Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/27/2019 01:31 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page of the document? Would you care to specify which PDF

Re: Atril documentation problems

2019-02-27 Thread Brian
On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of > highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page > of the document? Would you care to specify which PDF reader you have in mind? -- Brian.

Atril documentation problems

2019-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril. I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results. I have two problems using the "find" command. 1. When the keyword is found, it is highlighted(sic) in a page green foreground color. Is there any way to chose a mo

[Solved] Re: Problems upgrading grub-pc

2019-02-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:27:04 + Brad Rogers wrote: Hello, >Today, upgrading a testing install at the end of which report was >"setting up grub-pc" The problem is that it just sat there, and didn't >complete. Attempts to correct the problem with; Well, in exasperation, and with a sense of

Problems upgrading grub-pc

2019-02-21 Thread Brad Rogers
Hello, Today, upgrading a testing install at the end of which report was "setting up grub-pc" The problem is that it just sat there, and didn't complete. Attempts to correct the problem with; '# dpkg --configure grub-pc' also failed to complete the update. Downgrading to the previous version

Re: Audio problems in Sid

2019-02-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Sorry for the noise. Youtube is having BIG problems. And Chrome is apparently loading videos in a tab with audio MUTED !! On 2/3/19 2:09 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Running Debian Sid uptodate. Lost all sound this morning after an APT update/upgrade. I don't see anything in the update

Re: Audio problems in Sid

2019-02-03 Thread Frank McCormick
I have since discovered the problem seemingly only affects Google-Chrome in Youtube. Firefox in youtube has sound and VLC plays mp3's fine. Just a Chrome problem ?? On 2/3/19 2:09 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Running Debian Sid uptodate. Lost all sound this morning after an APT

Audio problems in Sid

2019-02-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Running Debian Sid uptodate. Lost all sound this morning after an APT update/upgrade. I don't see anything in the update that should affect sound but what do I know :) This is the output of INXI -A frank@franklin:~$ inxi -A Audio: Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio

Re: Failure to boot - LVM problems?

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 03:16:37PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: It turns out the later failures to boot probably weren't; it's just that I had 'quiet' enabled in the kernel commandline. Disabling that enabled me to see where it was hanging Yeah, I hate that "quiet" is the default--in the best

Re: Failure to boot - LVM problems?

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
ompt. > > On logging in, I found it had had problems mounting filesystems. > > All further attempts to boot it have gone straight from grub to a > blinking underline cursor in the top left. > > If I boot with one of the 'recovery mode' options, I can get back to the > mainte

Failure to boot - LVM problems?

2019-01-03 Thread Richard Hector
ia a local cronjob), having done its job. Then later, I booted it manually, and it didn't - when I plugged in a screen and keyboard, I found it at the 'root password for maintenance or Ctrl-D to continue' prompt. On logging in, I found it had had problems mounting filesystems. All further attemp

Re: Serious Hardware problems In multiple distros (grahpical/ethernet)

2018-12-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
very > long form then move on please.  > > > I Will first start off with my current specifications: > > > 1 8 gb ddr3 ram stick > amd radeon r9 380 asus strix model > amd fx 6300 6 core processor unlocked > gigabyte 970a-ud3p > 500 watt evga Power supply > > The Dist

Re: Serious Hardware problems In multiple distros (grahpical/ethernet)

2018-12-12 Thread Felix Miata
Mask The Truth God composed on 2018-12-12 18:38 (UTC): > ...1 8 gb ddr3 ram stick ... > gigabyte 970a-ud3p... Using a single RAM stick in a motherboard such as yours that supports dual channel memory architecture causes a nearly 50% memtest86 performance penalty compared to those using two or

Serious Hardware problems In multiple distros (grahpical/ethernet)

2018-12-12 Thread Mask The Truth God
8 gb ddr3 ram stick amd radeon r9 380 asus strix model amd fx 6300 6 core processor unlocked gigabyte 970a-ud3p 500 watt evga Power supply The Distrubutions I tried installing that all had the same problems were: Debian, Arch, Linux Mint, fedora, openSUES. I am using Insigna 1217 Rev.A flat

Re: Display problems after installation (Stretch)

2018-11-13 Thread Felix Miata
Robert Kopp composed on 2018-11-14 05:28 (UTC): ... > I succeeded in installing Debian Stretch (x64), but not in getting suitable > graphical > performance. My system includes a 4D display (3840 x 2160), LG 24UD58, and an > AMD RX 480 display > adapter (should use amdgpu). Ubuntu and Fedora both

problems with an external monitor after suspending session . . .

