Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

On 5/6/22 19:16, John Hasler wrote: James H. H. Lampert writes: I started with a TRS-80 Model I myself (and with high school programming classes on an IBM 370/135 at the District Office, with terminals connected over a pair of multiplexed phone lines [and a maximum terminal speed of 300

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

On 1/5/22 12:33, John Conover wrote: pa...@quillandmouse.com writes: On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500 Celejar wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: ... Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me lately. Can anyone recommend another MUA

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

Sorry, Stefan.  This was supposed to go to the list. On 8/2/21 11:02 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 8/1/21 9:33 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: So really think hard before splitting off a filesystem outside of volume management. I believe it is more likely to cause problems than it is to avoid problems

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

On 6/22/21 9:23 AM, Siard wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful.

Re: MATE desktop - changing icon of a Launcher

On 3/24/21 2:14 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: On Tue, 2021-03-23 at 09:26 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been use MATE almost since it came out. IIRC I used to use a series of mouse clicks to determine the file name {including path} of the current icon. On my current systems {one Stretch, one

Re: AppImage files (was: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl)

On 11/18/20 6:07 AM, Fred wrote: On 11/17/20 11:47 PM, Anssi Saari wrote: Fred writes: There is a binary for Linux available for download as a AppImage file. What is an AppImage file and what does one do with it. The program was probably compiled for Ubuntu.  Is it likely to also run on

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

On 10/11/20 2:04 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 10/11/20 6:34 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of changing from the initrc to the actual running system?  But how do I get the boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

On 10/11/20 6:34 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of changing from the initrc to the actual running system? But how do I get the boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time before attempting to mount the / filesystem?

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

On 10/10/20 7:42 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I am attempting to mount an LVM Logical Volume as root, but I am getting an error in the boot sequence when it attempts to mount the root filesystem. The error is saying that it can not find /dev/block/254:15, which is the LV that I am trying to

Error mounting LVM volume as root

I am attempting to mount an LVM Logical Volume as root, but I am getting an error in the boot sequence when it attempts to mount the root filesystem.  The error is saying that it can not find /dev/block/254:15, which is the LV that I am trying to mount. Then it falls into a shell. When I run

Re: Sound (Alsa/PulseAudio) not working for ONE USER ONLY (addidional info)

On 9/23/20 10:02 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am currently running Stretch, with alsa and pulseaudio. This box has three users.  My wife and daughter both get sound through Firefox, as well as 'play filename.mp3'.  Neither method works for my login.  When using 'aplay filename.mp3' all users

Sound (Alsa/PulseAudio) not working for ONE USER ONLY

I am currently running Stretch, with alsa and pulseaudio. This box has three users.  My wife and daughter both get sound through Firefox, as well as 'play filename.mp3'.  Neither method works for my login.  When using 'aplay filename.mp3' all users get static. Some background: A few months

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

On 9/16/20 9:12 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:44:03 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and

Buster with MATE without systemd

I have a fresh install of Buster which is running MATE as the Desktop Environment.  It has taken me until now to get it working, without messing up my current Stretch install on the same machine.  The next thing that I want to do is replace systemd with sysvinit.  I am not trying to start a

Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

On 9/12/20 12:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages? No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an apt concept. Otherwise, all

Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages?  Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those that would otherwise have been automatically installed. Marc

Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

I've been using Remind for years (maybe decades). It can handle all kinds of repeating reminders, not just annual dates (ie birthdays and anniversaries). Very versatile. It is a command line program, but comes with TkRemind (a GUI front end). Best not to use the GUI for setting up reminders,

Re: Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

On 6/6/20 2:58 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 02:06:42PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I could have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) containing /boot and /var/modules that would

Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I could have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) containing /boot and /var/modules that would be mounted in each of the distros.  This would eliminate having kernels, initrds and kernel modules

Re: trouble installing gnome

On 6/6/20 8:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:14:13 -0400 leonard morin wrote: Hello leonard, Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: Both instances of that should either be deleted or have an # inserted at the start of the line. IMO, the former is

Re: Buster install using debootstrap. (SOLVED)

On 6/5/20 6:31 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and rights

Buster install using debootstrap.

