Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Hi everyone, I already tried it somewhere else, but as no one knew help, I hope it is ok to bother you, too ;) I am trying to boot my Dell Latitude X1 netbook into a CompactFlash card. The system is debian squeeze. The card is inserted into the netbook's built-in CF card slot, which apparently

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Hi, thanks for the reply. Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:35 +1100: At the grub prompt hit 'e' to enter edit mode. What where does GRUB expect the root to be? (should not be hd0, probably should be hd1,1). the grub.cfg entry:

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Hi, Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:10:40 +1100: (...) set root='(hd1,msdos1)' hd0 is the first hard drive (where /boot lives) I think root=(...) should not point to / but to grub's root, at least the page you linked suggests

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Hi, Thus spoketh Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:25:35 +: (...) The UUID on the 'search' line should be that of the partition on the CF card which holds the kernel and the initrd. The line can omitted, as can the 'set root' line. The 'linux' and 'initrd' lines

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Hi, Thus spoketh Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +: On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these hotplug events, the one that installs the CF card, from within

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com unto us on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:47:38 +1100: On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote: (...) I wrote that the the BIOS doesn't know about the CF card, so I thought it is obvious that grub won't know about it either ;) That's

Re: Strange kernel issue with DVD drive -- or CD/CDR?

Hi, Thus spoketh PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu unto us on Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:59:15 -0500: Hi List. This reminds me to ask: has Squeeze any history of disabling CD/CDR drives? The first time I tried mine after (some weeks after) installing Squeeze, one drive sounded bump and blinked

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Hi, Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: (...) Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from the CF card. Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) there are three possible

[solved] Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

Hi again, I could hardly believe it myself, but I actually got it working now, finally the patch from the Puppy linux forum did it! It took me a while to figure out how to use it; because of my limited shell scripting capabilities I had to remove the smart automagic that checks for all available

Re: boot failure

Hi, Thus spoketh Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com unto us on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:03:19 +0100 (CET): (...) === [3.903186] scsi_mod: '20a' invalid for parameter 'inq_timeout' done Gave up waiting for root

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

Hi, Thus spoketh Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have found a font set which contains the character but

[OT] Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

Thus spoketh Curt cu...@free.fr unto us on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:32:25 + (UTC): édirectory mv *directory adirectory Maybe the problem space is ill-defined, but if it is what it appears to be, this whole thread seems silly in a very usenetty way, i.e., a senseless and brutal buggery

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

Thus spoketh Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:54 -0500: Incidently, none of the other proposed solutions work. There is no xorg.conf any more or at least it is no longer needed. Sorry, I should have mentioned this, if you need an xorg.conf you can

Re: X-server problem

Hi, Thus spoketh Andriy Samsonyuk andriy.samson...@ch.tum.de unto us on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:05:27 +0100: (...) Every time i start X i get: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) changing of the permissions of /dev/tty0 does not help.

Re: Unable to boot into encrypted file system after upgrade etch -- lenny

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:26 +0200 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr wrote: klappnase wrote: Hello, after I upgraded to lenny I am not able to boot the new kernel (2.6.26-1-686), however it still works using the old etch kernel (2.6.22-2-k7 from backports.org). About my system: There is

Re: Debian don't detect blank (empty) DVDs

Hi, On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:34:31 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Markos wrote: My Debian Squeeze can read burned DVDs but doesn't detect blank DVDs, so I can't burn iso images. Any suggestion? When I ran into that very same problem the problem was the new media I bought.

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:14:23 +0100 Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:36:50 +0300 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Hello David, Just because I am paranoid, that does not mean they are not, in fact, after me. If they *are* after you, you're not paranoid.

Apt pinning breaks apt-get update when net is temporarily down

Hi, yesterday I noticed something strange in the behavior of apt-get on my debian Jessie system. When I do apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade the system is reported as up to date, no upgrades available - fine. Now I tried and simulated a temporarily broken internet connection (just to see

Re: burning BlueRay which software/drive/media

Hi, On Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:24:23 +0200 Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I try do burn BlueRay disk. > I have an HL-DT-ST and have used > #wodim > and > #growisofs > > I have reduced the burn speed but writing is still failed > > > # growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 -R -speed=1

Re: burning BlueRay which software/drive/media

On Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:24:51 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > Michael Lange wrote: > > k3b automatically uses Schilling's tools as default. > > I believe K3B uses growisofs as default for BD. At least one should > check the log which pro

Re: Big dummy at work again

Hi, On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:17:42 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > FWIW. there is a 3rd choice in the system menu, called UXTerm. Looks > identical to xterm, totally non-configurable like xterm. So thats more > wasted hd space to me. > actually it is not that hard to

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:19:49 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:54:36 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 12:42 (UTC-0400): > > > I am left with nano as the only editor I can find... > > > > > > So, it has emasculated my system,

Re: Non-firefox browser?