2018-10-22 Thread Albretch Mueller
 On: $ uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux ~  I am using a samsung 32" TV through its HDMI port:  https://www.samsung.com/ca/support/model/LN32A450C1DXZC/  

Underlying problems - was [Re: Permission issues - operator error?]

2018-09-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Gparted (providing root password) to repartition the drive. As I'm diagnosing problems I do a power off/on cycle to force a cold boot. After login in as either 'richard' or 'root' permissions are displayed as "could not be determined". The MATE tools do not act as I expected.

Re: Synaptic problems - operator ERROR ;{

2018-09-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/20/2018 01:20 PM, didier gaumet wrote: Le 20/09/2018 à 17:33, Richard Owlett a écrit : I'm using Debian 9 with MATE. I installed Emacs using Synaptic. [...]  There error messages were: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. [...] not using Synaptic myself

Re: Synaptic problems - operator ERROR ;{

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 17:33, Richard Owlett a écrit : > I'm using Debian 9 with MATE. > I installed Emacs using Synaptic. [...] >  There error messages were: >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. [...] not using Synaptic myself, but from the Synaptic Help:

Synaptic problems - operator ERROR ;{

2018-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
on 1st screen. I was able to back out of screens with out problems. I was unable to back out of one screen, chose to shut down Emacs with 'x' in upper right corner. When I reopened from MATE menu I did not get what I had seen before. Decided to purge Emacs an start again. Using Synaptic I: 1

Re: fedora 28 installation causing problems for Debian Sid

2018-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-09-19 10:02 a.m., Frank McCormick wrote: I installed Fedora 28 on a second partition sda6 on my hd yesterday. It seemed to go well, but this morning when I booted into my regular system Debian Sid and tried to install Grub into the Debian partition sda5 it refused saying ext2 file

fedora 28 installation causing problems for Debian Sid

2018-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
I installed Fedora 28 on a second partition sda6 on my hd yesterday. It seemed to go well, but this morning when I booted into my regular system Debian Sid and tried to install Grub into the Debian partition sda5 it refused saying ext2 file systems are not supported without blocklists. sda5

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64 [AUDIO SOLVED]

2018-09-13 Thread rv riveravaldez
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > rv riveravaldez (2018-07-26): >> I'm having an audio issue with this same kernel: there's a permanent >> buzz that starts at soon as the system has loaded and only stops when >> I play some sound (any audio or video) or starts JACK (via

Re: [solved?] Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-09-04 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Then I suppose it's not a matter of Sid vs. Stable... I think it is matter of Sid

Re: [solved?] Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-09-04 Thread Rodolfo Medina
deloptes writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> I `aptitude purge-d' pulseaudio and... (after maybe reboot) sound back >> again... >> > > usually it helps > logout > remove .pulse from use home > reboot > > in .pulse and previously in .config/pulse (AFAIR) there are/were

Re: Boot problems: atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting [was: empty subject]

2018-08-18 Thread Curt
On 2018-08-17, wrote: > > I fear I can't help you with that -- but I "decorated" your mail subject > a bit for others to find it. The subject was garnished for me. I saw: [radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop from Tom Arnall or (or maybe tom arnall, or e.e. cummings). > Cheers > - -- t >

Boot problems: atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting [was: empty subject]

2018-08-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 08:32:47PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Hi, Tom -- > I keep getting the following error when my machine boots: > >[radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting > > the system finally comes up, after

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-12 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 7:25 PM, deloptes wrote: > Dale Forsyth wrote: > >> It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's >> full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... >> Everything seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... >> Last time

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Dale Forsyth wrote: > It seems to be damned recursive, the problem...  After yesterday's > full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... > Everything seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... > Last time this happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio and

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-08-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2018 à 16:43, Nicolas George a écrit : This one was fixed by adding this on the kernel command-line: dm_mod.use_blk_mq=0 scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=0 It is possible that "ahci.mobile_lpm_policy=0" helps too, it was suggested to me as a fix too and I have not yet tested without it, nor with

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-08-12 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > I am running testing on a fairly normal i3-based PC. Since yesterday, it > is using the 4.17.0-1-amd64 kernel instead of 4.16.0-2-amd64, and I am > experiencing the following two issues: > > The device for the audio controller takes about 0.3 seconds to open. I > have

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-11 Thread Dale Forsyth
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world From: Rodolfo Medina Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2018 5:54 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: New `no sound' problems It seems to be damned recursive, the problem

