Re: Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake Hyper-threading bug update

2017-07-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi Henrique, * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2017-07-23 14:56 -0300]: > TL;DR: Intel has issued public microcode updates in 2017-07-07, fixing > the hyper-threading errata on every affected processor. These updates > have been included in the stable and oldstable point releases from > 2017-07-22

Need to upgrade to jessie need help

2017-07-24 Thread VigneshDhanraj G
Hi Team, I am using kernel 3.2.x, i know that support from wheezy will be stopped soon. can i upgrade to jessie with same kernel version. Is that correct way of handling? Regards, VigneshDhanraj G

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25:59 CEST Joel Rees wrote: > Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? I'm using grub to boot debian. To boot MacOS, I need to press the option key (⌥) to start up to Apple's Startup Manager, rather than grub. Startup Manager allows me to choose the MacOS partitio

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:13 PM, solitone wrote: > I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 > GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware > update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. Can you boot withou

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
On Monday, 24 July 2017 21:01:37 CEST Pascal Hambourg wrote: > AFAIK, parted (the command line program) cannot move the start of a > partition and its contents. Only gparted (the GUI program) can. Yes, Pascal, you're right: > Note that after version 2.4, the following commands were removed: > chec

Re: cups

2017-07-24 Thread Pol Hallen
lpadmin -p E460DN -v ipp://192.168.1.100/printers/E460DN -E -m raw many thanks for your help Brian! Cheers! Pol

Re: Feedback

2017-07-24 Thread Fungi4All
> From: anonym...@hoi-polloi.org > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Hello! > Today I downloaded the latest release of Debian, the 9.1 i386 XFCE Live. I > downloaded as a torrent by the earlier Debian 9.0.1 x64 XFCE. I experienced > (sorry my poor english!) that the LibreOffice Writer couldn"t s

Re: cups

2017-07-24 Thread Brian
On Mon 24 Jul 2017 at 22:19:43 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > >1. Set up this queue: > > lpadmin -p testq -v ipp://192.168.1.100/printers/E460DN -E -m raw > >2. Print: > > lp -d testq 158.pdf > > works!!! :))) thanks > > Can I create a permanently queue so to avoid filtering from this cl

Re: cups

2017-07-24 Thread Pol Hallen
1. Set up this queue: lpadmin -p testq -v ipp://192.168.1.100/printers/E460DN -E -m raw 2. Print: lp -d testq 158.pdf works!!! :))) thanks Can I create a permanently queue so to avoid filtering from this client? Pol

Re: Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide

2017-07-24 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 07/24/2017 10:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Georgi Naplatanov composed on 2017-07-24 18:02 (UTC+0300): > >> I'm using Debian 9 and KDE. > >> I downloaded FireFox Developer edition and Thunderbird (both from >> mozilla.org website) and Thunderbird's scroll bars are about twice wider >> than FireF

Re: cups

2017-07-24 Thread Brian
On Mon 24 Jul 2017 at 20:46:31 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > A discovered that: debian testing before sending to cups server my pdf file > uses ghostscript with ps2write and send ps file to. So the original pdf > (about 200/300K) becomes a ps file with 9Mb of size :-/ Indeed. A PostScript file is pr

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread Felix Miata
solitone composed on 2017-07-24 16:13 (UTC+0200): > I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 > GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware > update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. > The issue is th

Re: Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide

2017-07-24 Thread Felix Miata
Georgi Naplatanov composed on 2017-07-24 18:02 (UTC+0300): > I'm using Debian 9 and KDE. > I downloaded FireFox Developer edition and Thunderbird (both from > mozilla.org website) and Thunderbird's scroll bars are about twice wider > than FireFox's ones. Can this behavior be configured on Debian

Re: Recent update/upgrade to my Debian system on Jessie 8 and now will not boot.

2017-07-24 Thread Darin Peterson
My apologies for not providing that information earlier. I was able to resolve the issue by using "acpi=off single" on the grub boot line to get back into the rescue prompt. At that point I updated and upgraded my system to get the latest, attempted "startx" to start KDE, without success (black s

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 24/07/2017 à 16:13, solitone a écrit : I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. ~$ sudo /sbin/parted /dev/sda pr

Re: cups

2017-07-24 Thread Pol Hallen
A discovered that: debian testing before sending to cups server my pdf file uses ghostscript with ps2write and send ps file to. So the original pdf (about 200/300K) becomes a ps file with 9Mb of size :-/ this is the header of file: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 596.00 842.00 %%Creator

Feedback

2017-07-24 Thread Anonymous
Hello! Today I downloaded the latest release of Debian, the 9.1 i386 XFCE Live. I downloaded as a torrent by the earlier Debian 9.0.1 x64 XFCE. I experienced (sorry my poor english!) that the LibreOffice Writer couldn't start and the system can give only 1GB free space (!). I don't like th

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-24 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: ... >> Greg, I appreciate your advice, and I would love to stay with the >> debian packages. However, I also want to be able to use a debian >> installation a long time and I see lots of changes on dns resource >> records.

Re: Recent update/upgrade to my Debian system on Jessie 8 and now will not boot.

