug or ticket tracker expands to fit at least a minimal > >set of features: bug numbering, more states between "new" and > >"fixed", assignment to individuals... > > > >I like Request Tracker

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: "Meltdown" and "Spectre": Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 08:32:17PM -0500, SDA wrote: > Show who you're quoting with an attribution line, please! With proper attribution, we might know who you are addressing with this statement... Cheers, Tom -- What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wrong with

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:12:47AM +0100, Max Power wrote: > with the new release of Debian 'Stretch', the route command has been replaced > but what other command returns the hostname of the modem/router gateway...? > # route > gateway = home.telecomitalia.it > # ip route > gateway = 192.168.1.1

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 07:52:31AM +0100, john doe wrote: > My default route is not 192.168.1.1 and host(1) gives me that same error. What the error actually means is that there is no reverse DNS resolution for that IP address, in other words the IP address cannot be resolved to its hostname. It

Re: hostname of the modem gateway

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 07:38:54AM +0100, john doe wrote: > Looks like 192.168.1.1 is not your default route. What led you to that conclusion? Cheers, Tom -- A good scapegoat is hard to find. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. -- Carolyn Wells signature.asc

Re: aplay fails on amd64 laptop

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 06:03:22PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > with hw:1:0, same result > ->aplay -D hw:1,0 file.wav >Playing WAVE 'file.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Stereo >aplay: set_params:1299: Sample format non available >Available formats: >- S16_LE >-

Re: Debian networking - accessing public-side servers from a private network

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:25:24PM +, Phil Reynolds wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:22:47 + > Phil Reynolds wrote: > > If I set up Zoiper to use the FQDN of the Asterisk box, it connects > > just fine when I am not at home. However, when I am at home, it

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 12/08/2017 05:12 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Something I did *not* understand when I saw it in operation was why > > a password was needed at the terminal but not from within the GUI's > > "Applications > Log Out" menu path. > >

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 06:02:04PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: > Should I for example before doing the dist-upgrade to stretch delete > the APT jessie-backports source? or should I simply leave it and do a > dist-upgrade as usual? Is there a reason not to switch to your backports source to

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 06:57:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/02/2017 01:52 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >David Wright writes: > >>what would be the principal use of this device, who would it be aimed > >>at, and what would be the size of its market? > > > >I'd buy one were it cheap enough

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 01:01:57PM -0500, Doug wrote: > install some kind of sound, and PCLOS doesn't know what to do with that. If > there is an Ubuntu version then it should certainly install in Debian, which > INVENTED the .deb system. Try it--the The advice to not install an Ubuntu package

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > ...and all of Dan's mails to the list... > All? How far back? That was my error, somehow my fingers typed "list" when my brain was thinking "thread". Cheers, Tom -- BOFH excuse #185: system consumed all the paper for paging

Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:37:03PM -0500, mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: > As this will be, it was sent using > > X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0 > > with > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 You came through fine as text/plain. Shame about breaking the

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks as > normally expected from Debian lists. :) That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list, have only a single html part. An incredibly

Re: sudo

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 02:56:36PM -0600, Josh W. wrote: > Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of > the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! If you just want to allow a user to use sudo in the default Debian configuration, it's as

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:23:42AM +, Indo Neh wrote: > Could this somehow be added to the Debian installer as this option is > I didn't realise people would get so stuck on names, by the 2nd email it > should have been obvious I meant this about Debian not Ubuntu. In your 2nd email you

Re: Not really OffTopic

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 06:12:37PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro [Debian] > suggest a feature. > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census states: > "Ubuntu is a Debian derivative aimed at popularizing and polishing

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity as this option is useful for anyone Wasn't the reply you received yesterday sufficient? You'll get on a lot better if you

Re: Cannot copy files from usb source

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:31:25PM +0200, Pétùr wrote: > I cannot copy files from my laptop (with SSD formated in ext4) to my > external HDD (formated also in ext4). I have an input/outpur error. The > I can do the opposite, i.e. transfert files from my laptop to my > external HDD (or other usb

Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:00:00PM +0200, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:51:31 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk napísal: You never really answered my questiom. If you place something in a public place, a mailserver, for example, why should it be a criminal offence to look

Re: [Wheezy] [networking] post-up NOT executed

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:41:50PM +0200, Mickael MONSIEUR wrote: Hi, I have a fresh installation of Debian Wheezy 7.6.0 amd64. The post-up line does not execute when eth0 is mounted! (by against my eth0 interface is mounted!) I have to mount routes, and are not: post-up /sbin/route add

Re: [Wheezy] [networking] post-up NOT executed

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 08:06:29PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:41:50PM +0200, Mickael MONSIEUR wrote: Hi, I have a fresh installation of Debian Wheezy 7.6.0 amd64. The post-up line does not execute when eth0 is mounted! (by against my eth0 interface is mounted

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 01:12:32PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I know systemd is not an option any more, but if this is the way it is going to waste my time, I will have to look at a reinstallation of my system and then use something that is less buggy than Debian Testing/Sid. You are, of

Re: unable to access website, getting 502 Bad Gateway errors

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 03:30:02PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: I am totally unable to access two websites that are very important to me, they're my own! And they are both listed in the sig of this email. I have tried with the following browsers - chromium, google-chrome, iceweasel,

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 05:44:37PM +0100, Brian wrote: I have no testing install to hand at the moment so perhaps you could list these packages for us. Please indicate the ones for which there is no real need. Here is a fairly naive list of packages which have a hard dependency on packages

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 07:16:43PM +0100, Brian wrote: [1] I am allowed to hate curl because I do not use it and do not understand what it does. Sounds more like fear. To hate something you must at least be familiar with what it is and does, and preferrably know how and why. Cheers, Tom --

Re: simple database solution without root access

On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 04:03:26PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Someone else wrote (attribution removed previously) If you are already sed/grep/awk then stop at awk. :-) Seriously though what do you want to do that can't be done easily with awk? I do use awk and have some

Re: OT: programming languages

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:41:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Programming belongs on any Linux list, especially since a lot of times you need to code to get things done. Dare you to configure dwm without coding. However, there is a difference between discussing code in the context of a solution

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

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 01:39:45AM -0600, Kitty Cat wrote: I'm thinking that a previous owner turned off the legacy USB keyboard support in the CMOS and since there is no option for a PS/2 keyboard, I think it may be stuck without keyboard access at boot time. If you can find a manual for the

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

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 03:34:23AM -0600, Kitty Cat wrote: After all my poking and prodding, I am thinking that maybe it needs a certain type of USB keyboard in order to have a working keyboard at boot. I know that some USB devices have to have drivers before the computer knows what to do

Re: Synaptic messed up

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 should pop up with your sources list already entered. Are you sure

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

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 03:31:51PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: She's got a USB keyboard. She needs a ps/2, and tehse are almost unobtainable. Except a PS/2 keyboard won't help either since the computer doesn't have PS/2 ports. Cheers, Tom -- 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0. signature.asc

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

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 03:39:57PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: No, she doesn't. Mea culpa. I shouldn't dive in etc. Oops, sorry. Replied to your previous message before reading this one. Perhaps I should follow your advice. Cheers, Tom -- A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.

Re: Synaptic messed up

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 Wheezy? Yes it is as I have already used it. What package is it in? I can't find it. Cheers, Tom -- BOFH excuse #68: only available

Re: Synaptic messed up

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 05:00:52PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I go to xterm and su and the apt commands work or at least they appear to. I haven't gotten any errors or weird stuff from it. I wasn't referring to the apt-* commands, but to the apt command, as mentioned by Stephen, which

Re: ntp problem

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 05:08:52PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Rob Owens wrote: Maybe a cron job running ntpdate? it's what I did up to now, (ntpdate or rdate), but the drift became too big, even with a call in cron.hourly Do you still have the cron job enabled?