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-11 Thread Dale Forsyth
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world From: Joe Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2018 7:10 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: delop...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems) On Thu, 09

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-08-11 Thread Nicolas George
rv riveravaldez (2018-07-26): > I'm having an audio issue with this same kernel: there's a permanent > buzz that starts at soon as the system has loaded and only stops when > I play some sound (any audio or video) or starts JACK (via qjackctl). A lost interrupt like I suspected initially would

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-08-11 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. An update on this: Nicolas George (2018-07-25): > The device for the audio controller takes about 0.3 seconds to open. I > have just rebooted on 4.16, and with it the delay is imperceptible. (And > yes, 0.3 seconds for that is a problem for me.) The audio device is > listed as "ALC892

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-09 Thread songbird
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: ... > I did finally figuratively "run away" while very literally "shrieking" > one day because there were SO MANY upgrades. I wasn't able to do both > that and the advocacy that MUST be done from behind this keyboard > right now. That just doesn't work on dialup...

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/9/18, deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > >> On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200 >> deloptes wrote: >> >>> Joe wrote: >>> >>> > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my >>> > sid workstations t

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > >> Joe wrote: >> >> > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my >> > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a >> > pig on L

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-09 Thread Joe
On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:14:44 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my > > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a > > pig on Linux, as the software base seems to change every

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-09 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Having said that, I don't think I've had more sound problems with my > sid workstations than with my stable server. Sound is generally a pig > on Linux, as the software base seems to change every few years, and > until recently, multiple sound cards had the same problem

Re: Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-08 Thread Joe
user query but rather something that goes > >> to package/support etc. > > > > Right, sorry, Sid is unstable not testing, which is even more > > "self-explanatory." > > > deloptes, Curt, I understand what you say so that I'm considering > down

Using Sid (was: New `no sound' problems)

2018-08-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
ng, which is even more > "self-explanatory." deloptes, Curt, I understand what you say so that I'm considering downgrading to Stable. Nevertheless, I'm not sure that the debian-user list should not discuss problems arising from the use of Sid. After all, my recent experienc

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-08 Thread Curt
On 2018-08-07, deloptes wrote: > Curt wrote: > >> He means it's self-explanatory given you're using testing and when using >> testing shit happens (things break) > > its not even testing it is sid - as far as I know it is after testing and > there even more shit happens, so I don't understand why

Re: [solved?] Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I `aptitude purge-d' pulseaudio and... (after maybe reboot) sound back > again... > usually it helps logout remove .pulse from use home reboot in .pulse and previously in .config/pulse (AFAIR) there are/were internal DB and it did not work well

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > He means it's self-explanatory given you're using testing and when using > testing shit happens (things break) its not even testing it is sid - as far as I know it is after testing and there even more shit happens, so I don't understand why he/she should bother us or we should

[solved?] Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's > full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... Everything > seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... Last time this > happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread Curt
On 2018-08-07, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > deloptes writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> After yesterday's full-upgrade >>> in Sid >> >> well this is self explaining -> Sid He means it's self-explanatory given you're using testing and when using testing shit happens (things break). It goes

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jude DaShiell writes: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 06:40:49 >> From: Rodolfo Medina >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: New `no sound' problems >> Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:41:15 +00

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
deloptes writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> After yesterday's full-upgrade >> in Sid > > well this is self explaining -> Sid What please do you mean...? Rodolfo

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 06:40:49 > From: Rodolfo Medina > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: New `no sound' problems > Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:41:15 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > After yesterday's full-upgrade > in Sid well this is self explaining -> Sid

Re: New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's > full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... Everything > seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... Last time this > happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio

New `no sound' problems

2018-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... Everything seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... Last time this happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio and alsaplayer-alsa... Now it

Re: Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-07-25 Thread rv riveravaldez
er button; the shutdown > was clean. I had no such problem with 4.16.0-2-amd64, and I will be > careful to see if they happen now that I have rebooted with the oldest > kernel. > > Does anyone experience the same problems? > > > (To test the audio delay issue, you ca

Problems with kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64

2018-07-25 Thread Nicolas George
hat I have rebooted with the oldest kernel. Does anyone experience the same problems? (To test the audio delay issue, you can use the following commands: ffmpeg -lavfi sine=d=0.5 sine.wav aplay sine.wav The beep sound should be instantaneous, except possibly on the first run if aplay and libraries a

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-30 Thread Joe
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:07:33 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2018 03:01 PM, deloptes wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> The initial setup to create users and associated passwords > >> specifically. Also anything else required for using it for the > >> first time. > > > > Hi,