Hi, On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 09:00:45 -0400 Alan McConnell wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:39:04PM -0400, Leon.37428 wrote: > > > > Here's a list of others: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers >I have been used to, and using, iceweasel, for many years. >But under

apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

Hi, I just encountered an odd problem with a repo hosted on sourceforge, when calling apt-get update with this repo enabled in the sources.list I ended with a 301 error. Apparently this happens because sourceforge dropped its http service and now uses https exclusively. It took me a while to find

Re: How to execute a scrift after resume from suspend

Hi, On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:37:43 +0200 Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > is there a debian way, to execute a script after resume from suspend? > > I need to execute the command > > /etc/init.d/fancontrol restart > > after the system is awaken again. As I am using plasma5,

Re: apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:57:08 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I just encountered an odd problem with a repo hosted on sourceforge, > when calling apt-get update with this repo enabled in the sources.list > I ended with a 301 error. Apparently

Re: [deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk: Re: Network manager (again) Re:]

Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2016 08:32:59 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > So, correction, "said unstable by Synaptic" (Does it???) > > Here is what I get with aptitude in Jessie: > (...) > I don't see any mention of unstable. I see

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:43:35 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > > >> I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has > >> been running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably >

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:39:34 +0100 Brian wrote: > > > > why is an upgrade not an option? > > > > > > Upgrade to what? He wants to install Jessie, you can't get a newer > > > stable Debian than that. > > > > I guess he meant a dist-upgrade from an installed wheezy to

[SOLVED (sort of)]Re: apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:13:43 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > Ok, looks like it's a bug in Jessie's apt version. Just for the record, in case anyone reads this: I filed a bug report for apt about this issue ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827365 )

Sometimes "time shift" after resuming from suspend

Hi, here (Jessie with systemd) occasionally after the system is resumed from suspend mode the time is shifted forward by what appears to be exactly two hours. This does not occur always on resume, just sometimes, with no apparent reason. I have checked the syslog after this happened, but the only

Re: Sometimes "time shift" after resuming from suspend

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:02:10 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > Fwiw, with recent Windows editions it should be ok to enable UTC. There > is a registry key which needs to be set. > Dunno though, if XP is recent enough. thanks, I didn't know that, seems like it's actually possible

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

On Wed, 18 May 2016 18:54:35 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > Many thanks and I've learned a lot in the last few days I'm glad that things works for you now, I didn't follow this thread from the beginning, so I hope the original problem is now solved too. Regards

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

On Wed, 18 May 2016 16:17:43 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: (...) > If I reboot, however, Card 1 which is the usb card > automatically returns as it should but there is no Card 0 until I > manually run > > modprobe snd-cs4236 > > at which time it and all

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

Hi, On Wed, 11 May 2016 10:55:54 +0200 Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > UTF-8 is my default locale. So obviously text files are UTF-8 as well. > So why does iceweasel insist that these are windows-1252? How do I fix > this? you can try the following: type

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

On Wed, 11 May 2016 16:28:03 +0200 wrote: > There's some hope. Have a look at the intl subcategory in about:config > [1] (especially at intl.locale.matchOS and/or general.useragent.locale), > but also intl.accept.charsets (it is a list, might be prioritized). > I never tested

[partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:43:50 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > According to this (yet probably dated ) page: >http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html > universal_charset_detector might help if it were enabled by default. Just looked at the a

Re: Upgrading from 8.2 to 8.4

On Fri, 13 May 2016 10:13:59 -0400 Steve Matzura wrote: > Are 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' sufficient? > > Yes. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. There is a multi-legged creature crawling on

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

Hi, On Wed, 18 May 2016 07:55:54 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: (...) > One must not have both OSS sound modules and ALSA sound > modules active when installing sound cards. (...) > By the way, having both OSS and ALSA modules cause lots of > weirdness that makes

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Tue, 3 May 2016 15:32:07 +0300 Piyavkin wrote: > Explaining that since using «bad words» > is being a nazi Just to clarify this again, I never claimed that you or anyone else here is a nazi. > For your information: > > /American Heritage Dictionary of the English