I have just installed Buster on a spare set of partitions using debootstrap, as documented in:     Appendix D.3 of the Installation Guide. When I got to configuring networking, I just copied /etc/networking/interfaces, /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and /etc/resolv.conf from my Stretch

Re: Fwd: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

On 5/26/20 2:23 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote: What should I do for bounce messages I get. -- Forwarded message - From: *Debian Listmaster Team* > Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:16 AM Subject: lists.debian.org has received

Buster without systemd?

Supposedly, one can install/upgrade to Buster while maintaining sysv as init.  Or has this changed.  Over the past several months I have been attempting to upgrade to Buster, but I have been completely unsuccessful. Has anyone managed to upgrade to Buster without installing systemd, or

Re: RCA Cable to USB Video input device

On 12/30/19 9:31 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Hi there, Am 2019-12-14 07:45, schrieb Marc Shapiro: I want to copy some videos from VCR and DVD to my computer for editing (simple stuff, like removing commercials).  I found this device on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Converter-Capture

RCA Cable to USB Video input device

I want to copy some videos from VCR and DVD to my computer for editing (simple stuff, like removing commercials).  I found this device on Amazon:

Finalizing a Video DVD

I have a DVD recorder hooked up to my TV and antenna. Unfortunately, the remote for it is non-functional and the option for finalizing the DVD+R discs is only reachable through the remote.  Why VCR/DVD players and recorders were designed to not be fully functional without their remote, I do

Re: x and virtual consoles

On 8/6/19 12:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-08-06, Ed wrote: On 2019-08-06 09:02+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote: How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, whilst I

Re: Linux Journal epub files

On 9/9/19 8:55 AM, steve wrote: Le 09-09-2019, à 08:00:49 -0700, Marc Shapiro a écrit : I tried to get the items from the archives suggested by other posters, but did not find epubs.  The no login required link from LJ was dead by the time I got to it. It died fast.  That is why I have

Re: Linux Journal epub files

On 9/9/19 5:15 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2019 08 Sep 14:56 -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have Linux Journal in epub format up through June of 2018.  I didn't grab the others as they became available and by the time I realized that LJ was closing permanently, the archives were no longer

Linux Journal epub files

I have Linux Journal in epub format up through June of 2018.  I didn't grab the others as they became available and by the time I realized that LJ was closing permanently, the archives were no longer working.  Does anyone know where I can find the newer issues (7/18 through end of publication)

Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively

On 02/19/2018 05:06 AM, songbird wrote: you want launchers instead of actually running programs? in this age of SSDs and plenty of memory i can tell you that i get done exactly what you want with groups of programs running in each desired desktop and it doesn't involve me having to wait for

Re: Missing pyuic5, pyrcc5 and pylupdate5 from python3-pyqt5 (was Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch)

On 11/15/2017 03:19 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Hi there, Am 2017-11-15 06:12, schrieb Marc Shapiro: Now that QtDesigner is running I can look at the rest of the build chain and I find that the programs listed in the subject (pyuic5, pyrcc5 and pylupdate5 ) are missing from python3-pyqt5

Missing pyuic5, pyrcc5 and pylupdate5 from python3-pyqt5 (was Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch)

Now that QtDesigner is running I can look at the rest of the build chain and I find that the programs listed in the subject (pyuic5, pyrcc5 and pylupdate5 ) are missing from python3-pyqt5.  According to the docs on Sourceforge these should all be included in the upstream package.  Has Debian

Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch

On 11/14/2017 07:24 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 15/11/17 16:11, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/14/2017 12:58 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 15/11/17 04:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: $ designer designer: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/designer': No such file or directory

Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch

On 11/14/2017 12:58 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 15/11/17 04:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: $ designer designer: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/designer': No such file or directory $ assistant assistant: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/assistant

Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch

On 11/14/2017 12:18 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 2017-11-14 08:05, schrieb Marc Shapiro: Am I missing something, somewhere?  Or is qt5-designer not packaged for Debian? Designer for Qt5 can be found in the qttools5-dev-tools package in Stretch. Regards, Christian I installed qttools5-dev

Missing qt5-designer in Stretch

I am running Stretch and installed python3-pyqt, which is supposed to provide QtDesigner: Description: Python 3 bindings for Qt5  PyQt5 exposes the Qt5 API to Python 3. This package contains the following modules:  * QtCore  * QtDBus  * QtDesigner  * QtGui  * QtHelp  * QtNetwork  *