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-30 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > Suggestions for finding a suitable tutorial/howto? > >> For >> example I like "learn in 21 days" and you can google "learn mysql in 21 >> days" > > There's a obviously pirated copy in Russia :< https://www.tutorialspoint.com/mysql/index.htm

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2018 03:01 PM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: The initial setup to create users and associated passwords specifically. Also anything else required for using it for the first time. Hi, as you stated that you have time, just read some good howto. You must know that MariaDB is

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-30 Thread Joe
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 06:55:56 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2018 01:23 PM, Joe wrote: > > So start > > learning now, such as how to login, how to reset the root > > password, > > How? Haven't found relevant document(s). > Here's a couple to begin with, but the Internet really isn't

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
synaptic to completely remove mariadb-* by marking each package attempted using synaptic to install mysql-server and mysql-client it failed, reporting broken packages synaptic's fix command failed "apt-get check" reported no problems "apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client"

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > The initial setup to create users and associated passwords specifically. > Also anything else required for using it for the first time. Hi, as you stated that you have time, just read some good howto. You must know that MariaDB is MySQL, so any MySQL introductory lesson

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Joe
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 07:59:57 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. > About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find > tutorial which was a close enough match to my system. > > I found (and attempted to follow)

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 29 June 2018 09:22:56 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. > >About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find > >tutorial which was a close enough match

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2018 08:22 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] Now, if you're not getting these prompts, then the best place to start is by choosing (again) the configuration of debconf. Run:  # dpkg-reconfigure debconf I did,

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2018 08:09 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find tutorial which was a close enough match to my

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find tutorial which was a close enough match to my system. I found (and attempted to follow) instructions

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. > About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find > tutorial which was a close enough match to my

Re: Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:59:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. > About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find tutorial > which was a close enough match to my system. > > I found (and attempted to follow)

Problems installing MariaDB

2018-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
I have not used a relational database since dBASEII was current. About a year ago I attempted to install MariaDB but didn't find tutorial which was a close enough match to my system. I found (and attempted to follow) instructions at: https://www.tecmint.com/install-mariadb-in-debian/

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-28 Thread David Wright
am > > > in your system(s), which may or may not be problematic. > > > > I'm not aware of any other program that's 1% as promiscuous as a > > browser. (Perhaps you could suggest some.) > > Let's see. Any torrent client. I don't have any, so I can't judge whether th

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:25:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > But do I want to set up a DNS proxy > > > on each host, with any wheezy, jessie and stretch differences to sort > > > out? > > > > Why would you? You set up a single DNS (or HTTP proxy) and point all > > your devices

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Jun 2018 at 10:17:11 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:51:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > 2) Why bother with /etc/hosts at all, if one can use DNS or HTTP proxy > > > for the same purpose with much simplier configuration (hint - you cannot > > > block

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:51:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 2) Why bother with /etc/hosts at all, if one can use DNS or HTTP proxy > > for the same purpose with much simplier configuration (hint - you cannot > > block all sites in a domain via /etc/hosts unless you list all of

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Jun 2018 at 23:03:34 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:14:36PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > Not to go off-topic, but you wrote: > > "Difficult for me to judge. I do have over 13000 hostnames in /etc/hosts > > which I hope has an accelerating effect

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:14:36PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Not to go off-topic, but you wrote: > "Difficult for me to judge. I do have over 13000 hostnames in /etc/hosts > which I hope has an accelerating effect on loading pages (though I" > > So you aggressively flaunt

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
t; >> On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to > >>> https://manpages.debian.org/ . > >> > >> Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in > >> Firefox pointing

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ (PS)

2018-06-26 Thread John Crawley
On 2018-06-26 16:30, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 09:49, Fred wrote: On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-26 Thread John Crawley
On 2018-06-24 09:49, Fred wrote: On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in Firefox

Additional info [Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/]

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/23/2018 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually it went away after a couple of retries. Earlier today had to do multiple retries over ~15-20 minutes. If it's relevant, my ISP is T-mobile. I

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 09:23:13AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > >For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to > >https://manpages.debian.org/ . FWIW, less than two secon

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread David Wright
On Sun 24 Jun 2018 at 09:23:13 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > >For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to > >https://manpages.debian.org/ . > > Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 6/23/18, John Crawley wrote: > On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: >> For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to >> https://manpages.debian.org/ . > > Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in > Firefox pointing to

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread Fred
On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in Firefox pointing to an online Debian manpage

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread John Crawley
On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in Firefox pointing to an online Debian manpage it takes a very long time to load

Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually it went away after a couple of retries. Earlier today had to do multiple retries over ~15-20 minutes. If it's relevant, my ISP is T-mobile. I haven't noticed any problems with other sites.