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Sun, 01 May 2016 16:29:40 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > But New Zealand and the Isle of Man (sorry, I have been spelling it > > wrongly) both antedate Finland in granting full suffrage, and New > > Zealand's was unrestricted - but of course it was not

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Mon, 2 May 2016 20:32:17 +0300 Piyavkin wrote: > And by mentioned «professional parasites and criminals» I meant in the > first place exactly those people who live by criminal, fraud, > deception, and literally at other's expense. Which is by definition a > description of

Re: [OT]: May Day

On Mon, 02 May 2016 14:52:26 -0500 John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Michael Lange writes: > > I would by the way strongly request to dismiss the use of the word > > "parasite" when speaking about human beings, since - speaking frankly > > - this

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:24:48 +0200 deloptes wrote: > This is a different topic - there is the remote control group - > http://www.lirc.org > > I've even dared to fix few things in the kernel driver to make a remote > work properly - but it was ages ago. > > I than mapped

Re: Sound problem : on tablet Z3735 with bytcrrt5640

Hi, On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 19:22:34 +0200 F ProTablet10 wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I spent my tablet HP Pro Tablet 10 EE G1 Debian . > I managed to pass ( in pain ;-)) boot efi32 problem. > > > I followed the following tutorial because the characteristics of my >

Re: Sound problem : on tablet Z3735 with bytcrrt5640

On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:50:51 +0800 Gener Badenas wrote: > > > But Intel now is out of the game of producing mobile socs. they may not > fix this at all A couple weeks ago when I was looking for a possible way to fix things for my Ideapad I happened to come across

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:01:02 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:50:12AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:12:36 +0200 > > Victor A. Stoichita <vic...@svictor.net&g

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:12:36 +0200 Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > +1 for Avidemux as a GUI tool. To my knowledge it is the only gui > tool > in linux which allows simple truncation of files > without reencoding. project-x should also be able to do that. Regards Michael

Re: Debian natively on Android device

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 08:53:39 + Joe wrote: > I wouldn't know where to start trying to get another OS running on this > kind of thing, so we must hope some smart people with lots of time are > looking into it. > > Here is some progress, but there is a long way to go: > >

Re: Automatically spoof MAC address when interface is brought down

Hi, On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:26:35 -0800 commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Debian 8.7 user. > I use the default Network Manager. > > I would like to know if there is a way to automatically spoof the MAC > address of my wireless interface every time I bring down (and up)? > >

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

Hi, On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:40:32 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: (...)Yes, this is exactly what happens on my PC. But it has no solution. > > In the meantime I found a workaround. I moved /etc/cron.daily/apt out > of the way. It looks like this script is being

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:00:19 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > I created that file with this line but it does not help. Still the same > odd pinning after boot. > > So my problem might not be related to /etc/cron.daily/apt. I guess I > have to start searching again

Re: Correcting bug report

Hi, On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:56:23 +0100 Shin Ice wrote: (...) > don't know what kind of "reject" message you got but looking at the bug > report it looks right. That's what I thought at a first glance, too, but apparently he refers to the bug's severity, which is still set

Re: Correcting bug report

Hi, On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:36:17 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent in a bug report and realized that I had mis-classified the bug. > I sent in a correction to "852...@bugs.debian.org" with a body > containing the following: > > Control: severity

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

Hi, On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:18:07 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: (...) > > I do not have that file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic. I put > /etc/cron.daily/apt back where it belongs and this morning the pinning > was screwed up again. This is really weird. Then you

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:07:13 + Andre Müller wrote: > You can get more information on our page: > http://verfassunggebende-versammlung.org (of course it's in german) Hahaha, I wish you guys a lot of fun in your parallel universe! ;-) And a word to all non-german users

Re: Last spam: Let me know Munich Mayor's email address, please..

On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:42:34 +0100 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > referred to as "Reichsbürger", who, as a common base, neglect the legal > existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and declare their own Oops, I guess I picked the wrong English word, I

Re: Install problem.

Hi, On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:18:34 +0530 Pranav Gade wrote: > Hello there! I installed debian 8.7.1 Jessie for i386 through the CD > image. After install, I was surprised to find that I had a command line > interface, instead of Graphical Interface. I have installed the

Re: Before I install Debian

On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:32:45 +1100 Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Have I missed something here? > > .pdf files are portable, right? > > > How can I as a creator specify that you as the reader MUST use a > specific program to read them? Maybe by adding a "feature" that

Re: testing reportbug broken?

