Re: isolinux.bin missing or corrupt

2017-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > I would like to file a Debian bug report. Which is the relevant package? The ISOs are made by package "debian-cd". The failing isohybrid feature depends on MBR file isohdpfx.bin from "syslinux-utils" and on file isolinux.bin from "isolinux". The connection between

Bug#857514: Info received (GNU/KFreeBSD on Sun Microsystems X2200 M2 AMD 64bit)

2017-03-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

2017-03-11 Thread Lone Learner
On 12 March 2017 at 10:16, Felix Miata wrote: > Lone Learner composed on 2017-03-12 09:17 (UTC-0530): > >> Can someone please share why the single-desktop installer CD was made >> in favour of Xfce? Why was not some other desktop like GNOM3, KDE or >> LXDE selected for the single-desktop installer

Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

2017-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
Lone Learner composed on 2017-03-12 09:17 (UTC-0530): Can someone please share why the single-desktop installer CD was made in favour of Xfce? Why was not some other desktop like GNOM3, KDE or LXDE selected for the single-desktop installer CD? Dunno, but I have to guess it is the most popular

Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

2017-03-11 Thread Lone Learner
On 9 March 2017 at 14:51, Steve McIntyre wrote: > learnerl...@gmail.com wrote: >>The download page for Debian stable CDs at >>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ has a bunch >>of options like CD-1, CD-2, etc., KDE, LXDE and XFCE. >> >>But the download page for Debian testing

Re: isolinux.bin missing or corrupt

2017-03-11 Thread Sven Hartge
David Christensen wrote: > When I put the ISO on a USB flash drive and boot it: > isolinux.bin missing or corrupt How did you put the ISO on the flash drive? Did you use dd or cat or cp or some program like unetbootin? Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

isolinux.bin missing or corrupt

2017-03-11 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have two older computers with Intel D865GBFLK motherboards (~2003) and Pentium 4 HT CPU's. They both have the latest available BIOS installed. I would like to put Debian on them. I have downloaded: debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso When I put the ISO on a CD-R, it boots

Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

2017-03-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 21:06:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 15:41:54 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> > >> Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be configured. > >> But it does not print, and, when I get into `jobs', I see th

Re: Sound Problem

2017-03-11 Thread Dominic Knight
On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Up to date Jessie. > > Sound worked until I turned power off to the external speakers.  The  > sound has not been working since I turned the speakers back on. > > If I run 'speaker-test' I get noise, but if I run 'speaker-test -c 2 > -

Re: Sound Problem

2017-03-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 03/11/2017 05:26 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 02:06:21PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 03/11/2017 01:42 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:39:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: aplay -L should give you a list of possible outputs, one of which you can th

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 09:10:54 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > I've been good about telling others that backups are a good idea. > Guess who hadn't and then crashed his system and spent hours putting > things back together ;< > > In the past individual projects ended up on individual flash drives >

Re: Sound Problem

2017-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 02:06:21PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 03/11/2017 01:42 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:39:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > aplay -L should give you a list of possible outputs, one of > > which you can then feed to speaker-test via -D t

Re: installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-03-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 18:38:52 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 04 February 2017 13:16:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have never had any contact with Knoppix so do not know if a > > similar procedure could be followed. > > Knoppix is intended primarily as a Live CD, and last time I tried w

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-03-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 29/12/16 14:44, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: [sorry for the late response.] On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: It is not easy to describe a program with many use cases and even more particular settings and actions. What lacks to my experience as

Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

2017-03-11 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Tue 07 Mar 2017 at 15:41:54 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> >> Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be configured. >> But it does not print, and, when I get into `jobs', I see they are stopped >> with "Filter failed" claim. What can I do? Please help.

Re: Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-11 Thread David Christensen
On 03/11/2017 07:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been good about telling others that backups are a good idea. Guess who hadn't and then crashed his system and spent hours putting things back together ;< In the past individual projects ended up on individual flash drives as I was frequently usi

Re: Sound Problem

2017-03-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 03/11/2017 01:42 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:39:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Up to date Jessie. Sound worked until I turned power off to the external speakers. The sound has not been working since I turned the speakers back on. If I run 'speaker-test' I get noi

Re: Samba setup or alternative?

2017-03-11 Thread Johann Spies
On 11 Mar 2017 2:45 PM, "Eduardo M KALINOWSKI" wrote: On 11-03-2017 09:35, Johann Spies wrote: > Is there not a better way to mount spyker's home directory on my laptop? > If you can access it via ssh, you can try sshfs. Thanks. I forgot about that. I did use it at work about 8 years ago. Reg

Re: Sound Problem

2017-03-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:39:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Up to date Jessie. > > Sound worked until I turned power off to the external speakers. The sound > has not been working since I turned the speakers back on. > > If I run 'speaker-test' I get noise, but if I run 'speaker-test -c

Re: installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 February 2017 13:16:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > I have never had any contact with Knoppix so do not know if a > similar procedure could be followed. Knoppix is intended primarily as a Live CD, and last time I tried was quite tricky to install. Lisi

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-03-11 Thread Doug
On 03/11/2017 06:47 AM, Martin Read wrote: On 11/03/17 08:32, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Oh, come on! What you call good documentation means writing for a user who has no clue about what the program does. That kind of documentation is *really important*, because that's a big part of

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-11 Thread GiaThnYgeia
I am nearly giving up, can't understand what I am doing wrong or what I should be doing. Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > GiaThnYgeia wrote: >> Is something wrong? >> -rw-r--r-- 1 user 458752 Mar 9 00:08 usb_part1.iso > > That's much too small for any backup with substance. > What do you get fr

Re: why??why?why??

