After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs

2015-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
My sources.list: # Unstable deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free . After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta' key not being reco

Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting martin McCormick (marti...@suddenlink.net): > David Wright writes: > > I think there's a fourth field missing there. > > Correct! Please read on. > > > > > Anyway, what I just did is: install pptp-linux (which pulls in ppp) > > and typed: > > # pptpsetup --create work --server ukvpn.ufr

Re: Wheezy firmware netinstall CDs

2015-08-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: Is there any advantage or disadvantage in using the multiarch CD instead of the i386 and AMD64 CDs? I'm not clear as to what is meant by the word 'firmware' in your Subject: line. Also, are there iso's for Wheezy netinstall CDs available online, for ei

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 07 August 2015 22:18:18 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Climate update: 11 pm, 50th parallel north, 30 Celsius. >  Still too hot to open the thermally insulated fortress. It's only 16 here. (50° 49') 20 at midday. You've got our summer. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

aufofs starting before networking at system boot

2015-08-07 Thread ML mail
Hello, I noticed that on my Debian jessie installation by looking in /etc/rc5.d that autofs gets started before the networking script. Somehow I think this does not make sense and autofs should get started after the networking script. For example in my case autofs has to query my internal LDAP

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I applied the proposed patches and the burn with unaligned > iso-images is OK now. Be so kind and report this by mail to 794...@bugs.debian.org so the fix gets credibility (if not 3 years of Fedora suffice). > It is readable alright in my computer but my LG recorder d

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-07 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday 07 August 2015 16:41:46 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2015 15:31:53 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, [snip] > > "Maxell" can be a different manufacturer every other week. > > Mine ("16x" bought at food discounter Lidl a few years ago) > > are from Ritek > > I will follow your a

Re: Mozilla Firefox exploit

2015-08-07 Thread Ron
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 22:31:15 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Looks like Jessie is not vulnerable. > > But this is an old version. :( > > And unfortunately the sid version, which is also fixed, is not > installable due to the libstdc++6 transition, which doesn't seem > to have much progress: >

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-07 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday 07 August 2015 15:31:53 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i submitted > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794868 > "dvd+rw-tools: Burn failure of growisofs on DVD-R[W] with write type DAO" I appreciate that very much! > > Eike, if have time then please apply the propos

Re: Mozilla Firefox exploit

2015-08-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-08-07 13:34:48 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/iceweasel > > Looks like Jessie is not vulnerable. But this is an old version. :( And unfortunately the sid version, which is also fixed, is not installable due to the libstdc++6 transiti

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-07 Thread Mart van de Wege
Andrew Wood writes: >> >> On 04/08/15 07:11, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> >>> >>> If you have the option, as in this case, it might make sense to use >>> the same number for the VLAN and for the address range. It does not >>> NEED to be so, and most cases it will not be so. But if it is a >>> simple

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Aug 2015 at 20:00:33 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > On 07/08/15 19:49, Brian wrote: > >apt-get purge avahi-daemon > That wants to remove all of Gnone too. Im starting to think this is related > to systemd and that Id be better going back to Wheezy. Things are not > behaving as expecte

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-07 Thread Andrew Wood
On 07/08/15 19:49, Brian wrote: apt-get purge avahi-daemon That wants to remove all of Gnone too. Im starting to think this is related to systemd and that Id be better going back to Wheezy. Things are not behaving as expected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Aug 2015 at 19:46:09 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > > > >On 04/08/15 07:11, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > >> > >> > >>If you have the option, as in this case, it might make sense to use the > >>same number for the VLAN and for the address range. It does not NEED to > >>be so, and most cases

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-07 Thread Andrew Wood
On 04/08/15 07:11, Bonno Bloksma wrote: If you have the option, as in this case, it might make sense to use the same number for the VLAN and for the address range. It does not NEED to be so, and most cases it will not be so. But if it is a simple situation like this, one can take advanta

Re: Mozilla Firefox exploit

2015-08-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 13:44 -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Hey everyone, > > does anyone have news from debian security regarding the exploit > on > Iceweasel/Firefox that's been on the news recently? > > I'm wondering if I should just wait for the update or just skip > it and > updat

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-07 Thread Some Body
On 07/08/2015 16:26, Cobra wrote: After the installed completed and the system rebooted I was unable to login to the system management account via the guy interface (i.e., after entering the password the screen went gray for a short time and then the re-presented the login display). Does the

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Aug 2015 at 12:31:19 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 07/08/15 10:26 AM, Cobra wrote: > >I have completed a network installation of 8.1.0. I left the root password > >blank (i.e., disabled root login), supplied a username and password for a > >system management account, and selected GNOME

Re: Openstack images default password

2015-08-07 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
Hi, On 7 August 2015 at 11:47, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Valerio Pachera [2015-08-07 14:57 +0200]: > > > Hi all, I downloaded debian image from > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/ > > > > What is the root default password? > AFAIK, you have to access to his image u

