Re: Install backport during netinstall installation process

2019-05-16 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-16, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > Consequently I'd be grateful to know if: > > * it is possible to somehow install the backport kernel and dependencies > during the netinstall process > (apt-get install doesn't seem available on the virtual terminals) I guess preseeding is one

Re: Problem: Slow Boot -- Hibernation?

2019-05-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-14, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > First off, I am running Debian Buster/Sid (that's what it > says!) and the kernel is 4.19.0-4-686-pae. 32 bit system, > 4 Gig of memory (3.xx usable!), IDE disks. > > My boots are getting slower and slower. I'll start from the top. > > The

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-12, 70147pers...@telia.com <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > > I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a > *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form, but > nothing from the loudspeaker. Since July, 2018?

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-14, Reco wrote: > Hi. > >> I am trying to read some files off of a virtual disk without running >> the entire virtual machine. > > Can you post the output of (in that order): > > strace -f mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot > dmesg | trail I looked for trail (it's not in my

Re: replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-14, Albretch Mueller wrote: > My question may not have been clear enough on my previous post about > reinstalling debian, but I think I have a better idea about how to > solve many of my problems. > > I have an installation based on: > > $ uname -a > Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-13, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: >> On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: >> [...] >>> # uname -a >>> Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 >>> (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux >> So you're running a 32-bit

Re: Gnome application: Remote Desktop Viewer/vinagre bug

2019-05-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-11, Esteban L wrote: > Thanks for the Reply Curt, > > Sorry in advance to the rest of the group, with my lack of > "professionalism" and lack of Subject line =) I was very tired, as I am > sure many can appreciate. Perpetual stage of tiredness. > >

Re: (unknown)

2019-05-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-11, Esteban L wrote: > Hello, > > I have this weird situation, I can't figure out. > > I can launch the Remote Desktop Viewer from the command line: > > %vinagre > > and it launches and is fully functional. > > When I try to launch it from the "desktop icons" or the icons that are >

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

2019-05-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-10, An Liu wrote: > > Actually the question could extend in several ways, such as > > 1. Could I install debian from chroot enviroment while i'm in another > linux dist Once I ran the netinstall iso with qemu/kvm and installed onto a usb thumb drive I'd taken care to preliminarily

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings all; >> > >> > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a >> > wheezy ins

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy > install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the > stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy from the > wheezy drive to the

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it >> cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. > > Interesting -- I'm not used to / familiar with a speaker on the MB -- in the > old days there was typically a speaker in the case that (if

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing in > my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very sporadic. > It turned out to most likely be a warning that it was about to *CLICK* > off due to overheating.. > > $

Re: Help, windows dummy has bought one. I need it for a job or 100

2019-05-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-08, Gene Heskett wrote: > > That is a laborius process, taking at least 10x what any of my linux > machines need to reboot. From powerup to login was at least 15 minutes. > > And I have been to that utility, but it has no place to disable ipv6 as a > whole, has lots of names in the

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-06, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 09:54:52AM -0000, Curt wrote: >> I'm intervening here merely to point out that just because the user's >> external usb device is auto-mounted does not mean that said device >> cannot be unmounted by the usual met

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have only one, very weak sound, from kmails new mail beep. Down about > 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. xset b 100? Does that set the bell/beep volume at a hundred percent? The man page says b ... If only one numerical

Re: No Wifi Option

2019-05-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-05, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, May 05, 2019 11:42:36 AM Curt wrote: >> Of course, anyone who quits *and* gives up simultaneously is trying to >> make some sort of point rather than solve some kind of problem. > > Hmm, I have trouble relating to that.

