Installing a Firefox syncserver on my Jessie desktop computer. Need help...

2015-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
ulsoup4 Running setup.py install for cornice /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'paster_plugins' warnings.warn(msg) Compiling /tmp/pip-build-IhZNaR/gunicorn/gunicorn/workers/_gaiohttp.py ... File "/tmp/pi

where is mate-user-guide for jessie ?

2015-10-09 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to use mate for my desktop environment, but I'd like to do some minor tweeks to what I see. I think I need to read mate-user-guide, but it seems each distribution publishes its own version of this file. Where is the one for Debian/Jessie? Thanks -- Paul E Condon

Iceweasel/Firefox Sync

2015-08-31 Thread Paul E Condon
x for Iceweasel recently announced for a different issue. Would this have a newer version of Sync, or should I look for a backport? Or has anyone confronted this problem and found a fix? Please help, TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Paul E Condon
OP can make this query and post the response here. HTH > > Thanks. > > -- > 竹密岂妨流水过 > 山高哪阻野云飞 > > And for G+, please use magiclouds#gmail.com. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (CHRONY not approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
ectness. > > Here we see an example of a further meta-question concerning the > socially correct words to use in covering up the underlying technical > complexity. ;-) > > Best regards, > -- > Paul E Condon > pecon...@mesanetworks.net > -- Paul E Condon

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
y communicate. THAT is largely determined by social convention, which cares very little about logical scientific correctness. Here we see an example of a further meta-question concerning the socially correct words to use in covering up the underlying technical complexity. ;-) Best regards, -- Paul

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Paul E Condon
Debian. Msmtp has its own tiny config file which can be located at ~/.msmtprc You can put there whatever you need to satisfy you ISP and have no fear of exim mucking about with it. Of course, don't remove exim once you see msmtp working. That would break you Debian installation. Msmtp

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

2015-07-11 Thread Paul E Condon
ings;" --^ I was taught in high school in 1953, that for formal letters, the salutation is terminated with a semicolon, not a comma, which was thought to be only suitable for informal communications. Just "Hi," has the benefit

Netatalk in Sid

2015-07-01 Thread Paul E Condon
been watching for it longer than I have, may have a better sense of how work on it is progressing. Thanks for any guesses, on- or off- list, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Gnome-terminal in Mate, How? (more info. and questions)

2015-06-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I looked at my post. I didn't like the words that I saw. I do need to study Mate documentation Please accept my appology. Thanks for your help. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Gnome-terminal in Mate, How? (more info. and questions)

2015-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150624_1151+0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 14:38 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm running Jessie with Mate as desktop GUI. I notice that Mate > > terminal, which I use a lot, is very similar in function to > > Gnome-terminal. But Mate

Re: systemd, headless, SSH, manual decryption (was: Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch)

2015-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
nd might even work out of the box (I haven't > tried it), but you may have to play around a bit there. > > 5. If you truly have a headless system, you should test this in a VM > first, especially when it comes to the boot process. > > > > So there it is

Gnome-terminal in Mate, How?

2015-06-23 Thread Paul E Condon
under Xfce4. How can I get that feature in Mate? I already have Gnome-terminal installed and it works when I boot into Xfce4, but I can't invoke it when I am running Mate. Is this a feature, or a bug? I like it a lot. Best regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.ne

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-15 Thread Paul E Condon
thout a conversation. The flame wars over systemd have muddied the waters about systemd, as has been recently mentioned by another Bob in another thread on this list. HTH ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-09 Thread Paul E Condon
leading information. Cups likes to remember things that are useless, and wrong. Be careful what you do try. My system is working now, both sound and Cups. The best I can offer is the suspicion that installing task-Mate, brought in some packages that were necessary for both problems, b

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150608_1040+0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:43:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > My printer was working a few weeks ago at printing files in Emacs, > > but now I get an error message that the default printer has not > > been set. >

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150607_2026-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > The can't be much wrong except for configuration because I can > print documents from a modern MacBook Pro laptop running Mac OS X. In addition, I can print LibreOffice documents with no problems. But LibreOffice ha

CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
ional expection. Suggestions? Please help. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150608022609.ga6...@big.lan.gnu

Re: where to get testing version of jessie installer?