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

On 10/24/2017 09:14 AM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 24 Oct 2017 at 08:29:50 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-10-24 at 08:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 07:31:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: clear_console clears your console if this is possible. It looks in the That

(SOLVED) Samba update, apt-listchanges, Pulseaudio, and X not starting

tarted working again. Thanks to everyone who tried to help me sort through any of my many issues. Note: apt-listchanges in Stretch specifically uses Python 3. Marc Shapiro

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

On 07/14/2017 02:09 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-07-09, Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: At some point in the past I was having sound issues which I traced to pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and everything was fine. Then Firefox decided to require pulseaudio and my sound (in F

Re: SAMBA problems on Debian 8.8

On 07/15/2017 08:09 AM, Jason Wittlin-Cohen wrote: You are running an out-of-date version of samba (2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6 vs. 4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1). In addition, you seem to be missing samba-common-bin, samba-dsdb-modules, and python-samba, all of which are dependencies of samba. Try

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 11:35:42PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: At some point in the past I was having sound issues which I traced to pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and everything was fine. Then Firefox decided to require pulseaudio and my sound (in Firefox) went away

PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

At some point in the past I was having sound issues which I traced to pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and everything was fine. Then Firefox decided to require pulseaudio and my sound (in Firefox) went away. I reinstalled pulseaudio and eventually got it working (I thought). Well, it

Re: No sound in Firefox

On 03/20/2017 03:16 PM, songbird wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in Firefox. Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had previously uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember. I tried installing PulseAudio

No sound in Firefox

I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in Firefox. Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had previously uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember. I tried installing PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox. Also, no sound anywhere

Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

On 03/08/2017 02:53 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 03/08/2017 11:34 AM, Richard Owlet wrote: On 03/08/2017 12:32 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 3/8/17, Richard Owlett wrote: I recently installed grml-debootstrap from a purchased DVD set of Jessie(8.6.0). I have minimal

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/12/2017 06:36 PM, Bob Weber wrote: After writing this I wonder if I am over doing this. I just don't want to loose data from a failing drive. I lived through 3.5 inch floppies which seemed to always fail. And tape drives that were painfully slow. Not to mention back in the mid 70s

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/12/2017 08:30 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: I do not use LVM over raid 1. I think it can be made to work, although IIRC booting from an LVM over RAID partion has caused issues. my boot partitions are separate. They are not under LVM. LVM is useful when space requirements are changing over

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/11/2017 05:22 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christensen wrote: > Sometimes you get lu

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/08/2017 03:37 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/08/2017 03:06 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 04:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 01:26 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/08/2017 02:37 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: How it went is not well. I tested the new drive with SeagateTools and it was fine. Then I made a clonezilla live CD

HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors?

do I use? How did trying to clone the disk nake such a mess of BOTH disks? Any help getting a working system again will be greatly appreciated. Marc On Feb 6, 2017 2:37 PM, "David Christensen" <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 02/06/17 13:15, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/03/2017 11:13 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/03/17 13:47, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: Have you downloaded and run the manufacturer diagnostic utilities for all your drives? What do they say? I have now downloaded and run Seagate's tools

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: Have you downloaded and run the manufacturer diagnostic utilities for all your drives? What do they say? I have now downloaded and run Seagate's tools and it does show a does show a disk error. Since it stops on the first error I do not

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/03/2017 06:50 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:34:03PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Have you looked at the SMART reports? Please paste the following command into a root shell, run it once for each drive (replacing /dev/sdX with the corresponding device name), and paste

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/02/2017 10:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/02/17 13:05, Marc Shapiro wrote: I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as possible because I don't know when it will happen again. ... What operating

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/02/2017 04:20 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: A few observations. Are your filesystems journaled. They say ext3, which IIRC does support journaling? the flashplayer should not be able to trash the file system. /var/log/syslog is a place to look for io errors. If you are having them you

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/02/2017 01:40 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/02/2017 01:19 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 01:05:47PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

On 02/02/2017 01:19 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 01:05:47PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as possible

How to fix I/O errors?