2017-03-11 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2017 02:46:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> Ubuntu is just another way to say Debian > > Ouch. :-( Ouch :-( Ouch :-( > > NO! NO! NO! IMHO, Ubuntu is just another way to say Sid... -- Glenn English

Re: prevent "dpkg -l" from showing nonexisting packages

2017-03-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 10:21:13 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > The output from "dpkg -l" is showing some packages that are not > present in the repositories I track. You are referring to the repositories you track now. What about those repositories you no longer track. (Does deb-multimedia ri

Re: A new HOWTO page for the Adobe Flash Player plugin under chromium under Linux

2017-03-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:35 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > It seems to me that there is much confusion out there for how to install the > Adobe > Flash Player plugin for chromium for Linux. Since fools rush in where angels > fear > to tread, I have created a new web page on my web site for how to

prevent "dpkg -l" from showing nonexisting packages

2017-03-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
The output from "dpkg -l" is showing some packages that are not present in the repositories I track. How to change this behaviour so it only shows packages that are available in repositories? Consider for example % dpkg -l \*flash\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Con

Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-11 Thread Richard Owlett
I've been good about telling others that backups are a good idea. Guess who hadn't and then crashed his system and spent hours putting things back together ;< In the past individual projects ended up on individual flash drives as I was frequently using different machines. I now have some relia

xscreensaver sonar : sonar must be setuid to ping

2017-03-11 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hello! I am using XScreenSaver 5.36 on Debian Jessie. I have setuid to sonar as mentioned in `man sonar` i.e. chown root:root sonar chmod u+s sonar $ ls -ld /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 104016 Apr 15 2016 /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar Now, whenever I invoke sonar through xs

Sound Problem

2017-03-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Up to date Jessie. Sound worked until I turned power off to the external speakers. The sound has not been working since I turned the speakers back on. If I run 'speaker-test' I get noise, but if I run 'speaker-test -c 2 -t wav' I get 'front left' and 'front right' from the speakers. I am usi

Re: why??why?why??

2017-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 11 March 2017 02:46:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Ubuntu is just another way to say Debian Ouch. :-( Ouch :-( Ouch :-( NO! NO! NO! Il y quand meme une difference! Vive la difference! (Quotation from French Parlement. Please excuse my not faffing around with fonts.) Lisi

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-03-11 Thread deloptes
Martin Read wrote: > That kind of documentation is *really important*, because that's a big > part of how people who don't know how to use the software learn to use > it; not everyone has a learning style well suited to beating their head > against the brick wall of "all the documentation assumes

Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

2017-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Harry Putnam wrote on 03/11/17 13:03: > Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > >> Do Synaptic, Aptitude, and possibly anything else of that family have >> similarly close but still different flags/commands? > > I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread... but may have missed it. > > I've noticed that som

Re: why??why?why??

2017-03-11 Thread deloptes
Shahryar Afifi wrote: > > why o why... > why debian keeps getting fancier like other operating system. > debian is a linux machine, not some toy like apple. > we dont need gnome 3 taking too much ram, in fact we dont need any > graphical runtime. > they dont wanna support the poor wheezy for wha

Re: Samba setup or alternative?

2017-03-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 11-03-2017 09:35, Johann Spies wrote: > Is there not a better way to mount spyker's home directory on my laptop? > If you can access it via ssh, you can try sshfs. -- We just joined the civil hair patrol! Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br

Samba setup or alternative?

2017-03-11 Thread Johann Spies
As I do not use Windows, I was never fond of samba. Now I want to have access from my laptop to my home directory on my Desktop computer(home network server) which both run Debian Sid other than just ssh. I want to be able to mount that directory on my laptop when needed. I have worked through a

Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

2017-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > Do Synaptic, Aptitude, and possibly anything else of that family have > similarly close but still different flags/commands? I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread... but may have missed it. I've noticed that some times aptitue purge does not remove everything as

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-03-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/03/17 08:32, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Oh, come on! What you call good documentation means writing for a user who has no clue about what the program does. That kind of documentation is *really important*, because that's a big part of how people who don't know how to use the softw

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-03-11 Thread cbannister
On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 12:52:20PM +0100, Xen wrote: > Lisi Reisz schreef op 31-12-2016 10:30: > > >Which make me bad at writing? > > > >Lisi > > Refusing to write good documentation on purpose. Oh, come on! What you call good documentation means writing for a user who has no clue about what the