Re: Howto?

will this help? http://www.noah.org/wiki/DEB_package_notes_-_dpkg,_apt,_aptitude,_and_friends#Creating_DEB_packages -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 11.19.KDE5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

On 12/15/19 11:45 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Jimmy Johnson (2019-12-16 02:13:08) On 12/14/19 5:29 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi Alessandro, Quoting Alessandro Vesely (2019-12-14 13:23:14) On Sat 14/Dec/2019 03:18:39 +0100 Kenneth Parker wrote: I use Devuan, especially on older

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

! Kde5 on buster without systemd don't work, all kde5 is config for systemd, screen settings and pluseaudio will not save settings, to bad, so sad. Give it a try and see for yourself. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

still testing debian but I don't think it's linux anymore than windows10 is, just another mainstream backdoor. Already mentioned are bsd and devuan and devuan has some forks to look at too. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

On 10/29/19 12:07 PM, Joe wrote: No, it doesn't do legacy. There is no 'legacy' on any BIOS screen. It's an Aspire ES1-132. But Stretch installed in EFI easily and even gave me a dual-boot with Win10, which didn't interest me at the time, but does now. I'm doing a bit of Access work for the

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

On 10/29/19 12:22 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: HP UEFI firmwares were among the most broken ones, ignoring EFI boot entries created for GRUB. I swear those new hp's are broken by design just like our main stream(cough) linux. But if you find the right system, using the right kernel you can

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

On 10/29/19 9:23 AM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: My acer aspire one is not having a problem and another acer with 17 inch screen, hdmi and ddr3 is not having a problem, I can't get at the model right now. You may have to fiddle with your bios, on a samsung I have to go to bios at boot

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

On 10/29/19 1:56 AM, Joe wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:21:52 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

On 10/27/19 10:38 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 10/26/19 5:41 PM, songbird wrote: Peter Ehlert wrote: I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I too would like such a tool    hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent

Re: Trapped in Gnome

seen the problem before, reverting back to the old kernel got it going again. -- Jimmy Johnson MX-19-XFCE-4.14 - AMD E2-6110 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Repair Grumb (grub)

of Buster the boot hung with a '>' prompt. AMD computers and complete buster update with wayland cause problems like x not starting or sometimes the user space will freeze with only background service running, input device's stop working. I don't know the fix. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackwa

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

no reason to give /sudo/root/ to anyone but the admin, unless it's a class on system admin. What are you going to do about it? -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

On 05/28/2019 08:44 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/26/2019 11:03 PM, Andy Smith wrote: There doesn't seem to be any point in interacting further. Andy that's the most helpful thing you've said, I guess you missed

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

On 05/27/2019 12:54 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 27 May 2019 at 10:19:45 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/27/2019 12:46 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-05-27, wrote: If Network Manager is giving you grief, please go bark up /that/ tree (I can't say much about N-M, because I banned it from my boxes

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

bout where it was reported to I can follow up on it. I sincerely hope that it has not gone unfixed through these many years!!! Who needs it and what for? Why is NetworkManager installed? -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

yself rely on the N-M app, I'm sure we would all be interested in knowing where we stand. Who needs NetworkManager and why? Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)

many others who are longtime Debian Users, so please don't troll. Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: which mutt?

On 05/03/2019 10:56 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 03 May 2019 at 09:40:05 (-0700), Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about

Re: which mutt?

debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870635 --Francisco -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

hink users are allowed that kind of power any longer. I ran one package and it said I needed to be Wheel, so I installed kuser to add me as wheel, while trying to use kuser I got command not found. -- Jimmy Johnson 14.2 - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 - Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

. It seems only a few users and even less developers know the power of Synaptic, it's ability's are great and there is no replacement for Synaptic. -- Jimmy Johnson Current - KDE4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: A call to drop gnome

and will never be mentally or usably the same and Microsoft is happy, I'm glad someone is happy. -- Jimmy Johnson Current - KDE - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Laptop still extremely slow after replacing msata ssd and putting old one back

ll the installed ram, are there any test you can run from the bios... -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Mirror release file expired

will not be applied. What's the best way to communicate this to the folks who manage that particular mirror -- the Columbia one? http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ has a contact address. I've seen mirrors expire for one reason or another. Is there anyway to find/get the hits on that address? Thanks. -- Jimmy

Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

ously look at those mount point names; I agree, they are awful. Create some nice new ones to use with your future disk(s). I know little to nothing about a raid, but otherwise I would boot with the new drive installed and run "blkid" then make appropriate changes to the "

Re: Need help making new boot vol

, I think it's in the advanced menu. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Gparted error report

ext4 with #fsck.ext4 -pvcf /dev/sdXX but as above you need to first disable checksum. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

a home directory within the root directory? Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and therefore (all other things being equal) better? Opinions, please. I dislike top posting. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

On 11/07/2018 09:43 PM, local10 wrote: Hi, Is there a way to revert firefox-esr upgrade to version 60 in Buster and install back firefox v 52.9.0? Thanks Here: https://pkgs.org/download/firefox-esr -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered

Re: Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

* or /usr/local/lib, either Have I misconfigured something with multi-arch?  Is there a bug I couldn't find a reference too? Any help or suggestions on other software to try? Thanks, Bob This package? https://packages.debian.org/sid/libstdc++6 -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - A

Re: update problem

n/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: recovering a partition table

On 09/07/2018 02:06 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 13:02 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/07/2018 12:19 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Friday, September 7, 2018 5:34:00 PM -04 Dominic Knight wrote: Whilst trying to create one partition out of two (using disks) I appear to have

Re: recovering a partition table

-with-testdisk-and-gparted-live/ -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: question about memtest86+

the computer, it does a self test, check the BIOS is the new memory there? Memtest is known to cause heat to the max. Memtest is known to cause budget chips to error. -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware64 14.2 - Just Say No! To SystemD, Plasma5 & Drugs! KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered L

Re: question about memtest86+

On 08/22/2018 02:58 PM, Long Wind wrote: i install memtest86+ of stretch to test memory i don't see any error msg, but after a few minutes, it shutdown my PC does that mean my memory is bad? i read manual of memtest86+, can't find explaination Maybe system shutdown due to heat.. -- Jimmy

Re: painted into a corner

On 08/21/2018 05:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2018 18:33:50 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 08/19/2018 12:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just installed stretch to a fresh 2T HD. letting it autopartition and format for separate /, swap, /var and /home partitions. But I

Re: painted into a corner

On 08/21/2018 10:28 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 20 Aug 2018 at 18:13:22 (-0700), Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 08/20/2018 01:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 20 August 2018 11:23:00 Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 20/08/18 05:40, Gene Heskett wrote: Whats the recommended way to do these mounts

Re: painted into a corner

off metadata_csum via tune2fs. #tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum /dev/path/to/disk The above is for ext4, for repairing partition I use this with force. #fsck.ext4 -pvcf /dev/sdxx -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: painted into a corner

tune2fs. #tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum /dev/path/to/disk The above is for ext4, for repairing partition I use this with force. #fsck.ext4 -pvcf /dev/sdxx -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Laptop recommendation

middle east, oceania, latin america and africa. https://www.craigslist.org/about/sites -- Jimmy Johnson Slackware 14.2-64 - KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

stall htop and run htop as root, when the screen goes black press f9. Is that correct? Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

ppens on both Intel and Nvidia. Does not happen on Wheeze or Jessie without systemd. Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

heezy and Jessie with no-systemd do not have this behavior. Maybe the problem can be fixed, maybe. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: messed up release in apt

installed you can do all the things you want to do in Synaptic, like force a different version and reinstalling the keyring or installing distro-info. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan ASCII - TDE Trinity R14.0.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

On 04/24/2018 05:20 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:33:00PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: While installing and you check no boxes to add packages or desktop you get Debian Base install, command line, apt, dpkg and internet. Correct. Package 'net-tools' is installed so you

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

' is installed so you have ifconfig if needed. This is the same for all current Debian releases. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel 4-M, 1.9GHz - 1G RAM - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Install 9.4 on acer V15 Nitro 4K -> black screen after choosing installation method; Kali live running and Ubuntu installation no problem

On 04/23/2018 02:20 AM, Dr. Volker Jaenisch wrote: Dear Jimmy! On 23.04.2018 02:06, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I'm setting here looking at the secs for your laptop and it say's you have an Intel computer with Nvidia Video, but the first thing to do is make sure you have the firmware meta package

Re: Install 9.4 on acer V15 Nitro 4K -> black screen after choosing installation method; Kali live running and Ubuntu installation no problem

sure you have the firmware meta package installed, first you need to add non-free to your sources and 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get install firmware-linux* xorg' Now reboot and see what happens. Good Luck! Cheer! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5