I apologize for this being so long, but since the problem occurs sporadically I wanted to get as much information in this post as possible because I don't know when it will happen again. This problem started a bout two weeks ago. I woke up to find a black screen and a kernel panic. I

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/05/2016 07:06 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 12/05/2016 06:35 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/03/2016 12:36 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 12/03/2016 03:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 03 Dec 2016 at 19:20:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2016 18:09:50 Jape Person wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/03/2016 12:36 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 12/03/2016 03:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 03 Dec 2016 at 19:20:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2016 18:09:50 Jape Person wrote: Hi, I'm replying to myself at the top of the thread because I saw -- out of the corner of my eye

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

On 12/02/2016 04:14 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 12/02/2016 06:25 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, December 03, 2016 12:19:09 AM Doug wrote: On 11/30/2016 09:57 AM, do...@mail.com wrote: Beware of HP inkjets, HP recently had to change the code so that people could install ink

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

On 11/26/2016 01:02 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Note that many things (Gnome, I'm looking at you) *require* systemd these days: it'll be much more difficult to avoid systemd if you want a "modern" desktop environment. That is the exact reason that I am using Mate. Based on Gnome 2 with no

Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

On 10/21/2016 08:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/10/16 07:23 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: Thanks. The settings button | History has a "Restore Closed Tabs" option that isn't in the

Re: IceWeasel (Firefox) Update?

I have added: debhttp://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-release to my sources.list and installed firefox. Well and good. I have version 47.0.1. I assume that we will catch up with Mozilla and get 48.0 soon. My actual question, though, is this: Has anything been said about

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 07/05/2016 10:10 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2016, Giovanni Gigante wrote: I am preparing my system for the upgrade from wheezy to jessie. Since ancient ages, this system has been using LILO as the bootloader, because, long ago, it was the only bootloader that was recommended for

Re: Changing tty shells

On 06/09/2016 10:00 AM, Levi Darrell wrote: Hi Debian Users List, My computer is set to boot into a tty shell. I manually enter X Server by issuing the startx command. Previously, I had been able to switch tty shells with the keystroke combination Alt + F[1-6]. After attempting to

Re: Grub won't install

On 05/17/2016 09:13 PM, J Mo wrote: lilo is ultra-ancient. I don't even know if it works with modern kernels. Lilo definitely still works with current kernels. I started out using lilo 17 or 18 years ago and I am still using it now under Jessie and kernel vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64.

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

On 05/16/2016 09:42 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/16/2016 09:12 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display update and mouse tracking is very very slow. Could it be that your wheezy install did not use Gnome-3 and that you're now

Re: Posts don't show on list

On 04/27/2016 04:21 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:26:36PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Yes, it came right back. It shows as being 'Read', but it's there. Marc You're reading the 'All Mail' Gmail directory that's why. Copies don't come back to one's regular inbox

Re: Posts don't show on list

On 04/26/2016 11:24 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 04/22/2016 06:20 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quartidi 4 floréal, an CCXXIV, The Wanderer a écrit : If the list software did this modification for _all_ messages, not just ones from Gmail addresses, I don't see how it would break threading

Re: Posts don't show on list

On 04/22/2016 06:20 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le quartidi 4 floréal, an CCXXIV, The Wanderer a écrit : If the list software did this modification for _all_ messages, not just ones from Gmail addresses, I don't see how it would break threading It breaks it for the *senders*: they would have the

Re: Firefox install

On 04/14/2016 01:22 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-04-14, Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: On 04/13/2016 12:04 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-04-13, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: On Wednesday 13 April 2016 10:30:46 arian wrote: Hi Marc, firefox is n

Re: Firefox install

On 04/13/2016 11:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 13 April 2016 10:30:46 arian wrote: Hi Marc, firefox is not in jessie-backports, but in unstable. ?? And I have installed it from Jessie backports. Also from wheezy backports. Lisi So, having installed the key, should I still be

Re: Firefox install

On 04/13/2016 12:04 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-04-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 13 April 2016 10:30:46 arian wrote: Hi Marc, firefox is not in jessie-backports, but in unstable. ?? And I have installed it from Jessie backports. Also from wheezy backports.