2017-07-24 Thread Henning Follmann
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:50:33AM -0600, Darin Peterson wrote: > On Thursday last week, I performed an update to my system, and now my > system will not boot. Originally, I was able to boot in rescue mode to a > command prompt, and I attempted to roll back the updates, but at this > point, my syst

Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page

2017-07-24 Thread Jan
Hi Steve The add-on Tab Mix Plus has an option under Menu to add "Reload every ..." to the tab's context menu. The add-on may be overkill if you just want that reload option, but I do know it works. Kind regards Jan 24.07.2017, 14:56, "Steve Kleene" : > I'm looking for an automated way to hav

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:55:09AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >>> I would like to remove all bind9 packages from servers running bind9 >>> and install the latest bind9 from source. >> Because you want to satisfy intern

Recent update/upgrade to my Debian system on Jessie 8 and now will not boot.

2017-07-24 Thread Darin Peterson
On Thursday last week, I performed an update to my system, and now my system will not boot. Originally, I was able to boot in rescue mode to a command prompt, and I attempted to roll back the updates, but at this point, my system will no longer boot in either normal or rescue mode. Not sure what to

graphviz: pdf output with vectorial fonts

2017-07-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum, my pdf outputs with dot are ugly: while boxes and edges are vectorial, text is in pixel: in short I have a font issue. I am looking for a vectorial (scalabe ?) font ? It might be a configuration issue (even if I do not play with fonts). Otherwise, any hint is welcome. Thanks in advan

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > You'd need some sort of system logging daemon. Something which runs with > > the privileges necessary to write to the log file, and which can accept > > log messages from unprivileged proce

Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide

2017-07-24 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
Hi, I'm using Debian 9 and KDE. I downloaded FireFox Developer edition and Thunderbird (both from mozilla.org website) and Thunderbird's scroll bars are about twice wider than FireFox's ones. Can this behavior be configured on Debian or is it an issue with Thunderbird. There is a screenshot. ht

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-24 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:55:09AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >> I would like to remove all bind9 packages from servers running bind9 >> and install the latest bind9 from source. > > Because you want to satisfy internal audits that don't under

From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. The issue is that MacOs is at the start of the disc: ~$ ~$ sudo /sbin/par

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > You'd need some sort of system logging daemon. Something which runs with > the privileges necessary to write to the log file, and which can accept > log messages from unprivileged processes, perhaps by listening on a UNIX > socket. Li

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:55:09AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to remove all bind9 packages from servers running bind9 > and install the latest bind9 from source. Because you want to satisfy internal audits that don't understand how Debian security patching works, right? Right? Righ

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 08:59:56AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: I don't often here fail to find a current /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I think what's happening is the one in .local/share/ is getting copied to /var/log/ so that it remains availa

Re: Urgent: how to config network in strech

2017-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 01:43:13AM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > you can try > > # ifconfig -a > > this will show all network interfaces Not on a fresh stretch installation, it won't. net-tools is no longer installed by default. Use one of these commands instead: ip link ip addr

Re: Can "PulseAudio Volume Control" devs be redeemed?

2017-07-24 Thread Nicolas George
Le sextidi 6 thermidor, an CCXXV, Erik Christiansen a écrit : > When two meters back from a big monitor, with wireless keyboard to > bridge the gap, and eyes which have made 63 trips around the big shiny > yellow thing, those tiny flyspecks are worth nothing in terms of user > interface. I feel yo

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I don't often here fail to find a current /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I think what's > happening is the one in .local/share/ is getting copied to /var/log/ so that > it > remains available in the location people historically expect, where Goo

how to automatically reload a firefox page

2017-07-24 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm looking for an automated way to have firefox-esr reload its window at regular intervals. There's a site to which I like to stay connected that logs me off if the window is inactive for long. For the past few years I've been using the ReloadEvery plugin for this. With the upgrade to firefox-e

Disappearance of the kernel

2017-07-24 Thread agustín torrijos orenes
Good afternoon! My name is Agus, and above all I would like to thank you for the extraordinary work that all the members of this wonderful project, including the community, perform. I have a problem with the Testing version that happened to explain: I installed version 9.0 "Stretch" looking with

Re: cups

2017-07-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 Jul 2017 at 21:09:01 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi Brian > > >For the testing client, post the output of > >lpoptions -p e460dn > > lpoptions -p E460DN.fuckaround.org > copies=1 device-uri=ipp://10.10.10.1/printers/E460DN finishings=3 > job-cancel-after=10800 job-hold-until=no-hold job

Re: memory.limit_in_bytes: systemd vs lxc

2017-07-24 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 24-07-17, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have to restrict memory.limit_in_bytes to 16GByte for my LXC > containers. Problem: The containers based on Stretch and systemd > show > > % for i in $(find /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/lxc/lxc1 -name > memory.limit_in_bytes); do \ > echo $i $

memory.limit_in_bytes: systemd vs lxc

2017-07-24 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I have to restrict memory.limit_in_bytes to 16GByte for my LXC containers. Problem: The containers based on Stretch and systemd show % for i in $(find /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/lxc/lxc1 -name memory.limit_in_bytes); do \ echo $i $(cat $i) \ done | column -t /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/