Re: Problems installing AMD64 Debian

2018-05-16 Thread Brian
On Wed 16 May 2018 at 13:43:17 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/16/2018 01:01 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Richard Owlett composed on 2018-05-16 12:15 (UTC-0500): > > > > > My first question, is a ThinkPad T510 having a Intel i5 processor > > > capable of running it. > > > > > The netinst

Re: Problems installing AMD64 Debian

2018-05-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/16/2018 01:01 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2018-05-16 12:15 (UTC-0500): My first question, is a ThinkPad T510 having a Intel i5 processor capable of running it. The netinst appeared to run. I comes up. But neither the standard 32 bit version of SeaMonkey nor a

Re: Problems installing AMD64 Debian

2018-05-16 Thread Brian
On Wed 16 May 2018 at 12:15:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My first question, is a ThinkPad T510 having a Intel i5 processor capable of > running it. A number of positive search engine hits with "debian ThinkPad T510" would inspire confidence, > > The netinst appeared to run. > I comes up.

Re: Problems installing AMD64 Debian

2018-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2018-05-16 12:15 (UTC-0500): > My first question, is a ThinkPad T510 having a Intel i5 processor > capable of running it. > The netinst appeared to run. > I comes up. > But neither the standard 32 bit version of SeaMonkey nor a late beta of > a 64bit version will

Problems installing AMD64 Debian

2018-05-16 Thread Richard Owlett
My first question, is a ThinkPad T510 having a Intel i5 processor capable of running it. The netinst appeared to run. I comes up. But neither the standard 32 bit version of SeaMonkey nor a late beta of a 64bit version will launch. The only know atypical choice was to not allow the installer

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > $ qemu-system-mips -m 2048 -nographic > -cdrom /tmp/debian-7.4.0-mips-netinst.iso -boot d > qemu-system-mips: Could not load MIPS bios 'mips_bios.bin', and no -kernel > argument was specified Oops. I did not expect it to die so early. > Also, that 'iso' is no way a

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:58:13PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debian_mips32b.img ? > > Reco wrote: > > No. One of the oddities of QEMU's malta that nobody was able to > > write a > > working bootloader for it. OP

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
Hi. In-Reply-To: <3824776101913512...@scdbackup.webframe.org> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:58:13PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debian_mips32b.img ? > > Reco wrote: > > No. One of the oddities of QEMU's malta that

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debian_mips32b.img ? Reco wrote: > No. One of the oddities of QEMU's malta that nobody was able to write a > working bootloader for it. OP is doing it the only way that's possible. And he has luck to already have found somebody who

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Alan Tu
Thanks Reco. The concept I missed is, I need to grab the initrd and kernel from the installed system, specifically from the /boot directory. I know that now for all future architectures I mess with! There are lots of ways to do the same thing, I'm just sharing. To mount a partition inside raw

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:30:32PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > # qemu-system-mips -m 2048 -rtc base=localtime -boot order=c > > -nographic -hda debian_mips32b.img -kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-6-4kc-malta > > -append "root=/dev/sda1" > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
one purpose exactly - to run debian-installer. It's not supposed to boot your installed Debian system. > If I don't point qemu at the initrd RAM disk, the kernel seems to > start, but it has problems. > # qemu-system-mips -m 2048 -rtc base=localtime -boot order=c > -nographic -hda debian

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alan Tu wrote: > I installed Debian inside a virtual disk image. >From outside qemu ? That could be tricky because being unusual. Last time i installed a virtual Debian, i did something like this: # Create virtual disk as data file qemu-img create debian_vm_disk.qemu 32G # Start

can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Alan Tu
ction menu, not the system. Despite the fact I don't attach a virtual CD-ROM install media. If I don't point qemu at the initrd RAM disk, the kernel seems to start, but it has problems. # qemu-system-mips -m 2048 -rtc base=localtime -boot order=c -nographic -hda debian_mips32b.img -kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-6

Re: Problems with KDE in Debian Stretch

2018-04-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
In essence the configuration I suppose that it will have been the same >> one that I kept previously with Jessie and with which it was not having >> problems with Jessie. >> ... >> Currently I have these packages installed: >> ... >> i A xserver-xorg-video-all

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