Re: No Wifi Option

2019-05-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-05, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, May 04, 2019 03:39:03 PM Terrill Wallace wrote: >> I'm just gonna quit and give up > > I hate to hear that -- I might ask a few questions and suggest some > alternatives: The dude must be leery after calculating the cost-benefit ratio of

Re: No Wifi Option

2019-05-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Are there legal implications with a user installing non-free software >> as long as they follow the conditions? > > I am not a lawyer - please have your own lawyer consult you regarding > the licensing terms involved - i.e. possibly some of these: >

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > It is an error in Mozilla infrastructure upstream - they have fixed it > by abusing a backdoor in Firefox to update a certificate, but Debian > has that backdoor disabled by default. > >

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-04, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 05/03/2019 11:50 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The >> image is the Windows 10 installer ... which I downloaded from Microsoft, and >> which they claim should be able to be

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-04, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> > it auto-mounted. >> >> > So as root I did: >> > >> > cp /dev/sdf >> >> You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do

Re: which mutt?

2019-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-04, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 03.05.19 18:01, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> P.S. Would someone kindly tell me how, while in Mutt and reading a >> message such as this, to launch a browser to open links such as [1] >> and [2] above? > > A convenient alternative is to just

Re: apt-get update error

2019-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-29, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Thank you guys! > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 03:36:24PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> This could have been communicated or handled a bit more > smoothly. > > Can I safely assume you are referring to how the organization handled it, and > not my email? >

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-29, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Curt wrote: >> Maybe that lead-in violates some RFC, although you'd think what's in the >> header's in the header and what ain't ain't and ne'er the twain shall >> meet. >> >> At any rate, bw threads fine here, so it

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-29, Tixy wrote: > Hi bw > > On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 18:52 -0400, bw wrote: >> In-Reply-To: <20190428235815.09cfe...@tag.xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> > > All your mails to the list seem to be a little broken. The first line > of each email starts with a line like the above and your replies

Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

2019-04-27 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-27, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3.7 >> >> python3.7 is available in testing. > > Using Buster was my original idea but it's not ready in ways important > to me. I had been looking for Python3.7 in backports. What snags might I > hit

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-24, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> I see the error message but do not know what to do. >> Thanks for pointers. >> > > Try rearranging your python(s) in your PATH. I.e., swap py2 with py3. > > Or possibly your py3 version needs to be downgraded. > > Something about your python versions. >

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

2019-04-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-23, der.hans wrote: > > I use different Firefox profiles for banking to improve isolation, so at > least they won't be attacked by a retailers tab. > > I'm experimenting with Firefox containers for the isolation. Looks interesting. I've just enabled it in 'about:config'

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

2019-04-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-22, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > >> I guess we can assume safely that you're closing your browser sessions >> "normally." > > I close each tab with a click on the x symbol. As FF has been known to handle SIGTERM ungracefully (which may account for its periodic delusions of crash in your

Re: Browser usage; was "Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts."

2019-04-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-22, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > A mobile site can be accessible to firefox on a desktop and can be > more efficient than the desktop site. Eg. > https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/m/ > vs. > https://www.envisionfinancial.ca/Personal/ > > Can debian imitate a mobile system to a server?

Re: how to display html files on google drives

2019-04-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-22, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> >I'm not convinced: after doing what you suggest, I only see under the image >"commented by you today", but no visible comment... Oh, shit, you must've toggled the "make my comments invisible and only reveal the fact itself that I've commented"

Re: how to display html files on google drives

2019-04-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-21, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > more precisely, I want to give access to the images AND their associated > comments (generally 1 or 2 lines) > If not html, what do you suggest to do that? > (the html support was is also discontinued in Dropbox) > In drive open the image

Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.

2019-04-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-21, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Cindy Sue Causey > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:41:45 -0400 >> * Is that the only live tab for each new session, ... > > Sorry to say, I don't understand the question. I don't understand "live tab". > Firefox should just open the static local

Re: is xdvi broken?

2019-04-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-19, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On 2019.04.19 17:33, Étienne Mollier wrote: > ... >> It has this look and feel typical from monochrome X >> graphical interfaces released in the 80's. Tasty ! :) > > At least for diagnosing this problem, I would be interested in an > alternative to

Re: is xdvi broken?

2019-04-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-20, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> But looking at just emacs, xdvi, and xterm running in separate >> windows, I can't see any difference in their behaviour from what I >> remember in the dim and distant past. The one unusual (for me) >> property of xdvi is that it rereads the input

Re: Debian localization presentation information sources.