Jessie-backports now has spectre patched kernel

4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64 is patched, tested on AMD and Intel - Variant 1,2 and 3 patched. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

m and make suggestions. aptitude update and aptitude -f install. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan ASCII - Trinity TDE-3 version R14.0.5 - Intel P8400 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: apt-get update on sid: Hash Sum mismatch

On 04/14/2018 08:24 AM, Felix Natter wrote: > apt-get update on sid: Hash Sum mismatch That means try again later or try a different source. :) Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Beowulf - TDE-Trinity R14.0.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Update for i965-va-driver-shaders - Bug -

On 04/13/2018 10:45 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Jimmy. Jimmy Johnson - 13.04.18, 18:04: i965-va-driver-shaders in Sid, Buster and Ubuntu 18.04LTS has an upgrade, if applied will remove the i965-va-driver, the upgrades been there for a week. What's up with this? % apt changelog i965-va

Update for i965-va-driver-shaders

i965-va-driver-shaders in Sid, Buster and Ubuntu 18.04LTS has an upgrade, if applied will remove the i965-va-driver, the upgrades been there for a week. What's up with this? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

and get fucked!!! Chris Anderson Linus! Is that you? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Trinity KDE 3.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: update bios from debian

do the install or not. It's easy to do using WindowsXP Live cd, less than 593Mb Zip file download. https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Trinity KDE 3.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On 02/21/2018 07:02 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 03:40:51 PM Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 10:47 AM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: Note that upgrades skipping a release (e.g., wheezy -> stretch instead of wheezy -> jessie -> stretch) are not supported

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On 02/21/2018 02:10 PM, Karol Augustin wrote: On 2018-02-21 21:42, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 01:31 PM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: For all the "Na" Sayers here, nothing lost except for sometime and something to gan the system you want and if you can't make it w

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

my had suggested the reckless method of directly upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch, and I was curious how badly it would break. It's sicking the people who talk with authority about things they have never done and I don't care if they read something somewhere, doing is knowing. Cheers, -- Jimmy J

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On 02/21/2018 01:31 PM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: For all the "Na" Sayers here, nothing lost except for sometime and something to gan the system you want and if you can't make it work format and do a new system, but remember there is no "sysvinit" in Stretch. O

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On 02/21/2018 01:01 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:58:11PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: For all the "Na" Sayers here, nothing lost except for sometime and something to gan the system you want and if you can't make it work format and do a new system, bu

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On 02/21/2018 10:39 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 09:45 AM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before Wheezy's support runs out on May 31st.  I will try the default systemd

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

ever I boot? If not, how will I accomplish that? I also thought I had read about some problem with window authentication in Stretch, but I can't find any such posts now. I don't know of any current problems in stretch. Thanks. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.12.0 - AM

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On 02/21/2018 10:47 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:39:54AM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 09:45 AM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before

Re: Debian Sid spectre-meltdown

On 02/21/2018 08:30 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 21 February 2018 at 16:25, Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: As reported by Linus kernel 4.15 would have the spectre-meltdown fix, Debian Sid just got 4.15 and I installed it on both AMD and Intel and then I ran the s

Debian Sid spectre-meltdown

As reported by Linus kernel 4.15 would have the spectre-meltdown fix, Debian Sid just got 4.15 and I installed it on both AMD and Intel and then I ran the spectre-meltdown-checker and Sid is no longer vulnerable to Spectre-1,2 or 3/meltdown. It should be in Buster soon. Cheers, -- Jimmy

Re: [OT] debian (or debian like) terminal program for android

so didn't try that one) Best place to look for software https://f-droid.org/en/ Can you get root on your phone? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.10.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

On 02/08/2018 03:06 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: On 02/08/2018 10:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Donald F. Emery <dem...@vermontel.net> wrote: I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was not in debian testin

Re: I do not want to install Linux

the Debian culture makes possible (another being Ubuntu, of course). So not *completely* off-topic here. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

e sure you read the part about it being fixed in Sid. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

On 02/08/2018 09:25 AM, Donald F. Emery wrote: I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was not in debian testing. It's not the only package missing from Buster, you can probably install it from Sid without to much problem. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie

Re: How to safely hold kernel packages ?

data. Stef All the best from Oleron island, Cool! And blessings to you from sunny California!-- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: How to safely hold kernel packages ?