2015-05-26 Thread Paul E Condon
in. OTOH, it may not, YMMV. It certainly won't make the results of using in future, just like the results you got on Arp 24. Best regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-24 Thread Paul E Condon
vernment markets. > > There will never NOT be a Microsoft, but they are scared and scrambling > to correct poor market decision, if they can. And that's a good > thing. True market capitalism does work, just slowly. > > > B > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE,

mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-24 Thread Paul E Condon
is not at all any part of getting the mixer.app .deb to play nicely with xfce. Also, mixer.app may not be the best solution for my screen real estate problem. Alternatives for a smaller area mixer graphic will be happily entertained. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net --

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-13 Thread Paul E Condon
st of known mirrors in various parts of the world, there is a option to type in any URL and port number that you think will work for you (tm). I use it for accessing my approx proxy (with port# ), but it should work for a mirror set up by your neighbor across the street, or a honey pot set up b

Re: a replacement for ssh packages in Jessie?

2015-05-13 Thread Paul E Condon
something really stupid. Maybe, but has anyone ever been able to establish ssh connections without passwords merely by being stupid? Also, ssh-copy-id doesn't seem to be working. But I've never used it before this episode, so maybe on this I'm misreading the man page. TIA -- Paul

a replacement for ssh packages in Jessie?

2015-05-12 Thread Paul E Condon
switch? And has anyone tried them and decided they are not yet ready, in spite of the fact that Jessie is now blessed with the appellation, Stable. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: need help with approx-gc

2015-05-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150509_1832-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > The following is just a few examples from kern.log: > > May 8 11:32:49 cmn kernel: [4880283.861051] end_request: I/O error, dev > > sda, sector 16136192 > > Ouch! You have a disk that is crying out

Re: need help with approx-gc

2015-05-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150508_1446-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > I run approx on one of my local jessie machines. The approx installation > > is strictly by using the approx deb, which includes a weekly run of > > approx-gc , which should just clean out the local repository

need help with approx-gc

2015-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
e for diagnosing this? Best Regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150508174703.ga1...@big.lan.gnu

Re: question about jessie-backports Correction

2015-04-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150430_0859-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm rearranging my sources.list file to reflect the recent official > release of Jessie. Some examples have entries for jessie-backports, > others do not. There seems to be a difference of opinion within the > Debian cognoscenti. Where

question about jessie-backports

2015-04-30 Thread Paul E Condon
; does find any file to download. Is this a temporary glitch, or has a decision been made? Cheers to the Jessie release team! -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie? Am I?

2015-04-29 Thread Paul E Condon
t;> > >> How about Marvelous Mark's dictatorial attitude? That's reason > >> enough for me. > > > > Yes, but you're not claiming that Ubuntu is marvellous, wonderful > > and the solution to all ills! Or are you? > > I don't thi

Re: Can't send mail with Jessie

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1048-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150421_1137-0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > > I am using msmtp to send mail. However, I get the error "Remote protocol > > errot." The log file shows ""TLS handshake filed. Operation timed out." > >

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1930+0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 10:38:03 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150421_1248+0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 11:30:55 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > > > > > > >>>>Also &#x

Re: Can't send mail with Jessie

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
otect it from > updating? What else would you suggest? > > Thanks, If you see this reply, msmtp is working for me in Jessie. HTH Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
o giving focused comment and help. I see this as a problem worth thinking about. I have no idea for a realistic solution. I don't believe any newbie reads ALL the documentation that is available just a few mouse clicks away from www.debian.org. Everyone has a point where they decide they are ready

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150420_1252-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150420_0911+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:18:58 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150419_0852-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: &g

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... another related question