2019-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-19, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > In writing the presentation I am working on, I appears that there is > some inconsistency with regard to languages Debian has been translated > in to. > > 1, https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2019/20190415 > > has > > Localization

Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types)

2019-04-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-17, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 17/04/2019 à 18:42, Michael Stone a écrit : >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:38:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: >>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:10:56 -0400 Michael Stone >>> wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:57:43AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >I was rather

Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer

2019-04-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-16, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > >>> > I am looking for an "easy light weight just empty the local queue >>> > and very very very easy thing: https://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP >> >> Note that sSMTP does not perform server certificate verification, thus >> allowing, e.g., credential

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-16, Matthew Crews wrote: > > On this mailing list, though, I could see a progression from "why is > synaptic removed from Debian Buster?" to "Lets remove Gnome", hence why > I brought it up. You saw an obvious troll post supported by a large party of one and decided to run with it, in

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-16, Matthew Crews wrote: > > This all stems back to Synaptic being removed from Debian Buster right? > Well, all someone needs to do is update Synaptic with proper Wayland > support. But judging by the upstream development, it appears that > Synaptic might be abandoned? >

Re: but it's not going to be installed

2019-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-15, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Apparently for one thing, it's about some kind of package > conflicts'ISH with GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program. Via "apt-get > install --dry-run" mypaint-data, I received the following: > There is this year-old bug:

Re: Exploring package interrelationships

2019-04-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-15, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > > Neither >> $ dot -Tps -o APT::Cache::GivenOnly=1 dependency-graph.dot > owl2.ps > Nor >> $ dot -o APT::Cache::GivenOnly=1 dependency-graph.dot > gave useful output. > > I'll do some reading and try on something simpler. > Thanks > > That

Re: Buster presentation info

2019-04-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-15, Paul Sutton wrote: > > Following the topic here on Synaptic in Buster being replaced with > gnome-packagekit Synaptic is not being replaced. That notion is completely erroneous AFAIK. It has now been patched (package in unstable) so that it provides "visual feedback while

Re: New laptop: need advice on choice of file system types

2019-04-13 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-12, Thomas D Dial wrote: > > ZFS for /home makes sense, especially for anyone not already somewhat > familiar with ZFS. Well, if ZFS is this big sixteen-wheeler that you might crash into the concrete embankment if you're not careful, what are the benefits that outweigh or override

Re: Error Message

2019-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-11, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:03:08PM +0200, Michael Lee wrote: >> Hello, I would like to know what I am supposed to do about this error >> message. Would appreciate guidance. >> M Lee > >> The repository 'http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/updates It

Re: DVD Creation software

2019-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-12, Paul Sutton wrote: > > DVD authoring, DVD creation are both valid search terms but there  may > be better search terms that I will have better luck with. Burn, baby, burn? I stumbled upon this tutorial: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-burn-dvds-with-devede-and-brasero-on-linux

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-12, Andy Smith wrote: > > Honestly my advice to the OP as suggested what seems like many days > ago remains: just take a measure, do a day or two of work, take > another measure, check the difference in byte count and extrapolate > from there. I'd be amazed if you didn't end up with

Re: Graphics::Magick

2019-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-10, mick crane wrote: > > How do I install PerlMagick as a subordinate package of GraphicsMagick ? > > apt search perlmagick > perlmagick/testing,testing 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2 all >Perl interface to ImageMagick -- dummy package I believe what you need now is 'libimage-magick-perl'.

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-09, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > The output may differ depending on you operating system level, > given Reco's observations. Feel free to have à look at > /usr/share/zoneinfo/, to have an idea of the available > locations. I took a look. I was confused to note the presence of the UCT

Re: Tracking the next Stable release

2019-04-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-08, Peter Wiersig wrote: > Francisco M Neto writes: >> Sometimes people ask me when is Debian going to release its next Stable; >> that is not an easy answer, since it is not time-based but rather based on >> the >> number of Release-Critical bugs. > > It's done when it's done

Re: How to change GDM3 login screen background

2019-04-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-08, Andrew Clark wrote: > > Thanks curt, that works for me. > > So the commentary in the comments in the source file supplied by the gdm3 > package don't work, along with the instructions in the wiki page pointing > to them, should I log a bug? > I don't know