nd # apt-mark unhold 'package-name' Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Problem using "dpkg -i"

On 01/15/2018 11:17 PM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Instead of using apt, next time use aptitude -f install, reason is if aptitude can not fix the problem it will give you a clue as what you can do.  Also if you apt install and run 'upgrade-system' upgrade-system will tell what to do

Re: Problem using "dpkg -i"

debi-kde version but never seems to work. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.10.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Kernel problem?

kernel, maybe cross your fingers and give it another try or two. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

t file had "deb: cdrom:[..." as the first entry, and was not commented out. My installation medium was wrong! John I'm thinking you did not run 'apt update' before 'apt install'? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

On 12/09/2017 08:23 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 18:30:08 (-0800), Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 12/07/2017 02:31 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:02:56AM +, Tixy wrote: I'm running Jessie (with systemd running but booting with sysvinit) and trying

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

pull the cord or press the power button, I got past that. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.10.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

and there's not a lot of plasma to deal with. But I'm the weird guy who thinks upgrading is mostly always a fun learning experience where I get to use the tools Debian has given me, synaptic, apt, aptitude, dpkg, upgrade-system, gtkorphan, etc. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

recommended," meaning it won't work. Of course. That's exactly why accessible repositories containing those older releases are needed; my question was about how / where to manage those, and that was answered in the first reply. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-760

Re: How to automagically rewrite udev rules files

all to menu? regards, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Firefox not displaying text on website(s)

would click Customize and then click Restore Defaults, also make sure your addons are up to date. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

-threading/ -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma 5.10.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions

, etc., so I use tty2, etc. and then I'm not bothered by the system background noise. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch

going. Good luck, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch

On 10/20/2017 08:43 AM, Paul Seyfert wrote: Hi, On 20.10.2017 06:09, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/19/2017 03:11 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/19/2017 02:48 PM, Paul Seyfert wrote: Hi, Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who encountered that problem and have already

Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch

On 10/19/2017 03:11 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/19/2017 02:48 PM, Paul Seyfert wrote: Hi, Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again? Paul

Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch

d? That's the package to install thinkpad buttons. I have it installed and can mute, etc. My thinkpad is running Buster/Testing now and busy, but will check in Stretch sometime today. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions

On 10/19/2017 01:01 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 19 Oct 2017 at 08:35:55 (-0700), Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/18/2017 09:13 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Using Debian Stretch x86_64. I don't use a greeter like lightdm. I just log in at the virtual terminal, then startx (xfce desktop). I like

Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions

and it logs out. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.10.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: removing of sddm (debian 9 -kde5) to start in console mode then startx to start kde5

ty pictures. I use startx a lot because I install a lot of systems from a base install and after installing drivers, firmware and desktop I can startx and do my desktop setup before rebooting or logging out. I'm sure there are other ways like starting sddm or start plasma or? But I know and us

Re: removing of sddm (debian 9 -kde5) to start in console mode then startx to start kde5

supported to me. +1 -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: D-Bus (Re: systemd process(es) consuming CPU when laptop lid closed)

On 10/17/2017 06:22 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 17.10.2017 um 14:49 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; Michael I found it interesting that I do not have a folder /org/ .hidden or not and that's with kde5 desktop on Stretch. Those are D-Bus

Re: systemd process(es) consuming CPU when laptop lid closed

24 hours. So much for speedy technology! It must be something else. I'm seeing my mails arrive whithin minutes. Cheers "rhkramer" time is off, it looks like his post is 12hr in the future. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Regist

Re: systemd process(es) consuming CPU when laptop lid closed

g for systemd-logind. That said, is that all? Given the high cpu usage for the dbus-daemon process I was expecting it to be flooded by dbus messages. You could also try stracing dbus-daemon and systemd-logind and see if you get anything interesting. Michael I found it interesting that I do not have a fo

Re: Plasma and qt apps broken after upgrade in Testing

. :) Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

, apply the upgrade, and install Debian? Isn't that less work than the separate HD idea? There is a Windows XP Live iso(Hiren's Boot CD) on the net with all the tools one would need to upgrade the bios and many other things and it's free and neutered too. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma

Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder

going back to the mid 90's. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

bugs.debian.bug=851175

; being installed keep plasma from starting? Upgrade-system said the system was completely updated and clean with no orphaned packages before I rebooted. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

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