Hi, On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:05:47 -0500 songbird wrote: > anyone else seeing this? > > $ reportbug > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2234, in > main() > File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1084, in main > if

Re: Before I install Debian

On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:00:08 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I should resist, but the chance to make two (or three?) smart ass > comments to one post is tough to resist--no offense intended to > anybody. Sorry! > > On Saturday, February 11, 2017 07:32:44 AM Michael Lange wrote:

Re: Before I install Debian

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:27:12 -0500 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > > > On 02/10/2017 08:11 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:32:45 +1100 > > Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Have I missed s

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

Hi, On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:35:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: (...) > One thing I have not been able to find in synaptic or elsewhere is a way > to keep track of what has been installed and when. If you know where > such a log habitates or can be created let me/us

"apt-get changelog" usage

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to use apt-get changelog correctly. According to the manpage, when it is called without any further arguments, as in apt-get changelog it should display the changelog of the installed version of , here however it apparently displays the changelog of the

[OT]Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 20:18:58 +0100 Brian wrote: > My firefox isn't broken. That doesn't necessarily mean that the OP's isn't broken though. > > How a paypay problem relates to a YouTube problem is beyond me. > > Perhaps the two of you should get together off-list, sort

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

Hi, On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 14:39:14 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Online business seems to have hit a roadblock. > > Is there anything I can change in the about:config that will allow > the "next" button to work on the https paypal pages? > > I have even

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

Hi, On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:53:08 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Here is my error message: Is this message Flash-related? > > > Your connection is not secure > > The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security. > > www.youtube.com uses security technology that

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:23:22 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to > get it from unstable? On wheezy, how? I wasn't aware that you're still with wheezy, I think the issue on the german list referred to stretch.

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:18:15 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > by chance a couple of days ago I saw on the german debian user list¹ a > > topic that seems similar, the conclusion seemed to be to install > > libnss3 from unstable (iirc this was about firefox and chrome on > >

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:00:25 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > OK Stefan. I have to say that i like you. Because you really love Free > Software policy. However i cannot tell people to use Free Software. > Free Software policy is too stric to keep. Instead, i tell poeple that >

Re: [OT]Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 23:01:43 +0100 Brian wrote: > > Two users. Both using entirely different systems. Both with entirely > different issues. Do you think this is realistically going anywhere? > Especially as the second post in this thread doesn't even come close > to

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:36:27 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Your connection is not secure > > > > The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security. > > > > www.youtube.com uses security technology that is outdated and > > vulnerable to attack. An attacker could

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:54:55 +0100 Brian wrote: > Maybe you could post the URLs of two or three web sites which are now > available to you without security-related error messages which you had > trouble with before. Jessie users would be interested whether they too > have to

Re: libnss3, currently in testing

Hi, On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:28:33 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security > update into the wheezy repo's? > > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened. Maybe you could

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

Hi, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:32:34 -0700 (PDT) emetib wrote: > michael, > > it's not any modules that i know of. only using re for the three > scripts that i'm using. as stated it's working on all of my other > virts, so i'm not that worried about it right now. > > i

[solved]Re: aptitude cli undocumented behaviour [was: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get ...]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 22:37:40 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > You used '~U' in the first and the last command, not '~ahold'. > This last command could also be written shorter: > > aptitude -y -v -s full-upgrade '~U' | ... Thanks!!! You are of course right, that was a copy and

Re: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get (esp. --ignore-hold option)

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:41:40 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > aptitude is, generally speaking, a more user-friendly interface to the > apt system. If you're scripting (and especially as it already works), > you should stick with apt-get. apt-get's output tends to be more

aptitude cli options vs. apt-get (esp. --ignore-hold option)

Hello, I use the following line (borrowed from apticron) in a script to generate a list of upgradable packages: PKGNAMES=`apt-get -q -y -s --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated dist-upgrade | \ /bin/grep ^Inst | /usr/bin/cut -d\ -f2 | /usr/bin/sort` Now I would like to do the same

Re: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get (esp. --ignore-hold option)

Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:35:58 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Your aptitude variant will also list new packages to be installed > (e.g., a package with a version number in its name like libperl5.24). > Yes, that is in fact the point here. This is the same as for the

aptitude cli undocumented behaviour [was: aptitude cli options vs. apt-get ...]

Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:19:52 +0200 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: (...) > So my question is: is there a way to include updates to packages put on > hold to the output of "aptitude full-upgrade" as in apt-get, that I have > been missing, or is this simpl

Re: Remove Account

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:08:12 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > Sadly that doesn't help with the OP's problem. That requires access to > the subscribed email address. He no longer has access to the > subscribed email address and everything is being forwarded to him so he >

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

Hi, On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:36:39 -0700 (PDT) emetib wrote: (...) > whether i am calling -- python3 script or python script, or python3 >>> > or python >>> and typing them in it's not working how it should. > wasted a weekend thinking that i had messed up my code. > > so i

Bug in apticron (or dpkg ?) and trying to work around with apt-mark

Hi, (sorry, the following is getting lengthy) although I never used it myself, I think I found a bug in apticron. I am using a snippet from apticron in a custom script to create a list of upgradable packages and noticed that sometimes the number of packages reported by apticron's internal logic

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:16:56 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > But now I find that my system has lots of packages from Jessie which > are no longer present in either Stretch or Sid. I would like get a > list of all such packages and decide if I want to remove them.

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 23:48:53 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Speaking as a Jessie user, changing to root and using lsblk -f is > quicker and easier! Sure, but the OP said that's not an option. I think that the command Brian suggested: udevadm info --query=property

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: > Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. > It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It > was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. Since > I can't

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:24:00 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Oooohhh, shiny new toy that I just found because of you. This came via > "man apt-show-versions": > > To upgrade all packages in testing: > >apt-get install `apt-show-versions -u -b | grep

Re: How to run a script before shutdown?

Hi, On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:34:38 +0100 Robert Latest wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to automatically start a data backup script (to USB or network > drive) at each shutdown of my computer. I did some research into this > and found that several people have the same problem as

Re: Two Chromebooks: was Re: LENOVO IdeaPad 100S 11.6" Laptop

On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:27:57 +0100 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:51:46 + > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't mind about having to struggle > > a little, and Bluetooth doesn't worry me, but sound

Re: LENOVO IdeaPad 100S 11.6" Laptop

Hi, On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:04:21 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am thinking of buying one of these for use with Debian and TDE. What > was said the other day gave me a slight pause for thought, but I was > partly reassured. > > Comments please! > > Lenovo 11.6 Inch Ideapad

Re: Two Chromebooks: was Re: LENOVO IdeaPad 100S 11.6" Laptop

On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:51:46 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > I don't mind about having to struggle > a little, and Bluetooth doesn't worry me, but sound is a bit of a > killer. I just looked again at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117141 where the sound issue is

Re: Information about modules

Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 22:59:12 +0100 Datasmurf wrote: > Hello List, > > just a few moments ago I turned off the blinking of the wifi led on my > T61. I did that because I found a website[1] that told me how I have to > do that. I was wondering where else I could find

Re: list installed packages present only in stable

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:36:02 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Thanks for the script. But I do not think it does what I want. For > example, currently there is a python3.4 package installed on my > system. > > % dpkg -l python3.4 | cut -c 1-72 >

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

Hi, On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:16:50 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: (...) > I gave it a try. I unplugged the network and did an apt-get update. > This is throwing all the errors that the repos are not available. But > in the end the next "apt-get dist-upgrade" indeed

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:16:06 +0100 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: (...) > Not sure, you might try to grep through the files in /etc/init > and /etc/init.d if you find the one that calls apt-get update , then see > which package it belongs to and consider removi

Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

Hi, On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:35:59 +0100 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Hi, > > I have a weird behaviour on one of my debian boxes. It is running Mint > LMDE and the issue is the following: > > I have several additional sources defined: debian testing, debian > backports,

Re: ISO9660 creator in Debian Jessie

Hi, On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:16:23 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > terryc wrote: > > Unfortuantely, all that both machines have is Xfburn, which it gives > > you an option of creating an ISO, it only does so if the burner is in > > that machine. Major bummer. > (...)

Re: python time module

Hi, On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 20:29:05 -0700 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: (...) > (2) More seriously, I'm getting the following error and traceback trying > to run my very first script: > > nowball:13$ python box1.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "box1.py", line 1,

Re: Installing/running non-Debian executables

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:23:15 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Jessie with Mate DE. > > I need to run the *IDENTICAL* versions of SeaMonkey (2.40) on > both my Windows and Debian machines. Downloading the appropriate > file, unpacking it, placing results in my

Re: Package upgrades why and how to avoid?

On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:47:21 +0900 Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Why this happens and how to avoid this? As an appendix to Joe's extensive reply: Once you found the package(s) that would cause e.g. Skype to be removed, you can put these packages on "hold" (or "lock" in

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