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-08, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > As mentioned in another post, I am starting to fear for the reilability of an > HDD (DOAs, early failures, unwilingness of the vendor / manufacturer to > provide a warranty), and, therefore, I am trying to determine if an SSD could > be a better

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-08, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > And someone would (or should) ask what does "frequently" mean, and that is > what I am trying to quantify. Sure. But below a certain level of granularity it becomes an exercise for which the benefits remain to be established. Large files and

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-08, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, April 08, 2019 03:40:54 AM Curt wrote: >> Maybe an SSD is not the most appropriate >> storage device for frequent editing of large files. > > That is what I'm trying to decide / determine. It is? Sorry. I guess I was

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-07, Reco wrote: >> >> I'm not sure if this is specific for SSD? > > No, it's not. It's filesystem-specific though. > Meaning - you have to use ext4 to see this attribute, but the device > where the ext4 filesystem resides does not matter. > > Reco > Maybe an SSD (arriving as I am now

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-07, Curt wrote: > On 2019-04-06, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >>> 2. A lot of my editing involves editing near (but not at) the end of >>> a file. I assume (I know) that the software that saves the file is >>> smart enough not to rewrite the

Re: Measuring (or calculating) how many bytes are actually written to disk when I repeatedly save a file

2019-04-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-06, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> 2. A lot of my editing involves editing near (but not at) the end of >> a file. I assume (I know) that the software that saves the file is >> smart enough not to rewrite the entire file but instead to preserve >> the beginning of the file and just

Re: How to change GDM3 login screen background

2019-04-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-07, Andrew Clark wrote: > > What am I missing? > It appears the wiki's wrong and has been wrong for quite a while now (if not from the very start). Maybe the following method might work (it seems like an incredible rigamarole for such a trivial user customization, but there you go).

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > If synaptic, as somebody else has mentioned, helps with more complicated > upgrades (where maybe lots of packages have to be removed and then (I hope) > reinstalled, I might give synaptic a try. So as far as GUI package managers go in Debian,

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-05, Lee wrote: > > Can't [whatever installs the software] notice that Gnome is > installed/selected & not install synaptic? Or patch synaptic to > realize it's running under Gnome & spit out an error message and quit? > > Everybody pays the price because it doesn't work with Gnome

Re: Wheezy: adding myself to the sudo group using usermod

2019-04-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-04, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > (I may ask another question in a few minutes which may make everyone question > my competence ;-) Well, you top-posted so we're taking off two points on your competency report anyway. ;-)

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-04, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > > On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 12:33 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >> If it is not, there is nothing preventing it's return to repositories >> > some time after. It happened with other useful and popular packages >> > before. >>=20 >> Indeed. Reading the bug

Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster

2019-04-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-04, David wrote: > People accustomed to using synaptic might want to begin considering > alternative tools, because synaptic has been removed from buster. > > More info: > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065/synaptic-removed-from-testing/ > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synaptic >

Re: Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-03, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I was going to document here the work-a-round I successfully used > yesterday to install desired additional packages. There's a bug report concerning this from 2014. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745381 In that thread our very own

Re: old never used memorex cd media

2019-04-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-02, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 08:55:52PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> 99% of users write netinstall images to a a USB stick. > > Is it really that high? I still use CDs. I feel like more than 1% of > us do, but maybe I'm mistaken. My original feeling was he has these

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-02 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-02, Georgios wrote: > I'm watching movies through netflix so I do not have any ideas how to > write a script that will do that thing. I guess the script should detect > if an application is in full screen mode. > Here's a GPL script not far from your desire (can't vouch for it,

Re: text editors

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> semantics collapses to syntax. As in mathematics. > > This view is outdated since nearly 90 years. The attempt to create a > language where semantical correctness results from syntactical correctness > was killed by

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Georgios wrote: > Hi! > First of all thanks for the fast reply. > > Yes I have presentation mode. I didn't even try it to see if its working > with hibernate. The problem with that is that its inconvenient to check > it and uncheck it all the time. > > I will inevitably forget it

