Re: why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
On my system I had to disable apt-daily and apt-daily-upgrade through > systemd. This command will tell you if those are installed/enabled on > your system: > > systemctl status apt-daily apt-daily-upgrade > > $ systemctl is-enabled apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily.timer disabled disabled i

Re: why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
> > > gee, do you think this PackageKit thing might have something to do with > it? I'm on stretch, about two weeks into the new plasma, the first thing > I did was purge discover, apper, and all the other windows clone stuff. > > yeah, i get that, but the packagekit systemd service is of type

why is my debian automatically doing apt updates?

2017-11-25 Thread Ludovico Van
Hi all, i have debian testing/unstable on my laptop. It's been 9 years without any problems whatsoever (thank you debian devs!). Since a couple of weeks i've been having at every boot some job that automatically does apt update, but i've been unable to track it down. Of course, being the unstable

Re: sigabrt chrome

2014-09-27 Thread Ludovico Van
anyone? hi all sorry for the little ot, being chrome not open source on a debian stable, after some upgrades (unfortunately cannot track which one, since i don't own that machine), google chrome stopped working. When starting from the cli i only get a Aborted and then terminates. This

sigabrt chrome

2014-09-24 Thread Ludovico Van
hi all sorry for the little ot, being chrome not open source on a debian stable, after some upgrades (unfortunately cannot track which one, since i don't own that machine), google chrome stopped working. When starting from the cli i only get a Aborted and then terminates. This happens with

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-03 Thread ludovico van
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:00 PM, ludovico van ludovicova...@gmail.com wrote: i have this in $HOME/.bash_logout : # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits. # when leaving the console clear the screen

Re: Clearing Screen on Logout?

2010-03-02 Thread ludovico van
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that with Debian when I logout of my system, it doesn't clear the screen to the login screen via bash only (non GUI). i have this in $HOME/.bash_logout : # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell

Re: find installed unavailable packages

2010-02-28 Thread ludovico van
Dear all, How to list all packages which are installed but unavailable? maybe $ aptitude search ~i~o bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: HDD powersaving at music playing.

2010-02-09 Thread ludovico van
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good day. how I can load a lot of files into RAM so that a mplayer would not read from the HDD? something like $ cat [list of files] /dev/null should cache the files. If you have enough unused ram they will stay in

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-24 Thread ludovico van
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:20 PM, T o n g wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0100, ludovico van wrote: so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, so i can copy only selected files? Ok, then check

ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-20 Thread ludovico van
hi all, i have a damaged HD with many bad blocks on it, and i'm trying to recover its files. the first try was using ddrescue, but (even with the --no-split option) it took an entire day to only copy a couple of GiB... since i can successfully mount the disk and browse its files, it would be

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-20 Thread ludovico van
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:25:07 +0100, ludovico van wrote: so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, so i can copy only selected

Re: problemi con gestore pacchetti

2010-01-05 Thread ludovico van
English version below: Qui si scrive solo in inglese. Per aiuto in italiano, scrivi su debian-italian. Comunque per il tuo problema serve vedere l'output di # LANG=en_US aptitude # cat /etc/apt/sources.list ciao If you want to write in italian, please use debian-italian mailing list. If you

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-11 Thread ludovico van
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like udev i blocking boot sequence. 22K svg image attached. I have no idea how to speedup this. Do you get something like udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's

Re: Starting MTA:

2009-09-18 Thread ludovico van
Agreed.  Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and various packages install cron jobs implicitly. However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is lighter-weight than exim4? what i do on my computers is putting QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon' in

Re: I can't locate locate

2009-08-20 Thread ludovico van
I am running up to date Sid and can no longer run the command 'locate'. Has this been removed from Sid, if so is there an alternative command for searching a database for files? mlocate is the package you want ciao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: two fingers scroll?

2009-07-20 Thread ludovico van
Noone? How can i know my touchpad model? lspci, lsusb and lshw show nothing... On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM, ludovico vanludovicova...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, i have a synaptics touchpad on a sony vaio sr11m laptop (how can i know the exact touchpad model?), and i try to enable two finger

Re: two fingers scroll?

2009-07-20 Thread ludovico van
how can i know if two fingers scrolling is supported on my laptop (debian sid)? the answer is in man synclient, option -m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

two fingers scroll?

2009-07-17 Thread ludovico van
hi all, i have a synaptics touchpad on a sony vaio sr11m laptop (how can i know the exact touchpad model?), and i try to enable two finger scroll with $ xinput set-int-prop SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling 8 1 1 $ howewer it's not working. Is that enough? how can i

Re: i need ia32-libs. What to do?

2009-06-29 Thread ludovico van
What's the simplest way to get ia32-libs back? Anyone knows how long will it take for the transition to finish? it seems ia32-libs has been updated to version 18 (??). from http://packages.debian.org/sid/ia32-libs : This is a transitional package that depends on a set of core libraries for

i need ia32-libs. What to do?

2009-06-24 Thread ludovico van
Hi, currently ia32-libs is uninstallable in sid due to this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533362 unfortunately i upgraded without noticing it would have removed ia32-libs, and i need that package for some 32bit-only closed source software. Does anyone know when the transition

Re: i need ia32-libs. What to do?

2009-06-24 Thread ludovico van
What's the simplest way to get ia32-libs back? Thanks all. For now i'm using a 32-bit chroot. it seemed the simplest way... Anyone knows how long will it take for the transition to finish? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of