firefox-esr security update for Jessie?

2018-06-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
I see that firefox-esr has a security update. It is only for Stretch. What are we Jessie users to do?

Re: /dev/block ???

2015-11-25 Thread Ed Jabbour
Sorry for the double post.

/dev/block ???

2015-11-25 Thread Ed Jabbour
Ran df -hT and along with th usual partitions it lists /dev/block/8:3 ext4 12G 4.1G 7.3G 36% /. I never saw that before. What is it?

/dev/block ???

2015-11-25 Thread Ed Jabbour
Ran df -hT, and along with the usual partitions there's this: /dev/block/8:3 ext4 12G 4.1G 7.3G 36% / I have never seen that before. What is it?

Install fail on a Macbook

2015-11-07 Thread Ed Jabbour
Tried - and failed - to install Wheezy on an old - late 2008 - Macbook. It's an Intel machine running Mavericks. First, I used OSX's diskutil to create a 120 GB partition formatted fat32. Ran the netinst installer. created 3 partitions, root, home and swap. So the disk had 6 partitions

Re: apt-get update hanging on security and backports.

2015-10-12 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Monday, October 12, 2015 02:34:25 AM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:19:32 -0400 > > Ed Jabbour <e...@att.net> wrote: > > Running Wheezy. Recently, update has been hanging on > > http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main and > &g

apt-get update hanging on security and backports.

2015-10-11 Thread Ed Jabbour
Running Wheezy. Recently, update has been hanging on http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main and http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main. The other repos at uchicago.edu breeze through, but the two above just sit there waiting -- waiting -- waiting until they finally

Choice of init system?

2014-09-18 Thread Ed Jabbour
Does (or will) the Jessie install offer a choice of systemd or sys5init? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201409182015.57493.e...@att.net

Network Manager doesn't pick up network.

2014-05-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
Running stable, kde and network-manager-gnome. The modem/router provides two wireless network options - one 2.4 GHz, the other 5. However, net/mgr only picks up the 2.4 - the 5 doesn't show at all. I thought maybe the 5 signal wasn't strong enough, so I moved the laptop right next to the

Re: Network Manager doesn't pick up network.

2014-05-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday, May 09, 2014 12:47:45 PM staticsafe wrote: On 5/9/2014 11:28, Ed Jabbour wrote: Running stable, kde and network-manager-gnome. The modem/router provides two wireless network options - one 2.4 GHz, the other 5. However, net/mgr only picks up the 2.4 - the 5 doesn't show at all

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Wednesday, January 01, 2014 01:27:09 PM Doug wrote: I think it's useless to try and teach anybody English on the 'net here. I've been trying to correct loose for lose for years with no result. What I find particularly galling is I could care less when what is meant is I couldn't care

X crashes

2013-10-16 Thread Ed Jabbour
Running testing, and using the nouveau driver for a GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M GPU. X sporadically crashes to a black screen where things scroll by too fast for me to read. I’ve tried to examine kern.log and Xorg.0.log, as well as google searches. Xorg.0.log shows an error: cat

Testing upgrades?

2013-05-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
Sorry about the blank message. Sources.list point to testing. I've received no upgrades since Wheezy went stable. I thought that upon a new stable release, packages flooded into testing from sid I don't know if that simply hasn't happened yet or something's wrong with my system. Any advice

Dual boot with OS X and Wheezy.

2012-12-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
Trying to dual boot OSX and Wheezy on a late 2008 Macbook running Mountain Lion. Following steps found on the web, I first created an empty partition using OSX's Disk Utility - 80 GB for OSX and 80GB free for Wheezy. However, when I reached the partitioning step in the Wheezy install, it

Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53 yields: 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 190 to remove and 1 not upgraded. I'm not up to

No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Ed Jabbour
CDROM tray will not respond to eject: [Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block device eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device name but it is no block device eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday, December 23, 2011 7:32:22 PM Vincent Lefevre wrote: Yes, /dev/scd0 disappeared after a recent upgrade (after 2011-11-17). Why do I still get error msgs referring to scd0?? Running lshw *as root* says which /dev files can be used. In my case: *-cdrom

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:31:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: Ed Jabbour edj...@gmail.com wrote: I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to do the same and added the dns to wicd. However, I keep getting the same old dns from the router, i.e., resolv.conf keeps

Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-14 Thread Ed Jabbour
I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to do the same and added the dns to wicd. However, I keep getting the same old dns from the router, i.e., resolv.conf keeps changing to the router's 192 ip. The router does not allow editing dns. I think this is

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-13 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 13 March 2010 12:31:53 am Ron Johnson wrote: Since I stumbled onto this a couple of months ago, it's become indispensable! Highlight some text, right-click and a little b/w bull's eye appears. Mouse onto the bull's eye and a pop-up menu appears which lets you perform a

Re: /etc/resolv.conf and resolvconf

2010-01-22 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 21 January 2010 08:44:38 pm Tom H wrote: Sometime ago, I switched to OpenDNS using the resolvconf program.  I now want to switch back to the default DNS provided by the gateway - 192.168.1.254, which, I think, passes over to ATT's server. I'd use resolvconf, but I forgot how

/etc/resolv.conf and resolvconf

2010-01-21 Thread Ed Jabbour
Sometime ago, I switched to OpenDNS using the resolvconf program. I now want to switch back to the default DNS provided by the gateway - 192.168.1.254, which, I think, passes over to ATT's server. I'd use resolvconf, but I forgot how and the man page isn't much help to me. So, I purged

Re: /etc/resolv.conf and resolvconf

2010-01-21 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 21 January 2010 06:44:14 pm Frank McCormick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:05:53 -0500 Ed Jabbour e...@att.net wrote: Sometime ago, I switched to OpenDNS using the resolvconf program. I now want to switch back to the default DNS provided by the gateway - 192.168.1.254, which, I

Disable nepomuk?