2015-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150419_0852-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 > > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > > > On 20150418_1905-0500, Dav

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150419_0826-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@m

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150419_0830+0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:18:17 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > > > > > I was running as

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150418_1905-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I was running as pec or as root. I forget. Since doing that, I > > realized that for many years I have been running with my own version > > of /etc/ssh/ssh.config. Conf

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150418_1222-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > > > I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; > > > upgraded on whenever new package ve

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; > > upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it > > would be fast and simple

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1408-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I have four desktop machines running Jessie. I try to keep them a;; > > upgraded on whenever new package versions are released. I thought it > > would be fast and simple

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150417_1730-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > I am coming to realize that the re-install, not upgrade, of Jessie > > from RC2 has done something that makes it ignore my /etc/hosts file > > and go its own way. I can't

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150416_0100-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have installed various releases of debian many times. I have a local > proxy using approx that makes it very fast. > > After posting about a lockup of my desktop Jessie computer, I realized > that whatever advice I got would I got

I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie

2015-04-16 Thread Paul E Condon
one in NSA or CIA been assigned to monitor me, and this message breaches global security because I should not be allowed to know that I am being watch? Help, please. Tell me what to read. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Need help with a broken Jessie/Xfce4 desktop box

2015-04-15 Thread Paul E Condon
working version of linux-base?) Thanks, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150415233913.ga1...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Subject: network-console installation and ssh keys

2015-04-15 Thread Paul E Condon
StrictHostKeyChecking no > > See the man page of ssh_config for details. I think this will silence the warning forever, or at least until you think to delete those lines from your ~/.ssh/config. I do not want to do that, because I am too cautious to commit, long term, to such a depa

Re: Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages

2015-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
r carriage return. That took up to 0.2 sec. The placement of the carriage return character before the non-printing line feed character allowed the carriage to get all the back to the left before a printing character arrived. It was in the design of teletype that this cr/lf feat

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150404_2240+0200, deloptes wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > This is a place where Debian is really not newbie friendly. > > I think it never aimed to be - therefore you have ubuntu ... at least my > feeling > In the present, Debian relies on Ubuntu, but there

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150403_1501-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > I'm not so unlucky as Bob appears to be (he says, touching wood), but > > > > I think Bob came to his conclusion during a previous period of > > instability in

Re: md5sums and shasums

2015-04-03 Thread Paul E Condon
bie friendly. If one is a conscientious newbie, you have read all the fine words about using wget and *never* using a browser to download .iso files, but not a word about what to type at the command line to make wget go to where the goodies are. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > [...] > > Some time ago I decided to a make a copy of these data, > > so I would have more than one copy. > [...] > Is the copying between a USB disk and an internal, or bet

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1746-0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 04/02/2015 04:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian > >computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data > >has been accumulating on an ex

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1803-0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > For several years I have been making daily backups of my four Debian > > computers using Rsync and a small script of my own devising. The data > > has been accumulating on an external USB drive in

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150402_1142-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > I read the prior discussion as taking for granted the idea that one > > must have only one method of identifying individual partitions, > ^^^ ^^ > If you&#x

A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
one who has far more knowledge about how the kernel actually works internally to look into this. I done other experiments more complicated to report, I can't find anything comforting about this situation. If you think it's OK, you probably don't understand, IMHO. Kind rega

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-04-01 Thread Paul E Condon
scenarios. Peace. On 20150401_1619-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > You can also use disk LABEL=. As implemented, the LABEL is actually > > applied to individual partition. As long as every partition has a > > different

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-31 Thread Paul E Condon
always /dev/sda1 during installation. I suggest that you use LABEL=sda1. LABEL= settings can be any string of alphnumeric characters <= sixteen long. As I see it, the only benefit that you the user get from using the UUID/PARTUUID system is that if some Linux user is browsing through t

e2fsck.conf and ssh_known_hosts: where?

