Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-kernel-dkms. (Reading database ... 152853 files and directorie

Re: Jessie failed installation woes - they continue!

2015-06-15 Thread Bruce Ward
Installation was on second drive, and grub was installed to the MBR of that drive. Restart dropped me into grub rescue mode with the message about normal.mod not being found. After mounting the drive in Wheezy, I find that the directory that normal.mod is supposed to be in, is not there. There are

Re: Fwd: Re: HP printer not added

2015-06-15 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/15/2015 06:00 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Jun 2015 at 15:22:48 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I have un-installed and re-installed cups. I used the add printer feature from the menu items under my name. It comes up with various items that can be changed and printer is one of them. It

Re: ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/06/15 07:52 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Martin Read wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: In the old days computers would use ECC ram throughout. ECC (in the strict sense) has never been ubiquitous. At one time every computer I interfaced with had ECC. It was very popular with me and everyone else I knew

Re: Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
linuxthefish wrote: > It looks like Debian will only connect to a wireless network when the > ethernet cable has been plugged in and unplugged. No. If you are seeing this it is either a bug or a configuration or use problem. Works fine for most of us. So my guess is a configuration or use probl

Re: ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Read wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >In the old days computers would use ECC ram throughout. > > ECC (in the strict sense) has never been ubiquitous. At one time every computer I interfaced with had ECC. It was very popular with me and everyone else I knew. :-) > Parity was quite common in

Re: updating debian warnings

2015-06-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Jun 2015 at 23:44:50 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 15 June 2015 23:01:05 Steve Greig wrote: > > I tried to update debian (my first time) and Apper quickly warned me that I > > was about to install unsigned packages and that it was impossible to verify > > if they came from a trust

Re: Fwd: Re: HP printer not added

2015-06-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Jun 2015 at 18:17:58 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/15/2015 06:00 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Mon 15 Jun 2015 at 15:22:48 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > >>I have un-installed and re-installed cups. I used the add printer > >>feature from the menu items under my name. It

Re: updating debian warnings

2015-06-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 15 June 2015 23:01:05 Steve Greig wrote: > I tried to update debian (my first time) and Apper quickly warned me that I > was about to install unsigned packages and that it was impossible to verify > if they came from a trusted source: Do you want to continue? I decided to > take a risk an

Re: Fwd: Re: HP printer not added

2015-06-15 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/15/2015 06:00 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Jun 2015 at 15:22:48 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I have un-installed and re-installed cups. I used the add printer feature from the menu items under my name. It comes up with various items that can be changed and printer is one of them. It

updating debian warnings

2015-06-15 Thread Steve Greig
I tried to update debian (my first time) and Apper quickly warned me that I was about to install unsigned packages and that it was impossible to verify if they came from a trusted source: Do you want to continue? I decided to take a risk and clicked 'yes'. This led to another warning window requiri

Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-15 Thread linuxthefish
Hello, It looks like Debian will only connect to a wireless network when the ethernet cable has been plugged in and unplugged. Both the wired and wireless connections are set to automatically come up - but wireless will not come up and fails to respond to ping unless a ethernet cable has been plug

Re: Fwd: Re: HP printer not added

2015-06-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Jun 2015 at 15:22:48 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I have un-installed and re-installed cups. I used the add printer > feature from the menu items under my name. It comes up with various > items that can be changed and printer is one of them. It is locked so I The name of the soft

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:39:00AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > sudo purge nvidia* > > (Do not forget to reboot). nVidia ppa's other than xorg-edgers need to > be disabled or removed for the sake of this particular example. > " > > Trying to run that p

Fwd: Re: HP printer not added

2015-06-15 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: HP printer not added Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:59:43 -0400 From: Maureen L Thomas To: Brian I have un-installed and re-installed cups. I used the add printer feature from the menu items under my name. It comes up with variou

Re: want to know the difference

2015-06-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, Soumen Ghose wrote: > Hello , There. > I am soumen ghose, and gonna use debian linux for first time , so i > want to download the iso file, but i have a bit confusion. what is > the difference between cd iso file and dvd iso file, i mean the cd > iso file is 648 mb while is 4

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/14/2015 03:29 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> >>> >>> Check that they support your GPU at all first, sometimes it takes a >>> little time for the open source drivers to implement support for the >>> latest models. nVidia is re

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150612_1753-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What would be the > "systemd-correct" form of this: > > $ ps ax | grep ssh > > I use that to check for the existence (or, as the case may be) demise) of > an ssh tunnel I use for VNC. What should I us

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> I bought the headless powerpc server here: >> http://www.excitostore.com/ > > If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. > That's good for you because ARM is still a support

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread csanyipal
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: >> I bought the headless powerpc server here: >> http://www.excitostore.com/ > > If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. > That's good for you because ARM is still a support

Re: ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-15 Thread Martin Read
On 14/06/15 23:40, Bob Proulx wrote: In the old days computers would use ECC ram throughout. ECC (in the strict sense) has never been ubiquitous. Parity was quite common in certain timeframes, but parity won't stop your system crashing if you get bitflips - it'll just make it crash *immediat