2009-06-02 Thread Ed Jabbour
Running Lenny w/ KDE 3.5. top shows nepomuk running. I thought that was KDE 4 stuff. How might I disable it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:33:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 17 May 2009 13:57:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:45:16 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:33:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 get me

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 16 May 2009 15:44:25 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 13:24:45 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote

Re: No console from X

2009-05-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 15 May 2009 02:22:06 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 get me only a black screen with no prompt. The same thing happens if I try console login from kdm. inittab is the default

Re: No console from X

2009-05-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:15:10 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 02:22:06 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 get me only

No console from X

2009-05-14 Thread Ed Jabbour
I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 get me only a black screen with no prompt. The same thing happens if I try console login from kdm. inittab is the default. Graphics driver NVidia 173.14.09. Any hints, pointers, appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

No AP associated - wicd

2009-05-03 Thread Ed Jabbour
Installed lenny on my brother's Dell, and trying to get wireless working. Everything (I think) is setup the same as on my machine, where wireless works with wicd as the network manager. On the Dell, wlan0's there, iwlist scan picks up the neighborhood networks, including this one. However,

.Xmodmap has no effect

2009-03-08 Thread Ed Jabbour
Below is my ~/.Xmodmap. It's an attempt to make the key assignments permanent rather than running xmodmap each login. It's not working. Syntax wrong? keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext keycode 174 =

Re: listening to radio stations

2007-11-23 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 23 November 2007 09:17, Jude DaShiell wrote: Do any command line tools exist in debian that will allow a user to listen to a streaming broadcast say from http://sc1.liquidviewer.com:9062/listen.pls I had that working fine on my mac mini yesterday then the stream went away so I am

Wireless + Uverse a no-go

2007-10-19 Thread Ed Jabbour
I just had ATT Uverse service installed, replacing Comcast cable. The desktop, running etch, performs with an ethernet connection, but I can't get wireless going on a laptop, IBM T30, also etch. The card is recognized: dmesg|grep wlan0: wlan0: vendor: 'NETGEAR WG511 54 Mbps

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 21:27, Wayne Topa wrote: Anybody? Where do people dump their kernel source anyway??? I have always put my kernels in /usr/src. First time I've _ever_ heard of DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area. Just what readme did you see _that_ in? From

Re: how to save Internet radio played by realplayer

2007-06-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 16 June 2007 22:13, Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge I listen to Internet radio by realplayer, how to save the broadcast(audio) to a file? I install an extra sound card, connect lineout of one sound card to linein of the other sound card, but can't record sound. vsound will do

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote: Ed says. OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at CSPAN, btw. On sites other than those two, RealPlayer works fine. Well, not

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:26, Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 03:07, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I can listen to it by just clicking on the listen link at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2, using the realplayer package

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am unable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as unable to find one that I can down load and use on

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 27 April 2007 16:43, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: sudo, but is there a downside to not having an actual root account. It is possible to break sudo and if that happens it is handy to be able to log in without having to reboot. One

make-jpkg failure

2007-04-26 Thread Ed Jabbour
Tried to install jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin with: fakeroot make-jpkg jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin It crapped out with: == sh: gcc: command not found dpkg-architecture: warning: Couldn't determine gcc system type, falling back to default (native compilation) sh: gcc:

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On April 17 2007 02:06, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:32:53 -0400 Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last few days, Realplayer won't play any files in a browser. At CSPAN, e.g., neither the embedded videos nor the standalone option will run. Realplayer is called

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On April 17 2007 17:19, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:11:37 -0400 [snipped] Just got MPlayer to play the Real Video sites you mentioned (CSPAN and BBC) under AMD64 Etch! I would suggest you try it. There some instructions here:

Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-16 Thread Ed Jabbour
In the last few days, Realplayer won't play any files in a browser. At CSPAN, e.g., neither the embedded videos nor the standalone option will run. Realplayer is called, but nothing happens. Video at the BBC also will not play, either plugin or standalone. I thought maybe it was Firefox,

Re: DHCP lease and dhclient.eth0.leases.

2007-04-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
On April 8 2007 13:20, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:06 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases has dates in it that do not seem to relate to anything. It has two entries. one stating that the DHCP lease expired two days ago, and another that states

DHCP lease and dhclient.eth0.leases.

2007-04-08 Thread Ed Jabbour
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases has dates in it that do not seem to relate to anything. It has two entries. one stating that the DHCP lease expired two days ago, and another that states it will expire in 2038: renew 5 2007/4/6 17:38:58; rebind 5 2007/4/6 17:38:58; expire 5 2007/4/6

wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
In order to install vmware, I need linux-headers. I'm running the 2.6.20 kernel, self-compiled. Etch offers only 2.6 2.6.18, of various sorts. Am I stuck, or am I overlooking something obvious? Thanks a lot. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On March 15 2007 14:51, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:26:36 -0400 Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to install vmware, I need linux-headers. I'm running the 2.6.20 kernel, self-compiled. Etch offers only 2.6 2.6.18, of various sorts. Am I stuck, or am I overlooking