Re: Xfce Power Manger and watching movies full screen

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Georgios wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm running debian testing buster and I'm using xfce power manager. > In xfce power manager settings on "System" tab I activate "hibernate" on > 30 minutes and on the "Display" tab "Put to sleep" after 9 minutes and > "Switch off after" 10 minutes. >

Re: Emacs and hunspell

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, Johann Spies wrote: >> > > This bug seems to bite me. Emacs does not seem to get the dictionaries. > If I have aspell as an installed package it seems to use it despite my > configuration : > This bug looks kind of similar (maybe unrelated to your problem). There's a little fix

Re: Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, David wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 09:56, David Wright wrote: >> >> I hit this bizarre page that has a comparable multitude of possibilities. >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212466/what-is-a-bus-error > > The "bizarre" that I'm seeing on that page is probably due to >

Re: Kodi Bluray support.

2019-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-29, Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: > Hello, > > Do anybody play bluray with kodi ? > > Its work well with VLC on the same machine with: > > - libaacs > - libdplus > - some others related > > But i'm unable to play it with kodi, kodi detect a DVD instead of > bluray. Then what happens?

Re: text editors

2019-03-28 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-28, John Hasler wrote: > Gian writes: >> [*] I lost the source where I read that in an organization even >> secretaries used Emacs, and that these secretaries learnt how to do >> "useful things" without a problem. Mostly because they were unaware >> they were programming. > > It was

Re: need sources.list example for lan with approx-server

2019-03-27 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-27, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:09:51PM -0000, Curt wrote: >> In the time-frame of the cited bug (October, 2015), at least, one thread >> participant opined that the automatic clean-up in apt had yet to be >> "implemented". H

Re: need sources.list example for lan with approx-server

2019-03-27 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-27, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On 2019.03.27 07:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 11:01:38AM +1100, David wrote: >>> The important differences to be aware of are probably: > > >> Also: >> * apt removes the .deb files that it downloads, after installing them. >>

Re: text editors

2019-03-27 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-27, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-03-26 15:48, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> mick crane [2019-03-26 07:35:11Z] wrote: >> >>> there it is then, although I've so far managed to avoid Emacs since >>> heard it is more of an operating system than an editor. >> >> There are those who know Emacs,

Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

2019-03-26 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-26, wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:43:24AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > >> So these are issues beyond the scope of the OP's problem domain. >> OTOH, IMO, trapping a USR1 signal [...] > > In this case, an atexit handler seems the right tool. Since the > OP is using

Re: Archival of Jessie: where did jessie-updates went ?

2019-03-26 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès wrote: > Le mar. 26 mars 2019 à 14:20, Nicholas Geovanis > a écrit : >> I'm pretty sure that I encountered this in the past but I don't have any >> proof to hand. >> IIRC when the release enters LTS the backports stop being augmented. Is that >> (still) >> correct?

Re: Archival of Jessie: where did jessie-updates went ?

2019-03-26 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès wrote: > W: Failed to fetch > http://archive.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages > HttpError503 > When I go there in a browser (https://archive.debian.net/), I get: Service disabled! Unfortunately, this service is not available at

Re: Archival of Jessie: where did jessie-updates went ?

2019-03-26 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès wrote: > This is precisely what my problem is about. This is why I wondered > where jessie-updates/ went, or if https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using > was outdated since the archival of Jessie. Then I'm stumped, sorry; we'll have to wait for clearer and better minds

Re: Archival of Jessie: where did jessie-updates went ?

2019-03-26 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès wrote: > Hi, > > I just stumbled upon the fact that Jessie and Wheezy was removed from > the mirrors, except for the LTS. (cf. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg6.html). > I still currently use Jessie and my automated install build just

Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-22, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > For my instances, the drive was mounted but very idle... except for > those times the light would start beaconing when I landed on that one > consumer website. AFAIK unmounted hard drives are inaccessible to the operating system by definition.

Re: (Paul) Re: Other lists? Fire support for new users

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-22, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> Like that ^ > > I have no way to know what ^ is pointing to from your perspective. > >> It's pointing at Paul from my perspective.