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
cu...@free.fr wrote: >On 2015-06-15, Arno Schuring wrote: > >> It probably would but it looks like the sources are on separate DVDs >> (in the [..]/current/source directory) so they wouldn't show up when >> grepping the amd64/list-dvd/ files. Either way you can verify the >> output by removing the

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-15, Arno Schuring wrote: > It probably would but it looks like the sources are on separate DVDs > (in the [..]/current/source directory) so they wouldn't show up when > grepping the amd64/list-dvd/ files. Either way you can verify the > output by removing the postprocessing by the cut|

RE: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > From: cu...@free.fr > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:39:44 + > > On 2015-06-14, Arno Schuring wrote: >> >> $ wget >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/list-dvd/debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-{1..13}.list.gz >> [..] >> $ zgrep -E '^(stumpwm|cl-ppcre|sbcl|gcl|mpd|gmpc|feh|libtheora0)_

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-14, Arno Schuring wrote: > >>> You don't need the source packages nor the ones for architectures other >>> than your own. >> >> Without having researched the question, is there a simple way >> of knowing which dvds contain what (a package list or something)? > > Yes, the list-cd/ and li

Is it possible to install older linux-headers on Debian 8

2015-06-15 Thread Dhiraj Bhor
Hi all, I have one build system which is legacy and i am just compiling the older code on new debian 8 machine. Its a scons build and when i started the build, i got following error. scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... scons: building associated BuildDir targets: OUT

backuppc plus smbclient in jessie

2015-06-15 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi I have an elderly machine which has been successfully running backuppc, mainly with linux clients but including use of smb to backup Windows hosts. I recently upgraded from squeeze to wheezy and found that backuppc no longer worked correctly with smbclient: the backup terminates with no warning

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:53:52PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What would be the > "systemd-correct" form of this: > > $ ps ax | grep ssh > > I use that to check for the existence (or, as the case may be) demise) of > an ssh tunnel I use for VN

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:25:09AM +0200, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > I bought the headless powerpc server here: > http://www.excitostore.com/ If you mean the Excito B3, it would appear to be ARM, not PowerPC. That's good for you because ARM is still a supported architecture in Debian, and Power

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
As others have suggested you should file a bug report. The Chromium maintainers do appear to take privacy seriously and have made several privacy-oriented changes already (see e.g. this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783999) If you need to find out how to file a bug, please

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello On Monday 08 June 2015 19:21:28 Dominique Dumont wrote: > > I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at > > 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in > > because > > the keyboard and mouse are being ignored. I finally solved the issue o

Re: want to know the difference

2015-06-15 Thread Riley Baird
> Hello , There. > I am soumen ghose, and gonna use debian linux for first time , so i want to > download the iso file, but i have a bit confusion. what is the difference > between cd iso file and dvd iso file, i mean the cd iso file is 648 mb > while is 4.4 gb . Do they both contain the same file

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

2015-06-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote: > hi all, > > today after a dist-upgrade i have problems with git. these are the updated > packages > > Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main dpkg i386 1.18.1 [2.939 > kB] > Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing

[solved] Re: Squid3 on Raspberry Pi listen to IPv6 only even if ipv6 is disabled

2015-06-15 Thread basti
I have fixed with the following in squid.conf http_port 0.0.0.0:3128 transparent Sorry On 15.06.2015 10:42, basti wrote: > Hello, > > last weekend I have try to run squid3 on my raspberry. > Squid3 listen to IPv6 only even if IPv6 is disabled. > > I have found this bug-report which is marked as

Squid3 on Raspberry Pi listen to IPv6 only even if ipv6 is disabled

2015-06-15 Thread basti
Hello, last weekend I have try to run squid3 on my raspberry. Squid3 listen to IPv6 only even if IPv6 is disabled. I have found this bug-report which is marked as fixed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584223 How can i fix this, that squid3 also listen on IPv4? Thanks a lot fo

Unable to access USB NTFS drive with jessie

2015-06-15 Thread Robert S
I have just cloned an old installation of wheezy onto a Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-1900 PC and have upgraded it to Jessie (32-bit). I'm unable to access two different USB hard drives - in both cases I get: debian:/home/me# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk/ debian:/home/me# ls /mnt/disk ls: cannot access /m

want to know the difference

2015-06-15 Thread Soumen Ghose
Hello , There. I am soumen ghose, and gonna use debian linux for first time , so i want to download the iso file, but i have a bit confusion. what is the difference between cd iso file and dvd iso file, i mean the cd iso file is 648 mb while is 4.4 gb . Do they both contain the same files and thin

Re: HP printer not added

2015-06-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 20:12:05 -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I upgraded Wheezy to the latest version 7.8.0. Actually I had to > reinstall it since the keyboard and mouse quite working and I was > unable to log in even in recovery. Anyway, I got it back up and > running and I tried to use my p

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:47:06PM +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: > Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet > tracking by debian packages like chromium. I do agree that this should be filed as a bug. Please come back