2015-03-31 Thread Paul E Condon
hyphens vs. underscores)? Kind regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150331160944.gb20...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
ed at the time. If there is any reality to systemd people forking the kernel, I'm sure there will be plenty of kernel developers who will be happy to see them go, so that they can get on with the fun of applying cgroups to the problems for which they were developed, so it seems. There ma

Re: Need help with CUPS printing

2015-03-29 Thread Paul E Condon
es, Gene is using Wheezy. > > Lisi Lisi, Thanks for pointing this out, but I think my proble is gone. CUPS is behaving much better than I've ever seen. Its OK with me if 'my' thread is hijacked now. Happy camper, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: Need help with CUPS printing [solved?]

2015-03-29 Thread Paul E Condon
riting. I will try to improve. The problem must have been fixed in some package in the last batch of bug fix packages from the release team. Now I can't reproduce the malfunction that I was seeing a few days ago. It was software, because the only hardware that I changed during that time was

Re: Need help with CUPS printing

2015-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150327_0237-0400, ken wrote: > On 03/26/2015 07:38 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I'm running Jessie, as close to plain vanilla as my hardware allows. > >I have a HP Laserjet 5MP. This is an ancient device. It has built-in > >firmware for Level 2 Postscript printin

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150326_2355-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in > > a hidden partition on HD... > > Now, see? That's some hardcore M$ crap rig

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
ely *not* a no-brainer. You might, instead, investigate buy a new SATA drive, maybe larger than the one containing Win7 and install the new SATA. Check the facts, as best you can. Low price larger SATA drives that I have seen on the web seem all to be refurb HDD. I may be wrong in all these points:

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
en making with the newer CDs. I haven't completed rebuild of my system, yet, So all I can say is 'I feel your pain.' Kind regards, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150327021643.gb15...@big.lan.gnu

Need help with CUPS printing

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
lad to answer any questions about things that I haven't realized might be important. Please help -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

A discussion on this list a few ago

2015-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
be find it. Thanks, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150317024224.ga17...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! & Questions?

2015-03-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150312_2255-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > I realized that I had not tried dd from VC2 just before entering the ... snip ... > > > 2) A problem that I really want to fix: The window in which Iceweasel > >

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it - Progress! & Questions?

2015-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150311_1304-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150311_0406+, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > > >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Con

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150311_0406+, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >> [ ... snip ... ] > > sug

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150310_1157-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and install > > Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. > > I starts nicely

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150310_1410+, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and > > install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of > > debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso. &g

Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-09 Thread Paul E Condon
tions that contain Windows 7. I think I have read about this and there is some special trick, but I can't find it. Please, someone. Help. Point me to the directions. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-03-03 Thread Paul E Condon
ock on a swap partition on my jessie machine and I'm not a bit surprised at learning that ;-O Also blkid displays a "PARTUUID" in addition to the familiar UUID for all the partitions on the internal hard drive on my jessie machine. This "PARTUUID" has fewer hex digits

Re: File transfer

2015-02-26 Thread Paul E Condon
you cannot install Debian on a computer that won't boot from an install CD because some drivers or whatever have been damaged. YMMV -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20150227054951.gb24...@big.lan.gnu

Re: filesystem questions

2015-02-23 Thread Paul E Condon
pshot every hour, 24x7 for over 7 yrs (with ext3 you are limited to 'only' 3.5 yrs) As always, YMMV. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-09 Thread Paul E Condon
hing SCOTUS > > > -- > 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/201502080029.49836.ghesk...@wdtv.com > -- Pau

Sound in Jessie

2015-01-31 Thread Paul E Condon
be installed in Jessie? Maybe now is a good time to find out. Where should I look? Cheers. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: change subject of emails on ISP's IMAP server

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
ve sed apply the 'sed s command', 's|***UNCHECKED***||' to each email. If you can string all this together on your ISP's computer, it will delete *all* instances of ***UNCHECKED*** wherever thet occur in emails. In theory, it can be done but it seems like an

Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141213_1643-0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Jessie on my deaktop from some time before the end > of September. The last time a checked, which was quite a while ago, > sound was working. But it might have been before I migrated from > Wheezy to Jessie. Now rea

making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
e. The computer runs the latest i686 32bit kernel (latest for Jessie) It is HP desktop that's a few years old. I'll be re-installing flashplayer again while waiting for suggestions... TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

fsck on boot in Jessie

2014-12-12 Thread Paul E Condon
with something about "clean" and /dev/sda1. Was there no one in the group discussion who was aware of systemd-fsck ?? Surely, if there was (s)he would have enlighten the rest of us as to this fact and the discussion would have been far less looong. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@m

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Paul E Condon
could it be directed to a place that is easily noticed by the owner/user of the computer? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20141212160854.ga6...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
minder into to-do list using crontab? boot from a live CD, manual action to actually start the fsck? ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141211_1332+, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 14:22:59 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20141210_1830+, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 at 19:23:07 +0300, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/12/2014 14:04, A

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Paul E Condon
s a reminder message to the user that it is time to do an fsck, with a hot link to a wiki page on how to do it, and suggestions agout vacuuming the dust bunnies from around the fan vents. Implementing this idea is surely NOT release critical for Jessie, IMHO. Peace. -- Paul E Condon

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Paul E Condon
, this would > >probably be an experimental project. > > You won't convince anyone if you do not build a PoC. Especially developers > giving their time literally for free. > Asking questions is a nice way to learn how you could do that PoC, anyway. > Asking and trying. What is 

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-10 Thread Paul E Condon
aning whatsoever. Can you help me with 'PoC'? > I'm working on defining a heavily customized personal installation of > Debian. One of the *STRONG* underlying assumptions is the the machine would > only ever be used by a specific individual. One of the underlying > m

Re: Question about ... cups-filters [SOLVED]

2014-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
Actually I have three Jessie machines. All had the same symptoms, so I could try *both* magic commands, and *both* worked. Thankyou, both. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Question about an attempt to upgrade CUPS and cups-filters

2014-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
; its installation will be completed. But re-running does not complete the installation. What action can I take to get these new(er) packages to be completely installed? Or what further information should I provide to help diagnose this? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -

Re: Qt version of gnuplot strange message

2014-11-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141118_0932+, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:03:41PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > The newer version of gnuplot is issuing a warning that I have never > > seen before: > > > > Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejecte

Qt version of gnuplot strange message

2014-11-17 Thread Paul E Condon
silence it? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20141118060341.ga30...@big.lan.gnu

What backport of gnuplot should I use in Jessie?

2014-11-17 Thread Paul E Condon
d new data. Of the several backports, I think one is intended to be the survivor when Jessie is actually released. Which one is that? Or is there a dark horse that might be a better choise? Also, a few words of reasons for your answer would be helpful in assessing its value to me. TIA -- Paul E C

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
e pulled in to satisfy a dependency and subsequently autoremoved. I hope this is an artifact of poor use of English. But if true, it should be fixed. Yet another topic: It should be possible to install systemd on a system that already has some other init system installed on it. This should be tested

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
eveybody's time. I suggest that the word 'default' not be used any more in this discussion. It serves only to obfuscate the nature of the problem. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
an installation of systemd, *that* is a bug in apt-get that *should* be fixed in Jessie *before* it is released. Right? And the apt-get command, "apt-get install -y systemd" should switch a host that is running sysvinit or upstart, to running systemd. If not that is *another* bug

Need help setting up printing in Jessie

2014-10-27 Thread Paul E Condon
he Emacs23-lucid window, and... nothing comes out of my printer, and nothing is added to the jobs list in CUPS. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: SCSI driver for use with Jessie: which one? [Solved]

2014-10-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141026_2314-0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 26/10/14 09:33 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I found today that I don't have a scsi driver on my Jessie install. > >I search for 'scsi' in aptitude and see several competing packages. > >Which one is most likely to en

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