Re: Iptables

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:00:03PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: I try to authorize the 192.168.0.2 host to connect to samba but the server host 192.168.0.1 won't let me with the following statement : iptables -A

Re: chkrootkit message

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 05:33:38PM +0100, Brian wrote: I'll add that I generally resist buying devices to detect pink elephants at the the bottom of my garden. But not because I don't think elephants don't exist. To be fair, I think it would be far easier to detect a pink elephant at the

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:16:27PM +0200, B wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, and swap partition,

Re: weired packages policy

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:28:41PM +0200, Hans wrote: Why not fix it directly in testing? I always thought, packages in testing are already tested (for a time). Follwing your desription, it would be better, to run sid than testing, as the fix is faster in sid, than in testing. Packages are

Re: When bug fixes are applied on stable ?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:21:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: However, going through the tutorial is a must, especially if one is transitioning from word processors, otherwise you'll be very frustrated that pressing Enter twice doesn't have the effect you are used to :) Even in modern

Re: xcb-util-image

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:33:24PM +0530, shishir tiwari wrote: when we compile xcb-util-image its say that xcb-util is missing. but we have already xcb-util 0.3.9 is installed . still we are face this issue. Since this is during compiling, my first guess would be that you need the relevant

Re: Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:20:21AM +0200, Oliver Zemann wrote: I changed my permissions with chown -R debian-spamd:debian-spamd /var/lib... so this should be fixed, thanks. Along with ownership, did you also change the permissions on /var/lib/spamassassin? Cheers, Tom -- Different all

Re: DEB Wheezy xfce desktops

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:16:28AM -0500, c. marlow wrote: Thank you so much TOM you made me SO HAPPY... I found the one I wanted... I just LOVE this background it reminds me of WIN 2000 which was my fav windows os Here is the desktop on Xubuntu 12.04 my current OS for now. I'm glad you

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture = i386, --print-foreign-architectures = amd64 And there it is - you are running a 32-bit system with a 64-bit kernel. Cheers, Tom -- QOTD: I never met a man I couldn't drink

Re: DEB Wheezy xfce desktops

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 02:16:32PM -0500, c. marlow wrote: I am wondering where I can find the desktops thats used in the latest Debian XFCE desktop Wallpapers? I'm not sure which wallpaper you're talking about, but have you checked xfce4-artwork? Cheers, Tom -- Higher education helps your

Re: DEB Wheezy xfce desktops

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 07:38:36PM -0500, c. marlow wrote: I have checked all over google and cannot find any of the desktops in Vanilla Debian, as they're different distro to distro I am on Xubuntu 12.04 right now but one day plan on going back to Vanilla Debian I liked how it only used 100

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have added to my sources.list the following line: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't make the backport appear in interactive

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says No such file ???

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:23:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al Well, you've actually pinned the problem pretty well. Who, or, rather, which tool should be

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says No such file ???

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:03:17PM -0400, Tom H wrote: But installing libc6:i386 and a few others allows firefox to work: Meaning installing the :i386 versions of the libraries was (part of) the solution, not the problem. Any bug report would have to go against a part of the system that was

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 04:04:30PM -0400, Tom Roche wrote: summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on libgif4:i386, but - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64 - important apps depend on libgif4:amd64 Is this the same box that you were having the

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says No such file ???

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:44:30AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Well, okay, we need to start somewhere, and, while we suspect ld, we don't really know for sure. And we suspect that the actual fix may not end up being in ld. So, what is the name of the package that is trying to load libc6:i386?

Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says No such file ???

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:50:58AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Although, if we wanted to get really crazy, we could say this is a bug in the spec of ld. But if we go there, we have to acknowledge that the spec of ld matches the general C/*nix run-time spec, so the bug is in ... (chasing our

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