Re: Mozilla Firefox exploit

2015-08-07 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/07/2015 12:44 PM, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Hey everyone, > > does anyone have news from debian security regarding the exploit > on Iceweasel/Firefox that's been on the news recently? > > I'm wondering if I should just wait for the update or

Re: Openstack images default password

2015-08-07 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Valerio Pachera [2015-08-07 14:57 +0200]: > Hi all, I downloaded debian image from > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/ > > What is the root default password? Valerio -- >what IMHO then? IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;) --posting fro

Mozilla Firefox exploit

2015-08-07 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hey everyone, does anyone have news from debian security regarding the exploit on Iceweasel/Firefox that's been on the news recently? I'm wondering if I should just wait for the update or just skip it and update Iceweasel directly. -- -- []'s, Francisco M Neto

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/08/15 10:26 AM, Cobra wrote: I have completed a network installation of 8.1.0. I left the root password blank (i.e., disabled root login), supplied a username and password for a system management account, and selected GNOME as the only additional software to install. After the installed

Login failure after new install

2015-08-07 Thread Cobra
I have completed a network installation of 8.1.0. I left the root password blank (i.e., disabled root login), supplied a username and password for a system management account, and selected GNOME as the only additional software to install. After the installed completed and the system rebooted I

Re: How do I get update notifications on XFCE?

2015-08-07 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/06/2015 09:28 PM, Peter Huber wrote: > How do I get update notifications on XFCE? - From my XFCE desktop on Jessie: http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/notifications1.php -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Ice

Re: sound stopped working after upgrade

2015-08-07 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Bruno Schneider wrote: > It's a notebook, no plugs or wires to test. But I did check the > hardware by booting into an old Mandriva partition and sound works > there. I'm bumping up the thread with new information: sound works on headphones, only the speakers seem

Re: Differences between cdw/k3b on Jessie and Stretch (testing)?

2015-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i submitted https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794868 "dvd+rw-tools: Burn failure of growisofs on DVD-R[W] with write type DAO" Eike, if have time then please apply the proposed changes to the source code of growisofs and try whether the error message is gone. I'm not so

Openstack images default password

2015-08-07 Thread Valerio Pachera
Hi all, I downloaded debian image from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/ What is the root default password?

[SOLVED] Re: How to set up dvd+rw-tools source the way it gets compiled for Debian sid ?

2015-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > apt-get source dvd+rw-tools That's an appealing proposal for a Debian noob like me. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html says i can do this as normal user. ... Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main dvd+rw-tools 7.1-1

Re: How to set up dvd+rw-tools source the way it gets compiled for Debian sid ?

2015-08-07 Thread Reco
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 11:35:22AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Reco wrote: > > 1) Change the source as appropriate. > > First i need to have it. How to apply the patches from > dvd+rw-tools_7.1-11.debian.tar.bz2 to the unpacked > dvd+rw-tools_7.1.orig.tar.gz so that i get the same sour

Re: How to set up dvd+rw-tools source the way it gets compiled for Debian sid ?

2015-08-07 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > First i need to have it. How to apply the patches from > dvd+rw-tools_7.1-11.debian.tar.bz2 to the unpacked > dvd+rw-tools_7.1.orig.tar.gz so that i get the same source > that is used for producing Debian binary packages ? > > I strive

Re: How to set up dvd+rw-tools source the way it gets compiled for Debian sid ?

2015-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > 1) Change the source as appropriate. First i need to have it. How to apply the patches from dvd+rw-tools_7.1-11.debian.tar.bz2 to the unpacked dvd+rw-tools_7.1.orig.tar.gz so that i get the same source that is used for producing Debian binary packages ? I strive for the source

Re: How to set up dvd+rw-tools source the way it gets compiled for Debian sid ?

2015-08-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:09:54AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i want to fix the growisofs DVD-R DAO bug and its > wrong interpretation of "Descriptor" format error indication. > See https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/08/msg00197.html > > Since growisofs has no upst

How to set up dvd+rw-tools source the way it gets compiled for Debian sid ?

2015-08-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i want to fix the growisofs DVD-R DAO bug and its wrong interpretation of "Descriptor" format error indication. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/08/msg00197.html Since growisofs has no upstream any more, i plan to submit patches towards Debian sid. But how to combine the growisof

Re: Wheezy firmware netinstall CDs

2015-08-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Aug 2015 at 08:31:16 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Lisi wrote: > >Is there any advantage or disadvantage in using the multiarch CD instead of > >the i386 and AMD64 CDs? > > Hi Lisi, > > Flexibility is the main win, really - the multiarch CD should work on > almost any machine. But th

Re: Wheezy firmware netinstall CDs

2015-08-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Lisi wrote: >Is there any advantage or disadvantage in using the multiarch CD instead of >the i386 and AMD64 CDs? Hi Lisi, Flexibility is the main win, really - the multiarch CD should work on almost any machine. But the cost is that it's almost twice as big as the single-arch images when you're