Re: Michael - Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-22, deb wrote: > >> >> Depending on what's on the disk, it might be more useful to just use >> lsof to see what files are open and try to understand what those might >> be doing. >> > > Thank you Michael. > > I'll build up a list of these recommendations for here. > > I believe you

Re: why key repeating fails?

2019-03-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-21, Long Wind wrote: > > it fails after i use stretch for more than a few hours > > (i'm not aware of any keyboard/mouse input that might cause key > repeating f ailure) i try "xset r on", it doesn't helpkey repeating is > still ok in tty (text mo de)but i use X window most of time > >

Re: Flushing all Buffers Before Exiting

2019-03-21 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-21, wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:32:06AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: >> Have you tried the Command Line: "sync"? > > That won't help in the OP's case, I think: sync is about writing out > the operating system's buffers to the file system. In the OP's case > it's about

Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops

2019-03-19 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-19, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > >> Experimental packages (by their very nature) are not backported. >> >> In any case, what good is it supposed to do for this ancient printer? > > For me it was hard decision to give up the old HP 5L, but comparing to newer > models everything was

Re: systemd: how to start a service (kea DHCP4) after all network interfaces are up?

2019-03-18 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-18, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > Greg Wooledge, 18.3.2019 13:30 +0100: > >> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 12:31:50PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: >>> It seems that the DHCP server is started while the interface it is >>> configured to listen on is not yet up and therefore refuses to work.

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

2019-03-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it > appears that I can not supply a device name, just

Re: Have you used Duplicati 2.0.4.5 to backup Debian 9.8.0 Server?

2019-03-15 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-15, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Borg integrates nicely as a method for ninjabackup. I recommend > them. curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache search ninja backupninja - lightweight, extensible meta-backup system curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show backupninja Backupninja is a silent flower blossom

Re: plasma5 - howto reload keyboard module?

2019-03-13 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-13, Hans wrote: > > The solution I am looking for, is: How to reload the responsible keyboard > module in plasma? I don't have that "solution" for you, Hans. I was looking here (perhaps related to your woes) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-settings/+bug/1633721

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, deloptes wrote: > Curt wrote: > >> I don't believe he did, actually. I believe that's what Reco wrote. > > but there is no secure OS, as soon as you get connected to the network, and > if you have a server with multiple users ... well. We used to put sensi

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Not that I'm aware of. The thing is - instead of taking an insecure OS >> and building assorted kludges (in the form of anti-virus) around it, >> it's considered wise here to use a secure OS from the beginning. > > This is misleading: all OSes are somewhat

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, Paul Sutton wrote: > > On 10/03/2019 15:04, Sven Hartge wrote: >> deb wrote: >> >>> a. What does the group suggest running on debian beyond >>>     - chkrootkit >> Useless. >> >>>     - rkhunter >> Crap, unmaintained. >> >> Both tools produce more false positives than finding

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-11, deloptes wrote: > deb wrote: I don't believe he did, actually. I believe that's what Reco wrote. >> Not that I'm aware of. The thing is - instead of taking an insecure OS >> and building assorted kludges (in the form of anti-virus) around it, >> it's considered wise here to use a

Re: systemd error

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Reco wrote: >> >> I have >> >> After=network-online.target >> Wants=network-online.target >> >> as per this bug report: >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861231 > > That's good for listening INADDR_ANY, but it's not sufficient in this > particular case.

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/10/2019 10:20 AM, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:58:12AM -0400, deb wrote: >>> Starting assumption: I do want to run A/V. >>> [*SNIP*] >> >>> b. Does the list keep a ~ "pinned" answer for these kinds of questions? >> >>

Re: systemd error

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> >> # directory name is crucial >> mkdir /etc/systemd/system/minissdpd.service.d >> # file name is not important >> cat > /etc/systemd/system/minissdpd.service.d/override.conf << EOF >> [Unit] >> After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-enp7s0.device >>

Re: systemd error

2019-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-10, Default User wrote: > > Curt, I often use sudo [command] even when not needed, because the sudo > elevated privileges state "times out" after several minutes, reverting to > unprivileged user state. So if I need to enter another command with >

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