Re: Firefox install

On 04/13/2016 02:30 AM, arian wrote: Hi Marc, firefox is not in jessie-backports, but in unstable. The package which you may find there in the future is firefox-esr, which is in testing atm. For desktop-installations it's IMO better to just run testing or unstable if you're somewhat

Firefox install

I have been using the Firefox and Thunderbird packages from Mozilla for quite a while. Now that Firefox is available directly from the Debian repository I am thinking of installing from there. (I may wait until Thunderbird is also available, however.) I figure that even if I am going to

Re: x86_64 vs i386 now firefoxish

On 03/22/2016 04:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2016 18:43:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > What do I put in /etc/apt/sources.list to gain access to the newer > > one? > > So far as I can see, you can't, not in Wheezy. The one you have is > the most recent available via the repo.

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

On 03/14/2016 02:59 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-03-14, Laszlo T. wrote: No more Iceweasel brand. The Debian can use the Firefox name. So change the repository deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-release In the case of wheezy, that would be

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

On 12/21/2015 07:19 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows

Re: hplip and scanning not working on Jessie

On 12/06/2015 04:41 AM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 07:21:49PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently upgraded to Jessie, using sysvint-core as my init and am having some printer problems. I got the printer working. CUPS was apparently uninstalled during the upgrade. I had

Re: hplip and scanning not working on Jessie

On 12/06/2015 03:14 PM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 10:54:39AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/06/2015 04:41 AM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 07:21:49PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently upgraded to Jessie, using sysvint-core as my init and am

(SOLVED) Re: hplip and scanning not working on Jessie

On 12/06/2015 04:07 PM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 03:47:24PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/06/2015 03:14 PM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 10:54:39AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/06/2015 04:41 AM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2015

Re: hplip and scanning not working on Jessie

On 12/06/2015 04:41 AM, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 07:21:49PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently upgraded to Jessie, using sysvint-core as my init and am having some printer problems. I got the printer working. CUPS was apparently uninstalled during the upgrade. I had

hplip and scanning not working on Jessie

I apologize for the length of this post, but I wanted to get all the info that I have available up front. I recently upgraded to Jessie, using sysvint-core as my init and am having some printer problems. I got the printer working. CUPS was apparently uninstalled during the upgrade. I had

(SOLVED) Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 12/01/2015 02:05 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 16:39 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: "Now", as in Stretch and/or Sid? I searched in Jessie and failed to discover any available firmware-amd-graphics. Is another repo besides main and updates required? I booted same machine to

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 11/30/2015 11:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Marc Shapiro composed on 2015-11-30 23:11 (UTC-0800): Alright. Knowing nothing about the inner workings of X, I can at least look through the two log files (in my previous post) and see where they suddenly go in very different directions. Using

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 12/01/2015 07:03 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 23:11 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: In Wheezy, the graphics card seems to have been found and a depth of 24bpp is being used by RADEON(0) with a GB of graphics memory, while in Jessie, Screen 0 is getting deleted and the radeon

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 12/01/2015 04:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:10:33PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/30/2015 04:45 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/30/2015 04:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: - Boot a Live image and see what resolution it gives you. I can still boot

Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

I have been holding off on upgrading to Jessie, but I decided that it was time to at least try it out. I made a copy of my current system in unused space on my disk and updated lilo. After verifying that I could boot into both setups, I upgraded the copy to Jessie after installing

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 11/30/2015 04:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: My problem now is screen resolution. All I get is 1024x768. Under Wheezy I get 15 different resolutions from 720x400 and 640x480 up to 1920x1080. Jessie says that the monitor is "Unknown" and only allows me to use 1024

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 11/30/2015 04:45 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/30/2015 04:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: - Boot a Live image and see what resolution it gives you. I can still boot into Wheezy and get 1920x1080. I meant a Jessie Live image. Though given that you didn't find an old

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 11/30/2015 01:21 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been holding off on upgrading to Jessie, but I decided that it was time to at least try it out. I made a copy of my current system in unused space on my disk and updated lilo. After verifying that I could boot into both setups, I upgraded

Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

On 11/30/2015 02:36 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> writes: I decided, since this was just a test, to install systemd-sysv (which should remove sysvinit-core) so that I could see if booting with systemd would make a difference. But... I can't install s

Re: Problems with Gmail IMAP on Icedove

On 11/30/2015 03:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to set up IMAP from two different accounts on Gmail in Icedove: 31.8.0-1~deb7u1. I have tired changing the password in case I had got it wrong, I have retyped everything several times, I have copied and pasted, I have crawled up the

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